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The Modern Maker Podcast

Ep. 133 | World Penguin Day

The Modern Maker Podcast

Michael Montgomery

Visual Arts, Arts

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Sorry we missed last week. But I tell you what. To make up for it we'll ramble on for an extra 9 or so minutes this week. Even? Cool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Modern Maker podcast for Thursday April 25th, otherwise known as, not even

0:16.0

national, but world Penguin Day. A day where the whole world can get on board with that, not just America.

0:23.6

The originators of the tuxedo.

0:25.9

That's right.

0:26.9

Well, at least the natural tuxedo.

0:28.9

Yeah, all natural tuxedo, the waterproof tuxedo.

0:32.0

Yep, gotta have one.

0:33.7

Penguins are cute, but they kind of smell bad.

0:36.6

I think they have oil in their feathers or fur that,

0:40.8

yeah, they smell like fish oil.

0:42.4

Can't confirm the smell they also only eat fish. That probably didn't help either

0:47.2

I bet you they would try bacon if you gave it to them. I saw a really great YouTube video of a family in Japan that had a pet penguin and they put a backpack on it which is adorable.

1:00.0

And then the penguin would walk from their house into town and would go to the fish market.

1:07.0

And the guy at the fish market would feed the penguin one fish and then put another fish in the backpack for later and then it

1:13.7

would walk back home and it did that every day. Wow. Was the other fish also for

1:18.3

it to eat later? Yes. Well, so what end were they doing?

1:22.0

It's humans.

1:23.0

Yeah, they also have a really interesting way of eating where they tilt their head so that their beak faces completely straight up.

1:31.0

So their neck aligns so a whole fish just slides right down. It's just

1:37.1

great that they evolve certain postures to avoid chewing. Yeah, it's just a

1:41.5

straight fish funnel.

1:43.0

But before we move on, I feel like we need to touch on the fact that he didn't do anything for his humans.

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