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1:25:00 –Â 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 Handsâ€, “True Hearts†by Nick Jaina; “City in Ruinsâ€Â by Mescares. All music is Creative Commons Licensed (attribution only, share-alike).
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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.
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57:54 — Mike abandons a live studio show after a host of unfixable tech problems to step outside, smoke a cigar, and do a good old-fashioned recording from the field.
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Detailed show notes: wearing my homemade Stephen King Rules t-shirt; Downtown Drive-In; Stephen King in the 1980s; abandoning tonight’s studio show due to tech problems; can you accomplish a live night radio-type show through podcasting?; frustrated on an empty stomach;Â Marco’s Pizza delivery disaster on a Friday night; experiencing a “spaghetti” period of The Midnight Citizen project right now, throwing things against the wall and seeing what sticks; Found Footage.
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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.
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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.
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1:03:54 – Mike is having problems with Facebook again. This week the social network is telling all his friends that he supports Donald Trump. Clean the fish out of your percolator, make some coffee, and join him in the studio late at night to explore this issue and many others.
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Detailed show notes: Â weird call from my mom asking me why I “like” Donald J. Trump; Teddy Rooselvelt; Bull Moose Party; badminton is an Olympic sport?; went to a “Twin Peaks” night at the Saturn coffee shop in Birmingham; “Suicide Squad” ripped off the Log Lady; the trivia question that stumped me (what is the mascot of the high school in “Twin Peaks”?); my wife, Jessica, competed in a donut eating contest; “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008); Crystal Head vodka by Dan Akroyd; Fooning; drinking a Sam Adams Grapefruit IPA; Rio Olympics; “USA! USA!”, and; non-player characters.
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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.
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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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Keep the night going — check out the Midnight Citizen Mall…
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.
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1:09:13 — Join Mike in the studio late at night, exploring many topics, including a recent family reunion he went to in a kind of out-of-body state in Tennessee and a Cumberland Presbyterian church his ancestors chartered there in 1890; making, selling and burning Midnight Citizen “Porch Pipe” candles; how nostalgia has taken hold of our culture like never before; a look at “Stranger Things” on Netflix; election season and how Clinton and Trump are both running on nostalgia platforms; Bradley Cooper; Miss Cleo, late night television psychic of the 90s, died, and; much more!
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Keep the night going — check out the Midnight Citizen Mall…
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 June 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.
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1:10:39 – It’s another hot summer night outside in Birmingham, AL. Tonight, Mike discusses a near miss he had passing a fiery car wreck on his way to work this week and two other near death experiences he’s had in his life; Barnes n’ Noble; the Criterion Collection; Playstation 2 reviews (“Jaws Unleashed”, “Red Dead Revolver”, “Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick”); confusing civilians for store clerks; dealing with a broken down car and would the world be better off if we all worked from home (less car accidents, etc.)?; movie reviews (“Dazed and Confused” *1993* and “Everybody Wants Some” *2016*); Northern-based Utz potato chips buying Birmingham-based Golden Flake; “The Blair Witch Project” re-make is being directed by a guy who is originally from Birmingham and other locals who have gone on to make good (St. Paul and the Broken Bones, the “Swiss Army Man” director).
Music for this episode: “Woodstock Blues” by the Bayou Trio (CC — ND, SA)
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1:06:49 — Join Mike outside on a Friday night, discussing many topics including how bizarre it is that we need to pay to live; hunting and gathering; why people stack up at the ATM on payday when they can easily go to a teller; humans vs. machines and which is more nuanced; “Modern Romance”, “Lost in America”, and the deal with Albert Brooks; a failed shoelace purchase and making the best of it; Pokemon Go (of course); remembering Pogs; “Mysteries at the Museum” on the Travel Channel; designing a new web site on SquareSpace; lost wallet saga, and; a “Secret Life of Pets” review.
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2:34:07 –Â Join Mike on a road trip through Georgia, where just about every stop is said to be haunted. Hang out at a Bed n’ Breakfast on the rural backroads, go to a county carnival, and come along to the cemeteries and bars of Savannah, GA.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.
1:25:00 –Â 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.
