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Nancy Grace honors pet heroes: Animals who save human lives · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Serious x M Triumph
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Speaker 1: Channel one thirty two. Dogs really are a man's best friend.
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Speaker 1: Dogs are our pets and companions, and we love them
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Speaker 1: even though they often seem unable to do anything more
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Speaker 1: than lie around and run after sticks. You can find
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Speaker 1: all kinds of interesting and incredible stories involving dogs saving
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Speaker 1: humans from disastrous situations. We hear about heroes and hero
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Speaker 1: detectives all the time, but our unsung heroes, the ones
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Speaker 1: we never hear about, are our furry friends, the heroes,
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Speaker 1: pet detectives and heroes. And I'm bringing you real live
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Speaker 1: cases today along with an awesome all star lineup of
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Speaker 1: the panel, including Jack Hannah. We all know Jack Hanna,
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Speaker 1: the director and married us the animal ambassador of the
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Speaker 1: world famous Columbus Zoo, an aquarium, the host of Jack
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Speaker 1: Hannah's Into the Wild and Wild Countdown. I mean this guy.
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Speaker 1: I will never forget doing an h l In show
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Speaker 1: and a Larry King show which I still have photos of,
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Speaker 1: where Jack would bring on animals from his zoo all
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Speaker 1: the way to New York City and what a time.
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Speaker 1: We had the best shows ever. And as I've always
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Speaker 1: told Jack Hannah, the best witnesses I've ever put on
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Speaker 1: the stand. We're Dogs. Also with me my longtime friend
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Speaker 1: and colleague Jane Villez Mitchell, reporter and animal lover Dory Natale,
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Speaker 1: who has an incredible story of how a dog saved
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Speaker 1: her son. And Shannon knee House also with us with
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Speaker 1: a dramatic story of a life saving animal hero. Jack Hannah.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to crime Stories. Tell me your thoughts on animal heroes.
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Speaker 1: Why do they go unsung? Well, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're all in the media, and you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of times the the media likes to talk about negative
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Speaker 1: things of the animals, when you know it's just news.
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Speaker 1: People love animals since the beginning of time. Uh As
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Speaker 1: I tell people, you know, I don't know what the
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Speaker 1: prehistoric wolf look like and things like that, but is
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Speaker 1: things developed over the thousands, tens of millions of years whatever.
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Speaker 1: Then those animals became, you know, probably the food source
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Speaker 1: for many many people of cave people whoever was alive.
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Speaker 1: Then then of course those animals became uh more. The
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Speaker 1: word I use habituated, which means used to people. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you look at Diane Fosse, uh a new virtues of
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Speaker 1: a friend of mine, and I have a home in
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Speaker 1: Rwanda right next to Mountain Gulas where soon and I
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Speaker 1: have a home there two miles from the grillers live.
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Speaker 1: And you look back at history where the grillers were poached,
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Speaker 1: they were hunted for body parts and for food and
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Speaker 1: things like this. Um so as as cultures developed throughout
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Speaker 1: the world, way back from who knows, tens of thousand
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Speaker 1: millions of years ago, cultures developed. And that's what I
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Speaker 1: tell people. I have a saying real quickly touched the
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Speaker 1: heart to teach the mind. So when when I go
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Speaker 1: in too these countries all over the world, the 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 other this and that,
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Speaker 1: and you talk to them about their lives. First the
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Speaker 1: people and then you can help the animals. I've always
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Speaker 1: learned this over the years of forty five years of
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Speaker 1: doing this. Did I go in to help people first
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Speaker 1: and then in turns helps the development of the animal world.
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Speaker 1: So that's what I do a great deal of. With
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Speaker 1: me is the renowned Jack Hannah, the director emeritus of
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Speaker 1: the world famous Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, and host of
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Speaker 1: Jack Canna's Into the Wild and Wild Countdown. Jane villa
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Speaker 1: As Mitchell, I will never forget. Oh man, I miss
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Speaker 1: you so much, Jles Mitchell, I will never forget. I
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Speaker 1: think it was youring top mom, Casey Anthony. We were
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Speaker 1: all down in Orlando and everyone was going to go
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Speaker 1: out to dinner one night and we ended up at
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Speaker 1: what was that place? Anyway, It was a steakhouse, and
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Speaker 1: I thought that Jane the Les Mitchell was going to
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Speaker 1: jump out of her skin. She by the time it
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Speaker 1: was all over, I was afraid to even have a
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Speaker 1: bowl of spinach. So, Jane les Mitchell, why is this
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Speaker 1: so important to you? If we love animals, don't eat them,
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Speaker 1: don't wear them. My belief system is that they're not commodities,
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Speaker 1: They're not things for us to use. Their individuals who
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Speaker 1: were entitled to their own lives, and that they have
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Speaker 1: so much more in common with us than they have
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Speaker 1: separating us. The animals that have central nervous systems, that
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Speaker 1: have high hearts. Here's anybody as a dog knows dog's dream,
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Speaker 1: so do pigs. So we have so much in common
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Speaker 1: with these animals, And the truth is what's killing them
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Speaker 1: and by killing them were killing ourselves with heart disease
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Speaker 1: and cancer and many other diseases. So there's a way
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Speaker 1: now to live, and honestly, we can't sustain it, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: Animal agriculture is the leading cause of greenhouse gases, more
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Speaker 1: than all transportation combined. It's the leading cause of habitat destruction,
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Speaker 1: which makes it a leading cause of wildlife extinction. Why
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Speaker 1: because we're seven and a half billion people on this planet,
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Speaker 1: but we kill sixty to seventy billion animals that eat
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Speaker 1: a lot of food, So we have to destroy a
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Speaker 1: lot of forest to create crop land to feed sixty
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Speaker 1: to seventy billion animals. Many for me, a lot more
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Speaker 1: than leaders Janelas tell me about. Jane, Yes, thank you
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Speaker 1: for asking Nancy. When I left HL lynn Um, 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're getting in a lot more animal stories. And I'm
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Speaker 1: so proud of you. Jane unchained dot com. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And it's as social it's a digital news network for
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Speaker 1: animal rights. We had almost sixteen million views on Facebook
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Speaker 1: this past year. We just added it up. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: we're okay. I want you to take a listen you
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Speaker 1: and Jack Hannah to a very special guest joining me
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Speaker 1: right now, Dory Natal. I am looking at a photo
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Speaker 1: of you, Dorry, and the story that you have to
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Speaker 1: tell is incredible. Thank you. Tell me what happened, Dorry.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Crime Stories here on series X two. Tell
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Speaker 1: me what happened. I'm sure Jack Hannah and Jane Blaise
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Speaker 1: are not going to be surprised, but I bet our
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Speaker 1: listeners are. Go ahead. My son was diagnosed with type
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Speaker 1: one dayabetes when he was two. Um it's an incurable,
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Speaker 1: non preventable, lifetime disease UM where his blood trigger. We
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Speaker 1: have to inject into when multiple times in the day
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Speaker 1: just to to keep him alive. UM. Without that, we
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Speaker 1: prick a finger every two to three hours. Okay, wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, Wait a minute, it's just so much, so fast.
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Speaker 1: I always say I'm drinking out of a fire hydra.
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Speaker 1: I can't take it all in. Your baby, your baby boy.
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Speaker 1: I have a boy and a girl. Jack. Can you
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Speaker 1: believe it? Jane, I actually have children, my life long dream.
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Speaker 1: And I'm miserable because I can just see him walking
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Speaker 1: out the door to college. And how do they know
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Speaker 1: Mommy's going back to school. So I my my daughter
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Speaker 1: just had their twins, so their birthday parties are now
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Speaker 1: they have to be separate. Misery. My daughter had to
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Speaker 1: spend the night party and h one of her little
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Speaker 1: friends has diabetes and she has a monitor. It went
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Speaker 1: off all during the night, and I was so afraid
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Speaker 1: I would do something wrong. I kept reading the moms
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Speaker 1: text message instructions and oh, I was so worried. Um,
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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, and
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Speaker 1: you I am trying to be a pancreas for him,
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Speaker 1: and it's a very hard thing to do. And when
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Speaker 1: he was very little, he couldn't tell me how he felt,
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Speaker 1: if he felt off. Um, So we decided to research
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Speaker 1: all the technology, all the technology. We have a monitor,
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Speaker 1: we finger prick. But then we started we are an
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Speaker 1: animal lover family, and we started taking a minute. Guys,
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Speaker 1: go online and you gotta look at the picture of
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Speaker 1: what she's talking about. There's her beautiful baby boy. He's
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Speaker 1: asleep with a covers pulled up. There's a diabetes monitor.
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Speaker 1: There's stuff sitting on the like a little pack folded out,
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Speaker 1: a medipack. You see her hand holding. The monitor has
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Speaker 1: fifty seven on it, and right beside it, it's a
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Speaker 1: dog that looks a lot like my little fat boy,
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Speaker 1: a little black dog looking up at the picture. And
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Speaker 1: this is on Facebook. Now go ahead, we I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at the picture right now. Tell me what happened. Well,
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Speaker 1: it was a typical night before bed. We always tested
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Speaker 1: his blood sugar, We calibrate his monitors, and then we
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Speaker 1: go to sleep. I set several alarms overnight, and there's
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Speaker 1: many things that can wake me up, either my the monitor,
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Speaker 1: my alarm clock, or Jedi. And the amazing thing about
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Speaker 1: Jedi is he's been with us for five years now,
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Speaker 1: ever since my son was three. Is he can sense right,
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Speaker 1: Jedi is my son's dog, and my son's name is Luke.
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Speaker 1: Oh my stars, I get it an English life this dog. Okay, Jane,
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Speaker 1: you have to go online. We're we're we've posted this
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Speaker 1: on crime online dot com. You gotta say this dog, Jane,
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Speaker 1: no stealing anymore pants. Okay, back to Jedi, go ahead. Um.
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Speaker 1: So we're Star Wars family. So Luke loves named him Jedi,
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Speaker 1: and um he has is. 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: blower to go high about twenty minutes before the meters
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Speaker 1: um and sometimes the meters take a long time to
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Speaker 1: catch up. But Jedi um they're still researching the actual chemical.
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Speaker 1: But Jedi can smell the changes in Luke's body. And
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Speaker 1: that night he um was laying on my feet and
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Speaker 1: his alert at night is to jump off the bed,
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Speaker 1: jumped back on the bed until I wake up. And
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Speaker 1: so that night I was asleep. Everything was fine. I
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Speaker 1: had tested his blood sugar like I do every night,
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Speaker 1: and I had an alarm set for midnight, but or
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Speaker 1: midnight and three, but it was between those alarms, and
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Speaker 1: yet I jumped up off the on the bed. It
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Speaker 1: took me a minute to wake up, because this is
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Speaker 1: every night. And then he laid on me, and I
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Speaker 1: got up, went to the kitchen like I always do,
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Speaker 1: got his kit tested him and he was fifty seven
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Speaker 1: and UM, which means I immediately had to wake him
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Speaker 1: up and give him have him in Jess. Glucos What
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Speaker 1: does that mean? It means, That's what it says right there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the typical we all need glucose in ourselves to keep
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Speaker 1: our bodies going. It's the fuel for our bodies. And
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Speaker 1: typically most people run between seventy and one twenty that's
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Speaker 1: how much glucose they have in the cells. And below
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Speaker 1: seventy it starts to become dangerous. Um, you can have
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Speaker 1: a seizure, you can go into a coma. UM. Luke
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Speaker 1: feels miserable when he's low. It's he says, it feels
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Speaker 1: like a stone sinking into the ocean. Um, it's the
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Speaker 1: body shutting down because it doesn't have enough glucos and 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 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 that
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Speaker 1: already given him a glucose tab. What else could I do?
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Speaker 1: There's nothing, So in that moment, I'm waiting for his
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Speaker 1: leves sugar to come up, like I've done a thousand times,
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Speaker 1: and I'll do a thousand times more. And I feel
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Speaker 1: so alone in a world that doesn't understand what someone
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Speaker 1: with type one diabetes goes through on a daily basis.
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Speaker 1: And then that moment I see beside you as this
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Speaker 1: mom is standing there looking down on her son, wondering
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Speaker 1: what's happening, and there is Jedi right beside the bed. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I am so moved. If you could see
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Speaker 1: this photo, So tell me again, what did Jedi do
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Speaker 1: to make you get up? You'd already given him is
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Speaker 1: you'd already taken care of your baby. What made the dog?
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Speaker 1: How did he get you awake to get in there? Um?
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Speaker 1: He doesn't stop. He gets, he lays on me, he'll
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Speaker 1: nudge me, he'll palm me. Um, he will do whatever
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Speaker 1: it takes to get my attention. We've been working with
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Speaker 1: him for years and he alerts multiple times a day.
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Speaker 1: So for this particular one, he was not giving up
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Speaker 1: until I woke up. And you know, we're tired, and
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Speaker 1: so sometimes I looked at the meter and I 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 Um.
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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 some
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Speaker 1: of those would have been. Um, 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 Um, Jedi is is
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Speaker 1: always there for me. Um. It's an extra companion and
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Speaker 1: extra layer of support to help take care of Luke.
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Speaker 1: And I'm forever indebted to him. To Jack Hannah, director
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Speaker 1: emeritus of the world famous Columbus Zoo and host of
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Speaker 1: Jack Hannah's To the Wild and the Wild Countdown. Jack
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Speaker 1: when a baby boy says, Jedi has superpowers, he has
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Speaker 1: magical powers? How how does it happen? How do they
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Speaker 1: do that? How does a pet do that? You know?
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Speaker 1: And listening to what you're saying, getting you together what
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Speaker 1: everyone is saying so far real quickly to be got
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Speaker 1: a second our daughter, Julie, who lives with us. It's
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Speaker 1: forty two years old. At the age of two and
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Speaker 1: a half, when the worst forms of the team you
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Speaker 1: can imagine in the world in nineteen seventy seven. So
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Speaker 1: he rushed her uh down to St. Jude Hospital, that
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Speaker 1: two year old age. We're noxural at that time, by
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Speaker 1: the way, and they told her she would not live
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Speaker 1: twelve hours. So we got her barely there and not
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Speaker 1: a twelve kids are floor. Everyone passed away except she
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Speaker 1: and a little boy. Now Julie back to the animals
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Speaker 1: was used for research. She had radiation to brain along
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Speaker 1: with another boy. There's only two that survived on the
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Speaker 1: twelve kids today. Of course, that was one building in
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Speaker 1: seven Jude has thirty to day. So I'm saying that
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Speaker 1: my daughter Julie allowed with the other boy, gave their lives.
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Speaker 1: Julius has had her last brain tumor two years ago.
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Speaker 1: She's forty three, lives with us. We continue to have tumors,
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Speaker 1: but thank god, so far all of them have been
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Speaker 1: she lives with us. Not that uh there cancerous, but
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Speaker 1: she's been just she survived. What I'm saying to you
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Speaker 1: talking about animal world, what you are doing. If you
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Speaker 1: look up, there's a list and I don't know where
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Speaker 1: it is, of how many diseases would it be measles,
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Speaker 1: chicken pox, go down, tore 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 rainshields to test test cars like they
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Speaker 1: used to do. You. No, I'll fight that against every
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Speaker 1: every day. However, when it comes to animal research for
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Speaker 1: humane by the way, I said humane, all right, when
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Speaker 1: my own daughter or the other human beings are being used,
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Speaker 1: the animal world literally has saved many of us and
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Speaker 1: one of the hardest things for me to do. It's
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Speaker 1: what I have in the last twenty years. I guess
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Speaker 1: if you call it, I'm not. I don't easy word celebrity.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I never have. I'm an animal ambassador
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Speaker 1: and I don't like the word celebrity. But when will
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Speaker 1: come to me and a little child, for example of
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Speaker 1: last year was nine years old, I think it from Indianna,
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Speaker 1: her sister. She came. She had maybe her. They told
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Speaker 1: us on the phone that they called the last wish,
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Speaker 1: especially wish the last wishes. Or you go in my office,
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Speaker 1: you'll see the pictures of these young people who didn't
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Speaker 1: make it. Their last wish was to see an animal.
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Speaker 1: And you won't believe this. They came there. Um last year.
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Speaker 1: You could see that she was had because I'm been
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Speaker 1: through all this stuff which she has no hair, and
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Speaker 1: all the treatments with drugs and everything everything, and she
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Speaker 1: hadn't smiled. All of a sudden, I put a little
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Speaker 1: penguin right there in her lap, and sure enough she
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Speaker 1: smiled for one of the first times. It's amazing what
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Speaker 1: animals will do. Then I asked the father, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you wipe her hands off? Have a little slot I
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Speaker 1: wanted to touch, and it was born there Darzi and Plumbus,
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Speaker 1: and he said, no, Jack, her hands to be washed
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Speaker 1: very shortly, and he pointed to heaven. You don't think
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Speaker 1: that myself and father us there didn't lose it, you know.
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Speaker 1: And what you're talking about the same kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: Animals for some reason they have they have a way
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Speaker 1: with him. When I've seen these children their pictures on
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Speaker 1: my walls and went to not make it um, but
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Speaker 1: they had their last thing. And I go to the
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Speaker 1: show's hospitals, even with some of the animals. You see
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Speaker 1: these children and how they just come out of that pain.
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Speaker 1: And I wish I could explain, you know, Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I have a saying I live by it. You have
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Speaker 1: touched the heart to teach the mind, and these kids
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Speaker 1: are really touching my heart more than I am theirs,
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Speaker 1: and I just you know, I don't That's what I
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Speaker 1: can answer you a question again if you want me to.
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Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you what I have to look at.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to do it at all. But it's
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Speaker 1: something that really shows me in life what the animal
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Speaker 1: world means to to all of us. You know, there
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Speaker 1: were no words more beautiful the way you said, Jack, Hannah.
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Speaker 1: And I know you don't want to be thought of
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Speaker 1: as celebrity. And that's the truth about Jack. He's a
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Speaker 1: world famous celebrity. Everybody knows Jack Hanna. In fact, I
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Speaker 1: may be guilty of putting you in my last book
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Speaker 1: where there was an animal related murder, but you weren't
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Speaker 1: connected to that. Jack. You know what I'm saying is
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Speaker 1: everybody knows you what everybody loves you for what you're
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Speaker 1: doing for animals and hold, I've got to thank my partner.
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Speaker 1: I have to, I want to. And one of our
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Speaker 1: partners that I just love is super Beats. My son
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Speaker 1: first heard I was involved with super Beats. He meant, Mom,
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Speaker 1: those are too costy. Their four dollars. He thought I
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Speaker 1: was talking about this really expensive set of earphones. He's
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Speaker 1: all about earphones, super Beats b E A T S.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, my love, no super beats b E
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Speaker 1: E T s. You know, speaking of the twins, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: it be great to have all the energy you wanted
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Speaker 1: all day long, so I could, you know, run with
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Speaker 1: them all day. But fatigue gets in the way even
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Speaker 1: for everyday activities. I mean, if you're up at five
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Speaker 1: sick uh Jablin, as you have reported on so many
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22:09
Speaker 1: a great story out of North Carolina about a dog,
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Speaker 1: a Labrador, who would get very agitated when the families
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Speaker 1: babysitter was around and would try to place himself between
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Speaker 1: the seven months old boy and the babysitter and growl
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Speaker 1: slapping the child and insulting the child. And because be
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Speaker 1: to know what it's like to be an animal, take
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22:59
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Speaker 1: the same maneuvers that dogs can because they can't speak English,
23:05
Speaker 1: but they can communicate. And um, you know what I
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Speaker 1: thing in our culture where some animals, Oh, we love them,
23:16
Speaker 1: we adore them, we deify them. Others they're not entitled
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Speaker 1: to any respect and we consider them commodities. Let me
23:24
Speaker 1: just tell you that there's um tremendous, tremendous intelligence and pigs.
23:28
Speaker 1: In fact, Lulu, a housebroken pot belly pig, saved her
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Speaker 1: human companions of life. Um. The woman was on vacation
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Speaker 1: Joanne in Pennsylvania. She collapsed in a heart attack. The
23:41
Speaker 1: pot bellied pig ran out of the mobile home where
23:44
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Speaker 1: was coming, the pig would lie down on the road.
23:49
Speaker 1: Several cars just veered around the dog. Lulu kept running
23:52
Speaker 1: back and checking on her human companion. Finally she ran
23:55
Speaker 1: out threw herself on the ground again. A motorcycle stopped
23:58
Speaker 1: followed Lulu back to the mobile home, and that's where
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Speaker 1: he encountered Uh Lulu's mom Uh lying there having had
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Speaker 1: a heart attack, and they called mine one one. So
24:09
Speaker 1: pigs are extremely intelligent animals. They are smarter than dogs,
24:13
Speaker 1: and they have the intelligence of very young human children.
24:16
Speaker 1: So as we expand our circle of compassion beyond the
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Speaker 1: boundaries of our own species, let's not just stop it
24:24
Speaker 1: dogs and cats. Let's consider all animals, because guess what,
24:28
Speaker 1: we're all animals, including us. You know, Jane Villis Mitchell,
24:33
Speaker 1: have I told you today? I just love you. I
24:35
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24:43
Speaker 1: in and that was just it. And to hear you
24:48
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24:52
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24:55
Speaker 1: just can't imagine that I've got Jack Hannah and Jane
24:58
Speaker 1: Villis Mitchell on at the same time. You know, I've
25:02
Speaker 1: got another lady with me, and I want you guys
25:05
Speaker 1: to hear her incredible story. And again I'm looking at
25:09
Speaker 1: a picture of her, and I've just got to tell
25:13
Speaker 1: you it just really makes me cry. It's a this
25:17
Speaker 1: lovely blond lady and she's wearing tights, black tights and
25:22
Speaker 1: a blue tshirt, and she's looking down at a little boy.
25:25
Speaker 1: He looks like he's reading a iPad and he's got
25:29
Speaker 1: his head resting on a big dog like he's a
25:32
Speaker 1: pillow with me right now, And let me just go
25:35
Speaker 1: ahead and destroy your name. I think I'm saying correctly,
25:39
Speaker 1: Shawna House. No, my goodness, Alan, let me just rub
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Speaker 1: it in that I pronounced it right the first time.
25:47
Speaker 1: I'm like some people you that I won't mention Shawna.
25:51
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this little boy and I'm guessing this
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Speaker 1: is your little boy. You're five year old? Yes, what happened?
25:59
Speaker 1: So the day this picture was taken was the day
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Speaker 1: that we met Tornado, my son's service dog. That was
26:06
Speaker 1: the first day of our training class. UM. You know,
26:10
Speaker 1: we live in Japan right now. UM we're Americans, but
26:13
Speaker 1: we live in Japan. And we had been fundraising for
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Speaker 1: UM quite a long time to cover the costs of
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Speaker 1: training for a Tornado and then also for our family,
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Speaker 1: our family of five traveling from Japan to Ohio to
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Speaker 1: the organization that trained Tornado for Kai. And there there's
26:35
Speaker 1: there's some why does Kai need a service dog? So?
26:40
Speaker 1: Kai is autistic. UM. We when he when he was younger,
26:46
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Speaker 1: an autistic child that can be really challenging. UH. And
26:56
Speaker 1: as a parent, it's your responsibility to UM, you know,
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Speaker 1: help them live their most fulfilling life, give them the
27:05
Speaker 1: most access to the world, support them and love them
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Speaker 1: in the best ways that you can. And Kai is
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Speaker 1: a dog person. I'm a dog person, UM. And he's
27:16
Speaker 1: always where where he would find troubles socially with people
27:22
Speaker 1: or find challenges with people. UH, those those social interactions
27:27
Speaker 1: didn't come really naturally to him, but he did always
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Speaker 1: gravitate to dogs. So my husband and I debated getting
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Speaker 1: him a pet dog, but we thought, well, if we're
27:36
Speaker 1: going to get him a dog, let's let's get him,
27:38
Speaker 1: you know, something, something proper that can be with him.
27:42
Speaker 1: If this is who he might make a connection to,
27:44
Speaker 1: let's go for it. So we we we decided to
27:48
Speaker 1: um fundraise and have uh Tornado raised for Kai um.
27:55
Speaker 1: So this the day of the picture that you see
27:58
Speaker 1: is the first day that they met. Towards the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, after we had traveled across the entire
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Speaker 1: globe through the continental US to get over to Ohio,
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Speaker 1: we met Tornado for the first time. Kai was really overwhelmed.
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Speaker 1: He I think we were all overwhelmed, along with other
28:17
Speaker 1: families who were other recipient families who had received their
28:20
Speaker 1: dogs that day and Kai. My husband had to take
28:24
Speaker 1: Kai back to where we were staying and give him
28:26
Speaker 1: a break and kind of bring him, you know, in
28:29
Speaker 1: and out, you know, as he could um manage himself.
28:33
Speaker 1: And then this was sort of at the end of
28:35
Speaker 1: the day, shortly before we were leaving, and out of nowhere,
28:38
Speaker 1: Kai came out of the children's playroom, grabbed his iPad
28:42
Speaker 1: and then just came in late on Tornado and sorry,
28:47
Speaker 1: I'm getting emotional. So it that moment where you see
28:52
Speaker 1: me kind of crying is actually was really like like
28:55
Speaker 1: an ugly cry. Um was sort of the moment that
29:03
Speaker 1: two years of hope went into that moment. You know,
29:07
Speaker 1: we we signed on to fundraise, we signed on to
29:12
Speaker 1: to travel, we signed on for all of this hope
29:15
Speaker 1: that Kai might connect with his service dog, and that
29:21
Speaker 1: his service dog, Tornado would help be that bridge from
29:26
Speaker 1: Kai to bring those connections to the rest of the world,
29:29
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29:31
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29:35
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29:38
Speaker 1: it's exceptionally busy here, and the people, the crowds are
29:42
Speaker 1: are out of this world, and that's overwhelming for anybody,
29:46
Speaker 1: let alone you know, a child with sensory processing difference,
29:50
Speaker 1: he's already an American kid in Tokyo and he is autistic.
29:56
Speaker 1: To add onto it, I'm looking at this photo and
30:00
Speaker 1: you say, it was worth every fight, every diagnosis, every dollar,
30:06
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30:11
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30:15
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30:19
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30:22
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30:28
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Speaker 1: house Jack, what is it about the presence of animals?
33:31
Speaker 1: I mean not, you know, hold on, Jack, Jane Bells Mitchell,
33:34
Speaker 1: You'll be happy now. I've got six pets in the
33:36
Speaker 1: house right now, um our rescue as I say, pound puppy,
33:42
Speaker 1: but I don't think we're supposed to say that anymore.
33:44
Speaker 1: A squ dog that they told me was the pure
33:46
Speaker 1: bred docks and well that is so not true. But
33:49
Speaker 1: whatever is, we love him. He's insane, fat boy Sinnamon
33:53
Speaker 1: girl who is the cat. My nephew and his wife
33:56
Speaker 1: and baby are living with us right now. They have
33:59
Speaker 1: press Shis and Beni and then my daughter got obsessed
34:04
Speaker 1: with guinea pigs. Now we have Abby and Chloe who
34:06
Speaker 1: chase each other all night long, and weak and popcorn
34:11
Speaker 1: and the whole works. So and she wants another one.
34:14
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you that, Jack Kenna, what
34:16
Speaker 1: is this calming, this calming influence that pets have. Even
34:23
Speaker 1: at night, after we have supper and we finished our
34:26
Speaker 1: homework and we're sitting around watching something on Disney, they
34:30
Speaker 1: want to bring the dog in to sit with them.
34:33
Speaker 1: What is that? I just think the dogs are right
34:37
Speaker 1: enough to know about what the what, what the temperament is,
34:40
Speaker 1: what what's going on in nighttime? These animals sit and
34:43
Speaker 1: watch and learn things. But one thing I want to
34:45
Speaker 1: mention real quickly. I was anteing what Jane was saying,
34:47
Speaker 1: and the three things I talked to people I learned
34:50
Speaker 1: from my dad on the farm when I was five
34:52
Speaker 1: years old. I want to get a little pair of
34:53
Speaker 1: keet and my dad said, Jack, let me, I know
34:56
Speaker 1: you love this little pair of keep you saw in
34:58
Speaker 1: the store window. Yeah. Do Dad remember something, Son. It's
35:01
Speaker 1: a word called responsibility. Just like on this farm here,
35:04
Speaker 1: you're responsible for the life of that animal. That means
35:06
Speaker 1: you will take care of it every single day. You'll
35:08
Speaker 1: make sure it's had a great life. You're not gonna
35:11
Speaker 1: have some a little small cage and you're gonna take
35:13
Speaker 1: care of that animal. Jack but you know something, after
35:15
Speaker 1: the love loves something like you do, you have a responsibility.
35:18
Speaker 1: When you have a pet, you have the love for it,
35:20
Speaker 1: you have responsibility for it. And you know something I
35:22
Speaker 1: figured out about years ago. Gets what else it teaches?
35:25
Speaker 1: And they may think of me more, but here it
35:27
Speaker 1: teaches death. For example, when little pet died five years later,
35:31
Speaker 1: Brety middle cheerials box the top of our hill. They're
35:34
Speaker 1: on the farm. Now, that was my first one. Then
35:37
Speaker 1: next time we had the terrible thing and a little
35:39
Speaker 1: two little goats, and my dad felt terrible when I'm
35:41
Speaker 1: hit underneath the car and lost his life. Now after
35:44
Speaker 1: those two things, my grandfather died two years later. Now,
35:47
Speaker 1: what I'm saying everybody is for me to go through
35:50
Speaker 1: death of a grandparents or our parents are both gone.
35:53
Speaker 1: You see how when you get older what happens. And
35:55
Speaker 1: then you may think I'm crazy when I'll use that
35:57
Speaker 1: word death, I don't. I won't use it in front
35:59
Speaker 1: of children. What it teaches all of us at least
36:01
Speaker 1: taught me, and I know it teaches others that when
36:04
Speaker 1: you're an animal like that, whether you're dog, a bird,
36:06
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Uh, it teaches those things you
36:09
Speaker 1: have to love that animal, your responsibility for that animal,
36:11
Speaker 1: for its life, and life will end. But a lot
36:14
Speaker 1: of young people like myself didn't understand. We all know this.
36:16
Speaker 1: I'm seventy now, and you never think life is gonna
36:19
Speaker 1: end until you see what I'm sure Jane, myself and
36:21
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys have. If you work with animals,
36:24
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen eventually, but children don't understand it.
36:26
Speaker 1: You don't sit there and talk to about it, but
36:28
Speaker 1: they'll be exposed to it and they sell Corney on
36:31
Speaker 1: this interview today. But those are the things I've lived
36:33
Speaker 1: by when it comes to animals, you love them, you're
36:36
Speaker 1: responsible for those animals, and then at that point you
36:39
Speaker 1: know that they will come. But a lot of people
36:41
Speaker 1: don't understand that they will come and um, and that's
36:43
Speaker 1: why I think the animal world helps with as well.
36:45
Speaker 1: You know, Jack, another thing that I love about you
36:50
Speaker 1: and your whole team, your beautiful family and wife. You
36:54
Speaker 1: live by the words you preach. You don't say one
36:57
Speaker 1: thing and do another. And you know at a time
37:00
Speaker 1: where every time I go online or dare to turn
37:04
Speaker 1: on the knews, I hear about one more famous person
37:06
Speaker 1: has done all allegedly a horrible thing. And you know what,
37:12
Speaker 1: that's not true about Jack, That is not true what
37:16
Speaker 1: he says he lives by. And you know what's interesting, Um,
37:21
Speaker 1: you'll be happy to know, all four of you. Lucy
37:24
Speaker 1: first became obsessed well, John David got obsessed with dogs,
37:27
Speaker 1: hence fat Boy Street named Nitrope and Um. Then Lucy
37:33
Speaker 1: was obsessed with cats. If I'd sneak up on her
37:36
Speaker 1: on her iPad to see what she was looking at,
37:39
Speaker 1: and it would be cat videos. I mean we all
37:41
Speaker 1: had to watch them, one cat video after the next. Okay,
37:45
Speaker 1: so that's how we got fat Boy in cinema. Then
37:49
Speaker 1: we had cinema for about six months until the videos
37:52
Speaker 1: started again about guinea pigs. Last night, I said, can
37:57
Speaker 1: I have that awesome salad you're making? She says, mom, Um,
38:00
Speaker 1: this is for the guineas. I mean, it's a full
38:03
Speaker 1: on salad. It's carrots, it's red bell peppers, green bell peppers, romaine, lattice, cucumbers, zucchini,
38:12
Speaker 1: the works. And she makes two full on human salads.
38:15
Speaker 1: No wonder they poop all the time. I just pray,
38:18
Speaker 1: I pray that she doesn't get into horses. Okay, I
38:23
Speaker 1: just I just don't think I can take it, and
38:26
Speaker 1: I know more guineas are on the way. Listen to
38:29
Speaker 1: this story, guys. This woman dying in Boucher was woken
38:34
Speaker 1: up from a deep sleep at four thirty in the
38:37
Speaker 1: morning by Oreo, her cat. The cat wouldn't stop screaming,
38:42
Speaker 1: would not stop screaming. She ran out to check on
38:45
Speaker 1: the cat. And you know that sound when you hear
38:47
Speaker 1: your cat or dog make a crazy, high pitched screamy sound.
38:51
Speaker 1: She ran out and what she found were flames. And
38:57
Speaker 1: if it had not been for her cat wake her up,
39:02
Speaker 1: you know she would be dead and her home destroyed.
39:06
Speaker 1: There are stories like David c. C fourteen years old,
39:11
Speaker 1: couldn't swim, fell out of his dad's boat, and within
39:14
Speaker 1: minutes a dolphin called Filippo had come to the tourist
39:20
Speaker 1: attraction and saved the boy's life, pushing him up out
39:25
Speaker 1: of the water to safety. I mean a dog. Brenda
39:29
Speaker 1: Owen gone out for a walk with her dog. She
39:32
Speaker 1: spotted a wheelchair on a river bank, sees a woman
39:36
Speaker 1: in the water. She called out, The woman didn't answer.
39:40
Speaker 1: She said to the dog. Fetched. The dog jumps straight
39:42
Speaker 1: in that cold river water and pulled the woman to shore.
39:47
Speaker 1: I mean, it goes on a two year old child
39:49
Speaker 1: in Texas walking with his grandmother when Arf, the family's
39:53
Speaker 1: dog got very agitated so badly the dog thought. I mean,
39:58
Speaker 1: the grandmother thought, I better take the child inside. The
40:00
Speaker 1: dog's going crazy. The child's mother came out to find
40:04
Speaker 1: art in a fight when the twenty four in North
40:08
Speaker 1: American coral snake and Jack Hannay, you can tell us
40:12
Speaker 1: about coral snakes. Go ahead, Yeah, well, it is a snake.
40:17
Speaker 1: Obviously they can be failed. It's not a matter of
40:19
Speaker 1: a like a rattlesnake. You know, people say about rattlesnakes
40:21
Speaker 1: all the time with the good Lord made a rattlesnake,
40:24
Speaker 1: because snake will rattle. See he'll step on it, and
40:26
Speaker 1: people say, oh my god, it's a rattlesnake, will being
40:28
Speaker 1: very happy it's a rattlesnake. Coral snake looks like some
40:31
Speaker 1: other kinds of steak, king snake, things like that. But
40:34
Speaker 1: that's a newer toxic and he must thought he would
40:36
Speaker 1: toxic because you know, is a rattlesnake. Those kind of
40:38
Speaker 1: snakes were it's just a very painful bite and also
40:41
Speaker 1: just rots. But when you comes to a coral snake,
40:43
Speaker 1: which is pretty rare, the animal has to basically chew,
40:46
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have the things and that goes that's
40:49
Speaker 1: h not he it is newer toxic when you means
40:51
Speaker 1: he goes to the brain and you go to sleep basically,
40:53
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry to say, you might just sleep rather forever.
40:56
Speaker 1: So people get mixed up on snakes. I've filmed snakes
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Speaker 1: all over the world. Um uh my people always ask
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Speaker 1: me the question, oh my gosh, Jack, have you been betten?
41:04
Speaker 1: You know, I don't like that question because is Jane
41:06
Speaker 1: will agree if I'm betten or something my animal usually
41:10
Speaker 1: usually most of the time, it's my fault. It's not
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Speaker 1: the animal's fault. When we film out there for thirty years,
41:15
Speaker 1: I made it clear as thirty years ago you respect.
41:17
Speaker 1: It's called respect for your animal. At home, it's respect
41:20
Speaker 1: for the elephants and the lion. Some film crews love
41:22
Speaker 1: to go in there and push it to where the
41:23
Speaker 1: dawn gum thing attacks the jeep and throws it over,
41:25
Speaker 1: and some guys get bitten. You know. The reality TV
41:28
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of it because they doesn't
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Speaker 1: teach the young people how to go to Africa or
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Speaker 1: India or the North Post, South Pole wherever I go.
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Speaker 1: Uh we were We filmed with respect. Okay, maybe you
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Speaker 1: don't get the best film of something attacking and blood
41:40
Speaker 1: flying every which way. That's their home, not my home.
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Speaker 1: And we always feel with respect to these animals, and
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Speaker 1: we've always done it. And the God that our crew
41:48
Speaker 1: has been together for twenty three years and we all
41:50
Speaker 1: work as a team as a family, and we look
41:51
Speaker 1: at those wild animals, your animal home. You know you
41:55
Speaker 1: you respect your animals home. You don't sit down and
41:58
Speaker 1: take a dog. And my dad taught me that you
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Speaker 1: you put food there in his saying, and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, you have a two year older somebody visit
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Speaker 1: you and they go and grab the food out of
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Speaker 1: dog bowl. Jane will tell you that could be a
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Speaker 1: fatal bite, a fatal bite, that could be a chamble bite.
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Speaker 1: So kids have to learn about animals. And I know
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Speaker 1: I'm jumping around a lot. My dad us gentm me
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Speaker 1: on the farm. I have a T N T or
42:16
Speaker 1: a D T A D. I don't know what the
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Speaker 1: hell the heck I have my w I can't remember
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Speaker 1: a D H A T and t ill okay, whatever
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Speaker 1: it is. Anyway, I jump around a lot, but I
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Speaker 1: just I'm trying to explain things about animals and nel.
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Speaker 1: Some dogs are never even betting anybody. But you can't
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Speaker 1: go up to dogs grab the food of a pot,
42:33
Speaker 1: you know. I learned all these things on the farm
42:35
Speaker 1: and how to how to respect the animal world. And
42:37
Speaker 1: that's what I try to do when I film and
42:39
Speaker 1: when I talk about the animals, you know, and it
42:41
Speaker 1: does a Coming to the Cormon Zoological Park, I think
42:43
Speaker 1: Jane knows nine percent of my animals today and ninety
42:45
Speaker 1: eight percent come from other zoos. I can go click
42:47
Speaker 1: if I need a sperm or an egg or something
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Speaker 1: like that, because I think we really are the arts
42:52
Speaker 1: of the world. We weren't that. We were not that
42:55
Speaker 1: by the way, thirty years ago. But today um millions,
42:59
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars to spit on to make
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Speaker 1: sure these animals have habitats. Uh, there's some other best
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Speaker 1: in the world. And if you can't touch the heart
43:05
Speaker 1: to teach some mind of these people about your dogs
43:08
Speaker 1: or cats or some of these animals, and none of them.
43:10
Speaker 1: When I do my speeches to two or three thousand
43:12
Speaker 1: people in these theaters asked the audience, how many have
43:14
Speaker 1: you ever seen a elephant in Africa? No hands? How
43:18
Speaker 1: many have you you ever seen a killer? Well, no hands?
43:20
Speaker 1: How many have you seen? I could go through a
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Speaker 1: list of five thousand animals and usually sometimes I'll say adolphin.
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Speaker 1: You'll get some hands up. So what I'm trying to
43:27
Speaker 1: say is in this logical world, in the aquarium world,
43:30
Speaker 1: having these animals now that we know how to breed
43:32
Speaker 1: them and have them and have the proper habitats, and
43:35
Speaker 1: then I'll agree with people way back when they weren't
43:38
Speaker 1: good habitats. But now today we do that because we
43:40
Speaker 1: have to let people see for themselves why they weren't
43:44
Speaker 1: want to love an animal to save an animal. You
43:46
Speaker 1: can't love something you can't save something in the world
43:48
Speaker 1: that my wife hates this term, but I'll say it
43:50
Speaker 1: real quick. I have kids and grandkids. But I'll tell
43:52
Speaker 1: you one thing is I traveled the world. The main
43:54
Speaker 1: thing we have everybody, you can do global warming for
43:56
Speaker 1: everything you want to. It's called over population. I think
43:59
Speaker 1: Jane is probably overpopulation takes animals room. It's that It's
44:04
Speaker 1: that simple and it's not rocket science. Everybody can sit
44:07
Speaker 1: here and debate on global warming. You debate all you
44:09
Speaker 1: want to water and all this stuff causing this. The
44:12
Speaker 1: Good Lord put the earth here, he told us to
44:14
Speaker 1: do with what propetator prey relationship on our earth. Obviously,
44:17
Speaker 1: with so many people, it's been screwed up. So that's
44:20
Speaker 1: why we have to sit here and and uh, at
44:22
Speaker 1: least teach people something about other animals throughout the world,
44:25
Speaker 1: you know, and that kind of thing, and hopefully people
44:27
Speaker 1: learn from their dogs and cats. Um. Without the animal world,
44:30
Speaker 1: none of us would be here in many different ways.
44:32
Speaker 1: But the animal worlds taught me a lot, by the way,
44:34
Speaker 1: when I go out there and study the gorillas or
44:36
Speaker 1: watched them for over all these years. And the lions,
44:39
Speaker 1: which are you know, the real social animal, not like
44:41
Speaker 1: the solitary catch motion on the spot where you see
44:43
Speaker 1: the snakes for example. You know, these are all creatures
44:45
Speaker 1: on earth, and and if you go out and learn
44:47
Speaker 1: about them and see them, then you respect them. You know, Jane,
44:50
Speaker 1: what you were saying earlier about it's not just cats
44:53
Speaker 1: and dogs. On a hot August August day at Brookfield Zoo,
44:57
Speaker 1: a three year old boy falls into a gorilla in
45:00
Speaker 1: closure and actually gets knocked out a female Lowland gorilla
45:07
Speaker 1: bentye Jew guarded the boy from all the other gorillas.
45:12
Speaker 1: Then she picks the baby boy up in her arms
45:16
Speaker 1: like a human would hold a baby. She's got her
45:18
Speaker 1: own seventeen month old baby on her back, and she
45:22
Speaker 1: carries the human baby sixty feet to an entrance and
45:27
Speaker 1: hands the baby to the human zookeepers. I mean, Jane,
45:32
Speaker 1: why don't people understand that animals are extremely intelligent? Well,
45:38
Speaker 1: because they can't speak English, and this is why some
45:42
Speaker 1: people have here from Los Angeles. You'll probably chuckle. But
45:46
Speaker 1: one of the things that some of the animal rights
45:47
Speaker 1: activists are doing is taking a vowed silence for a
45:50
Speaker 1: couple of hours every day to communicate nonverbally so that
45:53
Speaker 1: they can understand what it's like to be an animal.
45:56
Speaker 1: And so, you know, animals exhibit unconditional of They are
46:01
Speaker 1: highly intelligent. They have all the emotions that humans have.
46:06
Speaker 1: They experienced terror, they experience loneliness, they experienced longing, They
46:11
Speaker 1: they have all the whole range of emotions. I mean,
46:14
Speaker 1: my gosh, my four little rescues here at home. Uh.
46:17
Speaker 1: They We've got a reality show going on right here
46:21
Speaker 1: with Kabos and Lucas Foxy and Uh Foxy from Fresno
46:25
Speaker 1: rescued from the streets of Fresno, Little Rico rescued from
46:28
Speaker 1: the streets of Puerto Rico. And Tucks the Cat rescued
46:31
Speaker 1: from Queens, New York. I want you to tell me,
46:33
Speaker 1: Jane Viles Mitchell from your Encyclopedia mind about animals an
46:38
Speaker 1: animal hero story. Yes, Well, you know, we've had fires
46:42
Speaker 1: here in California, and of course we urge everyone take
46:47
Speaker 1: your companion animals with you if there's any kind of danger,
46:50
Speaker 1: because you never know when you're going to get back. Well,
46:52
Speaker 1: there was a family in Sonoma County just recently that
46:56
Speaker 1: had to evacuate. They woke up, they saw the flames encroaching.
46:59
Speaker 1: The grabbed their daughter. They grabbed their eight dogs and cats,
47:03
Speaker 1: but one dog refused to leave. Why Because they had
47:07
Speaker 1: eight rescue goats as well, and the rescue goasts couldn't
47:11
Speaker 1: be evacuated. They did not have the trailers to take
47:14
Speaker 1: the goats away. The dog, Odin refused to leave the goats.
47:17
Speaker 1: They left. The family left, leaving the dog behind because
47:20
Speaker 1: he refused to leave. Their house was totally destroyed. They
47:24
Speaker 1: came back several days later and Odin had saved the
47:28
Speaker 1: eight rescue goats as well as a baby deer who
47:31
Speaker 1: had joined fleeing the flames. And he was singed and
47:35
Speaker 1: he was limping, but he saw it upon himself as
47:38
Speaker 1: his responsibility to hurd and save those goats. With me today,
47:42
Speaker 1: Jane Valez Mitchell, my friend, longtime friend and colleague. You
47:48
Speaker 1: know what, Jan, Your beautiful on the inside and the out.
47:53
Speaker 1: My awesome friend, Jack Hannah, Director Emeritis, Animal Ambassador of
47:59
Speaker 1: the World Fame This Columbus Zoo and aquarium, host of
48:02
Speaker 1: Jack Hannah's Into the Wild and Wild Countdown, Jack Hannah, friend,
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Speaker 1: my new friends Dory Natale and her dramatic story of
48:15
Speaker 1: how Jedi saved her baby's life. And Shawna the House
48:22
Speaker 1: with a dramatic story of her son who is autistic
48:29
Speaker 1: and his new life with his service dog and their
48:32
Speaker 1: struggle living in a strange land with a strange language,
48:38
Speaker 1: but with a wonderful, wonderful rescue pet. And of course
48:44
Speaker 1: my colleagues in crime, Jackie and Alan. You know, at
48:50
Speaker 1: this wonderful time of year, we have so much to
48:55
Speaker 1: be thankful for. So let me just say again, Merry Christmas,
49:02
Speaker 1: Blessed Honekkah and a happy, happy New Year. Nancy Grace
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Speaker 1: find the story, signing off good bye friend,