You were an inspiration. Thank you. Have I ever told you that? Tell me that every day in my life. Okay, good.

In 86, an M. Martin broke the first book of what became a clock. Now it's time. The babysitter's club won.

Hi, I'm Jack Shepherd. Nope, you make it bad. Hi, I'm Jack Shepherd. And I'm Tanner Greenring. And this is the first season of our podcast, the babysitters club club.

Every week we're going to be talking about a different book in an M. Martin's classic babysitters club franchise in chronological order, beginning with Christie's great idea.

We'll be talking about our favorite characters. Claudia is wearing a brawnow. And the way she talks about boys, you would think you would think that they had just been invented.

Yeah, delving into hidden themes. Do we have time to talk about the themes of prohibition and language in this book? I don't.

This is what happens every time I open up to Jack. I start I start emoting to him. I'm like, oh, I just need to I just need to talk something through.

He always like latches on to some piece of fascinating minutiae. And he's like actually pushes up its glasses. Actually, and that is why Jack is the Jeanine. Jeanine is that same way. Jeanine is incapable of these deep emotional connections.

I think we've time to talk about themes of persecution and alienation in this novel. Can't wait.

No, no, I want to talk about it. I got your scratch in the surface of this. There's a lot of like patriarchy in this book. There's a lot of toxic masculinity controlling these girls lives. Thank you.

Yeah, I think it starts with language and learning about ourselves and each other as we take this journey. Everyone's calling her a baby. Yeah, Christie is constantly calling her a baby. Like what you get to matter. She yells baby baby, baby.

And screams at her. And she's a baby, but she's like who watches the watchman exactly.

Can you imagine the tension of that? You're like you're a fucking baby sitter. Like that's who you are. That's what you do.

But be inside. You're not sure if you're not a baby. Fuck man. That hits me so close to home. This is you. God, I'm such a Marianne. Yeah.

Subscribe to our show and read along with us as we pick the strands out of this delicate tapestry that Ann Marten has woven for us in order to weave a brand new pattern of our very own.

It's never explicitly stated that these are human beings. Yes, this is my point. This is not necessarily true life.

This is an alternate reality. No, no, no. This is a beehive. What? These are bees. Every character in this book is a bee. And they are all just raising bees. Yeah.

For the brewed queen. We'll be back on Monday, February 29th with our very first episode.

You're a Marianne in different ways than I am. Like I think I'm a Marianne because I think I'm smart. But you think you're a Marianne because you think you're insecure.

Deeply. Yeah. Deeply insecure. Yeah. Wow. That's powerful. I'm the baby who's babysitting. Yeah.

In 86, Ann Marten wrote the first book of what became a clock. Now it's time. The babysitter's Club Club.