Gatorland WILD 75th Anniversary In A Storm - Florida Man Competition & Riding Mechanical Alligator
Gatorland 75th Anniversary
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it's a little early about
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7:15 as the recording of This TGIF it's
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Friday May
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17th 2024 there's some birds going over
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and I have arrived at Gatorland for
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their 75th Anniversary weekend
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kickoff 75 years this place has been a
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Roadside Attraction
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staple Gatorland Orlando
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right here at Orange Blossom Trail in
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cumi open daily I'm going to come on in
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and it looks like even prior to opening
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they're starting to set up the cake the
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Inflatables over there he Gatorland
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opened in
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1949 it's
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2024 making it 75 years this place has
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been a
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staple of Central Florida roadside
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goodness welcome everyone Adam the woo
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here I think my glasses are a little
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disheveled and crooked I got my coffee
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definitely need to get some caffeine
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flowing through the bones Park doesn't
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open for a little while now this whole
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weekend not only they're celebrating
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their birthday SL aniversary for 75
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years but they're also doing an event
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called Gator halloa my friend Savannah
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works here she also not only works here
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with the Gators but is also on the
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monsters of the morning a show radio
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show used to be Monsters of the midday
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years ago they switched to mornings she
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has been on that show for many many
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years they are doing a live broadcast
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inside she said why don't you show up a
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little bit
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early maybe go in see what's going on
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with the monsters also see what's going
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on with the Gators and celebrate Gator
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land's 75th anniversary and every time I
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go inside Gatorland I never know what's
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going to happen just kind of got to go
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with the flow inviting you to join me
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happy 75 years Gatorland
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chear join me probably don't need these
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sunglasses yet but I will soon join me
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shall you have a lot of memory Mor of
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this place been on here for a very very
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very long
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time I'm really glad they're still
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kicking still thriving still doing
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better than
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ever Gator Land I love a good
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inflatable little wacky
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inflatable oh I am not awake yeah cat's
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kicking in
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though all right bright and early in
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Gatorland think the Gators are awake
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though they don't even need coffee they
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did drink coffee what type they would
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drink hot coffee or cold I think they're
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hot coffee creatures even though they're
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in kind of somewhat cool water oh oh
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that was a good jump
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right the chicken jumpero
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still little
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higher that a good shot but you
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chicken there it is Gator paloa but
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technically starts tomorrow this is the
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kickoff included with Park admission
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Gator paloa 75 years of Gator Land This
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gator has a birthday cap on not only are
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the monsters here but Tampa J is here
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behind you there's a radio broadcast
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yeah it's the monsters of the morning
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Real Radio 104.1 you have an appropriate
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shirt on from their Halloween event
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Gator ghost and goblins this is my first
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time I've been to Gator POA though yeah
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welcome 75 years that's a big deal it is
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got to be here get it legendary forid aw
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barely my coffee is sitting over there
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oh no I better get that away from there
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the gator might get it again going on
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all weekend this is the kickoff but
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officially starts tomorrow from 10: to
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4:00 and then the next day on Sunday
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from 10: to
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4:00 I like that that logo is like very
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1940s looking the classic he's got some
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frosting on his nose that's the best
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part oh my gosh look at the size of this
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one look at that
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one thing I will say though even though
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it's early it is very humid out here the
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sun's not even really fully out yet and
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it is the humidity ah Florida got to
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love it all right evidently there is
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going to be a gator riding competition
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but it's not going to be a real gate
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it's like a it's like a a robotic Gator
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that the Real Radio monsters are talking
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about right there so going to get to
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witness a a gator riding robotic Gator
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challenge here soon it get to a warmer I
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might have to jump in that splash pad
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over there in a while
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all right check this out over by the
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python house and the gator small baby
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gator Marsh is this look at this
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freaking
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thing it's like a mechanical pool but
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it's a
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gater what this might be the greatest
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thing ever right here
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go there it is there it is you don't
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need consent no you don't there you go
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riding like riding like oh my
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gosh it's like I can feel the breeze
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coming off the back
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there w w
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I'm
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hand if I get any closer the tail will
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whip
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me you got it Savannah I can't even do
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this part I can't even do this
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part it
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is oh no
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it oh my oh it's going all right oh I
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see why you do the one hand thing
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now my go up go ahead FY going you got
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it Adam got it ad put your feet
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back
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oh that was 8
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seconds that was definitely 8 seconds
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that's so cool heads
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up that's harder than it looks good job
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J Urban Gator F oh wow all right
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here we
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Jay I'm
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going you're doing better than I did
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good we both hit the same spot that's a
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sweet spot that's the spot right there
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good job J good
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job like a
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warm it's literally nothing like a marry
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go around it's a little
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more two hang on you got it
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got it
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R oh man watch out for that
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tail oh watch out watch
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out gator
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attack what is
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happening oh my God
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now we're going to head up to the front
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where they're going to have the jumping
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out of the cake ceremony also the gator
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is going to be the the gator that you
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can ride like a mechanical bull is going
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to be out to all day today tomorrow
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which is Saturday cuz I'm filming this
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on a Friday tomorrow and Sunday so all
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weekend come out if you got to sign a
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waiver even I did sign the waiver ride
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the ride I going said ride the bull ride
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the gator holy cow I thought that was
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like a they were digitally pumping in
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the
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sounds no that is all the water and
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stuff whole holy
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cow I thought that was like a I thought
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they were digitally pumping that in that
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is really scary like dinosur dude
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imagine not being like imagine being in
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the woods and this is like you hear that
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coming through at
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night like I don't think they're happy
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that is
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wild yeah that is
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a said that who I thought it was like a
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sound effect
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oh my my hairs are standing up on my arm
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and the whole dock is like vibrating got
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Goose watch the water above their back
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when
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theyellow
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whole oh
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my these are some powerful
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creatures dude this whole thing's
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vibrating right here right here it's the
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whole thing's vibrating oh you can see
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it
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man that
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is that's wild all right uh her special
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friends of ours and and and glad to have
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them as All of You special friends of
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ours thank you everybody my name is Mark
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hi Mark I'm I'm CEO here great to see
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everybody thank you for showing up we're
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going to be pretty foring children back
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then Owen Jr Sue Mary Lou and Frank and
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the six of those started Gator land and
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1949 rock on
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girl thank you Mark for the introduction
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hello everyone I'm honored to welcome
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you today as We Gather to commemorate a
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truly significant Milestone Gator lands
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75th
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Anniversary thanking you for inviting
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the city of cimi to this
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celebration stand as enduring Testaments
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to Gator land's commitment to Innovation
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and excitement
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wow whereas Gator Land proudly
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introduces Jo jene the world famous
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rescue alligator and her Splendid New
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Habitat in CI he's an Oola High School
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cowboy and I love sitting with with
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mayor Dyer when I when I get a chance to
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and listen to his stories and his
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memories of Gatorland when he was
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growing up right down the road there in
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CMI uh here to represent the the office
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of the city of Orlando today is Doug
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Richard director of community engagement
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and he's got a proclamation too Doug
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thank you thank you Mark hello everyone
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it's great to be here this is a great
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day for our entire Community he said
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what do you do with the Gators when I go
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in there he said they're in there with
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you and uh he decided not to go along
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and take the job um and actually I think
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worked out for both parties while
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obviously Gatorland has enjoyed
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incredible success and become an
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important part of our community and I
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think May Dyers had a pretty good career
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as well so uh he couldn't be here today
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but he's proud to join this recognition
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and uh it's hard to to Mayor Gonzalez
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but I do have a short proclamation to
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read now therefore I buddy Dyer mayor of
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the city of Orlando do hereby Proclaim
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May 17th 2024 as Gatorland 75th
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anniversary day in the city of
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Orlando ready here we
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go 2
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1 oh my God
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oh yes it is official Gatorland is now
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75 years old the party has been
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officially kicked off with Gator paloa
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the entire weekend and I kind kind of
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worked out the gator down the popped out
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of the front of the cake almost got me
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but I slithered away just in time before
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it got ugly I SLI it away which was
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which was pretty good so I got that that
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was that was pretty dang awesome the
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mayor Simi was here buddy Dyer also were
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here mayor of Orlando was not here but
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he had a representative who read off and
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they going to designate this day as
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Gatorland day which is pretty pretty
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dang cool all right but head back in now
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it's also starting to rain a little bit
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now take a look you got the the
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sprinkles here on the water see it's
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starting to
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rain this is all inspired by our FL man
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challenge which starts tomorrow hello
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skun
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challeng now I know Gator Land 75 how
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old are you it
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was
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Gator there's about there's
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probably
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years that's
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it okay but how old how old are you in
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human years like it's like a skunk years
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count on the rain new twist to this
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content we we uh we know how long it
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takes to bail out
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8 years old oh it's the
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same so human human years and skunk a
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years are exactly the
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same I thought it was
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like's hungry he's been saying he's
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hungry the problem is he's not convinced
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this isn't his birthday party so we're
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trying to explain why he's here he
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thinks this is for him let's celebrate
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this more Victory I told he have to make
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line and he went and made the
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line line yeah he was going just go jump
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front
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line he said because that you're going
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to sing him happy
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birthday he literally just jumped out of
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a cake he was in a cake for like 20
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minutes you didn't get enough cake the
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cake wasn't Hollow he burrowed his way
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into the
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cake his way there's never
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enough yeah so
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there's never enough that's a new
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t-shirt
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never oh that's really cool there is a
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Gatorland 75 birthday that is a that is
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a really beautiful cake right
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there they will not be consuming any
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cakes or
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snacks evidently they have like a little
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tray table over there for everyone but
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you're welcome got to resist they did
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have coffee I would get more coffee
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though I had a coffee earlier but I
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could definitely use definitely use
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another one we're getting ready to do a
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challenge now where I guess everyone
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that's down the line here is going to
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throw hot dogs into their
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helmets and then the boats have holes in
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them so it's going to be leaking and
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it's raining Florida man
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challenge thought we were around the
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mechanical boat a nice camera it's a
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robo ain't nothing
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mechanical how much water is that in
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find
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out back
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there
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we I need some hot dogs all right give
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me a couple hot dogs
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here
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come need hot
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dogs oh that was close
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it throwing at each
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other oh almost got
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me wait I didn't know you were going to
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throw him back
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there are you going to pull the plug and
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start
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the oh here the race is started who
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they're doing really good oh my gosh I
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just got it from here it went in and out
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though I get it all the way over over to
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Savannah need to reload I didn't realize
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that Russ just said it's mating season
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for the Gator they said they're
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horny put that on your channel I will I
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just I don't talk about horny Gators
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often on my channel but I just
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did oh yeah now the boats are sinking
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you're
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right it's getting close it's getting
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heated
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him my w are they going underneath that
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wait you guys are going underneath there
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going under the bridge and it's taking
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in water look at the water it's like the
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Lim it's like a weird
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limbo oh my it's oh
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no I'm a head by I'm a head by a who won
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people arm
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on I don't know who
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won guess they chose the winner C
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alligator
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Florida got full helmets tomorrow y'all
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got nail
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it kind of hurt I tried catch one in my
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mouth of course you did got you catch
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hot dogs in your mouth all day the
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monsters got to got to wrap it up a
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little early because storm's coming in
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so they got to K all their equipment
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away we're going to go head back over
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there and watch a little bit
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more of the the the gator robotic
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Gator getting storm pretty nasty problem
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is we got to run through the rain to get
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get to
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it got it should we just
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run I think we're going to do it oh no
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oh my
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gosh go go go go go slippery wind wet oh
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oh oh get underneath
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W good oh my gosh it is downpouring out
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evidently there's a the storm isn't even
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yet just show me their phone with a
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satellite on it and like this is just
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the pre storm
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storm run out but the lightning and the
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Thunder are coinciding TimeWise so I
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don't know it means the lightning is
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right about
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us ther it's like right
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here oo
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Thunder Roll and The Lightning Strikes
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GTH Brooks
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baby another the heart goes cold on a
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sleepless night is that the words I
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think that's the word that's right the
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storm goes on out of control but deep in
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Heart It Lightning's a lot all right
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he's going for it oh I don't know maybe
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not as soon as he went out like I
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saw 86
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times oh my goodness I'm going I'm
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gator
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yeah bad storm bad storm rolling
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through my glass
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hey you going in yeah oh my
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God different now than they were earlier
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uh-huh oh yeah that me want bite you
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want don't start
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n don't do
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it all right I'm finally doing this
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moldamatic mold theama
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here making it happen make my own Gator
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Land gator
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I made one of these
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recently over at the W wdwn NT Studios
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when they were doing their event and
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they had a Hollywood Studios Chinese
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Theater mold theama check out the carget
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bagger has tons of these I don't have
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anywhere near as many as he does I have
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a
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couple
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$5 there it is
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there it
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is let it cool down for a
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moment countdown 54 3 2
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1 there's my little
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Gator right in
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there nice and nice and toasty I like
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them teeny and toasty nice man Isn't
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that cool love it so now bino gator I
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can still smell the w
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smells
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good
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warm very warm it's a hot Gator hot
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Gator hot
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Gator all right I found another one this
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one I really need to have cuz this is
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the quintessential
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alligator wrestler
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guy so I'm doing a second one didn't
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know I was going to buy two mold matics
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today I think they used to be called
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mold but now they're mold
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matics my second
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one this is what I'm going to get
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pretty dang cool so yeah I have a few of
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these already I guess now I've got two
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more maybe I'll have a little collection
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going ohoo this one's really hot that
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thing's
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toasty a big old Gator head right there
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it's a little little little wet through
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Florida a crocodile area over here might
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be another one over
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Anniversary some really good merchandise
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in
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here gift shop is
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massive Darth Gater
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Good Times rainy rainy good
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times Gator
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Land Gator Land the storm rolled in fun
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alligator capital of the
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world we mov the cake
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inside they all jumped out
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of the weekend of festivities
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begins happy 75 to Gator Land the
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ultimate
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roadside Gator Roadside Attraction here
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in Central Florida so
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good so good and that's going to do it
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for today from Gatorland happy
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75th the Vlog is over