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Speaker 1: One of the hottest topics, one of the biggest celebrities

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, The Tiger King Dancing with the Stars,

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Speaker 1: Your Heart, She's been everywhere. Carol Batskin is on the

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Speaker 1: phone with us. Hey, Carol, Hey, how's it going great?

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Speaker 1: How about you? Not too bad? And really excited to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. And I got to be honest, when

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Speaker 1: I first found out You're gonna be on the show,

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Speaker 1: I was super excited. And I've been doing radio way

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Speaker 1: longer than I would like to admit, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: why is she doing radio interviews? Radio people are a

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Speaker 1: holes and they're just gonna be asking you about the

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Speaker 1: husband murder thing and all that. I'm surprised that you're

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Speaker 1: doing this. Yeah. Actually, most of the people have been

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Speaker 1: really nice. There have been a few that have been Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I figured would happened. So how's life been

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Speaker 1: the last couple of months. Oh, it's been a big change.

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Speaker 1: You know. Tiger King just absolutely shocked us because what

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Speaker 1: we thought we were working on for five years with

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Speaker 1: the producer's prior, a show like Blackfish, which would expose

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Speaker 1: all of the abuses of the industry where people were

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Speaker 1: paying to pett a cub or paying to see a

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Speaker 1: cub at a zoo. And so for five years we

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Speaker 1: opened our hearts and our homes and our sanctuary, and

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Speaker 1: we cleared the calendar for days so that they could

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Speaker 1: film and ask all the questions they wanted. And when

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Speaker 1: we sat down like everybody else did and bench watched

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Speaker 1: Tiger King because we were all locked in our houses,

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Speaker 1: it was just that perfect storm. I think we just

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Speaker 1: sat there gob smack at the end of it, and

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Speaker 1: my husband and I looked at each other and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: that was a missed opportunity. But what did surprise me

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Speaker 1: was my phone started ringing, and I mean like as

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Speaker 1: soon as it was over, and it rang every two

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Speaker 1: minutes for the next three months straight, with people just

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Speaker 1: screaming threats and hateful things and saying that they wanted

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Speaker 1: to burn the place down and they wanted to set

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Speaker 1: all the cats free. And what that told me was

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Speaker 1: that people didn't understand the issues because we're on the

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Speaker 1: same side of this. We don't want cats engages and

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Speaker 1: we don't believe that they should be bread to life

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Speaker 1: in prison. Oh well, and missus Baskin, I know that

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Speaker 1: on the website on the Big Cat rescue website actually

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Speaker 1: says that you want to end the trade in exotic cats,

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Speaker 1: and it says, but like, that's going to put you

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Speaker 1: out of business yourself. What do you want to do

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Speaker 1: after your business is shut down? Though, since I was

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Speaker 1: a little girl, my goal was to save domestic cats

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Speaker 1: and kittens from being killed in shelters due to overpopulation.

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Speaker 1: So I've always wanted to be involved in a really

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Speaker 1: powerful space and muter program that would keep those animals

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Speaker 1: from being born in the first place. Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 1: when English haven't asked you that, I thought you were

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Speaker 1: going to say dance. I thought dancing was going to

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Speaker 1: be the next thing that you wanted to do. Anybody

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Speaker 1: who saw me dance knows that that is not my career.

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Speaker 1: That how many cats do currently have? He has fifty

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Speaker 1: exotic cats. I have two cats at home, two domestic cats. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And then you said you're you're saving these cats, but

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Speaker 1: you don't want them to be like in jail, you said,

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Speaker 1: for their whole life. So do you do anything as

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Speaker 1: far as like, yeah, preparing them and releasing them into

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Speaker 1: the wild or anything like that. You can't release a

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Speaker 1: cat who was born in the cage to the wild.

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Speaker 1: It's not legal and it's not possible because it takes

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Speaker 1: their mother several years and teach them how to hunt.

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Speaker 1: We do rehab and release native cats so like it

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Speaker 1: can't get hit by a car or shot by a hunter,

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Speaker 1: and we fix some moves and put them back in

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Speaker 1: the wild, and we've done that with I think over

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Speaker 1: forty bobcats. Would you like dogs at all? I'm afraid

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Speaker 1: of dogs. I love all animals. I strive towards veganisms,

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Speaker 1: but I'm really afraid of dogs. Maybe it's the cat

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Speaker 1: in me. Just a question. I saw you did a

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Speaker 1: thing on cameo where obviously you're a huge fifty cent

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Speaker 1: fan and you were singing Indo Club for someone. Would

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Speaker 1: you mind maybe giving us a taste of that right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just a little bit. Hey, Jubil, Alex and Evan, it's

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Speaker 1: your birthday. We're kind of a party like it's your birthday.

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Speaker 1: Party like it's birthday. Just real quick, we'll leave you.

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Speaker 1: That says how much do you charge for your cameos?

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Speaker 1: They're two ninety nine for personal cameos in five ninety

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Speaker 1: nine for businesses, and the money from that actually goes

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Speaker 1: to the work that we're doing to save vis okay,

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Speaker 1: and that's one hundred right two nine nine Okay cool,

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Speaker 1: because I was like, you should be charging way more

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Speaker 1: than two dollars at ninety nine cents like I'm charging twenty.

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Speaker 1: You were actually the topic of a segment we do

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Speaker 1: on the show called Freestyle Friday, and a couple weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: Alex wrote this freestyle rap about you, and I I don't

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Speaker 1: want to play that for you right now? So do

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Speaker 1: you mind if I just play this for you real quick?

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Speaker 1: We really gotta get on, but hold on, I just

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Speaker 1: want to play this thing real quick. Just yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and they cut us off. I was gonna play your

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Speaker 1: Carol Baskin verse from now. It did talk about her

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Speaker 1: asily killing her husband, so that might be why they

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Speaker 1: It's just all fun. Yeah, we're just joking around. Um.

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Speaker 1: I guess we've turned into those radio ables that we're

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Speaker 1: doing at