Episode 135A: The First Half

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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.)”

    00:36 – looks like Scott last joined us back in Episode 129! Sheesh!
    01:26 – our tenth season, right? But Season 9 feels like a writers’ strike season, since we did so few episodes. Or maybe an AMC season.
    01:31 – watch the documentary and get the lowdown on that “shadows tall” line in the show notes for Episode 98
    03:32 – apparently Schmoe thinks Caseville is like Brigadoon
    03:47 – Cheeseburger in Caseville (and another link to our 2006 videos)
    03:56 – No. In 2006 and 2007.
    06:15 – a callback to Mike and Schmoe’s Mexican vacation, which was discussed in Episode 69A
    09:12 – which would be August 14
    10:07 – the Freep‘s Cheeseburger in Caseville article, from August 5
    10:44 – the article as sent to Mickey by Mike, in PDF format
    11:29 – yes, all this time Scott has been absorbed in reading the Tom Corcoran book Mike brought for show-and-tell
    12:07 – Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years (2006) by Tom Corcoran
    12:50 – Air Dance Iguana (2005) by Tom Corcoran
    15:39 – Life Lessons of a Legend by Brad Manard | Steve Goodman: Facing the Music by Clay Eals | Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy: The Porpoise Driven Life by Erin McKenna & Scott L Pratt
    25:41 – here’s Schmoe’s photo, sent way back on the morning of July 31. We saved it for the podcast rather than posting it on Twitter; little did we know how long it would take till we got around to discussing it.

Schmoe’s Momentous Discovery
(the St Louis bottle is on the right)

    And here’s what Schmoe wrote to accompany the photo. We assume he was drunk.

Where is YOUR Landshark From?

To my fellow Shark lovers,
When Mick enlightened me this week that I had Landshark at Nate’s party that was from St Louis, I realized I look numerously at the ‘Jacksonville’ on the label and never saw another city. I checked it out and, YES, I had Sharks from both cities in the Cantina Icebox. Not only that, but the St Louis bottle is a shorter longneck. The St Louis brew was a full case I purchased. The Jacksonville lager was personally delivered inside a 12 pack per usual. (Still, Zodiac considers our beer an ‘import’, but I digress…)
I conducted a taste test last night. They both rated the same: wet, cold, smooth, lime-friendly, relaxing, and an excellent finish with a high chill factor.
I provided a photo for reference.
End of report…for now…….

    29:01 – Caribbean Blue
    30:51 – here’s some of Mike’s video footage from Comerica Park (uploaded September 6 but then revised and re-uploaded on the 7th)

All the mentions of Brian are explained in Episode 128.
    31:35 – the Tigers lost to the Angels, 4-2 (from the Detroit Tigers.com scoreboard)
    31:44 – some clips of the dust-up from MLB.com
    32:42 – Park Colony Club
    35:52 – …still waiting…
    36:24 – Air Margaritaville‘s song “Whatever It Was I Didn’t Do It” is off their Cayo Hueso CD.
    37:46 – the obligatory Commonwealth Displays link
    40:03 – this was just mentioned in the previous entry, but here’s a link to it anyway
    43:18 – will Scott find Margaritaville Rum at Meijer’s? Stay tuned…

Mon Soon Come

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    Scott’s prayers have been answered. Margaritaville Rum has been sighted in our area — but it was Mike who spotted it.
    Here’s Mike’s slightly live report from his neighborhood Meijer’s…

“M’ville Rum at Meijer!!”

“My Meijer M’ville shopping spree. Notice the new ‘Extra Thick Restaurant Style’ chips.”

Episode 134: Dinner for Schmoes

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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.)”

    01:56 – a pre-order link for the Margaritaville Liquor Chiller from The Green Head, with some nice large images
    06:03 – Greg’s Concoction Maker video review, from Episode 75
    06:48 – This July 27 RCPM concert was streamed live, via XERS. (Guitarist Brian Blush was with Roger Clyne in The Refreshments, from 1994 to 1998.)
    10:36 – “Surprise Show at the Margaritaville Niagara Falls“, from Buffett News | “Buffett Playing Surprise Show at Margaritaville Niagara Falls“, from Buffett World
    12:20 – Margaritaville Cargo contest submissions, on YouTube
    13:13 – Margaritaville Beach Hotel contest
    13:43 – Sammy’s fighting words
    14:10 – YouTube video of Greg “Fingers” Taylor for NuHart. At the time, we did not notice the video is from 2007 (which explains why he’s still listed as a resident of Oxford MI).
    15:40 – 2008 lawsuit
    17:07 – The Persian Jimmy Buffett, from the Mysterious Glow blog
    17:57 – scene from The Music Man (1962), with Hermione Gingold and Shirley Jones
    19:19 – as we mentioned on Twitter, here’s more information about the Detroit Tigers’s Parrothead Night at Comerica Park
    26:34 – “Mississippi Missing from Buffett & Friends Tee Shirt“, from Buffett News
    29:17 – M’ville footwear
    30:13 – Orange21’s Margaritaville eyewear, as discussed in Episode 123

Dustin

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    Listener Jon clued us in, back on Monday, that the comic strip Dustin was doing a whole, week-long series on parrotheads. Or more specifically, middle-aged parrotheads. Here are all five panels (from July 26 to July 30).
    Update: we uploaded too quickly, forgetting about the Saturday strip. Here’s the newly-corrected, complete run:

    As a middle-aged parrothead, I frankly don’t see the humor in this.

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

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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!
    00:46 – John Wayne Gacey, in Wikipedia
    01:03 – It clown, from Google
    01:56 – Mike first shared that dyslexic joke in Episode 124
    02:22 – NPR’s “Clowns Teach People Not To Be Afraid Of … Clowns” story (from June 17)
    07:22 – Schmoe, in his July 20 email, called Patti out thusly: “Patti — we NEED your voice and stories. I mean, seriously, how many times in a row can you pimp us? You have to show up to something SOMEtime! {This is Schmoe, calling Patti out.}”
    11:43 – the AP article which mentioned Zach backing out, from AL.com
    14:59 – Lulu, not Lulu
    15:50 – the One Love One Ocean t-shirt from Lulu’s site
    17:36 – I echo complaints about the the From the Big Apple to the Big Easy charity DVD, from Episode 14
    18:27 – clip from NPR’s “Oil Spill Means Dismal Summer For Gulf Beach Town“, July 1
    21:43 – “Mayor Shows Impatience with Biloxi Margaritaville Casino” on Buffett News | “Biloxi Mayor Frustrated with Idle Casino Project” on Buffett World
    22:45 – AP article on M’ville Beach Hotel’s disappointing holiday weekend
    34:25 – music taken from Karaoke Hits & Evergreens [iTunes link]

Episode 132B: My Documents

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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’.”

    05:39 – not only was it cool to hear Jimmy “Mackinac Island” –- my favorite island –- but he pronounced it correctly too!
    05:44 – “Kalama-zoo-zoo-zoo” is, I suppose, a reference to Glenn Miller’s recording of “I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo”
    08:15 – the Jimmy/Bret Michaels duet was released as an iTunes single on July 13.
    09:43 – Jimmy and Mike have gotten a LOT of mileage out of this material over the years
    14:05 – left in because Jimmy got the album wrong
    16:41 – Episode 130
    16:55 – Fruitcake on the Radio Steve Ross from Bloomfield Hills MI
    17:58 – Munchcast #85, with Leo Laporte and Cammy Blackstone. Visit the website, listen to the episode, or watch the episode.
    29:20 – and you thought we rambled and were unprepared!

Episode 132A: My Documents

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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…
    At 27:10, that’s not an edit, that’s Jimmy jumping the gun.
    And at 29:04, those false starts were part of the concert.
    31:20 – Anderson Cooper’s interview with Jimmy Buffett: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (from CNN.com)
    Jimmy ruffled a few feathers after an interview with the Associated Press. Said Jimmy, “To me it was more about eight years of bad policy before [Obama] got there that let this happen. It was Dracula running the blood bank in terms of oil and leases.” The hosts of Fox & Friends were outraged that Jimmy called George W Bush a “Dracula”, even though Jimmy didn’t, and I’m not even sure what they think it means. We tried to bring this up during our recordings but we couldn’t muster the ire that seems to come so readily to the folks at Fox News.
    37:48 – “Video Interview with Jimmy”, via Buffett World
    43:44 – you can hear Jimmy’s comments about the brassiere at the beginning of the next episode