Butt Out, Baby!

By Butt Out, Baby!

Scene-by-scene study of Dirty Dancing: A film that gets a lot of love — but not enough respect.... more

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Butt Out, Baby! episodes:

August 24, 2025 9 - I Envy You
Baby tries on a wig and puts her foot in her mouth.
+ Robbie the creep
+ The problem with Baby putting Penny on a pedestal
+ Penny's rebuff as the beginning of another kind of awakening

Andrea Warner wrote a book on Dirty Dancing!
Andrea Warner's pop culture podcast, Pop This!
Andrea's website
Andrea's Instagram

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Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim
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1h 4min
July 17, 2025 8 - The Staff Dance Party
Baby crosses the threshold.
+ filming a dance scene
+ the craft of acting in such a scene
+ the evolution of dirty dancing from West Africa to the South into the grand amalgamation displayed in this scene
+ low brow vs high brow dance
+ cultural voyeurism in low brow dance

Anita Abbasi website
Anita Abbasi Instagram

Sarah Kolasky website
Sarah Kolasky Instagram
Short film Sarah and I worked on called It's Never The Drifter!
Katrina Thompson Moore website

For your scene 7 & 8 thoughts: [email protected]
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Fashion commentary by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky
Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim
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1h 18min
December 20, 2024 Bonus, Baby! It's Carol (2015) season with Whoa!mance
Ellie invites Morgan and Isabeau of Whoa!mance into a cozy 1950s booth for a close examination of Carol.

Carol stars Cate Blanchett & Rooney Mara (plus Sarah Paulson being an icon)

Directed by Todd Haynes

Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy

(based on the romance novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith)
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2h 1min
December 02, 20247 - The Borscht Belt
History of the Catskills and Borscht Belt comedy.
+ Last of the Mohicans
+ Growing up in Liberty, NY
+ The difference between Borscht Belt humour and observational comedy
+ The gendered implications of telling a dirty joke
Works used and mentioned:
Red Nation podcast episode about Last of the Mohicans
The Catskills; from wilderness to Woodstock by Alf Evers
The Catskills: its history and how it changed America by Stephen Silverman and Raphael D. Silver
In the Catskills: a century of Jewish experience in the mountains edited by Phil Brown
It happened in the Catskills: an oral history in the words of busboys, bellhops, guests, proprietors, comedians, agents, and other who lived it edited by Myrna Frommer and Harvey Frommer
When comedy went to school directed by Ron Frank & Mevlut Akkaya
Bible of Dirty Jokes by Eileen Pollack
EILEEN'S WEBSITE
EILEEN'S PODCAST
For your scene 7 thoughts: [email protected]
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Fashion commentary by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky
Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim
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1h 20min
June 05, 2024Dirty Debrief Scene 6
Debrief episodes are for listener feedback on the previous scene and the hows and whys of making a podcast like this. In this episode:
Extra stuff from scene 6: changes from screenplay, my experience in Guyana & light peace corps gossip, pronouncing miscegenation, cakewalks (!!), learning new dances
Craft notes: how Eric Etheridge found the quotes for his Freedom Rider book, using outdated terms, plagiarism and AI
Sources used:
Moon River in Sex and the City
SNCC button
Doris Kearns Goodwin NY Times by the book
Dresden Story NFB
Idaho miscegenation news report
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
CTV: Ontario's African Lion Safari named worst place for elephants in North America
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
What You Can Do for Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps by Karen Schwarz
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown
Cake Walk in 1903
They All Played Ragtime: The true story of an American music by Rudi Blesh
Silly Games by Janet Kay (as featured in Lovers Rock)
Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
A Note on Historical Language: 'Negro,' 'Colored,' 'Black,' and 'African American'
By AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY (1870-1928): A DIGITAL ANTHOLOGY
James Baldwin doc from 1968
Plagiarism and You(Tube) by hbomberguy
“every youtuber after that hbomberguy video dropped:” by Man Carrying Thing
Yale Strategies for Paraphrase
Robin Williams on Marc Maron’s WTF
Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing by Andrea Warner

Check out instagram account dirtydancing_movie_nerd

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Music by Claire Whitehead aka Midswim
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49min
March 26, 2024 6 - Showing Off With Each Other (Part 2)
Tito tap dances while Johnny and Penny do the mambo.
+ Famous tap dancer, Honi Coles
+ The history of tap and minstrelsy
+ Shirley Temple (drink and person)
+ Why some dance is authorized at Kellerman's and some is not
+ The history of Latin American dance in American movies
+ Is Dirty Dancing kinda gay?
Works used and mentioned:
How to Make a Shirley Temple
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
PBS: Blackface Minstrelsy
Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll
What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert
NY Times: HONI COLES: RECALLING 50 YEARS OF TAP
Honi Coles does Bill Robinson, 1979
Honi Coles with Chuck Green and Will Gaines 1983
It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It edited by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig
Cuban Pete from The Mask
Cuban Pete by Louis Armstrong
Blog post about Joseph Norman
El Manisero performed by Machin
Stop-motion creepy (or charming??) monkey
Time Magazine: Sugar-Bowl Migrants
Readings on West Side story
Carina's NY Times article on West Side Story
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CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE - website
ADDIE TSAI - website
SONJA THOMAS - Colby College faculty page

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Fashion commentary by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky
Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim
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1h 16min
January 27, 2024 6 - Showing Off With Each Other (Part 1)
At the evening dance in the Kellerman's "playhouse," Baby and Neil show off their politics.
+ High status US colleges
+ Peace Corps in the 60s
+ More on Bull Conner in Birmingham
+ The white Freedom Riders
Works used and mentioned:
Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days by TK Thorne
What You Can Do for Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps by Karen Schwarz

All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps directed by Alana DeJoseph
The Poison and the Tomb: One family's journey to their contaminated home by Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel
BEING BETTER AMERICANS AND DOING IT FOR THEM: THE PEACE CORPS IN MICRONESIA by Craig J. Severance
LA Times: How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster by Susanne Rust
FBI Knew Policeman Was Leak to Klan on Freedom Riders by Paul Magnusson
1946 Bikini Atoll MGM film
1967 Peace Corps ad

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Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim
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1h 4min
October 01, 2023 Bonus, Baby! A conversation about notes on creative work
Over a year ago my friend Andrew interviewed me for his top-notch podcast, Goodest Notes. For various reasons it got lost to the sands of time until now! Listen for:
+ The story of my use of fanfic in a dark time
+ Tips I heard on a writing podcast years ago and have never forgot
+ Writing stereotypes and unpacking the note "you don't need to show your work"
+ Hear me fumble through questions I hadn't prepared answers for!

Goodest Notes podcast
Goodest Notes was created by Andrew Shenkman and Drew Thomas. This episode was edited by moi.

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37min
September 04, 2023Dirty Debrief Scene 5
Debrief episodes are for listener feedback on the previous scene and the hows and whys of making a podcast like this. In this episode:
Finding Nice Jewish Boy media icons in strange places
How to deal with plosives in your recordings
A novel recommendation
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Music by Claire Whitehead
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18min
July 27, 2023 5 - Jewish Matchmaking
At dinnertime, Lisa and Baby are presented with Bachelor number 1 and 2. Featuring Mari Cohen of Jewish Currents.
+ Learning about the terms Jewish American Princess and Nice Jewish Boy
+ The politics of "Jewish continuity"
+ The parental scolding line, "There are starving children in..."
+ My dislike of white tablecloths

Mari and Jewish Currents works mentioned:

One the Nose podcast, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Jewish Matchmaking"

Mari's review of the Lox Club dating app

For your scene 5 thoughts: [email protected]
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Fashion commentary (usually) by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky
Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim

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1h 7min

FAQs about Butt Out, Baby!:

How many episodes does Butt Out, Baby! have?

The podcast currently has 19 episodes available.