The transcript captures the award presentation for Heiko Dobrikow as the HSMAI South Florida Legend of the Year 2015. Heiko delivers a whimsical, repetitive performance echoing Pharrell Williams' "Happy," repeatedly proclaiming "Because I'm happy" and encouraging the audience to "clap along." Speaker B and Speaker C interject with formal congratulations, highlighting Heiko's contributions to the Riverside Hotel, Broward County, and Florida tourism, and noting their own absence due to attending the Visit Florida marketing retreat on Amelia Island. The overall tone shifts between Heiko's exuberant, lyrical celebration and the speakers' sincere, appreciative acknowledgment of his impact on the hospitality and tourism industry in South Florida.
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Yes, I am.
Muka, kakao, papadam.
It might seem crazy what I'm about to say. Sunshine, she's here. You can take a break. I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space with the air like I don't care, baby. By the way, because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Clap along. Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do. Here come bad news talking this and that. Yeah. Well, give me all you got and don't hold it back. Yeah. Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine. Yeah. No offense to you, don't waste your time.
Here's why.
Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do. Hey, come on, bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down. The love is too high to bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down, I said. Take me down. Bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down. The love is too high to bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down, I said. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Because I'm happy. Hello, papagena. Tú le peras con la papaya. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Mi pera es Happiness is a you. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do. Bring me down, can't nothing bring me down. The love is too high to bring me down. Can't nothing bring me down, I said. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Hey, hey, hey. Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. 'Cause I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Hey, hey, hey. Ba dum tss.
Aiko, my friend, hey, congratulations. I mean, what else can we say but to you, the, the HSMAI Legend of the Year 2015. And we thought since you are the man who you are, that represent what you represent, the things that you do, that one legend was not enough to congratulate you. So from Legend 13, huge congratulations for everything you do from the Riverside Hotel all the way to you do for Broward County and the state of Florida. So with that said, I'll introduce you now to Legend 14 over there.
Hey, Heiko, congratulations on a very, very well-deserved honor of being named the HSMAI South Florida Legend of the Year. Certainly much more deserved than the Legend number 13. Listen, I'm sorry that Alfredo and I can't be there with you. We're up in Amelia Island today at the Florida— Visit Florida's annual marketing retreat and leadership summit. Otherwise, we'd be there to join you and help you celebrate an extraordinary honor. But thanks again for all that you do for Florida, for all that you do for HSMAI, and all you do to help us sell the sunshine.
