Hi, this is Jacquelyn Landgraf, writer, director, and producer of It Makes A Sound, a fiction podcast with music. The show, to me, is a tribute to the caretakers among us and within us, and it’s about how to transcend solitude and loss with a jolt of whimsy, faith, and rock and roll. Season one followed Deirdre Gardner’s incredible discovery of a lost cassette tape from 1992 in a dusty attic, and her quest to wake up her decrepit hometown of Rosemary Hills Golf Course Community to all that’s been forgotten. We learn that Deirdre’s tenacity to resurrect the songs of the mysterious former resident Wim Faros is fueled by her grief over her mother’s advancing dementia. When the cassette tape gets destroyed completely by a faulty boombox, a motley crew of neighbors try to help Deirdre re-create the music on the Attic Tape, entirely from memory. Before they know it, Deirdre and her mother are fronting a wildly avant-garde, multi-generational band, whose songs accidentally go viral. In Season 2, things have taken a turn for the worse–the town of Rosemary Hills is in foreclosure and Deirdre is now struggling to care for her mother in a nursing home. But as the golf course festers in its 11th hour, mysterious messages begin to appear, insisting that "Wim Faros Lives." As things fall apart around her, Deirdre must reckon with the fact that her public plea to get people to remember Wim Faros has inadvertently created a cult sensation. This is season 2 episode 4, entitled “Old Folx.” We are together in the rec room of Rosemary Hills Nursing Home, where a nurse is leading a game of Bingo. Deirdre, her ten year old neighbor Cody Elwood, and Phil, who’s grandma also lives here, are playing along with the residents, while Deirdre’s mother Emma chats with a new friend, Park Song, a former golf champion and local legend in her own right. Emma Gardner, in the confusion of her illness, has for some time now been calling herself Deirdre, believing that she is a young version of her daughter, and that the shy and sensitive Phil is a teenage Wim Faros. Ok, I think that’s all you need to know. Thank you for visiting Rosemary Hills! Get your Bingo card ready.
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