Latest / The World of Phil Hendrie / Episode #3976 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive July 2005
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to another Radio Archive Hour today, the second
- 0:02Speaker 1: day of November 2026, from the Hall of Fame Phil
- 0:05Speaker 1: Hendry Show and philhendryshow.com. This is from July of 2005,
- 0:08Speaker 1: and apparently during this particular time, there were quite a
- 0:13Speaker 1: few shark attacks happening in the state of Florida. So
- 0:15Speaker 1: we brought on this character we named Bert Jerome, and
- 0:19Speaker 1: Bert basically said that if you're physically fit, you can
- 0:23Speaker 1: survive and even fend off a shark attack, so that
- 0:26Speaker 1: when you see fitness freaks and you see weightlifters and
- 0:28Speaker 1: you see people like that out in the world, Don't
- 0:30Speaker 1: make fun of them because they could be saving your
- 0:33Speaker 1: ass someday from a shark. That's the premise. So here
- 0:36Speaker 1: is Bert Jerome, folks, and the sharks. We have Bert
- 0:41Speaker 1: Jerome on the phone with us from the South Florida
- 0:43Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce in Miami to talk about this. Bert,
- 0:46Speaker 1: how are you this evening?
- 0:47Speaker 2: Phil, I'm well. How are you?
- 0:48Speaker 1: Very good. First of all, how's business?
- 0:52Speaker 2: Phil, business is doing very, very well. We're concerned, certainly,
- 0:56Speaker 2: about our tourists, and we want people to come to
- 0:59Speaker 2: Florida and come to particularly the South Beach area, the
- 1:03Speaker 2: South Florida area, the Gold Coast area, and enjoy themselves.
- 1:08Speaker 2: We're concerned, but business is good, and I think people
- 1:11Speaker 2: see shark attack in its proper context. These are wild animals,
- 1:16Speaker 2: and we are interacting with them. On the other hand,
- 1:19Speaker 2: I think it's important, even if I am a member
- 1:22Speaker 2: of a chamber of commerce, I think it's important to
- 1:24Speaker 2: make sure that people recognize what it is they're dealing with.
- 1:27Speaker 2: A shark attack is not funny. It is not anything
- 1:30Speaker 2: that you joke about. It can be terribly traumatic and
- 1:34Speaker 2: certainly fatal.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Was I told earlier, and I'm right, you were attacked
- 1:40Speaker 1: by a shark?
- 1:41Speaker 2: I was, Phil. I was attacked by what is called
- 1:43Speaker 2: a bull shark.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Where was this?
- 1:46Speaker 2: This was in Biscayne Bay. in 1997, and I was
- 1:50Speaker 2: probably in no more than about five feet of water
- 1:51Speaker 2: when it happened.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Tell me about this.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Well, as anyone can tell you who has been hit
- 1:58Speaker 2: by a shark initially, you know it. I knew I'd
- 2:00Speaker 2: been bitten by something. I saw the dorsal above the waterline,
- 2:04Speaker 2: and I was probably about 25 yards offshore. I did
- 2:07Speaker 2: what is really instinctual, I guess. I began kicking and
- 2:10Speaker 2: punching and sort of trying to drive this animal away.
- 2:14Speaker 2: We have in the Florida area anywhere from 15 to
- 2:16Speaker 2: 30 shark attacks a year. They can be very aggressive attacks.
- 2:20Speaker 2: They can injure a swimmer to the point where there
- 2:22Speaker 2: is enormous loss of blood. They are predatory, and contrary
- 2:26Speaker 2: to what's been said recently about how sharks are not
- 2:30Speaker 2: really attracted to human beings, many sharks, especially the bull shark,
- 2:33Speaker 2: will literally eat anything. It's not a pleasant experience being
- 2:37Speaker 2: attacked by one.
- 2:39Speaker 1: What are you recommending to people, that they go swimming,
- 2:42Speaker 1: that they don't go swimming?
- 2:44Speaker 2: There are people, Phil, I think there's two schools of
- 2:46Speaker 2: thought on this, but this is, I'm going to try
- 2:50Speaker 2: to give you the state-of-the-art information about shark attack and
- 2:53Speaker 2: about what you should do as an individual to decide
- 2:56Speaker 2: for yourself if you want to go swimming. I've read
- 2:59Speaker 2: a lot of quotes in the newspapers about tourists saying,
- 3:02Speaker 2: I don't want to go in the water, and And
- 3:04Speaker 2: I suppose I can't blame them, but there are people
- 3:07Speaker 2: who can survive a shark attack, especially an attack by,
- 3:10Speaker 2: I'm talking about a feeding predatory shark. And the people
- 3:15Speaker 2: most likely able to survive that attack are people who
- 3:18Speaker 2: are in pretty good physical condition, but most people are
- 3:20Speaker 2: not going to be able to withstand, I don't think,
- 3:22Speaker 2: the enormous muscular energy that you're up against with a shark.
- 3:26Speaker 1: So are you saying that someone who is in better
- 3:29Speaker 1: physical condition, healthier?
- 3:31Speaker 2: I would say that if you work out, if you
- 3:33Speaker 2: do a lot of physical conditioning, if you are active
- 3:36Speaker 2: physically and have a low body fat ratio, there's a
- 3:39Speaker 2: better than that even chance that you'll be able to
- 3:41Speaker 2: overpower the animal, at least to the point of driving
- 3:44Speaker 2: it away. If, on the other hand, you're like most people,
- 3:47Speaker 2: you're not going to be much of a match for
- 3:49Speaker 2: a shark, I happen to do a great deal of
- 3:52Speaker 2: weightlifting myself. I do calisthenics, and it was my good
- 3:56Speaker 2: fortune to be in the good physical shape where I
- 3:58Speaker 2: was able to physically drive this bull shark away.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Well, then the people that have been seriously injured by
- 4:04Speaker 1: shark attack, either they didn't know how to fight the
- 4:07Speaker 1: animal off or they were not in the best physical shape?
- 4:09Speaker 2: It's probably a situation of both, Phil. If you do
- 4:12Speaker 2: a fair amount of lifting, calisthenics, if you do any
- 4:14Speaker 2: kind of yoga, or if you do any kind of...
- 4:19Speaker 2: I don't know, gymnastics, especially format gymnastics, you've got a
- 4:25Speaker 2: better than even chance, I think, in the water with
- 4:27Speaker 2: a shark. That's why I have to say there's an
- 4:29Speaker 2: old story. I just got to impart it to you, Phil.
- 4:32Speaker 2: There's an old story about the bully kicking sand into
- 4:35Speaker 2: the kid's face on the beach. And the story goes
- 4:38Speaker 2: he's a larger, more muscular man, and he's, you know,
- 4:41Speaker 2: picking on the skinny guy. Well, that muscular guy who
- 4:44Speaker 2: just kicked sand in your face is.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Is probably the one on the beach that has the
- 4:49Speaker 2: best chance of driving a shark attack away through sheer
- 4:55Speaker 2: physical force. And I would say that that weakling, and
- 5:00Speaker 2: I would submit to you that that weakling, that the
- 5:03Speaker 2: time has come that we maybe stop talking in degrading
- 5:05Speaker 2: terms about people who lift, do calisthenics, do floor calisthenics,
- 5:09Speaker 2: do floor gymnastics, that we stop talking about them as
- 5:12Speaker 2: being not particularly bright because they could save your life.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Well, that's if they get in the water with a...
- 5:18Speaker 1: I mean, have you ever heard of a person who
- 5:20Speaker 1: was in top physical condition going into the water and
- 5:22Speaker 1: saving someone from a shark attack?
- 5:25Speaker 2: Well, I think the reason why you don't hear it
- 5:27Speaker 2: more often, Phil, and it has happened, is that the
- 5:30Speaker 2: average person who is in prime physical condition has to
- 5:33Speaker 2: put up with a lot from the culture, this negative
- 5:35Speaker 2: stereotype about people who are in top physical condition also
- 5:38Speaker 2: lacking in gray matter. So what I think happens more
- 5:41Speaker 2: often than not, and I think the statistics will bear
- 5:44Speaker 2: this out, is that a person in top physical condition
- 5:46Speaker 2: who may witness another person being attacked by a shark,
- 5:50Speaker 2: may hesitate to get into the water to assist in
- 5:52Speaker 2: that situation because he or she is saying, well, now
- 5:54Speaker 2: wait a minute, I will be risking my life for
- 5:57Speaker 2: a segment of the population that ordinarily disparages me. So
- 6:01Speaker 2: I think there's a hesitation there to get into the
- 6:02Speaker 2: water and save that person.
- 6:05Speaker 1: All right, our number is 1-800-449-8686, 1-800-449-8686. Talking here with
- 6:10Speaker 1: Bert Jerome from the South Florida Chamber of Commerce on
- 6:13Speaker 1: yet another summer and another series of shark attacks, this
- 6:16Speaker 1: time a little bit earlier in the summer than I
- 6:17Speaker 1: recall a few years ago. I say a few years ago,
- 6:20Speaker 1: it might be four years now, when there was a
- 6:22Speaker 1: series of really serious attacks in August and in early September.
- 6:27Speaker 1: And Bert is talking with us about a shark attack
- 6:30Speaker 1: and what you can do to prevent it. Now, you
- 6:33Speaker 1: have emphasized here that people in good physical condition can
- 6:36Speaker 1: not only survive a shark attack, but can drive off
- 6:40Speaker 1: an attack.
- 6:41Speaker 2: That is most likely, Phil, what's going to be the outcome.
- 6:46Speaker 2: But most people are not in the kind of physical
- 6:48Speaker 2: shape you'd need to be in to literally drive away
- 6:52Speaker 2: a predatory attack, let's say, by a bull shark. I've
- 6:56Speaker 2: got some statistics. For instance, the shark that attacked me
- 6:59Speaker 2: in 1997 in Biscayne Bay, Phil, was about a 14-foot-long shark.
- 7:05Speaker 2: And that is generally, it weighs anywhere from, well, that
- 7:10Speaker 2: was probably about a 200, 250-pound shark. And the eating
- 7:15Speaker 2: habits of a bull shark are generally going to be
- 7:17Speaker 2: crustaceans and this kind of thing. But fortunately for me,
- 7:20Speaker 2: I'm in good physical shape, and that's not mostly the
- 7:24Speaker 2: case of people on the beach. I'm able, in that instance,
- 7:28Speaker 2: I was able to grab the animal and to sort
- 7:32Speaker 2: of just keep it submerged, not let it get away
- 7:35Speaker 2: and sort of drown it for a while.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Well, you've got to be in some really serious physical
- 7:39Speaker 1: shape to do that, right?
- 7:41Speaker 2: You do, and you also have to have a fair
- 7:44Speaker 2: amount of confidence. But I would recommend that unless you're
- 7:48Speaker 2: in optimum physical condition, and that is you do a
- 7:51Speaker 2: good amount of weightlifting, you do a lot of jogging,
- 7:55Speaker 2: if you're an individual who does chin-ups or you do
- 7:57Speaker 2: deep knee bends, you've got a better than average chance
- 8:04Speaker 2: of surviving a shark attack. I would say that if
- 8:06Speaker 2: you're not that kind of a person and you are
- 8:09Speaker 2: attacked by a shark, I would not necessarily look to
- 8:13Speaker 2: the individual on the beach who is in good physical
- 8:16Speaker 2: condition to come and save you because, again, it's most
- 8:20Speaker 2: likely that that individual is smarting a little bit from
- 8:22Speaker 2: being disparaged as a fitness fanatic, and they're not likely
- 8:27Speaker 2: going to want to go into the ocean and save somebody.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Well, I mean, have you ever seen somebody get attacked
- 8:32Speaker 1: by a shark?
- 8:33Speaker 2: Yes, I have, and it's a horrible thing to witness. Fortunately,
- 8:36Speaker 2: the person was not seriously hurt.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Was your instinct to go and help them?
- 8:41Speaker 2: My instinct was to go to the water and help
- 8:42Speaker 2: them fill. And, again, as I say, I do a
- 8:45Speaker 2: fair amount of lifting. I do a lot of.
- 8:49Speaker 2: I do a lot of yoga. I do a lot
- 8:50Speaker 2: of Pilates and spinning. And I wanted to go in
- 8:53Speaker 2: the water. But I had just had an altercation with
- 8:58Speaker 2: a gentleman who considered me to be not all that
- 9:02Speaker 2: intelligent because I'm a physical fitness freak, if you will.
- 9:06Speaker 2: And so I was still smarting from that. And when
- 9:08Speaker 2: I saw this man get attacked, he reminded me of
- 9:11Speaker 2: the guy that I'd just been talking to. So I
- 9:13Speaker 2: just stayed on the blanket on the beach and I
- 9:16Speaker 2: remember I just crossed my legs and kept watching. But
- 9:18Speaker 2: the lifeguards went out there, and he wasn't seriously hurt.
- 9:22Speaker 1: And you didn't want to help this guy because he
- 9:24Speaker 1: was part of that segment of society that makes fun
- 9:26Speaker 1: of fitness freaks?
- 9:28Speaker 2: I don't have any idea, but it was my initial reaction.
- 9:30Speaker 2: I looked at him. He didn't look like he was
- 9:32Speaker 2: in good physical shape. And I realized I was going
- 9:34Speaker 2: to be risking my life for a guy who probably
- 9:37Speaker 2: in another half hour or two hours would disparage me
- 9:39Speaker 2: because I do a lot of spinning. I do a
- 9:41Speaker 2: lot of swimming. I enjoy stretching exercises and so forth.
- 9:46Speaker 1: All right, 1-800-449-8686. That's a whole lot to digest. That
- 9:50Speaker 1: is Bert Jordan from the South Florida Chamber of Commerce
- 9:53Speaker 1: on shark attack. And the people most likely able to
- 9:57Speaker 1: survive a shark attack, people who are in good physical shape,
- 10:00Speaker 1: he mentioned lifting, calisthenics, and floor mat gymnastics. He said
- 10:05Speaker 1: that people who will not survive a shark attack are
- 10:07Speaker 1: obviously not in good physical shape. The ones who can
- 10:11Speaker 1: drive away a shark attack most often are not going
- 10:14Speaker 1: to go into the water to help someone because... they've
- 10:18Speaker 1: been made fun of for being fitness freaks, why would
- 10:22Speaker 1: they want to risk their lives for that segment of
- 10:24Speaker 1: the population that does that? It's kind of an interesting
- 10:27Speaker 1: point of view. 1-800-449-8686. 1-800-449-8686. As we talk about shark
- 10:32Speaker 1: attack tonight here on the Phil Hendry Show with Bert
- 10:35Speaker 1: Jerome of the South Florida Chamber of Commerce. Bert Jerome
- 10:39Speaker 1: with us from the South Florida Chamber of Commerce on
- 10:41Speaker 1: shark attack and what you can do to survive shark attack.
- 10:45Speaker 1: You're talking about the physical fitness and physical conditioning of
- 10:47Speaker 1: a person? being pretty important, right?
- 10:51Speaker 2: Well, I think it is, Phil, because I survived a
- 10:54Speaker 2: shark attack. There's not too many people, I think, that
- 10:56Speaker 2: can say that, and I do know that I am
- 10:58Speaker 2: involved in I am a member of a cycling club.
- 11:02Speaker 2: I do a pretty good amount of training on Nautilus equipment,
- 11:06Speaker 2: as well as universal equipment. I do lifting of free weights.
- 11:10Speaker 2: I certainly am a very active businessman, but the day
- 11:13Speaker 2: that I was attacked, I knew what to do. I
- 11:16Speaker 2: knew I had the physical strength to do it. Someone
- 11:20Speaker 2: who is less adept at less confident physically, I guess, Phil,
- 11:25Speaker 2: such as a tourist in the Florida area. We love
- 11:28Speaker 2: our tourists, but they're not very physically confident people. And
- 11:31Speaker 2: you can tell that by looking at them. You know,
- 11:34Speaker 2: the first thing you want to do when you hear
- 11:36Speaker 2: a scream coming from the water is you think to yourself, well,
- 11:39Speaker 2: there's another tourist, obviously, and certainly you want to help them.
- 11:44Speaker 2: My question is, my comment is, do I help them
- 11:47Speaker 2: at the expense of being made fun of because I'm
- 11:50Speaker 2: physically fit?
- 11:52Speaker 1: Okay, 1-800-449-8686. Here is Richard. Go ahead, Richard.
- 11:57Speaker 5: Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment on this.
- 12:00Speaker 5: The bottom line is it sounds a little vain. I mean,
- 12:03Speaker 5: I understand that you're interested in being in shape, you know,
- 12:06Speaker 5: physical fit.
- 12:07Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time hearing it. I can't hear
- 12:09Speaker 2: the gentleman because of it.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Your phone broke up, Richard. Say it again.
- 12:11Speaker 5: Okay, I said basically it sounds a little vain to me,
- 12:15Speaker 5: the fact that, You're talking about being physically in shape.
- 12:19Speaker 5: I think that's great. I've got a word to give
- 12:22Speaker 5: him before I'm going to give him a word about
- 12:23Speaker 5: what happened.
- 12:23Speaker 1: I've got to put you on hold, man, because your
- 12:25Speaker 1: phone is breaking up. I don't know whether you've got
- 12:27Speaker 1: a limiter on that thing or something you can turn off,
- 12:29Speaker 1: but just hold on for a second, okay?
- 12:31Speaker 5: Sure.
- 12:31Speaker 1: All right, thanks. Let's go over to Kenny. Kenny, you're
- 12:33Speaker 1: on the Phil Henry Show.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing?
- 12:35Speaker 2: Fine.
- 12:36Speaker 4: Hey, I'd like to retort the guy's comment about a
- 12:39Speaker 4: 14-foot bull shark attacking him.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Well, I know what happened to me.
- 12:45Speaker 4: You estimated that the shark was 14 feet long?
- 12:48Speaker 2: No, I said 7 feet long. It was 200 pounds,
- 12:51Speaker 2: 7 feet long. Okay.
- 12:53Speaker 4: The shark was 7 feet long and a bull shark?
- 12:55Speaker 2: Right.
- 12:56Speaker 4: It would have eaten you, your bicycle, your helmet, the equipment?
- 12:59Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.
- 13:01Speaker 2: I was in enough physical shape. to be able to
- 13:03Speaker 2: drive the attack off.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Don't confuse your physical shape with the will to live.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Sir, I have a question. Are you a shark expert?
- 13:13Speaker 2: Because if you're not, you're just talking out of your
- 13:15Speaker 2: rear end.
- 13:15Speaker 4: I fish in Florida.
- 13:17Speaker 2: I shark fish in New.
- 13:18Speaker 4: England every year.
- 13:19Speaker 2: I know sharks. I understand, sir.
- 13:21Speaker 4: I know sharks.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Because you know your way around a big shot.
- 13:23Speaker 4: You think you're just going to be a politician and
- 13:25Speaker 4: over-talk me?
- 13:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I am going to over-talk you. You're not going
- 13:27Speaker 2: to do it.
- 13:27Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen, this is my show.
- 13:29Speaker 4: You can't over-talk me.
- 13:30Speaker 1: This is my show, and I will over-talk everybody. Now,
- 13:34Speaker 1: one at a time, Kenny called, so I'll give him
- 13:37Speaker 1: the first word. Kenny, be quiet, and I'll let you
- 13:39Speaker 1: start talking off a hold. Are you there? Are you there, Kenny?
- 13:42Speaker 2: All right. Go.
- 13:44Speaker 6: All right.
- 13:44Speaker 2: So you're going to let this guy?
- 13:45Speaker 1: Shut up and let this man talk. I didn't mean
- 13:47Speaker 1: to tell you to shut up, but come on. Go ahead, Kenny.
- 13:51Speaker 4: I don't want to confuse the will to live with
- 13:53Speaker 4: physical stature. It's a terrible thing what happened to this
- 13:57Speaker 4: young girl in Florida. It's a terrible thing that these
- 14:00Speaker 4: sharks got her, and she couldn't.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Fight them off.
- 14:03Speaker 4: I give props to the guy who went out there
- 14:05Speaker 4: on a surfboard. That man, I wish I had what
- 14:08Speaker 4: that guy had or has because he's a better man
- 14:11Speaker 4: than everybody talking on the show.
- 14:13Speaker 2: So you can't talk about it. So I fought one
- 14:14Speaker 2: off and that doesn't mean anything to you.
- 14:16Speaker 4: No one's talking to you for a second.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Well, look, you said you were going to give some comments.
- 14:20Speaker 2: You didn't say you were going to give a sermon.
- 14:22Speaker 4: The will to live has nothing to do with your
- 14:24Speaker 4: physical stature. And, yes, anybody can fight off a shark.
- 14:28Speaker 4: If you happen to poke it in the eye or
- 14:30Speaker 4: grab it in the gills, any shark will retreat. So
- 14:35Speaker 4: the fact to say that if you're a weightlifter or
- 14:38Speaker 4: in physical shape that you want to enter the water
- 14:41Speaker 4: to help somebody because they're a tourist, you disgust me.
- 14:45Speaker 4: You're insane is what I.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Think you are. All right, hold on.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Because you ride a bicycle.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Kenny, hold on for a minute. All right, what is
- 14:53Speaker 1: your response?
- 14:53Speaker 2: Well, the man is calling me every kind of name.
- 14:56Speaker 2: I haven't attacked him. I have simply said that I'm
- 14:59Speaker 2: in great physical shape, and I was able to repel
- 15:01Speaker 2: an attack by a bull shark. Now, because he spends
- 15:04Speaker 2: a lot of time around bait shops, great for him.
- 15:06Speaker 2: I don't know how that makes him an expert on sharks.
- 15:09Speaker 2: I was in the water with one, and I'll tell
- 15:11Speaker 2: you right now, it's a frightening experience. Yes, I have
- 15:15Speaker 2: seen tourists attacked. And yes, I do think twice. For instance,
- 15:20Speaker 2: you just heard the way this man talked to me.
- 15:21Speaker 2: If he gets attacked by a shark, you think I'm
- 15:23Speaker 2: going to go in the water and save him? The
- 15:26Speaker 2: answer to that question is no.
- 15:28Speaker 4: Can I retort that?
- 15:29Speaker 1: Go ahead, sir.
- 15:31Speaker 4: It's one in probably a million chance that you get
- 15:35Speaker 4: bit by a shark. This man has been bitten. He
- 15:38Speaker 4: has witnessed people being bitten. Where is all this happening?
- 15:44Speaker 2: You know of a place called Florida?
- 15:46Speaker 4: What are you, in Shark Central there?
- 15:48Speaker 2: Sir, every year we get somewhere between the neighborhood of
- 15:51Speaker 2: 30 to 45 shark attacks.
- 15:53Speaker 4: And you happen to be on site for most of them?
- 15:55Speaker 2: I didn't say most of them, did I? I said
- 15:58Speaker 2: I saw one attack, and I was attacked once. I
- 16:00Speaker 2: didn't say all in the same week.
- 16:03Speaker 4: And you were attacked first, then you saw another.
- 16:05Speaker 2: You've got a lot of questions for a guy that
- 16:07Speaker 2: knows how to bait a hook.
- 16:09Speaker 4: Listen, why don't you just admit that after you were attacked,
- 16:12Speaker 4: you were too afraid to enter the water to help?
- 16:14Speaker 2: You know what? You saw Jaws. You saw those guys
- 16:17Speaker 2: with that rifle and those cans of gasoline and sticks
- 16:20Speaker 2: of dynamite. That's the kind of fisherman you are.
- 16:22Speaker 4: Those are the movies, my friend.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Sir, I would say to you, try fishing the right way,
- 16:27Speaker 2: not throwing dynamite in the water.
- 16:29Speaker 4: You're living in a movie.
- 16:30Speaker 2: I'm living in a movie.
- 16:31Speaker 4: And nobody's going to write a movie about you.
- 16:33Speaker 1: All right, Kenny, thank you very much.
- 16:35Speaker 2: This guy's got an ego, Phil. A real ego. You're
- 16:38Speaker 2: a real ego case, Kenny.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what the man was saying was this.
- 16:44Speaker 2: Let me tell you what he was saying, Phil. He
- 16:47Speaker 2: was saying, because I fish, I know about sharks. You've
- 16:51Speaker 2: got to be in the water with a shark. Nothing
- 16:53Speaker 2: compares to the actual experience of having been attacked by
- 16:57Speaker 2: a shark. And I've had that experience. Now, I can
- 17:00Speaker 2: talk to all the guys in the world. All the
- 17:03Speaker 2: guys that are hanging around with their chum bucket. All
- 17:05Speaker 2: the guys that are hanging around baiting the hook with
- 17:08Speaker 2: some sardines, sitting back with a big smelly stogie and
- 17:13Speaker 2: hoping that they catch some bluegill or something on a pier.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Sitting on a pier. almost as if you're in your
- 17:22Speaker 2: bare feet and you've got a line on the end
- 17:24Speaker 2: of a bamboo pole. Good for you. That doesn't mean
- 17:26Speaker 2: you know anything.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Well, that guy didn't say he was sitting on a pier.
- 17:29Speaker 2: But most of these guys that do this deep-sea fishing
- 17:31Speaker 2: are what I call pier-sitters. And they know the water
- 17:34Speaker 2: only from about 50 feet up in the air. So
- 17:38Speaker 2: you have to understand that what my experience was was frightening.
- 17:42Speaker 2: And yes, because I'm in good physical shape... and I
- 17:45Speaker 2: have been made fun of by the culture at large,
- 17:48Speaker 2: sometimes I don't want to help someone who needs help.
- 17:51Speaker 1: And so you see someone getting attacked by a shark,
- 17:54Speaker 1: and you think, well, he called me a meathead. I
- 17:56Speaker 1: don't want to help him.
- 17:57Speaker 2: The statistics will bear it out, yeah.
- 18:00Speaker 1: All right, we're going to take a break here. 1-800-449-8686
- 18:02Speaker 1: with Mr. Bert Jerome. And, you know, this comment about
- 18:08Speaker 1: how most fishermen are pier-sitters, guys that are, you know,
- 18:12Speaker 1: with a bucket of chum and a smelly stogie, I
- 18:15Speaker 1: don't want to get into a thing, you know, people
- 18:17Speaker 1: that swim versus people that fish. All I'm trying to
- 18:19Speaker 1: say is we've had a series of shark attacks. We've
- 18:23Speaker 1: got a gentleman on from South Florida's Chamber of Commerce
- 18:25Speaker 1: who will talk about shark attack. He claims to have
- 18:27Speaker 1: been attacked by a shark. Bert Jerome back from the
- 18:30Speaker 1: South Florida Chamber of Commerce in a couple of phone calls.
- 18:32Speaker 1: But I want to be clear. Are you saying that
- 18:34Speaker 1: you're not going to help somebody in the water who
- 18:38Speaker 1: is being attacked by a shark because they've made fun
- 18:41Speaker 1: of you and other people that are physically fit?
- 18:44Speaker 2: No, no. What I'm saying is the statistics will bear
- 18:47Speaker 2: me out that tourists who get attacked by sharks are
- 18:53Speaker 2: these people who generally refer to those of us who
- 18:55Speaker 2: love to work out, do a lot of lifting, do
- 18:58Speaker 2: a lot of body sculpting and body shaping. They tend
- 19:01Speaker 2: to view us with a disdain. And it's, I think,
- 19:06Speaker 2: an arrogance that borders on dangerous because when you come
- 19:09Speaker 2: into the waters of South Florida, when you're down here
- 19:11Speaker 2: and you get... A fair number of sharks are swimming
- 19:14Speaker 2: in the waters here. This time of year, and we
- 19:18Speaker 2: want a lot of people to come down here to
- 19:20Speaker 2: South Florida, don't get me wrong, but this time of year,
- 19:22Speaker 2: you're taking your life in your hands. as witnessed by
- 19:25Speaker 2: a number of recent incidents.
- 19:27Speaker 1: And if you're working for the Chamber of Commerce, it's
- 19:29Speaker 1: not very good business, is it?
- 19:30Speaker 2: It's good business to tell the truth, Phil. And it's
- 19:33Speaker 2: good business because if it's better business that our tourists
- 19:36Speaker 2: come here, stay alive, and go home to return again,
- 19:39Speaker 2: it's bad business if I say, come on down, enjoy
- 19:42Speaker 2: the water, knowing full well there's a 7-foot, 200-pound bull
- 19:46Speaker 2: shark waiting to dismember themselves. possibly mutilate them, and then
- 19:53Speaker 2: swim off into another feeding area. I think that's ridiculous.
- 19:59Speaker 2: You do tend to think that if someone is that dumb,
- 20:01Speaker 2: you don't want to save them. And I'm physically fit.
- 20:05Speaker 2: I have been in two Mr. World competitions, and it's tough.
- 20:09Speaker 1: All right, let me go to a phone call, 1-800-449-8686. Eric,
- 20:12Speaker 1: go ahead.
- 20:14Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just sitting here listening to this gentleman talk,
- 20:16Speaker 7: and he says that he's with the Chamber of Commerce,
- 20:20Speaker 7: but he talks out the other side of his mouth
- 20:23Speaker 7: about how bad tourists are.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Well, I'm not how bad tourists are, but just that
- 20:28Speaker 2: some of them tend to look at those of us
- 20:31Speaker 2: who spend our time living on the beach. The beach
- 20:34Speaker 2: is my life. I do all of my lifting on
- 20:36Speaker 2: the beach. My business is on the beach.
- 20:40Speaker 7: Well, you know, I can appreciate that.
- 20:42Speaker 2: You know, see, you just laughed because I'm a weightlifter.
- 20:45Speaker 7: Well, I'm laughing because you're just really not making a
- 20:49Speaker 7: whole lot of sense.
- 20:50Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know.
- 20:51Speaker 2: Do you see your reaction to somebody who is physically
- 20:54Speaker 2: fit and in shape?
- 20:55Speaker 7: Well, I really don't think that sharks.
- 20:57Speaker 2: You're looking down your nose at me. Why would I
- 20:59Speaker 2: want to get into the water and save you from
- 21:00Speaker 2: a shark attack?
- 21:01Speaker 7: Well, you know, I'm not a physically fit guy, and
- 21:05Speaker 7: I don't think that sharks really look at your physical
- 21:07Speaker 7: fitness either.
- 21:08Speaker 2: No, they don't, but they're going to feed on a
- 21:10Speaker 2: weaker entity. And I have a better chance of surviving
- 21:15Speaker 2: a shark attack than you. Well, you can laugh if
- 21:18Speaker 2: you want, but if your wife is sitting on the
- 21:19Speaker 2: beach and she's looking at you flailing around out there,
- 21:22Speaker 2: and I go out and help you... I think you're
- 21:25Speaker 2: going to see your wife looking at me with a
- 21:28Speaker 2: whole new appreciation. Well, I... Is she there?
- 21:31Speaker 7: Kind of from what you've been saying, I mean, I
- 21:32Speaker 7: need to do some knee bends, some cartwheels, some floor gymnastics.
- 21:38Speaker 7: I mean, come on, give me a break. I mean.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Sir, if you're not in shape, you can't do floor gymnastics.
- 21:43Speaker 7: Well, you know... I don't think that muscle has a
- 21:46Speaker 7: whole lot to do with being in the water.
- 21:48Speaker 2: I mean, it does when you're attacked by a shark.
- 21:53Speaker 1: You're making a comment here about this guy's wife.
- 21:55Speaker 2: I'm just saying, who do you think she's going to
- 21:57Speaker 2: look to me to save this guy? And then after
- 21:59Speaker 2: I drag him out of the water by his underwear,
- 22:02Speaker 2: she's going to look at me and go, look at
- 22:03Speaker 2: the guy that saved my husband.
- 22:05Speaker 7: Well, I think as a member of the Chamber of
- 22:10Speaker 7: Commerce in Florida, you should be Encouraging the tourists to
- 22:14Speaker 7: come there.
- 22:14Speaker 2: I am encouraging the tourists.
- 22:16Speaker 7: But you're putting them down.
- 22:17Speaker 2: But I'm trying to just get you to understand that
- 22:19Speaker 2: if you get caught out there and you're attacked by
- 22:21Speaker 2: a shark, don't come crying to me.
- 22:24Speaker 1: Thank you. I've got to move on. 1-800-449-8686. David, go ahead.
- 22:29Speaker 6: Yeah, how are you doing?
- 22:30Speaker 2: Fine.
- 22:32Speaker 6: I'm from Florida, and so I'm in pretty good shape.
- 22:36Speaker 2: But how could you stand in line while somebody's being
- 22:38Speaker 2: attacked by sharks and not give a.
- 22:40Speaker 6: Helping hand, regardless whether they think you're a bonehead or
- 22:44Speaker 6: you're a meathead or something like that? I mean, you're
- 22:46Speaker 6: a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Hold on for a minute.
- 22:49Speaker 6: Hold on, David.
- 22:50Speaker 1: What did you say?
- 22:52Speaker 2: Where are you from, David? This is Bert Jerome. Excuse me?
- 22:55Speaker 2: Where are you from?
- 22:57Speaker 6: I'm from Miami, Florida.
- 22:59Speaker 2: Miami. All right. I know the Miami area very well.
- 23:02Speaker 2: I live in the South Beach area myself. Do you
- 23:05Speaker 2: go to South Beach?
- 23:06Speaker 6: Of course I go to South Beach.
- 23:08Speaker 2: You do?
- 23:09Speaker 6: I was in Miami before there was a South Beach.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Well, then you're aware of that African-American, the traditionally African-American
- 23:16Speaker 2: beach up there near Golden Beach. You know where that is?
- 23:18Speaker 6: Yeah, but, you know, that was the old days. What
- 23:20Speaker 6: we're talking about right now is a guy that won't
- 23:22Speaker 6: help somebody who's being.
- 23:23Speaker 1: You mean the African-American beach?
- 23:25Speaker 2: Well, there's a beach that's traditionally only black people go
- 23:27Speaker 2: there because it used to be segregated. Now, anybody can
- 23:30Speaker 2: go there, but still only black people go there. You
- 23:33Speaker 2: see what I'm saying?
- 23:34Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. I know where it is. It's up near
- 23:36Speaker 1: Golden Beach.
- 23:37Speaker 2: That's what I just said.
- 23:37Speaker 6: What does that have to do with you being able
- 23:41Speaker 6: to help someone and you're not helping anyone?
- 23:42Speaker 2: Well, I'm in great physical shape, and I'd be happy
- 23:45Speaker 2: to help somebody if they weren't standing around there calling
- 23:48Speaker 2: me a bonehead and a meathead because I'm ripped.
- 23:54Speaker 6: Let me explain this to you. When the shark is
- 23:56Speaker 6: in the water, he's in his domain. And I don't
- 23:58Speaker 6: care what state you're in, the shark will eat you up.
- 24:03Speaker 1: Is that right?
- 24:03Speaker 2: Or not. Are you sure, David? Because how is it
- 24:06Speaker 2: I survived an attack by a bull shark? Lucky. Lucky.
- 24:10Speaker 6: Not because you physically kicked it.
- 24:12Speaker 2: No, I grabbed that thing and I kicked it and
- 24:15Speaker 2: I beat it. it knew that it had run into
- 24:18Speaker 2: Bert Jerome. All right? Now, that's my experience. Now, have
- 24:24Speaker 2: you been swimming lately?
- 24:25Speaker 5: Excuse me?
- 24:27Speaker 2: Do you go swimming?
- 24:28Speaker 6: Quite a bit. All right. Most people from Miami swim.
- 24:31Speaker 2: All right. Have you ever... Look, I had my way
- 24:35Speaker 2: with that shark. Now, why is that hard for you
- 24:37Speaker 2: to understand?
- 24:38Speaker 1: What do you mean you had your way with it?
- 24:40Speaker 1: A 7-foot, 200-pound animal? A 200-pound man? Think about a 7-foot-long, 7-foot-tall,
- 24:47Speaker 1: 200-pound man.
- 24:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:50Speaker 1: Well, that's a big dude.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a skinny dude. 7 feet tall, and he's
- 24:56Speaker 2: only 200 pounds. A 7-foot-tall man is 200 pounds skinny.
- 25:00Speaker 1: Oh, come on, man. That's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, at least. That's like,
- 25:03Speaker 1: I don't know who.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Well, David... I'm saying you and I together as weightlifters,
- 25:09Speaker 2: as guys that are ripped. Were you ever in Mr.
- 25:11Speaker 5: World?
- 25:13Speaker 2: Listen. Okay. I was in Mr.
- 25:15Speaker 8: World two years.
- 25:17Speaker 2: You and I are sitting together. All right. You and
- 25:19Speaker 2: I are sitting together on the beach.
- 25:20Speaker 6: What I do know about myself is that if somebody's
- 25:24Speaker 6: in need of help and I can help them, I
- 25:26Speaker 6: know I'll help them regardless of whether somebody else called
- 25:29Speaker 6: me a bonehead or a musclehead.
- 25:32Speaker 2: It's hard for me to get up off of a
- 25:34Speaker 2: beach blanket where I'm laying next to a young lady
- 25:37Speaker 2: who is all of that and more, and I'm going
- 25:40Speaker 2: to get up and run into the water and help
- 25:41Speaker 2: some tourist who a half hour before was saying, look
- 25:45Speaker 2: at that meathead on Muscle Beach.
- 25:48Speaker 8: What?
- 25:49Speaker 4: This is ridiculous.
- 25:50Speaker 2: I don't think so. I'll let him die. So help
- 25:54Speaker 2: me God, I'll let him scream and die. All right.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Thanks very much for your call. All right, let me
- 26:00Speaker 1: go to one more call. I just want to be
- 26:01Speaker 1: clear that.
- 26:02Speaker 2: What I'm saying, Phil, is I understand tourists. We want
- 26:05Speaker 2: them down here. Just tip your cap to me when
- 26:09Speaker 2: I walk by. When you see someone walk by you
- 26:11Speaker 2: who's ripped, who is oiled and built, a little tip
- 26:16Speaker 2: of the cap. Say, hey, how are you? Good to
- 26:18Speaker 2: see you. Because you know that maybe in a half
- 26:21Speaker 2: hour that guy's going to be dragging you out of
- 26:22Speaker 2: the water around, you know, by the throat.
- 26:25Speaker 1: All right, here is Don. Don, go ahead.
- 26:28Speaker 8: Yes.
- 26:30Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
- 26:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 26:32Speaker 8: Okay, yes. This is Don Taylor in Naples. I've actually
- 26:35Speaker 8: survived a shark attack. He grabbed me by the left arm.
- 26:39Speaker 8: It was a little four-foot black tip, but I actually
- 26:42Speaker 8: know the pain that they can inflict on you.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Were you able to knock some sense into it?
- 26:50Speaker 3: What?
- 26:51Speaker 2: Were you able to knock some sense into it, sir?
- 26:54Speaker 8: No, actually, as he tried to grab me one more time,
- 26:56Speaker 8: I was able to get back up inside my boat
- 26:59Speaker 8: and get to the shoreline.
- 27:01Speaker 2: Right, but if you were in physical shape, you could
- 27:04Speaker 2: have probably knocked some sense into it.
- 27:06Speaker 8: Well, I was waist deep in the water working on
- 27:09Speaker 8: the trim on the back of my boat.
- 27:10Speaker 9: I don't want to make a long.
- 27:11Speaker 8: Story too long, but I was able to get in
- 27:15Speaker 8: my boat, pack it with sand, and get to the
- 27:16Speaker 8: hospital and get stitched in.
- 27:18Speaker 2: What did you pack with sand?
- 27:19Speaker 8: I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- 27:21Speaker 8: But every person... that sees another person in trouble, I
- 27:25Speaker 8: wouldn't care if it was a dog out there getting
- 27:27Speaker 8: shark bit, because like I said, I know the pain.
- 27:30Speaker 8: I would try to help it, but I would not try.
- 27:32Speaker 8: Every person has their fear limit.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Did you say you packed a shark in sand?
- 27:43Speaker 8: You know, I think your fear limit has dropped so
- 27:45Speaker 8: much that you wouldn't want to help another human being,
- 27:48Speaker 8: but you should not be bragging on stuff like that.
- 27:51Speaker 2: No, sir, I don't mind helping another human being. I'm
- 27:52Speaker 2: just saying, you said you packed the shark with sand.
- 27:55Speaker 8: Well, you said it over the air.
- 27:56Speaker 2: So that's like you stuffed the shark.
- 27:57Speaker 8: Because another guy called you ripped and all.
- 28:00Speaker 2: Yeah, some guy called me. The guy called me musclehead.
- 28:05Speaker 8: You're either going to help him or you're not.
- 28:07Speaker 1: I agree with Don.
- 28:07Speaker 8: You're hiding behind something.
- 28:09Speaker 1: You said that you.
- 28:10Speaker 8: Must have a musclehead.
- 28:11Speaker 2: He called me musclehead. He called me musclehead. And that
- 28:15Speaker 2: I've got to throw the flag on.
- 28:15Speaker 8: What does that have to do with the guy out
- 28:17Speaker 8: there getting bit?
- 28:18Speaker 2: Because as he's getting bit and eaten, I'm scared to
- 28:20Speaker 2: go out there and help him. That's what it all
- 28:22Speaker 2: boils down to. Hey, hey, hey, hey, let me tell
- 28:23Speaker 2: you something.
- 28:24Speaker 9: You're scared.
- 28:25Speaker 2: I kicked hell out of a bull shark. More than
- 28:27Speaker 2: any man can say.
- 28:28Speaker 8: You were scared to go.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Hold on, Don. Hold on.
- 28:32Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686.
- 28:32Speaker 1: We're talking shark attack with Bert Jerome of the South
- 28:35Speaker 1: Florida Chamber of Commerce on the Phil Henry Show.
- 28:37Speaker 2: I love it, Phil. I do a lot of Pilates,
- 28:40Speaker 2: and I do an awful lot of spinning.
- 28:42Speaker 1: And, uh, excuse me.
- 28:43Speaker 2: And, uh... So when I get into shape and I
- 28:46Speaker 2: go down to the beach as a member of the
- 28:48Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce, I say, welcome to South Florida. And
- 28:51Speaker 2: it's my way of opening the season. And I identify
- 28:54Speaker 2: myself as a member of the Chamber of Commerce. A
- 28:56Speaker 2: lot of times you get people looking at you funny
- 28:58Speaker 2: because you oil up. Because I do, because of my
- 29:01Speaker 2: bodybuilding competitions. And I make a mental note of that person.
- 29:06Speaker 2: I say, if they get hit today, if today's the
- 29:10Speaker 2: day they get it, if there's a bullhead out there,
- 29:14Speaker 2: if there's a tiger, if there's a mallet head, and
- 29:17Speaker 2: today's their day, what am I going to do? Am
- 29:20Speaker 2: I going to get into the water and help them
- 29:22Speaker 2: and pull that animal off them? Or is it, you know,
- 29:26Speaker 2: is it open season? It's tough.
- 29:28Speaker 1: All right, now I want to go to Kasaya. Kasaya? Kasaya?
- 29:34Speaker 1: Are you there, hon? I was talking to this, like,
- 29:36Speaker 1: Indian chick. I thought she was really interesting. I guess
- 29:37Speaker 1: she's gone. Here's Jamie. Jamie, you're on the film.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Show.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Go ahead.
- 29:41Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment about Jerome.
- 29:44Speaker 3: It seems like, you know, I keep hearing him talk
- 29:47Speaker 3: about how he's in such great physical shape.
- 29:49Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
- 29:50Speaker 3: It's a shame that you don't work on your moral
- 29:52Speaker 3: character a little more, Jerome.
- 29:53Speaker 2: My name is Bert, but my last name is Jerome.
- 29:57Speaker 3: You're not willing to help somebody out because you're afraid
- 30:00Speaker 3: that they might think of you as a meathead?
- 30:04Speaker 2: Sir, do you want to be called musclehead your whole
- 30:06Speaker 2: life and not be respected for your intellectual abilities? No.
- 30:11Speaker 3: You're not showing a lot of intellectual ability in the
- 30:14Speaker 3: way you're talking on the show.
- 30:15Speaker 2: Well, what am I saying that is not.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Well, I agree with the gentleman because you're saying you're
- 30:20Speaker 1: going to let a man die because.
- 30:22Speaker 2: I'm not going to let a man die. I'm simply saying.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Because we look at you funny because you've got muscles?
- 30:27Speaker 3: Somebody walks by and gives you a funny look on
- 30:29Speaker 3: the beach, and you make a mental note that if
- 30:32Speaker 3: they get hit, you're going to stand by? That's ridiculous.
- 30:36Speaker 2: No, sir.
- 30:36Speaker 4: Somebody gives you a funny.
- 30:38Speaker 3: Look, and you condemn them to death.
- 30:41Speaker 2: No, sir, but I'll tell you this. Those of us
- 30:43Speaker 2: who lift weights and those of us who are in Mr.
- 30:45Speaker 2: World and who do use a certain amount of oil
- 30:49Speaker 2: on our skin are looked upon as if we are
- 30:52Speaker 2: gay or homosexual. And I'm going to save the life
- 30:55Speaker 2: of a man who thinks that I am a bone smoker? No, sir.
- 30:59Speaker 2: I am going to.
- 31:00Speaker 3: You know, everybody's life is valuable, regardless of what they
- 31:04Speaker 3: think about you.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Everyone's life is.
- 31:09Speaker 3: Because of the way they looked at you.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I really hope.
- 31:12Speaker 3: Somebody from the Chamber of Commerce is listening.
- 31:14Speaker 4: I really hope they.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Reevaluate your character as somebody who represents the state of Florida.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question? Somebody has just called you.
- 31:25Speaker 2: Jamie the pole smoker, and now he's getting hit by
- 31:27Speaker 2: a 10-foot bull. You going to go out and help him?
- 31:29Speaker 3: That's not what you said. You didn't say that somebody
- 31:31Speaker 3: called you a pole smoker. You said that somebody gave
- 31:34Speaker 3: you a funny look because you were oiled up and buff.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. That's what you said.
- 31:40Speaker 4: You're going to let somebody die for that.
- 31:42Speaker 2: Phil, you are misconstruing.
- 31:43Speaker 1: No, this gentleman heard exactly what I heard. Jamie, thank you.
- 31:46Speaker 1: We'll be right back. It's the world-famous Phil Hendry Show.
- 31:49Speaker 1: Talking with Bert Jerome, we'll get into another call in
- 31:52Speaker 1: a moment. The guy that was in the water talking
- 31:54Speaker 1: to you, the guy was hit with a shark, talked
- 31:58Speaker 1: to you before that?
- 31:59Speaker 2: He did, and he used a disparaging comment, Phil. And
- 32:02Speaker 2: I'm not saying a man deserves to die because he
- 32:05Speaker 2: calls me a bull sitter or something like that. I'm
- 32:09Speaker 2: simply saying that the man needs to show a little bit,
- 32:12Speaker 2: all people, I think, need to show a little bit
- 32:13Speaker 2: more respect to those of us who work out and
- 32:16Speaker 2: do a fair amount of lifting because we could be
- 32:18Speaker 2: that individual that pulls you out of the water away
- 32:23Speaker 2: from a shark attack. Maybe you're missing a leg, maybe
- 32:25Speaker 2: you're missing something below the knee, but at least you're alive.
- 32:29Speaker 2: And I think that that's all I'm saying.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Well, you're making the statement that people that are in
- 32:33Speaker 1: physically fit, good shape, can fight off a bull shark attack.
- 32:38Speaker 2: I'm a living testament to that, Phil.
- 32:40Speaker 1: All right, how many guys named Tom have we got?
- 32:43Speaker 1: We've got a line two, Tom. Tom, you're on the
- 32:45Speaker 1: Phil Henry Show. Hello?
- 32:46Speaker 2: Hey. Hi.
- 32:47Speaker 9: I'm Lieutenant Tom Brown. I'm a police officer.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
- 32:50Speaker 9: And I'm physically fit, too. I played semi-pro football. I'm
- 32:55Speaker 9: in the police Olympics all the time, and I'm buffed up, too.
- 32:58Speaker 4: But you know what?
- 33:00Speaker 9: That don't make me better than anybody else. And as
- 33:03Speaker 9: a police officer.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Well, it makes you stronger, physically stronger than a lot
- 33:06Speaker 2: of people.
- 33:07Speaker 9: Well, you know what? Being physically stronger doesn't help your
- 33:09Speaker 9: intellect at all. You know, as a buffed-up guy, it
- 33:13Speaker 9: really bothers me that you're sitting here talking about how
- 33:15Speaker 9: great you are. And I heard at least ten times
- 33:18Speaker 9: how you've been in the Mr. World contest.
- 33:21Speaker 2: Did you win? You know, I came in a very
- 33:25Speaker 2: distant third. in the eastern regionals.
- 33:29Speaker 9: In other words, you were the second loser.
- 33:31Speaker 2: Well, wait a second. How many guys make it into
- 33:33Speaker 2: that competition to begin with?
- 33:34Speaker 9: How many guys make it into the police Olympics? You
- 33:36Speaker 9: ever been in the police Olympics?
- 33:37Speaker 4: You must not be anything.
- 33:38Speaker 2: I've never even heard of the police Olympics. You know what?
- 33:43Speaker 2: You know, Tom, I got into the water with a
- 33:45Speaker 2: bull shark.
- 33:45Speaker 9: You know what, I've been in the water with an alligator, too,
- 33:48Speaker 9: but that don't make me anything special.
- 33:50Speaker 2: You know what, if that.
- 33:53Speaker 9: Bull shark had wanted to kill you, your ass would
- 33:55Speaker 9: be dead right now, and I don't care how buffed
- 33:57Speaker 9: up you are.
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