Episode 173: The Mothra Twins

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 27 2013 (10:45 – 11:30 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “The concert date has been announced, the advertisements have been posted. Time for the mostly annual ‘ticket-buying adventures’ podcast! (Special appearance by Jacob. The Clyne cast starts at 38.22.)

    01:18 – I admit, I overreacted. After all, we are all of us members of the FSGL.
    03:31 – nope; for once I was fairly accurate
    04:47 – no, as you can see (below) Jackson Browne is mentioned the newspaper article
    09:32 – “Buffett’s appearance at Comerica Park last July marked the largest single-night Buffett concert in history.” (Source: WXYZ.com)
    11:27 – as you can probably guess, some variation on “Motor Casity Casino” was in the running as episode title for quite a while
    12:17 – all that got forwarded to us:

An unsuccessful forward

    13:21 – what Patti forwarded to us:

A successful forward

    15:47 – an effort was made to record the conference call, but, by either hooking something up to my cellphone or by calling in through Skype; but, frankly, I was leery of complicating or jeopardizing things
    18:58 – “the first time”; that is last year, when I first used tickets.com. All these adventures are quite similar to last years, as heard in Episode 162.
    24:31 – and my tickets showed up in the mail eight days later
    28:54Life as a Pirate Hooker, as seen on Facebook
    29:13 – which we reviewed in Episode 164
    30:53 – a “Convenience Fee” of approximately $27 per ticket, with a last-second $5 “Order Processing” fee as a parting shot
    41:03 – audio from Car Talk Show #1311, March 16 2013

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.

BONUS: 2013 Radio Ad

    It’s the new radio ad, recorded a day earlier than expected. As with last year, I recorded WYCD 99.5 FM (about fifteen hours’ worth, over two days) and caught the commercial at around 11:05 EDT this morning…

    (As usual, the ending got a little clipped; but since most of the music is yet again from Feeding Frenzy I just used my CD to create a nicer fade-out.)

Episode 172: A Lousy Crew

Show Notes:
Recorded Wednesday, March 6 2013 (10:45 – 11:45 PM) at Zodiac Racquet Club, Southgate MI
    “Schmoe, Mike, and Mickey take a look at the new Robert Greenidge steel drum Buffett tribute CD. (Guest appearances by Jennifer and Lee.) (The Roger Clyne cast starts at 5:46.)

    Get Robert G’s A Lovely Cruise album from Mailboat Records
    03:51 – “Cincinnati Margaritaville Opens Today”, from Buffett News | “Margaritaville Cincinnati Opens Tonight!”, from Buffett World. I got thrown off by the “Today!”; the grand opening was actually couple days prior to our recording
    05:37 – RCPM’s Circus Mexicus
    08:49 – “Margaritaville Resort Coming to St. Thomas”, from Buffett World | “Margaritaville Vacation Club coming to St Thomas”, from Buffett News
    09:14 – and while you’re getting the Robert G album, you can also get Mishka’s Ocean is My Potion EP from Mailboat Records
    12:33 – I would dispute this, but I don’t own the original LPs and, like I said, don’t have liner notes
    19:07 – the bass reminds of both “Graceland” (the song) and “I Know What I Know”
    24:36 – we’ve been making fun of Schmoe’s girlish tote bag for a while, which one of his sisters had given him as a present
    29:51 – note that expert three-syllable pronunciation of “karaoke”