This Happened, $40 Chicago FireBoat Ride On Lake Michigan And Chicago River
right continue now away we go right so uh we're going along the chicago river walk you can see all these boats are waiting to get in the lock some of them are over eager and crowding the lane as we exit if you ever find yourself in their position don't do that the little golden nuggets of wisdom i like to offer up to people you can see the guidewall off to our left back when giant ships used to come and go from the chicago river they would follow this guide wall would lead them right into the chicago lock and uh some of you might already be able to make out as we approach on our left-hand side and don't worry if you're on the right-hand side of the boat you'll see this we actually we're going to pass our sister ship the victor l schleger and the newest member of the chicago firefighting family the christopher wheatley engine 58 and engine 2 respectively so the schleger is going to be giving you a really good idea of what we used to look like when we were a active fire boat we used to have two fire fighting apparatus in the bow and two of the stern those are monitors what they're known as they look almost like machine mounted guns but they're giant hoses they're gonna let you shoot water very far with all four of our pumps going we could move ten thousand gallons of water a minute the schlager can still move twelve thousand gallons a minute uh remember we were operational from thirty seven to eighty one the schleger is operational from 47 until current time she actually has a longer run in history than we do then you got engine 2 christopher wheatley built in 2011. [Applause] did you hear that that guy's voice went up three octaves i thought he was going to have a really low baritone but no guy was a soprano and an inquirer i kid because i love to kid anyway um you're going to notice another feature shared by all three fireboats though their low profile allows them to fit snugly underneath all the bridges in chicago they were replacing the steam-powered fire boats before this boat you had to be powered by steam steamboats have smoke stacks and they require you to lift bridges for them to get from point a to point b quick fast in a hurry so by allowing the boats to go underneath all the bridges without requiring them to move you're saving time hopefully you're saving lives saving property and also you're saving money it costs money to raise every bridge and all these bridges still move if you want to see them go up and down they can uh they can do that you can come back and see them on saturdays and wednesdays during the spring and fall as boats enter and exit the lake it's pretty cool they're called lift days and commercial captains like myself eric and ray always get a kick out of the uh the sailboats because they're not really used to being confined waterways here you can see the extension of the uh the flyover this thing is open now and constructed it for five years actually surprise is not still under construction we're going under lake shore drive bridge and it's nice to see that they are working on the infrastructure here in the city because i bike over this bridge every day all right folks let me welcome you to the main branch proper of the chicago river and if you'll notice if you look over the side the color of the water has changed it is now a lovely blue green color it's because as the lake water enters the main branch is the perfect habitat for blue green algae they love this colored the main branch the chicago river this lovely color would you die the river a healthy kelly green on st patrick's day thanks a lot the plumbers union but the city loves this color of the water evidenced by these buildings on the right you'll see the color of the river reflected in the facade or at the very least often the glass will be tinted to reflect the color of the river and the lake as well now if you look up to your left you can see one of the newest editions of the skyline that is vista tower the saint jane hotel by genie gang that is the world's tallest structure built by a female-led architecture firm genie gang is an illinois native she is a fantastic world-renowned architect she does structures all over the globe and uh when she adds one to our skyline it is no small matter chicago is known obviously for its architecture but we're also known for our architects and it's pretty awesome to see all that we have to offer in a glance and now we're going to be going right through the heart of it if you keep looking up into the left you'll see another building of genie gags coming into view it's going to be the one with the wavy balconies that is aqua something leads me to believe that she took spanish in latin at some point in her life a lot of her buildings have either spanish or latin names so you can see the river is shared by all matter of aquatic boats here we got some kayakers [Music] people always ask me why don't you kayak in the river matt because i'd rather be on a boat that's why but you can see people out enjoying the beautiful holiday weekend to our left and to our right this is nothing what the city used to look like guys this was remember we didn't industrialize our lake front but we did industrialize our riverfront so there would have been warehouses train switch yards thousand foot long lake freighters docked here coming and going makes two of us and now you're getting to see all this beautiful architecture we've really changed how we view our river and in the 60s 70s it was still pretty industrial you certainly weren't allowed to kayak in it that's a new uh a new thing [Music] hello as we get out from uh under columbus drive bridge here in front of us we got the trump tower it's completed in 2009 a little bit of road traffic above me trump tower completed in 2009 by architectural powerhouse skip more owings and mural or if you want to sound like you've been in the biz som pretty cool his lead architect was adrian smith known as the world's tallest architect that's not a remark on his stature he's not that tall but he builds the tallest buildings in the world if you've ever seen a photo of the burj khalifa in dubai put it next to a picture of trump tower you'll see they share many attributes the difference is burj khalifa is more than two times taller than the trump tower that's that's the major difference now to the right you can see this beautiful building with a clock tower in it that is the root of the building maybe you've chewed wrigley's chewing gum maybe you've taken in a game at wrigley field this is wrigley building same name's sake it's flat entirely in terra cotta tile built between 1924 and 26 respectively each one of those tiles is individually numbered and washed by hand tenderly and lovingly or once a year kind of like me it's a way of passively fire proofing a building and it's something we're fairly fanatic about here in chicago for good reason we'll get into that later it was the tallest building in the city when it was built 400 feet tall they said you could see the miles about to go under michigan avenue the one mag mile is to the north to our right if you were going uh shopping bring your wallet bring your purse and bring your credit cards because ain't too much for for a little money there this is one of the many double decker bridges we have in the city here your louis vuitton your versace you can tell i don't shop at those stores i pronounce in rome all right folks we're going to be coming to our left and as we do i want to bring this your attention up into the left you can see a building with a dome on the top and three highly ornamented water towers if you can't hide them guild the lily right that is the jeweler building built by grant anderson probes to white 1927 height of prohibition that is where whites whitesmiths goldsmith silversmiths they would all work there and they would come and go with these precious metals and precious jewels and gemstones and you know who else wanted to be in on the business of uh jewelry making al capone he didn't really care how he got into that business or whether hook or by crook as they say so what they did to avoid the whole getting robbed on monday on your way to work by al capone thing they built an elevator for your car you just drive your studebaker or your model t or whatever model you had take the elevator up to the level and go to work painless fairly inconvenience now quickly before we go on to the bridge i'd like to draw your attention to the right this sleek stripped down black box beautiful example of wait for it black box modernism yes cannot make these names up [Applause] so this building over here was designed by miss van der rohe miss vader came to the united states in the 1930s from germany you recall history great time to come to the united states from germany he did not like superfluous ornamentation he liked everything to be and that's exactly the way he designed his buildings these very organic buildings that we'll be seeing in a moment were designed by one of mises students bertrand goldberg he took a very different opinion he did not like right angles so there aren't any in this building not even the toilets have the right angles those are oval too but this was supposed to be a city within a city it has a marina which is good because it would be awkward if it didn't his name marina city it had everything that you needed entertainment wise the house of blues main stage was the movie theater had an office that you could see behind it bowling alley ice skating rink also had more day-to-day features you needed a tailor well they had one for you you need a grocery store they have one for you and they still offer valet parking don't worry steve mcqueen does not valet your car some of you will get that joke it is pretty well they still look sleek and modern now off to our left you can see the extension of the riverwalk the city spent 100 million dollars inspired by uh san antonio's riverwalk in texas on a hot day it's not uncommon to see people dipping their feet into the water pro tip don't do that the water is still slightly uh polluted but it's getting better the plan is that you should be able to swim in the chicago river by 20 30. by all means come back i'll film you from shore and then we'll get you a nice tetanus shot that's what we'll do it's going to be great but you can see all the people enjoying themselves there really has been a sea change unacknowledged with how we uh view our river here all these people on these seated the benches over to our left these stairs that is the site of the eastland disaster all boats are inspected by the coast guard but they're inspected only because a vessel that was rated to carry 600 people overburdened itself with 2400 and then turned over sadly trapping and killing 844 men women and children the lesson we learned is that you need to make sure you can carry that many people for example we can carry 127 185 pound passengers we carry less because well reasons but we could wouldn't affect our stability one iota ahead we got the wall street bridge it's another one of the double decker bridges the upper deck is for trains entering and exiting the loop we don't really have a subway we have an elevated rail and that's why people refer to it as the l and if you do want to take a quick ride around the loop it's pretty cool oftentimes people ask me matt where can i go and get a good steak i do recommend the chicago cut steakhouse no they do not pay me in delicious domonico steaks medium rare but i always tell them what i would order in case someday they want to no one's reached out to me yet pretty hard to miss here we are the only fireboat anyway i can't recommend it very good so can catherine ray to that end as we get out from under wall street guys you're going to want to look to the right we're going to give you a beautiful eye full of art deco architecture this is the merchandise bar that's coming into view you see those vertical lines the racing stripes meant to draw your eyes up this was the largest building in the world when it was built and would remain so until the pentagon was constructed 4.1 million square feet of showroom floor space seven and a half miles of hallway and corridor i know those are not giant pez dispensers everyone always thinks so but that would be weird those are the titans of industry it is pretty cool to think there's one more mile and a half inside this structure than it is distance from my house to uh to the other at night they project art onto the facade of the mart the building was snatched up by the kennedy family in 1947 for a song and sold in 1996 for 600 million dollars not not a bad profit right [Applause] welcome to wolfpoint everybody this is sort of the heart of it all this is the confluence of the north to south and the main branches if you look to your left you can see this beautiful curving green structure in your view building the park in front of it was this folks dock while she was an active fire boat from there we could go north we could go south we could go east we could enter the lake we were very well positioned you have to remember again that we industrialized our river right where the river ended buildings were just constructed straight up so if you want to fight a fire on four sides you very much needed a fire boat to accomplish that we're going to be going north here where he's got his right blinker on and you'll notice again that the color of the water is changing it's not dirty it's part of this north branch and the chicago river flows through forest preserve as a result the tint of the water is changed this is kind of cool if you see this little park off to the right you can see the balcony or rather the um the railing there inside the railing is a circle with a y in it that is the municipal device of the city of chicago it symbolizes precisely where we are because if you ever go on google earth and you see the confluence of the north and south of the main branches they make a why the chicago flag wasn't designed until later the municipal device is older and it's everywhere now that you know what to look for you'll see it everywhere manhole covers theaters uh post offices as well as the libraries all feature them ahead to your left you can see this pink building that is the oldest structure that we're going to see on today's tour that was 1897 when it was constructed it was converted into 19 uh in 1908 to cold storage look at how thick those walls are about three feet thick it was so well insulated with horse hair and cork of all things that when in 1988 me um architect terry whis was tasked with the job of converting it into condos and office space he had to wait for the building to thaw for three months before he could make change one it's also responsible for these river cottages that was another example of early movement to the chicago river here we go we're approaching the kinsey street bridge if you notice these cluster piles these bundles of telephone full-size pieces of lumber notice particularly this one with a white sign on it in 1991 they were driving piles and they breached one of the many miles of tunnel under the river 64 miles of tunnel beneath the river they used to bring coal and other stuff and they breached it and then in 1992 the bridge was discovered because the city only employed one person to inspect all 64 miles of tunnels so it took him a long time to find it but find it he did and of course he ran right up the flagpole and changes were made immediately yeah i wish that's not what happened the tunnel flooded to fill the volume of the merchandise mark twice with water and flooded all downtown in 1992. called the
great flood of chicago it was not good times had by anyone even though this fire boat was in private hands we were actually one of the first on the scene they were throwing all manner of debris to kind of staunch the flow of water eventually they had to call in divers from milwaukee to find and block the uh the leak kevin ray is going to spin us around here but before we do i want you to look to your right this is the east bank club this is a very posh health and fitness spa that i do not belong to for many reasons but those windows are not at eye height they're allowing light to enter but you can't see out for good reason because when that building was built you didn't want to see the river it was a very industrial river nothing much to see now look to your left people are paying a premium to hear the dulcet tones of my voice up to two times daily i was actually about to put fifty thousand dollars down on one of those but being me i spent it on avocado toast i still stand by my decision it was delicious captain ray's gonna poke our nose over here and spin us around they're part of the unofficial part of the tour i won't go into much about it but we're gonna be heading back towards the kinsey street bridge if you care to google kinsey street bridge dave matthews band at your leisure there's a fun story about that some of you were wondering yes is it yes fun to read it you wouldn't want to have been there genji street bridge dave matthews band i didn't tell you sometimes if the wind is from the west you can smell chocolate there's the bloomers chocolate factory just uh just about a block and a half west of us but in all seriousness and sort of highlight the change in attitude that china wins have taken with respect to our river now when you build on the river you must include 40 feet of public access to the water and that's how much we've cleaned the river that's how much of an emphasis we've placed on the river and people truly do want to be down here that's why you're seeing everyone on the river walk that's why you're seeing people kayak rent little boats that sometimes get into our way all of that and more for those of you on the bow don't ever say i didn't do anything for you get your cameras out guys because we're going to go back under the kennedy street bridge and you're going to be greeted with what i personally feel is the best photograph that you're going to get offered today wedding party after wedding party often engagement parties as well they'll get their photos taken with this view in mind so as we come out from under the bridge guys you're going to be greeted with a beautiful collage of architecture which begs the question why do we get to enjoy such awesome architecture in the city of chicago come back with me and my wayback machine let's talk about it the city was founded in 1833 or rather it received its charter there were people here before that but only a couple hundred by eighteen seventy one we received three hundred thousand i'm no statistician seeing how i'm wearing shoes i can't count to 20 very well today but that's a phenomenal rate of growth what do you build with when you have to house that many people that quickly well we built out everything out of wood our homes our streets our sidewalks all of it out of wood and unfortunately for us the summer and early fall of 1871 we were encountering drought-like conditions on october 8th 1871 150 years ago a little little less but we're getting there uh mrs o'leary's property not too far south from us now the story alleges that a cow kicked over a lantern i've never known irish cows to be much of an arsonist the city had a bit of a beef to pick with miss catherine o'leary some people say the news steered everyone in the wrong direction of mistrust that's what i heard the things that they said about mrs o'leary were utterly unbelievable we don't know how the fire started but she was asked to move along not too long after yes i am doing this on purpose i digress we don't know how the fire started but start it did it was carried aloft members were pushed by strong winds that evening and because essentially we were a tinderbox and also we coated everything with pitch because it's the 19th century that's how you waterproof stuff you cover with even more flammable stuff it was a shoe and that we were going to burn down that night and we did firebird for three days we had a state-of-the-art fire department with 175 active firefighters some 17 horse-drawn steam-powered fire engines all deemed adequate for the job uh normally it would have been it was just that was a perfect storm of circumstances the city ultimately was devastated you can imagine everyone fleeing right here these bridges weren't around but there were other bridges they were carrying everything that they had with them and oftentimes were forced to leave all of their earthly possessions behind them to be pilfered by people coming after them and then left to burn in the fire as it continued on its course it burned two and a half miles further north it got as far as fullerton avenue it destroyed seventeen thousand individual structures it made one-third of the population a hundred thousand people homeless and very sadly lost or rather cost 300 people their lives could have been much worse there was a real question as to whether chicago could rebuild but here's the thing if you look to your left you'll notice we're still rebuilding every time we build a new structure we're living that legacy of rebuilding that fire offered us something special a clean slate we would not be the city that you're marveling at right now without the opportunity to rebuild and that's why we're called the second city it's not a comparison between us and any other cities in the united states we built ourselves the river and the lake are natural features but at the time of the chicago fire we were already the linchpin connecting a trans oceanic transcontinental rather rail line we still are and at that point the railroad might have been a natural feature so as you can see we continue to beautify the riverwalk off to our right you can see these hydroponic gardens that allows fish to uh procreate that's where they go to netflix and chill we used to have only four species of fish here in the chicago river we have over 60 now and you can fish the chicago river i don't quite recommend that you eat them maybe catch and then release very very quickly but um but you can fish not uncommon to see youngsters learning how to cast a lion here in the chicago river [Applause] so up ahead on the left you can see an example of a ground scraper we don't just have tall buildings we have lower ones too that is the reed murdock building built in 1914 it's on the national register of historic places when it was constructed was built to be a dry goods warehouse and you can see a highly stylized wheat motif on the facade if you count you'll see the number of bays is not symmetrical there's only five on the western portion of the clock tower and six on the eastern as they expanded lasalle street they had to demolish the western end of the structure and they bookended it hoping you wouldn't notice but that is where i come in you see now it is now the headquarters for encyclopedia britannica for those of you 30 years of age or younger an encyclopedia is like wikipedia but in analog book form and a book is this thing that's like a kindle with pages that you must turn regularly if you want to read through the whole thing it's a lot of fun encyclopedias were expensive you used to have to get them on layaway start with aardvark work your way down [Applause] oh see i see it look there's someone with their feet in the water oh man don't be like that person oh no i'm going to help him out don't worry over to our right you can see this beautiful building my favorite 55 east whacker this is what i call the danny devito of architecture everything you need nothing you don't just raw power like it's an example of brutalism and again remember don't put your feet in the water because while it's getting cleaner it's not clean enough to put your feet in the water he's on his he's he's instagramming he does not he's not listening to me it's all right up ahead to your right you can see a green building [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you're gonna live [Laughter] [Applause] so this is what i like to refer to as a teachable moment don't do that boats weigh a lot and kind of like elephants they're actually very silent when they move this is a good lesson thank you all right getting back to the matter at hand [Applause] my blood pressure drop a little bit you're good you're good all right it's not part of the experience my friends we're going to have you look it up and to the right here to see the only part of the city where building a bus building of what's building it reminds me a lot more of the skyline of manhattan than it does in the skyline of chicago it speaks to the value of real estate this is actually the narrowest skyscraper when it was built and it's next to the london house london house actually offers very good views west of the chicago river if you don't know what you're doing later today i can recommend you go to the top of the line house it's a hotel but you don't have to go stay in the hotel to enjoy the view from the bar at the top pretty cool coming into view on the left-hand side you can see a building with flying buttresses looks like it might be more at home in the 12th century than in the 21st that was for many years the tribune tower was where wgm broadcast from it is now condominiums it's on its way to being completed soon again it's just speaking to the change uh that we've experienced here in the city of chicago so for people who aren't from chicago if you're getting lost you don't know what to do if you see someone walking a pomeranian or a very tiny dog they live downtown those dogs don't actually walk that far it's very easy to determine so this is really cool guys we're going back under michigan avenue it's so named about us the lake used to come this far west this was actually the start of the lake now every bit of land to your left and to your right my friends is land filled and that's going to play an important part of our story off to our left you can see the iphone store that was actually where the first non-native resident gentlemen set up shop this is also my reminder for people with cell phones and nice cameras you do not need to dangle them over the side of the boat to get that photo because phones don't float and we don't turn around for them a thousand years from now someone's gonna be digging up your phone and they're gonna know if you swiped right or left do you want that on you no one does to our left you can see another building this is nbc tower if you're a fan of such fine family programming as the jerry springer show well then you love this building someone was asking me how do you become a tv host after becoming a mayor you gotta bounce to check like a super bowl that's all i'll say about that and anyway this is captain derek's uh favorite building it looks like it's art deco but it's not it's echo deco echo deco it's fun to say it's fun to hear you're a cool group let's say it together on three right one two [Music] you guys come back next week and do this again yeah that was great up to your right you're getting a really good view of aqua tower again is pretty neat as we get out from under columbus drive you'll notice that the city over here to our right is built on three levels you got lacquer drive lower wacker drive and then i think it's technically like in dante's inferno like the seventh layer of hell lower lower whacker drive unless you like giving yourself a migraine i urge you just to stay away your cell phone won't know where you are your passengers are going to be freaking out where are you going how do we get here you're very good you're going to quickly start questioning life decisions that you make if you end up on yourself on lower whack or drive lower lower whacker drive even more so so don't do that just stay away you can see the swiss hotel right here the veritable toblerone of architecture designed by harry weiss the same guy who did the river cottages he was a sailor in the navy nothing more evocative of a triangular sail than a triangular building and we're also seeing another view of vista tower don't worry those cords don't hold it up people are thinking that those are for window washers i'm sure but if you look up you can see there are two levels where there are no windows that is not by accident that is by design we are known as the windy city more for our uh politicians full of hot air than for uh the winds that we are regularly afflicted with this time of year but nevertheless we are afflicted with some very strong winds and you do have to deal with that from an engineering standpoint there are a whole lot of interesting ways to deal with that but perhaps one of the most elegant is simply to allow the wind to pass right through and that is exactly what is achieved with that that is known as a blow-through floor it allows the wind to just go right through the structure and thus lessens the overall pressure on the surface of the structure pretty cool huh so guys we're passing a little memorial again during world war ii all the submarines used by the u.s navy were built locked by by a large part in and around the great lakes and those that were would pass through the chicago lock and go all the way right down to the uh to the gulf of mexico ultimately [Music] so we're approaching lake shore drive or as i like to call it lsd it's not just me it's a lot of chicagoans if you get a phone call from your family friend and they're from chicago and they say i'm driving home on lsd they're fine if they call you from wichita encourage them to pull over and wait it out everything's going to be cool copacetic as they say [Applause] but it offers fine views of the city north and south if you have a car that you've driven here with you could take that ride now ahead and to our left you can see this black building depending on your age or how how stressful 2020 was it either looks like a fidget spinner or a flask [Applause] of delicious whiskey um the cap of that flask does not spin it is a french restaurant called satay which if i remember correctly is french for very expensive it only spins if you've had two bottles of bordeaux and then it spins like a top that is the only private residential structure east of lake shore drive remember i just told you that all of the land left and right of us is land that said you may not build east of lake shore drive on land and just like your english teacher and your friend who's a lawyer reminded you that words matter they do uh so when the city sent a gaggle of lawyers to confront the developers the developers replied saying we understand we can't build on land east of lake shore drive which is precisely why we're building on land filled and then all the air was sucked out of the room some warriors lost their jobs and the city very hastily reworded the charter to include the phrase and landfill [Music] so here you can get another good view of that building off to our left it's built on landfill and in addition to that it's also built on air rights when a train uh track is laid down the company whatever company it is they own the air above that train track up to the height of 2000 feet this is sort of an interesting thing if you've ever been curious why we don't have super tall skyscrapers above 2000 feet like the burj khalifa in dubai it's because above 2000 feet uncle sam owns the airspace we'll never have a structure half a kilometer tall it just won't happen but in any event if you lease the air rights above train track which they're very happy to let you do for a lot of money by the way uh you can put your building up there too a lot of buildings on the south branch of the chicago river which we didn't visit today but sometimes we do they're built on top of air rights of train tracks it's pretty cool how they get around certain rules and regulations so you gotta do space one enough and you know it can happen so we're getting another good view for those of you that maybe didn't see it the first time these are the sister ships rather than our citizenship is the picture of slaughter the fire boat ahead and then the engine number two you can see this marine safety structure here looks like it should be more at home at the chesapeake bay that is where the marine police the coast guard homeland security fire department obviously right they're there the conservation police we playfully call them the geese police and if you're curious what you call one conservation police member it is goosebumps a lot of people don't know that but it is and anyway over there you can see what looks like a small navy corvette the grey boat over there in order to get the cadets in annapolis out in time and training and introduce to a command structure a top-down mentality that is any armed forces or even merchant marine craft even this boat there's a captain crew member everyone on the way down until me in any event those boats were designed to help those cadets in annapolis get that experience so that by the time they went to fleet they they were acclimatized somewhat to you know giving orders to receiving orders responding a certain way you know someone asked you to do something on a boat it's it's yellow that you didn't cut off what you just heard it does two things that lets whoever just gave you that instruction know that you heard them correctly or if you repeat something back incorrectly they know you didn't hear them you can say it again all these little things [Applause] so we're going to be treading water here which is a fancy way of saying treading water we're going to be holding the station we're going to be waiting for that lock to empty itself of boats once again it looks like we'll have a few guests going in the lock with us that's always the case it's a lot of fun sometimes the lock master will give instructions as you've heard on the weight coming in it's very important just like captain ray uh he's in charge of all of us you know our safety our our lives are in his hands um same thing is true of the lock master but we're inside that locked basin you know they are you know very high up on the totem pole of everything you need to know about in that moment so when they issue commands they don't do that by a life jacket it's a good thing to listen you'll notice that all the non-commercial boats are required to have their occupants wear life jackets because we're an inspected passenger vessel the coast guard is well aware that we have more than enough for everyone on board today that's why we're not required to have money guys this is a great photo opportunity again if you got a camera or a smartphone or just want to burn it into your mind go for it [Music] they say in 20 years you won't recognize the skyline of chicago and i kind of believe it it's not so much what's going to be built up and tall it is a lot of what's happening at the water is the interaction of buildings in the city and the river and the lake and it's fun to see all this construction that's still going up there's something like 20 buildings going up around the city right now some commercial some residential some mixed use and so it really is just from someone's perspective who's lived here their whole life i love seeing that i love learning about the architects that make that possible and it's you know it's it's particularly nice to know that that's that's jobs that's that's a whole lot more than just an awesome building being built that's work for someone so folks i'm going to take a little break i'm going to mosey around with you i'm not just some austere voice on the right hand side of the boat i'm also a fun guy come around and talk to you make sure you're having a good time captain ray's got some awesome music [Music] the captain eric is still manning that bar he was mentioning it one time someone tipped captain eric 300 bucks to shave his beard he did it someone then tipped him 400 to grow it back and he did that too so amenable captain eric is he knows card tricks quick with a joke but he won't light up your smoke because there's none of that on board the fire bug all right folks captain ray's got some good music tuned up see you in the next video
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