March 31, 2025 • 12 mins
On this episode, Wendy is joined by her dear friend, Rupert. Together they reflect on the one year anniversary of the day that changed Wendy's life for the better!
The duo also discuss scheduling "worry time."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think for the first time we're having you on
the mic instead of behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Rupert's are you ready to be on Life Bites?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yes? I am. Life Bites with Wendy Wild, your bite
sized podcast filled with lifestyle stories, personal stories, and a
roundup of stories Wendy talks about on the radio. Here's Wendy, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And welcome to another episode of Life Bites. And I'm
really excited today I'm joined by my dear friend Rupert.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hello, everybody, nice to be here. Thank you for having me,
of course.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And I know you were a little hesitant when I
asked you to come on, and I was like, I
feel like you always have the best quips. You always
have a lot of really great things to say, and
you always watch out for us. Do you want to
just tell everybody what you do around here?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I work in facilities. Basically we're behind the scenes, not
behind the mike, so you never see us. And that's good,
that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, you're so funny, you should be behind the mic.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, well, thank you. It's easier said than done. You
guys have a real talent. All the you're you have
just you have it. You can get on, you can
engage in an audience. For me, it's a little different.
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's comebacks are so much better than mine.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, it depends when you have to do it, like
on the spot like that. It's a little different. You
could freeze up so and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I will say, this is an interesting story. And I
know you're aware of it, but I guess everybody has
that one friend that goes around to make sure that
people are hydrated and taken care of, like you, that's you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And before I.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Had my kidney stones last summer, this was like months
and months. You would come in just pop your head
in the studio and be like, do you need anything?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Don't forget to drink your water.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
That is correct, You got to stay hydrated. I mean,
over time, I've always found out drink water. It's one
of the most important things. So who's ever listening Drink water.
Drink many glasses a day. It's good for you. And
I love it so.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the day I had to come in and be like,
guess what I was in the hospital with kidney stones,
you were like, oh my gosh, you were not drinking
your water.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That is right. That's one of my assignments during the
day to make sure you're hydrating.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Part of the job on the gardener make sure that
the docks day hydrated before they go in the air.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So, how was your weekend?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It was good, you know, it was surprising. I mean
it was nice and sunny on Saturday. You got a
taste of spring, and then the weather just dropped and
now it's like slate gray skies. You don't know what
to think.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You know, it's funny you should say that because I
actually had something about the weather at the drop there.
So we saw the biggest drop in temperature. I think
it was around five o'clock on Saturday. We went from
the eighties and then it went straight down into the fifties.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, you don't know how to dress. I mean you
kind of you know, loosen up, you dress less like
it's summer. And then in twenty minutes, like your back
did freezing again. What can you do? You just culrolled
with the punches on that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So here it is.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It says within a single hour the temperature dropped a
whopping twenty six degrees from seventy nine to fifty three.
That's according to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's just not normal.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, it's not. Nothing's normal, but you know, sometimes you
don't even know who's normal or how to even define
it at this point.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So yeah, I mean you had people just hanging out
on the Great Lawn in Central par get people. It
was Luna Park's opening weekend. Oh okay, and it was
eighty degrees and people enjoying that. And then I had
a photo shoot yesterday with a friend of mine. It
was a maternity shoot and we were freezing our asses off.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Wow. I mean you had a photo shoot and it
was freezing, you know. I gotta say, you're a great photographer,
like you have an artistic guy. I loved your photos.
You took mine.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I did take her photo. You're on my instagram if
people want to come on by where.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah. So, you know, beautiful photos, but it's a shame
you started in the sunny day and then you're freezing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was funny because we were like, oh, we can't
feel our hands, it's so cold. But the photos were
worth it, as they always are.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So shout out to my friend Viv who helped out,
and also to our our models Ken and Rachel and
their baby to be the.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Lump the photos after we're sure, we're done. I'm just
trying to find my.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Notes here because I wanted to talk about Well, I
guess April Fools, right, April Fools is this silly holiday.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's a silly thing.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And the pranksters in the office they always come out
and they try to get you.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But this this day, at least to me, has a
whole other meaning.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah. I think when you talk about April Fools for you,
it's like Friday the thirteenth for you. So yeah, it
takes a whole new meaning when you describe what happened
so right, and.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I have hinted as much.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know, people know that Doctor Nebraska and I broke up,
like people know that, but.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
People don't know the full story.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And each week, little by little, I've been kind of
spilling more tea in a non harmful way. I got
so no one is, you know, being slandered here, But
I will say April Fools. I think I was filling
in for the morning show with Bartel Okay, we had
was it. I forgot what was going on with the
(05:02):
morning show at the time, but I was coming in.
It was a weird hour and I come home that
day it was like one o'clock, and I basically got
a Dear John letter like two weeks after I close
on the house.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
By the way that you know, I was kind.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Of left to take care of on my own, which
is you know, we'll talk more about that part. But
because it was April fools, when I started calling friends
and my parents, they were like, April fools, ha ha,
and I'm like, no, not April fools. And it took
a minute for people to understand that this is serious.
(05:40):
You know, I use my funds to pay for this house.
But we had gone in on this together, and there was,
you know, equity that was talked about. There was this
partnership and being able to go in on this future
venture together. And here I am all by myself and
all the cats are gone.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah. I was, in fact when I first heard when
you first told me, I thought you were doing April
fools on me.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
No, everyone thought that there was no laughter at.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The end of that. But I must say, Wendy, in
one years gone by, which I can't believe in the
blink of an eye it's happened, how tough you are
and resilient. So I admire that, like you bounce back,
you're a strong woman. Uh there's no explaining the mentality
of why people act the way they do in these
bizarre ways.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We're not here to dissect that either.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, so, who knows, but you are amazing with that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So and I'll say this.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, sometimes when what you perceive is the worst
thing happening to you, the worst possible thing that could
ever happen.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Actually ends up being the best thing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like you realize you're like,
you know what, I thought I had to rely on
so and so.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
To do this, And it's like, well, actually, I can
just rely on myself to do this. I'm going to
be that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Person that I thought I needed to depend on. And
there's something so empowering in that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, it's like that old saying like what doesn't kill
you makes you stronger.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
She knows she knew the whole time.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean it's uh, so you ended up a
lot stronger. So and I'm impressed. You know, it goes
to show how you can bounce back from adversity, which
you did.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Now, look, you know you know what I was thinking
to myself, because I mean, obviously I ended up adopting
my own cat, and I was thinking about this.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I think last night, this is really deep. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I have you call them on the podcast the first time,
and I'm getting really deep with you. So I was
in bed and I was like, you know, maybe Doctor
Nebraska's purpose in my life was to show me how
much I love cats.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
One doesn't know. Yes, this is timing, hear.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Me out, because you know, I was always a dog person.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I mean, I love animals, I love animals, but I
always had a dog. So when he came along and
I fell in love with his cats.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Though I obviously started.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Following all the cat rescues because he had introduced me
to this life of you know, I even learned how
to train cats, which I didn't know was the thing
that you could even do. I developed this special bond
with them, and I would not have followed the rescue
where I fostered initially fostered Allie. So maybe Doctor Nebraska's
purpose was to really show me my cat momdom.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And you sure have. I mean you've shown me pictures
and you know, and you take beautiful pictures of the
cats and your interactions with Ali. He's a big boy, now,
he was a big boy and like the idea that
you trained a cat. I had a cat once and
it was impossible to train.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You also had a black cat.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
A black cat like Alie's. It's frange and I'm sitting
here with you. Maybe this was the meaning of this podcast,
Amie sause we both had a black.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Cat's there's some sort of weird like spiritual like I
don't want to get to to uh, you know, Witchy here,
but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It all feels so karmic. I would not have been
following the rescue.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I was ran like while I was grieving, just the
cats by the way, I saw that they needed urgent fosters,
and so many things had to happen to get Allie
in my possession, so many things. The woman reaches out
or I reached out to her initially, and I'm like, listen,
I'm moving in like a week, but I can foster
for a few days.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And she's like, great, can you do you have a car?
And I was like no.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
They found a way to get him to me, and
two days later I just knew I was never giving
him back. He is my soul kitty. And just think
like if I were to have stayed with doctor Nebraska,
I would never have met this creature that I adore
so much, you know. And and the fact that I
decided to stay in the house and have all these
(09:42):
feral cats that.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I take care of now too. I saw, like, you
a crazy cat lady.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Oh you're not crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They let me pet them now.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's so cute, But it like it just goes to
show you that you can be in your deepest rut,
your biggest hole and not even realize it's your biggest blessing.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, and it is a blessing. You love them, they
love you, And it worked out the most.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Because I love myself.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And it took me to this point to say, you
know what, I'm not making excuses for people anymore that
are not going to treat me the way I deserve.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'd rather be alone.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I'm comfortable being alone and being with this little cat
companion because my life is so good now that I
didn't realize that at the time it was not as good.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It took this big shit.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The universe shaking me and then dangling me upside down
to realize that things were not picture perfect I thought
they were.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So I agree, better alone than bad company and better
with a cat than with a human who's really not
as good.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
A cat's life is better with cats. To other things
I wanted to talk about, maybe you can relate.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
To this one. It's kind of it kind of relates.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Do you know one in ten Americans, young Americans, they
actually schedule on the calendar worry time.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I've never heard of that. If I had to schedule
it in a calendar, it would probably run from it
would run for all twenty four hours. Basically, I don't
know how you could say, I'm going to schedule from
one to two, I'm going to worry, and then from
two to three I'm going to be so happy and
a static. I tend to worry consistently more or less
(11:21):
throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think anxiety is a bitch. And you know, I
hate to say it, but like I worry twenty four
to seven. Yeah, it's a constant.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Sometimes it's low grade, but there's always something. And if
there's nothing to worry about, I find something.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
M Yeah, it's it's like a curse.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I wonder if.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Like this, maybe this is the answer I find. Gen
Z actually does have some good ideas, right, like perhaps
finding a designated time, like we're gonna We're gonna make
worry time from four till six pm and then we're
free to not worry the rest of the day.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah. I don't know if I could ever that sounds
like a good idea. I don't know if I could
compart to menalize that. Like if you had to tell
me I have to stop worrying, then let's say two. Well,
I mean it's just that creeping feeling just comes back
that should I be worried?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, but like if it's not worry time, then maybe
you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't know about this. One of those things I
have to work on.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We're going to try it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And normally this is like where I would give out socials,
but you're not really on anything, so uh not as
a Vieta No, Rupert is like our golden gift here
at iHeart media like you. You roam the hallways, you
you take care of us every day.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You are that unsung hero that I feel like people
need to tell you more.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here,
it's a pleasure to be with my friends Roy Place.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Well, we appreciate you more than you know. Rubert, Thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
For coming on life fights today,
This is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think for the first time we're having you on
the mic instead of behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Rupert's are you ready to be on Life Bites?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yes? I am. Life Bites with Wendy Wild, your bite
sized podcast filled with lifestyle stories, personal stories, and a
roundup of stories Wendy talks about on the radio. Here's Wendy, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And welcome to another episode of Life Bites. And I'm
really excited today I'm joined by my dear friend Rupert.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hello, everybody, nice to be here. Thank you for having me,
of course.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And I know you were a little hesitant when I
asked you to come on, and I was like, I
feel like you always have the best quips. You always
have a lot of really great things to say, and
you always watch out for us. Do you want to
just tell everybody what you do around here?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I work in facilities. Basically we're behind the scenes, not
behind the mike, so you never see us. And that's good,
that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, you're so funny, you should be behind the mic.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, well, thank you. It's easier said than done. You
guys have a real talent. All the you're you have
just you have it. You can get on, you can
engage in an audience. For me, it's a little different.
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's comebacks are so much better than mine.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, it depends when you have to do it, like
on the spot like that. It's a little different. You
could freeze up so and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I will say, this is an interesting story. And I
know you're aware of it, but I guess everybody has
that one friend that goes around to make sure that
people are hydrated and taken care of, like you, that's you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And before I.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Had my kidney stones last summer, this was like months
and months. You would come in just pop your head
in the studio and be like, do you need anything?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Don't forget to drink your water.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
That is correct, You got to stay hydrated. I mean,
over time, I've always found out drink water. It's one
of the most important things. So who's ever listening Drink water.
Drink many glasses a day. It's good for you. And
I love it so.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And the day I had to come in and be like,
guess what I was in the hospital with kidney stones,
you were like, oh my gosh, you were not drinking
your water.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That is right. That's one of my assignments during the
day to make sure you're hydrating.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Part of the job on the gardener make sure that
the docks day hydrated before they go in the air.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So, how was your weekend?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It was good, you know, it was surprising. I mean
it was nice and sunny on Saturday. You got a
taste of spring, and then the weather just dropped and
now it's like slate gray skies. You don't know what
to think.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You know, it's funny you should say that because I
actually had something about the weather at the drop there.
So we saw the biggest drop in temperature. I think
it was around five o'clock on Saturday. We went from
the eighties and then it went straight down into the fifties.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, you don't know how to dress. I mean you
kind of you know, loosen up, you dress less like
it's summer. And then in twenty minutes, like your back
did freezing again. What can you do? You just culrolled
with the punches on that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So here it is.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It says within a single hour the temperature dropped a
whopping twenty six degrees from seventy nine to fifty three.
That's according to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's just not normal.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, it's not. Nothing's normal, but you know, sometimes you
don't even know who's normal or how to even define
it at this point.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So yeah, I mean you had people just hanging out
on the Great Lawn in Central par get people. It
was Luna Park's opening weekend. Oh okay, and it was
eighty degrees and people enjoying that. And then I had
a photo shoot yesterday with a friend of mine. It
was a maternity shoot and we were freezing our asses off.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Wow. I mean you had a photo shoot and it
was freezing, you know. I gotta say, you're a great photographer,
like you have an artistic guy. I loved your photos.
You took mine.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I did take her photo. You're on my instagram if
people want to come on by where.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah. So, you know, beautiful photos, but it's a shame
you started in the sunny day and then you're freezing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It was funny because we were like, oh, we can't
feel our hands, it's so cold. But the photos were
worth it, as they always are.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So shout out to my friend Viv who helped out,
and also to our our models Ken and Rachel and
their baby to be the.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Lump the photos after we're sure, we're done. I'm just
trying to find my.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Notes here because I wanted to talk about Well, I
guess April Fools, right, April Fools is this silly holiday.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's a silly thing.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And the pranksters in the office they always come out
and they try to get you.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But this this day, at least to me, has a
whole other meaning.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah. I think when you talk about April Fools for you,
it's like Friday the thirteenth for you. So yeah, it
takes a whole new meaning when you describe what happened
so right, and.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I have hinted as much.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know, people know that Doctor Nebraska and I broke up,
like people know that, but.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
People don't know the full story.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And each week, little by little, I've been kind of
spilling more tea in a non harmful way. I got
so no one is, you know, being slandered here, But
I will say April Fools. I think I was filling
in for the morning show with Bartel Okay, we had
was it. I forgot what was going on with the
(05:02):
morning show at the time, but I was coming in.
It was a weird hour and I come home that
day it was like one o'clock, and I basically got
a Dear John letter like two weeks after I close
on the house.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
By the way that you know, I was kind.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Of left to take care of on my own, which
is you know, we'll talk more about that part. But
because it was April fools, when I started calling friends
and my parents, they were like, April fools, ha ha,
and I'm like, no, not April fools. And it took
a minute for people to understand that this is serious.
(05:40):
You know, I use my funds to pay for this house.
But we had gone in on this together, and there was,
you know, equity that was talked about. There was this
partnership and being able to go in on this future
venture together. And here I am all by myself and
all the cats are gone.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah. I was, in fact when I first heard when
you first told me, I thought you were doing April
fools on me.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
No, everyone thought that there was no laughter at.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The end of that. But I must say, Wendy, in
one years gone by, which I can't believe in the
blink of an eye it's happened, how tough you are
and resilient. So I admire that, like you bounce back,
you're a strong woman. Uh there's no explaining the mentality
of why people act the way they do in these
bizarre ways.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
We're not here to dissect that either.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, so, who knows, but you are amazing with that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So and I'll say this.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, sometimes when what you perceive is the worst
thing happening to you, the worst possible thing that could
ever happen.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Actually ends up being the best thing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like you realize you're like,
you know what, I thought I had to rely on
so and so.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
To do this, And it's like, well, actually, I can
just rely on myself to do this. I'm going to
be that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Person that I thought I needed to depend on. And
there's something so empowering in that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, it's like that old saying like what doesn't kill
you makes you stronger.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
She knows she knew the whole time.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, I mean it's uh, so you ended up a
lot stronger. So and I'm impressed. You know, it goes
to show how you can bounce back from adversity, which
you did.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Now, look, you know you know what I was thinking
to myself, because I mean, obviously I ended up adopting
my own cat, and I was thinking about this.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I think last night, this is really deep. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I have you call them on the podcast the first time,
and I'm getting really deep with you. So I was
in bed and I was like, you know, maybe Doctor
Nebraska's purpose in my life was to show me how
much I love cats.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
One doesn't know. Yes, this is timing, hear.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Me out, because you know, I was always a dog person.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I mean, I love animals, I love animals, but I
always had a dog. So when he came along and
I fell in love with his cats.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Though I obviously started.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Following all the cat rescues because he had introduced me
to this life of you know, I even learned how
to train cats, which I didn't know was the thing
that you could even do. I developed this special bond
with them, and I would not have followed the rescue
where I fostered initially fostered Allie. So maybe Doctor Nebraska's
purpose was to really show me my cat momdom.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And you sure have. I mean you've shown me pictures
and you know, and you take beautiful pictures of the
cats and your interactions with Ali. He's a big boy, now,
he was a big boy and like the idea that
you trained a cat. I had a cat once and
it was impossible to train.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You also had a black cat.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
A black cat like Alie's. It's frange and I'm sitting
here with you. Maybe this was the meaning of this podcast,
Amie sause we both had a black.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Cat's there's some sort of weird like spiritual like I
don't want to get to to uh, you know, Witchy here,
but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It all feels so karmic. I would not have been
following the rescue.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I was ran like while I was grieving, just the
cats by the way, I saw that they needed urgent fosters,
and so many things had to happen to get Allie
in my possession, so many things. The woman reaches out
or I reached out to her initially, and I'm like, listen,
I'm moving in like a week, but I can foster
for a few days.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And she's like, great, can you do you have a car?
And I was like no.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
They found a way to get him to me, and
two days later I just knew I was never giving
him back. He is my soul kitty. And just think
like if I were to have stayed with doctor Nebraska,
I would never have met this creature that I adore
so much, you know. And and the fact that I
decided to stay in the house and have all these
(09:42):
feral cats that.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I take care of now too. I saw, like, you
a crazy cat lady.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Oh you're not crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They let me pet them now.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's so cute, But it like it just goes to
show you that you can be in your deepest rut,
your biggest hole and not even realize it's your biggest blessing.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, and it is a blessing. You love them, they
love you, And it worked out the most.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Because I love myself.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And it took me to this point to say, you
know what, I'm not making excuses for people anymore that
are not going to treat me the way I deserve.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I'd rather be alone.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I'm comfortable being alone and being with this little cat
companion because my life is so good now that I
didn't realize that at the time it was not as good.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It took this big shit.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The universe shaking me and then dangling me upside down
to realize that things were not picture perfect I thought
they were.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So I agree, better alone than bad company and better
with a cat than with a human who's really not
as good.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
A cat's life is better with cats. To other things
I wanted to talk about, maybe you can relate.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
To this one. It's kind of it kind of relates.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Do you know one in ten Americans, young Americans, they
actually schedule on the calendar worry time.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I've never heard of that. If I had to schedule
it in a calendar, it would probably run from it
would run for all twenty four hours. Basically, I don't
know how you could say, I'm going to schedule from
one to two, I'm going to worry, and then from
two to three I'm going to be so happy and
a static. I tend to worry consistently more or less
(11:21):
throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think anxiety is a bitch. And you know, I
hate to say it, but like I worry twenty four
to seven. Yeah, it's a constant.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Sometimes it's low grade, but there's always something. And if
there's nothing to worry about, I find something.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
M Yeah, it's it's like a curse.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I wonder if.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Like this, maybe this is the answer I find. Gen
Z actually does have some good ideas, right, like perhaps
finding a designated time, like we're gonna We're gonna make
worry time from four till six pm and then we're
free to not worry the rest of the day.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah. I don't know if I could ever that sounds
like a good idea. I don't know if I could
compart to menalize that. Like if you had to tell
me I have to stop worrying, then let's say two. Well,
I mean it's just that creeping feeling just comes back
that should I be worried?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, but like if it's not worry time, then maybe
you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't know about this. One of those things I
have to work on.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We're going to try it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And normally this is like where I would give out socials,
but you're not really on anything, so uh not as
a Vieta No, Rupert is like our golden gift here
at iHeart media like you. You roam the hallways, you
you take care of us every day.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You are that unsung hero that I feel like people
need to tell you more.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here,
it's a pleasure to be with my friends Roy Place.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Well, we appreciate you more than you know. Rubert, Thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
For coming on life fights today,
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