PetChat November 25: LIVE SHOW RECORDING

Get ready to be transported into a world where pets rule and their stories reign supreme. Our episode opens with a hilarious recounting of Bunsen Beaker’s mischievous antics – from wardrobe destruction to his detective-like retrieval of a lost beach ball. Ever wondered how we come up with the amusing narratives for our popular segment, "Texts from Bunsen"? We'll take you behind the scenes, discussing our creative process, favourite storylines, and giving a sneak peek into our latest book, "Texts from Bunsen 2".

From giggles to gasps, we journey through a roller coaster of emotions as we share Shaq's brave recovery story. But it's not all smiles and wagging tails, as we address some serious health concerns. A recent pneumonia outbreak among dogs has us sharing useful information and resources for pet owners. Ever considered the dangers of gallivanting razors and rampant facial hair? We wrap up with an entertaining discussion on shaving mishaps and memorable mustache moments.

Whether you're a pet lover or just a fan of good-hearted humour, this episode is sure to leave you inspired, informed, and in stitches. So come join us, as we navigate pet stories, health scares, and a few laughs along the way!



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Chapters

• 0:09 Pet Chat
• 9:30 Text From Bunsen
• 25:19 Stickers and Book Launch Introduction
• 34:04 Pets, Book Launch, and Future Plans
• 43:09 Dogs and Health Concerns
• 52:09 Food Safety and Pet Stories
• 1:00:35 Shaving and Facial Hair Memories

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:09

Hello pet enthusiasts, welcome to Pet Chat. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen Beaker, the science dogs on social media. My co-host with the most is.

Speaker 3: 0:22

Hi, there I'm Chris Zakowski, the dog mom to Bunsen Beaker. I was just gonna go. Hey, there's Bunsen.

Speaker 2: 0:30

He's eating a Kong he looks like a log.

Speaker 3: 0:33

Yeah, so I'm the dog mom to Bunsen Beaker and the cat mom to Jinder.

Speaker 2: 0:39

Welcome to Pet Chat. This is a special live version. It's a very exciting day. Text from Bunsen, volume 2, eternal Winter launched to the public. Was it? Yesterday Was yesterday, black Friday, yesterday was Friday, yeah. So it launched to the public and we want to thank everybody for your support. Some people have already got the e-book, some folks have got the audiobook and the book is printing right now and then we will make sure we get that out as soon as possible. We're definitely hopeful we will have it the first week of December and ship it very quickly to everybody in North America at that point. So we really want to thank everybody for their support. Should we talk about our sponsor?

Speaker 3: 1:21

Yes.

Speaker 2: 1:23

Pet Chat is brought to you by one of our sponsors, barkandbeyondsupplycom. Barkandbeyondsupplycom started as a small family owned company that got it start making joint supplements for dogs, but is now branched out into toys and treats and subscription boxes. Somebody today is going to win one of their calendars. And you know what I thought, chris Since they're giving away a calendar, we're going to give away a calendar too, a Bunsen and Beaker 2024 calendar. So somebody's going to get two calendars, or maybe we'll do two draws. What do you think? Two prizes.

Speaker 3: 2:01

I think two draws, because, although I love calendars, I guess you could put one in every room in your house, but I think it would be spread the love.

Speaker 2: 2:10

To all of the guests hello, this is our community that we set up as a. We moved from Patreon and I think I love this circle thing way better than Patreon. We have like different tiers that people can support us at, and each tier has access to different things, and what's really cool is it's all organized in folders, kind of like a Facebook group. I felt Patreon just like everything, scrolled down the screen like Twitter and you lost everything. So this, I think this works a lot better. And then we have these fun live events every Sunday for the Paw Pack. So this is the point where we share some stories of the week. Normally in the community, we bring people up to share their stories too. Do you have a story about Bunsen and Beaker to share?

Speaker 3: 2:59

Of course. Okay, go for it.

Speaker 3: 3:01

Apparently I'm frozen, but maybe I'm not, I don't know. I'm happy to be here and I'll start talking and hopefully everything goes okay. Our internet is sketch here in rural Alberta. But so what happened was Ginger. Ginger was in the pantry and I don't know how she got in the pan, but the door was close to the pantry and then anyway, so I opened the door and I'm like what are you doing, ginger? You're in the pantry. And Beaker came over and then, boy, did she give Ginger? Heck, she was like Bark, bark, bark, what are you doing? You're not allowed in the pantry. And Ginger is like I was in the pantry and that happened.

Speaker 2: 3:43

It was a whole thing.

Speaker 3: 3:45

It was a whole thing and I took the dogs for a walk the other day and, okay, so you may remember, in the summer we had a stand up pool. We had a pool in the summer and we had a beach ball. It wasn't a beach ball, it's like a rubber ball, but plastic ball from Larnet and it's like big and it's like as big as a beach ball, but it's a Walmart ball. Anyway, I saw that as I was driving down the road, probably for about a month now, in the front bushes. So when I took Bunsen and Beaker for a walk, I went and picked up the beach, the Walmart ball, and I was kicking it because I didn't know if I could carry this big Walmart ball and walk the dogs at the same time. So I was kicking it and Beaker was like trying to get it and it was super cute. And then I picked it up because Bunsen's, like this is dumb. So I picked it up and I walked with dogs and now I put it in the garage. So that's happened.

Speaker 2: 4:48

That's your story.

Speaker 3: 4:50

Yeah, that's my story.

Speaker 2: 4:52

Well, I'm going to tell my story about Baby Bunsen because that was in the in the cahoot. I've told this story before but it's one of Chris's favorite because whenever I get hurt it's always one of Chris's favorite stories. So when Bunsen was a puppy he was this little, chubby, giant, fluffy thing. You've seen lots of photos if you follow us photos and videos of puppy Bunsen and for being a marshmallow that made of Jell-O, he was incredibly fast, like super fast he could. He would run and he would jump and especially, like Chris wore like wispy clothes, he would jump up and go and like tear her clothes, just shred them, which I thought was funny and I guess this is karma what's coming.

Speaker 3: 5:46

Well, it's super funny. I was actually wearing pants today. I was wearing pajama pants that have the shredded knee because they were shredded by Baby Bunsen. The pajama pants I was wearing today.

Speaker 2: 5:58

Oh, is that why there's a giant hole in the knee?

Speaker 3: 6:02

Yeah, I had taken the dogs outside, taken well, it was just with a little baby Bunsen and he went and then he ripped a big thing in my knee and I was very sad because I like those pajama pants. But I just learned them. It's totally fine, Totally A-OK.

Speaker 2: 6:15

Right, so I would. I thought it was so funny when Bunsen would rip Chris's clothes because he was a puppy and you can't really get mad at a puppy for doing puppy stuff. There's Bunsen, big Bunsen. Yeah, it was the first day of school and I was ironed my clothes. I wear a shirt and tie and dress pants every day. Iron my clothes got all ready for the first day of school.

Speaker 2: 6:37

It was an important day. You know, you're meeting your students for the first time and it was very sad because we're going to leave Bunsen behind. He was crate trained. He wasn't super happy. I think your, your stepdad, was going to let him out for the first little bit, right, chris? That's how we were able to swing that, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:56

So I bent down to say goodbye to Bunsen Stupidly. And I was bending down, he's like bye Bunsen. And I was going to give him a hug or a kiss or something and he jumped up and raked the side of my face with one of his puppy teeth and actually was on the right side of my face and I had a cut that started from the top of my head and like over the top of my eye, like Geralt of Rivia from the Witcher and went down all the way to the side of my mouth like like here, like the Joker, and it was bleeding profusely, like it was, like blood was just oozing down my face and Chris was laughing. She's like you got to teach like that and I'm like bleeding and nothing would stop the bleeding. It wouldn't, nothing was stopping the bleeding.

Speaker 2: 7:53

So I you can't wear like a giant bandage from the top of your head over your eyeball all the way down to the corner of your mouth, so I just super glued my face back together in places and that's what I did and it worked okay, I guess. Are you putting your computer on the floor, chris? Oh, there's Bunsen, so you can hear him If you're not on the live. Oh, he's so happy he's got his mummy. Look, it's toddler o'clock.

Speaker 3: 8:22

Yeah, it's toddler time. It's toddler time. This is toddler time, people, where Bunsen gets all this love, all this massage.

Speaker 2: 8:34

That's there we go. This is there we go. He's such a good boy. Well, this is just the Bunsen show. Now Everybody gets to see Bunsen. He's like a cartoon character. I swear, I swear he just came out of a cartoon. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about text from Bunsen, chris. Yeah, so first off, thank you to everybody who's already picked up a book, a text from Bunsen book. You can grab it on our website and I think we're running the deal for another six days. This has to be relatively short, so we, as soon as we get the books, we're shipping them out, and that's kind of the end. If we have any stock left, of course, that'll still be around the last I checked, I think we're at 38% sold, so close to 40%, and we did sell out of the last run, so we had some people who were a little late and didn't get it. What, chris? Do you remember why I did text from Bunsen? I was trying to think like how it started.

Speaker 3: 9:36

Jason, I think you just started the text from Bunsen.

Speaker 2: 9:39

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 9:40

I think you've shot it before.

Speaker 2: 9:42

I think I'm trying to remember what caused me to think about it. And I was just looking at Bunsen and I think I honestly had my phone on the floor and my phone was like near him I don't think it was like on his paws or anything like that and then I was like, wait, what if Bunsen texted us? What would he say? And I think I tried a bit of it and they weren't great to start with. I think if you go back and you somehow, if you've got some time machine, and you go back and you look at all of the original texts from Bunsen, my writing isn't great, but what it became was this fun thing that Thursday evening and early on Friday Chris helps me by pitching ideas and that's where text from Bunsen came from. And, like we've been, I've been writing text from Bunsen now for almost five years five years, I think and I've only missed a couple Fridays, which is wild and I haven't run out of ideas, because every idea just comes from whatever Bunsen is doing.

Speaker 6: 10:51

That there's Beaker, there's Beaker.

Speaker 3: 10:54

So Beaker, hi there, beaker, beaker's a good girl. So Beaker has Bunsen's clue, beaker has Bunsen's too.

Speaker 7: 11:00

Hi Beaker.

Speaker 3: 11:01

Bunsen has Beaker.

Speaker 2: 11:03

Oh, you might see Beaker versus Ginger here on the live cam. That'll be a whole thing. Chris's story was right Beaker's been policing where Ginger goes to the last couple of days. Oh, helen says I thought the text from Bunsen were good from the start. Ha ha, ha ha. Well, thank you, they've gotten better. And, like I've mentioned this before, when Chris and I were building text from Bunsen too, we take the first month of the summer actually it takes a while and I sort the texts and then we picked the best of the best. And that was one thing I noticed was just how much better the writing's gotten. But one of the things that Chris helps me with is on Thursday evening she just throws out ideas and things that happened during the week.

Speaker 2: 11:53

And if you have a pets, you know how goofy pets are, right, like they're just constantly up to things. Like there's Bunsen, he's wanting to be on camera. Oh, there's his butt. Oh, are we getting the Bunsen twerk? That's always awkward. He like tries to get you to rub his butt. Adam thinks it's hilarious and he calls it the Bunsen twerk. Chris, do you have any of favorite text from Bunsen storylines?

Speaker 3: 12:22

Some of my favorites are like the heartfelt ones where, like Beaker and Bunsen really show their love for each other. Yeah right. And where Beaker was like trying to create eternal winter internally in the house for Bunsen when he heard of him and just when Bunsen, like, is looking out for his little sister and you can tell that he really loves her.

Speaker 2: 12:53

Yeah, I was gonna say that I like that where it was. I mean, it was rough when Bunsen he had a partial ACL tear last winter, right, so he was on rest for an entire month. So Beaker got to go on walks and Bunsen got to stay home. And that's where some of the storylines came from. I'm like you know, if Bunsen could talk to Beaker this is his favorite season what would he say? And then Beaker really loves Bunsen. So what would he? What would she do for Bunsen? Oh, Aaron says my favorite is when he insults Jason. That's funny. That's funny, Aaron says, are where they're plotting together. Yes, sometimes they plot together and that's a whole thing. Holly, I love the one where Bunsen and Beaker are off making deliveries for beakercellscom.

Speaker 2: 13:51

Chris, do you remember beakercellscom? That was a joke. So so much of what has happened with us started as a joke in text from Bunsen, Like beakercells was just a weird throwaway joke. Like beaker was selling stuff on the internet called beakercells and I don't know who it was. Some somebody on Twitter bought the webpage, like bought actually beakercellscom for us and then set up a rickroll. So whoever went to beakercellscom got rickrolled. And this was. And then I used it to troll the trolls, Like whenever we were talking about science and some anti-science people were upset. I would say all of our evidences on beakercellscom and they would go to beakercellscom and get rickrolled. Yeah, so that was a funny one. I like the what go ahead, Chris. That's okay, though, it's all good. Donna says I like the one where Ginger gets sassy because she's a cat. Yes, yes, Absolutely. She gets sassy, and we picked a really sassy voice for her in the audio book.

Speaker 3: 15:10

Donna said I also like Bunsen's love or, yeah, love advice for Adam. Yeah, I like his love advice and his life advice because you know Bunsen's about it made in the shade here. He just has all the knowledge of the world and definitely gives love advice but also life advice. Another is the Benny Beaker storyline.

Speaker 2: 15:33

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3: 15:35

The little Benson.

Speaker 2: 15:36

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 15:37

Yeah, yeah, that's a Twitter mashup. That's going to be internet, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2: 15:48

I love when Bunsen and my favorite actually my favorite ones to write are when Bunsen and Adam are talking about school, but especially like social studies, because that's not something I get to teach, so I actually have to like research, whatever social studies thing he's going to be talking about. Like when Adam was studying World War II and fascism, there was a joke that came up where here I'll play it for everybody. That's one of my favorites. There you go. Okay, looks like homework. Yep, I have an essay on fascism. Oh, I know about that. No, you don't. I live with Beaker. Beaker isn't fascist. Okay then how do fascists view violence as a means to end? And is there a dictator who wants all power? Yes, I know about fascism. Looks like Adam did such a good job.

Speaker 7: 16:44

Chris, um, may I please have my dog bed back. I'm sorry, but the complaint department is now closed.

Speaker 1: 16:52

You are sleeping on my bed.

Speaker 4: 16:55

Your call is very important to us. Please leave a message at the beep Beep.

Speaker 1: 17:00

You are so passive, aggressive.

Speaker 2: 17:03

Can I please have it back?

Speaker 4: 17:05

You may have 10% of your body on it before I swat you. This is a bad deal. That is catpitalism.

Speaker 2: 17:14

There we go. That's Ginger's voice.

Speaker 3: 17:17

And you're using the thing that I used.

Speaker 2: 17:20

What's that?

Speaker 3: 17:22

Right when it's like. Your call is very important to me. Please hold.

Speaker 2: 17:27

Yeah. Yeah, that's your joke, that's not my joke. So I steal punch lines from everybody in our family. If I see or something funny, I steal it from our family, sometimes even kids at school. There's some witty kids I teach and I just steal their wit. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 17:45

So what I would say is oh, I'm sorry, the complaint department is now closed. Yeah. Because when kids are like complaining and I'm like, oh it's, the complaint department is closed, it will reopen on April 34th, and then I laugh at my own joke because that means it's never opening again. But it gives them some hope that it might open, because it takes them a second. They're like wait a second, there is no April 34th.

Speaker 2: 18:14

Yeah, I say if a kid's complaining that the test is today, they're like there's a test today and like if anybody knows how Chris and I teach, we've told the kids 17 million times a test is coming. Like we verbally told them it's on the board, it's on Google classroom, it's like a million different ways. And there's always some kid that's like I didn't know there was a test. I'm like well, if you have a suggestion for when we could have the test, just put it in the suggestion box. And the kid's like really, so the kid writes down their suggestion. And then I said here's the suggestion box and it's the garbage. Can I stole that? But I stole that from Michael Scott on the office because that was something that's similar to what something he said. So you can see where some of the sass from Ginger comes from. It's from us dealing with high school kids. Oh, liz said April Ludgate scheduled all of the appointments for Ron Swanson.

Speaker 3: 19:16

Yeah, On March 31st, which, and then she didn't think there was a March 31st, but there is, yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:24

I use some of Ron Swanson's demeanor in some of the Bunsen jokes. Oh, is Ginger just pulling that over?

Speaker 3: 19:33

Yeah, she's pulling this on her head. Like I don't get it, like what is going on?

Speaker 2: 19:36

Well, I don't know. She's wrecking the. I'm trying to get it Now. Beaker's going to be mad at her for wrecking the chair, because Beaker has been policing the cat all day long. You just froze up. I want to see what's happening. Oh, she's back to normal.

Speaker 3: 19:55

Yeah, oh, here we go. Everybody's here, everybody's here.

Speaker 2: 20:02

Oh, liz said I knew it. One thing though. One thing though, that you, you never give me a punchline. You have like it. There's no punchline. And that's what I always have to ask you. I'm like where?

Speaker 2: 20:15

Because in text from Bunsen, with joke writing, I actually had to search up joke writing when I was doing text from Bunsen, because I'm not a joke writer, I'm a chemistry guy, and you have a setup there's the lead up, there's the clop, like the climax, like the top of the cliff, and then the punchline and sometimes resolution. But I generally don't have enough room for resolution sometimes, but the best joke, the best jokes to write, have two punchlines an early punchline and a second punchline or something and a callback. That's the punchline. So I actually, you know, speaking of the office, I read a lot of what BJ Novak do you remember him from the office? Chris, bj Novak is Ryan Howard.

Speaker 2: 21:00

Yes, yes, he and Mindy Kling were one of the writers on the office and he had a blog that I found. It was all about joke writing, and there was like three jokes that I, I, you, three like ways you can structure a joke, and I use them all the time. But that's the one thing I keep asking you. I'm like Chris, where's the punchline? And you're like, you'll find it. You'll find the punchline.

Speaker 3: 21:27

Yeah, cause you're the funniest person I know.

Speaker 2: 21:30

Well, not. Sometimes I sit on the chair in the morning and I'm stuck Cause on Friday morning I get up super early to write text from Bunsen, if I didn't have time the night before. And boy do people let me know when I forget. There's some people that are like where is text from Bunsen? Ginger should be, ginger should be Inspector 12. Oh, okay, oh, I got. Oh, cause Liz said okay, I got it. There's a whole conversation going on in the chat than I. Yeah, there's Bunsen. Bunsen and Ginger are kind of indifferent to each other. They, bunsen, just gives Ginger a wide berth and Ginger just goes about her life as if Bunsen doesn't exist. That's what happens with Bunsen in the cat. I told you to tell people that Bunsen forgot to charge his iPhone. Oh, that's right, donna. Donna makes a good point. Some sometimes people have made comments and I've actually used comments in jokes and maybe I should credit people. Hopefully, donna, you're okay that I didn't credit you.

Speaker 3: 22:52

No, Jason, she's saying that because there was a comment that you worked really hard this week on creating those videos of the text from Bunsen.

Speaker 2: 23:07

Oh yeah, those were a lot of work.

Speaker 3: 23:10

Yeah, and so you didn't post new text from Bunsen this week on. Friday yeah, normally you would have had like a Black Friday joke in there, like maybe your snack Friday, like beaker misunderstanding what it is? Yeah, but that was on one of the kind of dog announcements from the week. Yeah, but yeah, you didn't have new and fresh ones on Friday.

Speaker 2: 23:39

No, I ran at a time I was exhausted, sorry everybody.

Speaker 3: 23:42

And that's what you said. You're like, I spent like so much time with her launch. We're so excited about her launch. Yeah, and that's when Donna said that you should be recharging. You should have told people that you were recharging the iPhone.

Speaker 2: 23:54

Oh that, yeah, that would have been smarter. That would have been smarter today, wow.

Speaker 3: 24:00

Donna was giving you an out, but it's okay. Just be honest too and say you know what we are so excited about Text from Bunsen and sharing the launch with you, getting everything ready for all of you, because we're so proud of the book that we wrote and we're proud of the audio that we did and it's all coming together. Like Jason and I, when we first, I guess, started our lives together, we never thought that we would be writing a book and sharing everything, and I honestly I never even thought I would know how Canada Post worked and now I can do shipping profiles. Yeah, it's been fun and it's been a learning journey too.

Speaker 2: 24:55

Yeah, oh, I love I've said this before I love shipping stuff. That's. My favorite thing is whenever somebody orders something from us and thank you so much for ordering some of our nonsense, If I like, I just love packaging it up and shipping it. It's so fun. Oh, there's Beaker. Chris, do you want to give everybody a sneak peek of the stickers?

Speaker 3: 25:23

Oh yeah, so super fun today, fans. I was spending some time this morning creating like a grab bag type sticker. So, I'm just go get them yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:38

So we have this what's made our lives a lot easier. So pro tip for anybody we have a cricket and through trial and error, it wasn't easy to figure this out, so it did take, like you know, some couple hours to get it perfect. We now can produce our own stickers and they're they're pretty much the same quality that you'd get from like a sticker producer. So there we go. Chris has got the stickers. We have nine stickers and they're going to be randomly assigned to one of your books. They're all new. We kind of did the same thing with Text from Bunsen one. You just keep freezing up on me, chris, if I keep changing it, you keep on freezing. There we go. Yeah, it's all good.

Speaker 3: 26:30

So so beyond as stickers, and Catherine Aaron McMurray got their Paw Pack postcard today and they're so excited to get something from Canada and it's Donna said we are truly spoiled to by the content that we provide. Yeah, so it's been. It's been a labor. It's been a labor of love that we've been doing this. Go ahead, jason.

Speaker 2: 27:05

Well, helen said she has to go and she just left a really nice message. Helen mentioned um. I just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed the audio. Everyone did a fantastic job with the voices, um, and I'm halfway through the ebook, which is great. Yeah, the ebook has 50, 50 extra pages of like real life, our favorite photos, a lot of the photos that didn't make our calendar so we wanted to like. The book is coming, but you can get the ebook immediately and the ebook is enormous. Like it's huge, uh, 400 and some pages, I don't know. Crazy, huge. Um, and then she says can't wait for the printed book, everyone should get the different formats.

Speaker 3: 27:49

And then Kathy says the postcard the postcard was such a nice surprise and, uh, karen was so surprised to get the postcard, so that's something that, uh, a benefit of joining our Pawpat community is, um, everybody gets a postcard twice a year.

Speaker 2: 28:08

Yeah, yeah, so this was the second one for the year and, um, we didn't announce it. We forgot to tell everybody we were sending them. We were so busy. We just like I'll get the postcards out and then we forgot. But the postcards are really cute, Is what? Is it this? I forget what we even decided, but it was, was it Chris?

Speaker 3: 28:26

Okay, it's the two dogs in front of Charmik and Cirque oh yeah. In Canascus country. So it's the two dogs, Um, and they're just doing their dog thing Um.

Speaker 2: 28:45

Kelly says she's a quarter of the way through the ebook and it's hilarious. Ah, I love it. I put some information about the Pawpak in. Ebook is 400, 447 pages. That's a lot of pages, um, and this is just. If you're on the live stream, you can see. Um, this is text from Bunsen one and it, you know, full color. Uh, text from Bunsen two is going to be a little bit, a little bit smaller, um, because we had to go with the standard size and it has text from Bunsen one had 156 pages. Text from Bunsen two print book has 200 pages.

Speaker 3: 29:32

Yeah 200 pages we went to printing company as well, one that we're really uh, did our calendar, and so, um, we're really excited to collaborate with them. Yeah, super helpful, super quick. Um, help us troubleshoot, cause we're still all doing this by ourselves. It's the Jason and Chris show.

Speaker 2: 29:54

Yeah, I was like I got the proof. I got the proof while I was teaching and, and Dale's like, hey, can you like you need to check over the proof? And I was like, uh, I have five minutes, I can look at it for five minutes before I use my lunch to go over, um, the thing. So, yeah, it's busy at times with being a one person. Two people show, okay. So Donna, Donna has a really good point. Um, how do we donate to a friend of the pop pack? So I'll talk about that right now.

Speaker 2: 30:27

We will have some links in. It's tough to send links out on social media because any post with a link is devalued. Um, so anything I post on on Twitter or X with a link, it kills the reach. The algorithm doesn't want you to have people go outside of Twitter and most of the other, um, most of the other social media sites are like that. But what, what we do have control of, is our newsletter. So when I write the newsletter, um, when we write the newsletter tomorrow, it'll have information about that we we've set up. So I'll put it into the chat for the folks who are on the live and, if I can have time, I'll put it on Twitter. Um, one second.

Speaker 2: 31:16

Here we set up a way that folks can donate a copy of the book to to somebody. I'll put this if you're in there's one for North America and one for One for international, because shipping is different, and if that's something you'd like to do, if you that's something you'd like to do, that was something people wondering about text from Bunsen one. Could they donate a copy? We weren't set up for that, but we have a way now where you can donate your copy. Please put your shipping address in there.

Speaker 2: 31:54

It lets me clearly know it's a donation, because Chris and I will send you a thank you for donating a book to somebody. And then I have a Google form which will try to get out however many, however many people we can. That, if you, you know, would like a book and that's not something you can afford We'll try to match you with folks For the book, and we've already had like five or six books donated. So thank you so much for that. And so if you are not part of our newsletter, that's the easiest way to get information to you, because any links on social media get devalued. So either part of the pop hack or part of our newsletter, so hopefully that answered the question Donna wait, we thank you for coming to our book launch.

Speaker 3: 32:43

Yeah, and check out our book, because it is a labor of love and we know that everybody would really like it. But thank you for coming to our book launch here, pop pack, and if you look at our community, you'll see lots of great value that we Provide and I'm so sorry that Bunsen is barking, but that's our life here at our house. Yeah, we provide a lot of value in our community.

Speaker 3: 33:13

A lot of science a lot of content. We asked for feedback. We run a show every Sunday night when the pop hack members get advanced notice about things that we're thinking about and we seek feedback the calendar, all the pictures we share with the pop hack in advance and they get voted on. They get voted on For, so you get the best of the best If you join our pop pack yeah, it's.

Speaker 2: 33:43

It's like a patreon, so it's a way like all of our content stays as free as possible, like the science podcast, our audio shows and all the stuff. So we we love our supporters over here on the pop pack and we'd love for you to join, so we'll have some. I'll have a link to that in our newsletter and we'll be talking about the pop pack quite a bit. So goodbye on the pop pack. I'm closing my camera. The audio will still go through and you could leave and join on your phone. It's up to you.

Speaker 3: 34:10

If whatever, however, you want to join me on my phone, jason, I'm already on my phone.

Speaker 2: 34:14

Yeah, oh, but my iPhone 7 plus. Okay.

Speaker 3: 34:17

It's so good quality telephone here.

Speaker 2: 34:20

No, you need to update your phone. No yes, what you do need to update your phone, it's so old.

Speaker 5: 34:29

I get it.

Speaker 2: 34:30

Okay, can you?

Speaker 5: 34:30

close.

Speaker 2: 34:35

Can you, can you close, stop? Can you Turn your camera off, so where you're not destroying the bandwidth. Okay, there we go. Okay, huh, hello everybody, I'm now over on Twitter, or acts, or whatever this platform is called. If you, if you would Like to share your pet story, we would love for you to come on up, because now you can talk, because on the live show nobody could talk. So request the mic if you'd like to share your pet story.

Speaker 3: 35:04

Okay, we have Donna and then Sarah go ahead, donna.

Speaker 9: 35:08

Oh, the only thing I wanted to say was great job on the live chat, even with the internet issues. So it was awesome seeing y'all's faces. We see your faces and pictures, but to see your lips moving and then freezing in the moving was great. Um so great job, you guys. I know you worked your your tails off To get that done, so I don't have anything. You, you guys know I made it back to the States, jason, I could have saved a crap ton of money and just come to Canada instead from the pictures you posted, but that was absolutely fabulous. And the only pet story I have is Cali is not pooping on my bed. She's happy I'm home. So that's it for me. I just wanted to give you guys props.

Speaker 2: 35:59

Thanks, Donna, and we're happy.

Speaker 3: 36:02

I want to see how Cali would do, because I know when Jason went away, ginger.

Speaker 2: 36:09

Ginger was doing somersaults and biting me.

Speaker 3: 36:12

I know so, but Kelly kind of is a bit Vendictive, so I was.

Speaker 9: 36:19

She usually is. Usually I'll get the hi, you're home and then I get them. I'm a cat. I could give two craps if you were gone the rest of the time, but she's been a stage five cleaner the whole time. I can't go two steps without her, like even she's coming in the shower, which is something she's never done. So I Don't know, she she must have been feeling my, my joy and sadness at the same time from thousands of miles away For that trip, because it was very cathartic and I came home Super chill, and maybe it's because I wasn't coming from a work trip so I wasn't stressed and she didn't feel that. So she was just like hi, you're home, and it's a little chilly in Dallas right now. So she's tried to sleep on my face, which she never does either.

Speaker 9: 37:13

So it's, it's, the dog is always happy. She's like hi, hi, you're home, you're home. The person who gives me treats no one gives me treats, but you Type thing. And then Callie is usually like forget it, but you know she'll go find every stuffed animal she has, drags it to me. She has not moved ginger from her beds and she put ginger in the bed, so she sleeps with ginger. Um, the stuffy ginger. I should say not the real one, because that's a different text from Bunsen. So she, she's been great and she didn't freak out because she didn't. She smelled the Reindeer and the Huskies on my parka Because I brought it in the house and they need to get it cleaned and she could smell it and she'll go rub on it. But she's more happy. I'm home, which is unusual.

Speaker 2: 38:08

Love it. Well, I'm glad there's no poop on the bed. That's the worst. I just got ginger trying to eat my arm, which was super weird, but anyways.

Speaker 9: 38:20

Comments that barbecue.

Speaker 2: 38:22

No, I didn't actually have barbecue. Donna, you gave me some great suggestions and I didn't want a chance having all of that red meat because I get migraines now from having a lot of red meat. But I did find a couple really awesome places to eat in Kansas City. Common sense. Your hand is up, congratulations. You won the the calendar. You were. You're a little confused. What was going on? Did you figure out what's what's happening or did you have a question or story about your pets? Well, both.

Speaker 1: 38:55

I just wanted to thank you for winning the calendar. I actually just lost one of my my English master, like last month, and she was pretty special to me, like I couldn't take the Couldn't take the void, so I've got another puppy now to replace her. So my life's been revolving around that, so it was kind of neat to come in here and win that. That was unexpected.

Speaker 2: 39:22

What's? What's your puppy's name and what type of dog is it?

Speaker 1: 39:27

Um, she's an American bulldog cross with a mastiff. They call a band oh Joe so she'll be a hundred 140 pounds. She's a Brenda, her name's Luna and my great Danes, apollo. I love great.

Speaker 2: 39:41

Danes. They're so cool. Well, we're so happy. You came at the right time to win a prize.

Speaker 1: 39:49

So do I. You just got to send me an address, yeah.

Speaker 2: 39:52

Yeah, dm me an address and we'll get it out in the mail on Monday for you. We'll do. Thank you, yeah, no worries. Um, there's a request by an account that I don't know, john Facker. Um, you don't have your DMs on Can? Uh, we're, unfortunately we're not taking chances on accounts that are kind of locked up like that. You could DM us about what you wanted to talk about and then we'll. We'll maybe bring you up, but, um, we're only bringing folks up that have a kind of more open accounts that we can have a discussion with. Uh, okay, so, sarah, hello.

Speaker 5: 40:26

Good evening. I missed the first part of the show, but it sounds like you guys did a live stream.

Speaker 2: 40:32

Yeah, on our, uh, the pot pack. It's our circle community. We did, uh we did a live video showed in celebration of text from Bunsen to our book that launched yesterday.

Speaker 5: 40:42

So how did that go? Um, is that how you guys may proceed in the future?

Speaker 2: 40:48

Well, we'll have to probably sell a lot more to to quit or day jobs of teaching. Um, not that we're not thankful that the folks picked up the book.

Speaker 5: 41:00

Um, no, no no, I meant, I meant the show. We, oh, oh, oh. We're like now crazy.

Speaker 2: 41:08

I was like we're going to have someone bought a hundred times more books, but anyways, um no, that was just a special thing, yeah.

Speaker 5: 41:17

But I do encourage you to quit your day job like tomorrow. Just quit, never go back. You can do this full time.

Speaker 2: 41:26

That's maybe in the future. We'll see. I know Chris wants to just quit and be a dog mom. That would be a great job.

Speaker 5: 41:35

Well, that that is my goal is to be. Um just, do you ever go down like the Instagram rabbit hole where you watch a real after real after real of like dog rescues and then you decide to just give up your entire life by a thousand acres and just turn it into a dog refuge? Or is that just me?

Speaker 2: 41:59

Um, we've thought about that, because we have room. Um, there's a. Chris, you can tell about the guy that you we follow when watch his videos. Um, what's his name? Again, Chris.

Speaker 3: 42:10

Neil, neil Harbison oh.

Speaker 5: 42:12

Harbison yeah, I watch all of his. I want to move to. I think he's in Bali.

Speaker 3: 42:19

He's in Thailand.

Speaker 5: 42:20

Okay, well, wherever he's at, that's where I want to live and he, that is where exactly that. I was talking about the rabbit hole because I followed Tina's story and I was sad when Tina passed. I know I saw like a what you know, like I'm a toddler, but that's where I think you know what I've said to my husband at least 75 times you know let's just move there and rescue dogs with him all day long and that will be our lives now.

Speaker 3: 42:54

Well, the one thing that he's doing that is amazing is he's creating a hospital in Tina's honor and Tina's name to be able to help and support more of the street dogs that are in Thailand. Um, the story that I watched today is one that I've been following with his dog named Shaq, who had a large growth um coming out of his neck, um, and just that. Uh, they were able to take care of him and it just was a really great story that we watched today, and the part of the story if you haven't seen it, spoiler alert is that Shaq is wearing Tina's bandana. Oh, oh, just got me right in the feels.

Speaker 2: 43:36

That's why you were all emotional. I was like are you okay?

Speaker 3: 43:40

No, I followed Tina's story. I loved Tina. Uh, the golden retriever, the bestest girl that ever was.

Speaker 2: 43:46

I can't. I can't watch too much of that. It just reminds me of Kowloon.

Speaker 3: 43:50

So much and just that I, just my heart, was feeling really good today that Shaq was wearing her bandana.

Speaker 9: 43:57

Hey, Chris, I can't raise my hand, but, uh, since she brought up that he's building a hospital, he also has a book, uh, that's available on Amazon and it's called hope. Um, and if you get that proceeds from that book, go to help build that hospital.

Speaker 3: 44:15

Now, also, I think that his book is on honest dog books, which was the same one that Jen's book was on oh cool, Um, even better to get it from them.

Speaker 9: 44:25

So for sure, uh. But yeah, the proceeds from that go um, and he's also struggling with mental health and I I appreciate how he spends a lot of time talking about that. Um, but, sarah, I don't want to take up your time, but, uh, shout out good vibes for Vink from the golden ratio, for, um, she needs it.

Speaker 7: 44:51

His name is Nile, he's Irish and it really is Nile, not Neil.

Speaker 2: 44:57

Thanks, dr Tracy.

Speaker 7: 44:59

Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was Nile. Yeah, it is, and and Venkman has lymphoma.

Speaker 2: 45:06

Mm, hmm, very sad news, I know, uh, I know, uh, uh, tracy, she couldn't stay and she made a comment in the uh in the chat about that. So Tracy wanted to honor Vink just by shouting that out there. So, yeah, I'm sure that I mean, jen and Ingo are going to do the best they can for for for Vink so, um, just as they have for all of their dogs. So, uh, we'll go. But, sarah, were you done with your story?

Speaker 5: 45:41

Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, I got. I feel you, chris. We sobbed together, we laughed together when I watched those Instagram stories, but I think it was Donna that just posted in the chat that it's very cheap to move to Thailand. So I will be cashing out my retirement moving soon. I hope you all support me.

Speaker 2: 46:10

I'm too tied to where I live in the world. I love where I live. I would visit Thailand. I don't think I would move to live anywhere else and I know that's sad for Chris because she can't stand the winters, but I live for it. I think you'd like to live in Thailand, Chris.

Speaker 3: 46:30

I want to go to Thailand, to go to Nile's place and help with the dogs.

Speaker 1: 46:37

Okay.

Speaker 3: 46:39

You could be Again I also want to go to Key West to see the golden ratio. Would also like to do that.

Speaker 2: 46:48

Okay, sounds like we're spending our money on holidays to see the dogs. That's not a bad use of our monies.

Speaker 3: 46:57

Not a bad use of our money at all.

Speaker 2: 46:58

Not a bad use Okay.

Speaker 3: 47:01

Common sense, you have your hand up.

Speaker 1: 47:04

Yeah, I was just curious If you guys know anybody, or if anybody's heard anymore about this pneumonia that's going around in these dogs.

Speaker 2: 47:13

Oh, chris posted about that. I haven't had a chance to look into it so I can't. I was going to look into it for the science podcast next week, but I don't know. Chris, do you know anything else?

Speaker 3: 47:27

Just the article I read that it's going around. It's very, very infectious. Just keep your dogs out of the doggy daycares or other areas that they could catch.

Speaker 1: 47:43

it Are there general symptoms that come with it that we should look for? Do they know?

Speaker 3: 47:52

That I cannot remember exactly what the article said. I can look it up. I just wasn't sure I read it. It was in the States. I'm not sure if it's in Canada. We're in Canada, but I brought it up with Jason. Do you remember what I said, Jay?

Speaker 2: 48:07

No, I haven't. You sent me the article. It was one I was going to break down and do a deep dive into for the science podcast this week coming out, but I've just been too busy with the book launch and my day job. I don't want to misspoke, misspeak. I honestly don't know anything about it. Aside from that, it's happening, so sorry. Anybody else who's a speaker, if you know you can chime in, go ahead and help out Common Sense.

Speaker 8: 48:35

Jason, I just put a link in the chat. It was the Today Show about the status of it. It can be fatal and you got to be careful with dog kennels and places like that. So I did put it in the link in the chat.

Speaker 2: 48:51

So maybe take a look at that Common Sense, chris. It's an American thing, or is it in Canada too?

Speaker 8: 48:58

I think it's in America right now. I don't know, if it's growing up. So it's going around pretty fast.

Speaker 1: 49:05

Yeah, I had her on three different antibiotics.

Speaker 9: 49:07

And that's important to get the more to tell her vaccines to help like, especially if you're boarding your pet to make sure they have those vaccines.

Speaker 2: 49:18

I'll do a deep dive into it for our show on Thursday when it comes out. Common Sense. Sorry, you were going to make a comment there.

Speaker 1: 49:29

I'll have to catch your show. And I was just going to say that, yeah, I had her on three different antibiotics and we fought it for like two months and then for one week she got better and then it went all downhill after that.

Speaker 2: 49:41

Oh, that's too bad, so frustrating.

Speaker 3: 49:46

Yeah, that's what the article said, that it starts out similar to kennel cough and the couple that had a dog. They said that she was responding to antibiotics and then it definitely went downhill from there. It's a drug from it as well, but yeah so discharge coming from their nose, coughing, and then the pneumonia sets in.

Speaker 2: 50:14

I'll maybe reach out to some of the vets that I've interviewed as well, because they'll be able to give us like instead of like folks like us with no training in dog medicine. I think I'll do that for the podcast as well. That way I don't screw up on whatever the article saying as well, because we do know a couple of vets that would probably be able to help us out. Karen, your hand, you came up in your hands up.

Speaker 7: 50:41

Yeah, I will try to find the article and send it to you before the science podcast. I'll actually try to find it tomorrow for you. But I was looking, I read reading for public health things, but I think I saw an article that also talks about it being in Europe as well, and I think the symptoms were that it kind of presents initially, is very similar to kennel cough, with coughing and huffing and being really lethargic, and then it progresses. So that's one of the things that makes it kind of hard is that it seems like it's something else, but then it but it's really a different type of pneumonia.

Speaker 2: 51:26

Oh, okay, that's the issue. Then it's misdiagnosed, mistreated, and then it's too late.

Speaker 7: 51:33

Yeah. So that's why they're saying is like they think it's like bordetella initially, but then they discovered no, is actually a different type of pneumonia altogether, and so they thought they were taking care of one thing and in fact they weren't. But I'll see if I can find those two articles that I saw last week about it. So I'll try to find them this weekend and send whatever it was to you as soon as I do.

Speaker 2: 52:06

Thanks, karen.

Speaker 7: 52:07

No worries.

Speaker 9: 52:09

Hey Jason, I wanted to jump into. There is a massive death count going on from cantaloupe at Salmonella from Mexico and I know a lot of people like to give their dogs melons. Please do not right now, and in fact, if you have cantaloupe in your house, throw it out, because even the antimicrobial fruit and vegetable wash is not working on them.

Speaker 2: 52:36

This is in Canada too. Right, Like I read about this cantaloupe thing.

Speaker 9: 52:40

Yes, it's. In the US and Canada there's, I think, a 90 deaths right now and there's a lot of hospitalizations. So I know a lot of people like to give their pets fruits and vegetables. In this case, I would avoid that one like the plague.

Speaker 2: 52:57

And for people that are just tuning in, you might be wondering why Donna is talking about this Donna's food safety, donna Craig, donna is our food safety expert, so whenever there's a recall she always talks about that, so I just wanted to. Donna knows her stuff, okay. Dr Tracy, did you come up to correct how we were saying Niles name or did you want to share your story? That was ongoing.

Speaker 7: 53:27

No, it would take a lot of time and I don't want to do that now.

Speaker 2: 53:31

Okay, we'll have to save it for next week. Yes, and then, karen, did you come up just to talk to us about that pneumonia and dogs?

Speaker 7: 53:45

That was the main thing I did come up to tell you about was the article I saw. Okay, so yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2: 53:51

Perfect. Yeah, I do try to stay up on the science of pets and normally I'm, but I know Chris sent me that and I just I haven't even looked at it. The I did a really fun.

Speaker 7: 54:05

He's a little busy this week.

Speaker 2: 54:07

Just a little, just a little busy. Um the on the science podcast. This week I had a really fun study. There was nothing serious about it, it was about unintentional blindness in dogs.

Speaker 2: 54:24

So an intentional blindness in in people, um, is when you're so focused on a task you don't notice your world, you don't notice things around you. Uh, maybe you've seen, like that video where you're supposed to count how many times a ball passes from person to person and you're like so intent on counting that you miss that somebody is in a gorilla suit dancing in the background. It's like a psychology thing, um, so it's called unintentional blindness. Like, I definitely get it when I'm working on cosplay, so the whole world melts away when I'm focused on like sanding or painting or weathering, because I just get. I just get so into that, um, and I don't check my phone, I don't hear the phone ring, I'll, I'll just work, and then all of a sudden it's dark out, I've forgotten to eat, so, like, I suffer from that sometimes.

Speaker 2: 55:12

So they wanted to see if, if dogs can be, can suffer from intentional blindness and they did like the most whole, wholesome study you ever you ever could conceive where they got all of these scent detecting dogs and they basically train them to go down a hallway and half of the dogs got a reward at the end and the other half didn't. They just had to get to the end of the hallway. So the the reward group did better, as you could expect, they got through the hallway faster and then they put like a scent that the dog should have been able to detect, like something really important to them, to see if they would notice the scent or would they be unintentionally blind because they're so focused on their task. And ha-ha cliffhanger. You'll have to listen to the science podcast to figure out what happened.

Speaker 3: 56:02

Ooh, Jason, like cliffhanger.

Speaker 2: 56:06

I gotta do better at that. I give away the goat and then nobody listens to our show. And deep sea dawn is our our expert on the science podcast. This week we had her on side chat but we get into way more stuff in the interview. She's the. She's the lady that went down to the bottom of the Marianas trench to challenge her deep in the limiting factor. Deep diving, submersible, crazy story, wild story. Okay, there's some people sending us those links to the pneumonia.

Speaker 8: 56:41

Go ahead, paula, oh sorry I'm hitting the wrong buttons here. Oh, I just want, I know I just want to say congratulations on the text from Bunsen to. Your launch party was fun. I hope everybody had a good time and I'm just so excited for it. And I have just a quick pet story. I've been kind of sick with a flu. Still it's not fun, but anyway I'm still trying to get rid of this thing. But Chixi's going in Thursday to get spayed, so if I could just have some extra doggy prayers for her, cause, you know, even though it's a, you know, normal procedure usually, but you know you still kind of worry. So just put some good vibes out for a Trixie on Thursday, Cause, yeah, she's going to finally get spayed.

Speaker 2: 57:30

We will be thinking about her. Paula, she's a cutie. She is a cutie. I got to see Trixie ahead of you guys, cause Paula was one of our co-hosts on the live show and as we were setting stuff up, I got to see Trixie. Did you get to see Trixie, chris?

Speaker 3: 57:49

No Ray.

Speaker 2: 57:50

Ray's here. Ray Ray, I've heard you in other spaces. Hello, I think this is the first time you've been to our show, absolutely.

Speaker 6: 58:03

How are you? What is your name?

Speaker 2: 58:05

Rich, Jason Rich or Jason, jason, yeah.

Speaker 6: 58:10

All right, jason, jason, right. Yeah, I have a pet story to tell, pet chat. I had a cat and the cat's name was Stitch and I adopted him, not adopted him. This girl gave him to me. He was a Tabby cat. No, not Tabby, he was black, a tuxedo cat, right, and I love, love, love my Stitch and he was. He used to be my fashion show model, before you know YouTube and everything was out, and maybe it was out and I wasn't into it, but he used to model for me all the time. So I would wrap him up, I would wrap him up in like African cloths and he would walk across the room and I would just praise him. Oh my, goodness, and he was just a great cat.

Speaker 6: 59:03

Yeah, he was a great cat. I loved him. He was like my little runway fashion show. That's adorable.

Speaker 6: 59:11

I mean he really made me happy, you know, but unfortunately I had to put him to rest but his name was Stitch and he was the tuxedo cat and he was a badass and I miss him so much and I mean I've always had cats, like my mom love animals. I don't like you know, I like plants better than I like animals, because plants you just have to water them, they don't move, they stay where you put them. Cats and dogs they move around. But yeah, it's funny about the animals, they're like babies. But yeah, we had all kind of animals when I was coming up and I'm born in Harlem, I'm raised in Harlem, I'm from seven and yeah, we had, we always had a cat.

Speaker 2: 1:00:01

I do appreciate your stories about Stitch. There's a lot of love in the chat for Stitch. Thank you for being sharing your story about pets tonight. Really appreciate it. It's the wrap up music Music. Whoo Well, this was fun. We did a live show. That was neat. I think it's cool.

Speaker 3: 1:00:24

Everybody really liked seeing Bunsen and Beacorin gender.

Speaker 6: 1:00:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:00:28

They were the stars of the show because they are the stars of the show. Yeah, you and I are nothing really compared to them.

Speaker 3: 1:00:35

I dressed up for it, though I thought me too.

Speaker 2: 1:00:37

I put on a nice shirt. I did my hair. I didn't shave, though I was going to shave and I was like no, I don't shave on the weekends, so I didn't shave. The kids wanted me to do November. Are you glad I didn't do November?

Speaker 3: 1:00:54

You could have done November.

Speaker 2: 1:00:56

You remember when I didn't shave for like like a month and then I shaved and I left the mustache and you hated it.

Speaker 3: 1:01:05

Remember that I did like it's the funniest thing, because what you did is you shaved off a bit at a time and then what happened was then you put a picture of Adam. It's like you de-aged as you shaved. It was super cute.

Speaker 2: 1:01:22

I didn't shave all Christmas break. I was like I'm all done with shaving. This is stupid. So I didn't shave for literally three weeks, like two and a half weeks. I'm part caveman, so my hair grows real fast, as you. As you can tell, I'm like very close to the primates of our past, so my hair grows like really fast. And yeah, I shaved it. I think did I do like the the three musketeers thing where I had the mustache and the little like soul patch thing going on, or whatever you call that. You know the little thing on the lip I think I had that.

Speaker 3: 1:01:55

Yeah, as you were, as you were taking it off, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:02:00

I have to find those pictures. I have to find them somewhere.