Retro Ridoctopus

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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Retro Ridoctopus is:
• Parasite Steve (read)
• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen)
• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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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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• Parasite Steve (read)
• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen)
• Nintenjoe (subscribe)
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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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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

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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

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

Find out more at https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co

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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

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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Joining us for this episode are two fantastic guests who both happen to be huge John Carpenter fans!

Christine (AKA Mrs. Parasite) makes her podcast debut to talk about THEY LIVE, while comic book artist Derek Rook (from Rough House Publishing) returns to gush about HALLOWEEN and lots more! Stick around for a some killer facts you might not know and a guaranteed good time!

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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

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.

The runtime on this one is a bit long, so buckle up!

For our 64th episode, we HAD to talk about the much loved third major Nintendo console, the N64! Your Octo-hosts present some favorite games for the system like Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, as well as a bunch of weird ones you might have missed!

Later on, we enter a sidebar about how Nintenjoe is dealing with his struggles with mental health. This part was totally unplanned but completely honest and heartfelt. It didn't fit the main discussion but we all felt it absolutely had to be left right where it was.

We also read your answers to this week's Octoponder This question before ending things with 8-Bit Alchemy's b-segment. This week, he takes a turn presenting a new game that plays like an old game for his first ever Retro Nouveau!

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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

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.

A longish, but briskly paced chat about all seven Dark Tower books (by little known author Stephen King). Parasite Steve embarks on this epic journey with fellow King fan and Rock Jock, Rick Johnson of Portland Maine's 107.5 FRANK FM!

Note for those who have not read The Dark Tower series: Some spoilers are discussed, but we gloss over a lot and purposely avoid giving away plenty of the good stuff.

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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

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.

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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

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.

In a follow up discussion about holographs and holograms, we sit down for a chat with the talented artist behind Laserboy Holo, Travis Paquin! We cover many things, including how a hologram is made, what Polaroid had to do with the medium's prevalence in the 80s and why Travis chooses to make his own holographic film! There's also some stuff about sci-fi movies thrown in for that retro flavor!

Stop by the laserboyholo shop and contact Travis for custom made holograms! He's literally one of only a handful of artists still working in the medium today!

And you can watch videos of his process here!

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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

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.

In the late 1980s, holograms were considered to be wondrous things of high futurism--a blend of art and science, of 3 dimensional magic and lasers. In short, they were really cool and absolutely freaking everywhere.

In this episode, we try our best to explain a little about what holography is and how holograms are made. Then we'll spotlight four retro toy lines which incorporated the technology... Transformers, Battle Beasts, Super Naturals & Visionaries!

And later on, Nintenjoe will spotlight some Super C enemies, with his first ever DIE MONSTER!

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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

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.