Episode 5: Dawn and the Impossible Three

## Dawn and the Impossible Three

Party Balls from Berlin's Yellow Sunshine

"Girl with Hair Ribbon", c.1965, by Roy Lichtenstein

The episode for "Dawn and the Impossible Three" was originally released on March 28, 2016 and is #5. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 44:42 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Tanner and Jack travel all the way to Germany, the birthplace of modern Lutheranism, to discuss the thinly veiled religious text that is book five of The Baby-sitter's Club, "Dawn and the Impossible Three." Tanner has a few too many helles biers and ends up role playing as an adult escort. Things get a little weird.

## Book Description

* Jack: "After an acrimonious divorce, the mysterious, beautiful, leggy, Mrs. Barret (no first name, ooh) moves to Stonybrook to try to pick up the pieces of her life. Everything seems to be going well until a meddling group of babysitters show up at her house and basically treat her like a child, and harass her until she has nothing left."
* Tanner says this is his favorite bit. Tanner completes the A plot in time and then proclaims the B plot boring and unimportant.

## Segments

###  Deep Voice Boys

The first DVB roleplay!

* Rick Richington (played by Tanner) is the CAO at Synertech, a conglomerate of young women who babysit
* David Davidson (played by Jack)

 ###  Tearful Moment

* Jack: Dawn’s dream
* Tanner: none, because I’m an adult man
* Jack: when Jeff shows up and surprises them with a group photo, which Tanner then agrees IS his tearful moment

## Theories

###  Witchcraft

* Watson’s attic is haunted
* Morbidda Destiny is looking for herbs, and spooks Kristy in a mirror/window

## Jack's References

* Dawn is a virgin, “you could rename the Bible ‘struggle with the impossible three’”.
* \*33, the age Jesus was at death
* \*bizzing (under Jack’s semiotics section)
* a great German TV show, Tatort
* Camus
* hailing rituals
	+ “I can’t talk about hailing rituals again”
* War of 1812, first airplane, Depression, etc —> Dawn is bringing everybody back together like the Emancipation Proclamation

## Tanner's References

* Flat Earth theory is discussed
* Tanner relates a story about his wife and bizzing
* Roy Lichtenstein’s art
* Fawlty Towers
* H.P. Lovecraft

## Notes

* Jack and Tanner are in Berlin for work and are up late to avoid jet lag.
* Tanner is reading these books because, according to Jack, “Tanner’s family was killed with a violent babysitting gang”.
* Berlin “is a vegan paradise”. They stayed next to “Yellow Sunrise” where they bought Party Balls (possibly actually “Yellow Sunshine”, Party Balls are 5 for 3.9 €).
* ham face
* OAO: Official Alternate Officer vs CAO: Chief Alternate Officer
* Roleplay: Dawn and Mrs. Barrett, Deep Voice Boys
* Let’s All Come In, the game
* Tanner’s rankings of the sitters, best to worst: Claudia (with a bullet), Kristy, Mary Anne, Dawn, Mallory, Stacey.

## Notable Non-Sitters

Mrs. Barrett, Buddy Barrett, Marnie Barrett, Susie Barrett, Morbidda Destiny

## Sign Off

Claudia is wearing a bra now, and the way she talks, you’d think boys had just been invented.

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