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Book Club: The Babysitters Club Super Special #5, California Girls · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this Sanny and Samantha.
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Speaker 2: I'm welcome to stuff. I ever told your prediction to
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Speaker 2: buy her radio?
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Speaker 1: And today for the Feminist Book Club? Is this gonna
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Speaker 1: be out on Friday? Annie, I can't remember.
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Speaker 2: It comes out on Wednesday?
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Speaker 1: Was it coming on Wednesday? So Feminist Book Club? Wednesday? Oh,
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Speaker 1: we don't have days for this one. Doing No, I
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Speaker 1: just blurred all of them together. That's fine, We're fine.
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Speaker 1: I'm fine, y'all. But with that, I think I'm just
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Speaker 1: really excited because we're doing a childhood classic, a favorite
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Speaker 1: of mine and probably quite a lot of you, especially
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Speaker 1: if you're around my age, our early millennial's millennial era people.
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Speaker 1: We are talking about The Babysitters Club, and we're specifically
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Speaker 1: doing this super special edition the Thick Ones, number five
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Speaker 1: California Girls. This is one of the ones. There's two
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Speaker 1: special editions that stick out in my head. It's this one,
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Speaker 1: and then there's a New York trip, And you know,
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Speaker 1: I guess I just really love the fact that they're
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Speaker 1: going on trips. And I don't know for sure, but
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty positive that this book made me really want
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Speaker 1: to go to California as a Georgia girl. Teenager and
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Speaker 1: in my senior year of high school, my best friend
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Speaker 1: at the time and I went and visited family I
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Speaker 1: do have out there and had the best time. Y'all
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Speaker 1: shout out to that California family. This is written by
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Speaker 1: the creator of the series and Im Martin. Although okay,
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Speaker 1: so we're going to kind of go into the breakdown
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Speaker 1: of this series specifically. The series is giant and it
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Speaker 1: started in nineteen eighty six and was written by Ann
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Speaker 1: and Martin who was a writer herself, and she was
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Speaker 1: with newspaper specifically writing different articles, decided to do this
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Speaker 1: only four I think she had like little stories in
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Speaker 1: there with similar ish ideals, not specific about Babies Club.
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Speaker 1: Apparently this is based on another Babysitters Club a book,
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Speaker 1: and she was like, you know what, let's let's do this,
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Speaker 1: and now I'm gonna take it and do something different,
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Speaker 1: and she did. I will say she wrote the first
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Speaker 1: twenty two novels herself, but soon after that they ended
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Speaker 1: up having ghostwriters. I think by book number fifty eight,
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Speaker 1: the series was completely taken over by different ghostwriters, so
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Speaker 1: she was not a part of that after the fact,
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Speaker 1: and they have over two hundred and something books and
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Speaker 1: that's like they have spinoff series. They have graphic novels,
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Speaker 1: which I believe is still going bt dubs. Wow. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And we know they had some movies. I was very critical,
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Speaker 1: I will say of the movie when I saw When
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Speaker 1: I because I was very specific of my characters in
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Speaker 1: my head. But I liked it. I'm like, okay, okay, okay.
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Speaker 1: And also because I can't remember what age I was
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Speaker 1: when I started reading these. I can't remember if I
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Speaker 1: was older or younger about that age, so in my
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Speaker 1: head they seemed more mature than the ages they actually are.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, there are eleven and thirteen. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: oh dang. And this is obviously in the era of
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Speaker 1: when kids were riding bicycles and around the cul de Sac,
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Speaker 1: staying out and like being able to do whatever they
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Speaker 1: want without any supervision until they came home some you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, like going out in the neighborhoods
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Speaker 1: and everything was seemingly safe. Type of thing is that
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Speaker 1: they would have babysitters at thirteen years old, and it
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Speaker 1: is I've talked about the legalities. They have age ranges
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Speaker 1: in the state of Georgia. The how many hours that
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Speaker 1: you can babysit, and I think after the age of
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Speaker 1: fifteen you can babysit for however long. But I know
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Speaker 1: that I think a twelve is when you can babysit
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Speaker 1: for like three hours. Here in Georgia, there's specific laws.
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Speaker 1: I had to go back and look and I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure that's correct. But all that to say is so
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Speaker 1: it was during a time where this was not seemingly
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Speaker 1: as dangerous as it is today, social media, all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and we know that it happens. You need babysitters and
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Speaker 1: sometimes the only people available are young teenagers, and you
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Speaker 1: hope and pray to God that they're responsible. And if
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Speaker 1: you have a whole club that has a whole organization,
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Speaker 1: you think, yeah, shoot, they're very responsible. We love to
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Speaker 1: see it. Anyway back into yes, so the Super Special
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Speaker 1: were like others where Anna Martin may have written the
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Speaker 1: earlier editions of the book, but eventually it would be
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Speaker 1: handed off to the ghostwriters. In one article I read,
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Speaker 1: it says that she called she being Anne, and Martin
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Speaker 1: called the ghostwriters the League of Superwriters. So at least
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Speaker 1: they had a fun name or something along those lines.
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Speaker 2: That's something.
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Speaker 1: And there was a giant crew of them, so I
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Speaker 1: believe the one we're reading, which is again number five
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Speaker 1: California Girls, she was a part of at the very
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Speaker 1: least she oversaw the chunk of it and it is
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Speaker 1: credited to her specifically and alone, which I didn't see
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Speaker 1: on too many of those. And again according to different
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Speaker 1: fan sites and Wikipedia sites, they actually give you the
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Speaker 1: structure of how the novel goes and it's pretty correct.
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Speaker 1: So from the Wikipedia side, they write, with the exception
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Speaker 1: of Super Specials and Super Mysteries, the novels are written
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Speaker 1: and narrated from one character's point of view. The novels
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Speaker 1: generally follow this format. Chapter one introduction to character, beginning
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Speaker 1: of plot, chapter two, description of the club and its
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Speaker 1: members along with the characters family, and chapters three to
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Speaker 1: fifteen continuation of plot and conclusion, usually accompanied with a subplot.
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Speaker 1: So for the Super Specials though, you get different characters
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Speaker 1: point of view, so each chapter is a different characters
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Speaker 1: a point of view or whatever they're going through, and
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Speaker 1: I actually really appreciate that. Maybe that's why I liked
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Speaker 1: the Super Specials the most. Also, again it was thickest,
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Speaker 1: the more pages, so I enjoyed that. Also, I forgot
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Speaker 1: about the postcards. I love that each of those stories though,
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Speaker 1: do have a journal entry, because that's what Christy makes
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Speaker 1: them do, and it gives a journalist and I believe
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Speaker 1: that's at the beginning of those this though, they have postcards,
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Speaker 1: and they were really fun to read.
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Speaker 2: Also, they were fun to read. I have to say,
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Speaker 2: two weeks in California. My goodness, what a trip they've won.
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Speaker 2: But I really appreciated the postcards because I've never read
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Speaker 2: The Babysitters Club. I did buy you the board game,
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Speaker 2: which I'm we need to play that game. I want
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Speaker 2: to play it. But the postcards were really useful for
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Speaker 2: me because I could keep track of whose point of
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Speaker 2: view it was per chapter. So I would say, about
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Speaker 2: halfway in, I've figured out, oh, this character is the
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Speaker 2: one the dancer of this one is the you know what?
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. But at first the postcards
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Speaker 2: are really useful for me.
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Speaker 1: You're right. So I will say in each of the
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Speaker 1: books that they give you a breakdown of each character
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Speaker 1: and those are the parts. After like book four, You're like, okays,
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Speaker 1: get this part, which I did. But sometimes there's like
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Speaker 1: important information I'm like, oh, I didn't realize because it
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Speaker 1: kind of gives you a hint, Yeah, something's changing or
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Speaker 1: something's coming up. So but yes, and from what I read,
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Speaker 1: this series was the first children's series to hit the
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Speaker 1: New York bestsellers list, so this kind of became like, ooh,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember when Judy Bloom and the Romona
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Speaker 1: series came out.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I was reading it. I read
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Speaker 2: the Romona series, Yeah he did?
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Speaker 1: I read one or two?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I read them.
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Speaker 1: I still have uh so, Babysitters Club, Nancy Drew Hardy Boys.
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Speaker 1: I didn't get into Sweet Valley High because my mother wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: That mean why they were getting up to shenanigans in there?
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Speaker 1: Yes, they were naughty according to my mom. I don't
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Speaker 1: really think she's ever read them. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: she said. I couldn't read them to be honest, city
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Speaker 1: Girls whatever apparently, but I could read Gone with the Wind.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Moving on.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So with that, let's get into it, shall we.
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Speaker 1: For this series, we're going to do it a little
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Speaker 1: differently than other book clubs. Instead of doing the whole
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Speaker 1: plot and in themes, I'm gonna break this down the
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Speaker 1: plots by character, and then we're also gonna go ahead
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Speaker 1: and do the themes within that character, because each character
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Speaker 1: have their own things happening, so they're learning their own
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Speaker 1: different lessons. There's a lot of good things, So we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna do it that way instead of trying to
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Speaker 1: do it a cohesive plot line. That makes sense because
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Speaker 1: this is one of those that you could read different
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Speaker 1: chapters and it kind of gives you a follow up
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Speaker 1: or a preview of what the next character is about
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Speaker 1: to get into. But they're all in its own stuff,
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Speaker 1: in its own stuff, linked but not linked type of thing,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's how I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do it. We're going to start it with Don, who
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Speaker 1: is kind of the pinpoint of the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: story because they end up going to her parents' house,
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Speaker 1: So Don who is an alternate, and I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: ahead and let you know the positions in the Babysitters Club. Actually,
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Speaker 1: you know what, let me pause. I'm gonna tell you
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Speaker 1: about the Babysitters Club because I guess if you don't
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Speaker 1: know what they are and who they are, this doesn't
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Speaker 1: all make sense. So essentially a breakdown of this is Christy,
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Speaker 1: who is the president and founder of the Babysitters Club,
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Speaker 1: was going through this whole thing of trying to arrange
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Speaker 1: babysitters for her siblings and it was big ordeal. But
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Speaker 1: she had a group of friends and they all came
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Speaker 1: together and decided they're going to start this organization in
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Speaker 1: Stony Brook, Connecticut, which he has is fictional and in
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Speaker 1: this area there's all these kids, and who's going to
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Speaker 1: watch all of these kids? And Christy said, I got it.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be me. So she is the founder. She
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Speaker 1: has some strict rules. She is a leader, she is
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Speaker 1: a coach. She is the old oldest child in her family.
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Speaker 1: That should make that little more sense. So with that,
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Speaker 1: she is the president. Created at the Babysitters Club and
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Speaker 1: the way it runs, we have VP Claudia, who is
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Speaker 1: an Asian American girl, I believe she's Japanese, who is
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Speaker 1: very artistic, very like type B, all about like styles
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Speaker 1: and earrings and being a little bit eccentric, not the
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Speaker 1: most academic, unlike her sister Janine, who is very very academic.
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Speaker 1: So she you will see her writings always misspelled, always
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Speaker 1: always misspelled, and kind of messy handwriting, but her artwork
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Speaker 1: is on point. And she loves a good snack. Also,
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Speaker 1: she is the only one in the group that has
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Speaker 1: her own private line and phone. That's very important because
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Speaker 1: the landlines at the times, if you all were like
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Speaker 1: connected together, you couldn't get the calls you need. So
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Speaker 1: she became VP mainly because the location of the meetings
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Speaker 1: were held at her house and that is the headquarters
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Speaker 1: and center area. So that and then we have Stacy
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Speaker 1: who is the treasurer because she's wonderful with money. She
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Speaker 1: is actually really good with math, so she is the
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Speaker 1: one responsible in getting the dues, and they get dues
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Speaker 1: so they can pay off for snacks, for supplies because
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Speaker 1: they all come in with babysitter supplies and get it together,
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Speaker 1: and then also paying for the bills like the phone bill.
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Speaker 1: Very nice of them. We have Mary Anne, who is
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Speaker 1: very Type A and very shy, very very shy. She
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Speaker 1: is a club secretary because she is really organized, like
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Speaker 1: during the strip she has already planned for everything, which
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Speaker 1: is funny because I like to be ahead and plan
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Speaker 1: for everything, but I am not Type A in any
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Speaker 1: way at place way. Anyway, moving on, she also has
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Speaker 1: a boyfriend, Logan that's one of the earlier books. And
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Speaker 1: he is an alternate member. He's not really big hair,
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Speaker 1: but just so you know, she's the one of the
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Speaker 1: few that has the boyfriend here. Actually, Christy has a
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Speaker 1: boyfriend too. His name is Bart. He's not a part
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Speaker 1: of it though, he's not a part of the club anyway.
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Speaker 1: Moving on, then we have Jesse, who is a junior officer.
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Speaker 1: She is an eleven year old. She is also African American,
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Speaker 1: of the only black members of this group. And she
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Speaker 1: is also a ballerina, really really really good dancer from
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Speaker 1: what I understand as an eleven year old, though she
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Speaker 1: cannot babysit after dark, so there's very limited that's why
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Speaker 1: she's a junior officer. Her best friend is Mallory, who
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Speaker 1: is a redhead, very descriptive of being a redhead, also
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Speaker 1: a junior officer, also eleven years old, also cannot do
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Speaker 1: past dark, so they do the daytime babysitting only. So
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Speaker 1: those are the babysitters clubs. So they all came together
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Speaker 1: formed this amazing club. Very organized because they have to
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Speaker 1: keep notes, they have to journal their every client. They
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Speaker 1: have f twit. Marianne is the one that knows everybody's
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Speaker 1: schedule and so is able to arrange the weekly schedules
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Speaker 1: for different people, and yeah, you're very successful, so successful
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Speaker 1: that they inspire others to create similar clubs. Back to
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Speaker 1: that later, but there you go. So that's the setup
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Speaker 1: of the Babysitters Club. Again. There are some alternates. I
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Speaker 1: believe Shannon is one of them, who is a friend
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Speaker 1: of Stacy. Again, Logan who is the boyfriend he also
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Speaker 1: helps babysit. And a girl named Abigail or Abby at
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Speaker 1: least she is Christie's friend. We don't see hoo much
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Speaker 1: with them, but every now and then they come into play.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. For the series, Dawn is going
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Speaker 1: to be the beginning of the story because at this
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Speaker 1: point she's telling how they had won the lottery. They
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Speaker 1: didn't exactly win the lottery, but it had come up
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Speaker 1: pretty high in number, so they decided to buy tickets
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Speaker 1: through their parents because you're not supposed to buy tickets
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Speaker 1: unless you're eighteen, I think, but hey, whatever, and they
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Speaker 1: end up winning, like they ended up getting five numbers
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Speaker 1: out of the six, and so they all won like
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Speaker 1: a thousand and something bucks, and they're very excited and
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Speaker 1: decided they wanted to go on vacation with it, and
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Speaker 1: their vacation would be to California, which is where Don
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Speaker 1: is originally from and where her father still lives with
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Speaker 1: her brother Jeff. So they're like, you know what, let's
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Speaker 1: go down there for a couple of weeks and enjoy
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Speaker 1: our time. Got on an airplane, got their bad airplane food,
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Speaker 1: watched the movie from a projector in the front. By
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Speaker 1: the way, Oh my god, the old days, and they
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Speaker 1: jetted off. It's a good old California, all right. So
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Speaker 1: we're in California, right. Don arriving, oh, finds that there's
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Speaker 1: another person with this family, and her name is Carol.
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Speaker 1: Carol and her dad have been dating for a little while,
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Speaker 1: and Carol had volunteered to help out because her dad
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Speaker 1: was not able to take more than a week off.
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Speaker 1: So for that first week, Carol is transporting about to California,
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Speaker 1: showing them what they want to see, taking them to
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Speaker 1: the beach. But Don is not a happy camper, and
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Speaker 1: to be fair to so surprize your daughter with a
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Speaker 1: girlfriend that you have not mentioned.
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Speaker 2: That's not cool, bro, No, that's truly not cool.
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Speaker 1: It's not cool, bro, especially when you're like, oh, I'm
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Speaker 1: spending a whole week with this woman that I don't
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Speaker 1: know that just infiltrated my life. What is happening? So again,
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Speaker 1: Don is kind of feeling that same vibe. She's like,
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Speaker 1: what is happening? Why is this going down? I hate
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Speaker 1: this situation? And the more she's getting to know Carol,
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Speaker 1: the less you like. She feels like Carol is trying
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Speaker 1: to act cool, like she's a part of the young
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Speaker 1: crew when she's an adult and should be acting like
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Speaker 1: an adult. There are moments when she thinks that Carol
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Speaker 1: should be intervening in what some of the other girls
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Speaker 1: are doing because this is not a great idea in
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Speaker 1: her mind, and yet she just lets it go. I
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Speaker 1: will say there are some obvious miscommunications that Don is
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Speaker 1: having because she won't let Carol be a part of things.
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Speaker 1: So it does seem kind of like if here. So
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Speaker 1: we're having a whole time with trying to figure Carol out.
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Speaker 1: Carol's being the cool woman taking them to the beach,
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Speaker 1: giving dating advice. Maybe not so great dating advice according
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Speaker 1: to Dawn to Claudia about you know, you should go
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Speaker 1: and get to know them and then change your ways.
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Speaker 1: But that's not what she was trying to say. But
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Speaker 1: in her mind, Carol just told Claudia to be different
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Speaker 1: for this dude who we'll talk about in an arlaiter time.
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Speaker 1: She also allows for Stacy to get into assumptionad against
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Speaker 1: with some older folk that Dawn introduced her to BT dubs,
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Speaker 1: but she's like okay and being like, are you sure
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Speaker 1: she should be allowed to do that? Okay whatever. Coming
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Speaker 1: back to Stacy's thing later, there's also a moment in
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Speaker 1: which it seems Carol has kind of encouraged Mallory to
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Speaker 1: completely change her looks and do things that in Dawn
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the crews knows that her mom,
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Speaker 1: Mallory's parents would not be happy about and let Carol
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Speaker 1: let her do that seems like a no no, but
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Speaker 1: okay whatever. So we have all of these interactions and yes,
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Speaker 1: Dawn's not the whole time, but a big chug of
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Speaker 1: the time is trying to figure out how to get
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Speaker 1: away from Carol. Yes, but as we go through it,
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Speaker 1: she starts kind of realizing maybe Carol is not so bad.
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Speaker 1: There are moments that we will talk about later times
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Speaker 1: when Carol actually steps up and acts as a responsible
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Speaker 1: quote unquote responsible adult and she starts to gain a
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Speaker 1: little more respect for her and she starts to realize
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Speaker 1: that maybe her opinions are biased.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, she had a a real let me introspective moment, like,
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Speaker 4: let me think about where I was coming from and
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Speaker 4: why I've been acting this way towards Carol.
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Speaker 2: And I have to say she really what turned her
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Speaker 2: around was, in her view, Carol acting like an adult,
17:53
Speaker 2: like stepping in and taking care of a situation as
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Speaker 2: she thought in it adults should. It reminded me a
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Speaker 2: lot of kind of the evil stepmother trope. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: especially like in the nineties, we had so many examples
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Speaker 2: of that. But in this case it turned out for
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Speaker 2: the better in my opinion that that wasn't what was
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Speaker 2: going on. She just right was maybe scared of change
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Speaker 2: and a little resentful no one had told her, and
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Speaker 2: that that person is kind of inserting herself into her
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Speaker 2: friend group in all of these ways that she didn't appreciate.
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Speaker 2: So it was growth, It was a it was a
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Speaker 2: moment of growth.
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Speaker 1: It was growth we did. And she even tells her
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Speaker 1: younger brother, who ends up having like she, he feels
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Speaker 1: the same way, essentially not want to be around her
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Speaker 1: kind of He doesn't seem as vocal, but we don't
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Speaker 1: see his perspective as much, but she tells him give
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Speaker 1: her some space, give her a chance. And I did
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Speaker 1: really love seeing that for her and for Dawn to
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Speaker 1: grow into that as well. As she finally tells her
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Speaker 1: dad and has his conversation with her dad about what
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Speaker 1: was going on, and he tells her I do love her,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, whoa again. I still have a small
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Speaker 1: problem with the father never mentioning this woman if you're
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Speaker 1: in love with her, right, like, bro, what are you doing?
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Speaker 1: But that's a whole other story. But with that, Dawn
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Speaker 1: really gives permission essentially and the go ahead for him
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Speaker 1: to move on. If the next steps are for them
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Speaker 1: to be engaged, then wonderful. To that point, she also
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Speaker 1: writes a letter to Carol explaining and apologizing for her
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Speaker 1: behavior and attitude beforehand and telling her she's really excited
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Speaker 1: to get to know her and that she really respects her.
19:37
Speaker 1: Love to see it. We love good ending to the
19:39
Speaker 1: point at the end they end up with like a
19:42
Speaker 1: lot of postcards or letters that they have as an epilogue,
19:46
Speaker 1: and she's like, please write to me. I would love
19:48
Speaker 1: to write to you. So they're talking on the phone
19:50
Speaker 1: getting to know each other. So we love to see it.
19:53
Speaker 1: We love to see growth. That's the theme growth. Next,
19:56
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Christy. Christy I loved because
20:00
Speaker 1: she is very matter of fact. She's a bossy know
20:04
Speaker 1: it all, but for the most part, she gets down.
20:07
Speaker 1: She knows how to handle things. The Babysitters Club is
20:09
Speaker 1: success to the point that Dawn had introduced them to
20:12
Speaker 1: her group of friends, The Babysitters Club to the group
20:16
Speaker 1: of friends that she has in California who created their
20:18
Speaker 1: own club called We Heart Kids. We heard Kids, except
20:22
Speaker 1: there's only three of them, and there's not a big demand,
20:26
Speaker 1: and they're a little less organized, and they don't have
20:30
Speaker 1: like our office hours, and they don't have journals. Oh,
20:36
Speaker 1: Christy was not a friend a fan. Christy who likes
20:39
Speaker 1: control and Christy, who likes to make sure that everything
20:42
Speaker 1: is exactly as is, was unhappy and she was very
20:46
Speaker 1: judgmental of this entire crew to the point that she
20:50
Speaker 1: got really competitive, which, by the way, she's very, very,
20:52
Speaker 1: very very competitive. That's one of the books. And that's
20:55
Speaker 1: how she met her boyfriend, perhaps part because they both
20:59
Speaker 1: have software teams that compete against each other, and you know,
21:02
Speaker 1: is the hate the enemies to Lever's trope right there,
21:08
Speaker 1: teenage level. But yeah, so she was like, you know what,
21:13
Speaker 1: We're going to show them up. So not only does
21:16
Speaker 1: she have Mary Anne who would come back to babysit
21:19
Speaker 1: one of the kids because they didn't have a babysitter
21:21
Speaker 1: for that time, but they also she decided to babysit.
21:26
Speaker 1: Apparently the nightmares of all the children's to the point
21:29
Speaker 1: where they are like the members of Wee Heart Kids
21:32
Speaker 1: were like, Eh, you might not want to do this,
21:35
Speaker 1: you might not want you They're really just trying to
21:37
Speaker 1: give advice, and she was not having it because she
21:39
Speaker 1: was like, how dare these amateurs tell me how to babysit?
21:45
Speaker 1: I am the president of the babysitters Club. And not
21:51
Speaker 1: only does she say, you know, I can handle it,
21:54
Speaker 1: she's like, you know what, let me take them on
21:55
Speaker 1: the Universal Studios, which, by the way, no, there's no
22:02
Speaker 1: way in hell I would take strange people to Universal,
22:04
Speaker 1: strange kids that I've never met.
22:07
Speaker 2: To my part, when I read that, I was shaking
22:10
Speaker 2: my head, stunned. I would never ever take kids I've
22:19
Speaker 2: never met before and had been warned were kind of troublesome.
22:23
Speaker 1: Kind of theme parts, right, they were like, they're nightmares,
22:27
Speaker 1: they're nightmares that no, don't do it. They actually told her,
22:31
Speaker 1: don't do that, don't do this, but she was not
22:33
Speaker 1: having it, and she took these boys, and boy did
22:37
Speaker 1: she have to like do some apologizing because she figured
22:41
Speaker 1: out real quick that, yeah, you know what, maybe I'm
22:44
Speaker 1: not the most expert of all children, and I should
22:47
Speaker 1: probably listen to other people, and I should also recognize
22:51
Speaker 1: that different people have different ways of doing things, and
22:54
Speaker 1: just because it's different from me doesn't mean it's wrong.
22:58
Speaker 1: So she does come come around eventually saying never mind.
23:02
Speaker 1: But boy, that judgmentalness high up there.
23:06
Speaker 2: She was ready, she was ready to prove them wrong.
23:09
Speaker 2: And I was worried for her. I was like, I
23:12
Speaker 2: think this is terrible.
23:17
Speaker 1: It didn't end horribly, but she definitely to be honest
23:24
Speaker 1: with you, right, but did you read some Okay, now
23:27
Speaker 1: we're gonna go towards the end because like the rides
23:29
Speaker 1: of the Six Flags, that like hits them. Yeah, but anyway, well,
23:33
Speaker 1: they they did bay fun, but that's that was Christie's
23:36
Speaker 1: time and she's learned her lessons, so we love to
23:38
Speaker 1: see it. Moving on to Mary Anne are very organized
23:52
Speaker 1: person who has a lot of little fears here and there,
23:55
Speaker 1: like he was very reticent about doing too many rise
23:59
Speaker 1: and too many things. One of the things that she
24:01
Speaker 1: didn't want to do was the like Hollywood and go
24:04
Speaker 1: see the stars home, and they did all that and
24:06
Speaker 1: it was very cute. One of the other things that
24:08
Speaker 1: she ended up volunteering to babysit Stephie, who is an asthmatic,
24:13
Speaker 1: and she was a little bit worried about that situation,
24:17
Speaker 1: but the girls from the Wee Hard Kids were like, now,
24:21
Speaker 1: you'll do great. She's wonderful. These other things don't need
24:24
Speaker 1: to worry. The only things that really set her off
24:26
Speaker 1: her emotional moments or something that's like too much that
24:30
Speaker 1: she can handle. So she was ugh. Now when she
24:33
Speaker 1: came in, Steffie was very shy, and it turned out that,
24:37
Speaker 1: you know, the reason she needed babysitters is because it
24:40
Speaker 1: was just her father taking care of her, who had
24:42
Speaker 1: to work. Her mother had passed away and with all
24:45
Speaker 1: of her ailments, her father was very protective of her,
24:48
Speaker 1: which is similar to what Marianne had grown up. Now
24:50
Speaker 1: she doesn't have the ailments, but she did have. Her
24:53
Speaker 1: mother did pass away at a very young age, and
24:55
Speaker 1: her dad was very protective of her, and she was
24:58
Speaker 1: very shy as well, much like Stephie, so she kind
25:01
Speaker 1: of understood where Steffie was coming from. They connected on
25:05
Speaker 1: this level that was just like amazing, to the point
25:08
Speaker 1: that Steffie was like, I wish you were my mother,
25:10
Speaker 1: and Mary I was like, I'm thirteen. Yeah, no, thank you.
25:15
Speaker 1: It were good, but no, but they did have a
25:19
Speaker 1: great bonding time and Steffie really loved being with her.
25:22
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Marianne the whole time was really kind
25:25
Speaker 1: of overprotective as well, because she was worried about the
25:29
Speaker 1: asthma and what would trigger her. And with the encouragement
25:33
Speaker 1: from the Wee Heart Kids that she took Stephie as
25:36
Speaker 1: well to the Universal Studios, which again at least she
25:40
Speaker 1: actually knew her and had met her and had hung
25:43
Speaker 1: out with her. But still, huh, who are these parents
25:47
Speaker 1: a lot? I know, let thirteen year olds take kids too, I.
25:52
Speaker 2: Know, And just the difference in the times is also
25:55
Speaker 2: starking the cost of the tickets, Like, no, you would
26:02
Speaker 2: not be taking these kids to get into these parks
26:06
Speaker 2: for that price. No, no, no, no, no no.
26:09
Speaker 1: No.
26:10
Speaker 2: Asthmatic child on the rides.
26:13
Speaker 1: Uh right, right, I'm like, are you kidding anyway, But
26:17
Speaker 1: they did and it went well, It went really well.
26:20
Speaker 1: Marianne was a little like nervous the whole time, but
26:24
Speaker 1: finally figured out that Steffie was okay and Stephie knew
26:27
Speaker 1: the limits that she had and was very aware of
26:30
Speaker 1: how to handle things. So very mature of Steffie as well.
26:33
Speaker 1: So we got to see Stephfie having a great time,
26:37
Speaker 1: the best time with Marianne, Maryanne having a good time
26:40
Speaker 1: and really bonding with Stephie on their last together times
26:44
Speaker 1: essentially last time that Marianne babysat. Everything was amazing. They
26:49
Speaker 1: had fallen into a routine. Steffie was so different from
26:52
Speaker 1: the first day, excited to see Marianne, excited to do things.
26:56
Speaker 1: They decided to do a picnic, which they had done
26:59
Speaker 1: the first day, as a way of, you know, saying goodbye.
27:03
Speaker 1: We see that Stephanie is very sad and very emotional
27:06
Speaker 1: about Marianne not being there anymore and how much she
27:09
Speaker 1: loved Marianne. And unfortunately this causes a n asthma attack
27:13
Speaker 1: and a little bit with just a little bit of panic,
27:16
Speaker 1: but everybody doing the right thing between Stephanie knowing how
27:19
Speaker 1: to use the inhaler and Marianne coaching her through it,
27:23
Speaker 1: bringing her in to giving her her pills, letting her relax,
27:27
Speaker 1: and then just letting her calm down, calling the father
27:30
Speaker 1: to letting him know what was happening. Very responsible, irresponsible kids,
27:34
Speaker 1: and sitting with her and working through why Stephanie had
27:39
Speaker 1: an asthma attack, and just understanding that just because they
27:42
Speaker 1: might not see each other that much doesn't mean they
27:44
Speaker 1: had to lose touch, and promising that they would write
27:47
Speaker 1: to each other and keep in touch as pen pals,
27:50
Speaker 1: and that she might even come back over because she
27:52
Speaker 1: and Dawn are actually step siblings, which I didn't explain earlier,
27:56
Speaker 1: but essentially Don's mother married man Arianne's father, who were
28:01
Speaker 1: high school sweethearts from way back when, and so their
28:03
Speaker 1: step siblings. So with that that Marianne may be back
28:06
Speaker 1: with Dawn and she could see Steffie. So very sad
28:10
Speaker 1: but very sweet ending. Yeah, I think there's so many
28:16
Speaker 1: themes to that. Again, when you I think part of
28:18
Speaker 1: the reason I thought they were older is because when
28:20
Speaker 1: I was reading these types of interactions, I at that
28:23
Speaker 1: age would have never been okay.
28:25
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she had thrown me into it in that
28:28
Speaker 2: situation park at the age of thirteen with another kid,
28:35
Speaker 2: an eight year old. I can't say what would have happened,
28:39
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure it would have been good.
28:42
Speaker 1: Well, i'd say thirteen, I did start working on the
28:44
Speaker 1: dairy Queens.
28:45
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, I was responsible. I was
28:47
Speaker 2: a responsible kid. But there's just like yeah, snars like that.
28:52
Speaker 2: It's a lot to keep track of into your mind.
28:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, right. I had a lot of supervision when I
28:59
Speaker 1: was working at There's no supervision in baby saying anyway.
29:02
Speaker 1: But Marianne did a great job, and she learned a
29:05
Speaker 1: lot about like trusting and understanding about asthma and how
29:09
Speaker 1: to navigate that with specialities like that, and being able
29:13
Speaker 1: to communicate well, and also understanding and talking to children
29:16
Speaker 1: who had a lot in common with her. So it
29:18
Speaker 1: was a beautiful ending and they also are corresponding at
29:23
Speaker 1: the end of the book and it's really sweet. Then
29:26
Speaker 1: we move on to Stacy our treasurers Slash thrill Seeker,
29:30
Speaker 1: who two facts, She's actually from New York and she
29:33
Speaker 1: is severe type one diabetes, which I learned a lot
29:36
Speaker 1: about diabetes thanks to her character. As well as the
29:39
Speaker 1: fact that they did go to a doctor specifically about
29:43
Speaker 1: consultation about this character. So from what I understand, it's
29:46
Speaker 1: right on point. Some of the descriptors on when she
29:49
Speaker 1: goes through, like episodes of having too high of a
29:52
Speaker 1: blood sugar are too low. It's really interesting because I
29:55
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, it was very vivid. So I will
29:58
Speaker 1: say kudos to teaching so many people about diabetes. So
30:02
Speaker 1: many young girls about diabetes are like dang. But she
30:06
Speaker 1: is also our THREELL seeker. She loves a good adventure,
30:09
Speaker 1: this one and she decided coming to California meant surfing.
30:13
Speaker 1: So their first day at the beach, she saw a
30:16
Speaker 1: sign for surf lessons and immediately jumped up with the
30:20
Speaker 1: approval of Carol, to learn to surf. And she was
30:24
Speaker 1: pretty good at it, like she was able to get
30:26
Speaker 1: up and do the things and really feeling that high
30:29
Speaker 1: and being able to do this type of sport. She
30:33
Speaker 1: did it again and again and again, and then came
30:36
Speaker 1: back the next day did it again. And this is
30:38
Speaker 1: when she's like, I can't get enough, and Dawn says, oh,
30:41
Speaker 1: she's got the surf bug because she was having so
30:44
Speaker 1: much fun even trying to do it on her own.
30:47
Speaker 1: She didn't listen to her instructor. He was like, you
30:49
Speaker 1: could have gotten really hurt. But she's like, no, no, no,
30:51
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. So she was really excited and
30:55
Speaker 1: chasing that high. From then, Dawn decided to introduce her
30:58
Speaker 1: to some of her older friends, who are seeing seventeen
31:00
Speaker 1: eighteen white too old to be hanging out with a
31:02
Speaker 1: thirteen year old. I'm very concerned about the situation. By
31:04
Speaker 1: the way, why is Dawn friends with a seventeen eighteen
31:07
Speaker 1: year old? I digress. Moving on, she introduces to them
31:12
Speaker 1: and they are excited and allow her to join them
31:15
Speaker 1: to go for surfing. So has she becomes kind of
31:17
Speaker 1: mia with a group and starts hanging out with older kids.
31:21
Speaker 1: And we automatically should understand when you're coming around older kids,
31:25
Speaker 1: especially when it's from a different area, you try to
31:28
Speaker 1: be cool. You gotta prove yourself as cool, especially if
31:31
Speaker 1: you're thirteen. You want you don't want to look like
31:34
Speaker 1: a kid.
31:34
Speaker 2: You know.
31:35
Speaker 1: This is definitely stacy as well as loving the surfing.
31:38
Speaker 1: So the day one she gets picked up, dude name
31:41
Speaker 1: Paul is driving and has a little reckless but it's
31:44
Speaker 1: not too bad. They get there, they're having fun, She's
31:47
Speaker 1: getting encouragement from them, having the best time. After the
31:51
Speaker 1: third or fourth lesson, she's like, nah, I got this,
31:54
Speaker 1: watch me and decides to hang with them. I guess
31:57
Speaker 1: she's good enough because we don't really hear about any
32:00
Speaker 1: really big incidents outside of that one time we talked about,
32:02
Speaker 1: so she's loving it, having a cool time, great time
32:05
Speaker 1: with the crew. The next day, she gets picked up
32:08
Speaker 1: again while everybody else does their thing. Different driver name
32:12
Speaker 1: is bo b Eau. I'm sorry, that's a red flag move,
32:21
Speaker 1: but he is peeling out there to the point that
32:23
Speaker 1: she's like, oh my gosh, I hope none of the
32:25
Speaker 1: adults saw, because they're gonna be like who is that?
32:28
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Type of thing, And they were
32:30
Speaker 1: kind of like who is this and she's like, no, no, no,
32:32
Speaker 1: she's a's school. They're friends with them, so whatever, whatnot.
32:36
Speaker 1: He is a little bit of a reckless driver to
32:37
Speaker 1: that point that Stacy's like, oh, even, I know this
32:40
Speaker 1: is bad, but I can't tell him anything because you know,
32:42
Speaker 1: I can't be that child, and then realizes that maybe
32:45
Speaker 1: he is a good driver because we didn't die. Oh
32:47
Speaker 1: this is thrilling type of thing, so she continues to
32:50
Speaker 1: do adventures with him. Bo comes back and he is driving,
32:55
Speaker 1: and at this point Paul, who was like, oh no,
32:57
Speaker 1: he's doing too much, reprimends Boat, being like, dude, you
33:01
Speaker 1: need to calm down. BO was talking about slow drivers
33:04
Speaker 1: and all this and peeling about and uh oh get
33:06
Speaker 1: into a car accident. Yet obviously that he had caused
33:10
Speaker 1: pretty big car accident, like five cars are involved, thinking
33:13
Speaker 1: it's nobody seriously injured. Stacy had her seatbelt on. Seatbelt
33:18
Speaker 1: saved lives, and she feels like that really did help
33:21
Speaker 1: her to the point though that she got stuck, couldn't
33:24
Speaker 1: get out of the car because one side of the
33:25
Speaker 1: car the door was like jammed into the rail guard.
33:29
Speaker 1: So all these things. But during this time, Bo's like, hey,
33:32
Speaker 1: y'all need to lie for me because I don't want
33:34
Speaker 1: to get in trouble. We're going to say that dude
33:36
Speaker 1: in front of us slammed down his brakes and I
33:38
Speaker 1: had to move out the way. Everybody but she and
33:40
Speaker 1: Paul were like yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Weirdly, she was like,
33:43
Speaker 1: I'm not cool with lying to cop Sollo, especially coming
33:47
Speaker 1: out and seeing how bad the wreck was like she
33:49
Speaker 1: understood how the situation was and it was Bo's fault
33:52
Speaker 1: and he could have killed someone. So she comes in
33:56
Speaker 1: and she tells the police the truth. Oh the crew
33:58
Speaker 1: does not like it and give her dirty looks. She
34:00
Speaker 1: knows she's never gonna see them again. Feels kind of bad,
34:03
Speaker 1: but at the same time, she ain't gonna lie. She went
34:05
Speaker 1: to the hospital because she started crying. First, they checked
34:08
Speaker 1: her out, no serious injuries outside of the bruising and
34:10
Speaker 1: the aching, which you know. And then she called and
34:13
Speaker 1: the person who answered the phone at Don's house was Carol,
34:18
Speaker 1: and Carol's like, yes, I'll be there in just a
34:21
Speaker 1: few minutes. So she and Dawn come rushing to the
34:23
Speaker 1: hospital to pick her up, crying and hugging each other,
34:26
Speaker 1: and Carol lets her know, you know what I have
34:28
Speaker 1: to tell Don's dead. We can't hide this, and they're
34:31
Speaker 1: all mad that they go. But that's how you were
34:33
Speaker 1: one of us. And this is the point that Dawn
34:35
Speaker 1: starts realizing, oh, maybe she is respectful of and she
34:38
Speaker 1: is an actual responsible adult. Cool Cool, Cool comes back.
34:42
Speaker 1: They tell the father. They do it in a great way.
34:44
Speaker 1: Carol does a good job in handling the situation. I
34:47
Speaker 1: will also agree, Down is kind of watching and Stacy's
34:50
Speaker 1: really upset and embarrassed at this point, but it has
34:53
Speaker 1: to be done. And this is when the father, Don's
34:56
Speaker 1: father is like, we have to call your parents.
34:58
Speaker 2: Oh.
34:58
Speaker 1: That did not go well well in Stacy's minds. She
35:02
Speaker 1: did not want that to happen. But as they did
35:04
Speaker 1: it where they explained to the parents for ours and
35:06
Speaker 1: she talked to them, everything was fine and they were
35:09
Speaker 1: accepting of everything. And also he was like, you and
35:10
Speaker 1: I had never see those kids again, rightly so and again,
35:15
Speaker 1: like I said, it was during this time that Stacy
35:17
Speaker 1: was really upset with Carol, but Down understood and explained
35:20
Speaker 1: the situation. Was like, hey, it's kind of like if
35:22
Speaker 1: we were babysitting and we try to lie to the parents,
35:24
Speaker 1: we can't be doing that. And they're like, oh, yeah,
35:26
Speaker 1: you're right. And everybody came together with a consistence of
35:29
Speaker 1: like okay, cool, cool cool. All that to say is
35:31
Speaker 1: Stacy kind of realized, mmm, maybe being cool. And when
35:35
Speaker 1: those little kids were not the best and I missed
35:37
Speaker 1: my friends.
35:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot of themes when I was
35:42
Speaker 2: reading it, and I was like, I remember this point
35:44
Speaker 2: in my life too, but the point where I usually
35:48
Speaker 2: was the person who was jealous. I wasn't a person
35:52
Speaker 2: making cool friends, but I was jealous of my friend for,
35:56
Speaker 2: in my mind, making cool friends and abandoning me. But
36:02
Speaker 2: having that, you know, she's got these cool older surfer friends.
36:08
Speaker 2: Although if you turn it around, it's not so cool
36:10
Speaker 2: they're hanging out with a thirteen year old, But.
36:13
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I was like, why are they hanging
36:15
Speaker 1: out at.
36:15
Speaker 2: Thirteen When you're the thirteen year old? You think this
36:19
Speaker 2: is very very cool. I've been accepted, yes, yes, But
36:23
Speaker 2: having that that kind of dynamic of finding a new
36:28
Speaker 2: a new group and then realizing actually I'm good, Yeah,
36:35
Speaker 2: actually this is the one to be. Yeah, I thought
36:37
Speaker 2: it was cool. It's not cool.
36:41
Speaker 1: She's gonna be eighteen. We're looking back and be like,
36:43
Speaker 1: would I hang out with at thirteen year old? Yeah?
36:46
Speaker 1: I was like having your little sibling around.
36:49
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, I don't know. There's just something about them,
36:54
Speaker 2: like picking her up in their car and driving her.
36:58
Speaker 1: A stranger, complete strangers, like even the sibling part of
37:03
Speaker 1: like at least like they know each other and they
37:06
Speaker 1: know they this. I love the I love the sibling
37:09
Speaker 1: crews that really want to hang out together, because I
37:11
Speaker 1: feel that's rare, but still like their siblings, that makes
37:15
Speaker 1: more sense than this. Yeah, it's weird. Well, Stacy learned
37:20
Speaker 1: her lesson, and I will say she was kind of
37:23
Speaker 1: obnoxious to her best friend Claudia, which kind of was
37:27
Speaker 1: like a whole thing, and we're going to get into
37:29
Speaker 1: that now. So Claudia, she ugh found a boy. She
37:35
Speaker 1: was the one that found a handsome young Asian dude
37:39
Speaker 1: sitting on the beach reading by himself, and she was like,
37:42
Speaker 1: could not stop staring. And Carol suggested that she go
37:46
Speaker 1: to invite him over for lunch. She's like, okay, and
37:49
Speaker 1: they bring them over and he's talking and it's during
37:52
Speaker 1: this time Claudia was like, oh, he's smart, smart, like
37:57
Speaker 1: the book he was reading, the things that he liked,
37:58
Speaker 1: the things that he studied, just did not mesh with her.
38:01
Speaker 1: She was like, as, in fact, he reminds her of
38:04
Speaker 1: her older sister Janine, who as much as she loves her,
38:08
Speaker 1: they don' won't get along. They don't have a lot
38:10
Speaker 1: in common. This is not her thing. And she's like,
38:14
Speaker 1: I can't I can't complete this. I think it's over
38:17
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to Stacy. She thinking Stacy's like, oh, she's just shy.
38:20
Speaker 1: She's just trying to be this way that way. Gives
38:23
Speaker 1: him her number against her will, like against like not
38:26
Speaker 1: even her will, Like she didn't give permission, So she
38:29
Speaker 1: was like what. So he calls to ask for a date.
38:32
Speaker 1: Claudia is horrified but accepts and is very upset with Stacy.
38:36
Speaker 1: Stacy's kind a very dismissive of everything. Claudia says, to
38:40
Speaker 1: be fair, it did work out well, but still not cool, bro,
38:46
Speaker 1: not cool friend. Stacy was in her own mind and
38:49
Speaker 1: that one all that to say. They went on a
38:52
Speaker 1: few days, A lot of missteps happened. She just didn't
38:55
Speaker 1: talk much. She just kept saying yes. She was trying
38:57
Speaker 1: to pretend like she knew French. Ended up ordering Escargo,
39:01
Speaker 1: which she really hated. I like escargo is getting a
39:04
Speaker 1: bad rap.
39:05
Speaker 2: I think if you have bad escargo, then it's bad.
39:08
Speaker 2: But if it's good, it's really good. It's buttery, garlic.
39:12
Speaker 1: Buttery, and yeah, that's just tastes like buttery and garlic
39:17
Speaker 1: is delightful anyway, So that was a horror moment. She's like,
39:20
Speaker 1: I've embarrassed myself and I can't see him. It's to
39:22
Speaker 1: the point that she's crying in their car, talking about
39:25
Speaker 1: how he'll never see her again because she is not
39:28
Speaker 1: smart and g he's just too smart for her. And
39:32
Speaker 1: that's when we come to the advice of like, you
39:34
Speaker 1: know what, just be yourself. Finally, her sister who she
39:37
Speaker 1: talks to, Jannine, She's like telling her what's going on,
39:40
Speaker 1: and Jenny's like, you know what, you are interesting, you
39:44
Speaker 1: are cool, bring up what you like. Take him on
39:46
Speaker 1: something that's different. Do you set up the date? And
39:49
Speaker 1: she was like, you know what, you're right. So she
39:52
Speaker 1: invites him to go to their tour of Hollywood stars
39:56
Speaker 1: and all of the you know, touristy things, and they
39:59
Speaker 1: have the best time, to the point that she gets
40:03
Speaker 1: to finally let herself be herself. They're enjoying things. They
40:07
Speaker 1: held hands and he kisses her in the car, which,
40:12
Speaker 1: by the way, I was like, what you know, like
40:17
Speaker 1: he got to take his campus and he did in
40:19
Speaker 1: front of everybody, apparently no one noticed, which I found interesting. Well, okay,
40:25
Speaker 1: but all that just say is that she finally gets
40:27
Speaker 1: to the point that she understands that she could be
40:29
Speaker 1: herself and She's feeling like she's in love, sharing her
40:34
Speaker 1: love for art, listening to him about movies. She chose
40:38
Speaker 1: a movie that they went to that she wanted to see,
40:41
Speaker 1: so really feeling like they connected. Yes, thirteen year.
40:44
Speaker 2: Old in love the summer. Fine, the summer.
40:48
Speaker 1: It's not Summer's forever or any is the first love.
40:53
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like the thematically again, when I was
40:58
Speaker 2: that age, I believed I would find the perfect boy
41:04
Speaker 2: over the summer. Whenever I was like at the beach
41:06
Speaker 2: or whatever, it was, never.
41:09
Speaker 1: Happened, never, never happened. I will say again, I think
41:16
Speaker 1: I loved series like this because it included characters like Claudia,
41:22
Speaker 1: like she and I had nothing in common to be honest,
41:23
Speaker 1: like she is artistic and all those things, and like
41:25
Speaker 1: had cool parents that gave her her own phone line,
41:29
Speaker 1: did not have that, and she also kind of like
41:32
Speaker 1: I believe if one of the things that she did
41:34
Speaker 1: have were tiger parents as it was because they were
41:37
Speaker 1: very proud of Janine, but like her grandmother and she
41:40
Speaker 1: had the same spirit. It was really sweeten. Also, I
41:42
Speaker 1: believe there's one of the stories where she loses her grandmother,
41:45
Speaker 1: so like does grief in these books so really good stuff.
41:48
Speaker 1: But like I really loved her because it was an
41:53
Speaker 1: Asian girl being represented and that was so far view
41:56
Speaker 1: between tween and she had her own stories and she
41:59
Speaker 1: got to be the main characters and it was like, yes,
42:03
Speaker 1: so I need more of this. So I think she
42:05
Speaker 1: was one of the characters that really drew me into
42:07
Speaker 1: this book. It was because she had an Asian American
42:10
Speaker 1: in the stories, and though I didn't know everything like that,
42:13
Speaker 1: we didn't have a lot of commonalities, it still had
42:15
Speaker 1: representation and that's what I desperately wanted and having her
42:20
Speaker 1: in the book, having her on this like cover, seeing
42:22
Speaker 1: her picture on the cover, like it just made everything
42:26
Speaker 1: for me growing up in a very white neighborhood and
42:29
Speaker 1: white family. So seeing her she was one of the
42:32
Speaker 1: reasons I loved this series. But yeah, like her being
42:37
Speaker 1: able to meet another boy her like she is. I
42:40
Speaker 1: will say her and Stacy are the most boy crazy
42:43
Speaker 1: quote unquote in these books. So I didn't remember that
42:48
Speaker 1: Dawn had a story with an older boy. Oh anyway,
42:53
Speaker 1: moving on, We're going to Jesse, who is the ballerina
43:07
Speaker 1: who's in ballet. Like she's really good. It's not just
43:10
Speaker 1: like she likes ballet. She's actually very talented. There's a
43:13
Speaker 1: whole future. They're talking about her being like sent academies
43:16
Speaker 1: because she is so good and how much she loves it.
43:19
Speaker 1: In this one, she goes to California and gets to
43:22
Speaker 1: meet up with an old client of hers from Stonybrook
43:25
Speaker 1: who ended up being on TV. I believe it's probably
43:29
Speaker 1: like a teenage show that's on weekly ps one nine two.
43:34
Speaker 1: Was that the name of it? That sounds right? It's
43:35
Speaker 1: pretty close, right, So they are in that segment and
43:39
Speaker 1: she gets to hang out with them because they were
43:41
Speaker 1: really close. He brings her onto the studio show what
43:44
Speaker 1: it's like and what it looks like to be on
43:47
Speaker 1: the studio. She gets called up very cool to be
43:51
Speaker 1: an extra and they're like, we like your Look what
43:53
Speaker 1: a compliment. She was floating up for the days. They
43:56
Speaker 1: were even talking about she needs to get an agent.
43:58
Speaker 1: She would do really well, they should look into it,
44:00
Speaker 1: and she started thinking about maybe this is my future.
44:03
Speaker 1: At the same time, she and Mallory are starting to
44:05
Speaker 1: have some conflicts. Mallory is her best friend, but Malori
44:08
Speaker 1: is not acting like herself, so this kind of blends
44:11
Speaker 1: in and so this causes a lot of conflict, to
44:13
Speaker 1: the point like she's getting really frustrated and annoyed with her,
44:17
Speaker 1: but she tries to include her into things like bringing
44:21
Speaker 1: her to the studio and letting her look at these things.
44:24
Speaker 1: And Jesse's trying to navigate a couple of things like
44:27
Speaker 1: should she move to California, should she become an actor?
44:31
Speaker 1: Should she give up ballet? Is this the future for
44:35
Speaker 1: her at eleven years old, as well as the fact
44:38
Speaker 1: that her and Mallory are not getting along and she
44:40
Speaker 1: feels really upset about this and she doesn't know how
44:42
Speaker 1: to confront this. Later, she's still going through it. She
44:46
Speaker 1: and Mallory do make up after Mallory has to go
44:48
Speaker 1: through some realizations of her own. But you know, Jesse
44:51
Speaker 1: comes into understanding that she was really impatient and not
44:54
Speaker 1: understanding her really well, so they needed to have like
44:57
Speaker 1: a breakdown in conversation. So she was like, okay, and
45:01
Speaker 1: she was being very critical without actually giving her any
45:04
Speaker 1: good advice. So, you know, being too critical you could
45:07
Speaker 1: be upset, but always criticizing someone is not the way
45:10
Speaker 1: to go. And this is kind of where Jesse was like, oh,
45:12
Speaker 1: I did this wrong, let me let me apologize and
45:15
Speaker 1: then we all can come together and they do makeup,
45:17
Speaker 1: they do makeup, they do get come back together. And
45:21
Speaker 1: but Jesse also decides, you know what, I don't want
45:24
Speaker 1: to be an actor. I want to be in ballet.
45:27
Speaker 1: I miss ballet. And she starts stretching and doing her
45:30
Speaker 1: warm ups so that she can be ready when she
45:32
Speaker 1: returns and that her teacher does not get upset with
45:35
Speaker 1: her instructor. Then she's like, I need her to know
45:38
Speaker 1: that I've been working even when I'm on vacation.
45:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, good for you, I.
45:44
Speaker 1: Guess, really good. Dedicated to eleven year old. Maybe I'm
45:48
Speaker 1: just really not giving myself or in any eleven year
45:50
Speaker 1: old's credits because I'm like, well, if you're forced into it, yes, yeah, honest,
45:56
Speaker 1: you want something true if.
45:59
Speaker 2: You are in a field like that, if you have
46:01
Speaker 2: the passion and all that, it's more that and you
46:05
Speaker 2: and I struggle with this too, not being able to
46:08
Speaker 2: take a vacation, yeah, like having that, Well, I don't
46:12
Speaker 2: want the instructor to think that I wasn't right. Maybe
46:17
Speaker 2: you know, if it's your body and you want to
46:18
Speaker 2: keep limber and.
46:20
Speaker 1: Your muscles, you got care eleven at eleven.
46:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's more of my hesitation than anything else.
46:28
Speaker 2: It's that idea of you can't even on vacation.
46:34
Speaker 1: Like what is this teacher telling her that she feels
46:36
Speaker 1: like she'd better not be or mad? I'm like, right,
46:39
Speaker 1: are you? Are you okay? But yeah, she but she
46:44
Speaker 1: knows that she knows what she loves in that ballet
46:47
Speaker 1: you Gotta Love dedication That brings us to Mallory. Mallory
46:52
Speaker 1: has decided she is going to be a California girl,
46:56
Speaker 1: and that means tons of makeup and blonde hair, no freckles,
47:02
Speaker 1: no freckles, which is interesting because I think it's not
47:05
Speaker 1: too big of a trope because I've seen and being
47:07
Speaker 1: best friends with like redheads and who have like freckles
47:11
Speaker 1: and such which I wanted they didn't want, Like that's
47:15
Speaker 1: kind of that level. And she Malorie decides that she
47:19
Speaker 1: needs to be a California girl. Every time where she turned,
47:21
Speaker 1: they were all blondes and they were perfectly made up.
47:24
Speaker 1: I guess maybe she was on Beverly Hills, who knows,
47:27
Speaker 1: and on the beach. So immediately she decides that she
47:31
Speaker 1: needs to invest in makeup, and Carol decides to take
47:34
Speaker 1: her to one of the beauty museums where she learns
47:38
Speaker 1: a lot more about makeup, and then she gets to
47:40
Speaker 1: go to the mall. They go to the mall a
47:42
Speaker 1: few times, but the mall is the place to be,
47:45
Speaker 1: Like that's one of the things that they were looking at.
47:46
Speaker 1: They're like, the mall here in California is completely different
47:49
Speaker 1: from Stony Book, which is probably absolutely true. So we
47:53
Speaker 1: need to go take a giant trip to the mall.
47:57
Speaker 1: And they go and she goes into a place where
48:00
Speaker 1: she asked for the full treatment and apparently the woman
48:06
Speaker 1: we had the counter really excited to the point that
48:09
Speaker 1: she has just been in their entirety on makeup. But yeah,
48:14
Speaker 1: let's talk about the mall. Any the mall, Like I'm
48:17
Speaker 1: telling you, that was one of the moments of like
48:20
Speaker 1: excitement that they had planned to go to this it
48:22
Speaker 1: was the place to.
48:23
Speaker 2: Be when you were this age. Me and my friends
48:28
Speaker 2: we would just go on the weekends meet up at
48:31
Speaker 2: the mall. There was a smaller mall that was closer
48:34
Speaker 2: to my home, and even on the weekdays we would
48:36
Speaker 2: sometimes go to that mall and hang out and I
48:38
Speaker 2: would get smoothie and it was the best. But yeah,
48:41
Speaker 2: it was that mall culture was big. Especially, Yeah, I
48:47
Speaker 2: feel like with young girls because there were stores like Players.
48:51
Speaker 1: And you go in Disney Store, the Disney Store.
48:54
Speaker 2: I love the Discovery Store, but that's kind of a
48:56
Speaker 2: separate but yeah, the Disney Store was cool, but yeah,
49:02
Speaker 2: you would get you try to find these super cute clothes.
49:05
Speaker 2: In my case, I usually could not pull whatever and
49:09
Speaker 2: I was off, but I thought I could and then
49:12
Speaker 2: you'd get makeup that It was just like music and consumerism.
49:21
Speaker 1: The bright light, the escalators, the cinnamon, yeah, anti or
49:27
Speaker 1: the antims like those were the two things that I
49:30
Speaker 1: went for. With the Chinese food, the Chinese samples every time,
49:34
Speaker 1: every time, and I will say, like for me, and
49:38
Speaker 1: apparently this culture is back going to the Disney Store
49:40
Speaker 1: getting because they usually same stuff in there, which was
49:43
Speaker 1: interesting I think about it. But like the cookie Mansta
49:47
Speaker 1: T shirts, so like wait that was big, the big
49:49
Speaker 1: bird T shirts or whatever. Now I've seen high school
49:52
Speaker 1: seniors with kindergarten backpacks. Have you seen this trend? They
49:57
Speaker 1: want the animated small backpacks that are of some kind
50:02
Speaker 1: of cartoon character or like children's show character, And I'm like,
50:06
Speaker 1: what's happening. I can't say anything because again, when I
50:09
Speaker 1: was in high school. I was wearing cookie monster shirts.
50:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was the thing. You would just
50:16
Speaker 2: go to the mall and find the shirt of your dreams.
50:21
Speaker 1: Maybe and if it was no or no fear.
50:25
Speaker 2: I loved hot topics. My place too hot topic, Hot topic.
50:32
Speaker 2: It does still exist, but it got bought out by
50:34
Speaker 2: some something. But for listeners who don't know, this was
50:37
Speaker 2: like your goth emo store. I loved it.
50:41
Speaker 1: I had with cool lunch cards.
50:44
Speaker 2: Because I could go so often. It was also one
50:47
Speaker 2: of the one of the few places that I recall
50:53
Speaker 2: that had this sort of freedom that we've been talking
50:56
Speaker 2: about in this story. Where my parents would drop me
50:58
Speaker 2: off at the mall. Yeah, they they would usually like
51:03
Speaker 2: sometimes my mom would go to her own store, so
51:05
Speaker 2: she'd be there, but I was on my own with
51:08
Speaker 2: my friends in the mall.
51:10
Speaker 1: Right. I did that with my parents. Uh, Castalia is
51:15
Speaker 1: where we would like where I went to the mall
51:18
Speaker 1: and she would go to the Christmas store Carlon's, while
51:24
Speaker 1: I went to the Disney Store or Walden's. I went
51:26
Speaker 1: to the bookstore more. Yes, Walden's Bookstore was my place.
51:30
Speaker 1: Dalton Bookstore my spot.
51:32
Speaker 2: Yes, And we've actually talked about this before with Bridget
51:36
Speaker 2: that used to be a thing too. You would get
51:38
Speaker 2: like you'd go to Books a Million in the mall
51:41
Speaker 2: and you'd get a coffee inside or probably an overly
51:45
Speaker 2: sweetened frappuccino situation, and you would hang out with your
51:49
Speaker 2: friends in the bookstore this.
51:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think you were younger than me on
51:54
Speaker 1: this one, so I didn't do that. I wasn't right there.
51:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we did, was right there.
52:00
Speaker 1: I was already gone, I think outside of that. But yeah,
52:05
Speaker 1: for me too, it became like going to the mall
52:09
Speaker 1: was our escape because our mall was forty minutes away,
52:11
Speaker 1: thirty minutes away, and it was us driving, but it
52:13
Speaker 1: was not quite getting to Atlanta, like we didn't have
52:16
Speaker 1: to go off the small roads, but it was far
52:18
Speaker 1: enough away that we could do that because there was
52:21
Speaker 1: no other spots like that. But the mall was that spot.
52:25
Speaker 1: And now looking back, it's a dying thing. Yeah, I
52:32
Speaker 1: don't know, because it's kind of now changed into like
52:35
Speaker 1: what you see so outdoor shopping, where there's shopping around
52:39
Speaker 1: with all the stores. It's just not a mall, but
52:41
Speaker 1: there's all the shopping locations that you can go to.
52:44
Speaker 1: We have a spot called Atlantic Station and that's exactly
52:47
Speaker 1: what it is, which also against there will have anybody
52:51
Speaker 1: under eighteen past seven pm without adult supervision. Interesting, those
52:55
Speaker 1: use have been getting into.
52:56
Speaker 2: Trouble, that's true. Yeah, I've heard tell that.
53:02
Speaker 1: They've been. They've been like daring each other to co
53:06
Speaker 1: and like ransack some places. Yeah, just for the like
53:11
Speaker 1: video of it all interestingly.
53:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which is just sad because that that like
53:18
Speaker 3: kills the experience for so many other of the young
53:20
Speaker 3: uns who are just there because that's the spot that
53:23
Speaker 3: they can be just be with their friends.
53:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
53:25
Speaker 2: And I mean that's the other thing about them all
53:29
Speaker 2: is that usually it has like a movie theater and
53:36
Speaker 2: maybe bowling alley, Like there's entertainment options and food options
53:41
Speaker 2: and shopping options, so there's a lot for you to do.
53:47
Speaker 2: And and yeah, the lighting is very like I wouldn't
53:54
Speaker 2: say it's pleasing, but it's just a gott it's stimulating.
53:57
Speaker 2: It's stimulating.
53:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh I would gets so exhausted about well.
54:01
Speaker 2: You could not, like it's because it exhaust your You're
54:05
Speaker 2: getting too stimulated.
54:08
Speaker 1: Like I would quit. This is also why I hate shopping,
54:10
Speaker 1: though I think that might be why equal to him like,
54:12
Speaker 1: I hate this.
54:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I remember being this age and I
54:19
Speaker 2: loved Mary Kate Nashley and they had like a whole
54:21
Speaker 2: mall series of whole experience.
54:24
Speaker 1: But it just.
54:25
Speaker 2: Felt like one outfit could change your life, one like
54:29
Speaker 2: piece of makeup could totally alter your future.
54:35
Speaker 1: You've become someone you need yeah or perfect yeah, And
54:38
Speaker 1: that is exactly what Mallory is going for here. She
54:41
Speaker 1: wants to be that California girl carols to just temporary die.
54:46
Speaker 1: Not the greatest of suggestions, but she's like, go for it.
54:49
Speaker 1: You'll be your kid, You'll be you. And so she
54:52
Speaker 1: gets a temporary dye for blonde and apparently really dyes
54:57
Speaker 1: our hair to the point everybody's like, oh no, the
55:00
Speaker 1: amount of makeup she's wearing. It takes her hours to
55:02
Speaker 1: put on, which at eleven I did pick for makeup.
55:05
Speaker 1: My mother gave me face powder when I turned thirteen,
55:10
Speaker 1: face powder, light, lip gloss, clear mascare. That was my
55:16
Speaker 1: makeup till I was sixteen fifteen.
55:18
Speaker 2: My mom, now I know what she meant, but she
55:25
Speaker 2: told me when I was about the saying, she said,
55:28
Speaker 2: I'm worried what people will think of you if you
55:30
Speaker 2: wear too much makeup, and I was so young the
55:34
Speaker 2: whole episode. I was kind of like, what are you
55:38
Speaker 2: talking about? But now I'm looking back and like, oh,
55:41
Speaker 2: that's what she was trying to say.
55:44
Speaker 1: Yeah. Unfortunately, all that say is Mallory's really feeling herself
55:50
Speaker 1: after doing all of these changes, looking good and to
55:54
Speaker 1: the point again she has used all her money. In
55:57
Speaker 1: any of the events that she plans to do, she
55:59
Speaker 1: has to borrow from Jee, which is not going well
56:01
Speaker 1: for their relationship. She knows that Jesse's judging her and
56:04
Speaker 1: being snied about our comments, but Mallory's like, I'm gonna
56:07
Speaker 1: do me. She's just jealous, kind of a understanding, and
56:11
Speaker 1: then they decide, Jesse trying to be less judgmental, being like, hey,
56:17
Speaker 1: you want to come with me to the studio experience
56:20
Speaker 1: so you can see what it's about, and Malory's ready.
56:22
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, this is my day. I'm gonna be discovered,
56:24
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be an actress and no one can tell
56:27
Speaker 1: me nothing. So they go together and just like before,
56:30
Speaker 1: they need more extras and Jesse's like, I'm good, I
56:34
Speaker 1: did my thing. I don't need it anymore. So Mallory's like, oh,
56:37
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna try, and Mallory's absolutely sure this is
56:40
Speaker 1: her moment. And as she goes up and says me, me, me,
56:43
Speaker 1: the director's like, I'm sorry, you just don't have the
56:46
Speaker 1: look that we're looking for, that we need. And oh.
56:49
Speaker 1: She is crushed so much so that she could quiet
56:53
Speaker 1: on the way home. Decides not to go on a
56:55
Speaker 1: couple of things because she is crushed, and then she
56:58
Speaker 1: starts figuring, like trying to figure it out, and they
57:02
Speaker 1: confront her. Christie's like being Christie was like, Hey, the
57:06
Speaker 1: problem is you're trying to change about yourself and there's
57:09
Speaker 1: no reason for you to change, and now you've become
57:11
Speaker 1: like everybody else and you're not special, Liam, damn Christy,
57:16
Speaker 1: and they all kind of encourage her to say, you're
57:19
Speaker 1: amazing as you are. There's no need for this. We
57:22
Speaker 1: were all kind of worried because we know that this
57:23
Speaker 1: is something your parents would not like, and you did
57:26
Speaker 1: this kind of lying to your parents about what you're
57:28
Speaker 1: doing and wasting your money, and she realizes they're right,
57:32
Speaker 1: and also her parents are not going to be happy
57:34
Speaker 1: when they see her blonde hair and it's not coming
57:36
Speaker 1: out fast enough. So they all come to her rescue.
57:39
Speaker 1: Stacy and Claudia, who love makeup and wear makeup and
57:42
Speaker 1: have permission to wear makeup, buy her makeup from her
57:45
Speaker 1: and we'll be using that giving her some money bag
57:47
Speaker 1: so that she gets to pay jesse back with as
57:50
Speaker 1: well as they go to a drug store, find the dye,
57:53
Speaker 1: another temporary dye that's closer to her red hair, fix
57:56
Speaker 1: her up, and fairly they did a great, great job
57:59
Speaker 1: because no one knows. Once Day got back and she
58:02
Speaker 1: decides that she does enjoy being as who she is,
58:07
Speaker 1: and her and Jessie makeup and they live happily. No,
58:11
Speaker 1: they are great friends, and she has learned to appreciate
58:15
Speaker 1: who she is.
58:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have to say, that's a brutal that
58:22
Speaker 2: was a tough lesson.
58:24
Speaker 1: You have hurt.
58:27
Speaker 2: That's not the look we're going for. When you're like
58:30
Speaker 2: an eleven year old girl and you've put on the makeup,
58:34
Speaker 2: you've done all the things people have told you to do,
58:36
Speaker 2: and they are like, still know, actually.
58:40
Speaker 1: Yes, actually know, especially if you are comparing yourself to
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Speaker 1: your friend who was told they had the perfect look,
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Speaker 1: they had the right look, which exactly what happened. So
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Speaker 1: all of those things being I said, Mallory took a
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Speaker 1: hard lesson at eleven years old and has really learned
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Speaker 1: that she should really like who she is. We love
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Speaker 1: that for her, love that she didn't get in trouble
59:02
Speaker 1: with her parents. We love that for her she got
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Speaker 1: the experiment a little bit and now she knows she
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Speaker 1: Later in life, I'm sure she does a better job
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Speaker 1: with the makeup and doesn't need to dye her hair,
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Speaker 1: which I know there's all back and forth, but people,
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Speaker 1: I feel like we love like red hair is so
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Speaker 1: unusual to have it. But all that to say, all
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Speaker 1: the girls finally come to a point where they come
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Speaker 1: back together because for the first week they were going
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Speaker 1: through so many adventures Almo their own. They all kind
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Speaker 1: of get whatever is out of their system that bug,
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Speaker 1: whether it's the surfing bug, whether it's the California girl bug,
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Speaker 1: whether it's the I'm better than you at babysitting bug.
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Speaker 1: They all get that out and come together as a
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Speaker 1: group and start doing all the activities together, including going
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Speaker 1: to six Flags. And by the way, their description of
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Speaker 1: six Figs is funny to me because I'm like, oh man,
1:00:03
Speaker 1: those are the ninja being the best ride ever. I
1:00:06
Speaker 1: was like, that was the most painful ride outside of
1:00:08
Speaker 1: the cyclone.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 1: I loved it, but it hurt. It hurt me greatly.
1:00:14
Speaker 1: If you had earrings on, oh you probably blow.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they were rough roller coasters listeners, if you haven't,
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Speaker 2: so hard.
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Speaker 1: To do I have to say the waiting line. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Six Flags could be a whole other spiel because it
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Speaker 2: used to be we have one near Atlanta, and it
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Speaker 2: used to be I would go every year because of
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Speaker 2: school or for some reason. So I'm just very familiar
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Speaker 2: with all the rides at six Flags up until like
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Speaker 2: pre pandemic. I loved about this too. This it really
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Speaker 2: reminded me of the time I went to Disney World
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Speaker 2: with Marching Bands when I was in I was in
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Speaker 2: middle school and I was going with high schoolers because
1:01:02
Speaker 2: I was a band aid. I wasn't in band yet,
1:01:06
Speaker 2: and I joined marching band to go to Disney World
1:01:09
Speaker 2: because my parents told me we will never take you,
1:01:11
Speaker 2: so I had to find my own way and I did.
1:01:15
Speaker 2: But it just this story had so many of the
1:01:18
Speaker 2: things that I was like, oh my gosh, this, I
1:01:22
Speaker 2: connect with this, I connect with this, I connect with this.
1:01:24
Speaker 2: But one of the things that really made me laugh
1:01:26
Speaker 2: is when they were talking about all of the attractions
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Speaker 2: they wanted to see, and they said Disneyland Universal, not
1:01:34
Speaker 2: Sperry Farm, which if you've been in California, the ads
1:01:38
Speaker 2: were not Spvery Farm on the radio during like Christmas
1:01:41
Speaker 2: time off the charts. But the one that really cracked
1:01:45
Speaker 2: me up Medieval Times. Yes, I went to Medieval Times
1:01:50
Speaker 2: during that Disney World trip and it just made me
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Speaker 2: laugh so hard.
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Speaker 1: I've never been there was one in Atlanta. Outside of Atlanta, yeah,
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Speaker 1: because it still happen and it's a pretty big deal.
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Speaker 1: People love these things and I'm like, I don't. I know,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to eat old food will yelling at
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Speaker 1: people with horse maneuver. I can't.
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Speaker 2: I made a lot of mistakes at Medieval Times. I
1:02:19
Speaker 2: have to say, you're not supposed to touch the bowl
1:02:22
Speaker 2: because it's really hot. I did, You're supposed to use
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Speaker 2: the bread?
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Speaker 1: Oh? I heard that as b U L L. By
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Speaker 1: the way, it's like, why would you touch a bull bowl? Uh?
1:02:35
Speaker 2: Also, every time I've been, which is only three, my
1:02:38
Speaker 2: night is always the trader. He's always the one that
1:02:42
Speaker 2: turns out bad at the end. What I say, you,
1:02:46
Speaker 2: my friend, I don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll dig into that later. I think that's like,
1:02:51
Speaker 1: that's an analysis that we need to have. No, but
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Speaker 1: this book, Yeah, every time I have fun memories again,
1:03:00
Speaker 1: it like opened up memories about other books. As I'm
1:03:04
Speaker 1: talkt thinking, I'm like, oh, yeah, the New York Trip,
1:03:06
Speaker 1: and then The Dawn and the Elder Boy, and when
1:03:10
Speaker 1: Marian met Logan, and when I do remember reading the
1:03:13
Speaker 1: first story about Christy starting this club and then meeting Bart.
1:03:18
Speaker 1: I have a lot of good memories about these books,
1:03:21
Speaker 1: and I found it interesting that it's still kind of
1:03:24
Speaker 1: going with the graphic novels. I think, even though it
1:03:30
Speaker 1: is very like manufactured obviously, at this point it felt
1:03:35
Speaker 1: it was just good vibes, like it just made me
1:03:37
Speaker 1: happy and wished I could have that kind of group
1:03:40
Speaker 1: of friends. And that freedom took because also I lived
1:03:42
Speaker 1: in the po dunk areas. You're not walking anywhere to
1:03:45
Speaker 1: see your friends. That doesn't happen. If I try to
1:03:47
Speaker 1: walk to my neighbors, I would have been ran over.
1:03:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's something very comforting about having a friend
1:03:55
Speaker 2: group where they have their misunderstandings and they get angry
1:03:58
Speaker 2: at each other, but really they'd talk it out and
1:04:01
Speaker 2: resolve it, Yeah, which is not how it often goes
1:04:04
Speaker 2: in real life. But it was nice.
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Speaker 1: It was nice. Well, thank you Annie for going down
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Speaker 1: memory lane with me. What did you think about this
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Speaker 1: book overall? Oh, I thought it was fun.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was a very big throwback for me
1:04:19
Speaker 2: of a specific time in my life of when I
1:04:24
Speaker 2: when I, Yeah, I was going to the mall and
1:04:26
Speaker 2: I thought, like, these new outphanits makeup, they could do
1:04:28
Speaker 2: something for me. I love the plotline kind of tickles
1:04:33
Speaker 2: me that they won the lottery and they go to California.
1:04:38
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty fantastic. But no, it was very
1:04:44
Speaker 2: I also really enjoyed that they had a lot of
1:04:48
Speaker 2: elements I wasn't expecting, Like there was more than one
1:04:51
Speaker 2: divorced situation that wasn't super negative, but it was like
1:04:56
Speaker 2: a prominent situation in their lives diabetes asthma, like there
1:05:00
Speaker 2: were there were just a couple of things that I
1:05:02
Speaker 2: wasn't expecting that I liked that they put in there.
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Speaker 1: I think I think it's great. I am interested in
1:05:10
Speaker 1: wondering if, like any of the youth today have read
1:05:13
Speaker 1: these and how it translates, like, how does it hold
1:05:15
Speaker 1: out for them because obviously again like talking about landlines
1:05:18
Speaker 1: and talking about like mall, so what what are these perspectives?
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1:05:30
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