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Goosebumps podcasts as accompaniment to the texts

TL;DR, I’m reading Goosebumps books and listening to some relevant podcasts that I can recommend to other readers.

I started reading the Goosebumps books and just kinda blazing through them since each one can be read in less than two hours. They’re fun reads, but since I’ll likely never read these again I wanted to support my readings with additional materials to help it all stick before I move on.

It started by doing the thing where I search for a lot of relevant information and references in the usual wikis but then realized, oh, there’s surely a podcast for that.

(There are many.)

(Never mind the video essays and reviews on YouTube, I’m not even going to start down that rabbit hole.)

I listened to various episodes and wasn’t kind finding everything I wanted in a single podcast (some comedy, some plot exploration, some reading too far into texts designed for children), so I decided to choose three podcasts and listen to each show’s episodes for a given book as trios of roundtable discussions and lectures on the works of R.L. Stine. It was also important to me that the podcast actually covers the core 62 books in the original series because I’m a completionist (to a point), and these do!

Also, these are all podcasts about children’s books but very much meant for adults. So, you know, parents may wanna find other ways to chat with their kids about the crusty old Goosebumps books they grew up with.

These are the podcasts I have in rotation and the order in which I listen to them after I finish reading a Goosebumps book.

#1 - Goosebumps: Welcome to Deadcast

Hosted by twin brothers and Goosebumps megafans, I like this show for the comedic stylings of the hosts, their clear love of the Goosebumps series, and perhaps most importantly the fact that they do the play-by-play breakdown of the plot as a core part of each episode. That makes it a good first episode to get reminded of what actually happens in the story. Bonus: they always talk about the TV episode adapted from the book (if there was an episode), something the other podcasts only occasionally brush against in their discussions of the stories.

#2 - Goosebuds

This is the run-of-the-mill podcast experience. The hosts are three straight white men (in fact all of these shows are hosted by white Americans, which bums me out but I couldn’t find podcasts with more varied host backgrounds), they are all performers or writers working in TV, and they love to veer off into tangents unrelated to the Goosebumps book they’re discussing in the episode. One gets the sense that they feel there’s not enough meat on the bones of just talking about the books so they improv for a while to pad out the runtime. That said, they’re funny guys, and I like to listen to their takes on these books just for the chuckles. But I’d say this podcast is skippable for anyone who doesn’t wanna cram this much Goosebumps material into their brains. Also, early episodes of the podcast are during the Obama presidency when it was seemingly alright to joke about eugenics and culling people, which, yikes. Listener beware.

#3 - Say Podcast and Die!

This newer show may be my favorite after listening to twenty episodes or so of each podcast. The hosts self-describe as queer and are both funny and keep the tone light, but they are also educators and approach the discussion of each book almost like a class lecture, asking each other questions in order to draw out more thoughts and theories on what was going through R.L. Stine’s brain or what aspects of the real world may have informed the choices in the text. Initially, it really felt like a classroom setting where I was being asked questions and didn’t have answers, but I’ve grown to appreciate these hosts’ more critical analysis of the stories. I save these episodes for last so that I come away from the experience of having read a Goosebumps book with bigger questions and analysis than I would otherwise develop by simply reading the book and moving on.

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View from Hagia Sophia toward Sultanahmet by Yüksel Göz on Unsplash

via my best beloved @werebearbearbar​ (who didn’t tag anyone but left it to her dear Readers to decide.) there are a bunch of new folks following of late, so welcome! here’s a snapshot inside my brain: 

last song: I was going to front that it was something cool but I think it was Woodstock by Crosby Stills Nash & Young 

last film: an astonishingly bad but entertaining heist movie starring Andy Lau and Shu Qi called The Adventurers  

currently watching: The Gift (Atiye), a Turkish series on Netflix. it’s a dark supernatural thriller and I like it a lot; I really can’t wait for this one character to die but I’m pretty sure that’s intentional on the show’s part. 

currently reading: re-reading the first two books in S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy, so that I can finally get around to the third; a memoir by journalist Annia Ciezadlo called Day of Honey; poetry by Kaveh Akbar, Omar Sakr, Anna Swir, and Alda Merini

currently craving: ravioli, and this is entirely @yattsu-ku-san‘s fault (they know what they did) 

last/current podcast: SO BEHIND but i’m trying to use my vacation to catch up on: Head On History, about Islamic esotericism; Bulaq, about MENA literature; and The Distraction, which used to be the Deadcast, which was nominally about sports and is now... whatever it is. 

now you go. 

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Podcasts I am currently listening to...

Updated 02/22/2020

An Animated Discussion - DCAU

An Older Gay Guy Show

Are You Afraid of Are You Afraid of the Dark

Are You Afraid of the Podcast?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd

BIG GAY SEX SHOW: THE DADDY YEARS

The Bradshaw Boys: A Sex and the City Podcast

Brunch with the Halliwells: A Charmed Podcast

Carrie On: The Sex and the City Podcast

Correct Opinions with Trey Kennedy

Dead Meat Podcast

Dear Albie

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Filmhaus Podcast

Gettin’ Grown

Gilmore Guys

Good Christian Fun

Goosebumps: Welcome to Deadcast

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Homophilia

Inside Voices

Jockstrap Stories

Keep It!

The Kinda Funny Podcast

Kiss & Tell Radio

Linoleum Knife

Listen Up A-Holes

Morgendorks: A Daria Podcast

Movie Geek & Proud: A Movie Podcast

My Best Friend’s Journal

The NoSleep Podcast

Poor Man’s Movie Review

Potterless

Private Island Presents: Up All Night

The Read

Riverdale After Dark

The Riverdale Register: A RIVERDALE RECAP

Seeking Human Victims Podcast

Sex and the Cidiots

The Skorpion Show POdcast

Spooky Dudes Podcast

This American Horror Story Podcast

This Is Rad!

Timm Talk

The TryPod

Watch What Crappens

wellRED podcast

The X-Men TAS Podcast

Yo, Is This Racist?

You Scared of This?

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Things that I love. Dating

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Episode 114 - ISLA RA SESSIONS: The Truth is Out There...But I Missed It

EPISODE 114:

**EDITOR'S NOTE**  These events take place BEFORE the announcement of the Moon Knight TV Show on Disney+. There is mention of a 'possible' show...we hadn't heard the news yet! - Editor Rey

FEATURING TOP 4 BOOKS BY DEREK 'DEFENDER O' THE WALL' O'NEILL!

In our usual 'Prestige Format', ITK presents to you another ISLA RA Sessions - this time with another fellow podcaster, and major influence and inspiration for our show - Derek ' Defender O' the Wall' O'Neill!

We've been big fans of Derek, John and Chris for a long time so it's not an overstatement when we say this is one very special episode indeed!

Residing at Grant Mansion, High Priest of Khonshu Rey sits down to learn more about Derek's introduction into comics; his knowledge of our Fist of Khonshu, and his journey into that addictive world of podcasting!

The pair are then whisked away to a couple of secret locations to discuss Derek's books - needless to say on both occasions, they aren't alone!!

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Nightmare on Fear Street Meets Welcome to Deadcast

In this weeks bonus episode, Zack sits down with the terror twins as they talk all things R.L. Stine and become new best friends! 

Another spoooky episode has arrived

[jeezypetes]

Sometimes i feel like I’m on the wrong side of a parallel universe. You know, like I’m living in a crash world

[jeezypetes]

Goosebumps welcome to deadcast was a powerful mental crutch for me during early pandemic and i am so grateful for the terror twins for everything they’ve done but unfortunately “i would kill everyone for x” is now deeply imbedded in my personal lexicon and its. Not good no one likes it

[jeezypetes]

This is the holy canon btw

[jeezypetes]

Dm me if you want to read my paper “in defense of nonreaders: meaning beyond text in welcome to deadcast” btw. It’s behind my university’s paywall but it responds to a lot of the criticisms that deadcast fans who’ve never read any of the goosebumps books face and it makes the argument that the podcast experience creates a deeper and richer metatextual understanding of the content than the text itself can provide

[jeezypetes]

If i had a tiktok it would just be bug and cat videos and me mouthing along to clips from the goosebumps: welcome to deadcast one day at horrorland episode that’s a tiktok thing right where you take the audio from something and lipsync it. Anyways I’m not getting a tiktok bc I’m working and in grad school and i already spend too much time on tumblr and i think my tiktok would be even more niche wnd unpopular than my blog but it would be more embarrassing bc it would feature my real face and i would be like what am i not pretty enough for tiktok teens am i too old to be cool

[jeezypetes]

STOP READING UNLESS YOU WANT TO HAVE YOUR THIRD EYE OPENED: It’s really hard to go back to listening to mbmbam after you get a taste of goosebumps: welcome to deadcast (the king of brother podcasts)

[jeezypetes]

I think one of the reasons i love goosebumps: welcome to deadcast so much is because their version of fandom is remembering all 62 original goosebumps titles in order or reading the first and last paragraphs of each book out loud with their brother or fantasizing about making an EXACT correct tv episode for each book with the outfits and everything exactly as it is in the book. Like same except I don’t care about goosebumps

[jeezypetes]

This is one of the best episodes of any podcast ever I swear to you a thousand times and I’ve listened to so many podcasts so I Know ok i know I have parts of it memorized end of psa