Join Mike outside for a whiskey on a mild May night, and, later, on a drive through the streets of Birmingham, where he remembers the old 90s joke about how RadioShack wanted to know all your personal business.
Also: how I got fired from my new job this week; all about my basset hound Izzy’s risky surgery to remove a mass; Larry Sanders; “The Jinx: Part II”; Roger Corman.
Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts his nightmare adventure of getting his fingerprints taken for a new job, and how the great cyber hack of Birmingham’s City Hall is still going on three months later. It’s a good example of “analog horror” that the kids are all talkin’ about!
Also: what is “analog horror,” and why is it everywhere on the Internet? How it’s evolved from films like Ghost Watch (1992) and The Blair Witch Project (1999) to creepypastas, Slenderman, and whatever the heck “the backrooms” are. I also talk about how we’ve gone in one generation from vehemently not selling out to aspiring to pimp out Hello Fresh and Squarespace. Plus much more, including a quick discussion of “The Quarry” video game.
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1:43:37 Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts his protest-free graduation day, and also dives shallow into his first post English-degree book, “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon.
Also: How I profited from my motorcycle gettin’ stole’d; paranoid dreams of secret societies; “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999); Sanford Strong g
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51:22 —Join me outside for a whiskey and fine cigar in my celebration of finishing graduate school!
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1:19:59 — Mike discovers a Zoom recorder in the back of his car while waiting for his windshield to defrost, and remembers he has a podcast. Join him for a drive around his hometown of Birmingham, AL as he reflects on a variety of topics, like the South’s latest blast of wintry weather, delivering food on icy roads, updates on his grad school thesis, and the Showtime show “The Curse”.
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1:48:32 — Join Mike and special guest Dave in the studio late on a Saturday, where they free-range explore a wide variety of topics, including: understanding the frightening concept of plagiarism as a student; the diminishing charitable returns of John Mellencamp’s FARM AID; the Birmingham Batman, as featured on “That’s Incredible” (1980); “Stay Hungry”, the 1970s movie filmed in Birmingham starring Arnold Scwartzenegger; Birmingham’s adult movie theaters; the PMRC and its regulation of the music industry in the 1980’s; the wild private life of John Denver; the ubiquity of fake facts on the Internet in the 1990’s; making up fake Jimmy Buffet song titles.
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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
