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Christmas Special: Animals who help humans · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: willing crime stories with Nancy Grace. Dogs really are man's
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Speaker 1: best friend. Dogs are our pets and companions, and we
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Speaker 1: love them even though they often seem unable to do
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Speaker 1: anything more than lie around and run after sticks. You
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Speaker 1: can find all kinds of interesting and incredible stories involving
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Speaker 1: dogs saving humans from disastrous situations. We hear about heroes
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Speaker 1: and hero detectives all the time, but our unsung heroes,
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Speaker 1: the ones we never hear about, are our furry friends,
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Speaker 1: the heroes, pet detectives and heroes. And I'm bringing you
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Speaker 1: real live cases today along with an awesome all star
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Speaker 1: lineup of a panel including Jack Hannah. We all know
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Speaker 1: Jack Hannah, the director and merit us, the animal ambassador
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Speaker 1: of the war world famous Columbus Zoo An Aquarium, the
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Speaker 1: host of Jack Hannah's Into the Wild and Wild Countdown.
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Speaker 1: I mean this guy. I will never forget doing an
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Speaker 1: hl In show and a Larry King show which I
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Speaker 1: still have photos of, where Jack would bring on animals
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Speaker 1: from his zoo all the way to New York City,
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Speaker 1: and what a time. We had the best shows ever.
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Speaker 1: And as I've always told Jack Hannah, the best witnesses
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Speaker 1: I've ever put on the stand were dogs. Also with
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Speaker 1: me my longtime friend and colleague Jane Valez Mitchell, reporter
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Speaker 1: and animal lover Dori natal who has an incredible story
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Speaker 1: of how a dog saved her son. And Shanna Niehaus
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Speaker 1: also with us with a dramatic story of a life
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Speaker 1: saving animal hero. Jack Hannah, welcome to crime Stories. Tell
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Speaker 1: me your thoughts on animal heroes. Why do they go unsung? Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, we're all in the media, and
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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times the media likes to
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Speaker 1: talk about negative things of the animals, when you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just news. People love animals since the beginning of time,
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Speaker 1: as I tell people, you know, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: the prehistoric wolf looked like and things like that, but
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Speaker 1: is things developed over the thousands and tens of millions
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Speaker 1: of years whatever, Then those animals became you know, probably
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Speaker 1: the food source from many many people, a k people
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Speaker 1: or whoever was alive. Then then of course those animals
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Speaker 1: became more word I use habituated which means used to people.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Diane fosse Uh a New
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Speaker 1: Virtue as a friend of mine, and I have a
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Speaker 1: home in Rwanda right next to Mountain girlas where soon
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Speaker 1: and I have a home there for two miles of
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Speaker 1: where the girls live. And you look back at history
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Speaker 1: where the grillers were poached. They were hunted for body
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Speaker 1: parts and for food and things like this. So as
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Speaker 1: cultures developed throughout the world, way back from who knows,
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Speaker 1: tens of thousand, millions of years ago, cultures developed. And
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Speaker 1: that's why I tell people I have a saying real
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Speaker 1: quickly such the heart to teach the mind. So when
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Speaker 1: I go into these countries all the world of film
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Speaker 1: and not just a film to talk to them about,
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Speaker 1: you know, taking care of conservation animals like the birds.
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Speaker 1: They might eat too many of them, this and that,
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Speaker 1: and you talk to them about their lives first, the people,
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Speaker 1: then you can help the animals. I've always learned this
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Speaker 1: over the years of forty five years of doing this.
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Speaker 1: I go in to help people first, and then in
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Speaker 1: turns helps the development of the animal world. So that's
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Speaker 1: what I do a great deal of with me is
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Speaker 1: the renown Jack Hannah, the director emeritus of the world
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Speaker 1: famous Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and host of Jack Hanna's
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Speaker 1: Into the Wild and Wild Countdown. Jane Valez Mitchell, I
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Speaker 1: will never forget. Oh man, I miss you so much,
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Speaker 1: Jane Mitchell, I will never forget. I think it was
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Speaker 1: youring Tod Mom, Casey Anthony. We were all down in
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Speaker 1: Orlando and everyone was going to go out to dinner
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Speaker 1: one night and we ended up at what was that place? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: It was a steak house, and I thought that Jane
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Speaker 1: Valez Mitchell was going to jump out of her skin.
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Speaker 1: She By the time it was all over, I was
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Speaker 1: afraid to even have a bowl of spinach. So Jane
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Speaker 1: les Mitchell, why is this so important? Well, if we
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Speaker 1: love animals, don't eat them, don't wear them. My belief
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Speaker 1: system is that they're not commodities, they're not things for
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Speaker 1: us to use. Their individuals who are entitled to their
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Speaker 1: own lives, and that they have so much more in
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Speaker 1: common with us than they have separating us. The animals
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Speaker 1: that have central nervous systems, that have high's hearts, here's
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Speaker 1: anybody else. A dog knows dogs dream, so do pigs.
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Speaker 1: So we have so much in common with these animals,
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Speaker 1: and the truth is what's killing them, and by killing them,
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Speaker 1: we're killing ourselves with heart disease and cancer and many
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Speaker 1: other diseases. So there's a way now to live and honestly,
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Speaker 1: we can't sustain it, Nancy. Animal agriculture is the leading
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Speaker 1: cause of greenhouse gases, more than all transportation combined. It's
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Speaker 1: the leading cause of habitat destruction, and which makes it
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Speaker 1: a leading cause of wildlife extinction. Why because we're seven
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Speaker 1: and a half billion people on this planet, but we
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Speaker 1: kill sixty to seventy billion animals that eat a lot
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Speaker 1: of food, So we have to destroy a lot of
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Speaker 1: forests to create cropland to feed sixty to seventy billion animals.
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Speaker 1: Many for me, a lot more than leader Jane Lais
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Speaker 1: tell me about, Jane Unchan, that's your news. Yes, thank
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Speaker 1: you for asking, Nancy. When I left hl LYNN, they
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Speaker 1: had graciously allowed me to do one animal story a week.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they knew what they were getting into,
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Speaker 1: but I was able to cover many, many stories that
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Speaker 1: normally don't get national coverage. Jane, Can I just tell
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Speaker 1: you something I would pass Jane in the Hall and
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Speaker 1: should say awesome writings. Nance, And I'm like, Jane, you
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Speaker 1: gotta stop with the plastic bags. Okay, we know they're bad.
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Speaker 1: I know they're bad. I don't think they realize that
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Speaker 1: you were getting in a lot more animal stories. And
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Speaker 1: I'm so out of you. Jane unchained dot com. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: thank you. And it's a social it's a digital news
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Speaker 1: network for animal rights. We had almost sixteen million views
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Speaker 1: on Facebook this past year. We just added it up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we're okay. I want you to take a listen,
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Speaker 1: you and Jack Hannah to a very special guest joining
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Speaker 1: me right now, Dori Natal. I am looking at a
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Speaker 1: photo of you, Dori, and the story that you have
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Speaker 1: to tell is incredible. Thank you. Tell me what happened, Dorry.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Crime Stories here on series X thirty two.
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Speaker 1: Tell me what happened. I'm sure Jack Hannah and Jane
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Speaker 1: Vlaz are not going to be surprised, but I bet
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Speaker 1: our listeners are. Go ahead. My son was diagnosed with
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Speaker 1: type one dayabetes when he was two. It's an incurable,
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Speaker 1: non preventable lifetime disease where his blood trigger We have
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Speaker 1: to inject insolin multiple times in the day just to
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Speaker 1: keep them alive. Without that, we pricked a finger every
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Speaker 1: two to three hours. Okay, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: It's just so much, so fast. I always say I'm
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Speaker 1: drinking out of a fire hydrant. I can't take it
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Speaker 1: all in. Your baby, your baby boy. I have a
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Speaker 1: boy and a girl. Jack. Can't you believe it, Jane,
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Speaker 1: I actually have children, my life long dream. And I'm
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Speaker 1: miserable because I could just see him walking out the
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Speaker 1: door to college. And how do they know Mommy's going
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Speaker 1: back to school. So I my daughter just had their twins,
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Speaker 1: so their birthday parties are now they have to be separate. Misery.
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Speaker 1: My daughter had to spend the night party and one
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Speaker 1: of her little friends has diabetes and she has a monitor.
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Speaker 1: It went off all during the night, and I was
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Speaker 1: so afraid I would do something wrong. I kept reading
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Speaker 1: the mom's text message instructions, and oh, I was so worried.
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Speaker 1: As it turned out, it was not, you know, hard
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Speaker 1: to do it all, but it is very you have
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Speaker 1: to do it. You have to stay on top of it.
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Speaker 1: I did it one night. You are telling me you
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Speaker 1: give your son injections throughout today just to keep him alive. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's that's um. The thing that I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't really understand about diabetes is that type
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Speaker 1: one diabetes, especially is a twenty four hour disease. Dori natal.
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Speaker 1: You are telling me you give your son injections throughout
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Speaker 1: today just to keep him alive. Yes, that's that's um.
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Speaker 1: The thing that I think a lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: really understand about diabetes is that type one diabetes especially
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Speaker 1: is a twenty four hour disease. And you I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to be a pancreas for him, and it's a very
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Speaker 1: hard thing to do. And when he was very little,
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Speaker 1: he couldn't tell me how he felt, if he felt off. Um,
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Speaker 1: So we decided to research all the technology, all the technology.
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Speaker 1: We have a monitor, we finger, but then we started
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Speaker 1: we are an animal lover family, and we dectarted waiting
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Speaker 1: a minute. Guys, go online and you got to look
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Speaker 1: at the picture of what she's talking about. There's your
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Speaker 1: beautiful baby boy. He's asleep with a curverse pulled up.
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Speaker 1: There's a diabetes monitor. There's stuff sitting on the like
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Speaker 1: a little pack folded out, a medipat. You see her
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Speaker 1: hand holding. The monitor has fifty seven on it and
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Speaker 1: right beside it. It's a dog that looks a lot
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Speaker 1: like my little fat boy, a little black dog. Looking
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Speaker 1: up at the picture. And this is on Facebook. Now
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Speaker 1: go ahead, I'm looking at the picture right now. Tell
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Speaker 1: me what happened. Well, it was a typical night before bed.
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Speaker 1: We always tested his blood sugar, We calibrate his monitors,
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Speaker 1: and then we go to sleep. I set several alarms
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Speaker 1: overnight and there's many things that can wake me up,
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Speaker 1: either the monitor, my alarm clock, or Jedi. And the
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Speaker 1: amazing thing about Jedi is he's been with us for
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Speaker 1: five years now, ever since my son three. Is he
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Speaker 1: can sense the dog? Right, Yes, Jedi is my son's dog,
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Speaker 1: and my son's name is Luke. Oh my stars, I
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Speaker 1: get it's an English last rights this dog. Okay, yeah, Jane,
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Speaker 1: you have to go online. We've posted this on crime
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Speaker 1: online dot com. You gotta say this dog, Jane, no
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Speaker 1: stealing anymore pants. Okay, back to Jedi, go ahead. Um,
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Speaker 1: So we're Star Wars family. So Luke Gloves named him Jedi,
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Speaker 1: and um, he has, as Luke calls him, magic powers.
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Speaker 1: Jedi knows when he's going to drop or go his
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Speaker 1: butcherer go high about twenty minutes before the meters um
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Speaker 1: and sometimes the meters take a long time to catch up.
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Speaker 1: But Jedi um. They're still researching the actual chemical. But
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Speaker 1: Jedi can smell the changes in Luke's body. And that
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Speaker 1: night he um was laying on my feet. And his
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Speaker 1: alert at night is to jump off the bed, jump
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Speaker 1: back on the bed until I wake up. And so
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Speaker 1: that night I was asleep, everything was fine. I had
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Speaker 1: tested his blood sugar like I do every night, and
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Speaker 1: I had an alarm set for midnight but or midnight
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Speaker 1: and three, but it was between those alarms and jet
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Speaker 1: I jumped up off the on the bed. It took
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Speaker 1: me a minute to wake up, because this is every night.
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Speaker 1: And then he laid on me and I got up,
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Speaker 1: went to the kitchen like I always do, got his
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Speaker 1: kit tested him and he was fifty seven, and which
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Speaker 1: means I immediately had to wake him up and give
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Speaker 1: him have him in Jess. Glucos fifty seven, What does
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Speaker 1: that mean? It means a white a minute, That's what
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Speaker 1: it says right there. Fifty seven. Yeah, the typical. We
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Speaker 1: all need glucose in ourselves to keep our bodies going.
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Speaker 1: It's the fuel for our bodies. And typically most people
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Speaker 1: and I run between seventy and one twenty that's how
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Speaker 1: much glucose they have in the cells. And below seventy
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Speaker 1: it starts to become dangerous. You can have a seizure,
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Speaker 1: you can go into a coma. Luke feels miserable when
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Speaker 1: he's low. It's he says, it feels like a stone
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Speaker 1: sinking into the ocean. It's the body shutting down because
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Speaker 1: it doesn't have enough glucos and almost stars. Wait, wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: let me just take this in a moment with me.
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Speaker 1: Is Dory, who you can see the photo of her
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Speaker 1: little baby, her angel in bed has Type one diabetes.
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Speaker 1: You have it for life, and it can cause a death.
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Speaker 1: Your body starts to shut down. I'm looking at this
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Speaker 1: shot of this beautiful angel and he would not be
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Speaker 1: alive today if it were not for the dog Jedi.
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Speaker 1: And I'm looking at your post and you say I've
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Speaker 1: had already given him a glucose tab. What else could
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Speaker 1: I do? There's nothing, So in that moment, I'm waiting
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Speaker 1: for his blood sugar to come up like I've done
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Speaker 1: a thousand times, and I'll do a thousand times more.
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Speaker 1: And I feel so alone in a world that doesn't
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Speaker 1: understand what someone with type one diabetes goes through on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis. And then that moment I see beside
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Speaker 1: you as this mom is standing there looking down on
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Speaker 1: her son, wondering what's happening, and there is Jedi right
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Speaker 1: beside the bed. Yes, I mean, I am so moved
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Speaker 1: if you could see this photo. So tell me again,
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Speaker 1: what did Jedi do to make you get up? You'd
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Speaker 1: already given him, you'd already taken care of your baby.
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Speaker 1: What made the dog? How did he get you awake
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Speaker 1: to get in there? He doesn't stop, he gets he
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Speaker 1: lays on me, he'll nudge me, he'll palm me, he
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Speaker 1: will do whatever it takes to get my attention. We've
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Speaker 1: been working with him for years and he alerts multiple
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Speaker 1: times a day. So for this particular one, he was
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Speaker 1: not giving up until I woke up. And we're tired,
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Speaker 1: and so sometimes I looked at the meter and the
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Speaker 1: meter said he was okay. So I didn't immediately jump,
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Speaker 1: but when he didn't give up, I got up. And
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Speaker 1: there have been several instances where he's found he's alerted,
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Speaker 1: and Luke's been thirty or forty and I don't under
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Speaker 1: some of those would have been But I know that
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Speaker 1: Luke is healthier and happier, and he's here today because
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Speaker 1: of Jedi helping me do everything that I need to
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Speaker 1: do twenty four hours a day to keep to keep Luke,
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Speaker 1: you know, happy and here, and Jedi is is always
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Speaker 1: there for me. It's an extra companion and extra layer
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Speaker 1: of support to help take care of Luke. And I'm
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Speaker 1: forever indebted to him. To Jack Hannah, director emeritus the
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Speaker 1: world famous Columbus Zoo and host of Jack Hannah's Into
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Speaker 1: the Wild and the Wild Countdown, Jack when a baby
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Speaker 1: boy says, Jedi has superpowers, he has magical powers, how
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Speaker 1: does it happen? How do they do that? How does
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Speaker 1: a pet do that? You know, listening to what you're saying,
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Speaker 1: getting you together, what everyone is saying so far, I
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Speaker 1: real quickly if you got a second Our daughter Julie,
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Speaker 1: who lives with us at forty two years old, at
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Speaker 1: the age of two and a half, one of the
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Speaker 1: worst forms of lukmi you can imagine in the world
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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven, so we rushed her down to
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Speaker 1: Saint Jude Hospital at two year old age. We were
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Speaker 1: noptural at that time, by the way, and they told
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Speaker 1: us she would not live twelve hours, so we got
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Speaker 1: her barely there and not a twelve kids learned flour.
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Speaker 1: Everyone passed away except she and a little boy now
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Speaker 1: Julie back to the animals was used for research. She
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Speaker 1: had radiation to brain along with another little boy. There
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Speaker 1: were only two that survived other twelve kids. Today, of course,
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Speaker 1: that was one building in nineteen seventy seven. Saint Jude
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Speaker 1: has thirty to day. So I'm saying that my daughter Julie,
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Speaker 1: along with the other boy, gave their lives. Julius has
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Speaker 1: had her last brain tumor two years ago. She's forty three,
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Speaker 1: lives with us. We continue to have two we think
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Speaker 1: God so far all of them have been she lives
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Speaker 1: with us. Not that they are cancerous, but she's been
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Speaker 1: just she survived it. What I'm saying to you talking
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Speaker 1: about animal the world, what you all are doing. If
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Speaker 1: you look up, there's a list, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: where it is, of how many diseases would it be measles,
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Speaker 1: chicken pox, go down to about forty of them. You'll
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Speaker 1: see how the animal world literally saved human beings by research.
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not. I'm not for inhumane. I don't
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Speaker 1: like animal research become the slamming dogs and animals and
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Speaker 1: like that against wrenshields to test cars like they used
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Speaker 1: to do. No, I'll fight that against every every day, however,
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Speaker 1: we comes to animal research for humane by the way,
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Speaker 1: I said humane, all right, when my own daughter or
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Speaker 1: the other human beings are being used. The animal world
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Speaker 1: literally has saved many of us. And one of the
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Speaker 1: hardest things for me to do is when I have
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Speaker 1: in the last twenty years, I guess if you call it,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't easy the word celebrity, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I never have. I'm an animal ambassador, and I don't
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Speaker 1: like the word celebrity. But when people come to me
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Speaker 1: and a little child, for example, of last year was
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Speaker 1: nine years old. I think it's from Indiana. Her sister
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Speaker 1: she came. She had maybe her. They told us on
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Speaker 1: the phone that they called the last wish, especially wh
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Speaker 1: the last wishes. Or you go in my office, you'll
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Speaker 1: see the pictures of these young people who didn't make in.
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Speaker 1: Their last wish was to see an animal. And you
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Speaker 1: won't believe this. They came there last year. You could
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Speaker 1: see that she was had because I've been through all
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Speaker 1: this stuff which she has no hair, and all the
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Speaker 1: treatments with drugs and every everything, and she hadn't smiled.
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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, I put a little penguin
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Speaker 1: right there in her lap, and sure enough she smiled
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Speaker 1: one of the first times. It's amazing what animals will do.
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Speaker 1: Then I asked the father, I really wipe her hands off.
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Speaker 1: I have a little sloth I want her to touch.
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Speaker 1: And it was born there Darzo and Plumbus, and he said, no, Jack,
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Speaker 1: her hands to be washed very shortly, and he pointed
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Speaker 1: to heaven. You don't think that myself and father us
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Speaker 1: there didn't lose it, you know. And what you're talking
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Speaker 1: about the same kind of thing. Animals, for some reason
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Speaker 1: they have they have a way with him. When I've
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Speaker 1: seen these children there, pictures on my walls, and Linda
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Speaker 1: did not make it, but they had their last thing.
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Speaker 1: And I go to the should's hospitals, even with some
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Speaker 1: of the animals. You see these children and how they
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Speaker 1: just come out of that pain. And I wish I
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Speaker 1: could explain it, you know, Like I said, I have
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Speaker 1: a saying I live by it. You have touched the
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Speaker 1: heart to teach the mind, and these kids are really
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Speaker 1: touching my heart more than I am theirs, And I
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. Speaking of the superpowers of animals, dogs
21:55
Speaker 1: have this unbelievable cats too, sense of smell. Humans have
21:59
Speaker 1: about five million scent receptors. Dogs have up to three million,
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Speaker 1: depending on the breed, and it's been proven that they
22:10
Speaker 1: can sniff out chemical change and detect all types of
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Speaker 1: illnesses in humans, including epileptic seizures, certain types of cancer,
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Speaker 1: diabetes changes, and a theory is at our present day
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Speaker 1: dog ancestors gray wolf pack survival dependent on the ability
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Speaker 1: to know which member of the pack was sick. Jane Vlez,
22:38
Speaker 1: you have reported on so many pet heroes way in Yes, Well,
22:44
Speaker 1: first of all, you should pay attention to your dog
22:46
Speaker 1: in your home. There is a great story out of
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Speaker 1: North Carolina about a dog, a Labrador, who would get
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Speaker 1: very agitated when the family's babysitter was around and would
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Speaker 1: try to place himself between the seven months old boy
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Speaker 1: and the babysitter and growl, and the parents noted the
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Speaker 1: dog's haired stand up. So they saw this happening so
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Speaker 1: often they decided to put a recording device in the
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Speaker 1: home when they left, and they found out that this
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Speaker 1: babysitter was abusing their child, slapping the child and insulting
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Speaker 1: the child. And because they were alerted by the dog,
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Speaker 1: they ultimately had this woman arrested. So when you're a parent,
23:25
Speaker 1: or you're just a person, pay attention to your dogs.
23:29
Speaker 1: If you want to know what it's like to be
23:30
Speaker 1: an animal, take a vow of silence for a couple
23:32
Speaker 1: of hours and see what mechanisms you're going to use
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Speaker 1: to communicate. You're going to find yourself tapping and doing
23:40
Speaker 1: a lot of the same maneuvers that dogs can because
23:42
Speaker 1: they can't speak English, but they can communicate. And you
23:47
Speaker 1: know what I say is it's not just dogs. We
23:49
Speaker 1: have this odd thing in our culture where some animals, Oh,
23:53
Speaker 1: we love them, we adore them, we deify them. Others
23:56
Speaker 1: they're not entitled to any respect and we consider them commodities.
24:01
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you that there's tremendous, tremendous intelligence
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Speaker 1: in pigs. In fact, Lulu, a housebroken pot belly pig,
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Speaker 1: saved her human companions of life. The woman was on
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Speaker 1: vacation Joanne in Pennsylvania. She collapsed in a heart attack.
24:19
Speaker 1: The pot bellied pig ran out of the mobile home
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Speaker 1: where they were staying, crashed through the gates. When a
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Speaker 1: car was coming, the pig would lie down on the road.
24:27
Speaker 1: Several cars just veered around the dog. Lulu kept running
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Speaker 1: back and checking on her human companion. Finally she ran
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Speaker 1: out threw herself on the ground again. A motorcycle stopped
24:36
Speaker 1: followed Lulu back to the mobile home, and that's where
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Speaker 1: he encountered Lulu's mom lying there having had a heart attack,
24:45
Speaker 1: and they called nine one one. So pigs are extremely
24:48
Speaker 1: intelligent animals. They are smarter than dogs, and they have
24:52
Speaker 1: the intelligence of very young human children. So as we
24:56
Speaker 1: expand our circle of compassion beyond the boundaries of our species,
25:01
Speaker 1: let's not just stop at dogs and cats. Let's consider
25:04
Speaker 1: all animals, because guess what, we're all animals, including us.
25:08
Speaker 1: You know, Jane VLEs Mitchell, have I told you today?
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Speaker 1: I just love you. I loved you from the very
25:15
Speaker 1: first moment that you filled in for me as a
25:19
Speaker 1: guest host on CNN Zheln And that was just it.
25:25
Speaker 1: And to hear you speak and tell your stories. I
25:30
Speaker 1: just want the world to love you as much as
25:32
Speaker 1: I love you. I just can't imagine that I've got
25:35
Speaker 1: Jack Hannah and Jane Vills Mitchell on at the same time.
25:40
Speaker 1: You know, I've got another lady with me, and I
25:42
Speaker 1: want you guys to hear her incredible story. And again
25:46
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a picture of her, and I've just
25:50
Speaker 1: got to tell you it just really makes me cry.
25:54
Speaker 1: It's a this lovely blond lady and she's wearing tights
25:59
Speaker 1: black tight in a blue tshirt, and she's looking down
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Speaker 1: at a little boy. He looks like he's reading a
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Speaker 1: iPad and he's got his head resting on a big
26:08
Speaker 1: dog like he's a pillow with me right now. And
26:12
Speaker 1: let me just go ahead and destroy your name. I
26:15
Speaker 1: think I'm saying correctly, shawna knee House. No, yes, oh
26:20
Speaker 1: my goodness, Alan, let me just rub it in that
26:23
Speaker 1: I pronounced it right the first time. I'm like some
26:26
Speaker 1: people you that I won't mention Shanna. I'm looking at
26:30
Speaker 1: this little boy and I'm guessing this is your little boy.
26:34
Speaker 1: You're five year old? Yes, what happened? So the day
26:38
Speaker 1: this picture was taken? Was the day that we met Tornado,
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Speaker 1: my son's service dog. That was the first day of
26:44
Speaker 1: our training class. You know, we live in Japan right
26:49
Speaker 1: now where Americans, but we live in Japan, and we
26:53
Speaker 1: had been fundraising for quite a long time to cover
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Speaker 1: the costs of training for Tornado and then also for
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Speaker 1: our family, our family of five traveling from Japan to
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Speaker 1: Ohio to the organization that trained Tornado for Kai. And
27:11
Speaker 1: there there's there's some why does Kai need a service dog? So?
27:18
Speaker 1: Kai is autistic. UM. We when he when he was younger,
27:24
Speaker 1: we noticed that there are some elements to uh, having
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Speaker 1: an autistic child that can be really challenging. And as
27:35
Speaker 1: a parent, it's your responsibility to um, you know, help
27:40
Speaker 1: them live their most fulfilling life, give them the most
27:43
Speaker 1: access to the world, support them and love them in
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Speaker 1: the best ways that you can. And Kai is a
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Speaker 1: dog person. I'm a dog person, UM. And he's always
27:56
Speaker 1: where he would find troubles socially with people or find
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Speaker 1: challenges with people, those those social interactions didn't come really
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Speaker 1: naturally to him. But he did always gravitate to dogs.
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Speaker 1: So my husband and I debated getting him a pet dog,
28:13
Speaker 1: but we thought, well, if we're going to get him
28:15
Speaker 1: a dog. Let's let's get him, you know, something, something
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Speaker 1: proper that can be with him. If this is who
28:21
Speaker 1: he might make a connection to, let's go for it.
28:23
Speaker 1: So we we decided to fundraise and have a Tornado
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Speaker 1: raised for Kaium. So this the day of the pictures
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Speaker 1: that you see is the first day that they met.
28:38
Speaker 1: Towards the end of the day, after we had traveled
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Speaker 1: across the entire globe through the Continental US to get
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Speaker 1: over to Ohio, we met Tornado for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Kai was really overwhelmed. He I think we were all overwhelmed,
28:54
Speaker 1: along with other families who were other recipient families who
28:58
Speaker 1: had received their dogs that day and Kai my husband
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Speaker 1: had to take Kai back to where we were staying
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Speaker 1: and give him a break and kind of bring him,
29:06
Speaker 1: you know, in and out, you know, as he could
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Speaker 1: manage himself. And then this was sort of at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, shortly before we were leaving, and
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere, Kai came out of the children's playroom,
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Speaker 1: grabbed his iPad and then just came in late on
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Speaker 1: Tornado and sorry, I'm getting emotional. So that moment where
29:30
Speaker 1: you see me kind of crying is actually was really
29:33
Speaker 1: like like an ugly cry. Was sort of the moment
29:39
Speaker 1: that two years of hope went into that moment. You know,
29:45
Speaker 1: we we signed on to fundraise, we signed on to travel,
29:51
Speaker 1: we signed on for all of this hope that Kai
29:55
Speaker 1: might connect with his service dog, and that his service dog,
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Speaker 1: Tornado would help be that bridge from Kai to bring
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Speaker 1: those connections to the rest of the world, to help
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Speaker 1: give him access to the rest of the world, to
30:10
Speaker 1: help give my husband and I piece of mind when
30:14
Speaker 1: when you know, we live in Tokyo and it's exceptionally
30:17
Speaker 1: busy here, and the people, the crowds are out of
30:20
Speaker 1: this world, and that's overwhelming for anybody, let alone you know,
30:26
Speaker 1: a child with sensory processing difference, he's already an American
30:29
Speaker 1: kid in Tokyo and he is autistic. To add onto it.
30:35
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this photo and you say it was
30:40
Speaker 1: worth every fight, every diagnosis, every dollar, every paper filled out,
30:46
Speaker 1: every school meeting, every tier. I should every step forward,
30:50
Speaker 1: every step back to see what you're seeing right then,
30:55
Speaker 1: and it's you say, the face of a mother who
30:58
Speaker 1: sees her child who she cannot hug whilst dressed, snuggling
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Speaker 1: touch freely because of his autism, now laying on his
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Speaker 1: service dog of your child's own free will. Listen to
31:13
Speaker 1: this story, guys. This woman, Dane Boucher, was woken up
31:19
Speaker 1: from a deep sleep at four thirty in the morning
31:22
Speaker 1: by Oreo, her cat. The cat wouldn't stop screaming, would
31:27
Speaker 1: not stop screaming. She ran out to check on the cat.
31:29
Speaker 1: And you know that sound when you hear your cat
31:31
Speaker 1: or dog make a crazy, high pitched screamy sound. She
31:36
Speaker 1: ran out and what she found were flames. And if
31:41
Speaker 1: it had not been for her cat waking her up,
31:46
Speaker 1: you know she would be dead and her home destroyed.
31:50
Speaker 1: There are stories like David CC, fourteen years old, couldn't swim,
31:56
Speaker 1: fell out of his dad's boat, and within minutes a
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Speaker 1: dolphin called Philippo had come to the tourist attraction and
32:06
Speaker 1: saved the boy's life, pushing him up out of the
32:10
Speaker 1: water to safety. I mean a dog. Brenda Owen gone
32:15
Speaker 1: out for a walk with her dog. She spotted a
32:18
Speaker 1: wheelchair on a river bank, sees a woman in the water.
32:22
Speaker 1: She called out, the woman didn't answer. She said to
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Speaker 1: the dog, fetch The dog jumps straight in that cold
32:28
Speaker 1: river water and pulled the woman to shore. I mean
32:32
Speaker 1: it goes on a two year old child in Texas
32:35
Speaker 1: walking with his grandmother when Arf, the family's dog, got
32:39
Speaker 1: very agitated so badly the dog thought. I mean, the
32:44
Speaker 1: grandmother thought, I better take the child inside. The dog's
32:46
Speaker 1: going crazy. The child's mother came out to find Arf
32:50
Speaker 1: in a fight with a twenty four inch North American
32:54
Speaker 1: coral snake, and Jack hannay, you can tell us about
32:58
Speaker 1: coral snakes. Go ahead, so, yeah, well, is a snake
33:02
Speaker 1: obviously that can be fatal. It's not a matter of
33:04
Speaker 1: a like a rattlesnake. You know, people say about rattlesnakes
33:07
Speaker 1: all the time with a good Lord made a rattlesnake
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Speaker 1: because snake will rattle. See you don't step on it.
33:11
Speaker 1: And people say, oh my god, it's a rattlesnake. Well,
33:13
Speaker 1: being very happy, it's a rattlesnake. Col snake looks like
33:16
Speaker 1: some other kinds of steak, king snake, things like that.
33:19
Speaker 1: But that's a newer toxic and he must thought he
33:21
Speaker 1: mut toxic because you know, as a rattlesnake, those kinds
33:24
Speaker 1: of snakes where it's just a very painful bite and
33:26
Speaker 1: also just rots. But when you come to col snake,
33:29
Speaker 1: which is pretty rare. The animal has to basically chew.
33:32
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the things, and that goes. That's not
33:35
Speaker 1: he it's newer toxic when you means he goes to
33:37
Speaker 1: the brain and you go to sleep basically, and I'm
33:39
Speaker 1: sorry to say, you might just sleep forever forever. So
33:42
Speaker 1: people get mixed up on snakes. I've filmed snakes all
33:45
Speaker 1: over the world. My people always ask me the question,
33:48
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Jack, have you been betten? You know,
33:50
Speaker 1: I don't like that question because there's Jane will agree
33:53
Speaker 1: if I'm betting or something my animal usually usually most
33:56
Speaker 1: of the time, it's my fault. It's not the animal's
33:58
Speaker 1: fault when we fail them out there. For thirty years
34:01
Speaker 1: I made it clear as thirty years ago you respect.
34:03
Speaker 1: It's called respect for your animal. At home, it's respect
34:05
Speaker 1: for the elephants, the lion. Some film crews love to
34:08
Speaker 1: go in there and push it to where the dawn
34:09
Speaker 1: gum thing attacks the jeep and throws it over and
34:12
Speaker 1: some guys getting bitten. You know. The reality TV I'm
34:14
Speaker 1: not a big fan of it because it doesn't teach
34:17
Speaker 1: the young people how to go to Africa. Or India
34:19
Speaker 1: or the North Polet Health Pole. Wherever I go, we
34:22
Speaker 1: we filmed with respect. Okay, maybe you don't get the
34:24
Speaker 1: best film of something attacking and blood flying every which way.
34:28
Speaker 1: That's their home, not my home. And we always feel
34:31
Speaker 1: with respect to these animals, and we've always done it.
34:33
Speaker 1: And the god our crew has been together for twenty
34:35
Speaker 1: three years and we all work as a team as
34:37
Speaker 1: a family, and we look at those wild animals. Your
34:40
Speaker 1: animal at home. You know, you respect your animal home.
34:42
Speaker 1: You don't sit down and take a dog. And my
34:45
Speaker 1: dad taught me that you put food there. And he's saying,
34:47
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you have a two year
34:48
Speaker 1: old or somebody visit you and they go and grab
34:50
Speaker 1: the food out of the dog bowl. Jane will tell
34:53
Speaker 1: you that could be a fatal bite, a fatal bite,
34:55
Speaker 1: that could be a channel bite. So kids have to
34:58
Speaker 1: learn about animals. And I know I'm up and around
35:00
Speaker 1: a lot. My dad used tell me on the farm,
35:02
Speaker 1: I have AT and T or a D T A D.
35:04
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell heck I have my
35:05
Speaker 1: d W. I can't remember it, AD A T and T,
35:08
Speaker 1: I okay, whatever it is. Anyway, I jump around a lot,
35:12
Speaker 1: But I just am trying to explain things about animals.
35:15
Speaker 1: And you know, some dogs are never even met in anybody.
35:17
Speaker 1: But you can't go up to dogs to grab the
35:18
Speaker 1: food of a pot. You know. I learned all these
35:21
Speaker 1: things on the farm and how to respect the animal world,
35:23
Speaker 1: and that's what I try to do when I film
35:25
Speaker 1: and when I talk about the animals, you know, to
35:28
Speaker 1: the club Zoo Logical Park. I think Jane knows ninety
35:30
Speaker 1: eight percent of our animals today, ninety eight percent come
35:33
Speaker 1: from other zoos. I can go collect if I need
35:35
Speaker 1: a sperm or an egg or something like that, because
35:38
Speaker 1: I think we really are the arts of the world.
35:40
Speaker 1: We weren't that. We were not that, by the way,
35:42
Speaker 1: twenty thirty years ago, but today millions tens of millions
35:46
Speaker 1: of dollars are spent on make sure these animals have habitats.
35:50
Speaker 1: There's some of the best in the world. You know,
35:52
Speaker 1: if you can't touch the heart to teach some mind
35:53
Speaker 1: of these people about your dogs or cats or some
35:56
Speaker 1: of these animals, and none of them. When I do
35:58
Speaker 1: my speeches to two hundred thousand people these theaters ask
36:01
Speaker 1: the audience, how many have you ever seen a elephant
36:03
Speaker 1: in Africa. No hands, how many you have ever seen
36:06
Speaker 1: a killer? Well, no hands, how many have you seen?
36:08
Speaker 1: I could go through a list of five thousand animals
36:11
Speaker 1: and usually sometimes I'll say a dolphin. You'll get some
36:13
Speaker 1: hands up. So what I'm trying to say is in
36:15
Speaker 1: the zoological world, in the aquarium world, having these animals
36:18
Speaker 1: now that we know how to breed them and have
36:20
Speaker 1: them and have the proper habitats, and then I'll agree
36:23
Speaker 1: with people way back when they weren't good habitats. But
36:26
Speaker 1: nowaday we do that because we have to let people
36:29
Speaker 1: see for themselves why they wouldn't want to love an
36:31
Speaker 1: animal to save an animal. You can't love something you
36:34
Speaker 1: can't save something in the world that my wife hates
36:37
Speaker 1: this term, but I'll say it real quick. I have
36:39
Speaker 1: kids and grandkids. But I'll tell you one thing is
36:40
Speaker 1: I travel the world. The main thing we have. Everybody,
36:43
Speaker 1: you can do global warming, say everything you want to.
36:45
Speaker 1: It's called over population. I think Jane knows it is
36:48
Speaker 1: probably overpopulation takes animals room. It's that simple and it's
36:53
Speaker 1: not rocket science. Everybody, we can sit here and debate
36:55
Speaker 1: on global warming. Debate all you want to, water and
36:58
Speaker 1: all this stuff. The Good Lord put the earth here.
37:01
Speaker 1: He told us to do with what propetor prey relationship
37:04
Speaker 1: on our earth. Obviously with sony people, it's been screwed up.
37:08
Speaker 1: So that's why we have to sit here and at
37:10
Speaker 1: least teach people something about other animals throughout the world,
37:13
Speaker 1: you know, and that kind of thing, and hopefully people
37:15
Speaker 1: learn from their dogs and cats. Without the animal world,
37:18
Speaker 1: none of us would be here in many different ways.
37:20
Speaker 1: But the animal world taught me a lot. By the way,
37:22
Speaker 1: when I go out there and study the gorillas or
37:24
Speaker 1: watched them for over all these years, and the lions
37:27
Speaker 1: of which are you know, a real social animal, not
37:29
Speaker 1: like the solitary catch most on the spot where you
37:31
Speaker 1: see the snakes, for example. You know, these are all
37:33
Speaker 1: creatures on earth, and if you go out and learn
37:35
Speaker 1: about him and see them, then you respect them. With
37:38
Speaker 1: me today, my awesome friend Jack Hannah, Director Emeritus Animal
37:44
Speaker 1: Ambassador of the world famous Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, host
37:48
Speaker 1: of Jack Hannah's Into the Wild and Wild Countdown. Jane
37:53
Speaker 1: Velez Mitchell, my friend, longtime friend and colleague. You know what,
37:59
Speaker 1: Janu beautiful on the inside and the out. My new
38:03
Speaker 1: friends Dori natal and her dramatic story of how Jedi
38:10
Speaker 1: saved her baby's life, and Shawna Nihaus with a dramatic
38:17
Speaker 1: story of her son, who is autistic and his new
38:23
Speaker 1: life with his service dog. As I sign off, I
38:27
Speaker 1: want to thank you from my heart for being with
38:30
Speaker 1: us today and so many other days and through the years.
38:34
Speaker 1: Your prayers and support have meant so much to me
38:37
Speaker 1: and my family. It is Christmas Day, and as we
38:42
Speaker 1: celebrate the birth of christ, I'm going to thank you
38:44
Speaker 1: for being such a blessing to me. Nancy Gray's crime
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Speaker 1: Story signing off, goodbye friend,