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Oh my gosh, that's an osprey. Gator broke its wing, couldn't fly, and then it drowned.
Alligators are preying on ospreys at a pond, leading to efforts to trap and remove the gator. The video also features gator hunting and cooking.
Key Takeaways
- Alligators can significantly impact local wildlife such as ospreys by preying on them.
- Proper wildlife management sometimes requires humane removal of problematic animals.
- Accurate preparation and patience are critical in hunting large reptiles like alligators.
- Gator meat can be delicious and is prepared with care to enhance its flavor.
- Good sleep and recovery are vital, as highlighted by the Helix mattress sponsorship.
Summary
- A large alligator has been killing ospreys at a local pond, breaking their wings and causing them to drown.
- The osprey population is affected as multiple birds have been killed within a couple of months.
- The creator prepares to trap and kill the problematic alligator with the help of a trapper and a rifle.
- The video includes detailed preparation and sighting of a rifle for an accurate shot on the alligator.
- There is a sponsored segment promoting Helix mattresses, emphasizing the importance of good sleep for recovery.
- The alligator is eventually shot and killed after several attempts and difficult conditions.
- The video discusses tagging harvested alligators as part of regulations and the frequency of alligator harvesting.
- The creator shows the process of cleaning and cooking the alligator meat, highlighting its flavor and texture.
- The video ends with a cooking segment featuring a medley of mushrooms, fruits, and lemon zest to complement the gator meat.
- The overall theme combines wildlife management, hunting, and cooking in a real-life outdoor setting.
Chapters
- 00:00Ospreys Attacked by Alligator
- 01:11Observing the Alligator and Ospreys
- 02:15Rifle Sighting and Preparation
- 05:33Helix Mattress Sleep Segment
- 07:37Impact of Alligator on Ospreys
- 08:53Tracking and Confirming Alligator Activity
- 11:03Hunting the Alligator
- 15:05Post-Hunt Discussion and Tagging
- 18:16Cleaning and Cooking Gator Meat
- 30:10Cooking and Tasting the Gator Meat
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There's another dead osprey in our pond. And a gator was just right there. A gator like this that's catching ospreys, he can kill a lot of things. Now he's got to go.
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Gator broke its wing, couldn't fly, and then it drowned. Dang. That's all it did. Gator grabbed him by the wing. You can see where it broke right there. Same thing that happened to the other one. Crazy thing is gator
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didn't even get a chance to eat it yet. You can see the puncture wound right there from the gator tooth.
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What a shame. These are such cool animals. Hit another puncture right there. Look at how big their talons are.
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Look how big they are. They're huge. Dude, you have no idea. He killed an osprey this morning.
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Are you kidding me? He's killed the second osprey. Jesus, man. Yeah. He there now?
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He's there now. Um, I have to go with Sarah. I'll be back this afternoon when it's cool.
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Yeah. And um, let's catch the gator. It's one of them days. We got big storms coming in this afternoon.
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The trapper can't wait. Can't get here till about five o'clock. So, I got my rifle, my 308, and I got to go sight it in perfectly for 100 yards. Have you guys seen the alligator? I haven't been over here
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since last time I came. Had one Saturday. So, the gator caught another osprey. Another osprey.
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Told you they were over there. A gator has a spot about this big you need to hit. So size of a dime.
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I got to go literally get everything set up perfectly. Y feeder goes off in the morning and in the afternoon.
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That's about 10-15 minutes after that fish feeder goes off then they move on over there. So it's usually kind of like right behind the trailer or the mar, 10 ft to the left of the fish. That's probably your furthest point.
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Yeah. 97 yards. This is going to be our little target. Sorry about the artistic ability, but this are that's the eye. That's the mouth. That's what I want to hit right there. I'm telling you, if you need accuracy, you need Hornady.
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Now let's see how we did. Perfect. Now we're talking. This is exactly what I wanted to do. So, these were my first two shots.
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Now, one, two, three. It's all right there. Practice on the range creates confidence in the field. This gun was sighted in for 300 yards. So, I knew I had to go and fix it. Things are rapidly changing. So,
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I just got a call from the trapper. He can't make it today. He's going to come here tomorrow. But I need the trapper to be here to kill this gator. It's one of the rules. It's about
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I love it. That ripple was the gator. Oh my gosh, that's an osprey. I know.
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I'm telling you, this gator is like eating ospreys. There's an osprey, right? Or there's the other wing part of the osprey right there.
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We got to get him out. He's going to decimate all of our ospreys. Maverick, come on.
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I've never, I've never seen anything like this ever in my life. There's another osprey flying right there. We have all these ospreys that come to this pond and now we've had three that have been killed within what, a month, two months.
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That's insane. Ospreys are really good for the environment. They only catch live fish. So, they're coming to this pond to feed, but then the gator is getting them.
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Oh, you might want to move the one that I put up there, by the way.
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Unless that is the one from up there. Where did you put it? I put it in the concrete because I thought you were going to catch the—I forgot about it.
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Oh, yeah. It's gone. Oh, no. It's there. Is it? No, it's gone. That gator is walking around here.
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That gator took the osprey. Okay. So, that osprey that he ate was this one. I said it right here. I swear to you. I have it on video, Robert. I literally said it right here.
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I promise you that osprey was right here. I promise you it's on video. The only reason that he would be in the water is he smelled it, picked it up, and took it there.
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I know. That's why I'm trying to look for tracks to see. You would see his tail. Rob, is this line right there his tail dragging or no? See those lines right there?
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Yeah, that's his, that's where he walked. That's his tail dragging. Yeah, because you can see it there and there and there and there.
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Yeah. The gator walked right here. He obviously had a north wind. He smelled it, was like, "Okay." He walked up here, picked it up, and came down here.
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Brought it back. Yeah. So, that just means that the gator is in fact killing ospreys to eat them, not just stealing the fish that they're catching.
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He probably came right off of here. Maverick, stay up here. Maverick, where's Camo? Right behind you.
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I just saw him, babe. When we pulled up, I saw his head and that's why I looked around you and then it went down.
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Maverick, Camo. Maverick, Camo. Camo, Camo, come here. That's where he came up. Right there.
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Camo, come. Come on. Not this one. I don't know. I wonder if I got that on camera.
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We're in a torrential downpour right now and the gator just popped up for the first time and went instantly back down.
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You see the side of that turtle's head? That's a turtle. Typically, a gator like this, he's going to go down 5 minutes, back up. This gator, I have no idea.
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Jenner, come, come over here and sit so he's not because he's gonna see you. And typically this should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.
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Just in case he's got to swing at it, I don't want you. I can't have my daughters and my dogs swimming here because the gators have no idea food is food. Well, to me, gator is for food, not my dogs, and
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definitely not my daughters. Chase, why don't you go over there, start playing your call, and hopefully this gator shows himself to the shot. Let's do it.
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At this point, all we need is for the gator to lift his head up because once he lifts his head up, he can't handle that. Right there.
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Down. Down. Killed him. Got him. Nice. That was a shot. This was absolutely one of the hardest gators you've ever seen in your life.
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So, I went and got my Beretta VRX1. This is a 308. This is not meant for gator hunting. But you know what? When the joint gets tough, the tough get going.
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I only had one. We've been after this gator like you can't even imagine. Yesterday we were having a big bark party right there and this gator was like impossible.
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Well, thankf
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What a shot. rotisser size. What's going to be crazy is now that the gator is gone, are the o ospreys going to start using the pond again because the ospreys don't even bathe here anymore.
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So, we did what we could do. It's a little chilly in there. You know what's funny? I was looking and I was like, "Oh, where's the line? How come he's not casting? And then I look up and I see you swimming. I'm like, "Oh
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my god." So this is Chase. He's the local alligator trapper. We're coming out of mating season right now. So they're getting very active. So how often do you just shoot a gator like that?
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Not every day, but when we need to, we do. And Rob made a hell of a shot. So All right.
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The good thing about this, he's going to taste like osprey. We don't know what that tastes like though y'all.
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Now, why are you tagging him? Every gator we uh harvest, we have to tag. And that tag stays with that hide until it's made in the product. Whether it's 2 years from now or a year from now, that hide that tag stays with it
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the whole time. Good. And that it's like a VIN number to a car pretty much tells you where that gator was caught and everything. So, it's easy. Get this. But she's gone.
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Poor Amanda. She's never going to hang out with you again. Robert 10. Gators are reptiles.
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When you just kill a gator, all of their nerves are still still twitching. No different than a turtle. So, when you're cleaning them right after they've been killed, see, they're still twitching and still moving even though they're not
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actually alive yet. So, this right here is the belly hide, and this is what a lot of people will use for belts and wallets and boots and things like that. Sometimes you'll use the scoots, but a good gator has a nice
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belly hide. How many gators do you get a week, you think? It depends. Right now, it's so hot, so it slowed down a little bit, but probably five or 10 a week. During May, it's it's crazy.
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Really? Yeah. We do we do almost 100 in May. What's your average size? Uh, probably the six and seven foot between that, give or take. You know, sometimes you have the small ones and you got the big ones. So,
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what's your favorite part of the gator? Jelly roll. If you have cuts or something on your hand, I do not recommend opening their stomach up because the amount of bile and nasty acid that lives in there will get you infected.
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Yeah, he definitely ate the osprey. Definitely. Definitely the osprey. That, my friends, is the osprey that he came to our house to eat. Guaranteed guaranteed evidence that the alligator eats ospreys. So, I didn't want to say anything until I had concrete evidence.
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Well, that's concrete evidence. It's kind of mushy evidence if you ask me. A gator's main source of food is fish. They love to eat fish. They'll sit by current. They'll wait for fish to pass. So, for the fact that there is no
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fish in this stomach and it's only a bird is like crazy. As you can tell, we've changed. I was in the water and it was super super cold.
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But now we're going to do something funny, something special because Slav is here and Slav cooks all the time. So, I want to make something nice for him.
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Here are the two jelly rolls. His favorite cut on a gator. Yes. Look at that.
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An alligator just never stops going. Little pink hamm that stuff. Himalayan him Himalayan. Little bit of Everglades and some pepper. Just like that. Then we're going to take some some butter, put in there.
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and let this thing start working. See sizzling? That means it's working. Look at the muscles.
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That means they're fresh. Have you ever going have you ever seen one twitch that much?
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It's It's never been cold. Like this is absolutely as fresh of an alligator as you could possibly have. Now that one is fresh. That is wild. It's like a jumping bean.
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Yeah. I've never seen anything like that before. Like I haven't either, Jenna. Can I look further?
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This is chorizo that we skinned so that it starts to create flavor. Then a little bit of green bean. Just like this. Oh, not that much. About like that.
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Then we're going to take a little bit of corn. Just like this. Right out of the cob.
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This is all pushido and salami. I love the flavor. Then we're going to have a medally of mushrooms.
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Just like that. Someone is watching right now and they're going to about to comment that looks good because that is good.
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Slav, what do you think? I think it looks delicious. You're just saying that. Seriously? No, I'm not.
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No, you're you're just saying that. I'm learning. Little bit of garlic. Wait, say it again. Garlic.
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No, it's garlic. This is garlic. Is it garlic or garlic? It's garlic. This is ginger out of the jar.
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Ginger or ginger? Yeah, something like that. All these flavors are coming to life. You look really nice tonight, babe.
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Well, thanks, babe. So do you. I did not shower. You did. That means Look at that outfit.
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And you even did your hair, babe. Just for you. You look great. Now, now it starts to cook.
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Meanwhile, we we're going to make some little bow tie pasta and we're going to finish it off with fresh shrimp that he peeled.
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One of the things we do, take some grapes, cut them in half, and then eat them.
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Just kidding. We're going to put these in the sauce. And this is going to be amazing.
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Blueberries and grapes with gator tail. Look at that. Look at that. That's happy days right there. It's falling in love.
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What would Cliff right there say? If you don't like that, you're communist. No, that'll make a monkey hug a hound dog. that too.
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Now we take some shrimp. That's what I'm talking about. We call that cast and blast.
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I call it gator in the pan. You want to try it again? One more time.
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Okay. She doesn't trust you cuz of what you did. That does smell really good. I'm excited to eat it.
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One more. One more and I'll eat it. All right. Now, let's take some farfall some bow tie.
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Put it right there like that. Little bit of olive oil because we can. Now, let's get busy.
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Got a little bit of heavy heavy whipping cream. Just like that. There you go. That's some parmesan.
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about that much. Aka the whole container. Yeah. Now, slow this down. Look at that. CH. WHAT?
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We We can only make this better. We're going to take blueberries and grapes and fresh grapes. They're going to be sweet. They're going to have a lot of texture and they taste great.
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Look at the color. Did you see the gleak? Yeah. You're there's gleak on my camera actually on the back side. Doesn't that smell so good?
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Yes. I don't even know what that is. Alligator. You're draining it. Straining it. About to Why do you strain it?
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Or do you keep the juices and just pour it? Oh, okay. Wrong wrong strain.
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Oh, it smells so good. Check this out. Now, turn that off. No, turn it off. Then take this.
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Put right there. Now about 10 minutes just to relax. Bam. Now we're going to get some lemon zest.
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The oils inside the peel. They're very, very pungent and they're full of flavor. Well, whenever you cut them off like this, all that flavor goes into what you're doing.
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Now we take some of them zest nuggets on top. Oh, smells so good. Bam. That's what I'm talking about.
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Last need some cracked pepper. crack pepper. Dear Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for this food. Thank you for the the sanctuary and all the stuff we we've been doing. Thank you for my family, my friends. Thank you for this food. Just
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give thank you for giving us a great day. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Smells so good. I'm saying haven't even bit it yet. M that gator just melts in your mouth.
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That's delicious. The ginger jumps out at you. It's like such a good flavor. So good.
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Oh, he's going to be so upset. The sauce is basically butter, cream, and parmesan.
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And parmesan. That That's it. M. It's so good. M. It's so tender. Mhm. Mhm.
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That's great. Wow. Yeah. Yes. I'm looking at Have you ever had anything from like field to table in 3 hours?
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No. Never. We call that We call that catch, clean, and cook. Really fast. That grape is great. Me and Slav literally went from the sanctuary to Publix talking about, "Okay, what do I want to do? What do you want to do?" And we just
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we made this whole recipe on the fly. Then we got to Publix. We're looking along. We had fans saying hello. And this is what we got. It just literally this is an invent invention of our minds because we've never done this before
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except tonight and pretty much all the time every single dish that I do is always a a variation of something. Do you think people would enjoy this at Down the Hatch? Like if you can get the same quality gator.
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Absolutely. Yeah, that's delicious. A lot of people want to know what gator tastes like. In my opinion, if it's been frozen and overcooked, it could be become very chewy. This is as fresh as it gets. It's not chewy at all. It's
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super super tender. So, when you go to a restaurant and you're like, "Man, that was so chewy." Don't give up on Gator.
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Try it again somewhere else. This is really really good Gator. Like really good. Well, as you can tell, it was terrible. Hey, pop.
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Quit working. Eat your dinner. It is. This is absolutely better than I expected. And I I knew it was going to be a good a good dinner, but this is this speaks for itself. But, uh, this is all we got for you. I appreciate
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you guys for watching the video and being a part of the channel. I love you guys. But uh this is all we got. Take care. God bless. And we on.
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Oh shoot. Hold on. Wait. Hey, drop a comment below. Let us know what you think. If you haven't, subscribe, hit the like button, share with your friends. Till the next time, take care.
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God bless. We are going.
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