The Midnight Citizen 174: “The Genius of Gene Siskel” (8/6/2016)
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1:19:32 – Join Mike in the studio late at night, recalling that time he got stuck behind the curtain at a Rock-afire Explosion show, how he got banned from Facebook recently, and explaining why Tim Burton owes the late film critic Gene Siskel money.
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Detailed show notes: Rock-afire Explosion; getting banned from Facebook and the drama of appealing to their customer service algorithms; Gilmore Girls; the movie “Keanu” (2015) starring Key and Peele; “Big Lebowski” actor David Huddleston has died at 85; how Gene Siskel came up with the idea for “Nightmare Before Christmas”; Steve Jobs; H. Ross Perot; the future of The Midnight Citizen, strategy?.
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Music for tonight’s episode if from The Midnight Cassette System by Frank Nora.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.