Math Rock | Brokenwood | "Angels and Demons" | Mystery Maniacs Mini-episode 39

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 Mystery Maniacs SPOILER-FREE Mini-episode! In Mini-episode 39 where we ask what is math rock?

How To Watch Brokenwood Mysteries s12 ep02 Like A Maniac

1.  Whose pecking at the cemetery?
2. What's written on Frodo's chalkboard?
3. What's up with Plumber's questionable plumbing?
4. How is Thelma in a band?
5. Spot the yard fruit?
6. Who is the secret math genius of Brokenwood?
7. Guess who the killer is?

Thanks for listening, 

Mark & Sarah

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Host

Mark Bell

Co-host of Mystery Maniacs

Host

Sarah Smith-Robbins

Co-host of Mystery Maniacs

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Mystery Maniacs Podcast is a comedy recap podcast dedicated to British Mystery Television. Formerly, Midsomer Maniacs podcast.

Sarah: 00:15

Hey, Maniacs.

Mark: 00:16

Hey, Mystery Maniacs. It's a mini episode.

Sarah: 00:20

Mini. Whoop whoop whoop. Whoop.

Mark: 00:22

For season twelve episode two of Brokenwood Mysteries

Sarah: 00:27

Angels and demons.

Mark: 00:28

Demons. Demons. Demons.

Sarah: 00:30

Demons. Is that your

Mark: 00:32

Cha cha cha.

Sarah: 00:35

Your analog echo effect?

Mark: 00:37

This is like the most undemony episode ever.

Sarah: 00:41

It is. There's not like people with horns or anything.

Mark: 00:44

No.

Sarah: 00:45

But it's good.

Mark: 00:46

There's a new dude in town and boy does everybody love him.

Sarah: 00:50

One of those troublesome handsome men of God Yes. Coming to make problems.

Mark: 00:55

Absolutely. His name is?

Sarah: 00:59

Zach. Yes. Handsome Zach.

Mark: 01:00

Handsome Zach. Played by Scott Smart, which is another name that's kind of weird.

Sarah: 01:05

What what was the first name that was weird? No.

Mark: 01:07

No. It's just Oh. Zach. Zach's kind of a weird name, but

Sarah: 01:11

He would actually be the second Scott Smart I know. Oh. I work with a Scott Smart. Oh, this is so boring.

Mark: 01:17

This is so boring.

Sarah: 01:18

Anyhow, Angels and Demons, very good episode, well worth it. If you're not familiar with the minis, you should be by now. What are you doing listening to this? Yes. But if you're not, this is spoiler free.

Sarah: 01:29

We're not gonna ruin it for you because the idea is that you listen to this, then you go watch the episode and you watch it like a maniac.

Mark: 01:36

I will tell you one thing that is relevant to these episodes. I'm trying to post these on the Reddit for Brokenwood and the admins of the mods of that board have stopped allowing any posting at all. So I'm trying to

Sarah: 01:52

get So in Brokenwood touch with subreddit is like just frozen?

Mark: 01:55

Frozen right now. We were the last post, like, three weeks ago.

Sarah: 01:59

Can you comment?

Mark: 02:00

I have tried, and I cannot comment.

Sarah: 02:03

Wow. I wonder what I wonder what happened.

Mark: 02:06

I don't

Sarah: 02:06

know. Especially do something to

Mark: 02:07

do that. Right? Yeah. Especially on the dawn of a new season.

Sarah: 02:11

Yeah. What's they should

Mark: 02:12

be excited about

Sarah: 02:14

it. Brokenwood Mystery's Reddit moderator. Yes. Get on it. On it?

Sarah: 02:19

Or are you okay?

Mark: 02:20

Well, yes. That's what I sent them a message that said, are you okay? Can I help?

Sarah: 02:25

Yeah. So Anyhow, we're gonna tell you how to watch angels and demons. Demons. Demons. Demons.

Sarah: 02:32

Like a maniac. Are you ready? That's from Friday the thirteenth?

Mark: 02:38

Yes. Friday the thirteenth. Has the cha cha cha.

Sarah: 02:41

Or is that from Halloween?

Mark: 02:43

No. It's not Halloween. Okay. It's Friday the thirteenth.

Sarah: 02:46

Yeah. I thought you were gonna do it again. Okay. Ready? Yes.

Sarah: 02:54

We have seven ways to watch like a maniac.

Mark: 02:57

We could have had more. We could have.

Sarah: 02:59

Seven things to look for while you watch this episode. Yep. They're fun. Some of them are easy. Some of them are not so easy.

Sarah: 03:06

Yep. We're gonna be challenging the Maniacs with a few of these, I think. I think so. Are you ready for the list?

Mark: 03:12

I am ready.

Sarah: 03:13

Number one, who's pecking at the cemetery? Oh, we wow. Yeah. Our remote control was not working great, and you were like, pause, pause, pause. You were like stabbing the button, like, what did we just see?

Sarah: 03:28

Who's pecking at the cemetery? That's number one. Number two, what's written on Frodo's chalkboard?

Mark: 03:34

Now I all I'm gonna say is they now know we're watching the chalkboard.

Sarah: 03:39

You think so?

Mark: 03:40

I I think they are aware that people of the maniac variety are looking for that chalkboard. Two reasons. One, they purposely hide it. They do.

Sarah: 03:54

It was so mean. Two,

Mark: 03:57

I think it changes three times in this episode. It does. They are obviously.

Sarah: 04:02

The chalkboard we're referring to is a small square chalkboard on the front of Frodo's coffee cart. Not the big ones on either side that have the menu, but the small one that would be right in front of your stomach if you were ordering a coffee. Yep. It changes throughout the episode. See if you can figure out what

Mark: 04:19

it's a loony tune would check those giant boards every season.

Sarah: 04:23

To see if they've changed?

Mark: 04:24

They're exactly

Sarah: 04:25

the same. But you check just in case.

Mark: 04:27

Oh, yeah.

Sarah: 04:28

Alright. That's number two. By the way, mister Oates is spending some time in jail.

Mark: 04:34

Not Frodo. Frodo's dad.

Sarah: 04:37

Yeah. That's a good line from the episode. Number three, what's up with plumbers questionable plumbing?

Mark: 04:43

We saw this, and we were like.

Sarah: 04:45

That's not right.

Mark: 04:46

Even I and I am not a handy person. No. Even though I managed to get the wood chipper working again today.

Sarah: 04:54

You did. Well done.

Mark: 04:55

Yes.

Sarah: 04:55

But So that's number three. Yes. What's up with Plumbers Questionable Plumbing? Number four, how is Thelma in a band? Thelma's a character.

Sarah: 05:05

How is she in a band?

Mark: 05:06

And looked and looked at this, and we're kind of amazed by it, but wow. You got a lot to put together.

Sarah: 05:12

Again, it's it's feeding my paranoia that they're putting stuff in the episodes just to try to catch us. And you, Maniacs, they're trying to catch you too. Yep. They're doing it to you too. Absolutely.

Sarah: 05:24

Alright. That's number four. How is Thelma and a band? Number five, spot the yard fruit. Yes.

Sarah: 05:30

Say no more. Yep. Spot the yard fruit. Number six, who is the secret math genius of Brokenwood?

Mark: 05:38

Unbelievable. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.

Sarah: 05:41

And number seven, the last watch like a maniac question is I challenge you to stop in the middle of the episode and guess who the killer is. Right in the middle

Mark: 05:52

We did this. I was incorrect.

Sarah: 05:56

You were incorrect. I was correct.

Mark: 05:58

Sarah was right.

Sarah: 05:59

Right. But I wasn't sure that I was right. No. It was just it was my long shot.

Mark: 06:05

We do have one thing to add from last week's episode. We were speaking to Tracy about the episode, and she also dropped a little bit of notice to us that that her kids were in the episode and she called it take your kids to work day but then she expanded on that idea and this is not the big thing she dropped, We'll get to that later. She also dropped that Neil Ray's daughter plays the woman taking over the restaurant

Sarah: 06:33

in that Freya? Freya. Was that the character's That was that actress is his daughter. Yes. Which is very fun.

Mark: 06:40

Oh, I it was a whole family episode. Yeah. I thought it was fantastic.

Sarah: 06:44

To work day. Though Freya is a great actress. She did a great job.

Mark: 06:47

She did a great job.

Sarah: 06:49

But those kids in tutus, that was fun. Yes. Alright. So that is how to watch like a maniac. I will warn you a little bit about this episode.

Sarah: 06:56

The end is harrowing, and it will stick with you. It's it's sticking with me. I keep thinking about it.

Mark: 07:02

There is a

Sarah: 07:02

near It's not not don't don't give anything away. Yep. It's not a trigger thing or anything like that. Nope. But it'll stick with you.

Sarah: 07:11

Yeah. Oh, yeah. So enjoy angels and demons.

Mark: 07:15

Bye, Maniacs.

Sarah: 07:16

Bye, Maniacs.

Mark: 07:17

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