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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

R.L. Stine (Goosebumps novelist)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

R.L. Stine (Goosebumps, Fear Street) is an author and television producer. Bob joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he got started writing the Goosebumps series, how fast he can write a book, and why he thinks the horror genre is funny. Bob and Dax talk about how he comes up with all the kids' names in his books, how they were both class clowns growing up, and how he tries to keep up with the younger generation's trends for his stories. Bob explains how he only read comic books as a kid, why he loves to publish in the paperback format, and what happened when he met one of his literary heroes, Ray Bradbury. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.

0:04.3

Hi, Monica.

0:05.5

Hi, Dax.

0:06.8

Hey, you know, I did write it in the comments section, but some people are curious about

0:11.0

it, I just want to explain to them.

0:12.5

You may notice we have different colors happening for Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

0:19.0

The reason for this is that we have so much content flying off the shelves nowadays that we want to make it easier

0:25.6

for you to find whatever your kink is.

0:28.0

So if you just love Armchaired Anonymous and you want to get right to it, just look for the red. You like experts? Some people tell me I

0:34.6

only like experts I don't care about celebrities. I'm all right go crazy look for the

0:38.4

blue. So that's the new scheme. Kudos to that brilliant idea because we do have a lot of stuff and it just helps keep things

0:47.0

organized it's good for my Virgo brain.

0:50.0

Mmm what a brain it is. We love it.

0:53.4

Speaking of big brains, R. L. Stein is our guest today.

0:58.3

He created and wrote all of the Goosebumps books, which up until Terence Posner was the most successful

1:05.7

children's book series of all time get his book a world record I mean insane amount

1:11.0

of books so listen he wrote Goosebumps Fear Street, rotten school, mostly

1:17.2

ghostly, The Nightmare Room and he's got a new book out now, Goosebumps Slappy World,

1:24.4

haunting with the stars.

1:27.0

He was so cute.

1:29.3

He was and I just think like he's still going, know like he's not satiated and I find it so admirable

1:37.4

He's written three books since we talked to him. Yeah, that's for real

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