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Hello, syria. Listeners sarana here recording this on tuesday election day with the good news that we have a new show that has nothing to do with the election or politics. That's a relief to me.
Maybe this to youtube. The show is called the goodwill ale, and it's about a captive orka named cake o who became famous after starting in the kids movie free Willy. Our story the goods whale is six beautiful episodes about what happened to the real killer whale who played the hollywood killer well.
And it's so good. It's emotional in the best way, not happy. But IT gets you right in the solar plexus and you're going to be newly fascinated by marine science.
And it's a little john resending when you'll see is the story rolls out. Daniel alcon is the host. He's a new york writer and a novelist and the host of the spanish language podcast, radio the goodale comes out next week on thursday, november fourteenth. And we've got a trailer here for you.
But first, I want to tell you about something else new and good that's going on over here at cereal, which is that if you subscribe to the new york times, either in an audio subscription or an all access subscription, either way, if you subscribe, you can listen to the goodwill ale all at once. No waiting week to week. And I don't think you're gonna want to wait on this one.
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His name was KO, and everyone agreed he was a good will.
Kkk was one of a kind. The cao had like this personality, completely different from any other ork.
And everybody that worked with him called him the one in a million wae. Because no matter how far my career stretches and how long I work with marine memo, there will never be another way like that.
Coco was good at performing beloved by the crowds at the mexican amusement park where he lived for more than a decade most of his life, and he was captured as a caf. He was good with his trainers and with the kids who came to visit.
I would have taken my one year old daughter and put him on his back without a care concern in the world. He was that gentle.
and kiko was good when he was cast in the movie free Willy. He played the part of willie, of course, a captive killer whale, friended by a top year old boy, and then set free afterwards when the world decided cak o himself should be set for you, but he should learn how to be a wild whale, how to hold his breath and hunt for his zone food and live in the ocean. KO, like always, was eager .
to please his humans.
So everyone agreed he was good, but there are some things no one seemed to agree on, like, can goodwill ales be wild whales?
IT felt like, I like, like bringing your pet dog out to the forest and then running away and the door being a hunger and scared.
And I want to go home. I was furious because I could see what we had .
done to him. We play god at that point.
Was wireless even something K, O, wanted? Or was that something we needed from him, a chance to redeem ourselves for the harmers? We cost not just a co, but to all captive whales.
I always ask people that there is a detractors, where would you have .
stopped IT?
This is the story .
of a high profile.
high stake science experiment whose goal seemed almost impossible to teach a captive orka to be wild at the center of IT. All was KO on orka, with fears and limitations that no human could ever hope to interpret with any certainty. Not that they wouldn't try.
We wanted to see how far he could go from .
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