Episode 49: Mallory on Strike

The episode for "Mallory on Strike" was originally released on January 30, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 56:27 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jahnna N. Malcom.

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## Official Episode Description

There's no easy way of saying this, Baby Nation, but Mallory is over it. She's sick and tired of her abundant chores, the endless parade of babies she's required to sit, and the constant, relentless terror of living in a parallel-universe nightmare town, infested with living dolls, chaos dinosaurs, and as of recently, wolves. Stick around for all of that, as well as a very important PSA from Jack and Tanner about exactly how much time you should be putting in at the office, because some of us may have misunderstood the rules on that one.

## Music Credits

* “Triumph of Hope,” by Bausic Productions
* “Mary’s Little World,” by Ryan Creep
* “Sky,” by PlatinumEDM
* “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack’s description is uplifting and very dramatic. Tanner doesn’t finish describing the book in time, and then complains about the thirty extra pages in the book.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Joint burn of the week:
Mallory: “This is one strike and I'm out."

Jordan:"Out of what?"

Mallory: "Patience."

###  Soileau You Into the Dark

Tanner again is vexed about the cover of the book, calling it “fake news”. There’s no leaf raking in this book, says Jack, calling it the perfect version of fake news, because it’s probably something that could happen but did not.

Tanner posits the theory that these covers are how Hodges Soileau communicates.

###  Tearful Moment

Joint tearful moment: I squeezed my sister so hard she cried.

###  Wandering Frog People

In the stinger, Tanner relates a story about how he and Jack are in a Bachelorette league, and how Jack frogged Tanner by putting a WFP in his shower. Tanner didn’t notice, and therefore Jaime got frogged.

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

Claire Pike playing with clothespins as if they were dolls. Theory: the dolls are gone.

###  Factions

There was a lot of dinosaur action in this book. “I’ll tell you about the dinosaurs that lived in the past, and the ones that live in our minds now.” There’s dinosaurs in all of our lizard brains. (They reference Episode 46: Dawn and the Big Sleepover.)

## Jack's References

* Jack calls himself “Uncle Jack” and “Uncle Daddy”.
* Callback to the Communist Manifesto, last discussed in Episode 47: Kristy and the Baby Parade
* ”I have a section in my notes called “Commodification and the Creeping Rot of Capitalism.” Shall we just start there?”
* Reagan and Ollie North
* *A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf* and the callback to Episode 31: Mary Anne and the Great Romance

## Tanner's References

* Tanner references his and Jack’s book: *Review of My Cat*
* ”The whole thing was like an ad for the Washington Commons Mall” (which is actually a now-demolished mall in Green Bay, Wisconsin)
* Zingy’s is like Hot Topic

## Notes

* The cold open for this episode is where Jack talks to his cat, calling her “Molly” in a British accent, because Jack is Secretly British.
* Don’t Triangulate: Jack lived above a bar with an outdoor garden and the boys describe the noise of a Friday night on a warm evening.
* Jack gives Tanner an award for being the “Best Podcast Host”. Tanner gives Jack the “first annual Stinker’s Choice Award”.
* Creative culture at the BSC: 20% time. Brief Roleplay on this topic: Jack is Kristy, and Tanner is Mallory.
* Mal is a Gen X’er, like Jack, and Tanner is a Millenial.
* Tanner and Jack discuss a fake Kickstarter where donors will pay to get a Hodges Soileau painting of the two of them.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver\_North
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A\_Room\_of\_One%27s\_Own
3. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Review-My-Cat-Tanner-Ringerud/dp/1402285361
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port\_Plaza\_Mall
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot\_Topic
6. ↑ 20% time at Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Innovation\_Time\_Off

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