What Jane Goodall’s Life Teaches About Courage, Curiosity, and Care

30:42If you want to help Goodall protect and save our wildlife, go to janegoodall.org. Special thanks to Neil, Driving Miss Daisy Pearlberg Dan DuPont and Carmen Mullins In the next episode, we go from learning how much chimpanzees are like humans to how we are influenced by social psychology, situational roles and bad people with Dr. Phil Zimbardo I'm Guy Kawasaki and this was the Remarkable People Podcast

31:22This is the second episode with Jane. It was done in 2021, and it has somewhat of a checkered past. Jane and I did a conversation on a social media platform based on phones, so the quality of recording is not as high. But Jane is Jane, and her brilliance will shine through no matter how the audio is recorded.

31:55I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is Remarkable People. This episode of Remarkable People is particularly remarkable because it was unplanned. On April 14th, 2021, I did a fireside chat with Jane Goodall on a social audio platform. It turned out so good that we decided to make it into a podcast. Jane and I were both on phones as opposed to using our usual squad cast podcasting recording platform. So the audio is not quite what you've come to expect from this podcast. But it's all about Jane. I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is Remarkable People. And now here's the one and only Jane Goodall coming to you from her home in the south of England.

32:44My wonderful welcome comes to you from the forests and hills of Gombe National Park in Tanzania. The sound that you would hear if you came, some of you have been, but if you go to Gombe and climb the hills in the morning, the sound of a chimpanzee greeting the day, announcing, here I am, who's out there?

33:11Hello. Bring another language into your clubhouse. Well, I'll tell you something. Elon Musk could not have done that. Well, it's a chimpanzee hello. I think I have some lice in my hair. I need to see you again so you can pick them out for me. Then you shouldn't have chosen clubhouse. You should have Zoomed. Where are you right now? I'm in the house where I grew up in Bournemouth in the south of England. It's cold and gray. And this is where I've been for the duration. I've been grounded here since last March. But you still have a tremendously busy schedule, don't you? What are you doing every day?

33:57It's far, far, far busier than when I was traveling around the world. Because when you're traveling, you go from country to country. When you're in a country, you concentrate on that country. You don't do more than two things in a day. But here, the world has access to me. I'm asked to speak all over the world. I do Zooms and Skypes, and now I'm doing a clubhouse, which I've never done before. I'm sending video messages to people who need cheering up or need a bit of hope or something like that. And then, of course, there's all the emails and writing articles. Honestly, I can be in four different countries in one day.

34:40it's clearly not easy to be Jane Goodall I want you to tell people and I know you've probably told this story 50 ,000 times but I think this story of how you actually got to Africa the first time is a very inspiring story and has a lot of great information and lessons for young people well, okay but you know it did begin right here in this house when I was reading books about Dr. Doolittle and Tarzan and dreaming of going to Africa. So the journey really started when I was 10 years old. And born loving animals, of course, that goes without saying. Left school. I did actually very well at school, but we couldn't afford university.

35:23And so I had to earn some money. We had not much money. Got a boring secretarial training in London and got a job. And then came the opportunity. and that was a letter from a school friend inviting me to Kenya for a holiday. Couldn't save money in London so I came home here to Bournemouth and got a job in a hotel being a waitress which was extremely hard work and eventually after about five months I think had saved up enough money for a return fare to Africa. And I give a lot of credit to my mother. First of all, she was the only one who supported this crazy dream of going to Africa, living with wild animals and writing books about them.

36:11Everybody else loved me. Never do that. Africa was far away. And anyway, I was just a girl. But she said, if you really want to do something like this, you will have to work really hard, take advantage of every opportunity. And if you don't give up, hopefully you'll find a way. So there I am on my way to Africa, age 23. And 23 in those days was much younger than a 23-year-old now. And most mothers wouldn't have let their 23-year-old daughter go off on their own to a faraway country that we didn't know much about. But anyway, off I went. And it was by boat because there were no planes going back and forth in those days.

36:55and arrived in Kenya, stayed with my friend. Then came the amazing conversation where somebody said, if you're interested in animals, you should meet Dr. Louis Leakey, famous paleontologist. And I went to see him. He was curator of the Natural History Museum. And guess what? That boring secretarial course. Well, two days before I met Louis, his secretary had suddenly left. He needed a secretary, and there I was. So now I'm in a world where there are people all around who can answer all my questions about the animals and the plants in Africa. And that eventually led to him offering me the opportunity of going to live with and learn from not any animal, but the one most like us, the chimpanzee, with whom we share 98.8 % of our DNA.

37:52The problem was that the British authorities, because back then it was Tanganyika, which is Tanzania today, and the British authorities refused to take permission for this young girl to go off into the forest. It was a crazy, crazy idea. Nobody was doing it. Men weren't doing it. But in the end, because Leakey persisted, they said, oh, all right, she can come, but she cannot come alone. She must have some female companionship. So who volunteered to come but that same amazing mother? And the early days, the chimpanzees ran away and ran away and ran away. But after four months, one of them began to accept me.

38:35So there's the story of how I got to Africa and began my research. I think a very important point is that, well, A, it was the support of your mother. That's one important point. Second important point is you didn't exactly have a PhD from Oxford in biology. You had secretarial skills. So it's not necessarily the amount of formal education you have. Perhaps more important is the passion. And this is about taking risks. I'm amazed that if my daughter, who I think is listening, said to me, I want to go to Africa and I don't know what I would say today. So hats off to your mom. Well, I think Africa is more dangerous today than it was then, actually, to be honest.

39:23It really wasn't dangerous. But anyway, it was fascinating. One of the things that was very, very meaningful to me in the way I look on the world is that the first place where that ship stopped in Africa was Cape Town. We didn't go through the Suez Canal because there was a war with Egypt and it was closed. And Cape Town is wonderful, that iconic table mountain. And I had two days there while the ship refueled or whatever it did. And mom had a couple of friends there, so they said they'd look after me. And it was some magic. And then I saw these words on the back of the seats in the parks and on the doors into the hotels.

40:08Selex Blanc in Afrikaans. So I said, what does this mean? It means white people only. I didn't grow up that way. My grandfather was a congregational minister, and we didn't judge people by the color of their skin or their nationality or their culture or their religion, but judge them as human beings. So I couldn't wait to leave Cape Town. It was the height of apartheid. Anyway, I got to Kenya, and it was much better. They were on the very brink of independence and the same when I got to Tanzania. Can you tell the story about how you built trust in that first engagement? As you say, it took four months, but how did you build trust with the chimpanzees there?

40:59Okay, well, I used the same method as I'd used on the birds and the squirrels and things around my home here. Patience. I didn't try to get close too quickly. I wore the same colored clothes each day. And it was one chimpanzee, David Graybeard, very distinctive, very handsome. And for some reason, he was less fearful than the others. You know, they're all different. They have their own personalities. And he was calm. And I later discovered that he was best friends with the top-ranking alpha male. and so it was during the fifth month, just the start of the rainy season and that's when the termites fly, the princes and princesses fly from the nest to form new colonies and turns out that chimpanzees love termites.

41:55So at this time of year, the worker termites have enlarged the tunnels near the surface ready for the fertile insects to fly out. And so there was David Greybeard. I watched him in amazement through my binoculars and I saw him scratch the soil from the entrance to one of these tunnels, pick a long stem of grass, push it down into the nest, pull it out with termites clinging to it, munch them off, push it down again. And then I saw him pick a leafy twig and strip the leaves. And at that time, Western science maintained that only human beings used and made tools. In fact, we were defined as man, the toolmaker.

42:45And so when I told Lewis Leakey what I'd seen, David Greybeard using and making, because by modifying the twigs, he was making tools. And so Lewis sent back a telegram saying, ha, now we must redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human. But it was that observation that enabled him to go to the National Geographic Society in America. And they agreed to fund the research when my original six months' money ran out. And they also sent a photographer and filmmaker, Hugo Van Laowek, because by the time he came, I was really beginning to learn I could get close to more chimps. David Gravey had helped, I think, because if he was in a group when I approached, expecting them to run away and he sat there calmly, I suppose they started to think she can't be so frightening after all.

43:40Because David was a leader. They looked up to him and respected him. He was calm and gentle. Let's talk about the future a little. So what is your vision for how we're going to go forward from where we are today? If we all know where we are today, we're facing disaster if we don't get together and change our ways. If we carry on with business as usual, if we continue to exploit the finite resources of our planet as though they're infinite. If we continue to have this crazy belief, we can have unlimited economic development on a planet with finite natural resources. And thinking in short term gain rather than long term health of the planet.

44:33And indeed our own future and the future of life on Earth as we know it. so we need to get together and somehow create a new relationship with the natural world of which we are a part and on which we depend and a new more sustainable and greener economy don't ask me how we do that but that's what we have to get together and work out and we are gifted with amazing intellects. So if we really, really want to create a good future for our great-grandchildren, that's what we must do, get together, discuss, find ways, and it's beginning to happen. That's the encouraging thing. Businesses are beginning to try and conduct their business in a more environmentally friendly way.

45:25People are beginning to think about their own environmental footprint. So it is beginning to happen. If I'm listening to this and I'm thinking, okay, Jane, I want to help. What can one person do? Something tactical, practical. Not everybody's going to be a Jane Goodall or Greta Thunberg. So what can a random person listening to this do to help? Quite honestly, it depends on who that random person is. Because some people, I know a number of them. They're making a whole lot of money. And if we live to make money, it's not a very good thing to do unless we are making money to help make the world a better place.

46:11So people like that can make donations to organizations that are fighting for conservation, for preventing the loss of any more animal species than we've lost already, for slowing down climate change, for alleviating poverty. But the ordinary person who doesn't have masses of money in their wallet, every single day we make some impact on this planet. and we get to choose unless we're living in poverty. We get to choose what sort of impact we make and a lot of people feel helpless and hopeless because they think it's just me. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. I think that's the expression and there's nothing I can do about it and the big problem is people are told to think globally But if you think globally, you can't help but be depressed.

47:10I mean, it is depressing what we're doing to the planet. But act locally. Yes, do what you can in your own community. And whether it's thinking about what you buy, where was it made? Did it have to travel far using up lots of fossil fuel? Did it harm the environment? Was it cruel to animals like the terrible factory farms? Is it cheap because of child slave labor or unfair wages in another country? And if people start making ethical choices, obviously one person won't make that much difference. But when millions or billions of people are making ethical choices, it will make a difference. And then there's consumer pressure.

47:54If a company is not behaving ethically, don't buy the products. try and buy organic food that hasn't poisoned the land with agricultural chemicals. And it might cost a little bit more, but honestly, if it costs a little bit more, you will value it more and you'll waste less. And the waste of food is absolutely shocking around the world. And yet there are people starving without even one good meal a day. This is the kind of mess we got ourselves into. And this is the kind of mess that we must use our intellect and our head with our heart to try and put things right. From your work with the chimpanzees, do you think that humans and chimpanzees have some kind of built-in aggression into the DNA and were doomed to be aggressive?

48:51and at war, zero-sum game, combating each other? The reason Leakey sent me to study the chimps is because he believed, and now it's been proven pretty well, that about six million years ago we shared a common ancestor, an ape-like, human-like creature. And so Lewis argued if Jane sees behavior in chimps today that's similar or the same as in people, then perhaps it was also in that common ancestor and perhaps we've brought those traits with us in our long evolutionary pathways. So do I think that there are aggressive tendencies in humans innately? Yes, I do. But the difference from chimpanzees who are on occasions extremely aggressive, even have a kind of warfare, kill each other.

49:47But the difference is that we've got this intellect. We can speak to each other. We've developed a spoken language. We can sit down and work out a moral code. And again, we just need to find ways of living together in harmony with each other and with nature. And people are always trying to do that. There's all these peace movements and everything, but there is that aggressive streak, and unfortunately, some people haven't learned to control it. Sometimes in our language we say things like, oh, I could kill him. But we don't mean that. We don't mean it. And we control most of our aggressive impulses.

50:35We might feel like punching somebody and people who get drunk do. But, I mean, for the most part, we do control our aggressive behavior, don't we? Don't you think? I do. I think that a lot of it is the perspective of journalists that bad news sells and community living in peace is not exactly a headline story. So it's very difficult to truly know what's going on in total as opposed to the negative highlights. I think that is for sure. I completely agree. I mean, there's all this fake news. And, you know, the Internet is wonderful if you use it wisely. But it does lead to an awful lot of all this hate stuff coming out.

51:18And there's no control over it. But when I was traveling around the world, you know, I got to meet so many amazing people and visit so many incredible projects where places that we've destroyed, given a chance, nature can take over again and life can come back. and so people actually do want good news stories and I'm always telling journalists if I ever have a press conference or an interview your job is to give good news time not only the bad news and we do need to know what's going on that's harmful but we do need to know all the amazing things that are going on as well because that gives you hope And only if you have hope will you bother to take action to do something about it.

52:11If you don't have hope, why bother? It sounds like you're fundamentally an optimist. And I bet people would love to know, how do you keep the faith in the face of so much that's going wrong right now? Well, yeah, I am an optimist, and I'm also a very obstinate sort of person. The more I hear these bad things, the more determined I feel that these bad people shall not win. And that means trying to find your reasons for hope. And I've already said one. That's our intellect. We can get together and discuss. And we are creating solar and wind power and clean green energy so that we can move away from fossil fuels once we get rid of the leaders who keep opening up coal mines, even knowing that's the worst, most contaminating fossil fuel for the greenhouse gases.

53:05But anyway, so we've got our intellect. And if we use it wisely, we can get out of the mess. And then there's the resilience of nature. nature coming back, rescuing animals on the very brink of extinction. In Europe, we've got this rewilding, and it's actually amazing. And in Canada, you've got a wonderful example of Sudbury. Sudbury that was totally, totally, totally destroyed. And now it's green and lush, and the animals have come back. In America, there's Yellowstone. All over the world, there are places like this. So nature's incredibly resilient. But then my main reason for hope is the youth.

53:50So we have this program for young people, Roots and Shoots, which is now in almost 60 countries. It's been in other countries, but sometimes the leader, the person who started it moves on or dies or something and it fades away. But nevertheless, many young people have been changed forever when they join Roots & Shoots because its main message is that every individual makes a difference every day. Every individual has a role to play. And every group chooses three projects because it's all interrelated. I learned that in the rainforest. One project to help people. One project to help animals. One project to help the environment.

54:37and the wonderful, and by the way, it's kindergarten, university, everything in between. We're beginning to get the staff of major corporations starting their own Roots and Shoots group, so it's really for everyone, but basically youth. And so these young people are encouraged to choose the projects that they want to work on. So it's not a top-down. It's bottom up. It's grassroots. It's flexible. It'll grow differently depending on the age of the members, depending on the environment that they're in, the country they're in, the religion, and so on. So it's flourishing. It's all over China. We've got about 2 ,000 groups in China.

55:26It's everywhere in Tanzania. It's all throughout the UK. It's in, I think, every single state in America. It's right across Canada, including working with First Nation people. It's moving ahead quite fast in the Middle East. We just started Jane Goodall Institute in India and another one in Turkey and another one is about to be registered in Israel. There are about 30 Jane Goodall Institutes, but then roots and shoots in about 60 countries. So the young people are changing the world. They really are. It's amazing their energy, their commitment, their determination. they choose their project, discuss how to do it, roll up their sleeves and take action.

56:20Hallelujah, right? Hallelujah. I hope it continues to happen. And listen, people who are listening now, if you want to support her efforts, just Google Roots and Shoots. And Jane, I'm sure you'll be happy to take their support, right? I'd be happy to take their support. I'll be even happier if they will involve their children, grandchildren, friends' children in the program, because this is what we need. What I'm caring about is the future of this beautiful planet, saving what's left. I've got grandchildren, could have great-grandchildren soon, I think, and I care about their future. And so we need a critical mass of young people, not only Roots & Shoots, any youth program that has the same goals and mission.

57:07We need a critical mass that understands, yes, we need money to live. It's when we live for money, it goes wrong. We need a new definition of what it means to be successful. At the moment, it's power and money. That's not what I see as a successful person. If that's what you don't see as a successful person, how do you define a successful person? Somebody who makes enough money to supply them with what they need, and if they have a family to look after their family, and if they make a lot of money to reach out, as so many people are doing now, to support organizations that are working in the field, on the ground, and who can be happy.

57:56People who have time to smell the roses, as the saying goes. If you go to a poor part of Africa and the people don't have very much at all, Some of them are just making money each day enough to eat. But you go there in the evening and they've lit their little fires and they're singing and they're laughing and they're having fun. And we don't have enough time in our crazy world. We're always looking at emails and children are not in nature anymore. They're just looking at their little cell phones and their WhatsAppping and messaging and doing all these things that I don't do. And they should be out in nature learning from life, not learning from these stupid little screens.

58:46I've got my eyes shut now, so I'm not looking at this little screen. You've traveled all around the world. Can you give us your impression? Do you think that people are more similar or more different as you go from country to country? Oh, they're more similar without any question. And that's the wonderful thing that's come out of our roots and shoots, because as often as we can, we bring young people together. Usually it's just within the country or even the city, but we try to bring people from different backgrounds together as much as we can from different countries, usually virtually, but not always.

59:25And it's just coming out of this program is a feeling of much more important than the color of your skin or your culture, your religion. your socioeconomic group, is the fact we're all humans. We laugh, we cry, our tears and our laughter is the same. And if we hurt ourselves, we bleed and our blood is the same. Our blood actually is the same. So that is tremendously important. People are more the same than they are different. And the worrying thing is that the way a child is brought up really makes a big difference. And so some children are brought up in societies where violence is condoned. And you know that these religious differences, it's not the basic underlying religion that's causing all this hate, of the hate between Muslims and Christians and Jews and all the rest of it.

1:00:32It's the fanatics within those religions because the basic tenet of every single major religion is the same golden rule, do to others as you would have them do to you. And I include animals in that because we know they're sentient. They have feelings like we do. They can feel happy and sad. They have personalities. They have problem-solving capabilities. They're adaptable. So when we think of these factory farms, the wildlife markets where COVID-19 actually began and this unhygienic, cruel, wet wildlife market in China, But there's wildlife markets across Asia, in Africa and Latin America. We ship animals around the world as exotic pets.

1:01:25They all take their bacteria and their viruses with them, which is why 75 % of new human diseases to emerge are from animals. And we create the conditions that make it easy. so when you think of a factory farm or trafficking animals or species being exterminated or sports hunting we're talking about individual animals with personalities and with feelings of fear and terror but they could be feelings of joy and they all feel pain which leads me to ask a question that I'm just very curious about. What do you think about zoos? Do they help educate people about animals, or are they fundamentally imprisoning animals and they're not a good thing?

1:02:19It honestly depends on the zoo, and of course I'm asked this a lot. The really good zoos, they do a lot of good. They have very, very good education programs. They raise money for conservation on the ground in the countries where the animals come from. They have excellent veterinarians who get a lot of practice with treating exotic animals. And more and more zoos are sending their qualified vets out to programs in the field to train people there and lend their expertise. The really good zoos, they have good enclosures. They have staff who care, who understand. And really important, they understand the need for enrichment.

1:03:10By that, I mean, just imagine being in a small space with nothing to do. That's what really upsets human prisoners. It might be even worse for animals. Maybe they have less ability to think outside the prison, so to speak. So now the good zoos, this enrichment, animals aren't just given their food. They have to work for it. They have to solve problems. obviously depending on the species but they need enough space they need a good social group and they need people who understand them and give them the right food and the good zoos are doing that Did you know that the Secretary of the Interior in the Biden administration is a Native American?

1:03:56Yes, indeed I did know Is that just not The greatest story ever? Yeah, because these indigenous people, they understand the natural world. I love with the Native Americans, they say the animals, the birds and the fishes and the mammals and the trees and the flowers. And some of them, even the rocks and the mountains, they're our brothers and sisters. We're all one with creation. And that is how we need to think about it. we're part of this amazing tapestry of life. You know, we first encountered each other back at Stanford, believe it or not. I was a student, you were a professor, and already you were just remarkable.

1:04:44I have to say that our friendship is one of the most valuable things in my life. I appreciate you doing this again on Clubhouse. And wow, can I just be a little bit of a fanboy for a while? You are being. And one of the stories that I like the most is that when you went back and you told other biologists that you had established friendships with the chimpanzees and you observed that they used tools. and rather than thinking of you as pushing forward the edge of science and making discoveries, didn't they summarily reject you because you're a woman and you didn't have a PhD in biology? So let's talk about that.

1:05:32What happened there? What happened is that after I'd been with the chimps about one and a half years, I get this letter from Louis Leakey saying I have to go to university. I have to get a degree because I'll have to stand on my own two feet to get money, and I'll need a degree for that. And there's no time for an undergraduate degree. And he's got me a place in Cambridge University to do a PhD in ethology. I didn't even know what ethology was, study of behavior. But anyway, when I got there, as you say, I was told I'd done everything wrong. Shouldn't have given the chimps names. They should be numbered.

1:06:10that's scientific. And you can't talk about them having personalities, minds or emotions, because those are unique to us. And you mustn't on any account have empathy with them, because then you can't be scientifically objective, and your science will never be any good. But you know, fortunately, I had this great teacher when I was a child, my dog, Rusty, And he taught me that the professors were wrong. So as usual, I didn't confront them. I didn't argue with them. I just went on writing about it in the way that I knew was right. And then, of course, it was Hugo's film. And when Hugo's film started coming out into the open, the scientists just had to realize that I was right.

1:07:04Wait, wait. How did Rusty, your dog, teach you this? This is a new story. Well, no, it's not. If you share your life in a meaningful way, they have personalities. Do you have any animals, Guy? Oh, let's see. Well, I know a lot of the listeners will. And I bet you any listener. That's for sure. Yes. Yes. That's what I mean. A dog or a cat could be a bird, a pig, a horse. I don't care what it is. But if you have an animal and you allow that animal to be part of your life, then you know quite well we are not the only beings with personalities, minds and emotions. And so I knew. But then, of course, the chimps, they're so like us, kissing, embracing, holding hands, forming these long-term relationships, good mothers, bad mothers, close family relationships, using tools, all these things.

1:08:02so it was just very clear that these professors were wrong and anyway they'd never been out looking at wild animals they mostly studied birds did nasty things to them like deafening them to see if they still learned their instinctive song not nice things jane we've had you for 38 minutes and i know it's late where you are we're going to wrap this up but i would love if you would just have a few closing remarks and say goodbye to the hundreds or thousands of people who are listening to you right now. The stage is all yours, Jane. Just bring it on home. First of all, Guy, let me say I value the opportunities that you've given me to share a message.

1:08:47I think this is probably the fourth time that this has happened. And it's people like you and And I'm sure that probably every single one of the people listening in is a much better person than a much worse person. There's far more good in people than bad in people. I'm convinced of that. And when they do behave in violent ways, that's their upbringing most of the time or things they've experienced in life. So to end up, to wrap up then, I think everybody needs to become involved. Everybody needs to find something to do. And if you can go to bed each night and think, I didn't do that much today, but I think I made the world a little bit better.

1:09:40And that's simple things like making somebody smile. We don't smile enough. We see people with drawn, worried faces. and sometimes you can just smile at them and they smile back. We're getting afraid to smile these days and you can bother to report if you see an animal being abused. You can give water to a dying plant. Just the little things. Choose what you buy. And I think if everybody behaves like that and if everybody realizes that truly and honestly what you do each day does make a collective difference, then we shall be moving towards a better world. And maybe some of the people listening have children or grandchildren.

1:10:34Think about their future. Think about how what you do every day will affect their future for the better or the worse. Think about the fact that if we carry on with business as usual, their future is going to be very grim indeed. If the world continues to heat up, if we go on losing the biodiversity, which I like to think of as the web of life, that's much more, it's a much nicer picture than biodiversity, which some people don't even understand. But we can't go on destroying this web of life. It gives us healthy ecosystems. And if people remember that we actually are part of the natural world and depend on it for clean air, clean water, for food, for shelter, for everything.

1:11:26And I can't forget. And I'll end up by saying that I have many Native American friends and actually indigenous people in other countries, too. But one of the most wonderful gifts I was given was by a Native American chief of the Cherokee tribe. And sometimes you're honored in a naming ceremony, and it is a great honor if they give you a name in their language. And so I was honored with a Cherokee name, and the translation of the word is Sister of Mother Earth. And what more wonderful gift could you have? So I have to fight every day. I have to fight every day for my sister. But we're all sisters of Mother Earth and brothers of Mother Earth.

1:12:21Think of it that way and act that way. That's how I would sum it up. Believe it or not, Jane was the first guest. I discovered something, Jane, magic of Google search engine. And if you typed in Jane Goodall plus the word remarkable, guess what? It finds that episode. So if you want more of Jane, listen to that episode. And Jane, it's always an honor and a privilege and fun to be online with you post-pandemic. Anytime you need me as your fireside chatterer, I'm there for you, Jane. Anytime you want. It's an honor and a privilege. Thank you, Guy. And next time, I'm going to put you on the spot and ask you all the questions.

1:13:06Okay. I'll be on your podcast. Yeah, that's right. Speaking of, Jane does have a podcast, so look for Jane's podcast. And also, remember, rootsandshoots.org if you want to help her and her quest to help Mother Earth. By the way, yes, sister of Mother Earth. The podcast is called Hopecast. What a great name. Isn't that a good name? That was Dan DuPont, Director of Communication. That's a super name. So I do Hopecasts. You do podcasts. That's why you're Jane Goodall, and I'm merely Guy Kawasaki. So we'll let you go to sleep now. I hope this is the last thing you have to do today. It's getting late there.

1:13:55No, actually, I hate to say it, but I have a Zoom call at 11 p.m. What? With whom? It's my special people in Asia. And if I do it earlier, they have to get up at 3 in the morning, and I don't want them to do that. And I'm always awake at 11 o 'clock anyway, so I thought it's kinder to them to do a Zoom at 11. Then I can have a whiskey. Speaking of whiskey, have you used that whiskey glass I bought you? Oh, indeed, I have used that whiskey glass. Absolutely.

1:14:33Many times. I think it's a positive that when I saw a whiskey glass, I thought of you, Jane. Yeah, very positive. Absolutely. You can think of me when you see the whiskey, too. Never mind the glass. All right, Jane. We'll let you go get ready for the Asians on Zoom. So thank you very much. And I'm sure all of the audience here appreciates you taking the time and making this effort and bringing some love into our lives. love and laughter today. Thank you so much, Jane. Take care. Yes, and you too, Guy, and everybody listening. Lots of love to everybody. We need to spread love, hope, happiness, laughter, then we'll have a better world.

1:15:14Bye-bye. I hope you enjoyed listening to Jane as much as I enjoyed interviewing her. She's always such a pleasure to work with. If you would like to help Jane, or, as their friends call her, Sister of Mother Earth, please go to rootsandshoots.org. I'm Guy Kawasaki. This is Remarkable People. My thanks to Jeff C. and Peg Fitzpatrick for another remarkable episode of the Remarkable People podcast. Remember, this podcast is sponsored by the Remarkable Tablet Company. When you need a writing and note-taking device that can help you focus The Remarkable Tablet is your answer Mahalo and Aloha

1:16:06This is Remarkable People I hope you've enjoyed these two episodes of the Remarkable People podcast with Jane I want to close with a quote from her What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make support Jane's work go to the Jane Goodall Institute site rest in peace Jane Goodall I will miss you