Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 01 - Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club #1)

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We have convened a club whose charter is to learn about The Baby-Sitters Club. Join us as we met the Club's founding members and learn about Kristy's mortal enemy: her mom's new boyfriend.

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Here's the full Sit Me Baby One More Time reading list:

Kristy's Great Idea
Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
The Truth about Stacey
Mary Anne Saves the Day
Dawn and the Impossible Three
Hello, Mallory
Jessi's Secret Language
Welcome to the BSC, Abby

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.7	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:11.4	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.3	Plus, these are books you should have read by now. Sit me, baby, one more time.
0:44.9	Boom, it's a podcast from the boys that overdue, a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:50.4	My name is Craig.
0:51.5	My name is Andrew.
0:52.9	Is that fair use?
0:56.8	Is that sampling? Are we good?
1:05.5	It's a, it's called a reference. Yeah, okay. It's a reference. It's an oblique reference to a, to a hit song that everybody remembers fondly.
1:11.3	Yeah, everyone loves that song. Yeah. What song? Who knows? But you figure it out. I'm not sure what we're talking about.
1:15.8	We are talking about the Babysiders Club series by Ann M. Martin.
1:16.4	This is our first episode that's about a book.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:19.1	Episode Zero, the recap of that is that we talked about Ann M.
1:22.5	Martin and the series and its storied history and how many copies it may or may not have sold across all of
1:29.3	its hundreds and hundreds of entries.
1:31.6	Well, and just how it was part of the, you know, late 20th century scholastic boom that came out of it,
1:38.3	roaring out of the 80s into your, you know, grade school classroom in the 90s.
1:45.4	Mm-hmm.
1:46.0	And just some of these franchises just didn't quit until this one did.
1:51.0	And then they sort of brought it back.
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