Showing posts with label theater of the mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theater of the mind. Show all posts

Thursday, December 9, 2010

NO FOOLIN'! HERE'S THE "UNLUCKY" SHOW...EFFIZODE NUMBER 13 OF "THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH!!!"



Hello, my name is Mike Matthews. That bus you hear in the background is my
bulky vehicle choice to get me to this week's half hour effizode of THE LAST
PLACE ON EARTH. We'll find out what strange physical ailment a lot of women
are getting nowadays, we'll find out what horrible poverty has hit your
favorite vacation destination, and we'll tell you what color you should NOT
pick for your car if you do not desire to be a lemming.

All that plus music from Hobo, The Rope River Blues Band, Plumtree, and
Zombie Prom Queen.

This week has been interesting for which you will hear on the show. This is
the 13th effizode of this show. The last show I did got up to sixteen and
only ended because my wife and I moved from Huntsville, Alabama, to Castro
Valley, California. Yes, we literally went from one end of the political
spectrum to the other. You could see the states getting bluer the closer we
got to our new home!

My last show was called "The Messy Desk" which you can still catch some of
the effizodes on http://ping.fm/EBKjm Interesting thing
about podomatic...as soon as you sign up for a free account every dj in the
world tries to get you to "friend" them. There was every DJ, MC, and
mixologist from every dance club sending "friend requests." I left
podomatic and went to podbean to start anew without the crazy fans.
Oh...fans.

So as we rapidly approach Christmas and New Years look back on your year and
survey what you liked and what you'd like to change. Think about what went
incredibly right and what you can do to duplicate it. Don't bother thinking
about what you did wrong, you've probably already spent too much time doing
that.

Oh, quick shout out to my friends Terri and Steve that drove my wife and I
into the city (San Francisco) to check out a monthly 80's dance club. Wow,
dancing to 80's music is so uplifting. My wife is younger and doesn't
remember the 80's so much but she loves dancing to that music. She almost
thinks of it as a more "innocent" way of dancing. We weren't quite grinding
yet in the 80's.

This week's show is a hoot and you can listen to it here...

http://ping.fm/0aLfU

And you can download the latest show off iTunes. If you're subscribing to
where you could download shows 5 through 10 go to this new site and
subscribe here...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-last-place-on-earth/id405892551
I had to start 11 and the teens in this new itunes location. Thanks for
dealing with the inconvenience. You are too kind.

And good luck with the rest of the shopping you've got on your list. If you
don't have a list, YAYYY! You are already ahead of the rest of us!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Here's THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH podcast 7 and the connected BLOG!

THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH podcast 7!!!    So in this podcast I explain why the long hiatus between podcasts.  I know,  as a Mike Matthews' Pod
THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH podcast 7!!!

So in this podcast I explain why the long hiatus between podcasts. I know,
as a Mike Matthews' Podcast Picnic consumer, you DEMAND that you have your
podcast in a timely and hilarious fashion. So here it is. Perhaps not so
timely, perhaps not so hilarious.

Oh, so I also discuss my fear of facebook taking over the world. How many
social network sites are trying to make it or have been trying to make it
and always get trounced by fb? I think it seriously has to do with the
hysteria that surrounds it. How did you find facebook? If you were like me
you were RECRUITED by someone you knew. And honestly, I didn't really even
really know the person who recruited me...really. And was that person paid
by Mark Zuckerberg to recruit me? Heck no! So by my admission it is my own
fault that I succumbed to the allure of what I thought was a new and
interesting website. Turns out it was just another fad. Another wave of
fashion. Rubic's Cube anyone?

The fact is someday, it could be next year or the year after that or the
year after that, people will get tired of facebook. They'll get tired of
the privacy issues, of living their life vicariously through a website.
Someday the tide will change.

Until then, thanks facebook for letting me promote this podcast on your
website! Gee, biting the hand that feeds means nothing when the hand makes
billions of dollars a year!

Here's the latest "effizode" of THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH! Click on the link
below...

http://ping.fm/ZHtQ7

Blimey, we're up to 7 podcasts now! Where has the time gone? (No, that's
what people say after they listen to the show...where did my time go? My
precious, precious time!)

Oh, and if you want to subscribe on iTunes (there's another company with a
little world conquest going on) my link is
http://ping.fm/4KR4j

Thanks!