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Hey, and welcome to Boomers on the Edge. Some guys in their 60s who still think they're 60. Your hosts, Ken and Ron. And this week's guest host, my brother, Brandy. Let's get started. Dumb, the dumb, a dumb, the dog. Dumb. Hey. This song is uh a dog song, obviously.

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Yeah.

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I think he's saying dumb isn't he now? Dumb, a dumb, a dumb dog.

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Did you have a dumb dog?

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We had a few dumb dogs, okay? And uh I I had a dog named Bosco that uh I don't know if we've recorded any stories about yet, but uh I don't think we Randy's gonna tell some stories about our other dog, Pepper. I don't know, maybe we weren't the best dog uh owners owners because they ended up doing odd things, and you said you were gonna tell some stories. It sounds like I might have been in college by the time these things happened.

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So did you get pepper from your grandpa? Uh no, from my grandma.

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She had the other dog that went with her.

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Yeah, he was Pepper was the uh runt of the litter. Yeah, he was definitely a runt. And grandma gave the dog to us, and our dad did not want that dog. No, because he already had got rid of Bosco and didn't want any other pets, and then we got Pepper, Karen Terrier. Yeah, and he from day one, dad didn't like the dog.

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He didn't want the dog. As I listened to this, it's like maybe the dogs should not have been around, you know. Right.

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In at this house. Dad just didn't want a dog. No. And uh mom liked the dog. It was her really yeah, it was attached to her.

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Yeah. Well, I just want to say one thing about you guys having pepper. Like I had some type of allergic reaction when I went in your house, and I'd come out and I'd be sneezing and my eyes.

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You know, it's weird because he was a Karen Terrier, and I believe those are actually supposed to be good for people who are allergic to dogs and cats and stuff. Which is interesting that you'd say something to me.

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So he looked like the little dog from the Wizard of Oz Karen Terrier. But more of a blonde, blonde color to him. So dad from day one didn't like the dog and didn't like and the dog that actually was a smart dog. He knew that dad didn't like it. He knew he had it in for him. Right. So Dad would come home from work, and you know, sometimes he'd want to go lay down on the bed. And uh that dog would uh leave a little mess on the bed. A little gift. Well, it was always kind of wet, you know, on the bed. Oh, yeah. And then dad was be like, oh my god, he was so mad, and you know, the dog was there, but only on his side or his pillow, not my mom. So he just took care of business on my dad's side there, you know, making a mess. It was really bad. So it's absolutely disgusting, actually. It was really bad. So then my dad would be yelling about that. No, I would the dog, you'd see the dog kind of go down the hallway like he's smiling, and he's just like tiptoeing down the hallway like I got him good, you know. So then that's like a few weeks go by, and I see the dog in the bathroom sometimes, and he'd be like up, like grabbing the towel. But it was my dad's towel there. My dad would then he would be like doing a little Mississippi leg humping. He did something, you know, with the towel so that when my dad would go use the bathroom, then that towel, my dad'd be like, Oh, he's like, Oh, now my dad hated that dog because he's always doing smart enough to know which towel. Oh, he would he, and then you'd see the little dog going down the hallway again. And he's like, I got him again, you know. So about a year later, it's in the summer, and I had a bunch of the guys on a football team over, and we're having a contest. Who can do the most laps in the swimming pool? We had that above ground swimming pool. It's like 20.

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Marco Polo. Were you playing Marco Polo with those guys? Okay, it's a bunch of guys. We did, but not with the joke.

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So anyway, we were doing who could swim the longest on underneath on one breath. Yeah. Okay. So one guy on a football team, um, my sister's boyfriend at the time, he's a super strong guy, huge thighs, and he's like, I'm gonna set the record, you know. And he did. Like I had the record prior to go wall to wall, I think. So you go wall to wall, one breath. And he's got one more. And I told those guys to be careful because one wall of the pool we had repaired, it had been rusted out. Yeah, it'd been over.

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We pool had been around a while and it we but got about as much uh care as the house did when we got it free from the trading times, if you remember.

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So they had said we could only have a pool if it was free, and we got it free. So anyway, we rebuilt the wall of it, it was all rusted out. We put our a panel in there, and I had told him that sided pool is a little weak. Be careful.

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Yeah.

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This friend of mine, he he takes one more length and then he pushes off and he hits the pool uh so hard. Wow, the wall collapsed. The entire side of the pool fell over, the whole pool collapsed, emptied, and the little little pepper was in the yard. And he's walking in front of the shed that we had. The tidal wave hit him, the tidal wave hit the dog and slammed him into the shed, and the dog was belly up. Surprise, surprise. And I look over, I go, You killed my dog, you drowned him, and and got sucked out of the pool from from the uh rush of the water, right? He goes out the pool, the dog's hit and by the tidal wave, and I'm over, I'm like, the dog's dead. Were you doing CPR? So, well wait, wait, so then it's my dad's gonna be coming home in a little while, and my mom would be happy, and nobody was obviously nobody was home, and I'm thinking my mom's gonna be so upset because we killed the dog. Yeah, so I went over there and I did a little chip, little bumper there. I did a little little compressions, and he goes, he spits out some water and he starts breathing. Dad would have probably drowned you then.

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He would have probably been upset if he saw that.

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The dog gets up, the dog gets up, he spits out the water and he goes, He starts walking again. And I'm like, I saved the dog. Wow. So, but I luckily my buddy didn't drown, you know, that got sucked out of the pool. So we we ruined the pool. So just about that time, dad comes home from work and he's like, What the what the whole because he would love he used to love to come home and go in the little lounge chair and float on a pool. Oh, yeah. That would have been good if he would have broken. No pool. So he made us he made us repair and rebuild the pool. Yeah, which sounds like yeah. Another episode with the dog is uh we're sitting in the house and it's like 90, 90 degrees and uh at night, and uh my dad had the um uh door open in the uh living room and the screen door was there, and the dog used to lay between the screen door and the wood door and get some air, you know. We didn't have air conditioning back then, right? Boomers, right? So we used to have like 20 of those little 20-inch fans plugged in to electrical cords everywhere, which some in another store to catch on fire.

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That's another stuff.

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So, anyway, the uh the fans running, and dad says, Okay, it's time that everybody we're going to bed, you know. So he's gonna shut the main door so nobody breaks in at night, the wood door. And I had just seen the dog laying there a minute later, and my dad slams the wood door and the dog's in between, and he squishes the dog between the wood and the aluminum, and the dog forms the aluminum outward, like the side the shape of the dog.

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He likes why does it sound like a cat?

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Well, he was a little dog.

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So, anyway, well, I am allergic to cats.

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So my mom's like, what? And then you know, dad opens the door. Oh, like that's I squished him in the little bumper. I know he didn't do it on purpose, he did it on accident, but so little pepper once again got the wind knocked out of him, but then he just kind of shook, and then he got up and he starts walking, and dad looks at him like, I can't believe he's still alive. So, anyway, uh a couple years later, now the dog was like 19 years old. I don't know if you know that, Ryan. I don't remember. You're in college. I was in college, and I came back to visit, and the dog was like, you know, on its last leg. And well, mom felt really bad because the dog was ailing, and dad said, Well did he have a walker? He said, said Randy. He said, Randy, I want you to go with me to the vet, and we're gonna take him and have him put down. I had to go with him, and I had a little cardboard box, and my sister was home, and my mom did he want to do one last hump on the towel?

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No, anyway. So so we let him have your tile, Dad, one more time.

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All right, so we take we take the dog to the we take the dog to the vet, you know. He was in bad shape, and they give him a little uh shot or whatever, and they say they're putting him to sleep. So I have to carry him home in the tr in the car back to the house and I have him in the box. And dad, we had um in the back behind the garage, dug a hole. We were gonna have a little ceremony and bury him, you know. And my mom and sister were crying and it's starting to rain, and my dad's like, hurry up. Of course it was. Just starting to rain, you know.

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So, Randy, before you put pepper in the hole, did you go run in the house first and grab your dad's towel? No, it would have been a touching thing. I would have wanted to get rid of that towel.

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No, no, no, I couldn't do that. I just put him in the hole, and that was the end of the day.

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That was probably better than that. We said goodbye, goodbye, pepper. All right, well, thanks for sharing that uh story about the old pepper. All right. Thank you. Hey, thanks for joining us here on Boomers on the Edge. We hope you'll join us again. And until then, have a great time. Thank you.