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Today’s guest is voice actor Billy Bob Thompson (Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!). Billy Bob is a long-time friend of mine from Philadelphia who shares my love of movie marathons and was one of the creators of our extremely brief movie marathon show, Day Wasters.
Billy Bob’s Staff Selects got us talking about screwball comedy and its intersection with horror, serious acting performances in insane movies, great theatrical experiences, 90s action sleaze, shot-on-video gold, and puppets.
Follow Billy Bob’s new 16mm exhibition project CINEMILITIA (https://www.instagram.com/cinemilitia/).
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3 Oct 2026
Episode 20: Joe Moore
This is big: The Village Video Store podcast now has a theme song! And that theme song was created by this week’s guest, Joe Moore. Joe and I became friends doing comedy in Philadelphia over a decade ago and have bonded over our love of movie marathons and special theatrical experiences.
Joe’s Staff Selects are all in celebration of the Halloween season and got us talking about horror auteurs, blue-collar characters, movies to fall asleep to, destroying the bourgeoisie, little freaky monsters, and the existential questions that come from zombie movies over… and over… and over again.
Joe wrote an entire novelty Halloween song album called “The Mummy Forgot the Chips!” by Joe Moore’s Explodin’ Halloween Garage, which you can listen to and buy on Bandcamp (https://thejoemoore.bandcamp.com/album/the-mummy-forgot-the-chips). Support Joe! It’s a great time, guaranteed!
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24 Sept 2026
Episode 19: Rob Baniewicz
This episode features my long-time Philadelphia friend, comedian and television producer Rob Baniewicz. We talk all about our love of the movie marathon and try to calculate how many hours we’ve actually spent sitting next to each other in a movie theater.
Rob’s Staff Selects got us talking about existential dread, state violence against its own citizens, effective documentary techniques, shot-on-video masterpieces, still getting surprised by twists in movies, and the unexplored world of Tubi originals.
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