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The orcas shall rise in October · Journey to the Fringe

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  So this is coming from the to be filed category,
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  and that's where things go when they have yet
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  to be filed. So we're only feeling like we're
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  procrastinating and putting them into categories.
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  I don't look at this list that you have. Are
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  there actually things compiled into categories
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  at this point? Yes, it just depends on how I'm
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  feeling like starting the mini. It's just all
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  based on feelings, many feelings, many, many
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  feelings. Some are certain, some are not. Today,
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  we're being forced upon the to be filed category
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  because this news cannot wait any longer. It's
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  breaking. You can't say we and like pretend that
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  you're just part of this category that is being
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  thrust upon. You are the one thrusting. You need
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  a better pronoun than that. I'm speechless, I
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  don't know what to say here. So, here I am. Thrusting.
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  Thrusting this. I can't, it's too breaking. It's
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  too Journey to the Fringe breaking to not thrust
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  this. September 3rd, 2025. Well, it's not exactly
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  breaking, but for us, it's breaking. And that's
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  just why it cannot wait any further to be filed.
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  Without further ado, on this creepiest of October
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  Wednesdays, we have a live live science article
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  titled. Quote, we completely freaked out, end
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  quote. Orcas are attacking boats in Europe again.
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  And this is by Patrick Pester. September 3rd,
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  2025, already spoiled that. Iberian orcas have
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  damaged several boats off the coast of Spain
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  in recent weeks, leaving authorities scrambling
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  to rescue stranded crews. Here we go. Orcas along
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  the Spanish coast are attacking boats once again,
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  leaving destroyed rudders and stranded crews
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  in their wake. A small population of orcas? or
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  kinis orca or killer whales has developed a penchant
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  for damaging boats off the iberian peninsula
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  in southwestern europe in recent years researchers
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  are still studying this behavior but they think
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  the orcas are likely being playful rather than
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  aggressive or they have a bloodlust for capitalism
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  i don't know if we can call it a bloodlust when
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  they haven't killed anybody yet okay it's a boat
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  it's like capitalists for sure But I wouldn't
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  say it's a blood lust. It could be a blood lust
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  for yachts But yachts don't have blood in my
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  oil lust in my mind. It's full blood. Okay They
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  got a boat blast, okay. On August 21st, orcas
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  tore the rudder off a German sailboat in the
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  Vigo estuary in Galicia. Spanish newspaper Faro
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  de Vigo reported the orcas then continued to
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  play with the sailboat which they rammed as it
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  was towed to safety. I love that for them. They
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  tore the rudder off? Love that. They described
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  it as play with the sailboat instead of trying
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  to destroy. This article, live science. for how
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  much we use them, we get them, and they're on
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  the same side as us as the orcas are the good
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  guys. They sure are. The Pontevedra Civil Guard,
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  a Spanish law enforcement agency, shared a video
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  of the sailboat rescue on the social platform
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  X and wrote that the orcas had attacked several
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  sailboats. It's unclear exactly how many boats
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  were targeted prior to this post, but there have
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  also been incidents since. For instance, on Saturday,
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  August 30th, Barro de Vigo reported that Orcas
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  destroyed a traditional wooden sailing ship's
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  rudder off Bow Grove within the Arusa estuary.
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  You know that's a fancy person. Traditional boat.
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  Yep. Yep. That's a fancy person right there.
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  And opened a leak in another sailboat off Ons.
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  within the Ponta Vedra estuary. Valentin Otero,
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  the owner of the ship targeted in Ogrove, told
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  Faro de Vigo that he heard two blows against
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  his vessel before he spotted a pair of orcas.
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  Oh, sorry. I don't know if that's the appropriate
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  place. I'm just picturing him with his bags of
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  cash and his martini and he looks out and he
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  sees the orcas and he's like, oh, fuck. They
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  finally come for me. He's like just take the
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  money Otero and his crew reported that there
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  was a large orca measuring about 25 feet long
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  accompanied by a smaller orca swimming alongside.
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  Oh, they're teaching I love this about orcas
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  Quote the truth is we were very frightened In
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  fact, we completely freaked out when we realized
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  the orcas were hitting the boat and quote Otero
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  said in a translated statement The Iberian orcas
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  are critically endangered orca. You can't do
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  anything about them. They're just going to keep
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  attacking. They're an endangered orca subpopulation
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  thought to have fewer than 40 individuals. The
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  group has been attacking boats off the... Is
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  it the endangered group that's specifically targeting
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  the orca? Yeah! That's hilarious. You can't do
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  anything. They're endangered. I bet they had
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  a big orca meeting too and they're like, it's
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  going to have to be you guys. Yeah. You're endangered.
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  The rest of us did like those sperm whales back
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  in the 1700s. While some initial reports suggested
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  that Iberian orcas could be carrying out revenge
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  against the ships, this has been dismissed by
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  many orca experts. The encounters often involve
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  young orcas going straight for the rudders on
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  the underside of the sailing boats. Scientists
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  have suggested that the orcas are likely just
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  bored teenagers with more free time than Atlantic
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  bluefin tuna populations, their favorite prey
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  in the region, recovered meaning they do not
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  spend less time I'm hunting. I fully get these
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  guys. They hate the rich. They enjoy eating delicious
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  tuna. They hate life. Orca behavior is diverse
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  and complex. Researchers have observed the species
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  engaging in intricate social rituals such as
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  sinking yachts from gently nibbling on each other's
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  tongues to tumbling alongside each other as if
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  they're an aquatic mosh pit. Different orca populations
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  have their own dialects similar to human language
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  and can develop their own unique fads such as
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  swimming around with dead salmon on their heads.
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  Yeah, I did hear about that one. There's no reason
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  to suspect that the Iberian orcas are targeting
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  the people aboard the boats. Orcas are fierce
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  predators that are known to hunt variety of different
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  prey from tuna to seals to capitalists to sharks
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  and even whales. However, each population has
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  a particular diet and none of them involves eating
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  humans. There's only a handful of documented
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  case of wild orcas attacking humans and all of
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  these reported incidents come with significant
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  caveats such as an orca likely mistaking a person
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  for a seal. And that's the end of the article.
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  They're just so pleasant. They are. We get them.
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  They are. There's reason that they must be incorporated
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  in all logos that Journey to the Fringe ever
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  uses. We get them. Yeah. I actually thought there
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  were no recorded incidents of wild orcas ever
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  killing a human, but it seems like they kind
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  of alluded to it happening. Yeah, it seems like
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  they possibly mistook it for a seal, in which
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  accidents do happen. I've mistaken people and
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  murdered them as seals all the time. Yeah, you
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  think they're a seal and they're not. Yep. That's
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  true. It's really awkward, but it happens. The
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  orcas are just doing the people's work. I mean,
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  it's Halloween now. We're setting the tone for
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  spooky. If you're worried that there might be
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  an orca in the room with you, just think of whether
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  or not you were in the top 1%. And if you own
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  a yacht. Do you own capital? If you own capital,
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  worry a little about your capital. If not, you're
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  fine. There might be an orca in the room with
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  you right now. Just don't act like a seal. You're
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  fine. Two comments I do want to make Chelsea,
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  just in addition to what we've talked about first
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  and foremost. They are so ridiculously intelligent
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  that they're just like, oh yeah, the rudder.
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  Let's just take that shit out. And like, I wonder
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  if they know what they're doing. Yeah, they've
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  been studying them for so long now. They just
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  know what makes it go. The Spanish people also
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  like kind of alluded to them targeting some boats,
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  almost like they're watching it, figuring out
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  whether or not they were worth it, whether or
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  not their net worth was high. enough and how
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  the boat was working. Oh, yeah. I was kind of
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  hoping at one point when you're talking about
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  the Spanish police, they're going to try to apprehend
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  the orcas with like handcuffs. But that didn't
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  happen, apparently, unfortunately. While we're
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  talking about the Spanish National Police, they
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  have so many different forms of police in Spain.
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  It's insane. But have you ever seen it's the
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  Spanish National Guard, I think? Is their shirt
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  really unbuttoned? Yes. Yeah. You see it when
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  I'm talking about with their really unbuttoned
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  shirt. And the very, very tight pants. Are we?
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  Yeah, that's them. And they're for real. This
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  is the outfit they wear. I always like when the
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  chin guard is like above the chin at lip level.
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  You can see how beautiful their outfits are.
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  And it's so tight. Anyhow. So they can swim through
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  orcas, clearly. Oh man, there's one of them lunging.
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  I don't know. I don't know that that's specifically
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  for orcas, but... One more thing I wanted to
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  talk about is, Chelsea, do you think this is
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  them taking their rage out on the humans, knowing
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  that they can both go on land and sea? And they
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  have learned that they cannot go on to land now.
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  from our scientists. They would have had to have
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  been way ahead and you could only think that
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  they'd get more violent as they find that out
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  because they'd be much more anxious. And it's
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  the younger ones who didn't have the choice in
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  the matter that are really raging out based on
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  the reports. Probably. I could get behind that.
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  Yeah. But why attack a yacht? Something to contemplate.
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  You guys got 48 hours. You do your research and
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  come up with your conclusion. Like it can be
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  anything you want. Honestly. Oh yeah. The best
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  solution right now is angsty teenager. So you
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  can probably do better. Anyhow, bye. Bye.