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Speaker 1: Hey there, Welcome to Growing Up with Emily, a Lingo

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Speaker 1: kids podcast. It helps kids discover how to be whatever

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Speaker 1: they want to be growing up.

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Speaker 2: Well enough side? Who up?

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Speaker 1: Up? Side?

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Speaker 3: I mean I had a dream as a kid, but

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Speaker 3: dreaming is not enough. You do need to put in

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Speaker 3: the hard work to achieve that dream, to turn that

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Speaker 3: dream into reality that can allow you to live that

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Speaker 3: life that you all want to live.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Vincent, what are you working on? Oh?

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Speaker 2: You know, just doing my dutiful job as a research

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Speaker 2: assistant and reading up about our next job. The magical

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Speaker 2: rule of the marine biologists and all the wonderful things they do. Actually,

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Speaker 2: I meant to tell you I invited one to come

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Speaker 2: over and meet us today so we could learn more about.

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Speaker 1: The job invited.

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Speaker 2: Who a marine biologist?

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, you did?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 1: I'm impressed.

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Speaker 2: Yep. A quick break from the news to tell you

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Speaker 2: about Asher Devas, a need to know marine biologist who's

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Speaker 2: an expert in blue whale research. In twenty eighteen, Devas

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Speaker 2: became world famous when she won the award for the

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Speaker 2: BBC's Most Inspiring Woman, bringing Sri Lanka to the world stage,

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Speaker 2: shining a light on her country and her people. Oh

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Speaker 2: let me get the door. That must be Asha.

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Speaker 1: Now Wait that was fast.

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Speaker 3: HII.

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Speaker 1: There, I'm Emily and you are Hi.

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Speaker 3: My name is Asha DeVos.

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Speaker 2: Really cool name, Hi, Emily. How do you spell it?

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Speaker 3: You spell that a Isha. My last name is d

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Speaker 3: E space Vos. I'm a marine violotist in a beautiful

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Speaker 3: full of whale poop.

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Speaker 2: Wait a second, did you really just say whale poop?

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Speaker 1: Yes, you did, because it helps to fertilize the plants

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Speaker 1: then release oxygen that we can breathe.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, who knew.

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Speaker 1: Marine biologists that too? Usha, The world of marine biology

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Speaker 3: I was six years old and I wanted to be

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Speaker 3: in love with water. I became a swimmer. I would

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Speaker 3: science and salt water was marine biology. Coming from a

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Speaker 3: it's a miracle that I ever discovered it as a career.

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Speaker 3: You might all be wondering, well, how did you find

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Speaker 3: out about it? And that'd be a good question. It

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Speaker 3: actually was from National geographic magazines. As a kid, my

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Speaker 3: all these incredible people with their scuba gearon, diving with

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Speaker 2: Wow. You know, I wonder if all the stuff we

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Speaker 2: what we might love doing when we grow up. Asha

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Speaker 2: saw people exploring the ocean and it sparked something inside her.

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Speaker 3: I was very lucky because there was a very famous

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Speaker 3: Opened my mind to the fact that there were these mystical,

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Speaker 1: Wow, Sir Arthur C. Clark, I can't believe you got

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Speaker 1: to spend so much time with him, Asha. He is

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Speaker 1: I think he loved everything about the ocean, just like Asha.

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Speaker 2: You know, all this talk about the oceans making me

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Speaker 2: really want to go to the beach to check out

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Speaker 2: stuff firsthand. Should we? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know what, No better way to learn about marine

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Speaker 1: biology than to get our feet wet. I'll snap us

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Speaker 1: there right now, Whinson? You ready?

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Speaker 2: Yep? I got my goggles, my flippers, and some sunscreen,

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Speaker 2: so let's go.

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Speaker 1: Before we get there, I want to take a quick

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Speaker 1: minute to tell you and our listeners about Lingo Kids.

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Speaker 1: You know how I start every episode by saying that

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Speaker 1: it's a Lingo Kids podcast. Well, Lingo Kids is the

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Speaker 1: do you think, Winson?

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Speaker 2: What do I think? Sign me up?

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Oh we're here.

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Speaker 2: I just love the beach. Hey where are we, Emily?

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Speaker 1: We are just off the coast of New England. It's

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Speaker 1: nice here, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The water feels so cool and refreshing.

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Speaker 1: Be careful. That's a hide pool, a tide pool. What's

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Speaker 1: that you're in it? Some interesting animals live in here,

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Speaker 1: like oh, oh that big lobster coming right toward us.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's way bigger than I thought it was. Uh, hey,

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Speaker 2: little guy, don't worry, I am a vegetarian. Wow, sea

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Speaker 2: animals are so colorful. That starfish is bright orange. You

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Speaker 2: I stepped on something slimy.

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Speaker 1: Well, slimy isn't too bad, but you definitely want to

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Speaker 1: avoid stepping on a spiky seaar chin.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, and there's all sorts of creepy crawleys that

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Speaker 1: Yes, but beautiful animals too, and a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: And some are so tiny that you can only see

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Speaker 2: Whoa, hey, aren't blue whales like the largest animals to

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Speaker 1: Very good Winston. In fact, many blue whales are so

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Speaker 2: Very awesome, Hey, Asha, do marine biologists get to go

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Speaker 3: A large part of my work is to get out

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Speaker 3: But some other part of my work involves sitting at

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Speaker 2: So marine biologists aren't always at the beach and swimming

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Speaker 1: That's right. Many marine biologists gather valuable information and living

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Speaker 2: One marine biologist might know more about something like crabs. Well,

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Speaker 1: That's a great way to look at it, Winston, And

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Speaker 1: Why is that in the winter, sea turtles lay their

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Speaker 2: Oh Canada, Eh, can't they find a meal closer?

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's where the best food is that

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Speaker 2: Oh so, I guess it depends on what each sea

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Speaker 2: animal's diet is, right, Emily, And I'd be really interested

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Speaker 1: What a good idea. Well, there's some incredible sea life

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I love aquariums. Let's do it. Ah, there's

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Speaker 1: Fish here, fish and other sea creatures. Marine biologists who

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Speaker 1: these animals like colorful fish sneaky octopuses, and slow moving

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Speaker 2: I didn't know the marine biologists worked at aquariums too,

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Speaker 2: but it makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 1: I tried lots of things.

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Speaker 3: I worked in coral reefs, I worked with fishes, I

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Speaker 2: I bet working with whales is so wonderful. Say that

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Speaker 2: of those stingrays. Their fins are like huge wings. WHOA,

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Speaker 1: Many sea creatures blend into this space around them to

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Speaker 2: Well, it's like they have underwater superpowers. Hey, Emily, do

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Speaker 1: That's an interesting question. I think they do. Animals can

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Speaker 2: Them, just like ashes studies big blue whales, but not

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Speaker 1: How cool, yep, But this particular dive for None was different.

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Speaker 1: Well, Non was next to a huge humpback whale, and

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Speaker 1: None was scared too, but the whale was worried about

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Speaker 1: It moved between Non and the shark and it kept

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Speaker 1: The whale used its giant fin to gently lift None up,

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Speaker 2: Yikes. The lucky that whale was there to protect.

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Speaker 2: Some of them seem so smart, Ausha, What kind of

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Speaker 3: So to become a marine biologist, you can't just wake

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Speaker 3: So it's a lot of study that goes on beforehand,

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Speaker 3: where you take all this knowledge that you've read in textbooks,

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Speaker 1: You go how does it actually all work?

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Speaker 3: So I went from doing my first degree, my undergraduate

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Speaker 2: Discovering the ocean's mystery seems like such an adventure, but

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Speaker 2: How do you do it all on your own? Asha

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Speaker 2: like going from a little girl curious about ocean life

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Speaker 3: Today, I am who I am because my parents were

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Speaker 1: Being a marine biologist is a pretty exciting job, huh.

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Speaker 2: And it sounds like having people who believe in you,

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Speaker 2: You just gotta keep going.

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Speaker 1: That's all the time we have for today. But thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us, Asha. I'm so glad Winston

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Speaker 2: Flat to the Moon Race.

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Speaker 1: We can't do anything we want. Close your eyes, you'll

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Speaker 1: see it. You have to believe