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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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:

Thursday, April 21 2011

Episode 146: We Need a Cantina

Show Notes:
Recorded Tuesday, April 19 2011 (9:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Casa de Scott, Allen Park MI
    “Mid-April marks the start of the 2011 tour, and how did we celebrate?  By throwing a listening party for the new Roger Clyne CD!  But don’t worry, we still talk about the Tampa concert and the exciting new changes to the setlist. (Special guests: Todd and Ron.)”

    The show description originally began with “April 19 marked the start of the 2011 tour”.  This is inaccurate; the tour began in Tampa on Saturday, April 16.  April 19 was the release date of Unida Cantina as well as the date of the tour’s second stop, at Raleigh.  What can I say, I wrote it after a long day of editing.
    Get Unida Cantina from Roger (CD or vinyl), at Amazon (CD, MP3, or vinyl), or from iTunes.
    Learn more about Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers.

    01:56 - a much better photo than I remember, from @peacemakerjd on Twitter
    02:14 - fan photo from RCPM’s sombrerofied Salt River Fields concert, April 16 2011
    04:35 - RCPM’s Watering Hole discussion board
    06:20 - radio interview from The Blaze, ASU’s Alternative Radio 1330 AM, March 24 2011
    20:01 - a time cut
    23:29 - Eddie Money’s “I Think I’m in Love”
    29:17 - sound effect provided by Scott’s djay app
    30:14 - Chad Heckler’s Heckler Custom Guitars
    33:13 - I was merely nodding toward Scott’s speakers; I didn’t expect the gesture would provoke such a reaction.  And his speakers are quite good; he was just playing everything too loud for the room.
    50:38 - told you the speakers were loud
    53:41 - O.A.R.‘s official site | O.A.R. on Wikipedia
    1:01:34 - Scott is trying to play “Green & Dumb” out of his music library but keeps finding live versions
    1:24:23 - as you can hear in the concert montage in Episode 144, they did perform “Boomerang Love” in Australia (but this was the same show where Jimmy had his accident, so I guess you can excuse his confusion)
    1:26:37 - a time cut
    1:27:41 - Jimmy changed this for the following concert, repeating that line twice just like he wanted
    1:29:53 - the full song, we mean, since some of it had been performed last year during “Where the Boat Leaves From”
    1:31:29 - especially since it sounded like a newer arrangement of “Son of a Sailor”, which I wouldn’t expect needs another arrangement
    1:35:26 - more from radio interviewThe Blaze interview

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Friday, April 15 2011

Episode 145: Doing the TFE2E Thing

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, April 13 2011 (10:00 PM - 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “It’s another season finale!  Topics include taxes, the start of a new tour, the release of a new RCPM CD, Square Grouper, a follow-up review of Mike’s M’ville eyewear, Amish racing, chat slang, and Schmoe’s terrible personal problem.  (Cameo by Annie.)  (The Roger Clyne podcast starts at 14:23.)”

    00:06 - that knocking from behind the wall is indisputable evidence that…the back room is haunted!
    02:36 - note to our readers: apparently, Schmoe did the same spit-take when listening to the episode in his car
    03:00 - “April 16 is Jimmy Buffett Day in Florida”, from Buffett News | “Florida Congressman Proposes ‘Jimmy Buffett Day’”, from Buffett World
    04:39 - nope
    05:29 - nope
    05:34 - nope
    05:50 - “Are Sharks Mammals or Fish”, from Buzzle.com
    05:59 - for the record, I meant a cover of Heart’s “Barracuda” and not Jimmy’s own “My Barracuda”
    06:41 - “Buffett Performs StageIt event in St Bart’s”, from Buffett News | “Buffett Helps Demo StageIt at SXSW”, from Buffett World
    07:16 - “Head Hurts, Feet Stink”, “Chanson”, and “Volcano” (via Coconut Television)
    07:56 - “Buffett Performs at Wedding in Keys” and “Video of Buffett Performing at Florida Keys Wedding”, from Buffett News | “Jimmy Performs at Key West Wedding”, from Buffett World
    09:08 - “Buffett Performs at Baz’s Bar”, from Buffett News | “Buffett Plays Impromptu Show on St. Barth’s”, from Buffett World (with Lance Armstrong tweet)
    09:37 - “Margaritaville Casino coming to Las Vegas”, from Buffett News
    10:02 - “Biloxi Margaritaville Casino gets Approval”, from Buffett News | “Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi Approved”, from Buffett World
    11:26 - This Week in Photography #192, from ThisWeekinPhoto.com
    13:05 - Square Grouper at Amazon (DVD or instant), Netflix, and IMDb
    14:54 - AZ Peacemakers.com | Peacetimegoods.com
    17:52 - “Mike’s eyewear video again
    18:29 - a reference to the old commercial for BluBlockers sunglasses
    21:09 - M’ville Lifestyle.com
    26:17 - it’s Annie, the beer girl at Wesburn Golf Course
    26:47 - Annie references her studies in squamous and cuboidal cells
    27:55 - I guess she’s thinking of the sign at Northville Downs
    31:37 - meanwhile, I’m picturing this

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Thursday, March 17 2011

Episode 144: Boom Crush Duh

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 16 2011 (11:00 PM - 12:00 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Mike, Schmoe, and Mickey are back together again, in time to discuss their ticket-buying adventures for Detroit’s other big concert event and to recap the third Sydney show.  (Special guest: Joe Maj.)”

    Waddaya know.  First Charlie Sheen invades our Buffett podcast and now Jimmy wants to cash-in on Charlie’s blatherings.  From Buffett World: “Buffett Trademarks ‘Tiger Blood’ for Vodka Energy Drink”.  Can’t say I’d find something called “Tiger Blood” all that appealing, but maybe that’s why Jimmy makes the big bucks and we release a free podcast.
    01:33 - the complete tour name was “Violent Torpedo of Truth / Defeat is Not an Option” and it, as you probably already know, opened in Detroit on April 2 2011, to less than winning reviews.
    Speaking of Sheenisms, the name for this episode comes from the Sheen quote, “Boom, crush.  Night, losers.  Winning, duh”; and was, for a long time, “Night Losers Winning”.  An alternate was “Vatican Assassin Warlocks”.
    08:39 - that detailed PDF map link, again
    20:50 - the interview’s background music was part of the broadcast and was not added by me
    32:56 - Jimmy did this verse during the other two Sydney shows, but we saved it for now since this one got the best reaction

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Monday, March 14 2011

Episode 143: Sleeping in the Bathroom at Denny’s

Show Notes:
Recorded Saturday, March 12 2011 (8:30 PM - 11:00 PM) at Schmoe’s Cantina Dos, Dearborn MI
    “Mickey goes to Schmoe’s Cantina Dos for the lowdown on the Kalamazoo road trip, ticket buying plans, and a recap of the second Sydney concert.  (The Roger Clyne podcast starts at 3:39.)”

    Two shows in a week!  Just trying to make up for missing all of February.
    00:25 - Roger Clyne and PH Naffah performed at The Strutt in Kalamazoo on Wednesday, March 2
    06:01 - Chad Heckler on Facebook | Chad Heckler’s Custom Guitars
    07:26 - my TwitPic photo (taken at Vreeland Market, before going to Schmoe’s Cantina. Now that I think of it, I should go take a photo of my vandalism)
    14:20 - Mickey’s Audio Island
    14:39 - wrong again.  It was the 1998 Winter Tour (which, in my defense, was at least a continuation of the “Havana Daydreamin’” tour) and tickets went on sale on a Tuesday and not a Monday. 
    15:21 - their behavior inspired us to write some parody songs, one by Mike and one by me
    20:34 - Swine Not, from Amazon
    21:04 - Swine Not, for the Nook
    21:30 - According to Trading Stocks, Borders is closing their Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Grosse Point, and Utica locations.  Schmoe, however, has reminded me there are three Borders in Ann Arbor, and the one closing is in the Arborland Mall.  “For the record,” he writes, “the huge. two-floor, campus Borders is staying open and the one on the outskirts, right near US-23 and the Ypsi borderline, is the one closing.”
    22:17 - Leah Flanagan
    31:59 - a time jump
    40:04 - another time jump (Jimmy was about to introduce “Bama Breeze”)
    41:56 - an obvious time jump
    42:30 - if you hear the crowd chanting then you’ve got the corrected version of this episode.  An incomplete edit was online for a couple hours, by mistake.

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