Pacific Science Center

You handled snakes?

[laughing] One of my, one of my first jobs, um, at the Pacific Science Center, I was a snake lady.

So, you know, we did the snake demonstrations with the-

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You know, in the wake of the shooting, I'll be honest, I thought that the media at first was being a little bit too fixated on the delay when we were trying to understand what happened with victims, what happened with suspects.

But, you know, then people there that night, they did kind of say things like, oh, well, it was delayed because there was a SWAT search at the Pacific Science Center.

They started to kind of give rationales for it.

A lot of public officials denied that they had been any kind of cause of the delay.

[dinosaur roar] We all know that theme song well.

So anyone who has ever been a kid or who has ever had a kid in Seattle probably has memories of the dinosaurs at Pacific Science Center.

For 35 years, there has been a Triceratops and a Stegosaurus that have been guarding the iconic fountains near the entrance.

They're the wading pools.

30-foot-long dinosaurs.

[laughs]

Um, you know, Pacific Science Center has been pretty open about, uh, its struggles, particularly with that fountain, um, for a while.

Apparently, it is leaking.