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Current Trop News items, updates, etc. etc.
GREETINGS!
Here is where you'll find current trop news items, tidbids,etc, that I don't always have time to talk about during the radio show. If you have something you want to submit, write me at the station. Snail mail info is on the contact page.
Thanks,
DK your host of the Island Time Radio Show
LISTEN FOR LIVE ISLAND TIME CALL INS EVERY WEEK- Rich Breest, the Kaleys, and Jim Axxxxl Siler!
Thank you.
Bob
CAN'T STAY AWAKE PAST 10PM on MONDAYS??? RECORD THE SHOW!!
HOW I RECORD ISLAND TIME EVERY WEEK
by MICHAEL KELLY, Columbus, Ohio
Unsolicited Web Listener Testimonial:
Island Time - Any Time!
Even though I'm an "Analog Man in a Digital World", for the last 3 years (or there abouts), I've never missed an Island Time show. This is because I use a computer program that automatically tunes in and records the program, it's called Replay AV 8 from Applian Technologies. It has had great reviews in all the PC journals. One can download it FREE and try it first. The registered version costs $39.95 if you like it. I tried several similar products, and found this to the most reliable and easy to use. Every Monday at 10pm it comes on automatically and records till 1 am. It creates a file called IslandTime(date).mp3. It makes one, three hour long MP3 music file - the complete show, each week becomes a file on your PC's hard drive. After that you can play it, keep it, edit it, delete it, etc.
Since Island Time is a 3 hour program, and I don t care to keep the news breaks, I also have a sister program called Replay Converter ($9.95) also from Applian. This is a cool little editor that allows me to break up the show by song, or time, etc. It creates multiple MP3 files from each show. Then I burn the stuff I want to keep onto CD's so I can listen in the car, work and on the Boat! I also keep the original MP3 file so I can listen later on an MP3 player or through the PC. Even without editing or buring to CD's, when you play back the show it's like a VCR in that you can "fast forward" past the news breaks. It's also handy for replaying event dates and times and addresses that are mentioned when Dennis interviews folks. Anytime I want to listen to a past show I have it - Island Time - Anytime.
These are easy programs to use. While I have a broadband Internet connection ( DSL or Cable), I'm sure it will work well on a dial-up connection also. Just in case, I kick the kids off the computers from 10-1 on Mondays. The quality of recording is equal to that of an FM radio station. I also use this program to record Buffet concerts live on Radio Margaitaville. The program comes with a list of thousands of scheduled web cast programs, and Island Time is on that list. One can also add shows manually. For anyone who can currently click on the WBWC web page links and listen to Island Time on their PC's, this program will do it all (and more) automatically.
Michael Kelly
From MARK MULLIGAN'S ISLAND website
THANKS WBWC! A big thanks to Dennis King, WBWC 88.3FM in Cleveland OH, and the Island Time Radio Show for awarding the Trop Rock Album of the Year, 2007 to "A Bar Down in Mexico" We snuck in an interview Monday night, followed by a spin of "Saint Anywhere" Muchas gracias Dennis! The Island Time Radio Show can be heard Mondays, 10PM to 1AM ET on WBWC 88.3FM and on http://wbwc.com
So now that you're up to date on everything here on "Mulligan's Island", kick back and enjoy the latest from our friend Captain Tom (and his lovely first mate PJ, of course) Read on!
RUMOLOGY By Cap’n Tom Volume 3, Chapter 2 February, 2008
St. Martin is an unusual island in that it is held by two different countries, Dutch and French. The only other Caribbean island to claim this dual ownership status is Hispaniola.
Columbus named the island in 1493 in honor of the day he landed, the feast day of St. Martin of Tours. He claimed it under the Spanish flag but within a few years adventurers from all parts of European were ashore. Following the 80 Year War between Spain and Holland, Spain relinquished control of St. Martin leaving mostly French and Dutch inhabitants. Tired of war, the two sides decided to share the 37 square mile island.
To divide shares it was decided to have one man from each country stand back-to-back and race on foot around the island. Where the two men met would mark a line to be drawn back to the starting point. As the fable goes, the Frenchmen carried a bottle of wine, the Dutchman a bottle of gin. The Frenchman covered more territory across the northern ‘half’ of the island because gin is stronger than wine. I submit that had they been drinking rum there would be no boundary and everyone would live together peacefully still today, which by-the-way, they don’t!
As the years went on St. Martin became the Duty Free trade capital of the Caribbean and remains so today. Precious stones, cigars and alcohol are imported from all corners of the world and sold at discounted prices. The steep competition drove the local Dutch distilleries out of business. While many islanders continue to brew rum behind their modest homes, rums which promise more miracles than are claimed in your eMail Junk Box, there is no rum produced in quantities in St. Martin today.
On the French side of the island, a product they painfully call “Rhum” is imported from Guadeloupe and Martinique. Made from raw sugar cane rather than molasses, this is the stuff I cautioned you about in the past. If you need to remove oil spots in your driveway, this is the product. If you want to enjoy a cocktail, look elsewhere.
If nothing else, we are relentless in our pursuit of fine rum. Though no rum is produced here, we did find a liqueur bottled by Jumbie Trading LTD. in Phillipsburg, St. Martin. As we soon discovered, where it actually comes from matters not. Rum Jumbie is a 30% liqueur, smooth as silk, with a delightful mild apricot flavor. As it’s legend goes:
Many years ago, hidden in the caves of a remote island was a sought after Rum recipe. It was safe there as the inhabitants feared entering the mysterious alcoves in belief that “Jumbies” or spirits were trapped inside. It was believed “Jumbies” would possess anyone who consumed the Rum and would dance to the beat of congas all night long. Rum Jumbie Liqueur is made from that rediscovered recipe. By drinking this well sought after rum liqueur you may awake the Rum Jumbies in you.
RUM JUMBIE
4-6oz. Rum Jumbie (this is a case where too much is just right)
1 Journey Around the Sun CD
