July 20, 2025 • 54 mins
In Episode 14 of the Squirrel Hour podcast, host Rick Hunter (AKA Spyder Pup) returns with co-host Sharon Da Boy’Z after a couple of weeks away, and enthusiastically updates listeners on recent adventures. The episode includes an introduction of new guest, Skyler, a handler in the puppy community. The group discusses highlights and personal experiences, ranging from pride events and vacation stories to their preferences and identities within the puppy community. The importance of mental health is emphasized, with mentions of relevant resources. The episode also features humorous anecdotes and camaraderie among friends, making it a vibrant and engaging listen.
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All right. Welcome back everybody.
We are back from a couple of weeks.
We have a lot to talk about today.
We are here on the Squirrel Hour.
Thank you cracking the beer because what was this podcast
originally created for? Sorry about that.
It was a happy hour podcast and that's exactly what we are.
We are here with an amazing group of friends and cast here
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yet again. I am your host, Rick Hunter, AKA
Spider Pup and we are on episode14 of today's episode and we are
going to be in episode 14 of notonly our episode, but also
Squirrels After Dark, which we are happy to be recording as
well today. OK, remember, we are not a safe
for work podcast. You know, please make sure
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you're, you know, if you're going to broadcast this, make
sure your work is OK with it or using your headphones listening
to it. And we are very happy.
I want to say thank you again toall of our listeners.
We are nearly 5000 downloads, yeah, which is absolutely
amazing. 72 countries. Thank you to all of our
followers and listeners who havefollowed us.
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And yeah, I mean, we've lost a couple of followers the last
couple of weeks. But you know, I'm, I mean, I
follow podcast, sometimes I loseinterest.
It goes up and down. Overall, for being what we are
and where we are. I think I I'm very, very happy
and I'm very honored that as many people follow us as they
do. And again, I do a shout out.
If you are anywhere in the worldand you want to be a guest on
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the show, please reach out to us.
You can message us say hello through Instagram if you want.
We have the scroll hour Instagram and we have it.
We are now booked up for the entirety of season 3.
We are now booking in 2026 for two season 4.
We are accepting now guests which is a game.
Blows my mind away that we are. We're booking that far into an
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advance. With that being said, I'm going
to pass it over to my wonderful husband Sharon, the boys to do
our introductions before we continue.
This podcast is brought to you by the unseated and traditional
territories of the Coquitlam First Nations.
Clicko, thank you for allowing us to be here.
Thank you, honey. Appreciate it.
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And with that being said, let's go around the table and just
introduce our listeners that arehere today who's going to be on
the. Show Wow, I'm a listener.
OK wow. What listeners are here?
OK, I almost had a perfect introduction.
So close. So close.
Technically, I do listen. Touché.
I didn't fail. It's jukey funny fact about me
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one day at work cuz you know chefing is dangerous sometimes.
I got halfway to cutting off thetip of my thumb.
I wrapped it up, finished my shift and then when got 2
stitches later. Bad ass.
Was that the previous time or yesterday?
No, yesterday I cut my fingernail.
(02:55):
Yeah. Now, that was a few years ago.
OK, OK. Is that the one that popped up
on your memory for Facebook? It's like damn near same day
you're slicing your finger off. No, this was another different
one. What were you doing?
I was cutting green onions and knife.
Knife was dull. What is the old knife soup?
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Just saying. The worst.
Yeah. The dangerous profession.
Being a chef. Yep.
Well. Respect.
Continuing up. Sorry I.
Just how do you top that? Johnny, not Johnny.
Anyway, it's a pup Titan and I don't have an interesting fact
or a dad joke locked up. So what's your name on the
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podcast for our listeners? You have Pup Titan, but a lot of
our listeners don't know becauselike when we do the show, it's J
Rod. Thank you.
That's J Rod or Pup Titan. Exactly, you have two we we try
and introduce both you, but you are a puppy pup Titan like me
and you have your podcast. I have an interesting fact about
myself. I have I have recently endured
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or not endured. That is my job.
Don't be starting that. Not on.
It's my. Job that was on your side?
No fluff catching today, Yeah. Interesting fact about myself, I
have just kind of been introduced to a new genre of
music and it is a heavy metal cover songs.
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So cover songs that kind of introduce heavy metal?
So a regular song but sung heavymetal.
Yeah, pretty much. Congratulations.
Yeah, all right. Next around the table.
Sharon Dubois and I'm blistering.
Excellent. And next.
We got T-bone, apparently on Friday.
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I did some edibles and some beers and according to my new
friend here, Skyler, I got hunked high and drunk.
We'll come back to that and our guest on today's show, which we
will come back to and to do the introductions of course is.
Skyler, a handler in the puppy community.
Fantastic. So I'm very happy to have you
here because this is your first time on the show.
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Indeed. Have you ever been on a podcast
before? I've written in, but that's the
closest I've gotten. I love the fact that this
podcast has introduced so many people to the first time being
on a podcast. So much fun.
Right. And I mean, as we all said, J
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Rod was a guest. T-bone have both been guests,
yes. And Sprinkles was a guest.
Just let me finish. Yeah, I'm just, I love that they
were and they've been and they've been here and now
they're they're Co hosts. Shout out to Sprinkles, Silent
Peter and the kids. Unfortunately, they were not
able to make it to join us today.
No, they'll be back in August. They've got prior commitments,
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they've got concerts to go through.
It's summer's busy. This is not uncommon.
We we know this is normal. We've we've rescheduled the
podcast around J Rod. Side note, for summer, wear
sunscreen. Yes, please shut up.
For the love of God, wear sunscreen.
Even on your arms and hands for driving.
Doesn't matter, wear sunscreen. I would say if you're driving
honestly, put it on your face ifyou've seen those truck drivers
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where they've got half the faces, really, because the sun
comes in through that window andit ages them fast.
It's just one arm shoulder. I know.
I've suffered a very severe sunburn.
I've had a few. I think it was, I think it was
second degree burns, yeah. Like, like Sharon's blisters.
Yes, Yeah. Yeah, in that case, I suggest
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any cream with hydrocodone in it.
It will work wonders. But be warned, it is a a form of
testosterone. So if you're taking any
medications, do be careful with that.
And not for me, all right. Good point.
It's not that strong, but medications, it can affect that
kind of thing. T-bone.
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Sharing the boys. Did you wear sunscreen?
Oh my gosh. So caught me with a mouthful of
beer. One of our guests once mentioned
it was really cool that that's why we were making out.
We're going to try and improve to say who's speaking when we're
speaking so they know it. Ironically, we had a meeting
yesterday that was one of the suggestions like, you know,
before you start talking, just saying say your name because a
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lot of people would not know who's talking, which is I'm
going to try and say, you know who's talking.
So anyway, sorry Sharon. No, I'm.
Shocked. I'm just so shocked.
OK, let me be clear. I am a truck driver.
So yes, I do drive with my arm on the window sill holding the
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steering wheel while I'm shifting with my right hand.
For those of you that are in European countries, we drive on
the right side of the road, so the driver is on the left side
of the vehicle. So my left arm is very toasty
tanned and over this past vacation that Spider and I went
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on to I may have gotten slightlya little bit more burnt than
expected. It doesn't look good.
Slightly. You're bubbling, Hun.
That's more than slightly. OK, so for a visualization you
could almost like my left shoulder right now if you rubbed
your fingers over it. It's probably Braille for the
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novel War and Peace. Yeah, it's tough.
There's a little bit of a visualization.
I have like 3 bubbles on my right shoulder.
OK, well, it's not bad even out.So would last two weeks 3 No,
we're just gonna. I was saying we're gonna get to
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what happened over the last Has it been three weeks?
Since the last three weeks, since our last podcast.
So yes. I was just gonna say, well, you
know what? Although the highlights over the
for ours for the last three weeks has definitely been.
I think we should probably go last because we've had a hell of
a week, hell of a vacation to discuss, so I think we should
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let our guests go first. OK, the last three weeks,
highlights of the last three weeks.
Anybody got anything they want to share to everybody before we
move on with the show, besides losing your finger.
Positive. Happy.
Stuff. Finger nail.
Nail, finger nail. Well, I'll speak as the handler
for the local pub communities. It was nice to see both a
handler from the before times aswell as a puppy who hasn't been
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in many, many years show up to, you know, come to events.
It's nice to see people we haven't seen in a while.
And of course, unfortunately forthem, there's the shock of, I
know like 5 people out of the 60people that are here, but it was
nice seeing them again. I'm glad that's nice that
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they've begun to reintegrate themselves.
Anybody else? Everybody and, and and the
community I've known. J Rod.
Bit of bad news and then good news.
Yay. A individual that I have a
relationship with tested positive for COVID.
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Oh. No.
Oh. Thankfully they are a lot
better. Good, yay.
And minus the massive headache that they suffered, they're
doing a lot better. I'm glad hold.
Up Did you see a relationship? Or just some of them.
They don't. Someone that I know.
Yeah, don't want. Yeah, don't want, don't want to
get into personal details on that one.
Relation asterisks. Yeah, A.
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Good reminder that COVID is still out there.
Yes, a situation ship, yeah. And so is the flu and so is
everything else. It's not going away.
But I'm like I said, I'm glad because again, based on it, I'm
always glad. Like anything like pneumonia,
that's it's terrible. Like, I'm glad they're, I'm glad
they're OK. Side note, call your friends
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family just to check in see how they're doing because you never
know. Absolutely 100% see how they're.
Really doing? Yeah.
Yeah, you never know. Sometimes the truth.
Thanks, J Rod. All righty.
Anybody else? T-bone.
I went to the beach yesterday for 6-7 hours and it was
amazing. And how did you not burn?
Dude, you're blonde and white. What the fuck?
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I've what? Really?
I thought you got a little bit of a tan but no I I saw on the
screen I got an umbrella too if it gets too toasty.
Do you have SPS 5000I? Think.
It's 30 I. Don't need more.
Than 30 I think for me, I thought I was pretty tanned but.
Not dude, I work night shift andI'm more tanned than you.
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You're. Darker than I I need to
interject here. The weird reason why Spider and
I giggled so hard about that is because when we went to Vegas,
they we were looking for sunscreen and, you know, they
had the usuals, you know, the, the five, the 10, the 1530,
fifty, 115. Yeah.
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They, they had all the generals,but there was like a section for
Canadians and it was like SPF 500.
Like it was ridiculous. 1100 Yeah.
Oh, yeah. OK, so it was like for
Canadians. Yeah.
That was we died laughing. Tebow just became, prior to
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fight, an ally. An ally.
Always been an ally. OK, so I was going to.
Say you've always been. Which beach did you attend?
Rec Beach. Oh good, the fun one.
My favorite, the fun one. I had to almost fight an old
man, older gentleman. Now that yeah, let's let's talk
about it all. Right, He was just, I gave him
AI was watching him for whatever20 minutes and he's he's it
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looks like he's Facetiming somebody.
And there was these ladies that were walking up way up beside
them. And sure enough, the phone's now
trailing them. So he's might be showing his
buddy, whatever, but either way,it's creepy behavior.
And so I was like, yeah, OK, I'mgoing to speak up now.
And it went right up to him. And when it comes to these
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situations, I do remain very calm in the beginning.
But when they start giving me sass and making excuses and
stuff, I do turn it up. And I do have friends down there
that would actually have my back, so I'm not that worried
about it. Good.
And yeah, I don't know, I do sparring and stuff.
I'm not really that afraid of a little tussle.
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And yeah, it worked. It worked.
And I had somebody else that spoke up and had my back and
kind of helped me relax cuz I was actually ready to go.
And you're just like, OK. Trust us, not only did you have
those people backing you that were at the beach at that
moment, but you have the entire rec Beach society would back you
up a. 100%, yeah. I I love that about Rec Beach
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and speaking which we are going next weekend.
Are you coming down which day? Saturday.
I can totally go. All right, let's do it.
Fuck yeah. OK.
We're going down the next two Saturdays and.
Just to put it out there too, I always approach situations with
with a lot of grace initially, especially down there because
some people just don't know the rules and.
We've been approached, yeah. And we know the rules, but they,
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you know, we were taking, we always make sure if we're taking
a picture of ourselves, background like blurred out, you
know, everything blurred, we're trying to and we're making sure,
you know, like we, we know of them.
Like we want to make sure we're respectful of all everything
else. So yeah.
I mean, there was that one time where I was taking pictures of
those university boys that were playing football directly in
front of me, but they had it coming.
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Jesus Christ, now that song is going through my head.
Huh. I said thanks and now that song
is going through my head. What song?
From Moulin Rouge no OK well there is a song that that the
whole point of they had it coming and it's not going
through my. Thank you.
Chicago. Oh, Chicago excuse.
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Me. I'm not.
Thank you. Sorry, that that's what I
remember. The Chicago Yeah, they had it
coming yet? Yeah.
Yeah, OK. I actually do recognize that.
Oh good, I'm glad people recognize.
It Oh, we do. It's a very infamous song.
J Rod. The movie Chicago Was that shot
in black and white or in color? Color, color, color.
It's. Not that old.
It's a very famous movie. I shoot, I shoot.
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A movie. It's a Broadway.
Musical. Renee Zellweger and.
Catherine Zeta Jones. Yeah.
Richard Gere. There is a couple of oh and
fantastic bodies noise. It is a good movie.
Queen Latifah so. No.
I think everybody has had a fantastic couple of weeks before
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we even want to start 'cause that's wow, where do we start, I
think. I just want I know she doesn't
listen. My My bestie in the entire world
who moved away from me that. Cow wait, she doesn't listen to
our show. No, she doesn't listen to our
show. Wow.
I kind of really also haven't pushed it on her either, so that
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might be a thing. But my bestie Naomi, love her to
bits and pieces. Shout out to her and her family
and her younger brother who was recently in a severe vehicular
accident and is currently in thehospital.
So sending out prayers to DallasDamn for a speedy good recovery.
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Haven't heard any updates yet but apparently possible injuries
might be life altering. Oh.
No. And what was he driving when
this occurred? Motorcycle I'm guessing.
Yeah, did you see the look I gave?
Really. Yeah.
Actually. Yes.
Yes. Was it a multi?
We won't. We won't.
We're. Not going to.
We're not going to discuss details.
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But it was a multi vehicle so. It's afterwards I I got.
To discuss details. Yeah, not on the podcast.
But yeah, so beautiful. Shout out to Naomi for being
strong. Like she was about to jump in
her truck and drive 16 hours from northern BC down here.
Like she called me up when she was in her truck driving to the
ferry from where she lives. She's like, can I stay with you
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for a couple days? And I'm like, yeah, always.
Why? What's going on?
She's like, blah, blah, blah. Oh, wait, my mom's calling.
I'll call you back. And I'm like.
OK, jeez. I had one.
I had one rule. No panties or bras hanging
around to be seen. I mean when would be the first
time that we seen her in her panty and bra?
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She's been into the. Hot tub.
I was trying to make her laugh. I wouldn't give a shit.
Giggle. Like as soon as she said like,
you know, obviously I'm going tosay yes, but I was like, I'm
like, I have one goddamn rule. I do not want to walk in to my
bathroom and see her bongs and bongs.
I'm like, you know what? That happens.
Don't wear thongs, no. That happens.
Shit's going to get rear. I can make it way weirder.
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Mine hang in my room. J Rod just giving us the They
look like you damn well know. I got a lot of weird shit.
I can make it. Uncomfortable.
I'm a nudist. Yeah, me too.
I love the. Name.
Yeah, Yeah. Actually all three of us have
that in common. Actually, all three of us are.
Yeah, so out of curiosity, off topic here, let's squirrel a
little bit. Out of the six of us that are
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currently sitting at the table, how many are currently wearing
underwear? That would be 3 out of 6
actually. Pretty good.
Spaz is on our side. That's.
In my defense, I'm wearing a kilt.
Good point. Yeah, if you're wearing a kilt,
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you shouldn't be wearing underwear.
Absolutely. That's just wrong.
I mean, so literally, I'm not going to get into that.
There's that. That's a whole can of Scottish
that doesn't need to be broken open right now.
Yeah, I know. Rubbing against things, yeah.
Probably this goes. Because.
So we yeah, so for us for our last two weeks.
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Before it's free balling. Well, not always.
It depends on my work. Work.
I wear underwear because there'sa reason for that.
Yeah, T-bone, when you ride the motorcycle, are you free
balling? Yes, I knew that I free balled
90% of the time to begin with. Me too.
It's not part of your protectivegear.
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I can't. Hey, as long as you, as long as
you're protecting. That's what I'm saying, it's the
outside layers, not the inside layers that matter.
I've been in a motorcycle accident before and I thank the
the high gods that I was wearingmy leather.
Oh, absolutely. When motorcycling or other
exposed riding, dress for the slide, not the ride.
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Yeah. Truth.
I can't free ball. Wow, I get aroused way too.
J Rod apparently was like blown away by that comment.
Way too easily. That is profound.
Thanks, it's still from the motorcycle community from my
brother. Let's see, there is one there.
It's like a sweat now or bleed later.
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That one. Wow, that's another good one
too, actually. I mean yes, but I prefer the
dress for the slide, not the ride it's.
Is that the first time you've ever heard that?
Yeah, we're good. We're good.
Thank you. I've I've never heard that
particular saying before. Oh.
I'm surprised. You'll learn something new.
I I I suffered bad on my motorcycle accident.
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I think ICBC has had it in theircommercials for last couple
years. Really.
You watch commercials. Only when I have to.
I haven't watched television since 2008 except by occasional
exposure. If I'm like visiting family and
they've got it on TV and I'm in the same room, I'm exposed to
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the television but I'm not watching it.
I'm talking with friends and family, But otherwise, no.
I haven't watched TV since 2008 and I have adblock.
Well, Tuesday, I'm going to continue on and move on because
I want to, I want to get, you know, you to actually have some
air time as our guest. So at least we're entering the
half of the episode. So we got a couple of minutes to
talk about myself and Sharon's vacation and then we're going to
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get to our guest and introduce himself and actually have AQ and
a questions because that's what we're here for.
When we have a guest, the secondary show, we can continue
on with some of our banter and some of the fun things that have
happened. So would you like to lead off
Sharon and do some of the highlights of the last two weeks
of specifically our vacation? Oh.
God there I don't even know where to begin.
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I. Couldn't keep up.
It was. Thank you, it was a lot of fun.
It was 10 days. We left home on the 27th of
June. Highlights.
Yes, highlights. Jumped on the ferry and went to
Vancouver Island and spent 10 days on the island and came back
July. What was that Monday?
(22:03):
I don't know. Continue.
I don't care. It's a Monday.
On On the Island we met up with all of our long term friends,
some we haven't seen in 6-6 years. 6 plus years we haven't
seen. We talk to them every now and
then and we were in Victoria forVictoria Pride and walked in the
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Pride parade with the pups. I was the support, human as I
am. I'm getting a picture of that
later by the way. Don't take them, I'm not.
That's a good picture. I've had it on the whole.
Time I just noticed you just noticed I just noticed
literally. Touché Lots and lots of memories
made. Lots.
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Yeah, it was great. Lots of fun.
Yeah, I know. Yeah, I think that's it.
If you want to follow it, I meanfollow us.
On this Oh yeah spider randomly found a hookup and you kill it
of all place while I was sleeping.
Didn't even know what happened. Kinky.
You kill it the the population like 35 and he found a hookup.
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Yeah, that drove him out into the middle of the Bush.
That's. Trust.
No, I'm. After he walked all the way up
to the damn highway to get picked up on the side of it like
some sort of freaking hippie hitchhiker.
Really. Wow.
Now for for my for my work. Blind faith for my work.
I deal with a lot of outgoing mail and other crap and I'm
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always curious on where they're going and I don't think I've
ever gone, I don't think I've ever sent anything to Culet.
You. Uculet.
Yeah, Uculet. Yeah.
That's a whole other topic. Yeah, I say, I'm pretty certain
if you you might have heard it pronounced as Euclid or Euclid,
but that's the white guy mangling non white languages and
(23:50):
so you may have heard it mangledworse.
Break the word down. It is spelled UCLUELETU Clue
Euclid. Euclid.
I understand that's how it's. Pronounced.
I'm just saying most of us have heard it mangled.
(24:11):
Oh yes. So don't be surprised if those
of us who've only heard it mangled are surprised or don't
know a word when we hear it pronounced correctly.
It's just natural that we're going to be like.
Huh. It's like a squaw malt.
Yep. Yeah.
So it Yeah, Anyway, the podcast,the vacation was amazing.
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Amazing adventures, complete random fluke things.
We talked off the show about someone showing up in a hoodie
with a squirrel. I got 2 free doobies.
Yeah, there's a lot more than wecan encompass in this one
episode. You do.
Have to shout out to a specific brewery though here.
We've got all kinds of We got breweries.
(24:54):
Several, ohh, Phillips, yes, absolutely Phillips and God, and
not only Phillips, we have wayward Distillery, wayward
Courtney. Yeah.
So again, there's a lot. There's there's there's a lot.
We'll get to the shout outs after we get after we deal with
Skylar. Yeah.
We want to get to our guests andwe we can talk about it in the
secondary show as well. Some of the more of the details
of some of the fun details wouldactually happen on the podcast.
(25:16):
We'll just go back. Into It After Dark for more
shout outs. Yeah, they'll they'll be a lot
more talking about some of the details of the vacation and some
of the weird fun shit that happened.
It was a lot of fun. But with that being said, we are
halfway through the show and we are right on time to introduce
our friend Skyler, who was our guest on today's show.
I would love you to, beyond the initial introduction, introduce
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yourself. Tell us a little bit about
yourself before we go into AQ and a everyone gets at least one
question to ask you to move on to challenge your brain.
So please tell us and the world and all of our listeners a
little bit about yourself. So I have been a handler in the
Vancouver puppy community since 2018.
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Yeah, we'll call it early 2018. It has been some time.
And then of course there's the trebles in there that makes time
go really wibbly. I like to call myself a
storyteller, but I'm talking about like the, you know, the
epics of Greek, you know, the the person who would know shit
and then just tell you a story. Let me tell you about the time
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when things were different. So not quite a historian, but in
that area. And then of course, I generally
specialize in the queer history,you know, the different uses of
the word back when gay used to be happy and like 5 other things
because we didn't really replaceit when it changed.
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These are just kind of my natural instant interests.
And so that's just kind of whereI am.
So, yeah, so the that's, that's a brief bit about me.
Why, thank you. And I met Skyler very early on
in the pop community and how we became, you know, involved.
And yeah, we just hit it off automatically.
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And we've been friends ever since.
And it's amazing after all the events that he's been to and all
the times he's been over to the Pope.
And I think everybody here on the show have all met Scholar at
many of the social events that we've had personally at the
house, you know, for that of being able to make it.
Except for T-bone. Yeah, T-bone and I don't have
actually, I think this is with our first meeting.
T-bone generally does not is notavailable for most of the
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socials when we have at our house.
You are doing great by the way. Thank you Justine all.
Right. Yeah, Scholar is, Yeah, we'll be
lost without him. And yeah, when we first met, I
went down how we met. I went down to the what we call
our mosh and Friday night socials.
As we all know, it's the big party night in Vancouver, you
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know, once a month. But the mosh is when it's a
little more relaxed. They put out the play mats in
different areas so you can go down.
And if you have questions about being a pup or even involved in
community, it's a great way to meet and just talk.
And I arrived the first night. I, I thought for me, I was, you
know, you meeting me. I wanted to give out a bunch of
sticky puppies, like little puppies, paw stickers.
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It was kind of cute and just a nice way to introduce myself to
the community, which I still continuously do.
But again, you're very shy. And I know amazingly to believe
for for me, being on the show and the podcast and I was
outspoken and a master of ceremonies and what I do on a
regular basis. When I first popped to put my
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pop hood on and went to the event, I sat there and was like
super shy hiding in the corner because I had, I did, I didn't
know anybody. I didn't want to, you know,
approach. And I sat there and the entire
time, I think it was pretty muchjust me and Skylar and, and
Skylar saw that I was kind of uncomfortable and sitting by
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myself and Skylar was came up tome and, you know, approached me
and, and made me feel comfortable and welcome to the
community and talk. And that's, you know, that's how
our bond was made. That's.
Amazing. Yeah, I would say as somebody
who's been facilitating is the word, I'd like to use the puppy
mosh since January 2023. If I don't recognize a puppy, I
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95% of the time this is their first event and maybe it's their
second. But if I don't recognize
somebody, I know they're new. So yeah, I do go out of my way
to try and make sure everyone gets greeted, you know, knows
what this is about. Although if they're in a hood, I
assume they have at least some idea.
But yeah, I try to make sure everyone's comfortable and feels
welcome. That's especially in the case of
the mosh. That's the whole point.
It's to to feel welcome. It's to socialize, It's to play
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and have fun. And learn.
And, and learn the, the great part is because it's early on in
a Saturday, it's much quieter. You can actually have a
conversation and you can hear not only your partner, but you
can hear some of the other people around you.
So it's more convenient to this is what we're about.
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This is, you know that then on, Yeah, on a Saturday night or,
sorry, on a Friday night when you know, people are putting the
ear plugs in and dancing wildly to the very, very loud music.
Yeah, and that's when people come over to it.
And at this moment in time, I'm going to take the opportunity to
give a shout out to my loving, loving, loving puppy family, the
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stinky pups. I will wait.
You're. Gonna say husband.
I was. You don't get a shout out.
He has his own show, You're here.
And you get a your own show, Yeah, You don't get a shout out.
Sorry Hun. He gets his own show, he got his
own tent. He gets enough and I cook for
him. You know I'm doing the stinky.
Pups who? Freaking who?
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Stinky pups, Stinky pups. We love you all.
Chase, Tegel, Billy and ellos. Scull, Scull.
Secret word of the day is lucky.OK, done.
Secret word of the day is lucky for the pups.
Yeah, we love, we love. I love my, I love my stinky pups
from all over the world and I can't wait to one day meet them
(31:15):
all. I'm super, I'm super excited.
So with that being said, let's let's get to the Q&A part of the
show for the guests. Who has a question for Skyler
T-bone? First one to raise favorite
color. Shocking.
Purple. No, that's not my old one.
I'm actually blue is that is thecolor coordination theme of my
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handliness. OK, nice.
Very cool. OK, so so who else has a more
detailed question? I'm going a little more
sprinkles on this one. So how did you become involved
with the pup community and beinga handler?
And second part is have you handled more than one puppy?
So we'll start with that second part cuz it's a very easy yes, I
have and how I became. So this is the fun of the deep
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history there. There's a little irony.
My best friend actually ended upjoining the community before me
because he found another puppy to to bring him in And at at a
different time, I found a a puppy who hasn't been around in
forever through different means.And we chatted and said we'll go
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down to the to to pump trick, you know, on the on their jock
night, you know, the underwear night, he and I were the only
two people not fully dressed. So that that was fun being that,
you know, I'm not in a particularly revealing outfit at
this time. This is this is before I became
a naked, as I like to call it, but so after, you know, that
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kind of a damp squid and chatting with my best friend
about it, I was invited to the the next social, which happened
to be the in the new year and very close by.
And I just I found it to be so welcoming and comforting that by
the third month I was paying formembership.
As to the handler portion of things, I wasn't certain at the
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1st. I'm like, but just through not
really ever experiencing the puppy side of things, you know,
the, the puppy headspace and being a natural caregiver, I
think is the best way to put it.You know, I, I am a soft Dom.
So I just, yeah, I, I, I became a handler and as I define,
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generally define myself as a community handler.
So even before I was in charge of the, you know, facilitating
the mosh, I was, you know, if, if there were puppies at the
event, I would make sure that I kept an eye and took care of
them because that's just who I am.
You know, if you're a community,if you're a puppy, you're in my
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sphere of influence and more or less that means under my ability
to see you. I, I, you know, made sure to
take care of their puppies, who,you know, I made sure they drink
their water. I help with the gear attachment,
you know, the, the fun stuff. And so, yeah, that's, that's
kind of how I got that position.That's awesome.
Very cool. I totally identify with that, by
the way, Just being a caretaker is a really good way of
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explaining that, yeah. That was a great Juki slash
Sprinkles question. Thank you.
Sprinkles will be proud when youlisten to this.
Dig into your inner sprinkles for your next.
Question and we of course as well, I have been made very we
are not I'm very made aware thatwe of course we are still make
one to make sure that we give sprinkles.
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Dad, obviously still, I'm not going into the details we know,
but obviously we wish him still all the best and all all the
recoveries. I want to make sure that he was.
We love you, Sprinkles. Families he was he was mentioned
that that obviously we hope he'sstill doing well yes in.
About yeah, shout out to Papa Sprinkles.
Yeah, I just want to make sure that he was mentioning then, you
know, we are thinking about him.I just, that wasn't random,
(35:00):
wasn't me. That was the worst timing ever.
It was, I agree. That wasn't intentional, so.
Bad. Who did that?
Was that you it? Was intentional.
That was the worst. Time.
We were having such a touching moment.
Yeah, I hope it makes a. Heartfelt moment.
Let's be honest, he seems pretty.
(35:22):
You know Twinkle's dad. Don't slam on the table.
Sprinkle. Sprinkle's dad seems to be
pretty funny. Maybe that actually may make him
chuckle. Maybe, but.
Humor is the best medicine. I want him to teach me swear
words. An Indian.
So maybe maybe that actually might make him.
So you need me to do that? My my friend that I work with,
I'm sure he can. Which what?
(35:42):
Oh Lovett. No, my, my friend, he's he's
Sikh and he's so security guard.My security guard.
We've had tea for like 3 years. He's so cute.
Oh my God, he's such a nice thing.
Ever. Chai tea.
I've never met the guy but he nojust I love.
It just normal tea. We don't normal tea and but yet
when he comes in and he's alwaysso soft spoken like he's
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retired. This is just his retirement job
and he's so cute and you know, we'll we'll be at work and
something will piss him off and he's just not used to it.
And he's like God damn fucking guys, fucking idiot truck
drivers. And it just makes me laugh
because it's out of his normal character.
In all honesty I've I've never met this guy but I picture this
(36:26):
skinny little older like 60s ishseek with the long beard with
the long Gray beard and you knowthe turban.
And he and he's a scrawny littlething.
And that's completely opposite. Really.
Yeah, completely opposite. Squirreled all over the place
here. He did.
But he was really great. But besides that, we're we're
going back into the question. Go go back to questionings where
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we want. To shout out to security friend
as well. Yeah.
Second favorite color I'm still.Candid Lord.
All right. Does anybody have any?
Do I need to do my typical question?
Well, yeah, please. Do top or bottom.
Top verse. OH.
Wait actually I should have wentlead with gay, bi, straight,
trans? What's your identity?
(37:11):
OK, so some of those were sexualidentities and one of those was
a gender identity. That's fair, but I actually saw
a podcast or Facebook real aboutthis and it was very intriguing.
I'm pansexual, or as I like to refer to it as, Harkness sexual
if we can. If both parties can pass the
(37:33):
Harkness test, then yes. Sex What?
Does Harkness mean? Named after Jack Harkness of
Doctor Who fame and the Torchwood series, Jack Harkness
is an immortal bisexual. I think is the best way to put
it. The the one of the particular
jokes in the fandom is that he'sthe reason for all the half
(37:56):
humans in the series. And so the Harkness test is, do
you both speak a common language, are you both of age,
and do you both consent? That's fair.
So if you can pass the Harkness test, you can bang and therefore
I'm Harkness sexual because we must pass the Harkness test.
(38:19):
Interesting. OK.
OK, so second part of that sorrywas top or bottom?
Top verse He. Just said he's trying to
confirm. May have cut him off when I was
asking about his that. I like the way your brain works.
I will say I love the idea of a Dom matrix or a Dom doming.
(38:41):
Like you could still Dom your pet to rail you.
I really think that's hot. Oh absolutely.
I love that shit. I love that.
Shit, it's just as a soft Dom, that's not entirely something
I'm going to be doing. I will coax them into topping
me, sure, but I'm a soft dumb. I do not.
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I am not the one who grabs your collar, yanked you down.
And I mean, I can do that for five seconds at a time, maybe up
to 5 minutes. But no, I'm, I'm a soft dumb.
I, I will. I will coax you.
I will. There's a reason I'm a handler.
I will treat you like a puppy. So that is, I will use positive
reinforcement, I will use encouragement.
(39:22):
And if you like it, I'm not going to threaten it as
punishment because that's only going to encourage you to do the
action Thus, and I have broken many a brat's brain.
The simplest solution to a brat is do you want to get smacked?
Better be a good Brad. All rounds, no smackies for you.
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You'll be surprised at how well that works.
Anybody else turned on right now?
J Rod is just his eyes are glowing right now.
No, I'm. I miss kinky relationships.
OK, out of our listeners, if anybody else just got slightly
turned on by that, please send us a message.
Let me know. I'm running a poll.
And that's OK. Absolutely.
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And J Rod Speaking of. J Rod, I'm going back to the
first episode that I actually appeared on.
Wow, I don't even remember. I don't even remember the
questions that I got that I got asked.
Dude, that was a long time ago. That was so long ago.
(40:26):
At least that's Season 1. No Season 2.
Season 2, was it Season 2? Yeah.
Early season 2 then, yeah. It was very like very early
Season 2 and I'm just thinking about like, I never got asked
these questions. I think it was we were so early
in the podcast and we were so early in the sprinkles.
We didn't have sprinkles. Yeah, actually that's true.
(40:48):
We. Didn't have sprinkles, so we
didn't have a sprinkles mentality.
Thought of train, Yeah. She wasn't, yeah, she wasn't on
the episode that I. Debuted on train, Train of
thought. Train of thought.
The show has changed dramatically.
Like every time someone, every time someone new comes on, yes,
(41:09):
I'm like all the. Would you like to answer the
questions as well? No, I'm.
Good. That's a great question.
No, because that actually makes.That actually makes me want to
think about my answer. Is there a question that you
were asked that you would like to ask Skyler?
Trying to think back about the the questions that I remember.
(41:29):
What? We asked you either.
No, I, I. Actually, no.
I don't even remember but I happened last episode.
In fairness, I'm a fairly open book, so ask away.
There are not many questions that I won't answer, but I know
if I won't. By the way, guess what I'm not
going to take away from his, butI'm just going to throw it out
quickly because I just passed mystupid brain.
(41:52):
I now, after 20 years of not being able to find my last deck,
have acquired. They are not charged yet, but I
now actually have a new deck of tarot cards.
Very nice. With this and they but they
still need to be connected to the lay lines and the connection
and charged to be properly done.Cool.
I did not know know you were into that at all.
(42:14):
I very interesting. I have spent probably 20 years
of witchcraft and Wiccan. I want a terror.
Really. What the Frick?
Why am I just finding that out now?
You didn't know that about me. I'm a very spiritual person.
I believe in spiritual warfare. Dude, the everything I do, I
mean, I look outside, I look at my tires.
Six months I have tires. My entire life is weird
spiritual shit. How every one of us met.
(42:36):
My life, my everything has been evolved.
I did not know that about you. That's I'm very intrigued.
All right to be, to be continued.
Sharon. OK, two things.
First of all, it hasn't been 20 years since your tarot cards
have been missing because I've seen them.
Just because you've seen them. Well, I mean he.
Did. In fairness, if he's been doing
(42:57):
it for 20 years, I sure hope thecards haven't been missing for
20 years. That means he saw them at the
start and hasn't seen them since.
Yes. No, they've they've, they've
only been missing for maybe about the last 8 to 10 years.
So now, now that I know they're missing, you know when I buy a
new deck, you know the old ones are going to show up a. 100%
(43:18):
yes, that's. How?
That works. They're in that tote at the
bottom of the pile, underneath the stairs at the very furthest
back. Tada, I've looked.
We found them. I've.
Looked through every one of those goddamn stupid toast like
1000 times over. Yes, well, apparently just.
Lifted up and look through the clear plastic.
Or did you actually go? No, I've gone through many of
them. Now see, hold on, I've noticed
(43:41):
we switched from an all to a many of them.
Yeah, no, no all. All this is typical husband,
husband, husband. I mean, for the straight
couples, that would be very husband wifey.
Oh yes. Oh, did you see a meme last
week? There was a meme that someone
posted. I love this and I'm going to I,
I don't mean to pineapple, but it was a screenshot.
(44:03):
It was actually a video which I'm going to take a look at, and
what it said was, it was, I think it was some sort of a
weird little meme, but they weretalking about the divorce ratio
rates. OK.
And just going. To put this out there.
Thank you. But spider, yes.
(44:25):
Have I seen a meme? Yes, I have seen about right
100,000 memes since. Last week.
You're going to have to be a little bit more.
A wearable. A wearable cat bed head?
That's so you buddy. That was no one I was looking
at. What?
The woman's wearing basically a cat tree on her head.
You've seen this. Oh, here we go.
(44:47):
So divorce rates, men and women 49% divorce rate.
That's an old statistic. Women and men.
I know women and men 72%. And then it was like men and men
29%. Men ain't the problem, ladies.
So hold on, we have women and men, then we have men and women
as two separate. Pieces he misspoke.
(45:09):
It's men and women 49%, men and men 29%, women and women 72%.
OK, that makes a lot more sense.So and it's.
Apparently, the problem is women.
And then it said men ain't the problem, ladies.
Yeah, women and women divorce rate is 72%.
Yeah, that's fair considering mysister and her ex are going
through a divorce right now. So I am read.
(45:31):
UPS, that's what I'm going. To do I am I?
I thought it was funny. I thought it was cute meme.
I thought I'd throw it in there.Shout out, sister.
Let's get back on the last few minutes while we concentrate on
our guests before we get into the chaos of Hubby's episode.
Oh yeah that was my other one. I cuz I had two questions.
The first of all it was all about the whole tarot cards.
The other question that I had was for Skyler and it was what?
(45:55):
Son of a bitch, the brain. Damn it, think.
Back. Wow.
Think back. Would you like to take a break
while T-bone has a question? Nope.
Nope, it's back. When did you start and what
prompted you to become a nakedest nudist?
So I came back from a camping event.
(46:19):
It's nakedest you missed that part earlier.
I do so I came back from a a camping event one year and
managed to make for pride and was end up wearing very little
and enjoyed it. And then I just went.
Well, I enjoy it, but most nudists like to insist that
they're just naked prudes. I am not a naked prude.
(46:42):
I admit that I am lewd. So I decided that the most
appropriate term would be nakedness.
And then, fortuitously, when it comes down to it, I am,
generally speaking, the nakedestperson in the room. 9 times out
of 10 he's he's not wrong. Like literally you'd show up to
(47:02):
PJS and if Skyler's there he's probably literally just has a
cock sock on. I was going to say I earned the
nickname from several puppies ofCock suck for a very good
reason, and it wasn't just at PJS.
J Rod. I can confirm that actually.
Yeah, absolutely. And I and I can as well.
And I'm excited for next weekendto finally actually after all
(47:24):
the time we've been together andgotten on the podcast.
You want to know you. I'm excited to go down with me,
Sharon, T-bone and all go down actually be at Wreck Beach
because we've known each other for a long time and we just
don't get a chance to do it. And it's just going to be.
Nice, I really need more sun. It's we'll just wear a shirt.
Wear sunscreen. Take the place.
I was going to say, where's the sun screen?
So it's going, it's going to be fun.
(47:45):
Screen I'm. Going to.
Pop up tint. Like it?
For him. Yeah.
So it's just bathe in sunscreen,fill the tub up with sunscreen
and then just bathe in it. By the way, T-bone, I believe
you had a question you'd like toask.
I'm gonna wait till the next episode.
This is fair. Yeah, it's perfect for after
dark. Awesome.
But yeah. I'm gonna be with family.
Yes, in my living room. I love it.
(48:06):
That's pretty cool. And I love the way to describe
that. And I mean, ever since the
moment we met. As soon as you say you love our
living room. Yeah, as soon as you said we
met. And how much you love right
Beach. Like, I love it.
It's just gonna be so much fun. I'm so excited.
That spiritual and stuff, that'sso cool.
In all honesty, for those of youlistening, this podcast is
recorded in Spiders and Mine Dining Room.
(48:29):
Yes, yeah, I actually have the for growing up as I got older,
but for most of my life actuallyin I in my knuckle there was
actually the. He had a pentagram.
The pentagram is in my knuckle. Really.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I I've spent a lot of time in spirituality.
Spider. Do you have two tan lines on
your arm 2? Probably.
(48:54):
Not. No, like I'm.
I actually probably would. Right above, right above the
elbow. That's a.
Shadow. There's a shadow.
Yeah. Oh, Jesus.
Oh good God. Well, that's fair all.
Right, I got a question for Skyler.
He is. What's favorite genre of music
and favorite song if you? Oh sure, ask the hard ones.
(49:16):
I'd say Ask my band. I know that one favorite genre.
Or or well. I mean, my favorite band has
been star set since I have foundthem and they had a they
released a number of singles last year and I cannot remember
the name of the one that I like the most.
It's I'm sorry I'm blanking on the name of the song, but.
(49:38):
You can think about it after it.It's answered really good.
I like it, so I'm. Actually, just like Quick One
Please Skylar One song you couldlisten to repeatedly and never
get sick of. Let it go.
Let it. No sorry.
No, sorry. No, sorry.
(49:59):
As much as I love that song, no I.
Was because of unfortunate. Well, there are several songs I
could I I could listen without consent, but unfortunately it's
my my favorite one from the starset is the one that I cannot
remember because I have quite enjoyed it because it is kind of
apropos of our recent times. Dystopia.
(50:20):
That's the one. Wow, the brain does not work.
Well, I I do that also with my favorite.
Welcome to the Squirrel Hour for.
Some reason, yeah. I forget certain bands that I'm
in love with and I forget their names.
So Chase has I actually to mention and I shout out to
Chase. Chase actually sent me a song
and on the break I will play it for you.
It will actually be because withthe new program and and system,
(50:44):
you were able to link a song to the podcast and he found a song
which blew my mind away. The name of the song is that
it's OK not to be OK of. Course it does.
It's. Very nice.
There's an actual song about that?
Yes, Oh my God. Wow, it's an amazing song.
(51:05):
And I'm gonna link it. I'm going to e-mail the crisis
center about it. I'm going to get them to ask
them if it's OK to actually contact the artist and see if we
can use that song in the introduction of it.
The It's OK Not to Be OK workshop for the high school
level students. It would blow my mind away.
(51:27):
Suicide Prevention. There's actually a number of
songs that are like that and this in in my, in the songs that
I've listened to really I feel like that are like it's OK not
to be. OK, I listen to the song and
that's literally the title. And it like, I listen to it.
I'm like, holy shit. It literally it speaks the
(51:48):
entire crisis center, the, the, the, you know, the workshops
that we do as being a youth educator.
And I was like, holy crap, that was amazing.
So we're going to link that to the podcast so that anybody
wants to in the future. That will be the song that kind
of emulates and reflects what this podcast is, what it's
(52:10):
about. Very nice.
Awesome. Yeah.
So yeah, chase something to me. Yeah, it was pretty freaking
cool when he sent it to me. I'm like, wow, it's at the top
of my playlist. Shout out to Handler Chase.
Right handler Chase actually made.
I will still call him Handler Chase.
He is still your handler. I don't care what he says or
what you say to me. He is still Handler Chase.
(52:32):
He's kind of being involved in ablue puppy now right now, so
he's got a names for he might be.
He could be in all the relationships he wants to be in.
He's still your handler. I agree.
He's still kind of. He's still.
I want to. Be clear, Vampa has had several
handler puppies, several handlers that became puppies.
This is nothing new. It's OK to be a puppy.
And a handler. Yeah, no, absolutely.
(52:54):
So with that being said, the last couple of minutes before we
jump into the show, I want to make sure we don't lose this
because this episode only like the last episode, we do have
permission to be live on the YouTube channel.
That will be good. We are ready getting ready to
go. I want to say again, a thank
you, thank you and a shout out to all of our listeners.
I want to make sure that everyone remembers that it is OK
not to be OK. We always promote the importance
(53:17):
of mental health on this podcast.
We always put the links to the hem clinic to the crisis center
that the two if you're if you'rein distress 988 reach out.
That's a national line, you know, or United States.
And actually there's something upcoming because one of our
upcoming guests, which I will not say actually has the entire
(53:39):
national 988 hotline list to be shared with the entire.
So every country will be shared on and that link will be shared.
So anyone around the world, the post will be done.
So I won't say who it will be, but they will be sharing that
information and that link on that.
I believe we need a secret word for our stinky pups.
(54:00):
Already have it. It is called.
We won't say it. What was it the?
Name of the beer? Oh, that's right, I've missed
that. All good.
All right, so if we're ready to go, does anybody have any last
minute shout outs before we shutdown and get ready for the next
episode? I'm on vacation this this week.
This entire week I'm off. Good for you, come down to Wreck
(54:21):
Beach with us. Happy.
When are you guys going? This Saturday.
This this Saturday, OK. I know free this week.
We could go down this week if you need.
Shout out to everyone on Vancouver Island.
I'm so jealous of you people. The pups are amazing.
We'll discuss it. They're amazing.
I I so much to talk about. Where love, peace and chicken
(54:43):
grease. Where's sunscreen?
Oh God, where's sunscreen? Forget sunscreen, it's not for
you. Especially on your cock.
Bark, bark, bark. See you in 15 minutes.
All right. Welcome back everybody.
We are back from a couple of weeks.
We have a lot to talk about today.
We are here on the Squirrel Hour.
Thank you cracking the beer because what was this podcast
originally created for? Sorry about that.
It was a happy hour podcast and that's exactly what we are.
We are here with an amazing group of friends and cast here
(00:23):
yet again. I am your host, Rick Hunter, AKA
Spider Pup and we are on episode14 of today's episode and we are
going to be in episode 14 of notonly our episode, but also
Squirrels After Dark, which we are happy to be recording as
well today. OK, remember, we are not a safe
for work podcast. You know, please make sure
(00:44):
you're, you know, if you're going to broadcast this, make
sure your work is OK with it or using your headphones listening
to it. And we are very happy.
I want to say thank you again toall of our listeners.
We are nearly 5000 downloads, yeah, which is absolutely
amazing. 72 countries. Thank you to all of our
followers and listeners who havefollowed us.
(01:04):
And yeah, I mean, we've lost a couple of followers the last
couple of weeks. But you know, I'm, I mean, I
follow podcast, sometimes I loseinterest.
It goes up and down. Overall, for being what we are
and where we are. I think I I'm very, very happy
and I'm very honored that as many people follow us as they
do. And again, I do a shout out.
If you are anywhere in the worldand you want to be a guest on
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the show, please reach out to us.
You can message us say hello through Instagram if you want.
We have the scroll hour Instagram and we have it.
We are now booked up for the entirety of season 3.
We are now booking in 2026 for two season 4.
We are accepting now guests which is a game.
Blows my mind away that we are. We're booking that far into an
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advance. With that being said, I'm going
to pass it over to my wonderful husband Sharon, the boys to do
our introductions before we continue.
This podcast is brought to you by the unseated and traditional
territories of the Coquitlam First Nations.
Clicko, thank you for allowing us to be here.
Thank you, honey. Appreciate it.
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And with that being said, let's go around the table and just
introduce our listeners that arehere today who's going to be on
the. Show Wow, I'm a listener.
OK wow. What listeners are here?
OK, I almost had a perfect introduction.
So close. So close.
Technically, I do listen. Touché.
I didn't fail. It's jukey funny fact about me
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one day at work cuz you know chefing is dangerous sometimes.
I got halfway to cutting off thetip of my thumb.
I wrapped it up, finished my shift and then when got 2
stitches later. Bad ass.
Was that the previous time or yesterday?
No, yesterday I cut my fingernail.
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Yeah. Now, that was a few years ago.
OK, OK. Is that the one that popped up
on your memory for Facebook? It's like damn near same day
you're slicing your finger off. No, this was another different
one. What were you doing?
I was cutting green onions and knife.
Knife was dull. What is the old knife soup?
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Just saying. The worst.
Yeah. The dangerous profession.
Being a chef. Yep.
Well. Respect.
Continuing up. Sorry I.
Just how do you top that? Johnny, not Johnny.
Anyway, it's a pup Titan and I don't have an interesting fact
or a dad joke locked up. So what's your name on the
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podcast for our listeners? You have Pup Titan, but a lot of
our listeners don't know becauselike when we do the show, it's J
Rod. Thank you.
That's J Rod or Pup Titan. Exactly, you have two we we try
and introduce both you, but you are a puppy pup Titan like me
and you have your podcast. I have an interesting fact about
myself. I have I have recently endured
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or not endured. That is my job.
Don't be starting that. Not on.
It's my. Job that was on your side?
No fluff catching today, Yeah. Interesting fact about myself, I
have just kind of been introduced to a new genre of
music and it is a heavy metal cover songs.
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So cover songs that kind of introduce heavy metal?
So a regular song but sung heavymetal.
Yeah, pretty much. Congratulations.
Yeah, all right. Next around the table.
Sharon Dubois and I'm blistering.
Excellent. And next.
We got T-bone, apparently on Friday.
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I did some edibles and some beers and according to my new
friend here, Skyler, I got hunked high and drunk.
We'll come back to that and our guest on today's show, which we
will come back to and to do the introductions of course is.
Skyler, a handler in the puppy community.
Fantastic. So I'm very happy to have you
here because this is your first time on the show.
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Indeed. Have you ever been on a podcast
before? I've written in, but that's the
closest I've gotten. I love the fact that this
podcast has introduced so many people to the first time being
on a podcast. So much fun.
Right. And I mean, as we all said, J
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Rod was a guest. T-bone have both been guests,
yes. And Sprinkles was a guest.
Just let me finish. Yeah, I'm just, I love that they
were and they've been and they've been here and now
they're they're Co hosts. Shout out to Sprinkles, Silent
Peter and the kids. Unfortunately, they were not
able to make it to join us today.
No, they'll be back in August. They've got prior commitments,
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they've got concerts to go through.
It's summer's busy. This is not uncommon.
We we know this is normal. We've we've rescheduled the
podcast around J Rod. Side note, for summer, wear
sunscreen. Yes, please shut up.
For the love of God, wear sunscreen.
Even on your arms and hands for driving.
Doesn't matter, wear sunscreen. I would say if you're driving
honestly, put it on your face ifyou've seen those truck drivers
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where they've got half the faces, really, because the sun
comes in through that window andit ages them fast.
It's just one arm shoulder. I know.
I've suffered a very severe sunburn.
I've had a few. I think it was, I think it was
second degree burns, yeah. Like, like Sharon's blisters.
Yes, Yeah. Yeah, in that case, I suggest
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any cream with hydrocodone in it.
It will work wonders. But be warned, it is a a form of
testosterone. So if you're taking any
medications, do be careful with that.
And not for me, all right. Good point.
It's not that strong, but medications, it can affect that
kind of thing. T-bone.
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Sharing the boys. Did you wear sunscreen?
Oh my gosh. So caught me with a mouthful of
beer. One of our guests once mentioned
it was really cool that that's why we were making out.
We're going to try and improve to say who's speaking when we're
speaking so they know it. Ironically, we had a meeting
yesterday that was one of the suggestions like, you know,
before you start talking, just saying say your name because a
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lot of people would not know who's talking, which is I'm
going to try and say, you know who's talking.
So anyway, sorry Sharon. No, I'm.
Shocked. I'm just so shocked.
OK, let me be clear. I am a truck driver.
So yes, I do drive with my arm on the window sill holding the
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steering wheel while I'm shifting with my right hand.
For those of you that are in European countries, we drive on
the right side of the road, so the driver is on the left side
of the vehicle. So my left arm is very toasty
tanned and over this past vacation that Spider and I went
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on to I may have gotten slightlya little bit more burnt than
expected. It doesn't look good.
Slightly. You're bubbling, Hun.
That's more than slightly. OK, so for a visualization you
could almost like my left shoulder right now if you rubbed
your fingers over it. It's probably Braille for the
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novel War and Peace. Yeah, it's tough.
There's a little bit of a visualization.
I have like 3 bubbles on my right shoulder.
OK, well, it's not bad even out.So would last two weeks 3 No,
we're just gonna. I was saying we're gonna get to
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what happened over the last Has it been three weeks?
Since the last three weeks, since our last podcast.
So yes. I was just gonna say, well, you
know what? Although the highlights over the
for ours for the last three weeks has definitely been.
I think we should probably go last because we've had a hell of
a week, hell of a vacation to discuss, so I think we should
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let our guests go first. OK, the last three weeks,
highlights of the last three weeks.
Anybody got anything they want to share to everybody before we
move on with the show, besides losing your finger.
Positive. Happy.
Stuff. Finger nail.
Nail, finger nail. Well, I'll speak as the handler
for the local pub communities. It was nice to see both a
handler from the before times aswell as a puppy who hasn't been
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in many, many years show up to, you know, come to events.
It's nice to see people we haven't seen in a while.
And of course, unfortunately forthem, there's the shock of, I
know like 5 people out of the 60people that are here, but it was
nice seeing them again. I'm glad that's nice that
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they've begun to reintegrate themselves.
Anybody else? Everybody and, and and the
community I've known. J Rod.
Bit of bad news and then good news.
Yay. A individual that I have a
relationship with tested positive for COVID.
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Oh. No.
Oh. Thankfully they are a lot
better. Good, yay.
And minus the massive headache that they suffered, they're
doing a lot better. I'm glad hold.
Up Did you see a relationship? Or just some of them.
They don't. Someone that I know.
Yeah, don't want. Yeah, don't want, don't want to
get into personal details on that one.
Relation asterisks. Yeah, A.
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Good reminder that COVID is still out there.
Yes, a situation ship, yeah. And so is the flu and so is
everything else. It's not going away.
But I'm like I said, I'm glad because again, based on it, I'm
always glad. Like anything like pneumonia,
that's it's terrible. Like, I'm glad they're, I'm glad
they're OK. Side note, call your friends
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family just to check in see how they're doing because you never
know. Absolutely 100% see how they're.
Really doing? Yeah.
Yeah, you never know. Sometimes the truth.
Thanks, J Rod. All righty.
Anybody else? T-bone.
I went to the beach yesterday for 6-7 hours and it was
amazing. And how did you not burn?
Dude, you're blonde and white. What the fuck?
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I've what? Really?
I thought you got a little bit of a tan but no I I saw on the
screen I got an umbrella too if it gets too toasty.
Do you have SPS 5000I? Think.
It's 30 I. Don't need more.
Than 30 I think for me, I thought I was pretty tanned but.
Not dude, I work night shift andI'm more tanned than you.
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You're. Darker than I I need to
interject here. The weird reason why Spider and
I giggled so hard about that is because when we went to Vegas,
they we were looking for sunscreen and, you know, they
had the usuals, you know, the, the five, the 10, the 1530,
fifty, 115. Yeah.
(12:05):
They, they had all the generals,but there was like a section for
Canadians and it was like SPF 500.
Like it was ridiculous. 1100 Yeah.
Oh, yeah. OK, so it was like for
Canadians. Yeah.
That was we died laughing. Tebow just became, prior to
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fight, an ally. An ally.
Always been an ally. OK, so I was going to.
Say you've always been. Which beach did you attend?
Rec Beach. Oh good, the fun one.
My favorite, the fun one. I had to almost fight an old
man, older gentleman. Now that yeah, let's let's talk
about it all. Right, He was just, I gave him
AI was watching him for whatever20 minutes and he's he's it
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looks like he's Facetiming somebody.
And there was these ladies that were walking up way up beside
them. And sure enough, the phone's now
trailing them. So he's might be showing his
buddy, whatever, but either way,it's creepy behavior.
And so I was like, yeah, OK, I'mgoing to speak up now.
And it went right up to him. And when it comes to these
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situations, I do remain very calm in the beginning.
But when they start giving me sass and making excuses and
stuff, I do turn it up. And I do have friends down there
that would actually have my back, so I'm not that worried
about it. Good.
And yeah, I don't know, I do sparring and stuff.
I'm not really that afraid of a little tussle.
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And yeah, it worked. It worked.
And I had somebody else that spoke up and had my back and
kind of helped me relax cuz I was actually ready to go.
And you're just like, OK. Trust us, not only did you have
those people backing you that were at the beach at that
moment, but you have the entire rec Beach society would back you
up a. 100%, yeah. I I love that about Rec Beach
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and speaking which we are going next weekend.
Are you coming down which day? Saturday.
I can totally go. All right, let's do it.
Fuck yeah. OK.
We're going down the next two Saturdays and.
Just to put it out there too, I always approach situations with
with a lot of grace initially, especially down there because
some people just don't know the rules and.
We've been approached, yeah. And we know the rules, but they,
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you know, we were taking, we always make sure if we're taking
a picture of ourselves, background like blurred out, you
know, everything blurred, we're trying to and we're making sure,
you know, like we, we know of them.
Like we want to make sure we're respectful of all everything
else. So yeah.
I mean, there was that one time where I was taking pictures of
those university boys that were playing football directly in
front of me, but they had it coming.
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Jesus Christ, now that song is going through my head.
Huh. I said thanks and now that song
is going through my head. What song?
From Moulin Rouge no OK well there is a song that that the
whole point of they had it coming and it's not going
through my. Thank you.
Chicago. Oh, Chicago excuse.
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Me. I'm not.
Thank you. Sorry, that that's what I
remember. The Chicago Yeah, they had it
coming yet? Yeah.
Yeah, OK. I actually do recognize that.
Oh good, I'm glad people recognize.
It Oh, we do. It's a very infamous song.
J Rod. The movie Chicago Was that shot
in black and white or in color? Color, color, color.
It's. Not that old.
It's a very famous movie. I shoot, I shoot.
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A movie. It's a Broadway.
Musical. Renee Zellweger and.
Catherine Zeta Jones. Yeah.
Richard Gere. There is a couple of oh and
fantastic bodies noise. It is a good movie.
Queen Latifah so. No.
I think everybody has had a fantastic couple of weeks before
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we even want to start 'cause that's wow, where do we start, I
think. I just want I know she doesn't
listen. My My bestie in the entire world
who moved away from me that. Cow wait, she doesn't listen to
our show. No, she doesn't listen to our
show. Wow.
I kind of really also haven't pushed it on her either, so that
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might be a thing. But my bestie Naomi, love her to
bits and pieces. Shout out to her and her family
and her younger brother who was recently in a severe vehicular
accident and is currently in thehospital.
So sending out prayers to DallasDamn for a speedy good recovery.
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Haven't heard any updates yet but apparently possible injuries
might be life altering. Oh.
No. And what was he driving when
this occurred? Motorcycle I'm guessing.
Yeah, did you see the look I gave?
Really. Yeah.
Actually. Yes.
Yes. Was it a multi?
We won't. We won't.
We're. Not going to.
We're not going to discuss details.
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But it was a multi vehicle so. It's afterwards I I got.
To discuss details. Yeah, not on the podcast.
But yeah, so beautiful. Shout out to Naomi for being
strong. Like she was about to jump in
her truck and drive 16 hours from northern BC down here.
Like she called me up when she was in her truck driving to the
ferry from where she lives. She's like, can I stay with you
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for a couple days? And I'm like, yeah, always.
Why? What's going on?
She's like, blah, blah, blah. Oh, wait, my mom's calling.
I'll call you back. And I'm like.
OK, jeez. I had one.
I had one rule. No panties or bras hanging
around to be seen. I mean when would be the first
time that we seen her in her panty and bra?
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She's been into the. Hot tub.
I was trying to make her laugh. I wouldn't give a shit.
Giggle. Like as soon as she said like,
you know, obviously I'm going tosay yes, but I was like, I'm
like, I have one goddamn rule. I do not want to walk in to my
bathroom and see her bongs and bongs.
I'm like, you know what? That happens.
Don't wear thongs, no. That happens.
Shit's going to get rear. I can make it way weirder.
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Mine hang in my room. J Rod just giving us the They
look like you damn well know. I got a lot of weird shit.
I can make it. Uncomfortable.
I'm a nudist. Yeah, me too.
I love the. Name.
Yeah, Yeah. Actually all three of us have
that in common. Actually, all three of us are.
Yeah, so out of curiosity, off topic here, let's squirrel a
little bit. Out of the six of us that are
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currently sitting at the table, how many are currently wearing
underwear? That would be 3 out of 6
actually. Pretty good.
Spaz is on our side. That's.
In my defense, I'm wearing a kilt.
Good point. Yeah, if you're wearing a kilt,
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you shouldn't be wearing underwear.
Absolutely. That's just wrong.
I mean, so literally, I'm not going to get into that.
There's that. That's a whole can of Scottish
that doesn't need to be broken open right now.
Yeah, I know. Rubbing against things, yeah.
Probably this goes. Because.
So we yeah, so for us for our last two weeks.
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Before it's free balling. Well, not always.
It depends on my work. Work.
I wear underwear because there'sa reason for that.
Yeah, T-bone, when you ride the motorcycle, are you free
balling? Yes, I knew that I free balled
90% of the time to begin with. Me too.
It's not part of your protectivegear.
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I can't. Hey, as long as you, as long as
you're protecting. That's what I'm saying, it's the
outside layers, not the inside layers that matter.
I've been in a motorcycle accident before and I thank the
the high gods that I was wearingmy leather.
Oh, absolutely. When motorcycling or other
exposed riding, dress for the slide, not the ride.
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Yeah. Truth.
I can't free ball. Wow, I get aroused way too.
J Rod apparently was like blown away by that comment.
Way too easily. That is profound.
Thanks, it's still from the motorcycle community from my
brother. Let's see, there is one there.
It's like a sweat now or bleed later.
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That one. Wow, that's another good one
too, actually. I mean yes, but I prefer the
dress for the slide, not the ride it's.
Is that the first time you've ever heard that?
Yeah, we're good. We're good.
Thank you. I've I've never heard that
particular saying before. Oh.
I'm surprised. You'll learn something new.
I I I suffered bad on my motorcycle accident.
(20:34):
I think ICBC has had it in theircommercials for last couple
years. Really.
You watch commercials. Only when I have to.
I haven't watched television since 2008 except by occasional
exposure. If I'm like visiting family and
they've got it on TV and I'm in the same room, I'm exposed to
(20:57):
the television but I'm not watching it.
I'm talking with friends and family, But otherwise, no.
I haven't watched TV since 2008 and I have adblock.
Well, Tuesday, I'm going to continue on and move on because
I want to, I want to get, you know, you to actually have some
air time as our guest. So at least we're entering the
half of the episode. So we got a couple of minutes to
talk about myself and Sharon's vacation and then we're going to
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get to our guest and introduce himself and actually have AQ and
a questions because that's what we're here for.
When we have a guest, the secondary show, we can continue
on with some of our banter and some of the fun things that have
happened. So would you like to lead off
Sharon and do some of the highlights of the last two weeks
of specifically our vacation? Oh.
God there I don't even know where to begin.
(21:39):
I. Couldn't keep up.
It was. Thank you, it was a lot of fun.
It was 10 days. We left home on the 27th of
June. Highlights.
Yes, highlights. Jumped on the ferry and went to
Vancouver Island and spent 10 days on the island and came back
July. What was that Monday?
(22:03):
I don't know. Continue.
I don't care. It's a Monday.
On On the Island we met up with all of our long term friends,
some we haven't seen in 6-6 years. 6 plus years we haven't
seen. We talk to them every now and
then and we were in Victoria forVictoria Pride and walked in the
(22:24):
Pride parade with the pups. I was the support, human as I
am. I'm getting a picture of that
later by the way. Don't take them, I'm not.
That's a good picture. I've had it on the whole.
Time I just noticed you just noticed I just noticed
literally. Touché Lots and lots of memories
made. Lots.
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Yeah, it was great. Lots of fun.
Yeah, I know. Yeah, I think that's it.
If you want to follow it, I meanfollow us.
On this Oh yeah spider randomly found a hookup and you kill it
of all place while I was sleeping.
Didn't even know what happened. Kinky.
You kill it the the population like 35 and he found a hookup.
(23:06):
Yeah, that drove him out into the middle of the Bush.
That's. Trust.
No, I'm. After he walked all the way up
to the damn highway to get picked up on the side of it like
some sort of freaking hippie hitchhiker.
Really. Wow.
Now for for my for my work. Blind faith for my work.
I deal with a lot of outgoing mail and other crap and I'm
(23:29):
always curious on where they're going and I don't think I've
ever gone, I don't think I've ever sent anything to Culet.
You. Uculet.
Yeah, Uculet. Yeah.
That's a whole other topic. Yeah, I say, I'm pretty certain
if you you might have heard it pronounced as Euclid or Euclid,
but that's the white guy mangling non white languages and
(23:50):
so you may have heard it mangledworse.
Break the word down. It is spelled UCLUELETU Clue
Euclid. Euclid.
I understand that's how it's. Pronounced.
I'm just saying most of us have heard it mangled.
(24:11):
Oh yes. So don't be surprised if those
of us who've only heard it mangled are surprised or don't
know a word when we hear it pronounced correctly.
It's just natural that we're going to be like.
Huh. It's like a squaw malt.
Yep. Yeah.
So it Yeah, Anyway, the podcast,the vacation was amazing.
(24:32):
Amazing adventures, complete random fluke things.
We talked off the show about someone showing up in a hoodie
with a squirrel. I got 2 free doobies.
Yeah, there's a lot more than wecan encompass in this one
episode. You do.
Have to shout out to a specific brewery though here.
We've got all kinds of We got breweries.
(24:54):
Several, ohh, Phillips, yes, absolutely Phillips and God, and
not only Phillips, we have wayward Distillery, wayward
Courtney. Yeah.
So again, there's a lot. There's there's there's a lot.
We'll get to the shout outs after we get after we deal with
Skylar. Yeah.
We want to get to our guests andwe we can talk about it in the
secondary show as well. Some of the more of the details
of some of the fun details wouldactually happen on the podcast.
(25:16):
We'll just go back. Into It After Dark for more
shout outs. Yeah, they'll they'll be a lot
more talking about some of the details of the vacation and some
of the weird fun shit that happened.
It was a lot of fun. But with that being said, we are
halfway through the show and we are right on time to introduce
our friend Skyler, who was our guest on today's show.
I would love you to, beyond the initial introduction, introduce
(25:38):
yourself. Tell us a little bit about
yourself before we go into AQ and a everyone gets at least one
question to ask you to move on to challenge your brain.
So please tell us and the world and all of our listeners a
little bit about yourself. So I have been a handler in the
Vancouver puppy community since 2018.
(26:04):
Yeah, we'll call it early 2018. It has been some time.
And then of course there's the trebles in there that makes time
go really wibbly. I like to call myself a
storyteller, but I'm talking about like the, you know, the
epics of Greek, you know, the the person who would know shit
and then just tell you a story. Let me tell you about the time
(26:27):
when things were different. So not quite a historian, but in
that area. And then of course, I generally
specialize in the queer history,you know, the different uses of
the word back when gay used to be happy and like 5 other things
because we didn't really replaceit when it changed.
(26:48):
These are just kind of my natural instant interests.
And so that's just kind of whereI am.
So, yeah, so the that's, that's a brief bit about me.
Why, thank you. And I met Skyler very early on
in the pop community and how we became, you know, involved.
And yeah, we just hit it off automatically.
(27:10):
And we've been friends ever since.
And it's amazing after all the events that he's been to and all
the times he's been over to the Pope.
And I think everybody here on the show have all met Scholar at
many of the social events that we've had personally at the
house, you know, for that of being able to make it.
Except for T-bone. Yeah, T-bone and I don't have
actually, I think this is with our first meeting.
T-bone generally does not is notavailable for most of the
(27:34):
socials when we have at our house.
You are doing great by the way. Thank you Justine all.
Right. Yeah, Scholar is, Yeah, we'll be
lost without him. And yeah, when we first met, I
went down how we met. I went down to the what we call
our mosh and Friday night socials.
As we all know, it's the big party night in Vancouver, you
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know, once a month. But the mosh is when it's a
little more relaxed. They put out the play mats in
different areas so you can go down.
And if you have questions about being a pup or even involved in
community, it's a great way to meet and just talk.
And I arrived the first night. I, I thought for me, I was, you
know, you meeting me. I wanted to give out a bunch of
sticky puppies, like little puppies, paw stickers.
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It was kind of cute and just a nice way to introduce myself to
the community, which I still continuously do.
But again, you're very shy. And I know amazingly to believe
for for me, being on the show and the podcast and I was
outspoken and a master of ceremonies and what I do on a
regular basis. When I first popped to put my
(28:40):
pop hood on and went to the event, I sat there and was like
super shy hiding in the corner because I had, I did, I didn't
know anybody. I didn't want to, you know,
approach. And I sat there and the entire
time, I think it was pretty muchjust me and Skylar and, and
Skylar saw that I was kind of uncomfortable and sitting by
(29:01):
myself and Skylar was came up tome and, you know, approached me
and, and made me feel comfortable and welcome to the
community and talk. And that's, you know, that's how
our bond was made. That's.
Amazing. Yeah, I would say as somebody
who's been facilitating is the word, I'd like to use the puppy
mosh since January 2023. If I don't recognize a puppy, I
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95% of the time this is their first event and maybe it's their
second. But if I don't recognize
somebody, I know they're new. So yeah, I do go out of my way
to try and make sure everyone gets greeted, you know, knows
what this is about. Although if they're in a hood, I
assume they have at least some idea.
But yeah, I try to make sure everyone's comfortable and feels
welcome. That's especially in the case of
the mosh. That's the whole point.
It's to to feel welcome. It's to socialize, It's to play
(29:47):
and have fun. And learn.
And, and learn the, the great part is because it's early on in
a Saturday, it's much quieter. You can actually have a
conversation and you can hear not only your partner, but you
can hear some of the other people around you.
So it's more convenient to this is what we're about.
(30:07):
This is, you know that then on, Yeah, on a Saturday night or,
sorry, on a Friday night when you know, people are putting the
ear plugs in and dancing wildly to the very, very loud music.
Yeah, and that's when people come over to it.
And at this moment in time, I'm going to take the opportunity to
give a shout out to my loving, loving, loving puppy family, the
(30:30):
stinky pups. I will wait.
You're. Gonna say husband.
I was. You don't get a shout out.
He has his own show, You're here.
And you get a your own show, Yeah, You don't get a shout out.
Sorry Hun. He gets his own show, he got his
own tent. He gets enough and I cook for
him. You know I'm doing the stinky.
Pups who? Freaking who?
(30:52):
Stinky pups, Stinky pups. We love you all.
Chase, Tegel, Billy and ellos. Scull, Scull.
Secret word of the day is lucky.OK, done.
Secret word of the day is lucky for the pups.
Yeah, we love, we love. I love my, I love my stinky pups
from all over the world and I can't wait to one day meet them
(31:15):
all. I'm super, I'm super excited.
So with that being said, let's let's get to the Q&A part of the
show for the guests. Who has a question for Skyler
T-bone? First one to raise favorite
color. Shocking.
Purple. No, that's not my old one.
I'm actually blue is that is thecolor coordination theme of my
(31:38):
handliness. OK, nice.
Very cool. OK, so so who else has a more
detailed question? I'm going a little more
sprinkles on this one. So how did you become involved
with the pup community and beinga handler?
And second part is have you handled more than one puppy?
So we'll start with that second part cuz it's a very easy yes, I
have and how I became. So this is the fun of the deep
(32:02):
history there. There's a little irony.
My best friend actually ended upjoining the community before me
because he found another puppy to to bring him in And at at a
different time, I found a a puppy who hasn't been around in
forever through different means.And we chatted and said we'll go
(32:24):
down to the to to pump trick, you know, on the on their jock
night, you know, the underwear night, he and I were the only
two people not fully dressed. So that that was fun being that,
you know, I'm not in a particularly revealing outfit at
this time. This is this is before I became
a naked, as I like to call it, but so after, you know, that
(32:49):
kind of a damp squid and chatting with my best friend
about it, I was invited to the the next social, which happened
to be the in the new year and very close by.
And I just I found it to be so welcoming and comforting that by
the third month I was paying formembership.
As to the handler portion of things, I wasn't certain at the
(33:10):
1st. I'm like, but just through not
really ever experiencing the puppy side of things, you know,
the, the puppy headspace and being a natural caregiver, I
think is the best way to put it.You know, I, I am a soft Dom.
So I just, yeah, I, I, I became a handler and as I define,
(33:33):
generally define myself as a community handler.
So even before I was in charge of the, you know, facilitating
the mosh, I was, you know, if, if there were puppies at the
event, I would make sure that I kept an eye and took care of
them because that's just who I am.
You know, if you're a community,if you're a puppy, you're in my
(33:54):
sphere of influence and more or less that means under my ability
to see you. I, I, you know, made sure to
take care of their puppies, who,you know, I made sure they drink
their water. I help with the gear attachment,
you know, the, the fun stuff. And so, yeah, that's, that's
kind of how I got that position.That's awesome.
Very cool. I totally identify with that, by
the way, Just being a caretaker is a really good way of
(34:14):
explaining that, yeah. That was a great Juki slash
Sprinkles question. Thank you.
Sprinkles will be proud when youlisten to this.
Dig into your inner sprinkles for your next.
Question and we of course as well, I have been made very we
are not I'm very made aware thatwe of course we are still make
one to make sure that we give sprinkles.
(34:37):
Dad, obviously still, I'm not going into the details we know,
but obviously we wish him still all the best and all all the
recoveries. I want to make sure that he was.
We love you, Sprinkles. Families he was he was mentioned
that that obviously we hope he'sstill doing well yes in.
About yeah, shout out to Papa Sprinkles.
Yeah, I just want to make sure that he was mentioning then, you
know, we are thinking about him.I just, that wasn't random,
(35:00):
wasn't me. That was the worst timing ever.
It was, I agree. That wasn't intentional, so.
Bad. Who did that?
Was that you it? Was intentional.
That was the worst. Time.
We were having such a touching moment.
Yeah, I hope it makes a. Heartfelt moment.
Let's be honest, he seems pretty.
(35:22):
You know Twinkle's dad. Don't slam on the table.
Sprinkle. Sprinkle's dad seems to be
pretty funny. Maybe that actually may make him
chuckle. Maybe, but.
Humor is the best medicine. I want him to teach me swear
words. An Indian.
So maybe maybe that actually might make him.
So you need me to do that? My my friend that I work with,
I'm sure he can. Which what?
(35:42):
Oh Lovett. No, my, my friend, he's he's
Sikh and he's so security guard.My security guard.
We've had tea for like 3 years. He's so cute.
Oh my God, he's such a nice thing.
Ever. Chai tea.
I've never met the guy but he nojust I love.
It just normal tea. We don't normal tea and but yet
when he comes in and he's alwaysso soft spoken like he's
(36:02):
retired. This is just his retirement job
and he's so cute and you know, we'll we'll be at work and
something will piss him off and he's just not used to it.
And he's like God damn fucking guys, fucking idiot truck
drivers. And it just makes me laugh
because it's out of his normal character.
In all honesty I've I've never met this guy but I picture this
(36:26):
skinny little older like 60s ishseek with the long beard with
the long Gray beard and you knowthe turban.
And he and he's a scrawny littlething.
And that's completely opposite. Really.
Yeah, completely opposite. Squirreled all over the place
here. He did.
But he was really great. But besides that, we're we're
going back into the question. Go go back to questionings where
(36:48):
we want. To shout out to security friend
as well. Yeah.
Second favorite color I'm still.Candid Lord.
All right. Does anybody have any?
Do I need to do my typical question?
Well, yeah, please. Do top or bottom.
Top verse. OH.
Wait actually I should have wentlead with gay, bi, straight,
trans? What's your identity?
(37:11):
OK, so some of those were sexualidentities and one of those was
a gender identity. That's fair, but I actually saw
a podcast or Facebook real aboutthis and it was very intriguing.
I'm pansexual, or as I like to refer to it as, Harkness sexual
if we can. If both parties can pass the
(37:33):
Harkness test, then yes. Sex What?
Does Harkness mean? Named after Jack Harkness of
Doctor Who fame and the Torchwood series, Jack Harkness
is an immortal bisexual. I think is the best way to put
it. The the one of the particular
jokes in the fandom is that he'sthe reason for all the half
(37:56):
humans in the series. And so the Harkness test is, do
you both speak a common language, are you both of age,
and do you both consent? That's fair.
So if you can pass the Harkness test, you can bang and therefore
I'm Harkness sexual because we must pass the Harkness test.
(38:19):
Interesting. OK.
OK, so second part of that sorrywas top or bottom?
Top verse He. Just said he's trying to
confirm. May have cut him off when I was
asking about his that. I like the way your brain works.
I will say I love the idea of a Dom matrix or a Dom doming.
(38:41):
Like you could still Dom your pet to rail you.
I really think that's hot. Oh absolutely.
I love that shit. I love that.
Shit, it's just as a soft Dom, that's not entirely something
I'm going to be doing. I will coax them into topping
me, sure, but I'm a soft dumb. I do not.
(39:02):
I am not the one who grabs your collar, yanked you down.
And I mean, I can do that for five seconds at a time, maybe up
to 5 minutes. But no, I'm, I'm a soft dumb.
I, I will. I will coax you.
I will. There's a reason I'm a handler.
I will treat you like a puppy. So that is, I will use positive
reinforcement, I will use encouragement.
(39:22):
And if you like it, I'm not going to threaten it as
punishment because that's only going to encourage you to do the
action Thus, and I have broken many a brat's brain.
The simplest solution to a brat is do you want to get smacked?
Better be a good Brad. All rounds, no smackies for you.
(39:44):
You'll be surprised at how well that works.
Anybody else turned on right now?
J Rod is just his eyes are glowing right now.
No, I'm. I miss kinky relationships.
OK, out of our listeners, if anybody else just got slightly
turned on by that, please send us a message.
Let me know. I'm running a poll.
And that's OK. Absolutely.
(40:05):
And J Rod Speaking of. J Rod, I'm going back to the
first episode that I actually appeared on.
Wow, I don't even remember. I don't even remember the
questions that I got that I got asked.
Dude, that was a long time ago. That was so long ago.
(40:26):
At least that's Season 1. No Season 2.
Season 2, was it Season 2? Yeah.
Early season 2 then, yeah. It was very like very early
Season 2 and I'm just thinking about like, I never got asked
these questions. I think it was we were so early
in the podcast and we were so early in the sprinkles.
We didn't have sprinkles. Yeah, actually that's true.
(40:48):
We. Didn't have sprinkles, so we
didn't have a sprinkles mentality.
Thought of train, Yeah. She wasn't, yeah, she wasn't on
the episode that I. Debuted on train, Train of
thought. Train of thought.
The show has changed dramatically.
Like every time someone, every time someone new comes on, yes,
(41:09):
I'm like all the. Would you like to answer the
questions as well? No, I'm.
Good. That's a great question.
No, because that actually makes.That actually makes me want to
think about my answer. Is there a question that you
were asked that you would like to ask Skyler?
Trying to think back about the the questions that I remember.
(41:29):
What? We asked you either.
No, I, I. Actually, no.
I don't even remember but I happened last episode.
In fairness, I'm a fairly open book, so ask away.
There are not many questions that I won't answer, but I know
if I won't. By the way, guess what I'm not
going to take away from his, butI'm just going to throw it out
quickly because I just passed mystupid brain.
(41:52):
I now, after 20 years of not being able to find my last deck,
have acquired. They are not charged yet, but I
now actually have a new deck of tarot cards.
Very nice. With this and they but they
still need to be connected to the lay lines and the connection
and charged to be properly done.Cool.
I did not know know you were into that at all.
(42:14):
I very interesting. I have spent probably 20 years
of witchcraft and Wiccan. I want a terror.
Really. What the Frick?
Why am I just finding that out now?
You didn't know that about me. I'm a very spiritual person.
I believe in spiritual warfare. Dude, the everything I do, I
mean, I look outside, I look at my tires.
Six months I have tires. My entire life is weird
spiritual shit. How every one of us met.
(42:36):
My life, my everything has been evolved.
I did not know that about you. That's I'm very intrigued.
All right to be, to be continued.
Sharon. OK, two things.
First of all, it hasn't been 20 years since your tarot cards
have been missing because I've seen them.
Just because you've seen them. Well, I mean he.
Did. In fairness, if he's been doing
(42:57):
it for 20 years, I sure hope thecards haven't been missing for
20 years. That means he saw them at the
start and hasn't seen them since.
Yes. No, they've they've, they've
only been missing for maybe about the last 8 to 10 years.
So now, now that I know they're missing, you know when I buy a
new deck, you know the old ones are going to show up a. 100%
(43:18):
yes, that's. How?
That works. They're in that tote at the
bottom of the pile, underneath the stairs at the very furthest
back. Tada, I've looked.
We found them. I've.
Looked through every one of those goddamn stupid toast like
1000 times over. Yes, well, apparently just.
Lifted up and look through the clear plastic.
Or did you actually go? No, I've gone through many of
them. Now see, hold on, I've noticed
(43:41):
we switched from an all to a many of them.
Yeah, no, no all. All this is typical husband,
husband, husband. I mean, for the straight
couples, that would be very husband wifey.
Oh yes. Oh, did you see a meme last
week? There was a meme that someone
posted. I love this and I'm going to I,
I don't mean to pineapple, but it was a screenshot.
(44:03):
It was actually a video which I'm going to take a look at, and
what it said was, it was, I think it was some sort of a
weird little meme, but they weretalking about the divorce ratio
rates. OK.
And just going. To put this out there.
Thank you. But spider, yes.
(44:25):
Have I seen a meme? Yes, I have seen about right
100,000 memes since. Last week.
You're going to have to be a little bit more.
A wearable. A wearable cat bed head?
That's so you buddy. That was no one I was looking
at. What?
The woman's wearing basically a cat tree on her head.
You've seen this. Oh, here we go.
(44:47):
So divorce rates, men and women 49% divorce rate.
That's an old statistic. Women and men.
I know women and men 72%. And then it was like men and men
29%. Men ain't the problem, ladies.
So hold on, we have women and men, then we have men and women
as two separate. Pieces he misspoke.
(45:09):
It's men and women 49%, men and men 29%, women and women 72%.
OK, that makes a lot more sense.So and it's.
Apparently, the problem is women.
And then it said men ain't the problem, ladies.
Yeah, women and women divorce rate is 72%.
Yeah, that's fair considering mysister and her ex are going
through a divorce right now. So I am read.
(45:31):
UPS, that's what I'm going. To do I am I?
I thought it was funny. I thought it was cute meme.
I thought I'd throw it in there.Shout out, sister.
Let's get back on the last few minutes while we concentrate on
our guests before we get into the chaos of Hubby's episode.
Oh yeah that was my other one. I cuz I had two questions.
The first of all it was all about the whole tarot cards.
The other question that I had was for Skyler and it was what?
(45:55):
Son of a bitch, the brain. Damn it, think.
Back. Wow.
Think back. Would you like to take a break
while T-bone has a question? Nope.
Nope, it's back. When did you start and what
prompted you to become a nakedest nudist?
So I came back from a camping event.
(46:19):
It's nakedest you missed that part earlier.
I do so I came back from a a camping event one year and
managed to make for pride and was end up wearing very little
and enjoyed it. And then I just went.
Well, I enjoy it, but most nudists like to insist that
they're just naked prudes. I am not a naked prude.
(46:42):
I admit that I am lewd. So I decided that the most
appropriate term would be nakedness.
And then, fortuitously, when it comes down to it, I am,
generally speaking, the nakedestperson in the room. 9 times out
of 10 he's he's not wrong. Like literally you'd show up to
(47:02):
PJS and if Skyler's there he's probably literally just has a
cock sock on. I was going to say I earned the
nickname from several puppies ofCock suck for a very good
reason, and it wasn't just at PJS.
J Rod. I can confirm that actually.
Yeah, absolutely. And I and I can as well.
And I'm excited for next weekendto finally actually after all
(47:24):
the time we've been together andgotten on the podcast.
You want to know you. I'm excited to go down with me,
Sharon, T-bone and all go down actually be at Wreck Beach
because we've known each other for a long time and we just
don't get a chance to do it. And it's just going to be.
Nice, I really need more sun. It's we'll just wear a shirt.
Wear sunscreen. Take the place.
I was going to say, where's the sun screen?
So it's going, it's going to be fun.
(47:45):
Screen I'm. Going to.
Pop up tint. Like it?
For him. Yeah.
So it's just bathe in sunscreen,fill the tub up with sunscreen
and then just bathe in it. By the way, T-bone, I believe
you had a question you'd like toask.
I'm gonna wait till the next episode.
This is fair. Yeah, it's perfect for after
dark. Awesome.
But yeah. I'm gonna be with family.
Yes, in my living room. I love it.
(48:06):
That's pretty cool. And I love the way to describe
that. And I mean, ever since the
moment we met. As soon as you say you love our
living room. Yeah, as soon as you said we
met. And how much you love right
Beach. Like, I love it.
It's just gonna be so much fun. I'm so excited.
That spiritual and stuff, that'sso cool.
In all honesty, for those of youlistening, this podcast is
recorded in Spiders and Mine Dining Room.
(48:29):
Yes, yeah, I actually have the for growing up as I got older,
but for most of my life actuallyin I in my knuckle there was
actually the. He had a pentagram.
The pentagram is in my knuckle. Really.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I I've spent a lot of time in spirituality.
Spider. Do you have two tan lines on
your arm 2? Probably.
(48:54):
Not. No, like I'm.
I actually probably would. Right above, right above the
elbow. That's a.
Shadow. There's a shadow.
Yeah. Oh, Jesus.
Oh good God. Well, that's fair all.
Right, I got a question for Skyler.
He is. What's favorite genre of music
and favorite song if you? Oh sure, ask the hard ones.
(49:16):
I'd say Ask my band. I know that one favorite genre.
Or or well. I mean, my favorite band has
been star set since I have foundthem and they had a they
released a number of singles last year and I cannot remember
the name of the one that I like the most.
It's I'm sorry I'm blanking on the name of the song, but.
(49:38):
You can think about it after it.It's answered really good.
I like it, so I'm. Actually, just like Quick One
Please Skylar One song you couldlisten to repeatedly and never
get sick of. Let it go.
Let it. No sorry.
No, sorry. No, sorry.
(49:59):
As much as I love that song, no I.
Was because of unfortunate. Well, there are several songs I
could I I could listen without consent, but unfortunately it's
my my favorite one from the starset is the one that I cannot
remember because I have quite enjoyed it because it is kind of
apropos of our recent times. Dystopia.
(50:20):
That's the one. Wow, the brain does not work.
Well, I I do that also with my favorite.
Welcome to the Squirrel Hour for.
Some reason, yeah. I forget certain bands that I'm
in love with and I forget their names.
So Chase has I actually to mention and I shout out to
Chase. Chase actually sent me a song
and on the break I will play it for you.
It will actually be because withthe new program and and system,
(50:44):
you were able to link a song to the podcast and he found a song
which blew my mind away. The name of the song is that
it's OK not to be OK of. Course it does.
It's. Very nice.
There's an actual song about that?
Yes, Oh my God. Wow, it's an amazing song.
(51:05):
And I'm gonna link it. I'm going to e-mail the crisis
center about it. I'm going to get them to ask
them if it's OK to actually contact the artist and see if we
can use that song in the introduction of it.
The It's OK Not to Be OK workshop for the high school
level students. It would blow my mind away.
(51:27):
Suicide Prevention. There's actually a number of
songs that are like that and this in in my, in the songs that
I've listened to really I feel like that are like it's OK not
to be. OK, I listen to the song and
that's literally the title. And it like, I listen to it.
I'm like, holy shit. It literally it speaks the
(51:48):
entire crisis center, the, the, the, you know, the workshops
that we do as being a youth educator.
And I was like, holy crap, that was amazing.
So we're going to link that to the podcast so that anybody
wants to in the future. That will be the song that kind
of emulates and reflects what this podcast is, what it's
(52:10):
about. Very nice.
Awesome. Yeah.
So yeah, chase something to me. Yeah, it was pretty freaking
cool when he sent it to me. I'm like, wow, it's at the top
of my playlist. Shout out to Handler Chase.
Right handler Chase actually made.
I will still call him Handler Chase.
He is still your handler. I don't care what he says or
what you say to me. He is still Handler Chase.
(52:32):
He's kind of being involved in ablue puppy now right now, so
he's got a names for he might be.
He could be in all the relationships he wants to be in.
He's still your handler. I agree.
He's still kind of. He's still.
I want to. Be clear, Vampa has had several
handler puppies, several handlers that became puppies.
This is nothing new. It's OK to be a puppy.
And a handler. Yeah, no, absolutely.
(52:54):
So with that being said, the last couple of minutes before we
jump into the show, I want to make sure we don't lose this
because this episode only like the last episode, we do have
permission to be live on the YouTube channel.
That will be good. We are ready getting ready to
go. I want to say again, a thank
you, thank you and a shout out to all of our listeners.
I want to make sure that everyone remembers that it is OK
not to be OK. We always promote the importance
(53:17):
of mental health on this podcast.
We always put the links to the hem clinic to the crisis center
that the two if you're if you'rein distress 988 reach out.
That's a national line, you know, or United States.
And actually there's something upcoming because one of our
upcoming guests, which I will not say actually has the entire
(53:39):
national 988 hotline list to be shared with the entire.
So every country will be shared on and that link will be shared.
So anyone around the world, the post will be done.
So I won't say who it will be, but they will be sharing that
information and that link on that.
I believe we need a secret word for our stinky pups.
(54:00):
Already have it. It is called.
We won't say it. What was it the?
Name of the beer? Oh, that's right, I've missed
that. All good.
All right, so if we're ready to go, does anybody have any last
minute shout outs before we shutdown and get ready for the next
episode? I'm on vacation this this week.
This entire week I'm off. Good for you, come down to Wreck
(54:21):
Beach with us. Happy.
When are you guys going? This Saturday.
This this Saturday, OK. I know free this week.
We could go down this week if you need.
Shout out to everyone on Vancouver Island.
I'm so jealous of you people. The pups are amazing.
We'll discuss it. They're amazing.
I I so much to talk about. Where love, peace and chicken
(54:43):
grease. Where's sunscreen?
Oh God, where's sunscreen? Forget sunscreen, it's not for
you. Especially on your cock.
Bark, bark, bark. See you in 15 minutes.
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