PINNA! The first books that really got me into reading, independently, were the Encyclopedia Brown books, about a brilliant kid who solves mysteries around his little town. Which is why I'm so excited that Patrick Picklebottom exists. It feels like what I loved about Encyclopedia Brown, twisty mysteries, fun, small town vibe, updated for today's kids. And there are books, and now there is a new PINNA podcast, Patrick Picklebottom. I've been listening and enjoying seeing if I could figure out the mystery before Patrick does. I'm 50-50 right now, half the time I do, half the time I don't. And I think you're going to enjoy it too. So give it a try, Patrick Picklebottom, on PINNA. And you're about to hear the very first episode of Patrick Picklebottom every day mysteries right here. You can listen to more episodes on PINNA or wherever you listen to podcasts. PINNA! Hey podcast listeners, Patrick Picklebottom here, and welcome to my neighborhood of Snuffleberry. It probably looks a little like yours. Except lately, there have been some very suspicious activity. My best friend Claire and I just uncovered our first clue. And we are going to need your help to follow it. So grab your detectives notebooks, sharp in your pencils, and listen closely. Because anything you hear could be important. This episode is called the Case of the Brazilian Artifact. Here we go! Patrick, get your shoes on. No time for questions. Just trust me. Lives are at stake. Good morning to you too, Claire. No time for pleasantries. This is an emergency. A crime in progress. What kind of crime? The kind where the ice cream truck was just on a street. And that was gone. That's not a crime. The crime is that I had no money. You were in here reading on a Saturday. Claire, suffering from acute ice cream withdrawal. Ha ha, laugh it up. Kooning your notebook under unstable Claire moments. Okay, so what's your plan? Chase down the ice cream truck? No, probably not a good idea. I yelled at him for not accepting IOUs. He got really mad. But what we can do is check out some yard sales. There's three of them today. That's like three pizza days at school in one day. That doesn't make sense. There's gonna be so much treasure. I'm hoping to find golf clubs, golf shoes, golf balls. I don't know you played golf. I don't. I may have pushed my dad's golf back into the lake. Why did you do that? There was a spider on it, Patrick. Life or death situation. Mercury is in lemonade. We're all just doing our best. If Mercury is in lemonade, you should probably stop drinking it. Come on, let's go! We're in need of adventure. Mystery. Who knows, maybe we finally cracked the great lunch box incident. Second grade. I will find you lunch box. Just as maybe slow, but it never forgets. I bet we'll even find some old dusty boring books for you. I'll grab my bike. Oops, almost forgot. Yeah, definitely don't want to forget your diary. Detectives notebook. How many times do I have to tell you? Right, right. Glad you're bringing it. You'll definitely need it for the case of the random family in a picture frame. Which yard sale should we go to first? According to my notebook, the crumbits have a yard sale last March. Exactly 86 days ago. The odds of them having more interesting things to sell are low. Good call. Also, how are you not crashing, reading that while biking? Also says here that Mrs. Crumpet wears the same sun hat every Saturday at 2 p.m. How's that helpful? You never know. Information's power. Okay. Well, I wrote by the House on Metal Bluff Court on my way to your house. There was this creepy, disgusting mannequin with no arms and only one eye spinning on a record player. I want it. Why? It's perfect for scaring my dad. Or summoning spirits. Either way, solid investment. Almost there. Hold on. Blue house across from the park. Wait, Claire, that's? We're here. Yes. The mannequin of my father's nightmares is still here. Claire. No. This is Roger's house. I'm not going in there. Why not? He's the biggest bully in the class. He's a liar, cheater, and I'm pretty sure he stole the bell off my bike last week. Oh, come on, Patrick. I need you in there with me. My bell. I knew it. If there's pee pee on that bell, I'm taking it back. Why would you want a bell he peed on? No. Peepie for Patrick. Pickle bottom. I had it in great. Well, now it stands for pee pee. Okay. That's not helping. Let's go. Claire. Could that be? No way. My lunchbox. Uh, close alarm. It's just an old metal lunchpale. The writing's faded, but I can make out our cave in 1999. This is like a million years old. At the sandwich and there's fossilized. Wait, there is something inside. Just a note. Weird. Why would someone leave only this in an old lunchpale? It says, to find the treasure that time forgot, seek the place where shadows play in memories rot. Is that from some weird poetry club? No clue. But I'm running it down. Let me guess. The case of the mysterious garbage riddle. Something like that. I mean, what if it's really a clue to treasure? Here in Boringville, USA. The only treasure we're finding is expired coupons. Gather around. Gather around. Feast your eyes on this. I dug it up myself. Come on. Let's go see what Rogers shouting about. Look, there's Tommy. Tommy, what's going on? Rogers found real life treasure. He told me about it at school. I've been here since the sun came up so I can be the first to buy it. It'll go perfect in my collection. What are you collecting? Nothing yet. This will be the first thing. What are you pretending you did this time, Roger? Oh, hi, Patrick. It's nice to see your head out of a book for a change. I was just telling my friends here about an archeology dig. I was part of over the summer. You know, in real life, not in some dumb book. Okay, getting close people and behold. Ancient treasure. I don't believe it. What is it, Tommy? No clue. Dibs! Over summer break, I went on a dig in Brazil. Part of the Elite Young Archaeologists Program. Super hard to get in. I was the only one picked out of a thousand people. Mainly because I speak perfected geno Spanish. But also because I wrote an amazing essay about the importance of preserving ancient artifacts. They said it was the best one they've read in 20 years. Please, if I may continue, Patrick, Grazie. As I was saying, we'd been digging in this remote area outside of a rainforest for weeks. Everyone wanted to quit because no one was finding anything. When suddenly, boom! My shovel hit something solid. Wow! At first, I thought it was just a rock. But when I kept digging, I saw this! Cool! What is it? Great question, Karen. Claire. This is the vase of Aero Porto. Of course, it was much dirtier when I found it. The guides told me that this is one of the most ancient vases in all of Central America. It was sacred to the Incas in Brazil. The archaeologists have been searching for this for thousands of years. After I found it, they focused all their attention on the area and discovered an entire village beneath the Earth. As a reward, they let me keep this as a souvenir. This is such a balloon. No one is actually going to believe this. I know, right? I'll give you $50. So, Tommy, what are you doing? I saved all my grass cutting money over break for something just like this. It's ancient history, Patrick. You can't put a price on that. He just did, Tommy. It's obviously fake. His whole story was alive. Patrick just jealous that he didn't get selected to be in the Junior Archaeologist Club. Yeah, right. He's too busy solving real mysteries. Actually, he's close to cracking his toughest one yet. The case of where your brain went. Whatever. Pay up, Timmy. Tommy. Cash. Check. Or Bitcoin. Tommy, keep your money. This, the whole story, it's all fake. I can prove it. How? Let me guess. You wrote it all down. You betcha. Patrick. I love this part. First of all, you said, I went on a dig in Brazil. Part of the elite young archaeologists' program. I was the only one picked out of a thousand people. Mainly because I speak perfected chinos Spanish. But just now, Roger called it the Junior Archaeologist Club. In Brazil, they don't speak Spanish. They speak Portuguese. Not to mention that perfected chinos is not Spanish. Or any language at that. Huh? Then, you said that the vase is one of the most ancient vases in all of Central America. It was sacred to the Incas in Brazil. But Brazil is in South America. Not Central America. And does anyone know where the Incas lived? Inc. In Clandia? They were native to Peru. Well, I sometimes confuse my geometry. Who doesn't? Geography. But, okay. The biggest cloveau. You said the vase is called the vase of aeroporto. Tommy, do you know what aeroporto is? I'm pretty sure he was the great king of Brazil. No, it literally means airport and Portuguese. It's just a vase from the airport. And if that wasn't obvious enough, look at the picture on the table. That's clearly just Roger with his family on vacation at the airport. Claire, what stores behind them? Bed, bath, and Brazilian. Oh! Ah! Exactly. You can even see the vase on display behind them. It's a vase from the airport, give shot. Roger, this might be your laziest scheme yet. I've been skiing. Skim, did I say? Save your money, Tommy. Thanks, Patrick. I thought there was something fishy going on. Mm-hmm. Sure you did. Let's go. Oh, and Roger? You can keep my bell. Yeah, keep it. It has pee pee on it. Ew, gross. There was another dartsail on maple drives by that monstrous beehive. Let's go there. Can we just go get ice cream? I think I'm a little burnt out on yard sale. Fine. My treat. You see my life savings, Patrick? It's the least I can do. I think I need to start reading more. Maybe start with not falling for obvious scams, volume one. Here it's great. Give me one second. I just got out. You gonna write this one down in your detective notebook? Already did. Case of the fake airport vase. Salt. You know, you and I are gonna be solving mysteries forever, right? Even if I never found my old lunch box? Especially if you never find your lunch box. I'm pretty sure it evolved into a new life form by now. Oh, and we still need to figure out what that note in the lunch pal means. To find the treasure that time forgot, seek the place where shadows play and memories rock. Could be something bit. Yeah, yeah, after ice cream. Hey, what about my vase? Timmy, you made a horrible commitment. Pretty sure yelling dibs isn't legally binding. Hey, where are you going? You're missing out on the ancient scrolls of a library room. Patrick, I won't forget this. Adios, Amigo. You know I don't like German. Patrick Pickle Bottom Everyday Mysteries is a production of Wolf Entertainment. Based on the book series by Jay Milletsky, the podcast is written and directed by Steven Michael, executive produced by Dick Wolf, Elliott Wolf, and Steven Michael at Wolf Entertainment, executive produced by Jay and Amanda Milletsky at Lyric and Stone Publishing, executive produced by Molly Barton, Julian Yapp, and Carly Molliori at Rome, starring Kellan Raphaelow, Evie Reynesu, Nathaniel Sider, and Reed Eppley, sound design and mixing by Rory O'Shea, produced by Kalen West and Rebecca Cunningham, music supervision by Kalen West, production manager Jordan Aconcia, edited by Rebecca Cunningham, cover art by Olivia DeBrianzo, casting by Sunday Bowling and Meg Mormon, executive in charge for Realm, Molly Barton. Find more shows like Patrick Pickle Bottom by following Pina on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or at pina.fm. This podcast was recorded under a SAG after a collective bargaining agreement. Did it work? Is this thing on? Okay, good. Hi! 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