Frodo's Fancy Pants | Brokenwood | "Midnight in the Garden" | Mystery Maniacs Mini-episode 40

Sarah: 00:15

Hey, Maniacs.

Mark: 00:16

Hey, Mystery Maniacs. Welcome to

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a mini, mini, mini, mini episode.

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For Brokenwood season 12 episode three.

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Midnight in the Garden.

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Midnight at the oasis.

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No. It's a New Year's Yes. Party at a house called White Cliff.

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Yes. Yeah. It's a beautiful house.

Sarah: 00:39

It's gorgeous. I want that house.

Mark: 00:41

The garden isn't amazing though. No. I don't think the garden's in the same place.

Sarah: 00:46

If it is, it's still not nice.

Mark: 00:48

No. It's some But the house is big.

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It's a gazebo. Gazebo. This is a mini episode, meaning you should listen to it before you watch the episode. Spoiler free. We're not gonna ruin anything.

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We're just gonna give you some tips and some questions to watch it like a maniac.

Mark: 01:04

Yes. The episode dropped on Monday, and we are recording on Wednesday evening. And you get this on Thursday. That is service.

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They've probably already watched it once.

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They probably have.

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But now they'll have to watch it again.

Mark: 01:16

But now they'll have to watch it again. We got another comment on the socials this week of, I read your questions and I don't remember any of that in the episode.

Sarah: 01:26

I just watched it. Did we watch the same episode?

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To my response was, I sometimes ask the same thing.

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You didn't watch it like a maniac but now you can.

Mark: 01:36

Oh my gosh. Today I listened to part of an episode from our show from four years ago when we just got Olive, and you're like, hopefully, she'll grow out of being a bitey goblin. And I'm like, nope.

Sarah: 01:51

Nope. She didn't. She's three and a half and she's still a bite bite goblin. Yep. Stinky too.

Mark: 01:58

Oh, she's very stinky.

Sarah: 01:59

Man. If anybody's

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got any tips on dog breath, let us know. Both ends of her smell the same.

Mark: 02:05

Yes.

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That's that's not a compliment. She doesn't have a minty butt or anything.

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That would be impressive. On that note, are you ready?

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Spong.

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I've got five things to look for. Excellent. Episode, five ways to watch like a maniac.

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Happy New Year.

Sarah: 02:27

It is a New Year episode. There's fireworks and everything.

Mark: 02:30

Yep.

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Okay. Number one, what is Mike's Wikipedia? Yes. DSS Mike Shepherd has a Wikipedia. What is it called?

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Number two, why does the costume shop have a big renaissance section, and how is that not helpful?

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And they play around with

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this. They do. They do. So why does the costume shop have a big renaissance section? Or renaissance?

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And why is that not helpful?

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Costume related, but not a spoiler. This episode is written by Tanya. The costume lady who has given us information.

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She would definitely know the answer to

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this question. She knows the answer for sure.

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Yes. Number three, what animal is Hattie wearing? There's a character named Hattie. What animal is she wearing? Number four, what Russian city's name is wrong?

Mark: 03:22

Absolutely. So wrong. Like, decades wrong.

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Need a little Soviet history to understand. And number five, what did Steven steal, and what's his sport? So what's Mike's Wikipedia? Why does the costume shop have a big renaissance section, and how is that not helpful? What animal is Hattie wearing?

Sarah: 03:42

What Russian city's name is wrong? And what did Steven steal, and what's his sport?

Mark: 03:48

It it's a deep cut, the Steve part.

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If you're a Brokenwood fan, you'll know the answer.

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Absolutely.

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So that is how to watch Midnight in the Garden season 12 episode three like a maniac.

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Next week on Monday, the no return ticket is the next new episode. Fine. It might have trains. I can only hope.

Sarah: 04:11

It could be flights.

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Could be, but I love the trains.

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Could be any kind of travel where

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you need two trains. We'll find out next week.

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On a train.

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Frodo on a train?

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Frodo on be still my heart. Be still my heart.

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Frodo has fancy pants in this episode, by the way.

Mark: 04:31

He does indeed have fancy pants.

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Check them out. Alright. Until then. Bye, Maniacs.

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Bye, Maniacs. Thanks for joining

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us on the Mystery Maniacs podcast.

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