002 - Service Dogs

Hey! Hey! Oh, welcome back. Hey, yeah. It's a sweltering, sweltering 70 degrees, 75 maybe, maybe pushing 80, when it should be, it should be about, it should be a 40 here, you know, but it's, it's 80 and it's, you know, it's, it's, it's the end of the world, man. Winter, we know it. Winter has arrived here, so we are, oh, oh, oh yeah, it's cold. You have snow, is that, is that kind of your winter? Yeah, we got a few inches, still coming, bit of a, bit of a storm coming, yeah. Wow, that's impressive. It's good stuff, yeah. Now, is that common? Is that, is there anything, like, you know, obviously, we're, we're in a world right now where, where we are, we're, we're, we're, we're observing different, different realities as it comes to, as it relates to, to weather and as they, they, they point it, the global warming, but are you, are you seeing, are you seeing things different in your neck of the woods? Like, there are, is weather different? No, I think the changes, I think the changes in those patterns are maybe a little too slow for us to really, like, to really observe. Like, from year to year, humans are bad at that, right? Like, from year to year, you know, you can say, oh, it's colder this year than it was, or it's hotter this year, or we got more tornadoes, or we got more whatever. But I don't, I'm no scientist. I mean, I play one on TV, but, but, you know, I don't think it quite works like that, right? Like, I don't think it's changing quite that fast. Like, you can't say, well, more tornadoes this year means global warming because it was less tornadoes than last year or whatever. I think, I think it's probably fairly well agreed upon within the scientific community that we're, we're seeing changes, like at least, what am I trying to say? Changes in the pattern of temperatures and weather patterns and that kind of stuff. But, but like an actual observation from year to year on what the weather is doing, that's not, that's not climate, right? I don't think that's quite how it works. I'm not a, I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just saying, if it's colder this year than it was last year, or warmer this year than it was last year, that's not, that in itself is not due to some larger change in climate. I don't think, again, not a, not a scientist. You know, you were, you were, you were waffling on a bit about something. It sounded very scientific, but I actually kind of navigated away from, from what, from, you know, this, this recording apparatus. I was responding to you, but when you, when you, I was responding to you, it was a very, very humorous, I thought, response. I'm sure it was gold. It was, it was, you know, I would love to repeat it, but it would, it would, it would not be good, good content. Because that's really what we're after. It's good content. But yeah, it's like I navigated away. And apparently, you know, whatever this, this, this app, this website doesn't, doesn't like it. So, you know, that's one thing that bugs me is, we should just call this the ranch. I'm just going to, it's a ranch. I'm going to rant, I'm going to rant. Everything wants your eyes these days. Everything, everything wants your eyes. Like if you, if you are on a website and you watch a video and you just want to scroll away from it really quickly and just go do something else, or you change your browser, just that you want to listen to it in the background, it just stops. It pauses for you, you know, out of convenience, quote, unquote, but it pauses and you have to go back to it and you have to sit there and watch a video, you know, from, from beginning to end. If you, if you want to sort of, you know, interact with it, there's, there's no way to multitask, I guess, when it comes to media and internet and things like that. At least that's my impression. And, and, and, and I wanted to just sort of get that, get out, out, out. But yeah, you said the very same thing. I, I can't say that's my experience. I'm not, I've not had that experience. I feel like videos are much better at popping over everything else these days and trying to keep, I don't know, maybe that's what you're talking about, but yeah. I mean, hey, humans are not very good at multitasking or they, that they can't multitask at all, but I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I feel like I multitask pretty well, but I forget a lot of things. Yeah. I can watch YouTube and poop at the same time. So I feel like I've proved it wrong. Yeah. Yeah. There's two tasks at once. But are you present? Are you in the moment? Have you found, have you found a steel point, you know, while, while, you know, defecating or eliminating your balance? I could be, I'm micro switching between the two tasks so quickly that I don't, I don't realize it. Yeah, it's true. You know, maybe it's not true multi-threading if you were to use a programming analogy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where we're going to go here. Are we going to go back to the global warming thing? Are we going to go, you know, to, to general? I don't know that I have a, I don't know that I have an unpopular opinion about global warming. I mean, that one's a little bit of a. Yeah. I don't know. It's a little hot button, but I just don't know enough about it. I know enough about other stuff, but I'm not sure I know enough about that. Yeah. That's the best time to have an opinion is when you don't know anything. It's the ignorance of the opinion that, that, that makes the opinion valuable. That's true. What you said. Yeah. No, that's absolutely true. I feel like, I feel like this opinion, like that topic doesn't work for me because, because there probably is a right and a wrong, you know? Yeah. Somebody's probably right and somebody's probably wrong about it. I guess maybe, maybe that's the rub is you can have, you can, it doesn't seem like we as a, as a society maybe can agree like, yes, we can agree that this thing is happening. Something is occurring, but we disagree on how, what to do about it. You know, maybe that's the, maybe that's the rub, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I find it interesting that, that, you know, we all, we all think that something interesting or something observable is going to happen within our, within our frame of reference, you know, and I think that kind of speaks to, you know, I don't know if we have enough data to, to recognize the world climate is changing, perhaps. And it's, I think it's, it's, I don't know if it's human nature, but it is funny how a lot of, a lot of us, you know, 20 years on the earth, 30 years, 40 years, whatever, 70, seem to have it figured out or seem to think that something's going to happen within their, their term of experience or, you know, Christ is going to return to the earth. These are all the signs of end times. It's a little, it's a little, it's a little, I wouldn't say arrogant, but it's, yeah, you know, maybe, maybe not. Maybe, maybe this is an interesting period. It's just going to be what it is. And yeah, enjoy, enjoy the warm weather. Enjoy it. Go to the beach. Why don't you? Golden years. Well, as I, as we started out saying it's snowing here, John, so it cannot possibly be warming up globally. It's not, it's not possible, but yeah, well, tongue in cheek, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, I mean, I guess what, what are you, what are you going to do? Right. You got to stop driving your car. I still drive my car. Yeah. You got to stop, you got to stop flying on the plane. Nope. Yeah. Some people have stopped, have stopped walking on escalators. We've already talked about that, but I mean, maybe that's their, they're doing their part. They're doing their part. Yeah. If I can, if I can just ride it up this 40 feet or whatever, less blown off, less CO2 or something. I don't know. Yeah. No, I was going to, I was going to make a, like a bit of a swap talking about, talking about traveling and planes. Oh, okay. This, this last, this last time I was traveling, that was a month or so ago now I was in airports. And I actually have a couple of, a couple of airport things. I'm going to focus on this one because I saw this one at this last airport I was at. There was a group of, I don't know, four or five adult individuals that seemed to be friends. They were sitting together and seemed to be socializing together. And amongst the four or five of them, there were three or four dogs. This is in the airport at the gate waiting for the plane. And were the dogs, were the dogs with, with this group of friends? Were they, were they traveling together? Yes. They appeared to be connected to the group of friends. You can probably guess where I'm going with this. To get your dog on a plane, you've got to put a special vest on your dog that says your dog is a, some kind of service animal. Right? Right now, these people, I guess, were they disabled in a way? I guess from what I see. I mean, not, not, not physically. They didn't appear to be. I mean, they were, I don't know what the word is nowadays. John, were they, they were mobile friendly? I don't know what, there's got to be some word for this. Some politically correct word. Yeah, yeah. But no, they were able to stand up and walk around on their own and see any crutches or wheels between them. And sorry, go ahead. No, no, I didn't. Maybe they were transporting the dog, going, you know, moving house perhaps, or, you know, was the dog in a crate or the animal in a crate of some type that was going to go in a stowaway? These were normal full-sized dogs walking under their own power, elite. And they had, they had vests claiming that they were, you know, service animals. Interesting. Which like, these individuals, I'm going to go out on a limb. They were not, they were not blind. What's the word? They were not seeing disabled. Again, too many, too many words. But yeah, they could see, which I feel like if you can't see, a seeing eye dog, that's a good reason to have a seeing eye dog, right? If you can't see. Could they see, could they see your disapproval? Oh, no, I snuck a photo. I snuck a photo from, from a distance. Yeah. Yeah. To send to another friend who I thought would appreciate the, my grumbling about it. You put, yeah, forgot the website. Yeah. And they, yeah, I don't know. So I am angry, John, about I'm angry about service dogs that aren't really serving you. Like, if you want to have a dog, there's a dog that lives in my house. There's a dog that lives in your house, I'm told. Yeah. And that dog serves no purpose. I mean, he serves some purpose. My wife wanted him. He's friendly or whatever he is. She, I guess, the dog identifies as a female dog. And so, but yeah, so that dog, you know, it has a purpose. It's not a, I'm not putting a vest on it and bringing it into, I don't know, a store under false pretenses that it's somehow helping me, you know. Well, I mean, I, I've heard of these animals, the, the, the best animals, and I assume that they're there for an emotional, uh, emotional reason. Doesn't count. Doesn't count. What, what, what, what? Emotional reasons to have a dog or to, like, bring a dog with you. Well, yeah, maybe, maybe they're uncomfortable flying a plane. Maybe the dog is somehow a, a coach, I guess, with, uh, with meditation. Perhaps it helps them meditate. Um, did it seem like there are apps, there are apps for that now, I think. Did the dog sort of display, uh, characteristics of a, of a type of guru? Maybe treadmills, um, maybe sort of a tribal, what? No. Tribal leash. No piercings or tattoos. No strange, so strange furdoos. Yeah, that's a dog version of a hairdo. Yeah. Yeah. You got a furdoo? A furdoo? A furdoo. Instead of a hairdo, they call it a furdoo, because dogs have furs instead of hairs. Yeah, yeah. I like it. I guess fur is plural, fur instead of hair. Yeah. Um, yeah, I just don't, uh, I don't get it. I don't understand why you would need a dog to emotionally support you. Well, okay, let me back that up. Let me walk that back a little bit. I, I think my wife enjoys that the dog somehow emotionally supports her. This, God knows I'm not doing it, but, um, the, I'm not sure that the, uh, that she needs it on a plane. Like, the dog's going to be any, any help there, right? Did you go to another app again, John? It seems like you're not there. No, I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I was going to turn to my emotional support animal. I mean, like, I was going to also throw out there, like, you know, the dog obviously isn't, isn't, isn't, uh, versed in maybe emotions, but did it have, uh, perhaps a leather jacket, uh, a weapon and a sort of bad attitude, you know, like, um, like it was a Jackson, like an air marshal dog or something, you know, you know, like a hidden weapon. These didn't look like air marshals. These people, I mean, I guess that's by air marshals are supposed to be secretive by design. I'm not sure I've ever like knowingly encountered an air marshal, but statistically, I guess I probably have somewhere along the way. Uh, I don't think these were air marshal dogs, which is, uh, you mentioned it's a good idea for a franchise, like the, the air bud. Yeah. You can do like a, like an air marshal, uh, version. That'd be good. Yeah. He says bad words, but he barks it. Um, yeah, like, I mean, I guess they don't limit the, uh, emotional support animals to, to dogs, to canines and you can get cats. I believe that you can go like, uh, snakes, you know, emotional support snake, which is an animal as well. They all make me angry. Yeah. But, but they, I'm not going to know about them enough to be angry about them. If they're, if they're in your own home, but when you bring them on a plane, when you bring them in a public space and you got to like, I don't know what, what is, what is, so let's, let's, let's, uh, let's dig into this. So what does it hurt? Why do I care? The dog didn't, didn't pee on my leg or anything. So I don't know. So that was fine. Roll of thighs that year? No, I didn't hear a bark, you know, that's fine. Um, I don't know. I mean, I don't, I don't just like dogs. I guess if they had to buy a, a seat for the dog or something, what do I care? I don't know if they did, or if the dogs just sat there. Well, I have a little tiny dogs, like a little dog in a box. It's similar to a great FNL sketch, but, uh, the, uh, the, using that one, you know what I'm talking about? I know what you're talking about. Okay. Okay. Um, but, uh, yeah, these were, these were, you know, normal sized dogs. And what did, were they, were they on the same plane as you? Yeah. And were they just kind of parked in the aisle, like messing up service? Well, John, this is where it falls apart here, because, uh, frankly, I don't, I don't know. I, once we got on the plane, they, I boarded before them or they boarded before me. I don't remember if I boarded before me because they probably had special needs to board with their dogs, but, uh, but, or they were active duty military or whatever they were, maybe they were army dogs. Um, but, uh, anyway, they, they got on the plane or I got on the plane and I promptly forgot about them until I got home later and looked at the photo. But, uh, so again, completely flying in the face of my, my argument and, and, uh, anger here is that, uh, they in no way impacted my day. Uh, my flight, the flight wasn't delayed because one of them, you know, pooped in the air vent or whatever it was. Like it's nothing, nothing happened. Nobody bit a flight attendant. It was all, it was all fine. Yeah. So where are we with that? So basically you're just an angry person. Yeah. Just angry. Uh, I don't have a dog to meet my special needs. Including two little dogs. So my, my, my take on this, um, if you're going to ask me my take on that, please. And, uh, my dog, um, is a good designer dog, but it's marketed as a type of color check. Um, you know, I do struggle still with asthma around the dog, but I, I come to love it. Um, regardless, you know, these other dogs, when they're on the plane as, as a person with allergies, it really pisses me off, uh, that, that someone is, you know, sort of conned their, their dog, or it was a big con that they sort of manipulated the system, get their dog into the plane. And now I have to sneeze the whole way from point A to point B on this plane, because, you know, they can't handle, they can't handle flying a plane by themselves. And what is, what is, what is this, um, what is this, this, this, this, this, this trauma that people have with planes all of a sudden, you know, like 10 years ago, no one was afraid to fly. Um, no one was demanding that their pet be on the plane, but now it's, it's like everyone, everyone needs like a, a little thing to help, you know. Yeah. 40 years ago, they were crashing into buildings. But, uh, man, I, that's a good point. I mean, you know, John, so you get, you're, you have a, you have a medical reason that, uh, these dogs are screwing with your flight. Um, but you know, but you can go on there and say, you don't like peanuts and all of a sudden I can't eat my granola bar, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, you know, um, it would be nice, you know, one of our, you know, I think that might be an opportunity for us to go, go on location, you know, with, with, uh, with these, these conversations. Like street interviews, like a nighttime, what do you call those shows? Like the tonight show or whatever. Yeah. Go on the street, go on to the airport. Um, and just, just sit down with people. Let's, you know, what, what gives you the right, uh, to, to bring your dog onto the plane? You know, that's a good idea. Yeah. Very, very confrontational, but, uh, okay, good. All right. Uh, we're going to have to, we're going to have to sort of get some kind of microphone or something, I guess. I guess you just use your phone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, I think to have a microphone, a nice little compact, uh, camera might allow us to see more authentic, um, less TMZ-y, if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. So, all right. I'll, I'll, I'll write this down. It's on the to-do list. We're going to start, uh, you know, getting, getting, uh, speaking with the offenders of our opinions. This is great. I love it. Well, yeah, we, we're, we knocked no one out of the park, John. Yeah. I mean, I, I, you know, if, if it weren't for, for this, I'm sure there'll be applause. Um, uh, yeah, I'll just, I'll just, I'll just imagine that applause happening. I mean, we got to decide whether to put a, like a laugh track or applause track. I like that. Over the audio. I don't know about that. Yeah. I used to, I used to rant, I used to rant about how dumb it was, uh, to, to like have sitcoms with an, with a laugh track, like, ah, that is so juvenile. And then somehow I realized that, like, probably my favorite sitcom of all time, Seinfeld. Of course. Has a laugh track and applause track right in there. So, uh, then I had to, had to eat my words. Yeah. I had never noticed it until someone pointed it out. Yeah. When you like it, you don't, you don't know. It's just there. You don't notice it. But, uh, yeah. Just one, just one last thing. I just, you know, I understood the reference to Seinfeld and I've watched it, uh, as I was growing up. Um, you can't tell this from my voice, but you know, I'm, I'm a little older. Um, but you know, I was at the coffee shop, local coffee shop, and I was talking to like some guy, you know, 18, 19 years old. And I, uh, was going to make a reference to Seinfeld and how I came into the restaurant. Uh, so, you know, it's like Kramer type of thing. And, uh, before I did that, I had a good chance to say, oh, do you, do you know the, the, the TV show Seinfeld? And he asked me like three times to clarify, like, what was it, Seinfeld? Um, and that's, that's kind of where I started realizing, you know, that, that it's, uh, yeah, getting older, getting older and it's, uh, it's, it's kind of scary. Yeah. Wow. It feels like, it feels like that should be a show. Everybody should know, like you don't have seen it, but if you're, I mean, like, I don't know, I guess my seven-year-old probably doesn't know. Like if I tell him, ask him about that show, he has no idea that it exists. But I was like a 20 year old, 22 year old should know that there used to be this show that was very popular called Seinfeld. Yeah. Or at least like Seinfeld, it was that there's a comedian Seinfeld. So, oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure I've ever, you know, uh, I don't know that I've ever seen an episode of Mr. Ed, but I'm familiar with the idea that there used to be a show called Mr. Ed. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Probably my, my parents' generation maybe, or I guess, you know, maybe after that, but yeah. So there's the analogy. Yeah. All right. Well, good times. Are we rushing off? Are we over an allocation? Well, I think, uh, I think we're probably good for, for this week. You think you still got more to say? I got more to say, but, you know, we'll hold it for next week. We can take a minute to be continued.