The Midnight Citizen

Episode 171 -- "Tech Support"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 03:30:00 +0000

Join Mike outside on a Friday night, discussing many topics including how bizarre it is that we need to pay to live; hunting and gathering; why people stack up at the ATM on payday when they can easily go to a teller; humans vs. machines and which is more nuanced; "Modern Romance", "Lost in America", and the deal with Albert Brooks; a failed shoelace purchase and making the best of it; Pokemon Go (of course); remembering Pogs; "Mysteries at the Museum" on the Travel Channel; designing a new web site on SquareSpace; lost wallet saga, and; a "Secret Life of Pets" review.

Show time: 1:06:41

Last week's show didn't upload properly, but it's been fixed now. Check it out!

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Episode 170 -- "(Supposedly) Haunted Savannah"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:52:00 +0000

Join Mike on a road trip through Georgia, where just about every stop is said to be haunted. Hang out at a Bed n' Breakfast on the rural backroads, go to a county carnival, and come along to the cemeteries and bars of Savannah, GA.

Show time: 2:34:07

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Episode 169 -- "Suburban CrimeWave"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 02:30:00 +0000

Join Mike on the porch on a Saturday night, exploring topics such as his childhood neighborhood's "crime of the century" in 2006; seeing movies at the new Coyote Drive-In in Leeds, AL; reviews of the new Ninja Turtles movie and recollections of seeing the first wave of this franchise 25 years ago; Jerry Lawler, Andy Kaufman's old foe, arrested on domestic charges; "Halt and Catch Fire" Season 2, and; much more!

Show time: 1:02:09

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Episode 168 -- "Whistlin' Dixie"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 03:58:00 +0000

Hang out with Mike on the outskirts of a Saturday night music festival. Explore urban legends and conspiracy theories of the Dixie Mafia, Buford Pusser (of the "Walking Tall" movies), and the crooks he chased out of Mississippi into Alabama. Also, reviews of the new movie "The Conjuring 2" and the posh new Coyote Drive-In in Leeds, AL.

Show time: 1:04:33

Episode 167 -- "Logo Pong"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 04:02:00 +0000

Join Mike outside late at night, contemplating imagined scenarios of confrontation with total strangers, public drunkeness, and the new kids' movie "Zootopia". Also, a review of the "Sling TV" app, and some late-to-the-game thoughts on the OJ Simpson trial.

Show time: 56:10

Episode 166 -- "Counter-Programming"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 29 May 2016 05:09:00 +0000

Join Mike outside on a Saturday night, discussing weird apocalyptic dreams where everyone is floating into space, and being hassled by the boss at your first job. Also, a review of the new movie "The Nice Guys".

Show time: 55:58

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Episode 165 -- "On the Outskirts of Town, at the Cemetery"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 22 May 2016 06:43:00 +0000

Join Mike at Birmingham's historic Oak Hill Cemetery on a Saturday night, with Ed Wood's classic "Plan 9 from Outer Space" playing in the background. Also, come with him deep into the ground to explore an abandoned iron ore ore mine.

Show time: 59:32

Special thanks to guest editor and musician for this episode, Dave Smith. This episode is dedicated to Alex Justinger, ????-present.

Episode 164 -- "Dream Nucleus"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 15 May 2016 02:24:00 +0000

After two weeks away, Mike returns to the mic with a new recorder and more topics, including radical dreams of hanging out with Quintin Tarrantino and Adam Sandler, reflections of Friday the 13th, and TV reviews of "Silicon Valley" and "Vinyl".

Show time: 1:17:58

Episode 163 -- "Alamo Survival Tips for Davy Crockett from George Romero"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:57:00 +0000

Join Mike on the porch late at night, reflecting on such topics as the death of Prince at age 57; the Bat Dance; what those guys defending the Alamo could've learned from watching "Night of the Living Dead", and much more!

Show time: 49:29

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Episode 162 -- "Grab Bag 4"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:06:00 +0000

Mike’s out of the studio tonight, but enjoy a collection of his contributions to The Overnightscape Central, which posts every Monday night at onsug.com. Segments include: James Bond (July 2015); Genesis vs. Super Nintendo (April 2015); Rock n' Roll (August 2015), and; Talk Shows (October 2011).

Show time: 1:12:29

To find out how you can contribute to The Overnightscape Central, e-mail PQ Ribber at kpqr.torc@gmail.com.

Episode 161 -- "Sin City of Alabama"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 03:47:00 +0000

Hang out on the porch with Mike on a chilly Saturday night. Topics include: Spaghetti-O's turns 50!; a trip to the 90's via a Dilbert Coffee mug; how to buy alcohol in Alabama; dry counties; Pavlovian ice cream trucks; channel surfing -- "Pawn Stars", HGTV and "Forrest Gump"; TV review -- "11/22/63"; did Oswald act alone; John Carpenter's "Lost Themes", and much more!

Show time: 1:07:41

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Episode 160 -- "Millennial Cereal"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 05:24:00 +0000

Join Mike on a night drive back to Birmingham from seeing Drive-In Movie Critic and Late-Nite Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs at the Chattanooga Film Festival.

Show time: 1:22:05

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 April 2016 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Episode 159 -- "Mail Order Happiness"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 03:09:00 +0000

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.

Episode 158 -- "Midnight Tangential"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 04:39:00 +0000

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.

Episode 157 -- "Basement Show"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:20:00 +0000

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

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Episode 156 -- "History Hole"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 04:23:00 +0000

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.

Episode 155 -- "Grab Bag 3"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 05:03:00 +0000

Mike's out of the studio tonight, but enjoy a collection of his contributions to The Overnightscape Central, which posts every Monday night at onsug.com. Segment topics are "Windows '95" (October 2011); "Obscure for Sure" (July 2012); "History" (September 2013), and; "Library" (January 2016).

Show time: 45: 35

To find out how you can contribute to The Overnightscape Central, e-mail PQ Ribber at kpqr.torc@gmail.com.

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 Attribution Non-commercial-Share Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released October 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Episode 154: "Op-Ed"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 05:49:00 +0000

Join Mike outside late at night, enjoying a cup of coffee and reading some old Op-Ed pieces from his days at a college newspaper. Opinions include: "The Problem with Spoilers" (Nov. 3, 2009); "Recommendations for Surviving the Crisis" (October 27, 2009), and; "Christmas Arrives on Time: Immediately After Halloween" (November 10, 2009). Question of the week: is it okay if your opinions don't change over time, even after reading, traveling, studying, and other various life exploits?

Show time: 51:54

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Episode 153 -- "Charleston Snow"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 04:56:00 +0000

Join Mike as he drives down the backroads of South Carolina and wonders about who lives there. Later, hang out with him on the cabin porch of a Charleston KOA.

Show time: 1:05:30

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 February 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Episode 152 -- "The Kids Don't Care"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 05:10:00 +0000

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: a tale of two Volvos -- my dilapidated, broken-down S60 and its immaculate doppelganger in the same neighborhood; reflections on slacking this week while my wife has been out of town; a glimpse into mirror universes; audio clip from the "Halloween" marathon with friends Jason and Brad; review of "Steve Jobs" (2015); Author Douglas Coupland and philosophies on Generation X, labeling; live Periscope and tutorial on podcasting; Microsoft Windows '95 training video with Mathew Perry and Jennifer Anniston; review of CNN doc "High Profits" (2015), and; much more!

Show time: 1:51:00

Episode 151 -- "A Vacant Void"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 04:45:00 +0000

Join Mike in the studio late at night, talking about winter storms and the closing of another "Coconuts" retail outlet. Also, a quick review of "Boyhood" (2014).

Show time: 1:13:17

Episode 150 -- "Edge City"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 10:11:00 +0000

Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night, when he talks about living in the sprawl fringes of downtown proper, sometimes referred to as an "Edge City", and how he was once a spy for a television station there. Also: a series of odd, sometimes random, sometimes interwoven incidents, have been happening lately -- possibly related to Mercury Retrograde?

Show time: 1:28:26

Check out the Circle K compliance video here.

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 Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released November 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Episode 149 -- "Festivus Pole Trash"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 02:08:00 +0000

Mike returns to the studio late at night for the first show of the New Year, where he recounts his wedding and long Honeymoon in London (so long, that he will need to continue the travel diary on next week's program). Also: the commercialization of Festivus poles; local politics, grandstanding, and the vote comes up to allow the sell of alcohol in Shelby County, AL (my parents' neck of the woods); Politician Phil Davison gives the greatest bad speech ever, and; crazy woodworking synchronicity.

Show time: 1:53:22

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Episode 148 -- "Baristas, After Hours"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Join Mike on the back porch late at night. Topics include: remembering the after-hours lives of Starbucks baristas I once worked with; having a cigar and coffee and thinking about getting married this week; "'Not too late to say No!", and other cliches people say to you before you get married; anticipating "Star Wars"; movie review -- "Krampus" (2015); how Christmas can be scary, and scary Christmas memories; got an e-mail about auditioning for a reality show like the "Running Man", and; much more!

Show time: 1:32:41

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Episode 147: "A Talkin' To..."

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Boody) — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 07:31:00 +0000

Join Mike in the studio late at night, when he talks about getting a good talking to from the management at a bowling ally recently, and on a church mission trip in the 8th grade.

Show time: 47:28

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 Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released November 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.