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06.24.2024

EP 177 - Adventure! - You Are A Shark

It's time to morph into a shark! But sadly we're not reading Animophs and fighting an alien resistance, we're a dumb kid trespassing into an ancient temple and cursed by a vague monk! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and...

06.17.2024

Ep 176 - My Friends Call Me Monster

Do you know what it's like to be considered a beast by your classmates? To be so big but also good at computers? A teenage Hank McCoy? At least one of hosts does and this episode hits hard. Your hosts...

05.27.2024

Ep 175 - Who's Your Mummy?

This book tasks questions the reader: who is your mother and what do they do? Are they wrapped up in bandages? And are they being used as a fuel source for eternal life? Your hosts Paul Ritchey and Kevin Cole...

05.13.2024

Ep 174 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'Day of the Dot"

Get in formation, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole watch another classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete episode, "Day of the Dot". As Big Pete's marching band competes in the Regional Championship, he struggles with...

04.22.2024

Ep 173 - Adventure! - The Badlands of Hark

Your Goosebuds Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through the 1985 CYOA book The Badlands of Hark, written by R.L. Stine! This is written before Goosebumps, Fear Street, or Horrorland; what sort of sci-fi fantasy world does a...

04.15.2024

Ep 172 - Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz

Your Goosebuds hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole review R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz where aspiring cartoonist Robby discovers his comic creations come alive to eat squirrels and torture local kids. But also...

03.20.2024

Ep 168 - American Chillers: Iron Insects Invade Indiana (w/ Payton Whaley) (REUPLOAD TAKE 2!)

The corn state is in trouble, listeners! Small robotic drones designed like metal wasps are terrorizing the youth. They are not being used for war. Let us make that clear: this is not a metaphor about drone warfare at all....

03.20.2024

Ep 168 - American Chillers: Iron Insects Invade Indiana (w/ Payton Whaley) (REUPLOAD)

The corn state is in trouble, listeners! Small robotic drones designed like metal wasps are terrorizing the youth. They are not being used for war. Let us make that clear: this is not a metaphor about drone warfare at all....

03.18.2024

Ep 171 - Adventure! - Zork: The Forces of Krill

Beware of grues, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out another Choose Your Own Adventure book based off one of the first adventure games ever: Zork! This 'What-Do-I-Do-Now" Book is Zork #1: The Forces of...

03.11.2024

Ep 170 - The Scream of the Haunted Mask

There's a terrifying affliction of fear going around; so we're enforcing a Haunted Mask mandate! Your Goosebuds hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book The Scream of the Haunted Mask. It's been a...

02.26.2024

Ep 169 - Monster Blood for Breakfast

This episode is part of a balanced bookfast-! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read the third of R.L Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland series: Monster Blood for Breakfast. The iconic green growth slime is back for a fifth...

02.12.2024

Ep 168 - American Chillers: Iron Insects Invade Indiana (w/ Payton Whaley)

The corn state is in trouble, listeners! Small robotic drones designed like metal wasps are terrorizing the youth. They are not being used for war. Let us make that clear: this is not a metaphor about drone warfare at all....

01.22.2024

Ep 167 - Adventure! - Flight of the Unicorn

Giddyup, Pegacorn! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole wrangle the Choose Your Own Adventure book Flight of the Unicorn by Deborah Lerme Goodman. In a previous episode we had a great adventure in Deborah's Scottish-ish fantasy world....

01.15.2024

Ep 166 - Creep from the Deep

We're back in Horrorland, Buddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland book 'Creep from the Deep'. We're reunited with Billy and Sheena Deep and their uncle Dr. D. What sort of doctor...

12.25.2023

Ep 165 - Adventure! 'Sonic v. Zonik'

Just in time for the holidays we have a new Adventure! episode: Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebook #3 'Sonic v. Zonik' written by Nigel Gross & Jon Sutherland. These two authors watched their kids play Sonic for five minutes and...

12.18.2023

Ep 164 - Goosebumps (2023): "Cuckoo Clock of Doom"

Ding dong, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole are back to cover the third episode in the 2023 Goosebumps TV series involving the fabled Cuckoo Clock of Doom! In this Groundhog Day-ish episode a bunch of...

11.27.2023

Ep 163 - Goosebumps (2023): "The Haunted Mask"

We're just getting started with the new 2023 series, Goosebuddies! We check out Episode 2 of Disney/Hulu's Goosebumps series, "The Haunted Mask". This story touches upon the classic book and also steps down new paths as the kids and parents both...

11.20.2023

Ep 162 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'The Good, The Bad and The Lucky"

As the fall air turns crisp, enjoy this episode revisiting the 90s classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole cover this season 3 episode focused on Little Pete and his magic...

10.23.2023

Ep 161 - Goosebumps (2023): "Say Cheese and Die!"

Goosebumps is back on TV! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the pilot episode of this new Hulu Goosebumps (aka Hulusbumps) series about five teenagers discovering supernatural forces in their small town. And this first...

10.16.2023

Ep 160 - Fear Street: The Surprise Party (w/ Kyle McVey)

Keep your weekend open, we're throwing you a surprise party! The Goosebuddies bring in the spooky season with another of R.L. Stine's Fear Street book The Surprise Party. A well intentioned teen party uncovers a woodland tragedy. Plus there's tabletop roleplaying!...

09.25.2023

Ep 159 - Revenge of the Living Dummy

Slappy' back, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Kevin Cole, and Paul Ritchey read through the first book in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland series: Revenge of the Living Dummy. The Horrorland series promises an ongoing story connecting these spooky tales; does...

09.11.2023

Ep 158 - Adventure! - The Magic of the Unicorn

Sharpen your horns on the nearest elderwood, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole are reading a Choose Your Own Adventure: Deborah Lerme Goodman's The Magic of the Unicorn. Our kid heroes are on a quest to...

08.28.2023

Ep 157 - Fear Street: The New Girl

With Goosebumps 2000 in our rear view mirror the boys drive to R.L. Stine's Fear Street. We've visted Shadyville in previous episodes but are thinking about putting down podcast roots. The community seems nice. Despite this episode's title it is...

08.14.2023

Ep 156 - American Chillers: Nebraska Nightcrawlers

What danger lies beneath our very feet? Could it be morlocks? C.H.U.D.s? Or something even worse: giant nightcrawler worms that have no real senses and just flop around crushing everything! Doesn't that sound positively spooky? We hope so, because Chad...

07.31.2023

Ep 155 - Baywatch Nights: "Possessed" (w/ Domi)

Wait, who's that running across the moonlit beach? It's Camp Counselor Domi (Paperback Paradise) who rejoins Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole to check out the infamous 90s TV procedural Baywatch Nights. In this spinoff of the phenomenon Baywatch,...

07.18.2023

Ep 154 - Ghost In The Mirror

It's the end of the millennium! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read the last Goosebumps 2000 book: R.L. Stine's Ghost In The Mirror. In this episode young Jason gets a thrifted mirror that is secretly a...

07.03.2023

Ep 153 - Earth Geeks Must Go!

Blast off, Goosebuddies! Your hosts Paul Ritchey, Chad Quandt, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Earth Geeks Must Go! It is a 'story' about young boy Jacob Miller who finds himself on an alien planet with strange...

06.14.2023

Ep 152 - Hey Arnold! 'The List/Haunted Train'

Hey Goosebuddies! We're taking a book break and visiting some classic 90s television; Craig Bartlett's animated slice of life Hey Arnold! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole watch two episodes: 'The List' (written by Joe Ansolabehere) in...

06.05.2023

Ep 151 - Slappy's Nightmare

Wake up, Goosebuddies, it's time for another episode! Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through R.L. Stine's Goosebuds 2000 book Slappy's Nightmare. In a bizarre turn, Goosebump's iconic main monster is the protagonist of the book as the...

05.15.2023

Ep 150 - Full Moon Fever

Happy 150th episode, Goosebuddies! If episodes were Pokemon this would be MewTwo, which is a pretty cool thing to be in any comparison. Speaking of mutant monsters, this episode has Chad, Paul, and Kevin reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book...

05.01.2023

Ep 149 - The Haunted Car (w/ PeanutButterGamer)

Start your ear-engines! Paul, Chad, and Kevin are joined by Austin (aka the internet's preminent Arthur scholar PeanutButterGamer) to read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book The Haunted Car. This is a story about one sick ride, traumatic child death, and...

04.17.2023

Ep 148 - Adventure! - Elevator to Nowhere

Ding ding! In this episode Chad, Paul, and Kevin read through R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book Elevator to Knowhere. In this story our wacky Uncle Darius-- not Larry David as this cover may have led you to assume-- is...

03.27.2023

Ep 147 - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

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...

03.13.2023

Ep 146 - So Weird: 'Family Reunion'

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...

02.27.2023

Ep 145 - Return to Ghost Camp

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...

02.14.2023

Ep 144 - Man-Thing (2017) (w/ Adam Teterus)

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...

01.30.2023

Ep 143 - Horrors of the Black Ring

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...

01.16.2023

Ep 142 - The Werewolf In The Living Room

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...

12.26.2022

Ep 141 - Adventure! - Revenge of the Body Squeezers

We're squeezing out the year with one last Body Squeezer story. R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book Revenge of the Body Squeezers. Having defeated the green Squeezers in the Goosebumps 2000 books, you now face the kinkier blue variation. They're...

12.12.2022

Ep 140 - The Adventures of Pete & Pete: 'Nightcrawlers'

This episode Chad, Paul, and Kevin retreat from the harsh horror winter to the safe shelter of The Adventures of Pete & Pete to discuss the episode 'Nightcrawlers', a charming story from the first season about Little Pete and his...

11.28.2022

Ep 139 - The Mummy Walks

Prepare for the horror of complex Middle East politics, Goosebuddies. That's right, Chad, Paul, and Kevin cover R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book The Mummy Walks. It has surprisingly little undead emperors and a lot of political intrigue about a fictional...

11.21.2022

Ep 138 - Adventure! - It Came From The Internet

Plug in, y'all. We're going web crawling! Chad, Paul, and Kevin go on an Adventure! with R.L. Stine's Give Yourself Goosebumps book It Came From The Internet. Our computer has a virus named Spydie, a charming little sentient vampire bug...

10.24.2022

Ep 137 - Scream School (w/ Anthony Burch)

Happy Halloween Week, Goosebuddies! This episode Chad, Paul, and Kevin are joined by Anthony Burch (Dungeons & Daddies, League of Legends) to discuss R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 book Scream School. This book has surprisingly little school in it. Seems the...

10.12.2022

Ep 136 - Jekyll and Heidi

This episode takes place in the Transylvania of America: Vermont. Chad, Paul, and Kevin read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps 2000 Jekyll and Heidi. This is a story about a sensitive poet girl dealing with a dark family secret, town riots, and...

09.19.2022

Ep 135 - Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit

We're going to the dangerous wilds of Michigan! Chad, Paul, and Kevin read Johnathan Rand's Michigan Chillers story Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit. This is a very accurate portrayal of The Great Lakes State, including that local time window that only opens...

09.12.2022