Episode 46: Dawn and the Big Sleepover

The episode for "Dawn and the Big Sleepover" was originally released on January 9, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 50:03 long.This week's ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis.

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## Official Episode Description

Have the boys got a special treat for you, Baby Nation! Did you know that Jack and Tanner are actually officials with the Parisian government? It’s true! And they have an opportunity of a lifetime for you. For just 500,000 Francs, you can buy the rights to all the scrap metal on the Eiffel Tower to do with what you please. DO NOT PASS UP THIS CHANCE, BABY NATION!

## Music Credits

* “Meditation” by Joshua Messick
* "Tomorrow Comes" by Dana Boulé
* "You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele” by SquidLord
* "Invincible” by Deaf Kev
* “Starling" by Podington Bear
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack does his description in a British accent because Jack is Secretly British. Tanner begins with a Minnesotan accent but does not continue.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: Did you forget to put your brains in this morning?

Jack’s burn is on him and Tanner. “Stacey’s a real New Yorker. She has a map of the city on her wall, and something called an Alternate Side Parking Calendar with cartoons about car parking. They’re really dumb, but New Yorkers supposedly find them hilarious.”

###  Deep Voice Boys

Jack does a bit of Mark Markson in the Trackin’ Jackie flashback.

###  Mike Check

The “Mike Check” segment is intro’d for the first time in the stinger. Tanner checks in on his stepdad-in-law, and Jack checks in on an old colleague.

###  Tearful Moment

Joint tearful moment: the letter from the Zuni principal.

###  Trackin' Jackie

The yard sale here is better than the Episode 14: Good Bye Stacey, Good-Bye. Jackie organizes this yard sale, picks up a bowl, knocks a toaster, knocks plates onto the ground.

Jackie is Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice.

## Theories

###  Factions

Goober Mansfield put on a dinosaur show. Dinosaurs are committed to chaos.

## Jack's References

* This book is about how Dawn learns that good works are the way through faith. “Eleemosynary”.
* *The Chronicles of Narnia.*
* St. John of the Cross and the dark night of the soul. Proverbs 11:20.
* The Harrowing of Hell
* Dawn’s miracle, creating pizza out of nothing
* Numbers 12:6

## Tanner's References

* Tanner Sings Happy Birthday to Jack
* Four Corners
* Tanner points out that Jesus’ three days in the cave is the obvious analogue.
* Tanner is impatient to finish the episode, because Jaime is waiting across the street for Tanner so they can cancel their gym memberships. Jack then tries to vamp as much as possible to prolong the agony.
* "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell

## Notes

* Jack wintered in upstate NY, Tanner wintered in Playa Conchal, Costa Rica. “Monitos!”
* This is the first Peter Lerangis book! Hi hi, Sweet Pete. “This felt like a good book” say Tanner. Jack coins the term “good clean baby-sitting fun”.
* Tanner notes that Baby Bee Alice wants Jack to do his British accent and opines that Baby Nation finds it “intriguing”.
* Callback to Chuck Winchester (Episode 38: Jessi's Baby-Sitter).

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor\_Lustig
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark\_Night\_of\_the\_Soul
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing\_of\_Hell
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding\_the\_multitude
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four\_Corners

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