Episode 221: BackyardCast Pt 2

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

00:27New 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.
05:58New York Post: “Oklahoma Jimmy Buffett fans mysteriously fall ill while vacationing in Dominican Republic
08:26the scene Schmoe is referring to
18:48The Margaritaville Podcast, at Margaritaville.com.
21:04Coral 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

Episode 220: A Pang on the Pane

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.

Schmoe’s Travels: Day 4

7:46 AM:

“Trying to get Wifi at M’ville Cafe
WTF”

“Sunset (over what my so thinks is Cuba)”

“Street performer that was on Broadway in Pippin (Mike stopped reading after ‘performer’)”


“Sun is setting with pirate ship #schmoeisacclimated”


“Cat Man™
Omigosh we need to talk about this dude”

“Warm sunset
Hazy at the horizon”

“Tonight Big Bird earns his keep the hard way”

“Tacos at Amigos with a view of Captain Tony’s #captainamigoschmoe”

9:15 AM:


“75″ tequilas”




2:09 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Overheard at Key West Airport
    ➤   Schmoe: by Gate agent:
    ➤   Schmoe: “Can you tell me how much fuel l need
    ➤   Schmoe: to order?

    ➤   Schmoe: Nice knowing you guys.

    ➤   Schmoe: Plus…<trying not to cry>…
    ➤   Schmoe: this little flight has no first class
    ➤   Schmoe: so I have to…ride…COACH!

    ➤   Schmoe: It’s ok tho
    ➤   Schmoe: My flight from Miami to Detroit is First Class…
    ➤   Schmoe: the risotto with white wine clam sauce
    ➤   Schmoe: should alleviate any stress from
    ➤   Schmoe: being back with common-folk

3:15 PM:

“Gassing up”

    ➤   Schmoe: Miami airport
    ➤   Schmoe: We had enough gas
    ➤   Schmoe: I went to the bathroom and
    ➤   Schmoe: when I needed to use the one sink
    ➤   Schmoe: …some dude was using it for a long time…
    ➤   Schmoe: to finish…washing…his feet.
    ➤   Schmoe: Yes, his feet.
    ➤   Schmoe: #closertoDearbornthanpreviouslythought

“First class. They warmed my nuts. #schmoeisimmature #schmoewantstogobacktothewater”

Schmoe’s Travels: Day 3

7:32 AM:

“Sunrise”

7:36 AM:

“My son Jacob asked: ‘Is that Cuba?’”

7:39 AM:

“Key West Wedding #schmoecrasheswedding”

9:10 AM:

“What I see when I lie down”


9:58 AM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Already took a nap today #schmoeacclimated

12:38 PM:

“Preparing for Swedish massage #schmoeoutofwateragain”

12:45 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Done with second nap @ 12:15

2:50 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Two guys just asked for rum.
    ➤   Schmoe: “A bottle of Captain Rum!”
    ➤   Schmoe: “No, two bottles of Captain Morgan’s
    ➤   Schmoe: Spiced Rum”
    ➤   Schmoe: Heh

3:06 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Conch is my new favorite shell food.
    ➤   Schmoe: Fritters is my new favorite grease food.

3:34 PM:

“WTF”

“Bucknut … she serves the best Conch Fritters”

“I had the Dreamsicle because of course #schmoescene”

“My son Jacob asked: ‘Is this the place you referenced, Mike? Best conch fritters.’”

“Change the sign to Krazy Taco and this is our place”

“A little Roger in Key West”


“Sloppy Schmoe’s™”

“To Greg … Here’s to life…and monkeys!”

“I just always loved the song’”

“SchmoeSelfie™
I cut off my Dreamsicle, dammit. #schmoeoutofwater #schmoecanttakeselfies”

Schmoe’s Travels: Day 2

8:16 AM:
    ➤   Schmoe: My hotel has a robe for me #firsttimeever #schmoeoutofwater

8:59 AM:

“While relieving myself of my first drink”

“Never thought I would ever see this in person #gregwasfirst #schmoeoutofwater”

9:22 AM:

Sand.   I love sand.   #makingfistswithmytoes #schmoeoutofwater

9:23 AM:




9:29 AM:

“Where I will be hanging out today…all day…the flag is for when you want someone to give you something…this is something completely new to me #poolononesideoceanontheother #schmoeoutofwater”

9:47 AM:

“They give you binoculars with breakfast here
I would like to live where you use binoculars during meals #schmoeoutofwater”

    ➤   Mike: You can do that now.  Just won’t see much.

    ➤   Schmoe: Good point.

10:25 AM:

“The special lounge-chair-feet-from-both-ocean-and-pool-phone-holder is NOT iPhone 6+ compliant #firstworldproblems #schmoeoutofwater #gettingcocky”

    ➤   Mike: Dammit.  Trip is ruined.

2:41 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: I like drinking in the middle of the day

3:17 PM:

“Landshark bucket and my newly exfoliated hand
#seasaltscrubinpublicrestrooms #schmoeoutofwater”

4:58 PM:

5:22 PM:

“Face timing my daughter
Conch fritters with spicy sauce
Lobster roll
Mint Julep
Time for Kentucky Derby
#keywest
#livingright
#runfortheroses
#schmoeoutofwater
#schmoeacclimating”

5:31 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: I just gave a ten dollar tip
    ➤   Schmoe: for a $12 mint julep.
    ➤   Schmoe: And it tastes awesome.

7:50 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Just won $200 in a Derby pool
    ➤   Schmoe: #onlywininkeywest #donttellirs
    ➤   Schmoe: #schmoeoutofwater #schmoeacclimating

Schmoe’s Travels

    Schmoe is on his way to Key West. Here are his first dispatches…

10:41 AM:

“Real plates, real silverware, real glass. #firstclass #schmoeoutofwater”

    ➤   Mike: Just may be the fanciest meal
    ➤   Mike: Schmoe has ever had.

    ➤   Schmoe: True

10:48 AM:

“Schmoe over water #schmoeoutofwater”

12:53 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: This place is fucking awesome

    ➤   Schmoe: Seriously

    ➤   Schmoe: Just fucking awesome

1:04 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: I have been living my life all wrong

1:07 PM:
    ➤   Schmoe: Ok go back to work now

    ➤   Mike: Dick

2:18 PM:

“And I am just having my first drink”

10:09 PM:

“Even karaoke is fun here #schmoeoutofwater”

Songs for Someween

    Mike wins the race. His copy of the new album showed up at around one:thirty PM.

Mailboat’s In

    Update: Mickey got his CD at three:o’clock. (His mail always shows up late in the day.)

Greetings from Chicago

    Another dispatch from our roving reporters. Mike and Schmoe are in Chicago for a Roger Clyne concert, and sent us this from the M’ville Bar & Grill on the Navy Pier.

Navy Pier, from Mike

Navy Pier, from Mike

Navy Pier, from Mike

Greetings from NOLA

    Mike and Schmoe are in NOLA this week, to watch U of M’s Wolverines in the Sugar Bowl tonight.
    Our roving reporters just dispatched these photos to our news desk…

M’ville Café NOLA, from Mike

M’ville Café NOLA, from Schmoe

Bourbon Street, from Schmoe