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Speaker 1: Hayes along with PM Fox were broadcasting live from Elbow Beach, Bermuda.

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Speaker 1: This is a gorgeous ocean front enclave, classic style, contemporary luxury,

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Speaker 1: you so. Nancy, first of all, tell people the history

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Speaker 1: Gosling's black Field Rum and ginger beer. Uh the ginger

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Speaker 1: how and or how important is it that people can

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Speaker 1: only use scuffling room in a dark and stormy Technically speaking, anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's very important because as the years go on, more

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Speaker 1: be made with gausing black Seal rum. Now why is

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Speaker 1: it called black seal Because when we first started battoling rum,

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Speaker 1: to reuse old champagne bottles. We used to sterilize and

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Speaker 1: and that's what we bottled our products in. And we

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Speaker 1: had several types of products. They were bottled in old

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Speaker 1: black seal, and the black Seal rum. That blend was

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Speaker 1: was my uncle actually who decided that the black ceiling

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Speaker 1: that's why our old rum is packaged like it is

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