Podcast
VHS Tapes Are Magic
Hosted by Matt McCarthy · EN
Matt McCarthy explores the history of Video Stores and talks to current and former video store employees as well as home movie collectors and movie lovers.
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Ep.5 - WIll Hirsch & Forever Midnight Scary Movie Research Center
4w ago02:54:54Tap to summarizeApril 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. _____________________________________________ 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! TheVideoMovieClub@gmail.com VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617
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Ep.4 - Alex Ross Perry & Ken Reid & Michigan Is Dead (with Joe Bob Briggs!)
Mar 3003:54:31Tap to summarizeEarly 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. _____________________________________________ 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! TheVideoMovieClub@gmail.com VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617
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Ep.3 - Jane Fonda's Workout & Luce Tomlin-Brenner and Videotheque
Feb 1303:29:47Tap to summarizeHappy 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! TheVideoMovieClub@gmail.com VHS donations accepted at: Matt McCarthy PO Box 4854 Valley Village CA 91617
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Show Trailer!
Jan 1000:01:09Tap to summarizeWhat 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!
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Ep.2 - Video Theater & Josh "Lunchmeat VHS" Schafer
Jan 801:48:12Tap to summarizeWe'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! TheVideoMovieClub@gmail.com
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Ep.1 - Patrick Walsh & Magnetic Video
Dec 802:16:59Tap to summarizeIt'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!
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Godzilla vs. Kong
Apr 1, 202101:18:15Tap to summarizeIT'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
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Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Dec 11, 202001:03:25Tap to summarizeI hate Godfather Part III. How will I feel about Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone??? LET'S FIND OUT!!! 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
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VHS - "Treehouse of Horror... I - IV"
Nov 1, 202001:23:48Tap to summarizeISSUE #100 - Justifying My Movie Collection. Does this label say Treehouse of Horror I-IV or I-IX? LET'S FIND OUT! 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
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Halloween III Season of the Witch
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