The Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show

Have you ever wondered what happened to George Clooney?  Not a lot of people have.  You can't blame them.  I mean...what is he?  An actor?  Are actors even a thing anymore?  I'll have to check it out.   I think they went on strike, or they bowled a strike.  I'll look into that too...later.  I saw one of those CGI movies that was all fake people and it looked pretty good.  How hard w...

On this episode, I'm keeping it real low key.  Like a Saturday Morning Children's show.  Too much talk these days.  Silence is golden and on this episode we're going to shower you in silence.  Not real silence.  Just radio silence.  Speaking of silence, have you seen any of those John Wick movies?  They're not silent...I don't think. Support the show

On this episode we wear a mask so people don't recognize me.  It's a Lone Ranger mask but I don't ever talk about it..  Instead I get weird and goofy. Support the show

This one is one of those lightning in the bottle episode.  Even though I had no guest.  Even though I had one not that great microphone.  Even though there was a crowd of urchin children just outside with their faces pressed firmly on the glass the whole time I was doing it - THIS is the masterpiece.  If there was an Academy Awards for podcasting, this would be like one of those movies that won a...

On this episode we delve into the past, but not your past so who knows?  You might learn something...for once!!!   Support the show

This episode achieved the one goal I wanted to achieve and that was lasting longer than 30 minutes.  I think that means they put ads in it.  So it's a win lose situation, as opposed to a win win situation.  I guess win win situations are the good one, or at least less common.  A win lose situation can really just be called a situation.   Support the show

On this episode, I do a show about a guy who comes back from having not done an episode for a few days and he just stumbles through in a desperate attempt to keep his super heightened sense of hipness intact.  It's all really silly and there are no serious messages even though it may seem like there's some hidden messages, but they're not hidden.  They're just not there. Suppor...

I wasn't even going to do an episode.  I was going to record the street sounds outside this hotel in downtown Cleveland, OH and use them in an episode, but then I figured why bother?  Just use it now.  I might record some more though.  There's some guy revving his car engine in a real obnoxious way.  That might be useful somewhere...down the line.  I'm so bored. Support the show

This one is coming at you from Cleveland, or at least it was when it was recorded.  It was recorded after a long long night of watching the Home Shopping Channel or something like that.  They were selling combat boots to expecting mothers.  The irony was lost on everybody involved. There are no guests on this episode.  If you want to be a guest, let me know and you can be the guest on a different...

This one was a rush job.  Not in a bad way.  In a good way.  A good rush.  Like when people say "what a rush dude".  I don't know why I added the 'dude' in there.  I guess I'm imagining a snowboarder or something, a real smug asshole.  Not to say that all snowboarders are smug assholes, but the one I'm thinking of is. Support the show

I'm in the land of the lost again and it's even more lost than before.  It's a heavy load and I'm hoping this hotel room ceiling can handle it but we're going to find out right here and now.  This episode features a dirty song I recorded in high school and a song that prominently features a cat in heat singing.  You're not going to get this on those other podcasts.  T...

This one is about books.  No I'm just kidding.  I don't even know what books are.  I think they're what came before television.  Remember television. God...that seems like a lifetime ago.  A long long wasted lifetime ago. Sounds like I got some new neighbors.  I'm going to go welcome them into the neighborhood.  See if they have any good shit in their yard. Support the show

On this episode, I recorded in a sleazy opium den-like hotel room.  It's actually a pretty nice room but these opium users WON'T LEAVE!!  That's okay. I'm on the road and living life.  I say that because if I don't remind myself every few hours, I forget.  Forget what you ask?  I don't even know.  Make sure you listen to the entire episode for the secret message hidde...

On this day we remember things.  It's call Memorandum Day.  I remember it well from my sea-faring days out on the ocean blue.  Remember that band?  The Ocean Blue?  I once made a mix tape at my friend Greg's house and I put a song by them on there.  It was a decent song.  Always takes me back to that time when I hear it.  It'll take you back too but you don't have to listen to...

I recently watched the first season of "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and it was just great!!  But then when I went to get the second, third and fourth season, I couldn't find them ANYWHERE!!  And I don't feel like spending a ton of money on a DVD.  So that's been on my mind a lot.  There's an episode with Flo and Eddie and one where Jeff Goldblum plays Jeopa...

This one is being posted a little later than I wanted to.  I couldn't help it.  I had to go to Florida...again!!  It's like that time a few years ago?  When I went down to Florida for that acting gig but it ended up just being some sort of informercial scam, and I just couldn't remember all that Spanish!!  But it's okay.  They fired me and I got to hang out with the rest of the...

This one is like the last one.  I just did it.  I think I could do this live...like Plastikman.  That'd be something wouldn't it?  I could stand up there on stage in front of thousands of people with my microphone, a cassette player, a turntable and my Juno 106.  Maybe Plastikman could operate the turntable and cassette player.  And then maybe afterwards, we'd go get some chicken sa...

Well...I mean, what can I say.  It's not that I don't want to be getting weird all the time.  It's just sometimes you have to work at a boring job and do other stuff, or at least pretend you are.  Either way, this one is an episode that nobody saw coming.  I feature a song off my new Trumph remastered deluxe version album (available on the Spotify and Apple Music and other places). ...

On this episode, I talk all about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with none other than comedian extraordinaire Glen Tickle !!  We talk all about all sorts of things ranging from Marvel movies to people that star in Marvel movies.  And of course, there's the obvious thing about his name.  It rhymes with tentacle!!!!  I wanted to say something so bad, but we didn't bring that up.  It's not...

This is the second episode of the latest season where I don't do half the work I used to have to do in order to please the masses.  They're so easily pleased!!!  I don't know why everyone's always talking so bad about them.  Either way, there's no point in reading this nonsense when you could be listening to the nonsense encapsulated on this latest episode.  It's a tr...

So this is it!!  My new format where I'm doing no more sounds and/or musical experimentation.  That's all in the music world now.  This is the podcast world.  The podcast world and the music world were not meant to meet and now I know that better than ever so there's no turning back. Support the show

We finally made it!!!  The six hundred and sixty sixth episode.  This was the goal.  I can die relatively happy now.  On this episode, we dive into the world of questionable motives and inherent evil.  Where do sacrifices and curses fit in with the modern world of TikTok and DoorDash?  Why is there so much darn evil in the world??  Listen now to have none of these questions answered!!  And as alwa...

On this one, as the title clearly demonstrates, I conclude my conversation with Mark Wilkinson.  It was so informative that I still think back to it whenever I hear a human voice, which can be quite a few times throughout the course of the day.  The human voice is everywhere and we use it everyday but you don't realize how much you have to take care of it and not take it for granted, much lik...

On this episode I talk to none other than Mark Wilkinson who tells us about how much goes into the way the human voice works, how to keep it safe and so much more.  This one you are not going to want to miss.  I suggest you stop doing whatever it is you are doing and start listening immediately. To get in touch with Mark Wilkinson, find him here: Instagram:    @marklwilkinson Twitter:    @marklwil...

On this episode, I think I've perfected my system.  It's all about less randomness.  Planning things, thinking about things.  It all comes together in this episode where there's all sorts of thoughts and feelings.  That's what people want.  Emotion.  Support the show