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Season 6

Ep 129: X-Men Cartoon Apocalypse (Part 1 of 2)

With our pal Santino, we chat about our favorite episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series and X-Men Evolution!

This idea has been brewing for a while and it was just too big for one episode!

This action-packed episode celebrates 2 of the 4 major X-men cartoons! Each host presents a favorite episode from each with the help of our very special guest... our returning pal and constant poster Santino "The San Man" Mancebo! 

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Ep 130: X-Men Cartoon Apocalypse (Part 2 of 2)

With our pal Kex, we chat about our favorite episodes of Wolverine and the X-Men and X-Men 97!

The X-men theme that was just too big for one episode continues!

In this second action-packed installment of our X-Men Cartoon Apocalypse, we celebrate 2 more of the 4 major X-men cartoons! As with last time, each host will present a favorite episode from each. 

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The Brig: Heroes Among Shadows (with author Paul McNamee)

We welome back author Paul R. McNamee to talk about his collection Heroes Among Shadows. The first release from his new publishing house Frizzen Flash Press!

Rotting in the BRIG this week, we have another returning guest, Paul R. McNamee!

Paul is a talented author and lover of all things pulp… who’s short stories have appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines including STORYHACK, WEIRDBOOK, and BLOOD ON THE BLADE. And in 2021, he released the superhero novel Hour of the Robot!. 

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Ep 131: Wanna Be a Brawler / The Best Beat 'em Up Games

Also known as 'brawlers', we present our favorite side scrolling action video games!

A 'beat 'em up' or 'brawler' is a style of video game where the player character walks from left to right, beating up a seemingly endless number of enemies, until reaching the inevitable boss encounter at the end of the level. Simple, repetitive and addictive as heck, this genre of games were very popular in the late 80s and early 90s with beloved entries

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Ep 132: Not So Special Effects (with Bad CGI Sharks' Jason Ellsworth)

Be it CGI or practical, sometimes there are FX in movies that are so bad, they take us right out of the experience!

In a rare non-celebratory episode, we welcome the co-writer/star/director of the hilarious flick, BAD CGI SHARKS, Jason Ellsworth to join us in a critical discussion on some of the LESS impressive FX we've seen in movies. These are the sequences that are so jarringly inadequate, they hit like a Mac truck, smashing any semblance of immersion to smithereens. 

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The Brig: Indie Horror on a Budget (with filmmaker Bobby Canipe Jr.)

Bobby Canipe Jr. returns to chat about the metric ton of horror films he's written and directed for SRS cinema and beyond!

Returning guest, Bobby Canipe Jr. started his film making career with the killer 2022 documentary "Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s" but has been making horror flicks ever since!

For this episode, we'll touch upon what it was like starting from nothing to doing a

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Ep 133: Watching The Disney Afternoon

A celebration of afternoons spent watching Disney cartoons like DuckTales, Rescue Rangers and Tail Spin!

For many of us, rushing home to plop our butts in front of the Disney Afternoon was a seminal part of childhood! From Gummi Bears, Ducktales and Rescue Rangers to Goof Troop, Tail Spin and beyond, these were some of the best produced children's cartoons on television and we ate 'em up! 

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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"! 

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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

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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

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