Pet Chat March 23: Waking Up with Pets and Wandering Through Canadian Culture

Ever wake up to the chaos of pets orchestrating their own dawn chorus? Join us as we recount the tail-wagging tales of our morning routine with Bunsen, the early riser dog, and Ginger, the crafty cat with a penchant for food bag heists. With fur babies ruling the roost, we debate superhero names for my uncanny ability to snooze amidst the uproar—think "REM Woman".

We also address the ever-important task of fostering a safe, respectful space within our vibrant pet community, diving into the thrill of our latest pet-and-parent merchandise and inviting fellow animal lovers to share their own furry friend fables.

Strap in for a linguistic road trip across Canada's diverse landscapes, where regional dialects and quaint customs turn even a grocery run into a cultural discovery. Whether marveling at heartwarming dog encounters or pondering the comedic shock of bagged milk, we chuckle over the peculiarities that bind us Canucks. The banter doesn't stop there; we muse over the comedic gold of Tom Green and the shared eagerness for the sky's spectacle during an upcoming eclipse, weaving in these rich threads of Canadiana with warm-hearted narratives.

Finally, we gear up for travel plans that orbit around the eclipse excitement, musing over the perplexing airfare mysteries and looking forward to family reunions under the celestial event. We share a health update on our beloved Ricky and reflect on the simplicity of pet shenanigans that often lead to unexpected adventures. So, if you're ready for a heartfelt laugh and a dash of Canadian charm, tune in for an episode that promises heartfelt pet tales and quirky cultural tidbits.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:09

Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zekowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen and Beaker, the science dogs on social media.

Speaker 2 0:19

My co-host is Hi there, I'm Chris Zekowski. I am the dog mom to Bunsen and beaker and the cat mom to ginger welcome to pet chat.

Speaker 1 0:28

It's our live show that we stream from x spaces, x video, instagram and facebook live. We are all over the place all at the same time. Thanks for tuning in and if you're listening to the replay, hello. Um, before we get on on with the show, should we do a little ad for one of our sponsors today?

Speaker 2 0:50

Yes.

Speaker 1 0:52

Today, pet Chat is brought to you by Bark and Beyond Supplycom. Bark and Beyond Supplycom is a small, family-owned company that got its start with joint supplements for dogs and now they have toys and treats and subscription boxes and they also help out other dog families with adoptions and things like that. I know I read something about them working with the herd to help out a new family member for the herd. So thanks for that, bark and Beyond. Whoops, I killed the music, sorry. And if you use the code Bunsen, you will save 15% right now at bark and beyond supplycom. So thank you very much for being our sponsor, bark and beyond and um, there, somebody's gonna win a gift certificate from them tonight. So that's the prize from bark and beyond supplycom. Do you want to go first?

Speaker 2 1:41

yes okay, go for it I'm gonna be like bunsen and be up early like the early bird. So for two days now he's decided 5 am. Well, yesterday was 4 30. That was really great.

Speaker 2 1:54

Um was the time to be alive, um, up and about okay and uh, so friday morning he was up early, but then it doesn't matter if bunsen's up, guess who else is up uh beaker yeah ginger, and so, um, I just lay down on the couch and I, um, give bunsen some rubs and then he settles like a little toddler and then everything has to be just so yeah but it wasn't. On friday morning, ginger was being a bad kitty oh so what? Once upon a time, once upon a time, ginger um left her food bag alone. But you may recall, a couple weeks ago I took a video of her having chewed a hole in her food bag.

Speaker 1 2:45

Yeah, she chewed straight through it. That became a. That became a text from Bunsen plot line for the subscribers. They got one of the bonus texts.

Speaker 2 2:54

Yes. So she chewed through her bag and, of course, of course, someone was like well, why did you leave it out for her to get, thank you? Thank you for saying that, because that is typical. It's usually not the animal's fault.

Speaker 1 3:08

It's like the human's fault 100%.

Speaker 2 3:12

But previously we always had her food bag right where we feed her. No issues Zero, issues Zero, Until she decided to chew through the bag.

Speaker 1 3:24

And then it's self-service for the dogs as well, cause they love cat food. They love cat food.

Speaker 2 3:30

Yes, they do, Anyway. So I I had put it in the pantry, cause now she's chewed a hole through the bag. But then I was tired. I was tired, so I grabbed the bag and I scooped it and I gave her some food. No, I didn't that scooped it and I gave her some food. No, I didn't, that's a lie. I had grabbed the bag previously. And then I heard her going and beating on the bag Like it was some sort of you know practice, uh, punching bag at martial arts club. Yeah, and I'm like ginger, don't do that, Stop doing that. She looked at me, she looked back at the bag and then she just started doing it again, trying to get into the bag. So then what does that mean? That means I have to get up, take the bag, put it in the pantry and hope that Bunsen doesn't get up again. But Bunsen got up again.

Speaker 1 4:18

But he was better, I know. I don't know why he's he sometimes wants to get up so early. I think he does. He just get a little lonely out there. I don't know.

Speaker 2 4:31

I don't know. I don't know, like he'd be very glad to go to the bathroom, like to take him out, but he doesn't have to go to the bathroom. He's just all done sleeping.

Speaker 1 4:40

He's an early bird. I tell you he's always been an early bird though. Do he's an early bird? I tell you he's always been an early bird though. Do you remember when he was a puppy he was up at like the crack of dawn. It was like having a baby, like he was up early every single day. Every single day he was up, and because of that we went from having kids to having Bunsen. Now I can't sleep in past like 630. Like 630 quarter to seven is the latest I can possibly sleep in, and that's on weekends too you were up at seven o'clock today I was up but I was in bed like I didn't go.

Speaker 2 5:13

I was, I was awake well, I didn't know, because I was already up with bunsen yeah, well, thank you for that I appreciate two hours yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 5:21

All right, so you're. It's just the hazard from being able to just close my eyes and go back.

Speaker 2 5:25

Yeah, I appreciate that, all right. It's just the hazard from being able to just close my eyes and go back to sleep.

Speaker 1 5:30

Yes. So, you were up with Bunsen, but you could go immediately back to sleep.

Speaker 5 5:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:38

Yes, it's like your superpower. Yeah, what kind of superhero name would you have if your superpower is falling sleep, falling to sleep immediately?

Speaker 2 5:51

uh, what is it called? To fall asleep?

Speaker 1 5:54

I don't know rem rem rem woman rem woman rem girl rem girl there you go deep, deep sleep girl deep sleep. No, you could just be called deep sleep. You know, like that's a, you don't even have to have the girl in the end, just deep sleep deep sleep yeah it's like yeah, what's your superpower? Do you put other people to sleep? No, I just go right to sleep myself yeah, I just keep my power to myself um. Ginger, the beagle was asking about norbert.

Speaker 2 6:30

No, no norbert updates, so sorry um well, that's not entirely true not in the last, like five days so when the water was running we were very worried that Norbert got swept away because it was running really really fast. But then you said that you saw beaver activity.

Speaker 6 6:53

Yes.

Speaker 2 6:53

Not from Norbert himself, but actual activity like trees getting chewed. Yeah, so we still believe that he's there. We just haven't been able to, uh, access the chip yet no, I got the chip. Well, now, oh, you got the chip yeah, I switched it.

Speaker 1 7:09

There's nothing, but I. There hasn't been any any activity since. I saw it early in the week, so yeah, so sorry about that yeah, so I don't know what's my story.

Speaker 1 7:21

I'm not sure. Really, chris and I have had such a busy two weeks. Like you had parent-teacher interviews this last week and that means your whole week is a write-off. Like it's just super busy. And I was recovering from parent-teacher interviews last week and they were in a weird spot. And then we're pushing for like our pushing our kids through curriculum to get them ready because our Easter break is coming up, so. But one thing that that has happened is it's been the snowpocalypse like we had. Chris is not so happy, so you can't. You can't see this on audio. You can't see this on audio, but people who are watching Chris just had a little shark smile when I said that. But so we had this great melt where everything was melting and it was like plus 12 Celsius, which is very warm.

Speaker 1 8:19

It was like shorts weather for Canadians, like I know, plus 12 Celsius, whatever that is, in Fahrenheit. Let's just do a quick conversion here 12 celsius to fahrenheit it's like 50 what I'm just saying it as you were looking.

Speaker 2 8:35

It's like typically not shorts weather yeah um, but after it's been minus 20 no, it's shorts weather.

Speaker 1 8:43

Yeah, I guess it's 54 fahrenheit for folks, but it was like everybody was complaining about how hot it was. Our house was like unbearable. I'm like, why is everybody sweating? The kids had, like the I was had sweat running down the back of my, my, the backup from my back, because it was the whole school was this was during when it was melting. It was so hot in the school because the school had been in the yeah, in our house, like my, my students were hot and like our hot. Our house was hot and you're okay with that because you just love like you could, just what you wish. Our house was the desert.

Speaker 2 9:21

Um, do we live in the same house? Our house was not hot yeah, it was unbearably hot when it got, when anyways, so everything was melting why you turned the air conditioner on maybe probably why you turned the air conditioner on and jason did not realize that it still has the cover on well as I winter, it was way too hot anyway oh my god, anyways.

Speaker 1 9:42

Okay. So I thought spring was coming and I'm stupid. Spring never comes in alberta right away. Like spring, like don't put yourself down, no spring. Like spring, like peeks its head around the corner. It's like this watch here, this is live video. That's what spring does. One more time, oh no, it's melting. Nope, just kidding. That's what happens. That's what happens with spring weather. And now we're back in the snowpocalypse. It has snowed for like three days straight. It snowed all day today. All day today it snowed. It's still snowing right now, and there is as much snow right now as there was before the melt. It's like the melt didn't even happen.

Speaker 2 10:36

But it did. We have video footage of the melt.

Speaker 1 10:38

Yeah, we have like for our own sanity. We know what happened, we have like actual evidence. But you know, Bunsen is loving it. Beaker loves the soft snow. It's not, it's not cold, so like she's totally fine. And Bunsen is just, you know, doing his little burrowing snow gopher activity. Um, one funny thing that he started doing. He we call him, we call Bunsen sometimes a snow goblin, because he'll get ahead of us on the walk and he'll lie down in the snow and then he'll wait till you get close to him and then he'll pounce out of the snow at you like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, Like you know how Tigger pounces on Winnie the Pooh. So he like sits in the snow and he waits and then he pounces. And so we just call him a snow goblin because we never know if he's going to pounce out of the snow at us just to. I don't know. It's fun for him. And he, he like does that to beaker all the time. It makes beaker crazy.

Speaker 2 11:32

She doesn't like it uh, didn't, didn't ginger do that to you when you were walking up the stairs no, she just ran between my feet and I didn't want to step on her.

Speaker 1 11:41

I just about fell down the stairs. That's that's. That's not a snow goblin, that's just like a oh and s health issue. Yeah, that's being a ghoul. That's a neck break, just about okay. So that, anyways, that's our stories with I don't know. That's it. That's about it. I've just been enjoying taking the dogs for for walks in the snow.

Speaker 1 12:05

We've been doing lives on um on twitter, and then I've started to do a couple lives on tiktok because we have to do so many lives to get the stream key. Like they've locked the stream key behind. Like, uh, basically a baldur's gate 3 quest line. I have to like talk to like seven npcs. Slay a dragon, you get. Rescue somebody who's trapped under a bridge, and then maybe tech talk will give me their stream key. So I'm not sure if I'm doing the right stuff, but anyways, um, so we're, we're. It's kind of fun doing the lives on Tik TOK because people can comment. I feel bad on Twitter Cause I think unless you have that blue check, you can't, you can't comment on our live videos, which is kind of silly. Anyways, ok, that's it. Should we? Should we move to community sharing. You got something else? Oh, we have. We have some important news. Go ahead, chris.

Speaker 2 12:59

Go ahead, that's OK.

Speaker 1 13:00

No, go ahead.

Speaker 2 13:01

OK, ok, that's okay. No, go ahead. Okay, okay. Um, I, because I had been parent parent teacher interviews, I had a day in loo on friday and I did a bunch of running around, but then I also got to hang out with the animals during the day and when I came home after my workout they were so excited, like beaker was crying she had her little toy in her mouth and she brought me a toy, but she was like crying that she was so glad that I was back home that makes me so sad well, she was like just happy, but like, just like, I'm just so glad you're back home, I missed you.

Speaker 2 13:34

Um, that's what it was like. And then, uh, her and ginger just kept getting at it. Ginger would go yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, and then beaker would bark at her and then play bow. And then ginger would be like I'm gonna go sit with my mommy and you. There's nothing you can do about it. Yeah, there was a bit of uh, ginger sass happening.

Community Sharing and New Merch Announcement

Speaker 1 13:55

Ginger shade it's so weird they like, they pick at each other, and then they, they like, they like each other. They'll like hang out right next to each other and like, interact with each other, and then they'll pick at each other. They'll hang out right next to each other and interact with each other, and then they'll peck at each other. I guess it is like siblings. So before we get to community sharing, um, just a couple fun information items. Is that? Is that a cool, chris? Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:20

Uh, yeah, please do the sharing.

Speaker 1 14:21

Okay. So actually I can, um, add slides from my computer as a PDF Perfect, so I'm just gonna it's just uploading right now. Um, we have a couple fun new products in our store that we're really excited about. Oh, chris is gone. Okay, chris, I'm just going to remove you so I've got a little bit more room here. So, if you're watching us live and we'll post when, when I have a chance, I'll post some of these photos to Twitter so the audio people can see it.

Speaker 1 14:56

The Paw Pack pup activity book is in our store right now and we have like singles, we've got a three pack and then we have here's another one. Like we've tested this on kids. That's our nephew and niece, ellie and Rafi. So this is the activity book for younger kids called the paw the pup, the paw pack pup activity book, and it's it's definitely better for younger kids. It's got a lot more coloring. Of course, we encourage parents and guardians and grandparents and whoever to work with kids with it, but but we had, we tried it with a bunch of little little ones and they love the coloring. Chris probably will talk about this story, because Ellie was coloring ginger the right color and Rafi wanted to color ginger like a wild color, like blue or something like that. We also have a pup and parent activity pack. Also have a pup and parent activity pack so you can snag the activity book and our paw pack journal and we'll throw in some pens and pencils with it.

Speaker 1 16:05

And okay, so I know paul is in the audience, but if you go to our store, we have new merch that's about bunsen taking a moose leg. Um, that's not your leg, is is on a t-shirt, and on the back of the t-shirt is the moose without the leg chasing after bunsen. So it's pretty cute. Um, so it's not your leg. And then then the back is Bunsen, the moose chasing after Bunsen. So I'll again the audio. Folks can't see this. We'll post some photos in the nest so you can.

Speaker 1 16:42

And then I made a, I made a hoodie and there's some other stuff there. Um, yeah and uh. So there's a hoodie that I think. I'm not sure if the hoodie has the extra graphic on the back, but I know there's a couple of shirts do? I definitely made a woman's shirt with the moose on the back and I'm now making neckties. So Father's Day is a little ways away, but if you've got somebody in your life that needs an extra little necktie. Yeah, in our store there'll be a couple necktie, because you'll have to search for it. I don't really have it easy to see, um, but I love that that shirt design turned out so good. That's not your leg and then the moose is chasing bunsen on the back. And, chris, you said it's like he's chasing the moose is chasing bunsen around the shirt.

Speaker 2 17:30

It kind of looks like okay yeah, I thought so when we had it. When we did it, it looked like that's what was happening, okay.

Speaker 1 17:44

So, Chris, do you want to read the ground rules? And then that'll give me a chance to put some of the photos into some of the photos into the chat for everybody to see.

Speaker 2 17:57

I put the link into the chat.

Speaker 1 17:59

Oh, you did To the store.

Speaker 2 18:01

The link. That's not your link to the store.

Speaker 1 18:03

Oh, okay, so we don't even need that.

Speaker 2 18:05

You can put pictures in, yes, please.

Speaker 1 18:07

Okay, sure.

Speaker 2 18:10

So the ground rules are we are a community space that loves to hear your stories about your pets or questions that you might have. We're not, uh, veterinarians, so we don't give out medical advice, um, but there are some people who come to our pet chat who are, and they might have advice for you or other anecdotal stories that have happened to them. And if we recognize your account and we know you, you'll probably get up to speak right away. If we don't recognize you, we do do a little bit of vetting by checking what you tweet about, what you talk about, and if you're following us, that's awesome, and if you're not, then we might send you a direct message to say, hey, what do you want to talk about?

Speaker 2 18:57

because, although we are very inclusive, we have been burned by um some people coming up and putting inappropriate things into the nest or inappropriate conversation right like to avoid that yeah, absolutely hey, that's good ground rules, chris well, thanks

Speaker 1 19:16

so if you would like to come up and chat um, I guess only twitter audio has that ability, right, uh? So so folks who'd like to uh share a story, ask a question, go ahead. I'm just making a banner bunsenburnerbmdcom. Uh, for the folks that I'm getting some questions about where people can go, that's our website, bunsenburnerbmdcom. It's in our um profile, so come on up, share your pet story. We'd love to hear, we'd love some questions. This is everybody's time to shine. It's community time. Um, I'll try to read some questions and comments from Instagram and if you're watching live, just type them in and we'll get them on the Jumbotron. Chris, what's going on on Twitter, do we?

Speaker 2 20:05

have somebody that would like to speak.

Speaker 1 20:07

No no.

Speaker 2 20:07

Paula.

Speaker 1 20:08

Paula.

Speaker 2 20:09

We have Paula.

Speaker 7 20:12

Hi, hey Paula. How's everybody doing? Hi Chris, Hi, hi jason. Oh my goodness, that t-shirt and hoodie, I'm definitely getting one of those. It's not your leg, that's awesome. I'm cracking up laughing. Now you have a zipped up one with a moose and a bunsen holding puppy holding the leg. But is that? Is that saying not your leg too? Or is that different design?

Speaker 1 20:34

um, I don't think it says that's your, that's your leg, because the the font was too small, like, yeah, the zip up didn't allow me to, um that I had way less real estate to work with, if that makes sense yes, I understand, yep, but that's great.

Speaker 7 20:52

I think think, oh my gosh, I'm so excited. Anyway, I threw a quick pick from your catalog, but I just wanted to throw it up in the chat for people to see, so I put the hoodie up. But your sweatshirts if anybody wants a great sweatshirt, I kid you not. Yours are so warm and so soft. It's not like other companies you get in there like. But anyway, the only only other news I have is not much. It's been raining here in connecticut like cats and dogs and trixie's bored, but she, uh, she's really funny because, um, she has the bunsen, um, getting up early syndrome oh no she's worse than a rooster, I mean sheoster.

Speaker 7 21:35

She's up just before the crack of dawn and I'm like, oh, I was like this morning. She was bouncing all over my head, so I looked at my husband go your turn. So anyway, but that's, that's all we got down here in Connecticut. I hope everybody's doing great. So, um, you know, thanks again for always listening to our ideas and it's great to see the, the merch in the store and and, uh, get, get a hoodie, people. They're great, and we're going into t-shirt weather, but I don't know, because we got cold today in connecticut too, so we're really icy cold again in the 30s. So I don't know. I think, uh, we're the whole country's like in a deep freeze, but anyway, but uh, I still, I probably still wear a hoodie, all right. Well, have a good week everyone.

Speaker 1 22:21

You bet I love wearing hoodies. They're pretty comfortable, Like they're very casual comfy clothes for sure.

Speaker 7 22:27

Right now. Isn't there a slang in Canada for a hoodie? Isn't it called a bunny something or a bunny hug? Is that what they call it in Canada?

Speaker 3 22:35

It Isn't it called a bunny something or a bunny hug Is that what they call it in Canada.

Speaker 2 22:38

It's a bunny hug in Saskatchewan, I don't know. Oh, it's in British Columbia. So when I'm from BC Sorry, I'm talking over to Paula, I think.

Speaker 7 22:47

No, no, no, that's okay. I was going to say my friend lives in Saskatchewan area, so she calls it a bunny hug and I'm like what? Like she, um, she calls it a bunny hug and I'm like a what it's?

Speaker 1 22:58

like yeah, like a hoagie and a grinder, yeah, okay, uh, jen was talking chris, but go ahead, we'll let chris talk and then we'll go to jen, because jen was having said in saskatchewan called a bunny hug.

Speaker 2 23:08

Um, and then bc2, because I moved from bc and moved to alberta and I said, oh, it's a bunny hug, and everybody's like what are you talking about? Yeah, we don't call the bunny we, I'm an alberta guy.

Speaker 1 23:21

Uh, we've, I've. That is not something, that is not a word we use for hoodies. Uh, go ahead, go ahead, jen, and then we'll go to. Steve was first, but, jen, you were. You were just commenting about the money. Hug, go ahead.

Speaker 3 23:37

Yeah, I'm from Manitoba. Actually, I hadn't heard the term until I moved to Saskatchewan, and I'm from on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. We never use the term, but that's what we call it. So there you go, thanks.

Speaker 1 23:54

It's the flat land that everything's a little different there. If you get too close to saskatchewan, you can just look straight across and see alberta, though, jen, that's what I hear this is true.

Speaker 3 24:08

um, the joke here, the joke here on license plates used to be Saskatchewan, cu and Alberta. But yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not from Saskatchewan, I'm from the mining town. So it's very different actually living here, but anyway, so there you go.

Canadian Dialects and Regional Differences

Speaker 1 24:29

That's the history of the bunny hug. And then for the. For folks not maybe well-versed in Canadian geography, saskatchewan is the breadbasket of Canada. It's an enormous province that looks like a rectangle. It's the easiest province to draw and they grow in absolutely an insane amount of stuff there. Like that, they just it's like so flat it's perfect for growing. I think saskatchewan is like almost the size of all of the flyover states in the united states. Like it's. It's big, so it's it's comparable to all of the little states in the united states that grow stuff. Um, like your, your weedy states. Uh, we'll go to steve, though steve go ahead okay, hi hello, how's everybody doing?

Speaker 1 25:17

we're good, we're good good.

Speaker 4 25:20

Um, don't really ever have much to share with my pet. She's a 20 year old cat and she pretty much just lays here on the couch on her blanket with a heating pad underneath them most of the time. I went to the grocery store today and had a pleasant encounter. Came out of the store and this lady was standing there with this fairly good-sized dog and I could tell that it was a mix of a poodle and something. And of course I asked the dog, are you pettable? And the lady goes oh sure, started petting it and scratching its ears and everything. And it just was having a good time, a really good dog. And so after a bit I said, well, I got to get my groceries home and I took the cart, emptied it, put it all in the trunk and was bringing a cart back into the store, came out, she was still there. I started petting them again and told the lady that I was thinking of getting a puppy, a birdies mountain dog. And she goes oh, this is a Bernadoodle.

Speaker 1 26:41

Oh, so it's like Sasha, Sasha the Bernadoodle.

Speaker 4 26:44

And I started looking at it more closely and, yeah, I could see all sorts of Bernese characteristics in it. And then, when it sat on my feet while I was playing with it, I go, yeah, there's Bernie's in this one.

Speaker 1 27:02

Yeah, they'll sit on your feet. I don't know what it is with burners, but they'll sit on your feet.

Speaker 4 27:10

Oh yes, it was just a pleasant, pleasant encounter. It seemed like everybody had fun.

Speaker 1 27:18

I love it. I love it. I can't resist when there's a dog. And of course you ask I love seeing people's dogs, I love them. Oh yeah, I go to a gym and there's a lady there who has a dog named Roger and sometimes Roger's at the gym and he gets to sit kind of at the front desk and he's this huge dog, like about Bunsen size, and he was there at the gym on Friday and that was the best part. I mean, I love working out, but by getting to see Roger was a highlight.

Speaker 4 27:59

He's a good boy I cool, yeah, yes, thanks, steve that's really all I had to say. Yeah, it was an encounter that I thought I'd be able to share, and I was glad I would have something to share with the group thanks, steve.

Speaker 1 28:15

Hey, chris, there's a comment um kelly has uh, each area of canada has its own dialect, do you? Do you think that's true? Like we all speak english, but like are there words that don't mean the same thing from province to province? Probably have you ever been to newfoundland yeah, like the east coast, they they've got their own thing going, but it's not like we don't understand them.

Speaker 2 28:41

Maybe, maybe then maybe not newfoundland we'll have to talk to richard, we'll have to talk about a little show and then he was like a bit a bit, a bit, no idea, I had no idea was it the accent?

Speaker 1 28:55

or was it the accent like the heavy East Coast accent?

Speaker 2 29:00

Well, maybe he had played it up for his character being from Newfoundland.

Speaker 1 29:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:04

But he was saying expressions that I was like no idea. Yeah, I need to translate.

Speaker 1 29:11

We'll have to talk to Rich about that because he's from Nova Scotia.

Speaker 2 29:15

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 29:16

Yeah, he's not here today, though, so to answer your question, kelly, maybe, maybe, definitely. Quebec is French speaking and they have their own thing going there. A lot of people in Quebec speak English. Ontario has bagged milk, which is normal for them but weird for everybody else. But anyways, we'll go to Jen. Jen's got her hand up there.

Speaker 3 29:45

Yeah, I agree with the Newfoundland thing. There are some things to say and it's so fast it's sometimes hard to understand. I have a word that I've been told by other Canadians that no one else uses. So when we catch a fish, fillet a fish.

Speaker 1 30:02

Yeah, fillet it.

Speaker 3 30:03

Okay, most people. There's lots of people in Canada that say, no, you fillet a fish.

Speaker 6 30:09

I've heard that before. That's what McDonald's does.

Speaker 1 30:11

It's a fillet of fish. That's what McDonald's does.

Speaker 3 30:13

Exactly, a fillet is something that's cooked right anyway. So there are some regional differences and I think that's one yeah um, yeah, for example, um, another one is garage garage yeah for garage, yeah, anyway, yeah, so there are some differences. I say garage I say garage, but there's a carport in BC.

Speaker 1 30:36

Really, bc calls it a carport.

Speaker 3 30:39

Well, la-di-da.

Speaker 1 30:41

Oh Well, don't you drink tea with your pinky in the air out there, chris? Ho, ho, ho ho With your silverware, you drink your tea with your pinky in the air and you enjoy your carports.

Speaker 7 31:00

I have to tease chris because she's from bc um paula, your hands up and then we'll go to to donna yeah, I'll be real quick because donna's coming, but um, no, like, my friend lives in um, the skskatchewan area, and I think that's because of the skatchewan people and I don't. They call pills like a pilsner beer. Oh yeah, I know, yeah, and then they call um, of course they call the. Uh, you know, there's a loony is not like crazy, but it's your dollar oh yeah, we never say.

Accents and Vocabulary Differences in Canada

Speaker 7 31:32

We never say, like a dollar coin, it's a loony right, it's a loony, and then there's a two dollar one, and that's something it's a toonie a toonie right so silly, but that's what we call it and, and then she says dollar instead of dollar dollar she has a little bit of an accent. Yeah, and then, unless you're like me, with my relatives from boston, you pack the car. But anyway, all right, well, I'll let donna go take care um, just a couple comments from the live listeners.

Speaker 1 32:05

Uh, tk says you guys say supper a lot. Yes, you do do we have supper supper yeah, we don't have dinner, we have supper, we ipper. Yeah, we don't have dinner, we have supper. I never say dinner, ever, it's supper.

Speaker 3 32:18

Because dinner can mean lunch.

Speaker 1 32:20

Yeah, dinner can. Yeah, it's confusing. And then Diane says A yeah, I have to catch myself. I say A, I can turn that on, I can turn the Canadian on and off and if I really want, like when I was presenting in the States, I turned the Canadian up just a little bit as kind of a little fun joke, until they wreck. They're like oh, he's saying it, you know like. It's like somebody in a zoo, I was an animal and the people the Americans were like oh, he said, hey, you know, like when somebody in the movie says the title of the movie, so as a fun little experiment, I did go ahead.

Speaker 6 33:01

Donna, I, I think it's. I think it's the same when they make that comment, that it's the same as in the states we all have different accents, like paula has a very strong accent to me, um, but then you know, I can tell where you're from in Texas by how you talk. There's like four different dialects of Texas English, so you can tell where you're from because you're from either East Texas, north Texas, south Texas or West Texas.

Speaker 1 33:26

But y'all say oh, you cut out, donna.

Speaker 6 33:34

Come back now, y'all I don't say that, no, you, I think it's you just cut out, you, you cut out. You said um you guys say pasta instead of pasta pasta.

Speaker 1 33:48

Oh yeah, pasta, we say pasta you say pasta, um and?

Speaker 6 33:52

and then actually my business gets our pizza flour from saskatchew, so our, our flour comes over the, over the fence to us, yep.

Speaker 1 34:05

They make a lot of wheat products, a lot of wheat, canola um corn. So much corn.

Speaker 6 34:14

Yeah, but it's it's like um. Alberta to me reminds me a lot of Texas. Your province is like the Texas of Canada to me. Very much so, yeah, I travel. I've been to all y'all's provinces and that's one, and I do love BC, and Chris is right, because I've heard him call it a carport up there instead of a garage. And then y'all say sorry instead of sorry sorry, sorry.

Speaker 6 34:44

You say sorry, sorry yeah, um, it just makes me laugh. It's just, accents are funny. It's in the states too, no matter where you go. And then if you say y'all, they automatically think you're from tex. I'm like, eh, it's kind of a South thing. So it just depends that, you know. And I think a lot of people say y'all now because they're tired of saying two words it's a, it's a lazy English. So there you go.

Speaker 3 35:14

Donna, I do. I lived in Houston, Texas, for a year and a half and I use you all a lot in emails, everything because it's so much easier.

Speaker 6 35:25

Y'all or you all. You say y'all.

Speaker 3 35:30

I mean, if I was writing it, it would be you all.

Speaker 6 35:33

Oh yeah, no, I spelled the y'all. I actually put the Y apostrophe A-L-L. You're more proper than I am. I actually write like I talk, unfortunately, so you'll get a lot of y'all for me. And we're making the weather beautiful for you guys for the eclipse, because they're saying, out of the 13 states that's going to be able to see it, there's only two that's not going to have clouds yeah, I was talking to Dr.

Speaker 1 36:06

Stephanie Depa. She was on side chat a couple weeks ago. Her and her husband are actually flying to Texas. They live in the path of totality on the east coast but they're like, nah, we won't, we don't want a chance having clouds.

Speaker 6 36:22

So they're actually flying to texas and heading to the mexico mexico border yeah, if you, if you're, if you're anywhere, um, like the i-35 corridor from san antonio up to yeah, it was san antonio, oh yeah, san antonio is two hours from the border.

Speaker 6 36:41

That's my hometown, okay, um, that's a. That's a big-ass city. Oh sorry, it's, it's uh, it's the sixth largest city in the us. It's, it's pretty big, but it's also the whole country and you can get out, away from people and have a way to watch it without hundreds of thousands of people being all over you. Sounds like y'all where you're going is going to be the same thing yeah, I, it was a very.

Speaker 1 37:10

It was very different the cost to fly to san antonio versus dallas. Oh, let's just say that I saw a hundred percent so why is that? Why was it like three to four times more money to fly to San Antonio than Dallas?

Speaker 6 37:25

Because Dallas is a hub. Especially, it's the second busiest airport in the world behind Atlanta.

Speaker 1 37:32

Okay.

Speaker 6 37:33

So it's a hub for well, two air, because we have two airports here. Are you coming in the DFW or Love Field?

Speaker 1 37:42

I don't go in. I think Field, I think the JBW.

Speaker 6 37:47

Oh, the DFW. Yeah, dallas-fort Worth, that is a huge, huge, huge airport. So San Antonio, while it's a big city, is not a huge airport and it's not a hub for anyone. So that's why you would pay huge difference.

Speaker 1 38:06

It's thousands of dollars different. I was like, well, we're not going to San Antonio. That was the end of that, 100%.

Speaker 6 38:12

I mean, you can fly to Dallas and then, if you fly to San Antonio, it's a quick little takeoff, here's your bottle of water, now you land. But it's terrible. Yeah, a hundred percent.

Speaker 1 38:29

Chris is putting on a bit of a show for the live folks with Bunsen and Beaker. So good job, Chris. The more you show, but the more you show Bunsen and Beaker, the more live viewers we get. We're almost up to 1,000. Okay, Tracy's been waiting. Can we go to Tracy? Is that cool? Yeah, Okay.

Speaker 2 38:49

Cool, cool.

Speaker 1 38:50

All right, go ahead, Tracy.

Speaker 5 38:53

Hi guys. Hi Well, I am also going to see the eclipse in Tennessee, probably, so knock on wood that I can actually see it. But my dad and I did see one when I was like 2018, when I was living in Oregon. We thought so, either way, I'll have some family time. I'll see my sister from Denmark. She's coming over from Denmark, wow. So I'll have some family time. I'll see my sister from Denmark.

Speaker 5 39:23

She's coming over from Denmark, wow, so I'll get to see her and then hang out for a couple days. So Ricky and I are doing well. He does have a vet visit on Tuesday. He's getting a checkup, but you know, he's like 12. So I'm just hoping everything goes well with his checkup.

Speaker 1 39:49

Yeah, we do too. We hope so too.

Speaker 5 39:53

I mean he has lost some weight. He went from like 14 to like 11 pounds. So I don't know. I'm hoping he's okay and there's like nothing wrong with him.

Speaker 5 40:05

So I will keep everyone posted next week after I have that visit, but it does seem like this is a good vet. I don't know. Last time we did tests and everything and it was like $115, which is like a lot better than other vet clutches too. So hopefully that part won't be that bad as well. And just keeping up with the golden ratio, loving the videos they're sending.

Speaker 1 40:38

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 5 40:40

I'm glad Bola waited until we got home to get in the water. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 40:51

Remy had an escape boat.

Speaker 2 40:53

Yeah.

Travel Stories and Dog Shenanigans

Speaker 1 40:55

That's terrifying. Yeah, maybe nobody heard that Tracy had some background noise there. Chris, just say your comment again.

Speaker 2 41:06

Oh, I just said Remy had an escape boat.

Speaker 1 41:09

Yeah, he got out and then got scooped up and brought back right. That's how the story goes.

Speaker 2 41:14

Well, no, they went for their morning swim. Um, they went for their morning swim and then, um, ingo didn't see that he came in, and so ingo thought he was like swimming to cuba.

Speaker 1 41:33

That's a long ways to swim. Beaker could make it. Beaker could swim that far yeah, um, yeah.

Speaker 2 41:41

So ingo was in his kayak looking for remy but, remy had already um been, went to the neighbor's house, and so the neighbor called jen and said hey, I have one of your goldens here. And then one of the comments is like, don't doesn't everybody know all of your golden's names, because we do like I do. I knew the picture.

Speaker 1 42:00

It was a cute little remy yeah nice, nice man yeah the video of zola and feta fighting under like a bed or couch thing. Oh, that just brought me back to when beaker was a little like a little gremlin troll and she, when we went to the coast and we were at a hotel and she was under the hotel bed, oh, just like like coming out like a little devil with her super sharp teeth and would nip anybody. Like she'd just nip you and then hide back under the bed and nobody could get her.

Speaker 2 42:38

Okay, but then she also would shred any of that kind of shreddy kind of don't say travel lodge is gonna come after us.

Speaker 1 42:46

I said nothing about that no, is anybody from travel? Lodge here because we're gonna get in trouble because beaker went under the one of the hotel beds and ate the entire underneath of the bed out in about 10 minutes Like just shredded it to absolute rat crap, like it was gone.

Speaker 2 43:04

Jason, it was faster. It was faster than 10 minutes. All she was in a joint and then rip, all ripped.

Speaker 1 43:12

And I looked under there and I was like, oh my God, what do we do? And I was a terrible person. We just checked out and I was like maybe nobody will look. They had our information, like if they wanted to come after us and I don't know. This is bad, please don't. This is recorded. I'm going to cut this from the podcast episode. So, oh, tracy says no, we shouldn't cut it, but I think so. I don't want to get a court summons by Travelodge.

Speaker 6 43:43

There's a statute of limitations on that, you're fine.

Speaker 1 43:47

Okay.

Speaker 5 43:50

Yeah, sounds what you did, but it's okay.

Speaker 1 43:55

Oh, my goodness. Okay, I'm just going to peruse through Instagram to see if there's any comments there. We get a lot. This is carports in Arizona or outside on a driveway with the cover in the. The rescue pity says so. They're talking about car carports on Instagram. And then on people are just like making comments about Bunsen and Beaker on the live show. We have some comments, I think, on X Audio about bagged milk. Chris, I don't know if you caught that.

Speaker 2 44:31

Yeah, kara said, ontario is losing their bagged milk.

Speaker 1 44:34

Wow.

Speaker 2 44:35

Probably because it's in plastic.

Speaker 1 44:37

Probably because it's ridiculous. That's why. Why would you have bagged milk when you can have normal milk? I don't get that. And then everybody thinks canadians drink like they. Just we just have a big bag of milk and we just like like slurp it out, some little hole in it and I'm like, no, that's just the people in ontario, that's not us. We don't do that. We have cartons of milk and jugs of milk. Go ahead, jen.

Speaker 3 45:06

I am shocked. I had no idea bagged milk was even still a. Thing.

Speaker 1 45:13

Yeah, it's why. Yeah, I don't get it either. It's an Ontario thing.

Speaker 3 45:19

Wow.

Speaker 2 45:20

Yeah, oh, yeah. So according to Penny, susan Rudin said that bagged milk may be phased out soon.

Speaker 1 45:27

Smart.

Speaker 2 45:28

Yeah, canadian Penny won's X account. That's one of our Canadian dog accounts.

Speaker 5 45:39

Yeah.

Speaker 2 45:40

To check out why that might be the case though bag.

Speaker 1 45:43

It's about time. Yeah, the only reason I knew bag milk and bag milk exists is because of a canadian comedian named tom green. Chris, do you remember tom green? Because one of his, one of his skits was like spraying bagged milk everywhere, like he was just a weirdo.

Speaker 2 46:05

Um he was before his time. He was like jack bum before his time he was who jack bum, not jack. You know jack bum.

Speaker 1 46:15

Oh, you know, johnny knoxville yeah, johnny knoxville, like the, the, yeah, the, the jackass series. Yeah, he was literally that before his time.

Speaker 2 46:23

Jackpaw Jason.

Speaker 1 46:24

Okay, jack, all right, fine, yeah, but those series of movies where people would do things in public or hurt themselves. Tom Green was doing that in Canada like a decade before, and everybody thought he was a weirdo and he kind of just faded away. I think I don't know what he's doing. He had the Tom Green show, which I really enjoyed, and he he invited this one guy on the Tom Green show. That was he. There was companies at one time that were selling like property on the moon and property on Mars. Like you could get a deed to this little chunk of land on the moon, the moon and Mars. Maybe you remember that. So somehow Tom Green got this business guy on a show and the guy obviously didn't do his background about who Tom Green was, because Tom Green just like, just like, blasted him the whole 10 minute interview Like you don't own the moon, you can't own the moon. And he's like well, now I own your shoe, I'm going to sell pieces of your shoe. And he took the guy's shoe and the guy didn't even know what to do Cause he was like some business guy. Anyways, that's Tom green.

Speaker 1 47:36

Oh, bunsen's getting a belly rub. Oh, beaker's jealous about the belly rub. Okay, all right back to well. Chris is doing dog stuff. Anybody on Twitter audio want to come up to speak? I can control that while Chris's hands are full with dogs. If not, we'll wind things down and we'll do our draw for Bark and Beyond. If you're watching live, remember you can pick up some awesome dog supplies at BarkAndBeyondSupplycom. Use the code Bunsen to save yourself 15%. And if you want some moose-related shenanigans, merch, check out our website, because I made some new, very niche shirts that only people who follow Bunsen and Beaker will even understand what's going on, but will understand. Go ahead, jen.

Speaker 3 48:28

Yeah, thanks for the post on the exam with the mousselet. I mean that mousselet, that was hilarious. It's always reassuring when your students actually listen to you.

Speaker 1 48:41

Oh, you're talking about the assignment where the kid had all the different answers.

Speaker 3 48:47

Yeah, so maybe everyone didn't see that. But on a second note, chris and Jason, I don't know how long you're going to be in Texas, but it's actually a very beautiful state. There's a lot of different geography there and there's a lot of science there, so if you have time, uh, there's a lot to check out if you rent a car and drive around I 100 agree.

Speaker 6 49:08

But if you're staying in the dallas area, the perot museum it's a science museum and it's very hands-on.

Speaker 1 49:14

Z is very cool yeah, don donald, we'll have. I'll have to dm you. We're not there very long um, like the eclipse happens when we're supposed to be back at work. So chris and I are taking a couple are only two personal days um to get there.

Speaker 6 49:31

So we come, I'm actually on the plane the eighth.

Speaker 1 49:34

I'm gonna miss it oh no yeah well, maybe, maybe they can make a detour and fly in the path of totality for a second. I don't know, I don't think they do that, but um, yeah, good, good suggestions. We're there. We have, like, I think, one day, one and a half days in in texas, but we're literally just going down there to see the eclipse and then coming home, um well, you well, you're invited anytime, but I'm here for sure.

Speaker 6 50:04

Come on down.

Speaker 1 50:05

Okay, all right, chris, can you help me for a second or no? Are you? You? You as well? No, it's okay, I'll organize it. Um, we have 27 people in the audio space. If you are watching live and you want to be included in the draw, drop a comment in the comments. So I know you're here, so drop, drop a comment, and then we have a prize from BarkingBeyondSupplycom. Okay, yeah, drop, just say here, just say something, something.

Speaker 2 50:39

Okay, and Kathy has requested to speak, so I thought Kathy is a speaker.

Speaker 1 50:46

Okay.

Speaker 6 50:48

It's really quick. Delta Airlines is actually has a flight that's going up so that people can observe the eclipse from the air. Yeah, they have a flight. It's a tourist flight from Dallas to Detroit and it's not that expensive and it's actually an eclipse flight, right. So that's all I wanted to say.

Speaker 2 51:12

Cool.

Speaker 1 51:16

Yeah, on the science podcast episode that came out this week I talked about the eclipse, yeah, and the science podcast episode that came out this week, I talked about the eclipse and there's a NASA special jet that flies as the eclipse moves from Mexico all the way northeast. So they're in the path of totality for a long time to take extra scientific readings, which is kind of cool. Okay, looks like we've got about 32 people, chris, so I will do random number 32. Um, if I get a number above 25, we are going to be giving getting a, giving the prize to one of the commenters on our live. Random number 32. Random number 32. Uh, nope, number six. We didn't, we didn't get that high. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five, six, um, the winner today is oh, that's cool, it's kf.

Speaker 1 52:16

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Speaker 1 53:20

You'll see us talk more about the the younger kids activity book. Summer's coming. You know they're great for car rides. We, we have. We have a bit. I don't think we'll run out soon, but if if you were looking for that younger kids activity book, it's in the store. The paw pack, paw pack plus pop activity book. Okay, we will sign off. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Science News Roundup. There's Bunsen, he's a happy guy. We'll see you on Tuesday for the Science News Roundup, which is the month's top science news, and Chris and I are hosting that ourselves. We are our own science guests. And then, of course, if that's not your jam, but pet jam is, we will see you back. We will see you back on Saturday next week for pet chat. And if you watch the replay, thank you Um? We're getting thousands of replays.