Fredericks MIND Thing

Season Of The Glitch

Technology fails me again. All is lost. But, I'll keep going.

Mike's Skype Thing is ending.        Deseated Ram stick.        Ambivalence toward technology.      Death of a podcast.

Perhaps, memory is not supposed to last.        Message erased.

Shut Up, It's Stan's Birthday

This may be my favorite Mike's Skype Thing episode, thus far. Stan spends the show rapidly cycling between rage and love. P.C. Mike explains old cartoons to Epic Soundtracks. A.P. Mike tells a harrowing tale about a jogging accident. We talk about Native Americans in Canada.  Other topics include: Nazis, Russia, Kevin Smith and Dave Emory.  Fredericks dishes dirt on a Ramones’ song. Mike talks about living in a Joseph Heller novel. He also explains Post-Micturition Dribble. Stan threatens everyone.

 

Cagey Mike talks about more things in the wings.        Pepe Le Pew.       Mike’s accident.

 

Epic’s advice.       The Both on Sound Opinions.          The birthday boy arrives.    

 

Nazi Muslims.     Ramones story.     Ammunition.     Mike shows Patton at Massa’s. 

 

Movie talk.     Mike’s manager.       Massa’s tales.        Kevin Smith.     

 

Mike’s going on another cruise.     Best Show talk.     Squirrels of Anarchy.     

 

Dougald arrives.     “Are you all hammered up?”       “I’ll miss you idiots.”

 

Dougald recounts his first call to the Best Show.        Fredericks tells a GonerFest story.      Trailer Park Boys.

 

 P.C. Mike’s continuing torment of Joe Perry.     Future plans.

 

I Always Drink My Mistakes

This was a fun one. We talk about  gas leaks, cars, boxing, Beetlejuice and Fleetwood Mac. Mike talks about priests and pornography, bachelor parties gone bad and the infamous Four Loko episode of the Best Show.

Stan’s gas leak.     Andy Breckman: Doofus.       Brian’s having a good day.     

 

Car talk with A.P. Mike.       The drive to nowhere.       Human dreck.

 

Mike’s work situation: Notes written in red crayon.     Boxing and Beetlejuice.

 

Chicago talk with Cory.   Google Dougald one of us.      Fleetwood Mac.

 

Corey tells a radio story.       P.C. Mike thinks writing an oral history seems easy.

 

Andy Kindler hates atheists.     Massa’s movie talk: Dr. Strangelove.   Patton Pending.

 

Best Show non-update.     Priests and Pornography.    

 

Jerry Lee Lewis ruined Mike’s friend’s wedding.  

 

The Four Loko episode (Hodgman was faking).    Playing games at Massa’s.

 

Book talk (Marilynne Robinson).     Beetlejuice revisited.

 

The Jungian Switch

Despite my starting out of the tent (fort), this episode recovers and leads us careening through a variety of subjects. Florida makes several appearances and Mike and Spike bring the smut. We, verbally, visit the Middle East, Massa's and the back room of the Best Show. Foreshortened due to a glitch in my new mp3 converter. "I don't care, you win some; you lose some."

Out of the tent (it's a fort!).       Natural law.       James Mellon: Tax avoider.     Florida murder talk.     The Mush.        Florida's governors race.

Standardized education scam.      Who's making the money?           New World Order.        Bobcat talk.       Selling weapons.

New Port Richey,     The porn industry is going south.       Spike goes to the museum.     Magical Misery Tour.     Massa's movie talk.

The Jungian switch.        Cronenberg movies.     Smutty type stuff.      Stan sounds like a damaged robot.    

Some people need to be murdered.                        Best Show talk (off the record).

Dropping Like Flies

This was truly a wild one. Kormodd gets kicked around a bit. Dave stages a Cyber-Pirate attack. Mike throws people out of Massa’s and uses movies to comfort the survivors of the guy he killed. Tons of movie talk. P.C. loves Sarah and Dinosaur Jr., while, tiring of Sonic Youth and their shenanigans.  Fredericks’ joke falls flat.

 

 

 

Capitalist prostitution.           Scotland’s independence.       ISIS/ISIL talk.

 

9/11 and the Saudis (band name?).       Political Islam.                                                        

 

Mike joins us to talk about L.B.J. and Billie Sol Estes.

 

They’re dropping like flies at Massa’s: The Sleeper and Dog Fucker bite the dust.     

 

Suicide drinking.     Massa’a movie: The Russians Are Coming.      

 

 More movie talk- Scorsese and Tarantino get judged.          The Supreme Court.

 

Golf.     The Year Punk Broke,        

 

 Kormodd takes Stan down (?) and recommends Border Radio.

 

“Our original course must have been in error.”    

 

 Dave from Knoxville                    Sarah: best Best Show caller of all time?

 

Dave returns.      Mike returns.      T.V. talk.    Movie talk.        Prescription drugs.  

 

“Can you believe what they show on T.V. these days? “      “It’s of kind of a cult.”

 

 Weird pre-game football.         The medium changes the message.           JESUS!

 

Fredericks’ failed joke.         Why would you listen to this?      

 

 The bottle rocket that broke the camel’s spine.            Actions have consequences.

 

P.C Mike takes down Gene Simmons.              Thanks for Bitslap.     

 

The future of Mike’s Skype Thing.         A closing thing to make you paranoid.

 

Last words.

Prescience

A combination of time constraints and synchronicity led to this abbreviated episode.

The Blackout,     Andy Breckman talk,      Seven-Second Delay,     P.C. Mike has homework,     What Tom Scharpling learned from Miles Davis.

Duke of Bores

This was a fun one. Cory claims to have poured beer on Todd Rungrend, Mike's movies go south, but his work situation is improving slightly. We discuss Satryicon, thieving friends, Fredericks' shelf,  Doukhobors and much, much more.

Utopia = Cory and Todd,      Talking behind Kormodd’s back,

 

Fish in the rain-barrel,      Satyricon,     N.Y.U.,        P.C. Mike’s crime report,     

 

Thieving friends,       The end of the world,       Dougald’s coming to Florida,    

 

 Tech problems disrupt Massa’s movie,    Mike is an outsider in Bayonne,

 

 Massa’s stories include profanity and “The Moush” which leads us into a discussion of bullshit artists and breaking donkey ribs,   

 

Fredericks’ shelf,            Mike’s cousin looks miserable,         

 

Airplanes> UFO talk,         Canada has a long history of weirdness,       

 

Doukhobors,           Burning Man,        Leapers, Gapers, Shakers, Quakers,              

 

Snowden anti-government?,    No scientific revolution in the East,       Little Putin,    

 

Mike misses his nap, then talks about bedbugs,        Mike’s work situation is improving,  

 

Tax advice,        New Port Richey,           Vermin Supreme,  

 

 Politics in Florida,      Corporatism,        Sarah,      The future of Mike’s Skype Thing.

Loose Cannon

A delightful chat abruptly ended by an undercharged recorder. Rich people are discussed-including Mike's Bill Gates connection-as are Spike, Stalin and Mike's manager. Mike asks a couple science questions that we try our best to answer. We also cover a bunch of other stuff.

Picking on puppets,     Burger King moves to Canada,     Rich people talk,     Stalin's Koch connection,     Mike is multi-tasking,

The Bill Gates connection,     The Libor scandal,     ISIS,    The Abrahamic god- he is who he is,     Science question #1,     

Mike is an angst inducing loose cannon,      Science question #2,     Brian talks about his gonzo lawyer mentor.     

P.C. Mike joins to update us on Spike's social media activities,     Watching people die,     According to Cory, "Kormodd's the worst," 

Mike returns and movie talk ensues. Titles discussed include: Greed, Exterminating Angel, Anchor Man.     

Music talk: Records you've bought but don't listen to, Beating up Johnny Thunders, G.G. Allin,      The battery dies.......

Sounds Like Something's Going To Happen

In this episode, we spend a good deal of time talking about music and movies. That doesn't prevent us from also discussing Best Show calls, award shows and street sleepers. Mike teases us with Best Show secret projects. Fredericks offers relaxation techniques. Brian shares a disturbing tale involving a communication tech.

Yinka Adeshina for Governor 2014!        Street sleepers.     Another Best Show secret project.     Best Show is returning soon.     

Massa'a movie talk.     Music talk includes Kinks vs. Stones.     Award shows.     

Germany is getting capitalism right.        Magic Christian.          P.C. Mike recounts a Best Show call.    

Beatles talk.      Hee Haw's surprising longevity.      Brian's college disorientation.     "He didn't flush!"

Relaxation techniques.      Dave Hill is a good guy.      Antidepressants/depression.     Mike departs.       Shopping styles.

Kormodd's journey into history.      Album covers.      First Records.     H. Jon Benjamin.     Dead Dog's Eyeball.   

Stop Talking You're Boring

This is a long one, some people showed up late, and I didn't want to be rude by ending the show. Besides, Mike was fully engaged. Tons of topics are discussed. The events in Ferguson, Mo. are covered, as are, John Popper's taunting tweets The Best Show, Mike's work, movies, even Zach Galifianakis' Christmas party.   It moves right along.

Best Show is not back, yet.     "Always the bad one'"         Mike's work situation is not improving,          Mike loses his patience,   

  Waiting for Mike.       John Popper vs. The F.O.T.      Gene Simmons on Twitter,       Florida's governor's race.      Reading in dreams,

Ferguson talk.         Mike returns and tells us about his movie time at Massa's.        MIke's Best Show commuting history- definitely not boring.     

Zach Galifiankis' Christmas party.         Mike's acting career.     Rick Perlstein's Invisible Bridge,          Dave from Knoxville makes it in. 

Ken Burns movies,        T.V. talk includes: Treme, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex.       Bluegrass rock,    Bad Grandpa,            

Mike's girlfriend,           Breading boy gets fat.           Dave from Knoxville tells us Don Pardo is dead and gives us some updates.

Robin Williams is dead, too.         Soul losing thievery.