The Baby-sitters Club Club

The California Diaries are over. The time has come for us to roll up our JNCOs, gather up our empty bottles of MD 20/20, feed our Furbies one final time, and wave farewell to Ducky, Amalia, Maggie, Sunny, and Dawn, as they walk—arm in arm—into the warm, comforting glow of Pacific Sunwear. And what is that beautiful music we hear on the wind, like a whispered promise? Could it possibly be an angel, saying, just softly enough for us to hear … "THANK U." Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Thank U,” by Alanis Morissette “Candle in the Wind,” by Elton John “Sad to Happy,” by Silverhoof “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OK so Brendan’s acting super weird because he wasn’t there for Amalia when these girls harassed her outside the movie theater and Dawn doesn’t know it but Ducky and Sunny are planning this big surprise party for her? And Meat Pete wrote this one but he didn’t put any baby-sitting in it and ORIM erased something pretty important and the girls are turtles. Got that? Good. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “It Takes a Village,” by Raffi “Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, to Baby Bee Deanna for the Lerangis Moment song, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maggie Blume is dating literally the hottest guy in the world! And if you think that’s Pacey from Dawson’s Creek, you’ve made the biggest mistake of your life, because now the irradiated ghosts that stalk your hallways while you sleep are going to stop your lying mouth with their spectral fingers and make you think again. That was quite a journey, wasn’t it? It was for us, too! Strap in for the episode so nice, we did it twice. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music “90s Grunge Rock Epic Song,” by Blue Sky Audio Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ugh, this one was pretty brutal. Sunny’s mom dies, Sunny’s dad can’t make it through his eulogy at the funeral because he’s crying so hard, and Tanner spends entirely too long talking about which characters from Duck Tales he finds the most attractive. Truly a tough one to get through without crying. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music “Three Days,” by K.D. Lang “Constant Craving,” by K.D. Lang Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Sunny and Dawn ever be friends again? Will there ever be a singer as handsome as Belgian heartthrob Pierre X from Jax? Will the mysterious publishing entity known only as ORIM ever get THEIR KNIVES OUT OF OUR BACKS? That’s right, this week Sunny and Dawn are at war with each other, Jax is at war with the notoriously finicky American music market, and we’re at war with ORIM. It’s not going to be pretty. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Rhythm of Time,” by Front 242 “Indie Grunge Anthem,” by Phil Larson “2 Wicky,” by Hooverphonic “Somewhere Out There,” by Our Lady Peace Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

YNAW, Poundmasters! Ann gave us a sensitive and heavy topic to chew on this week, so we stepped up to the plate like we always do in these situations and did a really deep dive into some other stuff entirely! Look for an extremely detailed conspiracy theory involving Freddy Prinze Jr., some powerful new insights into what’s going on with Ducky, and a surprisingly lengthy discussion of the marginally successful 2001 film Thirteen Ghosts. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music “Oprah Loves Bread,” by Charlie Thunder Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Which of us would not sacrifice the very world for just one glimpse of his baggy jeans; his suave super-gelled Brian Austin Green hair; his shy, bluish-green eyes; his edgy but approachable Operation Ivy T-shirt? His name is Brendan Jones, formerly of Short Hills, New Jersey. And he gave Amalia a single rose at the Homecoming Bash during that one Vanish song. You know the one. “Bliss it was in [the late ‘90s] to be alive But to be [a broody teen] was very heaven.” ― William Wordsworth, The Prelude Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Serious Drugs,” by BMX Bandits “Sad to Happy,” by Silverhoof “The Freshmen,” by The Verve Pipe “Sadness,” by Allen Grey “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Don’t Hate Me,” by Get Up Kids “Criminal,” by Fiona Apple Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, to Baby Bee Stephanie for the Lerangis moment song, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast:

The boys settle in for a pleasant and relaxing evening babysitting a gaggle of grumpy teens. Truth Translation: We’re pretty out of our depth here! Things are totally going off the rails with Maggie, and Dawn’s not helping, and Sunny is MIA, and there’s no more box wine in the cabinet because we already drank it all to calm our nerves THIS MORNING!!! OK, deep breath. Everything’s fine. We’re fine. Nothing to worry about here. Truth Translation: *muffled screams.* Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Contre le Sexisme,” by Sonic Youth “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dawn’s stepmother Carol is in the hospital getting ready to bring new life into the world. Sunny’s mother is in the very same hospital looking at the light at the end of the tunnel. Her intentions fall to the floor. It is at this point that the angel closes her eyes, and the confusion that was hers belongs now to the baby down the hall. I can feel it. Not to belabor the point, but in this one, lightning ... definitely ... crashes. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Walking in Memphis,” by Marc Cohn “Sad to Happy,” by Silverhoof “Lightning Crashes,” by Live “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sunny is in a bad mood because of circumstances beyond her control and she’s being a glum plum and bringing everybody down, which is fine, it happens, but that doesn’t mean that it’s OK for her to lash out and take it out on her friends who are just trying to help her. But I don’t know what to do and like I said it’s not my fault and I’m sorry but I’m not really sorry I’m just feeling out of sorts and wait, who are we talking about again? Anyway, this one’s a good one. Pete wrote it I think. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Alison,” by Slowdive “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cro-Mags are whispering to each other and snickering, as if you’re too dumb or too INVISIBLE to figure out that they’re laughing at YOU. So you do the only thing you can do: You grab your Discman and put on your headphones and lose yourself in the latest episode of the California Diaries, where the boys are talking about The Purge and Resident Evil and a bunch of other stuff that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but ANYTHING is better than Cro-Mags. Anything is better than trying to be something you’re not for people who barely even know who you are. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Vapour Trail,” by Ride “Shook Ones, Pt. II,” by Mobb Deep “Save Yourself,” by Stabbing Westward “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn mo

It took four books, but we finally get a taste of that Good Clean Baby-Sitting Fun we’ve been so desperately craving this week, from the unlikely direction of Amalia Vargas. She isn’t even in the We Heart Kids Club, but she took pity on us and stopped by a women’s shelter to look after some kids on the way to break up with her toxic boyfriend. A truly scintillating novel, made even more so by the thoughtful inclusion of baby-sitting. Was that so difficult? Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you have a choice between watching the star-studded world premiere of “Fatal Judgment” or being in the crowd at the Battle of the Bands for the first-ever performance by Vanish featuring Maggie Blume on keyboards and backup vocals, there’s only one choice you can make: Go to both of them. That’s right, the boys have front-row seats at both of the hottest tickets in Palo City this week, and you can be sure they’re gonna be wearing their extra-large Jncos. Music credits: “Vibe,” by Marble Space “Beautiful Love,” by Twisterium “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything is still very, very late '90s out here in California and we're all pretty worked up about it. But we're grown adults, so we're going to do the only responsible thing we can in the situation: Throw a copy of "On the Road" into our Jansports, strap on our blades, and blow off class for a day at the beach with a handsome and slightly suspicious drifter named Carson. Hope is a disease. Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “90s Grunge Rock Epic Song,” by Blue Sky Audio “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgier, more grownup, full of alcohol and angst and bad decisions. Cool. Sullen. Sarcastic. Mad at the whole world and ready to explode. These are just a few words to describe podcast hosts Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring. And this week, they’re embarking on an exciting new journey as they follow the BSC’s Dawn Schafer across the country to sunny California for fun, frolicking, and friendship! I wonder what new babies she will sit and what kind of wholesome and agreeable things she will get up to! Music credits: “90s Alternative Rock,” by FUNTOMASS “90s Grunge Rock Epic Song,” by Blue Sky Audio “Rock,” by Studio Monkey “Surf Rock Chase Scene,” by Sun Channel Music “Indie Grunge Anthem,” by Phil Larson Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A wonderfully surreal and slightly scary world awaits all those who are brave enough to crawl through the looking glass, speak their own secret names aloud, and become new initiates of the legendary Baby-Sitters Club. But this is just the beginning of the quest, and danger awaits: Will the boys be confounded by the deadly Puzzle Box, disoriented by the mysterious Map Game, or debilitated by the incessant ringing of Claudia’s terrible telephone? Answers: Yes, yes, and yes. Fortunately, these guys are professional gamers, so there’s probably no need to worry. Music credits: Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trained from a young age by an elite academy for assassins, Associate Baby-Sitter Shannon Kilbourne is ready for the biggest mission of her life when she runs into resistance from the place she least expects it: Her own mother. The boys travel back in time from the dystopian wasteland they’ve been trapped in to learn more about Shannon’s Story in a last, desperate attempt to save the future before the BSC Readers’ Request books run out. Oh, and Mrs. Barrett was in this one and, um, she was … um, very good in the baseball game we thought! Music credits: “Strange Dimensions,” by Marco Belloni Music “Showtime,” by Stockwaves “Lovely Memories Ident,” by CreativeMedias_net “Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys head back in time to get frisky with some whales and check up on what Logan Bruno’s up to, which, WOW! He’s fallen in with a group of ‘50s greasers called The Badd Boyz and led by a cigarette-smoking, shoplifting, leather-jacket-wearing rude dude called T-Jam who makes Stacey’s well-documented Wine Crimes look like a walk in the park. And that’s all real! That’s what this wonderful book is actually about. What a gift. What a time to be alive. Music credits: “Ambient Cosmic Soundscape,” by Allen Grey “Showtime,” by Stockwaves “Chopstick Slapstick,” by OurMusicBox “Scottish Bagpipe Rock Anthem,” by Allen Grey Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys are both canceled this week, sadly, along with Pete Black, Logan, and everybody else on the SMS Gladiators track team except Austin Bentley. And this is their YouTube Apology video. But despite the setback (and another more extreme one that has trapped one of them in 18th Century Glasgow), they valiantly make their way through this fascinating Readers’ Request about Logan Bruno. ‘Cuz Ann finally made one that’s just for the guys. Music credits: “Celtic Adventure,” by Allen Grey “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,” by Singing Bell “Showtime,” by Stockwaves “China National Anthem (Rockendary Remix),” by Rockendary “Scottish Bagpipe Rock Anthem,” by Allen Grey Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack takes a seat on the bench so that Regular Tanner and Future Tanner can solve the maddening puzzle that Jeanne Betancourt has created this week in the form of “Abby’s Book.” This mostly involves being incredibly sad about the fate of the surprisingly handsome Jonathan Stevenson, who — as fans of the BSC know all too well — went to ride the Rainbow Road far too soon. Music credits: “Epic Cinematic Sci-Fi,” by Luca Francini “Are You Sleeping,” by Skrianski Music “Showtime,” by Stockwaves “Sexy Hip Hop,” by Stereo Nuts “Dramatic End,” by Tim Cat “Sadness,” by AudioRose “Sad to Inspiring,” by Stockwaves “Sadness,” by Allen Grey Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices