July 25, 2025 • 12 mins
Shark Week 2025 opened with a spectacle that left many conservationists and shark advocates frustrated. The premiere episode, Dancing With Sharks, featured handlers hugging, hand-feeding, and even riding sharks—behaviors that distort shark biology and promote a dangerous misunderstanding of these wild animals. In this episode, we examine how the use of tonic immobility and forced interactions undermines shark conservation and sends the wrong message to the public.
Shark conservation deserves better than spectacle. Instead of relying on shock-value stunts, media like Shark Week should highlight real science, elevate expert voices, and promote respectful interactions with apex predators. We explore how better storytelling can change public perception and help build a future where sharks are protected, not exploited.
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(00:00):
I sat down to watch the kick off of Shark
Week 2025 hoping for science, respect and
wonder.
What I got was a circus act
disguised as conservation.
Dancing with sharks opened up with
handlers hugging, riding
and hand feeding wild sharks.
They call it graceful.
I saw it as
performative and disrespectful.
(00:20):
These aren't props, they're predators,
majestic, misunderstood
and already under threat.
Having sharks in a tonic state to
entertain the audience
crosses a serious ethical line.
I couldn't believe that this was the
headline act of the one of
the world's most influential
shark broadcasts.
Shark Week was supposed to inspire
protection, not promote domination.
(00:41):
If this is how we teach people to love
sharks, we're doing them a disservice.
Let's talk about why this episode did
more harm than good and
what shark conservation
should actually look like on this episode
of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast.
Let's start the show.
Hey everybody, welcome back to another
exciting episode of the How
(01:02):
to Protect the Ocean podcast.
I'm your host, Andrew Llewyn.
And this is the podcast where you find
out what's happening
with the ocean, how you can
speak up for the ocean and what you can
do to live for a better
ocean by taking action.
If you want to take action, do not watch
Dancing with Sharks.
It was a horrible episode.
We'll get into that in just a second.
Before we do, though, if you really want
to know how to be
(01:23):
guided to live for a better
ocean truly guided, I want you to go over
and join the undertow.
Go to speak up for blue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
It is an online community that I've
partnered with some
co-founders Serena and Amanda to
build this online community to help
people and guide people
to not only reconnect with
the ocean, but to help guide them towards
(01:44):
making better decisions for the ocean.
It's an app.
It will contain the podcast and will
contain extra information,
interactive virtual meetings
and so forth.
It's going to be really exciting.
Go to speak up for blue.com forward slash
join the undertow to
get on the waiting list.
The app is coming soon.
I can't wait for it to come to you to
(02:06):
your hands and be able
to get access to all of
the shark information and ocean
information as you please.
Let's get it back into the show.
This is disappointing.
I am just going to say right off the bat,
I was a little excited
to kick off the month.
We had shark fest with Nat Geo, had some
great episode and had
some not so great episodes.
I reviewed the shark whisper, not so
(02:27):
great on Netflix, a
documentary on ocean Ramsey.
It kind of sucked.
I reviewed all the sharks, great episode,
had some diving things
going on, but overall
great episode, really learned about
sharks, really learned about the
biodiversity of sharks.
I thought that was fantastic.
I really liked how they talked about how
rays and stingrays and manor rays are
(02:48):
part of the same subfamily.
Elasmal branks, cartilaginous, fidget,
conjurates, cartilaginous fish.
It's always great to see when you are
able to insert education and
entertainment at the same time.
So that edutainment, I
think is what they call it.
I thought it was really great.
However, when we talk about shark week,
we have to be careful because shark week
(03:09):
has really disappoint us in the past and
sometimes really impressed
us with some of their show.
And there are some shows that I'm still
looking forward to watching this week.
But to start off, to kick off the show,
to kick off the week of shark week, one
of the biggest weeks and most popular and
top rated weeks of shows on sharks and
(03:29):
just the environment and discoveries.
I think of the
biggest week for discovery.
Don't quote me on that, but it's one of
the biggest weeks for this channel.
You start off with dancing with sharks.
Now, there is a great channel called
shark bites. There's a scientist on
there. I can't remember his name right
now, but he's fantastic.
He's got a huge channel and I'll link in
the show notes below.
He actually talked about how he was going
(03:50):
to maybe be on the show.
They asked him. The producers asked him
to be on this show. He didn't know what
it was really about.
He's got a great story of how he followed
along the process because he wanted to
see what this was about.
If it's about science, he
was really interested in it.
Like I said, shark week has provided some
great scientific shows.
And then he realized quickly that dancing
with sharks was
literally dancing with sharks.
(04:12):
It was taking these shark handlers and
calling them dancers, but they weren't
really dancers, teaching them how to
dance underwater and
handle sharks at the same time.
Essentially, it was dancing with stars,
but except the stars were sharks.
And if you think about the concept,
nothing is interesting about that.
There's nothing interesting. It
absolutely sucks when you think about.
(04:33):
I don't know how this got approved by
Discovery. I don't know how people said,
Hey, you know what? Dancing with sharks.
That's a great idea.
Let's take sharks. Let's go underwater.
Let's go in their habitat. Sharks that
don't like to be touched, don't like to
be handled and let's hug them.
Let's sit on them. Let's ride them and
thinking that's a good idea. Let's hand
(04:53):
feed them because you know, the sharp
teeth aren't a danger to anybody.
And let's do this and let's entertain
people. Then we'll judge the
people. It's a competition show.
All the sharks was a great competition
show. Dancing with sharks sucked. Okay.
It is the worst thing I've ever seen.
Now they got Tom Bergeron, who used to be
the host of America's home videos or
(05:15):
whatever. It wasn't entertaining. He was
great at commentating. Now he was
commentating this. He was hosting this
and it just like it was awkward.
It was horrible to see like what these
dancers did and what they had them do to
interact with sharks was absolutely
horrible. It was absolutely the worst
thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
They had someone from Dancing with Stars,
(05:36):
a choreographer, you know, talking about
the technique of the dancing that a
choreographer to teach the dancing a
separate person to teach the dancing to these divers.
They had a diver and they named her a shark expert, but I don't know how much of a shark actually is maybe in diving because she's gone diving with a lot of sharks. Definitely not on the science side that I saw could be wrong on that. I didn't do much research too angry to be honest about this. Then they had this comedian that was on who was probably the most realist of all people was like, why am I here? Why are we doing this?This is not right. And you know, he had to judge people. He's like, you're still dancing with sharks, which is awesome. I think he said one time and he's just funny. He's like, I'm not even gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like,
(06:12):
you know, I'm not any comedian outside of
this, but he's just like probably the
most realist person. He's like, why are
we doing this? What are we doing this for
this makes no sense. And it's true. It
made no sense right from the get go. And
when you watch the performances I watched
I was going to turn off after five
minutes because it was so disgusting. I
want to watch the whole thing. So I want
to see if they put some education. They
did put one piece one clip where they
(06:33):
talked about hammerhead sharks and they
did some education, but for the rest of
the time was just absolutely all about
man handling sharks.
hugging sharks, one
person, one diver, quote unquote,
dancer fell and sat under
the head of a nurse shark
because she got off balance.
You know, it's obviously
not something she's used
to doing underwater, but
(06:53):
she did it and she fell
on the shark and, you
know, like didn't probably
harm the shark, but
obviously it's not helping
when you start touching
the shark and inadvertently,
you know, sit on a shark.
There's one person who
actually like rode the shark,
like grabbed a nurse shark by either side
and actually rode the shark.
Another person was
holding it and tickling it.
I think it was actually the
same person, a nurse shark.
(07:15):
And look, these nurse
sharks are not harmful to people.
They have this ability to suction.
People have been, you know, quote unquote
bitten by nurse sharks
because they're all in around it and
they're in around when they're
feeding and probably inadvertently got
bit these influencers.
But in this case, like
nobody got hurt, but the fact is
these sharks are being handled.
One time somebody put them in a tonic
state and they think, oh, that's great.
(07:35):
They put them in a tonic state.
What a way to handle the sharks.
No.
No, do not touch the sharks.
You know, like I thought
the shark was first bad.
I thought ocean ramage was bad.
This is awful.
This is absolutely horrible to be able to
say that this is educational,
to be able to say that
this is entertaining.
(07:56):
Watching people handle sharks, literally
handle sharks in a dance for no reason.
Whatsoever.
There's no science behind it.
There's no conservation body.
In fact, you can argue that they were
more harmful to the
sharks than they were to
protect the sharks.
I don't know what the
purpose of the show is.
It wasn't entertaining.
It was awful.
There was no charisma.
There was no fun.
(08:17):
It sucked.
It absolutely sucked.
Everybody was awkward.
I think sometimes people were just so
surprised that they were
doing this and being like,
what decisions that you made in life made
you come to this show and do this show?
I don't know what the
production company was saying.
And this was absolutely awful from a
scientist, from a
conservationist, from just watching
this show.
It enraged me.
(08:38):
I had to leave the
show a number of times.
I haven't been this enraged in
sea-spiracy, to be honest.
And I was just like, what in the world
are people thinking?
To kick off Shark Week 2025 by doing this
and putting on this
dancing with sharks and
thinking that this is a good idea.
It really makes me wonder what people at
(08:58):
Shark Week are thinking.
I understand you want to maybe push the
boundaries a little bit,
but to put on this absolute
garbage and say that this is how we're
going to kick off Shark Week 2025.
Horrible, absolutely horrible.
Now with that said, I did watch the other
two shows that were on that night.
They were about great white sharks.
They were about orcas that were harming
(09:19):
the great white sharks
in South Africa and where
these sharks went.
Dr. Alison Towner, who's been on the
Beyond Jaws podcast,
interviewed before, did a great
job.
They had Andy Kesegande that was on
there, who's a videographer for them.
They really showed a lot of the science.
They really showed some great whites, not
touching them, not manhandling them.
Of course, you're not going to do that
with a great white, but it
was really very interesting.
(09:39):
Some parts I liked, some parts I didn't
like, but at least it
showed some science.
At least it showed
something like what was going on.
One of them was looking for colossus,
like Air Jaws, that they
haven't seen this shark
in 10 years or almost 10 years, looking
for the shark and
saying, was it in South Africa?
Was it in New Zealand?
Talking about how we've discovered that
South African sharks
can travel to New Zealand.
(10:00):
So wondering if that's where they went as
adults or that's where
the shark called colossus
went as an adult.
They couldn't find it obviously, but
there was a big shark
that might have been it in
New Zealand, but they
don't know for sure.
Obviously, they're going to be doing some
more studies on that.
And then the other episode was talking
about great white
assassins, a great white shark
assassin is the port and
starboard in South Africa.
(10:20):
And they're looking to see if there is
any predation of orcas in New Zealand.
Dr. Alison Towner, and with another
naturalist, went over to New
Zealand to look at any type
of markings or any type of evidence if
these great whites were
being predated upon or harassed
by orcas.
There's an orca
population in New Zealand as well.
So they did some small experiments, you
know, TV type experiments.
(10:41):
I thought it was interesting.
So I like those episodes more than
Dancing with Sharks.
I would rather get bitten by a shark than
watch that again, Dancing with Sharks.
That was absolutely atrocious.
Shark week people that prove that should
be a shame, they should be fired.
That was absolutely awful.
What these people did with sharks.
I don't know if this is a normal thing.
(11:02):
Hand feeding sharks to the point where
you're trying to guide
them, like your hands are
so close to their mouths, not only being
like putting yourself in
danger, but really affecting
the sharks by hand feeding
them is a huge no no in my books.
I thought it was absolutely awful.
In the Shark Whisperer review, when I
talked about Ocean Ramsey
handling sharks and riding
sharks, that was awful.
(11:22):
This was even like 100 times worse.
It was 100 times worse.
And if this is what happens on a regular
basis, absolutely awful.
This should not be a thing that is done
at any point in time.
The people should be
ashamed of what they're doing.
I can't believe this was on national TV,
to be honest, or international TV.
Absolutely horrible.
(11:43):
So that's my review.
I would love to hear your thoughts on
Dancing with Sharks.
You know, what'd you think?
Did you think it was even entertaining?
Really up to know what people thinking.
Not attacking anybody, of course.
Everybody has their own opinion.
I don't love what they're doing with
sharks and harassing them.
I feel like they're just encouraging
people to say, hey, we can
actually touch sharks and
put them in a tonic state.
And it's actually cool to do that.
(12:04):
It's not as awful to do that.
Do not do that.
Do not listen to these programs when they
say this is something
that should be done.
It's absolutely awful.
Horrible example, but I'd
love to hear what you think.
Honestly, what'd you
think of the episode?
Please let me know in the comments if
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(12:25):
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(12:46):
from the True North Stronger.
Have a great day.
We'll talk to you next time.
And happy conservation.
I sat down to watch the kick off of Shark
Week 2025 hoping for science, respect and
wonder.
What I got was a circus act
disguised as conservation.
Dancing with sharks opened up with
handlers hugging, riding
and hand feeding wild sharks.
They call it graceful.
I saw it as
performative and disrespectful.
(00:20):
These aren't props, they're predators,
majestic, misunderstood
and already under threat.
Having sharks in a tonic state to
entertain the audience
crosses a serious ethical line.
I couldn't believe that this was the
headline act of the one of
the world's most influential
shark broadcasts.
Shark Week was supposed to inspire
protection, not promote domination.
(00:41):
If this is how we teach people to love
sharks, we're doing them a disservice.
Let's talk about why this episode did
more harm than good and
what shark conservation
should actually look like on this episode
of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast.
Let's start the show.
Hey everybody, welcome back to another
exciting episode of the How
(01:02):
to Protect the Ocean podcast.
I'm your host, Andrew Llewyn.
And this is the podcast where you find
out what's happening
with the ocean, how you can
speak up for the ocean and what you can
do to live for a better
ocean by taking action.
If you want to take action, do not watch
Dancing with Sharks.
It was a horrible episode.
We'll get into that in just a second.
Before we do, though, if you really want
to know how to be
(01:23):
guided to live for a better
ocean truly guided, I want you to go over
and join the undertow.
Go to speak up for blue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
It is an online community that I've
partnered with some
co-founders Serena and Amanda to
build this online community to help
people and guide people
to not only reconnect with
the ocean, but to help guide them towards
(01:44):
making better decisions for the ocean.
It's an app.
It will contain the podcast and will
contain extra information,
interactive virtual meetings
and so forth.
It's going to be really exciting.
Go to speak up for blue.com forward slash
join the undertow to
get on the waiting list.
The app is coming soon.
I can't wait for it to come to you to
(02:06):
your hands and be able
to get access to all of
the shark information and ocean
information as you please.
Let's get it back into the show.
This is disappointing.
I am just going to say right off the bat,
I was a little excited
to kick off the month.
We had shark fest with Nat Geo, had some
great episode and had
some not so great episodes.
I reviewed the shark whisper, not so
(02:27):
great on Netflix, a
documentary on ocean Ramsey.
It kind of sucked.
I reviewed all the sharks, great episode,
had some diving things
going on, but overall
great episode, really learned about
sharks, really learned about the
biodiversity of sharks.
I thought that was fantastic.
I really liked how they talked about how
rays and stingrays and manor rays are
(02:48):
part of the same subfamily.
Elasmal branks, cartilaginous, fidget,
conjurates, cartilaginous fish.
It's always great to see when you are
able to insert education and
entertainment at the same time.
So that edutainment, I
think is what they call it.
I thought it was really great.
However, when we talk about shark week,
we have to be careful because shark week
(03:09):
has really disappoint us in the past and
sometimes really impressed
us with some of their show.
And there are some shows that I'm still
looking forward to watching this week.
But to start off, to kick off the show,
to kick off the week of shark week, one
of the biggest weeks and most popular and
top rated weeks of shows on sharks and
(03:29):
just the environment and discoveries.
I think of the
biggest week for discovery.
Don't quote me on that, but it's one of
the biggest weeks for this channel.
You start off with dancing with sharks.
Now, there is a great channel called
shark bites. There's a scientist on
there. I can't remember his name right
now, but he's fantastic.
He's got a huge channel and I'll link in
the show notes below.
He actually talked about how he was going
(03:50):
to maybe be on the show.
They asked him. The producers asked him
to be on this show. He didn't know what
it was really about.
He's got a great story of how he followed
along the process because he wanted to
see what this was about.
If it's about science, he
was really interested in it.
Like I said, shark week has provided some
great scientific shows.
And then he realized quickly that dancing
with sharks was
literally dancing with sharks.
(04:12):
It was taking these shark handlers and
calling them dancers, but they weren't
really dancers, teaching them how to
dance underwater and
handle sharks at the same time.
Essentially, it was dancing with stars,
but except the stars were sharks.
And if you think about the concept,
nothing is interesting about that.
There's nothing interesting. It
absolutely sucks when you think about.
(04:33):
I don't know how this got approved by
Discovery. I don't know how people said,
Hey, you know what? Dancing with sharks.
That's a great idea.
Let's take sharks. Let's go underwater.
Let's go in their habitat. Sharks that
don't like to be touched, don't like to
be handled and let's hug them.
Let's sit on them. Let's ride them and
thinking that's a good idea. Let's hand
(04:53):
feed them because you know, the sharp
teeth aren't a danger to anybody.
And let's do this and let's entertain
people. Then we'll judge the
people. It's a competition show.
All the sharks was a great competition
show. Dancing with sharks sucked. Okay.
It is the worst thing I've ever seen.
Now they got Tom Bergeron, who used to be
the host of America's home videos or
(05:15):
whatever. It wasn't entertaining. He was
great at commentating. Now he was
commentating this. He was hosting this
and it just like it was awkward.
It was horrible to see like what these
dancers did and what they had them do to
interact with sharks was absolutely
horrible. It was absolutely the worst
thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
They had someone from Dancing with Stars,
(05:36):
a choreographer, you know, talking about
the technique of the dancing that a
choreographer to teach the dancing a
separate person to teach the dancing to these divers.
They had a diver and they named her a shark expert, but I don't know how much of a shark actually is maybe in diving because she's gone diving with a lot of sharks. Definitely not on the science side that I saw could be wrong on that. I didn't do much research too angry to be honest about this. Then they had this comedian that was on who was probably the most realist of all people was like, why am I here? Why are we doing this?This is not right. And you know, he had to judge people. He's like, you're still dancing with sharks, which is awesome. I think he said one time and he's just funny. He's like, I'm not even gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like, I'm not gonna do this. He's like,
(06:12):
you know, I'm not any comedian outside of
this, but he's just like probably the
most realist person. He's like, why are
we doing this? What are we doing this for
this makes no sense. And it's true. It
made no sense right from the get go. And
when you watch the performances I watched
I was going to turn off after five
minutes because it was so disgusting. I
want to watch the whole thing. So I want
to see if they put some education. They
did put one piece one clip where they
(06:33):
talked about hammerhead sharks and they
did some education, but for the rest of
the time was just absolutely all about
man handling sharks.
hugging sharks, one
person, one diver, quote unquote,
dancer fell and sat under
the head of a nurse shark
because she got off balance.
You know, it's obviously
not something she's used
to doing underwater, but
(06:53):
she did it and she fell
on the shark and, you
know, like didn't probably
harm the shark, but
obviously it's not helping
when you start touching
the shark and inadvertently,
you know, sit on a shark.
There's one person who
actually like rode the shark,
like grabbed a nurse shark by either side
and actually rode the shark.
Another person was
holding it and tickling it.
I think it was actually the
same person, a nurse shark.
(07:15):
And look, these nurse
sharks are not harmful to people.
They have this ability to suction.
People have been, you know, quote unquote
bitten by nurse sharks
because they're all in around it and
they're in around when they're
feeding and probably inadvertently got
bit these influencers.
But in this case, like
nobody got hurt, but the fact is
these sharks are being handled.
One time somebody put them in a tonic
state and they think, oh, that's great.
(07:35):
They put them in a tonic state.
What a way to handle the sharks.
No.
No, do not touch the sharks.
You know, like I thought
the shark was first bad.
I thought ocean ramage was bad.
This is awful.
This is absolutely horrible to be able to
say that this is educational,
to be able to say that
this is entertaining.
(07:56):
Watching people handle sharks, literally
handle sharks in a dance for no reason.
Whatsoever.
There's no science behind it.
There's no conservation body.
In fact, you can argue that they were
more harmful to the
sharks than they were to
protect the sharks.
I don't know what the
purpose of the show is.
It wasn't entertaining.
It was awful.
There was no charisma.
There was no fun.
(08:17):
It sucked.
It absolutely sucked.
Everybody was awkward.
I think sometimes people were just so
surprised that they were
doing this and being like,
what decisions that you made in life made
you come to this show and do this show?
I don't know what the
production company was saying.
And this was absolutely awful from a
scientist, from a
conservationist, from just watching
this show.
It enraged me.
(08:38):
I had to leave the
show a number of times.
I haven't been this enraged in
sea-spiracy, to be honest.
And I was just like, what in the world
are people thinking?
To kick off Shark Week 2025 by doing this
and putting on this
dancing with sharks and
thinking that this is a good idea.
It really makes me wonder what people at
(08:58):
Shark Week are thinking.
I understand you want to maybe push the
boundaries a little bit,
but to put on this absolute
garbage and say that this is how we're
going to kick off Shark Week 2025.
Horrible, absolutely horrible.
Now with that said, I did watch the other
two shows that were on that night.
They were about great white sharks.
They were about orcas that were harming
(09:19):
the great white sharks
in South Africa and where
these sharks went.
Dr. Alison Towner, who's been on the
Beyond Jaws podcast,
interviewed before, did a great
job.
They had Andy Kesegande that was on
there, who's a videographer for them.
They really showed a lot of the science.
They really showed some great whites, not
touching them, not manhandling them.
Of course, you're not going to do that
with a great white, but it
was really very interesting.
(09:39):
Some parts I liked, some parts I didn't
like, but at least it
showed some science.
At least it showed
something like what was going on.
One of them was looking for colossus,
like Air Jaws, that they
haven't seen this shark
in 10 years or almost 10 years, looking
for the shark and
saying, was it in South Africa?
Was it in New Zealand?
Talking about how we've discovered that
South African sharks
can travel to New Zealand.
(10:00):
So wondering if that's where they went as
adults or that's where
the shark called colossus
went as an adult.
They couldn't find it obviously, but
there was a big shark
that might have been it in
New Zealand, but they
don't know for sure.
Obviously, they're going to be doing some
more studies on that.
And then the other episode was talking
about great white
assassins, a great white shark
assassin is the port and
starboard in South Africa.
(10:20):
And they're looking to see if there is
any predation of orcas in New Zealand.
Dr. Alison Towner, and with another
naturalist, went over to New
Zealand to look at any type
of markings or any type of evidence if
these great whites were
being predated upon or harassed
by orcas.
There's an orca
population in New Zealand as well.
So they did some small experiments, you
know, TV type experiments.
(10:41):
I thought it was interesting.
So I like those episodes more than
Dancing with Sharks.
I would rather get bitten by a shark than
watch that again, Dancing with Sharks.
That was absolutely atrocious.
Shark week people that prove that should
be a shame, they should be fired.
That was absolutely awful.
What these people did with sharks.
I don't know if this is a normal thing.
(11:02):
Hand feeding sharks to the point where
you're trying to guide
them, like your hands are
so close to their mouths, not only being
like putting yourself in
danger, but really affecting
the sharks by hand feeding
them is a huge no no in my books.
I thought it was absolutely awful.
In the Shark Whisperer review, when I
talked about Ocean Ramsey
handling sharks and riding
sharks, that was awful.
(11:22):
This was even like 100 times worse.
It was 100 times worse.
And if this is what happens on a regular
basis, absolutely awful.
This should not be a thing that is done
at any point in time.
The people should be
ashamed of what they're doing.
I can't believe this was on national TV,
to be honest, or international TV.
Absolutely horrible.
(11:43):
So that's my review.
I would love to hear your thoughts on
Dancing with Sharks.
You know, what'd you think?
Did you think it was even entertaining?
Really up to know what people thinking.
Not attacking anybody, of course.
Everybody has their own opinion.
I don't love what they're doing with
sharks and harassing them.
I feel like they're just encouraging
people to say, hey, we can
actually touch sharks and
put them in a tonic state.
And it's actually cool to do that.
(12:04):
It's not as awful to do that.
Do not do that.
Do not listen to these programs when they
say this is something
that should be done.
It's absolutely awful.
Horrible example, but I'd
love to hear what you think.
Honestly, what'd you
think of the episode?
Please let me know in the comments if
you're watching this on
YouTube or you can go to
speakupforblue.com forward slash contact.
Email me.
Fill out the form or
goes to my personal email.
(12:25):
You can also go on Instagram and DM me at
how to protect the ocean.
And of course, don't forget to join the
undertow by going to
speakupforblue.com forward slash
join the undertow.
That's speakupforblue.com
forward slash join the undertow.
It's in the links in the show notes.
But other than that, I want to thank you
so much for joining me
on today's episode of the
How to Protect the Ocean podcast.
I'm your host, Andrew Lewin
(12:46):
from the True North Stronger.
Have a great day.
We'll talk to you next time.
And happy conservation.
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