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Retro Ridoctopus Since 2019, a nostalgia audio podcast, celebrating all the things that made growing up awesome + interviews with authors and gaming industry types!

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Tonight in the BRIG, we welcome our first ever married couple! Two writers from the wilds of Maine (and other places pri...
22/09/2026

Tonight in the BRIG, we welcome our first ever married couple! Two writers from the wilds of Maine (and other places prior). Poet, writer Emma J. Gibbon is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection "Dark Blood Comes From The Feet", and Steve Gibbon is an author, game designer and he just released one of the most unique and weirdly wonderful books ever.

Lipsnitch Snilly is an absurdist fantasy romp that is so original, it's genuinely hard to categorize. Think Terry Pratchett's Discworld but by way of John Dies At The End... but with goat people... and a crow named Gary.

Along for the ride, we have a crow of our own in the co-hosting chair, Miss Kari Sanders from Splash Pages ! So fasten your seat belts... it's gonna be a bumpy night!

Video games now known as Collect-A-Thons (short for "Collection Marathons") came about in the late 1990s with the advent...
22/09/2026

Video games now known as Collect-A-Thons (short for "Collection Marathons") came about in the late 1990s with the advent of 3-D polygonal platformers with and fully explore-able game worlds. By giving players a ton of items to hunt down and "collect", these games developed a very unique identity and today are considered a distinct sub-genre.

For this episode, we'll do our thing, spotlighting 6 great video games that help build the genre into one that's worth celebrating!

Jennifer Anne Gordon is the award winning author of the novel Pretty/Ugly and co-host of the awesome Vox Vomitus podcast...
08/09/2026

Jennifer Anne Gordon is the award winning author of the novel Pretty/Ugly and co-host of the awesome Vox Vomitus podcast Tonight, she's here to chat about her new mystery thriller "Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies".

We'll talk about what it's like to write in a new genre, as well as to stock it full of fun references of all the things you loved growing up (like The Princess Bride, Marilyn Monroe and yes, even the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock).

But to be real, this episode listens less like a professional-type interview and more like two overworked goofball friends just hanging out... which is technically exactly what it is!

Here's the link!
https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/980ffccd/the-brig-regarding-the-trash-heap-from-fraggle-rock-w-author-jennifer-anne-gordon-

One of the heaviest hitters of the Fifth Generation of video game consoles, the Sony Playstation (AKA PS1) rocketed onto...
01/09/2026

One of the heaviest hitters of the Fifth Generation of video game consoles, the Sony Playstation (AKA PS1) rocketed onto store shelves in 1995, signifying the true end of the 16bit era.

Cartridges and passwords were OUT, game discs and memory cards were IN and the world was about to be WOWED by 3-D environments, 24 channels of sound and some very charming (if crunchy) polygons!

For this episode, we welcome our delightful friend and Retroid Paloma Serena to shout out some of our favorite Playstation 1 games! Some of these are bonafied classics of the gaming landscape, while others are simply not talked about enough. As usual, we're aiming to fix that!

Do YOU remember when Playstation One the day?
https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/88d035b6/ep-185-when-playstation-one-the-day-w-paloma-serena-

Retroids!There will be no monkeying around this time as we welcome back the writing team of the New York Times Best Sel...
25/08/2026

Retroids!
There will be no monkeying around this time as we welcome back the writing team of the New York Times Best Selling Thomas Sniegoski (author of "Grim Death and Bill The Electrocuted Criminal"), and the fabulous Jeannine Thomas (co-author of "Soul Taker" and "Nira: A Constance Evermore Story").

For their third appearance on the show, the dynamic writing duo is here to chat all about ancient forces of chaos and control, as well as their brand new graphic novel NOTHING CAN STOP THE APE!

Not even THE APE can stop you copying and pasting this link!
https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/2924f3d3/the-brig-nothing-can-stop-sniegoski-acheson-

Retroids!With the added power of Raina Madison (from The Spooky Picture Show) this musclebound episode is armed with a ...
19/08/2026

Retroids!
With the added power of Raina Madison (from The Spooky Picture Show) this musclebound episode is armed with a whole lot of fanfare for THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!

With power swords in hand, we take some BIG SWINGS at ten of our favorite characters. That's five heroes and five villains, and it all starts with He-Man and Skeletor!

This journey will take us through every corner of Eternia, including the cartoons, movies, comics and of course... the toys!

You have the power to subscribe to us on your app of choice, or... USE THIS LINK! https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/ef1072af/ep-184-retro-ridoctopus-and-the-masters-of-the-universe

Retroids!In case you've been living under a tumbleweed... the incomparable Kasey Lansdale happens to be an author, an au...
06/08/2026

Retroids!
In case you've been living under a tumbleweed... the incomparable Kasey Lansdale happens to be an author, an audio book narrator, a singer/songwriter, and the head editor at Pandi Press! What's more, she's found the time to return for a second round in THE BRIG to talk up her debut crime novel FIRST CHANCE!

In this episode, Kasey lets us in on growing up with a famous dad, why she chose to leave the supernatural stuff out of her first novel, and what it's like to record narration for your own book. All that, more and plenty of laughs and a few tears in between.

Your FIRST CHANCE to hear this awesome interview is right here:
https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/b5aa4ff4/the-brig-one-last-first-chance-w-author-kasey-lansdale-

Retroids!We all know that the musical sound of the ice cream truck can make us feel like a kid again. When you were youn...
05/08/2026

Retroids!

We all know that the musical sound of the ice cream truck can make us feel like a kid again. When you were young and the summer heat was beating down, what sorts of frozen treats did you enjoy during ?

In this episode, we got , ice lollies, , ice cream characters with gumball eyes and so much more! So grab some money from mom, step right up and pick out your favorite frozen treat!

Listen subscribe on you podcast app of choice or paste the link!
https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/5e6272c4/ep-183-popsicles-ice-cream-bars-other-frozen-treats

Retroids! Put your tentacles together for the multi-talented director and sometimes star of such critically acclaimed sh...
28/07/2026

Retroids!

Put your tentacles together for the multi-talented director and sometimes star of such critically acclaimed shorts as Looker, Cup of Tea and the upcoming PROXY... Diana Porter!!

The films in the ever expanding Vitalus Universe ("Subscribed", "The Rewind" and the upcoming "Proxy") warn of the potential dangers of emerging technologies that truly feel 100% POSSIBLE given our current real world trajectory. These are stories that raise uncomfortable moral quandaries while pointing out very believable ways that progress could go horribly horribly wrong.

On this episode, Diana shares a ton of stories from her career as an indie filmmaker, hellbent on making uncompromising art with a message.

Listen to the episode here or subscribe on any major platform!
https://retro-ridoctopus.pinecast.co/episode/69ec30cb/the-brig-do-nerds-dream-of-electric-sex-w-filmmaker-diana-porter-

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