Episode 9: The Ghost at Dawn's House

Cover (source)

Wilson the volleyball, Tanner's prom date (source)

David Byrne's big suit (source)

The episode for "The Ghost at Dawn's House" was originally released on 4/25/2016 and is #9. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 49:38 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

If there's something strange in Dawn's house... who you gonna call? The Baby-sitter's Club Club! This week, the girls (and by extension, the boys) dive deep into the world of paranormal activity, cause there's a ghost y'all, and it's living in Dawn's crawl space, and it's eating ice cream, and doing a bunch of other things you'd expect a 9-year-old boy to do. On unrelated news, 9-year-old Nicky Pike keeps disappearing and hiding in an unknown location.

## Book Description

Jack: "A family haunted by their past moves to Stonybrook, CT to start a new life. Everything seems to be going okay, until they begin to be haunted by something else entirely. In this spellbinding horror story, we learn the ghastly truth that some things just can't stay buried. The Ghost at Dawn's House will chill you - to the very bone."

Tanner: does a terrible job of describing the book and gets hung up on names.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

"Burn of the week. Every book has some of the *hottest* burns you’ve ever read."

Jeff burns Tripman by saying “I bet he plays golf." and “I bet he has short hair.”

###  Tanner Googles

The segment is named! Tanner googles to get the name of Cam Geary, looking at the Sixteen Candles IMDb. “Tanner googles things while jack is exasperated.”

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

An early introduction of doll theory in the context of a haunted house - a doll person community

Gabby’s doll, and Gabby is a doll person - the dollhouse there is controlling Dawns house

## Jack's References

* Four ghosts: ghost of Disneyland daddy, ghost of Jared Mulray, the ghost of Mary Anne’s innocence, the Holy Ghost
* Flame, dove, breath
* The Dawn books are religious
* Jack references adamantium to mock Tanner’s Wolverine reference

## Tanner's References

* “Ugh, not interested.” (Tanner's opinion of the book)
* Disneyland Daddy sounds like a Lana del Rey song (and requests baby nation to make it). (In Episode 16: Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn, Tanner sings a version of this song.)
* Sixteen Candles
* Tanner took Wilson the Volleyball from Castaway to homecoming
* David Byrne suit
* Rocky Balboa
* That movie The Orphan
* Wolverine (a crossover that I am ready for)

## Notes

* Decision that jack is the host and tanner is cohost
* Introduction of the bbbbbbb “baby nation” motif
* Tanner begins purposefully messing up jacks inro
* Tanner is banned from babysitting in every state except Texas.
* Jack is looking for money making schemes
* Disneyland Daddy
* Enos
* Cam Newton = Jamie Newton (“huge if true”)
* The boys got vegan Chinese food, first mention of “don’t triangulate”. They later proclaim that Brooklyn is full of doll people.
* Roleplay: Tripman and Dawn's mom
* Tanner tells the “tubing down the river story” for the first time
* The boys sing the outro again

## Notable Non-Sitters

Jamie Newton, Cam Newton, Tripman, Dawn's Mom, Jeff Schaefer, Gabby Perkins

## References & Links

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