🦧 Michael Jackson's Chimp 'Bubbles' Is Now 42-Years-Old!

Do you remember Bubbles?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. Do you know what I've read
the other day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The Bubbles, the chimp Michael Jackson's chip, is forty two
years old and still.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Alive, Still alive. I've been reading about this. In captivity.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
They can live longer because they've got a great food source,
have access to veterinary care. Some of them live well
into their forties, fifties, and sixties. The oldest chimpanzee on
record is a male chimpanzee called Joey. A lot of
vowels in the name.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Eighty two years of age.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Is that human years or jymp years are the same,
the same, the same? Because how much DNA were a
little bit?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Aren't we We're only two percent different and for you
maybe even less. But I've been reading the story about Bubbles.
Some of these things are just hilarious. As we know,
Bubbles was the chimpanzee that Michael Jackson adopted from. It
is in nineteen eighty three, from a research facility there
was breeding primates for animal testing, so it's a good
thing Michael adopted him and chimp Bubbles was only eight

(00:57):
months old. Bubbles moved into Michaels Los Angeles family home
before moving to Neverland where he shared a bedroom.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's why they ship him off. Did blab go the
whole blab.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
He shared a bedroom with Michael, he ate, he ate
at the dinner table, He had other human like behaviors.
Apparently Michael even taught Bubbles to moonwalk. Michael would take
him wherever he went, including a visit to Elizabeth Taylor's
house for a promotional party for the launch of the
album Bad.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
This is a hilarious quote. We supposedly quote worked the
room and was the life of the party.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, it's a low bar. He's a primate that froze.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And then there was Bubbles.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Bubbles presence in this Apparently he took him everywhere. Bubble's
presence in the studio made tensions boil over between Michael
and Freddie Mercury while they were recording There must be
more to life than this.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I don't remember that you remember.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
This an that's Michael when Bubbles for a world.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
There must be more horrible thank you well apparently Freddy.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Freddy floated at one point saying I'm not performing with
an effing chimp sitting next to me every night, And
after taking a photo of Michael and Bubbles together. Kenny
Rogers said Bubbles was so human it was almost frightening. Well,
i'll tell you what he's up to now. Of course,
he got too big and had to be moved on
and out.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
He got too big. What personality was or big?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
He was working the room everywhere baby seventy six kilos
and Michael feared for the safety of his newborn son
around him.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, yeah, because the chimp can rip your face off. Absolutely,
Michael too late.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Michael pays people for the privilege.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Bubbles was moved to a ranch in California, and even
though Michael has passed away, his estate pays for for
Bubles to live happily there. This is how so he's
alive and world. He's now at the Center for Great
Apes in Florida. This is another quote I'm enjoying where
he has a relaxing routine, enjoying painting and listening to

(03:12):
the flute.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Explain someone having a lend of us. It's like, Delaide, Mexicos,
are we doing pottery next?