Podcast Episodes

Thursday the 12th

Season 1 Episode 45

In 1982, PANDEMONIUM tried to be a horror comedy, and couldn't. Put into production as THURSDAY THE 12th, but then beaten to the gag by Roger Corman's SATURDAY THE 14th, this misbegotten movie lost i…

Published on 9 hours ago

"Damn Owls!"

Season 1 Episode 44

Saturday the 14th was the very first horror comedy movie Matt ever watched, way back in the early eighties. Maybe not the most sophisticated film, but strangely influential to an impressionable young…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Boxing Hellraiser

Season 1 Episode 43

"So that was a Hellraiser?"

Matt has been reading and watching the Hellraiser franchise for nearly forty years, but his brother Ted was an innocent. For this week's experiment, Ted had to start with t…

Published on 1 month ago

This is Not a Drill: The Slumber Party Massacre

Season 1 Episode 42

It's rare enough that the Depot brings us a movie neither of the brothers has ever seen, but a genuine 1980s slasher movie? Unprecedented!

Famously written as a parody of the slasher genre by Rita Ma…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Typewriter Sex Robots!

Season 1 Episode 41

A man murders his wife, is recruited as a spy, and enters a drug-fueled world of literature, homosexuality, and deeply erogenous typewriters! NAKED LUNCH attempted, in 1991, to adapt the wild nonline…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ted & Matt vs. Reality: Depot Devoid Podcast Year One

Season 1 Episode 40

Happy Anniversary! In this 40th episode, the Depot Devoid Podcast looks back on our first year of publication. We're a movie podcast, but the Depot Devoid has always actually been about the death of …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Ghosted & Busted

Season 1 Episode 39

Audiences think of Ghostbusters as one of the classic comedy films of the 1980s, but you know what they forget? Ghosts are people who used to be alive, so Ghostbusters is all about death!

Matt Fagan …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Whether You Like It or Not, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Season 1 Episode 38

We've got a whole Depot full of Pride this week! And you can watch the full video version of this episode on YouTube.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the queer redemption story we all need right now: me…

Published on 3 months ago

Goonies [Seldom] Say Die!

Season 1 Episode 37

The Goonies is turning forty years old, and our brother Ian should have turned 45 this week. Growing up on the Oregon coast in the 1980s, The Goonies was an indelible part of our childhoods! Puzzles,…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

O Canada Part 5: Nothing

Season 1 Episode 36

Full video episode available on our Youtube channel!

Matt Fagan introduces his brother, Ted Fagan, to a magical film that answers the question: what if your dreams came true and everybody else in the…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago