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 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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2022 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.
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 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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Mike's out of the studio this week, but enjoy this oldie from March 2016.
Show Notes: Join Mike in the basement on a rainy Saturday night. Topics include: porch podcasting plans destroyed; making coffee; doing a show in the basement with the garage door open and looking out on the rainy night; stormy night nightmares and dreaming this week that I was trapped inside an 80s dead teenager movie with a bunch of stereotypes; describing the dim, shadowy basement; just saw “10 Cloverfield Lane”, and spoiler-free review; John Goodman; attended TEDx Talks today; moving to action vs. slacking; is it best just to sit out being proactive or join the game and mobilize; being a sideline commentator in life and how all my heroes have done the same and I’m just now realizing it, and; much more!
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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night…
…where he wonders if he really learned anything in kindergarten – since life is so tough, and recites a better credo to live life by: the repo code.
Check out the detailed show notes here.
*Music Break: “Bellweather” by Man Woman Child; “Get Me a Job” by the Riptones. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: AOL Corporate Video (Early 1990’s); Jean Shepherd on “Shepherd’s Pie” – New Jersey Public Television (c. 1977)
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Nightcam: Ober Gatlinburg – Gatlinburg, TN
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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night…
…where he recalls the time he scammed himself a free pizza from Domino’s (unsuccessfully), and talks about “Inventing Anna”, a Netflix series showcasing the millennial scam culture. Also, more scams of the rich and famous, and another trip to the Video Street Video Store!
Check out the detailed show notes here.
*Music Break: “Slipping Away” by Jack Adkins; “Idiot Revival” by Blood Lontra. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: “What is a Yuppie”/Yuppies in London (1987); Music Channel Promo – TV-61, Phoenix Arizona.
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Nightcam: Venice Beach – Los Angeles, CA
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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night…
…where he tearfully looks back on his long-lasting relationship with his bank, and how he regretfully had to break it off. Also, Mike attempts to yodel, and remembers Cousin Cliff Holman, Birmingham’s own “Kansas City Star”.
Check out the detailed show notes here.
*Music Break: “The Machine Stops” by The Miseryslims; “The Milky Way” by HolinzaCCO (album: “An Ocean in Outer Space”). All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: “‘Training Day’ Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video Training Film (c. 2006).
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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night…
…where he discovers new uses for the Zippo, as the American military did during Vietnam, and contemplates the long, complicated history of sentence diagramming. Also, will the kids take over when they realize the adults don’t know what they’re doing?
Check out the detailed show notes here.
*Music Break: “Blackout Romeo” by the Spin Wires; “Hawaii 5-0 (CB-203)” by Checkie Brown All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: “Video Toaster 4000” Promo Video (1994); “Over the Edge” (1979) trailer.
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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night…
Where he burns a bourbon-whisky scented candle he made, and wonders when the American “boy” becomes the American “man”. Perhaps it’s when he gets his first Boy Scout Handbook? Or maybe when he finds out the Boy Scouts are a sham?
Also: memories of the Boy Scouts (all I got from it was a first place medal for the Pinewood Derby, a competition I cheated at); why I quit the Boy Scouts of America; the “manly” art of chandlery (candle making); Mancaves, and the modern obsession with being a “man” in the Teddy Roosevelt/Ernest Hemingway-sense; Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt novel explored the notions of the American man as a role and facade; Music Break*; the waning days of summer; announcement this week that my 20 year high school reunion will be held in September, but I probably won’t go; signs of aging; a trip to the Video Street Video Store**; another Criterion haul from the Barnes and Noble (Medium Cool, Salesmen -- both 1969).
*Music Break: “Man Outta Town” by Forget the Whale; “Phone Book and Rotary” by Derek Clegg (album: “The Middler”). All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: “Boy Scouts of America” Newsreel (1939); “Super Dave Osbourne’s Wrecking Ball Stunt”
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Join Mike on the balcony of his hotel room in Florida and on the steps outside his apartment after a very long and fulfilling trip to Savannah, Georgia and Amelia Island, Florida.
Show Notes: Sitting on the beach in Florida with my wife, testing a makeshift windscreen for my Zoom recorder; relaxing with a cigar on the porch of either the oldest hotel in Florida or America (the literature on the Florida House Inn is contradictory) after a very stressful plumbing nightmare with our hotel room; recalling my last trip to Amelia Island with my family in 1995, where I climbed off our second floor balcony to pet a cat, and my mother got us lost for four hours looking for a Denny’s; the 1996 summer Olympics and the amorphous, asexual mascot, Izzy; the stress of coming home after a long trip; relaxing at home with a cigar and whisky; recalling my trip to Savannah, Georgia and the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) that made it famous; Savannah is supposedly the most haunted town in the country; recalling our tour through the Sorrel-Weed House, supposedly the most haunted house in Savannah; my adventure riding a horse past the famous tree from Forrest Gump (1994); how movies can implant artificial memories of having been someplace before; visiting Fort Pulaski on Tybee Island; eating at the Old Pink House; good to be home.
*If you believe in that sort of thing.
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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
...wondering about where all the tapes of dads getting hit in the testacles with whiffle balls went after they were sent into Bob Saget in the late 80’s. Were they destroyed, or put in a warehouse somewhere, along with the Ark of the Covenant?
Also: how America’s Funniest Home Videos (1989-present) may be the most prophetic show of the last 50 years; the time my sister and I made a video to send into the show, but found out you can’t stage a gaff; how Internet culture and YouTube now is centered around staging gaffs, but pretending not to; Ernie Anderson, the voice of ABC in the 70’s and 80’s; Music Break*; a toast to Richard Donnor, legendary director of The Twilight Zone, Superman: the Movie, The Goonies, and Lethal Weapon, who died this week at 91; a review of my Criterion Hall at this week’s 50% off sale at Barnes and Noble; a trip to the Video Street Video Store**; a review of the Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood novelization by Quentin Tarantino.
Music Break: “Running with Wise Fools” by Krackatoa; “Freeze” by KieLoBot. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: “Million Dollar Voices” (2004); “Jaws” Promotional Video (1995); “Sears AC Ad” (1990’s).
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Due to tech issues with my new computer, there was not a show this week. But it was a happy accident, because now you can enjoy this rerun from July 4, 2015.
Check out more shows from the back catalogue of THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN here.
Show notes: Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, and also on the porches and streets of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: Happy 4th of July!; interviewing fireworks; the Dick Tracy Watch story; sarcastic Americanism; got a new coffee percolator; podcasting and misconceptions; awful movie trailers; “Jurassic World” review, and much more!
Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).
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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
...talking about a trip he took to the beach with the church youth group in 1996, and how most of the time was spent not on the sand, but in the cold conference room of the Holiday Inn, praying and reading the bible. Yikes. He should’ve just skipped the preach and gone to the beach.
Also: I finished teaching summer camp this week; working alongside my students; teaching Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” using dodgeball; the promise of the Internet in the 1990’s; remembering the show “227”.
Music Break: “Suddenly It Occurs to Me There’s No Ocean Here” by Artificial Intelligence; “Transcontinental Super Conscious State” by the Space Merchants
Intro/Closing Music: “Oolin Poolin Oy” by Blue Wave Theory
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Video Street Video Store: Matthew Perry and Jennifer Anniston -- Windows 95; Stick Witness News (1996);Movie Magic: Forrest Gump
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