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Flopcast 570: Have Some Back Hair, Crunch Some Birds

Flopcast episode 570! We haven’t reviewed a weird school book club magazine from the 80s since… oh wait, it was three weeks ago. Thanks for your patience. This time we’re looking at a 1984 issue of Maniac, a short-lived Dynamite-type magazine aimed at a slightly older audience, with an added twist of Mad-style

Flopcast 568 Rick Springfield Working Class Dog

Flopcast 568: I’ve Been a Dirty Dog

Flopcast episode 568! As suggested/threatened last week, we’re doing a Top 4 ½ List of 1980s dogs. (Kornflake is obsessed with dogs, Kevin is obsessed with the 80s… this had to happen.) Including: Several cartoon dogs, a Muppet dog, a WWF wrestling dog, a rock star dog, a certain beer-chugging

Flopcast 566 Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Flopcast 566: You Know I Love Falco

Flopcast episode 566! It’s another Flopcast tribute to V66, Boston’s music video TV channel of the mid-80s! (We do this every one hundred episodes. It’s all we have.) This time we thought we’d look at Billboard’s Top 66 songs of 1986, an amazing list of absolutely classic 80s pop. (Flopcast

Flopcast 564 Eddy Grant

Flopcast 564: Rock Down to Yogurt Avenue

Flopcast episode 564! It’s a rather random 1980s-themed show, as a coin toss leads to our celebrating the birthday of 80s one hit (or maybe two hit) wonder Eddy Grant. Then we flip to a random page in our Ranking the 80s book and discuss a song about (possibly inappropriate) touching. (Yes,

Flopcast 549 A-ha Take On Me keyboardist

Flopcast 549: Keep the Misery Rolling

Flopcast episode 549! Inspired by our recent discussion of synthpop band A-ha and their massive hit “Take On Me,” we’re making a list of other 1980s songs with iconic keyboard parts. Plenty more synthy new wave acts are on the list (such as Eurythmics, Soft Cell, and Men Without Hats),

Cosmic Pizza Podcast Episode 57 – Cartoons of our Childhood

In this episode (the first of three, with Shawn and Dan to follow later) Paul looks back at the Cartoons that shaped his life. And there are a lot of them as all he used to do when he was young was sit in front of the TV (apparently). Most

Flopcast 518 Cupcake from Foz and the Happy Days Gang

Flopcast 518: 80s Vehicle FlopFight Part 2 – Light Up the Letters

Flopcast episode 518! Special guest Blasted Bill is still here, and our favorite vehicles from 1980s pop culture are still doing battle in our latest FlopFight tournament. Some major players were knocked out last week (farewell, A-Team van) as Airwolf flew straight into the finals. Can anything stop that high-tech

Flopcast 517 Michael Knight and KITT

Flopcast 517: 80s Vehicle FlopFight Part 1 – Bike on Bike Action

Flopcast episode 517! Our old pal Blasted Bill returns, and Bill is here for a FlopFight! The subject is 1980s vehicles, so your favorite cars, trucks, vans, and bikes from 80s movies and TV shall do battle. (Mr. T has the van. And if Jan Michael Vincent brings the helicopter,

Flopcast 516 Arcade movie poster

Flopcast 516: Carrie Is a Problem

It’s just more random silliness, just for you. We imagine a world in which Kornflake is in control (it’ll be all Howard Jones concerts, all the time), and Kevin recalls racing a turkey through the mean streets of Chickentown (the turkey won, of course). Then our supercomputer forces us to

Flopcast 515 Gloria Estefan with cat guy

Flopcast 515: Dedication to Pie

Flopcast episode 515! Another quick random show, including: Happy Birthday to Matthew Broderick (star of Ladyhawke) and Elton John (star of the “Nikita” music video); Kevin has a pile of 80s movie promo buttons (“Free Johnny Dangerously!”); Gloria Estefan is a cat; Madonna is not a mermaid; the American Sci-Fi Classics

Flopcast 514 Michael J Fox in a Julian Lennon video

Flopcast 514: Say We’re Wrong

Flopcast episode 514! Time for a hugely important correction: Last week we got a couple of obscure Julian Lennon videos mixed up. (The “we” means Kevin. Kornflake was innocent this time…) But it’s an excuse to revisit the wonderfully ridiculous “Stick Around” video, featuring cameos by stars from Square Pegs, Family Ties, The

Flopcast 513 Mystery Date board game cover art

Flopcast 513: Take the Chickens Bowling

Flopcast episode 513! This week we let the Chickentown Studios supercomputer randomly determine our discussion topics. (Does this mean we’re completely out of ideas? Oh, that happened six or seven years ago…) The result is an even weirder show than usual. Including: The 40th anniversary of Pac-Man Fever; songwriter Carole

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