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Andy and Alyssa return to the world of Give Yourself Goosebumps with #12: Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum. As they explore this presumably Massachusetts-based attraction, they encounter history, horrors, Easter eggs, and puzzling workplaces. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #5: Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz, which achieves the distinction of being the worst book they've read for the podcast (so far). Along the way, they discuss questionable fashion choices, Ice Capades, unhinged male villains, veggie burgers and nachos, bizarre catchphrases, the blending of the main story with the HorrorLand plot, the Gingerbread Man, i...

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #4: The Scream of the Haunted Mask. As they reacquaint themselves with Carly Beth Caldwell, they discuss  trauma, bad friends, lopsided grins, scary horse things, ghost animals, obscure historical attractions, and the mysterious shopkeeper's motives. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme mus...

In this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa revisit their old game, RLS vs LMN -- with a twist. This time, Andy must guess whether a plot summary was written by R.L. Stine, the Lifetime Movie Network, or Chat GPT. Play along and let us know how you did! Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #3: Monster Blood for Breakfast! Along the way, they discuss  cool kids, science versus sci-fi, food issues, confusing size logistics, wild science fair projects, steroids, and the horrors of the Internet. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps HorrorLand #2: Creep from the Deep. As they reacquaint themselves with Billy and Sheena Deep, they discuss submersibles, pirates, the undead, folktales, body and face horror, bad childcare, and more. Spoiler alert:not a single frickin' mermaid to be found!  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music b...

Andy and Alyssa are back! They kick off the new season with Goosebumps HorrorLand #1: Revenge of the Living Dummy. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

At long last, Andy and Alyssa wrap up Series 2000 with the final installment: Ghost in the Mirror. Along the way, they discuss  interior design hot takes, monster twists, friendship reversals, scary furniture, splatterpunk, and more. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

This month, Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #24: Earth Geeks Must Go! As they discuss the penultimate book in Series 2000, they consider aliens, bugs, animal intelligence, bad assignments, baffling world building, body horror, and more. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

In their first episode of 2023, Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #23, Slappy's Nightmare. Along the way they discuss curses, stand-up horror, the nature of good deeds, doubles, multiple POVs, and a twist on the usual Slappy narrative. Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com // Theme music by Haunted Corpose

Winter is upon us, so let's revisit some seasonal horror!  Andy and Alyssa take a detour into the Fear Street series with Ski Weekend (1991). They discuss a notable lack of skiing, gender troubles, balaclavas, elaborate schemes, terrible driving, Tom Bombadil, ravines, unclear warnings, Vertigo (1958), bullet eating, lodge horror, snowed-in horror, Slasher: Guilty Party (Season 2, 2016), The...

In honor of the new Netflix series, we're re-releasing our episode about Christopher Pike's The Midnight Club. In this episode,  Andy and Alyssa venture into their first non-Stine book: Christopher "Kevin" Pike's The Midnight Club (1994). They discuss conversation ventures into chain letters, Starvation Heights, Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1353), deals with the devil,...

This week, Andy and Alyssa discuss Goosebumps Series 2000 #22: Full Moon Fever. Along they way, they talk  monster prejudice, Halloween rampaging, aphorisms, Deliverance, Dr. Satan, frickin' mermaids, scary old men, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, sideshows, The Phantom of the Opera, lunacy and moon pseudoscience, family dinner and messed up hungers, imaginary friends, caged animals, curses, t...

 Andy and Alyssa talk with Alan Doucette, prop master for every episode of the Goosebumps TV series! As Alan takes them behind the Goosescenes, they discuss Adam West and other childhood heroes, the multitasking life of a prop masters, starting fires, angering snakes, tarantula fangs, how to get orange pumpkins in winter, Animorphs, Witchblade, Canadian film and television, and the importance of s...

On this Guestpunk episode, Andy and Alyssa talk with Alex of the Gattsy on Goosebumps podcast  about the TV adaptation of Calling all Creeps. The message is media rare. You can find Gattsy on Goosebumps on any podcast platform, and you can follow Gattsy on Goosebumps at @goosebumps.podcast on Instagram and follow Alex on Twitter and Instagram at @latterature_ .   Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram,...

At long last, Andy and Alyssa return to Goosebumps Series 2000 with #21: The Haunted Car. Along the way, they discuss  Home Improvement, cars, Jocelyn from Bob's Burgers, The Virgin Suicides, ghost missions, dangerous dads, The Conjuring, Dr. Death, faking expertise, Catch Me If You Can, evil sexy cars, Stephen King's Christine (of course), Titane, mystery girls, Zoje Stage's Wonder...

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #8: The Curse of the Creeping Coffins . Along the way, they discuss art and science; Liz & Dick ; desecrated graves; tile puzzles; seraphim; Elvira; Last Night in Soho ; co-op living; real estate schemes; transing characters; the yellow pages; humane ghost trapping; The Most Dangerous Game ; settler colonialism (again); visual aids; word...

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #6: Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter. Along the way, they discuss Ritter sport; childcare costs; Staying Out of the Basement; undercompensated academic labor; counting by fives; Persephone; Peppermint Patty; broken windows theory; George Washington and George Washington Carver; Officer Jenny; bovine growth hormones; Go Ask Alice ; Jefferso...

This week, Andy and Alyssa read Give Yourself Goosebumps #5: Night in Werewolf Woods. Along the way, they discuss their new relationship to the closet; 30 years of Goosebumps (shorturl.at/HIQ34); wolf dance parties; nerds; Robert “That F*ckin Guy” Frost; Shark Week; pewter figures; triskaidekaphobia; Warhammer; The Boy 2 ; howling; trailblazing; guano; psychedelic horror; and gendering characters....

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #20: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Along the way, they discuss anagrams; Arkham Horror; goths; Gertrude Stein;  RPGs; Mazes and Monsters; Stranger Things; Through the Looking Glass; chess piece gender; Choose or Die; Stay Alive; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Sand Kings; destroyed towns; The Avengers; If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler; I,...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #19: Return to Ghost Camp. Along the way, they discuss gayness; the Snatch…er; viral encephalitis; muscles; Mark McGwire; Gertrude Stein; bee-fueled ghosts; Kitty Genovese; Camp Crystal Lake; West Milford, NJ; deranged set pieces; summer camp taxation codes; the Rapture; scary foxes; “The Gingerbread Man”; ghost camper math; swapped identities; It Takes...

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "For the Birds," "Aliens in the Garden," and "The Thumbprint of Doom." Along the way, they discuss The Staircase ; taxidermy; topiary; The Shining ; Alice in Wonderland ; Edward Scissorhands ; speculative hedge maze history; creepy hotels; The Witches ; Puppet...

Andy and Alyssa continue their discussion of Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps (Special Edition #3) with "I'm Telling," "The Haunted House Game," "Change for the Strange," and "The Perfect School." Along the way, they discuss  art contests, King Midas, turning to stone, Patrick Skene Catling's The Chocolate Touch , gargoyles (the creatures, th...

In the first of this three-part series covering Special Edition #3 - Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Andy and Alyssa read "The Chalk Closet" "Home Sweet Home," and "Don't Wake Mummy" Along the way, they discuss 17th-century recycling;  Natalie Sideserf; Dante’s Inferno ; time loops; Triangle ; too-strict teachers; Roald Dahl;  The Third Wave ; The Next Ka...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #18: Horrors of the Black Ring. Along they way, they discuss HR Giger’s jewelry box; slow deaths; sociopathic joiners; Barbie rating scales; A Dangerous Son ; unrequited love; Angel ; Maria Bafmord; Shrill ; corruption; possession; ruining school events; Never Been Kissed ; Grease ; Daria ; cursed rings; passing on a curse; The Ring ; Breaking Bad ; Monk...