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Cigar Nerds Podcast: Demolition Time

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Demolition Time. What’s your bogle citizen? This week we inspire Joy Joy feelings by talking about thirty years of Demolition Man. When the future is in trouble you need an old school action hero. In Science we talk to Europa Clipper Dep Science Manager Trina Ray. In

Flopcast 594 DragonCon Twilek waitresses

Flopcast 594: Dragon Con Review Part 3 – Gorilla Noises

Flopcast episode 594! Okay, let’s wrap up our coverage of Dragon Con 2023! (Because come on, if this recap goes on much longer, we’ll have to include Dragon Con 2024…) Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown (reporting from Maine in the middle of a hurricane) are here to run through

Flopcast 593 Superman and bear

Flopcast 593: Dragon Con Review Part 2 – Stay Away From Aquaman

Flopcast episode 593! Our Dragon Con recap continues, and this time we’re just covering Saturday. While everyone else in Atlanta was out on the street for the big Dragon Con parade, Kevin was hiding in the American Sci-Fi Classics Track room for the ESO Network’s celebration of the 50th anniversary

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Dragon Con Wrap Up 2023

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Dragon Con 2023 Wrap Up. We survived our mission to seek out the Dragon of the Con. We saw brave knights do battle, Transformers rock the house, drank some pie, and about a million Barbie. Tune in a listen to our recap of Dragon Con 2023. We

Flopcast 592 Dire Straits video guys

Flopcast 592: Dragon Con Review Part 1 – The Duck Is Fine

Flopcast episode 592! We have apparently survived Dragon Con 2023, and it’s gonna take THREE episodes to review everything that happened at our favorite annual gathering of 70,000 nerds and/or geeks. This week we’re just covering Wednesday through Friday, including: The amazing costumes of Brandon the Shapeshifter, the muscovy ducks

Flopcast 591 Dragon Con costume

Flopcast 591: Dragon Con Schedule Fun – Good Job, Everybody

Flopcast episode 591! It’s Dragon Con week! Alas, Kornflake cannot join us at Dragon Con, but let’s just pretend that she can! Kevin has prepared a hypothetical weekend of silly events for Kornflake, based on the actual Dragon Con schedule. Including: robot battles, coloring books and coffee, burlesque, the old

Flopcast 590 Schmigadoon

Flopcast 590: Everybody’s on Strike – Our Dragon Con Preview

Flopcast episode 590! It’s time for Dragon Con, so round up all your local weirdos and stick them on a bus to Atlanta! Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown will be there, and we’re sharing our whole schedule with you. Come see the Mayor talk about Rocky Horror, Schmigadoon, and Barbie! (Did

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Hidden Strike

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Hidden Strike. Jackie Chan is back! Don’t call it a come back this week we’re talking about the new Jackie Chan and John Cena action extravaganza, Hidden Strike. In science we talk about brain scans for rock and roll, tarantulas looking for love, video games predict the

Flopcast 589 Computer chewing gum

Flopcast 589: Nightmare on 1989 Street

Flopcast episode 589! As we frantically prepare for Dragon Con 2023, we’re wrapping up our 10-episode look back at the 1980s with a visit to Dragon Con 1989! We weren’t actually there (probably too busy watching Batman for the nineteenth time), but we did scrape up some information about the third ever

Flopcast 588 George Michael

Flopcast 588: 1988 Could Never Tear Us Apart

Flopcast episode 588! The vacationing Kornflake is flopped on a hammock somewhere, but the Mayor of Chickentown is here to celebrate the year 1988. After a quick look at some of the year’s least popular movies (Kevin and the Mayor each saw just one of them), we turn to music.

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Not so Secret Invasion

Cigar Nerds Podcast Not So Secret Invasion. This week we’re diving back into the Marvel Universe with the Disney+ attempt at a gritty spy drama, Secret Invasion. Samuel “Snakes on a Plane” Jackson is back as Nick Fury. In science we talk about coning IA, real UFOs, Taylor Swift causing

Flopcast 587 Data and cat

Flopcast 587: The Sad Robot French Fries of 1987

Flopcast episode 587! Go away, soft weak humans! It’s time for our annual robot-themed Top 4 ½ List! And it’s also time for our 1987-themed show! So once again we’ve turned to our pal Chris from Sci-Fi Explosion, because we knew Chris could come up with a magnificent list of

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