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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Songs used in this episode “Jamaica Mistaica” and “Come Monday” by Jimmy Buffett
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https://margaritavillecaribbeanshop.com/pages/jimmy-buffett-u2s-bono-shot-at-in-negril-jamaica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_HU-16_Albatross
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/
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