ITL150: Jubilee: A Fisherman's Dream Come True

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I talk about a very unusual summer event that occurs a few times a year on the shore of Mobile Bay.

Something very unique happened earlier this week while at a book signing in Fairhope, Alabama.

There is a 15-mile stretch on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
In the late summer on a still night between two and five in the morning, fish pile up on the shore for several hundred yards.
I’m talking thousands. Flounder, Whiting, Mullet, Shrimp, and more.
This is only one place in the world this happens and it is called a “Jubilee.”

I am shocked by how many people read The Noticer Returns and think “Jubilee” is something I made up.

This has been going on for centuries.
Years ago they had bells on the porches of the houses along the bay to let the community know when the phenomenon was occurring.
The fish are almost stunned or asleep. It will last for an hour or two and then they’ll wake up and swim back into the gulf.
People will fill their ice chests and have fish for a year.

It’s an odd thing in the world where someone’s influence or money can buy what whatever they want.

You got enough money or influence and you could sit down with the president for dinner or have Kenny Chesney play a show in your backyard.
There is not a single way you could ever reserve a time to go see a Jubilee.
It is such a fascinating thing, but it kills me because I’ve never seen one.

If you haven’t read The Noticer Returns and want to hear an amazing story involving a jubilee and how it impacted the lives of several people, The Noticer Returns

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.4	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.2	You are listening to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy,
0:18.7	thanks for taking the time to join us once again.
0:21.3	Absolutely.
0:21.9	That's pretty good.
0:22.8	That sounds like kind of that voice of America. Like, you are listening to. I thought I'd try something a little different, you know, mix it up a little bit. That was good. Hey, I want to ask you real quick, something very cool happened earlier this week. and we try not to date these because we want them to be applicable, you know, months, years down the road.
0:22.1	But I'm going to date these because we want them to be applicable
0:38.0	months, years down the road. But I'm going to date this one just a little bit. You were at a book
0:44.1	signing earlier this week in Fairhope. Is that right? Yeah. Fairhope, Alabama, at one of our
0:50.1	favorite places ever in the whole country, Page and Palet, the page and pallet bookstore in Fairhope,
0:56.0	some of our greatest friends, people that, Karen and Kiefer, Wilson, if you've read the notice
1:03.4	or returns, you'll remember that Fairhope is the town that's in that book, and page and palette is where I found Jones again.
1:14.1	Yes, yes. And they're real. I mean, that store is there. You can go to that store.
1:18.7	Man, you need to go to that store. What a great place. It is, you know, it's an independent bookstore. It's one of the old independents.
1:29.1	It's been there for a long time.
1:30.9	It's part of this city.
1:32.2	And that bookstore, that is a city that that bookstore leads that town.
1:38.0	And they have some major events there.
1:40.7	And, I mean, not to say that what you were doing there earlier this week is a major event. What I was doing was not a
1:46.6	major event, but they have big authors come in there. I mean, and I mean, I mean, when, when authors go on tour and want to go
1:56.0	do book signings, they always get them there because the authors want to go there because they do such a great job.
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