Ep 173 - Adventure! - The Badlands of Hark

Your Goosebuds Chad Quandt, Paul Ritchey, and Kevin Cole read through the 1985 CYOA book The Badlands of Hark, written by R.L. Stine! This is written before Goosebumps, Fear Street, or Horrorland; what sort of sci-fi fantasy world does a younger Stine have in his soul? Turns out it's one with an endless maze. A lot of death in this hellworld of R.L.'s. Can Paul and Kevin survive and find The Nonspecific Treasure?
OFF TOPICS: Phone Cord Twirling, Beet Feudalism, Picard's robot body, Robot Hands, RoboCop, Chad's First Cousins Once Removed
Adventure begins: 14:15
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[@ShirpaTheShirpa]

R. L. was phoning it in from the start! That maze was so openly lazy i have to respect his guts for turning this book in. Thanks for letting us witness your descent into madness. I genuinely enjoyed this one!

[@Flounderboy15]

One ending for a CYOA? R.L. really does not give a fuck about the enjoyment of children.

[@Flounderboy15]

Episodes without a sad Chad backstory: 3

[@devil5hlygrim972]

Gooflumps stay out of the basement by R. U Slime
You wanted to read the parody back when the Dominator was on Ep.16

[@devil5hlygrim972]

also, this podcast started out as all of you accusing RL Stein of murder. Now you’re just psychologically evaluating his mental status throughout the years of his writings.