1 00:00:00,033 --> 00:00:01,634 You should dress like a princess. 2 00:00:01,634 --> 00:00:04,871 You should dance. 3 00:00:04,971 --> 00:00:05,839 Drop dead, Daddy. 4 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:23,023 I hope you trip over your robe and get choked on your necklace. 5 00:00:23,089 --> 00:00:23,890 Hey, maniac. 6 00:00:23,890 --> 00:00:25,558 Hey, maniac. 7 00:00:25,558 --> 00:00:27,093 It's a mystery, man. 8 00:00:27,093 --> 00:00:31,965 Mystery Maniac is a comedy recap podcast dedicated to mystery TV. 9 00:00:31,998 --> 00:00:35,068 Each week, we dig into an episode of the show, including the murders, 10 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:38,738 the mayhem and loonies and everything else we love. 11 00:00:38,905 --> 00:00:41,007 Except for the mayor. We don't love the mayor. 12 00:00:41,007 --> 00:00:43,176 This week we're talking about Father Brown. 13 00:00:43,176 --> 00:00:46,746 Season one Episode nine The Mayor and the Magician. 14 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:48,481 I'm Mark. I'm Sarah. 15 00:00:48,481 --> 00:00:50,917 We've got some other stuff to talk about before we dive in. 16 00:00:50,917 --> 00:00:52,218 Boy, do we ever. 17 00:00:52,218 --> 00:00:56,656 We just hit 400,000 downloads. 18 00:00:56,823 --> 00:00:57,357 That's. 19 00:00:57,357 --> 00:01:01,261 That's actual downloads from our provider. 20 00:01:01,261 --> 00:01:03,129 This is not anything from YouTube. 21 00:01:03,129 --> 00:01:06,032 This is just podcast listeners. 22 00:01:06,032 --> 00:01:06,933 That's so off. 23 00:01:06,933 --> 00:01:11,471 Now, granted, we've made 1.5 million episodes, but. 24 00:01:11,538 --> 00:01:14,641 We made 221 episodes, released two hour, 25 00:01:14,707 --> 00:01:20,313 21 episodes, which means roughly 1800 listens per episode on average. 26 00:01:20,313 --> 00:01:21,214 That's pretty good. 27 00:01:21,214 --> 00:01:27,487 I cannot believe how fantastically successful we've become, 28 00:01:27,554 --> 00:01:32,192 and I don't really care if anybody else looks down their noses as well. 29 00:01:32,225 --> 00:01:35,695 You don't have a big plaque from YouTube. 30 00:01:35,762 --> 00:01:37,230 I don't care about any of. 31 00:01:37,230 --> 00:01:38,264 That how they talk. 32 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:39,232 We have. 33 00:01:39,232 --> 00:01:42,235 Five people would listen to this 34 00:01:42,302 --> 00:01:45,271 and the fact like this week alone 35 00:01:45,338 --> 00:01:48,208 will get to how crazy this week is that 36 00:01:48,208 --> 00:01:50,577 we have touched so many people's. 37 00:01:50,577 --> 00:01:52,278 Lives and they've touched stars. 38 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:53,680 Absolutely fantastic. 39 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,149 And none of them inappropriately or anything like that. 40 00:01:56,149 --> 00:01:57,317 And made. 41 00:01:57,317 --> 00:02:00,086 It. Great, made our lives so much better. 42 00:02:00,086 --> 00:02:02,188 Thanks for listening, everybody. Absolutely. 43 00:02:02,188 --> 00:02:03,623 We appreciate you. Yep. 44 00:02:03,623 --> 00:02:06,993 We started watching Father Brown season 11 this week. 45 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,163 Yes, it's pretty good. And it. 46 00:02:10,196 --> 00:02:11,531 It is Father Brown. 47 00:02:11,531 --> 00:02:13,533 It's father like Father Brown. You'll like it. 48 00:02:13,533 --> 00:02:14,968 It's late, Father Brown. 49 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:15,101 Yeah. 50 00:02:15,101 --> 00:02:18,404 Like there's a period of late Father Brown and late Murdoch, 51 00:02:18,404 --> 00:02:22,809 which also starts season 17 this month on ACORN, 52 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:27,380 that there's definitely a turn to a bit more kind of goofiness. 53 00:02:27,413 --> 00:02:28,681 Yeah, Which is. 54 00:02:28,681 --> 00:02:29,616 Nothing to lose. Now. 55 00:02:29,616 --> 00:02:31,985 Nothin or lose. It's absolutely fine. 56 00:02:31,985 --> 00:02:36,823 Hey, Sister Boniface shows up in a recent and one of the season 11 episodes. 57 00:02:36,856 --> 00:02:39,225 There's so many horrific things on TV. 58 00:02:39,225 --> 00:02:41,161 Why don't you watch something that's nice? 59 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:44,164 Yeah, it is nice. It's not. Hilarious. 60 00:02:44,197 --> 00:02:44,931 It's nice. 61 00:02:44,931 --> 00:02:48,434 We're still watching True Detective and love everything about it, 62 00:02:48,535 --> 00:02:51,538 but wow, it's a bit soul sucking. 63 00:02:51,671 --> 00:02:55,341 After we watch it, we were like, okay, 5 minutes of YouTube. 64 00:02:55,375 --> 00:02:56,609 Yeah. Something funny. 65 00:02:56,609 --> 00:02:59,312 Let's look BS And now. Okay, now let's. 66 00:02:59,312 --> 00:03:02,715 Look at hippos yawning. 67 00:03:02,815 --> 00:03:03,816 and the 68 00:03:03,816 --> 00:03:06,753 February newsletter is about to come out on the seventh. 69 00:03:06,753 --> 00:03:08,388 Yes, that's the only. 70 00:03:08,388 --> 00:03:10,323 Well, it's the first place 71 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:12,825 where you're going to see what our schedule is going forward, 72 00:03:12,825 --> 00:03:14,027 what we're going to cover. 73 00:03:14,027 --> 00:03:16,896 Yes, well, mention it on the show for sure. 74 00:03:16,896 --> 00:03:19,933 But if you want to know before everybody else, you need to subscribe. 75 00:03:19,966 --> 00:03:25,872 Now, almost currently through my first quarter of being restful. 76 00:03:25,972 --> 00:03:28,541 I can tell you've been really taking it easy. 77 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:32,512 Second quarter, I got lots to do. 78 00:03:32,612 --> 00:03:34,380 And we forgot. 79 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:38,484 Murdoch Season 17 is coming out on ACORN in a couple of weeks. Yep. 80 00:03:38,685 --> 00:03:42,488 And we talked about what's all that good stuff? 81 00:03:42,555 --> 00:03:46,593 Boy, did we get an interesting message this week from an individual 82 00:03:46,593 --> 00:03:47,961 named Bunny Galore. 83 00:03:47,961 --> 00:03:48,361 Okay. 84 00:03:48,361 --> 00:03:51,931 Just to be fair, this is a maniac podcast. 85 00:03:51,931 --> 00:03:55,535 We should not be surprised that maniacs reach out to us. 86 00:03:55,535 --> 00:03:56,569 Yes, And Bunny goes. 87 00:03:56,569 --> 00:03:58,171 The best kind of maniac. 88 00:03:58,171 --> 00:03:59,339 Is a fantastic. 89 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:00,139 Maniac. 90 00:04:00,139 --> 00:04:05,245 Bunny Galore is in Dress to Kill Season 23, 91 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:09,749 Episode four of Midsummer, which is the The Drag Show episode. 92 00:04:09,816 --> 00:04:14,187 If you remember the scene where they're outside 93 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:17,123 and a drag queen walks by looking fabulous. 94 00:04:17,123 --> 00:04:22,862 And behind her, a woman sitting down gets slapped in the face by a flier 95 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:25,131 going at Mach ten in the wind. 96 00:04:25,131 --> 00:04:28,401 That drag queen who walked by looking fabulous is Bunny Galore. 97 00:04:28,401 --> 00:04:32,205 Who now says she can't not see that now they get. 98 00:04:32,205 --> 00:04:33,840 Slapped by the flier. 99 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:36,142 She's also in the opening credits, right? 100 00:04:36,142 --> 00:04:39,445 Yeah, They filmed a bunch of B-roll with her and she didn't know why. 101 00:04:39,445 --> 00:04:43,182 And then she's like in the title credits and she was completely overwhelmed. 102 00:04:43,182 --> 00:04:47,120 But she left us a comment and said how much fun it was 103 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,089 and that she had a great time and everybody was wonderful. 104 00:04:50,089 --> 00:04:54,961 And so on top of being in midsummer, she also has a podcast 105 00:04:54,961 --> 00:05:00,466 with another drag queen named Alison called Hotel Horror Motel Story. 106 00:05:00,566 --> 00:05:03,970 And then she also has done nine seasons of a show 107 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:09,475 on basically like pay per view called movie Nightmares. 108 00:05:09,542 --> 00:05:13,012 which and and Britain's Got Talent. 109 00:05:13,012 --> 00:05:15,248 This lady is spectacular. 110 00:05:15,248 --> 00:05:17,950 So shout out to Bunny Galore. You're awesome. 111 00:05:17,950 --> 00:05:21,688 So I think we're going to probably do a short little interview with her, 112 00:05:21,721 --> 00:05:23,823 hopefully with some experiences. 113 00:05:23,823 --> 00:05:26,092 She said that that looked pretty probable. 114 00:05:26,092 --> 00:05:29,395 And then we got a text from her from last night. 115 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:34,367 So this would have been Friday night in the UK 116 00:05:34,467 --> 00:05:35,234 and she was 117 00:05:35,234 --> 00:05:38,971 out doing a benefit and ran into Felix 118 00:05:38,971 --> 00:05:42,675 Chi who was in that episode and they discuss the podcast. 119 00:05:42,775 --> 00:05:43,843 that's awesome. 120 00:05:43,843 --> 00:05:47,513 And I feel awesome. 121 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:50,316 Go, Bonnie, it's your birthday. Yes. 122 00:05:50,316 --> 00:05:53,953 And so Bunny may be making a short appearance. 123 00:05:54,020 --> 00:05:55,688 We'll have to do a video for that. 124 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:57,657 Yes. We'll have to do a video for that. 125 00:05:57,657 --> 00:06:01,294 And one last thing about things to come. 126 00:06:01,294 --> 00:06:05,064 We have a plan for episode 200 127 00:06:05,064 --> 00:06:08,468 because this is episode 193, 128 00:06:08,534 --> 00:06:10,303 and we'll let you know 129 00:06:10,303 --> 00:06:13,306 more about that as we get closer to us. 130 00:06:13,473 --> 00:06:15,308 Should be fun. 131 00:06:15,308 --> 00:06:17,276 I can't believe 200 episodes. 132 00:06:17,276 --> 00:06:22,281 That I can say I can't find. Yes. 133 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:24,784 So but now we have to get serious. 134 00:06:24,784 --> 00:06:31,157 Speaking of maniacs and our community of maniacs who are all awesome. 135 00:06:31,190 --> 00:06:33,593 Tori Beta posted on the Miz. 136 00:06:33,593 --> 00:06:35,628 This is this is the username. Yes. 137 00:06:35,628 --> 00:06:36,629 Foreign beta. 138 00:06:36,629 --> 00:06:41,134 Posted on Reddit that we had almost killed him. 139 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,805 In a hot tub listening to mystery maniacs. 140 00:06:45,872 --> 00:06:47,907 Fellas leap. 141 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:49,075 And almost drowned. 142 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:51,444 And almost drowned 143 00:06:51,444 --> 00:06:56,282 because the bell system that they use with their wife didn't work. 144 00:06:56,282 --> 00:06:58,818 I guess his wife rang a bell and he was. 145 00:06:58,818 --> 00:07:01,921 They were supposed to ring the bell back and didn't. 146 00:07:01,921 --> 00:07:07,627 And so she came running and saved his life. 147 00:07:07,693 --> 00:07:10,563 I don't understand people who fall asleep listening to us. 148 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:12,832 I think we're just too exciting to fall asleep. 149 00:07:12,832 --> 00:07:15,134 I can fall asleep listening. 150 00:07:15,134 --> 00:07:17,103 However, 151 00:07:17,103 --> 00:07:18,905 this was a novel thing for us. 152 00:07:18,905 --> 00:07:23,576 We'd never had somebody almost die while listening to our podcast. 153 00:07:23,643 --> 00:07:27,280 So we have consulted with our maniac lawyers. 154 00:07:27,346 --> 00:07:30,016 The maniac, law firm, Maniac, Maniac and Maniac. 155 00:07:30,016 --> 00:07:31,818 Yeah, LLC. 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We are not responsible for. 182 00:08:45,157 --> 00:08:47,393 So, Father Brown, Episode 183 00:08:47,393 --> 00:08:50,730 nine, Season one The Mayor and the Magician. 184 00:08:50,763 --> 00:08:53,766 Only because they couldn't call it the Apple and the magician. 185 00:08:53,766 --> 00:08:55,968 Which is what they should have called. 186 00:08:55,968 --> 00:08:59,672 Epic Asshole and the magician deserve to die. 187 00:08:59,672 --> 00:09:01,641 And the magician season one. 188 00:09:01,641 --> 00:09:06,646 Original Air Date 24th January 2013. 189 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:08,781 That seems like so long ago. 190 00:09:08,781 --> 00:09:11,017 Ten years 11. 191 00:09:11,017 --> 00:09:13,753 11 years ago. 192 00:09:13,753 --> 00:09:17,857 Dominic directed this and written by Nicola Wilson. 193 00:09:17,957 --> 00:09:21,961 Said Asshole may or may look familiar to you because he's played by Sam Crane, 194 00:09:21,961 --> 00:09:26,098 who is in season five Episode four of Midsummer Murder on St Mary's Day. 195 00:09:26,265 --> 00:09:28,367 He plays a somewhat big role in that. 196 00:09:28,367 --> 00:09:33,706 Scene killed by the giant spoon. 197 00:09:33,806 --> 00:09:35,107 That come with a spoon. 198 00:09:35,107 --> 00:09:36,242 Spoon. Spoon. 199 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:39,211 And so the mayor is an idiot. 200 00:09:39,312 --> 00:09:42,582 He's more than in anything. Like at first. 201 00:09:42,682 --> 00:09:45,451 They just think he's dumb and his wife writes his speeches. 202 00:09:45,451 --> 00:09:48,921 And at first she's there in her underwear. 203 00:09:48,921 --> 00:09:54,961 So I think you're supposed to think that she is kind of like, I'm the mayor's wife. 204 00:09:54,961 --> 00:09:59,365 But then you quickly realize that she's like, no, I run this game. 205 00:09:59,398 --> 00:10:01,067 The brains behind the jerk. 206 00:10:01,067 --> 00:10:02,835 No, it's more than brains. 207 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:04,870 She's the whole impetus behind. 208 00:10:04,870 --> 00:10:06,806 She should be the mayor. Yeah. 209 00:10:06,806 --> 00:10:09,709 And let me clarify something, since you're a dude, 210 00:10:09,709 --> 00:10:13,913 the reason why she's sitting around in her slip is not because she's Latina, 211 00:10:13,913 --> 00:10:17,083 but because women often do that when they're about to put on something 212 00:10:17,083 --> 00:10:18,351 that semi-formal. 213 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:20,519 Because you put your dress on at the last minute. 214 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:22,154 Yeah. Because they're uncomfortable. 215 00:10:22,154 --> 00:10:24,256 Or you'll mess them up or you'll wrinkle them. 216 00:10:24,256 --> 00:10:25,458 And so you have it ready 217 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:29,629 like anybody who's ever gone to prom or any kind of formal, that's what you do. 218 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:32,565 You put it on at the last minute and then walk out the door. 219 00:10:32,565 --> 00:10:33,432 Well. 220 00:10:33,432 --> 00:10:36,569 Then the they find the piece 221 00:10:36,569 --> 00:10:39,972 of jewelry under the bed and she knows it's up. 222 00:10:39,972 --> 00:10:41,807 She tries to cover for him. 223 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:44,410 Yeah. I've been looking for that. Yes. 224 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:47,446 So their daughter Kathleen. Yes. 225 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:49,915 He says have you finished your chores? 226 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:52,785 And she says, Yes. And I found this. 227 00:10:52,785 --> 00:10:55,688 So is one of her chores to clean under their bed? 228 00:10:55,688 --> 00:10:57,790 I did not want to go into my parent's bed. 229 00:10:57,790 --> 00:11:00,092 No. Well, I don't want to go under anybody's bed 230 00:11:00,092 --> 00:11:03,295 because there's just dust bunny, though, under there at the best. 231 00:11:03,462 --> 00:11:06,065 Yeah, but that's one of her jobs. 232 00:11:06,065 --> 00:11:07,099 I don't think so. 233 00:11:07,099 --> 00:11:08,401 Clean your own room. 234 00:11:08,401 --> 00:11:12,371 It seems weird. They're an unpleasant family. 235 00:11:12,438 --> 00:11:13,706 Mostly due to him. 236 00:11:13,706 --> 00:11:16,876 Yeah, it's so. 237 00:11:16,976 --> 00:11:19,045 He's got his regalia on. 238 00:11:19,045 --> 00:11:21,447 Mayors in the UK get to wear such awesome. 239 00:11:21,447 --> 00:11:23,215 Does they do he He's. 240 00:11:23,215 --> 00:11:24,950 Shrikhande and he has a tribe. 241 00:11:24,950 --> 00:11:26,819 Or does he does have the dry part. 242 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:29,622 He takes it off to give the speech which doesn't make any sense. 243 00:11:29,622 --> 00:11:31,891 But he's got it on in the living. Room in Canada. 244 00:11:31,891 --> 00:11:33,726 The mayor wears the necklace, but that's it. 245 00:11:33,726 --> 00:11:36,662 That's a bloody necklace. It's super bling. 246 00:11:36,662 --> 00:11:39,665 But he's got the red robes with the fur edging. 247 00:11:39,665 --> 00:11:42,802 And he's the mayor of Kimball furred. Like. 248 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:43,636 I'm supposed. 249 00:11:43,636 --> 00:11:47,073 He should probably just be wearing, like, a burlap sack or something. 250 00:11:47,073 --> 00:11:49,275 Yeah, it's weird. 251 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:49,875 It's weird. 252 00:11:49,875 --> 00:11:53,446 It's like he's the mayor of Midsomer, but that's a county. 253 00:11:53,446 --> 00:11:55,381 But Kimball, for it's a village. 254 00:11:55,381 --> 00:11:56,782 And it's weird. 255 00:11:56,782 --> 00:11:57,583 Yeah, I don't. 256 00:11:57,583 --> 00:12:01,087 I don't understand how he was elected mayor and doesn't know anybody 257 00:12:01,087 --> 00:12:02,121 and nobody knows him. 258 00:12:02,121 --> 00:12:03,556 Yeah, it seems. 259 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:05,491 He was an MP. I would understand. 260 00:12:05,491 --> 00:12:09,495 Yes, because MPs are often not much more from where they run. 261 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:12,031 Yeah, but like their family has a seat there. 262 00:12:12,031 --> 00:12:14,400 So. The MP? Yeah. 263 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,770 Even if he's the mayor of the equivalent of the county 264 00:12:17,770 --> 00:12:21,574 that Camelford is in, he would still have gone there to campaign you. 265 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:22,374 Would think. 266 00:12:22,374 --> 00:12:24,009 And Father Brown would be somebody 267 00:12:24,009 --> 00:12:27,446 you definitely want to make touch with because he knows everybody. 268 00:12:27,513 --> 00:12:30,483 And like he is, he's so 269 00:12:30,483 --> 00:12:33,953 completely unaware how much he needs her because. 270 00:12:33,953 --> 00:12:35,387 No, he doesn't care. 271 00:12:35,387 --> 00:12:38,324 Well, she's utterly taken for granted. 272 00:12:38,324 --> 00:12:42,795 She's a piece of furniture who does things for him that he expects her to do. 273 00:12:42,795 --> 00:12:46,265 And she got him elected and he doesn't even understand that. 274 00:12:46,265 --> 00:12:48,134 No, they're having effect. 275 00:12:48,134 --> 00:12:49,502 Yeah, to raise money, the. 276 00:12:49,502 --> 00:12:51,637 Goldfish can be so facing. 277 00:12:51,637 --> 00:12:56,742 Why. They're in a round pergola. 278 00:12:56,842 --> 00:12:58,310 All your fish face that way 279 00:12:58,310 --> 00:13:03,749 to raise money to build a school in the Polish refugee camp. 280 00:13:03,849 --> 00:13:06,552 Which makes sense. It makes sense. 281 00:13:06,552 --> 00:13:10,422 Except that's not at all what the mayor is trying to do with that money. 282 00:13:10,456 --> 00:13:13,392 Yes. And knows really nothing about that. Yeah. 283 00:13:13,392 --> 00:13:15,261 I always feel so bad for Susie. 284 00:13:15,261 --> 00:13:18,764 Well, did you look up for Turkey? Yes. 285 00:13:18,864 --> 00:13:19,398 There are deep 286 00:13:19,398 --> 00:13:22,434 fried pastries with powdered sugar and they look totally tasty. 287 00:13:22,501 --> 00:13:23,469 Yes, please. 288 00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:27,373 Yes. It's like I would eat all of them. 289 00:13:27,439 --> 00:13:29,241 They almost look like elephant ear. 290 00:13:29,241 --> 00:13:32,244 Nose. Strips. Tentacles with exotic. 291 00:13:32,278 --> 00:13:34,380 Tentacles. Hi. It's all on. 292 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:38,117 I tried to find a recipe for something called Tentacles of Leviathan, 293 00:13:38,117 --> 00:13:39,852 and there isn't anything out there, 294 00:13:39,852 --> 00:13:43,455 so I think I might have to come up with a new recipe. 295 00:13:43,556 --> 00:13:47,359 But this is m tentacles of Leviathan. 296 00:13:47,459 --> 00:13:48,727 Maybe that's the recipe. 297 00:13:48,727 --> 00:13:50,763 We should put it in the newsletter. 298 00:13:50,763 --> 00:13:52,198 He's cheating on his wife. 299 00:13:52,198 --> 00:13:54,033 He has tantrums and throws glasses. 300 00:13:54,033 --> 00:13:55,334 He's rude to his child. 301 00:13:55,334 --> 00:13:57,770 He's too stupid to write his own speeches. 302 00:13:57,770 --> 00:13:59,939 He's having an affair with his assistant. 303 00:13:59,939 --> 00:14:00,472 He gets her. 304 00:14:00,472 --> 00:14:04,610 He gets pregnant and demands that she gets an abortion. 305 00:14:04,710 --> 00:14:05,945 In some back alley. 306 00:14:05,945 --> 00:14:07,713 Clearly doesn't pay for it. 307 00:14:07,713 --> 00:14:09,849 Gives her the necklace and fires her. 308 00:14:09,849 --> 00:14:13,886 Criticizes his daughter for dressing like a pirate, tells her she's ugly. 309 00:14:14,053 --> 00:14:17,923 I mean, there is nothing redeeming about him at all. 310 00:14:17,957 --> 00:14:22,294 There are several points in my notes where I go, Can I kill the mayor? 311 00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:24,330 Can everybody kill the mayor? Yes. 312 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:27,566 When he opens his speech and sees it's not his speech, 313 00:14:27,566 --> 00:14:31,570 but it's a note from his wife that says goodbye? Yes. 314 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:34,273 I'm like, yes, you go, girl. That's the best. 315 00:14:34,273 --> 00:14:36,242 And then he has no idea what to say. 316 00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:37,409 He's a bumbling. 317 00:14:37,409 --> 00:14:39,945 It is for worst political speech. Ever. 318 00:14:39,945 --> 00:14:42,147 How does he have conversations with people I. 319 00:14:42,147 --> 00:14:45,017 Don't know. Without notes? No. 320 00:14:45,017 --> 00:14:49,488 So where Father Brown, though, is getting the humbugs right? 321 00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:52,291 So they must be having a competition where you guess 322 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:53,759 how many humbugs are in the jar? 323 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:57,162 Is it the same jars? The goldfish? Yeah. 324 00:14:57,263 --> 00:14:59,398 But he's putting half of them in his mouth. 325 00:14:59,398 --> 00:15:00,933 He's going to look like a chipmunk. 326 00:15:00,933 --> 00:15:04,737 And he keeps touch and he's touching all. 327 00:15:04,803 --> 00:15:08,040 why don't you buy a bag that says 500 humbug? 328 00:15:08,073 --> 00:15:09,008 They never say that. 329 00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:10,242 They just have. Wait. 330 00:15:10,242 --> 00:15:12,077 Yeah, that's how it works. 331 00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:15,080 But when you've done that in advance, that's like something you could do 332 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,382 the day before and have ready. 333 00:15:16,382 --> 00:15:20,085 I just was like, Your hands will be so sticky. 334 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:21,987 You should dress like a princess. 335 00:15:21,987 --> 00:15:25,224 You should dance. 336 00:15:25,291 --> 00:15:26,191 Drop dead, Daddy. 337 00:15:26,191 --> 00:15:29,094 I hope you trip over your robe and get choked on your necklace. 338 00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:32,398 So when they meet Edwin, who is the man in the village 339 00:15:32,398 --> 00:15:36,568 who had also run for mayor and not one He's wearing a poppy. 340 00:15:36,635 --> 00:15:37,803 Yes, a white poppy. 341 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:38,604 A white poppy. 342 00:15:38,604 --> 00:15:42,942 I had never seen a white poppy before, so I looked it up and it's it 343 00:15:43,075 --> 00:15:46,679 it basically means the same thing as a red poppy, except it's a commitment 344 00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:47,713 to peace. 345 00:15:47,713 --> 00:15:52,851 And it commemorates both civilian and military who died in the war. 346 00:15:53,018 --> 00:15:53,419 Yeah. 347 00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:58,424 And it's interesting that there is a tiny thread underneath 348 00:15:58,424 --> 00:16:02,628 everything that he didn't go to war because he didn't want to. 349 00:16:02,761 --> 00:16:04,730 He was a conscientious objector. 350 00:16:04,730 --> 00:16:06,932 And that's why he has a white poppy. 351 00:16:06,932 --> 00:16:09,902 Which I absolutely respect and understand. 352 00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:14,106 But then it's also implied that the mayor got out of going to the war. 353 00:16:14,139 --> 00:16:15,774 Of course he did, because he's a jerk. 354 00:16:15,774 --> 00:16:17,743 Yeah, everything about him is bad. 355 00:16:17,743 --> 00:16:22,114 So you have both of those kind of situations 356 00:16:22,181 --> 00:16:26,085 that must have lingered into the fifties and in the UK. 357 00:16:26,185 --> 00:16:26,885 yeah. 358 00:16:26,885 --> 00:16:28,854 yeah, for sure. I think there are. 359 00:16:28,854 --> 00:16:32,925 People and half like my dad. 360 00:16:33,025 --> 00:16:34,193 Show me how to kill. 361 00:16:34,193 --> 00:16:36,562 And that's the mayor of the title. 362 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:39,932 Yes. Then there is the magician of the title, 363 00:16:39,965 --> 00:16:44,937 which I think is the more interesting plot of this episode. 364 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,106 the murder really isn't. 365 00:16:47,106 --> 00:16:49,575 Mostly because I don't care if he's dead. 366 00:16:49,575 --> 00:16:53,612 I wish his head it exploded as he got electrocuted, but he didn't. 367 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:56,448 That's a little much, but he's just that bad. 368 00:16:56,448 --> 00:16:59,018 But the magician is the Mrs. Imply. 369 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:01,620 But he is as bad He is. 370 00:17:01,620 --> 00:17:04,223 It is more toxic masculinity. 371 00:17:04,223 --> 00:17:05,424 yeah. On display. 372 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:09,762 Because as soon as she refuses him, he calls her a nag. 373 00:17:09,762 --> 00:17:12,564 Yeah, like the episode is. 374 00:17:12,564 --> 00:17:15,434 Here's some toxic masculinity from the 50. 375 00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:17,403 Yeah. Basically. 376 00:17:17,403 --> 00:17:21,540 But you know, leading up to this point and we've talked about this a lot, Mrs. 377 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:24,843 M's character evolves, but prior to this, 378 00:17:24,910 --> 00:17:27,780 she has basically just been a big pain in the butt. 379 00:17:27,780 --> 00:17:29,014 She is a nag. 380 00:17:29,014 --> 00:17:31,683 She's she assumes the worst of everybody. 381 00:17:31,683 --> 00:17:33,719 She's a little racist. 382 00:17:33,719 --> 00:17:38,157 She's she's not always as benevolent as she could be to people. 383 00:17:38,157 --> 00:17:42,394 And to see her vulnerable like this because Frank is her husband. 384 00:17:42,428 --> 00:17:43,462 Yes. Right. 385 00:17:43,462 --> 00:17:46,398 He she thought he was dead in the war. 386 00:17:46,398 --> 00:17:47,733 He never came home. 387 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:50,803 And he had run off with the younger woman anyway. 388 00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:52,771 Yeah, he didn't die. 389 00:17:52,771 --> 00:17:54,339 He shacked up with somebody else. 390 00:17:54,339 --> 00:17:57,743 And now he's sick and dying of cirrhosis of the liver. 391 00:17:57,743 --> 00:17:59,511 So he's going to show up for Mrs. 392 00:17:59,511 --> 00:18:02,514 M to take care of him in the last six months of his life. 393 00:18:02,548 --> 00:18:04,450 Yeah, she says no, thank you. 394 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:05,317 No, no. 395 00:18:05,317 --> 00:18:11,156 And the relationship between her and lady becomes what it's meant to be here. 396 00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:12,324 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 397 00:18:12,324 --> 00:18:13,192 But we really. 398 00:18:13,192 --> 00:18:14,893 This is the first time we see Mrs. 399 00:18:14,893 --> 00:18:16,829 M remotely vulnerable. 400 00:18:16,829 --> 00:18:19,031 Yeah, She's sad. She. 401 00:18:19,031 --> 00:18:20,699 She tears up. Yeah. 402 00:18:20,699 --> 00:18:23,869 And we see that he's charming 403 00:18:23,969 --> 00:18:27,339 and that she understands and relates to that charm. 404 00:18:27,339 --> 00:18:30,008 But as soon as he crosses a line, she's. 405 00:18:30,008 --> 00:18:31,743 Well, he's not charming enough. 406 00:18:31,743 --> 00:18:34,146 Yeah, he's not trying. To overcome what he's done. 407 00:18:34,146 --> 00:18:34,813 You're right. 408 00:18:34,813 --> 00:18:39,017 That, to me, is much more interesting than the murder, though. 409 00:18:39,151 --> 00:18:39,918 Valentine. 410 00:18:39,918 --> 00:18:42,187 And in classic Valentine fashion, just arrests 411 00:18:42,187 --> 00:18:45,390 the first person that he could suspect and drags him away. 412 00:18:45,390 --> 00:18:49,194 He just drags Eleanor away in handcuffs, basically just leaves 413 00:18:49,194 --> 00:18:52,331 her daughter to fend for herself, you know, somebody to look after her. 414 00:18:52,331 --> 00:18:55,834 Because there's a pickpocket around. 415 00:18:55,901 --> 00:18:57,669 Which is Kathleen, the little girl. 416 00:18:57,669 --> 00:19:01,640 When the magician leans against the truck, did you see that 417 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,409 there was an address on the truck? Did you go to see what? 418 00:19:04,409 --> 00:19:05,744 No, because I knew you would. 419 00:19:05,744 --> 00:19:08,514 It's the Melbourne Social Club. 420 00:19:08,514 --> 00:19:10,883 so I don't know why they had a truck there. 421 00:19:10,883 --> 00:19:16,555 I guess probably for like they do these for fats. 422 00:19:16,622 --> 00:19:19,291 And that's why the address was there. 423 00:19:19,291 --> 00:19:24,396 But 80 Meldon Terrace Heaton, Newcastle on time. 424 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:26,932 Well if they're a social club maybe they have like an old time 425 00:19:26,932 --> 00:19:31,537 fire truck or something that they take to fairs and show off. 426 00:19:31,537 --> 00:19:34,406 Why does Frank hide for Mrs. 427 00:19:34,406 --> 00:19:36,742 M at first if he's trying to get her back? 428 00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:38,243 Because he's smart enough to know 429 00:19:38,243 --> 00:19:41,580 that he needs to reconnect with her in the right circumstances. 430 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:42,748 Yeah, I could see that. 431 00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:46,185 Why does Kathleen say to him when he's 432 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:49,555 crouched down, suffering, man, it'll cost you. 433 00:19:49,621 --> 00:19:52,157 He says, Get help. And she says, it'll cost you. 434 00:19:52,157 --> 00:19:53,592 Because she. 435 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:56,995 She's so desperate for money to run away that she's even willing 436 00:19:56,995 --> 00:19:59,865 to let somebody suffer. I think that's it. 437 00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:01,667 That's pretty bad. 438 00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:04,503 I want to feel sympathy for that little girl. 439 00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:08,340 And when she does that, I'm like, Wait a minute, you're as bad as your dad. 440 00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:10,742 What have you learned? That's what she's been taught. 441 00:20:10,742 --> 00:20:13,478 Yeah. I also think she's a really good child actor. 442 00:20:13,478 --> 00:20:14,046 She has. 443 00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:16,648 She's very good here. Yeah, she does a great job. 444 00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:19,251 But then Eleanor sort of snaps. 445 00:20:19,251 --> 00:20:20,385 Yeah. 446 00:20:20,385 --> 00:20:22,754 When she's throwing those balls at those plates. 447 00:20:22,754 --> 00:20:25,157 Number one, she's a really good arm. 448 00:20:25,157 --> 00:20:28,160 Yeah, she hits every one of them. 449 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:30,062 But I don't know if 450 00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:33,966 she's just in shock or shock. 451 00:20:34,032 --> 00:20:37,269 Slash free and giddy about it. 452 00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:40,138 Well, I think I think that she. 453 00:20:40,138 --> 00:20:43,008 I didn't get a chance to kill him. Yeah. 454 00:20:43,008 --> 00:20:46,812 She has spent her whole life propping this person up 455 00:20:46,878 --> 00:20:49,815 and has been sort of well, 456 00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:55,320 she's been made aware of his infidelities in the same afternoon. 457 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,490 Yeah, she's having a very bad day. Yeah. 458 00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:01,059 And now he's dead. 459 00:21:01,059 --> 00:21:04,863 And I have to think that she also feels a weird kind of guilt 460 00:21:04,997 --> 00:21:08,000 because she may have wanted him dead 461 00:21:08,066 --> 00:21:11,870 and then he's dead, and she knows that she didn't do it. 462 00:21:11,970 --> 00:21:13,772 Yeah, but she's worried. 463 00:21:13,772 --> 00:21:17,776 Not that I don't think she mentally is aware that. 464 00:21:17,776 --> 00:21:21,513 I think she's mentally aware that she didn't cause his death. 465 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:24,283 But you know how when you have bad feelings about. 466 00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:28,287 Kind of like Kathleen, she confesses that she wanted her dad dead. 467 00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:31,290 So she thinks he died because she wanted him dead. Yes. 468 00:21:31,323 --> 00:21:35,627 But she might also be angry because she had 469 00:21:35,827 --> 00:21:39,097 orchestrated his embarrassing downfall. 470 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:40,132 Yes. Right. 471 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:41,933 She swapped the speeches 472 00:21:41,933 --> 00:21:45,637 and she knows Edwin is going to stand up and confront him. And. 473 00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:46,438 Shame him. 474 00:21:46,438 --> 00:21:49,741 And she's ready to go the press like she is playing. 475 00:21:49,741 --> 00:21:50,676 And leave him. 476 00:21:50,676 --> 00:21:51,810 That are. Screwed. 477 00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:53,912 But now he's dead, so she can't do any of that. 478 00:21:53,912 --> 00:21:55,380 So there's no revenge. 479 00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:57,082 Yeah, she can't get the revenge. 480 00:21:57,082 --> 00:22:00,052 It's almost like by dying, he gets away with it all. Yeah. 481 00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:02,688 So I think she might be a little bit angry about that. 482 00:22:02,688 --> 00:22:06,058 Father Brown goes to the pub to talk to Edwin 483 00:22:06,058 --> 00:22:10,262 because we find out the reason he withdrew from the mayoral race is because 484 00:22:10,262 --> 00:22:15,400 he has a criminal record for GBH, which grievous bodily harm. 485 00:22:15,467 --> 00:22:18,503 There needs to be a thing and, well, really, anywhere 486 00:22:18,537 --> 00:22:22,974 that says it's like a parentheses after your crime that says. 487 00:22:22,974 --> 00:22:25,844 But it was a Nazi. Yeah, 488 00:22:25,944 --> 00:22:27,279 Grand Theft Auto. 489 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:28,313 But it was a Nazi. 490 00:22:28,313 --> 00:22:31,917 You know, if you commit a crime and some element was also racist, 491 00:22:31,917 --> 00:22:35,687 it's like a a variable that they add to it. 492 00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:36,388 Right. 493 00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:40,492 They should have the opposite of that where it's like you did that, 494 00:22:40,726 --> 00:22:41,793 but they were Nazis. 495 00:22:41,793 --> 00:22:44,796 It's extenuating circumstances, you know. 496 00:22:44,896 --> 00:22:46,598 But he was an asshole mayor. 497 00:22:46,598 --> 00:22:49,167 So was it really manslaughter? 498 00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:51,503 I don't know. 499 00:22:51,503 --> 00:22:52,671 It's actual slaughter. 500 00:22:52,671 --> 00:22:54,005 I don't think that. Yeah, like it. 501 00:22:54,005 --> 00:22:59,411 But they make him so horrible 502 00:22:59,478 --> 00:23:02,481 that I'm surprised they don't make him non. 503 00:23:02,514 --> 00:23:04,716 Yeah, I'm really. 504 00:23:04,716 --> 00:23:07,452 He's so bad that wouldn't even make him worse. 505 00:23:07,452 --> 00:23:09,821 Like you would just go. Of course he is. Yes. 506 00:23:09,821 --> 00:23:15,460 You would expect it when he says that line, when they meet Father Brown and Mrs. 507 00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:16,595 M for the first time. 508 00:23:16,595 --> 00:23:22,067 And Father Brown says that Kathleen is spirited and has an inquisitive mind. 509 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:26,138 He says those may be good traits in a man, but in a woman 510 00:23:26,138 --> 00:23:28,173 they're tiresome or something like that. 511 00:23:28,173 --> 00:23:29,941 I just want to I just want Mrs. 512 00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:31,309 M to just shoot her hand out. 513 00:23:31,309 --> 00:23:33,044 Just start. Again. 514 00:23:33,044 --> 00:23:35,680 She'd be h But it was the mayor. Yeah. 515 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,383 So it's okay. 516 00:23:38,483 --> 00:23:41,219 So he goes to the pub? Yes. 517 00:23:41,219 --> 00:23:43,522 And please start with Edwin. 518 00:23:43,522 --> 00:23:49,261 So this is like Father Brown is almost comic relief in this episode. 519 00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:50,796 Yeah, I agree. And. 520 00:23:50,796 --> 00:23:55,967 And that's okay, because we've we've known that this show is created 521 00:23:56,101 --> 00:23:59,604 by a strong group of women creators. 522 00:23:59,704 --> 00:24:02,274 Right. Jud Tindle being part of this group. 523 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:05,944 But but there are a number of women associated with this show. 524 00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:09,114 And it really, I would say, becomes that 525 00:24:09,114 --> 00:24:12,951 sort of birth of women in the fifties in Europe. 526 00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:13,552 Right. 527 00:24:13,552 --> 00:24:18,323 So I don't mind and I don't think Mark Williams would get upset 528 00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:21,426 that he's kind of comic relief for this episode. 529 00:24:21,426 --> 00:24:23,728 No, not at all. 530 00:24:23,728 --> 00:24:26,198 Like he's investigating. 531 00:24:26,198 --> 00:24:29,201 They're like. 532 00:24:29,234 --> 00:24:30,902 We're doing stuff over here. 533 00:24:30,902 --> 00:24:33,638 Well, I'm investigating a murder. 534 00:24:33,705 --> 00:24:37,042 And really, do you need to investigate this murder? 535 00:24:37,075 --> 00:24:37,742 I mean, come on. 536 00:24:37,742 --> 00:24:40,111 You know, I mean, you don't want her to go to prison 537 00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:42,848 or be hanged, but yeah, I mean, was the mayor. 538 00:24:42,848 --> 00:24:44,816 So they go the pub. 539 00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:46,551 You want to play darts and. All the. 540 00:24:46,551 --> 00:24:49,020 Village green get up and run away. 541 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:53,258 Away, right away. 542 00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:55,560 And you know something's up. 543 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,062 Father Brown's going to play darts. 544 00:24:57,062 --> 00:24:58,129 Run for your. Life. 545 00:24:58,129 --> 00:25:03,902 Mark Williams does such a good job of physical comedy. Yes. 546 00:25:03,969 --> 00:25:05,337 He actually looks like he's trying. 547 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:08,206 He looks like he's drunk, 548 00:25:08,206 --> 00:25:10,642 but he does not hit the dartboard one. 549 00:25:10,642 --> 00:25:12,978 No, it's a table at least once. 550 00:25:12,978 --> 00:25:15,947 And Edwin doesn't say like, wow, you're really bad at this. 551 00:25:15,947 --> 00:25:19,251 He just keeps on playing like it's happening. 552 00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:23,321 I think they've all played darts. 553 00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:26,658 You sort of want a scene where you see Father Brown throw the dart, 554 00:25:26,691 --> 00:25:30,061 but you don't see where it lands and you just hear like a little yell off 555 00:25:30,095 --> 00:25:32,764 sea, off screen. Yeah. 556 00:25:32,764 --> 00:25:34,866 I bet they did ten or 12 of those. 557 00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:36,468 And they picked the best ones. 558 00:25:36,468 --> 00:25:38,737 The worst ones? Yeah. Yeah. 559 00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:40,171 The ones that worked the best. 560 00:25:40,171 --> 00:25:42,707 What else would he be bad at? Cricket. 561 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:45,443 Why is he so bad at darts? 562 00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:49,881 Well, he's so bad darts because he's thinking about other things. 563 00:25:49,981 --> 00:25:52,784 You think? Yeah, he just doesn't lack hand-eye coordination. 564 00:25:52,784 --> 00:25:55,020 I worry about him. Lawn bowling. 565 00:25:55,020 --> 00:25:57,222 Yeah. This is am good out of the way. 566 00:25:57,222 --> 00:26:00,458 He's playing some bocce ball and knocking people out. 567 00:26:00,525 --> 00:26:04,062 I would not trust him with a cricket bat. No. 568 00:26:04,129 --> 00:26:05,497 Certainly not launder. 569 00:26:05,497 --> 00:26:08,233 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 570 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:09,968 Maybe it's his eyesight. 571 00:26:09,968 --> 00:26:11,169 It could be. He. 572 00:26:11,169 --> 00:26:13,738 He reads this sticky hands. 573 00:26:13,738 --> 00:26:15,840 Yeah. From open bugs. 574 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,009 You can't get them to try to throw the dart in. 575 00:26:18,009 --> 00:26:21,012 Stays in his hand. Yes. I love. 576 00:26:21,179 --> 00:26:25,383 I don't think they mean it as a joke, but Father Brown's asking Edwin questions 577 00:26:25,383 --> 00:26:29,721 while they play darts, and Edwin says, I don't appreciate playing games. 578 00:26:29,821 --> 00:26:30,956 Well, he's playing darts. 579 00:26:30,956 --> 00:26:34,626 While he's playing darts, though, with Father Brown, it's not really a game. 580 00:26:34,626 --> 00:26:35,660 It's kind of survival. 581 00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:39,397 Of course, the writer of this episode is screaming at their podcast player, 582 00:26:39,397 --> 00:26:40,632 going, fighting Lee. 583 00:26:40,632 --> 00:26:43,635 Somebody's got a joke. 584 00:26:43,802 --> 00:26:46,071 Kathleen has run away to talk to a friend. 585 00:26:46,071 --> 00:26:49,074 Her mother says she doesn't have any friends. 586 00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:50,408 Thanks, Mom. 587 00:26:50,408 --> 00:26:52,611 I know you're getting arrested and everything, but, 588 00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:55,347 you know, scream that in the street. She's had them. 589 00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:57,282 Imagine if you were Kathleen's friend. 590 00:26:57,282 --> 00:26:58,650 Come over to my house and play. 591 00:26:58,650 --> 00:27:01,019 Is your dad going to be there then? I'm not. Coming. 592 00:27:01,019 --> 00:27:02,220 You didn't have friends. 593 00:27:02,220 --> 00:27:05,223 You didn't go over when their dads were there? No. 594 00:27:05,357 --> 00:27:07,459 We did. I definitely did. 595 00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:08,893 Because their dads were so awful. 596 00:27:08,893 --> 00:27:10,829 Yeah, I didn't know it was such a thing. 597 00:27:10,829 --> 00:27:12,731 Yeah, it was for me. 598 00:27:12,731 --> 00:27:17,636 And then my two best friends only had it was really a girlfriend thing for me. 599 00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:21,272 My girlfriend in high school, his father was just a horrible human being. 600 00:27:21,539 --> 00:27:22,974 So do you eat him? 601 00:27:22,974 --> 00:27:24,609 Go hang out at her house anyway? 602 00:27:24,609 --> 00:27:27,846 No. Plus, he was a cop and had done so. 603 00:27:27,912 --> 00:27:30,582 boyfriends usually stay away from dads with guns. 604 00:27:30,582 --> 00:27:34,586 But my two best friends were from single moms, so I preferred it that way. 605 00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:37,822 Which is weird because my dad this is one of those examples 606 00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:41,326 where my dad fantasy stick, he was a great guy. 607 00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:43,428 He was great to other people in the community. 608 00:27:43,428 --> 00:27:47,866 You know, he was I never heard him raise his voice to my mother. 609 00:27:48,066 --> 00:27:50,135 I like I was. 610 00:27:50,135 --> 00:27:52,470 So you had an example of a good dad in the day. 611 00:27:52,470 --> 00:27:53,238 You knew what a bad. 612 00:27:53,238 --> 00:27:56,508 Dad in a world of toxic masculinity. 613 00:27:56,508 --> 00:28:00,111 My father just kind of shook his head and said, I'm not doing any of that. 614 00:28:00,211 --> 00:28:01,279 I just can't imagine 615 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:04,282 being Kathleen's friend and going over and meeting him for the first time. 616 00:28:04,382 --> 00:28:07,652 You probably walk in the door and go, hello, you know Mr. 617 00:28:07,652 --> 00:28:10,722 Night? And he'd go, Well, you're ugly. Yeah. 618 00:28:10,789 --> 00:28:12,090 thanks. 619 00:28:12,090 --> 00:28:13,625 play. Now. 620 00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:17,529 My husband's favorite joke is just horrific. 621 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:23,401 Like, just in case you were going to have it hit over your head a little bit more. 622 00:28:23,501 --> 00:28:24,369 That's it? 623 00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:24,769 Yeah. 624 00:28:24,769 --> 00:28:30,341 In case there was any doubt how bad he was, here's your example. 625 00:28:30,508 --> 00:28:32,744 Yeah. And Valentine doesn't even get it. 626 00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:33,945 Yeah. Valentine. 627 00:28:33,945 --> 00:28:39,317 Valentine is a pretty open minded dude, but I think they use him here as a I. 628 00:28:39,451 --> 00:28:44,522 You know, he's so involved in the case that he can't see how horrible the Bears 629 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:48,259 I would have liked to see in a scene where Father Brown and him 630 00:28:48,460 --> 00:28:51,362 kind of say it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 631 00:28:51,362 --> 00:28:52,397 I agree. 632 00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:55,734 We cannot underestimate the importance of Mrs. 633 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:58,303 M giving her ring back to Frank. 634 00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:02,841 that's who she is, so devoutly Catholic, and she's been wearing it all this time. 635 00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:06,511 He's got one on to he he probably put his on before coming to see her. 636 00:29:06,611 --> 00:29:12,751 He she basically says to me in the eyes of God, our marriage is annulled. 637 00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:13,184 Yeah. 638 00:29:13,184 --> 00:29:15,653 And that's huge. Yeah. 639 00:29:15,653 --> 00:29:17,689 For somebody as devout as she is. 640 00:29:17,689 --> 00:29:20,125 Absolutely. Good riddance. 641 00:29:20,125 --> 00:29:22,026 There's a I don't care if he's dying. 642 00:29:22,026 --> 00:29:24,229 There's a reference to Winston Churchill here. 643 00:29:24,229 --> 00:29:25,897 Did you get that? 644 00:29:25,897 --> 00:29:28,633 So when Susie's writing a letter to her 645 00:29:28,633 --> 00:29:31,803 MP, she's writing it to Winston Churchill. 646 00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:33,037 He wouldn't have been an MP. 647 00:29:33,037 --> 00:29:35,106 Knowing it was weird. 648 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:36,641 Well, maybe he got. 649 00:29:36,641 --> 00:29:39,511 He got called up for. For you. Be Jimmy. 650 00:29:39,511 --> 00:29:43,515 Maybe Winston Churchill is the most prominent politician she knows. 651 00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:45,483 Yeah, I think that. And she would think 652 00:29:45,483 --> 00:29:49,220 that he would be on her side because you know, he won the war. 653 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,557 when Matilda tells Father Brown about the baby and. 654 00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:54,926 I just feel so bad for her. 655 00:29:54,926 --> 00:29:58,830 Yeah, Just why did you fall for this horrible man? 656 00:29:59,063 --> 00:30:01,466 I mean, really, her and Eleanor ought to be friends. 657 00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:03,535 Like we're both. Broken in the same way. 658 00:30:03,535 --> 00:30:04,569 We should stick together. 659 00:30:04,569 --> 00:30:04,969 He's. 660 00:30:04,969 --> 00:30:06,871 Except that she's going to go to prison, and. 661 00:30:06,871 --> 00:30:09,841 He's missing a charming bit. Yeah, there's. 662 00:30:09,841 --> 00:30:14,646 There's nothing about him that I think she would have seen him went well. 663 00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:18,783 I know he's got all those bad sides, but, you know, he flatters me or. 664 00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:19,184 Right. 665 00:30:19,184 --> 00:30:22,620 So these relationships are of blinders, right? 666 00:30:22,687 --> 00:30:27,091 So if you saw Frank doing the magic show 667 00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:31,596 with the little girl with blinders on, you'd think, he saw. Me. 668 00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:33,665 Old grandpa guy, right? 669 00:30:33,665 --> 00:30:37,001 So there has to be blind points in these relationships. 670 00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:39,003 But we don't see that with the mayor. 671 00:30:39,003 --> 00:30:41,673 No, he's. Horrible from the very beginning. 672 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:43,041 From every view. 673 00:30:43,041 --> 00:30:48,279 Now. There's no the blinders would have to be a helmet. Now, 674 00:30:48,346 --> 00:30:49,214 you could say 675 00:30:49,214 --> 00:30:53,184 he's having a bad day because he knows he's been found out and he's mad. 676 00:30:53,218 --> 00:30:55,053 He doesn't know that from the beginning. 677 00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:57,188 No, he doesn't know that from the beginning. 678 00:30:57,188 --> 00:31:01,426 It would have been nice to have some scene where he tried 679 00:31:01,426 --> 00:31:05,296 to be charming to one of these women and it failed. 680 00:31:05,296 --> 00:31:06,164 It still failed. 681 00:31:06,164 --> 00:31:09,300 But like Frank fails with Mrs. M. Yeah. 682 00:31:09,467 --> 00:31:11,336 One thing I really like about the Mrs. 683 00:31:11,336 --> 00:31:16,274 M thing is that Lady Felicia comes back and says, I was wrong. 684 00:31:16,441 --> 00:31:17,375 Yeah, sorry. 685 00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:19,811 I was being nosy. It wasn't any of my business. 686 00:31:19,811 --> 00:31:20,645 She means it. 687 00:31:20,645 --> 00:31:24,215 Yeah, but Lady Felicia, it would be anachronistic. 688 00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:28,119 But when she comes into that kitchen to talk about the land that the government 689 00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:31,122 needs to be able to build that power plant and how they're not going to get it, 690 00:31:31,256 --> 00:31:34,726 she should snap her fingers. Yes, 691 00:31:34,826 --> 00:31:36,761 they need this area. 692 00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:38,296 They're not going to get it. 693 00:31:38,296 --> 00:31:41,032 My husband is too influential to make us sell it. 694 00:31:41,032 --> 00:31:44,002 No, no, no. 695 00:31:44,002 --> 00:31:47,405 And of course, there's all sorts of double standards. 696 00:31:47,405 --> 00:31:52,443 You know, like Lady Felicia is she sleeps around with men a lot 697 00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:55,813 and is implied that everybody knows this. 698 00:31:55,813 --> 00:31:57,982 And her husband has affairs, too. 699 00:31:57,982 --> 00:32:00,518 Yeah, they don't have that kind of relationship. 700 00:32:00,518 --> 00:32:05,023 But but they're but they're not the mayor. No. 701 00:32:05,089 --> 00:32:06,524 I would like Monty. 702 00:32:06,524 --> 00:32:08,293 Maybe she doesn't. 703 00:32:08,293 --> 00:32:11,262 She doesn't pretend to be anything other than who she is. 704 00:32:11,362 --> 00:32:13,531 Yeah, and I don't think he does either. 705 00:32:13,531 --> 00:32:16,968 I think Monty would still be good in a fight. 706 00:32:16,968 --> 00:32:18,536 Like good to help you. 707 00:32:18,536 --> 00:32:20,338 I think he would stand up for her. 708 00:32:20,338 --> 00:32:22,807 Yeah, absolutely. He provides for her. 709 00:32:22,807 --> 00:32:23,641 Yeah. Yeah. 710 00:32:23,641 --> 00:32:25,777 They're not dishonest with each other, but, man, 711 00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:30,348 when she wants to pull some strings, she gets her gloves on, grabs the ropes. 712 00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:35,253 I got to take care of, like, an hour has gone by and that problem is gone. 713 00:32:35,286 --> 00:32:37,288 Yeah, don't worry about it. Susie is. 714 00:32:37,288 --> 00:32:37,989 It's fine. 715 00:32:37,989 --> 00:32:38,323 Yeah. 716 00:32:38,323 --> 00:32:40,992 Go make some more angel hair things so we can eat them all. 717 00:32:40,992 --> 00:32:43,394 So we find out the Catholic 718 00:32:43,394 --> 00:32:48,132 used her hair color because she was an electrician in the war. 719 00:32:48,199 --> 00:32:49,500 Wait, but wait a minute. 720 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,402 I don't think that's a hair curler. 721 00:32:51,402 --> 00:32:54,405 I just think Kathleen doesn't know what a soldering iron looks like. 722 00:32:54,405 --> 00:32:56,240 Yes, I think you're right. 723 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,177 It's a soldering iron because it ends in a tip. 724 00:32:59,177 --> 00:33:00,244 Yeah, in a point. 725 00:33:00,244 --> 00:33:01,446 Not in the handle. 726 00:33:01,446 --> 00:33:03,848 So I think it's a soldering iron all along. 727 00:33:03,848 --> 00:33:05,550 I think so, yeah. 728 00:33:05,550 --> 00:33:09,654 So I looked into the history of curling irons because I hadn't done that. 729 00:33:09,754 --> 00:33:12,757 Because he wanted to know where they come from. 730 00:33:12,790 --> 00:33:15,493 So they're actually far older than I realized. 731 00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:18,930 they used to just be iron and you'd put them in the fire and heat them. 732 00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:19,197 Yeah. 733 00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:22,166 Put them on your hair and they would burn your hair off. 734 00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:27,972 Would they became mechanized in the Victorian age in terms of 735 00:33:28,072 --> 00:33:31,075 they were allowed to, they, they had handles 736 00:33:31,109 --> 00:33:33,978 instead of just raw metal that you put in the fire. 737 00:33:33,978 --> 00:33:35,747 They used to be tongs. 738 00:33:35,747 --> 00:33:37,015 And they used to be tongs. 739 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:38,950 And there are still some out there that are like. That. 740 00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:41,652 And they used to come and set. Yeah, right. 741 00:33:41,652 --> 00:33:45,289 Because you would warm one up while the other one was cooling. 742 00:33:45,289 --> 00:33:45,623 Yeah. 743 00:33:45,623 --> 00:33:49,894 The one interesting thing I thought I did read about 744 00:33:49,961 --> 00:33:56,434 was a really good blog post about how it was a thing about class 745 00:33:56,434 --> 00:34:01,372 and race during the Victorian period to the notion of straight hair. 746 00:34:01,472 --> 00:34:06,611 Especially for African-American women was somewhat of a difficult thing to do. 747 00:34:06,677 --> 00:34:10,348 So that because they didn't have chemical relaxers, 748 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:13,418 then you had to do it with heat and you had to do it every day. 749 00:34:13,584 --> 00:34:16,220 Yeah. And, and it damaged your hair. 750 00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:18,089 Damaged you and. Took a lot of time. 751 00:34:18,089 --> 00:34:21,926 You were putting something hot from the fire on your head. Yep. 752 00:34:21,993 --> 00:34:23,194 Like it was dangerous. 753 00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:25,263 And absolutely dangerous. 754 00:34:25,263 --> 00:34:27,732 And then I made the mistake of looking about 755 00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:34,272 people who got killed by hair curlers and never looked at up. 756 00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:36,507 Did they get electrocuted or burned or. 757 00:34:36,507 --> 00:34:38,109 No, it's. 758 00:34:38,109 --> 00:34:39,844 It's bad, Okay. 759 00:34:39,844 --> 00:34:41,546 I'm glad you have that Google history. 760 00:34:41,546 --> 00:34:42,313 Not me, then. 761 00:34:42,313 --> 00:34:45,650 Yeah, well, it's not good. 762 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,718 As somebody who uses a curling iron 763 00:34:47,718 --> 00:34:50,721 every day, I can tell you they're dangerous. 764 00:34:50,721 --> 00:34:51,122 Yeah. 765 00:34:51,122 --> 00:34:54,258 If you my straightener, if you put somebody's fingers between 766 00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:59,197 them, it'd be like a panini sandwich fingers real fast. 767 00:34:59,263 --> 00:34:59,997 But yeah. 768 00:34:59,997 --> 00:35:03,634 So I, the logistics of this are really impossible. 769 00:35:03,634 --> 00:35:10,274 So metal that goes into the tent where the speaker system is hooked up right. 770 00:35:10,475 --> 00:35:14,612 Unscrews the back so she carries a screwdriver to unscrew. 771 00:35:14,645 --> 00:35:15,613 She's ready to go. 772 00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:18,749 She's like MacGyver, Secretary unscrews the back of the. 773 00:35:18,749 --> 00:35:19,550 The system. 774 00:35:19,550 --> 00:35:23,821 Yeah knows where to disconnect things and solder them back. 775 00:35:24,055 --> 00:35:24,489 Yeah. 776 00:35:24,489 --> 00:35:28,192 To make the mic live. Yep. 777 00:35:28,359 --> 00:35:30,828 Without electrocuting anything in between. 778 00:35:30,828 --> 00:35:31,963 Keep working up to it. 779 00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:34,765 I got it. Ready or sorting anything out. 780 00:35:34,765 --> 00:35:37,735 Yeah. It doesn't kill him right away. Yeah. 781 00:35:37,735 --> 00:35:39,570 So I don't know how that works. 782 00:35:39,570 --> 00:35:40,638 That's not how. 783 00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:42,340 But any of this or a. 784 00:35:42,340 --> 00:35:44,942 Soldering iron is real. 785 00:35:44,942 --> 00:35:47,678 It's really hot and it stays hot 786 00:35:47,678 --> 00:35:50,748 for a long time like the one I have. 787 00:35:50,748 --> 00:35:54,685 I would let it cool for half an hour before I would touch it 788 00:35:54,685 --> 00:35:56,821 because they get hot enough to melt metal. 789 00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:59,090 Yes, that's much hotter than a curling iron. 790 00:35:59,090 --> 00:36:01,159 Also, where did she store her solder? 791 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:02,560 Solder comes in a little spool. 792 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,531 It's easy, I guess, but I don't know why she would have had any with her 793 00:36:06,631 --> 00:36:09,600 or her soldering iron like, how big is her purse? 794 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:14,539 So she came to the house to drive them and she gets fired. 795 00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,608 And so that's the inciting incident for her too. 796 00:36:17,608 --> 00:36:19,277 But she has no time to go. 797 00:36:19,277 --> 00:36:19,777 Wait a minute. 798 00:36:19,777 --> 00:36:21,279 I got to go grab some stuff. 799 00:36:21,279 --> 00:36:23,581 Yeah, it's it's where. 800 00:36:23,581 --> 00:36:24,949 She gets her tool bag. 801 00:36:24,949 --> 00:36:28,085 She needed it needed to be like. I know he. 802 00:36:28,085 --> 00:36:32,456 Need to be making that horrible speech, but almost it should have been. 803 00:36:32,456 --> 00:36:36,861 And he stomps off and then ends up dead, like stabbed or. 804 00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:37,461 Something. 805 00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:39,931 Or at least the event is the next day or so. 806 00:36:39,931 --> 00:36:42,099 He fires her the night before. Yeah. 807 00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:44,402 And then the next day she shows up to drive them. 808 00:36:44,402 --> 00:36:48,773 And so she's thought about it all night and come prepared to take him out, 809 00:36:49,006 --> 00:36:49,540 I guess. 810 00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:52,510 But this is not how any of this works. 811 00:36:52,510 --> 00:36:57,048 Like electricity or microphones or loud speakers. 812 00:36:57,081 --> 00:37:00,551 No, no, none of that. Or heart. Conditions. 813 00:37:00,618 --> 00:37:04,422 It's also not the first time we've seen somebody electrocuted with a microphone. 814 00:37:04,522 --> 00:37:07,725 No. The Iceman Cometh in midsummer. 815 00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:09,360 In midsummer. I'm really. 816 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,695 Well, the X-Men come off. 817 00:37:10,695 --> 00:37:14,465 At least he had a big cord that was plugged into the mains. 818 00:37:14,465 --> 00:37:15,700 And there were some sparks. 819 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:18,169 There was some sparks and stuff like that. 820 00:37:18,169 --> 00:37:20,905 This is not how any of this works. 821 00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:22,206 Is he should have been smoking. 822 00:37:22,206 --> 00:37:26,177 Really glad that he didn't touch the microphone and it went, 823 00:37:26,277 --> 00:37:27,245 It does a little bit. 824 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:28,079 And a little bit. 825 00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,982 Wow. If he didn't put his tongue on it, he probably would have lived. 826 00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:35,519 So if you hate him now, wait until you find out 827 00:37:35,653 --> 00:37:41,525 that she not only had an abortion for him, but also is now unable 828 00:37:41,525 --> 00:37:45,763 to have children, her entire life is ruined. Yep. 829 00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:48,299 And I think she's a good secretary. 830 00:37:48,299 --> 00:37:49,700 I think so. 831 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:53,704 And I think she would know that she was being propped up. 832 00:37:53,771 --> 00:37:56,073 He was being propped up by his wife. 833 00:37:56,073 --> 00:37:57,908 But she's deluded. 834 00:37:57,908 --> 00:38:00,711 She'd think he would leave her for now. 835 00:38:00,711 --> 00:38:03,247 Come on. He didn't hurt. Wow. 836 00:38:03,247 --> 00:38:08,452 This episode jerks and darts 837 00:38:08,552 --> 00:38:09,420 the name. 838 00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:11,956 That's it. Jerk. Married, dark. 839 00:38:11,956 --> 00:38:13,891 Jerks and darts. 840 00:38:13,891 --> 00:38:14,792 But Mr. 841 00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:16,394 Them gets a fish. 842 00:38:16,394 --> 00:38:18,496 Yes, she does. 843 00:38:18,496 --> 00:38:19,730 And I'm like. 844 00:38:19,730 --> 00:38:21,599 Like that's going to solve everything. 845 00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:22,633 I think it's. 846 00:38:22,633 --> 00:38:25,503 Well, he goes in. He's going to talk to her. 847 00:38:25,503 --> 00:38:26,070 Yeah. 848 00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:27,071 They're going to spend some. 849 00:38:27,071 --> 00:38:29,240 Time because they got to set up the fish. 850 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:30,808 Yeah, they really are best friends. 851 00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:31,776 Father Brown and Mrs. 852 00:38:31,776 --> 00:38:33,044 M, they are. 853 00:38:33,044 --> 00:38:37,882 And like, we don't need to see that Father Brown does the same thing that Mrs. 854 00:38:37,882 --> 00:38:40,785 that Lady Felicia says does. 855 00:38:40,785 --> 00:38:43,754 We need to see Lady Felicia do it. 856 00:38:43,754 --> 00:38:46,290 Well she brings the flowers, she tries. 857 00:38:46,290 --> 00:38:47,725 Yeah. And Mrs. 858 00:38:47,725 --> 00:38:51,862 M and she have a lot more history, so it's not going to be a one move. 859 00:38:51,862 --> 00:38:53,597 Forgiveness. Everything's okay. 860 00:38:53,597 --> 00:38:55,232 It's going to take. 861 00:38:55,232 --> 00:38:57,902 No, but I. Exactly. I like that. 862 00:38:57,902 --> 00:39:02,206 She uses Lady Phylicia's words against Frank. 863 00:39:02,306 --> 00:39:06,110 She's like, This person believes in me, so I'm going to believe in me. 864 00:39:06,110 --> 00:39:06,510 Yeah. 865 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:08,979 So you need to get out of here, friend. 866 00:39:08,979 --> 00:39:11,048 And I love that he's. 867 00:39:11,048 --> 00:39:15,052 He does that horrible van thing of. 868 00:39:15,152 --> 00:39:20,257 Well I'm going to die, so I have to fix everything now. 869 00:39:20,291 --> 00:39:22,660 No, that's not even it. I'm going to die. 870 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:24,729 So I've come here so you can take care of me. 871 00:39:24,729 --> 00:39:27,298 Yeah, that's what he's doing. Yeah, that's true. 872 00:39:27,298 --> 00:39:28,566 You're my old fallback. 873 00:39:28,566 --> 00:39:31,202 Reliable you? No pushover. 874 00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:34,405 I knew I could rely on you to take care of me. 875 00:39:34,405 --> 00:39:35,940 Well, no, you can't. 876 00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:39,009 What's Mrs. M going to name her fish. 877 00:39:39,076 --> 00:39:39,677 I feel. 878 00:39:39,677 --> 00:39:42,613 Yeah. I think it's going to be a biblical name. 879 00:39:42,613 --> 00:39:43,381 That's true. 880 00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:46,751 Like Saint Thomas, the goldfish or something. 881 00:39:46,817 --> 00:39:47,084 Whoever. 882 00:39:47,084 --> 00:39:50,321 The patron saint of fish. It's. 883 00:39:50,421 --> 00:39:51,188 That's so she's. 884 00:39:51,188 --> 00:39:52,356 Going to name it, 885 00:39:52,356 --> 00:39:55,760 and then it's going to be back to that conversation about bad dog names. 886 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,329 You can't some names you just can't call a fish. 887 00:39:58,329 --> 00:40:02,533 And I like I like how they deal with toxic 888 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,070 masculinity here and in many forms, like Frank 889 00:40:06,203 --> 00:40:10,641 puts up resistance, But when she says go, he goes, Yeah, like 890 00:40:10,741 --> 00:40:15,413 he could still be toxic but still agree that maybe he should go. 891 00:40:15,446 --> 00:40:17,815 Take your hat and go. Frank Yeah. 892 00:40:17,815 --> 00:40:19,483 Don't care if you dance. 893 00:40:19,483 --> 00:40:21,752 We can't even talk about best carpet is the only one. 894 00:40:21,752 --> 00:40:24,088 Yes, and he's the best because he's dead. 895 00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:26,824 He's not the best cause he's the worst corpse. 896 00:40:26,824 --> 00:40:29,360 That makes him the best. Yeah, 897 00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:31,162 he's the one corpse we're glad to have. 898 00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:33,964 Yay! Yay! I like it. 899 00:40:33,964 --> 00:40:38,169 It's a trope in all these shows about the horrible person getting killed. 900 00:40:38,235 --> 00:40:39,270 Like this show. 901 00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:41,872 Start like episode one. 902 00:40:41,872 --> 00:40:44,742 The hammer of God has one of the worst human beings. 903 00:40:44,742 --> 00:40:46,110 Yes, he did. 904 00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:47,311 Right. 905 00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:49,213 It's absolutely. Horrible. 906 00:40:49,213 --> 00:40:51,282 The mayor challenges. That. 907 00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:53,617 Yeah, in an asshole competition. 908 00:40:53,617 --> 00:40:55,786 I'm not sure which of them would win. 909 00:40:55,786 --> 00:41:00,491 I'm like, Why are there some of you. So 910 00:41:00,558 --> 00:41:03,561 in this little village. 911 00:41:03,727 --> 00:41:06,030 What happens after this? 912 00:41:06,030 --> 00:41:09,567 Because she even though she's the mayor's 913 00:41:09,733 --> 00:41:14,171 widow, it's sad, but she doesn't have any credibility or anything. 914 00:41:14,171 --> 00:41:17,107 I hope she raises Kathleen to be it. 915 00:41:17,107 --> 00:41:18,976 Now, Kathleen raises her daughter, too. 916 00:41:18,976 --> 00:41:20,010 Yeah. And it's Kathleen. 917 00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:22,112 Kathleen, to be an astronaut or. 918 00:41:22,112 --> 00:41:22,646 I don't know. 919 00:41:22,646 --> 00:41:24,548 I think Eleanor and Edwin 920 00:41:24,548 --> 00:41:27,551 are actually friends because they teamed up, too. 921 00:41:27,751 --> 00:41:28,319 That's true. 922 00:41:28,319 --> 00:41:33,123 Put together this plan and they seem to have similar values and. 923 00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:34,558 Maybe they'll end up together. 924 00:41:34,558 --> 00:41:36,794 Our friends. At least she's not alone. 925 00:41:36,794 --> 00:41:39,497 What happens to the young lady who killed him? 926 00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:41,465 She goes to prison. Or hangs. 927 00:41:41,465 --> 00:41:43,868 And probably hangs because he was important. 928 00:41:43,868 --> 00:41:45,569 And the man. Yeah. 929 00:41:45,569 --> 00:41:47,505 And she was a jilted other woman. 930 00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:48,572 It's unfortunate. 931 00:41:48,572 --> 00:41:50,241 The trial is going to be nasty. 932 00:41:50,241 --> 00:41:54,011 I feel bad for Eleanor for the trial on Kathleen for the trial, 933 00:41:54,111 --> 00:41:55,412 because there is scant 934 00:41:55,412 --> 00:41:58,382 I mean, I guess if she confesses, there won't be a trial again. 935 00:41:58,382 --> 00:42:00,484 I know it's only an hour but I. 936 00:42:00,484 --> 00:42:04,855 Valentine forgetting to take off or something wouldn't be. 937 00:42:05,022 --> 00:42:06,390 I don't think she'd run away, though. 938 00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:07,424 No, because. 939 00:42:07,424 --> 00:42:09,727 I think she did it because she felt like her life was over 940 00:42:09,727 --> 00:42:10,961 and she had nothing to lose. 941 00:42:10,961 --> 00:42:13,831 She basically says as much, you know. 942 00:42:13,831 --> 00:42:18,903 Wow, what a fun note to end this episode. 943 00:42:18,903 --> 00:42:21,939 Well, in such an episode of Toxic Masculinity, 944 00:42:22,006 --> 00:42:26,710 next week, we have Flambeau. So 945 00:42:26,810 --> 00:42:27,077 he's. 946 00:42:27,077 --> 00:42:30,648 Not toxic, he's sexy. So sexy and charming. 947 00:42:30,681 --> 00:42:34,852 And then later him and Lady Felicia, they do the kissy kiss stuff, 948 00:42:35,052 --> 00:42:38,322 and you don't even care that she's married because it's Flambeau and it's. 949 00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:40,691 It's Flambeau. 950 00:42:40,691 --> 00:42:44,795 See, he's perfect in that he is charming to everybody. 951 00:42:44,962 --> 00:42:47,965 Yeah. yeah, he's. He's dastardly. 952 00:42:48,198 --> 00:42:49,800 He runs on. 953 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,403 I'm a thief, but I've got a. Heart of gold. 954 00:42:52,403 --> 00:42:54,805 Yeah. I'll tell you all about it. 955 00:42:54,805 --> 00:42:55,806 Yeah. 956 00:42:55,806 --> 00:42:58,809 I'm charming while I pick your pocket. 957 00:42:58,909 --> 00:43:02,746 But I only steal really good stuff, so don't worry about it. 958 00:43:02,746 --> 00:43:03,581 Yeah. 959 00:43:03,581 --> 00:43:05,316 I steal from. 960 00:43:05,316 --> 00:43:08,185 From people who deserve it or. 961 00:43:08,185 --> 00:43:11,021 You know, artifacts to have a lot of important. 962 00:43:11,021 --> 00:43:13,424 Just, you know, he likes bright and shiny. 963 00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:17,061 And I got to make a living. 964 00:43:17,161 --> 00:43:18,629 he's a great character. Yes. 965 00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:20,664 To see him for the first time. So that'll be fun. 966 00:43:20,664 --> 00:43:24,101 The Blue Cross episode ten Season one. 967 00:43:24,168 --> 00:43:27,438 Episode where we get to see how the rest of the church 968 00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:29,239 sees Father Brown For the first. 969 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:30,641 Time, we get to. 970 00:43:30,641 --> 00:43:33,777 See his superiors and what they think of him. 971 00:43:33,777 --> 00:43:36,380 Yeah, which makes you dislike him even more. 972 00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:39,683 Well, it always reminds me like I came 973 00:43:39,683 --> 00:43:44,488 from a very small parish in Canada with very small churches, 974 00:43:44,488 --> 00:43:48,726 and I wonder what the people who got us to our church. 975 00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:50,628 great. I'm going to that place. 976 00:43:50,628 --> 00:43:54,298 What hap. Why they were so. 977 00:43:54,365 --> 00:43:55,265 It'll be fine. 978 00:43:55,265 --> 00:43:55,933 It'll be fine. 979 00:43:55,933 --> 00:43:59,103 It'll be the last Father Brown of season one. 980 00:43:59,103 --> 00:44:02,172 And next week we'll tell you where we're going next, too. 981 00:44:02,406 --> 00:44:05,109 Or you can subscribe to the newsletter to see where we're. 982 00:44:05,109 --> 00:44:07,211 Going and you can subscribe to the newsletter 983 00:44:07,211 --> 00:44:11,682 from all the social media or going to our website. 984 00:44:11,749 --> 00:44:13,450 It's all on there. So. 985 00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:16,020 All right, until then, bye, Maniac. 986 00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:17,621 Bye, maniacs. 987 00:44:17,621 --> 00:44:20,491 Thanks for joining us on Mystery Maniacs Podcast. 988 00:44:20,491 --> 00:44:25,195 If you enjoyed our crazy podcast today, don't miss out on future episodes. 989 00:44:25,195 --> 00:44:28,866 Follow us on social media for updates behind the scenes Content. 990 00:44:28,932 --> 00:44:31,969 An exclusive sneak peek Subscribe like 991 00:44:31,969 --> 00:44:35,506 and share to spread the word by maniacs. 992 00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:37,608 I just want Father Brown to look up and his face 993 00:44:37,608 --> 00:44:40,878 to be like, vote out like a chipmunk because it's got so many and there's. 994 00:44:41,011 --> 00:44:42,146 So many bugs. 995 00:44:42,146 --> 00:44:46,183 Because every other one he's putting in his. Mouth. What? 996 00:44:46,250 --> 00:44:47,484 I got some time in my mouth.