Flopcast 485: Spladunking in 1985

<p>Our ten-episode salute to the 80s creeps along with a quick look at the pop chart from this week in 1985! Dire Straits were computer-animated movers, Phil Collins was an Ocasek-style housefly, Wham met a weird kid in China, and Casey Kasem was very angry about the Pointer Sisters. Then we flip through a summer 1985 issue of Mad magazine, featuring a movie parody (Witness), a TV parody (Kate & Allie), a song parody (We Are the World), hippies vs. yuppies, Beta vs. VHS, Don Martin vs. the Boston Celtics, and lots of cartoon naked people. Also this week: For the first time in a million years, we sneaked out of our underground Chickentown bunker for some actual live music! We were double-masked and socially distant, but we attended the long-delayed album release show from our favorite synthpop band, Freezepop! (Also performing were impressive local metal band Worshipper and our glam rock heroes Sidewalk Driver!) Plus: Stifler's mom's birthday, more Suicide Squad talk with Earth Station DCU, and the Flopcast couch-to-5K-to-intense-pain training program.</p> <p><a href= "https://esonetwork.com/the-earth-station-dcu-episode-252-the-suicide-squad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">More Suicide Squad talk on Earth Station DCU!</a></p> <p>And our regular links...</p> <p><a href="https://flopcast.net/index.html" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">The Flopcast website!</a></p> <p><a href="https://esonetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">The ESO Network!</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Flopcast" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">The Flopcast on Facebook!</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_flopcast/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">The Flopcast on Instagram!</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Flopcast" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">The Flopcast on Twitter!</a></p> <p><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-flopcast/id526877428?ign-mpt=uo%3D4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts!</a></p> <p>Email: info@flopcast.net</p> <p><a href