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Pet Life Radio.
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This is Pet Life Radio.
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Let's talk pets.
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Rappaport to the rescue with award-winning animal advocate, best-selling author, journalist,
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and pet products creator, Jill Rappaport.
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Hi, welcome to Rappaport to the rescue.
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I'm Jill Rappaport.
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So excited to be at the Humane World for Animals event.
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To the Rescue Gala.
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This is such an incredible event every year filled with celebrities.
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We're going to have Neil Patrick Harris hosting, Christy Brinkley
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presenting the big award tonight, and so many more.
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Bernadette Peters, Amy Sedaris, the list goes on and on.
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So you do not want to miss this episode of
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Rappaport to the Rescue when.
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We come back.
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Let's talk pets.
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Hi, welcome back to Rappaport to the Rescue.
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I'm Jill Rappaport, live from the humane world for animals
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to the Rescue Gala.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, Neil Patrick Harris,
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who's hosting this event tonight.
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What an honor. Thank you so much, yeah. I'm a
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huge animal lover. We have four dogs.
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I've grown up with dogs and cats and birds and
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all kinds of fun things, so it's really nice to
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be here tonight.
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And everybody was so excited when they announced that you
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were going to be the host.
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Oh, really? Oh, my goodness. There was such a buzz
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that Neil was going to be here.
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Good.
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I'll try not to curse.
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We talked about your love of animals before and how
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you instilled that, not only with David, but to Harper and.
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Gideon, your children. Tell me the importance of rescue. Well,
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rescue is super important.
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There's so many dogs that are in desperate need of homes.
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And there's so many wonderful families that once they have
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a dog or cat, realize that.
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Their whole family was incomplete.
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We live in a world now where our animals are
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our family members. We don't live in that age where
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you just undo a can of slop and feed it
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to them and keep them in a pen.
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Not sleep in beds now. Eat regular food, as they should.
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When I come home and I'm sad, for whatever reason,
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these dogs are unconditional love. They come up and they
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provide such emotional support for me, for our kids, for
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my husband, for everyone.
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It's so beautiful to say it that way.
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And it's so important that you are at this event
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because you can send the message, the importance of animal
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welfare by hosting something.
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And, you know, technologies are advancing rapidly. And so we
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don't really need to be like testing things on animals
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to see how far we can take things in a
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bad way.
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Now we have a much better technique. So it's an
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intention that I think is really smart. Absolutely. Neil, thank you. Oh,
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so good to see you. Neil Patrick Harris, ladies and gentlemen.
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I am so excited to be here with the one,
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the only, Chrissy Grinkley, my BFL.
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And she is the presenter tonight for this very important award.
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So I'm giving an award tonight to a company called Inulay,
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and it's so interesting. They do this special technology that
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would completely eliminate animal testing. And I think to liberate
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the animals from the cages would be so amazing. This
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is such a special award because it's literally genius on
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a chip.
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Yes, it is.
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It's really amazing technology. And now they need us. And
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we need to sign the petitions. And we need to
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call our reps. And we need to do everything in
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our power to protect them.
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Oh, such an important message. Brilliantly and passionately put, Christy.
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And now I'm with the animal advocate extraordinaire, Beth Stern.
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She and I have been animal advocates
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since we could talk.
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And we remind her the minute we met.
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And we always email each other when a new addition
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comes to the family.
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This is the first one. What are you going to
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call her?
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It goes back to when I was born. I think
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it was, I was born, it's in my blood. Always
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had animals. My parents had animals before my brothers came
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into the world. We've been rescuing since, I don't know,
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like without rescuing. That's what my family did. And right now,
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my husband Howard.
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Is at home taking care of 36 fosters.
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Also, we've got five rabbits, actually four are now ours.
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We have a new rabbit. We've got a guinea pig.
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We've got a million kittens. It's just, you know, and
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I pose for everybody. So that's the beauty of there
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are good people out there. There's some horrific stories. There
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are the people like you that welcome rescues into their home.
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And it's just so great.
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And can I just share that I have been so
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hooked on the videos where she actually, she and Howard,
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rescued these baby squirrels smaller than my hand.
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None of them.
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And they're actually getting to be released.
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I saw them. They're roaming around. I'm so excited. And
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Ginny from Wildlife. We love Ginny.
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She's the most amazing wildlife rehabber. So that's really amazing.
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And you've chronicled some of your amazing journeys with your
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best-selling books.
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Thank you. The most recent one. How about the most
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adorable bunny rabbit, Ann?
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Pocomelon, my disabled kitten, and they fell in love, and
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they were living in the Stern household happily ever after.
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I love it, because, you know, most people would think squirrels, rabbits.
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Howard and I rescued a vole.
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Do you know what a vole is?
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What is a vole?
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It's a rodent.
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It's a little black rodent. He was on our walkway.
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He died. Drove him to the wildlife rescue center. And
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I think they used him for, don't ask, but we tried.
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We tried.
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And I love that Howard would do this because he
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seems like he might be a little easy.
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We bought them from Trapshing where you allow bugs, if
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there's a bug or a spider that He humanely rescues them,
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and you put them in this little contraption, and you
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can look at them with the magnifying glass, and you
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take them outside and release them.
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He now is obsessed with using that.
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He will not kill any little bug or anything, not
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even a flea.
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I love it.
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And for the world who doesn't know her husband, the
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one and only Howard Stern, who I.
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Have said, Years ago, he was the best intramural. I'll relate.
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I love that coming from Jill Rapaport.
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Also, supporting what you did.
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Because when you got together, he wasn't exactly infamous.
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You know what? He always had it in him. He
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was an animal lover.
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I don't think I would have gone on the second
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date had he not been an animal lover.
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I think that came up.
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So, I don't think he knew his world was going
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to be like this, though.
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But he loves it. Thank you, Jill.
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I am so thrilled to be with Susie Welch, who
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I've known for years through NBC, and you are so
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involved with this gala.
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There's so many people who are responsible for this gala.
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I am just very happy to be here, happy to
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chair it. It's a great honor.
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And you've chaired it for many years.
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Yes, I have.
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I'm afraid to count how many years it's been. I
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co-chaired with Georgina Bloomberg, and this year Karen Flight is
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joining us.
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Well, it's such an incredible honor.
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And I remember in 2012, I was up on that
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stage receiving the first voice for the Voiceless Award.
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It was the most incredible honor. Along with Cory Booker.
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What a great advocate you are. So I feel in
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the presence of greatness.
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Oh, you're so sweet. And meanwhile, you are... A force
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to be reckoned with, Susie.
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What you have done and what you are working on,
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you never stop.
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Tell us a little bit about what's on your plate
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these days.
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I'm a professor at NYU Stern School of Business where
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I teach management. I teach a class called Becoming You.
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So it's a wonderful experience to be helping people find
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their purpose. But my passion is for animals. And so
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I'm still on the board of the Humane World for
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Animals and involved in all of their projects.
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And we had a phone conversation a couple of years
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ago and we talked about your big, beautiful dogs.
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And you were having some serious.
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Health issues yes tell me who are you the pet
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parent to now i have two big german shepherds uh
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sir and audrey and i have a little dachshund who
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came from a hoarding case i feel like i love
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him too i love them too so i'm very lucky
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that way and all rescues obviously yeah and i always
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say and i don't have human children but they give
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us more joy these animals and compassion.
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As i have four children and grandchildren but be honest
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they get high.
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Their But they give me a great deal of joy.
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They certainly do. And they need our help now more
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than ever. There are so many animals in need. We
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have to speak for them.
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They cannot speak for themselves.
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We have to speak for them.
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Well, Susie Welch, I am so excited to catch up
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with you. Congratulations on doing such a stellar job.
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Thank you.
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Now I'm here with the CEO and president of this
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great organization, Kitty Block.
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And you have really done an amazing job.
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Thank you so much.
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We've got an amazing staff around the world.
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It is a beautiful night and thrilled you're here. And
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this event, as you know, is very special to my heart.
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I remember being up on this stage and feeling like
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this was the greatest honor in the world.
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It really is such a special event, Kim.
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It's such a special event and it really honors the
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people and the work because a lot of it happens
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behind the scenes and a lot of people don't know
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what's happening.
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And this showcases all of it in such a beautiful, compelling...
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Loving way.
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Last year, when I interviewed you, we talked about the
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state of animal welfare and what's been going on.
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And have we made strides this year?
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What can we look forward to and where do we
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need to be?
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Well, what I'm most excited about is what we're featuring
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here tonight, which is animals and testing and research. There
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has never been a time in history where public opinion,
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the science and government action have come together all over
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the world. change this so the science getting animals out
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of it better science for humans without animal suffering what
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more can we want so we are pushing hard and
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we're going to drive this one and end this that
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is such fantastic news and now with our blue nami
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the blue wave do you think that'll even help it more?
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It does on some issues, but really the good thing
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about our work is everybody loves animals.
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And so it knows no political divide. It knows no
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political divide. They have friends and allies in every community.
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every party, and they need that.
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And so that's what we really focus on, those who
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will lead on animal issues, and.
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That's what matters to the animals. Well, you are kicking
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butt in this role.
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You have the most important job in the organization. Talk
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about stress and pressure.
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And she always.
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Says that, ladies and gentlemen, with the most beautiful smile
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and the best attitude.
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Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Always wonderful to see you and hear what you're telling
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the world.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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We love you. Thank you so much, Kitty. And that
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is a wrap.
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Live from the Humane World for Animals to the Rescue Gala.
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What a great event featuring so many amazing people doing
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so much to give back to our animals in need.
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And a reminder that November is Adopt a Senior Dog Month,
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so please open up your hearts and homes to a
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senior dog in need.
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It is the best gift you can give not only them,
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but yourself.
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And thank you again for joining us on Rappaport to
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the Rescue.
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