Episode 43: Mary Anne Vs. Logan

The episode for "Mary Anne Vs. Logan" was originally released on December 19, 2016 and is #41. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 52:20 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Love is dead, and Mary-Anne and Logan are the two who killed it. That’s right baby nation, your second-favorite duo is no more (your first-favorite being Jack and Tanner, of course)and a new life is coming to Stoneybrook, which means an old life must be extinguished. Nice knowing you, Stacey! Also, Saint Martin blesses us with a new rule mechanic for Wandering Frog People that should make the game a little more exciting in the coming weeks.

## Music Credits

* “Tucson” by Silent Partner
* “Canary” by Jim Yosef
* “ILY” by Axol
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack: A heartbreaking case that sometimes the strongest thing you can do is walk away.

Tanner: “A plot: Prezziosos have a new daughter. Her name is Andrea. B plot: Mary Anne and Logan break up.”

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner’s SATP is also his BOTW: “he looks like a monkey and smells like one too.”

Jack: Mr. Prezzioso called every other babysitter before calling Jessi.

###  Mr. Prezzioso's Boys' Basketball Corner

Mr. Prezzioso does not mention boys basketball at all in this book, but Jenny wanted Andrea to be a boy, likely due to the influence of her father, who wanted a boys' basketball player.

###  Strike Against the Patriarchy

This is the official introduction of this segment.

Jack references early episodes and the language of the father. The girls are making their own language (dibble, distant, acute, stale) to strike back. Mary Anne overthrows the patriarchy: “I have rights and feelings like everyone else. I did not want to be owned.” She breaks the shackles of male oppression by returning his bracelet: "the bracelet on my wrist felt as heavy as an iron chain."

Tanner’s SATP is also his BOTW: “he looks like a monkey and smells like one too.”

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles what “jpg” and “png” stand for.

###  Tearful Moment

Jack tries to read a Wuthering Heights quote as his Tearful Moment.

###  Wandering Frog People

New mechanic of the game: Flamingo Fight.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

Jack brings up Amber Theory re: Logan’s behavior in this book. Logan exists outside of time, and has done this all before.

###  Bread Theory

Jack: Nani is a kind of bread. And Brewer’s yeast…

Tanner: Jack, don’t try and get on board with bread theory.

###  Witchcraft

One reading of *Wuthering Heights* is that he made a deal with the devil, like Logan. Heathcliff = Faust = Logan, or Catherine = Faust = Mary Anne?

Tanner theorizes that Logan wants to freeze Mary Anne, literally. He is now free to battle the forces of light (Andrea Prezzioso).

## Jack's References

* ”Let’s talk about *Wuthering Heights*.”
* Cardinals.
* Temperance, wisdom, justice, courage
* This is Hélène Cixous.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner reads his favorite poem: “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka
* Black Arts movement of the 1960s
* ”Let’s talk about Faust.” Tanner argues that Logan is Mephistopholes and Mary Anne is the Faustian character.
* Which version of Faust? Marlowe? Goethe? Thomas Mann’s?
* ”A JPG is like a soul.”

## Notes

* ”This is a literary podcast, is it not?”
* The one-in-one-out theory; Stacey is having a hard time managing her diabetes.
* Reiteration of the Halloween Hop as "the still point of the turning world"
* Chapter Two is babysitter agnostic.
* Ann’s personal touch in the Happy Reading section
* Andrea Prezzioso is the chosen one.
* A new word: “acute”, same as “distant” and “dibble”. Crafted and forced in by the Scholastic Lawyers yet again.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne\_Cixous
2. ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58013/preface-to-a-twenty-volume-suicide-note
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_Arts\_Movement
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust#Marlowe's\_Doctor\_Faustus
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust#Goethe's\_Faust
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust#Mann's\_Doctor\_Faustus

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