This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language.

Listener discretion is advised.

The claims and opinions in this podcast are those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent the knife or exactly right media.

The amount spent on catering, additional concert tickets,

suites, everything altogether,

that was over a million dollars of zoo's money

just for these men and their personal entertainment.

Yeah.

Oh, and... Welcome to the Knife. I'm Pasha Eaton.

And I'm Hannah Smith.

And today we have a really interesting story involving a zoo. A scandal at the zoo. How wild.

Yeah, you found this article that you then sent to me. And maybe we should start with you kind of

explaining what was in the article. Yeah, well, I'm always looking for a scandal story. And when I kind of saw that there was a fraud unfolding at the Columbus Zoo, I was like, okay, I need to know more. And so it was actually in an article from a local newspaper in Ohio called The Columbus Dispatch. And it was written back in 2021.

And in the article, essentially what was said was that a tip had come into the paper

where someone had reported that these high-ranking zoo executives were misusing houses

that were owned by the zoo.

Which is just like, what are we talking about houses owned by a zoo?

I know. I was like, why does the zoo need all these houses?

What are they doing with them?

What are they doing with them? How does this work?

I did a little research. And basically, zoos are, you know,

...