579 episodes
The Flopcast Kevin & Kornflake
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4.8 • 32 Ratings
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Live from Chickentown, Kevin and Kornflake sip nasty black coffee and talk about silly & geeky things. Frequent subjects include: Saturday morning cartoons, Dr. Demento-style funny music, TV and movies of the 1970s and 1980s, comic books, classic video games, and, uh, chickens. (We like chickens.) Also lots of convention talk, as we regularly attend DragonCon, MarsCon, and many other nerdy gatherings. We're frightened and confused. Join us!
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Maids and Butlers FlopFight Part 2 - The Sassiest Squirrel
Let's wrap up the weird tournament we started last week: Our latest FlopFight, featuring maids and butlers from sitcoms, cartoons, and beyond. We have TV characters from the 60s like Lurch (The Addams Family), Mr. French (Family Affair), and Rosie the Robot (The Jetsons). From the 80s we have Mr. Belvedere (from, you know, Mr. Belvedere), Nell (Gimme a Break), and even more maids from Diff'rent Strokes. And once again our special guest judge is Joe Crowe, Co-Director of the DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics Track! Along the way, Kornflake celebrates Moonshine Day! Kevin has a squouse infestation! (A what?) Joe brings us Tales of the Nedra Volz Appreciation Society! We accidentally create a (perhaps inappropriate) new member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes! And one of us provides a pretty remarkable impression of Leon Redbone! So yeah, it gets a little silly. But only one maid or butler will survive. To make it more interesting, put some money down on your favorite. If you're Richie Rich, either your super-strong butler Cadbury or your robot maid Irona can fetch your wallet.
Find Joe at DragonCon's American Sci-Fi Classics Track!
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Email: info@flopcast.net
Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation!
This week's promo: Con Guy!
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Maids and Butlers FlopFight Part 1 - Nonstop Sass Attack
We grew up in a world where seemingly every sitcom included a maid or a butler. Even middle class TV households somehow afforded live-in servants. And this week all those maids and butlers shall do battle in a good old fashioned FlopFight! What would happen if Benson (from Soap) and Florence (from The Jeffersons) were stranded on an island? How about hula-dancing Alice (The Brady Bunch) versus Batusi-dancing Alfred (Batman)? Anything could happen, and this week's winner will advance to the final round next week. And it's gonna get weird, so our special guest judge is a weirdness expert: Co-Director of the DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics Track, Joe Crowe! So let's get ready to FlopFight. It might get a little messy, but a parade of Diff'rent Strokes maids should come along to mop up.
Find Joe at DragonCon's American Sci-Fi Classics Track!
And our regular links...
The Flopcast website!
The ESO Network!
The Flopcast on Facebook!
The Flopcast on Instagram!
The Flopcast on Mastadon!
Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts!
Email: info@flopcast.net
Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation!
This week's promo: DragonCon Report!
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Tape Your Melons
Another quick and silly Flopcast, including: Way too much Scotch tape trivia from Kornflake; this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (and how they ranked in the 80s); Dolly Parton's new star-studded rock album (hey, where's Tiffany?); Bernie Taupin vs. REO Speedwagon; the Love Boat musical; and a "Chickens in the News" story from Mexico, where there are chickens in the trees and on the subway.
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Email: info@flopcast.net
Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation!
This week's promo: Epsilon Three!
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Sponges and Shiny Blankets Everywhere
It's a quick Sunday brunch edition of The Flopcast! Except we forgot to have brunch! Anyway, Kevin has tales from the cold and rainy Margarita Half Marathon (with margaritas and shiny blankets), and the hot and grueling Providence Marathon (with Mickey Mouse hands and Jeff Goldblum heads). We also have some comic book recommendations: the new Shazam and Peacemaker series from DC Comics, and the new Jim & Celeste collection from friend of The Flopcast Jon Sloan. (Shazam and Peacemaker do not have forewords by Kornflake, but Jim & Celeste absolutely does!) Also: Happy Birthday to one of our favorite Go-Go's, Jane Wiedlin! Because go go go go go.
The Dojahng, home of the comics of Jon Sloan!
And our regular links...
The Flopcast website!
The ESO Network!
The Flopcast on Facebook!
The Flopcast on Instagram!
The Flopcast on Mastadon!
Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts!
Email: info@flopcast.net
Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation!
This week's promo: The 42cast! -
Soggy Tacos
For just the second time in three horrifying years, Kevin and Kornflake are together in the same place for the Flopcast! And that place is... a hotel room in New Hampshire! (This is Kornflake's home state, and that explains A LOT.) To celebrate, we're learning some weird New Hampshire facts involving UFOs, old libraries, state songs, and a shopping mall where Kornflake may have gone to college. We also go through a list of famous people from New Hampshire, including three SNL cast members and someone who witnessed Kevin's terrible old Spam-juggling act. Finally Kornflake breaks out some giant weird New Hampshire cookies, and there is much chomping. This was all part of her plan to help Kevin carb up for a half marathon the following day. (Update: Kornflake promised miserable steady rain for the whole race, and she was CORRECT.)
The Flopcast website!
The ESO Network!
The Flopcast on Facebook!
The Flopcast on Instagram!
The Flopcast on Mastadon!
Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts!
Email: info@flopcast.net
Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation!
This week's promo: Earth Station Who!
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You Had an Enya Record?
It's another concert report, as we leave the house and creep down to Rhode Island to see Flopcast favorite Joan Osborne! And since Joan's big hit album (and that song - you know the one) came out way back in 1995, we're looking at the other albums we bought that year. There were lots of 1995 records from the women of the Boston rock scene (Juliana Hatfield, Mary Lou Lord, Belly, Letters to Cleo), as well as plenty more Lilith-friendly artists (Jewel, Ani DiFranco, Aimee Mann). We also recall the debut of Ben Folds Five, a weird covers album from Elvis Costello, and a band only Kornflake remembers. Plus: The Top Ten movies of 1995, a 90s edition of The Pudding Pages, and Happy Birthday to the guy who co-wrote all those Alanis songs. (Isn't this podcast ironic? No, it is not.)
The Flopcast website!
The ESO Network!
The Flopcast on Facebook!
The Flopcast on Instagram!
The Flopcast on Mastadon!
Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts!
Email: info@flopcast.net
Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation!
This week's promo: But First, Let's Talk Nerdy!
Customer Reviews
No, YOU love The Flopcast!
National Whatever Day is my favorite segment, but they're all delightfully random and great.
(Also I might be a bit biased.)
Can't believe this podcast has been going strong with weekly episodes for nearly TEN YEARS now.
That's a whole decade of goofing off.
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Never Fails to Entertain
Hello. How do you do? I am fine. As are Kevin and Kornflake. Their discussion of geeky throwbacks, sf cons, comedy music, and other miscellany never fail to entertain. (Or at least confound.) And they'll save your goose! (No, no. Wait. That's not right. Ah.) They'll give you Chickens in the News! And that, surely, is the true meaning of Christmas. Or something.
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