The Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show

This episode is full of music and sounds and rambling observations featuring music from past guests Erin Claire and Hipster Pug .  It's a great way to end the year.  In order to get the real impact of this episode, you have to start it at exactly 10:44:55 PM to have it climax at midnight on January 1st.  If you can’t do this then I wouldn’t even bother listening.  If you are listening in Afgh...

Here it is!  The holiday special that we've all been waiting for.  Where were we waiting?  Under the tree.  That's where holiday specials are born.  It was a virgin birth, or so they say.  We all know how scary it can be for a young holiday special who's all alone in the world.  But that's a whole different story.  Speaking of stories, this is the kind of story that always has...

On this one, we have a special guest in the form of Larry Olson from the Smarticle podcast.  We talk about all sorts of things from Elon Musk to other types of musk.  We did not talk about Musketeers or the Three Musketeers.  In hindsight, we probably should have.  It's hard to steer an interview in that direction.  You want the guest to feel like you know what you're doing so you don’t...

On this episode I finally get a chance to talk to Brian.  A lot of people didn't think it was going to happen.  There were a few moments there where even I had my doubts but nothing could stop this meeting of the minds!!  And what a meeting!!  It's downright kooky some of the stuff we talk about.  It's probably the most important podcast you're going to listen to this week and...

On this episode I have a real live very special guest, all the way from Holland, it's ambient electronic recording artist Hipster Pug !!  We chit chat about this and that and music and how we feel about things.  This is real human beings relating to each other.  Not that pointless bullshit you're going to get on other podcasts!!  We also check out a track from his latest EP - Nouveau Cha...

On this one I prepare for and welcome one of the biggest guests in the history of shows and podcasts and things like that.  Vague you say?  No!!  It's impressionistic.  You see what I did there?  The old switcheroo.  Anyway, this episode is about fresh dryer sheets and how they will give you less wrinkles.  What if you want more wrinkles?  When did this whole anti-wrinkle movement start?!  I&...

This one is just a walk down memory lane and all the sides it took to get there.  Nobody wants to be friends anymore.  It's a brutal world out there and people just can't take it but I'm going to attempt to solve all that mish mash and get things going again!!  I've got no experience and an even shorter attention span so let's make the world a better place, or at least a d...

This is a somber one.  Maybe some of you aren't really in the mood to act stupid and make noise.  There's nothing wrong with that.  This one's for you.  Maybe some of you are feeling the opposite. You wanna hoot and holler and bring da ruckus.  Well there's a shit ton of other shows for that type of thing.  Just pick one.  This one isn't that.  I make no apologies. Support...

For this episode, I watched a YouTube video of the Mad Magazine 1974 TV Special.  I'd never even heard of it before.  It's not that funny.  The magazine was never really that funny, was it?  I don't know.  I'm not here to judge old time comedy magazines.  I'm here to judge other things, like hot dog eating contests or contests involving water fowl.  I know so little about...

On this one, I was trying to get someone to come on and talk about Yeezy.  Not Yeezy Jefferson, the wife of laundry mogul George Jefferson.  This is the other one.  He used to be married to some rich woman, but I don't know if it had anything to do with dry cleaning.  That was a while ago and I really don't pay a lot of attention to that sort of thing but that's not what this episod...

On this one we examine the phenomenon known as misinformation.  We do this by being fed a bunch of information that seems "misguided" or perhaps "mistaken".  It's the misses your mrs will miss when the mission is miserable and that's where the mystery begins! I was supposed to have someone come on the show and explain to me who this Kanye West person is but they chick...

Anyone who's studied the least bit of philosophy knows that there's no self.  We are all part of one collective consciousness that grows and flows and lets the good times roll.  The only eye I'm concerned with is my third eye which I am squeegying regularly…if I'm not passing out from exhaustion like I did this week. On this one there's more chit chat talk and such with th...

On this episode, I had a guest on to speak anonymously.  It's an idea I've been playing with for a while now.  I wanted uninhibited honesty, so I just let them go without fear of reprisal or public shaming.   This was also the first podcast I've ever done without my cat.  She was the backbone to this whole operation and I'm lost without her here. That’s what this episode is all...

On this episode I talk to none other than Cadabra from the SMOKE TO SMOKE Podcast.  We talk about this marijuana stuff that everyone is so excited about smoking.  It's educational AND informative which normally I'm all opposed to but not this time!  This time it means something.  What does it mean?  Something.  That's all I know.  I don't know for sure, but I think that's...

On this episode I talk to musician/composer/performer Erin Clare about music and life and and all sorts of other stuff.  But mainly music.  That's what it's all about.  Music.  It's the thing that brings us together as people.  Anyone who's ever been to a Liza Minelli show can tell you that.  And not only do we talk, but we listen and listening is important.  You can't tal...

 On this episode, I finally talk about something interesting!  And believe you me, it was worth the wait because not only do I talk about Columbo but I talk about Columbo with the world's authority on the subject.  You just don't get more knowledgable than this.  It’s all part of my new mission in life: to make people aware of the magic and wonder that IS the television show Columbo! Mor...

On this episode, I talk a lot.  Like, way more than other episodes.  I don't know why.  I guess that's my new format.  I just click the record button and see what happens.  It's anything goes when my mind get's rolling and the words start pouring out of my mouth.  That's what the bucket's for.  The bucket is what I call the fancy recording apparatus I've set up t...

Any more episodes like this and I may have to hire a lawyer!  People are going to start dropping like flies.  Like flies that cannot nourish themselves enough on the psychedelia-plagued episodes such as this one.  And once those fish start dropping, you know it's time to get weird.  Long and the short of it is this episode is weird.  I made it weird for the people out there who are bored.  Yo...

This episode is  a psychedelic head trip for the ages.  These things seem to allude a lot of people, but it doesn't have to be that way.  There's nothing wrong with the abstract.  That's all reality is anyway - chaotic abstract dreams and energy sculpting.  And we're all sculptors in our own right.  That's what exploration is.  Exploring the minds and the tides that bind u...

This episode is the second episode of my latest Murph trilogy.  We just talk and talk and talk. I mixed in a pitch shifter and then I have a pre-fader plate reverb with a channel feed panned hard to the opposite of the clean signal.  And we talk about other stuff.  I can't remember.  I'm under the gun so I have to get this thing done.  I threw in a Saint Low Joy song and some incidental...

Nobody ever knows how far things will go when you get Murph on the show.  But it was time.  It was time to work out the kinks and take back the night - the night in shining armor.  Take them back to where they once belonged.  Sure, it'd make more sense to take them to where they belong now, but who am I to argue?   So Murph and I talk about the show and the direction it's going and the d...

On this episode, not only do I phone it in hosting-wise but I phone it in with the "Episode Description" as you are about to see.  Like I said, this isn't some half-assed phoning it in.  This is disservice with a smile.  The kind of top notch quality you've come to expect from the Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show.   Support the show

Sometimes you have to sit back and let life happen.  Sure, you can fight the current and wear yourself thin.  That's a good thing!  People like to be thin but there's the fighting.  That's always an issue.  So you can't fight the current, but do you just give up and let the current take you, smashing you against the jagged rocks of modern life, or do you grab a surf board and s...

This one is quite the doozy.  I think I just lose all focus and talk endlessly.  At least that's what they've  told me.  I can't bear to listen so there's no way I can be sure.  I make one of those every few years. On this episode, I rush through and get it done.  There was a compressor thing that was happening. It was giving me some trouble but  I think I worked it out.  I wan...

This episode is what you would call an "open and shut case".  Nothing more need be said on the matter.  Here is the podcast I’m on: https://anchor.fm/zoomerthoughts/episodes/ZT23--A-Podcast-about-Nothing-Ft--Shotgun-Mike-Hostettler-e1jgneq Support the show