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Speaker 1: Dumb Mission with join Z and Amanda. The story we're

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Speaker 1: about to share has been called really the very first

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Speaker 1: viral story, the very first viral news story where a

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Speaker 1: vision of this went around the world and has been

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Speaker 1: replayed ever since it happened fifty years ago. Last week,

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Speaker 1: a television reporter Paul Linman stood on a beach in Oregon,

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Speaker 1: reporting on the town's attempts to dispose of a giant

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Speaker 1: whale carcass. Here is setting the scene.

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Speaker 2: It had been so long since a whale had washed

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Speaker 2: up in Lane County, nobody could remember how to get

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Speaker 2: rid of one. In selecting its battle plan, the Highway

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Speaker 2: Division decided the caracass couldn't be buried because it might

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Speaker 2: soon be uncovered. It couldn't be cut up and then buried,

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Speaker 2: because nobody wanted to cut it up, and it couldn't

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Speaker 2: be burned well dynamite. It was some twenty cases or

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Speaker 2: a half ton of it. The hope was that the

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Speaker 2: long dead Pacific grave whale would be almost disintegrated by

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Speaker 2: the blast, and that any small piece is still around

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Speaker 2: after the ext you will be taken care of by

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Speaker 2: seagulls and other scavengers.

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Speaker 1: Sounds fair enough, that's reasonable. Blow it up. It'll pretty

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Speaker 1: much DISINTEGRATEE and we'll see what happened. That's Mareka's answer

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Speaker 1: to everything.

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Speaker 2: Up.

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Speaker 1: He's the audio of how that went. Is that what

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Speaker 1: I think it is? You could hear thumps wildmate landing.

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Speaker 1: Here's how Paul described it.

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Speaker 2: The humor of the entire situation suddenly gave way to

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Speaker 2: a run for survival as huge chunks of whale blubber

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Speaker 2: fell everywhere. Pieces of meat passed high over our heads

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Speaker 2: while others were falling at our feet. The dunes were

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Speaker 2: rapidly evacuated as spectators escapeboats the falling debris and the

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Speaker 2: overwhelming smell. A parked car over a quarter of a

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Speaker 2: mile from the blast sight was the target of one

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Speaker 2: large chunk. The passenger compartment literally smacked. Fortunately, no human

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Speaker 2: was hit as badly as the car. However, everyone on

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Speaker 2: the scene was covered with small particles of dead whale.

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Speaker 1: Oooh, and the vision of it blowing up, it looks

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Speaker 1: like they've put color dye in something. It's a giant

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Speaker 1: red explosion. And well, what about the seagulls that were

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Speaker 1: going to come in and clean up the debris?

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Speaker 2: Well, the seagulls who were supposed to clean things up

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Speaker 2: were nowhere in sight, either scared away by the explosion

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Speaker 2: or kept away by the smell. That didn't really matter.

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Speaker 2: The remaining chunks were of such a size that no

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Speaker 2: respectable seagull would attempt to tackle anyway.

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Speaker 1: And Paul's conclusions here's how his story wraps up.

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Speaker 2: It might be concluded that should a whale ever wash

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Speaker 2: ashore on Lane County again, those in charge will not

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Speaker 2: only remember what to do, they'll certainly remember what not

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Speaker 2: to do. What a tail.

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Speaker 1: Paul was only twenty three when that story broke, and

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Speaker 1: he said this his career was marked by the event.

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Speaker 1: He said, I was asked about it almost every day

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Speaker 1: of my life by everybody. He said, I wrote a

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Speaker 1: book about and I used the book to talk about

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Speaker 1: other things I was more excited about in journalism. The

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Speaker 1: engineer who came up with the plan complained that his

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Speaker 1: colleagues had abandoned him to go hunting, so the job

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Speaker 1: on how to figure out how to dispose of the

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Speaker 1: whale had fallen to him. Who's going to clean that?

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Speaker 1: Who's going to clean that up?

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Speaker 2: That's your first viral story right there.

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Speaker 1: Got a call from mister Fryar West Paula dungle when

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Speaker 1: you need with

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Speaker 2: Joins and Amanda