“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Watched C-beams glitter in the dark.” —Roy Batty. . A fun, philosophical one-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long homage to the likes of Gog, Robbie the Robot, the Lost in Space Robot, the H.A.L. 9000, Colossus, the Terminator, and all those Blade Runner androids, as well as to the likes of Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Moon Watcher, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Philip K Dick, Stephen Hawking, a...
Jan 29, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 1
I have to admit, I have always been an air show junkie. Give me a good baseball cap, my Ray-bans, binoculars, camera, fold-out camp chair, and some heavy-duty sunscreen (SFP 70 or better) and I’m good to go. I’ll jockey myself up through that crowd of like-minded, similar-looking rubber-neckers and stake out the ultimate spot for myself, front and center, as close to the roped-off runway as I can get. And then just consign myself to the baking tarmac sun for hours, happy as a clam, thrilling to ...
May 18, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 1
BOOMER MONOLOGUES Episode 8- "Tobacco Road" Hello. Welcome back to BOOMER MONOLOGUES. This is Episode 8- "Tobacco Road.” I’m inviting you to step back in time with me again, this time to Main Street, USA, circa 1955. I suggest you bring your Covid-19 masks along, though, to filter out some of the hazardous-to-your-health, second-hand smoke you'll definitely encounter there. The mid-Twentieth Century is a very smoky era, a land of Zippo lighters; cigarette-dispensing machines wherever people gath...
Dec 19, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 8
BORN TO BE MILD PART II: "Head Out on the Highway" (or Zen and the Art of Motorcyclist Wannabeism) continues the saga of a dyed-in-the-wool Walter Mitty-ish man’s relationship with both the stark reality of sheer testosterone daredeviltry and the dream-world of a lurid imagination. Will Tom end up being hit by the... "screamin' deisel that was California bound," a la the song, "Black Denim Trousers"? Succumb to the fate of "The Leader of the Pack"? Or continue on through life as the boring, mild...
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 7
"Born To Be Mild" Parts I and II: the phenomenon of Wannabe-ism (a la... The Christmas Story's Ralphie the wannabe Red-Ryder-Rifle-toting cowboy, or Peanuts' "Snoopy and the Red Baron" wannabeism. These two tell-all segments chronicle my own rise from first "living" my childhood Roy Rogers fantasy in my own mind all the way up through becoming a 'bad ass biker' wannabe. Along the way, we enjoy a brief visit with two famous wannabes: Walter Mitty and George Plimpton.
Sep 06, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
More adventures with my bike gang English class
Aug 03, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome. You’re tuning in to BOOMER MONOLOGUES, a memoir podcast of some of the various adventures in my life from anywhere between 1946, the year of my birth, (yeah, not too much here from THAT year) and, so far, the year 2020. All episodes describe true events; however, the dialogue is only as approximate as my memory can allow. This is Season 1, Episode 4, titled “BRAT PACK - Part I. In this episode, I invite you to please take a seat in my circa-early-1970s classroom to “watch” me flounder w...
Aug 02, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
What a long, strange musical trip it's been starting from a fetus' point-of-view (that would be me), rockin’ in the womb to 1946's Top Ten playing on the kitchen radio (out 'there,' on the 'other side' of the wall), all the way up to Bob Dylan's Christmas-killing Bringin' It All Back Home. Join me on this unstuck-in-time sentimenal journey which begins back in The Land That Pop Culture Forgot, a strange land of vacuum-tube "phonographs" and AM radios that take a full minute to warm up before the...
Jun 16, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Paul Newman as Luke in the 1967 classic film, Cool Hand Luke, is the ultimate, larger-than-life anti-hero in this saga of The System’s need to break the strong wills of free-spirited charismatics who refuse to allow themselves to obediently lie down under the iron thumb of Authority. A companion piece to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the movie is steeped in religious symbolism. The podcast's thesis: Although extremely rare, there are some real Cool Hand Lukes out there. This episode focuses o...
May 27, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
During BASIC Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, in 1969, I was drawn under the guru-like spell of a Private Rogers who confounded Charlie Company, especially its D. I.'s ("Drill Instructors" in the Smokey the Bear Hats), with his mysterious ability to endure with a smile WHATEVER punishments were dished out to break his spirit, while continuing to live his life on his terms, not theirs.
May 25, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 2
