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?; The ubiquity of sugar; Vigilante releases book; Alien encounters and an A.I. “influencer”; Bonobo cooperation [and copulation] in Congo; Minnesota’s flag options; 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: 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 self-checkout venting; Catholics forbidden to be Masons; 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: 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 square; 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 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; How to donate your car; Giant parachuting spiders coming to a neighborhood near you!; 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: 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 Carolina; The saga of Smarty Pants’ giant knife; Lee statue meets its fate; USA Today using AI; Wisconsin GOP interfering in higher ed [again]; Inappropriate horse stuff leads to “dad joke”;  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: 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; Rembrandt’s secret paint trick; Wisconsin brandy consumption; A tsunami of populism?; How to make your “trumpkin” last longer; 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 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 law involving “actual malice”; An endorsement from a fictional serial killer; 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: 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 & roof; Bird flu in Europe; My Pillow guy stiffs his lawyers; 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: 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 = not good; Sugar cubes to control OCD?; Phillies deny entry to alligator; 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: 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; Lungfish longevity; Star Trek spiders; Precocious preteens try to escape 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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