All right, Manny Pugg. How are you doing, sir?

Good. Talking's easy, so we'll talk. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk all you want.

So you came all the way here from Fort Lauderdale, from your home in Fort Lauderdale.

Yes.

Thank you for coming out. We got some amazing tridentes from you, which we'll show later.

I enjoy making them.

They're probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Very primitive weapon.

Definitely a very primitive weapon.

Yeah, I'm a very primitive guy.

Yeah, we can tell.

I'm like old-fashioned in many ways.

That's amazing.

So for the people out there who may not comprehend completely, tell me who is Manny Pugg?

There's no title to what I do.

I interact with sharks, alligators, venomous snakes.

Also, I make medieval weapons. I'm an artist I do the kind of stuff I like doing and I free dive

a lot of breath hold diving I've done scuba diving also I mean I've been bent nine times you know

blacked out once so but I spend a lot of time in the water. I'm more aquatic than land

based. Let's put it this way. And when you say you've been bent, you mean you got the bends.

That's when you get, is that what you're talking about when you get blood, ox, or bubbles in your

bloodstream? Nitrogen in your, yeah, in your blood. You know, we're commercial spearfishing back in the old days and you do too many dives.

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