You Get What You Give | Sooz's One Hit Wonders #4

Coinciding with the papal conclave of 2025 as cardinals reverently decide who will be the new Pope, we dive into a pervading mystery that the Vatican once had (and possibly still has) its hands on a working time machine...A story which takes in Nobel Prize winners and Nazi scientists, let's find out the answer to the question 'does the Pope have a time machine?'______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with over 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there usually 3 days early and with zero ads so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest in our Sooz's One Hit Wonders series, we are transported to 1998 and take a look at a serious contender for song of the 90s as we learn all about what led to (and came from) the utter smash hit You Get What You Give...Dreadful solo albums, a right-place-right-time capturing of the zeitgeist plus a more surprising subsequent career than you may expect, this is the story of New Radicals!______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 20 minutes of bonus extra chat (including an amazing story about Sooz's Nanna) can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we uncover Sooz's fear of the ocean as we discuss the bizarre phenomenon of loads of severed feet washing up at various points along the British Columbia and Washington State coast...Just why did the amount increase between 2007 and 2018?And, more importantly, why does Chris now own Conclave on physical media in 2025!? The answers lie within...______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with nearly 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode is the story of (among others) Paul Guihard, Ray Gunther and James Meredith, whose lives intersect and, in two of their cases, come to an end at the fateful Ole Miss Riot of 1962 in Mississippi.So what happened?And boy had you better not mention to Masud that you don't like tomatoes!______An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favourite game is back this week and has some of the very best and some of the very worst guesses Chris and Masud have made.And it may also be the closes game yet PLUS Sooz goes rogue with awarding points.______An exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we take a look at possibly the world's first aerial murder, which is certainly what it was called in newspapers at the time. In 1923, daredevil BH DeLay was putting on an extraordinary aerial display of aviation stunts - something he had made a great living doing in the movies - when the wings of his plane snapped off and crashed into the ground, killing both him and his passenger.So was it sabotage? Or faulty workmanship? Nobody really knows to this day...______An exclusive extended version of this episode with 20 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While you may be forgiven for thinking that Robert Johnson is our guest for an episode about the devil at a crossroads, don't let the naming convention fool you. This is the tale of pioneering musician Robert Johnson who is simultaneously one of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century AND a complete mystery...Perhaps the first member of the 27 Club, the legend that he sold his soul to the Devil is one of the most enduring things about him but there are so many mysteries to solve when it comes to Robert Johnson...Alongside our customary 90s film chat, Jurassic Park references and gross toilet stuff.______An exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 40 minutes of bonus extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The next in Sooz's series of the stories behind some of the biggest one-hit wonders.This week, she walks us through Chesney Hawke's 1991 mega-hit 'The One & Only' while we of course manage to get in a Jurassic Park reference and Masud learns about the chain of shops John Menzies...______An exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 30 minutes of extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode is the twisty story of what is considered to be the greatest photo ever taken of a UFO...In August 1990, two men hiking near the Scottish hamlet of Calvine saw a strange craft hover silently in the sky, be approached by a Harrier jet and then fly away vertically. Stranger than this sighting, though, is the story of the photograph they took and why it wasn't seen for almost 30 years...Also includes a bit of extra chat about the Loch Ness Monster and, of course, Jurassic Park.______An exclusive extended version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of extra chat can be found over at our Patreon!Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode is a relaxed chat about this year's Best Picture nominees just ahead of the Oscars ceremony. We give our opinions (with SPOILERS) on those we've seen plus Chris shares some potentially controversial opinions about Dune!________An exclusive extended version of this episode with extra chat can be found over at our Patreon! Extended episodes drop over there 3 days early so if you enjoy Mystery on the Rocks then please consider heading over there to support us, where there is already a huge backlog of exclusive extras such as extended episodes, bonus episodes, minisodes, outtakes, cocktail recipes and more!Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them.You can follow us on Bluesky, X and Instagram too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.