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We're Obsessed With Punch the Monkey · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the group text, who was it? They said
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  Speaker 1: they were crying when they.
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  Speaker 2: Saw that Tanya was crying.
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  Speaker 1: I was crying. Tanya was crying. So I get this
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  Speaker 1: group text. Have you seen anybody seen this thing about
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  Speaker 1: the monkey? The punch? The monkey. It's an orphaned baby monkey, right,
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  Speaker 1: His name is Punch.
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  Speaker 2: Punch was rejected by his mother at birst. This happened
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  Speaker 2: sometimes with primates, and so he had to be raised
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  Speaker 2: by the zoo uh workers, and so he became really
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  Speaker 2: attached to humans versus his own kind. And so when
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  Speaker 2: they try to interact him with the other monkeys, they
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  Speaker 2: were really mean to him, and they wouldn't play with him,
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  Speaker 2: and they would punch him around and like they just
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  Speaker 2: literally just like smack him. And so the zoo gave
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  Speaker 2: him this stuffy that is now sold out at Ikea
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  Speaker 2: by the way, it's an orangutang stuffy, and he would
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  Speaker 2: basically when he would get punched from these other monkeys,
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  Speaker 2: he would run to his orangutang and then just hold
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  Speaker 2: onto his little stuffy and carry it around like the
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  Speaker 2: whole like habitat. And so they little by little every
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  Speaker 2: day got a little bit better for Punch and Punch
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  Speaker 2: never gave up. He continued to try to interact with
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  Speaker 2: the other monkeys, and finally some have accepted him, and
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  Speaker 2: he's now, you know, being included in like the grooming,
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  Speaker 2: like where they groom each other, and every day is
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  Speaker 2: getting better for Punch.
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  Speaker 1: But we are just obsessed with him. Am I like
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  Speaker 1: less of a person that that kind of breaks my
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  Speaker 1: heart sometimes? More like animal stories break my heart more
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  Speaker 1: sometimes than human stories. It just breaks your heart. It
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  Speaker 1: is so cute. Okay, Punch your so's We love Punch
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