The Midnight Citizen Mike Boody

Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts his protest-free graduation day, and also dives shallow into his first post English-degree book, “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon.
Also: How I profited from my motorcycle gettin’ stole’d; paranoid dreams of secret societies; “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999); Sanford Strong gets “Strong on Crime”!
Music Break: “American English” by the Canoes; “Spontaneous Disappearance” by Blue Lotus. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org.
Video Street Video Store: “Strong Against Crime: Protect Your Family" (1996); “Incite PC Gaming: Daikatana Preview” (1999).
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Join me outside for a whiskey and fine cigar in my celebration of finishing graduate school!
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Mike discovers a Zoom recorder in the back of his car while waiting for his windshield to defrost, and remembers he has a podcast. Join him for a drive around his hometown of Birmingham, AL as he reflects on a variety of topics, like the South’s latest blast of wintry weather, delivering food on icy roads, updates on his grad school thesis, and the Showtime show “The Curse”.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released January 2024 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.


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Join Mike and special guest Dave in the studio late on a Saturday, where they free-range explore a wide variety of topics, including: understanding the frightening concept of plagiarism as a student; the diminishing charitable returns of John Mellencamp’s FARM AID; the Birmingham Batman, as featured on “That’s Incredible” (1980); “Stay Hungry”, the 1970s movie filmed in Birmingham starring Arnold Scwartzenegger; Birmingham’s adult movie theaters; the PMRC and its regulation of the music industry in the 1980’s; the wild private life of John Denver; the ubiquity of fake facts on the Internet in the 1990’s; making up fake Jimmy Buffet song titles.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2023 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.


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Join Mike as he watches the sun set over Birmingham, AL…and later for a drink in the backyard, where he gives his review of Oppenheimer.
Topics include: woodgrain console television sets; adult friendships; HBO’s Love and Death and the book it’s based on, Evidence of Love by drive-in film critic Joe Bob Briggs; the use of hypnotism in solving crimes; reviews of Oppenheimer and Mission: Impossible; going to the movies in 2023, and much more!
Music for this episode: Synthwave Mix | L.A. Sunset by White Bat Audio.
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Join Mike at home and in the streets of Birmingham, AL., where he discusses the mysterious “Blackwell Ghost” film series, the Birmingham zip line wars of 2012, and much more!


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