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The Midnight Citizen
by Mike Boody
A late nite show brought to you every Saturday night from Birmingham, AL.
Episodes
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Episode 171 -- "Tech Support"
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...
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Episode 170 -- "(Supposedly) Haunted Savannah"
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons...
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Episode 169 -- "Suburban CrimeWave"
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…
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Episode 168 -- "Whistlin' Dixie"
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…
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Episode 167 -- "Logo Pong"
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 This work is licensed...
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Episode 166 -- "Counter-Programming"
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution...
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Episode 165 -- "On the Outskirts of Town, at the Cemetery"
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…
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Episode 164 -- "Dream Nucleus"
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 This work is licensed under a...
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Episode 163 -- "Alamo Survival Tips for Davy Crockett from George Romero"
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons…
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Episode 162 -- "Grab Bag 4"
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)....
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Episode 161 -- "Sin City of Alabama"
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 --...
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Episode 160 -- "Millennial Cereal"
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...
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Episode 159 -- "Mail Order Happiness"
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;...
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Episode 158 -- "Midnight Tangential"
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.…
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Episode 157 -- "Basement Show"
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...
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Episode 156 -- "History Hole"
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…
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Episode 155 -- "Grab Bag 3"
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).…
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Episode 154: "Op-Ed"
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…
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Episode 153 -- "Charleston Snow"
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...
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Episode 152 -- "The Kids Don't Care"
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...
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Episode 151 -- "A Vacant Void"
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 Music for this episode from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0...
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Episode 150 -- "Edge City"
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...
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Episode 149 -- "Festivus Pole Trash"
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…
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Episode 148 -- "Baristas, After Hours"
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;...
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Episode 147: "A Talkin' To..."
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…
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A late nite show brought to you every Saturday night from Birmingham, AL.
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The Midnight Citizen is created and hosted by Mike Boody.
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