we are cruising right now
they're going for it they're going for it basically if you know the right people to
talk to you can make some calls and find a way to buy some tanks I'm ready I know guys
today we're going to be driving an actual tank now back in the day when I was little
I remember being in a tank and wishing I could always do it well today is the day there's
only a couple of places in the entire country he can drive a tank you ever seen like those
giant Billboards for uh Tank America that's where we're going a little later today but
this is gonna be kind of like a Florida man themed episode I'm gonna be kind of doing
a bunch of Staples of Florida in this little video so first off we're here at Orange world
this is a staple of Orlando and tourism I want to see how it looks there's a big like
fire that happened a couple of months ago I want to see how the construction looks and
get some good orange juice have brought back the orange juice and the fresh oranges and
a bunch of fun little souvenirs out here got orange World pens orange scented body lotion
orange perfume it's like a little carton but it's orange flavored uh gum plastic magnets
right here we got the classic shirts the world's largest orange Gator heads little baby shark
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foreign [Music] fresh squeezed orange juice from the little gift shop out front now this
is the best orange juice I've ever had in my entire life it's so sugary and sweet and
you just like taste the Florida Sunshine stuff is a 10 out of 10.
it's a must we gotta try this orange juice all right so this is the back where the big
fire happened they're slowly working on stuff they've removed a bunch of the debris that
you can still see all the way up inside the orange they have it all tarped off now they
haven't repainted yet but they're saying by September it should be fully reopened and
repainted and off mixed It's just sad that this happens I'm glad the insurance companies
are helping uh fix it [Music]
so I was able to little peek inside the they're fully like renovating everything getting it
ready for September I did get a gallon of the orange juice because it's so good we got
to continue this little Florida man experience and it wouldn't be a Florida video without
Gators yes they can't be a Florida video without Gators so this is located right over by uh
Universal Studios it's uh experience mini Adventures speed live Gators I did this during
my college program Way Way Back in the Day alligator Crossing look at a little baby Gators
down there alligators grow about one foot per year the largest alligator on record was
19 feet long alligators can go three months without eating they got a little souvenir
keychain uh golf balls I like the little grogu one right there okay they give you a stick
with a rope a little clothespin on it easy oh hot dogs now it's like freeze-dried chicken
this is like seven dollars let's feed some Gators when in Florida we put our little chicken
nugget on it let's go fishing this guy's just chilling he's relaxing come on little guy
get your little chicken [Music] got it I got him on the road got him on the road they're
going for it look at them [Music] foreign [Music]
Gators so in that note it's time to go get one of my favorite things to eat here in Florida
if you're coming to visit you gotta go eat this we're gonna head off to Publix now we've
made it to Publix this is a staple of Floridians and cast members and team members diets it's
the pub sub the chicken tenders this thing will change your life it'll fill you up the
entire day at Publix here in celebration might be the coolest design for Eddie Publix thank
you [Music] [Applause]
[Music] we got our sub I like that they cut it in half I think it's so good so I get the
chicken bacon ranch chicken tender sub okay that thing was a 10 out of 10.
it's a must fresh bread wonderful crispy juicy chicken tenders get that saltiness from The
Boar's Head bacon then you get some provolone cheese on that oh all right we are charged
up and ready to go let's head off to tank America and go drive some tanks
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it is time to drive a tank I think uh I think we're in the right place take America forward
operating base okay we're heading into the operation base foreign
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how do you guys have tanks have tanks because we've got them either overseas from England
or here in the states two of them we imported in the restaurant we found here in the states
and basically if you know the right people to talk to you can make some calls and find
a way to buy some tanks once you got the tanks how did you like legalize having a tank yeah
so that's why if you can get them in the states already it's not that much more difficult
than buying a car but when you're importing them in you got to deal with a lot of import
requirements export requirements ATF inspections a lot of red tape that goes with them luckily
we utilize a broker to handle a lot of the paperwork and stuff for us when we bring them
in okay we're in the briefing room what's happening welcome to take America we're going
to teach you how to drive a tank today design and drive around the field we're going to
push these vehicles to the Limit
once we get outside you're going to notice that there's two different types of vehicles
one is our armor personnel carrier our ATC which is what we use for group events and
our car crushers but this vehicle over here is the vehicle that everybody comes to drive
which is our fv433 Abbott it's our 105 self-propelled gun so before you go drive they got a little
locker system so if you want to put your stuff away I think we need to go to the bathroom
label the latrine danger here we go [Music] oh
so you have many different tanks here many different names what's the name of this one
throwing the children around we call her the cow simply for her paint job and we've been
milking her ever since we got her for our adult audience we just call it the [ __ ]
we bought her straight for her body see she's missing all of her road wheels the track torsion
bars everything's pretty much out of her okay so they would they would put four people inside
here foreign how many hours of Maintenance does it take to prepare these tanks for about
every hour that we drive them it's about four hours of Maintenance we're always in here
fixing them we gotta Cruise in here all the time so it runs on diesel but what else can
these engines run on that we're originally in here the original ones you could run them
off of any kind of Grease like fire oil or any kind of anything that's combustible you
want to put a you know alcohol in there you could run it off of alcohol put a Jack and
Coke in there it'd probably run off of that this tank was used in a film Iron Man and
also the Dark Knight risen so Prometheus was used in the film Super Eight we're going up
at this tank right now
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thank you
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we just finished every single person should drive a tank once in their life just looked
at my face I look like a little toddler eating a Mickey bar at Disney World just covered
all right now guys we are back at home let's talk about tank America my childhood uh bucket
list got checked off I drove a freaking tank so guys let me know down in the comments would
you drive a tank or is that even on your bucket list it was a lot of fun just to like go over
cars and go through the mud now it really makes you appreciate people who have been
stationed within the tank you fit like four or five people within the tanks that was one
of the really cool things we were able to kind of walk through with the employees and
they like gave us the history behind each vehicle and how they operated when they were
in service so if you really want to switch up your little Orlando uh vacation go to take
America drive a tank that's an option only here in Florida and in Texas I think there's
like the only two states where you can like drive a tank so if you enjoyed this video
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ready [Music]
this is a good sign it looks like there was a gator Feast here recently