1st Pets

We talk about our first pets that we had and the memories that it bought!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcasts show? Okay,
if it's all right with Danielle, I'd like to talk

(00:24):
about pets that we've lost. I'm gonna start, you know what,
the memory, the memories we have of them. I had
a turtle, the only pet I've ever had. His name
was Kermit, and we got him when I think I
was about five or six. And we got a turtle
because I was allergic to everything, cats, dogs, derbils, hamsters.

(00:46):
Everything tested out like did you have other pets? And
then you're like, no, no, I was so allergic. I'd
even go to somebody's house that had a dog and
I'd have to go to the hospital and then yeah,
the hospital, the hospital. Straight. If I went to somebody's
house and they had a cat and they be like, oh,
we'll put the cat in the on the room, I'm like,
it won't matter, it won't matter, it won't matter. Um
And and we couldn't even have like, you know, I

(01:08):
don't know if your kindergarten or first grade class had
the pet Gerbil, like the school class. Gerbil couldn't even
take that home because I would I don't want to
know what Scotty did with the class Gerbil anyway, but
I still have a scar okay anyways, but yeah, we
couldn't even do that because all the dander and then

(01:29):
the saw wood, wood dust or whatever. Hell, we ended
up getting a turtle and it was Kermit, and it
was a very noisy turtle because he would crawl up
the side of the aquarium and then fall back down.
And we had him for I think about three years,
and then all of a sudden his shell started to

(01:49):
turn a very different shade of green. And then we
would take him outside for little walks and he wouldn't
want to walk. So then I still remember, No, he
was pretty easy to catch and he was where to go.

(02:10):
But yeah, then we I remember sitting in the car.
My mom took him into the vet and then she
came out and she said, he's he's being put to sleep.
He's not going to make it, and I remember crying.
But yeah, I mean I think back. I mean that
was my one pet experience. So I loved having a turtle.

(02:30):
I just no, it's everything like that. It just you know,
it makes you appreciate how much you loved him A turtle,
a kid pet. I mean, you wouldn't have a turtle, now,
would you? Hell? Yeah, who is it? I think you
would have everything the loan, yeah, till that chair that
fat so in Rocky Uh. Sylvester Stallone when he was
playing Rocky had a pet turtle in the movie and

(02:52):
he still has it has a today allegedly. Yeah. I
think that's the only pet going forward that I would
probably get because I need something that outlasts me, not
that I'm going to lose after I love it. How
long do they live? If you get the right turtle
could live for forever, like especially the big ones, And
I don't know where you gonna keep on that side.
You should get snapping turtle, scary get ship. When I

(03:20):
was a kid, I had no pet. I had goldfish.
I had seven goldfish that lasted seven that you know
of how many got replaced by your parents? They didn't
last very long. I want him at at a festival
that's terrible. Well, I won one, and then I wanted them.

(03:40):
We bought six more to keep that one company from
it was I landed a pink pong ball in the
goldfish ball and they gave me a bag of water
with the goldfishing. Have they outlawed that though, I always
feel bad for those goldfish. That's how it started at
my house when I was a kid. We wanted like

(04:01):
the same way Scary did. We got the goldfish and
they don't tell you it needs a filter to keep
it alive. Lovely and your kid, So you had a bowl,
a little tiny bowl. The thing dies within a couple
of days. Well then you're upset. So what does my
dad do. He goes out and gets a little fish tank,
fills it with gets all the right stuff. That turned
into a one hundred and fifty gallon fish tank in

(04:23):
the end with shark stingray. The most incredible setup, all
because of that one goldfish from the fair. The goldfish. Yeah,
the environment though, Danielle. We just had a little plastic
gold goldfish ball and my mom would actually clean it

(04:45):
out every day because the little duties would come out
of the bottom of the fish and they would like
dropped to the bottom. So you have to like replace
the water and put them in in a temporary every
day every day. Not a where do we get I
just kept the gold I just tried to go first
in the bag the yellow tetriment flakes that smelled like

(05:07):
a yeah, they were like fish and then all go
to the top, and I used to watch it. Now
was about a year and then I never had a
pet again. Now do you know what my brother did?
He had a small fish tank in his room and
he was swinging his baseball vat in his room. HiT's
the fish tank. The cracks all the water and the
fish come out of the fish tank. The fish are

(05:30):
like wait. But then here's the best part. He tells
my mother. I don't know what happened. My mother's like, really,
I'm not an idiot. I know what you did, and
it won't I came home from school one day and
my fish was gone. It was not in the tank anymore.
Nobody knew what happened, and we just we were baffled.
And literally six months later I found it in my bookshelf.

(05:50):
The thing jumped. What what it jumped? That life is
that bad? Yeah? That thing so kinds of things with
teddy bears and whatever. He can never finish tank. Then
he was out. He was read, you speaking of the

(06:12):
fish tanks, you don't have one that I have glowfish
and little snail in this little bandit guy who goes
around and eat all the algae I think one of
the fish died and Brandon replaced it, and yeah, I'm
pretty sure. The first thing I said to him when
I came back to when I went back to Michigan
the last time, I looked at the tank and I'm like, yo,
she looks different, and he said, what do you mean.

(06:34):
I was like, Okay, so all of our fish. We've
had these glow fish knock on Wood for over two
years now. They've done well. They're thriving in the tank.
They've gotten bigger than when we first bought them. Suddenly, Yo,
she seems to be smaller than the rest of them.
And he's like, no way, you think I would lie
to you and replace your fish. Yeah, I absolutely think
he would lie to me and replace the fish, because

(06:54):
I told you how he accidentally froze him that one time.
And then they thought out and came back to life. Yeah,
I think maybe Yoshi was lost in that freeze, and
I have a new fish in there. He swims off
by himself and doesn't hang out with the other ones.
I think he's new. My dad, I did that with
a bird. My bird ed he was like a looking parakeet,

(07:15):
and we had it for probably two or three years
and one day it had the sniffles and there was
like SnO coming out of its little beak. And so
when I was in school, my dad took it back
to the pet shop and exchanged it, and I came
home and there was a different bird. Like what are
you doing? Like completely different different. Yeah, it was a
different Yeah, I knew it was different. I'm like, what
are you doing? He's like, oh, the other one was six,
so I got you another one. He never had a
pet as a kid, so he hadn't he didn't know

(07:37):
about attachment animals or whatever. Could I guess of course
if they if they don't like, they replace it and
they think you don't know the difference. It's a totally
different color. I'm like that. We've been through five beta
fish Dora because my son was trying to say Dory,
but he said Dora. So five beta fish. And every

(07:57):
time we replace it, we look at him like did
he notice? Did he notice? You know, he's going to
see this in about, you know, five to ten years
and then realize we've been doing this to him. So
I'm sorry, Hudson man. My parents did that with soft Tina,
the doll for my sister. Yeah, yeah, they replaced your
sister with a dog. Soft Tina was my sister's favorite
doll sofa, Yeah, exactly, how soft wash I think it

(08:24):
was soft and moist Tina something the original it was
my parents went out to we got a soft Tina too, sorry,
literally replace it and dirty dirty a little bit sister
Tina with stinky Monkey. So Spencer had a little monkey

(08:48):
and we named him stinking monkey because he never wanted
us to wash him. So I would take him when
he didn't look and stink him put him in the
washing machine. He lost stinking Monkey. I can't even tell
you how many times. And I would constantly have to
replace him. And he would do this to the tag, like,
you know, he would rub the tag. It was kind
of like his thing. I guess to help him, you know, relax,
and the tag would So I was ordering these monkeys.

(09:10):
I'm rubbing the tag off. I'm dirty in the monkey up.
So I would tell Spencer, because he was a little
I would say spend I'm like he went and got
his hair done. He went to the hair barber. That's
a lot. So do know how many years this kid
believe that the stupid thing went you know now, the
same thing with Spunky the puppy. It was the same

(09:31):
exact don't say Spunk the puppies. They were Spunky, It's
it was a gun. It was a little puppy, was
a little gundy thing. And my daughter lost and left
it at the hotel room. We got replaced it, and
she was like, this is not the same Spunky. You
didn't have the same smell. Well it changes after a while.

(09:56):
Able to stand up. It would that be too embarrassing.
All of you guys replace your kids like pets and dolls,
which I think is super nice. My parents never did that.
I was yeah, they'd be like, you killed your fist.
Brandon is not my parents yo yo, And he swears

(10:17):
he did not, but he freaking did I know he did.
He's like, no, I wouldn't dupe you. But my mom
and dad would be like, hey, I literally remember coming
home and my mom being like, her fish died, and
then she brought my dead bird to my friend's house
when Jimmy died, because the woman was coming with me everywhere.
He sat on my shoulder. He was great. But my friend,
her mom ran a wildlife sanctuary, so she knew all

(10:40):
kinds of things. So my mom brings my dead bird
to pick me up in the morning from a slumber
party because Jommy died overnight, and hands her to my
friend's mom, like, hey, can you buy any chance tell
what happened here? Her mom's like, no, that's how I
found out Jimmy died. My parents had no respe Your
mom wanted your friend's mom to do an autopsy on
a bird. Not necessarily an autopsy, but she just wanted

(11:02):
to know if there were any visible signs. I was
a bad parent then, because we had a fish and
the fish died and I told Kaid, look here, what
was the name of the fish? Do you remember? I remember?
I told him, like, look, he's dead. He's upside down
instead right. And then Kate's dog, Kate had a you know,
we had a dog. Kate was thirteen when he passed away.
I couldn't replace the dog. I mean it was like

(11:24):
old was he doesn't look like something I could do,
just like we didn't replace this pets. I just said, hey,
your fish died, and I left him in the bowl
upside down until get home so you can see him.
I'm like, hey, look, does anyone have any patch buried
in the backyard was my front yard us My mom's
old house that we just sold had so many cemetery

(11:50):
put stop portion or something. Hey look here's this, said
mom goes to what do we do? Do we dig him?
I'm like, no, you just leave him ahead, Brody, go ahead. Hey, Scotty,
you said your kids had a pink gun dog. Does
this turn you on? No? A big pink gun dog.
You're such a jerk. Why do you have a Scott?
Crop it over? Hey, Scott, turning around, big boy Scotty

(12:13):
were discussing on that note. We're done. Thank you for
all the love you gave Tonka. He just died. And
if you want to see pictures of him, I did
post a couple of cute ones in his costumes. Radio
Daniel Manara Instagram. Happy he doesn't have to put on

(12:37):
the costume one. Someone said that we should actually tribute
to Taka with a moment of crickets. Do you have crickets?
Un well, you have real ones in your house? I
don't right now. They're they're very quiet. Right now I
have to have to get rid of talk to ate
them all the supper. He ate everythingle stop it Thank you,

(12:59):
Gandhi are your kind words. Everyone else you suck. You're
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