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Poirot Pod
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Two sisters - one lifelong fan, one first time reader, analyzing the works of Agatha Christie. This pod started as a 2020 quarantine project to connect across the country and discuss how the books hold up looking through a current lens? Join us as we sip wine, giggle, and at some point discuss the book. You can read along or just listen and compare to your memory of the books or movies or shows. Intended for a grownup audience with adult language and themes. Contact: [email protected]
Episodes
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Next Book Announcement! They Came to Baghdad
Hello out there Sandwich Artists! Quick announcement here from Amanda at Poirot Pod. We are delighted to see that people are still following us after our long hiatus! We wanted to let you know the book we are reading next is “They Came to Baghdad,” in case you want to read it along with us before...
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A Murder Is Announced
We're back! This excellent book includes so many siblings: Patrick and Julia, Pip and Emma, Lettie and Lottie... not to mention actual gays and a cat! Tune in to discover Amanda seems to have inexplicably grown up in the 30s while Portia grew up in the 80s.
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Crooked House by Agatha Christie, part 2
Glass 👏onion👏,student👏 teachers👏, rich 👏 kid👏 syndrome👏, #spinstersquad Lifekit https://open.spotify.com/episode/7MMhNaWHBuQRZVA6GY1RdN?si=k32S7AzcQjajk3vIWsHrhA Danny Pellegrino https://open.spotify.com/episode/7v4AuzfLCraFOlLMuYlSos?si=xS280lqoR9SOGqxpW6ZzFg
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Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Mostly about the Little Mermaid
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The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie, Part 2 (of who knows how many)
Just your typical Agatha Christie discussion: "I did not realize there was titties in this story... I would have been way more interested!" Is "buttocks" a great word? Vote now at [email protected].
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The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie (Part 1 of X)
Labouuuuuuurs. The sleepy episode.
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Agatha Christie's The Hollow
Recorded over 2 months, we finally finished this episode about classic Agatha Christie plot with a murder during a weekend at a country house, which Portia hated and Amanda thinks Agatha changed her mind about the victim halfway through writing it.
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Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
Cop-dar?
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Death Comes As The End by Agatha Christie
Choose your own tagline: (1) Seven degrees of pronunciation (2) Nofret goes to Hooters (3) Egyptians: they're just like us! (4) Possibly Agatha Christie's best book? (5) Believe it or not this episode was longer and more offensive before editing
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Absent In The Spring by Agatha Christie (as Mary Westmacott)
F*ck around and I'll give you a rond de jambe...
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Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
TW: Suicide attempt. Text or call 988 or go to 988lifelife.org for help and resources. A great book, a ridiculously long episode.
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The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
A very good Agatha Christie! High on the reading list if you're asking. Discussion featuring: should you poop at your friend's house?, Portia's masterclass in kissing, Miss Marple says calm your tits (not really), so Portia rants about boobs. Amanda supports her, like a bra. Portia revels in...
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Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire
Special episode! We interview Ann Claire about her new Agatha Christie-themed murder mystery, available Nov 1st. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690689/dead-and-gondola-by-ann-claire/.
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The Body In The Library by Agatha Christie
Just your typical Body In The Library discussion: basketball, abortion, and schpangles. Check out poirotscore.com -- tell 'em we sent you? Have a Poirot Pod drinking game? Let us know the rules at [email protected]. Big preview!! We will be reviewing and interviewing the author of Dead and...
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Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Another in-person special episode, featuring poor audio quality, Sushi (the cat), a musical interlude, and a much overdue catch-up on the Portia scale!
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N or M? By Agatha Christie
In person nonsense
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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery #1) by Kerry Greenwood
We're back with a special episode discussing this Agatha Christie-inspired book: "OMG who's looking at my nipples?!"
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
What's in a name?
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Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie
A very familiar plot set up, very gay episode.
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The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Part 2)
Failing the Bechdel test.
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The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie (Part 1)
Love squares, feigning modesty, and failing at micromachines-ing.
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Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
The best Poirot novel yet! Discussion featuring: grief responses, the fog/enchantment of being in love with a wasteperson, sexy Colins, and.... hiccups! Check out the referenced episode of Hidden Brain that Amanda uses to justify her constant interrupting here:...
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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
Racism, sepia tone d*ck pics, and vigilante justice. Featuring guest star, B! *Spoilers for the movies Seven and Identity.
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The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Welcome to a special episode about this fantastic Agatha Christie inspired modern book (with spoilers!).
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Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
What if Miss Marple was the murderer? This book is a masterpiece--Christie at her best--and we discover: mess with Lord Whitfield, get smoted. ***The next episode will be a special discussion of the Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman, with spoilers, so hurry up and read it!***
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
This special holiday murder is solved by false-mustache-delivery.net overnight shipping! Bonus gift of pilocarpine eye drops with first mustache order.
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Agatha Christie's Appointment With Death
Confusing with the Starrs
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Murder In The Mews, Part 2
No one: . Portia and Amanda: Let's live google the Island of Rhodes, Rhode Island, Rhodesia and the name Rodas.
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Season 2 Trailer
Two sisters - one lifelong fan, one first time reader, analyzing the works of Agatha Christie. Started as our quarantine project to connect across the country. How does Agatha hold up looking through a 2021-2022 lens? Join us as we go through her books. You can read along or just listen and…
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Number 30: Murder In The Mews, Part 1
Poirot Pod is back! We welcome you back with discussion including a discussion of Guy Fawkes, "air" "quotes," what it means to be hairy at one's heel, and golfing as self-care. We also recommend (unsponsored. so far...) bookaudio.online for our listener-listener-readers.
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Number 29: Death On The Nile
A great book (which Amanda hated) featuring both Poirot and Colonel Race, and Agatha Christie taking (apparently obvious) shots at romance author Elinor Glyn. Portia shouts "boobs!" while Amanda faces her feeling for butch Maggie Smith in the 1978 film adaptation. Many questions come up…
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Number 28: Dumb Witness
This episode was recorded half in-person, and the book HAS A DOG which seems to be the main reason Amanda loves it, while Portia is forced to identify with the victim before the murder, so that loses the book points on the Portia Scale. Agatha Christie falls on the right side of colorism (for a...
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Number 27: Cards On The Table
This book is murder in a bottle, featuring a Scooby-Doo gang of all our fav detectives solving the murder of a mephistophelian poseur during a bridge game. It registered only a 6 on The Portia Scale, but Amanda thinks it's peak Poirot and thinks would be a great first book to introduce a new…
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Number 26: The ABC Murders
Hercule & Arthur go to WhiteCastle to catch a (faux) serial killer. Hastings and Poirot both shine in this ingenious plot which is not, in fact, poo poo pants. Also Portia Scale catch up and a Rupert Grint tangent.
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Number 25/10.5: The Seven Dials Mystery
The Mystery of the Missing Episode! We recorded this back in the summer, but somehow missed it in publishing. The book is bringing big Chimneys-sequel energy with hilarious writing, questionable plot elements, and a realistic love story.
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Number 24: Death In Mesopotamia
Special In-Person episode #thankyouvaccines !!! This book is another murder in a bottle (you gotta rub me the right way) for which Oedipus is *not* a good analogy. Could you reunite with an ex without knowing it? Poirot is a mentor and not an a**hole again (yay), but the villain has been...
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Number 23: Death In The Clouds (Death In The Air)
This book is a Poirot-y Poirot mystery that casts him as a more likable mentor, but leaves Portia and Amanda at odds on who conspired in the murder. Our discussion features searching for the terms "Québécois" and "bottle episode," as well as a discussion of penis bees. This episode's "Bobby got a...
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Number 22: Parker Pyne Investigates (2/2)
This episode's conversation got us to come up with the... *Parker Pyne Fan Fiction Contest! Email your modern Parker Pyne story to [email protected]! What are the modern reasons for discontentment, and how would you fix them in a PP way?* This second half of the book is Parker Pyne ROAD...
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Number 21: Parker Pyne Investigates (Part 1 of 2)
Parker Pyne pod! Covering the 1st half of Parker Pyne Investigates. Topics include: different racism edits in different versions, including Asian fetishism, is sneezing the covidtimes farting? getting one's groove back: can you get healthy on your own, or do you have to engage in life to move...
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Number 20: Murder On The Orient Express
The redemption of Hercule! Agatha and Amanda are both back on Team Poirot in this masterful, dark-*ss book which is a reverse Rodger Aykroyd, and future-reverse And Then There Were None featuring Italian stereotypes. The "Bobby got a sandwich" nonsense tangents in this episode features spoilers…
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Number 19: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
In this episode, we discuss this delightful lesser known mystery, which brings up privilege, class, and birth order (spoiler: younger siblings are murdering psychopaths). Portia and Amanda get distracted by their discomfort with domestic service and then by Michelle Obama's flawlessness, while…
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Number 18: Lord Edgware Dies
We are back with Hercule Poirot in this 1933 book! In terms of plot, it is brilliant while Poirot isn't. In terms of writing, Portia's 1980's version had racism and anti-semitism which were edited out of the 2012 version Amanda listened to. Follow along as we get into Vulcan brain stabs, Fibber...
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Number 17: The Mysterious Mr. Quin-Part 3!
Stressed about democracy? Ignore reality and listen to the rambling conclusion to our discussion on the Mr. Quin stories, we discuss remembering choreography years later, the idea of death as a character and even lover, outsiders to love being insightful observers, the idea of one true love, and...
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Number 16: The Mysterious Mr. Quin-Part 2
This second episode discussing the Mysterious Mr. Quin was recorded in November of 2020 (we were so young and innocent then)... The stories of The Man from the Sea through The Dead Harlequin follow Mr. Satterthwaite as he steps into his role and the discussion gets into f*ckboys, finding love in...
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Number 15: The Thirteen Problems/Tuesday Club Murders
We are excited to have a guest on this episode, our mother! We discuss this short story collection as well as the mechanisms of different poisons, "the quiet assurance" of white privilege, problematic Swedes, and Pamela comes in with a counterpoint to our cousin love stance?
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Number 14: The Mysterious Mr. Quin - Part 1
Agatha Christie forays into the supernatural in this fascinating collection of stories (Amanda's Favorite!) which has a singularly positive portrayal of feminine traits in a man and brings up themes of the magic of non-binary gender! Listen to Amanda struggle to pronounce Satterthwaite as we…
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Number 13: The Sittaford Mystery
Recording episode 13 during 2020 retrogrades and before the US election was called leads to a weird timing delay in the recording about halfway through the episode (apologies for that to our decades of listeners)... in which Portia TALKS ABOUT SEXUALITY and brazenly ignores the 'u' in aunt.…
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Number 12: Peril at End House
We start this episode by catching up on The Portia Scale, then: Poirot gets conned, Hastings glows up, questions about Agatha's criminal justice framework, toddler zoomies, and plans for American(s) In England.
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Number 11: Murder at the Vicarage
After a couple month recording hiatus, Poirot Pod is back! We discuss how the obvious suspects did it in a very non-obvious way, Agatha Christie's evolving stance on killing murderers, and spinstererotisism (or lack thereof).
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Number 10: Partners in Crime ( Part 2 of 2)
More Tommy and Tuppence! Is the Blitz the McDowell's of London? Also randomly featuring spoilers for "The Prestige".
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Two sisters - one lifelong fan, one first time reader, analyzing the works of Agatha Christie. This pod started as a 2020 quarantine project to connect across the country and discuss how the books hold up looking through a current lens? Join us as we sip wine, giggle, and at some point discuss the book. You can read along or just listen and compare to your memory of the books or movies or shows. Intended for a grownup audience with adult language and themes. Contact: [email protected]
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