All right. This is happening. This is the launch of a new podcast, technically, even though this is kind of a evolution of one that's been going on for over a decade. In case you haven't seen any of the recent updates to the feed, if you didn't see the trailer we put out, maybe you haven't noticed the logo has changed on your podcast app. Goosebuds is now Stories at Stick.

And I'm very excited about it, but I want to tell you, before you stop listening, you're here for goosebumps.

Goosebuds is still happening.

It's still happening.

I'm going to talk more about it in a minute.

But let me talk about stories at the stick.

I've been really lucky to be out in Los Angeles writing for cartoons and comic books and games for over a decade around

the time I started Goosebuds. And I realized, like, while I also love talking about the YA books,

I really get a lot of energy out here from talking to fellow creatives and artists and aspiring

people, not about the project we're maybe necessarily

working on because we're just so in it that we can't really enjoy it and maybe we're a little burnt

out, but talking about like the original art, the media that moved us, the stuff that stuck to us.

And I realized that was kind of what got me into doing goosebumps in the first place was goosebumps,

Arl Stein's books resonated with me, right? They really stuck to me and I was like, this is what horror can be, it can be kind of funny and weird and crazy. And that was one aspect of me. And it still is. Still means a lot to me. But as the show kept going on and we realized maybe not every goosebumps book is good, I'm sorry, R.L.

If you're going to kill me, you've lost your chance to do it.

I'm moving on.

Is what motivated me to become a writer, what like originally inspired me, is that overlap with goosebumps with other media.

Other movies, other comic books, other games.

I have a huge list of stuff that I would love to talk about with guests if they resonate with them as well.

But also want to hear what motivates them.

So this is what stories that stick will be.

It's having friends on.

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