Stories That Stick with Chad Quandt

Hey Goosebuds listeners, your host Chad here.

Those on the Patreon have already gotten a heads up– but Goosebuds is taking a two month pause– from August and September. The reason is I’ve been swamped in work at my day job. By the way, I can finally announce I’ve been working these past two years as lead writer on the upcoming series Avatar: Seven Havens. That’s about the elemental warriors; not the J...

Hello?! Anyone in this abandoned church? Want to talk about infected rage zombies? Your host Chad Quandt is joined by editor Ben Ravid (Invincible Fight Girl, Big Nate, this show!) to gush about the acclaimed movie that kicked off the modern zombie craze: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 Days Later. And we also talk about the just released followup that is almost literally 28 Years Later. How would Chad and Ben survive an apoc...

They're here! Chad is joined by returning guest Jordan Morris (Bubble, Youth Group, Jordan Jesse Go!) to talk Tobe Hooper and Stephen Spielberg's 1982 classic Poltergeist. A surprising blend of supernatural horror and Amblin family charm. This is a movie where in first 30 minutes a boy is vored by a tree! We also discuss Chad's lost Heathcliff movie pitch.

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Something stirs in grandpa's playroom; a toy clown Punchinello that can come alive on a whim. Can three kids find Grandpa's secret magical key and escape before they die from endless hop scotch games?

Your host Chad Quandt is joined by writer/comedian/singer Brian David Gilbert (Um, Actually; Unraveled) to discuss this beloved film from his childhood: WeeSing's Grandpa's Magical Toys. And we're then joined by a s...

Happy 200th, Goosebuddies! It's been a wild decade of the pod and we're happy to celebrate with honored guest Tim Jacobus, original artist of Goosebumps! We talk about his biography It Came From New Jersey, his love of rock album covers, staying in Jersey, and the surprise photo references for his iconic covers.

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If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality, you'll end up in the backrooms. And you may also download this episode and end up listening to host Chad Quandt and guest Elspeth Eastman (Rift of the NecroDancer, League of Legends) discus infamous new-horror creepypasta that will soon be a major motion picture. Beyond this /x/-fueled creation, we talk about Chad's favorite book; Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Le...

Something's foul in the air, and we swear it's not us. Your host Chad Quandt is joined by triple-threat actor/writer/wrestler James Willems (Answer For It!, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Funhaus) to discuss one of Junji Ito's largest works; the stinky book Gyo (known as 'Fish: Ghastly Squirming' in Japan). A 'death stench' has taken over Okinawa, followed by an army of walking rotten fish, sharks, and ...

Vroom voom, Goosebuddies. You wanna know what gives host Chad Quandt and guests Alexis Bevels & Darby Lynn Cartwright (IMHO the Show/Podcast) goosebumps? Dangerous highway infrastructure! We check out the 1994 action classic Speed, starring Keanu Reeves pre-Matrix and Sandra Bullock pre-Congeniality. This podcast can't go below 60 jokes per hour or we'll explode. Pop quick hot shot; will you enjoy this episode?

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Hope your thirsty for horror movie discussion, Goosebuddies. Your host Chad Quandt is joined by animation director Brock Gallagher (aka avant-garde V-Tuber NilbogLive). Before the Spy Kids era, Robert Rodruigez was a pretty cool director. Teamed with Scream's writer Kevin Williamson makes for The Faculty; a great 90s take on body snatchers and Animorphs-adjacent teenagers. As walking contradiction Zeze would say, this podcast i...

What sort of creepy story are we covering on the first episode of Goosebuds where Chad is solo host? A 2003 Lego fantasy toy ad. Yes, Goosebuddies. It's true. But we'll get to scary stuff again. Chad Quandt is joined by guest Payton Whaley (Flyover Culture, A Moment of Science) to review the first of many Lego movies about the dark fantasy island Mata Nui who is protected by Toa elemental warriors. Wait, is everything in th...

Hope you're hungry for podcasts, Goosebuddies. Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole celebrate the end of an era for this show by watching the 90s Are You Afraid of the Dark episode 'The Tale of the Dangerous Soup'. Dr. Vink is running a strange bistro with an expensive soup that is bringing old rich people in by the bakers' dozen! But what's the secret ingredient? What's the deal with this la...

Ever since we were young boys, we watched Are You Afraid of the Dark/ From Philly to South Bend, we've seen them all/ But somehow this is the first time we're covering the show on Goosebuds!/ That sure was a mean episode!

The Goosebuds Boys Chad Quandt and Kevin Cole check out the 90s Nickelodeon episode Are You Afraid of the Dark called 'The Tale of the Pinball Wizard'. This is a very inaccurate portrayal of pinball...

Have you ever wondered where toys come from? They're not really from Santa Claus nor your divorced parents trying to win your love. They're from Japan! Chad, Paul, and Kevin check out the lost 1983 Disney home video Where The Toys Come From; a 'Showcase' preceding Toy Story where two small toys Zoom and Peepers learn time travel, fight foreign toys, and meet their god Kenji. Enjoy the toy parades!

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It's Schwimmer Time! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole check out the latest season of Goosebumps: The Vanishing, starring David Schwimmer of Run Fatboy Run and Madagascar fame. This modern retelling of the classic 'Stay Out Of The Basement' begins another serialized season of teenagers and adults hopping through other old 'Bump books. How does Season 2 compare to Justin Long's Season 1? What d...

Prepare for something a bit different, Goosebuddies! While Chad flees the LA fires (don't worry; he's safe), Paul and Kevin gather to talk about two pieces of non-R.L. media they enjoy. The anime OVA classics: 1988's 'Dragon's Heaven' by Makoto Kobayashi and 1985's 'Angel's Egg' by Mamoru Oshii. Both about girls wandering desolate apocalypse landscapes. Hope you enjoy this departure from our ...

Oh Come, All Ye Goosebuddies! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole revisit two 90s cartoon holiday episodes. First we check out ABC's Recess's politically correct 'Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave' guest starring James Earl Jones and Michael McKean in which Chad's cartoon proxy Mikey challenges 3rd Street to prove Santa is real.

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The Goosebuddies Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Horrorland 'finale' The Streets of Panic Park. Sixteen (!!) book protagonist kids are globbed together to face the edgelord villain The Menace who hopes to scare the kids so bad they'll jump realities. And in what should be the hypest moment in all of Goosebumps, Slappy leads a group of villain allies! Can these kids and monsters escape Pan...

We're back to Hark as the Goosebuddies Chad, Paul, and Kevin adventure through the second (and last) of R.L. Stine's sci-fi Choose Your Own Adventure series: The Invaders of Hark. We're thrust into the city of Hark where multiple alien factions fight for control and a beautiful princess. These books are brutal with only one correct path. Will we survive?

OFF TOPICS: Paul's adventures in Unreal Engine, Godot

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We gotta escape from Horrorland! Your hosts Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps: Horrorland: Escape From Horrorland. A hell of a title. The last ten books have been building up to this; the YA equivalent of Avengers as all our survivng kids team up with original survivors Lizzy and Luke to run around in circles in a paranormal park that isn't even Horrorland! This horde of kids' goal i...