Sam: So there I was, face to face with the biggest, meanest leopard on this side of the Serengeti. And…

Ryan: You roared so loud, his spots flew clean off. Dad, I’ve heard this like a billion times.

Sam: Do you know the one where I made the laughing hyenas…

Ryan: Cry’? Yep.

Sam: The croc attack?

[children screaming]

Ryan: Dad.

Sam: OK. Think.

Ryan: Yeah, you do that.

Sam: [chuckles] All right, Mister Smart Guy, here’s one I know you haven’t heard. It all started in the little place I like to call… …the Wild. They were the fastest wildebeests on the savannah. We’re talking fast. All the other lions had given up the hunt hours ago, except your old man. Fortunately, I knew a short cut. I thought I had ’em. Until the dust cleared. Classic wildebeest trap.

Ryan: So, what did you do next?

Sam: What did I do?

Ryan: Yeah.

Sam: That’s when I gave them the roar.

Ryan: That’s it?

Sam: Hold on a sec. I only thought it was over. But they had a secret weapon. He was the biggest wildebeest I’ve ever seen. He was 14 feet tall!

Ryan: Fourteen?

Sam: I meant 1,401 feet tall!

Ryan: Cool.

Sam: And he had two… No, four of the biggest horns I’d ever seen. His breath was red hot! I mean, green. And he hated the environment. To pull this off, I knew I was gonna have to dig deep, deeper than I ever had before. So I swallowed my fear, sucked in the biggest breath I could.

Ryan: Dad, I’m ready!

Sam: You got it?

Ryan: l I got it! I got it!

Sam: Well, let him have it! Roar, son!