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New episode up now! We watched one of the famous(?) Boston Blackie mysteries, the 1946 film The Phantom Thief. We talk about his problematic name, secret house skeletons and slides, the penchant for wartime movies to have bumbling comic relief, and how to decide who’s the protagonist in an old movie because everyone is terrible. Katy did some archival research, Carrie gives us a book report, Maddy reveals she’s been contacted by real life detectives, and Mack apparently thinks he can improve any James Cameron movie ending. We also cover our parent’s first “date” (sorry Mom and Dad), try to decide what kind of noses we have, discuss the possible invention of the Ring doorbell camera, and one of us uses the word “carapace.” Listen and learn about ghost testimonies, chemistry, and Jimmy Buffet! Originally recorded November 2019. TW: Racism, verbal abuse CORRECTIONS: -Women were allowed to be police officers before 1946 and Katy was wrong. It was rare but it happened—women like Alice Stebbins Wells or Lola Baldwin worked on the force in the early 1900’s and women had been involved in law enforcement from roughly the 1870s onward. -From Wikipedia: “The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1934 to 1968.”