Episode 52: Dawn’s Big Date

The episode for "Dawn's Big Date" was originally released on February 20, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 58:57 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

After the long, dark night of the soul, we finally have a New Dawn, Baby Nation. And despite the fact that she looks a little like a late era Axl Rose, she’s captured the attention of a new Bruno named Lewis. Can Dawn escape the thrall of Lewis Bruno? Can Mary-Ann just chill for, like, a second? Can we find Norman Hill a new family? Well, your guess is as good as ours. Tanner had to do a LOT of Googlin’ this week.

## Music Credits

* “Trickledown” by Podington Bear
* ”Be Together” by Zaza
* “Overture” by Lionheart
* "My Sharona" MIDI
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack’s description is dramatic as usual. Dawn changed when the stranger walked into town. The only question is what she changed into.

Tanner nearly forgets the B-plot, but remembers and does a good job.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

River Phoenix or Cam Geary? (Image via IMDB)

Tanner: Lewis’ burn on Logan, when he tricked Logan into believing that he was a ghost of a dead horse.

Jack: “Igneous rock, is that a new group?!”

Jack: Mallory burns Cam Geary’s musical talents

###  Claudia's Closet

 ###  Pete Black (Back in Black)

Tanner is excited about the next book because it is a Pete Black, and intros the Pete Black theme song.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles to find out people born in 1970.

Later, Tanner Googles the names of River Phoenix’s siblings (Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, Summer).

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: When Norm reveals to his girlfriend who he really is.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

“Time has no bearing here in the Sitterverse.”

Ann is protecting the girls by keeping them trapped in amber, but wants to free them-- a force is stopping her, likely the Brunos. The boys discuss the pros and cons of being 12-13 forever.

“None of us will stay exactly the way we are for the rest of our lives.” — False.

Dawn says: “I feel as if I’m in one of those glass balls.” — Dawn is trapped in a snow globe, never changing, a still life.

## Jack's References

* Proverbs 4:18, a Bible reading relevant to Dawn
* *1984*
* Mary Anne’s food aphasia - callback to the episode where she didn’t know what tomatoes were (Episode 31: Mary Anne and the Great Romance). This week, “pigs in a blanket?!”
* I Have a Section in My Notes Titled...: “Stacey is Insufferable”
* Arnold Schwarzenegger.
* Religious themes: Dawn is dating C.S. Lewis, a reach.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner Sings (or threatens to sing) Garth Brooks’ “The River”

Bo Derek, California Casual

BSCC is featured on iTunes.
* Proverbs 26:25-28. Quote about abominations, people who make you read things in the text that are not there, deceivers.
* Bo Derek hair, very California casual.
* Dawn look likes a Picasso painting.
* *Red Dawn*

## Notes

* The one that opens with Jack wearing Tanner’s shorts. “You look like you’re wearing your dad’s shorts.”
* Jack tries to do “you-directed” conversation - Dale Carnegie stuff
* Hercules Mulligan is sitting next to Tanner. The boys feel “off” for this recording because they are at Tanner’s and not in Jack’s place with the Sun Ray.
* The boys note that Mary Anne and Dawn fight almost every book of theirs and wonder if they even like each other.
* Tanner proclaims that Burn of the Week happens every week, Tearful Moment almost every week.
* Theory: Scholastic lawyers are pulling in the Soybean Council for a new revenue stream.
* Things that are cool: shrugging a lot, not talking a lot
* The hierarchy of ear holes is established this week.
* Tanner and Jack discuss possible tattoo ideas for themselves.
* Discussion of which real life celebrity is Cam Geary (first appeared in Episode 9: The Ghost at Dawn's House. Suggestions: a member of the Brat Pack, “that guy from the Partridge Family”. People born in 1970: M. Night Shyamalan, Matt Damon, Ethan Hawke. They decide he is absolutely River Phoenix.
* Tanner and Jack talk about how they were featured on iTunes.

## References & Links

1. ↑ River Phoenix in The Thing Called Love via https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000203/mediaviewer/rm3183491584
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen\_Eighty-Four
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold\_Schwarzenegger
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/BSCCPodcast/status/826122061718360065
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red\_Dawn

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