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1:17:13 — Join Mike on a chilly Saturday night in Birmingham, AL, as he wraps up Halloween 2014 and tries to explain why he loves horror movies despite the brutal savagery! Sounds like a winner.

Don’t forget to check out an ALL NEW EPISODE OF CREEPFEST! Another new one coming next week!!!

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2:17:07 — Mike is back, this week talking about many things on the streets and back porches of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: the Dalai Lama is in Birmingham right now; everything I learned about Buddhism I learned from “Twin Peaks”; sleeping in the same town as a world-renowned celebrity is kind of weird; finishing a dog sit; working two jobs; went to see “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”; walking around Oak Hill cemetery while a movie plays on the projector; EVP; connecting with the dead; people watching football on their porches; the Halloween house in Forest Park; hanging out on back porch with a cigar and beer; channel surfing late at night; Forest Park neighborhood is dead after 10; Naked Art Gallery; Grand Theft Auto San Andreas coming to XBox 360; bought a Blu-Ray player — first movie was “Evil Dead”, and; much more!

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1:20:21 — Join Mike on Saturday night, from the streets, alleys and parks of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: discarded Candy Apple in the alley; my 100th episode; history of the show and why it’s taken me almost five years to get to this point; celebration cigar and coffee in the park; the “grey lady” photographed at castle in England; hauntings and EVP; movie “Arcade” (1993); found out the actor who plays the evil computer in “Arcade” was a professor of mine in college; early ’90s techno fear mongering in movies like “Disclosure” and “The Lawnmower Man”; met a guy who had never heard of the coffee sleeve; “Twin Peaks” coming back, and; more!

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1:20:20 — Join Mike on the streets of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: weird, misplaced sound coming from stone pillar; faux objects; walking between dog sits on a beautiful Fall night; the “naked photographer”; late night coffee from O’Henry’s; service jobs; if I were President; the Oscars should be held every four years like the Olympics; Alabama vs. Ole Miss; glad I’m not a football fan; “Inherent Vice” trailer released this week; started my new job; passed a Bocci court tonight; what is Bocci?; finally played Grand Theft Auto Online, and; much more!

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon from the album “Around my Cream”.

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1:38:31 — Join Mike on a late-nite journey through Birmingham, AL. Places include: the 1st Avenue Bridge looking over the Sloss “Fright” Furnace Haunted House; Caldwell Park, where I keep insisting its safe despite being pursued by some wanderer, and; Wal-Mart, where I look at Halloween decor and the latest issue of “Wood” magazine — among other stuff.

This episode includes music by Wade from his album “Midnight Soundz” (CC — BY, NC, SA).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

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1:31:15 — Join Mike on a Saturday night in Birmingham, AL. Topics include: free coffee from McDonald’s; closet disaster; Crimson Tide (1995); free stuff and senior discounts; working alone vs. working with people; service industry jobs; faking happiness; sitting outside and having a Coffee Oatmeal Stout from the Good People Brewery; someone I know was on that show “Castle” I was ridiculing last week; formula detective shows; “Sleepy Hollow” on Fox; movie review — “Guardians of the Galaxy”; writing screenplays vs. novels; afraid I’m wasting my time writing; work update, and; much more!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

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1:45:44 — Join Mike, walking around the streets of Birmingham, AL on a Saturday night! Topics include: Fall coming on, and football season; must be hard to be a hardcore football fan, and a player, too; Halloween coming on; haunted houses; watching people get scared in the past at Sloss “Fright” Furnace; decade nostalgia; I almost got hit by someone texting; the human need for love sometimes supercedes the human need for survival; I’ve had a hard week, but how I know things can ALWAYS be worse; I had to take a show down; dangers of the digital world; movie “The Naked City” and annoying detective show formulas, and; much more!

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1:16:32 — Join Mike for a walk through Birmingham, AL on a Saturday night. Topics include: park benches, old and new; work troubles have been resolved amicably; smoking a cigar with a storm coming on; Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” and hard-boiled detective archetype; moral compasses; “Citizen Creepfest” short story; “Downtown Drive-In” plans to be revived at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham; “The Munsters” TV show and how it changed my life through an episode called “Far-Out Munsters”; everything we see that is man-made was once demonstrated; Thomas Edison once electrocuted an elephant; mad at people from the past, and; much more!

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1:39:35 — Mike takes a walk and ends up at the Sidewalk Film Festival downtown. Topics include: attending the first Sidewalk in 1998 and seeing “Seinfeld” Director Tom Cherones there; ScriptThing for Windows; downtown Birmingham is full of cars, but where are all the people?; walking around Sidwalk on my way to hear actors do a table read of short screenplays; screenwriting; Lee Strasburg; all the annoying hoops you have to jump through to make movies, and; much more! Note: this episode has a secret track. MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN ALL THE WAY THROUGH FOR THE SECRET TRACK!!!!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).

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1:50: 18 — Mike is back from his Midwest trip! Topics include: Coca-cola “Mike” bottles urban legend; shark week; comedy central in the 90s; the secret to warding off sharks; field audio from Indiana including notes about the town of Nashville and the B Movie Festival; meeting MonsterVision host Joe Bob Briggs; thinking of moving some place else sometime soon; audio from Joe Bob’s introduction of midnight movie at festival, “Silent Night, Deadly Night”, and more!