Speaker 1: And now it's time for Basis week Day up Day
Speaker 1: featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets. Here are the
Speaker 1: important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 2: Yet all the data from the US Postal Service saying
Speaker 2: that dog attacks on melmen and women have reached a
Speaker 2: seven year high. They reported more than six thousand dog
Speaker 2: attacks in twenty twenty four alone.
Speaker 3: Wow, how many six thousand? That sucks? And that's just reported.
Speaker 3: That sucks.
Speaker 4: Like I think of shark attacks more than any other attack.
Speaker 4: By the way, when I was in the ocean, I
Speaker 4: was not even in shark infested waters, especially not dangerous
Speaker 4: shark waters.
Speaker 3: Meaning turks and caicos.
Speaker 4: But the whole time I'm snorkeling, the whole time, I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about a shark.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 4: The whole time, I'm not able to relax or do
Speaker 4: anything else but think about sharks the whole time.
Speaker 3: That sounds really fun.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about myself, and then I'm looking at my
Speaker 4: children swimming in the ocean and my wife. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're all about to die a shark attack, and so
Speaker 4: on my mind, I think there's a million shark attacks
Speaker 4: every year because of the movie Jaws.
Speaker 3: But based on those stats.
Speaker 4: You're like, you're way, way, way more likely to get
Speaker 4: attacked by a dog than a shark if you're a
Speaker 4: postal carrier, right, And most of those postal carriers don't
Speaker 4: swim like they're not swimming from one place next in
Speaker 4: the ocean. So what about Ben looked over and his
Speaker 4: wife was actually swimming with the shark. She was grabbing
Speaker 4: two different sharks by their shark.
Speaker 2: Fans, and they were just like, wee, there's a dog
Speaker 2: buy an awareness charity, so maybe we should start donating
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 3: Let's get them on, let's get their spokesperson.
Speaker 4: Katie, you were saying pit bulls are responsible for most
Speaker 4: of these dog attacks.
Speaker 2: I think some of them. I would actually like to
Speaker 2: know the type. It is mostly in the Midwest, we're seeing, Oh,
Speaker 2: what was that up to that tornado alley?
Speaker 5: I will say it's weird. So Simon is a very
Speaker 5: sweet dog, but it's the postal, the guy that drops
Speaker 5: off our mail every single day. He goes insane and
Speaker 5: it's just him and I don't know if it's in
Speaker 5: the dog's mind where it's like I don't want this
Speaker 5: person here every day. He still thinks he can get
Speaker 5: away with it, and that is that what's going through
Speaker 5: their mind?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Well, have you ever seen that thing where it's two
Speaker 4: dogs going at each other, like with a door, a
Speaker 4: glass door between them, and they're like ah, and they're
Speaker 4: showing their teeth and the minute you open the door,
Speaker 4: they just totally chill. Yeah, Like, some some dogs are
Speaker 4: not about that life. I've got one living at my
Speaker 4: house all right, and and but some dogs are and
Speaker 4: I don't you know, if they're protecting their house, maybe
Speaker 4: they worry that this person is a danger. But the
Speaker 4: dog that will actually attack and not just bark, that's
Speaker 4: this terrifying thing. And I truly feel bad for those
Speaker 4: postal workers to have to deal with that. And dude,
Speaker 4: just bringing up pit bulls like we've done that in
Speaker 4: the past on our show and you get overwhelmed with
Speaker 4: text message.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: There's there's great pit bulls out there, and you can
Speaker 4: set a baby, a toddler and a pit bull's lap
Speaker 4: and it may do nothing.
Speaker 3: I get it. Everybody should try that tonight, I get
Speaker 3: I get it, But I.
Speaker 4: Don't know if if you have one of these dogs
Speaker 4: that is super aggressive and potentially dangerous. I mean, should
Speaker 4: you be responsible for that dog's actions? Like, in other words,
Speaker 4: if a dog attacks somebody, why wouldn't the owner of
Speaker 4: that dog be held responsible for whatever the act is.
Speaker 3: I mean they are in terms of like if you
Speaker 3: assume them or what.
Speaker 2: We only hear about these stories when it's Dallas Cowboys players.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, so, but yeah they should.
Speaker 6: And I think also the other part of the conversation,
Speaker 6: and people get very worked up about this, I agree
Speaker 6: with the sentiment that cocker spaniels are, you know, a
Speaker 6: bigger angry nuisance than a pit bull. I agree with that.
Speaker 6: The problem is that no cocker spaniel has ever mulled
Speaker 6: anyone to death. You know, we're talking about the ferocity
Speaker 6: and the size of the animal. It's like there's people
Speaker 6: that have chimpanzees as pets and it's all finding good
Speaker 6: until the chimpanzee goes, you know.
Speaker 3: What, this sucks. I'm gonna tear this person.
Speaker 6: And they can do that because of their size and
Speaker 6: their strength and all these things. And so it's like,
Speaker 6: I'm not saying any dog is worse than any other dog.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that at all. And I agree with
Speaker 6: you some of these poodles or bigger jerks and bite
Speaker 6: you more. But it's about I mean, dude, if a
Speaker 6: lion gets a hold of you, you're done. That's all
Speaker 6: there is to it because of the size and the
Speaker 6: ferrocity of the am.
Speaker 4: Right, And they're still animals, and so they're really impossible
Speaker 4: to predict one hundred percent of the time, especially these
Speaker 4: ones that play poker all the time.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of pictures of that.
Speaker 2: Dallas was sixth in the cities with the dog attacks
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four to forty three on postal workers.
Speaker 2: I would also say, like you're talking about the baby
Speaker 2: and the pit bull thing. To me, that's just kind
Speaker 2: of the equivalent of Okay, I went to the zoo
Speaker 2: and we had a snake handler and.
Speaker 3: We let the uh. I mean, I've seen this a
Speaker 3: million times.
Speaker 2: At Polyphonic Spree Christmas shows, they have a big snake
Speaker 2: out in the hallway and the snake will Okay, the.
Speaker 3: Kid wants to take a picture with a snake, you
Speaker 3: know whatever. I'm like, Yeah, something bad could happen.
Speaker 2: And anytime you put yourself in a situation where something
Speaker 2: bad could happen, like driving, yeah, you know it could happen.
Speaker 2: And that's just like the whole point of this. I
Speaker 2: know that's not a real great philosopher speech for me.
Speaker 4: Would you please pull that and send it to Chris
Speaker 4: Arnold so he could play that on his show?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be amazing.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think the point you're making is that
Speaker 6: the guys from Jackass make bad decisions. I wasn't exactly sure,
Speaker 6: but it was excellent. Well, it just could happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't you play golf one time with one of
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Speaker 3: Dude, Jeff Stewart? Yep? Great drawing it in. Yep, the
Speaker 3: great Jeff Stewart, phenomenal athlete.
Speaker 4: All right, Coming up next, we'll get into the wildlife news,
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