24:11 Lonely. Yeah, so what we did yesterday what I did is I Have been seeking out some these adoption centers and I actually went and got a little little terrier yesterday and Her name were well sure name was Tasha when we you know the win but why don't know if we'll keep that or what? She's a nice little dog, you know but and we've still got a lot of teaching and coaching her to do different things. But I just don't believe this theory that you can replace the dog... You can replace a dog but you can't replace that relationship Yes, but let me tell you something Glenn and I have had four or five German Shepherds And now we have Bonnie and Winnie That's Monty Thompson
25:07 and Joyce's Winston Churchill, those are our two Westies. And we had a Westie before that we had for 13 years. We brought him over here to Austin with us from Nashville and his name was Rocky. When he died Glenn and I, you've never seen two grown people. It was just terrible and we just said we couldn't love another Westie like this but we thought we might want another Westie and we cried and we cried but we've had shepherds the same thing and you don't love them the same but i'm telling you sometimes
25:43 My dogs just get better and better. And I think the wisest thing, and the most loving thing you can do for Pepper is to bring another dog into your life and into your heart and take good care of that dog. It's...and I know this may seem kind of silly to you but Have you ever known someone that was married for 30 or 40 years and then they became a widower or widow, and within a couple of years they remarried? And you can say to them, why did you remarry?" I liked being married. I liked the relationship that a man and woman have when they have marriage and they have home together, and I think it's the same thing when you have a relationship... And I'm not making light of marriage, Jeff, but I think when you've had a good relationship whether it is with animal or in situation with person, when you repeat that relationship
26:43 puppy or person anymore. It's a tribute to the previous love, I really feel that way and i think you're going to be just fine sometimes we have to have some hurt in our life and didn't you tell me you've never really lost a person? No I really haven't but as it stands right now both my parents are living My sister's living and my family is living, the majority of my friends that I knew 30 years back are living. So she was actually the first major loss that I've suffered but I can tell you Joyce there's... She to me was just... she was family to me. Well she is? That's right! You know it just
27:34 It really hurt and it still does. Well, it's gonna hurt and you just gotta hold in your heart I don't think I'm going to end up down there at the state hospital or something like that but In fact, you have to grow from these types of things. That's right! That's how you learn to love and let go because I guess Jeff nothing is forever isn't it? Yeah...I think that what i've learned in all this And I think people who have never lost other people don't realize the finality How final death is on this earth Now I believe in life hereafter and I even seem like I'm going to have all my pets
28:17 I want them, okay? So I'll have this herd of animals waiting for me. But on this earth when you have to let someone go it's a fine animal and i think that's probably one of the learning things one of the good things that animals do for us And its okay to hurt It's a human thing but hasn't nipper felt lonely has he been looking Well, not only that I think but he himself is like 11 and a half. And you know he's getting old himself and
28:54 So, you know he's probably gonna be not too far down the road and I will have lost both my babies that I've had for so long. That's right but you need to... But you got another puppy and she will be different And that's okay she supposed to be different She can't replace but she can certainly give a whole lot of love that you wouldn't have if you hadn't gotten her And i've had animals that did..I know when Rocky died I had a big German Shepherd Conrad And for days, oh Jeff Conrad would look under the bed. You know he would go look in the bedroom and it until some days I was just the tears I'd just have to fight them back because he had want to go for a walk and it meant everybody was supposed to go you know Rocky always went with us so that's when Glenn went out by a Westie and called home and said they've got two of them Joyce So thats how I ended up with 2 westies because Glenn
29:51 Well, I think they saw Glenn coming. Okay? On that one but it's there...I love my dogs and I tell you something, I guess one of the things I always laugh about is when I say to Glenn You know, you've got this thing about dogs Did ya ever think about maybe taking up drinking or gambling Or running around with women or something that we could get help with And we just laughed about it But he said Too late! Yeah too late He's such a good man that now I know you just showed a picture there. Yeah, we're gonna get into that in just a moment Okay, go ahead and get in it You say that you see that young you did you see Randall? Okay, well go back and get it up there again yeah because do you talk about hurt and this is one of the things that you learn when you start to To love and you can't
30:41 Live this life in isolation you have to be part of it and Part of it is gaining people love, and then you have to let go And it's just but Randall the young man I'm trying to think he passed away what three four months ago. I can't even Think about it, and if he was young and it was very unexpected and that it's been a Well, you know I just don't even... There he is. Now see we have him forever right there on that tape and look at that fat girl getting in that car Uh-oh she's found something right there on her... Yes somebody left her a glove Don't you see folks? But anyway it was a little dumb joke that somebody made up at the station
31:33 When you, you know losing whether it's a pet or person and of course they're certainly not comparable. We know the value that humans we have But loving a pet, I think is the way you learn to love people. I'll be honest with you Joyce that my little baby here meant more than me than a good number of human beings that I know Well but isn't it interesting Jeff? That your little baby was better then some of the human beings we've had to come in contact with from time-to-time You know that. I can say Joyce, when she died a part of me died and it'll never come back and that's...I think..and I say that its permanent but thats okay you have to press on Cut yourself some slack and give yourself a chance and I bet you in six or seven months we're gonna hear stories about this new little daughter dog you've got