Strange Bedfellows

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BSCC 092 - Kristy and the Dirty Diapers Dec 18, 2017

Show notes

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 to be sat, this time in the frightening form of a video/VHS/well/water demon named Drusilla Destiny who Jack and Tanner are definitely going to keep an eye on. Sweet Pete also introduces an incredible new character called Abby Stevenson and she’s an instant favorite, but she comes with a LOT of baggage, and even though she claims to be from Long Island, her origin remains frighteningly unclear for the time being.

Music Credits:

“Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)"(Karaoke Version) originally performed by Eurythmics
“Noir Guitar” by Stevie’s Amp Shack
"Vanilla Summers” by GRIID
"I’ve Seen Better Days"(Karaoke Version) originally performed by Citizen King

Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music and Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 091 - Farewell, Dawn Dec 11, 2017

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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 Frederic Henry and an English nurse named Catherine Barkley. Against all odds, their love blossoms as the bombs and shrapnel explode around them, but they are ultimately doomed, not by the destruction and war where their love was born, but the quiet, aching stillness of solitude where it will eventually die. Actually, that MAY be the plot of Farewell to Arms, but it is very difficult to tell the difference between these two heartbreaking classics of American literature. Suffice it to say that Dawn is gone, and we’re just going to have to pick up the pieces and move on without her. At least Claudia was wearing something fun this week!

Music credits:

“Reversion,” by Myuuji

“Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt

“Jane’s Lament,” by EMSonora

“Overture,” by Lionheart

“Supersonic,” by Rob Gasser

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 090 - Stacey and the Bad Girls Dec 04, 2017

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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 reeling from the effects of jet lag, so Jack has a really hard time keeping this one on the rails. There’s A LOT of singing. Too much singing. Sorry for all the singing. Stacey (with a soft ‘c’) or Stacey (with a hard ‘c’) (we’re not sure how it’s pronounced) has a run in with some bad girls who invite her into the seedy underworld of dingleberriness, and once it starts, the red, red wine never stops flowing. Also, we’re calling Robert the Brewdoggy now, and Stacey Sweet Toots McGill.

Music Credits:

“Radar Love” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Golden Earring
“Without Me” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Eminem
“Disarm” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by The Smashing Pumpkins
“Mad World” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Gary Jules
“Raining” by Kai Engel
“Against All Odds” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Phil Collins
“Red, Red Wine” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by UB40
“Can’t Help Falling In Love” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by UB40
“It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Boyz II Men
“Duck Face” by CØDE

Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music and Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 089 - Mary Anne and Camp BSC Nov 27, 2017

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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, surprising, and genuinely frightening origin story for Mary Anne Spier herself. As the boys pick apart the strands in this delicate tapestry woven by Ann M. Martin and the great Nola Thacker, they begin to wonder whether they’ve uncovered something that none of us were meant to know. Because this one goes all the way down, Baby Nation. All the way. Down. Some completely unwarranted and baseless slander of the fine city of Cleveland in this episode, which is still nowhere near as offensive as how many total minutes it takes Jack to get through one two-clause sentence about the B-plot of this book. Put your tinfoil hats on for this one, Baby Nation, because you’re gonna need ‘em!

Music credits:

“Silly Fun,” by Robert Austin

“Lavender Town,” by Myuuji

“Dead Silence,” by Myuuji

“Love Potion,” by Fasol Prod

“Link,” by Jim Yosef

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Baby Bee Wolfkiller for the outro music.

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BSCC 088 - Claudia Kishi, Live From WSTO! Nov 20, 2017

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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 lived meme that was Dawn Siff’s Vine video resume. Oh, you’ll also probably want to have heard at least a few episodes of This American Life. So, a lot of prerequisites for this one, but it’s really worth it. Claudia gets a radio show on WSTO, Tanner delivers some very interesting factoids about terrestrial broadcast standards, Jack goes about six segments deep at one point, and we get a very special visit from a character we haven’t seen in quite some time who is taking some time off from blipping through spacetime.

Music Credits:

"My Sharona" MIDI
"mnemonic presence" by lost-radio
"Mercury" by Zookeepers & Heuse
“This Is How We Do It” (Karaoke Version) originally performed by Montell Jordan
"Overture" by Lionheart
“You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele” by SquidLord
"Little Wooden Church" by The Trumpeteers

Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music and Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 087 - Dawn and the School Spirit War Nov 13, 2017

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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 starting to fall apart at the seams. We always knew that something was going to be the catalyst for the BSC apocalypse we witnessed in this book but never in a million years could either of us have predicted that it was going to be Mary Anne’s pajamas. And to make matters worse, the civil war between the baby-sitters isn’t the only war brewing – there’s the terrifying battle of the ghosts and spirits referenced in the title, the internal crisis of faith that Dawn is undergoing, and a bit of a "war of words” (if you’ll indulge me) between our hosts about whether or not Ann is explicitly referencing the Marvel Universe in this text (she is). Stick around for some seriously glorious antics from Alan Gray and the debut of a brand new song from Superbrat.

Music credits:

“New Dawn,” by Rise Studios

“The End,” by MotionRide

“Phantom Phone Call,” by Superbrat

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 086 - Stacey vs. the BSC Nov 06, 2017

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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 finally do the right thing and cut her loose. And, listen, Tanner isn’t here to say that he told you so, BUT HE TOLD YOU SO! Other talking points include whether or not pineapple is an appropriate topping for pizza (it’s not), a new light-bringer pulling the strings in Stoneybrook, and something else that seemed notable… I can’t quite remember what it was now… I was so distracted throughout the episode by the cooing and crying of a newborn baby that I’m having trouble recalling what the last big piece of news was. Oh well! Guess you’ll have to listen and find out for yourself.

Music credits:

“March” by Kai Engel
“One Moment In Time” (Karaoke Version) originally by Whitney Houston
“I Will Follow Him” (Karaoke Version) originally from the Sister Act soundtrack
“Overture” by Lionheart
“We Are” by Kisma

Thanks to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music and Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 085 - Jessi and the Troublemaker Oct 30, 2017

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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 that bad, negligent babysitter Stacey McGill? She has been acting VERY strangely of late. Or, and just hear us out here … is there ANY chance that it could be ‘90s Canadian rap and reggae artist Darrin Kenneth O’Brien (aka “Snow”)? Probably not, frankly, but your boys are willing to consider all the options. Including the troubling possibility that we’re dealing with something even more sinister. That the nefarious troublemaking duo Ann M. Martin and Nola Thacker are forcing us to confront … The Nameless Shadow That Devours Us All. Whatever it is, there’s only one thing we truly can be sure of this week: This is all Jessi Ramsey’s fault. And we have the receipts to prove it.

Music credits:

“A Matter of Honor,” by ThePrimeCronus II

“You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord

“Time Police,” by ErikMMusic

“The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 084 - Kristy and Mr. Mom Oct 23, 2017

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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 at a prestigious ad agency in Detroit. No wait, that’s the plot of 1983’s Mr. Mom. Shit. Uh, well… pretty much the same thing happens in this book, except it’s Watson Brewer, and he doesn’t lose his job, but he does have a heart attack. (He's fine.)

Music Credits:

“Fits” by Podington Bear
“December” by Kai Engel
“Thaw” by Kai Engel
“Fearless” by TULE

As always, special thanks to Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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BSCC 083 - Super Special 012 - Here Come the Bridesmaids Oct 16, 2017

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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 sense of whatever the hell is going on in our next BSC book, Kristy and Mr. Mom. So here we are at this "coast 2 coast wedding orgy," with plenty of brides but not quite enough bridesmaids, as Mary Anne is about to discover to her eternal dismay. All that being said, Ann is kind of burying the lede here, because something else is coming in this book, something that is vastly more frightening and dangerous than even the most diabolical of bridesmaids. Though, to be fair, if she’d called this one “Here Comes the Terror Clown,” it might have hurt the sales a bit. Enjoy!

Music credits:

“Beautiful Reasons,” by Jonny Easton

“Carnival Lament,” by Robert Austin

“Overture,” by Lionheart

“The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat

“Elegy of Death,” by Robert Austin

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Baby Bee Wolfkiller for the outro music.

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