Enjoy this a day earlier than usual since England are playing their first game of this World Cup TODAY because - that's right - the World Cup is here and, with it, Sooz's impassioned feature-length deep-dive into the psychological issues of England's Golden Generation and the impact it had on their 2006 World Cup performance.

Big into football? You'll love this.

Not into football at all? Neither are Chris and Masud especially but that didn't stop them being completely enthralled.

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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. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...

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