The Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show

This episode is either about Memorial Day or Labor Day.  I can never remember which is which.  One is about not working because to think about dead people and the other you just get the day off and you don't have to think about anyone but yourself, clearly making it the better of the two. Support the show

This episode is special to me because it's the last one I did with a shred of hope in my system.  A lot of you cynical smart guys out there are probably saying to yourself in a very snide tone "oh you're JUST realizing that NOW ?!?!"  Well obviously no.  I've been preaching that gospel since the old days.  I'm just saying it never hurts to put on a new pair of pants a...

Rest and relaxation is the theme on this mellower than hellower episode.  No more screaming matches or wild house parties here.   Just a calm relaxing sip of quality sound exploration. It just takes one listen and you’re hooked.  Like a sweet little innocent fish with a hook puncturing his tiny little lips, writhing as you gasp for breath but you can’t break free.  Because you’re hooked!  This sho...

On this episode my repetitive stress disorder kicks in high gear and we just start smashing up the place, metaphorically speaking.  This one stands out as one of the sound oriented ones.  It's 20th century music, made in the 21st century by a man who used to work at Century 21 and it's all here under the big top of life that is the Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show.  This is just another hodg...

I still can't stop thinking about the end of the world and how liberating the whole thing is.  The other day I was told I had only a few more months left on my air filter and I was like 'fuck it.  keep it.  what's the point?' and then I used that money to buy crack and called in sick to work for three days.  I mean, who cares right?  What a time to be alive! No no no.  I'm...

This one is one of the very special ones.  That's three ones.  And we all know what that means.  It means nothing.  I'm literally just typing nothing and it's there, for the world to read and judge.  On this one I don't go out of my way to get freaky.  It just happens totally naturally.   It's the sound of confusion and it's coming to get you.  Not in a weird stalker...

On this episode I get really serious about how the world is going to end in 15 years and there's nothing anybody can do about it.  That's what I talk about.  My guest, Brian Charlevoix talks about how we should not give up hope.  That's just the craziest thing I've ever heard but who knows?!  Either way it's a lot of fun and hopefully two people talking about the world and...

On this episode I get deep in the muck with Murph.  It's a Murph worth of muck and we don't give a fuck. Let me level with you:  This one is just a simple breakaway from the routine in that it is just like the last one.  But that's okay.  At least I think it is.  I'm not sure what I'm even talking about.  Sometimes when the rain comes down and the smell of failure fills th...

On this episode I lay back in the cut and get fresh.  I also chit chat with Tim from merry ol' England and we just laugh and laugh.  It's hard to hear all the laughing what with the serious conversation we're throwing at each other but it's there.  You have to look for it.  Hunt it like a whale.  A big white whale that you love.  You want to make that whale your partner and nev...

I'm just trying to get more episodes at this point.  No holds barred.   Plus, they're a chance for me to stretch out.  I think the best part of being an underground podcaster is I can stretch out and just see what happens. That and I can make as many dead baby jokes as I want.  Those are probably the two best things about being an underground podcaster. Support the show

On this one I talk to Murph.  It's the end of our long conversation that was never meant to be recorded but I'm so gosh darn desperate for material to play on the podcast.  It's maddening!!!  But we talk about Covid and how everyone hates each other.  It's a lot of fun that you're invited to listen to at this very moment.  Sure you might have things to do right now so you...

This is part two in my multiple part thing where I do whatever it takes to keep the listener occupied and sometimes that includes talking to Tim Turner from The Post Human Podcast and Murph from the present human being.  Oh boy is it a hootenanny!!!  If you aren't listening to it, if you aren't listening to it INTENSELY right now, well...what's the point?  You're clearly just f...

This episode is truly a magnanimous extravaganza that no one could have predicted.  Had they been given all the time and resources known to man they still would be miles off the mark when it came time to predict how great this episode is.  "Why?" you may ask.  Well here's why: On this episode not only do I talk to my old friend Tim (of The Post Human Podcast ) about a bunch of stuff...

On this one I talk to my good friend Tim from the Post-Human Podcast about why I think Meritocracy has gone off the rails!!  But you've probably heard that before.  I say it a lot these days.  It's just this thing I'm going through.  I'm really not thrilled with a lot of what's going on in the world today.  But that's on the show.  There's no point in talking abo...

The stage was set but the tide had turned and there was nowhere to go but up.  On this episode I talk about all the things I had planned to do on this episode or at least wanted to plan to do on this episode, and most of that stuff was just planning and wanting to plan stuff for this episode so it was a whole meta thing that got way out of hand  but that's what I'm doing now.  It’s my ne...

On this episode, I go off on a half cocked philosophical rant that would scare a mormon.  But that's not all!!  I'd tell you in what way that isn't "all" but quite frankly I just don't have time for this sort of nonsense.  I've got a bowling championship to go win!!! Support the show

This episode features music of all sorts and crazy sounds.  Psychedelic sounds that would make a grown man cry.  (We do ask all grown men to refrain from listening to this episode.  We will have a non-cry inducing for grown men episode out as soon as it is possible...which is NEVER!!!)  But anyway, this one is one of the best ones.  I just wanted to make that clear.   We thought shows like this we...

Someday, way far away in the future, after our bodies become a big jumble of bionic replacement parts and 178º is a cool day, people will think about their mailbox, or their Inbox and think…why box?  They'll have no way of knowing there was once a time when people used processed wood and ink to communicate and those communications, which consisted of letters arranged into words, were sent in...

On this episode I talk to the one and only J. Robert Parker about hypnotizing the audience into blindly devoting all of their time to repeated listenings of The Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show.  But of course I’m just kidding.  When the episodes are this good they hypnotize the audience into submission themselves!! Plus I ask the question we’ve ALL been wondering: how do you hypnotize some to think t...

On this one I take no prisoners.  Not a single one.  Well…okay.  I took one prisoner but I mean come on!!  I’m only human.  I was born to make mistakes. Once again I open up the phone lines to the public and let the mayhem begin.   It’s an orgasm of unbridled anticipation waiting to happen. Let your ears feel some pleasure for once!  Nobody is doing a podcast like this. They just don’t have the ba...

The truth hurts.  That's why it's such a good thing that I'm in constant pain. Support the show

This is a great episode where I open up a forum for discussion and nobody takes part in it.  I also have multiple guests cancel and I was going to get a hypnotist on but he was way too complicated to book.  I had to go to this online scheduling service he was using and choose a time, but for some reason the app wouldn't work for me.  I tried multiple times, but it kept saying "this time...

On this episode I feed my cats and I play some music and nothing else. It may be my best episode I’ve ever done. Support the show

I did this one live in the middle of a busy street.  But of course I'm joking.  It was recorded in the middle of a mean street!  And there's no room for error here folks.  As the dusk of a new day approaches, don't put on your tap shoes yet.  There's no telling what the future holds and it's holding on tight.  But enough about me.  Let's listen to this latest episode...

So the fact of the matter is… Fuck.  I had this great thought.  I lost it.  Too drunk.  So typical.   My keyboard stand (which I stupidly left at the gig) is being held for ransom by the guy from one of the other bands, what I'm beginning to think is a troubled musician type, possible drug problem as he asked if I'd loan him $20 when I come to get it...cuz he has no car and he lives 40 m...