The Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show

Wave to the Crowd

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I'm keeping it real low key.  Like a Saturday Morning Children's show.  Too much talk these days.  Silence is golden and...

The Annual Bells & Whistle Show

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode we wear a mask so people don't recognize me.  It's a Lone Ranger mask but I don't ever talk about it..  Instead I get...

Sleep Walking on the Treadmill of Life

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one is one of those lightning in the bottle episode.  Even though I had no guest.  Even though I had one not that great microphone.  Even thou...

Famous People's Birthdays

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode we delve into the past, but not your past so who knows?  You might learn something...for once!!!  Support the show

Into The Future

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode achieved the one goal I wanted to achieve and that was lasting longer than 30 minutes.  I think that means they put ads in it.  So it&a...

The Sarong Remains The Sarame

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I do a show about a guy who comes back from having not done an episode for a few days and he just stumbles through in a desperate att...

Open Up My Chromosomes

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I wasn't even going to do an episode.  I was going to record the street sounds outside this hotel in downtown Cleveland, OH and use them in an e...

Tribulatio Leads to Suffering

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one is coming at you from Cleveland, or at least it was when it was recorded.  It was recorded after a long long night of watching the Home Shop...

More Than Enough Confusion

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one was a rush job.  Not in a bad way.  In a good way.  A good rush.  Like when people say "what a rush dude".  I don't know ...

Optometry Domine

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm in the land of the lost again and it's even more lost than before.  It's a heavy load and I'm hoping this hotel room ceiling ...

Hard Times

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one is about books.  No I'm just kidding.  I don't even know what books are.  I think they're what came before television.  Re...

Massive Consolation

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I recorded in a sleazy opium den-like hotel room.  It's actually a pretty nice room but these opium users WON'T LEAVE!!  ...

Memorial Day Lewis

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this day we remember things.  It's call Memorandum Day.  I remember it well from my sea-faring days out on the ocean blue.  Remember that b...

The Most Rebellious Thing

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I recently watched the first season of "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and it was just great!!  But then when I went to get the sec...

Flashback Booth

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one is being posted a little later than I wanted to.  I couldn't help it.  I had to go to Florida...again!!  It's like that time a f...

Something to Be

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one is like the last one.  I just did it.  I think I could do this live...like Plastikman.  That'd be something wouldn't it?  I cou...

Thank You For Sharing

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well...I mean, what can I say.  It's not that I don't want to be getting weird all the time.  It's just sometimes you have to work at...

Glen Tickle: The Tickle Factor

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I talk all about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with none other than comedian extraordinaire Glen Tickle!!  We talk all about all sorts ...

Heat Was Hot

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of the latest season where I don't do half the work I used to have to do in order to please the masses.  They're...

The First Episode of the NEW Beginning That I Was Going To Call Genesis But Didn't Want to Get Religious People Excited.

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

So this is it!!  My new format where I'm doing no more sounds and/or musical experimentation.  That's all in the music world now.  This i...

The 666th Episode!!!

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We finally made it!!!  The six hundred and sixty sixth episode.  This was the goal.  I can die relatively happy now.  On this episode, we dive int...

Talking About Singing With Mark Wilkinson Part 2

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this one, as the title clearly demonstrates, I conclude my conversation with Mark Wilkinson.  It was so informative that I still think back to it ...

Talking About Singing With Mark Wilkinson Part 1

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to none other than Mark Wilkinson who tells us about how much goes into the way the human voice works, how to keep it safe and ...

Life of Leisure

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I think I've perfected my system.  It's all about less randomness.  Planning things, thinking about things.  It all come...

My Guarantees Mean Nothing

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode has nothing notable to summarize or describe.  If that doesn't inspire you to listen to it right now, I don't know what to tel...

God

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 origina...

The 90 Minute Cassette Tape/Mini-Cassette Recorder Experiment Episode

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

MANBABY!!!

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 indust...

Millions and Billions

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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&ap...

The Guest Is Yet To Come

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 r...

Purple Ukraine

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Juneteen Eighty Four

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 happen...

The Tomorrow People

17 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Beach Party Extravaganza!!!

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 de...

Things That Go On Too Long

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Surfin' UAP

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Stabbed Myself With a Goose

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Smells Like Cheetah

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

The Return of Great Adventure

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

There is No Sunny Carnival

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Cat Bird Seat Back

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

The John Cage Match Game Trilogy (Part Three)

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The John Cage Match Game Trilogy (Part Two)

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ty...

The John Cage Match Game Trilogy (Part One)

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 indire...

Daytime Television

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 mi...

Names and Places

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a FUN show.  I think someone's banging on the walls downstairs in this apartment building.  That's rare here.  Hmm... I migh...

Some People Will Do Anything For Money

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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". ...

Blast These Pearls

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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&a...

Cryptozoology

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Diagnosis

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode goes deep into the heart of the matter.  It goes deep into the heart of the Mathers as in Jerry Mathers.  As in Jerry Mathers  AKA the...

Play With Your Spices

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I play more from that plethora of cassette tapes I found in old shoe boxes in my mom's basement.  Sometimes I imported the soun...

Rapunzel's Nightmare

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one is full steam ahead and never lets go.  You can't let go.  You've gotta hold on, but hold on loosely!  But don't let go.  ...

Crime Keeps on Chicken

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode delves into the darkness within.  It's not pretty.  Imagine yourself in a scuba suit but you're supposed to be wearing a busi...

Fear and Loafing

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many years ago I purchased a vintage "tape recorder" at a second hand store.  In it was an old cassette tape that someone had forgotten to ...

Handful of Gestures

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one features a number of things I pieced together using old 4 track cassette tapes and various synthetic plug ins.  It also features a little ki...

Brie Larson

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I've cut out all the latin.  It's just getting so outdated.  Some things get better with age.  Wine.  Cheese.  Painting...

Rocket to Stardom

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of my new season, probably the last one.  The last season.  Maybe.  You never know.  Maybe some day but 10 is enough for...

Political Psych-Out with Abby

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to Abby about Political Psychology.  It's all on her YouTube channel Political Psych with Abby.  Where is it all going? ...

Greg Luce Part Deuce

11 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second conversation I have with Greg Luce.  It's enough to get a FIRST conversation, but we're over here on our second one!  W...

Greg Luce

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to film expert Greg Luce of Sinister Cinema.  Greg knows EVERYTHING when it comes to cinema through the ages and it's rea...

You're Getting Sleepy...

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to a man named Bo.  We talk about hypnotism and how it works, what it's like and where does one start in such a field.  ...

The Dead Poets Sisterhood of Traveling Bonfire Vanities

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode we take our shoes off and relax.  We relax and just kind of hang out.  It's almost boring in how casual it is, but that's ...

An Interview With ChatGPT

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to none other than ChatGPT!!  It’s the most trendy interview I could do.  And it’s a good one.  I ask all the tough ques...

M.F. Christian P.K.

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to Christian P.K. Reeve.  We just talk about acting and health care and other such things.  It's all quite relaxed and l...

Co-Sign Similarities

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of the 9th season!!  Everyone knows the 9th season is the one where the magic really starts to happen.  Anyone who's ...

The Legend of the Cursed Coloring Book Episode!

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to Evan Wade about his Cursed Coloring Book!!  You have to spend the entire night coloring or else the curse won't be lif...

Prim Looking Stargazer

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I don't have a guest.  I was going to try and get someone to come on and talk about that TV show 'Servant'.  It&apos...

Today's Active Lifestyle with Johnny Nava

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to Johnny Nava about how pessimistic I am and all the negativity that is dragging me down!!  He helps me see the error in my w...

Life Is But a Stage Coach

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode we have the second installation of my casual conversation with Daniel Gray.  We talk about artificial intelligence and organic intell...

It’s Daniel Gray Time!

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I talk to Daniel Gray.  We just hang out and talk casually about life.  I'm trying to figure out what's going on in this ...

Talking With Sean About This And/Or That

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I talk to Sean from the podcast "Terrible Tirades".  His title is remarkably similar to my failed podcast "Horrible Ha...

More Jail Talk!!

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This one continues on where the last one left off with Brice Mazzy and our intense conversation about jail and life and psilocybin and things like tha...

What Jail Is Like

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, I talk to a Brice Mazzy teaches in jails.  I was in jail once.  Very briefly.  I was mistaken for an evil villain who looked ident...

Mental Shifting With Parallax

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode I speak with none other than Osazee Osayande (aka Parallax) from Nigeria about his podcast, THE MENTAL SHIFT WITH OSAZEE OSAYANDE.  W...

The Brand New Year's Eve Musical Bonanza Episode Part Zero Point Zero

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Christmas Never Ends

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here it is!  The holiday special that we've all been waiting for.  Where were we waiting?  Under the tree.  That's where holiday special...

Chitting and Chatting with Larry Olson

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 othe...

Lofty Ambitions with Brian

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Hipster Pug Episode

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Big Guest Episode!!

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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!!  I...

People Have Been Driven Crazy

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Completely Well

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Psychedelic Sounds of the Shotgun Mike Hostettler Show

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Gather Ye's Rosebuds While Ye May

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Pretty Instant Mirror Trick

23 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On this one we examine the phenomenon known as misinformation.  We do this by being fed a bunch of information that seems "misguided" or pe...

Waistcoats Make an Odd Door Prize

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

Elements of Radio

08 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 honest...

The Marijuana Episode

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ab...

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Erin Clare

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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&apo...

The Columbo Episode!!

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 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 bu...

The Juggernaut It Became

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

What Shall Be The End of These Things

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 themsel...

Tall Buildings Mean Growth

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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.  Ther...

Episode 593

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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-fade...

Bow Tie Daddy

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 nigh...

The Phoning It In Episode

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

The Golden Age of Missed Opportunity

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 lik...

I Could Use A Good Hammock Right Now

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 be...

Seventy Five Point Dogs Long

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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: http...

Superman Looks Like a Human

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...