Full Florida Day on Wild Willys Airboat Tour & Reptile World Serpentarium / Jimmy Bears BBQ St Cloud
Florida Day with The Carpetbagger
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welcome everyone adam and the woo here
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today's adventure has a recording of
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this sunday february 20th
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2022 i thought about taking a day off
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and then i realized i should go to the
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serpent
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jacob the carpetbagger hey adam
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i've been hiding behind the snake sign
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waiting for you all this time behind
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that is a
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that is a cobra yes
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deadly spitting cobra you know i i just
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got back from my road trip late last
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night and i was going to take the day
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off and then you got a hold of me go i'm
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in town
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and then after this
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are you up for maybe doing some real
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florida stuff like an air boat ride i'm
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all about real florida stuff join me
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shall you
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there's only one day a week that this
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place is closed it is a sunday at the
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moment so they are open however on
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mondays
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they are closed so if we showed up
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tomorrow
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they would not be open also
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have to
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kind of follow these these rules now
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this says an incredible experience
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oh look over here the door stopper is a
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pig
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the door stopper is a flying pig on its
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side
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that's unique get some merchandise here
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take a look at this
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it's pretty good okay walking out of oh
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my gosh oh wow there's a lot of turtles
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in here there is so many turtles in here
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i have never seen
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a swarm a little swarm of turtles
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got a quarter
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out of order
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this is supposed to be like it's
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supposed to okay got a quarter
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i don't understand okay so it's out of
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order if you got a quarter
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don't put it in yeah there's the
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alligator snapper which is underneath
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here they're just kind of following or
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following everyone around the gopher
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tortoise the red ear slider turtle
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yeah down there see him down there kind
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of lurking in the shaft
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oh my gosh look at his head there and
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there is also an american alligator with
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the inscription here
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you know carved in the sign
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with the artist i guess that's the
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artist name
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that
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carved the alligator out
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please do not feed
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the alligator even accidentally and here
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are a couple right over here
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of course florida there are a lot of
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gators
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in florida a lot of attractions
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in the wild also a lot of alligators and
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here are two
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putting him in the sun there
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filling the
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water area back up
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some little fish over here too
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obviously the main draw of this
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attraction for me
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is the extract show and there's also
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this little indoor area here
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oh
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oh this is an anaconda
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i'm standing back as shown on the glass
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there it says please stand back
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it might injure itself if it strikes the
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glass you don't want to tap on the glass
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nor get too close because this
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rattlesnake
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might strike
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trying to strike me
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but the glass is here you don't want to
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injure the snake so
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stay in the back just a bit now if you
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get bit
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what will happen
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obviously you'll know
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that you get bit but there are some
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things that some key points that are
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shown
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over here this gives a detailed diagram
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of what you can look for to know
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if when you got bit if it had venom in
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it or not
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oh fang marks that's a that's a good
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indication yeah that would uh that would
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be a clarification here either that
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either a snake
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or kiefer sutherland he freaked one
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oh cobra venom snake i'm going to let
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everybody get a chance to hold her if
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you want to i don't want to let anybody
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hold her if you do not want to hold her
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we're not going to force anybody that's
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not cool to scare anybody
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i like how you're handling the camera
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setup yeah
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we got clever right there all right that
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was it
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how did it feel to handle the snake that
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was pretty nice
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this would be much more comfortable just
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to hold this
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got a classic truck alert
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also jacob's in the passenger seat
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that's his hat
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and we're now heading over to wild
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willies
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trying to do an air boat tour now i'm
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hoping we'll be able to get on an
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airboat it is a holiday weekend there's
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a lot of people out and about in fact
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serpentarium there were a lot more
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people there than i was expecting
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that must be wild willy up top there now
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they did say it is completely booked up
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but if we wait around maybe someone
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won't show up they said just kind of
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wait around for a little bit we might be
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able to get on because it is busy it's
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busy this just you know this holiday
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weekend they got some little trucker
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hats here little camo trucker hats
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oh hopefully i am hoping you can do an
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airboat ride
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if someone doesn't show up then we'll
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get only just me and jacob so might have
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a slot for us look at this right here
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this is like a frisbee oh here is a
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sandhill crane
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so you know jacob yeah
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as a floridian i have learned over my
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tenure living here that those cranes
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have the right of way in the right of
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way yes they have the complete right of
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way so you can't run over them basically
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cannot run over them
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it makes sense you really shouldn't run
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over any birds if you can help it
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to my opinion well that's true but if
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there was a car going this way and
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wanted to go across if there was a road
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you have to wait for them to go up you
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can't
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you cannot startle the bird we can't
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like honk and say hey bird no move it
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nope
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do not hot well you could probably honk
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at the bird a casual
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a casual hawk but not an aggressive not
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an aggressive hulk oh one of the air
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boats is going in too there's one parked
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here
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there's another one
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rolling up and then there's another one
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out there
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it is a real beehive of activity
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of air boats
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and this isn't an air boat but there's
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another boat
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pulling through here
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don't forget they have the right of way
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jacob right away
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keep going
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oh there's a bass guide available
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as well
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that's a big airboat
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that holds a lot of people
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look at that oh i'm gonna get a nice
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little breeze
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oh i'm getting wet getting wet
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i'm getting wet
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oh there is a gator there
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look at there's a gator right there this
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gentleman's holding trying to get others
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to hold it as well
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the mouth is wide open
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yeah you don't have you don't worry
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about it and you'll notice
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he's pulling into the station
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pulling right over here they're
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refueling these
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you see the gas pumps
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over here so look notice the gas the gas
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pump right down here they're fueling up
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got the
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the fuel cord the fuel pump there
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fuel pumping through there
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i'm gonna fuel both those up to see it
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kind of
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plugged into the side filling up with
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gas for the next group
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watch out car those cranes have the
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right-of-way
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those cranes have the right-of-way car
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see here they go
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there they go oh be careful though do
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not put certain items
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in this garbage can don't put just make
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sure you follow that glad they put just
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this diagram
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all right we got to go back in a few
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hours
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they're going to have a twilight tour
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kiefer sutherland was not in twilight
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but they're going to have a tour now i
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thought about going to fat boys barbecue
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which is kind of a saint cloud legendary
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barbecue place but they closed it too
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today so we are opting for jimmy bears
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now this current location has not always
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been here they went to this spot about
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four years ago the old building which
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was a smaller one by the saint cloud
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city hall
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the menu kind of has a pulp fiction
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theme to it as well
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for the menu items getting a nice
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assortment of
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menu items
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getting entree
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and the main courses and some appetizers
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between the two of us
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are definitely not going to be
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hungry after consuming all of us
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between the two of us probably got a
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little bit too arrived back now to wild
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willys it doesn't seem as busy now a
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little time has gone by
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all right waiting patiently again but
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have
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the squirrel watching the squirrel just
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kind of gallivant across the
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grass there climb it up in the tree no i
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used the word twilight earlier but this
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is more of a pre-dusk
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wild willy
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air boat ride all right the time
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has arrived
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second oh this whole dock is shifting
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it's a shifty dock
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we're in airboat number 21
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right here on the second row
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guys my name is captain cave i'll be
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taking care of you guys for the next
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hour all right
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it's gonna probably get loud though so
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my apologies
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all right jacob put his hat down below
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next two is maybe we're gonna see more
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than we might see more crocs than your
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feet have on
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nothing about my glasses but as far as
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the hats go
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best removable best removal
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so
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it's a big freaking alligator right
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there
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guys this here is the uh the american
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alligator there's two types of gators
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out here in this world one being an
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american alligator the other one being a
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chinese alligator and we're not in china
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let's quickly figure that out all right
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if you don't i'll give you a little
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quick history lesson on where you're at
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geographically
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so uh these guys will grow about a foot
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foot and a half a year
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up until about that nine ten foot range
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once they hit about 19 feet nine to ten
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feet the females they'll stop growing
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the males will continue to grow on
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upwards of 14 to 15 feet but at a much
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slower rate they'll slow down to maybe
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only one to two inches a year after that
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so is this a female or a male uh i do
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believe this one here is a male a
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different word the complete other
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there's another one right here yes out
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here it's kind of like my second home i
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can pretty much put you on a gator about
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every 30 seconds oh he's moving there's
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about 2 500 uh estimated gators in this
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place another gator
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yeah
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no 2500 to 3 000 alligators on this lake
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so when you said they have hunting is
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there like a limit or size yeah well
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there is a size limit but it's really a
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joke uh
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about 24 inches or 24 inches we're
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sitting on west lake tahoe it's the
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third largest lake here in the state of
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florida it's just shy at 24 000 acres
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it's also home to some of the best
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large-mouth bass fishing here in the
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country
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guys look uh kind of straight ahead
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right edge of the boot up top in that
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bald cypress tree you guys see the bald
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eagle sitting in that nest oh my god oh
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so uh state of florida we are ranked
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number two in the nation for the bald
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eagle population we've got a little bit
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over 1500 known nesting pairs
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they actually don't develop their white
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heads so they're white toe feathers to
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about two to three years old
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right there so close
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so close
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so meaning they literally wait till
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somebody walks in front of their face
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before they're gonna eat
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don't know how long have you been here
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not a map turtle either what's that how
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long have you been here uh he's been
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here a couple days just chilling
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are you serious yeah
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someone drop them off out here i don't
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know
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yeah i i really don't know what the
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species of this turtle is
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uh
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i even had on my last on my last ride i
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even had uh somebody on there that uh
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was the gm of a very large uh pet store
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for over 10 years and she didn't know
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what it was
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is that right there
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big freaking snakes obviously i was
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taken as a cotton mouth or a watermark
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syndrome but that one there is actually
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non-venomous that is a florida banded
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water snake
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he's actually one of the good guys
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but the uh the ones that look almost
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identical to them if you don't know the
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difference uh water moxen also known as
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a cottonmouth they're very very
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aggressive they'll actually come chase
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you and a bite for them is going to put
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you in a hospital for quite some time
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then they're going to have to cut out
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literally where he bit you and
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venom will continue eating your flesh
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okay it's a good thing i'm the closest
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that one to it
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oh my gosh i was distracted where'd he
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go
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startle me
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they disappear so quick i was focusing
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on the other boat
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that small gator that was over here is
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now gone
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pretty awesome
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it's a pretty lengthy chore also
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probably an hour long
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covered a lot of ground or should i say
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a lot of water
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great fight
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all right that was awesome
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thanks man yes sir guys you want to hang
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out right here i'll bring out that
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little gator for you okay all right
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that's going to do it for today
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we did a couple we did some florida
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stuff jacob
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barbecue barbecue
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a serpentarium serpentariums
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i have airboats
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pretty successful day a lengthy day
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florida experience full florida
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experience
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but that's gonna do it for today from me
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and jacob the carpetbagger
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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is over guys thanks again everybody
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oh and i feel like for posterity
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we need to utilize this can i do it
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without setting the camera down probably
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maybe
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you don't think it's possible
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get on that long enough get on that side
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see what happens
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there it is
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gator's eyes
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the eyes of the gator the guys have it i
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think i'm stuck in the sidelines