Sept. 13, 2023
82. Things to do in Chicago: The Shedd Aquarium (Season 3 finale, we'll be back!)
The Shedd Aquarium is over by the Planetarium that Johnny Mac can never get into - over kinda sorta by Milennium Park and the Bean and all that. Anyway, John and his kid spent a Saturday afternoon there where the belugas kept catching John's eye. What...
The Shedd Aquarium is over by the Planetarium that Johnny Mac can never get into - over kinda sorta by Milennium Park and the Bean and all that. Anyway, John and his kid spent a Saturday afternoon there where the belugas kept catching John's eye. What didn't catch his eye were things like anacondas and piranhas, so Johnny Mac won't last long if you strand hi in the while.
Oh, and we got ice cream from Rainbow Cone!
This is the Season 3 finale...but Travel Is Back in the spring.
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Oh, and we got ice cream from Rainbow Cone!
This is the Season 3 finale...but Travel Is Back in the spring.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4952649/advertisement
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I'm Johnny Mack and travel is back
this week another visit to Chicago. It's
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the Shed Aquarium, which was amazing. I went on a nice summer day
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at the end of July. You'll
hear me walking around the aquarium with my
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recorder on as I hung out with
my daughter. Some of the places will
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visit the Wild Reef Exhibit and Underwater
Oasis recreating a bustling Philippine coral reef.
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That's really cool. You see sharks
raise tropical fish. It's like snorkeling and
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crystal clear waters of the South Pacific. Right in the heart of the Windy
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City. The Shed's Abbot Oceanarium is
home to a lovely colony of penguins.
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You can watch them wattle, swim
and play in a habitat that mirrors their
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natural environment. You'll hear me getting
quite obsessed with finding the seals that I
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think I made up, but we
did find some sea otters. The Shed
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is also home to Amazon Rising,
where you'll find a lush tropical rainforest filled
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with exotic birds and turtles. Super
duper pro tip, though, do reservations,
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do reservations, do reservations. The
lines get quite long anytime that I've
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gone. You want to book in
advance? Did you hear me? Do
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reservations book in advance? All right, here's my recording. Welcome to the
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line at the Shed Aquarium. We
bought tickets for one o'clock on a Saturday
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afternoon. A nice man on line
behind me is pointing out that he can't
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believe how long the line is so
far. I'm happy him out in the
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sun. Fifty five dollars to park
at the North Garage, but I learned
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later I could have gotten ballet parking
for thirty five. But whatever, we're
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having a good day and let's do
the Shed Aquarium. All right, I'm
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lobby. Do we want to Matt
when his wander this way? Caribbean Reef
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for Amazon Rising, Amazon Rising.
Oh these guys are cool. Wow,
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look at this. They're cool looking
the flooded forest. This is cool looking.
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Oh. Another one of those cool
sting rays. That's beautiful. Wow.
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That is just unbelievable. It's the
way it like glides through the water
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doing loops. I think I was
just going around and so the one I
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like is a white botched river ray. What's that? Yeah? That looks
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like something I had a three d
movie. He's looking at you. He
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wants here, and it's gonna nice
smiley face. It almost looks like silver
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jeans. I know, I hope
there's a they're got a break. That's
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what they do. Let me step
on the sting you hence the name.
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You see, the Anacona would get
me. I wouldn't even see him keep
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it killy way up to wait what
they way up to? Four hundred four
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hundred pound? When Anakhams sixth book
came in an I like, what do
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anakhana is eat really big prey?
Oh wait, Unfortunately, they almost almost
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never attack, almost never attack people. Almost harran Is don't eat people.
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You know that prana Is don't eat
people. You're perfectly saved. If somebody's
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like, hey, Piranha, You're
like, they don't eat people, so
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stupid because their keeper razor sharp.
So would they bite me an even different
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than eating? You know, I
wouldn't even recognize that as a prana I'd
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be like, oh cool fish.
These are pretty looks. I like all
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these other just like it reminds me
of like Disney Haunted Mansion. They look
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like ghost kids. These are great, but the one from over there,
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I didn't. This was one big
team. I love this uh hatfish as
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the whispers. Let's see what's that
dark gray fish? It's the Amazon's largest
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fish, the Arab pima. No
information how much a weighs, though,
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I'm looking at us sixty five pounds. It's my guest. Price is Okaypparently
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we're both stupid idiots. Is it
is the answer? Eighteen or four hundred
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thirty five? I'm not an expert
on Amazonian fish. I love the electric
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y'all. So you're like Indiana Jones, you'd be afraid of that angelfish.
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Yeah. If I was thinking,
this looks like an aquarium. If you
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have a home aquarium, you might
have tetris like this is what we're talking
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at. That's what I found out
That charity fia to four hundred forty up
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to four and forty pounds, so
that one might have been eighteen. This
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is where everything's overfish. That's problems. Sorry, Eco shop, I'm suckered
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in. I'm in. I like
the shark hats with the shark fight in
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them. I don't think it has
practical use, but as something I saw
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once, it's kind of fun.
Marine biologists knockoff Barbie, I greeted the
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Amazon. What are these people online
for? Thing? What do they what
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do they know about? We got
to see the sharks. See insane not
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to see sharks? All right?
A little mini line here for the sharks
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located on Shed's lower level. The
wild reef evokes the colors and diversity of
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a Philippines reef. It's centerpieces of
four hundred thousand gallon habitat that's home to
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black tip reef sharks, sandbars,
spottled wobbegongs and zebra sharks. From reef
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sharks in constant motion to small deep
ocean sharks resting vertically on a rock wall.
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These awe inspiring predators are found across
our oceans and throughout the Shed Aquarium.
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Oh which way, wild reef?
No, we just shi wild beef.
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Let's see, we haven't done this
middle oceanarium. So this is I
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got the outdoor terraces. There's an
outdoor area forget what's out there? But
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it was fool. I remember sting
Ray Touch, where you can connect with
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animals and one of a kind hands
on experience. Wash your hands before you
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go in there. Sting Ray Touch
gives you the nique chance to get even
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closer to animals and nature by feeling
the tropical water and the back of a
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sting ray. The sting ray glide
around the habits at, flapping against each
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other and your fingers. We've made
our way outside to the outdoor pavilion.
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Any sting ray touch I remember this. This is awesome. Yes, of
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course, I gotta wash your hands
before touching the sting ray. Anything off
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your version that it is all use
it. I was able to touch your
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ray. It feels like a slippery
rocks. Here's a bunch your hand all
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the way the bottom of the day. Do you get your mostly box coroller
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being up to your hand? If
it posted to the service, they will
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come up to you. This is
great. Whatever I said they were seals.
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Seals we have like a lot of
cold things. The otter. Maybe
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that's the seals, sea otters,
the belugas. That's that's the belugas.
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Let's go. The belugas are amazing. SHED is supporting research benefiting the critically
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endangered beluga whale population in Alaska's Cook
Inlet. Approximately three hundred and forty individual
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belugas remain in those waters, down
from a historic thirteen hundred animals. If
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you'd like an additional experience, you
can meet the belugas. You can stand
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side by side with a trainer on
an underwater ledge. It's a seventy five
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minute experience. You'll step into chest
deep water and come face to face with
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the beluga. That would cost you
an extra two hundred dollars. At the
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time of this recording, we're here
at a beluga feeding. It's a nice
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space too, isn't it. The
sounds are cool. I remember I didn't
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even see them. Some in a
different angle and through the glass. They're
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cool. Sea lions sea lion used
to live in Oregon. There, wildlife
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scientists discovered the sea lions are feasting
on endangered chinook salmon. To monitor the
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sea lions, scientists branded them under
anesthesia. This sea lion was spot at
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the damn multiple times, eating large
quantities of salmon. To say, both
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the salmon and the sea lion.
Here he is. There's a way though,
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to see the belugas through its home. Let's see the auto trail.
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However, we get down there stairs. He missed the otter he left?
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Did he just come on the water? Yeah? Yeah, down there is
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where nice time. Oh, there's
stairs. Right there, Wait, food
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court? You want some food?
I could use a bite? All right,
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decent food court? Hot talk.
I'm in beef sandwich, I'm in
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What are you getting sausage? I'm
sure you can't hot beef sandwich? Please?
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Yes? Please? Can I also
have the public sausage but without the
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mustard pepper? Yes? Thanks?
Then we'll get a drink so we're did
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right. Yeah nice. I'm gonna
eat my sandwich and we'll take the break.
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My beef sandwich was good, and
the kettle chips that came with it
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was really good. How was your
sausage? It was good minus the peppers.
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No, you gotta have the peppers. She gave me her peppers and
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I made mine even spice here,
which I'll regret later. But right now,
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delicious, we're heading down the stairs
looking for belugas. Do we want
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to talk stuff again? In the
shallow wash your hands. You don't want
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to get spicy peppers on the stuff. These are pretty. I didn't wash
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up to my elbows. I'll just
admire them from here. I definitely don't
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want to hurt them. They're pretty. Yeah, go for it. What's
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it feel like, bruck? I
can't touch them I'm busting. Sure,
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yeah, but only my fingertips,
right, I know, But I had
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a whole conversation about it, so
I can't be like, hey, I'm
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totally ignoring you. Wait, there's
sea otters in that window. See a
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sea otter? Help them slow down
at night instead of sleeping. That's cool
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for rest happen spring. That's so
interesting, right, I was happy with
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that food. Yeah, how cool
is that? Look? Look? Look
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look I like how it came in
out of this upside Now. Dolphins,
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it's cool. I like you can
barely see them. They swim upside down.
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All here's one. Here comes one
right at you, upside down.
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I love them. I love when
they swim side down. And let's mean
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beluga whale. I like this pair. You were a beluga whale, where
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would you be? We didn't want
buy The penguin shed is home to two
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species of penguin, the rock hoppers
and the magellanic I. Have a lot
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of trouble saying that you should be
able to tell them apart. The magellanics
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waddle just how you think of penguin
would, while rock hoppers are more likely
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to hop or bounce from place to
place like their name suggests. I thought
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one kind kind of looked like the
Pittsburgh Penguin logo. I think those were
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the Magellanics, and the other is
more like an eagle. Anyway, I
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was enjoying the penguins, and suddenly
I was distracted by the belugas again.
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I think the belugas is my favorite. Here from two another one. These
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guys also swim upside down. There
was another one's way eighty five pound.
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What's the answer, I'm gonna guess
four finn, I'm gonna guess four thousand.
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Wait, what's our guests? Four
thousand? Yeah, fifty. You
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lose though, because those prices,
right rules. What's the answer, Maile
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is twenty four hundred to thirty five
hundred, females fifteen to twenty six hundred.
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But I was price's right, sus
how much is an overweight beluga?
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The max is like thirty five,
not four thousand and fifteen. Okay,
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you rivers, all right? Alligator
lake colors are great too. You like
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these checkered barbs where they black line
rest coras. Let's say I don't get
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the tails. Checkered barb is what
I'm enjoying. Hi, all right,
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the barbs are the smaller ones.
See any toads, not yet alligators.
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I think one's about to eat me
because I don't see the alligator. And
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my point is there's clearly an alligator, except I clearly don't see. I
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don't see one free somewhere. Did
you find the snake? No that,
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let's just track about the fish and
it's a tentacle snake. Hey, another
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thing streams? What it is?
These are cool kind They are black and
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white. Look at that one.
It's like transparent. That's cool. His
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section here is Asian and Indian rivers. Its cherry barb looks cool. Nice
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red looking fish. I got black
one with the red tail sails. Yeah,
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no, look good, that's such
cool, like uh color scheme.
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He just has the red tail.
That's awesome looking. Oh wow, what
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is that a lungfish? It's a
besy river that's cool. Paddle said wow,
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And I wanted to see, uh
the gills? How open? That
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is? Right? It's a paddle
for wow. It is a little look
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that right, I can really see
him there. He's scary looking. Hey
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mouth. Yeah about this big open
You could bring your whole fish in that
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photo that I was so distarting about
the little ones. I didn't even notice
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the big giant fish. He would
eat me the thanks you you're just like,
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oh, cute colors. Yeah yeah, I wouldn't last Indiana Jones,
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I'm not. Oh. Wow,
a lungfish lived here from nineteen thirty three
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to twenty seventeen. Granddad, Wow, that's crazy. He was the oldest
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fish in any public quarium in the
world. Wow, because he was albany
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An adult. What do you love? Wow? Look at them constructing it.
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Well, I don't know how old
you it could me to be a
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fish, abilt result fish. Let's
assume one still seventy six years. Wow,
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north is off eighty something years.
We have a school turtle. It's
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great that one chilling on the bottom. Another one chilling on the bottom.
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What else did we see? We
did islands and lakes. We didn't do
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the Caribbean reef in the middle.
Let's do it. That music you hear
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is at the Caribbean reef here in
the center. The quarium with the circular
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tank comes. It's a beautiful Mantha
right at me. How you were so
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beautiful? The fish coming right up
in the glass. That's great. And
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giant white on a black nose.
Everyone had shark. Is this great?
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This tanks look if you like to
side, it's like mess. Yeah,
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I gotta get some photos. It
was great. I love this tank.
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I think the rays are my favorite. Really yeah, all right, I
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think we're done right. Check out
the store. Yeah, see if there's
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any cool merch, like a hat
with a turtle on it, a little
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memo wish octopus cool shirt. I
like the I Octopus Chicago. That's a
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funny logo. Forty one dollar beluga. Who says, no, that's very
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cute. I have to resist on
a nemo Sharks. I gotta got a
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little sharks. Yeah, they were
cute. They're no black. Yeah,
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it's a dolt, dolt hooded gray
tackle twil sixties, the one I like.
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It's too much, but it's nice. They're right. I'm good.
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But wait, there's more. We
went outside and there was an ice cream
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truck. We found the rainbow cone
ice cream truck. Line, let's see
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what we get? What do we
get in a rainbow cone? One?
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I guess I'm getting a rainbow I
don't know. I guess that looks good.
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I guess we have to try that. You have to get it two
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vols, two rainbows. Rainbow Cone
Chocolate, strawberry, palmer House, pistachio
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and orange sherbet. Six forty nine
cone I'm in Hi two please, Rainbow
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counts a regular cone, Rape,
Rainbow plants voice out. Rainbow Cone opening
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eight, nineteen twenty six. Oh
my goodness, the rainbow cons policious.
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Wow, really good, really good, really good. Yeah. Rainbow Cone
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founded in nineteen twenty six by Grandpa
Joe Samp and wife Katherine. Their signature
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cone featured five delicious flavors chocolate,
strawberry, palmer House, pistachio, and
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orange sherbet. The ice cream was
sliced, not scooped, into one smile
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sparkling cone. I'm telling you it
was delicious. Let's make our way to
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the planetarium. Hi here, I
am once again every time I come to
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Chicago, it's my white Whale.
It's the at their planetarium, And no
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matter how many times I come,
I cannot find time to get in here.
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It's Saturday afternoon, but my friend's
sixtieth birthday parties in town in two
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hours, so I don't have time
to go to the planetarium. So it's
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only open nine to four on Saturday
and it's four oh one pm. I
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can't even go if I want to. It closed at four. That's funny
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kind of planetarium is not open at
night. I still haven't made it to
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that planetarium someday different summer. I've
tried at least three different times. It
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never seems to work out for me. That's gonna pretty much put a rap
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on season three. As we head
into the fall here, I may drop
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the occasional episode, but I don't
have any major travel plans, so we'll
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pick up with season four in the
spring. Like I said, I might
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do an episode or two along the
way. If you're looking for stuff to
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do in Chicago, there are many
episodes, including once about the Lincoln Park
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Zoo A cool temple you should check
out. Episode one is very popular.
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It's what I like to do when
I'm in Chicago to check all those out.
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And you can follow the show for
free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
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YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Travel is back
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I'm Johnny Mack and travel is back
this week another visit to Chicago. It's
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the Shed Aquarium, which was amazing. I went on a nice summer day
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at the end of July. You'll
hear me walking around the aquarium with my
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recorder on as I hung out with
my daughter. Some of the places will
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visit the Wild Reef Exhibit and Underwater
Oasis recreating a bustling Philippine coral reef.
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That's really cool. You see sharks
raise tropical fish. It's like snorkeling and
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crystal clear waters of the South Pacific. Right in the heart of the Windy
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City. The Shed's Abbot Oceanarium is
home to a lovely colony of penguins.
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You can watch them wattle, swim
and play in a habitat that mirrors their
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natural environment. You'll hear me getting
quite obsessed with finding the seals that I
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think I made up, but we
did find some sea otters. The Shed
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is also home to Amazon Rising,
where you'll find a lush tropical rainforest filled
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with exotic birds and turtles. Super
duper pro tip, though, do reservations,
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do reservations, do reservations. The
lines get quite long anytime that I've
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gone. You want to book in
advance? Did you hear me? Do
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reservations book in advance? All right, here's my recording. Welcome to the
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line at the Shed Aquarium. We
bought tickets for one o'clock on a Saturday
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afternoon. A nice man on line
behind me is pointing out that he can't
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believe how long the line is so
far. I'm happy him out in the
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sun. Fifty five dollars to park
at the North Garage, but I learned
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later I could have gotten ballet parking
for thirty five. But whatever, we're
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having a good day and let's do
the Shed Aquarium. All right, I'm
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lobby. Do we want to Matt
when his wander this way? Caribbean Reef
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for Amazon Rising, Amazon Rising.
Oh these guys are cool. Wow,
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look at this. They're cool looking
the flooded forest. This is cool looking.
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Oh. Another one of those cool
sting rays. That's beautiful. Wow.
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That is just unbelievable. It's the
way it like glides through the water
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doing loops. I think I was
just going around and so the one I
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like is a white botched river ray. What's that? Yeah? That looks
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like something I had a three d
movie. He's looking at you. He
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wants here, and it's gonna nice
smiley face. It almost looks like silver
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jeans. I know, I hope
there's a they're got a break. That's
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what they do. Let me step
on the sting you hence the name.
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You see, the Anacona would get
me. I wouldn't even see him keep
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it killy way up to wait what
they way up to? Four hundred four
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hundred pound? When Anakhams sixth book
came in an I like, what do
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anakhana is eat really big prey?
Oh wait, Unfortunately, they almost almost
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never attack, almost never attack people. Almost harran Is don't eat people.
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You know that prana Is don't eat
people. You're perfectly saved. If somebody's
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like, hey, Piranha, You're
like, they don't eat people, so
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stupid because their keeper razor sharp.
So would they bite me an even different
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than eating? You know, I
wouldn't even recognize that as a prana I'd
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be like, oh cool fish.
These are pretty looks. I like all
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these other just like it reminds me
of like Disney Haunted Mansion. They look
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like ghost kids. These are great, but the one from over there,
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I didn't. This was one big
team. I love this uh hatfish as
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the whispers. Let's see what's that
dark gray fish? It's the Amazon's largest
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fish, the Arab pima. No
information how much a weighs, though,
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I'm looking at us sixty five pounds. It's my guest. Price is Okaypparently
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we're both stupid idiots. Is it
is the answer? Eighteen or four hundred
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thirty five? I'm not an expert
on Amazonian fish. I love the electric
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y'all. So you're like Indiana Jones, you'd be afraid of that angelfish.
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Yeah. If I was thinking,
this looks like an aquarium. If you
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have a home aquarium, you might
have tetris like this is what we're talking
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at. That's what I found out
That charity fia to four hundred forty up
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to four and forty pounds, so
that one might have been eighteen. This
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is where everything's overfish. That's problems. Sorry, Eco shop, I'm suckered
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in. I'm in. I like
the shark hats with the shark fight in
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them. I don't think it has
practical use, but as something I saw
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once, it's kind of fun.
Marine biologists knockoff Barbie, I greeted the
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Amazon. What are these people online
for? Thing? What do they what
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do they know about? We got
to see the sharks. See insane not
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to see sharks? All right?
A little mini line here for the sharks
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located on Shed's lower level. The
wild reef evokes the colors and diversity of
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a Philippines reef. It's centerpieces of
four hundred thousand gallon habitat that's home to
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black tip reef sharks, sandbars,
spottled wobbegongs and zebra sharks. From reef
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sharks in constant motion to small deep
ocean sharks resting vertically on a rock wall.
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These awe inspiring predators are found across
our oceans and throughout the Shed Aquarium.
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Oh which way, wild reef?
No, we just shi wild beef.
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Let's see, we haven't done this
middle oceanarium. So this is I
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got the outdoor terraces. There's an
outdoor area forget what's out there? But
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it was fool. I remember sting
Ray Touch, where you can connect with
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animals and one of a kind hands
on experience. Wash your hands before you
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go in there. Sting Ray Touch
gives you the nique chance to get even
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closer to animals and nature by feeling
the tropical water and the back of a
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sting ray. The sting ray glide
around the habits at, flapping against each
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other and your fingers. We've made
our way outside to the outdoor pavilion.
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Any sting ray touch I remember this. This is awesome. Yes, of
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course, I gotta wash your hands
before touching the sting ray. Anything off
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your version that it is all use
it. I was able to touch your
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ray. It feels like a slippery
rocks. Here's a bunch your hand all
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the way the bottom of the day. Do you get your mostly box coroller
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being up to your hand? If
it posted to the service, they will
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come up to you. This is
great. Whatever I said they were seals.
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Seals we have like a lot of
cold things. The otter. Maybe
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that's the seals, sea otters,
the belugas. That's that's the belugas.
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Let's go. The belugas are amazing. SHED is supporting research benefiting the critically
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endangered beluga whale population in Alaska's Cook
Inlet. Approximately three hundred and forty individual
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belugas remain in those waters, down
from a historic thirteen hundred animals. If
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you'd like an additional experience, you
can meet the belugas. You can stand
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side by side with a trainer on
an underwater ledge. It's a seventy five
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minute experience. You'll step into chest
deep water and come face to face with
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the beluga. That would cost you
an extra two hundred dollars. At the
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time of this recording, we're here
at a beluga feeding. It's a nice
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space too, isn't it. The
sounds are cool. I remember I didn't
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even see them. Some in a
different angle and through the glass. They're
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cool. Sea lions sea lion used
to live in Oregon. There, wildlife
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scientists discovered the sea lions are feasting
on endangered chinook salmon. To monitor the
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sea lions, scientists branded them under
anesthesia. This sea lion was spot at
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the damn multiple times, eating large
quantities of salmon. To say, both
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the salmon and the sea lion.
Here he is. There's a way though,
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to see the belugas through its home. Let's see the auto trail.
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However, we get down there stairs. He missed the otter he left?
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Did he just come on the water? Yeah? Yeah, down there is
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where nice time. Oh, there's
stairs. Right there, Wait, food
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court? You want some food?
I could use a bite? All right,
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decent food court? Hot talk.
I'm in beef sandwich, I'm in
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What are you getting sausage? I'm
sure you can't hot beef sandwich? Please?
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Yes? Please? Can I also
have the public sausage but without the
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mustard pepper? Yes? Thanks?
Then we'll get a drink so we're did
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right. Yeah nice. I'm gonna
eat my sandwich and we'll take the break.
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My beef sandwich was good, and
the kettle chips that came with it
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was really good. How was your
sausage? It was good minus the peppers.
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No, you gotta have the peppers. She gave me her peppers and
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I made mine even spice here,
which I'll regret later. But right now,
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delicious, we're heading down the stairs
looking for belugas. Do we want
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to talk stuff again? In the
shallow wash your hands. You don't want
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to get spicy peppers on the stuff. These are pretty. I didn't wash
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up to my elbows. I'll just
admire them from here. I definitely don't
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want to hurt them. They're pretty. Yeah, go for it. What's
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it feel like, bruck? I
can't touch them I'm busting. Sure,
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yeah, but only my fingertips,
right, I know, But I had
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a whole conversation about it, so
I can't be like, hey, I'm
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totally ignoring you. Wait, there's
sea otters in that window. See a
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sea otter? Help them slow down
at night instead of sleeping. That's cool
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for rest happen spring. That's so
interesting, right, I was happy with
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that food. Yeah, how cool
is that? Look? Look? Look
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look I like how it came in
out of this upside Now. Dolphins,
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it's cool. I like you can
barely see them. They swim upside down.
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All here's one. Here comes one
right at you, upside down.
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I love them. I love when
they swim side down. And let's mean
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beluga whale. I like this pair. You were a beluga whale, where
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would you be? We didn't want
buy The penguin shed is home to two
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species of penguin, the rock hoppers
and the magellanic I. Have a lot
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of trouble saying that you should be
able to tell them apart. The magellanics
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waddle just how you think of penguin
would, while rock hoppers are more likely
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to hop or bounce from place to
place like their name suggests. I thought
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one kind kind of looked like the
Pittsburgh Penguin logo. I think those were
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the Magellanics, and the other is
more like an eagle. Anyway, I
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was enjoying the penguins, and suddenly
I was distracted by the belugas again.
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I think the belugas is my favorite. Here from two another one. These
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guys also swim upside down. There
was another one's way eighty five pound.
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What's the answer, I'm gonna guess
four finn, I'm gonna guess four thousand.
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Wait, what's our guests? Four
thousand? Yeah, fifty. You
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lose though, because those prices,
right rules. What's the answer, Maile
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is twenty four hundred to thirty five
hundred, females fifteen to twenty six hundred.
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But I was price's right, sus
how much is an overweight beluga?
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The max is like thirty five,
not four thousand and fifteen. Okay,
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you rivers, all right? Alligator
lake colors are great too. You like
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these checkered barbs where they black line
rest coras. Let's say I don't get
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the tails. Checkered barb is what
I'm enjoying. Hi, all right,
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the barbs are the smaller ones.
See any toads, not yet alligators.
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I think one's about to eat me
because I don't see the alligator. And
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my point is there's clearly an alligator, except I clearly don't see. I
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don't see one free somewhere. Did
you find the snake? No that,
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let's just track about the fish and
it's a tentacle snake. Hey, another
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thing streams? What it is?
These are cool kind They are black and
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white. Look at that one.
It's like transparent. That's cool. His
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section here is Asian and Indian rivers. Its cherry barb looks cool. Nice
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red looking fish. I got black
one with the red tail sails. Yeah,
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no, look good, that's such
cool, like uh color scheme.
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He just has the red tail.
That's awesome looking. Oh wow, what
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is that a lungfish? It's a
besy river that's cool. Paddle said wow,
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And I wanted to see, uh
the gills? How open? That
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is? Right? It's a paddle
for wow. It is a little look
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that right, I can really see
him there. He's scary looking. Hey
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mouth. Yeah about this big open
You could bring your whole fish in that
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photo that I was so distarting about
the little ones. I didn't even notice
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the big giant fish. He would
eat me the thanks you you're just like,
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oh, cute colors. Yeah yeah, I wouldn't last Indiana Jones,
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I'm not. Oh. Wow,
a lungfish lived here from nineteen thirty three
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to twenty seventeen. Granddad, Wow, that's crazy. He was the oldest
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fish in any public quarium in the
world. Wow, because he was albany
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An adult. What do you love? Wow? Look at them constructing it.
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Well, I don't know how old
you it could me to be a
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fish, abilt result fish. Let's
assume one still seventy six years. Wow,
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north is off eighty something years.
We have a school turtle. It's
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great that one chilling on the bottom. Another one chilling on the bottom.
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What else did we see? We
did islands and lakes. We didn't do
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the Caribbean reef in the middle.
Let's do it. That music you hear
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is at the Caribbean reef here in
the center. The quarium with the circular
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tank comes. It's a beautiful Mantha
right at me. How you were so
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beautiful? The fish coming right up
in the glass. That's great. And
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giant white on a black nose.
Everyone had shark. Is this great?
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This tanks look if you like to
side, it's like mess. Yeah,
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I gotta get some photos. It
was great. I love this tank.
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I think the rays are my favorite. Really yeah, all right, I
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think we're done right. Check out
the store. Yeah, see if there's
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any cool merch, like a hat
with a turtle on it, a little
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memo wish octopus cool shirt. I
like the I Octopus Chicago. That's a
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funny logo. Forty one dollar beluga. Who says, no, that's very
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cute. I have to resist on
a nemo Sharks. I gotta got a
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little sharks. Yeah, they were
cute. They're no black. Yeah,
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it's a dolt, dolt hooded gray
tackle twil sixties, the one I like.
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It's too much, but it's nice. They're right. I'm good.
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But wait, there's more. We
went outside and there was an ice cream
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truck. We found the rainbow cone
ice cream truck. Line, let's see
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what we get? What do we
get in a rainbow cone? One?
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I guess I'm getting a rainbow I
don't know. I guess that looks good.
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I guess we have to try that. You have to get it two
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vols, two rainbows. Rainbow Cone
Chocolate, strawberry, palmer House, pistachio
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and orange sherbet. Six forty nine
cone I'm in Hi two please, Rainbow
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counts a regular cone, Rape,
Rainbow plants voice out. Rainbow Cone opening
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eight, nineteen twenty six. Oh
my goodness, the rainbow cons policious.
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Wow, really good, really good, really good. Yeah. Rainbow Cone
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founded in nineteen twenty six by Grandpa
Joe Samp and wife Katherine. Their signature
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cone featured five delicious flavors chocolate,
strawberry, palmer House, pistachio, and
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orange sherbet. The ice cream was
sliced, not scooped, into one smile
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sparkling cone. I'm telling you it
was delicious. Let's make our way to
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the planetarium. Hi here, I
am once again every time I come to
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Chicago, it's my white Whale.
It's the at their planetarium, And no
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matter how many times I come,
I cannot find time to get in here.
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It's Saturday afternoon, but my friend's
sixtieth birthday parties in town in two
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hours, so I don't have time
to go to the planetarium. So it's
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only open nine to four on Saturday
and it's four oh one pm. I
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can't even go if I want to. It closed at four. That's funny
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kind of planetarium is not open at
night. I still haven't made it to
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that planetarium someday different summer. I've
tried at least three different times. It
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never seems to work out for me. That's gonna pretty much put a rap
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on season three. As we head
into the fall here, I may drop
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the occasional episode, but I don't
have any major travel plans, so we'll
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pick up with season four in the
spring. Like I said, I might
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do an episode or two along the
way. If you're looking for stuff to
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do in Chicago, there are many
episodes, including once about the Lincoln Park
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Zoo A cool temple you should check
out. Episode one is very popular.
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It's what I like to do when
I'm in Chicago to check all those out.
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