Episode 76: Kristy and the Copycat

The episode for "Kristy and the Copycat" was originally released on August 28, 2017 and is #74. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 57:41 long.This week's ghostwriter: Nola Thacker.

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## Official Episode Description

Happy belated birthday, Ann! Jack and Tanner got you a present! It’s this podcast. Sorry. This week, the boys find common ground with Warhammer 40K/classical antiquity, and a new love for potential sentient canine and BSC ghostwriter, Nola Thacker. And Ann's isn’t the only birth worth celebrating this week, because Nola also brings about the existence of FIRE this week by introducing a purging flame to the Sitterverse. Also, Jack’s cigarette smoking is becoming a problem. Jack, if you’re reading this, please get help.

## Music Credits

* “The Beacon” Teaser by Neumannfilms
* “Sad Piano Theme” by Gravy Beats
* “Hollaback Girl” MIDI
* “Fireburst” by ANGL
* “Overture” by Lionheart
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

Tanner coins the "Primarch" epithet today.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: "Walk this way." Stacey is being mocked by Claudia.

Jack: "Is this going to take long?"

###  Claudia and Stacey, Baseball Idiots

Tanner brings up Claudia's strange "visions" during baseball practice. "I captured both of those exactly, under my section "Claudia and Stacey, Baseball Clowns."

###  Claudia's Closet

"It's bananas."

 ###  Soileau You Into the Dark

This is the first episode featuring Baby Bee Carys on the theme song for the segment. Text-adjacent scene this week with Kristy angrily holding a clipboard looking at Karen Brewer. Jack credits the spelling on the shirts to the character bible (see Episode 21: Kristy and the Walking Disaster) but is disappointed by the scene not actually featured in the book.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles for Sweet Pete's birthdate.

###  Thack Attack

This week - brainstorming new names for the segment: Thank Attack, Ain't Your Nola Thack Girl. Tanner Sings and Jack Sings the Ain't Your Nola Thack Girl song.

She also goes by D. E. Athkins - kin to death...

## Theories

###  Witchcraft

The ghosts are back, dude. Intel on Ben Brewer: he has his own room and the chair rocks sometimes.

## Jack's References

* Comedia dell'arte
* Literature Jack suggests we talk about this week: Ovid's Heroides, the poems of Catullus, The Odes of Horace. (Tanner hears "Odes of Horus" and is very interested, because Warhammer 40K. There is an extended back and forth: Black Legion novels, de rerum natura by Lucretius, Lucretius Corvo says "The existence of the Alien is a problem with but one solution: Extermination. When Mankind is alone in the cosmos, only then will we have achieved our destiny", Codex Astartes)

## Tanner's References

* Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern
* O-bat-one Kenobi
* Tanner gets distracted by putting clear topcoat on his nails while Jack is talking.
* Tanner did chemistry-related tagging for a couple weeks in college - Rutherfordium stencils.
* This book is like the world Promethian fire - a portal has opened, a page has turned.
* Tanner researches the adult themes of the California Diaries.

## Notes

* Jack thinks this book is a tour de force, Tanner disagrees.
* The one where Kristy is a criminal and is asked to smoke cigarettes.
* Props to Nola this week for bringing back people like Matt Braddock, Jackie Rodowsky, and not just falling back on the Pikes.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia\_dell'arte
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroides
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes\_(Horace)
5. ↑ https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Horus
6. ↑ http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Black\_Legion\_(Novel\_Series)
7. ↑ a cosmology, a creation myth.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De\_rerum\_natura
8. ↑ https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Novamarines
9. ↑ https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Codex\_Astartes
10. ↑ https://www.ancient.eu/Prometheus/

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