Say Podcast and Die!

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #4: Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 1. As they talk about the first half of this two-parter, they discuss War of the Worlds (1953), disturbing nature program(me)s, The Children's Hour (1961), phone creeps, horror movie special effects, beepers, problems with authority, Andy's go-to excuse for getting out of meetings, folk music, Coast to C...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa return yet again to the Amazon, and its reviewers deliver. They cover opinions on Goosebumps 20-25: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, Go Eat Worms!, Ghost Beach, Return of the Mummy, Phantom of the Auditorium, and Attack of the Mutant. Could one of the reviewers be R.L. Stine himself? Listen to find out! // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #3: Creature Teacher. Along the way, they discuss eating the irregular cookie; prologues; comedy as coping mechanism; Nancy Grace; eugenics in the U.S. educational system; complex molecules; scary boarding schools; Clive Barker’s “Pig Blood Blues” (1984); Milgram; A Little Princess (1905); Suspiria (1977; 2018); Halloween H20 (1998); The Blackcoat’s Daug...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #2: Bride of the Living Dummy. Along the way they discuss Goodnight Mommy (2015), passive aggression, Slappy's new look, anger and anxiety, artist dads, The Bone Collector (1999), awkward gags, children's entertainers, coffin questions, Slappy's themes, heteropatriarchy, domestic abuse and implied sexual assault, child brides, Blue Velvet...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa revisit Give Yourself Goosebumps #2: Tick Tock, You're Dead! This time, Andy does the time traveling. Along the way, they encounter, dinosaurs, quicksand, knights, and coin flips. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypod...

Season 2 of Say Podcast and Die! kicks off as Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #1 Cry of the Cat. We talk musical theater; #BirdWatch; Spartacus; severed heads; Carrie White; moms with boundary issues; Aunt Gayle; a possible Dogface cameo; cat ladies; Pet Sematary (1983); the return of Whitey; raising the dead; another mad science twist; Cats (2019) ; non-innocent victims; “Jennifer”...

Andy and Alyssa reflect on the last year and a half of reading the original 62 Goosebumps books. They talk about trends through the arc of the series, their favorite books, the kinds of horror that appeal to each of them, the fairness or unfairness of the Gooseverse, walking the line between comedy and horror, the most standout and WTF moments of the series, and what's next for the podcast. /...

For this bonus Halloween episode, Andy and Alyssa choose their own scares. Using Stories from the Grave (available at DriveThruRPG.com ), they play a Goosebumps RPG involving antique shops, cool kids, excommunication, Boosegumps, and questionable moral compasses. Believe it or not, this episode is not sponsored by Muscle Milk. // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at s...

Andy and Alyssa finish off the original Goosebumps series with #62: Monster Blood IV . They discuss RL Stine’s ambivalence; knitting; possible time warps; some number of mice; #EggWatch; Peachtree Street; embarrassment; Niles’s and Frasier’s los brother; the military-industrial complex; Prospero; blaming women; Genesis (ca. 900-700 BCE); Pandora; non sequitur sequels;  the Star Wars prequels (1999...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #61: I Live in Your Basement! They discuss sexual innuendo and imagery, meta moments, The Invitation (2016), George Orwell's 1984 (1949), controlling moms and Munchausen by Proxy, Sonia Kaspbrak, The Sixth Sense (1999), The Night Listener (2006), Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Anthony Godby Johnson and Vicki Johnson, being trapped in a dream, memory loss, the &...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with Daniel of the Black Mass Appeal podcast and Satanic Bay Area about the TV adaptation of Werewolf Skin. They discuss modern Satanism;  forgotten side stories; a ton of easter eggs; the real Wolf Creek; guitar riffs; Cube spoilers; double lives; Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (2009); The Wolfman (1941); The National Exposer ; the Satanic Panic; liminal...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #60: Werewolf Skin. They talk old-fashioned film cameras & the 21st century; nonsensical schooling choices; next door Hannahs; living trees; nocturnal animals; werewolf found families; bardcore Aerosmith; scary neighbors; The People Under the Stairs (1991); Rear Window (1954); photographers in horror; Arachnophobia (1990); Peeping Tom (1960); One Hour Photo (200...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa talk about coverage of the podcast in the news! They also discuss the Gay Horror from the Goosebumps TV series and a true childhood horror story from a Goosepunk. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Th...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #59: The Haunted School. They talk makeup, bison, strange architectural choices, Welcome to Night Vale, My Friend Dahmer (film, 2017), Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" (1954), the Derry sewer system, Abducted in Plain Sight (2017), cats in horror, Titane (2021), The Wizard of Oz (1939), cultists, Lovecraft Country (2020), Call of Cthulu (video gam...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #58: Deep Trouble II. Along the way, they discuss the lack of frickin’ mermaids; slime trails; the largely landlocked Gooseverse; birth metaphors; frilled sharks; wastebasket taxons; New England fashions; cannibalism; motorboat basements; the International Sea Life Patrol; too-big animals; Arachnophobia (1990); Anaconda (1997); Eight Legged Freaks (2002); Atoms for...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #57: My Best Friend is Invisible. Along the way, they discuss the threat of therapy, plot twists, research vs me-search, odd English class projects, molecules, Patrick Swayze, invisible clothes, topiary horror, gaslighting, menacing invisible friends, Daniel Isn't Real (2019), Z (2019), stalkers and manipulative relationships, Peter Pan, Twilight (2005), the ge...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #56: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake. Along the way, they discuss suicidal ideation; water sports; buddy systems; body image; growing up awkward; snakes; inept camp counselors; motorboat accidents; haunted summer camps; Return to Sleepaway Camp ; Lord of the Flies ; putting kids in charge of other kids; female rivalry; Always Shine ; Happy Death Day ; being hated; Ameri...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #55: The Blob That Ate Everyone. Along the way, they discuss stories within stories, coded trans and neurodivergent characters, strange writing, printers, jump scares, famous first lines, writing horror, tuna, Frankenstein (1818), Paradise Lost (1667), horror about horror writers, In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Stephen King's The...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #54: Don't Go to Sleep! They discuss reality police; James Madison; ant attacks; Justin Case; going cuckoo; Anna Karenina (1878); school overcrowding; vanilla pudding; Uncle Andy & Aunt Margaret; the Saw franchise; It’s a Wonderful Life (1946);  sleep horror; Nightmare on Elm Street (1984); The Cell (2000); Ruth Gordon;  fugitive stories; Night of the Livin...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with podcasters Gary Cruise and Chris Barker of Horror. Cult. Trash. Other. about the TV adaptation of The Phantom of the Auditorium. They discuss effort awards, Stage Fright (1987), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), easter eggs (ft. our favorite prop master), Amber D'Alessio, BBC commercial breaks, coded queerness (of course), Velma Dinkley, "up...

Andy and Alyssa venture out of the Gooseverse and read Diane Hoh's The Train (a Point Horror book). They discuss inappropriately lighthearted endings, train travel, sociopaths, ceiling cat, trans-coded villains and evil butches, cash on delivery, traveling west, the Donner Party, Zombieland (2009), The Hills Have Eyes (1997), Lovecraft Country (book, 2016; series, 2020), bullying bullies, Tor...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #53: Chicken, Chicken. They discuss Vampira, watering the mail, On the Interpretation of Dreams (1900), egg toss, small school extracurriculars, “Beautiful Ohio,” church, body horror, Circe, The Vulture (1967), kid Jesus, monstrous transformations, Gingersnaps (2000), The Fly (1986), puberty horror, Human Centipede (2009), Middlesex (2002), curses you deserve, Drag...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa revisit Give Yourself Goosebumps #1: The Carnival of Horrors. This time, Andy reads and Alyssa makes the choices. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #52: How I Learned to Fly. Along the way, they talk about love plots, superheroes, Tina Belcher, Malibu, Superbad (2007), masculinity, the Aristocrats, MLMs, Zeno's Paradox, Fight Club (novel, 1996; film, 1999), the bleakness of superpower exploitation, the billionaire space race, rivalries, Gattaca (1997), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), exploited tal...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #51: Beware, the Snowman. They discuss email sign-offs, the Chicago Bulls, flat roofs, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ice caves, nightmare kittens, arcane rituals, gothic horror, custody disputes, being angry about the mail, Jack Frost (1997), half-remembered verses, Tommyknockers (1987), mysterious family pasts, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Krampus (2015...