Show Notes:
Recorded Sunday, July 21 2007 (12:00 AM – 1:30 AM), at Silver Sands Resort, Mears MI
“Mike, Schmoe, and Mickey wrap up their Pink Crustacean review and their vacation at Silver Lake. Topics include the Chicago concert, peeing skies, HP7, and shooting stars. Catering by Chefs Jacob and Brian of the Northern Hemisphere Firewood Pizza Co.”
Note: the file first uploaded Friday morning (July 27) is incomplete. Unfortunately I was kept from correcting this for several hours. The file was re-uploaded as soon as I got home this evening (also July 27), and I encourage you to redownload Episode 45B to get the entire show. (The complete show is 25MBs. If you’ve got the 16MB file, it’s the incomplete one.) Sorry about the inconvenience, but a redownload is the only way you can hear my gadget story, Schmoe’s HP7 story, and our latest hilarious joke. 01:37 – seeing as the book went on sale at 12:01 AM, it could be argued that Sunday is the first full day for the seventh Harry Potter book. 04:13 – whose theme song, by the way, can be sung to the melody of the Itchy & Scratchy Show theme 04:33 – the cooker is like a clamshell, with a handle on each half; I probably should’ve just said that and saved everyone some time 18:08 – due to signing their non-disclosure statement, I cannot discuss the details of Mike & Schmoe’s Krazy Tahco stand 21:55 – growing up on the North Coast I had the hunch the forgotten poet was Stephen Foster. I had this feeling because Foster’s house now resides at Greenfield Village and a dog house is prominently positioned by the front porch. However, the Unpopular Poet’s dog is named Spooner and Foster’s dog is named Tray. And with songs such as “Oh! Susanna”, “Camptown Races”, “Beautiful Dreamer” and “Old Folks at Home”, Foster is hardly forgotten … so I’m not sure why I even brought this up. 26:37 – the noise they’re talking about is barely discernible on the extreme right 27:13 – yes, that is a real last name 27:43 – “The Sky is Peeing” came very close to being the episode title 32:27 – after coming home the following day, Sunday, I discovered Borders had a “Buy 3, Get the 4th for Free” sale, so Schmoe could’ve spent the same amount there without needing any luck. I think I broke his heart a little when I told him. 33:35 – learn more about the Summer Triangle here and here
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.
Show Notes:
Recorded Friday, July 6 2007 (9:00 PM – 12:00 AM), at Casa de Mike, Canton MI
“Mike will not go quietly, insisting Schmoe and Mickey podcast at his house. They review the last two concerts, look at current news, discuss the weather, and rag on Scott. Cameos by Jacob, Brian, Sarah, Ghallahad, The Jimmy Show, and a frog (and even a bit of Scott).”
The heavy editing of the previous episode tricked Mike into thinking we’d had a fun fast-paced show last week, and he wanted back in. He made a special effort to get back in on the phone, only to find the joke was on him. We recorded even longer tonight, maxing out our SD card at over three hours! Once again, I severely hacked away at the recording, in an attempt to make it bearable. 00:49 – Camp Dearborn 01:59 – Detroit News coverage of the tragic accident in Melvindale 02:15 – Commonwealth Displays site and commercial 04:04 – the Ween’s desktop hard drive died, his laptop computer started smoking, the latest iTunes 7.3 update ravaged my music library, my DVR ate most of my archived TV shows, and Schmoe has been having trouble with his new laptop. All in all, a crappy week for gadgets on the north coast. 04:04 – as discussed in Episode 17 04:14 – that’s right, mortals — I gots me an iPhone! 09:50 – Smithsonian magazine’s Inspiring Americans 10:39 – what I meant to say was the voting deadline was the day after we recorded and the winner was already announced the day before the episode went online. 11:06 – Time‘s 10 Questions for Jimmy Buffett, their full list of questions, their podcast page, and the direct link to Jimmy’s interview (or from this alternate link).
It looks like Time‘s page for Jimmy’s answers is unavailable. But Listener Tom provided this screen grab for the benefit of Buffett News forum members, which we’ll link to too. And belated congrats to Listener Tom for getting a question answered! 16:44 – Jimmy Show, recorded live Tuesday, July 3, at Monterey Music Café in Allen Park MI 17:52 – Mike, re: “Margaritaville: “Now we’ll have another copy of it.” 21:10 – Schmoenades were of course also mentioned here (in more detail) 21:29 – There’s My Wank! had a brief but disappointing run on BBC2 in the early 80s 22:37 – that old joke came from Barenaked Ladies, actually 23:09 – we’re talking mainly about the fish joke from the end of Episode 42 and the blinded-by-a-seagull joke from the end of Episode 35. Plus Greg’s performance at the end of Episode 43 24:49 – Listen to the Real Men of Genius ads here or here 27:38 – Scott’s promise came at the end of Episode 42 31:00 – if you listen closely you can hear Scott’s cameo, ragging on Jimmy for not having finished our song
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 27 2007 (8:30 PM – 11:00 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Only Schmoe, Greg, Mickey, Christina, and Jacob participating, but our look at the latest Bama Breeze Tour shows took 150 minutes to record and thirty hours to edit! (The Roger Clyne Podcast starts at 17:07.)”
I still can’t get over how we recorded for two and a half hours this night. Our panel consisted of only three people and we had little to talk about, but regardless we rambled on long enough to create our longest recording to date (till next week). Our guests were helpful in killing time too. Prime Time Joe told us about his next set of planned renovations, as well as sharing some confidential details about several real estate investments. Christina visited a lot too, telling us all about the latest developments in Grey’s Anatomy for instance.
Thanks to some perhaps heavy-handed editing, we managed to hack the show down to a show shorter and snappier length. 00:37 – no, Sammy Hagar did sell Cabo Wabo for eighty million 00:54 – read along with the Post-Gazette concert review 03:37 – the “43 or 47” quip stems from something that happened before our show started. Schmoe had Christina guess his age, and behind him Greg was helpfully holding up a hand to show four fingers followed by three fingers. This confused her however. She guessed forty-five, Schmoe said “Lower”, but because of Greg’s four-and-three hand signs she responded by guessing forty-seven. 06:39 – we discussed our most unique Buffett souvenir in the previous episode 06:43 – I used to have a photo of my unused 2001 tickets in my online diary 09:27 – no, Jimmy did not get the lyrics wrong. I edited those parts together for the heck of it 10:02 – the BufettNews setlist database confirms “King of Somewhere Hot” was not performed at Pine Knob 10:22 – you can find that 2000 “Treat Her Like a Lady” recording here 10:42 – and the coda, of course 11:57 – did I confuse the stories of Margaritaville opening Hawaii and Jimmy performing in Tahiti in December? 13:18 – that weird multi-tone hum is an airplane and a vibrating cell phone 17:29 – get your tickets for Roger Clyne at Magic Bag here 17:51 – Greg has won what?!
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 20 2007 (9:30 PM – 12:00 AM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Scott is back, joining Schmoe, Greg, and Mickey in saying a possible goodbye to Mike. We conduct a wide-ranging, free-wheeling interview with Mike, quizzing him on his Buffetty past. Special appearances by Christina, Greg 2.0, and Schmoe’s and Mike’s brood.”
00:00 – do I need to mention the episode title comes from Douglas Adams? 00:17 – Scott injured his knee playing goalie in a soccer game at the Shark Invitational the previous Friday. 02:32 – the official House Resolution No. 333 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in PDF format 02:57 – the Wizard of Oz? More like Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version, of course) 03:21 – and now it’s more like Barry Fitzgerald from The Quiet Man 04:32 – the Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewBuffett/Chesney “Tropical Twosome” quiz 05:00 – the occasional slapping sound is us trying to kill flying bugs 05:25 – Schmoe is singing “Kristina”, from Rick Springfield’s 1995 album Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet 06:00 – Jimmy did not pick up the guitar in high school, as Scott says. He picked it up in college (which Wikipedia confirms), but since the quiz specifies “freshman year” it might still be right 08:21 – hey look, there’s a poll at the bottom of this entry! 09:04 – sound effect was requested by Schmoe 09:35 – The Jimmy Show on MySpace; the Monterey Café in Allen Park 10:13 – Beer Pong rules 17::01 – what’s all this crap about 8-track? Try 8-Track Heaven or the Wikipedia entry 17:34 – Mike and I road-tripped to Deer Creek in 1990 and Cincinnati in 1998 22:31 – You can hear the Corona PR guy’s announcement here (at the bottom of the page), albeit in crappy RealAudio format. Update: I’ve since made a video of that morning’s non-event, available at our Tape Library page. 25:39 – the highly recommended Utley/Greenidge CD Heat 28:17 – Schmoe references the fifth-season “Rosebud” episode of The Simpsons 29:03 – you might notice an absence of Scott for the next four minutes. He had actually left by now, but he’ll be back for the joke — which was actually recorded before this part 32:13 – and now my John Candy impersonation: “Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three orange whips.” …Ah, I love that one. 33:32 – oh-oh, Scott set off the Greg 2.0 double entendre alarm! 34:15 – Schmoe has confessed to being the one who brushed his script against the mic 35:49 – Billy Gilbert was a frequent foil of Laurel & Hardy
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 13 2007 (10:00 PM – 11:15 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“The group is kicked outside, where we discuss Barometer Soup and make fun of Greg. Special guests: Schmoe’s kids and Elise. Background music by AC/DC.”
No bikers keeping us out of the back room this week. Instead, it was a wedding rehearsal dinner. It was nice outside, except for the mosquitoes; so big thanks to Prime Time Gina for the citronella candles. Schmoe wanted enough to start a citronella bonfire; he took a liking to that name and wondered if he could fashion a drink for it — at the same time I was wondering if he was going to try steeping citronella in his next tequila concoction. (And thanks to Gina for also turning down the AC/DC, later in the episode.) Scott was unable to join us today, as he’d injured his knee last Friday, competing in the 2007 Shark Invitational.
As mentioned, here’s Listener Sandy’s first-hand report of the Paris concert:
The trip to the concert today was great. As soon as the taxi dropped me off at the New Morning at 6pm for the 8pm concert, there was Utley and Greenidge walking on the sidewalk next to me. After getting in line (approx 50 at this time,) behind three guys from Chicago, we were exchanging pleasantries and all of a sudden Jimmy comes walking down the street on the way to what I think was a pre-party at the Best Western a few doors down, waving to all of us calling his name.
After going in to the club, it reminded me of some dive bars that you find at MSU. Red walls, a small stage , a small pit area and bistro tables and chairs. While you were waiting for the concert all of the band members were walking back and forth thru the bar saying hi to everyone. I got a seat approx 20ft from the stage. Grass skirts and shark hats were everywhere.
Jimmy and the entire Coral Reefer band comes out. He starts with Changes in Latitudes and it only gets better from there. He played all of the big 8 (fins, pirate,southern cross, etc.) He also played Artour Roche, petites enfants, pencil thin mustache and woman gone on caroline street. He ended the concert after the encore with He went to Paris. He kept saying he was playing songs that he’s wanted to play in Paris for 30yrs. He also said that this is not the last time he would be playing in Paris. (I’d go back!)
They were video taping everyone at the concert…a dvd is probably to come. They taped everyone . they went in between rows, closeups , when you were walking in…
The best of all … I got one of Jimmy’s guitar picks! It was a once in a lifetime experience. Classic Jimmy having fun.
00:02 – according to FSGL.net, Greg’s nicknames include Oops, Gregular, Dr. Feelgood, Giggles, Veal Parmesan, Mack Daddy, DAMF, G.Love, Poison Ivy, Slingblade, Oh Shit, and Chicken Taco Guy 03:59 – Schmoe’s aural double-take gets my vote as the highlight of the show 04:32 – Wal-Mart’s 2007 Shareholders Meeting page. The news about Buffett playing there comes from Blogging Stocks.com (by way of BuffettWorld.com). 11:10 – sorry Scott. That was just uncalled for. 12:21 – Schmoe is teasing Greg because a search for 1995 setlists led Greg right to my own Buffett fan site, causing Greg to e-mail us and ask if we thought the guys in the page’s photo look like us. 12:26 – and I’m teasing Mike over his belief, back in college, that the best way to study is to sleep with your text book under your pillow, where you can learn through “osmosis” 12:51 – don’t listen too closely to the AC/DC songs; this section of the episode was heavily edited. But fear not, it ends at 19:00 14:13 – the audio from Jimmy’s CompuServe upload is actually an edit. Here’s the complete “BADHABIT.WAV” sound file, plus some historical context:
17:24 – We go into more detail on how I ruined “Jimmy Dreams” for Mike in Episode 32. 17:59 – We seriously need to do a Buckeye Lake podcast, but until then here are Mike’s and my parody lyrics, for “Don’t Chu-Know” and “Remittance Man“, from August 5 1995. 20:58 – here’s an excerpt from my journal for August 1995, describing Mike’s and my first listen of the Barometer Soup CD, at Dearborn’s Blockbuster Music, on Saturday, July 30 1995:
I didn’t see Mike’s car and I didn’t spot him inside when I got to the place. I parked on the side. As I walked around the front to enter I spotted someone I assumed was Mike already sitting at the circular counter in the center of the store. It still didn’t look like him, but the other two people I could see were definitely not him. As I went inside and approached I realized it was indeed Mike. He had shorts, a tank top, and a gray and black Caribbean Soul cap on. The girl manning the counter said something to me but I didn’t catch it; I even had her repeat it too. I think it might have been about my t-shirt. She probably recognized the radiation symbol but not what the shirt meant. [It was my red Simpsons Radioactive Man t-shirt, which I’d won in a Bongo Comics contest.] The girl asked if she could help me and I pointed to the CD in front of Mike and told her I’d come to see it, that I had weekend visitation rights. She promptly disappeared, replaced by some skinny tall nerdy guy. He asked if he could help me, I asked if he had another copy of the album but sadly they didn’t. Mike and I had to share.
Mike told me the album was great, especially the opening title track. He touched a flat colored button on the panel in front of him and gave me the headphones. They were light, cheap, black Koss headphones. There was no bass whatsoever. We could’ve been hearing an AM broadcast on a tiny transistor radio. The song was okay but I wasn’t as impressed as Mike. I got so wrapped up in reading the liner notes that I hogged the headphones and almost heard all of the song. I gave Mike back the headphones and continued to read. He jumped around the track listing and we continued to switch shifts. The booklet was very attractive and certainly much nicer than I’d been led to believe by those Internet descriptions [at AOL’s Parrot Head Madness, Usenet’s alt.fan.jimmy-buffett, and the Buffett listserv]. Mike was pretty harsh about those reviewers too, saying what jerks they were and how they knew nothing. There was a sign on a stand directly in front of us bearing the cover of the album and the announcement that we could hear it in advance, starting Friday July 29, and then buy it on sale Tuesday August 1. It was nice to see MCA was actually promoting a Buffett album. Mike said it was a shame they didn’t allow drinking here; the counter and stools were very much like a bar, and it would be perfect to just have a margarita sitting there in front of us.
Our panel had no kind of read out to tell us what tracks we were on so we pretty much had to guess when switching between tracks, consulting the lyrics to find out where we were. I have little recollection now of what songs I listened to. I do remember thinking “Don’t Chu-Know” was a standout which I instantly liked. I couldn’t believe this had only gotten passing grades when Buffett had performed it live during his spring tour. In order of appearance, but in no way the order I heard them: “Barometer Soup” was an instant favorite of Mike’s, but didn’t strike me as particularly special; “Barefoot Children” was a pretty obvious attempt at connecting at the young parents in the audience and I could understand why it hadn’t been received too well in the spring; we both thought it was pretty funny how “Bank of Bad Habits” sounded just as tinny now on these headphones as it sounded on our poor quality upload, there was no difference despite what we’d hoped; “Blue Heaven Rendezvous” sounded like “Pre-You” all over again, but at least was a better attempt; I remember hearing “Jimmy Dreams” but pretty much tuned it out as soon as Mike informed me, handing the headphones over again, that it was a slow one; I remember reading about the Jim Harrison/Legends of the Fall influence on “Lage Nom Ai” but don’t recall much about first hearing the song; “The Ballad of Skip Wiley” sounded like “Hey Bartender” to me: Mike thought the lyrics sounded like the explanatory tale which would begin a sitcom: “It’s ‘The Skip Wiley Show!”; “The Night I Painted the Sky” was one of the songs I desperately rushed to get to before we left — I didn’t hear much but did enjoy the lovely string introduction; Mike played “Mexico” for me and said sadly it wasn’t what he’d expected. He said he was uncertain about the horn parts, and that it might take some getting used to. Being unfamiliar with the original, and not knowing the extent Mike had been privately hoping Buffett would cover this song, the arrangement didn’t bother me. I thought it was catchy and likeable, and I told Mike I doubted it would take too long for him to get used to it.
Perhaps I should take this opportunity to include Stu Gittelman’s review from many weeks ago, since it was much on our mind during our first listen:
Subject: Barometer Soup – Comments and Critique
Date: 12 Jul 1995 20:22:52 -0500
Well, my advance copy of Barometer Soup (I can’t wait to start calling it ‘BS’ in alt.fan) came today…so, it’s time for the King of the Grumpy Old Parrotheads to speak…my overall reaction: eeehhhh. I think this is certainly a much more *consistent* album than Fruitcakes (and somewhat better) overall. It at least has an overall texture to it that doesn’t leave you quite as schizoid as FC. It’s also certainly better than OTSTL, and, I guess, about the same as HW to me. All in all, it seems JB is trying to be the King of the Ballad on this one. That said, I’m not sure this album is that *good* either – but, after the last few, a step in the right direction. Good points summary: less produced, more Fingers Taylor, more downscale songs, fewer covers, consistent. Bad points summary: silly ranting on several tracks, it ain’t A-1-A a bit dull at times. As for the individual tracks: Barometer Soup – sets the tone pretty well: eehhh. Nothing to dislike, nothing really to like. The yuppies will like the part about escaping. Barefoot Children – given the “Buffet (sic) and Terrible Twos” thread going now on alt.fan, I’m sure this’ll become a favorite for a couple of weeks over there. A nice song, but not great. Bank of Bad Habits – I had high hopes for this song. Thought it might be a chance to have some fun. Which it was, at first. Then the crap about the seven deadly sins and the 8th deadly sin: PIZZA! Sheesh. Ruined a perfectly good song. Prediction: The pizza thing will make 5 .sig files in alt.fan w/in 1 week. Upbeat. Remittance Man – This is a good one. He put some thought into this one and it really shows. Downscale, good lyrics. Diamond as Big as the Ritz – I didn’t care for this one in concert, although it sounded better on disk. Again, not bad, not great. Blue Heaven Rendezvous – There’s a stinker on every album and this one is it. Combine his awful crooing on the Sinatra duet with an idiotic song like ‘Frenchman for the Night’ and you can get the picture. Brutal. Jimmy Dreams – WOW!!! This one blew me away. What an absolutely fantastic song. This is the best song he’s done in many years, IMHO. For the first time in a while, we’ve got an ‘honest’ song. Jimmy wrote this one for Jimmy and not for money. Far and away the best song on the album. Great lyrics. Lagie Nom Ai – We’ll need to find out what this means because I can see 20 posts a day about it. Upbeat song – definitely the successor in the Fruitcakes genre. Don’t You Know (Don Chu Kno) – I liked this one in concert and it still is a peppy tune. I thought it was pretty good until the end with this silly fade into the notes of Volcano and some White Man Rap. The killer part, for me, was when JB said “I can name that song in two notes” – and he wasn’t talking’ about God’s Own Drunk. Spoiled an enjoyable tune for me, but that comment speaks volumes about what’s happened to his music over the years. If you don’t know what I’m talking about here, you haven’t listened to You Had to be There lately. Ballad of Skip Wiley – I guess I need to read the Hiasson books to really understand this one, so I’ll pass on commentary. Decent music. The Night I Painted the Sky – another winner. Probaby the second best on the album. Quiet, but very evocative. Again, the downscale thing works well. Mexico – not being much of a James Taylor fan (I find him depressing), I was leery of this one and was pleasantly surpried by it. He sounds like he enjoys doing this one, whereas Uncle John’s Band sounded like he was going through the motions. Once again, the White Man Rap at the end was totally unecessary. I don’t know who told him this stuff was cute and funny, but it’s not. It’s silly.
———- Stu Gittelman
We found out the store closes earlier than we expected. The employees started getting a little more active. Mike told me they must close at eleven. I had the headphones then so I quickly tried to hit every song I hadn’t heard, just for the sake of it. After we left, we hung out in front of the store for a while, by my car. Still talking about the album, Mike suggested getting a beer at Miller’s Bar, next door. I of course agreed.
23:31 – no, I don’t have an actual background in musical theater. What I meant is that I have an interest in musical theater, stemming back to when I was a kid and my parents would play Broadway cast albums on Sunday afternoons. 29:48 – the guys are enamored with Elise’s “fried gold” expression (among other things), but I heard it back in 2004 on the highly-recommended Spaced DVD.
I took some photos during the postscript. You can see them here, here, and here.
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, June 6 2007 (10:00 PM – 11:30 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Greg takes Mike, Mickey, and Schmoe for a scenic drive through recent JB news, gets us lost while talking about tequila, and runs out of gas en route to the big finish; but at least an unanswered question from Episode 37 gets revealed. Special appearance by Elise.”
04:19 – Rolling Stone interview (fourth story down) 07:39 – article on the Buffetts’ DNA testing. (And not one mention of a baby daddy.) 08:25 – for old times’ sake, the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon oracle 08:49 – Greg made the mistake of admitting to us he does not have a NetFlix account, which to him means he’s stuck in the 90s 09:16 – Margaritaville Tequila in Massachusetts 12:32 – Elise had to wait on all the bikers in the back room, before we recorded. She told us they’d been nice, but there had been a lot of boob jokes. 14:43 – by “big station wagon”, I of course meant this (specifically 0:48 into it) 18:35 – Greg’s tally of Jimmy’s references to alcohol was first revealed in Episode 14 18:47 – wait for it … I correct myself at 19:03 22:14 – without trying to, without even remembering the need for it, I got Schmoe to fill in the backstory to something Scott mentioned at the end of Episode 37 23:36 – not sure what CD Schmoe’s talking about as there’s no Cookie Monster in Elmopalooza, as far as I can tell 25:38 – sounds to me like Schmoe says “pro shop” but the script says it’s really “approach shot”
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 30 2007 (10:00 PM – 12:00 AM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Schmoe and Mickey review You Had To Be There, Mike celebrates a birthday, Scott waits for his burger, Joe asks questions, Greg leaves early, Ashley serves us shots, DJ keeps checking his watch, and Elise tells a joke.”
Breaking news: Mike is changing jobs and might not be able to podcast with us. Therefore, Schmoe wants to do as many shows as possible before the change; hence, our reviewing You Had To Be There before we were prepared for it. Need a YHTBT cheat sheet so you can play along? Try the one at Buffett News’s discography or the one at Buffett World’s.
Remember when we said how nicely quiet Joe’s Prime Time was last week? That all changed this week. Evidently Joe installed a few more speakers — in our back room, and also behind us on the deck, blasting out in the empty woods beyond the bar; and when we tried to start podcasting, the noise was deafening. I have the feeling the speakers might have been newly installed because Joe wasn’t even sure how to disable them. He ended up forcibly yanking out the speaker wire for us! (You can hear Joe during the show, quizzing us on tour dates; but most of this was cut.)
Scott’s missing food order was a Western burger. He believes it was the added barbecue sauce which threw everyone off. In the interest of ful disclosure, the neon “Eat at Joe’s” sign was not directly behind Scott, but would be visible through the windows in the doors. Mike’s birthday shots cost $19, for those keeping score. We mostly had Cabo Wabo Blanco while Scott asked for Sex on the Beach.
The “hot girl”, we believe, was Staci Swartzenberg. [ Hi Staci! 🙂 ] Greg also shared the story of how he tried to impress her back then by doing stunts on his bicycle, but ended up wiping out, on his face.
One segment that arguably should have been included was when Mike’s observation (of how he got You Had To Be There a year before he ever saw Jimmy live) caused Schmoe to add that his first concert was in 1982. Scott’s was in 1986. And I’m fuzzy on my first concert, but I think it was 1984. I can’t remember if we stated this so explicitly before.
One question I’d still like answered. If Son of a Son of a Sailor came out in March 1978 and You Had to Be There came from the “Cheeseburger in Paradise” tour of Summer 1978, in support of the new album, why is there only one song from SOAOAS on it? And one thing that struck me was how clean the sound is on CD. And how quietly attentive the audience is! I especially like the solo acoustic numbers, where you can actually tell Jimmy is looking down from the way his guitar’s sound-hole picks up his voice.
For those not up on Internet memes, Schmoe’s “banter banter banter” accompaniment comes from the infamous “Badger Badger Badger” song. Unaware of the litigation over “God’s Own Drunk”? The COB,O FAQ has a brief synopsis (19th question down or fifth from the bottom).
We didn’t get to say much about “Dixie Diner” (one of Greg’s stated favorites, as well as a reported favorite of Mike’s mom), due to everyone being so distracted once Elise arrived. One point of contention was whether this should be considered an instrumental, considering Fingers’s rhyming intro. Fingers recorded this for a solo album (1996’s Harpoon Man, I believe); but since that intro was not included there, maybe the Trivia Handbook (mentioned in Episode 29) was correct after all and the track should rightly be considered an instrumental Addendum: DJ has a problem with his portrayal in the Show Description. “The summary is incorrect,” he writes. “I do not wear a watch (hence I could not be checking it). I believe I had a mosquito bite on my wrist that was distracting me for some reason???”
Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 23 2007 (9:30 PM – 11:30 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
“Discussion of the many covers of Margaritaville, as our second contest ends.”
00:04 – “God’s Juice” refers to water, or in this case ice water. I am unaware of the derivation of this, but I have a hunch Roger Clyne is involved. Perhaps someone will enlighten us in the Comments. 01:36 – my out of season “Feels Like Christmas” is a reference to Muppet Christmas Carol 02:10 – the guys will probably be ragging on Schmoe’s dinner choices for a while. Schmoe has decided to sample all the entrees, instead of just sticking with burgers 02:54 – it was Designated Driver, at RCPM’s Waterin’ Hole discussion board, who has a problem with our Fargo-ish accents link 03:08 – did Scott just call us whores? 05:04 – here’s the press release on the Biloxi casino. My reticence stems from uneasiness that Jimmy might be part of privatizing the post-Katrina coastline, which the New Orleans mayor had warned about. I was unaware however that this new casino replaces a previous casino at the same location 05:23 – Buffett News has the transcript of Nadirah’s Time After Island Time interview 10:04 – you can find our Pirate Speak translation at the right … or you can click here 10:20 – I think Greg is confusing pirates and Vikings 13:02 – in my defense, I couldn’t “read” the Excel file since I don’t have Excel 14:04 – also in my defense. Our waitress, Ashley, dropped some change and, because of my lardassitude (and my hernia), it’s a lot easier to kneel to reach the floor than it is stoop over. 15:15 – oops, I’m repeating myself. My “Margarineville” joke was already used in Episode 34! 16:28 – you guys don’t need the story about Greg’s “wireless network”, right? 18:41 – Scott’s requested Raven Symone link 20:19 – Schmoe’s eBay woes were first mentioned in Episode 21 26:16 – Marching Band version. Why not record your own? 27:45 – “unshun”, of course, comes from the “Safety Training” episode of The Office 29:16 – AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” provided by Joe’s Prime Time jukebox 32:10 – Elise was vacationing in Florida, our waitress Tara had already clocked out, and the other waitress, Ashley, flat our refused to be recorded 32:43 – it’s not over the top; it’s a hymn from St Looney Up the Cream Bun & Jam 33:38 – Schmoe included some fine print in the script for the oil tycoon: “And did I mention I suck”
Listener Tom provided this information on some of his less recognizable album titles:
Here’s an explanation to a few you had questions about:
“Wireless” – This was a show I downloaded off the FTP sites when those were still running. It was from 1999, but that’s all I know about it right now.
“Raven’s Tailgate” – This is a compilation a fellow Baltimore Raven’s Tailgater put together. It has some catchy tunes on it to get everyone ready for the game.
“Treasure Box” – This is a compilation of rare tracks put together. It was available from the FTP site and a trading vine on BuffettNEws.com. This set is five CDs. It’s 105 rare/unreleased tracks.
“Buffett Rarieties” – This is another compilation available on FTP. This was also available on the FTP sites and a vine on BuffettNews.com. This is only four CDs. It’s 58 rare/unreleased tracks.
“Escape to Margaritaville” – Apparently, this is the same CD that was titled “Pitcher Perfect”. This is the promo CD that came out with Margaritaville Tequila. It has “Margaritaville” and “Tequila”. It’s a smaller CD that was attached to the bottle. I posted a picture of it on BuffettNews.com.
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