The Baby-sitters Club Club

Much like the local mall where a giant meat monster does a big battle in the hit TV show "Stranger Things," this episode could be best described as a disaster scene. Someone forgot to take notes, someone else was in a salty mood because of work, and someone who we thought was going to help us never showed up! Anyway, Steve Harrington from Stranger Things is a famous babysitter and famous babysitters is what we talk about, so we tried to talk about him for an hour. Good luck listening! Music credits: "Stranger 80s," by Orchestralis “Where We Belong,” by Equalize “Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Music “School Music Video,” by DjHappY Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's take a trip back to the early days of babysitting: It was 1987, and an unsuspecting world was just beginning to appreciate the giddy highs and the awful lows of sitting babies thanks to the pioneering work of Ann M. Martin. But what if ... babysitting on the big screen?! Enter ... "Adventures in Babysitting," the ultimate babysitting adventure of our time. And what better guides to this historic babysitting breakthrough than the world's most impressive babysitting experts: These guys. Us. In this one we talk about the film "Adventures in Babysitting." Music credits: "80s Montage," by Alexander Rufire Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the great babysitting novels of all time, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a story about an ongoing act of ambulatory babysitting right at the very end of the world. And it's just as fun as it sounds! Now, in glorious stereo sound, you can hear two complete buffoons talk about it. What BSC novel is this based on? What tweaks could we make to make this a little bit more fun and funky? Is this, to use a technical term, "Good Clean Baby-Sitting Fun"? Answers to all these questions and more you never had inside. Music credits: "Majestic Journey," by Allen Grey “Typewriter Blues,” by AllenGrey “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aquatic babysitting is one of the hardest types of babysitting there is, as Dawn and Claudia famously learned in Babysitters Island Adventure; as Kristy notoriously discovered in Babysitters on Board; and as Kevin Costner comes to realize in the hit 1995 film about boat babysitters called Waterworld. This one's got lots of useful tips for babysitting at sea, a helpful guide to what you can do with your Camel Cash, and a totally unnecessary discussion of Dominoes' iconic character "The Noid." Music credits: "Tragedy at Sea," by Bransboynd “Showtime,” by Stockwaves “Overture,” by Lionheart “Summer Memories,” by Trixtor and Pantsmode Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys from the baby-sitters club club are back for yet another scintillating discussion of baby-sitting style and technique, this time in the smash-hit baby-sitting-themed video novel, The Mandalorian. Listen and enjoy as the boys talk about tiny green yoda and the big babysitter who never takes off his hat. Music credits: “Showtime,” by Stockwaves "Hollywood Epic Sci-Fi Hybrid Trailer," by Audio Zen “Chopstick Slapstick,” by OurMusicBox "A Dubstep," by Maikon Music Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join the Hot Legs Gamer Clan as they bravely venture into this year's most anticipated title: The Baby-sitters Club 4th Grade Learning Adventures CD-ROM from 1998! From what we can tell about the plot here, it looks like Stacey, Kristy, and Jessi have hidden Mary Anne, Mallory, and Claudia's heads in different boxes that are scattered throughout the school. In the process of finding them, we'll all learn some 4th Grade math. Enjoy! Music credits: “Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mean old Tabenanner Scroogering and his sniveling pushover assistant Bob Jackchit try to discuss Karen Brewer's disastrous performance in "A Christmas Carol" ... but it doesn't go as planned. This episode originally appeared on our Patreon. To get an episode like this every week for just $5 a month, subscribe to the show here! We love and also kiss you (under the mistletoe)! Music credits: "Dark Skies," by Marco Belloni "Sad to Happy," by Silverhoof Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the theme song and to Big Boy Cyril for his dragon readings. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an act of dangerous desperation, Ann has attempted to go back in time and fix what she set into motion before it ever started. An astonishing, rapturous novel about beginnings and endings – sometimes all at once – that can only be described as "scintillating." It is no surprise that this one has everything – dolls, bees, orbs, time travel, vampires (?!), and of course: good

They got Boo-Boo. Ann got Boo-Boo. This is the one where Ann gets Boo-Boo. This is a bonus episode from our Patreon. To get an episode like this every week for just $5 a month, subscribe to the show here! We love and also kiss you! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one's a mess. Josh and Jack from the hit Pokemon/Baby-Sitters Club crossover podcast "The Babysitters Experience" make a good-faith attempt to discuss "Pokemon The Movie 2000" and "Logan Likes Mary Anne" the graphic novel, but their nice podcast is sabotaged and also vandalized and, frankly, ruined. Music credits: “Overture,” by Lionheart “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat 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

In 1993, Ann and two distinctly separate beings who would later fuse into one uncanny entity joined forces to create what they thought would be the one book to end them all: The ultimate guide to baby-sitting, featuring everything anyone could possibly want to know about head wounds, house fires, and bad burps. This week, our intrepid heroes ventured into that book and, somehow, lived to tell the tale. Music credits: “Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Music "Elevator Music," by Korolkov Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Cyril 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

In a major snub of the Tannerheads, Jack and Josh (?!) come together to discuss two major classics of our time: Baby-Sitters Club #87, "Stacey and the Bad Girls," and Pokemon 3: The Movie. What do these things have in common? Not much, but the boys are doing their best here in a crisis! Special thanks to Josh Fjelstad from the Exp. Share Pokemon podcast for reading a whole Stacey book on short notice. Music credits: “Dark Lullaby,” by J Blanks “Vibe,” by Marble Space 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 indoctrinated into a mysterious chain of secrets, lies, and treachery after accidentally reading a cryptic letter from someone (or something) named "Robin." The more they investigate this "Book of Secrets" (which contains confessions of lurid crimes by Jessi, Mallory, Stacey, Kristy, Claudia, Dawn, and Mary Anne), the more they are rebuffed, first by agents of Scholastic, then by someone who is far, far closer to them. As the net of the Baby-Sitters Club Chain Letter closes around them, they understand—too late—the meaning of the four words that started it all: Secrets. Will. Always. Kill. 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

Having apparently run out of Baby-Sitters Club books, the boys lie out in the field and wait for the birds to take them. Music credits: “Illuminate,” by Bluebird “Invincible,” by Dimotai Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Baby-Sitters Club Club CLUB is a podcast wherein two grown men talk about The Baby-Sitters Club Club, a podcast wherein two grown men talk about The Baby-Sitters Club, a series by Ann M. Martin. In this episode, the boys dive into the first Baby-Sitters Club Club episode, "Kristy's Great Idea," which is pretty good except they keep referring to Stoneybrook as being in Long Island and they don't make a single mention of bees or dolls or even bread. This one's fun if you like navel-gazing, recursion, or nostalgia for the fairly recent past! Music credits: “Orchestral Russian Kalinka,” by Orchestralis “Epic Battle,” by Mr B Music Studio “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Cyril for the outro music Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot of chest-beating and handwringing this week as Kristy grapples with the end of the BSC, Mary Anne makes up with Logan, and one of the boys realizes that he never graduated from the 8th grade. A real surfeit of emotions to process as we experience this, the absolute final word on the BSC before Ann shakes her ghastly snow globe and makes the eternal dance begin anew. Music credits: “Sweating Bullets,” by Megadeth “The Sadness Piano,” by Korolkov “Nostalgic Piano,” by Alex Bird “Emotional Cinematic,” by Alex Bird “Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Music “Dreamy Nature Relaxation Music,” by Stereo Nuts “Bittersweet Time,” by Phil Larson Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, to Baby Bee Carys for the Soileau You Into the Dark theme, and to Baby Bee Wolfkiller for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph

A lot of people have been asking exactly how many shades of Alan Gray there are and while most casual observers think it’s fifty, true experts will tell you that it’s three: Prank Alan, Suave Alan, and Trying-Too-Hard Alan. Anyway, Claudia dates all three of them this week and none of the dates are a disaster and the title of this book is a lie. Music credits: “Passion,” by Pink Zebra “Passion,” by Stellar Tracks “Chopstick Slapstick,” by OurMusicBox “Creepy,” by Wild Kitty Tunes “Classical Inspiration,” by Mat Steiner Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The great Sunny Winslow’s paying a visit to the BSC this week and bringing her special brand of California Diaries chaos and angst to the sleepy town of Stoneybrook. The girls commit a bunch of shocking travel crimes, Jackie Rodowsky blips into an alternate reality, and the boys speculate about what kind of music Mr. Spier listened to as a cool, ‘70s Connecticut teen. Music credits: “Teenage Freakout,” by Mules “This Is Nostalgia,” by Raspberry Music “Classic Arcade Video Game,” by Adigold “Haunted,” by LucaFrancini “Christmas Piano Lullaby,” by Praded “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord “Inspirational Cinematic Trailer,” by Anuch “Powerful Cinematic Soundtrack,” by Blue Sky Audio “Vibe,” by Marble Space Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/suppo

What is Stacey’s problem? A question these boys have been asking since book one but one that Ann, Suzanne, and the Scholastic LIARS refuse to address even in this book, of all books! Fortunately, it’s a very good one and Stacey is on her best behavior and actually quite sweet and it’s mostly about Maureen and how she doesn’t need a man. We really loved this one. Music credits: “For Sadness,” by Olexandr Ignatov Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Baby Bee Wolfkiller for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A pulse-pounding adventure full of elite haxors, Knights Templar, and secret service shootouts, Kristy and the Kidnapper is Ellen Miles’ most ambitious and exciting work yet, and the boys couldn’t be more eager to explore its hidden depths. Except that Jack’s in a bad mood, and Tanner’s not helping. Also, a plea to listeners: Get a cat. Just get a cat! Music credits: “Suspenseful Dark Cinematic Mystery,” by Sun Channel Music “Parting Ways,” by Allen Grey “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music. Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices