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Friends-Only Episode 15: Dire Wolfe

One thing we can demonstrate any time, any place is that sometimes, good guys don't wear white.  And this episode demonstrates that at least one guy writer who always wears white isn't ... good.

This time around, we have a howling good time, packed with fun, as we go deep into mirth about Wolfe -- Tom Wolfe -- so spiff up your favorite white suit and prepare to hook up, but let's keep it clean for your parents, okay?

Okay.

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Friends Only Episode 14 -- HIGH TIMES (December 1978)

Got your black light shining and your freak flag flying?  Come with us if you care!  Come with us if you dare!  Take a ride to the land inside of your magazine stand, because this episode proves that you can't spell the word "episode" without "dose"..."pie".  Yes, we're getting heavy and heavily into one weird year by dumping a big pile of 1978 into the lid of a shoebox and pushing it around with a driver's license.  It's an issue of HIGH TIMES that, and this is odd, con...

Friends Only Episode #13 -- Game Informer (June 2017)

It's you, it's you, it's all for you, everything we do...we tell you all the time, heaven is a post right here for you, tell us all the books we should do, I heard that you like the bad books honey, is that true?  It's better than we ever even knew, they say that this show was built for two.  Only worth reading if somebody is hating you...baby now you do.

Go play your video game.

Music: "Protoculture" by Del The Funky Homosapien

[NOTE FROM J.W.: This episode might piss yo...

Friends Only Episode #12 -- Bad Rap

For our Patreon's one-year anniversary, we break new ground that's sure to sate anybody who's always brought back when they hear the boom-bap: we crank up the beats and get hype for An Actual Book!  Sort of.  

This time around, we're teaming up with a terrible twosome you may remember lurking around the library to restore order and keep the peace with an end-stage Hardy Boys book.  The Hardy Boys are going to New York City to crack down on copyright infringement and crank the kn...

Friends-Only Episode #11: Racist Dawg + Megalo Dale

Our most contentious, controversial friends-only episode E V E R!  J. and Clsn come to (verbal) blows and splatter harsh feelings and harsher words across one another in an episode devoted exclusively to aural violence.  

Okay, not really.  

But, as per usual, this friends-only episode is devoted to something only one of us really likes, but turns into what we're best at: making something YOU really like!  So grab your anti-virus software and come with us on a trip to...

Friends-Only Episode #10 -- DEATH RACE 2050

Fasten your safety belts and say goodbye to your rear-view mirror, because what's behind you? is NOT important. The only thing that matters is this full-throttle movie (according to Clsn; J. thinks its a wreck) and its racy look at a version of America dominated by a tiny coterie of psychotic, horny greedheads, systematically looting the country in order to enrich themselves and their asinine peer group, organized around a decadent, corrupt figurehead with a remarkably bad head of hair, while an...

Friends-Only Episode 4, Heavy Metal

[NOTE: THIS IS OLD! LIKE MONTHS OLD! THE SHOW WILL BE OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE WE HAD TO RE-UPLOAD IT CUZ THE OLD ONE WAS BROKEN! SO IT'S VERY OLD!]

Let's try some Heavy Metal! It is time to rock and roll with the most embarrassing purchase Clsn has had to make in downtown Oakland in quite. Some. Time. Join J., who has literally never seen an issue of this "world's greatest illustrated magazine" before, and Clsn, who has seen at least two issues, as they attempt to turn baffled, hostile g...

Bad Book Party: The Most Successful Event EVER

In happier news, it would be difficult to overstate how much fun our First Inaugural Bad Book Party was!

Thanks to everybody who came out, thanks to Casey for helping us surge past a few technical difficulties, thanks to Andrew at Green Apple Books on the Park for getting the event ball rolling, thanks to Green Apple Books on the Park for being gracious, flexible hosts (with super-shouts to Colin), and thanks to all our amazing guests: 

• Eugenia from 2017-02-16 04:22:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Bummer post: apology, announcement, advice

Hi, all --


Sorry for the lack of transparency here, but I know that some recent supporters are wondering "hey, where's the merch that comes to somebody at my reward tier?  Seems like nothing's been sent out for a bit here..."


Well, it's coming, but our crack merch fulfillment team (Clsn) broke his wrist at the beginning of January, and physically cannot address an envelope right now, let alone stuff and then address an envelope.  I get the post-surgery cast off on...

Friends-Only Episode #9 -- THE COMPLETE AIR GUITAR HANDBOOK

Crank the amplifiers beyond endurance as J. and Clsn take a walk through the book that probably did more than anything else to set the course of Clsn's life (sorry, Clsn's mom).  Classic rock provides a powerful soundtrack to this exploration of the text that made J. shout "this...this is a pamphlet!" when he first saw it, and that may not have any compelling reason to exist at all.

New Episode! 073: TIMELINE

Michael Crichton goes back to the well -- which turns out to be remarkably similar to the bottom of the barrel -- in TIMELINE, a book about harnessing the awesome power of the most cutting-edge science imagineable to ... develop some real estate and open up a theme park.  Again.

Friends-Only Episode #8 -- SPIN MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 1994

Friends!  After an extra-long wait, an extra-long episode.  Set controls for the heart of the past, and strap on your boots, because you are going to need to wade through one hell of a lot of "holy crap" and you won't want to get any extra schadenfreude on you.

New Episode! 072 — OUTLAW OF GOR

An episode as early as it is burly: please enjoy the potent ensorcelation of this swords/sandals semi-epic, redolent with explaining and ... more explaining.

Friends-Only Post No. 30: Post

Hi!  You may have noticed that we had no friends-only post this Monday.  Sorry about that -- (a) Holidays, (b) we're phasing out the newsletter anyway, and, most excitingly, (c) we're actually sending actual mail to our friends (whose addresses we have) individually and personally and physically!

Above is a quick picture of maybe a quarter of them?  This is the third batch, which should get sent out today.  (First two batches went out last week sometime.)  A...

Friends-Only Email No. 29: For Illustrative Purposes

PLEASE VOTE

If you haven't already, please do write us in here!

https://onion.typeform.com/to/FVMFu3 

And if you would like to read something about in, say, Splitsider, why not throw them an email and tell them so?

podcasts@splitsider.com

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

One never knows where the best art will come from. (Or, for that matter, the w...

[ANN] Update(s)!

Hello, Friends!

A few quick updates.

1. The next book is picked, and hoo BOY is it a ... treat.  Without spoiling things, it: (a) continues our tradition of using an Xmas-adjacent episode to take on a Very Big Book, and; (b) answers the question "why don't women pass tests to get into the Army?" with the answer "evolution".  How MUCH evolution?  "Centuries of evolution."  Prepare yourselves.

2. Speaking of "Xmas adjacent", it's a good idea to make sur...

Friends-Only Post No. 28: Silver Eyes on the Prize

Big day!  Rich, loamy, potent day.  Two episodes blasted from our fervid brains into Online, ready to be caught by technology and laced into your ears, as is, naturally, your wont slash firm preference.  AND a friends-only email!?  We can only hope your loins were sufficiently girded this morning, such that you were prepared for an onslaught of this magnitude.*    

You may well have noticed that last week be-featured zero updating emailery from The Only Podcast Th...

Friends Only Episode #7 - ROBOT OVERLORDS

This month, we sit down with ROBOT OVERLORDS, a hopeful vision of an idyllic future where the human race is ruled by a hive-mind network of giant robots who vaporize people for breaking one rule, and one rule only: DON'T GO OUTSIDE.

Unfortunately, this delightful utopia is quickly ruined by a Bunch of Meddling Kids(TM) who come along and return the fate of humanity to the hands of human beings, thereby obviously dooming us all.

[ANN] Friends-Only Episode Will Be a Little Late This Month, and We're Sorry

Hi, all --

Due to life stuff, the friends-only episode will be a little late this month.  We apologize.  We're working to get everything recorded and out to you!  We feel very bad that we couldn't avoid the delay and we thank you for your support and we ask you for your patience.

-Clsn for IDEOTVPOD

Friends-Only Post No. 27: Crazy, Train

GOING OFF THE RAILS

You heard the episode a-comin'

It was rolling 'round the pods

And we ain't seen a good book

Since the Night of them Crobs

We're stuck in bad book prison

And time keeps draggin' on

But the books keep on rolling 

On down to e-pi-sodes

2016-11-29 05:46:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Friends-Only Post No. 26: Same As It Ever Was

WHERE THE WILD WORDS ARE 

A fun, somewhat frightening facet of being alive is the phenomenon wherein, once you learn about a thing, you suddenly see it everywhere.  It's as though your awareness conjures it into being -- but, haha, that couldn't possibly be right...could it?

As it says in the Bible :

A lot o' people don't realize what's really go...

2016-11-21 07:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Friends-Only Post No. 25: Life During Wartime

THE SHORT FUNNY BIT

Oh, friends.  Going backwards, I think it's safe to say that early Futurama was about as good a four seasons of television as I ever saw.  Some of this is likely because, as a deeply doofy redhead, I don't see myself in the media that often, but in series protagonist Fry, I was able to find some extremely accurate representation of myself.  For example: when he yelled "I have no date, a two-liter of Shasta, and my all-Rush mix tape...

Friends-Only Post No. 24: Kool Kat Let Me Play with Your Radio

BE KIND -- REWIND!

Hello and welcome to a new electronic mail! The topic this time around is the off-putting, somewhat bizarre project COOL CAT SAVES THE KIDS. An insight (?) I had rather late in the process was that the reason this movie felt so familiar was that it bore serious tonal similarities to some of the (ahem, worse) music of my youth.

Specifically, Cool Cat is essentially coming from a place of unstinting, wearying positivity -- conveying a difficult-to-argue-...

Friends-Only Episode 6, COOL CAT SAVES THE KIDS

From the deepest heart of the Uncanny Valley comes Cool Cat Saves the Kids, a movie with the best of intentions and botch-est of execution. No matter what you've seen in your life, you really have not seen anything like this. Come for the terrible music video -- but STAY for the SECOND terrible music video and the total inability of Clsn's tiny squirrel brain to handle the way this movie thinks lines should be delivered.

The scintillating tale of one man's fixation on rounding up the neighbo...

Friends-Only Post No. 23: Tender Garden

TOURING TORI

Well, it's been out for more than a day now, so I think it's safe to speculate that, if you're reading this, you've likely enjoyed the HALLOWEENEST EPISODE EVER of IDEOTVPOD, wherein Lauren Parker joined us to put some serious quantities of witchy in the mix for Tori Amos' evocative advocacy of archetype, 2016-11-01 03:56:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Where's the donor episode??

Hey, all -- just a quick heads-up: the donor episode will be coming out next Monday, the 7th. 

Why?

Because:  episodes come out on alternate Mondays; we try to get the bonus episode out ASAP after the first, but no later than the first Monday of the Month; if these conflict, we have to do something, because we don't want to dump too many episodes on ya at once; this time, they technically don't conflict, but we wanted to let you know that the episode IS coming!  We ha...

NEW EPISODE! 067 — Tori Amos: Piece by Piece (w/ Lauren Parker)

http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/10/30/067-tori-amos-piece-by-piece-w-lauren-parker/

Let's! Get! Corny!

2016-10-30 22:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Friends-Only Email No. 22: Voices in the Night (More)

COME, FRIENDS

Come ... inside. Welcome to another edition of IDEOTVPOD After Dark! I'm your host, the Man Who Made the Mediocre Marinara, the Man Who's Quaffing the Lime La Croix, the Little Man with the (USB) Mic in His Hand -- that's right! I'm Chris Collision.

Yes. And welcome to my evening! This Monday, I am, as I am so very often, thinking mainly of you -- you, our friends. And I...

Friends-Only Post No. 21: So Hungry and Broke

AW, RATS

A lot of years ago, I lived in a basement apartment -- really, the basement of the house of my friends, a married couple. The basement had been walled off, down the middle, and then that walled-off half halved again, so there were two rooms behind doors, separated by a wall, then the rest of the basement. One room had a mattress on the floor, and a boom box, and a cheap particle-board desk with no chair (so not all papers had to go on the floor) and a few milk crates of ...

NEW EPISODE! 066 — The Rats

http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/10/16/066-the-rats/

Now here is a tail you wouldn't expect! A RAT TALE AWAITS!