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Friday, January 12 2007

Episode 27: Auld Land Shark

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, January 10 2007 (9:30 PM - 11:00 PM), at the Zodiac Racquet Club in Southgate MI
    “Schmoe, Scott, Mike, and Mickey discuss the latest headlines and look back at 2006.  With special appearances by Hud, Jacob, Lee, Dino, and a bunch of vocal single women. (FYI: the Roger Clyne Podcast starts at 23:26.)”

    And now a word from our sponsor.  “Southeast Michigan Singles is a group for active, educated singles in the Southeast Michigan area.”  Get to know them better at their website—especially if you’re hot (or don’t have a problem with lots of people speaking at once).
    Having trouble with the phrase “They’re dead to me!”?  Perhaps this definition from Urban Dictionary.com can help: A phrase used to let someone know they’re dead to you.  That should settle it.  Note: you might find it helpful to practice the phrase on your own before using it in conversation (cf: “No time to lose!”).
    Mickey’s Encyclopedia Brown-like detective skills can be attributed to clues found on the St Barth’s Talk discussion boards.
    After we discovered the “Feeling Alright” link, Buffett News has found more You Tube links.
    The Landshark Lager webpage.
    Here’s the link to the Mustard/Muenster debate on the Buffett News boards.
    B Boomers is a bar on Southfield Rd in Allen Park.
    Here’s Buy.com’s page for the Jackson/Strait/Buffett Live at Texas Stadium album.
    Once again you can read more about Roger Clyne here.  Is this the show Mike and Joe saw?
    Schmoe’s favorite Buffett moment of 2006 references to Episode 11.  Scott’s references to Episode 20.  Mike’s references Episode 17.  And Mickey’s references all of them.  The Slate.com article Mickey mentions can be read here.
    That’s Lee singing in the background, at the end.  And that’s Little Drunken Schmoe departing, at the end, too.

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Thursday, January 11 2007

Schmoetails

    As requested, here are the recipes for the drinks appearing in our recent video.  We hope to add more to this list as we come up with them.
    Cheers!

Christmas Tequila
1 fifth Blanco Tequila,
1-2 small boxes Raisins,
3-4 sticks Cinnamon Sticks,
Prepare at least three months before you plan on drinking (i.e. you may use Labor Day as a guide to concoct for Christmastime or Winter Solstice or New Year’s or Guys’ Shopping Night or any other of the appropriate December holidays).  Use your favorite brand of tequila.  Real tequila.  The 100% de Agave stuff.  Blanco.  Silver.  Whatever your brand calls it.
    Open the bottle and pour some out into a clean and worthy receptacle to be retrieved in a few moments.  Drop in the raisins and the cinnamon sticks.  Re-fill the Christmas Tequila bottle with whatever was poured out earlier.  If not all fits, it’s your lucky day!  Shoot it down in your favorite manner to celebrate the moment.  Date the bottle and even number it with the Julian date if you so desire.  Close, put in very back of liquor cabinet, and let it rest at least three months.  Plan party around the three month mark and share with friends.
    Terrific sipping neat, chilled from a shaker, or over ice.  Try rimming your glass of choice with cinnamon and sugar.  Fits into a Cinnamon Girl smartly.  Also goes great in egg nog, especially the farther down the bottle you go.  Try other variations.  What the heck?  It’s the Holidays!
{Credit for this idea goes to Tequila-Shots.com, since this is where I heard it first.}

Schmoe Nog
1½ oz. Christmas Tequila,
4 oz. Egg Nog (from dairy section of supermarket is fine),
½ oz. Hot Damn Cinnamon Schnapps (optional),
Pour egg nog into crystal cup.  Poor tequila into the egg nog and stir.  Enjoy this sweet treat.
Cinnamon Girl
2oz. Christmas Tequila,
1/2 oz. Orange Juice,
1 oz. Rose’s Lime Juice,
1/2 oz. Cointreau,
1 Cinnamon Stick,
Rim glass with cinnamon sugar
Place cinnamon stick in glass
{Credit for this recipe goes to the Cabo Wabo site}

Tuesday, January 2 2007

PSA

    Happy New Year, everybody!  Thanks for subscribing and thanks for making us the #1 Jimmy Buffett podcast in 2006.
    The group met yesterday, and while eating chicken wings and watching U of M lose it was decided our next episode will be recorded January 10.  This took so much out of us we never got around to discusing actual show content, however.  That’s the day after Steve Jobs’s keynote at Macworld too, so be warned that Scott and I might wind up turning it into a big tech podcast. 
    In the meantime, even though the holiday parties might be over here is an important public service announcement, courtesy of Schmoe (and others).

    (Video originally from YouTube [link] and uploaded by starlightjen.)

Thursday, December 21 2006

VIDEO: A Visit from St Nicshmolas

    As promised, Schmoe brought his Christmas tequila over for us to sample.  I got to see a matinee of Spamalot earlier in the day, but arrived well in time to record the taste testing session.  We included it in the feed as a special holiday bonus and also have it here as a Flash Video file.

    If we’ve been good little boys and girls, perhaps Schmoe will share his drink recipes.  And, if we’re lucky, maybe we can hear his clinking bottles in the air as he travels from house to house dispensing holiday cheer.

Tuesday, December 19 2006

Digging Our Scene

    As of yesterday, Digg.com, the popular news-sharing site, has started listing podcasts; and as of today, we’re part of that list.  You can see our page here.  They not only list each episode and give you the ability to view or watch it directly at the site, they also offer the ability to comment on each episode.  If you’re already a Digg member, we encourage you to post your feedback there (or here).  We love to see what you have to say.
    Happy Holidays.  New festive video coming soon (we hope).
    P.S.: I forgot to mention you have to be registered with Digg to see their beta Podcast section, but if you’re the kind of hip with-it netizen whom TIME would honor as Person of the Year this won’t be a problem.  Also you can seek us out at the new Plugg’d directory.

Friday, December 15 2006

Episode 26: Christmas iLand

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, December 13 2006 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM), at the Zodiac Racquet Club in Southgate MI
    “Mickey, Schmoe, and Mike learn the true meaning of Christmas Island, as they present their all-singing all-dancing holiday special. Guests include Debby Boone, Donny and Marie, Charo, and Rosey Grier.”

    I forgot to mention performances by Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton.
    There’s a bit more background noise this week.  Our room was commandeered by a group of women right before we arrived.  Somehow they did not recognize it as our recording studio and just thought it was some non-smoking room.  Scott promised to attend, but family illnesses got in the way.  And I did find my CD of Christmas Island soon after the show.
    And now, onto the show notes:
    Not that it needs any more publicity, but in the interest of completeness this is the Taylor Hicks story to which Schmoe refers (via Buffett News).  Here’s Amazon’s link to Tennessee Christmas, Amy Grant’s own link to A Christmas Album (again: highly recommended), and Mike’s approved Amazon link to his favorite Mitch Miller album.  (By the way, I know Amy Grant is married to Vince Gill.  Gary Chapman was her husband from 1982 to 1999 during which time A Christmas Album was recorded.)  There were nine volumes in the Goodyear series of Christmas music compilations, 1961 through 1969, released through Columbia Records.  My personal favorite is Volume Five, 1965.  My old maxim was the only Christmas CDs you need are Amy’s A Christmas Album and Mannheim Steamroller’s Christmas.  Sadly, I’m so sick of every Mannheim Steamroller CD sounding the same that I can no longer endorse my own words.
    You can learn more about Billy Idol’s Happy Holidays album here; and about the Who’s the Boss? there song here.  Schmoe found a link where the Andrews Sisters sing “Christmas Island”.
    Brian Wilson’s recording of “South American” is off his Imagination CD, released June 16 1998; and we saw Jimmy and him perform it in Cincinnati on July 25 1998.
   The ukulele on “Mele Kalikimaka” was played by Peter Mayer.  The “-buca” drink I was trying to think of was Sambuca.  And the reason I cite Harry Potter podcasts as the worst has nothing at all to do with the books themselves.  It’s just that almost everyone on PotterCast and MuggleCast annoys the crap out of me.
    Much the same reason I don’t listen to ours either.
    And speaking of goodwill to men: Happy Holidays everybody!

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Friday, December 8 2006

Episode 25: Back to My Podcaster Friends

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, December 6 2006 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM), at the Zodiac Racquet Club in Southgate MI
    “Back with another recording, back to doing album reviews. Mike, Schmoe, and Mickey discuss Floridays, with additional (pre-recorded) comments from Hud, Dave Attell, and Leonard Nimoy.”

    We’re back from our Thanksgiving break.
    As you might have guessed, the bit was Hud was recorded the same night before we started the show proper.  Hud did not stick around to be on the panel, but he shared a few words before he left.  The Dave Attell comments are from his Skanks for the Memories CD.  His store is closed but you can order the CD here.
    My memory was slightly fuzzy in recalling “Creola”.  What was cut from the LP was actually the “Forget about mumbo jumbo / Hello to the world of gumbo” couplet.
    The comment about my personal “First Look” refers to a Windjammer trip to the Leeward Islands in 1998.
    I thought there was a “Hoodlum Drink” explanation on some JB FAQ somewhere, but the best I can find is a Hoodlum Drink recipe.
    I’m pleased searches for Run C&W show the CD is still available.  Here’s their story, from one of the band members.
    The last line of the show—“You want the pie?” / “Take it to your boys”—reminds me of a scene from The Godfather.

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