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SB 100 - "Sleepless in Seattle" from 2023-11-27T10:00
Please join us for the Hanksgiving armistice, where we take a break from hunting hunks and give thanks for Hanks. And also for Meg Ryan. Then, as is Hanksgiving tradition, we'll be generating our S...
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SB 099 - "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement" from 2023-11-20T10:00
This week, the Hunk Hunters step back and give space to an incredible independent creator. This deep dive into the troubled nation state of Genovia, and the powerful artistic movement inspired by t...
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SB 098 - "Event Horizon" from 2023-11-13T10:00
A hunk-hunting operation at the edges of deep space goes terribly wrong when hunk from The Hunt for Red October Sam Neill falls in love with a spaceship in this hilarious, heartwarming, "eyes-optio...
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SB 097 - “Working Girl” from 2023-10-30T18:38:25
We really stepped in it this week, folks. We went into this scenario half-cocked, landed right in the soft part of a hunk nest, and the cap popped CLEAN OFF. You should have seen it. Never been so ...
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SB 096 - "Armageddon" from 2023-10-23T09:00
We may have lost the entire city of Paris this week, but we sure as heck found our hunk—it's Ben Affleck('s Jack Ryan) and he's busy trying to put animal crackers down people's underpants. That's r...
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SB 095 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves from 2023-10-16T09:00
Did you know that a human being can speed run the entire 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves NES game in under 30 minutes? Yeah, we thought it would be a lot shorter too. Don’t worry — Tanner and M...
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SB 094 - "It's Complicated" from 2023-10-09T09:00
The October Hunt for the hunks of the film the Hunt for Red October continues this week as we go for the meatiest part of the hunk: the tender Alec Baldwin(’s Jack Ryan). The movie, and by extensio...
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SB 093 - "Wimbledon" from 2023-10-02T09:00
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you woke up tomorrow and the 2004 film "Wimbledon," starring Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst, never existed? Are you prepared to experience, in painstakin...
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SB 092 - "Love Potion No. 9" from 2023-09-25T09:00
Like all beautiful things, the Summer of Sandra must finally die, but what a ride it's been! And what a way to send it off — with a wide-reaching and exhaustive discussion of the live action Ninja ...
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SB 091 - "Bird Box" from 2023-09-18T09:00
This week, the boys attempt to answer a particularly thorny set of questions, like, "Why didn't they call it 'Horse Box'"? And, "Why are the creatures so beautiful?" And, "Why won't you all just ta...
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SB 090 - "Demolition Man" from 2023-09-11T14:36:09
Emergency transmission from the near future! Please respond by Lakehousing me a letter if you get this. It's me, Lakelyn – or McKayla, depending on when you knew me. Look, names got complicated aft...
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PATREON BONUS: "Perfect Date" from 2023-09-04T09:00
Happy Labor Day! We'll be back next week with more Strange Bedfellows, but in the meantime, we're unlocking a Patreon episode for you to enjoy. To support our show, and get a new Patreon episode ea...
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SB 089 - "Hope Floats" from 2023-08-21T09:00
Don't worry – the producers sat down with Tanner before the recording of this episode and had a constructive talk with him about how much people love the movie and how important it is to be sensiti...
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SB 088 - "Gravity" from 2023-08-14T09:00
“Hilda Doolittle” – Jack Shepherd, Strange Bedfellows The Summer of Sandra has gone extraterrestrial with 2013’s “Gravity,” or as we like to call it, “Speed 3: Speed 2 in Space” (”Speed 2” being...
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SB 087 - "Practical Magic" from 2023-08-07T09:00
Coven-up, team! Witches are real, and it's time for us to find our very own Amas Veritas! Just pray that your one true love is not Mark Feuerstein, because that dude is going to get merc'd so hard,...
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SB 086 - "Speed 2: Cruise Control" from 2023-07-31T09:00
Eighteenth-century British novelist Daniel Defoe stars in this scintillating sequel to the hit movie "Speed," in which they cut all the good parts out of "Speed" and added some leeches. This week, ...
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SB 085 - "Miss Congeniality" from 2023-07-24T09:00
Grab a pen, a bikini, and an FBI badge, because we're all going undercover this week to catch a killer at the big beauty pageant! If we can figure out how to fill out these applications, that is. A...
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SB 084 - "The Net" from 2023-07-17T09:00
Get out your modems, your IBM 701 laptop with the butterfly keyboard, and ... unfortunately, your hankies, because we're going to be doing an equal amount of l33t haxoring and ugly crying today. Th...
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SB 083 - "The Proposal" from 2023-07-10T09:00
The epic #SummerOfSandra continues with a heartwarming, hilarious love story for the ages — starring our heroine and the Green Lantern himself — that some people who will remain nameless are too pi...
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SB 082 - "Speed" from 2023-07-03T09:00
Pop Quiz, Hotshots: How many buses explode in the movie "Speed," starring Sandra Bullock, Keāno, and Dennis Hopper from "Speed"? We'll do our best to answer, but we're pretty busy trying to keep th...
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SB 081 - "While You Were Sleeping" from 2023-06-19T10:00:17
It's Boyzone/Dadzone this week, and it's also the exciting premiere of a brand-new content block called Summer of Sandra! Whether you're listening for the spectacular #SummerOfSandra snippets or th...
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SB 080 - "Music and Lyrics" (feat. Jared Sosa) from 2023-06-05T10:00:55
Hugh Grant's Vernal Dance comes to a scintillating conclusion thanks to the incredible musical talents of guest Jared Sosa and the once-in-a-generation lyrical genius of your boys, Jack and Tanner....
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SB 079 - "Two Weeks Notice" from 2023-05-29T10:00:23
We dodged a real bullet this week (well, not Tanner—he was killed by his Looper closing the loop) when we DIDN’T watch 1995’s “Nine Months” and instead watched 2002’s “Two Week Notice” during the c...
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SB 078 - "Notting Hill" from 2023-05-22T10:00:39
Hailed as the “Superman: Dawn of Justice” of its day, our film this week was the first to unite three separate cinematic universes in one story-telling masterpiece. Never before, and to the day of ...
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SB 077 - "Wedding Crashers" from 2023-05-15T10:00:14
It’s more role-playing than not this week as we discuss this classic "squeakuel" to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and try to perfect our Owen Wilson impressions, which somehow get worse by the end ...
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BEST OF: Remembering the Da Vinci Code from 2023-05-08T10:00:10
We're taking another week off this week, as some of us attempt to herd some cats onto an airplane, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years t...
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BEST OF: A Time to Kilbourne from 2023-05-01T10:00:41
We're taking another week off this week, as some of us persist in trying to move across the country, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years...
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SB 076 - "Four Weddings and a Funeral from 2023-04-24T10:00:30
"Stop all the clocks! It's time for Four Weddings and, well ... there's really no great way of saying this but ... unfortunately there is also a Funeral. It comes as rather a surprise right in the ...
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BEST OF: BSCCD-ROM – The Baby-Sitters Club Friendship Kit from 2023-04-17T10:00:15
We're taking another week off this week, as some of us persist in trying to move across the country, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years...
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SB 075 - "Starman" from 2023-04-10T10:00:38
This week, famous author Jaime Green joins to talk about her new book "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos" and answer an age-old question: Would ...
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SB 074 - "Three Thousand Years of Longing from 2023-04-03T10:00:12
This week, the boys summon a large and sexy genie from a lamp and try to get a smooch, just like in the movie "Three Thousand Years of Longing," from the same brilliant mind that brought you "Babe ...
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BEST OF: The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Board Game (feat. Dan Shannon) from 2023-03-27T10:00:57
We're taking another week off this week, while some of us try to move, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from the past few years this week, and we'll be back ...
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SB 073 - "Her" from 2023-03-13T10:00:58
This week, we made a wonderful AI girlfriend, just like in the famous movie "Her," with Joker and Susan Sarandon. She wants to take us all to a speakeasy.Music credits: "Futuristic," by Alex Shulg...
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SB 072 - "Return to Me" from 2023-03-06T11:00:52
David Duchovny thinks his wife has a great heart — so much so that he'll follow it anywhere it goes! And this week, Art Monk and Mr. Butt have got some great tips on how to put the brakes on when y...
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SB 071 - "Sense and Sensibility" from 2023-02-27T11:00:07
As we all Benjamin Button backwards through the great sweep of human achievement, from the futuristic AI-enhanced space operas that will dominate the next century to the expressive cave paintings t...
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SB 070 - "Pretty Woman" from 2023-02-20T11:00:58
Garry Marshall's 1990 film "Pretty Woman" is famously a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, if any of the sites I found trying to sell me a pre-written essay on the topic f...
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SB 069 - "Eyes Wide Shut" from 2023-02-13T11:00:08
This week the boys watched Eyes Wide Shut and were inspired to come up with their very own Sex Cult! Don't worry, this one isn't awkward or weird at all, and everyone's invited! (Please bring your ...
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Surprise! No new episode this week! from 2023-02-06T11:00:56
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SB 068 - "The Bodyguard" from 2023-01-30T11:00:39
Please please please remember to use #BodyguardChallenge when you tweet about this scintillating episode. We can't wait to see what you come up with! Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme...
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SB 067 - "27 Dresses" from 2023-01-23T11:00:57
The boys have been collecting all their beautiful outfits from the combined 54 weddings they've attended because their own very special day is finally here! Look out for a scintillatingly heartwarm...
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PATREON BONUS - OGIF 045: Full House, "Aftershocks" from 2023-01-16T11:00:59
It's a holiday, so we're off this week, but we're unlocking the latest episode from the Patreon and we'll be back next week with "27 Dresses"! It's Full House S03E11: Welcome to the Advent of Mrs....
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SB 066 - "Singles" (feat. Matthew Perpetua) from 2023-01-09T11:00:10
It's something a little bit different this week, as the boys bring on music writer Matthew Perpetua to talk about the iconic soundtrack of the 1992 Cameron Crowe film "Singles" and do a little ligh...
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SB 065 - "Bridget Jones's diary" from 2023-01-02T11:00:32
"Snow exposes complacently a complete ignorance," says F.R. Leavis in his 1962 lecture on C.P. Snow's "Two Cultures." "The judgement I have to come out with is that not only is he not a genius; he ...
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SB 064 - "About Time" from 2022-12-26T11:00:09
If you went back into the past before your cat was born, would you come back to an entirely different cat?! Is this movie sweet and funny and uplifting or ... devastatingly sad? The boys answer the...
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SB 063 - "The Holiday" from 2022-12-19T11:00:38
The boys plan their dream "vacation where we meet a sexy lover" as a special treat for the holidays. Also, Jude Law is very handsome indeed. Also ... Willoughby!!!! Special thanks to Baby Bee Cary...
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SB 062 - "Sliding Doors" from 2022-12-12T11:00:45
It's two Gwyneths for the price of one! Follow along as the boys artfully extract nuance and subtext from this scintillating film about twin Gwyneths ("Twyneths") who miss the train about 50 percen...
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SB 061 - "Good Luck Chuck" from 2022-12-05T11:00:17
Warning: Do not cram this film into your frathole. Additionally, for your own safety, we will not be describing anything that happens in this film. There is one funny part in this film (we believe)...
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SB 060 - "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" from 2022-11-21T11:00:29
Would you pass the cheese test? The carnage test? The sexy-book-to-read-over-the-phone test? Learn these truths about yourselves AND the truth about cats, dogs, and turtles by listening to this sci...
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SB 059, "A Rogue of One's Own," by Evie Dumore (feat. Marissa Flaxbart) from 2022-11-14T11:00:27
We’re joined by Marissa Flaxbart this week and she brought a scintillating piece of literature along with her to discuss: Star Wars “Rogue One!” Sorry, I'm just learning that it was Evie Dunmore’s ...
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SB 058 - "Can't Hardly Wait" from 2022-11-07T11:00:04
Don't waste our flavor because we're coming in hot and heavy with some sizzling hot takes about the scintillating masterpiece that paved the way for American Pie. For instance, did you know that a ...
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SB 057 - "For Butter or Worse," by Erin La Rosa (feat. Erin La Rosa) from 2022-10-31T10:00:29
Everyone likes cooking shows but what if they were even steamier ... BECAUSE OF LOVE-MAKING?!!! It's a question we've all asked ourselves, but only one person had the talent and the vision to make ...
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SB 056 - "Singin' in the Rain!" from 2022-10-24T10:00:07
The era of silent podcasting is over, so you can finally hear our beautiful singing voices — and what a perfect movie to debut them with. There's not as much rain as you might think in this film, b...
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SB 055 - "Mamma Mia!" from 2022-10-10T10:00:44
This movie has everything: Meryl, Remington Steele, Mr. Darcy, Dad from Thor, and — somewhat confusingly — a big, fat Greek wedding. But as perfect as it is, that doesn't mean the boys can't find a...
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SB 054 - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" from 2022-10-03T10:00:08
In the Year of Our Lord 2002, it was decreed throughout the land that every man, woman, and child of sound health and mind should — on a day of their choosing — go unto the theatre and bear witness...
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SB 053 - "Fever Pitches" from 2022-09-26T11:23:29
Two films about some guys, some pitches, and a love affair with a nice lady and 11 or more sports boys who are based between 2 and 60 miles south of Cambridge. Other than that, they're actually qui...
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SB 052 - "An Officer and a Gentleman," directed by Taylor Hackford from 2022-09-19T10:00:02
A movie about how fabulously nice it would be if somebody came and picked you up at work. Literally. This one was sadder than we expected, but Richard Gere looks great in those dress whites! Music...
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SB 051 - "Moonstruck," directed by Norman Jewison from 2022-09-12T10:00:16
It's almost impossible to imagine a more perfect concept for a film than a completely feral Nicolas Cage yelling a lot and then falling in love with Cher. The boys discuss this '80s classic and try...
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SB 050 - "Empire Records," directed by Allan Moyle from 2022-09-05T10:00:33
This week, we're here from the '90s to explain to the world why selling out is so very, very bad, why not caring about anything is the coolest way to be, and why absolutely everyone needs to celebr...
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SB 049 - "Shakespeare in Love," directed by John Madden from 2022-08-29T10:00:48
This week, a movie that asks a question that's been on everybody's mind since the Elizabethan times: What if Shakespeare fell in love with Goop, from Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop? The boys endeavor to an...
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SB 048 - "The Cutting Edge," directed by Paul Michael Glaser from 2022-08-22T10:00:36
He's a hockey man; she's a figure skating queen. Can they put together the greatest American figure skating pairs team in history without falling hopelessly in love with one another? No, obviously ...
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SB 047 - "My Girl," directed by Howard Zieff from 2022-08-15T10:00:41
If you can't see without your glasses, put them on now because you're going to want to be fully present for our discussion of this absolutely bee-yutifal movie about two sweet kids, at least 50 per...
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SB 046 - "Persuasion," directed by Carrie Cracknell from 2022-08-08T09:00:49
Jane Austen's classic novel about the clash of duty and longing in a society that denies women the latter and cruelly enforces the former gets the much needed makeover it deserves in this remake wh...
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SB 045 - "Only You," directed by Norman Jewison! from 2022-08-01T10:00:30
Inspired by this beautiful movie about love and destiny, the boys go in search of their own "Damon Bradley" — a soulmate who can be their other half and who hopefully has a good job and a villa in ...
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SB 044 - "The Lost City," directed by Aaron and Adam Nee from 2022-07-25T10:00:32
Miss Congeniality and Mr. Tatum star in this scintillating romance adventure about a catless academic and an emotionally available cover model who search for the Lost City of D — something the boys...
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SB 043 - "Once," directed by John Carney (feat. Jared Sosa) from 2022-07-18T10:00:02
Inspired by this scintillating musical romance, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the boys successfully make a smash hit single that will ensure that they never have to work again...
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SB 042 - "Fire Island," directed by Andrew Ahn from 2022-07-11T10:00:02
This week the boys brave the scorching heat of the legendary Fire Island as they try to discover what historical piece of media this scintillating tale of love and friendship is all about! Music c...
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SB 041 - "Kate&Leopold," directed by James Mangold from 2022-06-27T10:00:31
Jeff&Elmer are back to see whether their friends Kate&Leopold have committed any Time Crimes™ this week, but it's hard to pass judgement when Wolverine and Sabretooth are doing their dangerous danc...
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SB 040 - “Just Like Heaven,” directed by Mark Waters from 2022-06-20T10:00
In a film that many people are describing as a "Wall to Wall Spookfest," a young Mark Ruffalo falls in love with a spectral entity who is haunting his sad beer fridge. This week, the boys dig into ...
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SB 039 - "The Lake House," directed by Alejandro Agresti from 2022-06-13T10:00:42
After the success of "Speed," Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock gave into popular demand and reunited for a film about a temporal love mailbox, a paradoxical dog, and a handsome architect who's alway...
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SB 038 - "Fifty Shades of Grey," directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from 2022-06-06T10:00:26
This week, a film that is easy to talk about in an informative, grownup way because it is about various tints along the gradient from graphite to slate to charcoal. Please join us for a mature and ...
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SB 037 - "Dirty Dancing," directed by Emile Ardolino from 2022-05-30T10:00:01
This week, a film that is about so much more than dancing, but the dirty kind. To be clear, it's mostly about the dirty kind of dancing — that's really the main thrust of what the film's about — bu...
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SB 036 - "Your Name," directed by Makoto Shinkai from 2022-05-23T10:00:43
This week, a genuinely beautiful film that answers the age-old question: What would you do if you magically swapped bodies with another Japanese teen and fell hopelessly in love with them but could...
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SB 035 - "13 Going on 30," directed by Gary Winick from 2022-05-09T14:00:39
This week, a film that answers one of philosophy's most revealing questions: How would you like it if you wished on some magic dust sprinkled on a playhouse in your closet to be thirty, flirty, and...
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SB 034 - "She's All That," directed by Robert Iscove from 2022-05-02T10:00:41
It's one of the most beautiful romances of all time, and no one knows how or why it ended. But we're not here to litigate the circumstances surrounding the end of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lil...
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SB 033 - "Reality Bites," directed by Ben Stiller from 2022-04-25T10:00:50
You ever have a day where you chain-smoked and listened to Lisa Loeb and talked ironically about existentialism and fell in love with the wrong person? Probably not since 1994, but back then, that ...
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SB 032 - "Somewhere in Time," directed by Jeannot Szwarc from 2022-04-18T10:00
Sometimes you love someone from the past so much that you've got to hypnotize yourself into a time travel fugue state so you can kiss them right on the smackers! This absolutely bonkers movie fe...
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SB 031 - "Twilight," directed by Catherine Hardwicke from 2022-04-11T10:00
This week, it's a tale as old as time: A family of century-old Baseball vampires moves to a small town and one of them falls in love with a girl from his Biology class and shows her his shiny sk...
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SB 030 - "You've Got Mail," directed by Nora Ephron from 2022-04-04T10:00
You've got TWO males this week, and they're here to expertly guide you through this classic love story about cybersex, the decline of retail bookstores, and Tom Hanks sleeping on a boat!
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SB 029 - "The Bromance Book Club," by Lyssa Kay Adams from 2022-03-28T10:00
"The Bromance Book Club" is a fun, funny, and sexy novel about a group of men who help their friend save his marriage with the help of tropes from the saucy romances they read together. It has a...
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SB 028 - "City of Angels," directed by Brad Silberling from 2022-03-21T10:00
It's a movie about body surfing, bike safety, and very specifically what happens if you give up forever to touch someone. That's right, we accidentally watched City of Angels!
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SB 027 - "Beach Read," by Emily Henry from 2022-03-14T10:00
She loves stories with happy endings; he loves Jonathan Franzen and listening to "Everybody Hurts" on repeat. She loves delightful "meet-cutes"; he loves researching death cults. Fortunately the...
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OGIF 001: Full House, "Tanner's Island" from 2022-03-09T19:52:23
A new saga begins. Join us for a grueling slog through an endless Friday of fun, as we watch every single episode of ABC's TGIF lineup, beginning on September 22, 1989, with a trip back...
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SB 026 - "The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgerton Series #2)," by Julia Quinn from 2022-03-07T11:00
It's a Bridgerton book! She's afraid of storms, he's afraid of bees, they're both kind of afraid to love, but they've got absolutely piles of cash so they're probably going to find a way to make...
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SB 025 - "Ghost," directed by Jerry Zucker from 2022-02-28T11:00
Wanna feel romantic? Close your eyes and then pretend you're Demi Moore, closing her eyes and pretending that Whoopi Goldberg is her dead boyfriend and they're touching each other and l...
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SB 024 - "The Love Hypothesis," by Ali Hazelwood from 2022-02-21T18:00
Does Kylo Ren wear a scary mask and worship an evil master of darkness? Absolutely. Do we still think he'd be a really nice boyfriend for Rey if they could just work out their differences? This ...
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SB 023 - "Rescuing Roxy," by Rex Albion from 2022-02-14T11:00
WARNING: This one really is pretty explicit!!! Unfortunately (and inevitably), the boys got their wires crossed this week and accidentally read an EXTREMELY pornographic fantasy about a strappin...
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SB 022 - "Emma," directed by Autumn de Wilde (feat. Jaime Green) from 2022-02-07T11:00
This week, Tanner and his lover (Jaime) do a power ranking of all the couples in Jane Austen's hit 2020 movie, "Emma."
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SB 021 - "The Charm Offensive," by Alison Cochrun (feat. Jaime Green) from 2022-01-31T23:51:17
A creative visionary with a passion for fairy tales meets an awkward nerd who's far from anyone's idea of Prince Charming ... and marries him anyway! Nearly 7 years later, they record a podcast ...
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SB 020 - "American Sweethearts," by Adriana Herrera from 2022-01-24T14:00
Can these two fiery, passionate, headstrong, and wildly successful careerists in their middle age set aside their ambitions — just for a moment — to have a constructive discussion of this extrem...
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SB 019 - "10 Things I Hate About You," directed by Gil Junger from 2022-01-17T11:00
A charming rogue with a quick wit makes a bet that he can win over a famously sharp-tongued misanthrope who's afraid to love, and attempts to do so over the course of a frankly absurd d...
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Where are the Sweet Valley Ghostwriters??? from 2022-01-14T11:00
An investigation into the greatest mystery of our time. This is a special bonus episode from our Patreon. For more Sweet Valley Twins episodes, as well as our back catalogue of Little Sister epi...
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SB 018 - "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," by Jenny Han from 2022-01-10T11:00
There's five types of boys in the world, but only two of them are taking the time this week to spend an hour together discussing this extremely fun novel about why writing letters is a profoundl...
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SB 017 - "One Dance With a Duke," by Tessa Dare (feat. Vanessa Zoltan) from 2022-01-03T11:00
An unlikely trio of arrogant equestrians discover that true love will melt even their hardened hearts after they spend an hour together discussing this steamy novel about a Duke who doesn't like...
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SB 016 - "New Year's Eve," directed by Garry Marshall from 2021-12-27T11:00
A cool and confident bro helps a shy, misanthropic recluse tick off every single task on a lifelong bucket list, including spending an hour discussing this hot, stinking mess of a movie about ev...
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SB 015 - "The Nine Lives of Christmas," (a Hallmark Original Movie) from 2021-12-20T11:00
A lonely old cat fanatic and a commitment-phobic stud-muffin get together under the mistletoe to make merry and talk about this sweet Hallmark Christmas movie about two people whose cats fall in...
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SB 014 - "The Christmas House," (a Hallmark Original Movie) from 2021-12-13T11:00
A popular and successful heartthrob reconnects with a small-town local from his younger days and they have a joyful discussion of the almost impossibly heartwarming Hallmark Channel original mov...
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SB 013 - "Northanger Abbey," by Jane Austen from 2021-12-06T11:00
A credulous horror fan and a sarcastic sophisticate trade gentle barbs and sentimental observations as they engage in a penetrating analysis of this literary masterpiece by Jane Austen.
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SB 012 - "Spoiler Alert," by Olivia Dade from 2021-11-29T11:00
A geeky smartypants in a movie star's body and a cosplaying fan who longs to teach him how to be his true self have a lively, insightful discussion about this extremely fun romance novel by Oliv...
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SB 011 - "The King's Man," by Elizabeth Kingston (feat. Cat Sebastian) from 2021-11-22T11:00
With some gentle guidance from their liege, a mopey, emo landowner and the back-talking firebrand who's captured him have a rousing discussion about this gloriously gritty romance novel by Eliza...
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SB 010 - "Seduction on the Slopes," by Tamsen Parker from 2021-11-15T11:00
A cagey old veteran who's well past his prime still has plenty to teach an impulsive young buck over the course of this episode where they discuss this fast and furious romance novel by Tamsen P...
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SB 009 - "A Scot in the Dark," by Sarah MacLean (feat. Jaime Green) from 2021-11-08T11:00
A brilliant young socialite gives advice to her fallen friend about how best to engage with a brutish lord of their acquaintance, then the three of them spend the rest of the podcast discussing ...
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The Baby-sitters Club Netflix Series, Season 2 (feat. Rachel Shukert) from 2021-11-07T13:00
In this very special bonus episode, the boys chat with The Baby-sitters Club showrunner Rachel Shukert about all things Season 2, how she took inspiration from the movie Face Off Listen
SB 008 - "The Price of Salt" (aka, "Carol"), by Patricia Highsmith from 2021-11-01T10:00
A starry-eyed iconoclast becomes captivated by a jaded but beautiful sophisticate and they spend an unforgettable hour discussing this classic romance by Patricia Highsmith.
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SB 007 - "Hate to Want You," by Alisha Rai from 2021-10-25T10:00
A self-loathing bro and a brooding arty type struggle past the long and convoluted history they have with one another and cobble together a discussion of this steamy romance novel by Alisha Rai....
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SB 006 - "Grimspace," by Ann Aguirre from 2021-10-18T10:00
A world-weary fugitive and a dangerous space cadet push past their suspicions of one another and discuss this exhilarating sci-fi romance novel by Ann Aguirre.
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SB 005 - "Unmasked by the Marquess," by Cat Sebastian from 2021-10-11T10:00
A cantankerous old misanthrope and a charming but penniless social climber lean into their strange attraction for one another and discuss an excellent romance novel by Cat Sebastian.
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SB 004 - "A Princess in Theory," by Alyssa Cole from 2021-10-04T10:00
A brilliant academic and a brash, overconfident lordling get off on the wrong foot but eventually manage to cobble together a discussion of this delightful romance novel by Alyssa Cole.
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SB 003 - "The Rogue Not Taken," by Sarah MacLean from 2021-09-27T10:00
An ill-tempered ne'er-do-well and a beautiful social outcast look past their distrust of one another and get together to discuss this saucy romance novel by Sarah MacLean.
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SB 002 - "The Worst Best Man," by Mia Sosa from 2021-09-20T10:00
A buttoned-up, logical control freak and an impulsive Creative Professional put aside their differences and get together to discuss this fiery romance novel by Mia Sosa.
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SB 001 - "Red, White & Royal Blue," by Casey McQuiston from 2021-09-13T10:00
A handsome British princeling and a dashing American dreamboat put aside their differences and get together to discuss this delightful romance novel by Casey McQuiston.
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Introducing: Strange Bedfellows from 2021-09-09T00:26:07
Starting this Monday, the boys are going to be discussing a new romance novel every single week, beginning with "Red, White, and Royal Blue," by Casey McQuiston. Join us on a wild, wicked, and s...
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SSVB 012 - When Love Dies from 2021-08-30T10:00
Bad news, Steve Wakefield: Your girlfriend Tricia has heard the sweet song of the cows; the clarion clucks of the chickens; the beckoning cries of the piggies. That's right, it's the farm life f...
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SSVB 011 - Too Good To Be True from 2021-08-23T10:00
Hide your precious jewels, your boyfriends, and your favorite teachers because the wicked Suzanne Devlin is in town and she's going to burn them all to the ground! To make matters worse, Jessica...
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SSVB 010 - Wrong Kind of Girl from 2021-08-16T10:00
This week, Jessica is mean to a cheerleader, Elizabeth is nice to a cheerleader but not particularly helpful, and a gruesome, tentacled, otherworldly entity tries to engulf the town as a first s...
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SSVB 009 - Racing Hearts from 2021-08-09T10:00
The fabulous Mr. Kiss and his awkward sidekick are here to talk about what everybody in Sweet Valley is doing with their mouths these days, and the boys take a frankly dangerous look at whatever...
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SSVB 008 - Heart Breaker from 2021-08-02T10:00
We've all been doing kissing all wrong and this week's book is going to set us straight on the optimal technique, but first we have to do a power ranking of the "Cars" movies and figure out what...
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SSVB 007 - Dear Sister from 2021-07-26T10:00
The Twin Singularity has produced a Uni-twin and Elizabeth has taken on Jessica's personality and vice versa and this is definitely "Fight Club," isn't it? Meanwhile, Bruce Pac-Man is getting pu...
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SSVB 006 - Dangerous Love from 2021-07-19T10:00
Todd got a brand-new hog and he wrecked it while Elizabeth was on it and now there's only one twin in Sweet Valley, but folks: We have to talk about the Hot Clam Special. At Dairi Burger? What t...
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SSVB 005 - All Night Long from 2021-07-12T10:00
This week, Jessica Wakefield stays up all night long thanks to a mustachioed creep named Scott. Elizabeth Wakefield accidentally wears a cursed artifact that causes her to transform. Todd Wilkin...
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SSVB 004 - Power Play from 2021-07-05T10:00
The Sweet Sweet Valley Boys continue their dangerous reading spree through the Sweet Valley books this week with a deep dive into the life and times of Robin Wilson, a character who frankly dese...
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SSVB 003 - Playing With Fire (feat. Marissa Flaxbart) from 2021-06-28T10:00
After realizing just how out of their depth they are in the dangerous narrative universe of Sweet Valley High, the Sweet Sweet Valley Boys call in an expert to help them navigate these choppy wa...
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SSVB 002 - Secrets from 2021-06-21T10:00
Sweet Valley Jack and Tanner are back to investigate who's keeping secrets and who's telling lies in this scintillating novel by Francine Pascal about a world where sentient cars battle for supr...
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Ann M. Martin: The Story of the author of THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB from 2021-06-14T09:00
The "Dark Library" is a collection of forbidden texts composed by Ann M. Martin before it was given to her to weave the great Sitters' Cycle. It is unknown what words of power are writ inside th...
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A Time to Kilbourne from 2021-06-07T10:00
Five years ago, two men made a solemn promise: They would tell the story of Agent Associate Baby-Sitter Shannon Kilbourne the way Ann M. Martin always intended it to be told. Almost immediately,...
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The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Board Game (feat. Dan Shannon) from 2021-05-31T10:00
In 1992, the brilliant but reclusive game designer Milton Bradley created what was to become his masterpiece, a game so compelling and so dangerous that few have ever dared to play it. Nearly 30...
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PATREON BONUS: Karen's Unicorn from 2021-05-24T10:00
The boys are joined by a very, very, very special guest to discuss a little-known MTV Buzz Bin act called Ednaswap. Also, the novel Karen’s Unicorn.
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Remembering "The Da Vinci Code" from 2021-05-17T10:00
In this special one-off episode, Dan Brown scholars and archivists Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring collaborate to painstakingly recreate the first chapter "The Da Vinci Code" for posterity. T...
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PATREON BONUS: Karen's Big Sister from 2021-05-10T10:00
Kind of a frantic energy about this one. Tanner reveals a big secret. Karen disgraces herself. Jack is ... distracted.
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting in "Jane Eyre" from 2021-05-03T10:00
Some fun (and let's be honest, quite sexy!) spoilers for the classic baby-sitting novel (she's a governess!) "Jane Eyre" in this episode — a book you've had 174 YEARS to read. What else do...
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FEED DROP: Exp. Share: Pokémon Play Podcast (HeartGold/SoulSilver) from 2021-04-26T10:00
The boys will be back next week with Jane Eyre, but in the meantime, here's the latest episode of Tanner's OTHER podcast. The idea here, I think, was, wouldn't it be fun to have an episode of so...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting Anakin Skywalker from 2021-04-19T10:00
Perhaps the most highly anticipated babysitting movie of all time, "The Phantom Menace" proved to be a showcase of just how bad babysitting can be when left in the hands of a director with no on...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting on "Baby Island" from 2021-04-05T10:00
It takes a lot to surprise two boys who've encountered every form of babysitting from leopards to Tiny Yoda to that time Jake Kuhn fell down a well and had to babysit himself for a few days. But...
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PATREON BONUS: Karen's Mistake from 2021-03-29T10:00
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "One Fine Day" from 2021-03-22T10:00
One huge fan, one reluctant cohost, and one perfect babysitting movie makes for one particularly fine day over here at BSCC headquarters, where we're talking about a surprisingly polarizing 1996...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting "Baby" From "Bringing Up Baby" (feat. Sarah Morgan) from 2021-03-15T10:00
What do you do when your baby is an actual leopard and the man you love is kind of a chicken? Is the question this fascinating babysitting film from the olden times seeks to answer with about a ...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids in "He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special" from 2021-03-08T11:00
No jokes or digressions this week, because we've got an imposing amount of critical theory related to the seminal '80s babysitting text, "He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special," to cover. Buc...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting Jake From "The Gunslinger" from 2021-03-01T11:00
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Along the way, he did some pretty heavy-duty babysitting, took a bunch of mescaline, and shot everyone in a town. This week,...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "The Governess Game" (feat. Jaime Green) from 2021-02-22T11:00
The boys (and special guest Jaime Green) make a valiant effort to keep the rating on this one down and appease the censors, but end up with what can only be described as a raunchy, titillating, ...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Baby From "Willow" from 2021-02-15T11:00
The year is 1988 and it is prophesied that a bikini baby will bring about the downfall of an evil sorceress named Bad Mother. Consequently, Bad Mother attempts to steal the foretold child for a ...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From Mrs. Doubtfire from 2021-02-08T11:00
Can you babysit your own children? What if you're pretending to be someone else? Is it in any way creepy to disguise yourself as an elderly nanny and spy on your ex-wife? These are just a few of...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "Stranger Things" from 2021-02-01T11:00
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...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "Adventures in Babysitting" from 2021-01-25T11:00
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 th...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting The Boy From "The Road" from 2021-01-18T11:00
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 a...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Girl From Waterworld from 2021-01-11T11:00
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 ...
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BSCC Presents: Babysitting Baby Yoda from 2021-01-04T11:00
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 Ma...
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BSCCDROM 002: 4th Grade Learning Adventures from 2020-12-28T18:08:27
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 th...
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Karen's Christmas Carol from 2020-12-25T11:00
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. Listen
Baby-Sitters Club: The Summer Before from 2020-12-21T16:45:21
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 – s...
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PATREON BONUS: Karen's Movie Star from 2020-12-18T01:21:56
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The Baby-sitters Experience 2: Logan Vs. Slowking (feat. Josh Fjelstad) from 2020-12-14T11:00
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 "L...
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The Baby-Sitters Club Guide to Baby-Sitting from 2020-12-07T11:00
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 t...
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The Baby-sitters Experience (feat. Josh Fjelstad) from 2020-11-30T11:00
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 ...
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Baby-Sitters Club: Chain Letter from 2020-11-23T11:00
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 investigat...
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The Baby-Sitters Club Club CLUB from 2020-11-09T11:00
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. Mar...
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Friends Forever Special: Graduation Day from 2020-11-02T11:00
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 gra...
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FF 012 - Claudia and the Disaster Date from 2020-10-26T10:00
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 Al...
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FF 011 - Welcome Home, Mary Anne from 2020-10-19T10:00
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 ...
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FF 010 - Stacey's Problem from 2020-10-12T10:00
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...
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FF 009 - Kristy and the Kidnapper from 2020-10-05T10:00
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...
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FF 008 - Mary Anne's Revenge from 2020-09-28T10:00
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 t...
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FF 007 - Claudia Gets Her Guy from 2020-09-21T10:00
🚨 CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY 🚨
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FF 006 - Stacey and the Boyfriend Trap from 2020-09-14T10:00
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 ev...
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BSCTV 010 - Hello, Camp Moosehead! Part 2 (feat. Jaime Greenring) from 2020-09-07T10:00
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, fi...
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BSCTV 009 - Hello, Camp Moosehead! Part 1 (feat. Sophie Grace and Sophia Reid-Gantzert) from 2020-08-31T10:00
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. Coincident...
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BSCTV 008 - Kristy's Big Day (feat. Mark Feuerstein) from 2020-08-24T10:00
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 top...
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BSCTV 007 - Boy-Crazy Stacey (feat. Shay Rudolph and Momona Tamada) from 2020-08-17T10:00
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 s...
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BSCTV 006 - Claudia and Mean Janine (feat. Naia Cucukov and Lucy Kitada) from 2020-08-10T10:00
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 An...
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BSCTV 005 - Dawn and the Impossible Three (feat. Xochitl Gomez and Malia Baker) from 2020-08-03T10:00
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 M...
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BSCTV 004 - Mary Anne Saves the Day (feat. Lucia Aniello) from 2020-07-27T10:00
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 ne...
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BSCTV 003 - The Truth About Stacey (feat. Rachel Shukert) from 2020-07-20T10:00
There’s a new baby-sitting conglomerate in town and their unique brand of baby-sitting, including sizzle reels, peer-to-peer influencer marketing, and encouraging self-sufficiency by allowing ki...
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BSCTV 002 - Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls from 2020-07-13T10:00
This week we find out that the Phantom Phone Caller was inside us all along, which certainly explains why he’s still at large, but somehow isn’t any less frightening. Trevor Sandbourne takes adv...
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BSCTV 001 - Kristy's Great Idea from 2020-07-06T10:00
This week, the boys slam on the brakes of the Friends Forever series and smash through their windshields right into the first episode of the Baby-Sitters Club Netflix show, cleverly titled ...
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FF 005 - Kristy Power! from 2020-06-29T10:00
Unchastened by their disastrous attempts to heckle 8-year-olds during “Claudia’s First Thanksgiving,” not to mention the censorship fiasco in “Mary Anne and the Library Mystery,” Stoneybrook’s s...
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FF 004 - Claudia and the Friendship Feud from 2020-06-22T10:00
According to Merriam Webster, a “Friendship Feud” is when you have a big feud with your friend about whether it’s somehow a good thing that Stacey and Claudia are fighting and tearing apart the ...
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FF 003 - Mary Anne's Big Breakup from 2020-06-15T10:00
Ann continues to take a wrecking ball to what remains of our beloved baby-sitting club, this time reducing the passionate and (literally) timeless love affair that began with BSC #10, “Loga...
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FF 002 - Stacey Vs. Claudia from 2020-06-08T10:00
With her Wine Crimes in the rearview mirror, Stacey McGill tries her hand at betrayal. Meanwhile, as Stoneybrook reels from what is presumably a five-alarm baby-sitting shortage, two strangers w...
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FF 001 - Kristy's Big News from 2020-06-01T10:00
Total mystery what Kristy’s Big News is this week, but Patrick Thomas is getting married and he can’t do that without every member of his estranged, alienated, angry, and abandoned family by his...
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Friends Forever Special: Everything Changes from 2020-05-25T10:00
It had long been foretold that Kristy would be betrayed nine times before the end. But even after Dawn and Mallory turned their backs on her, no one was prepared for the onslaught that followed....
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Two Men Play With Dolls from 2020-05-18T10:00
Failing to heed their own best advice, the boys bring dolls into the sanctity of their homes and play with them. But these aren’t just any dolls: They’re the short-lived but presumably beloved 1...
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California Diaries: Ducky (Three) from 2020-05-11T10:00
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, Magg...
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California Diaries: Amalia (Three) from 2020-05-04T10:00
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 s...
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California Diaries: Maggie (Three) from 2020-04-27T10:00
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 ...
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California Diaries: Sunny (Three) from 2020-04-20T10:00
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 whic...
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California Diaries: Dawn (Three) from 2020-04-13T10:00
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 THEI...
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California Diaries: Ducky (Two) from 2020-04-06T10:00
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 s...
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California Diaries: Amalia (Two) from 2020-03-30T10:00
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 Oper...
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California Diaries: Maggie (Two) from 2020-03-23T10:00
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 Ma...
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California Diaries: Dawn (Two) from 2020-03-16T10:00
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 int...
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California Diaries: Sunny (Two) from 2020-03-09T10:00
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 ...
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California Diaries: Ducky (One) from 2020-03-02T11:00
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 Di...
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California Diaries: Amalia (One) from 2020-02-24T11:00
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 th...
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California Diaries: Maggie (One) from 2020-02-17T11:00
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 Ma...
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California Diaries: Sunny (One) from 2020-02-10T11:00
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 sit...
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California Diaries: Dawn (One) from 2020-02-03T11:00
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...
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BSCCD-ROM: The Baby-Sitters Club Friendship Kit from 2020-01-27T11:00
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 legen...
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BSCBBs 009 - Shannon's Story from 2020-01-20T11:00
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 ...
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BSCBBs 008 - Logan Bruno, Boy Baby-Sitter from 2020-01-13T11:00
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 ...
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BSCBBs 007: Logan's Story from 2020-01-06T11:00
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...
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BSCBBs 006 - Abby's Book from 2019-12-30T11:00
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 invo...
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The Lerangismas Episode from 2019-12-25T13:00
The war on Lerangismas is over! The era of Pete has begun! The boys gather on a snowy night to share some Lerangismas cheer and talk about their very favorite Lerangismas hymns.
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BSCBBs 005 - Kristy's Book from 2019-12-23T11:00
With a little bit of help from their best friend Doctor Who, the boys take a magic phone box into the past and hang out with some of history’s most excellent people as they attempt to decipher t...
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BSCBBs 004 - Mary Anne's Book from 2019-12-16T11:00
Our adorable Time Babies run into an impenetrable temporal anomaly inside a beautiful and possibly slightly magical Lake House as they navigate their way deep into Mary Anne’s past to find out w...
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BSCBBs 003 - Dawn's Book from 2019-12-09T11:00
The boys invent a nifty little machine in their garage that creates a time loop which will allow them to go all the way back to 1995 and attempt to foil a nefarious plot by Baby-Sitters Club gho...
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BSCBBs 002 - Claudia's Book from 2019-12-02T11:00
Our intrepid Time Babies take another trip back to save the future, this time into Claudia Kishi’s past, where the Great One (She Who Lurks in the Darkness and Devours the Innocent) lurks. It’s ...
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BSCBBs 001 - Stacey's Book from 2019-11-25T11:00
Lobstrosities, Clone People, a malevolent Cloud AI ... and they’re all converging on the sweet, sweet feet of the sweetest Baby-Sitters Club Ghostwriter we know. But that’s not even the worst of...
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Daddy Eats Cat Food from 2019-11-18T11:00
Daddy and Tanner get some expert help as they navigate the sparse and unforgiving terrain they seem to have navigated themselves into after finishing the Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries. With no bir...
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BSCAC 001 - Kristy's Great Idea Audio Book from 2019-11-11T11:00
OK, so someone called “Elle Fanning” went back and changed a bunch of things in this one, but you know what she couldn’t hide? THE TRUTH. This week, on a very special episode of the Baby-Si...
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BSCMC 036 - Kristy and the Cat Burglar from 2019-11-04T11:00
Well, it was always going to end in cat burglars, but if any of us had even begun to suspect who those cats and who those burglars were, let alone what horrible things they had in store for the ...
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BSCMC 035 - Abby and the Notorious Neighbor from 2019-10-28T10:00
Detective Tanner and Gumshoe Jack wade into a mystery that they are fundamentally ill equipped to solve, featuring not just Abby Stevenson, but a beloved and dangerous Marvel hero, the entire cr...
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BSCMC 034 - Mary Anne and the Haunted Bookstore from 2019-10-21T10:00
An illuminating peek inside the writing process of the mysterious Vicki Berger Erwin, this scintillating episode takes you where no other Baby-Sitters Club criticism has ever dared: Into the eye...
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BSCMC 033 - Stacey and the Stolen Hearts from 2019-10-14T10:00
Someone stole a bag from Stacey, but more importantly, someone stole Pete Black's heart, and we're not going to rest until they're behind bars where they belong. Meanwhile, Cary Retlin is steali...
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BSCMC 032 - Claudia and the Mystery Painting from 2019-10-07T10:00
Art is a mystery, and the mystery we read this week was certainly a work of art because this week’s mystery was surging with VBE ENERGY! That’s right, Vicki Berger Erwin is back at the helm of t...
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BSCMC 031 - Mary Anne and the Music Box Secret from 2019-09-30T10:00
Mary Anne discovered the freaking LAMENT CONFIGURATION in a wall this week and all hell quite literally broke loose. Meanwhile, the DeWitts are building an extension on their house, which, as a ...
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BSCMC 030 - Kristy And The Mystery Train from 2019-09-23T10:00
“A sense of endearing honesty permeates this episode, which is far more than anyone can say about Jack and Tanner’s subsequent work. It’s a shame that they decided not to continue down the path ...
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BSCMC 029 - Stacey and the Fashion Victim from 2019-09-16T10:00
Somebody’s poisoning fashion teens this week, but don’t worry because Stacey McGill and her best friends Abraham Lincoln, Drop Dead Fred, and Wolverine are on the case! Meanwhile, Kristy is busy...
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BSCMC 028 - Abby and the Mystery Baby from 2019-09-09T10:00
To paraphrase Joe Pantoliano’s character Cypher in The Matrix, “You know, I know this mystery doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my eyes, Ellen Miles is telling my brain that i...
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BSCMC 027 - Claudia and the Lighthouse Ghost from 2019-09-02T10:00
'Tis the season for lighthouse ghosts, alien beehives, and AI-enabled thermonuclear devastation, and there's only one person in the whole wide world who could bring you all of that and more wrap...
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BSCMC 026 - Dawn Schafer Undercover Baby-Sitter from 2019-08-26T09:00
It’s an undercover episode, by which we mean, it’s a totally normal episode and not really different in any way from any other episode of the show, according to Ellen’s definition of “undercover...
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BSCMC 025 - Kristy and the Middle School Vandal from 2019-08-19T10:00
Who likes mysteries? We hope you do, because it’s time to get wet, wild, and wiggly for some horny mystery action with Nola, who's back, stacked, and Thacker than ever! Light spoilers in this on...
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BSCMC 024 - Mary Anne and the Silent Witness from 2019-08-12T10:00
Huge news this week, Riddlebabies. We think we uncovered the origins of *69, and it’s way raunchier than you probably imagined. (Also, for younger listeners, we don’t have time to explain *69, s...
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PATREON PREVIEW: Little Sister #32 - Karen’s Pumpkin Patch from 2019-08-08T10:00
This is a bonus episode from our Patreon! Patreon subscribers have already heard this one, but for everyone else, this is the most recent episode of The Baby-Sitters Elite Baby Baby Elite Little...
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BSCMC 023 - Abby and the Secret Society from 2019-08-05T10:00
It’s Abby’s first mystery, which means we’re hurtling at 99% of the speed of light toward the messy end of this thing wherein the birds eat our souls and The Gray Man who is behind it all nods o...
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BSCMC #022 - Stacey and the Haunted Masquerade from 2019-07-29T10:00
If there’s something strange in you podcast app, who you gonna call? Jack and Tanner! If you’re sick of hearing, all that true crime crap, who you gonna call? Jack and Tanner! I ain’t afraid of ...
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BSCMC 021 - Claudia and the Recipe for Danger from 2019-07-22T10:00
It’s Cake Week this week, and our star bakers – Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, and Shea Rodowsky – are getting ready to wow the judges with their rat poison and salt chocolate-cherry gateau. Be...
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BSCMC 020 - Mary Anne and the Zoo Mystery from 2019-07-15T10:00
The Entity is back! And we wrote an incredible mystery book. We think we’ll really get a kick out of where our episode goes this week. We filled the episode with laughs and sound effects and wha...
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Wa-BSCMC 019 - Kristy and the Missing Fortune from 2019-07-08T10:00
It’s an Evil Episode this week, folks. Everything that should be right-side-up is upside down. Everything that should be clockwise is widdershins, and everything that should be “hoorah!” is...
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BSCMC 018 - Stacey and the Mystery of the Empty House from 2019-07-01T10:00
You’re gonna love this episode 😉 (👈 this is not a come-on. We just genuinely think you’ll like this episode a lot. We had a lot of fun making it and you’ll probably have a lot of fun listening...
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W♥KCMC 017 - Dawn and the Halloween Mystery from 2019-06-24T10:00
Welcome to the City Council meeting for Palo City! Quite a full agenda this week, as we’ll need to decide whether or not to cancel Halloween this year and declare martial law, or whether to just...
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BSCMC 016 - Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph from 2019-06-17T10:00
Have you ever looked at a photograph that really made you laugh? Like, why were your eyes so red and what the hell was on Joey’s head? That’s precisely what Claudia and her friends in the Baby-S...
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BSCMC 015 - Kristy and the Vampires from 2019-06-10T10:00
Your two favorite disaffected but lovable Goths sink their Hot Topic fangs into more ‘90s horror this week, with a bone-chilling look at the famously “cursed” straight-to-TV vampire movie “Littl...
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BSCMC 014 - Stacey and the Mystery At the Mall from 2019-06-03T10:00
Steve Matthews, born on January 9th, 1967, is an American singer-songwriter originally born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is best known for performing as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and g...
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BSCMC 013 - Mary Anne and the Library Mystery from 2019-05-27T10:00
We got ‘em! These dangerous Private Investigators have made their last mistake, and as soon as we release this damning report to the world, Mary Anne, Kristy, Stacey, Claudia, and Jessi will hav...
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W♥KCMC 012 - Dawn and the Surfer Ghost from 2019-05-20T10:00
Hang ten, Riptide Babies! Your favorite cheeba/Stoppard heads, Weed Lord and Half-Pipe, are back all the way from sunny California! The fog is rolling in and the screamers are out for blood, so ...
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BSCMC 011 - Claudia and the Mystery of the Museum from 2019-05-13T10:00
There’s suddenly a massive, new, multi-story, premiere art gallery in Stoneybrook, which would be enough of a mystery by itself if it weren’t for the mystery of how many freaking crimes are gett...
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BSCMC 010 - Stacey and the Mystery Money from 2019-05-06T10:00
Bad news. Stacey is a crime girl again. She just can’t help herself, she’s as drawn to crime as she is hot and horny young men, like Terry/David Hoyt/Hawthorne. This week, the girls solve a myst...
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BSCMC 009 - Kristy and the Haunted Mansion from 2019-04-29T10:00
The boys are elbows deep in Boethius this week as they take a trip with Kristy and the Krashers to a mansion that is haunted by the angry, vengeful ghost of The Patriarchy itself. Meanwhile, the...
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BSCMC 008 - Jessi and the Jewel Thieves from 2019-04-22T10:00
This week, Jessi and Quint break it off. But not before they harass two master actors and probable lovers by accusing them of crimes and stalking them across New York City. Meanwhile, the boys t...
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BSCMC 007 - Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs from 2019-04-15T10:00
A searing indictment of Minnesota’s police force specifically, this brave episode goes where no previous episode has dared to go: Right to the source of all the True Crime that everybody’s doing...
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BSCMC 006 - Mystery at Claudia's House from 2019-04-08T10:00
“Mystery” is generous for this book because there was not really much of a mystery, but it was a pretty fun book and discussion! When Janine “The Janenius” Kishi begins to act strange around her...
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BSCMC 005 - Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic from 2019-04-01T10:00
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’...
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The Baby-Sitters Club Movie from 2019-03-25T10:00
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 Cl...
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BSCSC 015 - Baby-sitters' European Vacation from 2019-03-18T10:00
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 ...
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BSCSC 014 - BSC in the USA from 2019-03-11T10:00
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 pas...
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BSCSC 013 - Aloha, Baby-sitters! from 2019-03-04T11:00
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 treat...
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BSCC Live: Super Mystery 001: Baby-Sitters Haunted House from 2019-02-25T11:00
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? ...
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High Brow/Low Brow 001 from 2019-02-18T11:00
It’s pilot three of three! Now that we’re teetering on the edge of uncertainty, with only a couple Super Special books left before we need to find something new to podcast about, we’ve got one l...
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BSCSC 012 - Here Come the Bridesmaids! from 2019-02-11T11:00
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 ar...
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BSCSC 011 - The Baby-Sitters Remember from 2019-02-04T11:00
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 li...
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BSCSC 010 - Sea City, Here We Come! from 2019-01-28T11:00
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...
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BSCSC 009 - Starring the Baby-sitters Club! from 2019-01-21T11:00
“Electrifying. Dangerous. Masterful.”
–Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch
“Revealing both the dangers and payoffs of artistic ambition, The Baby-Sitters Club Super Clu...
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BSCSC 008 - Baby-sitters at Shadow Lake from 2019-01-14T11:00
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, tumultu...
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1998: The Podcast 001 from 2019-01-07T11:00
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 ...
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BSCSC 007 - Snowbound from 2018-12-31T11:00
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”), ...
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BSCC: On Christmas Eve from 2018-12-25T10:00
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 ou...
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BSCSC 006: New York, New York! from 2018-12-24T11:00
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 tun...
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BSCSC 005 - California Girls! from 2018-12-17T11:00
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 activiti...
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BSCSC 004 - Baby-Sitters' Island Adventure from 2018-12-10T11:00
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 cou...
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SSVB 001 - Double Love from 2018-12-03T11:00
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 a...
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BSCSC 003 - Baby-Sitters' Winter Vacation from 2018-11-26T11:00
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 deliver...
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BSCSC 002 - Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation from 2018-11-19T11:00
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 firs...
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BSCSC 001 - Baby-sitters on Board! from 2018-11-12T11:00
Welcome to the Baby-Sitters Club SUPER (Special) Club! A totally new IP and concept brought to you by Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring, two promising young podcasters with a lot to prove. In t...
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BSCC 136 - The Fire at Mary Anne's House, Part 2 of 2 from 2018-11-05T11:00
As Jackie Rodowsky knows all too well, there is an infinity of possible worlds in the great expanse of existence, but even Jackie Rodowsky would tell you – with his birds’ eye view – that every ...
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BSCC 135 - The Fire at Mary Anne's House, Part 1 of 2 from 2018-10-29T10:00
Kristy's trying to organize the BSC to enter a baby-sitting contest from a magazine, but Ann has other plans: To burn it all to the ground. Oh, and Mary Anne's house is alive. And it's calling t...
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BSCC: The Hatchet Order from 2018-10-22T10:00
Sike! You thought!
Nope! Finale isn’t happening this week. Jack needed an extra week to work on the final episode(s). Instead, you get this special treat! Two preeminent scholars in their...
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BSCC 133 - Stacey's Movie from 2018-10-15T10:00
Welcome to the Cokie Mason Academy of What Is and Is Not Cool, I am your professor Joe Joesson and I am joined today by Dean Throbdong and his unusually large family. We hope that your time at o...
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BSCC 132: Kristy at Bat from 2018-10-08T10:00
Y’all ready for this? Tanner wasn’t, because he lost his notes. But honestly what decent person could truly be prepared to say goodbye to Kristy and leave her to the purging flames that Ann is p...
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BSCC: Little Sister - Karen's Little Sister from 2018-10-04T09:00
Ever wished you could spend 30 full minutes hearing two grown men argue heatedly about the difference between a little sister and a middle sister? Well, if so, you’re in for quite a treat. Karen...
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BSCC 131 - Claudia and the Little Liar from 2018-10-01T10:00
This week the Baby-Sitters Club Club (BSCC) is more like the The Video-Games Club Club (VGCC) because gamer geek Suzanne couldn’t help herself and peppered this entire book with endless referenc...
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BSCC 130 - Abby's Un-Valentine from 2018-09-24T10:00
This one goes out to Boo-Boo. What a life to take. What a bond to break. We’ll all be missing you Boo-Boo, but the show must go on and this week the boys managed to pull themselves together just...
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BSCC 129 - The All-New Mallory Pike from 2018-09-17T10:00
There’s a new girl in Riverbend this week named Mallory Pike, and she’s all new! We all know and love our Riverbend Gals: Smee, Jen, Sarah… but who is this enigmatic new Mallory character?! We m...
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BSCC 128 - Mary Anne in the Middle from 2018-09-10T10:00
Mallory has left the safe confines of the BSC to become a baby-sitting Ronin and roam the Earth with no master and no mission but her wanderings. The factions have taken full control of Stoneybr...
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BSCC 127 - Stacey McGill ... Matchmaker? from 2018-09-03T10:00
#swoon alert, Baby Nation! There’s a hunky new single dad in Stoneybrook this week, and of course his name is John! Though, you probably know his as J.B. Angel, the spirit of vengeance. There’s ...
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BSCC 126 - Claudia's Big Party from 2018-08-27T10:00
We’re not trying to tell you how to live your lives, but you’re going to disappoint a lot of people if you refuse to read Infinite Jest, watch Videodrome, and familiarize yourself with all of th...
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BSCC 125 - Kristy in Charge from 2018-08-20T10:00
¡Esta semana los chicos vienen a ti en vivo desde la Ciudad de México! (De acuerdo, no VIVO en vivo, ya que este episodio fue grabado hace unas semanas, pero entiendes lo que quiero dec...
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BSCC 124 - Abby in Wonderland from 2018-08-13T10:00
This weird, surrealistic tableau of a book marks the beginning of Suzanne Weyn's Dada phase. The narrative, such as it is, revolves around Abby and Kristy’s visit to Abby's grandmother on Long I...
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BSCC 123 - Mary Anne and the Playground Fight from 2018-08-06T10:00
This week, the boys go inside a haunted mansion. Just by chance they freed a ghost who made them Beetleboys. [Frankenbeans: “BEETLEBOYS!”] Big Bad Beetleboys. Big Bad Beetleboys. Hey look now th...
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WOPC 001 - Ninja Gaiden from 2018-08-02T10:00
Hey Ninja Nation – welcome to a very special bonus episode of WOPC! The show that is very specifically targeted to the ninja in everyone ……. ’s dad. And before you ask …. No, we don’t have time ...
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BSCC 122 - Stacey's Ex-Boyfriend from 2018-07-30T10:00
Kristy’s out of the way and busy with her Strawberry Festival and Stacey’s stuck between the two handsome boys in her life, so get ready to Hashtag “Swoon" (this is a new cool thing to say!) ove...
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BSCC 121 - Kristy Thomas, Dog Trainer from 2018-07-23T11:00
This week, the boys are brimming with DINOSAUR ENERGY, which was introduced to the sitterverse by a new character named Deb Cooper, who has more in common with The Golden Bear’s depiction of the...
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BSCC 120 - Claudia and the Terrible Truth from 2018-07-16T10:00
Tune in for a hearty, rollicking discussion about Kristy and Mallory’s preparations for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Jackie Rodowsky’s latest shenanigans, and the impending dinosaur threat in S...
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BSCC 119 - Abby and the Best Kid Ever from 2018-07-09T10:00
A very good boy returns to Stoneybrook this week, and the boys could not be more excited to welcome them back. But don’t get out the streamers and cake and other party supplies yet, because befo...
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BSCC: Mystery – Kristy and the Missing Child from 2018-07-02T10:00
It’s the crossover episode everyone’s been waiting for – the boys welcome Kristin Russo from Buffering the Vampire Slayer to talk about the demon Logan Bruno, whether Stoneybrook is built on a h...
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BSCC 118 - Jessi's Big Break from 2018-06-25T10:00
Tanner is back in New York, but he’s not the only one. Jessi Ramsay has somehow escaped Ann’s grasp and fled to New York City, where she’s been offered entrance into a prestigious ballet academy...
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BSCC 117 - The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier from 2018-06-18T10:00
Who could have imagined, when we started this little podcast about the hit 1990 LucasArts PC game “Loom,” that we’d still have stuff to talk about 117 episodes deep. But here we are! This week, ...
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BSCC 116 - Claudia Makes Up Her Mind from 2018-06-11T10:00
“‘Two boys… two grades… how will Claudia ever decide?’ –Hodges Soileau” –Jack Shepherd
Claudia’s got a choice to make this week, and it’s not just between two boys, but also two ...
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BSCC 115 - Kristy and the Sister War from 2018-06-04T10:00
The boys are face to face this week to bring their impressive and nuanced understanding of military tactics and history to the circumstances of the great “Sisty War”™ between Shannon Kilbourne a...
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BSCC 114 - Stacey's Secret Friend from 2018-05-28T10:00
There’s a new girl in town, and despite her numerous similarities to Tanner, she may be one of the most dynamic and engaging characters to ever move to Stoneybrook. Is she tall? Yes. Does she we...
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BSCC 113 - Abby the Bad Sport from 2018-05-21T09:00
One day in 1999, a man named Bill Bannerman and the five members of a soon-to-be-VERY-famous pop punk outfit sat in a basement room with a dogeared copy of a little book called "Abby the Bad Spo...
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BSCC 112 - Mary Anne to the Rescue from 2018-05-14T10:00
Does Cringer shrink down when he’s not Battle Cat? Will Mary Anne Spier ever overcome her many, many fears? Are the Star Wars prequel films canon? Will Mark Markson and Dave Daveson ever return ...
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BSCC 111 - Don't Give Up, Mallory from 2018-05-07T10:00
You know what? Mallory really stuck it to the Man this week, and we’re damn proud of her. But while dear, sweet, brave Mal was busy standing up to the (admittedly handsome) Trevor Sandbourne and...
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BSCC 110 - Mind Your Own Business, Kristy! from 2018-04-30T10:00
Charlie Thomas has a new girlfriend named Angela, Pamela, Sandra, or Rita, and despite the fact that she’s a Crime Girl, they are only getting sweeter (the trumpet!). Kristy doesn’t like her bec...
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BSCC 109 - Claudia Kishi, Queen of the Seventh Grade from 2018-04-23T10:00
Parental advisory: There is a lot of kissing talk and smooching talk right up front and there’s honestly no way to avoid it this week because this was a book about kissing and smooching. Claudia...
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BSCC 108 - Stacey the Math Whiz from 2018-04-16T10:00
Okay, so Jack and Tanner spent a ton of their hard-earned ad revenue on new mics and recorders but then that dunce Jack hit the wrong button and essentially recorded all of this episode and the ...
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BSCC 107 - Abby's Twin from 2018-04-09T10:00
This is an urgent message for the Pulitzer Committee: The audio from our original version of Abby’s Twin – which you so kindly singled out as being worthy of your highest honor – has been irrepa...
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BSCC 106 - Happy Holidays, Jessi from 2018-04-02T10:00
This week, Jack and Tanner talk about ████ and ████, but then Jack decides to █████ his ████ instead, so Tanner needs to █████ all over the █████. But it's only ███ miles to ████, which ██████ t...
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BSCC 105 - Mary Anne and the Little Princess from 2018-03-26T10:00
In a distant future, in an alternate universe, The Futuresmiths have made a decision that will affect our world, Earth-One, and the mysterious otherworld of the Baby-Sitters Club: They will send...
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BSCC 104 - Claudia Kishi, Middle School Dropout from 2018-03-19T10:00
Welcome to episode #3 of the new Baby-Sitter’s Club Club podcast, now in the darkest timeline where Claudia is back in the 7th grade, Kristy is only capable of generating bad ideas, Stacey is si...
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BSCC 103 - Kristy's Worst Idea from 2018-03-12T08:00
Your two favorite Partywarts™ are standing by this week with an arsenal of jokes, classic memes, and hilarious burns for your amusement. Which is unfortunate, because this was the week that the ...
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BSCC 102 - Stacey’s Broken Heart from 2018-03-05T11:00
This week, the boys hearts are broken right alongside Stacey’s because Robert “Hangdoggy” Brewster has betrayed us all. But don’t worry, because they have the warm, open, waiting arms of both th...
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BSCC 101 - Dawn and Too Many Sitters from 2018-02-26T11:00
Some alt titles for this week’s episode:
“The Tragic Misadventures of Dong and Jaff Schafer”
“Kristy and the Corporate Sabotage”
“The Increasingly Bittersweet Feet of Sweet,...
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BSCC 100 - Claudia and the World's Cutest Baby from 2018-02-19T11:00
It’s episode #100! Well, actually it’s probably more like episode #103 or #104? And also, the boys are discussing book #97, but let’s all go ahead and count this as an auspicious occasion, and i...
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BSCC 099 - Abby's Lucky Thirteen from 2018-02-12T11:00
There’s no easy way of saying this, but we’re legally obligated to warn you: The boys may have accidentally unleashed a vengeful being of pure evil into our community, which you can call a Video...
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BSCC 098 - Kristy + Bart = ? from 2018-02-05T11:00
Hope you enjoy the sound of two men doing that “Huh?!” sound from Home Improvement, because Jack and Tanner do it A LOT this week. There are also a lot of equations and algorithms ...
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BSCC 097 - Stacey McGill, Super Sitter from 2018-01-29T11:00
Having seen the error of her ways after falling in with Crime Girls, Stacey McGill is riding the baby-sitting dragon again, but she’s not out of danger yet! That’s right, the Herald has appeared...
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BSCC 096 - Mary Anne and the Memory Garden from 2018-01-22T11:00
A life is cut tragically short this week and all of Stoneybrook comes together for a funeral for their friend Amelia. She was just thirteen years old when the ultimate killing machine, Doomsday,...
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BSCC 095 - Mallory's Christmas Wish from 2018-01-15T11:00
Hello and welcome to “Kissing Advice” with Jack and Tanner! In this very special and extremely timely Christmas-themed episode, the boys will take you through their top tips for tying tongues, w...
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BSCC 094 - Claudia and the First Thanksgiving from 2018-01-08T11:00
Reasons we did the podcast this week:
- To remind you that children are the future.
- To wake you the f*ck up, America.
- To ask that you not narc o... Listen
BSCC 093 - Welcome to the BSC, Abby from 2018-01-01T11:00
Who was John Stevenson and what did he know? These are some of the tough questions that this fascinating novel asks us, but it also asks us to look deep inside ourselves and take an unerring loo...
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BSCC Special Christmas from 2017-12-25T11:00
If you’re caught up with BSCC episodes, it’s a very special Christmas episode, delivered to you hot and fresh on Christmas day! If you’re not caught up, and you’re listening to this at any other...
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BSCC 092 - Kristy and the Dirty Diapers from 2017-12-18T11:00
It’s a time of rebirth in Stoneybrook, Connecticut. Out with the old, in the with the new. Dawn is dead and gone, and in her place, a new sitter must rise. And with a new sitter comes a new baby...
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BSCC 091 - Farewell, Dawn from 2017-12-11T11:00
Get your tissues ready and put your crying hats on, Baby Nation, because this one’s a sad one! Set during the First World War, "Farewell, Dawn" follows the fortunes of the American paramedic Fre...
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BSCC 090 - Stacey and the Bad Girls from 2017-12-04T13:51:40
Extra long episode this week, Baby Nation! Tanner is back from a week in Germany, and for some reason, the boys thought it’d be a good decision to do a late night record while Tanner was still r...
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BSCC 089 - Mary Anne and Camp BSC from 2017-11-27T11:00
What seems at first to be a very straightforward “paint-by-numbers” installment in the sitterverse (yawn: the sitters hold a day camp for some of their charges) turns out to be an intricate, sur...
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BSCC 088 - Claudia Kishi, Live From WSTO! from 2017-11-20T11:00
To really get this week’s episode, you’re going to need to remember a lot of the plot details from Inception, and you’re going to need to know A LOT about the short liv...
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BSCC 087 - Dawn and the School Spirit War from 2017-11-13T11:00
There’s a ding dang civil war this week, Baby Nation (we’re saying “ding dang” now, apparently), and it looks like the beautiful friendships that we’ve been following for 83 books so far are sta...
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BSCC 086 - Stacey vs. the BSC from 2017-11-06T11:00
Ding Dong, Baby Nation! The witch is dead! Which old witch? Stacey McGill, that’s who! This week Stacey gets into a big fight with all the other members of the Baby-sitter’s Club and they finall...
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BSCC 085 - Jessi and the Troublemaker from 2017-10-30T10:00
Looks like we’ve got a Troublemaker gumming up the works this week, Baby Nation! But who, or what, is it? Surely it isn’t sweet, innocent leukemia survivor Danielle Roberts? Might it somehow be ...
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BSCC 084 - Kristy and Mr. Mom from 2017-10-23T10:00
This week, after father of three Jack Butler loses his job at the Ford Motor Company, he is forced to become a stay-at-home dad when his wife, Caroline, takes a job as a high-powered executive a...
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BSCC 083 - Super Special 012 - Here Come the Bridesmaids from 2017-10-16T10:00
Here come the bridesmaids, and there goes our sense of basically everything that is right and decent, because Tanner decided we needed to read a Super Special, OUT OF ORDER, this week to make se...
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BSCC 082 - Mallory Pike, #1 Fan from 2017-10-09T10:00
This week’s book is a clear cry for help from the Primarch of Princeton herself, and Ann – if you’re reading this – we hear you! And if you’re open to notes, we want to let you ...
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BSCC 081 - Mary Anne Breaks the Rules from 2017-10-02T10:00
Babies and Gentlemen of the jury – over the course of this episode, we are going to present you with nothing but the facts of the case. You’re going to hear about Logan’s deceitful charm, about ...
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BSCC 080 - Claudia and Crazy Peaches from 2017-09-25T10:00
This week, the boys navigate some choppy waters together because Claudia’s crazy aunt Peaches comes to town for an extended visit, and things get a little “very special episode” for a ...
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BSCC 079 - Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever from 2017-09-18T10:00
It’s another episode of your favorite show, The We Heart Kids Club Club, a podcast in which your hosts, Half Pipe and Weed Lord (oof, sorry, I think we’re stuck with this now) talk about the cla...
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BSCC 078 - Stacey's Lie from 2017-09-11T10:00
This week the boys become intimately familiar with the work of Suzanne Weyn, or should I say, Suz-ANN! Have any of you ever seen Ann and Suzanne in the same room at the same time?...
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BSCC 077 - Jessi and the Horrible Prank from 2017-09-04T10:00
Finally, the episode everyone has been waiting for – a 1-hour extravaganza devoted exclusively to BSC fan favorite character Michael P. Trout (the computer science teacher that Jessi has in this...
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BSCC 076 - Kristy and the Copycat from 2017-08-28T10:00
Happy belated birthday, Ann! Jack and Tanner got you a present! It’s this podcast. Sorry. This week, the boys find common ground with Warhammer 40k/classical antiquity, and a new love for potent...
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BSCC 075 - Mary Anne and Miss Priss from 2017-08-21T10:00
Welcome to the "Jahnna N. Malcolm Hate Podcast," a podcast in which two small-minded men viciously, slanderously, and unfairly malign the beloved children’s literature of the entity known as Jah...
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W♥KCC 074 - Dawn and the We ♥ Kids Club from 2017-08-14T10:00
Welcome to another installment of the We ♥ Kids Club Club, a podcast in which your two hosts, Weed Lord and Half-pipe, discuss the works of Peter Lerangis and Ann M. Martin: The We ♥ Kids Club b...
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BSCC: Little Sister - Karen's School Picture from 2017-08-10T10:00
Y’all, the boys were pretty sauced for this episode. But that’s OK because it’s a Little Sister, Little Episode, where things are fast, loose, fun, and frisky. And despite all of that speed and ...
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BSCC 073 - Claudia and the Perfect Boy from 2017-08-07T10:00
If there is such a thing in the world as a Perfect Boy, what would he be like? Would he be like Rand al Thor, from Robert Jordan’s tedious and bloated Wheel of Time saga? Would he be like Robyn ...
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BSCC 072 - Stacey and the Cheerleaders from 2017-07-31T10:52:59
This week, two inept hosts who WERE NOT born during a storm NOR during a Super Bowl game try their very best to describe and discuss a Baby-Sitters Club book written by two beautiful storm-touch...
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BSCC 071 - Get Well Soon, Mallory! from 2017-07-24T10:00
Welcome to “Pike Check,” our hit new BSCC-spinoff podcast about how ridiculously handsome Mallory’s dad John Pike is. We think this one has a lot of legs, just like John. This episode also conta...
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BSCC 070 - Jessi and the Bad Baby-sitter from 2017-07-17T08:00
This week, Tanner is joined in his B____n, N__ Y__k apartment by a very special guest to discuss book #68 in the Baby-Sitter’s Club cycle: Jessi and the Bad Baby-sitter. Has Dawn f...
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BSCC 069 - Dawn's Big Move from 2017-07-10T10:00
This episode is a time for somber reflection, as the boys gently, diplomatically, and eloquently allow Ann to hear (in the most thoughtful and sober way possible) exactly why what she did to Daw...
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BSCC: Mystery - Mallory and the Ghost Cat from 2017-07-03T05:00
The boys are joined by author Erin Chack this week for a discussion about the hit 1990 film Ghost Dad, the hit 1996 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song “Tha Crossroads,” A Baby-Sitter’s Club Mystery book,...
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BSCC 068 - Maid Mary Anne from 2017-06-26T10:00
It’s a real sewing circle jerk this week, Baby Nation (to use a technical term), and if you happen to be into that sort of thing AND you’re a fan of the 1990 fantasy graphic adventure game “Loom...
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BSCC 067 - Stacey's Big Crush from 2017-06-19T05:00
Oh wow! This week, Tanner had to wait over an hour while Jack finished reading the book and setting up his audio, and in that time, he got a little bit silly with some rosé and seltzer. In Stone...
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BSCC 066 - Dawn's Family Feud from 2017-06-12T10:00
Happy Trails, Baby Nation! Jack and Tanner are taking a tour of Boston’s “The Freedom Trail” this week, thanks to the entity known as Jahna N. Malcolm, who co-wrote this novel with Ann. M. Marti...
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BSCC: Mystery - Beware, Dawn from 2017-06-05T05:00
It’s time for another BSC: Mystery, which means it’s time for another interview, except it’s not an interview, because interviewers don’t make their guests read children’s books. Reading “Beware...
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BSCC 065 - Claudia's Friend from 2017-05-29T05:00
Strap on your best learnin’ hat and get ready for a good, old-fashioned education! This week, Claudia is learning from Stacey about where apostrophes go; Tanner’s learning from Jack about someth...
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BSCC 064 - Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever from 2017-05-22T06:00
In dibbly day, in distant night, no babies shall escape their sight. Let those who listen twice a fortnight, beware our digressions, because we talk about Green Lantern A LOT in this episode. Listen
BSCC 063 - Jessi and the Awful Secret from 2017-05-15T12:21:55
A "very special” episode this week, Baby Nation, since Ann – in her infinite wisdom and unaccountable cruelty – decided to throw Jack and Tanner another curveball with a powerful novel about the...
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BSCC 062 - Mary Anne's Makeover from 2017-05-08T12:00
Mary Anne is finally getting that makeover we’ve been hearing about for so long! We also have reason to believe that Mr. Spier and Logan have a lot more in common than we thought, and that Mr. S...
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BSCC: Mystery – Stacey and the Missing Ring from 2017-05-01T12:00
It's the first ever Baby-Sitters Club Mystery! And things get very mysterious, very quickly. Stacey McGill has stolen a powerful ring that turns the babysitters against each other. Meanwhile, th...
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BSCC 061 - Mallory Hates Boys (and Gym) from 2017-04-24T12:00
It's "pandemonium" in Stoneybrook this week! Which means, troublingly, that ALL the demons are back. And, perhaps worse, all the boys are being strange and difficult, which is stressing Mallory ...
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BSCC 060 - Stacey's Choice from 2017-04-17T12:00
Sorry Baby Nation, no room for notes this week. Too many works cited. But thanks for listening!
Works Cited: Martin, Ann M. Claudia and the Middle School Mystery. New York Ci...
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BSCC 059 - Dawn Saves the Planet from 2017-04-10T12:00
Your two heavily jet-lagged boys are back in the USA and they're ready to talk about our precious Dawn, Claudia's latest outfit, and saving the planet! Somehow that goes off the rails pretty fas...
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BSCC 058 - Keep Out, Claudia! from 2017-04-03T12:00
There’s some new babies in Stoneybrook this week, and they only thing they love more than Kid Kits is racial purity! That’s right, they’re racist! Like, so awful and racist that it’s almost absu...
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BSCC 057 - Jessi's Gold Medal from 2017-03-27T12:00
Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when a couple of flesh-jobs hooked on Synchro and lurking around the meatspace in the dark alleyways of Roppongi, Tokyo, burble their nonsense-talk ...
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BSCC 056 - Mallory and the Dream Horse from 2017-03-20T12:00
This week, Mallory, Jack, and Tanner all dream of horses, and make the mistake of dreaming too small... "There’s something that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovere...
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BSCC 055 - Kristy for President from 2017-03-13T12:00
The boys sit down for a fascinating and thought-provoking discussion about what the perfect government might be, but things get derailed essentially right out of the gate because Tanner has...
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BSCC 054 - Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies from 2017-03-06T13:00
We hit a record-setting number of segments this week, but what do you expect when you’re dealing with 2 MANY BABIES! (We’re still not totally sure what that title is supposed to mean, but don’t ...
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BSCC 053 - Stacey's Ex-Best Friend from 2017-02-27T13:00
Hello and welcome to Blackheads! A hit new show from your friends Jack and Tanner, of the Pete Black Appreciation Society. Today we're diving deep into the mysterious case of Pete's misguided in...
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BSCC 052 - Dawn’s Big Date from 2017-02-20T13:00
After the long, dark night of the soul, we finally have a New Dawn, Baby Nation. And despite the fact that she looks a little like a late era Axl Rose, she’s captured the attention of a new...
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BSCC 051 - Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street from 2017-02-13T13:00
Let go of your hearts this week, Baby Nation, and for good measure let go of your heads as well, because this episode is a giant trust fall through space and time into a strange and gloriou...
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BSCC: Little Sister - Karen’s Kittycat Club from 2017-02-09T13:00
A very special bonus "Little Sister, Little episode," a phrase which Jack and Tanner utter about 700 times during this particular conversation because, frankly, they would not pass a field ...
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BSCC 050 - Jessi’s Wish from 2017-02-06T13:00
Difficult episode this week, Baby Nation! And not just because of the subject matter, which is TOUGH, but also because apparently every single airplane in America decided to buzz by Jack’s apart...
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BSCC 049 - Mallory on Strike from 2017-01-30T13:00
There's no easy way of saying this, Baby Nation, but Mallory is over it. She's sick and tired of her abundant chores, the endless parade of babies she's required to sit, and the constant, relent...
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BSCC 048 - Mary Anne Misses Logan from 2017-01-23T13:00
We’re considering changing the name of the show to “The Pete Black Club” because we discovered our favorite character in the entire series this week. Here’s all the rad stuff Pete Black did this...
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BSCC 047 - Kristy and the Baby Parade from 2017-01-16T13:00
It's been awhile since we had some good, clean baby-sitting fun, but that's what Kristy always brings to the table, and this "Baby Parade" lark is no different. Sit back, relax, and enjoy what c...
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BSCC 046 - Dawn and the Big Sleepover from 2017-01-09T13:00
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 lifeti...
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BSCC: Little Sister - Karen’s Worst Day from 2017-01-05T13:00
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...
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BSCC 045 - Stacey's Emergency from 2017-01-02T13:00
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' "Ne...
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BSCC 044 - Jessi and the Dance School Phantom from 2016-12-26T13:00
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 h...
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BSCC: Secret Santa - Secret Episode from 2016-12-22T13:00
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...
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BSCC 043 - Mary Anne Vs. Logan from 2016-12-19T13:00
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 lif...
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BSCC 042 - Claudia and the Middle School Mystery from 2016-12-12T13:00
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 ...
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BSCC 041 - Poor Mallory! from 2016-12-05T13:00
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 wee...
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BSCC 040 - Kristy's Mystery Admirer from 2016-11-28T13:00
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 w...
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BSCC 039 - Dawn and the Older Boy from 2016-11-21T13:00
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...
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BSCC 038 - Jessi's Baby-Sitter from 2016-11-14T13:00
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 th...
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BSCC 036 - Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook from 2016-10-31T12:00
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 ...
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BSCC 035 - Mary Anne and Too Many Boys from 2016-10-24T12:00
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 ...
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BSCC 034 - Claudia and the Great Search from 2016-10-17T12:00
“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&nb...
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BSCC 033 - Kristy and the Secret of Susan from 2016-10-10T12:00
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 fav...
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BSCC 032 - Dawn's Wicked Stepsister from 2016-10-03T12:00
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...
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BSCC 031 - Mary Anne and the Great Romance from 2016-09-26T12:00
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 an...
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BSCC 030 - Mallory and the Mystery Diary from 2016-09-19T12:00
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 youn...
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BSCC 029 - Welcome Back, Stacey! from 2016-09-12T12:00
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 s...
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BSCC 028 - Jessi and the Superbrat from 2016-09-05T12:00
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 ...
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BSCC 027 - Claudia and the Sad Goodbye from 2016-08-29T12:00
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today – Claudia, Janine, Mr. and Mrs. Kishi, the members of the Baby-Sitters Club, the Baby Nation, Jack, and Tanner – to say goodbye. To who (or what)?...
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BSCC 026 - Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger from 2016-08-22T12:00
Everybody, in one way or another, is searching for a "Tigger" in their lives – for some people, the Tigger they are searching for is true love, for others, it's success, and for still others, it...
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BSCC 025 - Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise from 2016-08-15T12:00
The prophecy foretold of one that would unite the tribes. A being born of two worlds... of two clans, who would unite the people under her banner. Will this Mother's Day surprise fulfill th...
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BSCC 024 - Dawn on the Coast from 2016-08-08T12:00
Dawn is forced to choose between the grey purgatory of Stoneybrook and the breathtaking paradise of California. Which is upsetting for Jack and Tanner because they frankly didn't ...
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BSCC 023 - Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter from 2016-08-01T12:00
It's CIVIL WAR, which means it's time to pick sides, Baby Nation. Are you yearning for change like the Jacks and Mary Annes of this world? Even if it leads to corruption and incompeten...
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BSCC 022 - Mallory and the Trouble With Twins from 2016-07-25T12:00
Come play with us! Mallory's babysitting twins this week and it promises to be a fun, wholesome time that's not rotted through with any sinister evil at all. Plus, the boys discuss the...
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BSCC: Little Sister - Karen's Roller Skates from 2016-07-21T12:00
Another very special bonus mini-episode for both the Baby Nation and the Baby Feudal States! Tanner and Jack sit down to discuss Baby-Sitters Little Sister #2: “Karen’s Roller Skates,” a book fille...
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BSCC 021 - Kristy and the Walking Disaster from 2016-07-18T12:00
This week, the boys are in their element talking about the classic "American Sports" themes of football men, baseball men, and TIME TRAVEL, as well as Kristy's massive, unquenchable CRUSH on a b...
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BSCC 020 - Claudia and the Bad Joke from 2016-07-11T12:00
This week, Jack and Tanner meet to discuss the very complex mechanical and metaphysical implications of traversing the Planes of Chaos, also known as the Immaterium, from the Warhammer 40k ...
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BSCC 019 - Stacey's Mistake from 2016-07-04T12:00
Great! Everything is so great! Definitely no major catastrophes this week. Just your typical, high-energy, enthusiastic Jack and Tanner having a lively discussion about the next book in the Baby-Si...
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BSCC: Little Sister - Karen's Witch from 2016-06-30T12:00
In this very special bonus mini-episode, the boys discuss the first book in the BSC-spinoff Little Sister series, "Karen's Witch." Feast your ears on an intoxicating intoxicated journey through a m...
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BSCC 018 - Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery from 2016-06-27T12:00
It all goes down this week: Claudia loses herself, Logan reveals his true self, Mary Anne finds her faith, The cat-people have taken Louisville, and Jack and Tanner spend WAY too much time talki...
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BSCC 017 - Jessi's Secret Language from 2016-06-20T12:00
Your wise-crackin' hosts Jackie and The Weasel are back again with more hilarious banter about their favorite topics from the wide world of "American Sports." And if that's not appealing to you dem...
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BSCC 016 - Little Miss Stoneybrook... and Dawn from 2016-06-13T12:00
Kind of a segment-heavy week this week, but what do you expect when you're trying to impress the judges of the Little Miss Stoneybrook Pageant? The babysitters each Dance Mom their own contestant i...
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BSCC 015 (KII 001) - Hello, Mallory from 2016-06-06T12:00
Welcome to Kids Incorporated Inc.! Out with the old, and in with the new! Stacey is gone, but not forgotten and forgotten, and there's a NEW baby-sitter in town now, which you probably could have f...
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BSCC 014 - Good-Bye Stacey, Good-Bye from 2016-05-30T12:00
Stacey is moving out of Stoneybrook, and 4 to 10 new brides of Satan are moving in to take her place, so it's up to two undercover French witch-hunters to eradicate the evil threat looming over the...
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BSCC 012 - Claudia and the New Girl from 2016-05-16T12:00
There's a new girl in Stoneybrook named Ashley Wyeth, and she's captured the attention of a certain young babysitter named Claudia. But, more importantly, there's a newcomer to the podcast as well ...
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BSCC 011 - Kristy and the Snobs from 2016-05-09T12:00
Nothing matters. Everyone is afraid. We're lucky we've even lived long enough to see today, and in another hundred years, none of us will be here. This one is kinda a bummer. Sorry. --- Support ...
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BSCC 010 - Logan Likes Mary Anne from 2016-05-02T12:00
There's a snake in the grass in Stoneybrook this week, and he's got his treacherous eyes on our sweet Mary Anne Spier. Loads to discuss this week including: the X-Men's Wolverine, Negging, demigods...
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BSCC 009 - The Ghost at Dawn's House from 2016-04-25T12:00
If there's something strange in Dawn's house... who you gonna call? The Baby-sitter's Club Club! This week, the girls (and by extension, the boys) dive deep into the world of paranormal activity, c...
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BSCC 008 - Boy-Crazy Stacey from 2016-04-18T12:00
The boys are back, but I'm not talking about the boys Stacey is crazy about, I'm talking about Jack and Tanner, who read "Boy-Crazy Stacey" this week. This shouldn't come as any surprise to you if ...
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BSCC 007 - Claudia and Mean Janine from 2016-04-11T12:00
Tanner and Jack meet to discuss book seven of The Baby-Sitter's Club series, "Claudia and Mean Janine" and things get MEAN. This probably won't surprise you, but one of them identifies strongly wit...
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BSCC 006 - Kristy's Big Day from 2016-04-04T12:00
Love! Marriage! Last minute 'spaghetti things' in the kitchen! It all happens this week when Jack and Tanner sit down to discuss book six of The Baby-sitter's Club, "Kristy's Big Day"! I hope you l...
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BSCC 005 - Dawn and the Impossible Three from 2016-03-28T12:00
Tanner and Jack travel all the way to Germany, the birthplace of modern Lutheranism, to discuss the thinly veiled religious text that is book five of The Baby-sitter's Club, "Dawn and the Impossibl...
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BSCC 004 - Mary Anne Saves the Day from 2016-03-21T12:00
Jack and Tanner discuss book four of The Baby-Sitter's Club, "Mary Ann Saves the Day." From what though? Is the Stoneybrook jewel thief back in action? Has The Agency risen to power again, threaten...
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BSCC 003 - The Truth About Stacey from 2016-03-14T12:00
This week, Jack and Tanner get to the bottom of the truth about Stacey, and uncover a few truths about themselves along the way. Just kidding! They definitely don't have the emotional intelligence ...
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BSCC 002 - Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls from 2016-03-07T13:00
Jack and Tanner go fully CSI on the quiet town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut and try to get to the bottom of a 30-year-old cold case involving a rash of high-profile burglaries. In the course...
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BSCC 001 - Kristy's Great Idea from 2016-02-29T13:00
Jack and Tanner sit down to discuss book one in the "Baby-sitters Club" series, "Kristy's Great Idea," and try to get to the bottom of what Kristy's idea is exactly, and why it's so great. (Spoiler...
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Introducing The Baby-Sitters Club Club from 2016-02-23T19:19:45
A big dumb idiot and his brilliant, charming friend discuss the classic Baby-Sitters Club novels of Ann M. Martin in chronological order. Get ready to look with new eyes at the timeless adventures ...
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