Transcript: MaYaND 000: Podcast Trailer
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[Sound cue: Eerie piano tune reminiscent of the Nancy Drew PC game soundtracks, which plays under the two people talking and continues until the next sound cue (Drew Haiku)]
Meghan: Do you like Nancy Drew?
Colleen: If not, it’s weird that you tapped on this! I’m Colleen!
Meghan: And I’m Meghan!
Colleen: And we’re just about ready to launch our new podcast, called Me and You and Nancy Drew, where we will take a look at the classic Nancy Drew books, the modern ones, the TV show, the Nancy Drew PC games…one item of the Nancy Drew-niverse at a time.
Meghan: We’ll start by taking a look at the 1950s novels.
Colleen: AKA the Nancy Drew books with the yellow spines from your childhood school library.
Meghan: And we’ll have lots of fun segments such as Cooking Corner where we dive into the delicious food featured in the book, Sleuthing Skills that you’ll need to become your own Girl Detective-
Colleen: -regardless of gender. We can all be amazing girl detectives at heart!
Meghan: Oh, and of course, each episode will end with the Gumshoe Game Show, where Colleen quizzes me on a barely relevant topic.
Colleen: It’s technically mentioned in each book. It’s not barely relevant. And you can play along at home with the Gumshoe Game Show as you listen!
Meghan: You can read along but you don’t have to. Check out our website meandyouandnancydrew.com to see what we’re reading next!
Colleen: Or playing! Or watching!
Meghan: Okay, I think that’s about it.
Colleen: Stay tuned for Episode 1, dropping August 8th, in this same feed, or at our website. Oh! We forgot to tell them we talk fast, so they might not need to listen at 2x speed if you do that for your other podcasts.
Meghan: I think they get the picture. Here’s a few-minute sneak peek of our first episode!
[Sound Cue: Synthesized pentatonic scale underneath the spoken words “Drew Haiku”]
Meghan: In this segment, we will each recap the book through the poetic form of haiku. For those of you who may not know, a haiku is usually in Japanese and it is usually about nature. And it's a poem. But the American elementary school teacher version is just in English and it can really be about whatever. But the rules are that the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and the third has five. And that's it.
Colleen: Okay, great. So let's recap this book. This is my extremely helpful Drew Haiku of Secret of- Sorry, The Secret of the Old Clock. The Ohio State University would be very, very mad at me right now. Okay. [clears throat dramatically] “Nancy finds a clock / with hidden will inside and / distributes the wealth.”
Meghan: Ooh, yay.
Colleen: Do we do snaps after the haiku to indicate that we're poets and/or beatniks? Snaps?
Meghan: Yeah! [snaps fingers]
Colleen: Your turn.
Meghan: Okay, here is my haiku. “Nancy Drew's first case. / Where there's a will, there's a way. / Gotta find the clock.”
Colleen: Whoa, see, that was clever. That was much cleverer than mine. I like it a lot.
Meghan: Well, yours actually summarized the story. Mine just kind of summarized the premise.
Colleen: No, but I liked it. It had, like, a double meaning with the “Where there’s a will, there's a way.”
Meghan: Oh yeah. We're looking for a will and a clock at the same time, because for some reason they're, they're connected.
Colleen: They're obviously connected. How could they not be? They are two separate nouns.
[Sound Cue: Clock ticks underneath the spoken words “Thirty-Second Recap”]
Meghan: In this segment, we will each attempt to summarize the entire book within thirty seconds without limiting ourselves to a specific poetic form. That way you, the listener, have an idea of what happened in this book.
Colleen: Are you saying the haikus weren't helpful?
Meghan: Okay. No, they're great. They're great. But I don't know if they really fully summarized what happened in the book for those of you who didn't just read it.
Colleen: All right, you get thirty seconds. Tell me about this book.
Meghan: Okay. Go. [clock ticks underneath the book summary] Nancy Drew is an eighteen-year-old girl, and her dad is a lawyer. And she likes to solve mysteries, probably. But she's actually never done one by herself. And she finds all these different people in this little town who are, they're all very sad because they don't have any money. And they're really, really good people. And Nancy is appalled at this. And she finds out that their cousins inherited, probably, no, no, no, they're going to inherit all this money from this guy who was really nice and he was also friends and neighbors with all these people. Oh gosh. [ticking stops, clock bongs] I didn't even look down at the clock because I knew it was going to stress me out.
Colleen: I was like, “Ooh, she's giving a lot of setup and details. I wonder how she'll fit all the plot in.”
Meghan: And then I just didn't. It's your turn. Okay. Maybe, maybe you'll get some more, more story in there.
Colleen: We'll see.
Meghan: All right. Your turn. Ready, set, go.
Colleen: [clock ticks underneath the book summary] So Nancy is in her blue car thinking about her dad, a lawyer who does mysteries. He solves them. He solves mysteries. He does not make the mysteries, usually. And then she helps him. And then she's like, “Oh my god, there's all these poor people and I wish I could help them. Oh my god, there's maybe a will from this rich guy. Let me find it.” And then, oh my god, while she's talking to this poor person, she mentioned that he liked to hide things in weird places, like perhaps a clock. “Oh my god, there's movers. No, they're con men. Oh my god, there's a clock. Ahhh, I'm speeding! Is there a cop? Great. Oh my god, the will gives money to all these people and we all lived happily ever after except for the bridge guys.” The end. Did I-? [ticking stops, clock bongs]
Meghan: You did it. Wow. You did it perfectly.
Colleen: I perfectly said “Oh my god” a lot. There were a lot of “oh my god”s in there. I got stressed.
