Episode 100: Claudia and the World's Cutest Baby

The episode for "Claudia and the World's Cutest Baby" was originally released on February 19, 2018 and is BSC #97. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:08:28 long.This week's ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis.

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## Official Episode Description

It’s episode #100! Well, actually it’s probably more like episode #103 or #104? And also, the boys are discussing book #97, but let’s all go ahead and count this as an auspicious occasion, and if you don’t want to, you can kiss dirt. Tanner sings a lot (no surprises there) and Jack talks about Greek word roots a lot (no surprises there either) and both boys talk a lot about Blade Runner (which is maybe a little surprising). You know what they DON’T talk about a lot? You guess it: the book. Important: INVOKE THE ORB AND SURROUND YOURSELF WITH DOLLS!

## Music Credits

* "Buffy theme piano + strings" by HotakiTomba
* "I Dreamed a Dream" (Karaoke Version) originally from the Les Miserables cast recording
* "Cats in the Cradle"(Karaoke Version) originally performed by Harry Chapin
* "My City" by Egzod & Anna Yvette
* "Karaoke In Your Eyes" (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Peter Gabriel
* "Snowfall (Intro)" by Kai Engel
Additional sound credits:
* Neanderthal synthesization
* Peanut Butter Baby
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

Tanner wants to add another epithet: the godmother.

## Book Description

Jack reads a Buffy-esque description.

Tanner Sings "I Dreamed a Dream" by Anne Hathaway and references Susan Boyle

Jack Sings "There is a Castle on a Cloud" from Les Mis

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: the baby's ultrasound looks like "underwater fungus", with a callback later

Jack: Tanner Sings "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel. Jack's burn is on Bach and the state of American education.

###  Lerangis Moment

Tanner Sings a version of "Cats in the Cradle" (Jack references Ugly Kid Joe) by Baby Bee Laura.

Jack: when Peaches is rushed to the hospital. Jack's moment is mostly derailed by Tanner's reference to what a Neanderthal sounded like and the Peanut Butter Baby vine. "Taking peaches to the hospital, is that some kind of birthing ritual?" (Double rainbow! Do you remember this one, a psychic cat that was deleted from the internet?)

Tanner: "puke nuggets"

###  Meme of the Week

Most of Jack's Lerangis Moment is actually Meme of the Week.

* Peanut Butter Baby vine
* Double rainbow
* a psychic cat that was deleted from the internet?

 ###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles "Rule 60" (Rule 63).

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

Invoke the orb and surround yourself with dolls.

## Jack's References

* The Mendoza line
* Rule 34 ("named by Jack" says Tanner, unlikely says Wikipedia)

## Tanner's References

* Tanner quotes the blue pill / red pill scene from The Matrix.
* Tanner lists the states of baby humans, to much amusement.
* When Tanner was a teen, he spent his youth de-tasseling corn. He proposes a teen as a child-minder for Jack.
* Tanner feels like a Primarch when he reads Logan chapters (yes, a Warhammer 40K reference).
* Tanner urges listeners to resurrect the dolls as liches.
* In the stinger, Tanner recommends that Baby Nation watch the Virgin America safety video because "it's a real catchy tune".

## Notes

* Don't triangulate in time, this episode was recording on February bleep, 20 bleep.
* Kiss dirt, Baby Nation.
* Rule 63: if a character exists, someone has gender-swapped it. Happy Reading section: Ann was originally going to be called Ann Elizabeth (Lizzie Borden? Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. Liz from the NES game Rampage.) and if she were a man, she would've been John Lawrence.
* A section with a lot of references: a Smiths song (Morrissey and the end of the first Blade Runner. Tears and what it means to be human.
	+ Jack posits that this whole book is a Voight Kampff test

## References & Links

#### Literature

1. ↑ Elizabeth Bennet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth\_Bennet
#### Culture

1. ↑ Neanderthal voices: http://mentalfloss.com/article/90539/heres-what-neanderthals-voice-might-have-sounded
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Peanut Butter Baby vine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikf2abb\_pho
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Double rainbow: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/double-rainbow
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Psychic cat, or "kitty is a very bad mystic": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8P2941gDSM
5. ↑ The Mendoza Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoza\_Line
6. ↑ Rule 34: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule\_34\_(Internet\_meme)
7. ↑ Virgin America safety video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiPIHsIg
8. ↑ Rule 63: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rule%2063
9. ↑ Lizzie Borden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie\_Borden
10. ↑ Rampage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage\_(video\_game)
11. ↑ Blade Runner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade\_Runner
12. ↑ Voight Kampff test: https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff\_test
#### Music

1. ↑ Susan Boyle singing "I Dreamed a Dream".
2. ↑ "There is a Castle on a Cloud" from Les Mis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8sYTlLQRY
3. ↑ "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3kFPBtc9BE
4. ↑ Ugly Kid Joe's version of "Cats in the Cradle"
5. ↑ Morrissey/Smiths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey

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