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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Watching a couple of world-class New Orleans oyster shuckers like Gus Marshall and Kentrell Simms, you know this really is a spectator sport.

On Bourbon Street.

At Desire Oyster Bar on Bourbon Street, inside The Royal Sonesta New Orleans, Marshall has been going at it for close to half a century of first-class shucking.

And not just shucking — shucking and winning. Marshall is a three-time New Orleans Oyster Shucking Champion.

Kentrell is the crown prince — the only job he’s ever had. It’s life on the Louisiana half-shell with New Orleans royalty.

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