The Problem: A Lockwood and Co Podcast

Caitlin and Alan debate if Christmas is Heaven or Hell, what counts as Micro Fiction, and wrap up the whole podcast! Maybe. We know nothing about English food at Christmas time, but that won’t stop us from talking about it. We sneak in a lot of Scarlette and Browne thoughts. We find The Apple Tree to be a very sad story- but so well done. Thank you to everyone who has listened to the podcast and followed us all the way to this ending!A Portland Row ChristmasThe Apple TreeThese stories might fall into the Flash Fiction categoryThe Wheel of Time pilot with Billy ZaneSardines is a version of Hide and SeekMince Pie is an English thingCoffee Shop AU trope is a fan fiction thingSeriously go listen to Haunting the Narrative because it is do goodFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan hang out in the kitchen and read the newspaper! We did it. We finished the last book of the series. What did it all mean? Is it about adulthood, economics, friendship- or about cowardice? We reveal our favorite characters and our favorite cases from the series. Come sit at the Thinking Cloth and wrap things up with us!Neoliberalism is dystopian economics thingThe Truth and Reconciliation process in the history of world governments is not a very successful recordAnarchy is a Political Science thing, not a Chaos thingKing Charles made a land acknowledgement in CanadaFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan send Penelope Fittes off in a Lockwood and Co style! By burning her house down. We talk about skeleton’s in the closet, Skull getting out of his jar, and Battle-Damage Lockwood. In a change of pace for us- we talk about LockLyle as a ship. And living life to the fullest!Wild Seed by Octavia ButlerHaunting the Narrative is the other Lockwood and Co podcastFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan get some corrections out in the open. Then we get back to talking about Quill Kipps! We can’t help ourselves. Later there are explosions- but fewer than Caitlin would like! And Lucy confronts Penelope alone. Listener vs ListenerDisney Hyperion imprint was sold to Hachette after Lockwood and Co was published and is currently owned by Hachette as of this podcast publicationWade’s death scene in Saving Private Ryan is harrowingAraboth in Jewish cosmology is the 7th Heaven. The highest Heaven with the throne of God.Georges Bataille was a French philosopherFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan take a stroll through Dark London. Come stare at a portal with us as we learn the sinister truth of Penelope’s plan! Fences. We meet a limping ghost in a wide-brimmed hat, some living people harvesting plasm, and Ezekiel! Make sure to stick around for us complaining about Kipps- but not in the way you might think.An Ankou is a ghost thingThe Backrooms are an internet horror thingGundam Wing is an anime thingThe Scarlett and Browne series is great and you should read itFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan address some corrections about necklaces. But then! We deal with home invaders on two fronts! Did George’s improvised spears help anything? Should the team have guessed Rupert Gale would show up? How could Lucy lose Skull AGAIN?!Haunting the Narrative is a great Lockwood and Co podcast you should be listening toFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish fortifying Portland Row and watch Lucy and Lockwood take a break under the garden apple tree. We dig into Skull’s backstory and wonder if he could “move on” from his captivity. Is Rupert Gale the same man that Marissa knew when she was young, or his descendant? How did wax, wood, and pouches contain the Sources of the ghosts that Lockwood’s parents stored away?Home Alone is a classic children’s filmPeter and Wendy is the novel of the Peter Pan storySpike is an evil vampire boyfriend thingA Bolthole is an escape thingCastration is a psychological thingFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan witness the breaking and entering of The Orpheus Society. Is it OK to mock someone’s laugh? We lament the loss of “A Cartography of Dark London”. We imagine Ruby Stokes firing a proton pack at a room full of elderly industrialists. Come “Batman” on the rooftops of London with us as we read about a gang of teens stealing a book from a library!The Count of Monty Cristo is a revenge thingFly on the Wall is a film theory termOrpheus is a Greek myth thingFreddy Krueger is Horror Movie characterFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan attend a meeting of small ghost-hunting agencies. We dwell on the details for way too long- like normal. We get terrible news about George. And Lockwood forms a plan while Lucy gives in to her rage.Zordon is a Power Ranger thingYoga does not keep you alive foreverThe Body is stunning episode of Buffy the Vampire SlayerFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan visit Inspector Barnes house, and get schooled in English poetry. Lucy dishes about Lockwood to her bestie- Skull. Barnes warns the agency to follow the rules or end up like Bunchurch. George presents his evidence for how The Problem started to the rest of the company.La Belle Dame Sans Merci is an English ballad by John KeatsDeath Note is a Horror Manga/ Anime thingEctoplasm is a science thing about a supernatural thingNeoliberalism is an Economic Theory thingFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan try our skills on the trapeze- and mostly successfully land! La Belle Dame is finally trapped while we talk horror tropes, how emotionally well-balanced characters are boring, and if this ghost matters to the plot of the book.Mechanical Fortune Tellers are more than a century old genre of coin-op gameThe House on the Rock is a tourist thingFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan go to the graveyard. We found the titular Empty Grave! Take a burning car ride towards inevitable death and then grab a cup of ectoplasm. Lockwood shares the resting place of his family, Skull shares the meaning of the afterlife, and we discuss George’s autism.Ectoplasm is a paranormal thingDesire might be a psychoanalytic thingFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan talk about the French language and political problems in dystopias. Fictional dystopias… mostly. Lockwood and Co get a new client and we learn about the new normal at 35 Portland Row. We try to figure out how Skull can talk in the sunlight, and why Mr Tufnell feels so slimy.Smucker’s is an American company of various fruit preservesChicken Run is an animated classicFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan kick off the final book of Lockwood and Co “The Empty Grave” by Jonathan Stroud! We talk about traps in monuments, the fate of the royal family during the problem, and how great it is to read a finale WITHOUT interpersonal drama among the heroes.Kate Adams is the artist for the chapter pictures in the Lockwood and Co series.The Great Train Robbery was a notorious event in UK history during the 60s that was chronicled in a book and adapted into movie and TV.Lying in state is an English thingMadame Tussauds is a real-life creepy thingThe mannequin scene from 2016 GhostbustersFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan put on their Ghost CSI Monster INC suits and finish The Creeping Shadow! We wish Carlyle and Skull would happen, but we are grateful Lockwood and Co is back. We debate who the unexpected visitor is, ponder how old the protagonists of another Jonathan Stroud series are, and have a flashback to the Lockwood and Co TV show.The trope of shining glasses usually indicates a lack of humanityYin and Yang are not really anything like Lucy and Skull but this doesn’t slow Alan downIf you haven’t read The Scarlett and Browne books by Jonathan Stroud then you shouldGaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss meme might have always been about Penelope FittesFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan finish Part Five: The Iron Chain of The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud. We talk about horror movies, the big Locklye moment in the spirit cape, and the reasons we didn’t become mad scientists. Throw some bombs randomly and join us in burning the place down.A Whole New World is a Disney musical thingEscarpment is a word beyond the ken of North AmericansThe Cube is a horror film series thingIT was a miniseries adaptation of Steven King’s novelFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan pull off a heist. OK maybe we don’t exactly pull it off. And by heist we mean- do a podcast about a book. But we do manage to discuss how Kipps has been sworn into all the secrets, Lucy wants ghost experiments to stop, and Lockwood can’t be stopped. Confessions are made, spirit cloaks are worn, and portals are entered.Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a video game thingFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan put on some goggles to see ghosts, then smash a matchstick ship model, and meet with a captain of industry. There is a lot of energy flying around… and it is compensating for- something. We get deep about possible time travel, but make time for ghost lore.The Sink Spirit scene from Spirited AwayED-209 from RobocopTurning left in Hell is a thing in Dante’s InfernoIn the northern hemisphere sundials make a shadow that runs clockwiseFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan take a trip to the country in Part 4 of The Creeping Shadow. We lean against the table in a leaderish way to explain why Penelope’s offer is insulting. Kipps joins the crew while everyone takes a trip to the countryside.Orpheus is a Greek myth thingThe Judgement Day conversation from GhostbustersFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Caitlin and Alan descend into the London Underground and find Skull! Instead we find out just how useful those Spirit Capes are. We debate the meaning of pudding, the proper use of “tube,” and if a woman’s bathroom has less dignity than other rooms.Ask for pudding in any country and who knows what you will get!A Final Fantasy Moogle is not the same as the Mughal Dynasty.London Underground is not just a public transit thingThe fur coat scene in Ghostbusters 2Noble Savages are a backhandedly racist thingFollow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreadsFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.