Stuck in Stoneybrook: A Baby-Sitters Club Podcast

Feb 27 2025 139 ep. 57 mins 137
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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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Claudia Kishi, Live from WSTO!: “Oswald McBelch” (ft. Rob Harvilla!)

Feb 27 2025 84 mins  
We invited one of our favorite broadcasters to discuss Claudia’s debut on the airwaves, Rob Harvilla of “60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s” and The Ringer. Rob was a great sport and endlessly amused by the… Stoneybrook of it all. Come chat nineties and radio and Alan Gray at length, and listen to Better Than Ezra while you do it!

M20-Mary Anne and the Zoo Mystery: “Gorilla My Dreams”

Feb 13 2025 45 mins  

Dawn and the School Spirit War: “Go Back to California, You Weirdo” (ft. Dr. Yoel Inbar!)

Jan 30 2025 55 mins  
This week we had our old friend Yoel substitute for Anne while she is still without a home. Luckily, he’s a social psychologist and an expert on political division. Perfect for our current times and perfect for this book! We discuss right and left, some old school social psych, and how Emily and Yoel overlap a lot in their academic interests. Esme tries to be Anne and fails miser

Stacey vs. the BSC: “Miss Your Chips”

Jan 16 2025 47 mins  
The time has come! Stacey is FED UP with these immature dorks who are obsessed with kitty cats and toddlers. She wants mature conversations about how Andi was a baby model. What’s a girl to do? We discuss the teenage brain’s propensity to novelty and drama, what politics discussions she and the cools might have gotten into in 1995, and well, Goobers. If she was really fired, do

M19 - Kristy and the Missing Fortune: “This is a Stakeout Not a Fashion Show”

Dec 05 2024 55 mins  
Treasure hunt time! You know that means Emily is talking about both real estate development and gender performance. Kristy finds a story about Christina Thomas– MUST BE RELATED– and the girls save a squirrel-themed arboretum. Also, nostalgia! Plus a cute listener letter and some of the usual chaos brought by Anne.

Jessi and the Troublemaker: “Elephantic”

Nov 14 2024 49 mins  
Danielle is feeling better and her cancer is in remission– so her parents let her do anything she wants. Esme looks into parent behavior following a pediatric cancer remission, Emily is mad at the extra fake wedding and has some questions about everyone in this, especially Stacey, and Anne takes a dive into roller-blading… in a dystopian hellscape! Did YOU steal a car at age 9?

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!