Albatrosses
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Sep 15, 2026
James BuckleyHOST
What's those great...
James BuckleyHOST
Albatross.
James BuckleyHOST
I think an albatross sleeps.
James BuckleyHOST
Albatross, they, they never land.
Joe ThomasHOST
They never land.
Joe ThomasHOST
They sleep on the wing.
Tail DraggerHOST
That is the company the Goonie Bird kept.
Tail DraggerHOST
The name, where did it come from? The most common story connects it to the Laysan albatross, which sailors in the Pacific called a Goonie Bird.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Albatross is ungainly on the ground, enormous wings making takeoff and landing look awkward and improbable.
Tail DraggerHOST
Yet once it's airborne, it can soar for thousands of miles on almost no energy, riding air currents that would exhaust anything less perfectly designed for endurance.
Tail DraggerHOST
That description fits the C-47 well enough that the name stuck and never left.
AndreaHOST
And so it was picked to be the fantasy imprint of Penguin Books.
AndreaHOST
Even going back to the beginning of Penguin as the mascot for their logo, that was based on a German publishing house called Albatross Books.
AndreaHOST
Albatross, it was the same word in many European languages.
AndreaHOST
And that was founded in 1932.
AndreaHOST
So going back to 1932, there have been bird-related publishing house logos.
AndreaHOST
So it went from Albatross influencing Penguin.
AndreaHOST
And then there was somebody that left Penguin to start his own publishing house.
AndreaHOST
And he established Bantam Publishing.
Jeremy WellsHOST
Welcome along to the Hauraki Breakfast, Wednesday the 9th of September, 2026.
Jeremy WellsHOST
Big news there about the Albatross chicks.
Manaia StewartHOST
Yes, I heard they have been flapping their wings.
Manaia StewartHOST
Is that true? Are
Jeremy WellsHOST
So that's news.
Jeremy WellsHOST
That's new news.
Jeremy WellsHOST
Albatrosses flapping their wings.
Manaia StewartHOST
I'll tell you what I'm interested in.
StormHOST
Yeah, great.
TeganHOST
Albatross on a golf course.
TeganHOST
Yeah, great.
TeganHOST
Also a birdie on a golf course, an eagle on a golf course.
StormHOST
All right.
StormHOST
Here's your number ones, my final.
StormHOST
We've got Big Bird, Flip the Bird, Albatross, Kiwi, Keteroo, Bluebird, Tips, KFC, Bird, Flu, Flappy Bird, and Manu Vatsivai to round out your That's Ranked for Birds.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The My Morning Crew Catch-Up Podcast.
speaker_14AUDIENCE
I served the Royal Australian Navy very proudly for 20 years, and one of my tasks, or they sent eight of us down to Point Cook to do the fuel service.
speaker_14AUDIENCE
which was to AvCat, AvGas, how to manage aircraft coming into HMAS Albatross.
speaker_14AUDIENCE
I still remember to this day that the F-111s used to fly into Albatross.
speaker_14AUDIENCE
What a machine.
speaker_0HOST
But I guess that's all that was needed, as they had no aviary predators, instead pretty much being the king, and they achieved a remarkable global range, often being found near coastal cliffs that it would use to leap from and enter flight, and then would glide utilizing the ocean and air currents.
speaker_0HOST
And just like the Albatross, some scientists have speculated that it might have spent extended durations over the ocean and away from land.
speaker_0HOST
Yet, like I said, most of its pulling power for the crown came down to its size.
speaker_0HOST
But there were also other birds who were arguably more deadly, at least from the viewpoint that they could tackle a wider range of prey, and this was mainly seen in the early birds of prey, such as the Thalcaniformes, Ocypetriformes, and Owls, who were smaller than the Pelagonorthidae, yet hyper carnivorous, and owners of sharp beaks designed to tear flesh and deadly talons that could grip or puncture prey.
Jared RussoHOST
For $125,000, in golf, what name is given to a score of under three par on a given hole? Under three par.
Jared RussoHOST
Is it birdie? Is it eagle? Is it albatross? Or is it condor? Give me the answers again.
Jared RussoHOST
Birdie? Eagle? Albatross? Or condor? Now, you can hit, like, over par, and that's just bogeys.
Grant BrunnerHOST
Okay.
Grant BrunnerHOST
You
Jared RussoHOST
Three under par on a whole is what? OK, so this is
Grant BrunnerHOST
OK. I'm going to go out.
Jared RussoHOST
Albatross.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
La musica e l'amore che muove il sole e l'altra stelle.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
The Egg of the Albatross The top of a disused lighthouse, surrounded by the sea, hardly seems to be a convenient or desirable residence for a little girl.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
This was the residence of Marina.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
The people of Verena did not seem to think there was anything very extraordinary about it.
20 MINS LATER
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
You had better not shoot the albatross, because the people here have a kind of superstitious regard for them, and you might get into a great row if you did.' why do i care what these damned bloody portuguese think said the young man taking aim he shot and the shot went home and at that moment a much larger albatross swooped down and hit him with one terrible blow with his powerful wing and his companion had little difficulty in ascertaining that he had been killed at once Stranger still was the sight that met the eyes of the fisher-folk as they went down to the sea to ply their usual avocation.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
There was Marina lying dead, and on her bosom the dead albatross shot through the heart, and circling round, in circles sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, a male albatross bewailing the death of his mate.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
End of Section 5 The Egg of the Albatross THE TRUE STORY OF A VAMPIRE Vampire stories are generally located in Styria.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Mine is also.
JoshGUEST
Yeah, and then your third card, what's that? Oh, your fourth card, sorry.
MarkHOST
Well, my fourth card was fittingly called Albatross.
JoshGUEST
Oh, wow.
MarkHOST
And this is the one that I struggled with the most, actually, in terms of it coming so late in the game.
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