Retro Ridoctopus

Dec 02 2024 236 ep. 116 mins 12
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Come aboard as your 3 wacky octo-hosts dive deep into the 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond to discuss things like classic gaming, movies, tv shows, cartoons, music and even toys!

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Ep 142: Scooby Doo and the Rut-Roh Ridoctopus

Dec 02 2024 134 mins  
Hey gang! It's time to pay tribute to one of the greatest cartoons of all time, so pack some Scooby Snacks, check your flashlight batteries and hop in the Mystery Machine, because this is our tribute to Scooby Doo! For our penultimate episode of Season 6, Justin Cooper leads us through abandoned amusement parks, haunted mansions and old defunct coal mines, in search of ghouls, ghos

The Brig: My Life as a AAA Game Developer (w/ Richard Dansky)

Nov 26 2024 117 mins  
With two decades’ experience in video games, Richard Dansky has contributed to over 40 AAA titles in iconic franchises like Ghost Recon, Assassins Creed, Might & Magic, Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Hunt: Showdown and Rainbow Six. For this final BRIG of season 6, we'll hear all about his incredible career—how he started writing for Vampire: The Masquerade for White Wolf Entertain

Ep 141: Toys Outta Time (w/ Andy Zamon)

Nov 11 2024 160 mins  
Many of us played with plastic "guys" when we were kids. Specifically action figures from our favorite cartoons and movies. This episode is all about the phenomenon of modern day companies like NECA, Super7, Storm Collectibles, Boss Fight Studios and others who are putting out insanely high quality figures of these same properties we loved as kids! Each host picked 2 line

The Brig: Cosmic Horror in the Weird West (w/ author Keith Lansdale)

Nov 04 2024 82 mins  
Back for his second stint in the brig, we've got Keith Lansdale! Keith is a gifted writer, editor and director of horror and humor... including comics, short stories, novels, screenplays and his new Weird Western novella Elijah’s Elixer! We chat about all the cool stuff he's been up to in the last two years and later on, he delivers a reading from his fantastic new novella! It's

Ep 140: Mummies Mummies Everywhere! (w/ Greenie & Leikjarinn)

Oct 28 2024 141 mins  
Rounding out our trio of monster-riffic episodes for October 2024, we are spotlighting yet another classic monster... THE MUMMY! And to do it, we have two of our favorite returning guest hosts, Greenie (The Green Witch of the Shire) and our Icelandic buddy Birkir AKA Leikjarinn! Whether mention of a shambling, bandage-wrapped, curse-inflicting baddy makes you think of Boris Karloff

The Brig: Our Big Dumb Robot Overlords (w/ Jonny Ruckus)

Oct 21 2024 104 mins  
We met Jonny Ruckus at Granite State Comic Con and were totally blown away by his amazing work for the BIG DUMB ROBOT CON! This is a collective of like-minded 3-D printer hobbyists and robot builders dedicated to fabricating screen perfect robot characters from your favorite movies and cartoons! We chat with Jonny about the building process and what kind of stuff they've got in the

Ep 139: The Hairiest Scariest Werewolf Movies (w/ concept artist Michael Broom)

Oct 14 2024 138 mins  
Awooooooo!! The moon is full and things are about to get HAIRY! For our second monster-riffic epsiode in a row, we are going werewolf hunting! Along for the ride is Hollywood special effects artist, Michael Broom! Mike is the writer/artist of the insanely original graphic novel Membrane and with credits like The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Predators, X-Men First Class, Wol

Ep 138: Halloween TV Specials

Oct 07 2024 165 mins  
The first of three consecutive Retro Ridoctopus monster-riffic episodes for season 6's month of October! This episode is broken up into two distinct parts. The first covers those made for TV specials that would have us marking our calendars and TV Guides. Sometimes it would be a 25 minutes cartoon, sometimes a made for TV movie, either way, Halloween specials were part and parcel

Ep 137: Unfinished Business / Games We Couldn't Beat

Sep 30 2024 125 mins  
8-Bit Alchemy leads a walk down memory PAIN, as we dredge up all the video games we loved but could never beat. Sometimes this was do to us just never getting good enough, but other times, we have to consider the quality of the games themselves. Were they hard but fair? Or, in the end, were they complete F*@2ing bull$!#?!?!? This is an episode of frustration that ends up being pret

The Brig: Rocking That Horror Aesthetic (w/ author L. Marie Wood)

Sep 18 2024 102 mins  
Is this episode a dissertation, an audio essay, or just a chat between friends? L. Marie Wood becomes the second person in Ridoctopus history to get locked in the BRIG three times! On this occasion, she chats about new new non-fiction book, "The Horror Aesthetic: Essays from the Dark Corners of the Genre"! It's a book that shares perspectives of the horror genre; providi