Join me outside for a whiskey and fine cigar in my celebration of finishing graduate school!

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Mike discovers a Zoom recorder in the back of his car while waiting for his windshield to defrost, and remembers he has a podcast. Join him for a drive around his hometown of Birmingham, AL as he reflects on a variety of topics, like the South’s latest blast of wintry weather, delivering food on icy roads, updates on his grad school thesis, and the Showtime show “The Curse”.

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Join Mike and special guest Dave in the studio late on a Saturday, where they free-range explore a wide variety of topics, including: understanding the frightening concept of plagiarism as a student; the diminishing charitable returns of John Mellencamp’s FARM AID; the Birmingham Batman, as featured on “That’s Incredible” (1980); “Stay Hungry”, the 1970s movie filmed in Birmingham starring Arnold Scwartzenegger; Birmingham’s adult movie theaters; the PMRC and its regulation of the music industry in the 1980’s; the wild private life of John Denver; the ubiquity of fake facts on the Internet in the 1990’s; making up fake Jimmy Buffet song titles.

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Join Mike as he watches the sun set over Birmingham, AL…and later for a drink in the backyard, where he gives his review of Oppenheimer.

Topics include: woodgrain console television sets; adult friendships; HBO’s Love and Death and the book it’s based on, Evidence of Love by drive-in film critic Joe Bob Briggs; the use of hypnotism in solving crimes; reviews of Oppenheimer and Mission: Impossible; going to the movies in 2023, and much more!

Music for this episode: Synthwave Mix | L.A. Sunset by White Bat Audio.

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Join Mike at home and in the streets of Birmingham, AL., where he discusses the mysterious “Blackwell Ghost” film series, the Birmingham zip line wars of 2012, and much more!

Other thoughts include: solo filmmaking by Richard Linklater in the 80’s; inverted realities of the real world and video games; Taco Bell and Roger and Me (1989); urban decay; service department blues; McConaughey Watch ‘23; free pizza and no suburban homeless to donate it to; adult children, and much more!

Music for this episode: 80's Night Drive Synthwave Background Music | Royalty Free No Copyright by Brand X Music

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Join Mike at the Grand River Drive-In in Leeds, AL, where he watches, and occasionally comments on, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. 

Other thoughts include: other activities to do in town other than sit around, watch movies and play video games; escape rooms; rage rooms (where you, an adult, pay money to break stuff like a little kid); the wide range of sights and sounds you see in town as a delivery driver; an Uber customer I delivered groceries to accidentally stole my beer; a jackass Doordash driver got fired for cursing at a customer who gave him a generous tip; director James Mangold is a great director despite Indiana Jones, and more.

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Join Mike for some backyard ramblings on a hot summer afternoon in Birmingham, AL.

…Talking about a humorous and kinda embarrassing misunderstanding with Buzz the friendly neighborhood gas station clerk over a bottle of wine; delivering PF Changs to a shady meeting between a doctor and a drug rep; the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs’ surprise friendship with my buddy Dave; organic vs. artificial celebrity encounters; fan conventions

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Join Mike for three days in the streets and alleys of Birmingham, AL, as he takes on and talks about all the side jobs he’s doing to support himself. 

Topics do not include: Donald Trump’s legal problems, the lost Titanic submersible, a review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

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Join Mike on the porch of his favorite tobacco shop, working his way through a fine Perdomo and a lot of topics, such as his feelings of nostalgia over coming down with Covid a year ago, and his insomnia-induced enjoyment of Snake Eyes (1999) starring Nicholas Cage. Also, some thoughts on HBO’s new Bama Rush documentary about his college alma mater.

Check out the awesome 4-part podcast on the secret and nefarious “Machine”, hosted and investigated by John Archibald of AL.com.

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Join Mike on an afternoon shift delivering food and walking around the mall in Birmingham, AL.

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Join Mike inside the world’s largest Bass Pro Shop in Memphis, Tennessee, where he rides an elevator to the top and checks out the view. Also, hang out with him at the cabin in West Memphis, Arkansas.

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, on the eve of his 40th birthday…

…where he wonders if a chance meeting with Salman Rushdie once rendered him unable to distinguish between truth and fiction. Also: the truth that great fiction makes us see the world in unreal and alternate ways. And a toast to Kenneth Starr, the great romance novelist of the 1990’s, who dies this week at 76.

*Music Break: “American English” by the Canoes; “Spontaneous Disappearance” by Blue Lotus

Backing Music: “Danger Night Expedition” by Lobo Loco; “Up, Then Down” by Way Lyricist; “Sailing Away” by HoliznaCCO; “Tuesday Night (Radio Edit) ” by Marteen Schellekens; “Abstract Technology” by Scott Holmes; Loyalty Freak Music.

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Video Street Video Store: “City Slickers” documentary (1991)

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Join Mike on the porch of a cabin in Nashville, Tennessee, his first field show in some time.

Topics include: what else? The Queen’s death, and the future of monarchy. Also, a tribute to Grand Theft Auto V, which turns 9 years old this week!

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he wonders how much more intimate television can get? Will we soon see the characters watching Netflix on the world’s first 24-hour sitcom? Also, I’m in grave risk of getting the “Freshman 15”, and I learn that Bob Crane once did a television pilot where he starred as a 40-year-old college student. Am I in danger of going down his same path?

*Music Break: “Sicilian Sundown” by Dieter van der Westen; “Nature Boy” by HarpoAll music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Sitcom Laugh Track Expert of the 1980s” (1983); “Robb McCann Interviews Bob Crane” (1978)

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he attempts to hold the world’s first convention via telepathy, and recounts his first week back on campus as a full-time graduate student. They won’t let him save on rent by moving into a dorm. Also: why’s everybody so upset about student loan forgiveness?

*Music Break: “You Shake Me” by Stompin’ Riff Raffs; “Nothing at All” by Delay 77 (album: “Don’t Stare at the Sun”). All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: Sunsphere Ad, 1982 World’s Fair, Knoxville, Tennessee; Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview (1990)

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he mourns the passing of Summer 2022 while wishing the world were more backwards compatible – you know, like computer software in the 90s. Also, colleges nationwide encourage their students to withhold their urges…at least in the showers, and a toast to Salman Rushdie, who DID NOT DIE after the long-standing Fatwa on his life was nearly executed last week.

*Music Break: “Take to the Skies” by Forget the Whale (album: “Take to the Skies”); “Chalk It Up to the Blues” by Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite BoysAll music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Community Helpers: School Workers” (1980)

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he considers the differences between real schizophrenic neighbors and those zany ones of the sitcom dimension. Also: my old high school now doubles as a police precinct, and a toast to Anne Heche, one-time Janet Leigh doppelganger, whose late 90s relationship with Ellen Degeneres exposed prejudices within my church, which eventually led to me leaving religion.

*Music Break: Long John’s Jump” by Daddy Long Legs; “Hand Jive” by the Jergon Five. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Stephen King PSA Commercial Library”; “Behind the Scenes with Natalie Wood – ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1955)

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Join Mike in the studio at night…

…where he hobnobs with movie stars, runs afoul of bandits and gentlemen conmen, and shotguns Coronas with Mexican gangsters.

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he wonders if the self-esteem movement of the 80s made him a millennial snowflake? Nope – he watched the sick entertainment of Jim Henson. Also, anti-antiwork, and VR’s last play. Will we all end up cartoons in a cartoon graveyard?

*Music Break: “I’ll Almost Get us There” by Derek Clegg; “Citizen’s Arrest” by Dazie Mae. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available as a mixtape at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: ABC News Report: “Virtual Reality 1991”

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Nightcam: The Pier at Huntington Beach, CA.

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he navigates through a haze of confusion and paranoia, egged on by high gas prices, noises of flatulence, and misunderstood song lyrics. Also, an ordinary jaunt to the drug store results in an accidental time trip back to middle school.

*Music Break: “Hipster Girls” by The Spin Wires; “That’s a Beat” by Ketsa. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Batman Returns Talk Show Backlash” (1992)

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Nightcam: Leavenworth, Washington

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