The Gray Whale, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the enigmatic gray whale, noted today for its vast oceanic migrations and curiosity, but known as “devilfish” for its ferocity by the American whalers who hunted it in the past.
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| 0:33.2 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 0:46.6 | And I'm Joe McCormick. This episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, and I suppose the next one as well, |
| 0:50.8 | we'll be dealing with gray whales. This is a topic that I was inspired to cover because my |
| 0:56.4 | family was fortunate enough to get to go on a trip to Mexico, to the Mexican state of Baja, |
| 1:01.7 | California, sir, to one of the breeding legumes that the gray whales migrate to every year. |
| 1:11.0 | Specifically, we went to Oho de Leabray, legume. That means Ile de Hair due to the way it's shaped. |
| 1:19.1 | And yeah, I got to see these magnificent animals close up. I got to observe them for a couple |
| 1:26.4 | of days. It was absolutely fantastic and certainly ignited my curiosity about these creatures. |
| 1:34.1 | I didn't get to see your photos because I'm not on the ground, but Rachel was raving about them to |
| 1:39.6 | me. Yeah, once this episode comes out, I'll have to share some, maybe in the discussion module, |
| 1:44.6 | the Facebook group, or our Discord for the show. And if you don't have access to those, |
| 1:49.2 | just email us and we'll hook you up. But yeah, I got some great footage. My wife got some great |
| 1:54.9 | footage. And more than anything, we just got to take in this amazing location, this amazing landscape, |
| 2:03.1 | and these amazing animals. So this lagoon is one of their calving grounds, and you were out in |
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