Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Our very first screw up! Huzzah! I walked into the recording with Kate safe in the knowledge that we hadn’t done Chicka Chicka Boom Boom before. Never mind that we actually did do it almost exactly a year ago. Whoops. So in a pinch I decided the time was right to do a different Bill Martin Jr. It’s the very first book that Eric Carle ever illustrated and he’s redone it something like five times. In the course of things Kate puts forward the theory that this is the picture book version of Rockwell’s I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me. We also view it through the lens of post-McCarthyism and Kate has this whole under the radar discussion of what’s really going on with the Black Sheep.

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Show Notes:

So actually it was powdered gelatin that the Horse of Another Color was covered in. Don’t think too hard about what the gelatin was made of.

Kate’s favorite character in the book? “Black Sheep, Black Sheep, What do you see?” And the Black Sheep goes, “Snitches get stiches. Mind your own business!!”

Like I say, check out the Eric Carle Museum here, if you get a chance.

Josh Funk asked for it. Josh Funk got it. Kate provides the following:

Top 10 Favorite Board Games (in no particular order);

1. Organ Attack by the Awkward Yeti
2. Munchkin by Steve Jackson Games
3. The Settlers of Catan by Klaus Teuber
4. Ticket to Ride by Alan R. Moon
5. Horrified by Universal Studios Monsters
6. Red Dragon Inn by Slugfest Games
7. Betrayal at House on the Hill by Avalon Hill
8. Azul by Michael Kiesling
9. Scattergories by Parker Brothers
10. Forbidden Island by Gamewright

Runners up: Mysterium, Villianous, Concept, Sangrada, Codenames, Potion Explosion, Anomia, Gloom, Cards Against Humanity, Joking Hazard, Exploding Kittens

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