There are a lot of grandiose sayings about love. Love makes the world go round. Love is all you need. Love conquers all. There's this idea that if you have love you don't need anything else.

It's this magical cure-all, a superpower.

Well, my dearest listeners, I can tell you one thing that love cannot do. It cannot, by itself,

domesticate a wild animal. But for some reason people truly believe that the

power of love is enough to take a wild animal and turn it into a pet, like in Beauty and the Beast, how Bell's compassion and truly

endless patience transforms a monster into a gentle prince. Well, pack it up Walt Disney because that's not how it works. I want to start with

a story you may be familiar with. Maybe you've seen the video that made its rounds on social media a few years ago.

It's a video of two men being led into the African Savannah

to visit a lion they once raised in the UK.

Nervously, they wait as the lion named Christian, slowly approaches them.

Will he remember them or will he attack?

And then, in one of the sweetest moments truly ever captured on camera,

Christian the Lion recognizes his old owners and leaps towards

them jumping all over them forgetting he's not a house cat. It's a cute story. I mean, I understand why the video has tens of millions of

views. It's proof that love really is all you need. Even the largest, most vicious predator on the planet can be tamed by human affection.

Well, not really.

When I first saw that video, I was skeptical at best, so I did some digging.

And there's a bit more to that story than meets the eye.

There's parts that didn't make it into the

YouTube cut. Like, how do two normal guys in London even end up with a lion.

Well, back in the day, Harrods, one of the most famous department stores in London, used to sell exotic animals. Starting in 1917, the store had a Pet Kingdom section

where shoppers could pick up a panther or tiger alongside their coats and shoes.

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