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Speaker 1: welcome to Software at Radio on Target, on time, and
Speaker 1: Happy New Year from me, Big Phil across the Pond.
Speaker 1: And this week I'm gonna be bringing you free subjects.
Speaker 1: How could I go through a whole show without talking
Speaker 1: about Iran. I've got another dog for you this week,
Speaker 1: and this one's a family favorite, it really is. And
Speaker 1: then we're gonna talk about another event that's happening right
Speaker 1: now in the Atlantic Ocean. There's boot things off. Literally,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Iran and what's going on over there,
Speaker 1: because a lot of stuff and a lot of people
Speaker 1: over here talking about the tension in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Obviously itselves in America. You've had troop deployments, you've had
Speaker 1: a brigade I think of the eighty second Airborn, which
Speaker 1: is about three and a half thousand men deploying it,
Speaker 1: that the East again, uncertain times for families and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, and we're all too familiar with
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. So I've just wished nothing but
Speaker 1: the best for for all of our troops who are
Speaker 1: out in the area at the moment, and just wish
Speaker 1: them as safe and happy, happy return as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: Let's have a quick chat then, because what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. A lot of people haven't kept kept up
Speaker 1: with what's going on over there, and that's that's fine,
Speaker 1: because it's not you know, again, I've said this a
Speaker 1: hundred times. If you're going to understand Middle Eastern politics,
Speaker 1: you need your brain the size of a small planet.
Speaker 1: You really do. I mean, I've been exposed to the
Speaker 1: Middle East for a number of years now, you know,
Speaker 1: work well over fifteen years. I've been been in and
Speaker 1: out of the Middle East, and I don't get it,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody really gets it. You would
Speaker 1: absolutely have to. You'd have to make Einstein look stupid
Speaker 1: to understand it fully, and even then, if you did,
Speaker 1: you'd probably only get one aspect of it, right, It
Speaker 1: really is a complete mesh of lunacy over there. A
Speaker 1: mesh of lunacy. How about. That's a statement right there.
Speaker 1: And it's so it's a difficult, difficult thing to understand
Speaker 1: for anybody. And obviously, you know, I've got a lot
Speaker 1: of people coming up to me and saying, Phil what's
Speaker 1: going on in the Middle East? Have we got through
Speaker 1: this again? Is there going to be world War free?
Speaker 1: All these concerns that people are bringing to me right now,
Speaker 1: And of course I can't answer all of these questions.
Speaker 1: But what I can do is give you a balanced
Speaker 1: opinion from what I've seen over years of going in
Speaker 1: and out of it. Now, like they say, I'm not
Speaker 1: an educated man. I don't have degrees. I haven't been
Speaker 1: a university. What I have been is into these areas
Speaker 1: and seen how things work. And moreover, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people and someone said to me, enough day, oh, Irainians,
Speaker 1: I hate them when I sat ourselves out. That's a
Speaker 1: bit of a broad brush statement. Hang on him minute.
Speaker 1: My barber, my hairdressers Iranian. He's a great guy. And
Speaker 1: you know I had my hair cut to day. He
Speaker 1: didn't try and chop my face off or anything like that.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy, and I think what gets lost
Speaker 1: in a lot of his tension is the fact that
Speaker 1: a lot of very normal people on both sides of the
Speaker 1: the defense are affected by this, Okay, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's always the normal people that suffer, to the point
Speaker 1: that you know, I've been to a lot of these
Speaker 1: places and a lot of people, a lot of normal
Speaker 1: people are just like, why is this going on? And
Speaker 1: that's on both sides of defense. So let's not get
Speaker 1: carried away straight away. Are we going to see World
Speaker 1: War three out of all this? Let's have a look
Speaker 1: at the tensions in the timeline of events leading to
Speaker 1: the Solimony killing. Okay, we're gonna go back. How far
Speaker 1: are we going to go back. Let's let's think off,
Speaker 1: let's go about the two thousand and eighteen. We won't
Speaker 1: go back any further than that, because, like I said,
Speaker 1: these tensions in the Middle East have been going on
Speaker 1: for years and years and years and years well passed
Speaker 1: any from we could have a document all right now,
Speaker 1: So I'm just going to go back as far as
Speaker 1: to find and in two thousands and eighteen, in May,
Speaker 1: the US withdrew it's nuclear deal from the area. Okay,
Speaker 1: that you can say that starts a bit of attention,
Speaker 1: but of course does because you've basically stripped away an
Speaker 1: asset which the country is saying they need. Now we're
Speaker 1: saying you ain't definitely having that because you can't be
Speaker 1: tracted with it, and rightly so that you know, there's
Speaker 1: evidence to suggests that the country like that should not
Speaker 1: have a nuclear program. So it's all right and proper
Speaker 1: that should happen. But I'm just pointing out where the
Speaker 1: tensions are, so don't start shooting me down when I
Speaker 1: start mentioning this stuff. All right, Okay, So the US
Speaker 1: then on the twenty one may set out tough demands
Speaker 1: and the first rounds of sanctions came in. Now, the sanctions,
Speaker 1: the first phase were there. There were some quite tough
Speaker 1: demands here. The the only stands to lose the following
Speaker 1: business transactions because they're claiming that they lost a lot
Speaker 1: of business transactions because of the U S sanctions. Now,
Speaker 1: I would actually claim that they've lost their business transactions
Speaker 1: because of their own stupidity and what they were doing.
Speaker 1: But no matter how which way you look at it,
Speaker 1: they're saying that their aero industry was down by thirty
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars. Their carpets and textures were down by
Speaker 1: four twenty four million dollars. There's pistachio export. How bizarre
Speaker 1: is that the pistachio export was down by eight and
Speaker 1: fifty two million dollars. Cars were down by one point
Speaker 1: six Have you ever earned the Ranian car? And I haven't.
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, but there you go. Cars
Speaker 1: were down by one point six sixty four point five
Speaker 1: tons of gold. Trading in gold and other precious metals
Speaker 1: and around was prohibited. In the past. Gold was used
Speaker 1: as payment to buy Iranian oil to circumvent banking sanctions.
Speaker 1: See this pattern emerging here. See how the business in
Speaker 1: the weaves of all this stuff in interferes. It's it's
Speaker 1: once you start, didn't That's why I said you need
Speaker 1: a big brain to get your head round all this.
Speaker 1: But anyway, just rest assured. The first round of sanctions
Speaker 1: hit them where it hurts financially. Okay, that's what it's
Speaker 1: designed to do. So no matter what way you look
Speaker 1: at this, the sanctions caused tension. Okay, Now, whether the
Speaker 1: sanctions were in place, where right nor wrong? They caused tension.
Speaker 1: That's what you're gonna look at. That's where we're going.
Speaker 1: That's where this is what I'm trying to highlights you
Speaker 1: why there's tension over there. November the fifth has announced
Speaker 1: a new round of sanctions. This to USK was definitely
Speaker 1: talking the key oil and banking sectors again, going after
Speaker 1: them where it hurts financially, that's the where to get
Speaker 1: you know, even you learn that as a kid, didn't you.
Speaker 1: You know, if you misbehavior, your mom and dad take
Speaker 1: your pocket money off you. They hit your financially where
Speaker 1: it hurts, they get you. There you go say they
Speaker 1: were hit financially again two thousand and ninety. So that
Speaker 1: basically two thousand and eight was a year where sanctions
Speaker 1: were post and imposed upon Iran, which which hurt which
Speaker 1: hurt them. They'll claim that it was wrong and all
Speaker 1: the rest of it, but we got to that position
Speaker 1: because of the way they were posturing. A case of
Speaker 1: the ego. Two thousand and nineteen. Then on April day
Speaker 1: of Trump announced he was designated a powerful arm of
Speaker 1: the Iranian military, the Elite Islamic Revolutionary Graph courts as
Speaker 1: a foreign terrorist organization. There you go, so An organization
Speaker 1: within the country was deemed as a terrorist organization. Now
Speaker 1: we can't do business at all because we don't deal
Speaker 1: with terrorists. We don't do that. You don't do that.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do that. The U S sens and
Speaker 1: aircraft carried and released. That was on the fifth of May.
Speaker 1: In two thousands and nineteen, Trump the National Security Visor
Speaker 1: John Bolton announced the US was sending an aircraft carrier,
Speaker 1: strike group and an air force bombers to the Middle
Speaker 1: East in response to a number of troubling and escalatory
Speaker 1: indications and warnings. That those indications and warnings can be
Speaker 1: civil unrest, they can be things that are said with
Speaker 1: in parliament, but rest assured. You don't just send an
Speaker 1: aircraft carrier and a battle group for nothing, all right,
Speaker 1: You don't just do that. Okay. So when people are saying,
Speaker 1: you know, this is wrong, that's wrong, the others wrong.
Speaker 1: Initisition about that should have happens. You don't do it
Speaker 1: for no reason. Okay, there's no reason to do it. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: I've had lots of conspiracy theories going on about all
Speaker 1: this Iranian stuff. Okay, right now, you know he's dodging
Speaker 1: the elections and all this stuff. Now, I don't believe
Speaker 1: in that for one second personally. Okay, more sanctions fired
Speaker 1: the fire follow that. Then on the air to a
Speaker 1: Iran said it was preparing to increase enriched uranian. Now
Speaker 1: that's gonna wind you. Okay, So if you don't know,
Speaker 1: you know enriched uranian, would hint to anybody that if
Speaker 1: you're going to start producing that sort of stuff and
Speaker 1: you're gonna start cuting it about, you only needed for
Speaker 1: one reason, didn't you, and that reason is your nuclear program.
Speaker 1: So they're starting to wind it up back now. So
Speaker 1: in you know, last year maybe eight, Iran saying you know,
Speaker 1: they're going to start doing stuff, which is obviously aggravating
Speaker 1: the situation. You can see how these things start off
Speaker 1: small and then you know, one thing gets said, another
Speaker 1: thing gets said, and before you know it, you are
Speaker 1: where you are. Tankers subject to sabotage operations and made
Speaker 1: the United apross four commercial ships off the coast of
Speaker 1: the Jara, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs, were
Speaker 1: subjected to sabotage operations. Okay, now they're going on the offensive, okay,
Speaker 1: so they can't affect anybody financially and around. They don't
Speaker 1: really have the power to do anything like that. But
Speaker 1: what they do start doing then is infiltrating in and
Speaker 1: seeing where they can do damage. And hence the next
Speaker 1: talk round of escalation happened to you know, tankers started
Speaker 1: to go missing or bunkering was interfered with and that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Who fish attack the all pipeline. The
Speaker 1: Emily Hoofis rebels were locked in a long running wall
Speaker 1: with Saudi UAI military lead coalition Lord Strown attacks on
Speaker 1: Eli Robe on the made of four team, striking a
Speaker 1: major or pipeline and taking out of service. All this
Speaker 1: small stuff starts adding up now, okay, so it all
Speaker 1: starts coming into play, and no matter who's claiming to
Speaker 1: do what to who, All right, it's all doing and throwing,
Speaker 1: and it's all, it's all. It's all in the In
Speaker 1: the US, I've said, you know, you can't, you can't
Speaker 1: threaten us. And on the nineteenth we made a rocket
Speaker 1: land near the U. S Embassy in Bad Debt. Nobody
Speaker 1: was harmed. But the fact is you have fired now
Speaker 1: a rocket at the US embassy. Don't expect a power
Speaker 1: on the head for that. Don't expect things are going
Speaker 1: to go your way, because that's what you've done, all right.
Speaker 1: Negotiating through means of violence never ever, in my opinion, works.
Speaker 1: All Right, it doesn't work. It can't work. You slap
Speaker 1: me in the face. I slapped you back, and that's
Speaker 1: how it goes. And that's how these things going here.
Speaker 1: So let's have a look. In response to that, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said, I made the nine teams. If a Ryan
Speaker 1: wants to fight, that will be the official end of
Speaker 1: a run. Never threatened the United States again. All right,
Speaker 1: that's a statement right there. That's a statement right there
Speaker 1: that says to me, you don't mess with us, leave
Speaker 1: us alone. You know the big kid in the playground
Speaker 1: when you go out and kick him in the shins
Speaker 1: and he looks at you, and he goes, you don't
Speaker 1: do that again, or I will flatten you. You take
Speaker 1: him seriously, all right? Anyway, So it went up and
Speaker 1: up and up and up. The where do we go
Speaker 1: from there? May too, May the twentie, after a meeting
Speaker 1: with the Japanese Prime Minister Tinto, who offered to broke
Speaker 1: a dialogue between Washington and Tehrant, Trump said he was
Speaker 1: not looking for a regime change in Iran. Again, the
Speaker 1: politics starts taking place, other nations starts stepping in, but
Speaker 1: it still isn't going anywhere. All right. There's another shipping
Speaker 1: incident on June the thirteenth, and Norwegian tank at this
Speaker 1: time more US troops in response to that sent into
Speaker 1: the area. Okay, during the seventeenth the U s drone
Speaker 1: was shot down. On June twenty, Iranian forces shot down
Speaker 1: a US military joane. Both countries confirmed the incident, offering
Speaker 1: divergent accounts about the location of the aircraft. Obviously, what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen there is you're gonna say it was here,
Speaker 1: They're gonna say it was there. They're gonna claim to
Speaker 1: do because it is, You're gonna claim they shouldn't done
Speaker 1: it because of that. That's how these things go. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that happened. Then Trump's says he's called off an
Speaker 1: attack on the twenty one obviously said he was going
Speaker 1: to attack them and never did it too. Who frowed
Speaker 1: a little bit then and then there was some more sanctions. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you see where we're going at Tusi and FROs.
Speaker 1: A little bit of archie bargie, a little bit of slinging.
Speaker 1: This sling in that. But and then before you know,
Speaker 1: there's more sanctions impost so from people who've moaned about
Speaker 1: the sanctions, they've actually escalated at tension again to the
Speaker 1: point where you gotta put more sanctions on them. All right.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump all the time thinking about what he can
Speaker 1: do next, how he can keep people safe and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, And he deploys F twenty two
Speaker 1: stealth fighters in the area in response to that Terranic seeds.
Speaker 1: It's uranium limit. What do you do? You just keep
Speaker 1: winding them up? There you go a tank you carrying
Speaker 1: a rainy and all stop. On the fourth of July,
Speaker 1: British raw Marines, police and customs agents in Gibraltar sees
Speaker 1: the supertanker accused of carrying ironian crude oils to Syria
Speaker 1: in breach of the European Union trade sanctions. Now remember
Speaker 1: this one, okay, So they try to take a tanker
Speaker 1: full of stuff, too full of oil crew oil to
Speaker 1: support things going on in Syria. Of course you're going
Speaker 1: to get stopped doing that. Of course you are you
Speaker 1: that that happened. So that's got seized. The nuclear stuff
Speaker 1: keeps going on. The Captain of the iragning Vestivals arrested
Speaker 1: on the twelfth of policing to roll the rest of
Speaker 1: the captain and the chief officer and I reigning tanker
Speaker 1: that was seized. Why British forces to previous week. So
Speaker 1: now they've proved what he's doing, because they don't just
Speaker 1: arrested for nothing. If you're doing something wrong, you get arrested.
Speaker 1: That's it. It was fons to that Irrain seized a
Speaker 1: British oil tanker. This this is what made me laugh
Speaker 1: about this one. They've STAI used the British oil tanker.
Speaker 1: Well there was a britige at all. Really, it just
Speaker 1: had a British flag on the back of it. Now,
Speaker 1: anybody who knows anything about shipping knows that the flag
Speaker 1: you fly on the back of your ship usually doesn't
Speaker 1: correspond with the crew or even the cargo that's on
Speaker 1: the ship. All right, that's the way, that's the way
Speaker 1: the shipping industry works. That you know, these things are
Speaker 1: complicated deals, They get insured and things are registered here
Speaker 1: registered for this reason, that reason. The other reason. So
Speaker 1: this particular craft which was taken out, don't British on
Speaker 1: it whatsoever, I don't think. And the I R g
Speaker 1: SEE releases a video of the moment that their forces
Speaker 1: seized the British tanker. Seized the British tanker from people
Speaker 1: that weren't armed. Now that's really hard in it. That's
Speaker 1: really brave and really clever. So there you go, British
Speaker 1: Navy to escort UKLI vessels in Australia from US. Now
Speaker 1: the British are stepping up now and now the British
Speaker 1: gun we've got enough police down so they're starting to
Speaker 1: take take that take actions, more sanctions from the US. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then I think the tanker was let go. And
Speaker 1: then then we re re sponsored that Iran and veils a
Speaker 1: new missile defense. There you go. So now we're now
Speaker 1: we're showing off about what we can do again. All right,
Speaker 1: Zara's mace with Macron friends are getting involved there, you
Speaker 1: got that would be a first one. Well, the French
Speaker 1: got to offer on this. And like I say, leading
Speaker 1: up to Christmas, we've done at the US contractor killed.
Speaker 1: And then like I say, the Americans have had enough.
Speaker 1: They've obviously that you know, they've obviously found out where
Speaker 1: this where this guy is, and they've delivered, they've delivered
Speaker 1: what he's been asking for the gate. So that's how
Speaker 1: we got there. That's how we got there a series
Speaker 1: of twos and throwing us to is the people not
Speaker 1: adhering to measures that have been put in place to
Speaker 1: counter stuff that they're doing which puts other people's lives
Speaker 1: in danger. And eventually, like they say it, push has
Speaker 1: become a shove. And obviously they sanctioned this, this attack
Speaker 1: on the head of their military operations. Some people say
Speaker 1: it's a long time in coming. The man was known
Speaker 1: to have ordered all sorts of trouble in his time.
Speaker 1: You can't say. My initial reaction to that was, if
Speaker 1: you live by the sword, you know, sometimes you die
Speaker 1: by the sword. I think that's that's where we've got
Speaker 1: through with this. Obviously, now in a situation where some
Speaker 1: some missiles have been thrown back. Thankfully nobody has been hurt.
Speaker 1: But Trump did so the other day that he believed
Speaker 1: that now things have calmed down a little bit, and
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, we've had the saber rattling,
Speaker 1: we've had the we've had the shows of strength there
Speaker 1: and have done their little bit. They've had some screaming
Speaker 1: and shouting, there's been some riting in the streets has
Speaker 1: been you know, the normal, the normal retric that you
Speaker 1: see from these sorts of places. And I do believe
Speaker 1: now that we're probably calming down a little bit. You
Speaker 1: can never say for sir and in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: but from where I'm sitting right now, I think that
Speaker 1: we're over the hump of a minor emergency. So when
Speaker 1: people say to me, big Phil, we're going to be
Speaker 1: hitting World War three anytime soon, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: this time soon. I don't think world War freeze on
Speaker 1: its way from this one. The same as when Kim
Speaker 1: John Un was being a bit of a plunker, we
Speaker 1: didn't use world War three then either. Okay. I have, however,
Speaker 1: been quoted as saying, and some people will agree, some
Speaker 1: people agree with me, it is a matter of keeping
Speaker 1: China out of the way and a lot of this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, because I think the minute the Chinese
Speaker 1: get involved properly behind some of this, that's when that's
Speaker 1: when the danger comes for me. But so far, you know,
Speaker 1: so far they haven't, and by all our forces around
Speaker 1: the globe stay safe and we turned home with some stage.
Speaker 1: That's the main priority for me. And in the meantime,
Speaker 1: let's hope that you know, negotiations and the politics behind
Speaker 1: this sort of stuff can reach conclusions that don't mean
Speaker 1: that we have to we have to escalate to violence
Speaker 1: all the time, because it's not. It's never been my
Speaker 1: preferred way of doing and things. Although you up in
Speaker 1: a soldier and an operator and a call me whatever
Speaker 1: you like. For years, I've always seen that, you know,
Speaker 1: if there's if, the violence is always my last resort.
Speaker 1: So that's where I'm coming from with this. Anyway, will
Speaker 1: you move on, Let's talk dogs. You know I love dogs,
Speaker 1: and now this week we're going to talk about dog
Speaker 1: that's are real. You like these or you or you
Speaker 1: don't like them. I think some people are probably petrified
Speaker 1: of this dog and some people see them as a pet.
Speaker 1: But no matter how you see it, the Doberman pincher
Speaker 1: or just the Doberman or the plain old Dobe is
Speaker 1: a great, great, great animal predominantly nowadays used as a
Speaker 1: guard dog. It's an extremely intelligent animal. And that's what
Speaker 1: that's that's why they're so great. The training. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look at the breed character touristics, you know
Speaker 1: it's it's it's list, is it's sensitivity level, is listed
Speaker 1: as a five star all around. Friendliness is five star,
Speaker 1: Affectionate with families, five star, incredible, kid friendly, dog free star,
Speaker 1: other dog friendly, funny enough is only a one star.
Speaker 1: Health and grooming. It's quite a healthy dog, easy to groom.
Speaker 1: Like I say, it's a short aired fingers are great trainability,
Speaker 1: They're easy to train and get his fire stars on
Speaker 1: that intelligence. So if you if you were playing trumps
Speaker 1: with dogs, this would be a good trump card to
Speaker 1: have pray drive one star, tendency to bark or how
Speaker 1: one star. So they do they don't do? They do?
Speaker 1: Say that you know, if you get these dogs, if
Speaker 1: you do have a doman pincher, you need to get
Speaker 1: the groups of it sooner rather than later, because it
Speaker 1: will become the alpha, the alpha animal within the within
Speaker 1: the pack. All right, So if you've got one in
Speaker 1: your house, you need to you need to make sure
Speaker 1: you've you've you've trained it straight away because otherwise it
Speaker 1: will become the most dominant of the people in the house. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do we get the doman pinsident. Let's have a
Speaker 1: look at the history of the animal. Once upon a time,
Speaker 1: in the late nineteenth century, there was a tax collector
Speaker 1: named Lewis Doberman, and he lived in a town called
Speaker 1: Appallada in the Farongi district of Germany. His job was
Speaker 1: collecting money, and obviously it was dangerous because there were
Speaker 1: bandits in the area who could attack him at any time.
Speaker 1: And he thought, right, I need a dog that I
Speaker 1: can take with me, obviously, all right, So since Dobin
Speaker 1: was also the town dog catcher, he often took along
Speaker 1: the dog for protection. Doberman began breeding dogs with the
Speaker 1: idea of a loyal companion and protection in mind. The
Speaker 1: result of the breeding experiments was the early Dobaman pincher. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's obviously got all these dogs in his care.
Speaker 1: They believed that the dogs that he had at the
Speaker 1: time was something like maybe a black and tan a Rottweiler. Again,
Speaker 1: you know this this is it's definitely got the dough
Speaker 1: it's definitely got the Rottweiler colors, and it isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's got a terrier type type attitude, which was from
Speaker 1: the black of towns and that sort of stuff. When
Speaker 1: Doman died in eighteen ninety four, the true knowledge is
Speaker 1: was breed of his breeds that were combined to make
Speaker 1: the dobe went with him. He never told anybody, He
Speaker 1: never told anybody who would come to get the dog
Speaker 1: that he had. So he's obviously had loads of stray
Speaker 1: dogs and he's made this wonder dog because of his
Speaker 1: contributions in developing the breed. However, it was named in
Speaker 1: his honor, so they kept the dog in his honor,
Speaker 1: all right. A breeder named Otto Gola is credited with
Speaker 1: the shaping of the dobe of how we know it today,
Speaker 1: and he's done that in nineteen hundred. The journal Kennel
Speaker 1: Kennel Club recognized the dog in nine hundred and called
Speaker 1: it the Doberman pincer as a breed all right. Now,
Speaker 1: since then, I think later on we've dropped we've dropped
Speaker 1: the pincer a bit. Really. Don't hear anybody calling it
Speaker 1: a Doban pincher anymore, really, but it has sort of
Speaker 1: been that that has as has been dropped a little
Speaker 1: bit now. So it was taken to the United States
Speaker 1: in early nineteen eight the domens brought the United States,
Speaker 1: and the legends says that one of the first domen
Speaker 1: sports of American States was shown in some show and
Speaker 1: it won it for three years in a road, and
Speaker 1: the only reason it won it was because said judge
Speaker 1: was too scared to open his mouth to have a
Speaker 1: look at its teeth. All right, these dogs have got
Speaker 1: some fearsome It's not not as big as the dog
Speaker 1: a dial, all right, it's not as big as my andrew, right,
Speaker 1: but they've got some fearsome teeth in there. They really have.
Speaker 1: And they you know you're here about these these guys
Speaker 1: using them for protection, removing the teeth for or capping
Speaker 1: the teeth with titanium. Not yet his titanium as a
Speaker 1: given them proper sharp teeth. I believe you now, if
Speaker 1: you open up that dog's mouth for the first time
Speaker 1: I looked inside it, you'd be saying yourself, that has
Speaker 1: got that has got some serious ore in gear. That
Speaker 1: really has Okay. The Doban Pencil Club American was formed
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty one and a year later adopted the
Speaker 1: breeders standard. They've been over to Germany, they've concluded colluded
Speaker 1: with them, and the and the and the breed. They
Speaker 1: went firm on how the breed should be. The next
Speaker 1: fifteen years and from nine one were critical in the
Speaker 1: development that Doberman. During World War one, the number of
Speaker 1: doobes in Europe's declined severely because people who were starving
Speaker 1: couldn't afford to keep the dogs. DoBeS who survived were
Speaker 1: owned by the military, police and the very wealthy people.
Speaker 1: Breeding was a luxury. Okay, So war war across Europe
Speaker 1: led to the decline of the dog a little bit
Speaker 1: another say, it was only really the military and people
Speaker 1: that had real money that could afford to have these dogs,
Speaker 1: you know, to to to keep old of them, to
Speaker 1: look after their properties and that sort of stuff would
Speaker 1: have been the people that kept on. After nine nearly
Speaker 1: all the top Germans had been Nearly all the top
Speaker 1: decent dogs has gone to the States. Basically, over the years,
Speaker 1: breeders have worked diligently to take the edge off the
Speaker 1: original adobes sharp personality with good results or the doverman.
Speaker 1: As a protective family dog, they're known as an affection
Speaker 1: of a loyal companion as well. They're a big old dog.
Speaker 1: They can get up to about twenty inches tall, sixty
Speaker 1: to eighty pounds on these dogs, and that's all muscled
Speaker 1: as well, So that's a big old dog there. They
Speaker 1: are super intelligent dog. The personnel is a great personality
Speaker 1: on Dobeman. But like I say, they're an evil dog.
Speaker 1: You look at them. I always think when I think
Speaker 1: Doberman and this is really funny. Went when I think
Speaker 1: do woman, I always think about the old about the Simpsons.
Speaker 1: Funny enough smoothers, release the hounds. That's what I think
Speaker 1: when I think you say, these things running down the garden.
Speaker 1: You can imagine Johnny, these big past people have these Dopemens, smithers,
Speaker 1: release the hounds, and off they go, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, unbelievable. What a great dog, What a
Speaker 1: great dog. Health Wise, they are susceptible to a few diseases.
Speaker 1: One that I've got noted down here is wobbler styndrome,
Speaker 1: suspected to be an inherited condition, and the Dopeman's affected.
Speaker 1: Dog stuffers from spinal cord compression called point for cervical
Speaker 1: vertebal instability or a form of malfunctioned spine, can out
Speaker 1: extreme symptoms on neckpain and paralysis of the legs. Surgical
Speaker 1: therapy is hasty debated, but in some cases the condition
Speaker 1: can reoccur even after such treatment. That don't sound like
Speaker 1: a very good one, does it? If you look at
Speaker 1: these dogs as well. So it's so the way that
Speaker 1: people look after these dogs, they used to they used
Speaker 1: to clip the ears off them to make them, I
Speaker 1: mean it used to make them look look meaner for
Speaker 1: a start. I don't think that was the main reason
Speaker 1: that the main reason we show that they could direct
Speaker 1: their hearing when they were looking around property. I'm actually
Speaker 1: doing it. I'm looking around like I've got the I've
Speaker 1: got the doverman's ears, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But he literally it is pointing its head where it
Speaker 1: wants to hear, is you know what I mean? It's
Speaker 1: a really it's a really a stupe clever dog. And
Speaker 1: because they used to clip the tails off them as well,
Speaker 1: which you know obviously in the UK. Now that's you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to do that to your dog. You don't
Speaker 1: had to cut bits off it to make it perform better,
Speaker 1: or to make it look better, or or or a
Speaker 1: combination of a boaster. That can't happen anymore. What is
Speaker 1: it eating? Typical daily amount? It needs? It needs two
Speaker 1: or three decent cups of high quality food, all right,
Speaker 1: So it's not a cheap dog. Coat color and grooming.
Speaker 1: You need to brush its teeth. But it doesn't take
Speaker 1: a lot to groom this dog. He's got quite a
Speaker 1: short hair, so you would get around when I don't
Speaker 1: brush my dog every day, and he's got you know,
Speaker 1: we clip his hair, but when he gets when he
Speaker 1: gets longer, you know you need you should you should
Speaker 1: be brushing it every day. These dogs don't need doing
Speaker 1: every day, but you know they do have nice shiny coats.
Speaker 1: Children of the pets, they're all right. They're all right
Speaker 1: around your own kids. If I had a Dobleman and
Speaker 1: someone else's kids come around the house, I wouldn't take
Speaker 1: a chance. I'll keep the dog out the wage, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, unless you really knew the dog
Speaker 1: was on form, like you know what I mean, Because
Speaker 1: because it is part of your pack, you never know
Speaker 1: when it's going to see someone else's outside of your pack,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's probably not the
Speaker 1: not the safest dog, and with other dogs it can
Speaker 1: lose it. And I'll tell you what one there was
Speaker 1: a Dobman over party of a week, had a quick
Speaker 1: bite and a barker Andrew m I got him out
Speaker 1: of the way pretty sharpish. But they can be quite
Speaker 1: a snappy dog. There's various rescue jobs and breed organizations
Speaker 1: and rescue organizations and clubs and kennel clubs and all
Speaker 1: sorts of stuff associated with a dog. Is an extremely
Speaker 1: extremely popular dog. And I'm gonna say, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: this dog. You're going to see this dog for a
Speaker 1: long time. It's not one of those breathes that's going
Speaker 1: to go completely out of fashion. There would always be
Speaker 1: people who like a good adobe and who like a
Speaker 1: decent dog, all right, And they are, like I said that,
Speaker 1: they are absolutely super guard dog and only make Danny.
Speaker 1: Over the years, they have two afraid of these dogs
Speaker 1: and they've been absolutely top drawer. They're really up and
Speaker 1: a good dog. So yeah, if you if you're in
Speaker 1: the market for a decent guard dog, you won't get
Speaker 1: much better than a Doberman. Probably not my first choice
Speaker 1: of family pet, but it does make a pet. They
Speaker 1: are a decent dog. There you go. So then I've
Speaker 1: been I've been tracking a friend of mine who is
Speaker 1: currently rowing across the Atlantic and he's all part of
Speaker 1: the it's part of the Telescope Whiskey Atlantic Challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: and John John a friend of mine, he's ex's X
Speaker 1: S A S. He's on his own. He's on his
Speaker 1: own in a rowing boat and he's rowing across. He's
Speaker 1: rowing across the landing. Now I've looked at this event
Speaker 1: before it kicks off before Christmas, so think about John.
Speaker 1: So this is I'm going to introduce this next this
Speaker 1: next subject, and we're gonna follow. We're gonna follow this
Speaker 1: to the end because I want to say, I want
Speaker 1: to see how John does. And if you look at
Speaker 1: my social media at big Field Campion on Facebook, Twitter
Speaker 1: or Insta, you'll be able to you'll be able to
Speaker 1: find where you can donate if you wish to. These
Speaker 1: great causes, lots of volks doing it. I'm following two boats,
Speaker 1: and I'm not following a team of four soldiers who
Speaker 1: are rolling across. I'm following a friend of mine, John,
Speaker 1: who's on his own and he's known as the Mad Giraffe.
Speaker 1: So this was the text. I lost his missages his
Speaker 1: phone number, so I sent her a text message and
Speaker 1: she texts. She text me back because I want to know. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Field didn't have any number saved you on your new phone.
Speaker 1: I'd asked her what was going on? It's a yellow
Speaker 1: brick app on the App Store and then Talusco Whisky
Speaker 1: Atlantic Challenge. He's the Mad Giraffe Boat. I'm putting regular
Speaker 1: updates on his Instagram and my sister is putting him
Speaker 1: on John's Mad Draft Facebook page. So go to the
Speaker 1: mad go to John's Mad You Our Facebook page and
Speaker 1: you can find out all about what John's doing. But
Speaker 1: just listen to this for a Christmas writer, so he
Speaker 1: sees how his Christmas went. Now he's had a really
Speaker 1: difficult start. Is auto helm went leaving harbor, followed by
Speaker 1: chronic seasickness that lasted over ten days. Much have been
Speaker 1: sick for ten days of sea sickness that is pretty goodness,
Speaker 1: totally debilitating, and then had slack winds as he missed
Speaker 1: the goodwins with all the boat issues setting off. So
Speaker 1: the idea of this thing is to catch the weather,
Speaker 1: because I did say that John originally said, John, We're
Speaker 1: gonna do if he said, Look, eventually, if you just
Speaker 1: stayed in the boat, you will end up over the
Speaker 1: other side. It will take a long time, but the
Speaker 1: currents will take you over there. And the idea is
Speaker 1: to go over there as quickly as possible. But you've
Speaker 1: got to catch the right weather, but because he was ill,
Speaker 1: he missed the decent weather. He's pulled out a blinder though,
Speaker 1: as he's still in the fleet at the back. But
Speaker 1: amazing human feat to be where he is despite being
Speaker 1: capsized and pretty much rowing through the water. That's been
Speaker 1: like treaky. I mean, so's he's been capsized, his boat's broken,
Speaker 1: and he's been sick. And this is over Christmas. Happy Christmas,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So anybody who says to me,
Speaker 1: you've ruined Christmas? What are you ruined Christmas? From up there?
Speaker 1: Didn't he? So the wind is meant to be better
Speaker 1: on Mondays, So we're praying is to change his luck
Speaker 1: and let him finally get started. He's still in good
Speaker 1: spirits despite this and he's not been able to get further,
Speaker 1: but still cracking jokes. Thanksfully your support. So the Taska
Speaker 1: Atlantic rowing what a feat days, what what a what
Speaker 1: a great thing. And there's lots of that that to say.
Speaker 1: If you if you download the Yellow Brick app then
Speaker 1: you can go and over look at the progress of
Speaker 1: all the boats and see how the fast as going
Speaker 1: and the top teams are getting over there. You know,
Speaker 1: they're pretty much nearly there. One, how would have thought,
Speaker 1: you know, they really are going for And I remember
Speaker 1: last year I was in the Caribbean. You'll probably I'm
Speaker 1: going to the Caribbean this week, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: by the end of the by the end of my
Speaker 1: time there, in two weeks time, I would imagine we
Speaker 1: might even see the first boats getting across there. Okay,
Speaker 1: they start off, they come across, they climb across to
Speaker 1: the Caribbean, and you'll see them not going to earn
Speaker 1: in the various bazaars. So anybody who's who's going on
Speaker 1: at the Caribbean, I'm not sure exactly where they finished,
Speaker 1: but you can have a look on online and that
Speaker 1: they say. I thought i'd mentioned it because over the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, as these boats are coming in
Speaker 1: and as my friends are coming in, I'm going to
Speaker 1: let you know the results and how much I need
Speaker 1: they've raised and all that sort of stuff. So I
Speaker 1: just I thought I put this one in there really quickly,
Speaker 1: because if you've if anyone dares says to me they've
Speaker 1: had but they've had a bad Christmas, all right, then
Speaker 1: that is truly a bad Christmas, isn't it. Then day's
Speaker 1: worth of being sick with a broken boat and then
Speaker 1: getting dump to knealking. That really isn't isn't great? Is it? Okay?
Speaker 1: So there we go. The Yellow Brick app online and
Speaker 1: the Telescope Whiskey Atlantic Challenge is where you want to look.
Speaker 1: And you're looking for the mad Jo Raf al right,
Speaker 1: which is my mate John xss x B Squadron. There
Speaker 1: you go, So John's out there doing this bits and pieces. Well,
Speaker 1: look before I go, let's have a let's let's let's
Speaker 1: remind you to take a look at the at the
Speaker 1: Great Club. All right. The great stuff is coming out
Speaker 1: at the Great Club this year. Looking forward to hopefully
Speaker 1: doing some work with the Great Club this year myself,
Speaker 1: especially the Great Club Academy, because I did the last one.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely super great place, great things, great stuff
Speaker 1: happening with them. Also check out stuff up dot Com.
Speaker 1: I went off rep dot com on Facebook Live. I
Speaker 1: put out three shows a week. To keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for me on on on software because I'll be
Speaker 1: doing some cool stuff and I'll be in the Caribbean myself.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be visiting places like Nelson's Boatyard, two
Speaker 1: or three of the islands, and I'll be picking out
Speaker 1: some military history while on there, so that's always always
Speaker 1: a good trip for me and always a good trip
Speaker 1: for me to be able to share stuff with you
Speaker 1: over there, and some really interesting stuff which is actually
Speaker 1: quite close to you anyway. So you're going I've got
Speaker 1: I certainly last time I went over there. Are we
Speaker 1: doing a Mad Chilly Challenge again there and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, so that would be fun. We've got
Speaker 1: some really cool stuff going on over there, and obviously
Speaker 1: Wendy will be coming with me and filming and taking
Speaker 1: part as well, so we'll well, that's well, that's some
Speaker 1: fun with that on soft it and like I say,
Speaker 1: hopefully later in the year I'll get to meet a
Speaker 1: few of you again with the Crate Club and we'll
Speaker 1: do some cool stuff with that as well. So look,
Speaker 1: until next time, thanks very much for listening, and I
Speaker 1: shall see you all later. Keep chunking. Don't forget to
Speaker 1: have a look at that yellow brick store and look
Speaker 1: for the Atlantic Challenge. Okay, the Telescot Whiskey Atlantic Rowing.
Speaker 1: Check that out. It really is cool. Don't worry out
Speaker 1: World War three, It's not going to happen. And if
Speaker 1: you want to get yourself a dog, get yourself Adobe
Speaker 1: if you want something that's going to look after your
Speaker 1: house right until next time? Who dares wins and I'll
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