VHS Tapes Are Magic

Matt McCarthy

Booking Overview

This is an interview-focused film and home-video history show featuring current and former video-store employees, collectors, filmmakers, comedians, and other movie-culture specialists. Agencies could credibly pitch niche film historians, independent filmmakers, video-store owners, VHS collectors, horror-media personalities, and experienced video-store professionals; booking difficulty is low because the show regularly features accessible specialists rather than requiring major mainstream prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 113

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 11.4k subscribers

Instagram: 105.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

john@griffin-talent.com

mccarthy.redhead@gmail.com

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Host

Matt McCarthy - Comedian and actor known for work in Companion, The Other Guys, CollegeHumor, and The Pete Holmes Show.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Practical experience in video stores, home-video collecting, film preservation, filmmaking, horror-film culture, or related movie-history niches. Guests may also be comedians, podcasters, store owners, or media personalities with a strong personal connection to physical media.

Required Achievements:

Filmmaking or documentary credits, Experience working in video stores, Podcasting or television-hosting experience, Ownership or operation of a specialty video store, Established expertise in VHS, home-video, or horror-film collecting

Recent Guest Discussions

Matt Pollock - Video-store Work, Home-video Culture, And Memories Of The Video-rental Era.

Will Hirsch - Working At Hollywood Video, Filmmaking, Podcasting, And Movie Culture.

Joe Bob Briggs - Horror Film Culture, Video Collecting, And The Video-store Community.

Alex Ross Perry - The History Of Video Stores As Represented In Film And Television, Filmmaking, And Working At Kim’s Video.

Ken Reid - Movie Collecting, Television Taping, And The Movie Loft.

Recent Topics

Film, Home Video, Video Stores, Vhs Collecting, Horror Film

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

VHS Tapes Are Magic

Ep.6 - Matt Pollock & Cap City Video Lounge

August 07, 2026

WE'RE BACK! What a summer it's been. This episode we talk with an old CollegeHumor collaborator and former videostore employee Matt Pollock. Then we take a trip down to Tallahassee, FL to Cap City Video Lounge and talk with owners Kevin and Maddie. And in between we flip through the pages of the US Army pamphlete that inspired Sony, 1947's 999 Uses For Magnetic Tape. OH BOY!! _____________________________________________ Join the Video Movie Club - Patreon members get a signed, numbered mem...

Ep.5 - WIll Hirsch & Forever Midnight Scary Movie Research Center

May 09, 2026

April 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 co...

Ep.4 - Alex Ross Perry & Ken Reid & Michigan Is Dead (with Joe Bob Briggs!)

March 30, 2026

Early 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 videos...

Publicly listed emails

john@griffin-talent.com

mccarthy.redhead@gmail.com

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