1:32:15 — Join Mike as he watches the sun set over Birmingham, AL…and later for a drink in the backyard, where he gives his review of Oppenheimer.
Topics include: woodgrain console television sets; adult friendships; HBO’s Love and Death and the book it’s based on, Evidence of Love by drive-in film critic Joe Bob Briggs; the use of hypnotism in solving crimes; reviews of Oppenheimer and Mission: Impossible; going to the movies in 2023, and much more!
1:52:07 — Join Mike at home and in the streets of Birmingham, AL., where he discusses the mysterious “Blackwell Ghost” film series, the Birmingham zip line wars of 2012, and much more!
Other thoughts include: solo filmmaking by Richard Linklater in the 80’s; inverted realities of the real world and video games; Taco Bell and Roger and Me (1989); urban decay; service department blues; McConaughey Watch ‘23; free pizza and no suburban homeless to donate it to; adult children, and much more!
1: 35: 39 — Join Mike at the Grand River Drive-In in Leeds, AL, where he watches, and occasionally comments on, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Other thoughts include: other activities to do in town other than sit around, watch movies and play video games; escape rooms; rage rooms (where you, an adult, pay money to break stuff like a little kid); the wide range of sights and sounds you see in town as a delivery driver; an Uber customer I delivered groceries to accidentally stole my beer; a jackass Doordash driver got fired for cursing at a customer who gave him a generous tip; director James Mangold is a great director despite Indiana Jones, and more.
Join Mike for some backyard ramblings on a hot summer afternoon in Birmingham, AL.
…Talking about a humorous and kinda embarrassing misunderstanding with Buzz the friendly neighborhood gas station clerk over a bottle of wine; delivering PF Changs to a shady meeting between a doctor and a drug rep; the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs’ surprise friendship with my buddy Dave; organic vs. artificial celebrity encounters; fan conventions
1:51:41 — Join Mike for three days in the streets and alleys of Birmingham, AL, as he takes on and talks about all the side jobs he’s doing to support himself.
Topics do not include: Donald Trump’s legal problems, the lost Titanic submersible, a review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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1:24:57 — Join Mike on the porch of his favorite tobacco shop, working his way through a fine Perdomo and a lot of topics, such as his feelings of nostalgia over coming down with Covid a year ago, and his insomnia-induced enjoyment of Snake Eyes(1999) starring Nicholas Cage. Also, some thoughts on HBO’s new Bama Rush documentary about his college alma mater.
1:17:52 — Join Mike on an afternoon shift delivering food and walking around the mall in Birmingham, AL.
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1:19:37 — Join Mike inside the world’s largest Bass Pro Shop in Memphis, Tennessee, where he rides an elevator to the top and checks out the view. Also, hang out with him at the cabin in West Memphis, Arkansas.
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1:06:45 — Join Mike on a trip to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, courtesy of the Get Back (Time) Travel Agency…
…where rides on the world’s first people mover and Mr. Ferris’s Wheel make him discover that tourists are all the same, wanting to be entertained through the least amount of effort possible. Also, he attempts an Escape Room at the Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes, America’s First Serial Killer, when a millennial employee of the attraction “Quiet Quits”, leaving him to the clutches of the fiend.
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1:46:00 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, on the eve of his 40th birthday…
…where he wonders if a chance meeting with Salman Rushdie once rendered him unable to distinguish between truth and fiction. Also: the truth that great fiction makes us see the world in unreal and alternate ways. And remembering Kenneth Starr, the great romance novelist of the 1990’s, who died this week at 76.
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