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Rudy Panucci
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Rudy is a guy who gets away with doing cool stuff for money. Visit The PopCult Blog: http://popcultblog.com. Comics Historian/toy expert/artist/announcer/radio host/writer/husband/alleged musician/creator of Radio Free Charleston and PopCult.
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PopCult's Sunday Evening Video presents an epic and trippy animated music video by Detroit's Psych/Prog band, Custard Flux...

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Sunday Evening Video: Animated Custard Flux
[HTML1] Above you see a fantastic music video created by visual artist Shane Swank for “The Floating Chamber,” from the Custard Flux album Enter Xenon (2025). Custard Flux, is a cool Ps…
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November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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PopCult's RFC Flashback takes you to June, 2012 for an hour-long episode with music from Red Audio, Andy Park, Emily Burdette, The Kanawha Kordsmen and Sweet Adelines and Paul Calicoat. Plus there's tons of stuff from the first week of FestivALL 2012...

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The RFC Flashback: Episode One Hundred Sixty-One
[HTML1] While it’s November now, this week and next, we present our June, 2012 two-part coverage of FestivALL 2012. Unlike our FestivALL coverage the previous year, we didn’t do eight s…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This week's PopCulteer looks back at Non Sport Update...

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A Non Sport Update Update
The PopCulteer November 14, 2025 As I have mentioned many times here in PopCult, one of my other gigs is that I am a contributing writer to Non Sport Update, the magazine devoted to the non sport t…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The second entry today in The PopCult Gift Guide is the Super Deluxe Boxset of The Who Are You album by The WHO...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: WHO ARE YOU Super Deluxe Boxset
Today’s second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a must-have item for fans of The Who, and would make a great gift for any fan of classic rock from the 1970s. The Who “Who Are You…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The first entry today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a lunchbox and thermos based on the 1975 classic movie, JAWS...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: JAWS Lunchbox and Thermos from Fright Rags
Steven Speilberg’s classic movie, JAWS, turned fifty this year, and chances are you know someone who’s a massive film buff that adores this movie. The problem is, they probably already …
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November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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PopCult sneaks out a truncated STUFF TO DO for Charleston, while juggling several other things...

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Cinematic STUFF TO DO and More!
Thanks to The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide, I will once again be running a scaled down version of STUFF TO DO, without the lengthy boilerplate (you can find an example HERE), and with fewer than ten gra…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Today's second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is for colored vinyl reissues of Ringo Starr's first four albums, but you want to act fast because two of them sold out while I was writing this post...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Ringo LP Re-Releases
Today’s second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is, as has been the case all week long, the perfect gift for the Beatles fan on your holiday shopping list, and it’s also great for t…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The first entry today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is what every kid wants...White Stripes Action Figures!

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The PopCult Gift Guide: The White Stripes Action Figures
The White Stripes 2-Pack (Elephant) by Super 7 $45 plus shipping from Super 7 or other retailers Today’s first suggestion in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a great gift for fans of the band, …
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November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The second entry today in The PopCult Gift Guide is the vinyl debut of the compilation album, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Songs by George Harrison
Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison vinyl $59.99 avaialbe where vinyl is sold Continuing our previously-unmentioned week of Beatles reissues, today’s second pick in The 2025 PopCult Gift Gu…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Today's first entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a great new book about the history of Hollywood's daring, pre-code movies, over 90 years ago...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Pre-Code Essentials Book
Pre-Code Essentials Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934 by Kim Luperi and Danny Reid Running Press Adult ISBN-139798894140551 $25.99 Our first pick today in The 2025 PopCult Gif…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today's second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a new collection
of the music of Paul McCartney and Wings...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: WINGS
WINGS is the ultimate anthology of the band that defined the sound of the 1970s. A lovingly curated time capsule of imagery and music personally overseen by Paul McCartney, WINGS includes 32 timele…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Today's first entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a really cool
minature fridge...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Mini Brands Fill The Fridge
Today’s first entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is Zuru Toys’ Mini Brands Fill The Fridge.  I reviewed this back in August, but I wasn’t sure that I’d be able to include …
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November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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PopCult has notes on why today's Radio Free Charleston is a special
rerun edition...

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An RFC Rerun Note
Today on The AIR, rather than bringing you a new episode of Radio Free Charleston, we are bringing you a special encore of two episodes of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four. To listen to The AIR, y…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Today's second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a big-ticket
item, the super deluxe 12-disc set of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Power
To The People" NYC boxset...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Power To The People: Live at the One To One Concert
Today’s second pick in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a big-ticket item, and also kicks off a week of our second entries of the day being music-based suggestions. Perfect for the Beatles fan,…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The first entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide today is Gargon, King of
the Terrons...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Gargon
The first pick today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a really cool recreation of a rare 1970s action figure, available in two cool versions. Gargon The King of the Terrons Part of the Astro Comma…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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PopCult's Monday Morning Art is an oil pastel geometric abstract...

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Monday Morning Art: Superficial Intelligence
To be honest, this is just a glorified doodle. It’s a big one, but when I started, I had no idea what it was going to be. And…I’m still not quite sure. This started out as a me go…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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PopCult's sunday Evening Video brings you a new music video from Frenchy
& The Punk...

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Sunday Evening Video: New Music Video From Frenchy & The Punk
[HTML1] This week we have a great new music video from one of our  Radio Free Charleston favorites. Above you see Frenchy & The Punk  with “Not Under Your Spell.” If that seems familiar, …
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November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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PopCult's RFC Flashback goes back to our 2012 FestivALL preview, with
muusic from ohn Lilly, Buddy Black, The Demon Beat, QiET, Sasha Colette,
Comparsa and Brian Diller...

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The RFC Flashback: Episode One Hundred Sixty
[HTML1] This week we travel back to early June, 2012, for a special preview edition of Radio Free Charleston for FestivALL 2012. This bonus-length, forty-five minutes how includes music from John L…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The second entry today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is for three books by Anthony Taylor, celebrating model kits and an incredible artist...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Books By Anthony Taylor
Anthony Taylor (disclosure time: Anthony is a friend) is a keen observer of pop culture and genre fiction and for this entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide I’m going to revisit a couple of hi…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The first pick today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is the classic Svengoolie Glow-in-the-dark T shirt...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: The Classic Svengoolie T-Shirt
Svengoolie® T-Shirt by MeTV Limited From $19.95 + $6.95 shipping and handling (plus sales tax where applicable) The perfect gift for any fan of the famed horror host, Svengoolie, this is the classi…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This week's PopCulteer is a truncated list of STUFF TO DO...

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STUFF TO DO A Week Into November
The PopCulteer November 7, 2025 Like I mentioned last week, this week we are into our first week of The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide, so I will be running a scaled down version of STUFF TO DO, without t…
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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The second of today's entries in The 2025 PopCult Gift guide is a very expensive boxed set of every piece of music recorded by The Bonzo Dog Band...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: A Giant and Expensive Bonzo Dog Band Boxed Set
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Still Barking Import CD Boxset $258.45 from Amazon Today’s second gift suggestion in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is one of our big-ticket items, and like our first pic…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Today's first of two Bonzo-centric entries in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is the biography of Neil Innes, A Bonzo, A Rutle and "The Seventh Python"...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: The Life of Neil Innes
Dip My Brain in Joy: A Life with Neil Innes: The Official Biography by Yvonne Innes Nine Eight Books ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1785121692 $35.99 (discounted at Amazon) The first pick today (and both of tod…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Today's second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is our first retailer spotlight, on Charleston's Kin Ship Goods...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: Kin Ship Goods
Kin Ship Goods Today’s second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a local retailer and a returning favorite, Kin Ship Goods. Nestled comfortably on a side street in Charleston’s West Side…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The first entry today in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is a lavishly-illustrated book that traces the history of Amtrak through the differences in its equipment over the years...

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The PopCult Gift Guide: A Visual History of Amtrak
AMTRAK’S HISTORY THROUGH ITS EQUIPMENT by Brian Solomon Firecrown Media ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8894910192 $28.99 I hope I’m not showing my age with today’s first entry in The 2025 PopC…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM