Episode 38: Jessi's Baby-Sitter

The episode for "Jessi's Babysitter" was originally released on November 14, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 52:20 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Are all of us simply “the sat,” whose collective will is bent and shaped by the whims of some grand, cosmic Sitter, or do we shape our own destinies? Do we exist in some liminal state between the two, all of us both Sitter and Sat? Perhaps each of us is just living out a different manifestation of one of Jackie Rodowsky’s multitudinous lives? Find out the answers to all these questions on this week’s Baby-Sitter’s Club Club.

## Music Credits

* "Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 - XII. Child Falling Asleep” by Robert Schumann - Performed by Donald Betts
* "Very Low Note” by Kevin MacLeod
* "Damn Daniel! [Trap Remix]” by Dennibro
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

Tanner is very opposed to Jack’s use of epithets, and tries to get Jack to give a clean take. Neither can do a clean take without epithets.

## Book Description

Jack frames the story as “life after death” with Aunt Cecilia as the main character.

Tanner finished in exactly 60 seconds, and framed the B plot as the A plot and the A plot as the B plot.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: Margot, after Jordan tells him to go get the girls: "DAWN! CLAIRE! VANESSA! COME HERE!" (Burn is on Jordan for not doing that himself.)

###  Deep Voice Boys

Chuck Winchester, nee Pierre de la Resistance (Tanner) stringer for Le Monde, cub reporter. Jack is the editor in chief of the Stoneybrook News, Crispin Die Fledermaus.

###  Tearful Moment

Jack: The miracle of a volcano comes to life before your very eyes!

###  Trackin' Jackie

Scenario: Jackie runs to answer the doorbell and falls down. There are no further blips - at the end of the evening, he says to Jessie “This was the best afternoon of my life.”

Jack: The bell tolls. It’s an apocalyptic version of Stoneybrook. The bees have disappeared. It’s a cataclysm. When he blips back, he’s focused on the burning of the volcano. He sees what happens when he chooses bees.

###  Wandering Frog People

This episode introduces the Wandering Frog People. Jack notes that the Wandering Frog People have been mentioned in many of the books but never discussed on the podcast because “it’s too weird even for us”.

* Episode 9: The Ghost at Dawn's House - the game is played in the dark against glowing space aliens
* Episode 15: (KII 01) - Hello Mallory - “this thing is one of the triplets’ Wandering Frog People - it doesn’t belong to you.”
* Episode 31: Mary Anne and the Great Romance - Andrew and David Michael were playing Wandering Frog People in the living room in the dark
* And from this book, it is described as an endless game, that has been going on for about two years now. Wandering Frog People is a very quiet game.
* Jack and Tanner then elucidate the rules of the game, which are elaborated on at Wandering Frog People.

## Theories

###  Factions

Tanner calls the “schism” the pre- and post- Ann, when the factions change.

## Jack's References

* *Inception*
* "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole
* A section of his notes: “Aunt Cecilia and the Totalitarian State” and then discusses the discourse community of totalitarianism. (The episode was recorded prior to Nov 8 2016 but releases after and discusses that context briefly.)
* Newton's Third Law ("Every action has an equal, opposite reaction.")
* Reference to The Prophecy (sitter vs sat) discussed in Episode 4: Mary Anne Saves the Day and Episode 32: Dawn's Wicked Stepsister. Is there a sitter sitting us all right now?
* Settlers of Catan.
* Discourse communities, questioning authority.

## Tanner's References

* Ebola
* Neanderthals
* "What's the deal with...?" from *Seinfeld*

## Notes

* Mr. Prezzioso is attached (to boys’ basketball).
* The boys try and matchmake the widowed Aunt Cecelia, all the old men are dead.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le\_Monde
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where\_Have\_All\_the\_Cowboys\_Gone%3F
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula\_Cole
5. ↑ https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/newtons-laws-of-motion
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catan
7. ↑ https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1cVl7KHsGA

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