Episode 85: Jessi and the Troublemaker

The episode for "Jessi and the Troublemaker" was originally released on October 30, 2017 and is #82. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:05:11 long.This week's ghostwriter: Nola Thacker.

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## Official Episode Description

Looks like we’ve got a Troublemaker gumming up the works this week, Baby Nation! But who, or what, is it? Surely it isn’t sweet, innocent leukemia survivor Danielle Roberts? Might it somehow be that bad, negligent babysitter Stacey McGill? She has been acting VERY strangely of late. Or, and just hear us out here … is there ANY chance that it could be ‘90s Canadian rap and reggae artist Darrin Kenneth O’Brien (aka “Snow”)? Probably not, frankly, but your boys are willing to consider all the options. Including the troubling possibility that we’re dealing with something even more sinister. That the nefarious troublemaking duo Ann M. Martin and Nola Thacker are forcing us to confront … The Nameless Shadow That Devours Us All. Whatever it is, there’s only one thing we truly can be sure of this week: This is all Jessi Ramsey’s fault. And we have the receipts to prove it.

## Music Credits

* “A Matter of Honor,” by ThePrimeCronus II
* “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord
* “Time Police,” by ErikMMusic
* “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

This week, Jack tries to add "Mistress of Clocks".

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: the prank/burn of pea soup in a jar, on Mary Anne

###  Thack Attack

Jack Sings ain't no Nola Thack girl; Tanner Sings a bit too. Later, they both try to riff on Paint It Black.

###  Trackin' Jackie

Trouble follows Jackie wherever he goes. A rug, a bowl of goldfish, and then "trouble". His time-jumping has slowed.  Tanner suspects that there is a new time walker - the troublemaker. Danielle Roberts has lived three lifetimes: X-Games skydiving, 1930s Rocky Mountain climbing, and pro-PBR rider on a bull named Fu Manchu.

"Who was she to talk to a kid like Danielle about time?"

## Jack's References

* This is Jack's favorite kind of BSC book, when there is a problem the babysitters have to solve (see Episode 25: Kristy and the Mother’s Day Surprise).
* Picabo Street
* Jack discusses the Troublemaker: Death, as in "Being and Time" (Heidegger); or Time, which is also in "Being and Time". Ann is the answer to the puzzle of time.

## Tanner's References

* The Meatloaf song "It Must Have Been When You Were Kissing Me."
* Kristy has powers like Scott Summers' Cyclops.
* Get a Life with Chris Elliott and his DIY submarine.
* Dawn and her radical Marxist rules.
* Watchmen
* This is the first episode where Tanner describes his godlike rollerblading skills. Tanner shares the tragedy of trying to find size 15 men's rollerblades.
* When discussing The Troublemaker, Tanner brings up the Norse god Loki, references the D & D universe, then brings up the Elder Scrolls universe and the god of madness.
* Tanner remembered from Episode 78: Stacey's Lie, the secret girlfriend Stu Majors. In this novel, the friend of Aunt Cecilia is Mr. Majors. Tanner draws a parallel to the 1990s movie Major Payne. Is this a glitch in The Matrix?
* Tanner interrupts the outro to discuss his annual Star Wars tradition, how he is buying Last Jedi tickets, and how Jack won't be involved this year.

## Notes

* The episode opens with an extended discussion of Informer by Snow.
* This week, the boys are discussing the latency of the Discord software compared to previous Skype records.
* This book is GCBSF.
* Mystery of Stacey's bad behavior this week. Later, Tanner and Jack call out Stacey for proposing a subway going across the Brooklyn Bridge, stating that she may not be Stacey this week.
* In the stinger, Tanner and Jack sing. Tanner doesn't know enough words to REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It". Jack knows many lyrics from Informer.

## Sign Off

Introduction of "Call your senator and demand your right to bear time" and "(I am a sovereign citizen, am I being detained?) If you are a sovereign citizen, you are not being detained, you are free to go."

Time is the great troublemaker. The context is that we should not be trapped in time by Ann, but should experience time. Mallory should be able to buy earrings, Hunter should be able to recover from his head cold, etc. These outro phrases are later said separately, but originated from the same section of text.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picabo\_Street
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being\_and\_Time
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops\_(Marvel\_Comics)
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get\_a\_Life\_(TV\_series)
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki
7. ↑ https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Sheogorath
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major\_Payne
9. ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=glitch%20in%20the%20matrix
10. ↑ Tanner and Jack once sat through the first seven Star Wars movies in a single day, in honor of the release of TFA: https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/star-wars-marathon
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informer\_(song)
12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency\_(audio)
13. ↑ REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

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