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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Everybody super Smiles on conditional Buzzing, Super Smiley.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Say, Kindness is the Way, woof and super Smiles. Welcome
to a Super Smiley Adventure on Pet Life Radio, the
largest pet radio network in the world. I'm Megan Blake,
the Pet lifestyle coach, here with my sidekick, Super Smiley,
the national spokesdog for the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards.
(00:40):
On a Super Smiley Adventure. We explore adventures where animals lead.
They can be journeys for animal advocacy, for adventure, and
they almost always lead to paths of inner discovery and
greater bonding with our pets and our guest today has
led a life of adventure, advocacy, and of inner discovery.
Lewis Gossett Junior is a true icon and light in
(01:02):
the world, having starred in groundbreaking projects like Roots, some
of the most popular and acclaimed television series like Boardwalk, Empire,
and Touched by an Angel. He began his career on
the path as a game changer opposite Sidney Portier in
the classic film A Raisin in the Sun. He's played
the voice of God and he's won an Academy Award
(01:23):
for his so focused role as drill Sergeant Emmo Foley
and an officer and a gentleman. Please welcome Louis Gossip
Junior to a Super Smiley Adventure.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Hi, Lou fine, as I said, best voice, I love that, Lou, and.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Smiley likes that to you might hear Smiley an angel.
They are playing in the background here. So Lou, first
of all, thank you so much for joining us today,
and congratulations on your amazing body of work.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Oh, thank you very much. I'm blessed.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yes, yes, yes, we all are so blessed in this
life that we have here, and we all want to
know about your sweet sweet dogs in your life. But
first I have to ask, can you describe what it
was like when you actually walked up on stage to
accept your Academy Award.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I had no idea what was going to happen. I
used to my experience, and over to my right was
the great Robert Preston. Yes, over to my left. In
front of me was James Mason and Row, and then
there was those two shoe ins. First, Rose, I'm concerned,
so I had made an adjustment. I'm so grateful to
be in the top five, so my mind went there.
My agent did me in the chest and said they
(02:29):
called your name. I'd looked around and they did. So
it took me a while to get up to the stage.
I had nothing prepared, so I spoke from my heart.
I guess it was.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, Oh Lou, it was beautiful. And I actually watched
the clip of when they called your name, and you're right,
you do look very stunned, and you had this beautiful,
your charismatic smile and your speech it was it just
seemed like it came right from your heart. And in
your speech you mentioned your spirit guides who had helped you,
meaning your great grandmother and your parents. Yes, and your
(02:59):
great grandmother was quite an influence on you, wasn't. She
tell us a little bit about her.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, she after the slaves were freed, all kinds of
Bibles and stuff and records of births and deaths and
marriages and stuff getting in the Bible, and her birth
and death was not registered in the Bible. And she
remembers kind of the day that the slaves were freed
in Georgia, and she lost her finger in a wagon.
That's where she lost half a finger. This is the
exodus from the South to the north, and all the
(03:25):
stuff was in the Bible but hers and she was
responsible as the matrioch with the family to raise all
the children. When anybody liked the butler and the help, yes, yes,
they had did jobs and did jobs very well. And
they brought all the money home and everybody sat around
the table and we had the poor people's food that
turned out to be quite delicious, like chicken feet and
(03:47):
delicious turkey in And she was in charge of the
whole thing. And her daughters who were my grandmother's parents,
and her she was the mass. She was so she
did know how to write or read, but she said
their lives with her home remedies. So I had too
much of whooping golf or polio. She did something and
she hits on my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh I love that. I love that eleven one hundred
over one hundred years old, one hundred and ten or
eleven when she passed, Oh my goodness. And and in
your book An Actor and a Gentleman, you talk about
all the great wisdom that she imparted to you. And
she said that it's the journey, right, It's all about
the journey.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It's not the destination, because the destinations and all of
it has always seems impossible. It's overwhelming. Right, we're asked
to go on the journey. Face in the right direction,
and that's the area where miracles happen.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I love that. Face in the right direction, that's where
the miracles happen. And just walk, walk in the right direction,
and you're going the right wing right. I love that.
The sun, I love that. And louis super smiley, as
I just mentioned, he's right here beside me. He wants
to hear all about your sweet dogs, Sarge and Della.
But we're going to do that right after this break. Smiley,
can you ake give boy.
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Speaker 3 (05:48):
Super side Condition. We're back at a super smiling adventure
with Academy Award winner Lewis Gossit Junior Loop. You and
I first met at the Catholics and Media Awards where
you were given the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now, many people
in life we work towards wisdom and towards becoming more compassionate.
(06:09):
But each time I've been with you, to me, you
seem to simply actually embody wisdom and compassion with it.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
You can't talk about something that you don't have yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
There you go, There you go. The wisdom and compassion
was that part of a learning process?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Was it? More in need from great Grandmama?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh oh, well, tell us a little bit more. Tell
us something else that she shared with you. Give us
one of her lessons.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, one of the things she said when I was
seventeen and I was starting on Broadway, I gave my
mother and my grandmother pays to hear their rent. And
I thought I was the best thing since Chop suey
Okay but she told me quietly. She said, God was
there before you got here. He's going to be here
while you're here, and he's going to be here a
long time after you're gone. She means, well, calm on down.
(06:54):
When I remembered everything was all right. When I forgot,
I got into trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That is so perfect. I love I love that. So
I guess she did collect a lot of wisdom in
her very very long lived life and brought a lot
of history with her and lou In my life, I'm
surrounded by animals. I have my horses, they live with me.
My dogs are here, and cats, and I believe that
animals also can be healers and teachers. So tell us
(07:18):
about your little skitties, Sergeant Belly, tell us and Bella.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's a thing that I learned. I've always had an animal,
some sort, and so there was too much time. Most
of my animals, if they weren't killed by a car
or a hawk or coyote, and this full life, most
of them live a full life with me. Dogs seventeen
eighteen nineteen years long. What happens is when we have
these animals, we assume the responsibility of taking care of them.
(07:43):
They come to them full selves. And it's the thing
that's international that I have to remind people who have
never been poor, who never had the initial lessons of this.
What you give is not what you get. Ill in
the morning, you've got to feed your dogs, You got
to oh your cats. You walk your dogs, make sure
they are right after they've fed. You love them unconditionally.
When they get sick, you tacked them to the doctor.
(08:04):
And we started in the habit of doing something for
somebody else. I love that natural duty. And when that happens,
they come to this particular place where they teach you back,
give you moments of joy and moments of gratitude, and
their love is unconditional.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I love that, and I agree that we give to them,
But then they also give back, and we teach them,
meaning we train them, but they teach us. They do it.
They do, they do. They actually do their happy trained
dogs a happy dog. But also they teach us right back.
Have sargean Bella. Have they taught you anything? These two first,
tell everybody about your little dogs. I saw their pictures.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They are this was the first one. He's a rescue okay,
And I was looking at this this combination husky melamute,
all brown, three or four different cults of brown and
shoulder level. In occasion, he started licking my fingers and
I'd made the decisions. It was him, and I kept
getting this little toga not from pants. Look down and
here's this little guy and he's half a mini sableman
(09:04):
and Shihuahua. And his look at the combination of Yoda
and don Knutts said you'll see You'll get her again
and then and then he was lonely. So I found
another rescue. Came into the office and it was she,
and she gave birth to six puppies and she was
only six months old. Puppies were taking care of that
(09:27):
took care of her. Her name is Bella Bella and
they are the same age, inseparable and they're looking at
me right now.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh I love that. Well, then they're on our show too,
and Smiley and Angel here. They want to send out
a doggie kiss to Sergeant Bella too, so let's do that.
And has Sergeant Bella have they taught you anything specific
these two.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Dogs, Well, they teach you about unconditional love, right, conditional
that should be infectious to when people are together, right,
governors are together, countries are together, unconditional respect for one another.
So it's not about me, it's about them.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And then I love that their lives about me, and
they do. The dogs do make their entire lives about
their people. I always see them as they have a
pureness of spirit that teaches purely. And in your book
you mentioned I think your grandmother mentioned this. Actually the
education before the education, when you're preparing to go to school,
and to me, with the animals, they're almost like that
(10:24):
education before the education, because.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
They actually do, how should I act? What are my limitations,
what are my disciplines?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Do?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
What? How far can I get? What? You know, what
can I do? And then they find out that there's
certain things they can't do because there's certain consequences. Want
to do it, and they stop them. Exactly God's bodying
in their house and only doing in the backyard. Eventually,
if the door is closed, they ask you to open
the doors. They can go in the backyard and.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Do right, that's right. They tell you what to do.
They tell you children, yes, tell us about that, tell
us about the education before the education.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
There's the education that my great grandmother and my mother
and my aunts and almost teach us before we go
out the door, because we have to represent the family
proper dress code, respect for the elder, and in respect
for the opposite sex, hygiene, physical fitness, spirituality. You have
to believe in God, you have to know upon whose
shoulders you stand, and you have to represent that when
you go out the door. Foundation is to create a
(11:14):
center called the Shamba Center. All these children of all
ages and of all nationalities come in with proverly prepared
lessons from some of our brightest minds on how they
need one another, both in sports and in actions and
videos and speeches, so that they learn how to rely
on one another, so by the time they get to
school that racism from them is not there. They haven't
(11:35):
carried the negatives on They've only carried positives.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yes, they get old enough to vote, the issues they
vote about are a little bit more compassionate. They're fighting
about today, like everybody should be able to go to
a doctor where they can afford it or not. They
should not be anything like a homeless veteran. Everybody should
have clothes, a shelter, and food if this is America.
And then we read the stuff that they've written about
(11:59):
us one nation of the God, certain things have nothing
to do with money, and a fear of our shows
and one another right.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And I love that you are reaching out to kids.
You're creating the Shamba centers to do this, and I
love that you say it's all emphasizing the positive. And lou,
let me share with you that Smiley has a kindness
program with inner city kids. Smiley's My Dog about the
values that yes, and it's about the values that animals
can teach, like kindness and respect. And his film Kindness
(12:27):
is super Smiley Dogumentary just screened and Malady the day
before your book signing and yes, yes, so next time
we have a screen yes on condition of love.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yes, what happens when you're nice to them? Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And respect? And it's amazing. But these little children, a
lot of the kids when Smiley and I worked with them,
they're inner city kids. So a lot of the large
dogs they see are actually fighting dogs, are there trained
to be protection dogs, junkyard dogs, so to speak. And
they had never even been around a large dog that
was kind like Smiley. So it really was an education
for them in kindness and in respect and in reading
(13:04):
the animal's energy and then sharing that and I love
what you're doing as well.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yes, well, so so they pick up the first thing
they pick up is going to be our kindness right
at operations onto them that we have another generation of misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Absolutely. And another thing I also say is that I've
observed is animals show us how to connect on a
deep level with them. So they remind us to connect
with ourselves, to go back inside ourselves and see, would
you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And I agree with one hundred percent. We started this
planet with a connection of the insects, the animals and
the people all around, and we had we were together
on that thing, and we interrupted that cycle. That cycle
from insects, animals and people we've interrupted and the world
is recording because of it. Right, we don't think of
those terms, but that's what it is. And then we've
(13:50):
messed up our fresh air and as part of the
cycle we got to put back in place. We have
to buy water out of a bottle. Right. The fish,
this is the balance of the fish in the ocean
is gone. We have to buy fish for fish palms.
And the weather, the storms are getting pretty large and
pretty incredible, and only our being together could save it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Right and going back into balance, I think that's a word.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Everything back to this proper natural ecological balance.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yes, yes, I love that. And for me, animals teach
living in the present and to be a part of
that balance and emotionally connected. So when I do go
out into the world, I feel like I prepared just
simply by being with my horses, with my dogs. Do
your dogs absolutely tell us about that. With your dogs,
do they help ground you and balance.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You in a way, you know when I need a
little friendship, a little lower Absolutely, the first one is there. Oh,
I love that, even if they're in pain. My last
dog was one hundred and thirty five pound black lab
but he lived eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
That's long.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It was on location. He held on until I got home.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I love And they do know, No, they they're very,
very sensitive. They do know. And Lou, we're going to
take a quick break and when we come back, we
want to hear more about your book, The great success
of the Boardwalk Empire, A racism too, Smiley? Can you wait,
good boy?
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Hi, I'm Francis Fisher and you are on a super
Smiley adventure.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Everybody ready, super SI.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And we're back on a super smiley adventure with the
amazing iconic Lewis us at Junior lou. We just were
talking about your work with the children, and I love
the name you created for your foundation, a racism. Tell
us a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, those are all day things that are stick stuck
in on DNA, and it's not black and white. It's
everything automatic assumption that they are better off than somebody else,
and they tall the shots. Okay, we come to the
edge of the end of that era, and some people
accept it because of their sensitivity with animals and stuff,
and other people have a hard time with it because
that's the way they were taught and raised for. Yeah,
(16:30):
so the people who were in charge, I used to
only that that's the only thing they was taught and
the other people are under the gun, the people in charge.
That's the only way they know how to act. So
I know a school, I get these young kids to
know that there are different natural rules. And when you
see a kid's eyes open and look at another kid,
because they would have to be taught that separation. But
when you see a kid in any kind of meeting
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or any kind of game, and it's happening in our
sports now, where there's a connection and everything that puts
out the window, it's a wonderful connection.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
And then it's right, that's very interesting the way you
were just talking about prejudice. And please correct me if
I restate this wrong, but I think you were saying
that prejudice is something that that is actually taught, that
we come into the world as a clean slate. Ah. Interesting. Well,
I have a very dear friend who works with the
(17:20):
dogs in prison and the prison programs in Florida, and
he uses this wonderful example. He will look at a
person and say, you're a man, so you're prejudice. You're
you know this, so you're prejudice. You're a woman, so
you're prejudice, Because it's a way of looking at the world.
But he says, when you look at this dog sitting here,
this dog isn't prejudice. He just sees, are you my person?
Do you feed me? Do I trust you? Do I
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learn to respect you? And so that's another way again.
I keep coming back to the animals because they are
such great role models when you open your eyes to this. Yes,
they they don't see the prejudice. They see a human
being exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
If you teach a dog how to be a killer,
then he'll be a killer because he thinks that's what
where you get his love from?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh, those of us who are sensitive to that, our
animals are not like that at all, right, except you
got to you got to watch up with Sage though. Well,
I've got to tell you when it comes to the house,
he's right on the lab and if you had actually
it would be French.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
That's so funny. Well, Smiley, Smiley is right there too.
Smiley is kind of a charmer and a flirt as well.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So, baby, welcome to my home. I know that how
you would speak.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Well, we have our hands full with our doggies here.
I totally totally I'm with you. That's so cute. And
Luke Boardwalk Empire just wrapped and it's been getting major
critical acclaim, and you've been getting so much acclaim for
that as well. First of all, congratulations on that, and
tell us about working on that set. What an amazing project.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
That's the best of television. Yeah, the very best of arts.
And they pay attention and they make it perfect, and
so it was a blessing to do it. If there's
a way of me coming back to life, they'll figure
it out. Because they did a love scene, so I
figured they thought about it in advance since there was
no death scene. Maybe always at the beginning next year,
I'd be suggested somewhere recovering.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, let's hope that that happens, because some of.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
The pots say that's what should happened. But it's from
their mouth to God's ears. I'm very grateful to the experience,
and I want another.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Job, absolutely. And we want to see you there. We
want to see you there absolutely. And in your book,
your book is so aptly titled. I love the title
an actor and a gentleman, and I read every single word.
I want to recommend this to all of our listeners.
It's a beautiful and intimate journey, right along with you
in your life. First of all, thank you Lee for
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sharing you with the world through your book.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
And I don't mention the name names of anybody who
did anything dead, but they but they were there, and
I listened, and I made the decisions to go with them.
And then we're not the right place to go. But
I feel that I was pretty kind you were.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I loved it. It shared lessons, it shared. It is
walking with you through your journey. But the way you
shared it is that we can take it in and
sort of learn from your journey as well. Was that
part of your thinking?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And in your books place where the miracles? Because I'm
still here, that's right there you go, you are.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh and speaking of being still here, in your book,
you actually mentioned a few near death experiences. Absolutely, and
they tell us about that. Tell our lists, share our listeners.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right. I got caught because of some of these things happened.
I didn't know it, but I had called the Jenkie
Robinson syndrome, where you can't mess up, you can't speak
against the injustices happening to you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I inherited high blood pressure and cancer, and my body
was breaking down a vital organ from bladel Logan and
I looked at the hospital one day after having a
semi stroke and the doctors had their backs turn and
shaking their heads consciousness, and I remember it might have
been my mind or whatever it was, I heard a
voice saying, go back, it's not your turn.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
So what I did was the systematic. Almost two years now,
I was talking finding friendly doctors, a list some of
our medicine. There's one of the fights that our president
has had a minute. There should be no one in
this country, indeed, view this world, but in this country
where I cannot go to a doctor or dentist because
they don't have any money, right, and doctors are actors,
nurses and doctors and specialists who agreed to that. So
(21:17):
I finally found a couple. They looked at me, and
it was very ironic that each one of them came
from a different country.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Really, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
So want to know what was wrong with me? Why
was I going downhill? On the surface, But they were
treating each individual thing instead of looking at the seeing
what's going on. Part of obviously was attitude. But they
found in an MRI machine, oh, at fifteen different angles,
so they could look at it. They found a slow
drip in someplace, maybe in the old days when I
was playing in both sports or whatever. It was old
(21:49):
rep that made my immune system all the way down
where I would be the first one to get a cold,
the first one into cancer, the first one to get out.
And that's how my body had no defense. So this
is about a year ago. They put me on table.
They gave me six hours of intravenous iron.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Wow. Then to stop the leak and give me six
hours of intravenous blood, and all of a sudden, I
felt like I never thought since I was a child.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Wow, Lou, And you are looking so good. Whenever I
see you, you just radiate life force, You radiate energy.
You look so amazing. We're so glad that you're hearing
that the voice did say it's not your time, You're
going to come back, and I hear that.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I feel this good. I've taken all fifty pounds you.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You look so good, Lou. And with the near death experience,
I mean, I don't even know how you could do more.
You're so busy. And I know that yesterday you were
actually down in La working with feeding the homeless. I
mean you completely give back, tell us more about what
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, fifteen thousand people of the minimum, So this is
the largest correct co relation doing to get tomorrow with
the mission. But now it's a lesson. It's called a
program of example. I like that. So I show up
and it starts from the inside out, and I'm going
to be close to those home almost people and put
a spoon on a plate and a fork on a
plate and say happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
That is.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Maybe I don't know what God has the store, but
he kept me alive, so that could be in that position.
That's right, that's bringing me back from death.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I am not here on my time, right, I know
what that means. I understand you and your animals. Yeah, yes, yes,
I love that we're talking about what you're talking about now.
It seems to me as a purpose in life. And
one of your thoughts in your book is you actually say,
how can I be of service?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And that is of course basically self less service, self
less service, selfless services natural way to be.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, yes, and that would be so great for all
the people, all of us to embrace that. But I
believe also as you just mentioned that animals in our
lives also serve a great purpose. They comfort us, they
love us, they help heal us. Yes, yes, so you
believe that pets also can have a purpose in life, right.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Absolutely, They teach us back in the day where we're tries,
and I put that, I use primitive advisingly for our survival.
As soon as you was able to get up and walk,
you had something to do, right, to go together the eggs,
and that was for the benefit of the whole tribe.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yes, as you got older than you as had been
to the kettle or your plant of food, and you
got older and you you reap the food, and the
women had to do certain things. You've had to build
stuff for our protection against weather and stuff. And the
better we do that, the stronger the entire child came.
It sounds kind of like democracy to me. It does.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It absolutely does to me and nobody.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
What do I get out of this, right, because.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's helping everyone. Everyone's help is you help the whole.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
You make your contribution to the whole, and that's the
natural way to go.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I love that, and that's exactly the way you're living
your life. And lou Smiley and I just presented the
Inspiration Award at the Hero Dog Awards. It was posthumously
given to Faara Faucet and the hero dogs who were
there had saved lives as war dogs, service dogs, search
and rescue dogs in so many ways. And I know
that if we look deeply into our own dog's eyes,
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we will see our own personal hero dog or cat
or bunny. And I know my dogs are my heroes.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yes, I agree with that. And I tell us a
very cute story. Tell us come past a pet shop
and he says, on this thing, says a talking dog.
Five dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
So I says, you have a talking dog here? He says, yes,
he's in the backyard. She goes in the backyard and
he says, are you a talking dog? And the dog says,
I most certainly Am' Tell me about yourself, he says,
when I was a real puppy, I sniff out missing
items in the house. And then later on when the
war started, I just sniff out for the troops, you
know where the dynamite was. And then when I came
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out of war, I worked for the police. I could
sniff out the drugs and stuff. But now I'm in retirement.
Guys then goes back to the owner says, why is
the dog only five dollars? The man says, because the
dog is a liar.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Ah, it was so funny.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm just so funny. But you know, oh my gosh,
that is so funny. I love that.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
But I have to tell you, all he does is talk.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He just brags. It's so funny. But it does feel
like when I'm with my animals, it's like I can
feel what they're saying. They're so communicative. It's crazy. It's crazy.
And Luke, you are such an amazing inspiration. I want
to thank you so much for sharing your light with
the world and for joining us today on a Super
Smiley Adventure. I read your entire book and I feel
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like I could just I mean, I know I could
just talk to you for hours, but we're very respectful
of your time. And thank you. Thank you so much,
and God God bless you. And would you please give
Starge and Bella a big kiss from Super Smiley and
me and from all of our listeners and from pet
Life Radio. Thank you again to mister lou Gossip Junior,
from all of us here on pet Life Radio. Until
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next time, whoof and super smiles. Bye, lu Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Everybody super Smiles on conditional Buzzing, Super Smiley.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Say, Kindness is the Way, woof and super Smiles. Welcome
to a Super Smiley Adventure on Pet Life Radio, the
largest pet radio network in the world. I'm Megan Blake,
the Pet lifestyle coach, here with my sidekick, Super Smiley,
the national spokesdog for the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards.
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On a Super Smiley Adventure. We explore adventures where animals lead.
They can be journeys for animal advocacy, for adventure, and
they almost always lead to paths of inner discovery and
greater bonding with our pets and our guest today has
led a life of adventure, advocacy, and of inner discovery.
Lewis Gossett Junior is a true icon and light in
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the world, having starred in groundbreaking projects like Roots, some
of the most popular and acclaimed television series like Boardwalk, Empire,
and Touched by an Angel. He began his career on
the path as a game changer opposite Sidney Portier in
the classic film A Raisin in the Sun. He's played
the voice of God and he's won an Academy Award
(01:23):
for his so focused role as drill Sergeant Emmo Foley
and an officer and a gentleman. Please welcome Louis Gossip
Junior to a Super Smiley Adventure.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Hi, Lou fine, as I said, best voice, I love that, Lou, and.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Smiley likes that to you might hear Smiley an angel.
They are playing in the background here. So Lou, first
of all, thank you so much for joining us today,
and congratulations on your amazing body of work.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Oh, thank you very much. I'm blessed.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yes, yes, yes, we all are so blessed in this
life that we have here, and we all want to
know about your sweet sweet dogs in your life. But
first I have to ask, can you describe what it
was like when you actually walked up on stage to
accept your Academy Award.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I had no idea what was going to happen. I
used to my experience, and over to my right was
the great Robert Preston. Yes, over to my left. In
front of me was James Mason and Row, and then
there was those two shoe ins. First, Rose, I'm concerned,
so I had made an adjustment. I'm so grateful to
be in the top five, so my mind went there.
My agent did me in the chest and said they
(02:29):
called your name. I'd looked around and they did. So
it took me a while to get up to the stage.
I had nothing prepared, so I spoke from my heart.
I guess it was.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, Oh Lou, it was beautiful. And I actually watched
the clip of when they called your name, and you're right,
you do look very stunned, and you had this beautiful,
your charismatic smile and your speech it was it just
seemed like it came right from your heart. And in
your speech you mentioned your spirit guides who had helped you,
meaning your great grandmother and your parents. Yes, and your
(02:59):
great grandmother was quite an influence on you, wasn't. She
tell us a little bit about her.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, she after the slaves were freed, all kinds of
Bibles and stuff and records of births and deaths and
marriages and stuff getting in the Bible, and her birth
and death was not registered in the Bible. And she
remembers kind of the day that the slaves were freed
in Georgia, and she lost her finger in a wagon.
That's where she lost half a finger. This is the
exodus from the South to the north, and all the
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stuff was in the Bible but hers and she was
responsible as the matrioch with the family to raise all
the children. When anybody liked the butler and the help, yes, yes,
they had did jobs and did jobs very well. And
they brought all the money home and everybody sat around
the table and we had the poor people's food that
turned out to be quite delicious, like chicken feet and
(03:47):
delicious turkey in And she was in charge of the
whole thing. And her daughters who were my grandmother's parents,
and her she was the mass. She was so she
did know how to write or read, but she said
their lives with her home remedies. So I had too
much of whooping golf or polio. She did something and
she hits on my shoulder.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh I love that. I love that eleven one hundred
over one hundred years old, one hundred and ten or
eleven when she passed, Oh my goodness. And and in
your book An Actor and a Gentleman, you talk about
all the great wisdom that she imparted to you. And
she said that it's the journey, right, It's all about
the journey.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It's not the destination, because the destinations and all of
it has always seems impossible. It's overwhelming. Right, we're asked
to go on the journey. Face in the right direction,
and that's the area where miracles happen.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I love that. Face in the right direction, that's where
the miracles happen. And just walk, walk in the right direction,
and you're going the right wing right. I love that.
The sun, I love that. And louis super smiley, as
I just mentioned, he's right here beside me. He wants
to hear all about your sweet dogs, Sarge and Della.
But we're going to do that right after this break. Smiley,
can you ake give boy.
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Speaker 3 (05:48):
Super side Condition. We're back at a super smiling adventure
with Academy Award winner Lewis Gossit Junior Loop. You and
I first met at the Catholics and Media Awards where
you were given the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now, many people
in life we work towards wisdom and towards becoming more compassionate.
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But each time I've been with you, to me, you
seem to simply actually embody wisdom and compassion with it.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
You can't talk about something that you don't have yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
There you go, There you go. The wisdom and compassion
was that part of a learning process?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Was it? More in need from great Grandmama?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh oh, well, tell us a little bit more. Tell
us something else that she shared with you. Give us
one of her lessons.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, one of the things she said when I was
seventeen and I was starting on Broadway, I gave my
mother and my grandmother pays to hear their rent. And
I thought I was the best thing since Chop suey
Okay but she told me quietly. She said, God was
there before you got here. He's going to be here
while you're here, and he's going to be here a
long time after you're gone. She means, well, calm on down.
(06:54):
When I remembered everything was all right. When I forgot,
I got into trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That is so perfect. I love I love that. So
I guess she did collect a lot of wisdom in
her very very long lived life and brought a lot
of history with her and lou In my life, I'm
surrounded by animals. I have my horses, they live with me.
My dogs are here, and cats, and I believe that
animals also can be healers and teachers. So tell us
(07:18):
about your little skitties, Sergeant Belly, tell us and Bella.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's a thing that I learned. I've always had an animal,
some sort, and so there was too much time. Most
of my animals, if they weren't killed by a car
or a hawk or coyote, and this full life, most
of them live a full life with me. Dogs seventeen
eighteen nineteen years long. What happens is when we have
these animals, we assume the responsibility of taking care of them.
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They come to them full selves. And it's the thing
that's international that I have to remind people who have
never been poor, who never had the initial lessons of this.
What you give is not what you get. Ill in
the morning, you've got to feed your dogs, You got
to oh your cats. You walk your dogs, make sure
they are right after they've fed. You love them unconditionally.
When they get sick, you tacked them to the doctor.
(08:04):
And we started in the habit of doing something for
somebody else. I love that natural duty. And when that happens,
they come to this particular place where they teach you back,
give you moments of joy and moments of gratitude, and
their love is unconditional.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I love that, and I agree that we give to them,
But then they also give back, and we teach them,
meaning we train them, but they teach us. They do it.
They do, they do. They actually do their happy trained
dogs a happy dog. But also they teach us right back.
Have sargean Bella. Have they taught you anything? These two first,
tell everybody about your little dogs. I saw their pictures.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
They are this was the first one. He's a rescue okay,
And I was looking at this this combination husky melamute,
all brown, three or four different cults of brown and
shoulder level. In occasion, he started licking my fingers and
I'd made the decisions. It was him, and I kept
getting this little toga not from pants. Look down and
here's this little guy and he's half a mini sableman
(09:04):
and Shihuahua. And his look at the combination of Yoda
and don Knutts said you'll see You'll get her again
and then and then he was lonely. So I found
another rescue. Came into the office and it was she,
and she gave birth to six puppies and she was
only six months old. Puppies were taking care of that
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took care of her. Her name is Bella Bella and
they are the same age, inseparable and they're looking at
me right now.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh I love that. Well, then they're on our show too,
and Smiley and Angel here. They want to send out
a doggie kiss to Sergeant Bella too, so let's do that.
And has Sergeant Bella have they taught you anything specific
these two.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Dogs, Well, they teach you about unconditional love, right, conditional
that should be infectious to when people are together, right,
governors are together, countries are together, unconditional respect for one another.
So it's not about me, it's about them.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And then I love that their lives about me, and
they do. The dogs do make their entire lives about
their people. I always see them as they have a
pureness of spirit that teaches purely. And in your book
you mentioned I think your grandmother mentioned this. Actually the
education before the education, when you're preparing to go to school,
and to me, with the animals, they're almost like that
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education before the education, because.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
They actually do, how should I act? What are my limitations,
what are my disciplines?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Do?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
What? How far can I get? What? You know, what
can I do? And then they find out that there's
certain things they can't do because there's certain consequences. Want
to do it, and they stop them. Exactly God's bodying
in their house and only doing in the backyard. Eventually,
if the door is closed, they ask you to open
the doors. They can go in the backyard and.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Do right, that's right. They tell you what to do.
They tell you children, yes, tell us about that, tell
us about the education before the education.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
There's the education that my great grandmother and my mother
and my aunts and almost teach us before we go
out the door, because we have to represent the family
proper dress code, respect for the elder, and in respect
for the opposite sex, hygiene, physical fitness, spirituality. You have
to believe in God, you have to know upon whose
shoulders you stand, and you have to represent that when
you go out the door. Foundation is to create a
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center called the Shamba Center. All these children of all
ages and of all nationalities come in with proverly prepared
lessons from some of our brightest minds on how they
need one another, both in sports and in actions and
videos and speeches, so that they learn how to rely
on one another, so by the time they get to
school that racism from them is not there. They haven't
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carried the negatives on They've only carried positives.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yes, they get old enough to vote, the issues they
vote about are a little bit more compassionate. They're fighting
about today, like everybody should be able to go to
a doctor where they can afford it or not. They
should not be anything like a homeless veteran. Everybody should
have clothes, a shelter, and food if this is America.
And then we read the stuff that they've written about
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us one nation of the God, certain things have nothing
to do with money, and a fear of our shows
and one another right.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And I love that you are reaching out to kids.
You're creating the Shamba centers to do this, and I
love that you say it's all emphasizing the positive. And lou,
let me share with you that Smiley has a kindness
program with inner city kids. Smiley's My Dog about the
values that yes, and it's about the values that animals
can teach, like kindness and respect. And his film Kindness
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is super Smiley Dogumentary just screened and Malady the day
before your book signing and yes, yes, so next time
we have a screen yes on condition of love.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yes, what happens when you're nice to them? Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And respect? And it's amazing. But these little children, a
lot of the kids when Smiley and I worked with them,
they're inner city kids. So a lot of the large
dogs they see are actually fighting dogs, are there trained
to be protection dogs, junkyard dogs, so to speak. And
they had never even been around a large dog that
was kind like Smiley. So it really was an education
for them in kindness and in respect and in reading
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the animal's energy and then sharing that and I love
what you're doing as well.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yes, well, so so they pick up the first thing
they pick up is going to be our kindness right
at operations onto them that we have another generation of misunderstanding.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Absolutely. And another thing I also say is that I've
observed is animals show us how to connect on a
deep level with them. So they remind us to connect
with ourselves, to go back inside ourselves and see, would
you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And I agree with one hundred percent. We started this
planet with a connection of the insects, the animals and
the people all around, and we had we were together
on that thing, and we interrupted that cycle. That cycle
from insects, animals and people we've interrupted and the world
is recording because of it. Right, we don't think of
those terms, but that's what it is. And then we've
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messed up our fresh air and as part of the
cycle we got to put back in place. We have
to buy water out of a bottle. Right. The fish,
this is the balance of the fish in the ocean
is gone. We have to buy fish for fish palms.
And the weather, the storms are getting pretty large and
pretty incredible, and only our being together could save it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Right and going back into balance, I think that's a word.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Everything back to this proper natural ecological balance.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yes, yes, I love that. And for me, animals teach
living in the present and to be a part of
that balance and emotionally connected. So when I do go
out into the world, I feel like I prepared just
simply by being with my horses, with my dogs. Do
your dogs absolutely tell us about that. With your dogs,
do they help ground you and balance.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You in a way, you know when I need a
little friendship, a little lower Absolutely, the first one is there. Oh,
I love that, even if they're in pain. My last
dog was one hundred and thirty five pound black lab
but he lived eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
That's long.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It was on location. He held on until I got home.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I love And they do know, No, they they're very,
very sensitive. They do know. And Lou, we're going to
take a quick break and when we come back, we
want to hear more about your book, The great success
of the Boardwalk Empire, A racism too, Smiley? Can you wait,
good boy?
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Smiley adventure.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Everybody ready, super SI.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
And we're back on a super smiley adventure with the
amazing iconic Lewis us at Junior lou. We just were
talking about your work with the children, and I love
the name you created for your foundation, a racism. Tell
us a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, those are all day things that are stick stuck
in on DNA, and it's not black and white. It's
everything automatic assumption that they are better off than somebody else,
and they tall the shots. Okay, we come to the
edge of the end of that era, and some people
accept it because of their sensitivity with animals and stuff,
and other people have a hard time with it because
that's the way they were taught and raised for. Yeah,
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so the people who were in charge, I used to
only that that's the only thing they was taught and
the other people are under the gun, the people in charge.
That's the only way they know how to act. So
I know a school, I get these young kids to
know that there are different natural rules. And when you
see a kid's eyes open and look at another kid,
because they would have to be taught that separation. But
when you see a kid in any kind of meeting
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or any kind of game, and it's happening in our
sports now, where there's a connection and everything that puts
out the window, it's a wonderful connection.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
And then it's right, that's very interesting the way you
were just talking about prejudice. And please correct me if
I restate this wrong, but I think you were saying
that prejudice is something that that is actually taught, that
we come into the world as a clean slate. Ah. Interesting. Well,
I have a very dear friend who works with the
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dogs in prison and the prison programs in Florida, and
he uses this wonderful example. He will look at a
person and say, you're a man, so you're prejudice. You're
you know this, so you're prejudice. You're a woman, so
you're prejudice, Because it's a way of looking at the world.
But he says, when you look at this dog sitting here,
this dog isn't prejudice. He just sees, are you my person?
Do you feed me? Do I trust you? Do I
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learn to respect you? And so that's another way again.
I keep coming back to the animals because they are
such great role models when you open your eyes to this. Yes,
they they don't see the prejudice. They see a human
being exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
If you teach a dog how to be a killer,
then he'll be a killer because he thinks that's what
where you get his love from?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh, those of us who are sensitive to that, our
animals are not like that at all, right, except you
got to you got to watch up with Sage though. Well,
I've got to tell you when it comes to the house,
he's right on the lab and if you had actually
it would be French.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
That's so funny. Well, Smiley, Smiley is right there too.
Smiley is kind of a charmer and a flirt as well.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So, baby, welcome to my home. I know that how
you would speak.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Well, we have our hands full with our doggies here.
I totally totally I'm with you. That's so cute. And
Luke Boardwalk Empire just wrapped and it's been getting major
critical acclaim, and you've been getting so much acclaim for
that as well. First of all, congratulations on that, and
tell us about working on that set. What an amazing project.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
That's the best of television. Yeah, the very best of arts.
And they pay attention and they make it perfect, and
so it was a blessing to do it. If there's
a way of me coming back to life, they'll figure
it out. Because they did a love scene, so I
figured they thought about it in advance since there was
no death scene. Maybe always at the beginning next year,
I'd be suggested somewhere recovering.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, let's hope that that happens, because some of.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
The pots say that's what should happened. But it's from
their mouth to God's ears. I'm very grateful to the experience,
and I want another.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Job, absolutely. And we want to see you there. We
want to see you there absolutely. And in your book,
your book is so aptly titled. I love the title
an actor and a gentleman, and I read every single word.
I want to recommend this to all of our listeners.
It's a beautiful and intimate journey, right along with you
in your life. First of all, thank you Lee for
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sharing you with the world through your book.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
And I don't mention the name names of anybody who
did anything dead, but they but they were there, and
I listened, and I made the decisions to go with them.
And then we're not the right place to go. But
I feel that I was pretty kind you were.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I loved it. It shared lessons, it shared. It is
walking with you through your journey. But the way you
shared it is that we can take it in and
sort of learn from your journey as well. Was that
part of your thinking?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
And in your books place where the miracles? Because I'm
still here, that's right there you go, you are.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh and speaking of being still here, in your book,
you actually mentioned a few near death experiences. Absolutely, and
they tell us about that. Tell our lists, share our listeners.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right. I got caught because of some of these things happened.
I didn't know it, but I had called the Jenkie
Robinson syndrome, where you can't mess up, you can't speak
against the injustices happening to you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I inherited high blood pressure and cancer, and my body
was breaking down a vital organ from bladel Logan and
I looked at the hospital one day after having a
semi stroke and the doctors had their backs turn and
shaking their heads consciousness, and I remember it might have
been my mind or whatever it was, I heard a
voice saying, go back, it's not your turn.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
So what I did was the systematic. Almost two years now,
I was talking finding friendly doctors, a list some of
our medicine. There's one of the fights that our president
has had a minute. There should be no one in
this country, indeed, view this world, but in this country
where I cannot go to a doctor or dentist because
they don't have any money, right, and doctors are actors,
nurses and doctors and specialists who agreed to that. So
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I finally found a couple. They looked at me, and
it was very ironic that each one of them came
from a different country.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Really, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
So want to know what was wrong with me? Why
was I going downhill? On the surface, But they were
treating each individual thing instead of looking at the seeing
what's going on. Part of obviously was attitude. But they
found in an MRI machine, oh, at fifteen different angles,
so they could look at it. They found a slow
drip in someplace, maybe in the old days when I
was playing in both sports or whatever. It was old
(21:49):
rep that made my immune system all the way down
where I would be the first one to get a cold,
the first one into cancer, the first one to get out.
And that's how my body had no defense. So this
is about a year ago. They put me on table.
They gave me six hours of intravenous iron.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Wow. Then to stop the leak and give me six
hours of intravenous blood, and all of a sudden, I
felt like I never thought since I was a child.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Wow, Lou, And you are looking so good. Whenever I
see you, you just radiate life force, You radiate energy.
You look so amazing. We're so glad that you're hearing
that the voice did say it's not your time, You're
going to come back, and I hear that.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I feel this good. I've taken all fifty pounds you.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You look so good, Lou. And with the near death experience,
I mean, I don't even know how you could do more.
You're so busy. And I know that yesterday you were
actually down in La working with feeding the homeless. I
mean you completely give back, tell us more about what
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, fifteen thousand people of the minimum, So this is
the largest correct co relation doing to get tomorrow with
the mission. But now it's a lesson. It's called a
program of example. I like that. So I show up
and it starts from the inside out, and I'm going
to be close to those home almost people and put
a spoon on a plate and a fork on a
plate and say happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
That is.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Maybe I don't know what God has the store, but
he kept me alive, so that could be in that position.
That's right, that's bringing me back from death.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I am not here on my time, right, I know
what that means. I understand you and your animals. Yeah, yes, yes,
I love that we're talking about what you're talking about now.
It seems to me as a purpose in life. And
one of your thoughts in your book is you actually say,
how can I be of service?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And that is of course basically self less service, self
less service, selfless services natural way to be.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, yes, and that would be so great for all
the people, all of us to embrace that. But I
believe also as you just mentioned that animals in our
lives also serve a great purpose. They comfort us, they
love us, they help heal us. Yes, yes, so you
believe that pets also can have a purpose in life, right.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Absolutely, They teach us back in the day where we're tries,
and I put that, I use primitive advisingly for our survival.
As soon as you was able to get up and walk,
you had something to do, right, to go together the eggs,
and that was for the benefit of the whole tribe.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yes, as you got older than you as had been
to the kettle or your plant of food, and you
got older and you you reap the food, and the
women had to do certain things. You've had to build
stuff for our protection against weather and stuff. And the
better we do that, the stronger the entire child came.
It sounds kind of like democracy to me. It does.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It absolutely does to me and nobody.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
What do I get out of this, right, because.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's helping everyone. Everyone's help is you help the whole.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
You make your contribution to the whole, and that's the
natural way to go.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I love that, and that's exactly the way you're living
your life. And lou Smiley and I just presented the
Inspiration Award at the Hero Dog Awards. It was posthumously
given to Faara Faucet and the hero dogs who were
there had saved lives as war dogs, service dogs, search
and rescue dogs in so many ways. And I know
that if we look deeply into our own dog's eyes,
(25:00):
we will see our own personal hero dog or cat
or bunny. And I know my dogs are my heroes.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yes, I agree with that. And I tell us a
very cute story. Tell us come past a pet shop
and he says, on this thing, says a talking dog.
Five dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
So I says, you have a talking dog here? He says, yes,
he's in the backyard. She goes in the backyard and
he says, are you a talking dog? And the dog says,
I most certainly Am' Tell me about yourself, he says,
when I was a real puppy, I sniff out missing
items in the house. And then later on when the
war started, I just sniff out for the troops, you
know where the dynamite was. And then when I came
(25:36):
out of war, I worked for the police. I could
sniff out the drugs and stuff. But now I'm in retirement.
Guys then goes back to the owner says, why is
the dog only five dollars? The man says, because the
dog is a liar.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Ah, it was so funny.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I'm just so funny. But you know, oh my gosh,
that is so funny. I love that.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
But I have to tell you, all he does is talk.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He just brags. It's so funny. But it does feel
like when I'm with my animals, it's like I can
feel what they're saying. They're so communicative. It's crazy. It's crazy.
And Luke, you are such an amazing inspiration. I want
to thank you so much for sharing your light with
the world and for joining us today on a Super
Smiley Adventure. I read your entire book and I feel
(26:25):
like I could just I mean, I know I could
just talk to you for hours, but we're very respectful
of your time. And thank you. Thank you so much,
and God God bless you. And would you please give
Starge and Bella a big kiss from Super Smiley and
me and from all of our listeners and from pet
Life Radio. Thank you again to mister lou Gossip Junior,
from all of us here on pet Life Radio. Until
(26:45):
next time, whoof and super smiles. Bye, lu Thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
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