Stuck in Stoneybrook: A Baby-Sitters Club Podcast

Oct 31 2024 133 ep. 57 mins 116
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Pop culture, gender politics, and developmental psychology in the “Baby-sitters Club”—you didn’t know you needed it.

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Kristy and Mr. Mom: “I’ve Got My Jazzercise Class Tonight”

Oct 31 2024 51 mins  
Watson has a heart attack and Nannie is SO PETTY it’s almost INSPIRATIONAL! Join us as we discuss the psychological effects of heart attacks, the salaries of CEOs in the 1990s v. today (trigger warning, it’s very depressing), but then dance the blues away with JAZZERCISE! Also, y’all have heard of the Brementown musicians, right? RIGHT!?!?!

M18 - Stacey and the Mystery at the Empty House: “Total Surveillance”

Oct 17 2024 43 mins  
Stacey is house-sitting for the Johanssen’s while they’re in PARIS and things get spooky-ooky. Emily muses on Shannon’s thoughts on the two party system, Esme just has a bunch of nuggets (though she likes Stacey and Robert’s playful aggression/affection “punch-punch-hug”) and Anne regales us with the origin of Mad Libs! Oh, Stacey dog-sits for Carrot. Spoooooooky!

SS12 - Here Come the Bridesmaids!: “Who Says Santa Can’t Be Black?”

Oct 03 2024 52 mins  
Compulsory Heterosexuality! Sing it with us! We stay home to attend the Barrett-DeWitt wedding and head back to Palo City to watch Jack and Carol tie the knot ON THE BEACH!!?!? What?! Connecticut is SHOOK. Why did Carol have so many lava lamps? And why is Jessi a mall Santa? It’s not because she’s Black that we are concerned y’all… she’s an eleven-year old-girl. Maggie’

Portrait Collection - Stacy’s Book: “The Big Ds”

Sep 19 2024 46 mins  
Jeanne Betancourt joins the ghostwriting team and she is… old? We learn about Stacey’s pre-diabetes life and how snapshot signal events shaped her. Was her vacation buddy a hick? How is this book like "Inside Out 2"? And what kinda MTV timeline are we really talking here? Tune in and find out!

Mallory Pike, #1 Fan: “Deflaming Our Characters”

Sep 05 2024 59 mins  
Mallory gets to meet her favorite author, work for her, get help with a school assignment, and also act like a total B! Why is she like this? Emily talks about the role of authorial intent in philosophy, Esme examines if Mallory’s behavior is normative adolescent egocentrism, and Anne tells us how she could easily make a Lemon Twist, a seventies progenitor of the Skip-It. How man

M17 - Dawn and the Halloween Mystery: “Early American Ninja Turtle”

Aug 22 2024 59 mins  
There’s an armed robber in Palo City and Dawn is on the case! Emily talks about the messages about crime and criminals and we try to decide why we learned so much about Connecticut real estate in this California story. Also, why are emotions discussed like that? And are you team St. Ive’s apricot scrub, or are you Emily? Tune in to find out!

Mary Anne Breaks the Rules: “I Need Sackbut Lessons”

Aug 08 2024 50 mins  
Mary Anne asks Logan to play with Jake– but doesn’t tell anyone. And then still doesn’t. Watch her and Logan act like teens while we discuss some of the messages about gender and fatness and then do a whole lot about haunted houses! Oooooooh it’s so spooky for August!

Special Edition Reader’s Request: Shannon’s Story: “These Moms are Killers”

Jun 27 2024 51 mins  
We finally get a whole book from Shannon’s perspective! And it is… incredibly melancholy and lonely? We watch Mrs. Kilbourne wrestle with the “problem that has no name” while Shannon hates her for it. It’s… a bummer. But the BSC’s Mother’s Day softball game sounds hecka fun! Tune in to hear whether Shannon is a brat or just sad and whether or not we would have dippe

Anniversary Super Special 4: “Fruit and Flowers”

Jun 18 2024 52 mins  
It’s been four years of Stuck in Stoneybrook! Enjoy this bonus episode of us answering listener questions and pondering our future. (Ponder, ponder, ponder.) We sound kind of sleepy in this one, but we are enthusiastic on the INSIDE! Thank you for four years of fun!!!

Claudia and Crazy Peaches: “Snort, snort, snort”

Jun 13 2024 57 mins  
Claud’s Aunt Peaches is moving back to Stoneybrook! And she’s pregnant! But this is a book about Claudia’s family, so of course it’s full of tragedy! Em highlights the message being sent when a competent working woman is thrilled to give it up to be a mom and then doesn’t get to be a mom. Esme examined the data on nesting behavior and explains why new kid Natalie is so pe