This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel’s coworkers express a lack of interest in his birthplace while Smarty Pants explains an outhouse cost-benefit analysis; A visit from Esty; Miss Lindsey calls for a palace coup; A vacation for Sybil?; Global warming update [spoiler: it’s not good]; A looney Girl Scout cookie conspiracy theory: Twinkies and Tang – do you feel appreciated?; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Various perspectives on Ukraine; Unemployment system “reform” in Wisconsin; Apparently 16% of Americans actually believe Qanon “tenets”; Groucho Marx and Barbara Frietchie each figure in the conversation; Resurgent train robbery in L.A.; You won’t believe what the FDA just approved; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Pants dreams of sunshine & a tiny RV; “Jesus, Guns & Babies”???; West Virginia GOP throws coal miners under the bus; Progress on deal with Iran; tRump’s tRoubles; Increased child poverty rates; The invisible hand on the moon; CPAC’s lineup of moldy oldies & money launderers; “Mein Pillow” guy supports Canada protests; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: The funny boys claim to “love” Kraniak; Serendipitous academic alternatives; Evidence of voter fraud by… TEN Wisconsin voters; Discrimination at California Tesla plant; A declassified letter from the CIA about…???; Booming eco-anxiety; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Wisconsin election subterfuge; Boris Johnson’s aids are quitting; Rudy Giuliani’s new career; Tesla perfects the rolling stop; Smartypants’ latest encounter with road rage; Facebook’s “old people smell”; A Pennsylvania monkey virus?; Bezos’ bridge problem;  GOP accuses butterfly center of sex trafficking; Mayonnaise leads to murder; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Nosferatu at the end of the movie; Mel pumps up the funk; Almost time to vote for Mel & Floyd [“best radio team”] on the Madison Magazine poll; The Disneyfication of Pooh; Health effects of fracking; Non-edible bologna from Oscar Mayer; Mel’s pre-show rituals;  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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Building democracy the Joe Stalin way; Legislating away “White Discomfort”; China’s slowing economy; Underlying fascism in comic books?; Eric T. pleads the fifth 500+ times; Delicious meat loaf; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Smarty Pants recaps his vacation while Floyd returns to his assignment; The demise of the studio mouse; Redistricting roundup; Cyber ninjas shut down; This week’s film roundup: Poseidon Adventure and Soylent Green; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: While SmartyPants soaks up the rays in Rockford, Mel and Floyd are joined by a surprise guest; The infectious “Floyd Variant”; Traffic control at National Parks; A lesson in campsite etiquette & lack thereof; “Two deputies and one bullet”; America’s dumbest senator disses vaccines again; Top 200 passwords and 192 positive things about 2021; Mel’s “Insurrection Day“ traditions; 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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This week on Mel & Floyd: Mel, Floyd & Allison hold down the fort while Smarty Pants grades Floyd’s assignment during his Rockford vacation; Is a “Public Pretender” an attorney or not?; How to lease a horse;  Floyd’s sleep score casts doubt on his academic future; Chucky dolls on the loose in Texas; 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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