Mel & Floyd

By Mel & Floyd

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Two wacky guys broadcast a hilarious blend of political commentary, weird news, and stand-up comedy. Mel & Floyd were voted Madison’s favorite radio personalities in the Isthmus reader’s poll in 2009.

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04.12.2024
Trace Amounts of O.J.
This week on Mel & Floyd: A free-ranging ecumenical conversation followed by a film festival recap; A full load of appliance-related bills from the House GOP; Fantasies about Michelle Obama; Reasons for the teacher shortage; Tennessee cracking down on inbreeding;...
04.05.2024
Mel & Floyd’s 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival Extravaganza: Li...
On this year’s Mel & Floyd Film Fest Special, Smarty Pants ditches us for a smarty conference so Mel calls in Floyd and they set up shop in the lobby of the Bartell Theater. With a line up of 7...
04.05.2024
Aid Workers In Gaza & Theater Troupe Screens Anti-War Play “...
Our topic today: war. We start the hour with Christopher Gunness in a discussion over the killing of aid workers and the role of refugee aid agencies in Gaza. He is Executive Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project, and former spokesperson...
03.29.2024
A Full Pallet of Outrage
This week on Mel & Floyd: An Easter bunny tale; The return of rickets; A series of right wing fantasies; Child labor in Tennessee; Colon cancer rising; Being poor is….bad?; An analysis of “adolescent smell”; A big win in Thailand;...
03.22.2024
Freedom Comes With a Price
This week on Mel & Floyd: SmartyPants mic needs a little blue pill & Mel is phoning it in; Is Mel dating a chatbot?; Parliamentary maneuvering in Britain; Voter fraud in Russia?; Supreme Court packed by losers; No DEI for...
03.15.2024
A Proud Moment For Us All!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ides of March edition; Nixon on gun rights; How to change minds? 10,000 uncles!; Evangelical calling for cash; Ron Johnson calls for inaction; The methadone of dictators; New electric bus routes; An insufficiently gutted...
03.08.2024
That Stalin, He Was a Bright Guy
This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel & ‘Pants discuss their “cans”; More pledge rapping – to donate call 608-256-2001 or go to www.wortfm.org and click the “Donate” button; Orange menace calls kettle black after watching speech through various filters;...
03.01.2024
Poop Potatoes Are the Best!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Return of the pledge rap, to donate call 608-256-2001 or go to www.wortfm.org and click the “Donate” button; Don Jr’s Australian scam; Mel’s and Pants’ driver’s ed. sagas; How solvents help WORT; No polling...
02.23.2024
Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?
This week on Mel & Floyd: Revisiting the history of kissing; Wisconsin de-gerrymanders; A carpetbagger senate candidate; EPA dares to enforce clean air rules; Panda news; Pants’ entanglement; Measles outbreak in Florida; Bill of Rights explained; “Please Clap” & “Cue...
02.16.2024
They’re All Getting Jobs At Epic
This week on Mel & Floyd: An eerie trifecta; Putin subtly acknowledges Tucker Carlson’s sycophancy; Finland’s and Argentina’s new presidents, a study in contrasts; Minnesota on the march; An embargo from Holland; Russia drafting seniors?; Bear watching in WIsconsin; A...
02.09.2024
The Bariatric Surgery of Climate Control
This week on Mel & Floyd: Tornados in the movies & now in Wisconsin; Mel & Floyd’s weekly bible study; The death of Nixon; Dueling competency tests instead of debates?; A.I. reads 2000 year old flash-fried scrolls; Mattel dumping American...
02.02.2024
Not Recommended For People With a Shellfish Allergy
This week on Mel & Floyd: Disembodied brains; Groundhog Day forecast; A slice of Oklahoma for Wisconsin?; The protein content of crickets; Some traffic stats; Flip-phone February; Monkey escapes to Scottish highlands while a pigeon in India is cleared of...
01.27.2024
He Does Check a Lot of Boxes for the Antichrist
This week on Mel & Floyd: SmartyPants reminisces about speeches on on Kentucky coal & Pentagon spending while Mel fondly remembers intramurals at Mankato State; A shameless GOP senator?; Investigating pornography – “it wasn’t hard”[?]; Rush hour in Superior, WI;...
01.19.2024
Time To Start Feasting On Human Brains!
This week on Mel & Floyd: SmartyPants’ train/bus adventure and NOLA highlights including a flaming motorcycle and fire ants; Does steam power make women depressed?; Greenland Ice sheet’s weight loss plan; Mel disses Madison streets; Oklahoma terrorists?; Kentucky okays sex...
01.13.2024
Mel & Floyd: Bringing Lovers Together for Decades!
This week on Mel & Floyd: A Rebroadcast: Live from Rainbow Bookstore, June 16, 2000, the show where Mr. Pants first met Companion; A Britney Spears hoax; Madison bus adventures; Wisconsin man shoots washing machine; How to be a good...
01.06.2024
The Worst Birthday Ever!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby fills Pants’ shoes; Clopsey’s health scare; CBD for dogs?; Is the East Coast sinking?; Sinkholes & tsunamis; Psychopathic CEOs; Bigoted clerk hit with big fine; Division of “festive duties” in Britain; And other...
12.29.2023
How Will Playing Cards Help?
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby’s birthday special; Chancellor porn; Monroe Street Santas horrifying?; Dr Who’s Iceland connection?; 14th amendment solutions?; Pants’ speeding ticket strategy; JIm Jordan digs deep; Extreme hair styles & how to live with them; Extreme...
12.23.2023
Mostly Pigs’ Blood
This week on Mel & Floyd: Pants’ Christmas pickle and other decorating tips; Political corruption here and abroad; More January 6 fallout; Giant Santas taking over Monroe Street; Yes, GOP voters know he’s a crook; NASA sends cat video; Can...
12.16.2023
I Want a Picture of My Brain!
This week on Mel & Floyd: There’s no rest for the aged; We’re all George Jetson; Clopsey’s big walk; Dictator for a day; MRI machine delivers Karma; Mel & Pants recount hospital adventures; Religious display vandalized in Iowa; An appropriate...
12.09.2023
The Laboratory of Democracy
This week on Mel & Floyd: Smarty Pants gets a voodoo doll; Upcoming Russian “election”; Dictator roundup; Vegan judges; GOP goes after student voting; Conspicuous omission in new AP African-American Studies curriculum; Woolly Mammoths coming back?; And other random topics;...
12.01.2023
Is He Touring Again?
This week on Mel & Floyd: The WORT “Birthday Bash” show; Reactions to Kissinger’s passing; “A giant mass of rhetorical incoherence” [guess who they were talking about!]; Vilas Zoo gets new giant rodent; Rolling Stones get appropriate sponsor; And other...
11.24.2023
Jesus Would Be So Proud
This week on Mel & Floyd: Eel for Thanksgiving?; Dolly still gettin’ it done; Parade of lefty presidents; Barnes & Noble and Starbucks raking it in; Effects of sports team wins/losses on their fans; Right-wingers taking power in the Netherlands?;...
11.17.2023
You Mean Scrooge Was the BAD Guy??
This week on Mel & Floyd: A roundup of evil “doctors”; trump cribbing from vintage German speeches; Cockfighting in Oklahoma; DNC remembers that Wisconsin exists; Women in charge in St. Paul; Bin Laden trending on Tik-Tok??; Owatonna’s oversized branding; Some...
11.10.2023
The Call’s Coming From Inside the House!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Gerald Ford’s big mistake; Mindless Minion cards & Election roundups; Questionable ethics in a congressional commission; Straightening out hair products; Madison marathon alert; Chatbots generating BS; Pope sends letter; Final farmers’ market on the...
11.03.2023
Taking on Rich Tax Cheats
This week on Mel & Floyd: The benefits of Mindless Minion cards; A little Madison history; The psychology of choice; Speaking of Poo: We missed International Wombat Day!; Corn-jerkers in Illinois; Ron DeSantis’ balls; Boaty is missing in Lake Michigan;...
10.28.2023
The Polish Bishop’s Sex Party
This week on Mel & Floyd: Taylor Swift presents The Mel & Floyd Show; Where to buy beer in Ohio; Antarctic melting; Wisconsin joins social media lawsuit; Madison scores a zero while Rhode Island snags a 100; Gerrymandering in North...
10.20.2023
The Height of Her Artistry
This week on Mel & Floyd: Fiftieth anniversary of the “Saturday Night Massacre”; “Junior” warns against armed para-gliders; New adventures of Clopsey & Kim Chi; More cat stuff; Just desserts for Infowars guy; The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Nixon connection;...
10.15.2023
A Disaster of Choice
This week on Mel & Floyd: ‘Pants enjoys the new “fancy-schmancy” bus; A $19K lie-absorbing lectern; CIA admits 1951 error; Drag Queen involvement in Middle East crisis?; Gold bars & a NJ senator; Clarence Thomas seeks [self-serving] revisit of settled...
10.06.2023
That’s Science For You, Right There!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Clopsey [Mel’s one-eyed dog] co-hosts but we have to take Mel’s word for it that Clopsey was actually there; A Newtonian law explained; Arizona governor stands up to Saudis; WORT’s duct taped elevator &...
09.29.2023
I’ve Got a Therapist for That
This week on Mel & Floyd: It’s the Ruby & Pants fund raising show while Mel and Floyd are BOTH on assignment; So THAT’S how “I Feel Good” ends!; A visit from Esty; Wisconsin flamingos?; Dismantling German fascists; Amazon =...
09.22.2023
Like a Rat on Stilts
This week on Mel & Floyd: A gnat reeducation program; Nostalgia for “W”; Heat records abounding and Atlantic current collapsing; Tom Tiffany asks a stupid question; Rudy’s reprieve inspires a bad dad joke; Dobie Gillis deconstructed; Degenerate art gets returned;...
09.15.2023
A Love Affair With Laxatives
This week on Mel & Floyd: Bringing home the bronze; Planned Parenthood back in business in Wisconsin?; Schadenfreude in Packerland; Newsflash: Ron Johnson says something stupid; Mitt Romney’s favorite dessert; Soothing effects of trees & dogs; Something very interesting on...
09.09.2023
We Need More Boundaries
This week on Mel & Floyd: Impeachment threats; Is there really THAT much butter in a prison?; Covid redux; Rudy’s reprieve; Higher crime rates in red states; Mel’s dating strategy; Corn’s reemergence; Tropical birds vacationing in NYC; Alabama GOP flouts...
09.01.2023
What’s a Capitalist Lackey To Do?
This week on Mel & Floyd: Winners [SmartyPants] and losers [y’all] in Madison’s new bus schedule; A GOP Congressional conundrum; Wetlands to get less protection; Closing loopholes on gun purchases; Needed: 10,000 uncles!; Bulletproof hair in Kentucky; Happy ending for...
08.25.2023
What’s With the Space Laser?
This week on Mel & Floyd: The grift machine springs into action; Visits from Esty, Gladys, Sybil and the Jaguar; Bad times in Zimbabwe & Cambodia, Don Jr. gets a real estate bargain; Time to replace our bleached-out flag on...
08.18.2023
Where are the Sherpas?
This week on Mel & Floyd: Where to go for crack; How much blood was there?; Drunken Americans sleep it off in style; Alex Jones as Sisyphus?; Scooter’s recipe for cooking the numbers; A bumper crop of cranberries; “Mel &...
08.11.2023
It’s Like Those Cucumber Sandwiches
This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel back in the saddle with SmartyPants; Silver as a cure-all; Fake electors lawsuit; Alito, Thomas and “the fix”; Dane County runs out of numbers; Tales of technological hijinx; Buddy sharks, Jekyll and …...
08.04.2023
Your Old TV Was Black & White?!?
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby and Mr. SmartyPants fill in for Mel & Floyd; Paris vacation wrap-up & Chinese zoo news; Who’s supporting RFK Jr?; Rudy Giuliani’s recorded rants; Slow Somalian runner prompts government apology; ‘Pants gets a...
07.30.2023
Look At All These Rubles!!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Floyd AND Ruby fill in for the absent ‘Pants – one for each leg; Ruby read the memo!; Deciduous residuals vs evergreens; McConnell spaces out at same time as Congressional UFO hearing: Coincidence?; Street...
07.22.2023
Jesus Never Had A Stripper Pole
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby sits in for ‘Pants; The pleasures of candy cigarettes & mulberries; Mel evicts some mice & Ruby deals with rabbits; Goodman Center seeks shopping bags; Rudy the pig faces eviction; A surfboard-stealing otter...
07.14.2023
Farewell to Anchor Steam Ale
This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel declines an invitation while Pants relives a reunion; Praise for the new Madison bus routes; Teacher pilloried in Waukesha; Equal Rights Amendment undead?; More bank misdeeds; Shifting ocean color; Gay monkey news from...
07.08.2023
Sauce for the Goose-Stepper
This week on Mel & Floyd: An overview of “Draw Clopsey” contest entries; Gov. Evers increases school funding for 400 years; Fighting vaccination requirements to increase reliance on prayer; A money back guarantee on tithing in Oklahoma; And other random...
07.02.2023
The Comedy Is Over
This week on Mel & Floyd: SmartyPants returns with a socialist souvenir from Vienna; A visit to Freud’s office; Supreme shenanigans dismantling America; Bad behavior at the Colosseum; A museum with artifacts that were NOT stolen!; Increased homelessness in L.A.;...
06.23.2023
The Ocean Is Telling Us Something
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby fills in for ‘Pants while Floyd gets back to work on his assignment; Ruby’s lawn maintenance tips; Marijuana smell constitutes probably cause in Wisconsin; “Moms” group rethinks Hitler quote; A blood-red cricket invasion...
06.16.2023
What’s With Vermont?
This week on Mel & Floyd: Floyd delivers an update on his assignment [the computer ate it] while Smarty Pants is in Prague [for espionage?]; Mel’s a “good boy” at the dentist; A Mel & Floyd family reunion; “Rainbow Underground...
06.09.2023
The Bear’s Wearing a Wire!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Buttercup’s in the freezer; Mel, SmartyPants & guest stars to make their first festival appearance since the “before times”; Vote for M&F; in the “Best of Madison” poll AND enter the “draw Clopsey” contest...
06.02.2023
An Amount That Kraniak Cannot Surpass
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby sits in after ‘Pants escapes to the coal mines; Mel gets a big check in the mail; It’s fund raising time, call 608 256-2001 to pledge; A visit from Esty; Bedbugs in the...
05.26.2023
Thomas Edison Would Be Proud
This week on Mel & Floyd: SmartyPants’ graduation miracle; The “Clopsey” art contest; Steve Bannon to stand trial…eventually; An odd summer festival in Monona; Memories of Little Miss Porkette; GOP machinations explained; Russia’s new enemies list; Is artificial intelligence really...
05.19.2023
Some Sewage Spills
This week on Mel & Floyd: DeSantis announces a “draw Clopsy” contest; A false sense of new tomorrows; Best & worst teachers & students; Pythagoras restores reality; Vos pooh-poohs choo-choos; More fallout from Disney vs DeSantis; China proves it can’t...
05.15.2023
Get Me Some Horse Medicine
This week on Mel & Floyd: Did Wisconsin’s “sin-eater” infect Smarty-Pants?; Watergate at 50; Melvina’s backyard bees; DeSantis “protects” Floridians from the medical community; Gerrymandering Paul Ryan’s snake; Gender-affirming care in Missouri; Coronation roundup; And other random topics; Subscribe to...

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Mel & Floyd episodes:

Trace Amounts of O.J.

Mel & Floyd’s 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival Extravaganza: Li...

Aid Workers In Gaza & Theater Troupe Screens Anti-War Play “...

A Full Pallet of Outrage

Freedom Comes With a Price

A Proud Moment For Us All!

That Stalin, He Was a Bright Guy

Poop Potatoes Are the Best!

Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?

They’re All Getting Jobs At Epic

The Bariatric Surgery of Climate Control

Not Recommended For People With a Shellfish Allergy

He Does Check a Lot of Boxes for the Antichrist

Time To Start Feasting On Human Brains!

Mel & Floyd: Bringing Lovers Together for Decades!

The Worst Birthday Ever!

How Will Playing Cards Help?

Mostly Pigs’ Blood

I Want a Picture of My Brain!

The Laboratory of Democracy

Is He Touring Again?

Jesus Would Be So Proud

You Mean Scrooge Was the BAD Guy??

The Call’s Coming From Inside the House!

Taking on Rich Tax Cheats

The Polish Bishop’s Sex Party

The Height of Her Artistry

A Disaster of Choice

That’s Science For You, Right There!

I’ve Got a Therapist for That

Like a Rat on Stilts

A Love Affair With Laxatives

We Need More Boundaries

What’s a Capitalist Lackey To Do?

What’s With the Space Laser?

Where are the Sherpas?

It’s Like Those Cucumber Sandwiches

Your Old TV Was Black & White?!?

Look At All These Rubles!!

Jesus Never Had A Stripper Pole

Farewell to Anchor Steam Ale

Sauce for the Goose-Stepper

The Comedy Is Over

The Ocean Is Telling Us Something

What’s With Vermont?

The Bear’s Wearing a Wire!

An Amount That Kraniak Cannot Surpass

Thomas Edison Would Be Proud

Some Sewage Spills

Get Me Some Horse Medicine