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Jeff Corwin's Southern Wild With Jeff And Dr Lee King On ABC · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: How's it going, Errol?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, congratulations on doing this because you are speaking about
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  Speaker 1: what's in my front window right here, North Carolina. And
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  Speaker 1: everything about this is just, oh my God, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about my area. And I just love that about you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're excited to tell the story of Wild North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: And as another North Carolinian to you, I'm very happy
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  Speaker 3: to talk about North Carolina and glad you're excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one thing that I love about this is
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people that travel into the state,
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  Speaker 1: and they are coming from all over this nation right now,
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  Speaker 1: is they've got to understand, get off the highway and
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  Speaker 1: go out there and learn about everything that you guys
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  Speaker 1: are promoting, Jeff and Doctor. Because, I mean, there is
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  Speaker 1: so much to this state that is still invisible to many.
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  Speaker 2: You're spot on. A few people realize that.
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  Speaker 3: The outdoor economy in North Carolina is equal to the.
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  Speaker 2: Outdoor economy in the state of Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: So when you think about the outdoor tourism, the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to come and interact and see the beautiful scenery, but
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  Speaker 3: also the incredible wildlife that's here in North Carolina that
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  Speaker 3: Jeff is going to be focusing on in this show,
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  Speaker 3: we're thrilled to get to tell the story. And to
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  Speaker 3: your point, North Carolina is as a place that more
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  Speaker 3: people need to come and see and visit and pay
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  Speaker 3: attention to.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Jeff, you said something while setting the fish free,
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  Speaker 1: and I just want to make sure that I heard
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  Speaker 1: it correctly. And a big chance I didn't. But I
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  Speaker 1: swear I heard you say Lazarus in the way of
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  Speaker 1: setting that fish free, in the way of giving it
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  Speaker 1: a second chance in a brand new creek or river.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so most of us know the story of Lazarus
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  Speaker 4: who was risen from the dead. And that's the story
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  Speaker 4: of the tangerine daughter. The tangerine daughter was a species
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  Speaker 4: that was extirpated from the Swannanoa River.
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  Speaker 2: And it hadn't been there for a hundred years.
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  Speaker 4: So we got to be there with the professor from
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  Speaker 4: Lees-McCray College, along with one of the leading fish biologists
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  Speaker 4: for the state of North Carolina, as we took it
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  Speaker 4: from one river, I think it was the French River,
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  Speaker 4: and then we reintroduced it into the Swannanoa River to,
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  Speaker 4: you can hear my Massachusetts speaking there, and where we
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  Speaker 4: basically got to be a part of this amazing restoration process.
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  Speaker 4: And that really is the spirit of this series. It's
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  Speaker 4: the resiliency of the state of North Carolina. You find
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  Speaker 4: that in the people that live there, but you also
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  Speaker 4: find that in the environment. As many of us know,
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  Speaker 4: just a few years ago, North Carolina was challenged by
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  Speaker 4: this unprecedented hurricane, Hurricane Helene. And we want the world
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  Speaker 4: to know that this amazing state is open for business.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the people, but also because of the ecology.
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  Speaker 4: The wild wonder of the Tar Heel State is why
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  Speaker 4: it has rebounded and has such a wild splendor to
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  Speaker 4: share with the world. So our journey is about telling
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  Speaker 4: the stories of the wildlife. about the conservationists that are
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  Speaker 4: working to save them, and the next generation, the students
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  Speaker 4: at Lee's McRae College that get.
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  Speaker 2: To be there with us in these journeys.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Jeff Corwin and Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Lee King coming up next. ABC TV. Oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: true wildlife here. Adventures from the South. We are back
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  Speaker 1: with Jeff Corwin. And Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lee King. Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Lee, did you ever get to go snorkeling up there
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  Speaker 1: in the Asheville area? Because that was so new to me.
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  Speaker 1: And now I've got to do it because, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've done snorkeling off the shores, but never in our
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  Speaker 1: own creeks and rivers. I was so fascinated by this.
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  Speaker 2: I was fascinated by it as well.
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  Speaker 3: When I saw the cuts of that episode with Jeff
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  Speaker 3: and one of our faculty members and the state biologist
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  Speaker 3: snorkeling in the Swannanoa and over in the French Broad
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  Speaker 3: River Basin.
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  Speaker 2: It is something that I want to do. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: fly fisherman at heart. I love to fly fish.
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  Speaker 3: My preference is to do wild brook trout fishing and
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  Speaker 3: really remote backcountry streams in western North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit of a chicken as it relates
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  Speaker 2: to cold water.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I'll have to get up my courage
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  Speaker 3: and jump into a deep hole real quick before I
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  Speaker 3: put on the snorkel and mask.
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  Speaker 2: And do that.
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  Speaker 3: But To see what is the beauty of the fish,
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  Speaker 3: the other aquatic life that live in our native rivers
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  Speaker 3: and the streams, especially in the western part of North Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: is really fantastic. And yes, you can guarantee that, especially
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  Speaker 3: as we get into next summer and things warm up
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, I will be in the river with
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  Speaker 3: a with a mask and a snorkel, experiencing everything that
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  Speaker 3: Jeff has shown us through the show.
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  Speaker 4: Which, by the way, a lot of people can do it.
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  Speaker 4: That's what's unique about that experience. So this snorkel safari
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  Speaker 4: experience is actually something that was created by the state.
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  Speaker 4: They set it all up where this is the point
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  Speaker 4: of entry, and then you can snorkel your way down
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  Speaker 4: through this river system, and then you exit at another point.
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  Speaker 4: So this is not something for some elite scientific research project.
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  Speaker 4: This is open for everybody to experience. So you can
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  Speaker 4: have your own encounter with the tangerine daughter. And that's
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  Speaker 4: really what it's all about is to share wild North
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  Speaker 4: Carolina with everybody so they can come to the state
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  Speaker 4: and experience this firsthand. But it's also a story about
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  Speaker 4: hope and inspiration. Because we live in a world with.
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  Speaker 2: So many challenges.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many things that are happening today that frankly
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  Speaker 4: terrify me. I don't want to turn on the television,
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  Speaker 4: but hopefully you'll want to want to, you know, every
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  Speaker 4: weekend on ABC, you'll be able to turn this on.
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  Speaker 4: You can take a deep breath and go on this
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  Speaker 4: great expedition. We will tell the stories and the challenges
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  Speaker 4: of saving species that are in trouble, but it's through
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  Speaker 4: a journey of empowerment and a journey of hope.
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  Speaker 2: And ultimately, it's an adventure.
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  Speaker 3: And as Jeff said, I'll piggyback onto that. So much
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  Speaker 3: of North Carolina, everything that you're going to see in
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  Speaker 3: this show is accessible to you, to me, to the
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  Speaker 3: general public to come and experience and to come. It's
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  Speaker 3: right beside the road. It is it is down a
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  Speaker 3: mountain pathway and a mountain trail. So, as Jeff said.
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  Speaker 3: We want everybody to get out of their office, get
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  Speaker 3: out of their car, experience the wild, wonderful beauty of
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina, because it is it is accessible to everyone.
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  Speaker 3: And it is so unique among among it's so unique
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  Speaker 3: in our world of what you're able to see and
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  Speaker 3: witness here in the Tar Heel State.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that about the accessibility because here in
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  Speaker 1: my own forest, we planted 1,700 trees in 97 and
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful forest. And the reason why I did it
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  Speaker 1: was because of the jet black squirrels. We have them here.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen them anywhere else. And then you guys
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  Speaker 1: have the flying squirrel on this. Oh, my God, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: you took me back home to Montana with that flying squirrel.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. And he hit under my shirt and pulled
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  Speaker 2: on my back.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he did. He was an adorable little flying squirrel.
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  Speaker 4: He tells a powerful story of the challenges of wildlife rehabilitation.
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  Speaker 4: He lives, as with this Mississippi kite, he lives at
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  Speaker 4: the May Wildlife Rehab Center as a way to share
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  Speaker 4: a sobering story of how when animals die, Can't get
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  Speaker 4: back in the wild. They can serve a purpose as ambassadors.
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  Speaker 4: But you talk about restoring that forest. I went to
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  Speaker 4: Grandfather Mountain to do a story with actually the president
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  Speaker 4: of Grandfather Mountain, my friend Jesse Pope. He's actually a
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  Speaker 4: graduate of Lee's McRae College. And you talk about animals
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  Speaker 4: that you don't see anymore. Well, when we were little kids,
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  Speaker 4: we used to literally try to trap lightning in a
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  Speaker 4: bottle with fireflies. But you can't do that anymore because
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  Speaker 4: fireflies have all but disappeared, but not in the mountains
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  Speaker 4: of North Carolina, where we actually watched synchronous.
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  Speaker 2: Fireflies come out.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the other part of the story is people
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  Speaker 4: restore themselves to this experience.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lottery where a precious few.
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  Speaker 4: Four or five thousand people will get a ticket, like
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  Speaker 4: a golden ticket, to go experience that firsthand at Grandfather Mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And animals and stories that have all.
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  Speaker 4: But disappeared are thriving in North Carolina. But that didn't
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  Speaker 4: happen by accident. It's through purposeful conservation and management.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love this, what you guys are doing, because
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  Speaker 1: we could all sit here and say this is my state,
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  Speaker 1: my state, but not North Carolina. This is our state,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to share it with the world, and
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what you're doing with this. I am so
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  Speaker 1: proud of the two of you for putting on display
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  Speaker 1: the art of this. Well, Oprah Winfrey said it. This
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  Speaker 1: is God's planet. This is God's world right here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is. Thank you for helping us tell the
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  Speaker 3: story and encourage others to watch the show, learn about
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina, come and visit, and also learn about Elyse McRae.
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  Speaker 3: We're proud to partner with Jeff in this series, and
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  Speaker 3: the world is going to get to see what a
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  Speaker 3: unique educational institution we are and how our students and
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  Speaker 3: our faculty and staff and alumni are making a difference
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  Speaker 3: right here in North Carolina and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Be brilliant, you two, and please come back to this
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  Speaker 1: show any time.
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  Speaker 2: The future. Thank you. Thank you.