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HARKpodcastEpisode 352: Upstanding Podcast CitizensIt's podcasts all the way down! By listener request, we're discussing "Don't Wait For Me Beneath the Mistletoe" by The Allusionettes. The band -- comprised of Jenny Owen Youngs, Martin Austwick, and podcast host Helen Zaltzman -- was formed for an episode of The Allusionist podcast about creating a 2020-appropriate holiday hit. We pair that with another Jenny Owen Youngs holiday tune, "Maybe Next Year", which definitely came out in 2019 and not 2020! We got this wrong and there was absolutely no way we could have fact checked it while recording! Jam had a headache and Ian was trapped under...
2024-01-1749 min
Der FilmSünder PodcastBingeSünder: Veronica Mars"Who's your Daddy?!"
"A long time ago, we used to be friends but I haven't thought of you lately at all!" Diese Zeile aus dem Titelsong von "Veronica Mars" kann perfekt als Meta-Kommentar angesehen werden dazu, wie Bodo zu dieser 2000er Teenie-Detektiv-Serie steht. Nach langer Zeit hat er die ersten drei Staffeln und den Kinofilm wieder ausgegraben sowie endlich die Fortsetzung der Serie aus dem Jahr 2019 nachgeholt. Zum Auftakt des neuen "FilmSünder"-Jahres werden diese Werke nun ausführlich besprochen.
Zum in dieser Episode erwähnten Podcast "VMI - Veronica Mars Investigations" mit Helen Zaltzman & Jenny Owe...
2024-01-131h 28
The Allusionist159. BufflusionistGrab your stake and crucifix pendant, we're going vampire-hunting! Well, vampire-etymology-hunting. The podcast Buffering the Vampire Slayer, which recaps the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode by episode, invited me to answer their listeners' questions of language that the show had provoked. Together with BVTS hosts Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs, I tackle the etymology of coven, vampire/vampyre, wigging out, the name Buffy and Bovril; as well as google as a verb, conlang on TV, and why Latin is so often the language of spells and spookiness. There are several swears in this episode.
2022-08-2040 min
VMIVMI x Hot and Bothered: Pride and Prejudice (2005)A LONG TIME AGO, IN THE 2005 MOVIE ADAPTATION OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: You’ve got no sons to inherit your estate, only five daughters, so what the hell are you going to do to ensure your family’s housing and security? Why, you send Jane, the oldest and prettiest to catch a cold in the rain so rich Mr Bingley will fall in love with her! You let your boring cousin take his pick of the flock, Lizzy; but when she’s not into it, he goes off and marries her best friend so your plan is again RUINED...
2022-08-021h 11
Hot and BotheredLive from Pemberley: The 2005 Movie (with Helen Zaltzman and Jenny Owen Youngs)We're taking a quick break from reading Pride and Prejudice to watch the 2005 movie adaptation with one of our favorite podcasts, Veronica Mars Investigations.Vanessa is joined by Helen Zaltzman and Jenny Owen Youngs to dig through the movie, comparing it along the way to the BBC mini-series and, of course, the original text. They ask important questions like: How does Elizabeth hear Darcy's insult at the Meryton Ball? Is Mr. Bennet the true villain of Pride and Prejudice? And is Matthew McFadden wearing a wig in this movie? Next episode, we're returning...
2022-07-291h 09
VMITriple TidingsWe bring you glad tidings x3: Tiding 1: Jenny Owen Youngs has a beautiful new EP out, It's Dangerous To Go Alone, which you can find at jennyowenyoungs.com and in the many music places - and as well as listening to it, be sure to check out the cloaktastic artwork and swordtacular merch. Tiding 2: Helen Zaltzman is on tour with the new Allusionist live show Your Name Here in July and August - so, like, NOW - in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Come and be edutained, dates and ticket links are at theallusionist.org...
2022-07-0304 min
Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer PodcastWelcome to the HelenMouth: Linguistics in Buffy with Helen ZaltzmanDear friend of the pod Helen Zalztman (The Allusionist, Answer Me This!) joins us today for a deep dive into linguistics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Why does Giles' leatherbound book use a "Y" in Vampyre? Why does television rely so heavily on Latin to convey magic spells? Where does the word "coven" originate? Did Buffy coin the term "wiggins"?! In the words of one Jenny Owen Youngs, wow wow wow Wow WOW. PHILADELPHIA: "STORYTELLER" AT WORLD CAFE LIVE on JUNE 11TH+ https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Buffering-the-Vampire-Slayer-Live-Recording-Storyteller/473902?afflky=WorldCafeLive
2022-03-301h 12VMIJenny on tour! Jenny on tour!!Our own Jenny Owen Youngs is going on tour with sheriff of this town Hrishikesh Hirway; if you like beautiful music, or don't know if you like it but are ready to be swayed, go see them! They'll be playing cities in the eastern USA this month of March 2022, then the west coast in May. Full listings are at https://jennyowenyoungs.com/events.Support the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TWQYZDRGZUGH8&source=urlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-03-0101 min
VMIVMI: Village Mostly Invisible, an investigation of BrigadoonA LONG TIME AGO IN THE 1954 MGM MUSICAL BRIGADOON: New York City gents Gene Kelly and Van Johnson are lost in the Scottish Highlands! They want to shoot some birds, but instead stumble upon a village that’s not on the map… Brigadoon! Everyone’s dancing around the town and preparing for a wedding that evening; meanwhile, sister of the bride Cyd Charisse gets to fall in love with Gene Kelly on the heathery hillsides. But something’s weird, and it’s not just the fake Scottish accents, the very tight tartan trousers, the two-dimensional mountains and all the day-dr...
2021-12-1659 min
VMIVMI: Vanquishing Malevolent Invaders, the crimes of Home AloneA LONG TIME AGO IN HOME ALONE: In an enormous house in Chicago, the enormous McAllister family is preparing to leave for a Christmas trip to Paris. But, when designated naughty child Kevin causes a ruckus at dinner, he is sent to sleep in the attic as punishment. Then in the chaos of being such an enormous family with shitloads of kids, the McAllisters accidentally fly off to Paris without Kevin, leaving him Home Alone. Thus, an 8-year-old who has never even packed a suitcase before has to fend for himself in a hostile adult world. AND fend...
2021-11-1135 min
VMIVMI: Voluptuous Male Idiot (Play It Again Dick recap)A LONG TIME AGO ON THE VERONICA MARS SPIN-OFF WEB SERIES PLAY IT AGAIN DICK: Ryan Hansen persuades the CW suits to let him make a pilot for a Dick Casablancas spin-off show. So then he has to persuade the Veronica Mars actors to come back to reprise their roles... And then they all film Private Dick! Wherein Dick Casablancas is a private detective investigating the murders of several beloved Veronica Mars characters. There are masks! Punchings! Sexytimes! Pull-ups! Ghost Cassidy Casablancas! And bikinis as funeral-wear! And a catchphrase that never really takes off? Oh and a big...
2021-10-1554 min
VMIVMI 1.01 Pilot: the RErecapA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • We meet Veronica Mars! High school detective with tiny jackets and flowbee hair, plus a heartbreak, an absent mother, a murdered best friend and a rape to deal with. • We meet Logan Echolls, a rich boy with a rage problem. • We meet Duncan Kane, a human screensaver. • We meet Wallace Fennel, taped to a flagpole then recruited to do Veronica’s bidding for the next several years. Wallace, we have seen the future and you should run! Now! Run! • We meet Sheriff Lamb, local law enforcement with bad joke...
2021-09-161h 19
VMIQ&A and LoDown SpecialJoin Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and our resident legal expert Lo Dodds to answer your questions, and find out all about why you shouldn't represent yourself in court, what you have to do to get a jury trial or a marriage license, whether Veronica has sadness-clothes, and whether showrunners could stop mining the traumas of young female characters for drama. Our next episode will be our rerecap of the pilot - join us to simulwatch one of the finest episodes of television of our lifetimes on 28 August 2021, at 10pm UK time, 5pm ET, 2pm PT - or...
2021-08-2538 min
VMIVMI second birthday celebrations!Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and our resident legal expert Lo Dodds to celebrate the completion of the second year of Veronica Mars Investigations, with a parade of outtakes - about what happens to police dogs when they retire, how old is too old to join the FBI, gambling with pasta, and the very real dangers of huffing petrol (especially at any point in time since the Great Depression). Also! We have news about what we’ll be doing for the grand finale of Veronica Mars Investigations! We will be ending at the beginning, with a rere...
2021-08-1827 min
VMIVeronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 4Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman are joined again by Special Agent LaToya Ferguson to investigate Veronica Mars season 4 and try to solve its many remaining mysteries, including (but not limited to): who is the fifth lady of Veronica Mars? Will we ever get more Veronica Mars, and in which forms? Why has it taken so long for Veronica to have a fun night out?? Was Logan fridged? What IS 'fridged'? And was Jane The Therapist the criminal mastermind behind all of it??? Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes discussions referring to murder...
2021-08-111h 01
VMIVMI 4.08 Years, Continents, BloodshedA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: A thing happens that turned the Marshmallows into Burnt Marshmallows, turned Veronica into a widow, and turned our twitter mentions into a shitshow whenever we said anything even slightly critical of Logan. But before that: this season wraps up some plots! Dodie and Alonzo behead Richard Casablancas, with Matty looking on, and Clyde smiling the tiniest hint of a smile, even pauses on eating his sandwich for a moment. Matty sells the Maloof ring to fund the reopening of the Sea Sprite, the only bit left of the Old Neptune boardwalk, b...
2021-07-281h 36
VMIVMI 4.07 Gods of WarA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Well after last episode where people told each other the plot, things are actually happening! Penn is, at last, the suspect for three of the bombings. Hot on his trail, the Marses interrupt his sexy minibreak with Carol to grab him and get that $250,000 reward - but Dodie and Alonzo show up to take out Veronica! But then, the PCHers turn up! and Weevil calls off the killing with a bat of his very powerful eyelashes. Richard Casablancas buys Matty a car to persuade her to sell him the Sea Sprite, bu...
2021-07-221h 11
VMIVMI 4.06 Entering a World of PainA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: OK, here’s what we know about the bombings now: Big Dick did the Sea Sprite one. Clyde did the Perry Walsh one. The rest are still unaccounted for - but there might be something in the FBI’s theory that a serial killer has been operating in Neptune for years, so the Marses investigate some deaths registered as accidental but maybe not. Big Dick and Clyde know that Keith knows that they’ve been buying up property with all those shell companies and leaving dead ducks in Penn’s bed. Places Ve...
2021-07-141h 13
VMIVMI 4.05 Losing StreakA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • Nicole and Veronica get high together, shoot guns together, and tell each other their secrets - except one, which is that Nicole sold Comrade Quack’s to a buyer who is Richard Casablancas wearing a plastic nose and false moustache, stacked on top of two other Richard Casablancases in a really big trenchcoat. • Keith also does some shooting, when Clyde takes him duck hunting and leaves his phone unattended near a Mars. But the text messages Keith snoops into put him off the theory that Clyde and Big Dick are beh...
2021-06-301h 17
VMIVMI 4.04 Heads You LoseA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • The themes of the season, bombs and beheadings, combine, as a spring breaker who’s been spiking women’s drinks gets a bomb strapped around his neck. • The Marses, Matty and the murderheads are still shuffling around their various theories about who the bomber is: Big Dick and Clyde trying to kill the Spring Break business for property prices; or the Maloofs, for reasons that nobody can really be arsed with any more. • Daniel Maloof is regretting ordering the hit on the Carrs, but too late! Dodie and Alonzo have video...
2021-06-151h 00
VMIVMI 4.03 Keep Calm and Party OnA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • Daniel Maloof’s having a shit one. He is being blackmailed because he was videoed masturbating to a cam girl. He’s still being accused of murder by Penn all over the TV. He is kidnapped, strung up, stoned and dickpunched by the Carrs. Then he is rescued by Alonzo and Dodie, who are going to kill him - but Daniel turns the tables! And the other side is also really shitty. • Sea Sprite Bombing Suspect of the Week is Matty’s pick: mole-having gum vending machine-filling Perry, who blows himself up...
2021-06-091h 17
VMIVMI 4.02 Chino and the ManA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • Pizza delivery Penn is making the most of his post-bombing notoriety - he’s on TV accusing Congressman Daniel Maloof of murdering his brother’s girlfriend Tawny! • Matty from the motel is doing her own detectiving - maybe whoever refilled the vending machine put some exploding gum in there? Her investigation leads her to Liam Fitzpatrick urghhhh, but phew, Veronica rescues her. • And the Maloofs are rescued from Tawny’s violent family by Logan doing some professional punching. • He also punches his kitchen cabinet, as Veronica is hot for angry violent...
2021-05-191h 09
VMIVMI 4.01 Spring Break ForeverA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: • SPRING BREAK!! Neptune is full of douchey boys and drunk girls, what could possibly go wrong?? • What goes wrong? A bomb goes off at the party motel, that’s what’s wrong! Killing four people, one of whom is the nephew of El Despiadado, a MEXICAN CRIME LORD oh Rob Thomas, must we? • We must, and El Despiadado must send two guys to Neptune to chop off the head of whoever’s responsible for the bombing. • But they’re not the only family with a stake in this crime: the bro...
2021-05-111h 10
VMIVMI: Mr Kiss and TellA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Mr Kiss and Tell, an original mystery by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham: A young woman has been raped and beaten, and, once again, the Neptune Grand hires Veronica to investigate - only so they don’t get sued for hiring the undocumented worker who has been accused. But, having cleared him, Veronica keeps going with the case, to get justice for the victim, Grace Manning - that’s right, Meg’s little sister. A decade on from being locked in a closet by her parents, and still having a shit time. G...
2021-04-291h 32
VMIVMI: The Thousand Dollar Tan LineA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, an original mystery by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham: Two months have passed since the movie, and it’s SPRING BREAK! Neptune’s popping off! Until two young women disappear, first Hayley and then Aurora, presumed kidnapped. The spring breakers stay away and the Neptune Grand is losing business, so the glamorous owner hires Veronica to investigate the disappearances. This case means Veronica gets back into her sexy disguises to infiltrate house parties run by the heirs to a Mexican drug cartel. Lamb doesn’t care about th...
2021-04-141h 26
VMIVMI the movie, part 2A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica has choices to make! NYC or Neptune? Lawyering or detectiving? Piz or Logan? Try to guess, go on, guess. Armed with her favourite tools, a bug, a long lens and a taser, Veronica closes in on Carrie’s murderer... ...And it’s not any of the candidates you thought it might be in the first half of the movie - it’s the guy you barely saw at all, Cobb! Who? Cobb! You remember Cobb. Cobb! The death toll rises - Deputy Sacks, Gia, possibly a cat - and our beloved...
2021-03-241h 15
VMIVMI the movie, part 1A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: 91,585 fans missed the show so much that they kickstarted a movie! The third-highest funded Kickstarter project at that time! So off we all go back to Neptune to see some old pals, like Wallace! Principal Clemmons! Gia Goodman! Sweaty Luke! Corny! Aaaand Logan being suspected of murder. Plus some new pals, like Mac’s hot new hair! Piz’s boss Ira Glass! a new Sheriff Lamb who is just as shitty as the old Sheriff Lamb! And an intense Logan fan in a wig. We’re not so pleased to see the Pizv...
2021-03-171h 28
VMIVMI season 4 pitchesA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Rob Thomas wrote a mini-pilot for a season 4 that involved Veronica becoming an FBI agent, and guess what! It’s full of awful white guys who don’t seem to do anything and leave all the work to Veronica and her new colleague Nish-In-A-Wig - we mean Callie. Callie! Totally new character! Nish goes off to infiltrate a strip club, while Veronica is sent back to high school in a tiny vest, to arrest a pervy principal… ...then she goes to question someone about a bomber but he turns out to BE the...
2021-03-091h 02VMIVeronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 3A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS SEASON 3: Murders! Rapes! Frats! The Dreaded Feminists! Jenny's beautiful wife Mindy! Eggs! Wigs! Bland white boys! Obnoxious white boys! Bland obnoxious white boys! Loganica together! Loganica asunder! Aaaaand... Weevil’s big red toolbox! Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and returning Special Agent LaToya Ferguson, to reopen the cold case files and try to crack some of Veronica Mars season 3's unsolved mysteries, such as: where's Wallace? Why is Lucky-in-a-wig? Is Professor Landry actually hot? Ah screw it, let's all just escape to Jenny's island where she cavorts with her beautiful w...
2021-02-2341 min
VMIVMI 3.20 The Bitch Is BackA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: As we know, sex people never prosper in this show, and Piz is bruised from Logan’s attack and Veronica is humiliated - and ready for revenge. Veronica’s search for the sex tape culprit takes her from Piz to Logan to Dick to Chip to some other asshole Dominick to some other other asshole Gory to the secret society The Castle to JAKE KANE!?!?! Of course, to cap a season that began with the Stanford Prison Experiment, we get the Milgram Experiment; and, unfortunately, it is pe...
2021-02-161h 09
VMIVMI 3.171819 I Know Weevil's Wobble TapesA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Rock star Paul Rudd is here to play a show at Hearst College, to fundraise for Piz’s awful radio station - but oh no! His backing tapes are missing! Presumed stolen! They’re not. A crime-free mystery! New campus celebrity Apollo has written a hit memoir about being a child soldier in Uganda - but WAS he? - and Veronica is hired by someone claiming to be his dad - but IS he? Yes to both. Another crime-free mystery! How relaxing. Until! Remember when Weevil was falsely accused of stealing Vero...
2021-02-101h 41VMIVMI 3.141516 Papa's Un-American Mars BarsA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica’s in jail for helping Josh escape jail - though later she seems to get away with helping Josh get away with kidnapping, obtaining his inheritance early, and fleeing the country. Even though Josh didn’t actually kill his dad - turns out his dad killed his dad, for life insurance purposes. And, it turns out the Dean was killed by Lucky In A Wig, for framing Professor Landry purposes! And, Professor Landry kills Mindy O’Dell! For writing both of them off the show purposes? And, Sheriff Lamb is killed...
2021-01-271h 31
VMIVMI 3.111213 There’s Gotta Be a Poughkeepsie MortemA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Remember Max, that guy who you can pay to cheat on tests? Well he’s fallen in love with a sex worker and wants Veronica to track her down! But it’ll cost him, financially and emotionally. Remember Bonnie, the sexperson who had been dealing with Dick and other frats outside of her relationship with Luckyinawig? Well, she was pregnant, until someone slipped her a pill that caused her to miscarry. Remember the Dean’s wife’s ex-husband Steve? He’s back, because now the Dean’s dead, Mind...
2021-01-191h 25
VMIVMI 3.080910 Lord of the Spit MonkeysA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Real life Patty Hearst plays a fake Hearst; and real life kidnapped person Patty Hearst plays a fake kidnapped person. It’s all something to do with share prices and a rich-people divorce settlement and she AND her husband have both been having affairs with the dog walker? Update on Frats vs Dreaded Feminists: head fratter Chip is found unconscious, with his head shaved and a plastic egg shoved up his bum with a cryptic message inside. And the Dreaded Feminists make Veronica wonder whether all th...
2020-12-191h 25
The Allusionist127. A Festive Hit for 2020The usual canon of Christmas songs may not really fit people's moods in this year 2020, when I'm not sure a lot of us are feeling all that holly jolly. So I drafted in singer and songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs and we wrote a festive song that is suitable for 2020. Content note: there are swears. Several of them. Jenny Owen Youngs makes music - find it at jennyowenyoungs.com - and podcasts - Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars Investigations. She’s @jennyowenyoungs on Twitter and Instagram. Martin Austwick provided music, backing vocals an...
2020-12-1431 min
VMIVMI 3.050607 President Infidelity of Vice and MenA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: The Dean’s wife’s son is dying and they need Keith to track down her ex-husband and extract his bone marrow, by force if need be. The college casino is robbed! Veronica thinks it was Weevil… Turns out, Claire faked her rape. But the rapist is still real, still out there, and drugs and shaves Veronica. Professor Landry’s new teacher’s pet is Veronica, so his old teacher’s pet, Tim, makes it look like she cheated on a paper. Other people...
2020-12-081h 15
VMIVMI 3.020304 My Big Fat Wichita Linebacker Don't SurfA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica infiltrates a sorority to investigate Parker’s rape, and instead finds a secret medical marijuana farm. The ongoing campus rapist plot boils down to frats versus feminists. The two genders! Wallace and Logan participate in some recreation of the Stanford Prison Experiment, and unfortunately we have to endure it with them. Weevil is back! And starts working for Keith! But then punches a suspect, so he’s fired. Logan discovers some financial irregularities that reveal that he has a secret half-brother!...
2020-11-251h 15
VMIVMI 3.01 Welcome WagonA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: College! Veronica’s outsmarting her professors, driving a new car, and getting drunk. Conveniently, Logan, Wallace, Mac and Dick are also all at Hearst College. Along with new roommates/friends: bland white boy Piz, who hires Veronica to find all his worldly possessions, which have been stolen by a fake welcome committee; and Parker, who is punished for being a popular and fun-loving sexperson character by becoming the latest victim of the campus rapist who struck in season 2, and is still attacking women and shaving their heads. ...
2020-11-181h 11
VMIVeronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 2A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Bus crash! People being accused of murders they didn’t do! People being exonerated from murders they did do! Jackie retcons! Secret babies! Sexpeopling! Break-ups! And not enough sightings of Backup! Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and special guest detective LaToya Ferguson to investigate the abiding mysteries of Veronica Mars season 2. Ends? Loose. Herrings? Red. Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this season included plotlines concerning murder, violence, child abuse and sexual assault. For mor...
2020-10-2239 min
VMIVMI 2.22 Not PicturedA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Everyone graduates high school! Except for Weevil, who is arrested for Thumper’s murder. Keith tracks down Woody to a hunting lodge and gets him arrested for child abuse! While he’s doing that, Veronica identifies Woody’s third victim: Cassidy Casablancas. Who, after stealing Mac’s clothes, gets ready to kill Veronica on the Neptune Grand roof… But Logan saves Veronica, Veronica saves Logan, but nobody can saves Cassidy. Elsewhere in the building, Aaron Echolls enjoys a post-coital cigar until Clar...
2020-10-141h 30
VMIVMI 2.21 Happy Go LuckyA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: There have been some rough episodes of Veronica Mars, but this has to be one of the roughest. Aaron fucking Echolls is found innocent on all charges! And it’s somehow something to do with Veronica getting chlamydia? Fvck! Off!! Woody Goodman is revealed to be a child abuser, and some of the kids in the bus crash were his victims. As was Lucky the janitor, who starts firing a gun at the school, then is shot dead. Terrence Cook is exonerated fr...
2020-10-061h 10
VMIVMI 2.20 Look Who's StalkingA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Helen’s hatred of the incorporation plot turns out to be JUSTIFIED as Woody Goodman uses it as an excuse to fuck over Keith! He can’t take his own unconscious young woman to the hospital, so a reluctant Keith has to do it. But then Woody tells the papers that she was Keith’s unconscious young woman, and you don’t sell out a Mars without your big plan for incorporation failing - UP YOURS, Woody! Also having beef with Woody is Lucky the janitor, who is s...
2020-09-231h 04
VMIVMI 2.19 Nevermind The ButtocksA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: We meet another misfit Neptune boy with a hobby for weapons: Harry, who has a bedroom full of arrows, a wall full of stag heads, and a dog that was killed by a driver of a green Barracuda car… ...which belongs to an old lady who doesn’t drive it, but guess who does? Liam fucking Fitzpatrick, to run his errands, such as:i. Trying to kill Keith Mars, but instead getting whupped by our favourite power dad;ii. Bullying the PCHers so they bring in more...
2020-09-161h 04
VMIVMI 2.18 I Am GodA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: All that bus crash investigating and trying to win the Kane scholarship has left Veronica a very tired teen; she’s falling asleep in class! And having vivid dreams about the bus crash kids - now what’s worse, hearing all about someone else’s dreams, or that the show brought back Miss James to hear all about Veronica’s dreams? She’s not getting back together with Keith, though - he’s off on dates! Lots of dates. But the work always comes first. But there is one lovely new couple: Wall...
2020-09-081h 06
VMIVMI first birthday celebrations!Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to celebrate the first year of Veronica Mars Investigations, with a parade of outtakes and outdated technologies. Hear about Chuck E Cheese and his arch rival in kids’ pizza joints, the Showbiz Pizza undead bear; Xena, Warrior Princess’s horse; why Jenny doesn’t trust birds; Westworld for kids; and the story of Jenny and Helen’s meet-cute over decidedly non-cute Tim Tam Slam wreckage. Content note: this episode contains references to animal cruelty. For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official si...
2020-08-2630 min
VMIVMI 2.17 Plan BA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Logan wins Woody Goodman’s essay contest! And the prize is a really boring-looking job at the mayor’s office, spotting Woody in the gym and sorting the mail. ...but then he finds creepy secret video taken from within Woody’s house! He also gets to plunge the detonator to explode Shark Field… …With Thumper inside, chained to a urinal by some angry Fitzpatricks after, at long last, something goes Weevil’s way. And it’s the school Sadie Hawkins dance, and what are school dances for if nobody kisses someone they weren’t s...
2020-08-2153 min
VMIVMI 2.16 The Rapes of GraffA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: It’s the return of two of our season 1 least faves: sex crimes, and TROY. Veronica’s not pleased to see him either, but does agree to help him when he’s accused of raping a Hearst College student and shaving her head. This entails infiltrating a frat house, which seems like the worst place in the world? Meanwhile Cliff has been handcuffed to a bed by a sex worker and had his briefcase stolen, full of evidence about Logan’s murder case. And Sheriff Lamb and Madison Sinclair are hooking up?? Two...
2020-08-1452 min
VMIVMI 2.15 The Quick and the WedA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Like all Wallace’s special ladyfriends, Jane requires Veronica’s services: her sister Heidi went missing after her own bachelorette party! And the wedding’s in three days! Heidi’s got a rich fiance and a past, and these things are incompatible in the Marsverse. Meanwhile, Aaron Echolls is back, marvelling at Kendall Casablancas’s boobs, and asking her for a favour that sends her rooting around in the shower drain. She’s also trying to get Logan to invest in Cassidy’s booming property empire. But good luck with that: Logan’s busy dati...
2020-07-271h 03
VMIVMI 2.14 Versatile ToppingsA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: After a year and a half of being a one-line character, Corny finally gets his own plotline! One that involves him getting tased by a serial mugger of pizza deliverers. Is the mugger also targeting Neptune High students who are gay and will pay blackmail money not to be outed? And is the mugger also targeting students in interracial relationships? Plus: Logan is dating Hannah to get at her father, the fake witness implicating him in Felix’s murder. Hannah’s none too pleased to be used, but nor is she pleas...
2020-07-211h 01
VMIVMI 2.13 Ain't No Magic Mountain High EnoughA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: • It’s Neptune High’s winter carnival, to raise money for the school trip - but someone has stolen all the cash! • Who could it be? Weevil?? While he’s taking his adorable niece around the funfair? • Jackie?? In the very brief moment when she’s not being plunged into a tank of cold water by vengeful students? • Logan??? No, he’s off flirting with the latest cute Neptune blonde girl Hannah, stealing her cotton candy and her heart, but with ulterior motives. • Random guy JB...
2020-07-1654 min
VMIVMI 2.12 Rashard and Wallace Go To White CastleA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: That hit and run that sent Wallace back to Neptune is being pinned on our favourite pure-hearted boy! And he has just five days to clear his name! Veronica is on the case, and it involves a limo kidnapping scheme, infiltrating a frat party, and phone theft. Oh and she also plants a camera in a church confessional booth, to find out which PCHer is working for the Fitzpatricks’ drug business and therefore killed Felix. And it’s.…..Thumper! Who also seems to be the le...
2020-07-071h 09
VMIVMI 2.11 Donut RunA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Clue in, donut! Duncan kidnaps his own baby so the evil Manning grandparents can’t add her to their collection of emotionally abused children. Sheriff Lamb is on the case, and so is the FBI - Agent LUCY LAWLESS has come to town for this case! But mainly to neg Lamb. They search for Duncan in a boat, up at Big Bear, in the Mars apartment, in Mexico - but Duncan is GONE. You wouldn’t think he could outwit the law, would you? But… Vero...
2020-06-241h 10
VMIVMI 2.10 One Angry VeronicaA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: OMG, Meg gives birth to Duncan’s baby and then DIES. And Wallace comes back from Chicago! But that’s all in just the last couple of minutes of the show! Before that, we’ve got Veronica doing jury duty and ruining everyone else’s holidays in her pursuit of The Truth… The sex tapes that implicate Aaron Echolls in Lilly Kane’s murder have been stolen from the evidence locker, and TWO of Veronica’s ex-boyfriends are involved… And Lamb is shirtless and sweaty and loving himself, merrrrry Christmas everyone. Join Jenny Owe...
2020-06-1745 min
VMIVMI 2.09 My Mother, The FiendA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: After 1½ seasons about daddies, we get an episode about mothers! Veronica investigates whether her own mom, Lianne, was the high school mean girl. She also investigates whether, 25 years ago, mean girl for life Celeste Kane gave birth on prom night and dumped the baby in the school bathroom. And all this leads to Trina Echolls, Logan’s adopted sister, discovering who her biological mom is. Veronica herself has to practice being a mother, as a school assignment forces her to take care of a robot baby… But brewing up a real, actua...
2020-06-0956 min
Song by SongBram Stoker's Dracula (film, dir. Coppola, 1992) [F14]For the last episode of our 2020 film mini-season, we welcome back Helen Zaltzman and Jenny Owen Youngs (of The Allusionist, Buffering The Vampire Slayer, and Veronica Mars Investigates) for a somewhat contentious discussion of this vampire-staple retelling. With some strong feelings and heavy levels of confusion, as well as a solo outing by Sam as guy-who-can-find-a-positive-in-almost-anything, Song by Song… well, we kind of get this one out of the way. Sorry to all the big fans, we did our best to find a balanced response, it just wasn't loved OK WHAT'S NEXT? Song by Song is Martin Za...
2020-06-0337 min
VMIVMI 2.08 Ahoy, Mateys!A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Get ready for some violence: Veronica follows the trail of the murder witness right to the crime family the Fighting Fitzpatricks, and nearly gets an unwanted face tattoo for her trouble. Plus: Logan is clonked on the head, bundled into a van and masked interrogators play Russian roulette with his body parts - yes, the PCHers are also investigating the murder, in their own way. Keith’s trying to find the person who is harassing the parents of Marcos, a student who died in the bus cr...
2020-05-261h 01
VMIVMI 2.07 Nobody Puts Baby In A CornerA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: We have a new Duncan: Detective Duncan! Meg had written about a kid she babysat being psychologically abused, and he and Veronica set out to find who it is. Veronica takes on all of Meg’s babysitting gigs, and let’s just say the toxic masculinity of Neptune is flourishing in the under-10s. She also befriends Gia Goodman, which entails going to the sleepover of nightmares - if your nightmares include seeing a child punished, having your boobs mocked, and enduring some extremely basic-bore chat abou...
2020-05-201h 01
VMI2.06 Rat Saw GodA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Logan gets arrested for Felix’s murder, is put in a jail cell with his dad, and his house is burned down. Oof! Abel Koontz turns up - he needs Veronica to find his daughter Amelia DeLongpre, so he can see her before he dies. Amelia took her $3m of Kane fake confession payout, and spent it on international good times - then disappeared in the midst of a foam party in Ibiza. Keith loses the sheriff race, but keeps sniffing around the bus cr...
2020-05-061h 10
VMISpecial Investigation: Pride and PrejudiceA LONG TIME AGO ON THE BBC 1995 MINISERIES OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Bonnets! Balls! Wet shirt!!!! Cousin-marriage?! Rude rich boy is into sassy girl with tiny jacket! Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to recap the BBC 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, which Jenny had never seen, nor indeed had she experienced Pride and Prejudice in any form. Until Helen made her. Because if Wallace, Jackie, Veronica and Duncan are congregating to watch it in S2E03, then so shall we. Thanks to all of you wh...
2020-04-2850 min
VMI2.05 Blast From The PastA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica and Jackie sort of become friends when Jackie asks Veronica to find out who stole her credit card and bought a load of vanilla-scented candles. But they are promptly enemies again when Jackie humiliates Veronica during a televised psychic reading, AND slow-dances with Logan. That’s not even the worst thing our blessed Wallace is dealing with this episode, as he reels from the information that for the past 18 years, his mother covered up who his father is. The contest is heating up be...
2020-04-2155 min
VMI2.04: Green-Eyed MonsterA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica’s latest client, Julie, is rich pretending to be not rich and hires Veronica to investigate her boyfriend, who she fears is not-rich pretending to be rich - keep up! Keith is reluctantly investigating Alicia, who’s lying about a man from her past. And Weevil’s earrings are more than very shiny: they’re important to the plot. Meg is still in a coma, but nonetheless coming between Veronica and Duncan, who has been visiting her every day. But before Veronica...
2020-04-151h 04
VMI2.03 Cheatty Cheatty Bang BangA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Cassidy Casablancas hired Veronica to investigate whether his stepmother Kendall is violating her prenup by cheating on his father. Shock discovery 1: Kendall IS cheating with...Logan! Well, we all knew already, but they didn’t. Shock discovery 2: Richard Casablancas’s property fortune is a great big scam! Jackie’s into Wallace, possibly also into some other dude, but not into Pride and Prejudice and not even Colin Firth can bring her round. Keith and Alicia go on a romantic minibreak to see some j...
2020-04-0747 min
VMI2.02: Driver EdA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica’s BUSY: serving coffee, investigating whether the driver crashed the bus deliberately, and ruining post-coital moments with Duncan. So Detective Wallace handles a case all by himself, and guess what, it’s all in the hope of winning over the gorgeous but hostile Jackie - played by Tessa Thompson! Logan fires guns with Mr Casablancas, and has sex with Mrs Casablancas - not at the same time. Sheriff Lamb sucks SO much that Keith Mars decides to run for sheriff. Kevin Smit...
2020-03-3040 min
VMI2.01: Normal is the WatchwordA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Keith’s got a book deal! Veronica’s got a new job! And several new shiny vests. We’ve got a new Duncan - happy Duncan??!! Wallace has got a problem with his urine… Logan’s got a murder charge, a broken heart and no friends, but the Casablancases’ hot stepmom is there to cheer him up. There are a whole load of new characters, and a new big tragedy for Neptune: a school bus crashes off a cliff. Join Jenny...
2020-03-241h 10
VMITheme Tune InvestigationsA long time ago (well, 2003), the Dandy Warhols released ‘We Used To Be Friends’ and we hadn’t thought of it lately at all, except for it being the theme tune to Veronica Mars. With the assistance of Guest Deputy Sheriff Charlie Harding of the podcast Switched On Pop, we investigate the several versions of the song, stuffing a manila folder with grunge guitars, scratchy synths, bravado and rather unusual syntax. Find Charlie’s Switched On Pop podcast and book at switchedonpop.com. Listen to all the versions of the song, see more about th...
2020-03-1726 min
Podcast Radio HourTV Companion PodcastsAmanda Litherland and Suchandrika Chakrabarti explore the rising success of TV companion podcasts.They speak to podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Jenny Owen Youngs about their podcast Veronica Mars Investigations, which recaps the 00s teen show. Why are there still so many fans eager to hear discussion about it?And Lily Ames, Head of Production at Chalk and Blade chats about their series Obsessed With... made for BBC Sounds. Each series of the podcast focuses on a hit BBC show, like Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders or Killing Eve. How can podcasts give viewers a glimpse...
2020-02-2158 min
VMIVeronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 1With VMI season 1 behind us like Clarence Wiedman in a dramatic hat and season 2 hoving into view like Keith Mars in overalls ready to plant a bug, here is a bonus episode investigating unsolved mysteries from Veronica Mars season 1, such as the prudence of hiding stuff in air vents, the appropriateness of having the hots for someone as often awful as Logan, when ARE Veronica and Leo’s birthdays, and whether the sanitary vending machine in Veronica’s toilet office actually vends. For Veronica Mars Investigations Investigations season 1, Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman are joined by deput...
2020-02-1147 min
VMI1.22: Leave it to BeaverA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: So! Much! Stuff! Happened!Secret tapes! Of Lilly! And! Aaron Echolls! Scary! Car crash! Fridge fire! Save Marses! Yay, Backup!Logan! Peril! Sheriff Lamb’s soul patch! And! Also! Lianne Mars! Suuuucks! Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and special guest Hrishikesh Hirway to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 22: Leave It To Beaver, and try to solve such mysteries as how/why people just keep APPEARING in this episode, how you hire a con...
2020-02-041h 53
VMI1.21: A Trip to the DentistA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica finds a lot of different versions of events when she investigates what happened to her on the night of Shelly Pomroy’s party; Keith finds Duncan in Cuba; Duncan finds out that Logan and Veronica are a couple; We find that a beard does not suit Duncan; And Veronica finds hidden cameras in Logan’s poolhouse - and for once, it wasn’t even her who put them there! Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Se...
2020-01-281h 16
VMI1.20: M.A.D.A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: A nice student called Carmen tries to break up with her boyfriend. But he won’t let her - and if she tries, he’ll leak a video of her suggestively sucking a popsicle in a hot tub! Toxic Neptune strikes again! But Toxic Neptune strikes even worse in Veronica’s plan to get revenge on this guy. At least things are delightful and cute and beautiful between Keith Mars and Alicia Fennel - but Clarence Wiedman’s about to ruin their bliss. Things...
2020-01-211h 14
VMI1.19: Hot DogsA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Someone called Mandy has lost her dog and wants Veronica to find him. Even though Veronica’s busy enough trying to find out why Weevil broke into Lilly Kane’s bedroom the other night. Logan’s sister Trina has a boyfriend who is bad news. But Mr Bad News himself Aaron Echolls is there to deal some very bad news to Trina’s boyfriend’s face. Veronica breaks up with Deputy Leo, but they stay friends - so he can carry on doing favo...
2020-01-141h 03
VMI1.18: Weapons of Class DestructionA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Something’s afoot at Neptune High - the bomb squad is sniffing around. And there are two suspicious students: the one with a bedroom full of weapons… …and the one who’s basically Christian Slater in Heathers, plus a car full of fertilizer and guns. Also we meet another new Duncan: Disappearing Duncan. Where’s Duncan gone?? Meanwhile, there’s romance in the air: Keith and Wallace’s mom are dating! Aaaand: there’s also the kiss that launched a thousand ’ships.
2020-01-061h 13
VMI1.17: Kane and Abel'sA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica tracks down Abel Koontz’s daughter and hides her in a motel. Veronica also grudgingly takes on the case of uppity student Sabrina, who is being harrassed to the detriment of her midterms. Jake and Celeste Kane did some covering up on the night of Lilly’s death, with the help of Clarence Wiedman… …Who is all over the place spooking everybody in this episode, keeping it subtle and undercover by wearing a very noticeable hat. And! There’s another PI in town...
2019-12-171h 08
VMI1.16: Betty and VeronicaA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: The school mascot, Polly the parrot, is missing! A rival school’s mascot, Billy the goat, is also missing! No longer missing, though: Veronica’s mom. But she’s not in a good way… One person’s having a good time, at least: Wallace! He’s the toast of the basketball team, he’s getting high fived wherever he goes, and someone’s leaving cookies in his locker. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 16: Betty and Veronica, and...
2019-12-101h 07
VMI1.15: Ruskie BusinessA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: A Russian mail order bride wants Veronica to find her lost love, an actor named Tom Cruz. (Note: NOT Tom Cruise.) Meg Manning wants Veronica to find the identity of her secret admirer - which rich white boy of Neptune could it be?? Logan’s on hotel stakeout in the hopes of finding his mom. Keith is being tailed by two guys in terrible suits. And could one of them lend Logan some pants? Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zal...
2019-12-031h 00
VMI1.14: Mars vs. MarsA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: Student Carrie Bishop claims that Mr Rooks, the best teacher at Neptune High, has had sex with her. But Veronica is determined to prove Mr Rooks innocent! She doesn’t like Carrie, and she loves Mr Rooks’s wacky theatrical teacher tricks. This puts her at odds with Keith all episode - we hate it when the Marses fight! But we love the very good prank he plays on Veronica. Logan needs Veronica to prove that his mother is still alive. And Vero...
2019-11-2658 min
VMI1.13: Lord of the BlingA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: Neptune’s own gangsta rap record boss, Bone Hamilton, needs Keith to find his daughter Yolanda, who is missing, presumed kidnapped. A long time ago, Yolanda and Veronica used to be friends - but they haven’t talked lately at all. What went wrong? What went wrong is LOGAN, but that’s nothing compared to what he’s having to deal with this episode. And Wallace has a new hairstyle, don’t touch it Veronica, please. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to...
2019-11-191h 18
Basic FolkJenny Owen Youngs, ep. 47Jenny Owen Youngs! Jenny is an indie pop songwriter, queer icon and podcast host. I am thrilled to have her on Basic Folk! Her new EP, Night Shift, is out now (November 15) and we talk about it and all of her whole life in our conversation. From her young life in rural New Jersey to space camp (where she wished for more space and less camp) to coming out in a very public way in 2012. Jenny is a sweet, funny and caring person, and we really get into what makes her tick in this episode.Jenny's been o...
2019-11-1452 min
VMI1.12: Clash of the TritonsA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: There’s a secret society! Because where there are rich white boys, there are secret societies. Someone is trying to pin a fake ID racket on Veronica. She didn’t do it! What she is guilty of is being great at karaoke. Duncan, however… not so much. And even though you thought the Echolls family couldn’t get any bleaker, it gets a ton bleaker. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 12: Clash of the Tritons...
2019-11-051h 08
VMI1.11: Silence of the LambA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: A serial killer is on the loose, strangling young women with guitar strings. But because the victims are “party girls”, Sheriff Lamb’s not too bothered about investigating. Luckily, Keith Mars IS bothered! He’s on the case! And he’s wearing a suit! Meanwhile, Veronica is investigating high schoolers’ parents - and discovers shocking information about her friend Mac. But to cheer her up, she’s got a new friend, Leo, to extract favours from - her favourite thing. Join Jenny Owe...
2019-10-291h 09
VMI1.10: An Echolls Family ChristmasA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: It’s the most wonderful time of the year - you know, when you get stabbed at your own Christmas party. It’s also poker night at Logan’s - but where is all the money? We meet a new Bro9er, we think - but is everything as it seems? And someone AT LAST calls out Logan’s racist jokes. Merry Christmas everyone. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 10: An Echolls Family Christmas, and get stuck i...
2019-10-221h 07
VMI1.09: Drinking the Kool-AidA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: Veronica sends off a DNA test to find out who’s her daddy. A rich white boy of Neptune has supposedly joined a cult - and become much nicer as a result? Veronica infiltrates the supposed cult - and starts getting sucked in herself? And what’s happened to darling Keith’s poor precious face??? Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 9: Drinking the Kool-Aid, and get stuck into such mysteries as: can the Mooncalf Collective cult/comm...
2019-10-151h 05
VMI1.08: Like a VirginA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: A purity test has caused chaos at Neptune High, as students are shamed for their sexual behaviour (if they're female - they’re lauded for it if they're male). We meet Wallace's mom! And Wallace mom's shitty lodger, who won't leave! That is, until Keith Mars goes full Papa Bear on him. And Veronica comes face to face with Lilly's convicted killer. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 8: Like a Virgin, and consider such mysteries as wh...
2019-10-081h 10
VMI1.07: The Girl Next DoorA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: Logan and Weevil are stuck in detention together - and honestly, that’s all we need for this episode. But there is more - Veronica’s (beautiful) pregnant neighbour Jessica Chastain disappears. And her (scraggly) boyfriend doesn’t seem upset about it… Veronica discovers some shocking information about her mom. And the school flagpole is back causing trouble. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 7: The Girl Next Door, and probe such mysteries as whether to...
2019-10-011h 01
VMI1.06: Return of the KaneA Long Time Ago on Veronica Mars: We meet Logan’s dad - and swiftly wish we hadn’t. Duncan’s dad makes him run for class president. Also running for president: rebellious Wanda! A new friend for Veronica - or is she? Logan’s got a new hobby: running amateur boxing tournaments. Veronica finds out something majorly dodgy in Lilly’s murder files. And: Jane Lynch in alpha mode! Our favourite flavour of Jane Lynch. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars...
2019-09-241h 08
VMI1.05: You Think You Know SomebodyA Long Time Ago on Veronica Mars: Smuggling steroids from Mexico doesn’t go according to plan; Keith’s happy to be dating again; Veronica is NOT happy Keith is dating again; Logan is the least jerky jerk, for once in his precious life! And Jenny’s visceral hatred for Troy at last proves to be justified. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 5: You Think You Know Somebody, and consider such mysteries as whether there are really snoopers’ websites like privateeyez...
2019-09-1757 min
VMI1.04: The Wrath of ConA Long Time Ago on Veronica Mars: Wallace is living his best life: crushing on a girl who just *happens* to need the services of a private detective, pretending to be a math nerd, and AT LONG LAST getting to go to a party. Gamer guys are running a massive scam from their college dorm room, with a complex front of dudes wearing baggy rumpled beige clothes. Veronica dug into her huge wardrobe of disguises! And a lot of those disguises are ‘hot girl’. Flashback limo party, present-day college party: which is c...
2019-09-101h 06
VMI1.03: Meet John SmithA Long Time Ago on Veronica Mars: A squeaky little freshman hired Veronica to help find his missing father; Duncan threw his medication down the drain, with hallucinatory results; Keith developed a crush on Veronica’s guidance counsellor; and things heated up between Veronica and the supposedly sexy and charming Troy, but still aren’t as hot as her hot’n’heavy Duncan flashbacks. Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 3: Meet John Smith, and ponder such mysteries as whether or not it’s creepy t...
2019-09-031h 10
VMI1.02: Credit Where Credit's DueA LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: Weevil & his grandma were both framed for credit card fraud; Logan was cheated on by Paris Hilton, but we are glad because he said some heinously classist & racist stuff in this episode; Some guy named Troy shows up and appears to be nice but says some rather douchey things; Keith singlehandedly caught an escaped felon; And Wallace just really wants to go to a party. Please let him go to a party, Veronica - any party! Join Jenny Owen Youngs...
2019-08-2750 min
VMI1.01: PilotA LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS: Wallace got duct taped to the school flagpole by Weevil; Keith inquired about the identity of your daddy; Logan smashed Veronica’s headlights with a crowbar; and Veronica tried to cram three episodes-worth of backstory about her murdered best friend, her missing mom and her social ostracism into forty minutes - in between staking out the Camelot Motel, framing Logan for having a bong on school grounds, colluding with the fire chief to swap out police evidence, and cutting Wallace down from that flagpole. She’s a busy kid. Al...
2019-08-201h 11
The Allusionist104. Words into FoodIt’s Food Season at the Allusionist. Last episode we learned all about compiling recipes, turning food into words. This time, we meet someone who turns words into food - no, she doesn’t make Alphabetti Spaghetti. When Kate Young of the Little Library Cafe spots a foodstuff or a feast in a novel, she finds ways to cook it in reality, whether it’s delicious (Babette’s Feast), evil (Edmund’s Turkish delight in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) or poisonous (the crab and avocado in The Bell Jar). Find out more at theallusionist.org/words...
2019-08-1717 min
VMIVeronica Mars Investigations trailerComing soon: a new podcast with Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman investigating every episode of Veronica Mars from the beginning. Website: VMIpod.com Find @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Distributed by PRX.orgSupport the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TWQYZDRGZUGH8&source=urlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2019-08-0201 min
People who make comedyGBA 235 Iszi LawrenceIn GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots more.
Iszi plugs:
The Z List Dead List: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/
Her Website: http://iszi.com/
I plug:
Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL
Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/
We mention:
Helen Zaltzman: http...
2016-01-131h 06Getting Better AcquaintedGBA 235 Iszi LawrenceIn GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots more.
Iszi plugs:
The Z List Dead List: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/
Her Website: http://iszi.com/
I plug:
Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL
Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/
We mention:
Helen Zaltzman: http...
2016-01-131h 06Podcasters and Radio MakersGBA 235 Iszi LawrenceIn GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots more.
Iszi plugs:
The Z List Dead List: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/
Her Website: http://iszi.com/
I plug:
Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL
Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/
We mention:
Helen Zaltzman: http...
2016-01-131h 06Getting Better AcquaintedGBA 235 Iszi LawrenceIn GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots more.
Iszi plugs:
The Z List Dead List: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/
Her Website: http://iszi.com/
I plug:
Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL
Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/
We mention:
Helen Zaltzman: http...
2016-01-131h 06PerformersGBA 235 Iszi LawrenceIn GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots more.
Iszi plugs:
The Z List Dead List: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/
Her Website: http://iszi.com/
I plug:
Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL
Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/
We mention:
Helen Zaltzman: http...
2016-01-131h 06