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Feb 2025
34m 36s

The Good Whale - Ep. 4

Serial Productions & The New York Times
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A fresh training team takes a hard-line approach and doubles down on breaking Keiko’s bond with humans. By summer it seems to be working, until one day Keiko swims away. This is the moment they’ve all been waiting for.

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