June 1, 2025 • 52 mins
In Episode 11 of The Squirrel Hour, the hosts Rick Hunter (aka Spyder- Pup) & the cast bring you another lively and NSFW podcast. Rick expresses gratitude to their listeners from 68 countries, while the team shares anecdotes, including Rick’s chaos opening beers and a humorous misunderstanding over the E-word. The episode features Pup Noah as a special guest who shares his harrowing road trip from BC to Ontario and back through the US, including a deer collision and a snowy drive. The group discusses summer plans, their affinity for the pup community, and their appreciation for supportive friendships. They also share amusing anecdotes and thoughts on mental health, with Pup Noah starting a journaling practice. The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter and a reminder that mental health is important.
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It is episode 11. Thank you pop Titan slash J rod
for that thank you for the update and now we know what
episode ran crack your beers everybody it's time to be back
and there it is the. Chaos the.
The famous chaos of J Rod opening his beer slash cup
Titan. You know what next podcast, you
better call me and I will come pick you up at the store.
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See if I remember that net for next week.
Thank you. Welcome back to the Squirrel
Hour everybody. We are on episode 11 season 3.
I am your host Rick Hunter AKA Spider Pup of this main show
we're doing today, the Squirrel Hour.
We have a wonderful guest with us today.
Before we get into that, we wantto make sure that we remind
everybody that we are a not safefor work podcast.
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Please be aware of that. We talk about weird ass shit and
the topics get stranger as the hours go on because you know
what this is? It is a happy hour podcast and
we getting drunk. And we swear a lot.
Do swear a lot. And you know what?
I love it when people ask us canI say the E word?
We're like fuck, fuck, fuck you fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck yes you
can. You know what?
That F word. Yeah, we can.
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We can say whatever we want. The E.
Word because elephant. We stick a big.
Erection. E.
Erotic. In front of let me finish my
statement got. It thank.
You done before I start being interrupted.
Thank you, by the way, T-bone for putting in for today.
And yeah, so there's our there'sour introduction for today.
Let's go around the table, introduce who we are besides our
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wonderful guest, which is going to be Pap Noah.
We will introduce you shortly because you have your own
introductory segment. You've been on the show before,
but in the background, but neveryou a guest on the show.
So we're excited to meet you today.
But with that being said, let's go around the table for our
podcast audience that has grown another country.
So 67 countries around the worldbefore I forget to say thank you
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to everybody globally who now follows us.
It's it's crazy to think that 67countries around the world
follow us. And that's that, that's just
amazing. And I really, really love to see
that. So please go around the table
who's here on today's podcast. Hey, it's Jukey.
I don't have much of A voice today, so we'll see how much I
actually talk about fair. We were singing this morning.
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That's peptitan. I have.
I have no words. There you go.
My brain's not brain in today. Mine was not yesterday.
We'll get to that. I'm Sharon Dubois and I am now
sick. Lovely.
You. You're sleeping downstairs.
I'm. Not you are.
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Fine. T-bone, we.
Turn that up and. I'm Papnoa.
Good voice Noah, very nice. I like the deepness of it.
We're gonna be a pro with this episode today so we don't not
have a topic today for today's show.
We left that up to Noah if he wanted to talk about something,
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but nothing came to mind. Something might happen
throughout the show. With that being said, does
anybody have anything +2? Weeks have gone by since we have
seen everybody. Anything that has happened
positive in our lives that we would like to share, that has
occurred. Go My choir show was amazing.
Thank you to everybody who came,it was really fun.
And because of that, we have oneof our upcoming guests, a non
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pup. Non pup from the. 1st.
Human, I think the first human in three years to come on the
show. Clawson.
But Clawson, yeah. But yeah, that's it.
So she's. Super excited.
She's she's a real sweetheart. We met her and she's gonna be in
the on the podcast and Jukey show was an absolute super hit.
We always have a great time. Anybody else?
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Spaz is here also. I see that.
Scare the shit out of everybody.Are we missing anybody we've
got? Sprinkles and alert Daniel.
So are we missing anybody? And we're missing sprinkles.
Thank you, girl. Not who's here.
Yeah. I thought we were.
I don't know. No, we're missing.
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Sprinkles and SP and the kids. Thank you.
And in the background we have. Handler Daniel and pup Artemis.
And have they both been on the show before?
Yes. I believe I already.
Asked Wait, is this a podcast? Yep, ers there it.
Is. You've been on the show too.
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What? Daniel.
Yeah, Yeah, I think so. OK.
Yeah, they've been on. Thank you.
All righty. So anybody else want to share
anything? I Make Love to my wife of
Explosion. When the hell did you get
married? Sorry, I mean, it has been a
month since we've seen you so. Technically, it's been a long
time, yeah. Yeah, it's been a few.
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It's been a good time. Mother's Day, last podcast,
doing the mother, the motherly thing with your family.
So yeah, it's been about four weeks.
I might have a girlfriend prettyquick here.
OK, that's. Kind of a big deal.
I'm just gonna turn that up. Very nice.
When was the last time that any one of you listened to the
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podcast? I have yet to listen to a single
episode. I listen to the whole thing,
but. OK, I listen to them when I'm
not on them and that episode hasnot been loaded yet.
We have those. We were actually having the
discussion outside about who does not like to hear the sound
of their own voice, which is whythe majority of the cast do not
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listen to the podcast. Like the sound of my voice.
I just think it's, you know, I've been on the podcast, so I
know what happened. So I listen to the ones that I'm
not on because I don't know whathappened.
That is totally fair. Yeah, we were we were we were
playing the podcast for Pop Pop Arty and he does not like the
sound of his voice. I.
Got a little bit of a story good.
I changed at my dispensary for cannabis.
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So I want, I like micro dosing just a little bit of edibles
Friday nights on the tail end ofmy night.
It just helps me literally feel out my weak and tap into my
feelings. It's good, it's a good thing and
I sleep well and well, the indigenous don't fuck around, as
I found out with their edibles cuz it's on a reserve, whatever.
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And they're, they're one gummy and it comes with like 10-1
gummy is 25 milligrams. Oh, that's a lot.
The government, the government stuff is like 10 milligrams for
the whole package. And I waited like an hour and a
half and I, I felt something forsure, but I was like, oh, I
could, I could take more like I that's.
A lot. And this last.
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Words took the other two thirds,half, whatever, and it was a
full body high like, Oh yeah, I maybe I've had that a little bit
before, but it was crazy. So the story there is I put on
our podcast and it helped me calm down.
So thank you guys. I just put that on Help me.
Excellent dial in. Don't write that out.
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For an hour so we know how to fuck you up.
Yeah, we've been practicing for years on how to fuck up the
white people. It's good times.
Respect, man, those things, I can't even get over how powerful
that was. Powerful.
That was you. Got to be careful though.
Right, if everybody would like to wonderfully pick these few
seconds after the episode and we're gonna do a quick group
photo for the Instagram, everybody like to smile.
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There we go. I always like to get a couple of
nice photo shots for it for everybody for posting onto the
podcast. So here we are again today.
So if anybody else you got body stones, that's great body.
Stones. You don't mind?
Stones. Yes, sorry, I'm waiting for it.
It's a work thing. No, last weekend we had our
patio opening party and it was. Damn it, you're stealing my
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Thunder. It was fun.
It was. We had a great turn out.
There was a lot of people here. Most of them are all pups.
It was true. Which is, you know, the norm
nowadays with us. It really is, but that's how
much they my life has been involved in the community and
that's a good thing. I got mad at Spider the next
day. Yeah, because he's not allowed
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to go to sleep now until the last person is leaving.
OK now in fairness I got 4 hourssleep, got up at 7:00, did all
the running around, all the preparations, everything for the
party and did Metra and this oneslept right till 2 and woke up
and went to the Metra and got 10hours sleep.
Sorry if I worked the night before until 2:00 in the
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morning. So it's not all on me.
I'm a busy pup, I'm a busy human, I'm a busy puppy.
It was a success and we no longer have a hot tub.
That sucks. It's gone.
That's that's not a good thing. But the party was great.
Yes, thank you for mentioning it.
It was a it was a huge success. Not everyone could make it.
I'm very grateful for everyone that could.
It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next.
One which you're gonna stay up for until Skyler leaves to go
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catch the first bus in the morning.
All right, I will promise I willstay up.
Even if I'm just like passed outdead on the ground.
I'll just stay up. I'll be there.
It goes way too often. I wasn't ghosting.
I already told him like I'm exhausted.
We were up and we went to sleep.It was a good party.
What? What time did did?
Did you? It crashed at like 4:00.
It was like, that's. Pretty fucking.
Good. Thank you very much.
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It was a goddamn good run. I was up until 7:00 because it
was a Sunday the next morning and the buses don't start
running until like 7. Yeah, and I and I.
Appreciate that. It was, I think it was about 20
after almost 7:30 when Skyler made his way to the bus.
Why didn't Skyler try and sleep on the couch?
Because we were, we, I think we just came in from the hot tub at
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like quarter 6:45. Yeah, gosh.
I finally told him to turn it off when it started making noise
and it was down to like 88°. It everyone enjoyed it.
I mean, I'm glad that it got hislast Hoo ha before we gave it
away and it did go to a good home.
Someone's gonna fix it up, probably repair it.
Give it a chance. Shout out to the wife who's
about to find out they now have a hot tub.
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He didn't ask her to get a hot tub, by the way.
Really nice guy when I was here when he was picking it up.
And besides that, I am now officially done for the summer.
As much as I love what I do, theBC Crisis, I'd have no workshops
for June. I am now off for the summer
until September for the crisis center.
So that is #1 #2 I'm almost donewith the meat draw.
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The meat draw for the CrossroadsHospice Society, which means I
might get two to three months off of myself to chill out and
the the Pride Parade tank just opened up the events that we've
got. That's gonna fill up fast.
Or the next big thing. First we got the Pride parade
here. We have a trip on the Island for
our vacation. We have Pride here, Vancouver or
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on the Victoria. We got a lot of stuff going on
and but mostly for ourself. Yeah, we need to book ferry
reservations like soon. So that's kind of myself and.
Me. All right.
Because what happens to Spider happens to me.
Well, that is fair. Yeah.
And with that being said, share a few information.
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Let's get into it because I think we've all shared
information of what we've going on.
Let's get right to our wonderfulspecial guest opening up the
questions. Welcome, Pop Noah.
Yay. Hi, I'm gonna try and make sure
you get words in. Introduce yourself.
Hi, I'm Pop Noah. I've been probably, I would say
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just over a year now. Is that all?
Yeah. Just a baby pup.
I've been interested in the community, probably you're
looking on more like 7-8 years, but never really gotten involved
until about a year ago, yeah. I thought you were probably much
longer than that. No Wow, I'm older than you in in
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actual pup years. Wow, OK, I learned something new
today. Oldest and older.
Wow. All right, So what drew you to
the PUP community? I always love asking that
question. To me, because in my like family
dynamic and my friends dynamic, I'm always like the grounding
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person. So for me to that drew me to the
pup community, it was like a chance to like just kind of not
be that person. Everyone came around to like
suck all my energy out of me andI could just be free and not
have to worry about anything. That's.
Good. All right.
Next question for Papnoa. Favorite color purple of.
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Course you're purple. Or is it the purple puppy?
Wait, no, but your hood is. Yeah, so Pup Tonka gave me the
hood, which was red, so I just have to order the parts to make
it purple. OK, it was just gonna seem like
I don't remember the purple being there.
OK, that makes sense. Gotcha.
That's completely. I just actually ordered a new
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collar with purple and red and light blue on it.
There you go. I should be getting it some
point this weekend. That will look nice.
Where did you order from? Pup sage from the island.
Good for you, I didn't know we made collars.
Yeah, he put an ad up on I thinkthe BC Pup chat about doing a
discount on making collars. I messaged him while I was at
work ironically, and I kind of ordered it while I was supposed
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to be working. Well, that's OK, You can do
both. We've all.
The story of Spider's life. Everything.
I mean when I'm supposed when I'm supposed to be taking care
of customers and making them coffee, I'm too busy on my phone
make doing an order. There may be an issue with my
manager on that. OK, that's fair.
Just don't tell us. Yeah, that's right.
I know where you were. Yes.
I was just, I believe. I remember that too.
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Yes, I remember there was a discussion about without
specifically details of. Devil.
Yes. The Antichrist of coffee makers,
according to people at this table.
So. Just saying, does anybody else
have an answer question? Wait, what happened to your hat?
You're looking Amish. You totally look Amish.
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OK, Jabadiah, what's going on here?
I don't. I don't know who that is, but.
OK, apparently you today. Apparently that who shall not be
named coffee place they don't accept cash anymore, which I
think is really wrong. That is a lie.
Is it? OK.
Yeah, we do still accept cash. Because it's.
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Legal. I didn't think that would be
legal. OK.
It's just it's not legal. It's technically legal for
companies not to accept cash, but because the company I work
for has accepted cash for so long, it would be illegal for
them to stop accepting it now. There's the.
Truth. How you start is how you shall
go. OK, now we know.
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I, I, I just think that's inherently wrong that we can't
use cash. That's there's so many
industries out there that thriveon cash, small businesses.
You have to remember one of the main reasons I'm not a
conspiracy, but you know when ifyou pay for cash, the government
doesn't get their cut when you pay for cash or you that's
exactly so if you have to pay through credit, debit,
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everything, and there's a track record over they get their tax,
there's a track ability, so. Wrong.
We should be, yeah. I know why.
I know why a lot of companies don't accept cash like smaller
businesses. It's because it's a security
risk. And with so many people, so many
stores being broken into now, ifthey just go cashless, it's just
better on them, their part, thatthey never actually lose a
profit. There you go.
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Remember I told you that makes sense?
That makes sense. You'll get used to it.
You'll it takes experience to beon the podcast to get used to
it, which is why my head is always doing this.
You're treated like a penis. Hello.
There should never be a problem with a gay man being you know I.
Said kiss it, don't eat it. All.
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Right. Anybody else?
Next question for Pop Noah, before we continue on, I want
questions. We don't have sprinkles today,
so I get an extra question. If you are a animal, what's your
spirit animal? Your questions are not counting,
no. OK, go ahead.
Spirit animal. I would probably say a panda.
OK. Say animal again.
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Cool animal, I heard. It animal.
Animal Now Now you'll have to listen to the podcast just for.
That one segment, I have a question.
OK, before your question, because I'm from Ontario, the
amount of people out here that like point out words that I say
differently than you guys out here, like blows my mind.
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Like I will say Fraser, not Fraser like the Fraser River or
Simon Fraser University and people will point that out.
It's spelled. Fraser there's no I in there.
I don't know why but anyone I know from Ontario that's out
here will all say Frasier and another one is I say milk very
Ontario like instead of milk I Ido a more of like an E sound
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instead of an I sound so. It's milk.
Yeah, milk. I mean don't talk to me, I'm a
Newfie so I mean we destroy the.English language he can't speak
to say he can't speak on the best of days.
I'm not one to judge anybody on language.
Try reading some of his texts. They're not good.
Oh God, jeez. My question is because everybody
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out there has like that one wordthat no matter how hard they
try, they just cannot pronounce.What's your word?
OK, so I have I struggle with words with that, with a lot of
like S sounds that's close together.
So mine word photosynthesis. OK, I can't I that's the one
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word that I struggle to say properly all the time.
That's fair. Abominable.
Yeah, I'm going to go with Abominable.
You know what mine is? Worcester Shire.
Worcester. See.
Told you, told you I said it wrong.
I just don't. You know what?
Just give me some Worcester. Nobody know how to pronounce
that word properly. Worcestershire.
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Just give me some Worcestershirelike we know.
As long as you know what the fuck I'm ordering, I don't
really get done. Problem solved.
I thought it was Shire at the end we're.
Just let's. See, now I can.
We're still Shire. Ha ha ha.
This is what happens. What?
This is what happens to Chase what?
He'll send me a text message andall of a sudden the text will be
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so bad. He's like, God damn it, I have
it like now I have a case of thespider.
It's better than saying I have acase of the dumb.
It's just I have a case of the spider.
I just can't text. Just the easiest thing.
I'm pretty sure we've talked about this before, but I've had
people screenshot his text messages and send it to me to
ask me to translate what Spider was saying.
Oh, it's terrible. It sounds like you should write
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a an erotica. Oh God, I couldn't imagine what
that erotica. Would be it would be a comedy.
Yeah, pretty much. It is true and would that be
exact? Photosynthesis is your word.
Yes, it is. I will let Pop Noah come up with
today. So every episode, to make sure
that my pack, my stinky pops arelistening, we come up with
secret word. So you get to choose a secret
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word. Only then do they know they
actually listen to the episode. Because they have to reiterate
it back. They'll message me on my
Telegram to let me know that they've actually listened to the
episode. I think it's too early in the
episode though, we're only 20 minutes in.
You wanna wait? Yeah.
All right. Let's wait for it.
Yeah. You can think on a word.
I will let you choose the word because that way something we do
not we we won't generate it willbe you.
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So since you are a new guest, all of our listeners have heard
lots about us. I mean, we're going on three
years. We're here to talk about you.
We don't have the topic. What what else would you like to
discuss? When we carried a we we we
talked about a lot of varieties pre show that we were kind of
talking about not topics, but stuff you might want to kind of
go on about and like might sparkother conversations.
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So one thing we were talking outside pre show was the road
trip I did over the Christmas holiday.
Yeah, let's talk. I drove from British Columbia to
Ontario through the States, yes.So going out there with a breeze
took Me 2 1/2 days to get to my final destination.
Wow, destination that's like a that's.
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Like a four day trip going through Canada.
Yeah, it was a beautiful sight. No issues going there.
It was like 15°C through like Wyoming.
I like was driving that with thewindows down in the middle of
the end of December. Like it felt nice.
I get to Ontario to be with my family for Christmas and that
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went all good. I got sick for like 3 days so
half of my plans had to be cancelled for the short period
of time that I was there. But I did get to go to my
favorite city, which is Toronto.Chase would be proud.
I love going to Toronto. It's my I It will always be home
for me. But this visit, I realized it's
no longer the place where I wantto live, which is now out here.
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I don't want to leave BC Yeah, this.
Is what happened to us good for you?
Yep, and then on my trip back itwas a little bit more eventful.
It took me 5 days to get back. Oh.
Dear oh, did you come back to Canada?
No, I still went through the States.
I took the exact same route thatI went.
I took out there, went home. But The thing is, is this the
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middle of my second journey day which was more night because I'm
now going West so I was driving more at night.
I hit a deer with my car in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.
So. I hit a deer with my car and
thank God of being having friends out here.
WI had Pop Artemis and Handler Danler that I contacted who
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helped me like get over the trauma of hitting a deer.
That was the first, might I add.That's the first thing I've ever
hit in my life. So like being alone at the
middle of Wyoming? Wyoming.
Yeah, I know. Well.
You took the long way around. No, it took.
That was the short way. That's what my GPS was telling
me. Holy crap, that's like I-80
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through Wyoming. You know what, I-90?
I-90 doesn't go anywhere near Wyoming.
It goes through like North Dakota.
No, it goes through South Dakotauntil Wyoming and then up into
Montana. 80 does no I-90. Look it up, I guarantee you.
Somebody look it up. Well after when we were on the
mid show, we're gonna have this discussion.
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You 2 can have our do not be we are gonna.
Battle this out intermission. I was on I-90 and I went through
Wyoming. It's Sheridan, WY what I add.
I had a lovely officer come out and help me cut.
He cut off my head, my passengerheadlight which was dangling by
its wires and my bumper. He told me there was nothing
wrong leaking from my car, that I could still be able to drive
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it, but he recommended me to go to a mechanic in Sheridan, WY to
make sure it was OK for me to continue my drive.
So I spend the night in the Sheridan WY.
I had breakfast, I went to the mechanic.
The mechanic told me I hit the deer in the most beautiful way
possible. It was literally cosmetic damage
to my car besides my windshield washer fluid container that
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cleans my windshield, which is the only thing that was like
kind of critical that was damaged.
But it wasn't the end of the world.
So I continue on my drive. I get into Montana, I get into
Billings, Mt and the snow startsto get heavy and because I just
hit a deer my nerves are shot. Growing up in Ontario, driving
in the snow is nothing for me, but I'm freaking out on the
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phone with my mom and my brotherbecause my mom was still in
Ontario and my brother lives there and I'm like, I don't know
what to do. Like I'm freaking out.
So I I decided in Billings I'm like, I'm going to try to make
it to Bozeman, Mt worst mistake in my life because I didn't make
it all the way to Bozeman. I made it to this small town
called Big Timber, Montana, which had a super 8 right off
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the highway and no food places to eat.
And what I had, I hadn't eaten since breakfast in Wyoming that
day, so I was starving. So I just had like a bag of
chips or whatever. I spent the night at the Super
8IN Montana. And then I get on the road the
next day and I'm like, the roadsdon't look horrible, but they
don't look great. I'm like, I'm gonna give it a
shot. Maybe if I can get to Bozeman, a
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bigger town, at least I can havesomething to eat, have more
places to stay at. I drive 2 exits down down I-90
into this, a no service exit exit because I couldn't do the
driving on the highway anymore. It was just too much for me and
I sat underneath this overpass for about four hours.
But the ironic part of sitting on this, under this overpass is
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where the snow plows were turning around to go the
direction I was travelling. So I let them pass about four or
five times. And once they pass, I'm like,
OK, I can make it to the next town.
I didn't make it all the way to Bozeman.
There's a town called Livingston, Mt that I made it
to. I stayed at another Super 8.
Finally I could get a good cup of coffee because the company I
work for was right across the street that I get my discount
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at. So I got a good cup of coffee.
I I. So now we know it's
international. And I had something to eat.
I spent the night and then when I got up in the morning I went
back to the coffee place. I asked them if anyone's been on
the direction that I've been going and they said the pass was
OK. They were doing about 40 mile an
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hour. But besides that the highways
was good. So I'm like OK.
From where I was to get back home was about a 15 hour drive.
And at that point I've said I'm determined to get the hell out
of this and I just want to get home because I'm on day 4 now
traveling back home and I just said fuck it.
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So I hopped in the car. I went over the past 40 was
right. Like I I think I was doing about
3540 mile an hour over the past.I get into a Bozeman.
I grab some snacks, I get a water bottle and dump the water
out of it and put windshield washer fluid it.
But it was one of those water bottles where you can squirt it
so I could drive and squirt the windshield washer fluid in my
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windshield so I can continue driving down the highway.
So I made it all the way to Missoula, no issues.
Once I got past Missoula, Mt going into Idaho through the
National Forest there or whatever, it started to get a
little sketchy again. Fine, I made it through Idaho.
I made it through Washington. The only sketchy part was a
Snoqualmie Pass going in, going into Seattle there.
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That was probably the worst partof Washington for me.
And then I made the turn N onto I4 O 5.
And that's when I started cryingbecause I'm like, OK, I know
where. You're on the home.
Stretch. I'm on the home stretch.
I just want to get home and I'm.Bad weather roads are behind.
You yeah, it's like it's rain. Like if it's the worst, I'm
going to have to deal with this rain from here on out.
So I make it on to the I5 N and I'm just at this point I'm
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struggling to keep near the speed limit because when I'm
driving in the States I don't gomuch above the speed limit
because I don't want a ticket inthe States.
Yeah, they don't. Fuck around.
Apparently so I I'm like the speed limit on I-5 is 70 mile an
hour and I'm probably doing like95 mile an hour because all I
want to do is get home at this point.
So I finally reached the Canadian border and the guy put,
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I have Nexus and the guy at the Nexus booth recognizes me.
He's like, what happened to yourcar?
And I'm like, oh, I had a deer in Wyoming and he's like, oh,
that's why there's a big chunk missing out of your car.
He waved me through. I, I get back and as soon as I
crossed that border, knowing that I was back in Canada, I
just started bawling my eyes outbecause this trip was such a
traumatic trip for me that I just, I was happy to be home and
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somewhere that I knew things andI could finally get my car.
Fixed. Yes, I I know that feeling
because I did my long haul trekking to the States and I had
a not so pleasant trip with somepretty wicked snowstorms on the
South side of the. Border So thank you for sharing
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your experience with everyone. On the well, thank you.
What were you driving? I'm driving my current car which
is a 2024 Hyundai Kona. OK.
So something newer that's that'sgood, that makes it a little bit
more. Reliable.
Yeah, Yeah. My vehicle, I wouldn't trust
doing that. But yeah, I've really bad trip
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and cross the border. Same thing.
As soon as I got back into Canada, even though I was like
crossing the border in Saskatchewan, as soon as I
crossed the line, I was like, there's comfort here because I'm
just, I'm home. And it was the same thing I, I
had. I had one trip where as soon as
I crossed the line, I had to pull the truck over on the side
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of the highway. I had a little bit of a
breakdown because it was a disaster of a fucking snowstorm
in Montana. You feel like you're safe when
you cross back over after something traumatic.
We cross back over into Canada. You have that sense of safety.
Oh yeah, for sure. And that was for me.
I will, I will admit the people in Montana and Wyoming, after I
hit the deer, they were all verylovely and sweet.
And then once the orange turd isout of the office and I feel
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safe going back across the border, I would definitely go
visit Montana and Wyoming again.You know what we not referencing
anybody specifically, No, we have gone across the border
hundreds of times for many years.
Same thing. I obviously agree.
All the times we have gone and all the trips to Vegas gone down
to Bellingham, gone down to Portland OR Washington, Seattle.
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We have 8 months of travel across the states as long.
Hauling, we have had nothing butincredible positive experience
with every individual that we have met in the United States.
We have never had one unfriendlyencounter.
We've always felt welcome. And again, the same thing.
If anything, there was, you know, if there was a situation
that we needed help, they were to help.
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So I'm, I'm glad you're back safely and you know, I think
that would be kind of a cool episode.
We should talk about that on thepodcast for season 4.
Maybe this one. It would be because we're a lot
of guests. We can just talk about.
Let's talk about Nightmare. Trips or or just adventures that
are challenging. Just I got to like what let's
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another podcast, let's talk about some of those trips that
let's talk about trips that didn't go well because.
And trust me, it's not just the people in Wyoming or Montana.
It's everybody that I ran into to the States.
Every. They say Canada is a friendly
country. When I was on the road, yeah,
no, as soon as I was South of the border.
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The people down there are way more nicer that I had to deal
with than when I was in Canada. My experience, and this is
coming from someone who's lived in other provinces, the farther
W you get, I find the ruder Canadians get.
You're not. You're not.
You're not. Wrong, I would say it's more
passive aggressive the farther Wyou get cuz especially out here
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in BC. What I've noticed is people act
like they're nice but they're really more condescending and
rude to you Shady. Well people my experience
because I grew up in Ontario. People seem mean to you, but
they're more willing to help youinteresting than back home.
And what I, me and my mom have equated to is the farther E you
are, the more winter, proper winter you have to deal with,
(30:49):
the more like, because you kind of team up with your neighbors
back home, like clear your driveway, help clear the
sidewalk, make sure they're OK during a snowstorm and whatnot.
So like we have to like get to know one another more back home.
Well, here in the West Coast, it's just rain all winter and we
get the one or two snowstorms a year.
So people don't get it's a. Free for all.
And like I said, like a millimeter of snow out here,
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everyone shuts their stores down.
Hilarious. Can't cross the bridges.
Also, too, we have a lot of money coming here from
internationally, right? So you have these, there's not
much of A middle class here. It seems like down in the city,
like there's just a. Whole lot and remember that for
for all of our wonderful listeners who follow the
podcast, we love you. Just in case you know all of our
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local listeners that are all outout West, you know that that
follow our podcast. That's something I find like
because I I was born here, I wasborn in North Vancouver.
And something that I find is we're just unwilling to help
because it's either going to bite us in the ass or get us
dead. There was one woman who went to
intervene. She tried to help somebody.
They were in a fight and she gotshot and killed.
(31:54):
And it's things like that. Yikes.
That's happened multiple times. Now, yeah, And it's things like
that, like we don't want to help.
We kind of close ourselves off from other people.
And I'm not like saying I'm not one of those condescending
people, but I'm more unwilling to help because I fear for my
own safety. Understandable.
Yeah. Yeah, and I will make this a
really clear I do love BC. I do love the community that I
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have built out here. I don't plan on leaving this
area anytime soon. Good for you sweetie, cuz we
would imagine we would miss you if you were gone it.
Makes connections like this thatmuch more special too, because
we are the change. We're breaking the cycle with
that stuff too, and that makes these connections even more
special. Yeah, I would say up until the
trip that I went back to Ontario, my heart was set to
move back because I that I've just, I miss the quality of
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people, but I've found that coregroup of people.
I have my roots out here now andI can't see myself living life
without them anymore. Good for you, sweetie.
And we love you having you in the pup community because again,
that that community for us. I mean, we've been we've we've
said it before, we've we've spent how many years here?
And before we we became. Are you OK, J Rock?
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Yeah, I'm fine. Before we became, you know,
involved in the community with us that we didn't have a large
group of friends. We really didn't.
And since meeting 80%, which is so funny because we were doing
the party invites and I was like, pop pop, pop, pop, pop
human pop pop handler. I'm the human pop, pop.
Yeah. So it was literally, it was
literally going through all these invitations and it was so
(33:23):
funny. I'm like, wow.
I'm like, it's really in, you know, my, my life has evolved
with, within this community. The pups are amazing people.
Absolutely they are. Yeah, 100%.
And I would say it's probably when I got into the PUP
community and started to build these connections is when I
really started to feel like thiswas home.
I hate that I live so far outside of the downtown car and
(33:43):
it takes me so long to transit and or drive in.
Really. Look at us.
I live farther than you. Well, that's fair.
You do have me beaten on that. One, I do have like another half
hour on you, no? OK, that's fair.
Where are you? I'm out in Langley, shit in like
Langley City. So I'm like right in Langley.
Yeah. OK.
So it's like a bottom. Of 200.
(34:04):
Don't let the conversation die. I have to step away for a
second. You know how this works.
Yes, I do keep going, keep talking.
Yeah. So yeah.
Let there be silence. Right, I get to deal with lovely
200th St. in Langley. God, if you're familiar with the
area. You almost.
Die You know how much that road will drive locals nuts?
It's almost almost as bad as 152nd.
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Oh no, I'd rather 152nd over two.
Yeah, OK. Not wrong.
As a commercial driver, I would take 152 / 2 hundredths any day.
I would even take King George over 200.
Yeah, I would take King George over 152.
No, OK, I clearly don't live over there.
So. I work in South Surrey so I I'm
(34:47):
break fair enough near 152nd in King George area so I have to
deal with both of those roads. I just.
Picked the right time of day. And I to drive.
I hate both of them but I rather152 / 200 for sure.
Fair enough. Interesting.
So yeah, that it say something. I found that the nicest people
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that I've run into in the statescuz you've I don't know how much
experience you have in the States besides your road trip
from hell. I've driven when I lived in
Ontario. I've driven to Erie, PA with my
ex step sister at the time because my mom in such a cute.
Little town, isn't it? We're no longer together.
Treat little town. I told my mom I was just going
(35:28):
to Buffalo, NY. Decided to travel another 2 1/2
hours to Erie's, Pennsylvania. I've done that.
I've driven down to Seattle multiple times.
I've driven to Spokane once. I've gone down to Portland once.
So I have a little bit of experience in the states.
My mainly I just go down to Bellingham most of the time.
Yeah, the nicest people out of all.
Like I before I did the long haul trucking, I've I've only
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been to four states, Washington,Oregon, Nevada and Montana.
After long haul trucking I've been to 38 states.
Whoa, really? Yeah, that's really cool.
The people who live in Maryland are the sweetest, nicest out of
(36:12):
the bunch that I've ever met. They are absolutely amazing
people. I will agree with you on that
because I used to work in the very tourist town of Niagara
Falls, ON and we would have to ask people where they were from
and get to know them. And I would say it probably
everyone from Maryland was probably the nicest people that
I met besides the East Coasters from people from Newfoundland
(36:33):
and the Maritimes and what not. I mean, Maine, the people in
Maine are nice because it's close enough.
Like it's, you know, East Coast,it's basically Newfoundland,
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia. It's, it's all around that area.
The people in Maine are really nice, but the nicest people that
I come across in my travels werein Maryland.
(36:55):
Way to go, Maryland. So where is Maryland?
Is that Canadian or US? No, it's Maryland is US.
Is that a state? Yeah, Baltimore.
The city of Baltimore is in Maryland and I believe
Washington, DC is. Right next to it isn't.
It yeah, it's it's. It's one of the states that
connects to Washington. Washington, DC is in Virginia.
(37:16):
Washington. DC is not a state, it's its own.
No, I know it's, but it's. It's next to Virginia, and I
think Maryland's right next to that isn't.
It you know what? I forgot to mention it.
There was something they came across not CNN news the other
day. Sure crap.
Not not CNN. It was on news board.
Did you hear the day there was anew rumor, A rumor about?
Did you hear the rumors about butter?
(37:39):
Yeah. No, You know what?
That's OK. I shouldn't spread it.
Damn, that's a good. One thank you, I was waiting for
it. Damn.
Everyone's getting into the ad jokes.
Now come on, Gerald. That was good.
Good. DC is in Maryland.
It's just east of the Virginia border.
(37:59):
OK. That's what you were doing.
So DC is in Maryland. You were checking your map.
I was OK, that's. A good map.
It is a cool map. It's it's it's a good one to
check on I-90 as well. Oh.
It was correct. I didn't look.
I was looking for GC. Actually, that will.
Be a discussion after the podcast in in the.
Break discussion. I think this is probably going
(38:20):
to be a battle. I know I'm right because I
actually drove on it recently. Within the last five months I
was in Wyoming on I-90 through Share it in Wyoming.
You all, you all can battle thatout in between episodes.
You can look at your maps and your Google Maps.
You can access your phones. You can go ahead and look at
everything. How do they?
Have to look at the map on the mall, that's fine.
(38:40):
I-90 makes it turn S at Billings, Mt into Wyoming.
Summer plans do you do? Do you wreck beach?
No, I don't. I wasn't sure I wouldn't.
Sure I would. We were gonna go to Rec Beach.
I love Rec Beach. T-bone loves Rec Beach.
We were gonna go down a few times.
I might if there's any walkies that happen down there.
It all really depends on my workschedule because a lot of this
(39:01):
stuff happens on the weekend while I'm at work.
I understand. So it's hard for me to do any of
those stuff. I am flying back to Ontario at
the end of June for my younger brother's graduation in high
school. Good for you for being able to
do that. I know you got a good deal on
flights. Yes, Congrats.
Congrats to younger brother. At the end of June we're on
holiday as well and going to theisland.
(39:23):
Yeah, we are. We're gonna spend a week on the
island and leading up to the Victoria Parade.
We will be walking with the Victoria pups in the Victoria
Parade this year and getting to see a lot of our friends that we
have not seen for three years. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun
and I'm excited. And this year Victoria Pride
parade or sorry, Vancouver PrideParade.
We of course are very excited towalk hopefully up.
Tatin, you will be with us in the parade this year.
(39:43):
Can. You send me a link so I can.
I will. I'll send you on the on during
the link. I'll send you the link.
I am not walking in this parade this year.
I'm driving. But you are still a support
human and you've increased your role because we have a vehicle
and we are going to have coolersfull of ice and full of nice ice
cold water for all the pups walking this year.
So we were gonna have 3 coolers filled with ice.
(40:06):
So we got way more water ice andthen we'll be.
On the back, handing it all. Out there you go.
Yeah, not walking, driving. I'm driving.
And your truck will be convertedinto a.
Well, as long as you don't make the black spots too big, it
should be a Dalmatian and not a cow.
That's awesome. We've we've already found a site
(40:27):
to make them. We know they're not good.
They've Yeah, we've got a site already booked.
It's free and yeah, we don't want cow.
Yes, you're. Gonna have big googly eyes on
the truck. No, there's no googly eyes.
It is a puppy, not a googly eye puppy and a tongue.
We're gonna have ears. Then where are the eyes?
But the headlights? OK, well, yeah, you could have
said that then. Wait, what?
(40:49):
You're getting ears. You're getting a nose and a
tongue. It's a puppy dog.
You need floppy ears off to hangout of your windows.
We're gonna have to discuss this.
So the ears attached to your windows where there's a nose
attached to the grill, and then you have a tongue hanging out
the front of your grill. Red tongue, black nose.
Yes, the engine compartment and the hood.
(41:10):
The front end of my truck Is thesnout where the nose and the
tongue is. Yeah, the eyes are the
windshield. OK, we're gonna have to figure
out something to put some sort of eyeballs there.
I didn't know but. Googly eyes.
Because googly eyes on the. Because the ears are gonna be
coming out the door, Yes. And then you say my headlights.
So the ears are gonna be like 19miles away from the face.
(41:32):
Yeah, I want it to be a dog. Is this do you want to be an
accurate dog, or do you want to just be a?
Where do you find giants and howmuch are those going to cut?
Giant size googly eyes. I'm sure no, we can.
Cut well, we can just cut eyes out of vinyl.
OK, all right. We need an extra help for that
one. I've already got my mind for the
other one. That haste fast.
I was trying to figure out how my cat knows.
(41:53):
I was literally, I went to get up to use the washroom and
within 3 seconds he followed me in the washroom.
Hasn't moved the entire night until I leave the table.
Yeah. He does that.
Yeah, we're gonna have to discuss the design of Hitch.
Go ahead. I got one.
I was listening to a song about a tortilla the other night.
Tortilla. Yeah, I'm waiting for everyone,
including. It's a nice little wrap.
(42:17):
Yeah, I got nothing. That's good.
No, it was awful. It was bad.
Nothing's gonna be. Just insert sigh here.
Yep. Yeah, nothing's gonna beat the
spreading the rumors of butter. No, no, no, yours was still the
best Braille. No, the Braille was still top
one. No, no, Braille was a top.
One that was legendary. Yeah, sorry.
(42:38):
That one was like you had everybody invested in what you
were talking about. Oh yeah, that's the.
Fundamental of a dead joke. You got to get people invested.
In not the last one, I was dialed in.
Right. What the I?
Was with you? They're just terrible.
Find it slightly funny? So how was the podcast today,
(42:59):
Noah? Good.
Yeah. Not nervous.
No. Enjoying yourself.
You're killing it. You're doing really good.
I was nervous beforehand but like once I jump into something
I tend to get get rid of the nerves and just go on with it.
Yep. That's like me with subbing.
The next episode's a bit stranger because we.
Just I really need to become a Dom.
We just need to talk about weirdshit.
(43:22):
It just goes, continues on. We don't know what's happening.
I did discover that our we do have a robot now we have a robot
vacuum, which is fantastic, which is really great because.
Currently resides behind Jukey, Yeah.
I see one of the biggest pains in the ass is I hate having the
house especially with spaz beigecarpet.
I hate coming home and I was constantly asking everyone to
(43:44):
help and I always found that like I usually vacuum, vacuum,
vacuum. But we did discover that it is
not a good idea to have a set schedule because robot vacuums
do not understand the concepts of cap puke.
Dear. I love that.
And my friend it's not as bad because one of our Co workers at
work said they also don't understand the concept of dog
(44:07):
poop. And when the dog is sick and
it's all at that. One.
Yeah, it spread it evenly over his entire carpet.
The entire house. Yeah.
So I think ours wasn't bad. It was in the machine, but not
as much on the carpet, thank goodness.
And you didn't even realize thathappened until.
I know I didn't. We, we were, he had, we was
mapping out the upstairs and it was going through the bedroom
(44:28):
and a piece of my side table hadbroken off like the the slide
that the drawer slides on a piece that had broken off and
the vacuum had caught that up, which stopped the main roller
from spinning. So the vacuum stopped and it's
like my main roller is not spinning.
Please check me. It was weird.
(44:49):
So he picks it up, flips it overand he's like, what the fuck is
this? And I'm looking at it.
I'm like, that would be Spaz's kibble that was all over the
carpet earlier, Yeah. It's so weird when you pick it
up, you pick the background and it's like I am suspended, please
put me down on the ground. Or when I do, when I try and
find it, I was like I am here master.
(45:11):
It makes announcements like findrobots.
Does it say that? Yep.
Just watch those things. You have to pick it up and put
it. Upstairs, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, when?
I do, yeah. Ready.
Find robot. Here we go.
Master, I am here. Master.
Master, I am here. I know it was just kind of funny
(45:31):
and like whenever I think about that and I heard that Master I
am here, all I could think of was that stupid dinosaur with
the like stubby arms on. Meet the Robinsons Meet the
Robinsons, nowster I don't thinkthis was a good idea.
My head is big and my arms are short.
That's. All I could think of when every
time I hear that. If you can get the R2D2 sounds.
(45:51):
I wish, I'm sure some of the cooler, more advanced robots.
You could probably program some of the sounds, which would be
kind of funny, but they're way more expensive than I'm willing
to pay. I got this at Mosave, our
wonderful Mosave, for $60.00. Normally 460, yeah, 60 bucks.
I'm OK with it. I'm not gonna pay $400.00 for if
I'm gonna spend $400.00, I'm gonna buy an actual vacuum. 60
(46:13):
bucks maybe that's. What I'll do tomorrow?
Do you know what he named it? What's that already?
No textbooks? What textbooks for you?
Yeah. He wants textbooks, apparently.
Or do you want textbooks? Have you been playing?
Have you ever played Oblivion? Did we talk about?
That yes, I have played Oblivion.
Are you? Gonna get the remastered.
Probably not just because there I have about 10 different games
(46:34):
that I've not played and I just do not have the time of my life
to play. I'm playing my Harry Potter
which will take me 10 years to play.
My have you? No, it's gonna take me 5 years
to even finish it from now. My bestie informed me that you
need to get on the wagon on the Harry Potter wagon again because
she finished the game. OK, damn.
(46:55):
In in comparison, 2 jobs, 2 volunteer positions versus
she's. Probably not working right now,
is she? Well, she's got a house to take
care of though. She just moved bitch.
Little bit of a different situation between me and I love
her. She is.
Off on disability before she moves.
So yeah, she she had a little bit of.
Time I I'm a little bit busier, just just a tad.
(47:17):
I'm just hearing excuses here, Spider.
Thank you. But I'm like 110 hours in in the
last couple weeks. He might be 110 minutes in.
Eventually, I'll remind you in 10 years.
How many hours do I get a date? One hour at night, 2 in the
morning. Add some hours to your day and.
Yeah, maybe. Fuck my life, Yeah, I said.
(47:39):
I mean, I think the best one said it best is when we watch
that video, that Chase Doug Jones that he, you know, he
chase gave me over Christmas time and he was trying to
describe what I do on a daily basis and what goes on.
And that video, I don't know if you've ever seen that you pay an
actor. A cameo.
Cameo So anyway, he played Doug Jones who was in Discovery and
(48:00):
he did that. And when he just kept on going
on and on at the end of it, whenhe said he's like, oh, Chase
even says you run a podcast, youcreate a podcast.
He's like, he's like, my God, he's like, how do you find the
time to do any of this stuff between all the volunteering in
your jobs and running a podcast?He's like, I'm sweating just
thinking about it. Yeah, I'm exhausted thinking
about what you're doing and. That doesn't even include my
home life of what we do at home.So yeah.
(48:22):
So I love my video games. I wish, but no.
I miss my Wii, I haven't played in a long time.
I miss our Wii games. No one has.
Ever. Played.
We're talking about Nintendo weed, not weed, yes.
I know what we're. Talking about there's well,
yeah, I know, but I I actually heard weed.
(48:44):
Sorry. Wii.
Yeah, the Wii, not the WE. Do you smoke weed, Noah?
No, I do not. I couldn't remember.
I didn't think you did. No, I don't smoke weed and I
hardly ever drink alcohol. Good for you.
I am a caffeine drinker through and through.
I can have a full cup of coffee and then go right to bed right
afterwards. Wow.
I get the best sleeps when I do that.
Yep. Crazy.
(49:04):
Like seriously, if I'm like justtired and I make a hot cup of
coffee and guzzle that back, I sleep like the fucking dead.
I have a cup. Of coffee at like 5:00 in the
afternoon and I can't get to sleep until like 3 in the
morning. It's weird how it it's so funny
how it. Affects every single person
differently. 5:00 in the afternoon I'm having my first
coffee. I mean like to be fair.
(49:26):
I work at a coffee, I work at a coffee shop and I get it for
free for my full 8 hour shift. So I have like 5 to 6 coffees
there and then I take one home and maybe make another one while
I'm at home. Well, you don't have to worry.
You don't have to worry about being regular.
Hold the phone right? You have 6-6.
How many coffees do you have? How many?
(49:47):
About 5:00 to 6:00 at work. What?
What's your favorite? My go to if I'm.
Just careful now, grabbing that might give it away.
Is a ice flat white with sugar free vanilla.
That just gave it away. Right now we all know where you
were. You might as well have said a
double Chai latte. Hey, could be an independent.
One hold on, you get one free coffee per shift.
(50:07):
I get all the coffee you want all the coffee as long as I
finish the one before, I have tofinish the coffee beforehand
before. I need to get a job at Tim
Horton's my. Gosh damn I doubt they give you
the same deal you. Don't get like the Tim Horton's
does not give you the same deal I'm.
Starting to give you they will give me the same deal.
They will not I. Will make them.
(50:27):
It will. Be don't you get the part of my
employment like I used to get, like a heart, like a it would
affect my heart palpitations. Yeah, whatever you call it.
No, you don't get that. No, I my body's so immune to it
that it doesn't affect me anymore.
OK, everybody. And people look at us so weird
for it too. They got it.
One day I study you. I was off work and I went to my
(50:48):
store. It was a drive through store
that I was working at and I wentto that store 5 times within
about a three and a half hour period because I kept drinking
my coffee and I needed another one and I was busy running
around town doing things. So I just every time I went by
my store, I picked up another coffee.
All right, everybody, we're going to see our farewells.
We're going to get ready to end the episode.
(51:09):
We always want to make sure thatwe're in that time frame so we
can get this episode aired on YouTube.
Thank you for everyone for beingon today's episode.
We are gonna get ready and gear up for My Hobbies episode,
Squirrels After Dark episode episode 11.
Moist. Moist anyone?
And the word, which would be What's the secret word of the
(51:30):
day for? The stinkies.
The secret word will be purple. Purple.
Excellent. Chase will love that one.
All right, so we got that one. Remember, it's OK not to be OK
if you are suffering if you dealwith it, it's OK not to be OK
Mental health is incredibly important.
Reach out. We always include show notes on
the episode of, you know, the BCCrisis Center, the 988 number if
you need it help, there's alwaysreach out.
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You can reach out to us on any of the chat platforms.
It's important. And with that being said, does
anybody have in the last minute any shout outs you want to do or
any companies, especially starting with Noah that you'd
like to shout out before we continue on?
Not a shout out but continuing on mental health.
I've just been on a journey of working on my own mental health.
I've been journaling for the last just over a week now and
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I've noticed over the last week I've I feel better just being
able to write out my feelings. Well, we'll talk about in the
next episode because I'm a huge journal.
You've seen my journaling station.
Yeah. So let's talk about.
Here and on the next episode we'll tell, we'll have the
confirmation that I am right about I-90 in my own.
You will. I think you might be actually
now thinking about it. All right.
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And everybody else, we're gonna get ready to continue on in the
next episode. We want to make sure.
All right, thank you, guys. Thank you for the episode.
Thank you for being here with us.
Love, peace and chicken grease. It's over there, it's over
there. I have nothing an episode
without Cluck North.
It is episode 11. Thank you pop Titan slash J rod
for that thank you for the update and now we know what
episode ran crack your beers everybody it's time to be back
and there it is the. Chaos the.
The famous chaos of J Rod opening his beer slash cup
Titan. You know what next podcast, you
better call me and I will come pick you up at the store.
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See if I remember that net for next week.
Thank you. Welcome back to the Squirrel
Hour everybody. We are on episode 11 season 3.
I am your host Rick Hunter AKA Spider Pup of this main show
we're doing today, the Squirrel Hour.
We have a wonderful guest with us today.
Before we get into that, we wantto make sure that we remind
everybody that we are a not safefor work podcast.
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Please be aware of that. We talk about weird ass shit and
the topics get stranger as the hours go on because you know
what this is? It is a happy hour podcast and
we getting drunk. And we swear a lot.
Do swear a lot. And you know what?
I love it when people ask us canI say the E word?
We're like fuck, fuck, fuck you fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck yes you
can. You know what?
That F word. Yeah, we can.
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We can say whatever we want. The E.
Word because elephant. We stick a big.
Erection. E.
Erotic. In front of let me finish my
statement got. It thank.
You done before I start being interrupted.
Thank you, by the way, T-bone for putting in for today.
And yeah, so there's our there'sour introduction for today.
Let's go around the table, introduce who we are besides our
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wonderful guest, which is going to be Pap Noah.
We will introduce you shortly because you have your own
introductory segment. You've been on the show before,
but in the background, but neveryou a guest on the show.
So we're excited to meet you today.
But with that being said, let's go around the table for our
podcast audience that has grown another country.
So 67 countries around the worldbefore I forget to say thank you
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to everybody globally who now follows us.
It's it's crazy to think that 67countries around the world
follow us. And that's that, that's just
amazing. And I really, really love to see
that. So please go around the table
who's here on today's podcast. Hey, it's Jukey.
I don't have much of A voice today, so we'll see how much I
actually talk about fair. We were singing this morning.
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That's peptitan. I have.
I have no words. There you go.
My brain's not brain in today. Mine was not yesterday.
We'll get to that. I'm Sharon Dubois and I am now
sick. Lovely.
You. You're sleeping downstairs.
I'm. Not you are.
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Fine. T-bone, we.
Turn that up and. I'm Papnoa.
Good voice Noah, very nice. I like the deepness of it.
We're gonna be a pro with this episode today so we don't not
have a topic today for today's show.
We left that up to Noah if he wanted to talk about something,
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but nothing came to mind. Something might happen
throughout the show. With that being said, does
anybody have anything +2? Weeks have gone by since we have
seen everybody. Anything that has happened
positive in our lives that we would like to share, that has
occurred. Go My choir show was amazing.
Thank you to everybody who came,it was really fun.
And because of that, we have oneof our upcoming guests, a non
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pup. Non pup from the. 1st.
Human, I think the first human in three years to come on the
show. Clawson.
But Clawson, yeah. But yeah, that's it.
So she's. Super excited.
She's she's a real sweetheart. We met her and she's gonna be in
the on the podcast and Jukey show was an absolute super hit.
We always have a great time. Anybody else?
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Spaz is here also. I see that.
Scare the shit out of everybody.Are we missing anybody we've
got? Sprinkles and alert Daniel.
So are we missing anybody? And we're missing sprinkles.
Thank you, girl. Not who's here.
Yeah. I thought we were.
I don't know. No, we're missing.
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Sprinkles and SP and the kids. Thank you.
And in the background we have. Handler Daniel and pup Artemis.
And have they both been on the show before?
Yes. I believe I already.
Asked Wait, is this a podcast? Yep, ers there it.
Is. You've been on the show too.
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What? Daniel.
Yeah, Yeah, I think so. OK.
Yeah, they've been on. Thank you.
All righty. So anybody else want to share
anything? I Make Love to my wife of
Explosion. When the hell did you get
married? Sorry, I mean, it has been a
month since we've seen you so. Technically, it's been a long
time, yeah. Yeah, it's been a few.
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It's been a good time. Mother's Day, last podcast,
doing the mother, the motherly thing with your family.
So yeah, it's been about four weeks.
I might have a girlfriend prettyquick here.
OK, that's. Kind of a big deal.
I'm just gonna turn that up. Very nice.
When was the last time that any one of you listened to the
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podcast? I have yet to listen to a single
episode. I listen to the whole thing,
but. OK, I listen to them when I'm
not on them and that episode hasnot been loaded yet.
We have those. We were actually having the
discussion outside about who does not like to hear the sound
of their own voice, which is whythe majority of the cast do not
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listen to the podcast. Like the sound of my voice.
I just think it's, you know, I've been on the podcast, so I
know what happened. So I listen to the ones that I'm
not on because I don't know whathappened.
That is totally fair. Yeah, we were we were we were
playing the podcast for Pop Pop Arty and he does not like the
sound of his voice. I.
Got a little bit of a story good.
I changed at my dispensary for cannabis.
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So I want, I like micro dosing just a little bit of edibles
Friday nights on the tail end ofmy night.
It just helps me literally feel out my weak and tap into my
feelings. It's good, it's a good thing and
I sleep well and well, the indigenous don't fuck around, as
I found out with their edibles cuz it's on a reserve, whatever.
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And they're, they're one gummy and it comes with like 10-1
gummy is 25 milligrams. Oh, that's a lot.
The government, the government stuff is like 10 milligrams for
the whole package. And I waited like an hour and a
half and I, I felt something forsure, but I was like, oh, I
could, I could take more like I that's.
A lot. And this last.
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Words took the other two thirds,half, whatever, and it was a
full body high like, Oh yeah, I maybe I've had that a little bit
before, but it was crazy. So the story there is I put on
our podcast and it helped me calm down.
So thank you guys. I just put that on Help me.
Excellent dial in. Don't write that out.
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For an hour so we know how to fuck you up.
Yeah, we've been practicing for years on how to fuck up the
white people. It's good times.
Respect, man, those things, I can't even get over how powerful
that was. Powerful.
That was you. Got to be careful though.
Right, if everybody would like to wonderfully pick these few
seconds after the episode and we're gonna do a quick group
photo for the Instagram, everybody like to smile.
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There we go. I always like to get a couple of
nice photo shots for it for everybody for posting onto the
podcast. So here we are again today.
So if anybody else you got body stones, that's great body.
Stones. You don't mind?
Stones. Yes, sorry, I'm waiting for it.
It's a work thing. No, last weekend we had our
patio opening party and it was. Damn it, you're stealing my
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Thunder. It was fun.
It was. We had a great turn out.
There was a lot of people here. Most of them are all pups.
It was true. Which is, you know, the norm
nowadays with us. It really is, but that's how
much they my life has been involved in the community and
that's a good thing. I got mad at Spider the next
day. Yeah, because he's not allowed
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to go to sleep now until the last person is leaving.
OK now in fairness I got 4 hourssleep, got up at 7:00, did all
the running around, all the preparations, everything for the
party and did Metra and this oneslept right till 2 and woke up
and went to the Metra and got 10hours sleep.
Sorry if I worked the night before until 2:00 in the
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morning. So it's not all on me.
I'm a busy pup, I'm a busy human, I'm a busy puppy.
It was a success and we no longer have a hot tub.
That sucks. It's gone.
That's that's not a good thing. But the party was great.
Yes, thank you for mentioning it.
It was a it was a huge success. Not everyone could make it.
I'm very grateful for everyone that could.
It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next.
One which you're gonna stay up for until Skyler leaves to go
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catch the first bus in the morning.
All right, I will promise I willstay up.
Even if I'm just like passed outdead on the ground.
I'll just stay up. I'll be there.
It goes way too often. I wasn't ghosting.
I already told him like I'm exhausted.
We were up and we went to sleep.It was a good party.
What? What time did did?
Did you? It crashed at like 4:00.
It was like, that's. Pretty fucking.
Good. Thank you very much.
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It was a goddamn good run. I was up until 7:00 because it
was a Sunday the next morning and the buses don't start
running until like 7. Yeah, and I and I.
Appreciate that. It was, I think it was about 20
after almost 7:30 when Skyler made his way to the bus.
Why didn't Skyler try and sleep on the couch?
Because we were, we, I think we just came in from the hot tub at
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like quarter 6:45. Yeah, gosh.
I finally told him to turn it off when it started making noise
and it was down to like 88°. It everyone enjoyed it.
I mean, I'm glad that it got hislast Hoo ha before we gave it
away and it did go to a good home.
Someone's gonna fix it up, probably repair it.
Give it a chance. Shout out to the wife who's
about to find out they now have a hot tub.
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He didn't ask her to get a hot tub, by the way.
Really nice guy when I was here when he was picking it up.
And besides that, I am now officially done for the summer.
As much as I love what I do, theBC Crisis, I'd have no workshops
for June. I am now off for the summer
until September for the crisis center.
So that is #1 #2 I'm almost donewith the meat draw.
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The meat draw for the CrossroadsHospice Society, which means I
might get two to three months off of myself to chill out and
the the Pride Parade tank just opened up the events that we've
got. That's gonna fill up fast.
Or the next big thing. First we got the Pride parade
here. We have a trip on the Island for
our vacation. We have Pride here, Vancouver or
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on the Victoria. We got a lot of stuff going on
and but mostly for ourself. Yeah, we need to book ferry
reservations like soon. So that's kind of myself and.
Me. All right.
Because what happens to Spider happens to me.
Well, that is fair. Yeah.
And with that being said, share a few information.
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Let's get into it because I think we've all shared
information of what we've going on.
Let's get right to our wonderfulspecial guest opening up the
questions. Welcome, Pop Noah.
Yay. Hi, I'm gonna try and make sure
you get words in. Introduce yourself.
Hi, I'm Pop Noah. I've been probably, I would say
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just over a year now. Is that all?
Yeah. Just a baby pup.
I've been interested in the community, probably you're
looking on more like 7-8 years, but never really gotten involved
until about a year ago, yeah. I thought you were probably much
longer than that. No Wow, I'm older than you in in
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actual pup years. Wow, OK, I learned something new
today. Oldest and older.
Wow. All right, So what drew you to
the PUP community? I always love asking that
question. To me, because in my like family
dynamic and my friends dynamic, I'm always like the grounding
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person. So for me to that drew me to the
pup community, it was like a chance to like just kind of not
be that person. Everyone came around to like
suck all my energy out of me andI could just be free and not
have to worry about anything. That's.
Good. All right.
Next question for Papnoa. Favorite color purple of.
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Course you're purple. Or is it the purple puppy?
Wait, no, but your hood is. Yeah, so Pup Tonka gave me the
hood, which was red, so I just have to order the parts to make
it purple. OK, it was just gonna seem like
I don't remember the purple being there.
OK, that makes sense. Gotcha.
That's completely. I just actually ordered a new
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collar with purple and red and light blue on it.
There you go. I should be getting it some
point this weekend. That will look nice.
Where did you order from? Pup sage from the island.
Good for you, I didn't know we made collars.
Yeah, he put an ad up on I thinkthe BC Pup chat about doing a
discount on making collars. I messaged him while I was at
work ironically, and I kind of ordered it while I was supposed
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to be working. Well, that's OK, You can do
both. We've all.
The story of Spider's life. Everything.
I mean when I'm supposed when I'm supposed to be taking care
of customers and making them coffee, I'm too busy on my phone
make doing an order. There may be an issue with my
manager on that. OK, that's fair.
Just don't tell us. Yeah, that's right.
I know where you were. Yes.
I was just, I believe. I remember that too.
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Yes, I remember there was a discussion about without
specifically details of. Devil.
Yes. The Antichrist of coffee makers,
according to people at this table.
So. Just saying, does anybody else
have an answer question? Wait, what happened to your hat?
You're looking Amish. You totally look Amish.
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OK, Jabadiah, what's going on here?
I don't. I don't know who that is, but.
OK, apparently you today. Apparently that who shall not be
named coffee place they don't accept cash anymore, which I
think is really wrong. That is a lie.
Is it? OK.
Yeah, we do still accept cash. Because it's.
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Legal. I didn't think that would be
legal. OK.
It's just it's not legal. It's technically legal for
companies not to accept cash, but because the company I work
for has accepted cash for so long, it would be illegal for
them to stop accepting it now. There's the.
Truth. How you start is how you shall
go. OK, now we know.
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I, I, I just think that's inherently wrong that we can't
use cash. That's there's so many
industries out there that thriveon cash, small businesses.
You have to remember one of the main reasons I'm not a
conspiracy, but you know when ifyou pay for cash, the government
doesn't get their cut when you pay for cash or you that's
exactly so if you have to pay through credit, debit,
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everything, and there's a track record over they get their tax,
there's a track ability, so. Wrong.
We should be, yeah. I know why.
I know why a lot of companies don't accept cash like smaller
businesses. It's because it's a security
risk. And with so many people, so many
stores being broken into now, ifthey just go cashless, it's just
better on them, their part, thatthey never actually lose a
profit. There you go.
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Remember I told you that makes sense?
That makes sense. You'll get used to it.
You'll it takes experience to beon the podcast to get used to
it, which is why my head is always doing this.
You're treated like a penis. Hello.
There should never be a problem with a gay man being you know I.
Said kiss it, don't eat it. All.
(15:44):
Right. Anybody else?
Next question for Pop Noah, before we continue on, I want
questions. We don't have sprinkles today,
so I get an extra question. If you are a animal, what's your
spirit animal? Your questions are not counting,
no. OK, go ahead.
Spirit animal. I would probably say a panda.
OK. Say animal again.
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Cool animal, I heard. It animal.
Animal Now Now you'll have to listen to the podcast just for.
That one segment, I have a question.
OK, before your question, because I'm from Ontario, the
amount of people out here that like point out words that I say
differently than you guys out here, like blows my mind.
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Like I will say Fraser, not Fraser like the Fraser River or
Simon Fraser University and people will point that out.
It's spelled. Fraser there's no I in there.
I don't know why but anyone I know from Ontario that's out
here will all say Frasier and another one is I say milk very
Ontario like instead of milk I Ido a more of like an E sound
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instead of an I sound so. It's milk.
Yeah, milk. I mean don't talk to me, I'm a
Newfie so I mean we destroy the.English language he can't speak
to say he can't speak on the best of days.
I'm not one to judge anybody on language.
Try reading some of his texts. They're not good.
Oh God, jeez. My question is because everybody
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out there has like that one wordthat no matter how hard they
try, they just cannot pronounce.What's your word?
OK, so I have I struggle with words with that, with a lot of
like S sounds that's close together.
So mine word photosynthesis. OK, I can't I that's the one
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word that I struggle to say properly all the time.
That's fair. Abominable.
Yeah, I'm going to go with Abominable.
You know what mine is? Worcester Shire.
Worcester. See.
Told you, told you I said it wrong.
I just don't. You know what?
Just give me some Worcester. Nobody know how to pronounce
that word properly. Worcestershire.
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Just give me some Worcestershirelike we know.
As long as you know what the fuck I'm ordering, I don't
really get done. Problem solved.
I thought it was Shire at the end we're.
Just let's. See, now I can.
We're still Shire. Ha ha ha.
This is what happens. What?
This is what happens to Chase what?
He'll send me a text message andall of a sudden the text will be
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so bad. He's like, God damn it, I have
it like now I have a case of thespider.
It's better than saying I have acase of the dumb.
It's just I have a case of the spider.
I just can't text. Just the easiest thing.
I'm pretty sure we've talked about this before, but I've had
people screenshot his text messages and send it to me to
ask me to translate what Spider was saying.
Oh, it's terrible. It sounds like you should write
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a an erotica. Oh God, I couldn't imagine what
that erotica. Would be it would be a comedy.
Yeah, pretty much. It is true and would that be
exact? Photosynthesis is your word.
Yes, it is. I will let Pop Noah come up with
today. So every episode, to make sure
that my pack, my stinky pops arelistening, we come up with
secret word. So you get to choose a secret
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word. Only then do they know they
actually listen to the episode. Because they have to reiterate
it back. They'll message me on my
Telegram to let me know that they've actually listened to the
episode. I think it's too early in the
episode though, we're only 20 minutes in.
You wanna wait? Yeah.
All right. Let's wait for it.
Yeah. You can think on a word.
I will let you choose the word because that way something we do
not we we won't generate it willbe you.
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So since you are a new guest, all of our listeners have heard
lots about us. I mean, we're going on three
years. We're here to talk about you.
We don't have the topic. What what else would you like to
discuss? When we carried a we we we
talked about a lot of varieties pre show that we were kind of
talking about not topics, but stuff you might want to kind of
go on about and like might sparkother conversations.
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So one thing we were talking outside pre show was the road
trip I did over the Christmas holiday.
Yeah, let's talk. I drove from British Columbia to
Ontario through the States, yes.So going out there with a breeze
took Me 2 1/2 days to get to my final destination.
Wow, destination that's like a that's.
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Like a four day trip going through Canada.
Yeah, it was a beautiful sight. No issues going there.
It was like 15°C through like Wyoming.
I like was driving that with thewindows down in the middle of
the end of December. Like it felt nice.
I get to Ontario to be with my family for Christmas and that
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went all good. I got sick for like 3 days so
half of my plans had to be cancelled for the short period
of time that I was there. But I did get to go to my
favorite city, which is Toronto.Chase would be proud.
I love going to Toronto. It's my I It will always be home
for me. But this visit, I realized it's
no longer the place where I wantto live, which is now out here.
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I don't want to leave BC Yeah, this.
Is what happened to us good for you?
Yep, and then on my trip back itwas a little bit more eventful.
It took me 5 days to get back. Oh.
Dear oh, did you come back to Canada?
No, I still went through the States.
I took the exact same route thatI went.
I took out there, went home. But The thing is, is this the
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middle of my second journey day which was more night because I'm
now going West so I was driving more at night.
I hit a deer with my car in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.
So. I hit a deer with my car and
thank God of being having friends out here.
WI had Pop Artemis and Handler Danler that I contacted who
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helped me like get over the trauma of hitting a deer.
That was the first, might I add.That's the first thing I've ever
hit in my life. So like being alone at the
middle of Wyoming? Wyoming.
Yeah, I know. Well.
You took the long way around. No, it took.
That was the short way. That's what my GPS was telling
me. Holy crap, that's like I-80
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through Wyoming. You know what, I-90?
I-90 doesn't go anywhere near Wyoming.
It goes through like North Dakota.
No, it goes through South Dakotauntil Wyoming and then up into
Montana. 80 does no I-90. Look it up, I guarantee you.
Somebody look it up. Well after when we were on the
mid show, we're gonna have this discussion.
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You 2 can have our do not be we are gonna.
Battle this out intermission. I was on I-90 and I went through
Wyoming. It's Sheridan, WY what I add.
I had a lovely officer come out and help me cut.
He cut off my head, my passengerheadlight which was dangling by
its wires and my bumper. He told me there was nothing
wrong leaking from my car, that I could still be able to drive
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it, but he recommended me to go to a mechanic in Sheridan, WY to
make sure it was OK for me to continue my drive.
So I spend the night in the Sheridan WY.
I had breakfast, I went to the mechanic.
The mechanic told me I hit the deer in the most beautiful way
possible. It was literally cosmetic damage
to my car besides my windshield washer fluid container that
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cleans my windshield, which is the only thing that was like
kind of critical that was damaged.
But it wasn't the end of the world.
So I continue on my drive. I get into Montana, I get into
Billings, Mt and the snow startsto get heavy and because I just
hit a deer my nerves are shot. Growing up in Ontario, driving
in the snow is nothing for me, but I'm freaking out on the
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phone with my mom and my brotherbecause my mom was still in
Ontario and my brother lives there and I'm like, I don't know
what to do. Like I'm freaking out.
So I I decided in Billings I'm like, I'm going to try to make
it to Bozeman, Mt worst mistake in my life because I didn't make
it all the way to Bozeman. I made it to this small town
called Big Timber, Montana, which had a super 8 right off
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the highway and no food places to eat.
And what I had, I hadn't eaten since breakfast in Wyoming that
day, so I was starving. So I just had like a bag of
chips or whatever. I spent the night at the Super
8IN Montana. And then I get on the road the
next day and I'm like, the roadsdon't look horrible, but they
don't look great. I'm like, I'm gonna give it a
shot. Maybe if I can get to Bozeman, a
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bigger town, at least I can havesomething to eat, have more
places to stay at. I drive 2 exits down down I-90
into this, a no service exit exit because I couldn't do the
driving on the highway anymore. It was just too much for me and
I sat underneath this overpass for about four hours.
But the ironic part of sitting on this, under this overpass is
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where the snow plows were turning around to go the
direction I was travelling. So I let them pass about four or
five times. And once they pass, I'm like,
OK, I can make it to the next town.
I didn't make it all the way to Bozeman.
There's a town called Livingston, Mt that I made it
to. I stayed at another Super 8.
Finally I could get a good cup of coffee because the company I
work for was right across the street that I get my discount
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at. So I got a good cup of coffee.
I I. So now we know it's
international. And I had something to eat.
I spent the night and then when I got up in the morning I went
back to the coffee place. I asked them if anyone's been on
the direction that I've been going and they said the pass was
OK. They were doing about 40 mile an
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hour. But besides that the highways
was good. So I'm like OK.
From where I was to get back home was about a 15 hour drive.
And at that point I've said I'm determined to get the hell out
of this and I just want to get home because I'm on day 4 now
traveling back home and I just said fuck it.
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So I hopped in the car. I went over the past 40 was
right. Like I I think I was doing about
3540 mile an hour over the past.I get into a Bozeman.
I grab some snacks, I get a water bottle and dump the water
out of it and put windshield washer fluid it.
But it was one of those water bottles where you can squirt it
so I could drive and squirt the windshield washer fluid in my
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windshield so I can continue driving down the highway.
So I made it all the way to Missoula, no issues.
Once I got past Missoula, Mt going into Idaho through the
National Forest there or whatever, it started to get a
little sketchy again. Fine, I made it through Idaho.
I made it through Washington. The only sketchy part was a
Snoqualmie Pass going in, going into Seattle there.
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That was probably the worst partof Washington for me.
And then I made the turn N onto I4 O 5.
And that's when I started cryingbecause I'm like, OK, I know
where. You're on the home.
Stretch. I'm on the home stretch.
I just want to get home and I'm.Bad weather roads are behind.
You yeah, it's like it's rain. Like if it's the worst, I'm
going to have to deal with this rain from here on out.
So I make it on to the I5 N and I'm just at this point I'm
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struggling to keep near the speed limit because when I'm
driving in the States I don't gomuch above the speed limit
because I don't want a ticket inthe States.
Yeah, they don't. Fuck around.
Apparently so I I'm like the speed limit on I-5 is 70 mile an
hour and I'm probably doing like95 mile an hour because all I
want to do is get home at this point.
So I finally reached the Canadian border and the guy put,
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I have Nexus and the guy at the Nexus booth recognizes me.
He's like, what happened to yourcar?
And I'm like, oh, I had a deer in Wyoming and he's like, oh,
that's why there's a big chunk missing out of your car.
He waved me through. I, I get back and as soon as I
crossed that border, knowing that I was back in Canada, I
just started bawling my eyes outbecause this trip was such a
traumatic trip for me that I just, I was happy to be home and
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somewhere that I knew things andI could finally get my car.
Fixed. Yes, I I know that feeling
because I did my long haul trekking to the States and I had
a not so pleasant trip with somepretty wicked snowstorms on the
South side of the. Border So thank you for sharing
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your experience with everyone. On the well, thank you.
What were you driving? I'm driving my current car which
is a 2024 Hyundai Kona. OK.
So something newer that's that'sgood, that makes it a little bit
more. Reliable.
Yeah, Yeah. My vehicle, I wouldn't trust
doing that. But yeah, I've really bad trip
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and cross the border. Same thing.
As soon as I got back into Canada, even though I was like
crossing the border in Saskatchewan, as soon as I
crossed the line, I was like, there's comfort here because I'm
just, I'm home. And it was the same thing I, I
had. I had one trip where as soon as
I crossed the line, I had to pull the truck over on the side
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of the highway. I had a little bit of a
breakdown because it was a disaster of a fucking snowstorm
in Montana. You feel like you're safe when
you cross back over after something traumatic.
We cross back over into Canada. You have that sense of safety.
Oh yeah, for sure. And that was for me.
I will, I will admit the people in Montana and Wyoming, after I
hit the deer, they were all verylovely and sweet.
And then once the orange turd isout of the office and I feel
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safe going back across the border, I would definitely go
visit Montana and Wyoming again.You know what we not referencing
anybody specifically, No, we have gone across the border
hundreds of times for many years.
Same thing. I obviously agree.
All the times we have gone and all the trips to Vegas gone down
to Bellingham, gone down to Portland OR Washington, Seattle.
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We have 8 months of travel across the states as long.
Hauling, we have had nothing butincredible positive experience
with every individual that we have met in the United States.
We have never had one unfriendlyencounter.
We've always felt welcome. And again, the same thing.
If anything, there was, you know, if there was a situation
that we needed help, they were to help.
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So I'm, I'm glad you're back safely and you know, I think
that would be kind of a cool episode.
We should talk about that on thepodcast for season 4.
Maybe this one. It would be because we're a lot
of guests. We can just talk about.
Let's talk about Nightmare. Trips or or just adventures that
are challenging. Just I got to like what let's
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another podcast, let's talk about some of those trips that
let's talk about trips that didn't go well because.
And trust me, it's not just the people in Wyoming or Montana.
It's everybody that I ran into to the States.
Every. They say Canada is a friendly
country. When I was on the road, yeah,
no, as soon as I was South of the border.
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The people down there are way more nicer that I had to deal
with than when I was in Canada. My experience, and this is
coming from someone who's lived in other provinces, the farther
W you get, I find the ruder Canadians get.
You're not. You're not.
You're not. Wrong, I would say it's more
passive aggressive the farther Wyou get cuz especially out here
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in BC. What I've noticed is people act
like they're nice but they're really more condescending and
rude to you Shady. Well people my experience
because I grew up in Ontario. People seem mean to you, but
they're more willing to help youinteresting than back home.
And what I, me and my mom have equated to is the farther E you
are, the more winter, proper winter you have to deal with,
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the more like, because you kind of team up with your neighbors
back home, like clear your driveway, help clear the
sidewalk, make sure they're OK during a snowstorm and whatnot.
So like we have to like get to know one another more back home.
Well, here in the West Coast, it's just rain all winter and we
get the one or two snowstorms a year.
So people don't get it's a. Free for all.
And like I said, like a millimeter of snow out here,
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everyone shuts their stores down.
Hilarious. Can't cross the bridges.
Also, too, we have a lot of money coming here from
internationally, right? So you have these, there's not
much of A middle class here. It seems like down in the city,
like there's just a. Whole lot and remember that for
for all of our wonderful listeners who follow the
podcast, we love you. Just in case you know all of our
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local listeners that are all outout West, you know that that
follow our podcast. That's something I find like
because I I was born here, I wasborn in North Vancouver.
And something that I find is we're just unwilling to help
because it's either going to bite us in the ass or get us
dead. There was one woman who went to
intervene. She tried to help somebody.
They were in a fight and she gotshot and killed.
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And it's things like that. Yikes.
That's happened multiple times. Now, yeah, And it's things like
that, like we don't want to help.
We kind of close ourselves off from other people.
And I'm not like saying I'm not one of those condescending
people, but I'm more unwilling to help because I fear for my
own safety. Understandable.
Yeah. Yeah, and I will make this a
really clear I do love BC. I do love the community that I
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have built out here. I don't plan on leaving this
area anytime soon. Good for you sweetie, cuz we
would imagine we would miss you if you were gone it.
Makes connections like this thatmuch more special too, because
we are the change. We're breaking the cycle with
that stuff too, and that makes these connections even more
special. Yeah, I would say up until the
trip that I went back to Ontario, my heart was set to
move back because I that I've just, I miss the quality of
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people, but I've found that coregroup of people.
I have my roots out here now andI can't see myself living life
without them anymore. Good for you, sweetie.
And we love you having you in the pup community because again,
that that community for us. I mean, we've been we've we've
said it before, we've we've spent how many years here?
And before we we became. Are you OK, J Rock?
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Yeah, I'm fine. Before we became, you know,
involved in the community with us that we didn't have a large
group of friends. We really didn't.
And since meeting 80%, which is so funny because we were doing
the party invites and I was like, pop pop, pop, pop, pop
human pop pop handler. I'm the human pop, pop.
Yeah. So it was literally, it was
literally going through all these invitations and it was so
(33:23):
funny. I'm like, wow.
I'm like, it's really in, you know, my, my life has evolved
with, within this community. The pups are amazing people.
Absolutely they are. Yeah, 100%.
And I would say it's probably when I got into the PUP
community and started to build these connections is when I
really started to feel like thiswas home.
I hate that I live so far outside of the downtown car and
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it takes me so long to transit and or drive in.
Really. Look at us.
I live farther than you. Well, that's fair.
You do have me beaten on that. One, I do have like another half
hour on you, no? OK, that's fair.
Where are you? I'm out in Langley, shit in like
Langley City. So I'm like right in Langley.
Yeah. OK.
So it's like a bottom. Of 200.
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Don't let the conversation die. I have to step away for a
second. You know how this works.
Yes, I do keep going, keep talking.
Yeah. So yeah.
Let there be silence. Right, I get to deal with lovely
200th St. in Langley. God, if you're familiar with the
area. You almost.
Die You know how much that road will drive locals nuts?
It's almost almost as bad as 152nd.
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Oh no, I'd rather 152nd over two.
Yeah, OK. Not wrong.
As a commercial driver, I would take 152 / 2 hundredths any day.
I would even take King George over 200.
Yeah, I would take King George over 152.
No, OK, I clearly don't live over there.
So. I work in South Surrey so I I'm
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break fair enough near 152nd in King George area so I have to
deal with both of those roads. I just.
Picked the right time of day. And I to drive.
I hate both of them but I rather152 / 200 for sure.
Fair enough. Interesting.
So yeah, that it say something. I found that the nicest people
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that I've run into in the statescuz you've I don't know how much
experience you have in the States besides your road trip
from hell. I've driven when I lived in
Ontario. I've driven to Erie, PA with my
ex step sister at the time because my mom in such a cute.
Little town, isn't it? We're no longer together.
Treat little town. I told my mom I was just going
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to Buffalo, NY. Decided to travel another 2 1/2
hours to Erie's, Pennsylvania. I've done that.
I've driven down to Seattle multiple times.
I've driven to Spokane once. I've gone down to Portland once.
So I have a little bit of experience in the states.
My mainly I just go down to Bellingham most of the time.
Yeah, the nicest people out of all.
Like I before I did the long haul trucking, I've I've only
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been to four states, Washington,Oregon, Nevada and Montana.
After long haul trucking I've been to 38 states.
Whoa, really? Yeah, that's really cool.
The people who live in Maryland are the sweetest, nicest out of
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the bunch that I've ever met. They are absolutely amazing
people. I will agree with you on that
because I used to work in the very tourist town of Niagara
Falls, ON and we would have to ask people where they were from
and get to know them. And I would say it probably
everyone from Maryland was probably the nicest people that
I met besides the East Coasters from people from Newfoundland
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and the Maritimes and what not. I mean, Maine, the people in
Maine are nice because it's close enough.
Like it's, you know, East Coast,it's basically Newfoundland,
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia. It's, it's all around that area.
The people in Maine are really nice, but the nicest people that
I come across in my travels werein Maryland.
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Way to go, Maryland. So where is Maryland?
Is that Canadian or US? No, it's Maryland is US.
Is that a state? Yeah, Baltimore.
The city of Baltimore is in Maryland and I believe
Washington, DC is. Right next to it isn't.
It yeah, it's it's. It's one of the states that
connects to Washington. Washington, DC is in Virginia.
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Washington. DC is not a state, it's its own.
No, I know it's, but it's. It's next to Virginia, and I
think Maryland's right next to that isn't.
It you know what? I forgot to mention it.
There was something they came across not CNN news the other
day. Sure crap.
Not not CNN. It was on news board.
Did you hear the day there was anew rumor, A rumor about?
Did you hear the rumors about butter?
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Yeah. No, You know what?
That's OK. I shouldn't spread it.
Damn, that's a good. One thank you, I was waiting for
it. Damn.
Everyone's getting into the ad jokes.
Now come on, Gerald. That was good.
Good. DC is in Maryland.
It's just east of the Virginia border.
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OK. That's what you were doing.
So DC is in Maryland. You were checking your map.
I was OK, that's. A good map.
It is a cool map. It's it's it's a good one to
check on I-90 as well. Oh.
It was correct. I didn't look.
I was looking for GC. Actually, that will.
Be a discussion after the podcast in in the.
Break discussion. I think this is probably going
(38:20):
to be a battle. I know I'm right because I
actually drove on it recently. Within the last five months I
was in Wyoming on I-90 through Share it in Wyoming.
You all, you all can battle thatout in between episodes.
You can look at your maps and your Google Maps.
You can access your phones. You can go ahead and look at
everything. How do they?
Have to look at the map on the mall, that's fine.
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I-90 makes it turn S at Billings, Mt into Wyoming.
Summer plans do you do? Do you wreck beach?
No, I don't. I wasn't sure I wouldn't.
Sure I would. We were gonna go to Rec Beach.
I love Rec Beach. T-bone loves Rec Beach.
We were gonna go down a few times.
I might if there's any walkies that happen down there.
It all really depends on my workschedule because a lot of this
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stuff happens on the weekend while I'm at work.
I understand. So it's hard for me to do any of
those stuff. I am flying back to Ontario at
the end of June for my younger brother's graduation in high
school. Good for you for being able to
do that. I know you got a good deal on
flights. Yes, Congrats.
Congrats to younger brother. At the end of June we're on
holiday as well and going to theisland.
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Yeah, we are. We're gonna spend a week on the
island and leading up to the Victoria Parade.
We will be walking with the Victoria pups in the Victoria
Parade this year and getting to see a lot of our friends that we
have not seen for three years. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun
and I'm excited. And this year Victoria Pride
parade or sorry, Vancouver PrideParade.
We of course are very excited towalk hopefully up.
Tatin, you will be with us in the parade this year.
(39:43):
Can. You send me a link so I can.
I will. I'll send you on the on during
the link. I'll send you the link.
I am not walking in this parade this year.
I'm driving. But you are still a support
human and you've increased your role because we have a vehicle
and we are going to have coolersfull of ice and full of nice ice
cold water for all the pups walking this year.
So we were gonna have 3 coolers filled with ice.
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So we got way more water ice andthen we'll be.
On the back, handing it all. Out there you go.
Yeah, not walking, driving. I'm driving.
And your truck will be convertedinto a.
Well, as long as you don't make the black spots too big, it
should be a Dalmatian and not a cow.
That's awesome. We've we've already found a site
(40:27):
to make them. We know they're not good.
They've Yeah, we've got a site already booked.
It's free and yeah, we don't want cow.
Yes, you're. Gonna have big googly eyes on
the truck. No, there's no googly eyes.
It is a puppy, not a googly eye puppy and a tongue.
We're gonna have ears. Then where are the eyes?
But the headlights? OK, well, yeah, you could have
said that then. Wait, what?
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You're getting ears. You're getting a nose and a
tongue. It's a puppy dog.
You need floppy ears off to hangout of your windows.
We're gonna have to discuss this.
So the ears attached to your windows where there's a nose
attached to the grill, and then you have a tongue hanging out
the front of your grill. Red tongue, black nose.
Yes, the engine compartment and the hood.
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The front end of my truck Is thesnout where the nose and the
tongue is. Yeah, the eyes are the
windshield. OK, we're gonna have to figure
out something to put some sort of eyeballs there.
I didn't know but. Googly eyes.
Because googly eyes on the. Because the ears are gonna be
coming out the door, Yes. And then you say my headlights.
So the ears are gonna be like 19miles away from the face.
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Yeah, I want it to be a dog. Is this do you want to be an
accurate dog, or do you want to just be a?
Where do you find giants and howmuch are those going to cut?
Giant size googly eyes. I'm sure no, we can.
Cut well, we can just cut eyes out of vinyl.
OK, all right. We need an extra help for that
one. I've already got my mind for the
other one. That haste fast.
I was trying to figure out how my cat knows.
(41:53):
I was literally, I went to get up to use the washroom and
within 3 seconds he followed me in the washroom.
Hasn't moved the entire night until I leave the table.
Yeah. He does that.
Yeah, we're gonna have to discuss the design of Hitch.
Go ahead. I got one.
I was listening to a song about a tortilla the other night.
Tortilla. Yeah, I'm waiting for everyone,
including. It's a nice little wrap.
(42:17):
Yeah, I got nothing. That's good.
No, it was awful. It was bad.
Nothing's gonna be. Just insert sigh here.
Yep. Yeah, nothing's gonna beat the
spreading the rumors of butter. No, no, no, yours was still the
best Braille. No, the Braille was still top
one. No, no, Braille was a top.
One that was legendary. Yeah, sorry.
(42:38):
That one was like you had everybody invested in what you
were talking about. Oh yeah, that's the.
Fundamental of a dead joke. You got to get people invested.
In not the last one, I was dialed in.
Right. What the I?
Was with you? They're just terrible.
Find it slightly funny? So how was the podcast today,
(42:59):
Noah? Good.
Yeah. Not nervous.
No. Enjoying yourself.
You're killing it. You're doing really good.
I was nervous beforehand but like once I jump into something
I tend to get get rid of the nerves and just go on with it.
Yep. That's like me with subbing.
The next episode's a bit stranger because we.
Just I really need to become a Dom.
We just need to talk about weirdshit.
(43:22):
It just goes, continues on. We don't know what's happening.
I did discover that our we do have a robot now we have a robot
vacuum, which is fantastic, which is really great because.
Currently resides behind Jukey, Yeah.
I see one of the biggest pains in the ass is I hate having the
house especially with spaz beigecarpet.
I hate coming home and I was constantly asking everyone to
(43:44):
help and I always found that like I usually vacuum, vacuum,
vacuum. But we did discover that it is
not a good idea to have a set schedule because robot vacuums
do not understand the concepts of cap puke.
Dear. I love that.
And my friend it's not as bad because one of our Co workers at
work said they also don't understand the concept of dog
(44:07):
poop. And when the dog is sick and
it's all at that. One.
Yeah, it spread it evenly over his entire carpet.
The entire house. Yeah.
So I think ours wasn't bad. It was in the machine, but not
as much on the carpet, thank goodness.
And you didn't even realize thathappened until.
I know I didn't. We, we were, he had, we was
mapping out the upstairs and it was going through the bedroom
(44:28):
and a piece of my side table hadbroken off like the the slide
that the drawer slides on a piece that had broken off and
the vacuum had caught that up, which stopped the main roller
from spinning. So the vacuum stopped and it's
like my main roller is not spinning.
Please check me. It was weird.
(44:49):
So he picks it up, flips it overand he's like, what the fuck is
this? And I'm looking at it.
I'm like, that would be Spaz's kibble that was all over the
carpet earlier, Yeah. It's so weird when you pick it
up, you pick the background and it's like I am suspended, please
put me down on the ground. Or when I do, when I try and
find it, I was like I am here master.
(45:11):
It makes announcements like findrobots.
Does it say that? Yep.
Just watch those things. You have to pick it up and put
it. Upstairs, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, when?
I do, yeah. Ready.
Find robot. Here we go.
Master, I am here. Master.
Master, I am here. I know it was just kind of funny
(45:31):
and like whenever I think about that and I heard that Master I
am here, all I could think of was that stupid dinosaur with
the like stubby arms on. Meet the Robinsons Meet the
Robinsons, nowster I don't thinkthis was a good idea.
My head is big and my arms are short.
That's. All I could think of when every
time I hear that. If you can get the R2D2 sounds.
(45:51):
I wish, I'm sure some of the cooler, more advanced robots.
You could probably program some of the sounds, which would be
kind of funny, but they're way more expensive than I'm willing
to pay. I got this at Mosave, our
wonderful Mosave, for $60.00. Normally 460, yeah, 60 bucks.
I'm OK with it. I'm not gonna pay $400.00 for if
I'm gonna spend $400.00, I'm gonna buy an actual vacuum. 60
(46:13):
bucks maybe that's. What I'll do tomorrow?
Do you know what he named it? What's that already?
No textbooks? What textbooks for you?
Yeah. He wants textbooks, apparently.
Or do you want textbooks? Have you been playing?
Have you ever played Oblivion? Did we talk about?
That yes, I have played Oblivion.
Are you? Gonna get the remastered.
Probably not just because there I have about 10 different games
(46:34):
that I've not played and I just do not have the time of my life
to play. I'm playing my Harry Potter
which will take me 10 years to play.
My have you? No, it's gonna take me 5 years
to even finish it from now. My bestie informed me that you
need to get on the wagon on the Harry Potter wagon again because
she finished the game. OK, damn.
(46:55):
In in comparison, 2 jobs, 2 volunteer positions versus
she's. Probably not working right now,
is she? Well, she's got a house to take
care of though. She just moved bitch.
Little bit of a different situation between me and I love
her. She is.
Off on disability before she moves.
So yeah, she she had a little bit of.
Time I I'm a little bit busier, just just a tad.
(47:17):
I'm just hearing excuses here, Spider.
Thank you. But I'm like 110 hours in in the
last couple weeks. He might be 110 minutes in.
Eventually, I'll remind you in 10 years.
How many hours do I get a date? One hour at night, 2 in the
morning. Add some hours to your day and.
Yeah, maybe. Fuck my life, Yeah, I said.
(47:39):
I mean, I think the best one said it best is when we watch
that video, that Chase Doug Jones that he, you know, he
chase gave me over Christmas time and he was trying to
describe what I do on a daily basis and what goes on.
And that video, I don't know if you've ever seen that you pay an
actor. A cameo.
Cameo So anyway, he played Doug Jones who was in Discovery and
(48:00):
he did that. And when he just kept on going
on and on at the end of it, whenhe said he's like, oh, Chase
even says you run a podcast, youcreate a podcast.
He's like, he's like, my God, he's like, how do you find the
time to do any of this stuff between all the volunteering in
your jobs and running a podcast?He's like, I'm sweating just
thinking about it. Yeah, I'm exhausted thinking
about what you're doing and. That doesn't even include my
home life of what we do at home.So yeah.
(48:22):
So I love my video games. I wish, but no.
I miss my Wii, I haven't played in a long time.
I miss our Wii games. No one has.
Ever. Played.
We're talking about Nintendo weed, not weed, yes.
I know what we're. Talking about there's well,
yeah, I know, but I I actually heard weed.
(48:44):
Sorry. Wii.
Yeah, the Wii, not the WE. Do you smoke weed, Noah?
No, I do not. I couldn't remember.
I didn't think you did. No, I don't smoke weed and I
hardly ever drink alcohol. Good for you.
I am a caffeine drinker through and through.
I can have a full cup of coffee and then go right to bed right
afterwards. Wow.
I get the best sleeps when I do that.
Yep. Crazy.
(49:04):
Like seriously, if I'm like justtired and I make a hot cup of
coffee and guzzle that back, I sleep like the fucking dead.
I have a cup. Of coffee at like 5:00 in the
afternoon and I can't get to sleep until like 3 in the
morning. It's weird how it it's so funny
how it. Affects every single person
differently. 5:00 in the afternoon I'm having my first
coffee. I mean like to be fair.
(49:26):
I work at a coffee, I work at a coffee shop and I get it for
free for my full 8 hour shift. So I have like 5 to 6 coffees
there and then I take one home and maybe make another one while
I'm at home. Well, you don't have to worry.
You don't have to worry about being regular.
Hold the phone right? You have 6-6.
How many coffees do you have? How many?
(49:47):
About 5:00 to 6:00 at work. What?
What's your favorite? My go to if I'm.
Just careful now, grabbing that might give it away.
Is a ice flat white with sugar free vanilla.
That just gave it away. Right now we all know where you
were. You might as well have said a
double Chai latte. Hey, could be an independent.
One hold on, you get one free coffee per shift.
(50:07):
I get all the coffee you want all the coffee as long as I
finish the one before, I have tofinish the coffee beforehand
before. I need to get a job at Tim
Horton's my. Gosh damn I doubt they give you
the same deal you. Don't get like the Tim Horton's
does not give you the same deal I'm.
Starting to give you they will give me the same deal.
They will not I. Will make them.
(50:27):
It will. Be don't you get the part of my
employment like I used to get, like a heart, like a it would
affect my heart palpitations. Yeah, whatever you call it.
No, you don't get that. No, I my body's so immune to it
that it doesn't affect me anymore.
OK, everybody. And people look at us so weird
for it too. They got it.
One day I study you. I was off work and I went to my
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store. It was a drive through store
that I was working at and I wentto that store 5 times within
about a three and a half hour period because I kept drinking
my coffee and I needed another one and I was busy running
around town doing things. So I just every time I went by
my store, I picked up another coffee.
All right, everybody, we're going to see our farewells.
We're going to get ready to end the episode.
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We always want to make sure thatwe're in that time frame so we
can get this episode aired on YouTube.
Thank you for everyone for beingon today's episode.
We are gonna get ready and gear up for My Hobbies episode,
Squirrels After Dark episode episode 11.
Moist. Moist anyone?
And the word, which would be What's the secret word of the
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day for? The stinkies.
The secret word will be purple. Purple.
Excellent. Chase will love that one.
All right, so we got that one. Remember, it's OK not to be OK
if you are suffering if you dealwith it, it's OK not to be OK
Mental health is incredibly important.
Reach out. We always include show notes on
the episode of, you know, the BCCrisis Center, the 988 number if
you need it help, there's alwaysreach out.
(51:51):
You can reach out to us on any of the chat platforms.
It's important. And with that being said, does
anybody have in the last minute any shout outs you want to do or
any companies, especially starting with Noah that you'd
like to shout out before we continue on?
Not a shout out but continuing on mental health.
I've just been on a journey of working on my own mental health.
I've been journaling for the last just over a week now and
(52:13):
I've noticed over the last week I've I feel better just being
able to write out my feelings. Well, we'll talk about in the
next episode because I'm a huge journal.
You've seen my journaling station.
Yeah. So let's talk about.
Here and on the next episode we'll tell, we'll have the
confirmation that I am right about I-90 in my own.
You will. I think you might be actually
now thinking about it. All right.
(52:34):
And everybody else, we're gonna get ready to continue on in the
next episode. We want to make sure.
All right, thank you, guys. Thank you for the episode.
Thank you for being here with us.
Love, peace and chicken grease. It's over there, it's over
there. I have nothing an episode
without Cluck North.
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