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    "Video of Adrián's whale encounter.",
    "Adrián Simanca's Youtube channel",
    "Dell Simanca's Youtube channel",
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  "textContent": "_This episode was originally published on March 21, 2025._\n\nThere are moments that define each of our lives. Some we can predict: graduations, marriages, births, deaths. Others? Not so much.\n\nAnd in the year 2025, when the stars aligned just so, you may have found that moment explode online.\n\nThat's what happened to 23-year-old Adrián Simancas. Last year in Feb. 2025, Adrián was paddling the Straight of Magellan, with his father Dell, when the unimaginable happened: a humpback whale emerged from the water and engulfed him in its open mouth — and his father captured it all on video. Almost immediately, the video went viral.\n\nSimancas sat down with _Endless Thread_ to discuss his whale tale, the deluge of attention that followed, and what he's learned from his intimate moment with nature.\n\n**Show notes:**\n\n  * Video of Adrián's whale encounter. We originally saw it on the Reddit thread: r/ThatsInsane\n  * Adrián Simanca's Youtube channel\n  * Dell Simanca's Youtube channel\n  * Did a whale swallow a kayaker? The truth behind the viral video (NPR)\n\n",
  "title": "Encore: Adrián and the Whale"
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