The Baby-sitters Club Club

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 this being written never again since, has a film DARED to invite the “City of Angels” AND the “Little Nicky” narrative universes into its OWN overarching cinematic superuniverse. Really incredible stuff. The film, of course, is 1999’s “Notting Hill.” Part of our “Hugh Grant’s Vernal Dance” celebration. Credits: Edited by Tanner. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 of the episode. But you know what they always say: "Size matters, but in the spy world, it’s reversed!" Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 this week, and we'll be back next week! 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. This astonishing oral history will be part of the living memory of our culture for as long as humans tell stories to one another, and as an act of public service for a world community that hungers to collectively remember this vital text, it is unparalleled. Music credits: "Cinematic Victory," by Florews "Be Suspense," by Art Haiz "Mystery Cinematic," by Gentle Jammers Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 this week, and we'll be back next week to talk about either Music and Lyrics or Wedding Crashers! 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, one of those men fully delivered on that promise, but literally no one noticed, primarily because of an almost overwhelming lack of interest from the other man. But now, in full technicolor, you can finally hear the breathtaking tale of danger and intrigue known in Baby-Sitters Club-associated circles as "A Time to Kilbourne." Music credits: "Mysterious Spy Movie," by Shorties "A Suspense," by Fat Bunny "Suspense & Crime," by Alexander Rufire "Fight Back," by Shorties "Suspenseful Background," by Luca Francini "Tec

"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 middle of one of the weddings. Yeesh. Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 this week, and we'll be back next week to talk about Four Weddings and, unfortunately, a Funeral! 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 legendary Baby-Sitters Club. But this is just the beginning of the quest, and danger awaits: Will the boys be confounded by the deadly Puzzle Box, disoriented by the mysterious Map Game, or debilitated by the incessant ringing of Claudia’s terrible telephone? Answers: Yes, yes, and yes. Fortunately, these guys are professional gamers, so there’s probably no need to worry. Music credits: Thanks as always to original Baby Boy ⁠Scott Lamb⁠ for the intro music, and to ⁠Superbrat⁠ for the outro music. --- Support this podcast

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 a sexy Jeff Bridges alien know how to kiss real good? Preorder Jaime's new book here, or wherever you get books! Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 2: Pig in the City." Like the film, it's good, clean genie-summoning fun, and the genie is really surprisingly large! AI voices created with ElevenLabs. Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 next week to talk about Tilda Swinton and a giant Idris Elba genie in "3000 Years of Longing"! 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 years later, two of the world's foremost Baby-Sitters Club experts sat down with an accomplished, brave, and highly credentialed Dungeon Master to immerse themselves in Bradley's legendary role-playing experience. This is their story. Prepare yourselves for an epic, shocking, and occasionally quite sexy adventure in the magical, mysterious world of The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Board Game. Music credits: ⁠"Medieval Story,"⁠ by Orchestralis ⁠"Slow Sad Ominous,"⁠ by Flossie Wood ⁠"Monster Squad,"⁠ by J Blanks ⁠"Lonesome Gauch

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 Shulgin Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 your dating life's moving too fast. Music credits: "In a Dubstep," by FAS Sounds Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 that started it all, let's pause for a fleeting moment to appreciate the absolute pinnacle of it all: Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility (which would later be adapted into a novel by Jane Austen herself.) Music credits: “Showtime,” by Stockwaves "50's Showcase," by The Story Shop "In a Dubstep," by FAS Sounds Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 for high school English class are to be believed. And if Garry Marshall's allowed to do it, so are we! But we're going to be damn sure we take out all of the smut. Music credits: “Typewriter Blues,” by AllenGrey "Drums and Claps," by AllenGrey Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 own dip. And DO NOT TELL ANYONE.) Music credits: "Classical Strings," by Orchestralis “Typewriter Blues,” by AllenGrey Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys 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 heartwarming announcement in the paper of record! (P.S., Tanner didn't like this movie, but he is wrong). Music credits: “Typewriter Blues,” by AllenGrey "Romantic Wedding," by ULB Production "Wedding," by Music Stock Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Claws. Prepare to be scared. Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 light roleplay about everyone's favorite time-traveling movie critic from the dystopian future. Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! Find Matthew on Substack and listen to Jack's appearance on Fluxpod here. Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! Advertise on The Baby-Sitters Club Club via Gumball.fm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"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 is intellectually as undistinguished as it is possible to be." The boys discuss this devastating moment in literary history and also enjoy a bit of banter about how handsome Hugh Grant is in this movie we watched. Music credits: "In a Dubstep," by FAS Sounds "The News," by Awesome Music Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the theme music! This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/bedfellows and get on your way to being your best self. Subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BSCCPodcast and support the show at Bit.ly/RattlesnakeJake! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices