BSCC Presents: Babysitting The Boy From "The Road"

Strange Bedfellows

Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring

Books, Arts

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

One of the great babysitting novels of all time, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a story about an ongoing act of ambulatory babysitting right at the very end of the world. And it's just as fun as it sounds! Now, in glorious stereo sound, you can hear two complete buffoons talk about it. What BSC novel is this based on? What tweaks could we make to make this a little bit more fun and funky? Is this, to use a technical term, "Good Clean Baby-Sitting Fun"? Answers to all these questions and more you never had inside.

Music credits:

"Majestic Journey," by Allen Grey

“Typewriter Blues,” by AllenGrey

“You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord

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

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:25.0	Well here we are back again.
0:26.7	Excited to talk about another great piece of babysitting content.
0:29.8	I love it.
0:30.8	I've always enjoyed reading about when I was young, when I was about eight years old.
0:36.4	I moved to the States and my best friend was my cousin.
0:40.0	She encouraged me to read all the babysitters club books.
0:43.3	Baby sitting has really been when I'm looking for something to read, just like a fun book
0:47.3	to pick up to take my mind off stuff, like the end of the world or whatever.
0:51.4	It feels like the end of the world sometimes.
0:54.5	I pick up something that's about babysitting usually.
0:57.6	Even if it weren't currently the end of the world or felt like the end of the world,
1:03.0	you might just want to distract yourself from the fact that you are a man.
1:09.5	My body is dying.
1:11.3	Yeah, with a body that's failing on you more than that.
1:14.5	It's on the everyday.
1:17.8	Just sort of on a little speck of dust in possibly large, inky black void and not carrying
1:25.6	it around you.
1:26.6	I can, but you are responsible for caring for a smaller man.
1:32.6	He doesn't know he's so confused, it's so scared.
1:35.9	He doesn't know yet about how bad it actually is that it's an un-carrying universe because
1:40.8	I haven't had the heart to tell him yet.
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