Episode 48: Mary Anne Misses Logan

The episode for "Mary Anne Misses Logan" was originally released on January 23, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 48:08 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

We’re considering changing the name of the show to “The Pete Black Club” because we discovered our favorite character in the entire series this week. Here’s all the rad stuff Pete Black did this week: Burned Cokie Mason, worked on his part of the school project, and found a way for Tanner to mention Bread Theory. There’s some other less important characters in this book like Mary Anne and Logan and a toilet monster, but we can’t really remember what they got up to because we were so laser focused on Pete Black’s antics.

## Music Credits

* “Detroit" by Podington Bear
* "Party Hard” by Mike L
* “Constellation" by Podington Bear
* “My Sharona” MIDI
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack: "The second that Mary Anne said goodbye to Logan, she knew she'd made the greatest mistake of her life. And that second seemed to stretch on forever as the man she ached for turned to walk away from the shattered ruins of the life they'd built together. But slowly, at first, painfully, the seconds turned to minutes, the minutes to hours, the hours to days, and weeks, as Mary Anne picked up the pieces of her broken heart and learned to smile again. To hope. To love. Now, a lifetime later, a chance encounter in a group project brings Mary Anne's past crashing back into focus as the man who lit up her life and then left her in darkness has returned to make her confront a truth she had taught herself to avoid. *Mary Anne Misses Logan*."

Tanner cheats and goes overtime.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Pete Black is cool as hell.

Tanner: how this entire book is a long-con burn on Cokie Mason.

Jack: “That’s always been my dream,” said Pete. “To read aloud to Logan.”

###  Pete Black (Back in Black)

This episode marks the beginning of the boys' love for Pete Black. Tanner Googles and describes how “cool as hell” Pete Black is. Tanner learns that Pete Black becomes a real force in later books.

Tanner: "I'm all about Pete Black." Jack: "This was Pete's coming out party."

###  Soileau You Into the Dark

Tanner opens the episode by describing the cover art for the book. This is the first discussion of Hodges Soileau’s cover art being mismatched with the book. “I hope you’re proud of yourself, Hodges Soileau”, says Tanner.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles for information about Pete Black and then spoils an upcoming book for Jack.

Tanner later Googles mystery titles to see if he can find out what happened to the Delaneys.

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: Mary Anne reclaiming her time.

Jack: when Mary Anne says “I miss you”.

## Theories

###  Bread Theory

"Pete Black, Alan Gray, Nan White." -- Nan has her bready talons in this new shade theory.

"It's bread all the way down."

###  Factions

“Mommy said we can get a kitten.” re: Logan and the cat people, “Cat Monster”.

###  Witchcraft

Cokie Mason is the new snake in the grass, and referred t with snake metaphors throughout the text.

## Jack's References

* ”In England, we say ‘loo’.” Jack is Secretly British.
* References to Episode 43: Mary Anne Vs. Logan, when they broke up.
* New Criticism and Rolam Barthes’ “The Death of the Author”; this discussion is sped up quite quickly while Tanner is out of the room. Tanner then accuses Jack of “fetishizing technique”. Jack later references how this is a play on Le Morte d’Arthur.
* Jack gives away some SEO techniques.
* Jack mistakenly calls the fake author in this book Meghan Trainor.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner relates a story about being mocked in Australia for saying “restroom”.
* Tanner compares Pete Black to Bruce Wayne.
* *The Babadook*
* *The Purge*

## Notes

* The Delaneys are now gone. One in, one out.
* The one with the Toilet Monster. Jack opines that Ann wrote a beautiful treatise on lost love, and then the Scholastic lawyers sent it off to the grad school rejects to write 50 pages on a Toilet Monster.
* Melody Korman's ability to create monsters is Brewarian.
* They later theorize that the “Purina boy chow” is another ploy from the Scholastic lawyers
* Tanner and Jack sing “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” by Boyz II Men
* Mr Kingbridge as Jack, as wordy pedant

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Death\_of\_the\_Author
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le\_Morte\_d'Arthur
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan\_Trainor
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Babadook

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