April 21, 2025 • 65 mins
Molly and Jody finish Judy Blume's Fudge-a-Mania with chapters 13-14! Peter loses his sh** at Big Apfel's Big Game. Fudge pilfers Mom's Oil of Olay. Sheila and Libby wear bedazzled jeans at the Nuptials of the Horny Elders. And Famous Transient Frank Fargo finds success while ignoring child labor laws. Join us for hilarious dramatic readings, literary analysis, and two amazing listener letters from Emily and Geniene. Molly presents an important and timely Special Report on the state of our libraries – please check out the links below and let us know what action YOU take! Let's do this. It's a Judy Blume book club. Join us every other week!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Jody and I'm Molly.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
When you're listening to the Blue Saloon.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's a gd Bloom book Club.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is okay. So last episode was the penultimate of
the Mania episode. Does this make this episode the ultimate episode?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Ultimate episode of the Bloom.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Saloon to.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We are finishing the book today. I cannot even believe it.
Our first book together, our first book, oh, first of
so many. I hope I had a revelation today. Does
your book have little scribbles in the chapter openers?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And so I was always like, what's that? What's that there?
What's what's going on there? What's the design decision? And
I just realize it is like a little like the
the twirling that Budge and Missy do good.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I that's amazing, You're so right. Yes, I think.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It is, like why else would it be there? It's
really been bothering me this whole time, not not in
a bad way, just in a hm who decided that way?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, we can think of this thematically. It's like fudge
Mania is the state of like spinning around and around,
and I think we can clock if people are at
a way different point than they were at the beginning
of this three week trip at the end of the book.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Totally okay, great, Well, so we have two letters today.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, okay, so we have a letter here for bloom
Head Emily, and it goes like this, I keep meaning
to write you, and I just finally watched the Margaret movie,
so it seems like the perfect time. I am so,
so so glad the pod is back. I kept watching
(02:10):
that little icon on my app and was just about
to accept that you disappeared when I saw the new
episodes appear. Obviously we all miss Allison, but Molly, you
are a fabulous co host. Thank you. That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
True.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, the Margaret movie was incredible. I loved how everyone
actually looks like normal people rather than super polish and Hollywood.
And now I just want to wear all the seventies
inspired outfits. I also want to go to summer camp
even though I'm thirty seven, but we don't have quite
the same things here in the UK. Just day camps
(02:43):
aw bummer. That's probably why the chick in parent Trap
had to come all the way over here. But that's
another story that's not Emily's letter. That's me editorializing. Emily says,
I loved the new pod segment last week on Your
Most Blue Moment. Now it's getting warmer. Mine has been
wearing my summer shoes after months of thick socks and
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boots and getting miserable blisters on the back of my ankles,
just like Margaret. All the plasters band aids for me
until my feet adjust. Thanks so much for coming back.
I can't wait to read more books with you, guys,
Love and Other Indoor Sports Emily, Oh, Emily, thank you
though it such a sweet letter.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thank you, Emily.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And the Margaret movie is great, and I think seventies
fashion is.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Great too, is the best fashion.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We're gonna have to And we've been in talks about
new Bloomhead merch And I texted Jody in the middle
of the night in like a cold sweat after we
had our last our last episode, and I just texted
Love and Other Indoor Sports baby teas when so I
think that's a new merch we might be trying to
(03:52):
make at some point.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Definitely, Oh, this is a good call to our bloom Heads,
you know. I asked Molly to help come up with
some new merch ideas, Like I'm thinking bumper stickers, I'm
thinking new T shirts, I'm thinking maybe going beyond Zazzle,
just finding a site that has better styles, better options,
beyond us. And yeah, we would love input from you
(04:17):
guys too, because you're the ones you know who will
hopefully be buying them. So let us know what you
would like to sport.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, I'm going to read an email from Bloomhead Janine,
and the way Gmail shows attachments is so funny, Like
she attached a photo of herself. I'll describe it later,
but it is so big it's taking up my entire browser.
(04:46):
And hopefully we can share this because it's the cutest
Bloomhead photo I've ever seen. Oh, I'll explain hello Bloomhead
as a fellow oldest sister, oldest of three girls, so
you just know there was NonStop two against one vibes
still are, honestly, even though we're all grown ass adults.
I have some sibling torture stories for your reading pleasure. Ooh,
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MOLLI this taps into your needs. Yes, my sisters and
I have a bit of an age gap. They're only
two years apart, but I'm five and seven years older
than they are, respectively. As a result, I was built
in babysitter from age ten through most of high school.
Oh no. I also had to clean the house every
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Saturday while my parents were at work. My sisters and
I were supposed to clean it together, but they would
use the time to engage in bad behavior, like dumping
all their dresser drawers out into the middle of their
bedroom floor, or tie a bunch of bed sheets together
and try to get out their bedroom window. Oh my god,
that's very any of them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Very any of the.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Luckily I caught them on that one before limbs were broken.
I would retally by playing Sergeant Pepper at top volume
while I did the dishes. But the worst thing I
used to do was pretend to have amnesia. I would
hide in my closet, and once my sisters figured out
where I was, they would open the door and I
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would fall out and then look at them from I'm
on the floor at saying things like who are you
and where am I? Oh my god, possibly until they cried,
maybe just until I saw real fear in their eyes.
It was really shitty of me. Why did I do it?
Was I experimenting with being an asshole because I had
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to be responsible for them and housework at a young age.
Was I just a preteen dirt bag? Why did I
even know what amnesia was? My little sister got revenge
by pushing me out a window. It was a first
story window, but still okay. And there's more changing topics
(06:59):
to custom name items. When I was bored, my mom's
best friend had a custom puzzle made for me. It
was a board puzzle, basically a thick piece of wood
with the letters recessed into the wood. Oh, I know
what you're talking about. I feel like I've seen these.
The pieces were each a letter of my name, and
each piece was a different color. The letters had peg
style handles so I could easily plunk the letters into
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their spaces. I'm making it sound chintzy, when in reality,
it was magical. It was very well made. My favorite
part was the colors, which were bright but thinly painted
on so the wood grain showed through. I will play
with it for hours, spelling my name over and over again.
And yet another subject change. I am a proud member
of the Bati bike Accident tooth incident.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm currently missing my upper too front teeth from a
bike accident. When I was eight. I shot over my
handlebars and face planted onto the sidewalk, knocking my teeth loose,
but not out until I hit my late thirties. Oh,
I lost one tooth shortly before COVID and then the
other two years later. Implants are out of control, expensive,
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and so I wear a flipper most of the time
Toddler's and TR's style. But there are days when I
just free gummet and everyone gets to see my naked
tooth hole. At this point, I'm all out of fucks
to give about the missing teeth. I like to think
it gives me character. I also secretly love popping my
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flipper out to freak unsuspecting people. Okay, I've gone on
long enough. Love what you're doing so much. The fudge
voice kills me every time. And Mollie, You're a welcome edition.
Y'all are the bloom and best.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Janine, Okay, Janine, wow, so much unpack that really tickled me.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So back to the photo. I'm just gonna text you
a screenshot of her. Adorable. She's so cute. I like
somehow she makes missing teeth look almost like the girl
in White Lotus made gap teeth cool. Like Jeanine has
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really done something for missing teeth. Let's get you that photo. Sorry,
hold on one second.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh she Wow, you are so right. She looked so nice. Yeah,
I thought, wow, that should be illegal to look that
pretty with that huge a gap in your face.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I know, it's like lucky, she's so pretty already.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh my god, she looks like a hockey player. She
should be a hockey player for Halloween. That's so freaking cute. Okay, ah,
that's adorable, Jeanine.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh incredible.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That was so such a good letter.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She's really rocking it. Wow. I thought when we got
to the part about her sister pushing her out of
a window, I thought that's how the teeth were gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But wow, that reminds me I'm also in a teeth
related club. So either just the broader chipped front tooth club,
or perhaps there I have sister in in the chipped
tooth on a beer bottle club.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's badass. Did you because I've never noticed a chip tooth?
Did you get it fixed?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Or oh it's there, it's still rocking? Yeah, I just
I you know, I guess it's not something you would
notice unless you were all up in my front teeth.
But yeah, my best friend knocked a beer bottle into
my teeth when I was in college and chipped my
front tooth. But oh yeah, and then it's funny. A
part of the broader chip tooth club is like, she
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is a mother now and she has an almost two
year old, and she accidentally bonked the two year old's
front teeth, so the two year old has a chip teeth.
And I was like, well, the common denominator here.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is you mouthguards out. My sister had a dead tooth,
like one of her baby teeth was just brown because
she fell or something. But that's like another club that
I wonder.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Well, we have a bloom head in this still has
a baby tooth club, which I found that fascinating and
I wanted to ask for more evidence. I want to
see what that looks like in your adult now send.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Us all your teeth picks, tiny tooth. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh that's so funny. And the amnesia part is so funny.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No, I totally relate. I did that to Rosie too,
but I would pretend I was dead sometimes too, which
is like fell down this staries and died.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I know. So mean.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, I just heard a story this week. It was
will Forte was on a podcast, and he said he
used to do that to his parents all the time.
Is he would pretend to be dead. And he said
one time, the time was the last time I stopped
doing it. Is I left like a note for my
mom and then I heard her scream and I was like, Mom,
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I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And he's like, that's when I learned an important lesson
about humors. It's like, it's not funny if it makes
someone really scared.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, a note is too far.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I know it's too far, But you would just play
dead on the stairs and your sister thought you were dead.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's such an asshole, But it was the same thing.
I think it was resentment for like being the older
sister that had the responsibilities, that couldn't get away with
stuff just because you're not cute anymore, you know, all
the things, and took it out on the wrong person.
I really should have took it out of my parents.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Get them. Oh well, I would like to pivot to
a part of the show that Bloomhead Danny Meyers lazarro
suggests we call the Judy Minutie, which I think is
hilarious and so clever. So uh, if no one objects,
(13:21):
I think we will call this segment the judy Minudi.
But it is take a roughly a minute to describe
the most judy bloom thing that happened to you this week.
So what do you think the most judy bloom thing
to happen to you this week was?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
M It's not gonna take a minute, it's gonna take
five seconds. But uh I cut myself shaving.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh no, on your leg?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I hope, yes, yes, you know, just like the shin
bone seems to get in the way.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh I hate that.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Nothing more to report than that. Accept. Okay, now tell
me if you've done this or seen this. But I,
for whatever reason, I saw a video recently of someone
shaving their leg. But they were using the razor in
a weird way that I've never seen before. They were
like going up and down with it up, an inch down,
an inch up and inch down, you know, almost like
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they were scratching themselves with the razor. No, and all
the comments were like, no, no, what are you doing?
Like who taught you to shave like that? And then
the original poster said, no, this is the safer way
because you're not lifting it up and so therefore you're
not like giving your kind of like eliminating the risk
(14:38):
of landing too hard and cutting. Does this make sense?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh a little bit. It still seems crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It seems crazy, but I think I'm gonna try it
next time. I'll report back.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Please, yeah, send me that video. Mm hmm. Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So that's mine.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
My it just happened. So I was telling you, Jody
that we actually kicked this recording back an hour because
my mom called me at about like three p thirty
and she said, me and Richard, Richard's her husband. She's like,
me and Richard are at such and such a brewery
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having a snack and a drink. You want to come by?
And I said, yes, absolutely, I do. So I got
in the car and I come hang out with them.
And they're both retired and they're a hoot. And my
mom's favorite thing in the world to do is to
plan a trip at any given moment. She's like three
years ahead in the trips that she wants to do.
(15:42):
And Richard, though he be a man, is a down
ass chick. Like that's one of his best things about
him is like you say we should do something, He's like, absolutely,
we should do something. Let's go girlies. Like, he's so
into it. And so we were chatting today when we
were having a beer and I was talking about Gudy
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Bloom and I said, oh, man, Judy Bloom has a
bookstore in Key West I would love to go to.
And Richard said, you know what, I have been wanting
to go to Key West because I love Ernest Hemingway
and he has a house there. And my mom, who
is down, you know, she'll go on a trip to
the store. She loves going on trip so much she
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wanted to go. And so we like began laying the
groundwork for a Key West trip next year. So, my god,
I can't wait my mom. And of course my mom
has like a million other imaginary trips planned. So she's like, hmm, well,
next year is the year that I was planning to
hike the Camino Trails in Spain. I guess, She's like,
(16:49):
and that is six weeks, but I haven't booked anything yet,
so we'll see. But that sounds fun. So I laid
the groundwork with the girlies.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, oh my god, even if it's just you and Richard, like,
you gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
At this point, it seems like send your mom to
the trail bye, because that he is like more my kind.
I mean, my mom is too, but he is truly
a like, let's park it somewhere, let's have a drink
kind of traveler. And I like that too, and my
mom will do that too. But yeah, we plan a trip.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well, I might just have to tangle a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I was thinking that too, and you know, I think
he will like it because I was just like I
had honestly genuinely had kind of like a breakthrough moment
with Richard just now because my mom and my entire
family and I, as you can tell by listening to
this podcast, we're yappers. We're like big talkers. We are
chatting all the time, and Richard kind of like hangs back.
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And I always thought he hung back because like we
were dominating the conversation or he was like scared to
jump in or whatever. But he told me today he's like,
I just love soaking it in. He goes, I just
love listening to you guys. You're so fun You're so funny,
and if I have something to say, I'll say it,
but mostly I just like hanging And so I took
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that to be like, oh, Richard, is one of the
girlies and he just likes to hang so you know,
absolutely you're invited on this trip. What's what, Cranberry, Absolute Cranberry, Jody,
come on and Alison to you and the baby and
everybody else. Let's all go.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, that's so exciting, So back your bags.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You're coming with us.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Bloombheads come with us too. Richard needs all the girlies.
Let's all go meet up, meet up, okay. For chapters
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thirteen and fourteen, we have the Hatchers, which is Peter
the older brother, Fudge the younger brother to see the baby, sister,
Mom and dad, Grandma Muriel who is mom's mom, and
Turtle the dog. Then on the other side of the
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house we have the Tubmans. We have Sheila, who is
the younger sister, Libby who is the older sister who
we only have, like oblique mentioned to here, we don't
really see her that much. We have mister Tubman and
Missus Tubman, and we have mister Tubman's dad, Buzzy Senior.
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We also have their puppy Jake. Oh, I should mention
the Hatchers also have Uncle Feather, who is a mina
bird sidebar. I think you guys have already done a
report about mina birds. But I just was bored the
other day and did one they lived be like twenty
years old? Yeah, that's samee to buy for a child.
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And I looked up how much a mina bird is
to purchase now, and it's like six hundred dollars to
buy a minor person now. So I can only imagine
adjusted backwards for inflation mina bird prices. But wowie wowie Kuzawi.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Good intel.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Back to roll call. So those are the Tubmans. Then
we have Jimmy Fargo, who is Peter's friend, and his
transient father, Frank Fargo, who is an artist. Then of
the townsfolk, we have the app Fells, which is missus
A who is an older lady. We have Big app Fell,
who is a retired Boston Red Sox player who is
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missus A's husband, And we have Mitzi who is their
granddaughter who is five like Fudge. Then also in town,
we have Bicycle Bob, a celebrity who we know who
are close personal friends with owns the bike shop. Then
we have Tony Ikele from Igles ice Cream. We have
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Dorothy from Oz's books, who we remember is not actually
Dorothy Irl, but a woman named Sheila. And then we
also have when in Rome, who is an older lady
who we learn later is a judge or a Justice
of the Peace type person. And I believe that's all
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of our cast of characters for these two chapters.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Did we mention Isabelle?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Oh, I'm so sorry, I have it here. Yes, Izzy
is a teenager, a voluptuous teenager who works at the
library who Peter has a big crush on.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Voluptious teenager.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, yummy, yummy.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay, this one's called Captain Fudge. So it's now Sunday.
It's the morning right after the The Kiss of the
Elders I wrote, it was revealed that Grandma Muriel and
Buzzy Sr. Are doing it, or maybe they're waiting till marriage.
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I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Who can say.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Who can say? Grandma's making a special pancake breakfast, I'm
sure to distract the crew that she and Buzzy are
getting busy. Fudge is showing off his mid seat. He's saying,
look how soft it is. And Peter notices some weird
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splotchy splotches all over it and asks what's going on there?
And fudge says he put a special oil on the mid,
just like the guy at this door said. And then
what kind of oil? Oil of Olay? Of course oil
of olais for skin. Turkey brain mom uses it on
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her face. I'm not a brain, you're the jerky brain.
And you're just jealous because your mit is not as
soft as mine.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah right, And I'm jealous that my mit doesn't smell
like that pink stuff too.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I like that smell.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'm glad because you're gonna be smelling it for a
long time. What'd you do? Use up the whole bottle?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
The man in the store said, to oil it every night.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Remember he said a few jobs. And he was talking
about neat's foot oil.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
What's neatsfoot oil?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's what you're supposed to use on a baseball glove.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Mmmm, never oil of olet. Peter starts to feel a
little bit bad.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Look, it's not like you did anything wrong. You are
just being uh creative, Yeah, create?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay? And I did look up neatsfoot oil. Yes, okay.
So Judy had a little typo here, actually all one
word neatsfoot. She has it as neats a pastrophys foot.
This is us being you know our pedantic selves. But
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you know, she didn't have the Internet back then to
look it up. So neatsfoot oil is disgusting. It's from
the shin bones of cows. And why is it called
neat's foot, you ask, is because neat is the Old
English word for cattle, and it is used for leather.
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That is true, but in the eighteenth century it was
also used for medicine or for dry scaly skin conditions.
Oh yeah, they're very Everything I read about this was like,
it's f the shin bones and feet, but not the
hooves of cattle. It was like, no, no, no, not
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the hooves. And there was like a whole bunch of
science why the shin bones are the best?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
But I was like, no, wow, well like this, I
guess for my mind, I surely don't know where the
foot stops and the hoof begins.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So isn't the You would think the hoof is the foot,
right right?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It feels like a distinction without a difference to me.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
But yikes, well, well you know what, fudge, I'm glad
you're using oil of.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
La Yeah, and this is I remember reading this as
a kid, and then when I was in the store
and I saw Oil of La or I saw a
commercial for Oil of La. I'm like, get out of town.
I thought Judy Blue made that up. That's crazy. I
can't believe that's a real thing. Ah.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Peter wigs Jimmy up and reminds him that today is
the day of the big Game. It's the big game,
but Jimmy's still not into it. He's like, I don't
Jimmy really know how to play baseball very well? And
I don't even know who this guy is. But off
they go. The game is at the high school and
it's packed. There's so many people and it's so many dogs.
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Love that detail. But Shila does not love that detail.
She says no, thank you and runs back to the
car and says she's gonna sit in the car for
the whole game. No one can convince her to come
out because she's got a book to read. She's fine
and strange. Dogs have diseases.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I have done this before as a child, just like nope,
out of a situation and then like leave me in
the car, crack a window. I'm fine, I've.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Got a babysitters club just waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Bye. Yeah, So I related to this.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's fun. Thank God for cars.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, I don't know how good of an idea it's
to just like leave your kid in a car with
the book, but it surely happened to me many times.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
No, we were always left in cars. I just remember,
like so many supermarket parking lots.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
At the risk of monopolizing the conversation, my brother and
I would get left in the car quite often if
my parents had to like zip in for something. And
I guess the gas lighting I did to my brother
is I told him, look, we're the last line of
defense of this car if something happens. So what we
have to do is this. And my dad used to
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have one of those like tridents that you put on
the steering wheel to lock it. Yeah, yeah, and it
comes apart in two pieces. One is like the trident
piece with like a stick on the bottom, and then
the other is like a heavy like bass. And so
I would take it apart, give one side to my
brother and one side to me, and I said, Okay,
the thing you have to do is you have to
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hide behind the car seats and if somebody breaks into
the car, we jump out from behind the car seats
and we bash him. Today, I guess so my parents
would come back in the car and they would have
Thank goodness, they would like tap on the window to
like say hi to us before they came in the car.
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Otherwise we would have got him. So, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I feel like that's something I would have done. So
I really appreciate that the safe safety first safety, And
you're only alive now because.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Of that, and that's probably true. Yeah, thank you for
saying that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So we're at the we're at the baseball game. No
where are we We're at the high school. We're at
the game. Peter's looking around at the whole scene and
he notices, in quotes, a great looking girl in a
red striped shirt. It's Isabelle, of course, and she's stretching
on third base. And I was like, oh my god,
third base? Is that a little judy sneaky input like
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Beginner's Love.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
So funny. I wonder, who do you picture Isabelle looking like?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Oh, okay, so we know she has curly hair and
a big butt. I really don't have a clear picture
of her, do you, m h.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I picture her as like Drew Barrymore in Home Fries. Oh,
oh my god, And I mind you I've never seen
the movie Home Fries. I just have seen the cover
of Home Fries a bunch, and so I picture that's
what she looks like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, that's her. That's her for sure. Jimmy kind of
baits Peter into saying how beautiful she is. He's like,
she's incredibly ugly, and Peter's like, what, she's beautiful, very cute.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Got him.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
So the whole crew is there. It's kind of like,
you know, like at the end of a musical when
the whole cast comes out for a song. So it's
like Dorothy from the Oz Bookstore is there, the Sawyer's
Market butcher is there, there's the hardware store guy, and
of course our close and personal friend bicycle Bob.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Bicycle Bob has a huge part with the book going forward.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
He's like a main character.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, such that I was wondering if we should write
him a follow up letter and be like, Yo, we're
baseball games a thing that you guys did, or who
is this about?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
We should Yeah, let's ask our close personal friend what
he remembers. And then it happens. The crowd starts to
stir and incomes the celebrity big at fell in the flesh,
and he's actually a really big guy. He's six' six.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And, Wow peter, sit, yeah that's.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Big peter notes that he still looks like his baseball
card plus a few LB's and a little gray, hair
but still got. It so he's sworn by the. Crowd
and this is a. Scene mitzi And fudge are like
in the middle of, it all each wrapped around one
of his. LEGS i imagine they're like sitting on his,
feet and he's walking with. Them peter's, thinking, please, please,
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please please let me be on his. Team i'll never
ask for another. Thing but then it's the biggest disappointment
we have ever. Had big announces that he's gonna bat
for both sides since he can't run very well, anymore
and the crowd's like, yay But peter's, like what the?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Fuck peter's so.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Mad we've never Seen peter like this, before SO i
think we have to read. This this is a New.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Peter, okay what how can he bat for both? Sides that's,
impossible that's against the official.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Rules when In rome.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
It's a lady is saying that to.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Him when In, rome do as The romans.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Do i've got news for. You we're not In, rome.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And i've got news for, You. Junior rudeness will not
be tolerated in this. Game who's being?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Rude cut it?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Out, peter calm, down will? You it's just a.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Game OH i suppose you think it's fair for him
to bat for both? Sides?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
YEAH i, Do Like peter's gonna. Cry and then it's
time to pick, teams WHICH i. Hate why are we?
Doing why was this ever? Invented picking teams is so? Evil?
Fudge oh DID i mention? That Uh fudge And isabelle
are team? Captains, ah that's. Fun Uh fudge picks his
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Gal mitzie of, course And isabelle's up, next and we
get more kind of like syops From. Peter he's Like
Peter Warren, Hatcher Peter Warren. Hatcher but she Picks Tony.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Ikel NOW i wonder if that's Another judy. Hit that
like something's going on, there Because libby has, said Like
Tony ikel is, hot, yeah And Tony ikele it is
kind of like Eyeing libby. Too but then the library
is right next to the ice cream, store AND i
Assume tony And isabelle live there all year, long so they're,
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like what's his name and what's her?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Name From Summer Sisters Bruin.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Vix oh, Yeah Bruin. Vix you're, right, yes maybe.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Maybe i'm sure they make out by the, Dumpsters oh for.
Sure and then to make matters, Worse fudge Picks. Peter
so there goes his chances of being On isabelle's, team
and then more salt in the, Wound jimmy ends up
On isabelle's team And peter thinks nothing was working out
the WAY i. Planned absolutely. Nothing and so the rest
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of this chapter is a whole lot of baseball, talk
and good.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
For judy because it is a lot of like detailed baseball. Action.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah do you Think jude's knows about? BASEBALL i? Wonder
or did you have like a? CONSULTANT i don't.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Know i'm always curious about that when people do sports writing. Stuff,
yeah BECAUSE i don't know that she's Ever i've ever
heard her describe baseball or sports in other books.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Before, NO i, know this was really kind of took
me by, surprise and my eyes glazed over a little.
Bit do YOU i was gonna, Say, mollie do you
know about? Baseball, okay, well something, happens and the ball
comes Towards peter and he doesn't catch it because he's
not paying attention because he's trying to see a big
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app fell is watching. Him so it lands at his.
Feet it's like, oopsie but he picks it up and
throws it over to win In, rome but it goes
right over her head and she, says wake, up, junior
wear are your eyes in the back of your? Head
and like talk about. RUTE i thought rudeness was not
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tolerated in this game when In, rome.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Also you're an. ADULT i know he's out daring.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Boy he's trying not to. Cry everyone's, steering his legs are.
Shaking he takes a big. Swallow, later When peter is
up to, bat it's Bicycle bob, pitching and bicycle Bicycle
bob sounds like a really good. Pitcher. Yeah peter knows
that this is his chance to make up for his mistakes,
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earlier so he's psyching himself. Up but he misses and
he literally like does the like spin around in a
circle with his bat And mitzi yells it's Fudge, mania
And fudge tells, her, no it's, not it's a.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Strike it's just very.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Funny fudge gets even. Better he, says keep your eye
on the, Ball. Pete oh, No and so the next
pitch he hits. Uh but the ball has head For.
Grandma and of Course grandma makes this fantastic catch because
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she's good at. Everything, yeah what doesn't she? Do? Yeah
and Then peter's out just like.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
THAT, gez thanks a, Lot, GRANDMA i know what a Bit.
Grandma come, on.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
When isabelle's up to, bat we get this great. Description
isabelle came up to the. Plate she's one of those
players who wiggles the. Bat actually she wiggles more than the,
bat BUT i tried not to. Notice and then this
whole bit is just like physical. Comedy LIKE i Think
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i've said this, before but it really reminds me of
some kind Of Three stooges, Situation SO i gotta read.
This she knocked a slow grounder right At, mitzi But
mitzi knew what to. Do she had her glove on
the ground and her legs together so the ball couldn't go.
Through she stopped. It she picked it.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Up, look, EVERYONE i got the.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Ball. Row she looked, confused then threw the ball To,
fudge who was standing right next to. Her by, Then
isabelle was on her way to. Second Here peter yells To,
fudge but instead of throwing the, ball he ran it
over and personally handed it to. Me by, Then isabelle
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was on her way to. Second, Throw Peter Buzzy senior,
Said BUT i was Scared i'd throw it away, again
SO i decided to fake a throw, instead and it.
Worked isabelle headed back to. Second when she REALIZED i
still had the, ball she turned and tried for third.
Again we had her trap between the. Bases there was
really only one sure way to get her, out SO
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i ran after. Her it wasn't my. Fault she changed
directions again and we, collided falling to the ground. Together
this isn't, football and she marches. Off fudge. Cheers, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
She's on the other. Team you're supposed to cheer for
me one who got her?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Out. Yeah as if that weren't. Enough in the final,
Inning jimmy hit a perfect double to left field And big,
shouted way to go. SON i Thought big wasn't supposed
to root for either. TEAM i thought he was supposed
to stay. Neutral oh my, god this, sucks Or peter that?
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Know so in case you're. Wondering fudge's team loses twenty
six to, eight but everyone is happy and having a great,
time and, Uh fudge And, Peter oh, Sorry fudge And
jimmy even sing take me out to the. Ballgame in
the car on the way, Back jimmy Tells peter something
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that is. Wild he said That big personally came up
to him and said that he had real potential and
that he just needs more confidence because if he had,
confidence there'll be no stopping him and he could even
be headed to The. Major i'm, like, What oh my,
GOSH i don't know about. That do you Think jimmy's?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
LYING I i think that that is something That big
would say to be polite and. NICE i think it's
something that was really, said especially if you could, see because,
Like jimmy is so, anxious AND i bet he only
got more anxious when he got out. There that's why
they say the thing about his. Confidence SO i think
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this was just a, like hang in, there little. Fella
anybody can do. It SO i Think jimmy is taking
it with more weight than it was. Meant but, Yeah boos,
said this was very.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Poignant peter realizes how his dad must have felt on
the boat, yesterday a real. Loser then he feels better
with some affirmations From fudge And. Jimmy fudge gives him
a big sticky kiss on the, face And jimmy thanks
him for forcing him out of bed in the. Morning
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and he's their, best best best bet, friends so. Sweet
and Then peter just turns around and joins in the,
singing and they all, sing take me out to the ballgame.
Together so later that, Evening mom gets out of the
shower and she, Says.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Fudgie where's my oil of?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Olay Mister zuman took?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
It.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Mom Mister zuman is the trash.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Guy why would Mister zuman have taken my oil of olay.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Because the bottle was. Empty but it was a brand new.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Bottle it was, Empty, Mom but you said you only
needed a few drops For, mitzi Not.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Mitsy My. Metsie you know what.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
You know my baseball. Glove you used my oil of
olay on your baseball. Glove you used all my oil
of olay on Your.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Mitzi.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
RIGHT i can't believe, This oh my oil of.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Olay an uncle feather, says ooray, Ooray Sheila, WATSON i
didn't know your bird Speak. Spanish he, doesn't BUT i
just heard him say olay, okay olay.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Olay you see.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
It's not that kind of. Delay it's o la.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Y how could you possibly know?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
That believe?
Speaker 2 (41:35):
ME i know what a funny.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Chapter, oh brilliant. Chapter.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yay the ultimate.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Chapter this one is chapter, Fourteen The Ring. Bear, okay
so it kicks off with famous Transient Minster. Fargo oh,
who by the, way they were only supposed to, say
like a few. DAYS i think maybe even like a.
Week And jimmy's, like, no, ACTUALLY i think my dad
says we can keep. Saying it's, like, OH i bet he, Did,
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YEAH i bet he. Did famous freeloader Mister.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Farco it makes me wonder like maybe maybe they got
evicted In New york and they're just Like mon's so. Sad,
NO i don't think, so but you, KNOW i, mean
put it past, him.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
It would make what comes up kind of. Poignant so
Mister fargo begins this chapter with saying that his dealer
In New york loves the idea of The babyfeet art,
series and he's gonna do a whole series of Baby
feet paintings and there's gonna be a show at a
gallery In, soho and he said we're gonna be, Famous
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and Poor jimmy, goes how that? Rich? Dad could we
be just a little rich while you're at? It, like, oh,
No peter has a QUESTION i also. Have she, says
if Mister fargo gets rich On tutsy's, footprints Will tutsi
gets something?
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Too like, yeah, yeah she put in the, work.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Truly, truly. Truly and, then speaking of wonderful News buzzy AND.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I there's only one way to say. It who can't explain?
It who can't tell you?
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Why whose give you? Reasons? Wise? Men never? Try?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Mother what are you trying to tell us?
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Why?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Ann?
Speaker 3 (43:50):
DEAR i thought it was. Obvious buzzy AND i are
in love and we are going to be. Married, Married, Mary, yes.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Married isn't this all kind of?
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Sudden it may seem that way to, you but at our,
age sudden is. Okay it's not as if we haven't
met each other's, families is.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
It when is this marriage going to take? Place?
Speaker 3 (44:22):
OH i don't, Know maybe tomorrow or the next, day,
tomorrow that, soon that's Mister. Tumman, well, yes, well all
here together In, maine couldn't you, WAIT i suppose it
could wait until next? Weekend, grandpa what exactly does this?
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Mean does this Mean i'm gonna be related to The? Hatchers?
Related Says peter.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Related, grandpa you can't do this to.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Me, grandma you can't do this to, Me.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
SO i don't have To. Ma where Is sheila because
we're getting related?
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Anyway And sheila is, perplexed And fudge says not to
worry because he'll Give. Mitzy, Uh he'll give her some
Of mitzi's monster. Spray and then this whole scene ends
with Mister fargo, saying, well this calls for a. Toast
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DIDN'T i see a bottle of champagne on? Ice? YEAH
i bet you, did of. Course oh, Wow, okay thanks
for volunteering our food. Again game is? Transient what a big.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
News big.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
News they thought they were going on. Vacation instead they
were doing e harmony for old, people, Right?
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Okay how long have they been in? Town two?
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Weeks less than three weeks at this, point they're starting
on their third week in. Town it was Just. SUNDAY
i assume this is Either sunday night Or.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Monday, okay so two Weeks, ENGAGE i mean there.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Have Been, okay slut go off.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Grandma you know times ticking they, are you, know there
are sixty THREE.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
I know that's other. Things WHEN i read this WHEN
i was a, Child i'm, like, well surely they're close to,
death so you might.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
As well write like what do they have to?
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Lose oh my, well good for. Them but it does
put into harsh relief all of the fan fictions where
they Have peter And sheila getting, together because it's, like,
oh they are like step. Cousins oh that's.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Very, clueless like what's his? Name so it can.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
HAPPEN i guess they're as related as, that except for in.
Clueless their parents weren't married. Anymore, OKAY i don't. Know
it's still. Weird, yeah not.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
GREAT i wouldn't recommend.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
No, no thank. You, anyway they hang out the rest
of the now and they're talking about wedding. PLANS i
bracketed this part because it, SAYS i guess it just took.
Them oh they were talking about mom and Mister, tubman
who were weirded out at, first, understandably and it SAYS
i guess it just took them more time than the
rest of us to get used to the. Idea of
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his father marrying her, mother AND i. RELATE i got
real feelings about, that especially because this is. Funny. Sidebar another,
example and like The richard is like a down ass
chick sort of category is he does this sometimes when
he's been like drinking and we're having a good time
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and he just like wants everybody to be on. Board
sometimes he'll be, like we're having such a good. Time you,
KNOW i really feel LIKE i could get along with your.
Dad i'm, like, oh, cool you don't Have it's, okay thanks,
BUDDY i see what you're trying to. Do but we're.
Good but it is such an indicator of, like, oh
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we're how and too good a?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Time what can you do to make it not so?
GOOD i?
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Know but it's like it comes from such a pure.
PLACE i love. This let's get, this let's get him in.
There see what's. Happening i'm, like, oh, no thank, you
But god bless.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
You.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yeah so, Yeah so everybody's having a good, time and
they're talking about getting, married and they want to get
married in the. Backyard they Want libby And sheila to
be bridesmaids in. Jeans their chic fudge is going to
be the ring, bearer which he pronounces ring, bear similar
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to bird, breather and he doesn't know the ring bear's.
Function and it turns, out even though he was planning,
hello even though he was planning to get married at
the beginning of this, trip the only thing he knows
about marriage is that you get to sleep in the same.
Bed he's learning on the, go and Then Buzzy senor,
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says that's the best.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Part, hilarious dirty old Mayn it's so.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
FUNNY i. Love and Then saturday morning they're gonna have the,
wedding And grandma has a common PROBLEM i think with
people of, weddings where they just keep inviting people because
AGAIN i think this is a similar instinct to My
richard being, like let's get your dad in. Here uh.
Huh when you're having a good, time you just want
everybody to hang, out AND i respect. That so they
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invited the butcher From Sawyer's, Market dorothy Of, oz the
couple from the jewelry, Store ickles from the ice cream,
Parlor Bicycle, Bob Isabelle mitzi and Missus a And. Big
so the whole town is coming out to this. Party
it really is like the part in the in the.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
MUSICAL. I, meanwhile The butcher's, like who are?
Speaker 3 (49:51):
You, yeah but he's, Like i'm not doing Anything. Sunday
i'll come down to let's.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Go that's WHERE i want to.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Live me, TOO i know you. Do OH i want
to sew Bad. Yeah so the part of the wedding
prep is sewing beads and ribbons On sheila And libby's
jeans and t. Shirt And sheila wants to tie a
bow Around turtle's, neck but she's a little trepidacious about
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it and be boopy. Boopee everybody's coming to the. Wedding
we have all the usual. Suspects big is wearing his
Red sox uniform for some, reason it's not like an
army outfit LIKE i do have to be wearing it to,
functions but, Okay and they Give grandma And Buzzy senior a.
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Baseball mitzi brings them monster, spray and she brings one
for fudge, too which is. Sweet Bicycle bob gives them matching,
helmets is he gives them a book Called how To
Survive Your First year Of. Marriage sheila And libby contribute,
rocks and Mister fargo finally bring something to someone and
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he makes a painting called Baby, feet go to the,
wedding and Then fudge gives them the copy of his
Book Tell me A. Fudge jimmy And peter paint a
twenty five foot banner that says who can explain? It
who can tell you? Why muriel And Buzzy august twenty,
Eighth Southwest, Harbor. Maine now listen to this next part
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because this is the part WHERE i Think judy saw
us and said fuck.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Off.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Yup this next part Says grandma And Buzzy. Sr liked
it a, lot even though we forgot to include the.
Year grandma says it was better this. Way so that
IS i, think finally the nail to put to rest this.
Debate does it take place in the, nineties does it
play take place in the. SEVENTIES i think this line
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Is judy being, like, no it takes place in WHEREVER
i want it to take. Place on the day you ask, me,
motherfucker shut up and read this, book and to WHICH i, say, okay, okay, dude.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
Okay the queen has, spoken.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
Okay schooled. Us m. Oh and the last person to
come comes in a big red pickup truck wearing a judge's,
rope and it turns out it's when.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
In, rome what are you doing, Here?
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Junior you're the. Judge that's, Right. Junior my name Is,
peter Not, junior and my grandmother isn't the?
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Bride, well isn't that? SOMETHING i hope you behaved yourself
today when In? Rome then she laughs to.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
Shay great fashion going. On it, says the bride wore
a white jogging suit and she had a pink fla
tucked behind her. Ear the groom wore a black jogging
suit and he had a pink flower pin in his.
Sweatshirt they kept smiling at each. Other that's so. Cute
and then a whole kerfuffle happens when they're doing the
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wedding semity Pillow oh, no the wedding, ceremony and they're
exchanging the vows and the ring bear is supposed to
come down the, aisle but it says at the last,
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minute the ring bear and his helper saying, surprise and
they started twirling holding the pillow between. Them oh, no
and the ring flies off the pillow into the, grass
and they were trying to do one last budge of
mania and everybody's stopping the ceremony to like find the
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ring and they have to get down on their hands
and knees to get. Them so finally they found, it
and Bicycle bob finds. One Bicycle bob features so prominently
in the. Story so ral finally they get the rings
together and when In rome warns them not to do
any more, surprises And mitzi, says but surprises are. Fun
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and when In rome, says if they do it, again
they're gonna get a big surprise from.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Her so does That she's gonna hit.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Them she's gonna smack them because this is the seventies
and or. Nineties there were parts of the nineties where
you could hit your. Kid. Yeah so they get married
and it's so nice and there's a big barbecue AGAIN
i love summer. FOOD a big, barbecue ice, cream a
blueberry wedding, cake and everybody's having a great. Time they're running,
(54:54):
around they're. Dancing Eventually grandma And Buzzy senior fall asleep
And peter And sheila are talking AND i thought we
could end uh with this.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
Reading wasn't that the most beautiful?
Speaker 3 (55:09):
Wedding, yeah it was the best Wedding i've ever. Seen
it was also the only Wedding i've ever.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
SEEN i just want you to, Know peter that even
if we're, RELATED i will always hate.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
You that's a, relief Because i'll always hate you. Too, Promise.
Promise let's shake on. IT i put out my, Hand
sheila grabbed, it and then we. Shook the.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
End oh my, god the.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
End.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
YOU i like that.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Ending it's a terrific. Ending that's so. Sweet but UNFORTUNATELY
i think it also puts it tally in a like,
ooh what's gonna happen to call? THEM i haven't Read
Double fudge. Obviously Double fudge is ONLY i think takes
place like a year two years after, this SO i don't.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
Know but, oh you, SEE i haven't read it. Either
oh that'll be. Fun get to.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
It, wow a first time for both of. Us BUT
i definitely agree with the criticism that we should wait
a little, while yeah BEFORE i read another kid's. Book
but ANY i love this.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
BOOK i forgot how MUCH i love.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
It AND i like that we picked to read it
now because it's a good like get you excited for
summer and summer vacation.
Speaker 2 (56:26):
Book ALL i want is a blueberry cake?
Speaker 3 (56:29):
Now oh me? Too AND i. FORGOT i did like
a mini special report on blueberries last, time and we
just got yacking about other. THINGS i didn't do, it
BUT i just want to, say according to this thing
THAT i copy pasted on my, doc it, Said maine
is the leading producer of wild blueberries in The United,
states with forty four thousand acres dedicated to their, cultivation
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and the state produces ninety nine percent of all wild
blueberries grown in THE. Us so, no, way, yeah isn't that?
Speaker 2 (56:59):
Cool, wait so did your? Cake remember there were like
some mystery.
Speaker 3 (57:04):
Things one of them was a little basket of clay.
BLUEBERRIES i, think, oh, no it was ACTUALLY i think
it was like a little pickup truck with blueberries in the.
BACK i, think, yeah, okay but everything else is unidentified
THAT i have no idea what it.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
Was i'm glad you got the, blueberries.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
Right you have to let me close with this special
report because that was so fun reading this, book and
we all love, books SO i just wanted to make
you aware of what is going on with sort of
the state of books in twenty twenty, five and specifically
the state of libraries in twenty twenty. Five SO i
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believe this happened In, march but our president moved to
all but eliminate The institute Of museum And Library, services
which is a federal agency that gives grants to museums
and libraries across the. Country and so he put forth
an executive order to basically cut all of that money.
(58:05):
Out and that money has already been allotted in all
different kinds of library and museum, budgets and now it's
essentially just. Gone and so any kind of library service
that you enjoy from like A libby app or A hoopla,
app to like libraries having computers that you can, use
libraries having special tutoring services that they pay, for or
(58:29):
even you, know the sort of like extracurricular stuff that
happens in libraries or people who work in. Libraries they're
really under fire right now and underfunded right, now and
it's super. Scary there is a really good lady On
TikTok THAT i. Love her TikTok handle Is tomes And,
(58:50):
textiles and she does a really throw breakdown of what
this kind of executive order means for. Libraries but she
kind of put it succinctly by saying her interpretation of
what this means is that sort of the administration is
wanting to make libraries have like really strong control over
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what's in. Them so we know judy books are band,
books we know books with queer characters are being. Banned
we know books that talk about critical race theory are being.
Banned like this is scary stuff because if that all
goes through and libraries lose a ton of, funding they
could turn into these like little propaganda warehouses that just
(59:35):
have stuff that the administration wants you to. See and,
ADMINISTRATION i think the kindest THING i could say about
them is they have really bad taste in what we
should be. Reading it'll just be like wall to wall
copies Of hillbilly elogy. AnyWho so that's really scary and.
Weird AND i, think you, KNOW i can't imagine that
(59:57):
you're listening to this podcast and this doesn't bother, you
BECAUSE i think we're all book lovers and we're all library,
fans and we're all in it to win it in that.
Regard and so there is a really good website from
The American Library. Association it's CALLED ala dot, org and
(01:00:17):
they have an initiative Called Show up For Our. Libraries
this is a really comprehensive. Website it explains what's going
on with library, funding and it breaks down into time,
increments things you can do to help save the libraries
and museums in your. Neighborhood so they have, like if
you only have five, minutes do. THIS i personally emailed
(01:00:40):
my congress members today to let them know THAT i
wanted them to support anything that helps the libraries and the.
Museums and it was like a one stop, shop click
populated email was really. Great they have what to do
if you have ten, minutes what to do if you
have an, hour and it's all really low lift, stuff
and so every single person who listens to this did
(01:01:03):
something from the five minute. CATEGORY i think we could
make a really good difference in a really, spooky scary.
Time AND i understand too that in a lot of,
ways these last couple of weeks and months have felt, Like,
okay which horrible thing CAN i focus on this? Week
because we got we're worried about national, parks and we're
(01:01:25):
worried about our friends who are, immigrants and we're worried
about our friends who ARE lgbtq, plus and, like there's
so many things to worry. About AND i understand that
it's hard to, focus but this is SOMETHING i think
we should focus on BECAUSE i think it's it's undeniably
something that we can try and do something. About and
(01:01:46):
if you like, Me i've been feeling overwhelmed by kind
of the onslaught of news and bad stuff going, ON
i want to direct you to the blog of author and.
FRIEND i don't know if you know, Her, dodie BUT
i know. Her she's A Bay area. Author her name
Is Maggie Tokudah.
Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Hall, NO i don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Her she's one of the best writers in the whole,
world and she's not and she. Hasten she's written a
lot of great children's and young adult. Books but she
wrote a blog post this week on her website Called
Prettyokay maaggie dot, com and it's sort of talking about
her frustration with sort of the funding hits that are
happening to the, libraries the sort of censorship and. Publishing
(01:02:30):
BUT i think she sort of ends her blog post
with this bit That i'm going to read to you
right now THAT i hope serves as kind of like
a call to action for The bloomheads and. Beyond and
she Writes maggie To Cudah hall, writes find your friends
and your allies and link arms with them around some
little corner of this country that you. Love the, library
or public, health or your trans, friends or your immigant,
(01:02:52):
friends or public lands or the fucking, planet take your.
Pick everything is under attack right, now and you fucking protect.
It do this non violently, now because we may not
have that privilege in future. Either SO i, think to,
me that's just, like we can't fix, everything and we
don't have energy or time or bandwidth to fix. Everything
(01:03:16):
but if you were looking for one small thing you
can do this, week let's really take care of our
libraries and our community of, readers and let's try to
do something for that this. Week so that's my special
report about.
Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Libraries oh my, god thank you so, Much. Mollie that
was so well. Put and couldn't agree more, Obviously And i'm,
like what she, said what she, said what she, Said.
Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Well that's really the special port is just a collection
of what she, says Because i'm Quoting maggie And i'm
quoting tomes and textiles From TikTok and The American Library.
Association but, yeah let's let's do.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
It let's do, it and let's save the library, Guys
let's save the. LIBRARIES i will make sure to post
all those links in the show, notes so boomheads check
the show. Notes we'll probably be posting on our social needs,
too and if you have any, questions you can also
email us Bloom saloon at gmail dot com and we'll
help get you to the things we talked. About AND
(01:04:15):
i think that's such a good. Idea, LIKE i, mean
everyone is, like, oh we're so, busy but if you
can break your actionable item into five minutes ten minutes like,
THAT i know for, ME i would be much more
me too inclined to drop What i'm, doing just do
the thing and then get back to being busy. Again
(01:04:36):
so that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Totally and take good care of your communities, too BECAUSE
i think that's where all that's HOW i think we're
gonna survive in the next four years and, beyond just,
like let's really take good care of each. Other let's
really act up for each other and see what we
can do to hold each other.
Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Close oh my, god totally totally that's WHY i, Mean
i'm so of, course so glad we started this podcast
back up for many, reasons but a big one is, Like,
okay we need this in this, time in this year
of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
Five, yeah, Absoulutely So thanksgang for the platform to do.
This we'll be back next episode with odds and ends
and fun. Stuff so send us all your, letters send
us what you want to hear more, about maybe start
sending thoughts for the next. BOOK i personally want something
grown up and.
Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Spicy, yeah we want there to be some se. X
yeah that said.
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Sex, oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Glud, okay see you in a couple of.
Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
Weeks, bye we love, You, bye love You.
Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Bye
Hi, I'm Jody and I'm Molly.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
When you're listening to the Blue Saloon.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's a gd Bloom book Club.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is okay. So last episode was the penultimate of
the Mania episode. Does this make this episode the ultimate episode?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Ultimate episode of the Bloom.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Saloon to.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We are finishing the book today. I cannot even believe it.
Our first book together, our first book, oh, first of
so many. I hope I had a revelation today. Does
your book have little scribbles in the chapter openers?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And so I was always like, what's that? What's that there?
What's what's going on there? What's the design decision? And
I just realize it is like a little like the
the twirling that Budge and Missy do good.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I that's amazing, You're so right. Yes, I think.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It is, like why else would it be there? It's
really been bothering me this whole time, not not in
a bad way, just in a hm who decided that way?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, we can think of this thematically. It's like fudge
Mania is the state of like spinning around and around,
and I think we can clock if people are at
a way different point than they were at the beginning
of this three week trip at the end of the book.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Totally okay, great, Well, so we have two letters today.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yes, okay, so we have a letter here for bloom
Head Emily, and it goes like this, I keep meaning
to write you, and I just finally watched the Margaret movie,
so it seems like the perfect time. I am so,
so so glad the pod is back. I kept watching
(02:10):
that little icon on my app and was just about
to accept that you disappeared when I saw the new
episodes appear. Obviously we all miss Allison, but Molly, you
are a fabulous co host. Thank you. That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
True.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, the Margaret movie was incredible. I loved how everyone
actually looks like normal people rather than super polish and Hollywood.
And now I just want to wear all the seventies
inspired outfits. I also want to go to summer camp
even though I'm thirty seven, but we don't have quite
the same things here in the UK. Just day camps
(02:43):
aw bummer. That's probably why the chick in parent Trap
had to come all the way over here. But that's
another story that's not Emily's letter. That's me editorializing. Emily says,
I loved the new pod segment last week on Your
Most Blue Moment. Now it's getting warmer. Mine has been
wearing my summer shoes after months of thick socks and
(03:03):
boots and getting miserable blisters on the back of my ankles,
just like Margaret. All the plasters band aids for me
until my feet adjust. Thanks so much for coming back.
I can't wait to read more books with you, guys,
Love and Other Indoor Sports Emily, Oh, Emily, thank you
though it such a sweet letter.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thank you, Emily.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And the Margaret movie is great, and I think seventies
fashion is.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Great too, is the best fashion.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We're gonna have to And we've been in talks about
new Bloomhead merch And I texted Jody in the middle
of the night in like a cold sweat after we
had our last our last episode, and I just texted
Love and Other Indoor Sports baby teas when so I
think that's a new merch we might be trying to
(03:52):
make at some point.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Definitely, Oh, this is a good call to our bloom Heads,
you know. I asked Molly to help come up with
some new merch ideas, Like I'm thinking bumper stickers, I'm
thinking new T shirts, I'm thinking maybe going beyond Zazzle,
just finding a site that has better styles, better options,
beyond us. And yeah, we would love input from you
(04:17):
guys too, because you're the ones you know who will
hopefully be buying them. So let us know what you
would like to sport.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Okay, I'm going to read an email from Bloomhead Janine,
and the way Gmail shows attachments is so funny, Like
she attached a photo of herself. I'll describe it later,
but it is so big it's taking up my entire browser.
(04:46):
And hopefully we can share this because it's the cutest
Bloomhead photo I've ever seen. Oh, I'll explain hello Bloomhead
as a fellow oldest sister, oldest of three girls, so
you just know there was NonStop two against one vibes
still are, honestly, even though we're all grown ass adults.
I have some sibling torture stories for your reading pleasure. Ooh,
(05:09):
MOLLI this taps into your needs. Yes, my sisters and
I have a bit of an age gap. They're only
two years apart, but I'm five and seven years older
than they are, respectively. As a result, I was built
in babysitter from age ten through most of high school.
Oh no. I also had to clean the house every
(05:32):
Saturday while my parents were at work. My sisters and
I were supposed to clean it together, but they would
use the time to engage in bad behavior, like dumping
all their dresser drawers out into the middle of their
bedroom floor, or tie a bunch of bed sheets together
and try to get out their bedroom window. Oh my god,
that's very any of them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Very any of the.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Luckily I caught them on that one before limbs were broken.
I would retally by playing Sergeant Pepper at top volume
while I did the dishes. But the worst thing I
used to do was pretend to have amnesia. I would
hide in my closet, and once my sisters figured out
where I was, they would open the door and I
(06:15):
would fall out and then look at them from I'm
on the floor at saying things like who are you
and where am I? Oh my god, possibly until they cried,
maybe just until I saw real fear in their eyes.
It was really shitty of me. Why did I do it?
Was I experimenting with being an asshole because I had
(06:37):
to be responsible for them and housework at a young age.
Was I just a preteen dirt bag? Why did I
even know what amnesia was? My little sister got revenge
by pushing me out a window. It was a first
story window, but still okay. And there's more changing topics
(06:59):
to custom name items. When I was bored, my mom's
best friend had a custom puzzle made for me. It
was a board puzzle, basically a thick piece of wood
with the letters recessed into the wood. Oh, I know
what you're talking about. I feel like I've seen these.
The pieces were each a letter of my name, and
each piece was a different color. The letters had peg
style handles so I could easily plunk the letters into
(07:21):
their spaces. I'm making it sound chintzy, when in reality,
it was magical. It was very well made. My favorite
part was the colors, which were bright but thinly painted
on so the wood grain showed through. I will play
with it for hours, spelling my name over and over again.
And yet another subject change. I am a proud member
of the Bati bike Accident tooth incident.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm currently missing my upper too front teeth from a
bike accident. When I was eight. I shot over my
handlebars and face planted onto the sidewalk, knocking my teeth loose,
but not out until I hit my late thirties. Oh,
I lost one tooth shortly before COVID and then the
other two years later. Implants are out of control, expensive,
(08:11):
and so I wear a flipper most of the time
Toddler's and TR's style. But there are days when I
just free gummet and everyone gets to see my naked
tooth hole. At this point, I'm all out of fucks
to give about the missing teeth. I like to think
it gives me character. I also secretly love popping my
(08:33):
flipper out to freak unsuspecting people. Okay, I've gone on
long enough. Love what you're doing so much. The fudge
voice kills me every time. And Mollie, You're a welcome edition.
Y'all are the bloom and best.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Janine, Okay, Janine, wow, so much unpack that really tickled me.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So back to the photo. I'm just gonna text you
a screenshot of her. Adorable. She's so cute. I like
somehow she makes missing teeth look almost like the girl
in White Lotus made gap teeth cool. Like Jeanine has
(09:16):
really done something for missing teeth. Let's get you that photo. Sorry,
hold on one second.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh she Wow, you are so right. She looked so nice. Yeah,
I thought, wow, that should be illegal to look that
pretty with that huge a gap in your face.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I know, it's like lucky, she's so pretty already.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh my god, she looks like a hockey player. She
should be a hockey player for Halloween. That's so freaking cute. Okay, ah,
that's adorable, Jeanine.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh incredible.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
That was so such a good letter.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She's really rocking it. Wow. I thought when we got
to the part about her sister pushing her out of
a window, I thought that's how the teeth were gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But wow, that reminds me I'm also in a teeth
related club. So either just the broader chipped front tooth club,
or perhaps there I have sister in in the chipped
tooth on a beer bottle club.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's badass. Did you because I've never noticed a chip tooth?
Did you get it fixed?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Or oh it's there, it's still rocking? Yeah, I just
I you know, I guess it's not something you would
notice unless you were all up in my front teeth.
But yeah, my best friend knocked a beer bottle into
my teeth when I was in college and chipped my
front tooth. But oh yeah, and then it's funny. A
part of the broader chip tooth club is like, she
(11:00):
is a mother now and she has an almost two
year old, and she accidentally bonked the two year old's
front teeth, so the two year old has a chip teeth.
And I was like, well, the common denominator here.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is you mouthguards out. My sister had a dead tooth,
like one of her baby teeth was just brown because
she fell or something. But that's like another club that
I wonder.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Well, we have a bloom head in this still has
a baby tooth club, which I found that fascinating and
I wanted to ask for more evidence. I want to
see what that looks like in your adult now send.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Us all your teeth picks, tiny tooth. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh that's so funny. And the amnesia part is so funny.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No, I totally relate. I did that to Rosie too,
but I would pretend I was dead sometimes too, which
is like fell down this staries and died.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I know. So mean.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, I just heard a story this week. It was
will Forte was on a podcast, and he said he
used to do that to his parents all the time.
Is he would pretend to be dead. And he said
one time, the time was the last time I stopped
doing it. Is I left like a note for my
mom and then I heard her scream and I was like, Mom,
(12:27):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And he's like, that's when I learned an important lesson
about humors. It's like, it's not funny if it makes
someone really scared.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, a note is too far.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I know it's too far, But you would just play
dead on the stairs and your sister thought you were dead.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's such an asshole, But it was the same thing.
I think it was resentment for like being the older
sister that had the responsibilities, that couldn't get away with
stuff just because you're not cute anymore, you know, all
the things, and took it out on the wrong person.
I really should have took it out of my parents.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Get them. Oh well, I would like to pivot to
a part of the show that Bloomhead Danny Meyers lazarro
suggests we call the Judy Minutie, which I think is
hilarious and so clever. So uh, if no one objects,
(13:21):
I think we will call this segment the judy Minudi.
But it is take a roughly a minute to describe
the most judy bloom thing that happened to you this week.
So what do you think the most judy bloom thing
to happen to you this week was?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
M It's not gonna take a minute, it's gonna take
five seconds. But uh I cut myself shaving.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh no, on your leg?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I hope, yes, yes, you know, just like the shin
bone seems to get in the way.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh I hate that.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Nothing more to report than that. Accept. Okay, now tell
me if you've done this or seen this. But I,
for whatever reason, I saw a video recently of someone
shaving their leg. But they were using the razor in
a weird way that I've never seen before. They were
like going up and down with it up, an inch down,
an inch up and inch down, you know, almost like
(14:16):
they were scratching themselves with the razor. No, and all
the comments were like, no, no, what are you doing?
Like who taught you to shave like that? And then
the original poster said, no, this is the safer way
because you're not lifting it up and so therefore you're
not like giving your kind of like eliminating the risk
(14:38):
of landing too hard and cutting. Does this make sense?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh a little bit. It still seems crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It seems crazy, but I think I'm gonna try it
next time. I'll report back.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Please, yeah, send me that video. Mm hmm. Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So that's mine.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
My it just happened. So I was telling you, Jody
that we actually kicked this recording back an hour because
my mom called me at about like three p thirty
and she said, me and Richard, Richard's her husband. She's like,
me and Richard are at such and such a brewery
(15:19):
having a snack and a drink. You want to come by?
And I said, yes, absolutely, I do. So I got
in the car and I come hang out with them.
And they're both retired and they're a hoot. And my
mom's favorite thing in the world to do is to
plan a trip at any given moment. She's like three
years ahead in the trips that she wants to do.
(15:42):
And Richard, though he be a man, is a down
ass chick. Like that's one of his best things about
him is like you say we should do something, He's like, absolutely,
we should do something. Let's go girlies. Like, he's so
into it. And so we were chatting today when we
were having a beer and I was talking about Gudy
(16:04):
Bloom and I said, oh, man, Judy Bloom has a
bookstore in Key West I would love to go to.
And Richard said, you know what, I have been wanting
to go to Key West because I love Ernest Hemingway
and he has a house there. And my mom, who
is down, you know, she'll go on a trip to
the store. She loves going on trip so much she
(16:24):
wanted to go. And so we like began laying the
groundwork for a Key West trip next year. So, my god,
I can't wait my mom. And of course my mom
has like a million other imaginary trips planned. So she's like, hmm, well,
next year is the year that I was planning to
hike the Camino Trails in Spain. I guess, She's like,
(16:49):
and that is six weeks, but I haven't booked anything yet,
so we'll see. But that sounds fun. So I laid
the groundwork with the girlies.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, oh my god, even if it's just you and Richard, like,
you gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
At this point, it seems like send your mom to
the trail bye, because that he is like more my kind.
I mean, my mom is too, but he is truly
a like, let's park it somewhere, let's have a drink
kind of traveler. And I like that too, and my
mom will do that too. But yeah, we plan a trip.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Well, I might just have to tangle a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I was thinking that too, and you know, I think
he will like it because I was just like I
had honestly genuinely had kind of like a breakthrough moment
with Richard just now because my mom and my entire
family and I, as you can tell by listening to
this podcast, we're yappers. We're like big talkers. We are
chatting all the time, and Richard kind of like hangs back.
(17:49):
And I always thought he hung back because like we
were dominating the conversation or he was like scared to
jump in or whatever. But he told me today he's like,
I just love soaking it in. He goes, I just
love listening to you guys. You're so fun You're so funny,
and if I have something to say, I'll say it,
but mostly I just like hanging And so I took
(18:12):
that to be like, oh, Richard, is one of the
girlies and he just likes to hang so you know,
absolutely you're invited on this trip. What's what, Cranberry, Absolute Cranberry, Jody,
come on and Alison to you and the baby and
everybody else. Let's all go.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, that's so exciting, So back your bags.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You're coming with us.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Bloombheads come with us too. Richard needs all the girlies.
Let's all go meet up, meet up, okay. For chapters
(18:56):
thirteen and fourteen, we have the Hatchers, which is Peter
the older brother, Fudge the younger brother to see the baby, sister,
Mom and dad, Grandma Muriel who is mom's mom, and
Turtle the dog. Then on the other side of the
(19:18):
house we have the Tubmans. We have Sheila, who is
the younger sister, Libby who is the older sister who
we only have, like oblique mentioned to here, we don't
really see her that much. We have mister Tubman and
Missus Tubman, and we have mister Tubman's dad, Buzzy Senior.
(19:40):
We also have their puppy Jake. Oh, I should mention
the Hatchers also have Uncle Feather, who is a mina
bird sidebar. I think you guys have already done a
report about mina birds. But I just was bored the
other day and did one they lived be like twenty
years old? Yeah, that's samee to buy for a child.
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And I looked up how much a mina bird is
to purchase now, and it's like six hundred dollars to
buy a minor person now. So I can only imagine
adjusted backwards for inflation mina bird prices. But wowie wowie Kuzawi.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Good intel.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Back to roll call. So those are the Tubmans. Then
we have Jimmy Fargo, who is Peter's friend, and his
transient father, Frank Fargo, who is an artist. Then of
the townsfolk, we have the app Fells, which is missus
A who is an older lady. We have Big app Fell,
who is a retired Boston Red Sox player who is
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missus A's husband, And we have Mitzi who is their
granddaughter who is five like Fudge. Then also in town,
we have Bicycle Bob, a celebrity who we know who
are close personal friends with owns the bike shop. Then
we have Tony Ikele from Igles ice Cream. We have
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Dorothy from Oz's books, who we remember is not actually
Dorothy Irl, but a woman named Sheila. And then we
also have when in Rome, who is an older lady
who we learn later is a judge or a Justice
of the Peace type person. And I believe that's all
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of our cast of characters for these two chapters.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Did we mention Isabelle?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Oh, I'm so sorry, I have it here. Yes, Izzy
is a teenager, a voluptuous teenager who works at the
library who Peter has a big crush on.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Voluptious teenager.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, yummy, yummy.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay, this one's called Captain Fudge. So it's now Sunday.
It's the morning right after the The Kiss of the
Elders I wrote, it was revealed that Grandma Muriel and
Buzzy Sr. Are doing it, or maybe they're waiting till marriage.
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I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Who can say.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Who can say? Grandma's making a special pancake breakfast, I'm
sure to distract the crew that she and Buzzy are
getting busy. Fudge is showing off his mid seat. He's saying,
look how soft it is. And Peter notices some weird
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splotchy splotches all over it and asks what's going on there?
And fudge says he put a special oil on the mid,
just like the guy at this door said. And then
what kind of oil? Oil of Olay? Of course oil
of olais for skin. Turkey brain mom uses it on
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her face. I'm not a brain, you're the jerky brain.
And you're just jealous because your mit is not as
soft as mine.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah right, And I'm jealous that my mit doesn't smell
like that pink stuff too.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I like that smell.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'm glad because you're gonna be smelling it for a
long time. What'd you do? Use up the whole bottle?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
The man in the store said, to oil it every night.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Remember he said a few jobs. And he was talking
about neat's foot oil.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
What's neatsfoot oil?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's what you're supposed to use on a baseball glove.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Mmmm, never oil of olet. Peter starts to feel a
little bit bad.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Look, it's not like you did anything wrong. You are
just being uh creative, Yeah, create?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay? And I did look up neatsfoot oil. Yes, okay.
So Judy had a little typo here, actually all one
word neatsfoot. She has it as neats a pastrophys foot.
This is us being you know our pedantic selves. But
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you know, she didn't have the Internet back then to
look it up. So neatsfoot oil is disgusting. It's from
the shin bones of cows. And why is it called
neat's foot, you ask, is because neat is the Old
English word for cattle, and it is used for leather.
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That is true, but in the eighteenth century it was
also used for medicine or for dry scaly skin conditions.
Oh yeah, they're very Everything I read about this was like,
it's f the shin bones and feet, but not the
hooves of cattle. It was like, no, no, no, not
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the hooves. And there was like a whole bunch of
science why the shin bones are the best?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
But I was like, no, wow, well like this, I
guess for my mind, I surely don't know where the
foot stops and the hoof begins.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So isn't the You would think the hoof is the foot,
right right?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It feels like a distinction without a difference to me.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
But yikes, well, well you know what, fudge, I'm glad
you're using oil of.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
La Yeah, and this is I remember reading this as
a kid, and then when I was in the store
and I saw Oil of La or I saw a
commercial for Oil of La. I'm like, get out of town.
I thought Judy Blue made that up. That's crazy. I
can't believe that's a real thing. Ah.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Peter wigs Jimmy up and reminds him that today is
the day of the big Game. It's the big game,
but Jimmy's still not into it. He's like, I don't
Jimmy really know how to play baseball very well? And
I don't even know who this guy is. But off
they go. The game is at the high school and
it's packed. There's so many people and it's so many dogs.
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Love that detail. But Shila does not love that detail.
She says no, thank you and runs back to the
car and says she's gonna sit in the car for
the whole game. No one can convince her to come
out because she's got a book to read. She's fine
and strange. Dogs have diseases.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I have done this before as a child, just like nope,
out of a situation and then like leave me in
the car, crack a window. I'm fine, I've.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Got a babysitters club just waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Bye. Yeah, So I related to this.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's fun. Thank God for cars.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, I don't know how good of an idea it's
to just like leave your kid in a car with
the book, but it surely happened to me many times.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
No, we were always left in cars. I just remember,
like so many supermarket parking lots.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
At the risk of monopolizing the conversation, my brother and
I would get left in the car quite often if
my parents had to like zip in for something. And
I guess the gas lighting I did to my brother
is I told him, look, we're the last line of
defense of this car if something happens. So what we
have to do is this. And my dad used to
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have one of those like tridents that you put on
the steering wheel to lock it. Yeah, yeah, and it
comes apart in two pieces. One is like the trident
piece with like a stick on the bottom, and then
the other is like a heavy like bass. And so
I would take it apart, give one side to my
brother and one side to me, and I said, Okay,
the thing you have to do is you have to
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hide behind the car seats and if somebody breaks into
the car, we jump out from behind the car seats
and we bash him. Today, I guess so my parents
would come back in the car and they would have
Thank goodness, they would like tap on the window to
like say hi to us before they came in the car.
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Otherwise we would have got him. So, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I feel like that's something I would have done. So
I really appreciate that the safe safety first safety, And
you're only alive now because.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Of that, and that's probably true. Yeah, thank you for
saying that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So we're at the we're at the baseball game. No
where are we We're at the high school. We're at
the game. Peter's looking around at the whole scene and
he notices, in quotes, a great looking girl in a
red striped shirt. It's Isabelle, of course, and she's stretching
on third base. And I was like, oh my god,
third base? Is that a little judy sneaky input like
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Beginner's Love.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
So funny. I wonder, who do you picture Isabelle looking like?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Oh, okay, so we know she has curly hair and
a big butt. I really don't have a clear picture
of her, do you, m h.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I picture her as like Drew Barrymore in Home Fries. Oh,
oh my god, And I mind you I've never seen
the movie Home Fries. I just have seen the cover
of Home Fries a bunch, and so I picture that's
what she looks like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, that's her. That's her for sure. Jimmy kind of
baits Peter into saying how beautiful she is. He's like,
she's incredibly ugly, and Peter's like, what, she's beautiful, very cute.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Got him.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
So the whole crew is there. It's kind of like,
you know, like at the end of a musical when
the whole cast comes out for a song. So it's
like Dorothy from the Oz Bookstore is there, the Sawyer's
Market butcher is there, there's the hardware store guy, and
of course our close and personal friend bicycle Bob.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Bicycle Bob has a huge part with the book going forward.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
He's like a main character.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, such that I was wondering if we should write
him a follow up letter and be like, Yo, we're
baseball games a thing that you guys did, or who
is this about?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
We should Yeah, let's ask our close personal friend what
he remembers. And then it happens. The crowd starts to
stir and incomes the celebrity big at fell in the flesh,
and he's actually a really big guy. He's six' six.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And, Wow peter, sit, yeah that's.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Big peter notes that he still looks like his baseball
card plus a few LB's and a little gray, hair
but still got. It so he's sworn by the. Crowd
and this is a. Scene mitzi And fudge are like
in the middle of, it all each wrapped around one
of his. LEGS i imagine they're like sitting on his,
feet and he's walking with. Them peter's, thinking, please, please,
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please please let me be on his. Team i'll never
ask for another. Thing but then it's the biggest disappointment
we have ever. Had big announces that he's gonna bat
for both sides since he can't run very well, anymore
and the crowd's like, yay But peter's, like what the?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Fuck peter's so.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Mad we've never Seen peter like this, before SO i
think we have to read. This this is a New.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Peter, okay what how can he bat for both? Sides that's,
impossible that's against the official.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Rules when In rome.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
It's a lady is saying that to.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Him when In, rome do as The romans.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Do i've got news for. You we're not In, rome.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And i've got news for, You. Junior rudeness will not
be tolerated in this. Game who's being?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Rude cut it?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Out, peter calm, down will? You it's just a.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Game OH i suppose you think it's fair for him
to bat for both? Sides?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
YEAH i, Do Like peter's gonna. Cry and then it's
time to pick, teams WHICH i. Hate why are we?
Doing why was this ever? Invented picking teams is so? Evil?
Fudge oh DID i mention? That Uh fudge And isabelle
are team? Captains, ah that's. Fun Uh fudge picks his
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Gal mitzie of, course And isabelle's up, next and we
get more kind of like syops From. Peter he's Like
Peter Warren, Hatcher Peter Warren. Hatcher but she Picks Tony.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Ikel NOW i wonder if that's Another judy. Hit that
like something's going on, there Because libby has, said Like
Tony ikel is, hot, yeah And Tony ikele it is
kind of like Eyeing libby. Too but then the library
is right next to the ice cream, store AND i
Assume tony And isabelle live there all year, long so they're,
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like what's his name and what's her?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Name From Summer Sisters Bruin.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Vix oh, Yeah Bruin. Vix you're, right, yes maybe.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Maybe i'm sure they make out by the, Dumpsters oh for.
Sure and then to make matters, Worse fudge Picks. Peter
so there goes his chances of being On isabelle's, team
and then more salt in the, Wound jimmy ends up
On isabelle's team And peter thinks nothing was working out
the WAY i. Planned absolutely. Nothing and so the rest
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of this chapter is a whole lot of baseball, talk
and good.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
For judy because it is a lot of like detailed baseball. Action.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah do you Think jude's knows about? BASEBALL i? Wonder
or did you have like a? CONSULTANT i don't.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Know i'm always curious about that when people do sports writing. Stuff,
yeah BECAUSE i don't know that she's Ever i've ever
heard her describe baseball or sports in other books.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Before, NO i, know this was really kind of took
me by, surprise and my eyes glazed over a little.
Bit do YOU i was gonna, Say, mollie do you
know about? Baseball, okay, well something, happens and the ball
comes Towards peter and he doesn't catch it because he's
not paying attention because he's trying to see a big
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app fell is watching. Him so it lands at his.
Feet it's like, oopsie but he picks it up and
throws it over to win In, rome but it goes
right over her head and she, says wake, up, junior
wear are your eyes in the back of your? Head
and like talk about. RUTE i thought rudeness was not
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tolerated in this game when In, rome.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Also you're an. ADULT i know he's out daring.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Boy he's trying not to. Cry everyone's, steering his legs are.
Shaking he takes a big. Swallow, later When peter is
up to, bat it's Bicycle bob, pitching and bicycle Bicycle
bob sounds like a really good. Pitcher. Yeah peter knows
that this is his chance to make up for his mistakes,
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earlier so he's psyching himself. Up but he misses and
he literally like does the like spin around in a
circle with his bat And mitzi yells it's Fudge, mania
And fudge tells, her, no it's, not it's a.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Strike it's just very.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Funny fudge gets even. Better he, says keep your eye
on the, Ball. Pete oh, No and so the next
pitch he hits. Uh but the ball has head For.
Grandma and of Course grandma makes this fantastic catch because
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she's good at. Everything, yeah what doesn't she? Do? Yeah
and Then peter's out just like.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
THAT, gez thanks a, Lot, GRANDMA i know what a Bit.
Grandma come, on.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
When isabelle's up to, bat we get this great. Description
isabelle came up to the. Plate she's one of those
players who wiggles the. Bat actually she wiggles more than the,
bat BUT i tried not to. Notice and then this
whole bit is just like physical. Comedy LIKE i Think
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i've said this, before but it really reminds me of
some kind Of Three stooges, Situation SO i gotta read.
This she knocked a slow grounder right At, mitzi But
mitzi knew what to. Do she had her glove on
the ground and her legs together so the ball couldn't go.
Through she stopped. It she picked it.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Up, look, EVERYONE i got the.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Ball. Row she looked, confused then threw the ball To,
fudge who was standing right next to. Her by, Then
isabelle was on her way to. Second Here peter yells To,
fudge but instead of throwing the, ball he ran it
over and personally handed it to. Me by, Then isabelle
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was on her way to. Second, Throw Peter Buzzy senior,
Said BUT i was Scared i'd throw it away, again
SO i decided to fake a throw, instead and it.
Worked isabelle headed back to. Second when she REALIZED i
still had the, ball she turned and tried for third.
Again we had her trap between the. Bases there was
really only one sure way to get her, out SO
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i ran after. Her it wasn't my. Fault she changed
directions again and we, collided falling to the ground. Together
this isn't, football and she marches. Off fudge. Cheers, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
She's on the other. Team you're supposed to cheer for
me one who got her?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Out. Yeah as if that weren't. Enough in the final,
Inning jimmy hit a perfect double to left field And big,
shouted way to go. SON i Thought big wasn't supposed
to root for either. TEAM i thought he was supposed
to stay. Neutral oh my, god this, sucks Or peter that?
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Know so in case you're. Wondering fudge's team loses twenty
six to, eight but everyone is happy and having a great,
time and, Uh fudge And, Peter oh, Sorry fudge And
jimmy even sing take me out to the. Ballgame in
the car on the way, Back jimmy Tells peter something
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that is. Wild he said That big personally came up
to him and said that he had real potential and
that he just needs more confidence because if he had,
confidence there'll be no stopping him and he could even
be headed to The. Major i'm, like, What oh my,
GOSH i don't know about. That do you Think jimmy's?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
LYING I i think that that is something That big
would say to be polite and. NICE i think it's
something that was really, said especially if you could, see because,
Like jimmy is so, anxious AND i bet he only
got more anxious when he got out. There that's why
they say the thing about his. Confidence SO i think
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this was just a, like hang in, there little. Fella
anybody can do. It SO i Think jimmy is taking
it with more weight than it was. Meant but, Yeah boos,
said this was very.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Poignant peter realizes how his dad must have felt on
the boat, yesterday a real. Loser then he feels better
with some affirmations From fudge And. Jimmy fudge gives him
a big sticky kiss on the, face And jimmy thanks
him for forcing him out of bed in the. Morning
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and he's their, best best best bet, friends so. Sweet
and Then peter just turns around and joins in the,
singing and they all, sing take me out to the ballgame.
Together so later that, Evening mom gets out of the
shower and she, Says.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Fudgie where's my oil of?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Olay Mister zuman took?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
It.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Mom Mister zuman is the trash.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Guy why would Mister zuman have taken my oil of olay.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Because the bottle was. Empty but it was a brand new.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Bottle it was, Empty, Mom but you said you only
needed a few drops For, mitzi Not.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Mitsy My. Metsie you know what.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
You know my baseball. Glove you used my oil of
olay on your baseball. Glove you used all my oil
of olay on Your.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Mitzi.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
RIGHT i can't believe, This oh my oil of.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Olay an uncle feather, says ooray, Ooray Sheila, WATSON i
didn't know your bird Speak. Spanish he, doesn't BUT i
just heard him say olay, okay olay.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Olay you see.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
It's not that kind of. Delay it's o la.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Y how could you possibly know?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
That believe?
Speaker 2 (41:35):
ME i know what a funny.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Chapter, oh brilliant. Chapter.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yay the ultimate.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Chapter this one is chapter, Fourteen The Ring. Bear, okay
so it kicks off with famous Transient Minster. Fargo oh,
who by the, way they were only supposed to, say
like a few. DAYS i think maybe even like a.
Week And jimmy's, like, no, ACTUALLY i think my dad
says we can keep. Saying it's, like, OH i bet he, Did,
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YEAH i bet he. Did famous freeloader Mister.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Farco it makes me wonder like maybe maybe they got
evicted In New york and they're just Like mon's so. Sad,
NO i don't think, so but you, KNOW i, mean
put it past, him.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
It would make what comes up kind of. Poignant so
Mister fargo begins this chapter with saying that his dealer
In New york loves the idea of The babyfeet art,
series and he's gonna do a whole series of Baby
feet paintings and there's gonna be a show at a
gallery In, soho and he said we're gonna be, Famous
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and Poor jimmy, goes how that? Rich? Dad could we
be just a little rich while you're at? It, like, oh,
No peter has a QUESTION i also. Have she, says
if Mister fargo gets rich On tutsy's, footprints Will tutsi
gets something?
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Too like, yeah, yeah she put in the, work.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Truly, truly. Truly and, then speaking of wonderful News buzzy AND.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I there's only one way to say. It who can't explain?
It who can't tell you?
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Why whose give you? Reasons? Wise? Men never? Try?
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Mother what are you trying to tell us?
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Why?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Ann?
Speaker 3 (43:50):
DEAR i thought it was. Obvious buzzy AND i are
in love and we are going to be. Married, Married, Mary, yes.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Married isn't this all kind of?
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Sudden it may seem that way to, you but at our,
age sudden is. Okay it's not as if we haven't
met each other's, families is.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
It when is this marriage going to take? Place?
Speaker 3 (44:22):
OH i don't, Know maybe tomorrow or the next, day,
tomorrow that, soon that's Mister. Tumman, well, yes, well all
here together In, maine couldn't you, WAIT i suppose it
could wait until next? Weekend, grandpa what exactly does this?
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Mean does this Mean i'm gonna be related to The? Hatchers?
Related Says peter.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Related, grandpa you can't do this to.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Me, grandma you can't do this to, Me.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
SO i don't have To. Ma where Is sheila because
we're getting related?
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Anyway And sheila is, perplexed And fudge says not to
worry because he'll Give. Mitzy, Uh he'll give her some
Of mitzi's monster. Spray and then this whole scene ends
with Mister fargo, saying, well this calls for a. Toast
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DIDN'T i see a bottle of champagne on? Ice? YEAH
i bet you, did of. Course oh, Wow, okay thanks
for volunteering our food. Again game is? Transient what a big.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
News big.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
News they thought they were going on. Vacation instead they
were doing e harmony for old, people, Right?
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Okay how long have they been in? Town two?
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Weeks less than three weeks at this, point they're starting
on their third week in. Town it was Just. SUNDAY
i assume this is Either sunday night Or.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Monday, okay so two Weeks, ENGAGE i mean there.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Have Been, okay slut go off.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Grandma you know times ticking they, are you, know there
are sixty THREE.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
I know that's other. Things WHEN i read this WHEN
i was a, Child i'm, like, well surely they're close to,
death so you might.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
As well write like what do they have to?
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Lose oh my, well good for. Them but it does
put into harsh relief all of the fan fictions where
they Have peter And sheila getting, together because it's, like,
oh they are like step. Cousins oh that's.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Very, clueless like what's his? Name so it can.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
HAPPEN i guess they're as related as, that except for in.
Clueless their parents weren't married. Anymore, OKAY i don't. Know
it's still. Weird, yeah not.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
GREAT i wouldn't recommend.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
No, no thank. You, anyway they hang out the rest
of the now and they're talking about wedding. PLANS i
bracketed this part because it, SAYS i guess it just took.
Them oh they were talking about mom and Mister, tubman
who were weirded out at, first, understandably and it SAYS
i guess it just took them more time than the
rest of us to get used to the. Idea of
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his father marrying her, mother AND i. RELATE i got
real feelings about, that especially because this is. Funny. Sidebar another,
example and like The richard is like a down ass
chick sort of category is he does this sometimes when
he's been like drinking and we're having a good time
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and he just like wants everybody to be on. Board
sometimes he'll be, like we're having such a good. Time you,
KNOW i really feel LIKE i could get along with your.
Dad i'm, like, oh, cool you don't Have it's, okay thanks,
BUDDY i see what you're trying to. Do but we're.
Good but it is such an indicator of, like, oh
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we're how and too good a?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Time what can you do to make it not so?
GOOD i?
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Know but it's like it comes from such a pure.
PLACE i love. This let's get, this let's get him in.
There see what's. Happening i'm, like, oh, no thank, you
But god bless.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
You.
Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yeah so, Yeah so everybody's having a good, time and
they're talking about getting, married and they want to get
married in the. Backyard they Want libby And sheila to
be bridesmaids in. Jeans their chic fudge is going to
be the ring, bearer which he pronounces ring, bear similar
(48:41):
to bird, breather and he doesn't know the ring bear's.
Function and it turns, out even though he was planning,
hello even though he was planning to get married at
the beginning of this, trip the only thing he knows
about marriage is that you get to sleep in the same.
Bed he's learning on the, go and Then Buzzy senor,
(49:03):
says that's the best.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Part, hilarious dirty old Mayn it's so.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
FUNNY i. Love and Then saturday morning they're gonna have the,
wedding And grandma has a common PROBLEM i think with
people of, weddings where they just keep inviting people because
AGAIN i think this is a similar instinct to My
richard being, like let's get your dad in. Here uh.
Huh when you're having a good, time you just want
everybody to hang, out AND i respect. That so they
(49:31):
invited the butcher From Sawyer's, Market dorothy Of, oz the
couple from the jewelry, Store ickles from the ice cream,
Parlor Bicycle, Bob Isabelle mitzi and Missus a And. Big
so the whole town is coming out to this. Party
it really is like the part in the in the.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
MUSICAL. I, meanwhile The butcher's, like who are?
Speaker 3 (49:51):
You, yeah but he's, Like i'm not doing Anything. Sunday
i'll come down to let's.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Go that's WHERE i want to.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Live me, TOO i know you. Do OH i want
to sew Bad. Yeah so the part of the wedding
prep is sewing beads and ribbons On sheila And libby's
jeans and t. Shirt And sheila wants to tie a
bow Around turtle's, neck but she's a little trepidacious about
(50:22):
it and be boopy. Boopee everybody's coming to the. Wedding
we have all the usual. Suspects big is wearing his
Red sox uniform for some, reason it's not like an
army outfit LIKE i do have to be wearing it to,
functions but, Okay and they Give grandma And Buzzy senior a.
(50:50):
Baseball mitzi brings them monster, spray and she brings one
for fudge, too which is. Sweet Bicycle bob gives them matching,
helmets is he gives them a book Called how To
Survive Your First year Of. Marriage sheila And libby contribute,
rocks and Mister fargo finally bring something to someone and
(51:14):
he makes a painting called Baby, feet go to the,
wedding and Then fudge gives them the copy of his
Book Tell me A. Fudge jimmy And peter paint a
twenty five foot banner that says who can explain? It
who can tell you? Why muriel And Buzzy august twenty,
Eighth Southwest, Harbor. Maine now listen to this next part
(51:37):
because this is the part WHERE i Think judy saw
us and said fuck.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Off.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Yup this next part Says grandma And Buzzy. Sr liked
it a, lot even though we forgot to include the.
Year grandma says it was better this. Way so that
IS i, think finally the nail to put to rest this.
Debate does it take place in the, nineties does it
play take place in the. SEVENTIES i think this line
(52:03):
Is judy being, like, no it takes place in WHEREVER
i want it to take. Place on the day you ask, me,
motherfucker shut up and read this, book and to WHICH i, say, okay, okay, dude.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
Okay the queen has, spoken.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
Okay schooled. Us m. Oh and the last person to
come comes in a big red pickup truck wearing a judge's,
rope and it turns out it's when.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
In, rome what are you doing, Here?
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Junior you're the. Judge that's, Right. Junior my name Is,
peter Not, junior and my grandmother isn't the?
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Bride, well isn't that? SOMETHING i hope you behaved yourself
today when In? Rome then she laughs to.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
Shay great fashion going. On it, says the bride wore
a white jogging suit and she had a pink fla
tucked behind her. Ear the groom wore a black jogging
suit and he had a pink flower pin in his.
Sweatshirt they kept smiling at each. Other that's so. Cute
and then a whole kerfuffle happens when they're doing the
(53:15):
wedding semity Pillow oh, no the wedding, ceremony and they're
exchanging the vows and the ring bear is supposed to
come down the, aisle but it says at the last,
(53:38):
minute the ring bear and his helper saying, surprise and
they started twirling holding the pillow between. Them oh, no
and the ring flies off the pillow into the, grass
and they were trying to do one last budge of
mania and everybody's stopping the ceremony to like find the
(53:59):
ring and they have to get down on their hands
and knees to get. Them so finally they found, it
and Bicycle bob finds. One Bicycle bob features so prominently
in the. Story so ral finally they get the rings
together and when In rome warns them not to do
any more, surprises And mitzi, says but surprises are. Fun
(54:24):
and when In rome, says if they do it, again
they're gonna get a big surprise from.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Her so does That she's gonna hit.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
Them she's gonna smack them because this is the seventies
and or. Nineties there were parts of the nineties where
you could hit your. Kid. Yeah so they get married
and it's so nice and there's a big barbecue AGAIN
i love summer. FOOD a big, barbecue ice, cream a
blueberry wedding, cake and everybody's having a great. Time they're running,
(54:54):
around they're. Dancing Eventually grandma And Buzzy senior fall asleep
And peter And sheila are talking AND i thought we
could end uh with this.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
Reading wasn't that the most beautiful?
Speaker 3 (55:09):
Wedding, yeah it was the best Wedding i've ever. Seen
it was also the only Wedding i've ever.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
SEEN i just want you to, Know peter that even
if we're, RELATED i will always hate.
Speaker 3 (55:24):
You that's a, relief Because i'll always hate you. Too, Promise.
Promise let's shake on. IT i put out my, Hand
sheila grabbed, it and then we. Shook the.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
End oh my, god the.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
End.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
YOU i like that.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Ending it's a terrific. Ending that's so. Sweet but UNFORTUNATELY
i think it also puts it tally in a like,
ooh what's gonna happen to call? THEM i haven't Read
Double fudge. Obviously Double fudge is ONLY i think takes
place like a year two years after, this SO i don't.
Speaker 2 (56:03):
Know but, oh you, SEE i haven't read it. Either
oh that'll be. Fun get to.
Speaker 3 (56:07):
It, wow a first time for both of. Us BUT
i definitely agree with the criticism that we should wait
a little, while yeah BEFORE i read another kid's. Book
but ANY i love this.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
BOOK i forgot how MUCH i love.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
It AND i like that we picked to read it
now because it's a good like get you excited for
summer and summer vacation.
Speaker 2 (56:26):
Book ALL i want is a blueberry cake?
Speaker 3 (56:29):
Now oh me? Too AND i. FORGOT i did like
a mini special report on blueberries last, time and we
just got yacking about other. THINGS i didn't do, it
BUT i just want to, say according to this thing
THAT i copy pasted on my, doc it, Said maine
is the leading producer of wild blueberries in The United,
states with forty four thousand acres dedicated to their, cultivation
(56:52):
and the state produces ninety nine percent of all wild
blueberries grown in THE. Us so, no, way, yeah isn't that?
Speaker 2 (56:59):
Cool, wait so did your? Cake remember there were like
some mystery.
Speaker 3 (57:04):
Things one of them was a little basket of clay.
BLUEBERRIES i, think, oh, no it was ACTUALLY i think
it was like a little pickup truck with blueberries in the.
BACK i, think, yeah, okay but everything else is unidentified
THAT i have no idea what it.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
Was i'm glad you got the, blueberries.
Speaker 3 (57:22):
Right you have to let me close with this special
report because that was so fun reading this, book and
we all love, books SO i just wanted to make
you aware of what is going on with sort of
the state of books in twenty twenty, five and specifically
the state of libraries in twenty twenty. Five SO i
(57:44):
believe this happened In, march but our president moved to
all but eliminate The institute Of museum And Library, services
which is a federal agency that gives grants to museums
and libraries across the. Country and so he put forth
an executive order to basically cut all of that money.
(58:05):
Out and that money has already been allotted in all
different kinds of library and museum, budgets and now it's
essentially just. Gone and so any kind of library service
that you enjoy from like A libby app or A hoopla,
app to like libraries having computers that you can, use
libraries having special tutoring services that they pay, for or
(58:29):
even you, know the sort of like extracurricular stuff that
happens in libraries or people who work in. Libraries they're
really under fire right now and underfunded right, now and
it's super. Scary there is a really good lady On
TikTok THAT i. Love her TikTok handle Is tomes And,
(58:50):
textiles and she does a really throw breakdown of what
this kind of executive order means for. Libraries but she
kind of put it succinctly by saying her interpretation of
what this means is that sort of the administration is
wanting to make libraries have like really strong control over
(59:13):
what's in. Them so we know judy books are band,
books we know books with queer characters are being. Banned
we know books that talk about critical race theory are being.
Banned like this is scary stuff because if that all
goes through and libraries lose a ton of, funding they
could turn into these like little propaganda warehouses that just
(59:35):
have stuff that the administration wants you to. See and,
ADMINISTRATION i think the kindest THING i could say about
them is they have really bad taste in what we
should be. Reading it'll just be like wall to wall
copies Of hillbilly elogy. AnyWho so that's really scary and.
Weird AND i, think you, KNOW i can't imagine that
(59:57):
you're listening to this podcast and this doesn't bother, you
BECAUSE i think we're all book lovers and we're all library,
fans and we're all in it to win it in that.
Regard and so there is a really good website from
The American Library. Association it's CALLED ala dot, org and
(01:00:17):
they have an initiative Called Show up For Our. Libraries
this is a really comprehensive. Website it explains what's going
on with library, funding and it breaks down into time,
increments things you can do to help save the libraries
and museums in your. Neighborhood so they have, like if
you only have five, minutes do. THIS i personally emailed
(01:00:40):
my congress members today to let them know THAT i
wanted them to support anything that helps the libraries and the.
Museums and it was like a one stop, shop click
populated email was really. Great they have what to do
if you have ten, minutes what to do if you
have an, hour and it's all really low lift, stuff
and so every single person who listens to this did
(01:01:03):
something from the five minute. CATEGORY i think we could
make a really good difference in a really, spooky scary.
Time AND i understand too that in a lot of,
ways these last couple of weeks and months have felt, Like,
okay which horrible thing CAN i focus on this? Week
because we got we're worried about national, parks and we're
(01:01:25):
worried about our friends who are, immigrants and we're worried
about our friends who ARE lgbtq, plus and, like there's
so many things to worry. About AND i understand that
it's hard to, focus but this is SOMETHING i think
we should focus on BECAUSE i think it's it's undeniably
something that we can try and do something. About and
(01:01:46):
if you like, Me i've been feeling overwhelmed by kind
of the onslaught of news and bad stuff going, ON
i want to direct you to the blog of author and.
FRIEND i don't know if you know, Her, dodie BUT
i know. Her she's A Bay area. Author her name
Is Maggie Tokudah.
Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Hall, NO i don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Her she's one of the best writers in the whole,
world and she's not and she. Hasten she's written a
lot of great children's and young adult. Books but she
wrote a blog post this week on her website Called
Prettyokay maaggie dot, com and it's sort of talking about
her frustration with sort of the funding hits that are
happening to the, libraries the sort of censorship and. Publishing
(01:02:30):
BUT i think she sort of ends her blog post
with this bit That i'm going to read to you
right now THAT i hope serves as kind of like
a call to action for The bloomheads and. Beyond and
she Writes maggie To Cudah hall, writes find your friends
and your allies and link arms with them around some
little corner of this country that you. Love the, library
or public, health or your trans, friends or your immigant,
(01:02:52):
friends or public lands or the fucking, planet take your.
Pick everything is under attack right, now and you fucking protect.
It do this non violently, now because we may not
have that privilege in future. Either SO i, think to,
me that's just, like we can't fix, everything and we
don't have energy or time or bandwidth to fix. Everything
(01:03:16):
but if you were looking for one small thing you
can do this, week let's really take care of our
libraries and our community of, readers and let's try to
do something for that this. Week so that's my special
report about.
Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Libraries oh my, god thank you so, Much. Mollie that
was so well. Put and couldn't agree more, Obviously And i'm,
like what she, said what she, said what she, Said.
Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Well that's really the special port is just a collection
of what she, says Because i'm Quoting maggie And i'm
quoting tomes and textiles From TikTok and The American Library.
Association but, yeah let's let's do.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
It let's do, it and let's save the library, Guys
let's save the. LIBRARIES i will make sure to post
all those links in the show, notes so boomheads check
the show. Notes we'll probably be posting on our social needs,
too and if you have any, questions you can also
email us Bloom saloon at gmail dot com and we'll
help get you to the things we talked. About AND
(01:04:15):
i think that's such a good. Idea, LIKE i, mean
everyone is, like, oh we're so, busy but if you
can break your actionable item into five minutes ten minutes like,
THAT i know for, ME i would be much more
me too inclined to drop What i'm, doing just do
the thing and then get back to being busy. Again
(01:04:36):
so that's great.
Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Totally and take good care of your communities, too BECAUSE
i think that's where all that's HOW i think we're
gonna survive in the next four years and, beyond just,
like let's really take good care of each. Other let's
really act up for each other and see what we
can do to hold each other.
Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Close oh my, god totally totally that's WHY i, Mean
i'm so of, course so glad we started this podcast
back up for many, reasons but a big one is, Like,
okay we need this in this, time in this year
of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
Five, yeah, Absoulutely So thanksgang for the platform to do.
This we'll be back next episode with odds and ends
and fun. Stuff so send us all your, letters send
us what you want to hear more, about maybe start
sending thoughts for the next. BOOK i personally want something
grown up and.
Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Spicy, yeah we want there to be some se. X
yeah that said.
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Sex, oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Glud, okay see you in a couple of.
Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
Weeks, bye we love, You, bye love You.
Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Bye
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