National Aquarium

Wait, dude, fuck.

I, one time I went to the Baltimore Aquarium with my dad, and I was, like, five years old, and I s- this lady, she showed me a shell, and it was two oysters fused together, and I was like, "What's that?" And then she's like, "Oh, an oyster." And she's like, "Where are you from?" And I'm like, "Virginia." And then she goes, "You're from Virginia? You should know that." Fuck that lady, dude.

I have held this grudge-

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I do have some immediate.

I have been thinking about that exact question recently because I went to the Baltimore Aquarium recently.

And the Baltimore Aquarium is in the process of figuring out what to do with its dolphins.

Because they were read in captivity, so they can't whatever.

They have to be in some kind of shelter.

Today, we'll be chatting with Leanne Blanchard, who in 2022 moved from Phoenix, Arizona to Baltimore, Maryland, on purpose, she says.

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We talked about me bleaching his hair for him.

There were talks about future fly fishing trips, family vacations, and a trip to the Baltimore Aquarium.

The future was bright for all of us.

It was just another evening in August.

We'll be there.

We taking Remy, uh, Remy to, uh, the Baltimore Aquarium on Saturday, so we'll be there-

Okay, cool

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Thank you very much, Angie.

I mean, apart from Batman, who doesn't love a penguin? 16 korora, the little blue penguins, at the National Aquarium of New Zealand's Penguin Cove in Napier are vying for the coveted title of Penguin of the Year for 2026.

Voting begins today.

We're joined by the bird keeper who gets to be with them, Rebecca Cuthbert, who we're all very jealous of.

I think it's fantastic.

Can you tell us, how can people vote for this?

They can either go onto our social media platforms or onto our website, and that's where they can do their voting, and they can also vote at the National Aquarium itself.

So if they're around, they can pop in and make a vote, or if they're coming for a visit, they can check out the little penguins and decide who they would like to vote for and place their vote there too.

crazy last last night uh amy and i i was like we were like scrolling through like youtube and i can't remember we like watched this thing and then i was like okay i can't i can't keep showing you this thing that's really dumb that's really niche to me yeah Do you want to just put something quiet on and just like kind of sit back and talk? And she was like, yeah, sure.

And I threw on jellyfish footage from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

And it was like, oh, yeah.

So

They're just a nervous system.

So I was at the Baltimore

Aquarium last week with my girlfriend because it was her birthday, and I was like, hey, what do you want to do? Do you want to do something? And I was like...

Originally, we were thinking about going to the zoo, but it was fucking hot and also it was raining last week.