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Bertie Gregory

πŸ‘€ Speaker
790 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

We had these amazing guides that would find stuff.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

All the vehicles would come to us and we've created this horrible problem where now this cheater family is surrounded by cars very close.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

All that stuff.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

So we'd watch and people would be, they'd drive rather than sitting, you know, 100 meters away, 50 meters away, like we would with our really powerful technology.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

They would drive all the way up.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And so that the guide got a tip that they want to be in a good position, they'd lean out and take a picture on the phone of the cheetah right there.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And so actually, yes, you could blame that on the guide.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Okay, it's his, you know, he needs to sort of... Feed his family.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Well, yeah, but he needs to educate the tourists on, you know, but actually I think it's equally as much our responsibility to go, hang on.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

I think it used to be that when you watched BBC Planet Earth documentaries, that was kind of the only sort of, well, relatively, yeah, the only sort of huge, amazing way to see a video of a whale, right?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Whereas now, you scroll through Instagram, you're just bombarded with everything.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

So I think we sort of normalized it.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And so now when lots of people do get to go to these amazing wild places, which I think is a great thing for all the reasons we talked about,

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

they sort of forget that actually this is a wild place and all these animals, this isn't a zoo.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

It's not this abstract world that's in your phone.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Like it's a real thing and actions that you take will decide whether or not this animal lives or dies.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Like the stakes are that high.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And I think it's sort of reminding people to that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

that you've got to have this respect.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

That is sort of a traditional sort of documentary approach is look at the grandeur of this amazing place.