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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1:34:19 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
…where he wonders how much more intimate television can get? Will we soon see the characters watching Netflix on the world’s first 24-hour sitcom? Also, I’m in grave risk of getting the “Freshman 15”, and I learn that Bob Crane once did a television pilot where he starred as a 40-year-old college student. Am I in danger of going down his same path?
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1:32:46 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
…where he attempts to hold the world’s first convention via telepathy, and recounts his first week back on campus as a full-time graduate student. They won’t let him save on rent by moving into a dorm. Also: why’s everybody so upset about student loan forgiveness?
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1:41:16 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
…where he mourns the passing of Summer 2022 while wishing the world were more backwards compatible – you know, like computer software in the 90s. Also, colleges nationwide encourage their students to withhold their urges…at least in the showers, and a toast to Salman Rushdie, who DID NOT DIE after the long-standing Fatwa on his life was nearly executed last week.
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1:26:59 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
…where he considers the differences between real schizophrenic neighbors and those zany ones of the sitcom dimension. Also: my old high school now doubles as a police precinct, and a toast to Anne Heche, one-time Janet Leigh doppelganger, whose late 90s relationship with Ellen Degeneres exposed prejudices within my church, which eventually led to me leaving religion.
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1:26:42 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
…where he rejects the notion of having a mid-life crisis despite all the warning signs. If anything, with all the advances in modern medicine, he’s having a quarter-life crisis.
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1:51:56 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…
…where he wonders if the self-esteem movement of the 80s made him a millennial snowflake? Nope – he watched the sick entertainment of Jim Henson. Also, anti-antiwork, and VR’s last play. Will we all end up cartoons in a cartoon graveyard?
*Music Break:“I’ll Almost Get us There” by Derek Clegg; “Citizen’s Arrest” by Dazie Mae. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available as a mixtape at the Freemusicarchive.org.
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