Episode 23: Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter

The episode for "Episode 23: Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter" was originally released on August 1, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 49:30 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

It's CIVIL WAR, which means it's time to pick sides, Baby Nation. Are you yearning for change like the Jacks and Mary Annes of this world? Even if it leads to corruption and incompetence? Or are you looking for a strong leader like Tanner and Kristy are? Even if it means giving up some of your civil liberties? Or are you more of a Jessi, just trying to do your damn job while the club crumbles around you? Where do your allegiances lie?

## Music Credits

* “Cute" by Bensound (CC)
* ”Never Dying - Ambient Orchestral" by Scott Buckley (CC)
* ”Overture" by Lionheart (CC)
* ”You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele" by squidlord (CC)
* “Phantom Sage" by Silence (feat. Byndy)
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb

## Book Description

Jack: There’s a beast inside all of us waiting to get out.

Tanner: completes the description in time and does well.

## Segments

###  Baller of the Week

Dawn’s clapback: “My backside is my best side.”

###  Burn Of The Week

Joint burn: Kristy says “That was SO attractive. I hope I always come to a meeting just in time to see the three of you backing out from under a bed.”

Jack adds a second burn that Mary Anne is literally always crying.

###  Claudia's Closet

“She’s dressed as a tree. Plant Enthusiast Trainer challenges you!”

 ###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: Jackie’s excitement at the thought of petting and playing with baby hamsters.

Jack: “I guess when Jessi did a good job with the hamster?”

###  Trackin' Jackie

Official introduction of this segment: Jackie is unfastened from time. Whatever he is most focused on in the moment, he jumps to the most relevant important historical moment and lives a lifetime. He has seen epochs. He was there for the birth of the Earth, and he will be there for its death.

Jackie drops a baby of dog food, and it rips open.

Jackie’s life: a full life trying to stop the Kennedy assassination, and saw utopia, a beautiful world. But now he’s back in Reagan’s America, weeping on the phone to Kristy.

Jackie lives lifetimes.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

The girls don’t age, but the pets do. Snake is death: the girls will never die. Hamster is fertility. Animals represent life as it would be if things were normal.

Baby Bee Beefsteak Jake speaks!

Marvel's Captain America: Civil War poster.

Album cover for "Dawn on the Coast" by Superbrat

###  Witchcraft

Logan is literally a shapeshifting snake. (Continuation of the snake in the grass theory.)

## Jack's References

* Civil wars.
* Ned Stark and Bran Stark from Game of Thrones

## Tanner's References

* Pokemon Go (Tanner catches a Caterpie and is interested in making his Starmie stronger.)
* The boys bring up an iTunes review from Beefsteak Jake.
* Tanner sings a book-relevant parody version of “Let's Talk About Sex” by Salt-N-Pepa, and notes that this is his and Jack’s lunch song (Let’s Talk About Lunch, Baby).
* compares Kristy’s rules to the Sokovia Accords from Captain America: Civil War
* Island of Dr. Moreau
* "It's sort of like Quantum Leap"
* The Purge

## Notes

* Jack notes that the last time someone sat a pet was in Episode 1: Kristy's Great Idea.
* Discussion on government, voting, campaigns in the frame of the BSC and Kristy’s position as president
	+ Is too much order bad for business?
* This is the episode with the story about Pedro the Turtle. In the stinger, we hear from Tanner’s Mom about Pedro.
* Mimi is a treasure.
* First introduction of Superbrat and their BSC-themed album, “Dawn on the Coast”
* BSCC: Little Sister - Karen’s Roller Skates was recorded after this episode.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/BSCCPodcast/status/754055761752391680
2. ↑ https://superbrat.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-on-the-coast
3. ↑ https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/pokemon/121
4. ↑ https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Sokovia\_Accords
5. ↑ https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Captain\_America:\_Civil\_War
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Island\_of\_Doctor\_Moreau
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum\_Leap
8. ↑ https://superbrat.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-on-the-coast

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