The Midnight Citizen

Join Mike for three days in the streets and alleys of Birmingham, AL, as he takes on and talks about all the side jobs he’s doing to support himself. 

Topics do not include: Donald Trump’s legal problems, the lost Titanic submersible, a review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! …“Is this a metaphorical title, or did your brother actually piss on you?”...

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Join Mike on an afternoon shift delivering food and walking around the mall in Birmingham, AL.

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Join Mike inside the world’s largest Bass Pro Shop in Memphis, Tennessee, where he rides an elevator to the top and checks out the view. Also, hang out with him at the cabin in West Memphis, Arkansas.

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, on the eve of his 40th birthday…

…where he wonders if a chance meeting with Salman Rushdie once rendered him unable to distinguish between truth and fiction. Also: the truth that great fiction makes us see the world in unreal and alternate ways. And remembering Kenneth Starr, the great romance novelist of the 1990’s, who died this week at 76.

*Music Break: “American English” by the Canoes; “Spontaneous Disappearance” by Blue Lotus

Backing Music: “Danger Night Expedition” by Lobo Loco; “Up, Then Down” by Way Lyricist; “Sailing Away” by HoliznaCCO; “Tuesday Night (Radio Edit) ” by Marteen Schellekens; “Abstract Technology” by Scott Holmes; Loyalty Freak Music

All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “City Slickers” documentary (1991)

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Join Mike on the porch of a cabin in Nashville, Tennessee, his first field show in some time.

Topics include: what else? The Queen’s death, and the future of monarchy. Also, a tribute to Grand Theft Auto V, which turns 9 years old this week!

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! …“I don’t think Hank done it this a-way…”

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*Music Break: “Sicilian Sundown” by Dieter van der Westen; “Nature Boy” by HarpoAll music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.

Video Street Video Store: “Sitcom Laugh Track Expert of the 1980s” (1983); “Robb McCann Interviews Bob Crane” (1978)

Check out the complete Video Street Video Store playlist here!

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he attempts to hold the world’s first convention via telepathy, and recounts his first week back on campus as a full-time graduate student. They won’t let him save on rent by moving into a dorm. Also: why’s everybody so upset about student loan forgiveness?

*Music Break: “You Shake Me” by Stompin’ Riff Raffs; “Nothing at All” by Delay 77 (album: “Don’t Stare at the Sun”). All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: Sunsphere Ad, 1982 World’s Fair, Knoxville, Tennessee; Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview (1990)

Check out the complete Video Street Video Store playlist here!

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! …“Flunk me? Hey, Kurt, you speak English? Flunk YOU!”

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2022 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he mourns the passing of Summer 2022 while wishing the world were more backwards compatible – you know, like computer software in the 90s. Also, colleges nationwide encourage their students to withhold their urges…at least in the showers, and a toast to Salman Rushdie, who DID NOT DIE after the long-standing Fatwa on his life was nearly executed last week.

*Music Break: “Take to the Skies” by Forget the Whale (album: “Take to the Skies”); “Chalk It Up to the Blues” by Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite BoysAll music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Community Helpers: School Workers” (1980)

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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he considers the differences between real schizophrenic neighbors and those zany ones of the sitcom dimension. Also: my old high school now doubles as a police precinct, and a toast to Anne Heche, one-time Janet Leigh doppelganger, whose late 90s relationship with Ellen Degeneres exposed prejudices within my church, which eventually led to me leaving religion.

*Music Break: Long John’s Jump” by Daddy Long Legs; “Hand Jive” by the Jergon Five. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Stephen King PSA Commercial Library”; “Behind the Scenes with Natalie Wood – ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1955)

Check out the complete Video Street Video Store playlist here!

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! …“You make respectability sound disrespectful.”

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2022 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.