September 30, 2025 • 27 mins
A wonderful candid conversation with Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka all about their new book, new pet project, new Broadway show, but it was especially heartwarming to hear about their beautiful twins and their 4 beloved pooches!
EPISODE NOTES: Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka and Their Book, Both Sides Of The Glass
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EPISODE NOTES: Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka and Their Book, Both Sides Of The Glass
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He is Pet Life Radio. Let's talk Pets.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Rappaport to the Rescue with award winning animal advocate, best
selling author, journalist and pet products creator Jill Rappaport.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hi, I'm Joe Rappaport and welcome to Rappaport to the
Rescue and if I got a great show for you today,
two of the most creative, beloved and talented people are
joining us Neil Patrick Harris and David Burka. Now, Harris
is an Emmy and Tony winning actor and of course
we all remember him when he captured Our Hearts and
(00:39):
Doogie Howser MD as Barney Stinson on How I Met
Your Mother.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Neil was also brilliant when he hosted the Tony's Emmys
and Oscars, and his husband, David Burka, is such a
creative force to be reckoned with. He's an incredibly talented
actor and chef who's appeared on Broadway and on TV
and authored an amazing cookbook called Life Is a Party.
(01:04):
This dynamic duom are the very proud parents to twins
Gideon and Harper, and I had the pleasure of meeting
them and I can tell you firsthand they are so
lovely and kind together. This family supports so many important causes,
not to mention they are huge animal advocates and they
(01:24):
have a new pet product project they're going to tell
us about which helps benefit the ASPCA. Plus, Neil and
David had just launched a new book together called Both
Sides of the Glass. Can't wait to hear all about that.
And a reminder to all of my listeners, October is
Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, so please open up your
hearts and homes and your wallets to helping these animals
(01:48):
in need. It will be the best gift you can
give yourself. And some other great news about our podcast.
Every month, we will now have a special segment called
Catchat with Deborah Cribs. This wonderful lady is truly devoting
her life to making a difference for cats all over
the country with a movement that is saving countless lives.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now coming up, you definitely don't want to miss this
interview with Neil Patrick Harris and David Burda.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
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Speaker 6 (02:56):
Let's talk pets on Petlife Radio dot com.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Welcome back to rap Report to the rest of you.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I'm Joe Rappaport.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And you know they say the best things in life
are worth waiting for, and have I waited for a
long time for my next guest. I can't believe you're
finally here. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burka. I am
so excited to have.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
You on the show.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
We are so excited to be here. I know it's
been a long time coming for us to do this,
like since COVID, which is great, but I'm so glad
that you've got by us and waited for all these
years to have us on your show.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
You are just the most amazing couple, and what I
love is how you care so deeply about such important
causes and especially animals.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
It's true, we do, you know, we like we like
to get involved. And you know, I was once told
that life's all about love and service. You know, the
more we can help each other out, the better we
can all be. So, you know, taking care of each
other I think is our human duty.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Too, he said duty.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Oh god, I'm the serious one here.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
As you can, as you can tell all the good
of course, dogs and animals and any living things that
we love.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
For sure, we both grew up with pets. I mean
I've had dogs and cats since I was born, really,
so pets have always been such a sort of pure,
authentic part of our families, regardless of which family. And
you know when you have kids as well, and pets
are paramount.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I just remembered I used to bring in and we
lived in the woods and back of our house, and
I would bring in every single time.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
I'd bring in birds, I'd bring in snakes and spiders,
and my mom like, can.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I keep it as a pet.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Well, it's so incredible because before we started rolling, and
I wish our listeners could see this. You have the
most adorable dogs too, of the I got to see.
Just now, tell us about your animal menagerie and your family.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Now, we have a female dog named Gidget. He is
a rescue and she's about twenty five pounds.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes, but eight years old. I think eight. No, she
might be longest.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She was a rescue from Thailand originally wow a short
animal league that journ actually hooked us up with Gidget.
And since she's from Thailand, she can do the craziest
things with ping pong balls.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
I love that she's very much of a diva. She's
the one who runs the whole dog menagerie. Everyone takes
orders from Gidget. We have this mud room where they
sleep in at night, and she will just sit in
there as a guard dog all day long.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, she bosses the dogs around. She thinks she can
speak the English language, so there's a lot of different
barks and ours and ours, so she thinks she's very smart.
She has a lot to say, which is great. Then
Spike is our next dog. He's smaller than Gidget. He's
probably fifteen pounds, another rescue.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
What type of dog, Spike? He's a Chihuahua fresh bulldog mix.
And what happened?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
And Gidget's more of like a Habanese poodle terrier. She's
like a mix of so many things, but she looks
like a teddy bear.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Like you see her. She's very cute.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Spike is slick and sleek and he doesn't bark much
at all. He's a bit of an mpath. He's amazing.
He's kind of part seal, part Ninja.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
He's been more catlike than a thing.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Like Yeah, he's got like sort of like you leave
me alone and I'll come to you when you're feeling whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He likes to be kissed and stuff on the nape
of his neck, like like where his chest is between
his shoulder blades, so he'll climb up and put his
front paws on your shoulders and just be sort of
staring at you and raise his chin up and then
you can give him kisses on his neck.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Hend Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Likes great. And then we got Chunk. Chunk is a dog.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
That's a great name for that dog.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh man, he is the cutest. He's here now. We've
got him right up near the microphone.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Oh my goodness, I just wish everybody could see the
face on this one.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Just big, stocky, little little pot roasts. He keeps up
with the big dogs, which is so crazy. We had
a Golden retriever's named Ella, and she passed away rather suddenly,
and that was our fourth, but she was our baby.
And then and then a couple months after that, when
we still wanted a fourth, we got this amazing next
next baby named Bianca. And Bianca is she is so beautiful?
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What is her mix of Golden Door? Golden Door?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
So she's half English?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Oh my god, she's she's half English cream Retriever and.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Half white Lab.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I was stillna say. She looked pure Lab to me.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
She has a body of a Lab but a face
of a retriever, so she doesn't have that stockiness of
like a lab. Sometimes you see their heads are kind
of like like look like a helmet. She's got that
long sleek.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
She is forge. These are baby girl.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Gorgeous And I love Neil how she leaned in and
just gave you just the sweetest little kiss.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And she's nuzzling on your shoulder now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
She'd rather be held, and Chunk would rather be roaming
right now. Recording this at our place in the city
of New York, Manhattan, and normally the dogs would all
be roaming with the dog door, and we have like
a lot of acres of running space for dogs. But
Bianca keeps wanting to get out of our property, which
is not fun when you get a call from the neighbors.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Tera, fine, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It don't think it's anxiety or anything. I think she's
very excited by all the critters that are on the
other side of the fence.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And you're also the amazing proud parents to the most
beautiful twins. So that I've had the pleasure meeting Gideon
and Harper, I believe they're coming at fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Years old, yes to over fifteenth yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I can't believe it because I met them. I think
when they were around ten. You've raised your children with
the love of animals and how these animals have added
so much to your lives and how you balance it all.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I think animals create. They're kind of a great disruptor.
I think that animals allow a variable in your life
where you're not just living in a structure that's the
same every day. Dogs just change it up. They chew
things up, and you have to deal with that. You go,
I need to go walk them and meet new people.
(09:37):
And I'm a massive fan of getting outside of your
comfort zone a little bit and being immersive in your experiences.
And so when you know when the kids have pets.
Then you can train them, you can walk them, you
can cuddle with them, you can groom them. There's just
a lot of like real heartfelt time that you can
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spend with them. And Harper when she was a baby child,
like as soon as she can create buck really three four,
she would go right up to animals and like and
petting zoos and I was not afraid of any of them.
And she would she'd go to each of them and say,
it's okay, I got you, I got you. Well, lambs
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and goats would come up to her.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I got you. It's okay.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
I call any animal amazing.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, they did at camp.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
They do at Central Park Zoo and they get to
deal with some of the animals and meet all the animals.
And it was one of her most favorite times when
she got to you know, feed the baby goats and
see the cuckoo burro and the hold the hedgehogs and
the python snakes and she was fred of anything. And
how about Idean, Oh, for sure, they both love animals.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I think the animals.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I think dogs have just this love that you can't explain,
and like even if you've had a bad day, they
get it. They understand that you need extra love, this
unconditional love that you burst through the door and they're
just there happy to see you, and it just makes
it makes me happier to have animals around in my life,
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and why not create that in your world.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
They really are members of our family, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
They're they're your children as well.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yes, of course, and we live in especially in a
post COVID time where I think pets deserve to be
treated as members of your family. You know, a lot
of the past was I think spent with families giving
their their pets, their dogs, the cheapest food they could find,
that right, you know, and now we've really pivoted into
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a time where you can get freeze dried healthy food
like cook your own animals food. I actually have a
pet company now called tail t a y L.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I wanted to talk about that. Tell us about that. Yeah,
we'll send you some products.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Oh, I want to hear so tell me a little
bit about that company, because I was fascinated that with
everything you guys have on your plate, no pun intended,
you're able to.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Do this too well.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We really are just pet forward, and I think that
pet space deserves to have well fought, well curated things
that are for the pets, that aren't like cheap, mass produced,
mass manufactured, uncomfortable and thoughtless, but instead worth spending a
little bit of money for. It's in its beta form
(12:28):
right now, dealing with mostly wearables. Oh nice, we're doing
what are they called carps bandanas, which is one of
those things. I thought that's an interesting thing because the
bandana normally is just a really ineffective piece of cotton
fabric that is thrown on your dog when they get
a haircut at the store or something. Right, you don't
really are you supposed to keep it? He SUPs to
(12:51):
wash it, can't wash it, And so we've created ones
that are nicer. We're doing four or five a season.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh yeah, I have red bandanas on my dog because
I have a Western ranch and oh.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
My gosh, we have to send you some like if.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Somebody's driving up the driveway, you see the bandanas. I
look at it as a safety toe.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh that's a perfect point. Oh, I love that. We're
gonna start using that round two for tablet. It's going
to be more leashes and collars and things like that,
and then our end game is like larger crates and
things we have some good ideas for that crate world
with pets I think deserves to be improved.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You mentioned all these products, David, being the premiere incredible chef,
please tell me you're going to be doing dog food.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Oh my gosh, I never even thought about that, but yeah,
yeah I could. I could definitely do some dog food.
That would be great, greatly dog food.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I mean, there are obviously a few brands out there
that people swear by, but I am still on the
fence with a lot of those things. I'm waiting for
a pure, healthy dog food. You're the perfect one to
launch that food. Is a little tricky because you have
anything adjestable. I know ingestible is hard. Well, considering everything
you've got going on with animals and your beautiful twins
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and your careers, you have this new book out now together,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
This is so exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Matter of fact, we do we do it. It's called
both sides of the Glass. Yes, expression we like and
it's appropriate. It's fifty cocktail recipes and fifty spirit free
or mocktail recipes. David is nine years sober, and I
love to have a cocktail or two and sort of
love the alchemy of mixing the drink and sort of
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making it as opposed to just popping open a bottle
of beer or something. And so we wanted to create
something that you could give as a gift for someone
that was in a similar situation. If you were going
to a party and you didn't know whether the host
drank or not, this would be a great option to
give to them. And it's sort of a bunch of
recipes and thoughts and a bunch of tips from David
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about how best to make shrubs and syrups and vessels
to use. And it's broken down by the four elements
and water and earth, air and air. And then you
have recipes on Spirit Forward on one side and you
flip the page and the Spirit Free ones are sort
of I love.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
This, it's so brilliant.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Yeah, no one's ever really done this. There's been cocktail books,
there's been mocktail books, but to take like an old fashion,
and like, if my husband's gonna drink an old fashion,
like I kind of want to partake in sort of
the way he's making the night feel. So I came
up with the new fashion. So it's you know, you're
taking these na alternatives there's a lot of really great
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products out now that are like and a gin and
a tequila, and of course they don't taste exactly like
the alcohol, and people who are sober sometimes feel a
little triggered with sometimes how like the bourbons and the whiskeys.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Too much like booze, So I can trigger that again, yeah,
it would get triggered by that. But in terms of
like flavoring and being able to layer the flavoring with
different kinds of syrups or teas or herbs, and then
these non alcoholic spirits, we've come up with some really fun,
adult forward drinks. I got that up with going to
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bars and restaurants and just having to order sparkling lime
or a really sugary mocktail. Now there's a lot of
really great options to make your night feel special without
having to feel like you're standing back in the crowd
and just drinking selz water.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I think that's a good point. When you go to
a restaurant and you ask if they have any non
alcoholic drinks, the reaction up until fairly recently has been
uniformly a confusion by the server as if it's such
like a lower class question, and David's absolutely right. There's
many many brands of spirits that contain no alcohol now,
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and so you could have a whole bar cart filled
with things that you could totally drink, would feel respectable, drinking,
would enliven your mouth and your night, and then not
leave you hung over the next day.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Oh, it's such.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Thus you're brilliant idea. I love that this book is
coming out now. On the fact that you worked on
it together, collaborating.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
What is that like?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Talk about your working collaboration and good it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I don't think we would have done a book together
unless it was something where we were equally excited by it,
and it's skill set is perfect for this. And I
love mixing drinks and doing and exploring and taste testing
all that.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
We don't really work.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Together necessarily on the book so much because Neil developed
the cocktails, and then from the cocktails I took those
and made the mocktails. So we were sort of in
our separate corners until sort of we started putting it
all together. And now, of course the pr is the
most I've seen him in mutters, which is just kidding.
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Both of you are so incredibly busy in so many
different areas. Tell us what else you're working on now
that you know, separate or together that we can look
forward to in the future. I'll start with you, Neil.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm currently doing a play in New York on Broadway
the Music Box Theater called Art. It's a three hander
with Bobby Kenavalli and James Cordon and it's playing eight
times a week. So that's where I am until the
end of December.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
That's why I can't even believe you have time for
this interview. I was so worried. I said, when did
they have time to even sleep?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That is really great, and I know, first of all, David,
you are just the most amazing chef.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
What are you doing in terms of that?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
The wheels are churning for Thanksgiving already, which is crazy.
But I'm in the I'm in like I have a
huge garden farm in Hampton, so I'm in the process
of canning. So I've been canning a lot of carrots
and green beans, and I have two giant chest feet
freezers full of tomatoes to start like tomato sauce. I
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gotta find somewhere to sell that.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't I'd be great. It'd be odd about tomato sauce.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
But I've got, I've got.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I've been writing a lot, and I have a couple
of writing projects that are not not able to really
talk about. But there's some really exciting things down the
line that I'm super excited about. There's a series that's
coming out in the summer that I did for Amazon
called l based on the Legally Blonde show.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
It goes prequel to her life.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
But then I'm just you know, taking care of kids
and being.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
David's always got three things going on. It's great the
two of you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I mean, you're amazing Neil two, but you're twins. I
mean when you meet them, and I said this at
the beginning of the show, they truly are just such
lovely human beings. And that is such a testament to
the two of you, how you raise them, how you
brought them up. Your children just radiate kindness.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Isn't it funny that you could tell by the parents
by the kids like you are. If you see a kid,
it's kind of a jerk. You know, yeah, its likely
that the parents are going to be ahled. But you know, honestly,
if you put the work into anything, you get it back.
And I do think that we both have done a
really good job yinging and yanging on the parenthood that
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they get. You know, a lot of a lot of things.
So we try our hardest, and it's like the more
work you put in, the more work you get out.
And I'm seeing that now of how their kids are
turning into being such great adults. They're fantastic. We are
ferociously proud of them.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well, I am just so thrilled to finally have you
on the show and just continued success as you could
most important, continued being the most amazing family that you are.
As I said, I'm so fortunate to have met all
of you, and you've really done it right.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's very thank you so much. Thanks.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
We hope to see you soon. And take care of
your animals.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yes, we've got to all get together. I'll bring my
dogs to your house. I've tackling next to me. I
have four also.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Well, welcome, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And thank you all for joining us today for this
very special show with two of my very favorite people.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
And there's more to come on wrap aford to the.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Rest of you when we introduce you to a brand
new segment called Catch at coming up.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
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Coms cat Chat with Deborah Cribbs, founder of the Give
Them Ten movement.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
Welcome back to RAP Report to the Rescue.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I'm Joe Rappaport.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You heard in my last interview with Neil Patrick Harrison
David Burka that I teased our new cat correspondent.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
We have a brand new segment.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Called cat Chat with the amazing Deborah Cribs. And Deborah
this is really going to be so much fun for
our listeners. We interviewed you a few more months ago
and we just connected in the most special way. And
the fact that you focus and devote your life to KATZ.
I was so excited that you wanted to be part
of Rapaport to the Rescue.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
Well, thank you, Jill, I very much do want to
be part of rapaport to the rescue. And I have
devoted my life to kats, both as a person and
now professionally, and I will tell you it is the
culmination of my life's work to be your cat correspondent.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So thank you, as I say, it's going to be
in every show five minutes of cat Chattcha. I love
that you know, to really focus on these wonderful animals
and what you're doing. And let's do a little recap.
We have five minutes, and let's take people back and
tell them about you, Deborah, and how you got involved.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
Well, thanks for asking that again. I represent a group,
a movement called give Them ton why the name? You
know cats have nine lives, right, we say give them ten.
And we started in the Cincinnati area and we are
working solely to make the lives of cats better and
trying to make sure, Jill, that cats are no longer
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killed in shelters because of space.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
That's our aim.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And your message is resonating really throughout the country. Like
you said, You're made such a huge difference in Cincinnati,
but this movement is really becoming a movement, we like.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
To think, so I will say that the numbers that
we've seen in Cincinnati over the decade that we've been
doing this were so heartwarmingly wonderful. We went from a
live release rate of about thirty seven percent to now
well over ninety percent, which means that ninety plus percent
of the cats that enter a shelter have a live outcome.
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They leave alive. This is what we're working for, making
sure that cats aren't being killed in shelters. And as
we have increased our marketing scope and started working with
partners around the country, our spokes cat scooter, the neutered
cat hip spectacles no testicles a scooter has roamed the country.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
The message is resonating.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
And you're doing all these clever campaigns to catch our attention,
aren't you.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
We are He is the best spokes cat ever. And
what we try to do is talk to the public
in kind of an edgy and humorous way to catch
their attention, but also tell them here are some things
that you can do to make sure that cats and
dogs for that matter, are not killed in shelters. Literally
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down the street from you.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And your love of cats runs so deeply and is
really such a fiber of your life. But it was
this one woman that you encountered that really changed your
life and really made you able to do this incredible movement.
Tell us about her.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
That is very true.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
My day job, if you will, is as a financial advisor,
and one of my clients, who was very wealthy, died
and left a private foundation in my care, and that
foundation was set up solely to support cats in Cincinnati.
That is a really narrow focus, so we've really broadened
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it as the years have gone by.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And the fact that you were left this money, this
income to be able to make a difference, and she
trusted you. That's what's so amazing, Deborah. She really put
all her faith and trust and money in you and
had this legacy live on to save countless cats.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
Well, it's been an honor. I have a big team
behind me as well as a bank, and we all
work really hard to stand by the mission that she outlined,
which was to help cats.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
But now we're really really.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Looking to talk to people around the country about the
way that we've succeeded in our part of the country.
Everybody can succeed.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And every month you're going to be picking a different
topic about cats that we need to know about. Tease
that a little bit for our listeners. Deborah tell us
about some of the topics we're going to tackle in
the months ahead. Oh.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Absolutely, Well, you may not know that there are actual
mental health benefits to having a cat in your house.
And I might have a couple of ideas for the holidays, Jill.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Well, we need them.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
The holidays are a time where everybody wants to be
surrounded with the family and the people and the animals
they love. And that's a whole other area where I
do a campaign home for the holidays, hoping that we
can get every animal into a loving home. And I
know that is your focus for cats as well. We
want them all placed in the best homes possible, right, Deborah.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Absolutely, we are completely aligned and I really look forward
to having these conversations every month. You're right with a
new topic.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Or to Oh, Deborah cribs. This five minute cat chat
was so much fun. I love that people are going
to get to know you. You're going to be part
of Rapaport to the Rescue, and you're going to raise
awareness for cats in.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Need all over the world. We are so excited to
have you.
Speaker 11 (27:17):
Well, we are honored and pleased to be here. Jill
looking forward.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
All right.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Thank you so much, and thank you for listening to
this very special edition with our new cat correspondent Deborah
Cribs on Rapaport to the Rescue.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Rappaport to the Rescue with award winning animal advocate, best
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hi, I'm Joe Rappaport and welcome to Rappaport to the
Rescue and if I got a great show for you today,
two of the most creative, beloved and talented people are
joining us Neil Patrick Harris and David Burka. Now, Harris
is an Emmy and Tony winning actor and of course
we all remember him when he captured Our Hearts and
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Doogie Howser MD as Barney Stinson on How I Met
Your Mother.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Neil was also brilliant when he hosted the Tony's Emmys
and Oscars, and his husband, David Burka, is such a
creative force to be reckoned with. He's an incredibly talented
actor and chef who's appeared on Broadway and on TV
and authored an amazing cookbook called Life Is a Party.
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This dynamic duom are the very proud parents to twins
Gideon and Harper, and I had the pleasure of meeting
them and I can tell you firsthand they are so
lovely and kind together. This family supports so many important causes,
not to mention they are huge animal advocates and they
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have a new pet product project they're going to tell
us about which helps benefit the ASPCA. Plus, Neil and
David had just launched a new book together called Both
Sides of the Glass. Can't wait to hear all about that.
And a reminder to all of my listeners, October is
Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, so please open up your
hearts and homes and your wallets to helping these animals
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in need. It will be the best gift you can
give yourself. And some other great news about our podcast.
Every month, we will now have a special segment called
Catchat with Deborah Cribs. This wonderful lady is truly devoting
her life to making a difference for cats all over
the country with a movement that is saving countless lives.
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Speaker 4 (03:06):
Welcome back to rap Report to the rest of you.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I'm Joe Rappaport.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And you know they say the best things in life
are worth waiting for, and have I waited for a
long time for my next guest. I can't believe you're
finally here. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burka. I am
so excited to have.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
You on the show.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
We are so excited to be here. I know it's
been a long time coming for us to do this,
like since COVID, which is great, but I'm so glad
that you've got by us and waited for all these
years to have us on your show.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
You are just the most amazing couple, and what I
love is how you care so deeply about such important
causes and especially animals.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
It's true, we do, you know, we like we like
to get involved. And you know, I was once told
that life's all about love and service. You know, the
more we can help each other out, the better we
can all be. So, you know, taking care of each
other I think is our human duty.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Too, he said duty.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Oh god, I'm the serious one here.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
As you can, as you can tell all the good
of course, dogs and animals and any living things that
we love.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
For sure, we both grew up with pets. I mean
I've had dogs and cats since I was born, really,
so pets have always been such a sort of pure,
authentic part of our families, regardless of which family. And
you know when you have kids as well, and pets
are paramount.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
I just remembered I used to bring in and we
lived in the woods and back of our house, and
I would bring in every single time.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
I'd bring in birds, I'd bring in snakes and spiders,
and my mom like, can.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
I keep it as a pet.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Well, it's so incredible because before we started rolling, and
I wish our listeners could see this. You have the
most adorable dogs too, of the I got to see.
Just now, tell us about your animal menagerie and your family.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Now, we have a female dog named Gidget. He is
a rescue and she's about twenty five pounds.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes, but eight years old. I think eight. No, she
might be longest.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She was a rescue from Thailand originally wow a short
animal league that journ actually hooked us up with Gidget.
And since she's from Thailand, she can do the craziest
things with ping pong balls.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
I love that she's very much of a diva. She's
the one who runs the whole dog menagerie. Everyone takes
orders from Gidget. We have this mud room where they
sleep in at night, and she will just sit in
there as a guard dog all day long.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, she bosses the dogs around. She thinks she can
speak the English language, so there's a lot of different
barks and ours and ours, so she thinks she's very smart.
She has a lot to say, which is great. Then
Spike is our next dog. He's smaller than Gidget. He's
probably fifteen pounds, another rescue.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
What type of dog, Spike? He's a Chihuahua fresh bulldog mix.
And what happened?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
And Gidget's more of like a Habanese poodle terrier. She's
like a mix of so many things, but she looks
like a teddy bear.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Like you see her. She's very cute.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Spike is slick and sleek and he doesn't bark much
at all. He's a bit of an mpath. He's amazing.
He's kind of part seal, part Ninja.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
He's been more catlike than a thing.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Like Yeah, he's got like sort of like you leave
me alone and I'll come to you when you're feeling whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He likes to be kissed and stuff on the nape
of his neck, like like where his chest is between
his shoulder blades, so he'll climb up and put his
front paws on your shoulders and just be sort of
staring at you and raise his chin up and then
you can give him kisses on his neck.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Hend Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Likes great. And then we got Chunk. Chunk is a dog.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
That's a great name for that dog.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh man, he is the cutest. He's here now. We've
got him right up near the microphone.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Oh my goodness, I just wish everybody could see the
face on this one.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Just big, stocky, little little pot roasts. He keeps up
with the big dogs, which is so crazy. We had
a Golden retriever's named Ella, and she passed away rather suddenly,
and that was our fourth, but she was our baby.
And then and then a couple months after that, when
we still wanted a fourth, we got this amazing next
next baby named Bianca. And Bianca is she is so beautiful?
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What is her mix of Golden Door? Golden Door?
Speaker 5 (07:46):
So she's half English?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Oh my god, she's she's half English cream Retriever and.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Half white Lab.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I was stillna say. She looked pure Lab to me.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
She has a body of a Lab but a face
of a retriever, so she doesn't have that stockiness of
like a lab. Sometimes you see their heads are kind
of like like look like a helmet. She's got that
long sleek.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
She is forge. These are baby girl.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Gorgeous And I love Neil how she leaned in and
just gave you just the sweetest little kiss.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And she's nuzzling on your shoulder now.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
She'd rather be held, and Chunk would rather be roaming
right now. Recording this at our place in the city
of New York, Manhattan, and normally the dogs would all
be roaming with the dog door, and we have like
a lot of acres of running space for dogs. But
Bianca keeps wanting to get out of our property, which
is not fun when you get a call from the neighbors.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Tera, fine, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It don't think it's anxiety or anything. I think she's
very excited by all the critters that are on the
other side of the fence.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And you're also the amazing proud parents to the most
beautiful twins. So that I've had the pleasure meeting Gideon
and Harper, I believe they're coming at fifteen.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Years old, yes to over fifteenth yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I can't believe it because I met them. I think
when they were around ten. You've raised your children with
the love of animals and how these animals have added
so much to your lives and how you balance it all.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I think animals create. They're kind of a great disruptor.
I think that animals allow a variable in your life
where you're not just living in a structure that's the
same every day. Dogs just change it up. They chew
things up, and you have to deal with that. You go,
I need to go walk them and meet new people.
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And I'm a massive fan of getting outside of your
comfort zone a little bit and being immersive in your experiences.
And so when you know when the kids have pets.
Then you can train them, you can walk them, you
can cuddle with them, you can groom them. There's just
a lot of like real heartfelt time that you can
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spend with them. And Harper when she was a baby child,
like as soon as she can create buck really three four,
she would go right up to animals and like and
petting zoos and I was not afraid of any of them.
And she would she'd go to each of them and say,
it's okay, I got you, I got you. Well, lambs
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and goats would come up to her.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I got you. It's okay.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
I call any animal amazing.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Yeah, they did at camp.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
They do at Central Park Zoo and they get to
deal with some of the animals and meet all the animals.
And it was one of her most favorite times when
she got to you know, feed the baby goats and
see the cuckoo burro and the hold the hedgehogs and
the python snakes and she was fred of anything. And
how about Idean, Oh, for sure, they both love animals.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I think the animals.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I think dogs have just this love that you can't explain,
and like even if you've had a bad day, they
get it. They understand that you need extra love, this
unconditional love that you burst through the door and they're
just there happy to see you, and it just makes
it makes me happier to have animals around in my life,
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and why not create that in your world.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
They really are members of our family, you know.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
They're they're your children as well.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yes, of course, and we live in especially in a
post COVID time where I think pets deserve to be
treated as members of your family. You know, a lot
of the past was I think spent with families giving
their their pets, their dogs, the cheapest food they could find,
that right, you know, and now we've really pivoted into
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a time where you can get freeze dried healthy food
like cook your own animals food. I actually have a
pet company now called tail t a y L.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I wanted to talk about that. Tell us about that. Yeah,
we'll send you some products.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Oh, I want to hear so tell me a little
bit about that company, because I was fascinated that with
everything you guys have on your plate, no pun intended,
you're able to.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Do this too well.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We really are just pet forward, and I think that
pet space deserves to have well fought, well curated things
that are for the pets, that aren't like cheap, mass produced,
mass manufactured, uncomfortable and thoughtless, but instead worth spending a
little bit of money for. It's in its beta form
(12:28):
right now, dealing with mostly wearables. Oh nice, we're doing
what are they called carps bandanas, which is one of
those things. I thought that's an interesting thing because the
bandana normally is just a really ineffective piece of cotton
fabric that is thrown on your dog when they get
a haircut at the store or something. Right, you don't
really are you supposed to keep it? He SUPs to
(12:51):
wash it, can't wash it, And so we've created ones
that are nicer. We're doing four or five a season.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh yeah, I have red bandanas on my dog because
I have a Western ranch and oh.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
My gosh, we have to send you some like if.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Somebody's driving up the driveway, you see the bandanas. I
look at it as a safety toe.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh that's a perfect point. Oh, I love that. We're
gonna start using that round two for tablet. It's going
to be more leashes and collars and things like that,
and then our end game is like larger crates and
things we have some good ideas for that crate world
with pets I think deserves to be improved.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
You mentioned all these products, David, being the premiere incredible chef,
please tell me you're going to be doing dog food.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Oh my gosh, I never even thought about that, but yeah,
yeah I could. I could definitely do some dog food.
That would be great, greatly dog food.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I mean, there are obviously a few brands out there
that people swear by, but I am still on the
fence with a lot of those things. I'm waiting for
a pure, healthy dog food. You're the perfect one to
launch that food. Is a little tricky because you have
anything adjestable. I know ingestible is hard. Well, considering everything
you've got going on with animals and your beautiful twins
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and your careers, you have this new book out now together,
let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
This is so exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Matter of fact, we do we do it. It's called
both sides of the Glass. Yes, expression we like and
it's appropriate. It's fifty cocktail recipes and fifty spirit free
or mocktail recipes. David is nine years sober, and I
love to have a cocktail or two and sort of
love the alchemy of mixing the drink and sort of
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making it as opposed to just popping open a bottle
of beer or something. And so we wanted to create
something that you could give as a gift for someone
that was in a similar situation. If you were going
to a party and you didn't know whether the host
drank or not, this would be a great option to
give to them. And it's sort of a bunch of
recipes and thoughts and a bunch of tips from David
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about how best to make shrubs and syrups and vessels
to use. And it's broken down by the four elements
and water and earth, air and air. And then you
have recipes on Spirit Forward on one side and you
flip the page and the Spirit Free ones are sort
of I love.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
This, it's so brilliant.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Yeah, no one's ever really done this. There's been cocktail books,
there's been mocktail books, but to take like an old fashion,
and like, if my husband's gonna drink an old fashion,
like I kind of want to partake in sort of
the way he's making the night feel. So I came
up with the new fashion. So it's you know, you're
taking these na alternatives there's a lot of really great
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products out now that are like and a gin and
a tequila, and of course they don't taste exactly like
the alcohol, and people who are sober sometimes feel a
little triggered with sometimes how like the bourbons and the whiskeys.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Too much like booze, So I can trigger that again, yeah,
it would get triggered by that. But in terms of
like flavoring and being able to layer the flavoring with
different kinds of syrups or teas or herbs, and then
these non alcoholic spirits, we've come up with some really fun,
adult forward drinks. I got that up with going to
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bars and restaurants and just having to order sparkling lime
or a really sugary mocktail. Now there's a lot of
really great options to make your night feel special without
having to feel like you're standing back in the crowd
and just drinking selz water.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I think that's a good point. When you go to
a restaurant and you ask if they have any non
alcoholic drinks, the reaction up until fairly recently has been
uniformly a confusion by the server as if it's such
like a lower class question, and David's absolutely right. There's
many many brands of spirits that contain no alcohol now,
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and so you could have a whole bar cart filled
with things that you could totally drink, would feel respectable, drinking,
would enliven your mouth and your night, and then not
leave you hung over the next day.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Oh, it's such.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Thus you're brilliant idea. I love that this book is
coming out now. On the fact that you worked on
it together, collaborating.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
What is that like?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Talk about your working collaboration and good it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I don't think we would have done a book together
unless it was something where we were equally excited by it,
and it's skill set is perfect for this. And I
love mixing drinks and doing and exploring and taste testing
all that.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
We don't really work.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Together necessarily on the book so much because Neil developed
the cocktails, and then from the cocktails I took those
and made the mocktails. So we were sort of in
our separate corners until sort of we started putting it
all together. And now, of course the pr is the
most I've seen him in mutters, which is just kidding.
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Both of you are so incredibly busy in so many
different areas. Tell us what else you're working on now
that you know, separate or together that we can look
forward to in the future. I'll start with you, Neil.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm currently doing a play in New York on Broadway
the Music Box Theater called Art. It's a three hander
with Bobby Kenavalli and James Cordon and it's playing eight
times a week. So that's where I am until the
end of December.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
That's why I can't even believe you have time for
this interview. I was so worried. I said, when did
they have time to even sleep?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That is really great, and I know, first of all, David,
you are just the most amazing chef.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
What are you doing in terms of that?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
The wheels are churning for Thanksgiving already, which is crazy.
But I'm in the I'm in like I have a
huge garden farm in Hampton, so I'm in the process
of canning. So I've been canning a lot of carrots
and green beans, and I have two giant chest feet
freezers full of tomatoes to start like tomato sauce. I
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gotta find somewhere to sell that.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't I'd be great. It'd be odd about tomato sauce.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
But I've got, I've got.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I've been writing a lot, and I have a couple
of writing projects that are not not able to really
talk about. But there's some really exciting things down the
line that I'm super excited about. There's a series that's
coming out in the summer that I did for Amazon
called l based on the Legally Blonde show.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
It goes prequel to her life.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
But then I'm just you know, taking care of kids
and being.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
David's always got three things going on. It's great the
two of you.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I mean, you're amazing Neil two, but you're twins. I
mean when you meet them, and I said this at
the beginning of the show, they truly are just such
lovely human beings. And that is such a testament to
the two of you, how you raise them, how you
brought them up. Your children just radiate kindness.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Isn't it funny that you could tell by the parents
by the kids like you are. If you see a kid,
it's kind of a jerk. You know, yeah, its likely
that the parents are going to be ahled. But you know, honestly,
if you put the work into anything, you get it back.
And I do think that we both have done a
really good job yinging and yanging on the parenthood that
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they get. You know, a lot of a lot of things.
So we try our hardest, and it's like the more
work you put in, the more work you get out.
And I'm seeing that now of how their kids are
turning into being such great adults. They're fantastic. We are
ferociously proud of them.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well, I am just so thrilled to finally have you
on the show and just continued success as you could
most important, continued being the most amazing family that you are.
As I said, I'm so fortunate to have met all
of you, and you've really done it right.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
That's very thank you so much. Thanks.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
We hope to see you soon. And take care of
your animals.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yes, we've got to all get together. I'll bring my
dogs to your house. I've tackling next to me. I
have four also.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Well, welcome, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And thank you all for joining us today for this
very special show with two of my very favorite people.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
And there's more to come on wrap aford to the.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Rest of you when we introduce you to a brand
new segment called Catch at coming up.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
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Coms cat Chat with Deborah Cribbs, founder of the Give
Them Ten movement.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
Welcome back to RAP Report to the Rescue.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I'm Joe Rappaport.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You heard in my last interview with Neil Patrick Harrison
David Burka that I teased our new cat correspondent.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
We have a brand new segment.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Called cat Chat with the amazing Deborah Cribs. And Deborah
this is really going to be so much fun for
our listeners. We interviewed you a few more months ago
and we just connected in the most special way. And
the fact that you focus and devote your life to KATZ.
I was so excited that you wanted to be part
of Rapaport to the Rescue.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
Well, thank you, Jill, I very much do want to
be part of rapaport to the rescue. And I have
devoted my life to kats, both as a person and
now professionally, and I will tell you it is the
culmination of my life's work to be your cat correspondent.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So thank you, as I say, it's going to be
in every show five minutes of cat Chattcha. I love
that you know, to really focus on these wonderful animals
and what you're doing. And let's do a little recap.
We have five minutes, and let's take people back and
tell them about you, Deborah, and how you got involved.
Speaker 11 (22:50):
Well, thanks for asking that again. I represent a group,
a movement called give Them ton why the name? You
know cats have nine lives, right, we say give them ten.
And we started in the Cincinnati area and we are
working solely to make the lives of cats better and
trying to make sure, Jill, that cats are no longer
(23:12):
killed in shelters because of space.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
That's our aim.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And your message is resonating really throughout the country. Like
you said, You're made such a huge difference in Cincinnati,
but this movement is really becoming a movement, we like.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
To think, so I will say that the numbers that
we've seen in Cincinnati over the decade that we've been
doing this were so heartwarmingly wonderful. We went from a
live release rate of about thirty seven percent to now
well over ninety percent, which means that ninety plus percent
of the cats that enter a shelter have a live outcome.
(23:50):
They leave alive. This is what we're working for, making
sure that cats aren't being killed in shelters. And as
we have increased our marketing scope and started working with
partners around the country, our spokes cat scooter, the neutered
cat hip spectacles no testicles a scooter has roamed the country.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
The message is resonating.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
And you're doing all these clever campaigns to catch our attention,
aren't you.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
We are He is the best spokes cat ever. And
what we try to do is talk to the public
in kind of an edgy and humorous way to catch
their attention, but also tell them here are some things
that you can do to make sure that cats and
dogs for that matter, are not killed in shelters. Literally
(24:40):
down the street from you.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
And your love of cats runs so deeply and is
really such a fiber of your life. But it was
this one woman that you encountered that really changed your
life and really made you able to do this incredible movement.
Tell us about her.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
That is very true.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
My day job, if you will, is as a financial advisor,
and one of my clients, who was very wealthy, died
and left a private foundation in my care, and that
foundation was set up solely to support cats in Cincinnati.
That is a really narrow focus, so we've really broadened
(25:19):
it as the years have gone by.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
And the fact that you were left this money, this
income to be able to make a difference, and she
trusted you. That's what's so amazing, Deborah. She really put
all her faith and trust and money in you and
had this legacy live on to save countless cats.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
Well, it's been an honor. I have a big team
behind me as well as a bank, and we all
work really hard to stand by the mission that she outlined,
which was to help cats.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
But now we're really really.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Looking to talk to people around the country about the
way that we've succeeded in our part of the country.
Everybody can succeed.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And every month you're going to be picking a different
topic about cats that we need to know about. Tease
that a little bit for our listeners. Deborah tell us
about some of the topics we're going to tackle in
the months ahead. Oh.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Absolutely, Well, you may not know that there are actual
mental health benefits to having a cat in your house.
And I might have a couple of ideas for the holidays, Jill.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Well, we need them.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
The holidays are a time where everybody wants to be
surrounded with the family and the people and the animals
they love. And that's a whole other area where I
do a campaign home for the holidays, hoping that we
can get every animal into a loving home. And I
know that is your focus for cats as well. We
want them all placed in the best homes possible, right, Deborah.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Absolutely, we are completely aligned and I really look forward
to having these conversations every month. You're right with a
new topic.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Or to Oh, Deborah cribs. This five minute cat chat
was so much fun. I love that people are going
to get to know you. You're going to be part
of Rapaport to the Rescue, and you're going to raise
awareness for cats in.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Need all over the world. We are so excited to
have you.
Speaker 11 (27:17):
Well, we are honored and pleased to be here. Jill
looking forward.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
All right.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Thank you so much, and thank you for listening to
this very special edition with our new cat correspondent Deborah
Cribs on Rapaport to the Rescue.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
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