
160 episodes

Goosebuds Goosebuds
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4.9 • 732 Ratings
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Welcome to Goosebuds! A podcast where your hosts Paul Ritchey, Chad Quandt, and Kevin Cole dig into the Young Adult Literature of Goosebumps by R.L. Stine and give these tomes the deep critique and respect they deserve. Sometimes they get too scared and cover other adjacent 90s books and culture instead. Come join us and re-discover the stories you grew up with or jump in for the first time.
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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 it start strong with the iconic puppet monster? What is Slappy's connection to a theme park? And who is Mr. Badboy? Is it Slappy? Oh yeah, it's just Slappy.
Book discussion starts: 8:29
Off-Topics: The Last Unicorn, The Cleveland Brownie
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store
Email: goosebuds@gmail.com
Twitter: @GoosebudsPod
Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)
Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net) -
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 find a unicorn horn to purify their village's water supply. Presumably you put the horn in a water filter. Maybe you drink from it like a giant straw. Will we run into that tree hag on the cover? Or will something else more magical occur? Enjoy!
Episode begins: 7:30
OFF TOPICS: Being overly familiar with Deborah, Referring to people by their profession, City streets and their relative twistiness, Wearing pain like armor, Getting your ear pierced at Claire's, additional literary material, The LotR BTS bonus features that Kevin somehow never saw
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store
Email: goosebuds@gmail.com
Twitter: @GoosebudsPod
Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)
Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net) -
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 not about an 'adorkable' Zooey Deschanel moving in with three sexual dudes. Instead in this first book of the series Cory Brooks hungers for new arrival Anna Corwin's kisses. This mysterious girl may be a ghost and is full of red flags. Teenage hormones blind Cory to real love when his best friend Lisa is right there! Can we survive this love triangle?
Book discussion begins: 15:45
Off Topics: Lorcana, Greasy Car Holes, Disney Infinity, X-Men Sneaker Blind Boxes, the problem with New Girl's Schmidt, Permanent Records, Throwing the One Ring into a Volcano, Lt. Worf's iconic phrase
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store
Email: goosebuds@gmail.com
Twitter: @GoosebudsPod
Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)
Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)
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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 Quandt and Kevin Cole are reading Johnathan Rand's American Chillers series #15: Nebraska Nightcrawlers. Will these kids be able to shrink the subterranean assassins back down to size? Enjoy the episode!
Off Topics include: The Spicy, Our NPC-sonas, Young Chad at the Steel Mill, Encountering a Teacher in the Wild, Reverse Cocaine, War of the Coprophages
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store
Email: goosebuds@gmail.com
Twitter: @GoosebudsPod
Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)
Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net) -
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, David Hasslehoff's Mitch Buchannon moonlights as a Californian P.I., dealing with paranormal problems. In this episode, the blood of a serial killer infects multiple people with the desires of sex and death. It's really a wild trip and we have a blast closing this case with Dom. The nights will never be the same!
Episode discussion begins at 9:55
OFF TOPICS: Lighter Politics, 7-11 Rose Pipe, How Does the Witch Magic from Beauty and the Beast Work?, New Original Character Pissmouth, Sylvester Stallone Chaos Pen, Going "Egg Mode"
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store
Email: goosebuds@gmail.com
Twitter: @GoosebudsPod
Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)
Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net) -
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 portal to a mirror dimension. It's sort of like that episode of Infinity Train but not as well written. Can Jason stop his mirror doppleganger from throwing cars all over town? Does Goosebumps 2000 end with a real Y2K-level threat or is it more of a dud like how the real Y2K went? Enjoy the episode.
Book discussion begins: 7:30
OFF TOPICS: A gun that shoots skateboards, advertising integrity
You can support Goosebuds, get access to bonus episodes, join our secret Discord, and more at patreon.com/goosebuds
Dress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.store
Email: goosebuds@gmail.com
Twitter: @GoosebudsPod
Edited by Kevin Cole (@RealKevinCole)
Music by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.net)
Customer Reviews
Supplementary Spooks
Enhance your spookage with this side order of in-depth disquisitions on Goosebumps and RL Stone’s mental state.
Well Goose My Buds
I can’t believe I haven’t left a review after all this time listening. From the very beginning these boys have been giving me both a hit of nostalgia while simultaneously proving Goosebumps books were not all that great. Huge laughs, great buds and always a good time. Love you guys, OG crew Dom, Paul, Chad and Kevin. You are awesome.
LPOTL but on valium
Chill and pleasant nostalgic listen