Episode 56: Mallory and the Dream Horse

The episode for "Mallory and the Dream Horse" was originally released on March 20, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:02:29 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jahnna N. Malcolm.

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## Official Episode Description

This week, Mallory, Jack, and Tanner all dream of horses, and make the mistake of dreaming too small...   "There’s something that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have." –Prot, K-PAX

## Music Credits

* “Pure Swell” by Podington Bear
* “My Sharona” MIDI
* “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone” MIDI
* "Back In Time” by YV
* “I Need To Start Writing Things Down” by Chris Zabriskie
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: “Let me know when you’re finished congratulating yourselves…”

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles the meaning of “gelding”; Tanner Googles the name of the wizards in the LotR trilogy.

###  Tearful Moment

Jack: It’s always been a dream to be a rider and live on a ranch with horses.

Tanner: You’re so luck to have him, even if just for a short time.

## Theories

###  Sentient Orb Theory

Blankie the blanket was pulled into a huge ball on a child’s lap.

## Jack's References

* Shadowfax from Lord of the Rings
* Gandalf the Gray, Saruman the White, Radagast the Brown (“Hey, Tolkien, you know there are other colors, bud,” says Tanner.)
* This book is more obvious in its allegorical nature.
* The dream horse is a Trojan horse, a dark message about dreams and failure.
* Bucephalus, Alexander the Great’s horse
* ”I’ve wept because there were no more worlds to conquer”, a quote attributed to Hans Gruber in Die Hard. Jack is Secretly British here. They play the real quote from the movie.
* Jack reaches for Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 19th edition, and opens to a page on famous horses of myth and history. (Tanner: “not interested”)
* K2, a mountain that is very difficult to climb.

## Tanner's References

* Silvia Plath
* Tanner calls this book “the opposite message of Space Jam” and then relates the plot of Space Jam.
* ”Was that the one that went over the Andes Mountains? […] No, that was elephants.” (Jack corrects him by saying it actually was Hannibal and the Himalayas and “let’s just not”?)
* Tanner teaches Jack what a vomitorium is.
* Much discussion on Shadowfax, Gandalf, the Rohirrim. Jack’s favorite is Eomer, Tanner’s is Eowyn. Tanner compares the trials and tribulations of Blankie to Gandalf.

## Notes

* Tanner took three notes this week. “Uncle Daddy” read the book immediately prior to the record.
* Don’t triangulate: when this episode is released, the boys will be in Tokyo, Japan, where they will record twice.
* Dream horses:
	+ Mallory’s dream horse: Arabian (nicest), pure white, flowing mane, warm brown eyes.
	+ Jack’s dream horse: roan mare named Silvia, speckled gray, flowing curly locks. Jack then backpedals about his dream horse.
	+ Tanner’s dream horse: armor plated with a 50 caliber gun on it that shoots Jolly Ranchers, named Tanner the Elder or Horse Tanner. Also is a party horse and spends most of his time around a pool filled with punch and tequila.
* K-PAX, the 1991 movie starring Kevin Spacey, a very problematic no-longer fave.
* Tanner and Jack both relate stories about their blankets. Jack has his childhood duvet cover, 37 years old. Tanner has “big and stinky”, 20 years old, and thinks about getting it cut into a sport coat when it’s no longer a blanket.
* Jack used to ride horses.
* They recount a story about trying to recreate Four Loko, banned in NY in 2011, the last day they had a Jolly Rancher. Tanner Sings a parody version of Where Have All the Cowboys Gone.
* In the stinger, we hear Jaime speak on the podcast for the first time.

## References & Links

1. ↑ MBMBaM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My\_Brother,\_My\_Brother\_and\_Me; Episode 151: https://www.maximumfun.org/my-brother-my-brother-and-me/my-brother-my-brother-and-me-151-orb-horse; see also the animatic for the segment in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-sFHumRUE
2. ↑ Wizards in Lord of the Rings: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Wizards
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus
4. ↑ https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Hans\_Gruber
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space\_Jam
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal's\_crossing\_of\_the\_Alps
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four\_Loko

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