VHS Tapes Are Magic

It's the September episode! Happy October 1st!

Today we talk with Roy Ferre, director of the documentary Everybody Loves Gina: The Video Depot Story and then we take a trip to Sacramento to find out how Jefferson and Chris are planning to open Very Good Video. And in between it all we learn about how the major studios did everything they could to control video rentals.

OH BOY!!

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Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

Email us your video store stories and memories! Or tips on where we can find more open and operating videostores we can visit! [email protected]

VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617

WE'RE BACK!

What a summer it's been. This episode we talk with an old CollegeHumor collaborator and former videostore employee Matt Pollock. Then we take a trip down to Tallahassee, FL to Cap City Video Lounge and talk with owners Kevin and Maddie. And in between we flip through the pages of the US Army pamphlete that inspired Sony, 1947's 999 Uses For Magnetic Tape.

OH BOY!!

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Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

Email us your video store stories and memories! Or tips on where we can find more open and operating videostores we can visit! [email protected]

VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617

April showers bring May episodes?

Greetings friends! Back for more VHS Tapes Are Magic. This time we talk to Will Hirsch (filmmaker, podcaster, ex-Hollywood Video employee, @entitled_willennial) and take a trip to Santa Rosa, CA to the Forever Midnight Scary Movie Research Center (@forevermidnight_podcast) where we talk to Josh & Brian.

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Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

Email us your video store stories and memories! Or tips on where we can find more open and operating videostores we can visit! [email protected]

VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617

Early April Fools Greetings!!! I bet you thought there wasn't going to be a March episode. Well, you're an idiot.

First I talk with Boston comedian and host of the TV Guidance Counselor podcast Ken Reid. Ken is an avid movie collector, TV taper, and all around wonderful man. We also dig into our shared love of WSBK TV-38's The Movie Loft hosted by Dana Hersey. PAPA DANA!!

Then I talk to writer/director Alex Ross Perry who made the must watch documentary Videoheaven about the history of videostores as depcited in film & TV. He's also a former employee of Kim's Video, which we discuss.

And in between I take a trip to Static Tape Video and their horror-con tape-swap Michigan Is Dead in Muskegon, MI. While I was there I talked with Static Tape's owner Harrison, Bruce from Bloody Knife Video, Kozmo from Cosmic Debris VHS, Patrick from KZOO Video Vault, and Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl formerly of The Last Drive-In on Shudder.

It's an epic episode, if this episode was a VHS it would need THREE tapes. Suck it, Titanic.

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Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

Email us your video store stories and memories! Or tips on where we can find more open and operating videostores we can visit! [email protected]

VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617

Happy Friday the 13th!

It's February and we're talking to Luce Tomlin-Brenner about working in videostores and then we take a trip with her to Videotheque in Highland Park Los Angeles. In between we learn about the history of the videotape phenom known as Jane Fonda's Workout!

Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

Email us your video store stories and memories! Or tips on where we can find more open and operating videostores we can visit! [email protected]

VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617

What is VHS TAPES ARE MAGIC?

It's a celebration of home video, movie collecting, and an attempt to uncover and understand the history of video stores and where they are now. Hosted by comedian Matt McCarthy (Companion, The Other Guys, CollegeHumor, Pete Holmes Show).

New episodes monthly!

We're BACK! Happy 2026! Time for some VHS TAPES ARE MAGIC.

This episode we talk to Josh Schafer from Lunchmeat VHS. Then we learn about this history of Cartrivision, the world's first home video system. And then we take a trip all the way to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to Video Theater, to talk to Jannice Turk owner of the oldest surviving video store in the state.

Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

Email us your video store stories and memories! Or tips on where we can find more open and operating videostores we can visit! [email protected]

It's finally here... VHS TAPES ARE MAGIC!!! Episode 1- we talk to my dear friend Patrick Walsh (Drunk History, We'll See You In Hell) and we learn about Andre Blay and Magnetic Video.

Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered membership card and access to a digitized collection of full, unedited videotapes!

Video Garage T-Shirt Store!

It's part Justifying My Movie Collection and part I Love You, OK? It's the new podcast prescription for all your electric ills. It's WATCH IT! with Matt & Glennis, find it wherever you find podcasts! New episodes Mondays or Fridays or both!

IT'S ALL BEEN BUILDING UP TO THIS.... GODZILLA VS. KONG!!!!

SOBER DAD, the new comedy album from Matt McCarthy is available NOW on all digital music platforms! Call Sirius XM and request they play it!!

Thank you to everyone for sending me VHS tapes and now…YOU CAN TOO: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617 Donate to the Patreon! http://patreon.com/mccarthyredhead