Sit Me Baby One More Time Episode 0 - The Baby-Sitters Club, an Introduction

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be learning about the world of babysitting! We're going to read eight books in this seminal series, picking books where we meet new Club members.

This episode is a free teaser for our Sit Me Baby One More Time longread project. Patreon supporters can get new episodes monthly (Episode 1 is up right now!), but the rest won't unlock on the main feed until months after the whole series has wrapped! For more information on how to get these episodes as they are released, head to patreon.com/overduepod.

In this episode, you'll hear us discuss the background of The Baby-Sitters Club and author Ann M. Martin.

The full series 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.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh,
0:25.0	uh,
0:26.0	uh,
0:27.0	uh,
0:28.0	uh,
0:29.0	uh,
0:30.0	uh...
0:31.0	uh... Hey everybody welcome to sit me baby one more time a
0:49.0	podcast brought to you by the folks at overdue a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:55.0	My name is Craig.
0:56.0	My name is Andrew.
0:57.8	And it's time for another project.
1:01.0	We're beginning, it's a season of renewal. It's time to read long, Andrew. It's time to read long again.
1:10.0	And we're heading, we are headed back to school. A new school years beginning? Seems appropriate.
1:16.0	Yeah, and I mean we just, so we just finished reading The Iliad, which is an epic series of many books that comes together to tell one big story.
1:25.0	Yes, you know, lots of big characters, you know, lots of iconic set pieces in the illid and so we figured we'd follow it up with a with a body of work that is similar in scope. Oh definitely for sure. The
1:40.2	Iliad. So we are we are going to be reading several books in the
1:46.5	babysitters club series by Anne Emma Martin
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