Podcasts by I Dont Even Own a Television
This is a podcast about godawful books. Each episode, hosts J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision sit down with or without some guests to discuss books that all of them wish they hadn't read.
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So Long (And Thanks For All The Fun) from 2023-04-01T17:00:19
Hi, all. Probably this won't come as a giant surprise, given our erratic schedule and limited output the past couple years, but the time has come to make...
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The Paris Apartment from 2022-09-04T22:35:01
No, it's not a new made-up term for a sexual position—as far as we know!—it's the new Lucy Foley joint, The Paris Apartment! It's darker than a ...
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Born To Run from 2022-05-14T18:31:04
With tramps like these, hoo boy, do things get real and stay there in a hurry as your humble hosts pop their clutches and tell Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon's Born to Run: A Novel...
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Gauging The Player from 2022-03-17T00:29:46
Don't Know Jack from 2021-12-16T21:55:56
No know Jack? No, know Jack! Jack Reacher, that is, as we for some reason decide to experiment with CBS-grade Reacher-adjacency with Diane Capri's series-starting Don't Know Jack Listen
Nöthin' But a Good Time from 2021-09-26T18:32:08
Homefolks, we came to party, and your eyes were looking at ... Nöthin' but a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion b...
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The Resident Evil Movie (Free Bonus Episode!) from 2021-02-25T01:30:38
Since it's been a while, and we're currently slogging through a very long book for the next episode, we decided to give ALL of our listeners a chance to hear the new episode we just released for...
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The Champ of TV Wrestling (Which Way Books #22) from 2020-12-19T15:24:11
It's time to get what an old boss of Clsn's used to call "choiceful" in these all-too-choice-free times, so we break format a little bit (and break out l...
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River of Teeth from 2020-11-15T15:37:44
We live in a world that has hippos, and those hippos have to be ridden by people with weapons. Who's gonna do it? You? These people have a greater respon...
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Atlanta Nights from 2020-09-15T02:51:10
For SO many reasons, it's time to get out of town, and so we're hitting the road to check out some of those hot Atlanta Nights we've been hearin...
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Dachshund Through the Snow (The Dogmothers Book 3) from 2020-08-30T19:51:02
It's a tradition like no other, as our friend Stef Gray joins us to discuss our second consecutive book entitled...Dachshund Through the Sno...
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Dachshund Through the Snow: An Andy Carpenter Mystery from 2020-08-02T22:29:30
Here on IDEOTV, it's Christmas in ... okay, August, but still it's time for some wintry festivities as we read—and talk about!—Dachshund Through the ...
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Damnation Alley from 2020-07-19T19:05:52
Lighters are clicking and flicking, wheels are rolling, and badasses are extremely American this time around as we climb into our *checks notes* LandMast...
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The Coven from 2020-07-06T00:30:08
Oh my goodness, this is gonna be a wild (broomstick) ride, as the all-time oldest friend of the show, Jeb "@mobute<...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the First: Bad Beginnings from 2020-06-21T20:02:31
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All I Needed to Know I Learned In Kindergarten from 2020-06-07T17:53:25
Sometimes we need to retreat to the porch with some kind vibes and mostly harmless advice, and that's why this time around, we reached into the past for ...
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) from 2020-05-25T00:32:55
'E's a (hairy) wizard, is 'arry ... 'arry Dresden, that is, Chicago's only professional wizard and the protagonist of a book entitled Storm ...
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Resident Evil Volume II: Caliban Cove from 2020-05-11T00:32:52
Because timing is the essence of success and entertainment, we're kicking off our latest huge crossover with Listen
The Danger from 2020-04-26T22:36:49
House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge from 2020-04-13T17:16:26
Money, power, respect: Lenny Dykstra doesn't really have any of those things (allegedly, but he does have a passel of stories about rock star L ...
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The Quebec Connection: The Penetrator #15 from 2020-03-15T18:43:47
Me&Mr. Cigar from 2020-03-02T00:45:58
The Price of Time from 2020-02-16T21:10:40
Tick, tock, tick ... doot doot doo-doo ... time keeps on ticking ticking ticking ... into the future! And, luckily, in the future, nobody has to read any...
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death from 2020-02-02T19:01:43
FINALLY a raisin that won't ruin your day, it's an echt cozy mystery by M.C. Beaton, first of a long series, Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of...
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Something from the Nightside from 2020-01-19T16:41:19
For our milestonest episode yet, big number hundo-fitty, we break significant quantities of new ground by ... first, taking on our first-ever work of urb...
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Get in the Van from 2020-01-05T16:22:26
We finally had to do it, so we skipped a couple showers, got real, real mad at our parents (and, probably, yours) and went out on the road to discover (h...
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Handbook for Mortals from 2019-12-22T17:11:11
Because YOU demanded it (several years ago), and because this is our annual special rule-breaking holiday episo...
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The Day Before: A Prequel Novel (Riverdale) from 2019-11-24T15:52:45
If you ever watched Riverdale and wished that the events of the pilot were explained in greater (?) detail, then you, my friend, are in for a tr...
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Career of Evil from 2019-11-10T21:40:28
Grisly, gory, gruesome, and far, far too long, it's Robert Galbraith's Career of Evil, a five-hundred-page career unto itself, even if it's litt...
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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu: Story of the Movie (w/ Gita Jackson) from 2019-10-27T17:16:38
A story, nay, a tale so big we had to have help to handle it, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu: Story of the Movie is a novelization slash tr...
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Killer Crabs from 2019-10-13T15:17:13
Cue the music and lift your voices in song with us, because it's the mo-st won-der-ful time ... of the year: it's time to get back on the Guy N. Smith tr...
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Skillset Magazine from 2019-09-29T13:13:12
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141 — Noble Beginnings: A Jack Noble Thriller (Jack Noble #1) from 2019-09-15T18:01:25
Ace Frehley - No Regrets: A Rock N' Roll Memoir from 2019-09-02T16:20:35
No Regrets by Ace Frehley? More like "No, Regrets"!! For the first time in a LONG time we hop back on the rock bio train, and find that it treat...
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Ricochet Joe from 2019-08-18T18:32:25
Bouncing off the walls with at least one too many cups of coffee, it's the IDEOTV squad (-ron) chasing after Ricochet Joe! This is a prime blast...
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The Rubber Band (A Nero Wolfe Mystery) from 2019-08-04T19:09:44
Coming at you faster than a stretchy missile off of a young boy's outstretched finger(s), it's Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe's The Rubber Band! What is...
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Doc Savage: The Sinister Shadow from 2019-07-21T22:03:01
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! And so does Doc Savage. This is just one of the things that makes the two of them rival...
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Duel to the Death from 2019-07-07T19:47:07
Picked out and up at a literal airport bookstore, it's the greatest fight we've ever had: J.A. Jance's Duel to the Death: An Ali Reynolds Mystery Listen
The Notbeook from 2019-06-23T18:39:57
One journal you won't want to take a bullet for, it's Nicholas Sparks' rain-drenched kayak epic The Notebook! The gothic tale of a war ...
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The Wurms of Blearmouth from 2019-06-13T00:18:26
Swords? More than a couple. Sorcery? Some, but not so much that you'd get upset about it. Sandals? Probably not, but we can't swear that weren't any in ....
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Plotting for Murder (Cozy Mystery Bookshop Series Book 1) from 2019-05-26T17:34:06
Just in time for J.W.'s birthday, we crack the spine on Tamra Baumann's Plotting for Murder. Full disclosure: this breaks a few of our rules, in...
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Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy from 2019-05-12T18:23:07
This episode, we ask you all to take us down to Raccoon City, where the herbs are green and the ammo's scanty -- Take. Us. Home. We sneak into a supposed...
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Friday the 13th: Mother's Day from 2019-04-28T16:45:26
Just in time for Mother's Day, or maybe early for Halloween, it's just flat-out time to get extremely spooky, so we're bringing you the PG-est horror out...
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An Important Announcement (LIVE SHOW 04/11/2019) from 2019-04-06T17:26:12
Just poppin' in your feed with an advertisement for our extremely free live show that is happening, here in San Francisco, in just a matter of days.
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Witch&Wizard from 2019-03-31T15:32:55
It's the greatest crossover of all time—again!!—as the delightful Kait & Renata from Worst Bestsellers<...
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Pirate Latitudes from 2019-03-17T16:50:39
Is that a parrot on your shoulder or are you just glad to see ... Pirate Latitudes, a supposed novel supposedly found in Michael Crichton's file...
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The Way to Dusty Death from 2019-03-03T20:54:22
Helmet, jumpsuit, maybe a catheter: these are the things we needed to hop behind the wheel of Alistair MacLean's The Way to Dusty Death, and it'...
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Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery from 2019-02-17T15:42:07
Throw us a bone, here, people, and don't unleash a pack of "IDEOTVPod has gone to the dogs" jokes, just because we've finally managed to collar a couple ...
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When Thief Meets Thief from 2019-02-03T19:26:08
What is the sound of a skull batting again and again at the hardest wall any coconut failed to crack? Why, it's the sound of your pals reading Harry Step...
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Swine Not? -- A Novel Pig Tale from 2019-01-20T20:13:06
It's real original yacht rock time over here, folks: Belly up to the groaning board and get ready to pig out, because the buffet we've got ready for you,...
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Slow Bullets from 2019-01-06T17:30:41
Pet Sematary from 2018-12-23T17:24:28
For this holiday season, we've got a gift for you! It's a box with a cat in it—but you will never know if kitty lives and breathes or not, becau...
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Nights in Rodanthe from 2018-12-09T19:36:44
Long nights, impossible odds, keeping your eye to the keyhole, that's what it's like to spend your nights within Nights at Rodanthe. Our first encounter with the redoubtable Nicholas Sp...
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The Czar of Fear (A Doc Savage Adventure) from 2018-11-25T20:06:44
Feel a glory in so rolling on the human heart a stone entitled The Czar of Fear* as IDEOTVPod lives out a long-term dream and finally hops on the running board with the Man of Bronze hi...
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The Maze Runner from 2018-11-11T20:12:48
Just in time for Thanksgiving, a heartwarming tale of fleet-footed deliverers of Native American corn, it's The Maize Runne—I'm being told that ...
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IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas from 2018-10-14T11:15:39
It had to happen eventually: The world turns, the back issues pile up, and the opinions, the opinions just have to find release, and no place ha...
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Spy Killer from 2018-09-30T16:58:17
It's time...for us to take on one of the pale male faces surely adorning everyone's Bad Book Rushmore, but for complicated reasons we explain at no little length, we enjoy or anyway endure one o...
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Daughter of the Blood from 2018-09-02T18:30:06
You wanted the best, you've got the best, because we're joined byHow2Wrestlin...
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Who Moved My Cheese? from 2018-08-19T19:11:37
We're not trapped in a maze with you, Who Moved My Cheese?—you're trapped in here with us! After some more or less satisfying mysteries, we're returning to the self-help / moti...
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The Otter of Death: A Gunn Zoo Mystery (No. 5) from 2018-08-08T06:26:39
Murdered by Wine: A Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery (No. 13) from 2018-07-22T20:14:22
It's not Death by Chocolate, it's Murdered by Wine: A Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery! Folks, we took a look at our recent offerings: presidents, borders...
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The Way of the Shadow Wolves from 2018-07-08T15:20:12
The country's in dire straits indeed, even when not listening to Dire Straits, and it's clear that only two men are literarily capable of breaking down t...
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The President Is Missing from 2018-06-24T09:41:31
"The president is missing," you say? "Christ, I wish!" Sorry, that's not what this book is about, though. This episode drops the bucket down int...
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Nick Carter, Killmaster: Amsterdam from 2018-05-27T19:25:43
Who's the guy who made the Cold War ... cool? Why, the American James Bond, Nick Carter, of course! And it doesn't get much cooler than Nick Carter, ...
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12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos from 2018-05-13T19:45:46
The latest entry in the ever-popular "Actually, Focusing Exclusively on Yourself Is the Best Thing for Everybody" sweepstakes is Jordan Peterson's lengthy tome 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote...
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Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror from 2018-04-28T21:52:15
Watery but not quite grave, it's Steve Alten's Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror that we're sinking our rows of nine-inch teeth into this time around....
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Mazes And Monsters from 2018-04-15T18:43:21
Straight out of 1979, with a cool glass of white wine and an extremely wide collar, comes Rona Jaffe's disturbingly fictionalized account of a disturbing...
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103 - The Bible Code from 2018-03-30T23:20:05
There's a few ways to get ready for The Bible Code, a giant hit from a bygone era that finally—finally!—solves the ancient puzzle: what if there were a conspiracy theory that was all Ea...
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102 — The Angel Experiment: Maximum Ride (Book 1) from 2018-03-18T18:01:19
For Part One of our Big Podcast Crossover Event, we bring in Kait and Ren...
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things from 2018-03-03T20:30:16
Our first episode to be scored entirely by harp, harpsichord, and ocarina, it's the oft-requested short side story The Slow Regard of Silent Things Listen
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo from 2018-02-18T05:34:01
It's episode one hundred (!) so we knew we had to go big, and it certainly doesn't get much bigger than six hundred pages of New York Times best-seller (...
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The Naturalist from 2018-02-04T19:11:48
Enjoy or anyway endure the bucolic splendor of Andrew Mayne's ... The Naturalist. Crisp, clean Montana air. Stars so clear and sharp they perforate yo...
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Hollywood Wives from 2017-12-23T20:48:17
You wanted the best, you got the best, in the form of the trashiest trash novel we have seen yet, Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives. Hard sex? Che...
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Flashback #2 — Necroscope from 2017-12-10T18:47:27
Long-dead voices returning from the grave to tell you all about what they think. No, it's not just a description of this flashback to the first episode f...
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Love Monkey from 2017-11-26T20:27:23
What do you call a rom-com that isn't funny and ends with the main character alone? Love Monkey by Kyle Smith is at least one of the possible answers to that question. We're joined by t...
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The Boz: Confessions of a Modern Anti-Hero from 2017-11-12T20:43:49
The nights lengthen, the days grow colder, and our allotted days slough away -- but, on the plus side, we welcome the world's best sportswriter, David J....
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Myth Conceptions from 2017-10-15T18:30:44
Grab your Dio tape and tug your jerkin into place, because it's time to get extremely barbaric with Robert Aspirin's sword and farcery romp Myth Conc...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull from 2017-10-01T14:55:35
Take your broken wing(s) and learn to fly again, not with Mr. Mister but with Mr. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Mr. Richard Bach, in close formation wi...
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A Shot of Whiskey and a Kiss You'll Regret in the Morning from 2017-09-17T21:43:33
Collin Yost's A Shot of Whiskey and a Kiss You'll Regret in the Morning is the book that made Marianne Moore write "I, too, dislike it" about po...
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A Million Little Pieces from 2017-09-04T19:41:33
By a writer who thinks he's hot shit (but is actually just a cold turkey), it's A Million Little Pieces, James Frey's fake memoir slash terrible...
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Blaster Master (Worlds of Power #1) from 2017-08-18T20:48:03
Worlds of Power No. 1: Blaster Master: a strange artifact, here, not as clumsy or random as fanfic, an elegant read from a more civilized age. Y...
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TekLab (TekWar Series Book 3) from 2017-08-07T01:38:44
Because sometimes there's a man, we won't say a hero, but what is a hero, anyway, who can take skycabs down the mean streets without himself becoming mea...
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Rush Revere and the American Revolution from 2017-07-23T17:08:51
From the mind of Rush Limbaugh and four of his closest corporate lackeys comes Rush Revere and the American Revolution, a book in his "Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans"...
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You've Been Warned from 2017-07-09T17:39:42
Answering the question "Wha happens when you try to write a taut horror-thriller but forget to finish it and just publish your initial collection of scen...
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I, the Jury from 2017-06-25T21:55:16
From we, the podcasters, for you, the listeners, I, the Jury, by Mickey Spillane. Did You Know: Bad books actually have been around for more tha...
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Traveler #5: Road War from 2017-06-13T02:52:06
Call shotgun, but only if you've got one, because it's time for IDEOTVPOD to hit the open, post-apocalyptic road with our latest men's adventure trip, D. B. Drumm's Traveler #5: Road War Listen
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment from 2017-05-29T15:35:25
If you cross a plague of locusts with a parade of nonsense, what do you get? The answer does not lie in Scott "Dilbert Guy"'s bizarre tract God's Deb...
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I'm With the Band from 2017-05-15T00:34:15
For Mothers' Day, the mother of all hanging-out-with-the-band books, I'm with the Band, brought to us by star of Listen
Valley of the Dolls from 2017-04-30T19:24:43
[FLASHBACK #1] Those Who Trespass from 2017-04-20T19:06:37
We don't normally do this, but given current events, we figured there'd be no better time to dig back through the archives and re-release a classic episode, Bill O'Reilly's batshit thriller "Tho...
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Widow's Walk from 2017-04-17T04:03:06
This episode, we're hitching a ride on up to Boston to tag along with a sassy, tough-guy grandpa private eye, as he attempts to get to the bottom of a my...
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ICP: Behind The Paint (Pt. 2 of 2) from 2017-04-04T19:23:19
ICP: Behind The Paint (Pt. 1 of 2) from 2017-03-19T22:22:52
It had to happen, and it had to happen in exactly this way: I Don't Even Own a Television meets the juggalos, as we sit down with with a clown and read V...
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Monday Night Jihad from 2017-03-07T03:08:51
You're guaranteed to get a kick out of retired pro football placekicker Jason Elam (and his ghostw...
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The First Inaugural Bad Book Party (Live) from 2017-02-20T02:58:59
Bit of a change of format this time around, as we bring you our second live event, and our first Bad Book Party! From audience-provided oddities to the l...
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No One Here Gets Out Alive from 2017-02-07T03:58:22
Prepare to grapple with the gods* as we're joined by comics writer and major dude Christopher (@xtop) Sebela to discuss the sleaziest rock bio we have eve...
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Outlaw of Gor from 2017-01-08T21:41:34
With a kind of ... lugubrious inexorability, rough-hewn, thick-thewed hosts J. W. Friedman and C. Collision thrust themselves into the rugged world of Jo...
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Ender's Game from 2016-12-26T20:19:05
Our holiday tradition rolls on as we encounter yet another massive science-fiction hit, as we, with help of shadow producer Casey Occhialini get all up o...
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Five Nights At Freddy's: The Silver Eyes from 2016-12-12T19:54:06
Your dynamic duo, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision, take on the terrible twosome of Scott Cawthorn and Kira Breed-Wrisley in Five Nights at Freddy'...
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The Girl on the Train from 2016-11-28T03:59:59
Ah, the rhythmic clickety-clack of rail travel, the chuggety comforts of trains, the suburban father's hobby! At least that's what we assumed we were goi...
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NANOWRIMO Special Bonus Episode from 2016-11-21T23:23:28
We asked for it and you gave it to us, one fairly brutal paragraph at a time, and now here it is: your friends J. and Clsn reading more than 30 (!) entries for our First Ever National Novel Writ...
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Clockwork Angels from 2016-11-14T05:00
The time has come, and it won't stand still: after a couple years, we finally go for the big money, put Rush into the limelight, and turn the camera eye ...
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Tori Amos: Piece by Piece from 2016-10-30T22:05:50
This Halloween, put down your flying broom and pick up the pieces -- Piece by Piece, by Tori Amos and Ann K. Powers! With special guest and Tori...
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Forever Pucked from 2016-10-04T05:17:38
As voted on by our supporters on the IDEOTVPOD Patreon, this episode we're strapping on ...
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Level 26: Dark Origins from 2016-09-19T04:00
What lurks beneath the bottom of the barrel? Well, we checked. Turns out that beneath the barrel's bottom slithers Anthony Zuiker's Level 26: Dark Or...
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Dragonlance Chronicles Vol. 1 from 2016-09-05T04:00
As foretold in ancient scrolls, Clsn and J. fulfill the grim prophecies and embark on a quest most dire: get somehow through the dullest book we've seen ...
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The Da Vinci Code (w/ Lauren O'Neal and Niko Bakulich) from 2016-08-22T19:33:49
Renowned author Dan Brown's renowned book The Da Vinci Code provides a renowned topic for renowned podcasters J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision...
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Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good from 2016-08-08T01:41:50
Prepare yourselves for true depravity, because this time around, we're taking on Corey Taylor, vocalist of Slipknot and Stone Sour, and his book Seve...
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War Against the Mafia: The Executioner, Book 1 (Mack Bolan) from 2016-07-24T20:32:38
If you like your sex scenes extremely long and your gunplay extremely every single chapter, then you just may be the target audience for Against the ...
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Sass Girls X (w/ K Thor Jensen) from 2016-07-11T15:56:53
In the quest for the weirdest and worst artifacts available, J. and Collision welcome K. Thor Jensen to the show to discuss Sass...
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Big Apple Takedown (w/ Kefin Mahon) from 2016-06-27T07:55:35
Big fun in this big episode about Big Apple Takedown! Your hosts and exceptional guest Listen
Money, Pizza, Respect from 2016-06-13T03:54
Money. Pizza. Respect. Two of these things are probably okay, but all of them will leave a bad taste in your mouth when they come from a "book" by Joshua...
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List of the Lost from 2016-05-16T03:23:14
LISTENER ADVISORY: it is okay to like the Smiths, who were good; it is defensible to like Morrissey, because there's no accounting for tastes; but if you...
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Hammer of the Gods from 2016-05-02T00:35:44
Say what you will about Led Zeppelin and the average rock bio, but this particular rock bio is (a) about Led Zeppelin and (b) full of hot air. Join us as we...
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If They Only Knew from 2016-04-13T02:28:36
Spring is sproinging, and that means it's time for your favorite topic and ours: baseball! Scratch that: metaphysics! Written by a baseball player! In th...
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New Game +: The Geek's Guide to Love, Sex,&Dating from 2016-03-31T01:54:34
For the show's big, blooming second anniversary, we're getting super-seductive with Harris O'Malley's most book-like object yet, New...
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Night of the Crabs from 2016-03-16T03:49:48
Wilder than Wild Animus. Weirder than Necroscope. Wronger than Scruples. Surging it comes in from the sea off the coast of Wal...
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The Force Awakens (Live) from 2016-03-02T01:19:11
Feel a great disturbance in the force, as though a huge number of voices cried out "this book bites!" and were not silenced, ever. This episode, IDEOTV m...
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The Hardcore Truth (w/ Bill Hanstock) from 2016-02-03T04:08:44
With special guest Bill Hanstock, J. and Collision pull on their boots and step inside the squared circle to wrestle with pro-wrestling lifer "Hardcore" Bob Holly's memoir, The Hardcore Trut...
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Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah from 2016-01-19T19:13:09
Get your wings, along with J. and Collision, as the author of definitive 70s artifact Jonathan Livingston Seagull struggles to follow up his meg...
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The 50th Law (w/ Centa Schumacher) from 2016-01-06T22:50:10
Friends! Enter the new year like we'd enter the dragon: terrified, trembling, tipsy (a little) and accompanied by 50 Cent! Lose your fears and embrace loathing everyone around you because they a...
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Snow Crash from 2015-12-22T19:54:58
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon from 2015-12-09T01:14:54
Sometimes you want to go where every pun will cause you pain -- so grab your wallet, stoke your thirst, and join J. and Collision in Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, where...
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The Alchemist from 2015-11-25T04:08:01
Some years back, Paulo Coelho transmuted bad advice and a child's sense of story into a massive bestseller. And today, Collision and J. magically transfo...
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Casino Royale (w/ Lauren Parker) from 2015-11-10T23:46:50
Condominium from 2015-10-27T18:07:45
There's a single question that has driven most of the great books in history: "What would happen if young, unpleasant people acquired property?" That's the question at the heart of this book, a ...
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Kitchen Confidential from 2015-10-14T01:00
In this episode, the fish truly don't fry in the kitchen, and the beans don't burn on the grill. It's a sizzler this time around, as J. and Collision read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidentia...
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Shadow Moon (w/ Tricia Ellis) from 2015-09-30T06:03:58
What happens when Star Wars creator/destroyer George Lucas hires X-Men writer Chris Claremont to make a trilogy in the style of Lord of the Rings? An incomprehensible, sodden mess, as it turns ...
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Flowers In the Attic (w/ Centa Schumacher&Amanda Brand) from 2015-09-16T02:01:50
Today J. and Collision are getting high -- attic high! With mondo-special guests Centa and Amanda, the IDEOTV te...
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DOOM: Knee-Deep in the Dead (w/ Poncho Martinez) from 2015-09-01T22:26:55
Hey, kids! Do you like playing Video Games? Do you like watching other people play video games? Do you like people telling you about playing video games? Do you like people telling you the s...
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Candy Girl (w/ Lemon) from 2015-07-09T00:19:49
Killing Floor (A Jack Reacher Novel) from 2015-06-25T19:59:15
A lot of old-school fun this time around, as Chris and J discuss Lee Child's strangely tame thriller/exploration of male fantasy "Killing Floor". Chris drinks way too much delic...
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The Curse of Jezebel (w/ Centa Schumacher) from 2015-06-11T00:14:15
They can't all be winners, and Frank G. Slaughter's "The Curse of Jezebel" definitely proves that axiom. Join us and semi-regular guest Centa Schumacher as we discuss a book that can probably be...
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance from 2015-05-22T18:08:20
Well then. Here's a book that probably blew your dad's mind back in the day. Sorry about your dad's mind, really and truly. Join our unnamed narrator and a cast of characters including our unnam...
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Wild Animus (w/ Tim Faust) from 2015-04-22T04:00
That's wild stuff, man. Wild. In this episode, we discuss Rich Shapero's "Wild Animus" with guest Tim Faust. Jay is convinced that this is the worst book he's read for this show. That is saying ...
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Paranoia (w/ Bill Hanstock) from 2015-03-13T04:26:02
This week's book is some sweet brogrammin' intrigue, a spy story geared towards the hip high-tech youth of America, circa 2004. Screenwriter and sports columnist Bill Hanstock joins me as we fol...
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Treacherous Love (w/ Mara Wilson) from 2015-02-25T03:32:27
This time, the book in question is Beatrice Sparks' "Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager". Following in the tradition of Sparks' most well-known work, "Go Ask Alice", this is a ...
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On The Brink (w/ Jeb Lund&Rocky Swift) from 2015-02-04T04:26:10
A rip-roaring return to form after a month-and-a-half hiatus. This episode, I'm getting down to business and discussing Ben Stein's finanical thriller "On The Brink" with returning guest Jeb Lun...
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The Actuator: Fractured Earth (w/ Alexander Hinman) from 2014-12-09T04:14:48
In this episode, I'm joined by Alexander Hinman to discuss "The Actuator: Fractured Earth". "The Actuator" is a new video ga-- er-- book series about a group of "machine monks" ...
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Scar Tissue (w/ Ben Firke) from 2014-11-26T04:24:38
Today I'm joined by playwright and fellow music-obsessive Ben Firke and we discuss "Scar Tissue", the autobiography of Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Keidis. We shed some light on our respective...
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"Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" w/ Centa Schumacher from 2014-11-08T05:25:38
In this episode, all pretense of structure is abandoned when Centa and I discuss "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", a guide to American manliness by Bruce Feirstein. And YES, I know it was Bobby Riggs...
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The Eye of Argon (w/ K Thor Jensen) from 2014-10-21T06:49:45
Writer and cartoonist K Thor Jensen joins me this week as we discuss the triumphant tale of the barbarian *ahem* Grignr as he invokes the god *ahem* Mrifk in his fight against the evil forces of...
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Necroscope (w/ Chris Collision) from 2014-09-10T19:20:46
"Vampirism, Necromancy, Supernatural Mayhem... and Screaming Bloody Terror." Um... yep. That's what's in this book all right. Join Chris Collision and myself as we rip the guts out of this novel...
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Voodoo Child (w/ Eugene Violet) from 2014-09-03T21:11:44
"Voodoo Child" is a graphic novel created by Nicolas Cage and his son Weston. It's about a biracial superhero crusading against cajun demons and a government conspiracy in post-Katrina New Orlea...
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Super Sad True Love Story (w/ Poncho Martinez) from 2014-08-28T21:28:39
Wow, this is a creepy book by a creepy man. There's not much else to say about it. Please enjoy as Poncho Martinez and I deconstruct "Nabokov for man-children."
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A Spell For Chameleon (w/ Jesse Dangerously) from 2014-08-15T05:42:09
Content Warning: This book is filled with some of the most atrocious sexual ethics you will ever encounter and it needed to be discussed. So there are some sensitive issues ...
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Covert Conception (w/ Mara Wilson) from 2014-08-08T03:58:51
Secret eugenics programs? Harley mechanics? Babies, babies, babies? Sounds like a Harlequin Intrigue book to me.
Join myself and internet storyteller of note Mara Wilson as we recount our...
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"Stranger in a Strange Land" w/ Adam Marler from 2014-08-01T01:44:16
OH NO. I'M TACKLING A SACRED COW. i will gladly admit that talking about this book was my idea b/c i found it really off-putting in so many ways. after researching, i found out that this book is...
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"Chariots of the Gods" w/ Centa Schumacher from 2014-07-24T02:41:03
Hope you guys like "Drunk History" cuz that's what we accidentally made this week. Join Centa Schumacher and I as we have an obviously intoxicated late-night discussion about a piece of complete...
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"Those Who Trespass" with Jeb Lund from 2014-07-16T03:30:06
This is a long one. It's a long one about a mystery novel written by Bill O'Reilly. And it guest-stars Jeb Lund. If you thought Jeb and I would be able to talk about a Bill O'Reilly novel for an...
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"Dude, You're Gonna Be a Dad" (w/ Klopfenpop) from 2014-07-09T02:37:48
Join us as internet music impressario, funny man, and expecting father Klopfenpop joins ME to talk about a really bad book about advice for people in his situation. This was written by a very co...
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"Left Behind" w/ Leeman Kessler from 2014-07-02T04:19:27
Hoo boy. HOO BOY. In this episode, I team up with Leeman Kessler, creator and host of "Ask Lovecraft" and Actual Practicing Christian™ to talk about "Left Behind" and how friggin ridiculous it i...
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Ready Player One (w/ Mike Sacco) from 2014-06-09T22:52:04
HOLY SHIT. People like this book. SMART people like this book. The New York Times liked this book. The problem is that this book is a piece of crap that basically functions as a checklist of nos...
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Veeck -- As In Wreck (w/ TIm Harrison) from 2014-06-07T21:25:05
WARNING: BASEBALL NERD EDITION
I recommended that we mock "Veeck - As In Wreck" solely after reading the first chapter, which is quite disturbing and has to do w...
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Backwards Masking Unmasked (w/ David Thorpe) from 2014-05-28T02:44:29
Join myself and noted internet humorist and music critic David Thorpe as we examine the shadowy world of backwards messages hidden inside the darkest metal records of the 70's and 80's, includin...
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Let Me Tell You Something (w/ Amanda Brand) from 2014-05-14T03:59:13
RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE THAT INCLUDES ONE BULLDOG
unofficially brought to you by a crappy malt beverage with a surprisingly high ABV
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Michelle Remembers (w/ Poncho Martinez) from 2014-05-06T05:05:43
Welp. You've either heard of it or you haven't. Either way, this is the supposed "true story" of a five-year old girl who was abducted by a Satanic cult and only managed to remember after years ...
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A Princess of Mars (w/ Centa Schumacher) from 2014-04-30T05:18:09
Remember that Barsoom is just one letter away from Barroom. I dunno why but you should remember that.
In this episode, fabulous photographer and free-thinker and wife-of-host (who is also...
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The Rules According to JWOWW (w/ Rachel Millman) from 2014-04-23T05:52
Tanning Lotion? Smushing? Weird sections about underage drinking that feel bizzarely personal?
Join me and Rachel Millman as we delve way too far into the void that is the mind of Jen...
Motley Crue: The Dirt (w/ Jackson O'Brien) from 2014-04-16T05:00
In Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, a bunch of idiots talk about being dumb except pretend that it's really important. Luckily, Jacks...
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Anthem (with Dave Stattler) from 2014-04-09T05:00
In episode number two, I probably already bite off more than I can chew as I invite Dave Stattler, aka Twitter's @glopdemon on-board to rant and rave about Ayn Rand's "Anthem".
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Pregnesia (with Jeb Lund) from 2014-03-28T17:44:17
In our inaugural episode, Jay is joined by Gawker columnist Jeb Lund for a discussion of the Harlequin Suspense novel "Pregnesia", which centers around pregnancy, amnesia, and a...
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