In honor of the late, great Jimmy Buffett, the boys breakdown the story of the afternoon excursion that went wrong on the island of Jamaica for Jimmy and his famous friends in 1996.

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SHOW NOTES:

Songs used in this episode "Jamaica Mistaica" and "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffett

SHOW NOTES

https://margaritavillecaribbeanshop.com/pages/jimmy-buffett-u2s-bono-shot-at-in-negril-jamaica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_HU-16_Albatross

https://houston.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/05-05-11-you-may-know-him-as-the-mayor-of-margaritaville-but-he-was-once-a-music-row-flunky

https://www.news4jax.com/entertainment/2022/01/15/jimmy-buffett-looks-at-50-years-after-his-1st-key-west-gig/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett

The boat article: https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-experiences/jimmy-buffett-yacht-drifter

http://www.nedrock.org/buffett-blackwell-and-bono-bullet-the-blue-sky/

1998 academic article on the Shiprider Controversy: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25675778

New Yorker piece about the retirement community: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/retirement-the-margaritaville-way

The Atlantic article about Jimmy Buffett: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/09/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-resorts-communities/675229/