Phil Demers is a former professional marine mammal trainer and subject of the new documentary "The Walrus and the Whistleblower".
The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Marineland was my home. I was 12 years there. I still to this day I know I can feel that place.
It was my home. Those animals were my family. It just was. It's in life when you take for granted
when something is taken from you that you otherwise have. You know when I left that place, those animals are still on my mind.
They have names, they have personalities, they have history with me.
These are some really powerful relationships that I had with the animals but you introduced the likes of Smushi suddenly, my walrus,
and now I become a freaking mother to her. I mean this is where things get really freaking weird.
Well explain that to people that have never seen any of the earlier podcasts.
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