Jeremy McBride
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 6 Aug
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He's socializing. He's a town celebrity. He's at work with Sandy in the tow shop, you know, answering phones, you know, filling out paperwork. The mascot of the tow shop, Desire Me Motors. Right. Yeah, he's airbrushed everywhere on trucks.
And then one day... Everyone gets to see the chimp, right? And then until one day, he gets too aggressive. And he this this incredible story, which we don't cover in the doc, but he's in this intersection, very busy intersection in Connecticut. A little boy throws a can of Coke over to the car with the chimp. The chimp gets out.
you know, stops traffic, you know, and it's covered in the news and it's a joke. Everyone's like, oh my God, it's Planet of the Apes again. But the chimp is trying to get a hold of the kid. The chimp's trying to, like, he's irritated. Why would you bother the chimpanzee? He threw a can of Coke at him. He runs out of the car trying to figure out what's going on.
Meanwhile, Sandy gets an ice cream cone, brings it back in the car, and everything's cool.
Two hours later, right? So the state of Connecticut says, no way. You can't have this chimp anymore out in public. You've got to put him in home. So this chimp is out in space for a majority of his life and then built to confinement for the majority of his life. And so fast forward, and I'll spare you kind of the other stuff that we learned, but...
What everyone kind of talks about in revisiting media at the time is he – it was annexed. It was the wine glasses. He was drunk. It was – Maybe a relationship. Maybe the relationship went wrong. But he grabbed car keys. He wanted to go for a ride. He could drive a car. He wanted to get the fuck out of there. Yeah. That's what happened. Right.
And the person who he runs into first, Sharla, represents confinement. Right. He was a nanny. Right. So what do you think is going to happen? It was also reported he was fucking or he left already. He was like cruising around and he was in the graveyard fucking with the guy who was digging graves.
But we love this. I'm sorry, love. But we're interested in this tension here. because we think we can control things. I mean, that's what, if you've seen the movie Nope, this great footage with this chimp Gordy, which he covers and is a through line in the show, it's inspired based on this whole idea of spectacle and humans that can control things.
Nope, in that scene with Gordy, the chimp, is probably one of the most beautiful displays cinematically that I've seen. It's horrible. It's very tragic.
She's careful. I mean, she's 77 years old, Pam Rosaire. When she was seven years old, she was asked what she wants to do with her life in this circus animal family. And she says, I want to train chimps. I want to do something hard. I want to do something difficult. The rest of her family trained horses and elephants. And that was culturally what they were part of.
How is it that Pam hasn't— Okay, you're thinking about more different measures, but like— I'm thinking about attacks.
I think she's got some, you know, look, I think she's lucky. I think it's the best way. I don't know what happens behind the scenes, to be honest. I think, you know, to be fair, I think, I don't know. But I do know that when I watched her interaction, You know, there's a real, like, understanding. And it's, and she has a leash on them.
I'm sure they're less aggressive.
you know, I'm sort of saying, well, what we, what we look, what, so yeah, yes, it is. We didn't realize also how dark this was coming out of it. Cause we were so close to it and the reaction by people, it's very heavy. Um, so I'm, we're all desensitized from, from seeing this. Um, there's some really interesting stuff that happens in for joy. I hope you finish it, uh, including another attack.
Uh, but this time with a person, uh, that we all know. And, um, Oh, you're teasing me. I'm teasing you a little bit. I'm sorry. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.
But also, by the way, think about what the medical care they get. The guy who's a horse vet is the guy working on a chimpanzee? If you're lucky. If you're lucky. If you're lucky, yeah. So if you think about the care, it's really horrible. But I was going to add to what you were saying, Eric.
One thing that we learned through the process about kind of what is this about, mainly we're talking about this very niche subject matter of captive chimpanzees in America, is which we learned there really only is about 1,300 remaining in captivity, which includes those who are already in sanctuaries in the U.S., about half of that 1,300.
And big zoos. Big zoos have about 250 of them still. So in terms of the kind of roadside zoo private home environment, it's between less than 100 chimpanzees that remain in captivity. So to answer your question, there might be more. But it's hard to hide a chimp.
There's less and less. The primates in general in terms of, you know, monkeys as pets, it's, you know, it's reported somewhere around 15,000 people in America have primates as pets. 15,000 people. 15,000 according to the American Animal Welfare Institute. Yeah. So that's what we're finding. But, you know, through that, we had to zoom out.
And I think that what we've learned, what I've learned personally about organizations that are doing something to protect wild lands and protect wild populations of chimpanzees, there's a lot of great ones out there. So we've been supporting a program that's doing 12 project sites in Africa, $10 million, 10,000 chimpanzees. And that's what we're hopeful for.
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