In this episode, Mike TV says farewell to his audience. It is an episode that spans his 20+ year music career, featuring (mostly) never-before-heard stories and songs that range from 2001 to 2024 compositions. As always, it is honest, heartfelt, and significantly embarrassing at various moments throughout the episode. This episode features brand-new recordings of the songs Break Your Heart, Music Makes Me Wanna Die, Escape From Which Mountain, and Stumble On.

In this episode, Mike TV discusses how he went about making Get Set Go's 24th studio album, Dynamite. He also announces the end of Hesitation Cuts and explains why, despite the show very much being a labor of love, he must table the series. This episode features the following original songs, Holes In My Skull, Any Body, (W)retch, Dynamite, The Way We Dance.

In this episode, Mike TV discusses storytelling and how giving the audience a little agency can allow for myriad experiences of the very same piece of art. This, he argues, is something to be embraced and cherished and pursued. Perhaps not with every song or story but, sometimes, leaving room for multiple interpretations invites the audience to consider and hopefully, come away with a more nuanced and less black-and-white perspective about the world around them. Which, sad to say, seems to...

In this episode, Mike TV discusses the prerequisites necessary to endure failure and upset, frustration and setbacks, to the point that a person is dropped to their knees, and yet, somehow, they climb back to their feet, dust themselves off, and begin again. What is it that inspires some people to persevere where others falter? What inspires a person to keep climbing back into the ring after they have receive a sound pummeling? This episode features brand-new recordings of the following...

In this Episode, Mike TV explores poverty, and how it effects all people, no matter their economic status. Told through the lens of Mike's own struggles with money. Being impoverished, or just-barely-better-than, while simultaneously releasing hundreds and hundreds of songs, multiple books, thousands of live-performances, and now two seasons of a podcast, Mike makes the case that work and working hard isn't necessarily the recipe for climbing out of financial hell. But if it's not hard...

In this episode of Hesitation Cuts, Mike TV discusses romantic relationships. Why being a broke-ass musician with dicey career prospects has hindered but not halted his romantic prospects and how he has managed to find himself in several long-term relationships over his 30 years as a professional musician. This episode features brand-new recordings of the songs Complicated Lives, Hanging Fire, Lift Me Up, Somedays, and Where You Go.

In this episode, Mike TV discusses his relationship with the Internet. From the early days of his first .mp3 distribution site, Yrecords, in 1998, to his days streaming on Twitch in 2023. He explains why some services were great for musicians and music and some were significantly less so. This episode features brand new recordings of Mike TV compositions, Disconnected, My Wasted Life, Mean, The Great Indie-Rock Swindle, and Ready for War.

In this episode, Mike TV discusses his teen years in Palm Desert as part of the community that Rolling Stone Magazine dubbed the "Generator Scene". It was the birthplace and birth...uh...time of Desert Rock which is a sub-genre of stoner rock. Mike TV's band didn't subscribe to the sound of the desert, as they were one of the few hook-oriented bands but even so, his band the Spriggans played out in the middle of the desert, along with all the other desert rock bands, surrounded by sand dunes...

In this episode, Mike TV discusses sex. And why he writes so many songs about that feature sex. Why the idea of sex has plagued and titillated, thrilled and beleaguered him from a very young age. And why the songs he writes and records about sex are so often over-the-top honest to the point of discomfort and also filled with his unique brand of self-awareness, humanity, and troubled perspicacity. This episode features brand-new recordings of the songs I Want You, Things I Need to Know,...

In this episode, Mike TV discusses the influence regret has had on his decisions, relationships, and art. How some regrets never fully heal and instead inform the way he sees the world, interacts with friends and loved ones, and ultimately feels about himself. This episode features heavily revised versions of the songs Ghosts and Should Have Done and completely new recordings of Stupid Kid, Leave a Message, and Self-Inflicted Wound.

In this Episode, Mike TV discusses why Hesitation Cuts the podcast exists. He explains how the show was developed, his expectations, and where those expectations were met and where they weren't. He also discusses his goals, his plans for the future, and why the show is called Hesitation Cuts. This episode features brand-new, never-before-heard recordings of the following songs: He Didn't Even Leave a Note, See The Blood Flow, The Damage that I Do, and The Sound.

In this episode, Mike TV of Get Set Go discusses friendship and its close relative, loneliness. How like-minded, similarly inspired friends working in the same creative field can be a huge boon to an artists' creative output while at the same time, there are also many advantages to working without distraction, without third-party input, living as a creative hermit. Told from an intensely intimate and personal perspective, Mike TV explores his own experiences with friendship and also his...

In this episode, Mike TV of Get Set Go tries to explain why he keeps writing, over the 20+ years of his professional music writing career, hateful songs full of hating hateful people that are so easy to hate. By the way, if you keep saying the word hate...hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, it starts to sound like a plant used to spruce up the smell of a musty room. "The clean and natural scent of hate wafted through the room, exorcising the lingering odor of mildew and decay." As...

In this episode, Mike TV of Get Set Go discusses drugs, alcohol, addiction and the role they play in the life of an artist. As a survivor of a drug-induced stroke, he provides not so much a blow by blow account of his descent into drug dependence but rather a look under the hood, providing insight into the daily, existential struggle and all the attendant despair, self-loathing, and persistent mental and emotional trauma that tethers an addict to their self-destructive tendencies.

In this episode, Grammy-Nominated Mike TV of the band Get Set Go digs into the way that an artist's relationship with his audience and his art evolve over the years. Particularly after that artist's popularity has peaked. Why keep going? Why keep fighting the good fight? Is it better to burn out rather than fade away?

In this episode, Mike TV questions his responsibility to others as a musician, an artist, and as a human being. If this world is fraught with conflict, disharmony, polarization, and woe, is it up to each of us to struggle alone? Can permanent change be effected by anyone other than those at the top? And if yes, how? This episode features brand-new recordings of We Used to Be Friends, Modern Age, Bizarro World, and A Prayer to Doctor Who.

In this episode, Mike TV discusses the perpetual conflict between our rational, data-driven selves, our emotional, feeling selves, and all of the impulses, drives, proclivities, likes and dislikes that shape our outlooks and behaviors. This episode features the songs Congress of Impulses, What My Heart Tells My Head, What My Head Tells My Heart, What My Heart Tells My Head (When the Doubt Creeps In) and What My Head Tells My Heart (When It Is Thinking Clearly).

In this episode, Mike TV explores the consequences of pursuing ideas that others find absurd or impossible. Sometimes it leads to amazing things. Other times, not so much. But, always, it leads to adventure. This episode features the songs Unstoppable, Boba Fett, Go to the Mattress, It Gets Hard, and Super-Zero, Super-Hero. This episode was brought to you by Mike TV's patrons on Patreon.com.

In this episode Mike TV discusses his method of taking troubling, vexing, and worrisome situations and transforming them into, if not better situations, then, at least, into song. This episode features the songs My Neighbor's Dog, MCA, Your Boy, Here Be Dragons and Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are On Fire! This episode was brought to you by Mike TV's patrons on Patreon.

In this episode, Mike TV explains why butterflies inspire and terrify him, why he keeps on keeping on, putting out albums in a world where 60,000 new songs are released on Spotify a day and there are millions of songs that go unheard, and why he's having such a wonderful time doing it. This song features the songs Fierce Butterflies, Wait, My Doppelgangers & Me, Ultrasonic, and Kick It. This episode was brought you by Mike TV's patreon patrons.