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 nex...
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 com...
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 f...
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 wha...
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...
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...
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, Unt...
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 m...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 Sex...
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,...
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 fla...
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...
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 wh...
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 regu...
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 te...
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 are...
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,...
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 aro...
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 s...
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...
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 politi...
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!
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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 unea...
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 eve...
2019-03-30 18:39:54 +0000 UTC
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