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4:04:44 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Randy from California (at 22:43), Chad Bowers (at 38:26), Eddie Murray (at 1:53:15), Mike Boody (at 2:41:08), and Frank Edward Nora (at 3:11:46) for an oblong-table discussion of all things scientific, unscientific and/or pseudoscientific. (Didn’t have room for six around the roundtable.)

Next month’s topics: Decades, Centuries and Millennia. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by the deadline: 6pm Central Time on July 10, 2025.

Show art: Automat (1927) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts a sneaky time traveler listening to the Overnightscape Central in an automat while cleverly concealing her air buds with her hat brim.

Opening theme: “It’s Central Time Again” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). New music (at 19:32): “Test the Science” (2025) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Golden Oldie (at 1:48:45): “Abram was Sumerian” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).

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1:56:06 —Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night.

Tonight, I’m wondering why my generation has gotten such a bad rap for so long. Is it really just our love for Avocado toast, or something much deeper? Maybe we’re all looked down on because all the 80s and 90s pop culture we’re so nostalgic for was kind of vapid and banal, or it’s simply the fact that we never claimed to not wanna sell out? Whatever it is, we’re tired of taking it, and I dedicate a large portion of this episode to my kid sister, born in ‘84, who went viral recently for turning her middle school history classroom into a “Museum of the Millennial”, making the case that we did have a unique culture that, like so many generations before us, is totally antiquated and wholly mysterious to the kids of today.

You can check out my sister’s “Museum of the Millennial” on Instagram (@hipsterhistorywithmrsn)… Also, here’s the article that Fast Company did on Malinda’s amazing lesson!

Later on…

I play some music before I tell you about the new movie I saw — Friendship, starring I Think You Should Leave‘s Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd (who has a mustache in this one, which means it’s kind of artsy — but not really; it’s just darkly funny and demented in a very non-mainstream way). Anyway, I give a sort of review with no spoilers, but mostly talk about what the movie has to say about adult men, loneliness, and also the whole “A24” thing…

And lastly… I relate the particulars of my latest existential crisis — this one happening over paying too much for a donut at the Circle K. Kind of dramatic, I know. But really… Why are we all so cool to live in a world where a day old donut costs the same as a gallon of gas? The answer, I guess, lies in the work of post-war Critical Theory and that ultimate Debbie Downer, Michel Foucault.

Music Break

“The 80s” by Sean Ferree (CC-NY-NC-ND)

“Hey Lowdown” by Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys (CC-BY-NC)

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…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”I buy all my clothes from the Oceanview Dining Club. They also make food.”

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Join Mike in the studio late at night.

Tonight, a real experimental episode as we cross over into June, and I do my first live show in over 2 years! Of course, you’re downloading it, but still… Witness the drama as I attempt to engineer a livestream while clumsily monologuing about bullies, 90s self-help videos for kids hosted by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Teddy Roosevelt, and memes from World War II featuring Kilroy, the perpetual schlemiel of late 20th century pop culture. You know the drawing — I didn’t until yesterday, but everybody else I talk to seems to.

Later, I drink a toast to Loretta Swit, “Hot Lips” Houlihan on “M*A*S*H”, who died this week at 87… and two more toasts to other recently passed folks George Wendt and Simpsons composer Alf Clausen leaves me a little too flighty to talk about Thomas Pynchon’s first novel V…but I do it anyway.

Also…we’re bringing MUSIC BREAKS back to the show! Tonight, enjoy a back-to-back serving of music by Caühaüs and our favorite band from New Jersey, Forget the Whale!

“Rednecks with White Faces” by Caühaüs (CC-BY)

Slow Dancing with Your Ghost” (CC-BY-NC)

And…I’m excited to take you back down to the Video Street Video Store, where we’ll check out a double feature of tapes on how to get a date in the 90’s!

“Looking for Love: Dating in the 90’s!” (1995)

“Computer Chronicles: Cyber Dating” (1997)

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

Watch Video of this episode over at Youtube | @the_themidnightcitizenpodcast

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”Kiss my Hot Lips!”

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Join Mike in the studio late at night.

After fighting a long, drawn-out battle to some stubborn window blinds, I give in and just get on with the show. Starting with listener comments about their absolute worst job interviews. Then an update on my continuing job hunt gets me thinking about how my lifestyle lately is fitting for these palindrome days of May — the same forwards and backwards: Drinking coffee, job hunting, delivering food, job hunting, drinking coffee.

Also: thoughts on the new “Mission: Impossible” (Spoiler-free because the plot’s too complicated to spoil)…and how my dad and I came close to being pariahs in the theater for ratting out a lady and her granddaughter.

Then we wrap up the show by watching an instructional video telling us all how to talk cool in the 90’s, and read some more listener comments about Tetraphobia. A true palindrome experience. Sit back and listen with your favorite after-dark drink — but be careful not to get bucked, y’all!

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

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…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”Kittridge, you’ve never seen me very upset…”

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Join Mike in the studio late at night for a free-flowing ramble.

On this episode, he recounts the Friday night scramble of his first job — racing to close down the dollar theater lobby in time to make it to the video store before they locked the gates. Thankfully, Christy, the night manager, would keep the lights on just a little longer, giving rise to their own unofficial after hours film society.

Also: Irishing up my coffee to make a toast to Val Kilmer, browsing the classifieds again in my ongoing job search saga, and just when you thought Pulp Fiction had given up all its secrets… new theories emerge…

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

Watch Video of this episode over at Youtube | @the_themidnightcitizenpodcast

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”…my little black medical book!…”

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Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts how he visited a place from his distant childhood this week — the atrium lobby of his dad’s old office building from the 80’s. Not having been there in nearly 40 years, he was prepared to receive nothing but warm, nostalgic vibes, but instead suffered the wrath of a hangry woman in scrubs.

Later, I spend some time looking for a job in the jungle scam market of LinkedIn, check out the new trailer for “One Battle After Another,” ostensibly based on the Thomas Pynchon novel, “Vineland”, and consider buying Signal stock…now that it’s the official texting app of political perverts.

????Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

????Watch Video this episode over at Youtube | @the_themidnightcitizenpodcast

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”These are the real people of the world.”

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Join Mike back in the studio late at night, where he goes for a long memory jog trying to remember what that Disney movie “The Shaggy DA” was about. He could just Google it, but doesn’t want to farm out his memory to the phone. It’s something we should all resist.

Later, I ask if there’s a statute of limitations on synchronicity. I wonder this as I drink a toast to George Foreman, who died Friday at 76, a few hours after my mom asked me if I wanted a Lean, Mean Fat Grilling Machine she had lying around.

Also: should I change the name of this show? I talk about why I picked THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN as a title 15 years ago, standing in line at a Spirit of Halloween store after a car accident. And let’s talk about “The White Lotus”. Why are people dumping on Season 3?

?Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

?Watch Video this episode over at Youtube | @the_themidnightcitizenpodcast

Watch The Midnight Citizen Vlog every Monday here on the Substack. ???? Also on Youtube | @the_midnightcitizenpodcast

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram!

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Join Mike outside late at night, where he’s stunned to discover that they finally caught Jack the Ripper…like, a month ago. Isn’t anyone on the same news cycle anymore? Anyway, he’s devastated to learn that the truth of Saucy Jack’s real identity is much dumber than any theory has ever suggested, which reinforces his Rule for Life #2: Never Solve Your Mysteries.

Also, other rules for life, like Never Meet Your Heroes and Never Do Again What You Did Well 40 Years Ago, as demonstrated by Lucille Ball in her last sitcom “Life With Lucy”, but hopefully, will perhaps not be shown in “Spinal Tap 2”.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

Watch The Midnight Citizen Vlog every Monday here on the Substack. ???? Also on Youtube | @the_midnightcitizenpodcast

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”People should be envying us…”

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3:33:24 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 28:24), Chad Bowers (at 1:32:12), Mike Boody (at 2:22:49) and Frank Edward Nora (at 2:48:43) to talk about the ways we get from one place to another, or even from one topic to another!

Next month’s topics: Leftovers, Stopovers & Hangovers. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by the deadline: 6pm Central Time on April 10, 2025.

Show art: Automat (1927) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts a sneaky time traveler listening to the Overnightscape Central in an automat while cleverly concealing her air buds with her hat brim.

Opening theme: “It’s Central Time Again” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).

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Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he asks why he was such an a-hole to a nice young Mormon on his own turf. This snark-by-default has deep roots, perhaps, in growing up in the Southern Baptist MLM groove, where every interaction was a sales pitch, a chance to earn posthumous perks.

Hear about what it was like growing up a Jesus Brat; how it was so hard to sell salvation in the South — a territory that had already been covered long before you got there. Also, why “cool” Jesus was another reason it was terrible to grow up in the 90’s, and how prayer protocol — or a lack thereof — continues to inflame my OCD to this very day, long after I stopped doing it.

????Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

???? Watch The Midnight Citizen Vlog every Monday here on the Substack. ???? Also on Youtube | @the_midnightcitizenpodcast

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”Ain’t nobody gonna call Jesus ‘Jean’…”

Check out The Birmingham Pizza Review with me and Chad Bowers | Also all the other great hosts I know at The Overnightscape Underground | onsug.com

Music for Tonight’s Episode: “The Stevie Shuffle” by Mr. Smith; “Beer Blues” by Koi Discovery | These two tracks were played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and are available at the Freemusicarchive.org. | All other backing tracks copy-free

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