March 24, 2025 • 60 mins
"Fudge-a-Mania," chapters 9-10. Jimmy Fargo arrives! Fudge gets eaten by the rollaway bed! Peter falls in luv at the library! Judes packs the action and comedy gold into these two chapters of her 1990 follow-up to "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and "Superfudge." Jody and Molly discuss weird dads, bad moms, and our Most Judy Blume Moments of the Week. And Molly presents a fascinating Special Report on "Tell Me a Mitzi" author Lore Segal. It's a Judy Blume book club. Join us every other week!
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hi. I'm Jodie and I'm Mollie and you're listening to
the Bloom Saloon.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's a Judy Bloom book club. I'm so excited to
be here.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, it's a good day. We were just talking about
how springing it is outside. Mollie, you had a lovely
day of rolling in the grass.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I did not not for pleasure, for work. I was
doing a work product photoshoot in the grass in Griffith
Park and it was beautiful. But now my whole body
itches and I'm sneezing. So I rolled in something crazy, gang,
So stay woke.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh man. I've been inside pretty much all day, just
like I've been for the past few months. I've just
taken to couchworking. I just once you start and you
can't stop, I know. And I'm lying down laptop on stomach.
Not good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Actually, that's funny that you say work from couch, because
I was just doing getting my uh stuff prepared for
my taxes, and oftentimes they asked me like, did you
because you work from home, do you can expense things?
Do you buy for your home office? And I was
doing some mental math and I'm like, hmm, perhaps buying
a couch could couch towards my home office, because I
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am in my home office. It's like you have one
room in your house. But still, I'm gonna try to
that scam.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Let's see, it's not a scam.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Real the irs listening to this, You didn't hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I fully believe you should be able to write off
pets too.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I do think you should be able to write off pets.
Just another way in which people with kids and people
who are married have a privilege that m we do not.
So yeah, my cat is my dependent, damn it. Oh anyway,
a spring has sprung and we're here in the cocoon.
It's wonderful out, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I have some wonderful news. Forever has a date a
day humming to our screens May eighth, May eighth.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh that's so fun. Ooh do you think we'll do
episode recaps?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I yeah, I'm thinking about that. We should definitely talk.
Maybe we could figure out like, at least for the premiere,
we could do like a live.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Watch or now you're cooking with gas. I don't know
how to do that, but no.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Me, neither our bluemheads help us, but we it would
be fun.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, tell us what kind of forever content you would
like that'd be interesting. Yeah, well, I have some news
in that. I asked the Bloomheads if they had anything
they wanted us to talk about in today's episode, and
I got two comments. Let's see we got And that's
a reminder, Gang is you should find us oops on
(03:04):
social media where the Bloom Saloon podcast on Instagram and
we do a lot of fun stuff. So the first
message comes from Ella Phoebe, and Ella Phoebe has a
correction for us. Ella Phoebe said, I said, Molly oh no,
out loud to myself listening to the last episode when
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she said Pavlova is from Australia, it's from New Zealand,
the greatest rivalry slash debate between our two countries, but
it is New Zealand's.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I had no idea, sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
About that, and I did one Google search and she's
absolutely right. So I apologize to the great New Zealand
population of listeners. We have so sorry about that. We
have a message from Jess Oh and this was a
great one. Jess says, I know you guys are probably
so busy with your upcoming podcast schedules, but I just
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finish Smart Woman and want to hear what you both
think about it if you ever discuss it Love the podcast.
Have you read this book.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Jody, I haven't. It's one of the ones we need
to get to.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I honestly, just reading this one sentence description makes me
want to do it next, because I was thinking this
afternoon that, like next, I do want to do something
that's a little sexy, and so listen to this, it says.
Smart Woman is a nineteen eighty three novel by Judy
Bloom that tells the story of a divorcee who falls
for her friend's ex husband. Ooh, runchim sounds good to me,
(04:41):
So thank you, Jess. That's a really good suggestion.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Alison Darling, who's an admin in our Facebook group, wants
to clarify that part of a main smell could be
a paper mill. There's a paper mill there and that
could be making it smell a type of So Alison,
thank you for that comment. Don't forget. You can find
us on Facebook and on Instagram and always send us
(05:07):
stuff to be read on air.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We have a new review, Oh my God, from Dustin.
It says worthy of Ink five stars. This is the
only podcast I've ever listened to where I loved it
so much I considered getting a tattoo inspired.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
By the show What the Heck?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I didn't because tattoos cost money, but I'm considering it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh my god, Dustin, I want to know what kind
of tattoo you were gonna get.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Is it a catchphrase? Is it our logo? Is it
our faces?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I did you?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, that would be a little scary, but yeah, tell
us what you were thinking of. You can write it
in another review.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yes, absolutely, Just just keep writing reviews. Tell us all
your thoughts. I have thought in my life that I
would like to get a Judy Bloom tattoo. But I
know from certain other authors I used to love, who
are now huge pieces of shit, that you should maybe
wait until an author is dead before you do anything
(06:08):
permanent to honor them. So I hope Judy lives forever,
but should she ever pass, that's the only time I
would feel safe getting the Judy Bluem tattoo I want.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I think that's smart. Do you have you thought about
what it would be?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I think it would be funny to have just a
like name tattoo that just said Judy Bloom sowre on
my body. I think that would be so funny to
be like, oh my god, is that your girlfriend's like,
nay friend, that's children's and young adult book author Judy Blue.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know she has a great signature, just saying no.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I think I'd have to get this like chunky seventies
font somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I got it. I can see that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What if now? The other thing I've been thinking about
lately is I think it would be funny to have
a tramp stamp. Now in my thirties, tramp steps are
not cool anymore, But what if now I was like, Okay,
now I should get one. So maybe a gdy Bloom
tramp stamp in the future me and Dustin can match.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well now that low rise jeans are supposedly back. Yeah,
I definitely see a tramp stamp resurgence.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, okay, Well, honestly, bloomheads, you've sent us pictures of
your Western pictures, send us pics at your tramp stamps.
I'd love to see him. And if you're offended by
me calling him a tramp stamp, that's a valid thing
to say. I'm sorry, Jody. I would like to introduce
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a new segment today are you ready for it? Okay?
This segment is called I don't have a name for it.
This segment dares to ask the question, what's the most
Judy Bloom thing that's happened to you this week? Now,
this is a question that can be interpreted many ways.
(08:16):
It can be did you have something happened to you
in that is related to a Judy Bloom piece of media?
Did you reread a book like Jess just read Smart Woman?
Did you rewatch? Are you there God to me? Margaret?
Did you interact with Judy herself? That's one way to
take it. Another way to take it is if an
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element of your life resembled something that happened in a
Judy Bloom book. And since Judy Bloom has written about
all facets of life, this could mean anything from many
plane crashes happened in your small town, or you got
your period, or you wore velvet, or you ate a
really good sandwich. So, Jody, I put it to you,
what's the most Judy Bloom thing that happened to you
(08:59):
this week?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I had to think long and hard, but it came
to me. Yeah. Is last weekend I spent the entire
day shopping for purple earrings. So this is very Jude's
for two reasons. Purple is her favorite color. Oh, and
the second reason is because purple is very prominent in
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just as long as we're together.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, all the girls get each other purple gif. Oh,
it's just got a purple theme running through it. I
feel like if I had an aura, it would be purple.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Backstory is it's my mom's birthday coming up. She wanted
amethyst earring specifically, and she wanted it to be gold,
not silver. She wanted them to be not too small,
not too big. It was just like a very specific
type of ear ring. And I was like, I'm not
going to just go online. I'm going to go shopping
and support local businesses. So I went up to Solano.
(09:57):
It's a very long street, so I started at the
very bottom and then literally went into every shop that
wasn't a rug shop or a salon. Oh, like, do
you have purpeal ear rings? And I couldn't find the
right earring. It took all day, and then I went
into the last shop and I found the one. Wow,
(10:18):
And then I was like, this is what people did
I remember these all day shopping trips with my mom,
you know, to buy new shoes or back to school
clothes or whatever. It was so tiring.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Did you get lunch or a treat?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I stopped in to see a friend of the pod, Liz,
who works in a shop over there. So that was fun.
In a treat, she gave me a hot tip. Okay,
East Bay area bloom heads. There is a shop on Solano.
I'm forgetting what it's called, but they have these four
I think they're called lionhead bunnies. You know, they're like
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the little tiny ones that are very fluffy. They weigh
like two pounds and they just like hang out on
a table by the entrance, like on a coffee table.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And one of them was wearing a harness with carrots
on it, and so that was a treat.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I love that. Wow, that's a great answer. That's such
a Judy Bloom day.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, what about you.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think the thing that it was Gudy Bloom about
my week is I have been exercising my adult free
will by buying uncrustables sandwiches, oh when they go on sale. Yeah.
Back in the day, my mom used to say they
were too expensive, and I'm here to tell you she's right.
(11:42):
They are too expensive for what they are. And when
they are in my house, I'm going through them. They're
so good. And so I had a perfect uncrustable. But
then I went crazy style on it and I put
nacho cheese Doritos inside the uncrustable to report it was delicious.
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It was really good.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
So I'm so mad because now I have to have it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You have to have it. My coworker suggested plane lays next,
and I think that would be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So so, yeah, I've never had an encrusted You've never
had an uncrustable. They're just like the peb and J's
that are like smushed right.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yes, they're It's like it's like the sandwich version of
a Ravioli because the edges are crimped. Yes, And just
like when I eat a squishy, soft, simple sandwich. I
am thinking of Judy Bloom because I feel like that's
what all her characters are eating after school. So if
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I had that with a glass of milk, that would
be extra Judy Bloom. But since I'm in twenty twenty five,
I put Dorito's in it. But we need to get
you an uncrustable.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
They're really good, yeah, are they always peeb and J.
They have.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Grilled cheese ones, which I haven't tried because a hot
uncrustable sounds gross to me. And then they have peanut
butter and nutella ones, or they might just have just
plain nutella ones, which also sounds good. But yeah, they're
mostly PB and J. I was thinking recently like, ooh,
a savory and crustable, but I think that's a bridge
too far.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So yeah, well this was all very Jill Brunner of you,
so I guess. So I love this new segment. Bloomheads,
you should contribute to people. Let us know, uh what
the biggest Judy like? What are we calling this again?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah? Sorry, what's the most Judy bloom thing that happened
to you this week?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
The most Judy bloom thing that happened to you this week?
So catchy. I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's not really, but let us know because I'd be
interested to know it. All right, should we get into
this week's chapters?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, we are covering chapters nine and ten. Okay, here's
roll called this week, so we've got all the usual
suspects Peter who is older, Fudge who is five, Tutsi
who is a baby, and these are all siblings. Tutsi's
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like in the one to two range because it sure
seems like she's walking around. We have Grandma Muriel who
is Missus Hatcher's mom, and Grandma Muriel is older but
still very spry and used to own a gymnastics camp.
We have Missus Hatcher, who makes a good appearance in this.
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We have mister Hatcher, who is an admin who's taking
three weeks off, Uncle Feather who is the family's minor
bird Turtle who is the family's dog, and that's it
for the Hatcher family. Then on the other side of
the house, we have the Tubmans, which is Sheila who
is the same age as Peter, her older sister Libby,
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who I believe is fourteen or fifteen. In this we
have mister Tubman and Missus Tubman who are the mom
and dad, and we have Buzzy Senior, who is the
grandpa who appears to be Grandma's age. Then we also
have the Tubman's puppy, Jake. Then a few houses down
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we have Missus a short for Missus Apfel, who is
an older lady who lives down the street and she's
the grandma of Mitzi Appfell and the wife of Big Appfell,
who is a baseball player who we still haven't met yet.
But Mitzi is five like Fudge, and we learn this
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is kind of a subset of roll call, but we
learn that Mitzi has a mom and dad in Boston
and she has a little baby brother named Jacob. Then
we have two new hot bombshells entering the villa this week.
We have Jimmy Fargo, who is Peter's age, and we
have his dad, Frank Fargo, divorced and famously transient. Then ooh,
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speaking of hot bomb chill, we have Isabelle who is
sixteen and the library assistant in super duper Hat. Oh
that's the roll call for this week.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh my god, it's a good one.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, so stacked Cask.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We should also add the Amazing Crescan to the roll call.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Maybe he's just thinking that. Yeah, Crescin and his Crystal
make a huge appearance in this.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The Amazing Cruscan was this iconic mentalist. He was around
for like three decades, from the seventies or the nineties
and even until recently I just learned that he died
in December last year. He was with us until a
few months ago, Rip Crescan.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He said something like, if only the blooms and would
release an episode. Oh well, I guess I better die.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
No, we killed him.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Should have seen that come in Kresky Just kidding, Rip Legend.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
He was also in New Jersey and like Jude's so
I feel like she might have had a soft spot
for him. Chapter nine. This one's called Dizzy from IZZYOOO.
It's Friday, Peter. He's spending his time at the beach.
He's dilly dallying in front of the Apfel's house, hoping
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to run into his hero, Like can't you just imagine him?
He's like hands in his pockets, looking busy kicking rocks,
but he's like peeking at the house every thirty seconds.
Missus A notices him being kind of pathetic and she
comes out. He can't help himself. He is so uncool.
He blurts out that he's really there because he wants
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to ask Big a question about the game, and he's
like stupid, stupid, stupid, like he called him Big. But
missus A is so cool. She is the ultimate. She
gets it. She lets him know that Big is away
on a fishing trip for a few days, and he's like,
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wait a second, does this mean there's no game on Sunday?
No game on Sunday. She's been looking forward to this
ever since he heard about it, like just the day before. Probably.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, it's like that. Michael Scott memes like, this is
a dream I've had since lunch.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, this game is like being usurped
by this antique show. It's an annual antique show, and
we learned that this is very upsetting to Big. He
hates this antique show, so he goes away fishing so
he doesn't have to see it, which is so funny.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know what I'm confused about now is where was
Big that first morning that they came to missus A's house.
Was he like upstairs sleeping?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Maybe he went to Walmart?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, probably, that sounds reasonable.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And then the next day Mincy comes over. She's carrying
a book. She wants everyone to notice this book. She's like, di,
do do do see my book? It's called tell Me
a Mitsy And she is very very proud of this book.
Did you know I could read well? I can read too.
Can you read this? But this is cute? Uh fund,
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She says he can read. But Peter's pretty sure. He's
only memorizing the books, which is a feat in itself.
I think that is very impressive.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I used to do that. Really. My kindergarten teacher called
my mom one day and was like, this is insane.
She is reading aloud to the class these whole books.
And my mom asked witch books. And my mom was
fully like, oh no, she has a book on tape
with those books. She's memorized that. Oh busted.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh my god, so busted.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I will say, I do think, and I don't know
shit about shit, but I do think because I listened
to so many tapes of books growing up, I do
think it helped my vocabulary. I do feel like it
helped me learn how words were pronounced. Like, I truly
don't know how children are consuming media anymore, but I
feel like, if I ever have kids, I'm buying one
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of those old school like tape players and just playing
tapes for hours, because it really helped me. The Fisher
Price one Yes, or get strap up a Teddy ruckspin.
I don't care, like, let the children have tapes.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Fuck, yeah, yeah, remember when it used to be like, well,
if you're listening to it on tape, you're not reading,
Like I'm so glad that's over.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's I'll tell you what it's not over. I had
this argument with someone just the other day. So really,
it's a dumb thing to argue about. You miss me
with it because I have listened to a bunch of
books and retained a bunch of informations. So what do
you think, bloemheads? Do you think that listening to the
audiobook counts as reading? Or are you wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So back to tell Me a Mitzi.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
The name of this book is tell Me a Mitzi?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Is it? Pete?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That's what it says. And it's all about me and
my baby brother Jacob.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah you don't have a baby brother.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I do so, and his name is Jacob. Where in
Boston with mommy and daddy. He's not old enough to
visit Grandma. I'm big by himself. He can't even talk,
and he makes poop in his diaper.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Sort of Tritzy.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Oh my nose when Jacob gets changed.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I hold my nose when Tzi gets changed.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
One time, Jacob got into his diaper and he played
with his pooh oh, it was so bad. This conversation
is getting pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Let me see that book. How come it's about you?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Because I'm special?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Oh my god, this girl is special. So I know
you have a tell me a Mitzi special report. Let's
do that. After this put a pin in it. So
later that day, Peter, Fudge and Dad go into town
and get Fudge a baseball glove, his very own Mitzi.
They have one tiny glove and it's all for Fudge,
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and he's so proud of it. He's told that he's
got to oil it every day to make it soft,
and then he starts like punching into it like Mitzi does.
They stop at this little sweet library that looks like
a house, and Fudge runs off to find a book
he wants dunt dunt dump, but he can't find it.
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He asks for Peter's help, and then they go talk
to the librarian. Instead of a regular old lady librarian
like you would expect, they find a library assistant. Peter
notes that her eyes were a deep dark brown, like
the best chocolate. So Fudge goes up to this assistant
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and says.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Do you have to tell me a Fudge pardon, tell
me a fudge. That's the book I want.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It doesn't sound familiar.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It could be called tell me a Farley.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Did you look it up in the card catalog? No, well,
let's give it a try. Our computers down today. By
the way, she's reading a book called Beginner's Love, and we.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Know what book that is. Tell me it's Norma Kleine.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Now you are making a sound like I know who
that is and who is.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh well, deep cut into bloom Saloon history. We read
a Norma Kline book years ago, years and years ago
called Domestic Arrangements.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Well, now I'm embarrass It's okay, so I can cut
this out. No, no, no, leave it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So Norma Kline was Judy's contemporary, but for some reason
just didn't become the household name that Judy did well
because she didn't write kids' books. She was very steamy,
very teeny, so much sex. All her books were like
Forever but like. Beginner's Love is one of her more
famous ones, published in nineteen eighty three. Very typical Norma.
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I haven't read it, but it's teens doing sex and
getting crazy and it's written from the boy's perspective. Joel's perspective.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Unfortunately our school didn't have this in the library had forever,
so I haven't read it. We should read it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I really want to, because it has the cover, which
indeed looks steam May and the subtitle on the cover says,
Juel is seventeen, shy and inexperienced. Leita has a lot
to teach him, which I wonder if Judy Bloom is
putting that book in here specifically because it's about an
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inexperienced boy and an older girl, because that's kind of
what's going on with Izzy and Peter.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh damn it, Judy, Judy's slipping it into her kid lit.
I do want to read that book, though, so maybe
it can be a contender for our next book. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oooh okay, I'm sorry I interrupted.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
No, No, this is very important work. So we love
this for Izzy the library assistant.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, so she puts Beginner's Love down and they're gonna
go look at the card catalog. What's your name Isabelle,
but my friend's call me is isy Isy. I like that.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
What's yours Farley, but my friends call me Fudge.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh what an interesting name? Hm, we have tell me
a missy and tell me a Trudy. But I don't
see tell me a Fudge or tell me a Farley.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
It has to be there.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nope, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Fudge scrunches up his face. He's getting ready to scream,
and he says it's not fair, it's not fair. He's
banging his fists on the floor.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Oh my gosh, he's having a fo blown tantrum.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
When people are staring.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Stop. You're making a scene.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
You're too old for this.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm not too old. I'm only five.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Isabelle like is got it under control. She kneels next time,
and she goes Fudge. Who knows more about Fudge or
Farley than you?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Nobody?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, exactly, So maybe you should just write this book yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I got right. My finger's hurt just from printing her name.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well, maybe you can tell the stories to someone else,
like your brother, and he'll write them down for you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'll think about it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And Isabelle gives them a little tissue and she and
Peter exchange a look.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
There's comments about his baseball glove that really perks Fudge up.
He says he's gonna oil it every day to keep
it nice and soft. And that's when Peter looks at
Isabelle's face and her skin and wonders if she oils her,
and wonders if it feels as song as it looks.
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He says, my mind drifted off. I pictured myself on
a desert island with Isabelle. It doesn't matter that I'm
years older than you, Peter, because you're so mature for
your age. So Fudge goes next door to Sawyers to
tell Dad that they're done.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Did you want to check that out?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Do you have your card my car?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes? In your library card? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
No, I guess I forgot it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's okay. I can hold a book for you until
next Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Next Saturday. He walks away in a daze. He says
his legs are shaking as he leaves the library, He's
like feeling weak and dizzy. Fudge comes out of Sawyer's
market and.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Is like, oh, what's wrong, Peter, You're gonna puke.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Peter says, no, I'm just a little dizzy, but actually
more more like I'm floating. It's just a buddy, And
then he starts singing, who can't explain it? Who can
tell you? Why? So he's in love Luv and then
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in bed that night. This made me a little nervous.
When they start talking about him in bed, I'm like,
I don't remember, that's whar but I.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Know I don't want it. Just to be clear, I
don't want anything like that to happen with any of
these kids.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No, no, but pew, thank god, it's just the Crescins crystal.
He's holding it in his hand and repeating Isabel's name
over and over, and he thinks that her name isn't Izzy,
She'll always be Isabelle to him. It's such a beautiful
name for such a beautiful girl, and he wishes he
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could be like his favorite amazing and make himself dream
about Isabelle. Gets a little creepy where he wants to
transfer his dreams to her so she'll dream about him.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Isabelle wakes up. She's like, oh my god, I had
to dream about this random.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Nine year old he came to my shop today and
he's repeating her name over and over again, Isabelle, Isabelle.
But then Fudge interrupts this blissful moment. He comes flying
leap onto the bed.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'm ready to start my book. I'll say it and
you write it down.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Why don't you wait until tomorrow? Then your babysitter can
write it down for you.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I can't wait, Pete, why not? Who can't explain it?
Who can't tell you why?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Okay, all right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Tell me Fudge I finally directs called the Hatcher. Chapter one,
how Turtle got his name? Wow, that's different tonight, Peter tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Chapter two?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I can hardly wait.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Fudge goes to sleep. Peter takes out his crystal again. Isabelle, Isabelle,
tell me an Isabelle. And he has a dream. But
the dream is about Shila Tubman and he's pissed.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Oh my god, do you think Sheila Tupman transferred this
dream to him via her creskin?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I wouldn't put it past her.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, just and honestly, not because she likes him, but
just to piss him, just to.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Fuck with him. Oh yeah, she's a wily one. I
love that.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That is. That does feel like it's hinting, like ooh,
Peter and Sheila. Maybe like that one fan fiction you
guys read.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh my god, I wonder if there's we got to
look up some Peter and Izzy fanfic I'm sure someone
went there. Okay, maybe we don't know, it's not.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I just imagine, okay, in the nicest version of that,
maybe it's like that kid in the sandlot. Who uh Okay.
Maybe actually, hopefully it's not like that. I hope it's
like I hope it's like the kid in the sandlot
with the lifeguard, but with more consent. Okay, there we go. Okay, Okay, great,
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Hey you want to hear a special report? Yes, yes, okay,
let's pivot from whatever that was to the Holocaust. Whoa Okay?
So I was always curious about if Tell Me a
Mitzi and or Tell Me a Trudy were real books,
and only just now did I look it up. And
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they are, and they're both written by this author whose
name I believe this is how you pronounce it is
Lori Siegel. Had you ever heard of this person before, Judy, No,
me neither. But turns out Lori c was an author,
and she has like such an interesting backstory. She was
born in nineteen twenty eight in Germany in nineteen twenty eight,
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and when she was a little girl, World War two
is starting, and so she and I think her siblings
were taken out in the first wave of the Kinder Transport,
which was this organized rescue effort to get children Jewish
children out of Nazi controlled territory. But it was kind
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of it was very scary, I mean for the obvious reasons,
but also because it's just like a lot of kids
on a train by themselves.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, with like tags wrapped around their neck.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yes, it's so scary. Less scary than the alternative, but
still so, her and her siblings get sent off to England,
and they live in England for a little bit, and
then eventually her parents have to flee too, and the
parents come meet them and they all go all together
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to the Dominican Republic and they kind of wait out
the rest of World War Two the Dominican Republic before
moving to New York. And what's interesting about that is
she wrote about this in her first book, which is
called Other People's Houses, which is supposed to be good.
So she has this life in America after that really
interesting childhood, and she writes a bunch of books. She's
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contemporaries with I believe she's like the generation before Judy,
but she's contemporaries with people like Maurice Sendak and she
wrote two books. One is called tell Me a Mitzi
and one is called tell Me a Trudy. And she
wrote tell Me a Mitzi in nineteen seventy and the
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synopsis is this, Mitzi lives with her mother and father
and her baby brother in the big city, where every
day is an adventure, or at least Mitzi makes it one,
though sometimes the adventure is more than a little surprising.
One day, it's time to pay an impromptu visit to
her grandparents. And what will happen when the president comes
into town? Who knows what Mitsi will get up to next.
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That's cute. She wrote that in nineteen seventy, and then
in nineteen seventy seven, I guess this is funny that
it's like the same naming convention, but it's tell me
a Trudy this time. And guess what this is about.
This is about Trudy having adventures with her brother Jacob. Like, Okay,
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we can think of different girls' names, but we can't
think of a boy's name other than Jacob. And then
I did some more research, and the reason that all
the boys in her books are called Jacob is because
Jacob is Lori's son in real life. So instead of writing,
tell me a Jacob, I guess she just has him
make a cameo in both of these picture books.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So I thought that was funny and confusing, but funny
and yeah, sweet.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, and it's really again, it's like Judy giving a
shout out to other writers, and I really love when
she does that. But I was just wondering just this second,
is I'm confused? Is Laura Stiegel's actual granddaughter Mitzi? Is
her actual daughter named Mitzi? Who's Trudy? What the heck
is going on?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So another timeline thing I'm confused about is are we
to believe that these books are actually written about the
Mitsi in the book and her brother Jacob in the
book or is this a thing where missus Atfell bought
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these books because she's like, Oh, I have a grand
child named Mitzi and one named Jacob. I just you know,
tell them these books about them, just like kind of
how like my dad told me Brown Eye Girl was
written about right, which is another one that's like, oh,
did you listen to the lyrics of that death don't
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want to be about me? So what do you think
is right? Or is it another instance of we're thinking
about this too much.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Or or Mitzi and Jacob were named after the characters
in the book.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's that's my head canon. Now I love that, okay,
but I love it.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You do pose very good questions. Also, I remembered something
I've been meaning to tell you guys about the name Mitzi.
So remember so the song who Can Explain It? Who
can tell You Why? From South Pacific? That was sung
by a Mitsi Wow, Mitzi Gaynor.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh, Missy Gayner. That's so cool. Good deep cut.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, back to the book, though, what do you think
of the illustrations?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
They're wild, They are wild, and they're very sad and
scary too. I don't this is not my favorite. I'm sorry,
no offense, Harriet Pinkis, but uh these are spooky key
to me. I don't love these. They look they look
a little bit like the illustrations for Cloudy with the Chance.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. I think there
are the words like a seventies trend for like fucked
up looking kids things. I mean, think of all the
stuffed animals that came out in the seventies. They were
all a little scary and like hr puffin stuff. There
was just a bit of a nightmarish vibe.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
That's weird. And oh yeah, well, definitely don't look up
Harriet Pinkus's book The Wedding Procession of the rag Doll
and the Broom Handle and who was in it, because
that book cover is truly nightmare fueld.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I'm skilled.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Okay, you know, you bet your ass. We're gonna do
a carousel of all these Harriet pink and Pinkus illustrate.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Please, Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Oh, yike spikes, I hate these. Chapter ten is called
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green Gurgling Gas, which, as we remember, is the lie
that uh Peter wants to tell Jimmy to say why
the tubmans are in their house. It's so that was
Friday and this is Wednesday now, so their second week
of vacation. And uh, Sheila gets a call that her
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friend mouse Alice can't come because she has the chicken pox. Oh, no,
have you ever had the chicken pox?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yes, this was like back in the day where parents
used to have chicken pox parties.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
And you know, hey worked out, uh because my parents
never that and I've never had the chicken pox. And
that is spooky scary if you're a grown up.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It is watch out for shink balls. Wait, can you
get the vaccine?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I'm sure I have? Okay, Yeah, I'm positive I have gotten.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You're not just waiting for the shoe to drop for you.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, like come and take me.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Absolutely not. Okay, No, I'm sure I'm vaccinated. But sounds
like it's a good idea to stock up anyway. So
Mouse can't come, and Sheila is so sad. It's like
Sheila's termed to have a tantrum. And this is funny
because if my timeline is correct and she has just
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come from spending this whole summer with Mouse, Sheila has
had a tough summer. She had to move, she had
to learn how to swim, she had to start and
end her own newspaper. Like, she has had a rough time.
And I'm sure she was like, even though I just
saw Mouse last month, I want to see her again.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
That's true. I mean, yes, I just have to interject
that I am on the other side, and I believe
this is the summer after Oh.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I wonder then if the thing is they go every
summer to Terrytown, to that same place, maybe, so then
that's wild because then the Egans go to Europe every
summer much to discuss anyway, We can't. We don't have
time for this. We just don't. Jody, I just realized
the family that they take over four in otherwise known
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she is the great. I believe they're the Egans and
is the Egans, not the family and separates that's in
charge of everything.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Praise here, yes, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
And so they had to take time off because they
had to invents.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Well we all know miss Coba. Well sorry spoiler.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
So let me let me go backwards. So they had
to take off because they had to run this company
with all these people with holes in their brain. So
they did that for a summer. Craig Craig figured it out.
AnyWho where was I? Okay? So she was having the
worst day ever, and this is so fucking funny. She's
crying because her friend can't come, and Grandma and Buzzy
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are trying to comfort her. This part says, and Peter's
narrating goes, that's when I burped. I didn't mean to.
It just came out. Probably I drank more and juice
too fast. But Shela gets mad at him because she
thinks he was laughing at her and he just burped.
But I just think that's such a funny human detail
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to put in Judy, and this, I will say, this
whole chapter is choc a block with interesting side details
that do not need to be there, but are so delicious.
So she Loa's so sad, and Tutsy throws oatmeal in
her face, and she's extra sad. But he has nothing
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to be helped because Jimmy Fargo is coming and Mouse
is not. Later that day, Mom is helping because she's
gonna move the roll away bed from Peter's room to
Grandma's room. So now Grandma's sharing a room with Tootsy
and Fudge.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
This is the roodest thing I've ever heard of, I know.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
And I think Judy knows that we think it's rude
because she has Grandma say on the page. She says,
I don't mind. Sleeping in the same room as my
grandchildren is a privilege. It's a lot more fun than
sleeping in a room by myself. Okay, okay, I will
say my grandma was also a fan of this. When
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I would get my brother and I would go sleep
over at my grandma Grandpa's house. My grandma would like
sleep in the guest room with my brother and I
and my grandpa would just sleep by himself in the
other bed. But fun fact, one time I woke up
in the middle of the night and I couldn't find
my grandma and it's because she snuck back to the
real bed to sleep with my grandpa. I thought that
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was cute, little switcheroo, Little switcheroo, Fudge is telling Grandma
that she should get married so she doesn't have to
sleep by herself, and this will be a running joke.
But he also is jumping on the rollaway bed, which
will become relevant too.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Do you still snore, Grandma, Fudgie, that's not a polite question.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I really don't know, Fudge. You'll have to tell.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Me snoring keeps the monsters away.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yes, I'm sure it does.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
When I get married, I won't have monsters.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
In my room, says who.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
You don't get monsters when you sleep in a bed
with someone.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Else, So that's why you want to get married, so
you won't get monsters in your room.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Why else when I get married?
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Ah? Okay, so the truth comes out. That's why Fudge
wants to marry Sheila. And you know what, Fudge I
gotta say a little bit. I relate. I feel like
there's a bunch of scary movies that I want to
watch that I am saving for if I ever have
like a steady a steady fella again, because I am.
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I'm perfectly fine being in my apartment by myself nine
times out of ten, but every now and then I
think of something scary and I need a buddy there.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
So no, I'm with you. I get this feeling, and
I'm zero times out of ten being okay sleeping in
a house alone.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
So oh well, so that's you heard here. First. The
reason to get married is because the monsters won't get you.
And the part that made me mad was Peter's like, oh,
don't worry, you don't have to get married because Mitzi
makes monster spray, and then he starts saying his monster
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spray commercial and Mom goes, really, Peter, and I am
so mad. Yeah, I My older sibling Dander is so
up because Mom will let Fudge plant rocks as the
day is long. Mom will let Fudge be a bird
breather and straight up Mary the girl next door. But
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oh God forbid Peter be a little silly and make
up a jingle. Oh wouldn't want that. Fuck off.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
This is why I don't like mom, never liked.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Her, never liked her mom. This is why Peter is
the way that he is because you won't let him
be silly.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Just off. But I think if I'm looking at it
with really kind eyes, she doesn't want him saying that,
because he's riling Fudge up. And Fudge is riled up
such that he's jumping on the roll away after they
told him not to, and snap the way snaps him
inside like a little fudge witch. Like they make it
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uncrustable out of fudge. Fudge crustable, a fudge crustible.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
So this is very cartoony. I wonder if this can
actually happen in real life.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
I didn't google it because I thought it would be
too upseting. I feel like I have heard anecdotally about
like little kids getting stuck in like sofa beds and
stuff like that, and I just felt like, you know what,
not a google I need to do.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Oh maybe it's not as cute as it is.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
But they have to pry him out of the bed,
and when they do, Fudge is kicking the bed and
he's so mad. At the bed.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Stupid, stupid bed. If you're doing that again, I'm gonna
chop you up into little pieces.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
And Mom, the one time I think she's right, she goes,
let's not blame the bed. So they're in the backyard
and they're chatting to Buzzy Senior about this bed incident,
and this gets them all talking about beds, and Fudge
asks if Buzzy snores, and Buzzy said, similar to Grandma.
He's like, I'm not sure because I sleep alone. My
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wife died. And Fudge thinks for a minute and he goes, oh,
I've got it. You should sleep with Grandma. Perag hilarious,
And it says Buzzy Senior and Grandma looked at each
other and laughed.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
It's like, oh, oh, maybe they are. Maybe they're doing
their own little switcher room.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Oh my god, maybe yikes. Oh man. So in the afternoon,
the Tubmans decided to take a drive to Bar Harbor,
which is a little town nearby, and Libby can't go
because she has a job. Wild to be like for
three weeks, I'll fill out a W two. But yeah,
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so Libby can't go because she's got a job. But
they take Sheila so she can have the afternoon off
her babysitting grind, and Peter secretly hopes that they'll just
stay in Bar Harbor and never ever come back. Mister
Fargo calls and saw of a sudden, he and Jimmy
are rolling up to the house. Now listen to this.
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This is describing mister Fargo's truck. It says his truck
is really old, with rough spots around the fenders. It's
painted the color of bile. Not that I've ever seen bile,
but last year in school, we learned about the digestive
tract and that's the way I imagined it, a sick
greenish brown color. One hundred percent. This is where I
learned what bile was. Thanks Judy. So Jimmy comes out
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of the bile truck. It's hard to get the door open.
Mister Fargo comes out and Jimmy's saying hi to everyone,
And unfortunately, the first thing that Jimmy says is, you
can't even see Sheila's house from here. I guess it's
through those woods over there. And Peter's not saying anything
because he wants to sustain the lie. Oh, they go in.
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It's lovely and cozy, He says, hi to Uncle Feather.
Then they get Uncle Feather riled up, so they have
to army crawl under Uncle Feather's cage. Another funny detail.
I love it. Tootsy goes up to mister Fargo and
mister Fargo picks her right up and like shakes her
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and plays with her. I love this quote too, he says.
Tootsy loved it. She has this thing for bearded men.
She'll raise her arms and say up to any guy
with a beard. Mom says it's because Dad used to
have one. But I'm not so sure. We're gonna have
to teach her to be more careful. I can just
see her walking down Broadway in a few years, holding
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up her arms to every bearded weirdo on the street. Which,
if that isn't my dating life, I don't know what
I'm trying to get uppies from every bearded man in
Silver Lake if you know what I mean, Yes.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
I mean they're Tutsy in twenty years on Broadway might
be the sansic we gotta look for.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yes, that's what I want. Totsy, an independent woman on
Broadway saying uppeast to me, Yes, write it. I think
that's really cute. That a cute weirdo detail. And of
course Peter can't see it as a cute weirdo detail.
He's like, I'm immediately worried. This is my responsibility. So
mister Fargo drove famously ten hours from New York in
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one sitting in that tiny, yanky car, and they're kind
of trying to like be polite to him because his
remember his plan was he was going to camp in
the woods. They're chatting. He has a great line when
they ask him about the main weather. He goes, you
have to have weather, whether or not. Classic dad joke.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Remember that, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
All of a sudden, oh no, a car pulls into
the driveway. Sheila Tubman bangs into the door. Oh no.
Jimmy's like, oh my god, she's here, and she was like,
yes she is. That explains that. Yeah, they're actually sharing
a house. They have breakfast and dinner together all the time.
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And look she likes dogs. Now yay, Jimmy has kind
of taken aback. Peter is caught in this like, lie
and Dad said, it's almost time for dinner, pasta with
Anne's special sauce. Now, I don't like, Mom, but I
do want to know what in that special sauce. Fargo's like, great,
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I'll go get our things from the car, and everybody pauses,
like our things, cause keep in mind, we've got two families.
We've got let's see, the Hatchers are a family of
what five plus grandma six in the Hatcher family five
in the tub and family plus two dogs and a
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bird and this now this other kid. So that's what
eleven twelve people, And then all of a sudden, mister
Fargo brings in all of his suitcases and his art supplies,
the art supplies, and all of the parents are like, uh,
what's what's going on?
Speaker 1 (52:44):
And not to mention like they're all a little unnerved
by mister Fargo. He like does not have a like
chill presence. Everyone's on edge.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
And he just basically invites himself to stay because he's like, ah,
too cold, camp. Yeah, could have could have asked, you
could have got a fucking hotel. But no, He's like, hope,
it's okay if I stay here. What's for dinner?
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (53:08):
Very oh? Especially too, you know his ass didn't pay
for any of.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
This, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
But Fudge has a brilliant idea that Grandma should sleep
with Buzzy senor. That way, mister Fargo can have the
big bed in the room with him and Tutsie and everybody.
Ha ha ha laughs, just kidding. They're uncomfortable. So later
in the day in the night, I want to read
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this part. Can you please read Jimmy Fargo and I'll
read Peter.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
I'm really embarrassed about my father. Anybody can see You've
already got too many people in this house.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
It's no big deal.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Yeah right, that's how come your mother almost.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Faded only because we're out of beds.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
You think my father cares about beds. He likes to
sleep on the floor.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
It's okay, forget it. You know he's weird.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
He doesn't mean to be, but he is.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
He's not that weird. Look, I'm embarrassed too. I should
have told you about sharing this house with the Tubmans,
but I didn't find out until we got here, and
then well, I was afraid if I told you you
wouldn't come.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
Probably wouldn't have. But now that I'm here, doesn't seem
that bad.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Oh that's big of you, Jimmy. Now that you're here
and your weird dad is also here. You're fine with
this cool coo cool tye t type. As someone with
a divorced dad, I relate to this sentence. I love
him so much. He's weird. He doesn't mean to be,
but he is. And I just think sometimes when your
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dad is married to your mom, uh, there are buffers
around how weird your dad is, And then when your
dad's not married anymore, weird shit Fans like caith In
point one time, when my parents had been divorced a
couple of years, I came into town and I was
finally going to meet this lady that my dad was dating.
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You'd been dating her for a couple months, and we
wanted to meet her. So he brings whatever, Helen or
whatever over and we're about to go to dinner. He
introduces me to her, and then he takes a beat
and he goes, Wow, isn't it weird that I'm here
with a woman who isn't your mother? Oh? Yes, but
you can't say that for the Helen. This is oh no,
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for Helen, Oh Helen.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
Oh so, just like I love this man. If my
dad has one fan, it is me.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
But do you find yourself like you know, you're so
used to your dad's mannerisms, do you find yourself like
being the smoother over You're like you like, yeah, change
the subject, or like, you know.
Speaker 2 (55:56):
It'll either be that or I am. Now Now that
things have settled down a lot and everybody's a little
more okay, I think I'm back to the point where
I'm like, this guy's hilarious. He is weird, but I
love what's happening here. So more often than not, I'll
be like, oh, yeah, my dad did this whatever, and
people will be like, that's that was weird to do.
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So yeah, but you're right. I think my Peter hatchardness
used to manifest itself by like I gotta I gotta
cover up, not covery, but like just stabilized from a
weirdle lies. Yes, but I love him, and I love
(56:42):
mister Fargo as well me too. He's fun and so
everything is kind of smoothed over. And because everything's okay
and Peter can finally relax from holding onto this lie,
he's like, well, why waste a good lie? That's the
kind of pain to test how Jimmy would have reacted
(57:04):
to the poison gas story. So he turns over jim
and he goes, did you hear about the poison gas?
Speaker 1 (57:10):
What poison gas?
Speaker 2 (57:12):
The poison gas and the toilets?
Speaker 1 (57:14):
What toilets?
Speaker 2 (57:16):
Some guy up here he had poison gas in his toilets.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
What do you mean poison gas?
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Oh? It was this green, steamy gurgling stuff that bubbled
up every time he flushed.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
Green steamy gurgling stuff.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
It's not funny. It's an environmental disaster.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
An environmental disaster. Where'd you read that in the National Inquirer.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
You don't think it's possible.
Speaker 1 (57:48):
Yeah, I think it's possible if the guy ate something
that didn't agree with him.
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Oh, so it's a good thing he didn't actually use
this lie on Jimmy because he wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
So bummer, as you say, beta testing. That's so interesting,
And I wonder, like I was trying to think of,
like have I ever done that?
Speaker 2 (58:07):
You know, like I've done it.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
I'm sure I have.
Speaker 2 (58:12):
And so they're laughing, and then all of a sudden
they hear a laugh coming from outside the door. They
open the door and Fudge has been standing outside the
door trying to listen to them. Typical older sibling. Peter's like,
you gotta get out of here, you gotta go sit
in your own bed. So he takes him across the hall,
and poor Fudge is afraid of the roll away because
(58:34):
it tried to eat him earlier. But they put him
back in his own bed, and Grandma and Titsy are
already asleep, and Grandma is snoring. That means there's no
monsters tonight. Fudge wants him to tuck him in, so
Peter tucks him in, and he wants a kiss. Good
night now, Chris, me good night. Pete says, I was
(58:57):
about to drop a light one on his forehead when
he reached up, grabbed me around the neck, and pulled
me down. Then he planted a big wet smackeroo right
in the middle of my face.
Speaker 3 (59:07):
Sweet dreams bit.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
The end. Oh, those are two good chapters.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Good. It really does get funnier and funnier, so so
fun Mollie, we're like three quarters of the way through.
Speaker 2 (59:21):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Wow, Okay, so we're we're going to do chapter eleven
and twelve probably next week, and there's how many chapters fourteen?
Speaker 2 (59:30):
Oh my gosh, So we're two episodes away from being
done with this book.
Speaker 1 (59:36):
It's time to start thinking about our next book. So
that's another assignment. Bloom Heads. Send us your your requests
to add to the voting list. I do think we
need to put Beginner's Love on there.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
Okay, I do want something grown up or teenage age?
Speaker 1 (59:56):
Yeah done, baby books? I yeah, I like to altern
you know we're ready for something steamy. All right, Well
that's it for this week.
Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Sweet dream, bye bye,
Hi. I'm Jodie and I'm Mollie and you're listening to
the Bloom Saloon.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's a Judy Bloom book club. I'm so excited to
be here.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, it's a good day. We were just talking about
how springing it is outside. Mollie, you had a lovely
day of rolling in the grass.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I did not not for pleasure, for work. I was
doing a work product photoshoot in the grass in Griffith
Park and it was beautiful. But now my whole body
itches and I'm sneezing. So I rolled in something crazy, gang,
So stay woke.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh man. I've been inside pretty much all day, just
like I've been for the past few months. I've just
taken to couchworking. I just once you start and you
can't stop, I know. And I'm lying down laptop on stomach.
Not good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Actually, that's funny that you say work from couch, because
I was just doing getting my uh stuff prepared for
my taxes, and oftentimes they asked me like, did you
because you work from home, do you can expense things?
Do you buy for your home office? And I was
doing some mental math and I'm like, hmm, perhaps buying
a couch could couch towards my home office, because I
(01:29):
am in my home office. It's like you have one
room in your house. But still, I'm gonna try to
that scam.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Let's see, it's not a scam.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Real the irs listening to this, You didn't hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I fully believe you should be able to write off
pets too.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I do think you should be able to write off pets.
Just another way in which people with kids and people
who are married have a privilege that m we do not.
So yeah, my cat is my dependent, damn it. Oh anyway,
a spring has sprung and we're here in the cocoon.
It's wonderful out, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I have some wonderful news. Forever has a date a
day humming to our screens May eighth, May eighth.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh that's so fun. Ooh do you think we'll do
episode recaps?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I yeah, I'm thinking about that. We should definitely talk.
Maybe we could figure out like, at least for the premiere,
we could do like a live.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Watch or now you're cooking with gas. I don't know
how to do that, but no.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Me, neither our bluemheads help us, but we it would
be fun.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, tell us what kind of forever content you would
like that'd be interesting. Yeah, well, I have some news
in that. I asked the Bloomheads if they had anything
they wanted us to talk about in today's episode, and
I got two comments. Let's see we got And that's
a reminder, Gang is you should find us oops on
(03:04):
social media where the Bloom Saloon podcast on Instagram and
we do a lot of fun stuff. So the first
message comes from Ella Phoebe, and Ella Phoebe has a
correction for us. Ella Phoebe said, I said, Molly oh no,
out loud to myself listening to the last episode when
(03:27):
she said Pavlova is from Australia, it's from New Zealand,
the greatest rivalry slash debate between our two countries, but
it is New Zealand's.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I had no idea, sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
About that, and I did one Google search and she's
absolutely right. So I apologize to the great New Zealand
population of listeners. We have so sorry about that. We
have a message from Jess Oh and this was a
great one. Jess says, I know you guys are probably
so busy with your upcoming podcast schedules, but I just
(04:03):
finish Smart Woman and want to hear what you both
think about it if you ever discuss it Love the podcast.
Have you read this book.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Jody, I haven't. It's one of the ones we need
to get to.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I honestly, just reading this one sentence description makes me
want to do it next, because I was thinking this
afternoon that, like next, I do want to do something
that's a little sexy, and so listen to this, it says.
Smart Woman is a nineteen eighty three novel by Judy
Bloom that tells the story of a divorcee who falls
for her friend's ex husband. Ooh, runchim sounds good to me,
(04:41):
So thank you, Jess. That's a really good suggestion.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Alison Darling, who's an admin in our Facebook group, wants
to clarify that part of a main smell could be
a paper mill. There's a paper mill there and that
could be making it smell a type of So Alison,
thank you for that comment. Don't forget. You can find
us on Facebook and on Instagram and always send us
(05:07):
stuff to be read on air.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We have a new review, Oh my God, from Dustin.
It says worthy of Ink five stars. This is the
only podcast I've ever listened to where I loved it
so much I considered getting a tattoo inspired.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
By the show What the Heck?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I didn't because tattoos cost money, but I'm considering it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh my god, Dustin, I want to know what kind
of tattoo you were gonna get.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Is it a catchphrase? Is it our logo? Is it
our faces?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I did you?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, that would be a little scary, but yeah, tell
us what you were thinking of. You can write it
in another review.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yes, absolutely, Just just keep writing reviews. Tell us all
your thoughts. I have thought in my life that I
would like to get a Judy Bloom tattoo. But I
know from certain other authors I used to love, who
are now huge pieces of shit, that you should maybe
wait until an author is dead before you do anything
(06:08):
permanent to honor them. So I hope Judy lives forever,
but should she ever pass, that's the only time I
would feel safe getting the Judy Bluem tattoo I want.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I think that's smart. Do you have you thought about
what it would be?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I think it would be funny to have just a
like name tattoo that just said Judy Bloom sowre on
my body. I think that would be so funny to
be like, oh my god, is that your girlfriend's like,
nay friend, that's children's and young adult book author Judy Blue.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You know she has a great signature, just saying no.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I think I'd have to get this like chunky seventies
font somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I got it. I can see that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What if now? The other thing I've been thinking about
lately is I think it would be funny to have
a tramp stamp. Now in my thirties, tramp steps are
not cool anymore, But what if now I was like, Okay,
now I should get one. So maybe a gdy Bloom
tramp stamp in the future me and Dustin can match.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well now that low rise jeans are supposedly back. Yeah,
I definitely see a tramp stamp resurgence.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, okay, Well, honestly, bloomheads, you've sent us pictures of
your Western pictures, send us pics at your tramp stamps.
I'd love to see him. And if you're offended by
me calling him a tramp stamp, that's a valid thing
to say. I'm sorry, Jody. I would like to introduce
(07:55):
a new segment today are you ready for it? Okay?
This segment is called I don't have a name for it.
This segment dares to ask the question, what's the most
Judy Bloom thing that's happened to you this week? Now,
this is a question that can be interpreted many ways.
(08:16):
It can be did you have something happened to you
in that is related to a Judy Bloom piece of media?
Did you reread a book like Jess just read Smart Woman?
Did you rewatch? Are you there God to me? Margaret?
Did you interact with Judy herself? That's one way to
take it. Another way to take it is if an
(08:38):
element of your life resembled something that happened in a
Judy Bloom book. And since Judy Bloom has written about
all facets of life, this could mean anything from many
plane crashes happened in your small town, or you got
your period, or you wore velvet, or you ate a
really good sandwich. So, Jody, I put it to you,
what's the most Judy Bloom thing that happened to you
(08:59):
this week?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I had to think long and hard, but it came
to me. Yeah. Is last weekend I spent the entire
day shopping for purple earrings. So this is very Jude's
for two reasons. Purple is her favorite color. Oh, and
the second reason is because purple is very prominent in
(09:23):
just as long as we're together.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, all the girls get each other purple gif. Oh,
it's just got a purple theme running through it. I
feel like if I had an aura, it would be purple.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Backstory is it's my mom's birthday coming up. She wanted
amethyst earring specifically, and she wanted it to be gold,
not silver. She wanted them to be not too small,
not too big. It was just like a very specific
type of ear ring. And I was like, I'm not
going to just go online. I'm going to go shopping
and support local businesses. So I went up to Solano.
(09:57):
It's a very long street, so I started at the
very bottom and then literally went into every shop that
wasn't a rug shop or a salon. Oh, like, do
you have purpeal ear rings? And I couldn't find the
right earring. It took all day, and then I went
into the last shop and I found the one. Wow,
(10:18):
And then I was like, this is what people did
I remember these all day shopping trips with my mom,
you know, to buy new shoes or back to school
clothes or whatever. It was so tiring.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Did you get lunch or a treat?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I stopped in to see a friend of the pod, Liz,
who works in a shop over there. So that was fun.
In a treat, she gave me a hot tip. Okay,
East Bay area bloom heads. There is a shop on Solano.
I'm forgetting what it's called, but they have these four
I think they're called lionhead bunnies. You know, they're like
(10:54):
the little tiny ones that are very fluffy. They weigh
like two pounds and they just like hang out on
a table by the entrance, like on a coffee table.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And one of them was wearing a harness with carrots
on it, and so that was a treat.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I love that. Wow, that's a great answer. That's such
a Judy Bloom day.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, what about you.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think the thing that it was Gudy Bloom about
my week is I have been exercising my adult free
will by buying uncrustables sandwiches, oh when they go on sale. Yeah.
Back in the day, my mom used to say they
were too expensive, and I'm here to tell you she's right.
(11:42):
They are too expensive for what they are. And when
they are in my house, I'm going through them. They're
so good. And so I had a perfect uncrustable. But
then I went crazy style on it and I put
nacho cheese Doritos inside the uncrustable to report it was delicious.
(12:02):
It was really good.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
So I'm so mad because now I have to have it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You have to have it. My coworker suggested plane lays next,
and I think that would be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So so, yeah, I've never had an encrusted You've never
had an uncrustable. They're just like the peb and J's
that are like smushed right.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yes, they're It's like it's like the sandwich version of
a Ravioli because the edges are crimped. Yes, And just
like when I eat a squishy, soft, simple sandwich. I
am thinking of Judy Bloom because I feel like that's
what all her characters are eating after school. So if
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I had that with a glass of milk, that would
be extra Judy Bloom. But since I'm in twenty twenty five,
I put Dorito's in it. But we need to get
you an uncrustable.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
They're really good, yeah, are they always peeb and J.
They have.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Grilled cheese ones, which I haven't tried because a hot
uncrustable sounds gross to me. And then they have peanut
butter and nutella ones, or they might just have just
plain nutella ones, which also sounds good. But yeah, they're
mostly PB and J. I was thinking recently like, ooh,
a savory and crustable, but I think that's a bridge
too far.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So yeah, well this was all very Jill Brunner of you,
so I guess. So I love this new segment. Bloomheads,
you should contribute to people. Let us know, uh what
the biggest Judy like? What are we calling this again?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah? Sorry, what's the most Judy bloom thing that happened
to you this week?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
The most Judy bloom thing that happened to you this week?
So catchy. I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's not really, but let us know because I'd be
interested to know it. All right, should we get into
this week's chapters?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, we are covering chapters nine and ten. Okay, here's
roll called this week, so we've got all the usual
suspects Peter who is older, Fudge who is five, Tutsi
who is a baby, and these are all siblings. Tutsi's
(14:13):
like in the one to two range because it sure
seems like she's walking around. We have Grandma Muriel who
is Missus Hatcher's mom, and Grandma Muriel is older but
still very spry and used to own a gymnastics camp.
We have Missus Hatcher, who makes a good appearance in this.
(14:35):
We have mister Hatcher, who is an admin who's taking
three weeks off, Uncle Feather who is the family's minor
bird Turtle who is the family's dog, and that's it
for the Hatcher family. Then on the other side of
the house, we have the Tubmans, which is Sheila who
is the same age as Peter, her older sister Libby,
(14:58):
who I believe is fourteen or fifteen. In this we
have mister Tubman and Missus Tubman who are the mom
and dad, and we have Buzzy Senior, who is the
grandpa who appears to be Grandma's age. Then we also
have the Tubman's puppy, Jake. Then a few houses down
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we have Missus a short for Missus Apfel, who is
an older lady who lives down the street and she's
the grandma of Mitzi Appfell and the wife of Big Appfell,
who is a baseball player who we still haven't met yet.
But Mitzi is five like Fudge, and we learn this
(15:41):
is kind of a subset of roll call, but we
learn that Mitzi has a mom and dad in Boston
and she has a little baby brother named Jacob. Then
we have two new hot bombshells entering the villa this week.
We have Jimmy Fargo, who is Peter's age, and we
have his dad, Frank Fargo, divorced and famously transient. Then ooh,
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speaking of hot bomb chill, we have Isabelle who is
sixteen and the library assistant in super duper Hat. Oh
that's the roll call for this week.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh my god, it's a good one.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, so stacked Cask.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We should also add the Amazing Crescan to the roll call.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Maybe he's just thinking that. Yeah, Crescin and his Crystal
make a huge appearance in this.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The Amazing Cruscan was this iconic mentalist. He was around
for like three decades, from the seventies or the nineties
and even until recently I just learned that he died
in December last year. He was with us until a
few months ago, Rip Crescan.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He said something like, if only the blooms and would
release an episode. Oh well, I guess I better die.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
No, we killed him.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Should have seen that come in Kresky Just kidding, Rip Legend.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
He was also in New Jersey and like Jude's so
I feel like she might have had a soft spot
for him. Chapter nine. This one's called Dizzy from IZZYOOO.
It's Friday, Peter. He's spending his time at the beach.
He's dilly dallying in front of the Apfel's house, hoping
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to run into his hero, Like can't you just imagine him?
He's like hands in his pockets, looking busy kicking rocks,
but he's like peeking at the house every thirty seconds.
Missus A notices him being kind of pathetic and she
comes out. He can't help himself. He is so uncool.
He blurts out that he's really there because he wants
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to ask Big a question about the game, and he's
like stupid, stupid, stupid, like he called him Big. But
missus A is so cool. She is the ultimate. She
gets it. She lets him know that Big is away
on a fishing trip for a few days, and he's like,
(18:20):
wait a second, does this mean there's no game on Sunday?
No game on Sunday. She's been looking forward to this
ever since he heard about it, like just the day before. Probably.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, it's like that. Michael Scott memes like, this is
a dream I've had since lunch.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, this game is like being usurped
by this antique show. It's an annual antique show, and
we learned that this is very upsetting to Big. He
hates this antique show, so he goes away fishing so
he doesn't have to see it, which is so funny.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know what I'm confused about now is where was
Big that first morning that they came to missus A's house.
Was he like upstairs sleeping?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Maybe he went to Walmart?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, probably, that sounds reasonable.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And then the next day Mincy comes over. She's carrying
a book. She wants everyone to notice this book. She's like, di,
do do do see my book? It's called tell Me
a Mitsy And she is very very proud of this book.
Did you know I could read well? I can read too.
Can you read this? But this is cute? Uh fund,
(19:38):
She says he can read. But Peter's pretty sure. He's
only memorizing the books, which is a feat in itself.
I think that is very impressive.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I used to do that. Really. My kindergarten teacher called
my mom one day and was like, this is insane.
She is reading aloud to the class these whole books.
And my mom asked witch books. And my mom was
fully like, oh no, she has a book on tape
with those books. She's memorized that. Oh busted.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh my god, so busted.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I will say, I do think, and I don't know
shit about shit, but I do think because I listened
to so many tapes of books growing up, I do
think it helped my vocabulary. I do feel like it
helped me learn how words were pronounced. Like, I truly
don't know how children are consuming media anymore, but I
feel like, if I ever have kids, I'm buying one
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of those old school like tape players and just playing
tapes for hours, because it really helped me. The Fisher
Price one Yes, or get strap up a Teddy ruckspin.
I don't care, like, let the children have tapes.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Fuck, yeah, yeah, remember when it used to be like, well,
if you're listening to it on tape, you're not reading,
Like I'm so glad that's over.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's I'll tell you what it's not over. I had
this argument with someone just the other day. So really,
it's a dumb thing to argue about. You miss me
with it because I have listened to a bunch of
books and retained a bunch of informations. So what do
you think, bloemheads? Do you think that listening to the
audiobook counts as reading? Or are you wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So back to tell Me a Mitzi.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
The name of this book is tell Me a Mitzi?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Is it? Pete?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That's what it says. And it's all about me and
my baby brother Jacob.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah you don't have a baby brother.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I do so, and his name is Jacob. Where in
Boston with mommy and daddy. He's not old enough to
visit Grandma. I'm big by himself. He can't even talk,
and he makes poop in his diaper.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Sort of Tritzy.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Oh my nose when Jacob gets changed.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I hold my nose when Tzi gets changed.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
One time, Jacob got into his diaper and he played
with his pooh oh, it was so bad. This conversation
is getting pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Let me see that book. How come it's about you?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Because I'm special?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Oh my god, this girl is special. So I know
you have a tell me a Mitzi special report. Let's
do that. After this put a pin in it. So
later that day, Peter, Fudge and Dad go into town
and get Fudge a baseball glove, his very own Mitzi.
They have one tiny glove and it's all for Fudge,
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and he's so proud of it. He's told that he's
got to oil it every day to make it soft,
and then he starts like punching into it like Mitzi does.
They stop at this little sweet library that looks like
a house, and Fudge runs off to find a book
he wants dunt dunt dump, but he can't find it.
(23:01):
He asks for Peter's help, and then they go talk
to the librarian. Instead of a regular old lady librarian
like you would expect, they find a library assistant. Peter
notes that her eyes were a deep dark brown, like
the best chocolate. So Fudge goes up to this assistant
(23:24):
and says.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Do you have to tell me a Fudge pardon, tell
me a fudge. That's the book I want.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It doesn't sound familiar.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It could be called tell me a Farley.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Did you look it up in the card catalog? No, well,
let's give it a try. Our computers down today. By
the way, she's reading a book called Beginner's Love, and we.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Know what book that is. Tell me it's Norma Kleine.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Now you are making a sound like I know who
that is and who is.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh well, deep cut into bloom Saloon history. We read
a Norma Kline book years ago, years and years ago
called Domestic Arrangements.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Well, now I'm embarrass It's okay, so I can cut
this out. No, no, no, leave it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So Norma Kline was Judy's contemporary, but for some reason
just didn't become the household name that Judy did well
because she didn't write kids' books. She was very steamy,
very teeny, so much sex. All her books were like
Forever but like. Beginner's Love is one of her more
famous ones, published in nineteen eighty three. Very typical Norma.
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I haven't read it, but it's teens doing sex and
getting crazy and it's written from the boy's perspective. Joel's perspective.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Unfortunately our school didn't have this in the library had forever,
so I haven't read it. We should read it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I really want to, because it has the cover, which
indeed looks steam May and the subtitle on the cover says,
Juel is seventeen, shy and inexperienced. Leita has a lot
to teach him, which I wonder if Judy Bloom is
putting that book in here specifically because it's about an
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inexperienced boy and an older girl, because that's kind of
what's going on with Izzy and Peter.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh damn it, Judy, Judy's slipping it into her kid lit.
I do want to read that book, though, so maybe
it can be a contender for our next book. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Oooh okay, I'm sorry I interrupted.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
No, No, this is very important work. So we love
this for Izzy the library assistant.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, so she puts Beginner's Love down and they're gonna
go look at the card catalog. What's your name Isabelle,
but my friend's call me is isy Isy. I like that.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
What's yours Farley, but my friends call me Fudge.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh what an interesting name? Hm, we have tell me
a missy and tell me a Trudy. But I don't
see tell me a Fudge or tell me a Farley.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
It has to be there.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nope, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Fudge scrunches up his face. He's getting ready to scream,
and he says it's not fair, it's not fair. He's
banging his fists on the floor.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Oh my gosh, he's having a fo blown tantrum.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
When people are staring.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Stop. You're making a scene.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
You're too old for this.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm not too old. I'm only five.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Isabelle like is got it under control. She kneels next time,
and she goes Fudge. Who knows more about Fudge or
Farley than you?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Nobody?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, exactly, So maybe you should just write this book yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I got right. My finger's hurt just from printing her name.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well, maybe you can tell the stories to someone else,
like your brother, and he'll write them down for you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'll think about it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And Isabelle gives them a little tissue and she and
Peter exchange a look.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
There's comments about his baseball glove that really perks Fudge up.
He says he's gonna oil it every day to keep
it nice and soft. And that's when Peter looks at
Isabelle's face and her skin and wonders if she oils her,
and wonders if it feels as song as it looks.
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He says, my mind drifted off. I pictured myself on
a desert island with Isabelle. It doesn't matter that I'm
years older than you, Peter, because you're so mature for
your age. So Fudge goes next door to Sawyers to
tell Dad that they're done.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Did you want to check that out?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Do you have your card my car?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes? In your library card? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
No, I guess I forgot it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
That's okay. I can hold a book for you until
next Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Next Saturday. He walks away in a daze. He says
his legs are shaking as he leaves the library, He's
like feeling weak and dizzy. Fudge comes out of Sawyer's
market and.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Is like, oh, what's wrong, Peter, You're gonna puke.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Peter says, no, I'm just a little dizzy, but actually
more more like I'm floating. It's just a buddy, And
then he starts singing, who can't explain it? Who can
tell you? Why? So he's in love Luv and then
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in bed that night. This made me a little nervous.
When they start talking about him in bed, I'm like,
I don't remember, that's whar but I.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Know I don't want it. Just to be clear, I
don't want anything like that to happen with any of
these kids.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No, no, but pew, thank god, it's just the Crescins crystal.
He's holding it in his hand and repeating Isabel's name
over and over, and he thinks that her name isn't Izzy,
She'll always be Isabelle to him. It's such a beautiful
name for such a beautiful girl, and he wishes he
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could be like his favorite amazing and make himself dream
about Isabelle. Gets a little creepy where he wants to
transfer his dreams to her so she'll dream about him.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Isabelle wakes up. She's like, oh my god, I had
to dream about this random.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Nine year old he came to my shop today and
he's repeating her name over and over again, Isabelle, Isabelle.
But then Fudge interrupts this blissful moment. He comes flying
leap onto the bed.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'm ready to start my book. I'll say it and
you write it down.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Why don't you wait until tomorrow? Then your babysitter can
write it down for you.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I can't wait, Pete, why not? Who can't explain it?
Who can't tell you why?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Okay, all right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Tell me Fudge I finally directs called the Hatcher. Chapter one,
how Turtle got his name? Wow, that's different tonight, Peter tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Chapter two?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I can hardly wait.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Fudge goes to sleep. Peter takes out his crystal again. Isabelle, Isabelle,
tell me an Isabelle. And he has a dream. But
the dream is about Shila Tubman and he's pissed.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Oh my god, do you think Sheila Tupman transferred this
dream to him via her creskin?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I wouldn't put it past her.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, just and honestly, not because she likes him, but
just to piss him, just to.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Fuck with him. Oh yeah, she's a wily one. I
love that.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That is. That does feel like it's hinting, like ooh,
Peter and Sheila. Maybe like that one fan fiction you
guys read.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh my god, I wonder if there's we got to
look up some Peter and Izzy fanfic I'm sure someone
went there. Okay, maybe we don't know, it's not.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I just imagine, okay, in the nicest version of that,
maybe it's like that kid in the sandlot. Who uh Okay.
Maybe actually, hopefully it's not like that. I hope it's
like I hope it's like the kid in the sandlot
with the lifeguard, but with more consent. Okay, there we go. Okay, Okay, great,
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Hey you want to hear a special report? Yes, yes, okay,
let's pivot from whatever that was to the Holocaust. Whoa Okay?
So I was always curious about if Tell Me a
Mitzi and or Tell Me a Trudy were real books,
and only just now did I look it up. And
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they are, and they're both written by this author whose
name I believe this is how you pronounce it is
Lori Siegel. Had you ever heard of this person before, Judy, No,
me neither. But turns out Lori c was an author,
and she has like such an interesting backstory. She was
born in nineteen twenty eight in Germany in nineteen twenty eight,
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and when she was a little girl, World War two
is starting, and so she and I think her siblings
were taken out in the first wave of the Kinder Transport,
which was this organized rescue effort to get children Jewish
children out of Nazi controlled territory. But it was kind
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of it was very scary, I mean for the obvious reasons,
but also because it's just like a lot of kids
on a train by themselves.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, with like tags wrapped around their neck.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yes, it's so scary. Less scary than the alternative, but
still so, her and her siblings get sent off to England,
and they live in England for a little bit, and
then eventually her parents have to flee too, and the
parents come meet them and they all go all together
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to the Dominican Republic and they kind of wait out
the rest of World War Two the Dominican Republic before
moving to New York. And what's interesting about that is
she wrote about this in her first book, which is
called Other People's Houses, which is supposed to be good.
So she has this life in America after that really
interesting childhood, and she writes a bunch of books. She's
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contemporaries with I believe she's like the generation before Judy,
but she's contemporaries with people like Maurice Sendak and she
wrote two books. One is called tell Me a Mitzi
and one is called tell Me a Trudy. And she
wrote tell Me a Mitzi in nineteen seventy and the
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synopsis is this, Mitzi lives with her mother and father
and her baby brother in the big city, where every
day is an adventure, or at least Mitzi makes it one,
though sometimes the adventure is more than a little surprising.
One day, it's time to pay an impromptu visit to
her grandparents. And what will happen when the president comes
into town? Who knows what Mitsi will get up to next.
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That's cute. She wrote that in nineteen seventy, and then
in nineteen seventy seven, I guess this is funny that
it's like the same naming convention, but it's tell me
a Trudy this time. And guess what this is about.
This is about Trudy having adventures with her brother Jacob. Like, Okay,
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we can think of different girls' names, but we can't
think of a boy's name other than Jacob. And then
I did some more research, and the reason that all
the boys in her books are called Jacob is because
Jacob is Lori's son in real life. So instead of writing,
tell me a Jacob, I guess she just has him
make a cameo in both of these picture books.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So I thought that was funny and confusing, but funny
and yeah, sweet.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, and it's really again, it's like Judy giving a
shout out to other writers, and I really love when
she does that. But I was just wondering just this second,
is I'm confused? Is Laura Stiegel's actual granddaughter Mitzi? Is
her actual daughter named Mitzi? Who's Trudy? What the heck
is going on?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So another timeline thing I'm confused about is are we
to believe that these books are actually written about the
Mitsi in the book and her brother Jacob in the
book or is this a thing where missus Atfell bought
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these books because she's like, Oh, I have a grand
child named Mitzi and one named Jacob. I just you know,
tell them these books about them, just like kind of
how like my dad told me Brown Eye Girl was
written about right, which is another one that's like, oh,
did you listen to the lyrics of that death don't
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want to be about me? So what do you think
is right? Or is it another instance of we're thinking
about this too much.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Or or Mitzi and Jacob were named after the characters
in the book.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's that's my head canon. Now I love that, okay,
but I love it.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You do pose very good questions. Also, I remembered something
I've been meaning to tell you guys about the name Mitzi.
So remember so the song who Can Explain It? Who
can tell You Why? From South Pacific? That was sung
by a Mitsi Wow, Mitzi Gaynor.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh, Missy Gayner. That's so cool. Good deep cut.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, back to the book, though, what do you think
of the illustrations?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
They're wild, They are wild, and they're very sad and
scary too. I don't this is not my favorite. I'm sorry,
no offense, Harriet Pinkis, but uh these are spooky key
to me. I don't love these. They look they look
a little bit like the illustrations for Cloudy with the Chance.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. I think there
are the words like a seventies trend for like fucked
up looking kids things. I mean, think of all the
stuffed animals that came out in the seventies. They were
all a little scary and like hr puffin stuff. There
was just a bit of a nightmarish vibe.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
That's weird. And oh yeah, well, definitely don't look up
Harriet Pinkus's book The Wedding Procession of the rag Doll
and the Broom Handle and who was in it, because
that book cover is truly nightmare fueld.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I'm skilled.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Okay, you know, you bet your ass. We're gonna do
a carousel of all these Harriet pink and Pinkus illustrate.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Please, Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Oh, yike spikes, I hate these. Chapter ten is called
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green Gurgling Gas, which, as we remember, is the lie
that uh Peter wants to tell Jimmy to say why
the tubmans are in their house. It's so that was
Friday and this is Wednesday now, so their second week
of vacation. And uh, Sheila gets a call that her
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friend mouse Alice can't come because she has the chicken pox. Oh, no,
have you ever had the chicken pox?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yes, this was like back in the day where parents
used to have chicken pox parties.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
And you know, hey worked out, uh because my parents
never that and I've never had the chicken pox. And
that is spooky scary if you're a grown up.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It is watch out for shink balls. Wait, can you
get the vaccine?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I'm sure I have? Okay, Yeah, I'm positive I have gotten.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You're not just waiting for the shoe to drop for you.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, like come and take me.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Absolutely not. Okay, No, I'm sure I'm vaccinated. But sounds
like it's a good idea to stock up anyway. So
Mouse can't come, and Sheila is so sad. It's like
Sheila's termed to have a tantrum. And this is funny
because if my timeline is correct and she has just
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come from spending this whole summer with Mouse, Sheila has
had a tough summer. She had to move, she had
to learn how to swim, she had to start and
end her own newspaper. Like, she has had a rough time.
And I'm sure she was like, even though I just
saw Mouse last month, I want to see her again.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
That's true. I mean, yes, I just have to interject
that I am on the other side, and I believe
this is the summer after Oh.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I wonder then if the thing is they go every
summer to Terrytown, to that same place, maybe, so then
that's wild because then the Egans go to Europe every
summer much to discuss anyway, We can't. We don't have
time for this. We just don't. Jody, I just realized
the family that they take over four in otherwise known
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she is the great. I believe they're the Egans and
is the Egans, not the family and separates that's in
charge of everything.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Praise here, yes, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
And so they had to take time off because they
had to invents.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Well we all know miss Coba. Well sorry spoiler.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
So let me let me go backwards. So they had
to take off because they had to run this company
with all these people with holes in their brain. So
they did that for a summer. Craig Craig figured it out.
AnyWho where was I? Okay? So she was having the
worst day ever, and this is so fucking funny. She's
crying because her friend can't come, and Grandma and Buzzy
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are trying to comfort her. This part says, and Peter's
narrating goes, that's when I burped. I didn't mean to.
It just came out. Probably I drank more and juice
too fast. But Shela gets mad at him because she
thinks he was laughing at her and he just burped.
But I just think that's such a funny human detail
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to put in Judy, and this, I will say, this
whole chapter is choc a block with interesting side details
that do not need to be there, but are so delicious.
So she Loa's so sad, and Tutsy throws oatmeal in
her face, and she's extra sad. But he has nothing
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to be helped because Jimmy Fargo is coming and Mouse
is not. Later that day, Mom is helping because she's
gonna move the roll away bed from Peter's room to
Grandma's room. So now Grandma's sharing a room with Tootsy
and Fudge.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
This is the roodest thing I've ever heard of, I know.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
And I think Judy knows that we think it's rude
because she has Grandma say on the page. She says,
I don't mind. Sleeping in the same room as my
grandchildren is a privilege. It's a lot more fun than
sleeping in a room by myself. Okay, okay, I will
say my grandma was also a fan of this. When
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I would get my brother and I would go sleep
over at my grandma Grandpa's house. My grandma would like
sleep in the guest room with my brother and I
and my grandpa would just sleep by himself in the
other bed. But fun fact, one time I woke up
in the middle of the night and I couldn't find
my grandma and it's because she snuck back to the
real bed to sleep with my grandpa. I thought that
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was cute, little switcheroo, Little switcheroo, Fudge is telling Grandma
that she should get married so she doesn't have to
sleep by herself, and this will be a running joke.
But he also is jumping on the rollaway bed, which
will become relevant too.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Do you still snore, Grandma, Fudgie, that's not a polite question.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I really don't know, Fudge. You'll have to tell.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Me snoring keeps the monsters away.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yes, I'm sure it does.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
When I get married, I won't have monsters.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
In my room, says who.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
You don't get monsters when you sleep in a bed
with someone.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Else, So that's why you want to get married, so
you won't get monsters in your room.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Why else when I get married?
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Ah? Okay, so the truth comes out. That's why Fudge
wants to marry Sheila. And you know what, Fudge I
gotta say a little bit. I relate. I feel like
there's a bunch of scary movies that I want to
watch that I am saving for if I ever have
like a steady a steady fella again, because I am.
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I'm perfectly fine being in my apartment by myself nine
times out of ten, but every now and then I
think of something scary and I need a buddy there.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
So no, I'm with you. I get this feeling, and
I'm zero times out of ten being okay sleeping in
a house alone.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
So oh well, so that's you heard here. First. The
reason to get married is because the monsters won't get you.
And the part that made me mad was Peter's like, oh,
don't worry, you don't have to get married because Mitzi
makes monster spray, and then he starts saying his monster
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spray commercial and Mom goes, really, Peter, and I am
so mad. Yeah, I My older sibling Dander is so
up because Mom will let Fudge plant rocks as the
day is long. Mom will let Fudge be a bird
breather and straight up Mary the girl next door. But
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oh God forbid Peter be a little silly and make
up a jingle. Oh wouldn't want that. Fuck off.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
This is why I don't like mom, never liked.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Her, never liked her mom. This is why Peter is
the way that he is because you won't let him
be silly.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Just off. But I think if I'm looking at it
with really kind eyes, she doesn't want him saying that,
because he's riling Fudge up. And Fudge is riled up
such that he's jumping on the roll away after they
told him not to, and snap the way snaps him
inside like a little fudge witch. Like they make it
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uncrustable out of fudge. Fudge crustable, a fudge crustible.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
So this is very cartoony. I wonder if this can
actually happen in real life.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
I didn't google it because I thought it would be
too upseting. I feel like I have heard anecdotally about
like little kids getting stuck in like sofa beds and
stuff like that, and I just felt like, you know what,
not a google I need to do.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Oh maybe it's not as cute as it is.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
But they have to pry him out of the bed,
and when they do, Fudge is kicking the bed and
he's so mad. At the bed.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Stupid, stupid bed. If you're doing that again, I'm gonna
chop you up into little pieces.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
And Mom, the one time I think she's right, she goes,
let's not blame the bed. So they're in the backyard
and they're chatting to Buzzy Senior about this bed incident,
and this gets them all talking about beds, and Fudge
asks if Buzzy snores, and Buzzy said, similar to Grandma.
He's like, I'm not sure because I sleep alone. My
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wife died. And Fudge thinks for a minute and he goes, oh,
I've got it. You should sleep with Grandma. Perag hilarious,
And it says Buzzy Senior and Grandma looked at each
other and laughed.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
It's like, oh, oh, maybe they are. Maybe they're doing
their own little switcher room.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Oh my god, maybe yikes. Oh man. So in the afternoon,
the Tubmans decided to take a drive to Bar Harbor,
which is a little town nearby, and Libby can't go
because she has a job. Wild to be like for
three weeks, I'll fill out a W two. But yeah,
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so Libby can't go because she's got a job. But
they take Sheila so she can have the afternoon off
her babysitting grind, and Peter secretly hopes that they'll just
stay in Bar Harbor and never ever come back. Mister
Fargo calls and saw of a sudden, he and Jimmy
are rolling up to the house. Now listen to this.
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This is describing mister Fargo's truck. It says his truck
is really old, with rough spots around the fenders. It's
painted the color of bile. Not that I've ever seen bile,
but last year in school, we learned about the digestive
tract and that's the way I imagined it, a sick
greenish brown color. One hundred percent. This is where I
learned what bile was. Thanks Judy. So Jimmy comes out
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of the bile truck. It's hard to get the door open.
Mister Fargo comes out and Jimmy's saying hi to everyone,
And unfortunately, the first thing that Jimmy says is, you
can't even see Sheila's house from here. I guess it's
through those woods over there. And Peter's not saying anything
because he wants to sustain the lie. Oh, they go in.
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It's lovely and cozy, He says, hi to Uncle Feather.
Then they get Uncle Feather riled up, so they have
to army crawl under Uncle Feather's cage. Another funny detail.
I love it. Tootsy goes up to mister Fargo and
mister Fargo picks her right up and like shakes her
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and plays with her. I love this quote too, he says.
Tootsy loved it. She has this thing for bearded men.
She'll raise her arms and say up to any guy
with a beard. Mom says it's because Dad used to
have one. But I'm not so sure. We're gonna have
to teach her to be more careful. I can just
see her walking down Broadway in a few years, holding
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up her arms to every bearded weirdo on the street. Which,
if that isn't my dating life, I don't know what
I'm trying to get uppies from every bearded man in
Silver Lake if you know what I mean, Yes.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
I mean they're Tutsy in twenty years on Broadway might
be the sansic we gotta look for.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yes, that's what I want. Totsy, an independent woman on
Broadway saying uppeast to me, Yes, write it. I think
that's really cute. That a cute weirdo detail. And of
course Peter can't see it as a cute weirdo detail.
He's like, I'm immediately worried. This is my responsibility. So
mister Fargo drove famously ten hours from New York in
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one sitting in that tiny, yanky car, and they're kind
of trying to like be polite to him because his
remember his plan was he was going to camp in
the woods. They're chatting. He has a great line when
they ask him about the main weather. He goes, you
have to have weather, whether or not. Classic dad joke.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Remember that, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (51:18):
All of a sudden, oh no, a car pulls into
the driveway. Sheila Tubman bangs into the door. Oh no.
Jimmy's like, oh my god, she's here, and she was like,
yes she is. That explains that. Yeah, they're actually sharing
a house. They have breakfast and dinner together all the time.
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And look she likes dogs. Now yay, Jimmy has kind
of taken aback. Peter is caught in this like, lie
and Dad said, it's almost time for dinner, pasta with
Anne's special sauce. Now, I don't like, Mom, but I
do want to know what in that special sauce. Fargo's like, great,
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I'll go get our things from the car, and everybody pauses,
like our things, cause keep in mind, we've got two families.
We've got let's see, the Hatchers are a family of
what five plus grandma six in the Hatcher family five
in the tub and family plus two dogs and a
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bird and this now this other kid. So that's what
eleven twelve people, And then all of a sudden, mister
Fargo brings in all of his suitcases and his art supplies,
the art supplies, and all of the parents are like, uh,
what's what's going on?
Speaker 1 (52:44):
And not to mention like they're all a little unnerved
by mister Fargo. He like does not have a like
chill presence. Everyone's on edge.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
And he just basically invites himself to stay because he's like, ah,
too cold, camp. Yeah, could have could have asked, you
could have got a fucking hotel. But no, He's like, hope,
it's okay if I stay here. What's for dinner?
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (53:08):
Very oh? Especially too, you know his ass didn't pay
for any of.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
This, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
But Fudge has a brilliant idea that Grandma should sleep
with Buzzy senor. That way, mister Fargo can have the
big bed in the room with him and Tutsie and everybody.
Ha ha ha laughs, just kidding. They're uncomfortable. So later
in the day in the night, I want to read
(53:35):
this part. Can you please read Jimmy Fargo and I'll
read Peter.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
I'm really embarrassed about my father. Anybody can see You've
already got too many people in this house.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
It's no big deal.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
Yeah right, that's how come your mother almost.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Faded only because we're out of beds.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
You think my father cares about beds. He likes to
sleep on the floor.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
It's okay, forget it. You know he's weird.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
He doesn't mean to be, but he is.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
He's not that weird. Look, I'm embarrassed too. I should
have told you about sharing this house with the Tubmans,
but I didn't find out until we got here, and
then well, I was afraid if I told you you
wouldn't come.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
Probably wouldn't have. But now that I'm here, doesn't seem
that bad.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Oh that's big of you, Jimmy. Now that you're here
and your weird dad is also here. You're fine with
this cool coo cool tye t type. As someone with
a divorced dad, I relate to this sentence. I love
him so much. He's weird. He doesn't mean to be,
but he is. And I just think sometimes when your
(54:49):
dad is married to your mom, uh, there are buffers
around how weird your dad is, And then when your
dad's not married anymore, weird shit Fans like caith In
point one time, when my parents had been divorced a
couple of years, I came into town and I was
finally going to meet this lady that my dad was dating.
(55:10):
You'd been dating her for a couple months, and we
wanted to meet her. So he brings whatever, Helen or
whatever over and we're about to go to dinner. He
introduces me to her, and then he takes a beat
and he goes, Wow, isn't it weird that I'm here
with a woman who isn't your mother? Oh? Yes, but
you can't say that for the Helen. This is oh no,
(55:33):
for Helen, Oh Helen.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
Oh so, just like I love this man. If my
dad has one fan, it is me.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
But do you find yourself like you know, you're so
used to your dad's mannerisms, do you find yourself like
being the smoother over You're like you like, yeah, change
the subject, or like, you know.
Speaker 2 (55:56):
It'll either be that or I am. Now Now that
things have settled down a lot and everybody's a little
more okay, I think I'm back to the point where
I'm like, this guy's hilarious. He is weird, but I
love what's happening here. So more often than not, I'll
be like, oh, yeah, my dad did this whatever, and
people will be like, that's that was weird to do.
(56:20):
So yeah, but you're right. I think my Peter hatchardness
used to manifest itself by like I gotta I gotta
cover up, not covery, but like just stabilized from a
weirdle lies. Yes, but I love him, and I love
(56:42):
mister Fargo as well me too. He's fun and so
everything is kind of smoothed over. And because everything's okay
and Peter can finally relax from holding onto this lie,
he's like, well, why waste a good lie? That's the
kind of pain to test how Jimmy would have reacted
(57:04):
to the poison gas story. So he turns over jim
and he goes, did you hear about the poison gas?
Speaker 1 (57:10):
What poison gas?
Speaker 2 (57:12):
The poison gas and the toilets?
Speaker 1 (57:14):
What toilets?
Speaker 2 (57:16):
Some guy up here he had poison gas in his toilets.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
What do you mean poison gas?
Speaker 2 (57:24):
Oh? It was this green, steamy gurgling stuff that bubbled
up every time he flushed.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
Green steamy gurgling stuff.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
It's not funny. It's an environmental disaster.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
An environmental disaster. Where'd you read that in the National Inquirer.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
You don't think it's possible.
Speaker 1 (57:48):
Yeah, I think it's possible if the guy ate something
that didn't agree with him.
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Oh, so it's a good thing he didn't actually use
this lie on Jimmy because he wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
So bummer, as you say, beta testing. That's so interesting,
And I wonder, like I was trying to think of,
like have I ever done that?
Speaker 2 (58:07):
You know, like I've done it.
Speaker 1 (58:10):
I'm sure I have.
Speaker 2 (58:12):
And so they're laughing, and then all of a sudden
they hear a laugh coming from outside the door. They
open the door and Fudge has been standing outside the
door trying to listen to them. Typical older sibling. Peter's like,
you gotta get out of here, you gotta go sit
in your own bed. So he takes him across the hall,
and poor Fudge is afraid of the roll away because
(58:34):
it tried to eat him earlier. But they put him
back in his own bed, and Grandma and Titsy are
already asleep, and Grandma is snoring. That means there's no
monsters tonight. Fudge wants him to tuck him in, so
Peter tucks him in, and he wants a kiss. Good
night now, Chris, me good night. Pete says, I was
(58:57):
about to drop a light one on his forehead when
he reached up, grabbed me around the neck, and pulled
me down. Then he planted a big wet smackeroo right
in the middle of my face.
Speaker 3 (59:07):
Sweet dreams bit.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
The end. Oh, those are two good chapters.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Good. It really does get funnier and funnier, so so
fun Mollie, we're like three quarters of the way through.
Speaker 2 (59:21):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
Wow, Okay, so we're we're going to do chapter eleven
and twelve probably next week, and there's how many chapters fourteen?
Speaker 2 (59:30):
Oh my gosh, So we're two episodes away from being
done with this book.
Speaker 1 (59:36):
It's time to start thinking about our next book. So
that's another assignment. Bloom Heads. Send us your your requests
to add to the voting list. I do think we
need to put Beginner's Love on there.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
Okay, I do want something grown up or teenage age?
Speaker 1 (59:56):
Yeah done, baby books? I yeah, I like to altern
you know we're ready for something steamy. All right, Well
that's it for this week.
Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Sweet dream, bye bye,
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