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Wednesday, September 19 2007

Episode 50: Britches

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, September 12 2007 (8:00 PM - 11:30 PM), at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “A new show on Talk Like a Pirate Day? It’s like a dream come true!  Well, dream on, because this was recorded a week ago and took a full seven days for post-production.
Then it must be great, right?  Well, get somebody to pinch you because you’re dreaming too much!  Back at Zodiac, for the start of Season 4, Greg, Scott, Schmoe, and Mickey continue
discussing the box set, with a closer look at Beaches.  And Mike joins them, but only by phone.  Guests include Jennifer and Lee.”

    00:43 - Episode 17, Schmoe, Episode 17
    01:40 - the Detroit Shock won the WNBA Championship September 9 2006, Saturday, defeating the Sacramento Monarchs 80-75.
    02:28 - all this was already put to rest by Larry himself, three minutes into Episode 24
    03:40 - Buffett World didn’t forget the anniversary though
    04:07 - Jimmy’s CMA Live Event nomination (right column, middle)
    04:15 - Mac’s CMA Musician of the Year nomination (right column, bottom)
    04:43 - Mac’s Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction
    09:07 - during the pre-show, Savannah Jane interviewed rock writer Bill Flanagan who had this to say about Elo Ferrier…

1)  Review the new songs
2)  What songs would you take off that CD
3)  What songs would you put in its place
4)  What songs released SINCE the boxed set would you put on that disc.

I guess it’s the vagueness of point 3) that has us confused.  I saw it as meaning what songs on the box set fit better, but I guess Schmoe meant which songs not on the box set would fit better.
    29:55 - Schmoe is quick to point out this song, made famous by the Muppets, actually originated in an Italian softcore porno
    30:17 - the fourth track, of course
    33:28 - “ashphalt” is so frequently used you’d think it might be an alternate pronunciation.  But no, a check of online dictionaries suggest it’s just a wrong pronunciation.  Thus, you’d think Schmoe said it rather than Greg.
    33:39 - another word from our sponsor
    34:36 - yep, that’s me when I’m drunk.  ‘Cept I babble a lot more.
    35:11 - Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine
    35:59 - I was aiming for “The Stranger” from The Big Lebowski, but it sounds more like a combination of John Wayne and Yosemite Sam
    37:43 - you’ll have to forgive the dodgy audio levels and the occasional “mosquito noise”.  I was trying to set up the phone and the speaker and move the mics around while the call was already ongoing
    40:55 - as heard in Episode 37
    41:02 - which, as mentioned before, I recorded off radio
    44:54 - nope, that was on October 18
    45:21 - either Buffett is justified in ignoring us, since his concerts are apparently so forgettable; or, it proves we need him to show up here more than ever in order to remember him better
    45:59 - which you can hear below
    46:37 - actually, the Southeast Michigan Singles aren’t meeting at Zodiac this season.  As of September 29 they’ve chosen instead to meet at the Coliseum in Taylor every Wednesday for wallyball.

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Episode 50B: Adventures in Best Buy-ing

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, September 12 2007 (11:00 PM - 11:30 PM), at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI

    As mentioned at the end of Episode 50, Scott had an entertaining anecdote for us about recent troubles buying a gadget from Best Buy.  It was too long to include within the show, so we offer it here instead as a separate sound file and blog page exclusive:



Listen now…

...or…

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Friday, August 31 2007

Episode 49: Bitch Fest on the Moon

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 29 2007 (9:30 PM - 11:30 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time Pub, Gibraltar MI
    “Season 3 finishes with our look at 1999’s Beach House on the Moon.  Guests include Rob, Brooke, Christina, and Elise.”

    Rob is with us almost every week, for FSGL golf and for dinner, but this is the first time he’s hung around to join us in the back room.
    Milky the Clown was the spokesclown for Twin Pines Dairy, back in the ’50s.
    Pay no attention to the discrepancies with Amazon’s Live in Anguilla listing.  It’s all been settled since then.
    Link for Voodoo Café.
    Link for Moses Horowitz, pending.
    Link for Danica McKellar.
    For some reason Schmoe bases his entire “Spending Money” review on the one “It’s a dang fool husband doesn’t spring for his wife” line.
    “Breathe the air that we’ve blown you” is a quote from The Who’s “The Punk & The Godfather” from Quadrophenia.

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Friday, August 24 2007

Episode 48: Bloats

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 22 2007 (9:30 PM - 10:30 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time Pub, Gibraltar MI
    “In which the gang reminisces about visiting Cheeseburger in Paradise, Schmoe & Mickey must defend their clandestine love of stargazing, and the gang is duty-bound to take a closer look at disc one of JB’s Boxed Set.  Guests: DJ, Jacob, and Christina.”

    I was getting tired of all the audible thumping every time someone emphatically taps the table.  I switched to different mics, and now they pick rumblings and thumpings every time someone shifts in their chair!  I tried to EQ the sound to lessen the bass, but you’ll probably still hear of thumping and rumbling regardless.  My apologies if it gets on your nerves (as it does mine).  Hopefully we can get this sorted out next time.  And now, on to the show notes:
    00:00 - get your podcast on the PodSchmoe Podcasting Network
    00:21 - Scott’s podcast is called “Southgate Tech Tip of the Week”
    01:27 - the high was 80°F.  The high temperature Monday was 67°F.
    02:38 - too lazy to look up our first mention of the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant, but I know it was back at Zodiac
    02:49 - map to Cheeseburger in Paradise
    03:51 - pineapple was a popular ingredient in he Cheeseburger in Caseville contest; hence the comment.
    04:21 - play the home game with a Cheeseburger in Paradise menu
    06:54 - Sailor Jerry rum
    07:17 - Voodoo Café
    08:09 - WAOTNC Photo Gallery
    08:31 - Christina had trouble opening my beer bottle, when she brought it.  She couldn’t get a grip on the cap, since Buds are notoriously painful to open.  Instead, she bent down to try using the hem of her skirt.  This piqued everyone’s attention, and, feeling suddenly bashful, she turned her back to us—now facing DJ—as she continued to twist the cap off with her skirt
    09:10 - Is Schmoe going to hell?  What about you?
    09:40 - this just in: the Amazon pre-order page now shows only a DVD instead of a CD/DVD combo!
    09:53 - Mailboat Records
    10:15 - Buffett News’s Swine Not? page
    11:15 - another running gag, which I’m told originated from earlier in the day.  Greg was talking about softball feats from his youth, to impress Jacob, and allegedly likened himself to baseball great Rod Carew.  This led to comments such as “When I think of Rod Carew, I think of Greg” (or vice versa?), which inevitably got extrapolated to all sorts of ridiculous extremes
    11:22 - Ross School
    11:33 - Stephen Talkhouse
    12:04 - no, he did not show up
    12:12 - Show Notes blog (but you already knew that ... right?!)
    13:40 - the mini podcasts from our Caseville visit
    13:48 - apparently Hud greatly enjoy finding out Schmoe had brought out a pillow and blankets during our stargazing tryst
    14:06 - Wikipedia’s Perseid link
    16:25 - Amazon says Bob Marley’s Songs of Freedom box set came out October 6 1992
    16:33 - Amazon says James Brown’s Star Time box set came out May 7 1991
    18:34 - Amazon says Before the Beach came out May 25 1993
    19:13 - Evangeline at Answers.com
    19:45 - Greg’s top ten
    19:48 - Wikipedia’s Dennis Connor page
    20:03 - still looking for a video clip
    20:41 - such as “Turning Around” from Summer Rental or “Purple People Eater” from Contact
    24:07 - perhaps I was overly polite in keeping my silence, but I feel compelled to point out here I completely disagree
    25:46 - track from the Planete Zouk compilation
    30:03 - Scott’s excuse has already been used in Episodes 46 and 47
    30:33 - of course the lyric Schmoe wanted to recite is “I’ve got to head this boat south pretty soon”
    32:25 - nice try with Greg trying to escape from discussing Ballads, but clearly, after Episode 40, there’s no way we’d let him get away with it
    33:00 - Christina loses her cool when noticing Greg videoing her on his LG phone
    36:05 - it was Greg, it was Greg, it was all Greg
    36:17 - cf. 11:15

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Monday, August 20 2007

Which Way Do I Steer?

    The gang met up last Saturday (August 18) to finally visit Cheeseburger in Paradise, in Sterling Heights (by Lakeside Mall).  Not only did we get a chance to dine on cheeseburgers and popcorn shrimp, and sample the house brand Island Lager, but we got to see Mike’s brother’s side project Voodoo Café.  You know, Mike’s brother Jimmy, right?  He sings our theme song.
    No podcast was recorded, but Mickey (as always) documented the event, and the photos are online in our WAOTNC Photo Gallery.

Heaven on Earth

Tuesday, August 14 2007

Episode 47: How’s the Bored Listener?

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 8 2007 (9:30 PM - 11:00 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time Pub, Gibraltar MI
    “It might not be our longest, but, boy, does it feel like it!  Belated, long-awaited, jam-packed, if not over-stuffed, with goodness, we discuss the last two concerts and some recent online Buffett mentions, and we review Riddles in the Sand.  Guests: DJ, Listener Ed, and Christina.”

    04:58 - Usher’s wedding
    05:23 - the actual lyric is “And you may tell yourself / This is not my beautiful wife!” as well as “And you may tell yourself / My God!...What have I done?”
    06:21 - Greetings to the Brysnicki family!
    10:34 - A lesson for the kids: Don’t drink and orbit
    12:28 - Listener Ed’s website 
    12:59 - third song, actually
    15:07 - hear the entire Fresh Air interview on NPR.org.  [Link to her album on iTunes]
    22:51 - Scott is evidently too young to remember that this was a calculated marketing ploy by MCA to attract a country western audience
    22:31 - Urban Cowboy was released in 1980
    24:09 - Jane Slagsvol
    26:31 - I have a couple clips in my old TV Room
    26:48 - iTunes link to “Who’s the Blonde Stranger?” video
    35:06 - I have evidence that proves otherwise
    35:30 - I vaguely recall seeing the “One Particular Harbour” video between movies on some cable pay channels, but this still might have been after we saw the “Who’s the Blonde Stranger” video.  I really thought I was uncovering gold reminiscing about those old videos.  Too bad I didn’t remember they’re all on the Tales from Margaritavision VHS tape
    40:23 - Rhonda Coullet
    45:05 - an Oliver Hardy quote from Way Out West

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Friday, August 10 2007

Caseville 2007

    Episode 47 was recorded last Wednesday, but it might not be uploaded till Sunday or Monday.
    The boys are a bit pre-occupied right now, seeing as they’ve gone up to Caseville again for this year’s Cheeseburger Festival!

M-53 North

Schmoe enjoys a Landshark and another Riverside Roadhouse Spicy Burger

    As we said, we had the same waitress on our return visit.  You can compare this picture with last year’s.

Our favorite waitress

    And a Show Notes Blog exclusive.  We were too busy eating and drinking to shoot a proper video documentary, so here’s a bonus podcast featuring Schmoe and me watching the Perseid meteor shower:

    Day 2: we head back into town, go to the official store for souvenirs, get gumbo for brunch, meet Mike at the Riverside Roadhouse for lunch, spend some time at the beach, go to Lefty’s Diner & Drive-In for this year’s winning cheeseburger, and then go to the amphitheater to watch Air Margaritaville.  Unlike yesterday, I mainly shot video…and I think I need to buy another hard drive before I can start importing the footage for editing.
    Until then, here’s another Show Notes Blog exclusive podcast…

    P.S.: we’ve returned from our Caseville weekend, but I’m still not sure when Episode 47 will be ready to go up.

Tuesday, July 31 2007

Episode 46: Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Review

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 25 2007 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM), at Prime Time Joe’s, Gibraltar MI
    “Our marathon review of A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean continues, this time with Scott and Greg getting their two cents in.  They and Mickey and Schmoe discuss the  Indy concert and reveal their pathetic ignorance of the BBBB box set.  Guests include DJ, Carol & The Serb, and Elise.”

    00:00 - this podcast is now a member of the PodSchmoe Network
    00:31 - already discussed in the Episode 45A show notes (at 8:46)
    02:10 - according to Google Earth, our longitude and latitude is 42 06’23 N 83 13’05 W
    02:34 - also already discussed in the Episode 45A show notes (at 6:54)
    03:09 - a quick check shows six songs “Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit”, “I Have Found Me a Home” (Beaches), “Cuban Crime of Passion”, “Why Don’t We Get Drunk”, “They Don’t Dance Like Carmen No More” (Bars), and “He Went to Paris” (Ballads).  I am vindicated!
    05:33 - as you probably already know, “Tinsley” should be Tinley
    08:13 - WCSX morning’s are hosted by Jim Johnson and Lynne Woodison
    11:10 - no, actually from http://www.buffettworld.com/lyrics/whitesportcoat.php.  (And Buffett News’s song archive too.)
    11:15 - instead of the usual hard plastic table, we were sitting at wooden table with a central but loose post
    11:44 - that’s DJ filling in, obviously
    12:03 - Dwight’s “Blah, blah, little comment” comment is from the “Product Recall” episode of The Office
    13:04 - KATG.com, of course
    13:27 - for your urban legend needs
    13:33 - as he record clearly shows, that was not me bellowing
    14:23 - my math is probably very bad, but I think 50¢ nowadays gets you sixty-four ounces of gas
    14:32 - “Was she in the window?”?  well, Gregspeak scholars can interpret this as “No, if she to stay in the ‘shade’.”  But “Yes, if she wanted a ‘good look’.”  Otherwise, we have no idea what the hell brought that up.
    16:22 - Armed Robbery is commonly defined as “taking property by putting the victim in fear by displaying a weapon”.
    16:49 - “[S]creeners at four United States airports had discovered suspicious, but benign, assemblies of wire attached to cheese-like substances in carry-on bag” [Link]
    17:50 - the benefit of doing show notes late: Greg follows Scott’s instructions at the end of Episode 48
    22:00 - Hialeah
    24:12 - oh yeah?  Go back to 24:02, then.  Right there!  I am vindicated!
    25:01 - in Greg’s defense, it was a “hook song” for me too, when they would play it loudly in bars at college
    25:49 - with all the underlying homoeroticism, it’s inevitable we’d start making Friend of Dorothy references
    26:51 - Shandy
    27:12 - Greg’s “Unknown Poet” is clearly inspired by Murray Langston’s Unknown Comic
    27:42 - since I brought it up, I might as well explain.  I stole baseball cards at Cunningham’s; but, in my defense, the bag of baseball cards had already been ripped open
    28:46 - uh-oh Scott set off the Greg 2.0 double entendre alarm again
    29:29 - Greg’s predilection for using ballads as driving music was explained in Episode 40
    29:59 - apparently a unique mixture of Bahamian and Bohemian, by the sound of it
    30:32 - yes, on Ballads
    33:12 - Good God, we have no idea what we’re talking about
    34:50 - Greg will use this same excuse in Episode 47
    36:35 - despite all the product placement to follow, we have yet to get free booze sent to us
    38:22 - Scott will use this same excuse in Episode 48
    38:29 - Good Hart MI is located here
    38:51 - it’s easy to find out where to find Landshark Lager.  Just use the “Locate a Retailer” app on the Landshark Lager homepage.

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