Episode 8: Boy-Crazy Stacey

Pokemon Crystal for the Gameboy

The Yellow Wallpaper

Kanye West stole fashion ideas from the BSC

Baby bees (source)

Cover (source)

The episode for "Boy-Crazy Stacey" was originally released on April 18, 2016 and is #8. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 46:53 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

The boys are back, but I'm not talking about the boys Stacey is crazy about, I'm talking about Jack and Tanner, who read "Boy-Crazy Stacey" this week. This shouldn't come as any surprise to you if you've listened to the last seven episodes, but they have a hard time staying on topic. Lots to discuss this week: bee theory, Kanye West, Victorian literature, and a surprise visit from Jack's secret British accent.

## Book Description

Jack: "On a trip to the beach with a close friend, a young woman from New York becomes gradually more and more unstable as she falls under the influence of a mysterious lifeguard named Scott. And the question confronting us in this book is - will Scott succeed in completely unraveling her fragile mind. Or can Stacy be turned aside from her breakneck path towards boy craziness and ruin."

Tanner succeeds in 60 seconds.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack points out a quote from Nicky Pike about a beach ball, and calls it rhetorical fireworks.

###  Tanner Googles

Unofficial. Tanner Googles pictures of baby bees, bee larvae. Jack is opposed to the whole endeavor. Tanner thinks the larvae are cute.

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner did not have one.

Jack’s moment was when Mary Anne’s dad wept at the idea of his daughter leaving ("because he misses his dead wife", adds Tanner).

## Theories

###  Bee Theory

* Tanner summarizes bee theory again. Jack supports this theory by describing how weird it is that everyone is obsessed with babysitting.
* Have you ever seen a baby bee?
* Queen cups and swarming, when a queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of bees.
	+ The part where the girls can’t stop crying at a two week goodbye is support for bee theory re queen cups

## Jack's References

* Chaos and order is the tension of the book
* Kanye West sunglasses

* The first epistolary novel in the series
* The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
	+ Tanner gets this “dumb academic” reference
* LUV law of universal variation
* Romantic vs Victorian sensibility, chaos vs order
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron (Vanessa and Byron Pike)

## Tanner's References

* First reference to being a Minnesota native
* Pokémon Crystal on his Gameboy
* Stomp
* 2011 drama "Smash"
* ECD copywriter

## Notes

* Tanner is glad to be reading the books on Kindle now
* Jack’s cousin called out on FB for a hat tip about the books
* Tanner intros his radio announcer bbbbbb voice.
* Tanner pictures himself in the teenage girl’s perspective and Jack pictures himself in the lifeguard’s
* The boys dislike the age difference between the sitters and the lifeguards, and discuss how times have changed since 1986
* Reference to Jack’s wife Sarah and the wedding t-shirts she offered to Tanner
* The Pikes have no rules and let the kids do what they want
* Tanner minored in English lit and his favorite era was the romantic.
* First use of Jack’s secret British accent.
* “Real men” deep voices
* Jack and tanner sing along with the outro

## Notable Non-Sitters

Beefcake Jake, Sea City, New Jersey, Byron Pike, Vanessa Pike, Stacey’s Dad, Mary Anne’s Dad, Margot Pike, Nicky Pike

## References & Links

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