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Sub exclusive Patreon podcast, 180 mysteries.

We'll never get back.

That's the full name, yes.

It's very wieldy, unwieldy.

It sounds unwieldy, but I was reading that right off a printed banner I have in front of my computer. That's exactly what it says.

Sure, sure. This is the podcast where I'm going to challenge Mike here to solve some of the classic mysteries of Donald Sobel, who wrote the Encyclopedia Brown series.

And they are, are they cozy? Do they count as cozy?

Oh, man, I think that these are like as anti-cozy as you can get. I mean, I guess there's

probably some sort of Encyclopedia Brown Core aesthetic that people are ascribing to.

Sure.

Like, you know, a garage clubhouse and weird little urchins roaming the town wearing their crowns on their head as they shake down people for their stringed instruments.

Yeah, the crown look.

We need to bring that back. I i think next next live show for you

yeah we'll all wear that and it will be very confusing to people i got ragged on one of us did

i forget what we i think we said we said but then from the bazooka joe comics um i think i

oh yeah i would have yeah very confused those are from the jug as from Archie, obviously, the far superior, far more erotic a version of Pazook-Zo.

Wow.

But speaking of erotic, we've got a good one for you here today. This is an encyclopedia Brown mystery from his fifth book, which is called, I think Encyclopedia Brown solves the case.

1969.

This is the case of Cupid's Arrow.

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