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For The Love of Animals
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Aug 19, 2022
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guys it's time for another episode of
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vault universe live if you're a fan of
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animals or animal stories you've come to
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the right place so
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let's go
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[Music]
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hey guys it's karen otherwise known as
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rob's mom
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and so welcome to the show we're excited
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that you're here if you're here live
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we're thrilled you're here live if
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you're not here live on replay we're
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just as thrilled make sure you put your
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name and where you are watching from in
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the comments but if you are here live
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and you have a question you have
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something to say
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put it in the comments we'll put it up
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on the screen so rob you kind of alluded
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to what we were talking about today
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what do we do
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today is the love of animals because why
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not who doesn't love
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just looking at cute pictures it just
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makes you happy so this uh topic came to
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mind from book i was reading so we
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decided
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let's expand on the idea
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and
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the first point is why we love
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animal stories specifically the cute
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ones the ones that go ah exactly
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my answer to that was because why not
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why not um because happy feels good
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which i feel like is somebody's slogan
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somewhere i don't know um
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so happy animal stories well actually
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let me start off so for me i limit any
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news whatsoever because it's not good
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for me
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whatever but the one thing i do follow
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along on twitter which is the main
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social media
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is
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animal related videos stories pictures
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what have you because you know you could
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be having a bad day or a good day and it
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just gets that much better because
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you're like puppy
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um so why we love them um
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i would like to think the obvious is
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it's the one story that usually can't be
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bad
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even if the story might start kind of
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sad
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it usually ends pretty well case in
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point the story is about people who
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might find an abandoned dog and after
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they clean it up and they get it all you
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know used to people it becomes the best
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dog in the world um you know stuff like
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that so i think
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that's why
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we love those kind of stories
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i would think you probably agree i don't
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know what
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i do i mean uh first of all i i agree i
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think animals especially dogs i mean and
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cats but in my case dogs um they're like
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an amazing family member that a doesn't
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talk back i'm kidding
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yeah uh but they're but they're like a
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family member they are a family member
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and and i think in some cases they
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become even maybe even bigger than a
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family member because you you literally
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i mean when you're feeling sad you pet
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your dog um when you when you need to
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get out maybe get some fresh air you
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take your dog out for a walk so totally
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i i i agree with you 100 there is
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something about reading about animals
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watching animals hearing about animals
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that makes you just like you say go ah
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exactly and to piggyback off you know
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they're family members they're not just
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creatures that live in the house um
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and whether you're a dog a cat a bird
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you know we have reptiles
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whatever the species may be it becomes
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your you know your child your your
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whoever um
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yeah i mean i think generally speaking
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it would be hard-pressed to find anybody
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who would find something wrong with a
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animal story you know and again not all
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of them are always pleasant you know i
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know way back when with the whole
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seaworld incident and there was that
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revolution about keeping whales and you
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know whatever
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but even still
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something
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educational comes out of it um and
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actually you know what we're gonna go in
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the book later but one of the stories in
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her book that we're talking about is
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actually about uh it was called you know
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where's willy after the you know free
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willy movie but it was about a whale
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that actually wouldn't leave its
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uh domestication because it was having
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too much of a good time
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pampered you know it got fed every day
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it got play time and he's like why would
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i want to leave i got it here so the
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fact that yes it's not great to be you
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know and again there's a whole zoo thing
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where they're not keeping animals
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forever but you come to a point where
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even the animals are like i like it here
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i'm gonna stay so
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i also think that a lot of if you you
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know you touched on the zoos and you
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touched on things like that you know a
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lot of the zoos in today's day
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are literally not just a zoo where
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people go and gawk at the animals and
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behind the caves
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they're literally set up i mean dad and
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i watch these shows like all the time
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where these zoos are set up to either be
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a place for um to uh make sure that the
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animals don't go extinct and they help
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breed them and they help make sure so
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i kind of like where the zoo is going at
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this point because it feels like we're
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taking care of our our loved ones so to
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speak we're taking care of our loved
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ones so it very much it's a it's a
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member of the family and um i can't
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imagine as you know we had to put our
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one of our dogs down a couple of weeks
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ago and
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it's hard i mean it's really hard and so
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um i was excited about this show because
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i need something happy to go you know to
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go along with that so i know you picked
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out some books but before we get to the
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books i know you want to talk about this
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chemical thing because it's not just
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well we like animals and we like animal
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stories there's actually a reason
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there's actually something that happens
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physically
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right so i'm going to go over what it is
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endorphins i learned my word for the day
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today um and then we'll kind of slice
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into the specific book um on animals as
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well
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so
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found a website
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meetcortex.com that's m-e-e-t
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and one of their little blogs talked
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about storytelling in endorphins and
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basically what they said was it's the
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most powerful way to create them there's
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also chemicals like dopamine cortisol as
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well
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but endorphins are the ones that kind of
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give us that that's smiley that yay
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um and really it's just a matter of how
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you tell it and who you're telling it to
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obviously their science behind it is the
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happier the story the happier you're
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going to be however there's also like
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the happy cries so even when you cry
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about something you're still releasing
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because it's whatever but really it's
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the way you go about the story so this
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could be you know a book a show whatever
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but i think the easiest story to tell to
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make you smile
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is something about an animal and i think
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you know while this website is
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specifically going general story
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it made the most sense to talk about
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because
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you know the topic now going into some
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of the stories here now she apparently
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the author she has a bunch of animals
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she lives on a farm you know with with
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her husband plus the animals
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um in her in her uh
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i'll show you this page
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um you know the who's it for the first
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two i believe are her human people but
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everybody else down here are the names
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of her animals so we have duffy and
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laura and beauty and helen and tweed so
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you can tell she likes your animals
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awesome
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so
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this one's kind of funny and you know
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we're gonna like you said we're gonna go
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over some other ones but this was funny
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one story i wanted to go first because
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it's actually from california it takes
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place in moore park zoo as well as
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burbank where animal movies are shot
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but she did a story about you know up
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until a point the humane society had no
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rules about
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uh how an animal was used for education
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purposes or for filming nowadays just
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like a human or a kid you can't have
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them on for more than i think what two
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or three days at a time right one rule i
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find interesting was if you're using a
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great ape like a gorilla champ or
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orangutan you must build a park next to
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the filming set
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for it to play
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wow the orangutan or the gorilla
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whatever is going to be there for say
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you know four or five days
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they require some sort of
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facility you want to call it with
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stuff to hang on stuff
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and do all that and that was the first
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story that struck me because hey we live
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in the area you know the moore park zoo
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was where i used to be by
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and
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it was an interesting story and it
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wasn't necessarily like the endorphin
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woo but it was the oh
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so this is where we've come to like cool
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yeah um one of the other ones i loved
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was about a lady who used to keep
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pigeons and you know her grandpa gets
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raised pigeons for a while
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she had to move and she had to give the
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pigeons to a facility who raised them
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however
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some sort of reason they got out and
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went back to the house they lived in
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even though she doesn't live there
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and it's the idea that they have the
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ingrained notion of where they live and
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that's where they live so for the
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longest time the new owners are like
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where the hell these pigeons coming from
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right and it took them a while to you
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know have to reacclimate them to the new
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and that's just some of the few things i
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talked about the whale story she did one
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about a place i think in arizona where
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donkeys when they get too old they get
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to go live and be old donkeys and they
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get to run around and they get to eat
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hay and they have other donkeys to play
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with and they just basically get to be
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old and
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do nothing just relax so
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that's the kind of story that's
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interesting you know you look at it you
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go well that's kind of depressing like
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the pigeons miss their family but i
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believe for me the point of the story is
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not necessarily that they're at a loss
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it's the amazing abilities that we give
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that we don't give non-human animals
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right
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that these books show
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and there have been stories rob i mean
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i've i'm sure you've heard these stories
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where people move away
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um their their dog gets lost and somehow
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the dog ends up finding them wherever
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they are
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i don't know how they do that but i
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think it's sort of like the same thing
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they have this innate
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ability to know where they belong and
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where they're supposed to go back to i
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know with our little one i don't know
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christopher's in here but the little one
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we're always so afraid he's going to get
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out and then he's just going to take off
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that we found him running on a freeway
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but what we found out is yes he might
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get out but guess what he comes back
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he's coming but he's gotten out and come
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back to us so i think
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it's exactly what you're saying it is
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you
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know and recently there was another one
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i think it was a cat and somehow they
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moved from
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new york to like arizona the cat got
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lost but apparently took like a country
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trek
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he ended up getting picked up by
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somebody but they they drove him to the
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house and the cat the cat literally was
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on his way to arizona to meet up with
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his family um
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i don't know the exact distance you know
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but it was that kind of thing like they
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went from one side the other and the
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cat's like sure all you
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know yeah it's an interesting type of
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deal and i know if you want to throw the
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books up because one of the
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guys that i really want to talk about uh
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james harriott so he passed away
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recently but he actually was a
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veterinarian in england i know if you
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ever heard of the um all creatures great
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and small
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but it i became a pbs show which i
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believe is still on and it's a
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long-running uh miniseries
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but it basically covers his stories as a
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vet
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and what it meant to you know care for
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animals so i decided two of the uh books
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i loved were cat stories and dog stories
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because
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who doesn't love you know that but i
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wanted to bring him up specifically
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because he
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um
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being in the veterinary position being a
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animal worker
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he knows the ins and outs of
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how they tick what they do what they
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need
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and the fact that he was able to use his
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science but also his personal because i
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believe this guy lived on a farm over
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there he had you know horses at some
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point he had you know pigs cows whatever
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um
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he
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you know he knew what it was and then of
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course uh funny farm uh krista actually
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downloaded on her kindle and again this
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lady
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lives with 600 rescue animals and you
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can see you know sheeps and chickens and
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you know so it's
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it's an interesting dynamic but for me
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and you know this because i grew up
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loving them
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it never was a weird dynamic because for
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me i always looked at non versus human
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creatures that's kind of the same thing
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we all you know we all need there to
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breathe we all need food to eat or you
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know our bodies work similarly so to me
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when i found out that people wrote like
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this and there was these authors these
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veterinarians these people you know all
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these guys
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i was like okay so people kind of get it
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now let's just kind of like you know and
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then i was gonna bring up we talked
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about the zoos reserves nowadays where
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you can actually go and see you know i
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think there's one by us in palm springs
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a wolf one and it's wolves that you know
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somebody thought was a good pet
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obviously it wasn't and now it's
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basically an entire reserve full of
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wolves that can't go back to the you
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know the wild
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but the fact that you can go and see
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them up close it gives you that aw it
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gives you that like
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you know you don't get to do that
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regularly you're not nobody's lucky
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enough to see these animals because
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they're they're um what do you call
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they're they're independent they like to
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hide
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that was like also um the uh animal uh
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park in um san diego that's associated
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with the zoo
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and i mean
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it's kind of cool you can go and you can
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you know take the little trains and the
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little
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and i think you can stay overnight and
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we have it here too the living desert
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where you can go
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and what's really cool about them and i
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know we've talked about this on another
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show um is that they are very much
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disability inclusive
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right
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and the one that's here so that
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obviously was important to us because we
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do you know show about mining mental
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health so there's so many different
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places i think that are showing us that
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animals are so important in our life and
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we can actually experience it very cool
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and then of course the last one this one
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is is for kids but there's many versions
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of unlikely friendships and this one is
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the proof if you need it that they are
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just like us when it comes to forming
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bonds and
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i'm sure dad's watched this before
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national geographic has the unlikely
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friendship show
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and it's you know you have elephants and
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dogs you have um you know lions and
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um
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what actually the funniest video was
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there's a guy and i think he's going to
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reserve he has two uh dachshunds and
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they run into the lion cage and they
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play with the lion because this lion
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grew up around them and they think
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they're lying with them you know and
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it's one of those things and it's funny
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to watch and then you just go
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i don't know
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but like here they are it's this big cat
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versus you know so i think generally the
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endorphins you know
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when you're taught endorphins you're
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thinking okay it's got to be happy happy
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happy i think the endorphins here are
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if the
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book the story the article whatever
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gives you
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and i think you know i said i'll say it
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a million times but i think really you
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know and it might maybe it's not just me
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obviously you many people would agree
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the best kind of story to give you those
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feels
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is
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something cute you know a cute story
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and what's cuter than
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you know fuzzy feathery
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whatever
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there is nothing cuter nothing cuter
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than that um
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i'm like really disappointed because my
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dog is normally here i don't know where
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he went but he's not here
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um i put i put a link to
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in the chat for anyone that would like
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to go check out some of these books that
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we were just talking about
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um so check it out down in the chat um
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any last minute things that we want to
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talk about in terms of how animals make
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us feel it's not just the books i mean
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obviously the books kind of get
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encapsulated but
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how how how we feel when when we have an
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animal in our life i mean you know
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science has shown that petting i think a
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dog or cat for what five minutes or so
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can you know lower your blood pressure
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can
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relieve stress can
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you know like you were saying if you're
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feeling bad you can kind of lift your
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spirits so science has proven that just
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being around them
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is 50
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of the the health of your you know
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physical mental what what have you um
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i would say you know yes i know some
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people you know they might be allergic
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they might not be able to and i
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understand that uh but i would say you
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know if you're thinking of getting one
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definitely adopt i always say adopt shop
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you know personally um everybody i know
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has gotten their pet from somebody who
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maybe had litter or maybe they went to
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the shelter um but if you can have an
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animal and you're living in a place
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where they allow them doesn't have to be
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big i mean you know you can get a little
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uh little fish maybe a little a little
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turtle
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that kind of fits your
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your your life standards uh there's a
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hilarious petco commercial uh you know
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and they use the song from oliver i do
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anything for you
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and it shows just people loving their
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dog one lady's walking hi taking a hike
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with her dog in a backpack one kid built
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a hamster thing in his house with a
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billion how did what make you feel
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looking at it and they think that's
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important it always makes me smile
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because it's just like exactly oh my god
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these guys are are crazy and hilarious
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but this is that's what you do when you
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have a you know a family member so i
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would just say you know if you can
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uh and you and you're interested get get
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yourself a buddy get yourself a little
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friend um you know if you want something
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low-key maybe like a little bird or a
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little fish if you want something more
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active like you're saying you know a dog
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even cats i mean people walk their cats
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now
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crazy but i've seen it actually i worked
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at a mall once and somebody walked their
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cat through the mall and i was like what
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that
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you know
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but you know it's great and then as i
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said if you can't do that now pick up
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some of the books the books are a great
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way to kind of get you in a good
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mood it's kind of like that the holiday
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feeling wrapped up into a story um
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but we want to caution people you know
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of buying buying a pet
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without really understanding
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right what goes into having an animal i
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and i'm only bringing that up i know i
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think this month nbc is doing in the
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news station nbc is doing a adopt all
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the dogs out of the the pounds in in the
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community
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and a lot of these dogs unfortunately or
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our cats were adopted during the
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pandemic
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and they took all these dogs in and they
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you know they're gonna have a pet
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because they're stuck at home
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and now they're not at home anymore and
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so they're unfortunately turning them
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back i mean when i think about stuff
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like that i think how could it's like a
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household member you don't turn your
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child back you don't turn i mean i'm
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sure there are parents
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right but i i find it uh you know so i
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think um yeah definitely go and adopt
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you know we've rescued ours i i can't
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even imagine having a dog that i i
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bought and no offense anybody out there
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that's if that's what you do that's
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great you're giving an animal a home but
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if at all possible i know both of us
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encourage you go out
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adopt rescue do something you know save
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it save an animal basically save an
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animal uh guys if you're tuning in and
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want to know how you want to follow
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robert which i know robert i just called
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you robert oh my goodness
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be i don't know
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you want to
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follow rob you can follow him on his
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website altereduniverse.live you can
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follow him on linkedin
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at rob glasser he's got really cool
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nerdy stuff you can go to the
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staynerdy.shop and he's on youtube i
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like to say you're everywhere oh my gosh
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you're on twitter everywhere and um i'm
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not going to put my stuff up because
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it's just karen glasser so
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wherever i i mean literally wherever
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just put my name in you're going to find
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me
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always fun um always fun i can't
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remember what we're doing next week but
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we're doing something fun next week on
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thursday and uh tuesday if you're
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interested in our minding your mental
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health shows we are doing a really
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important episode
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on social media and mental health which
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is a huge huge topic i hope that you'll
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tune in rob as always a fun time
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go out and give somebody an awesome day
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we'll see you next time on altered
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universe live goodbye everyone
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