Episode 45: Stacey’s Emergency

The episode for "Stacey's Emergency" was originally released on January 2, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 53:31 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

We've come to the end of the road for our friend Anastasia McGill. Ann M. Martin's mercy is infinite, but her patience is not, and if one of these baby-sitters was going to get the  ol' "Ned Stark" treatment, it was basically always going to be Stacey. Jack and Tanner spend most of the episode grappling with their guilt about the fact that they don't really miss her all that much, and Jack desperately and somewhat pathetically tries to gin up a conversation about German philosophy.

## Music Credits

* “Drama Track 10,” by Mohammed Monir
* “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt
* “Hype,” by Spire Wolf
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack’s description is sort of a romance/hospital drama: "When their only daughter Anastasia is rushed to the hospital, Maureen and Edward McGill must try to put aside the anger and the hurt surrounding their acrimonious divorce and play nice for the sake of their family. This honest and refreshing look at the aftermath of a broken marriage reveals the humor, the heartbreak, and the humanity that drives people to fall in, and out, of love - whether its good for them, or not. And it's certain to resinate with anyone who has ever uttered the phrase - in sickness and in health. Anastasia McGill is laid up in hospital, but it's her parents' relationship that's on life support. And even New York's finest doctors can't find a cure. Stacey's Emergency." Jack is Secretly British when he uses the phrase “in hospital” in his description.

Tanner does a good job and scolds Jack to “think like a radio producer for once in your life”.

## Segments

###  Alan Gray Will See You Now

Alan Gray was killing it this week. He got suspended for setting off a cherry bomb in the boys’ room this week. Jack opines that he is a real anti-hero.

He exists between the light and the dark: “all-in gray”.

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: Kristy, to Stacey: “Boy, the hospital has made you maudlin. [This is] the world’s saddest story played on the world’s smallest violin!”

Jack: The Pike triplets, refusing to hug Stacey because they said they’d die if a girl touched them.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles “322” and makes a face. The top reference he finds is titled “322 - Secret Societies, Depopulation And The Health Care Plan”.

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: Stacey's parents start crying after she yells at them to get out.

## Theories

###  Witchcraft

Now that Mary Anne has cut Logan loose, Stacey is the new Dark Lord of Stoneybrook.

## Jack's References

* Kant has a metaphor for rose-tinted sunglasses as a metaphor for causality and time through which we see the world.
* Stacey describes candy like forbidden fruit (re: Genesis, the first book of the Bible). He specifically references Genesis 3:22.
* "[Stacey]'s speaking about Ring Dings like "my f\*\*\*ing precious."
* ”I love how much we reference *Hellraiser* on this podcast.” (Not as much as other things, surprisingly.)
* *Paradise Lost* by John Milton and the Promethian act of freeing yourself from shackles
* Tree of life vs tree of knowledge
* Jack relates a story about slowing down a car whilst on his bicycle and wearing lobster gloves; this fight had to be broken up by a cop.
* Contradictions of Lane’s gifts. (“We have Miller moths in Colorado” interjects Tanner.)
* Authenticity and Heidegger - fear of death. (Tanner has to be somewhere, his calendar has an “if this then that” setup.)
* Surrealism, *The Wizard of Oz*, *A Nightmare on Elm Street*

## Tanner's References

* Sour Patch Kids
* ”Opening up that jar of Sour Patch Kids is like solving the Lament Configuration for me.”
* Yale’s Skull and Bones society
* *Final Destination*
* *Patch Adams*, The Punisher
* ”Wanna hear my Sartre joke?”

## Notes

* Stacey angers Ann and is gifted with diabetes, the thing Ann hates.
* Tanner gets a tweet and fights hard not to look at it. Jack: “you’re like Stacey with fudge”.
* After she slipped into a coma, Stacey has passed on and is now on the other side.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-8CSa9xj8
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise\_Lost
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree\_of\_life
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree\_of\_the\_knowledge\_of\_good\_and\_evil
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller\_moth
6. ↑ https://hellraiser.fandom.com/wiki/Lament\_Configuration
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final\_Destination
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch\_Adams
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher
10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul\_Sartre

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