Stories That Stick with Chad Quandt

Runways Vol 1. Part 2 with Chad Quandt

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:00:55 +0000

I hope I pod before I get old... that's right we're back with Part 2 of our episodes on Marvel's Runaways! Your host Chad Quandt and Producer Jakylln Heidi cover Issues #6-18 of Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alphona's beloved original run.

Six LA teens realize their parents are legit evil. Their only plan is to hit the road and fight back. But one of these youths is a parent-loving mole. Can the Runaways stay ahead of trouble? Why did this comic from 2003 stick with young Chad? We also discuss why Jesus Christ hasn't appeared in the Marvel universe yet. Enjoy the episode!

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Credits

Hosted, Produced and Edited by Chad Quandt

Associate Produced by Jakylln Heidi Quandt

Theme music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by VidaZen

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Psychoville with James Hamilton

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:00:06 +0000

I know what you did.... and that was listening to this episode! Chad is joined by writer James Hamilton (Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld, Murder for Dummies) to dive into the psychological horror/black comedy/ mystery Psychoville. Created by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton for the BBC, Psychoville follows five blackmailed sociopaths unraveling the secrets that connect them. Trust us; it's actually very funny!

Chad and James talk about the entire first series and how it influenced James' writing and sensibilities, especially his latest ventriloquist mockumentary Murder for Dummies. We also mourn the loss of physical media like the millennials we are.

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Credits

Edited by Cyrus Soliman

Theme music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by VidaZen

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jakylln Heidi, and Cloud Dad

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Runways Vol 1. Part 1 with Chad Quandt??

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:49 +0000

What if your parents didn't just suck, what if they were super villains running Los Angeles? Would you accept your dark inheritance? Or hit the road and form a teenage super team with your psychic velociraptor? Producer Jakylln Heidi turns the tables and interviews Chad to talk about a story that meant a lot for your host. Runaways is Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alphona's contribution to the Marvel universe, introducing a young cast that has preserved through 'The House of Idea's multi-verse crossovers and reboots. This episode covers issues #1-6 of the original 2003 run, and we'll return for more Runaways next month! Enjoy.

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Credits

Edited by Ben Ravid

Theme music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by VidaZen

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jakylln Heidi, and Cloud Dad

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Hell in a Cell: Mankind vs. The Undertaker with Joey Clift

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:00:01 +0000

Bah gawd, the podcast is coming down the ramp! Your host Chad Quandt is joined by writer/director/wrestling hat boy Joey Clift (Pow!, Spirit Rangers) to discuss one of the greatest matches in professional wrestling. It's Pittsburgh, 1996: a less established Mick Foley aka Mankind desires to give a worthy show against living nightmare The Undertaker. Mankind sacrifices his body for the fans, starting off with a 22-foot fall into the tables below. This is a story about perseverance and what an artist sacrifices for their audience.

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Supplemental Materials

MJF vs Jericho: Dinner Debonair

Roman Reigns booed as a babyface

Credits

Edited by Ben Ravid

Theme music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by VidaZen

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jakylln Heidi, and Cloud Dad

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X-Men: E is for Extinction with Ben Joseph

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:58:07 +0000

It's time to stop blasting sentinels and dive into the cosmic jazz of podcasting! Your host Chad Quandt is joined by writer Ben Joseph (Invincible Fight Girl, Dropout, Star Trek: Lower Decks) to cover a bold relaunch of the X-Men from 2001 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. New enemy Cassandra Nova invades the mansion, we learn about secondary mutations, and we meet old/new character Emma Frost. How did this comic influence Ben's own storytelling? What's his dream team of mutants? And is Xavier always walking around with a gun?

CREDITS

Edited by Ben Ravid

Music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jakylln Heidi, and Cloud Dad

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Baywatch Nights: The Creature with Domi

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:00:16 +0000

This podcast is a mutant-- a mermaid/frog/siren/cat that just wants to survive in a strange world. Also when threatened we will explode like we're filled with C4. Host Chad Quandt is joined by returning guest Domi (Paperback Paradise, Goosebuds co-founder!) to cover another episode of the 'cult classic' Baywatch Nights. In "The Creature" David Hasselhoff's Mitch is brought in to investigate a strange woman who escaped from a lab and is maybe a killer frog. Kinda like those Hunter monsters from Resident Evil? But hot? Well, hotter? While Mitch runs into places with an unregistered gun, Angie Harmon's Ryan looks at loose meat cells. Did this story stick to us?

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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Vin Diesel on The Kelly Clarkson Show | New Song Premiere | Feel like I Do

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The Chair with John McEnroe

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Species 2 Trailer

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Pottersville Trailer

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CREDITS

Edited by Ben Ravid

Music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jakylln Heidi, and Cloud Dad

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The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan with Kayla Cline

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:06:18 +0000

Something sinister is hidden in the history of auteur M Night Shyamalan, and only one documentarian Nathaniel Khan can figure it out. Except... this documentary is a fraud scam? In 2004 M Night had fake documentary The Buried Secret of M. M. Night Shyamalan made for the Sci-Fi channel to promote his upcoming film The Village. It blew up spectacularly and few saw it. Except for our guest illustrator and game-maker Kayla Cline (All Elite Wrestling, Heckna, The Rite of Rumble) who watched this live on late night cable.

Kayla and host Chad Quandt go scene-by-scene through this glorious disaster of a vanity project. We uncover the big, buried questions: Who are the psychic hackers on M.Night's website? Does M. Night have a magical domain in Philadelphia? And who is his friend Henry the Dead Victorian Boy?

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CREDITS

Edited by Ben Ravid

Music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

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Independence Day with Ed Skudder

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:00:17 +0000

Behold the first official episode of Stories That Stick. What sort of magnificent acclaimed story are we covering first? (checks notes) Roland Emmerich's 1996 super blockbuster Independence Day?! Director and showrunner Ed Skudder (The Super Mario Bros Movie, Unikitty!, Dick Figures) joins host Chad Quandt to talk about why this movie caused a ripple effect through all future summer blockbusters including Ed's work, how it turbo-launched the careers of Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, and why three decades later it still holds up. We also discuss being blockbuster scumbags, the chronology of the Fast franchise, and Apex Presidents.

Supplemental Materials:

G Gundam Fight - US vs Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4lxJo18KYU

Ed on Instagram (@edskudder) https://www.instagram.com/edskudder/

Ed Skudder “Welcome to Earth”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMtOdVro_xs

Ed Skudder ‘Tectonic’ music video

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CREDITS

Edited by Ben Ravid

Music by Ed Skudder

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jakylln Heidi, and Cloud Dad

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Announcing... Stories That Stick & Goosebuds Returns!

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:05:11 +0000

Hey listeners,

I'm excited to share some big changes to the podcast! If you've been listening this past year we've already made format changes-- covering wider ranges of nostalgic media as it shifts into a solo-host show. This two-month break gave me the breathing room I need to figure out what gets me most excited for the show and what will build off we're already doing. Let's get into it!

Stories That Stick is our new main format-- inviting funny and insightful guests on to talk about classic media (books, movies, TV, games!) that have stories that 'stuck' with them. I wanna talk about not just how wild these stories are, but how they were formative for the guests and inspire them. And sometimes we'll revisit something we thought was great but actually kinda stunk. But we'll figure out why they still resonated with us! The last six months of the show are basically already this format, now with a clearer vision and names.

And Goosebuds will live on as a monthly bonus episode! Hosted by myself and Associate Producer Jakylln Heidi who's read ten times the amount of Young Adult books as me. I'm excited to dive back into the works of R.L. Stine, K.A. Applegate, and other classics. That's available on Patreon, along with our other bonus show Campfire Hang, ad-free versions of the show, and our community Discord. All at patreon.com/storiesthatstick.

Thank you for listening to Goosebuds in the past and thank you for continuing on this podcast journey with me.

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Goosebuds is back in October!

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:00:49 +0000

Hey Goosebuds listeners, your host Chad here.

Those on the Patreon have already gotten a heads up– but Goosebuds is taking a two month pause– from August and September. The reason is I’ve been swamped in work at my day job. By the way, I can finally announce I’ve been working these past two years as lead writer on the upcoming series Avatar: Seven Havens. That’s about the elemental warriors; not the James Cameron blue cat people.

Goosebuds will return in the spookiest month of October, with great guests and topics lined up. It’s meant a lot to have many of you accompany me on this new version of the podcast– expanding beyond R.L. Stines works and covering other media that gives us goosebumps.

But we can’t do this show without you wonderful supporters on Patreon. Not only do you get access to bonus Camp Goosebuds episodes and our Discord, but you shape the direction of the show. Want us to cover specific media? Want us to rotate in more R.L. Stine? Then join the Patreon. That’s patreon.com/goosebuds.

Hope you have a good rest of your summer. We'll see you all in October.

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28 Days Later / 28 Years Later with Ben Ravid

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:00:55 +0000

Hello?! Anyone in this abandoned church? Want to talk about infected rage zombies? Your host Chad Quandt is joined by editor Ben Ravid (Invincible Fight Girl, Big Nate, this show!) to gush about the acclaimed movie that kicked off the modern zombie craze: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 Days Later. And we also talk about the just released followup that is almost literally 28 Years Later. How would Chad and Ben survive an apocalypse? How amazingly badass is Selena with a machete? And what the hell is that Power Rangers cliffhanger? Spoilers abound for both films. Enjoy the episode!

Movies discussion begins: 16:50

Other Topics: Superman 2025 (no spoilers), 30 Days of Night, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Last of Us

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Edited by Ben Ravid

Album art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jacqueline Heidi, and Cloud Dad LLC

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Poltergeist with Jordan Morris

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:00:02 +0000

They're here! Chad is joined by returning guest Jordan Morris (Bubble, Youth Group, Jordan Jesse Go!) to talk Tobe Hooper and Stephen Spielberg's 1982 classic Poltergeist. A surprising blend of supernatural horror and Amblin family charm. This is a movie where in first 30 minutes a boy is vored by a tree! We also discuss Chad's lost Heathcliff movie pitch.

MOVIE DISCUSSION BEGINS: 13:05

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Edited by Ben Ravid

Album art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

Produced by Chad Quandt, Jacqueline Heidi, and Cloud Dad LLC

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Grandpa's Magical Toys with Brian David Gilbert

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:00:59 +0000

Something stirs in grandpa's playroom; a toy clown Punchinello that can come alive on a whim. Can three kids find Grandpa's secret magical key and escape before they die from endless hop scotch games?

Your host Chad Quandt is joined by writer/comedian/singer Brian David Gilbert (Um, Actually; Unraveled) to discuss this beloved film from his childhood: WeeSing's Grandpa's Magical Toys. And we're then joined by a surprise guest; Kevin Hangeman (Trollhunters, Star Trek Prodigy) who plays the lead kid Peter! He's grown a bit since the 80s.

OFF TOPICS: The Gamers Throne, Clair Obscur’s French culture, Brian’s animation writing journey

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Edited by Ben Ravid

Album art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

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It Came From New Jersey with Tim Jacobus! (Episode 200!)

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Happy 200th, Goosebuddies! It's been a wild decade of the pod and we're happy to celebrate with honored guest Tim Jacobus, original artist of Goosebumps! We talk about his biography It Came From New Jersey, his love of rock album covers, staying in Jersey, and the surprise photo references for his iconic covers.

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Edited by Ben Ravid

Album art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Addition music by Kevin Macleod

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The Backrooms / House of Leaves with Elspeth Eastman

Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality, you'll end up in the backrooms. And you may also download this episode and end up listening to host Chad Quandt and guest Elspeth Eastman (Rift of the NecroDancer, League of Legends) discus infamous new-horror creepypasta that will soon be a major motion picture. Beyond this /x/-fueled creation, we talk about Chad's favorite book; Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Both deal with liminal, infinite spaces. Grab a buddy before heading into the abyss.

OFF TOPICS: Beautiful Cincinnati, our traumas from The Sport, improving baseball rules

Backrooms/Book discussion: 13:00

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Gyo w/ James Willems

Mon, 12 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Something's foul in the air, and we swear it's not us. Your host Chad Quandt is joined by triple-threat actor/writer/wrestler James Willems (Answer For It!, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Funhaus) to discuss one of Junji Ito's largest works; the stinky book Gyo (known as 'Fish: Ghastly Squirming' in Japan). A 'death stench' has taken over Okinawa, followed by an army of walking rotten fish, sharks, and eventually entire improv troops of stink people. This terror tome includes The Sad Tale of the Principal Post and the legendary short story The Enigma of Amigara Fault. This podcast was made for you! Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: anxiety in time-based games, Dead Rising, Zack Snyder apologists, Jesus the Original Wake and Bake, Bible: Infinity War

Book discussion begins: 10:00

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Speed with Alexis Bevels & Darby Lynn Cartwright

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Vroom voom, Goosebuddies. You wanna know what gives host Chad Quandt and guests Alexis Bevels & Darby Lynn Cartwright (IMHO the Show/Podcast) goosebumps? Dangerous highway infrastructure! We check out the 1994 action classic Speed, starring Keanu Reeves pre-Matrix and Sandra Bullock pre-Congeniality. This podcast can't go below 60 jokes per hour or we'll explode. Pop quick hot shot; will you enjoy this episode?

As a Patreon bonus-- and something we're trying out for future episodes-- this episode of Goosebuds has a special video version for our Patreon supporters at the Camp level. Watch our live reactions to jokes about Dennis Hopper, gaze at our offices and recording closets! The regular audio version will be live for all tomorrow. And let me know what you think about video versions in the future. Happy 420/Easter!

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The Faculty with Brock Gallagher

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Hope your thirsty for horror movie discussion, Goosebuddies. Your host Chad Quandt is joined by animation director Brock Gallagher (aka avant-garde V-Tuber NilbogLive). Before the Spy Kids era, Robert Rodruigez was a pretty cool director. Teamed with Scream's writer Kevin Williamson makes for The Faculty; a great 90s take on body snatchers and Animorphs-adjacent teenagers. As walking contradiction Zeze would say, this podcast is guaranteed to jack you up.

OFF TOPICS: Monster Hunter obtuseness, big monkey flatulence mods, server snooping, deer hunting parades

Movie Discussion begins: 11:17

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Bionicle: The Mask of Light w/ Payton Whaley

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

What sort of creepy story are we covering on the first episode of Goosebuds where Chad is solo host? A 2003 Lego fantasy toy ad. Yes, Goosebuddies. It's true. But we'll get to scary stuff again. Chad Quandt is joined by guest Payton Whaley (Flyover Culture, A Moment of Science) to review the first of many Lego movies about the dark fantasy island Mata Nui who is protected by Toa elemental warriors. Wait, is everything in this named after culture from South East Asia? YIKES. I guess this IS a scary story!

Movie discussion begins: 16:30

OFF-TOPICS: Disney Adults, Captain America: Brave New World Order World, OC fanfic character Red Hulk, John Cena makes a kid cry, Marvel Ultimatum’s vore poetry, Hickman’s Ultimates, The Amazing Paul

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Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Album art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

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The Tale of the Dangerous Soup (Are You Afraid of the Dark?)

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Hope you're hungry for podcasts, Goosebuddies. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole celebrate the end of an era for this show by watching the 90s Are You Afraid of the Dark episode 'The Tale of the Dangerous Soup'. Dr. Vink is running a strange bistro with an expensive soup that is bringing old rich people in by the bakers' dozen! But what's the secret ingredient? What's the deal with this lawn ornament? Why is it being milked? And hey Neve Campbell is in this! They also discuss Uncle Ben in card games and Wolverine's brain regenerating.

And this is the last official episode with Paul and Kevin as regular hosts. They'll both be missed and their spirits will linger over the campfire for decades to come. This is a big shift in The Ice Church mandates. Thank you all for listening and Chad will return for the third wave of Goosebuds later this month! Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: Marvel Snap, sacrificing Uncle Ben, Magic sleeveless degenerates, future Chad problems, Wolverine’s brain regenerating

Episode discussion begins: 13:53

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The Tale of the Pinball Wizard (Are You Afraid of the Dark?)

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Ever since we were young boys, we watched Are You Afraid of the Dark/ From Philly to South Bend, we've seen them all/ But somehow this is the first time we're covering the show on Goosebuds!/ That sure was a mean episode!

The Goosebuds Boys Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole check out the 90s Nickelodeon episode Are You Afraid of the Dark called 'The Tale of the Pinball Wizard'. This is a very inaccurate portrayal of pinball and arcade games. Sorta what your grandpa thinks a SNES game is. But poor Ross is sucked into this mall adventure where rules are nonsense and quarters are sometimes marbles! We also end up discussing the upcoming Avatar the Last Airbender X Magic the Gathering set. Enjoy the episode!

OFF TOPICS: Magic the Gathering, Avatar the Last Airbender, Showgirls on VH1, Marvel Rivals

TV discussion begins: 28:15

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Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

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Cover art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

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Where The Toys Come From

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:32:35 +0000

Have you ever wondered where toys come from? They're not really from Santa Claus nor your divorced parents trying to win your love. They're from Japan! Chad, Paul, and Kevin check out the lost 1983 Disney home video Where The Toys Come From; a 'Showcase' preceding Toy Story where two small toys Zoom and Peepers learn time travel, fight foreign toys, and meet their god Kenji. Enjoy the toy parades!

Off Topics: Vampire Neck Defense, Bread, Paul in Japan, City Pop, Kōji Yakusho

Movie discussion starts: 26:45

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Ep 191 - Goosebumps: The Vanishing (TV)

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000

It's Schwimmer Time! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the latest season of Goosebumps: The Vanishing, starring David Schwimmer of Run Fatboy Run and Madagascar fame. This modern retelling of the classic 'Stay Out Of The Basement' begins another serialized season of teenagers and adults hopping through other old 'Bump books. How does Season 2 compare to Justin Long's Season 1? What does 'bussin' mean? And who exactly is this show for besides us? (SPOILERS: We cover episodes 1 & 2 "Stay Out of the Basement, Part I & 2" but also have small discussion of episodes 3 and 4 'The Haunted Car' & 'Monster Blood'.

We also have big updates to the future of the podcast. Thank you again for listening and being part of this show!

OFF TOPICS: Ten Candles, Chad vs. The California Wildfires, Richard Ayodae's Crystal Maze, Dee Bradley Baker, Taskmaster, Innit?

Show discussion begins: 18:30

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Ep 190 - 'Dragon's Heaven' & 'Angel's Egg'

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Prepare for something a bit different, Goosebuddies! While Chad flees the LA fires (don't worry; he's safe), Paul and Kevin gather to talk about two pieces of non-R.L. media they enjoy. The anime OVA classics: 1988's 'Dragon's Heaven' by Makoto Kobayashi and 1985's 'Angel's Egg' by Mamoru Oshii. Both about girls wandering desolate apocalypse landscapes. Hope you enjoy this departure from our usual fare. We're exploring more art to discuss for this podcast and want to hear from you about it on Patreon!

OFF TOPICS: Spyro, Sauna 2000, 2D vs 3D Games, Storylords!, SuperTry Intros

Discussion starts: 12:15

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Ep 189 - Recess - 'Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave' & Rocko's Modern Life - 'Can't Squeeze Cheer From A Cheese Log'

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Oh Come, All Ye Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole revisit two 90s cartoon holiday episodes. First we check out ABC's Recess's politically correct 'Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave' guest starring James Earl Jones and Michael McKean in which Chad's cartoon proxy Mikey challenges 3rd Street to prove Santa is real.

We then shift to the more subversive with Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life's holiday episode 'Can't Squeeze Cheer From a Cheese Log!' otherwise known as Rocko's Modern Christmas. Rocko's hoping friends come by for the holidays, including some mysterious elves next door. Is Santa dead? Are Elves keeping the legend alive like the Bat Family does in Batman's absence? Unsure, but a cloud poops snow and Mr. Bigfoot gets capped in the knee. Pretty good.

We also talk about Sonic the Hedgehog canon and Chad's love for the female southern brawler archetype. Enjoy and happy holidays!

Off-TOPICS: Bunnie Rabbot

Discussion starts at 9:56

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Ep 188 - The Streets of Panic Park

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuddies Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Horrorland 'finale' The Streets of Panic Park. Sixteen (!!) book protagonist kids are globbed together to face the edgelord villain The Menace who hopes to scare the kids so bad they'll jump realities. And in what should be the hypest moment in all of Goosebumps, Slappy leads a group of villain allies! Can these kids and monsters escape Panic Park and get back to Horrorland- which they are also escaping from? This book was such a mess it caused an emotional crisis in your hosts and we need to lie down. Enjoy the episode!

Book discussion: 13:10

OFF-TOPICS:

Being Shaken (Jostled)
How Many Legs Do Ants Have? We check it out.
Speed Racer's Mach V Pogo Leg
Wacky Racers X Fast & Furious

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Ep 187 - Adventure! - The Invaders of Hark

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

We're back to Hark as the Goosebuddies Chad, Paul, and Kevin adventure through the second (and last) of R.L. Stine's sci-fi Choose Your Own Adventure series: The Invaders of Hark. We're thrust into the city of Hark where multiple alien factions fight for control and a beautiful princess. These books are brutal with only one correct path. Will we survive?

OFF TOPICS: Paul's adventures in Unreal Engine, Godot

Adventure begins: 15:30

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UPDATE TO PATREON: Due to changes on Patreon's side we're being forced to shift from our per creation setup (where you'd pledge tiers and pay for each episode released a month) to a monthly subscription (a flat fee tier). Our goal is to make this as least disruptive as possible. Here's the summary of new tiers.

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Our exclusive Goosebuds Discord
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As we always put out at least two regular episodes a month this shouldn't change the overall amount you were pledging, just how and when it's charged. But this is not an automatic shift. You'll need to adjust your tiers to the new levels!

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Ep 186 - Escape From Horrorland

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

We gotta escape from Horrorland! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps: Horrorland: Escape From Horrorland. A hell of a title. The last ten books have been building up to this; the YA equivalent of Avengers as all our survivng kids team up with original survivors Lizzy and Luke to run around in circles in a paranormal park that isn't even Horrorland! This horde of kids' goal is to get BACK to Horrorland to then escape it. This is indeed literature.

Topics Include: Patreon Changes, The California Raisins

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UPDATE TO OUR CURRENT PATRONS: Due to changes on Patreon's side we're being forced to shift from our per creation setup (where you'd pledge tiers and pay for each episode released a month) to a monthly subscription (a flat fee tier). Our goal is to make this as least disruptive as possible, but Patreon hasn't been great about that as we're waiting for settings to change and working with their support team. We have a more extensive explanation incoming but here's the summary of new tiers.

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Our exclusive Goosebuds Discord
Early access to episodes before they go live
Voting on episodes we read next!

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Camp Goosebuds bonus episodes every month
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Ep 185 - Help! We Have Strange Powers

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Help! We have a new podcast episode! Your hosts Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole check out R.L. Stine's 2009 Horrorland book Help! We Have Strange Powers. The powers these twin protagonists get are surprisingly easy to categorize: telepathy and telekinesis. Well, technically there's a subset of time power but it's really just a psychic baby ray. Enjoy the episode!

Book discussion begins:

OFF-TOPICS: Revenge Of, Saving Books for the Apocalypse. Little Book Libraries, The Book of Eli. Pseudo Harem, Dandadan, Uzumaki

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Ep 184 - Family Matters: "Stevil"

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuds Boys check out the 90s sitcom Family Matters' late series episode 'Stevil'. Brought to life by a casual wish and a bolt of lighting, 'Stevil' is here to kill the Winslows and I guess help Urkel's ventriloquism career? They don't really work on their standup set at all. You know, this was once a sitcom about a blue collar family growing up in Chicago. Then Urkelmania took over the world. But how does this haunted doll episode compare to R.L. Stine's own wooden boy?

Discussion begins: 10:30

Off Topics: Chad's Puzzle Box Proposal, Lockpicking

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Ep 183 - Welcome to Camp Slither

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000

S-s-s-so good to be back, Goosebuddies! We were doing a snake thing there-- was that clear? Your hosts Paul Ritchey and Kevin Cole enroll in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book Welcome to Camp Slither. There are rumors of man-eating snakes at camp, but no reports on if they'll eat the other genders. And when we rejoin the Horrorland arc a terrifying ride called the R.I.P.P.E.R. Dipper threatens to do some sort of ripping. Hopefully not to their butts. We also talk about recent Magic sets and indie games we're digging. Enjoy the episode!

Book discussion begins: 22:45

OFF TOPICS: Duskmourn: House of Horror, UFO 50

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Ep 182 - Pete & Pete: 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation'

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Summer's over, Goosebuddies. How did you spend it? Were you hunting for buried cars at the beach? Attacking the pool lifeguard with psychic damage? Or tracking down a beloved but lonely ice cream man? The Goosebuddies check out The Adventures of Pete & Pete's classic episode "How I Spent My Summer Vacation", arguably one of the best in the series. And Michael Stipe is there!

Episode discussion: 17:30

Off-Topics: Secret Level, Crying

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Ep 181 - Animorphs: The Suspicion

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Behold the glory of the Helmacrons! Your hosts Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole take a Goosebumps break to read through arguably the weirdest Animorphs book; The Suspicion by K.A. Applegate. The kids' war campaign against the Yeerks is interrupted by the arrival of the Helmacrons, miniature space people with giant egos. Enjoy the episode!

Book discussion starts: 9:15

OFF TOPICS: Nyx the dog, hard hitting Sports insight

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Ep 180 - Say Cheese -- And Die Screaming!

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000

The Goosebud Boys Chad, Paul, and Kevin face the Horrorland version of R.L. Stine's infamous haunted camera: Say Cheese -- And Die Screaming! That dash is in a weird place, right? It's the wrong pause? Anyway, somehow the rules of these deadly photo predictions have changed since last book. Are the spirits getting more artistic? Or just lazier? And we also try to answer the question: what happens to waste on an airplane?

Book discussion: 9:40

OFF TOPICS: Where Does Airplane Poop Go?, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Dirt

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Ep 179 - Adventure! - Track Star!

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Tighten your shoes and do some stretching, cuz we got a big track meet today! Your Goosebuds hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the Choose Your Own Adventure book Track Star! by R.A. Montgomery. We're a high school athlete with a lot of pressure to run the fastest and longest to get that college scholarship and make dad proud. And somehow all paths lead to performance enhancing drugs. Will we get busted for juicing? Will we rat out our fellow teammates? Or will our legs blow out in the middle of a 200m? Check it out and enjoy this heart-pounding episode!

Adventure starts at 22:00

Off-Topics: Presidential Fitness Test, GUN TECH, Runner's High, The Pros and Cons of Bloodletting

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Ep 178 - Welcome to Dead House REDUX

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Holy hells, Goosebuddies. This episode marks our 10th Anniversary of the podcast. We started in 2014 with a mission to cover the works of R. L. Stine and we still have mountains of pulp to go through. But in honor of the celebration we take a look back at the story that started it all: Welcome to Dead House! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole re-review this 1992 book about a sort of terrifying time share. Then we hop around the timeline and inspect 2014 and the modern year to see how this franchise has changed with the world and us. And we celebrate Kevin getting to read this book for the first time! We also talk booby traps and the laws concerning them.

Thank you all for an incredible decade of this show. Your continued love and support keeps us going and it's meant a lot to have this audio cabin void to sneak away to and talk about 90s kids horror. Enjoy the episode!

Book Discussion starts at 26:45

Off-Topics Include: 2014 Paul, Our Ideal Ghost House Features, 1992, Goosebuds: Origins

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EP 177 - Adventure! - You Are A Shark

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000

It's time to morph into a shark! But sadly we're not reading Animophs and fighting an alien resistance, we're a dumb kid trespassing into an ancient temple and cursed by a vague monk! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through the 80s Choose Your Own Adventure book: You Are A Shark by Edward Packard. Despite the direct title, it's really hard for us to get the animal form we want and really run through the fauna of the world. Will we get to punch out that smug mystic cursing us? Or will we die to humans? This is one of the most brutal CYOA stories, evoking the infamous Back to Pass episode.

Adventure starts at 12:23

Off-Topics: Trouble is a fake idea, the idea of sharks

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Ep 176 - My Friends Call Me Monster

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Do you know what it's like to be considered a beast by your classmates? To be so big but also good at computers? A teenage Hank McCoy? At least one of hosts does and this episode hits hard. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book My Friends Call Me Monster. This is a weird story about monster closets and egg-based horror. Not recommended for vegans!

Book discussion and banter are as inseparable from each other as the briar and the rose.

Off-Topics Include: Elden Ring, Skyrim

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Ep 175 - Who's Your Mummy?

Mon, 27 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000

This book tasks questions the reader: who is your mother and what do they do? Are they wrapped up in bandages? And are they being used as a fuel source for eternal life? Your hosts Paul Ritchey and Kevin Cole cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book Who's Your Mummy? Protagonists Abby and Peter stay with their uncle who has a dark secret: a real tasty stockpile of mummies to eat up. Weird! And the adventure continues into the ongoing Horrorland saga. Is horror Byron an ally? Or is he tracking them with GPS chips? Enjoy the episode!

Book discussion starts at 12:15

OFF TOPICS: Kaiju No. 8, Smart Guys, TNT Amusements Inc.

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Ep 174 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'Day of the Dot"

Mon, 13 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Get in formation, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole watch another classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete episode, "Day of the Dot". As Big Pete's marching band competes in the Regional Championship, he struggles with affections for Ellen and a tyrannical teacher. Meanwhile Little Pete is trapped on an endless school bus as Bus Driver Stu wrestles with a broken heart. This is a sweet indie episode and we're inspired by the discussion. Enjoy!

Episode Discussion begins: 18:18

OFF-TOPICS: SpongeBob SuperBowl, Perfect High School, Doctorin', Wolf C.I.A., You Can Desaturate Your Phone Screen, Chad's Take On Sonic 2 (The Movie)

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Ep 173 - Adventure! - The Badlands of Hark

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Your Goosebuds Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through the 1985 CYOA book The Badlands of Hark, written by R.L. Stine! This is written before Goosebumps, Fear Street, or Horrorland; what sort of sci-fi fantasy world does a younger Stine have in his soul? Turns out it's one with an endless maze. A lot of death in this hellworld of R.L.'s. Can Paul and Kevin survive and find The Nonspecific Treasure?

OFF TOPICS: Phone Cord Twirling, Beet Feudalism, Picard's robot body, Robot Hands, RoboCop, Chad's First Cousins Once Removed

Adventure begins: 14:15

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Ep 172 - Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Your Goosebuds hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole review R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz where aspiring cartoonist Robby discovers his comic creations come alive to eat squirrels and torture local kids. But also none of this matters as Robby resets the narrative multiple times (it was all a joke, reader!) and it causes an emotional cataclysm for your Goosebuddies . To be honest, this episode really broke us. But don't CTRL+ALT+DEL on us; we'll keep pounding through Young Adult books because tackling R.L.'s legacy is our great purpose in life.

OFF TOPICS: Rocky, Bioshock/Judas, Ben Franklin, Code Lyoko vs Reboot

Book discussion begins: 16:40

Complete mental breakdown begins: 1:23:59

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Ep 171 - Adventure! - Zork: The Forces of Krill

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Beware of grues, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out another Choose Your Own Adventure book based off one of the first adventure games ever: Zork! This 'What-Do-I-Do-Now" Book is Zork #1: The Forces of Krill by S. Eric Meretzky. Is Krill the Ganon of this world? Would we be shaking in our +1 Boots at the mention of his lizard men if we had played the original game? It seems Krill just likes hiding in holes in the ground, which isn't that much different than Tears of the Kingdom. We also discuss how delicious 'dino damage' used to look on toys. Enjoy the episode and stay alive!

Book adventure begins: 12:00

OFF TOPICS: Daylight Savings Time, Bugs, Jurassic Park Battle Damage Toys, J. Kenji López-Alt, Bugs Part II

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Ep 170 - The Scream of the Haunted Mask

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

There's a terrifying affliction of fear going around; so we're enforcing a Haunted Mask mandate! Your Goosebuds hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book The Scream of the Haunted Mask. It's been a year since the original story and Carly Beth is worried she'll put the mask back on and become evil. She could just get rid of it, maybe try to destroy it, but it stays locked in her basement. Until it doesn't. But also: Ghost horses haunt the local children's center/farm! It's very tragic. This book that's really about spectral steeds should've been called Goosebumps: Horse Death.

Book discussion begins: 17:30

OFF TOPICS: Millenial Internet Faux Pas, Willy's Chocolate Experience, X-Men Movies

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Ep 169 - Monster Blood for Breakfast

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

This episode is part of a balanced bookfast-! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read the third of R.L Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland series: Monster Blood for Breakfast. The iconic green growth slime is back for a fifth time. And somehow this is the least-scary story!Protagonist Matt Daniels deals with the terrifying idea of... being taller and stronger and winning the swim meet? We also get the next chapter of the Horrorland narrative and meet monster revolutionary Byron. We also discuss toy belts with I.P. powers and the mystery of missing Skeeter.

Book discussion begins: 12:50

OFF TOPICS: Chad's beef with the Disney Imagination Belt, Where's Skeeter??

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Ep 168 - American Chillers: Iron Insects Invade Indiana (w/ Payton Whaley)

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:30:00 +0000

The corn state is in trouble, listeners! Small robotic drones designed like metal wasps are terrorizing the youth. They are not being used for war. Let us make that clear: this is not a metaphor about drone warfare at all. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover Johnathan Rand's American Chillers: Iron Insects Invade Indiana. And we're joined by the wonderful Payton Whaley (WTIU's Flyover Culture). Payton's an Indiana boy like Chad and the two bond about their lives in the 'Crossroads of America', working for public television, and enjoying a time when there weren't metal menaces filling the skies. It was a simpler time. Anyway, this is a good episode! Enjoy.

Book discussion begins: 4:30

Off Topics: MIMAL THE ELF, The Friday Zone

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Ep 167 - Adventure! - Flight of the Unicorn

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:18:00 +0000

Giddyup, Pegacorn! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole wrangle the Choose Your Own Adventure book Flight of the Unicorn by Deborah Lerme Goodman. In a previous episode we had a great adventure in Deborah's Scottish-ish fantasy world. In this book we're the apprentice to some sort of horse-mancer? It involves sewing wings onto cats to turn them into unicorns? There has to be a better method, right? Either way a dastardly royal wants to turn our beautiful flying horses into an unstoppable army! We can't have any of that. Thankfully we have the strongest weapon in the kingdom: pocket cat!

OFF TOPICS: Sousou no Frieren, A Certain Fantastic Streaming App (boo capitalism)

Adventure begins at 12:00

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Ep 166 - Creep from the Deep

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000

We're back in Horrorland, Buddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book 'Creep from the Deep'. We're reunited with Billy and Sheena Deep and their uncle Dr. D. What sort of doctor is Deep? A water scientist? He does not have respect for the ocean like he should and his children suffer once again because of it. But this book has some pretty fun stuff including ghost pirates! Or pirate ghosts! And we learn more about the shared book story of Horrorland. What are the Horrors planning? Do they even have a plan? Note: despite the cover there are not Shrek Eels.

Book discussion begins: 14:45

OFF TOPICS: Episode 666, iconic Scabby and Stinko, Steamboat Willie, Chad pitches another Tontine

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Ep 165 - Adventure! 'Sonic v. Zonik'

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:31:00 +0000

Just in time for the holidays we have a new Adventure! episode: Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebook #3 'Sonic v. Zonik' written by Nigel Gross & Jon Sutherland. These two authors watched their kids play Sonic for five minutes and then free wrote a Choose Your Own Adventure baded on that. What? Yes, Sonic is a Christmas character. Every kid gets a Sega Genesis on Christmas pre-packaged with Sonic 2. Every year. Or is that just Chad? Your hosts Paul Ritchey, Chad Quandt, and Kevin Cole read through this mess of a book that maybe has some missing pages.

Adventure starts: 9:50

Off-Topics: Paul Went to Spain, Xuixo, Instant Coffee

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Ep 164 - Goosebumps (2023): "Cuckoo Clock of Doom"

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Ding dong, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole are back to cover the third episode in the 2023 Goosebumps TV series involving the fabled Cuckoo Clock of Doom! In this Groundhog Day-ish episode a bunch of evil clone James are threatening to... throw kids in pits? Unclear what their plan is. They're also very susceptible to damage. You know that villain Twice from My Hero Academia? It's kind of like that but with less thrilling music.

Episode discussion begins: 8:15

OFF TOPICS: Varsity Blues, The Program, Being "Car Strong", Kevin's Tattoo, Heraldry!

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Ep 163 - Goosebumps (2023): "The Haunted Mask"

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

We're just getting started with the new 2023 series, Goosebuddies! We check out Episode 2 of Disney/Hulu's Goosebumps series, "The Haunted Mask". This story touches upon the classic book and also steps down new paths as the kids and parents both piece together the mystery of Harold Biddle. Also Justin Long does physical comedy! Enjoy the discussion and keep all forgein items off your face.

TV discussion starts: 18:15

OFF TOPICS: Future Kevin, Ben Stiller's Favorite Cat, Finding R.L., Endless Zack Fair, W.C. Fields in Philly

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Ep 162 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'The Good, The Bad and The Lucky"

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000

As the fall air turns crisp, enjoy this episode revisiting the 90s classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover this season 3 episode focused on Little Pete and his magic coin which can only be recharged by endangering a train. Please understand: each year dozens of trains go off the rails because of plucky kids putting currency on the rails. Do not do this. This episode was irresponsible for Nickelodeon to air, encouraging other kids to do such dangerous acts. But we still had a good time talking about it.

TV discussion starts: 17:00

OFF TOPICS: Dire Straits, Weird Al, Novelty Music and why Paul hates fun, George Bush Senior's 90s Music Gun

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Ep 161 - Goosebumps (2023): "Say Cheese and Die!"

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Goosebumps is back on TV! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the pilot episode of this new Hulu Goosebumps (aka Hulusbumps) series about five teenagers discovering supernatural forces in their small town. And this first episode starts off with ghost arson! We take big guesses at where the series goes from here and anticipate Slappy's arrival. Is this show for teenagers? 30-somethings? Either way, watch out for Justin Long!

TV discussion begins: 3:30

Off Topics include: Hot Kevin, Author Names

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Ep 160 - Fear Street: The Surprise Party (w/ Kyle McVey)

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:25:00 +0000

Keep your weekend open, we're throwing you a surprise party! The Goosebuddies bring in the spooky season with another of R.L. Stine's Fear Street book The Surprise Party. A well intentioned teen party uncovers a woodland tragedy. Plus there's tabletop roleplaying! We're joined by returning guest, writer Kyle McVey (Yesterday's Tomorrow Today, LOLJK, Unikitty!). Will you R.S.V.P. our invitation?

This fear has passed.

Book talk begins at 10:15

Off-Topics include: Paul solves our fears, of plastic in food and skunk spraying

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Ep 159 - Revenge of the Living Dummy

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Slappy' back, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Kevin Cole, and Paul Ritchey read through the first book in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland series: Revenge of the Living Dummy. The Horrorland series promises an ongoing story connecting these spooky tales; does it start strong with the iconic puppet monster? What is Slappy's connection to a theme park? And who is Mr. Badboy? Is it Slappy? Oh yeah, it's just Slappy.

Book discussion starts: 8:29

Off-Topics: The Last Unicorn, The Cleveland Brownie

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Ep 158 - Adventure! - The Magic of the Unicorn

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Sharpen your horns on the nearest elderwood, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole are reading a Choose Your Own Adventure: Deborah Lerme Goodman's The Magic of the Unicorn. Our kid heroes are on a quest to find a unicorn horn to purify their village's water supply. Presumably you put the horn in a water filter. Maybe you drink from it like a giant straw. Will we run into that tree hag on the cover? Or will something else more magical occur? Enjoy!

Episode begins: 7:30

OFF TOPICS: Being overly familiar with Deborah, Referring to people by their profession, City streets and their relative twistiness, Wearing pain like armor, Getting your ear pierced at Claire's, additional literary material, The LotR BTS bonus features that Kevin somehow never saw

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Ep 157 - Fear Street: The New Girl

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000

With Goosebumps 2000 in our rear view mirror the boys drive to R.L. Stine's Fear Street. We've visted Shadyville in previous episodes but are thinking about putting down podcast roots. The community seems nice. Despite this episode's title it is not about an 'adorkable' Zooey Deschanel moving in with three sexual dudes. Instead in this first book of the series Cory Brooks hungers for new arrival Anna Corwin's kisses. This mysterious girl may be a ghost and is full of red flags. Teenage hormones blind Cory to real love when his best friend Lisa is right there! Can we survive this love triangle?

Book discussion begins: 15:45

Off Topics: Lorcana, Greasy Car Holes, Disney Infinity, X-Men Sneaker Blind Boxes, the problem with New Girl's Schmidt, Permanent Records, Throwing the One Ring into a Volcano, Lt. Worf's iconic phrase

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Ep 156 - American Chillers: Nebraska Nightcrawlers

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000

What danger lies beneath our very feet? Could it be morlocks? C.H.U.D.s? Or something even worse: giant nightcrawler worms that have no real senses and just flop around crushing everything! Doesn't that sound positively spooky? We hope so, because Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole are reading Johnathan Rand's American Chillers series #15: Nebraska Nightcrawlers. Will these kids be able to shrink the subterranean assassins back down to size? Enjoy the episode!

Off Topics include: The Spicy, Our NPC-sonas, Young Chad at the Steel Mill, Encountering a Teacher in the Wild, Reverse Cocaine, War of the Coprophages

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Ep 155 - Baywatch Nights: "Possessed" (w/ Domi)

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Wait, who's that running across the moonlit beach? It's Camp Counselor Domi (Paperback Paradise) who rejoins Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole to check out the infamous 90s TV procedural Baywatch Nights. In this spinoff of the phenomenon Baywatch, David Hasslehoff's Mitch Buchannon moonlights as a Californian P.I., dealing with paranormal problems. In this episode, the blood of a serial killer infects multiple people with the desires of sex and death. It's really a wild trip and we have a blast closing this case with Dom. The nights will never be the same!

Episode discussion begins at 9:55

OFF TOPICS: Lighter Politics, 7-11 Rose Pipe, How Does the Witch Magic from Beauty and the Beast Work?, New Original Character Pissmouth, Sylvester Stallone Chaos Pen, Going "Egg Mode"

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Ep 154 - Ghost In The Mirror

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:13:00 +0000

It's the end of the millennium! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read the last Goosebumps 2000 book: R.L. Stine's Ghost In The Mirror. In this episode young Jason gets a thrifted mirror that is secretly a portal to a mirror dimension. It's sort of like that episode of Infinity Train but not as well written. Can Jason stop his mirror doppleganger from throwing cars all over town? Does Goosebumps 2000 end with a real Y2K-level threat or is it more of a dud like how the real Y2K went? Enjoy the episode.

Book discussion begins: 7:30

OFF TOPICS: A gun that shoots skateboards, advertising integrity

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Ep 153 - Earth Geeks Must Go!

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Blast off, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Paul Ritchey, Chad Quandt, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Earth Geeks Must Go! It is a 'story' about young boy Jacob Miller who finds himself on an alien planet with strange differences than his own. For example, everyone here eats food with arm pit mouths! Gross! To be honest, it's mostly identical to Earth for some reason. People read books with their tongues; is that spooky? Also there are war crimes committed by sentient bugs. Enjoy the episode!

Episode discussion begins at 8:35

OFF TOPICS: Handclaps in songs, falling in love on the internet, Dianne Feinstein's Kid Talk, the Work Generation, why TikTok Homesteaders rely on the very Internet that they hate.

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Ep 152 - Hey Arnold! 'The List/Haunted Train'

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Hey Goosebuddies! We're taking a book break and visiting some classic 90s television; Craig Bartlett's animated slice of life Hey Arnold! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole watch two episodes: 'The List' (written by Joe Ansolabehere) in which Arnold tries to have a perfect day, and 'Haunted Train' (written by Josephine Nericcio) where a blue collar ghost story pulls Arnold and his friends into (possibly) hell. Does this show hold up as much as we remember? This visit to the intentionally non-specific city Hillwood unlocks some big core memories for us and leads to good discussion. Enjoy the episode!

TV discussion begins: 10:45

OFF TOPICS: Dandadan, The Manga Zone, Ice Church's Great Schism

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Ep 151 - Slappy's Nightmare

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:16:00 +0000

Wake up, Goosebuddies, it's time for another episode! Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through R.L. Stine's Goosebuds 2000 book Slappy's Nightmare. In a bizarre turn, Goosebump's iconic main monster is the protagonist of the book as the dummy tries to be good for once. Just look at that cover. Slappy is scared! Upside is down, ketchup is mustard, cats and dogs are living together! Do we like this book or should we have hit the 'snooze' button? Enjoy the episode!

OFF TOPICS: Corporate Cinema, Tanking Timothy Chalomet, Lin Manuel Miranda's 'The Scuttlebutt', Cider Talk

Book discussion begins: 10:45

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Ep 150 - Full Moon Fever

Mon, 15 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Happy 150th episode, Goosebuddies! If episodes were Pokemon this would be MewTwo, which is a pretty cool thing to be in any comparison. Speaking of mutant monsters, this episode has Chad, Paul, and Kevin reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Full Moon Fever. We need to be clear: this is not about werewolves! Yes, these beast children are supposedly transformed by the moon and covered in fur and love howling but this is different than lycanthropy! We're stunned by how buck wild this book gets with real stakes, crazy turns, and the potential of eating parents. Is this the best Goosebumps book we've ever read?

BANTER: Tom Petty Talk Full Moon Facts (TPTFMFs), Goosebuds' Original 150 episodes, Video Games: Hacked, A Lot Of Things Had To Go Weird - the Paul Ritchey Story.

Book discussion begins: 8:00

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Ep 149 - The Haunted Car (w/ PeanutButterGamer)

Mon, 01 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Start your ear-engines! Paul, Chad, and Kevin are joined by Austin (aka the internet's preminent Arthur scholar PeanutButterGamer) to read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book The Haunted Car. This is a story about one sick ride, traumatic child death, and being very evil. We also talk with Austin about R.L.'s involvement with the cartoon series Arthur. Buckle up and enjoy the listen!

OFF TOPICS: Matthew McConaghey's guide to livin', SCUTTLEBUTT, water cooler dominance, flavor pipes,

Book discussion begins: 5:45

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Ep 148 - Adventure! - Elevator to Nowhere

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Ding ding! In this episode Chad, Paul, and Kevin read through R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book Elevator to Knowhere. In this story our wacky Uncle Darius-- not Larry David as this cover may have led you to assume-- is kidnapped by a knife-wielding doppelgänger and he can only be saved with his multiverse elevator. We'll travel to fantastic dimensions including a rad one where children are illegal. Honestly this books rips cheeks and we had a blast. Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: The defiling of Eiffel 65's 'Blue', Easter (AKA Lazy Halloween) pancake rituals

Adventure begins: 15:06

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Ep 147 - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuds Boys Paul, Chad, and Kevin read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. One may argue that title could apply to virtually anything in the Goosebumps bibliography but we got it for this one; a surprisingly meta tale about board games and choose-your-own-adventure books that would make Charlie Kaufman wince. Can we survive this book or will we be lost to the Shadow Realm?

OFF TOPICS: being crumbelievable, bone music

Book discussion begins: 7:55

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Ep 146 - So Weird: 'Family Reunion'

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Hope you had cable in the 90s because the Goosebuddies are checking out the Disney Channel cult show So Weird and its pilot episode 'Family Reunion' about paranormal believer Fi, her rocker mom, and the tour bus family that explores the things in the world that make a teenager cryptically whisper 'So weird...'. In this episode it's specifically the ghost of a poor wet boy who hates laptops.

Episode discussion begins: 15:45

OFF TOPICS: O.G. Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Chad is the Red XIII of Goosebuds, Nomura-san, The Playstation 2 Slim: The Greatest Entertainment System Ever Created, VHS cassettes are back, Warriors of Virtue, mix CDs vs mix tapes

Note: Sorry Chad is fighting through a cold so we hope his muffled voice isn't too bothersome.

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Ep 145 - Return to Ghost Camp

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

This episode the Goosebud Boys cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Return to Ghost Camp, a sequel that has no returning characters or plot threads. It's not even the same camp. Can protagonist Dustin Minium evade the shape-shifting fox monster known as The Snatcher? At least this book gives us a great opportunity to reflect on the Kevin Era (aka Phase 2 of Goosebuds Cinematic Universe).

Book Discussion begins: 11:15 (sort of).

Off Topics: Kevin's Anniversary, Hot Topic and 'Just Two Things' shirts, our personalized Emotionally Honest T-shirts, the grape-worthy terroir of Indiana.

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Ep 144 - Man-Thing (2017) (w/ Adam Teterus)

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:30:00 +0000

Whoever knows fear burns at the touch of the Man-Thing! And we had a similar response to reading this comic book! Chad, Paul, and Kevin are joined by expert Adam Teterus (Man-Thing Minute), to cover R.L. Stine's infamous 2017 Marvel series. This story shows the usually-horrifying Man-Thing now a joke machine trying to survive the entertainment industry in Burbank, California. It's certainly a comic book with some fantastic art by German Peralta! To know the better side of the shambling mound's stories we also read the classic issue Man-Thing #4 (1974) written by Steve Gerber and art by Val Mayerik. In that we meet the religious zealot and Marvel D-Lister The Foolkiller! This is a pretty wild episode as we compare the two very different works about the same character. Enjoy the listen!

Book discussion begins: 4:20

OFF TOPICS: Chicken Coins, Dave & Buster's afterlife, Kevin's prized smoothie machine

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Ep 143 - Horrors of the Black Ring

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

We're putting a ring on it! Chad, Paul, and Kevin read through R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Horrors of the Black Ring. That's multiple horrors, not just one. Little Beth has to deal with a possessed teacher, poor sweet animal violence, and a Nazgul attack on her school. Also we will all be going by our new nicknames P.B. Crisps, Maggot Freak, and Dunk tanK.

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OFF TOPICS: MiSTer game emulation, Lil' Mark Wahlberg, Bleemcast, our cursed candies

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Ep 142 - The Werewolf In The Living Room

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

It's a new year with new book crimes being committed, Goosebuddies. Chad, Kevin, and Paul cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 The Werewolf In The Living Room. In this the scariest thing isn't the possible lycans' it's the international crime of moving a person against their will to a new location. In this story can little Aaron Freidus learn that his dad is a corrupt cop and a sloppy monster hunter?

Book discussion begins: 6:00

OFF TOPICS: Mystery Boxes, let's give them something to Ted Talk about, Kevin's brain closed in 2015

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Ep 141 - Adventure! - Revenge of the Body Squeezers

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

We're squeezing out the year with one last Body Squeezer story. R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book Revenge of the Body Squeezers. Having defeated the green Squeezers in the Goosebumps 2000 books, you now face the kinkier blue variation. They're gonna squeeze you down into little black balls! Can Paul and Chad survive as a vengeful dwarf child as Kevin is our Book Master? Can we save Hollywood?

OFF TOPICS: The Pop Tart Collector's Market, Dwarf Fortress Stories #1

Book discussion begins: 11:30

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Ep 140 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'Nightcrawlers'

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000

This episode Chad, Paul, and Kevin retreat from the harsh horror winter to the safe shelter of The Adventures of Pete & Pete to discuss the episode 'Nightcrawlers', a charming story from the first season about Little Pete and his friends trying to stay up for eleven nights in a row. We do not recommend doing this in real life.

OFF TOPICS: Incubus vs Deftones, NuMetal and emo and confusing genre names, milking the guitar's prostate

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Ep 139 - The Mummy Walks

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Prepare for the horror of complex Middle East politics, Goosebuddies. That's right, Chad, Paul, and Kevin cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book The Mummy Walks. It has surprisingly little undead emperors and a lot of political intrigue about a fictional country. Did Tom Clancy write this? Also why does this book suddenly turn cyberpunk?

Book discussion begins at 11:15

OFF TOPICS: The Transformers + Magic The Gathering conundrum, money isn't real, which Transformer would you bake into a pie (if you had to)

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Ep 138 - Adventure! - It Came From The Internet

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Plug in, y'all. We're going web crawling! Chad, Paul, and Kevin go on an Adventure! with R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book It Came From The Internet. Our computer has a virus named Spydie, a charming little sentient vampire bug that certainly has franchise potential. Can we find a way to stop it or will we become slaves to this newfangled series of tubes?

OFF TOPICS: Naps: the new Drugs, Jim Carrey in 'Nah, Man', the Proto Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Book adventure begins at: 7:30

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Ep 137 - Scream School (w/ Anthony Burch)

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Happy Halloween Week, Goosebuddies! This episode Chad, Paul, and Kevin are joined by Anthony Burch (Dungeons & Daddies, League of Legends) to discuss R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Scream School. This book has surprisingly little school in it. Seems the real horror is being raised in the entertainment industry as poor Jake Banyon deals with his famous director dad Emory. At least Rad Donner is cool.

OFF TOPICS: Splatoon Porn Duels, Mormon Bubbling, Reach Around The Isle

Book discussion begins: 05:45

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Ep 136 - Jekyll and Heidi

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

This episode takes place in the Transylvania of America: Vermont. Chad, Paul, and Kevin read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 Jekyll and Heidi. This is a story about a sensitive poet girl dealing with a dark family secret, town riots, and chugging monster potions. We also discover how the Springfield is the nexus of all realms. Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: Unveiling Chris Pratt's Mario voice (and butt), Jortkinis

Book Discussion begins: 12:45

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Ep 135 - Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:00:49 +0000

We're going to the dangerous wilds of Michigan! Chad, Paul, and Kevin read Johnathan Rand's Michigan Chillers story Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit. This is a very accurate portrayal of The Great Lakes State, including that local time window that only opens for one week every fifty years. It's a bit of a tourist trap but it's also a really good place to sneak into the Cretacious Era and steal a dinosaur egg for your personal enjoyment.

OFF TOPICS: Goosebumps the Musical, Kevin the children's theater van driver, Chad's sad child play

Book Discussion begins: 11:15

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Ep 134 - Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Are you ready for some ghostly tales? They may not be scary but they're strange. Chad, Paul, and Kevin read through (Sir) Brian Jacques' Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales. We focus on three stories: Jamie and the Vampires, Allie Alma, and The Sad History of Gilly Bodkin. Each a different flavor evoking either the terrors of war, classism, or mother issues.

Off Topics: The Queen comes to America, new medieval knight rules, 2007: a dope year for video games

Book discussion begins: 15:15

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Ep 133 - Adventure! - Zapped In Space

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:00:32 +0000

Hey Goosebuddies! Paul, Kevin, and Chad are back for another Adventure! episode: R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps #23: Zapped In Space. We head on down to Madame Zapp's VR arcade-- a new tech business with so many games (two of them in total)! One's a progressive snow-woman story, the other a sci-fi panic with all sorts of bugs. Perhaps we get to play both of them? You'll have to listen and find out. Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: Redwall feasts, bread dough as a toy.

Book Discussion Begins at 13:00

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Ep 132 - Invasion of the Body Squeezers Part 2

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:00:52 +0000

We're back with R.L. Stine's Invasion of The Bodysqueezers Part 2. If you haven't listened to the previous Goosebumps 2000 episode you may want to catch up on this story of Jack Archer aka Saucerman as he is now God's Lone Soldier against the endless swarm of green goo invaders. Also Mr. Fleshman is there but he's busy watching TV as the world burns. This story includes one of R.L.'s cruelest twists in the franchise as he pulls off an Inverse Shyamalan. Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: Weightlifting butt fears, Inside Out Kid

Book Discussion Begins at 3:45

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Ep 131 - Invasion of the Body Squeezers Part 1

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Kevin, Chad, and Paul tackle the first and only multi-book Goosebumps 2000: R.L. Stine's Invasion of the Body Squeezers Part 1!

Despite the title, there is no squeezing in this book. But there are ominous asteroids, Gameboy aesthetics, and a reminder that 'Not all families are same.' We'll be back next episode with Part 2 and the conclusion of Jack Archer & Mr. Fleshman.

OFF TOPICS: The Georgia Guidestones were destroyed, banana tech, there are two X-Men inside you; one is Wolverine and one is Cyclops

Book discussion begins: 13:15

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Ep 130 - Adventure! - D&D Endless Quest - Dungeon of Dread

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Gather your bag of holding, Goosebuddies, we're going on an Adventure! We go through the 'Pick A Path' aka 'Endless Quest' of the Dungeons & Dragons book Dungeon of Dread. With Kevin as our Book Master, Paul and Chad journey through corridors upon corridors, befriend Loris the halfling, comprehend 'elf' as a class, and pledge themselves to a Toad God.

OFF TOPICS: Chad's big Voltron idea to save the planet, The Rift Breaker, what IS Raid Shadow Legends?, Steve Jobs levels of wasteful, Mecha Toaster

Book discussion begins: 12:45

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Ep 129 - Brain Juice

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:00:53 +0000

Drink up, buddies! Kevin, Chad, and Paul return to read R. L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Brain Juice. It's a story about genuinely dumb-dumb kids, a scientist who teaches via prank parables, and a rare 3rd party narration that changes our tale from horror to full on jovial farce. We also create the upcoming movement #HomeworkStrike.

OFF TOPICS: fandom wikis, comment archaeologists, going down down like a louie la rah

Book discussion begins at 10:30

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Ep 128 - Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:00:40 +0000

Ghouls out for the summer, Goosebuddies! Paul and Kevin cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls. Chad missed out on this episode as this story is pretty forking rad! It's got body possession, teens knocking down mailboxes, and the power of dance! Enjoy the episode.

OFF TOPICS: Crispy foods, The catholic views of honey bees, Kevin's sauce

Book discussion begins: 08:45

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Ep 127 - Return to HorrorLand (w/ BrutalMoose)

Mon, 30 May 2022 07:00:33 +0000

Grab your tickets; we're going back to HorrorLand! Chad, Kevin, and Paul are joined by 90s nostalgia scholar BrutalMoose to cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Return to HorrorLand.

This story asks hard questions such as 'How much money would it take to sell your kids to a reality show?' Enjoy the park's new attractions; iconic rides such as Tooth Game... and Mummy Walk. Huh. HorrorLand claims to be under new management, but it's certainly up to its old tricks.

OFF TOPICS: The Disney TM Raccoon Princess, anime cicadas

Book discussion begins: 08:00

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Ep 126 - Eureeka's Castle: 'Show # 1 & 2' (w/ Josh Henderson)

Mon, 16 May 2022 07:00:22 +0000

Why are we watching an old Nick Jr show? Because it was written by Jovial Bob Stine! Before Goosebumps was a thing on bookshelves, R.L. Stine was head writer on this wacky, non-educational children's show Eureeka's Castle. Chad, Paul, and Kevin are joined by guest Josh Henderson (Pretend Friends, M-Class Podcast, Continue?) to cover the first two episodes (that couldn't be bothered to have proper titles).

We discuss the show's Lynchian b-roll, our favorite character Hose Boy, Batly's hipster status, and how Eureeka and her friends are all really servants of the giant.

OFF TOPICS: Josh and Chad fall in love over Incubus, more quicksand debate, The Charlemagne Maneuver

TV discussion begins: 05:20

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Ep 125 - Aliens Ate My Homework (w/ Marly Halpern-Graser)

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:00:15 +0000

We swear we did our homework; a very nice A+ papier-mâché volcano but a galactic cruiser (stuck on shrink mode as often happens) crashed into our basement and things escalated from there.

Paul and Chad are joined by writer Marly Halpern-Graser (Thundercats Roar, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Mad) to talk about beloved Bruce Coville's first book in the miniseries known as Rod Allbright's Alien Adventures: Aliens Ate My Homework. This book has it all: martial arts aliens, Star Trek paralells, surprisingly good discussion about gender and pronouns, the tempation one feels to shake the tiny people in your lunchbox...

OFF TOPICS: none really, we get into the book immediately!

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Ep 124 - Headless Halloween

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:00:17 +0000

In this episode Chad, Kevin, and Paul review R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000: Headless Halloween. It's a story about sociopath teen Brandon Plush who feels no remorse about the lives he destroys. Brandon Plush's endless campaign of mean pranks finally runs into the (literal) dead-end that is Raven's Ravine, but what horrors lurk on the other side? Worm-filled doughnuts for one. Gross. Enjoy this episode and make sure you never make fun of someone for owning a van.

OFF TOPICS: our humble little studios, Who is American McGee?, the Doom Johns, Kevin's secret itch.io, Tarnished Jeff Foxworthy

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Ep 123 - Chillogy

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:00:16 +0000

In this episode Chad, Kevin, and Paul review the Goosebumps TV mini-series 'Chillogy'; a collection of three episodes centered around the magical miniature company town of Karlsville. These stories are not based on R.L. Stine's books making these pretty unique to compare to the rest of the series. Have you heard the good word of the Holy Chillogy? Let Karl Knave into your heart and you will be preserved forever in plastic. Or turned into a piganoid. Or beheaded by a baseball. Kinda whatever Karl is into at the moment. Give yourself to the episode and all will be good in this tiny model town.

OFF TOPICS: Bugs: Satan's first ally, The Bible New 52

Book discussion begins: 8:40

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Ep 122 - Animorphs Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:00:48 +0000

The Ghoulastic Book Club returns to cover our favorite 90's YA book series about child soldiers: Animorphs. In this episode we cover K.A. Applegate's Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret. While Paul fights his way back to our timeline Kevin and Chad are joined by guest Kayla Cline (Spooky Scouts,The Rite of Rumble: Wrestling with Demons) to talk about this wild time-traveling tale. Can the Animorph Kids save George Washington? Will they murder Adolph Hitler? Is morphing into a dolphin a reliable treatment for seeing your teenage love die in the cold waters of The Delaware? Plus learn the exciting backstory of The Ellimist: The Galaxy's First Pro Gamer. And remember the only balm against fascism is the refreshing taste of Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

OFF TOPICS: Guitar Hero: Sea Shanty Edition, dwarven barbershop quartets, Kayla's legal troubles with Fall Out Boy, Wrestling With Demons, wearing our own merch.

Book discussion begins at 11:20

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Ep 121 - Adventure! - Attack of the Beastly Baby-Sitter

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000

The parents are away for this Adventure! episode and the boys need a babysitter. Preferably not one that's secretly a rat monster. That would be nice. Also one that lets us watch R-rated movies and won't tell the adults about it.

In this episode Paul, Chad, and Kevin read through R. L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book Attack of the Beastly Babysitter. The professionals at KidScare have a full entertainment facility to entertain us and our terrible brother Stinko. Hopefully we can avoid the Switch Cheese and the Mask of Worms. Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: Wasting water in Fury Road, Paul's Zamboni Sacrifice, The Ice Church

Book discussion begins at: 10:15

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Ep 120 - Are You Terrified Yet?

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:00:03 +0000

Are You Terrified Yet? This is the question R. L. Stine asks of us in this (and every) Goosebumps book. In this episode Chad, Kevin, and Paul read the Goosebumps 2000 book where stuttering Craig deals with a series of awkward social obligations and falls into gambling addiction despite a complete misunderstanding of the concept 'Double or Nothing'. In this book, the power of an attractive person believing in you can move mountains. Also we learn about Chad's secret double life as Chopper the Presbyterian.

OFF TOPICS: Telling our loved ones about this show, motorcycle propaganda, Elon's underground traffic jam, lesser-known Stallones

Book discussion begins: 10:30

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Ep 119 - Fright Camp

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Pack your bags once again, Goosebuddies! Paul, Chad, and Kevin head to R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 story Fright Camp; a poorly run summer event hosted by legendary director (and likely R.L. Stine self-insert) R. B. Farraday! Farraday's frights include sexual kappas, shooting gorillas, and vomit balloons. How does this story stack up compared to other Camp greats? Does R.L. push the 'twist' button a few too many times? Either way, enjoy the episode.

Book discussion begins: 5:50

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Ep 118 - Revenge R Us (w/ Jordan Morris)

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000

In this episode the Goosebuds Boys are joined by the hilarious Jordan Morris (Bubble, Jordan Jesse Go!) to discuss a story about revenge and the magic power all birds have. In R.L. Stine's book 'Revenge R Us', kids are sociopaths who don't blink at the thought of a family member ripping their own skin off for a prank. The magic rules and reversals are also more complicated that a blue MTG deck.

OFF-TOPICS: Quick tangent on Blade: Trinity, a movie that may be good?

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Ep 117 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'New Year's Pete'

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

To commemorate the end of 2021 we return to The Adventures of Pete & Pete's "New Year's Pete". This delightful episode of TV has delicious cocktail wieners, non-glamorous smoking, Debbie Harry, Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero, telepathically-controlled hamster bowling, and jetpack dreams. It all ends with some sweet hope about the holiday and looking forward to the next calendar year. We get some much need calibration by discussing it and hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did.

OFF TOPICS: Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards, The Goosebuds' The Game Awards, Deep Rock Galactic, ElecHead, Inscryption

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Ep 116 - More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuds boys are back to review another of R.L. Stine's short story collections: the holiday-themed More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #6)! Once Paul, Kevin, and Chad get past the confusing title sequencing and multiple Curlys on the cover (which one is real?!?) this becomes a pretty fun and frosty episode! They cover ten short stories including Nutmares, Kooshball Gremlins, endless ballet performances, Ice Vampires, holiday bimbofications, and our first hard-confirmed Goosebumps ghost writer!

OFF TOPICS: Pearl Harbor as a holiday, the trajectory of Cuba Gooding Jr, Kevin's beard oil, Paul's timeless blanket, secret headband tech, Chad's lost Buzz.

Book discussion begins at: 16:30

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Ep 115 - I Am Your Evil Twin (w/ Hadley St. Clair)

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:00:00 +0000

This episode of Goosebuds sees Kevin, Paul, and Chad joined by guest Hadley St. Clair (Super Try Studios, Pretend Friends) to discuss R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book I Am Your Evil Twin. To paraphrase Hadley, this story has so many red herrings it should be tinned. It also has one of the craziest plot twists we've ever covered on the show: clone child trafficking! Scary indeed! They also discuss 90s allergy science, papier mache burdens, and piano standoffs. Enjoy!

Book Discussion begins at: 09:45

OFF-TOPICS: live-action anime adaptations of our nightmares, heirloom hatchets, Timothée Chalamet the YouTuber.

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Holiday Bonus! Camp Goosebuds

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Happy Winter Holidays, Goosebuddies. As you all are bundling up with loved ones, traveling, and gorging on fine foods, we have a small gift: a bonus episode of Camp Goosebuds! Usually these episodes are exclusive to our Patreon supporters but enjoy this free extra episode of Paul, Chad, and Kevin joking around the digital campfire.

TOPICS: Chad's high school job as a sex-narc, Crazy Bones, Shark Bites, The Mighty Glacier That Decides Our Fates, Kurt Vonnegut, State Insignias, Kenneth fucking Branagh, Artemis Fowl, Dwarf Fortress, Medicinal Booze, Mangoes, Persona 5, Repenting on your Deathbed, Gnomes!

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Ep 114 - Creature Teacher

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:27:21 +0000

In this episode the G-Boys discuss this Goosebumps 2000 story about a monstrous teacher who will eat a student with the worst performance at the school talent show. To be fair, it's really not much worse than our current-day American education system. Mrs. Maaargh is a fantastic R.L. Stine monster and she quickly munches her way into our collective hearts. Bonus: stand up jokes with balloon animals.

OFF-TOPICS: Y2K Samurai-Dragon shirts and the cool people who wore them, Magic the Gathering card sleeve tactics, Papa Cole of Lorwind.

Book discussion begins: 06:43

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Ep 113 - Adventure! - The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

RAW-ROOOOO! It's another Adventure! Kevin, Chad, and Paul read through the choose-your-own-story The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge. The boys roleplay as a young plagiarist whisked away to a writers' convention in a woodland cabin that also is run by werewolves? Sadly we don't get to go to any panels about three act structure or meet R.L. but we had a blast reading through this mess all the same.

Happy Halloween, everybody! Stay safe.

OFF-TOPICS: Kevin's tormented chicken pizza confession.

Adventure begins at 17:30

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Ep 112 - Bride of the Living Dummy

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

It's Goosebumps 2000 time, buddies! And Slappy's finally getting married. Though we're still waiting on them to lock down a date. All the venues (ventriloquist stages) are hard to book because they don't exist anymore. Chad, Paul, and Kevin read this fourth Living Dummy tale about Slappy's shot at love, which mostly involves Slappy negging his paramours and calling them 'slave'. He's a real charmer, that Sole Icon Of The Franchise.

OFF-TOPICS: Eastern Time supremacy (which isn't actually real, Pacific Time gets the real benefits), underground California Pizza, the thin red line between "pizza" and "pizza pie", The California Pizza Sphere, our most Cool & Evil Pope's reaction to Undertale, rise of The Ghost Kitchen.

Book discussion begins: 15:30

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Ep 111 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'Rangeboy'

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Hot damn is this a fun episode of fall television! Chad, Paul, and Kevin revisit the Nickelodeon classic (and arguably the best thing they've ever produced) The Adventures of Pete & Pete and this anti-capitalist story about the extinction of bears, the nirvana of a perfect golf swing, and the freedom of a fur suit.

OFF-TOPICS: Too Hot To Handle aka 'Bone Island', "Soaking" at BYU, God's awkward multiple date situation, Skinwalker Ranch's latest monetization scheme/reality show aka 'Dorky Umbrella Corp'.

Episode discussion begins at 20:21

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Ep 110 - Deep Trouble II

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:30:00 +0000

We did it, boys and ghouls! This marks us covering every book in the main Goosebumps series! We share the honor with thousands of 90s kid who binge read these things to earn Pizza Hut Book It points. We're gonna take a day to congratulate ourselves and then dive back into the good work as R.L. is still pumping out stories and he only grows in power. This tale of giant sea creatures is certainly no Haunted School but it's a fitting tale to cap R.L's original 62 books as it's filled with pranks, fake outs, marine vore, and a big womp womp of a joke ending. We hope you enjoy it as much as Billy loved diving into that jellyfish.

OFF TOPICS: Our lo-fi screens, inheriting Magic decks, death insurance letters, famous Boyles.

Book discussion begins at 09:05

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Ep 109 - The Haunted School

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000

You hear that bell? School is back in session. Kevin, Chad, and Paul hang out and discuss this late entry into the core Goosebumps collection. While none of us recall this book from our youth, this one rocks. It's bursting with ideas including dead child statues, roaming packs of wild dogs, tall goth girls, cease-fire proms, sideways elevators, evil photographers and The Pit.

OFF TOPICS: Everything is nothing, The Green Knight, Chappie in bed, Chad badly summarizes Mighty Morphing Power Rangers lore, ear candles, Junior Mint Juleps.

Book discussion begins at 07:15

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Ep 108 - Fear Street: 1666

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000

This is it! The end of the Fear Street Netflix 'Chillogy' (which is secretly a tetrology but there isn't as obvious a horror pun for that). Paul returns from his West Coast travels to join Kevin and Chad as they discuss the finale of a six-hour tale filled with class division, tripping on berries, sapphic stories, kill count montages, crowdgasp.wav, The Konami Code, and a few twists that simultaneously strengthen the previous films while also making them less necessary? This is a really interesting horror series and we've had fun discussing them. Hope you enjoy the listen too!

OFF-TOPICS: Mr. Vampire, Uncle Traveling Paul's stories, coffee milk, spite forks.

Book discussion begins: 09:45

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Ep 107 - Fear Street: 1978

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Camp Nightwing, Goosebuddies! Uncle 'Traveling' Paul is exploring the West Coast so your hosts tonight are Chad and Kevin. These two hairy-belly men discuss the second installment in this Fear Street movie 'chillogy'. This homage to Friday the 13th is brutal and there are a lot of sweet, innocent children getting axes in the face. We talk about comparisons to the Scream vibes of 1994, whatever themes the movies are going for, and the rules of 'Color War' games. Also that Silent Hill-esque cave heart was rad.

OFF-TOPICS: Kevin's cosplay adventures, getting glomp'ed, Chad's ideal cosplay rig, a curious Brit, western Miyazaki dubs, Space Jam 2: The Death of Culture.

Movie discussion begins at: 19:45

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Ep 106 - Fear Street: 1994

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0000

This is a big summer for Fear Street. We're in the midst of three feature films dropping on Netflix, telling a story spanning multiple centuries and horror movie tropes. The Goosebuds Boys Chad, Paul, and Kevin talk about the first film: Leigh Janiak's Fear Street 1994. We have protagonist/angry-ex Deena, passive object-of-affection Sam, cheerleader/valedictorian/driven drug-seller Kate, self-loving goof Simon, and our token nerd Josh. These kids face many monsters but the most terrifying of all is small town class warfare!

This movie has so many things to discuss and thus this is a BEEFY episode. Check out that 2-hour runtime! We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did. And of course, heavy spoilers for the movie lie within.

#JusticeForKate #JusticeForSimon

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Movie discussion begins: 20:13

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Ep 105 - Werewolf Skin

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Large parts of the planet are overheating, so what better way to cool off than a book about putting on heavy extra layers of wool and fur? This is a visceral book filled with viscera! Is 'Werewolf Skin' a fun twist on lycan lore? A metaphor for drug addiction? Or just code for someone's fursuit? The boys discuss and have a few laughs.

OFF TOPICS: Burning mix CDs for romantic flames, revisiting The Culling, spawn camping your newborn, alternative child-bearing methods, pickling your child, Paul's emulator gift.

BOOK DISCUSSION BEGINS: 18:15

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Ep 104 - One Day at HorrorLand (Reloaded)

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Long ago in the early days of Goosebuds we read this book. But while Chad covered the book on an earlier episode with Dom and guest Dodger, Paul and Kevin never got to talk about it! They have things to say! This episode is RELOADED. :puts on cool sunglasses and trenchcoat, sits down in a comfy chair to read:

We crack open the legendary tome about a deadly amusement park, the Horrors that run it, and dad anxiety. This book is still one of R.L.'s greatest works, and it was thrilling to discuss it.

OFF-TOPICS: Paul's journey through the Goat Farm, Megan Thee Goat Owner, chicken buffs, Skyrim: The Eternal RPG, insight into video game mods.

Book discussion starts at: 17:00

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Ep 103 - My Best Friend Is Invisible

Mon, 31 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The power of invisibility is a sinister one. 95% of being invisible is doing dirty or spooky stuff. If you meet someone who says if they could choose a superpower that they'd pick invisibility you should watch out. That's a hot tip from your pal The Goosebuds.

This Goosebumps book is a real 'Best Of' RL's story tricks: obvious solutions, ignorant parents, and a twist ending that makes us scream (with rage). Enjoy the listen as the Goosebuds Boys cover this story of a camouflage clinger.

OFF TOPIC: The Secret of "Secretly Shaq" has been revealed, poorly, by Papa Johns. They stole this idea from us. So we propose an alternate version of the show. Steal this one, Papa. We dare you.

Book discussion starts at 9:47

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Ep 102 - Salute Your Shorts: 'Zeke the Plumber'

Wed, 19 May 2021 21:01:55 +0000

The boys are going to Camp Anawanna, summer home of counselor Ug, lovable dolt Donkeylips, and the sentient piece of human garbage Budnick. There are other kids too. One likes basketball. If you consider that a personality trait.

'Zeke the Plumber' (otherwise titled as 'Ghost Story') is Salute Yours Shorts most infamous episode. The tale of an undead plumber with a cut-off nose and his cursed plunger is certainly memorable, but is it as scary as we through? Kevin, Paul, and Chad discuss this episode of pranks, spiders, and ruffled potato chips.

OFF-TOPICS: Kevin's Birthday Month begins now! A discussion of birthday existentialism follows. Every day is an internet holiday. Hot Dogs and the greatest meal that Kevin has ever eaten (it was a hot dog). #SaveGoosebuds

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Ep 101 - Adventure! - D&D Endless Quest - Into The Jungle

Mon, 03 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Chult where you are the Cleric! Well, technically Paul and Chad are, but you get to come along for the ride as Book Master Kevin leads us through a story about jungle zombies, dinosaur men, and frog wives. This may be the hardest CYOA book we've had on the show. Will the boys survive or at least find some ore?

BOOK DISCUSSION: 12:15

OFF TOPICS: college RAs, railroading in tabletop, Paul destroyed a kid in political debate, communal urinals and their dangers, Touchdown Jesus's, Notre Dame Evangelion.

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Ep 100 - Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Wowzers, we've done a hundred episodes of Goosebuds! That's a Benjamin of podcasts. We are so grateful for you listening and being a part of this family of audio campers.

To celebrate the centennial, the Goosebuds Boys watched the 2018 film Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween 'starring' Jack Black. (The quotations are to mock his total appearance time; not his star power. We love Jables.)

This movie evokes different emotions in each of us and things are going to get heated. The magic circle has been drawn. Runes have been placed to keep emotions at bay. Let's discuss this piece of cinematic art.

OFF TOPICS: Reflecting on One Hundred Goosebuds Eps, debating the Breakfast Club of the 90s and 2000s, Criterion Buds.

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Ep 99 - The Curse of Camp Cold Lake

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Goosebumps stories about camps are usually of high quality, filled with scares about death and teenage puberty. Will Camp Cold Lake hold water? Paul, Chad, and Kevin are your three-way buddy system to talk about Sarah Maas who is the worst. We also meet Della, a ghost with big plans and the potential to be in the upper pantheon of Goosebumps creeps. Also, hey we're one episode away from #100. That's rad.

OFF TOPICS: Musicals! Good? Bad? Put on-ish? Also, varsity-lettering in Singing, Footballing, and Snark.

Book discussion begins: 5:56

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Ep 98 - Cry of the Cat

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000

As we near the last of the original Goosebumps books, the boys dip their toes into the millennial world of Goosebumps 2000. How do the scares differ in the new Y2K world? Is it worth exploring further? Chad, Paul, and Kevin read through Cry of the Cat. The mysterious feline Rip has a death wish and a crazy third act twist. Meow.

OTHER TOPICS: crypto art, spitting up digital, talking Lego Ninjago on Chatroulette.

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Ep 97 - Adventure! - The Twisted Tale of Tiki Island

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Put on your sunscreen, we're going tropical! Paul, Chad, and Kevin cover the Give Yourself Goosebumps book The Twisted Tale of Tiki Island. This is Kevin's first time as Book Master and he brings his game designer skills to the role. Can Paul & Chad navigate the exotic location, that totally isn't just a tourist resort in Hawaii? Get ready because THE CURSE STARTS RIGHT NOW!

OFF TOPICS: Defining the Midwest borders, the appropriate demise for Rush (the monstrous man, not the band), a strong argument for why we should dunk on the dead.

Book discussion: 10:30

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Ep 96 - The Blob That Ate Everyone

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 08:00:00 +0000

The Blob That Ate Everyone has arguably one the best Goosebumps covers, with one of the best taglines, but... is it one of the best stories? No. It really isn't. Even so Paul, Chad, and Kevin have a great time talking about magical typewriters that is also somehow the precursor plot to the Goosebumps movie.

OFF TOPICS: The Hobbit dwarves' desirability rankings, a comment on our increased Tolkien-verse conversations, "Buca Di Pepe" and how to impress your friends at Brazilian steakhouses.

Book discussion begins: 13:10

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Ep 95 - Don't Go To Sleep!

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000

As we enter 2021 the podcast is getting some updates. Dom has retired his haunted jersey and we need a new Goosebuds on the team. The Buds #1 draft pick is... Kevin Cole!

If you somehow don't know Kevin already from his multiple guest appearances, designing kickass games like Space Kings, and editing like all our episodes, we hope you welcome him into your heart like we have. We're excited to have our dwarven friend on the show to talk about YA books and 90s culture.

In this episode Kevin, Paul, and Chad cover the 1997 Goosebumps book Don't Go To Sleep!, a story about a reality hopping dork who just wants to sleep in his guest bed. That's the hero's journey for this book-- dude wants to nap on a sleep number. We also discuss the process of welcoming Kevin, Franklin the bus driver and his many kids, BiBs, and Jumpers.

Book discussion starts at: 11:35

OFF TOPICS: The Quiverfull Movement, Lord of the Rings percentages, Redwall mouse feasts.

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Ep 94 - Monster Blood IV

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Monster Blood, the iconic Goosebumps goop, returns for this final book in the mainline series. Is it really Monster Blood though or just a can of blue mutant warcrimes? Chad, Paul, and Dom cover this tale of wacky watersports, dogs in distress, and sloppy science. While you listen, we ask you to consider: what do the 'Sluglins' look like? Are they adorable? Gremlin-y? Does any answer excuse Kermit and the other kids being complete idiots? Regardless we have a blast discussing the book and share big updates for the podcast as one of our friends heads out for distant lands. We love you all.

Book discussion starts at 10:30

OFF TOPIC: Update on Dom's dealing with 'The Family', the origin of Kilroy, The Waldo Cult.

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Ep 93 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: O' Christmas Pete (w/ Kevin Cole)

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:30:00 +0000

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Ep 92 - Chicken Chicken (w/ Jacquie Baker)

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Paul and Chad are joined by comedian and star fighter Jacquie Baker (The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie, Spooky Squad) to talk about one of the strangest books in the Goosebuds bibliography. Experience the horror of slowly turning into a flightless bird and then refusing to tell anyone about it! Hey Goosebuddies, if you're ever cursed by a witch or warlock, reach out to a friend or loved one; tell them you're becoming a farm animal. We hope you enjoy this story of coder parents, cabincore lifestyles, and finger-lickin' fear.

OFF-TOPICS: Web rings, Flat Earth Gallagher, Indiana fight songs

BOOK DISCUSSION begins: 19:00

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Ep 91 - How I Learned To Fly (w/ Kevin Cole)

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0000

One of Chad's greatest fears is being suddenly detached from Earth's gravity and flung into space. So we read a fun book that totally doesn't evoke any of those terrors! Paul and Chad are joined by game master and editor Kevin Cole (Space Kings, Pretend Friends, SuperTry Studios) to discuss this tale of forbidden flying techniques. Have a good holiday, everyone. Stay safe!

Book discussion begins: 15:35

OFF-TOPICS: Lou Bega's Mobile Bodega, More JuiceTalk, The Adventures of Pete & Pete

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Ep 90 - Vampire Breath (w/ @Bobdunga)

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Pee-ew! This book stinks! But that doesn't mean we don't have a blast discussing it. Paul and Chad are joined by nostalgia historian Raven Simone (aka @Bobdunga92) to cover this tale of hidden basement tombs, the time traveling power of smoke bombs, and why being a vampire is better than human reality. Enjoy!

OFF TOPICS: The deep lore of Talespin X The Jungle Book, Beyblade Assassins, and Leg-Arm Beast Humans.

Actual book discussion begins at 11:40.

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Ep 89 - Shivers: The Awful Apple Orchard

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:27:03 +0000

Happy Halloween, Goosebuddies! The boys take a detour into the horrifying and grisly realm of Shivers - a knock off Goosebumps series. This book "The Awful Apple Orchard'' isn't lying with its title but we had a great time discussing this story of ghost cars, apple cider, and sudden grisly child gore.

OFF-TOPICS: The invention of fear, ghost screams, Destination Truth, and how there hasn’t been a funny joke on Twitter since 2012.

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Ep 88 - Fear Street: The Wrong Number (w/ Josie Campbell)

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000

In the ancient era of the 1990s telephones were considered novel devices, almost alien. There was no caller ID, touch screens, or ringtones. They were just plastic boxes sending voices out to numbers across the wires. You ordered pizza, called cute boys, and reported murders and that was it. In this episode we travel back to Fear Street, where three teens' reckless prank calls pull them into a bizarre murder mystery. Thankfully we're joined by Josie Campbell (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous) who practically grew up on Fear Street and she has being hilarious on speed dial.

OFF-TOPICS: We pretty much get right into the book on this one!

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Ep 87 - Adventure! - Back to Pass

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Despite everything that's happened in 2020, football seasons has returned to The Americas. Let's celebrate with the CYOA book Back To Pass: A Choose To Win Book! You maniacs on our Patreon voted for this title and boy did this adventure go out of bounds immediately. Paul and Chad try to survive on the hard streets of failure and become a true Handegg Throwing Champion (that's what they call QB in the south). Hope Coach Dom is proud of us.

OFF-TOPICS: The dangers of gray eye water, sharing our crying moments.

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Ep 86 - Ten Spooky Stories (w/ Leighton Gray)

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:30:00 +0000

Paul and Chad are joined by Leighton Gray (Dream Daddy, Fullbright) to discuss one of her favorite Goosebump books-- a collection of short stories. The problem is... these books are titled very confusingly and we all read different stuff. We still had a blast covering this sampler platter 'mini-bumps' with Leighton and hope you enjoy it too.

OFF-TOPICS: Dead By Daylight masochism, mechanical keyboard ASMR.

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Ep 85 - Beware the Snowman (w/ TK Johnson)

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:00:00 +0000

What better way to beat the summer (and global) heat than with a spooky story of snowmen? Paul and Chad are joined by writer and Dungeon Master TK Johnson (@tkjoinsthefray) to discuss what happens when you find out your mom doinked a snowman. Learn about a poor girl who is dragged away from the basketball renaissance of the 90s Chicago Bulls to a frozen tundra with nothing to do but wander into peoples yards. Enjoy the episode!

OFF-TOPICS: Cheating on the Pizza Hut Readers Club, Scholastic Book Fairs

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Ep 84 - Attack Of The Jack-O-Lanterns (w/ @Octopimp)

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Paul and Chad are joined by Internet Funny Boy Octopimp (voice actor, Twitch performance artist) to cover R.L.'s story of pumpkin-headed monsters and endless trick 'r treating. In retrospect with the pandemic maybe covering your face with produce isn't the worst idea in the world but let's see if these dumb kids can survive this adventure with one of the more bizarre twists in recent Goosebuds memory. We had a blast commiserating about the old internet days and hope you enjoy this episode. We love you all. Stay safe.

OFF-TOPICS: Alex and Chad's backstage history with video game YouTubers, Ninja Tyler Muscle God.

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Ep 83 - Adventure! - Animorphs Alternamorphs - The First Journey

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuds Boyz are back for another Adventure! Chosen by our wonderful Patreon supporters... is Animorphs Alternamorphs #1 The First Journey! Veteran Yeerk Expert Chad has little memory of this non-canon excursion but he DM's for Paul and Dom as they roleplay young student Flim Flam who tumbles into the Animorph adventure. What animal form will Flim Flam turn into? A duck? A cockroach? Will the boys ever get to make an actual choice? Will Chad turn their minds to mush with deep Hork-Bajir lore? Enjoy the episode and stay safe out there. We love you.

OFF TOPICS: Hugo Raving, wizard peer pressure, Christopher Lee's ancient heavy metal.

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Ep 82 - Legend of the Lost Legend (w/ Kevin Cole)

Mon, 25 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Well, that's certainly one way to title a Goosebumps book. Paul and Chad are joined by game designer and our very own editor Kevin Cole (Space Kings, Haque) to talk about a legend unknown to both our heroes and the book's author. This story of cultural theft, imaginary European territories, and wind-up wives astounds the Goosebuds Boys and makes for some lively discussion. Enjoy!

OFF-TOPICS: Jay-Z's mental call-outs, Fast Break Power Bars, the myth of Puppywish Canyons, Moby is maybe a secret creep, Time To Wolf.

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Ep 81 - How to Kill a Monster (w/ @LittleHorrorPHL)

Mon, 18 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000

In this terrifying world you need to be prepared for any obstacle. With that in mind this episode covers the vital tactics you need to slay a swamp monster (spoiler: do nothing). Paul and Chad are joined by horror aficionado George Heftler (The Best Little Horror House in Philly podcast) to discuss this tale of southern castle-mansions, bleach-and-rhubarb pies, and a Sweetums monster held against his will by elderly jailors. What does a swamp monster look like in your mind? We’d love to know because it is very unclear in the text.

OFF TOPICS: Dart attacks, Good Dog Bar, Ernest the Monster Hunter and his computer assistant V.E.R.N.

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Ep 80 - Bad Hare Day (w/ Nick Murphy)

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:00:00 +0000

This episode of Goosebuds includes our own magic trick: we conjure up special guest Nick Murphy (Continue?, Pretend Friends, Preston & Steve Show)! With Dom stuck in the fifth dimension, Paul & Chad join Nick to discuss this tale of magic, midnight societies, and kung-fu kids. They also discover a new location in the Goosebumps lore: Battletown.

OTHER TOPICS: Paul's upcoming animated movie 'Jitter Fingers', choosing our magician personas, and Jonathan Frakes' perfect hair.

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Ep 79 - Night Of The Living Dummy III

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Slappy has plagued readers, listeners, and Paul for decades. But is his third act worth the horror hype? Join Paul, Dom, and Chad as they read through the last OG Slappy tale. We got pretty spooked during the episode but that may just because of all the chaos outside in the real world. Hopefully this episode provides some laughs and distraction from that. We love you all.

OTHER TOPICS: Sexin' R2-D2. That's it. Just ten minutes of conversation on getting a blowie from R2. We are sorry.

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Ep 78 - Adventure! - Please Don't Feed The Vampire!

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:43:53 +0000

The Goosebuds boys are alive, kicking, and craving Adventure! With Dom Moschitti DM'ing, can Chad and Paul survive becoming vampires? We completely miss the evil poodle advertised on the book cover so if you had any reservations about undead dogs, worry not. Mostly we consider if we should kill our annoying friend. Other topics: lesser known cures for Vampirism, processing the beginning of the Corona pandemic and how to catch it (OBVIOUSLY GOOFS AND NOT REAL INFO), Crazy Frog and his infectious Frogmania, how Halloween is the worst day to be a small dork, and we reveal some long awaited Goosebuds merch!

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Ep 77 - How I Got My Shrunken Head

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:45:01 +0000

This is a How I Met Your Mother-ish episode as R.L. invites readers to figure out just how exactly one got their voodoo gift. Hopefully the ending will be more satisfying than Ted marrying a girl he never met until the final season. Anyway... join Paul, Dom, and Chad as they discuss this story about Jungle Magic, an overzealous anthropologist aunt, and shouting Kah-Le-Ah a bunch! Enjoy the episode!

OTHER TOPICS: hidden bookcase Kirbys, smooth corn, and ranking Indiana Jones’ love interests.

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Ep 76 - I Live In Your Basement!

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:00:00 +0000

Goosebuds is back with one of the last titles in the core Goosebumps bibliography. The boys really goose'd up this book read. Thankfully Paul is there to save Chad and Dom with a tale of inside-the-house-phone-calls and child head trauma.

OTHER TOPICS: Kingdom Hearts II deaths, honestly scary Bumps books, peak scary bees, No no no no no, living grass, a creative call for a Goosebuds EDM song, The Jillow™.

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Ep 75 - Adventure! - Checkout Time At The Dead-End Hotel

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Pack your bags because we're booked at a haunted hotel! The Goosebuds Boyz cover another Give Yourself Goosebumps title filled with twists and turns and many plots unrelated to monstrous motels. With Dom returning as the 'DM', Paul & Chad must choose wisely.

Can you believe we've recorded 75 episodes of this show? It's been a blast these past 5+ years. Thank you for all the love and listens. Cheers to 2020. May we all survive it.

Other Topics: Punch Wizards, Religious Scientists in Hollywood, flicking the tip, and Dom's gun safety.

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Ep 74 - Goosebuds RPG - Issue #5 - Fathers And Sons

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:00:00 +0000

The final issue in this Goosebuds RPG mini-arc comes to a 'Game Over' as Dom, Paul, and Chad fight their way through the Super Gentendo game system. By transforming into horrifying plumber/freedom fighters, they become their true selves. This episode is For Your Consideration, nominated in the podcast awards category of Butt Kicking and Heart Stomping. Can the boys (and T-Bone) survive DM Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)'s custom Space Kings adventure and learn the secret of "Dan"?

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Ep 73 - Goosebuds RPG - Issue #4 - Snap

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 08:00:00 +0000

We jump right into the audio adventure, with our heroes trapped in an alternate reality videogame console. Join Chad, Paul and Dom as they fight through DM Kevin Cole's 90s adventure using the Space Kings gameplay system. In this episode the boys roleplay dads, fight Shalhoub the Video Djin, give ten fingers, and deal out some brutal, neck-snapping melee flips.

And our wonderful DM and editor Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole) has launched the Kickstarter for Space Kings-- the system we use for Goosebuds RPG! kickstarter.com/projects/supertry/space-kings-the-book

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Ep 72 - Goosebuds RPG - Issue #3 - The Silent Killer

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:00:00 +0000

You demanded more episodes in the Goosebuds RPG and damn it we're having such a good time we'd still play this even if we weren't recording! The boys (big brother Chad, little brother Paul, and dog brother Dom) are still trapped in a 90s nightmare world run by our DM Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole). The boys contemplate patricide, clean up the crime scene that was Jimmy's house, play alternate reality video games, rewrite 90s pop culture, avoid carbon monoxide (the silent killer), and pee ward their house.

OTHER TOPICS: The deep McDark Universe lore and Chad's McAmerica Sandwich aka The Chapple,

And our wonderful DM and editor Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole) has launched the Kickstarter for Space Kings-- the system we use for Goosebuds RPG https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supertry/space-kings-the-book

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Ep 71 - The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena (w/ Jordan Morris)

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:30:00 +0000

Zip up your hoodie, Goosebuddies; it's Halloween Timez and our podcast power grows stronger! Also what better way to celebrate the autumn season than a story that jumps back and forth between temperate California and snowy Alaska? The Goosebuds Boys Dom, Paul, and Chad are joined by Jordan Morris (Bubble, Jordan Jessie Go, Unikitty!, @midnight) to discuss R.L.'s tale of misunderstood yetis, frozen children and magic snowballs. We also learn about Young Jordan's entry into Goosebumps, his big fears, and his Orange County know-how.

OTHER TOPICS: love of big boy superheroes, the Abominable Ang Lee, and the McDark Universe.

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Ep 70 - Adventure! - Escape From Camp-Run-For-Your-Life

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:00:00 +0000

A new Adventure episode is here! Chad reads Escape From Camp Run-For-Your-Life to Dom & Paul. Can these two boys survive their summer sports? Will they deftly avoid the interesting plots of aliens and zombies and spend their days doomed playing soccer? Join the boys and watch out for Billy the Car Driving Kid, avoid falling off cliffs, and chomping down on some blue eggs.

OTHER TOPICS: Event Horizon eyes, The Goosebuds Hydra.

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Ep 69 - Say Cheese And Die... Again!

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:00:00 +0000

It's Episode 69 (nice) and the Goosebuds Boys are tackling another sequel. Say Cheese And Die: Chapter Two! Wait, sorry, wrong horror thing coming out this week. Say Cheese And Die... Again! In this tale, teens revisit a possessed polaroid-- or is it a normal film camera now? When this cursed camera takes your picture, terrible stuff happens. Like getting fat. That's kind of the main obstacle in this book. Can you imagine anything worse than becoming an Eddie Murphy 'Norbit' character? Join Paul, Dom, and Chad for a scientific discussion of how to destroy the planet with a haunted camera.

OTHER TOPICS: Tiny claps, Chad's car haunting, remaking Thanos

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Ep 68 - Goosebuds RPG - Issue #2 - Aurellis

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuds roleplaying adventure returns! Having jumped the literal threshold of their neighbor's fence, the boys face a haunted house armed only with their wits, stolen cable parts, and the unstoppable ally T-Bone. Can Paul, Dom, and Chad find their way back to adulthood? Or will they be trapped in an eternal 90s adolescence, sucking down apple cider with Tina? Enjoy this horrifying and hilarious tour of Dungeon Master Kevin Cole's (@RealKevinCole) take on the Goosebumps mythos.

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Ep 67 - Goosebuds RPG - Issue #1 - Apple Cider Pleasantries

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:21:56 +0000

This is it, podcast collectors: the mint first-edition issue of Goosebuds RPG. Paul, Dom, and Chad join Game Master Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole) for a custom tabletop adventure set in the Goosebumps-ish universe. Will the boys be able to survive a nightmare world of apple cider sucking children and corrupt able companies?

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Ep 66 - Goosebuds RPG - Issue #0 - Boy Creation

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:00:00 +0000

Do not adjust your RSS feed-- this is indeed Goosebuds. In this new side format the boys (Paul, Dom, and Chad) are joined by friend, editor, and game designer Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole) to play a custom version of his tabletop-card-RPG, simply called Goosebuds RPG. The boys will take on Goosebumps horrors playing as their own teenage selves, with only fate and lucky cards keeping them alive.

The actual adventure begins in Issue #1, but this episode will familiarize yourself with the "Space Kings" gameplay system as well as entertain you while the boys look inwards which doubles as emotional therapy.

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Ep 65 - The Headless Ghost (w/ Elspeth Eastman)

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:48:01 +0000

The Goosebud Boys Paul, Dom, and Chad are joined by the wonderful Elspeth Eastman (Cadence of Hyrule, League of Legends, Twitch) to read The Headless Ghost, a story about two kids ruining a local historical house and tourist spot. Learn the tragic tale of a sailor, his lost love, and ripping heads off kids.

OTHER TOPICS: Elspeth in the world of Hyrule and things she would tell Link, Dominic gets a new ally in the campaign to voice Mario, Chad's patented hiccup cure, and Elspeth's favorite Goosebumps.

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Ep 64 - Adventure! - Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons (Dungeons & Dragons)

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 08:00:00 +0000

In this Adventure! episode the boys sit around the audio table for Dungeons & Dragons: Revenge of the Rainbow Dragon. With Dom as our Book Master (BM), can Paul the Fox & Chad the Owl survive this story of chromatic creatures and wacky wizards?

OTHER TOPICS: Doll movies (both haunted and happy), the dark truth of what happens to dead kids, hacking Danzig, and Dom's dad jokes.

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Ep 63 - The Haunted Mask II

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Paul, Dom, and Chad tackle a legendary Goosebumps sequel with The Haunted Mask II, chronicling the history of The Shopkeeper, his unloved masks, and the horror of aging. Nothing is worse than growing old and until science defeats the Grim Reaper this will be the scariest book. Enjoy.

OTHER TOPICS: Our experimental surgeries, and the curse of Mr. Six Flags.

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Ep 62 - A Shocker On Shock Street

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 07:00:00 +0000

Paul, Dom, and Chad discuss the mantis-monster story Shocker on Shock Street, about an amusement park with technology far exceeding anything a modern-day Imagineer could come up with. The Shock Street movie series is not only the biggest horror franchise around, it covers all genres and tones: werewolf men, houses with flimsy electrical wiring, skeleton monorails. Pick a lane, movie producers! Enjoy.

OTHER TOPICS: Meatloaf's biggest secret, the problem with having too many friends, capturing your nudes in new mediums, Christmas Milk

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Ep 61 - Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes

Tue, 07 May 2019 07:00:00 +0000

Prepare to get your hands dirty, Goosebuddies; we're doing some gardening! And who better to help us in our war against our war-crime-committing neighbor than sentient ceramic gnomes? Well, they're actually just two tiny men who pretend to be statues and hang out in your backyard which is unintentionally way more terrifying than R.L. intended. But the book is fertile ground for discussion and jokes.

OTHER TOPICS: Chad, Paul and Dom discuss 90s movie marathons, kids talking too much during movies, and the Buds' individual weapon load-outs for the upcoming Future War.

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Ep 60 - Adventure! - Space Vampire

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:00:00 +0000

Seal up your space suit; we're launching into a new Adventure! episode-- Space Vampire!!! (We added those exclamations to the book title, but how can you not get excited when solar suckers are in play?) Dom reads this tale to Paul & Chad, who do their best to be young space hot shot 'Osprey' and take down a space vampire (different than terran vampires?) who hunts for human blood for some sinister, space-conquering purpose. Will the boys survive their monster hunt? Can their humanity? #ChadLeftGodForVampires

OTHER TOPICS: Our yearly pilgrimage to Yoshi's Island, Vector Man The Garbage Man, hidden secrets of writing for cartoons, and an update on Dom's campaign to be Mario.

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Ep 59 - Calling All Creeps!

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Ooooh howdy the quality of this episode's book is divisive as figuring out where to plant your Identity Seeds. We dive into one of Chad's favorite titles in the original series-- Calling All Creeps-- and talk about the R.L.'s darkest payoff for teenage pranks, our hero Ricky the Butt Monkey, and which of us are secretly lizard people. This book gave us wonderful jumping off points for discussion and we're very happy you voted on us jumping ahead to this tale of pre-pubescent pod people. Enjoy!

OTHER TOPICS: A new media format for the show, Hit Clips, Chad's recurring Gremlins nightmare, and early signs of Jordan Peele's new role as Master of Horror.

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Ep 58 - Ghost Camp (w/ Kevin Cole)

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:00:00 +0000

The Goosebuddies are joined by the great Kevin Cole (Pretend Friends, Haque, Original Characters), who isn't just a great dude and game designer, he's the editor of this show! Kevin brings a stack of notes, and all our dark audio secrets. In this episode the boys cover Ghost Camp. Will the "All Camp Books Are Superior" Theory hold up after this tale of prankster spirits and child violence?

Other topics: Tips for your morning, The Gentle Barn, Legends of the Hidden Temple fears, food-colored popcorn, secrets of Teen Wolf, and emotional Beast Wars.

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EP 57 - Adventure! - Indiana Jones and the Cult of the Mummy's Crypt

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:00:00 +0000

We've covered mummy books on this show before, but not one set in the eternally-1940s world of Indiana Jones! In this special Adventure! episode Dom reads a choose-your-own-adventure written by our beloved R.L! Can Paul & Chad decipher Mr. Stine's subtle hints and pick the right random branching storyline? Will we make Indy proud of us? Is this story's similar plot to Goosebumps' Curse of the Mummy's Tomb merely a coincidence? Or is it just hard to come up with new plots about mummy tombs?

TOPICS: Beach Boys' vs The Muppets' Kokomo, TGIF, The Good Elvis, and a big amount of Stine/Scholastic legal scuttlebutt (totally not slander)

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Ep 56 - Egg Monsters From Mars

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:09:59 +0000

To prepare our hearts and minds for the arrival of spring, we're reading about sentient evil eggs. Chad, Dom, and Paul cover the later Bumps book-- chosen by you: Egg Monsters From Mars! In this upside down world where kids love eggs and spend their weekends hunting for them one kid befriends a bizarre yolk-being and spends the bulk of the adventure trapped in a freezer. Of course we take some stabs at fixing this tale of horror huevos. Enjoy!

RANT TOPICS: 1993's Nemesis, the benefits of a Thinner curse, pigs with guns, A Wolf of Wall Street AirBnB,

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Ep 55 - The Beast From The East

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:00:00 +0000

We finally did it-- we broke the chronological timeline of Goosebumps books. Voted on by you wonderful supporters, we've jumped ahead to the Willy Wonka wannabe The Beast From The East! In this Calvinball of a book the rules change constantly while the tension remains a consistent 'boring'. What a cruel splash of reality R.L. has for us after Jellyjam. Either way the boys love talking about these monstrous blue teddy bears and we hope you enjoy the episode.

RANT TOPICS: Chad's Kickstarter Karma Scheme and Jesus' desire for groveling.

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Ep 54 - The Horror of Camp Jellyjam

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:44:37 +0000

Back when this podcast started and the boys hit the first great wall of bad writing, Chad begged Paul & Dom: just wait for Camp Jellyjam. Years later we've finally reached this bizarre and great book and we can now turn into skeletons and die now that our purpose has been achieved. Or I guess we can just keep reading kids books and sharing goofs. This book is a refreshing read for the boys so enjoy this tale with minimal prank cliffhangers and genuine youth horror.

TOPICS: A call to action for reviews, winning our jeans, the sex-evolution of the Pillsbury Doughboy, communicating your baby status, the old handheld era hardships, kids love slime, sex crimes at gamer camp, and marrying Grimace.

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Ep 53 - The Barking Ghost

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 03:00:00 +0000

Hey Goosebuddies! Chad has recovered from his freak piano accident- all three titans of teen tomes are here! The boys cover the infamous title The Barking Ghost, and the book's bark is definitely worse than its bite? Does that metaphor make sense?

TOPICS: Secretly Shaq, Time Traveling for Better Videogames, Snowglobes, Fear of Dogs, Shitty Little Brothers Part XII, and Isolated Homes in the Woods.

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Ep 52 - The House of No Return & The Haunted House Game (TV)

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 04:00:00 +0000

The 'Buds are back in the 'Bump saddle again!! We're back to discussing Goosebumps... well, two of us are. Chad was involved in horrible accident, so Dom & Paul review two episodes of the Goosebumps TV show that are adaptations from the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series with a haunted house theme! We cover The House of No Return and The Haunted House Game. Through them we explore the darkness of Canadian television, Hitchcock's Guide to Directing Goosebumps, great Canadian child actors, The Canadian Glory Days (before 9/11), and which is the better show: Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark?

RANT BANTER: Our talented friend Chad and his recent interview on storytelling, Chad's horrible accident, more Unsolved Mysteries episodes Dom watched, and how one like can equal one-thousand prayers.

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Ep 51 - I, R.L. - Subliminal Messaging

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:35:34 +0000

After our Infinity War-level teaser last episode the Goosebuds are back for another episode, with a fun teaser flavor of a new recurring show: I, R.L., where we share real-life things that are freaking us out. In this episode we settle on subliminal messaging and get real talk about the unseen forces that shift us around like pawns. Let us know what you think of it! We'll be back to reading books next episode.

RANT BANTER: The Disneyland Tiki Room, the teen sensation Tom Green, observational humor, buying Marc Maron's ghosts, Halloween slasher,' Runaway Train', Unsolved Mysteries because of course we do.

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Ep 50 - Night of the Living Dummy II

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:03:41 +0000

Getting pretty emotional in this episode description, Goosebuddies. This is our fiftieth episode. And what a fitting book to devour than the return of Slappy, R.L.'s own Mickey Mouse TM. It's also a fitting shame that this book is super boring! Gotta spice up this demonic dummy, book man! Paul's greatest fear is this wooden child and we can't figure out what Slappy's end game is-- succeeding in the entertainment industry as a ventriloquist act? Long term investments? Child slavery? Also Dom drops a cliffhanger in this episode that will chill you to your curly bone. Thank you for listening in on this audio adventure with us, fright friends.

RANT BANTER: Earth, Wind & Fire; Fall Out Boy's artistic value, Imagine Dragons' religious secret, Star Wars alien ethnicities, Oedipal complexes, and getting things straight and letting that sink in.

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Ep 49 - Adventure! - The Knight In Screaming Armor

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:00:00 +0000

Welcome to another Adventure! episode where you are given the choice of opening two giant crates; one marked "Good Knight", the other "Evil Knight". In this obvious morality test, which will you choose? Also which one randomly becomes a Narnia adventure with very little actual knights? Paul is this episode's DM (Dom Moschitti) and takes Chad and Dom (non-DM, but also a DM) through this tale of multiple choice.

Opening banter: The boys develop the Goosebuds movie adapatation, badly recapping the 'IT group love scene', Trill Stine, and the California Lottery.

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Ep 48 - It Came From Beneath The Sink!

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 05:44:15 +0000

Put on some latex gloves, Goosebuddies, because it's time to do some kitchen cleaning! You'll find many lost treasures under the sink: hand soap refills you forgot you bought two years ago, a little rat family that just wants to be left alone, and maybe a troublesome sponge monster that has control over fate itself.

This is a weird book where a 'Grool' bonds itself to its victim, feasting off the bad luck it creates with a lot of Final Destination type situations (which really doesn't make sense in terms of its survival as a symbiote). We obviously go off on tangents immediately but if you'd like to skip the banter about Stephen King, erotic anime, and evangelical cartoons the actual book discussion starts at 21:13. Enjoy!

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Ep 47 - Monster Blood III

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:15:16 +0000

This is a particularly raunchy episode of Goosebuds, friends. Not sure why; maybe we're just all really hot and bothered by the idea of canned monsters. In this episode Chad, Dom, and Paul talk public event notification systems, cock socks (and cock mummies), daggerin' & dancin', Captain Stabbin', and the weird fetishes of Monster Blood. That's right; we discuss Chapter Three in 'The Chillogy' of goopy globs of giantism. Hope you enjoy.

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Ep 46 - Adventure! - Toy Terror

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:27:13 +0000

This episode is ready to rip out of the mint-sealed box, Goosebuddies! In this Adventure! episode Dom leads Paul and Chad through the Give Yourself Goosebumps book: Toy Terror. Can the boys survive this toy factory and help these plastic people find independence? They also discuss The World Tree of Ska, Second Skin the horror documentary Second Skin, The Monty Hall "Problem", and cool Mac tattoos.

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(Sorry about Samson the Bird in the background, guys. He just wants to be loved so badly. - Chad)

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Ep 45 - Don't Wake Mummy & Click (TV)

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:24:26 +0000

Set down the book, Goosebuddies because this time we're turning on the boob tube. Dom, Paul, and Chad watch two "classic" episodes of the Goosebumps TV series. First, "Don't Wake Mummy", a pretty mundane tale of a scaredy boy and his sister whose archaeologist mother commits mail fraud and brings a real ancient pharaoh into their basement. And worst of all; he may become a real, living murderer! As opposed to a zombie one.

Up next is the show-exclusive "Click" which so clearly inspired the Adam Sandler emotional comedy. Watch as a boring kid buys a magic remote and only uses it to get the newspaper. Also the boys discover a secondary background TV show that is way more interesting than the episode we're watching.

We hope you enjoy our occasional dips into the silver screen of spooks!

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Ep 44 - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 04:59:23 +0000

DING DONG Goosebuddies! Chad, Dom, and Paul read The Cuckoo Clock of Doom; a time traveling horror story where the greatest fear is having your diaper changed by your mother. In this story a child reverses the bird on an antique wooden clock and is forced to relive his childhood in reverse, doing nothing to change his fate. Chad thinks this is the worst book yet while Paul loved it; so this is a real divider.

The boys also talk about George Romero's Monkey Shines, wheelchairs you blow into, a strange alternative satire called 'SFW', that dude who got his weiner cut off in the 90s, jackin 'em up, Jarhead movie sequels, and again cover the perfect way to get away with murder using time travel.

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Ep 43 - Adventure! - Scream of the Evil Genie

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:08:35 +0000

Your wish is granted Goosebuddies- it's a new Adventure! episode! Chad's your DM as he reads Dom & Paul a Give Yourself Goosebumps book: The Scream of the Evil Genie. But watch out because this carbonated conjurer is taking every wish very subjectively. And the kids are real dumb.

The boys also talk about which Muppet Baby was murdered, Unsolved Mysteries, and invent a new game based around a nationwide manhunt. Bonus: Enjoy the sound of Chad's bird Samson chirping all the way on the other side of his house!

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Ep 42 - The 12 Screams of Christmas

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 10:49:52 +0000

Happy holidays, Goosebuddies! It's a new year! Hopefully we're all still alive and the robots haven't taken us yet! Speaking of being alive... the boys have dug into a Goosebumps: Most Wanted tale about holiday undead (that really don't do much other than guilt trip ya). Preceded by an opening prologue that is the darkest thing RL has ever written, we read the tale of Kate Welles who just wants the lead in a play that would never be allowed on stage, let alone in high school. And Chad falls on his sword arguing that the production is a stealth Halloween story. There's sorta some playing around with the idea of "Christmas spirits" and a missed opportunity to play off A Christmas Carol, but otherwise this is a holiday book we guess.

Also the boys talk weird church experiences, eating communion bread for fun, and discovering the dark joy of Victorian Christmas cards. Enjoy the episode. Merry Slinksmas!

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Note: Apologies for the weird audio on Chad, buddies. He had to record this in his parents' basement while visiting in Indiana and as we all know audio just sounds different in the midwest.

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Ep 41 - Adventure! - Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:37:24 +0000

Adventure abound! Paul takes Dom and Chad through a particularly gruesome Give Yourself Goosebumps book-- Welcome to the Wax Museum! Gasp in glee as the story leads you along on a literal treadmill! Cheer as children murder adults in boiling wax! And learn about RL's potentially coolest monster character... that we never actually meet.

The boys also discuss how to spice up professional sports, the lost magic of the XFL, crow crime scene investigations, exciting ways to fight for net neutrality, slime fetish videos, and invent a new cryptocurrency!

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Ep 40 - A Night In Terror Tower

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:21:40 +0000

A new Goosebuds is upon you. Dom, Paul, and Chad enter Terror Tower for a tale of torture devices, royal child murder, and surprisingly... time travel! It's actually mostly about time travel! That dude on the cover is barely a factor. Huh. Maybe time and the ever-approaching finality of death is the most terrifying thing of all.

The boys also discuss passive aggressive parking tickets, a new yet familiar justice system, how the boys would like to die, and a marketing strategy way for Crackle Barrel. Carpe Noctis.

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Ep 39 - GBC - Fear Street Cheerleaders: The First Evil

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:31:50 +0000

Happy Halloween, Goosebuddies! Chad, Dom, and Paul bring back the Ghoulastic Book Club format (yes, that's totally a thing we've done that one time) and tackle a particularly spooky R.L. Stine book: Fear Street Cheerleaders! Will this more adult kids book have raised stakes? Will the boys be able to relate to a tale about teenage girls? Will Chad overdose tonight on Twizzler Bits?

Besides discussing this tale of creepy cheerleaders, the boys talk defending Tom Hanks and The Burbs, Boxer's Omen, hobo steak, and why Lifesavers candy is called that.

Happy Halloween, friends!

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Ep 38 - Adventure! - The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek!

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 02:37:56 +0000

In this episode the Goosebuds Boys discuss what's beneath the Planet of the Apes, movies that are "Halloween Enough", and Dank Bombs. They also read through another Give Yourself Goosebumps book. In this Adventure! episode, Dom (and a glass of wine) serves as your Book DM taking Paul, Chad, and yourself through The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek! In this narrative laboratory maze, every ending sucks. You guys recommended this book and we now know how much you hate us.

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Ep 37 - My Hairiest Adventure

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:55:15 +0000

Join the boys on this tale of adolescence, boys, dogs, and dog boys. RL presents his creepiest tale yet: hair growing in places it shouldn't! Can't you just feel the shivers down your furry back? Besides disecting this insane gotcha tale, the boys discuss: Kevin James' secret dead TV wife, the site Secret Snopes, the real reason furries are into the festish, and Dom's short story of grocery store diapers.

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EP 36 - Adventure! - Tick Tock You're Dead!

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 06:42:12 +0000

Synchronize your watches, Goosebuddies 'cuz it's time for another Adventure! episode and we're traveling to the future/past with Chad as Book Dungeon Master. Can Paul and Dom track down their missing brother (though we wouldn't say we're actually missing him) across the centuries? Also listen in horror as the boys come up with a new holiday creepypasta legend and theorize how to use time travel to turn your family members into indentured servants.

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Ep 35 - Attack of the Mutant

Sun, 13 Aug 2017 23:56:12 +0000

BAM! POW! ADAM WEST! Goosebuds takes a turn to the comic books to cover Attack of the Mutant. Join Dom, Paul, and Chad as they take on this comic book "horror" story where a little chub boy realizes realizes the comics he loves are now about him! He then visits what seems to be the infamous Masked Mutant's evil lair right off the New Jersey Turnpike.

The boys also discuss RL's potential love of comic books, Gumby, old men made out of clay, eating a child's lunch to gain their mother's power, and knowing that anyone hitting on you is secretly a shapeshifter.

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Ep 34 - Adventure! - Trapped In The Circus Of Fear (w/ Nika Harper)

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:57:56 +0000

It's Adventure Time, Goosebuddies! Paul, Dom, and Chad are joined by returning friend Nika Harper for our first ever Guest DM! Nika leads the boys through a fever dream of a story: a circus that seems to make its income off stealing kids through a time share-esque pyramid scheme. Will the boys be able to navigate this insane tale? Will they pick the right survival items? Will Nika crack under the pressure of so many clown voices she has to do? The gang also discusses Steam legacy accounts, vape coupons, and what determines which playthings have souls in Toy Story.

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Ep 33 - Phantom of the Auditorium

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:19:00 +0000

Settle down for a tragic tale, Goosebuddies. This is a sad tale of a poor homeless janitor that loses him home because of a lame, very patient ghost boy. Chad, Paul, and Dom discuss the book and TV episode "Phantom of the Auditorium", discuss glee club, Overwatch, what to name your child, Billy Zane, and cheap school lunches.

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Ep 32 - Adventure! - Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter

Mon, 22 May 2017 08:18:58 +0000

It's another Adventure! episode with Dom DM'ing the book for little Paul and Chad. You may ask, "What's so scary about purple peanut butter? Besides it meaning you're probably eating a poor kid school lunch?" The answer is "so many things". This episode includes being good boys, failing greeting card companies, the corporate espionage plot of The Flintstones "family" movie, weird-colored ketchups including irritated janitors, shrinking down and murdering people, and being Magneto.

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Ep 31 - Return of the Mummy

Mon, 01 May 2017 23:44:45 +0000

Wrap yourself up in this wonderful and weird episode where Dom, Chad, and Paul return to Egypt with Gabe and his infinitely cooler cousin Sari to dig up mummies yet again, despite all the Pharaoh PTSD they should still have from the first book. The boys also talk c-list celebrity crushes, what to be buried with in a tomb, how immortals struggle in the hard years, and gas leak revelations.

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Ep 30 - Adventure! - Little Comic Shop of Horrors

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:44:23 +0000

It's another Adventure! for the Goosebuds as Paul takes the DM reins and guides Dom and Chad through a story of a haunted comic book shop, spookier and more off-putting than any 90s local comic shop could ever dream. The boys encounter a spinning comic rack, taking peeks at lady magazines, rip off X-Men, and a haunted maze that next to nothing to do with graphic novels. Will the boys survive? Especially when a Goosebumps legend shows up as a cameo?

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Ep 29 - Ghost Beach (w/ Matt Scottoline of Hurry)

Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:36:01 +0000

Slide on your flip flops, Goosebuddies: we're going to Ghost Beach! Dom, Paul, and Chad are joined by the charming Matt Scottoline from the band Hurry (hurrymusic.com) to cover Ghost Beach, an actually scary book, though it sure is a lot of he-said-she-said about who's a ghost. There's so much finger pointing over who's a spectre or not, maybe we're all ghosts, man! Who can say? We can. The boys also talk about what ghosts eat, Dice with Ellen, Rosie O'Donnell's missing bones, and how Paul definitely read the book.

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Ep 28 - Go Eat Worms!

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 08:00:35 +0000

Worms are pretty disgusting. They crawl all over, they live in the mud, and you can cut them up without seemingly much harm. But they're not really scary. This is the main problem with the book of Go Eat Worms! The other issue is that a sociopath is the main character. Join Paul, Dom, and Chad on a discussion of worms, science fairs, Winnie the Pooh, making 2's, and what shadows may do to your no-no areas. It's a clusterfeck of an episode, Goosebuddies, but it's a good one. Just watch your sandwiches and soups; there may be a worm in there!

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Ep 27 - The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight (w/ Nika Harper)

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:11:18 +0000

It's a new year, Goosebuddies! Time to rethink the choices you made in the past. Perhaps you were a bratty kid? Or you were a simple-minded farmer who found a necronomicon and raised a bunch of straw boys? Either way it's time for a new start. And what better way to do that with a new episode?

The boys are joined by the lovely Nika Harper to discuss why this is one of her favorite Goosebumps books, what exactly is the rule with simpletons be allowed to have children, and how easily a scarecrow is defeated in a non-fall season. Also deep contemplation on each Muppet's political affiliations. Enjoy!

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Ep 26 - Deep Trouble/Deep Trouble II

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:59:25 +0000

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In a hilarious mixup, the boys accidentally cover both Deep Trouble and its sequel book and TV show. Listen in horror as you hear about the first book to have actual action and suspense! Ponder if you would smooch a mermaid girl or at least eat her eggs? And squeal with delight as you see dreaded half-men/half-fish dudes who try and open a carnival? I guess that's their plan?

All this and more. Plus the announcement of our new Patreon to help support the show and release even more! We appreciate all of you so much, whether you pledge or not. But we love the pledges a bit tiny more.

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Ep 25 - Goosebuds Best Goofs (1-24)

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:21:22 +0000

Happy 25th Episode, Goosebuddies! To commemorate the milestone, we've collected some of our favorite moments from the podcast (many suggested by you). They barely make sense, but we love them. Of course we love all our other joke children as well, but these are the ones we're sending to college. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane. Thanks to all our guests for being a part of this and for YOU for listening. Your support means a ton and we wouldn't have a reason to read bad children's books without you. Here's to the next 25.

EPISODE GUIDE

02:11 - Ep 2 - Stay Out Of The Basement

04:03 - Ep 3 - Monster Blood

05:01 - Ep 4 - Say Cheese and Die

09:51 - Ep 5 - The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

15:05 - Ep 6 - Let's Get Invisible!

19:28 - Ep 7 - Night of the Living Dummy (w/ Aaron Waltke)

27:25 - Ep 9 - Welcome to Camp Nightmare

35:16 - Ep 10 - Adventure! - Escape From The Carnival of Horrors

39:48 - Ep 14 - The Haunted Mask (w/ Kyle McVey)

41:41 - Ep 15 - Adventure! Secret Agent Grandma

49:14 - Ep 16 - Be Careful What You Wish For

55:56 - Ep 17 - GBC - Animorphs (w/ Holly Conrad)

58:32 - Ep 18 - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder

01:08:23 - Ep 19 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

01:10:52 - Ep 21 - One Day At Horrorland (w/ Dodger)

01:17:10 - Ep 5's sign off

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Special Thanks to Steve Failows

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Ep 24 - Monster Blood II (w/ Yungtown)

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 02:38:35 +0000

Hope you're hungry, Goosebuddies, because we're eating some Monster Blood. Don't worry, it has a lemony taste. In our first sequel book, Monster Blood comes back again and again to make you get real big. The boys are joined by rapper and videogame reviewer Yungtown (youtube.com/user/yungtown) to talk about hamsters, the proper applications of Monster Blood, government monitoring programs, and how one could use this stuff to have a successful NBA career.

Thanks for listening! You can reach us at Twitter (@GoosebudsPod) email (goosebuds@gmail.com) or our subreddit (reddit.com/r/goosebuds).

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Ep 23 - Why I'm Afraid of Bees

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:20:16 +0000

There are like hundreds of bees in this episode. Can you imagine if there were more than that? We're getting the shivers just thinking about it. The boys dive into this tale of nerds, body swapping machines, and ethical issues concerning being teleported into someone else's head and handling their junk.

(Apologies for audio crackle. We did our best to make this episode as pleasant to listen to as possible)

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Ep 22 - Adventure! - Night In Werewolf Woods

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:58:44 +0000

It's time for another Choose Your Own Adventure! With Dom at the controls, Paul and Chad head to Werewolf Woods, a terrible camp where nerds can have their D&D figurines stolen by wolfmen! Terrible! As the boys discuss Real World, growing old, and figuring out ways to die, they eventually learn the scary truth of Werewolf Woods: it's really bad. Like spectacularly bad. Enjoy this trainwreck of an episode!

And thanks to Casper for sponsoring this episode. If you want to use our referral code make sure you go to casper.com/goosebuds and use the promo code "goosebuds".

Editor's Note: This episode was previously uploaded with errors to Paul's audio. They have been fixed! Hooray!

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Ep 21 - One Day At Horrorland (w/ Dodger)

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 01:18:44 +0000

It's time for all us Goosebuddies to take a summer vacation. How about an amusement park? Perhaps Horrorland? Sure. Fine. I guess. Chad and Dom take a trip to one of R.L.'s most popular books with a special guest: Dodger (host of PressHeartToContinue and overall Internet Demigoddess). Consider her your little cousin along for the trip.

The three go through this tale of Doom Slides, Mirror Mazes, and a very convoluted TV channel. What is TV? Is that still a thing? We're new media! Podcasts are new media!

Anyway, enjoy the show! And thanks to our sponsors Casper for supporting us on this one.

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EP 20 - You Can't Scare Me!

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:07:15 +0000

This episode is for the dumb kids at school. You know who you are. You remember hating all those fancy nerds with their words and books and full sentences.... didn't you just want to prank them all? Follow the story of of two idiots who hate a girl for no good reason and decide to prank her by putting mud on themselves. Dom, Chad, and Paul reunite as a complete trio for this terrible book and discuss other topics such as warg'ing into animals to make love to other animals, the dark production secrets of the film "Milo and Otis", and the comedic longevity of "Spaceballs".

Enjoy the episode! And make sure to join the discussion with us on Twitter @GoosebudsPod, goosebuds@gmail.com, or on reddit.com/r/goosebuds/.

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Ep 19 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:44:00 +0000

After fighting a bunch of ghosts in the ethereal realm, Paul has returned to the show! But at the temporary cost of Dom. Will the Great Three ever be reunited?!

Yes, obviously. Next episode. But until then enjoy this nugget of a werewolf story. Chad and Paul talk about a werewolf that does nothing, a hidden murder plot within the book, how the moon exactly turns lycanthropes (and discover a new movie idea in the process), and dissect The Pick Up Artist. Kino.

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Ep 18 - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder

Tue, 03 May 2016 08:11:30 +0000

Warm up your fingers and lotion up those hands, Goosebuddies!Because your piano teacher is watching them with much interest.Maybe he just wants you to be the best musician you can be. Ormaybe he just wants them for terrifying basement activities. AsPaul is temporarily dead, Dom and Chad dissect this book of ghosts,robots, and complicated human hand sales. Plus we discover the newhit genre of entertainment and R.L. finally notices us!

Thanks for listening! And remember to follow us on Twitter@GoosebudsPod and on reddit at /r/goosebuds.

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EP 17 - G.B.C. - Animorphs (w/ Holly Conrad)

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 05:58:44 +0000

Don't be too scared, Goosebuddies. Your ears don't deceive you; we're indeed talking about the OTHER big YA series of the 90s: Animorphs! Welcome to the first episode of the Ghoulastic Book Club, where we'll occasionally taste other book series in order to cleanse our palates in between R.L. Stine's master works.

And joining us is our dear friend Holly Conrad (practical effects master, bird queen, and overall internet space commander) to talk about our favorite books from the series, what animals we'd like to infiltrate businesses with, and how this is the darkest YA franchise ever. Seriously, it gets messed up. Let us know what you think! Email us at goosebuds@gmail.com and interact on our subreddit at reddit.com/r/goosebuds.

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Ep 16 - Be Careful What You Wish For

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:41:47 +0000

If you had three wishes, what would you ask for? Unlimited wealth? Super strength? Maybe make all your fellow basketball teammates really tired? If you chose that stupid third option, then do we have the episode for you! In this episode the Goosebuddies follow the dumb adventures of "Byrd", a girl that doesn't think her wishes through. Or think about anything really. There are really a billion better wish choices than what the characters in this book make.

Plus the boys try to figure out how to eat Swamp Thing and we dive further into everyone's individual Culling plans (Which is what you all really want to know about.)

Thanks for listening! Be sure to follow us on Twitter @GoosebudsPod and talk about the show on reddit.com/r/goosebuds!

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Ep 15 - Adventure! - Secret Agent Grandma

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:47:50 +0000

Prepare for a good old time with your grandma... Secret Agent Grandma! In our second Choose Your Adventure ride, Chad runs Paul and Dom through a world where your grandma is like James Bond, except with nothing interesting happening. What will happen when they board a train filled with mysterious trenchcoat-clad individuals? Join us for what may be the best/worst story yet. You won't believe where this story goes.

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Ep 14 - The Haunted Mask (w/ Kyle McVey)

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:03:52 +0000

Somebody stop us! The Goosebuddies are back to discuss one of the iconic Goosebumps books- The Haunted Mask- with pal Kyle McVey (Grimm, Climax!, LOLJK). Just how does a haunted mask work? Can't you just cut that thing off or rub some lubriderm up in there and slip the baby off like a beer can turkey? And just how far down does this magic monster mask actually GO? Join us for the quintessential "kids doing mean pranks to each other" book in the franchise.

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Ep 13 - The Ghost Next Door

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:34:42 +0000

Do you know know your neighbors? Are you sure they're who they say they are? Perhaps they're actually spectres with a mortgage? In this episode the boys hit the books to read a tale of Hannah, a girl without any real friends, one really obvious twist, and a second one that reinvents how the afterlife works.

And hello to our new sponsor Audible.com! You can get a free audiobook and 30-day trial (along with supporting the show) by signing up at www.audibletrial.com/Goosebuds.

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Ep 12 - Strained Peas (TV)

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:06:52 +0000

You read that title right. "Strained Peas" is a short story turned into a full episode of Goosebuds the TV Show. If you're considering conceiving a child yourself, you may want to listen to this first or at least make sure you use a very respectable hospital for your delivery. If you don't, you may end up with a monster child or worse yet... a 12-year old kid who looks 45.

Enjoy the episode everyone! Paul is caught up in the real world so you just have Chad and Dom this time. But we'll be back quickly for "The Ghost Next Door."

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Ep 11 - Goosebumps THE MOVIE!

Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:54:23 +0000

You know we had to cover Goosebumps' first feature film (assuming many more are to come). Well, we're not counting RL Stine's little-mentioned spy flick "The Man Who Bumped Too Much", but that's just because there are so many sex scenes in it.

But Dom, Paul, and Chad are here to share their experiences with the flick. Does it work for both older fans and new younger viewers? Is one of the films' characters actually stuck in a hell dimension? And Paul reveals his illegitimate children! All this and more as the Goosebuddies cover Jack Black and the crew making this generation's "Monster Squad".

Thanks for listening and Happy Halloween!

Note: We previously uploaded a version of this episode with a few audio errors. They should be fixed now!

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Ep 10 - Adventure! - Escape From The Carnival of Horrors

Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:15:15 +0000

Goosebuddies, this is no normal episode, this is a Give Yourself Goosebumps adventure! You've been demanding we try a Choose Your Own Adventure, and what better way than to read Book #1 in the series, Escape From The Carnival of Horrors. With Story Master Dom leading Chad and Paul through a crazy carnival, will the two survive? There's spooky rides, freaks, and a LOT of boring carnival games!

Let us know if you enjoyed this test episode of a possible format we could keep revisiting. You can reach us @GoosebudsPod on Twitter and on our subreddit /r/GoosebudsPod

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Ep 9 - Welcome To Camp Nightmare

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 02:27:32 +0000

Hello Goosebuddies! Pack your things and kiss your parents goodbye because we are going to Camp Nightmare! A terrible place filled with jungle monsters, guns, and tennis tournaments. Join us for what might be our favorite Goosebumps book yet!

And hello all new listeners who have found us thanks to iTunes featuring the show on the front page. We don't know WHY you subscribed, but we're thankful. And to all you loyal listeners, thanks for supporting us! Your word of mouth and reviewing the show has helped spread the good word of R.L.

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Ep 8 - The Girl Who Cried Monster

Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:28:31 +0000

We're back with a tale of snitchin'. Did you know if you see something? You should say something? Even if it's just a lonely old man who likes to eat bugs when he's alone? Chad, Paul, and Dom catch back up to talk about probably the worst girl in the series yet, the monster food chain, and tales of woe about a lost recording. Enjoy!

Goosebuddies, thanks for sticking with us. We love you all. Make sure you keep up to date on all news for the show on Twitter @GoosebudsPod and on Reddit at /r/Goosebuds!

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Ep 7 - Night of the Living Dummy

Mon, 25 May 2015 20:45:09 +0000

Slappy is here! Arguably the most beloved (and actually scary) books in the series, the boys tackle Mr Wood and his "brother" Slappy and the rival sisters who wish to become rival ventriloquists. Plus, Aaron Waltke (Paranoia Shoppe, Dreamworks Animation) joins us and blows the lid off the real message of this tale of haunted wooden people.

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Ep 6 - Let's Get Invisible!

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:25:52 +0000

Fact: Everyone who has to choose between invisibility and flight as a super power would pick invisibility. Also Fact: everyone would use it for creepy stuff. On this episode, the boys discuss this important topic along with the other issues teens secretly "turning invisible" in the attic bring up. Enjoy! And thanks for everyone being wonderful.

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Ep 5 - The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:03:02 +0000

Join us for what is surprisingly the best book so far in the series! Journey to Egypt as we follow a jealous boy, his much cooler cousin, and his Uncle Ben who may not actually be an archaeologist. Thanks for listening! Remember you can follow us on Twitter for updates @GoosebudsPod.

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Ep 4 - Say Cheese and Die

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:53:48 +0000

Smile kiddies! Paul, Dom & Chad dive into one of the most infamouse Goosebumps books: Say Cheese and Die! A mysterious camera predicts your dark fate. Or does it actually cause these terrible things to happen? All this and a dissection of terrible haunted hayrides! Make sure you check out our new listener subreddit at reddit.com/r/goosebuds!

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Ep 3 - Monster Blood

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 00:13:09 +0000

The Goosebuds Boys are back with one of the most infamous stories in the Goosebumps franchise: Monster Blood! It's a green ooze that keeps growing! Very slowly! How inconvenient! Join us as Dom & Paul share a dark secret with Chad and we learn about a boy's sexual maturity.

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Ep 2 - Stay Out Of The Basement

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:50:20 +0000

We're back! Creepy things happening in basements; oftentimes they're illegal! The boys delve into RL Stein's sophomore story about a dad who just can't get his priorities straight with his kids. Also he's making plants for him to bang downstairs.

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Ep 1 - Welcome to Dead House

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:41:34 +0000

Welcome to Dead House! And Goosebuds! A podcast where your hosts Paul, Dom, and Chad dig into the worlds of R.L. Stine and give them the deep critique and respect they deserve. In this episode ghosts would like to sell you a house. It's a really nice house, and it's a rather good rate. But the neighborhood is a bit unsafe.

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