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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. A

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Speaker 1: giant two hundred and sixty thousand gallon aquarium exploded in

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Speaker 1: Berlin last month, dumping about fifteen hundred fish into the

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Speaker 1: lobby of the Radisson Blue Hotel. You Coen Brothers Fargo

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Speaker 1: fans are probably thinking, oh not the Radisson darnk touting.

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Speaker 1: Prior to its untimely demise, the aquarium, known as the

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Speaker 1: Aqua Dom, had been the largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium in

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Speaker 1: the world. Miraculously, no one died as a result of

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Speaker 1: the disaster. The burst occurred in the early morning hours

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Speaker 1: when there was minimal foot traffic, and only two people

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Speaker 1: were injured in falling glass. The fish weren't quite so lucky,

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Speaker 1: and what must have been the strangest rescue effort in history,

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Speaker 1: the Berlin Fire Brigade was called the scoop up as

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Speaker 1: many fish as they could. The vast majority of the

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Speaker 1: fish had died and the cold weather didn't help. The

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Speaker 1: aquarium had contained about a hundred different species of tropical fish,

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Speaker 1: which aren't known for their hardiness and the cold weather.

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Speaker 1: One by Standard described finding a dead, frozen parrot fish

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Speaker 1: that had washed through the hotel lobby and into the street.

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Speaker 1: Investigators are still trying to work out what caused the

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Speaker 1: massive glass structure to burst, but one German engineer told

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Speaker 1: the newspaper The Guardian that he believed the aquarium was

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Speaker 1: quote a ticking time bomb. He claimed that those kinds

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Speaker 1: of structures have an expiration date, and that's some only

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Speaker 1: last about twenty five years. Although the Aqua Doom was

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Speaker 1: redrained and refurbished as recently as two thousand twenty, it

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Speaker 1: burst a short nineteen years after it was constructed. So

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Speaker 1: may rethink that several of you sent me this story

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Speaker 1: after I mentioned visiting the Atlanta Aquarium in episode and

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Speaker 1: I wondered what might happen if those tanks burst and

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Speaker 1: release their combined six million gallons of water. Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Aqua Doom crack just five days after that episode aired,

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Speaker 1: which you gotta admit is a coincidence. Makes me wonder

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Speaker 1: if I can make anything else happen by talking about

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Speaker 1: it on this podcast. If you have any ideas, shoot

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Speaker 1: Meat Eater dot com. This week we've got legislation, wildlife crime,

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Speaker 1: and the only problem with relocation. But first, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you about my week in my week. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's been a while we've been prerecording podcast for this

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Speaker 1: be training right snort report. Most importantly, we have been

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Speaker 1: training him. We hit our maximum for the allowable federal

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Speaker 1: And being as duck is the most fatty animal I

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Speaker 1: the c w D desk. Straight out of Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: The omnibus spending package has passed. US Congress recently passed

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Speaker 1: of the deadly undulate disease. Congress past and President Biden

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Speaker 1: wrote their US congressperson. This funding can't come soon enough.

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Speaker 1: States have honed their ability to limit the spread of

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Speaker 1: Wildlife and Fisheries has adopted hunting regulations Intensive Parish, which

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Speaker 1: new areas. The state recently issued a revised five year

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Speaker 1: Wildlife Resource Agency is also accepting public comments until January

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Speaker 1: The anti hunting lobby has taken aim at large carnivore hunting,

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Speaker 1: whether it's bear hunting in Washington or cougar hunting in Colorado.

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