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Ron Magill

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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2469 total appearances

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

I'm going to go with hearing. I'm going to go with hearing. Let's go with the bats. I mean, what bats can do with their hearing is unbelievable. Echolocation. They're making the sound and they can bounce it back. Look at the close-ups of bats. Look at the shapes and sizes of their ears. They look like aliens, man. It's unbelievable.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

I'm going to go with hearing. I'm going to go with hearing. Let's go with the bats. I mean, what bats can do with their hearing is unbelievable. Echolocation. They're making the sound and they can bounce it back. Look at the close-ups of bats. Look at the shapes and sizes of their ears. They look like aliens, man. It's unbelievable.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

And the way they can move back and forth, they're like big radar dishes. That is freaking unbelievable when you look at what a bat can do with its hearing. So we got hearing. We got smell. We got sight. We got touch. The fifth one. What's the fifth one?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

And the way they can move back and forth, they're like big radar dishes. That is freaking unbelievable when you look at what a bat can do with its hearing. So we got hearing. We got smell. We got sight. We got touch. The fifth one. What's the fifth one?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

It's going to be smell and it's going to be, you know, you look at some of these dogs that can smell cancer in a person. Think about this, guys. Stop it, Chris. Why are you saying that it's not possible?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

It's going to be smell and it's going to be, you know, you look at some of these dogs that can smell cancer in a person. Think about this, guys. Stop it, Chris. Why are you saying that it's not possible?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

I just didn't know that. They should be doctors. There are dogs that can smell ovarian cancer in a person before it's even determined. Before it's even diagnosed medically, they can smell ovarian cancer. This is unbelievable stuff, guys. Animals can save our lives if we just give them the credit and the opportunity.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

I just didn't know that. They should be doctors. There are dogs that can smell ovarian cancer in a person before it's even determined. Before it's even diagnosed medically, they can smell ovarian cancer. This is unbelievable stuff, guys. Animals can save our lives if we just give them the credit and the opportunity.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

The way they teach them, the way they teach them is they teach them to alert. And the way they alert is they just sit. They would walk. Let's say you put, you know, five women in a row. One has already been diagnosed or one has the ovarian cancer. The dog will walk by all five women. When it gets to the woman who has cancer, he sits right in front of her. That's his alert saying she's got it.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

The way they teach them, the way they teach them is they teach them to alert. And the way they alert is they just sit. They would walk. Let's say you put, you know, five women in a row. One has already been diagnosed or one has the ovarian cancer. The dog will walk by all five women. When it gets to the woman who has cancer, he sits right in front of her. That's his alert saying she's got it.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

Well, what they do is they'll take things like cancer cells. I've got to go to the stream with cancer. Okay. And they'll put it with other objects and they wait for the dog to smell and they reward the dog for smelling the cancer. So the dog's not saying, I smell cancer. You need to take care of this person. The dog is doing something because it knows it's going to get rewarded for it.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

Well, what they do is they'll take things like cancer cells. I've got to go to the stream with cancer. Okay. And they'll put it with other objects and they wait for the dog to smell and they reward the dog for smelling the cancer. So the dog's not saying, I smell cancer. You need to take care of this person. The dog is doing something because it knows it's going to get rewarded for it.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

It's called bridging. We bridge when we teach animals to do things. When we see a behavior that we find favorable, we reward the animals. So what they'll do is they'll Put money, let's say, put money in one bag and all the other bags have nothing. When the dog goes to the money, he gets rewarded. That's called a bridge. Right away, say, okay, you're getting money, boom.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

It's called bridging. We bridge when we teach animals to do things. When we see a behavior that we find favorable, we reward the animals. So what they'll do is they'll Put money, let's say, put money in one bag and all the other bags have nothing. When the dog goes to the money, he gets rewarded. That's called a bridge. Right away, say, okay, you're getting money, boom.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

So then the dog learns, hey, when I go to the money, I get rewarded. And then you just reinforce that behavior. You keep causing different bridges to connect the animal to whatever you're trying to teach it. So the animal's not saying, I'm a specialist in smelling cancer, no, or I'm a specialist in smelling drugs, no. We teach a dog that has an incredible sense of smell Pinpoint that one thing.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

So then the dog learns, hey, when I go to the money, I get rewarded. And then you just reinforce that behavior. You keep causing different bridges to connect the animal to whatever you're trying to teach it. So the animal's not saying, I'm a specialist in smelling cancer, no, or I'm a specialist in smelling drugs, no. We teach a dog that has an incredible sense of smell Pinpoint that one thing.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

That becomes a drug specialist dog. He's been rewarded. Like we wouldn't have a dog doing drugs and cancer at the same time because then the dog's confused. So we teach the dog, this is what your specialty is. As soon as you determine that this is that, you will get rewarded. And that's how it works.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

That becomes a drug specialist dog. He's been rewarded. Like we wouldn't have a dog doing drugs and cancer at the same time because then the dog's confused. So we teach the dog, this is what your specialty is. As soon as you determine that this is that, you will get rewarded. And that's how it works.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Best Of Ron Magill

All right, guys. Take care. Tony, missing you on the court, brother. Likewise.