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Flopcast 663 Glen Campbell and horse

Flopcast 663: Somebody Done 1975 Wrong

Flopcast episode 663! As we enter the horrifying year of 2025, we thought we’d roll back half a century and look at the music of 1975. We’re perusing Billboard’s Top 100 song list for the year, and as you’d expect, it’s a weird list. The hippie acts were winding down,

Flopcast 662 Atom sneezing

Flopcast 662: The Super Dictionary – And That’s Terrible

Flopcast episode 662! If your New Year’s Resolution was to strengthen your vocabulary with the help of some DC Comics superheroes, we’ve got you covered. Yes, we’re turning back to The Super Dictionary, that bizarre book of words and definitions for the kids of 1978. Our latest batch of Super

Flopcast 661 Alice and Vera

Flopcast 661: Memorial Show Part 2 – Hi, Bob

Flopcast episode 661! We’re wrapping up our annual two-part memorial show, covering people we lost in the second half of 2024 from TV (Linda Lavin, John Amos, Bob Newhart), movies (Teri Garr, Shelley Duvall, James Earl Jones), music (Quincy Jones, John Mayall, Kris Kristofferson), and more. (Richard Simmons, Dr. Ruth,

Flopcast 660 Cindy Morgan Tron

Flopcast 660: Memorial Show Part 1 – Mojo Is Everywhere

Flopcast episode 660! In Part 1 of our two-part memorial show, we look back on people from pop culture (and beyond) who died in the first half of 2024. It’s a long list, so it’s a long show. Including: People from movies (Cindy Morgan, Carl Weathers, Louis Gossett Jr., Dabney

Flopcast 469 A Cosmic Christmas alien Peter and grandmother

Flopcast 659: Don We Now Our Gay Cardinals

Flopcast episode 659! Welcome to the Flopcast holiday variety spectacular, in which we sip egg nog and nothing happens. But we do pack quite a few festive subjects into this quick little show, including: Weird 1970s Christmas cartoons! (The Fourth King is an obscure one we’d never seen before. And

Flopcast 656 Slim Goodbody Santa

Flopcast 656: The Gorilla Abides

Flopcast episode 656! It’s the holiday season, which means it’s the holiday movie season, which means it’s time for us to get to work. Because if you tune your TV to the Hallmark channel (or Lifetime, or Netflix, or anywhere else), you’ll be assaulted by dozens of ridiculous new romantic

Flopcast 654 supermarket robot chicken

Flopcast 654: Some Kind of Potato Scientist

Flopcast episode 654! Even as we stagger toward a horrifying future, The Flopcast is here with more silly things for you, because we’re gonna get through this together. And this week we’re celebrating Danny DeVito’s 80th birthday (just as we celebrated his 70th birthday about a decade ago), we have

Flopcast 653 Thats Incredible

Flopcast 653: Enjoy Bread Day, You Freaks

Flopcast episode 653! Need a break from, you know, everything? We’re just hiding behind a giant stack of Dynamite magazines, and you’re welcome to join us. We’ve pulled out a Dynamite issue from 1980 with the hosts of That’s Incredible on the cover. (Cathy Lee Crosby looks lovely, while Fran

Flopcast 649 Mad exhibit

Flopcast 649: Mad in the Fall

Flopcast episode 649! As our Halloween festivities continue, we take a quick look at the horror movies parodied in Mad Magazine in the 1980s. Including: The Shining, Poltergeist, Psycho II, a couple of Alien movies, and Gremlins (with Alfred E. Neuman as Gizmo on the cover). Speaking of Mad and Alfred, we just visited the Norman Rockwell

Flopcast 648 Monster Cereals Frightful Friends

Flopcast 648: Your Job Is To Freak Everybody Out

Flopcast episode 648! It’s Halloween season, which means it’s Monster Cereal season! And while we rarely eat the stuff anymore, we do welcome the return of Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, and the new girl, zombie DJ Carmella Creeper. (Sorry, Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy fans. Those weirdos aren’t

Flopcast 647 Catwoman dusting tigers

Flopcast 647: The Super Dictionary – Dust the Tiger

With Dragon Con finally out of the way, we can have some real fun! Let’s read the dictionary! Specifically we’re diving back into The Super Dictionary, a bizarre 1978 book for kids that mixed learning and DC Comics superheroes, and left everyone thoroughly confused. After perusing a few more entries, we

Earth Station One Podcast Ep 734 - The Marvels The Movie Review

The Marvels The Movie Review

Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan combine their powers to make this movie the most marvelous in the MCU. Mike, Mike, Ashley, and JD Onesi try to avoid being eaten by Flerken but they are just so darn cute. Plus, Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take and Shout Outs! We

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