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Speaker 1: How to everyone. It's Chuck here on Saturday. I thought

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Speaker 1: I would brighten everybody's day with this selection from June thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. How the Beagle Brigade works. Oh boy, just

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Speaker 1: get ready for cute overload. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know,

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Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh close Ark,

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Speaker 2: There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, Jerry Jerum Rowland's over there.

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Speaker 2: So this is Stuff you should know, the Beagle Brigade edition.

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Speaker 1: Yes, another I guess we covered drug sniffers, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: not or did we do Seeing Eye Dogs as well?

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Speaker 2: We did, remember, because Seeing Eye Dogs is actually your

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Speaker 2: brand name. It's one of those oh like a band aid, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Kleenex or something. That one was that was a great one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean, is this the last job that

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Speaker 1: dogs have?

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Speaker 2: And we we didn't cover dogs that serve as pack animals.

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Speaker 1: Yet, so oh that's right, yeah, like herders.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be good. Are lumberjack dogs.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's true, that's right. Or dogs that are sous chefs.

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Speaker 2: Right. So yeah, we've got a big, big long suite coming.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was done.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, no, no, but this one might be the most

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Speaker 2: adorable of all of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one was. I was always confused. I

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Speaker 1: always thought the beagles at the airport because as you

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Speaker 1: will learn, Atlanta is they're they're trained here outside of Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: But I thought that that the beagles were. I just

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Speaker 1: thought they were drug sniffers, really did everything sniffers.

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Speaker 2: Oh I see. No, you could have a big old

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Speaker 2: suitcase full of cocaine and walk right past that.

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Speaker 1: Dog and be like, well, that's good to know, you know.

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Speaker 2: Sure for the next time you're smuggling cocaine suitcase. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: once you make a past a beagle, you're home free.

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Speaker 1: But don't have a head of lettuce.

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Speaker 2: No, because those beagles will pounce on your neck and

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Speaker 2: chew your throat out. Or don't have that train to do.

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Speaker 1: Don't have a whole hog. Can you believe that story?

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Speaker 2: Totally?

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Speaker 1: So this one was, uh, I think it was in

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And there was a woman traveling from Peru to the

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Speaker 1: United States with a roasted pig, an entire roasted pig

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Speaker 1: in her bag, and I mean it was very sweet.

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Speaker 1: You know, she was just trying to bring home a

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Speaker 1: holiday meal for her family.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Thanksgiving, I think right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she smuggled in a roasted pig. Yeah, and it

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Speaker 2: Well, they have pigs tend to be. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: didn't say a suckling pig, A pig. I assumed it

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Speaker 1: No, it was a picture of it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, but it was. It was a

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Speaker 2: good sized pig.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The guy Rob Brisley, public affairs officer, said the

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Speaker 1: right steps had to be taken to confiscate and destroy

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Speaker 1: the item, and then the Senate stopped. But I imagine

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Speaker 1: he said, with our.

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Speaker 2: Mouths right, with extreme vengeance.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I mean that's just one example.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we should we should probably say exactly what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about for those people who haven't been to an

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Speaker 2: group of working dogs that are exclusively beagles, hence the

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Speaker 2: And these dogs have a job. They're actually federal agents

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Speaker 2: no or not the DEA either, but their federal their

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Speaker 2: sniff out agricultural products. And the whole point of all

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Speaker 2: of this is that the US has a pretty extensive

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it says in here in our own

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a lot of economy at stake here,

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Speaker 2: Right, So there's this group, So the USTA, the Department

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Speaker 2: which is the Animal, Plant, Animal and Plant Health Inspection

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Speaker 2: basically creating this virtual border, this virtual barrier to stuff

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, like the notorious Romanian cotton weavil.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly the most insidious of all, and specifically at

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Speaker 2: Customs and no CBP, right, customs and border patrol. You've

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Speaker 1: God bless that lady. I felt bad for you know, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I get it, sure, but you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's no way she did not cry when

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Speaker 2: the agriculture inspector took her whole pig She's going to

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Speaker 1: What a waste of food.

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Speaker 2: She worked so hard on that chuck.

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Speaker 1: I know, it might have been like her favorite family

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Speaker 1: So you want to talk a little bit about these

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Speaker 1: the history here, because it did not agricultural agriculture dogs

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Speaker 2: I could not find when it started, but yeah, we

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Speaker 2: know it's definitely prior to the seventies because based on this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then up until nineteen eighty three, we used

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Speaker 1: like drug sniffers like German shepherds and labs are certainly good,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean some people have sinophobia, which is a

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Speaker 1: So it started in Mexico and then finally in nineteen

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Speaker 1: is probably a pretty good airport to pick for a

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Speaker 1: sure they had those. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear about the King of the Netherlands. Uh.

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Speaker 2: They found out that he has been secretly undercover moonlighting

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Speaker 1: Years, and has been flying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he's Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like he's been

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Speaker 1: I thought, you meant, like Leo DiCaprio, didn't catch me

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Speaker 1: if you can. He just pretended to be a pilot.

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Speaker 2: You're a king, you can't be a pilot.

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Speaker 2: I guess he was outed. And he said from time

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Speaker 2: them kidnapped. Yeah, kidnapped and killed rendered extraordinarily.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty crazy. Yeah, well, good for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Know, I think, I think so. They're going to work

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Speaker 1: Well, so his pilot PROGRAMM did is maybe failing. But

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Speaker 1: the pilot program in nineteen eighty four LAX worked great.

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five million olfactory receptors amazing, and

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Speaker 1: And I know the dogs even the size of their

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Speaker 1: the airport. Uh, And they can. They're agile. They're because

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Speaker 2: Right, Sometimes they'll find just enough fruit that they'll make

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Speaker 1: Well. The other cool thing about the dogs and there

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Speaker 1: think about it. I was just trying to think of

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Speaker 2: Bottle of perfume.

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Speaker 1: Okay. The dog will be able to pick that out

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Speaker 1: of that perfume, right, will be able to almost geolocate it,

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Speaker 1: because they don't they don't get confused like we do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know how like a dog can when

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Speaker 2: Fish. All right, Chuck, So we're back. So we were

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Speaker 2: So I was very heartened to learn from researching this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, it kind of makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Right. So then that's a big point that this USDA

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Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, and as much as I love my dogs

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Speaker 1: Isn't that a TV show? Now?

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Speaker 1: Let's just well, stid of mind that, because that's just

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Speaker 1: So let's get into this. You mentioned handlers.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I got you, man, you'd think after nine

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Speaker 2: years together.

436
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Speaker 1: But I mean, if you were to have picked five cents,

437
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 1: I probably would have definitely picked beef, pork and citrus.

438
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 1: Those make sense.

439
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: I guess I would have picked like monkey, bat and

440
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: probably pig too. Yeah, but I mean those are in

441
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 2: there so well. The monkey and the bat aren't, but beef, pork, citrus,

442
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: the mango.

443
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where you threw me, what was the other one? Apple?

444
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 2: Apple? Turn with apple. I didn't even know they grew

445
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 2: apples outside of the United States. He was trying to

446
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 2: smuggle an apple into the US.

447
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: I don't know.

448
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: We got the best ones here, buddy, Just leave them

449
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 2: at home.

450
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to know why those are the

451
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Speaker 1: five basic scents, if someone has more information than because

452
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: I could not find out.

453
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 2: I could not either. There's a real dearth of information

454
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 2: on this stuff. I even emailed the Customs and Border

455
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 2: Protection today because I could not, for the life of

456
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: me find the name of that first beagle that started

457
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: out at lax in nineteen eighty four. Cannot find it anywhere.

458
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: Expect that somebody forgot to write it down, so no one.

459
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: Knows you're being tracked now.

460
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: Probably, Oh yeah, I've been looking up like, you know,

461
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: restricted items, agriculture and vasive species, stuff like that. I'm

462
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 2: sure I'm on a list, all right.

463
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: So they teach them those well, this is, you know,

464
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Speaker 1: towards the end, is when they know those five basic

465
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: sense At first, they're just basically teaching them how to

466
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: sniff through bags and suitcases and boxes and making sure

467
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: they can. You know, they'll throw a they'll throw a

468
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 1: goat's head and a suitcase and send it through in

469
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: noonan and you laugh. But one of them found a

470
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: coat heead not too long ago, I know. So it happens,

471
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: and they just make sure they can do that, and

472
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: they eventually and then of course they have to differentiate,

473
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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of things that are scented, like

474
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: those things that are just fine, like an orange perfume.

475
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 2: Right. Well, that's another that's gotta be kind of tough

476
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 2: to learn for a dog too, is the difference between

477
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: you know, orange scented stuff or things that are made

478
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 2: with like say, orange essence, like a candy or a

479
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 2: lip balm or something like that. Yeah, and an actual

480
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: orange because the lipbalmb no problem. Actual orange, you got

481
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: a problem.

482
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Speaker 1: That's right. And once they've done this, this is about

483
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: a a few months, probably ten to thirteen weeks. And

484
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: this is and they're being trained in regular like how

485
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: to paw at stuff and alert and sitting responses like

486
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Speaker 1: all of this is one big learning period and the

487
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: handler's getting trained as well obviously, right. But at the

488
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: end of this is when they finally do graduate to

489
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: those five basic scents. And I guess see what I

490
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 1: don't get it from the basic sense. Is is it

491
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: from those sense that they can smell anything?

492
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: No, that's crazy. That's what I thought too. That's that's

493
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: what it implies. Like if you put together apple and

494
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 2: pig and mango, you've got like bat that's not the case,

495
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: Like each thing has its own scina. I don't know

496
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 2: if those are like the most commonly smuggled ones. Possibly maybe,

497
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,959
Speaker 2: so those are the ones they need to start out with.

498
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: Maybe they're the easiest ones. I don't know, but I yeah,

499
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: if you put those things together, especially if a dog

500
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 2: smells in layers right and differentiates between sense, it's not

501
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 2: gonna smell the combined center those things. It's gonna smell

502
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 2: each thing. So I'm not sure why those are the

503
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 2: five basic ones. Can't find out. Yeah, well hope this

504
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: one was a stone wall. I mean, like we're professional

505
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: researchers here, and like we really ran into a wall. Yeah.

506
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: Who would have known that the beagle brigade is what

507
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: would throw.

508
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: Us, it would break us.

509
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: Uh. So they've they've learned all these since they've learned

510
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: how to alert, they're getting treats or getting positive reinforcement

511
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: along the way.

512
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big one too. The entire training is

513
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 2: strictly positive reinforcement.

514
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't beat these dogs down if they're not

515
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: smelling correctly.

516
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: They have like they spend ten grand a month on

517
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 2: newspapers to roll up teach these dogs lessons.

518
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: The puppy bounder. So once they've once they've gone through

519
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: all of that, everyone knows I'm joking, right.

520
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and if you're new to the podcast and

521
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 2: don't just don't even bother emailing.

522
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're great animal lovers here. So once they've they've

523
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: gone through this whole training process, they finally graduate. They

524
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: get their little diploma, their little hat and their little robe,

525
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: and they graduate from Noonan and they get to move

526
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: to the big city with the Atlanta or anywhere any

527
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: international airport, but Atlanta certainly has a large one for sure.

528
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: And so once they get to their home base airport

529
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: that they're going to be working at, they're still evaluated

530
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 2: and trained for another sometimes ten to thirteen weeks.

531
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, training is kind of ongoing from what I saw too,

532
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: like the whole career, you know.

533
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like the okay, stop learning dog. Yeah,

534
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: you know too much. But I think the initial training period.

535
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 2: They're basic training still can go on for another ten

536
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 2: to thirteen weeks after they get to the airport, and

537
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 2: even once they get to the airport, that doesn't necessarily

538
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 2: mean that they're going to stay in the program again.

539
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 2: Once they're finally introduced to the chaos of an international airport,

540
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: that dog might just be like, this is not for me.

541
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: Send me back to noonan.

542
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I mean, you can try and duplicate

543
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: that chaos in nounan, but yeah, good luck.

544
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: You just can't. I mean, even you just can't. There's

545
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: nothing like a busy airport. You can't recreate that. Yeah,

546
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 2: so some dogs are fine with it, some dogs are not.

547
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: But again, one of the main reasons why they're choosing

548
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 2: beagles is because it is so chaotic, and these dogs

549
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 2: are their whole thing is they're not there at like

550
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 2: a male processing facility. They're not there at like a

551
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 2: border crossing. They're there at a busy airport, and they're

552
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: they're meant to be able to kind of weave in

553
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 2: and out of this the crowd while also being non

554
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 2: threatening and also being lovable too. Like that's not by

555
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 2: accident that they chose these incredibly adorable dogs. The USDA

556
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 2: says that the Beagle Brigade is basically like a walking,

557
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 2: lovable advertisement for what they're trying to do, which is

558
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 2: protect agriculture here in the US.

559
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a little vest, it says Beagle Brigade. Yeah,

560
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,959
Speaker 1: and everyone oohs and ahs and some people. If you're not,

561
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: this is probably how they do it. If you're not

562
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: actively ooing and eyeing, and you're standing there sweating heavily,

563
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: then the dog keys in on you. So I'd be

564
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: in big trouble.

565
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Speaker 2: And I don't know if you said it. If you did,

566
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 2: I didn't catch it. But the dogs are trained to

567
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 2: walk up to locate a contraband item and sit at

568
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 2: a bag.

569
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah they I thought they attacked the person first.

570
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 2: It's called the passive indicating Yeah, but rather than I

571
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: saw in this article it says they pawed it. Everywhere

572
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: else I saw that they just sit and kind of

573
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: look at the person like shame on you.

574
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: Exactly. It's a very passive aggressive way to out somebody

575
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: for a goat's head in their two case.

576
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: Right, So we want to oh, yeah, man, you read

577
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 2: my mind.

578
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna do that and we're gonna finish

579
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: up here with a big old brigade.

580
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: Fish.

581
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: All right, So what happens at the end of a

582
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: long day, Josh the dog.

583
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: Most beagles enjoy a good pipe, maybe a scotch.

584
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: In an easy chair, perhaps a cigar.

585
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: They sure they tend to watch CNN. I'llough if you

586
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: watch Fox News and they fall asleep a little drunk.

587
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: That's what they do every night. It's their routine. And

588
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: that's what beagles like.

589
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's our routine at our clubhouse where we live.

590
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: I know, weirdly, and this kind of surprised me. I

591
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: guess it's not weird now they've seen the explanation, but

592
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: I was surprised to learn that they are kindled. I

593
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: thought that they thought. I guess I thought they lived

594
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: with their handler.

595
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, because canine police dogs live with their handler.

596
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

597
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: I thought it was weird too.

598
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: But they're kindled. They have a facility near the airport.

599
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: Some people have asked, like, can I just keep this

600
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: dog at night and then take them to work every morning?

601
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: And they say no, They said this is actually best

602
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: for everyone. They need their rest. I imagine they have

603
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: a good play together. I doubt if they just like

604
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: drive them straight there and put them in the crate,

605
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,719
Speaker 1: you know, there's probably a little social scene going on.

606
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: I hope, So, yeah, I hope they don't like get

607
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 2: scolded for making eye contact with the other working dogs

608
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: they live with.

609
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: No, they put in their eight hours, they come home,

610
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: they probably play a bit, and then they're kinneled overnight. Yeah,

611
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: and they said that they you know, they need this

612
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: rest time in order to do their job successfully. And

613
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: like I said, a happy dog is a dog that

614
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: feels good about its work.

615
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 2: And you said, Chuck, some people ask if they can

616
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: take them home. Sure you should specify, like that's not

617
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 2: the agents.

618
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: Asked to like people at the airport, I know.

619
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: Like, can I just take them home for the night

620
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: and you guys can come get on tomorrow or all

621
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 2: of them bring them back. I don't only live like

622
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 2: forty five minutes away.

623
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure that we'll just get you give me your

624
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: cell phone number. That sounds great.

625
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: So it does make sense that, yeah, they are left

626
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 2: to just kind of rest and I'm sure that they

627
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: actually live at the airport. Which is funny. It's like

628
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: that movie Terminal with Tom Hanks.

629
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: It says in nearby facility. You think it's actually there?

630
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: I'm sure.

631
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: Yeah.

632
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 2: Did you know that that movie Terminal with Tom Hanks

633
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 2: is based on a real life thing? Yeah, and the

634
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: guy was like living there for a decade or something

635
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 2: like that. And then Charles de Gaulle, Yeah, did you

636
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 2: see that movie? No, I just read the article of

637
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: movies based.

638
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: On Yeah, it's not very good. Unfortunately I got that impression. Yeah,

639
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: that was a bummer.

640
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 2: Oh really it doesn't end well.

641
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: Well, no, it was just a bummer that it wasn't

642
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: good because I was like Spielberg and Tom Hanks and sure,

643
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: I think my hopes were high, yep, But yeah, I

644
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: didn't care for it.

645
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: No, such luck, Charles.

646
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 1: So the beagle brigade is a very closely guarded secret

647
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: just how many beagles are brigading. So they can say

648
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: though that there are one hundred and sixteen CBP agricultural

649
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: canine teams with the dogs and the handlers, that every

650
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: international airport in the country has a beagle brigade there

651
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: right doing their job.

652
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 2: So they can tell you a lot.

653
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you want to tell some stories here.

654
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Speaker 2: Yes, So there was this one dog called Murray. Murray

655
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 2: was he was at a shelter in North Georgia, and

656
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 2: apparently some dummies decided they wanted a hunting dog and

657
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 2: didn't want to spend any money, but they wanted a

658
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 2: doctail and ears and everything. So they tried it themselves

659
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: and it didn't go very well for poor Murray. So

660
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 2: they dropped him off at a shelter, probably knowing the state.

661
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 2: They probably dropped him off on a dirt road and

662
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: somebody else found him and took him to a shelter,

663
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: and Murray was rescued by a group called Alcovy Pet Rescue,

664
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Speaker 2: and I guess Alcovy has a direct pipeline to the

665
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 2: Beagle Brigade. Handlers at donn in Noonan said, Hey, we

666
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: think we got one for you. This guy is so

667
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 2: food driven it's crazy. It's got a lot of love.

668
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 2: He just needs a little bit of attention. He's missing

669
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Speaker 2: part of his ear, but we can get past that.

670
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Speaker 2: And at age two or three, he became an agent

671
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Speaker 2: for the USDA at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.

672
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Speaker 1: That's great. The only way that story could have ended

673
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: better is if those original people had part of their

674
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: ear cut off. Yeah by a dog. Yeah, what about Jasper.

675
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 2: So Jasper he worked at JFK.

676
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, this was late last year. Jasper retired

677
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 1: after an eight year career, and during this career, Jasper

678
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: seized over seventeen thousand items. The goat's head was Jasper,

679
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 1: like I mentioned. Yeah, whale meat, Yeah, whale meat, ainoceros skin,

680
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: cooked bat really what else anything else crazy like that?

681
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 2: No, not that I saw.

682
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: And a lot of Romanian cotton weavils.

683
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Speaker 2: Right, and his handler Amanda Tipple or Triple is it

684
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 2: Tipple or Triple Triple. She said that she was interviewed

685
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Speaker 2: with Modern Farmer magazine, which I didn't realize existed until

686
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 2: last week.

687
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: And now you have a subscription.

688
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did an interview with her, and she was

689
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Speaker 2: saying that that he could very easily work longer, but

690
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: that the mandatory age of retirement is eight because they

691
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 2: want the dogs to have some years of just chilling out,

692
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 2: not having to work, and that she's going to take

693
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 2: him home. She's adopting him, or she did adopt him.

694
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Speaker 2: I think the article was from last year and he

695
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: was on the verge of retirement when they interviewed him,

696
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: but he went and apparently this is fairly normal. Went

697
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 2: from something like fifteen to thirty hits twenty to thirty

698
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 2: hits a day, wow, but had declined to about ten

699
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 2: to fifteen. Yeah, everybody was very disappointed in him.

700
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's a good retirement age if they're eight, like,

701
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Speaker 1: barring some very sad health concern. You know, a dog

702
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: that size can live to be you know, thirteen fourteen

703
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: years old, right, so many years ahead of them hopefully, Yeah,

704
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: in retirement.

705
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and once she takes them home, you know, she

706
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 2: gets another dog that she's going to partner with.

707
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Speaker 1: So I wonder how that'll go over.

708
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Speaker 2: You know, we'll Jasper be like, I know where you've

709
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Speaker 2: been today, and I just want to tell you again,

710
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 2: I'm not happy with this.

711
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: Well I bet Jasper. I bet Jasper and all retired

712
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: dogs have to deal with that transition, you know. Yeah,

713
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Speaker 1: Like I imagine there's something the handlers have to do

714
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Speaker 1: with them on a daily basis, like, you know, probably

715
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,479
Speaker 1: a lot of long walks. I imagine the dog isn't

716
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: just like all right and now I'm gonna rest right now,

717
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: like they're used to that activity.

718
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, I was wondering that as well. I

719
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 2: wonder too if they get them when they're young, so

720
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Speaker 2: they're super hyper, and then maybe by the time they're

721
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 2: eight they've mellowed a little bit. Sure, at least comparatively speaking. Yeah, yeah,

722
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Speaker 2: I think a mellow beagle is still pretty hyper compared

723
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Speaker 2: to a normal dog.

724
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Speaker 1: I've never been around beagles.

725
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Speaker 2: Actually, Oh, they they'll pull yeah, yeah, and they bay

726
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: and everything. They're super cute, but they can be rambunctious

727
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 2: for sure.

728
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I've never known anyone with a beagle, so I

729
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: don't even know if I've ever touched a beagle now

730
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: that think about it.

731
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Speaker 2: No, but if you've been touched by a beagle, have

732
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Speaker 2: you'll never forget it.

733
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Speaker 1: Chuck a couple of stats for you. Last year alone,

734
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, the brigade inspected twenty three million passengers,

735
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: seven hundred and forty one thousand pieces of freight, and

736
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: they alerted to total in the United States to more

737
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Speaker 1: than one point seven seven million seizures of illegal materials.

738
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Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's about what like seven eight percent

739
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: of people bringing stuff in that have been caught.

740
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I saw also that there is a there's

741
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: an even more specialized group of dogs that are typically

742
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 2: jack Russell terriers that work on Guam to root out

743
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 2: specifically brown tree snakes. Yeah, that's crazy, which are an

744
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 2: invasive species that got introduced to Guam and have killed

745
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 2: off like a lot of indigenous bird species, and they're

746
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 2: basically trying to protect Hawaii as much as they can.

747
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know Hawaii didn't have snakes until this article.

748
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Ireland over there.

749
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it made sense, of course, but I

750
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: just figured, I mean, there's all kinds of invasive species,

751
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: so I just thought that I just figured snakes would

752
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: be one of them.

753
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Hawaii takes their their like the Agriculture Defense

754
00:40:58,800 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 2: very seriously.

755
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. The snake thing is yeah.

756
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 2: Well they'll just beat you up before they even take

757
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 2: you to jail. They catch you.

758
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: Well, I read an article because I was like, what

759
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: is that real? And which is I guess a great

760
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 1: comfort to backcountry exploring and explorers if you're scared of snakes.

761
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: But I read an article and there was there there

762
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: were a couple of them found last year that you know,

763
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: people had managed to sneak in. And one was a

764
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: boa constrictor that was dead in the road like five

765
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: feet long, and the guy oh Man saw it and said, like,

766
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: there's a snake, and everyone in the car was like,

767
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: there are no snakes in Hawaii. They're like, no, that's

768
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: a snake.

769
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, I'm just a total idiot. I guess.

770
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure their legs under there just a big lizard.

771
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 2: Hate you guys.

772
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was news to me, so very interesting.

773
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 2: Supposedly the ever Glades down in Florida have a huge

774
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 2: problem with Burmese pythons and like a couple of different

775
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 2: kinds of pythons that in all of them were pets,

776
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 2: and now they're just taking over and getting to be

777
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 2: like twenty feet long or just crazy. Yeah, eating wild

778
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 2: bores and things like that.

779
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: Because idiots get them and then they grow and they

780
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: say this snake is too big, yeah, and they just

781
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: put it out in the swamp.

782
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: I just wanted a puppy snake.

783
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: So here's a good example too. Like, you know, it's

784
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: easy to like the goat head and the cooked pig

785
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention, but usually this stuff is

786
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: it's not nefarious, you know, It's like this one lady

787
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: in February of this year, actually, there was a beagle

788
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: named gadget that sees. And this is just one seizure

789
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: from one person. A potted tamarin plant, two live trees,

790
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: forty two packages of seeds, twenty pieces of palm tree plantings,

791
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: chickory seed, rice, millet, and fresh garlic, and.

792
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 2: A note from God.

793
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of stuff, but this is

794
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: what happens. Like someone goes to another country and they

795
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: want to bring back like seeds to plant something. It's

796
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: not like they're awful people, but it can. They can

797
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: innocently wreak havoc on agriculture here by doing so, you know.

798
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: Right, So the process from what I gather is that

799
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: you declare anything you have on you and then if

800
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 2: they can let you bring it through, then they'll let

801
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: you bring it through. But if not, they'll just take

802
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 2: it and be like, sorry, we got to take this.

803
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 2: Then they'll shoot it in front of you. If you

804
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 2: don't declare it and they catch you with it. Thanks

805
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 2: to the Beagle Brigade, you can be fined up to

806
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 2: something like one thousand dollars for your first offense. And

807
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 2: if it's clear you're like a straight up smuggler, yeah,

808
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 2: you will probably go to jail.

809
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: Well, this person did declare that had all that stuff

810
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: chocolate in an apple, So I guess she thought maybe

811
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 1: if I declare something, I won't be a suspicious I

812
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: don't know.

813
00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 2: Right, but I mean, if you're a CBP agent and

814
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 2: you're looking at that, and you have the discretion of

815
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 2: whether to arrest that person or not, you may very

816
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: well be like, no, you're you were definitely trying to

817
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 2: smuggle this stuff, So I'm going to make an example

818
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: out of you, lady.

819
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then Gadget's just sitting there just like judging, what.

820
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 2: Have I done? Yeah, And the lady as they're hauling

821
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 2: her off to jail, she's like, I would have gotten

822
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: away with it if it hadn't been for your meddling dogs.

823
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: You got anything else I do?

824
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 2: I have one more thing. I ran across this article,

825
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: I think it was on courts and it said like

826
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 2: bush meat illegal bush meat could be the cause of

827
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 2: the next big global pandemic.

828
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: Wow.

829
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Speaker 2: There's apparently a major market for bush meat, which is

830
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: any wild animal meat. Most people think of it as

831
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: like monkey or bat or something like that, but it

832
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 2: also is like elk or caribou, any illegal meat that's

833
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: basically just being smuggled around. Yeah, there's huge markets for

834
00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 2: it in New York, in London, in Mayland, Europe, and

835
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: people just smuggle it in and a lot of them

836
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: make it through. And these things just get sold behind

837
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 2: the counter at butcher shops in some cities. And all

838
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 2: that's going to take is one of those things to

839
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 2: have a bola and maybe a mutant strain that is

840
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 2: transmitted a little more easily than a bola light or whatever.

841
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 2: We have now, and you got a pandemic on your

842
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: hands and we can say thanks a lot. I hope

843
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 2: you really enjoyed that monkey leg that killed off three

844
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 2: quarters of the population of humanity of Coross.

845
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: That what those two words? I don't like it.

846
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 2: I know, I know that's pretty rough. So I guess

847
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 2: you're done then too.

848
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: Huh, I'm done, sir.

849
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if you guys want to know more about

850
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: bush meat or the Beagle Brigade or anything like that,

851
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 2: type those words in the search bar at HowStuffWorks dot com.

852
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853
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Speaker 1: listening to your show when we are skiing. I remember

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Speaker 1: when my brothers and dad would try to comment on

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Speaker 1: your show to sound smart because it was so creepy.

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Speaker 1: One of your favorite episodes of ours was the one

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Speaker 1: on cannibalism. Being a high schooler at the time, I

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Speaker 1: also really liked the show on flirting, so I thought

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Speaker 1: I could put it into practice. Needless to say, it

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Speaker 1: didn't really work. Now what. This month, I went home

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Speaker 1: for a week to visit my parents, and I went

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Speaker 1: since my brother died. It was very painful, but also

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Speaker 1: unimaginably special. When my family and I are on the mountain,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I can encounter my brother as he

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Speaker 1: All in all, it was a great day. So I

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Speaker 1: but also inadvertently helping me cherish a special time in

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Speaker 2: I am that was heavy.

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Speaker 1: That is from Sam and sends hugs.

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Speaker 2: Sam. That is fantastic. Thank you very much for letting

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Speaker 2: us know. We appreciate that and our best to your

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Speaker 2: whole family. Absolutely, if you want to get in touch,

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