The Problem: A Lockwood and Co Podcast

Caitlin and Alan have a gaming podcast named “Inferior Gaming.” If you like listening to us talk about stories, maybe try out us talking about role playing games. We aren’t good at games, or even that good at talking about them, but we have original ideas and a lot of fun. Inferior Gaming! Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin Follow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcast Our theme music is “Ma...

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 f...

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 thing The Truth and Recon...

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 Butler Haunting the Narrative is the other Lockwood and Co podcast Follow Caitlin on BlueS...

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 Listener Disney Hyperion imprint was sold to Hachette after Lockwood and Co was published and is currently owned by Hachette as of this podcast publication Wade’s...

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 thing The Backrooms are an internet horror thin...

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 to Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin Follow the show on Twitte...

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 i...

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...

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 thing Yoga does not keep you alive forever The Body is stunning episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin Follow the show...

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 Keats Death Note is a Horror Manga/ Anime thing Ectoplasm i...

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 game The House on the Rock is a tourist thing Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcai...

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 thing Desire might be a psychoanalytic thing Follow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlin Follow...

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 preserves Chicken Run is an animated classic Follow Caitl...

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 his...

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 hum...

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 thing Escarpment is a word beyond the ken of North Americans The Cube is a horror f...

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 thing Follow Caitlin...

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 Away ED-209 from Robocop Turning left in Hell is a thing in Dante’s Inferno In the norther...

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 thing The Judgement Day conversation from Ghostbusters Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads Follow the show on Twitter @Lockwood...

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 no...

Caitlin and Alan find Portland Row has changed. Lucy’s room has George’s clothes everywhere, Lockwood wants Lucy to explore Jessica’s forbidden room, and the first Type Two we met is now named Abigail Ward. Errr actually no. No she is not. We also learn that being 40 is ancient and obviously it is good that Lockwood is opening up to Holly. Obviously. Dis is a thing from the 1980s and 90s Battenber...

Caitlin and Alan talk about mystery stories as Carlyle and Skull get very hardboiled. Grab a jacket potato and join the hunt for Skull’s kidnappers. We case the meeting place and get into a foot chase- well Lucy did because we don’t have the energy for all that. At least we get to return to 35 Portland Row. Sir David Suchet CBE is famous for playing the role of Poirot for television adaptations of...

Caitlin and Alan try to figure out why Penelope sent Quill Kipps on this case, why Lucy needs to be here, and if the Ealing Cannibal only had one victim. Take a tour of the house with us as we try to find the Source. Please not all the unique amenities like grease stained walls, human stew on the gas stove, and the human pool in the basement. Ealing is only hard to pronounce for English speakers o...

Caitlin and Alan have an important meeting with top officials. And by that we mean Flo Bones- but Barnes and Fittes made an appearance. We answer the age-old question- Is Connecticut more relatable than England? And we talk about Lockwood and Co sometimes. In England Capital Punishment ended in the 1960s, but in France it continued into the 1970s . Follow Caitlin on Instagram @inferiorcaitreads Fo...