Wally the Walrus is on a European tour - Leah Brandon has the story

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rarely, and we are blessed with us today. Rarely does
Leah Brandon come out of her news cave and darn
us with her presents.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I just had to come because there is a good
news story.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
What do you got?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Okay, most people, if you're on social media a lot,
you've seen the story of Wally the Walrus.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
I have not, Mackenzie, You're all over social media.

Speaker 5 (00:23):
Have you seen I have not seen this. I'm excited
to hear about it though.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, this is adorable.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wally weighs eighteen hundred pounds, he is gigantic, and he's
believed to have fallen asleep on an iceberg. He drifted
twenty five hundred miles south and ended up taking naps on.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Boats before he woke up.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, he I on LinkedIn? Where can
I get this dumb behind got to sleep and I'm there.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I mean, this was a whole thing because you know,
especially on X, people will start tracking things, right, so
wildlife experts, social media people, they started, you know, where's
Wali and they tracked him, hoping he would swim back
up north, but instead he went on a grand tour
of Europe, Ireland, Wales to Cornwall, France, Spain, and eventually

(01:16):
made his way into the Mediterranean near the Isles of Silly.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
He stayed there for six weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was going to say, how long did all this take?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I mean, he's been on quite a track months.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yes, he's on the world tour. He's Taylor Swift, he.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is, and every and everyone is worried about him, you know,
because he started.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Losing weight the back of an iceberg.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah. But here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Once he made it to the Isles of Silly, he
started sinking boats. He decided he was going to get
up on everybody could find and nap there. Well, he
started sinking them and people were like, hey, we like Wally,
but he's really hurting us financially, showing us. Yeah, so

(01:58):
they wildlife experts big fat lard.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Oh yeah, that's calling him in five four three.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
So wildlife experts build him his own pontoon couch.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
He loved it. Then he started drifting away.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
By the time he got to Ireland again, they were
tracking him. They're like, he's going to need another pontoon couch.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Was He like, Frosty, I'll be back again someday. And
as he floats into the sunset.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
The last we heard he has been spotted up north.
He's now back on his little icebergs where he's gained
some more weight.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, you can track it. It's Wally the Walrus. Just
go on. He's near the Arctic Circle.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Now, oh my gosh, what a toy. He's back home though,
so and he gained some weight.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, he lost a whole bunch drifting and sleeping on
couch surfing, you know, across the Mediterranean.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
That is stuff right there, that is good.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You can find the story. It's a on our ex