Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 12 | And The Nominees Are... | Guest: Burt Ward

Episode Date: January 22, 2019

Jeffy gives you today's news with his spin and Burt Ward decides to drop in to talk about dogs and dog food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yes, you could drive around the country in the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile. How much fun would that be? Actually, that sounds fun. You got to be excited all the time. The position, you get clothes. you get to drive around in the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile. Have you ever seen that? Have you ever been pulled at a place where the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mabill is?

Really cool. I don't know why it is. I don't know why it's so excited to see that thing driving down the road, but it just is. It just is. And I bet, I bet that you get to travel the country and all you're going to be doing is singing. this.

My baloney has a first night. It's OS, C-A-R. My baloney has a second name. It's M-A-Y-E-R. Oh, I love to read. B-N-A. Think about it. All right, I don't want to get too political,

but that particular job, if you're looking for a gig, you happen to be out of work as a government worker. That's a good gig to start. you get it on the road with the Oscar Meyermobile. Also in Tennessee, a strip club, actively seeking to employ furloughed government workers. Hello? Offering jobs to federal government workers, the deja vu showgirls of Nashville.

There were jobs for workers who have been without a paycheck for weeks. Now, you're hosting, security staff, and waiting positions. Now, I'm guessing. that if you're worthy and feel up to it, you can take the stage too. But they're not telling you you have to. You get a decent hourly wage plus tips. I mean, it's a good gig.

And, I mean, really, between you and me? After a while. Once you're there, you get used to the scenery. You know, when you first walk in, you might say to yourself, ooh, that was a little rough on the day. the stage. A couple days, waiting tables. You can't wait for her to walk back on on that stage.

Now, speaking of people commenting about the government shutdown, can we, can we please, if I went to the Lady Gaga show, and I would, I mean, if I was in Vegas and Lady Gaga has her residency in Vegas and somebody said, hey, we've got tickets to the Gaga show, I would go. Heartbeat, love to see her. But if she, while I was there, did what she did the other night, paused during her performance of her show million reasons, saying,

if that effing president of the United States was plead put our government back, there are people who live paycheck to paycheck and need their money. Now, I don't necessarily disagree with that, but it isn't the effing president of the United States, that's doing it. Lady. And then she took off after Mike Pence

and started firing at wife Karen. And to Mike Pence who thinks it's acceptable that his wife works at a school that bans LGBTQ. You're wrong. And she went on. I don't even want to read what she said because it's agonizing.

And it was just going to make me more angry. And I know I try to try very hard not to make this program political. It's chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. I try to help you get through the day. Try to make you laugh. Try to make you think a little sometimes. That's a stretch I know. But, you know, I try to make that happen. And I really do. It's not want to cover all this political stuff. You can get that everywhere. You really can.

I mean, you go behind, you go to Blaze TV, our free podcast at the podcast network. You subscribe to Blaze TV. There's plenty of shows. Well, I don't know. There's a guy that runs the joint. Glenn Beck covers a lot of it. Another guy that kind of runs the joint, although he says he doesn't, Mark Levin.

He covers it pretty, you know, pretty at length. John Miller. I was actually at the White House. There's three off the top of my head. Just to name. Oh, maybe, yeah, that's it. That's it. Soup boy.

What is it, Clem Chowder? Does Soup Boy, I mean, he covers politics pretty good, too, doesn't he? He does. He does. So we got to give Soup Boy his credit to. I apologize for not giving, what's his name? Chowder.

Crowder. Oh, yeah, that's right. Stephen Crowder. Stephen Crowder. I just slip my tongue. Okay, so for all of you that think that it's so cool that you've got your little runners watch and your little health ID watch and your little fit bit and your little, what is it called? The Garmin Four Runner.

It's the Garmin Fourrunner. It's got the GPS and everything on it. You like wearing those? Yeah. Well, there seems to be an issue because. this man Mark Iceman Fellows, number 39, a mob hitman, had his garment in a picture he was wearing.

And police, you know, they thought he was guilty of killing one guy. And then another guy got murdered. And they're looking through, you know, they couldn't prove it. But they're looking through photos of Mark Iceman Fellows. And he's got a picture of the Garmin watch on in the picture. So when they performed their search, they looked for the watch, all the GPS information, everything about where the murders took place is in the watch. Oh, guilty.

Go ahead. Tell me how cool that Fitbit is now. Oh, oh, you're not doing anything wrong. So there's no way they could get you for anything. Okay. You think so? It's fine with me. Don't worry about it.

We do have breaking news today, though, as we record Chewing the Fat today. Attorney Frank Diomico says he's filed a civil suit in New Orleans on behalf of Saints' season ticket holders. That's the New Orleans Saints football team, season ticket holders, to make the right call and bring both teams back to replay the end of the game this past weekend. Good luck. Well, there is a rule. I read the rule Sunday night or Monday morning where the commissioner actually has the power to do that. It will never happen. The world would fall apart.

The NFL would be done and doomed if that could happen. I mean, if he actually tried to do that. But it could theoretically happen. I mean, he could have theoretically said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no. And I forget the wording of the rule, but he could make it happen. But because they were, you know, all the. people were freaking out and they were pulling out, you know, the rules out of the NFL rulebook from, you know, 1910.

Yeah, all the leatherheads were pulling out rules that are never going to happen. Good luck making that happen. You know, it's a genuine gesture to feel good. This guy, this attorney will work forever in New Orleans and make a fortune. People will be on his side. But it's never going to happen. I'm sorry, as much as you want it to happen. When you, theoretically, you know, we talked a little bit about it yesterday.

It's a bad call, a bad non-call. Could the game have the turnout? The outcome been the same? Absolutely could have. The outcome could have been the same even if that call existed. Probably wouldn't have been, but it could have been. So move on. I mean, I'm sorry, it sucks.

Games all the time. You shouldn't, as a team, and every coach will tell you this, no matter how mad they are, even Sean Payton, head coach of the New Orleans Saints, well, he's still pissed about the non-call. We'll tell you you shouldn't be in a place where one call affects the outcome of a game. You should already be in place to win that game prior to that call. So, good luck. Good luck.

And speaking of football, Gladys Knight, you know, the high profile of African-American entertainer. Don't shake your head. You don't know who Gladys Knight is? Are you kidding me? Chris Cruz? What is she saying? Gladys Knight and the Pips?

The Pimps? The Pips. Gladys Knight and the Pips. The Pips were her backup dancers and singers. A lot of people pretended they were, you know, that was, you ever performed? I was a PIP. In fact, one of the greatest,

one of the all-time Johnny Carson shows from the night show, you do remember, recall Johnny Carson in the, Tonight Show, right? The Pips just did their part without Gladys Knight on the show. So it was just the Pips, and they did all their moves and they're, ooh, and do their backup singing and just their singing and they're dancing, which was actually pretty funny.

But Gladys Knight, she's 74. She's going to be singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in the next couple of weeks. And she's a seven-time Grammy Award winner. She wants to restore the voice of the voice. the anthem and an attempt to unite America. Amen. She states it is unfortunate that our national anthem has been dragged into this debate when the distinctive senses of the national anthem and fighting for justice should each stand alone. I'm here today and on Sunday, February 3rd, to give the anthem back its voice, to stand for that historic choice of words the way it

unites us when we hear it, and to free it from the same prejudices and struggles I have fought long and hard for all my life. She noted that Kaepernick is protesting two things. Police violence and injustice. Nevertheless, she contends his protest adopted by other athletes, some of whom are still kneeling during the anthem, is misguided. No matter who chooses to deflect with this narrative and continue to mix these two in the same message, it's not so and cannot be made so by anyone speaking it. I pray that this national anthem will bring us all together in a way never before witnessed,

and we can move forward and untangle these truths which mean so much to us all. Amen, Gladys Knight. Now, you know, I mean, the halftime acts have taken a beating. Maroon 5, rappers Travis Scott and Big Boy, are going to be performing at halftime. And there were a lot of groups that they made a big deal about turning down, playing the halftime for the NFL.

Well, I want you to pay attention to some of the two-week parties that are going on in Atlanta, put on by big corporate sponsors all over Atlanta for the party, the Super Bowl party week, which is why they extended the instead of a week. The NFL wanted two weeks between the church. championship and the Super Bowl so that they could get that extra week of travel time and bring people in so they're all there for the big party week building up to the Super Bowl. Yeah, those acts are going to be performing there.

So they're really hardcore against the NFL and that kneeling thing, but they're still taking money for the parties. They're not going to do the Super Bowl, but they're doing all these parties surrounding the Super Bowl. So a lot of the acts were already booked for these other big parties. But, you know, they made a big deal about it. Now, another line, now Nessa, you know Nessa, she's the girlfriend of Colin Kaepardick. She's pissed, and of course she's pissed.

She's, you know, she's an activist. That's what she helped shove Colin over the edge, right? But night, an Atlanta native and longtime civil rights advocate, Atlanta, I'm coming home. I've been in the forefront of this battle longer than most of these voicing their opinions to win the right to sing our country's anthem on the stage as large as the Super Bowl. Have a nice day. That's me, not her. She didn't say have a nice day, although I would have.

Now the critics, of course, are Gladys Knight is now against Colin Kaepernick. No, she didn't say that at all, did she? She didn't say she said that he shouldn't be using the national anthem and his fight together. That's all. She wasn't saying she was against what Colin Kaepernick was fighting for. She was saying she was against him using the National Anthem to use it for his fight. But good luck making that happen. You have about as much luck of making that happen?

And I'm glad this is going to do a tremendous job and it's going to be awesome. And I hope that it works. But it probably is going to work about as well as the attorney in New Orleans trying to get the game to have a do-over. Because it ain't going to happen. A newly discovered species of ancient shark has been named after a 1980s arcade game. The shark swam in the rivers of what is now South Dakota, U.S., about 67 million years ago, living alongside the iconic dinosaur species such as T-Rex. It's been named Galagadon after the 1981 Japanese-U.S. game Galagadon.

It's named that because of its tiny teeth looking like the game. The tiny teeth featuring less than a millimeter across were discovered in sediment left when paleontagius at the Field Museum in Chicago uncovered the bones of the T-Rex specimen. So it was just in the mud. Oh, we got a T-Rex.

Nobody cares about the shark. This fucking song, man. Kills me. It was related to modern carpet sharks such as the Wabagong. It has been named. Wait, why did we stop the music? Yeah, but why can't we do? What kind of piece of dump production is this place?

No, I don't even want to hear it anymore. We're done. Baby freaking shark is done. You know, the first time I heard that freaking baby shark song was that some scout thing that my son was at. And they were all up on the stage doing the baby shark song. And, you know, clapping baby shark, little baby shark, mama shark, baby shark, the whole damn shark family.

And they had a little video of it. It was so cute. And then it's never ending. And then they have this new version of the baby shark thing. Again, never ending. So I thought I'd, you know, work it in with the fossil shark. apparently well you heard the you heard what happened you heard what happened so today the 91st Academy Award nominations were nominated now they had their nominations for

the Academy Awards that really doesn't sound like the Academy Award music I mean all right no stop that stop that that doesn't even sound of the people walking on the red carpet. That might be the offshoot of the people on the red carpet. Coming to you live, played again, but I'm starting again. Coming to you live

from the 91st Academy Awards. Yes, here in Hollywood, has the actors arrive on the red carpet on this cable station that nobody watches. But we're broadcasting live. Is that Blake lively?

Oh, no, it's not. Sorry. Is that? Hold on. Wait, sorry again. Is that Christian Bale? Bradley Cooper? William Defoe,

Robbie Malick, Vigo Morgensen? Coming down the red carpet as we speak here on. I'm even holding my hand up like I've got a microphone on the red carpet. For whatever reason, I don't know. Coming to you live. Oh, look from the red carpet. Oh, my gosh. Is that Lady Gaga?

Is that Glenn close in a wheel? I mean, is that Glenn close? Wait, we didn't go. We'll be back for the 91st Academy Awards Red Carpet Walk. We'll see if we can get someone to talk to us. Hello, Regina King. Is that you? Wakanda.

Hey, is that you? No. Oh. We'll see if we can find the MC of this dump. Oh, wait, they don't have one. You know, I want to say, all right, stop the stupid, god-awful thing. The, tell me you wouldn't watch that.

Tell me you wouldn't watch it. I should do it live like that because it would be fantastic. But, the first Academy Awards presentation in Hollywood, California. Yes, today we're going to be looking for someone to emcee this thing.

Is that Amy Adams? Coming down the red carpet? Amy. Amy. Oh, here comes Emma. Stone. She's nominated for actress in a supporting role. Emma! Well, we'll be back in a moment to see

if someone will talk to us. Still holding my hand up like I've got a microphone in it on the red carpet for whatever reason I don't understand. Back with more in a moment. That'd be fun, actually. And I'd actually maybe even have a microphone in my hand, although I'd be fun just standing there without a microphone, pretending like I'm talking into

like your phone would be actually kind of funny i was going to start breaking down the whole i kind of gave you who was it for is that the entire cast back with more of the 91st academy awards in hollywood california is that the entire cast of black panther hello hey wakonda whatconda why is it he doesn't even look at at me. Is that, is that Romney Malick? Hey, Queen Forever. Robbie. Robby. No one will talk to us. I don't know why. Maybe next year I'll have an actual microphone and they'll stop and talk to me here on the red carpet on the 91st, although next year it'll

be the 92nd Academy Awards. Glad to be with you. Live. Why am I holding my hand up like I have a microphone? Seriously, I don't know why. I'm dying. I want to do it, though. I want to broadcast for the Academy Awards like that. That would be fantastic. I also want to say to the Academy, waiting, call me. And look, you don't even,

you can just, you know what, if you don't want to DM me on Twitter at Jeff E.MRA, you don't want to message me on Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. You don't want to message me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. Email me. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Just email me, direct. Now, I will say this.

Now, if you think to yourself, well, you know, Jeff, you're really, you're kind of fat. And we don't want you, we don't want you. Yeah, kind of. We're still athletically overweight. We don't really, you know, you're not going to look that great up on stage. And people, you know, okay, so I'll tell you what, I'll make a deal with you. I'll just be the guy. You don't even need to be up on stage.

It'll make it go faster. The audience will stick around longer for you. So you don't have coming to you live. coming to you live at the 10th hour of the 91st Academy Award no one is starting to leave yet and what they do we'll try to grab them and see how they felt about the presentation more in a minute you know they'll cut it down you make it like a two and a half

two and a two hour program people will watch have you ever done that what you just did like send the red carpet for any award ceremony like the podcast awards or anything like that. Coming to you live from the 91st. No, what are you talking about? Why would I be? I did it one.

For an announcer, you mean? Yeah, I did it once. To interview people and stuff? It was fantastic. Did you do that for Puerto Rican Daily? No, it was for the NAB show in Vegas. And they're doing like a podcast award and it was like a streaming, something like that. I got to me some high celebrities like from, not desperate housewife.

one of the housewives thingies. They were that big of a star. Yeah. Well, they show won a bunch of things. But it was really interesting. Like, what you just did right now was like almost exactly the same. People were yelling. And they're like, I was in my one little spot with like my little, you know, for the people I worked for at that time.

And I was like, do I just stand in there? Yeah, don't move. Don't move. Don't move. And they had escorts. I was like, wow. It was pretty cool. Well, that's a wrap from the 91st Academy Awards.

Congratulations to all the winners well deserved, and for you that were losers, you know it was just an honor to be nominated. Man, it was a joy to be with you tonight at the 91st Academy Awards here on the red carpet. I want to thank everyone who stopped by to say hello, even though they didn't. Good night from the Academy Awards. Works for me. Oh, yes. And now back to our regular programming.

an interview with Bert Ward. So joining us on Chewing the Fat today is a man that, you know, was part of a television series 53 years ago. And so many people we hear of in today's world that don't want to get locked into a character, Bert Ward has been locked into a character for just that long, joining us on Chewing the Fat. Bert, thank you for joining us. How are you, sir?

I'm fine citizens. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Wow, I've got music for you today, too. Nice. Now, before, I know, I know, you know, the world wants to talk to you about how Batman is and, you know, life, how life has been. But really, you're joining us to talk about National Train Your Dog Month, which is January. And coming up here in a little while is take your dog for a walk day.

Isn't that every day, really, if you own a dog? Well, I'm actually here to talk about the fact that for the last 25 years, my wife and I have rescued more than 15,500 dogs. We operate general giants rescue and adoptions, the world's largest giant-free dog rescue. Amazing. And in the course of saving 15,500 dogs, we have developed a feeding and care program and a very special dog food that we have dogs living up to 27,000. years, incredibly healthy with a wonderful quality of life. And there's a lot of people out there that love their dogs. They love to have an extra five or ten years. Yeah, that would be absolutely amazing. Now, when you and your wife been doing this now, you said for 25 years,

when you first 25 years ago, did you think it would be what it is today? Absolutely not. Here's what happened. We moved to where we're living now about an hour east of Los Angeles with our young daughter, we thought we'd get her a dog, and we wanted to get a Great Dane. What we found out was that there weren't very many Great Dains because there was no rescue, and people that gave up Great Dains were turning them into animal shelters where they were being put to death. Wow. And Great Dains are very gentle animals. That's why they call them gentle giants. And I said to my wife, Tracy, the first week of August of 1994, for, hey, we can't let these dogs die.

They're so sweet and loving. How about just for a couple of weeks till we find somebody else to take this over? Let's just rescue these great Danes and they don't have to die. There you go. But the month of August. That was a mistake, though, Bert.

Well, wait a minute. That was a mistake. August, we had 100. And it's been 25 years. I'm still waiting for that person to come by two weeks later can take over this rescue. You know, and I'm a patient guy, okay? I'm patient.

You have to be. Yeah. You have to be. Here's the thing. You know, when we started taking great gains and then people would come to and to drop off their great gain, they'd say, well, you know, I've got this Mastiff here, and I guess since you just take great gains, I'll have to take him to the shelter and have them put to sleep.

And we say, oh, no. No, you can't do that. Yeah. So you first thing you know, we're taking Mastiff's. Then we're taking others. And in each case, my wife said, well, you know, it's related to a great day. So now, after 25 years, I'm going to give you my wife's definition of a great thing. If it has four legs and a tail, it must be a great day.

Got to be related to a great date, right? Got to be. So how much since in the 25 years since you're still, you know, standing around on the front porch waiting for people to come and get these dogs from you? How much property have you attained next to your house that you moved with your daughter and your wife to house these animals. Oh, no. They're all in our house.

We have more than 50 in our house at all times. And we are expert trainers, but the key thing here is that we've got them living so much longer. And for example, a great thing with a traditional lifespan of seven to nine years, using our gentle giant dog food, which, by the way, we take no salary from, this is not about money. Nothing we do regarding dogs do we get paid for. But our gentle giant dogs that we created, we have Baines living up to 22 years on this food. Now that is crippled their lifespan. Other breeds, we have English mass of 16, 17 years, Irish will pound 16, 17 years. Those are

traditionally anywhere 5 to 7 or 6 to 8 years. How are there? And our other breeds up to 27. I mean, that's absolutely a How are there, is there quality of life? Now, obviously quality of life diminishes no matter what you do. I get that. But, you know, is there quality of life? No, no, no. No, no.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We have them in their 20s running around like puppies jumping in the air. But the way we do it is a combination of three things, how you feed your dog, how you care for your dog and what you feed your dog. Kind of like opening up one of these, you know, locks where you have to turn it to left and then turn it to the right and turn it to the left. In other words, you have to get all three right to get the best benefit of it. Right.

But our dogs are living incredible. The quality of life is far superior. And the reason for that is it's all based on science. It's not hocus pocus. For example, with our food, I'll just give you one quick example. And there's 20 different things I can say. But I don't know. Do you have a dog, by the way?

Not right now. Not right now. I do not. I'm waiting for someone to drop one off at my house, Bert. You know anybody that could do that? Oh, well, don't you worry. We'll be there tomorrow afternoon. No, but seriously, here's the thing.

For your listeners out there, I invite them to whatever food they're feeding their dog. When they get a chance, go over and feel that food in their fingers, pick it up, feel in their fingers, put it down, rub their fingers together, and they're going to feel a slightly greasy feeling. If they're not sure about that, then they can go rub the inside of their dog's bowl after the dog eats or inside of the bag or the container that they put the food below the level of food. They're going to feel a greasy feeling. That greasy feeling is animal fat that was sprayed onto the food after the food was made. Wow.

Why was it done that? It was done to make the dogs eat the food and more sinisterly because of making them hungry to want to eat and eat and eat. That's why some people tell you, oh, I have to limit how much my dog eats because he eat himself sick. Right. Right. Those bastards, big pet food. Right. So we don't do that. We don't have a greasy coating on the outside. But let me tell you how seriously bad it is. You wouldn't take bacon grease and pour down your garbage disposal at home. So with you, because it would ruin it. It would harden and it would ruin the metal garbage disposal.

So I explain to people, when you understand that animal fat will ruin a metal garbage disposal, what do you think is happening to the arteries and intestines of the. dog you love with every single single every bite you take they take us encapsulated animal fat there's the difference of five to seven years right there in an animal's life that's absolutely amazing all the things we do it works this is all real this is all science and we have a website general giants dogfood dot com that we like people to come to read about what we do you know what took us 25 years of our life to learn your average listener can learn in less than 25 minutes what it took us 25 years Right. Well, as I'm sitting or listening to you, I'm like, I don't have a dog in my house, but we do watch my son's dog. And, you know, we love that dog as much as any animal you could possibly love.

And all I want to do is feed it gentle giant's dog food now. And that's a fact. Well, it is. And the thing is, because we don't take any money from this, our dog food actually retails for less than half the price of what you would pay for an all natural food in a pet store. So let me ask you something, Bert. At the price, twice the life. The problem is you can't find it anywhere? I mean, how do people find the dog food? Oh, no, it's this little chain called Walmart you might have heard of, you know, the little chain across it. And it's on Walmart.com.

It's actually in many. It's in thousands of stores all across America. And we put it in supermarkets and we put it in Walmart for the reason that we want it to be brought to the consumer as inexpensively as possible. When we don't take anything from, and we went to Walmart and said, look, we'll give you this food at our cost. Please, there's so many people that love their dogs. Can you make this as inexpensive as possible? And boy, did they ever do that. Wow.

And because of that, you know, now people who normally could never afford to have a really super high-end food can have this food, which because of the fact it doesn't have the fat, and on the outside or the grease, and it doesn't have the fat added on the inside, which we haven't even discussed, or the added protein. There's all different kinds of things with technical things. But the bottom line. Yeah, now you're getting into science, Bert. It is, and it's all science. But that's why we do this because we love animals. And, you know, can I tell you, I was so lucky on Batman, so much success.

You know, to be able to go out and have people all over the world, you know, love your show. And, you know, which we had so much fun doing. And then to be able to turn around and not only save animals' lives, but go to people who love their dog and I got to tell you I'll bet you some of your listeners are people who are elderly maybe their kids have moved out and grown up and now all they've got is that dog and they don't want to lose that dog that dog helps keep them young so let's keep the dog living another eight to ten years longer and you'll keep those people living longer too so in uh in your years of having a house full of uh well humans and dogs um they according to the according to my notes here

It says there are three commands that every dog owner should know. And the only three I could think of are what, kill, attack, sick them? No? We had a little static. Could you repeat the question? I had a little status on the lot. No problem. I was just wondering about in the notes it talks about you have three commands that every dog owner should know.

And I was trying to think that the only three I could think of were kill, attack, sick them. And I'm sure those aren't right. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. No, actually, what I, what, what, what, what, what, it was a little bit misstated, what it is, we here's what we believe it. For people that want to have a great relationship with their dog, they first have to have communication. If you can't communicate to your dog, which you're trying to accomplish, okay, they can't

comply with that communication. Dogs want to please their owners. They're, they're loving, and they live for their owners. But if you can't communicate with them, so we teach people how to communicate. communicate. Okay, and we do that not only on our website, gentle giants dog food.com, but through our Facebook page, General Giants Dog Food and products and our email address and our phone number. I mean, we're helping people, about 1,100 people a week come to us. And once you establish a way of communicating with your dog, let me tell you, your dog's going to want to do

anything they can to please you because they love you. Well, plus, if you're feeding it gentle giants dog food, they're going to feel better and be more ready to. to please you. Yes, and a lot healthier. And you know something we've noticed? Our dogs are so healthy that we only take them to a veterinarian every three years for a $10 rabies update. And that's because that animals are so healthy and they stay healthy.

And, you know, nutrition is really key. I mean, if you don't have your health, you don't have anything. I mean, to be honest with you, I'm thinking about eating it. Well, you know something you're going to do very well. well with it. Well, I'll tell you what is interesting. You know, it isn't some other food. You know, with the chicken, our chicken feast is Tyson chicken, the same chicken you buy in the grocery store.

In other words, we're not using some lesser quality of product. We're using the same quality product that people would eat, you know? And because of that, you know, the dog is getting every bit of the nutrition that it needs. I mean, people love their animals. My gosh, you know, I know some people that they would almost feed their dog before feeding themselves. Oh, I believe. And absolutely. That's absolutely true.

And it isn't scary. It's just that's the way it is, right? I mean, they're one of your children, and you feel that way. And look, it happened to you, right? I mean, you brought them into your home thinking that they were going to be there for a couple weeks, and then someone would come by miraculously and take them off your hands, and you're still waiting for that. But you realized that if you left them where they were, they were just going to get euthanized. And people, I mean, you don't want that.

We can't have that. And, you know, the thing is that it emotionally affects us. You know, it's funny, when I was growing up, I could watch television shows like, you know, Mutual of Omaha and Wild Kingdom and all these shows, you know, because of dealing with animals and because of what we see and the way we take them in sometimes, I can't watch those shows. I'm way too sensitive about animals and their health. And, you know, it's funny.

People think, oh, well, you probably become numb to these things. No, it's just the opposite. The more you see, the more sensitive you come, and the more you care. And it's become our life's work, you know. And so for us, we have a great time. Our house is full of dogs. That's true. But let me tell you, it's not bad having 50 dogs in your house.

I'll tell you one thing, I've never had a dog asked me to buy him a car. Not one? Not one. Now, by two children, on the other hand, that's a whole different. So you and your wife have plans to just continue this on now, or are you expanding even more? What's the future for gentle Giants dog food? Well, for our food is to be worldwide because we, We want to, but the thing that's happened to us with our rescue is kind of unique.

Because these dogs are living so long, our rescue has now, or is becoming a sanctuary. In other words, whereas we could adopt dogs before, how do you adopt a 16-year-old Great Dane? When you told a veterinarian you had a 16-year-old great day, they wouldn't even believe it could last that long. In other words, our dogs are living so long, we can't adopt them. So they will. Every dog will live its life out here. and, you know, we can only take so many. We have a limit of what we're allowed to take.

But it is an interesting situation. We never thought we would get them where everyone is living so long that, you know, it's hard to get them a home. When they do move on with their life, do you have a special ceremony or anything extra special that you do for them? I mean, I would think that you'd almost have to, right? And I'm not getting, I'm talking about the end. probably shouldn't be talking about it. Yeah. Well, let me just tell you something.

Interesting. A lot of dogs die and they can't get up and they're put to sleep or suffering with illness or pain or injury. You know, it's not a lot of fun to talk about, but I will tell you this. When we lose a dog, none of that is happening. They basically go to sleep and they just don't wake up. Wow. And I guess if you have to go, that's probably the best way to go.

Yeah, no kidding. Now, these dogs are in their 20s, okay? And they've already lived an amazing life much longer than they normally would have lived with a much better quality of life. Quality of life is everything, you know? And you see, the way our food works is we don't fill the dog's body with fat. And therefore, through the intestines and through the arteries, the nutrients flow to the body, which allows the dog to feel so much better and makes the dog healthier. And so when you have dogs that are feeling so much better and so much healthier, that quality of life is just so obvious and so noticeable.

And that's what every dog we have here. And look, that can't but help rub off on you as well. I mean, when they're happy and excited, it's you. I can't tell you how many people have come to us and said that their lives have been so enriched by the dog living so much longer. You know what I mean? And it happened with my own grandmother. God rest her soul. You know, she got one of our dogs, and the dog outlasted her.

I mean, it's just, you know, it's, you know, we, and we have people all the time that say, what can I do? I would do anything to keep this dog with me. And the other thing I hear all the time is, why didn't I find out about this two years ago when I lost this dog? You know what I mean? People are very sensitive. I mean, people, when they love their animals, that love doesn't go away. Oh, and they're not forgotten. They keep it in their memory.

So we just are out there, and this is all we want. We don't want anything else. You know, it's funny in life, as I grew up, you know, I'd like to have material things. But I get to a certain point in life where I don't need material things, okay? I mean, I've got my wife with my love of my life. I've got a beautiful home. I've got loving animals that adore me. and treat me good.

You've got rerun money coming in. I mean, what more do you need? No, no rerun money, my friend. No, no. No, you know that our reruns ended in 1971 because this is true. Screen Actors Guild up until 1971, only got reruns for the 10th up to the 10th reruns.

So when our show ended in 1968 by 1971, I've never seen a rerun check after that. That's damn near on American, Bert. We've got to fight that. Yeah, well, you know, I guess that's the way life is, you know. But the thing is, is that's perfectly fine. I've been very fortunate. I've done other things.

I've signed thousands. I think actually I've done 7,500 personal appearances and signed 8 million autographs. I believe that. You know, and, you know, and I can't tell how many people that has their lives have been enriched, they come up to get an autograph. And some of these adults, they bring lunch boxes that they had from, years ago. I know.

You know, the condition of that poor lunchbox, I don't know what happened to it. But, you know, if these things, they come up their treasures, they've guarded with their life to get an autograph for this, you know? I can remember. And half of them are coming up, and they bring their dogs to these appearances. And they let them in these memorabilia shows. They let them in with their pets. And then they, you know, they sit there and talk for 20 minutes, you know.

If you let them absolutely. I mean, look, everyone has their own memory and their own history and what you meant to them during the airing of the show. And wanting to come and see you. And part of seeing you again with their lunchbox is remembering that. And that's got to be special. Oh, yeah. Oh, one other thing that's kind of funny, I'll get up like a mom and dad of the two kids. The mom and dad grew up watching Batman when they were kids.

So here they come up with their kids. And when they get in front of me, what happens for a very brief time, They become childlike again. Now, their children have never seen them like this. So the father will say to his son, oh, Johnny, you know, I wanted to be Robin, and my brother was Batman. And he says, gee, dad, what are you talking like this? And then the mother says something like, oh, I was in love with Robin. And they go, Mom, and just for that brief moment.

And that is such a treasure to people go back to their childhood. I mean, how great could that be? Yeah, that's really great. And it's got to be a lot of fun. And only 8 million autographs, though. I mean, really, that's, what are you doing with your life? I don't know. I've got a lot of hand cramps, though.

Bert Ward, thank you so much for your time. I know you got to go, and I've kept you long enough. It was a pleasure talking to you. I know that it's a national training dog, and, you know, I know you're, trust me when I tell you that gentle giants dog food, dot com will get a visit from myself and my family very soon. You've convinced me. You sold me, Bert.

You sold me. Well, listen, can I tell you some? All I won is if I can give your dog another five or ten years, I will have done my job. As we said on Batman, Batman would say, come on, Robin. Let's go. Our job is done. Thanks, Bert. I appreciate it very much.

All right, buddy. Take care. A pleasure. Thank you for the wonderful interview. Absolutely. Thanks, Bert. See you. Peace.

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