Cheap Chills Show

You asked us a bunch of questions on Instagram and now we're here to answer them. Ben is joined by Amanda, making it a Cheap Chills podcast reunion! If you like what you hear, let us know! and consider "buying me a coffee" or subscribing as "One of Us" on a monthly basis. We'll have more insider content and merch for members only. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cheapchills You can catch Amanda on her podcast, The Thrifters, wherever you get your podcasts. Follow her on Instagram @irreverentfinery. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-thrifters/id1615659945

This is a special One-off chat with Ben Walker-Storey interviewing Amanda Walker-Storey about her fast-growing vintage clothing business, Irreverent Finery. You can find her on Instagram at @irreverentfinery. And check out the new animated Cheap Chills shorts! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRIP2YZiBlg_IVfG8TuhLBg (or search "Ben Walker-Storey") Let us know what you think? Drop a review on iTunes! Who knows what may come next.

We're back! Again! It's been a long hiatus but Ben and Amanda are here with a new direction. This is the "pilot" episode for Living Full Addams. where we break down, step by step, How to live like the Addams Family. How to spend time at home with your family instead of leaving for a conventional job (OK since the lockdown, most of us in the US are doing this)How to embrace the dark side of life and how to be OK with being the weirdos in your town. How to live Full Addams. This episode we look at the Gomez and Morticia's marriage. It seems pretty much perfect, right? we compare it to our own and talk about how we got to this point. This episode was edited by Tom Simmonds.

They said it wouldn't happen. But the stars aligned and Cheap Chills lives on! This time Ben and Amanda talk about fate and destiny, delving into some personal stories after delving into other personal stories for their popular "Hometown Horrors" segment. Check out Rin Tanaka's series of street fashion books, My Freedamn! Pick up a copy of Ben's new book, Monster Funk, in adult coloring book form or as a full-color picture book (paperback or ebook), all on Amazon.com. THIS JUST IN! Ben just released one more version, this one for kids (no words, just fun monsters). "A Coloring Book of Gross Monsters" will be available on Amazon July 20th. Amanda's new Etsy store is called Irreverent Finery. Follow the Instagram too, @Irreverent-Finery. Thanks for your support!

Live at STAB Comedy Theater in Sacramento, California! Ben & Amanda talk about the Hometown Horrors of the fun-zone in Grass Valley and fighting old ladies at estate sales. Then it's on to the cults! What is a cult? What is a sex-cult? Aren't they all sex-cults, really? Ben & Amanda discuss their favorite movies about cults and recount that time they went to a party thrown by pyramid-scheming, life-coaching, sex-cultists. Then it's questions from the audience (and Instagram) for our super-computer, iDuddits! Thank you Sacpodfest.

We're back! This time, Ben reads selections from his new self-published, Adult coloring book, Monster Funk. Friendship, rejection, career lows, embarrassment: Ben tells the incredibly personal stories that are behind the poo and fart jokes. Amanda recalls coloring with scented markers and rates all the smells. Plus Amanda and Ben share a Hometown Horror story and compare some of the grossest things about parenthood verses living in San Francisco.

In this return to greatness, Ben and Amanda unpack everything they know, think and feel about those sexy, blood-sucking fiends: Vampires. Ben starts the show with a brief rant about the age-old conflict between grumpy curmudgeons and you meddling, sardine-like teenagers. Then it's full-tilt into all the movie vampires: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lost Boys, True Blood, Hammer films, Nosferatu, Ed Wood (it counts), Shadow of the Vampire, Blade. Ben even re-enacts a scene from a Twilight movie. Plus a few seedy personal vampire stories! This episode is brought to you by our upcoming grown-up coloring book, Monster Funk.

In this bonus episode, Ben and Amanda put down the monsters and weirdness (mostly) and just talk about living as creatives, living like the Addams Family. What do you do when you are asked to work for free? Could you spend that time working on something for yourself or is it worth it for networkings, future opportunities?

Ben and Amanda talk Satan, Satanism and their experiences growing up Christian, going to church getting spooked by Devil-talk. Half-way through, the couple takes a break to have a crazy-mom-off. Then it's back to the Beast, discussing the alleged former Satanic High Priest turned "Christian Comedian" of the 1980s, Mike Warnke. Plus, what are the best loved Satans in pop culture? And what are the "Satanic bands" of the 80s? This episode is brought to you by Devil Dogs.

Ben and Amanda introduce a new segment, Conspiracy Something, Say Something and talk about a strange pattern emerging in children's programing. They give more thought and tips on going "Full Addams" (living like the Addams Family), then launch into the main topic: Time Travel. What would you do if you went back to High School? Can you convince a stranger to do something just because you are from the future? Would a vapor trail help?

Amanda is Back! We're back! Ben and Amanda talk about what happens when you are awake during surgery. They take a big step toward living "Full Addams" (Family). Then they explore the idea of "smudging" and bad vibes in a home. Plus a few personal ghost stories!

Ben is joined by guest, co-host Kristen Lucas. Kristen is a comedian and actor who once tried to win over the crowd at an audition with a Cry Baby reference. Ben and Kristen check out the fun in the sun and teenagers making Hey-Hey in some beach horror movies. Plus! Hear the true story of the time Ben got a call from Gallagher. This episode brought to you by Suckerman. Check out www.kristenreneelucas.com On Instagram & Twitter @TheKris10Lucas

Ben is joined by Super 7's Josh Herbolsheimer. They talk about the new lines of Reaction figures, Universal Monsters (Can we just call him Frankenstein, already?) Plus art school and collisions with celebrities.

In this special episode, Ben delves further into the paranormal, sitting down for a one-on-one conversation with Psychic, medium, "jack-of-all-trades", Lady Fordham (Kristen Lucas) of Lady Fordham's Psychic Fluff and Fold.

In this special 1 year anniversary show, Ben and Amanda veer away from movies to have a fireside chat about their most memorable Halloweens. The costumes, trick or treating, taking sexy pictures with Gramma. Plus some tangents about unfortunate swimwear.

Ben and Amanda start of with a bit of a State of the Podcast address as it's Episode 25 and the 1 year mark for Cheap Chills. Then it's Bad Apples spoiling....the World? at least the neighborhood. Ben and Amanda talk about their favorite bad boys, Damien from the Omen series and John Waters' Cry Baby Walker. What's up with doomsday people who are worried about the Mark of the Beast? The couple finish up the show by telling a strange story from 6th grade learning camp while creating an "Escalator Pitch" for a movie that brings together all the bad kids from the greaser to the Anti-Christ.

This time, Ben and Amanda watch clips from David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch then tell their stories about cockroaches and hoarders. They check out clips from Videodrome which launches Ben into a Shark Tank pitch for a ground-breaking, new adult product. One more trailer, Chatterbox gets the two into the realm of disappointing sex comedies and those 80s movies about switching gender. This episode is brought to you by Cheap Chills Clothing and Amazon.com. Support the show and get Halloween-inspired apparel, designed by Cheap Chills' own Ben Walker Storey by searching "Cheap Chills All Hallows Eve" on Amazon.

Ben and Amanda watch clips from Friday the 13th, The Series and wonder if there are cursed items in their own home. Plus Amanda gets a tour of the historic (haunted?)Cary House Hotel from Eugene Butler, The Halloween Man.

This time Ben and Amanda are joined by Producer, Director, Actor, Lowell Northrop (Hap & Leonard). They watch trailers to some movies about extra parts growing out of people's bodies and talk about vestigial twins, love and loss between the conjoined, an awful lot about Ben's artwork and a bit about dark side.

Ben and Amanda are joined by Entertainment journalist and former Famous Monsters of Filmland Editor, David. Weiner. We watch trailers to films that were featured on some of our favorite, classic FM covers. We recall some classic FM memories, and that time we teamed up to cover the release of Dana Gould's Stan Against Evil (IFC). Plus why is Vincent Price such a stud? And who else has the "IT" Factor?

In this episode, Ben and Amanda check out some favorite knock-offs of our favorite cult movies of the 1970s and 80s. A few trailers for movies in post-apocalyptic and barbarian genres prompt some personal stories from Ben. Amanda also explores her lifelong fear of outer space. Plus! Are we made by Ancient Aliens?

In this episode, Ben and Amanda talk briefly about the horror of knowing the people in your hometown feel very differently about current events. Which leads to the theme of the show: The Addams Family and the hosts' goal of living "Full Addams". Ben reads his Addams Code. The couple also tell tales from the back rooms of Northern California's Goth dance clubs.

In episode 18 of The Cheap Chills Show, Ben and Amanda delve into one of Ben's visceral fears, bodies dissolving into husks and vapors. The couple watch clips from cult classic films and discuss people melting, drying up and blowing away, turning into evil yogurt, and being left below. Plus a mysterious Hometown Horror and the couple come face to face with local wildlife in the foothills of California.

Ben and Amanda watch the trailers for Duel, The Car, Christine and Maximum Overdrive. They talk about when it was cool to be a trucker, their own road rage, car chase experiences and the terror that lays waiting in the garbage disposal. The couple caps it off by writing a possessed car-teen comedy on the fly.

Ben and Amanda wipe the dust from Mom's VHS collection. It's a lovely evening at home complete with a workout, beauty and pampering, a feature film and some late night romance.

We watch the trailers for Parents, Soylent Green and C.H.U.D. and talk man-eaters, man-made meat, and man-meat. Plus, do younger siblings get less genetic beauty juice? And, who said Sir-we-have-no-control-over-the-robots-at-all?

Ben and Amanda watch the trailer for Stephen King's Graveyard Shift and swap tales of awful jobs from their pasts. Plus, reasons not to go to Art school, the wordy horror of Lovecraft and white jeans.

Amanda and Ben have a conversation with their friend about the song they would like to have playing while they die. Plus a made for TV movie that unintentionally horrified Ben. This episode of the Cheap Chills Show is brought to you by a trick cowboy hat.

This episode is devoted to the mysterious disappearance of Jim Bray, star (along with Linda Blair) of 1978's Roller Boogie. Ben and Amanda reveal their personal attachment to roller-skating and pitch a heavily fictionalized Jim Bray biopic.

Ben and Amanda explore a few of the unforgettable movies of 1973, The Baby, Legend of Hell House, Godspell and Psychomania. Plus personal tales of cat attacks, a Second Coming movie pitch, and more!

It's Birthday Week so Ben and Amanda look at some cult movies from Amanda's birth year, 1981. Time Bandits, Ghost Story and Escape From New York. They launch seamlessly into tangents about American fast food in Asia, roping dad into a John Carpenter concert, the downside of pizza and benefits of lounge music.

Ben and Amanda watch clips from five movies that freaked people the eff out as kids. Can it be a good thing to be traumatized as a younger?

Welcome to the Club! Ben has a religious experience while watching the 1981 film, Monster Club. Amanda is on board with the whole thing. That's a first!

This week, Ben and Amanda check out movies about evil body parts. Amanda and Ben each pitch their own evil body part film. Plus! Nightmares from childhood. Nightmare boyfriends. And Amanda discuses her aversion to being fed romantically.

Bonus! Ben sits down with comedian, Drew Platt to talk about a movie that terrified him as a kid, Pet Sematary. Plus Kepi Ghoulie's cover of Pet Sematatary! Thanks Kepi!

Neighbor and comedian, Gabe Callahan joins Ben and Amanda as we examine The Asphyx, plus all the Ghostbusters. Before they delve into deep personal fears and the movies that bothered their souls, Ben, Amanda and Gabe pitch a found footage-style movie about film students who stumble on their own Asphyx while re-hashing 1973's Asphyx.

In the second half of their Bigfoot / Yeti talk, Ben and Amanda examine the scariest of the Bigfoots. Here's a hint: He has major beef with Steve Austin. Tangents include 80s movies named after food, and the holy trinity of childhood perils, piraña quicksand and lava. Plus Ben and Amanda come up with a Skiers vs. Snowboarders vs. Yeti movie. Special thanks to Kepi Ghoulie for this episode’s Bigfoot outro music!

Clearly, Ben has a Big Foot fetish. Ben shows Amanda trailers to some of the classic Sasquatch films of the 70s and on into the 80s. There are so many mysteries. What is the creature? How can something so conspicuous as Bigfoot stay hidden? Will there ever be an episode of Cheap Chills that doesn't bring up Arkansas?

Part 2 of Ben and Amanda's exploration of weird plant monster movies. In this episode they look at Roger Corman's 1960 classic, Little Shop of Horrors. As well as Swamp Thing and Return of Swamp Thing. We learn a bit more about Amanda's hatred for all things swampy.

Ben Walker Storey (Illustrator and comedy, horror nerd) and Amanda Walker Storey (Makeup Artist) are husband and wife trying to find something to watch. Ben shows his wife trailers for horror and B movies. Tangents ensue. It's Episode 1 (Part 1) of the Cheap Chills show! In this episode Ben and Amanda talk a bit about how home life turned into the format of the show, then explore a couple classic horror films involving evil menacing vegetables, flowers and weeds: 1974's The Mutations (AKA Freakmaker)with Donald Pleasence, and Day of the Triffids. They finish out part 1 by improvising a pitch for their own modern plant monster film, Amazon Orchids. Check back next week for Episode 1, part 2 of Plant Monsters.