2024-11-18
1 小时 1 分钟Keiko was a hugely beloved adventure park attraction. He was also captured in the wild and taken away from his mother when he was just a calf. When Hollywood learned about him, a colossal effort began to un-tame him and send him back to the ocean. Prologue: Ira introduces a new series from Serial Productions and The New York Times. "The Good Whale" is about the killer whale Keiko and is reported by Daniel Alarcón. (2 minutes) Act One: Daniel Alarcón takes us back to the early 90’s when Keiko lived in an adventure park in Mexico City, swimming with human friends. (43 minutes) Act Two: Producer Diane Wu travels to Minnesota, where the turkey set to be pardoned by The President of the United States later this month is having the turkiness trained out of him. (10 minutes)
I don't know about you,
but you know what I think would feel great today?
An animal story.
And not one
of those stories where the animals are some metaphor for human beings
and we see ourselves through their actions
and learn some important lesson.
No, no, no, no.
I'm talking about an old fashioned animal story where you hear
about some amazing creature in some surprising situation
and that creature then does things that have such personality
and seem so specifically them.
You know, it just gets to you.
I am pleased to say we have a story like that for you today.
And the creature is not a dog or a cat or a bunny or horse
or any of the lovable creatures you usually find in this kind of story.
It's an orca, a killer whale that we humans captured from the wild,
took from his mother and trained to be completely tame
and live alongside us.
This killer whale was so tame that at night when his trainers went home