S02E05 - Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Pt. 2 (Goosebumps Series 2000 #5)

Say Podcast and Die!

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #5: Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Part 2. They discuss exoskeletons; screen doors; AIDS panic; pillow fights; the LAPD; communal swimsuits; locker rooms; Elder Things; mind-body dualism; foreign invasion; Train to Busan (2016); aliens with attachment issues; The Puppet Masters (1994); xenomorphs; alien communication; Contact; Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” (1998); Stansław Lem’s His Master’s Voice (1968); being an informant; The Informer (2019); The Lives of Others (2006); mastermind fake-outs; Being John Malkovich (1999); Tommyknockers (1987); The Faculty (1998); Slither (2006); stranger danger; M; The Strange Ones (1950s); Get Street Smart: A Kid’s Guide to Strange Dangers (1995); Doctor Sleep (2013); primal scenes; The Children’s Hour (1961); Bob Balaban; Parents (1989); Society (1989); fetishes; conformity horror; Louis Althusser’s “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (1970); Pleasantville (1998); The Stepford Wives (1972); The Lonely Crowd (1950); Cindy Hendershot’s I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination (2001); Robocop (1987); The Amazing Colossal Man (1957); Kindergarten Cop (1990); the official Goosepunk holiday greeting; STI metaphors; It Follows (2014); Contracted (2013); fatal flaws; A New Hope (1977); Game of Thrones (2011-19); human suits; Silence of the Lambs (1991); The Thing (1982); The Witches (1990); The Terminator (1984); alien species taxonomies and reproduction methods; and Italo Calvino. . // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at [e-mail]

Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at [e-mail]