The Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show

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ON this episode I talk to God.  I mean, you don’t get much bigger than God.  He’s big.  Like Nipsey Russell big.   Nipsey was like the original rapper.  God on the other hand, is AN original rapper and he's the guest on this episode!!  Hear about his latest release " Burn Your Maps " and all sorts of other stuff. God's music can be heard here:  https://lnkfi.re/burnyourmaps And...

Six months ago I came into the possession of a Panasonic RQ-L30 Mini Cassette Recorder and a 90 minute cassette tape that contained the soundtrack for Mary Poppins on one side and the soundtrack for Robert Altman's Popeye (written by Harry Nilsson) on the other side.  The tape was put in the machine and everyday, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day, Shotgun Mike would push that record button and rec...

On this episode, we talk to Tim Lightell the writer/director of the feature film Manbaby.  We talk about his film and film making and the film industry.  It's a film epsode!!  It's a fun time and if you listen, you can share in that fun time and who knows?  Maybe you'll have a fun time yourself. Or not. Maybe you're hesitant because you haven't seen the movie and you'...

This one comes as the first of a new era.  Sort of.  It's almost just another show.  What is it showing?  We don't even know.  I don't want to know.  If you like getting the run around, like you're getting right now, then you'll love this show!!  I found some old cassette tapes and I've  put parts of that on this episode.  I also found these really old songs that were...

On this episode I was going to have this guy on to talk about something.  I'm not sure what.  I talked about it on the last episode.  It was real legit.  It was all through this thing for promoting these guys and I think they have to sign up and stuff, but point is he was a no-show.  A lot of people would take that as a defeat, but not here on the Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show!!  On this show...

A few weeks ago, I heard these people talking about Ukraine and at one point somebody mentioned the president who was in there before Zelensky, and he didn't know who he was or how all of that went down with Zelensky getting in to power, but I didn't hold it against him because I didn't know either.  But now next time when I see him, I'm going to go right up to him and say some...

This is the one about things that are not happening at this exact moment but in a way they are because a) time is an illusion and it's all happening at the same time and b) time just keeps on ticking into the future.  The future of what though?  The future of the past?  Bam!  I'm not even sure what it's all about.  I think it's about time or timing or time in a bottle.  Nobody...

On this episode I talk about spaghetti and how all these guests I was going to have on are ghosting me!!!   I'm just kidding. I didn't talk about spaghetti.  I could though.  That's what I should have done on this episode is talk about spaghetti.  Maybe the next one?  How do you like that?  That's what we call a "teaser" in the business.  I'm teasing the shit out...

It's our super spectacular beach party episode and we're chewin' the curl and hangin' ten as though they both went out of style decades ago.  So put on your bushy bushy blonde hairdo and head on down to the malt shop!!  Cuz this irresponsible surf party is just getting started! Support the show

Remember how last episode I was going make a four part series about this whole UFO scoop that I stumbled on a week ago and then everyone else jumped on the bandwagon?  Well, this is the fourth one and before you get real confused, I've abandoned the whole plan and made it a trilogy so this is a solitary episode.  This takes all the pressure off as you're no longer obligated to follow the...

There's still more to talk about with the UFO's.  I'm kinda pissed because I see this all over the news and stuff now and I hate even resembling those mainstream followers.  And they're following me!!!  This is like ChatGPT all over again.  Oh well. On this one there's really no old songs but I talk incessantly. It's like I'm getting paid by the syllable!!  There...

This is part two of what we'll call a four part series investigating the unusual goings on with this space alien technology thing.  First, a few days ago NASA announced that the government is sharing all this information with them and they are allowed to share confidential stuff and then this guy came out today going on about how he's been told about all this suspicious stuff.  Who knows...

On this episode, I investigate the ramifications of the new policy adopted by NASA and the United States government in which the government is going to share all it's Air Force and army and even their Coast Guard data that before now was highly classified.  You have to ask yourself, why was the government is so secretive about it?  What changed that they are now making it unclassified?!?!  Wh...

This is a longer than usual episode, because I was gone for a while.  You might think, if he was on vacation or something, wouldn't it be normal length episode that just comes a little later than normal?  I knew you'd be thinking that!!  That's why I pulled the old switcheroo and made it a super long episode.  Other than that, there's nothing unexpected on this episode.  That i...

On this episode we play with the concepts of thought, freedom and exploring the unknown.  Sometimes it seems to me like that's not as popular as it once was.  Or maybe it never was?  It doesn't matter because as with every episode, I have never cared about who or what is popular.  And neither should you!!  It's just a way for the corporations to water everything down to the lowest c...

On this episode, I pretend I'm a high profile big shot that's in town to make sure everything is running smoothly.  That was just for fun.  I'm trying to have fun.  I mean, why not?  I was going to make this episode all about Robert Culp but then it just seemed pointless.  I don't really know that much about him and I couldn't find that much interesting audio to use.  I al...

Here is the grand finale of our ever so special John Cage Match Game Trilogy where we explore the magic and wonderment that is the music of John Cage and the crazy on-screen antics of those rascals on Match Game (1971 - 1980). It was just ideas and wackiness in full effect.  And it was about the freedom to have weird ideas, a concept we celebrate here on this episode.  It features songs from all s...

For those of you who didn't read the title, this is the second episode of the trilogy!!  I almost wrote thrillogy, which would've been a typo but this episode is a thrill ride of sorts.  Not only do we look deeper into the world of John Cage and the "70s version" of the TV Show Match Game but we hear songs from Univac that were heretofore unheard of, except at the time of the r...

This is the first of a three part series where I focus on the musical works of John Cage and the television show Match Game.  Not directly but indirectly, seemingly not at all.  To the unacquainted listener this probably seems crazy. That's my plan. Ive had it since I got here. It came to me in a dream.  That dream is featured here.  I've also included a few audio tidbits from the variou...

A week ago I got a mini-cassette recorder off of eBay for something like $25 and I digitized a bunch of these micro cassettes I had.  My dad had a micro cassette dictaphone when we were little and when he didn't have a secretary, which is what they called them in those days, it just sat in his office.  Then years later my sister and I found it and started playing with it.  One of the pieces I...

Here's a FUN show.  I think someone's banging on the walls downstairs in this apartment building.  That's rare here.  Hmm...  I might go check.  Sit tight.  I'll be right back. Support the show

On this show, I discuss the topic of towels, their purpose and where they fit in when it comes to what I like to call the "bathing chain".  It's like the food chain, but this is about washing things.  You wash your hands, you wash your dishes, you wash your clothes, you wash TV, and for what?  Nothing.  I also play some old recordings I found.  One is from an old cassette tape that...

This one gives us a chance to get back to nature.  You can tell because it's so primitive and natural and there's dirt everywhere.  That's how you know you're in nature - when there's dirt everywhere.  Listening to this episode is probably as close to being in nature as a lot of you are going to get in this day and age.  This episode was almost like an assignment.  I just...

On this episode, I play songs and sounds and stuff like that.  There's one song where I must explain:  when we recorded the original vocals, I put reverb on the actual track.  Normally you record the track clean and add the effects when you mix it down, but I was very young and didn't know what I was doing when I recorded it.  I think I covered it up pretty good though so I probably shou...