"I made it through adolescence without killing myself in a car I flunked out of college I learned to play the guitar I lived on the beach lived in the French Quarter finally got laid and didn't go to V..."

"Buffett's autobiography a pirate looks at 50 that is not the book that I'm going to talk to you about today although I did read it to prepare for this podcast 99% of the stuff I'm going to talk to you..."

"holding in my hand tells the story of how that happened before I get into this book I want to read one more passage from from his autobiography which I absolutely loved and he was asked what are you g..."

"I think you could trace Jimmy's desire to live an interesting life and to have treat life like an adventure to his grandfather because that's exactly what his grandfather did Jimmy Buffett wasn't the ..."

"he came from a long line of coal miners he was expected to be a coal miner when he was younger instead he jumped out of a window ran away and chased after a life on the sea and so much later in life J..."

"want to jump into the late 1960s Jimmy is in his early to mid 20s and what is fascinating is when you read a lot of these biographies you realize that there is some sort of innate talent that is usual..."

"to try to make it as a musician Buffett starts to give himself a different kind of education he's willing to perform anywhere that will take him he performs in pizza joints he performs on street corne..."

"going to be made 30 35 years from now just like if you ever look at the the the net worth of Warren Buffett by age something like 99% of it or something like that comes after the age of 50 and so whil..."

"Williams Bill Williams was the editor of billboards Nashville headquarters and this is what he taught Buffett he knew the town and the business that turned its gears a hit song was nice but owning the..."

"music industry about how artists get taken advantage of by Executives and the people that actually control and own all the valuable assets and so Jay-Z in his 20s is just like Jimmy Buffett in his 20s..."

"here he said he hated Nashville he's like I I need a change of place I think I need a change of place and so he goes where can I go he goes to the furthest place he can think of and he goes to Key Wes..."

"his first album is on a record label that he founded that is him telling you by his actions my opinion of what I'm doing is more important and is greater than the opinions of every single other person..."

"the city that you live in right this is what the city that he's living at the time Key West was run out of that bar in those days the mayor was there the police chief was there the fire chief the City..."

"Angeles he would have been just another folk singer but Key West didn't have a Jimmy Buffett and Key West gave Buffett a canvas that no other songwriter had and so one of the main criticisms of Jimmy ..."

"Show Business there is nothing better than than this and so he's living in a 100 now he's in Key West he's living in $150 a month apartment doesn't have to spend a lot of money and because his costs a..."

"60s and his 70s he talked about the documentary he was interviewed with the documentary is watching he yeah I'm definitely a workolic and so one thing that he's working on at this time the way to get ..."