July 20, 2025 • 60 mins
Johnny Heim, pet artist extraordinaire, shares his journey from childhood drawings of Snoopy to creating art that has raised thousands of dollars for animal rescues worldwide.
• Started drawing as a child in Winnipeg, perfecting his Snoopy technique during long winters
• Won a shrine circus poster contest in grade six, realizing art could bring tangible rewards
• Drew attention with his "Shark Attack" clothing line while in university
• Used drawing skills in advertising career to help visualize concepts for clients
• Reconnected with art during COVID and began focusing on pet portraits
• Raised over $10,000 with his "We're All Made of Stars" portrait series in memory of Kuno
• Creates all artwork traditionally with ink and paper, no digital tools
• Lives by the motto "I draw because they can't" as motivation for his work
• Collaborates with rescue organizations to raise funds through his artwork
• Helps tell the stories of rescue animals through projects like "Unleashing Tales" books
• Currently lives with Olive, his 8-year-old French Bulldog who "lets him live in her house"
• Finds the most joy when people connect emotionally with his portraits of their pets
Email johnny.heim@gmail.com to inquire about commissions. Find his work on X @JohnHeim or Instagram @art_by_heim.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello pet enthusiasts , welcome to Pet Chat.
My name is Jason Sikowsky.
I'm the dog dad of Bunsen,beaker, bernoulli and Ginger.
I guess I'm the cat dad ofGinger, the science animals on
social media.
My co-host with the mostest isHi there, I'm Chris Sikowsky.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am the dog mom to Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli and
the cat mom to Ginger.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Our guest today that you'll hear from really quick in
about five to ten minutes isJohn Hine, and of course, the
fourth camera is the B squad andmaybe Ginger.
Ginger was throwing herself atthe far right hand door trying
to get in because apparentlythere are treats.
So we'll start with some quickQ&A about Bunsen, beaker,
bernoulli and Ginger.
(00:43):
Drop your comment in the chatand Chris and I will get to that
, and then we're going to get onwith the interview with John.
So A Ronan's Journey asks fromInstagram.
How did Bernoulli get his name?
Was it different from Bunsenand Beaker?
Chris, do you want to fieldthis one?
We've talked about it before,but it's a good story.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It is a fun story.
It has to do with the originstory of getting Bernoulli.
It came quickly, right aroundMay long weekend last year, and
I said, jason, I have a lead onBernice Mountain Dog Puppies and
would you be interested ingetting a puppy?
And you said, of course, butyou didn't think it was going to
happen.
And then I arranged it and wedrove up to Grand Prairie, which
(01:28):
is a 12 hour round trip for us.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
There was a long drive and then I said okay, so
we're going to meet the puppies.
There are six males, fourfemales and you see, your
criteria was that we had to havea male.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And then we had to name with a, b, yeah, name
starting with b, yeah.
So we drove up, we met all thecute puppies.
They were so cute, I wanted allof them.
I actually wanted to get twoyou did want to get two yeah,
but we ended up picking red, redcollar puppy big red, big red
big red.
(02:00):
Yeah, he actually lives up tobig red, like that he's big.
Gets a little longer, somethinga little longer with Big Red.
That's a commercial from mychildhood, but anyway, so we're
driving home and we're thinkingof names and science.
Names, of course, to tie withour theme.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And I was looking at a bunch of lists and finally I
just said what about Bernoulli?
And I knew it was the right one, because Jason's voice also
caught and he said yep, that'sperfect.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, bernoulli is a Swiss scientist, swiss German.
The Swiss want to claimBernoulli and the Germans want
to claim Bernoulli.
Bernice Mountain Dogs are, ofcourse, a Swiss breed.
Want to claim Bernoulli.
Bernice Mountain Dogs are, ofcourse, a Swiss breed.
So that fit.
And what made my voice catchwas our account tries to promote
kindness and science andprovide lift, and that is one of
(02:56):
the main principles ofBernoulli's.
Principle is the principle oflift.
At least it became lift aftermany years.
Bernoulli was not alive whenplanes were flying, but his
principles of changing pressuresdue to speed is how planes fly
and it's now called theprinciple of lift.
So that's where Bernoulli'sname came from.
(03:17):
Thanks for that great question.
Okay, we got another one fromInstagram.
Cheryl asks was the crew overthe moon happy when you got home
?
And yes, yeah, they were allvery happy.
I don't think they were asbananas as I thought they would
be.
They were very happy to see us,as is really any pet when you
(03:42):
leave for a while.
There was some concern thatGinger would have some
shenanigans be angry at us thatwe left, as I see Donna's here
and I'm glad Donna's here.
Donna Craig says that her catsometimes acts up when she's
gone, but Ginger was fine.
She was happy to see us all.
Any questions in the chat fromTwitter, chris.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Before I read more from Instagram yeah, the
question is Chris, before I readmore from Instagram.
Yeah, the question is whatbrand of?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
vacuum cleaner do we have?
We had a really awesome.
What is it?
A little it's a Dyson one thatthat just for like for spot
cleaning Right, but it is beatup.
I don't know if I wouldrecommend it.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But we have a central vac, yeah, so we have a central
vac.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, so we have a central vac.
Yeah, we're pretty fortunate tohave a central vac.
It allows you can vacuum thehouse every day very quickly.
We don't vacuum every day, butwe do vacuum, probably twice a
week for sure, or sweep or more,if company's coming over and we
don't want them to see the doghair that it piles up in the
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corners.
So that's the vacuum question.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Don't be under the couch.
Oh yeah, Not Tumbleweed Cityunder the couch.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Sue Cracks is wondering if it was Grand
Prairie, texas, and that wouldbe a lot more than a six-hour
drive.
No, that's Grand Prairie, texasand that would be a lot more
than a six hour drive.
No, that's Grand Prairie,alberta, canada.
We're Canadian and we live inAlberta, so that would be a heck
of a thing to get a dog fromTexas.
Not impossible, just improbable.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And they have new regulations going over the
border now with animals.
So that came in recently, Iwant to say within the last two
years which is smart like I'm, Ithink you shouldn't have like.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Pets go willy-nilly everywhere.
They can bring disease and itdoesn't take much for a dog, for
example, with rabies, to shutdown an entire area and cause
some really seriousramifications.
So I understand the cautionwhen you bring animals across.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
What about a tapeworm cyst?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
A tapeworm cyst.
I think that probably traveledin wolf or coyote, Chris, Though
yeah, Okay looks like we're outof looks like all the questions
have dried up, which is usuallythe case between the five and
10 minute Mark.
Do you see any other questionsbefore we get going?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I don't, but sometimes my feed doesn't
refresh.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It is working on YouTube because Mark is watching
from YouTube and dropped acomment from YouTube.
Hi, jason, chris and Johnny andB squad and Madison is watching
on Facebook I like the littleicons that come up and Caleb is
watching on Twitter and,unfortunately for the Instagram
folks, you guys are on aseparate page.
(06:35):
All right, looks like we're outof questions, but that's fine.
We've got a bunch of questionsfor our guest, so I'd like to
introduce John today.
John, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I'm doing very well.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, the folks on Twitter or X probably know you
best because that's where you'rethe most active and you do a
ton of artwork for cats and dogsand oh, we got tons of hearts
and claps showing up in the chatfor you, John, on Twitter,
which is really sweet.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
I was thinking that the audience.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I don't know.
I don't know if you can seethat people are dropping hearts
and stuff.
Sorry, go ahead, john.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I was just going to say I was hoping that the
audience wasn't what I'm lookingat on the B squad there,
because they're a little hostile.
Yeah, that's the effect I haveon people, that just yeah,
eventually this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That's like my chemistry class in block seven
in June.
That's what all the kids looklike.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
In June.
That doesn't work?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
No, even that's how.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I felt in.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
June.
I guess my first question foryou, John, is what got you into
doing art Like you are?
You do all of these really coolcartoons.
The big one I think people arefamiliar with is you did an
awesome fundraiser for Marla inmemory of Kuno, but where did
your art start?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I think it started as a young child in Winnipeg, with
long winters just lockingmyself in the room and learning
how to draw Snoopy, like I thinkjust about everyone else on
earth did.
Perfected Snoopy mastered theCharlie Brown head, which was
basically making sure that bothends of the circle kind of
matched up around his ear, andthen I just always was doodling
(08:27):
rather than paying attention.
I think I had more cartoons andnotes all the way through
elementary and then I'm on theolder side.
So in grade six it was 1976.
And I recall entering a shrinecircus poster contest just in
the open area at the school andI ended up winning and it was
(08:48):
just this ensemble collage offolks in trapeze on the
tightrope, just maybe anelephant or two.
And then we won, the family wontickets to the shrine circus,
which at that point I realizedthere's money in this, there's
perks.
I'm gonna live large now I'mjust gonna draw.
(09:10):
Actually, and for summer jobs Iworked at a place called Falcon
Lake in a provincial park and Istarted drawing cartoons, for
they had a beach canteen.
Yeah well, I drew folksclimbing up a ladder trying to
access like a giant drink.
I did some stuff.
I came up with a line of likeclothing called shark attack in
(09:32):
early university and I got somestuff silk screened and I kind
of learned the business oftaking an idea and actually
turning it into something.
Yeah, so at the time I just hadthere was a market days at the
university and I just opened, Idrew a shark on a hanger and put
the t-shirt on him and it wasshark attack three fins and
(09:52):
people were giving me 15 bucks.
And then I migrated into sortof advertising and being able to
animate and draw for a clienthelped visualize.
It, just removed a step andactually helped me close some
sales.
And now that I'm retired Istarted drawing again during
COVID and did quite a bit ofwork with the Hurt folks.
(10:14):
Owen Wilson and Lucille Ballwere pretty easy to draw.
Chihuahuas are funny because Iusually make them kind of
cross-eyed so their eyes aren'tquite lining up, just that's.
And then put some jewelry onthem and it just started
building.
And now now I do it for fun andI've aligned with the pet
community on x or twitter.
(10:36):
At the time and, although I'msurprised, I saw I was up to
over a thousand followers oninstagram, which is an easier
way for folks to see my artbecause, because Twitter is
basically like walking outsidein the morning and throwing
pieces of paper in the air andhoping to find them somewhere.
As far as art is concerned,it's tough, yeah, yeah.
So at least there's like acentral repository there for art
(11:00):
on Instagram and then Blue.
Sky a little bit, but that seemsto be.
You can get fragmented prettyquick with posting same content
across multiple platforms, soour X is like home base, and
then Instagram offers at leastthe ability to look at all the
art.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We have some speaker requests on Twitter.
We just have a couple morequestions for John and then
we'll open up the floor toquestions for you from the
audience, if that's okay.
Chris, do you have anyquestions?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
someone had posted about a book that you helped, I
guess, illustrate called therose, and can you explain a
little bit more about that?
Like it's for raising money forrescues or can you, yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
So I was approached by erica, who is someone I've
just met through X and she's awriter and lives in Buffalo, new
York, and reached out and saidwe'd like to do something around
generating content around thestories that these pets have
gone through and hopefully raisesome money.
So we did one I illustrated thefirst one and she wrote it some
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money.
So we did one I illustrated thefirst one and she wrote it and
we did it in conjunction withKathy at Rescue Co-op and Lola
Patola I think it's the littlepup's name.
So we ended up doing this bookand then she launched a little
company called Unleashing Tales.
The idea I think we up to ahundred books with about 600
bucks going back to withroyalties back to the rescue.
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But the idea is to empower kidsand schools to write stories
about their local rescues,illustrate, write them and raise
funds for them, taking themthrough the process of story
writing and being a little bitaltruistic and learning that
it's not just about being onyour iPad all day.
(12:45):
There are places that you canbe on it but maybe with an eye
for harnessing some creativepower and really just unleashing
your creativity and generatingsome great content and telling
these pet stories.
All these pets have usuallyhorrible stories I have been
doing a little bit of.
I follow I think it's gooddoggo, and the guy is it neil?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
nall in in thailand yeah, yeah, nile, nile harbison
yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
So he just sort of randomly started drawing some of
the stuff there and just doingthe background and watching the
videos.
What he goes through and histeam goes through to basically
just keep these dogs alive andthen hopefully find forever
homes for them, was quitecompelling.
When you dig a little deeperand then just the dog community
on twitter like the efforts thatpeople go to to travel and get
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dogs rescued, and rescued fromkill, shelters and just some of
the horrific things that peopledo to pets is just it's
sickening.
But a lot of times, through theefforts of this community,
these dogs have a future andthey live to bring joy to the
folks that end up adopting themand and then they get a little
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few extra ear scritches and getto live out there for the rest
of their days in a loving home.
So that's why I do it.
I draw because they can't.
That's my motto and I starteddrawing.
There's a little dog calledDeke who visits little cancer
kids and so I started drawingsome of that.
He's got like a little you canappreciate a little shirt he
wears around and visits kids ontheir hospital beds.
(14:14):
It just brings 15 minutes ofjoy to an otherwise sad
situation.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I love doing it.
It comes easy to me, but I dowork at it.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
And I make sure that that folks have something fun to
remember their pets with.
But the one I did for Marla itwas we're all made of stars.
I believe I was listening to aMoby song.
Yeah, it sort of stuck in mymind and Kuno had just passed
away and I knew she was goingthrough a lot of hardship with
the loss and even just like thetraining that that he had gone
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through to help her with justher daily, just getting through
the day and just I know Chesneywas like in the wings.
But so that one I just thoughtI'd draw.
I'd hand draw individually fiveor ten ready to help raise some
money, and I threw it out thereand I woke up and there was
like 89 requests yeah so I'm notreally set up for that.
So I ended up drawing and doingprints.
(15:03):
But the biggest, the biggestpart of that, truthfully, was
people were getting hold of meon Instagram and direct
messaging on Twitter and thenthey would send me like a PayPal
donation with their real nameand I'd have to match that up
against their Twitter handle,yeah, their mailing address, and
then I've been hacked on PayPal.
So there's a thousand of me onthere now, so I actually have to
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go in and send an email requestto everybody.
So there was.
It just became this hydratedmonster, but we ended up getting
over a hundred out.
I think we raised just over$10,000.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, that was amazing.
Yeah, we have two of thoseprints actually.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
That's right.
Yeah, you guys were quitegenerous, so thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, guys were quite generous, so thank you for that
.
Yeah, we have one, I've youhave one in your above, in your
school.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right, chris, you took it to your school.
Yeah, and it's, they're framed.
Yeah, I love them.
I love kuno.
We were fortunate to be able togo to the red deer dog show and
marla and kuno and chesneydefinitely participated there
and I brought him a burger andhe's such a good boy.
He was such a good boy like hewould hold it in his mouth and
beaker would scarf that down inthree seconds.
There's no weight, no impulsecontrol.
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But Kuno was just, I don't know, he had this presence.
You would go and he would sitwith you and you're just relaxed
and just rub him and Chesney islike the cutest gushiest cute
ever, like she's such asweetheart.
But they're very different.
They had very differentpersonalities and Kuno
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definitely was a special dog.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I recall like he would do the weather right, so
we'd have a tie on and he'd justbe out doing the weather, and
so I started drawing him on hisown, and then whenever there's
two dogs living together,there's way more opportunity for
dialogue between them.
Yeah, somebody's done somethingthey shouldn't have or they're
conspiring against something.
Yeah, usually I mentionedearlier you can never go wrong
(16:54):
in a cartoon with a squirrelthrowing an acorn at somebody.
That just lends itself toimagining what's happening next
or what happened just beforethat.
So I like to leave a little bitof whimsy in my cartoons and
get people to think of whatmight have happened just before
that.
So I like to leave a little bitof whimsy in my cartoons and
get people to think of whatmight have happened just before
I drew that or what they'relooking at yeah, I'll tell you
writing text from bunsen wayeasier now than when we just had
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just bunsen.
That was yeah tough he says,yeah, you're trying to get in
his head, but now you can laythat over, ginger.
Now, yeah, the cats always havesuch an attitude that I often
hope somebody has a cat and somedogs, because that immediately
sets up some degree of chaos.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
That's funny.
Okay, one more question for you, and then we'll get to
everybody waiting patiently, andthat's just about your own pets
.
Do you have any currently?
Do you have any stories frompets that are no longer?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
with you.
I have none.
My first pet was a budgie Okay,and that was growing up.
Her name, creatively enough, atthe time was Pretty Girl.
And our family went on vacationand we left the bird with our
backyard neighbors and we wereall very anxious to get home.
And we got home and they handedthe cage over the fence and it
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was a completely different colorbird and they had switched out
the bird.
The bird apparently had flownaway while we were on holidays
and they tried to pawn off ablue bird when we gave them,
like a green and yellow budgie.
So I was traumatized and I stillimagine pretty girls out there
living a very fruitful life,maybe not pushing a shopping
cart around with recycling in it, but she's just enjoying
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herself all these years later.
Since then I've had four BassetHounds which is a story in and
of itself, and two at one time,and they both liked to be on the
bed when we had two kids.
So a very busy part of my lifewas the early, like late 90s.
We had two Basset Hounds andtwo little girls in the house so
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that we had the parade thatwould go down the road and then
we had the basset hounds.
Like they're a beautiful dog,they're very stubborn.
You could be out for an hourand a half and still be on your
front yard.
Um yeah, they and their earsget very smelly and they drag.
They were bred to keep trap thesmell in their ears, right.
So it was near their nose andso their dewlap and yeah, so we.
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So I've had to say goodbye tofour dogs, which is never fun,
honestly, and as much as youlike to give them the last meal
and stuff, it's just that drivehome is just.
You get over it and you try to,but then you see something
under a couch and you're like,oh my god, yeah, and now, right
now, I have all of them.
She's an eight-year-old Frenchbulldog.
Aw, she lets us live in herhouse, which is very nice, and
(19:43):
my wife wants to get a parrotletA what sorry, a parrotlet.
It's a new breed of bird, it'slike a little parrot.
Oh, she has a friend who hasone who has a dog also and we
get videos of the bird on thedog's back and they're playing.
And we get videos of the birdon the dog's back and we're
playing.
I just don't know if Olivewould instantly eat it Kind of
Sylvester and Tweety.
But anyway, olive is.
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She's a little firecracker forsure.
So I do get some inspiration ongeneral dog behavior, not breed
specific.
We have a big log pile in thebackyard and Olive will climb it
and pull the log out and sitdown and chew all the bark off
of it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
For no reason, absolutely no reason whatsoever
it must be delicious.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
I'm assuming it's got something in there that she
needs.
I have to get the leaf blowerout every night just to clear
off the patio.
She's a treat.
I love her.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Alright, thanks for the stories.
And it's always.
It's wistful to remember thedogs you've lost, but then
there's also that tinge ofsadness too.
But I appreciate you tellingeverybody where is, where's, the
current dog at your feet?
She's in the backyard barkingright now she's barking.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
I've got some.
We've in the last two, we'vehad one, two, three, four, five
dogs move in around us, Okay,and she's going insane.
I'm trying to work on how tonot get her to bark in the
backyard.
Her hair stands up like awolverine and she just gets.
She actually barks soaggressively she hops backwards.
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It's very comical to see.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But she's outside barking right now awesome not my
problem currently okay, we havea bunch of people who are
requesting.
My guess is they want to talkto you, john, or ask you a
question, if I owe anybody money, we can talk offline okay,
sounds good.
What we're gonna do is'm goingto try and keep it somewhat
(21:38):
organized.
So we do have we're on fourdifferent platforms right now.
So we'll start with maybesomebody on Twitter spaces and
then we'll go to one of thecomments from people watching
live and then, for people whoare watching live, you're going
to hear the voice of the personasking the question.
I mean, you are not going to beable to see them because
they're on X spaces, so just itmight be.
(22:01):
You might like who's talking?
Where's that voice coming from?
But that's what that is.
Okay, we'll go to the herd whorequested the mic.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Hello, Hi Jason, Hi Tina, how are you?
It's in ages.
It has been a while we Dean how?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
are you?
It's in ages.
It has been a while.
We've missed you.
I have a food and medicationschedule that I finagled.
This time while I was I hady'all on mute for a little bit
there.
I wanted to say hello voice toJohnny and thank him for
everything he has done for us.
I don't know exactly how hestumbled on us, but it was with
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Owen Wilson.
I dropped a couple pictures.
In the comments there's like a15-second sketch that he's
probably mortified that I put up.
But for whatever reason, that'sthe very first piece of artwork
I saved.
My phone is full of his artwork.
He drew a picture of these.
I have one pair of pink bootsand he immortalized them and it
(23:03):
became a thing and everybodythinks that I love pink, which I
don't.
I will give pink gifts withlove because I know it comes
from the heart, but it isabsolutely not my color.
But it is my color because ofthis sketch that Johnny did for
me.
Most recently he helped me raisefunds for Catherine O'Hara.
(23:26):
She's a senior diabeticchihuahua who had about 10% of
her vision left clouded overfrom diabetic cataracts.
Diabetic cataracts almostalways turn into glaucoma.
The cataracts themselves arenot painful.
(23:47):
Glaucoma is a pressure in theeye kind of thing, and it is
extremely painful for dogs likedownright excruciating.
Painful for dogs, likedownright excruciating.
And within a week of picking upCatherine, I picked up another
dog who had the cataracts andglaucoma.
Her eyes were so bad I couldn'teven show them online.
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I couldn't let that happenagain.
So John did this fundraiser and, yeah, we raised over 50% of
her bill just from thatfundraiser.
He doesn't owe me any money andwe'll clear that one up, but
he's a fabulous artist and it'sbeen like watching Ant and Tram
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of the Puff Dog family grow up.
John was a very small accountwhen he approached me and I
fully exploited him.
I don't take credit becauseit's all him, but I'd like to
think that I pushed him into theocean.
That is dog Twitter and catTwitter and critters.
So he draws my critters too.
He did some great pieces of mybearded dragon.
(24:55):
He also oh, owen Wilson.
He was very ill.
We nearly lost him around hisfirst birthday.
I bought him the stuffed giraffewith giant long legs because
Owen had the giant long legs.
Owen proceeded to destroy thispoor animal and it became a
daily update thing and we calledit the Jeffrey Files.
(25:16):
I would like to make it veryclear this is Jeffrey with a G,
not that other Jeffrey files,because they're just bad and we
don't want to talk.
But yeah there's.
I put a picture up of the filesthat he made.
There was just that's just asmall sample.
There were hundreds of them.
I would like to report backthat Jeffrey was saved by the
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help of the Bunsen Stuffy.
I can't find the video of that,but it was the Bunsen Stuffy
1.0.
Sebastian from we Rate Dogs andI had the live Twitter feed
going along with it and it has avery special place in my heart
because they don't make thejeffrey giraffe anymore.
They don't kind of like a babywith their favorite binky or
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pacifier.
That if it's not that theydon't want it I love drawing
your animals.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I try to get to the couch shots every Friday.
Oh my gosh, that's got to behard.
I can't imagine a lead up toget everybody just sitting there
.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
They are so good I have been doing it so long that
the new dogs catch right on andthey know they're getting a
piece of Owen's special food.
Owen's food is very expensive,it's also very smelly, and the
dogs go wild for it.
So that's their big treat forthe week.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
So I do have to ask, because you do more than you do
dogs and cats, but you dobearded lizards.
I do have to ask about Turkey.
Is he still around?
Speaker 8 (26:53):
I don't have Turkey anymore.
He had a disease called hole inthe head and it's exactly as
bad as it sounds.
I do have a little tank rightnow with the glow glows like the
go-go's.
There's some glow fish.
I have three frogs that startedas Morgan Freeman and Morgan
Fairchild.
I lost one of them, so I got acouple more and now it's Morgan
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and Morgan and Vivian Law.
I have a little community ofsnails that are keeping it clean
for me, so it's super lowmaintenance.
Yay for Herd Mom, becauseeverything else is high
maintenance.
I also have a general pet chatupdate.
I know there's some of ourmutual followers on here and
maybe some of your followersremember me from a while back,
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but two of my parapups KieferSutherland, who's been paralyzed
from the shoulders back for twoyears, is ready to start
walking.
He's crawling with both legs.
He's standing up, holding it.
He's figuring out how to movehis legs with help from me, and
I don't know if little Barrywith spina bifida, who should
never be walking, has beenwatching us or what, but I've
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been working on getting adislocated knee back in place
for him and he took two wholereal life steps this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Amazing, that is amazing.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
I saw your posts about it earlier and I was like
whoa, yeah I was like whoa, sohere I'll repost it, and that
way, if you want to share thatone, because it is good and for
folks, for example that Facebookand YouTube, who maybe aren't
familiar with who you are.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You are a registered nonprofit and you basically help
out dogs that have specialneeds, right Do the most extreme
special needs.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Some of them are not extreme but for the folks off
platform, I do have a very smallFacebook.
I had a private issue that Idon't want to discuss with
Instagram.
Maybe we'll go back someday.
I have a dog that has no backlegs.
I have paralyzed dogs, I haveblind, I have deaf.
I do a lot of medicalrehabilitation as a foster mom
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for animals that needamputations, animals that need
amputations.
I never thought I would be anexpert in the care of such a
procedure, but I am and I'm veryhonored that they let me help
them.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And then you also help organize cross-country
travels like remember Nacho, yes, the Nacho run.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Nacho was brought into my veterinarian with bags
of medicine and a stack ofveterinary papers.
That turned out not to bereally the situation, but he was
a golden retriever and too bigfor my house, so where does he
need to go?
The golden ratio in the FloridaKeys.
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We got together, we got.
This was my first big run andfrom Idaho to the Florida Keys
it took about a week.
We had a ton of volunteers.
The whole internet watched thisthing.
It was in the news.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winningjournalist Gwen Fiosa, mom to
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the dog Sergio.
You should check them out.
Shameless plug there.
She wrote a lovely articleabout it and that kind of made
me want to get more involvedwith that.
Most of my dogs end up gettingadopted out of area, off of the
social media posts.
People make connections withthem.
I always do the first part ofthe travel and get them at the
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very least to Utah.
I have gone to Florida and asfar as Florida on one side, Los
Angeles on the other, for dogsthat have ended up staying here.
I help people out for dogs thatare not even mine ended up
staying here.
I help people out for dogs thatare not even mine.
It's one of the coolest thingsyou can do is help get a dog to
their forever home.
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Cats, I think, are easier totravel with, but that hasn't
really been.
Nobody really jumps at taking anew cat in a carrier.
I can't blame them for that.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Cats are super particular at the Starbucks
drive-thru too, so you don'twant to travel with cats.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
No, they don't mix well with Starbucks.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
They're really demanding.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Yes, that other magic window though that has the
broken ice cream machines.
I won't plug them.
They have some good ice creamand cats.
Some cats love cream, somedon't.
I have one that requires milkon the floor every day, can't be
in a dish, can't be on acounter, has to be floor milk
and a couple of drops and shetootles off.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Oh, that's cute.
Thank you so much for all thatyou do, Teen, and for stepping
up to speak.
We really definitely appreciateit and I know that you've been
excited to talk to John, toJohnny, here, so thank you for
giving me the open mic.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
I probably took up a lot of time, so I'm going to say
goodbye and go feed some dogs.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was really good to hear you, hear from you.
Ok, love you guys.
Bye, ok, take care, we'll do acouple of comments.
Then we'll get to anotherspeaker.
Mark, who's watching on YouTube, says Johnny, love the cartoon
you did of ginger.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Do you need an eraser ?
We talked about that justbefore.
Right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And on Instagram, ice Goddess says we love seeing
your work when it's posted on X,so people are just dropping
comments about they love yourart, john.
Most people on Instagram, Ithink, are just watching right
now.
There's not a lot of comments,no.
So there's no comments orquestions on Instagram right now
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, so we will go to who came upnext.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Chris, I was just I was just gonna say mark the
comment there, mark has a beaglenamed ginger.
Yeah, and she's sure a cutie.
I don't know, jason, youbrought everybody up.
I think sasha the bernadoodlewas next and then, so we'll go
to sasha, or it's actually.
Ho, hi, holly, hi.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Chris, hi Jason.
Hello, I'm good and just wantedto say I'm so glad you guys
enjoyed your week on my littleisland here.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah.
It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
That was awesome.
Sasha misses you, of course.
She loved all the cuddles andloves, but I wanted to give a
huge thank you to John forSasha's birthday drawing.
It was I.
Just we absolutely love it andshe has been my little Muppet
since the first time I ever sawher, and there's a little story
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there.
I've been calling her a Muppetsince she was a little puppy and
when she was about six monthsold, some friends of ours from
Seattle came up to visit andthey walked in, met Sasha, and
one of them just she saysinstantly my God, you're right,
she is a Muppet.
So, yes, next step is to getthat mounted and framed and add
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it to my Sasha art collection.
So thank you so much for that.
We love it.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
And I think we got to see that in person, didn't we,
Holly?
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yes, I showed it to you when you guys were here.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yes, we saw the art in person, john, because we had
supper with Holly and Colin andthen we went back to their place
and got to meet Sasha and Toby.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
It was awesome.
Yes and yes, and I don't thinkthey're listening, but obviously
a huge thanks to the mom ofbeagle bow and beagle sky for
commissioning that for us, so Iabsolutely love it awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, we'll go to paula, who's on x, and then
jamie hi paula hi, hi everybody.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Hi, johnny, nice to see you and hear you on x.
This is so exciting I'm Icouldn't wait to see this and
hear this welcome.
I have a I put in the chat.
I have a piece by that johnnydid of a late olive I love the
name, by the way, your dog, yourfrenchie, and my angel olive
and angel Rosie, with AnnieArpulli and I actually got a
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gift of Marla's painting of Kuno, so I just had them framed
together and I got it backyesterday.
So I'm pretty excited about it,but I just showed half of it
for mine.
But you did an awesome job.
We just love you.
So we we just want to know isthere any?
What is your favorite animal todraw?
And I see a sloth on your wallbehind you and I didn't know if
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that was like one of yourfavorite animals or is there
something that you said oh gosh,I can't draw it.
So it's a combo question what'syour favorite thing to draw?
But is there an animal or dogbreed that you came across?
And you're like man, I justcan't get this character and you
stumped on it and thank you forall you do for Marlon the Herd.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I think you're an angel.
So thank you very much, Welcome.
Thank you for thanks, for allthe kind words.
So yeah, my drawing style haschanged quite a bit.
I look back at I've probablygot a thousand drawings here in
my studio that just aren't goinganywhere.
But if I look at like a sheet,like a stack of photocopy paper
about 500 sheets I've probablygot six or seven stacks the same
size of just random art.
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So that I got that.
It's a sort of a stuffy sloth.
I can't have it near the groundor my olive will demolish it.
But I got that at a techconference and I call they were
giving them away at a booth andI couldn't not bring one home.
So that's my motivational sloth.
It usually has a cartoon bubblebeside it that says get to work
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.
It's somewhere around my studiohere.
As far as the funnest things,probably the most common dog
I've been drawing are beagles.
I do a lot of work with arescue co-op and then Skye and
Bo are both beagles and they'rejust easy to draw.
They have a fun snout.
But I'm trying to test thelimits on my like a lot of my
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drawing I just get comfortablewith certain poses and I'm
trying to.
I'm going through all my Disneybooks and my Warner Brothers
books and just looking at thedifferent leg positions of dogs
and how they open their mouthand kind of their facial
expressions, their heads turningone way but their body is the
other, just getting the cadencedown for when they're walking,
making sure the legs because thelegs are alternating so they're
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not both out front at the sametime, one's back and the middle.
It's just weird between runningand walking there's different
ways the dogs and animals ingeneral with four legs move.
So I try to make sure I'mgetting a little bit more
accurate in my depictions.
Even though they're cartoonsthere's some thought that goes
into them.
I've tried to draw times barrywhen he's been wet and just not.
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I'm just trying not to alwaysbe so like particular with where
the lines fall and when you'vegot a wet dog and you're just
drawing with ink, which I shouldjust mention now.
I just draw ink and paper andmarkers.
I don't do anything digital.
If someone needs somethingdigital, I end up taking what
I've done and just scanning it.
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In some horrific cases I'vegone through the process of
inking it and coloring it on thegood paper and then realizing
I've got the dog's name wrong,I've misspelt it, so that goes
in the garbage and I have tostart all over again.
Yeah, yeah.
So, Paul, I'd like.
Beagles are easy to draw.
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I'd start to stretch down.
I've done some.
Birds and cats are fun to drawtoo, especially cats in the cat
tree or cat condos where they'rescratching or they're glazing.
But I just try to like, andthen lots of people ask me to
put themselves in with their pet.
So I'm trying to get better atdrawing people.
I'm not quite a caricaturist.
Those guys seem to have acertain vibe to their output.
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I don't draw that way.
And then, yeah, just having aconversation between the pets we
talked about with Jason earlier, about when there's more than
one animal in the picture.
It's so much more fun to createa bit of a conversation with
the pets, so it creates somedynamics and it doesn't get old
because you smile at it all thetime.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
That's great.
Thank you very much.
I think it's great.
I can see you evolving.
I've been watching you forquite a number of years now.
It's really awesome to see howyou've been growing and going
into different avenues.
So congratulations.
I hope, too, that you maybe doa book on your own too, so that
would be great.
Or something good comes alongtoo.
Great job, and again, thank youfor everything that you do.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
I appreciate the kind words and thanks for following
us all.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Thanks for the comment, paula.
I do have to say you did drawme with Ginger, like you did a
picture of me with Ginger, andyou definitely made me look like
commander shepherd from themass effect video game.
So I do appreciate you canshave.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
I was very generous with you, jason.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, you definitely shaved off.
Some of my neck fat look prettysvelte in the picture you drew,
so I appreciate that it wasmore about ginger.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Why does it always come back to you?
What, oh no, the drawing.
You know what I mean.
It's always about you thedrawing of.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I'll share the picture for people who are
watching live.
Yeah, the drawing of ginger isvery cute, and that one we have
up on the wall in our house too.
Oh, oh, that's the wrong button.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
One second.
You just got the one of you andGinger on your shoulders.
Right, that just arrived.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's the one I'm talking about, yeah,
so people are watching live.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You can see that.
Great job, thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
You got the holiday five o'clock shadow there.
Jason gets that by.
If he shaves at 6 am, he getsthat by, I don't know 7.05.
Speaker 8 (41:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
He just all of a sudden boom, he's a chia pet.
Yeah, it just grows veryquickly.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I am very close to an orangutan in my family tree.
Okay, thanks, paula.
We'll go to Jamie and then toDonna and then we'll get to some
comments, because a couple havepopped up.
Hi, jamie, hello.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Hi Jamie, Hello.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Hello, sorry, it has been so very long.
I've been really busy with workand hiking and work and hiking
and dogs and all that sort ofstuff.
But, john, thank you very muchfor all your artwork.
I don't have one personally,but I love seeing them when you
post them.
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They are well done and soamusing in so many cases.
So thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
Sometimes I think I'm posting too much stuff.
No, no Now that I'm retired fromthe workforce.
I've spent a lot of time hereat my drafting desk and drawing,
drawing, so not a lot of it.
I would say 80% of it makes itto the airways, but there's some
stuff that it doesn't.
I've tried not to be political.
I've learned that people aren'tfollowing me to hear about my
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world vision of politics.
I've stopped putting anythingorange in my cartoons it's all
about the pets Because I'veactually had people say John,
I'm not following you to hearyour views on US politics, so
lay off.
And I said OK, and I said okay.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
That's a true story.
Coming from Australia, ourviews of US politics are
possibly similar to yours, butyes, your pet pictures are
beautiful.
Thank you very much.
And from pet news here Rosie'sdoing well, river's doing well,
tennessee's doing well, thechicken's not so good.
The dingo that lives in ourstreet managed to get in and
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take away maybe 11 birds overthe last two months.
Oh yeah, yeah, and I thinkJackie was one of them, which is
a bit sad.
We're very.
The fences have been repairedand we're very careful with
putting them away at night andthe dogs don't.
The dogs don't actually doanything about keeping him out,
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which is a bit of a pest, butRosie's.
It's the middle of NorthQueensland, winter, so winter in
the tropics.
So we got down to seven degreesthe other day, which was just
bitterly cold for townsville,and rosie still went swimming
because she's just insane I'mglad to hear all the dogs are
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well and I'm sorry to hear aboutthe chickens.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
I know gourd lost a duck to an owl, didn't he one of
his ducks, which was very yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
and then we recently had a weasel come in to the coop
yeah and it took a big hunk outof a chicken's neck and the
chicken survived, and so theyput polysporin on it so it
didn't get infected.
But now it's like a growth likethe corpus.
What is it that cordyceps?
The cordyceps is like an alien.
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I know it's not a good look,it's not a good look, but the
chicken's alive.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Chris, it's a giant scab and the chicken is doing
fine.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
The chicken is fine, it just has the way it healed.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Thank you very much and I hope to try and get back
in more often, just being sobusy.
And, donna, it is lovely to seeyou here.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
Thanks for calling in .
Speaker 1 (44:47):
No worries.
Thanks, Thanks, Jamie.
Johnny, you had a little smirkat the seven degrees.
You're a fellow Canadian.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Hey, that's a beach day in Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Chris didn't want to hear this, but this morning
there was frost on the grass, ifyou can believe it.
Yeah, there was frost on ourgrass.
I couldn't believe.
It was like is that frost?
And then I touched it and itwas frost.
So we had a really cold nightwhere we are.
So just a couple comments, thenwe'll get to.
Donna.
Madison says maybe the chickenis the same one bernoulli had.
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It has nine lives.
Acl says hello from northcarolina.
And then, just maybe to clearup something, because we have
some new people listening,roberto's like who's talking?
So we have people who are ontwitter or x and they're
listening by audio and they havethe ability to jump in with
their voice, if that makes sense, okay.
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And then there was a bunch ofcomments on instagram loving
your drawings, because I've beensharing the screen, so people
have been able to see them, john, so that's very cool okay,
thank you yeah, okay we'll go to.
Speaker 7 (46:00):
Oh sorry, go ahead, no, I just think that's the best
place to see like the 3,000cartoons that I've got, because,
like I mentioned once, thecartoon is lost in your screen
on Twitter, you won't find itagain yeah, you'd have to go to
your profile and scroll down.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
We'll go to donna.
Hello donna, good to see you.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Hopefully you're doing well y'all, good to see
y'all and thanks.
I put a comment in the commentsbecause this isn't about me,
but they thanks y'all.
I just can't thank everybodyenough for all the outpouring of
love and people I've never metin real life, except for a few
of you guys, and I just feel soclose and not so isolated.
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So thank you.
But, john, you do so much forsome.
Oh, you cut out.
I'm here.
I think you're the perfect blendto hang with Chris and Jason,
because you guys both spreadkindness and empathy.
They add the science piece toit and I think your artwork, in
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a massive time of grief, givessome joy and perspective and
it's awesome.
But since you do, or so others,how can we support you in like
donating supplies to you?
Because that is not cheap, as Iknow, and I think it needs to
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come back to you a little bit.
And then, a second part of thatis I would pay good money to
see artwork of the Zajkowskisand all the animals in their
Comic-Con era and all theirlittle outfits, because I think
that would be cool, like alittle between the Mandalorian
and all the other stuff whenthey're in their outfits.
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I think it would be cool.
And third, if you love drawingcats, boy, have I got a cat for
you.
You love drawing cats, boy,have I got a cat for you.
But I because she always walksaround like a dog with her fake
mouths or fake chicken and she'sjust a pistol.
But big fan of all of y'all,actually, but big fan of your
work, what you do for others,and I'll give you the floor oh,
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thanks, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (48:12):
Yeah, the supplies, it's really just my time and
experience.
So I don't have any problemdonating my time and I do get
some commissions now and againand I use that revenue to buy
more paper and more ink.
And I remember a joke because Idraw very quickly and that
seems to befuddle people abouthow fast I can draw until
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they're like not charging enoughand all that kind of stuff.
So I remember an old man goesto the dentist and he's got a
rotten tooth.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
He can't sleep, he can't eat, he can't drink and he
sits down in the chair and he'sa bit grumpy and asks the
dentist says dentist is where Igotta take the tooth out.
Speaker 7 (48:51):
And he goes how how much is that going to cost?
And he says it's going to be$100.
He says how long is it going totake?
It's going to take about fiveseconds.
He says that seems like a lotof money for the time it's going
to take.
The dentist says I can make itlast as long as you like.
So it all comes down toexperience and tackling problems
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, and I love what I do.
I recently retired from the realworld so I'm drawing every
morning.
I have like a sweet spot whereI really enjoy drawing after my
first couple cups of coffeestart around eight o'clock and
then the creative sort of desiredrops off again to early
evening.
I never want to be in a placewhere I have to feel I have to
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draw.
I'm drawing because I love itand then I see when someone
sends me a picture that I'vedrawn of their cat or dog that
went over the rainbow or a funnysituation that they went
through with the cat learning toswim or dogs getting into
trouble and then just bringingjoy to folks that realized that
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I did that with a piece of paperand a fountain pen.
To me it just gives me a reasonto get up in the morning,
because you need a reason to getup.
And although retirement soundslike bliss, you do need a
mission.
You do need to get out of bed.
The pedal falls off the rosepretty quick when you've got
nothing to do off the rosepretty quick when you've got
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nothing to do.
And I'm super fortunate thatI've got this, this talent that
I work at that can have me onshows like this, but I've had to
work at it.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
It was a 60 year overnight success kind of thing
if, because we're gettingquestions about this now john,
if people want you to do someart or if people want some of
your art, do they just messageyou, and if you have time or if
you have the inclination, If Ifollow them on Twitter, that's
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easy.
Speaker 7 (50:41):
They can send me a message on Instagram.
If I follow them on Twitter,they can send me a note.
Other than that, you can emailme which?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
is easier.
Speaker 7 (50:50):
Because then again I get into a situation where
someone's asked me to drawsomething.
They've sent pet pictures andthen I forgot where they sent it
from or where they sent me anemail, but the pictures are on
twitter and like, so email worksbest and are you okay with me
putting your email up in thejumbotron for people who are
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watching live?
and then if someone wants toreach out about, because
christmas is just around thecorner, but I have.
Actually we're going to do some.
I think that rescue co-ops gota three-year anniversary next
month, so we're going to do somefun stuff with commemorative
auctions like greeting cards andstuff.
There it is.
Look at that.
It's on the Jumbotron One ofthe good things on a Jumbotron
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these days.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Oh, Too soon.
It's never too soon I missed mysnap.
Speaker 7 (51:42):
It's on June.
Actually I think it might beJune.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
It's pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (51:47):
A cat with a dog at a Coldplay concert.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
I know the cat and the dog.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
But Deke is in the chat and said hi, mr Johnny,
it's me, deke.
They're listening right now.
Speaker 7 (52:01):
Awesome.
Hopefully the folks Deke thatwe sent.
We drew the pictures for havegot them.
One was in the mail and the onewith the frame I think was
going to Texas, so hopefullythat gets there.
I find that once mail leavesthe Canadian, the great white
North, it's a wild west.
It stuff takes months or daysand then it's like they tie it
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to the back of an F-150 and dragit down the road to someone's
house.
I don't know what the US PostalService is up to these days,
but it's nothing good.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
They've been defunded .
Speaker 1 (52:38):
We have similar troubles.
When it goes to europe, I cantrack it, I'm like, oh, it's
going great, and then it justvanishes and I'm like I hope it
gets to germany.
Speaker 7 (52:46):
I heard I rely on the mail personally to get artwork
to people and I heard thatcanada post is recommending that
the union, like the union's,recommending they don't take the
newest offers.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
It just seems to be ongoing, but anyway, yeah, we
rely on it too for our stuffiesand stuff.
So we're watching it hopefullyas well.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
And the calendar that will be coming out.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
So a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, anyways, that's aproblem for a different day.
Yeah, maybe we bunch of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, anyways, that's aproblem for a different day.
Yeah, maybe we have one morespeaker.
Do you have time to take onemore question and then we'll
kind of wrap up, or do you gotto get going?
No, I'm good because you'relater than us.
Is it like 10 o'clock for youright now nine o'clock?
Eight o'clock here okay, onlynow seems like 10 o'clock okay,
(53:34):
we'll just bring.
I'll check the chat again forany.
Oh one question while belinda'scoming up do you have a website
or just email you?
Speaker 7 (53:43):
just email me right now.
I don't have a website yet.
That's on my wish listultimately to just to make the
process easier, mostly forpeople who want stuff done.
Yeah, because people.
There's probably five or sixquestions back and forth before
I can pull the trigger and ifthere's a way for me to have, I
did register a website calledcartoonificationca.
(54:05):
It's just being parked rightnow, but I want to the ability
for folks to upload photos, payfor something, put some notes in
and send it so I can keep trackof it better as well.
I've got a stack of stuff herethat is in no particular order
that I try to get to eachmorning.
So it would be.
I'd like to be more organized.
No website, email only now.
(54:27):
That's the easiest.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
So one more time I'll put the email on there.
It looks like Belinda had sometrouble connecting.
She's not we.
She's been up to speak before,but that didn't work and she got
booted, so maybe she lostinternet.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
I.
And then one more comment hereon Twitter in the chat, ryan,
the chief of staff for Rory,says you've done so much for
Rory, you're so good and yourart is so beautiful.
Speaker 7 (54:50):
Oh, it's so beautiful .
Oh, it's so nice to hear thatsort of stuff, because you know
what I do art and I send it out,but I do work alone.
So it is nice to hear feedbackfrom folks that appreciate the
stuff that I do, because I dowork in a bit of a vacuum as far
as day-to-day and then I justentertain myself by drawing.
So it's nice that peopleappreciate it.
(55:13):
So, thank you, ryan.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
Sounds like how you entertain yourself was a little
bit more exciting than how Chrisdoes.
Chris, what have you been doingall summer?
Long for fun.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Oh, I've been doing math.
Yeah, I've been doingpermutations and combinations
and the fundamental countingprinciple, probability, rational
equations I've got.
But I just am trying to refreshbecause I have a new course
that I'm teaching in the fall.
It's math 30-2.
(55:47):
It's a grade 12, it's highschool level math and I just
want to make sure I'm fresh andI know it all so I went to a
private boys school growing upfor high school and there was
absolutely zero opportunity tohave creative outlets.
Speaker 7 (56:06):
It was math, physics and chemistry 300 I had to take
in high school and I stillremember the distance formula
from physics and all the weirdthings.
Strangely enough, you don'tneed to know that to draw a
picture.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
But yeah, I'm excited .
Speaker 7 (56:27):
So good for you.
Thank you Awesome.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Thank you for being our guest tonight, John.
I so appreciate it.
You've done art of our guesttonight, John.
I so appreciate it.
You've done art of our animalsin the past and we've loved it.
So I can say it now to yourface how much we appreciate the
art you've done, and especiallythat one of Ginger on my back,
which is really sweet, thatone's hanging in our house in
the living room and we havepeople notice it.
Speaker 7 (56:52):
They're like oh, that's so cool, like people
notice it and they make comments, like it's really fun yeah
that's why I do it, just to make, to put a smile on your face
thank you I appreciate having meon, so thank you very much and
hopefully everyone enjoys theirsummer and I'll check my email
(57:12):
tomorrow morning and maybethere's a few new customers that
are going to have some artworksoon.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
And you are on Twitter and you are on Instagram
.
What is your handle on both?
Just for folks.
Speaker 7 (57:26):
You know I'm going to have to figure it out again.
On X I am at John HeimJ-O-H-N-H-E-I-M.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, and on Instagram I am art underscore by
underscore, heim Art underscoreby underscore Heim, yeah, okay,
perfect, yeah, just so folkscan find you and.
Speaker 2 (57:50):
I just wanted to add one more thing.
Sebastian from the Cowboy CatRanch, also in the chat, wants
to thank you for all that you dofor the animals we love, dr
Sebastian.
Speaker 7 (58:01):
I've still got some work on my to-do list for him,
so let him know it's a work inprogress.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (58:09):
That's us too, like we have a.
We finished the first start ofour text from bunsen book.
It took us a week, and so weknow all the stuff that kind of
goes in behind the scenes and wecan't create.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
We can't draw worth beans, chris we can't draw
anything.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
No, zero, john johnny's.
Speaker 1 (58:28):
johnny's a wizard.
I look at what people who havethat artistic ability have and I
I'm like how do you do that?
It's just, it baffles my brain.
Yeah, all right, I think we'llwrap up.
We'll save our stories for nextweek.
Hey, chris.
Yeah, I think so, okay, yeah, wecan talk about our stories next
week, all right, hey everybody,thanks for coming to Pet Chat
(58:49):
today.
Again, thank you to Johnny Heim.
John Heim, the aspiringcartoonist.
I like your handle there.
Thank you for being our guesttoday and giving up your time.
Thank you for having me.
When we announced that you weregoing to be a guest, there was
tons of people very exciteddefinitely a lot of folks on
Twitter who know who you are, orX, as a lot of the artists
(59:09):
shared there.
Yeah, anything else to add?
Chris?
Speaker 2 (59:12):
I know.
Just thank you again for beingour guest and sharing your joy
and passion for all that you doand the donation of your time to
help the rescues, and just thepositivity that you have.
It's just infectious and justthanks again.
It's just so great.
And thank you everybody forcoming and listening to our show
(59:33):
tonight or in the future.
Like Jamie, it's the morningfor her and, yeah, and for those
of you who came up to speak, weappreciate you sharing your
stories.
It's tough to talk in a largegroup in front of people, so we
just love that you're here withus in our community.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
And, as we close, if you haven't already known, fun
Facts with Bernoulli.
Our Fun Facts book is out.
It's on our store.
Our link is in our bio.
We have a limited supply andwe'll cross our fingers with.
If everything goes to plan, inthe next 10 days the Bernoulli
(01:00:12):
stuffies will arrive at ourhouse and we will start shipping
them out to all of the peoplewho so graciously were part of
the pre-order campaign.
Hello pet enthusiasts , welcome to Pet Chat.
My name is Jason Sikowsky.
I'm the dog dad of Bunsen,beaker, bernoulli and Ginger.
I guess I'm the cat dad ofGinger, the science animals on
social media.
My co-host with the mostest isHi there, I'm Chris Sikowsky.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am the dog mom to Bunsen, beaker and Bernoulli and
the cat mom to Ginger.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Our guest today that you'll hear from really quick in
about five to ten minutes isJohn Hine, and of course, the
fourth camera is the B squad andmaybe Ginger.
Ginger was throwing herself atthe far right hand door trying
to get in because apparentlythere are treats.
So we'll start with some quickQ&A about Bunsen, beaker,
bernoulli and Ginger.
(00:43):
Drop your comment in the chatand Chris and I will get to that
, and then we're going to get onwith the interview with John.
So A Ronan's Journey asks fromInstagram.
How did Bernoulli get his name?
Was it different from Bunsenand Beaker?
Chris, do you want to fieldthis one?
We've talked about it before,but it's a good story.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It is a fun story.
It has to do with the originstory of getting Bernoulli.
It came quickly, right aroundMay long weekend last year, and
I said, jason, I have a lead onBernice Mountain Dog Puppies and
would you be interested ingetting a puppy?
And you said, of course, butyou didn't think it was going to
happen.
And then I arranged it and wedrove up to Grand Prairie, which
(01:28):
is a 12 hour round trip for us.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
There was a long drive and then I said okay, so
we're going to meet the puppies.
There are six males, fourfemales and you see, your
criteria was that we had to havea male.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And then we had to name with a, b, yeah, name
starting with b, yeah.
So we drove up, we met all thecute puppies.
They were so cute, I wanted allof them.
I actually wanted to get twoyou did want to get two yeah,
but we ended up picking red, redcollar puppy big red, big red
big red.
(02:00):
Yeah, he actually lives up tobig red, like that he's big.
Gets a little longer, somethinga little longer with Big Red.
That's a commercial from mychildhood, but anyway, so we're
driving home and we're thinkingof names and science.
Names, of course, to tie withour theme.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And I was looking at a bunch of lists and finally I
just said what about Bernoulli?
And I knew it was the right one, because Jason's voice also
caught and he said yep, that'sperfect.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, bernoulli is a Swiss scientist, swiss German.
The Swiss want to claimBernoulli and the Germans want
to claim Bernoulli.
Bernice Mountain Dogs are, ofcourse, a Swiss breed.
Want to claim Bernoulli.
Bernice Mountain Dogs are, ofcourse, a Swiss breed.
So that fit.
And what made my voice catchwas our account tries to promote
kindness and science andprovide lift, and that is one of
(02:56):
the main principles ofBernoulli's.
Principle is the principle oflift.
At least it became lift aftermany years.
Bernoulli was not alive whenplanes were flying, but his
principles of changing pressuresdue to speed is how planes fly
and it's now called theprinciple of lift.
So that's where Bernoulli'sname came from.
(03:17):
Thanks for that great question.
Okay, we got another one fromInstagram.
Cheryl asks was the crew overthe moon happy when you got home
?
And yes, yeah, they were allvery happy.
I don't think they were asbananas as I thought they would
be.
They were very happy to see us,as is really any pet when you
(03:42):
leave for a while.
There was some concern thatGinger would have some
shenanigans be angry at us thatwe left, as I see Donna's here
and I'm glad Donna's here.
Donna Craig says that her catsometimes acts up when she's
gone, but Ginger was fine.
She was happy to see us all.
Any questions in the chat fromTwitter, chris.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Before I read more from Instagram yeah, the
question is Chris, before I readmore from Instagram.
Yeah, the question is whatbrand of?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
vacuum cleaner do we have?
We had a really awesome.
What is it?
A little it's a Dyson one thatthat just for like for spot
cleaning Right, but it is beatup.
I don't know if I wouldrecommend it.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But we have a central vac, yeah, so we have a central
vac.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, so we have a central vac.
Yeah, we're pretty fortunate tohave a central vac.
It allows you can vacuum thehouse every day very quickly.
We don't vacuum every day, butwe do vacuum, probably twice a
week for sure, or sweep or more,if company's coming over and we
don't want them to see the doghair that it piles up in the
(04:46):
corners.
So that's the vacuum question.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Don't be under the couch.
Oh yeah, Not Tumbleweed Cityunder the couch.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Sue Cracks is wondering if it was Grand
Prairie, texas, and that wouldbe a lot more than a six-hour
drive.
No, that's Grand Prairie, texasand that would be a lot more
than a six hour drive.
No, that's Grand Prairie,alberta, canada.
We're Canadian and we live inAlberta, so that would be a heck
of a thing to get a dog fromTexas.
Not impossible, just improbable.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And they have new regulations going over the
border now with animals.
So that came in recently, Iwant to say within the last two
years which is smart like I'm, Ithink you shouldn't have like.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Pets go willy-nilly everywhere.
They can bring disease and itdoesn't take much for a dog, for
example, with rabies, to shutdown an entire area and cause
some really seriousramifications.
So I understand the cautionwhen you bring animals across.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
What about a tapeworm cyst?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
A tapeworm cyst.
I think that probably traveledin wolf or coyote, Chris, Though
yeah, Okay looks like we're outof looks like all the questions
have dried up, which is usuallythe case between the five and
10 minute Mark.
Do you see any other questionsbefore we get going?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I don't, but sometimes my feed doesn't
refresh.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It is working on YouTube because Mark is watching
from YouTube and dropped acomment from YouTube.
Hi, jason, chris and Johnny andB squad and Madison is watching
on Facebook I like the littleicons that come up and Caleb is
watching on Twitter and,unfortunately for the Instagram
folks, you guys are on aseparate page.
(06:35):
All right, looks like we're outof questions, but that's fine.
We've got a bunch of questionsfor our guest, so I'd like to
introduce John today.
John, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I'm doing very well.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, the folks on Twitter or X probably know you
best because that's where you'rethe most active and you do a
ton of artwork for cats and dogsand oh, we got tons of hearts
and claps showing up in the chatfor you, John, on Twitter,
which is really sweet.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
I was thinking that the audience.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I don't know.
I don't know if you can seethat people are dropping hearts
and stuff.
Sorry, go ahead, john.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I was just going to say I was hoping that the
audience wasn't what I'm lookingat on the B squad there,
because they're a little hostile.
Yeah, that's the effect I haveon people, that just yeah,
eventually this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That's like my chemistry class in block seven
in June.
That's what all the kids looklike.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
In June.
That doesn't work?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
No, even that's how.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I felt in.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
June.
I guess my first question foryou, John, is what got you into
doing art Like you are?
You do all of these really coolcartoons.
The big one I think people arefamiliar with is you did an
awesome fundraiser for Marla inmemory of Kuno, but where did
your art start?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I think it started as a young child in Winnipeg, with
long winters just lockingmyself in the room and learning
how to draw Snoopy, like I thinkjust about everyone else on
earth did.
Perfected Snoopy mastered theCharlie Brown head, which was
basically making sure that bothends of the circle kind of
matched up around his ear, andthen I just always was doodling
(08:27):
rather than paying attention.
I think I had more cartoons andnotes all the way through
elementary and then I'm on theolder side.
So in grade six it was 1976.
And I recall entering a shrinecircus poster contest just in
the open area at the school andI ended up winning and it was
(08:48):
just this ensemble collage offolks in trapeze on the
tightrope, just maybe anelephant or two.
And then we won, the family wontickets to the shrine circus,
which at that point I realizedthere's money in this, there's
perks.
I'm gonna live large now I'mjust gonna draw.
(09:10):
Actually, and for summer jobs Iworked at a place called Falcon
Lake in a provincial park and Istarted drawing cartoons, for
they had a beach canteen.
Yeah well, I drew folksclimbing up a ladder trying to
access like a giant drink.
I did some stuff.
I came up with a line of likeclothing called shark attack in
(09:32):
early university and I got somestuff silk screened and I kind
of learned the business oftaking an idea and actually
turning it into something.
Yeah, so at the time I just hadthere was a market days at the
university and I just opened, Idrew a shark on a hanger and put
the t-shirt on him and it wasshark attack three fins and
(09:52):
people were giving me 15 bucks.
And then I migrated into sortof advertising and being able to
animate and draw for a clienthelped visualize.
It, just removed a step andactually helped me close some
sales.
And now that I'm retired Istarted drawing again during
COVID and did quite a bit ofwork with the Hurt folks.
(10:14):
Owen Wilson and Lucille Ballwere pretty easy to draw.
Chihuahuas are funny because Iusually make them kind of
cross-eyed so their eyes aren'tquite lining up, just that's.
And then put some jewelry onthem and it just started
building.
And now now I do it for fun andI've aligned with the pet
community on x or twitter.
(10:36):
At the time and, although I'msurprised, I saw I was up to
over a thousand followers oninstagram, which is an easier
way for folks to see my artbecause, because Twitter is
basically like walking outsidein the morning and throwing
pieces of paper in the air andhoping to find them somewhere.
As far as art is concerned,it's tough, yeah, yeah.
So at least there's like acentral repository there for art
(11:00):
on Instagram and then Blue.
Sky a little bit, but that seemsto be.
You can get fragmented prettyquick with posting same content
across multiple platforms, soour X is like home base, and
then Instagram offers at leastthe ability to look at all the
art.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We have some speaker requests on Twitter.
We just have a couple morequestions for John and then
we'll open up the floor toquestions for you from the
audience, if that's okay.
Chris, do you have anyquestions?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
someone had posted about a book that you helped, I
guess, illustrate called therose, and can you explain a
little bit more about that?
Like it's for raising money forrescues or can you, yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
So I was approached by erica, who is someone I've
just met through X and she's awriter and lives in Buffalo, new
York, and reached out and saidwe'd like to do something around
generating content around thestories that these pets have
gone through and hopefully raisesome money.
So we did one I illustrated thefirst one and she wrote it some
(12:04):
money.
So we did one I illustrated thefirst one and she wrote it and
we did it in conjunction withKathy at Rescue Co-op and Lola
Patola I think it's the littlepup's name.
So we ended up doing this bookand then she launched a little
company called Unleashing Tales.
The idea I think we up to ahundred books with about 600
bucks going back to withroyalties back to the rescue.
(12:25):
But the idea is to empower kidsand schools to write stories
about their local rescues,illustrate, write them and raise
funds for them, taking themthrough the process of story
writing and being a little bitaltruistic and learning that
it's not just about being onyour iPad all day.
(12:45):
There are places that you canbe on it but maybe with an eye
for harnessing some creativepower and really just unleashing
your creativity and generatingsome great content and telling
these pet stories.
All these pets have usuallyhorrible stories I have been
doing a little bit of.
I follow I think it's gooddoggo, and the guy is it neil?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
nall in in thailand yeah, yeah, nile, nile harbison
yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
So he just sort of randomly started drawing some of
the stuff there and just doingthe background and watching the
videos.
What he goes through and histeam goes through to basically
just keep these dogs alive andthen hopefully find forever
homes for them, was quitecompelling.
When you dig a little deeperand then just the dog community
on twitter like the efforts thatpeople go to to travel and get
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dogs rescued, and rescued fromkill, shelters and just some of
the horrific things that peopledo to pets is just it's
sickening.
But a lot of times, through theefforts of this community,
these dogs have a future andthey live to bring joy to the
folks that end up adopting themand and then they get a little
(13:52):
few extra ear scritches and getto live out there for the rest
of their days in a loving home.
So that's why I do it.
I draw because they can't.
That's my motto and I starteddrawing.
There's a little dog calledDeke who visits little cancer
kids and so I started drawingsome of that.
He's got like a little you canappreciate a little shirt he
wears around and visits kids ontheir hospital beds.
(14:14):
It just brings 15 minutes ofjoy to an otherwise sad
situation.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I love doing it.
It comes easy to me, but I dowork at it.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
And I make sure that that folks have something fun to
remember their pets with.
But the one I did for Marla itwas we're all made of stars.
I believe I was listening to aMoby song.
Yeah, it sort of stuck in mymind and Kuno had just passed
away and I knew she was goingthrough a lot of hardship with
the loss and even just like thetraining that that he had gone
(14:42):
through to help her with justher daily, just getting through
the day and just I know Chesneywas like in the wings.
But so that one I just thoughtI'd draw.
I'd hand draw individually fiveor ten ready to help raise some
money, and I threw it out thereand I woke up and there was
like 89 requests yeah so I'm notreally set up for that.
So I ended up drawing and doingprints.
(15:03):
But the biggest, the biggestpart of that, truthfully, was
people were getting hold of meon Instagram and direct
messaging on Twitter and thenthey would send me like a PayPal
donation with their real nameand I'd have to match that up
against their Twitter handle,yeah, their mailing address, and
then I've been hacked on PayPal.
So there's a thousand of me onthere now, so I actually have to
(15:24):
go in and send an email requestto everybody.
So there was.
It just became this hydratedmonster, but we ended up getting
over a hundred out.
I think we raised just over$10,000.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, that was amazing.
Yeah, we have two of thoseprints actually.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
That's right.
Yeah, you guys were quitegenerous, so thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, guys were quite generous, so thank you for that
.
Yeah, we have one, I've youhave one in your above, in your
school.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right, chris, you took it to your school.
Yeah, and it's, they're framed.
Yeah, I love them.
I love kuno.
We were fortunate to be able togo to the red deer dog show and
marla and kuno and chesneydefinitely participated there
and I brought him a burger andhe's such a good boy.
He was such a good boy like hewould hold it in his mouth and
beaker would scarf that down inthree seconds.
There's no weight, no impulsecontrol.
(16:10):
But Kuno was just, I don't know, he had this presence.
You would go and he would sitwith you and you're just relaxed
and just rub him and Chesney islike the cutest gushiest cute
ever, like she's such asweetheart.
But they're very different.
They had very differentpersonalities and Kuno
(16:33):
definitely was a special dog.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I recall like he would do the weather right, so
we'd have a tie on and he'd justbe out doing the weather, and
so I started drawing him on hisown, and then whenever there's
two dogs living together,there's way more opportunity for
dialogue between them.
Yeah, somebody's done somethingthey shouldn't have or they're
conspiring against something.
Yeah, usually I mentionedearlier you can never go wrong
(16:54):
in a cartoon with a squirrelthrowing an acorn at somebody.
That just lends itself toimagining what's happening next
or what happened just beforethat.
So I like to leave a little bitof whimsy in my cartoons and
get people to think of whatmight have happened just before
that.
So I like to leave a little bitof whimsy in my cartoons and
get people to think of whatmight have happened just before
I drew that or what they'relooking at yeah, I'll tell you
writing text from bunsen wayeasier now than when we just had
(17:16):
just bunsen.
That was yeah tough he says,yeah, you're trying to get in
his head, but now you can laythat over, ginger.
Now, yeah, the cats always havesuch an attitude that I often
hope somebody has a cat and somedogs, because that immediately
sets up some degree of chaos.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
That's funny.
Okay, one more question for you, and then we'll get to
everybody waiting patiently, andthat's just about your own pets
.
Do you have any currently?
Do you have any stories frompets that are no longer?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
with you.
I have none.
My first pet was a budgie Okay,and that was growing up.
Her name, creatively enough, atthe time was Pretty Girl.
And our family went on vacationand we left the bird with our
backyard neighbors and we wereall very anxious to get home.
And we got home and they handedthe cage over the fence and it
(18:11):
was a completely different colorbird and they had switched out
the bird.
The bird apparently had flownaway while we were on holidays
and they tried to pawn off ablue bird when we gave them,
like a green and yellow budgie.
So I was traumatized and I stillimagine pretty girls out there
living a very fruitful life,maybe not pushing a shopping
cart around with recycling in it, but she's just enjoying
(18:33):
herself all these years later.
Since then I've had four BassetHounds which is a story in and
of itself, and two at one time,and they both liked to be on the
bed when we had two kids.
So a very busy part of my lifewas the early, like late 90s.
We had two Basset Hounds andtwo little girls in the house so
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that we had the parade thatwould go down the road and then
we had the basset hounds.
Like they're a beautiful dog,they're very stubborn.
You could be out for an hourand a half and still be on your
front yard.
Um yeah, they and their earsget very smelly and they drag.
They were bred to keep trap thesmell in their ears, right.
So it was near their nose andso their dewlap and yeah, so we.
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So I've had to say goodbye tofour dogs, which is never fun,
honestly, and as much as youlike to give them the last meal
and stuff, it's just that drivehome is just.
You get over it and you try to,but then you see something
under a couch and you're like,oh my god, yeah, and now, right
now, I have all of them.
She's an eight-year-old Frenchbulldog.
Aw, she lets us live in herhouse, which is very nice, and
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my wife wants to get a parrotletA what sorry, a parrotlet.
It's a new breed of bird, it'slike a little parrot.
Oh, she has a friend who hasone who has a dog also and we
get videos of the bird on thedog's back and they're playing.
And we get videos of the birdon the dog's back and we're
playing.
I just don't know if Olivewould instantly eat it Kind of
Sylvester and Tweety.
But anyway, olive is.
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She's a little firecracker forsure.
So I do get some inspiration ongeneral dog behavior, not breed
specific.
We have a big log pile in thebackyard and Olive will climb it
and pull the log out and sitdown and chew all the bark off
of it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
For no reason, absolutely no reason whatsoever
it must be delicious.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
I'm assuming it's got something in there that she
needs.
I have to get the leaf blowerout every night just to clear
off the patio.
She's a treat.
I love her.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Alright, thanks for the stories.
And it's always.
It's wistful to remember thedogs you've lost, but then
there's also that tinge ofsadness too.
But I appreciate you tellingeverybody where is, where's, the
current dog at your feet?
She's in the backyard barkingright now she's barking.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
I've got some.
We've in the last two, we'vehad one, two, three, four, five
dogs move in around us, Okay,and she's going insane.
I'm trying to work on how tonot get her to bark in the
backyard.
Her hair stands up like awolverine and she just gets.
She actually barks soaggressively she hops backwards.
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It's very comical to see.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But she's outside barking right now awesome not my
problem currently okay, we havea bunch of people who are
requesting.
My guess is they want to talkto you, john, or ask you a
question, if I owe anybody money, we can talk offline okay,
sounds good.
What we're gonna do is'm goingto try and keep it somewhat
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organized.
So we do have we're on fourdifferent platforms right now.
So we'll start with maybesomebody on Twitter spaces and
then we'll go to one of thecomments from people watching
live and then, for people whoare watching live, you're going
to hear the voice of the personasking the question.
I mean, you are not going to beable to see them because
they're on X spaces, so just itmight be.
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You might like who's talking?
Where's that voice coming from?
But that's what that is.
Okay, we'll go to the herd whorequested the mic.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Hello, Hi Jason, Hi Tina, how are you?
It's in ages.
It has been a while we Dean how?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
are you?
It's in ages.
It has been a while.
We've missed you.
I have a food and medicationschedule that I finagled.
This time while I was I hady'all on mute for a little bit
there.
I wanted to say hello voice toJohnny and thank him for
everything he has done for us.
I don't know exactly how hestumbled on us, but it was with
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Owen Wilson.
I dropped a couple pictures.
In the comments there's like a15-second sketch that he's
probably mortified that I put up.
But for whatever reason, that'sthe very first piece of artwork
I saved.
My phone is full of his artwork.
He drew a picture of these.
I have one pair of pink bootsand he immortalized them and it
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became a thing and everybodythinks that I love pink, which I
don't.
I will give pink gifts withlove because I know it comes
from the heart, but it isabsolutely not my color.
But it is my color because ofthis sketch that Johnny did for
me.
Most recently he helped me raisefunds for Catherine O'Hara.
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She's a senior diabeticchihuahua who had about 10% of
her vision left clouded overfrom diabetic cataracts.
Diabetic cataracts almostalways turn into glaucoma.
The cataracts themselves arenot painful.
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Glaucoma is a pressure in theeye kind of thing, and it is
extremely painful for dogs likedownright excruciating.
Painful for dogs, likedownright excruciating.
And within a week of picking upCatherine, I picked up another
dog who had the cataracts andglaucoma.
Her eyes were so bad I couldn'teven show them online.
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I couldn't let that happenagain.
So John did this fundraiser and, yeah, we raised over 50% of
her bill just from thatfundraiser.
He doesn't owe me any money andwe'll clear that one up, but
he's a fabulous artist and it'sbeen like watching Ant and Tram
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of the Puff Dog family grow up.
John was a very small accountwhen he approached me and I
fully exploited him.
I don't take credit becauseit's all him, but I'd like to
think that I pushed him into theocean.
That is dog Twitter and catTwitter and critters.
So he draws my critters too.
He did some great pieces of mybearded dragon.
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He also oh, owen Wilson.
He was very ill.
We nearly lost him around hisfirst birthday.
I bought him the stuffed giraffewith giant long legs because
Owen had the giant long legs.
Owen proceeded to destroy thispoor animal and it became a
daily update thing and we calledit the Jeffrey Files.
(25:16):
I would like to make it veryclear this is Jeffrey with a G,
not that other Jeffrey files,because they're just bad and we
don't want to talk.
But yeah there's.
I put a picture up of the filesthat he made.
There was just that's just asmall sample.
There were hundreds of them.
I would like to report backthat Jeffrey was saved by the
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help of the Bunsen Stuffy.
I can't find the video of that,but it was the Bunsen Stuffy
1.0.
Sebastian from we Rate Dogs andI had the live Twitter feed
going along with it and it has avery special place in my heart
because they don't make thejeffrey giraffe anymore.
They don't kind of like a babywith their favorite binky or
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pacifier.
That if it's not that theydon't want it I love drawing
your animals.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I try to get to the couch shots every Friday.
Oh my gosh, that's got to behard.
I can't imagine a lead up toget everybody just sitting there
.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
They are so good I have been doing it so long that
the new dogs catch right on andthey know they're getting a
piece of Owen's special food.
Owen's food is very expensive,it's also very smelly, and the
dogs go wild for it.
So that's their big treat forthe week.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
So I do have to ask, because you do more than you do
dogs and cats, but you dobearded lizards.
I do have to ask about Turkey.
Is he still around?
Speaker 8 (26:53):
I don't have Turkey anymore.
He had a disease called hole inthe head and it's exactly as
bad as it sounds.
I do have a little tank rightnow with the glow glows like the
go-go's.
There's some glow fish.
I have three frogs that startedas Morgan Freeman and Morgan
Fairchild.
I lost one of them, so I got acouple more and now it's Morgan
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and Morgan and Vivian Law.
I have a little community ofsnails that are keeping it clean
for me, so it's super lowmaintenance.
Yay for Herd Mom, becauseeverything else is high
maintenance.
I also have a general pet chatupdate.
I know there's some of ourmutual followers on here and
maybe some of your followersremember me from a while back,
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but two of my parapups KieferSutherland, who's been paralyzed
from the shoulders back for twoyears, is ready to start
walking.
He's crawling with both legs.
He's standing up, holding it.
He's figuring out how to movehis legs with help from me, and
I don't know if little Barrywith spina bifida, who should
never be walking, has beenwatching us or what, but I've
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been working on getting adislocated knee back in place
for him and he took two wholereal life steps this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Amazing, that is amazing.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
I saw your posts about it earlier and I was like
whoa, yeah I was like whoa, sohere I'll repost it, and that
way, if you want to share thatone, because it is good and for
folks, for example that Facebookand YouTube, who maybe aren't
familiar with who you are.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You are a registered nonprofit and you basically help
out dogs that have specialneeds, right Do the most extreme
special needs.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Some of them are not extreme but for the folks off
platform, I do have a very smallFacebook.
I had a private issue that Idon't want to discuss with
Instagram.
Maybe we'll go back someday.
I have a dog that has no backlegs.
I have paralyzed dogs, I haveblind, I have deaf.
I do a lot of medicalrehabilitation as a foster mom
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for animals that needamputations, animals that need
amputations.
I never thought I would be anexpert in the care of such a
procedure, but I am and I'm veryhonored that they let me help
them.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And then you also help organize cross-country
travels like remember Nacho, yes, the Nacho run.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Nacho was brought into my veterinarian with bags
of medicine and a stack ofveterinary papers.
That turned out not to bereally the situation, but he was
a golden retriever and too bigfor my house, so where does he
need to go?
The golden ratio in the FloridaKeys.
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We got together, we got.
This was my first big run andfrom Idaho to the Florida Keys
it took about a week.
We had a ton of volunteers.
The whole internet watched thisthing.
It was in the news.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winningjournalist Gwen Fiosa, mom to
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the dog Sergio.
You should check them out.
Shameless plug there.
She wrote a lovely articleabout it and that kind of made
me want to get more involvedwith that.
Most of my dogs end up gettingadopted out of area, off of the
social media posts.
People make connections withthem.
I always do the first part ofthe travel and get them at the
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very least to Utah.
I have gone to Florida and asfar as Florida on one side, Los
Angeles on the other, for dogsthat have ended up staying here.
I help people out for dogs thatare not even mine ended up
staying here.
I help people out for dogs thatare not even mine.
It's one of the coolest thingsyou can do is help get a dog to
their forever home.
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Cats, I think, are easier totravel with, but that hasn't
really been.
Nobody really jumps at taking anew cat in a carrier.
I can't blame them for that.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Cats are super particular at the Starbucks
drive-thru too, so you don'twant to travel with cats.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
No, they don't mix well with Starbucks.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
They're really demanding.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Yes, that other magic window though that has the
broken ice cream machines.
I won't plug them.
They have some good ice creamand cats.
Some cats love cream, somedon't.
I have one that requires milkon the floor every day, can't be
in a dish, can't be on acounter, has to be floor milk
and a couple of drops and shetootles off.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Oh, that's cute.
Thank you so much for all thatyou do, Teen, and for stepping
up to speak.
We really definitely appreciateit and I know that you've been
excited to talk to John, toJohnny, here, so thank you for
giving me the open mic.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
I probably took up a lot of time, so I'm going to say
goodbye and go feed some dogs.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It was really good to hear you, hear from you.
Ok, love you guys.
Bye, ok, take care, we'll do acouple of comments.
Then we'll get to anotherspeaker.
Mark, who's watching on YouTube, says Johnny, love the cartoon
you did of ginger.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Do you need an eraser ?
We talked about that justbefore.
Right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And on Instagram, ice Goddess says we love seeing
your work when it's posted on X,so people are just dropping
comments about they love yourart, john.
Most people on Instagram, Ithink, are just watching right
now.
There's not a lot of comments,no.
So there's no comments orquestions on Instagram right now
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, so we will go to who came upnext.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Chris, I was just I was just gonna say mark the
comment there, mark has a beaglenamed ginger.
Yeah, and she's sure a cutie.
I don't know, jason, youbrought everybody up.
I think sasha the bernadoodlewas next and then, so we'll go
to sasha, or it's actually.
Ho, hi, holly, hi.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Chris, hi Jason.
Hello, I'm good and just wantedto say I'm so glad you guys
enjoyed your week on my littleisland here.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah.
It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
That was awesome.
Sasha misses you, of course.
She loved all the cuddles andloves, but I wanted to give a
huge thank you to John forSasha's birthday drawing.
It was I.
Just we absolutely love it andshe has been my little Muppet
since the first time I ever sawher, and there's a little story
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there.
I've been calling her a Muppetsince she was a little puppy and
when she was about six monthsold, some friends of ours from
Seattle came up to visit andthey walked in, met Sasha, and
one of them just she saysinstantly my God, you're right,
she is a Muppet.
So, yes, next step is to getthat mounted and framed and add
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it to my Sasha art collection.
So thank you so much for that.
We love it.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
And I think we got to see that in person, didn't we,
Holly?
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yes, I showed it to you when you guys were here.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yes, we saw the art in person, john, because we had
supper with Holly and Colin andthen we went back to their place
and got to meet Sasha and Toby.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
It was awesome.
Yes and yes, and I don't thinkthey're listening, but obviously
a huge thanks to the mom ofbeagle bow and beagle sky for
commissioning that for us, so Iabsolutely love it awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, we'll go to paula, who's on x, and then
jamie hi paula hi, hi everybody.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Hi, johnny, nice to see you and hear you on x.
This is so exciting I'm Icouldn't wait to see this and
hear this welcome.
I have a I put in the chat.
I have a piece by that johnnydid of a late olive I love the
name, by the way, your dog, yourfrenchie, and my angel olive
and angel Rosie, with AnnieArpulli and I actually got a
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gift of Marla's painting of Kuno, so I just had them framed
together and I got it backyesterday.
So I'm pretty excited about it,but I just showed half of it
for mine.
But you did an awesome job.
We just love you.
So we we just want to know isthere any?
What is your favorite animal todraw?
And I see a sloth on your wallbehind you and I didn't know if
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that was like one of yourfavorite animals or is there
something that you said oh gosh,I can't draw it.
So it's a combo question what'syour favorite thing to draw?
But is there an animal or dogbreed that you came across?
And you're like man, I justcan't get this character and you
stumped on it and thank you forall you do for Marlon the Herd.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I think you're an angel.
So thank you very much, Welcome.
Thank you for thanks, for allthe kind words.
So yeah, my drawing style haschanged quite a bit.
I look back at I've probablygot a thousand drawings here in
my studio that just aren't goinganywhere.
But if I look at like a sheet,like a stack of photocopy paper
about 500 sheets I've probablygot six or seven stacks the same
size of just random art.
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So that I got that.
It's a sort of a stuffy sloth.
I can't have it near the groundor my olive will demolish it.
But I got that at a techconference and I call they were
giving them away at a booth andI couldn't not bring one home.
So that's my motivational sloth.
It usually has a cartoon bubblebeside it that says get to work
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.
It's somewhere around my studiohere.
As far as the funnest things,probably the most common dog
I've been drawing are beagles.
I do a lot of work with arescue co-op and then Skye and
Bo are both beagles and they'rejust easy to draw.
They have a fun snout.
But I'm trying to test thelimits on my like a lot of my
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drawing I just get comfortablewith certain poses and I'm
trying to.
I'm going through all my Disneybooks and my Warner Brothers
books and just looking at thedifferent leg positions of dogs
and how they open their mouthand kind of their facial
expressions, their heads turningone way but their body is the
other, just getting the cadencedown for when they're walking,
making sure the legs because thelegs are alternating so they're
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not both out front at the sametime, one's back and the middle.
It's just weird between runningand walking there's different
ways the dogs and animals ingeneral with four legs move.
So I try to make sure I'mgetting a little bit more
accurate in my depictions.
Even though they're cartoonsthere's some thought that goes
into them.
I've tried to draw times barrywhen he's been wet and just not.
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I'm just trying not to alwaysbe so like particular with where
the lines fall and when you'vegot a wet dog and you're just
drawing with ink, which I shouldjust mention now.
I just draw ink and paper andmarkers.
I don't do anything digital.
If someone needs somethingdigital, I end up taking what
I've done and just scanning it.
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In some horrific cases I'vegone through the process of
inking it and coloring it on thegood paper and then realizing
I've got the dog's name wrong,I've misspelt it, so that goes
in the garbage and I have tostart all over again.
Yeah, yeah.
So, Paul, I'd like.
Beagles are easy to draw.
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I'd start to stretch down.
I've done some.
Birds and cats are fun to drawtoo, especially cats in the cat
tree or cat condos where they'rescratching or they're glazing.
But I just try to like, andthen lots of people ask me to
put themselves in with their pet.
So I'm trying to get better atdrawing people.
I'm not quite a caricaturist.
Those guys seem to have acertain vibe to their output.
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I don't draw that way.
And then, yeah, just having aconversation between the pets we
talked about with Jason earlier, about when there's more than
one animal in the picture.
It's so much more fun to createa bit of a conversation with
the pets, so it creates somedynamics and it doesn't get old
because you smile at it all thetime.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
That's great.
Thank you very much.
I think it's great.
I can see you evolving.
I've been watching you forquite a number of years now.
It's really awesome to see howyou've been growing and going
into different avenues.
So congratulations.
I hope, too, that you maybe doa book on your own too, so that
would be great.
Or something good comes alongtoo.
Great job, and again, thank youfor everything that you do.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
I appreciate the kind words and thanks for following
us all.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Thanks for the comment, paula.
I do have to say you did drawme with Ginger, like you did a
picture of me with Ginger, andyou definitely made me look like
commander shepherd from themass effect video game.
So I do appreciate you canshave.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
I was very generous with you, jason.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, you definitely shaved off.
Some of my neck fat look prettysvelte in the picture you drew,
so I appreciate that it wasmore about ginger.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Why does it always come back to you?
What, oh no, the drawing.
You know what I mean.
It's always about you thedrawing of.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I'll share the picture for people who are
watching live.
Yeah, the drawing of ginger isvery cute, and that one we have
up on the wall in our house too.
Oh, oh, that's the wrong button.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
One second.
You just got the one of you andGinger on your shoulders.
Right, that just arrived.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's the one I'm talking about, yeah,
so people are watching live.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You can see that.
Great job, thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
You got the holiday five o'clock shadow there.
Jason gets that by.
If he shaves at 6 am, he getsthat by, I don't know 7.05.
Speaker 8 (41:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
He just all of a sudden boom, he's a chia pet.
Yeah, it just grows veryquickly.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I am very close to an orangutan in my family tree.
Okay, thanks, paula.
We'll go to Jamie and then toDonna and then we'll get to some
comments, because a couple havepopped up.
Hi, jamie, hello.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Hi Jamie, Hello.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Hello, sorry, it has been so very long.
I've been really busy with workand hiking and work and hiking
and dogs and all that sort ofstuff.
But, john, thank you very muchfor all your artwork.
I don't have one personally,but I love seeing them when you
post them.
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They are well done and soamusing in so many cases.
So thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (41:55):
Sometimes I think I'm posting too much stuff.
No, no Now that I'm retired fromthe workforce.
I've spent a lot of time hereat my drafting desk and drawing,
drawing, so not a lot of it.
I would say 80% of it makes itto the airways, but there's some
stuff that it doesn't.
I've tried not to be political.
I've learned that people aren'tfollowing me to hear about my
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world vision of politics.
I've stopped putting anythingorange in my cartoons it's all
about the pets Because I'veactually had people say John,
I'm not following you to hearyour views on US politics, so
lay off.
And I said OK, and I said okay.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
That's a true story.
Coming from Australia, ourviews of US politics are
possibly similar to yours, butyes, your pet pictures are
beautiful.
Thank you very much.
And from pet news here Rosie'sdoing well, river's doing well,
tennessee's doing well, thechicken's not so good.
The dingo that lives in ourstreet managed to get in and
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take away maybe 11 birds overthe last two months.
Oh yeah, yeah, and I thinkJackie was one of them, which is
a bit sad.
We're very.
The fences have been repairedand we're very careful with
putting them away at night andthe dogs don't.
The dogs don't actually doanything about keeping him out,
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which is a bit of a pest, butRosie's.
It's the middle of NorthQueensland, winter, so winter in
the tropics.
So we got down to seven degreesthe other day, which was just
bitterly cold for townsville,and rosie still went swimming
because she's just insane I'mglad to hear all the dogs are
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well and I'm sorry to hear aboutthe chickens.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
I know gourd lost a duck to an owl, didn't he one of
his ducks, which was very yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
and then we recently had a weasel come in to the coop
yeah and it took a big hunk outof a chicken's neck and the
chicken survived, and so theyput polysporin on it so it
didn't get infected.
But now it's like a growth likethe corpus.
What is it that cordyceps?
The cordyceps is like an alien.
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I know it's not a good look,it's not a good look, but the
chicken's alive.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Chris, it's a giant scab and the chicken is doing
fine.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
The chicken is fine, it just has the way it healed.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Thank you very much and I hope to try and get back
in more often, just being sobusy.
And, donna, it is lovely to seeyou here.
Speaker 7 (44:47):
Thanks for calling in .
Speaker 1 (44:47):
No worries.
Thanks, Thanks, Jamie.
Johnny, you had a little smirkat the seven degrees.
You're a fellow Canadian.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Hey, that's a beach day in Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Chris didn't want to hear this, but this morning
there was frost on the grass, ifyou can believe it.
Yeah, there was frost on ourgrass.
I couldn't believe.
It was like is that frost?
And then I touched it and itwas frost.
So we had a really cold nightwhere we are.
So just a couple comments, thenwe'll get to.
Donna.
Madison says maybe the chickenis the same one bernoulli had.
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It has nine lives.
Acl says hello from northcarolina.
And then, just maybe to clearup something, because we have
some new people listening,roberto's like who's talking?
So we have people who are ontwitter or x and they're
listening by audio and they havethe ability to jump in with
their voice, if that makes sense, okay.
(45:46):
And then there was a bunch ofcomments on instagram loving
your drawings, because I've beensharing the screen, so people
have been able to see them, john, so that's very cool okay,
thank you yeah, okay we'll go to.
Speaker 7 (46:00):
Oh sorry, go ahead, no, I just think that's the best
place to see like the 3,000cartoons that I've got, because,
like I mentioned once, thecartoon is lost in your screen
on Twitter, you won't find itagain yeah, you'd have to go to
your profile and scroll down.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
We'll go to donna.
Hello donna, good to see you.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Hopefully you're doing well y'all, good to see
y'all and thanks.
I put a comment in the commentsbecause this isn't about me,
but they thanks y'all.
I just can't thank everybodyenough for all the outpouring of
love and people I've never metin real life, except for a few
of you guys, and I just feel soclose and not so isolated.
(46:41):
So thank you.
But, john, you do so much forsome.
Oh, you cut out.
I'm here.
I think you're the perfect blendto hang with Chris and Jason,
because you guys both spreadkindness and empathy.
They add the science piece toit and I think your artwork, in
(47:04):
a massive time of grief, givessome joy and perspective and
it's awesome.
But since you do, or so others,how can we support you in like
donating supplies to you?
Because that is not cheap, as Iknow, and I think it needs to
(47:25):
come back to you a little bit.
And then, a second part of thatis I would pay good money to
see artwork of the Zajkowskisand all the animals in their
Comic-Con era and all theirlittle outfits, because I think
that would be cool, like alittle between the Mandalorian
and all the other stuff whenthey're in their outfits.
(47:46):
I think it would be cool.
And third, if you love drawingcats, boy, have I got a cat for
you.
You love drawing cats, boy,have I got a cat for you.
But I because she always walksaround like a dog with her fake
mouths or fake chicken and she'sjust a pistol.
But big fan of all of y'all,actually, but big fan of your
work, what you do for others,and I'll give you the floor oh,
(48:10):
thanks, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (48:12):
Yeah, the supplies, it's really just my time and
experience.
So I don't have any problemdonating my time and I do get
some commissions now and againand I use that revenue to buy
more paper and more ink.
And I remember a joke because Idraw very quickly and that
seems to befuddle people abouthow fast I can draw until
(48:37):
they're like not charging enoughand all that kind of stuff.
So I remember an old man goesto the dentist and he's got a
rotten tooth.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
He can't sleep, he can't eat, he can't drink and he
sits down in the chair and he'sa bit grumpy and asks the
dentist says dentist is where Igotta take the tooth out.
Speaker 7 (48:51):
And he goes how how much is that going to cost?
And he says it's going to be$100.
He says how long is it going totake?
It's going to take about fiveseconds.
He says that seems like a lotof money for the time it's going
to take.
The dentist says I can make itlast as long as you like.
So it all comes down toexperience and tackling problems
(49:12):
, and I love what I do.
I recently retired from the realworld so I'm drawing every
morning.
I have like a sweet spot whereI really enjoy drawing after my
first couple cups of coffeestart around eight o'clock and
then the creative sort of desiredrops off again to early
evening.
I never want to be in a placewhere I have to feel I have to
(49:33):
draw.
I'm drawing because I love itand then I see when someone
sends me a picture that I'vedrawn of their cat or dog that
went over the rainbow or a funnysituation that they went
through with the cat learning toswim or dogs getting into
trouble and then just bringingjoy to folks that realized that
(49:53):
I did that with a piece of paperand a fountain pen.
To me it just gives me a reasonto get up in the morning,
because you need a reason to getup.
And although retirement soundslike bliss, you do need a
mission.
You do need to get out of bed.
The pedal falls off the rosepretty quick when you've got
nothing to do off the rosepretty quick when you've got
(50:16):
nothing to do.
And I'm super fortunate thatI've got this, this talent that
I work at that can have me onshows like this, but I've had to
work at it.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
It was a 60 year overnight success kind of thing
if, because we're gettingquestions about this now john,
if people want you to do someart or if people want some of
your art, do they just messageyou, and if you have time or if
you have the inclination, If Ifollow them on Twitter, that's
(50:41):
easy.
Speaker 7 (50:41):
They can send me a message on Instagram.
If I follow them on Twitter,they can send me a note.
Other than that, you can emailme which?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
is easier.
Speaker 7 (50:50):
Because then again I get into a situation where
someone's asked me to drawsomething.
They've sent pet pictures andthen I forgot where they sent it
from or where they sent me anemail, but the pictures are on
twitter and like, so email worksbest and are you okay with me
putting your email up in thejumbotron for people who are
(51:11):
watching live?
and then if someone wants toreach out about, because
christmas is just around thecorner, but I have.
Actually we're going to do some.
I think that rescue co-ops gota three-year anniversary next
month, so we're going to do somefun stuff with commemorative
auctions like greeting cards andstuff.
There it is.
Look at that.
It's on the Jumbotron One ofthe good things on a Jumbotron
(51:33):
these days.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
Oh, Too soon.
It's never too soon I missed mysnap.
Speaker 7 (51:42):
It's on June.
Actually I think it might beJune.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
It's pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (51:47):
A cat with a dog at a Coldplay concert.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
I know the cat and the dog.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
But Deke is in the chat and said hi, mr Johnny,
it's me, deke.
They're listening right now.
Speaker 7 (52:01):
Awesome.
Hopefully the folks Deke thatwe sent.
We drew the pictures for havegot them.
One was in the mail and the onewith the frame I think was
going to Texas, so hopefullythat gets there.
I find that once mail leavesthe Canadian, the great white
North, it's a wild west.
It stuff takes months or daysand then it's like they tie it
(52:22):
to the back of an F-150 and dragit down the road to someone's
house.
I don't know what the US PostalService is up to these days,
but it's nothing good.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
They've been defunded .
Speaker 1 (52:38):
We have similar troubles.
When it goes to europe, I cantrack it, I'm like, oh, it's
going great, and then it justvanishes and I'm like I hope it
gets to germany.
Speaker 7 (52:46):
I heard I rely on the mail personally to get artwork
to people and I heard thatcanada post is recommending that
the union, like the union's,recommending they don't take the
newest offers.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
It just seems to be ongoing, but anyway, yeah, we
rely on it too for our stuffiesand stuff.
So we're watching it hopefullyas well.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
And the calendar that will be coming out.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
So a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, anyways, that's aproblem for a different day.
Yeah, maybe we bunch of stuff.
Yeah, yeah, anyways, that's aproblem for a different day.
Yeah, maybe we have one morespeaker.
Do you have time to take onemore question and then we'll
kind of wrap up, or do you gotto get going?
No, I'm good because you'relater than us.
Is it like 10 o'clock for youright now nine o'clock?
Eight o'clock here okay, onlynow seems like 10 o'clock okay,
(53:34):
we'll just bring.
I'll check the chat again forany.
Oh one question while belinda'scoming up do you have a website
or just email you?
Speaker 7 (53:43):
just email me right now.
I don't have a website yet.
That's on my wish listultimately to just to make the
process easier, mostly forpeople who want stuff done.
Yeah, because people.
There's probably five or sixquestions back and forth before
I can pull the trigger and ifthere's a way for me to have, I
did register a website calledcartoonificationca.
(54:05):
It's just being parked rightnow, but I want to the ability
for folks to upload photos, payfor something, put some notes in
and send it so I can keep trackof it better as well.
I've got a stack of stuff herethat is in no particular order
that I try to get to eachmorning.
So it would be.
I'd like to be more organized.
No website, email only now.
(54:27):
That's the easiest.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
So one more time I'll put the email on there.
It looks like Belinda had sometrouble connecting.
She's not we.
She's been up to speak before,but that didn't work and she got
booted, so maybe she lostinternet.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
I.
And then one more comment hereon Twitter in the chat, ryan,
the chief of staff for Rory,says you've done so much for
Rory, you're so good and yourart is so beautiful.
Speaker 7 (54:50):
Oh, it's so beautiful .
Oh, it's so nice to hear thatsort of stuff, because you know
what I do art and I send it out,but I do work alone.
So it is nice to hear feedbackfrom folks that appreciate the
stuff that I do, because I dowork in a bit of a vacuum as far
as day-to-day and then I justentertain myself by drawing.
So it's nice that peopleappreciate it.
(55:13):
So, thank you, ryan.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
Sounds like how you entertain yourself was a little
bit more exciting than how Chrisdoes.
Chris, what have you been doingall summer?
Long for fun.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Oh, I've been doing math.
Yeah, I've been doingpermutations and combinations
and the fundamental countingprinciple, probability, rational
equations I've got.
But I just am trying to refreshbecause I have a new course
that I'm teaching in the fall.
It's math 30-2.
(55:47):
It's a grade 12, it's highschool level math and I just
want to make sure I'm fresh andI know it all so I went to a
private boys school growing upfor high school and there was
absolutely zero opportunity tohave creative outlets.
Speaker 7 (56:06):
It was math, physics and chemistry 300 I had to take
in high school and I stillremember the distance formula
from physics and all the weirdthings.
Strangely enough, you don'tneed to know that to draw a
picture.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
But yeah, I'm excited .
Speaker 7 (56:27):
So good for you.
Thank you Awesome.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Thank you for being our guest tonight, John.
I so appreciate it.
You've done art of our guesttonight, John.
I so appreciate it.
You've done art of our animalsin the past and we've loved it.
So I can say it now to yourface how much we appreciate the
art you've done, and especiallythat one of Ginger on my back,
which is really sweet, thatone's hanging in our house in
the living room and we havepeople notice it.
Speaker 7 (56:52):
They're like oh, that's so cool, like people
notice it and they make comments, like it's really fun yeah
that's why I do it, just to make, to put a smile on your face
thank you I appreciate having meon, so thank you very much and
hopefully everyone enjoys theirsummer and I'll check my email
(57:12):
tomorrow morning and maybethere's a few new customers that
are going to have some artworksoon.
Speaker 1 (57:17):
And you are on Twitter and you are on Instagram
.
What is your handle on both?
Just for folks.
Speaker 7 (57:26):
You know I'm going to have to figure it out again.
On X I am at John HeimJ-O-H-N-H-E-I-M.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Okay, and on Instagram I am art underscore by
underscore, heim Art underscoreby underscore Heim, yeah, okay,
perfect, yeah, just so folkscan find you and.
Speaker 2 (57:50):
I just wanted to add one more thing.
Sebastian from the Cowboy CatRanch, also in the chat, wants
to thank you for all that you dofor the animals we love, dr
Sebastian.
Speaker 7 (58:01):
I've still got some work on my to-do list for him,
so let him know it's a work inprogress.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (58:09):
That's us too, like we have a.
We finished the first start ofour text from bunsen book.
It took us a week, and so weknow all the stuff that kind of
goes in behind the scenes and wecan't create.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
We can't draw worth beans, chris we can't draw
anything.
Speaker 2 (58:25):
No, zero, john johnny's.
Speaker 1 (58:28):
johnny's a wizard.
I look at what people who havethat artistic ability have and I
I'm like how do you do that?
It's just, it baffles my brain.
Yeah, all right, I think we'llwrap up.
We'll save our stories for nextweek.
Hey, chris.
Yeah, I think so, okay, yeah, wecan talk about our stories next
week, all right, hey everybody,thanks for coming to Pet Chat
(58:49):
today.
Again, thank you to Johnny Heim.
John Heim, the aspiringcartoonist.
I like your handle there.
Thank you for being our guesttoday and giving up your time.
Thank you for having me.
When we announced that you weregoing to be a guest, there was
tons of people very exciteddefinitely a lot of folks on
Twitter who know who you are, orX, as a lot of the artists
(59:09):
shared there.
Yeah, anything else to add?
Chris?
Speaker 2 (59:12):
I know.
Just thank you again for beingour guest and sharing your joy
and passion for all that you doand the donation of your time to
help the rescues, and just thepositivity that you have.
It's just infectious and justthanks again.
It's just so great.
And thank you everybody forcoming and listening to our show
(59:33):
tonight or in the future.
Like Jamie, it's the morningfor her and, yeah, and for those
of you who came up to speak, weappreciate you sharing your
stories.
It's tough to talk in a largegroup in front of people, so we
just love that you're here withus in our community.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
And, as we close, if you haven't already known, fun
Facts with Bernoulli.
Our Fun Facts book is out.
It's on our store.
Our link is in our bio.
We have a limited supply andwe'll cross our fingers with.
If everything goes to plan, inthe next 10 days the Bernoulli
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stuffies will arrive at ourhouse and we will start shipping
them out to all of the peoplewho so graciously were part of
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