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Friday, July 1 2011

A Word from Our Sponsor

With the holiday fast approaching, here’s that old video again for those in our area…

Sunday, June 26 2011

Episode 149: The Second Longest Day

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 22 2011 (9:30 PM - 10:30 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
    “Mike reviews his new Frozen Concoction Maker and we recap the Houston and Jazz Fest concerts.”

    00:36 - AKA, the tiki bar
    01:12 - Mike got his Frozen Concoction Maker on Friday, June 17, sharing this photo in our Twitter feed
    06:06 - here’s a brief video from Mike’s house on Sunday, between a graduation party and the U2 concert:

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Tuesday, June 7 2011

Episode 148: Mike is a Member

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 1 2011 (10:00 PM - 12:00 AM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Back at Zodiac, for more news, more discussion, and recaps of the two Missouri concerts.  (Cameo by Jennifer.)”

    00:43 - beep effect stolen from the Eardrop podcast (specifically, the June 4 2011 file)
    00:54 - Scott’s Twitter page
    02:46 - Murray Lake, on Google Maps, and on Wikipedia
    03:14 - M’ville Orlando | M’ville Las Vegas
    05:00 - Twisted Tea Sweet Tea | Half & Half | Raspberry | Backyard Batch | M’ville Spiked Tea & Lemonade | Seagram’s Raw Tea
    06:33 - according to his November 27 1993 obituary in courant.com, “Charles D. Miller, a retired executive in the hobby industry and father of actress Susan Saint James, […] was the president and chief executive officer of Testor Corp. of Rockville, Ill., the leading manufacturer of glue and paints for the hobby industry. He was cited by President Nixon in 1969 for pioneering the use of horseradish in all model cement products to curb glue-sniffing among American youths.”
    07:51 - “Buffett & ZBB Nominated for CMT Music Award”, from Buffett News | “Buffett Earns CMT Music Award Nomination with Zac Brown Band”, from Buffett World.  And, once again, we completely dropped the ball on this one.  JB and ZBB were in fact nominated for their video performance of “Margaritaville” from CMT’s Crossroads.
    08:26 - “Zac Brown is ‘Knee Deep’ in Mexico”, from AOL’s The Boot.com
    09:10 - Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jane Buffett at Jazz Fest, from USA Today‘s Lifeline Live
    09:36 - Entrapment on IMDb.com
    09:40 - “No Tailgating at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow”, from Buffett News | “Tailgating Banned at Jiffy Lube Live”, from Buffett World
    10:02 - “Buffett Says He’ll Work on Tailgating Issue at Jiffy Lube Live”, from Buffett World
    10:39 - “‘Jiffy Lube Live’? Why not ‘Live Nation Disaster Hole’?”, by Tom Jackman in the Washington Post.  (“A pen and paper are dangerous instruments” is the actual quote.)
    12:46 - “LandShark Bar & Grill opens today in Myrtle Beach”, from Buffett News | “Landshark Bar & Grill Opens Today in Myrtle Beach”, from Buffett World
    13:50 - “Margaritaville Online Game coming to Facebook & iPad”, from Buffett News | “Margaritaville Game Coming to Facebook and iPad”, from Buffett World
    16:39 - “Buffett to release Buried Treasure of unreleased songs”, from Buffett News | “Buffett to Put Out Unreleased Original Songs from Early Days”, from Buffett World
    20:05 - “Chesney joins Buffett for Nashville Show”, from Buffett News | “Kenny Chesney Joins Buffett in Nashville”, from Buffett World
    20:58 - from NPR’s All Songs Considered blog: “After The Love Has Gone: Fans Spill On Ditching Their Favorite Artists”
    22:23 - “Beware the Flip-Flop!”, from About.com
    22:35 - of course, when I said “the official unofficial start of Summer” what I meant was “the official unofficial start of Summer”
    23:19 - M’ville Footwear
    24:53 - a few notes from the April 30 Kansas City MO concert: Jimmy finally says “Kar-dash-ian” instead of “Ka-dar-shian” (during the new “Off to See the Lizard” verse), “Trying to Reason” reappeared in the setlist, and the “we’ll be dead by then” line is from Jimmy’s band intros at the end of the show
    32:59 - Hall of Famer George Kell [link goes to Wikipedia] was, for decades, the voice of the Detroit Tigers on TV
    33:36 - Square Grouper: Godfathers of Ganja on Netflix, Amazon, and IMDb.com
    33:51 - This Week in Photography #192 (at about 15:05 into the episode)
    41:20 - my front-row photos and video, from earlier in this blog
    42:12 - “Buffett Funds Middle Schoolers Trip to Gulf Coast”, from Buffett World
    44:33 - a few notes from the May 3 St Louis concert: “Trying to Reason” again and also added “Nautical Wheelers”, “Volcano” clip included because of Jimmy struggling to remember what day it was (“Sa-Thur-sday”)
    56:56 - Mike’s new favorite show is Justified
    57:95 - clip comes from EW‘s “Inside TV” podcast, near the end of the April 29 2011 episode

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Tuesday, May 17 2011

Episode 147: But, Anyway…

Show Notes:
Recorded Sunday, May 15 2011 (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM) at Cantina Dos, Dearborn MI
    “Hud joins us, as Mike talks about his trip to Florida and we recap the first leg of the Fin Land tour.”

    00:27 - Scott’s ran the Relay for Life that morning; he thought he could make it, but then changed his mind
    00:58 - sorry about the whistling, but I’d been playing the Tremé soundtrack for Mike and had “Skokiaan” on the brain
    02:04 - Mike is talking about this photo, from his collection
    04:41 - our Twitter page
    04:52 - Mike’s spiked tea photos, in our gallery
    05:28 - Mike’s review, from earlier
    07:04 - We have recorded over 232 GBs of audio since we started.  (I’m not sure what this works out to time-wise; I’m too afraid to drag all of it into iTunes or too lazy to calculate it.)  Out of that, we have 76 GBs of edited shows in uncompressed CD quality, which then comes down to less than four and a half gigabytes of MP3 podcast files.
    08:38 - Mike’s Sloppy Joe’s photo, in our gallery
    11:24 - Gatorscafe.com
    11:43 - KingGatorVision’s channel on YouTube
    11:57 - a time cut since the video was taking so long to load
    12:16 - Mike’s Kirk Adams photo, in our gallery
    12:21 - Kirk Adams’s “Mexican Wrestler”, from MySpace
    12:51 - M’ville sunglasses display photo, in our gallery
    13:28 - M’ville salt photo, in our gallery
    24:48 - Jimmy’s first discussion of Wisconsin’s cheese trees can be heard in Episode 132B.
    29:40 - “Lady I Can’t Explain”, performed that night for the first time, is heavily edited here for brevity
    31:23 - In Harm’s Way, at IMDb.com
    36:54 - not the all-night party we mention, but the one from the following year (1984), from Mickey’s college archives:

Your future podcasting team: Greg (left), Schmoe (second from left), Mike (third from right), and Mickey (right)

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Monday, May 9 2011

There’s Nothing Soft About Hard Teas, Part 2

    I promised a review of the new Margaritaville products that I stumbled upon in Florida last week, so here you go:
    Margaritaville Spiked Tea:  Kind of a tea-like flavor.  Lightly carbonated.  On the sweet side.  I found it to be quite refreshing.  Great right from the bottle or over ice.  This product is more like Mike’s Hard Iced Tea than it is like Twisted Tea.  If I had to rank it among these, I would put it after Twisted Tea and before Mike’s.  I would buy this again.
    Margaritaville Spiked Lemonade:  Not as sweet as some competitors.  In fact, I found it to have a bitter edge to it.  Descent lemon flavor comes through.  Lightly carbonated.  I didn’t care for the first one I had.  I would not be able to drink a few of these in a row.  Later in the week I gave it another chance over ice.  That was better.  Definitely more refreshing that way.  Not sure I would buy this again, but wouldn’t turn one down if someone offered it.  I would add ice though.
    There you have it.  Keep an eye out for it when shopping.  Maybe it will be in Michigan soon.  I would be interested in your opinions too.

Sunday, May 8 2011

You Don’t Know Jimmy

    Eager for my iPad to arrive, I started watching the “iPad Today” podcast from TWiT.tv.  And, guess what, there’s a Buffett mention in the latest episode!  You can view it at 18:58 in episode #44 ... or by playing the clip below:

Monday, May 2 2011

There’s Nothing Soft About Hard Teas

    This just in, from our roving reporter Mike, vacationing in Florida.  “Breaking News!!  Margaritaville sells spiked tea and spiked lemonade!  Review to follow….”

Spiked Lemonade and Spiked Tea

Spiked Label