Episode 192: Dealing With a Third Leg

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, July 9 2014 (10:30 – 11:30 PM) at Joe’s Prime Time, Gibraltar MI
    “Latest news, Comerica plans, and the last two concerts from the second leg of the tour.

    “It’s a Thing” was in the running for show title, but it was deemed to be too much like Episode 183.
    This year’s TV commercial.
    “Buffett’s restaurant in Waikiki to close”, at Buffett News. “Jimmy Buffett’s at The Beachcomber in Hawaii to Close”, at Buffett World.
    “Buffett Files to Trademark ‘Coral Reefer’”, at Buffett World.
    Here’s a clip of “Summer Overture” from that Margaritaville TV capture (matching the concert montage edit). (Look here for the complete concert video.)

    The new location of my old Mickey’s Audio Island site, which, yes, I admit, really needs to be revamped and updated.
    As for Chicago, Jimmy’s a cappella “Oh my lordy” preceded “Too Drunk to Karaoke”; as you can kind of tell, the “Mac McAnallius” followed “Little Martha”.
    Schmoe’s favorite caption, as seen in our WAOTNC Photo Gallery.
    Interview with Paul Sabourin from the A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume podcast. Get your potential band names from Wikipedia’s Girl Scout Cookies entry. The complete “Buffett Night (Tonight I’m a Parrothead)” song can be found on Paul & Storm’s 2005 album Opening Band. (Get it from Amazon [US]. Get it from iTunes [US].)

BONUS: 2014 TV Ad

    Just discovered this has been sitting on my DVR since Saturday, May 3. It was aired during Saturday Night Live. As with last year’s, it’s a standard-def ad, which I resized to remove the window-box matting.

Comerica Park Parrothead Tailgate 2013

    At last, we’ve edited last year’s video footage for this little snapshot of tailgating outside the 2013 concert at Comerica Park, Detroit MI. Recorded Saturday, July 20, you can see many of the things we discussed in Episodes 178 and 179: our steak and lobster lunch, the limo ride, drunk chicks, the glitter stand, the confetti cannon, and the Jackson Browne fan next to Mike’s wife.


    Update (May 3): I discovered an unfortunate flash cut in the video, which I’ve removed. I also tweaked a couple other shots, and the above video has been replaced with the revised one.
    Also, the video is also available on our Vimeo page. I haven’t decided if it looks better or not, but you can judge for yourself below:

Tekzilla

    Worlds collide. Jimmy Buffett showed up in this morning’s Tekzilla podcast.

    (The video hosted at Revision3 is no more. We’ve replaced it with a copy from YouTube.)

Tsu Dunk to Meri Okee

    Mike’s most favoritest song on the new album is out on video. Exclusively from CMT.com, a week later than expected.

    (Evidently CMT’s “exclusivity” has run out. The video now comes from YouTube, courtesy of Vevo and Margaritaville.)

World’s Dumbest

    I’m already regretting uploading this video, but I like sharing Buffett mentions in pop culture — even if it might reinforce certain stereotypes about Buffett fans by showing a few concertgoers at their worst.
    Here’s a clip from TruTV’s World’s Dumbest. It originally aired November 20 2008 but I caught a rerun of it on May 10 (and finally saw it tonight).
    Enjoy at a distance … and please, don’t be like these guys.

Blanks and Empty Spaces

    I admit it: I have been terribly remiss in maintaining show notes for the podcast. In fact, we barely had any show notes for all of 2012 and almost half of 2011! In trying to correct this, I discovered twenty-three episodes are still needing show notes, covering a span of almost two years. Talk about slacking.
    I’m confessing this now, not only to beat myself up about it, but as preface to posting a two-year old video. While going back to do the show notes for Episode 152, I was reminded how we did not have a tailgate video for 2011. We’ve got parking lot videos for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012 (as well as 1999 and 2000, and a 1998 roadtrip), but I never did post one for 2011 — mainly because I had never gotten around to editing it. I had my reasons, however. The footage wasn’t so great, for one thing; it had been so hot that day I hadn’t gone around and shot as much as I’d wanted to. Plus there’s an actual sweat stain on the camera lens, and I never noticed it all day since the sun was so bright. I was so dissatisfied with the footage I kept avoiding working with it.
    But, in going through the episode again, I decided to go ahead with the edit anyway, just for the sake of it. So, here’s the 2011 tailgate video, out of the archives…

    Update: That’s what happens when you impulsively start a video project. I did the edit so fast I completely forgot to include my concert footage. It wasn’t till I was doing the show notes for Episode 156 that I remembered the shot of the pirate ship on the lawn. It’s been added in now, plus a few other shots, making the video forty-five seconds longer.

2013 TV Ad

    Recorded at around 3:00 PM this afternoon, on Fox Sports Detroit…

    Note: although recorded off an HD channel, the commercial itself was in window-boxed standard-def.

Brown Eyed Boy

    All due respect to Jimmy (and Van Morrison), but this might be my new favorite version of “Brown Eyed Girl”…