Wastin' Away on the North Coast

Show Notes:
Recorded Sunday, June 30 2019 (1:30 – 8:30 PM) at Schmoie’s Backyard, Brownstown MI
     “With one week till the Pine Knob show, the boys take a look at the recent Buffett stories of 2019. Guests: Patti and Hud.”

Another report from Hooker Corner

00:27 – New York Times Magazine article, “The Day the Music Burned“:

Eventually the flames reached a 22,320-square-foot warehouse that sat near the King Kong Encounter. The warehouse was nondescript, a hulking edifice of corrugated metal, but it was one of the most important buildings on the 400-acre lot. Its official name was Building 6197. To backlot workers, it was known as the video vault.
[…] The term “video vault” was in fact a misnomer, or a partial misnomer. About two-thirds of the building was used to store videotapes and film reels, a library controlled by Universal Studios’s parent company, NBCUniversal. But Aronson’s domain was a separate space, a fenced-off area of 2,400 square feet in the southwest corner of the building, lined with 18-foot-high storage shelves. It was a sound-recordings library, the repository of some of the most historically significant material owned by UMG, the world’s largest record company.
[…] The vault housed tape masters for Decca, the pop, jazz and classical powerhouse; it housed master tapes for the storied blues label Chess; it housed masters for Impulse, the groundbreaking jazz label. The vault held masters for the MCA, ABC, A&M, Geffen and Interscope labels. And it held masters for a host of smaller subsidiary labels. Nearly all of these masters — in some cases, the complete discographies of entire record labels — were wiped out in the fire.

02:01 – the list is part of a follow-up article, “Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire”
02:19 – R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me? #58: Peter Buck Talks R.E.M. Live from Clusterfest. The voices in order are Peter Buck, Scott Aukerman, and Adam Scott.
05:58 – New York Post: “Oklahoma Jimmy Buffett fans mysteriously fall ill while vacationing in Dominican Republic”
08:26 – the scene Schmoe is referring to
18:48 – The Margaritaville Podcast, at Margaritaville.com.
21:04 – Coral Reefer, at Surterra.com
28:41 – how quaint, Mickey thinks you have to buy something called an “album” to listen to one song
36:09 – the Roger Clyne podcast begins now
47:09 – the above image, zoomed in and cropped, was originally accompanied by the caption “Hi Hooker Lady”
62:14 – audio from WTF #1,034: David Lee Roth

Show Notes:
Recorded Sunday, June 30 2019 (1:30 – 8:30 PM) at Schmoie’s Backyard, Brownstown MI
     “Schmoe, Mike, & Mickey are back together! In the first part of a marathon backyardcast, the boys discuss website woes and learn Mickey doesn’t know the difference between months and years. (Dedicated to the memory of Sparky.)”

Schmoe shows off his owl

Stealth bunny

Army deer

Our poor site, for one week in June

01:50 – unfortunately we’ve been unable to identify the bird in question. It appeared to have a white breast, gray wings, with some yellow near its tail feathers.
12:34 – Mike texted the Air Margaritaville photos on Sunday, June 16, at 7:43 PM.
15:49 – Mike is confused. We’ve discussed it via text; we obviously did not podcast about it.
19:41 – by “screen” Mickey means “site”.
20:40 – the scammers were attempting to imitate Absa Online, which is actually located at http://www.absa.co.za.
22:00 – oh, the hubris of trying to tell a story from memory while tipsy. The exact figures are $49.99 a month, which comes to $600 annually, but they’ll knock off a month if you pay for the whole year, which you have to do anyway since you can’t pay monthly. This makes it come to $550 a year, not “a month”.
23:05 – actually their quote was for $285
24:11 – Mickey is getting his numbers confused and is incapable of doing math in his head. He’s gotten $550 and $600 confused. But, like we said, the figures are $50 a month coming to $600 a year, reduced to $550.
32:30 – not exactly true. Norton Safe Web provides site owners with convenient links on the report page. Site Advisor’s contact page can be found via search engine.
36:23 – audio clip from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, June 12.