{"podcast":{"title":"Test Pattern","slug":"test-pattern-7716775","podcast_index_feed_id":7716775,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6994ecf1c208b1a93139e348","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/test-pattern","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6994ecf1c208b1a93139e348/1771805608099-6f0c6c05-8f1c-4a22-b868-d593077ddd7a.jpeg","author":"Test Pattern","episode_count":11,"summary":"Test Pattern is a podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett. Conversations about the films that shape us — first watches, deep cuts, lifelong obsessions, and the ones we build our personalities around. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T10:20:10.654705+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775"},"episode":{"title":"Alexei Toliopoulos","slug":"alexei-toliopoulos","published_at":"2026-03-24T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775/alexei-toliopoulos","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775","url":"https://shows.acast.com/test-pattern/episodes/69c22bb27878605e11c0ff7a","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6994ecf1c208b1a93139e348/e/69c22bb27878605e11c0ff7a/media.mp3","summary":"Alexei Toliopoulos — film critic, movie lover, podcaster, comedian and video store lifer — joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about movie obsession, physical media, and the fine line between critic and creator. We get into: our origins, a mild Clint Eastwood phase, Greek intermissions, curating movies for planes, Inner West movies, combatting cultural cringe, Margaret and David, third generation physical collecting, Enter the Matrix, DVD menu loops, all-time special features and commentaries, video store shelves, Ciao Magazine’s Favourite Local Character, Film Bro canon, /r/Fancasting, stagnated franchise fandoms, first Letterboxd reviews, Refused Classification, meeting your heroes, critic vs creator, Mario Puzo’s canal metaphor. Music by Gab Strum . Find Alexei on Instagram and Letterboxd . Find The Last Video Store on Instagram . Buy tickets to Alexei's comedy tour of VHS . Guy who does cool Star Wars impressions @testpatternpresents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Alexei Toliopoulos — film critic, movie lover, podcaster, comedian and video store lifer — joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about movie obsession,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7318,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/test-pattern-7716775/episodes/alexei-toliopoulos/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/test-pattern-7716775/alexei-toliopoulos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}