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Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #17: The Werewolf in the Living Room. Along they way, they discuss Fritz Haarmann; shark tooth necklaces; Mario jokes; werewolf teeth; bifurcated story form; The Bailey School Kids; human trafficking; merchandizing; raisin squares; Teddy Roosevelt; Sylvia Likens; the layered look; following someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing; Moby Dick ; The Gla...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #16: The Mummy Walks. Along they way, they discuss some first-rate #FoodWatch; hijacking; the basis of national economies; Jeep safety; snake wranglers; Shirley Jackson’s “Paranoia”; the Black Mirror episode “White Bear”; Old Enough ; Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ; The Da Vinci Code ; secret royalty; The Princess Diaries ;...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #15: Scream School. Along they way, they discuss new heights of GooseDaddy issues; circling around good storylines without entering them; Doug Jones; postmodern ennui; L.A. novels; Don DeLillo; Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence; awkward snakes; the new VW Bug; British colonial uniforms; #MeToo; Carly Beth’s mom; Silver City, NV; the Donner party; t...

Andy and Alyssa return to the Fear Street series with R.L. Stine's controversial tome The Best Friend (1997). Along the way, they discuss My Cousin Rachel ; man hands; Brian de Palma; memory lapses; mirroring; gendered exercise; Love is Blind ; Guns n' Roses; hysteria; queer villains; Single White Female ; Nella Larsen’s Passing ; All About Eve ; hair twins; Basic Instinct ; Dead Ringer...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #14: Jekyll and Heidi. Along they way, they discuss grief; Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast ; billboards in Vermont; 411; class tensions; fiction v. nonfiction; Gothic tropes; ski sweaters; the  Foundation; Heidi ; exposition; IT: Chapter 2 ; Spiral ; Shamela ; orphans sent to live with mysterious relatives; A Series of Unfortunate Events ; The Secret...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #13: Return to HorrorLand. Along they way, they discuss Tom  ; meta horror; Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit ; mini Super 8 cameras; Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education/La mala educación ; computerized puppets, or robots; complex machines; avant-garde signage; sadism; Prometheus; Videodrome ; COPS ; the monorail; sports; commercialization; The Blair Witch Project...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #12: Brain Juice. Along the way, they discuss alien orthography; New Jersey’s South Mountain Reservation; theatricality; the smart kid bullies of New Jersey; Surgeon Simulator; cow tools; exposing the ignorance of the faculty; norming and intelligence; Shel Silverstein; hiding your drug use; A Body to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story ; Terry Bisson’s “They...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #11: Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls. Along the way, they discuss Pickle Rick; personal essays; literal field trips; metamorphosis; the danse macabre ;  Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby ; gravestone curses; Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl ; the Manson family; coded trans stories; gender euphoria; dangerous pranks; Prom Night 2: Hello Mary L...

In this episode, Andy and Alyssa finish their discussion of Special Edition #2 - More Tales to Give You Goosebumps with stories 8-10: “Shell Shocker,” “Poison Ivy,” and “The Spirit of the Harvest Moon.” Along the way, they discuss science fair strategies; the Australian trumpet; yonic imagery; Michigan J. Frog; Wonderfalls ; piles of bones; Texas Chainsaw Massacre ; Graveyard Shift ; “Ali Baba Bun...

On this minisode, Andy reads from Give Yourself Goosebumps #4: The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek, while Alyssa chooses her own adventure. // 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 continue their discussion of More Tales to Give You Goosebumps - Special Edition #2. They read "You Gotta Believe Me!," "Suckers!," "Dr. Horror's House of Video," and "The Cat's Tale." Along the way, they discuss the Emperor of San Francisco, the dangers of television, Rent-A-Pal, cornfields, The Twilight Zone's "It's...

In the first of this three-part series covering Special Edition #2 - More Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Andy and Alyssa read "The Werewolf's First Night" "P.S., Don't Write Back," and "Something Fishy." Along the way, they discuss marshmallows on hamburgers; Rocky Horror Picture Show ; The Matrix: Resurrections ; Through the Looking Glass ; secretive parents...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa play a game of LMN vs. RLS: Alyssa reads a plot description, and Andy has to guess whether it's from the Lifetime Movie Network or R.L. Stine. // 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 Ha...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #10: Headless Halloween. Along the way, they discuss going headless; sadism; My Cousin Vinny ; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew; low-budget raves; anagrams; A Clockwork Orange ; audience complicity; Job’s suffering; Hostel ; the Saw franchise; sinister parties; Eyes Wide Shut ; le Théâtre des Vampires; Blade ; falling to a rocky death; Trick ‘r Treat ; “57 Reasons fo...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #9: Are You Terrified Yet? Along the way, they discuss Battleship Potemkin, the meaning of bravery, crushing, strange bets, Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, changing schools, There's Someone Inside Your House, runaway babies, The Witches, Louise Erdrich's "I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy," being caught up i...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #8: Fright Camp. They discuss The Art of Goosebumps ; cinema verité; McKamey Manor; sailing sunfish; meeting your maker; Basic Instinct ; Marianne ; The Amber Spyglass ; unethical artists; In the Earth ; The Haunting of Hill House ; Scream 3 ; sadism; Funny Games ; Haunt ; real-life horror; Peeping Tom ; No Escape ; “The Hauntening”; A Serbian Film ; can...

On this minisode, we read Goosepunk messages and discuss R.L. Stine's take on classical literature and what we love about Melbourne. // 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 Series 2000 #7: Revenge R Us. They discuss abusive relationships, #JusticeForTara, frosted tips, classism and xenophobia, Karens, store-bought cake, small businesses, whether birds can have twins, hair horror, The Way Down, Dragula Season 4, xenophobia, Drag Me to Hell, The X-Files, urbanoia, sibling abuse, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Addams Family, revenge rev...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #6: I Am Your Evil Twin. They discuss Mortonville, PA; donut hacks; infernal architecture; mack trucks; screensavers;  THE FUTURE OF CLONING; The Full Monty ; old college roommates; experimental prose; Hugo Simpson; The Parent Trap ; It Takes Two ; Luke and Leia; Blood Rage ; Dead Ringer and Dead Ringers ; Eve 6; The Boys from Brazil ; The Sixth Day ; Pr...

Andy and Alyssa conclude their three-part series on Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1 with a discussion of "Click," "Broken Dolls," and "A Vampire in the Neighborhood." In their discussion of "Click," they talk about laser discs, capitalist boredom, ironic wish fulfillment, time-controlling devices, the "Time Out" episode of Creepshow, Charmed, the &...

On this minisode, Alyssa reads from Give Yourself Goosebumps #3: Trapped in Bat Wing Hall, while Andy chooses their own adventure. // 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 continue their three-part series covering Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1, covering "Strangers in the Woods," "Good Friends," "How I Got My Bat," and "Mr. Bear." In their discussion of "Strangers in the Woods," they talk about peanut butter fudgies; why directors wear baseball caps; Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog ; erra...

In the first of this three-part series covering Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1, Andy and Alyssa read "The House of No Return," "Teacher's Pet," and "Strained Peas." In their discussion of "The House of No Return," they talk about the first person plural, Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicides" (1993), Edwin Arlington Robinson's &q...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa play a classic field trip bus ride game, with a Goosebumps twist. Andy learns that they completely missed the point of this particular activity as a kid. Alyssa wants to get ripped for Vanessa. // 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...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #5: Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 2. They discuss exoskeletons; screen doors; AIDS panic; pillow fights; the LAPD; communal swimsuits; locker rooms; Elder Things; mind-body dualism; foreign invasion; Train to Busan (2016); aliens with attachment issues; The Puppet Masters (1994); xenomorphs; alien communication; Contact ; Ted Chiang’s “Story of Yo...