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!
This week: some audience participation! What was your worst job interview ever? For me, it was that time I got detained for peddling coupon books in a federal building. I should’ve done more to heed the number 4, a bad sign for good fortune.
The interviews lately haven’t been that bad on my most recent run of unemployment. I mean, there’s no job yet, but at least no police have been called.
Meanwhile, I keep on yo-yoing around town, delivering food for food, and doing the best at it I can, despite, well… Let’s just say that when you make house calls, ordinary customers are not ordinary people.
Also, thanks to audience participation, I find a likely answer to why there’s no 4th floor at the university hospital. In true click bait fashion, it’s not what you think!
Join Mike on a rainy night in the suburbs of Birmingham, AL, as he sits in his parents’ garage, freshly unemployed, and ponders the next big move.
Really, instead of making any definite decisions, I get hung up on spotting “The Club” security bar on the steering wheel of somebody’s late model POS in a Walgreens parking lot — probably the first time I’ve seen one since the 90’s. Gets me thinking about why they stopped making them, or why they apparently still do, given their inherent security flaws — like, for instance, being ridiculously visible.
Also, didn’t Heather Graham have a Club in that movie Swingers? I investigate.
Join Mike in the studio for another late night ramble.
Tonight, we explore life after the rat race in Margaritaville, FLA, where a flock of 55-and-up Parrot Heads and coastal grandmothers are wastin’ away in an oasis by the sea. Also, Katy Perry and Gayle King go to space, and to all our chagrin, come back; meanwhile, back on Earth, I pay my taxes and cause a car accident, consider taking a job teaching homeschool for a Christian company that sounds like a soap opera, and check out the upcoming Thomas Pynchon novel, “Shadow Ticket”, which sends me further into the bottomless pit of trying to understand postmodernism.
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Join Mike in the studio for another late night ramble.
Tonight, it’s all about looking for a new business to get into, like maybe buyin’ a drone and selling my services as a “droneprenuer”. It seems to work for all those folks on Youtube infomercials, and as far as shady enterprise goes, it’s really no more sketchy than any other classified ad on LinkedIn.
Later, I have a religious epiphany over a box of frozen ravioli, give my final thoughts on “The White Lotus”, and play you a clip of a white nationalist who sounds like Ned Flanders. It’s boss-diddly-oss!
40:55 — Neal considers insect consumption norms, identifies a new actor level below extras, exposes a town with a landmark brown stain, confuses the movies Stand by Me and Sleepers, remembers TV’s greatest sketch show, classic Sesame Street,invents a self policing public toilet cleanliness system and discusses introducing city kids to rivers and creeks, mixed messaging from a Schwartzenegger branded fly, walking school buses, why you incorrectly think you were home schooled, underground toilet memories, anti salt waiters in popular culture, igniting your gas hob with piped fire, geographic limits on warehouse sizes, listener concerns about warehouse toilets, getting to the creek, Mr Men book and TV franchise, logistics of recordibg a talking torso, shit creek without a paddle, one person operated motorbikes versus push and pull trains and more.
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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, recalling the combo-pigment of “caution” orange and “piss” yellow that made the school bus so special. Also, how do I know where JD Vance got his approach to foreign diplomacy? Because he grew up in my era, attending the same public schools that valued wrestling over civics. Speaking of bad education, we gotta get our kids out of this bad area — especially as the new SecEd Linda McMahon is invited to use the department as her own personal RAGE room.
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Join Mike in the studio on a Friday night, just in from seeing “The Brutalist”, a 4-hour long movie about a guy who builds a community center. Hear his thoughts, and stick around for more thoughts on his favorite movie of the year, “Saturday Night”. Also, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” goes to Washington, and Birmingham’s citizens get invited to join a cult.
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The Midnight Citizen in the morning! Join Mike for a Cup and lots of topics, including a shallow dive into why the Virtual Boy failed in 1995. Was it’s release on January 6th the worst thing to happen on that day in America? Also, reviews of some recent movies “A Complete Unknown” and “Flight Risk”.
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28:32 – “Treat Her Like A Lady”, Gas Powered Playback, “Fusebox :The Lost Pilot”, The Laredo Tobacco Company Spot, Senator Bob Fusky Interview, Squinchy and Punchy!, Mitsy Muffplunder, Bulger’s Coffee Spot, Paisley’s Card Trick, One Moment Please, Poet Ferlyn Getty, Timo and the Communists, Thats a Wrap.
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