This week, 8-Bit Alchemy scoops out some mashed potato-memories and choccy milk dreams as we talk about school lunches! We made sure to cover the good, the bad and the ugly, all with the help of returning guest, Randy Carter from the thrash metal band Swarm of Eyes!

We'll also read a bunch of Retroid responses to this week's OCTOPONDER THIS question: "What was your favorite drink to take to school in your lunchbox"? We also have a great voicemail from Christine (AKA Mrs. Parasite) which includes a menu item we never got in Massachusetts as well as a hard-hitting commentary on some major faults with the school lunch system in America.

Later on, Parasite Steve will drop another BOOKSHELF OF THE DAMNED on your collective lap with the brand new horror thriller "Road of Bones" by Christopher Golden!

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• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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Imagine finding out that all the beloved toys you played with as a child were first released when your grandparents were little. Oh, it happened!

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All original heavy metal music by Enchanted Exile

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• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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All original heavy metal music by Enchanted Exile

Retro Ridoctopus is part of the Dorkening Podcast Network, the Inebri-Art Podcast Network and is brought to you by Deadly Grounds Coffee!

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In this episode, we shine the golden spotlight on true television royalty. Betty White's career began on the radio at age 8 and it didn't stop for almost a century. Check it out, we even did research for this one!

Special thanks to our newest sponsor, Silk City Hot Sauce! If heat with uncompromising flavor is your thing visit their awesome website and enter the coupon code: DORK to get 20% off your order and a free bottle of hot sauce! Please Note: This offer is only good until the end of January 2022, so don't wait!

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Locked in the BRIG is the awesome, Keith Lansdale!

Keith has authored all kinds of stuff, including screenplays, comics, novels & short stories! His work has appeared alongside his famous dad Joe R. Lansdale but has done plenty on his own, co-writing the screenplay for THE PALE DOOR, CHRISTMAS WITH THE DEAD, and episode of CREEPSHOW and the new issues of the cowboys and dinosaurs pulp comic series RED RANGE.

Sit back and enjoy this special 1 on 1 episode of THE BRIG, as Keith spills about his new book BIG LIZARD and a bunch of other stuff he probably had no idea he'd be talking about. Whatever you do, don't miss the Tiger King story!!

Special thanks to our newest sponsor, Silk City Hot Sauce! If heat with uncompromising flavor is your thing visit their awesome website and enter the coupon code: DORK to get 20% off your order and a free bottle of hot sauce! Please Note: This offer is only good until the end of January 2022, so don't wait!

Also, be sure to follow Silk City Hot Sauce on Facebook and Twitter!

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The premier of season 4 is all about BALLS. Specifically, the chrome kind that you slap around a table. We are talking, of course, about PINBALL!

Back in November 2021, we had an absolutely AMAZING time attending PINTASTIC NEW ENGLAND, where we each got to try out dozens of pinball games! Some were great, others were not, but the experience definitely awoke a newfound love of the genre in your Octo-Hosts. And for this episode, we each picked 4 games that stuck out to us the most to spotlight for ya!

Smack dab in the middle of our picks, you'll also get some of our Retroids' favorite tables as well. And finally, Parasite Steve will take us home with the first Retro Nouveau of the season.

Special thanks to our newest sponsor, Silk City Hot Sauce! If heat with uncompromising flavor is your thing visit their awesome website and enter the coupon code: DORK to get 20% off your order and a free bottle of hot sauce! Please Note: This offer is only good until the end of January 2022, so don't wait!

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• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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It's that time again, Retroids! Time to stick the proverbial fork in another season of the Retro Ridoctopus cephalo-podast.

Season 3 certainly had it's ups and downs, but we came out the other side stronger than ever! For this episode, we reminisce about the episodes that challenged us, the topics we were nervous to tackle and the guests we still can't believe agreed to come on.

Later, we do our annual thing of talking about a classic film that we FINALLY JUST watched for the first time! After giving you our picks, we have submissions from 16 listener-pals who were kind enough to join in on the fun!

Big LOVE and SHUBIBINS go to everyone who has stuck with us for so long and to all the new Retroids we picked up along the way!

See you in season 4!

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Clash At Demonhead is a combination of words that either means something to you... or it makes you wonder if we've been eating paint chips. Either way, 8-Bit Alchemy and Parasite Steve had a great time recording this episode of the Crow's Nest! Give it a shot!

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• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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The indie 50s-sci-fi-style-parody-masterpiece "THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA" isn't just the SHOCK SENSATION OF OUR TIME... the thing also just turned 20 years young!

Writer/director/actor/playwright/artist Larry Blamire has made movies, written books, battled mutants, fingered rocks, even matched wits with a narcissistic skeleton!! But none of that is going to help him tonight, because for the next 2 hours, he's gonna be locked in THE BRIG! And you can bet your last cranberoid that we have ways of making him talk!

In addition to sharing insider scoops and anecdotes about the production of his many wonderful films, Larry spills the bees on his brand new (and live as of 11/30/21) Kickstarter campaign!

SOME BLAM-TASTIC LINKS

• _CONTRIBUTE!_ The Kickstarter page for the brand new Lost Skeleton Lunchbox!
• WATCH! The Blu-rays of Larry's film's are only at Hydraulic Entertainment!
• READ! Visit Lulu to start building your own Larr-brary of Larry's keen books!
• DISCOVER! The expansive world of Larry's steampunk epic Steam Wars!

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• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen)
• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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Octo-Host, 8-Bit Alchemy continues the theme he started way back in EPISODE 3 with the return of PARTY OF ONE! That episode was all about spotlighting unpopular movies that we happened to love as kids, but this time it's all about cartoons! With the help of our longtime pal, musician and future clothing mogul Santino Mancebo (AKA Tino the San Man), we spend the episode finding the positive in some very under-celebrated animated shows including Star Wars Ewoks, Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm, Stunt Dawgs and Mummies Alive!

Later on, Parasite Steve slides into you bookcase with the Bram Stoker award winning novel of 1996, Crota by Owl Goingback. Best of all, he has a couple of anecdotes from the author himself, which were sent especially for the podcast!

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Retro Ridoctopus is:
• Parasite Steve (read)
• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen)
• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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All original heavy metal music by Enchanted Exile

Retro Ridoctopus is part of the Dorkening Podcast Network, the Inebri-Art Podcast Network and is brought to you by Deadly Grounds Coffee!

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.