Strange Bedfellows

It's Boyzone/Dadzone this week, and it's also the exciting premiere of a brand-new content block called Summer of Sandra! Whether you're listening for the spectacular #SummerOfSandra snippets or the neat and nifty #NeedForSpeed nuggets, there's plenty here for everyone, so strap in! Also, Tanner apparently doesn't know what Sleeping Beauty is.

Music credits:

"Summer Sport Rock," by 331

Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music!

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Hugh Grant's Vernal Dance comes to a scintillating conclusion thanks to the incredible musical talents of guest Jared Sosa and the once-in-a-generation lyrical genius of your boys, Jack and Tanner. Did we fall in love while creating this soon-to-be-smash-hit single for you? Did we reveal breathtaking new information about the secret lives of two deeply beloved, fan-favorite characters? Should you, too, watch the mostly forgotten 2007 Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore vehicle, "Music and Lyrics"? Yes, yes, and hell yes.

Music credits:

"Past the Horizon," by Sosa, Greenring, and Shepherd

Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music!

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We dodged a real bullet this week (well, not Tanner—he was killed by his Looper closing the loop) when we DIDN’T watch 1995’s “Nine Months” and instead watched 2002’s “Two Week Notice” during the continuing frenzied mania that is Hugh Grant’s Vernal Dance (#HGVD). But that’s not our ONLY viral cause this week, because our intrepid young investigators—Tyson Lamborghini and Stryker Marshall—have blown the lid right off the insidious conspiracy to withhold famous actor and personal friend of the show Mark Feuerstein from appearing in this film. #ReleaseTheFeuersteinCut

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Hailed as the “Superman: Dawn of Justice” of its day, our film this week was the first to unite three separate cinematic universes in one story-telling masterpiece. Never before, and to the day of this being written never again since, has a film DARED to invite the “City of Angels” AND the “Little Nicky” narrative universes into its OWN overarching cinematic superuniverse. Really incredible stuff. The film, of course, is 1999’s “Notting Hill.” Part of our “Hugh Grant’s Vernal Dance” celebration.

Credits: Edited by Tanner.

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It’s more role-playing than not this week as we discuss this classic "squeakuel" to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and try to perfect our Owen Wilson impressions, which somehow get worse by the end of the episode. But you know what they always say: "Size matters, but in the spy world, it’s reversed!"

Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music!

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We're taking another week off this week, as some of us attempt to herd some cats onto an airplane, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years this week, and we'll be back next week!

In this special one-off episode, Dan Brown scholars and archivists Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring collaborate to painstakingly recreate the first chapter "The Da Vinci Code" for posterity. This astonishing oral history will be part of the living memory of our culture for as long as humans tell stories to one another, and as an act of public service for a world community that hungers to collectively remember this vital text, it is unparalleled.

Music credits:

"Cinematic Victory," by Florews

"Be Suspense," by Art Haiz

"Mystery Cinematic," by Gentle Jammers

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We're taking another week off this week, as some of us persist in trying to move across the country, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years this week, and we'll be back next week to talk about either Music and Lyrics or Wedding Crashers!

Five years ago, two men made a solemn promise: They would tell the story of Agent Associate Baby-Sitter Shannon Kilbourne the way Ann M. Martin always intended it to be told. Almost immediately, one of those men fully delivered on that promise, but literally no one noticed, primarily because of an almost overwhelming lack of interest from the other man. But now, in full technicolor, you can finally hear the breathtaking tale of danger and intrigue known in Baby-Sitters Club-associated circles as "A Time to Kilbourne."

Music credits:

"Mysterious Spy Movie," by Shorties

"A Suspense," by Fat Bunny

"Suspense & Crime," by Alexander Rufire

"Fight Back," by Shorties

"Suspenseful Background," by Luca Francini

"Tech Glitch Opener," by Gentle Jammers

"Spy on Me," by 2A Soundworks

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. 

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"Stop all the clocks! It's time for Four Weddings and, well ... there's really no great way of saying this but ... unfortunately there is also a Funeral. It comes as rather a surprise right in the middle of one of the weddings. Yeesh.

Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music!

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We're taking another week off this week, as some of us persist in trying to move across the country, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years this week, and we'll be back next week to talk about Four Weddings and, unfortunately, a Funeral!

A wonderfully surreal and slightly scary world awaits all those who are brave enough to crawl through the looking glass, speak their own secret names aloud, and become new initiates of the legendary Baby-Sitters Club. But this is just the beginning of the quest, and danger awaits: Will the boys be confounded by the deadly Puzzle Box, disoriented by the mysterious Map Game, or debilitated by the incessant ringing of Claudia’s terrible telephone? Answers: Yes, yes, and yes. Fortunately, these guys are professional gamers, so there’s probably no need to worry.

Music credits:

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy ⁠Scott Lamb⁠ for the intro music, and to ⁠Superbrat⁠ for the outro music.

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This week, famous author Jaime Green joins to talk about her new book "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos" and answer an age-old question: Would a sexy Jeff Bridges alien know how to kiss real good?

Preorder Jaime's new book here, or wherever you get books!

Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music!

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