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Pati and guaranteed fun caseyaa ten fifty am.
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We've got breaking news to report to you, very very
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sad situation.
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You may have heard.
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The Los Angeles Zoo elephants Billy and Tina have been
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relocated to the Tulsa Zoo despite massive controversy, massive upset
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by people who said, don't move them, and the city
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did not listen.
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The mayor did not listen.
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These animals have been there for decades and they have tougher.
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You see the rocking motion that's stereotypic rocking. The Los
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Angeles Zoo was begged to move these two aging, beloved
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elephants to a sanctuary. There were sanctuaries that were reportedly
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willing to take them, but they said no, and they
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moved them to another zoo, sparking outcry. Celebrities like Cher
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and Lily Tomlin and a list of dozens and dozens
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of people who are leaders in Los Angeles, concluding myself
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wrote a letter to Mayor Karen Bath saying, please, please
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do not send these.
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Animals to a zoo.
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But they did it anyway, So how on earth are
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we going to keep this story alive? How are we
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going to prevent Billy and elephants like from being forgotten. Well,
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there is a new movie being made about elephants, and
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the people making that have a track record of keeping
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these kinds of horrors alive because they are the makers
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of the film Harambe, about a gorilla who was shot
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at a zoo and because of their documentary Harambe, his
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plight has not been forgotten.
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Gorilla standing over him, I'm going.
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To contact with over me, a zoo under fire for
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shooting and killing and endangered gorilla instead of tranquilizing him.
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This whole tragedy was a misunderstanding.
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And then it.
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Blew up into a meme and it's unforgettable.
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The story remains still as important today as it was
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in twenty sixteen.
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The killing of Arambe put his name in the news
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and it's iconic.
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The main message of how do.
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We help these guerrillas in the wild That still should
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be the main focus of.
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The name Harambre.
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Gorilla's are keystone species in their habitats that if you
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remove that one species, the ecosystem will completely collapse.
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Six hundred million zoo visits a year. We are fundamentally
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miseducating people and we.
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Put these beautiful creatures who we say we want to
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look after and say in prison.
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So I am so honored to be able to say
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that there is a team that is going to do
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for Billy.
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And Tina what was done for Harambe.
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And without further ado, I would like to introduce that team,
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the incredible filmmaker Eric Crown and his partner.
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Let's go out to Eric. First of all, Eric.
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Tell us you have a gift for filmmaking. How are
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you going to save elephants and why should people donate
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to your new film?
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You know, Jane, thank you so much for having us
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on to talk about this topic. It is incredibly important.
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We are losing keystone species at such a fast rate
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and right now elephant populations are depleting and those are
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the wild and the rest of them that we have
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in captivity are never going to be in the wild.
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And Billientina are a very sad example of the traditional
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role for captive elephants where they are bred just to
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sell tickets and they will live their lives making money
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for their owners until they can eventually be moved to
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a sanctuary, which, for some reason, the La Zoo has
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repeatedly tried to push this deal with Tulsa, and we
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were able to get to work with a lot of
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elephants all around the world, and we see this problem
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in every single country, so it is really important. You know,
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what our goal is is to make a movie that
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can educate people. We're taking our camera's first
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hand. We're
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going to take you to illegal logging sites. We're going
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to take you to how a sanctuary should work. We're
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going to take you to the cruelty of captivity, and
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we're going to show you firsthand so you can make
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up your own mind about these elephants. And right now
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there is a big push to remove all elephants from
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all captivity purposes, and they've already moved and shut down
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a few zoo exhibits. So we think there's a great
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hope that we can make a change. The only thing
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missing is a little bit more education, and we hope
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that this movie can really fill that patch and bring
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people emotionally in to the story and really learn about
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what's happened with elephants over the last fifty years. Which
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you know, we're a big conservationists, we're vegans, and we
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had no idea that this issue is happening. So it's
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happening right under all of our noses.
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Well, I'm putting the link to your Indie Go Go campaign.
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You can copy it, you can take a photograph of it.
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Please go there for ten dollars. You can be involved
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and you can also be an executive producer for a
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ten thousand dollars.
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It's really up to you.
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But together we can, you know, build a movement, because
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the plight of Billi and Tina should never be forgotten,
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just like the plight of Harambe.
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The gorilla has not been forgotten, specifically.
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Because of your film, because news reports come and go,
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but documentaries stay. And that's why this documentary is so important.
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So let's take a look at your film. You have
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sort of an outtakes or a sizzle reel giving us
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a sense of what you're going.
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To be doing.
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In Thailand.
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Rooms one of the most important keystone species.
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In the world, the elephant. The keystone species is essential
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to the biodiversity in the area in which it lives,
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and elephants are
essential for forest regeneration. They are also
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listed as endangered and on the road to extinction, and
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Asian elephants have passed the sentience tests, meaning they're self
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aware and fully have an understanding that they're not free.
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And with the Asian elephant popular down around seventy percent,
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the newest form of captivity for profit will keep them
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from bouncing back well.
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Because we have so many elephants as suffer in a
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different industry, the industry of locking ivory. This is also
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certainly their life made them call extinction.
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Other issues include traditions such as these traditional Buddhist carvings
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in ivory for.
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The elephant performing and painting elephant. And this is the
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torture did they have? They have no idea about what
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is behind the scene.
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It's absolutely extraordinary And I just hope that everybody pitches
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in so that you can get the funds you need
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to finish your movie.
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Tell us how harambe?
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Because you made Harambe, and that really did keep the
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issue of Harambe alive. Because these news reports, even if
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they're national news reports, they come and go. But because
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of your documentary, Harambe became sort of a catch phrase
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for no primates in captivity. Is your new film that
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you're kick starting to raise to finish going to basically
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become a catch phrase for no elephants in captivity.
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Ever, we definitely hope. So we definitely hope. So you know,
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we take the perspective of animal rights as opposed to
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say animal welfare, and what we want is to see
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these animals properly where they're supposed to be, and we
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really hope. You know, we were working on Arambe, we
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noticed there were elephants in the zoo and they were
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just moving back and forth like this, and then we
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eventually learned, you know, in the video we saw with
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Billy and Tina as well, that that is what they
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tend to call zookosis, which is the stress of this movement,
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and it's something Zucosis is something we want to bring
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out in Harambe, and it's something we want to bring
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out in the Elephant movie as well in Keystone because
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they are Keystone species. You know, if we lose the elephants,
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we'll lose our biodiversity, and we'll lose our planet, and
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we'll lose we'll lose everything that we have as well.
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So our survival is wrapped up in their survival. And
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our goal is definitely to add something into the conversation
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that is a permanent piece, and our big goal is
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to get as many amazing expert voices as we can
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to come in on this, because when we make movies,
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we tend to bring in the experts from a different
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variety of areas to talk about the problems that these
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animals are facing. So, you know, it's not so much
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about us per se in the movies, but we want
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to For example, with Keystone, we have a whistleblower that's
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willing to give us some undercover video of the cruelty
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that goes on in circuses and other places with elephants.
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We have non Human Rights Project, We have Left Tailor,
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who is one of the top elephant sanctuary people over
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in Thailand. And you know, we definitely believe that a
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feature film can jump over the wall of journalism or
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over the wall of silence that a lot of times
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these topics face, because they will be contrary to making
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money for these companies, and a lot of zoos, as
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i'm sure everybody knows, are tied in with a lot
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of these cities, you know, in states, so when you're
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talking to the zoo, it's not a single entity, it's
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kind of the county as well. So we really really
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want to do this, you know, and we need it
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more than ever right now, because we're, like I said,
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we're losing elephants at a terrible rate, and the cruelty
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we've seen in captivity must end, and we want all
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captivity to end. But we definitely
want to see at
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least sentient keystone beings such as Harambei and such as
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every elephant that exists, because they're all sentent or they're
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all keystone out of this captivity into sanctuaries where they
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can live their lives out in a more natural fashion,
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in the way that they were meant to.
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So you're looking at the indie go go link, you
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can take a photograph of it, put it in. It's
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also if you're watching on Facebook or x or LinkedIn
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or YouTube, it's going to be in the comment and
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is in the comments section. And what's really cool about
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this is you ever want to be a co producer
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of a movie, Well you got a chance. Five thousand
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dollars you become a co producer. Ten thousand dollars. You
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can be an executive producer, but you don't have to
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give that much money ten dollars, just ten dollars, and
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you can be a supporter and tell us for that
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ten dollars.
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What what do we get?
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Great? Well, you know, and that's exactly the thing.
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You know.
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We wanted to make an easy buy in at ten
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dollars all the way up to five thousand or ten thousand,
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And when you come in at ten thousand, you're joining
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our community, you're joining our movement, you're joining our voice.
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We need to all come together as one and become
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a community focused on pushing forward. And I totally agree, Karen.
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People need to know more and there's more mysteries surrounding elephants.
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We were shot. How many people we talked to still
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want to go ride elephants in Thailand, So we need
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a lot of education. So for ten dollars, you can
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come in, you can join our project. You'll get a
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digitally signed poster which definitely will be a one of
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a kind, and your name will also be added to
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the website as an early supporter, so you can show
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everybody that you care about elephants and that you are
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part of the solution.
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I want to talk to you about why this is
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important because some people say, Okay, a documentary is nice,
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but it's more important to protest and my point about
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Harambe and what you did with Harambe, is that there
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were a lot of stories about this horrific killing of
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this gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo that it turns out
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the gorilla was just trying to protect the little boy
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and it's not his fault. The gorilla us Paul that
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the boy fell into the enclosure. They killed the gorilla
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as opposed to using a dark gun. But that would
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have come and go with the news cycle, and I
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was in the news for many years. That's a one
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day story unfortunately, But because you did a documentary about it,
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how did that keep the story alive? And how we
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did have repercussions for other gorillas and other zoos.
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What kind of message did it send?
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You know, it was we were really happy with how
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Harambe was received. Uh, you know, we started to get
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support from all over the country, well all over the
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world really, and what we really wanted to focus on
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was being able to tell the story. First of all,
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you know, as you were saying, the news cycle, it
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comes and goes, but it also got everything wrong. You know,
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the mother was blamed for Harambe, and we found out
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it was actually the zoo's legal fault, and so you know,
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you have a nice chance to go in and correct
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the story and make sure that the permanent story that's
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being told is being told by the right people and
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the right voices that will best carry it in the
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interest of all the victims involved. And in Harambe, there
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were two victims. There was a poor child that fell
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in and there was Harambe. And we don't want to
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see this happen anymore. We see a lot of elephant
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attacks over in Thailand, for example, You'll see it all
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over the news all the time, and it's because
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shouldn't be next to people. That is just that simple.
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And what you know, what Harambe was able to do
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was able to help push a lot of anti zoo
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groups and to push a lot of people trying to
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protest and say, get these gorillas out of our zoo now.
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And you know, I said, we're seeing elephants already being
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moved out of zoos, whether it's Ireland now La, even
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though unfortunately they're going to Tulsa. But we are seeing
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a movement where everybody says we want to see a change,
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and we can no longer do this. You know, we're
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thinking as if it's eight teen ninety and we have
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these sentient beings that are so important to our biodiversity
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being held in a concrete cell for no reason, and
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they're being bred to sell tickets. And Billy and Tina
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that have been through this. Every elephant in the zoo
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for the most part, has been through this, unless they've
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been illegally imported in. So we feel that, you know,
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making documentaries, they are important because you are able to
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bring in a lot of voices in the unified message
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to really talk about the topic and cover all the
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topics and go in and investigate these foundational arguments that
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we always hear when you talk about the zoo. People say, oh,
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they're doing conservation. Okay, well, how are they doing conservation?
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And when you drill down, they're not. And it's just
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that simple.
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They're not well to the point of Billy and Tina,
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this was a debate that was happening literally headlines, global headlines,
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and you know what's really sad is it didn't really
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matter what anybody said. It didn't matter what Share said,
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it didn't matter what Lily Tomlin said, It didn't matter
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when community leaders like former councilman Paul Koretz spoke up
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and said The place for these animals is a sanctuary.
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Listen.
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I believe a well run sanctuary with proper veterinary support
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is a much better environment for an elephant. It allows
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an elephant to really be an elephant. No matter how
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well run a zoom might be, it's inevitably not as
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natural or healthy an environment for these animals. And that
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is why I've been working to free Billy for more
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than a decade.
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And we just got Tiffany. Brunelli says, great project donating.
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Now thy Tiffany, you want to keep these donations coming in,
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super important. They cannot do it alone. Yeah, here you
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have with Billy and Tina. Council members. There was even
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a battle inside the city council chambers. We're a current
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council member was literally kind of begging and pleading for
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the Los Angeles Zoo to send Billientina to a sanctuary.
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And it would cost the city tax payers less. And
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despite all that, they sent these.
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Two animals to another zoo after decades of them suffering.
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It's your desire to send them to the Tulsa Zoo
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instead of the ACA accredited sanctuaries. It would seem that
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sending an elephant to a sanctuary where you have three
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thousand acres to rome would be better than a zoo
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where you have twenty acres or less, just from the
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benefit of that of that elephant. Could you explain why
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that's not the case.
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While space might be one consideration of a factor that
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can contribute to an animal's well being, it's not the
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only thing. It's the opportunity to be in a social environment,
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in a herd environment. It's the quality of the care
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and the individual needs of the animal, and all of
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that in combination. We feel they can achieve at the
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Tulsa Zoo.
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And you think that what they get at the Tulsa
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Zoo is substantially better than what they would get at
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the AZA accredited sanctuary.
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I think what they can get at the Tulsa Zoo
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is the ability to be in an environment where they
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can thrive.
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Is it better than the other environment?
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It's not a matter is one better than the other.
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You could say a sanctuary can provide a great environment
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for a particular animal based on its needs, the same
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way that a zoo can.
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Again, despite these heated arguments within the city council, where
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that city Councilman Bob Bloomenfield is basically begging the head
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of the La zoo to do the right thing. And
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you saw the gobbly book that was spewed out. She
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also happens to be ahead of the entire zoo association.
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Uh so, you know, zoos want to make they want
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to stay alive.
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That's the point. So what was your reaction to that interaction?
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I mean, I just I couldn't leave what I was
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seeing there. Everything she said was absolute misinformation and the
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opposite of the truth. You know, they they need, for example,
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a social structure. They also need to be able to
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walk multiple kilometers a day. There are so many needs
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that are not met by elephants and zoos. And every
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elephant in the zoo shakes back and forth, and you
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can see that that zooosis. You can see the stress
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on them, you know, and it's it's amazing to watch
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or do this because it's a great example of how
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the problem is bigger than this elephant, this zoo, this law.
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The problem is bigger. The problem is our minds. You know,
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you talk about somebody like Peter sing or you talk
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about speciesism. These elephants are sentient beings. They that should
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be the end of the argument right there, we should
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be able to keep sentient beings in captivity. That is
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an outdated modality of thinking. And the zoos find these
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animals as property. They define them as property. A lot
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of zoos will claim that they cost one dollar. The
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entire collection of animals they'll put in their insurance is
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one dollar. This was reported by the New York Times.
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One dollar to keep their insurance low. So they have
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no value for these animals. There's zero value and appreciation
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for their lives. They're complex, emotional lives, their social structures,
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their needs in any way, shape or form. And I would,
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you know, I would love the opportunity to be able
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to talk to her, because you know, there's just it's impossible.
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I mean we you know, Sierah and I have seen
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elephants in in nature and doing what they're supposed to
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be doing, and they're completely different. And again the problem
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is that we think of them as property. And we
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need to change the mindset. And that's something else we
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want to do with the movie is give enough information
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that the empathy that's naturally in everybody that connects us
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to elephants as magical, crazy, mystical looking beings. That is
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what we really want to promote, and to think of
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them as not just this elephant or this animal, but
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as another being. You know, like we said in Harambe,
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or Ian says in Harambe, we're human beings, they're gorilla beings. Well,
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this is the same thing. We have to understand that
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they're beings and they deserve a place on earth and
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they deserve as much respect as we do. So to
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hear to hear that coming out of the Los Angeles
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director was really infuriating.
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It is and everybody's furious, and I do believe there
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will be political consequences. We're going to play another clip
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from your sort of sizzle reel about why you need
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the funding to complete this movement, and then we're going
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to talk to Sierra Williams, your cop on the other side.
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So we've been traveling all over Thailand helping rescue elephants.
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We've also worked in Colombia, Mexico, Africa and several other
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continents working on animal rights issues and captivity issues. While
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working on our documentary Harambe, we became aware of the
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elephant captivity issue and although our principal photography in Thailand
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is complete. We do need your help. We need to
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be able to get over to England and do our
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interview with Ian Redman, the Elephant Expert, to expand the
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base of knowledge, talk about keystone species and have an
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elephant expert to talk about the plight of all elephants worldwide.
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And we're also very excited to work with our good
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friend Peter Egan who produced and narrated Harambe and is
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coming back to narrate this documentary with us.
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So the actor Peter is going to be involved in
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this film. That's so exciting.
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Sierra, thank you so much for joining us. Tell us
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why people should be involved in this film. Why is
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this going to save the lives of elephants.
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Well, first of all, thank you Jane for having us
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on today. And you know, this movie is so important
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because it gives people an opportunity to learn more about
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elephants and their true nature. And you know how we
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need to treat them differently, and I really do believe
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that it comes down to education. It comes down to
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just changing the way we think about how we treat animals,
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and especially elephants. They really deserve the freedom, the autonomy
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to do what they want to do and just be themselves,
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and they have a role in our environment that is
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so important that is often misunderstood or not even understood
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at all. So I yeah, it's really important that we
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get this information out there to everyone.
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Yeah, and you know, it's a perfect time for you
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to be doing this documentary because this is one of
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the biggest scandals in the animal rights world that I
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can remember, certainly this year, when you have people like
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Share and Lily Tomlin and a whole bunch of other
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celebrities pleading with the mayor of Los Angeles, and the
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New York Times did an article and it's all over
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the news. There were new stories last night, there are
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new stories today. People are outraged. They are outraged because,
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as somebody said in one of the comments, here, La
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is supposed to be the most progressive city, and how
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is this happening in Los Angeles right here? How is
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Los Angeles keeping an elephant in the zoo? It's the
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most progressive city on the planet. They're moving them from
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this zoo to another zoo when there were sanctuaries available,
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and they're having to spend approximately forty five thousand dollars
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where going to the sanctuary would have been free, and
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it's just we're lagging. Los Angeles is behind the curve
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on this. There are so many other cities in California
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that have closed their e and exhibits and sent their
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elephants not to another zoo but to sanctuary.
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So it's extremely frustrating, you know.
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I want to get back to what happens to these
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elephants in zoos as well as when they're captured for
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being elephant rides, which I urge everybody never take an
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elephant ride. Let's listen to what Cher said in a
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film by Voice for Animals about that and when Billy was.
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Just a calf. To prepare him for a lifetime in captivity,
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he was forced to endure a brutal training regime which
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still affects his mental well being. Billy came to the
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La Zoo in nineteen eighty nine. He was only about
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four years old.
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This is a training video made at the zoo with
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Billy as an example of how to train an elephant.
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Billy's tusks have been cut, his front legs chained, and
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the bullhook held by the trainer. Here the trainer holds
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Billy down by block and tackle U's in front and
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rear leg chains.
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It's disgusting to watch it is, it's so revolting, but
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people don't believe it. Like even when they see the video,
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they go, well, that can't be happening today.
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That can't be happening at zoo.
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You know. In my opinion, zoos are animal prisons, and
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the animals are serving time having committed no crime. And
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zoos are a nineteenth century concept that need to go
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bye bye, and we need to either transfer all of
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these zoos, transition them into sanctuaries, or they need to
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be shut down.
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That's my personal opinion. If I run into.
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Somebody who's where is the zoo, I don't care whether
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it's in New York looking for the Central Park zoo
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or out here looking for the La Zoo, I say,
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I'm not going to tell you because I don't want
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to encourage you to go to a prison for animals.
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And as somebody said in your film, Harambe, it sends
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the worst message to kids that other bees are there
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to be put on display for us and are not
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entitled to their own existences.
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It's oppression. And I was told a long.
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Time ago the difference between a zoo and a sanctuary is.
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Zoos are designed for people, so they have to keep
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them in a limited space.
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Otherwise, somebody would buy a ticket and they'd go.
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To see the animal, and the animal would be off
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doing whatever he or she wants to do. Sanctuaries are
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designed with the animals in mind. So if you go
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to a sanctuary and the elephant is either not visible
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or somewhere else, then that's okay because the sanctuary is
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designed for the elephant in mind. Additionally, sanctuaries don't breed animals,
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and zoos are breeding animals, and there is a theory
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that one of the reasons why they wanted Billy to
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go to the La Zoo, to go for the l
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A Zoo to the Tulsa Zoo is to breed him more,
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which to me is rape. They're not making love in
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these zoos, Okay, it is rape. What is your thought
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on all of that?
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Absolutely? You know, I mean, every animal should be able
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to choose they who they meet with, and you know,
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I think it's it's cruel thing to do, and it's
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you know, going back to the training, it's something that
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people don't see, you know, we don't will we see
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--> 00:28:34.519
our baby animals at the zoo, and it entices people
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to go buy more tickets and they think that that's
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supporting a good thing, but actually it's just us marketing
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to you know, it's just the zoo's marketing to families
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to make more money. So I all around, the zoo
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is not a happy place or a good place for
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these animals. They need to get out and they need
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to be in a place that's their natural habitat. They
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need to be in a sanctuary, protected space, it protected
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wild space that they can and if they need care,
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they can get it. It's so important, you know. Going
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to these sanctuaries in Thailand, it was amazing to see
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massive amounts of people coming together for these elephants and
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doing everything they can to help them and give them
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what they need. And it was just so wonderful. I
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had never seen anything like that before versus when I
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was a little girl going to the zoo. All I
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knew was this shape of an animal that was standing
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still and rocking or swaying, and that's all I knew. So,
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you know, it's such a different I wouldn't even call
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it an education at the zoo. I would say brainwashing.
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Yes, And This is some of the film that you
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have and you talk about the fact that elephants experience
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self recognition.
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Tell us about that, yes, they can recognize themselves in
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the mirrors. There have been studies the mirror test where
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they mark a little put a little mark on the
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side of their heads and put them in front of
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a mirror to see if they can recognize that it's
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actually them in the mirror.
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And it's so amazing to see that, and also.
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To see their other social structures in play, to see
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the moms and the nannies taking care of the babies
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and you know, just making sure that the whole herd
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is is well taken care of. Elephants are so amazing.
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They're social, they don't forget, they they mourn they're dead,
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and they protect their herd and they're actu absolutely incredible creatures.
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Well, you are listening to the filmmakers behind Harambe and
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this is some of the footage of their new film.
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Their previous film about a gorilla who was shot at
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a zoo because a child had the misfortune of falling
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in to the.
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Enclosure, has kept that story alive, I believe sixteen and
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so if you donate to this film.
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We will keep the story of Billy the Elephant, the
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horrors that Billy the Elephant has experienced. We will keep
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the horrors of what happened to Tina.
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These two elephants being.
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Moved from the La Zoo to the Tulsa Zoo against
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the objection of so many people and protests.
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Year after year after year after year.
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There were protests every weekend at the zoo begging for
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the release of these animals. And after all of that,
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they decided. And this is pretty much breaking news. I mean,
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it was just confirmed last night that they moved them
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in the dead of night to another zoo, a zoo that,
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according to the indefensive animals, has problems.
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So I want to get back to Eric.
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Eric, tell us why you think this elephant movie that
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you're making right now, that you're raising money for will
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be a game changer for elephants.
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Great. Well, you know, I think this will be the
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first time we've been able to, you know, really bring
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the community together. You know, we talk about the protests,
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and those are really important. It's important that people become
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educated travelers. If you're going to go to Asia, don't
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go ride the elephants don't touch them, you know, don't
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bathe them. There's a lot of rules that people should know,
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and we need people to become more educated. It's our
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turn to learn about the world and its inhabitants instead
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of just trying to mold them into our particular version
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of what we think of society should be. So as
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you can see those elephants there, some of them has
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stepped on land mines and they're you know, they're they're
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deformed and their legs are messed up forever. And you know,
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this is a major issue because a lot of these elephant,
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you know, every elephant that you see in captivity has
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gone through that horrible process that was in the video
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Share was showing and and every single one of them.
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It's designed to break their spirits because we have seen
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wild elephants and they are dangerous. Elephants don't want to
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know us. Here's some footage of the illegal logging that
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we went up and got in Thailand as well, so you.
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Know, what's this, what's this?
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So this is this is a show, and you can
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see the elephants here are all performing there, they're flying
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their trunks around, they play soccer, and they even go
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to as far as painting, there's elephants in. There's an
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elephant named Lucy in the Edmonton Zoo and they do
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paintings of her. They stick their trunks in paint and
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toxic paint. They say it's non toxic, but you know,
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we've talked to different experts and it's not good for them.
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They put it in and then they make them do
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these paintings and then they sell it. So you know
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the reason. So, okay, the reason we have elephants in
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zoos is eventually became a It eventually became a law.
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The Endangered Species Act, as we learned in Harambe, was
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signed and once that was signed, they could no longer
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import elephants in. So they created a specie survival plan
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and this is where Zoos tricked people. It's called a
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specie survival plan. But no, none of these animals will
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ever go to the wild. Now we've seen how they're trained.
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They would never make it in the wild. Their spirits
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are totally destroyed. They're beaten every day, they're stabbed, they
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have spears. I mean, it is really tortureus process.
And again,
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every single elephant that we see has gone through this,
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So you know the SSP. This the Specie Survival Plan
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is a zoo plan where every zoo will breed a
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couple different endangered elephants. So like, for example, are dangered
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animals like the Tulsa Zoo is potentially going to breed
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the elephants, and not every zoo is going to breed elephants,
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so they'll breed out elephants, and say the Cincinnati Zoo
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or the zoo in Brownsville will breed gorillas.
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And you know what I say, it's not breeding, it's rape.
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Absolutely, they're not making love, they're not choosing their mates.
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It's a horrific process.
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And when I was told about it, it's honestly too
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disgusting to repeat. Yes, but basically they get the sperm,
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do the math. It's disgusting. And this is why many
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people feel this is why they wanted Billy.
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That you know, that wouldn't surprise me at all, And
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that is a terrible, a terrible reason because you know, again,
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these zoos are just protecting their profits. If they were
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doing what was right for the animals, there would be
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no debate. They would have gone to the sanctuary. So
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the zoo told everybody that maybe didn't know before. Yeah,
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we don't really care what happens to these animals. We're
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here to take our money we're getting from Tulsa. And
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I wouldn't be surprised at all if they if they
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did that, we had heard that. You know, they even
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took harambees after he was killed, his line going, and
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you know, and the other thing that we learned in
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Hara Ambi that I thought was crazy is they keep
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all of these animals in the zoos on birth control
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so they can control the cycles of when they need
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the babies to be born, because there is a baby
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what's called a zoo baby phenomenon, and the zoo babies
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are really important, so when you have a smaller animal
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it's a baby, it's really cute. Sierra and I were
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lucky enough to go rescue a seven year old elephant
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in Thailand with the group over there called Unchained Elephants,
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and it was amazing. You know, this poor thing was
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tied up and freaked out and his eyes were going everywhere.
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And the next morning he was released into this huge,
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beautiful sanctuary area and his entire demeanor change and he
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started to become himself. And I think Sierra was talking about.
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You know, they have a family structure that's so important.
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They have a mom, but within the herd, they also
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have a nanny that will help take care of them.
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So there's so much to learnlearn about these elephants and
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to learn how similar we are to them and how
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we all understand and need to coexist in the world.
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But we do owe them a lot more for all
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these years that we've done wrong by them.
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And if you're just joining us, we have some very
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sad breaking news.
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Despite protests, repeated protests.
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Please from city council members and all sorts of entreaties
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to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Vass, the Los
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Angeles Zoo has moved the elephants Billientina to the Tulsa Zoo,
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even though there were accredited sanctuaries willing to take them.
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And this has sparked an uproar. As I've mentioned the
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likes of share Lily Tomlin and numerous other celebrities, something
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like eighty leaders in this city and people of note,
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and I did include myself in that letter that was sent,
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but also just citizens everywhere just outraged, and so we're
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so happy to have a solutionary approach that we're not
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just going to scream and yell about this loss, but
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we have an opportunity to fund a documentary about elephants,
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and Billy and Tina are going to be in the
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mix there so that we keep their story alive. Because
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that's exactly what happened with Harambe. Harambe was a gorilla
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that was killed. Who was killed, I should say, and
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it would have been a one day story. But because
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these same filmmakers did a film about Harambe, it has
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remained in the public consciousness and continued to be considered
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an outrage, continued to make change. So in a way,
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Harambe the gorilla is a martyr.
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Over I'm going to.
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Contact a.
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Zoo under fire for shooting and killing and endangered gorilla
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instead of tranquilizing him.
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This whole tragedy was a misunderstanding.
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And then it blew up into a meme and it's unforgettable.
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The story remains still as important today as it was
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in twenty sixteen.
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The killing of Arambek put his name in the news
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and it's iconic. The main message of how do we
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help these gorillas in the wild, that still should be
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the main focus of the name.
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Harambre Gorillas are keystone species in their habitats that if
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you remove that one species, the ecosystem will completely collapse.
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Six hundred million zoo visits a year. We are fundamentally
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miseducating people, and.
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We put these beautiful creatures who we say we want
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to look after and say in prison.
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It's so awful. And we have some good news though.
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Karen Lacava said, I've donated and will donate again.
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Everybody donate. Let's educate.
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And Sierra, you're producing a partner, has sent a link.
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We have a couple of links here. Here's what Sierra says.
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You can go to this. You can just take a
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photo of that and then you can just type it out.
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And make a donation later or do it right now.
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I mean, there's no time like the present. And once again,
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you can become anything from a.
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Just a person who gives ten dollars.
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Which is wonderful, up to Hope producer five thousand and
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if you want to be an executive producer, who wouldn't
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that's a nice thing, right, ten thousand dollars you become
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an executive producer of this
incredible movie. So so okay, well,
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let me just say this, what is going to happen
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when this movie is done?
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Who is going to see it?
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Like?
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What is your plan to make it a change maker?
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Right? Well, you know that that's a really an important
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aspect and that's one of the reasons that we want
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to make sure we get these documentaries done because we
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have ways now to get them out to market where
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they couldn't be before. And one of the most important
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ways is to make sure that it's available free of charge.
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So our goal, just like Arambe, is to have it
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on to b to have it on a couple other
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free platforms unchained TV as well, because we want the
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right audience. We want the people that really, you know,
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are tuned into us, and they're the ones that are
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going to get turned on and start telling the small
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facts about every If you just tell one parent about zoochosis,
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it's going to challenge them. Are they going to take
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their kids? And if they do and they notice zukosis,
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will they go again? So everybody's support is so important
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to us. Right now, you know, we've got about eighty
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percent of the movie completed, all the overseas stuff Thailand,
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and now what we need to do is finish our
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work here in the States, and we need to be
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talking about Billy and Tina. We're doing some work regarding circuses.
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We can't talk too much about it right now, but
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it'll be in the movie. And the most important thing
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again is to provide educational information that can open the
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doors of empathy, understanding, and change. And we can do
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that together. But we need to be a community. We
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need everybody together. You know, everybody that comes in on
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our projects becomes like a family to us because we're
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all fighting for one thing, and that is for a
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better future for all inhabitants of this earth. So everybody
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that can join us would be an incredible experience. And again,
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you know, we don't really it's not about money. You know,
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we need the funding because we want to provide it
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for free afterwards. And now we don't have to also
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make any changes. We don't have to change what we're saying,
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and we don't have to play the game in distribution anymore.
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You know, we had a lot of stories stopped over
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the years due to distribution games. Now we're in a
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digital age where we can, like I said, get it
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on TV, get it on you know, Apple TV, It'll
754
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be everywhere and available for free, so everybody can share it,
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watch it, show it, and educate, and you know, we
756
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can really, I think, move the needle on this because
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it's just outrageous what happened with Billy and Tina, and
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there's such a passionate collective in Los Angeles as fighting,
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there's passionate collectives.
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Yeah, let me say this.
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You know you are my hero because you are going
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through a very serious health crisis right now, and most
763
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people would just be saying, I'm taking care of me,
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But can you tell us about what's happening with you
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and why you have the courage and the resilience and
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the relentlessness to continue on this, even though you know,
767
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for most people they'd say, well, this is as important
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as my health.
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I'm just going to relax and take care of myself.
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Thanks Shane. It means a lot to hear that. It
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is a hard road for Sierra and I. I've been
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battling cancer since two thousand and five. I was diagnosed
773
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with an environmental sort of hybrid cancer. I've been through
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thirteen surgeries, I've had experimental drugs, I've kind of done everything.
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I just did imminotherapy and it failed. So we're about
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to start chemo chemo rounds coming up in June and
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July August, and then we'll take it from there. So
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far nothing has worked. So we'll do four chemo rounds
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and we'll do another test and see if it works
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or not. It's a very uncertain thing. I've had a
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very We always say, you know, when you're diagnosed with cancer,
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are given a death sentence or a life sentence. I
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was lucky enough to get a life sentence, so I
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have the ability to go out there and tell these
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stories and with my time, that's what I want to do,
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is try to food everything around, you know, because the
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world is so incredible and it's so amazing, and you know,
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Sierra and I want to share that with everybody. But
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it is it is a challenging backdrop to be battling
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cancer full time during this process and.
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People are sending their best wishes to you, to me,
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that is so inspiring. I mean, think about it, people,
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This gentleman, Eric Crown is suffering from cancer. He's been
794
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fighting it for years and instead of just saying well
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I'm throwing my projects out the window, he and his
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partner Sierra are doubling down traveling the world to get.
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This film done.
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So the least we can do is donate to the Kickstarter,
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and I urge you again, I'm going.
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To be donating. The second I hit the stop button,
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I'm going to be jumping in. I don't know. I
802
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:53.880
was looking. I was like, hmm ah, this looks fun.
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I don't know what I want to do, but I'm
804
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going to definitely do something, and it's going to be
805
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:02.639
more than an early supporter. Everybody is saying wishing, wishing
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you a full recovery, and they want you to be
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on our team.
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Well, we are on the same team. You heard that.
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He said that this film is going to be on
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Unschained TV, which I'm.
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Thrilled to hear because we are really motivated by the
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same thing, you know, to stop the suffering of animals.
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That's why I do what I'm doing. And I can't
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go out and just have fun or relax or travel
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or do whatever when
I know that these animals are
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suffering and they can't speak for themselves. So yes, when
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you give to the animals, Unchained got Eric's back, Yes,
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you have your back, And people are saying, sorry to
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hear that praying that your efforts and your rehabilitation, your
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medical treatments work. So I just want to say, Wow,
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you are an inspiration to me along with Cierra. I
822
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know how hard you work. Now let me just say
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one other thing, people, it's.
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How you cut it.
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The way Harambe was edited was brilliant because it got
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regular people in the tent and it was done like
827
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a true crime story and full reveal. Eric and I
828
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both worked for the same basic overall guy who was
829
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one of the most famous reporters and producers in tabloid television,
830
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and we learned how to make things.
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Right.
832
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So the great thing about donating to this film, it's
833
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not going to be another one of those sad films
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like you know that, it's going to come out of
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the box like boom. It could be on dateline, it
836
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could be on sixty minutes, it could be you know.
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That's what I think your genius is is to make
838
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it like the opening of Harambe is so damn good.
839
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I'm just going to play it.
840
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One more time to show you how not the whole thing,
841
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but just the open to give you a sense.
842
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Of how you get people in the tent. Okay, if you.
843
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.519
Just start with sad music and saying this is terrible.
844
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People are just gonna turn away. They want solutions. First
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of all, they want hope. They want to know that
846
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there's something they can do to stop whatever's happening. And
847
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it has to be captivating and it has to get
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them in the tent the first time around. So here
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we go, just the first twenty seconds, and you're gonna
850
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see what I mean.
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Everyone line.
852
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Over him.
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I'm going to.
854
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A zoo under fire for shooting and killing an endangered
855
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:53.599
gorilla instead of tranquilizing him.
856
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This whole tragedy was do what I mean.
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Do you see what I mean? How that is a
858
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Are you going to have a similar hook with your
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elephant movie?
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00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:07.920
Yes, definitely, because you know that I think that one
861
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:11.159
of the keys is an emotional connection to the story,
862
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and even though we weren't there, we really need to
863
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:16.960
build one of those, and that gets everybody in because
864
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:19.519
then they're willing to take the ride with us. And
865
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you know, I love what you said about solution because
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we are very solution based filmmakers. You know, we know
867
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there's a problem. We're not there to necessarily just talk
868
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:30.039
about the problem, but we want to talk about the
869
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solutions and if you have a problem, it's almost like,
870
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if you have it, you can put it into a suitcase.
871
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And what we want to do is give you the
872
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handle to put on that suitcase, to pick that problem up,
873
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own it, control it, and you can make the difference.
874
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And that's the thing is one person can make a difference,
875
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:48.800
and we've seen it all around the world, and you
876
00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:51.360
know that that's what we think. This project has that
877
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.199
ability for everybody to lock in, make a difference and
878
00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:58.039
push forward for a better future. So we're really we're
879
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:01.159
really excited at the prospects for the movie and you know,
880
00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:04.360
and especially even to get to meet more and more
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00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:08.159
animal rights people, you know, and even more of our
882
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vegan crowd. You know as well. We're a fully vegan
883
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production company, so going vegan is an important way to
884
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also help animals, both in captivity and in the wild
885
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all around. So there are so many solution based things
886
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we can do as an educated consumer that can change
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the world.
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Thank you so much at Sierra so much for joining
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our broadcasts again, please donate, and while
you're at it,
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please download Unshaned TV.
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Just put in an unchained TV in your app store,
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So it's a vegan Netflix. Okay, that's the craziest thing
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the President said it will set tariffs at fifteen percent.
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European Commission had Ursula Vonderleyan said the agreement will rebalance
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trade between the two partners. Trump added the twenty seven
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member EU also agreed to purchase seven hundred and fifty
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billion dollars worth of energy and six hundred billion dollars
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worth of investments in the United States. Israel is pausing
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the fighting in Gaza so humanitarian aid can reach Palestinians,
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Lisa Carton reports.
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President Trump says the US will ramp up a to
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Gaza in response to the humanitarian crisis.
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There to do more aid for Gaza, but we'd like
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to have other countries participate.
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That's an international problem.
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The President made the comment while addressing the media Sunday,
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ahead of trade talks with the EU chief in Scotland.
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Israel Defense forces announced they are starting a tactical pause
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of military operations in Gaza so humanitarian aid convoys can
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reach starving Palestinians.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson hopes that Glaine Maxwell,
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a long time associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was truthful during
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her questioning by the Justice Department. Johnson was on NBC's
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Meet the Press. If she wants to come clean now,
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that would be a great service to the country, and
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we'd like to know every single bit of information that
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she has.
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I certainly hope she's telling the truth.
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Maxwell's lawyer says she answered every single question, including those
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about one hundred different people linked to Epstein. Baba Wallace
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has made racing history following his win at the Brickyard
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four hundred. Wallace won the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
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becoming the first black driver to ever win a major
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race there. It was the third career NASCAR Cup victory
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for Wallace. Wallace race is for the twenty three to
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eleven team, which is owned in part by driver Denny
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Hamlin and basketball legend Michael Jordan. Rob Martyr NBC News Radio.
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Nearly five years after the fact, a bronxwoman is under
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arrest charged with killing her newborn twins. The identical twin
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boys were found unresponsive outside a Bronx apartment complex on
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November ninth, twenty twenty by the building superintendent. Medical examiner
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found the babies died from blunt force trauma. Now, their mother,
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identified as thirty six year old Stephanie Castillo, has been
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arrested and charged with their murders. She faces six counts
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each of murder and manslaughter. Gothamist reports Police are not
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saying how they link Castillo to the baby's deaths. Officials
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with the FDA say Riches ice cream may contain listeria
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over one hundred thousand cases being recalled in twenty three states.
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Health officials say symptoms of the food borne bacteria include fever,
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muscle aches, and diarrhea. Customers are urged to return the
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ice cream or throw it away. For more details, go
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to FDA dot gov. She's been in Mount Sinai Morningside
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Hospital for more than three months, and no one knows
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who she is. More on this mystery from Larry Cosky.
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Hospital officials say the woman, apparently in her late fifties,
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was found in April on a bench at a bus
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stop at one hundred and twenty fifth Street and Lenox
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Avenue in Harlem. She's apparently known in the area and
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they go by the name Pam. In a news release,
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the hospital said she dresses in black and typically hides
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her face. The hospital has posted a photo of the woman,
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hoping someone will recognize her.
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The Fantastic four First Steps is competing with Superman to
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be the biggest superhero movie of the year. Fantastic four
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is also the first movie to break the billion views
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mark on social media, where fans have been watching the trailer.
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Canadian wildfire smoke is causing hazardous par breathing conditions in
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New York City. City officials are warning those with young
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children and anyone with respiratory illness to take precautions. Air
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quality advisories have also been posted in parts of New
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Jersey and Massachusetts. Soot and ash from the wildfires burning
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in northern Manitoba drifted into the northeast US and over
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five boroughs. Rob Bartier, NBC News Radio.
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There's never been a better time for men to be
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whoever they want to be. Yet it's never been less
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clear who men really are. Guys Guy Radio, starring author
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Robert Manny, is on Caseyaa every Wednesday at eight pm.
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Whether it's relationships, sex, wellness, or spirituality, Join Robert as
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he interviews the experts about how men and women can
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be at their best. Guys Guy Radio, Better Men, Better World.
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Ten fifty AM, don't forget that number. And for you
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young people who got here by accidentally fat fingering your
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FM ban, sol there. We're an AM radio station, and
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AM refers to more than just the time of day.
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Ed Robertson