Save the Whales!
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too. And we are going crunchy, granola even today, talking about saving the whales, which, Chuck, I don't know about you, but for me, that was like a big part of my childhood. So this is a little bit nostalgic for me.
Yeah, I mean, if you're insinuating I grew up under a rock in the 1970s, that is not the case. You did live on a gravel road. That's true. There were rocks involved. I lived among rocks. But, yeah, I mean, I would go out on a limb and say that, well, this article says Save the Whales is one of the most successful environmental conservation movements in history. But from my mouth to thine ears, I'm going to say I think the Save the Whales campaign is one of the most effective marketing campaigns across any genre in history.
Wow.
Wow. It was that ubiquitous.
Yeah, it was super ubiquitous. I think you caught more of it than me even. Like the stuff that I caught was a little bit of the after wash. I don't know.
Like remember that thing?
You were living, well, no, it was still a thing. But I think the peak, I missed the peak and you were living right through it. Because the 70s were like when this really started to ramp up big time. And I'm sure plenty of people out there have heard Save the Whales. And it is like a pretty ubiquitous slogan. Used to be even more ubiquitous, like we're saying. But despite that there wasn't like one person or group that you're like, yep, they started Save the Whales. It almost just kind of bubbled up. into the collective consciousness. And a bunch of different groups kind of started doing the same thing, sometimes working together, other times doing it independently. But the whole goal was to preserve declining whale populations from extinction.
And they all were kind of under the same banner of save the whales.
Yeah. And we're going to talk a little bit about the actual saving of the whales. We're going to talk a little bit about that campaign, you know, slogan and how that was a thing. But if you want to talk about just the word save the whales, that did not come about in the 1970s. That became a thing in, I mean, the phrase dates back to the 1800s, like the 1880s, but it really became a thing in the 1920s when whale conservation was first a little flicker on the radar of
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:48
2
What sparked the Save the Whales movement in the 1970s?
8:48–16:39
3
How did the Save the Whales campaign evolve over the years?
16:39–17:22
4
What role did early conservationists play in whale protection?
17:22–41:30
5
What were the significant tactics used by the Save the Whales campaign?
41:30–53:54