A 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 crash case - and finds a strange clue in the wreckage.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 6: Rat Saw God, and probe such mysteries as Clarence Wiedman’s computer setup, Clarence Wiedman’s dressalike assistant, Clarence Wiedman’s JOKE, Clarence and Veronica’s buddy road trip movie (well in our dreams)... We also wonder about the PCHers’ supposed Panty Club, dads vs dads, Cliff being the best worst lawyer, and Weevil’s tattoo of a dog in a hat.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-06.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder, death from cancer, and violence.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. 

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A 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 who joined us to watch together and tweet along! It was a very fun and distracting six hours.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/PrideAndPrejudice.

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A 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 between Sheriff Lamb vs past and maybe future Sheriff Mars, and Lamb has found a way to pin the bus crash on Keith.

• And it’s time for the Homecoming dance - no emotionally cathartic skinnydipping this time, just emotionally painful fallout.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 5: Blast From The Past, and consider such mysteries as why it’s kinda pleasing to have Lamb back even though he’s pure awful; what it means to be not the brightest bulb on the bush; and whether it is prudent to google ‘Celebrity Boners and Gaffes’, spoiler no it is not.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-05.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning a bus crash and drug use.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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A 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 can get into that, she needs to get into Meg’s secret laptop before her controlling parents get wind of it.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 4: Green-Eyed Monster, and delve into such mysteries as how, if you’re on potential engagement/converting to Judaism terms with your beloved, would you not know whose home they live in; why ‘dim sum and then some’ is so very unappetising despite dim sum being on offer; how the hauntedness of a haunted house is measured; how to make an American Girl Doll’s cardigan fit an adult human; and why magical time-travelling shit is always happening in Scotland.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-04.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. 

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and tell us what you would wish for if you rubbed Weevil’s head and he granted you three wishes.

We also have new MERCH - a pin for all you Weevilians out there! Shiny as one of his incriminating earrings! Check it out at hellomerch.com/collections/veronica-mars-investigations.

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A 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 jazz, eat some beef, and collide with someone from Alicia’s past…

• And there’s another karaoke scene, so adopt the brace position, you know the drill by now.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 3: Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang, and consider such mysteries as whether you could really get away with taking long lens photos in a small gym, what sexpeople have being doing to/with the lamps, and whether Veronica and Jackie are competing in a tiny-jacket-off (don't try to say this aloud).

CONTENT NOTE: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning sex, murder and violence.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-03.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. 

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A 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 Smith shows up, as an opportunistic convenience store clerk selling bus crash souvenirs.

• And a dead body washes up on the beach, on his palm is written VERONICA MARS - drink!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 2: Driver Ed, and to probe such mysteries as whether it’s legal for journalists to pose as high school students, whether it’s wise to go to a shooting range with someone if you’re sleeping with their spouse, how many styles they can make Jackie wear at once, and why Duncan would offer to put Veronica on a ‘strict Nelly diet’ because she’s been listening to Radiohead.

CONTENT NOTE: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning suicide, mental health, murder, sex and vehicular crash.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-02.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. 

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and vote for the ultimate Neptunite in Mars Madness 2020!

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A 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 Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 1 Normal is the Watchword, and try to crack such mysteries/pissteries as how Keith Mars got a book published so fast, where smart sassy Veronica disappeared to, whether pantsing takes down both under- and over-pants, and whether the Neptune Onlyplace is REALLY a cafe/restaurant/bar/karaoke joint, or merely an abandoned warehouse full of unusual light fixtures and decorative twigs.

CONTENT NOTE: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder, violence, and vehicular crash.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-01.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. 

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and vote for the ultimate Neptunite in Mars Madness 2020!

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A 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 this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site: VMIpod.com/themetune.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the non-Dandy Warhols music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and tell us which version of ‘We Used To Be Friends’ you would prefer to listen to on a loop for all eternity.

We’ll be back next week with Season 2 Episode 1!

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With 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 deputy detective Duana Taha, TV writer and showrunner, who lifts the lid on working on teen dramas, writing raps for Drake, and being Canadian in Cuba.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/investigations1. And join us in a month to investigate season 2!

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. 

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and keep us informed about any and all of your feelings regarding Veronica Mars and/or our investigations thereof.

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A 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 contractor to fit your sex hut with a hidden camera system, who’s that watching Keith Mars running around on fire, whether Duncan understands what Garfield is about, and what happened to Logan and Weevil’s detention romance.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder, violence, statutory rape, and suicide.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-22.

This episode was edited and mixed by Zach McNees; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and tell us whether you’d rather find Aaron Echolls lurking in the back of your car or sitting atop a fridge that you’re trapped in.

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