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Thank you We sneak in moby dick eyelash call me

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whale love a guy for you but only when i'm

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on a harpoon dot com o rest of the time

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you call me ishmael that's kind of my catchphrase it's

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Not much of a moneymaker though which is why i

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had to keep my day job as a teacher But

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every now and then when i'm feeling down i give

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myself a little see therapy This time i decided that

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i would ship to sea on a whaling vessel so

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i could learn about the incredible giants of the sea

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and also kill and butcher them for money Sort of

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a sea creature hit man if you will were going

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to make him some tada sauce that can't review While

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i was in new bedford looking for a ship i

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stayed in an inn called the spout er perhaps an

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obscure little teapot reference for me Well the hotel had

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no vacancies though so i had to share a bed

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with a harpooner i'd never met The stranger turned out

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to be a gigantic guy covered with tattoos and very

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surprised to find another dude in his bed Quite honestly

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you're dead skin beauty Fortunately he let me live and

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quick wag and i became besties look i need your

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friendship bracelet We even spooned a little bit Come on

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it was cold well quick wig and i went to

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nantucket land of chowder to score a job on a

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whaler who needs a job when you got chowder okay

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okay it's open We shipped aboard the piquant under captain

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ahab who actually had a peg leg Really No fooling

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for a long time They have was awol So the

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first mate starbuck was in charge I bet he made

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really good coffee Double mocha cappuccino Coming right up There

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was the rest of the fearless crew Gilligan skip away

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There was easygoing stubbs Well how do you do these

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high strung flask and the harpoon er's cashed a go

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and dig I'm um yeah those guys So until they

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have shows up i guess i'll be you captive Well

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we got along ok with captain but when they have

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finally made his grand appearance it was a pretty impressive

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one Two he had a wicked scar running down his

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face and ivory leg made from whale bone All he

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needed was an eye patch and apparent Come on You

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know an allergic to parents and eye patches They have

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was a little weird about whales though I mean sure

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it was our job to catch them and collect their

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oil Could How am i supposed to make my signature

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salad dressing But he seemed to have a vendetta against

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white whales in particular Have you seen this white whale

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It turns out that a white whale named moby dick

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made a meal out of a hat leg At first

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the crew was all gung ho to hunt moby dick

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But then we found out that he had a reputation

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for being the jean claude van damme of the oceans

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They have even bought his own personal set of trained

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whale killers Long Don't worry We'll take it from here

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Thanks for the vote of confidence In retrospect there were

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signs that this voyage was cursed Nobody killed an albatross

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or anything But there were epic storm broken tools All

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right you broke the flanders and way too many speeches

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from a hat to be or not to be eaten

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by a giant whale That is the question when we

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finally found our whale it's our shi Oh yeah we're

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definitely die Yeah he ate his way through the whale

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boat and people hey until he finally took down piquant

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itself They have got already to harpoon his nemesis missed

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and got caught in his own harpoon rope Which can

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be a problem if you don't read the water Can't

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believe me Well i was the only one who made

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it out thanks to my body Quick wags preordered coffin

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Guess he won't be needing it in davy joneslocker When

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i get back the land i'll pour out some whale

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oil in memory of my buddy I'm definitely done with

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the sea for a while does it right back and

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you'll hear us far She oh yeah we're definitely gonna 00:04:18.455 --> [endTime] die

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