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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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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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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

      >  Download Episode 47

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.

      >  Download Episode 46

Show Notes:
Recorded Friday, July 20 2007 (11:00 PM – 12:00 AM), at Silver Sands Resort, Mears MI
    “A remote podcast from the upper reaches of the Lower Peninsula. Mickey joins Mike & Schmoe on their annual Silver Lake pilgrimage, by the shores of Lake Michigan, to review White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean and to hold an HP7 vigil.”

    Your humble podcasters spent most of the last week on vacation, up north at Silver Lake. Since the core group was all together, we recorded two shows, both of which have now been uploaded. Along with recording, we also shot lots of photographs, many of which can be viewed over in our Gallery.
    And now, the notes:
    01:59 – I’m trying to recall information I learned twenty years ago in one my geology class, when my instructor described the North Pole glaciers growing bigger, increasing southward, and pushing sand into the moraines which became the dunes along our Lake Michigan shoreline. According to this informative PDF from the Geological Survey Division, “These dunes are a result of massive ice sheets which covered Michigan, and much of North America, during what geologists call the Pleistocene Epoch, some 1,800,000 years ago. Glaciers transported sand and other materials and deposited them as glacial drift. Large masses of glacial ice gouged out the basins that now confine the Great Lakes.”
    03:29 – I’m revealing a common prejudice. Your right palm is not a map of Michigan, it’s a map of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. You’ll need your left palm too, pinkie tucked in if possible and thumb pointing slightly upward, for the Upper Peninsula.
    06:10 – it was actually my coworker’s jury duty. I could not take a vacation day because I had to cover for him, and if he was chosen for a jury I probably wouldn’t be able to go up to Silver Lake at all. He was part of a jury pool in a case with a black defendant, and the defense attorney was fairly obviously trying to get as many African Americans onto the jury. My coworker’s name got picked, but he was quickly dismissed. And that, since it allowed me to take Thursday and Friday off, is the kind of racism I can live with!
    06:54 – long story short, I dropped a brand new HD camcorder into the lake. I was disembarking from our boat and the camera fell into the surf. Mike spotted it first and when he lifted it up the camcorder had water pissing out of it from every opening and crevice. What really hurt it more than the water was the sand. Even though it was in the water for only a few moments, it somehow got gritty sand all inside its works. I’ve let it sit for several days and was eventually able to power it up, get the LCD viewfinder working, as well as its CMOS chip; but there’s still so much sand in the works that I yet to get the tape ejected.
    07:51 – Goin’ Coastal. Goin’ Coastal! Goin’ Coastal. Why couldn’t I think of that during the show?!
    08:46 – some piece of shit with the inevitable “.ru” extension took advantage of the fact our e-mail was a catch-all. We had fun creating new e-mail names to use, secure that they’d all wind up safely at our podcast@northcoastcast.com location. But, early on the morning of July 9, some took advantage of our catch-all and started spewing out all sorts of bullshit, male enhancement e-mails with our domain name. Between that asshole’s spam and all the Mailer-Daemon replies, we were inundated with hundreds and hundreds of e-mails filling up our inboxes.
    And now the fun is over. Because of that shitsucker, we had to disable our address being a catch-all.
    Our three working e-mail address are podcast@northcoastcast.com, podcast@wastinaway.net, and, if you’d like to send us an audio comment, northcoastcast@gmail.com.
    14:30 – in fact, Texas Connection, which ran weekly on TNN (1991-1992), was hosted by Jerry Jeff Walker. [Source.]  I can’t find any video links, so maybe I might have to dredge up some 3/4″ player and digitize my tape.
    20:48 – this is answered in Episode 46
    22:15 – the book was torrented the previous Tuesday. Despite what Scholastic said, it was obviously not a fake, and I couldn’t resist finding out the ending. I figure it’s not a spoiler when it’s the book itself giving the secrets away. And besides, it was too difficult to read as much as I wanted to on vacation, and now the pressure was off me trying.

      >  Download Episode 45A