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Pet Chat April 13th: A Solar Eclipse, Pet Antics, and Travel Tales

• Jason Zackowski

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This week's bonus podcast is an eclectic mix of travel hijinks, pet antics, and celestial phenomena. We discuss the unique challenges of selecting a rental car equipped for the future, navigating the technology frontier, and the joy of witnessing an eclipse in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Our furry companions Bunsen and Beaker might not have joined us on the trip, but they certainly provided plenty of stories to share, including Beaker's regal birthday bash preparation.

Our community segment is where the heart truly lies, as we welcome stories from our listeners like Paula, who shares her quirky eclipse viewing techniques and pet sitting adventures. We laugh over the escapades of grooming Trixie and invite valuable tips from our fellow pet parents. Meanwhile, we ponder the finer points of pet nutrition, celebrate Beaker's fourth birthday, and highlight our delightful encounters with some standout canine personalities, Kuno and Chesney. It's this sense of shared experience that binds us all, and we're delighted to have such engaging contributions to our conversation.

Wrapping up, safety takes center stage as we tackle the topic of transporting larger dogs in vehicles and ensuring their well-being. A listener's practical concerns spark a discussion on harnesses and safe travel, reminding us of the responsibilities that come with the joy of pet ownership. As we say goodbye, we extend a heartfelt thanks to our community, including Indra from the positivity vibe tribe, for their unwavering support and shared stories. This episode celebrates the special moments with our pets, the excitement of travel, and the profound connections we share with our four-legged friends – all under the shadow of a solar eclipse.

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Speaker 1:

Hello pet enthusiasts, we're back. Welcome to pet chat, our live show that brings pet people from all over the world. My name is Jason Zakowski. I'm the dog dad of Bunsen and Beaker, the science dogs on social media. My co-host is hi there. I'm Chris Zakowski. I'm the dog mom to Bunsen and Beaker, the science dogs on social media.

Speaker 2:

My co-host is Hi there, I'm Chris Sikowski. I'm the dog mom to Bunsen and Beaker and the cat mom to Ginger.

Speaker 1:

Every week in Pet Chat we share stories about Bunsen and Beaker and Ginger and now a beaver and the other critters in her life. We play a game, there's a prize, and then we open up the floor to share stories about their own pets from their own lives. So we've had. It's been two weeks since we've done a pet chat. Right, I think we're just going to do a quick shout out to our sponsor and then we'll get on with the rest of the show. Pet chat is brought to you by bark and beyond supplycom. Bark and beyond supplycom is a small, family owned company that makes joint supplements for dogs, but they also have toys and treats, subscription boxes, t-shirts, everything for your pet. Use the code bunsen b-u-n-s-e-n and you will save 15 today on anything from bark and beyond supplycom. It is a pet chat special. Should we talk about the big trip that we went on? Chris, it's not pet related, but it was in the lead for the advertisements for the show today. Do you want to start?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yes, it was amazing. It was the best time ever.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was the coolest thing I ever saw in my entire life was the best time ever.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it was the coolest thing I ever saw in my entire life. Yeah, there was a little bit of worry that the weather was going to be problematic and we were carefully watching the weather forecast and we talked to donna, who is a local to dallas, texas food safety donna craig oh yeah, safety, donna craig.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we're talking out with yeah, we're talking about the solar eclipse for people that are just joining. Some people are a little confused. We're from Alberta, canada For anybody listening who's new and we flew to Dallas, texas, to see the eclipse Go ahead, chris.

Speaker 2:

We flew out on my birthday.

Speaker 1:

That's right, it was your birthday.

Speaker 2:

Yes, april 6th was my birthday.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And when we were planning this, you said, hey, let's fly out on the Saturday. And I kept saying are you sure, Are you sure you want to fly on the Saturday?

Speaker 1:

I'm sorry.

Speaker 2:

What about the Friday? What about the Sunday? What about the Friday? Are you sure you want to fly on the Saturday? And you said yep.

Speaker 1:

The plane tickets were a lot cheaper on the Saturday. I'm so sorry, Chris.

Speaker 2:

That's fine. So we went ahead and flew out and it was great, the flight was awesome. And then we got in and we got the rental car. You were just so excited that we had landed and that we were there and we picked up our car and the ladies which one did you rent? And you said, I don't know, the guy just sent us with paper and she says that's okay, why don't you just pick a car in this row, jason?

Speaker 1:

And there was like there's 40 different things to pick from.

Speaker 2:

I know there was so many choices, but no, no, your first choice was the very first car you're like, I think this one, and I looked at it and it's a mazda 3 and I was like okay, and then you just you got in and you folded in there like a suitcase okay, I'm a very tall person.

Speaker 2:

I'm six foot three um, I know and I was like ah, okay, are you sure you want this one? There's a camry just down the way. Nope, this is great away. We went in the tiny compact car and I tell you the apple maps and or google maps it just kept jumping from the tollway to the non-road tollway, non-road and we had no idea where we were going no, and we had no idea what was happening.

Speaker 4:

No.

Speaker 2:

We were just on the road and it's like you have to know what you're doing, and we didn't at first. But after driving for a couple of days we figured out what we were doing. But we were going to the hotel and it's like turn left, Turn right, Turn left, and it got us all turned around. It didn't know exactly where we were staying and I said you know what, Jason, Once we parked and were there, I said we should have just looked with our eyes because you can look and then you can see the name of the place. But no, we were relying on navigation. So it was very much an episode from the office where Michael drives into the lake because, of the technology.

Speaker 1:

Yes, we probably would have drove into the lake.

Speaker 2:

Yes, Into the lake? Yeah. Listening to the Google Maps slash Apple Maps, yeah, anyway, and then yeah go ahead. Super cool Because then we went to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe show.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And we took an Uber, also known as where. We would not be worried about getting there on our own because we weren't familiar with the area and we didn't know about parking and we didn't know. So we took an uber great, great show. And then we got back to the hotel and then it was great. But that's not about the eclipse. Do you want me to tell them all about the trip, or?

Speaker 1:

I don't know. I didn't know you were gonna like recount our minute by minute experience in dallas. But that's great. People are probably very interested in what's going on. But on Saturday we went to the Dallas Arboretum and we went to the video game museum, which was very cool. You got I think you were a little bored with me doing so well at Pac-Man, because I'm very good at no.

Speaker 2:

I love that. They've done research on video game players, so the actual player, but then also the people who like to watch. So I'm not very successful at video games actually um, not very good at all. You played me pong, we played pong and I was not good at it, which I know I I don't have. I don't have a hand-eye coordination or the predictive skills. I don't have it, or I think I'm better than I used to be, but still. But I. They've done research on the participant and then the, the viewer, and so I make a really great video game viewer, as you can probably attest to, because jason will play and then I'll do some side commentary.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Jason loves it. It's a whole thing, no it's a whole thing, but like mass effect, I liked watching and anyway. So we went to the video game museum. So you can't say that I was bored. It was very busy Little arcade though.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was too much. I just wanted to play Ms. Pac little arcade though yeah, it was too much. I just wanted to play miss pac-man one time and I was good, and then we got to play it all day, but there was a lady lurking. She was lurking she wanted to play.

Speaker 2:

I died on purpose so she could play.

Speaker 1:

Actually, you did not die on purpose, no, I did. I did. I could have played. I could have played that game for a lot longer. But then after the video game museum, we actually got to meet up with donna cra Craig in real life and we had supper with her. So that was so wonderful to see, like somebody that has followed Bunsen and Beaker and one of our you know, like our friends online, and we got to meet Donna in real life and she's just the same type of person in real life as you would expect on spaces If you've ever heard Donna talk, which was she's full of life.

Speaker 2:

I actually said that. I said, donna, you sound exactly like you do on spaces and she's yep yeah and then we had a really nice supper at the legacy mall yep and there's lots of food choices there. There was a great vegetarian choice. I had an excellent something or other food that she suggested and it was awesome, and then it was eclipse day no, it wasn't.

Speaker 1:

We went to see where jfk was assassinated oh yeah, donna took us there because I don't know much about american history, so I had I was just putting two and two together as she was explaining, yeah. So she says like, yeah, like it's something you should see once in your life. So that's where we went a little.

Speaker 2:

It's very somber, obviously, somber spot yeah, and so we went and then looked at the six-story window and I actually texted my stepdad and melissa back home about it and gourd lived through it like he was in school and they did a whole learning about it in school and it just like the the day, like it happened right, and so for him it's, it was like meaningful history because he was connected to it at the time alive.

Speaker 1:

We weren't alive at that time no, ours would be like when the princess diana died. I I know where I was when that happened for sure I do yeah.

Speaker 1:

But then let's get to the eclipse and then pet stuff. So we're not. People are signed up and they're like what is pet chat? And they're just talking about JFK.

Speaker 1:

And the next day was the eclipse day and weather did not look good for Texas. But we were in for a penny and for a pound because I got tickets way before and everything was booked up. It's not like you could change your mind and go to Arkansas. You could drive, maybe, but luckily we had a rental vehicle and our first place was totally clouded over and we turned around and went northeast of Dallas to a little tiny town called Sulphur Springs. We went right downtown to the town center, found a parking spot and got our chairs out that we bought at Walmart and luckily it stayed mostly cloud free for almost the entire eclipse and it was amazing.

Speaker 1:

People have told me you really can't explain what an eclipse is like until you experience it, and that's very true. So if you haven't experienced one, you're just going to have to experience one. The next one's coming in 2044. I think the coolest part for me was, as the moon covered up the sun, that last second where it went from bright and then it dimmed and then it darkened everywhere. I was a little shocked how dark it got, and then just how the sun looked in the sky was bananas.

Speaker 2:

So it was just so very cool, Jason. Can we go back? So like the next one on North America.

Speaker 1:

North America yeah, North America 2044. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

There's people who are talking about going to Portugal and to Spain for next year and then also in 2033, if you want to go to the Arctic Circle, there's going to be one there. But the cool thing here's here is the coolest thing ever 8th and my birthday is on April 6th, and the next one is August 22nd, the one that Jason's talking about in North America 2044, august 22nd, but his birthday is August 20th, so it's two days after, I know, two days after your birthday, two days after my birthday.

Speaker 1:

It's just a coincidence, but if you are into conspiracy theories, the universe is sending us birthday gifts late or something I don't know yeah, yeah, but it's gonna come over alberta over our house that far no full. If you want more time in totality, you have to get to the very middle. That's why we went to sulfur springs. We got four and a half minutes of totality, I think. In Dallas it was like two minutes, two minutes, like two minutes of totality. I didn't want it to end, chris.

Speaker 2:

I know.

Speaker 6:

I knew.

Speaker 1:

I didn't want it to end. It was so cool. And then and then the sun started to peak back out and it went from you couldn't. You could look at it to the hurt your eyes and you're like what's over now? And then everything turned back to day. It was very cool.

Speaker 2:

Okay, it was win-win.

Speaker 4:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Because we got a clear sky Like we were driving in and it was. I said. The weather app says 20% chance of clouds Like this is, like, so cloudy.

Speaker 7:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then, as we went over the hill to Sulphur Springs, I'm like Jason, oh my God.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, as we're getting clear up.

Speaker 2:

it was like miraculous, so that was a win.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then a win is that we went for ice cream after.

Speaker 1:

That's right, we went for ice cream. That ice cream shop probably made like $30,000 in one day from everybody in Sulphur Springs.

Speaker 2:

It was amazing. And then the other win is I said, hey, there's a dairy museum here, jason, would you like to go? And he was, like, I worked at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum, so I've already worked at a dairy museum. I already know what they're going to say. So it was a win for Jason that we went back to the hotel and he did not have to experience the museum.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I live. I can milk a cow, Chris. I'm from rural Alberta. I can ride a horse and I can milk a cow Not very well, but I can do both.

Speaker 2:

You've got skills, I love it. No, what I'm trying to say, then, is we went for a swim in the pool.

Speaker 1:

Oh yes, hotel pool, yes, yeah, so that was fun. So wrapping up, kind of our share before we get to community sharing, how did the animals fare? Bunsen threw up and I think he was missing us. So that's what adam said. He gets a little. I think he thinks that if he acts sick then we come back. Maybe he's like the little kid, that is, you send the little kid to grandma's house and doesn't want to be there, so he just like vomits everywhere so he has to get sent back home. So I'm wondering if that's what punson did. But we've had a really good week with the dogs, like it's been. I missed them a ton when we were gone. I'm not gonna lie. It was tough to leave them, which is weird because we just like by adam, like we just left Adam. I didn't miss Adam as much as I miss the dogs, but we were in the living room.

Speaker 2:

I know Adam is right over there.

Speaker 1:

I know.

Speaker 2:

Adam and Adam can hear you.

Speaker 1:

I know Adam is a really good guy and I missed him. But Adam did a great job with the dogs though we couldn't have. We would have been screwed if he didn't watch them while we were gone. And then some people were asking like how come Adam didn't come? He had finals, like he had exam finals and and work and stuff like that. So any dog stories this week besides Bunsen puking while we were gone.

Speaker 2:

He stole my carrot today.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, he stole your carrot. That was hilarious.

Speaker 2:

For you. I was having a carrot and snacking on the carrot and I had taken a bite of a carrot and I was chewing it and I had put it on my lap and then adam was talking to me so I was distracted and um, bunsen came up and he took it away.

Speaker 1:

So that happened donna is in the audience on spaces. Donna, we went to bucky's. We found we actually went to Bucky's twice. It was on the way to Sulphur Springs and we went in there just to because we're like, oh my God, what if it's so cloudy today? We don't see the eclipse, we might as well just have a win. So we went to Bucky's. It's bananas. So, yes, please go to Bucky's. And Chris is holding up a pack of Bucky's fudge that she bought for Adam and Elise and our and Melissa and Val and I got a Bucky's stuffy. I don't know if Chris has the Bucky stuffy there. It's pretty cute, it's a beaver, it's an experience. Bucky's is bananas, it's it. They have some pretty good stuff there, chris.

Speaker 2:

I loved it. I loved going there. And then I love shopping for everybody. I got on the lease like a little backpack pulley thing with a. It has the same beaver but it's like a backpack pole. And then I got more Ellie, like a little hair bow from Bucky's, yeah, and we got neck ties for the dogs, bow ties for the dogs.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, neckties for the dogs, bow ties for the dogs, yeah, yeah. And the nuts there, like the warm caramelized nuts, oh my goodness, they're to die for good donna requested, so I'll just throw to donna. Did you want to? Did you want to comment or anything?

Speaker 6:

and it's good to we miss you already oh, thanks, yeah, I'm in california where it's freezing. I I'm like what I got here it was 88 degrees and today it's 58. I'm like, oh my God, and rainy and chilly. I was listening to your stories about your Dallas trip and how I sound like on Spaces. Y'all sound exactly the same too. I told them that and for everybody else they're just as lovely. As they said, I am Really, truly the best and it was fun ferrying Canadians around Like where are we going? Have we been on this highway before? No, but just so you know, jason is not exaggerating when he said he missed the dogs. He had an app open watching Adam kicking a soccer ball to Beaker. So you forgot to tell that story that you were watching it on the app. And I'm glad y'all finally made it to Buc-ee's you knew, because Texans can exaggerate and tell tall tales but that place and did you get some beaver nuggets?

Speaker 1:

I didn't. I didn't. They weren't my favorite, I will have to say, but I definitely loaded, we definitely loaded up on a bunch of some other bucky stuff. The nuts they make, donna, like the warm nuts, like pecans yeah, you can smell them when you walk in the door you either smell top brisket or warm.

Speaker 6:

They're cinnamon pecan.

Speaker 1:

Oh, they're so good they are to die for that. If somebody figured out how to make those at a fair in canada, you would be able to retire off of two, three days of sales sales.

Speaker 6:

That's how good those things are waiting for you guys to come to the state fair oh, you cut out, donna.

Speaker 1:

The state fair, the state fair. Is that what you were saying?

Speaker 6:

here we go again, technical difficulties. Anyways, the state fair has a holiday on the stick, which is turkey, with stuffing inside of it and gravy, and they deep fry it and they drizzle it with cranberry sauce. So that is to die for. But I really love that you guys were able to come down and see the eclipse. I was worried because all of a sudden it was beautiful weather for y'all sunshiny and then it got crazy. But I was not going west. But I sent you pictures of what my backyard looked like.

Speaker 1:

It got dark so all the birds got quiet and I guess the zoo at the ostrich freaked out and dropped an egg and laid an egg right then and there yeah, I'm showing my students clips from the Dallas Zoo and, like most of the animals, when the eclipse happened, it got dark and they're like oh, I guess it's time to go to bed. They all just were like confused for a second and then they went okay, do-do-do, the elephants just lumbered to go to bed, the monkeys and the gorillas were like doing shenanigans and then all of a sudden it got dark instantly and they're like dude, time to go to bed. So they stopped doing whatever they were doing, like wrestling, and went off to bed. So I didn't know that about the ostrich. That's very cool.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, and Bill Nye, the science guy. I don't know if you saw his thing, but he was a little further south towards San Antonio. He was in the hill country of Kerrville and he freaked out. He was all over CNN freaking out about the eclipse and that you could see the corona really well.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 6:

So we had a perfect view of it. So I'm glad you got to see it. I was getting worried for y'all for a minute. I'm glad you got to see it. I was getting worried for y'all.

Speaker 1:

for a minute, we were too. We were a little worried. Somebody else we know from spaces who's a spaces host. I was talking to her. She lives in San Antonio and they had a hundred percent clouds over the entire area where she lived near San Antonio, so they saw nothing like all. It got dark when the eclipse happened, but they couldn't see the sun, they couldn't see anything. So they were a little bummed and then anything, just a couple. Let's just couple little updates with Norbert, our beaver. Norbert is slowly starting to work again, knocking down trees and shoring up the dams. It's hard to tell now because his structures are so enormous. Is that new, or am I or no? But there was a bunch of new stuff today and in places it's so deep Beaker can swim from Norbert backing up the river or the creek, which is cool for Beaker. I posted a video about that today. All right over to you, chrisris. Do you have anything else to say before we go to community sharing? We really haven't talked too much about.

Speaker 2:

go ahead, yeah I thought you would share about ginger. When you got home, she nom, nom, nom, nom nom. Do you again?

Speaker 1:

I know what actually I'm gonna.

Speaker 2:

I'm gonna make a video about that yeah, so you sat on the chair and she jumped up with you and then she was nomming you and pulling onto your arm. Yeah, she grabbed, I didn't get that?

Speaker 1:

no, she does every time I'm gone. Every time I'm gone for more than a couple days, I sit down and ginger finds me immediately and then she starts biting me and holding my arm, like she grabs it with her claws and goes. It's really cute, but it hurts. Yeah, I don't know, but it's because she's overstimulated. That's what.

Speaker 1:

There's three reasons why cats will bite you. One they're mad and they don't. They want you to go away. Maybe she wants me to stay in Dallas, I don't know, probably not that. Two. Two you've been playing with them and they're overstimulated from playing. In that, ginger, sometimes we'll bite if you're like playing with the string, and she'll bite you, not on purpose, because she's, it's a she's a predator, right. And the third one is their emotions are so overstimulated they don't know what to do so they resort to a hunting instinct. So I think she was just so overstimulated that we were home. She was biting me, so she would go and then she would lick me and then bite again. So, anyways, I'm going to shoot a little video tomorrow about that for tiktok and instagram. Anything else, chris, before we go to community sharing there's an exciting thing happening tomorrow this is true, yep, go ahead, you can talk about it.

Speaker 1:

And before we go to community sharing, there's an exciting thing happening tomorrow. This is true, yep, go ahead, you can talk about it.

Speaker 2:

And then we'll go to the folks who want to speak. Tomorrow is Beaker's fourth birthday.

Speaker 1:

That's right.

Speaker 2:

Beaker's birthday is tomorrow and she'll be four years old.

Speaker 6:

It's hard to believe because, she's our little baby, happy birthday.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so an early birthday. We'll have some birthday stuff for her, like footage and stuff, tomorrow. You got some really cool stuff for her birthday, I saw.

Speaker 2:

I got a crown because she is the queen.

Speaker 1:

She is or is Ginger.

Speaker 2:

Ginger can wear it too. We can swap it out. We can do a bunch of different pictures, that's right. We can share bunch of different pictures, that's right. You can just share the queen crown, that's right um, did I talk about seeing kuno and chesney?

Speaker 2:

no, because we've been gone two, two weeks, but you did get to see kuno and and visited with Marla and got to see Chesney. Chesney gives hugs, she's the cutest cute and I love her. And she was like, oh, belly rubs, belly rubs, belly rubs, she just loves them. And then I got to see Kuno and Kuno. He is like Bunsensen, he'll sit on your feet but he likes getting petted as well. Yeah, and he's so cute, they're both so good, they're so good. And then marla and I went around and looked at some of the and talked to some of the booths. So I talked to a physiotherapist, I talked to a cairo. She talked to to Purina with the flora fauna sprinkle stuff to put on food, yeah, and it was really good, it was awesome. I saw a Bernie's mountain dogs in the pen and I took a picture of that for you. And I saw the most ginormous new fee ever.

Speaker 1:

He's so big.

Speaker 2:

He was like probably 200 pounds he was as big as a pony and I said can I take a picture of your dog? And uh, then I got close with the camera and he was like coming towards me, I'm gonna jump off into my arms. So I don't think they appreciated that, but he was a cutie. But slobery definitely there was the slobber.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they do. They do have the drool yeah.

Speaker 2:

So that was an experience, and when I got home the dogs knew I was hanging out with other dogs.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

They were like excuse me, you have Kuno and Chesney.

Speaker 1:

They are sweethearts, those two Kuno and Chesney.

Speaker 2:

They are sweethearts, those two Kuno and Chesney. They are, they are.

Speaker 1:

I think we'll move to community sharing, because we've talked for more than we normally do and some folks we love to let our community talk about their pets and or maybe ask us questions. So we're going to go in the order that we brought up, brought folks up and if you're new on spaces, we may not bring you up right away. We'll have to do some little like digging into who you are to make sure appropriate people get up to speak. If you're on Instagram, it's tough to speak. You'll have to drop a comment and I might get to it. And if you're on video on space Twitter video or X video or Facebook live you can drop a little comment into the chat and I can highlight that and address it. Okay, so we did bring up Paula and then we'll go to Tracy. So Paula you're first, then Tracy.

Speaker 8:

Hey everybody, how's everybody doing tonight?

Speaker 1:

Hello, hello.

Speaker 8:

Hello, hello, happy belated birthday, chris, and happy almost birthday beaker. And um, I'm was so envious to see you guys showing a total eclipse, because here in Connecticut we were a little bit cloudy but I didn't have glasses, I was using a spaghetti strainer, which they said you could do, but I couldn't see. But just but, anything that happened was it got flat light in that and it was weird because the house inside got really because I was pet sitting, so it was really dark in the house, so I ran out but you still couldn't see much of anything. Thank you for sharing that with us because it was super cool and I'm so envious. You got to meet Donna Craig because she's the best and I just I was just like so tickled for you all and I think poor Ginger must have thought you were fudged from Buc-ee's because of Donna Craig. Yes, I know what that tastes like because I live in Connecticut, and then closest one to me I yes, I know what that tastes like because I live in Connecticut and the closest one to me, I think, is in Virginia. I might have to take a little ride with Trixie down there again, but anyway, I just couldn't thank you enough for sharing everything because it was really just super cool to see it from your end and it was exciting to see the moments that led up to it too. So it was a lot of fun. And I know that was hard, because holding a camera up at the sun and then trying to see it yourself, that's quite a feat.

Speaker 8:

But anyway, and the only pet news I have is Trixie got a bath today. She really needed one. She wasn't the happiest camper, that dog, I swear. If I let too long of a time go between clipping her and my dog, clippers broke so I'm using scissors so that takes me a little longer. But if anybody's got any good tips on paws, we try to do her nails like a little bit and then stop and do a little bit because she gets a little snarky. She doesn't, she liked it as a puppy. But then once you nick them they get really uh, upset. And I've been a dog owner a long time and usually they're pretty good about it. But trixie's a different breed this time. She's uh, if she doesn't like something, she certainly lets you know about it. So we're having a little problem with her, but she's pretty good nonetheless. She was, she was good.

Speaker 8:

So I just want to say thank you again, guys. And, and if anybody hasn't gotten one yet, get it's not your leg t-shirt, sweatshirt, zip up hoodie, because I got one. It was too big, so I gave my husband my hoodie and he's like I wear hoodies and I'm like, oh, just wear the hoodie, man come on, and now it's his favorite thing. So, go figure, right, that's, guys, for you. But anyway, it's a great little plug, but I just wanted to say I love mine and I got another one too. So they're wicked cool. And get a it's not your leg, because you'll get somebody to say what does that mean and you can tell. So thanks again, guys, I won't keep you too much longer.

Speaker 1:

You got, your. Did you get your band T-shirt yet for the?

Speaker 8:

Yes, I just got it today. In fact, I just opened it and I was going to put up a tweet about it too. But In fact I just opened it and I was going to put up a tweet about it too. But that's wicked cool too. It's the Vultures of Parliament. There's new logo for their second album cover. On the front, you guys got to see that it's so cute and in the back, I was hysterical with the locations of where the band toured. So that was really cute. So thank you again for making us all feel good and laugh, because we need it these days.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so that was a pre-sale. We'll do a little plug at the end of the show about that and anybody who pre-ordered the Rolling Bone, some of the stuff we're all going to we're going to get it probably by the end of next week, so we should have it shipped out pretty quickly, which is really exciting. The t-shirt came early because it was like something that we could send out immediately and it was for those for the bundle, like not the. You have to get the bundle to get the t-shirt.

Speaker 8:

Anyways.

Speaker 1:

I'm glad you're glad. It was great for you.

Speaker 8:

Yes, it was very good and, like I said, the sweatshirts are just phenomenal. They're really good quality. I must admit, I've gotten sweatshirts from other companies and they're not as durable and soft as yours. So kudos for having good material, because that's really important and I love mine. I love every one that I have, so they're great Thanks.

Speaker 1:

Thanks, Paula.

Speaker 8:

Yep, have a good night everybody.

Speaker 1:

Okay, thank you.

Speaker 8:

Thanks.

Speaker 2:

Paula.

Speaker 1:

Go ahead, Chris. Who's next?

Speaker 2:

Tracy Yep, hey, Tracy Hi.

Speaker 5:

Tracy, hi everyone, hello, with the last pet chat, ricky was going to have his appointment and I posted about this, but he was diagnosed with cancer near his liver. So with cats it's harder to tell when something is wrong. They're just like when he stops eating, eating then that's it.

Speaker 1:

But he's still been eating, so we're just gonna hope he keeps eating did they give you any prognosis, like any kind of time frame beyond that tracy? Or every day is a day you take?

Speaker 5:

it as a kind of thing. Yep, give him all the wet food he wants, all the chicken and salmon that he wants, you know, just to keep that coming and hopefully he sticks around. I want him to make it to 13. That's on June 1st, but we'll see. My sister did have a tuxedo cat that lived to 12 and also had passed away from cancer, so I hope that my boy makes it to 13 in June.

Speaker 1:

When you posted that both Chris and I were, we were just so sad for you, and I think everybody is also. It's just a crappy part of pet ownership and I feel like they're part of your family and things go wrong with our families all the time health-wise and it's just awful. So we're thinking about you and we hope Ricky does the best he can do for as long as possible. Thank you.

Speaker 5:

My other sister just had a cat Her cat's 14, but he got diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, which is a lot to treat like you have to do all these different things, and it's not cancer. So we were hoping the same thing for ricky, since it was like. The sign was like they both lost weight. But we were not so lucky there with my boy.

Speaker 1:

So madison from facebook posted uh, from facebook live. So sorry, tracy, we're thinking of you. Um, yeah, there's some people in the. I'm with my boy. So, madison from Facebook, posted from Facebook Live so sorry, tracy, we're thinking of you. Yeah, there's some people in the chat or they're with you in solidarity.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, so I'm a a little less of a mess now because it's been like a little bit, but definitely, you know, I called off work that day and then it was still bad like the day after and I just didn't like I talked to people about their animals all the time and I was like, nope, not talking to anyone about how Ricky's doing right now.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and that's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I'm about to go home to him right now, though, so again, so much more love until I have to go back to work.

Speaker 1:

There you go, and on a different note, you were in the path of the eclipse, is that correct?

Speaker 5:

I was, we like. I flew to Georgia, to Atlanta, and then we drove up to Illinois and had a crazy next two days. I was gone for four days on vacation, but yeah. So I got to see the eclipse with my dad and my sister and we got into a spot that was totality, so it was very cool.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome.

Speaker 5:

So I'm not as young as I used to be. I'm still recovering from the jet lag three days later, but it's all right.

Speaker 2:

I hear you, tracy. Tracy, we got home on uh, tuesday and then I had to go to work Wednesday. So Wednesday, thursday, friday, full days head on, and then Friday after school. I got home, I attended the PD session on Friday after school and Jason's, what are you doing? I said. I said I would find I would do it. I would go to attend in support of my colleagues. So I'm doing professional development until 5 pm. And then I got home and I just laid down.

Speaker 1:

I was so tired trying to catch up on all that jet lag, slash activity, all that it was a long week, for sure, yeah, and it was a busy week because I had I had so many things on the go and then the one night I was at the school till like almost nine o'clock because it was the open house. So just a very long week. Thanks for coming up to share, and we're all in your corner, tracy. Okay, our next speaker on Spaces is Tennis Ball Bondi. Go ahead, tennis Ball Bondi is tennis ball bondi.

Speaker 4:

Go ahead. Tennis ball bondi. There we go, hi, hello. All right, I'm getting used to the technology. That is my golden retriever, wooster. Oh, I thought I would share that. Tomorrow was his coming home day. He was a we're going to say it quietly in quotes a flunky of the guide dog program here in the Northwest and he got to come live with me, or I got so lucky that he came to live with me, so this is our first year together. I had always adopted dogs in the four-year-old range, and so I went and picked up an 11-month-old and came home and went. What happened? But he is a beautiful, joyous, smart dog.

Speaker 1:

Amazing. I love it.

Speaker 4:

So we will celebrate with you and Beaker, because it's a special day at our house too uh, beyond the day, are you planning any activities?

Speaker 1:

do you have a pup cake? What's the point um?

Speaker 4:

I think we're gonna go um to. We. We have a kind of local chain toy dog store and they actually have dog ice cream that they give you on your birthday and awesome smart toys and they just they like get on the floor with the dogs and embrace them. So we will do that and it will be and have a walk like normal stuff. And the great thing about dogs is, whatever we do, it will all be great.

Speaker 1:

That's true, every day is a good day. Exactly, I love it. Okay, so I'm just checking the comments and thanks for coming up. Yes, I love how, when you came off mute, it immediately was Worcester's barking. I just thought that was. Did you time that? Or that was just.

Speaker 4:

I did not. I was desperately trying to figure out the interface and where the mute button was.

Speaker 1:

I just thought that was very clever, if that was on purpose.

Speaker 4:

No, it is, and unfortunately it happens at my. I work remote and it happens a lot there too.

Speaker 1:

So everybody who's listening and you yourself yourself. Have you guys seen the viral video of the mom who has a very important zoom call and then their dog is drinking water so loudly that like she can't even focus? Have you guys seen that video? I have not. It is hilarious. It's like the caption is my mom told us all to be so quiet for her very important zoom meeting. And then it's like the caption is my mom told us all to be so quiet for her very important zoom meeting. And then it's the kids all being quiet on the couch and it pans over and the mom is trying to talk and this dog is going pretty slick, crazy loud slurping for way too long, like it like literally two minutes of drinking at way too loud of a decibel and the mom has to apologize. She's like I'm so sorry, my dog is drinking water. And then somebody on the computer is like what is going on? So dogs, hey.

Speaker 4:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

Love it. So we don't have any comments for stories or questions from the lives, though we do have some people on Instagram making like emojis and stuff, which is fun. We'll go back to anybody on Twitter spaces Who'd like to join the conversation. If you have a pet story or a question, we'd love to hear from you, and if not, that's okay, Chris. Chris and I have some wrap up stuff to talk about. Give everybody a second here. Anything to add?

Speaker 2:

Chris, that you haven't spoken about yet. I was just thinking about Tracy and what she's going through, and something that I did today was I went on to our circle community and started posting some content that is scheduled to come out, and so I did tongue out Tuesday and then I did, I started throwback Thursday for that content that will be coming out, and I just was using the phone and I just went all the way just to the beginning of the camera roll and then worked backwards that way and I got to reminisce about pictures of Callan and Callan with the boys and Callan being so cute, and then Callan getting older and Callan getting grayer and it just, it's just so meaningful that we get to spend such a short period of time with dogs and they bring us and pets in general, but just to just bring so much joy and it's my favorite hello, but it's also the hardest goodbye. So yeah, that was just me today reminiscing about Colin and all that stuff. So yeah.

Speaker 2:

I just totally, I totally understand what Tracy's going through and it's just painful.

Speaker 1:

It's tough on my camera, like my phone, if I go back too far, I'm like's going through and it's just painful, it's tough on my camera, like my phone. If I go back too far I'm like, oh God, oh no, it's Callan. And then maybe you're not ready to like. Most of the time I have such happy memories, right, but sometimes it brings back some sad ones too. Okay, so we brought there's a couple of new speakers. We'll go to Rich aka Baden and then Liz. Rich, hello, how you doing Good. Hello, Long time no talk.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I didn't have a chance to check in earlier. I was having an argument with the dishwasher, but I think I won.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that's good, because otherwise it would flood your house.

Speaker 3:

There was a little bit of water droplets when something didn't go quite according to plan, but that's a whole. This is pet chat, not dishwasher chat. Okay, curious how people, or what people do to transport their I hate to use the words yeah, I'm going to say larger doggies in vehicles with airbags.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's a tough one, isn't it? Like they absolutely shouldn't be riding shotgun with you because of the airbags. But then the other thing I read is that a lot of the newer vehicles we don't have a brand new vehicle, but a lot of the newer vehicles they have airbags everywhere. There's airbags everywhere, right.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think in both my pickup truck and the convertible I think there's airbags everywhere. So in the truck Baden usually rides in the back seat Quite often. I have a harness for him.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

But I'm thinking in the convertible the front seat might be a little better because it would give them more room. But I'm leery of the front seat because I don't want. I've absolutely no intention of having an accident, but I can't always correct for other drivers. Yeah, and I don't want. I don't want a, I don't want them in, I don't want them injured by the airbag.

Speaker 1:

So the suggestion by vets is always dogs should be in a travel crate when you're driving, or harnessed up to a seatbelt with a appropriate dog harness. And then they suggest not to have your dog riding shotgun because that's where the passenger airbag could deploy and hurt your dog. Yeah, yeah, it's some of that. Yeah, it's really tough, though right, because we don't follow that very well with bunsen and beaker, to be honest, and we probably should do a better job, like we probably should do a better job.

Speaker 4:

So yeah, it's a good reminder for everybody that you brought this up, though yep, oh no.

Speaker 3:

The thing about baden he's a big boy at 85 pounds. If I, if the pickup truck stops suddenly, as in an accident situation, I don't want 85 pounds come flying forward and I survived the accident from ahead and then I get whiplashed by an 85 pound labrador. Yeah, I don't think either one of us would enjoy that.

Speaker 1:

No, they become. Yeah, they become a projectile. Yeah, steve made a good comment in the and he said you can turn airbags off, which is true. So some of them, the more modern cars, their switches you can. Our car, my car, I can't like it's either. It's on all the time.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, my truck I can't my my convertible I can't, yeah, so that's a good point. Yep, my old pickup truck I could. No, it was two pickup trucks ago. I should live in Alberta.

Speaker 3:

I do pickup trucks and they keep getting bigger. And, on a completely unrelated but pet note, we get our grandchildren once or twice a week and, quite honestly, you couldn't ask for a better dog around a one-year-old and a three-year-old than Baden. He's super good. But we had a mild crisis the other day and I'm sure your great-nephew might agree with this. Oliver was eating Paw Patrol gummies and one landed on the floor, okay, and there was 85 pounds of Labrador sitting waiting patiently and before anybody could do anything, his Paw Patrol gummy disappeared and it was the one that Ollie wanted to eat more than anything in the world at that time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, labs and retrievers are great with kids, but they will probably eat the kids' food if you're not careful.

Speaker 3:

He's really good if they have with the granddaughter, who's about one and a quarter, one and a half. She can double fist arrowroot cookies and toddle all around the house and Baden follows her faithfully, but he won't steal the cookie. Okay, but anything that hits the floor.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, if she was to drop that cookie, it's gone instantly, I guarantee you. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Oh no, and he's super good. And I'll make just one last thing. Maeve granddaughter and I were on the sofa good, and I'll make just one one last thing. Mave granddaughter and I were on the sofa. Baden was lying on the floor by the sofa and she decided she wanted to get off the sofa, but she didn't realize baden was there, so she landed on him and not unreasonable. And we watched them. Okay, like kids, dogs need to be watched. Yeah, 100, yeah. And she landed on him and it startled him in his old age and he growled a little bit and then he looked over and saw it was mavis and the look on his face yeah, 100%, yeah. And she landed on him and it startled him in his old age and he growled a little bit and then he looked over and saw it was Mavis and the look on his face was oh, sorry, didn't mean that, but she just startled me, I'm sorry. So those are my three.

Speaker 1:

That's super sweet. Dogs and little kids are 99% of the time are. They're just the best buds. It's very sweet.

Speaker 3:

Especially when they're learning to feed themselves. The kids, not the dogs. Yeah, mavis got a cat kibble the other day.

Speaker 1:

Oh man.

Speaker 3:

I told her parents and they went meh.

Speaker 1:

It's okay, for it's just part of a balanced diet, isn't it?

Speaker 3:

Yes, yep, same with pet hair. It's just part of a balanced diet, isn't it?

Speaker 1:

yes, yep, same with pet hair. It's all part of a balanced diet.

Speaker 3:

Oh man, I don't even want to think about how much of that I've ingested inadvertently, and in this house, uh we, we have one of those robot vacuums and it's and she'll do a quick, regular vacuum and then we'll run the robot vacuum and the amount of fur that it picks up is well and truly impressive or scary, take your pick.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Anyway, I see you guys had fun in Texas. We did Yep. You sure you don't want, that was a Tesla, wasn't it?

Speaker 1:

That I took a photo of and then I photoshopped or I used Canva. That was a. Yeah, that was Tesla's truck, the Cybertruck. Yeah, it is a weird looking thing. I'll tell you right now and I don't know if the Elon Musk's bots are listening.

Speaker 3:

I don't want to get shut down, but you did really well with that license plate, because I had to look at it quite a few times and decide it looked pretty damn good, but it just wasn't quite. There was just a je ne sais quoi that I just couldn't quite catch on. Yeah, but it was really well done.

Speaker 2:

It was a little bit bright. It had like bright, vibrant colors, more so than what you would have seen if it was on a typical vehicle.

Speaker 1:

If it was accurate, that's what I found so it that photo was a bit of a what should I say, without getting in too much trouble a bit of a bit of a dig against some of the other people that were posting similar photos to try and get some kind of comment or like from Elon Musk. So it was me being really silly and because everybody knows we don't have a cyber truck, and it was just being a little bit on the nose to poke some fun at some folks who were doing something to maybe get a like from Elon you have a Prius, don't you, or did you?

Speaker 1:

no, we have a Toyota, I drive a Yaris and okay, yeah, chris has a, our minivan and that's our vehicles.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, well, okay, for some. Yeah, I knew you had a toyota, but for some reason I thought it was a price no, no because I don't. I'd be interested in hearing how well that worked in northern alberta my, my sister has a hybrid and they love it.

Speaker 1:

The only reason they went hybrid and still full instead of full electric was the the cost the hybrids were are a lot cheaper than full electric, so yeah, and your range is better.

Speaker 3:

and and if there isn't a, if there isn't a convenient, um, convenient charging station, you just find a gas station. Exactly, I'm afraid I still run a three quarter ton diesel burning truck, but I've got, we've got a really nice big trailer and an electric truck would get me about halfway to Truro.

Speaker 1:

There are some things the electric vehicles are not great at. You are correct. Yes.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but it's it. We're going into technology, but the technology behind them and how far it's advanced is really cool.

Speaker 1:

Yep, I was talking to my students. I'll go to Liz, who's been waiting right away here, but the last thing I'm just going to say on this is, yeah, I was talking. I showed my students the newest specs from the electric vehicles and they now have the same range as gas vehicles. They have the exact same range, so the range is now over. In the next two years probably they'll have the same range as a gas car and eventually they'll surpass again and I do.

Speaker 3:

Have you ever been to los angeles? Yes, you know what the smog is like. Yes, that's where I think electric vehicles would work really well. Absolutely okay, liz, I'm gonna shut up now.

Speaker 1:

I'm a maritime, or we never do we, we love it hearing your voice rich. It's all good. Okay, we'll go over to liz, thanks. Thanks for waiting, liz, hello.

Speaker 7:

Hello Liz.

Speaker 1:

Hi Hello.

Speaker 7:

It was good to relive the eclipse. Fun with you guys.

Speaker 3:

Aw.

Speaker 7:

So I think I posted on Twitter that Mateo and I road tripped to Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas for it.

Speaker 1:

Oh, nice Okay.

Speaker 7:

So it was fun and we did the hiking and then, like you guys talked about, definitely the post-trip jet lag, because I drove up in two days but since I had to work, I drove 16 and a half hours home on.

Speaker 7:

Tuesday after it and then Wednesday was a complete zombie for work. And then here's where the dog mom part comes in. I had checked Mateo for ticks both Sunday night and Monday night after our hiking and he's on flea and tick oral preventive. And we've hiked New Hampshire, vermont, florida, colorado, north Carolina. Never had a problem with ticks, but I still checked anyway. I guess I didn't do a very good job, because then Friday morning before work he's picking at a foot and I look and there's one whole fat frigging tick on his toe.

Speaker 1:

No way.

Speaker 7:

Oh, no, cause that's been there since Monday now and I'm like, oh God, they need 48 hours to pass disease, oh my God. So of course I'm super guilty. Then I get out the tick spoon and I see a bunch of other dead ones in his flags. So I guess the preventive or bites him and kills them.

Speaker 7:

So they don't stay on long enough. Worked on most of them, but not this one. Or maybe it was in a dog bed and it just got on that day. Hopefully it hadn't died yet, I don't know, but anyway. So my work day on Friday was ruined because I got all freaked out and checked him from ticks and gave him a flea and tick bath and then called the vet.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I would be freaked out with you too, Liz. Nothing you're seeing is out of the normal for a dog parent.

Speaker 7:

Yeah, but luckily it's his annual vet time anyway the first week in May. So I called the vet and they were like we found it, there's nothing else to do now and we generally have to wait four weeks to draw the panel to see if any disease was passed. So we just delayed his appointment like four days till it's the exact four week time and they're like we'll just draw the tick panel and see if there's anything in his blood and then he can go on antibiotics if he needs it. So I was like okay, hopefully he's fine we do too yeah, but so yeah, where did you see the?

Speaker 1:

where did you see the eclipse? Liz, one more time hot springs arkansas oh my god, that was a little bit northeast from you yeah, no, that was a spot we were. We had two places we could have flown into and we were looking, we were seriously looking at arkansas as a place to go, but for us from Canada to get to any of the major airports in Arkansas was a whole thing, so that was not great connection yeah.

Speaker 1:

That was the reason why we said no to Arkansas and there was a lot of people from Arkansas who were saying you should have come to Arkansas when we said there was going to be all these clouds and I was like, oh, maybe we should have gone to Arkansas.

Speaker 7:

But that weather forecast was all over the place. Historically, texas and Arkansas should have been good. And then, even the day before, the weather was supposed to be pretty cloudy and it went from saying rain both days to clouds both days. And then finally, friday afternoon I had to decide yay or nay, because my hotel was cancelable until Saturday and I was supposed to leave at six in the morning driving. So I was like, okay, what the heck, I'm going to do it. And then it was sunny and perfect and I was like, okay, they totally didn't know what was going to happen with us at all.

Speaker 1:

We'll have to talk to our meteorologist friend, katie Nicolau. Chris, see what she said.

Speaker 7:

Oh yeah, it was stupendous. I thought it was a little overhyped, probably, but no, as soon as the winds came up and the light went away, I was like, oh my God.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's the thing I you can't until you've experienced it.

Speaker 2:

It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1:

It doesn't make sense I cried.

Speaker 7:

Chris cried yeah, mateo slept. He didn't care. Maybe I wore him out from all the hiking. But he just laid on he commandeered someone else's blanket and laid there and went to sleep.

Speaker 3:

We had a partial fear but it got all probably 50% dark. The birds all went and started their nighttime routine and all that. But the PEI where I grew up, and that part of that was on the part of the totality. It had clear blue skies. So did Cape Breton, yep, and our local CBC meteorologist figures that there was a 60% chance of having a cloudy, rainy day in that stretch in April and it was just gorgeous.

Speaker 1:

Chris Hansen was in Prince Edward Island. The astronaut that's his name, chris. No, chris, what's his name? Hadfield? Chris Hadfield, I'm sorry, chris Hadfield, he was in.

Speaker 2:

There's Jeremy Hansen who went to. I'm getting the astronauts confused.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, chris Hadfield, sorry.

Speaker 2:

Chris Hadfield Okay.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, then there's yeah, I saw him speak. He is a very dynamic speaker, very cool dude. We saw jeremy hansen too. We saw jeremy hansen and chris had. I saw chris hadfield, but jeremy hansen he also very good speaker looks like buzz lightyear, literally looks like buzz lightyear. He's even got the divot in his chin like Buzz Lightyear too. Liz, did you have anything?

Speaker 7:

else before we go to Donna, I want to honor you if you were all done speaking there. Nope, all set, just want to stress about my bad dog momming.

Speaker 1:

No, it's all good, all good, donna, you came back up, go ahead.

Speaker 6:

Oh, I just wanted to make sure Liz checked herself for ticks too, because of Lyme disease. Walking through the forest Gets a little sketchy for you too, so making sure you got a thorough licking after.

Speaker 7:

Make Mateo lick you over. I did my arms and legs. The only place I'm like what they got in the nape of my neck. I'm screwed because I'm nearsighted and checking the back of my neck is hard.

Speaker 6:

But it's pretty good. 100. I know I watched the eclipse on my flight on the news, as chris and jason you knew I was on an early flight, yeah, but the one thing I noticed from as it was traveling whether it be me, mexico up through Texas to Arkansas and so forth the one thing I noticed is when it got, you can hear the oohs and aahs but everybody clapped and cheered. Yeah, it was or got emotional. I know I got emotional, maybe because I was upset, because I just left the cat for a month and on a plane and missed it. But that's one thing I noticed Everybody cheered. It was like quiet than cheering.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there was a huge cheers in Sulphur Springs, where we were.

Speaker 6:

This one little I bet you, I'm sorry, Go ahead, Jason.

Speaker 1:

No go ahead.

Speaker 6:

No, I was going to say you were in a spot of Texas where that's a big old accent, people talk like that, and so for spring you get outside of Dallas, going East, and sometimes I can't even understand them and I am a Texan.

Speaker 1:

We were interviewed by the town's media person. She's like where are y'all from? And we're from. I said we're from Alberta, canada, and she asked a couple of questions. I don't know if she understood what I was talking about, but anyways.

Speaker 6:

I still think the funniest thing ever is that. Is it Rick Steves, or the dude from talking to Americans? That's on the CBC.

Speaker 1:

Rick Mercer.

Speaker 6:

Rick Mercer. Yeah, he goes into Minnesota. I didn't see Kathy Zerker on here so I'm not. Hopefully I'm not blasting anybody on blast, but they asked him in a soda and so then they go. Hey, what do you think about Saskatchewan and that person's? We should bomb the heck out of them.

Speaker 1:

Uh, Rick Mercer's a national treasure and he's from, he's from Maritiner, right, Maritiner right yeah, oh. Newfoundlander.

Speaker 6:

Newfoundland. He did our keynote speaker at one of our leadership events one year, so he was funny as hell.

Speaker 1:

He's a very funny dude, yep.

Speaker 3:

If I may, just for a second, liz. One place that seems to be a hot spot for ticks is a belly button. We took a huge one off, a very engorged one off my wife not so long ago. Fortunately Lyme disease wasn't an issue and she took some. She was put on a course of antibiotics. But talking to different people, a belly button is a very common place for them to latch on for some reason.

Speaker 6:

I will never sleep again.

Speaker 1:

That is like the movie aliens not happening that's disgusting that is some kind of lint that you, that is belly button, lint from your nightmares, that is going to live rent-free in my head for the rest of my life I'm serious, chris, you and me are like twins in that.

Speaker 6:

I'm like, yeah, I'm done. I'm serious, chris, you and me are like twins in that.

Speaker 2:

I'm like, yeah, I'm done.

Speaker 1:

I secretly want to just look at my belly button right now. We weren't anywhere. We weren't going through the bush in Texas, Chris.

Speaker 2:

We go through the bush when we walk the dog.

Speaker 1:

Their chance of getting ticks out there is like practically zero.

Speaker 2:

It's not zero, that's a. Bunsen thing I'm texting Bunsen it's not zero. That's a bunsen thing from texan bunsen it's not zero, is it?

Speaker 1:

that is a yeah, that is a good joke I keep using as a punch line yeah, we okay, I'm just going to oh sorry, I was just going to terrify chris and don even more and she got it in her backyard.

Speaker 2:

Oh, man, that's the thing yeah, exactly, and when you go to the vet it says they're here, Like there is a poster there. They have a poster of it. But what I was going to say, we sat next to the most scientific people possible. When we got into Sulphur Springs, Jason's like where would you like to sit? I said I'm not sure. He says I'm going to go sit next to the guy with and the tripod and the compasses and the. Yeah, I'm going to sit by that guy. He knows what's up.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and the temperature dropped 15 degrees Fahrenheit during the eclipse.

Speaker 2:

That's incorrect. It dropped 10 degrees, Jason.

Speaker 1:

Or was it Sorry, 10 degrees Fahrenheit yeah 10 degrees Fahrenheit yeah. Yeah, during the eclipse Went from what was it 80 to 70? I forget. Went from what was it 80? To 70 I forget is 80, is 80 sound right donna for texas?

Speaker 6:

yeah, it was about. When you guys got there it was 80. The day of the eclipse it was only 70, so it probably dropped to 60.

Speaker 1:

It got a little chilly because I know people put coats on it got went from way too hot for me to also too hot donna. I was sweating like crazy waiting for the eclipse. Chris is ah. The weather in texas is so amazing and I'm dying he was ready to move there.

Speaker 6:

You guys didn't have jackets on or anything. I I was like, oh, look at you guys, not in parkas or nothing, just chill it it's so hot in texas.

Speaker 1:

Oh, it was 80. We took a picture of it.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, it was 80 yeah, it was 80 yeah maybe it was the next day, because when I flew or tuesday, it dropped to. Yeah, you guys left the day y'all left. It got till 60 and 58, but I was already here in california where it was 88. Now it's cold don.

Speaker 1:

That's 27 degrees Celsius, which is like a hot day for us in the summer. That's why it was so hot for me.

Speaker 6:

And we were the three tastiest white people ever when we went to dinner.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I was.

Speaker 6:

No Chris and I.

Speaker 3:

You've never seen Maritimers in florida in about february they're dying.

Speaker 6:

We call y'all snow geese. When you come down and stay in in the valley of texas during the winter with your birkenstocks and socks and shorts, yeah, we see it I don't do birkenstocks.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we see it, I don't do Birkenstocks, but even here it must have dropped from about 15 Celsius to probably less than 10, and it was only partial. I do remember the last one that came over like we were 60% totality in 2016. It was actually the year we got Bunsen. Was it 2016? Yeah, no, it was 2017.

Speaker 1:

year we got bunsen was it 2016 yeah, no it was 2017, 2017, sorry, 2017. It got cold. It got cold during the partial. That the the maximum it was covered and I thought that was cool. I was like this is cool. We don't need to go see a total eclipse. Boy, was I wrong? We should probably, oh, go ahead, rich.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I saw one in PEI when I was nine or ten and that was 72, so that's a few years ago and even to this day I can still remember things like that's where I learned to make a pinhole camera and the birds all starting to roost and they do their nighttime evolution and as it got brighter they went oh okay, it's morning, so they all went into their morning song and all that and all those years later it's still.

Speaker 1:

I still remember it was such an intense, intense thing yeah, I can close my eyes and the four seconds leading up to totality it's burned into my brain and probably my retinas, because I think I took my sunglasses off too early. But I'll definitely remember that for the rest of my life. Okay, so I think we're gonna move to our wrap-up. It doesn't look like there's any more speakers to everybody watching us on live hello, over a thousand of you are, or have been, and we're still on instagram. Me and meme says what's wrong with birkenstocks, so we've got some folks hanging around on instagram. We lose the feed after about uh, we lose the feed after about an hour. That's the max stream yard. Lets our multicast go for. But I do want to just touch on our big kind of pre-sale that we've been doing, because it's super fun and super cool, and I'm going to share my screen for the live folks and then we'll just briefly talk about it before we do the rest of our wrap-ups. I've shared my screen and I'm going to give away the cover to talk about it.

Speaker 1:

So we Chris and I together have wrote a fake magazine called Rolling Bone, and it actually features new artwork from Beaker's band Vultures of Parliament, and we have it's all on our website you can get three different bundles If you just want the magazine. That's great. Every bundle comes with two songs that we'll send you electronically a link to download them. Two new songs from Vultures of Parliament. One is called Get Out of Bed or Take Me Out, and then the other one's called Second Breakfast. They're songs that I wrote and then, with the help of a musician music kind of group, they make the music for us, which is awesome. And each magazine comes with press on tattoos and stickers, so it'll be just a goofy fun thing. Also in the magazine we had people from the community respond to respond to us, cause I put a call out Would you like to to be, have your pet be in the magazine? And we had, like many people, that within the pet community you'll see their pet, or maybe your pet in Rolling Bone and it's a pretty fun spoof of the magazine. A mixture of music reviews, hot fashion, tech tips, the best treats to eat, and of interview with Beaker and the vultures of parliament, and you can find that the different things on our website and I'll just throw that up there. That's at Bunsen burner, bmdcom. And thank you to everybody who's already jumped on the presale. That's so awesome. That's so awesome that you did as soon as we get, as soon as we get all the stuff. The stuff is printing as we speak and we'll ship that out to you as soon as possible. There are bundles that have super fun gear in it. The Mega Fan Bundle comes with this awesome t-shirt I think that's what Paula was talking about earlier Color changing sunglasses, so you walk out in the sun and they change color, like a whole bunch of other fun stuff in the different bundles, and then there's a relatively inexpensive one that comes with just the rolling bone. So that's our ad for today. I know it's my least favorite part of doing these shows is doing the ads. Chris has got Bunsen and Beaker on camera right now, so maybe I'll make her the solo layout. There's beaker. It's beaker's birthday tomorrow, so thank you for everybody saying happy birthday early to her. We'll have a little post and some video tomorrow about it.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I do want to just make a quick plug for our podcast. So we have all these people watching and listening. We'd love for you. If you haven't started or if you haven't tried, I'll just share my screen. We are, we have this really great podcast called the science podcast and I do weekly episodes and then there are bonus episodes which are recordings of pet chat and signs chat when we do that, and you can find it on a whole bunch of different places. We prefer good pods, but it's on apple podcasts. And, and to everybody who's given us reviews, like we have hundreds of ratings everywhere and they're all like so good, except this one person who gave us like a one star rating, they were having a bad day, I think. Anyways, we, yeah, we would love for you to listen to the science podcast. It's just a way we can communicate more science outside of what bunsen and beaker do on social media.

Speaker 1:

Okay, time for wrap up. Here we go, wrap up music. There. It is wrap up music. Thank you to everybody who came today. Shout out to indra, who's our partner with the positive positivity vibe tribe. Indra's in the chat. Indra sometimes runs shows. I think she was visiting with her family, so take a look at her profile to see if she's running some spaces soon. Everybody who came up to speak, thank, thank you. And thank you to our sponsor, barkandbeyondsupplycom and our other sponsor, vultures of Parliament. After the wrap up, I'll play a little bit of one of their new songs. Chris, do you have anything else to add as we wrap up?

Speaker 2:

I gave the dogs a chew so they're going to be quiet. Hooray, it's like putting giving a toddler a soother. Yeah, that's what Bunsen means. Just thank you everybody for sharing your stories with us and your highs and your lows. Definitely, the eclipse for us was a high, and then just spending time every day with our family and our dogs is just incredible. And thank you for sharing our journey with us and your journey with everybody in the community. We really appreciate you.

Speaker 1:

We will be back next week for a pet chat.