The Midnight Citizen 182 — “The VR Youth” (10/1/2016)
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1:28:30 — Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he gets all paranoid playing scary VR games. Also, dive into an investigation of 1980s “body switch” movies.
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Detailed show notes: Encountered a drug deal while walking the dog; Fall has come to Birmingham; getting used to “Jingle Palette” cart program to mix in music as I talk; movie drug deals vs. real life drug deals; is Birmingham as great and on the upswing as everyone here says it is?; “Big” (1988) starring Tom Hanks, perceptions of this movie when I was a kid vs. watching it as an adult; “body switch” movies of the 1980s (“Like Father, Like Son”, “Vice Versa”, “All of Me”); got a greenscreen and rigged up some lights for video content;Â a venture into world of VR with the horror game “Alone”; getting freaked out playing VR; practical uses for VR as it moves out of its youth; Remembering Arnold Palmer, PGA pro, who passed away last week, and the Hertz commercials he did with OJ Simpson — also that time he locked eyes with my mom in 1984; “Seinfeld” episode “The Jacket” based on author Richard Yates, who taught at my college alma mater in Alabama; drinking the last bit of my favorite sweet tea that exists in Birmingham — is doing a podcast a “tea worthy” occassion”, and; more…
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Music for tonight’s episode: “Something” by Kai Engel; “Call for Surrender”, “Dance Rocket”, “Descent of the Goober Monster” by Jesse Spillane; “City in Ruins” by Mescares; “These Fair Hands”, “True Hearts” by Nick Jaina. All music is Creative Commons License: Attribution, Share-Alike.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released October 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.
That’s one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes. “He’s in the bathroom!!”
Comment by Shambles — October 2, 2016 @ 6:54 am