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Flopcast 393: Notorious Martika

Flopcast episode 393! We’re a few weeks late, thanks to all those weird train-themed shows, but it’s finally time for our annual review of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees! The short version: We’re happy to see Pat Benatar and Whitney Houston on the list, but in our

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Flopcast 392: Topiary Joe

Flopcast episode 392! Okay, let’s take a break from all that controversial train talk! It’s finally time to catch up on some non-train stuff, including: Kornflake’s Halloween (featuring a Yip-Yip costume, a giant boot, a Stan Lee pumpkin, and a jug band), Kevin’s Halloween (featuring a classy chicken costume, weird

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Flopcast 391: Train Talk With Ed, Part 2 – Trainsplaining

Flopcast episode 391! This week we’re joined again by Ed, longtime friend of The Flopcast, Sponge Awareness Foundation keyboardist, and train expert from the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum! So yeah, that means more nerdy train talk! Learn the shocking truth behind the trains in pop culture classics like Stand

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Flopcast 390: Train Talk With Ed, Part 1 – All Aboard, All Alone

Flopcast episode 390! This week Kevin and Kornflake are joined by special guest Ed, from The Sponge Awareness Foundation! But Ed is not just the other half of Kevin’s old comedy band. Ed is also a train expert, and today we’re talking trains. HEY, WAIT, COME BACK. This is The

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Flopcast 389: Space Ghost, Ghost to Ghost

Flopcast episode 389! It’s another Flopcast Halloween show, and we’re counting down our favorite ghosts in a terrifying Top 4 ½ List! We have ghosts from cartoons (where Shaggy screamed “ghost” with like eleven syllables), comic books (learn which ghost Kornflake wants to cosplay), sitcoms (we just saw the most

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Flopcast 388: He Reminds Me of Frankenstein

Flopcast episode 388! It’s sort of a Halloween-themed show, but not really! Including: A concert report on super-cool garage pop band Bleached! (Their album Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough? might be our favorite record of the year…) Another concert report on a Beatles tribute supergroup, with Todd Rundgren, Christopher Cross, Badfinger’s

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Flopcast 387: Hogwash!!

Flopcast episode 387! It’s time to flip through another issue of the magazine we all bought through our school book club long ago, Dynamite! And this 1981 issue is an amazing one, because the cover features a hero of ours, and someone you’ve heard on The Flopcast: James “The Amazing” Randi!

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Flopcast 386: Wham Tangent

Flopcast episode 386! With our DragonCon coverage out of the way (finally!), it’s time to catch up on every other silly thing we’ve done lately. Kornflake reports on Napkin Poetry with Jim’s Big Ego, gum jingles with Marc With a C, Pac-Man Battle Royale at Funspot, and giant bugs at

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Flopcast 385: Live from DragonCon – Cousin Oliver Was Framed!

Flopcast episode 385! From the American Sci-Fi Classics Track at DragonCon 2019 (just a few weeks ago – we’re still sleepy), here’s a fun panel called “Cousin Oliver Was Framed: Classic Sci-Fi Sidekicks”! Joining Kevin on the panel are The Fortress of Baileytude’s Michael Bailey, novelist and Cop Rock enthusiast Michael Williams,

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Flopcast 384: DragonCon 2019 Part 2 – You Get a Spatula!

Flopcast episode 384! This week we cover the second half of our favorite and most exhausting event of the year, DragonCon! (If you noticed a shortage of geeks in your area over Labor Day weekend… they were all in Atlanta. And they were all ahead of us in the line

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Flopcast 383: DragonCon 2019 Part 1 – Hulk Salad

Flopcast episode 383! It was five weird days with 85,000 weird humans… we have so much to cover from DragonCon that we’re splitting it into two episodes! This week’s review includes: The DragonCon Newbie Walking Tours; the ESO Network Meet and Greet; Doctor Who’sDavid Tennant; legendary comic book artist George Pérez;

DragonCon 2019 – Soul Forge Podcast 117

DragonCon 2019 is over, but it was an amazing experience. On this episode, Shawn talks about all the adventures experienced, incredible people met, the panels attended, and so much more. DragonCon is held in Atlanta, Georgia over the Labor Day weekend. This was the 33rd event. To get to Atlanta,

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