Episode 34: Claudia and the Great Search

The episode for "Claudia and the Great Search" was originally released on October 17, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 47:34 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

“There are other worlds than these. That we are drawn there again and again has to do with the rose. I have no doubt of that, nor do I doubt that in some way I do not understand the rose is the Dark Tower.” - The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla This week Jack and Tanner talk about their favorite memes, a startling new artificial intelligence in Stoneybrook, the glaring, blood-colored field of roses still far from here, and the frightening rate at which the Mimi virus self-replicates and finds new human hosts to infect.

## Music Credits

* “#Ambient” by fave.
* ”Voyage" by Emberz Download: http://www.emberzmusic.com Follow Emberz: http://www.youtube.com/emberzmusic http://www.soundcloud.com/emberzmusic Emberz provides his music to all creators for free to use in their monetized videos
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

“The first and only” is added to Ann’s list of epithets this week. Later in the episode, it becomes “The first of her name, the last of her kind, the last hope of a dying race.” Tanner says that if Jack won’t cut it out, Tanner will match him.

## Book Description

Jack’s description is about how Claudia never existed in the first place. Tanner almost finishes the description in time, but did not enjoy the novel and it shows.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack: burns Janine and her friends on how they dress.

Tanner: they misspelled Janine’s name on the cake.

###  Deep Voice Boys

Roleplay to illustrate the oddness of Claudia’s phonecalls to potential fathers.

Tanner plays Goliath Hardbody, for whom things are not going well. Goliath talks about how Mark was lost to another company (Synertech). Jack is Hermes Throbmuscle, recent CAO of Goliath Industries, and Jack/Hermes is tasked with calling Mark to identify the name of Mark Markson’s 2nd in command to try and poach him by any means necessary. Then Tanner plays Mark Markson.

 ###  Tearful Moment

Joint tearful moment: Claudia slept with a baby photo of Mimi under her pillow.

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

Claudia is a sentient AI created by Janine. Jack has a section in his notes titled "Janine and AI."

Mimi's sentience has been captured and placed within the vessel of Emily Michelle; she may soon become wise.

###  Witchcraft

Demons are building their forces - Logan has not been present, and now Mary Anne wasn’t mentioned in the book.

Gabby and Myriah, often at the centre of the occult forces in Stoneybrook, play a game reenacting the Great Plague.

## Jack's References

* Jack tries to understand Emily Michelle Thomas-Brewer’s language but comes up empty-handed.

Claudia.exe
* Nancy Drew, Claudia’s hero
* Janine opens up an MS-DOS prompt, Claudia.exe
* Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

## Tanner's References

* *Titanic*
* Claudia could be *Superman*
* Claudia might be a Frankensteinian monster
* Memes: Pepe the frog, business cat
* Ann Rice, *Interview With a Vampire* - Jack says this is a reference most people won’t get.
* Tanner Sings “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by Poison
* Agent Smith from *The Matrix*
* More *Dark Tower*  references

## Notes

* Jack intros the episode by framing it as a Warhammer 40K lore podcast, the podcast Tanner wishes he were making. Tanner admits that he doesn’t actually play the game, but does watch the YouTube videos of others’ games.
* Jack references the Happy Reading section, where Ann mentions her sister Jane.
* The boys float the idea of a A Time to Kilbourne for the first time.
* Emily is the chosen one.
* Tanner calls a number listed in the book for Cuchara, Wyoming. It doesn’t go through. (A Tanner Googles would’ve gone well here; there’s no Cuchara, Wyoming. There is a Cuchara in Colorado, however.)
* Prevalence of “roses” throughout the book.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmd.exe
2. ↑ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog
3. ↑ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/business-cat

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