WEBVTT - How the Beagle Brigade Works 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.600 Attention anyone with access to an airplane. We're going to 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.799 be in North America for our North American two thousand 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.280 seventeen Stuff you Should Know Live tour, and we're kicking 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:17.000 it off in Toronto August eight, in Chicago August nine. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.200 Then we're gonna take a little break and hit Vancouver 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.119 on September and Minneapolis on September. Yep. Then we're doing 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.320 Austin October and Lawrence, Kansas October eleven, and then finally 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.880 we're gonna finish up October at the Three Nights Stand 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.040 at the Bellhouse October, before we wrap it up at 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.320 Home in Atlanta for a special benefit charity show on 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.880 November four at the Bucket Theater. YEP. You can get 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.800 all the info you need and buy tickets at our 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.199 other live show home on the web s y s 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.960 K live dot com. Go check it out and we'll 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:59.080 see you guys starting in August. Welcome to Stuff you 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:08.160 Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.319 welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh close Ark, There's Charles W. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:17.160 Chuck Bryant, Jerry, Jerome Roland's over there. So this is 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:23.920 Stuff you Should Know. The Beagle Brigade edition. Yes, and 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:32.600 another I guess we covered drug sniffers. Yeah, but not 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.040 or did we do Seeing Eye dogs as well? We did, remember, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.400 because Seeing Eye Dogs is actually a brand name. It's 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.840 one of those, uh like a band aid, yeah, Kleenex 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.760 or something. That one was that was a great one. Yeah. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.720 So I mean, is this the last job that dogs have? 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.040 You know? We we didn't cover dogs that service pack 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.400 animals yet. So oh that's right. Yeah, like Herder's Yeah, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.000 they'd be good, or Lumbarde act dogs. Oh that's true, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:07.800 that's right, or dogs that are sous chefs. Right. So yeah, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.040 we've got a big, big, long sweet coming. I thought 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.000 it was done. Sorry, no, no, but this one might 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.160 be the most adorable of all of them. Yeah, and 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.400 this one was. I was always confused. I always thought 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.080 the beagles at the airport, because as you will learn, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:29.320 Atlanta is they're they're trained here outside of Atlanta. But 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.120 I thought that that the beagles were. I just thought 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:38.280 they were drug sniffers everything sniffers. Oh I see No, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.240 you could have a big old suitcase full of cocaine 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.600 and walk right past that dog and be like, um, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.680 well that's good to know, you know, sure for the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.600 next time you're smuggling cocaine. Yeah, once you once you 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.360 make a pest of beagle, you're home free. But don't 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:58.119 have a head of lettus, no, because those beagles will 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.880 pounce on your neck and chew your throat it out. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:07.200 Don't have a whole hog. Can you believe that story? Totally? 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.079 So this one was I think it was in Atlanta, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.840 that Hartsfield Jackson Airport and there was a woman traveling 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:22.360 from Peru to the United States with a roasted pig, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.919 an entire roasted pig in her bag. And I mean 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.000 it was very sweet. You know, she was just trying 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.640 to bring home a holiday meal for her family. It 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.600 was Thanksgiving, I think, right, Yes, she smuggled in the 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.560 roasted big yeah. And it wasn't a little little you know, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.520 it was big. Well, they have pigs tend to be. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.400 I mean, it didn't say a suckling pig, a pig. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.840 I assumed it was a big old pig. It was 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.760 a picture of it. Oh yeah, that's right, but it was. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.440 It was a good sized pig. Yeah. The guy. Rob Brisley, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.000 public affairs officer, said the right steps had to be 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.600 taken to confiscate and destroy the item and then the 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.520 Senate stop. But I imagine he said with our mouths 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.520 right with with extreme vengeance. So anyway, I mean that's 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.080 just one example. Yeah, and we should we should probably 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.480 say exactly what we're talking about for those people who 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.479 haven't been to an international airport in the United States. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.240 But there is a group of working dogs that are 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.839 exclusively beagles, hence the name the Beagle Brigade from what 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.480 I understand, although I did see reference that they do 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.120 use labs sometimes, but I'm pretty sure it's almost exclusively beagles, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.880 if not exclusively beagles. And these dogs have a job. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.320 They're actually federal agents with the U s d A, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:45.800 the Department of Agriculture, no or not the d e 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.920 A either, but their federal their federal agents, and they 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:54.640 are Their whole job is to sniff out agricultural products UM. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.039 And the whole point of all of this is that 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:03.400 the US UM has a pretty densive agriculture infrastructure, right, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:10.120 and if something comes through, Say that's a a pest, right, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.919 like a bug that eats um, what do we grow here? Cotton? 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:19.680 Cotton we evil? But from another country? Right, So a 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:27.920 non native pest or non native plant or a diseased bat. Okay, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.440 it could wreak havoc not just on our agriculture system, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.400 but if if the wrong kind of thing comes through, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.919 Like there's there's procedures in place for for food to 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.480 come into the United States, you're not supposed to carry 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.720 it in your luggage because it has to be inspected. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.800 It has to come from a trusted source. We have 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.719 to know that it doesn't have something like hoofing math 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.080 disease or a bowl or something like that. Right, Yeah, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.880 I mean it says in't here are in our own 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.160 article that it's a one trillion dollar industry, our own 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:03.400 agricultural agricultural product industry, and that's import export, eating it, 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:08.960 producing it. Um an invasive species can be a hundred 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.040 says about a hundred thirty six billion dollars in agricultural 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.240 lost revenue um IS that annually, I believe, so man, So, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.680 I mean that's that's a lot of economy at stake here. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.400 So they take it very seriously. Right. So there's this 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.920 group um so the U s t A, the Department 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.480 of Agriculture here in the US. Um IS has a 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:36.520 subgroup called APHIS, which is the um animal plant Animal 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.440 and Plant Health Inspection Service, and they're the ones who 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.880 are casket with basically creating this virtual border, this virtual 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.120 barrier um to stuff coming in the US to protect 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:56.279 agriculture in the US, right, like the notorious Romanian cotton weevil, right, exactly, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:02.600 exactly the most insidious of all, and specifically at international airports, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:08.640 working in conjunction with the Customs Bureau CPD customers and 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.720 no CBP right, Customs and Border Patrol. You've got these cute, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.280 adorable little beagles who are trained to sniff this stuff 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.640 out from people who are trying to smuggle whole pigs 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.920 into the into the country when they're not supposed to. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:27.480 Bless that lady. I felt bad for you know, yeah, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:32.320 I mean I get it, sure, but I mean there's 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.600 no way she did not cry when when the agriculture 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.840 inspector took her whole pig she's going to feed to 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.000 her family with a waste of food. She works so 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.720 hard on that chuck. It might have been like her 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.840 favorite family pig that she was waiting, but it was babe. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.000 Babe gave his life. Uh So you want to talk 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.320 a little bit about these the history here, because it 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:06.640 did not UM agricultural agriculture dogs or agricultural detection did 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.120 not start in the US. It actually started in Mexico. Yeah, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.760 I guess was probably the early seventies. I did. I 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.240 could not find when it started, but yeah, we know 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.080 it's definitely prior to the seventies because based on this, 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.000 I guess it was a U s d A training 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.600 manual that was referencing it. It picks up then in 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.200 the late seventies that the U s d A started this. Yeah, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.320 and then up until three we use UM. We use 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.000 big dogs, you know, like typically, and I think we 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.000 covered this and a lot of the other like drug 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.960 sniffers like German shepherds and UM labs are certainly good, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.160 but they are UH labs aren't so intimidating, but German 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.199 shepherds can be. Even though I love them, I grew 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.240 up with them. UM, A lot of people the side 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.800 of a German shepherd coming at them in an airport 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.319 is a little scary. Yeah, I mean, and some people 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.840 have sinophobia, which is a fear of dogs specifically, and 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.640 in which case even the smallest dogs going to scare you. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.880 But even people who don't have an actual phobia of 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.320 dogs are going to be scared of certain breeds and 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.680 that definitely includes German shepherds for sure. So it started 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.920 in Mexico and then uh, finally in nine four, uh, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.280 the U s d A U s d A started 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.360 at l A x UM started, which is probably a 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.720 pretty good airport to pick for a for a pilot program, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.920 not a airplane pilot program, although I'm sure they had those. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.480 Did you hear about the King of the Netherlands. They 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.360 found out that he has been secretly undercover moonlighting as 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.319 a KLM airline pilot for fun for like the last 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.800 like once a week, um, for like the last twentysomething years, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.760 and has been flying. Yeah he's yeah, that's what I'm saying. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:56.040 Like he's been undercover flying, uh, not as the King 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.040 of the Netherlands, just trying to have a life of 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.560 his own. I thought you met like Leo DiCaprio, didn't 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.200 catch me if you can, he just pretended to be 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.600 a pilot to get based and fake checks. You're a king, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.520 you can't be a pilot. Wow. So was he was 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.200 did he come clean or was he outed? I guess 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.200 he was outed. And he said from time to time 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.800 somebody would recognize him, but he'd just have them um kidnapped, 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:26.120 kidnaps and killed rendered. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, well, good 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.520 for him. Yeah they should just let him fly, you know, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.920 I think, I think so they're gonna work it out, probably, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.840 I hope. So. If not, that guy's one outlet has 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.760 been taken away from well, so his pilot program is 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:44.040 maybe failing. But the pilot program in l A X 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.160 worked great, and they m this was a big deal 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.680 at the time too. It was a big change from 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.200 any kind of detection programs that they had at the time. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.480 I don't know why it took that long, but because 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.400 dogs are, you know, obviously well known snow first to 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.320 the tune of I mean, compared to humans, how many 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.680 millions of olfactory nerves the dogs have? I know it varies. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.400 So somewhere somewhere in the middle is the docks and 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.160 I didn't see the beagles specifically, but supposedly beagles are 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.840 about average as far as scenting goes, which is surprising 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.400 to me. But the docks and has a hundred and 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.960 twenty five million olfactory receptors amazing, and humans have five 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.120 million on average. And I know the dogs even there 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.320 the size of their nose can make a difference. So 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.360 I was a little surprised they picked beagles. But one 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.920 of the big reasons is a the Navy had used 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:44.080 them previously, uh to great success. And be like you said, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.199 you know, they're they're little, they're cute, so they're not 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.240 gonna scare anyone at the airport. Uh. And they can 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.640 they're agile. There's because they're small, and they can jump 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.439 around on a conveyor belt like nobody's business to find 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:02.719 that Romanian cotton weevil. Right. Sometimes they'll find just enough 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.920 fruit that they'll make a little head dress out of it, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.680 like Carmen Miranda. Nothing cure, that's a bagle in one 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.080 of those Um. Well. The other cool thing about the 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.400 dogs and their their sniffing abilities is uh, it's like 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.040 you can't disguise something like if you if you have 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.760 of course uh. I was about to say drugs again. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.240 But if you have, Let's say you want to sneak 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.840 in that cotton weevil and you think I'm gonna hide 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.760 in and a can of coffee. Actually that might be 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.600 you might not be able to bring in coffee either, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.640 now that I think about it. I was just trying 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.360 to think of something with a strong odor um a 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.640 bottle of perfume. The dog will be able to pick 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.280 that out of that perfume, right, we'll be able to 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.880 almost geo locate it. Uh, because they don't, they don't 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.679 get confused like we do. Yeah, so you know how 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.200 like a dog can when you when you watch a 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.160 dog on a scent, it's just kind of like sniffing 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.679 back and forth in the air is as So what 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.840 it's doing is it's it's basically the same thing with 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.160 our vision, right, the information is getting from one nostril 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.040 and the other nostril. It's brain is putting together to 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.760 create basically like a three D map of where that 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.320 smell is coming from. Just like the the information from 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.719 one eye compared to the information coming into our other 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:25.199 eye gives us an idea of like depth, right, or perspective, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.520 that kind of thing. So it's basically the same thing, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:32.800 but with their old factory sense um and the put 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.319 on top of that is the fact that they can 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.560 distinguish sense. Like this article, this U S d A 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.360 manual said, when you walk into a kitchen and you 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:47.160 smell chili, you smell chili, right, Chili's cooking. Put it 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.040 all together. It's chili. That's what you smell is the 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.080 sum of all the parts. Yeah, you know, if you're good, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.440 you might be able to pick out a thing or 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.920 two maybe like you know, like do I detect Yeah, 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.120 some cumans, But um, a dog will walk in there 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.959 and smell every single one of the ingredients separately, right, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.400 which is why you can't just take something and try 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.880 to overpower the smell of it with something else. The 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.800 dog will smell the thing that you're using to try 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.000 to overpower with, but it will also smell the other scent. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.840 Apparently they can smell this thing says they can smell 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:24.360 table salt in a dilution of one part to ten 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.480 million parts. That's amazing, Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.480 That's also why if you've ever taken your dog to 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:35.400 a new um, like a new really new environment that 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.080 they've never been to, like the beach. For instance, when 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.600 I took I think a couple of years ago, we 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.480 did a beach vacation and took our dogs and uh, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.880 they were going crazy, Like they walk them down to 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.600 the beach and it was just nose in the air. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.840 Because you know, there's always a good breeze or usually 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.480 a good breeze on the beach. And I can imagine 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.240 they were just they were smelling these just hundreds and 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.840 hundreds of things that they've never smelled before. Yeah. Uh, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.240 And it's pretty neat to see, and you kind of 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.160 wonder what's going on. And that lunkhead of theirs, you know, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.160 ca'se one luckhead and one smart one. I've seen before. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.280 Um that when a dog is sniffing out a tree, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.520 what you're watching them do is sniff you know, the 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.840 tree itself, but also every single insect in that tree, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.480 every bird in that tree, everything that's in that tree. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.960 Right then that dog is smelling that. Yeah. And and 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.280 and I think it definitely varies because obviously some dogs 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.320 are better, like hunting dogs and such. And the my 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:37.440 new dog, Nico, we think maybe part plothound. What's there 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.320 just like a you know, a hound. Okay, I mean 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.360 you can look up platound and it looks like my dog. Okay, alright, 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.320 but like a mix of a plathound. But I think 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.240 that they're like really good um sent dogs too, because she, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.200 more so than other dogs I've had, is really driven 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.880 by her nose and when you let her out, she's 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.520 got her nose to the ground like for quite a while. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.320 I was reading today about scent tracking, and apparently it's 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.200 something like some people like to do agility stuff with 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.840 their dog, or other people do like obedience like competitions 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.800 and stuff, and then other people and apparently this also 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.360 is a really good thing to do. If you found 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.880 your your dog is like no good at obedience, they 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.760 might actually love scent tracking because unlike the obedience stuff 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.520 or the agility stuff, when you're when you're scent tracking, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.480 the dog is totally in charge, like you're basically following 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.120 the dog, but you're doing it together, especially during training 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.960 as well. Well, you know, they say if your dog 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.680 has behavioral problems, and a lot of times that means 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.880 they have a job that they're not being they're not 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.120 allowed to do. Oh yeah, that makes sense. You know, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.680 Like if you have a herding dog that doesn't have 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.440 a herd, then that might be a big pain in 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.880 your butt until you can find a way to kind 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.480 of let them. I don't know, they can not necessarily 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.000 part time as a hurter, but do something that acts 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.000 as a hurder, you know, might as well make some 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.960 money off of it. Uh, you wanna take a little break. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.320 M all right, We're gonna take a break and get 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:25.320 back to the beagles right after this. M alright, chuck, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.040 So we're back. So we were talking basically about dogs 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.239 in general, but since the U. S d A has 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.240 been training beagles for its Beagle Brigade, right, which is 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:42.800 this frontline covering America's agricultural infrastructure. That is correct. So 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.760 um I was very heartened to learn from researching this 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.480 that the beagle Brigades, specifically with the U. S d A, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.639 all of them come from shelters. They're all shelter animals. Yeah, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:58.639 and you know what, it kind of makes sense. At first, 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.080 I just thought it was out of the kind of 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.639 of their heart that they wouldn't like support the dog 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.480 buying industry, but they they a lot of times just 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.159 get problem dogs, these beagles that are so like you know, 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.480 up in the business in your pantry or your refrigerator, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.040 or sniffing out your shoes so they can chew them up. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.399 People will you know, uh, well, I have opinions on this, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.760 but people will turn that dog back in or whatever 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:29.760 to be adopted, hopefully from a no kill shelter. Very 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.280 so then that's a that's a big point that this 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.600 um USD a spokesperson makes in the House to Works 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.320 article is like a lot of people are saying, I'm 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.120 not quite sure how I feel about this. You guys 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:46.720 are using these dogs as tools basically, UM, and I 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.040 don't know. I don't think dogs should be used that way. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.240 And the the u s d's responses what a lot 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.439 of these dogs would would basically be put down if 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.160 it weren't for us. You know, they would be euthanized 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.399 because they can't they're too hyper to to live with 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.679 a family. But there's exactly the kind of temperament we 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.040 need for what we're having them do. So actually it's 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.880 win win for everybody. Well yeah, and and as much 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.560 as I love my dogs laying around in bed with me, 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.760 um a happy dog, it's a dog that's working and exercising, um. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:21.960 And then at the end of the night they get 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.600 to relax. But you know, it's easy to and we 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.760 we cover some of this and uh and seeing eye 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.800 dogs and stuff, it's easy to be like, oh man, 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.159 that dog doesn't get to have fun all day, and 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:33.919 that's just not true at all. These dogs have a 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.640 purpose and they Uh, they're good at what they do. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.000 Is so I don't don't think of it as like 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.600 using this dog as a tool UM in a bad way, 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.680 you know, right. And then on the other end of it, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:49.120 if the dog is brought into the program and they 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.000 find out that the dog doesn't have what it takes, UM, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.399 maybe it doesn't work very well amidst chaos that like 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:02.639 an airport always has, or um, perhaps the the the 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.120 dog just seems unhappy. They say, if the dog seems unhappy, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.480 they'll retire it early. Uh. At any rate, they have 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:16.000 apparently a record of adopting out their beagles and there's 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.919 a waitlist right now, UM to adopt these beagles that 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.399 have have worked for you know, several years or or 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.080 didn't work, didn't make it, but you know, entered into 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.840 the program. They don't return them to shelters, they don't 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.960 euthanize them. They adopt them out. And apparently the USDA 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.720 has a hundred percent adoption record on that, which is 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:39.120 pretty outstanding. Yeah. And as with a lot of service dogs, UM, 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.800 their first uh, their handlers given first right of refusal 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:47.760 for adoption, UM, which they do, so you know, but yeah, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.399 I would guess so too, because apparently when the dog 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:56.760 and the handler are paired up together as a team, um, 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.960 they they stay a team for the dog's whole career. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.679 It's like like Riggs and Myrtal, right, or Turner and Hooch. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:06.919 Actually it's not like Ricks and Murtalk because they were 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.879 prepared at the very end of Danny Glover's career. So 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:12.960 that was a bad announce. Oh that's right, that's true 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.720 because he's too old for that crap. Yes, that was 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.760 a big line. Yeah, that was a great line, and 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.880 that a TV show. Now, I don't think it is anymore. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:27.800 Jerry's nodding, but that probably means you're both right short lived. 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.080 I think so. I haven't seen any ads for it lately. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.640 What a dumb idea, like, hey, let's dust this thing off. 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.800 They do that with everything like twin Peaks even it's like, how, 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.560 how come on, how are you going to pick that 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.400 back up? Let's just I don't mind that, because that's 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:48.200 just more greatness from David Lynch. Is it any good 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:51.200 I've heard? Not necessarily. I think it's great. I mean 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.000 it's uh, I mean, I'm a fan of anything David 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.120 Lynch does. It doesn't I didn't expect it to be 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.760 exactly what Twin Peaks was. It just feels like a 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.919 new TV show from David Lynch to me. Really okay, 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.439 you know, yeah, I could be down with that. UM. 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.879 All right, so let's get into this. You mentioned handlers. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.800 We've been dancing around this the whole time. You mentioned handlers, 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:18.240 And uh, this, like we said earlier, this takes place 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:23.320 at a place called the National Detector Dog Training Center 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:29.400 the ind d TC, right here in Lovely Noon in Georgia, which, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.879 uh is that west? I think it's south Atlanta, west southwest, 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:38.240 like just down eighty five after it splits off. My 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:40.400 knowledge of my own home state is pretty poor. If 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.240 I haven't camped there and it's outside of Atlanta, I 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.720 probably don't know exactly where it is. I'm pretty sure 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:50.760 I'm right, okay, southwest. Then let's go with that, um. 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.879 And they start training. Like with most service dogs, they 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.000 do that initial testing to just sort of see are 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.640 they healthy, do they have the right temperament, how's their 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:02.639 behavior here? And that initial screening is where the first 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.800 lot gets weeded out. And one of the biggest parts 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.359 of that initial weeding out is they have to have 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.400 a high food drive. And that's not that doesn't mean 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.080 how hungry are they? That means your dog has just 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.720 been fed. Those little beagles just eaten, they still have 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.280 a high desire to get to where the food is 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:26.600 like bacon, bacon. Basically that's what you're looking for. And 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:28.440 you make a lot of noise and you have crowds 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:32.239 around and you just you're testing their focus. And this 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:34.520 is all just the like I said, the initial screening 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.199 to say, all right, little Henry the beagle here has 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:41.960 what it takes, right, we think, yeah, well, yeah, that's 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:46.960 just the start. Can he also learn to differentiate? That's 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.119 the big one. That's the next big step, right, So 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.280 I think there's like a one or two week like 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:55.720 evaluation UM process. They also like give the dog a 0:23:55.800 --> 0:24:01.280 full like veterinarian inspection UM. I believe they spay and 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.560 or neuter. I guess not and or specifically not and 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.879 or in that case, or they they spay or newter 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.639 to the dog. UM. A lot of times the dogs 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.199