The Baby-sitters Club Club

Prepare to dive headfirst into a world of intrigue and MYSTERY! To unlock the SECRETS of Mary Anne’s origins; to decipher the PUZZLE of the universe’s most mysterious clock; the RIDDLE of Logan’s nipples; the ENIGMA of the Warp Whistles in Super Mario Bros. 3; and the REBUS that is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most MYSTERIOUS film. Most importantly, prepare to solve the perplexing CONUNDRUM of whether the boys are going to find an insanely complex and breathtakingly chaotic way of doing segments, which are traditionally supposed to provide structural simplicity and order! And, of course, prepare yourself for an answer to the greatest MYSTERY of all: What on Earth are these boys going to talk about now that they’ve read all the main canon books and Super Specials????? (Oh, also, prepare to cry, because this one's a sad one.) Music credits: “Halloween Ident,” by Luca Francini “Until We Meet Again,” by The Story Shop “Once Upon a Dark Time,” by Allen Grey “Sad to Hopeful,” by The Story Shop “Heartbroken,” by Al

The boys originally wanted to buy themselves a week to figure out what they’re going to do now that they’re out of Super Special books, but boy did they have fun watching the Baby-Sitters Club movie, or as Jack repeatedly called it, “the book.” Ann, Dalene, and Susan DeSanto confirmed so many popular theories this week, and they did so VISUALLY. Economy of Holes! Bread theory! Living Dolls! Bees! Magical Owls! All that and more! Music: "New World" by KIRA “Overture” by Lionheart “Lovely Memories Ident” by CreativeMedias_net Excerpts from The Baby-Sitters Club movie --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a time for sobriety and reflection as the boys gaze bravely into oblivion. Shattered by the loss of a dear, innocent friend who was betrayed by those who should have protected him, they must step forward, alone, into a future devoid of Super Specials. But before they do, a loving look back at this really great final book! Jessi has committed a series of cold-blooded murders, Alan Gray’s joined the Stoneybrook Liberation Front, and Kristy’s doing kissing and arm stuff with a Canadian! This is Pete Lerangis’s swan song and his magnum opus and it is so much better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Music credits: “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt “Sad to Hopeful,” by TheStoryShop “Polish Funk,” by Artur Orbelyan “Ambient Dream,” by bdProductions “Romantic Background,” by Aleksandr Shamaluev “Haunted,” by LucaFrancini “Angelic Choir Divine Elevation,” by AllenGrey “Ethereal Voices,” by LucaFrancini “Cathedral,” by CleanMindSounds “Battle Area,” by Fifty Vinc Thanks as al

Wow! This book was a banger. You’ve never heard two boys who are more excited to talk about a BSC book. The girls FINALLY make it to America, and they do it all! They confront America’s dark past at a plantation turned slavery museum. They marvel at the splendor of the Grand Canyon. They go to the MALL OF AMERICA! Also, maybe it’s because we’re kinda getting down to the wire and don’t have any real plans for what comes next, but we get a little punchy, and when we get punchy, we tend to sing. A lot. Music Credits: “Party in the USA” Karaoke Version by Miley Cyrus “Breaking News” by Phil Larson on Envato Elements “Energetic Indie Guitar” by MeGustaMusic on Envato Elements “Basketliner” by Blue Dot Sessions “Father And Son” (Cat Stevens Cover) by Bia Bogéa “Glueworm Evening Blues” by Lobo Loco “Piano Inspirations“ by Olexandr Ignatoc on Envato Elements “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Karaoke Version) by Billy Joel “Get Outta My Dreams” by Billy Ocean "Entrance to the Queen of Sheba

Stacey’s chopper is down and she’s missing in the jungles of Hawaii. Meanwhile, back in Stoneybrook, Mallory has alienated a potential client by mishandling a tantrum. Are these two crises treated with equal gravity and concern in this novel? Yes. Because this is the Baby-Sitters Club, and, frankly, Stacey is expendable. Fair warning: This one’s rated R, not just because of the helicopter carnage, but because there is a surprising amount of Arm Stuff, and some EXTREMELY enlightening new rules for the delicate dance known as Da Bonky. Have fun and be careful! Music credits: “Movie Trailer Action,” by AllenGrey “Polish Funk,” by Artur Orbelyan “Rendezvous 72.5,” by Adrien Wilcox “Dark Cybernetic World,” by AllenGrey “Tanzen,” by KieLoBoy “Sadness,” by AudioRose 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 megap

Live at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, the boys dig deep into one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What the heck is going on with ghostwriter Jeanne Betancourt and her twisted blood orgies? It may just be part of her writing process for these Super Mysteries, in which case it worked! Plenty of spooky ghosts, scary vampires, and unsavory teenage boys in this one, not to mention a whole mess of parades, because Stoneybrook has finally gone fully off the deep end. This is the first (and therefore, currently, best) BSCC live show! Avoid this one if you're scandalized by wine crimes. Music credits: “Inspirational Dreams,” by StereoNuts “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord “Emotional Documentary Background,” by musicdream “Lovely Memories Ident,” by CreativeMedias_net “Kantai Collection: KanColle Theme,” by Akino from bless4 An extra special thanks to KJ from The Oddysy for playing our theme song! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support

Put a dollar in your Pete jars, folks, because the boys are talking about the Pete Lerangis Super Special so nice … they read it twice! That’s right, your good buddies Weed Lord and Half Pipe are back for a second hit from the gravity bong that is Super Special #12, "Here Come the Bridesmaids!” and this time they’re not leaving until Dawn’s dad really makes it official by kissing Carol for a second time. And hold onto your wedding veils because there’s a brand-new, extremely cool catchphrase in this one, as well as a surprising amount of Rusted Root. “Teenage Freakout,” by Mules “Air on G String,” by Adigold “Dark Cybernetic World,” by AllenGrey “Jingle Bells (Dark Piano Version),” by Myuu “Tanzen,” by KieLoBoy “Sadness,” by AudioRose “Battle Area,” by Fifty Vinc 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 m

Everyone remembers the 24 to 72 hours immediately preceding the first time they ever met Kristin Amanda Thomas. For most of the girls in the Baby-Sitters Club, the moment Kristy entered their lives, everything changed, because when you meet Kristy Thomas, all your problems seem to disappear. The same holds true for Jack and Tanner. Their lives have never been the same since first being introduced to Kristy and their fortunes, positive attitudes, and gainful employment records have never wavered since. Music Credits: “Into Darkness” By Allen Grey on Envato Elements "On Fire" by Robin Hustin "At Doom's Gate" from the soundtrack to DOOM by Id Software "Sad Feelings" by Enrize on Envato Elements "Iris" (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Goo Goo Dolls Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music and 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/

Stacey and Mary Anne are headed back to the scene of the crime. To the place where it all started, all those years ago – to the locus for those half-forgotten events of that tumultuous summer in Sea City when Stacey went boy crazy, a condition that affects her to this very day. And the consequences of this return to the past – of this “recherche du temps perdu” – will be cataclysmic. A great storm is coming. A hurricane. A tempest of rage and hurt and remembrance that threatens to consume everything in its path. And with the darkness preceding the deluge come other dark things. Things that crawl and creep and grasp with their tendrils and their tentacles. Things that devour. Here we come, Sea City. And may Heaven protect us from what follows. Music credits: “Tanzen” by KieLoBoy “Dramatic Trailer,” by Audiophile-Trax “Love Potion,” by Fasol Prod “Powertool Massacre,” by JBlanks “The Dark Castle,” by Fesliyan Studios “The One You Loved Is Gone,” by Soularflair “Epic Halloween,” by OlexandrIgnatov “Sadn

“Electrifying. Dangerous. Masterful.” –Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch “Revealing both the dangers and payoffs of artistic ambition, The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club #9 is sure to establish Greenring as a directorial force to be reckoned with.” –Emma Myers, IndieWire “It would be an insult to call Shepherd a "promising" podcaster, as The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club #9 doesn't indicate mere potential - it is evidence of authentic, sometimes blazing talent.” –Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times “The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club #9 is electric from beginning to end, a musical story of obsession, frustration and outright cruelty built on two knockout performances.” –Tom Long, Detroit News Music Credits: “Caress Me Down” (MIDI Version) originally performed by Sublime “My Sharona” (MIDI Version) originally performed by the Knack “Silence” by Kai Engel “Visual Pop” by Ergo Phizmiz “Echo Chamber of Horrors” by Dr. StrangeDub & DJ Baby Swiss “Back in Black” (Karaoke Version) originally performed

Shadow Lake holds many mysteries – including a disappearing family that haunts its islands and a big scary monster that lurks in in its depths – but Stacey McGill and Sam Thomas’s fiery, tumultuous romance is the biggest, juiciest mystery of all. Why is Stacey interested in Sam even though he insists on calling her “Dahling”? Why has Hodges painted Stacey with a pained grimace on her face as she and Sam dance? The boys dig into these pressing questions, with a short break to say a painful goodbye to a sad, old aquatic friend. Recommended reading this week: The 12th Century “Chansons de Geste” (preferably in the Old French), Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” and “1,001 Email Closings and Valedictions,” by Flavio Olcese. Also: It’s UGC week this week, so don’t blame any of these segments on the boys. Music credits: “The General’s March and Army Song,” by Mike Shetley “Magical Mystery,” by Freddie Hangoler “All Our Clocks Are Dying,” by Ergo Phizmiz “Halloween’s Revenge,” by TeknoAXE

Welcome to pilot two of three! This week, Jack and Tanner go back to the first good year, the last good year, and possibly the only good year in living history: 1998. Each week on 1998: The Podcast, the boys will select some fondly remembered pieces of media from that fine year to discuss. This week, the selections are: The REM album "Up" Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition The Buffy the Vampire Slayer season two finale "Becoming" parts one and two I'll go ahead and warn you in advance that your opinion on Tanner may be forever tarnished due to his views on the two Buffy episodes he watched and the character assassination he does against Willow. We hope you can manage to enjoy this pilot episode despite Tanner's obvious lack of taste of culture. Music Credits: "Daysleeper" by REM "Walk Unafraid" by REM "Airportman" by REM "Walk Unafraid" by First Aid Kit "Lucky" by Radiohead (feat. Michael Stipe), from the Tibetan Freedom Concert The theme to Pokémon Red/Blue The theme to

Ann’s back with a whole lot more snow and a rare and surprising tribute to the heroic men who are so often unsung in these novels – He-Man’s friend Man-E-Faces, Jason X (or “Space Jason”), the Mouse King, Quint, and of course Logan Bruno, the dreamiest boy on two skis. Meanwhile, Stacey gets trapped in a car, Kristy has to hide her pajamas from Bart, and the horrifying Hounds of Tindalos are back again to drain your fluids with their hollow proboscises. And a brand new rule in the Wandering Frog People game! This one’s jam-packed. Music credits: “All Our Clocks Are Dying,” by Ergo Phizmiz “Winter,” by SongMail “Epic Trailer,” by YourvisualDesigner “Tanzen” by KieLoBoy “Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound “Horror Trailer,” by Sound Tree “Rendezvous 72.5,” by Adrien Wilcox “Bubble G Funk Electro,” by TeknoAxe “Kill The Flesh,” by Dyman “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. --- Support th

For this bonus Holiday Special episode, the boys delve into a book that Ann has been trying to keep secret from us. A book so dangerous that it may hold the key to the door that forever opens our Snow Globe world to the powerful alien presence that skulks on its periphery, sniffing at the human souls it longs to possess, reaching with its tendriled hands towards all the little girls and boys building snowmen and roasting chestnuts over an open fire – oblivious to the terrors that lurk just a chimney's length away. The book is Ann M. Martin's standalone classic, "On Christmas Eve," and the ancient horror is Santa Himself. He's real, and he's coming to get you. Happy Holidays! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the girls of the BSC fuggedaboutit! as they leave Stoneybrook and schlep to the mean hard streets of the Big Apple! Watch out, cause these bridge and tunnel kids are definitely walkin’ here! on their way to get a bagel with a schmear! from the nearest bodega! Then when they’re done with that, maybe they’ll wait on line and get a plain slice of pizza or a famous New York taco on Houston street, which is pronounced like “house-ton” and not like “hugh-ston” Also, the city is infested with Lovecraftian horrors the likes of which will rip your consciousness apart just by laying eyes on them. OINY! Music Credits: “Waiting for the Punsh” by Lobo Loco “Tanzen” by KieLoBoy “diary” by Jahzzar “Winter Walk” by Podington Bear “Kill The Flesh” by Dyman --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BSC is undeniable this week. Fine, fresh, fierce, and they’ve got it on lock. Except of course when Stacey is committing Surf Crimes, Car Crimes, and a whole host of other felonious activities. Or when Mallory’s committing Fashion Crimes and Hair Crimes. Or when Kristy’s just being kind of generally overbearing. How come Katy Perry never talks about any of that when she’s naively singing the praises of these California Girls? That’s the real crime. Oh, also, an ancient evil is back, so prepare to be scared! Music credits: “California Gurls,” by Katy Perry “Tanzen” by KieLoBoy “The Dark Castle,” by Fesliyan Studios “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt “Romantic Background,” by Aleksandr Shamaluev “Old Bad John,” by The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club Chorus “California Girls,” by The Beach Boys “The One You Loved Is Gone” by Soularflair 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.c

The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #4: Baby-Sitters' Island Adventure chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Claudia Kishi and Dawn Schafer in Stoneybrook in the course of an ordinary day, 10 June 1991. "Claudia" is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Claudia/Dawn and Odysseus, Becca Ramsey and Penelope, and Jamie Newton and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Stoneybrook, and Connecticut's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. [1] Music Credits: “All Our Clocks Are Dying” by Ergo Phizmiz “Simple Yodel” by Steven Arntson “The One You Loved Is Gone” by Soularflair “My Sharona” (MIDI Version) originally performed by The Knack Notes: Ulys

The pilot episode of the Sweet Sweet Valley Boys brings you deep into the heart of Sweet Valley, a mysterious enclave in a dystopian future where America has fractured into warring city-states and sentient machines stalk what remains of the continent. To make matters worse, Elizabeth wants to invite Todd to the dance, but Jessica is getting in her way by spreading lies! Meanwhile, Steve is bringing shame to the whole Wakefield clan by dating someone from the wrong side of the tracks, and Rick Andover is busy being as dangerous as he is handsome. Which is a lot. Also, the school is alive. Listen in as the boys immerse themselves in the confusing and frightening world of Sweet Valley High. Music credits: “A Sitcom,” by HitsLab Thanks, Sweeties! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Leicester Lounge hungers, and the only thing that can sate its twisted appetite is the laughter of children echoing through its halls. The girls do their dark work this week by first delivering themselves and other children to the Lodge and then by conspiring with greater powers to trap everyone within the Lodge forever. Will they ever see the light of day again? Will Leicester Lodge prove to be a mausoleum of ice? Will Claudia date an adult man, even though he has a wife and children? Find out on this week’s Baby-Sitters Club SUPER Club. Music Credits: “Infernal Dance” composed by Igor Stravinsky “Tanzen” by KieLoBoy “Catching Feelings” by Audiobringer “Ma’am” by Jahzzar Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music and 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

Welcome to Lake Whatever, where every man, woman, and baby-sitter who swims in its waters must come face-to-face with their greatest fear. A faceless monster, a trio of escaped murderers, a first true love, an unwanted makeover, and an especially amorous Logan Bruno are just a few of the trials that the girls must face this week, while the boys grapple with the difficult case law around what is and isn’t cool and develop a powerful – and incredibly dangerous – new catchphrase. Music credits: “Epic Inspiration,” by Sunlight Audio “Empty Promise,” by UEMonthly “Unforgettable," by Michael Ausserbauer “Sadness,” by AudioRose 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