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Tuesday, May 8 2007

Episode 37: The Roger Clyne Interview

Show Notes:
Recorded Sunday, May 6 2007 (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM), at Casa de Mike, Canton MI
    “Attack of the Clyne podcast!  It’s trying to completely take over our Jimmy Buffett talk!  ...Thanks to all who helped set up the interview and thanks to Roger for being part of our show and for two great concerts.”

    Show opening recorded Thursday, May 3 2007 at Ferndale’s Magic Bag theater, using the same gear with which we record our podcast.
    For those keeping score, here’s Roger’s setlist for that night

Hello New Day
Counterclockwise
Banditos
Bury My Heart at the Trailer Park
Maybe We Should Fall in Love
Tell Yer Momma
Contraband
Wanted
World Ain’t Gone Crazy
¡Americano!
Mexico
Plenty
I Don’t Need Another Thrill
Hourglass
Wake Up Call
Leaky Little Boat
Junebug in July
Bottom of the Bay
Jack vs José
King of the Hill Theme
Noisy Head
Ándale
Goon Squad
Mekong
Green and Dumb
Down Together
Lemons

    Mike and Schmoe and Scott had a busy weekend, heading off to Chicago the following day for another RCPM show; and then, recording the phone interview on Sunday.
    It was Mike who got the ball rolling regarding the interview.  He contacted Patrick Steven Patterson at Lotus Nile.com, back at the beginning of April, and was able to negotiate a twenty-minute phone interview.  We had hoped to use the interview to promote Roger’s local appearance, but it didn’t work out in time.  Mike happened to meet Roger before the concert (despite what I say in the post-show gabfest), bumping into him outside the rear of Magic Bag.  Mike, once again wearing his classic “The Peacemakers” t-shirt (as seen here, from the previous year), introduced himself and we were delighted to hear Roger was not only aware of the upcoming interview but even remembered the time (4 PM CDT).  He told us he’d be calling from the back of his tour bus, between his Minneapolis and Des Moines appearances.
    So that we could all participate, we used a phone service called Free Conference.com.  This isn’t necessarily an endorsement since the results did not sound all that great.  Using individual phones backfired on us, since a lot of echo and crosstalk got picked up.  I also dialed in using Skype, and got better results that way; and the finished product is a blend between both recordings (plus plenty of tweaks and filters).
    Learn more about Circus Mexicus here.  (The name Schmoe was trying to say is “Puerto Peñasco”.)  And learn more about RCPM’s No More Beautiful World CD here.  Scott’s songwriting question refers specifically to the title track from Honky Tonk Union and “Switchblade” from ¡Americano!.  You can see the RCPM tour bus in our photo gallery.  And as long as you’re looking up RCPM CDs, here’s the link for Sonoran Hope and Madness, originally released by Margaritaville Records.  You can try meeting Roger at 3 Margaritas.  And this is the Mexican Moonshine website, but there’s not much there yet.
    Not surprisingly, the other live track, “Lemons”, also stems from the May 3 show.  You can hear Mike and Scott cheering at the beginning, over their upcoming Chicago show.  Shurman was the opening act, and you can go to their website or visit them at MySpace.  The performance here is heavily edited, for time reasons.  (There’s also a performance of it in Episode 33.

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Episode 37B: Special Features Bonus Disc

Show Notes:
Recorded Sunday, May 6 2007 (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM), at Casa de Mike, Canton MI
    “The Roger Clyne Podcast Strikes Back, as the boys present some deleted scenes from Episode 37.”

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Thursday, May 3 2007

Episode 36: Ready for Prime Time

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, May 2 2007 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM), at Joe’s Prime Time, Brownstown MI
    “We celebrate our first year anniversary by going back where we started: Big Al’s, now known as Joe’s Prime Time. Greg and Laurie join us to take a look at the start of the Bama Breeze tour and to announce our new contest. Special guests: Elise, DJ, and Joe himself.”

    Happy First Anniversary to Us!  I couldn’t resist bringing out the old theme songs for the occasion.  You could also consider this our first episode of Season 3.  And it’s also our return to Big Al’s in Brownstown, now that golf season has resumed.
    Big Al’s is now Joe’s PrimeTime.  We did a site recce the week before, wondering if the back room had been renovated, like the new owner had planned.  We were a bit dismayed to find how loud the place was, and we wondered if we might have to find a new venue at which to record.  Fortunately, things were much calmer and cooler tonight.
    02:18 - yes Gregular (aka Oops) is back.  His mention of “bikers” is because every month our back room is stolen from us by a big group of scary and intimidating bikers, on the first Wednesday of the month.  It coincided with our attempts to record tonight, too, but fortunately they vacated the back room by the time we were ready to record.  Greg’s least popular Top Ten list was back in Episode 12 and the news about his house was in Episode 9
    04:58 - Jimmy gave shoutouts to Schmoe and me, but I forgot the shoutout to Scott.  He sang “If I Had a Boat” (at the 4/28 Dallas show) just because Scott ragged on Lyle Lovett in the last episode. 
    07:35 - we talked all about that during last week’s site recce, which, despite the music blasting through the bar, Scott apparently thought was being recorded for a show
    10:23 - just a couple days after Mike mentions the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurants, there’s news the chain might be closing.  Could this be the fifth shoutout?
    13:16 - every time Scott mentions Heather I think he’s talking about Heather Dee Perry.  But really he’s talking about Heather’s music blog
    13:18 - you might not be able to hear it, but Greg mentions how he’d been on a flight with the Beach Boys.  They’d been in First Class, but they graciously came back to greet passengers and sign autographs.
    13:45 - Schmoe and I were too superstitious to say anything about the upcoming interview; but it’s safe to say, now, that the interview in question is in Episode 37
    14:47 - here’s BuffettNews’s information on Jimmy’s June 8^th Paris show
    15:34 - I first learned of Mike’s uncharacteristic abhorrence of all things Amish back during our Caseville road trip.  Ask him about it.  It’s an eye-opener.  And it’s difficult to answer Greg’s question since stats on Amish Internet usage are very hard to find.  I think they use a proxy or something.
    16:08 - I was miffed when Elise brought me a Bud, but the recording clearly reveals I asked for a Bud and not a Bud Light.  My mistake.
    17:04 - Heidi’s appendix scar photo can be found at the FSGL photo gallery [seventh picture down]
    17:31 - am I the only one hearing everyone say “euphenism” instead of “euphemism”?
    23:03 - why do I suddenly sound Canadian?  I think it must be pirate residue
    24:22 - I forgot all about that Margaritaville Tequila promo CD until Schmoe mentioned it.  Later that night, while editing the recording, I impulsiely gave eBay anothet shot.  I’d been unable to get the CD when it first came out, but got to snap up a copy quite easily now.  Schmoe got one too, the following day—despite his personal boycott against eBay (as discussed in Episode 21).  But, thank you to Listeners Tom and Josh for offering to help out
    25:12 - did Laurie just say “a cherry between my bosoms”?!   Yes, she did.



    Hey!  How many copies of “Margaritaville” do you own?  Let us know, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and you could win a WAOTNC t-shirt!

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Friday, April 20 2007

Episode 35: Live at Zodiac Racquet Club

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, April 18 2007 (10:00 PM - 11:00 PM), at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “We spend our last night at Zodiac talking about the Live at Texas Stadium CD.  Scott gets back pain, Schmoe writes a new pirate play, Mickey is blind as a bat, and Mike has a long drive.”

    We’re sorry about the delay in getting out this new episode.  (We meant to record last week but our schedules would not allow it.)  And now for the show notes, in a different format this time.
    07:28 - Eli Zaret, is a local sports reporter and announcer.  He’s known for a voice so husky and gravelly it makes you wonder how he got so big in broadcasting.
    09:00 - the Season 1 Kids in the Hall skit is actually about the film Citizen Kane.  Transcript here.
    10:17 - Listener Tom of Maryland points out BuffettNews has already posted the full setlist of the Texas Stadium show.  CMT also has a setlist and review.
    16:44 - link to Amazon’s page for the Willis Alan Ramsey album; and you can read-along-with-Schmoe here
    21:44 - the reason Scott sounds so far away is, by this time, he was sitting on the floor, resting his back against the wall
    23:38 - “Heaven” is the name of this Uncle Kracker / Kid Rock / Paradime collaboration, off the CD Double Wide
    25:33 - this week’s pirate joke, perhaps from Pirate Jokes.net, turned out to be such a cluster it was assumed I would edit it down into some semblance of coherence.  However, hearing the whole thing fall apart was too much fun.  Even so, this final product is still slightly edited down (mostly to remove all the times everyone had to repeat my lines for me).
    27:09 - you can learn more about my afflication from the National Keratoconus Foundation or the Center for Keratoconus
    27:22 - I link to James Gunn’s links to the infamous David O Russell video.  Gunn is himself a film director (Slither) and I found his comments on Russell’s behavior illuminating
    28:48 - Jason Alexander used the same joke in the finale of the third episode of NBC’s Thank God You’re Here, which aired Monday, April 16 (and not “last night”, as I implied)
    29:06 - my snotty response to Schmoe’s pirate joke is based on a David Letterman catchphrase
    29:54 - a boat being named the Seaward is from the Arrested Development episode “The One Where They Build a House” (and a boat being named C-Word is from the series finale “Development Arrested”)

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Saturday, March 31 2007

Episode 34: And We Wound Up Casting All Night

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 28 2007 (9:30 PM - 11:00 PM), at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Our album review is Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes—containing plenty of latitude changes itself, as we detour past class songs, our first CDs, Roger Clyne, broken iPods, hidden tracks, and pirate jokes. Guest appearance by Smooth Jazz 98.7.”

    Larry, proprietor of Zodiac Racquet Club, offered, on the Friday prior to our recording (our so-called “monthly” poker night), to set up a special and secluded spot for us this time.  He assured us it would be quiet, but as you can tell it was not.  I swear the Smooth Jazz sounds must be so constant the Zodiac staff have become immune.  But, as Colonel Tigh would have pointed out, “It’s in the FRAKKING SHIP!”
    We were in a room neighboring the salon.  Larry promised us a table and chairs, but these turned out to be a kind of end table and an assortment of bar stools and chair parts.  Scott, in fact, reclined on a seatback resting on the floor, while I stood by the doorway.  Behind me was the salon area, but about the only remaining fixture was a black sink.  I was tempted to turn on the tap, for some aural evidence, but Mike warned me we had been told not to run the water.  The sink was not connected anymore and turning it on would probably send water gushing into the racquet court below.  This felt like even more of an incentive, but I restrained myself.
    And thus, with the stage set, let us proceed with the show notes:
    First off, the oft-mentioned Watering Hole.
    Are there any Parrotheads interested in old Snoop Dogg news?
    Read along with Schmoe!  Here’s that Norbert Putnam article, from Mix Online.
    The Euphoria spelling was brought up in Episode 29.
    Greg also talked about WJR’s JP McCarthy playing “Margaritaville” in Episode 12.
    Schmoe’s predisposition for commas was also exhibited in Episode 32.

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Thursday, March 22 2007

Episode 33: The Bournemouth and District Amateur Clynecologists

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 21 2007 (9:00 PM - 11:00 PM), at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The Roger Clyne podcast (which starts at 13:45) threatens to take over the whole episode.  BW Dream Setlists and BN March Madness are also touched on; and Mike and Schmoe gripe about pop stars and iTunes, respectively.  Guest appearances by Jennifer and Lee.”

    Our hideout was nowhere near as crowded as last time and we had no trouble setting up in our recording studio.  The food was ravioli for Schmoe and pizza for the others.  The drink was a pitcher of Amber Bock, bottles of Bud Light (for me), and water.  My “She blushes” comment is a quote from the “Shindig” episode of Firefly.
    There was a lot more behind-the-scenes commentary about the BuffettNews.com Buffett News podcast.  Here’s a blog page exclusive outtake.

Bank of Bad Habits ATM Card, from AOL’s Parrot Key

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Bum Rush the Charts

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    Today’s the day to follow this link, give 99¢, and show the RIAA the power and reach of podcasting.  Not only can you help make a statement, but a percentage of your purchase goes to college scholarships.     (Of course our putting this on our blog as opposed to discussing it in our podcast kind of muddies the waters a little.)

Friday, March 16 2007

“You Realize Of Course That This Means War”

    Holy crap!  It’s an emergency!  Those asshole announcers who do the Buffettnews.com Audio Broadcast [iTunes link] have knocked us off the iTunes page for Jimmy Buffett podcasts!  We need your help.  We hate begging for responses—we usually only beg for donations to Scott’s Paypal accout—but iTunes bases podcast popularity by comments as well as downloads, so please go to iTunes and leave a comment about our podcast [iTunes link].  Only in this way can justice prevail.

“Generations of theatrical expertise, snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye!”