After Midnight

In this special offshoot of After Midnight, I ask listeners and Netizens to suggest songs related to the topic at hand, then alongside a special co-host review and discover those suggestions.

This time around, two amazing ladies I am fortunate to call friends, Cece and Heather, get off their high trucks and come downtown to help me sift through 18 listener-suggested song about MONEY!

Disappointingly enough, no one ever asks why I chose "After Midnight" as a title for a music podcast, and since y'all insist on not asking, it is because I wanted to make the kinda of podcast that I want to listen to during my working hours which are at night. Therefore it is quite baffling, if only to me, that I never before thought of "work" as an episode topic.

I truly do hope that after more than 2 years my little show found some, among my audience, for whom it has been a companion in the dark while everybody else is chasing Zees. It certainly has been a therapeutic experience for me to have that distraction of producing it when the sun is down, and so with great aplomb do I propose to you THIS time a set of songs about Working!

She is a former long-haul trucker, several times a mother and grandmother, an inspirational survivor, a warm and caring soul that can handle the toughest challenges and the meanest mofos, and someone I am profoundly grateful to be acquainted with. This week After Midnight discover the musical tastes of my admired friend Heather.

The point of such a music podcast is to listen to the way our parents and grand-parents used to listen to music on the car radio while driving. Only makes sense, after 2 years, to finally do an episode all about it!

Start 'em if you got 'em, and put on this fine set of 5 tunes about what we all experience behind the wheel!

Way back when I started this little venture I had no idea I would still be doling it 2 years later; I met amazing people, discovered awesome music and I cannot help feeling that the best is yet to come.

For a while I felt I should let listeners in on the fun and have more of a voice, and let the music I play be their own choice. So over the next few months I will revisit the original batch of topics covered on the show, but this time... With a Little Help!

In this special offshoot of After Midnight, I ask listeners and Netizens to suggest songs related to the topic at hand, then alongside a special co-host review and discover those suggestions.

This time around, Californian J-Bacon, impossibly-nice host of "On the Dance Floor", helps me sift through 14 songs about DRINKS!

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to," said Mark Twain. The writer often showed his characters in embarrassing situations they are entirely responsible for, in a declaration that people can be more foolish than animals in their actions and that they should be aware of their own foolishness.
Doubtful that science took the time to test whether animals do blush when under significant stress, but they do help relieve our own greatly, especially in uncertain times when the collective level of anxiety went high enough to freak out Nigel Tuffnel himself. So let us play a few songs in tribute to the many creatures we share our planet with.

Too often the villain of scary stories, Fire is the light that guides us through the night, the warmth that keeps us alive when the cold threatens to take us, the spark the fuels our brightest dreams and hottest desires. Enjoy this selection songs to keep the flame burning!

Now a Monthly offering rather than weekly, After Midnight is finally back from... Nowhere, really. So why not make that the topic of the... month!

Hey, if the whole world's gonna be on fire, might as well grab Ol' Scratch by the horns and sing about it. With this week's 5 songs, After Midnight is literally going to Hell.

Belinda Carlisle says it's a place on Earth, but hundreds of millions believe it's up there in the clouds. What matters its that artists believe it to be one damn good source of inspiration! After Midnight this weeks ascends 5 songs about Heaven!

Here's to the working parents for whom staycation is the only option, to the secluded whose window to the world is the one in their living room, to the confined whose prolonged isolation threatens to let despair creep in: Let these 5 songs about Travelling take you where your heart desires to.

It's always good to find a source or pure positivity, something you can always count on to give you hope, or just a smile. And some YEARS you need it more than others... After Midnight this week welcomes Joanne of the Turtle Stack with 5 songs meant to lift your spirits!

Some are romantic, some are historic, and some are just...ick. But they all have personality, and they crave to tell you their story. This week's 5 AFTER MIDNIGHT songs are all about famous cities!

There once was a woman called Lizzie
Whose family were thought to be busy
In fact it was funny
They'd rather spend money
So much that it made one quite dizzy
Yeah, anyway, five songs about Royalty, enjoy!

The fact she is Canadian AND a bona fide Ghostbuster are very small factors in what makes her a friend that means the world to me and one of the coolest hosts in the Podcasting world. Join us as Paranormal Investigator Kat Ward lays out 5 of her favorite Canadian songs!

It seems like most of us are either completely out of it or close to losing it. So let's please take 5 -songs- and celebrate with me the wonders... of The Mind.

It took quite a while to get there, but AFTER MIDNIGHT finally introduces 5 songs all about that most obscure and mystical time of our planetary rotation: Nighttime is your topic this week!

Chris Schultz's show, Esoterica the podcast, is discussions and reviews of the unusual, offbeat and obscure throughout pop culture. So when he was challenged to submit a setlist of 5 unusual songs, he did NOT hold back!

Join us as Chris introduces me to little-known bands of yore he became the lighthouse keeper for, and the songs that made him cherish them.

They never lie, they never cheat, they never have baggage tied to their four feet. This week's five AFTER MIDNIGT songs are all about the canine consolers who have helped us all stay sane in a year of complete bonkertude!

Mental Health specialist, sex therapist and self-proclaimed Ambassador of Compassion, the resume of this week's guest sounds a lot too serious for someone so incredibly fun to converse with. She prides herself in her ability to create a safe environment for all her clients, but in the After Midnight style of therapy anything goes.
Sit back and enjoy PhD Candidate Erika Miley's defense of her top-3 songs to get it on, as she presents them to the Podcast Posse of Kat Ward, Scott Mayar and Alex Meerkat.

A playlist isn't great so much for the songs that populate it than for the people who give them so much love. Music can bind us all but the rest is up to us; we can make anything better once we come together. Yes I know that was incredibly cheesy and yet After Midnight presents 5 songs to make us all gather along.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Whether Ford Prefect was right, only time can tell, so you might as well enjoy these 5 songs about great lengths of time.

Easily the best set-list ever played on my show comes courtesy of the intimidatingly cool Pam Ham from Ecuador by way of New York City! Sit back and you WILL relax thanks to her amazing selection of 5 Latin songs for your earholes!

Hi stranger. How are you? I don't know which part of this world you live. But we are all part of this universe. A small dot on an infinite universe. And music matters to you as much as it does to me. Hence, we are the same. And i am glad you found my little corner of the net, as we all need to take a moment and chill together. That starts with looking the beast in the eyes, and dance man, dance. Join me in the Danger zone with this week's 5 songs After Midnight. And if you are having a really bad one then remember , "This too, shall pass."

He's one of those podcasters who need nothing more than his voice and his wits to make a podcast cool and addictive. So of course I hate him, but he DOES have great music tastes, especially when things... 'elevate'. Join Podcast-Posser and British New Yorker Scott Mayar, host of "The Englishman's Guide to Being a Better American" as he talks-up 5 songs to put in your pipe!

Why do birds fly in a V-shape?
because it takes too long to walk in a V-shape.
While I show myself out, please enjoy those 5 songs about Shapes!

Celebrating one more candle to my cake with a live stream... which is no longer live but you can still enjoy the 5 songs that impacted my life more than any!

Apparently there's plenty of fish in the sea. And surprisingly many songs about them too! Here's 5 for this week's topic of Sea Creatures!

Back in January 2019 I recorded a handful of episodes for a a Beta version of my podcast. All were lost in the Great Harddrive Disaster of April 2019, but this one had somehow found its way on the cloud. Until the current iteration of After Midnight comes back from hiatus, please enjoy... this yet-unpublished entry from what it once was.

With a cherished assist
from @KatWhoGhostHunts,
'Cause my voice is amiss
Let's be perfectly blunt,

Please enjoy this here treat
For all of you my listeners,
A few Holiday beats
To make Yuletide much warmer!

No monologue, argument, opinion, discussion, just music!
13 spooky songs for your Halloween Night... Please play them while you give out candy so that kids can go home with cavities AND great taste in music!

Halloweek #3 shines a light on dwellers of the midnight hours with 5 songs about Creatures of the Night!

A mind without music is like a bird without wings, it just can't fly. All the more reason to listen to this week's 5 AFTER MIDNIGHT songs all about the feathered ones!

Braiiiiiiiiiiins. Brains brains, brains brains brains, brains... BRAINS!!!!

Halloweek #1 scares up 5 songs about FEAR while a spooky threesome of podcasters drops by!

Put on your birthday suit and check this week's 5 AFTER MIDNIGHT songs concerning clothing!

Even if yours truly isn't your definition of Dreamy, this week's 5 AFTER MIDNIGHT songs will bring the Sandman straight to you!

They came, they saw, we'll read books about 'em for evah! These 5 AFTER MIDNIGHT songs are all about Historical Figures!

When it goes, when it blows, it will steal all your woes.
This week's songs about the Wind are much better than my prose!

This week's five songs contain no gluten, cholesterol, trans fat or added sugar. The episode may contain traces of nuts, two from Canada and one from New York.

If it sinks, it's not a witch. if it floats, it's probably a boat. Let these 5 songs about sea ships put the wind in your sails.

A house divided still needs furniture. Check out our 3 associates' catalog of 6 songs, assembly time less than an hour!

Don't ask why, this week features 6 songs about Questions, 2 trivial dudes and one cool Kat!