Retro Ridoctopus

Ep 138: Halloween TV Specials

A tribute to our favorite vintage Halloween specials that would infect the airwaves during the spooky season!

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 with the holiday when we were growing up.

And for the second half of the episode, we shine the candlelight on Halloween episodes of existing TV shows. These were episodes that broke format to inject a little costumed mayhem for the spooky season and we loved them!


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

A discussion about all the video games we played to death but weren't very good at.

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 pretty cathartic... but in a fun way! Smacked in the middle is this week's Octoponder This, where we each get to brag about one notoriously difficult game we DID finish. And we end things with Parasite Steve pulling another story from the BOOKSHELF OF THE DAMNED.


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

The wonderful L. Marie Wood returns for her third episode to chat about her non-fiction book, The Horror Aesthetic!

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; providing study and nuance to the spine-tingling storytelling we all love!

We also dive into the good, the bad and the problematic of CANDY MAN (1992) and numerous other classic horror films!

Pre-Order you copy of The Horror Aesthetic right here!

And for more from Mocha Memoirs Press, please consider helping bring to life their newest anthology, A CRACK IN THE CODE!


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Ep 136: Best Friends Forever!

An episode devoted to pairs of characters who are the ultimate ride or die, best friends forever!

We've all got that one best friend. Your bestest buddy, your #1 pal, your BFF! The one person who's seen you at your worst and ALWAYS had your back.

Well, this episode is dedicated to characters we feel set the standard for what it means to be best buddies! Your Octo-hosts will share 6 pairs of some of the all time greatest friendships in cartoons and animated film, as well as some personal stories about their own #1 pals!

Seriously, this episode is wholesome AF.


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Ep 135: Battlin' Like a Boss 2

We offer tribute to all the memorable boss battles of video game history! Dr. Wily, M. Bison, Shao Kahn and so many more!

We welcome our buddy Nintenjoe back again to talk about one of the most memorable aspects of any video game, the BOSSES!!

Whether they're in charge of a single stage or are the final challenge waiting at the end, these characters are sure to make an impact. We'll tackle the more iconic "last guys" first, spotlighting iconic final bosses who come back again and again over multiple entries of a given series. Later on, we each choose 3 (possibly more obscure) battles that were really memorable to us personally.

Thrown in the middle is a musical interlude of an OCTOPONDER, where we'll play your favorite boss battle theme! Overall, this is an episode that video game fans won't want to miss!


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The Brig: A Bouquet of Skunk Apes and Xenomorphs (w/ author Kristin Dearborn)

Kristin stops by to chat about her books Faith of Dawn, The Amazing Alligator Girl, The Rack and more!

This week we have a talented author whom NY Times Best Seller Christopher Golden called “one of the most talented under-the-radar writers the horror genre has to offer”. Kristin Dearborn has written numerous published short stories, novels and novellas including Woman in White, Stolen Away, The Amazing Alligator Girl and her newest novel Faith of Dawn, which is just crawling with skunk apes!

If it screams, squelches, or bleeds, Kristin has probably written about it!

And later on, we discuss her deep admiration for monsters and plunge into the blackness of space for a spoilery discussion on the new Xenomorph flick, ALIEN: ROMULUS!

Obviously, Kristin is very awesome! Check out her official website!


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The Brig: Rambling Through the Avenues of Dumb (w/ producer Chris Gersbeck)

Chris returns to chat about all the crazy things going on at Dumb Industries, in a conversation that manages to meander around all corners of geekdom.

Back for his second stint in the BRIG… it’s writer/comedian/producer Chris Gersbeck!

With his company Dumb Industries, Chris produces and hosts a metric ton of hilarious weekly programs (including but not limited to) The Mads Are Back, The Mary-Jo Pehl Show, The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour and the retro gaming centric, Super Dumb Bros!

Chris talks about how it feels to be finally on a break after producing 49 consecutive live-streams of THE MADS ARE BACK. We also talk about some of the other great shows on https://dumb-industries.com and plenty of just general geekiness.

This is one of those episodes that really turned into 3 guys just hanging out and was a lot of fun to record!


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Ep 134: Themes From A Memory 6 (Nickelodeon Edition)

Nintenjoe returns to lead us into a bunch of blocks of theme songs! This time, it's all stuff from Nickelodeon!

It's music time again, folks!

And holy crap, Nintenjoe has returned to the helm for his first episode of season 6 as the main host! Appropriately, it's his popular recurring Themes From a Memory series!! This time, the mission was to choose intro theme songs from Nickelodeon cartoons and live action shows! As we've done so many times before, each host has chosen 3 songs which we play for you in separate blocks!

This is our longest running series and we are so happy to welcome our buddy Nintenjoe back in the Captain's chair!


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The Brig: NecronomiCon 2024 / A Celebration of Weird Fiction (with author K. H. Vaughan)

Ken Vaughan drops by with a NSFW reading and all the info on this year's NECRONOMICON convention!

The work of K. H. (Ken) Vaughan has appeared in numerous volumes of the New England Horror Writers’ WICKED series, as well as a myriad of other anthologies such as both volumes of Once Upon an Apocalypse, New Moon Quarterly, the award winning Nox Pareidolia, and more!

For this episode, we'll chat about Ken's short fiction and his involvement with the popular biennial celebration of weird fiction NecronomiCon! He also drops a very saucy, very NSFW reading on our laps that Retro Ridoctopus definitely wasn't prepared for!

NecronomiCon 2024 takes place in Providence, RI on August 15-18, 2024. Check the website for details!


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The Brig: The FEARS of Ellen Datlow

Our 50th BRIG was a huge livestream event with live readings from Simon Bestwick, Bracken MacLeod & Livia Llewellyn!

The legendary Ellen Datlow has been called “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times, and with over 40 years in the business, it's not hard to see why!

In celebration of her new horror anthology, "Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror" from Tachyon Publications... Retro Ridoctopus proudly presents "The Fears of Ellen Datlow"! We'll have readings from horror masters Livia Llewellyn, Bracken MacLeod, and Simon Bestwick and just generally have an awesome time!

And if you prefer, here is the video!


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