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The Midnight Citizen
by Mike Boody
Your late night broadcast from Birmingham, AL.mikesbonfire.substack.comSince 2010, Host Mike Boody has been giving you a unique blend of personal stories, takes on pop culture, and reflections on everyday life, all in a candid, free-flowing monologue-style. Recorded in the quiet hours, The Midnight Citizen offers an intimate, nostalgic listening experience—part memoir, part cultural diary, always honest and offbeat.
Episodes
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Dispatch from Wabasha, MN
Join me on a low-key bar hop through sleepy Wabasha, where I hobble along the Mississippi River after leaving Slippery's, attempting to suppress acid reflux like a real Grumpy Old Man. Hear my gassy thoughts on the 1993 comedy that dethroned Native American history and bald eagles as Wabasha's...
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Dispatch from Fargo, ND
Join me on my last night in Fargo, ND, where I walk around a thriving downtown area as it preps for the big AI festival. After my request for a photo op in front of the Marge Gunderson woodchip statue gets turned down by Fargo theater staff, I go for a drink and talk about the classic film on the...
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Another Dispatch from the Midwest
Join me on another trip to Quincy, IL, where I walk along the waterfront of the Mississippi River and loiter in the parking lot of the posh local boating club. Later, I sit on the back porch of a shuttered bar close to my hotel and reflect on anything and whatever. This work is licensed under a...
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Dispatch from Quincy, IL
Join Mike in the midwest -- first in a vacant lot overlooking the Mississippi River at dusk, and later on a walk around the famous arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Dispatch from Louisville, KY
Join Mike on whiskey alley.
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Talking ROLLING THUNDER
Join Mike outside for some thoughts about (and inspired by) the 1970s revenge classic.
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Talking "SCREAM"
Join Mike on the hot southern porch for a chat about the '96 classic...and some other new business...
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Talking "EYES WIDE SHUT"
On a humid Christmas night in Birmingham, AL, join me for a drink as I mull over Kubrick's last movie "Eyes Wide Shut" -- the weirdo plot, theories old and new, and why nobody liked it when it came out...even though I processed countless late fees for the VHS when I worked at Blockbuster back in...
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Ep. 300 | "Some New Beginnings"
Join Mike in the studio for the last time…maybe? After 15 years and 300 shows, it all ends tonight. Bring out your drink of choice and make a toast with me as I say goodbye to this weird, wonderful podcast that’s been, altogether, not a bad way to document all the ups and downs of a random guy’s...
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Talking "THE FRENCH CONNECTION"
After seeing "THE FRENCH CONNECTION" at the Sidewalk Cinema, I take a walk in downtown Birmingham, AL. Join me as I give some thoughts on the movie (eventually), and stumble into a basement bar that's all done-up to look like Edgar Allan Poe. Remember that the FINAL EPISODE of The Midnight…
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Talking "EDDINGTON"
While waiting for the store to open, I sit in my car and talk about the movie I saw last night, "Eddington". (No spoilers) Join me in the studio this Saturday, November 22 for the FINAL EPISODE of The Midnight Citizen -- LIVE @ 11 CST at youtube.com/@the_midnightcitizenpodcast.
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Ep. 299 | "Brennschluss"
After a long day of grading papers and driving for dollars, I crashed out on Saturday night and slept right through my scheduled live show. But no worries, join me in the car on Sunday morning as I deliver food to the good, hung-over people of Birmingham, AL. Later that night, sit with me outside...
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Ep. 298 | "Kick the Revolution"
Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Tonight, we continue the countdown to Episode 300 — the series finale of The Midnight Citizen. Although, after tonight’s show, I’m not sure I’ll make it that long — this after a FREAK SCARE about an hour into it, when my whiskey toast to Diane...
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Ep. 297 | "Adult Contemporary"
Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Tonight, we begin the countdown to the series finale of The Midnight Citizen show. It’s been a long, strange trip, but after 15 years, I’ve decided to close the curtains and throw up the “Closed” sign for good at episode 300. So, sit back, crack...
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Talking "ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER"
After teaching class, I give you some quick thoughts on the new film, "One Battle After Another," and also discuss the final four episodes of The Midnight Citizen podcast, which begin this Saturday, October 4th -- LIVE @ 11 CST at youtube.com/@the_midnightcitizenpodcast.
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Ep. 296 | "Good Luck in Your Future Endeavors"
Join Mike outside on a Friday night. This week, I’m sitting on the back porch of my folks’ house in suburban Birmingham, AL., gazing out into the serene channel of woods and darkness, wondering why my family chose to live here in the late summer of 1992. I guess I’ve never thought of it before…
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Ep. 295 | "Get a Real Job"
Join Mike outside on a Friday night. Hang out on the makeshift back patio with me while I reminisce on morning TV and what happened after that on those long hot days in the summer when you had nothing to do and all day to do it. Anyway, I was feeling real nostalgic today when I took a small break...
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Ep. 294 | "Full Tilt Patriotic"
Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Tonight, check your commie cynicism at the door and give yourself a little permission to be a proud Ameri-CAN on this 4th of July weekend. Go on, now — call a ceasefire on the whole “Us vs. Them” thing. Just watch yourself a little “Back Up…
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Ep. 293 | "Pots-Secret"
Join Mike in the studio late at night. Tonight, to kick off 4th of July week, I bring to you some quotes from a barrage of great American patriots — George Washington, Justice Potter Stewart, Missile Command Champ and former Playgirl Centerfold Roy “Mr. Awesome” Schildt. From there, we get onto…
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Ep. 292 | "Live and Mercy"
Join Mike in the studio late (and LIVE!) on a stormy Saturday night… Tonight, on the eve of Fathers’ Day, and in the absence of having kids of my own, I pass onto you some sage advice handed down to me by my dad…or maybe it was the funny coach from Teen Wolf: “Never get less than 12 hours sleep…...
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Ep. 291 | "Millennial Falcon"
🗨️Listen and rate the show on Spotify! 🟢ᯤJoin 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…
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Ep. 290 | "Bully for Kilroy"
🗨️Be sure to rate the show and leave a comment if you can! It really helps the show!🟢ᯤ 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...
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Ep. 289 | "Palindrome Days"
🗨️Don’t be shy! Leave a comment, tell me what you think! Listen and rate the show on Spotify! 🟢ᯤ 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...
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Ep. 288 | "Tetraphobia"
Join Mike back in the studio on a Saturday night. 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...
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Ep. 287 | "Night Shift Intellectual"
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...
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Ep. 286 | "The Margaritaville HOA"
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,...
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Ep. 285 | "Microwave Epiphany"
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...
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Ep. 284 | "Christy, the Night Manager"
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…
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Ep. 283 | "The Past Can Be So Hostile"
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…
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Ep. 282 | "Memory Farm"
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…
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Ep. 281 | "The Facts Are So Disappointing"
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,...
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Ep. 280 | "Psycho Mormon"
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.…
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Ep. 279 | "Cringe Yellow"
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...
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"The Elite, Secret Currency" | The Midnight Citizen | Episode 278
Join Mike in the studio late at night as he mulls over the optics of our new, modern chaos. Not to get too political, but if Satan wants to really torture us for all eternity, he’ll need to do some redecorating in hell. Also, why the movie Eyes Wide Shut (1999) is becoming more of a documentary;...
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"Scream Into The Void" | The Midnight Citizen | Episode 277
Join Mike in the studio late on a Friday night, where he screams all his innermost thoughts, desires, and shame into the void of a social media platform…and no, it’s not Substack. Also, what is it with Substack? Why do they only show people what you do when you say nice things about them? More...
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"The Barber-Salon Industrial Complex" | The Midnight Citizen | Episode 276
Join Mike in the studio, where he recounts a tense haircut he recently had. Everything was fine until he suggested to the salon’s owner he install a barber pole out front to drum up new business. There was a deafening silence, and things went down hill from there. Also, petty tyrants go global…
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 275 | "When the Cult Comes to Town"
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…
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 274 | "Virtual Man"
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...
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 273 | "Work is for People Who Don't Know How to Play Golf"
Join Mike for his first show of 2025. On a cold, dark night in the suburbs of Birmingham, AL, he sits under a broken heater, blowing breath into the lonesome abyss, those thoughts preserved for eternity, or as long as Substack and the Internet Archive exist… Thanks for reading Mike's Bonfire!...
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 272 | "The Funny People at Work"
Join Mike on a sleepless night in Birmingham, AL, drinking coffee and talking into the early hours. “The Midnight Citizen” drops every Saturday night, so be sure to, ya know… Be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”You know why they made the sky so high? So the little…
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ENCORE | The Midnight Citizen 92: "Corn Country" [from August 2014]
Hey folks — I recorded a show in studio this week, and when I was listening back, I had a crazy weird tech difficulty that I’m still trying to figure out. While I do that, enjoy this ENCORE from 10 years ago — a visit to Nashville, Indiana to see Joe Bob Briggs, years before his triumphant…
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 271 | "Present Laughter"
Join Mike for coffee at night in the studio, and later for a cocktail outside on the patio. Topics this week include a lament on the university building where I had my first college class some years ago being demolished this week in a spectacular Las Vegas-style kind of violence; thoughts on why...
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 270 | "The Midnight Exploited"
Join Mike for a morning cup o’ joe on the back patio, and later for a night drive and after-work drink. Topics this week include Alabama’s dumb education laws and how a recent one could hold back as many as 4,500+ 3rd graders in the state; a kind-of “Deadpool and Wolverine” review; the “Miami…
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 269 | "Alabama Mud"
Join Mike for a drink outside on a Friday night, as he recalls the legendary crime fighting ex-wrestler-turned-cop of Corinth, Mississippi Buford Pusser, and the long-standing rumor that he ran out of town one of Alabama’s longest-serving and most-revered mayors. Is it true or bull-scat? Also…
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VIDEO STREET VIDEO STORE 📼 Episode 9
And hellooooooo, everybody! Time to go back down again to the VIDEO STREET VIDEO STORE — return some old tapes, check out some new ones. For the newbies — or, just as a reminder — this is a weekly anthology of all the random awesomeness that is our analog tradition. Enjoy, and if something moves...
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 268 | "Cruising Altitude"
“The Midnight Citizen” is a free, non-commercial podcast. So be sure to, ya know… A new show drops every Saturday night! Be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”…” This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by...
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ENCORE | The Midnight Citizen 206: "Stop Drop Mic" [from April 2017]
Hey folks — I wasn’t able to record a show this week. I’ll be back next Saturday night with an all-new studio show, but until then, enjoy this encore from April of 2017! Show Notes: Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he ponders the question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one takes…
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The Midnight Citizen | Episode 267 | "Robo Rent-A-Cop"
Join Mike on his latest mini-vacation, housesitting for his folks and throwing a steak on the grill. Hear about his latest run-afoul with his unfriendly neighborhood crime ring, and Watch some bits n’ pieces of “RoboCop” from ‘87, including the part where Kenny gets eviscerated by ED-209. Also…
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VIDEO STREET VIDEO STORE 📼 Episode 8
And hellooooooo, everybody! Time to go back down again to the VIDEO STREET VIDEO STORE. I’m a day late this week, but ya know what, the way my schedule’s working out lately, Wednesday may be a pretty good home for this show. For future episodes, as well as the big show I do, THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN...
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The Midnight Citizen 266: "Fred's Twentieth"
On America’s birthday, Mike takes a few minutes to remember another historical milestone — the 20th anniversary of “Fred’s Oasis,” the low-budget, low-class exploitation film he made with some friends in college. Listen along as I recount its conception, production and aftermath, which lingers…
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Your late night broadcast from Birmingham, AL.mikesbonfire.substack.comSince 2010, Host Mike Boody has been giving you a unique blend of personal stories, takes on pop culture, and reflections on everyday life, all in a candid, free-flowing monologue-style. Recorded in the quiet hours, The Midnight Citizen offers an intimate, nostalgic listening experience—part memoir, part cultural diary, always honest and offbeat.
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