Mel & Floyd

Mel & Floyd

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  • I Like My Birthday!
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby fills in again as ‘Pants tries to recover from Packers Fever; Only  shopping days until Mel’s birthday; Tales of feline misdoings & library fines; Streaming service strategies; Autocratic  [and racist] rule in Tennessee legislature; John Ronson “enlightens” us on the “dangers” of vaccines; Has-been rocker triggered by crappy beer’s cool new packaging; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    1 hr
  • Lower Your Standards!
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby fills in while ‘Pants is on I.R.; Mel fakes his book report; Is right wing outrage fizzling?; Idaho’s fantasies of Lebensraum; An unwelcome 174th anniversary; Short bald guys now in demand?; Another little side effect of global warming; Lolita the killer whale to be paroled after 47 years; DNA on the “Mazel tov” cocktail; Mel relives his “Lord of the Flies” youth; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    1 hr
  • I’m More Scared of the Wombats
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Smartypants’ robot dream & Mel’s Rorschach test; The company Kelly keeps; Reflections on royalty & inbreeding; Beethoven’s hair reveals long ago hanky-panky; Kentucky politics; Trans-satisfaction; $3.5 Billion accounting error; Not Mel’s secret identity; More layoffs at Amazon; Benefits of music and math; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    59 min
  • They’re Never Grateful
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Leaders and their hair; Supply chain raises cost of needed audio equipment; Duluth mall collapse; GOP sweeps trump inquiry under the House rug; Coolest thing in Wisconsin?; Unrest in France; Skyrocketing demand for backyard chickens in Madison; Industrious pythons in FLorida; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    59 min
  • If We Could Get the Dead to Pledge…
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Fund-raising etiquette; Pledge online at wort.org; A bumper crop of white “supremacist” propaganda; Tesla’s steering wheel issue; Gladys visits while ‘Pants fights the coffee maker; Grand jury invites trump to come defend his actions; Wisconsin Historical Society and the Crystal Corner Bar; Wisconsin’s #1 eligible bachelor on the police blotter; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    58 min
  • Join the Embarrassment Parade!
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby stops by to talk about/to pigeons; Where is Ruby’s dog today?; Trash talking about Kraniak; Ben the bear on the loose; More on PFAS effects; A “one-eyed dogs playing poker” mural?; SmartyPants disses cats & likens himself to Tucker Carlson; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    57 min
  • Now With Fewer Rats!
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Disputing the results of the stolen cheese competition; Broom vs Roomba & Dog vs Roomba; Primary election retrospective; Hybrid super-pigs from the north; Ongoing insurrection fallout; Snowplow name winners; A.I. failures; A Southern California blizzard warning; Coors Light alleged to not taste like water; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    58 min
  • Zombies in an Alternate Universe
    This week on Mel & Floyd: An “appreciation” of the Night Court reboot; Sexy M&Ms from Air Force One; More on the balloons; Ron[Anon] Johnson spins the oldies; Decline of social media misinformation oversight; Another Putin critic “falls” out a window; A free speech victory for Satan; Tesla fires pro-union employees; Superman vs THE WOMBAT!; A “less blood-soaked” crown for Camilla; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    59 min
  • An Ailing Source of Falsehoods
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Nixon still dominating conversations; “Club for Growth” disses the orange guy; Brookings Institution crowns a “pig in crap” as the biggest liar; Children’s right to bear arms?; National Enquirer on the auction block; Defining “theory”; Wagner Group changes recruiting practices; A new “Morning in America”; Air quality’s effect on chess players; Communication strategies of primates; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    58 min
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Science
    This week on Mel & Floyd: Treating Droopy Microphone Syndrome; Anything to keep Chuck off the $5 bill; “Dirty Dancing” in Iran; A proposal to make children work for their school lunch; “Overheated” labor market and record profits for Shell; Creeping crackerization oozing coast to coast; Inattentive reader lands in Montana; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!; Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood.
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    58 min

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