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Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People

Ian Fagan died, so now his little brother (middle-aged family man Ted Fagan) and big brother (old gay nerd Matt Fagan) battle grief and stay connected by co-hosting a podcast about movies. Named after Ian Fagan"s internet handle and favorite rhetorical idea (the Depot Devoid of Thought), the brothers share childhood memories, and celebrate the terrible movies that turned them into the dreadful men they have become.Also check out the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube, for extra goodies (and

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61:41

The Mothra Prophecies

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2026/04/21

Hosts Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan are joined by the ghost of their brother Ian, in this very special episode of the Depot Devoid Podcast. The brothers have defied natural law, and violated the delicate balance of life and afterlife, in order to discuss the 2002 supernatural thriller "The Mothman Prophecies," starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. But not the 1996 legal thriller "Primal Fear," starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney.

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8:17

Up A Hippopotamus' Bottom

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2026/04/08

Matt Fagan does a dramatic reading of his children's poem, Up A Hippopotamus' Bottom.

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57:11

Mandrogynous Manbots!

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2026/03/17

We are no strangers to the works of Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment, so when MANDROID pulled into the Depot Devoid, we thought we knew what was coming. But Mandroid was more than just underdeveloped or inept, with actors who can't deliver, all of which would be fully expected. No, Mandroid was different, because it also had a script that nobody involved in its production seemed to care about, even though it was obviously trying to be the first entry in a franchise. But Mandroid is so thin

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35:23

Ravenous Memories

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2026/02/17

Once upon a time, we watched the movie 'Ravenous', a 1999 cannibal superhero comedy (?) set in 1847. Then we recorded this episode, without watching it again. The result was... funnier than it was accurate.For extra fun, check out the full video episode on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube!

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42:24

The Curious Case of the King of the Monsters

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2026/01/23

It's destruction and disorder in the Depot when the boys face their biggest challenge yet: Godzilla himself! Preschool-aged Ted watched Godzilla 1985 every week for a year, but will middle-aged Ted be able to make it through even once? It's a sequel to Godzilla that ignores about fourteen movies in between, and brings back Raymond Burr to reprise his role from the bowdlerized American version of the film. Yes, having now defeated Hamilton Burger almost 270 times, Perry Mason now sets his sights on

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73:49

You Compleat Me

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2026/01/13

Note: some parts of this episode make more sense if you watch the full video version (available on the Depot Devoid YouTube channel), but those parts are mostly dog-related and not strictly relevant to the movie.THE COMPLEAT AL brought the music videos of "Weird Al" Yankovic into our homes back in 1985, but was also a significant and often-overlooked entry in the nascent mockumentary genre. For the terrible gentlemen of the Depot Devoid, and their dead brother Ian, THE COMPLEAT AL was a formative

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56:04

Depot! The Genetic Opera

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/12/23

Ted was excited because he'd never even heard of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Matt had uncertain memories of a single viewing 17 years ago. Join the meandering Fagan brothers for a lively discussion about this musical - and other musicals! Is it true that the dystopian world of 2056 that we see in Repo! is actually the same world from The Apple, after all the good people got raptured in 1998? Will Ted learn horrifying truths about Sweeney Todd? Will Matt say some things about Stephen Sondheim that he

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100:14

They Live, They Laugh, They Love

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/12/08

Recorded three years ago, and only now dragged screaming from the vault, the meandering Fagan brothers are here to discuss THEY LIVE! John Carpenter's unabashedly anti-Reagan science fiction picture is, sadly, even more relevant now. Laugh to keep from crying as we revisit one of our favorite flicks from the eighties.

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65:48

Boys Are Gross (Boxing Helena Revisited)

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/11/26

Matt wanted to reassess this movie he watched thirty years ago, and decided to inflict it on Ted along the way. The debut film from Jennifer Lynch, BOXING HELENA is plagued with problems. Uneven pacing. An indecisive relationship with reality. Julian Sands' haircut. But beneath all of that is a fascinating idea that could have worked, and it's an idea worth talking about.

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80:37

Mirror, Father, Mirror (and other terrible things...

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/11/11

Who better to discuss GHOST WORLD - a movie about teenage girls navigating life after high school - than two middle aged men? Matt has loved it for over 20 years, but Ted requires some convincing.

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74:22

At the Batmountains of Batmadness

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2025/10/18

Desperate to find a terrible introduction to the themes and stories of H.P. Lovecraft? Look no further than BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM - a lushly animated, lazily written pastiche of Lovecraftian themes, splattered across the Batman mythos without inspiration or reason. Guest voice Jeffrey Combs (an actor whose association with Lovecraft adaptations goes back to Re-Animator in the mid-1980s) is pretty much the only reason to be here, but here we are! The terrible men of the Depot Devoid

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39:29

Dracula Goes Bananas

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2025/09/19

1979's "LOVE AT FIRST BITE" proved to be so aggressively forgettable that we completely forgot recording this episode a year and a half ago! But it's a perfect complement to our recent offerings, which featured Saturday the 14th and Pandemonium. Like those films, Love at First Bite seems to be something like a horror comedy, but never truly fulfills either mandate. An absurd Dracula in the form of George Hamilton, and a bumbling Van Helsing provided by Richard Benjamin, prove to be capable foils for

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55:19

Thursday the 12th

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/09/13

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 its way and never quite figured out what to be. In spite of a dozen familiar faces (Tommy Smothers, Carol Kane, Paul Reubens, Eileen Brennan, Eve Arden, Judge Reinhold, Phil Hartman, John Paragon, it just goes on!) most of the comedy falls pretty flat. But every once in a while, PANDEMONIUM serves up

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82:01

"Damn Owls!"

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/09/01

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 youngster with a love of monsters! Matt drags this 1981 Roger Corman production into the Depot Devoid this week, and makes his little brother Ted watch it - something he hasn't done for about thirty years. It's a movie PACKED with jokes, and we appreciate it differently now than we did as children, but for

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67:40

Boxing Hellraiser

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/08/12

"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 the 2022 reboot starring Jamie Clayton as the hell priest. With nothing to compare it to, would Ted like the new Pinhead? Would he think the Cenobites were cool? Would he even know what the (ahem) Hell was going on?Join us in the Depot for Ted's first look at Hellraiser. As for Matt? He didn't open the

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65:26

This is Not a Drill: The Slumber Party Massacre

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/08/01

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 Mae Brown, but then rewritten and directed by Amy Jones as a mostly straight slasher, The Slumber Party Massacre is a curiously uneven Dead Teenager movie. Ted is not convinced that the murderer made the best choice of weapon, even though it was metaphorically necessary. Matt, being immune to the power of

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30:11

Typewriter Sex Robots!

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/07/18

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 nonlinear narrative of William S Burroughs' novel into a surprisingly coherent film. Ted's audio is weird for the first two minutes, but after that, the Fagan brothers are able to make complete and utter sense of every single thing that happens in the movie. Especially the typewriter sex robots.

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109:22

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

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/07/04

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 our brother Ian. It's a show about nostalgia and grief, and the ways we find to heal. While barely discussing Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, we talk about the lives that are changing around us, and how something as simple as recording this podcast can keep us sane in an insane world. Ted has a lot to say

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80:12

Ghosted & Busted

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/06/24

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 and Ted Fagan started the Depot Devoid Podcast after they lost their brother Ian. And they recorded this episode just three weeks after Matt lost his dog to bone cancer. Not for the first time, the brothers find themselves revisiting a pivotal comedy from their youth with fresh eyes, and raw hearts

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73:09

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

Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People ·

2025/06/10

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: messy, cruel, and challenging, but also transformative, inspiring, and filled with love. Bursting at the seams with amazing music, performed by a truly complicated leading lady, Hedwig gets under your skin in the best possible way. Host Matt Fagan is an unabashed fan, and is clearly excited to share this

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