Im jamie colby, and, today, im in encino, california. Will rogers once said, if there are no dogs in heaven, then when i die, i want to go where they go. But when the owners go first, especially the rich or eccentric ones, it can make for one strange inheritance. My name is tyson kilmer. Im an animal trainer. When one of my clients, sam simon, passed away in march of 2015, i inherited his dog, who is not exactly lassie, marmaduke, or any other lovably harmless pet youve seen on tv. Hi, kilmers. Im jamie. Im tyson kilmer. This is my wife, alison. Aliyah and tyler. How are you . Im great i heard your family has a living, breathing inheritance . Indeed, we do. We have a cane corso that used to belong to the late, great sam simon. Sam simon even if you dont recognize the name, you surely know his work as codeveloper, with Matt Groening, of that iconic and longrunning tv show, the simpsons. Sam was born in 1955 and grew up in Beverly Hills, just down the street from groucho marx. After grad
Im jamie colby, and today im headed to palm harbor, florida on the gulf coast, about 20 miles northwest of tampa. Yoknow, sotimes the strange things at peoplinherit on this show reflect timeless american values. Sometimes, though, they tell us how much times have changed. This is one of those stories where the heir is faced with a gorillasized challenge. My name is debbie cobb. My grandmother, Anna Mae Noell, passed away in october of 2000, leaving behind her 53 primates that i had to figure out how to care for. Debbie, im jamie. Nice to meet you. Glad to meet you. You know, i see theres a lot of retirees here in florida. Yours are a pretty wild bunch. Well, you havent seen the half of it. What a beautiful place. Its a 12acre primate sanctuary, full of irresistible characters. Like pongo, a 400pound male orangutan. He really, really likes you jamie, because he doesnt just purr for anybody. [ pongo vocalizing softly ] thats purring. Thats purring. I can tell hes a flirt. Oh, a big one.
Im jamie colby, and today im headed to palm harbor, florida on the gulf coast, about 20 miles northwest of tampa. Yoknow, sotimes the strange things at peoplinherit on this show reflect timeless american values. Sometimes, though, they tell us how much times have changed. This is one of those stories where the heir is faced with a gorillasized challenge. My name is debbie cobb. My grandmother, Anna Mae Noell, passed away in october of 2000, leaving behind her 53 primates that i had to figure out how to care for. Debbie, im jamie. Nice to meet you. Glad to meet you. You know, i see theres a lot of retirees here in florida. Yours are a pretty wild bunch. Well, you havent seen the half of it. What a beautiful place. Its a 12acre primate sanctuary, full of irresistible characters. Like pongo, a 400pound male orangutan. He really, really likes you jamie, because he doesnt just purr for anybody. [ pongo vocalizing softly ] thats purring. Thats purring. I can tell hes a flirt. Oh, a big one.
Disneyland. She had heard exciting things about it but she really couldnt comprehend the magnitude of such a place. Figuratively speaking when ying ma and her family emigrated to the u. S. From china she thought she was heading to disneyland. What confronted her with a far cry from the magic kingdom. It wasnt the Foreign Language and culture that proved the most difficult. Rather it was the shocking racism isolation and disdain that she encountered in our own backyard of oakland. Ying mas stories a perfect example of what made america great. The courage to confront hardship and abuse, determination to move past it and gratitude to a country that made it possible for anyone to succeed and discover ones selfworth. I highly recommend that you read the personal account of her amazing journey in her book, chinese girl in the ghetto which she will be selling and signing tonight. Ying ma has indeed come a long way from the inner city of oakland. She received her undergraduate degree from corn
And for whatever reason, i did this time see a story, and the reason for seeing the story is that every book, particularly in history, has what i like to call scaffolding, which is the structure that holds everything together and makes sense of it. This story has so many elements to it that there is no obvious scaffolding beyond the fact of the chronology, from 1939 to 1945. But within that, what do you do . And the second time around, i saw some scaffolding. Not all of it. It sort of evolved as i went along. But im very grateful to peter for being so persistent because at the end, i ended up with a book i had no idea i was going to write. And that is the one id like to tell you a little bit about. Why does it matter . It matters because world war ii literally shaped the world we live in today. It preserved at it easy to forget this because it sounds like a cliche but it preserved the world for democracy. World war i had the slogan that Woodrow Wilson called making the world safe for d