Fall 2024, Episode 7

October 8th, 2024

Host: Jay Cortes

Co-Host: Marina Gonzalez

 

Transcript:

Welcome, Runners, to The Runner on Air.

It is October 8th, 2024, and this is your seventh episode of The Runner on Air.

I’m your host, Jay Cortes.

And I am your co-host, Marina Gonzalez.

And we’re going to jump right into some Runner archives.

Today is October 8th, and we’re jumping back to 1981.

And it talks about a combination of things, increases enrollment.

And it’s interesting because it says that we’ve been able to pick up another 30 or 40 students that they traditionally would probably not have.

And it’s interesting to see students ranked in like the 30s and 40s as a large number, since now we have thousands of students.

And it says that we added a geology program and a pre-engineering program.

And this was in 1981.

This same newspaper talks about property IDs.

And it says that a sheriff is going to be in the dorms with an electric pen.

And he is going to be etching in positive identifications of many items, personal properties, stereo, bicycles, television, CBs, radios, car stereos, etc.

And they catalog them in a book.

And this is a way to protect your belongings back in 1981.

You would etch in your name on your bicycle and then they would like catalog it into a book.

So I thought that was interesting.

Another interesting article from this paper is a mention about season tickets.

So season tickets for CSB basketball and wrestling.

And they are $30 for the general public to have a season for each sport, to have a season pass, and $11 for students.

So now currently, we don’t have to pay anything, like if you go to basketball games, if you’re a student, it’s free.

So back then you used to have to pay for a season pass.

I thought that was interesting.

It’s actually a benefit that we have now that we did not have before.

There is also an article here about the Roadrunner Barbecue that is going to be held at the Kern County Fairgrounds.

And they will be giving away a 1982 Ford pickup.

And the tickets are $15.

Nice, you get a free car.

Yeah, free Ford pickup.

So $15 gets you a drawing.

And I wonder who won that one back in 1981.

They still have that 1982 Ford pickup.

Dude, now that’s like a classic.

If you had one of those in auction, you probably make a lot of money.

Yeah, definitely.

Because I mean, it’s an old school classic car.

Yeah, like that’s a classic American right there.

And it would have been brand new if it was 1981.

This is a 1982.

So it wouldn’t have been a brand new Ford pickup at the time.

That’s crazy.

So also in this paper, there is a mention of Injured Fowl Finds a Paradise in the Field Laboratory.

And they talk about FACT, which is the Facility for Animal Care and Treatment.

And this project was founded in 1975.

And I’m not too sure, but I think they still do that.

Well, we had read that article from like 2014, that they’re going to end it, right?

Yeah, I think I think so.

This is for Animal Care for Pets.

No, this is for Wildlife.

Maybe for CALM.

It says it’s a, let’s see, located on the 20 acre land at the southeast corner of campus.

So this is through the campus, the Environmental Studies Area, and the Faculty for Animal Care and Treatment, FACT.

And let’s see.

Yeah, I think it was through the school, but I don’t think they, originally, they wouldn’t get funding from the school, they would get funding outside from outside sources.

So it says they have Monarch Butterflies and Hummingbirds.

They have Screech Owl, American Kestrel Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owls, San Joaquin Kit Foxes, and Bobcats.

And then a Golden Eagle is expected to arrive this week.

And it talks about Ted Murphy and how he’s been looking after the animals.

And it’s like a hosting, oh, they’re going to be hosting field trips.

And yeah, it just goes into details about the FACT care facility, which I had mentioned before in other articles as well.

So we also have an interesting one where they talk to students.

And I like this one because there’s talking to students and you get direct quotes from students.

So it’s interesting to hear like the slang.

So the question is, if your instructor’s appearance bears any ill effect, so how does an instructor’s appearance affect your opinion of him or her?

So Margaretha Obes, a senior in psychology, she states, one that dresses really neat is very precise and organized.

Someone that dresses relaxed also teaches in a relaxed method.

And you also have Craig Owens, a sophomore in criminal justice.

He said that it doesn’t phase me at all.

And then you have Janet Rankins, a sophomore in nursing.

She says, if they are neatly dressed and look neat, it would seem that they have their head together.

And Walter Rick, a sophomore in history, said the way in which an instructor dresses doesn’t affect me.

The way they dress shouldn’t affect their teaching ability.

And Kurt Buckle, a freshman undeclared, says it doesn’t matter as long as it doesn’t affect his or her teaching.

I’d like to see more in blue jeans.

And Karen Anderson says his dress would make an impression on me.

His attitude towards students would have more of an influence on me than his style of dress.

And last, we have Matt Lee, a freshman undeclared.

He says it helps to bring the point across if they dress neat.

First appearances are very important.

So what do you think, Marina?

Do you think it’s important how a professor dresses?

I mean, I think a professor should dress like pretty professional, not like too provocative.

Because, you know, because that’s what you’re supposed to do.

When you have a career, a job, you got to be dressed professionally.

But it also doesn’t matter what a person wears.

It also matters who the person is, like their personality.

Because we don’t want to be around people who have constant negative attitudes.

Yeah, so you’re saying as long as it’s not like distracting?

I mean, yeah, maybe as long as their clothing is not too distracting, because we also need to know who the professor is, like, we need to focus on the professor’s teaching style and also watch their like, tones of voices, watch their attitudes, because we want to be with a professor who’s not very negative.

Yeah, I have noticed that teachers that dress cool tend to be the coolest teachers too.

Yeah.

All right, so that was from 1981.

There’s also a mention in sports, and you have a few ads, and an interesting section of personals, where people just have personal statements that they made.

Like, I guess you would pay for a certain section, and you could just put whatever you want for the personal statements.

So, random things like, Jeff Nimberg says, baby, if I’m dreaming, well, I’ll be bound.

Whoever wakes me up, I’m gonna knock him down.

Oh, darling, darling, is that the way you look?

Yours, babe.

I think it’s from a song.

And then to Dolores, she just puts, welcome to the dustbowl.

I think that’s just welcoming someone to Bakersfield.

A Pepsi ad that showcases a long-distance runner, Teresa Ramirez, and says, Pepsi salutes Teresa Ramirez, Cal State’s outstanding long-distance runner.

Teresa was recruited from San Diego State College, where she holds the record for 800, 1,500, and 3,000-meter run.

Oh, yeah.

So, I guess in 1981, the president of Egypt was assassinated.

It talks about the death of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, and it places the United States in a variable state of uncertainty, because they don’t know if the Camp David Treaty is going to be honored.

So, it talks about, yeah, the military, major military problem with unrest in Egypt between Egypt and Israel, and military forces are immobile between Egypt and Libya.

So, it’s just interesting.

I wasn’t around in 1981, so I wasn’t around for the assassination of the Egyptian president.

I wasn’t around either.

So, I thought that was an interesting look back into 1981, October 8th.

All right.

So, jumping forward a little bit to October 8th in 1997, this one, the front cover mentions a Bakersfield business conference, Conrons, and there’s a lot of big names that came to this one.

So, this year’s theme of the best of the best will bring back some intriguing entertainment.

Famous guest speakers and conference goers will be treated to broadcast legends, political figures, and entertainment industry giants, and former presidents.

So, the people mentioned that came to speak that are headlining the fair is former President and First Lady George and Barbara Bush.

The Bushes make their second appearance at the Bakersfield Business Conference and provide the big names to this year’s event.

So, they have President Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford at the conference four years ago, and then they also mention for this year that they’re going to have Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh, and they’ll also have entertainment by impressionist Rich Little, and tonight’s show host Jay Leno will be the after-lunch entertainment.

And then you have Pulitzer Prize winning writer Dave Barry will supply the afternoon amusement.

You also have Mario Cuomo, a former drug czar, William Bennett, CNN mainstay Larry King, and Ken Swisher, and now those are pretty much the big names over there.

So, it’s a pretty big conference like for George Bush to be in Bakersfield.

It’s pretty big.

Jay Leno, Larry King, it’s pretty big names for the 90s, 1997.

Alright, and it also has CSU names Reed as new chancellor.

So, it names, Ken Swisher named Charles B. Reed, and he’ll be taking over March 1st with an annual salary of $254,000, and he came from Florida, 10-campus state university system, so he would have been the chancellor in 1997.

And let’s see, we also have, remember, do you remember the horoscope we did, Marina?

With the staff psychic?

Oh, yeah.

So, she has an article in here that she started working for Starbucks, and she fell in love with like one of her co-workers.

So, she writes like all about like a trip that they went on, which is like funny because this is, I guess 1997 is like before social media.

Oh, yeah.

So, this would have been her like blog post talking about like this trip that she went on, how she fell in love with this guy, and he’s like makes her feel like he’s she’s like 14 again.

But it’s like random to be published like so openly.

But yeah, Meg Johnson goes on the hunt for Mr. Johnson.

And the first line is, I’m in love.

And then the last line is, now if only he knew how I feel.

And she’s talking about like singing Mariah Carey in the car because she’s like so in love.

It’s just interesting.

So, I hope I see more from Meg Johnson.

She’s pretty funny.

1997.

We also have a book, I mean a movie, sorry, a movie review called U-Turn.

And it’s a movie with Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez.

Oh, JLo.

Have you ever heard of that movie U-Turn?

Wait, U-Turn?

Yeah, U-Turn.

No, I have not heard of that film.

I mean, I’ve seen I’ve seen lots of JLo’s films, but I’ve never seen that one.

Me neither.

I mean, he gave it a B-.

It’s an Oliver Stone movie.

Oh, here.

Yeah, I got it.

So, it’s about a drifter chooses a stop in the wrong crowd, the wrong town, when his beloved Mustang develops engine trouble.

Things seem to pick up when sultry Grace McKenna asks him, yeah, played by JLo, asks him home to help fix her curtains until her husband Jake finds out.

Jake then asks Cooper to kill Grace, but she has her own plan for Jake.

Cooper caught in the middle had better had better choose the right side or he risks losing his life.

Yeah, I’ve never heard of that one, but that’s a pretty interesting story.

This must have been one of the other films that she did after she did Selena because, you know, Selena came out in 97.

Yeah, true.

So, this is when she was like at her popular acting.

Yeah, because Selena was the very first film she did.

And then, you know, after that film, that’s when she like got a big record deal and became a big pop star as well.

Yeah, because right after then, that’s when she started doing more films.

So, the whole movie is Would You Kill for JLo?

I guess that’s what it is.

All right.

And let’s see, we have, I had a funny ad.

So, it says, have you ever heard of Panama Jacks?

It’s a bar?

No.

So, it says Panama Jacks, it’s on Chester Avenue, PJ’s.

And they have Thursday college night.

And it says, because we know your monkey ass gets thirsty from nine till close.

What?

All domestic draft beer a buck.

So, a dollar.

A dollar beer.

Ma’am.

Friday night super sounds with 70s and 80s.

Dress retro and diss the cover.

Two dollar electric boogaloo lemonades.

No cover before 10pm. 100% groove, 100% cool.

Sick ads.

And then you have Wiley’s Pub patio, no cover charge.

Have you ever heard of Wiley’s Pub?

No.

They have freaking Friday nights.

This Friday, entertainment, pleasure merchants, and dim.

Come out and enjoy the fun Friday, sponsored by Student Union Programming.

That sounds, I mean, the way you’re saying like no cover and stuff, it makes it sound like it’s a strip club or something.

No, you obviously don’t go out to bars.

Well, yeah, because I don’t drink.

I don’t drink at all.

No cover means that there’s no charge to get inside.

Oh, okay.

So, like a lot of Vegas places, like the girls will get in free.

So, it’s like no cover for the girls.

So, obviously, they want a bunch of girls to drink there.

And then the guys will have to pay like $10 or something, $15.

And that’s your cover to get in.

But if it’s like no cover for anybody, then it’s like, oh, everyone gets in free.

But they’re banking on you like buying drinks once you’re in there.

Yeah, I don’t go out to bars because I don’t drink heavy booze.

That’s funny that you thought no cover meant no tops.

Yeah, because I thought it was a strip club at first or something.

I don’t know.

That’s hilarious.

Freaking Friday nights, no cover.

No, it’s a no cover charge.

Wiley’s Pub.

I wonder if these are still around.

Yeah, I don’t drink heavy alcohol.

The only thing I drink is just wine or champagne.

That’s it.

Yeah.

I don’t actually like wine.

I only like Stella Rosa, which is not really wine.

I’ve been told.

Stella Rosa.

I don’t know if I’ve had that before.

It’s literally like juice and vodka.

So, I’ve heard.

You’ve probably seen it like at the grocery store.

Maybe.

It’s this one.

They have ads for it like billboards.

Oh, yeah.

Maybe I have seen it, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried that before.

I’ve seen ads for it.

Like if you’ve ever driven down to L.A. or like Santa Clarita down the 99 and to the 5 Freeway, they have like a big billboard for Stella Rosa.

I don’t think I’ve seen the billboard before.

Yeah, that’s like I’ve been told it’s not real wine.

It’s like sugar, but I like it.

I don’t.

And then the people that say, oh, this is a real wine.

I drink it and it’s like nasty.

I don’t like real wine, I guess.

I like sugar.

So, you don’t have like a go-to drink?

I do like a boozy dole whip.

A boozy dole.

Is that from Disney?

Yeah.

You know, at Disneyland, they sell the dole whips, which is the pineapple soft serve.

OK, yeah.

But when my mom took me to Las Vegas a couple of years ago to celebrate my 21st birthday.

Oh, yeah.

I got to try a boozy dole whip.

It’s basically the pineapple soft serve.

And I got it with Malibu coconut rum.

And boy, it was so good.

I think they make those at Disneyland’s California Adventure now.

Yeah, I think you can get I think you can get it over there at Disneyland because I think they offer alcoholic or non-alcoholic.

Yeah, I think so, too.

But it’s only in California Adventure.

Oh, yeah.

In California Adventure, they also offer alcohol or non-alcoholic horchatas, strawberry horchatas.

Yeah, they actually have some pretty good drinks over there.

They’re not too strong, though.

Like, they probably don’t want everyone drunk on the rides.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

So moving on to October 8th, 2014, The Runner.

You might like this one.

They have a Celtic music festival.

Oh, yeah.

Because Celtic, that sounds like either Irish or Scottish because I am like super fascinated with the Scottish and Irish cultures.

Well, they’re playing bagpipes and they’re wearing kilts and the bagpipes are shooting flames.

Oh, so that’s got to be Scottish, then.

So it says left to right, you have Harold Wyke-Wencombe.

He’s playing the bass guitar.

Then you have Duncan Knight playing the bagpipes.

Then you have Jane’s Espy.

She’s playing the phantom piper.

And I think that’s the one that’s shooting the flames.

And then you have Gage’s Steppen, the electric guitar.

And they’re all for the Celtic Music Festival.

For more, turn to page five.

Let’s see.

Yeah, CSUB hosts Celtic Music Festival held by the Kern County Scottish Society.

Yep.

I knew it.

California.

Yeah, you’re right.

Yep.

The Scottish Society because they also do, they also participate in the Scottish Festival that they do every year at the Kern County Fairgrounds.

Yeah.

So it talks about the band they formed in 2009.

And they’ve had tours in Europe and Central Europe.

And yeah, they came to perform on campus and they’re hosted by the Scottish Society.

Oh, yeah.

I went to the Scottish Festival in April.

And boy, it was so fun.

They got like a lot of cool performances.

They had the band performing on the bagpipes and everything.

They have a whiskey tasting booth.

Oh, yeah, they have whiskey.

They have Scottish beer as well.

Yeah.

So that’s all that stuff.

The Scottish Society is still going on then.

Yeah, it’s still going on.

And any and because I looked them up on I looked up their website.

And it is basically like a club that anyone can join.

You don’t have to have like a Scottish heritage or anything.

And they have like, so many different sections that you can participate in to be a part of the club.

Like they have a historical section, where you can like learn about the history, they have the bands, and you can learn how to play the bagpipes.

You can do dance lessons, all of that.

It’s probably so hard to play the bagpipes.

Yeah, probably.

I bet you people are more there just for the whiskey.

Probably.

Because bagpipes sound pretty tough.

Yeah, so it talks about that.

And then we also have see 2014 facts.

So it’s talking about the faculty for animal care and treatment again.

But now it’s saying that it’s expenses expenditures for 2013 2014 exceeded $100,000.

And so it’s talking about the Anne Houtman, the Dean of Natural Sciences.

And she’s saying that the last year, the budget was 120,000.

So they actually brought it down.

And they don’t see it going down any further.

At this point, they’ve like, lowered all the costs that they could.

So pretty pricey.

And it’s cool to see it from like the start of 1981.

And then it started in 1975.

And it’s still going on to 2014.

And it’s interesting, because then in 2015, that article was talking about them cutting it.

So you can kind of see like the buildup of Yeah, it’s costing a lot of money.

And they’re trying to like, bring down the cost and they shut it down for like a year or two.

Alright, so we have that one.

This was, so this is from 2014.

But it has a talk from the Kegley Institute of Ethics.

And previously on the Runner Archive, I had mentioned Dr. Kegley.

He was born in 1912.

And he passed away in, I think, like the 70s or 80s.

And it’s interesting, because now we have the Kegley Institute of Ethics in 2014.

So you can kind of see like that timeline.

But it has Andrew Sullivan.

And he’s talking about being HIV positive and an immigrant and trying to become a US citizen.

And he’s like openly homosexual male.

And it talks about how it’s difficult for him because during that time, they actually banned HIV infected citizens from getting citizenship.

So he talks about it being a gay rights issue.

And he’s campaigning for gay rights.

And it’s saying it’s like a gay rights, civil rights issue, that they’re banning HIV infected citizens.

Well, when he’s trying to get Well, when was that?

When did that happen?

I don’t know.

It says at the time of his migration, the US Oh, I guess at the time he had migrated.

The US had a ban put a ban in place that forbid the settlement of HIV infected citizens to bring awareness to the struggle Sullivan began campaigning.

So yeah, it talks about that Andrew Sullivan speech at the Dory theater.

Oh, speaking of JLo.

They have an article of JLo on here.

And it says that women prove they can be sexy at any age.

As Jennifer Lopez shows off her hard earned body in her new music video booty.

Oh my god, she had a song that call that.

Yeah, and do this from 2014.

Okay.

And they’re still talking about like, Oh, Jennifer Lopez can be sexy at any age.

Well, yeah.

And JLo right now, she’s in her 50s.

But boy, she looks fantastic for her 50s.

Yeah.

So it’s like, it’s, it seems kind of like duh.

Like, did you like headline?

Did you watch her?

Her performance with Shakira at the Super Bowl four years ago?

Yeah, I watched it.

And boy, like, we were so impressed seeing people love Shakira.

Yeah, we were both so impressed seeing these two ladies perform in front of a huge Super Bowl arena.

JLo was like already 50 at that time.

And boy, she’s incredible.

It says that the music videos with Iggy, Iggy Azalea.

I don’t remember that song.

Yeah, I never heard that song.

I only know like her once.

I know her one song Jenny from the block.

I love that song.

Get it right.

I love that song.

Yeah, yeah, I don’t think booty is one of her big ones with Iggy Azalea.

She fell off quick Iggy Azalea after she copied the Kendrick Lamar freestyle.

I’m sure you never heard of one of my one of my favorite movies of JLo is made in Manhattan.

Have you seen that one?

Yeah, when she’s like a maid and then she meets a guy on the street here like, she’s a she’s no way that’s when she’s a wedding planner.

No, she was a wedding planner.

Yeah, that one but made in Manhattan.

She’s a single mom raising her son and she works as a maid in a hotel in New York City.

She like ends up meeting this rich, this handsome rich guy who is like a camp who’s like a campaign running campaign for Senate.

And you know, he accidentally mistaken her as a guest in the hotel and not a maid.

And he thought that she was like rich and stuff.

And then, you know, it’s basically like a whole it’s basically like a Cinderella story.

Yeah, like, like he fell in love with the peasant.

Yeah.

King.

Yeah, he fell in love with a peasant, but she wasn’t actually a rich woman.

She’s actually a working single mom who works as a maid and all that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think she did have like a run in the 2000s.

Because then there’s that made in Manhattan.

And then there’s the wedding planner and monster in law.

Oh, yeah.

I love that movie.

My mom likes that one.

That’s funny.

Yeah, JLo has been popular for a minute.

I also saw she never stopped.

I also saw her in the movie Hustlers.

Oh, yeah, that’s a new one, too.

Boy stripper, doesn’t she?

She plays a stripper.

And it also involved like the 2008 stock market crash.

Yeah, my my professor was talking about that in class.

So they would like steal money from like big stock guys, right?

Yeah, because like basically those rich people who were like working in the stock market, they basically were like stealing lots of money from working class people.

And they’re just getting even more and more rich.

Yeah.

Yeah, my professor talked about that with TV.

And it’s like, dude, JLo has been famous for like 50 years, it seems like her whole life.

I noticed one thing.

There’s an article in here about The Walking Dead.

Yeah, so I think it’s like the first season that he came out in 2014.

Oh, no, that’s a picture from season three.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

When they’re in the prison, when they go to the prison.

Yeah, you’re right.

You’re right.

Oh, yeah, I was my, my parents and I, we were such big Walking Dead fans.

Like we watched the new episode, it came on TV every week.

And boy, it was like, so we were like so hooked on it.

And I remember when we first watched the premiere of season three, and as it developed with new episodes, but I stopped watching it after they killed off two of my favorite characters after they killed off Glenn and Abraham.

Yeah, that scene where they bashed everyone’s head in with a baseball bat.

Yeah, I feel like that killed the whole.

Yeah, that definitely killed the whole thing.

And like, boy, when I watched that, I was like bawling my eyes out.

I just couldn’t believe they died.

Yeah, that I feel like that killed it for everybody.

Yeah.

But for the first like, four years, it was huge.

Like it was all anyone was was talking about during Halloween, like was The Walking Dead.

And I think that season this picture, they’re showing where they’re in the prison.

That was like the peak.

Yeah, I think that was definitely the peak is Yeah, it was so big.

And then when they killed off like more and more main characters like that, I think that was just really killing it.

Because that’s hard to keep it going.

But now they got a bunch of other spinoff series that are coming out like they got Darryl had one Darryl Dixon had one Rick and Michonne, they got one Negan and Maggie got a show as well.

Yeah, so this is a look back because this was Maggie.

Yeah, that’s Maggie killing Oh, Lauren Cohen.

Yeah, Maggie played by Lauren Cohan.

She’s killing a walker in that picture is when they first got to the prison.

Yeah.

So this would have been like the peak of Walking Dead right now.

Yeah, I think so.

All right.

And we also have an interesting article that says editorial, additional parking spaces are a necessity on campus.

Definitely.

Like, bro, we’ve been saying that for 10 years.

Yeah, exactly.

Like they need to put a parking structure in here.

Yeah, because sometimes when I get here to campus, like I feel like every time I try to find a parking spot, it’s like they always get full so quickly and I end up parking in the sun and I don’t want to park in the sun.

It’s like the same old story.

Like how many articles do we have to write about it until somebody cares enough to do something about it?

Like this same exact article was published this semester state and this is numbers from 2014.

It says that there are 3518 available parking spots, but they sold 5000 parking permits for fall 2014.

So that puts our calculations at 1482 students who aren’t getting what they paid for, which is a parking spot.

And at this time, $45 per permit.

So they’re saying that $66,000 worth of services that CSUB is selling but not providing.

It was $45 back then, but now it’s like 90.

Yeah, now we’re at $94 for a parking permit.

And you know, I bet you that math still applies.

I bet you they still oversold like 2000 parking permits.

Probably.

It’s insane.

Like, how long do we have to keep saying it?

And it’s like the week, seventh week right now, eighth week.

And there’s still no parking spots.

Like when you walk, when I walk on campus, like and I’m walking from the back corner, it’s still like filled completely.

Yeah.

Like next to that flagpole area, like that whole spot’s filled all day.

You’re like, good luck finding a spot there.

You have to wait for someone to leave.

Yeah, exactly.

So yeah, it’s 2014 still applies.

Another thing that still applies is the runner cafe sucking and says runner on the street.

We asked what changes would you like to see in the runner cafe?

And somebody says they can make a lot of changes, more value menus and extended hours on certain days.

And that’s a big one, the extended hours, because there’s times where I get to the gym at seven, like 730, it’s already closed.

The runner cafe, that’s crazy. 730, like if you’re like, let’s say you studied all night in the library, it’s nine o’clock, and you have to go back to your dorm, everything’s closed.

Like they should have some sort of like after hours type of deal where it’s like a something smaller, like, I don’t know, the only place you can get food is at the gym past 730.

So there’s that.

There’s also one that says different types of food, like Chinese food and Mexican food, which is like still valid.

I don’t even think we have Mexican food on campus.

No, I don’t think we do.

Unless if there’s like food trucks here on campus for you to get some.

Yeah, you’re right.

So I think maybe back in 2014, they didn’t allow food trucks.

Because I yeah, I have seen food trucks that are like Korean.

I think I’ve seen a Mexican food truck.

And like an acai berry one.

I’ve seen them.

They also have another person say that more space, it’s really crowded sometimes, which is kind of still valid.

I’ve also seen this.

I’ve also seen a snow cone food truck here on campus.

Oh, yeah, I’ve seen them.

And it’s funny, because she says a Panda Express or Subway would be nice.

But we got a Panda Express.

So we’re good there.

And we got a Starbucks.

So that’s good.

So she predicted the future on that one.

In 2014.

She said Subway or Panda.

And now well, we had a Witch Witch.

Yeah, it disappeared.

Yeah, but now that’s gone.

So now we got a sushi restaurant, which no, we’ve always had bento.

It was always like, I miss that Witch Witch.

Yeah, it was definitely nice having that there.

And we the bento in the cafeteria wasn’t bad.

Now the bento is more expensive, and they offer like different stuff.

So I don’t know, it’s same old, same old.

Runner Café sucks and parking sucks.

All right, so that was 2014 Runner Archive.

And moving on to today’s 2024 news.

I have one from KGETV.

And the headline reads, Mindful Monday, the psychology behind why we love being scared.

So Dr. Corey Gonzalez, a local clinical psychologist, joined 17 News at the Sunrise Morning Show.

And he talked about engaging with scary stories, scary movies, haunted houses.

And it all creates a sort of fear and anxiety and uncertainty.

And as a result, it brings us to deal with our hidden emotions head on.

And it ultimately triggers the fight or flight response in people, which is the back part of the brain.

And it releases chemicals, while the front part of the brain releases dopamine and endorphins.

So he’s saying that in a controlled environment, a safe environment, if you experience these fears head on, it could actually help you build a tolerance for future circumstances that you could be scared for.

Yeah, I basically have that fight or flight mindset already.

I mean, it’s also because I watch so many scary movies, like I’ve already developed that like, mindset where I have to be like, super aware of my surroundings.

So that way, I can be able to like, do something in case if some like creep tries to like, come after me or anything.

Well, yeah, that’s what he’s saying that if you watch like scary movies, like Michael Myers or something that you’re going to be more prepared for when you do see some weirdo at the corner of your neighborhood in a jumpsuit.

Oh, yeah, like, oh, yeah.

And also the same thing with scream to like, because you remember in the first in the original scream movie, like, there’s like so many mistakes that people are making, like, oh, yeah, cuz like, if some psycho broke into my house, what I need to do is just grab a weapon, get out and don’t look back.

Because people and people do that all the time.

They make the mistake of looking back and then boom, they get themselves killed.

Yeah, scream does play on that.

Like they talk about the rules.

Yeah, because don’t you remember?

Yeah, because don’t you remember the opening scene of scream where Drew Barrymore’s character Casey Becker?

She like the ghost phase broke into her house.

She grabbed the knife she got out but then she made the mistake of looking in the window and then ghost phase attacks her.

Yeah, she got killed.

And then in scary movie.

It’s funny.

They like parody and they have her like running through the sprinklers.

Oh, yeah, that was Carmen Electra who is being drew.

And then they like stab her chest.

Yeah.

And like a silicone.

Oh, that’s gross.

That’s funny.

Oh, yeah, that one.

Scary movie.

That’s a parody of scream.

And I know what you did last summer.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you’re right.

Yeah.

So it talks about that, you know, building up the tolerance through all the scary movies can actually be good for you.

Oh, yeah, I guess you would agree with I would agree with to like when I was young, I would get really scared of scary movies, but I would still like it somehow.

Yeah, like I would be like watching nightmare on Elm Street.

And I’d be like scared to go to sleep at night and dream because I was afraid I was gonna have a nightmare.

But then the next day, I would still be like, that was such a cool movie.

Like, and I guess now I’ve built up a tolerance to where scary movies don’t really like affect me.

Yeah, same with me, because I’m watching them like all the time.

But I when was the last time you were scared and it wasn’t a safe, controlled environment?

Like, I feel like, like there was one time where I was like looking for my cat in the backyard.

And I like thought I saw my cat, but it was another cat.

And it really freaked me out because it was in my backyard.

So like, for a second, like my heart kind of jumped, like skipped because I was like, Oh, like, what is this animal?

But then I realized I was just another cat.

So it was only for a second.

But it was like that fear of like all the blood, like leaving your legs and just like your heart pumping for like a quick second.

Like that just releases like all these chemicals in your brain.

So I guess I still like when you’re in the moment, it’s hard to control yourself.

Like once you’re scared, like you don’t know what you’re gonna do.

That’s why it’s like fight or flight.

Because you don’t you, you can like naturally just run away, or like stand up and fight.

But in the moment, you don’t know what you’re gonna do until it happens.

Yeah, exactly.

I’ve never, you know, I don’t think I’ve ever been actually scared by something before.

But you know, like when I’m out in public, I’m always aware of my surroundings.

I’m always aware of the people who are around me.

Like I’m, I always try to watch to make sure like nobody’s following me to my car.

Yeah, especially now with like all these crazy articles you hear and like all these crazy stories, like crime podcasts and stuff you hear like you never know.

Yeah, see, that’s why I actually want to learn self defense one day because as soon as as soon as I can afford lessons, I’m going to take it because I want to learn martial arts so badly.

Well, easy rule number one, go for the balls.

Yeah, kick the balls.

Yep.

Balls and throat, kick and punch throat.

Hey, yeah, face, throat, genitals.

That’s those are the weak spots.

Yeah, see, there you go.

There’s your self defense class.

Well, have you ever been on like roller coasters?

Once.

And after that, I was done.

I couldn’t do anymore.

So you’re just too scared.

But that’s what he’s saying that like go on a roller coaster and face that fear head on and you’ll feel stronger after.

Yeah, I can’t.

No, I don’t think I can do it.

See, so it’s like you have a limit.

Like scary movies are your limit.

But roller coasters, it’s like too much.

Yeah, too much.

Because yeah, I once went on a roller coaster, the X2 ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain when I was in eighth grade.

And boy, that ride was scary.

Wait, that was your first roller coaster?

The very first one.

And then after that, that was the first and last roller coaster I did.

I didn’t want to.

You picked a tough one.

No.

The worst one.

Well, how was I supposed to know?

It was my first time there because I had never actually gone there and I’d never done any of the rides.

It was my first time.

That’s insane.

That’s like you’ve never driven before.

And someone is like, here’s this Ferrari.

Check it out.

Like, obviously, you’re gonna be freaked out because that thing goes like 100 miles an hour.

Yeah, the X2 is like, I love roller coasters.

And that one is like the craziest roller coaster I’ve ever been on.

And I’ve been riding roller coasters since I was like in middle school.

Since I was tall enough to get on.

No, yeah.

I’m never doing any more roller coasters.

Damn.

See, I’m like, I got a higher fear limit than you because I like motorcycles, roller coasters, like driving super fast.

I’m never riding a motorcycle either.

What?

Do you motorcycles?

That’s another thing where you’re really testing your fight or flight there.

Because it’s like a really weird feeling wearing a helmet and being scared.

Because you can hear your breath.

So it’s like if you’re scared and your heart’s pounding, like and you have a helmet on, you can hear it like super hard.

And it’s like a really weird, scary feeling.

Yeah, motorcycles, dirt bikes.

I’m not doing any of that things.

My dad, my dad and my brother would ride dirt bikes every time we went camping up at like Pismo Beach.

Or at Dumont Dunes.

Yeah, they did that.

But there was awesome.

But one time my dad like got into a dirt bike accident and he tore his rotator cuff and he had to get that replaced.

Oh, damn.

So yeah, I’m never and I know lots of people who’ve gotten injured so badly, they’ve had to get amputations and I’m not gonna do that.

I’ve heard of that.

Well, I’ve been in two accidents.

Luckily, I haven’t lost any bones or limbs or anything.

I’ve broken a few bones.

But yeah, it’s just like, like the guy said, like once you’ve been riding and you’re used to that, that feeling of like, the fear and your how your heart pounding, you’re going like 100 miles an hour.

But at the same time, you’re like your endorphins and your dopamine’s releasing like, it was cool riding.

Yeah, and I was in a car accident when I was seven.

I mean, I was lucky that I didn’t get hurt in that accident.

But still, every year ever since then, I sometimes get like super bad anxiety because I always fear I’m gonna get into another accident yet again.

Yeah, I feel you on that one.

Like now when I see people do right turns, like you just never know what lane they’re gonna go in.

So it kind of puts this little like shiver down your spine, like, they’re coming my way.

Hopefully they stay in their lane.

So I definitely feel you on that one.

But you just got to be more careful.

Like your dirt bikes, I feel like are safer.

Because there’s no cars that could hit you.

Like the worst is being on the street, like a busy street.

At like 9am, everyone’s on their way to work and not paying attention because they’re on their phone and stuff.

And it’s like, boom, one second, like you hit a motorcyclist.

And it’s like that guy goes flying breaks all his bones.

Mm hmm.

Yeah, it happens.

And that’s why I’m not allowed to ride anymore.

Right now.

My bikes in the shop, because I’ve had two crashes too many.

But you know what we love, according to the article, we love being scared.

And it’s true.

Can’t take me off a motorcycle.

Ride till I die.

But anyways, so we also have an article from KGET, which talks about the race for Bakersfield City Council award.

And it talks about Andre Gonzalez.

And he is on the ballot with Andre Gonzalez.

And I saw another name on the ballot.

So reporter Jenny Hughes spoke one on one with Andre Gonzalez, who’s embarking on his second run for re-election.

And he’s running again, because he has a to do list for Ward 2.

And Ward 2, I guess, includes downtown Bakersfield.

So he’s saying he wants to see us transform.

And there’s a lot we can do.

And we need to begin with an experienced leadership who can get things going on day one.

But it’s interesting.

So they asked him like about homelessness, because they’re saying that’s a big problem in downtown Bakersfield.

And he says that he needs four more years on that.

He says that so when he quotes, so when people say homelessness is concentrated in downtown, yes, it is.

But historically, it has been that way.

There’s nothing that I’ve proposed or the city is doing that’s concentrating people particularly into downtown.

So Gonzalez describes homelessness as the city’s number one complaint, which I think that’s pretty accurate.

I would say it says on here that it’s the most visible issue in downtown.

And number one is the fentanyl crisis and the drug crisis that we’re experiencing locally.

But I mean, to say that it’s like, nothing that you propose or that the city is doing is concentrating people in downtown.

And that’s just historically, that’s where homeless people are.

It’s kind of like, what are you doing to propose the disbursement of like to fix the problem?

Like, sure, you’ve, you haven’t proposed anything that’s made it worse.

But you’ve had four years, what have you done to make it better?

It sounds like they’ve done nothing.

And yeah, there are going to be lots of homeless people downtown because that’s also where the mission and the shelter is.

Right, which I mean, he’s right.

Historically, homelessness and rises in urban areas like downtown, you have downtown Los Angeles, downtown Bakersfield, like other states and in their downtowns, that’s where the homeless population, but it’s also because of like the public services that are offered.

Like you’re saying, you have the buses that drop people off.

And the homeless shelters are all in downtown, like you have churches.

So it’s like, sure, historically, you’re right.

But why would you want to be on the wrong side of history?

Like, maybe you should fix it since, you know, it’s kind of your position, like if that’s your reward.

So he’s asking for reelection.

But I don’t know, it’s kind of tough.

It’s like, you already had four years to fix the problem.

And I don’t haven’t seen any difference.

Have you seen a difference in homelessness?

Nah, I don’t think so.

Like if anything, it’s increased.

No, I think I’d say it’s increased because everywhere I drive, I’m seeing homeless people everywhere, no matter where you are.

This whole situation, it hasn’t gotten any better.

And I’m seeing lots of homeless people who have pets and stuff.

Yeah, I’ve been seeing that too.

Yeah, they’ll hang out outside the store.

There’s so many homeless pet owners too.

And that’s another issue.

Because what we should do is they should create some kind of like program that not only helps the people who are homeless, but it also should help the pet, the homeless pet owners as well, like to help them get the vet care they need for their for their dogs or their cats.

And also help help these people like find themselves a new place to live, help them get like clean or sober if they’re suffering from addiction.

And like just basically help them get an apartment and then help them get a job so they can be able to pay the rent and stuff.

Yeah, it’s like there’s a drug issue.

And then a lot of them are veterans.

There’s like the veterans issues, the disability issue.

Yeah, so many.

Yes, there’s so many homeless vets as well.

And it’s like, there’s so much red tape, like, you have to do this and do that when it’s like, I’m already homeless to like, why?

You know what I mean?

Like, there’s so much red tape to where you can’t apply for like disability and also get this assistance because you already get that assistance.

When it’s like, obviously, I need the help.

Like, I need more than one way to get help.

It’s just like, there’s so many like, rules and stuff that you can’t do.

Yeah.

And there’s like people questioning the homeless people saying like, why don’t you just get a job?

Well, the thing is, they can’t get a job while they’re currently living on the streets because they need to have they need to have a resume with references, a permanent mailing address, home address, like phone number and everything.

They need to have a home before they can officially get a job so that that way they can have their mailing information to, you know, to the place of employment that they want to apply to.

Yeah, it’s like, it’s crazy.

Because just to get a job, you need a phone, like you need a computer.

Yeah, exactly.

You need all these things.

But it’s like, how do you get those if you don’t have a job?

Yeah, exactly.

So and the only other way would be public offerings of like libraries, and like, ways that you can get assistance like that.

But I don’t know too many libraries that offer showers and free suits and stuff like I’ve heard of services like that.

Salvation Army, but it’s like very rare.

And it does talk about some success stories in the article.

It says that we’ve been able to permanently house almost 400 people, 298 people in the shelters tonight, plus another 400 beds, the city has sponsored or helped sponsor for emergency shelter beds over the last five years.

That’s 1000 people who weren’t on the street last night.

So they do have some ways, but I think it’s just not enough.

Yeah, it’s not enough because we still have dozens of other people living on the streets right now.

Yeah, so it says he’s frustrated in despite the fact that they do have some like success.

And he says that people still regularly fall into homelessness, building affordable housing has been a competing priority for me.

And there are more opportunities there for people in the shelter today to move out of the shelter tomorrow.

And increase affordable housing.

It was the emphasis for his campaign.

And yeah, he says it’s a crisis right now.

And a stronger downtown is a stronger city.

So if we have more people living in the downtown core, that becomes a benefit for not only our nightlife, but for a stronger sense of safety.

There are there are more eyes and ears on the street.

So yeah, I went over to the merchant’s bank to watch the condors play last weekend.

And I probably walked, I walked like two blocks, and I probably saw like, five, six homeless people, three just like chilling, doing drugs on the floor, like walked right over him.

And then like, two guys like shirtless is yelling, like nonsense.

And then when you got closer to the stadium, you’d see like, two or three regular people walking and then like a guy selling hot dogs.

So it’s almost like the homeless people outnumber regular people at this point.

Yeah, I’d say so because you know, there’s lots, all these people who are on the street, like most of them are like currently suffering from drug alcohol addiction.

Some of them may be suffering from mental illness as well.

Yeah, and it kind of deters you from wanting to like, because it’s like I walked, I wanted to walk.

So I wanted to park in downtown and then walk over to the merchant’s bank, just so I can like see downtown because I don’t really get to see downtown that often.

But it kind of deters you because it’s like, well, now I don’t really want to park and walk somewhere because it’s like, it smells like pee, there might be a homeless guy yelling at me.

I don’t know if my car is safe.

Because it’s like, if there’s a sketchy guy right next to my car, and he just saw me get out and knows I’m going to go watch a game, like, he could do anything he wants to my car.

So kind of deters you.

And like he’s saying, if there’s more going on more nightlife going on more eyes and ears out in downtown, then you don’t get that same sketchy feeling because it’s like if I’m surrounded by a bunch of like minded people that are like, not on drugs and not spewing nonsense, then I’ll feel more comfortable.

Yeah, I never feel comfortable going downtown.

I try to avoid it as much as I can.

Yeah, and it’s it’s a shame.

I only felt comfortable going downtown unless if I’m with somebody because exactly like, like most of the time my mom, my grandfather, my sister and I we go to the hockey games all the time during hockey season to see the condors.

And also in McCann next to the next door is the convention center next to the arena.

That’s where I go to the local collector con event every year.

I always feel comfortable going there with my mom, because I don’t feel comfortable being there by myself.

Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend if you’re a girl to be traveling by yourself in downtown Bakersfield.

Yeah.

And that’s another reason why I want to learn self defense because I want to defend myself if I’m ever going to be around in a sketchy area.

I don’t know, man, you could self defense, but you could also maybe carry a little piece of pow pow.

I’m I am gonna eventually get myself a can of mace.

Oh, yeah.

Carry around.

Yeah, that’s a good one.

Spray somebody.

But you know, I’ve heard of mace backfiring.

You always got to make sure you’re pointing it the right way.

Yeah, I know.

Practice on that one.

Yeah.

Because you never know.

When you’re in the moment.

It’s like when you panic, you just never know.

So that’s why you got to practice.

But yeah, I wouldn’t recommend downtown as a safe area.

But what do you think about Andre Gonzalez, though?

I feel like he’s doing a terrible job.

He’s not doing such a good job trying to help the homeless situation.

Yeah, I don’t see how you can make an argument for reelection when people are watching you fail in real time.

And it’s not like like I’ve been seeing a lot of like state funding wanna fund cities and help them out and like even federal funding.

They’ll give you grants for like homeless shelters and like stuff like that, like drug problems, because they know it’s like a big deal right now.

Like McFarland got like 50 million for their police station from the state grant.

And it’s like they are saying that their number one issue is fentanyl.

And that a lot of the funding for that, like went to just fentanyl related stuff like the police department and the fire department getting more prepared for like fentanyl deaths and overdoses and or like existing bills that they already had.

So they haven’t even been able to use that funding for like new stuff.

And it was like recently they had a school lockdown in McFarland.

I only know this because I have a family that lives over there.

And they said that like there was only like two or three patrol cars that actually said McFarland and everything else said Delano.

So it was like Delano was just helping with the lockdown.

There was like 13, 14 cars that were Delano cars and then like two or three McFarland cars.

So it’s like they get money, but it’s like why aren’t they putting the money towards stuff that’s useful, like police officers or fire department or like facilities that deal with like fentanyl overdoses or like treatment for for fentanyl and drugs.

It’s like this issue has been going on for a while.

So yeah, not looking too good for Andres Gonzalez, but we’ll see if he wins his second award city council.

All righty, and now we are moving forward to another book review from Marina.

And this one, since it is October, we’re going into a spooky book.

What is this book, Marina?

So this book is called Secret Admirer, and it is written by the famous author R.L. Stine, who is known for writing the scary Goosebumps books from back in the 90s.

Yeah, and I did love those Goosebumps books.

So you’re saying this would be after?

Yeah, this is a this book is part of a series called the Fear Street series.

So there’s a bunch of different books in this series, but it is written by R.L. Stine.

OK, so you’re saying this book is a part of a series.

Is the series like chronological or each story is kind of different?

It’s they all have different stories.

They’re all like different books, but they’re all part of of the series.

Right.

So the characters aren’t the same different characters.

It’s different characters in each book, different stories.

OK, so on this particular story, what happens?

So the story of Secret Admirer, it basically tells the story of a of a high school senior named Selena.

She is like the most popular girl in school because she’s like blonde.

She’s pretty.

She’s thin.

And she stars in every school play in her drama club.

So that’s why everybody loves her because and then suddenly after she finished doing a play for the drama club, she started receiving strange notes from a stalker, a pretty obsessive stalker who calls himself the son because he leaves like sun stickers on the note.

He doesn’t leave like a signature or anything.

And she’s in high school.

Yeah, she’s in high school.

She’s a senior.

She wants to go to college.

She wants to like study drama in college.

It wants to get a scholarship to go to go to college.

But she kind of gets a taste of being famous.

Yeah, because she’s also been like the lead in almost every school play in her school.

OK, so it’s kind of like a famous stalker like.

OK, and does it get violent or?

Oh, yeah, it’s scary as a book.

So like her best friend’s name is Katie, which is actually kind of coincidence because my best friend’s name is Katie as well.

So, yeah, her best friend is Katie and who’s kind of like the opposite of Selena.

She’s like not very popular in school.

She’s a little overweight.

She has dark and she has dark hair as well because Selena used to be overweight.

But then she lost the way it became like pretty thin.

And then like she’s like so pretty, like all the guys are like crushing all over her stuff.

So she had like a glow up and the other one didn’t.

Yeah, exactly.

So they have like the same upbringing.

Yeah, but they’re they grew up together and they were like super close growing up.

And Katie also is in the drama club.

She’s like a stagehand where she helps out with like the light, lighting, the equipment and all that.

OK, so at what point would you say it starts to get like like pretty scary?

It got pretty scary because she she continued to receive like more like threatening notes from the stalker.

And there was one time when they were getting there was one time in a drama club when they were getting ready to rehearse for a for the spring play that they were doing.

And it was auditions for Romeo and Juliet.

That’s what they were doing.

There was an incident in the auditorium where this one girl named Allison, she was crushed by a heavy wardrobe closet.

Oh, so now this guy’s killing.

Well, she didn’t get killed.

She just got injured.

Oh, she wasn’t killed.

She was injured.

But the stalker meant to get Selena with the wardrobe closet.

But if he’s like in love with her, why would he try to kill her?

Well, because well, because the stalker like saying we’ll be together forever.

I want you to I want you to quit the drama club, quit the play, all that.

Huh?

So he wants her.

Oh, so it’s like he only wants her to be like his woman.

Yeah, I think like his pet almost kind of.

Yeah, you could say something like that.

Like because the stalker doesn’t want Selena to go to audition for the lead in the play.

He wants her to just drop out.

So then this whole time you’re trying to figure out like who’s the stalker?

Yeah, the whole thing.

The whole plot of like the whole because this is like a mystery.

It’s like a thriller and a mystery.

We’re trying to figure out who the stalker is.

Selena can’t trust anyone because there’s already been too many accidents.

Because another because I think what was it?

I think her friend Katie was also attacked by the stalker who got hurt.

And then there’s also one incident where this one guy in the drama club named Jake.

He got killed.

He because what happened is he found out.

He had found some clues about the stalker because Selena eventually told him about what was going on.

He went to the auditorium to try to meet Selena so he could tell her the things that he had found out.

And he got killed.

He was pushed off of the catwalk and he fell to his death.

Before you could tell her.

Yeah.

Okay, so the stalker, the stalker killed him to keep him keep his mouth shut.

So I always think it’s interesting this whole like, who is the killer type?

Because I feel like authors will like often play with the reader or like the viewer.

And like make it seem like one person’s like, like with a Snape type deal.

Like one person’s really dark.

So you think they’re like the one.

And it’s like all the signs are pointing to this one person.

Because it’s like everything always kind of revolves around them.

They have like a dark vibe.

But then it’s just like there to throw you off because it’s not that person.

Because you find out like that person is actually trying to help.

And then it ends up being like someone that you would not suspect at all.

Ends up being the secret admirer.

Like the whole time it was Katie.

Oh, yeah.

Because yeah, see.

And I figured out.

Yeah, you did.

Because that’s the twist.

That’s the twist.

That was always the least expect.

It was the twist.

It was the best.

The best friend was the stalker.

That’s the whole twist.

I totally figured.

See, I could read authors like a book.

Like that’s how.

Because I’ve seen so many scary movies.

Like that’s always how it is.

Like it’s always like you think it’s this one guy.

Like the drama teacher or something.

And it’s like because he’s so creepy.

Yeah, you know, just like in Scream.

You remember in the original Scream.

Because we thought.

Because we never suspected it would be Billy Loomis.

And then at the end, that was the twist.

It turned out.

Sydney finds out that her boyfriend Billy Loomis was the Ghostface killer the entire time.

The entire time.

Yeah.

So it’s like they always try to steer you in one way.

When it’s like too obvious.

Like no, this is too easy.

Like it would never be this easy.

It has to be the one that you don’t expect.

So who’s the one person that you would least expect?

The best friend.

Yeah, and especially if she’s a girl.

Because it’s like you don’t expect the whole same sex thing.

So that’s another twist.

So yeah, that’s how I knew.

That’s like that’s too good of a twist to resist.

Same sex and she’s supposed to be a friend.

And then what kind of gave it away was like that the other girl had a glow up and she didn’t.

So it kind of probably created like this jealousy of like how come she got to be popular when we grew up like we were the same.

So I totally ruined like spoiler alert.

I ruined the twist.

Well, yeah, so.

So yeah, that’s what happened.

So when so towards the end of the book, Selena starts to figure out some things about the stalker, and then she goes to the auditorium to talk to Katie because she started thinking, oh, Katie was going to be the next victim of the stalker because she had already lost her friend Jake, who got killed.

And then when she showed up at the auditorium, she found her ex-boyfriend Danny, who was like tied up.

It was like all tied up in the auditorium.

And then she was going to help him.

She heard someone come in.

She like turned off the lights to try to hide and then turned out to be Katie, who came into the auditorium.

That’s when Katie revealed her true colors and revealed that she is the stalker.

Damn, yeah, that’s a pretty good twist.

Yeah, because the and basically the reason why Katie became this like crazy stalker girl, it’s because she basically became jealous, like so jealous of Selena’s like popularity and basically how all the guys are just like falling for her, worshiping her, how all the everyone in the drama club just loves her for being like the most talented actress in the club.

It was a classic Julius Caesar.

And was it Brutus?

The stab on the back stabbing your friend in the back.

Yeah.

So like so like here’s like here’s like a some quotes from the book, like, why should I be happy for you, Katie Snap?

When we were younger, we cared about each other as equals.

But then you got so thin and so popular.

Why should that make me happy?

And like Selena thought, because you’re my best friend and I never knew you felt that way.

And then he was like, that’s the whole point.

If you were a good friend, you you would have known you would have cared, but you don’t care about anything except being a star and getting everyone’s attention.

And that’s when I kind of see her side, but it’s like, why should I be fat just because you’re fat?

You know, I mean, like, I you shouldn’t hold your friends back.

Like, especially if they’re doing something that’s healthy for them.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, Selena wanted to get thin because she wanted to be healthy.

Yeah.

I mean, maybe Selena could have helped Katie with the same problem that she had because Katie is a little overweight and not super popular like Selena is.

But still, Katie shouldn’t be like so like so, so jealous of that.

Yeah, it’s interesting.

She basically just felt like her best friend completely abandoned her, forgot all about her because she thinks Selena care more about being the lead actress and like basically getting all of the guys attention in the school because she’s the most popular girl.

Her ego got like overinflated.

And then, yeah, she was more focused on herself, though she wasn’t paying attention to her friend so much so she didn’t even notice her friend was her stalker slash killer.

Well, yeah, because she thought Selena thought the stalker was a guy.

But no, it turned out to be her best friend.

It just kills.

See, that’s more ego like your assumption.

That’s interesting.

So then in the end, does she do like does she die?

Because I always know so.

So Katie, so like in the end, Katie does attack Selena and she was going to kill her.

She chased Selena up to the catwalk and she was just basically just going to knock her off the catwalk and make her fall to her death.

But then she gets rest.

Selena gets rescued by this guy named Eddie.

He’s a college student who’s interning for the drama club because he’s also a drama student.

So he was there like after hours.

Well, yeah.

And also, the thing is, Selena and Eddie basically have gone on a few dates because Eddie has actually known Selena since he went to the same high school as her.

Like when he was a senior and she was like a freshman.

He was like the hit in love interest.

Yeah, like he was like he was a senior at the time and she was like a freshman.

He basically admitted on their date that he’s been in love with her ever since he first saw her.

And then he went to then he graduated.

He went to college.

But then, yeah, they basically became a couple like throughout the book.

Oh, OK. So he ends up being like her white knight.

Yeah, so he comes in and rescues her.

He stops Katie like ties her up, but she doesn’t die in the end.

But yeah, he is the knight in shining armor who rescued Selena from her crazy stalker best friend.

So she just gets locked up, huh?

Uh-huh.

Damn, free Katie.

So you got to keep an eye on your friend, Katie, because you never know.

Oh, geez.

Got to make sure they’re good.

See, that’s why you got to check in on your friends.

You know, you never know when they’re plotting against you.

You got to check in and make sure they’re good.

Like, you don’t hate me, right?

You’re not sending killers out.

You’re not sending stalking stalkers out.

OK, so I guess it ends with a happy ending.

The guy saves the day.

Yep, it does.

That’s basically the happy ending.

And how many books are in this series?

Oh, there’s a lot because there’s different books that came out like.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, this book came out in 1996.

Oh, yeah, it says 94.

Oh, damn, this one’s really old, the cover of this one.

New Girl.

That was the first one.

Oh, yeah, that’s one of them.

So we have The New Girl, The Surprise Party, The Overnight, Missing, The Wrong Number, Sleepwalker, Haunted, Halloween Party, The Stepsister, Ski Weekend, The Fire Game, Lights Out, Secret Bedroom, The Knife, Prom Queen, First Date, Best Friend, Cheater, Sunburn, The New Boy, The Dare, Bad Dreams, Double Date, Thrill Club, One Evil Summer, Mind Reader, Wrong Number Two, Through the Dare, Dead End, Final Grade, Switched, College Weekend, Stepsister 2, What Holly Heard, The Face, I’m looking for yours, The Perfect Date, The Confession, The Boy Next Door, Night Games, Run Away.

All right, this is going on forever.

Oh, so this is the old one.

And I guess there’s the new Fear Street?

Yeah, because I looked them up.

They’re like the books.

They came out like throughout the 80s and 90s.

And then they started publishing new books in like 2014, which was like 10 years ago.

So the new Fear Street is Stepbrother, Camp Out, Scream, Jennifer Scream, and Bad Girl.

But Return to Fear Street is in 2018.

Fear Street Superchiller.

There’s a lot of actual Fear Street ones.

What’s the name of this one again?

Secret Admirer.

I looked it up.

Yeah, it came out in 1996.

Wow, there’s a lot.

So R.L. Stine did all these, or these are different.

Oh yeah, Fear Street Saga, R.L. Stine, 1999 to 96.

Let’s see what these are.

So R.L. Stine has Fear Street and Goosebumps.

And it looks like Fear Street has like, I don’t know, at least 30 books.

Oh yeah, it’s a long series. 40, plus another 18, plus another 12.

So it’s like, he has like probably 100 books, because the Goosebumps is like 50 books at least.

Like 40 books.

And then Fear Street is like, looks like 40 books, like another 50 books.

So this guy’s gotta have like 100 books.

All like horror genre.

Like where does this guy get all these ideas from?

Oh yeah.

I gotta look up R.L. Stine now.

Let’s see, 81 years old.

He’s still alive?

Oh yeah.

Born in 1943.

Yeah, see these are the ones I remember.

Night of the Living Dummy.

Monster Blood, Dead House.

Like all these Goosebumps ones.

Dude, the covers too, the covers are classic.

The Ghost Next Door.

The Curse of the Mummy.

Like I had a lot of these because I bought them in a garage sale.

Oh yeah, my favorite Goosebumps book is the Phantom of the Auditorium.

Because it’s basically like, it’s basically similar to Phantom of the Opera.

But it’s also a little different as well.

Oh, I like this one too.

The Haunted Mask.

Like it was like a Halloween mask and you put it on, he turned into like a creepy old guy.

Oh, I am afraid of bees.

Oh yeah, Phantom of the Auditorium, 1994.

Yeah, that one’s my favorite.

I, dude, seeing these covers, like I read the Monster Blood, Why I’m Afraid of Bees.

Oh, this one, The Barking Ghost, that cover, this one was…

Oh yeah, the other book I like is The Girl Who Cried Monster.

And I’ve also seen the Goosebumps episode from the show.

Yeah.

Yeah, because it’s basically like the girl who’s obsessed with monster books.

And then she finds, she discovers that the guy, the librarian at her, at the library she goes to, he turns out to be a monster.

Yeah, the main ones, they turned into like movies, or like spa little episodes.

Because it was like the dummy one.

Oh yeah, the slappy episodes.

Yeah, there was slappy.

He was sick.

And then there was one where like the parents were like weird monsters.

Oh yeah, I think that was from The Girl Who Cried Monster.

Oh, they have a Goosebumps movie, I forgot.

Oh yeah, there are a couple movies that they’ve released recently and stuff.

I haven’t seen them though, but I don’t think those movies are kind of that good.

Because I think I prefer the show, the series better.

It’s more just using like the property, I guess.

But the R.L. Stine probably really doesn’t have like much.

Oh yeah, and the other one I like is Vampire Breath.

Oh yeah, that one’s really cool.

Because I mean, it’s got vampires in it.

And I love things that involve vampires.

Yeah, dude, vampires for like a minute, I feel like they just totally took over the horror genre.

It was zombies and then vampires.

And then werewolves.

What would you say now?

I feel like now is like true crime.

Like everybody wants like a real true crime story, like based on a true story.

Like even The Conjuring and stuff like that.

It’s kind of like based on a true story.

Oh yeah.

Even though it’s like ghostly.

Because there’s that whole series, like The Nun and The Conjuring and all that.

Oh yeah, and also The Curse of La Llorona.

Yeah, so I guess right now like paranormal is probably pretty big.

Yeah, I think paranormal movies is kind of big right now.

Well, it all started with Paranormal Activity.

You remember that one?

Yeah.

And that one is not even scary.

Like you look back at that one and it’s like more funny than anything.

Because literally nothing happens.

Not until the very end that she gets like thrown around the room.

Everything is just like a pan falls.

A door creaks open.

And it’s like you’re watching the video like, who opened that door?

It’s like day three.

The pans fall.

So that movie’s like not even that scary.

Now they definitely pushed it.

All right, so when did you get this book?

I got this back when I was in like middle school.

I think I was in like middle school.

I think I just got it like randomly from somewhere.

I don’t remember.

I don’t exactly remember.

But I’ve had it for years.

And I read it once before, but then I’ve forgotten all about that.

I’ve forgotten like the important details of it.

But I remember the twist at the end.

Then after rereading it, then yeah, now I remember how the whole story of the book goes.

Yeah, they sell sets now on Amazon.

Like the Goosebumps Horrorland collection, 18 books for $47.

But I don’t think that’s the full collection.

I wonder how much like the full Goosebumps collection would be.

So would you say, well, is this the only book in that series you’ve read?

The Fear Street series?

Yeah, this is the only book.

I am planning to order more of the Fear Street books.

I can read them.

What’s your next one you’re looking into for the Fear Street?

There’s one I found on Amazon called All Night Party.

I want to get that one because I want to read that because it looks pretty scary.

Yeah, that one sounds cool.

And are they all kind of based like young teens?

I think it is.

The age of the characters?

Yeah, I’d say it is.

It’s based more on like teenagers.

Yeah, so it looks like you get the classic 20 book collection for $50 on Amazon.

And it has The Blob That Ate Everyone, The Werewolf, The Fever Swamp, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, The Ghost Next Door.

Let’s see if it has a vampire.

Haunted Mask.

It has vampire breath.

The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena.

What?

I don’t remember that one.

A Shocker on Shock Street.

Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls.

Please Don’t Feed the Vampire.

Stay Out of the Basement.

That was the one that they had like that weird parents were like weird plant monsters.

Yeah, I remember that one.

That one they turned into a show too.

Because yeah, I remember there being like a whole Goosebumps show, right?

Where they show like different ones.

Yeah, so they still got the classics.

R.L. Stine’s still cranking them out.

But it looks like he hasn’t released anything in a while.

Just selling the property.

But yeah, that guy’s got a whole collection.

All right, so you’re saying you’re checking out those other ones?

Yeah.

So would you say you like those more than the Goosebumps one?

You feel like it’s more for like an older audience?

Maybe, I mean, maybe.

Because this one involved, because this book, like it basically involved like scary accidents and it basically involved a murder in it.

So I think these are more like for young.

Yeah, that’s true.

Late teen, young adult, because I think the Goosebumps books are more for younger kids.

Yeah, I don’t think there would actually be like a lot of deaths in the Goosebumps book.

It was more like little jump scares or like bugs or something.

Yeah.

Like it wasn’t dealing too much with like death or like, I don’t know, just like anything too violent or like overly sexual or something.

Like everything was really like G-rated for the Goosebumps.

So you’re saying this one’s a little more teen?

Yeah.

OK, so for the Fear Street people, a little more older.

OK, and for your next book review, what are you thinking about looking into?

So the…

Keeping it Halloween themed?

Yes, I am trying, the next book I’m going to do a review on, I want to try to keep it a little more Halloween themed.

It is a book called Rebel Spirits by Lois Ruby.

This is a book I’ve had since middle school.

It’s basically about a girl named Lori Chase.

She and her family just moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

And that town’s like super like obsessed with the whole Civil War history.

Her family now owns and runs this little bed and breakfast in the town.

And she discovers that the place is like basically haunted by like the ghosts of people who fought during the Civil War.

And then she meets the ghost of a Civil War soldier named Nathaniel Pierce.

And she wants to help him like figure out who murdered him because he didn’t die in the war.

He was murdered.

It’s like a…

But at the same time, she also like is kind of falling in love with the ghost as well.

So you could say that this is more like a romance and murder mystery.

Okay, so to figure out who murdered her ghost lover…

Yeah.

She has to dive into history?

Yeah, but she has to help him figure out who murdered him.

So that way his spirit can basically move on into the afterlife.

But if she finds out and his spirit leaves, then she just lost her lover.

I know, but I see I have read this book before, but it’s been a long time since I have.

But I do remember something like there is a bit of a happy ending towards the end.

But I’m not gonna say I’m not gonna say it right now because I want to save it for next week.

All right, awesome.

So that’ll be Rebel Spirit for next week.

Yep.

And that will be on the eighth episode of The Runner on air.

As far as the seventh episode, we’re gonna be wrapping it up.

Do you have any events that are coming up that you know about for CSUV?

No, not that I know of.

We have our choir event happening on the 31st.

I think it’s like 7 p.m. on the 31st if you want to check out University Singers.

I don’t know of any other events.

So I think that’ll be it.

For the October 15th, which is actually going to be next week, I’m going to be having two guests come on and talk about Latin Heritage Month.

And they had done a survey on campus where they asked students about Latinx, Hispanic, Latino, and Chicano survey to talk about their different views on how they see Latinx culture.

And get an opinion on the new term Latinx.

So they’re going to be coming and talking about that hopefully on the 15th.

So just looking forward to that.

And then we’re going to be continuing on the spooky themes with spooky books and spooky topics for the month of October.

So that is a look into the future.

As far as for today, it is October 8, 2024.

And I’m signing out here on The Runner on air’s seventh episode.

I’m your host, Jay Cortes.

And I’m your co-host, Marina Gonzalez.

Take care, Runners.

Have a good one.