FOTS 010 @Home_Halfway died (but he is okay now)

Friends of the Show Podcast Episode 010 with Michael @Home_Halfway Michael AKA @Home_Halfway on Twitter is a HUGELY popular account with over 50K followers! So I really appreciate him slumming it with some of us smaller joke twitter accounts. I have got to know him more recently in some DM rooms, one that he very …

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Friends of the Show Podcast Episode 010 with Michael @Home_Halfway

@Home_Halfway

Michael AKA @Home_Halfway on Twitter is a HUGELY popular account with over 50K followers! So I really appreciate him slumming it with some of us smaller joke twitter accounts. I have got to know him more recently in some DM rooms, one that he very graciously invited me into, with several very nice folks.

but I have always known about Home_Halfway account on Twitter, just one of those huge accounts that’s always been popular. turns out that’s Michael – a very nice fellow who loves promoting others within the Twitter community, and that’s just nice.

“I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.” ~ Britney Spears

Michael is from Chicago, Illinois, USA- home of The Bulls Dynasty, Gang violence, a good Improv and Stand up scene, hot dogs, pizza, Oprah.

STORY: “Hey, I Died Once” Michael shares with us the time he had experimental surgery gone wrong, where he died for a few minutes and came back to fall into a coma and pull through!

TWEETS by Michael

Go to a fancy restaurant. Order the lobster. Order it alive. When it comes, order food for your new pet lobster. Then take lobster home.

— Michael, still here (@Home_Halfway) February 9, 2013

*Claps along at an opera*

— Michael, still here (@Home_Halfway) September 25, 2014

WIFE: We really need to think about sticking to our monthly budget
ME: *feeding my pet octopus a bag of emeralds* I agree

— Michael, still here (@Home_Halfway) February 21, 2017

Michael picks his favourite Tweets by Others:

From cool Twitter user Ted Travelstead @trumpetcake

Wear only a towel around your waist and you can get into just about anywhere if you just repeat "so sorry so sorry" and keep moving forward.

— Ted Travelstead (@trumpetcake) August 19, 2014

From Jessica Fox @hellojessicafox

A little about me: I’m a beekeeper. I see a bee, I keep it. I don’t care whose bee it is. Should have been watching it better.

— Jessica Fox (@HelloJessicaFox) April 28, 2016

From Max Dylan Ash @mynameisntdave

ME: honey, it's really muggy out today
WIFE: if I go outside & all our mugs are on the front lawn, I'm leaving u
ME: *sips coffee from bowl*

— Max Dylan Ash (@mynameisntdave) June 15, 2015

Questions from Twitter:

From Friend of the Show @Malt_Skull

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven Tell me the meaning of being lonely?

— cursed hogge (@malt_skull) May 16, 2017

From the aforementioned Jessica Fox @hellojessicafox

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven Frogs or turtles?

— Jessica Fox (@HelloJessicaFox) May 16, 2017

From NOT Neil Degrasse Tyson

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven Do you button from the top or bottom of the shirt and which way is a tell that you are a monstrous psychopath

— Near deGrasse Tyson (@DrNeilTyson) May 16, 2017

From Friend of the Show Timmy @TheTimmyToes

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven 0.5mm or 0.7mm lead?

What's the latest you've ever been to an event (were you actually showed up, instead of just skipping it)?

— Delightful Timmy (@TheTimmyToes) May 16, 2017

From Friend of the Show Todd Williams @TheToddWilliams

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven What's better?

— Todd 'Papi' Carlos (@TheToddWilliams) May 17, 2017

From our favourite question asker- Space Cat @catstronomical

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven Michael was an account I'd followed for a long time and one night he DMed me and 1st asked where the hell i was getting the super old tweets

— Space Cat (@catstronomical) May 17, 2017

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven Of his that I was RT (oldest FavStar, of course) but then he has a genuine conversation with me about our gallbladders and about twitter. My

— Space Cat (@catstronomical) May 17, 2017

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven Question is, does he reach out to strangers like me (a tiny account at the time) often and if so, why? Is this something that's important to

— Space Cat (@catstronomical) May 17, 2017

@FOTSPod @Home_Halfway @SkinnerSteven His experience on twitter? Or was he just bored? has he met a lot of people in this way?

— Space Cat (@catstronomical) May 17, 2017

Thank you Michael for joining me this week!