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The Bobby Bones Show

Episode #7: More Than A Job: The Story of Jim Laurita

The Bobby Bones Show

Premiere Networks

Entertainment News, News, Comedy, Music, Music Interviews, Society & Culture

4.810.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How can a job become more than a job? Sometimes a job becomes an identity and a legacy through all the people your job touches. How you live on through the people you know and had an effect on. This is the story of an elephant trainer and activist, Jim Laurita, who died a few years ago. Jim was adored by the community and started an organization called “Hope for Elephants” to help rehab hurt elephants and educate the community. When he died mysteriously, the community was devastated. This story is told through Jim’s family, friends and fellow trainers - an extraordinary person doing an extraordinary job, and the legacy he left behind.

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1:04.0

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1:17.0

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1:24.0

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1:35.0

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2:31.0

Welcome to On the Job. This season we're bringing you stories about people finding their professional stride by virtue of who they know. Whether it's breathing new life into an age old profession, taking the reins and a family business, forging your own path with a new idea or landing the perfect job doing something you've never before even considered.

3:02.0

The final episode of this season is about a man named Jim Larita. His work as a veterinarian in the town of Hope, Maine has had a profound effect on a lot of people.

3:15.0

He was always really good with animals. We had dogs and cats and all of that and he was probably the one who really got them the best.

3:26.0

The story of Jim Larita and the trajectory of his work is a pretty wild one and a big part of that trajectory was his brother Tom.

3:33.0

So I'm Tom Larita. I am Jim Larita's elder brother.

3:38.0

Tom is the CEO of New Leaf Symbiotics, which is a big plant micro bio company in St. Louis, but in his early days he had a much different job.

3:48.0

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Carson and Barnes, the world's only five ring circus!

4:05.0

Tom went to college for about two years before leaving in 1977 to become a juggler and ring announcer at Carson and Barnes, the largest-tented circus in America.

4:14.0

Ladies and gentlemen, the Prima Ballerina of Spangleland, ladies and gentlemen, the amazing Captain Donald Carr!

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