Fighting Over The Card Catalog

This week we meet possibly the most conceited protagonist we've had yet! Ol' Slippery Jim DeGriz, in Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat. There are lots of explosions, misogyny, chicanery, and SO MUCH PAPER in the future! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Cause Jess sure as hell doesn't know! This week we read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!  We meet Gandalf Ted Danson, discuss the movie and stage adaptations, and did Adams predict Kindles, Google, and the Trump presidency???  Hope you read the title to the tune of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria! Gizmodo article w/ Neil Gaiman chapters about the stage productions and movie: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-stage-play-that-almost-made-douglas-adams-panic-5377393 Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com  

We've got a tasty episode this week with Thomas Rockwell's How to Eat Fried Worms! We celebrate Skyfox Day, and Steven gives us a dramatic reading of the most action-packed scene of the book, and tells us about an action-packed moment of his own life. And what does everyone eat 1.6 ounces of a year? Find out this week on Fighting Over the Card Catalog! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Happy Halloween everybody! Time to get spoopy over on Fear Street & attend a Halloween Party! There are scares, danger, revenge, murder, & teen motorcycle douchebags on a violent hunt for wine coolers! Plus Steven gives a great tip if you're ever kidnapped, plus discussion on passive aggressiveness & ableism, because we really know how to party. It's a hauntingly snarky good time! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

The episode Jess has been dreading the most! CW for dog death. This is an EMOTIONAL one, y'all! This one mainly deals with the decline of Kristy's collie, Louie, and we frankly can not handle that. But at least Stacey really weirds some bratty kids out, and then there are other baby-sitting chapters that are entirely unnecessary. BUT MAINLY ANIMAL SADZ. We were too emotional to remember to do our current reads (apologies) and if you're into ASMR sniffles, we have got. you. covered. Plus, celebrity sibling deaths! And was Ann a childhood grifter??? MAJOR CONTENT WARNING: Please skip from 46:18 to 47:48 if you're sensitive to horrible dog deaths. As you should be. Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catal

This week we delve into the delightful Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe. We get animal heavy on this episode, with a super punny murder plot, our party ruining dog, and all sorts of cat shenanigans with feline fashion, therapy, and inebriation.  We've started a Facebook Group! Come be an OG member and join in and start some discussions! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Another ghost story with Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn. Steven was SO excited. We talk about graveyards and adventures in the woods. And is Steven learning magic? We've started a Facebook Group! Come be an OG member and join in and start some discussions! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

We begin this week by going slightly off the rails into baby showers and Chik-Fil_A. But we get back on track for Christina's Ghost by Betty Ren Wright, our most controversial book yet! At least between the two of us. In the book we deal with grumpy uncles, big old houses, missing stamps, and scary ghosts. As it turns out, Steven gets pretty mad about ghosts! So we get deep into paranormal discourse. Could ghosts be real? Why do people think so? And why does Steven get irritated by them being in children's books? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-possible-scientific-reasons-for-ghosts/   We've started a Facebook Group! Come be an OG member and join in and start some discussions! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at

This week we change the focus of our show, we're now a Greta Thunburg stancast! Ok, we actually do end up back with the Baby-Sitters Club, with #10 Logan Likes Mary Anne! Where we're introduced to so many classic BSC elements. The 1st cycle of the time warp! The famous cities skirt! Kristy's uniform! Logan! Jackie Rodowsky! It's an IMPORTANT one, y'all. And Steven's latest book haul, Inside Out spoilers(?) and maybe some poop talk(?)  Also, we've started a Facebook Group! Come be an OG member and join in and start some discussions! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com  

This week we delve into the strangely numbered Palm Beach Prep series with number 1, or 4 idk, Lonely Heart. But we discuss why when we get into its weird publishing history. Plus swearing parrots, 12 year old models in icky situations and outfits, why we lie and why we laugh, and Jess possibly goes on a murderous rampage because children disrespect theatre. Normal week, really. Also, we've started a Facebook Group! Come be an OG member and join in and start some discussions! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Our new least favorite book! So much fat shaming, so many just truly terrible people. Yet a lot of people seem to really like Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements. We are bewildered.  Plus math anxiety! Yay! Also, we've started a Facebook Group! Come be an OG member and join in and start some discussions! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

IS there a ghost at Dawn's house? Doesn't matter, Dawn is CONVINCED there is. So that's it, that's the book! Well, we also meet the Perfect Perkins, Karen Brewer Karen Brewers, and Dawn's mom has the absolute GALL to date someone other than Mary Anne's dad! We also discuss Disneyland Daddies, and some horrible knock-knock jokes. Apologies. This week's books: Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby #3) by William Ritter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28110857-ghostly-echoes Evil Spy School (Spy School #3) by Stuart Gibbs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571236-evil-spy-school The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters #2) by Lucinda Riley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25905342-the-storm-sister Thanks for listening! * Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would really appreciate it! * Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. * Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at

The girls took a magazine quiz with bad consequences, so we did too! From 1953 and 1996! Is Steven a good lover? Is Jess suited for career or love? And do we both have too much attitude? And oh, the Sleepover Friends eat lots of food and sleep! Quiz links: https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2015/06/04/a-test-of-gender/ https://www.playbuzz.com/Fusion/90s-seventeen-magazine-quiz-do-you-have-too-much-attitude Jess's Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3447157-jess Steven's Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/40723439-steven-hollingsworth   Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and J

This week we meet up with Peter Hatcher's old frenemy Sheila Tubman. And we find out some of her...uh...flaws. We also get into swimming lessons, beach movies, psychological peeing, mimeograph machines, slam books, and hella dramatic sleepovers. Plus we psychoanalyze tween girls along side the president. Such summer fun!! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

Wow, we had a great first 20 minutes! But do you get to hear it? No, cause Jess didn't record it.  But once we get back on track, we head to Sea City with Stacey, Mary Anne, and the Pikes! Where we find hot lifeguards, sunburns, and friend burns. And so much LUV. Except for Karen Brewer. Steven gets mad at her again. It's fine. Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

We're back with our book bestie Anastasia Krupnik! Ya girl's got moving problems, puberty problems, boy problems...all the things! We also get into magazines, childhood goldfish, forbidden words, Awesome Mom being an awesome wing-woman, and give some mad love for library technology! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

This week we finish up the seminal V.C. Andrews classic, My Sweet Audrina. Which means we get into the REALLY messed up shit.  Will Audrina ever live a normal life? Will she ever know her true age? How many people will the damn staircase kill? And most importantly, does the 2nd Audrina still hate the 1st Audrina? And don't forget, we're having a birthday giveaway! Share and/or like any of our social media posts, or follow our pages, and each one gives you a chance to win a Half Price Books (or your local equivalent) gift card! You have through July 31st! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate it! Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places. Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube Pinterest at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdi

CW for basically everything. Time we waltzed into the fucked up world of V.C. Andrews, isn't it? So this week we read the 1st part of My Sweet Audrina, which Steven was a bit distressed to hear doesn't really cover the buckwild stuff yet. We do have creepy ass rocking chairs, shame, swiss cheese memories, god complexes, and gaslighting. SO. MUCH. GASLIGHTING. Part 2 next week!  Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate. Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places (hopefully) Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook Instagram Tumblr YouTube at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

This week we read BSC #7 Claudia and Mean Janine, which has led us to become a Janine Kishi and Jenny Prezzioso stan-cast. Join us! We also discuss which is funnier, a stroke or Multiple Sclerosis, because we know how to bring the funny!  We also begin our deep dive into the Ann M. Martin biography, which leads us to a super fascinating cat discussion! Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the best way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate. Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places (hopefully) Check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook and Instagram at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter @ CardCatalogPod and Jess @ jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com

We finish up Harriet the Spy this episode, with Harriet being a very sad girl who turns into a very angry girl. But with good reason! Those other kids are dicks! We also get into what we're reading this week, and our issues with Goodreads ratings. Our Goodreads profiles if you wanna be friends! Jess: http://bit.ly/jessgr Steven: http://bit.ly/stevengr Be sure to check out the Ephemeral New York post with Harriet's real house https://bit.ly/2KTUdMp Thanks for listening! Hey, if you’ve been enjoying our show, please share it, tweet it, tell your friends and enemies. Word of mouth is the only way podcasts grow, and we would just really appreciate. Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and all other podcast places (hopefully) check out our website at fightingoverthecardcatalog.com Find us on Facebook and Instagram at Fighting Over the Card Catalog and Twitter at CardCatalogPod and Jess at jessdigress Email us at fightingoverthecardcatalog@gmail.com