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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. We hear about heroes and
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Speaker 1: hero detectives all the time, but our unsung heroes, the
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Speaker 1: ones we never hear about, are our furry friends, the
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Speaker 1: hero's pet detectives and heroes. And I'm bringing you real
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Speaker 1: live cases today, along with an awesome all star lineup
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Speaker 1: of a panel Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Dogs really
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Speaker 1: are man's best friend. Dogs are our pets and companions
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Speaker 1: and would love them even though they often seem unable
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Speaker 1: to do anything more than lie around and run after sticks.
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Speaker 1: You can find all kinds of interesting and incredible stories
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Speaker 1: involving dogs saving humans from disastrous situations. An awesome all
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Speaker 1: star lineup of a panel including Jack Hannah. We all
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Speaker 1: know Jack Hannah, the director emerit Us, the animal ambassador
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Speaker 1: of the world famous Columbus Zoo, an aquarium, the host
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Speaker 1: of Jack Hannah's Into the Wild and Wild Countdown. I
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Speaker 1: mean this guy. I will never forget doing an hl
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Speaker 1: In show and a Larry King show which I still
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Speaker 1: have photos of where Jack would bring on animals from
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Speaker 1: his zoo all the way to New York City and
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Speaker 1: what a time. We had the best shows ever. And
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Speaker 1: as I've always told Jack Hannah, the best witnesses I've
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Speaker 1: ever put on the stand. We're Dogs. Also with me
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Speaker 1: my longtime friend and colleague Jane Villez Mitchell, reporter and
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Speaker 1: animal lover Dory Natale, who has an incredible story of
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Speaker 1: how a dog saved her son. And Shannon Kneehaus also
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Speaker 1: with us with a dramatic story of a life saving
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Speaker 1: animal hero. Jack Hannah, welcome to crime Stories. Tell me
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Speaker 1: 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 with 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 or whatever. Then those animals became, you know,
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Speaker 1: probably the food source for many many people of kay
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Speaker 1: people or whoever was alive. Then the course those animals
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Speaker 1: became more Where I use habituated, which means used to people.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Diane Fosse, a New Virtues
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Speaker 1: of a a friend of mine and I have a home
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Speaker 1: in Rwanda right next to the Mountain Girls where Sue
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Speaker 1: and I have a home there for two miles from
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Speaker 1: of 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 touched the heart to teach the mind. So when
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Speaker 1: when I go into these countries all over the world
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Speaker 1: of film and not just a film, to talk to
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Speaker 1: them about, you know, taking care of conservation animals like
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Speaker 1: the birds, they might eat too many of other this
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Speaker 1: and that, and you talk to them about their lives first,
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Speaker 1: the people, 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, that 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 Hannah's Into the Wild, Old and Wild Countdown. Jane
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Speaker 1: Valez Mitchell, I will never forget. Oh man, I miss
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Speaker 1: you so much, Jane 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 Valez Mitchell was going to jump
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Speaker 1: out of her skin. She By the time it was
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Speaker 1: all over, I was afraid to even have a bowl
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Speaker 1: of spinach. So, Jane les Mitchell, why is this so important? Well, you,
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Speaker 1: if we love animals, don't eat them, don't wear them.
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Speaker 1: My belief system is that they're not commodities, They're not
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Speaker 1: things for us to use. Their individuals who were entitled
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Speaker 1: to their own lives, and that they have so much
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Speaker 1: more in common with us than they have separating us.
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Speaker 1: The animals that have central nervous systems, that have high hearts, ears.
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Speaker 1: Anybody knows 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 meet a lot more than leaders. Janelas tell
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Speaker 1: me about Jane Uns. Yes, thank you for asking, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: When I left hl LYNN, they had graciously allowed me
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Speaker 1: to do one animal story a week. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if they knew what they were getting into, but I
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Speaker 1: was able to cover many, many stories that normally don't
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Speaker 1: get national coverage. Jane, Can I just tell you something?
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Speaker 1: I would pass Jane in the hall and should say
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Speaker 1: awesome ratings nance and I'm like, Jane, you gotta stop
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Speaker 1: with the plastic bags. Okay, We know they're bad. I
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Speaker 1: know they're bad. I don't think they realize that you
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Speaker 1: are 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 a 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, Dori Natal. I am looking at a photo
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Speaker 1: of you, Dory, and the story that you have to
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Speaker 1: tell is incredible. Thank you. Tell me what happened, Dorry. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Jack Hannah and Jane Vlais are not going
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Speaker 1: to be surprised, but I bet our listeners are. Go ahead.
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Speaker 1: My son was diagnosed with type one diabetes when he
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Speaker 1: was two. It's an incurable, non preventable, lifetime disease where
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Speaker 1: his blood trigger We have to inject insulin multiple times
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Speaker 1: in the day just to keep him alive. Without that,
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Speaker 1: we prick a finger every two to three hours. Okay,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait minute, it's just so much, so fast.
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Speaker 1: I always say I'm drinking out of a fire hydrant.
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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 could 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 my daughter had to
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Speaker 1: spend the night party and one of her little friends
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Speaker 1: has diabetes and she has a monitor. It went off
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Speaker 1: all during the night, and I was so afraid I
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Speaker 1: would do something wrong. I kept reading the mom's text
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Speaker 1: message instructions and oh, I was so worried. As it
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Speaker 1: turned out, it was not, you know, hard to do
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Speaker 1: it all, but it is very you have to do it.
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Speaker 1: You have to stay on top of it. I did
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Speaker 1: it one night. You are telling me you give your
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Speaker 1: son injections throughout today just to keep him alive. Yes.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing that I think a lot of people
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Speaker 1: don't really understand about diabetes is that type one diabetes,
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Speaker 1: especially is a twenty four hour disease and you I
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Speaker 1: am trying to be a pancreas for him, and it's
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Speaker 1: a very hard thing to do. And when he was
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Speaker 1: very little, he couldn't tell me how he felt if
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Speaker 1: he felt off. So we decided to research all the technology,
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Speaker 1: all the technology. We have a monitor we finger prick,
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Speaker 1: but then we started. We are an animal lover family,
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Speaker 1: and we detarted. Taking a minute, guys, go online and
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Speaker 1: you got to look at the picture of what she's
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Speaker 1: talking about. There's your beautiful baby boy. He's asleep with
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Speaker 1: a curverse pulled up. There's a Ibetes monitor. There's stuff
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Speaker 1: sitting on the like a little pack folded out, a medipat.
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Speaker 1: You see her hand holding the monitor. It has fifty
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Speaker 1: seven on it, and right beside it, it's a dog
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Speaker 1: that looks a lot like my little fat boy, a
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Speaker 1: little black dog looking up at the picture. And this
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Speaker 1: is on Facebook. Now go ahead, I'm looking at the
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Speaker 1: picture right now. Tell me what happened. Well, it was
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Speaker 1: a typical night before bed. We always tested his blood sugar,
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Speaker 1: We calibrate his monitors, and then we go to sleep.
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Speaker 1: I set several alarms overnight, and there's many things that
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Speaker 1: can wake me up, either the monitor, my alarm clock,
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Speaker 1: or Jedi. And the amazing thing about Jedi is he's
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Speaker 1: been with us since my son was three. Is he
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Speaker 1: consents when 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 line. Guys, 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 see this his dog, Jane,
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Speaker 1: no stealing anymore pants. Okay, back to Jedi, go ahead.
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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 he has, as Luke calls him, magic powers. Jedi
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Speaker 1: knows when he's going to drop or go. His blood
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Speaker 1: suger go high about twenty minutes before the meters and
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Speaker 1: sometimes the meters take a long time to catch up.
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Speaker 1: But jedium. They're still researching the actual chemical. But Jedi
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Speaker 1: can smell the changes in Luke's body. And that night
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Speaker 1: he was laying on my feet. And his alert at
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Speaker 1: night is to jump off the bed, jump back on
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Speaker 1: the bed until I wake up. And so that night
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Speaker 1: I was asleep. Everything was fine. I had tested his
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Speaker 1: blood sugar like I do every night, and I had
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Speaker 1: an alarm set for midnight but or midnight and three,
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Speaker 1: but it was between those alarms and Jedi jumped up
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Speaker 1: off the on the bed. It took me a minute
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Speaker 1: to wake up, because this is every night. And then
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Speaker 1: he laid on me, and I got up, went to
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Speaker 1: the kitchen like I always do, got his kit tested
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Speaker 1: him and he was fifty seven, and which means I
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Speaker 1: immediately had to wake him up and give him have
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Speaker 1: him in Jess glucos fifty seven, What does that mean?
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Speaker 1: It means a white a minute, That's what it says
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Speaker 1: right there. Fifty seven. Yeah, the typical we all need
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Speaker 1: glucose in ourselves to keep our bodies going. It's the
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Speaker 1: fuel for our bodies. And typically most people and run
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Speaker 1: between seventy and one twenty that's how much glucose they
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Speaker 1: have in the cells. And below seventy it starts to
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Speaker 1: become dangerous. You can have a seizure, you can go
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Speaker 1: into a coma. Luke feels miserable when he's low. It's
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Speaker 1: he says, it feels like a stone sinking into the ocean.
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Speaker 1: It's the body shutting down because it doesn't have enough glucos.
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Speaker 1: Clime stories with Nancy Grace with me is Dory who
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Speaker 1: you can see the photo of her little baby, her
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Speaker 1: angel in bed has Type one diabetes. You have it
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Speaker 1: for life and it can cause a death. Your body
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Speaker 1: starts to shut down. I'm looking at this shot of
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Speaker 1: this beautiful angel and he would not be alive today
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Speaker 1: if it were not for the dog Jedi. And I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at your post and you say, I've had already
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Speaker 1: 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: blood 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, you'd
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Speaker 1: 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, he will do whatever it
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Speaker 1: takes to get my attention. We've been working with him
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Speaker 1: for years and he alerts multiple times a day. So
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Speaker 1: for this particular one, he was not giving up until
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Speaker 1: I woke up. And you know, we're tired, and so
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Speaker 1: sometimes I looked at the meter and I the meter
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Speaker 1: said he was okay. So I didn't immediately jump, but
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Speaker 1: when he didn't give up, I got up. And there
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Speaker 1: have been several instances where he's found, he's alerted, and
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Speaker 1: Luke's been thirty or forty and I don't some of
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Speaker 1: those would have been. But I know that Luke is
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Speaker 1: healthier and happier, and he's here today because of Jedi
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Speaker 1: helping me do everything that I need to do twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours a day to keep to keep Luke, you know,
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Speaker 1: happy and here, and Jedi is is always there for me.
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Speaker 1: It's an extra companion, an extra layer of support to
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Speaker 1: help take care of Luke. And I'm forever indebted to him.
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Speaker 1: To Jack Hannah, Director Emeritus the world famous Columbus Zoo
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Speaker 1: and host of Jack Hannah's Into the Wild and the
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Speaker 1: Wild Countdown, Jack, when a baby boy says, Jedi he
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Speaker 1: has superpowers, he has magical powers. How does it happen?
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Speaker 1: How do they do that? How does a pet do that?
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Speaker 1: You know, listening to what you're saying, getting together what
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Speaker 1: everyone is saying so far real quickly be on a second.
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Speaker 1: Our daughter Julie lives with us at forty two years old,
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Speaker 1: at the age of two and a half because one
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Speaker 1: of the worst forms of lukmi you can imagine in
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Speaker 1: the world in nineteen seventy seven, so we rushed her
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Speaker 1: down the Saint Jude Hospital at two year old age.
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Speaker 1: We were noxtural at that time, by the way, and
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Speaker 1: they told us she would not live twelve hours. So
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Speaker 1: we got her barely there and not a twelve kids
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Speaker 1: under flour Everyone passed away except she and a little boy.
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Speaker 1: Now Julie back to the animals, was used for research.
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Speaker 1: She had radiation to brain along with another little boy.
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Speaker 1: There were only two that survived other twelve kids. Today,
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Speaker 1: of course, that was one building in nineteen seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: Saint Jude has thirty to day. So I'm saying that
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Speaker 1: my daughter Julie, along 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: and she lives with us. Not that there are cancerous,
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Speaker 1: but she's been just she survived it. What I'm saying
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Speaker 1: to you talking about animal world, what you are doing.
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Speaker 1: If you look up, there's a list and I don't
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Speaker 1: know where it is, of how many diseases, whether it
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Speaker 1: be measles, chicken pox, go down to about forty of them,
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Speaker 1: you'll see how the animal world literally saved human beings
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Speaker 1: by research. I'm not I'm not. I'm not for inhumane.
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Speaker 1: I don't like animal research become the slamming dogs and
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Speaker 1: animals and like that against when shields to test cars
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Speaker 1: like they used to do. No, I'll fight that against
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Speaker 1: every every day. However, when it comes to animal research
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Speaker 1: for humane by the way, I said humane, all right,
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Speaker 1: when my own daughter or the other human beings are
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Speaker 1: being used. The animal world literally has saved many of us.
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Speaker 1: And one of the hardest things for me to do
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Speaker 1: is when I have in the last twenty years. I
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Speaker 1: guess if you call it, I'm not, I don't easy
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Speaker 1: the word celebrity. By the way, I never have. I'm
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Speaker 1: an animal ambassador. And I don't like the word celebrity.
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Speaker 1: But when people come to me and a little child,
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Speaker 1: for example of last year, was nine years old, I
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Speaker 1: think you're from Indiana. Her sister she came, she had
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Speaker 1: maybe her. They to us on the phone that they
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Speaker 1: called the last wish and specially wish the last wishes.
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Speaker 1: Are you going out office, you will see the pictures
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Speaker 1: of these young people who didn't make in. Their last
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Speaker 1: wish was to see an animal. And you won't believe this.
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Speaker 1: They came there last year. You could see that she
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Speaker 1: was had because I've been through all this stuff which
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Speaker 1: she has no hair, and all the treatments with drugs
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Speaker 1: and every everything, and she hadn't smiled. And all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden I put a little penguin right there in
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Speaker 1: her lap, and sure enough she smiled one of the
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Speaker 1: first times. It's amazing what animals will do. Then I
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Speaker 1: asked the father, I mean you wipe her hands off.
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Speaker 1: I have a little sloth I wanted to touch, and
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Speaker 1: 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 was
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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 are pictures on my walls and
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Speaker 1: Lenda did not make it, but they had their last thing.
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Speaker 1: And I go to children's hospitals, even with some of
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Speaker 1: the animals. You see these children and how they just
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Speaker 1: come out of that pain. And I wish I could explain,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I have a saying I
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Speaker 1: lived by it. You have touched the heart, tease the mind,
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Speaker 1: and these kids are really touching my heart more than
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Speaker 1: I am theirs, and I just, you know, I don't
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Speaker 1: That's what I can answer your question again if you
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Speaker 1: want me to. But I'm just telling you what I
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Speaker 1: have to look at. I don't have to do it
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Speaker 1: at all. But it's something that really shows me in
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Speaker 1: life what the animal world means to all of them.
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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace speaking of these superpowers of animals.
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Speaker 1: Dogs have this unbelievable cats too, sense of smell. Humans
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Speaker 1: have about five million cent receptors. Dogs have up to
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Speaker 1: three million, depending on the breed, and it's been proven
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Speaker 1: that they can sniff out a chemical change and detect
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Speaker 1: all types of illnesses in humans, including epilette seizures, certain
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Speaker 1: types of cancer, diabetes changes. And a theory is at
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Speaker 1: our present day dog ancestors gray wolfpack survival dependent on
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Speaker 1: the ability to know which member of the pack was sick.
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Speaker 1: Jane Vlez, you have reported on so many pet heroes
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Speaker 1: way in yes, Well, first of all, you should pay
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Speaker 1: attention to your dog in your home. There was a
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Speaker 1: great story out of North Carolina about a dog, a labrador,
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Speaker 1: who would get very agitated when the family's babysitter was
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Speaker 1: around and would try to place himself between the seven
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Speaker 1: months old boy and the babysitter and growl. And the
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Speaker 1: parents noted the dog's haired stand up. So they saw
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Speaker 1: this happening so often they decided to put a recording
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Speaker 1: device in the home when they left, and they found
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Speaker 1: out that this babysitter was abusing their child, slapping the
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Speaker 1: child and insulting the child, and because they were alerted
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Speaker 1: by the dog, they ultimately had this woman arrested. So
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Speaker 1: when you're a parent or you're just a person, pay
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Speaker 1: attention to your dogs. If you want to know what
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Speaker 1: it's like to be an animal, take a vow of
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Speaker 1: silence for a couple of hours and see what mechanisms
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Speaker 1: you're going to use to communicate. You're gonna find yourself
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Speaker 1: tapping and doing a lot of the same maneuvers that
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Speaker 1: dogs can because they can't speak English, but they can communicate.
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Speaker 1: And you know what I say is, it's not just dogs.
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Speaker 1: We have this odd thing in our culture where some animals, oh,
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Speaker 1: we love them, we adore them, we deify them. Others
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Speaker 1: they're not entitled to any respect and we consider them commodities.
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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,
20:49
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.
20:59
Speaker 1: The rockbellied pig ran out of the mobile home where
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Speaker 1: they were staying, crashed through the gates. When a car
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Speaker 1: was coming, the pig would lie down on the road.
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Speaker 1: Several cars just veered around the dog. Lulu kept running
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Speaker 1: back to checking on her human companion. Finally she ran
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Speaker 1: out threw herself on the ground again. A motorcycle stop
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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,
21:25
Speaker 1: and they called nine one one. So pigs are extremely
21:28
Speaker 1: intelligent animals. They are smarter than dogs, and they have
21:32
Speaker 1: the intelligence of very young human children. So as we
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Speaker 1: expand our circle of compassion beyond the boundaries of our
21:39
Speaker 1: own species, let's not just stop at dogs and cats.
21:42
Speaker 1: Let's consider all animals, because guess what, we're all animals,
21:47
Speaker 1: including us human. You know, Jane les Mitchell, have I
21:50
Speaker 1: told you today? I just love you. I loved you
21:53
Speaker 1: from the very first moment that you filled in for
21:58
Speaker 1: me as a guest host on seeing Nzheln and that
22:03
Speaker 1: was just it. And to hear you speak and tell
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Speaker 1: your stories, I just want the world to love you
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Speaker 1: as much as I love you. I just can't imagine
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Speaker 1: that I've got Jack Hannah and Jane Villas Mitchell on
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Speaker 1: at the same time. You know, I've got another lady
22:20
Speaker 1: with me, and I want you guys to hear her
22:23
Speaker 1: incredible story. And again I'm looking at a picture of
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Speaker 1: her and I've just got to tell you it just
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Speaker 1: really makes me cry. It's a this lovely blond lady
22:36
Speaker 1: and she's wearing tights, black tights and a blue tshirt
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Speaker 1: and she's looking down at a little boy. He looks
22:42
Speaker 1: like he's reading a iPad and he's got his head
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Speaker 1: resting on a big dog like he's a pillow with
22:50
Speaker 1: me right now. And let me just go ahead and
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Speaker 1: destroy your name. I think I'm saying correctly, shawna Kneehouse. No, yes,
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Speaker 1: oh my goodness all. Let me just rub it in
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Speaker 1: that I pronounced it right the first time. I'm like
23:04
Speaker 1: some people you that I won't mention Seana. I'm looking
23:08
Speaker 1: at this little boy and I'm guessing this is your
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Speaker 1: little boy. Yes, what happened? So the day this picture
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Speaker 1: was taken was the day that we met Tornado, my
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Speaker 1: son's service dog. That was the first day of our
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Speaker 1: training class um UM. 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 Tornado and then also for our family, our
23:35
Speaker 1: family of five traveling to Ohio to the organization that
23:40
Speaker 1: trained Tornado for Kai. And there there's there's some why
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Speaker 1: does Kai need a service dog? So? Kai is autistic?
23:52
Speaker 1: Um we when he when he was younger, we noticed
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Speaker 1: that there are some elements to having an autistic child
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Speaker 1: that can be really challenging. And as a parent, it's
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Speaker 1: your responsibility to um, you know, help them live their
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Speaker 1: most fulfilling life, give them the most access to the world,
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Speaker 1: support them, and love them in the best ways that
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Speaker 1: you can. And Kai is a dog person. I'm a
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Speaker 1: dog person, and he's always where he would find troubles
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Speaker 1: socially with people or find challenges with people. Those those
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Speaker 1: social interactions didn't come really naturally to him. But he
24:39
Speaker 1: did always gravitate to dogs. So my husband and I
24:43
Speaker 1: debated getting him a pet dog, but we thought, well,
24:45
Speaker 1: if we're going to get him a dog, let's let's
24:47
Speaker 1: get him, you know, something, something proper that can be
24:50
Speaker 1: with him. If this is who he might make a
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Speaker 1: connection to, let's go for it. So we we decided
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Speaker 1: to fundraise and have Tornado raised for Kai. So this
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Speaker 1: the day of the picture that you see is the
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Speaker 1: first day that they met. Towards the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: after we had traveled across the entire globe through the
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Speaker 1: continental US to get over to Ohio, we met Tornado
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Speaker 1: for the first time. Kay was really overwhelmed. He I
25:23
Speaker 1: think we were all overwhelmed. Along with other families who
25:26
Speaker 1: were other recipient families who had received their dogs that day,
25:30
Speaker 1: and Kai, my husband had to take Kai back to
25:33
Speaker 1: where we were staying and give him a break and
25:35
Speaker 1: kind of bring him, you know, in and out, you know,
25:38
Speaker 1: as he could manage himself. And then this was sort
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Speaker 1: of at the end of the day, shortly before we
25:44
Speaker 1: were leaving, and out of nowhere, Kai came out of
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Speaker 1: the children's playroom, grabbed his iPad and then just came
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Speaker 1: in laid on Tornado and sorry, I'm getting emotional. So
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Speaker 1: that moment where you see me kind of crying is
26:02
Speaker 1: actually was really like like an ugly cry. Um was
26:08
Speaker 1: sort of the moment that two years of hope went
26:13
Speaker 1: into that moment. You know, we we signed on to fundraise,
26:18
Speaker 1: we signed on to travel, we signed on for all
26:22
Speaker 1: of this hope that Kai might connect with his service dog,
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Speaker 1: and that his service dog, Tornado would help be that
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Speaker 1: bridge from Kai to bring those connections to the rest
26:35
Speaker 1: of the world, to help give him access to the
26:38
Speaker 1: rest of the world, to help give my husband and
26:41
Speaker 1: I peace of mind when when you know, we live
26:44
Speaker 1: in Tokyo and it's exceptionally busy here and the people
26:48
Speaker 1: the crowds are out of this world. And that's overwhelming
26:51
Speaker 1: for anybody, let alone you know a child with sensory
26:56
Speaker 1: processing differences, it's already an American kid and Tokyo and
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Speaker 1: he is autistic. To add onto it. I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: this photo and you say it was worth every fight,
27:10
Speaker 1: every diagnosis, every dollar, every paper filled out, every school meeting,
27:16
Speaker 1: every tear I shed, every step forward, every step back
27:21
Speaker 1: to see what you're seeing right then, And it's you say,
27:25
Speaker 1: the face of a mother who sees her child who
27:28
Speaker 1: she cannot hug whilst dressed, snuggling touch freely because of
27:32
Speaker 1: his autism, now laying on his service dog, of your
27:38
Speaker 1: child's own free will. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Listen
27:58
Speaker 1: to this story, guys. This woman, Diane Boucher, was woken
28:03
Speaker 1: up from a deep sleep at four thirty in the
28:06
Speaker 1: morning by Oreo, her cat. The cat wouldn't stop screaming,
28:11
Speaker 1: would not stop screaming. She ran out to check on
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Speaker 1: the cat. And you know that sound when you hear
28:16
Speaker 1: your cat or dog make a crazy, high pitched screamy sound.
28:20
Speaker 1: She ran out and what she found were flames. And
28:26
Speaker 1: if it had not been for her cat, waking her up.
28:31
Speaker 1: You know she would be dead and her home destroyed.
28:36
Speaker 1: There are stories like David CC fourteen years old, couldn't swim,
28:41
Speaker 1: fell out of his dad's boat, and within minutes a
28:46
Speaker 1: dolphin called Filippo had come to the tourist attraction and
28:52
Speaker 1: saved the boy's life, pushing him up out of the
28:55
Speaker 1: water to safety. I mean a dog. Brenda Owen gone
29:00
Speaker 1: out for a walk with her dog. She spotted a
29:03
Speaker 1: wheelchair on a river bank, sees a woman in the water.
29:08
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
29:14
Speaker 1: river water and pulled the woman to shore. I mean.
29:17
Speaker 1: It goes on a two year old child in Texas
29:21
Speaker 1: walking with his grandmother when Arf, the family's dog, got
29:25
Speaker 1: very agitated so badly the dog thought. I mean, the
29:29
Speaker 1: grandmother thought, I better take the child inside. The dog's
29:32
Speaker 1: going crazy. The child's mother came out to find Arf
29:36
Speaker 1: in a fight with a twenty four inch North American
29:40
Speaker 1: coral snake and Jack hannay, you can tell us about
29:44
Speaker 1: coral snakes. Go ahead, yeah, well is a snake. Obviously
29:48
Speaker 1: they can be failed. It's not a matter of a
29:50
Speaker 1: like a rattlesnake. You know, people say about rattlesnakes all
29:53
Speaker 1: time with a good Lord made a rattlesnake because snake
29:56
Speaker 1: will rattle. See how step on it, and people say,
29:58
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's a rattlesnake. Well, being very happy
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Speaker 1: it's a rattle snake. A coral snake looks like some
30:03
Speaker 1: other kinds of steak, king snake, things like that. But
30:05
Speaker 1: that's a newer toxic and he must thought hema toxic
30:08
Speaker 1: because you know, as a rattlesnake, those kinds of snakes
30:10
Speaker 1: where it's just a very painful bite and also just rots.
30:14
Speaker 1: But when it comes to coral snake, which is pretty rare,
30:17
Speaker 1: the animal has to basically chew. He doesn't have the things,
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Speaker 1: and that goes that's not he it's newer toxic. When
30:23
Speaker 1: he means he goes to blane and you go to
30:24
Speaker 1: sleep basically, and I'm sorry to say, you might just
30:27
Speaker 1: sleep forever forever. So people get mixed up on snakes.
30:31
Speaker 1: I've filmed snakes all over the world. My people always
30:34
Speaker 1: ask me the question, oh my gosh, Jack, have you
30:36
Speaker 1: been betten? You know I don't like that question because,
30:38
Speaker 1: as Jane will agree, if I'm betting or something, my
30:41
Speaker 1: animal usually usually most of the time, it's my fault.
30:44
Speaker 1: It's not the animal's fault. When we film out there
30:46
Speaker 1: for thirty years, I made it clear as thirty years
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Speaker 1: ago you respect. It's called respect for your animal. At home,
30:52
Speaker 1: it's respect for the elephants, the lion. Some film crews
30:54
Speaker 1: love to go in there and push it to where
30:56
Speaker 1: the dawn gum thing attacks the jeep and throws it
30:58
Speaker 1: over and some guy get it. You know. The reality TV.
31:01
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of it because it doesn't
31:03
Speaker 1: teach the young people how to go to Africa or
31:06
Speaker 1: India or the North post health Pole wherever I go.
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Speaker 1: We we filmed with respect. Okay, maybe you don't get
31:11
Speaker 1: the best film of something attacking and blood flying every
31:14
Speaker 1: which way. That's their home, not my home. And we
31:17
Speaker 1: always feel with respect to these animals, and we've always
31:20
Speaker 1: done it. And the god our crew has been together
31:22
Speaker 1: for twenty three years and we all work as a
31:24
Speaker 1: team as a family, and we look at those wild animals,
31:27
Speaker 1: your animal home. You know, you you respect your animals home.
31:30
Speaker 1: You don't sit down and take a dog. And my
31:32
Speaker 1: dad taught me that you put food there in his saying.
31:34
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, you have a two year
31:36
Speaker 1: old or somebody visit you, and they go and grab
31:38
Speaker 1: the food out of a dog bowl, and Jane will
31:40
Speaker 1: tell you that could be a fatal bite, a fatal bite,
31:43
Speaker 1: that could be a channibal bite. So kids have to
31:45
Speaker 1: learn about animals, you know. I know I'm jumping around
31:47
Speaker 1: a lot. My dad used jumping on the farm. I
31:49
Speaker 1: have a T and T or a D T, a
31:51
Speaker 1: D I don't know what the hell heck I have
31:53
Speaker 1: my dad with W I can't remember as a D
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Speaker 1: T and T called. Okay, whatever it is. Anyway, I
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Speaker 1: jump around or but I just am trying to explain
32:01
Speaker 1: things about animals. And you know, some dogs have never
32:04
Speaker 1: even met in anybody. But you can't go up to
32:06
Speaker 1: dogs to grab the food out a pot. You know.
32:08
Speaker 1: I learned all these things on the farm and how
32:10
Speaker 1: to respect the animal world. And that's what I try
32:12
Speaker 1: to do when I film and when I talk about
32:14
Speaker 1: the animals, you know, to the comb Zoological Park. I
32:17
Speaker 1: think Jane knows ninety eight percent of our animals today,
32:19
Speaker 1: ninety eight percent come from other zoos. I can go
32:22
Speaker 1: click if I need a sperm or an egg or
32:24
Speaker 1: something like that, because I think we really are the
32:27
Speaker 1: arts of the world. We weren't that. We were not that,
32:30
Speaker 1: by the way, twenty thirty years ago, but today millions,
32:34
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars are spent on to make
32:36
Speaker 1: sure these animals have habitats. There's some of the best
32:39
Speaker 1: in the world. And if you can't touch the heart
32:41
Speaker 1: to teach some mind of these people about your dogs
32:43
Speaker 1: or cats or some of these animals and none of them.
32:46
Speaker 1: When I do my speeches to two hund three thousand
32:47
Speaker 1: people in these theaters, ask the audience, how many have
32:50
Speaker 1: you ever seen a elephant in Africa? No hands? How
32:53
Speaker 1: many have you ever seen a killer? Well, no hands?
32:55
Speaker 1: How many have you seen? I could go through a
32:57
Speaker 1: list of five thousand animals and usually sometimes I'll say
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Speaker 1: a dolphin. You'll get some hands up. So what I'm
33:02
Speaker 1: trying to say is in there's a logical world, in
33:05
Speaker 1: the aquarium world, having these animals now that we know
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Speaker 1: how to breed them and have them and have the
33:10
Speaker 1: proper habitats. And then I'll agree with people way back
33:13
Speaker 1: when they weren't good habitats. But now today we do
33:16
Speaker 1: that because We have to let people see for themselves
33:19
Speaker 1: why they would want to love an animals to save
33:21
Speaker 1: an animal, you can't love something you can't save something
33:24
Speaker 1: in the world that my wife hates this term, but
33:26
Speaker 1: I'll say it real quick. I have kids and grandkids,
33:28
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you one thing is I travel the world.
33:30
Speaker 1: The main thing we have. Everybody, you can do global warming,
33:33
Speaker 1: say everything you want to. It's called over population. I
33:35
Speaker 1: think Jane knows this. Probably overpopulation takes animals room. It's
33:41
Speaker 1: that simple, and it's not rocket science. Everybody, we can
33:43
Speaker 1: sit here and debate on global warming. You debate all
33:45
Speaker 1: you want to, water and all this stuff causing this.
33:49
Speaker 1: The Good Lord put the earth here. He told us
33:51
Speaker 1: to do with what propetator prey relationship on our earth. Obviously,
33:54
Speaker 1: with so many people, it's been shrewed up. So that's
33:57
Speaker 1: why we have to sit here and lead teach people
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Speaker 1: something about other animals throughout the world, you know, and
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Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and hopefully people learn from their
34:04
Speaker 1: dogs and cats. Without the animal world, none of us
34:08
Speaker 1: would be here in many different ways. But the animal
34:10
Speaker 1: world taught me a lot. By the way, when I
34:11
Speaker 1: go out there and study the gorillas, or watched them
34:14
Speaker 1: for over all these years. And the lions, which are
34:16
Speaker 1: you know, a real social animal, not like the solitary
34:19
Speaker 1: catch will filming the spot where you see the snakes
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Speaker 1: for example. You know these are all creatures on earth,
34:23
Speaker 1: and then if you've got and learn about him and
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Speaker 1: see them, then you respect them. With me today, my
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Speaker 1: awesome friend Jack Hannah, Director Emeritus Animal Ambassador of the
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Speaker 1: world famous Columbus Zoo and aquarium, host of Jack Hannah's
34:38
Speaker 1: Into the Wild and Wild Countdown. Jane Valez Mitchell, my friend,
34:46
Speaker 1: longtime friend and colleague. You know what, Jane, You're beautiful
34:50
Speaker 1: on the inside. And the app my new friends Dory
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Speaker 1: Nattale and her dramatic story of how Jedi saved her
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Speaker 1: baby's life. And Shawna Nihaus with a dramatic story of
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Speaker 1: her son who is autistic and his new life with
35:14
Speaker 1: his service dog. As I sign off, I want to
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Speaker 1: thank you from my heart for being with us today
35:21
Speaker 1: and so many other days and through the years. Your
35:25
Speaker 1: prayers and support have meant so much to me and
35:28
Speaker 1: my family. It is Christmas Day, and as we celebrate
35:32
Speaker 1: the birth of Christ, I'm want to thank you for
35:35
Speaker 1: being such a blessing to me Nancy Gray's crime story,
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Speaker 1: signing off goodbye Frank