Episode 25: Kristy and the Mother’s Day Surprise

The episode for "Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise" was originally released on August 15, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 48:34 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

The prophecy foretold of one that would unite the tribes. A being born of two worlds... of two clans, who would unite the people under her banner. Will this Mother's Day surprise fulfill the omen and seal the blood pact? Will the Seven become the One? Will Jackie Rodowsky ever find his way back to the present time? Find out this week when Jack and Tanner sit down to discuss "Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise."

## Music Credits

* “Upwards” by Jake R. Sanderson
* "Kosmos Music Score" by Sarah Fogg & Simon Horrocks
* “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele” by SquidLord
* "Entrance to the Queen of Sheba for Two Oboes, Strings” by Georg Friedrich Händel
* “Air in F major, BWV Anh. 131” by Johann Sebastian Bach
* “Chosen” by Ross Bugden
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb

## Book Description

Jack’s description is five sentences long.

## Segments

###  Baller of the Week

Tanner: Dawn was wearing a necklace, too. It said “I’m awesome.”

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: “I think you’ve grown another foot.” “Nah, you’ve still got two.” -- Jamie Newton.

Jack: burn on the Beatles. “Either way it’s a weird song.”

###  Claudia's Closet

Kristy had a unique wardrobe this week. Jeans, running shoes, t-shirt with a picture of Beaver Cleaver on it, and my collie dog baseball cap, with an SHS sweatshirt stolen from brother Sam Thomas.

Claudia outdid herself. (“Same old dumb bullshit," opines Tanner.) A pretty tame dress with a red necktie. Some cool roll socks - red, peacock blue, purple. She looked like she were wearing ice cream cones on her feet. A braided band in red, blue, and purple. Earrings: spiders in webs. She even wore her snake bracelet.

###  Great American Novel of the Week

From Spring The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society, New Series Number 6, 1997.

spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles          far          and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far          and             wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
         the
                  goat-footed
balloonMan          whistles
far
and
wee
—e.e. cummings

 ###  Tearful Moment

Jack: Mary Anne: “I’m giving my father a mother’s day present.”

Tanner: Claire Pike - “Hapy Moth’s Day”

###  Trackin' Jackie

Scenario: Jackie’s balloon slips out of his hand and floats away. “My balloon is on its way to the moon, you know. That’s where these things go.”

Tanner: Jackie blipped to the distant future, where we’ve colonized the moon. Solar balloons are how we colonize the moon. Jackie is a OWSA (One World Space Alliance) engineer.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

Stacey escaped the time crawl. She’s died and now she’s reborn in Stoneybrook.

###  Witchcraft

The circle is closed, the seven are one, but the circle is open again.

Goat-footed balloon man = devil.

## Jack's References

* This is the first book where the seven become one.
* Blue Power Ranger can’t defeat Rita Repulsor on his own
* The BSC forms like Voltron
* Biblical reference: 5:35, order - Mark 5:35.
* Vedic symbolism of cows

## Tanner's References

* This is Sunday Night Lights.
* ”burns of the week, it’s like attorneys general”
* Pennywise the clown.
* in the stinger, Jack allows Tanner to read the entire Blue Lantern oath in return for the inclusion of the ee Cummings poem.

With strong hearts full, our souls ignite.
When all seems lost in the War of Light,
Look to the stars, for hope burns bright!
— the Blue Lantern Oath

## Notes

* Tanner watched the trailer for the Baby-Sitter’s Club movie, which may be an amalgam of several books
* Mimi was heavily featured and thank goodness for the lack of aging.
* Jack describes the types of Baby-Sitter’s Club books:
	+ ”we’re all going to have a fight”
	+ ”some crazy thing has come to Stoneybrook”
	+ ”all the babysitters come together to babysit a surprising amount of babies”
* The text references the other Big Sitting Events: Episode 6: Kristy's Big Day, Episode 14: Good Bye Stacey, Good-Bye, Episode 19: Stacey's Mistake, and this book.
* ”it all ends in fire”

## Notable Non-Sitters

Emily Michelle Thomas-Brewer, Jackie Rodowsky, Claire Pike, Jamie Newton

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://cummingsatsilverlake.com/2015/04/24/cummings-is-not-just-for-adults/
2. ↑ https://greenlantern.fandom.com/wiki/Lantern\_Oaths\_(Disambiguation)#Blue\_Lantern\_Corps\_Oath
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmEySbwGsk

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