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Intro

• “All the Single Babies,”  a parody of All the Single Ladies by Beyonce

Twilight News

• New Moon less than two weeks away for United States
• Taylor Swift in Saturday Night Live Twilight parody (See Twilight Lexicon for more info and to watch the parody)
• New Moon Mall Tour at Hot Topic – Los Angles was first stop (Read more at NewMoonMovie.org)
• Stephenie Meyer on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, November 13th (Read more at NewMoonMovie.org)
• Vanity Fair photos/interview with Rob Pattinson – corn on the cob and lobster Rob (See more at VanityFair.com)

Newborn news

• Twilight Newborns attending an advanced screening cuz we shelled out the cash
• Poll: What should Edward Cullen be for Halloween?
• Fan of the Week: Jaz from Indiana via voicemail

Meat of the Discussion – Edward’s Mother’s Ring

• Eclipse chapter 20 “Compromise” (See chapter summary at TwilightLexicon.com)
• How does Edward get the ring?
• Would Edward lie to Bella to get her to wear something nice?

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Intro

• Twilight mad libs from Twilight Novel Novice from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, pages 267-68

Twilight News

• Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth story about being Dr. Cullen at home. (See more at IMDB)
• MTV 2009 Movie Awards (See more at MTV)
• Congratulations to Twilight for winning 5 awards, including Best Fight, Best Male Breakout Star, Best Female Star, Best Kiss and Best Movie.
• New Moon Teaser Trailer premieres at MTV Movie Awards (Watch the trailer in HD at the TwilightGuy.com)
• Rumors of Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart having dinner after the MTV awards (See more at NY Daily News)
• Casting for Eclipse and the Newborns has started. Yay! (Read more at E! Online)

Newborn News

• Our polls about the MTV Movie Awards
• Website of the Week: Forks Gift Shop
• Be sure to check out the photo album of Dejeuner’s clone, Pranzo, tearing up Italy.  There are also New Moon set photos from Italy there too!!
• Twilight Newborns contest! Ends July 1, 2009: Send it a photo of “Twilight Newborns” written in a creative, interesting BUT legal place. Winner to receive a Dej clone or a t-shirt from Twilight Newborns’ CafePress store.

Meat of the Discussion – True Love

• Do you want to find true love so early?
• Jacob’s imprinting on Renasty
• Speculation on Renasty’s reaction to Jacob as she gets older
• Do you want true love if you live forever?
• Denali Clan is the only one without soul mates
• The effect of fate on the story lines of the series
• What if you miss destiny?
• Jasper and Alice’s relationship – Is it fate or did Alice make it happen?

Renasty Award Winner

• Weird YouTube Girl bringing shame onto the Twilight Fandom. Watch her video here.

Cullen pets: Who would have what and what would the name it?

• Thanks to Katy, Fan of the Week Emeritus, for the question!

Intro

• Edward Cullen baseball color commentary

Twilight News

• New scene being filmed of Bella riding bikes with one of the men from the bar (see HisGoldenEyes.com)
• New Moon filming halfway completed (See video from ET)
• Italian filming of New Moon scheduled for end of May (See video from ET)
• Breaking Dawn – Will it be made into a movie? (See Entertainment Weekly)
• Rob Pattinson baby photos (See Pattinson Online)

Newborn News

• Polls: Which one of “The Boys” from Twilight is the sexiest?, Whose Mother’s Day gift is Esme’s favorite? and Should the Twilight Newborns record a DVD commentary?
• Fan of the Week Emeritus: Lara from Denver
• New t-shirt design: Renasty Award Winner
• How to dream of Rob

Meat of the Discussion – Twilight Relationships

• Christen and Edward
• Bella and Edward
• Bella and Jacob
• Carlisle and Esme
• Rosalie and Emmett
• Alice and Jasper
• Angela and Ben
• Jessica and Mike
• Renee and Phil
• Renee and Charlie
• Victoria and James
• Irina and Laurent

The Cougars of Twilight

• Rosalie, Esme, Renee and special shoutout to Edward

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• Twilight Apples commercial

Twilight News

• Cam Gigandet had a baby girl with girlfriend Dominique Geisendorff. (See MTV)
• Life & Style Magazine – Rumors of onset romance. Truth? (See Life & Style’s article)
• Entertainment Tonight – Exclusive New Moon set interviews April 23 (Watch teaser from ET.com here)
• New Moon cast list announced  (See Yahoo Movies for more info):

1. Jane—Dakota Fanning
2. Alec–Cameron Bright
3. Aro–Micheal Sheen
4. Caius–Jamie Campbell-Bower
5. Harry Clearwater–Graham Greene
6. Heidi–Noot Seear
7. None of “Jacob’s friends” from Twilight are returning
8. Billy Burke was left off Summit press release but he is returning

Newborn News

• Poll: Who does the Cullens’ taxes?
• Poll:  So far, which Twilight book or movie is your favorite?
• Fan of the Week – Harriet2000 on twitter
• New Video – YouTube channel www.youtube.com/twilightnewborns
• Top Twilight Sites – please vote for us!

Meat of the Discussion – The Meadow Scene

• Pocketpiece Theater: Edward quotes “You can’t imagine how that feels”
• Hard to understand smell in books
• Alcoholic reference (brandy) and drug reference (heroin) not usual teen book fodder
• Bella – “a demon from my own personal hell”
• Esme and Edward’s relationship – talks about upsetting Esme that Edward to live in Alaska

Renasty Award Winner

• “Eye-verts” for Twilight DVD release in United Kingdom (See Trendhunter.com)

Twilight Shippers

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Bella and Edward's perfect night

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• 12 Days of Twilight sung by the Newborns

Twilight News

• Filming on New Moon starts Monday 3-16-09 (See Just Jared Jr. story)
  • Set photos from Spoiler TV
• Eclipse Director, Juan Antonio Bayona, announced and then denied. (See LA Times)
• Robert Pattinson in GQ Magazine (See story and photos here)
• Cool stuff releasing soon: Twilight Board Game (3/15/09), Twilight Director’s Notebook (3/17/09)  and Twilight DVD (3/21/09)

Newborn News

• Café Press Store is up (See our shop here)
• 2 Polls: What vampire super power would you like to have? and  Which RPattz mega-do do you prefer?
• Fan of the Week: Naomi via Facebook

Please talk on the podcast on how to explain rationally to fellow adults our current fixation with Twilight, 22 year old actors, 17 year old vampires and make it not sound like I’m having a mid life crisis?? I’m 32 and a wife and mother of 3. My daughter is a fellow fan but husband and colleagues think I’m nuts.

Meat of the Discussion – The Wedding of the Century

• Location
• Alice’s involvement
• Lack of Bella’s involvement
• Lack of showers or rehearsals
• Renee’s role

What gifts would the guests bring?

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Intro by Common Sense Media (See their post on how to talk to kids about Twilight)

Twilight News

• DVD decisions
• The rebirth of the old story about Stephenie Meyer not writing Midnight Sun (Duh! See SF Chronicle)
• Who we wouldn’t want to be cast in New Moon (Sorry Lauren Conrad and Chef Gordon Ramsey!)
• New Moon soundtrack speculation (See E! Online)
• Twilight Soundtrack breaking records (See Yahoo! Music) (Note: See our post listing Twilight movie songs in order they play in the movie)
• Thoughts about the delay of Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide (See Amazon)
• Rumors that Robert Pattinson might be cast in the upcoming movie, Ohio (See LA Times)

Newborn News

• Twilight Newborns Website now listed on twilighttopsites.com. (Review us!)
• Fan of the week: TwilighterNews on Twitter (http://twitter.com/TwilighterNews)
• The makings of a Newborn army
• Poll update

Meat of the discussion: Is Edward Cullen an abusive boyfriend?

Questionaire from loveisrespect.org

Does your boyfriend/girlfriend:

Look at you or act in ways that scare you?
Act jealous or possessive?
Put you down or criticize you?
Try to control where you go, what you wear or what you do?
Text or IM you excessively?
Blame you for the hurtful things they say and do?
Threaten to kill or hurt you or themselves if you leave them?
Try to stop you from seeing or talking to friends and family?
Try to force you to have sex before you’re ready?
Do they hit, slap, push or kick you?

Source: loveisrespect.org

Merch Girl: Twilight items on eBay

• Socks, sheets, t-shirts, ironic wall clocks and more

Word Association Game Part 2

Website of the Week

• twilightheaded.com

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Twilight News

• Rumors debunked of casting of Leah Clearwater and naming of an Eclipse director
• Twilight perfume hubbub
• Thoughts about Catherine Hardwick being replaced
• The aging of the actors
• MuthMath performing “Spotlight” on The Tonight Show

Newborns News

• Poll update
• Fan of the week: Twilighter76
• The newborns going to watch Joel McHale from E! The Soup (http://www.eonline.com/thesoup)

The Meat of the Discussion: The Cullens’ materialistic side

• Alice’s not allowing the Cullens to wear clothes twice
• What the Cullens would do if lost their wealth
• Why do they get all flashy in Forks?
• Donation habits

Edward’s bedroom update

• No progress on our mission of finding out what’s on Edward’s walls in the movie
• Use of beds by vampires

Bella & Edward’s relationship

• Question brought up by Twilight Series Theories (http://www.twilightseriestheories.com): Thoughts on Edward’s lack of truthfulness with Bella compared to Jacob.

The Boyfriend update

Twilight website of the week

• twitter.com/edcullen

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NEWS

Twilight DVD release announcement (March 21, 2009), Taylor Lautner confirmed as Jacob Black for New Moon, Iron & Wine on The Tonight Show (week of Jan. 3, 2009)

BOOK DISCUSSION (SPOILERS)

Bella & Edward’s relationship
1. Is Bella really in love with Edward or is it a physical reaction to the dazzling?
2. What does Bella bring to the relationship? What does Edward?
3. Engagement scene of Bella & Edward
4. Importance of equality in a relationship and how it is part of Bella & Edward’s. Is equality better displayed in the Twilight Series compared to another chick flick, Sex and the City?

MOVIE DISCUSSION

1. Update on number of times we’ve seen Twilight
2. Things we noticed this time (University at Port Angeles, Carlisle’s cross, Cullen’s uniforms for baseball scene)
3. Best scene for Robert Pattinson

FOR FUN

Top Ten Strategies to get your boyfriend to see Twilight (as promised in episode 1)

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In this episode, we discuss:

• How we become fans of Twilight
• Movie review and comparison to the books
• Movie soundtrack
• Theories on what is on Edward’s bedroom wall
• Cullens’ New Year resolutions
• This week’s favorite Twilight-related website: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com.

We were very excited to record this inaugural podcast, and we hope to get better and better. All we have to say is we do know what state Forks is located! We were just nervous.

BTW, there are story SPOILERS in our ‘cast and there always will be, since we want to be free about the Twilight series as a whole.

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