Episodios

  • We Need More Boundaries
    Sep 9 2023

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Impeachment threats; Is there really THAT much butter in a prison?; Covid redux; Rudy’s reprieve; Higher crime rates in red states; Mel’s dating strategy; […]

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    58 m
  • The Giant Orange Gorilla Knows Best?
    Apr 3 2026

    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.

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    56 m
  • What’s a Capitalist Lackey To Do?
    Sep 1 2023

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Winners [SmartyPants] and losers [y’all] in Madison’s new bus schedule; A GOP Congressional conundrum; Wetlands to get less protection; Closing loopholes on gun purchases; […]

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    59 m
  • Juvenile Delinquent Robots in Chicago
    Mar 27 2026

    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.

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    56 m
  • What’s With the Space Laser?
    Aug 25 2023

    This week on Mel & Floyd: The grift machine springs into action; Visits from Esty, Gladys, Sybil and the Jaguar; Bad times in Zimbabwe & Cambodia, Don Jr. gets a […]

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    57 m
  • Tablets for the Irony Impaired
    Mar 21 2026

    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.

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    58 m
  • Where are the Sherpas?
    Aug 18 2023

    This week on Mel & Floyd: Where to go for crack; How much blood was there?; Drunken Americans sleep it off in style; Alex Jones as Sisyphus?; Scooter’s recipe for […]

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    57 m
  • Pets Keep You Healthier!
    Mar 13 2026

    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.

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    58 m