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A 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 Season 1 Episode 21: A Trip to the Dentist, and consider such mysteries as why all the single-episode Bro9ers are reunited in this episode, how Marses are able to appear behind things without anyone noticing, and what the - what IS that on Duncan’s face???

Content note:Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning rape, non-consensual sexual activity, drugs, and involuntary intoxication.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-21.

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 what you have scrawled across a car in a cloud of rage.

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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 are also hot and heavy between Logan and Veronica…

• …until she discovers something shocking about the night of Shelly Pomroy’s fateful party.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 20: M.A.D. (that’s Mutually Assured Destruction to you) and consider such mysteries as why Veronica’s plot is so complicated and why she didn’t just go to the police in the first place and save us the agony of this episode.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-20.

CONTENT NOTE: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning non-consensual sex, violence, and drugs.

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 what you think Aaron Echolls won two Oscars for.

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A 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 favours for her, great, lucky him.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 19: Hot Dogs, and consider such mysteries as why you’d be pleased to see supersmart teen detective Veronica Mars when you’re running a dognapping scheme that you presumably do not want her to bust, as well as Wishbone’s outfits, and Judy Blume’s Forever as an educational resource.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-19.

CONTENT NOTE: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes discussions about violence, abusive families and abusive relationships.

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.

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A 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.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and special guest Joanna Robinson to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 18: Weapons of Class Destruction, which includes such mysteries as the extremes of high school journalism, Angry Rotating Duncan, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas’s ratty mullet wig.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-18.

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

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.

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A 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 - Vinnie Van Lowe. He has a fake moustache and no morals. But he sure can sing Hall and Oates like a champ.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 17 Kanes and Abel’s, and probe such mysteries as how the hell dinner at the Kanes’ house always manages to be soul-destroying, why if you’re supposed to be acting stealthily you’d go around wearing an outfit you stole from a 1940s gumshoe, and why you’d have such primped hair when you’re in hiding.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning violence, murder and mental health.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-17.

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. Let us know where YOU would go if you found yourself suddenly in possession of your own Swiss bank account.

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A 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 consider such mysteries as when Veronica got good at baking, why Keith Mars has to say the phrase ‘making love’ a million times this episode, and which delivery company would handle an unstable box full of raw goat meat.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-16.

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. 

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A 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 Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 15: Ruskie Business, and probe such mysteries as why Wallace is STILL unable to resist doing favours for Veronica when said favours earn him a reputation as a jockstrap-sniffer, whether Veronica just has a stack of bridezilla props ready to go, and whether we’d rather go to prom with “some kid with that high school kid look” or a trashcan with boobs.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-15.

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. 

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A 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 Veronica pays another visit to Abel Koontz on death row.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 14: Mars vs Mars, and crack such mysteries as whether there’s only one cafe in Neptune, whether a Teacher With Wacky Fun Teaching Methods actually makes you learn anything, if you can pay a visit to Death Row just for a mic drop moment, and why Veronica is channelling Sheriff Lamb this episode.

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

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-14. Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning family abuse and suicide.

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.

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A 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 investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 13: Lord of the Bling, and try to solve such mysteries as why Logan is so well up on Broadway hits of the 1890s.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-13. Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning family abuse and suicide.

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.

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A 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, and consider such mysteries as whether Cliff is a good lawyer, whether Miss James is the worst grief counsellor, and what the range is of a spy stapler with a bug in it.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-12. Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning violence, murder and suicide.

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.

Which song would you choose if/when you’re required to do a karaoke number in order to crack a mystery? Let us know @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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A 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 Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 11: Silence of the Lamb, and get stuck into such mysteries as: why does this episode hate guitarists SO MUCH? What’s Jenny’s connection with Girls Gone Wild? And what’s so bad about nachos??

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-11.

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.

Have you discovered any scandalous things about your parent’s past? Let us know @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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A 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 into such mysteries as: what the heck is happening in this poker game? How much is a Fabergé egg these days? And how/why are Duncan and Logan wearing matching festive underwear??

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-10.

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

What’s the best thing you've ever carved into a pumpkin? Let us know @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Pics, send pics!

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A 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/commune be so bad if it has de-douchified a rich BroNiner? Whatever happened to waterbeds? Should people kool it with the Kool-Aid jokes? And why anyone would be so cagy about a load of poinsettias??

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-09.

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.

What would you do if you were woken up at 6am by Keith Mars barking in your face? Let us know @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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A 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 what it would be like to get the birds and the bees talk from Keith Mars, why lovely Meg Manning has such a vile boyfriend, whether barking like a dog is truly the best tactic to achieve an eviction, and why Veronica keeps on committing offences that would land her on the sex offender register.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-08.

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.

What would you do if you were woken up at 6am by Keith Mars barking in your face? Let us know @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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A 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 book ourselves in for a stay at the motel that plays the Mars apartment, how many crimes it is to impale a teacher’s car on a flagpole, and why hot teens might be compelled to wear garments in a shade we can only describe as ‘light liver’.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-07.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning rape, family abuse and violence.

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.

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A 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 Season 1 Episode 6: Return of the Kane, and consider such mysteries as why legs are not universally known as ‘getaway sticks’, why Neptune High’s pirate points merit system seems relevant only to the sportif and/or the rich, and whether we actually LOVE and ADMIRE Duncan in this episode?!?!?

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-06.

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

What’s the least appropriate thing you could write on your boyfriend’s sibling’s shoe? Let us know at @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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.

Keith! Keith! We’ll go to the zoo with you! Keith!!

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A 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.com, why Veronica is scuppering Keith’s dating life, what Malibu the American Gladiator is - OH WHO CARES WHEN ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT, AT LAST, JENNY’S NEMESIS SMUGFACE McSMUG IS BANISHED FROM NEPTUNE!

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-05.

What would you least like to find in a piñata? Let us know at @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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.

Bye Troy! BYE!!

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A 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 cooler? A: any party with Lilly Kane at it would be way cooler than a culturally appropriative hat party.

• And Veronica swam amongst the memories of homecoming dances past before finally going skinnydipping IRL, in the present.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 4: The Wrath of Con, and delve into such mysteries as why you would let Veronica Mars anywhere near your big drawer of keys, whether Duncan’s denim blazer is formal or informal, how to pronounce ‘wrath’, and where on earth the Marses store their huge range of disguises and gadgets.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-04.

Are you a yellow cotton dress or strapless red satin? Tell @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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. 

[Your spine runs cold as Keith Mars’s insincere laughter bounds around the room]

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A 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 that Keith used his PI Powers to track down his crush to her regular coffee shop; how Veronica can even pretend to enjoy Troy’s prank tales; and whether the writers knew what they were doing with Duncan, or just threw dice at the beginning of each of his scenes to decide whether to go with ⚁ silent but helpful Duncan, ⚂ milky Duncan, ⚄ sardonically-toasting-the-former-family-dog Duncan, or ⚅ one-man production of Grease Duncan.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-03.

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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.

This week’s challenge: burn someone a mix CD with the new 311 on there.

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A 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 and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 2: Credit Where Credit's Due, and ponder such mysteries as whether Paris Hilton has ever ridden a scooter before, why Sheriff Lamb’s zingers are SO bad, and where do the other students relieve themselves when Veronica is using the school bathroom as her office.

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