Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. audience applauding r. L. Stine, welcome. Thank you. Very nice to meet you. So nice to be here. I seem to remember the actual Christmas Carol being scary. Why is it necessary to write a scary version of this . I know, and nothing like stealing from the best, right . Right, well, but you understand its like when i hear that were gonna do a scary version of a Christmas Carol, thats like a musical version of rent. I thought it was a musical. No, youre totally right. Why this now . I had never written a christmas book before. [evan] oh is that right . Yeah. [evan] in all the books youre written, hundreds of books. I thought no, this is inappropriate for christmas i thought, and then i realized the most popular christmas story ever was a ghost story. Thats true. Yeah. Multiple ghosts. Then i had this idea, well what if there was a 12yearold scrooge, or what was scrooge like when he was 12 . [evan] right. And i wrot
Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. audience applauding r. L. Stine, welcome. Thank you. Very nice to meet you. So nice to be here. I seem to remember the actual Christmas Carol being scary. Why is it necessary to write a scary version of this . I know, and nothing like stealing from the best, right . Right, well, but you understand its like when i hear that were gonna do a scary version of a Christmas Carol, thats like a musical version of rent. I thought it was a musical. No, youre totally right. Why this now . I had never written a christmas book before. [evan] oh is that right . Yeah. [evan] in all the books youre written, hundreds of books. I thought no, this is inappropriate for christmas i thought, and then i realized the most popular christmas story ever was a ghost story. Thats true. Yeah. Multiple ghosts. Then i had this idea, well what if there was a 12yearold scrooge, or what was scrooge like when he was 12 . [evan] right. And i wrot
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