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 cred...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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. ...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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 yo...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 5 min
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." Mus...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 11 min
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 origin...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 14 min
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 a...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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 La...
Dec 25, 2020•51 min
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 👏 clean 👏 baby 👏 sitting 👏 fun. Music credits: "Magical Fairytales & Stories," by _Blacksmith_ "Story," by Olexa...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 13 min
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
Dec 18, 2020•50 min
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 p...
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 15 min
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 alw...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 5 min
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...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 16 min
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 t...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 7 min
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/adchoice...
Nov 16, 2020•58 min
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, rec...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 12 min
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 Ci...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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 Insp...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 7 min
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 “Haun...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 14 min
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...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 3 min
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 alw...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 10 min
After heroically grappling with the inscrutable temporal paradox created by having to go and watch the Netflix show in between Friends Forever discussions, our geniuses turn their great brains to the question of whether Cary Retlin is the coolest guy in Stoneybrook, why Cokie Mason has such a big house, and what, precisely, Mary Anne is evolving into. Then Tanner brings on a very special guest to attest to the fact that he is, and always has been, a nice boy. Music credits: “Revenge Dramatic Emo...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 11 min
🚨 CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY 🚨 That's right. The guy is Alan Gray. The guy that Claudia "gets" IS ALAN GRAY. Uh, this one is ... a lot. Music credits: “Beyond the Veil,” by Dreamstate Logic “Rising,” by Music Dog “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat “Romance Piano,” by Twisterium “Empty Promise,” by UEMonthly “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord “Sad Ending,” by Tunes to Go “Dark Magic,” by Allen Grey Thanks as always t...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 17 min
After the fever dream that was the Netflix video novels, the boys are thrown headfirst back into the twilight world of "Friends Forever," where the Fame Wolf still prowls, danger lurks around every corner, and any moment could be the one where the Boyfriend Trap is sprung. This week, Stacey McGill stands trial for her crimes against humanity and Claudia specifically, and Ann M. Martin lays down a few more clues about how to sweep your crush right off their feet. Music credits: “Western Hero,” by...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The baby-sitters face their hardest test yet, as they stand on the edge of a dark and forbidding forest; a wilderness wherein they must wander until they learn the the truth about themselves, find meaning in the vastness of experience that stretches out before them, or do a great big smooch with Logan, depending on which baby-sitter they are. No guest from the show this week, but Jack auditions a new co-host and it goes really well. Music credits: “Theatre Music,” by Lucky Black Cat “The Prophec...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 8 min
The boys send their best and bravest into the heart of suburban Connecticut in search of the secret portal to Stoneybrook, but all they end up with is a nasty case of browntail moths. Coincidentally, that’s what the baby-sitters are getting into this week as well, over at Camp Moosehead, where the moths are poisonous, injustice reigns, and if you’re not careful, you might just lose your face. Kristy (Sophie Grace) and Karen (Sophia Reid-Gantzert) join for a diabolical game! Music credits: “Stard...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Things aren’t looking so hot for Batgirl’s big day! Kristy looks like a banana, the officiant is a witch, and Mr. Spier’s shirt smells like meat. After a robust discussion of these important topics, the boys are joined by Watson himself (Mark Feuerstein) for a bracing round of Dad Talk. Music credits: “Chains,” by 3 (Emerson, Berry & Palmer) “Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Music “Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt “Sadness,” by Allen Grey Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for th...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 43 min
Something’s going on with the dads of Stoneybrook this week. Watson’s hiding something behind a mysterious blue door, Mr. Spier is undergoing some kind of unnatural evolution, and John Pike is sending us cryptic messages through his license plate. Then, the boys are joined by Shay Rudolph (Stacey) and Momona Tamada (Claudia), who agree to take an extremely tricky and diabolical quiz about their BSC knowledge. Music credits: “Slash,” by Arc North Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb f...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 24 min
The boys bring their sharp critical lens to another fascinating video-novel this week as they grapple with a number of complex choices its creators have made around Stacey’s dating life, Mary Anne’s room renovation, and Humpty Dumpty, the shattered eggman. Then the show's Executive Producers, Naia Cucukov and Lucy Kitada, join to hear some provocative and disruptive pitches for BSC-adjacent properties that they need to greenlight ASAP. Music credits: “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat “Sadness,” by Aud...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 34 min
This fascinating video-novel poses three impossible problems: Kristy’s baffling reluctance to accept Dawn into the club; the paradoxical influence of Milton’s Paradise Lost on these texts; and Mrs. Barrett’s impossible legs. Then, the boys bring in Dawn and Mary Anne themselves (Xochitl Gomez and Malia Baker) to subject them to an impossible trial of their own. Music credits: “Sadness,” by Allen Grey “Sadness,” by AudioRose “Chopstick Slapstick,” by OurMusicBox “Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Musi...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 27 min
This one has nowhere near enough boys’ basketball in it, but that kind of sums up Mr. Prezzioso’s life anyway, so it all checks out. Plenty to discuss this week anyway as the boys encounter a new and improved Dawn, speculate about what’s in Mimi’s special tea, and perform in the auditions of their lifetime with their special guest: “Baby-Sitters Club” Director and Executive Producer, Lucia Aniello. Music credits: “Overture,” by Lionheart “Laisse pas Traîner Ton Fils,” by Suprême NTM “Don’t Leave...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 27 min
