Name: The Day It Rained Whale
Uploaded: 2019-03-09T07:04:10.000Z
Duration: 2 min 6 s
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- [Narrator] An eight-ton, 45-foot sperm whale carcass

- [Narrator] You can't throw it back in the ocean.

- [Paul] Of course, the tides can push them back in.

It was an ordinary day in November, 1970.

He was a television reporter for Portland's KATU,

- What to do with one 45-foot, eight-ton whale,

dead on arrival on a beach near Florence.

state officials didn't know how to get rid of

- [Narrator] The plan was to blow the whale

and have scavengers like seagulls eat the rest of it.

and waited a thousand yards away from the blast.

- [Paul] Within, I'd say, about 20 or 30 seconds,

until you realized, wow, if one of these chunks hits me,

We start running in the direction of the parking lot,

- [Narrator] KATU's exploding whale report

was a viral video in the pre-internet age.

It's inspired parodies and one-man shows,

and for Paul Linnman, it's been career-defining.

- [Paul] It's something that reoccurs in my life

I know what's gonna be written about in my obituary.

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