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Goosebuds

Welcome to Goosebuds! A podcast where your hosts Paul Ritchey, Chad Quandt, and Kevin Cole dig into the Young Adult Literature of Goosebumps by R.L. Stine and give these tomes the deep critique and respect they deserve. Sometimes they get too scared and cover other adjacent 90s books and culture instead. Come join us and re-discover the stories you grew up with or jump in for the first time.
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Mar 27, 2023
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
 
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
 
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Email: goosebuds@gmail.com

Twitter: @GoosebudsPod

Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

 
 
Mar 13, 2023

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.

You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds

Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store

Email: goosebuds@gmail.com

Twitter: @GoosebudsPod

Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Feb 27, 2023

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. 

You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds

Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store

Email: goosebuds@gmail.com

Twitter: @GoosebudsPod

Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Feb 14, 2023
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

You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds

Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store

Email: goosebuds@gmail.com

Twitter: @GoosebudsPod

Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Jan 30, 2023

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.

Book discussion begins: 12:05

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

You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds

Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store

Email: goosebuds@gmail.com

Twitter: @GoosebudsPod

Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

Jan 16, 2023

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
 
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds

Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store

Email: goosebuds@gmail.com

Twitter: @GoosebudsPod

Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)

Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)

Art by Brock Gallagher (@brockadile)

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