Episode 176 – Karen’s Plane Trip
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This Flashback Summer episode found Kait & Renata home alone, no cool teen baby-sitter nor responsible adult around to monitor their bedtime. Things got a little loopy. You’ve been warned. We read several books from the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series: Karen’s Plane Trip, Karen’s Witch, Karen’s Ghost, and Karen’s Kittykat Club, all “by” Ann M. Martin. We made zero jokes about “Karens,” because Karen Brewer transcends that cliche and would only ask to talk to your manager if she thought your manager might know a good scary story. Listen to this episode to briefly distract yourself from the horrors of climate change!
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Footnotes: Life Lessons We Learned from Baby-Sitters Little Sister
Coming up next: The Baby-Sitters Club Super Mystery #2: Baby-Sitters Beware by Ann M. Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the weirdest kid in Stony Brook so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.2 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.4 | And for this episode, we read Karen's witch Karen's ghost |
| 0:24.2 | Karen's kitty cat club and Karen's plane trip by Anna Martin joining us to discuss the |
| 0:32.4 | Babysitters Club little sister series spin off are Karen's Stuffed Cats |
| 0:37.7 | Moosey and Goosey. |
| 0:41.1 | Oh, we're starting |
| 0:42.2 | on such a chaotic note |
| 0:45.3 | and I feel like it's only going to spiral |
| 0:47.4 | from here. |
| 0:49.5 | First starters, |
| 0:51.1 | hi everyone. |
| 0:52.8 | You might have noticed there's four books in this and it was only supposed to be three. |
| 0:58.5 | And here's what happened. |
| 1:00.8 | Is normally I'm kind of, I'm kind of the Marianna, the podcast and I like have a spreadsheet. |
| 1:06.7 | And normally I send up emails and I make the documents. |
| 1:09.8 | It's like, here's a book we're reading. I've shared it in Google Drive. And I did that. And then in my head, I was like, yeah, Karen's witch. I need to get Karen's witch from the library. And I got it. And then just before, like, when we were going over our notes, Kay was like, wait, did you read Karen's witch? Because we said Karen's ghost. And I was like, no. Oh, yeah, it does say Karen's ghost in the spreadsheet, huh? It says Karen's ghost right here at the top of this document. I've been typing in for like an hour. And I didn't notice. And I just had it in my head that we were going to read Karen's witch. |
| 1:46.6 | So I read that and Kate read Karen's ghost, which is the correct book that we chose. |
| 1:53.5 | So we'll be doing a little comparison. |
| 1:56.6 | A little back and forth. |
| 1:58.5 | The other thing that I'll mention is that we're recording this at 9.30 at night, |
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