Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you listen to any of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding a little different in these ones.

Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered. They have been remastered.

Because they had a really annoying hum.

Yeah, I mean, huge thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing.

You'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone.

Yes, we've gone back to straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're about to listen to.

Yeah. Bye.

Bye.

So, hi everyone. This is thinking sideways, the podcast. I'm Devon. I'm Steve. I'm Joe.

We're gonna talk about a mystery.

An unsolved mystery? An unsolved mystery. I like this kind of thing.

I know. And it's actually my favorite kind of unsolved mystery. It turns out I'm seeing a pattern and the unsolved mysteries I bring.

Do you like the ones where people die?

They're all cases where, like, apparently, healthy middle aged men die under weird circumstances.

That's really distancing.

So, I don't know what that says about the future of your guys' lives.

I know. I know when we run a story ideas, you know, you're gonna have to be curiously murder one of us.

It's gonna be like, oh gosh, we have a perfect story because Joe disappeared the other day.

Right now, he's so weird.

He was found hung from a tree, but there was no rope. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Well, how did that happen?

I know.

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