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Thursday, April 1 2010

Episode 125: The Regional Pope of Southeast Michigan

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 31 2010 (10:30 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “A look at the Encores track list, rumors of Jimmy playing the Super Bowl, and lots less on the next Wastin’ Away on the North Coast.  Stay tuned.  (Special guest: Jennifer.)”

    01:33 - Buffett on the shortlist for Super Bowl halftime: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    01:45 - as discussed in Episode 120
    03:53 - Buffett Info.com’s Facebook group page for Buffett at the Super Bowl
    04:33 - I had a good time making fun of the spelling of “preform” in the title, but had to take it all back when the group name got changed
    04:49 - Encores track list: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    05:03 - Walmart.com’s Encores pre-order page
    05:38 - Buffett News’s Setlist Database
    07:05 - Encores at Mailboat Records.  According to the sound samples. “Tin Cup Chalice” is not from our 2008 Pine Knob show
    09:01 - as discussed near the end of Episode 115
    10:26 - Buffett surfing in St Barths, according to Buffett News
    10:39 - Buffett playing in Panama City FL: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    14:51 - we assumed jennifer must be a huge fan of Romeo Void’s “Never Say Never” every Wednesday, but she told us recently that there’s one guy who requests it every time he shows up.  Incidentally, “A Void of Romeo Void” was in contention for show name. 
    15:03 - Scott e-mailed us four times that afternoon to tell us about his school’s road rally fundraiser and how he would be expecting to take money from us…and then he never showed up for the podcast
    17:53 - or one of Santa’s helpers, more like
    20:08 - you know, there probably should be a double-entendre alarm here too

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Saturday, March 27 2010

Episode 124: See Empty Crosswords

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 24 2010 (10:00 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The boys discuss Buffett & the Reefers’ recent appearance with Zac Brown Band on CMT Crossroads and then round the night off with a special, extended joke cavalcade.  (Special guest: Jennifer.  Cameos by Joe Maj & Jacob.)”

    01:02 - tonight’s recording was preceded by an FSGL rules meeting to recapitulate the annual transition from wallyball to golf.  It was thought the meeting might impede on recording time, but we managed to get a podcast in before it got to late.  Which is all to preface mentioning the Mike saying “parenthetically” was to tease Schmoe for using the term during the meeting.
    01:25 - Buffett News on Margaritaville Nashville setbacks
    02:24 - Buffett World on Niagara Falls Café job fair
    03:20 - Watch Crossroads online at CMT.com
    04:50 - Buffett News report, which we should’ve read more closely before our show
    12:18 - Zac Brown Band’s “Toes” video, on YouTube
    16:11 - regarding the band lineup, Buffett News says: “They split it up into 2 sets, first the Zac Brown Band sang and then Buffett’s set.  During the Zac Brown set Nadirah, Tina, Robert, Ralph, and Utley were also on stage.  Mac joined for the final 2 songs. During Jimmy’s set Roger Guth, Will Kimbrough, and Uncle Jim joined the party.”  I guess we got fooled by the editing.
    20:36 - first clip, from The Colbert Report on Thursday, March 11

As seen on The Colbert Report

    Coincidentally, @StephenTColbert repeated this same list on Twitter shortly after Episode 124 went online
    21:10 - second clip from The Colbert Report on Wednesday, March 17.  The author is Nell Irvin Painter and the book is The History of White People.
    29:02 - joke lifted from Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, but I can’t remember the episode number any more
    P.S.: Hud did not stick around for the to the recording, but he still wanted to add the following observation: Jimmy is starting to look just like sportscaster and former coach Dick Vitale, who appeared in a commercial during the initial airing of CMT Crossroads.

Separated at birth? (From the Feet in the Paint blog.)

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Friday, March 12 2010

Episode 123: Take 2

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 10 2010 (11:00 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Features the last two Summerzcool concert roundups and your latest Jimmy Buffett headlines, but a major pre-show gaffe makes this an unintended sequel to Episode 4.  (Cameo appearance by Jennifer.)”

    It was such an amateurish mistake you’d think I was blind drunk Wednesday night.  We were sitting in a different configuration so I changed the microphone record pattern.  Evidently my fingers thought I’d pressed enough buttons, since I set the recorder back down without hitting the Record button.  I ended up missing a very lively and very funny panel.  It was the kind of relaxed conversation we don’t seem to have that often, as if we subconsciously knew the pressure was off and we weren’t being recorded.  Just like what happened with Episode 4.
    After half an hour I guess I sensed something was amiss – maybe I didn’t see the red Record light in the corner of my eye.  I picked the recorder up and realized none of our talk had been captured.  It wasn’t because of some hardware failure; it was my own damned fault in taking things for granted and in being inattentive.
    Despite how late it had become, we elected to press on, trying to remember what we’d already talked about so we could try again.
    00:33 - one of the first topics Schmoe had brought up in our “rehearsal” was how Mike and he felt incomplete without their Buffett tickets.  Whereas my $5 extra fee now gave me the peace of mind of having tickets in hand.  They’d chosen to print them up themselves, but didn’t want to do so till closer to the concert date.  Plus, Schmoe added. “my printer is out of ink”.  This struck Mike and me as sounding somewhat dirty, making us joke how the double-entendre alarm must be sounding.  Schmoe followed this up with another comment which sounded dirtier than the last – and then a third comment.  The timing was perfect, but it didn’t get recorded…and I can’t remember what the other two comments were.  (Incidentally, the double-entendre alarm probably should’ve sounded at 00:19, but that might have spoiled its appearance here.)
    03:43 - once I mentioned Zach Galifianakis during the “rehearsal”, we talked a good ten or fifteen minutes about his Saturday Night Live performance
    06:37 - Zac Brown Band’s CD The Foundation at Amazon.com
    07:46 - Will Kimbrough’s album Wings on iTunes, as MP3 downloads at Amazon, and as a CD at Amazon
    08:29 - Tennessean.com’s article on Will Kimbrough’s album release party
    09:05 - Market Watch’s story on Orange21’s Margaritaville eyewear
    10:26 - Jimmy flies to Haiti: from Buffett News | from Buffett World
    10:56 - Hollywood FL resort: from Buffett News | from Buffett World
    12:40 - link to Episode 117 | link to Fisher Stevens on IMDb
    14:07 - link to Episode 120 | the latest on the Alabama state song from The Gadsden Times
    14:56 - here’s a bonus news story: a nice article on Michael Utley from Examiner.com
    17:27 - those listening at home missed out on Jennifer belly dancing to the sound of her ringtone
    18:29 - I also forgot to mention how “Five:o’Clock Somewhere” was moved to later in the show, “Boat Drinks” got added to both shows, and “Nobody from Nowhere” and “Brown Eyed Girl” were made into a rocking encore
    26:06 - oh God, that woman is back!
    30:56 - Gamble Rogers on Wikipedia
    32:44 - for the first time in concert roundup history, the only pre-show interview without a single edit
    42:39 - during a break, I played Zac Brown’s “Margaritaville” video clip for Mike.  Since we were quite familiar with the song we did not play it to the end.  We obviously stopped to soon for Jennifer’s liking though.

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Friday, February 26 2010

Episode 122: Fun Tickets in Our Pockets (2010 Edition)

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, February 24 2010 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Two concert roundups from the current Summerzcool winter session plus we share our ticket-buying stories.  (Special appearance by Jennifer.)”

    02:55 - Heckler Custom Guitars
    04:13 - Encores album: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    04:59 - Jimmy in St Barth’s, according to Buffett News
    05:16 - Margaritaville Café in Nashville: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    05:23 - Funny or Die.com online | Funny or Die Presents on HBO
    18:53 - Jamaican Dogsled Team
    19:15 - the Iditarod Trail
    24:51 - if it sounds like Jimmy started early, it’s because I cut a few bars from the intro.  He started the verse on time but then stopped singing.
    25:13 - what a terrible crossfade.  This one concert roundup is rife with awkward and uninspired transitions.
    26:57 - once again, we saved the sad story for offline perusal: Save the Manatee.org says record cold is leading to record manatee deaths
    27:17 - a quick look at Margaritaville.com suggests the total is ten right now, not including the recently announced locations
    27:59 - DOM Coon’s photos, in our gallery: photo #1, photo #2, photo #3
    38:50 - conveniently, I finally got around to updating my selists pages two days prior

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Thursday, February 18 2010

Episode 121: Lions and Tigers and Bores

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, February 17 2010 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “No, it’s not a podcast about Detroit sports. It’s us getting all worked up over buying our “Under the Big Top” tour tickets this Saturday.  (Special appearance by Jennifer.  Cameo by Joe Maj.)”

    01:02 - it was Thursday, February 12.  I guess Buffett News posted the rumored dates first, but Buffett World was where I saw them.
    Our local papers mentioned the concert date the following day, but I wasn’t sure if they were confirming the news or just repeating the rumor.
    As far as I was concerned, it wasn’t confirmed until we saw the DTE ad on Sunday, February 14.
    02:17 - Listener Lisa was the person who objected on MySpace.  There’s a Country Fest Music Festival in Cadott WI, June 24-27; maybe it’s to that she’s referring. 
    03:01 - “Farewell Tour in 2010?”, from Orange Country Register.  (Did I say “Oakland”?  That’s a county in Michigan.)
    05:27 - Taylor Swift is playing March 26 and 27 at the Palace of Auburn Hills
    10:02 - Mike and Schmoe talk about one corporate gig by The Knack in Episode 61B
    10:06 - Doug Fieger, in Wikipedia
    19:04 - a reference to a conversation that happened before we started recording.  New dad Joe Maj was asking for advice about his child’s teething problems.
    20:40 - the August 5 1995 setlist
    23:20 - honestly, it was more like two hours of sleep and three hours of empty room
    26:19 - watch Firefly on Blu-Ray; see Firefly in space!
    26:57 - the original, uncut audio file
    28:04 - the original, uncut audio file
    28:29 - the space station’s “Window on the World”
    28:50 - Paradise Key Teas website

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2010 Radio Ad

    Since our soon-to-be released Episode 121 includes lengthy talk of trying to record this year’s radio ad, consider this a spoiler.

    Recorded at quarter after 7 this morning, off 94.7 WCSX FM.  It’s not the best quality (it’s in mono, for one thing), so hopefully I’ll be able to replace it soon.
    Update: I was able to record a better version on Friday, at around 6:40 AM.  I’ve replaced the above version with the new one, but, for the heck of it, the original can still be heard here.  Incidentally, from the needless information department: the ending of the stereo one got a little clipped, but I was able to “restore” it by blending in the longer ending from the mono one.

Sunday, February 14 2010

It’s Official

    Good thing Mike texted me.  I almost forgot to check the Sunday paper—wherein, was this ad, confirming the rumors of a Pine Knob show this June…

Detroit Free Press: “Entertainment” section, 3J