Hey there folks! As you may have heard on the main feed, we're finally calling it quits after a couple years of adhering to an increasingly erratic schedule without ever making an official decision. Obviously that means that having a Patreon up would be weird as hell, so it's going away as of next month. We'll be pulling the plug on April 31st, right before the next billing cycle begins.
If there’s any bonus content here you want to save for posterity, make sure to download it before ...
2023-04-01 17:10:25 +0000 UTC
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"Atari Force?" you say. "Is that the ineluctable manifestation that ended the viability of commercial arcades, by and large?" No, and why are you talking like that? Atari Force was a mild comic of my childhood, but, as Jay reveals here, before that, it was different comic, given away free with the purchase of that most innocuous of products, video games.
Is it Atari Force's problem that so many of us are the way so many of us are? How man...
2022-05-17 17:05:54 +0000 UTC
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You know we had to do it to 'em: we had to go back to Raccoon City, where we disagree more than usual about the quality of the exciting film under discussion, last year's Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the movie that dares to answer "What if we brought Riverdale-grade faces to a take on a video game movie that takes its source material very seriously?"
Clsn's got questions, Jay's got love for the streets (when they match the game) and one of the guys fr...
2022-04-01 17:37:08 +0000 UTC
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It took a little longer than we were planning on, but we come back to The Only Franchise Which Matters with a super fun one on what I think could be described as not exactly first-tier Resident Evil. Come for the reminders to try to shoot for the head, but stay for the what-the-even-hell dialogue and fever-dream plotting!
Are we gonna stick with it? He'll yes! You say "I don't like PWSA" and we say "STFU"! So grab your camcorder and give yourself a pr...
2021-04-28 23:53:19 +0000 UTC
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We ease back into the podcasting game with the early-aughtsiest slice of cinema we could find, the unexpectedly successful film Resident Evil! But is it merely a box-office success, or is there artistic success there as well? MASH THAT PLAY BUTTON AND FIND OUT, WHY DO YOU NOT?
A movie so early-2000s you expect it to have stories about Woodstock '99, Resident Evil is a serious-faced attempt to honor the, ah, let's call it a "mythos" of the games, with plenty...
2021-02-25 01:01:16 +0000 UTC
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We're well past the threshold now, so why don't you step inside and join us in one of cinema's least explicable experiences, where formal audacity and innovation accompany (and sometimes abandon) the dream of an upset child and a catalog of woe that would leave Lemony Snicket themselves checking their watch and moving toward the exit: HOUSE.
2020-11-29 23:43:10 +0000 UTC
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Friends! It's been a while. And then a while. We are very sorry, but we are also: back! With us we bring one of our favorite shared artifacts, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films.
It's a big-mouthed, clear-eyed take on a story that probably only could have happened in Los Angeles in the 1980s, and it's a hell of a lot of fun. &nb...
2020-10-17 19:28:08 +0000 UTC
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Well, I said I was gonna do it, so I had to do it. Please enjoy "Who Let the Dog Out (Singular)"
-- JWF
2020-08-05 02:40:51 +0000 UTC
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We said we'd do it, and so we did it and here we are, shipping up to ... *checks notes* ... Albany. But it's not always about the destination (in this case, and we can't stress this enough ... the destination is ... Albany), no, sometimes it's about the journey. And this time, we're making the journey in some ass-kicking reticulated RVs called LandMaster 1 and (briefly) LandMaster 2! It's gonna be so boss...
Anyway, the 1977 film Damnation Alley is our topic, ...
2020-08-05 01:03:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks. I know we haven't been incredibly reliable with our bonus episode release cadence over the past couple months, and this is mostly due to my personal inability to function properly in complete isolation while constantly experiencing bipolar depression or severe anxiety, or both. Sorry to be a downer, but it's the truth.
HOWEVER, we do have an obligation to you, the lo...
2020-08-01 16:50:44 +0000 UTC
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This audio-only version of our video post is fun for those of us who are aurally fixated! If you get this audio version in your podcast app, now you know there's a video post on patreon dot com slash ideotvpod. We love you!
2020-05-17 19:20:37 +0000 UTC
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We can see clearly now ... the rain has gone ... and it's finally time ... for a v-v-v-VIDEO UPDATE!
This is probably how human contact will work for the next year or more so we decided to give you a soft, sweet internet hug.
It's time to open up the mailbag and show you -- literally SHOW YOU -- what kinds of cool-as-h*ck stuff y'all have been sending in, and there's no bett...
2020-05-17 16:50:58 +0000 UTC
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This is a lil freestyle which J. recorded over an Animal Crossing song ("KK Cruisin", with some added sub bass) that is sort of about Animal Crossing but also about going stir-crazy under a shelter in place order but recognizing that it's important to not be a selfish dipshit and put other people in danger for your own entertainment value. So. It's a thing? Anyway, enjoy rap music.
Here ya go. The free bonus content you crave.
2020-04-26 22:29:04 +0000 UTC
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Since things are particularly weird and bad and hard for everybody right now, I (Clsn) thought I'd try to cash a check I wrote ages ago, and test out some new equipment at the same time. And so, what you get is this: the long-promised scene of Agatha Raisin getting all excited about her Sexy New Neighbor, alongside all the exciting Clsn specialties you probably know and might love, including wobbly accents, shaky character voice decisions, false starts and stumbles, long pauses, and occ...
2020-03-22 20:45:33 +0000 UTC
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As Mystery Science Theater 3000 once said, "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Bruce Lee!" and, as such, the inevitable slide back into our suburban childhoods has accelerated and we now spend more than an hour talking about the floppiest weapon: the humble, yet useful, (extremely authentic pronunciation voice) nunchacku.
How we struck upon this material involves a chain of events we don't really have a handle on, but we hope you enjoy ou...
2020-02-29 20:38:24 +0000 UTC
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We go super-long on a rarther strange read this time around. No spoilers, but let's just say that this book didn't need Peter Pan's magic to keep its youthful qualities! We're getting Extremely Victorian, and we very much thank Rock Paper Shotgun's own Alice Bell for bringing this flat-out fun read to our attention.
Probably our giggliest, most digressive post-work mid-week recording session to date, and we hope you enjoy the listen as much as we enjoyed the recor...
2020-01-31 21:04:29 +0000 UTC
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Well, anyway, MERCH fulfillment. Clsn here: I know many of you have been waiting on your gifts from us, some of you for a very long time, and I apologize. I've got some extras to pack in (sourced from a local vendor! a unionized local vendor!) that I will be picking up on Friday, and I have set myself the goal of getting everything out by the end of January.
Again, I apologize: nobody should have had to wait for their stuff. You won't have to wait very muc...
2020-01-01 22:30:01 +0000 UTC
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For reasons lost to the mists of time, we settled on DOUBLE TEAM, an extremely late-90s actioner featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme and, oddly, Dennis Rodman, which seems uncommonly focused on establishing the two marble-mouthed stars as witty banterers, rather than brawny batterers, and which has probably as many explosions as lines of dialogue. Good theme song, very unsubtle music cues, and some exceedingly baggy trousers make this one a fairly fun ride, though one of us had to ...
2019-12-31 22:31:51 +0000 UTC
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One of the longest-brewing undertakings in IDEOTVPod history takes us down (in)to the dark, the Underdark, in fact, where dwell the night elves (elves, but scary), dwarves (regular), goblins (mostly regular, with a few exceptions), and all your other occasionally problematic faves! And but so but this time around, we're deliberately imbibing an improbable artifact: an audiobook compilation of s...
2019-11-30 22:01:42 +0000 UTC
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Oh my goodness, it's time for the sexiest sexy-teen show on (broadcast) TV today! Yup, it's time to take a trip to ... Riverdale.
Is it about the tight, yet tense relationships forged in the crucible of high school? Is it about evil lurking and creeping with homeward tendrils from the darkness on the edge of town? Is it about (gulp) the sexy sex your ... parents had? It's extremely YES about all those things. And yet still it's somehow a l...
2019-11-02 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I have been abducted by very spooky ghosts (aka "adult responsibilities") and have not had time to edit our very special Halloween bonus episode. It will be out here by Saturday afternoon the very very latest (and likely tomorrow).
Just wanted to let you all know that we aren't just..... GHOSTIN' YA
* all the rimshots at once *
Thanks, friends. Sorry for the delay, but it'll be worth it.
-- JWF
2019-10-31 20:53:50 +0000 UTC
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Hey, kids, do you like music? Us too! So here's maybe the longest bonus we've ever recorded, and it's All! About! Music!
Specifically, it's all about 1997's (?) most (?) popular (?) label compilation album from a label whose political bent was ... a surprise to Clsn, anyways, because he is a literal child whomst lives, evidently, in a tent, secludedly (in a place where getting well-informed is not possible).
You may want to listen along, so here is a link w...
2019-09-29 15:46:43 +0000 UTC
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So, some of yall may remember a couple episodes ago, when a listener wrote in to point out the fact that it is possible to sing "IDEOTV... POD" to the same cadence as the seminal Wu-Tang Clan track, "Method Man", a showcase track for the rapper of the same name, and that they had been walking around for months singing "I - D - E - O - T - V.... POD!" for quite a while.
Of course, me being me, I took this way too much to heart and decided to record a short little parody of "Method Man",...
2019-09-05 21:55:34 +0000 UTC
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Before The Matrix, but after John Matrix came the questionably memorable William Gibson adaptation Johnny Mnemonic. A chunky stew, this one, a melange of downtown art types, young Ice-T, younger Keanu Reeves, peak Dolph Lundgren, and possibly as many as three different women with speaking parts (only one of whom gets to go absolutely ham with a rocket launcher). So...maybe it's not what we would call an "entirely successful project", but it's a pretty interesting prefigur...
2019-08-31 03:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Flipping through the magazines before mom gets home, trying to see how an other side lives. Astrology, Instagram, sex, accessories, phones and salads: who could ask for anything more?
We certainly couldn't. Anyway, get ready for the sassiest experience since, probably, Sassy was a magazine, because it's time for us to all to learn how to be young, fun, and full of some good advice, straight from the offices of Cosmopolitan!
2019-07-31 02:58:05 +0000 UTC
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After a lot of very specific letters about Transformers, we cave and end up giving in to a very unpleasant tendency and turn into two dudes talking about toys and toy commercials. Talking for longer than the commercial actually ran.
HOWEVER. WE had a lot of fun, we solved politics (several times, actually), and we made some music jokes, and you all like that stuff...right? Long pause. Right? Oh h*ck please tell us you like that stuff. ...plea...
2019-06-29 12:28:41 +0000 UTC
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There's no tradition like a new tradition, so please welcome into your life J.W. Friedman's yearly maneuver of watching Beavis & Butt-Head Do America! Scared? Intimidated? Confused? So is Clsn, who somehow lived through this the 90s without seeing the film!
Dust off your Metallica and AC/DC shirts, share your pep pills with a friendly older lady, and get ready to learn, and occasionally question, some fun facts about America's greatest wonders, whe...
2019-05-31 03:37:20 +0000 UTC
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Just in time for the OTHER big spooky holiday, we're oozing from the tunnels you didn't even know about under your home, covered in ichor, glowing faintly, and, make no mistake about it, completely evil.
From the scariest of paperbacks come three horripilating tales from the unearthly, dripping pen of H.P. Lovecraft! From the most terrifying podcast crew comes this particular friends-only episode that is absolutely guaranteed* to keep you up nights!
2019-05-01 03:33:57 +0000 UTC
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It's definitely the best Guns 'N Roses song, and it's probably the best heroine punchline in any book we've done, so please enjoy a tiny bit of BONUS COMA!!
Sorry for all the breathing: I ate a mammoth dinner right before recording, because I did. :(
2019-04-25 05:12:31 +0000 UTC
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They tell you not to fight with pigs, but we're a couple of old bastards who've never been big fans of what THEY say, so we, possibly predictably, fired up the ol' streaming service, got down, and watched The Dirt. Then we grabbed the mics and recorded the longest bonus episode ever!
Highlights we didn't get to touch on include: bad things happening to Pete Davidson's character (tru Clsn-heads will know why he liked this part); the haircuts becoming progressive...
2019-03-30 18:39:54 +0000 UTC
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