Saturday, March 26, 2016

Episode 159 -- "Mail Order Happiness"

 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3
Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include weird cigar store clerks, the social outcasts of retail, and the "High Fidelity" syndrome; "Infinite Jest" and David Foster Wallace; review -- "The End of the Tour" (2015); remembering comedian Garry Shandling and his ground-breaking genius; Norm McDonald; the cottage industry of the O.J. Simpson trial, and; much more!

Show time: 1:33:00

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released March 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground. 

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Episode 158 -- "Midnight Tangential"

 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3
Join Mike outside on a Saturday night with Dave Smith, local musician and porch philosopher. A word association game is played and leads to some cool tangents, including: telephones in the 1970s; women in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s; fear of fighting people; shopping malls -- realities vs. perceptions in movies, and; much more!

Show time: 58:21

Cover art by Alex Justinger. Lead music is "Blue Ribbon" by Dave Smith, used with permission of owner. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released March 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Episode 157 -- "Basement Show"

 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3
Join Mike in the basement on a rainy Saturday night. Topics include: porch podcasting plans destroyed; making coffee; doing a show in the basement with the garage door open and looking out on the rainy night; stormy night nightmares and dreaming this week that I was trapped inside an 80s dead teenager movie with a bunch of stereotypes; describing the dim, shadowy basement; just saw "10 Cloverfield Lane", and spoiler-free review; John Goodman; attended TEDx Talks today; moving to action vs. slacking; is it best just to sit out being proactive or join the game and mobilize; being a sideline commentator in life and how all my heroes have done the same and I'm just now realizing it, and; much more!

Show time: 1:10:02

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released March 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Episode 156 -- "History Hole"

 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: finding some old streetcar rail inside a pothole in the street; Birmingham's underground river myth and where the term "To Like like a Mulhatton" comes from; the world is on loan to us; the time my childhood friend Benji and I dug a whole to China but found Hell first; B-Movie review of "Hawkeye" (1988); politics and Donald Trump; Quiz Show scandals of the 1950s; short story reading of "Suitable Distance" by Adam Fox, and; much more!

Show time: 1:19:52

Music for this episode from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-commercial Share-Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released January 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground