Writing Mirror Falls, Season 2 (SPOILERS!)

this on YouTube, you're probably watching a repeat. This was a live broadcast I did Tuesday, July 7th, writing Mirror Falls Season 2. I'm on Episode 2. And I will say, as it says above, there are major spoilers in what you are about to see. So if you listen to Mirror Falls, or you plan to, and you care about spoilers, do not watch the rest of this. Suffice to say, do not watch the rest if you care about spoilers. Okay, now apparently I have to go do something over on Instagram to make this go live there, and of course it's not working. I don't know why Instagram makes their stuff so difficult. Live video, and then audience is public, and then next, and it should show that I'm streaming, but yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't. Alright, well, we're not gonna do Instagram then for Forget it. Anyway, welcome folks. Nick is already out. Bye. All right. Fair enough. No problem. No problem. So we'll turn off Instagram. There we go. Hello. Welcome, Renee. All right. I'm going to just post a little thing telling people that I'm live as well. So bear with me while I do that. And then we will get to writing episode 2. I'm not going to show you episode 1. Which is the immediate aftermath of what happens at the end of episode— at the end of season 1. Hang on, where it is? There it is. So there's the link and I'm gonna post— sorry, I know this is terribly boring, but we will get to it. I couldn't do this in advance because I don't have— I wouldn't have had the the URL to send people to, right? Come hang out with me while I write season 2 of Mirror Falls major spoilers live. All right, and we will send that to, uh, where will we send that to? We'll send that to Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Blue Sky Mastodon. All right, that's those. And we will also post it to the Canadian ones as well, like Hey Cafe. I would post it to Gander, but they do not have a, uh, a desktop version. They've only got— and I know that sounds kind of old-fashioned of me, but, um, the, the desktop version is just part of the workflow, you know? Like, I'd have to stop and copy the text to my phone and then open it up the app, and it's just kind of a a bit of a pain. Make this conversation live. Yes. Okay. And I think that's it. We'll post it to the A app as well. Thank you, Sandy. I'm looking forward to you hearing season 2 as well. Season 2 will tell you what— season 2 will tell you what is happening. And season 3 will tell you why it is happening. So yeah, I'm pretty— all right, onward. Let's make sure that's all working. Yes, it is. I don't know if I'm on Facebook or if I'm just not able to see the, the comments from Facebook. Let's see. Sorry, I know you can't see my screen right now. Bear with me. Of course my internet decides to be pig slow. Maybe just Facebook is pig slow. Is it? Yeah, it's on, it's on, and there have been 2 comments on Facebook. Oh, both of them are my comment. Where did this come from? Anyway. Oh, yay. Hey, there are Facebook people. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Some people said hello. Welcome, Cory. Welcome, Raymond. All right. God, I opened the wrong app. Hang on. I don't want CapCut. I want Ulysses. And we are going to click into episode 2. Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. I don't know how many times I can say that. So yeah. Is "pig slow" not a— I use the phrase "pig slow." Anyway, we are writing episode 2, which happens 6 months after the events of the finale of season 1. You may remember a stranger came to town, ostensibly a military person, and handed Mehrhans a business card. And And Mehran called the number on the business card and read out something, and the power went down, and air raid sirens went off, and so on. And so clearly something is happening there in town. So Episode 1 takes place 30 minutes before the events of the finale of Season 1. And Episode 2, which I'm writing now, takes place 6 months after the finale of Season 1. All right. I'm going to light a little incense stick and then we're going to get rolling. And what I'm working on right now is a backstory for Frankie Doucette. One of the— ooh, that's a nice one. One of the things that happens in the 6 months between between the finale and where we are now is that Mayor Hans dies. Sorry. He was like 89 or something, or 87, wasn't he? And the town gets an electrician, and that is Frankie Doucette. So, I need to write a bit about Frankie Doucette because I don't know if you can see, but up top in the top right, in the top right it says reading time. And it's got a little circle, like a little meter. What do you call that? A little chart. So I'm trying to fill that chart. I think it's 20 minutes. Is it 20 minutes? Yeah. So each episode I want to be 20 minutes long. And right now it is at 8:33. "Is this episode going to take place in an institution or worse, getting CC'd?" No, this takes place in town. Episode 2 takes place in town. Episode 1 does not. Episode 1 takes place in an entirely different place that you have not been to yet. And if you want a hint or you want to think about it, you can see the, um, uh, the episode title on the left, uh, where it says Season 2. Nominal Conditions is the tentative, tentative name for Episode 1. It was which you will not see, which I will not spoil even on big warnings. All right. So, Frankie Doucette comes to town. And now we need to develop a backstory for Frankie Doucette. Frankie is probably— I think Frankie might be non-binary. Frankie seems to be like— it could be Francine, it could be Frank, you know what I mean? And I kind of want to— I want to write a non-binary character in here and not, and not mention, and not say that they're non-binary. Like, not make it a plot point, essentially. I don't know if Frankie's that person though. Like, in my head I see Frankie as a woman. Anyway, okay. There was another celebration in town of sorts when Frank the electrician arrived last year after the power outages, after the power— after the town's electricity issues— electricity problems. Last year, after the town's electricity problems seemed to get more frequent— we'll come back to that, I don't like that— seem to get more frequent. Um, last year, after the town's electricity problems seemed to get more frequent Mehrhans. Put an ad in the paper. Curry craft dinner. Where are you? Oh, you're reading below. I'm like, "How do you know about the curry craft dinner?" So what's happening is that it's a celebration night for Mohit, because Mohit has arrived in town. Mohit arrived last week, I think, according to the timeline here. I'd have to double-check. Anyway, and the town is throwing him a party, and it happens to coincide with Entertainment Night, which, as you know, is the monthly entertainment night that the town does. And it's adorable and kind of cringy. But they decide that they're going to make it Indian Entertainment Night. But the problem, of course, is that there are no— there's only one Indian person in town, and she is a third-generation, you know, as Indian as anyone, which is to say not. And so, they assign the job to the high school. And the high school teacher assigns the job to their most studious student, Buffy. And Buffy is a very serious student and might win a scholarship for doing this work. And anyway, Buffy will— Buffy's— I like this part here. This is Buffy. Descriptions. I had fun writing these. Buffy's the kind of kid you remember from your high school days, and probably not charitably. She's driven and takes her studies seriously and always has. For her grade 9 science fair project, she built one of those miniature volcanoes that erupt, but rather than using baking soda and vinegar like a normal person, Buffy talked the town mechanic Danielle into giving her actual explosives— small but real ones— which she planned to set off at the end. Last year, when the class was assigned periodic table memorization, Buffy decided flashcards were for suckers. Instead, she wrote and recorded on her laptop a full concept album about the elements. And for Career Day, while most kids brought a poster about being a YouTuber or— something went wrong, try reloading. I don't know what happened there. Oh, do I still have the internet? Do I still have the internet? Yeah, I have the internet. What's going on? Oh, whatever. So, but what I haven't written yet, and I will, is that she is overwhelmed with work and study and things like that, that she decides to outsource the research to an AI chatbot. And the AI chatbot hallucinates and gives her completely inaccurate information about what she should plan for Indian Day, the dances, the language. Everything goes wrong. Basically everything, because she outsourced it to AI. And AI is a major plot point in the whole thing. So I haven't written that part. That part will be fun to write. You know, I have kind of like a Bible for these episodes that there needs to be a single event that occurs I like it when things go wrong, and the character that it goes wrong to needs to have something at stake, which is a, you know, a very common model for screenplay writing. I consider these almost like screenplays. You know, I want people to visually think of something in their head. And the only episode that I'm quite proud of that I think actually did that the way I wanted it to in season 1 was episode 6, I think. Episode 5, "The Show Must Go Wrong," which was when we saw the mechanic magician and everything went wrong on the stage. And I was pleased with that because she had a redemption arc. She needed— she kind of screwed it up, but there was a reason for her. There was something at stake. Life did not return to normal if she failed. There was all the things that that Robert McKee Storywriting would say. Hello, welcome Indiana, and welcome everyone. So, yeah, it's possible I just went out on Facebook, I don't know. It's possible that it's only Facebook that the outage is happening, because I see you YouTube people. Facebook is so difficult these days. Anyway, okay. There was another celebration, and there was another explosion when Frankie the electrician arrived. When did she arrive? Do I say when she arrived? No, I do not say when she arrived. Okay, when she arrived 3 months ago. Last year, after the town's electricity problems seemed to get more frequent— oh, you are? Okay, thank you, Diane. Thank Thank you. "Mirohans put an ad in the paper." I'm not going to do the usual. In the first season I kept going back to "It's a nice town, Mirror Falls," and then describe it using the same words. Hey, another Nanaimo person. Welcome. "It's a nice town, Mirror Falls. About 200 people live— 400 people live there. It sits on the north end of Vancouver Island. It has what you expect, a coffee shop." And that was almost— That little stanza was in almost every episode whenever— when there was an ad, a newspaper ad or something, that was what the newspaper ad read. And the only reason that that was repeated through every— almost every episode was for the very, very, very end of season 1 where suddenly things are different. It's a nice town, but now there's only 41 people who live there. The coffee shop is named something different. There are no electricity problems. So that is— but now I've delivered that, so I don't need to do that for the newspaper ad. Oh, Mission! Mission's a nice little place. Last year, after the town's electricity problems turned more frequent, Mayor Hans put an ad in the paper. It didn't literally say will pay you anything you want, but it— but it could have— but it might as well have. Oh, hey Lynn! Oh, you went to the meet and greet? Oh cool, thanks! Well, welcome back. Um, That's half the town's electricity problems. You need to get more frequent mayor Hans put in, uh, in the paper. In the paper? No one puts an ad. What am I talking about? The paper? There are no papers anymore. Put an ad. I don't want to say on Facebook because I just hate Facebook so much. Where does he put an ad out? Or maybe he does like a social media video. Maybe he did a TikTok. That'd be funny. Yeah, there's some comedy in there. Mehrhans, with the help of— oh, what was the name of those kids that, uh, that was— What Stays Behind? No, The Fix Is In. Kaylee. Kaylee and Brian. I think it was Kaylee Chen. I'm not really following the, the drama with FIFA. I try to avoid politics these days. Kaylee. Kaylee, wait a minute. Oh, I thought I called her Kaylee once on MySpace. That'd be funny. I could say that he suggested MySpace. Kaylee, Kaylee, Kaylee Chen. There it is. All right. So Kaylee Chen comes back. Mehrhans, with the help of Kaylee Chen, with the help of the— with the help of the— Team that— yeah, I don't know. With the help of a couple of— after the town's electrical problems seem to get more frequent, Mayor Hans put in— put an ad. Did Mayor Hans did a TikTok video? Mayor Hans did a TikTok here. Mayor Hans decided— we got to lead, we got to lead up to it— decided Be vague. The local buy and sell. Well, we— there is a lot— there's that— that would imply Facebook these days. There isn't— there is a newspaper in town, um, but I— it can't be local, right? We need it across Canada. They're desperate for an electrician, and Frankie comes from Montreal. Last year, after the town's electrical problems, Mayor Hans decided enough was enough. He asked everyone what to do and he did everything they suggested. Yes, everyone, what to do and And he did everything they suggested. A Facebook post, a something, some— I hate that. A Facebook post, a inspired by your vids. I'm American trying for Canadian citizenship by descent. Hey, good luck. Good luck. He asked everyone what to do and he did everything they suggested. A Facebook post. A Facebook post. Oh, I see what you're saying. A Blue Sky post. Yeah, maybe I should say Post on Hey Cafe, the Canadian Facebook. Post on Hey Cafe. No one will know what that means though, unfortunately. I'd love to give them a plug, but unfortunately Facebook is what people know. I'll post on Facebook. Maureen— Maureen is one that— Maureen posted a bunch on Facebook. The town paid for one of those trucks to drive around Toronto. Advertising the job, big screen. We know it's advertising the job. That's redundant. Now even North Social people won't know. That's the problem, right? I mean, I want to, I want it to be, uh, oh yeah, maybe LinkedIn. Yeah, maybe that's better than, well, Maureen can't be posting on LinkedIn. She's the Facebook post. Maureen posts a bunch on Facebook. The town paid for one of those trucks to drive around Toronto with a big screen. They even— there was even a TikTok video. How do I get MySpace into it? I like that idea. Someone jokingly suggested MySpace. Yeah, no, there was even a picture. I like that there's things in threes work really well. He asked everyone what to do and he did everything they suggested. Maureen posted a bunch on Facebook. The town paid for one of those trucks to drive around Toronto with a big screen. There was even a TikTok video in which Mayor Hahn's— oh, I closed the app accidentally. Shit. Is it back? Oh my God, that scared the hell out of me. Thank God it always saves. Oh, one second here. I have to do a little something something. I know, that scared me. Yeah, this app is really good. It's called Ulysses. It's an app meant for novelists, I think, or for writers. And it's really good. It's got all these different categories. So, like, here are a bunch of characters that I'm working on, characters with the backstories that have been done. There are timelines, which I can't show you, places. I don't think I filled those out. Yeah, a couple of places there. So, it's really— it's a great— it's a good little— it helps you kind of do a Bible. As they would call it. Okay. There was even a TikTok video in which Mayor Hahn awkwardly danced to a song called My Booty. What would be the funniest name song for an 89-year-old man to dance to? My Booty. —is bomb. My booty is fire. All right. Let's see if that rhythm works. "Organization kills spontaneous story writing." You know, like, it's not— I don't know if I agree. Like, part of this is that the universe of Mirror Falls has some characters with very deep backstories. That's part of what I like writing about them is deep backstories. If you ever watched Lost, the ABC TV show, I got so inspired by Lost because they would spend all of these episodes, like, a full episode on a character's backstory. It would be like 3/4 of the episode would be flashback of building up a character's motivations and what they want and all that stuff. And I loved that. I loved how they wrote that. So I need a character universe Bible for this world because I don't want to screw it up, you know. All right, let's see if the rhythm works. Last year, after the town's electrical— electricity problems— electrical problems— electricity problems seemed to get more frequent, Mayor Holmes decided enough was enough. Mayor Holmes decided enough. Decided. Enough. That's better. He asked everyone what to do and he did everything they suggested. Oh, wait a minute. He did everything. He posted a bunch on Facebook. The town paid for one of those trucks to drive around Toronto with a big screen. There was even a TikTok video. He even did a TikTok video. There was even a TikTok video in which Mayor Hahn awkwardly danced to a song called My Booty Is Fire. Surprisingly, that was the video that got Frankie to town. Oh, Orange is the New Black does that? Not— there's even a TikTok video in which Mayor Hahn awkwardly danced to a song called My Booty Is Fire. Surprisingly, that was the video that got Frankie to town. It went viral, and how could it? And how could it not? How old is Hans? Did we say that was in What Stays Behind, right? When did I write— where's Mehrhans? Yeah. Fix is in with Mira. Yeah, he is 89. There we go. Okay, she's like, stuff like that I don't want to screw up because some people would, would know. Um, and how could it not? An 89-year-old man shuffling In slipper— an 89-year-old man in slippers wearing a three-piece suit lip-syncing lyrics like— more opportunity for comedy— don't How can it be like borderline sexual? Surprisingly, that was the video that got Frankie to town. It went viral. And how could it not? An 89-year-old man in slippers wearing a three-piece— he can't be in slippers. An 89-year-old man wearing a three-piece suit lip-syncing lyrics like— lip-syncing lyrics like, hey, can we come up with some lyrics so that he can— that Mayor Hans can lip-sync? For a song called "My Booty Is Fire." Yeah, I don't know about "You're Burning Me Up." Could the song be something to do with electricity? I don't think so. I think it's got to be— I think it's got to sound like a rap song, you know, like a Like a gangster hip-hop. I'll put— I'll pop you with my Glock if you A poppy with my Glock. To poppy with my Glock. Yeah. Hmm. Lip-syncing lyrics like— see, this is the kind of stuff that I sit and I spend more time on than anything because I want it to be like hysterically funny but also believable. Went viral. How could it not? 80-year-old man doing 3-piece lip-syncing lyrics like, knocked up that babe, knocked her up in a '72 Ford knocked her up in a '72, '70 Ford. In a '70 Ford. Okay, what rhymes with Ford? Board, cord, dored, Ford, gourd. Gourd? Yeah. Horde, Jord, Lord. Oh Lord. Wassup? Knocked her up in a '70s Ford. Got Bitcoin in my wallet. Uh, we've already delivered my booty is fire as the punchline. We need something else for the Think like Macklemore and Thrift Shop. Mm. Knocked her up in a '70s Ford. I'm fatter than spliff. I'm rolling a spliff. Knocked her up in a '70s Ford. I'm rolling a spliff. Like a— hi Judith! Knocked her up into '70s Ford. I'm rolling a spliff like a gourd, mord, nord. This is, this is the only way I could figure out how to rhyme. Poured, cord, roared, sword. Well, a spliff like a something sword. Hmm, toward Ford Ward. Your sword. So bored. I'm rolling a spliff. Whoops. I'm rolling a spliff. Don't cross my fjord. I don't even know how to spell fjord. Uh, I'm rolling a spliff. Knocked her up in a Gremlin, in a '70s Gremlin. I thought certain people would know what a Gremlin is. I'm rolling a spliff, I'll pop you like Gord. That's kind of random. Knocked her up in a '70s Ford, I'm rolling a spliff, I'll pop you like Gord. That's kind of funny. Cardord, Ford, Lord, a poppy like Lord. Don't cross my sword. I, I, I know I want it to be— oh, here's some more. Snored, stored, stored, floored. I'm rolling a spliff with my gourd. And we'll leave it there. We'll come back to that. There was another celebration in town of sorts when Frank the electrician arrived 3 months ago. Last year, after the town's electricity problems seemed to get more frequent, Mayor Hans decided enough. He asked everyone what to do and he did everything they suggested. He posted a bunch on Facebook. The town paid for one of those trucks to drive around Toronto with a big screen. There's even a TikTok video in which Mayor Hans awkwardly danced to a song called My Booty Is Fire. Surprisingly, that was the video that got Frankie to town. It went viral. And how could it not? An 89-year-old man wearing a three-piece suit, lip-syncing lyrics like, knocked her up in a '70s Ford and rolling a spliff, all poppy like Gord. Someone retweeted it. Oh, you don't retweet on TikTok. Someone One of those content aggregators reshared, and soon one of those content aggregators reshared it, and within minutes the suggested search at the bottom Red. What the hell is Mirror Falls? Do you guys know that on TikTok, if a video starts to get traction, it'll like make up— I think other platforms do this too— it'll make up, um, uh, it'll make, uh, it'll make up like a, like a search term. So it'll be like, uh, like a, uh, why are so many doctors in Canada or something, you know? This is just a search at the bottom, right? What the hell is Mirror Falls? All right, that's enough of setup. Now we get— now we get to Frankie. If you were to call Central Casting and ask for— uh, it's not a hashtag, uh, it's, it's, uh, at the very bottom of the screen, it's a search. It looks like it had a little search icon and it wants you to tap it so that you'll go and see other videos. It often presents itself as the answer to a question that's asked in the video. So it'll be like, if the video is talking about some drama, it'll say like, why did, why did she die? And you tap it because then you're like, oh my gosh, she died. Then you tap it and it's a whole bunch of videos and that have nothing to do with anything about her dying. So it's kind of a bit of a joke on TikTok. Sometimes people who follow TikTok would get that. If you were to call central casting and ask for the perfect stereotypical Québécois— thank God this is audio. I don't have to spellcheck that. That's stereotypical. And ask for the most stereotypical Quebecer, they would send you Frankie. Is Frankie the non-binary person? No, no, no, no, no, not if, not if they're stereotypical. We'll do that with some other character. Should call central casting and ask for the most stereotypical Quebecer. Ah, how do I say this without insulting the Quebecers? And I want like a smoking Claire, we are writing my fictional podcast series called Mirror Falls. We are writing episode 2 of season 2 right now. If you were to call Central Casting and ask for the most stereotypical Quebecer, they would send you Frankie. That's one of the most outlandish— yeah, I don't want to say that all— outlandish. Comically stereotypical Quebecer, they would send you Frankie. Frankie, um, is Frankie a man or a woman? I still can't decide. Most recognizable Quebecer. Orlandish, comically recognizable Quebecer. They would send you Frankie. Frankie is okay. This is not a stereotype, so I don't like the word, but what I'm thinking about is, is kind of like You know, tabernacle, pain, oui, je dis rhum. That. Open up your thesaurus. I don't have a thesaurus. Where's my Canadian— I have a Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Maybe I just dropped the whole Quebecer. Frankie is— I want to use my CEGEP joke in here. My CEGEP joke is that CEGEP is not— what they do at CEGEP is they take you up to the forest, teach you how to smoke, and be dismissive of Anglophones. Which I've used in a video and I want to use it in this too because I think it's funny, but I don't know how to squeeze it in, so it might be too awkward. If you were to call Central Casting and ask for the most outlandish, comically stereotypical, they would send you Frankie. Frankie is from Hudson. Frankie is from Quebec City. Maple Leaf beret and a croissant smoking its own cigarette. Frankie is from Quebec City, late 40s. Do I have too many women characters? I have a lot of women characters. The mechanic is a woman. No, I gotta make him a man. Frankie is— Frankie's from Quebec City, late 40s, and he's late 50s, early 50s, lifelong tradesman. He's been doing electrical since high school. Oh, there's some potential comedy there. He's been doing electrical work since high school. His first attempt at— I knew electrical work since college. His first, his first job, some under-the-table work for a guy who wanted the power to his house disconnected for some reason. A gardener or something. Yeah, he had rooms full of plants, so we don't have to say that it's marijuana. Frank is from Quebec City, early 50s, lifelong tradesman. He's been doing electrical work since college. His first job involved— his first job was some under-the-table work for a guy who wanted his— the power to his house disconnected for some reason. Nah, so this has nothing to do with Central Casting. When Frankie the electrician arrived 3 months ago, Frankie Doucette is from Quebec City, early 50s, lifelong— he's been doing electric work since college, his first job. Involved under-the-table work for a guy who wanted the power to his house disconnected for some reason. A gardener or something. He had a room full of plants. If you were to call Central Can— yeah, that's better— and ask for the most outlandish, comically stereotypical, they would send you Frankie. He smoked. He muttered profanity. Under his breath. Now I have to say something nice. I'm thinking the Dave and Morley story about moving out, led in the kitchen. Oh, I haven't heard that one. He smoked. He muttered profanity under his breath, but he was the most loyal friend you could ask for. "No, here we have to give him his motivation." By the way, Frankie, major spoiler, spoiler coming, if you aren't already aware that all of this is major spoilers. Frankie is the person who figures out what is going wrong with the electrical system, or at least pieces together that something is happening. They begin to realize that the town's activities influence the outages. The outages are not in fact random. And so it has to be an electrician. So if I can give him something here, he might have— but he was the most diligent electrician in the country. Hire him to— oh, so tell me more about the moving an outlet. Is that what it was? Maybe I'll put a bit of a— maybe I'll put a bit of an Easter egg. One couple in Toronto had him move an outlet in the kitchen. What happens in that episode? La la la. One couple in Toronto had to move an outlet in their kitchen. Let me just Google that. Vinyl Cafe move outlet in kitchen. Wants to install I think I found it. See all the details. Whoop, where's— Dave, who owns a record store called the Vinyl Cafe, wants to install an outlet at his kitchen home. Friends from the neighborhood come over one by one to help until by the end of the day they have broken a window, chipped a sink, and left 15 large holes in the kitchen wall without managing to— okay, yeah, this is great. Thank you for this. I will— we're putting that in as a deal. One diligent or innovative? No, one time. Perfect. Some guy. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Maybe he can't be— why would he be in Toronto? Dave and Morley are in Toronto. Why would he be in Toronto if he's from Quebec? Hmm, maybe we don't mention where it is. One guy, one time— no, but everyone knows it's in Toronto if they know this. For a convention. He was on vacation in Toronto. One time. Yeah, maybe. Who goes to Toronto for a vacation though? One time while in Toronto for— do electricians go to conventions? I don't think they do, do they? Uh, I also have to make reference to the fact that he's single. Oh, thank you, HDVWPS. Oh, on his first day they managed to melt a switchboard. Ever since, they affectionately refer to him as Smokey. Ah, I like that. One time, one Toronto for a Leafs game. A guy named Dave hired him to fix his kitchen. Friends from the— friends from the neighborhood, well-meaning friends. Of his had come over to help move an outlet, but by the end of the day they had broken a window, chipped a sink, and left 15 large holes in the kitchen wall without my— oh, to move an outlet or install an outlet? Power outlet. In the kitchen. No, we've already said it's the kitchen. One time, while in Toronto for a Leafs game, a guy named Dave— no, he wouldn't be there for a Leafs game. He would for, for, for at least versus Habs game. That's what he would be there for. One time, while in Toronto for a Leafs versus Habs game, for a Habs game. We wouldn't— we would assume that— would we assume if he's in Toronto for a Habs game, we would assume he's playing Toronto, right? Or do I have to say Leafs versus Habs game? Some guy named Dave hired him to fix his kitchen. Well-meaning friends of his had come over to help install a power outlet. Had hired him. I hired him in the kitchen, but by the— but by the end of the day, they'd broken— to break a window, chip a sink, and leave 15 large holes in the kitchen wall. There, that's all we have to say about that. People who know, thank you for that reference. I like putting a little bit of Vinyl Cafe sprinkled here and there. Some guy named Dave hired him. Well-meaning friends of his had come over to help install a power outlet in the kitchen, but by the end of the day, they had only managed to break a window, chip a sink, and leave 15 large holes in the kitchen wall. Frankie walked in. Was it moving or installing? I feel like install can imply that, like, installing could also work for move. 'Cause if you're— I don't know. Frankie walked in, took in the scene, muttered tabernak, and went outside for a smoke. Now, muttered I muttered, 'Tabernak.' Did I already use 'muttered'? I did. Maybe, maybe he just— Frankie walked in and took in the scene. 'Tabernak,' he said. 'You need new friends.' OK. Frankie is single. Oh! Yo! Frankie and Danielle get together! Frankie and Danielle get together. Danielle is also single. She is the mechanic. She's a mechanic! He's an electrician. She's a mechanic. Oh my god. We have our first romance. I'm telling you there are spoilers. OK. We've got to put this somewhere. Um, we gotta put that somewhere. We'll put that somewhere, somewhere, somewhere. Tabernak, you need new friends. Frankie is single and not by choice, although That's what he tells people. Tabernacle. Like, is tabernacle too— like, is it like— will people in Quebec be offended if I say tabernacle? Frankie is single and not by choice, although that's what he tells people. Although they end up fixing— Jean. Frankie is single and not by choice, although that's what he tells people. You can't— you cannot be here if you're worried about spoilers, honestly. Like, you, you— these spoilers are going to happen. Frankie's single and not by choice, although that's what he tells people. Yeah, I don't know. Frankie's single and not by choice. He was married once, but, but he is the most— not was. He's still— this is a problem that I have is I write things in the past tense when they're If you were to call Frankie, he smokes, he mutters profanity, but he is the most diligent electrician. One time— now we're past tense— while in Toronto for leave, some guy named Dave hired him. Well-meaning friends of his had come over to help install a power outlet in his kitchen. By the end of the day, they'd only managed to break a window, chip a sink, and leave 50 holes. Frankie walked in, took in the scene. Tabarnak, he said. You need new friends. Frankie is single and not by choice. He was married once, but— but? He was married once, but— but he's gruff. He's gruff, abrupt. Difficult to— yeah, see, Danielle's gonna soften them. Tabardouche. Well, we have— we're nowhere near, we're nowhere near that. I might put that in episode 9. Hang on a second. I have to click off— I have to turn off the screen share here because I'm going to put this in episode 9, which has some major, major stuff that even you are not going to see. Uh, one second. So Frankie meets Danielle in episode 3. Frankie and Danielle accidentally end up on a date in episode 6. Frankie and Danielle in episode 9, which you're not allowed to see, hook— hook up, get together. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, back on. Sorry. There is a— there is an entire other plot happening that I don't want you to know about, even, even with this one. But he's— he was married once, but he's gruff, abrupt, difficult to be around. But he's gruff, abrupt. To him, it's just efficiency. Why chit-chat? Why chit-chat when I already know how your day went? He was married once, but she confessed he preferred a 30-ohm resistor over 33. I don't know if she would know that stuff. I don't know. I want the personal— oh, I need a fan in here. Holy— there we go. I want the personal stuff to be real. I can't use the personal stuff for comedy. Like, you know, I need him to have an actual real— I want you to root for him, right? He was married once, but he's gruff, abrupt. To him, it's just efficiency. Why chit-chat when I already know how your day went? Wait for the recording video. Yeah, yeah, this— I may have it out sooner than I was, than I was hoping, but I'm aiming for 13 episodes. I will probably only do 10. As you can see, I've mapped it out for 10, but I really want to do 13. Why chitchat when I already know how your day went? I need people to like him though, and he seems like an asshole, but he's the most diligent electrician in the country and the most loyal friend you'll ever know. One time Oh, maybe, maybe Dave is a friend of his. One time— oh no, he fired— he's— that's how loyal a friend he is. He flies to Toronto. One time he flew. Did he fly or take the train? He flew to Toronto. No, he'd take the train. He took took the train. Hang on, let me just double-check to make sure there is a train. Train Quebec City and Toronto. Yes. Trip typically takes 10 to 12 hours. Some sources indicate 11 hours. Okay, good, good, good. One time he took the train to Toronto, 11 hours, to help his friend Dave. Should I say Dave owns a record store? No, that's too much. To help his friend Dave. Well-meaning friend— well-meaning friends, we don't need to say of his— had come, had come over to help install power outlet. By the end of the day Devin, he said you need new friends. Yeah, it's a long ride with a Switch, Montreal. Okay, I don't need to talk about the Switch, I'll just say that. He remained an idealist and the wife changed over time. Ever since Frankie Holds a Fear of Rejection singles. Um, hmm, Frankie's from Quebec City. Sorry for this repetitive. This is sort of how I feel out a rhythm and where to go next, is I will read a bunch of stuff that leads up to it, and then by the time I get to the empty spot, I feel— I don't know what to write, but I feel what the rhythm is supposed to be there. Like, have we done enough? Have we given it— have we put the emotional stuff in the way we should, or should we have more? Or sometimes it's just the rhythm of the words. You know. So that is why you will hear me say the repeat stuff. So, one time, uh, if you were to call Central Casting and ask for the most outlandish, comically stereotypical Quebecer, they would send you Frankie. Frankie, he smokes, he mutters profanity under his breath, but he is the most diligent electrician in the country and the most loyal friend you'll ever— you'd ever know— you'll ever know. One time he took the train to Toronto, 11 hours, to help his friend Dave. Well-meaning friends had come over to help, and that's help twice, to "Well-meaning friends had come over to install a power outlet in the kitchen, but by the end of the day it was an old friend of Morley, and he came to fix a problem made by Dave." Huh? I don't— I like that, actually. See, Morley will be instantly recognizable, which I don't know that I want. Like, I kind of want it to be, but to help his friend Morley, her husband Yeah, that's better. Thank you. I like that better. You don't even need to say Dave. Morley is so— is such a recognizable— Now, Dave and Morley have kids, and kids are now adults, which would put— so this would have been a few years ago. I don't think we need— one time is fine. One time he took the train to Toronto, 11 hours, to help his friend Morley. Her husband's well-meaning friends had come over to install a power outlet in the kitchen, but by the end of the day, They'd only managed to break a window, chip a sink, and leave 15 holes in the wall. Frankie looked in, took in the scene. "Dabernack," he says. Dave. Dave needs new friends. There we go. That's not terrible. "Dabernack," he said. Dave needs new friends. Frankie is single, and not by choice. He was married once, but he's gruff, abrupt. To him, it's just efficiency. Why chitchat when I already know how your day went? So I need a little bit more here. His wife tolerated it until she didn't. Married only 4 years, but sometimes— married only 4 years. But sometimes that's enough to know. Why would she marry him if he was an asshole? His wife tolerated it because he could be funny. No, because he was kind. Give you the shirt off his back kind of guy. That's right, that's right, Jean. David Morley. Stephanie, who is the art and art and music teacher, is one of David Morley's kids. If you remember Vinyl Cafe, they had Sam and Stephanie. Stephanie lives in Mirror Falls. Her brother Sam has visited once or twice to come check out the coffee. But yeah, narrator 4 years and single for 3 at the same time fell apart after he found old letters to her former boyfriend. I don't know, I want people to feel, feel bad for— yeah, maybe that would That would make people feel bad for him, right? Yeah, maybe. Thank you. Not by choice. He's married once. Why chit-chat? Tabernak is heavy. Osti. What about Christ? What about Christ? Is that too much? Frank Zeland, who's Mary Joy? His wife. Because he was kind, give you the shirt off, that kind of guy. It only fell apart when he found old letters to her— wouldn't be letters— boyfriend. Christ, where is it? Was that it? That's not how you spell it. Hmm. Frankie is single, not by choice. He was married once, but he's gruff, abrupt. To him, it's just efficiency. Why chitchat when I already know how your day went? So I tolerated it because he was kind. Those are so— those are so That's a good point. More of your audience is Anglophone. Tabernacle will be more known, I believe. Yeah, that is true. Frankie walked in and took in the scene. Please see that Dave needs new friends. Oh, my dental office is calling. Hang on a second, I gotta mute you guys. It was not particularly, uh, It was not particularly confidential. My final retainers. I did that Invisalign stuff all year, for about a year. Actually, for 40 weeks, or 41 weeks now, I had been wearing these things because I wanted my teeth fixed. 56 years old, I finally got around to it. I love that there's a Wikipedia page on Quebec French profanity. Oh my God. Okay. I don't, I don't like any of this. I don't like any of this. I, I want him to be nice and helpful. If you were to call Central Cassius, he'd say, Frankie, he smokes, he mutters profanely, but he's the most diligent electrician in the country and the most loyal friend you'll know. One time he took the train to Toronto, 11 hours, to help his friend Morley, her husband's mom, meeting friends at come over to install a power outlet in the kitchen, but at the end of the day they don't want to trip on them. Frankie walked in, took a seat. Chris, he said, Dave needs new friends. Frankie is single, not by choice. He was married once, loved her deeply. He was married once to his High school sweetheart. Doesn't always need to use Quebec profanity language. Other stuff can define the guy. I know, but I really, I really wanted to see tabarnak. And I'm not French, so I don't, I don't know culturally if that's too much. Christy said Dave needs new friends. Frankie single. He was married once to his high school sweetheart. Quiet woman named— I'm looking for one of your names in here. Hang on, who's been helpful in here? Who has a name that I can use? Hang on a second. You're from Quebec, you never use those words. Mm, okay. Someone gave me the, the David Morley idea. Sorry, I've missed— I've obviously missed a bunch. Meh, John, John 11, what is your first name and are you female, or do you have a female presenting first name? Who's married monster's high school sweetheart? Joan, do you have a female-sounding first name? Hi, Avril, welcome. I don't know how far behind the stream you are. Who's married? I do like the idea if he wanted kids and she didn't, but I do have a we want kids plotline with Gi and Kim, and I don't want to confuse the two. Addiction. It's also Gi's story. Addiction took her away. I don't want to confuse— we already have in Gi and Kim an addiction story and a "they want kids" story. So I don't want to confuse that. I don't mind the idea of "she had letters." Hmm. But Mélenchon. Give me— if you don't want to use your name, give me a woman's name. Maybe I'll say Beth. That was a girlfriend of mine. My second favorite. Goddamn it. Frankie's single and not by choice. He was married once to his high school sweetheart, a quiet woman named Beth, who he doted on like— I want to say a puppy, but that's overused. Doted on the way The way a kid— hey, welcome, Tommy! Everyone has a junkie in season 2. She left him for another woman. I don't want to— if I'm gonna do a— I don't know, if I'm gonna introduce a lesbian component, I don't want the lesbian action to be negative or gay action to be negative, you know. It's kind of a— it's a tough one. First name is Leonidas. Oh, I mispronounced it, I'm sure. Hey Larry, Frankie is single and not by choice. He was married once to a size of Sweden, a quiet— a quiet— but I used tightly wound elsewhere in this Don't I? Maybe I use it in episode 1. I'd like a quiet but tightly wound woman. Now, a quiet woman named Beth who he doted on the way. A cat killed by a drunk driver. Ooh. Oh yeah, maybe it was an accident. That would give— that would make you feel more for him, right? That would make you root for him more when he finally found— finds Danielle. Frankie's single, not by choice. He was married once to a size 2, a quiet and lovely woman named Beth, who he doted on. Maybe that's all we have to say. Whoops. We do it on— she was kind, patient. Yeah, that's a good point. Jacqueline. Okay, you got it. Who he doted on. A quiet and lovely woman named Jacqueline who he doted on. I know it's supposed to be on whom he doted, but no one says that. She was kind, patient with his— she was kind. Genevieve. Oh, I do like Genevieve, but Jacqueline— Jean gave me the idea, so I'm with the, uh, with the Final Cafe thing. So I'm gonna give that to Jean. He was married once to a Swedish, a quiet, lovely woman named Jacqueline, who he doted on. She was kind, patient with his ramblings about his after work ramblings about resistance. Ohms resistance. Yeah, she's kind, patient with his after work rambling. Yeah, too much. She was kind, patient with his occasional gruffness. The kind of— All right. I need to pull open my timeline. Let me just double-check my timeline to make sure that I could show it to you. Yeah, I think I can. So I have an app that tracks all the timelines of these things. All right. So I'm going to put it up on screen. I am going to warn— I am going to show you again with a big warning, major, major spoilers ahead once I share this. This screen. So if you care, do not— this is the time. If you care, this is the time to— whoops, I didn't want that— to stop watching because the timeline does reveal some of what happens elsewhere. I want screen capture timeline. And I want application capture, and the application I want captured is this one. Donk. And I have to resize it, obviously. So this is how I keep track of how old everyone is, when events have occurred in, in town. Oh boy. That's really— actually, I don't mind that it's super tiny. All right. There we go. Yeah, avert your eyes. So, yeah. So this is it. Let me zoom in a little bit on here. So he's in his late— what did we say? Early 50s? Early 50s. So he would have been born in like 1973. So let's go over to 1973 and start a character for him. His name is Frankie Doucette or something. I'll fix that later. All right. His birth was 1973. His death is not done yet. We are going to say ongoing, which means he is 53. I said early. Let's make him 1974. He's 52 years. And he is— where is his arc? Where? Nest under? No. Where's the arc? That's weird. Event? No. Anyway. Okay, so that sets him up. So let's now, once we've got him going, um, so he gets married when he is— they're high school sweethearts, so they're 21. So 1974 plus 21 means he gets married in 1995. Frankie marries. And I said 1995, right? So we'll move this to '95. So he divorces in— Frankie is not a Quebec name. Yeah, I know. So he divorces. Actually, you know what I can do is I can— can I not filter these? I thought I could filter them. Oh well. So an event happens. Frankie divorces. No. Frankie's wife dies. And that happens in 99. All right. That is tied to Frankie. And this is tied to Frankie. All right. So that will help. Once I get there. So he's been, he's been divorced for, or he's been without a partner for many years. He's married once to his high school sweetheart, a lovely woman named Jacqueline, who he doted on. She's kind, patient with his occasional gruffness. They were married only 4 years before she was killed by a drunk driver. Oh, you know what? Maybe Frankie doesn't drink and he joins Guy at the Gassen-Gott for the meeting. All right. Let me catch up with what you folks have been saying. Saying. All right, bye Jean, thank you for helping. Okay, Frankie is not a Quebec name. I'm 56, none of the females I know are Jacqueline. That name would be our parents. Okay, good point. She came in ill, doctors told her there was no cure. Would you call Rime— Rime or Rest— would you call— would Frankie— François— I know you call people François Frank, but would you call them Frankie ever? Maybe I have to rename this damn guy Frankie Doucette. François, actually. Nobody. Francois José. José. It's probably an accent here, isn't there? Sorry, Jean, I will get Jacqueline in somewhere else. Frankie Doucette. François, actually, but nobody calls him that. He's from Quebec City, early '50s, lifelong tradesman. She's kind. They were married only 4 years before he was killed by a drunk driver. He never really recovered. Dated. Sporadically. But yeah, that's actually— I kind of like that. Frankie is single and not by choice. He was married once to his high school sweetheart, a quiet and lovely woman named Jose, who he doted on. She was kind, patient with his occasional gruffness. They were married only 4 years before she was killed by a drunk driver. He never really recovered. Dated sporadically. But yeah. Okay. Bye, Cats Meow. Thanks. That's all we have to say. Okay. Something happens when you turn 50. Oh, I finally get a joke— an opportunity to put my laxative joke in. Something happens to people. Something happens when you turn 50, and I don't just mean you become friend. And something happens when you turn 50, and I don't just mean you become fiercely loyal to a specific brand of laxative. You start— okay, enough with the fan. Start evaluating things— your savings, your goals, where you are, where you are in your life and where you want to be. And 10 20 years. Frankie wasn't much of a planner, but he knew something happens when you turn 50. And I don't just mean you become fiercely loyal to a specific brand. You start evaluating things, your savings, your goals, where you are in your life, where you want to be in 10, 20 years. Franco wasn't much of a planner, but he knew— but he knew he didn't. Franco wasn't much of a planner, but he knew he didn't want to be. Hey, someone on Twitch! Welcome, Twitch person! But he knew he didn't want to be— I haven't— alone for the rest of his life. I'm trying— the purpose of this is to get him to move elsewhere, to move to Vancouver Island. I don't think I— if I set up that he doesn't want to be alone for the rest of his life, I've got to pay that off, and it's too early. He hasn't even met Danielle yet. You're saying where you want to be in— Frankie wasn't much of a planner. But you've been feeling the city. Frankie wasn't much of a Didn't want to be alone for— didn't want to be stuck. Yeah, where you want— Frankie didn't have that mapped out, but he knew he wanted to slow down. Find a quieter place, maybe one where rent I don't like crazy either, but we'll temporarily put it— find a quieter place, maybe one where rent wasn't— maybe one where rent was reasonable. Would he still rent or would he own? No, he would rent. Frankie's single, not by choice. He was married once to a high school sweetheart, a quiet and lovely woman named José, who he doted on. She was kind, patient with his occasional gruffness. They were married only 4 years before she was killed by a drunk driver. He never really recovered. Dated sporadically. But yeah, something happens when you turn 50, and I don't just mean you become fiercely loyal to a specific brand of laxative. You start evaluating things— your savings, your goals, where you are in the in your life, where you are in life, where you are in your life now, where you are in life and where you want to be in 10, 20 years. Frankie didn't have that mapped out, but he knew he wanted to slow down, find a quieter place, remember when it was reasonable. Okay, that's good enough. We have set it up. He can now see the, uh, oh, Renee, good, I want you to, um, we can now, we've, we've given him enough setup. Uh, let's, let's put this here, Frankie's Backstory. The video. He'd come— how long ago did he come here? Did I, did I say when he had come here? Some new people have moved to town, like Frankie Doucette, an electrician. Finally. Okay, so I didn't say when he came. Do I say it elsewhere? 3 months ago. He arrived 3 months ago. Okay, maybe he, maybe he moves immediately. It was 3 months ago when he flipped. Flopped down on the couch and instinctively open TikTok. His algorithm— now we can talk about mine. His algorithm was really Only 3 things. Dancing parrots. Bacon, bacon pancakes. This is an actual bird that I follow on TikTok. Dancing parrots. Suchet. Is it a parrot? Actually, I don't know if it's a parrot. We'll say parrot. A parrot named Gord. That's funnier. Who dances when his owner says bacon bacon pancakes. Okay, that's funnier. Parrot named Gord. His algorithm is really only 3 things. A parrot named Gord who dances when his owner says bacon bacon pancakes. What else would be funny? What else is on mine? Frank— what about Frankie McDonald? Oh, okay, that's gonna be the end. And another Frankie. Frankie McDonald. Is Frankie actually autistic? We don't need to say that. Frankie McDonald. Okay, I gotta find out where he's from. You guys know Frankie McDonald, right? You think he's a cockatiel? Okay, I'll have to, I'll have to check. Frankie McDonald's got a freaking Wikipedia page. A Canadian amateur meteorologist from Nova Scotia. He has autism. Known for his boisterous online weather forecasts, Frankie records meteorological reports, which he then posts to his YouTube channel under the, under the handle Dogs and Wolves. Frankie McDonald's videos have received more than 32 million views. He also maintains a Twitter account and blog. Weather reports, uh, okay, publish over 1,200 videos. He is from Sydney. Yeah. His forecast predicting a Vancouver earthquake was featured on the program Tosh.0, an internet weather broadcasting sensation. He is, he is definitely divergent. A book authored by and featuring McDonald's is published. The book is titled Be Prepared. Yeah, an amateur. I mean, we don't need to say that he's autistic. Meteorologist from Nova Scotia who became famous with his boisterous forecasts, most of which ended with— and no, no, most of which end with him yelling into the camera, be prepared. I love Frankie. Okay, Zagreus is really only three things: a parrot named Gord who dances with another, says bacon bacon pancakes, something. And another Frankie. Frankie McDonald, an amateur meteorologist from Nova Scotia, became famous with his boisterous forecasts, most of which ended with him yelling into the camera. Nah, it's not most. Many of which end with him yelling into the camera, "Be prepared! Be prepared!" I have a— you have a hoodie and a t-shirt. Frankie says, "Be prepared." I love that. Just a touch of the tism. No, I don't think so. I, It's not— if he talked about his autism, if his channel was about autism, then I think it's okay. But his channel is about weather, so I don't think we need to— people who know, who know him, know him, right? Like, people who follow him or know of him know what, what, uh, what the deal is. It becomes, it becomes obvious. But, um, yeah, okay, so what else do we need? Let me flip over my freaking TikTok algorithm. Right here and now, and we'll see what I got. Uh, Overwatch games. What is this? The longer I live on this fucking Earth, the more I realize why geese just randomly fucking attack people, okay? Because I have to stop myself at least 20 fucking times every day to just slap the fucking life out of people. People, bro. Fuck this shit. Okay, I have no idea what that's about. Um, there's no video, it's just the words against the black screen. Wow. Okay, well, maybe Geese. Maybe Geese. In recent days, engage. Most people have never seen CPAP. I like— oh shoot, it's all Overwatch on my thing. Yeah, okay. So a parrot named Gord who dances when his owner says bacon bacon pancakes. An account devoted to videos about Canada geese. Attacking tourists. A parrot named Gord who dances with his owner says bacon bacon pancakes. An account devoted to videos of Canada geese attacking tourists. And another Frankie, Frankie McDonald, an amateur meteorologist, being famous with his voice, many which end in, uh, be prepared. Okay, there we Oh, but that day something different popped up. An old fellow. Frankie partnered with a store in Halifax several years ago for official merch. No way. Now it feels like an honor to own some because of the limited— genius. But that day something different popped up. An older fellow wearing a three-piece suit and dancing to the most— and shuffling. An older fellow wearing a three-piece suit. Lip syncing. I'd love to see Frankie reporting about the goose attack. Oh yeah, would be good, eh? Feeling different, Pop Chop. An older fellow. An older fellow. Shuffling to hip-hop while the captions below talked about job opening. An electrician needed. Small town, Vancouver Island. Lots of rain. But, but also kind people, decent people who look out for each other. Okay, so if we're gonna do that, then we need to— we need him to be more anonymous. Something happens when you turn 50. Frankie didn't have that, but he knew he wanted to slow down. Quebec was lovely, but it was loud, busy. It was hard. To make friends. It's not that people weren't kind, just that they were busy and had their own friend circle. I could find a quieter place, Frankie thought. Maybe one where rent is re— and maybe one— so that'll help set up the fact that he— but also kind, decent people who look out for each other. Quebec was lovely, but it was loud, busy. It was hard to make friends. It's not that people weren't kind, just that they were busy. And I see busy twice. Frantic, but it was loud. Chaotic. Busy. Wasn't the people weren't kind, just that they had their own friend circles. Frankie always felt a bit on the outside. I could find a quieter place, he thought. Yeah, maybe we're more— what if you create some fake brand of products that appear here and there during the year and then create merch with what's stuck with? That's not a bad idea. Hello, Feral. Yeah, there is merch for Mirror Falls, but the merch store is closed for the summer. It's just the logo of the podcast. But that day, something different popped up. Popped up. An older fellow shuffling to him. Okay, does this make sense? Something happens when you turn 50. I don't just mean you become fiercely loyal to a specific brand of laxative. You start evaluating things, your savings, your goals, where you are in life and where you want to be in 10 years, 20, in 10, 20, 20 years. Frankie didn't have that mapped out, but he knew he wanted to slow down. Quebec was lovely, but it was loud, busy, hard to make friends. It's not that people weren't kind, just that they had their own friend circles. Frankie always felt a bit on the outside. I could find— hey, welcome Beatrice! I could find a quieter place, he thought. Now let's not talk about rent here. I could find a quieter place, he thought. Oh, A New Start. There we go. It was 3 months ago when he flopped. It was, it was only 3 months ago when he— now he needs time to move. It was only 4 months ago when— oh, when did, when did Hans make the video? Did We know, um, last year. Shit. Last year after the town's post up, we can fix this. A few months ago. Okay, that puts the timeline back properly. Um. Surprisingly, that was a video that got Frankie to town. It went viral. How could it not? Native with her piece of lip-syncing lyrics like knock drop in a '70s forward, a rolling spliff, a poppy like gourd. Ah, that doesn't make sense. Like gourd. A papaya. Board. Court. Ah, fuck. All right, we'll come back to that. Can I— is there— I wonder if this app, there's a way that I can like Add bookmark. Yeah, there we go. Look, look, look, look at it. I love it. Bookmark. So these, these can be areas that I need to come back to. Okay, good, good, good. I could find a quieter place. See that? A new start. It was only 4 months ago when he flopped out. Okay, so was it 4 months ago when we did the TikTok video? We don't say. A few months ago, he was even talked into. Okay. 4 months ago, he's even talked into a TikTok video. Floored, moored, floored. I'm rolling a spliff. I'll pop ya on the floor. It doesn't have the— I knocked her up in the '70s. Floored. I'm rolling a spliff. I need a duh-duh-duh-duh. Rollin' a spliff of the good green lord. I still kind of want to pop you. I want like a gangster rap kind of thing, you know. Although it's called My Booty Is Fire, so maybe knock you off this. I'm rolling a spliff. Yeah, maybe a Green Lord. I'm stealing it. Thank you, Renee. All right, so that was 4 months ago, and then this is it. It was only 4 months ago. Good. Okay, so it matches. How is algorithm is really only 3 things. A parent named Gord. Oh fuck, do I have Gord elsewhere now? Or did I fix that? I fixed that. Yeah, I saw that, Muk. Thanks. It was clearly— I was actually trying to log in to bounce it. But I have two Twitch accounts, and I was logged into the wrong one. But yeah, let me log in and just bounce them. Pain in the ass, man. At least they didn't ask if I wanted artwork. That's usually what they— oh no, that's usually what they do, right? Because they're like, ah, you can have art. Yeah, so how do I ban? Do I just right-click on them? Block. Oh, there it is. Ban. There we go. Thanks. All right. They're probably already gone. Yeah, I suspect that they paste something and then throw it in there. Anyway, I think you're the only person watching on Twitch, so— and you knew it was only 4 months ago when he, when, when he flopped down on the couch and instinctively opened TikTok. And mindlessly open TikTok. His algorithm is really only 3 things: a parrot named Gord who dances when his owner says bacon bacon pancakes. I don't know why that's so funny. Bumpy like kerosene. An account devoted to videos about Canada geese attacking tourists. I just need to say videos. Do I even need to say videos? Canada geese attacking. Canada geese stealing food and attacking tourists. And another Frankie. Frankie McDonald, an amateur meteorologist from Nova Scotia, became famous with his boisterous forecasts, many of which ended with him yelling into the camera, be prepared. But that day, something different popped up. An older fellow shuffling to hip-hop while the captions below talked about a job opening. Electrician needed. Oh, I don't need an. Electrician needed. Small town, Vancouver Island. Lots of rain, but also kind people. Decent people who look out for each other. If you're looking for community, If you're looking for community, feeling— I don't like if you're looking for community. Electricity. The small town, Vancouver Island. Lots of rain, but also kind people, decent people who look out for each other. Also kind, decent people. I kind of like the rhythm of kind people, decent people. Yeah, I'm keeping it. Look out for each other. If you're looking for the Mirror Falls, the end of the video. Mirror Falls, the closing screen read, "Take your time," which is a throwback to episode 1. Do I need to call that out? Mirror Falls, for any reason, said, "Take your time." Wait, was it "take your time"? I got to go back to season 1 and see what the hell it was. The sign. Yeah, it's take your time. Okay. And the tagline. And the tagline, which was 'Peculiarly,' which was 'oddly.' 'Take your time.' That other part— this other part is, uh, it's just ideas for the next thing. 'Frankie was' Frankie was in town a month later. Okay, all right, so we've established him as a nice person that we feel a little bit for. My apologies, I'm gonna read through it again entirely. I know that it's a pain in the ass to listen to me read through, but that's just how I get a sense of whether or not it all feels right. There was another celebration in town of sorts when Frankie the electrician arrived 3 months ago. Last year, after the town's electrical problems seemed to get more frequent, Mayor Hans decided enough. He asked everyone what to do and he did everything they suggested. He posted a bunch on Facebook. The town paid for one of those trucks to drive around Toronto with a big screen. 4 months ago, he was even talked into doing a TikTok video in which he awkwardly danced to a song called My Booty Is Fire. Surprisingly, it was that video that got Frankie to town. It went viral, and how could it not? An 89-year-old man wearing a 3-piece suit lip-syncing lyrics like, "Knock you up in a '70s Ford, I'm rolling a spliff of the good green lord." Thank you, that is a much better, much better line. Thank you, Renee. One of those contact aggregators reshared it, and within minutes the suggested search at the bottom read, "What the hell is Mirror Falls?" Frankie— Frankie Doucette. François, actually, but no one calls him that. He's from Quebec City, early '50s, lifelong tradesman. He's been doing electrical work since college. His first job involved under-the-table work for a guy who wanted the power to his house disconnected for some reason. A gardener or something. He had rooms full of plants. If you were to call Central Casting— if you were to call Central Casting and ask for the most outlandish, comically stereotypical Quebecer, They would send you Frankie. He smokes. He mutters profanity under his breath. But he's the most diligent electrician in the country and the most loyal friend you'd ever know. I have to be careful with that because I've also called the Nurse Kelly the most loyal friend. I might bookmark that to come back to. One time he took the train to Toronto, 11 hours, to help his friend Morley. Her husband's well-meaning friends had come over to establish a power outlet in the kitchen, but by the end of the day, they'd only managed to break a window, chip a sink, and leave 15 large holes in— 15, we don't need to say large— and leave 15 holes in the kitchen wall. Frankie walked in and took in the scene. "Christ," he said, "Dave needs new friends." Frankie is single, and not by choice. He was married once to his high school sweetheart, a quiet and lovely woman named Jose, who he doted on. She was kind, patient with his occasional gruffness. They were only married 4 years before she was killed by a drunk driver. He never really recovered. Dated sporadically, but— yeah. Something happens when you turn 50. And I don't just mean you become fiercely loyal to a specific brand of laxative. You start evaluating things. Your savings. Your goals. Where you are in life and where you want to be in 10, 20 years. Frankie didn't have that mapped out, but— oh! Yeah. But he knew he wanted to slow down. Not lovely. I've used lovely elsewhere. Quebec was great, but it was loud, busy, hard to make friends. It's not that people weren't kind, just that they had their own friend circles. Frankie always felt a bit on the outside. Friend circles, they were hard to— yeah, Frankie always felt a bit on the outside. I could find a quieter place, he thought. A new start. It was only 4 months ago when he flopped down on the couch and mindlessly opened TikTok. We needed a name again here. Frankie's algorithm is really only 3 things: a parrot named Gord who dances when his owner says bacon bacon pancakes, Canada geese stealing food and attacking tourists, and another Frankie— Frankie McDonald, an amateur meteorologist from Nova Scotia who became famous with his boisterous forecasts, many of which end with him yelling into the camera, "Be prepared!" But that day, something different popped up. An older fellow shuffling to hip-hop. An older fellow unironically shuffling to hip-hop while the captions below talked about a job opening. Electrician needed. Small town. Vancouver Island. Lots of rain, but also kind people. Decent people who look out for each other. "Mirror Falls," the closing screen read. And the tagline: "Take your time." Frankie didn't. Ah, there we go. Frankie didn't. He was in town a month later. OK. All right, we've established Frankie, and now I think we have to go back to Buffy. Who I haven't really introduced to you in this whole video, but she is the, the kid who has been handed off the job to create this Indian knight for Mohit. Huh. And she will outsource it to AI and disastrous things will happen. Although we don't know that yet, do we? No, I think we don't reveal that it's AI until Entertainment Night happens. Yeah, maybe we jump right to Entertainment Night. Entertainment night needed to be Indian-themed. And Friday was already scheduled to be a monthly entertainment night. Oh, so it's the day after Mohit arrives. Is that what I wrote? I always write myself into boxes. Once people knew when Mohit would arrive, a plan was developed. Mohit arrived on Thursday and Friday was already scheduled to be the monthly entertainment night, so obviously entertainment night needed to be be Indian-themed. Mirafalls isn't exactly the most multicultural place in Canada. Down Island— these stats are real, by the way— down island, only 13% of Nanaimo folks are visible minorities. Just across the water in Vancouver, that number was 54% in the 2021 census. I don't need that. That number is 54%. It's part of the reason Maureen applied for a Multicultural Learning Scholarship 4 months ago, which was of course immediately approved. The Count gave the task of planning the special night to Mrs. Tomkinson, who quickly outsourced it to Buffy Martel. Once the town knew of Mohit's arrival date— once town council knew of Mohit's arrival date, they gave the task of planning the special night The special night to Mrs. Tomkinson, the grade 11 and 12 teacher, who quickly outsourced it to Buffy Martel, easily the town's most serious-minded student. Okay. All right. So that establishes that it was— oh, you're right. It's making bacon pancakes. Thank you. Yeah, I think you're right. Do we know what the name is? Can you find out what the name is? I'm just going to call it Gourd otherwise. Yeah, exactly. The entertainment night will go horribly wrong, of course, and it will be because she had used AI for it. Take your time. Frankie didn't. He was in town a month later. Okay, that's nice. And that'll set up him and Danielle. Uh, okay, so entertainment night. Yeah, we go right to— we go right into it. We go right to the theater. As usual, entertainment night was packed. As usual, entertainment night was packed. This is where I would put 2 or 3 people with some comedy in it, like Judy and Sarah Smith had, you know, blah blah blah. A bit of like Wobbegong sort of style. As usual, entertainment night was packed. Judy. And Sarah. Actually, Rachel and— is it LG? Rachel and Lisa. No, Warpdog, you can, you could, you can drop connected thoughts in. Rachel and Lisa. Butter tarts. Oh no, this is— no, no, no, no, this is where we put in this stuff down below. As usual, Entertainment Night was packed at the back of the theater. Two tables. Of potluck food. In the back of the theater, two tables of potluck food people had brought. Everyone knew tonight— everyone knew the theme. Problem is nobody knew how to cook Indian food, is what I'm trying to say. As usual, entertainment night was packed. At the back of the theater, two tables of potluck food. People had brought two tables— we don't need to say people have brought, we know that— two tables of potluck food. Everyone knew the theme, but they didn't know It's how to make Indian food. Surely the secret is the ingredients. Oh, maybe they use— oh, maybe they use AI here as a bit of a— nah, the AI has got to be a secret. Everyone knew the theme. What they didn't know was how to make Indian food. And so, so instead of finding internet recipes for authentic Meals. Mirror Falls did what Mirror Falls does— improvises. Rachel and Lisa. Now here we go. Auggie? Auggie? Thank you. A parrot. And it's not a— oh, it is a parrot. Hmm. Rachel and Lisa brought their Their take on Curry Craft Dinner, which was literally just KD with curry powder mixed in. Doug, Doug, I can't use Doug Anderson, he's already appeared. We're giving you another character named in passing, uh, Devinder. Craig, Roger. Yeah, we'll use Roger. Whoops. Bacon pancakes is auggie. Oh, they say both. Making bacon pack. I like making bacon anyway. Um. What the hell was his name again? Roger. Stop. Whoops! There we go. Roger brought a bowl of ketchup chips relabeled with a sticky note that said "tandoori style." Okay. As usual, entertainment night was packed. At the back of the theater, two tables of Pollock food. Everyone knew the theme. What they didn't know was how to make Indian food. So instead of finding internet recipes for authentic meals, Mirror Falls did what Mirror Falls does— improvises. Rachel and Lisa brought their take on curry craft dinner, which was literally just KD with curry powder mixed in. Roger bought a bowl of ketchup chips relabeled with a sticky note that said tandoori style. He and Kim from the Golden Walk could become Mohit's sort of adoptive parents. Powdered, powdered sugar, powdered sugar peep. Brought their specialty powdered sugar beef into which they'd mixed a jar of butter chicken sauce. Actually, it wasn't bad. Rachel and Lisa— okay, as usual, entertainment, blah blah blah. Rachel and Lisa brought their take on Kraft Curry Kraft Dinner, which is literally just KD with curry powder mixed in. Roger bought a bowl of ketchup chips relabeled with a sticky note that said tandoori style. Keen came from the Golden Walk. He'd become Mohit's sort of adoptive parents. Ooh, no, who'd become— he's only been there for a day. Mohit's sort of adoptive parents until he gets settled. Brother especially. Powdered sugar beef into which they'd mixed a jar of butter chicken sauce. Actually, it wasn't bad. All right, the first indication things would go downhill was the music playing In the lobby. So now this is, this is where, this is where the AI has messed up. I think we go downhill with the music playing in the lobby. Pun on the word gupta. The Indian food they made was goop to be thrown out. Yeah, I think I've got— I think I've got it here. I like— I like the specific. I like finding comedy in the specifics. Bowl of ketchup chips. Curry Kraft Dinner. The first indication things would go downhill was the music playing in the lobby. The Chen family. Noticed it first because the Chens— no one would say the Chens— Chens noticed it first because it sounded sort of Chinese and maybe Indian too, and somehow Irish. With a bit of— with a didgeridoo in the background. Yeah, so what we learn is that Buffy, in her attempt to make this come off really well, has used AI and has just asked an AI music generator to make like generic multicultural music. The first indication things would go downhill— things would go downhill, I can't predict that yet— the things were off was the music playing in the lobby. The chins noticed at first because it sort of sounded sort of Chinese and maybe Indian too, and somehow Irish, with a didgeridoo in the background. It was like someone had typed multicultural music into Google and downloaded the first hit. Had typed generic multicultural music into Google and downloaded the first hit. Now, who are the acts? So obviously Danielle. Wait, is, is, uh, Frankie here already? Yeah, Frankie's here now. So maybe that's when he sees Danielle for the first time. Yeah, it would be, it would be that. Well, no, no, he's been there. He's been here for 4 months already. Yeah, he's, he's been here for 3 months. He's been here for 3 months, so he would have already met Danielle, probably. Yeah, because they're both in trades. I'm thinking for the AI stuff, what if you find a really bad AI and use what it spits out? Like, you put yourself 100% in the skin of Buffy for that part. I also have to walk a very fine line with the AI plot because— and again, major, major spoiler in the next sentence— So plug your ears, turn it off right now, come back in 10 seconds if you don't want to hear this. Starting now. The spoiler is that the overall series, the whole major plot, has to do with AI. So that's why I cannot really get too far along the AI path. All right. Welcome back, spoiler people. The first indication things were off was the music playing in the lobby. The Chens noticed it first because it sort of sounded Chinese. And maybe Indian too, and somehow Irish with a didgeridoo in the background. It was like someone had typed generic multicultural music into Google and downloaded the first hit. Daniel, was the— Sorry, um, so this is what I'm gonna do. Music, Danielle, food. These are just for my own notes. Danielle was the first act. Do they— have they banned her because of the— how do I get back the— how do I get back that thing about the show that she did, the performance that went around? Danielle was the first act. No risk of anything going wrong now. All right. I think I'm going to leave it there. I think I'm going to leave it there. I've, I've hit that, that part where I think I've hit that part where I'm sort of fresh out of ideas. I need to— I can write for about 2 or 3 hours, and then it just feels I don't have what I need. So I'm going to leave it there and come back to it probably sometime later this week. So if you are watching on YouTube, make sure that you've checked the little bell icon to say that you want the notifications. If you're on Facebook, I don't know what to tell you. There's no way to do that on Facebook, and Facebook YouTube doesn't tell you when I'm— So, follow me on YouTube is the answer to that. And the Twitch person. So thank you for being with me. Thank you for all the suggestions. I'm excited by some of them. And yeah, we'll do this again sometime later this week. All right.