Notes from the Heartland with Josh Boose: Recent Episodes
Josh Boose
This weekly podcast is a combination of thoughts and anecdotes while living in midwestern America. These short snippets may make you laugh. They may piss you off. Hopefully it will make you think or at least look at life differently; think Andy Rooney meets David Sedaris by way of journalist Craig Wilson. Josh Boose is an Emmy award winning broadcast journalist living in suburban Cleveland, Ohio. He has worked at television stations in Arkansas, Indiana, New York and Ohio.
Josh looks back at Christmas in Ohio, 1986; his Red Rider BB Gun moment as he pays tribute to an ideal for weirdos everywhere.
Josh explores his view of Pride month and who he thinks deserves more credit than they receive.
How a hospital visit helped Josh remember his early days in a school cafeteria; teacher salads, stinky urinals and all.
Josh thought he would save the day with a trip to the store for his mother-in-law. It turned into a night of hell in "Ladies Intimates".
Josh begins Season 2 of Notes From The Heartland with a look at how the Oscars shaped his good and bad sides.
Josh explores the best Christmas films and channels an SNL great with a Christmas Eve monologue.
They should charge admission when getting in line at the post office. It's entertainment better than any show on Netflix.
Broken hips and Jello? Josh admits he's not there yet, but a simple review puts life in perspective as he celebrates another year around the sun!
Christmas has Santa. Easter has a cuddly bunny. Halloween results in nightmares and sugar hangovers. Josh explores his relationship with Halloween stemming from a haunted hayride and plastic costumes from the 1980's he can still smell.
Cream and sugar were never looked at the same way again after Josh's encounter with a small -town lady during a "communion tour" in the mid- 1980's.
Finding ways to get out of gym class in his youth made for interesting avoidances in the band room. Years later, Josh shells out big bucks for gym memberships and still avoids it at all costs.
Not everyone is made for rising early on the weekends and rushing to peewee football games, but a good uncle tries. This week, Josh laments about the trials and tribulations of not just being an uncle, but realizes being the perfect "guncle" isn't in the cards for him.
A look back at the life of an extraordinary midwestern woman. Josh shares his tribute from church.
Josh looks back on his first date with another man. Hear how the disaster ends with dreams of the K-Mart snack counter.
Many new television shows are not new at all, just new episodes of former hits. Josh wants producer at least write up-to-date storylines.
Josh explores the origin of his distain for football and how Friday nights are his favorite night to eat out.
Josh looks back at one of the best parts of the 1980's, which is now practically extinct.
There was more than just a rock concert when Elton John visited Cleveland. Josh talks about the other show that night; the audience.