Episode 2: Puffins

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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As his daughter prepares to leave for college, Sam visits a remote island.

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0:00.0	Walnut.
0:03.0	stop it.
0:05.0	Hey, hey, hey, hey,
0:08.0	Hey, Walnut.
0:12.0	No. No.
0:14.0	Oh, there once was a puffin, just the shape of a muffin.
0:21.0	And he lived on an island in the bright blue of a Yeah. Where's that coming from? The boat?
0:34.0	He ate little fishes that were most delicious.
0:38.0	And he had them for supper and he had them for tea.
0:41.0	Hello.
0:42.0	Hello. But this poor little puffin he couldn't play nothing for he hadn't
0:47.2	anybody to play with at all. It's the bow that smells like fish. So he sat on his island and he cried for a while and he
0:57.1	felt very lonely and he felt very small. Then along came the fishes.
1:03.0	There's no doubt about what it smells like.
1:05.0	It smells like fish.
1:06.0	And they said,
1:08.0	If you wishes, you can have us for playmates instead of for tea.
1:12.0	So they now play together in all sorts of weather and the puffin
1:18.0	eats pancakes like you and like me we're going driving off the ferry I recently went to Iceland
1:28.3	foggy and raining yeah with my colleague Caitlin Roberts. Like a movie set.
1:33.2	Yeah, it really is.
1:34.2	And not just a regular Iceland.
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