Jimmy Buffett has recorded a public service announcement for the Save the Manatee Club in which he asks the public for support.

Save the Manatee Club is a nonprofit organization established by former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham and singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Their mission is to protect endangered manatees and their aquatic habitats for future generations. Visit their site at www.savethemanatee.org for more information.

A 2012 public service announcement for Save the Manatee Club (SMC) narrated by singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett, Co-Chair of the SMC Board of Directors. The PSA features captivating high definition video by SMC Executive Director Patrick Rose and Crystal River videographer, Tracy Colson. Broadcast quality of the TV PSA is available for download and in other formats by contacting Janice Nearing, the Club’s Director of Public Relations, at jnearing@savethemanatee.org.

Join Jimmy in a virtual hang out in his dressing room at Comerica Park for some stories and even a few tunes! Only those with tickets will be able to watch, and top tippers during the broadcast will get amazing gifts including autographed Frozen Concoction Makers or a personal phone call from Jimmy himself!

All proceeds will be going to charity.

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Jimmy helped demo Stageit at the South By Southwest festival in 2011.

Jimmy Buffett’s oldest daughter Savannah Jane is hosting a new show on the Reserve Channel called “Ex-Pats”:

Savannah Jane travels through foreign lands to discover the extraordinary stories of those who cut the home-cord, leaving behind a seemingly successful and ordinary existence, in search of a place to live their dream life.

The first episode debuts Thursday, July 19th at YouTube.com/Reserve, and new episodes will appear monthly. Check out the trailer below and tune in starting Thursday!

The program is entertaining and very well done. Watch the first episode, which profiles two young ex-pats who started a micro-brew on St. John, at youtube.com/reserve.

Katie Couric has a new show this fall and she hung out with Jimmy at his Mohegan Sun show Tuesday night to film a segment.

Couric says she’ll be doing more with Buffett where they help people make their dreams come true and check items off their bucket list.

Watch below:

Did an appearance in a Jimmy Buffett music video cost former Florida senator Bob Graham the nomination to be Michael Dukakis’ vice president? Probably not, but it did scare those that were doing the vetting:

Then a first-term U.S. senator and former two-term governor of Florida, Graham was under close consideration by Democratic presidential nominee-to-be Michael Dukakis in 1988. Political strategists, legal counsel, an accountant and a private detective gave him a thorough going-over, he recalled in a recent interview.

They didn’t find any skeletons in his closet, Graham said, but someone came across the Buffett video for the 1984 song “Who’s the Blonde Stranger?” about adulterous affairs. Graham makes a cameo as a drink-holding, grinning businessman about to hook up with a waitress. Graham said he joined the filming at short notice on a request by his friend Buffett, who co-founded with Graham an effort to protect and save manatees, the endangered sea mammal.

“They kept hammering away about it,” Graham recounted. And the accountant wanted to know why Graham hadn’t recorded his payment for the appearance – Graham explained there wasn’t one; it was a favor for a friend.

“Playing in the video may not have been the best judgment in the world, but I finally became irritated at the questioning about what I considered a trivial incident,” he said.

Everything else went fine, he said, but Dukakis chose veteran Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. In 1992, Graham got a call from Bill Clinton asking him to come to Washington. They had a long pleasant interview, Graham said, but Clinton went with Al Gore.

Watch the “Who’s the Blonde Stranger” video: