The thorny history between Siegfried & Roy’s producers and the USDA sheds light on the struggle to obtain video evidence of the infamous tiger attack. Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy is an Apple Original podcast, produced by AT WILL MEDIA. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts. Apple.co/Wild_Things
Thank you.
It's a pleasure for us to be here tonight.
It's April 29, 2003, and Siegfried and Roy are performing their usual Tuesday night show.
Just five months from now, Monacore will attack Roy on this very stage.
Tonight's show, however, will go off without a hitch.
Roy and I gonna do all the work.
All right, Roy.
When I found out that I was going to go to Las Vegas, I immediately knew I was going to buy a ticket to Siegfried and Roy.
That's Ellen Magid, a veterinarian from Raleigh, North Carolina.
She's seeing the duo for the first time with her friend Kay Carter Corker.
Stop playing games, Vicki.
You're supposed to disappear completely now.
You know I hate the doing things halfway.
Please.
Forgot I'd seen them before, just on television.
And I thought, boy, they look older than I thought.
It was close enough to kind of notice that we were maybe five or six people away from the stage.
There was a space between the end of the table and the stage, too.
There was a gap, but a tiger can flat foot a 14 foot jump easy.
Ellen notices these details because she actually works for the USDA as a supervisory animal care specialist.