The Overnightscape Underground

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1:12:29 – 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: James Bond (July 2015); Genesis vs. Super Nintendo (April 2015); Rock n’ Roll (August 2015), and; Talk Shows (October 2011).

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1:07:41 – Hang out on the porch with Mike on a chilly Saturday night. Topics include: Spaghetti-O’s turns 50!; a trip to the 90’s via a Dilbert coffee mug; how to buy alcohol in Alabama; dry counties; Pavlovian ice cream trucks; channel surfing — “Pawn Stars”, HGTV and “Forrest Gump”; TV review — “11/22/63”; did Oswald act alone; John Carpenter’s “Lost Themes”, and much more!

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

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1:22:05 – Join Mike on a night drive back to Birmingham from seeing Drive-In Movie Critic and Late-Nite Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs at the Chattanooga Film Festival.

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1:33:00 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include weird cigar store clerks, the social outcasts of retail, and the “High Fidelity” syndrome; “Infinite Jest” and David Foster Wallace; review — “The End of the Tour” (2015); Alanis Morissette; remembering comedian Garry Shandling and his ground-breaking genius; Norm McDonald; the cottage industry of the O.J. Simpson trial, and; much more!

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58:21 – Join Mike outside on a Saturday night with Dave Smith, local musician and porch philosopher. A word association game is played and leads to some cool tangents, including: telephones in the 1970s; women in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s; fear of fighting people; shopping malls — realities vs. perceptions in movies, and; much more!

Cover art by Alex Justinger. Lead music is “Blue Ribbon” by Dave Smith, used with permission of owner. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released March 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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1:10:02 – Join Mike in the basement on a rainy Saturday night. Topics include: porch podcasting plans destroyed; making coffee; doing a show in the basement with the garage door open and looking out on the rainy night; stormy night nightmares and dreaming this week that I was trapped inside an 80s dead teenager movie with a bunch of stereotypes; describing the dim, shadowy basement; just saw “10 Cloverfield Lane”, and spoiler-free review; John Goodman; attended TEDx Talks today; moving to action vs. slacking; is it best just to sit out being proactive or join the game and mobilize; being a sideline commentator in life and how all my heroes have done the same and I’m just now realizing it, and; much more!

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

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1:19:52 – Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: finding some old streetcar rail inside a pothole in the street; Birmingham’s underground river myth and where the term “To Like like a Mulhatton” comes from; the world is on loan to us; the time my childhood friend Benji and I dug a whole to China but found Hell first; B-Movie review of “Hawkeye” (1988); politics and Donald Trump; Quiz Show scandals of the 1950s; short story reading of “Suitable Distance” by Adam Fox, and; much more!

Music for this episode from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released January 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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45:35 – 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. Segment topics are “Windows ’95” (October 2011); “Obscure for Sure” (July 2012); “History” (September 2013), and; “Library” (January 2016).

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51:54 – Join Mike outside late at night, enjoying a cup of coffee and reading some old Op-Ed pieces from his days at a college newspaper. Opinions include: “The Problem with Spoilers” (Nov. 3, 2009); “Recommendations for Surviving the Crisis” (October 27, 2009), and; “Christmas Arrives on Time: Immediately After Halloween” (November 10, 2009). Question of the week: is it okay if your opinions don’t change over time, even after reading, traveling, studying, and other various life exploits?

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1:05:30 – Join Mike as he drives down the backroads of South Carolina and wonders about who lives there. Later, hang out with him on the cabin porch of a Charleston KOA.

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released February 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.