January 6, 2022 • 20 mins
Elvis came across an Instagram account of a man named mark and his pet squirrel, Peanut!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast,
Firm Presents Minute Morning Show. Well, here we go the
fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast. A very special guest is
about to sign on into the zoom room. I'm hoping
you're I'm hoping you're watching rather than listening to this. Uh,
(00:24):
Danielle tell everyone who's coming on. So Peanut the Squirrel
will be on with us and his own Stark Peanuts
the Squirrel. We have learned that there is an entire world,
a universe of squirrels and those who love them on Instagram.
And it all started with with Peanut the Squirrel. We're
so excited. Uh, I didn't want thinking anything about our
(00:46):
interview we're about to do with us. I have questions.
I'd like to know how he got him, Like did
he like was he in his lawn? And he capit?
Like like how exactly do you give a squirrel? And okay,
all right, I I could tell you the story if
you want to hear him, help him, just let's call
him off. You just tell the whole story. How the
squirrel have new music coming out? Elvis? How did you
come across this squirrel page? Were you specifically looking at
(01:07):
squirrels or a friend of mine set me the link.
We'll leave it at that. Did your friends send you
the link because your friend was like, you're gonna love
this squirrel? Or was it your friends saying you're gonna
love this Mark? Oh? How long before you realize there
was a squirrel? Why is there one? Asking me questions? Him?
Answer the questions and please, please, let's be respectful, or
(01:30):
I'll clear this fucking room. Sure, no bad words. Ever
seen a squirrel eat a peanut? They can't. You put
it in your mouth and then it goes this way
and talking about squirrels and then they spit it out
because because the shell so the shell part. Yeah, but
they can eat the nut. Let's ask Mark. Mark knows
(01:53):
more about squirrels. Thus, I've seen so many squirrels try
and devour key nut with the shell on and they
spit These are hilar do you see this? Okay, what
you're doing instead of going to the gym, to the
park and hey, Alvis, can we have him say squirrel
to the squirrels? Sure he'll enjoy that. I know he's
(02:14):
trying to get on right now, so, oh market peanut,
make sure he's on mute. And scary. Mark, we're good s.
Oh my god, this is the coolest thing in the world.
I'm so glad we're just talking about you. Where's where's Peanut?
Where's the superstar? So the superstars they're just hanging out.
(02:39):
Can you rotate your phone ninety degrees? That Peanuts, he's unlocked.
Maybe I'll mock it. I had to do my phone
because he's been running around so much. But now that
like people the camp across his pause, he just hangs out. Well, Mark,
(02:59):
we so many questions were first of all, uh, how
did you how did you meet squirrel? A peanut? The squirrel?
What happened? How did you come to adopt him? It's
the saddest story, but like the most magical. Um. I
work in construction. I'm an engineer in the city and
I was leaving a job site and I was walking
down the street and I saw this poor squirrel get
(03:21):
hit by a car um. So I was like a croser.
I thought the poor squirrel was still alive. Um, But
it was actually Peanut moving around and unfortunately his mom
got kicked by a car um So he started to
move into the street and I kind of chased him
out and instead of him running away, he crawled up
my leg. So I took him home. Um. I tried
to find a vet. I tried to find anybody to
(03:42):
come help. Um, everybody wanted to just euthanize them. So
I took a week off of work. I rehab this
little man. Um. Eight months later, I put him back outside.
He got attacked by a cat, lost half of his tail.
He came back home the next day, so I opened
my door into full tiers, full tiers. There he was
missing half his tail. He ran back inside and the
(04:02):
rest is history. So we're actually sitting in peanuts room.
He he has his own room. And oh how long ago?
Did this happen? About five years ago now, so he's
almost five this and he knew he was a superstar
before any of this Instagram and social happened. Um. But
(04:25):
because we see here when we cross our paws like
a normal squirrel would, do you know he's such a gentleman,
he's so cute. All right, let's open it up for questions.
Who's a question for Mark and Peanuts? Gandhi, what's going on?
I have a million? But what? Well? First of all,
is Peanut potty trained? How does that work out for
you guys. His potty trained. He has two litter boxes
(04:47):
in his room and one downstairs in the living room.
The funniest thing in the world is to watch what.
We will sit there and watch football and he'll just
get off the couch and go do his thing in
his litter box. If he's tired, he'll go upstairs and
go to bed. U. Okay, he does something all the time.
I built him a nest in the closet of this room,
so he will walk his little book ouch upstairs and
you could hear him nuzzle himself into the cat into
(05:09):
the nest. It's the cutest thing in the world. Oh God, Okay.
Does he go for outside time? Does he go play
outside and take walks and stuff? He used to, but
we're yawning now, excuse me your um. I was that
that man, you know, bringing a squirrel outside. But eventually
(05:31):
he just he didn't want it anymore. He ended up
chewing it off. So now he sits in the window
with my cat and he kind of silently judges the neighbors.
Do they get along the cant they're best friends. And
she's like a fifteen pounds, she's a she's a main
coon and seeing them sit in the window together is
the funniest thing in the world. Oh my god, the
(05:56):
squirrel does paytnut cuttle like. Is Peanut a cuddler. He's
a huge cuddler. He will sit and watch TV with you.
Anybody who's come over to visit him, he's a rock star,
immediately goes like. I've had people travel across the world
to meet him. It has been the coolest experience in
the world. Is so wild, Peanut? So you're single, Mark, right? Yes? Okay?
(06:22):
Now do you use Peanut in order to get people
to come over to your place? Like, Hey, you wanna
see my squirrel? Is her? Is Peanut your wing squirrel?
I am the wings wing matt Um. I hate to
brace the internet, but I'm not gay, but I do
love all of the love and before I get from
the gay community on the podcast. All right, yeah, hold on, Mark, Mark,
(06:50):
we're only hearing like every other every other word. I
don't know if there's a WiFi thing going on or
if it's not. I think it's a zoom mute thing.
And so if somebody else makes a noise while he talks,
cut some money. All right, So we yeah, we have
to stay silent, otherwise we can't hear Mark. Mark KENI
here is Mark. I can still hear you. What happened? Okay, okay,
(07:16):
back to the love from the gay Community. Oh my god,
the d m s I get are I can't see
any of the things on the podcast, but there are
nothing but loving and supportive. I can say that. But
as far as the dating scene with him, I kind
of don't tell anybody about him because you're either the
coolest person or you're the weirdest um. And most of
the time you're the weirdest um. But again, Nate, I've
(07:39):
I've kind of my friends made fun of me, and
they're always like, you can say, you know, you want
to come over and see my squirrel and get away
with it, so they has it, but it also has
I mean, if I you know, if women don't work out,
I have a launcher list of men that I could, uh,
you know, go ask on a date. I don't, but
(07:59):
you know what to watch you and Peanut interact with
each other. I mean it's I know that you're capturing
moments and we only see like like the moments that
are like wacky and crazy and a lot of fun.
But what's the majority of the time with just you
and Peanut? Is it Peanut at rest or is he
always running around doing something. It's a little bit of both,
And honestly, I can't. I want to stop really quick, Elvis.
(08:22):
I don't want to date you. But uh, I even
listening to you since I was in middle school and
I used to like skip home room just to listen
to the phone tests and stuff. You guys are amazing.
I had to throw that out there. It's it's been
a pleasure. Um but yeah, it's it's kind of it's
a lot funnier off camera because he does a lot
more funny things. Um. Just it's it's kind of like
(08:42):
that old cartoon of the frog that sings and then
you know, the cartoon brings the frog in front of
everybody and it stops singing type thing. But uh, you know,
I'll find I'll lose him for a second and an
open refrigerator and he's kind of just sitting in the refrigerator,
or like I lose him and he's avocado with my shoe.
One day, I was going to a meeting. I was
late put on my dress shoes and there was a
rape avocado in there. I pushed him there, So those
(09:05):
little moments really like you want to kill him, but
you also you know you love him to death. Um.
When I bought this house, I actually didn't have any
shades or anything, and he was sitting in the window
and the neighbor next door ran over and was banging
on my door and she's like, there's a scroll in
your house, and I just com Ronald's like, oh, let's
just be nut. I have a question, Scary, what's your
(09:25):
question from Mark? My questions? Have you told him any
neat tricks aside from the ones that you just mentioned,
which is kind of fun. I can get him to
jump on command, so I can stop my fingers and
will jump. Also, I can dress him up in anything,
so I have sparrows, I have Frody's gonna keep me.
But he's got a Giants jersey, we got Yankees caps. Um,
(09:49):
hold on, you can't you can't laugh out loud or
we can't hear what he's saying. I'm sorry it's a
zoom thing, but go ahead, Yeah, you get sports mem
I have dressed him up, and don't he a devil horns.
The funniest thing about social media is people will send
him gifts and costumes and uh, we're just still yawning
it over here. Man, what do you It's so lazy.
But people send him so many cool things, and I
(10:12):
dressed him up and I make these funny videos and
I'm just so happy that I could share him with people. Um.
The best thing that has happened with all of this
is we've been able to you know, we did a
very big Christmas donation and we gathered toys for kids
and domestic violence victims and stuff like that. So we've
been using this for good. A lot of people think
I'm just like tattooed you know, jerk on the internet
(10:33):
with a scroll trying to you know, lure women in here,
but we do a lot of cool and fun things.
We actually have been able to surprise a bunch of
kids with him. Um, somebody sent me a big scroll
costume and I kind of throw that on for for
kids when when Peena is uh, you know, surprising them.
So it's been a cool journey on that I've been
you know, blessed to be able to to share him
(10:54):
with everybody. So the tricks that you're talking about, is
he too sleepy to do a job being a little
I might be able to put your guys down a
jumping keep too, Bay. Oh you're not gonna do it
(11:14):
on camera now? Wow? So so easy came here. No,
I don't think we're getting one today. So I mean, well,
I mean he can he can jump very far. I
mean how many can he jump? I would say, you know,
(11:35):
ten to fifteen. Um, kind of our trademark thing. It's
been him jumping off the refrigerator. So it's been really
cool to have something like that. Um. I've ended up
like taking to the ceiling and get him to jump
through it and stuff, um, stuff like that, Like I
come up with little designs and things for him to do, um,
(11:55):
just to keep the uh the social media people happy
because um, he brings so much joy like this is
this is him calm collective. He'll he'll sit here and
you know, snuggle clean your fingers. But Gandhi's very upset
because you're following Daniel and me and not following her
on right, what's peanuts beef with me again? I got
(12:18):
when I saw my phone blow up yesterday and all
of you were, you know, shouting peanut out and I
was like, oh my goodness. And then I saw your
comment about coming the babysit. I'll leave a key outside
on the mat. Um, come hang out whatever you want. Um. Uh,
your boyfriend might get a little mad. He might steal you,
Um could he? Trump? Can Peanut travel to my apartment
(12:38):
when you're out of town and take care over there? Absolutely,
I'll get him the harness, get him all ready to go. Right.
That's a very good point, Mark, when you need to
get out of town or go do something. Who takes
care of Peanut? Well? Thankfully, my family lives a town away,
so they come in and stay in my house and
they all, uh, you know, everybody loves him. He's so
(12:59):
suf socialized. Again, I've had so many people, um come
and meet him. Um. Demilovado reached out a couple of day,
well reached out. So we had a couple of really
cool experiences with that. But my family is down the street. Um,
they're always wanting to come and save my house, sit
to hang out with you know. Yeah, Brodie, what do
you have for Mark? Mark? Can you take him on
the plane as an emotional support squirrel? Or is that
(13:20):
not allowed? Honestly? You know what, in this day and age,
it is two Um, I'm sure, I'm sure it could happen. Wow,
you're just no job, no work, no nothing, We're just
gonna hang out all day. Well. Look, so we we
were talking earlier on the air about this universe of
(13:43):
squirrel lovers and squirrel owners and those who love them,
and it is like a huge community. Are there, I mean,
are you friends with a lot of other squirrel enthusiasts. Right,
it's so weird to say that we have a squirrel community.
I'm honorary squirrel mom. I know every every squirrel part
(14:03):
is uh, there's a woman in their squirrel um. But
the funniest thing is Tumbling. I know, y'all just went
and follow her. I to meet families with squirrels. Unfortunately,
Peanut and Thumbling are definitely afraid of each other, so
we could never do a scroll plate. But I've been
able to meet some squirrel families, and again, it's the
(14:25):
weirdest thing, but so cool to bring like communities together. Um.
I would never ever go out and meet people who
had squirrels. It's pretty crazy, but uh, it's it's really
cool to be able to, you know, meet new people
on the internet. I'm always there to help others. Apparently
everybody finds squirrels these days, because my phone just goes
(14:45):
on and on about people finding squirrels. Um Ila still
still find find this hysterical um I peanut on TikTok
is almost at a million followers, so I always do
TikTok lives. I asked people to reach out if they
have squirrels, you know, send me photo if we could
figure out how old they are. And I was sitting
in a work meeting and somebody had messaged me like, urgent,
(15:06):
I have a squirrel. I have a squirrel. Um sent
me a video. I opened the video in front of
everybody and it was a naked man with not a squirrel.
I'm so sorry. Hey, So you know that's that that
really brings up a good question like what I don't
know if you can answer this, but what should someone
do if they inter into a relationship with the squirrel
(15:28):
like you have, I mean, or maybe they find a
squirrel that's injured or you know something like that, right,
I usually just redirect them to a local rehab or
or a vet um. But I'm also always there to
help along the way because I know people just can't,
you know, up their lives and you know, bring some
some you know squil to a vet. Um, so always
(15:48):
have I'm here to you know, hand out tips and
give some advice. Um. Again, this is not the typical
behavior of a squirrel, which is the main reason why
he's inside. Still, UM, I don't think you would survive
outside for for more than a day. Um, you don't.
You have zero survival skills and have a tail. So
I don't think you're gonna gonna make it out. But
I always I was advised to find a local rehab
(16:10):
or just just to make sure that you know, they
get the proper nutrition, they get the proper guidance, and uh,
you know, they're not they're not good pets. They're really
not good pets. And I strongly advocate that. Um. But
this this little guy's an exception. Um. But my advice
used to find that local rehab or find somebody who
hast of knowledge on on squirrels or wildlife, and uh,
you know, take that route because I know everybody sees
(16:31):
a fluffy squirrel and they're like, oh, I can't wait
to you know, keep it as a pet, and then
they tear your house apart. So um um, thankfully, I
was able to train him not to cheat the house,
but every once in a while if I yell at him,
and this is why I have like the mean streets
in New York. Um, he's in New York, squirrel, he
has the attitude of New York Italiant. Um. If you
yell at him, he will find your most expensive thing
(16:52):
in the house and pe on it and watch Black
Eyes with you while you like. He's on it. So
New York down to great And I love that You're
very very honest and saying, look, this is a very
unusual circumstance. It doesn't mean everyone should run out in
like trap a squirrel and make the squirrel their pet,
because it will very very very good chance it would
(17:13):
not end up like this. One more question from Garrett.
You had a question from Mark. Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
I was just talking scary about timing. But no, I'm
super interested in the fact that you know, when you
meet somebody for the first time and go I have
a pet squirrel, what their reaction normally is. Again, it
is like I try to stay away from it because
we've done interviews with People magazine and BuzzFeed, you name it,
(17:37):
and I kind of kept my my personal life out
of it, and um, um People magazine kind of dropped
my full name and where I lived, so I can't.
So you know, I get stopped in the middle of
New York City with the people grabbed me and be like,
oh my god, you're that guy with a squirrel. I'm
like no, I'm But again, it's that like you're either
(17:58):
the coolest or you're the weirdest. And it's kind of
that hig tilt like wait, you said you have a squirrel,
Like yeah, it's kind of like a cat, but yeah,
it's it's a squirrel. But but again, you meet him
and you're like, wow, this really isn't you know, your
typical swirl. Um. He loves to have breakfast with me.
I do everything with him. I brush my teeth and
will be on my shoulder. Um, we walked downstairs. I'll
(18:18):
call him downstairs and we have breakfast together and stuff.
So it isn't it. It's very unusual, uh you know bond.
But again, I this is a one in a million squirrel.
This doesn't happen at all. Um, So I obviously I
tell everybody to, um, put the squirrel back outside, find it,
help be They just don't put it in your house.
They bite hard, they're not good pets. Um, they'll ruin
(18:39):
your life you keep them inside. So um, that's that.
That's how I You know, I guess it built the
following because I'm always like, no squirls, no squirl s, squols.
But if you're a squirrel, well it's it's very unique situation,
you know what. And Mark, it's you and Peanut are
very very lucky to have found each other. And I
think that's that's really cool. I need to do a
photo shoot with my husband and then the squirrel because
(19:00):
he's obsessed with squirrel. He's not too much guys want
we're down the street. I think we're probably thirty minutes
from from the office, so um, let me know, all right,
he'll be ready to go. All right, Mark, listen, and
can we get a close up of a peanut. I
don't know how close you can get without scaring him off.
Oh you're just a little lazy manute look at that? Hey, Mark, Hi,
(19:27):
thank you so much for your time today. Hi Peanut,
thanks for your time too. And of course with this,
with this podcast, we'll put your your Insta on so
everyone can follow you and follow the Adventures of Peanut
the Squirrel. Thank you, Mark, you have a great day. Okay,
it's you guys. Thank you so much for having me.
It's it's a pleasure and an honor. Um. I listen
to you guys every single day still since I was again,
(19:48):
I don't want to eat it, but like I was
eating card to listen to that phone tap before I
got on. So thank you for all the laughs throughout
the years, and continue what you're doing because it's it's amazing.
All right, Mark, thank you, thank you, Peanuts, Thank you Peanut.
And there's your fifteen minute morning show podcast. That was awesome.
(20:10):
The fifteen Minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast,
Firm Presents Minute Morning Show. Well, here we go the
fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast. A very special guest is
about to sign on into the zoom room. I'm hoping
you're I'm hoping you're watching rather than listening to this. Uh,
(00:24):
Danielle tell everyone who's coming on. So Peanut the Squirrel
will be on with us and his own Stark Peanuts
the Squirrel. We have learned that there is an entire world,
a universe of squirrels and those who love them on Instagram.
And it all started with with Peanut the Squirrel. We're
so excited. Uh, I didn't want thinking anything about our
(00:46):
interview we're about to do with us. I have questions.
I'd like to know how he got him, Like did
he like was he in his lawn? And he capit?
Like like how exactly do you give a squirrel? And okay,
all right, I I could tell you the story if
you want to hear him, help him, just let's call
him off. You just tell the whole story. How the
squirrel have new music coming out? Elvis? How did you
come across this squirrel page? Were you specifically looking at
(01:07):
squirrels or a friend of mine set me the link.
We'll leave it at that. Did your friends send you
the link because your friend was like, you're gonna love
this squirrel? Or was it your friends saying you're gonna
love this Mark? Oh? How long before you realize there
was a squirrel? Why is there one? Asking me questions? Him?
Answer the questions and please, please, let's be respectful, or
(01:30):
I'll clear this fucking room. Sure, no bad words. Ever
seen a squirrel eat a peanut? They can't. You put
it in your mouth and then it goes this way
and talking about squirrels and then they spit it out
because because the shell so the shell part. Yeah, but
they can eat the nut. Let's ask Mark. Mark knows
(01:53):
more about squirrels. Thus, I've seen so many squirrels try
and devour key nut with the shell on and they
spit These are hilar do you see this? Okay, what
you're doing instead of going to the gym, to the
park and hey, Alvis, can we have him say squirrel
to the squirrels? Sure he'll enjoy that. I know he's
(02:14):
trying to get on right now, so, oh market peanut,
make sure he's on mute. And scary. Mark, we're good s.
Oh my god, this is the coolest thing in the world.
I'm so glad we're just talking about you. Where's where's Peanut?
Where's the superstar? So the superstars they're just hanging out.
(02:39):
Can you rotate your phone ninety degrees? That Peanuts, he's unlocked.
Maybe I'll mock it. I had to do my phone
because he's been running around so much. But now that
like people the camp across his pause, he just hangs out. Well, Mark,
(02:59):
we so many questions were first of all, uh, how
did you how did you meet squirrel? A peanut? The squirrel?
What happened? How did you come to adopt him? It's
the saddest story, but like the most magical. Um. I
work in construction. I'm an engineer in the city and
I was leaving a job site and I was walking
down the street and I saw this poor squirrel get
(03:21):
hit by a car um. So I was like a croser.
I thought the poor squirrel was still alive. Um, But
it was actually Peanut moving around and unfortunately his mom
got kicked by a car um So he started to
move into the street and I kind of chased him
out and instead of him running away, he crawled up
my leg. So I took him home. Um. I tried
to find a vet. I tried to find anybody to
(03:42):
come help. Um, everybody wanted to just euthanize them. So
I took a week off of work. I rehab this
little man. Um. Eight months later, I put him back outside.
He got attacked by a cat, lost half of his tail.
He came back home the next day, so I opened
my door into full tiers, full tiers. There he was
missing half his tail. He ran back inside and the
(04:02):
rest is history. So we're actually sitting in peanuts room.
He he has his own room. And oh how long ago?
Did this happen? About five years ago now, so he's
almost five this and he knew he was a superstar
before any of this Instagram and social happened. Um. But
(04:25):
because we see here when we cross our paws like
a normal squirrel would, do you know he's such a gentleman,
he's so cute. All right, let's open it up for questions.
Who's a question for Mark and Peanuts? Gandhi, what's going on?
I have a million? But what? Well? First of all,
is Peanut potty trained? How does that work out for
you guys. His potty trained. He has two litter boxes
(04:47):
in his room and one downstairs in the living room.
The funniest thing in the world is to watch what.
We will sit there and watch football and he'll just
get off the couch and go do his thing in
his litter box. If he's tired, he'll go upstairs and
go to bed. U. Okay, he does something all the time.
I built him a nest in the closet of this room,
so he will walk his little book ouch upstairs and
you could hear him nuzzle himself into the cat into
(05:09):
the nest. It's the cutest thing in the world. Oh God, Okay.
Does he go for outside time? Does he go play
outside and take walks and stuff? He used to, but
we're yawning now, excuse me your um. I was that
that man, you know, bringing a squirrel outside. But eventually
(05:31):
he just he didn't want it anymore. He ended up
chewing it off. So now he sits in the window
with my cat and he kind of silently judges the neighbors.
Do they get along the cant they're best friends. And
she's like a fifteen pounds, she's a she's a main
coon and seeing them sit in the window together is
the funniest thing in the world. Oh my god, the
(05:56):
squirrel does paytnut cuttle like. Is Peanut a cuddler. He's
a huge cuddler. He will sit and watch TV with you.
Anybody who's come over to visit him, he's a rock star,
immediately goes like. I've had people travel across the world
to meet him. It has been the coolest experience in
the world. Is so wild, Peanut? So you're single, Mark, right? Yes? Okay?
(06:22):
Now do you use Peanut in order to get people
to come over to your place? Like, Hey, you wanna
see my squirrel? Is her? Is Peanut your wing squirrel?
I am the wings wing matt Um. I hate to
brace the internet, but I'm not gay, but I do
love all of the love and before I get from
the gay community on the podcast. All right, yeah, hold on, Mark, Mark,
(06:50):
we're only hearing like every other every other word. I
don't know if there's a WiFi thing going on or
if it's not. I think it's a zoom mute thing.
And so if somebody else makes a noise while he talks,
cut some money. All right, So we yeah, we have
to stay silent, otherwise we can't hear Mark. Mark KENI
here is Mark. I can still hear you. What happened? Okay, okay,
(07:16):
back to the love from the gay Community. Oh my god,
the d m s I get are I can't see
any of the things on the podcast, but there are
nothing but loving and supportive. I can say that. But
as far as the dating scene with him, I kind
of don't tell anybody about him because you're either the
coolest person or you're the weirdest um. And most of
the time you're the weirdest um. But again, Nate, I've
(07:39):
I've kind of my friends made fun of me, and
they're always like, you can say, you know, you want
to come over and see my squirrel and get away
with it, so they has it, but it also has
I mean, if I you know, if women don't work out,
I have a launcher list of men that I could, uh,
you know, go ask on a date. I don't, but
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you know what to watch you and Peanut interact with
each other. I mean it's I know that you're capturing
moments and we only see like like the moments that
are like wacky and crazy and a lot of fun.
But what's the majority of the time with just you
and Peanut? Is it Peanut at rest or is he
always running around doing something. It's a little bit of both,
And honestly, I can't. I want to stop really quick, Elvis.
(08:22):
I don't want to date you. But uh, I even
listening to you since I was in middle school and
I used to like skip home room just to listen
to the phone tests and stuff. You guys are amazing.
I had to throw that out there. It's it's been
a pleasure. Um but yeah, it's it's kind of it's
a lot funnier off camera because he does a lot
more funny things. Um. Just it's it's kind of like
(08:42):
that old cartoon of the frog that sings and then
you know, the cartoon brings the frog in front of
everybody and it stops singing type thing. But uh, you know,
I'll find I'll lose him for a second and an
open refrigerator and he's kind of just sitting in the refrigerator,
or like I lose him and he's avocado with my shoe.
One day, I was going to a meeting. I was
late put on my dress shoes and there was a
rape avocado in there. I pushed him there, So those
(09:05):
little moments really like you want to kill him, but
you also you know you love him to death. Um.
When I bought this house, I actually didn't have any
shades or anything, and he was sitting in the window
and the neighbor next door ran over and was banging
on my door and she's like, there's a scroll in
your house, and I just com Ronald's like, oh, let's
just be nut. I have a question, Scary, what's your
(09:25):
question from Mark? My questions? Have you told him any
neat tricks aside from the ones that you just mentioned,
which is kind of fun. I can get him to
jump on command, so I can stop my fingers and
will jump. Also, I can dress him up in anything,
so I have sparrows, I have Frody's gonna keep me.
But he's got a Giants jersey, we got Yankees caps. Um,
(09:49):
hold on, you can't you can't laugh out loud or
we can't hear what he's saying. I'm sorry it's a
zoom thing, but go ahead, Yeah, you get sports mem
I have dressed him up, and don't he a devil horns.
The funniest thing about social media is people will send
him gifts and costumes and uh, we're just still yawning
it over here. Man, what do you It's so lazy.
But people send him so many cool things, and I
(10:12):
dressed him up and I make these funny videos and
I'm just so happy that I could share him with people. Um.
The best thing that has happened with all of this
is we've been able to you know, we did a
very big Christmas donation and we gathered toys for kids
and domestic violence victims and stuff like that. So we've
been using this for good. A lot of people think
I'm just like tattooed you know, jerk on the internet
(10:33):
with a scroll trying to you know, lure women in here,
but we do a lot of cool and fun things.
We actually have been able to surprise a bunch of
kids with him. Um, somebody sent me a big scroll
costume and I kind of throw that on for for
kids when when Peena is uh, you know, surprising them.
So it's been a cool journey on that I've been
you know, blessed to be able to to share him
(10:54):
with everybody. So the tricks that you're talking about, is
he too sleepy to do a job being a little
I might be able to put your guys down a
jumping keep too, Bay. Oh you're not gonna do it
(11:14):
on camera now? Wow? So so easy came here. No,
I don't think we're getting one today. So I mean, well,
I mean he can he can jump very far. I
mean how many can he jump? I would say, you know,
(11:35):
ten to fifteen. Um, kind of our trademark thing. It's
been him jumping off the refrigerator. So it's been really
cool to have something like that. Um. I've ended up
like taking to the ceiling and get him to jump
through it and stuff, um, stuff like that, Like I
come up with little designs and things for him to do, um,
(11:55):
just to keep the uh the social media people happy
because um, he brings so much joy like this is
this is him calm collective. He'll he'll sit here and
you know, snuggle clean your fingers. But Gandhi's very upset
because you're following Daniel and me and not following her
on right, what's peanuts beef with me again? I got
(12:18):
when I saw my phone blow up yesterday and all
of you were, you know, shouting peanut out and I
was like, oh my goodness. And then I saw your
comment about coming the babysit. I'll leave a key outside
on the mat. Um, come hang out whatever you want. Um. Uh,
your boyfriend might get a little mad. He might steal you,
Um could he? Trump? Can Peanut travel to my apartment
(12:38):
when you're out of town and take care over there? Absolutely,
I'll get him the harness, get him all ready to go. Right.
That's a very good point, Mark, when you need to
get out of town or go do something. Who takes
care of Peanut? Well? Thankfully, my family lives a town away,
so they come in and stay in my house and
they all, uh, you know, everybody loves him. He's so
(12:59):
suf socialized. Again, I've had so many people, um come
and meet him. Um. Demilovado reached out a couple of day,
well reached out. So we had a couple of really
cool experiences with that. But my family is down the street. Um,
they're always wanting to come and save my house, sit
to hang out with you know. Yeah, Brodie, what do
you have for Mark? Mark? Can you take him on
the plane as an emotional support squirrel? Or is that
(13:20):
not allowed? Honestly? You know what, in this day and age,
it is two Um, I'm sure, I'm sure it could happen. Wow,
you're just no job, no work, no nothing, We're just
gonna hang out all day. Well. Look, so we we
were talking earlier on the air about this universe of
(13:43):
squirrel lovers and squirrel owners and those who love them,
and it is like a huge community. Are there, I mean,
are you friends with a lot of other squirrel enthusiasts. Right,
it's so weird to say that we have a squirrel community.
I'm honorary squirrel mom. I know every every squirrel part
(14:03):
is uh, there's a woman in their squirrel um. But
the funniest thing is Tumbling. I know, y'all just went
and follow her. I to meet families with squirrels. Unfortunately,
Peanut and Thumbling are definitely afraid of each other, so
we could never do a scroll plate. But I've been
able to meet some squirrel families, and again, it's the
(14:25):
weirdest thing, but so cool to bring like communities together. Um.
I would never ever go out and meet people who
had squirrels. It's pretty crazy, but uh, it's it's really
cool to be able to, you know, meet new people
on the internet. I'm always there to help others. Apparently
everybody finds squirrels these days, because my phone just goes
(14:45):
on and on about people finding squirrels. Um Ila still
still find find this hysterical um I peanut on TikTok
is almost at a million followers, so I always do
TikTok lives. I asked people to reach out if they
have squirrels, you know, send me photo if we could
figure out how old they are. And I was sitting
in a work meeting and somebody had messaged me like, urgent,
(15:06):
I have a squirrel. I have a squirrel. Um sent
me a video. I opened the video in front of
everybody and it was a naked man with not a squirrel.
I'm so sorry. Hey, So you know that's that that
really brings up a good question like what I don't
know if you can answer this, but what should someone
do if they inter into a relationship with the squirrel
(15:28):
like you have, I mean, or maybe they find a
squirrel that's injured or you know something like that, right,
I usually just redirect them to a local rehab or
or a vet um. But I'm also always there to
help along the way because I know people just can't,
you know, up their lives and you know, bring some
some you know squil to a vet. Um, so always
(15:48):
have I'm here to you know, hand out tips and
give some advice. Um. Again, this is not the typical
behavior of a squirrel, which is the main reason why
he's inside. Still, UM, I don't think you would survive
outside for for more than a day. Um, you don't.
You have zero survival skills and have a tail. So
I don't think you're gonna gonna make it out. But
I always I was advised to find a local rehab
(16:10):
or just just to make sure that you know, they
get the proper nutrition, they get the proper guidance, and uh,
you know, they're not they're not good pets. They're really
not good pets. And I strongly advocate that. Um. But
this this little guy's an exception. Um. But my advice
used to find that local rehab or find somebody who
hast of knowledge on on squirrels or wildlife, and uh,
you know, take that route because I know everybody sees
(16:31):
a fluffy squirrel and they're like, oh, I can't wait
to you know, keep it as a pet, and then
they tear your house apart. So um um, thankfully, I
was able to train him not to cheat the house,
but every once in a while if I yell at him,
and this is why I have like the mean streets
in New York. Um, he's in New York, squirrel, he
has the attitude of New York Italiant. Um. If you
yell at him, he will find your most expensive thing
(16:52):
in the house and pe on it and watch Black
Eyes with you while you like. He's on it. So
New York down to great And I love that You're
very very honest and saying, look, this is a very
unusual circumstance. It doesn't mean everyone should run out in
like trap a squirrel and make the squirrel their pet,
because it will very very very good chance it would
(17:13):
not end up like this. One more question from Garrett.
You had a question from Mark. Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
I was just talking scary about timing. But no, I'm
super interested in the fact that you know, when you
meet somebody for the first time and go I have
a pet squirrel, what their reaction normally is. Again, it
is like I try to stay away from it because
we've done interviews with People magazine and BuzzFeed, you name it,
(17:37):
and I kind of kept my my personal life out
of it, and um, um People magazine kind of dropped
my full name and where I lived, so I can't.
So you know, I get stopped in the middle of
New York City with the people grabbed me and be like,
oh my god, you're that guy with a squirrel. I'm
like no, I'm But again, it's that like you're either
(17:58):
the coolest or you're the weirdest. And it's kind of
that hig tilt like wait, you said you have a squirrel,
Like yeah, it's kind of like a cat, but yeah,
it's it's a squirrel. But but again, you meet him
and you're like, wow, this really isn't you know, your
typical swirl. Um. He loves to have breakfast with me.
I do everything with him. I brush my teeth and
will be on my shoulder. Um, we walked downstairs. I'll
(18:18):
call him downstairs and we have breakfast together and stuff.
So it isn't it. It's very unusual, uh you know bond.
But again, I this is a one in a million squirrel.
This doesn't happen at all. Um, So I obviously I
tell everybody to, um, put the squirrel back outside, find it,
help be They just don't put it in your house.
They bite hard, they're not good pets. Um, they'll ruin
(18:39):
your life you keep them inside. So um, that's that.
That's how I You know, I guess it built the
following because I'm always like, no squirls, no squirl s, squols.
But if you're a squirrel, well it's it's very unique situation,
you know what. And Mark, it's you and Peanut are
very very lucky to have found each other. And I
think that's that's really cool. I need to do a
photo shoot with my husband and then the squirrel because
(19:00):
he's obsessed with squirrel. He's not too much guys want
we're down the street. I think we're probably thirty minutes
from from the office, so um, let me know, all right,
he'll be ready to go. All right, Mark, listen, and
can we get a close up of a peanut. I
don't know how close you can get without scaring him off.
Oh you're just a little lazy manute look at that? Hey, Mark, Hi,
(19:27):
thank you so much for your time today. Hi Peanut,
thanks for your time too. And of course with this,
with this podcast, we'll put your your Insta on so
everyone can follow you and follow the Adventures of Peanut
the Squirrel. Thank you, Mark, you have a great day. Okay,
it's you guys. Thank you so much for having me.
It's it's a pleasure and an honor. Um. I listen
to you guys every single day still since I was again,
(19:48):
I don't want to eat it, but like I was
eating card to listen to that phone tap before I
got on. So thank you for all the laughs throughout
the years, and continue what you're doing because it's it's amazing.
All right, Mark, thank you, thank you, Peanuts, Thank you Peanut.
And there's your fifteen minute morning show podcast. That was awesome.
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