Stuck in Stoneybrook: A Baby-Sitters Club Podcast

Jan 30 2025 137 ep. 57 mins 124

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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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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!

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!