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The Flopcast

Flopcast 347: The Whole Stupid Year

Flopcast episode 347! For our final show of 2018, we’re just relaxing in the studio, enjoying our crazy black coffee, and looking back at a long strange year of Flopcasting. This year we covered a bunch of conventions (while dressed like Cloris Leachman, of course), even more concerts (yes, we

Rusted Robot 228: HAPPY GEEK YEAR!

Happy Geek Year! As we look forward to a new year of geeky goodness in the world of pop culture entertainment, we take this time to remember the year that was 2018. On this episode, Shawn and Josh take a trip down memory road. Highlights include some of the movies

The Flopcast

Flopcast 346: Rogue Holiday Lobsters

Flopcast episode 346! It’s a quick holiday music-themed show to get you through Christmas week, featuring a Top 4 ½ List of Kornflake’s favorite Christmas cover songs! (Kevin didn’t bother making a list, but he did check Kornflake’s list. Twice.) You’ll know some of these acts (Hall and Oates make

Rusted Robot 227: Muppets, Witchcraft and Hobbit Homes

Muppets, Witchcraft, Hobbit Homes, trailer reviews and Sci-Fi Christmas movies! This week we are back to our normal selves, and we are talking about the latest trailers, but there’s always so much more than that with The Rusted Robot Podcast. It has been a few weeks since we released a

Soul Forge 80 – The POWER of FANDOM

Saving the world while perched on the edge of normal! That’s the power of fandom! We’re taking a look at how fandom is changing the world for the better. What is fandom? It is a group of like-minded people who come together to form a community of sorts. Social media

The Cigar Nerds

Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 105: Merry Nerd-Mas

Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 105: Merry Nerd-Mas. Its Christmas time in the nerd cave so decorate the tree and get jolly. This week we review the new holiday classic The Christmas Chronicles. In nerd news we talk about uncooperative AI, fake robots, entering the matrix, and giant freaking lasers. In

The Flopcast

Flopcast 345: Men From Mars – A Weird Holiday Cartoon Celebration

Flopcast episode 345! The Mayor of Chickentown joins us for one of our favorite subjects/obsessions: animated holiday specials. Seriously, we spend a stupid amount of time thinking about them all year. So this week we present a Top 4 ½ List of our favorite supporting characters from holiday cartoons! (Not

Rusted Robot 226: Flashback

Flashback podcast time! Remember 2016? Remember when Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released? What about the hiatus that the Rusted Robot took while it was searching for a new co-host? Turbulent times my friends. This week, after a quick introduction to set the stage, we replay the original ‘Josh

Soul Forge 79: The Lonely Shawn Problem

The lonely Shawn, also known as, the sad Shawn episodes were a series of Rusted Robot Podcast shows. For a time, Rusted Robot was co-hosted by husband and wife team Shawn and Brigitte Vanderloo. For a variety of reasons, that relationship fell apart. Yet, the team decided to continue on

The Flopcast

Flopcast 344: Wookiees in Snuggies – The Star Wars Holiday Special

Flopcast episode 344! It’s our final Flopcast movie night of the year, and Kornflake is finally suffering through the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special! (Kevin has seen it already, of course, but is doomed to repeat it again and again…) If you’ve experienced it too (either forty years ago on TV,

The Flopcast

Flopcast 343: Emphasizing Our Cluelessness

Flopcast episode 343! Gather around the Flopcast lobster trap tree, kids, because it’s time for another Top 4 ½ List! (Sorry that we’ve been neglecting this beloved segment since our summer robot list…) And the subject is “Geek Blind Spots”, as we list all the hugely popular geeky stuff about

Rusted Robot 224: The Smiling Spock Dilemma

Smiling Spock, Star Trek, Space Opera, and Superheroes! We start the episode with a brief discussion of what comes after we die, whether or not we can know of the existence of a creator and an inquiry into atheism versus agnosticism. Talk of Hallowe’en and school project homework leads to

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