Strange Bedfellows

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 Sea City when Stacey went boy crazy, a condition that affects her to this very day. And the consequences of this return to the past – of this “recherche du temps perdu” – will be cataclysmic. A great storm is coming. A hurricane. A tempest of rage and hurt and remembrance that threatens to consume everything in its path. And with the darkness preceding the deluge come other dark things. Things that crawl and creep and grasp with their tendrils and their tentacles. Things that devour. Here we come, Sea City. And may Heaven protect us from what follows.

Music credits:

“Tanzen” by KieLoBoy

“Dramatic Trailer,” by Audiophile-Trax

“Love Potion,” by Fasol Prod

“Powertool Massacre,” by JBlanks

“The Dark Castle,” by Fesliyan Studios

“The One You Loved Is Gone,” by Soularflair

“Epic Halloween,” by OlexandrIgnatov

“Sadness,” by AudioRose

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,” by The Eldritch Reader

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

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“Electrifying. Dangerous. Masterful.”

–Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch

“Revealing both the dangers and payoffs of artistic ambition, The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club #9 is sure to establish Greenring as a directorial force to be reckoned with.”

–Emma Myers, IndieWire

“It would be an insult to call Shepherd a "promising" podcaster, as The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club #9 doesn't indicate mere potential - it is evidence of authentic, sometimes blazing talent.”

–Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

“The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club #9 is electric from beginning to end, a musical story of obsession, frustration and outright cruelty built on two knockout performances.”

–Tom Long, Detroit News

Music Credits:

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

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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, tumultuous romance is the biggest, juiciest mystery of all. Why is Stacey interested in Sam even though he insists on calling her “Dahling”? Why has Hodges painted Stacey with a pained grimace on her face as she and Sam dance? The boys dig into these pressing questions, with a short break to say a painful goodbye to a sad, old aquatic friend. Recommended reading this week: The 12th Century “Chansons de Geste” (preferably in the Old French), Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” and “1,001 Email Closings and Valedictions,” by Flavio Olcese. Also: It’s UGC week this week, so don’t blame any of these segments on the boys.

Music credits:

“The General’s March and Army Song,” by Mike Shetley

“Magical Mystery,” by Freddie Hangoler

“All Our Clocks Are Dying,” by Ergo Phizmiz

“Halloween’s Revenge,” by TeknoAXE

“Horror Trailer,” by Sound Tree

“Battle Area,” by Fifty Vinc

“Sadness,” by AudioRose

“Polish Funk,” by Artur Orbelyan

“Tanzen” by KieLoBoy

“Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound

“Sentimental,” by Daniel__St

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

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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 on 1998: The Podcast, the boys will select some fondly remembered pieces of media from that fine year to discuss. This week, the selections are:

I'll go ahead and warn you in advance that your opinion on Tanner may be forever tarnished due to his views on the two Buffy episodes he watched and the character assassination he does against Willow. We hope you can manage to enjoy this pilot episode despite Tanner's obvious lack of taste of culture.

Music Credits:

Our theme song is "The Insider Theme" by the Insider.

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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”), the Mouse King, Quint, and of course Logan Bruno, the dreamiest boy on two skis. Meanwhile, Stacey gets trapped in a car, Kristy has to hide her pajamas from Bart, and the horrifying Hounds of Tindalos are back again to drain your fluids with their hollow proboscises. And a brand new rule in the Wandering Frog People game! This one’s jam-packed.

Music credits:

“All Our Clocks Are Dying,” by Ergo Phizmiz

“Winter,” by SongMail

“Epic Trailer,” by YourvisualDesigner

“Tanzen” by KieLoBoy

“Jazz Sad Hip Hop,” by Black Stone Sound

“Horror Trailer,” by Sound Tree

“Rendezvous 72.5,” by Adrien Wilcox

“Bubble G Funk Electro,” by TeknoAxe

“Kill The Flesh,” by Dyman

“Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt

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

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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 our Snow Globe world to the powerful alien presence that skulks on its periphery, sniffing at the human souls it longs to possess, reaching with its tendriled hands towards all the little girls and boys building snowmen and roasting chestnuts over an open fire – oblivious to the terrors that lurk just a chimney's length away. The book is Ann M. Martin's standalone classic, "On Christmas Eve," and the ancient horror is Santa Himself. He's real, and he's coming to get you. Happy Holidays!

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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 tunnel kids are definitely walkin’ here! on their way to get a bagel with a schmear! from the nearest bodega! Then when they’re done with that, maybe they’ll wait on line and get a plain slice of pizza or a famous New York taco on Houston street, which is pronounced like “house-ton” and not like “hugh-ston” Also, the city is infested with Lovecraftian horrors the likes of which will rip your consciousness apart just by laying eyes on them. OINY!

Music Credits:

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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 activities. Or when Mallory’s committing Fashion Crimes and Hair Crimes. Or when Kristy’s just being kind of generally overbearing. How come Katy Perry never talks about any of that when she’s naively singing the praises of these California Girls? That’s the real crime. Oh, also, an ancient evil is back, so prepare to be scared!

Music credits:

“California Gurls,” by Katy Perry

“Tanzen” by KieLoBoy

“The Dark Castle,” by Fesliyan Studios

“Don’t Leave Me,” by Lionel Schmitt

“Romantic Background,” by Aleksandr Shamaluev

“Old Bad John,” by The Baby-Sitters Club Super Club Chorus

“California Girls,” by The Beach Boys

“The One You Loved Is Gone” by Soularflair

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

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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 course of an ordinary day, 10 June 1991. "Claudia" is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Claudia/Dawn and Odysseus, Becca Ramsey and Penelope, and Jamie Newton and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Stoneybrook, and Connecticut's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. [1]

Music Credits:

Notes:

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

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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 and sentient machines stalk what remains of the continent. To make matters worse, Elizabeth wants to invite Todd to the dance, but Jessica is getting in her way by spreading lies! Meanwhile, Steve is bringing shame to the whole Wakefield clan by dating someone from the wrong side of the tracks, and Rick Andover is busy being as dangerous as he is handsome. Which is a lot. Also, the school is alive. Listen in as the boys immerse themselves in the confusing and frightening world of Sweet Valley High.

Music credits:

“A Sitcom,” by HitsLab

Thanks, Sweeties!

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