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Celebrating Music, Movies And Saving Earth The Unstoppable Stefanie Powers · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, if you like me and you get in the
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  Speaker 1: net A r r oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Stephanie,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations on forty five years with the William Holden Wildlife Foundation.
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  Speaker 1: I have always followed this because you teach so many
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  Speaker 1: people that you can do this in your own community.
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  Speaker 2: That's we try to.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we really do. That's very kind. I'm very happy
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  Speaker 3: that you followed us. You know, we were established after
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  Speaker 3: Bill's death as a living memorial to him for his
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  Speaker 3: work as a conservationists, but as a visionary, because his
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  Speaker 3: work as a conservationist in East Africa began in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: fifty nine, long before people had the word conservation in
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  Speaker 3: their vocabularies or the notion of extinction in their minds,
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  Speaker 3: and as we approach the Earth Day, it's never more
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  Speaker 3: appropriate than to speak of the work that he did
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  Speaker 3: and the work that is carried on by the William
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  Speaker 3: Holden Wildlife Foundation.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the reason why I'm so inspired by the
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  Speaker 1: William Holden Wildlife Foundation, is the fact that as you
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  Speaker 1: travel the world and you open up your eyes and
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  Speaker 1: other people's eyes into the journey of accepting all things nature.
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  Speaker 1: We're in need of that as well in this country
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  Speaker 1: as we go through these weather changes. Is that we're
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  Speaker 1: drying up and we've got to sit here and figure
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  Speaker 1: out how we're going to take care of each other,
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  Speaker 1: including the animals. And I think that is because you've
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  Speaker 1: lived at first through the William Holden. Now it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what can we learn from you that we can incorporate today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've been learning it from others all my life.
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  Speaker 3: And you know it's we've been speaking about extinction and
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  Speaker 3: about the fragile nation of the nature of the planet
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  Speaker 3: for a long long time, and yet so little is done.
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  Speaker 3: You know, our governments. We can't depend on our governments
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  Speaker 3: to do it. We have to depend on individuals and
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  Speaker 3: the inspiration of those individuals is what I'm all about,
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  Speaker 3: and hope that some of the work that we do
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  Speaker 3: that people might see on our website inspires them and
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  Speaker 3: inspires them to participate with us. We are our five
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  Speaker 3: oh one C three public charity. Anything no donation is
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  Speaker 3: too small and it's tax deductible. So our mission statement
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  Speaker 3: is wildlife conservation through education and alternatives to habitat destruction.
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  Speaker 3: Bill was the inspiration of this. It's a living memorial
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  Speaker 3: to him that I formed after he passed, and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: we are inspiring people, not just locally in Kenya, but
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  Speaker 3: around the world. We serve about fourteen thousand students a
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  Speaker 3: year at our education center, and we have an outreach
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  Speaker 3: program into rather impoverished rural areas that really helps them
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  Speaker 3: understand and make the transition from their tribal ways into
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  Speaker 3: a world that is crushing in on them and that
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  Speaker 3: they have to they're looking for answers to be able
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  Speaker 3: to adapt to and it's all disappearing very quickly. I
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  Speaker 3: think about the first time I went out to Kenya,
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  Speaker 3: which was in nineteen seventy three. The difference is astonishing.
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  Speaker 3: The rate of extinction of species is mind boggling, and
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  Speaker 3: that's going on all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: So we are the source of the problem. So we
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  Speaker 2: are the source of the solution.
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  Speaker 3: And we must inspire ourselves, our children, and our society
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do.
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  Speaker 2: Something about it.
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  Speaker 3: And the little, the smallest thing we can do is
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  Speaker 3: to look at ourselves in the mirror and see what
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  Speaker 3: is it we consume, because whatever it is we're consuming,
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  Speaker 3: we're killing ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: With One of the things that I've always been inspired
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  Speaker 1: by you, Stephanie, is the fact that I just feel
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  Speaker 1: that when you walk into some place like Kenya, or
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  Speaker 1: you walk around in other areas of the country, that
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  Speaker 1: you don't mind just sitting down in the soil and saying,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I'm listening, let's figure this out. Because every
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  Speaker 1: animal has a story, every tree has a story. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what, if you listen close, so do those rocks.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I love about you is that you
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  Speaker 1: are not afraid to step into the story.
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  Speaker 3: Well my nails are short is and dug into the ground, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. And what you have done to protect
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  Speaker 1: the horses. See, that's where I first came in contact
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  Speaker 1: with you, is what you're doing up there, like in
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  Speaker 1: the prior mountain areas and other areas of this nation
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  Speaker 1: and around the world, because that those prior horses we
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  Speaker 1: are to this day huge to those of us in Montana.
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  Speaker 3: I know, and I know it's it's highly sensitive and
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  Speaker 3: highly controversial, but we we we have underestimated the importance
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  Speaker 3: of those horses and their role in biodiversity and the
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  Speaker 3: biodiversity that created our planet. We are the end results,
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  Speaker 3: but we are also the problem because we're the one
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  Speaker 3: destroying it. So there is never enough, there's never enough
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  Speaker 3: emphasis placed on them. Now we yesterday in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Los Angeles. Yesterday in Los Angeles it was one.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred degrees yep. Yeah, that's insane for this time of
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 1: See, That's what I'm saying, is that that as you
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  Speaker 1: go to Kenya and what you're learning in Kenya, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to learn here because when you've got a
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  Speaker 1: one hundred degree day in Los Angeles this early in
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  Speaker 1: the game, what is it doing for you the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the nation. Oh, I know what's happening here in
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  Speaker 1: the Carolinas. We're being beaten up by these torrential rainstorms. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to learn how to do what they
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  Speaker 1: did before us in order to survive. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I need people like you, Stephanie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I need people like you too to get the message out.
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  Speaker 2: We all need each each other, but we need each other.
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  Speaker 3: To work together to help resolve this because obviously our
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  Speaker 3: governments are not going to do it. They haven't done
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  Speaker 3: it so far, and there is certainly enough, there's enough
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  Speaker 3: information out there, and there's enough enough examples of why
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  Speaker 3: we need this.
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  Speaker 2: Why it should be number one.
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  Speaker 3: On our list of crucial issues to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. We'll be right back with Stephanie Powers.
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  Speaker 1: The William Holden Wildlife Foundation is celebrating forty five years.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to our conversation with Stephanie Powers. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that one of the things that we need
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  Speaker 1: to work on is that being human we think that
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  Speaker 1: we can take care of everything. And what I mean
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  Speaker 1: by that is a lot of people will adopt an
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  Speaker 1: animal and bring it into their life. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: I think we need more people than just that little
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  Speaker 1: gut feeling that I can save this I can save
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  Speaker 1: this horse. We need to get more people involved in
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  Speaker 1: this to make sure we're doing it right correct.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, but also let's not diminish the importance of
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  Speaker 3: the individual. Yes, because it is individuals that make things happen.
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  Speaker 3: It is individuals that, when they join together, become movements.
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  Speaker 2: And so there is no act that is.
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  Speaker 3: Too small in the preservation of this planet.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's just inspiring people.
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  Speaker 3: To make that act, to do something, to find some
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  Speaker 3: way of contributing, not just money, but actually doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, wearing your nails short which you look
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  Speaker 1: at my nails. You say, dude, you got soil in
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  Speaker 1: those nails because you've been out there in that darn
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  Speaker 1: forest all weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It's yes, that's great, that's the best kind of dirty nail.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, don't you love the way that collection of
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  Speaker 1: trees and loving the land will bring the animals to
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  Speaker 1: you so that you can learn their journey as well
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  Speaker 1: as where they're growing as well. Even a box turtle,
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  Speaker 1: to me, has a story that we can learn from.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Absolutely, I'm preaching to the congregation, you know. The
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  Speaker 3: all we have to do is look at what happened
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  Speaker 3: to our environments all over the world when COVID forced.
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  Speaker 2: Us to get off the street.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's incredible how wildlife adapted. It's incredible how
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  Speaker 3: the air cleared up. It's incredible how we once again
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  Speaker 3: heard birds. For those people who took the pods out
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  Speaker 3: of their ears or the music off their headsets and
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  Speaker 3: listen to the real music, the music of nature. Because
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  Speaker 3: it came back so fast, absolutely extraordinary. That's how brilliant
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  Speaker 3: this planet is. But give it half a chance. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: we just go back and the same way that we
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  Speaker 3: were behaving before, as like destruction Derby. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: the great offender one of.
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  Speaker 1: The things that you've been a major part of, because
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  Speaker 1: we all just naturally think that if we see the
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  Speaker 1: photographs or we see the documentaries on TV, the jaguar
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  Speaker 1: is the perfectly protected animal. No no, no, no. The
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  Speaker 1: conservation that you've created and the trust that you've created,
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  Speaker 1: it opens up our hearts to say, look, we need
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  Speaker 1: to work together and continue to save the jaguar.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, but unfortunately Jaguar as a company, Jaguar North
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  Speaker 3: America was the whole company. I mean, when I created
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  Speaker 3: the Jaguar Conservation Trust, it was predicated on the fact
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  Speaker 3: that the.
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  Speaker 2: Company itself valued the.
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  Speaker 3: Relationship that it had with its logo with the animal
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  Speaker 3: used as its logo and showed the integrity of the
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  Speaker 3: automobile makers to produce a beautiful car to also preserve
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  Speaker 3: the animal from which they derived its name.
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  Speaker 2: That company was.
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  Speaker 3: Sold from Ford Motor Company, who were very conservation minded,
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  Speaker 3: to a company in India, and they're not so conservation minded,
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  Speaker 3: so they discontinued their support of our little effort.
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  Speaker 2: We were for five years.
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  Speaker 3: We sponsored an effort in a grassroots effort in Guatemalae
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  Speaker 3: in Costa Rica and Belize, and it was very well
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  Speaker 3: received locally and it did some wonderful good. Now it's
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  Speaker 3: run by a company that isn't even in America, so
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  Speaker 3: they and they didn't want to they didn't even want
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  Speaker 3: to let us use their name. So it was it
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  Speaker 3: was a really sad eventuality.
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  Speaker 2: So I come to not trust the corporate world very well.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them talk from both sides of their.
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  Speaker 1: Mouths, you saw, like my dad, I love that kind
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  Speaker 1: of talk. But you know, but you know what, one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that that I cherish about you is
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you'll go out there and you'll be
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  Speaker 1: with everything that has to do with the planet. You'll
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  Speaker 1: experience life in places that we won't ever get there
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  Speaker 1: and then I swear to you, when I listen to
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  Speaker 1: your music, I can feel your emotion in those lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that you created with Loren's heart in
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  Speaker 1: the way of going, Look, there are words to me
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  Speaker 1: until I put my heart involved in the in these songs,
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  Speaker 1: because I feel something when I hear you sing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's very kind.
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  Speaker 3: Loren's heart would the greater hero of line as far
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  Speaker 3: as his poetry was. He certainly was a poet, and
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  Speaker 3: he lived a tragic life, but his poetry lives on
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  Speaker 3: and is in the lyrics of his music.
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  Speaker 1: And you're putting it through that music, which allows so
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  Speaker 1: many people to explore it because you know, people are
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  Speaker 1: just as lost with music today as they are with
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  Speaker 1: the planet. And you're bringing these together because once we start,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing the research on you and seeing your connection,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, all of that dirt you've
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  Speaker 1: got in your fingernails is paying off for those of
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  Speaker 1: us that didn't know until now.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell the dirt when I'm washing it out of
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  Speaker 3: my nails.
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  Speaker 2: Some of it comes out, some of it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: But is that part of the training of for h
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  Speaker 1: and the reason why I bring that up is because
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the state of Montana, on those
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  Speaker 1: farms in Wyoming as well as Montana, and four H
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  Speaker 1: was a major part of what we do. I would
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  Speaker 1: say my forest is alive today in South Charlotte, North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina because of what I learned at four H.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Well, for H was a great organization.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had a I had a calf a
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  Speaker 3: heifer called deb Yes, that was the that was the
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  Speaker 3: animal I showed and uh, and I think it taught
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  Speaker 3: some wonderful values and certainly taught the appreciation of our
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  Speaker 3: fellow species.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. It was. It was altruism at its best.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Where can people go to find out more about you?
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  Speaker 1: And the forty fifth annual William Holden Wildlife Foundation Celebration,
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  Speaker 1: because this is a moment that we all need to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about and getting involved with.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. It's uh.
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  Speaker 3: We have a very very involved website. It's w h
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  Speaker 3: w F dot org. That's the acronym of the of
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  Speaker 3: the foundation. And please to your listeners, please go and
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  Speaker 3: look us up and see if there's anything that interests you.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot on there.
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  Speaker 3: It's rather it's rather massively filled with a lot of information.
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  Speaker 3: But if you can get through the information, get to
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  Speaker 3: the core of the matter, hopefully you'll find something that
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  Speaker 3: moves you.
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  Speaker 1: Please come back to the show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you. Stephanie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, my dear. I'll walk right through it.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, you'd be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, you too.