Fall 2024, Episode 10
October 29, 2024
Host: Jay Cortes
Co-Host: Marina Gonzalez
Transcript:
Welcome runners to your 10th episode of The Runner On Air.
It is Tuesday, October 29th, 2024.
We are nearing Halloween, so this will be a Halloween special.
But before we get into that, we are going into the Runner Archives, and I’m taking a look at October 29th, 1997.
And the cover shows a guy on a tricycle, student Jeff Inoho, and Ed Ramon, after four shots of Southern Comfort fight neck and neck in their effort to cross the finish line at last week’s alcohol awareness demonstration.
So, apparently, Alcohol Awareness Month used to be October, but it’s no longer in October now.
It’s like in June, but this is from 1997.
So they have a campus police and Theta Chi, which I think is a fraternity, and they present a DUI demonstration for Alcohol Awareness Week.
I think they still do similar things on campus, like they’ll put goggles on you and try to make you walk a straight line, and the goggles, like, throw you off.
But on this one, they try to do a tricycle race to demonstrate your alcohol and driver reflex.
So it’s just funny seeing the guy on the cover with the tricycle is like a grown man.
So that is an interesting issue from October 29th, 1997, The Runner.
And we are going to skip forward to 2008, and in 2008, they actually installed the solar panels in the parking lot next to the Icardo Center.
So it talks about installing the solar panels is the equivalent of removing 5,900 cars from the road.
And CSUB is going green is the headline, and it shows a picture of the new solar panels and the cars that are parking under them.
I think BC College has the same thing, too.
Oh, yeah.
I think at Bakersfield College, one of the parking lots where you need to have a parking permit, it’s the parking lot, which is like in front of where the theater is and also where one of the buildings is.
I think it’s like the music building for like music classes.
I think, yeah, they have solar panels.
Yeah.
So in 2008 is when CSUB got their solar panels installed.
So, geez, it’s been a while that we’ve had those solar panels, hopefully going green.
All right.
And this article also mentions a new automotive theft trend where people are stealing catalytic converters.
And in the article, it shows a student who had their car part stolen from the parking lot, and it was their catalytic converter, Philip Hornales, disappointed to find out his catalytic converter was stolen.
And they just left like two of like the, they’re like little shields or something that cover the like gaskets.
They just left the gaskets on the floor.
So yeah, which I think still happens to this day.
Like that’s still an issue.
People get their catalytic converter stolen.
Yeah.
But, you know, lots of people, they’re always getting their cars broken into.
Yeah.
It’s just, yeah, like you don’t even have to go inside the car, though, to get your catalytic converter.
Like they cut it from the outside.
So someone just goes underneath your car and like cuts out your exhaust and then like takes off with it.
Yeah.
But some people do have a tendency to break your window so they can steal whatever belongings you left inside your car.
Yeah.
I’ve heard that happening across the street.
I haven’t seen it this semester, like recently, but I have heard of that happening, like people leaving.
I think it’s the thing is like if you leave a laptop or something like out in the open, it’s kind of like enticing somebody to go in and steal your stuff.
So and then go and then go pawn it off somewhere.
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
So transitioning, but still back in this article of October 29, 2008, they also have a Hillary’s top 10 scariest movies.
Do you want to do you want to should I start from the top or from the bottom?
You can start from top to bottom.
OK. So we have number one, Halloween and then number two, Scream.
Number three, The Sixth Sense.
Number four is Saw and number five is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Number six is The Strangers.
Number seven is When a Stranger Calls, the original in 1979.
So there’s different ones.
And then number eight is Prom Night.
Number nine is Sleepy Hollow.
And number 10, Hide and Seek.
So out of all those, Marina, how many have you seen?
All of them?
I have seen Halloween.
I’ve seen Scream.
I’ve seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I’ve seen When a Stranger Calls and Prom Night.
I mean, surprisingly, the thing is about Prom Night from 2008.
It is a remake of the original film that came out in 1980.
And that one has Jamie Lee Curtis.
But the storylines from those two films are, like, completely different.
So this one from 2008 has Jamie Lee Curtis or the original one had?
The original one had Jamie Lee Curtis in it, just like just like how she’s in Halloween as well.
But the Prom Night remake film from 2008 is completely different.
It has a whole new cast and just a completely different storyline.
Yeah.
And I was going to mention they have the 1979 date for When a Stranger Calls and they redid that one, too.
Yeah.
So for When a Stranger Calls, the original came out in 1979 and in 2006, they released a remake film.
It is kind of similar.
It does have similar traits from the original and stuff, but it does have different cast.
It does have people.
It does have some different actors, but playing some of the same characters from the original.
Oh, OK. Because, I mean, like the original actress, Carolyn, Carol Kane, who is Jill Johnson in the original.
Is she like a parent or something?
She was a babysitter who is babysitting some kids, but then she started receiving strange calls from some creepy guy.
No, but I’m saying the actress, is she so you’re saying she’s in the remake?
No.
No.
No, but Jill Johnson is played by a different actress in the remake.
Oh, OK. Got it.
So have you seen both of them?
Yes, I’ve seen both of them.
Which one do you say is better?
I mean, I like them both and stuff because, I mean, the original one, it is it does have it does give you like that creepy, scary feeling.
So does the remake.
But it also has that 2006 nostalgia, which I love.
True.
So let’s say you were going to have like a movie night when a stranger calls night and it’s like you have both copies.
Which one are you going to put on?
Well, obviously, I always put on the original and then I watch the remake.
OK. So original first.
All right.
Then they have like Sixth Sense.
That one’s like I feel like that’s not scary.
That one I haven’t seen.
You haven’t seen the Sixth Sense?
No, I haven’t seen that one.
What?
So you don’t know the twist?
No.
No, I don’t really know.
There’s no way you don’t know the twist.
No, I haven’t seen that entire film.
I think it’s Bruce Willis.
Yeah.
Bruce Willis is in it.
But I don’t.
But yeah, I never got the chance to watch that film.
You can watch it now.
You’re probably the only person that could watch.
I mean, besides because I’ve never seen it, but you’re probably the only person that could watch it and still not know the twist and be surprised because I feel like once you know the twist, then it’s not the same.
There’s only one film on that list that I don’t like, and that’s Saw because I don’t really like watching any of that torture porn gore and all that.
Yeah, that definitely defined like a new genre of like torture porn because now they have the Terrifier.
Oh, yeah.
Terrifier, I haven’t seen.
Terrifier now is like 10 times worse than Saw was.
Like, if you thought chopping your arm off was bad, like in Saw they split.
I mean, in Terrifier, they split somebody in half.
Yeah.
Oh, they actually.
Oh, yeah.
There’s actually these other scary films, a series called Wrong Turn.
There is a person did get split in half in one of them.
Yeah.
So gore is not really your thing.
No, I don’t really like.
So out of this list, what do you think?
Which one do you think is the scariest?
Oh, because I don’t think Halloween’s the scariest.
I don’t know what they were thinking.
I mean, it could be the number one like Halloween movie, but to say it’s the scariest is not the same thing.
I’ve seen Halloween already like a thousand times, so it’s not that scary to me.
Scream, not that super scary to me, but it is a pretty great film to watch.
I mean, and they didn’t even mention like The Exorcist, that one’s scary as heck.
Oh, Exorcist, I haven’t seen, but you know what?
I haven’t seen, yeah, the original Exorcist I haven’t seen, but I know it’s about a girl who got possessed after she messed with a Ouija board, which is something you should never do.
Never, ever, ever mess with a Ouija board.
Do you think you’re too scared to watch The Exorcist then?
No, I don’t think, no, I don’t think I am.
Honestly, I think Nightmare on Elm Street is scarier than Halloween.
I’ve seen all the Nightmare on Elm Street films.
I really disagree with this list.
What do you think?
Do you agree with this list or do you disagree?
I mean, I don’t know.
I mean, I’m not sure if I agree or disagree.
This is Hillary’s top 10, so she’s not saying like this is the definitive top 10, like serious.
She’s just saying this is her scariest like top 10.
The thing is, I think maybe out of all of those films, out of that entire list, I feel like the Texas Chainsaw remake is pretty freaky.
That one came out in 2003 and it is pretty similar to the original and there is a sole survivor at the end and the sole survivor is played by Jessica Biel.
Yeah, Texas Chainsaw Massacre I would say is a lot scarier than like When a Stranger Calls or even probably Scream.
Pretty scarier than Sixth Sense, like have number three be six, like, yeah.
So are you going to watch Sixth Sense or can I ruin the twist for you?
No, don’t.
No, don’t ruin it for me.
Don’t spoil it for me because I definitely need to try to watch it.
All right.
Well, that was a 2008 article from October 29th.
So we’re going to move forward to October 29, 2014 and the cover is Zombies Come to Town and it’s a guy crossing the bridge dressed as a zombie.
So I guess I had a 5K zombie run.
I guess it was a 5K run and you would dress up as a zombie.
I’m sure it’s for charity.
Oh, yeah, that sounds pretty cool, but you definitely were probably going to be sweating off your special effects and makeup.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
It says it’s a fundraiser zombie run Talladega Frights and at the Riverwalk.
Talladega Frights.
Where is that?
The Riverwalk?
Yeah, that’s what it says.
Riverwalk, October 25th, Saturday, 10 years ago.
It also has on the cover CSUB Nets, a seven million grant.
So apparently we got a seven million dollar grant per the abstract provided by Vincent Araguam, Director of Grants and Contracts.
It will be dedicated to the Growing Rural Opportunities Residency Program, aimed at minimizing the achievement gap, persistent disparity and academic performance between groups of students.
Specifically differentiated by socioeconomic status, ethnicity and gender.
The program will aim to produce and train 120 multiple subject credential completers over the next five years.
So seven million, pretty good sized grant.
And there’s also a runner on the street and it asks, how do you feel about overly sexual Halloween costumes?
So kind of a hot topic now that we’re on Halloween, Andy Reyes says, I think everyone has their own opinion on what they should wear.
I think everyone has their own morals on what’s right.
Jonathan Erdo said that some are a little over the top.
There is a time and a place for it, not around children, maybe a party for adults.
That was his opinion.
Kathy Tinoco says, it doesn’t really bother me.
You don’t have to wait for Halloween to see that.
It’s just one of those days when you don’t get judged for it.
So kind of like a mean girl’s opinion on that one.
And in that same, in the same issue, Michelle Bean, a reporter asks, are Halloween costumes overly sexualized?
And she writes about it.
So what do you think, Marina?
I mean, it probably depends on the type of costume a person wants to wear for Halloween.
Because I mean, there are, I mean, there are lots of girls out there who want to wear like sexy, like very sexy, kind of almost revealing costumes, like, like a sexy nurse costume that they sell.
Yeah, I think that’s the part that they’re talking about, where it’s like something that’s not normally sexualized, like a nurse or like an ambulance worker or something, but then you sexualize it by like making it over the top.
Or kind of like wearing the Princess Leia slave costume from Return of the Jedi.
Well, I don’t know.
I feel like Lucas knew what he was doing with that one.
Oh, yeah.
But I kind of agree with Jonathan Erdo, where he says, like, if you’re going to an adult party, like, sure, like, everyone’s gonna be over 18, wear whatever you want.
But if you’re going like trick or treating around kids, like, why are you going to be revealing like stuff to kids?
Yeah, I agree.
If, yeah, if you’re gonna wear a very sexy kind of like revealing costume that reveals maybe like cleavage or other parts of your body and stuff, then yeah, only wear a costume like that at an adult party and not when you’re around a bunch of kids.
But yeah, definitely do.
That’s what you definitely should do during this time of year.
Yeah, that’s definitely my opinion as well.
Yeah, because I never wear, I’m always careful about the costumes I pick.
I never, I’m never comfortable wearing a costume that’s too revealing that shows off like any cleavage or showing off my butt or anything like that.
And it’s kind of messed up that it’s like, I don’t know, I feel like in general, like when this topic comes up, everyone always talks about women, but the same thing can be said for like men costumes as well, like shirtless costumes and stuff.
Yeah, like if you’re going to wear a gladiator costume or maybe like a toga from like ancient Rome or something like that.
Yeah.
But I mean, at the same time, I see where people are coming from because it’s like, if you’ve been working out all year, like trying to look buff, I guess you want to kind of show it off.
And that would be like your one day to not be judged or you could show off your muscles.
Yeah.
I mean, and then, and then it also, there also comes a time where people want to wear their costumes to like a convention or something.
Yeah.
Like cosplaying.
And I think that’s what somebody was saying that you could dress however you want all year.
Yeah.
It’s just, I guess Halloween’s the one day you feel like you’re not going to be judged as much, but there’s people that cosplay all throughout the year and it’s like, they don’t feel judged when they go to conventions.
Yeah, exactly.
Cause when I cosplay and go to any of the local conventions here in town, people are always coming up to me and saying, oh my God, you look so awesome in your costume and everything.
Yeah.
And I feel like that’s why people like conventions cause it’s like having Halloween at any time of the year.
Yeah.
Like the big Comic-Con in San Diego, it’s basically Halloween on steroids.
Yeah.
I remember one time I went to San Diego and I had no idea Comic-Con was going on.
I think I just went with some friends cause we wanted to check out the beach and go eat.
And I’m like, why are people walking around like dressed as a super Mario, like riding bikes or like Pokemon, like what’s going on?
And then I kept walking like closer and it was like, oh, there’s a Comic-Con going on.
And it was cool.
Like I didn’t even know.
I was, I was dressed regular, but it was cool to see, like, cause like people go with the whole theme.
Like, like if you’re Mario, they’ll make their bike look like Yoshi or something.
And it’ll look like they’re riding Yoshi.
Yeah.
And exactly.
And I’ve had lots of people who come up to me wanting to get pictures with me because I dressed up like as really cool characters.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Cosplaying is cool.
When I was like in school for fashion, that’s where a lot of the people in the class were wanting to learn how to sew so they could sew their own cosplays.
And I feel like, like home sewing community, that’s a lot of people like learning how to sew just so they can cosplay.
I definitely need to learn how to sew so I can try to create my own costumes.
It’s kind of a tough skill.
Like I don’t think people realize like how much science goes into their clothing.
Like you just put it on and it’s like, oh, this is warm.
But you don’t think about like how they had to make the sleeves a certain length and then grade it a certain way for them to have like small to extra large fit like right with everyone’s ratios.
Like there’s a lot of science that goes behind it.
And then that’s not even like that’s just the the pattern making.
That’s not even the sewing itself.
Like sewing is really tough.
Yeah.
Because you also got to measure your body.
Make sure you get the make sure that whatever you’re trying to make, it’s the right length and right size for you to fit.
But like part of it is like, let’s say you have a stretchy material that’s a knit.
You have to sew that a different way than if you were to sew a woven material that’s like very thick or something because it’s like the threads have to run a certain way either along with it or against it.
And it’s like you got to do a zigzag because knit stretch.
So it’s like, yeah, it gets really complicated.
Sewing’s tough.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, Halloween does involve sewing and sticking with the Halloween theme, I think you have a book, Marina, that’s kind of on the Halloween topic since it since Halloween is only two days away.
I decided to do a very special book review for this episode today.
I am doing a review on a book called Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters by Susan Wayne, which was published back in 2013, almost 10 years ago.
And Dr. Frankenstein is like an old one of the oldest fictional characters of all time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because have you ever seen the classic black and white film Frankenstein, which came out way back in the 30s, along with like Dracula and then the Wolfman?
Yeah.
And then even before that, like the author who invented that, like wrote a book, like inventing.
Well, Frankenstein’s not the monster.
No.
No.
The doctor is the one that created the monster.
Dr. Victor, Dr. Victor, Victor Frankenstein was the one who created a monster by sewing together dead parts of old dead bodies.
And he gave the monster eternal life by shooting it full of electricity.
Some people say that the monster is not dead, but just dormant.
And I could be wrong, but is the original author a woman of the Dr. Frankenstein’s monster?
I don’t think so.
I think it was a man.
Let’s look up who’s the original, original, because there’s like an interesting story, I think, where he like, um, go, yeah, it was, I think it is a woman.
Oh, it is.
Novel by Mary Shelley.
Oh, Mary Shelley.
She was like, um, and locked in a cabin with like other authors.
And they were like, I don’t know, there’s like an interesting story.
I don’t know where I heard it from, but there’s like an interesting story of how she came up with the topic.
And that they were like, all either drinking or doing some kind of drug.
And they’re all like in a cabin.
And she just like, the idea came to her, I don’t know, like, if in a dream, or if she was like bouncing ideas with the other authors.
And then she wrote it like in a really short amount of time, like in one month, and it just like blew up.
And but yeah, it was like, it was interesting because she was a woman and, and it’s like 1800s, like 1818, originally published January 1, 1818.
So yeah, even before that movie, like the story, yeah, because, yeah, because the classic black and white film in that didn’t come out until the 1930s.
Right.
And so this book, does it kind of go into the story of the father, or it just jumps immediately into like a different version of it.
So the introduction of the book, it does see basically in throughout the book, each chapter, they’re all like journal entries that came from that came from the Twitter that came from Dr. Frankenstein’s twin daughters, Giselle and Ingrid.
But at the very beginning, the introduction, their journal entries from Dr. Victor Frankenstein himself.
Okay, so it kind of has like a Blair Witch Project vibe, like it kind of tries to put you in the world that it’s like this existed, and this was their findings.
Yes, yeah, kind of something like that.
But yeah, I, when I first read the introduction, I recognized some like similar like, storyline plots from this two part film series that was published back in 2004.
And in that in the two part film, my favorite actor, Luke Goss was the one who played the monster.
And when did that come out?
2004.
2000.
And what was that one called?
Frankenstein?
Yeah, it’s Frankenstein.
And it’s a two part film series.
This one right here.
Is that Leonardo DiCaprio?
That’s not Leonardo DiCaprio.
It’s played by somebody else.
Victor Frankenstein, he’s played by a different person.
This is the full movie.
Yeah, that’s the that’s the first part.
That’s the first part.
And there’s a second part.
Wow.
I never saw this.
Yeah.
But do you think this is a good Halloween movie?
Oh, yeah, it is a pretty good Halloween movie because you know, it’s basically similar to like the original Frankenstein movie.
And in the introduction of the book, I recognized some similar traits from this two part film series from 2004.
So basically, you know, Victor Frankenstein, he created a monster and then, you know, terrible things started happening, like the monster got loose and then many people ended up dying.
But isn’t the story kind of also that the monster is like misunderstood?
Yeah, the monster is a bit misunderstood, you know, people, they easily fear the monster because he’s different.
He looks different from everyone else.
He looks scary and they easily judge him.
Right.
And there’s always that famous line, he’s alive.
It’s alive.
Yeah.
Does it have that line or what was the epic moment?
Yeah, it was.
Yeah, I saw that line like towards the end of the book as I as I was reading it.
So the theme of the journal entries that goes on after the introduction and throughout the whole book.
Yeah, basically.
Yeah, it does.
That’s basically like the whole theme of the book throughout the entire thing.
So, yeah, like the introduction, you know, Victor Frankenstein, he is confronted by the monster and the monster demanded that Victor create him a bride because, you know, like there’s a because you remember there’s another classic film, The Bride of Frankenstein.
Yeah.
But yeah, so the monster, the lady with like the marge hair and it has the white streak in it.
Yeah, that.
OK, so this is more a story like are they journaling what the doctor’s doing or they’re like now participating?
They do.
They journal what the doctor what happened to the doctor in the beginning.
And then they’re and then throughout the rest of the book, they’re journaling like what happened to the daughters when they discovered everything about who their father was.
OK, so they didn’t know who their father was.
He basically he lost his wife in childbirth.
She died giving birth to the twins.
And he sent the twins off to be raised by other family members to protect them from the monster.
Because like because what happens is the monster demanded that Victor create him a mate.
And when Victor refused, the monster went on a complete rampage and basically killed everyone he ever loved.
Oh, geez.
So the only people left were the daughters because they got sent away.
Yeah, he the only way he could protect his daughters from the monster was by sending them off to be raised by other family members.
So then does the Bride of Frankenstein come up in this book as well?
No, because Victor refused to create and to create a new monster.
So then this branches off like does when does a Bride of Frankenstein like in what story does she come about?
Um, I don’t well, the Bride of Frankenstein is not featured in this book, but I don’t know when that whole like story like I don’t know.
I don’t remember when the film came out.
I think it came out like in the 40s.
OK, because I mean, like in some storylines, I guess he does get his wife.
Well, you know, like the storylines, you know, they change over the years and everything Yeah, like everyone has their own interpretation of that story.
It’s interesting, though, that the original is a woman and this author is also a woman.
Suzanne, I wonder if she well, she obviously got inspiration from the original author.
Does she have any other books as well?
I think she did.
Yeah, I think she does.
Hang on.
She has books like Empty, the Barco Tattoo, the Barco Rebellion, the Titanic Locket.
And are these also kind of like on the horror scary theme?
Some.
Yeah, it looks like some of them do feature some horror in it, like.
I think like Distant Waves, Titanic Locket, Haunted, like Titanic Locket.
That sounds interesting.
So it’s like a scary Titanic story.
I don’t know.
I think so.
And she’s also.
I’ve never heard of that one.
The Phantom Music Box, the Curse Scarab, the Pearl Earring.
Like those seem pretty, those seem pretty interesting.
Yeah.
So I see like the theme she’s going for here.
She kind of like tries to find an interesting story and then like spookify it.
Sounds like.
So well, does the is the book like somebody finds their journal and is now publishing it or is the book like the girls are publishing it?
It’s the girls who it’s the twins who are writing their own journal entries in each chapter.
OK. But it’s not like one of those things where at the end it’s like the police officer.
The police officer that caught the monster or something is the one that found the journal.
Like how does it kind of conclude this whole journal?
Well, no.
So basically throughout the book, it’s when the the twins, Giselle and Ingrid, they received news from their uncle Baron Ernest, who is their father’s brother.
They received news that their father had died and they just inherited all of his assets, including his castle, where he had the secret, where he had the secret laboratory, where he created the monster.
OK. So, yeah, they they journey to the castle.
And then now that they’re finally like rich and they’ve inherited their father’s money and their cat and they got a castle of their own, they want to set up they want to set up the whole thing to have a fancy party to celebrate and everything.
So do they know that the monster is like is the monster still down there?
Yeah.
I think the monster was like kept inside, but was kept inside, kept locked inside in the cellar, the cellar, because that’s where the lab is.
Right.
So the twins, they basically have like different personalities, like Giselle.
She like is more like she’s more glamorous and a social climber who plans on turning the castle into a high society center.
Ingrid, Ingrid is like very quiet and studious, like she loves to read books all the time.
And she discovered all of her father’s journals that were in the castle and started learning everything about who her father was.
So does she want to start experimenting as well?
She did, because she fell in love with a local boy named Walter, named Walter, and he was a former soldier in the British Army.
And he’s suffering from like a very bad disease that’s slowly and painfully going to kill him.
She’s trying to make him live forever.
Yeah.
He ended up getting his right leg amputated.
And she’s trying to do she’s trying to find a way to give him a new leg and to try to help keep him alive longer.
Why can’t she just give him like a peg leg or something?
Why does she have to chop off someone’s leg and put and sew it on?
Yeah, but the thing is, you can’t give him a peg leg because this disease he have it’s slowly causing his health to deteriorate and he’s going to eventually die no matter what.
Yeah.
So yeah, she discovered her father’s lab, discovered his journals, and basically is following like all of like the formulas and everything the science and all the science that her dad did when he created the monster.
She’s trying to do the same thing, like give him a good give Walter a good looking leg, a better, a better working leg and end up killing him.
Well she does.
Well, when she uses the electricity to try to like regenerate him a little bit.
Yeah.
The amount that’s not smart.
Yeah.
With the amount of electricity, it did kill him, but then it revived him just like with the monster.
Yeah.
Well, that’s like with the what is those AEGs or the AKGs or something like they shock you.
Defibrillators.
Yeah.
Defibrillators.
You’re not supposed to use those on someone that’s alive.
It’ll stop their heart.
Like it does the opposite.
Yeah.
But if a person’s heart stops, the defibrillators are to, to restart your heart.
But if the guy’s still alive, yeah.
Not safe.
So she like kills him and then brings him back to life.
Yeah.
And does he come back like brain dead or something?
He does come back sort of like a monster a little bit, but then a doctor who was a local doctor who was invited to their like their fancy party that the twins had just set up.
He helps Ingrid fix him up and cure him and now he’s like better.
So is the conflict that the other sister is like, why are you doing this?
Like can’t we just like be fashionistas or something?
Yeah.
Giselle is like that.
She’s the fashionista and is like very attention seeking, something like that.
While, while Ingrid is the more quiet and studious person.
Yeah.
And she’s wants to like discover something new and the other girl just wants to like make money and live off of that money that they’re rich now.
Yeah.
And, and Ingrid, she did this for Walter because she’s in love, because they’re in love.
That’s why she fell in love with him.
And then when Giselle discovered what Ingrid did to Walter down in the lab, she attacked Walter because he thought that he was going to like kill them or something.
And then also what happened, what was happening throughout the book is there were more murders occurring in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Oh, so they think it was the monster?
They thought it was the monster that was killing all those people.
But towards the end, it was Giselle who got arrested and was, who got, who got arrested for the murders.
I think like Giselle…
Wait, the fashionista sister?
Yeah.
What?
Because I think like…
Twist.
Because I think Giselle was like suffering from like so many like strange mental disturbances that may have been causing her to hallucinate or something or it could have been like multiple personality disorder or something like that.
So she was the one killing everyone?
Yeah.
I think that’s what, I think that’s what it was.
She had like a personality disorder or something.
Yeah.
Quite the twist.
Cause there was a, and there was also a confession that the police showed to her and she doesn’t remember writing a confession saying that the monster, and it was saying that the monster attacked the twins when they were like six years old and their grandfather saved them from the monster.
And then what happened like several weeks before in Edinburgh, Scotland, is that she fought or like what happened on the Island?
Giselle fought the monster and kill and killed it in by the, cause she was defending herself, but she has, but she has no memory of that happening.
Yeah.
That kind of goes with the original theme of like everyone wants to blame the ugly monster when it’s like some of the prettiest people are the real ugly monsters.
So it’s, it’s kind of like Ted Bundy.
Like she was like their normal attractive one, but she was actually a psycho.
Yeah.
And Giselle also had a history of sleepwalking.
So, so yeah, I wonder if she could, I wonder if she, it could be possible that she may have killed those people in her sleep or something like that.
Yeah.
That’s, that’s like a spooky, in movies, like they always kind of try to work that like Donnie Darko.
Have you ever seen that one?
No, I haven’t seen that one.
He like sleepwalks, but a plane crashes into his room, but since he’s sleepwalking, he’s not there in his room.
So it like saves his life.
But then it’s kind of like a weird time traveling thing.
Like the plane falls like he was in the future.
I don’t know.
I mean, it starts getting really weird when starts talking about time traveling.
All right.
So does the Frankenstein monster, you’re saying that Giselle fights the monster?
I would think that the, that Walter would fight the monster.
Well, it would be, well, I think it was kind of difficult for Walter to fight the monster because I mean, he had a, he had a leg amputated, he had to walk with a cane and stuff.
So he couldn’t like, I don’t think you’d be like in, in no shape or condition to fight anybody.
Yeah.
So I like that.
Um, like I like the theme that she’s going for, like monster versus monster, but it’s like one monster is a pretty monster.
That’s like a fashionista psycho.
And then the other monster is like the typical Frankenstein’s monster.
Yeah.
She wanted to, she basically was like following her father’s research and did everything she could to try to save the man she loved.
Yeah.
I liked where she was going with that.
So kind of the play on like, who’s really the monsters, like people that are physically look like monsters or people that are like internally have very sick, like twisted psychosis or something.
Yeah.
Cause I mean, that’s kind of like hallucination.
That is kind of like what the doctor had because he based, cause you remember, cause you remember like in the original classic film, like when the monster was revived, when the monster was created, he was like, it’s alive.
Oh, in the name of God, I know what it feels like to be God.
Yeah.
That’s what he was going for the whole Dr. God scenario metaphor.
Like the doctor that plays God wants to be God, make life and take life.
Yeah, exactly.
Something like that.
Pretty.
Yeah.
It’s pretty interesting.
So, um, uh, the twist at the end is that the girl is the monster, right?
Yeah.
She gets arrested.
Yeah.
She gets arrested.
Like she said, cause when the police, when the police officer showed a confession that she wrote, but she doesn’t remember, so like I have passed the confession I allegedly made under the influence of this artificial, some, some ambulance here using sealed wax is written in investigator Cairo’s handwriting since he claims to have transcribed my every word and I still doubt it’s true as it is too amazing to be real.
Interesting.
So, cause if someone’s like a conspiracy theorist or something, like maybe she got framed, like maybe she got set up maybe, but cause when you’re like rich and powerful and people want to like eliminate you, they say like you could get framed or like make it look like you did something you really didn’t do to get rid of you.
Yeah.
Cause after she read the confession, she’s like, I don’t remember saying any of this.
Clearly the, the effects of the artificial son ambience put me into a nightmare state where my mind concocted a nightmare Vista where I played the role of what brave heroin diluted dreamer, mad murderous.
Yeah.
It’s kind of like a cliffhanger cause it’s like, who do you want to believe?
Do you want to believe that she actually is nuts and doesn’t remember?
Or maybe you believe her and like she’s getting framed or something cause she doesn’t remember it.
Yeah.
That is a bit, that, that ending right there is a bit of a cliffhanger because yeah, it does make you wonder, did she really murder people in Edinburgh or like this, was she doing it and not realizing it because of like, she was under, she was intoxicated with drugs.
Was she sleepwalking or was she suffering from like a mental disorder?
Right.
And I feel like the best movies are like, and like that where it’s like, like a inception where the top can still be spinning, but it cuts before you know if it falls or not.
Cause then afterwards you could talk to the people you watched it with and be like, yo, what do you think?
Like, do you think that the top stopped spinning or do you think it’s still spinning?
And then everyone like it could really go either way.
So it’s not like anyone’s wrong or right.
Like it could really go either way unless you talk to the author themselves and they give away like what they thought was possible.
Like, I always think it’s interesting too, to, to hear from the author or the director of a movie whenever they leave on a cliffhanger to see if they’ll give it away.
Like I’ll give the answer like of which one is right.
Like, um, yeah, I’ve always like, Inception is like that and like, there’s other ones, but yeah, like I always think it’s really interesting to end on a cliffhanger like that.
Some people don’t like it.
Some people want to like know an answer, like, don’t leave me on a cliffhanger.
Yeah.
Especially.
Yeah.
Sometimes I don’t like cliffhangers because when it comes to like shows that ended up getting canceled and that ended on cliffhangers, like it makes us wonder like what happened?
Yeah.
And then the fans are pissed cause it’s like, they didn’t expect their show to get canceled.
Yeah, exactly.
Cause there’s a few sci-fi shows that ended like on cliffhangers that never.
Yeah.
Two of my favorite shows were canceled after just one or two seasons and they ended on cliffhangers and yeah, I was not happy about that because it makes us wonder like what’s going to happen.
They should have done more to keep the storyline going.
Yeah.
I don’t know.
It makes it kind of more rewatchable though.
Cause then you want to go back and like try to find clues like to, to go with your side.
Like, um, I don’t know.
I feel like there’s so many debates like in forums and stuff about like how movies end and what people think like the right answer for how the movie ended was or like Shutter Island.
That’s a good one with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Like some people even think that all those movies are somehow linked.
Like Leonardo DiCaprio somehow like Shutter Island is linked to Inception or something like there’s some weird conspiracies when it comes to like movies and stuff like that.
Surprise endings.
All right.
Um, so you mentioned that you had gotten this book like a while ago.
Do you think maybe you could still find it?
Yeah.
When did you get it?
Well, my mom got me this book from Scholastics, you know, from those cool book catalogs that we would get in like middle school or elementary school.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So this book was on one of them was on, was on the catalog and my mom managed to get this book along with a couple other books as well.
Let’s see on Amazon they do have it.
It is a $12 hardcover, 15 paperback if you want to pick that up.
And who would you recommend this book to?
Who do you think would find this book interesting?
If any of you are like super interested in reading like scary or maybe monster books, just like the classic monster books like Frankenstein or Dracula or whatever, then yeah, I would highly recommend that you get Dr. Frankenstein’s Daughters because this is a, this was a pretty interesting book to learn and also to, to, to learn and also to learn about how Frankenstein managed to have children before he eventually died and everything.
Awesome.
And you do have a book for us coming up as well that you’re working on now?
Yeah.
Since I haven’t done any autobiography since the beginning of the semester, I have a new autobiography that I am going to do a review on.
It is called The Lives of Brian by Brian Johnson, who some of you may recognize as the lead singer of ACDC.
Yeah.
And you had mentioned they have songs like Back to Black, Hell’s Bells.
Yeah.
Back in Black.
Yeah.
Hell’s Bells, Back in Black.
They have so many, so many classic songs.
Yeah.
I’ve heard of Back in Black, but I feel like now it’s like a commercial song at this point.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
You’ll hear that song on a lot of commercials.
All right.
And I don’t know, I don’t know too much about lead singer from ACDC, so I’ll have some questions for you.
And when did this book get released?
I’ve had this book a couple of years because I managed to find it at Target surprisingly because I went there to go find a different book I was looking for.
So yeah.
So yeah.
I just bought this book because it looked interesting to read.
So pretty recent.
So it’ll talk about like after they’re retired because they’re not together anymore.
It talks about…
No, I think the band is still together, but you know, they’ve had different members over the years.
Okay.
But it basically talks about Brian’s life, his early life and everything he went through throughout his life and career growing up.
All right.
And we’ll get into that whenever you finish that one.
Are you like halfway or are you about to start it?
I’m about to start it.
Oh geez.
Yeah.
So we might have to wait a while for that one.
Let’s see.
All right.
And that’ll be the next episode or coming episode.
We’ll see when.
As far as today, I do have a segment of spooky ghost stories that I walked around campus asking anyone if they had any spooky ghost stories and let’s see what they have.
Alex Kinek
So when I was younger, my great grandmother passed right after I was born.
When I began talking some nights, my mom would come in cause she would hear me giggling and she’d be like, Alex, what’s so funny?
And I would look at her and say, grandma wheel’s funny, mom.
Grandma wheels is funny.
My great grandmother, we called her grandma wheels because she was a polio survivor and was in a wheelchair.
Jacquelin Garcia Garcia.
Uh, one day I was playing tag with my cousins and we went to an abandoned school in our little town.
We were playing tag and we thought that I was throwing a rock at my cousin.
In reality, it was a ghost.
And then we noticed that that person didn’t actually exist because his face wasn’t there.
So then we started running and then we told parents and they told us that it was a child that has been scaring people around.
So during the lockdown in 2020, I was hanging out with my grandma and her roommate and I’m in my room just kind of killing time and I started dancing with my headphones in and then I took a step backwards in the room and I felt like I bumped into somebody and I turned around and there was nobody there, but it didn’t feel like a man chest that I bumped into.
So then I was talking to my grandma about it and I was like, oh yeah, that was weird.
And then, um, Ms. T was her name, Ms. T, she yelled from the other room, she was like, oh, that was my husband.
I’m like, what do you mean?
Yeah, he died in the bedroom back there and he’s still around and I was like, oh my God, I felt him.
All right.
And that was spooky stories here on campus from students here at CSUB.
That will conclude your 10th episode of the Runner on Air.
It is October 29th, 2024 and I’m your host, Jay Cortes.
And I’m your co-host, Marina Gonzalez.
We want to wish you all a very happy Halloween.
Be safe out there.
And I’ll hopefully see you guys around campus and tune in next time, next Tuesday for the Runner on Air.
Take care, Runners.