Mel & Floyd

This week on Mel & Floyd: Pants has a puppy [and some unfortunate dreams];  Mulitple studio visitors and a presentation from “Cosmic Carl”; Hegseth blocks some promotions of women and minorities; An existential threat to wind power;  “A very special baby”; Residual algae in reflecting pool;  And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Anna Kumpan on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post A Beagle With Every Pledge? appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Pledge drive show on Esty’s Birthday; Professional headphone detangler sought; Esty, ‘Pants and Mel’s ages revealed!; Return of the screw worm; Studying Mars’ atmosphere [or lack thereof]; Andrew Jackson and banks; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Dmitry Dreyer  on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Friday Afternoon Gummies appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Memories of school days; The new feudalism; A running list of cat names; Corporations can vote in Delaware??; Cash for moms-to-be improves outcomes; Thanksgiving on steroids in Antarctica; Mosquitos learning to like insect repellant; Pigeon navigation; Bratfest results; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Loan on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Doin’ the Cat Thing appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Floyd comes back from assignment to fill in for SmartyPants who’s checking out the stars at Harvard; Who doesn’t go to their son’s wedding?; Looking for “medium-size Walter”; Firing top infectious disease officials in time for Hantavirus; Coming soon: The Bay of Piggy fiasco; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Apparently We Have a Lot of Blimps appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Smarty Pants’ visit to the British Museum and the “dear leader’s” visit to China; Multiple data centers being considered in Alliant Energy territory; 1890’s now referred to as the “First Gilded Age”; Absurd hantavirus conspiracy theories; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Rapha Wilde on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Why Mosquitos Prefer SmartyPants appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: The latest on “Don Snore-leone”; Problems with Canvas educational software; Mel is back on his bike!; Chief Justice Roberts laments correct public perception; War crimes prosecution as a growth industry; $850 Million tax dollars to cancel wind power projects;  Cheetah poplation increases in Iran; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy OGenius Aficionados on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Back in the Saddle Again! appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Toxic fumes in Hegseth’s hair gel?; Another Fox “personality” for the cabinet; A return to Jim Crow; Putin dials back internet access for Russians; A long dry summer on the way for the Southwest; Standardized testing glitch in NY; From ticks to Nixon; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time.   Photo courtesy Sergi Viladesau on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Counting Explosions appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Is Mr. SmartyPants your favorite “butter and egg man”?; A.I. “hallucinations” in legal briefs; Should tree-huggers “take it to the next level”?; Report on Covid vaccine effectiveness is suppressed; Tales of Kash Patel [AKA J. Edgar Boozer]; Big game hunter discovers Karma; Record high corporate profits & record low consumer confidence; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy BUDDHI Kumar SHRESTHA on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Use Your Brain, Human! appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Smarty Pants [The Great Prognosticator] returns!; Sprinkling the fairy dust over war crimes; The Strait of Vermouth??; Boebert declines to meet “King George”; Voter fraud in Colorado; GOP votes to despoil Boundary Waters; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Inside Weather on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Davenport Braces Itself appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: It’s the annual film festival show with Mel, Luther and guests; Attendance is up; Public access TV in NYC; A prepared statement from Four Star; The importance of home movies & photos; The Last Critic; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Bruno Guerrero on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Madison Still Has a Video Rental Store? appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: “Good” Friday?; Tariff update; Tales of Rosendale; MAGA movement to abolish women’s right to vote; A brief review of trump’s speech to the nation; Lindsey Graham’s bubblemaker;  Did lack of diversity doom the Neanderthals?; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Sies Kranen on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post The Giant Orange Gorilla Knows Best? appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: America’s Thirst prize winner; Parallels to ancient Rome; Rewriting history; Kash Patel gets hacked; A kangaroo jailbreak; ICE raids resulting in abandoned animals; Mel’s denied prescription; Chimpanzee drummer/singer; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Emilipothese on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Juvenile Delinquent Robots in Chicago appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Smarty Pants minds the store [with help from Saga and Luther] while Mel is off in search of the perfect beer; Treason for a reason; Hatin’ on billionaires; Laundry fire on the USS Gerald R. Ford; Nazis are all about the merch; All about flags; The politics of vector graphics; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Hal Gatewood on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Tablets for the Irony Impaired appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: SmartyPants’ spring break plans & Mel’s athleticism; Attempted GOP dirty trick in Utah fails due to poor clock management; Parallels with ancient Rome; “Keg-bro’s” mysteriously disappearing debt; What Star Trek got right; Hump-plumping injection controversy at camel beauty pageant; NASA’s moon launch schedule; Crow drones delivering contraband to Louisiana prison; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Krista Mangulsone on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Pets Keep You Healthier! appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: It’s pledge time at WORT and Mel & ‘Pants are selling plenary indulgences [Melania coin not accepted]; A visit from Esty; The latest war polling [it’s not popular]; The best day of the week; Is Cuba next?; Stephen Miller: trouble in paradise?; Another Luna-tic from Florida; Hell’s zoning board; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Art Rachen on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post It’s All Crypto Now appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: It’s pledge time and Mel & ‘Pants are selling “Indulgences”!; Right wing voters now deny voting for “him”; Pope nixes A.I. for sermon writing; Attempting to justify tariffs; Can headphones turn you gay?; A “new” movie from the 19th century; A mug shot on the Department of Justice; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Library of Congress on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post He Had the Decency to Be a Hypocrite appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Smarty Pants longs for the comforts (?) of Siberia; Mel’s problem with curling; A look at the study of history; Critiquing the Supreme Court; Robin Vos’ attempts to stifle parental leave; Some countries apparently hold Epstein cronies accountable; Alabama attempts to regulate chemtrails; Zuckerberg boosting pro-data center candidates; A solution for Floyd’s mouse problem; Japan’s wooden satelite; And other random topics; Notice something missing?  For the complete Mel and Floyd Experience, buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-Fi while listening to this podcast!  Or listen live at 89.9 FM or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time. Photo courtesy Marcus Reubenstein on Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post You Don’t Want to Tick Off Costco appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.