Also to mention, the two deers in the visitors lounge are Bucks and they are standing in what is well-known as the "mating stance", Rockstars way of further alluding to the men's relationship.
But the clerk is younger and mayor Timmons is older maybe he’s the professor and the clerk is the boy and he has his letters and won’t give them to him
The strawberry mayor exemplifies what I love most and hate (second) most about rdr2. It's a completely incidental mystery and curiosity that you can pick up on even if you miss that main signpost, the lost tourist. It builds the world and helps to further the feeling that it exists outside Arthur & the player. But I felt like there just wasn't a way to learn of a satisfying answer, like some other mysteries or curiosities I straight up would never know the answer to without videos like this.
Miss the lost tourist? How? On my low honor playthrough, I tried ignoring him.. multiple times.. he was still there EVERY time I rode in. Also, I get your frustration. There are kinda a ton of little threads to follow in RDR2, that in the end, you feel like "I don't get what's going on?". Emerald Ranch comes to mind. The shot up saloon. Girl in the window. But, I'll play devils advocate for Rockstar for one sec. I think you are wanting these little mysteries to be stories, which have a beginning, middle, and end. But they arent stories. They're *ODDITIES* . The world is simply too big to fill with full fledged stories. But oddities? There can be hundreds, all over. Not mysteries to solve, just odd things to flavor you wandering through the world. And, honestly, more realistic. If you really were wandering around like this, most things weird things would probably end with "Wtf went on here?". Idk! My 2 cents. I do hate a mystery with no answer, but I just adore this game.
I feel like some of these "mysteries" are cut or unfinished quests. Like with the Emerald Ranch girl, there's an abandoned mail cart with a letter addressed to her from a relative that I feel like we were supposed to deliver to her and start a questline.
@@Tea_Noire true, it mostly feels like they had planned much more content but had to cut it short for some reason. its even more weired if you see a whole story spreading out while playing but you have no interactions in it.
If you notice, the two deers in the Lodge are Bucks and they are standing in what is normally known as mating stance amongst heterosexual deers...alluding to the sexual relationship between the Mayor and Professor.
Fun fact, strawberry mayor mentioned Tolstoy in his speech to Arthur, and Tolstoy was an awful husband and treated his wife so bad, did not let her out of home, cheated and brought his mistresses to his home
4:50 this exact horse has the exact textures as my old horse, Old Girl. She was a very strong horse and was a big part of what made RDR2 fun, she was my main horse since 2019, sadly just two months ago she passed and was killed by a bear when I was off hunting, Rest In Peace Old Girl. 😢
This comment incapsulates the way that a digital horse can be coded to be so real that it can invoke emotion when it dies. Truly the game of the century.
My first horse, Casper, I'd had since the beginning of the game, was recently killed when I was ambushed my lemoyne raiders outside of saint denis (I only just started playing rdr2 like a month or two ago) and I'm still so heartbroken, couldn't work up the courage to buy a new horse for like a week cause I felt so bad
Actually the horse's nutsack does change depending on the weather. If it's hot, it hangs. If it's up in the mountains and is snowy and cold, it's retracted into a tight lil' coin purse.
If you also look on the letter she said he was a caring boy who rouged her cheeks and braided her hair, which typically younger boys weren’t interested in that kind of stuff at that age and could also be alluding to him being different even as a child.
I can’t help but feel bad for the mayor a little. Making his own paradise after he was kicked out of one he wanted. Only taking that which loved him just as much as he loved it, for a chance to start again.
I knew about the letter and concluded that he’d come to Strawberry to avoid a gay scandal. But I was never sure if there was more, like if he secretly owned the still or had a sinister land development plan or something. RDR2 has lots of story teasers like that; maybe one clue leads to one of dozens of awesome little secrets, or maybe the developers never finished the intended story and it leads nowhere.
Never would've figured this out as I only just recently on my 2nd playthru found the moonshining business. The architecture of Strawberry being extravagant in a ski resort type of way felt oddly placed vs the other towns especially the 2 bucks at the inn and well dressed clerk but now it all makes waaay more sense all cause of a letter I never would've found. Neat!
Yeah, I can imagine a small town like Strawberry being run by a man-loving city boy and his little fruitcake honeybun clerk would mean extravagant architecture and flawless interior decoration for everyone.
A lot of stuff in this game feels like deleted sidequests just because they've put so much more life and lore into this world than we're used to seeing. It's like FromSoft levels of worldbuilding.
And also because a lot of stuff was genuinely cut and reworked into smaller stories I’m convinced the emerald Margaret gives you was meant to be connected to the missing man Gavin and slave labor in the mines of Guarma
Always love seeing a new upload fizhy. I never get bored of your content. Even your "innit" style videos bring some kind of comfort. If you ever get burnout from this channel know it´s okay to take a break and come back when ready. Your existing content never get´s too old for a 100th rewatch.
I love it since I'm on my first playthrough right now. I bought it on release with a pre-order and immediately became camped out in a hospital for years, so I'm just now getting to actually play it. I'm insanely late to the game, but people still actively love it!
I'm convinced The Mayor is partially a reference to The Wizard in The Wizard Of OZ. The way he speaks when he addresses the public vs. how he speaks to folks in private on the porch reminds me so much of the charlatan snake oil salesman who conned his way to the top. He's painted Strawberry as something grandiose, but it's not nearly as wonderful as he builds it up to be.
I only recently started my very first playthrough of this game about a month ago. Cowboys didn't really vibe with me, but 5years later there's still so much buzz about it that I decided to give it a shot. So basically all I've done for a month is play this game and watch videos about this game. I have years to make up for. Please send help.
I admit that the main issue is that I know too many of the story beats so I've been avoiding the main plot like it was my job because I don't wanna hurt my own feefees. 🤣
Welcome to the Red Dead Family brother. It's constant suffering and sadness sometimes interrupted by "You want some jelly beans? I got some jelly beans right here"
Welcome to the gang. Keep watching Fizhy and seek out a feller known as the Strange Man and you’ll be just dandy. Enjoy this experience the first time around, boy I miss my first time experiencing this franchise.
I love Strawberry area ever since RDR came out I can't find myself being anywhere else but in the forest... There's some days where I wish I could just get sucked Into the game find an old cabin up there and take it over.. I love R d r
7:46 After hearing him say that Strawberry was a "nice place, for nice folks" I was half expecting him to follow it up with "There's nothing for *you* here..."
Every mission we have in strawberry has violence and killing or destruction in the main story. First it’s Micah’s breakout than it’s hanging cleet and chasing down a bounty. There is also an illegal moonshine distillery and a man actually hiding in an outhouse so he doesn’t get his ass beat and apperantly Micah killed a girl there in the epilogue. Mayor is very good at reducing crime
Such a great episode. I actually knew about his story from the letter but never thought to look for the professor. I think you have it spot on there, its the clerk! 🧐
ayyyyyyyyyyyy i've been watching your videos while playing rdr2, they really are cinematic, happy to know you still make them since i never really looked at the dates of your last videos, keep it up!
Ive come into strawberry a hundred times and seen this guy speaking nearly everytime and ive never made it through his entire speech got bored of it everytime
i remember finding that first guy, but he walked in front of my horse and got (very lightly) tapped and fell over, then ran away and i never saw him again :^)
Makes me kinda feel bad for the mayor. He's just gay, nothing more. He has overall good intentions in gentrifying Strawberry, I mean who doesn't want the crime rate to go down, but doing so is harming the lives of its citizens as gentrification tends to do.
No honestly New York is really going to shit, as someone who lived here his whole life for 26 years… I don’t Wana die here, fuck this place, and just about everybody that runs it and hell even live in it. Cant even trust my neighbors any more…
I have sadly been almost everywhere and done almost everything in rdr2 along with know about all the lore/Easter eggs and stuff of that nature but I still 100% love new rdr2 videos anytime and everytime they come out
Sounds lot like Flagstaff, Arizona. Small town blossomed into a lucrative college destination. Prices rising exponentially while wages are minimum. Sad...
The point of Strawberry is that it's a lie. They illustrate this when you get a quest to help an NPC nearby to find his way back to town, and he talks about how it was made out to be bigger and better than it was. They advertised it as a city, but it's less than half the size of Valentine. Effectively, everyone in the city are workers of the few places it has, like the hotel and general store. Even the hotel has like 2 rooms and that's it. Of course the town was designed to have a lot of flair, but flair doesn't make a town more productive. It reminds me of failing cities that commission graffiti all over in hopes of making the city look nicer and to try to give it some spirit, but it always fails because it doesn't change the fact that people are poor and buildings are empty and crumbling. Strawberry runs a moonshine operation, as you can see when you rob the general store. In effect, Strawberry is really just a town that is about the size of a typical ranch, where a guy wanted to play mayor, so he had a bunch of buildings built, coaxed people into coming in to work and live there, and he gets to lord over them. It's ultimately little more than a glorified convenience store for weary travelers. Of course the mayor would like to see it grow, but it's soo far out of the way and not between any towns, that's it's in a precarious position that will never see it grow much. So he tries to attract tourists, but there's not much to see or do there. It's a quaint little town, but there's nothing to do there but enjoy a little bit of the sights. It's about as good as going to a tiny Alaskan town for a vacation, where the people are only there for work or because their families have lived there for generations. But in the case of Strawberry, the only people that live there are the people that work at the few places it has, the people who work the moonshine stills, and whatever weary travelers and tourists happen to come across it. Strawberry also doesn't actually produce anything but moonshine. All the general store goods and stuff like that is shipped in, it has no farms, it doesn't even have a horse stable, so everyone must buy everything from the general store....which is obviously owned by the mayor, and they're also only paid by the mayor too. In fact, the whole town is owned by the mayor. He just had money and had everything built to look like a town, and just enough buildings to have places for the workers to live. He's not particularly evil, he just wants to play mayor like it's sim city. Of course there probably is a darker side, because of the fact that people probably do end up coming in that aren't what the mayor wants, and also refuse to go. So I'd imagine the mayor just sends some men over to kill them, and that's how Strawberry basically doesn't get taken over by outlaws. I'd imagine there's cut content that would have covered this, where you probably get a mission from one of the residents who says Strawberry isn't what it is, and you need to do some sleuthing and stealthing to save them. After all once someone has moved in, they'd have trouble actually leaving, considering they've got nowhere else to go. So I'd imagine the mayor actually had some secret requirements to be considered welcome in Strawberry, stuff he even required behind closed doors. So he probably would have required people to live a certain way even in the privacy of their own homes. So he'd require married couples to make love a certain way, require them to cook a certain way, required them to do all kinds of little things that he would have considered as leading a "good" life, even stuff that would seem pointless. I'd also imagine that since he would require this, he'd also basically have free reign in the entire town as a law, so he could go into any home he wanted whenever he wanted, to ensure people were doing everything according to what he thought was right, including how people arrange the inside of their homes, how clean they keep it, where they put things, etc. So if something was not where he thought was proper, you'd get some kind of punishment or warning. He's basically like an HOA except inside your home too. It's also clear that he would have been controlling who is allowed to marry who. So if you had two young people and he didn't think they would make for "fine breeding", they weren't allowed to marry. And if they tried, well then they'd get "justice", which was either being killed or run out of town. So in a way it would have been like a cult too. I think the end story of the town was supposed to be this revelation where the mayor was funding the entire town on moonshine profits, while selling this dream of goodness, even though moonshine lead to lots of problems elsewhere, funded gangs, and caused fighting and deaths, so it's ultimately this dream built on lies and debauchery. I think the ending was supposed to be the towns people learning this and turning on the mayor.
I’m gonna be honest, the first time I played rdr2 and had that encounter with that guy who said something was up with the mayor, I shot the mayor from a cliff thinking it would progress this side story
I am playing the story through for the first time and this channel and a whole ass novel my friend gave me have made this a dope experience, im low key kicking myself for not getting into it sooner
When i found the mayor reciting his sales pitch. I sat there waiting for a chance to let arthur pipe into it but he just kept repeating the first bit for 15-25 minutes Then i did micah's mission there. So i haven't see much of him in my playthrough
Really enjoyed watching this. I've had the game for years but just now getting into story mode...it's amazing. Hard to believe R* hasn't implemented the systems from story mode into RDO...huge missed opportunities. I've met the lost guy and traveled through Strawberry 7 or 8 times but have yet to encounter the Mayor to hear his speeches. I'm still in chapter 2 and taking my time hunting and becoming familiar with the game's mechanics. Thanks for this upload, you've got a new sub pardner👍
wondering if the Mayor and the Professor had a secret relationship. But it got discovered. Obviously, people weren't nice about it and he had to drop out of school. Remember this happened in late 1880.
I play through this story all the time and every time I hear him say "The mans completely deluded" at 2:56 all I can hear is Stewie Griffin lmao!! Great video man I love your content.
I wich random events could just replay themselves, like in RDR1, duels, bounty hunting... Cuz seriously, once you finished the game 100%, nothing appeans unless you do something
You said the npc said he was married, but when I kidnapped him there was a letter from his sister saying she wish she would have never married like him. So that's interesting. I've played this game to 100% completion probably 20 times and this was the only time I caught up with him on the outskirts of town and was able to kidnapp him. Has anyone else ever got the chance to do the same? I was shocked. I didn't even realize it was him until after I hogtied him 😊
The quantity of details hodden on this game is amazing I never discovered that the mayor had a letter hinting at a homosexual scandal Maybe because I didn’t killed him to loot his body But the letter is there and is amazing how well crafted is this world Spectacular
@@corporatecat230 now that you made me notice you are right I didn’t pay attention to it or gave it any kind of special meaning because of the near crazy old lady and his stuffed animals diorama I interpreted it as strange quirk related to her Now i simply cannot avoid to relate it to a the mayor theory Amazing
I never could figure out what was up with him. I had seen the lost tourist every time I played the game, and I heard him talk about the mayor. But aside from his typical politician bravado, I never found out anything about the situation. Looking at the comments, lots of people seem to be in the same boat.
I was surprised no commentary about "that wonderful caring boy who rouged my cheeks and braided my hair" from the sister's letter nor the mayor's apparent love of theater
I feel like he has something to do with the Laramie Boys as well because of something the Sheriff says on that Bounty, plus whoever hired them seems to want to buy everything out for gentrification
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I mean, put aside all of the bad things he did, he was gonna execute Micah so I think he gets a pass
@Txetthenumberabove sure…
@@FrostyFrosto why u responding to a bot
@@shrumrii1648 cause I was annoyed
@@FrostyFrosto i feel you, but never respond to bots. Makes them look like actual comments to the algorithms that keep most of these at bay
@@FrostyFrosto I read that "sure" in the voice of Arthur
I find the mayor going on about the reduced crime is hilarious because the first mission in Strawberry is a massive shootout with Micah
Definitely will reduce crime, no bastards left to commit any 😂
"The first shall be the last"
He was inspired by Lori Lightfoot.
you got micah out of Strawberry -> crime dropped. I don't see the flaw in that logic :p
More like massive massacre lmao
That’s way more information on the Strawberry Mayor than I found on my own! Thanks!
Also to mention, the two deers in the visitors lounge are Bucks and they are standing in what is well-known as the "mating stance", Rockstars way of further alluding to the men's relationship.
Hmmm bot? Jep!
But the clerk is younger and mayor Timmons is older maybe he’s the professor and the clerk is the boy and he has his letters and won’t give them to him
@@tanveerdaleh4261 how do you know the clerk is the younger of the two?
@@corporatecat230hey good catch dude
Fizhy: *reads Mayor's letter*
Mayor: *casually escapes in the background*
Didn't want to harm him, just wanted the letter. A few years back I'd have shot him and been done with it.
@@Fizhy That's a quote, right? I swear I've heard it before but I can't remember who from
@@thomassteinbring3769 pretty sure it’s from arthur
The strawberry mayor exemplifies what I love most and hate (second) most about rdr2. It's a completely incidental mystery and curiosity that you can pick up on even if you miss that main signpost, the lost tourist. It builds the world and helps to further the feeling that it exists outside Arthur & the player. But I felt like there just wasn't a way to learn of a satisfying answer, like some other mysteries or curiosities I straight up would never know the answer to without videos like this.
I love unsolved mysteries though, it lets you come up with your own conclusion and it makes it all more mysterious
Miss the lost tourist? How? On my low honor playthrough, I tried ignoring him.. multiple times.. he was still there EVERY time I rode in.
Also, I get your frustration. There are kinda a ton of little threads to follow in RDR2, that in the end, you feel like "I don't get what's going on?".
Emerald Ranch comes to mind. The shot up saloon. Girl in the window.
But, I'll play devils advocate for Rockstar for one sec. I think you are wanting these little mysteries to be stories, which have a beginning, middle, and end. But they arent stories. They're *ODDITIES* . The world is simply too big to fill with full fledged stories. But oddities? There can be hundreds, all over. Not mysteries to solve, just odd things to flavor you wandering through the world. And, honestly, more realistic. If you really were wandering around like this, most things weird things would probably end with "Wtf went on here?".
Idk! My 2 cents. I do hate a mystery with no answer, but I just adore this game.
I feel like some of these "mysteries" are cut or unfinished quests. Like with the Emerald Ranch girl, there's an abandoned mail cart with a letter addressed to her from a relative that I feel like we were supposed to deliver to her and start a questline.
@@Tea_Noire true, it mostly feels like they had planned much more content but had to cut it short for some reason. its even more weired if you see a whole story spreading out while playing but you have no interactions in it.
A lot of things that were discontinued by Rockstar so perhaps it could be anther deleted content
If you notice, the two deers in the Lodge are Bucks and they are standing in what is normally known as mating stance amongst heterosexual deers...alluding to the sexual relationship between the Mayor and Professor.
Wow that was a detail I never noticed!
You know it's gonna be a good day when Fizhy drops a red dead video
My mom died today
@@JerseyRails104 that’s rough buddy
@@reyagu4607 I’m joking
@@JerseyRails104 who?
Fr tho bro
Fun fact, strawberry mayor mentioned Tolstoy in his speech to Arthur, and Tolstoy was an awful husband and treated his wife so bad, did not let her out of home, cheated and brought his mistresses to his home
Based
we can allude that the mayor's wife being locked up in a house was his "identity" being locked up in the closet.
Cool
So he's Referring to Leo Tolstoy?
"Fun"
4:50 this exact horse has the exact textures as my old horse, Old Girl. She was a very strong horse and was a big part of what made RDR2 fun, she was my main horse since 2019, sadly just two months ago she passed and was killed by a bear when I was off hunting, Rest In Peace Old Girl. 😢
This comment incapsulates the way that a digital horse can be coded to be so real that it can invoke emotion when it dies. Truly the game of the century.
@@Thecheesesteak my sin is gettimg attached too easily to numbers and graphics, specially when its a character or an animal (i love my white arabian)
@@vlader1743I had a black Arabian. It ripped a hole in my gut when the Pinkerton got him.
My first horse, Casper, I'd had since the beginning of the game, was recently killed when I was ambushed my lemoyne raiders outside of saint denis (I only just started playing rdr2 like a month or two ago) and I'm still so heartbroken, couldn't work up the courage to buy a new horse for like a week cause I felt so bad
@@jenn_404feel ya on that friend. Of course it's not a real animal but this game is so good that the emotional connections feel real in some way
I’m pretty sure you could make a video on the horses nutsack and we’d all still watch it. Your story telling is superb mate!
LMFAO
Don't think I could bring myself to do a video on horse testicles.
@@Fizhy do it fizhy, do a video on horse balls
@@Fizhy Make a tier list of all the horse types’ balls
Actually the horse's nutsack does change depending on the weather. If it's hot, it hangs. If it's up in the mountains and is snowy and cold, it's retracted into a tight lil' coin purse.
If you also look on the letter she said he was a caring boy who rouged her cheeks and braided her hair, which typically younger boys weren’t interested in that kind of stuff at that age and could also be alluding to him being different even as a child.
It is, he’s obviously gay, as with the university scandal, and back then that was considered terrible, and to be caught was worse
@@georgecarter6238 how does that mean hes gay 😂
@@tennisthelegend" I am still not sure why you and that professor left in a hurry" put pieces together
@@tennisthelegendYou need to get your gaydar recalibrated. As soon as the male professor was brought up I knew where this was going.
I can’t help but feel bad for the mayor a little. Making his own paradise after he was kicked out of one he wanted. Only taking that which loved him just as much as he loved it, for a chance to start again.
He was gay he deserved to get kicked
It seems like Mayor Timmins has acquired the Confirmed Bachelor perk
He’s trying to recruit arcade Gannon
@@KiwiMan5S5 dope custom profile pic
Confirmed bachelor what the *hell* are they implying??
I often brandish the sawn off when he hits that point in his speech about having reduced the criminal element. I can't resist.
I immediately robbed the moonshine still and general store. Didn't let Micah out cuz I'm not doing thst till I have to.
I knew about the letter and concluded that he’d come to Strawberry to avoid a gay scandal. But I was never sure if there was more, like if he secretly owned the still or had a sinister land development plan or something. RDR2 has lots of story teasers like that; maybe one clue leads to one of dozens of awesome little secrets, or maybe the developers never finished the intended story and it leads nowhere.
To be fair I wouldn't care of you dig deeper into everything you did ages ago I'd still watch em coz this game is too amazing
Never would've figured this out as I only just recently on my 2nd playthru found the moonshining business.
The architecture of Strawberry being extravagant in a ski resort type of way felt oddly placed vs the other towns especially the 2 bucks at the inn and well dressed clerk but now it all makes waaay more sense all cause of a letter I never would've found. Neat!
Yeah, I can imagine a small town like Strawberry being run by a man-loving city boy and his little fruitcake honeybun clerk would mean extravagant architecture and flawless interior decoration for everyone.
A lot of stuff in this game feels like deleted sidequests just because they've put so much more life and lore into this world than we're used to seeing. It's like FromSoft levels of worldbuilding.
And also because a lot of stuff was genuinely cut and reworked into smaller stories
I’m convinced the emerald Margaret gives you was meant to be connected to the missing man Gavin and slave labor in the mines of Guarma
Always love seeing a new upload fizhy. I never get bored of your content. Even your "innit" style videos bring some kind of comfort. If you ever get burnout from this channel know it´s okay to take a break and come back when ready. Your existing content never get´s too old for a 100th rewatch.
This game is getting close to 5 years and it’s still getting new stuff found. Amazing
I love it since I'm on my first playthrough right now. I bought it on release with a pre-order and immediately became camped out in a hospital for years, so I'm just now getting to actually play it. I'm insanely late to the game, but people still actively love it!
I'm convinced The Mayor is partially a reference to The Wizard in The Wizard Of OZ. The way he speaks when he addresses the public vs. how he speaks to folks in private on the porch reminds me so much of the charlatan snake oil salesman who conned his way to the top. He's painted Strawberry as something grandiose, but it's not nearly as wonderful as he builds it up to be.
”Be nice” Arthur: Kills half the town.
Mayor: I've reduced the crime rate!
Micah: challenge accepted
I only recently started my very first playthrough of this game about a month ago. Cowboys didn't really vibe with me, but 5years later there's still so much buzz about it that I decided to give it a shot.
So basically all I've done for a month is play this game and watch videos about this game.
I have years to make up for.
Please send help.
I admit that the main issue is that I know too many of the story beats so I've been avoiding the main plot like it was my job because I don't wanna hurt my own feefees. 🤣
Welcome to the Red Dead Family brother. It's constant suffering and sadness sometimes interrupted by "You want some jelly beans? I got some jelly beans right here"
@@thomassteinbring3769 based meme
Welcome to the gang. Keep watching Fizhy and seek out a feller known as the Strange Man and you’ll be just dandy. Enjoy this experience the first time around, boy I miss my first time experiencing this franchise.
@@thomassteinbring3769 we have deprresed folk (most of us) some memers, some really good content creators and the epic jelly beans, i want jellybeans
I love Strawberry area ever since RDR came out I can't find myself being anywhere else but in the forest... There's some days where I wish I could just get sucked Into the game find an old cabin up there and take it over.. I love R d r
To be honest the town doesn’t seem too bad.
7:46 After hearing him say that Strawberry was a "nice place, for nice folks" I was half expecting him to follow it up with "There's nothing for *you* here..."
Another RDR2 video? Yes please.
"good manners" as a carriage drives straight into you
Mayor Timmins - "I reduced crime"
Arthur and Micah - "hold our beer"
“I have reduced the crime rate significantly” literally a known criminal massacres the town not even a year ago
Twice
Every mission we have in strawberry has violence and killing or destruction in the main story. First it’s Micah’s breakout than it’s hanging cleet and chasing down a bounty. There is also an illegal moonshine distillery and a man actually hiding in an outhouse so he doesn’t get his ass beat and apperantly Micah killed a girl there in the epilogue. Mayor is very good at reducing crime
I love that Micah was mentioned twice
Just started playing read dead agian its nice to see creators still making videos on rdr2. keep of the great work
I know I'm late but take your time explore end take it slow with the story for a beter experience
Such a great episode. I actually knew about his story from the letter but never thought to look for the professor. I think you have it spot on there, its the clerk! 🧐
First Professor came to my mind is the one North of Annsburg the one that made the robot
ayyyyyyyyyyyy i've been watching your videos while playing rdr2, they really are cinematic, happy to know you still make them since i never really looked at the dates of your last videos, keep it up!
This one is actually kind of sad in a way. Great work as always!
"This is a nice place for nice folk" reminds me of Royston Vasey
"This is a local town for local people "
Ive come into strawberry a hundred times and seen this guy speaking nearly everytime and ive never made it through his entire speech got bored of it everytime
i remember finding that first guy, but he walked in front of my horse and got (very lightly) tapped and fell over, then ran away and i never saw him again :^)
the coach pushing arthur out of the way while he was listening to the Mayor blow smoke up his own ass was a funny touch lmao
Makes me kinda feel bad for the mayor. He's just gay, nothing more. He has overall good intentions in gentrifying Strawberry, I mean who doesn't want the crime rate to go down, but doing so is harming the lives of its citizens as gentrification tends to do.
As a native New Yorker I can confirm: Strawberry would be like hell on toast. Manhattan it ain't :p
Yeah it is
No honestly New York is really going to shit, as someone who lived here his whole life for 26 years… I don’t Wana die here, fuck this place, and just about everybody that runs it and hell even live in it. Cant even trust my neighbors any more…
New York is a hell all of its own
Strawberry is my favorite town wtf
@@Thriller-fh2ox it's not his fault he's from New York so naturally his sh** don't stink its everywhere else
Its an actual sin to not have done a dlc for this game
This game has been neglected on post launch content.
@@tankdogizationfr. Not even ponchos..
At 2:15 if your dismounted & leading your horse the dialogue changes.
wait really?
I have sadly been almost everywhere and done almost everything in rdr2 along with know about all the lore/Easter eggs and stuff of that nature but I still 100% love new rdr2 videos anytime and everytime they come out
Sounds lot like Flagstaff, Arizona. Small town blossomed into a lucrative college destination. Prices rising exponentially while wages are minimum. Sad...
"And above all, good manners!"
Arthur: *gets rammed by a wagon*
I just ventilated his eye socket and you made me feel bad about it.
The point of Strawberry is that it's a lie. They illustrate this when you get a quest to help an NPC nearby to find his way back to town, and he talks about how it was made out to be bigger and better than it was. They advertised it as a city, but it's less than half the size of Valentine. Effectively, everyone in the city are workers of the few places it has, like the hotel and general store. Even the hotel has like 2 rooms and that's it. Of course the town was designed to have a lot of flair, but flair doesn't make a town more productive.
It reminds me of failing cities that commission graffiti all over in hopes of making the city look nicer and to try to give it some spirit, but it always fails because it doesn't change the fact that people are poor and buildings are empty and crumbling. Strawberry runs a moonshine operation, as you can see when you rob the general store. In effect, Strawberry is really just a town that is about the size of a typical ranch, where a guy wanted to play mayor, so he had a bunch of buildings built, coaxed people into coming in to work and live there, and he gets to lord over them. It's ultimately little more than a glorified convenience store for weary travelers.
Of course the mayor would like to see it grow, but it's soo far out of the way and not between any towns, that's it's in a precarious position that will never see it grow much. So he tries to attract tourists, but there's not much to see or do there. It's a quaint little town, but there's nothing to do there but enjoy a little bit of the sights. It's about as good as going to a tiny Alaskan town for a vacation, where the people are only there for work or because their families have lived there for generations. But in the case of Strawberry, the only people that live there are the people that work at the few places it has, the people who work the moonshine stills, and whatever weary travelers and tourists happen to come across it.
Strawberry also doesn't actually produce anything but moonshine. All the general store goods and stuff like that is shipped in, it has no farms, it doesn't even have a horse stable, so everyone must buy everything from the general store....which is obviously owned by the mayor, and they're also only paid by the mayor too. In fact, the whole town is owned by the mayor. He just had money and had everything built to look like a town, and just enough buildings to have places for the workers to live. He's not particularly evil, he just wants to play mayor like it's sim city. Of course there probably is a darker side, because of the fact that people probably do end up coming in that aren't what the mayor wants, and also refuse to go. So I'd imagine the mayor just sends some men over to kill them, and that's how Strawberry basically doesn't get taken over by outlaws.
I'd imagine there's cut content that would have covered this, where you probably get a mission from one of the residents who says Strawberry isn't what it is, and you need to do some sleuthing and stealthing to save them. After all once someone has moved in, they'd have trouble actually leaving, considering they've got nowhere else to go. So I'd imagine the mayor actually had some secret requirements to be considered welcome in Strawberry, stuff he even required behind closed doors. So he probably would have required people to live a certain way even in the privacy of their own homes. So he'd require married couples to make love a certain way, require them to cook a certain way, required them to do all kinds of little things that he would have considered as leading a "good" life, even stuff that would seem pointless.
I'd also imagine that since he would require this, he'd also basically have free reign in the entire town as a law, so he could go into any home he wanted whenever he wanted, to ensure people were doing everything according to what he thought was right, including how people arrange the inside of their homes, how clean they keep it, where they put things, etc. So if something was not where he thought was proper, you'd get some kind of punishment or warning. He's basically like an HOA except inside your home too. It's also clear that he would have been controlling who is allowed to marry who. So if you had two young people and he didn't think they would make for "fine breeding", they weren't allowed to marry. And if they tried, well then they'd get "justice", which was either being killed or run out of town. So in a way it would have been like a cult too.
I think the end story of the town was supposed to be this revelation where the mayor was funding the entire town on moonshine profits, while selling this dream of goodness, even though moonshine lead to lots of problems elsewhere, funded gangs, and caused fighting and deaths, so it's ultimately this dream built on lies and debauchery. I think the ending was supposed to be the towns people learning this and turning on the mayor.
I like where your head is at, but Strawberry does have a stable.
I’m gonna be honest, the first time I played rdr2 and had that encounter with that guy who said something was up with the mayor, I shot the mayor from a cliff thinking it would progress this side story
I always thought it was just a cut content kinda thing. The mayor was shifty af and kinda stood out, but i never found anything.
He sounds like he got caught in an affair with another professor and his wife is really his boyfriend.
Been waiting for another rdr2 mystery. Love u Fizhy!
I am playing the story through for the first time and this channel and a whole ass novel my friend gave me have made this a dope experience, im low key kicking myself for not getting into it sooner
Great video - very insightful and more than I have found about him ☺️ x
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
It’s like Carl Jung made a video game. The whole thing is about shadow work…
So is everything else though, here in Hades.
It cracks me up that he doesn’t give that man a ride to strawberry and makes him walk. 😂
Good to note when Lenny comes back from strawberry, he's shaken up because if he handt gotten out in time, he would've been lynched
oh my god ur totally right this has to be the most groundbreaking evidence in rdr2 u should be a detective because wow!
@@tennisthelegend ikr? My next case will be on how grass is green 👍
@@tennisthelegendlol its anime pfp what do u expect
Mayor: Good Manners
Arthur: Casually gets pushed out of the way by a wagon.
Imagine how schocked the Mayor would be if he'd got to see Vanilla Unicorn in Strawberry hundred something yrs later in GTA 5.
4:45 “good manners” guy runs right into Arthur with his horse 😂
FUCK YEAH MORE RDR2 CONTENT YEEEAAAAAH
When i found the mayor reciting his sales pitch. I sat there waiting for a chance to let arthur pipe into it but he just kept repeating the first bit for 15-25 minutes
Then i did micah's mission there. So i haven't see much of him in my playthrough
I love your RDR2 videos man
“Yes,we have the occasional untoward incident”
*looks at Arthur because of him and micha*
Really enjoyed watching this. I've had the game for years but just now getting into story mode...it's amazing. Hard to believe R* hasn't implemented the systems from story mode into RDO...huge missed opportunities. I've met the lost guy and traveled through Strawberry 7 or 8 times but have yet to encounter the Mayor to hear his speeches. I'm still in chapter 2 and taking my time hunting and becoming familiar with the game's mechanics. Thanks for this upload, you've got a new sub pardner👍
wondering if the Mayor and the Professor had a secret relationship. But it got discovered. Obviously, people weren't nice about it and he had to drop out of school. Remember this happened in late 1880.
One detail I just noticed is that in the Bart cauvnagh bounty the sheriff said that the mayor has a weird tolerance for the larmie boys
Mayor: BE NICE
*Arthur there to safe Micah*
One time in annesburg I heard an npc say “I heard the mayor keeps his wife locked up in the house all day and night”
The buildings in this town remind me of Dollywood and Silver Dollar City, charming.
These RDR lore videos are top notch.
No cap bro
4:45
"We're a fine town, for fine people...
*Arthur gets hit by a horse
and above all, [we have] GOOOD Maannnnerrss."
The mayor seriously reminds me of someone with all his random weird speaches
Biden
@@pooproductions3394 make strawberry great again - not
Politics are politics, what a politics does not do a speech? The fact that u like or dislike it don't change The fact that all politics are uselless.
There is also a unpopular triggered Store robbery in Strawberry
14:28 I think he’s gay. No wife, had to run away with a professor.
The professor from RDR1?
The 🐐 is back
I always wondered about him and his "friend", top tier content sir! 👍🤠
When I first saw the mayor he seemed like a good guy tbh
I play through this story all the time and every time I hear him say "The mans completely deluded" at 2:56 all I can hear is Stewie Griffin lmao!! Great video man I love your content.
I wondered why he had that Village People poster on city hall.
I wich random events could just replay themselves, like in RDR1, duels, bounty hunting...
Cuz seriously, once you finished the game 100%, nothing appeans unless you do something
You said the npc said he was married, but when I kidnapped him there was a letter from his sister saying she wish she would have never married like him. So that's interesting. I've played this game to 100% completion probably 20 times and this was the only time I caught up with him on the outskirts of town and was able to kidnapp him. Has anyone else ever got the chance to do the same? I was shocked. I didn't even realize it was him until after I hogtied him 😊
omg that’s so weird….i wondered what would’ve happen if you did know it was him and followed him….
I’ve always felt overly uneasy whenever I’m in or near Strawberry… odd place that brings odd feelings
The quantity of details hodden on this game is amazing
I never discovered that the mayor had a letter hinting at a homosexual scandal
Maybe because I didn’t killed him to loot his body
But the letter is there and is amazing how well crafted is this world
Spectacular
The lodge also has two deer bucks standing in a mating stance in the visitors lounge.
@@corporatecat230 now that you made me notice you are right
I didn’t pay attention to it or gave it any kind of special meaning because of the near crazy old lady and his stuffed animals diorama
I interpreted it as strange quirk related to her
Now i simply cannot avoid to relate it to a the mayor theory
Amazing
I would have never though of looting the mayor. Good thinking.
I never could figure out what was up with him. I had seen the lost tourist every time I played the game, and I heard him talk about the mayor. But aside from his typical politician bravado, I never found out anything about the situation. Looking at the comments, lots of people seem to be in the same boat.
I was surprised no commentary about "that wonderful caring boy who rouged my cheeks and braided my hair" from the sister's letter nor the mayor's apparent love of theater
He had a relationship with one the male professors
I wanted the secret to be the plot of hot fuzz
We've had our fill of you're antics around here
I came back to strawberry in the epilogue just to murder the mayor for not stopping me from saving Micah
Good manners and a coach almost runs you down
Ive read somewhere that if you follow the mayor,he disappeares somewhere underwater. I don't know
Why does he talk and sound like Chester V from “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”
4:45 “And above all m, good manners!” He said as a citizen rams his horse into Arthur and stares a hole through him 😂😑
Mayor says town is full of good mannered people just when a wagon comes crushing into Arthur 😂 classic rdr
“Times are tough” we understand man lol keep up the good work and well support you
I feel like he has something to do with the Laramie Boys as well because of something the Sheriff says on that Bounty, plus whoever hired them seems to want to buy everything out for gentrification