The Baby-Sitters Club Club is a comedy podcast hosted by Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring. The co-hosts read and analyze books from Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series of young adult novels. The first episode released in February 2016, and the episodes release weekly. Background Shepherd first read the books as a child, borrowing them all from his cousin, shortly after moving from England to the United States. Shepherd and Greenring are former colleagues at BuzzFeed and have been friends for many years. Format Episodes are generally one hour long and focusing on one book. Special episodes "BSCC: Secret Santa - Secret Episode." The 2016 Christmas episode. "BSCC Special Christmas." The 2017 Christmas episode. "SVBB 001: Double Love." A pilot episode about the Sweet Valley High books. "BSCC: On Christmas Eve." The 2018 Christmas episode. "1998: The Podcast 001." A pilot episode of a show about pop culture from 1998. The episode includes material about The REM album Up, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season two finale "Becoming" "High Brow/Low Brow 001." A pilot episode of a show about highbrow culture versus lowbrow culture. The topics are The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot and Green Lantern comics. "The Baby-Sitters Club Movie." Discussion of The Baby-Sitters Club movie. "Daddy Eats Cat Food." Shepherd and Greenring explore ideas after finishing the Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries series. "The Lerangismas Episode." The 2019 Christmas episode. "BSCCD-ROM: The Baby-Sitters Club Friendship Kit." Shepherd and Greenring play the PC game "The Baby-Sitters Club Friendship Kit." "Two Men Play With Dolls." Shepherd and Greenring play with dolls they bought on EBay. Patreon The show has a related mini-show on Patreon, called "The Baby Sitters Baby Elite, Elite Baby, Little Sister BIG Episodes," about the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series. Reception Katie MacBride, writing for Bookriot, said, "Yes, Jack borders on being the annoying guy in Literary Theory 101 who came to class wearing a fedora and refused to refer to the book as anything other than 'the text.' I know, doesn’t seem worth listening to on its own. But Tanner is the guy who came to that class solely so he can make fun of Jack and that is super worth listening to." USA Today called the show "a bizarre premise that's wonderfully executed . . . It’s roughly as productive as an actual book club, in that it includes a good amount of alcohol, very little