Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael C Keith

Michael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag's Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, Euphony, The Loneliness Channel, and Pings.” He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times, a PEN/O'Henry Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award, an IPPY Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the “Fiction Visionary” category. In our interview, we talked about how Michael came to be on the road with his father from the age of 8, the places he saw, the kindnesses he remembers, how he got from no school on the road to a Ph.D. and much more! 00:00 START 05:59 Drink 1: On the Road Again 08:45 Reading 1: On the Road 20:15 From years without school to a Ph.D. 24:05 Growing up Nomad: How much of the country did you see? 29:34 Drink 2: Tick of the Clock 34:10 Reading 2: Insomnia 36:34 All about insomnia, causes and cures  44:01 Tales of Larry King  44:48 Drink 3: Love and Fear 48:49 Reading 3: 11:11 51:28 Seeing the same number over and over again 54:33 Pings and the reasons for shorter fiction   Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Michael C. Keith https://michaelckeith.com www.lauravosika.com www.gabrielshornpress.com www.booksandbrews.net  ~ ~ If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do. A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode. Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika  Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products: https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come) Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us booksandbrewslive@gmail.com COMING NEXT MONTH:  JP Reedman, historical novelist UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: MUSIC; FAITH. Laura will be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 26 and 27  See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk See Laura's interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

American media historian Michael C Keith joined HODGEPOD to talk about radio has changed in the last 40 years. Michael C Keith worked in radio and has authored two dozen books on media. Keith was a professor of mine in college and was most recently served as faculty member of the Boston College Communications Department. Topics covered * How radio has changed the last 40 years. * The transformation of local to corporate radio. * How the climate has changed in radio * Some neat stories of some of the most influential radio personalities like Larry King and morer   Recorded on 12/12/2022  Please give a follow and listen.  Email- hodgepodallin@yahoo.com

American media historian Michael C Keith joined HODGEPOD to talk about radio has changed in the last 40 years. Michael C Keith worked in radio and has authored two dozen books on media. Keith was a professor of mine in college and was most recently served as faculty member of the Boston College Communications Department. Topics covered * How radio has changed the last 40 years. * The transformation of local to corporate radio. * How the climate has changed in radio * Some neat stories of some of the most influential radio personalities like Larry King and morer   Recorded on 12/12/2022  Please give a follow and listen.  Email- hodgepodallin@yahoo.com

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 80 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy withCo Host: Jason Faust Founder of Heartland Paranormal/ searching for explanations of the supernaturalGuest #1: Alycia Cooper stand-up comedienne, and actress and producer, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Cries of the Unborn (2017) and Trade (2020).Guest #2: Sheena Metal is an artist, humanist and spiritualist. She has been a talk radio host, at LA Talk Radio for over eight years, helming the daily “Sheena Metal Experience (which Talkers Magazine named one of their prestigious “Frontier Fifty”), and the weekly shows: “Haunted Playground”, “Music Highway” and the brand-new, “Raising The Vibration” (which replaced the controversial, “Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics”, she had hosted, since 2011). She has been behind the microphone, in Los Angeles, for over 22 years, seven of which were spent on the Howard Stern affiliate, KLSX (97.1: The FM Talk Station), where she was the subject of a comprehensive feature in the “Los Angeles Times: Sunday Calendar” and featured in Michael C. Keith's book "Sounds in the Dark", currently in publication with a forward by radio icon, Larry King.Metal is a recurring host/emcee at the legendary Hollywood Improv “Comedy Carnivale”) and broadcasts her daily LA Talk Radio show from there, quarterly. For nearly a decade, she hosted weekly shows at the world-famous “Laugh Factory” (“Inside the Girls Locker Roon” / “Sheena Metal’s Midnight Madness”), and has performed comedy at the Friars Club, on college campuses and at infamous Comedy Store. She has worked as a panel moderator/on-site interviewer for the “Mid South Paranormal” convention in Louisville, Sedona’s “World Wisdom Days”, in Los Angeles at both the “Action on Film Festival” and “Revive Your Spirit” and at Gay Pride Festivals, around the country.Metal sits on the Board of Directors for Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles, the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, the 3…2..1. Artist Collective, the Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation, SIA Organization and works with the Harvey Milk Foundation. Each year, she directs a celebrity charity production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” with dozens of actresses, all of whom have been guests on her radio shows. Metal is a series regular on the popular “Child of the 70’s” web series, has been featured on “National Enquirer TV”, is an announcer for the Indie Series Awards and recently produced the West Coast Premiere of the parody musical, “A Bad Dream on Elm Avenue”.She is a regular radio/acting coach for: Actors with Autism, Performing Arts Studio West, Meet The Biz and for Lifeworks’ “Models of Pride” (at both USC and LA’s LGBT Center). She can be seen in Film Lab’s “Amnesia” and “Brad's Untitled Restaurant Project”, the Outfest premiered, “Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas”, the short film “Point Mugu” (starring Skeet Ulrich) and recently on stage, at the Stella Adler theatre, in “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove”. Metal has a signature candle line, from CBT Candle, called “Experience” and a new candy line, from The Candy Factory, “Sheena’s Supernatural Sweets”. In the Fall of 2016, she founded a global peace movement called, “I Am Raising the Vibration of the Nation (and the World)”, online at: iamraisingthevibration.com.For more information, contact Sheena Metal at: sheenametalexperience.com and on social media: @SheenaMetal.Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show.The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE...

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 80 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy withCo Host: Jason Faust Founder of Heartland Paranormal/ searching for explanations of the supernaturalGuest #1: Alycia Cooper stand-up comedienne, and actress and producer, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Cries of the Unborn (2017) and Trade (2020).Guest #2: Sheena Metal is an artist, humanist and spiritualist. She has been a talk radio host, at LA Talk Radio for over eight years, helming the daily “Sheena Metal Experience (which Talkers Magazine named one of their prestigious “Frontier Fifty”), and the weekly shows: “Haunted Playground”, “Music Highway” and the brand-new, “Raising The Vibration” (which replaced the controversial, “Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics”, she had hosted, since 2011). She has been behind the microphone, in Los Angeles, for over 22 years, seven of which were spent on the Howard Stern affiliate, KLSX (97.1: The FM Talk Station), where she was the subject of a comprehensive feature in the “Los Angeles Times: Sunday Calendar” and featured in Michael C. Keith's book "Sounds in the Dark", currently in publication with a forward by radio icon, Larry King.Metal is a recurring host/emcee at the legendary Hollywood Improv “Comedy Carnivale”) and broadcasts her daily LA Talk Radio show from there, quarterly. For nearly a decade, she hosted weekly shows at the world-famous “Laugh Factory” (“Inside the Girls Locker Roon” / “Sheena Metal’s Midnight Madness”), and has performed comedy at the Friars Club, on college campuses and at infamous Comedy Store. She has worked as a panel moderator/on-site interviewer for the “Mid South Paranormal” convention in Louisville, Sedona’s “World Wisdom Days”, in Los Angeles at both the “Action on Film Festival” and “Revive Your Spirit” and at Gay Pride Festivals, around the country.Metal sits on the Board of Directors for Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles, the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, the 3…2..1. Artist Collective, the Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation, SIA Organization and works with the Harvey Milk Foundation. Each year, she directs a celebrity charity production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” with dozens of actresses, all of whom have been guests on her radio shows. Metal is a series regular on the popular “Child of the 70’s” web series, has been featured on “National Enquirer TV”, is an announcer for the Indie Series Awards and recently produced the West Coast Premiere of the parody musical, “A Bad Dream on Elm Avenue”.She is a regular radio/acting coach for: Actors with Autism, Performing Arts Studio West, Meet The Biz and for Lifeworks’ “Models of Pride” (at both USC and LA’s LGBT Center). She can be seen in Film Lab’s “Amnesia” and “Brad's Untitled Restaurant Project”, the Outfest premiered, “Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas”, the short film “Point Mugu” (starring Skeet Ulrich) and recently on stage, at the Stella Adler theatre, in “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove”. Metal has a signature candle line, from CBT Candle, called “Experience” and a new candy line, from The Candy Factory, “Sheena’s Supernatural Sweets”. In the Fall of 2016, she founded a global peace movement called, “I Am Raising the Vibration of the Nation (and the World)”, online at: iamraisingthevibration.com.For more information, contact Sheena Metal at: sheenametalexperience.com and on social media: @SheenaMetal.Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show.The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE...

The Richard Spasoff Show Ep 80 is a unique blend of paranormal, spirituality and comedy withCo Host: Jason Faust Founder of Heartland Paranormal/ searching for explanations of the supernaturalGuest #1: Alycia Cooper stand-up comedienne, and actress and producer, known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Cries of the Unborn (2017) and Trade (2020).Guest #2: Sheena Metal is an artist, humanist and spiritualist. She has been a talk radio host, at LA Talk Radio for over eight years, helming the daily “Sheena Metal Experience (which Talkers Magazine named one of their prestigious “Frontier Fifty”), and the weekly shows: “Haunted Playground”, “Music Highway” and the brand-new, “Raising The Vibration” (which replaced the controversial, “Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics”, she had hosted, since 2011). She has been behind the microphone, in Los Angeles, for over 22 years, seven of which were spent on the Howard Stern affiliate, KLSX (97.1: The FM Talk Station), where she was the subject of a comprehensive feature in the “Los Angeles Times: Sunday Calendar” and featured in Michael C. Keith's book "Sounds in the Dark", currently in publication with a forward by radio icon, Larry King.Metal is a recurring host/emcee at the legendary Hollywood Improv “Comedy Carnivale”) and broadcasts her daily LA Talk Radio show from there, quarterly. For nearly a decade, she hosted weekly shows at the world-famous “Laugh Factory” (“Inside the Girls Locker Roon” / “Sheena Metal’s Midnight Madness”), and has performed comedy at the Friars Club, on college campuses and at infamous Comedy Store. She has worked as a panel moderator/on-site interviewer for the “Mid South Paranormal” convention in Louisville, Sedona’s “World Wisdom Days”, in Los Angeles at both the “Action on Film Festival” and “Revive Your Spirit” and at Gay Pride Festivals, around the country.Metal sits on the Board of Directors for Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles, the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, the 3…2..1. Artist Collective, the Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation, SIA Organization and works with the Harvey Milk Foundation. Each year, she directs a celebrity charity production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” with dozens of actresses, all of whom have been guests on her radio shows. Metal is a series regular on the popular “Child of the 70’s” web series, has been featured on “National Enquirer TV”, is an announcer for the Indie Series Awards and recently produced the West Coast Premiere of the parody musical, “A Bad Dream on Elm Avenue”.She is a regular radio/acting coach for: Actors with Autism, Performing Arts Studio West, Meet The Biz and for Lifeworks’ “Models of Pride” (at both USC and LA’s LGBT Center). She can be seen in Film Lab’s “Amnesia” and “Brad's Untitled Restaurant Project”, the Outfest premiered, “Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas”, the short film “Point Mugu” (starring Skeet Ulrich) and recently on stage, at the Stella Adler theatre, in “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove”. Metal has a signature candle line, from CBT Candle, called “Experience” and a new candy line, from The Candy Factory, “Sheena’s Supernatural Sweets”. In the Fall of 2016, she founded a global peace movement called, “I Am Raising the Vibration of the Nation (and the World)”, online at: iamraisingthevibration.com.For more information, contact Sheena Metal at: sheenametalexperience.com and on social media: @SheenaMetal.Join Psychic Medium and Comedian Richard Spasoff as he welcomes guests to discuss their personal experiences with the paranormal and journeys in spirituality. Everything from ghosts and profound truth, to celebrity interviews and more can all be found in every episode of the Richard Spasoff Show.The Richard Spasoff Show is a proud member of the HC Universal Network family of podcasts. Download the FREE HC Universal Network app for Android and iDevices or visit our LISTEN LIVE...

We are joined by Sheena Metal of the Sheena Metal Experience.  www.latalkradio.com/Sheena.phpSheena is also the Executive Producer of Montgomery House – The Perfect Haunting, www.montgomeryhousehaunting.com .Sheena Metal is a Los Angeles entertainment icon.  She has anchored numerous radio shows for over ten years in Los Angeles–six of which were spent on top-rated talk station KLSX (97.1 the FM Talk Station) where she helmed five successful shows (The Sheena Show, Late Night Booty Call, Sheena and The Princess, Sheena and Sam). Her untouchable wit, unforgettable voice and unflinching fan base have proven Sheena to be an undeniable radio presence that was the subject of a comprehensive five-page feature in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar section, as well as being featured in: LA Weekly, the Daily News, Music Connection, and dozens of other periodicals. In addition, Metal was interviewed and quoted in Michael C. Keith’s Sounds in the Dark, currently in publication with a forward by Larry King.  Currently she hosts Music Highway, an internationally syndicated music/talk hybrid heard on over 2,400 affiliates to nearly 130 million listeners worldwide.We were also joined by our Crypto Pal John Magnus Champlin.Download 01-31-10