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49:59 — Recorded 12/11/16. Join Mike on the back porch as he prepares for a trip to Disney World. Also: “Terminator 2:3D”, and thinking about the “Westworld” finale.
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Detailed show notes: Christmas shopping at the mall; that familiar, nostalgic smell of smoky mall parking garages; working in mall retail. ’98-2007; “Creepfest”; Disney World; thinking about my last visit in 1995; the MMC (Mickey Mouse Club) starring Justin Timberlake, Brittany Spears, Keri Russel, and others; “Terminator 2:3D” at Universal Studios; “Westworld”.
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1:38:16 – Join Mike in the studio, where he lets into Bruce Springsteen’s working class b.s, and calls in an order for a “Love Sounds of the 60’s” cassette collection from TimeLife. Also, some big news about the future of “Creepfest”, his long dormant late night monster show.
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Detailed show notes: Bruce Springsteen, “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”, Ben Stiller, are “working class” musicians like Springsteen and Bob Dylan finks?; hipster rebellion restaurants of Birmingham, AL; secret bars and modern Speak-Easy’s; wildfires in Gatlinburg, Tennessee; a trip to Wal-Mart; paranoid about recording; looking at board games; “Grand Theft Auto”; “The People vs. O.J.”; TimeLife Music collections of the 90’s and calling an old number from one of the old infomercials; “Creepfest”…
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Music for this episode: “Happy Jambo” by Angel Garcia; “Happy Jambo Remix” by Perido_Particular; “Am-Trans” by Poddington Bear.
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59:57 –Â Join Mike in the studio, where he attempts to shed the Holiday fatigue to churn out a new show. Emphasis on “attempts”.
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Detailed show notes: remembering Florence Henderson and that time I saw her at a taping of “Later Today” in 2000; “Oh, my nose!”; accidental Thanksgiving violence; remembering Fidel Castro; cuban cigars; Ku Klux Klan memos to Birmingham residents in wake of recent election; watching an amateur stage production of Stephen King’s “Misery”; planning my trip to Disney World next month.
Music for this episode: “Uncredibble Frog River Route” by Lobo Loco; “Night Drive” and “Nasty” by David Szesztay; “Friendship” by Zero V;Â “Union Square” by James Beaudreau.
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46:34 –Â Mike takes a break from shopping for computers on the Internet to go for a coffee on a cold Fall afternoon. Yep, that’s the show.
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Detailed show notes: taking the new debit card to get a coffee; card chips and filling awkward voids with cashiers; found a community library box; strange encounters on the way back from Texas last week (angry campers and weary travelers); Starbucks Christmas cups; Trump’s plan from last year to make everyone say “Merry Christmas” again; politics-weary; screen fatigue from shopping online; experiences in earning some extra money to buy a new computer (online user testing and mystery shopping); “getting made” as a mystery shopper at a local restaurant this week; the upcoming irrational of the Christmas season.
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1:13:41 –Â Join Mike for a walk along the gulf waters of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he takes a break from a work conference to discuss election results. Also, stubborn old people who can’t give into technology and want you to know all the reasons why.
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1:03:09 –Â Mike finds out his ex-roommate is now living on the air in Birmingham as a conservative talk show host, and other American horror stories…
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Detailed show notes: my ex-roommate Hunter takes jabs at Hillary Clinton and drinks the Kool-Aid on a local call-in radio show; my Halloween costume (“Prison Mike” from “The Office”); drought in Alabama; election 2016; TV review — “American Horror Story” and “Channel Zero”; the weird history of the 1960s noise-rock band “The Shaggs”; were they actually good, or is their late success just a product of 90s irony nostalgia?; Chicago Cubs win the World Series, and; a little more!
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.
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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:Â “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;Â “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.
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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.
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1:08:11 –Â 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;Â 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.