SAGAL: Well, I see why you get - frankly, I kind of see why you got out of comedy. It's actually not a funny story or anything. STINE: That was my - no, no, and then when I wrote my first scary book, I thought that's a terrible name for a horror writer. STINE: Well, for many years, I wrote joke books. Stine as opposed to Robert Stine or Bob Stein or whoever. So why did you decide to publish under the name R.L. And I thought it was like the "Hardy Boys" books - that they were written by various people under the pseudonym R.L. SAGAL: I - for many, many years, I saw all these "Goosebumps" books in the bookstores, dozens and dozens of them. STINE: Yeah, but my real name is Kardashian Stein, so. KURTIS: So to fill that dead air, how about some of our favorite recent interviews? In April, we talked to one of the most successful authors ever, children's horror book author R.L. Now, this year, big family meals will be held under vows of silence to make sure no one even mentions the word politics. It's Thanksgiving, the time of year when we take stock of all that's passed and give thanks for all we have. KURTIS: And here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago, Peter Sagal. BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT.
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