WEBVTT - Episode 31: Goosebumps 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.480 Welcome to NERTIVEUS. And and of course I did earlier 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.080 a few weeks. But you know I'm gonna hit y'all 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:28.440 off with that goose bumps theme. Let's go. Yeah, we're 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:34.720 talking goose bumps today. Yeah. Uh well, beat yeah, let's go. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.360 You feel that, y'all, feel that energy coming through. Put 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.919 your hands up, listening to your off office cubicle. Put 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.919 your hands up. I got one hand up, my other 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.800 hands holding your glass of water. I get goose bumps 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.640 every time I'm reading in the books, so scary turned 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.000 the page and I'm really shore. Matter of fact, I'm 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.200 real happy because I'm reading books where in my grabbing 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.480 it from a nook. Now we're coming through with some 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:10.119 goosebumps sounds, and we're coming all around, coming to your town. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.200 Matter of fact, don't get so scared that you might 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.479 just dookie, dookie, Just listen to what I say. It's 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.280 stay spooky, spooky. We got Danny sitting over there. It's 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:26.280 sitting real comfy, inner Green, Little Jay, Joey Cliff popping 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.240 on the track to day. And maybe that's all I 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.040 got to say, because if the nerdy rap coming back, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.920 like I'm coming through the trap. Matter of fact, I 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.119 might come through and do a super wrestling match. People 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.280 in the d MS asking for the wrestling episode, but 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:49.440 I'm like, hey, hey, hey, home me just hold starting 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:54.800 off with some bars. That has been a great show, everybody, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.840 thanks for coming in. Yeah, catch us next time. Honestly, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.480 I listened to a podcast that was just that for 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.880 three matters. Oh man, if if Dopetown wasn't already doing it, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.040 that that's what my podcast. I was going to say. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:10.720 That is what you would call a song three minutes, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.360 three minutes with like a chorus and a good hook 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.760 and like sang by somebody. I like, man, just just 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:25.760 a twelve track podcast. It's alright, yeah and you you 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.959 heard that right. For for those who are just super 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.400 confused because they're not up on the hip hops, that 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.240 was Travis Scott's goose bumps uh instrumental. So it was 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.919 a nice little fake out. Everyone thought I was doing 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.239 the regular theme. I was like, check it out. Um. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.880 The instrumental just totally threw me off because the courses 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.600 I get goosebumps every time, and I forgot where it went. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.959 So I just started free stop. That's okay, it good, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.919 that's all good. Um. But yeah, so we have Joey 0:02:53.919 --> 0:03:01.720 Cliff today everybody writer, comedian for enthusiasts, currently writing on 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.920 Notice News with Jessica Chobot. That's me, that's the things 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.960 I do. I am also at that channel. Yeah, I 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.000 wrote for a show that Danny Holsted. Yeah, you wrote 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:14.720 on Natural Selection, super fun. Let's take one quick second 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:19.880 to talk about your underground cat network. That's the thing. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.880 That's the thing I always go on podcast, But that's 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.919 that's you know, that's exploded because you know, for those 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.320 who don't know, uh, cats are great. Yeah, cats are great. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.639 But we're gonna have to take two steps back before 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.920 jumping in. So the first step is there used to 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.240 be something called it the USB Underground Network, and then 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.520 that turned into a monstrous place that us be no 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.840 longer wanted to be associated with, so it had to 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.520 be changed to the l A Comedy the l A 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:52.360 Underground Comedy Network, and like, because we're comedians, everybody decided 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.640 to make like fake versions of it. So somebody made 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.640 like an l A Underground Baseball Network people talk about baseball, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.280 and LA Underground like hat network where pople talk about hats. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.400 So I just started posting pictures of cats and all 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.200 these networks, and somebody said, hey, you should just make 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.280 an l a underground cat network, and I did, and 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.240 I got very popular, very quickly. Now it's it's got 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:17.440 eight thousand members. It's really it's it's the most creatively 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.640 fulfilling thing I've ever made. I did not belong in 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:24.200 there at all, as I'm a dog person. It's okay. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.040 It was funny because you know, Ronnie from White Women, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.880 I would see him commenting in there, and I thought 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.760 he was doing bits, but he was like having genuine 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.640 conversation about cats. Well that's that's what I love about 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.880 it is, Like, that's what I realized in creating it is, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.039 um there are so many people that, like I want 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.440 to talk about their cats, like and they're just excited 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.280 to talk about them. Their phones are full of cat pictures, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.560 but they feel embarrassed, like you know, posting in a 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.560 regular Facebook or Twitter, Instagram or whatever. So like this 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.200 group basically allows like legit comedians to just geek out 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.360 about their cats. Yeah, it's it's such a fun space. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.039 And there was like some drama there too, Oh yeah, yeah, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.240 sometimes I like some was the drama. I like I 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.800 I put the hard band whenever anybody does anything not 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.520 cat related? Are you the only moderator? Um? Okay, So 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.560 I was the administrator for like the first it's been 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.240 around for two years. For the for the first year 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.080 and a half, and then it just got so big, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:14.719 like once we started getting like, I don't know, I 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.520 think like seven thousand people. Just I'm busy. I'm working 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.640 a bunch of writing jobs. So I got Haley Mansini 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.240 and a guy named Jed Pratt to comoderate it with me. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.560 And it's great. We've got like a group chat. We 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.120 post a lot of cat pictures as well. I was like, like, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.000 this thread is getting a little bit spicy. We should 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.000 watch it. Somebody's thinking about talking about dogs on this thread. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.560 We gotta put it. That would be me. I'm going 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.480 to infiltrate. I'm gonna I used to have cats. In fact, 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.280 I gotta do you know me and my impressions if 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.440 I'm so good at them? Um, this is my cat 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.560 would always sound like he was talking. My cat, Oreo 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.760 would sound like he was very good cat name, by 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.200 the way, and my other one was Snicker, named after 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.640 like cats named after food. It's I think I originally 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.280 wanted to call him Crystal or Tiffany bag, which is 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.400 very ten year old thing to want to name me cat. 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.040 But then turn out he was a girl or no, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.680 it was a boy. Um, and I still could have 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.760 kept it that Tiffany but um okay, so this is OREO. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.640 He would when he would say when he would talk, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:18.560 let me see if I can do it. Wow, that's 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.560 how we sounded. So I on top of doing that Wow, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.200 I host a show at UCB where I just interviewed 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.159 people about their cats called Chats on Cats. During one 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.200 of the shows, I played footage of a cat saying 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.200 I love you, and it was just like and it 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.239 got such a good reaction that I had to stop 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.280 and replay the video like six times. There's like a 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.320 thirty second applause and sheer break every time after play 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.320 people talking cat. People love talking cats. Really, I mean 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:46.800 once cats are not now of talk, we're done for 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:52.159 his people. Yes, So today we're talking about a little 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.760 goosey and a little bumpies. Oh yeah, the goose bumps, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.120 the goose uh joey. Before we get into it, what 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.920 was what was your earliest memory of goose bumps? So, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.000 my earliest memory of goose Bumps is Um. When I 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.560 was in elementary school, I was really into just all 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.760 things short scary stories. So like, if you guys remember 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.720 those books scary Stories to tell him the dark with 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.040 the really creepy drawings in them, I would always like 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.320 check out, Oh yeah, I'm really excited about that, and 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.720 like he's basing the character designs on those original like 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.240 really the one, the Harold one or the one with 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.800 like the stuffed man, the stuff man, like the girl 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.960 with like the snider coming out of her. Yeah, so uh. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.400 Off of that, I was just always looking for like 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.040 new scary stories to read. And I remember like the 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.440 Albertson's near where I grew up started stocking these these 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.760 books called goose Bumps books. I didn't necessarily know a 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.640 ton about him, but I think I was just running 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.760 out of stuff to read and I just saw I 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.960 think it was like the First Monster Blood or something 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.800 like that. UM, And I saw that on the shelf, 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.720 picked it up because it was like five bucks or 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.280 something like that, read through a day, really liked it, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:56.600 so I just like had my mom kind of like 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:57.920 get me a bunch of them, and I went through 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.400 and got all the back copies and really just like 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.240 every month, like the day that they like We're released 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.160 in my local Albertins, I'd pick up a copy and 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:09.000 read through it. Mm hmm yeah Albertson to bring it back. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.080 I don't even know do those still exists. I think 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.800 that I'm from Washington State, so like we had them. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.240 I grew up in Orange County here. Yeah, I think 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.840 that they have to still exist. I think that they're 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.080 like owned by Kroeger now or something like that, but 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.640 I think that they're still technically listeners. Let us know, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.920 is there an Albertson's there? What about Blockbuster? One person 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.920 is like, yes, I live next to the one Blockbuster 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.880 in the organ? Yeah, yeah, that one? Is that the 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.480 only one that's still in the LASTA one just shut down? 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.240 There's one an organ that still exists that. Like the 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.600 guys just said, like, I make no money off of this. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.800 I'm thinking about making an historic monument. Oh that's so cool. Yeah, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.120 it's like, well, my visit like a road trip thing. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.559 It's somewhere in like I think Eastern or Eastern or 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.400 Western Organ or something that's like west of Portland, I 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.559 want to say, in like Eugene or something listeners. If 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.640 you live next to the Blockbuster, please send us a phote, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.800 send us a receipt from that blockbuster. Just we need proof. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.600 I know. It's like you don't even have to return those. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.280 Do you please do for that one person that's still 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.640 working it. Yeah, if you're if you're happening to be 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.360 next to that blockbuster, if you could rent a copy 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.240 of I'm going to see the original Independence Day and 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.240 mail it to me, I really appreciate it. I will 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.719 not watch it on FX every July four. Yeah, but 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.960 I want to watch it now. It's like I don't 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.160 know what nine months from now. Yeah, getting TiVo or TiVo, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:33.840 that's not a thing anymore, only a VCR. Okay, moving along, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.240 moving along? If he can you tell us about some 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.480 of the history of arl Stein. Yeah, arl Stein are 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.559 known as Robert Lawrence Stein. I guess he wants no 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.439 NU know. I can see why he just went by 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.199 r L. You know. But he was also sometimes known 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.800 as Jovial Bob Stein or Eric Affaby a funny story there. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.160 He used to write joke books, and that's why he 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.520 went by Jovial bob Stein. If that was his pen 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.280 name when he wrote just like it was literally just 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.840 like forty jokes to tell at a party or whatever. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.760 If you would, if you were jokester, if you want, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.480 we know people that have like names like that. I 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.160 feel like I would be like jokey Clift Clift but 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:22.400 joke Clift yeah, joke fe jokes jokes. Danny, what what 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:27.440 would your what would your your hockey comedy book writing name? Um, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.040 I don't know what it's like Danny Danny ha Nandez. Yeah, 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:38.880 there you go. Slapper ye Danny Slapper. Oh yeah, that's good. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.360 That's a store that one. So it's born October eight 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:50.280 in Columbus, Ohio. Spooky place. Ohio is spooky. I went 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.520 to just side little fact my ex wood ex husband 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.920 wasn't grew up in Ohio, and he took me to 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.400 the Witch's Ball, which is a real place. Um, it's 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.960 this large marble ball in Ohio. People, if you know 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.800 about this, let me know. Um it's in a cemetery 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.000 that you have to like park and walk to. But 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.560 apparently a witch is buried under this marble ball. They said, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.079 like a woman that killed her family and the and 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.520 the rumors that they buried her standing up and put 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.920 this huge marble marble ball over. I actually looked it 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.720 up because I'm like, that's not a cool thing, you know, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.680 you know what I mean, you're back oh when you're little, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.320 and you're like, oh whitch, and they're like, oh, that 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.679 was probably an innocent woman. Um. But I looked it 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.320 up and I don't know if that's even a real 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.640 if that's actually what happened. Okay, so she killed her family. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.240 I feel like the distinction between which and murderer is 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:41.360 very murky. Actually, yeah, which is don't really murder people. Um, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.320 that's just the thing that and they're also not like 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.680 Satanists most of the time. I don't know, I've been studying. Yeah, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.559 and then more it just was anyways, that's a whole 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:58.120 other Well we should do one on Yeah. But so Columbos, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:03.559 Ohio is a spooky place. I think it's interesting that 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.960 his nickname is the Stephen King of children's literature. Like 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.640 that's such a cool but also lame. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.200 like like I would it would be such a it's 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.440 like you're the Mozart jingle. Yeah. I was like, oh, man, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:24.840 if you're like the Dave Chappelle of children's television podcasting, Yeah, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.840 that's a lot harder than like making it four kids. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.960 You know, even though you know some things for kids 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.480 are fun and good. Uh, spooky stuff maybe not so much. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.360 Have you went back and seen are afraid of the dark? 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:42.280 Not as scary as I remember? Ah, but I digress. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.360 He graduated from os U Ohio State University in nineteen 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.800 sixty five with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.080 he used his degree. He's like the only English major 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.800 that degree. Yeah, what's really scary here is the amount 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:04.440 of people that don't use their major disappointment from your 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.280 parents and that what a what a shift that would 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.360 be if Hollywood just got empty and communications jobs just 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:18.960 got impacted. With me, everyone's like, you know, communications, what 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.559 what what about? Communications attracts so many people who really 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.320 want to chase their dreams. We'll find out another episode 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.760 of Narratifficent. On this episode, we're gonna talk about R. L. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:34.040 Stein at os U, who edited the os U Humor magazine, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.200 foreshadowing that uh that joke book that Joey was talking 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.319 about and uh, the magazine was called the Sun Dial 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.080 and it was for three out of his four years there. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.440 He later moved to New York City, to pursue his 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.560 career as a writer. Yeah, and so he ended up 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.760 writing a dozen of humor books for kids under the 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.360 name Jovial bob Stein and created the humor magazine Bananas. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.000 So Bananas was for teenagers and it was published by 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.400 Scholastic Press. It had seventy two issues that ran between 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.240 nineteen and nineteen eighty four. Did you know about that? Did? 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.439 I didn't know about it? But um, okay, so this 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.880 is maybe a deep poll um. I didn't know until 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.559 recently that he was such a huge, like such a 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.360 humor writer. But a friend of mine who does shows 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.040 at the Bright Citizens Boget Theater in New York, actually 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.800 got r. L Stein to agree to have an entire 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.760 late night show based around him. They did live at 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.320 New UCB, New York. And originally I was like, oh, 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.920 that's crazy that, like the goose Bumps writer would agree 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.200 to have a late night talk show based around him 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.400 and had written by him. But like, with all of 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.160 his humor background, I guess that makes sense the show. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.440 So he so he was there, like he hosted It 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.000 was like the tonight show was Jimmy Fallon but hosted 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.200 by R. L Stein. Do they have did they film 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:44.920 any of them? Um, they probably filmed it. I'm not 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.720 sure if it's available online, but you can find like 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.160 sketches of it on online. The show is called Night Late. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.200 The premise of the show is that they get a 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.240 different celebrity or a weird figure to basically have a 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.320 late night talk show built around them every month. So 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.560 they had like, like Drew Carey's done it, that may sense, like, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.560 but Erlstein, like my friends, his name is Eric Kinning him, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.360 he like co created the show, and I saw he 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.320 was getting Arlstein. I was like what he was like, Oh, 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.760 yeah know, he like wrote comedy for years in gold. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.280 I can't remember if any of his books I felt 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.400 like had comedy, but maybe that was. I mean that 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.000 was sort of what Goosebumps spoke joke. That's that's sort 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.160 of what Goosebumps books were, and that's that's what made 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.120 them four Kids, and they were scary books, but they 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.280 also had just like moments of comedy to undercut the tension. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.200 So like, I think that he referenced like one of 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.480 his favorite characters in the Goosebumps book is I want 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.080 to say, like King Jelly jam In. Um, I think 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.640 it was like escape from Camp jelly Jam or whatever 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.160 was the book, And um, that's a character that would 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:45.880 enslave athletic kids to bathe him because he smelled so 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.200 badly that he needed he needed to be bathed twenty 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.440 four hours a day. And he like at the end 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.000 of the book, all the kids are freed and they 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:58.400 all escape and King jelly jam Uh died because he 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.040 smelled so bad because nobody paved. So it's like, that's 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.960 like a joke. That's like a funny thing, right, So 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.920 it's like that those details, I think we're already always interspersed. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.560 He has such a weird mind. He is Stephen King. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.480 He's just a weirdo. Yeah, he's a weirdo. So in 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.720 nineteen eighties six Stein wrote his first horror novel, which 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.640 was called Blind Date. That already sounds terrifying. He followed 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.960 with many other novels, including The Babysitter, Beach House, Hit 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.320 and Run, and The Girlfriend. He was also the co 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.360 creator and head writer for the Nickelodeon Network children's TV 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.560 show Eureka's Cast until recently that's coming back full circle 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.400 and that was just a normal kids, I mean, it 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:38.800 was a weird kids. Show, but that was still just 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.960 a kids show. Yeah. And then in nine he started 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:47.880 writing Fear Street books. I do remember those, yeah, and 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.400 that was that was right before the Goosebump series. Those 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.280 are like teen horror novels. So it's a lot of 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.160 just like teenagers in scary situations. Yeah. So he had 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.440 a couple of other things. He authored three humorous science 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.400 fiction books in the Space Cadet series titled Jerks and 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:08.520 Training Bozos, Good Groops There and Losers in Space, And 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.920 then in Stein and Parachute Press went on to launch 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.640 goose Bumps. There was actually, um, there was a parody 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.480 series of goose Bumps that was released in the mid 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:23.359 nineties called goof Lumps that like wasn't written by erl Stein. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.240 But now seeing that he's got such a humor background, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.360 I wonder if he released two bucks and I think 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.080 that one owns them, and if he's just like yeah, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:31.640 like if it's like a hat tip of like yeah, 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:36.000 one comedy writer to another. Yeah. Um. So this was 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.240 this is what he had to say on horror. I 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.919 think horror is funny. Horror makes me laugh in a 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.399 movie theater when the shark comes up and starts eating 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.160 you did laugh. We watched Halloween together. Halloween had solid, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:52.919 strong jokes, but when the faces is smashed up and 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.480 people getting knife related, I'm not like. I think we 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.800 laughed at so if he and I went um. Opening weekend, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.480 we watched the latest Halloween, which did great in the 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.040 box office, number one with Jamie Lee Curtis of course, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.320 and we were cracking up way too much. But also 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.720 there was legit humor because I don't know if people noticed, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.560 but Danny McBride wrote on it, and several of those scenes, 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.439 I was like, this is a pent. Danny's humor comedy 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.119 and horror movies is so good because it just cuts 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.040 the tension. You know, for sure it's necessary. Its like 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.720 a quiet place that you want to be scary all 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.840 the time, but like if it's like a slasher fleck, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.040 you want it to have like an up and a down. Yeah, 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.119 So this is his quote. I think horror. This is 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.320 from Arlstein. I think horror is funny. Horror makes me 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.320 laugh at a movie theater. When the shark comes up 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.399 and starts eating the kid, I'm in the theater laughing. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.920 I just I did um. One of my friends made 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.399 me see the Meg and we saw in for Dy 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.360 which means yet, which means we paid extra for it. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.520 But also there was like water splashing in our face. Yeah, 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.560 that we laughed a lot. I just never get scared. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.960 There's something missing in my brain where if I'm reading 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.399 a Stephen King novel or I'm at a horror movie, 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.359 I just laugh. Writing this stuff hasn't really affected me 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.960 at all. I just I think it's funny. In goose Bumps, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.439 every chapter and is a punchline. Oh what you just 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:15.159 pointed out Joey ahead of the curve. Yeah, ruining the 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.200 flow of the show. You're enhancing it. Oh thanks man. Yeah. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:25.280 Goose Bumps is a collection of novels that were basically 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.919 most of the time one shoot story was like an 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.720 anthology series. Anthology series of just spooky dookie stories. And 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.280 then sometimes you had to choose your own adventure ones. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.800 Which were those were? Those were like make I think 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.600 it's like make your own goose Bumps or something. Yeah, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.680 they made fifty of those. Um I remember I didn't 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.760 get as into those, but they were good stuff. Oh yeah, no, 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.359 I used to you know when you're like I'm gonna 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.119 just read this, but you had your fingers like no, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:50.720 I'm gonna go back. I didn't want. That was a 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.800 lot of like yeah, you like say the same something 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:54.800 that's like really funny about I think it was a 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.280 choose your own goose Bumps was like sometimes there would 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.960 be like trivia at the end of the of a 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.280 chapter of like previous goose Bumps things. So it's like, 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.919 if you know who the main character of the Haunted 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.080 Mask was flipped to this page. Oh do you think 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:11.760 it's this? Go to this page. So it was like 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:17.199 homework to read other Bumps books. Great marketing text that was. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.960 That was the earliest version of DLC right there. Yeah, 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.919 like you better are you better figure this out? You 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:25.480 go and die? Yeah, if you don't know what happens 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:30.679 in Monster Blood three, then sorry. Um. So we're actually 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.359 going to take a quick ad break and then we're 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.760 going to get into some of our favorite goose Bumps 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:46.479 right after this and we're back. So we're gonna get 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.720 into some of our favorite ones. But before we do, 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.840 let's talk about the first ever goose Bumps book. So 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.040 it was Welcome to Dead House. That was number one. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:21:01.040 It was released July. Did you read all of them? Okay? Wow? Yeah, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.560 Welcome to Dead House was so creepy. So basically it 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.879 was the story of um a family of A common 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.600 theme in Arleston stories is that a family moves either 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:12.600 moves from out of town or a kid like visits 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.040 a family member that's from out of town, both things, 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.920 by the way, frightening to children moving to a brand 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.160 new change. Yeah, change. So this was the Benson family 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.200 moves to the town of Dark Falls. Yeah, they moved 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:24.639 to the town of Dark Falls. They move into this 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.280 house that's really creepy. One of the kids that it's 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.240 a family with, like I think it's like two kids 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.520