The Baby-sitters Club Club

Have the boys got a special treat for you, Baby Nation! Did you know that Jack and Tanner are actually officials with the Parisian government? It’s true! And they have an opportunity of a lifetime for you. For just 500,000 Francs, you can buy the rights to all the scrap metal on the Eiffel Tower to do with what you please. DO NOT PASS UP THIS CHANCE, BABY NATION!    Music Credits:  “Meditation” by Joshua Messick  "Tomorrow Comes" by Dana Boulé  "You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele” by SquidLord  "Invincible” by Deaf Kev  “Starling" by Podington Bear    Thanks, as always, 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

Another very special bonus mini-episode hosted by the great Tanner Daniel Greenring! Jack is also present. This week, the boys are discussing "Karen's Worst Day," a terrifying thought experiment by Ann M. Martin about a world in which literally everything goes horrifyingly, irrevocably wrong.   Music credits:  “Intense Suspense,” by Audionatix --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've come to the end of the road for our friend Anastasia McGill. Ann M. Martin's mercy is infinite, but her patience is not, and if one of these baby-sitters was going to get the  ol' "Ned Stark" treatment, it was basically always going to be Stacey. Jack and Tanner spend most of the episode grappling with their guilt about the fact that they don't really miss her all that much, and Jack desperately and somewhat pathetically tries to gin up a conversation about German philosophy.   Music credits:     “Drama Track 10,” by Mohammed Monir  “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt  “Hype,” by Spire Wolf    Thanks, as always, 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

A shadow lurks in the wings while Jessi Ramsey dances for her life on stage... Jack and Tanner receive a mysterious smuggled message from an unexpected source... And the baby-sitters have a pet show! Really just a stunning amount of content in this book. Enough to make you wonder whether some nefarious entity behind the scenes might just be pushing Ann M. Martin a little bit too hard.   Music credits:   “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta,” by Bela Bartok  “AnonymOus,” by Snowbird     Thanks, as always, 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

Ho Ho Ho! And welcome to a very special holidays episode of the Baby-Sitters Club Club. Ole’ Saint Ann squeezed down the chimney to give Baby Nation the gift of the Baby-Sitters Club Secret Santa book, which Jack and Tanner read and discuss this week, just in time for Christmas. Then the boys find some holiday joy in their hearts and give some Secret Santa gifts to one another as well! In fact, Jack WANDERS right into Tanner’s trap when he gets his very special gift on this bonus episode.  Thanks, as always, to original baby boy Scott Lamb for the intro music! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love is dead, and Mary-Anne and Logan are the two who killed it. That’s right baby nation, your second-favorite duo is no more (your first-favorite being Jack and Tanner, of course)and a new life is coming to Stoneybrook, which means an old life must be extinguished. Nice knowing you, Stacey! Also, Saint Martin blesses us with a new rule mechanic for Wandering Frog People that should make the game a little more exciting in the coming weeks.   Music credits:  “Tucson” by Silent Partner  “Canary” by Jim Yosef  “ILY” by Axol  Thanks, as always, 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

Claudia Kishi may or may not have cheated on a test, but that's not the only crime against humanity we're experiencing this week! Tanner learned a "fun" new kind of Pig-Latin from the Pike children, and Jack literally can. not. shut. up. about what "Theory of Justice" Ann M. Martin subscribes to, so both of these boys are up before the court right alongside cheatin' Claudia, asking that you find it in your deep and expansive hearts to forgive them.   Music credits:  “Thunderbolts of Lightning,” by teknoaxe  “Battle Cry,” by NGB  “Overture,” by Lionheart    Thanks, as always, 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

Jack and Tanner are together again recording in the same space this week. In fact, they’re recording in Jack’s “study” which is a cozier space that usual, so things get a little… intimate. This week, the boys discuss the works of Dickens, the simmering war between the newest factions, and get ready for the BSCC’s most dynamic theory to date: BREAD THEORY.   Music credits:   "Bagpipes of Nostaglia” by TYLTK "Mazurka in D major” by Frédéric Chopin - Performed by Edward Neeman “Melancholia” by Ryan Creep "You're Not My Dad! [Trap Remix]” by Dennibro     Thanks, as always, 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

Deep inside Stoneybrook Middle School is a waypoint, a marker in time from which a thousand timelines diverge, like ripples in a stream. It's where the dance is: The still point of the turning world. The dance in this case is the Halloween Hop, and the ripple in time that we're focused on this week is a ripple in which someone sent Kristy fingernail clippings in the mail, which I guess is what amounts to romance these days. Anyway, Kristy has a mystery admirer, and it's creepier than that sounds.   Music credits:  “Electro Breaks Loop,” by Technoaxe, CC  “Miles Away,” by Oxzide, CC  “Road Less Traveled,” by Jonny Easton, CC    Thanks, as always, 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

Tanner checks in with Jack all the way from Paris to talk about Dawn's latest escapade with a gross older man named Travis. It's a Dawn book, so there are some inevitable religious undertones to deal with, but the main issue is the creepiness of Dawn and Travis's relationship, a topic that is treated with all the gravity that Tanner's atrocious French accent can muster.   Music credits:  “Happy Chances,” by Nicolai Heidlas   “Let the Beat Drop,” by Anton Markus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are all of us simply “the sat,” whose collective will is bent and shaped by the whims of some grand, cosmic Sitter, or do we shape our own destinies? Do we exist in some liminal state between the two, all of us both Sitter and Sat? Perhaps each of us is just living out a different manifestation of one of Jackie Rodowsky’s multitudinous lives? Find out the answers to all these questions on this week’s Baby-Sitter’s Club Club.  Music Credits:  "Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 - XII. Child Falling Asleep” by Robert Schumann - Performed by Donald Betts  "Very Low Note” by Kevin MacLeod  "Damn Daniel! [Trap Remix]” by Dennibro  And as always, thanks to Scott Lamb and Superbrat for our theme tunes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween, Baby Nation! Have we got a thematically appropriate episode for you this week! With the help of the Baby-Sitter's Club, Stacey discovers that Stoneybrook is build on an ancient burial ground, which is somehow the LEAST strange thing to happen in this book. Oh! Also, you all have a tough decision to make this week, Baby Nation: BURN or BEES.  Music Credits: "Slenderman Is Watching” by Espanto Music  “My Sharona” MIDI  "The Dusty Attic” by Kevin Macleod  "Horror Ambience Music 3” by ThrillShowX  “Spooky Scary Skeletons” by Dennibro  And as always, thanks to Scott Lamb and Superbrat for our theme tunes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What should have been a nice, relaxing vacation to Sea City, New Jersey, turns into a catastrophe due to an unwieldy number of boys gumming up the works. Stacey gets straight-up dumped by local "nice guy" Toby (no known last name), Jackie Rodowsky faces his most desperate mission yet, and Mary Anne cries her way through another low-level crisis. Known boys, Tanner Greenring and Jack Shepherd, try their very best to unpack it all for you in BSCC #35, Mary Anne and Too Many Boys.   Music credits:  “Alone,” by G-nit Beatz  “Galactic Empire,” by Michael J. Burkard Music  “The Hostility Conundrum,” by Luke West  “Our Final Battle,” by Aaron Hayes  “Epic Battle,” by Gam3rDroid  “Last Dawn,” by Ross Budgen  “Cloudburst,” by Sentient Pulse    Thanks to Original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the Intro, and to SuperBrat for the Outro. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“There are other worlds than these. That we are drawn there again and again has to do with the rose. I have no doubt of that, nor do I doubt that in some way I do not understand the rose is the Dark Tower.” - The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla This week Jack and Tanner talk about their favorite memes, a startling new artificial intelligence in Stoneybrook, the glaring, blood-colored field of roses still far from here, and the frightening rate at which the Mimi virus self-replicates and finds new human hosts to infect.   Music Credits:  “#Ambient” by fave.  "Voyage" by Emberz  Download: http://www.emberzmusic.com  Follow Emberz: http://www.youtube.com/emberzmusic http://www.soundcloud.com/emberzmusic  Emberz provides his music to all creators for free to use in their monetized videos --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stoneybrook is resplendent with colorful new characters, including Susan, who secretly struggles to find meaning in a world that makes no sense. This week, Jack and Tanner return to some old favorites when they discuss the bees we find in every corner of our lives, what Australians eat for brekky, and the horrifying, ongoing significance of June 10th.    Make sure to catch Jack and Tanner's guest appearances on the Real Weird Sisters podcast as well, where they sort the citizens of Stoneybrook into Hogwarts houses.    Find that here: http://www.realweirdsisters.com/sortinghatbsc/    Music Credits:    "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy, performed by Laurens Goedhart    "Dubstep Cello | Prelude from Suite No. 1 for Cello" by J.S. Bach, remixed by Emberz    Royalty Free Music by Emberz Download: http://www.emberzmusic.com   Follow Emberz: http://www.youtube.com/emberzmusic http://www.soundcloud.com/emberzmusic    "By the Swanee River” by Arthur Pryor's Band    "Spiegel Im Spiegel” by Arvo Pärt --- Sup

And it came to pass that Dawn and Mary Anne didn't enjoy sharing a bedroom as much as they thought they would. And Dawn in her righteousness did take the socks of Mr. Spier and pair them in such a way that they might be odd. And Jack and Tanner did look upon what Dawn had wrought, and they did pronounce it the sickest of burns. Also, things get kind of spooky, so maybe listen to this one with the lights on. Why the hell were you listening in the dark anyway?  Music credits:  "Devastation and Revenge,”  by Kevin MacLeod, CC  “The Dusty Attic,” by ErikMMusic, CC  “Corporate Music for Inspiring Product Presentation,” by Baumann Music, CC  “Dubstep Dance,” by Kierpm96, CC    Intro theme, by original Baby Boy Scott Lamb.  Outro theme, by Superbrat. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To quote the Spice Girls, "Come a little bit closer baby, get it on, get it on. 'Cause tonight is the night when two become one." That's right, he went to her. And Jack and Tanner went to one another this week to discuss "Mary Anne and the Great Romance." Tons going on in Stoneybrook this week including twins continuing to be terrible, something used, something borrowed, something blue, and the wedding we've been waiting 25 books for.  Music credits:  “One Love” by Danny E.B Tracks "Sax On The Beach” by Bradley Raoul "I Love You" by OMFG (Provided by Hero Radio)  OMFG: https://www.facebook.com/alexomfg https://soundcloud.com/alexomfg https://twitter.com/alexsavageomfg  A very special thanks to Superbrat for their version of our theme song! You can listen to their album "Dawn on the Coast" on bandcamp. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to two ghostly voices, trapped in amber, echoing out from the murky abyss that is the Baby-Sitters Club Club podcast. This week Mallory finds a diary, talks to a ghost, and teaches a young boy to read. Also this week, Jack and Tanner become U.S. citizens, burn their faces off, and confront Princeton’s own Ann M. Martin about her whereabouts on the evening of June 10, 1958.  Music credits:  “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” by U.S. Army Band  “Amazing Grace Jig” by Dave DelaGardelle  "When Memories Break” by Smokey Viewer  “Intense Horror Whispering Music” by Mattia Cupelli  “Break Away” by Foria --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guess who's back (Stacey's back). And there's not a whole lot we can do about it. Did Mimi have to die to make this happen? Does this mean that our beloved Mr. Spier is going to fall under the siren spell of Stacey's mom? Is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Stoneybrook? Or is the best course of action to take arms against Mr. McGill, and by opposing, end him? Also, what the heck happened to those French Witch hunters?  This episode is dedicated to the memory of our bravest little explorer, Jackie Rodowsky, (17 March 1880 – 17 March 1912).  Music credits:    "Salsa n’ Samba," by R. Yaniero, CC  "Ominous," by Kevin MacLeod, CC  "Touch," by Mattia Cupelli, CC  "There is Romance," by Kevin MacLeod, CC  "Overture," by Lionheart, CC  "You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele," by SquidLord, CC  "I’m Coming Back," by Ross Bugden, CC  "Let the Beat Drop," by Anton Markus, CC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more

Think of Stoneybrook (if you don't already) as a lovely, welcoming bird's nest. Now imagine that a wicked cuckoo has passed its boundaries and laid a great big vile, impostor cuckoo's egg right inside that sacred nest. That's literally (LITERALLY) what happens this week when an entity called JOHN (aka The Superbrat) hatches inside our beautiful home and sets about destroying dear Jessi's life. Of course, if we'd only paid attention we would have known, because, as is ever the case in the Baby-Sitters Cycle, it was foretold.   Music credits:    "The Inner Demon," by Lionel Schmitt & ProjectSam, CC  MidiWorld.com  "Rituals," by Warrio, CC  "Crystal," by Zerryx & Midgranger, CC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices