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Speaker 1: This podcast, everyone would have been following their socials over

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Speaker 1: the weekend and you would have known about Punch the Monkey,

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Speaker 1: the bullied monkey at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I love this monkey. Wow you do?

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Speaker 1: Did you see the start where he does get picked on?

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Speaker 1: I asked, snitchy, can you replace I Will always love

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Speaker 1: you with I will always love Punch? And that's what

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Speaker 1: That's what Ai has spat out. It's not bad. I

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Speaker 1: didn't mind it. I didn't mind it.

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Speaker 2: Who's punched the monkey?

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Speaker 1: Kate? So, oh my god. There's a baby monkey at

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Speaker 1: the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, right, and it's lost

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Speaker 1: its mother. So the zoo keepers have replaced the mum

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Speaker 1: with a stuffed toy. It's stuffed to rain a tang.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, okay, I did see this.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, So the monkey is just attached to the

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Speaker 1: stuff toy. But the other monkeys are now bullying Punch

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Speaker 1: the monkey.

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Speaker 2: Why because he has a toy or because he doesn't

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Speaker 2: have a mum.

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Speaker 1: Because he Yeah, he's an outcast. No one knows who

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Speaker 1: he is, the runt they're getting stuck into him. Now

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Speaker 1: I can give you an update the Inchikawa City Zoo

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Speaker 1: is turning people away. There are lineups down the street

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Speaker 1: for kilometers, people trying to get in to see punch

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Speaker 1: the monkey, and to help punch the monkey. There's new

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Speaker 1: hashtags coming out over socials. Hashtag punch the monkey, hashtag

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Speaker 1: hang in there, punch hashtag, punch protection squad hashtag wrong monkey,

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Speaker 1: wrong day, hashtag I will find you and I will

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Speaker 1: kill you monkey hashtag wrong monkey, not my monkey, it's

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Speaker 1: out of control.

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Speaker 2: Looks like me as a baby Harry Canada, Banana. I

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Speaker 2: is anyone else I know where I know this is meant?

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Speaker 2: Is this meant to be a funny story? Because that

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Speaker 2: makes me feel really sad looking at that little monkey

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Speaker 2: holding the chimpanzee.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why everyone's got behind it. Ikea, if you

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Speaker 1: buy their plush orangutang, they're going to donate all the

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Speaker 1: money to punch the monkey in the Itchikwa Zoo. There's

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Speaker 1: a guy that started, Oh my god, there's a crypto

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Speaker 1: freak that started a meme coin called monkey punch and

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Speaker 1: it surged one hundred and ninety four percent, and the

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Speaker 1: guy who started it has already donated one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to the zoo to get to punch the monkey.

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Speaker 1: Was the stuff toy? The stuff to arangu tang? Was

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Speaker 1: that from Ikea? Yeah, I think it was.

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Speaker 2: From Ikea, but I don't think they.

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Speaker 1: I mean the staff must have just had the orangutar

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Speaker 1: that was lying around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they said they threw it in there tanks. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: I'm said chimpanzee.

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Speaker 1: The sale of that stuff toy at Ikea has gone

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Speaker 1: through the.

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Speaker 2: Roof, and they're going to donate all of it, supposedly.

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Speaker 1: Well where I don't know if it's all. It'll be

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Speaker 1: a percentage. Monkey comes a flat pack. Oh, it's that

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Speaker 1: fifteen dollars. So the monkey Mountain now at the Ichikawa

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Speaker 1: City Zoo is now they just got to Unfortunately, you've

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Speaker 1: got to wait for hours just to get into the

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Speaker 1: viewing area there.

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Speaker 2: Tommy, what's called I can't pronounce it, but is it

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Speaker 2: a jungle sog It's jungle Swedish, Yeah, right, translates to

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Speaker 2: soggy monkey.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I actually don't think it does.

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Speaker 2: This stage left in the rain.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, the it's moments like these that

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Speaker 1: you just we need moments like these. The unfortunate thing

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Speaker 1: now is every zoo around the world will probably be

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Speaker 1: abandoning the monkey, the monkey's mother they can get more

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Speaker 1: people coming into their zoos. Unfortunately, they'll have bullied animals

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Speaker 1: all over the world just so you get more people

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Speaker 1: through the gate. You think they're so unfortunate.

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Speaker 2: You think the zoo keepers will just round up the

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Speaker 2: monkeys and say, I pick on that lad well.

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Speaker 1: I think they've already the Tarannga Zoo's already spoken to

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Speaker 1: the meerkats and said, if you could gang up on

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Speaker 1: that one there, that'd be great for business.

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