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the best examples of Elvis and the variety of tonal things that he approached with
such a plum is that how to look out for sens he was. Elvis
Presley passed away on this date in nineteen seventy seven, and for the last
three or four days year a Good Day as sort of a run up to
this day in which we talk a whole lot about him and what he did,
his releases, his family, he and we do this on January eighth
two because that's his birthday. But there's something about Elvis that we all find.
There's something there that we can hear that we touched this kid. He
had nothing, his family had nothing, and then he realized that he liked
to sing and he was good at it. So he went over to Son
Records in his hometown, and as they say, the rest is history.
He had a lot of personality, that's for sure. Colorful clothing, the
girls loved him, his hair, all of that stuff, and then when
he started to perform in public in nineteen fifty four with the first song you
ever did was That's all Right, Mama, which was for his mother.
It was always clear that he and his mother were very connected, very close.
He'd had a twin brother that died at childbirth, and don't I don't
know when he first learned that, but I think he felt very protective of
his mother, and so you know, all of the things that he would
always credit his mother, and you could tell there was a great relationship even
when he went off into the service. I remember him frankly for shows like
the Ed Sullivan Sunday Night Variety program and the audience the girls screaming, oh
my God, scram scream, scream, and he'd moved his hips around and
Ed Sullivan went out of his way because a lot of critics were onto Elvis
and his gyrations, and Ed Sullivan would always say he had him on his
program all the time, Jay, and he would always say he was a
nice boy. He was really very polite, a real gentleman. And so
for I think he had three or four performances before he went into the army,
and then when he came back from the army. The first stop he
made was on Ed Sullivan's Sunday night program, and so and then he went
into movies and all sorts of things that all were great. He wasn't a
great actor by any stretch of the imagination, but he had watched him on
screen, and he enough of that presence that yeah, and so many of
his songs that were such hits came from a lot of these movies. Yeah.
Yeah, And that's one of the things that we kind of like about
that. So he passed away on this date in nineteen seventy seven. There
are all kinds of stories about it. I don't know that it's important.
Well, it really is a sad story because it's a conversation on the opioid
addiction of prescription pills too. He unfortunately had a drug addiction, and it
wasn't like he was getting the street drugs or anything. They were all prescribed
from his doctor, who was also implicated in his death because of these prescriptions.
Apparently, at one point his doctor prescribed over twelve thousand pills in the
last twenty months of Elvis's life. Like Michael Jackson and so I thought of
two Yeah, yeah, the King of Pop and the King of Rock and
Elvis's daughter. As most people remember, Lisa Murray was married to Michael Jackson,
I think for three years at some point in time. But this was
after Elvis had passed away. So let's fast forward or backward to nineteen sixty
eight, when the political world assassinations, the racial strife in our country tearing
us apart. The last thing anybody was asking for was Elvis in a TV
special because but he'd been off for a couple of years. So then NBC
got him to do a comeback special called The Singer Presents Elvis. The sponsor
was the sewing machine Sewer Good Duck Singer Sewing Machine. And then it was
one of the first TV shows to ever be on in color, which was
very, very important and very interesting. Another attraction he was thirty three at
the time. I kind of think about Austin Butler in that black leather suit
as he portrayed Elvis in the movie. And now there's this commentary reinventing elvis
sixty eight comeback, which is I think a streamer isn't on Paramount plus looks
at the moment. There are lots of I've watched on the plane any number
of times, bits and pieces and the whole thing from that show. In
the Hawaii show as well, they were They were great. Anyway, the
Elvis was very nervous when he started performing early on, and then after he'd
been gone for a couple of the sixty eight come back, he was also
pretty nervous. He said, I forgot all the song lyrics, and so
they had a jam session with all of his friends and that sort of brought
it all back to him. But anyway, the fact that he had that
black leather suit on was not an accident. Apparently was inspired by Marlon Brando
in The Wild One. Apparently you can see that Elvis like he was obsessed
with Marlon Brando and I didn't know that he had a remember that you probably
don't remember the movie The Wild One. Brando was the star as a motorcycle
gang member in that movie. He had that leather jack. I remember my
mother said to me once when we were we passed some I probably was in
the would have been the late fifties, so I would have been let's see,
I was probably twelve years old. My mother said, when we went
by a group of fellas that were all the hair was all slicked back,
and they had on black leather jackets and they were riding motorcycles around. She
said, if you ever come home, or if you ever looked like that,
don't come home. That was you know, So that was a clear
message. So I loved the Elvis after that. Man, Listen, I
want to be just like him. Although I never let my hair, my
mother didn't let my hair grow that line, never had a leather jacket.
But I certainly loved his old hits and his songs and anyway, it's just
a it's a very the whole thing, the whole life and times of him.
Anyway, there the documentary about Elvis talks about his being in Hollywood nobody
really recognizing him, so urs his later years. Yeah, if he went
out and about and he wasn't in his usual garb and made up, and
people had no idea that they were standing right next to Elvis Presley. Yep,
he was very He was a very sweet guy. He was a very
helpful guy. Gave away a lot of his money. And so when we
talked about him today, because he passed away on this date in nineteen seventy
seven, as Jay was saying with the forty five forty five, forty six
years since he died. There are lots of people who have talked about the
channel. They have an Elvis channel on Sirius XM, and there are tour
George Klein, who was very close to Elvis, was on that channel for
a long time till they passed away a year or so ago. But they
have archives galore of interviews that George Klein did with Elvis and the members of
his family. And then there's the fast forward emphasis on Lisa Marie, who
was born I think in nineteen sixty eight, wasn't she that was with Yeah,
and so she had certainly a very strong influence on his life, he
on her and her on him, it seemed. And then she passed what
was it last year? When did she die? She had the same thing
she had her she had a heart attack, but was she on drugs I've
forgotten what she battled with addiction? And then she had also lost her son.
When did Riley still had a brother, And I can't remember when he
died, Yeah, yeah, it was earlier on though, I think so.
Anyway, he was at home. His girlfriend at the town was ginger
Alden that was one of the other things it was interesting about Lisa. I'm
sutly not Lisa, but Priscilla and Elvis they stayed close no matter who they
were with. As a matter of fact, didn't we talk a month or
so ago about Elvis listening on the phone when Priscilla in the sack? Yeah,
right with Robert Kardashian. Yeah, yeah, exactly, yep. So
Elvis and his legacy, that's what's really important here now, the music,
the vibes that you get when anybody says Elvis, you know, nobody confuses
him, although I don't. I'm not sure. I don't know Elvis Duran.
He's a popular radio personality. I don't know my other thought. I
mean, he even went to Costello Elvis Costello. Yeah, that's true.
Yep. So you know that's not it's not a common name. And people
always think that Elvis was the first Elvis, and whether the others were named
for him. Elvis Duran, I think is in his early sixties, So
would that have been possible. Well maybe maybe that's not important. I don't
know anybody named Elvis, do you. I know, nobody named and when
I hear Elvis, and I think about Yeah, I got I mean not
personally, but no. Yeah, right, So anyway, the fans are
still there, the supporters are still there, the activity, the legacy at
Grace Land, and the thing's going in Memphis, and the movies that are
all over the place, you know, all the time that estate. As
we were talking about, with the passing of Lisa Marie and all of the
hooplah about Riley Kio, I think I talked about her because of the articles
in Vanity Fair this month about her. She now controls the Elvis Presley estate,
even though Priscilla sort of runs its still, and she's the one that
turned Grace into the museum. It is, yeah, right, exactly.
One of the things that's most eerie about it is to be able to walk
Have you ever been to Graceland? I haven't now, all right, For
those of you who have been there, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
When you walk around to the back. There was a there was an
addition put on to Graceland for all of the records, the memorabilia, the
radio studio is in there that you know, that sort of thing that was
sort of brushed up and brought up to to modern times. But there's so
many musical memories in there. And then you go out the back door and
you can see the crypt. Not well, it's a it's a like a
little little burial plot where his mother's buried. There's a brass covering to that,
and his father. He's there with them. I don't know whether his
brother that died still born. I can't remember that he's there or not,
whether they put him there, But that's where everybody in the family wants to
be buried, and so it makes sense. I remember on the twenty fifth
anniversary of Elvis's passing, Lisa Marie paid tribute to him with a recording in
which he said, quote, I wanted you to know that I haven't forgotten
you made me. I love you. You're still lovely. You were lovely
then. And so there was that stuff that she didn't Obviously she didn't know
her father. She was well, she was nine, she did she was
aware of what was going on. She was nine when he died. Yeah,
right, So every year today, or if you had been there last
night, you would have seen the candlelight vigil. Thirty thousand people usually come
up every year from all around the country to participate just because of this guy
is Aura was so unbelievable. So anyway, those of you who are in
a manner of speaking friends of I'm a fan, and I feel like I'm
a friend too. I feel like I knew the guy. Right. So
we remember fondly in music, the times and the life of Elvis Presley.
Today, right now in our focus is another great musician, not perhaps is
great, but certainly has had impact over the course of his career. And
that's Lionel Richie, who apparently had a problem with a concert. And so
we're going to talk about what went wrong. What went wrong? Brought to
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j Yeah, he's pretty good. Lionel earth Win and Fire Yeah, yeah,
they're good. Combo. Yes, Okay, So apparently Lionel Richie was
a little bit late for his concert on Monday. There was a couple of
days late. The concert supposed to happen on Saturday. Weather kept him from
flying in, so they postponed it to Monday, and there was already a
show scheduled for Monday in Connecticut, which they've moved to Wednesday. So in
that circumstance, imagine that people with the tickets and how they get their come
upans, if you will. It was supposed to begin at one point in
time, as you said in New York, was at seven o'clock or eight
o'clock, and he was still in the area. He was in an airplane
someplace. He apologized a thousand times for having to make the change, but
it really was people who get upset about this sort of thing under these conditions
need to calm down to get a life, because this was not anything that
he could do anything about. Well, it's okay to be upset when in
certain circumstances, because it's not always just a concert that's down the street from
your house. A lot of people travel, like some people probably traveled into
New York to spend the weekend and now like specifically for the show. Now
they're at the travel expenses hotel, and then they probably can't even it'send the
Monday concert because they have to get back to work. So it's okay to
still be frustrated, but things will still happen, and it's a safety measure.
He said that he tried to even bribe the pilot to fly, and
the pilot was like, I want to be able to see my wife tomorrow.
The answer is absolutely not. We are not flying in this weather,
in these conditions, and so he just kind of pushed everything back, moved
to the Connecticut showback a couple of days. This New York show, he
just moved back a couple of days. And he even addressed it and was
like, I understand and a lot of people were upset, and I am
so sorry. I was out of my control. But we are going to
make up for it. We're going to give you a crazy good show.
And he did, and for everybody who was able to make it, it
was a great show. So how did they how did the earth wind and
fire part of it? Did they still perform for the audience in that night?
Or because Lima couldn't go because a combo tour with the two Yeah yeah,
it was completely scrapped for Saturday and pushed to money. So they did
the full concert a couple of days a couple of days later, right,
So that's it. The interesting thing. But I just saw that one of
my favorite groups of all time to Varus, which is a Massachusetts group.
They have such great there's something about them. And I don't go to many
concerts, and certainly not by myself much, but I'm going to go to
this one. And yeah, if you're all hyped up about going, you're
all excited about going, you can't go. It is. It's kind of
upsetting. So anyway, all it worked out. Okay, what is your
passion and has it become your purpose? What is your passion for your family?
Perhaps, passion for your work, passion for something like golf, whatever
it is. That was my father's purpose. His purpose in life for the
last forty years of his life was playing golf. And so I wonder my
passion is my family and my radio program, my farm. Those are all
things that give me purpose. And I find that often people, if they're
really connected to their passions, they are of service. You know, we
were talking about this fellow that got caught stealing from the government. He was
providing meals and camps experience for kids in the summer. He just overinflated the
idea was good. He just let it get a little out of hand.
But I think that if you settle into something in your life that you really
like to do, and I just asked you to think about it, what
do you like to Some people love to read, some people love to go
to movies, some people love to drive. And whatever it is, it's
fine. Share it with us. That's good, right, share share for
all the way a matter of facts, probably a good thing. Maybe for
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eight four You another use of dug. We got it. The The Little
League World series has decided to remove bunk bits. One of the players fell
out of a bunk bit, so now they're going to permanently remove them from
this event. Yeah, do you remember that last year? Wasn't that just
last year? Yeah? I think it was. I just don't get why
these decisions that are made randomly. It's nothing more fun than sleeping in a
bunk bit, got it. The kid was very badly hurt at a fractured
skull, a brain bleed, that sort of thing. But they say out
of an abundance of caution. What probably they're worried about is the fact that
they could be sued by people for this sort of thing. This is not
a denigration for bunk beds. I happen to have always loved bunk beds.
Frankly, I think sleeping on the top of a bunk bed is very cool.
My grandson has a bunk bid and he loves it. I think you
just to add. But there are not his bunk bed. There is a
like I'm not a there's a wall, not a wall, but there is
those higher rails. Oh yeah, well it's one of those things of And
they're not saying bunk beds are bad it's just if anybody wants to have them
in their home. But they're there to play baseball. It's the Little League
World Series, and they're taking care of all of these young athletes. And
if it's just safer to not have them in bunk beds in this given circumstance,
yep, go for it, understood. He nearly I mean, he
nearly died. The rest of his life is not going to be the same.
He's twelve years old. Yep, that was thankfully he survived, but
he is so the family and this is I think what the bottom line is.
Here we go a lawyer got a hold of the player's family and they
sued Little League Baseball. They alleged the beds who are not safe, and
so the Little League didn't say anything about it, but they got, you
know, something out of the lawsuit. So there's always a legal thing,
there's always a lawyer standing by. And speaking of that, here's this group
that's suing targets. Did you see this the shareholder losses that have come about,
as I guess a result of the boycott, not guess, I know
the Pride Month displays, remember that that took place? Was it really it
was earlier when Pride Month was that may I think and so people who are
on the right side of things, I don't mean with a capital R,
with a small R. This group called America First Legal As sued Target,
saying the Target misled their investors when they said that it was monitoring risks related
to the diversity programs that they had. This mostly was a focus on the
gay pride displays that they had, that sort of thing. And so here's
this investor named Brian Craig, who is a Florida resident. He bought a
lot of shares of Target in April of last year, and now the value
of the holdings has gone down substantially, and so he has sued Target.
You got to wonder how far this sort of thing goes. The lawsuit itself
argues that Target's loss in market capitalization is a direct and predictable result of their
calculated decision to promote sexualized material that children. This was. They said the
family themed LGBTQ Pride items were false and misleading, and it caused shareholders to
unknowingly support excuse me, the management and their misuse of investor funds to serve
there. This is a man, This is gonna be a stretch, right,
yeah, And this was Pride Month, and have you did you see
any of these videos of people like actually in Target and complaining about it,
And more often than not they weren't even in the children's section when they were
taking the video and a lot of this stuff. And then for some who
were it wasn't even that there was any pride items. They just had rainbows
on it because guess what, kids love rainbows, so do adults. And
it has nothing to do with LGBTQ all the time. This is really this
is This shows you a couple of things. It's very divisive and not necessarily.
I mean, some of this stuff that is talked about it in league
with these sort of pride displays. Some of the things about at twelve thirteen
years old, people are questioning their sexuality and do they want to be a
male and maybe that stuff isn't yeah, yeah, sexuality and general identity.
But they put all but a lot of people that don't know any better,
Jay, put all of this stuff together. It's all one big unhappy and
you said, you said it so well, just now people who don't know
any better put it all together, and people who don't know any better,
could take the time to learn a little bit more, but rather they would
just be hateful. And think about how many people in this conservative legal group
who issuing Target over the prime month collection. How many of those people have
children or family members or close friends who are members of the lgbt Q community
who won't come out to them because they're terrified of being shunned by the people
that are supposed to love them unconditionally. Well, there's a more practical side
to this as well, and it has to do with mining stock. These
people are just acts grinders. They're looking for trouble. They're looking to see
if they can cap lies on something that as you described it, some of
the things may have been moderately controversial, but we need to get a life
here. There's there's so much going on in the life and times of all
of us that's more important than this. Why would you focus on something so
negative and so destructive? And by the way stocks go up and stocks go
down, that's the nature of the stock market, not of Target. There
are things that influence the value of stock. Look what happened to the stock
the Anheuser Busch stock after another one of these was the Dylan MULRONEYO was that?
Isn't that that? Dylan mul mulvany. Yeah, So there's that,
But I think most of the time when you purchase stock, I was looking
at something from somebody who purchased Zoom stocks the back a couple of years ago.
Zoom was at one hundred bucks. Okay, great. When COVID came
around, the value of Zoom went to five hundred dollars a share. But
then COVID was over and people stopped using Zoom as much as it did,
and so now the stock has gone back to about one hundred bucks. They
moral of that story, boys and girls is when you buy stocks, you
can expect it to go up down sideways, and no one who owns stock
is exempt. It goes up, it goes down. I bought some stuff
a year or so ago, put a few bucks into a crypto fund,
and it's destroyed. But will it go back up again? Who knows.
That was a choice that I made, like a choice that you make.
So if you bought Target stock and it went down because of these characters that
wanted, that's your problem. Frankly, I don't know they're gonna get anywhere
with a suit other than the fact the lawyers who get rich charging this group
whatever their fee is. So targets lawyers will have to defend themselves. And
you know the genius movements of so I just I don't. But what happens
the thing? If it's not your cup of tea, don't buy it.
If if a store has something that you just approve of, then don't go
to that store. That's it. Don't buy it, don't listen to it,
don't watch it. That's it. Bottom line, all right, New
York Mercantile Exchange, looking at the price of oil Future's law. As we're
in the stock market, I might as well go down this road for a
couple more minutes, the Intercontinent Exchange. For those of you who don't know
how this all works. The stock market, the oil market has declined this
week because of a problem in China. It's very interesting. The Chinese keeper.
They've been trying to push the US dollar out of the way and make
China's yen the number one. This is just their attempt to control the world.
And so they have a huge real estate developer that belongs to the government.
It's called Country Gardens. The translation from Chinese to English is Chinese Garden.
They have suspended payments on their bond obligations because they're about to go broke.
And one of the things, there's a real property crisis in China,
because this is something that newspapers are not reporting on. The news media is
too busy chasing Trump around to get to the real news. But there's an
ongoing property problem because people are out of work and they've put too much into
this one company that's the biggest real estate outfit in China, and they're falling
apart. So it's having really an impact on the Chinese economy. I thought
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the social media world. Using the devices is one of the things. Do
you ever use QR codes? You understand how they work? Yeah, I've
used before a lot of times. People rather than give you a website or
anything, they have the QR code posted and you bring your your camera up
and your camera identifies that it's a QR code, and it gives you an
option to push to go directly to the link, and then the website comes
up. So how do you but you're taking I'm sorry, do you take
a picture of it with you don't actually take the picture. You just pull
your camera up like you're going to take a picture, and your phone,
your device will identify that's a QR code. And then a like a link
kind of button thing comes up and you just hit that when with COVID and
a lot of people are doing away with their menus, and some of them
still have this on the table where it is a QR code on the table
and you just use that with your device and it brings up the restaurant's menu
for you. Yeah, you know me, although I think I'll try and
I'm gonna get my phone and you can will hearst this? I meanwhile,
speaking of rehearsals, social media is still a buzz with the Zuckerberg Musk fight
or refusal to fight or not gonna have a fight or whatever it is.
Musk says that he isn't the one who's like a couple of thirteen year olds
holding up the battle of the billionaires. He claimed that Zuckerberg is actually the
one who turned down the fight over the Colosseum rome. Right, but didn't
the Colosseum say like, hey, we never actually sent this offer. You
are not allowed to do anything violent in the closeam anywhere right now? You
can't do it? They cause, yeah, well, Mark Zuckerberg recently said
that Elon Musk isn't serious about this they had everything set up, and then
Elon Musk is like, well I have to have a surgery first, and
all of this stuff and now, yeah, Elon's claims are I've given different
options. Zuckerberg keeps saying no. I even said like, okay, someplace
safe like the backyard and finger pointing galore. So see, we have this
whole business. He I think it was Musk who said first that there was
a fight opportunity in Rome because the city of Rome had offered up the coliseum,
which is one of the seven Wonders of the World. Hello, I
don't think so. And so Elon says zuck just didn't want to do it.
He declined, and then he he said, okay, well let's go
to Zuckerberg's backyard and excuse me, no, we'll know who the liar is
in this when if if slash, when Mark Zuckerberg, who is wanting to
fight in the UFC, if he has a match against an actual MMA fighter,
then we know. Okay, he was he was not the one afraid
of fights. No, So anyway, there's too much this is I mean,
it's fun, but it isn't this too much fighting? I think that
the MMA is disgusting. Frankly, all the way they beat the hell in
boxing is disgusting. Somebody beating the hell out of another human being for sports.
Sorry, I got no sale in that thing. This is amusing in
the sense that you watch these two boobs go back and forth with each other,
and you know one's trying to help muscle the other who's got more money.
It's all that silly. Can we just put them in a house,
like, just make it a reality show. I suppose put them in a
house together, make it a reality show. There you go, and that's
it, all right. And while we're here talking about these sorts of things,
the Biden folks asking the Supreme Court to review two social media laws,
both in Texas and Florida. They say these laws infringe on your free speech.
These Solicitor General Is filed a brief arguing that the Supreme Court ought to
consider the technology group net Choices suit against both Texas and Florida. They have
run a foul of the First Amendment with the restrictions on how social platforms regulate
moderate content. I wonder about that. The two laws are different, but
they have the basic bottom line of being involved in content moderations what they call
it. So what do you think about that? That'd be something to check
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Let's talk about Hawaii and what's happened to the dogs and the animals over there,
because there've been some horror stories and then there's been some other good stories.
Under the circumstance, everybody wants to talk about or find out more about
what's happened on the Big Island. And I guess dogs. I saw a
couple of really stories about a guy who died trying to save a dog and
I'm not even sure the dog was his. What do you when do we
put these pieces together, stories like this? What happens? Well, here's
here's the deal. One of my strongest affiliate stations for over twenty years is
Kaoi and Maui. Then on that station for umpteen years, my friend John,
the owner a good friend, and so this past Saturday on the Pet
Show, I had the spokesperson on it for the Maui Humane Society talking about
their wants, their needs, what was going on there, what isn't going
on there. It's it's one of those situations where where the devastation for both
the people and the animals, it's just unbelievable. There's there's one story where
a pet sitter. She was We're visiting someone's home during the day they were
away when the fire struck. She had their two dogs. She couldn't go
anywhere. She had no option put to jump into the ocean with the two
dogs. And she jumped into the ocean with the two dogs. One of
the dogs got loosen and ran off back on the land and they couldn't find
it for days and days and days. The good news is, uh,
it was reunited with their guardian just they covered head to toe with burns.
The dogs there. I posted a picture on my Facebook page Facebook dot com
slash law and pet Talk of a picture of a cat that's going to survive,
but totally burned. So the devastations there. So here's the bottom line.
When people ask what can I do? What can I send food.
Can I send this? No, what you need to do is send money
to Maui. You made send. Here's why this is not going to be
a weekly problem. This is not going to be satisfied in a month.
This is a long, long, long range thing that has to be taken
care of with these animals. So the bottom line is, if you want
to make a donation, I recommend the Maui Humane Society because I know the
money's going directly to help the animals. But the devastation is just unbelievable.
There's nothing they could have done. For example, I've been an advocate for
years DOUG of people in neighborhoods. Finding a person in the neighborhood that's generally
home during the day, works nights, a senior that knows all the different
animals in the area that could evacuate where I live in case of an earthquake,
tsunami. God knows what can happen. In Santa Monica, they didn't
have that kind of time, and it was just I hear it was just
so rapid. The front was moving at a mile a minute. A mile
a minute, can you imagine, So the devastations in CREDI about my heart
breaks for those people that lost their animals. And it's not just the animals
though, Doug, it's the entire economy, the rabbits, the other animals
that live naturally, the bugs, the insects, all of that's been totally
destroyed and now it's gonna take centuries to come back. Yep, right,
what a sad reality. I saw the story here. I have fourteen or
fifteen different sources. I look at the La Times, in New York Times,
Boston Globe, Washington Post, lots of the regular news sites, and
the two Boston papers have stories about an animal rescue here in Beantown helped two
thirty pounds sheltered cats get healthy before they were adopted. I thought this was
pretty interesting. The cats, a three year old female and a seven year
old male, were at the Animal Rescue League of Boston. They were not
available for adoption until the folks in the in the rescue league, they worked
on these two cats to get them back to health. Imagine, I can't
even imagine a thirty pound cat when the average cat weighs ten or twelve pounds.
Pounds is one hundred percent two hundred percent the weight of the catched and
you know what, the same problems people have with overweight is the same problem
that pets have, you know, diabetes, arthritis, all those same type
of run. But that's that's great. But do you know the other thing
I take into consideration is so many people Doug will go to a shelter or
rescue and the most important thing they have in their mind when they want to
adopt a dog or cat is looks. I'm so tired of people. I
was looking for a dog that was beautiful. I was looking. You know
what, You do not fall in love with the outside of a dog or
a cat. Once you get that dog or cat home. Three legs,
two legs, whatever it looks like, doesn't make any difference. You don't
fall in love with the outside. Ultimately, you fall in love with the
inside. I want to rescue every bulldog I see. I've had people say
we aren't. How could you write? How could you rescue that dog with
three legs and he's deaf, he's long and has one ear. You know
why? Because once I loved that dog, I had no idea of any
challenges the dog had an absolutely same is true with humanity. Actually, so
anyway, one of the things that I with regard to these two cats.
One of the things that was a big problem was the matting of their hair
because they were so big, they had so much hair. I wonder do
you do you cut the hair on cats like you you know dogs. I'm
not a big fan of trimming any animal because God knows what he's doing.
He gave them half for a reason. It keeps them warm and keeps them
cool. But brought it every day to keep the knots away. Brushia,
brusha Brushia. All right, that's the story. You can always check out
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