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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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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