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On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa read some messages from Goosepunks about their collections and experiences with Goosebumps! They also discuss Where's Waldo and Executive Producer Franklin gets a cameo. // 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@gma...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #50: Calling All Creeps. Along the way, they discuss bullying, phone creeps, Warren G. Harding and the Teapot Dome scandal, the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, the Weather Channel, giving props to lunch ladies, the Face-Heel Turn, Saint Maud (2019), the "Earshot" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999), Jennifer's Body (2009), conspiracy theories, Dr...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #49: Vampire Breath. They discuss baby lions, homebody adventures, thirsty vampires, robber barons, time paradoxes, the supernatural supplements industry and vampiric pyramid schemes, Kirsten Dunst, bat fights, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950), Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019), Ileana Douglas, Richard Matheson, murder...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa discuss the final installment of the Netflix Fear Street series. (NOTE: Spoilers begin at 3:55). They also talk about the Devil, The Witch of Edmonton (1621), expository montages, Valerie Traub's The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, historical perspectives on women-loving women, Carroll Smith Rosenberg's "The Female World of L...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #48: Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns. Along the way, they talk about owls, racism, fatphobia, Predator (Bird) Cafe, Procne and Tereus, Ovid's Metamorphoses (8 CE), revenge-tragedy parties, stranger danger, leotards, costume choices, socially awkward situations, too much of a good thing, Se7en (1995), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), contrapasso...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa discuss the second installment of Netflix's new Fear Street series. (NOTE: Spoilers begin at 6:41!) Along the way, they talk about frame tales, Scream 2 & 3, Bedazzled, underground things, summer camp, stellar music, Puritans, Anne Bradstreet, final girls, Sleepaway Camp, meeting places, Friday the 13th, hair and costume choices, and 1970s slashers....

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #47: Legend of the Lost Legend. They discuss Garbage Pail Kids, feral children, HP Lovecraft's "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920), folklorists, ren-faire-meets-prairiecore fashion, carnivorous squirrels, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Grimms' Fairy Tales, warning narratives, withheld parental love, the Flying Dutchman, Gretel and Hansel (2020), Vict...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa return to the beautiful world of Amazon reviews. They cover opinions on The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, You Can't Scare Me, One Day at HorrorLand, Why I'm Afraid of Bees, Monster Blood II, and Deep Trouble. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagr...

On this bonus episode, Andy and Alyssa discuss the first installment of Netflix's new Fear Street series! (NOTE: Spoilers begin at 9:12!) Along the way, they discuss book store chains of yore, pulp and low art, class resentment, amorality, coded and not-so-coded queer characters, illicit economies, small-town conspiracies, racist power dynamics in horror, the Jet song "Timothy" (200...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #46: How to Kill a Monster. Along the way, they talk about the Magnificent Seven, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), goth grandparents, (un)impressive pies, rural horror, dumbwaiters, confusing monsters, terrible fakeouts, poisoner children, parasites, ageing horror, Relic (2020), swamp murder, Robert Bloch's "Enoch" (1946), Night Gallery's...

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, Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915), messages from beyond the grave, alternative medicine, mall bookstores, Buddhism,, St...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa are once again joined by Executive Science Advisor, Sam Levinson. This time, they talk alien egg best practices, animals who play death tag, bird names, the perceptual horrors of cross-species mind swaps, and King Jellyjam. Sam also solves two of the greatest Goosebumps mysteries. You can keep up with Sam's sciencing by following @openwaterfly on Instagram an...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #45: Ghost Camp. Along the way, they talk about ghost admin, healthy sibling relationships, embarrassing traditions, conformity and control, Dracula (1897), hazing, that time Andy almost maimed Alyssa, Jell-O lessons, Sleepaway Camp (1983), metaphors for relationships and depression, deer and does, ghost liability, Possessor (2020), The Sixth Sense (1999), different...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #44: Say Cheese and Die--Again! They discuss skeletons wearing lipstick, time warps, Spidey's remains, totaled houses, more coded queer villains, body shaming and fatphobia, Stephen King's IT (1986), bauxite production, grammatical moods and tenses, how photo negatives work, a shoutout to Gore Gore Girls Podcast about hated horror tropes, Hereditary (2018)...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #43: The Beast from the East. They discuss boredom, survival skills, squirrel troubles, learning numerical systems, children's heights, arbitrary rules, picaresque and romance plots, unfamiliar social norms, hidden societies, Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, utopias and dystopias, Channel Zero confessions, scary games, The Most Dangerous Game,...

On this minisode, Theories and Queeries goes international. Andy and Alyssa share messages from Goosepunks around the world about their experiences with the series. They talk about the Dutch and Russian cover art, and being a generous critic. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodanddie on Instagram, a...

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 se...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #42: Egg Monsters from Mars. They discuss one hell of a last-page surprise, scientific aspirations, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978), sexual assault, E.T. (1982), childbirth and pregnancy horror, Octavia Butler's Bloodchild, Fantastic Planet (1973), Antibirth (2016), slime and 90s kid culture, scifi-horror about becoming a test subject, Firestarter (...

On this minisode, Andy reads from Give Yourself Goosebumps #2: Tick Tock, You're Dead! while Alyssa makes the choices. They discuss New York, Salt Lake City, time travel, and more solipsistic Goosescientists. They also miss an opportunity for a TikTok joke. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow @saypodan...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #41: Bad Hare Day. They discuss Georgia O'Keefe cover art stylings, a much worse sister than Tara, Fozzie Bear, kink, angry bunnies, bad jobs and bad mentors, A Stranger Kind (2015), Dragula (2016-present), R.L. Stine's pseudonymous BDSM stories, Sideserf Cakes, Psychoville (2009-11), Blue Velvet (1986), the fairy tale "Sweet Porridge," The Prest...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #40: Night of the Living Dummy III. They discuss familiar plot points, soon-to-be-outdated technology, angry GooseDads, Hamlet, R.L. Stine's two-step program, strange cousins, Betty Crocker recipes, The Boy (2016), being pranked, family horror, The Last Supper, Shook (2021), sibling psychodramas, Le Ballet Mécanique (1924), the Brothers Quay, Await Further Inst...

Andy and Alyssa return to R.L. Stine's YA horror with The Babysitter II (1991). As the dive into this sequel, they talk about the terrible men in Jenny's life, Ohio enthusiasm, interior design, gaslighting, Wuthering Heights, evil children (and adults' fear of them), The Good Son (1993), trauma and PTSD, Open 24 Hours (2018), scary therapy, the vengeful dead, The Silence of the Lamb...

On this minisode, Andy and Alyssa talk about some Goosepunk chatter! They discuss the Jeffers extended family, Lifetime movie recommendations, M.R. James, ghostwriters, Monster Blood theories, and a lovely Goosepunk email. Also, a teaser for an exciting interview to come! // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com  Follow...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #39: How I Got My Shrunken Head - and it's rough. They discuss Battle Solitaire, Tarzan, stolen human remains, Koosh balls, nomenclature, f****d up colonialist fantasies, scarlet ibises, Simulacra and Simulation (1981), researchers gone wrong, Swamp Thing, Bradley Whitford, Heart of Darkness, Cannibal Holocaust (1980), the X-Files episode "Our Town,"...

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #38: The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena. As they try to make sense of a very strange plot, they discuss California, the Gooseverse's first divorced family, the enduring cultural relevance of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the whitewashing of Alaska, Robert Hansen, National Geographic, blackwater photography, the tooth fairy, trail mix and tree hugging, cryptids, The Ab...