Episode 67: Stacey's Big Crush

The episode for "Stacey's Big Crush" was originally released on June 19, 2017 and is #65. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 55:19 long.This week's ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis.

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## Official Episode Description

Oh wow! This week, Tanner had to wait over an hour while Jack finished reading the book and setting up his audio, and in that time, he got a little bit silly with some rosé and seltzer. In Stoneybrook, Stacey develops a crush on some dude who may or may not be a half-python-half-man, but also THERE’S A GOAT IN THIS BOOK NAMED ELVIRA AND SHE’S JUST A BABY AND SHE’S VERY GOOD!

## Music Credits

* “Pompeii” by Josh Woodward
* "Animals vs. Jump Under Control vs. Pompeii” by Adrian Quincina
* “POMPVNGLS” by Exation
* “Overture” by Lionheart
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Outro by Baby Bee Jay

## Segments

###  Baller of the Week

Tanner picks Irv as the baller of the week.

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: "a nerd with no sense of humor"

Jack: the boys burn the substitute teacher

###  Claudia's Closet

Stacey's outfit is also on the cover: calf-length silky cotton dress with a pastel floral print, scoop neck, and shirred skirt slit to one knee.

Jessi looked sensational in an indigo-blue unitard with a matching mesh oversized cardigan.

###  Lerangis Moment

Tanner reads the first Lerangis Moment, a scene from a BSC meeting that's "like a run from *Frasier*." Baconberger, Ellen. This book also acknowledged Nick Lerangis for the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: When Mr. Z was tearful about being missed from class.

Jack: the BSC made banners for the goat both when it arrived and when it left

###  Wandering Frog People

Tanner found a WFP in his toiletries bag while in Minnesota (after visiting Jack).

## Theories

###  Sentient Orb Theory

Tanner's phone autocorrects Irv to Orb. The boys reference a baller article sent in by many members of Baby Nation: Scientists discovered a glowing purple orb at the bottom of the ocean. They still have no idea what it is.

## Jack's References

* Jack recites the first line of Beowulf from memory.
* Jack is "Generation Next, the one Pepsi invented"
* Jack does a close reading of Stacey's poem, which is in iambic tetrameter. Comparisons to Tennyson's In Memorium and Pushkin.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner Sings Pompeii by Bastille and Jack mocks him for it.
* "Goat" is Tanner's favorite animal and there is a goat in this book. "The goat was the most important part in this book, Jack!"
* When Robert Zemekis retold Beowulf
* Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
* Encounters of the Third Kind; The Ice Storm
* Tanner recites Green Lantern's oath and compares to Stacey's poem.

## Notes

* Tanner uses the cold open to describe his new thing, OWOW (One Wine One Water), and then clarifies he is using seltzer in the wine as a spritzer.
* Jack relates a long story about "dirt dauber wasps". Tanner calls this a vore fetishist's wet dream.
* Fidget spinners, heelies, Kathie Lee and Hoda, Teddy Ruxpin
* Jack pronounces "stalactites" in a funny way.
* Empire Strikes Back "I know".
* In the stinger, the boys reference the high quality of Scottish Twitter.

## References & Links

1. ↑ Pompeii by Bastille: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m326LNIRB3k
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf\_(2007\_film)
3. ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud

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