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This episode Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo discuss the legendary J-horror film "Pulse" by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001) and it's legendarily bad American remake, creatively titled "Pulse" (2006). The boys' pain becomes your pain.

55: Pulse: Ghosts On The Interweb

This week the boys get personal and discuss their favorite and least favorite moments, movies, and manga from 2021. And to kick things off they review the mess that is Ruggero Deodato's "Ballad in Blood" (2016).

60: The Best and Worst of 2021

Only a year delayed, this week the boys discuss their favorite records and video games from 2020. Hopefully you'll find these recommendations evergreen.

Disco Box Recommendations:
Ai Aso – The Faintest Hint LP – Ideologic Organ
Autechre – SIGN LP – Warp Records
Clarity – UVB76-016 12” – UVB-76
Gremlinz, Jesta & Kalu / Friske – Monolith / City Limits 12” - DROOGS
Grunt – Spiritual Eugenics 2xLP – Freak Animal
Hannah Diamond – Reflections LP – PC Music
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth LP – Iron Lung, 625 Thrashcore
Kinbakushi – Construction Site Bondage Cassette – IOPS
Metadevice – Ubiquitarchia cassette - Malignant
Regis – Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss LP - Downards
Sadio – Piss Drinking Slut 7” – Freak Animal
Taeter with Sektor 304 – The Hermeneutics of the Hunt Has Gone Full Circle CD – New Approach, Narcolepsia

2020 Reissues
Aube – Spindrift LP – Robert & Leopold 
Mania – Eros + Massacre cassette
Mania – If They Move... Kill Em cassette
Mania – Miserable Disposition cassette
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 1 LP – Blank Forms Editions
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 2 LP – Blank Forms Editions
Mental Fear Productions – Remastered Classics 2002-2006 MP3 – Mental Fear Productions
Mothra – Doom Engine LP – Cold Spring 
Toho Sara – Toho Sara 2xLP – Black Editions
White Heaven – Out LP – Black Editions

BDMFT #32: The Best Records and Video Games of 2020

Happy New Year! The boys are back in town and here to goosh and sploosh all over 2018. This episode Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo review the best records, video games, movies, live performances and life events of 2018 for your benefit. Highlights include records by Grunt, Linekraft and Portal, God of War (PS4), Hereditary, Deadpool 2, Mandy, Hospital Fest '18, Ride for Revenge and Ben's imminent fatherhood! So listen in and scream at your phone in disagreement. <3

BDMFT #6: The Best and Worst of 2018

Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo are back to kick the decade off right by immediately looking backward! Ben is on the mend from his abdominal surgery (and complications) and to make up for lost time the boys deliver this two hour episode. The Dick and the Beard discuss the best and worst life events, records, movies and video games of 2019. Come join and live in the past with Motel Hell!

47: The Best and Worst of 2019

This week Dick Fetti and Ben the Beardo interview Philadelphia tattoo artist Ian Coyle, from Wildheart Tattoo, about his job, his inspiration and his process. The boys also talk to Ian about the knowledge and cool objects he's acquired as a foreclosed property cleaner and manager. Did you know there's dildo in every home? Listen to find out more!

And don't forget to check Ian out at @juicetattuice and his shop at @wildheart_tattoo.

51: Interview With a Tattoo Artist and Foreclosed Property Cleaner

This week the boys travel to Cairns, Australia to discuss the unsolved murder of Toyah Cordingley. Dick Fetti lays out all of the information available about Toyah, the crime and the subsequent investigation. He also apologizes for his poor pronunciation of Australian names and words.

52: The Unsolved Murder of Toyah Cordingley

Dick Fetti and Ben the almost Beardo have finally been able to reunite (in a safe, socially distanced way) to record again in person. They laugh, they cry, they fart... a lot. Ben the Beardo discusses supernatural interlopers the Dover Demon and the Van Meter Visitor and Dick Fetti gives an in-depth history lesson on succubi and first wife of Adam, Lilith. But to kick things off the boys review Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers by Dominique Othenin-Girard [1989].

53: What Did the Succubus Say to the Dover Demon?

Four months since our last episode and a month since it was recorded, here's the Motel Hell wrap-up of 2020. Don't worry, the pandemic is ignored in favor in-depth discussion of the Halloween, Resident Evil and Twin Peaks franchises. Plus a review of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure".

54: The Best and Worst of 2020

Welcome to Motel Hell where we discuss obscure movies, weird music, sexual fetishes, video games and manga. Join us each episode for a new topic of interest, long digressions and sexual tension.