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Sunday, June 27, 2021

The Midnight Citizen 227: “Skip the Preach, Go to the Beach”

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

All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: Matthew Perry and Jennifer Anniston — Windows 95; Stick Witness News (1996);Movie Magic: Forrest Gump

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! … “Something’s wrong with my son; he left for church in quite a huff…”

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Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Midnight Citizen 225: “Black Market Hobbes”

1:24:13 — Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night.

Show notes: What happens when you call the past? Do you get a “disconnected” message?; Stephen King’s “The Langoliers” shows us that the past is a dead place; survey on where people would rather travel: the past or the future?; the Baha Men; Why I would never survive in prison; Alabama is falling behind heavily on Covid vaccinations; “The Conjuring: the Devil Made Me Do It”, and why these films about the supernatural vs. science are so popular right now; Ed and Lorraine Warren are B.S.; Music Break*; I saw a black market “Calvin and Hobbes” stuffed tiger this week; Summer Camp and Vacation Bible School; the vulgar origins of the campfire song, “Do Your Ears Hang Low?”

*Music Break: “Athens” by Pierce Murphy; “Your Eyes” by Crowander. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org

**Video Street Video Store: “Wall Street Traders in the 1980’s”; “Siskel and Ebert” Review: The Karate Kid III.

Listen to “The Midnight Citizen 172: the Genius of Gene Siskel” (8/6/16), referenced in this episode.

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! …“Was it over when the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor”…

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Sunday, June 21, 2020

The Midnight Citizen 218: “Behold, the Masked City”

2:35:15 — Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night, where he recalls the time he got kicked out of a Chuck E. Cheese, and reviews the stuff he bought off Amazon during quarantine. Exciting stuff.

Show Notes: why nostalgia will destroy us all; people are pretending the pandemic is over, when the data says otherwise; burglars used masks during the pandemic of 1918 to disguise themselves when robbing banks; the time when my friends and I got kicked out of a Chuck E. Cheese for eating there without kids of our own; how we are unwelcome in the places of our past; substitute teaching; tribute to “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs”, which wrapped up its second season this week; nostalgia is not only ruining our lives, but horror movies, too!; Music Break*; Ian Holm — “Ash” from Alien — is dead at 88; movie theatres will reopen next month with safety restrictions; Svengoolie; stuff I’ve bought off Amazon in the last three weeks of quarantine; Video Street Video Store**; “Tales from Viscauga, AL”: this week, Jim continues his quest for a mysterious videotape, and solves the mystery of who has been robbing the citizens of Viscauga in the night.

Music Break: “Surfing Day” (Marcos H. Bolanos, Unchained Melodies, Vol. 2)

“Suburban Outlaw” (Forget the Whale, What I Tell Myself); “Machinery” by Eddy.

All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org

Video Street Video Store: Cullman Liquidation Lumber Commercial; Retro Office Safety Training Video.

Stuff on Amazon: Chiseled Face Shaving Soap Sampler (Rancho Cucamonga, CA); Field Notes: National Park Series C; Prestige Import Group Chalet Cherry Cigar Humidor

Backing music for tonight’s episode: “Hendrixy Slow Blues Backing Jam Track” (YouTube); “Blues in A Minor Backing Track” (Gilad Perry); Petti Music Studios (CCO 1.0 Universal, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike).

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Friday, May 29, 2020

The Midnight Citizen 215: “Play Video” (5/29/20)

1:34:02 — Join Mike in the studio for the first time in three years.

Show Notes: Why I was once suspected of being a mad bomber at the Statue of Liberty; Life During Quarantine (teaching, reading, sleeping, attending events like funerals in alternate ways); somehow my job has brought me back to the Midnight Citizen studio; Music Break*; Reading a “You’re Welcome” letter from President Trump; Supplementing income during Covid time with Doordash, Postmates — well, I got fired from Doordash, and I’ll tell you the story; Jurassic Park book (1990); Video Street Video Store**; “Tales from Viscauga, AL”: this week, Senior Mac Nix refuses to graduate in obscurity, and decides to pull off an epic prank for his school to remember him by.   

*Music Break: “Last of the Frontiersmen” by Dark Meat; ”Bad Prescription” by Physical Plant; “Machinery” by Eddy

**Video Street Video Store: 1990 Sam Goody “Wrap It Up” commercial; Ames Department Store Asset Protection Awareness training video; Penn and Teller MonsterVision segment.

Backing music for tonight’s episode: Petti Music Studios (CCO 1.0 Universal, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike).

Check out The Midnight Citizen back-issues at Archive.org, and the Livestream of tonight’s show.


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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

OVERNIGHTSCAPE CENTRAL [ 331 ] – The Midnight Citizen (4/4/17)

ons869_300 (2:21:14) Fans of ONSUG’s THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN podcast come out of the woodwork to pay tribute to Mike Boody‘s wonderful program! Bi-Coastal Becky, California Dingo, Frank Edward Nora, Shambles Constant, PQ Ribber and your host, Jimbo, stay up late to yak about Alabama’s Finest! And as always – the Week in Review!

You’re all invited to be a part of next week’s show; you can tell us all what’s on your mind about the following topic:

VIC AND SADE – tell us what you like and what you don’t like!

Please have your contributions sent to Jimbo by 🕖 7 pm EDT, April 10, 2017. If you know Jimbo’s email address, send your contribution there. Otherwise, send your contributions to onsugcentral@gmail.com…

Theme Music: Volca Keys / AIRA TB-3 / Pocket Operators – by Matt Greer (edit)

End song: THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN POSSIBLE THEME by Jimbo

PQ’s Nitroglycerine Pep Club album: “Wyoming Escalator 3”

Thanks to Frank Edward Nora for allowing me to use and abuse his show art! And more thanks to Frank, Marc Rose, PQ, Eddie Murray, Shambles, Chad Bowers, Carrie Michel and Ruben Schade for the intro contribution.

Attribution by Jimbo. Guests appear courtesy of themselves.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Released April 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a free-form monologue style, with diverse and very clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

Sorry I was a day late… Monday, April 3rd, was baseball’s “Opening Day”!

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Saturday, February 11, 2017

The Midnight Citizen 200 — “Very Different, Very Single Times” (2/11/17)

citizen200cover1:29:30 – Join Mike in the studio on his 200th episode, where he talks about nothing special — as usual. Also, should we be “mortified” at our past selves? And remembering the techno-paranoia of the mid 90’s.

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Show notes: We need to stop saying “They can put a man on the moon, but they can’t (insert some common technology gap here)”; a little hung over on a Saturday morning; the movie “Sorcerer” (1977); Music Break 1*; looking at photos from very different, very single times in my life; was I happy back then, or just miserable all the time?; frazzled and confused; “Above the Law” (1988), starring Steven Seagal; “To Live and Die in LA” (1985); gritty streets; listener e-mail from Adam; a trip to the Video Street Video Store**; I haven’t always been a Boy Scout; listening to some of my older shows on Archive.org; my recent blog featuring old stories, drawings from middle school that I found in my storage locker; techno-paranoia of the 90’s; should we be “mortified” at our past selves?; Music Break 2*.

*Music Breaks: “Highway Car” by the Poors; “Ti” by Nafta; “What Would You Say” by Nafta; “Rules of Engagement” by Roger Chandler and Kathleen Martin.

**Video Street Video Store: “Learning to Use the Internet” (1996); “The Game of Your Life” (c. 1988).

Backing music for tonight’s episode is the Midnight Cassette System (CCO 1.0 Universal, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike).

Check out Adam Fox’s story, “Suitable Distance”, based on an actual episode that happened on this episode of “The Midnight Citizen”!

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