The Overnightscape Underground

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1:28:00 — Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he’s on the lookout for his suspicious neighbors…who may be vampires.

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Detailed show notes: I think my neighbors may be vampires…or just wild for the nightlife; reflecting on Halloween paranoia, and could the weird happenings of 2016 (presidential election, the Cubs/Indians World Series) signal the end of humanity?; “Halloween Safety” (1977); ; trying some Bacardi Pumpkin Spice Rum; Reddit rumors about zombie improprieties down at the Sloss Fright Furnace Haunted House; that time I got kicked out of Sloss for kicking an aggressive actor in the groin; “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” on Nickelodeon and, specifically, “The Tale of Laughing in the Dark” with Zeebo the Clown; walking home alone at night when I was a kid; “Salute Your Shorts” and Zeke the Plumber; learning about the true meaning of Halloween through a solitaire Internet trivia contest.

All music is for this episode is Creative Commons Licensed (Non-commercial/Attribution/No Derivatives and/or Share-Alike) and is available on Free Music Archive.

Featured Music: “JBB Presents” by William Hellfire; “Vampires in my Neighborhood” by Mors Ontologica; “Witch on Fire” by Dan Mechior; “I Think I’m a Ghost” by Ed Shrader’s Music Beat; “Vampire’s Kiss” by The Sonics; “I’m Not Psychotic” by Dylan Palme “Graveyard” by Trailer Bride

Backing Music: “Spiders and Syringes/Escape/Whacked” by Lee Rosevere; “Welcome to HorrorLand” by Kevin McLeod; “Green Monster” by Jesse Spillane; “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by The Itchy Creeps

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Join Mike at the Oak Hill Cemetery for the Underground Film Festival. Be sure to check out the Video Livestream of this episode for max enjoyment!  (Part 1/Part 2)

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Music for tonight’s episode:  “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.

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1:07:27 – Mike’s out of the studio tonight, but enjoy a collection of his contributions to The Overnightscape Central, which posts every Monday night at onsug.com. Segments include: Strange Places (September ’16); Cereal (June ’11); 1950’s movies (August ’15), and; Rock n’ Roll (August ’15).

To find out how you can contribute to The Overnightscape Central, e-mail PQ Ribber at kpqr.torc@gmail.com.

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.

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1:08:11 – Join Mike outside on a Friday night, where he explores old TV movies about H. Ross Perot and Iranian hostages, and laments the possibility that we’re all living in a Matrix reality.

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Detailed show notes: “On Wings of Eagles” (1986 TV movie), starring Richard Crenna as Ross Perot; the 1979 Iranian Revolution; “Argo” (2012); Ross Perot; grilling on the back porch on a Friday night; “Hail Caesar” (2016); weird political seasons (2016, 2000, 1992); the Ross Perot infomercials from ’92 were filmed in the same studio as Joe Bob Briggs’s “Drive-In Theater” in Dallas, Texas; late night horror hosts; reading Joe Bob’s response to an e-mail I sent him about Ross Perot; congrats to Alex for being a new, first-time dad; shout out to Miss S’s 12th grade History class at the local high school for listening to my show; Elon Musk is funding research to investigate if we are living in the Matrix; alternate worlds; “Mayberry RFD” and depressing sitcom spin-offs; “The Ropers”; advice to Norman Fell and all other actors of successful sitcoms past NOT to do spin-offs; and more!

Music for tonight’s episode:  “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.

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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; 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.

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53:49 – Join Mike outside on a Friday night, exploring the trends of 2016 — most notably this weird “clownspotting” epidemic, and whether or not its some viral marketing stunt for some stupid Rob Zombie movie, or just a bunch of pathetic improv losers trying to scare children.

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Detailed show notes: the 2nd day of Fall; Sam Adams Octoberfest; doing a show outside because the studio is too hot; trends of 2016 — off-their-rocker politicians, Pokemon Go, clowns; clowns spotted in South Carolina and Alabama offering kids candy and money; Stephen King’s “It”; clowns in “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” (1986); the “Ernest” character played by Jim Varney; the Midnight Citizen studio is currently under construction, and; a bit more…

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53:52 – Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night.

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Detailed show notes: the evolution of “Dear John” letters; how to keep a Frog alive; Auntie Litter; my ex-roommate Hunter’s video editing work he did for Auntie Litter show up on the Comedy Central show “@Midnight” this week; “Dear John” TV show; technical problems bring yet another show to an early end.

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 September 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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1:25:00 – Mike opens up the show this week like he’s Richard Dreyfus in “Jaws”, looking over his person and recounting the battle scars of his past. Also reconsiders being sarcastic to certain North Korean dictators, and looks to skip all the 9/11 mattress sale blow-outs.

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Detailed show notes: Christmas ’98, when I stabbed myself and had to be rushed two hours to the emergency room; taking my dog, Anna, to the vet to get stitches; North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un has banned sarcasm (“that’s a GREAT idea…”); “The Interview” (2014); The Overnightscape Central; buying a new car; pictures of food; a beggar asked me for money even when I saw he had a nicer phone than me; how does everybody have such nice things?; selling an old car; getting used to a new windscreen on my mic; follow-up on my failed food delivery from Marco’s Pizza a few weeks back; 1990s Pizza Hut training video; pranking customers and managers at my Blockbuster Video job in high school; late 1980s Blockbuster training video; shameless 9/11 mattress sale video — hoax or not? .

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Music for tonight’s episode is by VYVCH from his album “Crazy Fog”. (CC — Attribution, Non-commercial)

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1:01:45 – Mike’s out of town tonight, but enjoy a collection of his contributions to The Overnightscape Central, which posts every Monday night at onsug.com. Segments include: Kid (March 2011); Mornings (August 2016); OnsugLand (September 15), and; Gossip (April 2016)

To find out how you can contribute to The Overnightscape Central, e-mail PQ Ribber at kpqr.torc@gmail.com.

Music for this episode: “These Fair Hands”, “True Hearts” by Nick Jaina; “City in Ruins” by Mescares. All music is Creative Commons Licensed (attribution only, share-alike).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Share Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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1:20:26 — Join Mike in the studio late at night as he remembers Crazy-C, the wannabe rapper from his college acting class who brought a class production of Mamet’s “American Buffalo” to a show-stopping conclusion. Later, he talks about how to claim your manliness through bartering. Also, the Heaven’s Gate cult.

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Detailed show notes: People I used to know and how they still exist in my mind the way they were rather than the way they are now; “The Matrix” (1999) was my first DVD and I still own it; The Overnightscape Central; the story of Crazy-C, my college acting class partner; David Mamet; selling my car and learning how to barter; web sites I used to know — “Hamster Dance”, “The Blair Witch Project”; “Heaven’s Gate” web site from 1997 is still up and running; Hale Bopp comet; vlogs and blogs; Century Plaza, my first mall and dead since 2009, may be bought by a local megachurch; the National Parks Service turns 100.

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The Gizmodo article about those brave cult members who stayed behind to manage the Heaven’s Gate web site.

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 August 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.