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2:02:25 –Â Join Mike in the studio late at night, and on the porch in Savannah, GA. Topics include: white line fever, highway hypnosis and the “Black Dog” legend; busy vacation; passports and honeymoons; small town Georgia; Beanie Babies; having a porch cigar and lighting a left-over sparkler from July 4th; seeing Adam Sandler on River Street; what makes a celebrity tired; the ongoing dilemma of recording and how it can dilute experience; concentrated wealth in seaside communities; haves and have-not’s; passing time in the car; 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and; much more!
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 Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2015 on
The Midnight Citizen and
The Overnightscape Underground.
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1:23:31 –Â Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: candle review of “Campfire” by the Great Bear Wax Co.; making s’mores over the candle; new Dr. Seuss book “What Pet Should I Get”; Roddy Piper; playing some video of the 13-hour “Friday the 13th” marathon from March I did with friends Jason and Adam; TV review: “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”; movie review: “Mission:Impossible — Rogue Nation”, and; much more
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 Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.
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1:30:06 –Â Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: an audio journey through the proposed Midnight Realm Amusement and Experiential Theme Park in Muscle Shoals, AL; Walt Disney and his grand designs, camera presence; Michael Eisner; sad celebrity deaths — Max Fleisher artists and amusement park conceptual designer Vincent “Val” Valentine and wrestler, actor “Rowdy” Roddy Piper; TV review — “The Jinx” (2015); Movie review — “Lost Soul: the Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s ‘Island of Dr. Moreau” (2014); Birmingham YA author John Green; the “Magical Pixie Girl” trope, and; much more!
Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).
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1:23:43 –Â Join Mike in the studio late at night, exploring all things about the great American movie theater. Topics include: Jason and the keeled-over, barfing drunk guy at opening night of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003); first time going to the movies alone when I was in the fifth grade; first job memories of working at the Colonnade movie theater in 1998; thinking about the experience surrounding the movies — bookstores, ambling, what happens after the movie’s over; the smells, the snack bar, and everything sensory; just found out about the shootings in a movie theater in Louisiana RIGHT before I started the show, and; much more!
Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).
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1:58:02 – Join Mike in the studio late at night, and on an excursion to the Alabama countryside. Topics include: Sylacauga, AL and its various claims to fame such as the Hodges Meteorite and being the birthplace of Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC); checking out an old census report of living Civil War veterans in 1909; field recording from riding around the golf course compound late at night where I went for a work retreat this week; Video Asides; Doesthedogdie.com; “I Dream of Jeannie” turns 50; Barbara Eden on the Today Show; “Harper Valley PTA”; field recording from the hotel room; can’t sleep; the golf compound staff left some right wing Christian literature for me to read; TV reviews — “True Detective” and “Life’s Too Short” with Warwick Davis; Snobs vs. Slobs, and; much more!
Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).
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1:42:18 –Â Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: memories of the VisionLand amusement park in Bessemer, AL and the dead shopping center Watermark Place next door; Amanda Peterson, teenage star of the 1980s, dead at 43 and remembering her claim to fame in “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1987); Harper Lee and “Go Set a Watchman”; movie review of “The Nightmare” (2015); shadow people; “Cloak Man” dream review from when I was six; how to get a free oil change at Pep Boys, and; much more!
Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).
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2:07:43 –Â Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, and also on the porches and streets of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: Happy 4th of July!; interviewing fireworks; the Dick Tracy Watch story; sarcastic Americanism; got a new coffee percolator; podcasting and misconceptions; awful movie trailers; “Jurassic World” review, and much more!
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 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.
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1:32:03 –Â Join Mike on the back porch on a Friday night, and in the mall on a Monday afternoon. Topics explored include Actor Jake Lloyd (Anakin Skywalker) arrested — should parents of celebrity children be accused of child abuse for putting their kids in the spotlight?; Brian Wilson movie “Love and Mercy” reviewed; asked by mall security to stop recording, and; much more!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released April 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.
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58:20 –Â Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, talking all about summer camp. Topics include: the forced fun; being taken away from your comfort zone and having to put on your “SCOUT FACE” for all the other campers; oh! the humidity; mess halls and gross canvas tents; swim buddies; arts n’ crafts; hatching a plan to stowaway in the mini-van on parents’ night; snakes in the toilets, and; much more!
Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora.
Read Vince’s blog Summer Camp ’85.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released April 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.
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2:26:25 –Â Shenanigans include: memories of the “Hotel Birmingham” punk club; “Campfire Treats” candle; hit and run car incident on my street; field audio from camping trip # 1: pressing need to go camp outdoors; roughing it vs. being comfortable; cooler check; having a Mexican Coke; Anna the dog; campfires; B’ham EBT scam crackdown; camping activity bag; “Eat, Drink and Be Scary” beer koozie; Adam Fox’s “The Great All-Nighter” blog; back in the studio: GTA Online Heists review; Piper & Leaf Tea; listener e-mails; camping audio # 2: recording by lake; selfies and social media; Christian scripture on paper designed as money to trick you; back in the studio: redneck “Star Wars” storm trooper berated me for knocking over a Jeff Foxworthy CD at 2nd and Charles; “Jurassic Park”; camping audio # 3: a couple ghost stories by the campfire; “Seinfeld” 25th anniversary and backstage gossip coming forward; “Full House” is coming back, for some weird reason; “ba-dum” said at the end of unfunny jokes; “Brisco County, Jr.”, and; an unfunny joke.
Music for this week from Frank Nora’s Midnight Cassette System.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released April 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.
2:02:25 –Â Join Mike in the studio late at night, and on the porch in Savannah, GA. Topics include: white line fever, highway hypnosis and the “Black Dog” legend; busy vacation; passports and honeymoons; small town Georgia; Beanie Babies; having a porch cigar and lighting a left-over sparkler from July 4th; seeing Adam Sandler on River Street; what makes a celebrity tired; the ongoing dilemma of recording and how it can dilute experience; concentrated wealth in seaside communities; haves and have-not’s; passing time in the car; 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and; much more!
