Thursday, September 2 2010

Episode 135A: The First Half

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, September 1 2010 (9:30 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The boys discuss how they spent their Summer vacations, with stories about Caseville, Parrothead Night with the Detroit Tigers, finding Margaritaville Rum, and uncovering a Landshark bottling mystery.  Plus Scott reviews Tom Corcoran’s Key West book.  (Cameo by Jennifer.)”

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Saturday, August 7 2010

Episode 134: Dinner for Schmoes

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, August 4 2010 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “We’re on Schmoecation, with a special appearance by Jennifer and a cameo by Nate.  (The Roger Clyne podcast starts at 6:21.)”

    Margaritaville Liquor Chiller at The Green Head.com
    Margaritaville Beach Hotel contest
    Margaritaville Cargo contest submissions
    Sammy’s fighting words
    2008 lawsuit
    YouTube video of Greg “Fingers” Taylor for NuHart
    The Persian Jimmy Buffett

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Thursday, July 22 2010

Episode 133: A Clown Walks Into a Fruit Market (and Other Disappointing Stories)

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 21 2010 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “It’s Patti’s Jammies Jimmy Jam!  She and Hud guest star, joining the gang in discussing the big Gulf Coast concert.”

    Three—count ’em, three—podcasts in one week.  And this one had only a one-day turnaround!

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Tuesday, July 20 2010

Episode 132B: My Documents

Show Notes:
    “Mickey’s not giving up yet.  He’s got two more concert roundups, to round out the third leg of the tour, plus last week’s Fruitcake on the Radio, and Munchcast’s discussion of margaritas and ‘Margaritaville’.”

    Fruitcake on the Radio Steve Ross from Bloomfield Hills MI
    Munchcast website, and Episode 85 as audio and video

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Saturday, July 17 2010

Episode 132A: My Documents

Show Notes:
    “Mickey hijacks the podcast to share files off his hard drive.  Includes three concert roundups, some audio interviews, and the rest of our post-concert parking lot roundtable from Pine Knob.  (Cameos by Patti, Scott, Mike, and Jacob.)”

    I know, I know.  It’s time we got back to podcasting…

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Sunday, July 4 2010

Episode 131: The Big One

Show Notes:
Recorded Thursday, July 1 2010 (8:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Mike’s house, Canton MI
    “We make up for our recent absence with a double-sized show. But once we get started talking about our 2010 Pine Knob show, we just can’t stop. Includes are annual parking lot recording, with cameos by Scott, Patti, Jacob, some guy named Doug, Mike’s dog named Bo, Mike’s noisy Blackberry, Mike’s noisy neighbors, Mike’s noisy frog, and some Fourth of July fireworks.”

    0:01:24 - Commonwealth Displays
    0:02:14 - Bo is the chocolate lab; the German Shepherd lives next door
    0:02:52 - Buffett News: “Jimmy Buffett Announces Free Gulf Concert” | Buffett World: “Buffett Announces Free Show for the Gulf”
    0:03:40 - if I’d paid more attention I would’ve learned Tropical Storm Alex reached hurricane status late on Tuesday, June 29
    0:03:50 - the announcement on M’ville.com
    0:04:10 - Kenny Chesney’s Twitter message
    0:04:18 - Zac Brown Band’s Twitter message
    0:04:31 - “CMT Will Still Air Gulf Concert”, from Buffett World
    0:04:49 - evidently, my local cable now does show CMT in HD, as of July 1.  All right, Comcast!  (Now if you could only put the HD channels in some kind of order instead of strewing them all over the 200s and 300s.)
    0:04:55 - “Free Concert Sells Out Quickly, eBay to remove listings”, from Buffett News
    0:05:20 - Examiner.com’s shameless play for attention
    0:07:36 - Buffett News: “Video and Photos of the Margaritaville Beach Hotel” | Buffett World: “Photos of Margaritaville Beach Hotel”
    0:08:27 - Margaritaville Hotel.com
    0:08:50 - CNN’s AC360 page
    0:09:06 - Buffett News: “Jimmy plays at Lulu’s Homeport Marina” | Buffett World: Jimmy Plays Surprise Show at Lulu’s”
    0:11:38 - Jimmy last played Lulu’s on Wednesday, October 3 2001, back when it was Lulu’s Sunset Grill in Pascagoula MS
    0:12:07 - as heard in Episode 44
    0:12:57 - as heard in Episode 122
    0:14:17 - Kerby’s Koney Island
    0:20:28 - the Margaritaville Express chalkboard, extracted from my raw video.  Exclusive to this show notes entry!
    0:22:08 - here’s another link to our 2010 tailgate video, on YouTube
    0:24:04 - ...and if that’s too soon, he left in a minute and a huff
    0:28:04 - an esoteric reference to the old radio show The First Nighter
    0:30:52 - the blonde and her Mom, from our Photo Gallery
    0:31:32 - here’s another link to the excellent and detailed Pine Knob map [PDF] at Palacenet.com
    0:31:49 - actually, it is Charleston.  Charleston Miles.
    0:33:29 - for the record, her text was “can u guys hear ok?  maybe we should switch :)” at 8:12 PM.  I didn’t take time to write back till 9:26, during the intermission. “Sorry.  Enjoying our front row seats too much to text.”
    0:38:07 - in fact, he’s only done it twice this tour, prior to our concert: in St Louis (Thursday, April 29 2010) and at the second Mansfield show (Saturday, June 19 2010)
    0:39:30 - another show notes exclusive: my photo of the Radio Margaritaville crowd mic
    0:48:21 - the screens behind us, from our Photo Gallery
    0:48:45 - this quote was part of Jimmy’s intro to “Come Monday”
    0:49:26 - we talk about the second one and forgot about the third one, but I’m sure we’ll mention it in an upcoming concert round-up
    0:53:04 - make that “available light”
    0:55:56 - not exactly backwards order.  They did the last song first, but they still followed “Chicken Fried” with “African Friend”
    0:58:57 - every second set started with “Everybody’s on the Phone”, except for the two Mansfield shows immediately prior to ours
    1:03:14 - my best photo of the braless “Cheeseburger” lady, from our Photo Gallery.  (She’s in the white top and black skirt, passing the guy in the orange t-shirt.)
    1:04:28 - a bra cup on Mr Utley’s organ, from our Photo Gallery
    1:05:00 - just for Listener Ed, my video of Tina singing “Trip Around the Sun”.  Another show notes entry!
    1:06:18 - what the heck, here’s an exclusive link to my “Pirate” video too
    1:07:13 - if paid any attention, I would’ve known “Back Where I Come From” is from Chesney’s third album Me and You (1996)
    1:08:29 - as heard in Episode 127
    1:11:38 - Bret Michaels on Mailboat Records
    1:12:05 - another link to my “Margaritaville” video
    1:12:27 - the Margarillas video, on YouTube; and the Margarillas on Facebook
    1:16:47 - another link to me in the Margarillas video
    1:18:32 - the “Margaritaville” video on Coconut Television
    1:18:49 - another link to the “Alpine Valley” screen grab
    1:20:17 - well, no: he did “Bank of Bad Habits” in this spot in the very first “Under the Big Top” concert.  Also in this spot, they played “Brown Eyed Girl”, “USS Zydecoldsmobile”, “Fruitcakes”, and (anticipating my statement at 1:21:06) “Fins”.
    1:21:01 - “Fins” was the first encore song of our 2006 concert
    1:21:06 - a truer statement than with “Last Man Standing” as it turns out.  “Fins” was the second to last song for every concert except Nashville’s (Sunday, May 1 2010), as mentioned above.
    1:21:18 - as proof, here’s another show notes exclusive: my video between “Fins” and “Tin Cup Chalice”
    1:24:19 - another link to the photo of Mike’s extended hand
    1:24:35 - a final show notes exclusive: video of Jimmy’s final goodbye and Mike getting pimped
    1:26:44 - as heard in Episode 107
    1:32:12 - another link to our 2009 tailgate video, on YouTube
    1:35:48 - that’s the sound of Doug’s phone hitting the pavement, as mentioned at 1:27:48

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Friday, June 18 2010

Episode 130: Where the Party Boat Leaves From

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 16 2010 (9:30 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The boys talk about the recent Detroit River Parrothead Cruise, discuss the latest Buffett headlines, go through the Cincinnati and Houston shows, and look forward to the upcoming Pine Knob concert (less than a week!).  (Special guest: Jennifer.  Cameo by Scott.)”

    00:04 - we spent a lot of time talking about TV shows—including Firefly, which I’d finally talked Mike into getting on Blu-ray
    01:49 - Pier 500 in Wyandotte | Diamond Jack’s River Tours | Jim Auquier on Facebook
    05:49 - all the Buffett and Buffett-related songs are in our cruise video, with the exception of “Brown Eyed Girl” (since it really was more like Van Morrison’s arrangement) and “Come Monday” (since I was running out of videotape).  I managed to get audio of the final song, “Lovely Cruise”, on my cellphone, but it was so over-modulated I only used a snippet in the video.
    06:51 - Chelsea‘s and Willow Tree
    07:08 - the cruise pictures in our Photo Gallery
    08:28 - Pier 500’s tickets provided by Central Distributors
    09:46 - Maxine Nightingale’s “Right Back Where We Started From”
    10:19 - Sunday, July 4 1993.  I took someone’s advice and, day of the concert, waited to get tickets at Pine Knob’s will call window.
    14:17 - Silly Bandz—they’re spelled with a Z!  How silly!
    15:24 - a girl was handing out Landshark leis and lanyards after the cruise
    17:26 - Jimmy visits the Lawrenceville School, from Buffett World
    17:58 - the Hot in Cleveland premiere had aired on TV Land while we were recording and I’d had trouble remembering Jane Leeves’s character’s name on Frasier
    18:01 - Jimmy sells his Palm Beach estate: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    Between our recording and the publication of the episode, it was revealed the buyer is Jimmy’s next-door neighbor Jon Stryker, from Buffett News
    18:38 - Jimmy tours Florida beach with Gov Charlie Crist: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention | AP article
    19:53 - “Buffett Visits USM’s Gulf Coast Research Lab”, from Buffett World
    20:20 - Fruitcakes on the Radio winner Dave McCormick, from Radio M’ville’s Facebook page
    21:13 - “Margaritaville Casino in Atlantic City Back on Track”, from Buffett World
    21:29 - Briggs & Stratton generator story: before and after, from Buffett World
    21:56 - Boston Globe interview: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    22:37 - a reference to Episode 56
    22:43 - Buffett News’s WZLX story.  Interview recorded Friday, June 11, and complete MP3 available here.
    25:24 - Jimmy attends NBA Finals game: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    25:36 - Garden & Gun‘s Buffett biodiesel story: Buffett News mention | Buffett World mention
    26:24 - sorry, Mansfield, I got the date wrong.  The Saturday show is of course on June 19.
    27:26 - Margaritaville Footwear (and link for Famous Footwear).  Update: a day after posting these notes, Mike texted us to announce his shoes had arrived, well in time for Tuesday’s concert.
    42:38 - here’s a behind-the-scenes secret: the sped-up female rant is really a YouTube video of Dixie Carter in Designing Women
    47:00 - just because of that comment, I bought WAOTNC.com
    47:04 - yes, Scott was there, but he left before we started recording.  (That’s the Tigers playing the Washington Nationals in the background.  The Tigers won, 8-3.)

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