Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 02 - Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (The Baby-Sitters Club #2)

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

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Club has been humming along for two months until a spat of terrifying phone-based burglaries have our sitters sittin' scared! Also, it's Claudia time! Between gigs, she must repair her relationship with her sister and figure out how to catch the eye of the dreamiest poet around: Trevor Sandbourne.

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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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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.6	In artificial wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver, salvation has a price.
0:11.9	Is humanity willing to pay it?
0:13.8	In a climate ravaged landscape where AI and humans vie for political power, a journalist must unravel a murderous plot that will either up in the
0:21.5	world or save it. In 2050, investigative journalist Marcus Tully is grieving his wife and unborn
0:28.0	child 10 years after they perished in a deadly heat wave that gripped the Persian Gulf. Now the whole
0:32.8	planet is both burning and drowning and the nations of the world aside to elect a global leader to steer
0:38.2	humanity through the climate apocalypse, the final two candidates, a former U.S. president,
0:44.0	and Solomon, the first artificial intellect to hold political office. Wait a second. Whoa,
0:50.7	AI politicians. As Election Day races closer, Craig, Solomon's creator is murdered and is up to Tully to find
0:57.0	the culprit.
0:57.8	Soon Tully is unraveling a conspiracy that goes to the highest levels.
1:01.5	As the investigation heats up in the planet hurdles ever closer to the brink,
1:05.1	Tully must find the truth and convince the world to face it because salvation has a price.
1:10.2	But is humanity willing to pay it? I don't know but is humanity willing to pay it i don't know
1:13.5	if we're willing to pay i said that earlier and i wasn't sure and you just said it and i'm not still
1:17.6	not sure you're gonna have to read this book and figure it out okay you will have to read it so i'm
1:21.8	calling our listeners to action uh artificial wisdom is a pitch perfect near future thriller wrapped in a murder mystery. It's a masterclass in playing an intimate story out on a global stage dealing with the big societal issues of climate change and technology alongside genuine human drama. It adds to the growing conversation about AI by presenting a speculative world in which
1:46.2	humanity is trying to determine if surrendering control to an AI in the interests of solving
1:52.4	climate change is in the best interest of humanity in the planet. I just think that our listeners
1:57.6	might want to read artificial wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver.
2:01.8	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
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