When Luke Ski’s ex-wife/best friend Stephanie called him to ask if he’d be willing to join her and her boyfriend Thor on a one-night trip to the Wisconsin Dells staying at the Wilderness Resort to celebrate her birthday on July 3rd, Luke said he’d do it on the condition that during the course of the day she’d be willing to let Luke turn on his Zoom H2 and record an episode of Bad Rapport with her which he’d save and post later in the month when he knew both he and Carrie would be too busy (finishing his album and moving into her new house, respectively) to get together to record an episode. So, that’s what this is.
The first two-thirds of the episode were recorded over dinner at Buffalo Phil’s Pizza & Grill, where Luke & Steph discuss many of their past road trips across the country, including the tour-chasing they did back during the “Running With Scissors” Tour. Speaking of “Weird Al” Yankovic, Luke & Steph also try to make some predictions as to just what songs will be in the polka medley on Al’s new album “Mandatory Fun”, which is available now. Spoiler alert: I do play one track from the new album in this episode, so if you’re trying to avoid spoilers, it’s the first track following the second segment, so skip ahead 4 minutes.
The final third of the episode is an audio travelogue of the main strip of the Wisconsin Dells, starting at the Mobil Station in front the entrance to the Kalahari Resort on Hwy 12 just north of I-90/94 Exit 92, following Wisconsin Dells Pkwy north. After 4 miles, they turn right onto WI-13 N/WI-16 E and head into the downtown area, where they made a discovery so epic that to go into any detail will spoil the podcast magic, ending their 5 mile journey at another Mobil Station at 802 Broadway.
Comedy and music tracks in this episode (besides the ones by the aforementioned Alfred) are by the great Luke Ski featuring Carrie Dahlby, Eminem, Raymond & Scum, Pat McCurdy, South Park, and Shawn Patterson & Sammy Allen. This episode brought to you by the Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau. Okay it isn’t, but it might as well have been.
Episode length: 1:34:14
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I was excited that you included a Pat McCurdy song. I saw him a few times back when I was in college. I was always kind of curious if you were aware of him.
Wow! The Running With Scissors tour, including the epic version of Albuquerque done in Albuquerque. I remember Marty “Torsoboy” reporting on it on that website he used to run, Alaholics Anonymous.
Incidentally, I used to think I was a big Weird Al fan , just because I was the biggest fan I had ever met, owned all the albums, and memorized all the songs. Then I discovered his website and played a few rounds of “You Don’t Know Al”, and I realized there are some REAL Weird Al fans out there.
You played a version of One More Minute (Incidentally, was that from the Legendary Album Prosthetic Lips, which I never got?) really took me back to my younger days.
When I got the tape of Dare To Be Stupid, a friend wanted to borrow it, since he wanted to hear that song, Girls Just Want To Have Lunch. So I let him borrow it after my own honeymoon with the album, and had mostly memorized all the songs. After a week, he retuned it to me and said, “By the way, I leaned to play One More Minute on the piano”. Since the house we were at had a piano, there was nothing to do but go over and have him start playing and we started singing. Pretty soon the other people at the church social we were at came over to gape at what nonsense we were doing. From that time on, we had to perform at every party the two of us got together at.
Our final performance was after almost everyone else had left at my wedding reception, where my friend was one of my groomsmen. We decided we had to do it one last time, before our lives went their separate ways. My wife was very irritated that she had missed it, since she was changing out of her wedding dress at the moment, and missed it.
When Carrie talked about playing Killing You Softly at her own wedding reception, it reminded me of that last performance at mine. I meant to comment on that episode, but I forgot.