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Chapter 1: What is the Great American Ramblin’ Raft Race?
And they are talking about the...
beginnings of the great american ramblin raft race which then became shooting the hooch shooting the hooch shooting the chattahoochee i'm sure every town that has a river or a big stream has some version of this a million people decide on one day that they're going to get together put their rafts inside of the flowing water and head on down a big old boozy sunday with a bunch of beer yeah
A bunch of beer and rowdy teenagers and just have a good party of it. This was a huge ordeal in Atlanta for a long time. Now, it was coming to kind of a ceremonial close as I moved to Atlanta, so I didn't get the full... It started in 1979. Apparently, some Georgia Tech students decided to get their fraternity and sorority sisters and brothers together and do this, and then it became a big thing.
The radio stations locally would sponsor it, and they would hype it up, and so it became tens of thousands of people riding down the Chattahoochee River on their rafts. Now... I often say to people, people come in town and they say, hey, Brian, because I am a noted tour guide. They say, hey, Brian, what is there to do in Atlanta? What about that Chattahoochee Hoochee?
That Chattahoochee Coochee that everyone's talking about. And I say, if you want Strepacoccus A, feel free to dip your toes in the Chattahoochee Coochee because that's exactly what it is. It's a Hoochee Coochee. And it is known to have bacteria in it that you probably don't want the human body coming in contact with.
Like a lot of other places with flowing water and bodies of water around it, the water's not always so clean. Now, we've done a good job of cleaning it up.
There was a good cleanup effort, yeah.
The Chattahoochee River Keepers are a favorite charity of mine that do God's work by going out there and picking up old condoms and dead cows out of the Chattahoochee River. But still, you're taking your life into your own hands if you're riding down that Chattahoochee River in a raft. I swear to God.
I did it once. I'm not doing it again.
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Chapter 2: Why is the Chattahoochee River considered dangerous?
Yeah, I mean, I can see where that comes into play.
That's all I need to know. Thank you. Thank you.
I wasn't crying.
You weren't crying? No, I wasn't crying. She has no feelings, folks. Can't you tell? She's like Frankie Valli.
She just stands there. But I can see in some parts where it's a sad situation.
Okay, it's a sad situation.
But it is funny and it's very, it's different. And it was good.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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