Key West Glass Bottom Boat Experience - Sunset Celebration At Mallory Square / Trying Conch Fritters
Key West January 2023
Transcript
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starting off the day with a bunch of
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Brewsters over here
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which means still in Key West Florida oh
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hello coming over here
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coming in hot we're over here hot
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January 4th
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2023 a Wednesday
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wow there's a lot
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I'm hoping to get some food I want some
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food
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here my
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mom is here this is our second full day
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here in Key West today we're gonna do a
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glass bottom boat tour I'm gonna get
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some coffee momentarily over at Mallory
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Square we're both wearing I'm wearing
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sunglasses we're both wearing
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appropriate hat what do you think of my
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shirt I picked this up yesterday is it
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really does it look good on me you look
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like a tourist I look
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oh you have your butterfly from
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yesterday too right there we're gonna do
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a glass bottom boat on the Bay Side
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and then afterwards we're gonna get off
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the boat it goes from two to four and
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then we're gonna go to the sunset I
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think it's called The Sunset Festival or
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the fun Sunset celebration
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that's pretty much it and then whatever
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else we just kind of stumble upon it's
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chickens lots of chickens lots of
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chickens
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how do you tell there's a chicken and a
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rooster do you know the difference yes
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Bruce it looks like that and the chicken
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looks like that one over there beside
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that okay
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all right join me my mom knows a lot
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about chickens and roosters I'm sorry
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there's a lot of ways to take
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Transportation around here including
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bicycles or scooters
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salty frogs Bar and Grill now I've heard
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good things about a coffee place looks
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as if there was a shipwreck right here
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it says keep off of this shipwreck yeah
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definitely do not want to go
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gallivanting around on this on the ship
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it turns out this is not the one I've
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seen a lot of people take photos in
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front of but it is the same franchise
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Cuban coffee Queen the one that a lot of
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photos maybe I'll go by there a little
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bit later is a half a mile away because
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we only have the time I'm gonna pop in
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here to this little pot of pop-up stand
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it's the same coffee I even have quite
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an assortment of merchandise here mugs
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cups t-shirts things like that fresh
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roots and coffee I've heard good things
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about this place oh it says free coffee
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oh free coffee tomorrow yeah just miss
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it well come back tomorrow this says
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drink more Cuban coffee and do stupid
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things faster yeah I mean I think that
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place all coffee I have acquired a Cafe
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Con Leche or lychee which is an espresso
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hot piping hot and it should have quite
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a bit of caffeine in this yeah pretty
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quick pretty quick service and I enjoy
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the espresso not a regular coffee this
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is inside kind of like a little little
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food court Mall this is a very
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interesting hike this is kind of an
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interesting thing with the shoes on it
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but I think the six foot thing is kind
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of I don't think the six foot thing is
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really really in place anymore it's kind
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of interesting remembering back to it
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was called The Shops at Mallory Square
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and this is kind of all the stuff that's
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out here so now we're gonna head back
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outside
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and walk over to the boat there's a vast
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assortment of sea sponges right here
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what is it almost like a is it like a
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sponge you would like wash a dish with
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it's kind of rough oh you're like rubbed
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okay so it's
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is it from the ocean or is that like a
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man-made sea sponge no you go to carbon
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Springs Florida you can find see them
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pulling them out of the ship this one is
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a sheep's wool sponge that's made out of
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sheep's wool over here so that obviously
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sheep are not in the sea so that would
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be not in there here's a massage spun
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nice little assortment of sailboats in
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here as well which would be kind of nice
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paperweights for a desk or like on a you
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know end table in the living room it
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kind of looks like the Pelican the other
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day that got the fish away from me you
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were trying to feed the tarpons up above
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you oh over behind this fence check it
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out there's a shark right there you can
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kind of see it oh this is like
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Brenda's blowing this up on me there's a
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shark right there take a look at that
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I went ahead and purchased both the
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tickets for the glass bottom boat online
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I believe it was 60 65 I think it was
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130 for two people and you're supposed
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to go over to a like a reef and look
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down at the coral except they just let
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me know that because of the cloudy water
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conditions might be going over to the
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beach side and won't be seeing the coral
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so I think because it's already prepaid
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got to go ahead and do it
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and hopefully it's just as good but I
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don't know
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I've heard the corals what you really
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want to see and we might not be seeing
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any Coral but we're still going to see
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some glass bottle boat actually got an
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airplane going over
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massive cruise ship right here cruise
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ship dock
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silver Dawn I can read it on the side
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that's pretty cool too take a look at
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both these boats
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it's almost like a pirate ship kinda
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sorta
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boy that is rocket
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it's getting the Wake from this so it's
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got a lot of waves to bounce itself off
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of
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it's pretty neat have you ever been on a
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glass bottom boat before I have years
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ago
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Cypress Gardens or some some place that
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they had the class bottom boats I can't
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remember the name of it oh Silver
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Springs yeah it's closed down Silver
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Springs in Florida that's what it was
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but I've been many many moons ago this
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will be like a full it's almost like a
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full ship what bigger boat I think the
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ones that were at Silver Springs were
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just kind of small boats oh yeah this
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holds like hundreds of people I believe
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I've never been on this one though so
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I'm just kind of going off what I've
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seen online it looks pretty big by
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looking at it okay going to check in now
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here at the glass bottom boat Fury golf
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cart Builders you can also get here too
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as well we are here for the glass bottom
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boats this is where the ship will dock
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next departure is it noon oh no not Noob
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it's uh 1 30 now next departure is at
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two that's when we're on there's also
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about four so it's three of that new two
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and four we're doing the two as I'm
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waiting to check in here at the window
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but notice so they kind of like have the
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The Reef coral reef and the fish and
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everything below so I'm just very
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interesting
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I'm gonna be interested to see what's
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going to happen if we're not going to go
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to that what else is going to be the
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Plan B okay have procured the ticket now
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it's evidently I was thinking maybe it
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was like a haziness of the water on why
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they do not go to The Reef but she
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explained that it is a wind issue and
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it's kind of windy out there so they're
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not going to that side because of the
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wind that does make sense but I was
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thinking maybe it was gonna be like a
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haziness you wouldn't be able to see it
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but I guess you could always see it it's
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just it's not safe for the boats go out
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and high wind or heavier winds okay
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there is our ship pulling into port and
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I will say even through here that thing
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is a rocket
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might be because it's hitting a lot of
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weight from other boats but yeah this
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that thing is
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it's shifted to and fro
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we're gonna be on that you can sit
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inside or you can sit outside in a
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little
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little ledge there
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heading right for me
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check out the get the jet skis here kind
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of bouncing around from the wake of the
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glass bottom boat
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evidently it doesn't pull over there
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we're gonna walk over there walk across
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this dock
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board from the front
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okay I was incorrect I stand corrected
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evidently they are going to back it up
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to the stock she's about to throw the
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rope over to this guy and he is going to
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connect the dock to the boat itself
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I think that's what's gonna happen
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so at first I thought it was there was
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it wasn't going to like kind of back up
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like that but it is
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backing it up I'm gonna throw the rope
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okay we've gotten in the back of the
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line evidently
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didn't really deter too many people that
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were not going to the coral so I guess
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it's still going to be a pretty fun trip
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nonetheless it's probably it's gonna be
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a full boat we checked in today you've
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got a little plastic card for everybody
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in your group it's kind of like your
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ticket uh now if you're still holding on
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to those thank you sir if you're still
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holding on to those can you please pass
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them out to the people in your group we
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want to collect your own ticket from you
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as you're boarding the boat and there's
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a good reason for that the Coast Guard
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gets really picky about us bringing
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everybody back that we take out there
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today some monster waves out there
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inside so we're going on the Gulf side
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so everybody's going to take off side
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today
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fishing boat sagging about historical
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boats everybody's out there you're going
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to get a little taste of how rough it is
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if you turn that corner
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and go about a couple hundred yards into
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that scene
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smokers go we do have some ashtrays
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where you got on a boat that is your
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smoking area back there dude we're going
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in the water but I just want to give you
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another heads up about it it's super
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duper thick so if you put too much on
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you're set for the week okay
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let me go over the bathrooms with you
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real quick here again pulling away from
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the mainland
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kind of sitting underneath this awning
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here in the shade we're trying to stay
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out of the Sun as much as possible
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that rooster just gave us a little
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little hearty goodbye from the shoreline
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see you in a few couple hours rooster
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three hour tour
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a three hour tour
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it's a gilligator
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um on the door handles and push and make
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sure you latch the door closed once you
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are out there same goes if you want to
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come up top I know those back doors say
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emergency exit
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off all of my hat over there it was good
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it is bouncing
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very bouncy
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I don't want to walk down here I want to
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go down there
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I'm on the front of the boat right on
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this little like Outlook it kind of like
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you walk out on this little platform you
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can see down through this grate right
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here
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standing right here on the lead just
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like Leonardo DiCaprio almost Titanic
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I probably shouldn't use that analogy
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over on that side is another Walk Way
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Out
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kind of right right there as well as you
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can say the king of the the king of the
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world
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I'm sure I'm not the first person that's
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done that I'm probably about the 17th
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person that's done it just even today in
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fact when I looked out the window
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earlier there was someone else doing it
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Turtles Dolphins
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here because it's too rough on the
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Atlantic side uh now let me tell you a
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little bit about where we launching what
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you're looking at here uh we came seven
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miles Due West of Key West today but
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you're actually a lot further out into
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the ocean than just that conditions that
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we find ourselves in now
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um we get a lot of questions about how
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deep is the water here so let me start
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with that we actually came right here
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through a channel called the Northwest
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channel it's completely natural it's one
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of those places yeah it's a little
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different than the Atlantic side out
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here this Coral that grows side by side
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instead of on top of each other but a
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lot of what you're seeing down there is
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the same type of thing or the same
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things that we would see out on the
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Atlantic side now folks we do this trip
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out here to the Gulf of Mexico in two
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parts now this first part here we're
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going to hang out in these uh sponge
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baths at Coral Dart seat on the Atlantic
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side are all these sponges you see these
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things out here some of them look like
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spare tires some of them look like bases
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some up look like bowls those are all
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actually sponges and Gulf of Mexico is
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much more shallow than the Atlantic
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Ocean and hope he it holds heat it warms
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up a little quicker and it's got a
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different nutrient mix so it supports
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the growth and algae so that green color
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that you see in the water down there
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that's not pollution there's nothing
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wrong with that water some of that some
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of what you're seeing here is the
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Limestone from where uh the coral polyps
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aren't growing anymore but that lysosome
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is still there because that person that
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stays um even after those Coral
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follow-ups maybe aren't talking about
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everything there's nothing that's going
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to take that away by the way there's
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some of that mustard milk or right below
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right now
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there's nothing that's going to take
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that away except for time uh if you're
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really lucky it'll go away in a couple
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of hours but you're really sensitive it
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could last up to a couple of months but
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it'll eventually go away that there's no
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long-term effect of it
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turn on some music and stuff like that
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on the way back but enjoy gotta get Mark
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a great hand help me out
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thanks for coming out to me
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yeah I didn't get to see too much
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obviously we would have gone over to the
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reef side see it a lot more it's a
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little bit of coral saw a few fish but
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although I didn't see too much of the
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glass
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es they're pretty neat being out here
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though
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do not have to pay for those extremely
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high rents for those really tiny
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Apartments like we do on land
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so they dock out here and live on their
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uh sailboat
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that's interesting they live on the
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boats
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trying to get a little bumpy again out
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and a couple of those hangers too
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now this is known as Fleming key this is
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where some of that dredge spoilage uh
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came from our little house
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sunset here where we came out of this is
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also another spot that is very fun-like
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atmosphere mission is completely free
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and who knows what you'll see there
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remember it is Key West you might expect
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some things you've never seen before but
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you also might see some things you never
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want to see again
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all right guys now at this time I'm
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going to hand you over to Captain Ron
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for some important docking instructions
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just like all those people are living in
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this yeah
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amazing all righty King well hope you
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enjoyed your ride out to the to the
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coral Gardens out there okay they're
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about ready to toss the Rope over again
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I saw this that is smashing
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let's take some skill here
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oh yeah
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okay
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we'll get on the PA when it's okay to
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move around
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the bright lights on
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yeah
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hello check up there you go waiting to
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Crow
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there you go all right we're just going
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to kind of Mill around until it's time
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for the Sunset Festival
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I'm noticing over here in Mallory Square
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this little booth that says Key West
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Conch Critters I have to admit I don't
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know if I've ever had a [\h__\h] Fritter
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before but I think I'm gonna try a conch
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Fritter it comes with like I guess it's
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like a little appetizer size so I don't
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know exactly what it is but I'm gonna
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wear some [\h__\h] Fitters and and just have
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a couple contractors
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the guy was talking about the tree above
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the Conch Fritter place it's called the
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sausage tree it's like little sausages
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right above it it's almost looks like it
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almost looks like potatoes doesn't it
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that looks like like a sweet potato tree
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you can have Tom Green daddy would you
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like some salt it's a sausage tree
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though now I kind of want sausages
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to be honest I don't really know what a
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conch Fritter is I just ordered them she
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said they're about the size of a golf
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ball so I'm thinking maybe hush
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puppy-ish maybe it says eat me look at
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this right here eat me but I think hush
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puppies don't have actual meat in them
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and this is what we're dealing with also
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Mom did not know exactly what a [\h__\h]
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Fritter is either she thought it was
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like a hush puppy as well it does kind
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of look Hush Puppies right I think
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there's some kind of a fish a seafood
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item down in there as well I don't know
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so this right here you're asking if this
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is honey mustard this is actually key
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lime mustard which is a key lime flavor
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in there so we're gonna try those and
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gonna go into the Conch Fritter but
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definitely like the same texture as a as
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a hush puppy can I try one
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I'll go in first I'll let you know okay
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tastes like a hush puppy with celery you
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don't like it
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you don't like it
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looks like I'm not eating something I
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don't know what it is like it's like a
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funny farm Chevy Chase was eating the uh
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they didn't know what they were
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yet basically
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you know some milk some eggs some frying
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oil some salt some pepper some celery
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some onions but also one cup of chopped
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conch meat [\h__\h] meat what does [\h__\h] meat
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I don't know have you ever had I don't
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know what caulk meat is
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what the heck is what is a conch wait
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it's in the concrete public
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oh so maybe
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the meat that's inside the shell
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and it's a snail inside the shell so
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basically you're eating a seafood
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version of escargot
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so you're done you're finished
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I think it's because it's disguised with
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the hush puppy you don't really taste it
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as much as escargot you're just eating
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as cargo nothing really else
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around here is very relaxed in a lot of
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places look at this Pooch over here in
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front of its owner's shop Key West sale
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bags she's putting out the box take a
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look at these very interesting trees
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right here it's like something out of
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like a Tim Burton film now this state's
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over here that this is where the Mallory
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home site used to be of course I'm going
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over to Mallory Square on the water
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where the Sundown Festival is going to
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take place but this is where the Mallory
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Homesite used to stand I should also
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mention that probably not the best to go
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on the the boat we went on like if you
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like boat rides that's good but for the
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price because they didn't go over to the
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coral I would recommend
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not doing if I had to redo it I mean it
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was fun but for the price
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probably should have waited for a day
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when the weather was going to be a
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little less windy and see the coral as
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for the price all you did is just went
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out to like the way that's where they
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could show you a few fish and some of
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the
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sea life and there really wasn't a whole
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lot
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so probably if I had to do things over
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again I would probably not
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they actually did say that I didn't have
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to go on it today but since today's the
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day we were doing it we did it now over
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on the water where the sun will be soon
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setting you can see it's about to slowly
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drift down towards the skyline over
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there or the Horizon I should say and
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the cruise ship is now taken off the
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cruise ship is heading back out to sea
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evidently this is a port where they
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dropped people off for the day and then
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they're going to have another ship going
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out this way there's already people
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lining up over here we're going to be
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watching the sun set that's still a
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little bit of time before it happens but
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people are starting to kind of make
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their way out here just kind of Mill
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around until the sun sets and just see
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what we can see not only that big cruise
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ship going off into the Sun but also a
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little boat kind of following it out
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there going right now where the sun is
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it's gonna be hideous it's gonna be
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something very soon it's making its way
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towards the horizon a big cruise ship is
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going into the sun and the last time I
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was out here about 10 years ago there
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was a guy that trained cats and they
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would do all kind of stuff they would
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jump through fire they would walk tight
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ropes things like that I asked one of
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the other vendors out here one of the
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other buskers and he said that he's
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still he's still around but he is
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retired he's no longer doing the show
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out of here so and we're catgy when
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you're all paranoid at each other watch
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this trick ready watch close the joke
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great that excuse me
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don't get so sensitive don't be like
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that Karen
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watch this you don't understand humor
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what I do is I bend it like that Kim
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tummy get your hands out your pockets
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buddy that's a different game
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what's this ready yeah this popcorn
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stand says exactly what time the Sun
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will set 5 52 it is 508 right now so
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you'll start to get some some Vibes
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until then the sun will peek down over
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the horizon
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that was like a little Rum Runner
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pontoon there also the sailboat going
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across you could just see this everyone
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just kind of like lined up over here
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somewhere in the proper position to get
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a really good view of the sun sign
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happening right over there what's the
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difference between the 15 and the twenty
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dollar one they're just different sizes
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okay yeah so that one's 15. that one's
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20. yeah
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I think I'll get one there's no alcohol
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in it though no if you want the alcohol
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we have a truck and you have to take it
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to him to get your shot
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so is there juice in there too yes okay
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so you take this out of there then you
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mix it and then you put it right back in
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exactly what you do
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that's a little treat right here this is
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the pineapple juice Blend it up and
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there's refills are included in this one
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one refill is included in this so I got
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you a straw also a little refreshing
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little and it's in the pineapple itself
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pretty cool it's pineapple juice in
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there
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it's pretty good and you can eat all the
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fruit that's in there too
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it is quite a smorgasbord of stuff
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I told you to stay in the van
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it's time for real when I started
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juggling you guys count with
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you know
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I'm ready
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to speak he's different from us and he's
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different an effect that he's perfect
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in a sailboat is just at the point where
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the boat is almost kind of obscure it
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when this boat goes by it's gonna kind
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of go right through the bottom of where
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the sun is this is definitely pretty
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pretty dang cool looking there's even
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like a whole boat full of people that
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are going out doing a little little
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Sundown little Sundown Cruise out there
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it's pretty good
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all right
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the sun has set and there was about 5
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000 people witnessing it right here in
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Key West and I was one of them
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and that's gonna do it for today from
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Key West I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog
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is over