Animal Talk

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr.Shalsee Vigeant about veterinary issues.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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(00:43):
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(01:11):
Local forecasters doing this their level best to scare us
still with this talk of I saw a headline on
a television segment a little while ago something about tropical
trouble headed for Texas. Well, if you look at the

(01:31):
models of where this little thing that still doesn't even
have a name is headed. The collection of models at
which I look, you'll realize that, yes, it's probably gonna
bring some rain to most of Southeast Texas where they
desperately need it. Anyway, always Southeast Texas or South Texas,

(01:54):
not Southeast South Texas typically stays dry more than wet,
and this year, according to a couple of people I've
talked to recently, I talked to Travis Carter from Carter's Country.
He keeps an eye on the family's hunting ranches, and
he said, South Texas is absolutely gorgeous right now. The

(02:16):
rain that they had this year has done them great favors,
not only for their deer, but for their quail and
just all the wildlife down there. And now they're gonna
get some more rain right as we head into doves season, which.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
That opens on the first.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
And I don't know how much rain we're gonna get
from this thing up here this far, but a big
chunk of Texas is gonna get some new rain that
should be long gone by the time the season opens,
and may actually make it even better than the optimistic
foreboding shared by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently.

(02:58):
Very optimistic about that maybe some of this, maybe some
of this audience cares.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Maybe they don't.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Anyway, back to the local forecasters, they're talking about doomsday
stuff again.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
They they kind of lead in correctly.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
They'll they'll throw that ugly headline up there in a
graphic and then talk about maybe something a little more realistic,
and then in the end spin it back to make
sure that they sprink along little hysteria, just to make
sure we're paying attention. Let them do what they have
to do to keep their ratings. That's fine, but just
be sure also to do your own research when these

(03:33):
storms bubble up this time of year. I've got some
pretty good sites that I like to watch. One is
called cyclocine c y C L O C A n E.
And that's where I see this dozen or so spaghetti
models all laid out together to where you can see

(03:53):
the trends. And that's how I knew, or I became
highly confident. Anyway, almost a week ago, when that thing
formed out in the Atlantic and was headed west northwest
toward a collision course with the Carolinas, I just went
to Cyclocane and saw that it was due to make

(04:13):
a right turn, make a northerly turn a couple of
hundred miles off the coast. I talked about that a
couple of times already this week, and so no reason
to be worried over there, No reason to be worried here.
This thing that's not yet a thing has a fair
chance of becoming a thing right before it makes landfall

(04:34):
in South Texas. But I don't see it as a
threat to the Upper Texas coast at all, unless you,
unless you're a surfer, you don't really care about this.
And it's gonna be some pretty good waves that'll roll
off the counterclockwise rotation of this thing and come firing
up onto surfside, and even as far as Galveston, even

(04:55):
a little, maybe a little farther surfside might get a
pretty good lick actually, because it'll be a southerly swell,
and as that southerly swell wraps around the Freeport Jetty,
the surf side Jetty, it's gonna leave some some.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Clean, pretty and pretty big surf in its wake. Man,
I got off on a tangent there did not Holy cow, anyway.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Pretty good chance of rain going through all next week,
really nothing torrential except maybe in isolateds areas, but enough
so you probably won't have to water the yard for
a while. Market news, the dow crept up north of
forty nine thousand, Well it did, It got close early

(05:39):
and it made it. I want to say about a
half hour, maybe an hour ago. I can't remember exactly
when I saw it do that. Oil was down hitting
around sixty three bucks a barrel, Gold up a pinch.
Nothing else to really see there. The other three of
the big four indicators all were light red, by the way,
but the Dow dal hanging on and charting new territory

(06:02):
north of forty nine thousand. Big news today, I've only
got a couple of minutes. Let's don't do that yet.
I don't want to get to big news when I've
only got a minute or two left.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Let's take something easy.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I was telling Will when I came in here today today,
and as if this audience really needed it, many of
the people in this audience will recognize what I'm about
to say is just every day. If you're retired and
comfortably retired, then it probably won't make much difference to

(06:37):
you that today is National Relaxation Day, because you've been
doing that ever since you got your gold watch and
headed out. But for the rest of us, working stuffs
like Will and me. We're here and I intend to
be here for quite some time. I don't know about Will.
Will you gonna hang around while? Yeah, thumbs up. Will's

(07:00):
going to hang around. I'm going to hang around, and
we'll keep doing this as long as we enjoyed. I
think that's fair. I do have a question that I
can ask in less than a minute to keep Will okay.
If aliens landed on our planet. I saw this posed
somewhere today, I can't remember where. If aliens landed somewhere
on our planet and walk straight up to you, what

(07:22):
would you say to them? What would you ask them?
What would you And I'm not talking about turning run away?
I'm talking about they're They're not a threat, really, they
just seem like they're here and they're chilling and they
want to learn something about us. What would you say
to them? Use the talkback button.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
At the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Go there, click onto the station, or tune into the station.
You can just ask your support device at home to
do that and then push that talkback button and tell
me what you would ask or say to those aliens.
I'm kind of interested, especially with this crowd ut health
Institute on Aging, something this crowd ought to be paying

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Speaker 1 (09:32):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All Right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
You know I do. You must know I do.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
I was gonna dig into something pretty chunky, but I
didn't have time before, and I'll do it now. Big
news of the day really the meeting between Vladimir Putin
and President Trump up in Alaska, which for younger members
of the audience once was owned by Russia and quick sidebar.
There apparently was a big landslide up around Alaska somewhere,

(10:06):
and it caused some major concerns for tsunami. And I
saw the stories about that, and there was one person
here at work actually thought that that might impact the
meeting that is going to happen between these two world leaders.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
But it's not.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
That's a totally different thing, just in a state the
size of Alaska, which is roughly about twice the size
of Texas.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
If you can imagine that.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Things happen on the other end of the state that
don't affect what's going on on this end of the state.
So anyway, that's not going to be a big issue.
And like I said, for the younger members, Alaska once
owned by Russia. The deal maker of that time in history,
the Donald Trump of the eighteen sixties, managed to grab

(10:58):
that big chunk of land and all of its resources
for a whopping seven point two million dollars. There's homes
in River Oaks.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Worth more than that.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
That works out to about two cents an acre. If
you haven't already heard that Russia had offered to sell
Alaska as far back as eighteen fifty nine. They wanted
us to buy it. I don't know why they didn't
talk to Canada. Maybe Canada didn't have the money. In
any event, the price apparently seemed too high then. And
I can hear William Seward, he's the guy who put

(11:32):
this deal together. I can hear William Seward in those
eighteen fifty nine negotiations. See, I don't know, three cents
an acre for nothing, but some frozen wasteland with a
bunch of fish and grizzly bears around it.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's just too steep.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Let me know when you'll take two cents an acre
and we'll cut your check. And eight years later that
deal was done. Russia's history in Alaska, by the way,
dates all the way back to the seventeen hundreds when
they colonize the whole region and pretty much to mostly
to take advantage of its fur resources. Yeah, there were this, that,
and the other there and first actually a pretty big

(12:09):
deal still in Alaska, worth about four and a half
million dollars a year. But hey, current value of the
fisheries and seafood business that originates from Alaska about five
billion dollars a year. And well there's that oil thing.
Year to date for twenty twenty five, I did a
lot of snoop in this.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Morning, as you can tell.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Year to date for twenty twenty five, about fourteen and
a half million barrels of oil pulled out of Alaska's reserves.
And there are plenty that's more than nine hundred million dollars.
And then then in twenty twenty three, the latest year
I could find, Alaska also produced about three hundred and
sixty seven million cubic feet of natural gas, some of

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which because it has so much natural gas, some of
which they re enjoy back into the oil fields to
maintain oil production.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
So anyway, we all hope that putin President Trump can
reach an agreement that'll end that war with Ukraine. I
have to think that if Russia could have taken Ukraine
without going nuclear, which it knew better than to do
for a million reasons, it would have done so.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Butin expected the pushback that Ukraine mastered from the onset.
They just put up a bigger fight than he was thinking.
And now maybe he's looking for a way to kind
of ease back and save face with his people, not
look like he's running away. And if anybody can broke
her that kind of deal, it's going to be our president.
I won't be surprised at all if something very good

(13:44):
comes out of there very quickly. And I think we
kind of hold the cards. I do believe right now,
more so than he, and I think he probably knows
that at least at this.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Point, put that over here and tuck it away. Check
that box. Check that box.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
From the California Cry baby desk comes worthy. Gavin Newsom
he's going to get into a jerrymandering war with Texas.
It has plans to redraw his state's congressional districts so
that there will be no California Republicans in the US
House representatives. Well, isn't that a way of representing your
state to exclude a major group? And there are still

(14:28):
quite a few Republicans in that state. A significant percentage
of people who cast ballots one way or the other
for US House representatives in the last election voted Republican.
They don't get much representation, and now Newsom's plan is

(14:49):
to take away.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
All of it.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Probably claims he's doing it to save democracy. The problem
he faces, though, is that he's going to be starting
to fight that. I really don't think he's going to win.
All they're doing is they're just trying this is a
different way. It's just a different way of rigging elections
so that they can have a predictable outcome and that
there's no mystery whatsoever and who's gonna get elected. It's

(15:16):
basically at this point legal cheating, and we're hey, we're
redrawing our districts too. Right here in Texas, and the
way that they're probably gonna end up being redrawn is
going to gain some Republican seats.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm not saying they won't.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
The problem I have is when some of these Democrat
states say that they're gonna make it harder for Republicans
to get elected.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
When they had zero.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
They have zero Republicans representing them in the House of Representatives,
So how much different can.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
You make it?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Really, it's this is just page one of the Democrat playbook.
Accuse the opposition of doing exactly what you're doing, because
when you do that, here's what's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
And it happens.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
It's every time for the last fifteen years or so.
So you accuse the right of doing exactly what you're doing.
Mainstream media then stands behind you and tells everybody that
the lies you've just told are true. And only now
we're kind of tired of that, and we know better now,

(16:22):
and we've learned that what we've been told for years
was a load of garbage.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
And so we'll we'll just see how it turns out
for everybody. That's all we can do.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
In the opposite corner of America, US Turney General Pam
Bondi has stripped DC Police Chief Pam Smith of her
powers and put the DEA administrator guy named Terry Cole
in place to clean up our nation's capital. Bondi also
rescinded three recent orders from that chief, one of which
limited the DC Police's cooperation with ICE and other enforcement

(16:58):
personnel at the federal level who are charged with removing
illegal immigrants. And when she was done restructuring DC, Bondi
let it be known that some of these other so
called sanctuary cities in this country had best get started
on the road to compliance with all the federal laws
in regard to removing illegals from our country. Or maybe

(17:22):
they're little, maybe their little corner will get a visit
and have some new assignees added.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
To their roster of higher ups.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
It's just remarkable to me how many people in this
country are opposed to opposed to removing people who break
the law.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
And oh, okay, yeah, I see that. I'm good, I
got that, Thank you will.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
And the problem is that is that so many of
these people that who are being arrested have lengthy criminal records,
have horrible, horrible crimes attributed to them, and they keep
getting released, and they go right back into doing the
same things that they did that got them arrested last time,

(18:08):
and probably didn't get them arrested because they didn't get
caught dozens of times. They're professional thugs, they're professional violent criminals,
and we don't need.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
People like that in this country. We just don't.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
This whole notion of how this roundup is just going
to ruin the unskilled labor force in this country is
I think that's just a false narrative. I think they're
always going to be people who will come here lawfully
and apply to work, get work visas, and do what

(18:46):
they say they're going to do, and not just disappear
into the shadows and then start robbing people and killing people.
There are a lot of good people we can get
to do any job that needs to be done, and
I think we we need to start looking that way
and get these bad people out of here. Prosecutors in Cincinnati,

(19:06):
here's some good news. Well I'll wait, I'll hold this
good news till later. Coming up, By the way, we're
gonna talk to an emergency veterinarian who runs one of
three Houston clinics who do just that or that does
that do just that. Champions Tree Preservation. This is Erwin
Costellano and his son Robin, and they and the crews

(19:28):
that they send out every day to take care of
people's trees would be happy. They would be happy to
come to your house and diagnose your trees. Do they
need food? Do they need water? Chances are they probably
get too much water. That's something I learned from Erwin.
I couldn't believe it when he told me exactly what
I thought maybe the case. I no, there's no way
a thirty year old oak tree can have too much water. Well,

(19:51):
yeah it can, And he said many, if not most,
of the big, big trees around town here are overwatered,
and that can cause fungus in the root system, which
weakens the tree and makes it susceptible to getting tipped
over by a storm. We're walking right into the middle
of storm season, and we better be careful, and you

(20:13):
better be careful that your trees are ready. Make sure
they're ready. Let Champions Tree Preservation come out there and
do that diagnosis for you and give you the peace
of mind of knowing that your trees are gonna be okay.
If you got one that's not gonna be okay, and
it's got to come out. They've got the cranes, they've
got the trucks, they've got all the equipment needed to
come out there and remove that tree. And then they

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also own a tree farm where they grow native Texas
trees and they'll find one that'll look just right in
your yard so you can get your shade back. Championstree
dot com is a website, championstree dot com two eight
one three two zero eighty two zero one. Give them
a call today, get them out there tomorrow. Two eight
one three two zero eighty two zero one.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why you're a few months.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
We wash them, check his fluids, and spring on a
fresh coat of wax.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Pretty nice day.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Really, there's gonna be some more of those coming to
Thanks for sharing your lunch, are even.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
If you won't share your lunch with us.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
In this segment, we're gonna talk about pets and with
hope that you never need it. A place where you
can get emergency treatment or care for your animals literally
twenty four hours a day.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
That place is the.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Clinic actually one of three in the Greater Houston area
and many more around the country. A place called Veterinary
Emergency Group, and they have a place in sugar Land
that's run by doctor Chelsea Vigeant.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
We've spoken before, have we not welcome back? Doc?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
We have?

Speaker 2 (21:48):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (21:49):
I thought, so, I'm doing great. I hope you are
as well. So when your clinic says twenty four provide
twenty four hour medical care for your animals, you really
mean it, don't you.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Absolutely? We are literally there twenty four hours a day,
three and sixty five days a year.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
So walk me through a typical day and night, because
I'm I'm guessing nights are a little busier.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Maybe in one of your locations.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
What sort of right now needs for pet care show
up on your doorstep.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
I think it's all kinds of things. I think you know,
you never it always is at ten o'clock a night
when your dog tears a toenail off or last rates
itself and has an injury. But there's also a lot
of you know, surgical things that end up happening overnight.
I mean they happen during the day also, and sometimes
your family that the family bets might be too busy
or too full and can send things our way. So

(22:39):
you know, we cover pretty much everything from I just
ate a little something that's upset my stomach to I
need emergency surgery or I've been in some kind of
traumatic accident and we can fix those things.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, and before I go any farther, I'm going to
let this audience know that at some point in the
next hour at least they need and I'll tell them
and well, no, I'm not going to do that. I'm
gonna send them to your website to tell them to
put your phone number in their phone so if they
do have an emergency, they don't have to spend ten
minutes trying to figure out who you are.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
And where you are.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Absolutely, I think that is one of the wisest thing
pet owners can do.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
So my guess, and that's all it is, is that
dogs tend to get themselves into the most situations.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
They can. Cats tend to sometimes be a little bit
more adventurous sometimes than our dogs, but we definitely see
some crazy things for sure. Twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Is there such a.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Thing dog that as a as a most common issue
with dogs?

Speaker 3 (23:40):
I think it depends on around the holidays, Like you
get certain things around the holidays that you might see,
you know, everybody's given them Christmas treat and they end
up sick from that or you know, it all depends
when it's out for the summertime. We see lots of
heatstroke pets. We see lots of you know, animals that
might have been hit by cars or ATVs. So I
think some of it. It does depend on the seasonal

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type of things that's going on in our area.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
You know, I'm glad you brought up the heat related
stuff because I don't know if you're aware, and you
wouldn't be required to be. But dove season starts September one,
and I, as someone who has been doing that for
many many years, have had the misfortune of watching other
people's dogs go down because of the heat. Can you
talk about that for a minute and explain why they

(24:25):
need to keep those animals cool?

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, I don't think even living in somewhere like Houston,
where we know how hot it is and we understand that,
I think you don't understand what it's like for an
animal who literally has a fur coat on in this
heat and then is exerting themselves. So it's not usually
that you know, we're sitting on a beach hanging out
and can walk in the water. It's usually they're doing
something active. They get hot a lot quicker than we

(24:49):
would think, and on certain days you may normally take
them for a walk around the block or dove hunting,
but if it's on a certain hot day, even though
they're used to it, it can still be pretty bad
for them.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
The issue I had with a lot of the people
who were coming out to join me and the places
I was doing this was that they didn't condition their
dogs beforehand. They just oh, dove season, Yeah, grab the dog,
let's go. And these dogs want to please their owners
so much and talk about how they how they cool
themselves off too. I understand it very well, but go

(25:23):
ahead and explain why it's not just enough to see
that dog panting.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, so for us, and it's not for us, you know,
we sweat and we have great heat.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
That way.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Dogs really only have two ways of cooling themselves, and
one is panting and one you can notice that animals
sometimes sweat from their feet. That's it. They have no
other way to cool themselves, so their their environmental temperature
is basically what dictates their body temperature. Unlike us, they
can't cool off as easily or as well as we can.

(25:54):
And just like you said, they just want to please us,
so they will keep going and keep going. And often
they'll tell us, they'll give us signs that say they're overheating,
but we don't seem to notice.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, that's the sad part.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
I know one guy who actually lost a dog, and
it's a very it's that is a truly emergency situation
if a dog goes down. Let's circle back a little
bit and just recently, actually I understand that you had
to help a family who's home caught on fire.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
They had ten pets from.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
What I read, we did, and the reason they had
so many pets is the family who the pets belonged to.
She was actually a veterinary nurse or venory technician in
the sugar Land community, and her, the veterinarian that they
work with the veterinary hospital they work with, is actually
a you know, a family vet that refers to us.
So they one of the cords. One of the cords

(26:43):
ended up faulting and a piece of equipment was on
fire and the house basically, smoke inhalation is all people know.
Smoke inhalation is just as terrible for pets as it
is for humans. And yeah, sadly they lost some of
their pets in that. They were able to you know,
they knew where we were because she is in the
field and knows you know, where veget and sugar Lynn is,

(27:06):
and her and some of the doctors from her hospital
came in and worked alongside our doctors and our staff
and we were actually able to save you know, three
of her dogs and two of her cats. But she
definitely lost many of her pets in that.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
That's so sad.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
And I was going to ask you how many people
in a situation like that, when there are so many
animals involved, how many people can you muster quickly to
just go all hands on deck.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, well, in a tragedy like that, Veggie are we
we have a pretty big family that can you know,
as a team can call out and say, hey, we
have an emergency, and our staff members definitely come out,
you know, in droves to help with that. It's always
hard when you have that many along with ongoing emergencies
that you have, so so it's you know, it's truly

(27:53):
as a team effort and in a situation in that setting.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
What I can imagine too, is that in your community
of veterinarians and text and whatnot, I doubt that you
could call any of them and have them say, no,
I'm going to dinner tonight, They're.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Coming yeah not yeah, not in that kind of scenario
for sure. That's that's definitely where everybody gets hands on
and tries to help because you can, you can empathize
with you know how terrible that kind of loss would be.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I just can't imagine.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Are there any specific pets doctor who that that just
rarely show up in the er?

Speaker 2 (28:30):
We do.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
We do what we would call or what some people
would call exotics most of the time. One of the
really amazing things about veg as we say, will treat
it if it can fit through the door. So we
you know, we have definitely seen our share of snakes
and lizards and birds. So I think we do see
some a few things. And you know, as you you know,
Texas has a has a heap of exotic animals here,

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So we definitely one of our vegges have seen some
you know, some some young leopards, So there's definitely there's
definitely some fun ones. Get to see.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
I was going to ask you about the most unusual,
but I think the leopard's going to just have to
do for now.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
I mean, I don't know. Treating the peacock once it's
pretty interesting. So I think there are some fun things.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, indeed, Yeah, I'm sure you have a pretty good
photo album somewhere around there.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Oh yeah, all right, so they Yeah, we're still working
it with our be.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
They need to get to the website. It's very simple.
Veterinary Emergencygroup dot com. That's where I went. I looked
at your services, all of the things that you do
there and all the locations.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Find that phone number. Put it in your phones. People,
For heaven's sake, you may need them, all right, yep.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
I always hope you don't, but if you do, we're
definitely there twenty four hours. And we also our hospital
is the kind of hospital where you can actually stay
with your pet the whole time. If you wanted to
stay overnight, we'd pull out a couch bed for you
and you could sleep with them. So we have a
really radically different concept. So a lot of owners get
to you know, they were able to stay with their
pets the whole time.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Thank you so much, Doctor Chelsea Vigiant from Emergency Veterinary
Emergency Group dot com.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
All Right, we got to take a little break here
on the way out, I'm gonna tell you about country
boys roofing. Here we are metal storm season again. We've
been talking about that with champions. We're gonna talk about
it with country boys. Now, your home, your home, the
one that hopefully no tree's gonna fall on that roof
of yours also needs to do its job during a hurricane,

(30:29):
and that job.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Is to keep the water out.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Now that these pop up storms we've been getting lately there,
they're tough on a roof, but they don't have the
same kind of wind values and the same push of
that water that might expose some little bit of damage
on the roof that you haven't noticed. When was the
last time you were on your roof looking around? Honestly,

(30:53):
country boys come to the house. They will get up there,
inspect that roof one side of the other, back and forth,
running back side to side, and make sure there are
no little problems that a big wind might turn into
a big problem. They'll never ask for any money upfront,
and they have that nice fifteen hundred dollars discount on

(31:13):
a complete roof for first responders, teachers, and military people.
And even if you're not one of those, you can
still get one thousand dollars off a whole roof for
just dropping my name. And no, you cannot stack the discounts.
I'm gonna tell you that every time I tell you.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
The rest of it.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
By the way, Country Boys, John Aikman, the man who
owns the company, asked me to let you know that
they now offer financing through a lending partner for folks
who don't have whole roof replacement money lying around not
many of us do. And there's a new addition to
the team as well. He's quite proud to let you
know that his son, Zach, who just got out of college,

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is going to be coming aboard and hopefully take a
little bit off his daddy's plate. A guy who's been
putting food on the table for him the whole time
he's been alive. Countryboysroofing dot Com Country with a K,
Boys with a Z for you millennials and gen Zers,
or you can just spell it the traditional boomer way,

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and it'll take you right to the same site countryboysroofing
dot com.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Well, well, well I think you did back down just then,
pretty quick, pretty abruptly. That's all right, fourth and final
segment of the program starts right now. I was just
telling Will good news from Cincinnati. The prosecutors there have
charged six people now who are alleged to have been
involved in that brutal and senseless street fight up there,

(32:48):
in which the most horrific act recorded by bystanders. By
the way, only one of them called nine to one one.
They're thirty forty phones. There's all kinds of evidence as
to what was going on, and nobody had the courage,
nobody had the wherewithal to dial nine to one one
and say, hey, people are getting beat up in the street.
You might want to send some help. It was six

(33:12):
minutes and changed before the first officers showed up on
the scene. Long after a a woman got sucker punched
by a man and was left barely conscious. If so
on the street. From the video I saw, it looked
like her eyes had rolled into the back of her
head and she was just laying there on the concrete.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Another brutal cowardly man and other we'll call it brutal
cowardly man striking woman news fight after a Jason Alden
concert somewhere looks to be in a parking area, but
it was not. It was a parking area, not a
parking lot. Anyway, there is there, it is right in

(33:54):
front of you, video evidence of some dude, some coward dude,
delivering three very powerful punches to the face of a
woman who appears only to have been trying to stop
the violence that was going on in front of her.
She went in there to try to break it up
between two grown men, and this guy turned on her

(34:16):
and she was out as best I could tell after
the second one, and before she could hit the ground,
he hit her again. And I'm pretty sure if I
read right, that this woman ended up with a broken jaw.
I just there's a lot of people who certainly know
who this guy is, and there's video evidence that I'm
sure has already been turned over to the police, and

(34:38):
Hopefully somebody recognizes him and realizes kind of what a
scumbag he is for dropping this woman like a stone
over what what could have possibly been that would cause
multiple grown ups to just start fighting. Usually the more
people are in a fight, the less certain any of
them is about why really started. I used to be

(35:02):
in the bar business, attended bar a long, long time ago.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
And if you saw.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Two guys fighting in the parking lot in the club wherever,
two guys fighting, they're fighting over a girl, no question
about it. Out in the parking lot, you see six
guys fighting, They have no idea why they're in there,
no idea. Five of them, at least four and maybe
five of them, don't even know why they're swinging. It's ridiculous.

(35:29):
New York City, there's video of a police officer chasing
down a fifteen year old boy speaking of criminals, who's
alleged to have opened fire with a stolen gun which
was found in his waistband after the officer tackled him.
And that's kind of like what's going on in DC.
These little young thug mobs run around, and now in

(35:52):
New York that policeman wasn't playing around. He took that
kid down, got the gun away from him before he
hurt somebody with it, and hopefully that kid will have
some sort of price to pay for doing what he did.
The teens in d C, from what I've read, are

(36:13):
they've just taken over basically, but that that's not going
to last for very long. I got a hunch that
they're all laying low right now and probably will be
for quite some time, and maybe, who knows, maybe a
few of them will get productive jobs, might get a
job and earn a living the honest way, like everybody
else who's pretty much footing the bill for that kind
of stuff. You're a little interesting fact to know about Houston,

(36:34):
by the way, I saw a story just forty five
minutes ago. Since October, according to this story, authorities at
the ports of Houston and Galveston say they've seized about
almost well, I think it's thirty two exactly, luxury cars
and pickup trucks worth about three million dollars. That's thirty

(36:54):
thirty cars three million dollars. Doesn't take a whole lot
of math to be looking at a one hundred thousand
dollars vehicle, and that includes a lot of pickups these days.
Believe it or not, pickup truck used to be the
poor man's way to get into a new car. I
just buy a truck. They don't cost much. They do
now a lot of money involved it. The guy who
was doing the report from the UK and talking about

(37:19):
how almost every seaport in America has stolen cars going
out of it every single day, they have the same
problem over in the UK. These vehicles are being hidden
in trucks and moved through the Channel Tunnel into France,
and they usually sell for about a twenty percent increase
over their actual value, because what the buyers do is

(37:43):
use drug money to buy them and launder their money
that way. And then if they ride it around right
around in a slit car for a while and then
sell it in whatever they get for, it's all profit.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Well told me he'd been hearted since he turned twenty one.
It's been a long time for me, you know. The
last two times that I've been asked to show identification.
We're at baseball tournaments for my teenage son where they
offer a discount for senior citizens, and I am happy
to say that I've had to show my ID more

(38:20):
than once to prove that I'm old enough to qualify.
We'll end it on that, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
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