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280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back #3 – The Case of the Balloon Man

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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WOW! Mentions of Garrett P. Serviss, the phrase “a lick and a promise”, balloon clowns, kidnapping and Reverends. Also, find out if Mike improves on his .500 record of solving E. Brown mysteries. If you like 280 Mysteries, please support the 372 Pages Patreon, where you can get immediate access to the whole back catalogue … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back #3 – The Case of the Balloon Man"

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone.

0:05.8

This is Connor.

0:06.8

This is another installment of our little sub-podcast here.

0:10.8

I called it 280 mysteries.

0:12.9

We'll never get back last time I posted.

0:14.5

And I don't know.

0:15.0

That's derivative enough.

0:17.3

People can remember that.

0:18.3

That maybe it'll catch a hunt.

0:20.8

But this is where I've been reading, Mike, these Encyclopedia Brown mysteries from the beloved decade-spanning series by Donald Lobel. And you try to figure out what's going on. Do you try to match witch with the boy detective?

0:37.2

And I believe my record is

0:39.2

just about as good as my Realer fanfic, I think, at this point. Realer fanfic was, yeah, is better

0:44.9

than a coin flip. You're currently standing at coin flip turf with this. Yes. We'll see what

0:49.9

happens. These tend to fall into a couple categories, I think. There's the, there's the,

0:55.1

the straightforward ones that, that you can get. I don't know if we've done one of those yet,

0:58.8

because, you know, it's not as fun. Then there's ones that are outright insane. I think the one

1:04.9

with a soundproof ice carrying pouch or something like that was a fell into that oh the insulated pouch

1:11.3

but i have one here that i think is a different type of mystery because uh a lot of the stories

1:20.7

and sort of uh asides that the author throws into these are pretty crazy and this one's good because you know you know, in Idaville, where these take place, you've got a lot

1:31.2

of stories that are like, we were going to race these turtles.

1:35.8

And then he swiped my racing turtle and before the day the big race.

1:40.5

Or like, you know, he took my packet of big league chew.

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