Speaker 1: It's a special day. In fact, it's been a big week,
Speaker 1: lots of kids going back to school, but today is
Speaker 1: a very special down the calendar. Probably the biggest celebrity
Speaker 1: in Melbourne Eddie maguire no celebrating their birth.
Speaker 2: Let me set the scene. Look for those funny little.
Speaker 1: Feet tapping away.
Speaker 3: Did you ever said the maybe happy a few times?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Great, strong, strong, We love bad day to be a
Speaker 1: bad week to be a penguin. When it's forty degrees up.
Speaker 2: You're telling me.
Speaker 1: The happiest, coziest, biggest penguin in Melbourne. He's turning one, Pesto.
Speaker 1: I nearly called him Pretzel. Pesta turns one today. Now
Speaker 1: you know it's the big chick. He's bigger than all
Speaker 1: the other.
Speaker 4: Look, can we ask someone labels on Pesta. Charlotte works
Speaker 4: at Sea Life. She is the penguin team manager.
Speaker 2: Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Charlotte, Good morning.
Speaker 4: Big big day, Big day with the big boy or
Speaker 4: the big girl.
Speaker 5: Huge party, fit for a king and a boy.
Speaker 1: Pisto's become a bit of a malebrity. In Pesto's met
Speaker 1: all the big star.
Speaker 2: Can we go through? Who has met Katy Perry?
Speaker 1: In the first year of Pisto's life. Who's gone to
Speaker 1: done do a photo with Pesto?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think it's a very, very very
Speaker 5: long list. I mean, yeah, he's Katy Perry, Olivia Rogrigo.
Speaker 5: That was a big one. He's been nominated for a
Speaker 5: TikTok Award. He's a child big man, had the busiest
Speaker 5: social calendar I think of any of us.
Speaker 2: That's so cool.
Speaker 1: Now, now the Pisto's won, have the other penguin chicks
Speaker 1: caught up to him? Or is he still a big boy?
Speaker 5: He's a pretty big boy. I think probably the only
Speaker 5: the only other bird in the habitat who's bigger. It's
Speaker 5: probably his dad, Blake, Blake Bleak.
Speaker 1: That's that's sad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, has fame gone to Pesto's head?
Speaker 2: Does he know?
Speaker 4: He's, you know, a man about town.
Speaker 5: I think he was born to be a star, yea,
Speaker 5: from the beginning. I think he's risen to the challenge
Speaker 5: now he's a He's a lovely individual. He's always been
Speaker 5: very friendly, very social with keepers and the rest of
Speaker 5: the colony.
Speaker 3: Just on that, I'm just looking at some of the
Speaker 3: celeb photos from inside Pesto's enclosure, And I noticed they're
Speaker 3: all wearing like protective eyewear.
Speaker 2: Is that in case he has a pick?
Speaker 5: Yeah, amongst amongst the rest of them. Hey, they've got
Speaker 5: big beats. We've got to be careful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, okay, you take out Olivia Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: I mean Olivia Rodrigo is a fair bit taller than Pisto.
Speaker 1: So this might be a dumb question. No such thing
Speaker 1: is a dumb question. Someone once told me this might
Speaker 1: be a penguins fly.
Speaker 5: They do not fly, although I confirmed that they have need,
Speaker 5: which is another commonly fast question.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen him slide into the waters very
Speaker 3: reminiscent of you and I getting into the pool?
Speaker 1: Pisto? Is he a food hoog?
Speaker 5: He's fond of his food. I think there are others
Speaker 5: there who are who are great. Yeah, he's reasonably polite,
Speaker 5: but yeah, he loves Sammon's trout, his favorite.
Speaker 1: What's he doing for the big day?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you just join us. We are talking to Charlotte.
Speaker 3: She's one of the penguin team managers at Sea Life.
Speaker 2: Is he having a fish cake today?
Speaker 5: He's actually on the jelly today. Yeah, it's good stuff. No,
Speaker 5: he'll have plenty of fish and lots of other truths.
Speaker 5: But we've got loads on today, lots of celebration. We've
Speaker 5: got cookcakes. So first thousand guests in the door today
Speaker 5: we'll get a cookcake. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Can I keep going in minute?
Speaker 1: Jay? This is the third time he's come through as well.
Speaker 2: Cupcakes. Just on that now.
Speaker 4: The role call of malebrities coming through has been extraordinary.
Speaker 4: I mean, Lauren and I were hoping to add another
Speaker 4: one to the list. I mean, what would it take
Speaker 4: to get Jason that end little jacket and funny little
Speaker 4: goggles and get him in and waddle with.
Speaker 1: Pesta like he's the Pesto of our team.
Speaker 5: Hey man, you can come in any time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not today though, damn it the cupcakes. He's busy today.
Speaker 1: Pestot has a big days Cupca. I think you know
Speaker 1: how they do the King and Queen of Mumba. I
Speaker 1: think it should just be Pesto. Yeah, a moon bar
Speaker 1: Let's campaign.
Speaker 2: Charlotte, thanks to jumping on.
Speaker 3: You guys do a great job down there at sea
Speaker 3: life and pass their best on the Pesto.
Speaker 5: Oh, I will thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Just how many fish would he put away in one day?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 5: I mean he was eating a lot more when he
Speaker 5: was little, only five, or.
Speaker 1: Blood up a hunky dory, wouldn't it like for Pesto's birthday? Jason,
Speaker 1: I think you should do your best Pesto impersonation as
Speaker 1: we go to they do it. Maybe you could see,
Speaker 1: maybe you could sing Happy birthday to Pesto and Penguin.
Speaker 2: Can you throw the.
Speaker 4: Happy you say something that pistol.
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