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Episode #3952 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive February 2006 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another Radio Archive Hour here from the Radio
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Phil Henry Show and philhenryshow.com. These Radio
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Speaker 1: Archive Hours come from our syndicated show, our local days
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, local days in Miami. And they're all
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Speaker 1: there on our website at philhenryshow.com. You can listen to
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Speaker 1: them anytime you want with a backstage pass. This is
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Speaker 1: one from February 2006. Coach Vernon Dozier is a character
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Speaker 1: based literally on a real high school football coach that
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Speaker 1: I knew. And he joined the program in this particular instance.
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Speaker 1: to explain why he was charged with cruelty to an animal. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't find cruelty to animals funny at all, but
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Speaker 1: this is obviously a fictitious event, and the animal in
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Speaker 1: question was a parrot, and it was saying stuff to
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Speaker 1: Vernon because it was taught these words by Vernon's ex-wife,
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Speaker 1: who now wanted to punish him somehow. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: the bird was calling him every insult in the book.
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Speaker 1: So let's check it out. Let's hear how Vernon reacts
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Speaker 1: to all of this. I'm Phil Hendry. I'm pretty weird, too.
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Speaker 1: And Vernon Dozier on The Phil Hendry Show. We're going
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Speaker 1: to be speaking with a gentleman in a moment who
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Speaker 1: has had a run-in with a San Diego sheriff over
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Speaker 1: his treatment of an animal, a parrot, an African gray.
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Speaker 2: And his name is Vernon Dozier.
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Speaker 1: And I know he's an educator close by, but I
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Speaker 1: wanted to talk to him about this because it was
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Speaker 1: a little bizarre to read this story. And it was
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Speaker 1: doubly bizarre to hear this story because... of the way
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Speaker 1: that the parrot was disposed of. And if I could
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Speaker 1: get him on the phone.
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Speaker 2: Vernon?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. All right.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell me technically what happened, why you've had
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Speaker 1: this run-in with the police?
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Speaker 2: You've been charged with cruelty to animals.
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Speaker 3: I have parroted an African great.
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Speaker 2: Are you a bird aficionado?
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Speaker 3: I like all kinds of birds. I had them as
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Speaker 3: a kid, but it's very hard to maintain a liking
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Speaker 3: for these animals. A lot of these animals are taught
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Speaker 3: to say things, you know, by people that are childish
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Speaker 3: and stupid and insulting and so forth. The African gray,
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Speaker 3: we're speaking about, I had while I was married to
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Speaker 3: my first wife.
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Speaker 2: Now, your wife, you had some rough times toward the
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Speaker 2: end of your marriage, correct?
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Speaker 3: Yes, we did.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell me about one of the things that happened?
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Speaker 2: And it has to do with this parrot?
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Speaker 3: Well, she taught the bird. She thought it would be
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Speaker 3: funny to teach the bird to say things that were
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Speaker 3: meant for me.
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Speaker 2: Like, can you say what?
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Speaker 3: Well, she taught the animal to say, you know, F you.
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Speaker 3: And it would also say, here comes mama's boy, here
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Speaker 3: comes mama's boy, these things.
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Speaker 2: To you?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: And.
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Speaker 3: It would be funny, but I could let it roll
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Speaker 3: off my back, I suppose. But I think you're abusing
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Speaker 3: an animal when you're showing no care or concern for
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Speaker 3: that animal. When you do that, parrots or minor birds,
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Speaker 3: they're all great. They mimic the sound of the human voice. Right.
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Speaker 3: And they can approximate many different sounds. They're very, very
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Speaker 3: special creatures that way. And they have what is called
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Speaker 3: an echo reflex. So if you stand in front of
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Speaker 3: them while they're in a cage, you repeat certain words
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Speaker 3: over and over, they're going to say them. They can
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Speaker 3: repeat them. It's an echo reflex.
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Speaker 1: So this parent was saying F you and calling you
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Speaker 1: a mama's boy and this kind of thing?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it said a lot of things that were
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Speaker 3: all calculated by my ex-wife. Vernon sleeps with his mother.
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Speaker 3: was another one.
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Speaker 2: Why all these references to your mother?
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Speaker 3: Well, that's the whole point, because I was very close
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Speaker 3: to my mother, very close, and I don't think it's
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Speaker 3: anything to be ashamed of, you know. My wife was
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Speaker 3: angry with me because I'd asked her and her kid
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Speaker 3: to leave. And so not only did she teach the
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Speaker 3: parrot to say these things, she wound up getting thrown,
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Speaker 3: you know, I told her to leave anyway, and I
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Speaker 3: had to have the parrot destroyed, which is what Mr.
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Speaker 3: Goffin was telling you about.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, here's what I want to ask you.
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Speaker 1: You have this beautiful African gray parrot, and you're a
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Speaker 1: lover of birds. And he told me and said that
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Speaker 1: he had offered you $ 100 for the animal and that
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Speaker 1: you turned it down.
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Speaker 3: Well, if I could give him the rest of the
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Speaker 3: story on that.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Bill is a very good friend of mine. And I
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Speaker 3: said I appreciate the offer. But the animal, the parrot,
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Speaker 3: has been taught to say these vulgar things. Bill has children,
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Speaker 3: and I don't want to have them to hear this stuff.
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Speaker 2: So you had the parrot destroyed or put down because
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Speaker 2: of these vulgarities?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to, but I did not let my ex-wife, Karen,
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Speaker 3: get off scotches.
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Speaker 1: Why did you destroy this bird because of something that
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Speaker 1: your wife did?
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Speaker 3: Because the bird is a cruel thing. See, it's not
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Speaker 3: the bird's fault, but you can't have it around saying
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Speaker 3: those things. You cannot have an animal in your home
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Speaker 3: that's going to be telling, you know, it's going to
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Speaker 3: be talking to you like that. And I understand that
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Speaker 3: it's an echo reflex, but I can't have the animal
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Speaker 3: in my home calling me, you know, I sleep with
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Speaker 3: my mother or, you know, I take it, you know,
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Speaker 3: all of these things. So I had the animal destroyed,
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Speaker 3: but I told Karen, my ex-wife, that it was her fault.
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Speaker 3: And I made her listen to it.
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Speaker 1: All right, now this is what I want to ask you.
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Speaker 1: You called her up. She told the police that you
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Speaker 1: called her on your cell phone.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I did.
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Speaker 2: And you said, listen to this, and what did you do?
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Speaker 2: You had the bird in a cage?
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Speaker 3: There was a recycling truck that had come down our street,
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Speaker 3: and I had the animal in the cage and threw
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Speaker 3: the cage into the recycling truck as the device that
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Speaker 3: was coming down and crushing the garbage. But what I
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Speaker 3: did was.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: Well, you see, you have to understand, I had no choice.
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Speaker 3: I had to destroy the animal because she'd made it
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Speaker 3: bad for anybody that would ever own it again. She
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Speaker 3: did it. And I held my cell phone up, and
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Speaker 3: I said, you did this, and she can hear the metal.
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Speaker 3: I had made her listen to the truck squeezing, you know,
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Speaker 3: crushing all the metal and stuff.
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Speaker 2: With the bird in the cage?
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Speaker 3: Well, I... There was nothing else I could do. I
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Speaker 3: could not have that inside of my house. All right.
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Speaker 1: The parrot was taught these things. It was trained to
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Speaker 1: say these things. The animal itself is not ill-tempered.
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Speaker 3: But the bird, Phil, is not ill-tempered. But are you
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Speaker 3: going to have a parrot or a minor bird in
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Speaker 3: your home that's saying... You know, these long, stupid things
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Speaker 3: about your mother being fat, about your mother, you know,
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Speaker 3: you enjoy, you know, you're enjoying it in a fold,
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Speaker 3: and your mother's fat.
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Speaker 2: Well, no wonder you had this woman out of your house.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I'm telling you. We separated, just so
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Speaker 3: you know. Karen and I separated. I met a lady
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Speaker 3: named Kimberly, who's my soulmate. And it was just something
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Speaker 3: that happened. So I met Kimberly in La Jolla at
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Speaker 3: a seafood festival, and I got home that night, and
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Speaker 3: I told Karen to leave. And that's when she started
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Speaker 3: teaching the parrot to talk about how I like to
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Speaker 3: give it to my mother, you know, calling me every
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Speaker 3: filthy name in the book.
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Speaker 1: So now you're calling on people who care for, train,
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Speaker 1: and feed tropical birds to begin to breed out of
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Speaker 1: the parrot the ability to mimic the human voice.
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Speaker 3: I think that's the only solution, Phil. I think it
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Speaker 3: is cruel to raise these animals to be able to
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Speaker 3: echo the human voice, only to have them brought into
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Speaker 3: a home where they begin to tell the owner of
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Speaker 3: the home, an individual that feeds them, cares for them
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Speaker 3: and loves them, and begins to call the owner names
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Speaker 3: and tells him he is a, you know, an a-hole
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Speaker 3: or a... And Karen and.
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Speaker 2: But again, we're talking about a bird here.
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Speaker 3: I understand. It's a... It's not the animal. It's the
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Speaker 3: human that taught the bird, but I can't kill my wife.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to kill my ex-wife. And I had
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Speaker 3: to get rid of the animal, and so the only
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Speaker 3: way I could do it was to just... I took
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Speaker 3: the cage, I took everything, and just threw it into
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Speaker 3: that recycling truck right as the garbage compressor came down.
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Speaker 2: All right, hold on.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: This gentleman feels that enough is enough. Parrots....
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Speaker 1: Miner birds, animals like that that are capable of mimicking
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Speaker 1: the human voice should eventually have that ability bred out
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Speaker 1: of them as it has caused enough problems. His parrot,
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Speaker 1: an African gray, was taught to say some insulting things
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Speaker 1: by his ex-wife to him, and he feels he had
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Speaker 1: to have the animal destroyed. And in the process, he
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Speaker 1: called his ex-wife so she could hear the recycling truck.
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Speaker 1: as it smashed the bird's cage with the bird in it. Now,
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Speaker 1: she calls the San Diego County Sheriff, and he's arrested
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Speaker 1: for cruelty to animals. I'm going to find out from
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Speaker 1: him why he thinks he was arrested. He believes his
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Speaker 1: wife's got some connection with the San Diego Sheriff. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Vernon Dozier on the line with us, talking about a
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Speaker 1: beautiful African gray parrot that he owned that he felt
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Speaker 1: he had to have destroyed by throwing it into a
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Speaker 1: recycling garbage truck, though.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 3: The Phil Hendry Show. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Get in there.
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Speaker 3: And make me some bean dip.
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Speaker 5: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: The Phil Hendry Show is back.
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Speaker 2: All right, Vernon Dozier. What do you do, sir?
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Speaker 3: I beg your pardon, Phil?
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Speaker 2: What do you do for a living?
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Speaker 3: I'm a high school teacher. I teach history. I teach
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Speaker 3: also our health classes to our juniors and seniors at
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Speaker 3: Belmar Academy in Glendale, California.
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Speaker 2: All right. And you were living in San Diego?
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Speaker 3: This was during the Christmas holidays, yeah. All right.
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Speaker 1: The San Diego police cited you for cruelty and some
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Speaker 1: other charges.
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Speaker 2: And you wanted to respond to that, right?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a simple response. I mean, my wife has
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Speaker 3: connections with the San Diego sheriff. My ex-wife, I should say,
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Speaker 3: I'm sure she got on the phone with a brother
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Speaker 3: or a cousin or something. I mean, you know, San
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Speaker 3: Diego is a major metropolitan area, and the sheriff's department there,
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Speaker 3: they're very good officers but uh by the same token
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Speaker 3: san diego is not a big city uh by that
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Speaker 3: i mean their police agencies are there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: extended family uh through them much like you might find
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Speaker 3: in the uh some of the older you know southern
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Speaker 3: communities and so she's got brothers and cousins and you
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Speaker 3: know i i i don't want to characterize her uh
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Speaker 3: she's the one that taught the animal to call me
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Speaker 3: a a homosexual. It was an epithet for homosexual. I
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Speaker 3: don't even want to use the word.
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Speaker 2: All right, so this parent would be in the house.
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Speaker 3: In the cage. And I would come to the door,
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Speaker 3: and now it's calling me, and F-A-G. Here comes the F-A-G.
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Speaker 4: Boy.
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Speaker 3: And see, this is the kind of woman that I
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Speaker 3: was married to. And now she's got cousins and uncles
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Speaker 3: and who knows who else in the San Diego Sheriff's Department.
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Speaker 3: Probably all she has to do is And I made
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Speaker 3: the joke, and she said it was racist.
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Speaker 2: What did you say?
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Speaker 3: I said, all you've got to do is ring a
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Speaker 3: dinner bell, and somebody in the San Diego Sheriff's Department
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Speaker 3: is going to come running.
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Speaker 2: Why is that racist?
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Speaker 3: That's what I said to her. She said it was against.
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Speaker 3: She said I was referring to her as a hillbilly
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Speaker 3: or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. All right, 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: This is the world-famous Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Janie.
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Speaker 1: We're talking to Vernon Dozier about this parrot that was
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Speaker 1: killed as a result of the things it.
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Speaker 2: Was taught to say. Janie?
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Speaker 3: Hi, Phil.
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Speaker 4: How you doing?
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Speaker 2: Hi.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 4: This man has a parrot, the gray parrot. Couldn't he
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Speaker 4: take it to his mom's house? Is his mom still alive?
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, ma'am. My mother is long gone. Okay.
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Speaker 4: Can you take it to a friend's house?
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Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to. You know, I was taking.
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Speaker 4: My animal to a friend's house. and let a friend
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Speaker 4: babysit it or, you know, keep it away from my ex-wife.
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Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. The animal was already contaminated by
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Speaker 3: my ex-wife. It's calling me a, you know, pardon my language.
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Speaker 4: Well, couldn't you have taken it to a vet and
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Speaker 4: had the vet, you know, put it down in a
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Speaker 4: less humane way?
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Speaker 3: You mean in a more humane way? I thought about that.
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Speaker 4: You know, no, it wasn't in a more humane way.
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Speaker 4: The vet, we gave the bird a shot. The bird
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Speaker 4: went to sleep. And it will never work out. It
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Speaker 4: didn't have to be thrown up into a trash truck.
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Speaker 3: Well, I agree with the lady. Why not? Well, number one,
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Speaker 3: you can't give a bird a shot because the needles,
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Speaker 3: it's so long. Hang on. How do you give a
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Speaker 3: bird a shot?
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Speaker 4: A bird has a heart. It has blood veins. It
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Speaker 4: has everything else, just like a human being.
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Speaker 3: Well, wait a minute. It doesn't have... It has a heart.
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Speaker 3: It can't talk.
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Speaker 4: It has a heart.
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Speaker 3: Well, it can talk. Excuse me. It can talk, but
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Speaker 3: it's not talking. It has a heart.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's got blood through the body.
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Speaker 3: When you say it has a heart, are you saying
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Speaker 3: it has a heart the way, say, Ray Charles had
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Speaker 3: a heart?
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Speaker 4: I'm saying it has a heart. It has a mind.
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Speaker 4: It has a heart. It has blood veins going through
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Speaker 4: its body.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in other words, I think what Janie's saying is
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Speaker 1: you can inject into it.
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Speaker 3: Well, but here's the thing. A bird is so small
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Speaker 3: that most of the standard hypodermic needles, once you try
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Speaker 3: to give it a shot, it'll go right through the bird.
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Speaker 3: The needle's coming out the other side. That's ridiculous. Where
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Speaker 3: are you going to give it a shot? See, like
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Speaker 3: you give it a polio shot.
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Speaker 2: In the wing.
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Speaker 4: Well, how about through the heart?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what? These are all very good points, ma'am.
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Speaker 3: But I felt that my ex-wife needed to hear what
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Speaker 3: she had done.
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Speaker 4: You deserve to go to prison. I'm sorry. Phil, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 4: but he deserves for the lawman to come knocking on
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Speaker 4: his door because that is the humane way. You know,
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Speaker 4: I have nine rat terriers. They bug the daylight out
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Speaker 4: of me seven days a week. You think I'm going
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Speaker 4: to throw them off in a trash bin? I don't
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Speaker 4: think so.
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Speaker 3: Well, Janie, can I say something? If I got a
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Speaker 3: dog that's yapping morning, noon, and night, I may not
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Speaker 3: throw it in a recycling truck, but I will damn
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Speaker 3: sure try to kick a field goal with one of them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd be a truck to my 410, friend.
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Speaker 3: Wait a minute. I've got to sit and listen to
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Speaker 3: your dog, Jeff, while I'm trying to get some sleep.
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Speaker 4: I'm an animal lover. You know, people are constantly dropping
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Speaker 4: animals off out here.
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Speaker 3: Well, dear, I wonder how much of an animal lover
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Speaker 3: you would be if you had a parrot sitting in
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Speaker 3: your house calling you a bull dyke.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, a dove you can train just like
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Speaker 4: a bird you can train. A cat you can train.
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Speaker 2: Well, see, can I ask you a question?
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Speaker 4: You know, take it away from the ex-wife and take
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Speaker 4: it to a friend's house.
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Speaker 2: Janie, can I ask you a question because you seem
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Speaker 2: to know about animals.
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Speaker 1: Are parrots, can parrots be untrained to not say the
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Speaker 1: stuff they've been.
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Speaker 2: Trained to say?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, they sure can.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, that's not baloney.
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Speaker 4: If that person wants to work with them that bad,
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Speaker 4: apparently this knucklehead, he didn't want to work with the bird.
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Speaker 4: He really didn't give a flying flipper for the bird. Ma'am,
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Speaker 4: I tried.
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, how am I supposed to care about.
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Speaker 4: If he really wants to work with the bird, he
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Speaker 4: can even go and get tight for this bird to
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Speaker 4: say the good things instead of the bad things.
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, how am I supposed to care for an animal
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Speaker 3: that's calling me a queer 24 hours a day?
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Speaker 4: It doesn't mean it.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean it. It was taught that by your wife.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you're right. But it's only human to resent it.
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Speaker 1: So you take the animal in a cage, toss it
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Speaker 1: into a recycling truck as the trash compressor's coming down.
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Speaker 3: And I had the cell phone so Karen could hear it.
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Speaker 3: And she played it for the judge. You could hear
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Speaker 3: the crushing metal. And then she has her inbred cousins
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Speaker 3: from the San Diego Sheriff. Forget it.
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Speaker 2: Inbred now. That's what they are? They're inbred?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a hillbilly plant over there.
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Speaker 5: Jesus.
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Speaker 4: He's stupid. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: I'm stupid.
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Speaker 4: He ain't got no feeling. He ain't got no heart.
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Speaker 4: How would someone like to throw him off into a
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Speaker 4: trash can?
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. How are things up
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Speaker 3: at Cold Mountain? God. By the way, I really loved you, Ms. Zellweger,
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Speaker 3: in the.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's got to be a gag.
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Speaker 2: That lady is an animal lover.
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Speaker 1: And an animal lover, no matter how stupid the person is...
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Speaker 1: is not going to attribute to an animal human feelings
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Speaker 1: or human intention.
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Speaker 3: I do not attribute to that animal human feelings or
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Speaker 3: human intention, but I do attribute to myself human feelings.
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Speaker 3: And when a parrot sits in a cage, chilling out,
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Speaker 3: loving life, you know, looking at itself in a mirror,
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Speaker 3: because that's all they do all day long. That's all
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Speaker 3: that a bird does. It sits and stares at itself
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Speaker 3: in a mirror. And when you think about how egotistical
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Speaker 3: that is. And then, when I come walking downstairs to
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Speaker 3: get myself a cup of coffee, and it says, oh,
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Speaker 3: here comes the queer.
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Speaker 2: But it was taught that.
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Speaker 3: I understand.
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Speaker 2: So you're saying, regardless, you can't take it.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't take it. And my ex-wife is the one. See,
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Speaker 3: why don't you get her on the phone? Why am
17:17
Speaker 3: I the guy that's sitting here about to take... 8
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Speaker 3: million volts through the chair. Why am I that black
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Speaker 3: guy on the green mile with no water in the sponge? Well,
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Speaker 3: you know, you gentlemen can laugh if you want. Mr. Andrew,
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Speaker 3: let me in on the joke.
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Speaker 2: The black....
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Speaker 1: Why am I the black guy on the green mile
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Speaker 1: with the water in the sponge?
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Speaker 3: It is a reference to a very inhumane way of
18:01
Speaker 3: electrocuting a man.
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Speaker 2: I know that, but that's... You know, are you kidding?
18:05
Speaker 2: I mean, is that what you're comparing this experience to?
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Speaker 3: My wife, my ex-wife, with the Clampett clan down there
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Speaker 3: in the San Diego Sheriff's Department has got me okay.
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Speaker 3: I got a court date, and I had to post
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Speaker 3: $ 3, 000 in bond money.
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Speaker 2: Because you killed an animal, a defenseless animal.
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Speaker 3: It was calling me names. I didn't like the things
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Speaker 3: it said. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back on the world-famous Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 2: The Phil Hendry Show, 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: We eat kittens. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: The Phil Hendry Show is back.
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Speaker 3: And she looked at me and she gave me this
18:54
Speaker 3: look like she thought I was dumber than a handful
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Speaker 3: of Georgia clay, as we like to say.
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Speaker 2: Now, you walked into a friend's house who is blind.
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Speaker 3: This gentleman's blind, yeah, and I noticed that his house
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Speaker 3: was clean. And I said, how is that possible? If
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Speaker 3: a guy's blind, and his wife is blind too, this guy's...
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Speaker 3: a good friend of my wife's family, and he's also
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Speaker 3: taught her in college. And so these are two blind
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Speaker 3: people who live together, and yet their house is spotless.
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Speaker 3: And that's when she looked at me like, you know,
19:30
Speaker 3: and that's when she started teaching the parent all these things.
19:32
Speaker 3: After I told her, you know, I met Kimberly, all
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Speaker 3: of that happened, yeah, but also she just thinks I'm stupid, so.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I imagine blind people have cleaning people.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Okay, every day. In other words, if
19:47
Speaker 3: you're blind, even if you're a blind guy who wants
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Speaker 3: to be clean, you're going to miss the toilet someday,
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Speaker 3: aren't you? You see what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: All right, let's just take some phone calls on this
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Speaker 1: other thing about the parrot that was killed by you.
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Speaker 3: My ex-wife taught it to call me names.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, 1-800-449-8686. Lisa, go ahead. Hi. Hi, Lisa.
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Speaker 5: I've bred birds for about 15, 20 years. And I
20:20
Speaker 5: have a Goffin Cockatoo. And the people I got it
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Speaker 5: from were very abusive to each other and spoke bad
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Speaker 5: and were always yelling. And they had the bird for
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Speaker 5: its first three years of life. And when I got it,
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Speaker 5: I didn't like any of the noise it made because
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Speaker 5: it was a From where it came from, abusive, bad language.
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Speaker 3: But it wasn't calling you any of those things, see?
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Speaker 5: What I'm going for is that the bird no longer
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Speaker 5: says any of that or makes any of those angry noises.
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Speaker 5: I've had the bird for eight years now. So them
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Speaker 5: giving it away and not killing it, it's fine. It's
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Speaker 5: a great pet. It's loving. It's good to my kids.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't have an angry voice. tones in its voice
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Speaker 5: it doesn't say the angry because birds learn to mimic
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Speaker 5: people also they may not speak the word but i
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Speaker 5: call it a human babble that they make because it's
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Speaker 5: not a something they learn in the.
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Speaker 3: Wild but the bird didn't say the bird didn't say
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Speaker 3: hey lisa you don't look like you could use another pancake.
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Speaker 5: I realized that my point my point is is that
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Speaker 5: I'm believing you just needed an outlet, and the bird
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Speaker 5: was there, and it was causing you pain by yelling
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Speaker 5: at you these things. Instead of directing your anger the
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Speaker 5: right way, you could have given that bird away and
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Speaker 5: found something else to get back at your ex-wife instead
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Speaker 5: of killing off this bird. Granted, yeah, I get your point.
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Speaker 5: It would suck to come down and have something saying
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Speaker 5: nasty things to you every day.
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Speaker 3: There you go. There you go. That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: But I have a 7-year-old, and every day I teach
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Speaker 5: her sticks and stones. You know, you can't beat somebody
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Speaker 5: up because they call you a bad name. You've just
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Speaker 5: got to turn around and walk away and don't hang
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Speaker 5: around with them.
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Speaker 3: Well, I thought of that.
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Speaker 5: You can do the same.
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Speaker 3: Thing with a bird. I thought of that. When I
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Speaker 3: first got the bird and it's saying, you know, and
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Speaker 3: my wife left and she taught the bird, hey, you know, Vernon,
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Speaker 3: you're a big queer. Excuse my language, Mr. Henry, but,
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Speaker 3: you know, hey, Vernon, you sleep with your mama. Hey, Vernon.
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Speaker 3: And I remember thinking, you know what, I'll just ignore
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Speaker 3: it because I'm a human. It's a bird. It's got
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Speaker 3: it way worse than I do sitting in a cage.
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Speaker 3: I'm so much better than it. And yet there I
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Speaker 3: was that day, throwing it into a garbage truck.
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Speaker 5: Finally, it got to me.
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Speaker 3: And so, you know, my feeling is this. I'm sorry,
22:38
Speaker 3: but she calls up the San Diego Sheriff's Department. And
22:43
Speaker 3: she gets every uncle, cousin, every brother. And she's got
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Speaker 3: more people in her family.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Excuse me. All right, well, look.
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Speaker 5: Was the bird yours first or hers?
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Speaker 3: Well, it was both ours, and she ruined it, see?
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Speaker 5: So when you actually left?
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Speaker 3: No, no, I told her to leave because I met
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Speaker 3: this other girl.
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Speaker 5: Oh, so why didn't you send the bird with her
23:08
Speaker 5: so she could listen to everything.
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Speaker 3: She thought it? Well, that's just it. She didn't want it.
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Speaker 3: And you know why she didn't want it? Because she
23:14
Speaker 3: stood there when I was at work teaching her all
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Speaker 3: this stuff and then snuck out.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: And I come home, and I'm assaulted by this thing.
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Speaker 3: And the other thing why she left is because this
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Speaker 3: lady that is moving in with me, she's much younger,
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Speaker 3: and she's very, you know, beautiful and everything. And I
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Speaker 3: think my wife's just got to, you know.
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Speaker 5: Well, I want to add one other thing.
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Speaker 3: But they have a bird sit there. And the other
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Speaker 3: thing about birds, they're staring at themselves all day long
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Speaker 3: in a mirror. Only if you give them a mirror.
23:37
Speaker 3: Like they think they're the greatest thing that ever came
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Speaker 3: down the pike.
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Speaker 5: Only if you give them a mirror. They don't stare
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Speaker 5: if they don't have a mirror.
23:43
Speaker 3: But.
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Speaker 5: Beyond that, my question for Mike.
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Speaker 3: What do they think is so hot about themselves, you know?
23:48
Speaker 3: What I'd like to tell.
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Speaker 5: You is don't ever get another bird, and you cannot
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Speaker 5: train them not to talk. It's something that birds can
23:57
Speaker 5: do without medical. I mean, there used to be a bird,
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Speaker 5: and I don't know if it was a minor.
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Speaker 3: Well, maybe they ought to teach them how to, you know, talk.
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Speaker 3: Or penalize them if they say, you know, if they
24:09
Speaker 3: use filth.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, my brother had a parrot, and his
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Speaker 5: girlfriend taught it to say the F word, and I
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Speaker 5: didn't think much of that, but I got his bird,
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Speaker 5: and it stopped saying it because it didn't hear it anymore.
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Speaker 3: It takes time. It's like little kids. Lisa, can I
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Speaker 3: say this? Did you ever see the movie Raging Bull? No.
24:24
Speaker 3: All right. In the movie... It's a movie. Hold on.
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Speaker 3: One of the characters says, you know, your mother blank,
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Speaker 3: blank in hell, okay? The bird was saying that to me.
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Speaker 2: Your mother.
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Speaker 5: I still think you took your breakfast out on the
24:39
Speaker 5: wrong thing.
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Speaker 3: And it was about an elephant and what an elephant has.
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Speaker 3: And my mother was doing something with it.
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Speaker 2: You took your breakfast out on the wrong thing.
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Speaker 5: Don't ever get another parrot.
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Speaker 2: Lisa, thank you very much.
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Speaker 5: You're welcome.
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Speaker 3: I'll never get another parrot as long as I live.
24:50
Speaker 3: If I never see another parrot, I will thank God,
24:53
Speaker 3: even though he died for our sins. I would thank
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Speaker 3: God to die again for my sins if he would
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Speaker 3: allow me not to see another parrot. And that's it
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Speaker 3: for me. I am done with parrots.
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Speaker 1: Well, good, man, because the one and only one you
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Speaker 1: had you threw into a garbage truck.
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Speaker 3: You know, you make that sound like it's some kind
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Speaker 3: of a, something out of the Spanish Inquisition. It's a
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Speaker 3: bird that was talking trash. What are you going to do?
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say it's a bird. And what do
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Speaker 1: you mean it's staring at itself in a mirror like
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Speaker 1: it thinks it's great?
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Speaker 3: They do.
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Speaker 2: Dude, it's a freaking bird. It ain't a human being.
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Speaker 2: It hasn't got human sensibility.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, you laughed at that whole thing about the
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Speaker 3: black guy with the dry sponge. Didn't you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.
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Speaker 3: So I guess you'd like to see me in electric
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Speaker 3: chair with you. You know what?
25:46
Speaker 2: You know what, pal? Here's what I say.
25:48
Speaker 1: I say that you deserve to be arrested for cruelty
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Speaker 1: to animals, even though her family and all of her
25:53
Speaker 1: brothers and uncles and cousins are just loaded up in
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Speaker 1: the San Diego Sheriff's Department.
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Speaker 2: And I'm glad you're out on bail.
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Speaker 1: Take your medicine like a man and do not ever
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Speaker 1: mistreat an animal again.
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Speaker 2: They're weaker than us. They are the simplistic and innocent
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Speaker 2: creatures of this world.
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Speaker 3: Oh, let me get out a file in.
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Speaker 2: And you know what?
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Speaker 1: For a human to mistreat an animal is the greatest
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Speaker 1: act of stupidity and cruelty that I can possibly think
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Speaker 1: of other than abusing a child.
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 3: So now you're thinking I gave it to a kid,
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Speaker 3: is that it?
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Speaker 2: No, I didn't say that.
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Speaker 1: You threw a parrot into a garbage truck and then
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Speaker 1: waited and then held the phone up while the metal
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Speaker 1: cracked underneath the recycling thing.
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Speaker 2: God almighty.
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Speaker 3: And then I got on the phone. I said, did
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Speaker 3: you hear that, Karen? She goes, yeah, it doesn't bother
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Speaker 3: me at all.
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Speaker 5: Ha ha.
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Speaker 3: And she hung up.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're both a bunch of couple of twisted idiots.
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Speaker 3: Can I get one of those Bobby Dooley T-shirts for
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Speaker 3: my wife, though?
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