November 14, 2023 • 17 mins
My deepest condolences to Hammy and Olivia's Family. Pet influencers have become part of our culture and brighten many of our days. Don't take anyone, animal or person for granted.
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(00:18):
Welcome to your donut. You eatit. I'm your host, Sean.
You know, I was recently talkingabout how influencers or podcasters have influenced me.
You know how I took up themic and started getting on and talking
about you know, guns on onepodcast and culture and another, and then
something sad happened this last week.You know, I'm a big fan of
(00:42):
animals. You know, I havea dog and I have five cats,
believe it or not, two ofwhich I got after my mother died because
I refused to put them in animalshelters. So I'm a I'm a big
softy teddy bear when it comes tofur kids, and it it shows to
a lot of people. If you'veever followed me on social media and you've
(01:04):
seen me with one of my animals, you know, you know my dog
is one of those guys that getstacos on his gotcha day. Up until
starting my newest job, which isgoing really well, thank you, we
were doing because I was working fourtens, I was able to take him
(01:25):
every Friday to go get cheeseburgers.So he's gotten to where he likes cheeseburgers,
specifically McDonald's cheeseburgers. He doesn't getpickles or onions, but he likes
the mcdouble, you know, hegets a mcdouble and that's it. Well,
this last week one of my favoritepet influencers. So I follow pet
(01:49):
influencers. I follow Tucker Bunsen,I follow Hammy and Olivia, I follow
Gus Guss, I follow Sterling.You know, there's a number of these
pet influencers that I've watched, andyou know, the Blue Boys from Australia,
(02:09):
which are pit bulls or Staffi's.And the reason why I do is
because sometimes you need something that's justgood. You know. I cover a
lot of news and politics on myother podcast, New Mexico Black Rifle Operators
Union, and with that you getburnt down on politics, especially as much
(02:31):
as I follow it, because youget tired of seeing and hearing all the
bad. And when you watch theselittle fur guys, you actually get attached
to them. You know, I'mseeing Tucker, who is a Golden retriever.
You know, I also follow Charliethe Golden and his brothers and sisters,
(02:53):
Daisy and all those guys. Ilove them because they're just fun to
watch, and you know, Ican't have five dogs, and I really
probably shouldn't have five cats, butI do. But what's interesting about this
is this last week, Olivia fromHemmy and Olivia. These are corgies.
(03:15):
Okay, they're Chris and Sarah.I believe his name is Chris. There
they always set up the corgies asbrother and sister, and Hemy is kind
of one of those the male.He's kind of one of those dopey guys,
okay, and they give him avoice, and they they make him
(03:37):
seem a little dope and you know, a younger brother that kind of role
was older sister. The older ofthe two, Olivia passed away this last
week and Chris, the guy whoruns the channel, I believe him and
Sarah run it. You know.I followed them from when they were in
Nevada. Now they're in DC,I believe. And they actually went to
(04:00):
my favorite football team, or whileI'm getting back into watching more football lately,
I'll cover that another time. Butthey went to the Washington Commanders,
so used to be the Washington Redskins. And I will always belay a fan
of HTTR Hail to the Redskins.So I'm not a fan of why they
changed their name or how they changedtheir name, But I digress. They
(04:23):
went there during training camp and yousee these little videos that they make and
they brighten your day. And thento see the Heartfeld message of Chris when
he had to announce to the followersof Hammy and Olivia that Olivia had passed,
that she had some issues with herkidneys, I believe, and they
(04:46):
had to she had to go andto see the Heartfeld message from him when
he made that announcement and said thatthat was his best friend. It hits
home for someone who's a I don'twho was a fur Kid fan. You
know. I know my dog Jag. I didn't get him when he was
a puppy. I'm not even surehow old he is, so I'm thinking
(05:10):
he's five or six years old,and he's getting a little bit of what
mispunchin Bunsen said about Tucker getting alittle bit more sugar face or sugar yeah,
sugar face, or they're getting alittle grayer in the muzzle that shows
a little more of their age.And I'm thinking about what's gonna happen when
(05:35):
my dog Jag passes, or whenmy cat Django, my oldest cat,
my oldest cat is thirteen years old, and he was the first one of
my bunch. And how I endedup with Django is kind of an interesting
story. I was dating a girland Django, I believe was the last
cat in the litter that didn't havea home. And Django has a Mandalori
(06:00):
and skull, and I'm a hugeMandalorian fan, as you've heard from earlier
podcast here, and he was namedafter a Mandalorian. And when she introduced
me to Django, Jango kind ofheld out as little Paul, like,
Hi, man, what's up now? I'm allergic to cats, so I
take allergy medicine every day so thatI can keep my cats and my dog.
(06:25):
So to see this heartfelt message fromChris and my deepest coccult condolences to
you and your family Chris and Sarah. And if I got your name wrong,
I apologize, but I'm pretty sureyour name is Chris. I hope
that you deal with this very well. You look like you are, and
(06:46):
I hope those memories of that animalof Olivia last forever. And I understand
that how close you become to yourpets. You know, I live alone,
That's why I have animals. Isuppose, But they are the people
you talk to when no one elseis around. They're the ones that are
(07:06):
there always at dinner. You know, sometimes they beg sometimes they don't.
But every time you needed a shoulderto cry on or just someone to listen.
And why you vented because you're dealingwith something and maybe you didn't have
a friend, or maybe you dohave friends but you're just not wanting to
(07:27):
bother them, or you just don'thave the ability to get to them right
away. And I have friends thatacross the country, across the world,
to be honest, and I havefriends that are you know, right up
the street. I can call themanytime I want. But sometimes when something's
so heavy, you just want tovent. And it seems like, you
(07:51):
know, we all anthropomorphize our animals. We give them human characteristics even though
they really probably don't have them.But if you're a pet lover, you
know that they kind of do.You can't look at a dog and take
them for a walk and give thema cheeseburger or a taco and not see
(08:11):
them kind of smile. It's justin the expression of what their body does.
You see these animals do things,and you really do connect on some
level. And Jag came along inmy life in a season of my life
where that's my dog, where Iactually needed him. You know. It
was after a bad breakup. Ihad been looking and thinking about a dog
(08:37):
and I heard his story and mystory about Jags. Jag had been in
the pound four different times, oneof which or a couple of which they
realized that dog needs fed and walked, and they brought him back. Well,
he was the last dog after anadoption event that was left there.
(08:58):
But he's a really good dog,and he is he's smart, he's trainable.
They didn't think he was trainable.They weren't sure if he was good
around cats. I took a chanceand I got him. And I actually
got him for free. When Isay for free, the adoption event I
(09:18):
didn't know at the time was actuallyheld by I think some corporation around town.
I'm guessing one of the oil andgas companies here or they were paying
all adoption fees. So I gotto adopt Jag and bring him home.
And he's since been my buddy,you know, every time I go out
(09:39):
when I can, I take him. But he's a staffy, you know,
he's a fawn colored Staffy, buthe's a mix of German Shepherd and
staffy, at least that's what theytold me at the pound when I adopted
him. But he's one of thosedogs that just is happy to be included.
(10:00):
He sleeps on my bed until Imove or something, and then he
goes and sleeps in my chair.But he's been a very integral part of
my life. So I can't imaginebuilding something like a pet influencer account and
being so tied to these animals likeChris and Sarah are in Hammy and to
(10:22):
lose one because it was time.You know, it's amazing how close we
become, the animals and the people. You know, I can say that
my dad loved my cats, Heloved Jag. He and my mom got
(10:45):
to meet him. During Thanksgiving.My dad and my mom fed both well
all of my animals under the table, which started them getting table scraps,
when originally I didn't plan on doingthat. You know, now Jag is
one of those members of my family. He's my other son. So I
(11:05):
have these other animals that I neverintended on being close to, and I
just wanted to reach out and say, Chris Sarah, if you ever hear
this and to anyone else that thoselittle pet influencing things you do matter to
(11:26):
people that are just trying to makeit through the day. Some of them
can't have animals, I'm sure,but we're raised around them. But seeing
the cute little gestures they do,the cute little things you put them in,
the little outfits and the little situationsyou put them in. You know,
Gus Gus Gus is awesome. He'sa pug. So is his brother
(11:48):
Marty. And one of my favoritereels that Gus Gus has ever put out
is Marty coming out of a doctor'sappointment and the voice she put over,
which I think her name is Susan. Susan put over Marty was hilarious because
(12:09):
he says, do you have anyblueberries, lady, and then he goes
through the whole situation and it endswith him saying, you don't know you
weren't there, And it's just funnybecause the way the dog acts through that
little real kind of sells what thestory of the voice over was. You
(12:31):
know, those little things brighten youup. Seeing Tucker in the morning do
his rube with his son Todd,you know, seeing them go for skating
sessions with their mom and dad.That's kind of cool. You know,
JAG's been with me to the lake, he's been fishing. I need to
(12:52):
get more active and do more stuffwith him while I have him. But
having worked one of those really highpressure jobs where you know the organization is
depending on you because you're one ofthe only people that can keep it going
in certain situations, and one ofthose situations hits you know, the networks
(13:16):
down in my case, and youneed five minutes just to collect your thoughts
and to take a break for aminute before you go kind of insane because
you're hard at it trying to fixwhatever the problem is. There's nothing better
than seeing one of these little petinfluencers and seeing something cute that they're doing,
(13:37):
because it takes a little bit ofpressure off of you and allows you
to just escape for a minute.And after doing lots of training and lots
of doing really high stress jobs,I've come to the age and losing people
and friends. I've come to theconclusion that sometimes you just need to do
(13:58):
nothing. Other times you need tobe active, and you need to be
proactive and doing things. But there'ssometimes you should take a break, smell
the roses and let people know thegratitude and the animals the gratitude you have
for them being in your life,because we never know when that person,
(14:24):
that animal won't be here anymore,because tomorrow's never promised. And at forty
five, that's a rough age tolearn that, especially after losing both your
parents. What you know is goingto happen if you're an adult of any
kind, that you're going to outliveyour parents. That's what your parents would
(14:46):
hope would happen. But having somany years lately of loss, I learned
that you should take that downtime,and especially this year, I have learned
to tell people that they matter tome or that I care for them,
(15:09):
because, like I said, tomorrow'snot promised. So take a moment,
maybe sneak a table scrap to oneof your animals, believe it or not.
My cat, Django likes Tomali's anddespite what anybody will say about him,
I don't put onions in him becauseI hate onions, but Django has
liked him since he was a kitten, and he'll go through great links,
(15:31):
including Brave Water to get him ifhe can get it. So your animals
will survive if you're not consistently feedinghim table scraps for their food, once
in a while, a rare treat. It's okay, the vetiman told me
so. And yes, they havebetter health care and probably eat better than
(15:54):
I do. But I love themall the same. And for all the
times I never thought I would bean animal guy, to be an animal
guy, now I get it.And for all those people that say they're
not your kids, you probably aren'tan animal person. You probably haven't lived,
(16:18):
breathed, and dealt with the animallong enough to know what the connections
we bond with these animals, orthat the animal does with us. Because
when we leave home, the firstthing that greets us isn't kids, it's
usually an animal. So I leaveyou with that thought to give your first
(16:45):
kids an extra hug, give themthat table scrap or that treat, and
enjoy them while you can. Butdon't forget your people friends too, because
rose gardens are rare, and alot of times we walk past them and
never pay attention until it's too late, Like share, subscribe, but most
(17:07):
importantly, be great
Welcome to your donut. You eatit. I'm your host, Sean.
You know, I was recently talkingabout how influencers or podcasters have influenced me.
You know how I took up themic and started getting on and talking
about you know, guns on onepodcast and culture and another, and then
something sad happened this last week.You know, I'm a big fan of
(00:42):
animals. You know, I havea dog and I have five cats,
believe it or not, two ofwhich I got after my mother died because
I refused to put them in animalshelters. So I'm a I'm a big
softy teddy bear when it comes tofur kids, and it it shows to
a lot of people. If you'veever followed me on social media and you've
(01:04):
seen me with one of my animals, you know, you know my dog
is one of those guys that getstacos on his gotcha day. Up until
starting my newest job, which isgoing really well, thank you, we
were doing because I was working fourtens, I was able to take him
(01:25):
every Friday to go get cheeseburgers.So he's gotten to where he likes cheeseburgers,
specifically McDonald's cheeseburgers. He doesn't getpickles or onions, but he likes
the mcdouble, you know, hegets a mcdouble and that's it. Well,
this last week one of my favoritepet influencers. So I follow pet
(01:49):
influencers. I follow Tucker Bunsen,I follow Hammy and Olivia, I follow
Gus Guss, I follow Sterling.You know, there's a number of these
pet influencers that I've watched, andyou know, the Blue Boys from Australia,
(02:09):
which are pit bulls or Staffi's.And the reason why I do is
because sometimes you need something that's justgood. You know. I cover a
lot of news and politics on myother podcast, New Mexico Black Rifle Operators
Union, and with that you getburnt down on politics, especially as much
(02:31):
as I follow it, because youget tired of seeing and hearing all the
bad. And when you watch theselittle fur guys, you actually get attached
to them. You know, I'mseeing Tucker, who is a Golden retriever.
You know, I also follow Charliethe Golden and his brothers and sisters,
(02:53):
Daisy and all those guys. Ilove them because they're just fun to
watch, and you know, Ican't have five dogs, and I really
probably shouldn't have five cats, butI do. But what's interesting about this
is this last week, Olivia fromHemmy and Olivia. These are corgies.
(03:15):
Okay, they're Chris and Sarah.I believe his name is Chris. There
they always set up the corgies asbrother and sister, and Hemy is kind
of one of those the male.He's kind of one of those dopey guys,
okay, and they give him avoice, and they they make him
(03:37):
seem a little dope and you know, a younger brother that kind of role
was older sister. The older ofthe two, Olivia passed away this last
week and Chris, the guy whoruns the channel, I believe him and
Sarah run it. You know.I followed them from when they were in
Nevada. Now they're in DC,I believe. And they actually went to
(04:00):
my favorite football team, or whileI'm getting back into watching more football lately,
I'll cover that another time. Butthey went to the Washington Commanders,
so used to be the Washington Redskins. And I will always belay a fan
of HTTR Hail to the Redskins.So I'm not a fan of why they
changed their name or how they changedtheir name, But I digress. They
(04:23):
went there during training camp and yousee these little videos that they make and
they brighten your day. And thento see the Heartfeld message of Chris when
he had to announce to the followersof Hammy and Olivia that Olivia had passed,
that she had some issues with herkidneys, I believe, and they
(04:46):
had to she had to go andto see the Heartfeld message from him when
he made that announcement and said thatthat was his best friend. It hits
home for someone who's a I don'twho was a fur Kid fan. You
know. I know my dog Jag. I didn't get him when he was
a puppy. I'm not even surehow old he is, so I'm thinking
(05:10):
he's five or six years old,and he's getting a little bit of what
mispunchin Bunsen said about Tucker getting alittle bit more sugar face or sugar yeah,
sugar face, or they're getting alittle grayer in the muzzle that shows
a little more of their age.And I'm thinking about what's gonna happen when
(05:35):
my dog Jag passes, or whenmy cat Django, my oldest cat,
my oldest cat is thirteen years old, and he was the first one of
my bunch. And how I endedup with Django is kind of an interesting
story. I was dating a girland Django, I believe was the last
cat in the litter that didn't havea home. And Django has a Mandalori
(06:00):
and skull, and I'm a hugeMandalorian fan, as you've heard from earlier
podcast here, and he was namedafter a Mandalorian. And when she introduced
me to Django, Jango kind ofheld out as little Paul, like,
Hi, man, what's up now? I'm allergic to cats, so I
take allergy medicine every day so thatI can keep my cats and my dog.
(06:25):
So to see this heartfelt message fromChris and my deepest coccult condolences to
you and your family Chris and Sarah. And if I got your name wrong,
I apologize, but I'm pretty sureyour name is Chris. I hope
that you deal with this very well. You look like you are, and
(06:46):
I hope those memories of that animalof Olivia last forever. And I understand
that how close you become to yourpets. You know, I live alone,
That's why I have animals. Isuppose, But they are the people
you talk to when no one elseis around. They're the ones that are
(07:06):
there always at dinner. You know, sometimes they beg sometimes they don't.
But every time you needed a shoulderto cry on or just someone to listen.
And why you vented because you're dealingwith something and maybe you didn't have
a friend, or maybe you dohave friends but you're just not wanting to
(07:27):
bother them, or you just don'thave the ability to get to them right
away. And I have friends thatacross the country, across the world,
to be honest, and I havefriends that are you know, right up
the street. I can call themanytime I want. But sometimes when something's
so heavy, you just want tovent. And it seems like, you
(07:51):
know, we all anthropomorphize our animals. We give them human characteristics even though
they really probably don't have them.But if you're a pet lover, you
know that they kind of do.You can't look at a dog and take
them for a walk and give thema cheeseburger or a taco and not see
(08:11):
them kind of smile. It's justin the expression of what their body does.
You see these animals do things,and you really do connect on some
level. And Jag came along inmy life in a season of my life
where that's my dog, where Iactually needed him. You know. It
was after a bad breakup. Ihad been looking and thinking about a dog
(08:37):
and I heard his story and mystory about Jags. Jag had been in
the pound four different times, oneof which or a couple of which they
realized that dog needs fed and walked, and they brought him back. Well,
he was the last dog after anadoption event that was left there.
(08:58):
But he's a really good dog,and he is he's smart, he's trainable.
They didn't think he was trainable.They weren't sure if he was good
around cats. I took a chanceand I got him. And I actually
got him for free. When Isay for free, the adoption event I
(09:18):
didn't know at the time was actuallyheld by I think some corporation around town.
I'm guessing one of the oil andgas companies here or they were paying
all adoption fees. So I gotto adopt Jag and bring him home.
And he's since been my buddy,you know, every time I go out
(09:39):
when I can, I take him. But he's a staffy, you know,
he's a fawn colored Staffy, buthe's a mix of German Shepherd and
staffy, at least that's what theytold me at the pound when I adopted
him. But he's one of thosedogs that just is happy to be included.
(10:00):
He sleeps on my bed until Imove or something, and then he
goes and sleeps in my chair.But he's been a very integral part of
my life. So I can't imaginebuilding something like a pet influencer account and
being so tied to these animals likeChris and Sarah are in Hammy and to
(10:22):
lose one because it was time.You know, it's amazing how close we
become, the animals and the people. You know, I can say that
my dad loved my cats, Heloved Jag. He and my mom got
(10:45):
to meet him. During Thanksgiving.My dad and my mom fed both well
all of my animals under the table, which started them getting table scraps,
when originally I didn't plan on doingthat. You know, now Jag is
one of those members of my family. He's my other son. So I
(11:05):
have these other animals that I neverintended on being close to, and I
just wanted to reach out and say, Chris Sarah, if you ever hear
this and to anyone else that thoselittle pet influencing things you do matter to
(11:26):
people that are just trying to makeit through the day. Some of them
can't have animals, I'm sure,but we're raised around them. But seeing
the cute little gestures they do,the cute little things you put them in,
the little outfits and the little situationsyou put them in. You know,
Gus Gus Gus is awesome. He'sa pug. So is his brother
(11:48):
Marty. And one of my favoritereels that Gus Gus has ever put out
is Marty coming out of a doctor'sappointment and the voice she put over,
which I think her name is Susan. Susan put over Marty was hilarious because
(12:09):
he says, do you have anyblueberries, lady, and then he goes
through the whole situation and it endswith him saying, you don't know you
weren't there, And it's just funnybecause the way the dog acts through that
little real kind of sells what thestory of the voice over was. You
(12:31):
know, those little things brighten youup. Seeing Tucker in the morning do
his rube with his son Todd,you know, seeing them go for skating
sessions with their mom and dad.That's kind of cool. You know,
JAG's been with me to the lake, he's been fishing. I need to
(12:52):
get more active and do more stuffwith him while I have him. But
having worked one of those really highpressure jobs where you know the organization is
depending on you because you're one ofthe only people that can keep it going
in certain situations, and one ofthose situations hits you know, the networks
(13:16):
down in my case, and youneed five minutes just to collect your thoughts
and to take a break for aminute before you go kind of insane because
you're hard at it trying to fixwhatever the problem is. There's nothing better
than seeing one of these little petinfluencers and seeing something cute that they're doing,
(13:37):
because it takes a little bit ofpressure off of you and allows you
to just escape for a minute.And after doing lots of training and lots
of doing really high stress jobs,I've come to the age and losing people
and friends. I've come to theconclusion that sometimes you just need to do
(13:58):
nothing. Other times you need tobe active, and you need to be
proactive and doing things. But there'ssometimes you should take a break, smell
the roses and let people know thegratitude and the animals the gratitude you have
for them being in your life,because we never know when that person,
(14:24):
that animal won't be here anymore,because tomorrow's never promised. And at forty
five, that's a rough age tolearn that, especially after losing both your
parents. What you know is goingto happen if you're an adult of any
kind, that you're going to outliveyour parents. That's what your parents would
(14:46):
hope would happen. But having somany years lately of loss, I learned
that you should take that downtime,and especially this year, I have learned
to tell people that they matter tome or that I care for them,
(15:09):
because, like I said, tomorrow'snot promised. So take a moment,
maybe sneak a table scrap to oneof your animals, believe it or not.
My cat, Django likes Tomali's anddespite what anybody will say about him,
I don't put onions in him becauseI hate onions, but Django has
liked him since he was a kitten, and he'll go through great links,
(15:31):
including Brave Water to get him ifhe can get it. So your animals
will survive if you're not consistently feedinghim table scraps for their food, once
in a while, a rare treat. It's okay, the vetiman told me
so. And yes, they havebetter health care and probably eat better than
(15:54):
I do. But I love themall the same. And for all the
times I never thought I would bean animal guy, to be an animal
guy, now I get it.And for all those people that say they're
not your kids, you probably aren'tan animal person. You probably haven't lived,
(16:18):
breathed, and dealt with the animallong enough to know what the connections
we bond with these animals, orthat the animal does with us. Because
when we leave home, the firstthing that greets us isn't kids, it's
usually an animal. So I leaveyou with that thought to give your first
(16:45):
kids an extra hug, give themthat table scrap or that treat, and
enjoy them while you can. Butdon't forget your people friends too, because
rose gardens are rare, and alot of times we walk past them and
never pay attention until it's too late, Like share, subscribe, but most
(17:07):
importantly, be great
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