Radio Blogs: Pilots N Paws!

Fred has the opportunity to help save foxes by flying them to a fox rescue and he's beyond excited!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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message of data rates may apply. All thanks to Live Nation. Yeah,
they talk better than they cite. These are the radio
blogs on the Fread Show, like for running in our diaries,
except we say them aloud. We call them blogs. I'm
gonna take this one, dear blog. So you guys, if
you've been listening for a little while, then you know
I volunteered for an organization called Pilots and Pause, and
I'm a pilot and so we we use your little

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airplanes to transport rescue animals around the country from you know,
at risk environments, pounds owner relinquished type stuff to no
kills and new forever homes. And the way it works
is any rescue can post their need to have whatever
animal moved around. Typically it's dogs, oftentimes I'm flying puppies

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around because I can get the most of them in
the airplane. Caitlin's done a two hundred pounds massive with
me though a mission for hercules. So I've been doing
this for a long time. And I get an email
if the need of the whatever whatever the trip is,

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is within two hundred and fifty miles of me. So
I get this this morning, Arkansas to Indiana. Two Fennec foxes,
foxes all over it.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
A fox? You kidding me? Yeah, so cute. They got
big ears.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
They are two pounds each and they're two years old
and there are two of them and they're going to
I guess an owner had them and they're relinquishing them.
Now they're going to a rescue or like an organization,
but cares for Foxes domesticated. Now. They didn't tell me
if I can do it yet, but you know, I'm
going to be in Texas. So it's like, well, Arkansas
is near Texas, I think, and then Indiana is where
I got to wind up, so surely I can mark

(02:08):
that work. I haven't looked at a map, but I
think we can make that happen. But a fox and
then you guys were telling me about them. I guess
they are a lot like me. I feel like I
could relate to a fox. What were some of the
things about Fedec foxes. They like to play alone.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
They do like to play alone. Now, you are a
good sleeper, so this one's not you. But they are
mostly nocturnal. I would be nocturnal if I didn't have
this job, though. Yeah. Probably they're quick to flee if
there's a situation.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't yep there for that, absolutely, one hundred percent.
They don't love being handled.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
They do not love being handled. It's got to be people.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
They know. Dude, this is me this, I'm made for this.
I gotta fly the foxes. So we're working on it.
We'll see if it happens. I'm so excited now. But
I've flown a pig, remember George the pig. We've flown
lots of different dogs, all different types of dogs, everything
from a two hundred. I think the biggest one was Hercules,

(03:01):
and then it was, oh god, the other one. Frank
the Tank. Yeah, Frank the Tank. Yeah he was he
was one and two hundred and ten pounds. Yes, yeah,
Frank the Tank.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I remember him. Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
They sent me a picture of him and he filled
up half of the bed of a pickup truck and
I was like, no, they did something to this picture.
Oh no, he was absolutely that big. Yeah, he was
that big. And did I bring anyone with me? Or
I don't think I did. I think he just laid down.
And which is I mean, that's probably pretty stupid in
me to go pick up an animal that's two hundred
and ten pounds that I've never met and just fly

(03:36):
away and in this hope that it doesn't tackle me
and eat me in flight. But uh, yeah, last time?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
What last time? The puppies were covered in duty? Oh yeah,
and you stood behind me as I handled all the
duty puppies.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh yeah, I like Caitlin handle. I've done my duty
puppy duty many many times. I've been in fancy airport restrooms,
like at the Face where the rich people are, and
I'm just washing these little puppies one by one in
a little sink. Nobody says anything. Everyone's cool, everyone's because
they know what's up, you know. But it's like rich
people everywhere in big jets and like Elon Musk walk by,
and I'm like scrubbing a little puppy in a sink.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, most people are very cool.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
But anyway, so yeah, we're doing I guess a fox
is happening, or maybe maybe a fox is happening. But
I won't do snakes and snaks in a plane, haha,
I won't do. I don't trust a snake. I don't.
I just don't. I know a lot of people love them,
and I hope they all live forever whatever wherever they live,
just not with me, and I just don't trust them.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You guys know that I believe that I can communicate
with ninety eight percent of wild animals.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Would you buy a bird? I don't trust a bird,
but I would fly a bird. I would. I think
it might be a little annoying if it. Like talked
a lot. They can find themselves. Yeah, what do they
need me for? They don't need me for nothing? Yeah,
I got what do they need me for?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah? No, but I think I think a snake and
like a like a yeah, no, we're not with a spider.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's your only nose.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
But you know, I did get a complaint one time.
You know, I've talked for a years. I've done this
for probably a decade. I've been talking about it, and
then I did get an email. You know, I think
it's awful that you wouldn't fly a snake. I can't
believe you wouldn't do that. I can't believe you wouldn't
save a snake's life. It's like, well, first I've never
been asked to, but second of all, I would probably
help them find someone else who likes them.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
You should be canceled for that.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I should be. I should be I'm not a snake guy,
and I should be canceled. And I don't even know.
I don't really deserve to.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Even sparing snake booths right now.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, yeah, these are very expensive snake of fans that
I bought were a snake that I wouldn't fly, So yeah,
I'm Corella a vill of snakes.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
You just get a coat I have at home.