Episode 12: Claudia and the New Girl

"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth

Sculpture at Dia:Beacon

Boy Takes Drum Lessons from Mean Man

Official Goliath Industries tote bag

The episode for "Claudia and the New Girl" was originally released on May 16, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 49:20 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

There's a new girl in Stoneybrook named Ashley Wyeth, and she's captured the attention of a certain young babysitter named Claudia. But, more importantly, there's a newcomer to the podcast as well named Goliath Hardbody, and we think you listeners are really going to like him. (But please don't fall in love with him and leave the podcast. We need you. You're all we have.)

## Book Description

A succubus is seducing young artists in Stoneybrook with their own hubris.

Jack does the 60 segment and does complete the book, more or less.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

* Jack: the way that Claudia breaks up with Ashley and Ashley just hangs up on her.
* Tanner: how the girls raid Claudia's snacks and leave mean notes; one in particular: "Famous Jerks: Benedict Arnold, Wicked Witch of the West, Claudia Kishi"
* Jack: Dawn told me she made up a song: "Traitor, traitor..."

 ###  Claudia's Closet

Ashley Wyeth: dresses like an American doll, wear six earrings

###  Deep Voice Boys

* Tanner: Rich Richenson, the CAO at Synertech, a small startup
* Jack: Dave Daveson, a babysitter/artist, who combines the two arts of babysitting and sculpture

Synertech has great work-life balance. Rich is also a talent scout for a local book agency.

There's a second roleplay:

* Mark Markson (Jack), the vice president of Goliath Industries
* Goliath Hardbody (Tanner), CEO of Goliath Industries

Goliath fires Mark for not showing up at board meetings.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles the name of the last book in the series (The Fire at Mary Anne's House)

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner doesn't have one. Jack's is not a true moment but the closest that he came to in the book: Claudia's poem apology that she makes her friends read.

###  Trackin' Jackie

Unofficial, but this is the first appearance of Jackie and the boys love him.

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

* Ashley is an evil spirit embodying the tissue of a life-size living doll.
* Claudia has a doll that presides over the meetings (it was hidden from Logan in Episode 10)
* Mrs. Xerox the Bear, Mrs. Refirgerator the babydoll --> Tanner posits that these are the seven deadly sins
* Haunted Doll Theory: Demon Watch
* Lenny, Claudia's ragdoll

 ###  Witchcraft

* Stoneybrook is a place of corrupt magics.
* Ashley is a demonic presence.

## Jack's References

* Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World
* A letter to Penthouse Forum

* Claudia can't derive meaning from the world, blank slate, written word is her enemy.

## Tanner's References

* The book Tanner had open instead of the BSC: "A planet full of super intelligent giant spiders going to war with the human race." Possibly this one? Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
* Dia:Beacon
* "Boy Takes Drum Lessons from Mean Man" - Whiplash
* Bazooka Joe bubblegum
* Resident Evil games
* the comic book Spawn

## Notes

* Tanner does the intro this week.
* Jack is reading these books because he's an arTIST who sits on babies.
* Grown man deep voices
* Ashford and the beginning of the Fire at Mary Anne's House mystique
* Claudia books are boring and she is hard to connect with, and then a discussion of the merits of the different sitters' books
* There's nothing Tanner loves more than interrupting Jack's segues
* "I am an artist and my craft is my calling."
* Outro is some Beefsteak Jake roleplay

## References & Links

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