Kicker: Drive thru seal

NICK EICHER, HOST: We had a swimming hyena yesterday, so today why not have the walking seal.

Down in New Zealand where it’s wintertime seals are pretty active. But not always this active.

In South Auckland, a seal walked up to a KFC take-out window. Audio here from Newshub.com:

KFC WORKER: Yeah, it just sat there. It was just chilling and, we were just like, ‘oh my gosh, it’s crossing the road!’

Well, of course it’s crossing the road. Why do you suppose?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Uh, because the chicken had the day off?

EICHER: Close. I did say it was a KFC, and everybody knows seals prefer fish as marine biologist Laura Bore also knows.

LAURA BORE: They'll just come up where there's food, where there is a place to rest.

All’s well that ends well. The conservation department captured him and drove him back to the ocean.

REICHARD: And he didn’t even have to call an Uber.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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