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PetChat July 29th: Laughter, Learning, and Love: Exploring the World of Pets with Pet Chat

• Jason Zackowski

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Ready for a hearty mix of laughter, compassion, and knowledge?

This episode of Pet Chat is just the ticket! We kick off with a game centered around my (Jason's) adorable dogs - Bunsen and Beaker, and then take you on a journey through the world of pets. Alongside, we extend the conversation to include our listeners' stories and answer their questions. There's also a surprising revelation as to why there was a recent dip in our content.

From there, we navigate the waters of climate change, focusing on the impact it has on El Niño, bringing you face-to-face with an issue that's affecting us all. Amidst the serious talk, we lighten the air with conversations about pet adventures - from Jamie's athletic dogs River and Rosie to the hilarious couch wars between our own four-legged pals. But that's not all; our episode also provides insights into the online world of pet lovers, from Twitter's recent changes to the benefits of joining an online dog community.

Finally, we delve into issues that hit close to home. You'll hear a powerful story from Karen about her service dog, Remy, and their experience with discrimination - a story that is both shocking and inspiring. To top it all, we touch upon the fascinating subject of time zones and how they affect our pets. Trust us, it's as intriguing as it sounds! Whether you're a pet lover or just someone seeking a fun, informative chat, you're in the right place. Here's to another episode of Pet Chat, where every chat brings you closer to the world of pets. See you on the inside!

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Speaker 2:

Hello pet enthusiasts. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen Beaker the science dogs on social media. Normally my co-host is my wife, chris, but she is in Prince Edward Island, the smallest Canadian province, with our son Adam, touring with the Red Deer Royals. They are doing their big tour on the East Coast, so if she is not here today, maybe she'll pop in and you know what that means. If Chris isn't here today, you all have a chance to win Kahoot.

Speaker 2:

So if this is your first time tuning into Pet Chat, here's how it rolls. We start with the Kahoot game, which is a fun way to get everybody kind of up to speed on what's happening with Bunsen Beaker. After the game, chris and I but now it's just me share stories about Bunsen Beaker and Ginger for a short period and then we open up the floor to the community to share their stories about pets or ask us questions. So it is interactive. And if you ever miss a Pet Chat, generally, as long as I don't mess up the tech, like I think I messed up last week's Pet Chat tech Anyways, it is a recording like this is being recorded and I turned it into a bonus podcast episode on the Science Podcast. Okay, alrighty. So last call for Kahoot and then we're going to get started. While we're waiting, I just want to give a warm welcome, as Indra would say, to Indra. Hi, indra, indra Bartona is our partner with the Positivity Vibe Tribe. Having the summer off as a teacher, I've been able to make the shows that she runs at the middle of the day and they're just really fun to tune in.

Speaker 2:

Okay, what did Liz say in the comments? I wish I could. Batteries at 17% and no way to charge? Okay, well, that's too bad. That's, you know, depending on how good or how new your phone is, if you have an older phone, man, the battery goes away really quickly. So let's get into Kahoot everybody. Here we go. It's time to play Kahoot, alright, july 29th. And if you're on Facebook Live, you can play too. You can't see, but I just had a sip of coffee, but the Facebook people can't because it's a video.

Speaker 2:

Okay, in Text from Bunsen, what, oh, it's the spelling mistake. In Text from Bunsen, what does Bunsen want Adam to bring him back from his trip to the East Coast? So, in Text from Bunsen, the jokes we write Fridays. What does it Bunsen wants Adam to bring back? East Coast Moose Leg, a lobster, haddock or crab. So if you love Text from Bunsen, you probably caught this joke. Oh, wow, hey, most everybody got it. It was a lobster. Are there any lobster fans out there? Anybody like eating lobster? I am not a fan of lobster, I know, don't get upset, but I love crab. I love crab, but I just don't. I don't enjoy lobster. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's because I live in the prairies of Alberta, who knows? Okay. So yeah, look, chris isn't here today. I'll have a chance.

Speaker 2:

This may be the only time somebody other than Chris gets first in Kahoot. Snake is in first, followed by Sunny Fat, Violet, slim Shady and Carousel Slim Shady. I got a little sound for you. Right now You're the new Slim Shady. Now, it's an in-joke if you've just tuned in for the first time. Chris always signs in as Slim Shady and then other people now have been signing in as different Slim Shadys. Okay, next question Whoa, I got a sound. Thanks.

Speaker 2:

How many points in couch wars does Ginger have? So this is one of those slider questions. I don't know what is happening. Over the last month and month, both Ginger and Beaker have been fighting over the. I guess it's the westmost corner of the couch, like they want that corner, and they go back and forth fighting over it. So I tallied up how many points Ginger has gotten and I made the error bars really big on this question. So it worked out to around 40 points. So that was the correct answer, but the error bars on either side are pretty big. So see how you did. Oh, nobody got it. Oh, okay, no, carousel got it. Carousel got it. Good job. Violet is in second Snake Schnauzer and Sunny Fat. Okay.

Speaker 2:

Next question Adam and the Red Deer Royals are playing in Prince Edward Island. What is their signature song? So if you've been keeping up with our social media, there is a song that Red Deer Royals is famous for playing. And which one is it? I just met you. That's like by Carly Wade, ray Jepsen, never gonna give you up Crazy Train, or hey Baby. And it's hey Baby, though I do like the people who got tricked and they got Rick rolled by picking. Never Gonna Give you Up. Yeah, hey Baby is the Royal Signature Song, and in the video up at the top of the nest you can see Adam just hamming it up with the tuba. He is very strong, by the way. Like that's one thing that he got from me. I may not be the most athletic person in the world, but I'm very strong, and Adam's not the most athletic guy either. We have to work really hard at sports but he is really really strong and you can see him just like carrying that tuba like it's nothing. So, okay, oh, big. Later, violet is in first place, carousel, sunny, fat, lindsay and Kelly.

Speaker 2:

Okay, next question there was a huge dip in content this week. Why, okay, Uh yeah, the Bunsen and Beaker account disappeared off the face of the earth for two days. Why, our house lost power. Jason cut the Wi-Fi line by accident. Jason got insanely sick. Beaker ate Jason's phone. So why? Why did our content go down? And some people said I cut the Wi-Fi line by accident. No, I got so sick.

Speaker 2:

Um late, late Monday after I mowed our lawn. We've got. We live on a farm so I have to. We have a ride on mower thing. I was mowing it cause I knew it was going to rain all week and I was like man, I got a really bad headache, but I got to get this done and then, like two o'clock in the morning till two o'clock in the afternoon, I was. It was a mess and I didn't really recover till Thursday, so everything was delayed. The science podcast came out on Friday. Normally I have it out on Thursdays, but yeah, that was, it was a whole thing. So I did tweet about it, um, and maybe some people caught that I was really sick too. Okay, uh, Violet is on fire. Good job, violet, lindsay, kelly, katrina and Erin.

Speaker 2:

Last question on the science podcast this week, jason talked about what is causing the hot weather. What's the most to plane? So, yeah, if you've been listening to the science podcast, the science story this week is the, the wicked heat and record breaking temperatures all over the world. Is it climate change? El Niño, la Nina, solar flares? What is the main culprit? Yeah, I went into a deep dive, this dive on this on the science podcast and, yeah, so it's not climate change. It's the climate change is making it worse.

Speaker 2:

But the thing that's driving the hot weather is this ocean current oscillation called El Niño. It's where the, the warm waters in the Western Pacific, slowly make their way East and that increases surface temperature all across the world. Like the Pacific, ocean is really big and if it heats up just a bit, it messes with everything. Now, of course, climate change is exasperating everything. But the El Niño, la Nina, la Nina cycle is normal and we do go in this normal hot cold oscillation, but coupled with climate change of just nudging the dial a little bit, that's why it is so incredibly hot. So it's supposed to be hotter for the next two to eight years because of the cycle.

Speaker 2:

But climate change is the, the. It's like the, the last, the straw that breaks the camels back anyway. So you can listen more about that on the science podcast. A way to remember it that was taught to me by Dr Catherine Hayhoe is El Niño oh, like El Niño, it's so hot. And La Nina, ah, it's nice and cool. It's a way to remember those.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I'm just getting into teacher mode, sorry, all right. So what's going on with the points here? In third place, violet, congratulations. Second place, we have Katrina. And in first place we have Lindsey Congratulations, what, what, what Congratulations. Let's hear a word from our sponsor.

Speaker 2:

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Speaker 2:

So that's the start of the show, and normally Chris and I get into some banter about dogs and cats and stuff like that, like Bunsen and beaker and and what's not. So I will share a couple stories from this week. Now I'm not going to gross you all out with how sick I whoa. That's still. The music is still going. Sorry, that's, it's live. I'm not going to gross you out with how sick I got, because I that was the sickest I was ever been in my entire life.

Speaker 2:

But one thing that was really cool is I was by myself. Like I could have asked for help. Like Gord is around, I mean, I could have, I guess, asked Annalise Adams, girlfriend to help me. I guarantee she would help me. But one thing that was really cool is that the pets knew I was so sick, so they waited patiently for me to take them out to do their business and they waited patiently from for supper. They didn't like when Bunsen or beaker has to go to the bathroom. Sometimes they can be quite incessant about it and either I was too sick to remember or they knew something was really up with me. So they just let me be. And beaker was a snuggle, a snuggle bug. She snuggled with me on the on the bed while I was so sick I think they are. She was a little concerned a bit, and the cat just made herself scarce.

Speaker 2:

I think it was weird that I was so sick. So anyways, that's my sick story with the pets. They do, we, we, we I know we give them credit on on pet chat. They do are very intuitive. They can smell our, our volatile organic chemicals that waft off our body when we're sick. So I guarantee you I was wafting some sick chemicals. They were picking up. They're like what's wrong with him? Normally he's not like this, okay. So that's, that's one story.

Speaker 2:

The other one is it is kind of odd to be on my own. Normally, if I'm on my own, I'm traveling, you know, like I was in Florida for a conference, but this is the longest I've been home alone. I feel like Kevin McAllister from the show Home Alone. I woke up this morning and I was like maybe I should start like making schematics and setting booby traps in case, like some, the leaky bandits might try to come after me, because I was getting a little stir crazy all by myself, cause now that I'm on the mend, I've been just like knocking off all of these jobs and getting all these tasks done. So, anyways, the one thing I've been enjoying is just like having time with the animals. So it's different without everybody here.

Speaker 2:

Out of necessity, I think Bunsen has glommed on to me a bit more because his person, chris, has gone and the cat and ginger is a little worried that I'm the only one left. So she's making herself, she's talking to me constantly, which is weird, cause I'm not. I haven't been a cat person my whole life and I'll just be like working away and she'll just like jump in front of me and go meow like like hello, where is everybody? Why are you the only one here? Where is my person? And I'm like ginger, this is me. All you have is me. I'm sorry, this is the best we can do, meow, so that's the whole thing. That's the whole thing right there On the project, kind of like just to give you a little bit of background what I've been working on while Chris has been gone.

Speaker 2:

I was hoping to get more done, but I did get a ton done the last couple of days. So we, when Chris was here, we finished all of the text from Bunsen jokes for volume two and then Chris proof read and I've got all of the other little bits of the book done, which is really exciting. I'm just waiting back to hear from scientists, cause we normally we highlight scientists. We highlighted scientists in text from Bunsen volume one and then I made, I wrote a little joke like a text from Bunsen joke that went with their specialty. So I'm slowly hearing back from some of our scientists that we've had on the science podcast or been in side chat. So when you see the book you'll be like, oh, I remember them. So yeah, it's just, it takes a bit, cause everybody's it's the summer.

Speaker 2:

Dr Emily Taylor you might remember as the rattlesnake scientist. So I was. I heard back from her, so I'm so glad she said yes, but she's she's hunting rattlesnakes right now, not for like sport, for science. She's like I don't know if my wifi is good enough, I'm in the middle of I forget where trying to wrangle up some rattlesnakes. So, anyways, she's one of the scientists that you'll see. And then, of course, there's the little vignettes and in the pictures that will go with text from Bunsen.

Speaker 2:

The other thing that we're really excited for is the other two things we're really excited for. It's like probably mid August the Bunsen and Beaker 2024 calendar will launch and the POP hack. Our community got to see the cover and I took a bunch of time with that and it's got some whimsical stuff in it. So it's got the really nice pictures of Bunsen and Beaker, but some fun and whimsical stuff. And the other thing that Chris and I put together that we're also really excited to launch, probably end of August, start of September, is a children's activity book. We'll see what the response is and we're hoping to do like multiple issues. So if you have children, that I think it's we're aiming for ages six to 11. So the kids have to spell, be able to spell, because there's word searches and mazes, but it'll be all Bunsen and Beaker stuff and we're really excited about that and because Chris and I are teachers, it was easier to do this than we thought. So we can do multiple issues.

Speaker 2:

And a fun thing that we're gonna be doing is that one issue will link to the next issue, cause I always love that when I was a kid where, like, you got the next month's issue and it was a callback Like it was like go back to the other issue and see if you can find this thing and you find the thing, and then, if you get enough issues, like it makes a code or something like that. It was always so fun. So we're linking, we're gonna be linking together the issues with some stuff. Like I don't wanna spoil it, but one of the pages might be a tarot page and on that tarot page you have to save it and put together a puzzle from parts of the tarot page, from six issues or something like that. So, anyways, that's something I was really excited about, didn't? Maybe, if you come up as a speaker, you can tell me if you got little magazines when you were young, because I got magazines and I got comic books and I loved. The other thing I loved was like the fake ads. So the other thing I was writing today was fake ads, like for beakers, fishes and for moose legs, like call 1-800-MOOSELEG, because in the comic book you could send away for like weird stuff at the back of it, and most of it was a joke anyways. So, anyways, I thought that was kind of funny. Yeah, I'm really excited for that. We have to. We're focusing on the calendar first and then the activity book second. Okay, all right, that's it. I think I'm done.

Speaker 2:

My sharing is gonna be short because Chris isn't here. So if you have a question or comment or if you have a pet story, we would love for you to come up to share. And a couple of ground rules If we don't know your account, I will try to DM you first. We don't just let anybody come up because that's a recipe for trolls. So if we know you, you come up right away, and if not, then I do try to figure out on the back end of what's going on with you. If you are a little on the shy side, you can type a question or story into the chat and we'll be more than happy to read that out. And Pet Chat yeah, pet Chat goes for as long as we have stories to share. Okay, so I've brought up. Oh, we got some people coming up. This is awesome. So we'll go Jamie, first Paula and then Sasha, and then, oh, cindy's coming up. That's great. So, jamie, hello.

Speaker 4:

Good morning. How are you all? I hope you're feeling better, jason.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm feeling back to normal.

Speaker 4:

Well, that's fantastic news. Sorry, I haven't been on for weeks. It seems like forever. Too many other activities happening on Sunday mornings here in.

Speaker 4:

Australia. But it's one of our normal mid-winter Sunday mornings Brilliant blue skies, it's probably about 22 degrees Celsius, sorry and a bit of a breeze, and the dogs are just running around on the grass like silly things. But in the last month or two I've, with my running, I've started taking River and Rosie running with me as well. So Rosie's 13 months old now and River's nearly four, and River's just a ball of muscle. Oh God, some bodybuilder must be so jealous of his muscle tone. I mean really.

Speaker 2:

That's like Bunsen. When he got, when he had ran into the porcupine, they had to shave a huge part of his shoulder and Adam was like he, bunsen is jacked. And it was true, he was like crazy muscley, like if you were to shave a Bernice Mountain dog. I think he would probably look like Battista from Guardians of the Galaxy. He'd look like Drax.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that's. I mean, that's River. His back legs are just muscle. They're astonishing. And cause we live on hills here, I can't run as fast as him. He's so fast and so he's running down hills and I go, ah, trying to keep up with him in the background. Anyway, they start nagging in the afternoon, cause I run about six o'clock or so when it's cooler, and they start nagging me at about 4.30 in the afternoon and he and Rosie both come up and start like poking me and punching me with their feet. It's like now is it time? Now? No, no, it's not time. Now. Now, now is it time? Now? No, stop, stop, stop. But they're very good and they'll do about five and a half kilometers very easily. And then River, just like, has a drink of water and says right, we gotta go again.

Speaker 4:

And I say no no, I'm gonna die and Rosie, however, gets tired because you know she's still fairly young. But Facebook has started showing me my memory photos from last year, when she was tiny baby. So there's all these baby, gushy baby photos of Rosie showing up.

Speaker 2:

I just saw it in the. You just posted it. Okay, I've got it up in the nest for everybody to see.

Speaker 4:

She was such a beautiful baby, and now she's turned into this little monster with teeth Aw.

Speaker 2:

But we love her.

Speaker 4:

We love her dearly.

Speaker 2:

Oh man, there's something about puppies. I was because I was sick. I was like my emotions were going up and down and then I was just like trolling like the ads for selling puppies. And I was like maybe I'll just go get another dog and I was like no, chris is gonna kill me.

Speaker 8:

She comes home and says they're doing, chris and never noticed. She never noticed. No she'd be like what is?

Speaker 2:

going on here. Why is there's this other dog? I was like or I could go, you know, I could go to like the SPCA and see if there's a dog that needs rescuing. And I said no because if I go it would come home guaranteed.

Speaker 4:

And I see nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with bringing home the extra dog whatsoever. Hey, somebody else's turn. Thank you so much. I'll talk to you all later.

Speaker 2:

Perfect, thank you. Okay, next speaker is Paula, then Sasha, sydney and then Phil, and we have some speaker requests and, like I said, if you're not known to us and you don't have your DMs turned on, then we won't let you up. So you have to DM us with what's going on or turn your DMs on. Okay, go ahead, paula, thank you. Thanks for waiting.

Speaker 8:

No problem, how's everybody tonight?

Speaker 2:

We're good, good, good.

Speaker 8:

I've been in my life and been there in your shoes. It's nasty stuff when you get food poisoning or whatever it's like, oh man, I turned gray. But anyway, that's a long story. I don't know if anybody else is having weird feelings about no more Twitter icon. It's now X. It's kind of strange. I can't wait to see, when people Google X, what they come up with.

Speaker 2:

Well, like, when we make videos, are they X videos? Like that's what's going to happen. Oh man, yeah.

Speaker 8:

I'm just sad to see that because it's too changing for my set of shoes.

Speaker 2:

It happened very quickly yeah.

Speaker 8:

I guess he was having some problems trying to get that patented because X was by Facebook or something.

Speaker 2:

Something yeah.

Speaker 8:

Yeah, it was a bloody mess, but anyway, now you asked out people, you got to wait for this activity book because it's going to be the bomb, but anyway, you asked what I had as a kid. You're going to laugh. I had this thing called Highlight Magazine.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I've heard of Highlight.

Speaker 8:

Yeah, yeah, and we used to get those and there was like little stories and kind of like there was a Ranger Rick in there. I don't know, I'm tapping the brain cells so it's kind of musty in there. But we also had Mad Magazine with Alfred.

Speaker 8:

And that was on the bizarre side, but that I could see where you would have really cool advertisements for Moose Legs, because that reminded me of Mad Magazine, I don't know. But anyway, and my quick dog story this week, as everybody knows, I'm a dog walker and I got a new client that actually has three Brussels griffons.

Speaker 1:

Oh.

Speaker 8:

First time for me. I was super excited. They have a 15-year-old and they have a eight-year-old named Chloe and I forgot what the older one was named and Kona Kona. And then they have a puppy the same age as Trixie, five months old. I tweeted it this week. She's so cute and she's black and you'll never guess her name it's Olive. Oh, I know, just gets you. Oh my gosh, but she doesn't look like Olive. The middle one kind of looked like Olive because she was Belgian and blonde hair. But it was so cute to see this little puppy too and I'm like, oh my gosh. And they said, oh, you know, let him out and everything. I must have stayed there over an hour because I was just on my back playing with the puppies and the dogs. I was like, oh, they got their extra bonus with me because I was just like I love your dogs because, heck, I have one too.

Speaker 2:

Paula, you and Jamie talking about playing with puppies. You're going to make me go back and like, get, like there's going to be a third dog when Chris comes home, after the next person comes up here and starts talking about puppies.

Speaker 6:

Well now you're chance. Puppy puppy puppy, puppy, how's your chance? Newsy, newsy, newsy newsy. Oh don't say it.

Speaker 2:

No, no, I would. I would get a new fee, I would get a newfound land in a second. But, chris, chris, that is, that is what dog, that dog breed. That Chris absolutely said no to. So, but if you, if we had a new fee, chris would love it in seconds because they're just, they're like a Bunsen, they're just, they're big bears.

Speaker 8:

Yes, they're big dogs, two of them, and they're incredible and they're puppies. But you got good thing You're strong, jason, because, yes, they will. They will yank your shoulder oh, they're like massive strong, but they do have new fee doodles and they don't shed or drool. So you know now that they're crossing everything but your cat with a poodle, but you know but just wait, chris, there's probably on that. Well, yeah, and you know, I think that would be a good idea.

Speaker 2:

I could do it.

Speaker 8:

My husband was like no, you're not getting another Brussels. Well, I brought it home anyway, because I went and stuck out with my late mom. We were like, let's go look at this one. And so we did that and we went for a car ride and we got, we got Rose and it was like we brought it home and he was just like, oh my God, what did you do? And I'm like and she loves Dave, so Rose is like Dave's soul mate.

Speaker 8:

I mean she likes me too, but she really likes Dave, because when I used to do overnight pet sitting, they would bachelor it, you know, even though she's a girl dog. But you know, a dog would gain two pounds, and so my husband would gain five, because all they ate was pizza and Chinese foods. I'm like God, what are you doing to this dog? But anyway, so that's my idea. But guys listen, this activity book is going to be so much fun and I'm plugging you again, Jason. But I applied you for all the cool stuff you're coming up with, because it's just kind of nice to see something refreshing for kiddos to do and adults, because I'm going to get one too.

Speaker 2:

I know the thing that shocked me the most was like the the pop pack is Paula's part of the pop pack. Our community is like we're not going to get these for kids, we're going to get these for us. And I'm like, okay, that's great, that's a testament to how much fun it's going to be.

Speaker 8:

Well, sure, that's right. And I need connected dots because when you get older you know you need those little puzzled games to keep the brain going. So any, any help on that end is appreciative. So have a good night and I'm glad you're better and get that new fee. Pup Puppy, puppy puppy new fee, new fee, new fee.

Speaker 2:

That would be a lot of dog in her house, a Bunsen and a new fee and a beaker.

Speaker 8:

And there would be big, we would need it.

Speaker 2:

We would need a science B name for a new fee, though.

Speaker 8:

Yeah, well, we could come up with that for you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Burkow Burette.

Speaker 8:

There's something Borax? No, that's not Borax.

Speaker 2:

Well, borax is cute. Yeah, Boron, but Boron sounds like moron, so no, maybe not.

Speaker 8:

Yeah right, but you think you're going to have couch wars with gender weight.

Speaker 2:

No, yeah, bunsen's big, and new fees are twice as big as Bunsen. So yeah, okay, thanks, paula. We'll go to Sasha, sydney, phil, then Rich Baden, sasha Sorry, go ahead, sasha.

Speaker 9:

Hi, jason. Hi, I'm glad to see you're surviving being at home without Chris and Adam. I always know, whenever I leave my husband home with the pets, I always am like not sure where I'm going to come back to. So but anyway, I have to follow on with what Paula said about the new fee thing, puppy, puppy. And as someone who has a doodle, let me tell you doodles are awesome. I basically have a Bernie's mountain dog that does not shed and likes to play and actually can play fetch.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 9:

You know confidently. So you know I'm going to say new fee doodle because it's going to be my vote. But I've been meaning to tell you this for a bit. So I've been following couch wars with so much glee and it is so much fun. So we kind of have a little couch war of our own here.

Speaker 2:

Oh no.

Speaker 9:

It's not Fiona in Sasha, it's me and Sasha. We both like the same corner of the couch, okay. And because she is a very good dog, about 85% of the time she sees me walking towards the couch, she gets up and moves to the other end Okay. Then there's that 15% of the time she looks at me like I really don't want to move, mom, it's just got comfortable. Then I make her move and she does this plod, plod, plod plop in her dog bed, just like I can't believe you made me move. So, yes, we have our own personal couch wars here and Sasha would like the entire world to know she got second breakfast this morning.

Speaker 2:

Oh, how did that happen?

Speaker 9:

Oh, so my husband actually had to leave very early this morning to go down to Tacoma Washington, washington. His father is in the hospital.

Speaker 2:

Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear yeah.

Speaker 9:

But so far things are good, okay, but anyway. So he had to take a 7 am ferry, so he was up at like 4 30 in the morning and he had told me last night he says I'm going to walk Sasha, but I'm not going to feed her, fiona, and I'm like, okay, that's pretty cool. And so I feel that, you know, I'm like halfway sleeping through everything. And I come downstairs about 8 30. And I noticed there's cat food in the cat dish and I'm thinking, well, he probably just fed Fiona so she wouldn't wake me up.

Speaker 9:

So I go ahead and feed Sasha and then I check my text messages, fed both girls this morning and of course Sasha was acting the whole time like she. You know she had had her breakfast, of course not. She's doing her normal routine of sitting, you know, in the perfect obedience, sit by the kitchen waiting for me to make her food. So no harm, no foul, although she did have three poops today, which is a much, a lot for her. But she is very, very pleased with herself on that in that regard.

Speaker 2:

You know I made a story emoji, emoji story about the day in the dog's life. I don't know if you saw it and that was like the comment. People had that like where's second breakfast?

Speaker 9:

Yes, I did see that and yeah, hello. And then that's not. At least she didn't get 11 Z's this morning, so be grateful for that. Or especially because she eats raw dog food and, as you know, that stuff ain't cheap. So but one other thing I wanted to mention. I know there's a few of us that got invites to Blue Sky and have been hanging out over there. I know teen is over there because I've seen her and so so, like Rex, the TV terriers there and a few other dog accounts. But for any of you guys that do have access to it, follow an account called Darth, like Darth Vader.

Speaker 2:

Oh, like the Darth that interacts with we rate dogs.

Speaker 9:

That Darth is over there and they are posting dog content like crazy.

Speaker 2:

Wow, good for them.

Speaker 9:

It is awesome Like it and they've they've permanently left Twitter and that's where they are now. So they've done that, and then they started this amazing thread a few days ago. That is just all wholesomeness. That was basically tell me what you've been up to, and you've got all these people talking about all the really cool things they're doing Lots of scientists and writers and I'll have to check that out.

Speaker 9:

Oh man, it's like it is just the most uplifting thing I've seen on social media. You know well, since the last time I looked at a picture of Bunsen, but you know, but I just wanted to share that. Like I said, I know there are some folks over there and it was just. It was so awesome to get over there and see Darth and I was like I've missed this account so much because they're so wholesome.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 9:

Oh, anyway, when's Chris coming back?

Speaker 2:

They are back super late Monday so I got to go get them Monday at like almost midnight, probably after midnight. Edmonton or Calgary no they so because it's a banned thing. They have a bus that will take them from the train from Calgary home.

Speaker 9:

Oh, good, you don't have to drive all the way out there. That's good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, well, and remember like I mean we have vehicles that can fit Adams Tuba, but I mean there's the pit band with all of that nonsense. There's no, that comes home in a, like a truck with a trailer.

Speaker 9:

So I bet. And that video from today with the parade was just wonderful. He looked like he was having a lot of fun.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, see, one of the things like our family we are really good at is in public, when we're just ourselves, where we can be introverted and shy. But if we have a costume, it's like a switch turns on and we are like where we are, have so much fun. So, adam, once he's got that costume on, he becomes Red Deer, royal Adam, awesome. Same thing. So when we put our cosplay costumes on, we become whatever they are Right.

Speaker 9:

So exactly man dog Lorian, that's right. Oh, anyway, thank you for letting me talk with you guys again, and you know puppy, puppy, puppy, puppy, puppy.

Speaker 2:

Thank you All. Right Over to Sydney. Sydney, then Phil, then Rich slash Baten, sydney, hello.

Speaker 7:

Hi, hi, thanks. I just want to bring attention you may have covered it earlier, I'm not sure, but I just want to bring attention to the rescue and shelter crisis in Alberta right now. Okay, they are absolutely overwhelmed and they are publicly asking for help. I think CTV just did an article, and so if anybody has room to foster or adopt, now is a really critical time in Alberta.

Speaker 2:

Wow, what's going on.

Speaker 7:

Like there was a few like hoarder type situations they had to interview near Edmonton and then it seems to be happening as a lot of people who acquired pandemic pets are now relinquishing them.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, if they're three years old and there's just too much. Yeah, yeah, that's very sad and frustrating, but thank you for bringing that to everybody's attention.

Speaker 7:

Yeah, absolutely. And if you can't adopt or foster, maybe consider a donation to help them out. They are busting out the seams.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I'm going to tomorrow. No, they'll. If I can get ahold of somebody, maybe Monday I'll contact our local shelter and see what we can maybe do. Maybe we can run like a stuffy sale where half of the profits go to them, or something like that for a week or something like that.

Speaker 7:

So yeah, anything would be amazing, I'm sure.

Speaker 2:

Perfect. Thanks Sydney Over to Phil. Hi Phil, how's it going?

Speaker 5:

It's not too much coverage, it's 20 to two in the morning. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's not conducive to your time zone.

Speaker 5:

No, we're at a Google mountain time and found out what time it was in the morning. And yeah, so it's 20 to two. I've been stuck in the spare room trying not to stay home. I pack a dog this time in the morning. And yeah, it's been quite well. I can't complain, it's been quite well.

Speaker 2:

So, phil, you run the dogs community, correct?

Speaker 5:

Yes, I guess on Twitter I've said to talk about last December and it was restricted for quite a long time because of trials and spam account. Yeah, but Twitter, or Hex as it's called, now improved some tools for communities and in the last two weeks I've got extra I think it's 14,000 members.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you're at 18,000. I won't. I'm checking right now.

Speaker 5:

Last time I checked it was 14. So it's going up, and up Good job.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, just trying to keep it in control with bots and things like that. But yeah, it's as always, it's hard work. Keep on top of things like that and yeah, it's been quite well and the social media in general is doing quite well. I was a deputy for the blue tits early doors. I thought it was a good incentive for people who can't even create like I do and you do. I jumped on straight away. I wasn't. I didn't see it as political. I saw it as if we're doing it in for a small business or creative. I thought it was a good investment for a pound in the UK. I don't know what you think about that.

Speaker 2:

No, we like yeah, your blue for us is very useful for the extra features that allows, like the main one for us. It allows the longer tweets and it's I've just personally being able to write creatively. It's worth it for me as just like something that feeds my soul to write like that, and then people seem to like some of the stuff that I write in that long form content. So it's that that loan is worth it.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I find a couple of benefits, but Marx is a high, fine price list. I think that's worth it. It's worth that one as well. And, like I said, along text and with Twitterblows, while you have subscriptions which have started two weeks ago I think it's two or three weeks ago then I've had a competition to do a pet calendar, to ask people on my normal Twitter feed to post a picture of their pets being part of the family. I've got 950 replies.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I've been following you, Phil. I love your threads Like what's the one that you do normally, like what's the last picture on your phone? I love those ones. That's very clever.

Speaker 5:

Yes, I get. That is one I try and run around about seven o'clock US England time, so, whatever that is, it might be all in that time. So I just want to get most interactions and with them I get probably 2000 replies, sometimes more, but they're quite popular. One of the one of the things that recently really popular I don't know if you saw, but I posted, because you know, about puppies. I posted a video I must not get a basset puppy, I must not get a basset puppy and that went viral and it got 10 million views and got like by Elon Musk and all that. So I've got created a lot of traction on that side of things. So, yeah, that went quite viral and it was a shock because the phone kept going off and so you get liked off this person and that person and be the user of Twitter for a decade now.

Speaker 5:

It still surprised me that things still surprise excite you on this platform. I know a lot of people want to move to the platform I haven't got the time to invest in, like Fred's or Sky Blue. There's all the other platform in an Instagram. I don't really invest the time in there because ultimately give me about it there's about 10 different social media platforms at the moment and you only go invest your time to certain areas of your audience, and my audience is on Twitter, so I just invest that time on there. Really, I don't know if you do have a platform.

Speaker 2:

I do. Twitter is our biggest platform. Yeah, we are on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, we have a blue sky thing, but it's and threads as well and LinkedIn, but it's too much for me to do all of that at one time. So I have some scheduling programmers program not programmers programs that help me a bit, but yeah, it's for me just one person. The sky is the limit for where you could be posting to, so I do spend most of my time on Twitter.

Speaker 5:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I don't know if I'll ever call this place X. I think I'll just keep calling. I don't think.

Speaker 5:

I'll ever call it X. I think I'll just call it Twitter. I mean, I haven't even updated the app because I still like to bleed, but yeah, let's keep on that as long as possible and just use the web conversion on my phone if I want to do things, and because yesterday I got an email on Goiotex about the ad sharing program. I've been accepted for that now, so, which is quite good. I think the Ascentage got. Twitter is doing content creators. I think it's a good thing. I really do think it's going to evolve the app from where it was this time last year, which was a great way, because it wasn't well actually, but I'm going to say it's more for content creators. It's going to get better and better from where it was this time last year. So I just thought I'd drop into spaces and work out, because I've never done a space before. I might as well try it on your face and it's been a good experience, thank you.

Speaker 2:

Well, phil, if you ever run one yourself or if you have other questions, just give me a shout. I mean, the least I can do is stay up till two o'clock in the morning to make one of yours, for since you came to one of ours, so it's good to have you and everybody. If you're not following Phil, phil has a very wholesome, amazing account and, phil, thank you for coming to our show.

Speaker 5:

Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2:

You betcha. Okay, over to Baden, slash, rich and then Karen. Thanks for waiting patiently. Hey, jason, how's things? Things are good, sir. How are you?

Speaker 3:

Not too bad, a little tired, but that's just one of those things. I mean, it's bad enough that it fills up till what. Two o'clock in the morning, yeah yeah, my normal bedtime is nine o'clock and we're chasing 10 o'clock now. But it's Saturday. Yeah, really cool to see Adam and the stuff that he's doing, and then because this is sort of my turf trying to figure out where he is and where he's standing and all that sort of thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I can imagine you're like where's that? What's that landmark? I know that street.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, one shot that they had was when he was getting his gear on was at the Confederation Center and I guess what's a bit of a long time ago now. We used to ride our bikes all around the Confederation Center and they had ramps and steps. You could get a bike down quite easily and all that sort of thing. We probably not allowed to do that anymore and I spent a fair bit of time in the library there, which I think is moved, and they've also got a really really, really good, acoustically good auditorium slash theater in there where they have anacrine gables and all that sort of summer stuff. But that's not really dog related. And back a little after I stopped riding my bicycle around the Confederation Center. I was in high school. This would be the late 70s and about once a week two Newfoundland dogs would come into the school, find the class where their human was in and they come down and sit and flop in the middle of the space between the desks.

Speaker 2:

They weren't on a leash, they just came in by themselves.

Speaker 3:

They came in, but this was back in the day when dogs were more white, were not as restrained or restricted. We're talking from the late 70s. And they get into the school somehow, come into the class where their human was and just flop down in the middle of the classroom in between the desks and the teacher.

Speaker 2:

I love it. What a good day for the kids.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, oh yeah, and it would happen probably every couple of weeks, and nobody seemed to be too fussed about it.

Speaker 2:

Do you think those dogs were actually like the Newfoundlanders were bred to jump off the side of fishing boats and help bring stuff in? Do you think they were used for that in the 70s? Because they're not really used for what they were used for anymore, kind of like the Bernice Mountain Dog doesn't need. You don't need a Bernice Mountain Dog to bring your cheese to market.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and labs were actually bred for the same thing, where it's to jump off the boat and help retrieve the nets and any fish that got out of the fish trap they were supposed to grab. I don't know if they're still used for that in the 70s. I do know trying to swim with a Newfoundlander around dog that is not somebody from Newfoundland is quite difficult because they keep thinking you get it, You're in trouble and need rescuing.

Speaker 2:

I've seen so many videos of a kid jumping off a dock with a lifejacket on and the new fees like oh, oh, time to rescue, and they just jump out and grab the kid by the little, you know, the little strap and they haul them back to shore. They're like I'm going to save you, this is my job.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I'll bait him when we're in the pool, if you can't. If you duck underneath the water, he gets really quite worried. Oh, he's such a good boy. We've trained him not to go on the pool because it's a vinyl liner and that's quite expensive, right, but he will run around and bark excitedly and then if you go to, we have a place to jump off or a slide and if you go up that he's just tearing around the pool and you can just imagine what he's like with the grandson in the pool. How he's such a good boy, because I know what he really wants to do is jump in and make sure that Oliver doesn't drown. Yeah, and it's just. It's so much fun to watch. That's my warm, fuzzy dog tails for tonight. I love it, rich. So this is the last one for a bit, right.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we are. When Chris comes back, we need to take some time just to do holiday stuff. I know she's been on holidays and I've been not. Have you ever shaperoned?

Speaker 3:

a band.

Speaker 2:

It's not really a holiday. I know I have. I've taken kids on many of a field trip and parts of it is like a holiday and parts of it is like the worst work ever. Like when we took kids to Costa Rica for a marine biology trip. Oh, I have stories about that, that was. There were some sketchy parts of that. So, yeah, it was like, oh wow, this is an amazing holiday. And then, oh man, we lost a kid, zip lining.

Speaker 3:

I was a scout leoper for 20 years, so oh yeah, been there, done that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you're like there's parts of this that are great, and then that kid is going to burn himself in the fire.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but no, no. So you go on. Maritimeers like to know everything. I'm sorry. Well, there's enough of us out there. You're probably used to us by now. So you're doing any sort of family trips up to the mountains, yeah?

Speaker 2:

yeah, I need to check to see if I can book some places, but we're so close that if we leave, like at seven, we're at the mountains by nine. So like we're very close to the mountains, it's like an hour and a half, two hour drive. So it's sometimes better just to do that anyways than packing up to stay over or something like that. Yeah, yeah, and I mean, when you have the dogs, day trips are just a lot better too than staying over. But there's a couple. There's this lake. I want to get back to that. We we found this like hidden lake, this massive hidden lake. It's not hidden, it's this huge lake called Goat Pond that's high up above Canmore and we paddleboarded on that lake for the entire day, paddleboarded in Kayak, and it was. I dream about that place. It was just pretty fantastic.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, is that mountain or is that ice? Or is it going to say iceberg fed?

Speaker 2:

It's glacial. Yeah, it's glacial, fed, and I don't know. It's cold, I'm not going to lie. Oh, yeah, it's cold. But like we, adam and I were swimming in it, no problem, because it was it's the summer. So, like I mean, you get in and you're like, oh no, and then you're good. So, yeah, we were swimming in it and, yeah, there's just something about gliding across a mountain lake and there's fish in it. So it's crystal clear, you can see the fish, like you're in tropical waters. So, anyways, yeah, that'll be one of our locations.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, If, how far? How long would it take you to get to real water like the ocean?

Speaker 2:

To get to the Pacific, we can drive. We can drive to Vancouver in a day, but it is a day. It is it is a day and, depending on forest fires and random that's right, right Like you could straight up have their NBC right now. Like BC is on fire, we, we, we probably saw the footage. We narrowly got through a terrible forest fire three years ago and we would have been totally screwed Like we drove through the fire. There's like fire on either sides of the van.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we we had a. We had a tragedy here with our floods. There was a. There was a pickup truck that got swept away and there was kids in it, and that's all I really want to talk about there.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, natural disasters are no joke, you bet.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but I was just thinking, if you ever get a chance and I'm like I've done some sea kayaking on this coast and with the right place and the right water and all that, it's just absolutely cool. And I'm thinking out in BC, where the whales and such are much closer to shore, but it would be really, really neat to to do the sea kayaking.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's on my bucket list. We've taken, like we have a kayak and we took it out into the bay, but they're not. It's not like it's not a sea kayak. The sea kayaks are something else entirely.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, they're long and skinny and lots of storage room, and they're, they're. I've done it a couple of times. I had a little little yak that I used to use with the scout troop. If if we had an odd number of paddlers, I'd take the kayak because that was easy for me to handle by myself. I mean, I I can handle a canoe half decently, but a yak goes much faster and I never tried putting a Bernie's mountain dog in a kayak. I've got a wee bit more common sense.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he wants to come, but rich. I'm going to go to the next speaker, if that's okay. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3:

No, for sure, For sure. Just the last sort of part. Have a good summer. Yeah, try to stay out of trouble as much as possible. Sometimes that takes all the fun out of stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, We'll be back I think the third Saturday of August, but we'll take. We're taking two weeks off of the show Well deserved.

Speaker 3:

I mean, you guys put a lot of time in and effort and all that sort of thing. Well, thanks, rich, and no more videos of driving through forest fires, okay.

Speaker 2:

How long we're going out that far We'll go to Karen, but hello Chris, hello, hello Hi. Hi How's it going?

Speaker 10:

I'll wait in the queue.

Speaker 2:

Okay, well, first we have Karen and then we have Chris. Hi, karen. Go ahead. Thanks for waiting patiently. Karen and Remy.

Speaker 6:

Okay, yeah, I was trying to figure out the term. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2:

No worries how you doing tonight.

Speaker 6:

I'm doing much better.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 6:

I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed that video of the band because, even though I moved to, I'm now an East coaster as of a couple of months ago, but I lived in New Orleans since my university days and To see people sitting on a street curb during a parade going to parade is work in New Orleans and you know the crowds are very engaged. It's massive. But I want to tell you that your son would have been pelted with beads because the crowds would have adored him and he was. He was. I've seen a lot of high school bands in my years and he was amazing, absolutely amazing. The whole band was. I loved it.

Speaker 2:

Awesome.

Speaker 6:

You mentioned that you were ill. I had a rough time last weekend. Real quick, dogs pick up on things. Remy is my service animal, mm-hmm, and we went. I've been dying to go to the farmers market because I grew up in a small rural cage in town. My son, I Moved over here to be near my son and my son brought me over and Remy was having was enjoying himself. I could feel his tail wagging against the back of my legs. I was letting people pet him, even though they're not supposed to, because he was making people happy and smiling and the manager of the farmers market came barging through and and basically told me I Wasn't welcome and I had to leave.

Speaker 1:

Oh.

Speaker 6:

Oh, it was bad. I Was on the phone Monday morning with the city, the president of the farmers market, the people who are employed by the city. She called me, apologizing. I told her she opened the city up to a civil lawsuit.

Speaker 6:

Mm-hmm because that was federal. That was. That's a federal lawsuit. That was Discrimination. I tried showing the manager an ADA card which was the 33rd anniversary of the ADA being signed into law yesterday. It's just perfect. And the city. I filed a title six. Title six is is the. I filed a title six grievance with the city and they're investigating it.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's good.

Speaker 6:

I'm, I'm, I'm hopeful that the outcome is good. You know, the manager told me that. I mean the president of the board over the farmers market told me that the manager had been Severely disciplined, short of being terminated. If I have to file a civil lawsuit, I Don't want to be like this, but I'm gonna be looking for jobs. They people lose their jobs because it was the most humiliating thing. And I could feel Remy's tail stopped wagging, he mushed in close to me and he was like pushing against me, like get out of here. Mom, you're upset, let's get out of here.

Speaker 6:

Mm-hmm and I left and the lady with the city dough was very kind, she's conducting her Investigation, she's supposed to get back to me and I said, look, all I'm looking for is Education about service dogs, about the work dogs do and about inclusion in the community. Absolutely yeah, we're we're with you there.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, it's so important, hmm, yep and you know the the next day that that happened on a Saturday, sunday, for the first time in my life. I was so depressed that all I managed to do was shower and put on another pair of pajamas and all, and I cared for my dog. But as soon as I take him out, I've come crawl back into bed. I've never done that in my life. I was just so depressed and he crawled Right into bed with me and was laying on top of me. He was doing his job and I didn't say a word to him. And right now I'm living alone and he was there for me and people. You know dogs are healing.

Speaker 6:

Mm-hmm and they're special. And when you were talking about beaker taking care of you, yeah, remy's a golden. You know dogs, dogs are Healing and and it anyway. That's my story for the week. It's it's been a. It's been a bad week, but if I can accomplish something good by getting a, I want a community outreach program. If I can accomplish that, then it's been a good week.

Speaker 2:

Well, I think I speak for everybody in the space that we're just so so sorry that happened to you and that, yeah, and and you are so right that there just needs to be, there needs to be more education on on that. I'm more familiar with service dogs Having issues with their handlers, like in the science realm, because Joey ramp, samson, service dogs, mom, she, she talks about that all the time that she faces huge pushback trying to get Samson to be Her service dog in the lab and and it comes down to education. It comes down to like no, you're not gonna have the dog in a dangerous lab environment where there's like Ebola or like acid, but in every situation where a human could be safe, a dog could easily be just as safe.

Speaker 6:

Well, she kept wanting him to have A vest on and I kept telling her legally he's not required to wear a vest. It's 95 degrees and he's hairy anyway. It's uncomfortable for him, but a 15-second Google search would have told her no, he's not required.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, so there needs to be more education about this because they're an important part of society and you know, I don't want to fight this fight, but other people. If it helps somebody else, what if somebody comes behind me and they're brand new with their dog and they finally have autonomy and they feel like they have independence and they get hit with this kind of pushback? Yeah, it's demeaning. And so what did I do? I left the farmers market and went to the huge grocery store to buy the produce that I didn't buy, because I was gonna buy the farmers market.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so normally. Yeah, not only did they lose business now, but the big farm.

Speaker 6:

The big grocery stores aren't complaining about my dog. The restaurants here aren't complaining about my dog, no, but the one place a dog should have been welcomed was there. So, yes, more education for people like Yep, I agree. Don't want to speak out. I'm, I'm there still. I'm older now, but there's still something in me that's willing to fight.

Speaker 2:

Well, you know I that we're Again. We're so sad that happened. You're very brave to fight the fight and and I think just talking on the space here, it might fire up everybody who's listening that if they are around and they see that happening, they could be an ally to somebody who's in your situation too.

Speaker 6:

So, karen, thank you, for farmers were great, but thank you for letting me share my story.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, karen, thank you for thank you for having the courage to talk about that tonight. Take care, we hope things get better, and I mean Remy's gonna make sure every day is as best as it can be, because Remy's good little, good boy. Okay, we're gonna go to our next speaker, which is Chris. Hi, chris, hey, where are you calling into? Where are you from? What do you? What's going on in the world?

Speaker 10:

We. We just got back from Maggie.

Speaker 2:

What's Maggie?

Speaker 10:

Maggie and it's I don't know, as if they checked the rating or if they did, it was not like the Book of Mormon.

Speaker 2:

Oh, oh, okay, Thank goodness. No, it did not go so that quickly that that went off a cliff after five minutes.

Speaker 10:

I think two, two minutes, jason, but this one there was some innuendo and some swears.

Speaker 2:

It's a celebration of joy and laughter that can be found even in the darkest of times.

Speaker 10:

Yes, and I was sitting next to Adam and the first swear word, he looked at me. When the second one he was like to like with his hands or he was counting it.

Speaker 2:

That's funny.

Speaker 10:

He was counting it and then, and then, when the joke came, oh my god, adam was like Making.

Speaker 2:

that, you know there's no way you were as uncomfortable as the couple with their children at the Book of Mormon. There is no way You're as uncomfortable as a mom and a dad with like a 10 and 6 year old at that musical. I know they were a little older like probably like 14 and 10.

Speaker 10:

It was awful, it was it was hilarious for us Because we were just the two of us and just thinking, oh my goodness, but Jason, I have pet all the dogs on Prince Edward Island every single dog.

Speaker 2:

Well, Prince Edward Island is really small.

Speaker 10:

Okay, thank you. It is our smallest province and it's just been amazing here, but it's very dog friendly. I met a Samoid today.

Speaker 2:

Oh, no, samoids are. Samoids are so cute.

Speaker 10:

He was smiling and happy and I said can I please pet your dog? Yes, what's his name? Dawson, what? And he had pride colors on in his white flu. He looked like a cloud with pride. And then there was an Australian uh, cattle dog. I Said hello.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, your dog. They have really cool life.

Speaker 10:

Piper hello and I pet her, and I may or may not have pet the golden retriever and Basically every dog that I saw. Can I please pet your dog? Enjoy the parade and then any other time I see a dog.

Speaker 2:

Oh, and then there was another one, she was a cutie you saw in Nova Scotia and Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever, which is hilarious.

Speaker 10:

I know her name is Poppy. They're she was so adorable.

Speaker 2:

They're cute.

Speaker 10:

But still little, and the kids were skipping rocks and she wanted to go get them. So she was a little bit like I need to get those rocks, I need to get, like she was trying to go get them and then they were in the water. She's like what is happening? And so she was super cute. But, yes, I pet her as well.

Speaker 2:

You know what? How come every province in Alberta doesn't have a dog breed like? There's the Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever, there's the Newfoundlanders Like Labrador, and then they're like, yeah, newfoundland gets to that's not fair. Why? Why do they get to?

Speaker 10:

That you know what, jason? That was also in the dinner theater production that we had. We had Newfoundland was fighting with Prince Edward Island and was fighting with Nova Scotia and with Kate Bretton or a newvo Brunswick, yeah, so is that because new Brunswick is French?

Speaker 10:

Yeah, and so we. It was amazing, it was an amazing dinner theater. But then the Newfoundlander he oh, I could you know I's buys a Like all the all the way they talk, just like I'm gonna be in trouble here, I'm not gonna be able to understand a word they say. But I did, I was able to understand. It was amazing. And then he talked they were talking about, like, why they're the best province and why they should win the prize, and he talked about the Newfoundlander dog and I was like you know, ric Flair. And then we talked about the Labrador retriever and then, yeah, ric Flair again.

Speaker 2:

I need that. I need that sound effect on my soundboard. I.

Speaker 10:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Rich. Your hand is up just a second.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, hey, rich.

Speaker 3:

Hey, just a trivia bit. Newfoundlanders are from Newfoundland Dogs for Bread and Labrador and Labrador dogs for Bread and Newfoundland. And off the top of my head there are four native dogs to Canada Newfoundlanders, labrador, nova Scotia, ducktongue Retrievers, also known as the Little River Dog yeah, and I guess it would now. It used to be called the Canadian Eskimo Dog, which is probably not correct anymore, so we'll say the Canadian Inuit Dog.

Speaker 2:

Yes, the.

Speaker 3:

Inuit. Yeah, and those off the top of my head are the only four native Canadian breeds that I know of.

Speaker 2:

That's very cool. We'll have to make an Albertan one, some kind of like a Burton Mountain dog.

Speaker 3:

And Chris, you've been hitting all my old haunts and, I hope, everybody. I hope they were all good and you enjoyed them and all that sort of thing. I don't know if you've heard, but I had great fun trying to figure out just where you guys were and how well I knew it, and that video of Adam was just absolutely phenomenal. I know he was phenomenal, the video was pretty good too.

Speaker 10:

Yes, I was so glad I got it, so we did a parade in Bridgerton, bridgerton.

Speaker 3:

Bridgewater.

Speaker 2:

Bridgewater, bridgerton is a show on Netflix Chris.

Speaker 10:

Oh right, braywater, Bridgewater. We went to Bridgewater and it was a three kilometer parade in length but there was a hill that the kids went down and then they had to go up. That, like it was it was Jason, it was the ink pots. The kids had to parade up the ink pot type hill like one kilometer steep straight up.

Speaker 2:

Chris, guess what I added to my soundboard. What did?

Speaker 10:

you add Ric Flair? Yes, but yeah, so the kids had to do that and I didn't get the hey baby in that parade because that's like was the drop zone, it was okay. So, jason, you know how. You went to Florida and you got off the plane and you were punched in the face with heat and humidity.

Speaker 2:

No, I was punched in the face by Florida men. No, just kidding. No, it was heat and humidity.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, so it's. It's pretty hot and humid here, but I love it. But the kids are like what? What do you mean? We have to do that in our hot uniforms. But they have been so resilient, they've been awesome. But today's parade was two kilometers long and flat. So, oh, and Justin Trudeau, our prime minister, was in the parade today.

Speaker 2:

No way.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, he was. I didn't see him, but other people did and then they gave him a high five or shook his hand, which is just amazing.

Speaker 2:

Very cool.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, so today I was able to get the hey baby, because no one dropped in my zone.

Speaker 2:

Okay, well, there you go.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we've. Yeah, we've had temperatures of 20, at least here in Halifax, and an end field of 2829 degrees, and then the humid X has driven it up to like 353637. It's yeah, it's been hot, it's been humid and I'm so glad I put a heat bomb in when we built our house.

Speaker 2:

So what's the plan for the next couple of days, Chris?

Speaker 10:

So tomorrow we have some touring to do. We're going to visit, like the Charlottes in Charlottetown and the historical areas, the historical national parks. We're going to do a drive by of Anne and Anne of Green Gables, oh yes, anne, and Green Gables is from Prince Edward Island. Yes, and we're going to go to the Cabin Dish Potato thing factory, I think, and then we're also going to do something called a fish demonstration.

Speaker 2:

Fish demonstration.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, we're going to do a fish demonstration, a fishing demonstration, and then the Acadians. It has something to do with the Acadians. So, yeah, that's what we're doing tomorrow, and then we're going to have dinner. Yeah, I had the Cabin Dish potatoes today at PEI fries.

Speaker 2:

Okay, are they good?

Speaker 10:

They tasted delicious.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 10:

I don't know if they were Cabin Dish potatoes, because I didn't ask. I just asked if it was vegetarian and gluten free for our.

Speaker 2:

Right, you're on the East Coast, surrounded by fresh fish, and you can't have any of it.

Speaker 10:

It's apparently delicious for the people who eat it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, because it's right out of the ocean it doesn't have to come like a thousand. It doesn't have to come like 9,000 kilometers to Superstore, to where we get it.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And it's frozen anyways.

Speaker 3:

I used to ship live lobster to Alberta, I believe it, and further west. And if, chris, if you want to take Jason home, a present clear water at the Halifax Airport will pack lobster for travel.

Speaker 10:

Yes, I know. My friends have told me. My friends have told me about this.

Speaker 2:

You can't get a steak at the Calgary Airport. That's like a cow. And you're like, hey, you want a slice of this to take to Las Vegas? How about take some Alberta beef back home? That doesn't happen, they don't like it?

Speaker 10:

No, but you can, and I think Donette's going to do it.

Speaker 1:

Lobster.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, she does it like three times a year, Jason.

Speaker 2:

What.

Speaker 10:

She calls the Halifax Airport and has lobster sent to herself.

Speaker 2:

Oh well, it's probably way fresher doing it that way than getting it from the store.

Speaker 10:

Yeah. She told me a story. She told me a story where they sent like this lobster that was so large. And this is where you say how large was it?

Speaker 2:

How large was it?

Speaker 10:

It didn't even fit in her pot, okay, so she had to put its face in and then put the rest of its body in Terrible.

Speaker 2:

That's horrific. You just described a lobster murder on our fun, friendly family space, Chris.

Speaker 10:

Okay, Well, I was mortified. So now that it was um, you know, taking up space in my uh, rent free in my head, I just thought I'd let it out there, so other people could now have it in their head.

Speaker 2:

See, now that you're back, we've devolved into random nonsense. This is supposed to be, pet chat and you just described the murder of a lobster to people.

Speaker 10:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

So you just told me, you told me you told me, you told me, you told me you told me that you were going to pet the dog. I told you all about petting all the dogs. Yes, that's true, yes, I missed our babies. You missed it.

Speaker 4:

You missed me.

Speaker 2:

After I was sick, I get emotional and I was like and I was like looking at dogs and I was like I might just go get a dog, puppy, puppy, puppy puppy, puppy, puppy.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, and now, if you check in the chat, I already checked the chat and I was like what is going on here?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's a whole thing. Is Prince Edward Island on East Coast time? Are you so far East? You're on New Fee time.

Speaker 10:

I'm not on New Fee time. It's 20 after 10.

Speaker 3:

Okay, land extender time Same as the rest of the maritime.

Speaker 2:

Except for new parts of Newfoundland.

Speaker 3:

Newfoundland Island itself is a Newfoundland time, which is a half, while the local joke is the world ends at midnight. 1230 in Newfoundland.

Speaker 2:

I know so it must be so awkward that they're a half an hour off. That's such a weird thing.

Speaker 10:

It's so weird, Jamie. You had your hand up.

Speaker 4:

Sorry, it was mostly to say puppy, puppy, puppy, puppy, but it was also to say your friend should just get a bigger pot for the lobster.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, maybe it was the biggest pot ever. Hi, sarah, how's it going? Sarah, I brought Sarah up.

Speaker 1:

Hi, thank you. I was wondering because I joined late. Where is Chris right now, chris, where are you?

Speaker 10:

I'm in Eastern Canada. I'm in the smallest province in Canada called Prince Edward Island. We are on our Red Deer Royals Maritimes tour. We've been to Nova Scotia and now we're in Prince Edward Island for a couple more days and then we'll be taking the Confederate Bridge back to New Brunswick. So I don't think we're spending a lot of time in New Brunswick.

Speaker 1:

And Jason, you're not with her.

Speaker 2:

No, I am holding the fort back home with the dogs and the cat and the farm.

Speaker 1:

Yes, so, chris, you don't worry that you're going to come home to like maybe six more dogs, because Jason has scrolled Instagram and decided that that's what I was doing, not Instagram A litter of you know, I don't know Labradors Sounds cute right now. You've really taken your life into your own hands, chris.

Speaker 10:

I may or may not have tried to adopt a dog at the. They had a fair and she was the cutest puppy and I'm not going to bring her home, but I could have, I guess. So I should be worried about me too, because I'm petting all the dogs, sarah.

Speaker 2:

Because you're missing Bunsen and Beaker probably.

Speaker 10:

I am. I just need the de-stressor and I met two dogs well, three dogs on the ferry, a retriever, and he was so cute.

Speaker 2:

They're all cute. Retrievers are always cute.

Speaker 10:

Yeah, so I pet him. And then I met two little French Bulldogs, and they were super cute too, gus and Rupert.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay, go ahead. Sarah, you're ready to go?

Speaker 1:

Oh, thank you Sorry. I wanted if I could tell just a quick cute little pet story.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, go ahead Like 30 seconds.

Speaker 1:

Today was Sammy's very first day, his very first outing. He just turned eight weeks yesterday and we took him to the lake and we put him in and the poor little thing, he just he had so much fun. He didn't know what to do with himself. It was sort of like this moment of freedom, because he's never been outside other than our yard and it was just. It was so sweet, so cute. He's like a fuzzy beagle, he's so cute.

Speaker 2:

You guys keep talking about dogs and puppies. It's going to, I'm, I'm. There's going to be another dog when Chris comes home.

Speaker 10:

You can't do it that fast. There is not a turnaround time of like a day to get a puppy.

Speaker 3:

Newfoundland, newfoundland.

Speaker 2:

Newfoundland. I think, I think, I think you can get it. I think you could get a dog as quickly as you have the. The want to get a dog, Chris, that's true.

Speaker 1:

That sounds like somebody that has a dog on the way, Chris.

Speaker 2:

It does. Chris. How do you feel about the name Burette for another dog?

Speaker 10:

Burette, what about a Papillon name Pipette?

Speaker 2:

But it's got to be B though.

Speaker 1:

Burette.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. The, the, the pap, the papillon name Burette or maybe it's not a Papillon, maybe it's nothing, it's probably nothing.

Speaker 10:

Is this a nothing sandwich?

Speaker 2:

How expensive is a nothing sandwich? How much money can I spend on a nothing sandwich?

Speaker 10:

I don't know, I don't know the, the, the cost I'm here. I spent like $50 on a sweatshirt today.

Speaker 2:

Oh wow, look at you go.

Speaker 10:

No, I bought it for Adam.

Speaker 2:

Oh, okay.

Speaker 10:

Cause we were in the store and he's like mom, this sweatshirt is really nice. I said, oh, it sure is. He's like I'm going to buy it with my money. I said that's perfect. And then we got to the till. We got to the till and he's he's he's a little crow, so he's got the sweatshirt. And she says you can buy a bag for $4.99, or you can get a like that was a canvas bag for $4.99, or you can buy a paper bag for $0.25. And he said, oh, I'll get the 25 cents paper bank, perfect. And then she says oh, because you're spending over $25, you can buy a mug to go with it. And he's like for $7 instead of $15, you can buy the mug for $7. And he's like sure, I'll do that. And she's like that'll be $50. And he's like oh, maybe I don't want the mug because the tax gets you every month. The tax gets you every time. I'm like, adam, it just adds up.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's right, Because he's not used to tax being in Alberta.

Speaker 10:

Well, we're used to the GST.

Speaker 2:

Right we have 15% here, Jason. I know.

Speaker 10:

I know.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's the weird thing about Alberta we don't have a sales tax.

Speaker 3:

No, Makes the math 15%. Makes the math quite easy to calculate how much your tax is.

Speaker 2:

That's true.

Speaker 10:

I usually just do 10% and then divide it in half to get the five.

Speaker 3:

That's more or less what I do 10% and divide it in half and add the five to get the tax.

Speaker 4:

Good lord, how confusing. Australia's is only 10%.

Speaker 2:

All right, we're going to wrap this piece up everybody. Chris has to probably get the bed because I don't know how time zones work, but it's probably two o'clock in the morning out there.

Speaker 10:

No, it's almost 11.

Speaker 2:

Okay, All right, Thanks for coming, everybody. I'm going to do a little wrap up now. I'm really happy I have that Ric Flair Woo. That is going to come in really handy on the show. It is All right.

Speaker 2:

As we wrap up a couple of things, we are going to be taking a break, so there will be no side chat or pet chat for two to three weeks. So I'll let everybody know when we're back, but we're going to take most of August off from doing this. I'm still going to be producing the science podcast, so that's still going to be going out, but our audio shows we're going to stop, because that we just need to. We need to free up with our evenings if we're going to be out and about or going on trips or things like that.

Speaker 2:

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