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 wo...
2023-04-01 17:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
"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 J...
2022-05-17 17:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostYou 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 ans...
2022-04-01 17:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-04-28 23:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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? ...
2021-02-25 01:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 shar...
2020-10-17 19:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 View Post
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...
2020-08-05 01:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 pe...
2020-08-01 16:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 View Post
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 wil...
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 importan...
2020-04-26 22:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-03-22 20:45:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-02-29 20:38:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Pa...
2020-01-31 21:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2020-01-01 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 wit...
2019-12-31 22:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post![Friends-Only Episode 42: Welcome to the Underdark (We Got Fun N' Games [and trouble pronouncing the names])](https://img5.illustratefans.com/storage/1/jh/ht/102843-019e82b7-4227-742f-a8e9-2d4b4399ab46.jpg)
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, b...
2019-11-30 22:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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 i...
2019-11-02 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, 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).<...
2019-10-31 20:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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 labe...
2019-09-29 15:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2019-09-05 21:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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, an...
2019-08-31 03:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2019-07-31 02:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
HO...
2019-06-29 12:28:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2019-05-31 03:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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 paper...
2019-05-01 03:33:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 recordin...
2019-04-25 05:12:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
2019-03-30 18:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post