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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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Christmas greetings from Rudy, Mel and PopCult...

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Happy Christmas 2025 from PopCult
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and whatever good tidings fill your bill from PopCult and the Larch-Panucci household. 2025 has been a year best left on the trash heap of history.  We began the yea…
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December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The next-to-last of our 12 Posts of Christmas in PopCult goes back to our first entry, with over 30 photos of the subject of that first video, Kraynak's Santa's Christmasland...

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Kraynak’s Santa’s Christmasland in Photos
Ten days ago we brought you PopCult’s 2025 Holiday Video that brings you sights from a visit we made last month to Kraynak’s Santa’s Christmasland in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. You&…
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December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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PopCult shares a photo essay of our Christmas Trees...yes, more than one...

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The 2025 PopCult Christmas Trees
Today’s entry in The 12 Posts of Christmas is a photo essay (with a bonus video that I decided to do on the spur of the moment) of the PopCult Christmas Trees. Yeah…”Trees.”…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Today's entry in The 12 Posts of Christmas is all about the spirit of giving, and will hopefully help out some of my friends...

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The Spirit Of Giving
Today in The 12 Posts of Christmas, rather than show you a fun video or cool picture, we’re going to take a day to look at the real meaning of the holiday. Christmas is about giving. It&#8217…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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PopCult's Monday Morning Art is a quick watercolor sketch of a Christmas Tree in Chicago...

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Monday Morning Art: The Giddings Plaza Tree
Getting into the holiday spirit, this week’s art is a quick and sloppy watercolor of the tree they put up in Giddings Plaza in Chicago. I think I may have done a painting of this tree years a…
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December 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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PopCult's Sunday Evening Video collects ten years worth of Radio Free Charleston Christmas specials into one long clip...

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Sunday Evening Video: The RFC Christmas Shows
[HTML1] From 2006 to 2015, I produced ten Christmas episodes (or specials/treats) of the Radio Free Charleston video show. A couple of years ago I compiled them all in a handy playlist to embed in …
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December 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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PopCult's 12 Posts of Christmas for today offers up a "Best of" photo essay from Chicago's Christkindl Market...

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PopCult’s Best Of Christkindl Market
Over the past eleven years, your humble blogger and his lovely wife have made many trips to Chicago in the Christmas season, and we always find the time to visit Chicago’s Christkindl Market,…
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December 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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PopCult's RFC Flashback goes to August, 2012, for the first of three shows dedicated to "Tribute To The Troops II." This episode features HARRAH, In The company of Wolves, Everpulse, Point of Jerus and Johnny Compton...

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The RFC Flashback: Episode One Hundred Sixty-Six
[HTML1] This week we go back to late August, 2012, for the first of three shows devoted to “Tribute To The Troops II,” an outdoor show held at Saint Albans City Park, produced by Wood B…
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December 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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PopCult tells you about a NEW Air Christmas Special, debuting today, starting at 10 AM, Eastern time...

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A Very Special AIR XMAS MESS
The PopCulteer December 19, 2025 I’m not gonna lie, folks…it’s been a rough week. So today I’m going to take it easy a bit. I’m making The PopCulteer one of our 12 Pos…
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December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Today's entry in PopCult's 12 Posts of Christmas is Jake Fertig's new holiday classic, Frothy The Undead Snowman...

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Frothy The Undead Snowman
[HTML1] Today’s entry in The 12 Posts of Christmas is the latest epic micro-budget movie from our old friend, Jake Fertig. Its a heartwarming holiday classic, guaranteed to become an annual v…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Radio Free Charleston is NEW today at 2 PM, with a show that includes some great new holiday music, and a musical mixtape salute to Brian Young...

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Attempting Holiday Cheer and Remembering Brian on RFC
We are two days late with a drastically altered edition of Radio Free Charleston that you can hear today on The AIR.  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at …
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December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Today's entry in the 12 Posts of Christmas is an OSCAR-winning animated short based on John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"...

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War Is Over (If You Want It)
[HTML1] Today’s entry in the 12 Posts of Christmas is an OSCAR-winning animated short featuring the music of John & Yoko. From the video’s description: WAR IS OVER! Set in an altern…
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December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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PopCult bids farewell to one of my favorite people...

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Remembering Brian Young
I hate having to do this again so soon. Brian Young, one of the most consequential people in my life, and a huge contributor to this blog through his work with me on Radio Free Charleston, passed a…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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PopCult offers up some Holiday STUFF TO DO...

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STUFF TO DO Invades The Holidays
We find ourselves still a little truncated this week due to some internet and power outages that have played havoc with our PopCulting, so we’re going to try to keep it short and sweet and co…
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December 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Today PopCult's 12 Days of Christmas post is all about toys...

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A Look Back At A Big Toy Store
Today’s entry in The 12 Posts of Christmas goes back two years (and two days) ago, for our first video visit to Sir Troy’s Toy Kingdom. In recent months, Sir Troy’s has expanded, …
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December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Due to technical issues, this week's Radio Free Charleston will debut on Thursday, on The AIR...

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RFC Delayed This Week
Due to technical issues, power outages and horrible news,  this week’s new Radio Free Charleston will debut on Thursday. Today we’ll be running an encore of the 2021 Christmas episode on The AIR at…
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December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The second of PopCult's 12 Posts of Christmas recycles last year's special holiday videos...

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Last Year’s Christmas Videos
It’s recycling time in PopCult today as we bring you the second of our 12 Posts of Christmas. Last year I made three (and a half) holiday videos for readers of this blog. My main motivation f…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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PopCult's Monday Morning Art is a painting of wind turbines in the snow...

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Monday Morning Art: Sentinels At Dawn
This week’s art is a small acrylic painting on illustration board that was inspired by a photo I took out the window of the Amtrak Cardinal in Indiana the week before last on my way to Chicag…
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December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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PopCult's Sunday Evening Video takes you to Santa's Christmasland at Kraynak's, in Hermitage, PA...

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Sunday Evening Video: A Visit To Kraynak’s Santa’s Christmasland
[HTML1] Above you see PopCult’s 2025 Holiday Video that brings you sights from a visit we made last month to Kraynak’s Santa’s Christmasland in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. This is th…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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PopCult's RFC Flashback takes a double jump back to August, 2012 for a show where Mel Larch and Kitty Killton join me to present footage of Clownhole that was shot in 1989...

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The RFC Flashback: Episode One Hundred Sixty-Five
[HTML1] This week we go back to August, 2012 for a special episode of the show that, in reality, takes us all the way back to December, 1989. At the time I called it “my most self-indulgent e…
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December 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This week's PopCulteer brings you photos from our Chicago trip...

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December, 2025: The Chicago Trip
The PopCulteer December 12, 2025 Your PopCulteer is back from his annual trip to Chicago to celebrate his beautiful wife’s birthday. Even though she absolutely hates having her picture taken,…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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PopCult serves up a second helping of STUFF TO DO this weekend...

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Even More STUFF TO DO! It’s A Holiday Miracle!
So your humble blogger is back from Chicago, still somewhat worn out from all the epic fun, but since yesterday’s STUFF TO DO was so skimpy, how about we do a bonus round today? Keep in mind …
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December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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PopCult is back with the first of two editions of STUFF TO Do this week...

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Just A Little STUFF TO DO, Okay?
I’m writing this a week before you’ll see it, so, after a two-week absence due to The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide, today we’re going to give you a scaled down version of STUFF TO DO, …
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December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Today's new episode of Radio Free Charleston starts out with a new
segment, then brings you more of the Best of 2025...

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More Best of 2025 On RFC!
Where were we before we were so tragically interrupted? Oh yes.  Because of my work on The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide, which ran an extra week but is now in our rear-view mirror, I decided to tinker w…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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PopCult's Monday Morning Art is a small Christmas Tree...

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Monday Morning Art: Small Tree
This week’s art is a quick ‘n’ sloppy acrylic painting I did of a tiny Christmas tree that I put up in the corner of my living room twelve or fifteen years ago. I found a bunch of…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM