October 15, 2025 • 42 mins
James has a great chat with Robyn Newton on several topics including Animal Rescue, different cities, different jobs and being a good Moderator. Robyn’s years of performance experience and study of voice acting have taught her how to breathe life into any script. Robyn understands the importance of how the human voice can be used to engage an audience–to convey energy and emotion–to create a brand that is genuine, relatable, trustworthy, and undeniably recognizable. Robyn possesses strong communication, project management, and perceptive creativity skills and assists her clients in developing or enhancing their marketing campaigns to ensure that their message resonates with their target audience. Prior to launching her voice over business in 2015, Robyn enjoyed an incredibly rewarding career in the world of high tech for three decades. She’s worked with a handful of Fortune 500 companies in the role of a technical content creator, global program manager for software development teams, and as an internal corporate narrator of impactful eLearning videos, strategic marketing initiatives, and complex IVR catalogs. Whether you need the voice of an approachable expert, relatable gal next door, loving mom, or friendly customer service rep, Robyn’s wide range of vocal range enables her to understand how to convey her client’s message to create something truly remarkable and memorable—and she has fun doing it! Originally from New England, Robyn is thrilled to be living closer to her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. She loves dogs, calls herself a foodie, enjoys the theater and live music, and has embraced an outdoor lifestyle that includes spending time at the beach, riding her bicycle and her motorcycle. IG @robynnewtonvo
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to another edition of Extra Connections. I'm James Jr.
And I'm all about connection. I want to make a
full disclosure before we begin the show. I chased after her. Well,
you have to know that we've connected on LinkedIn, which
is a great prop platform. I love LinkedIn. Actually I've
fined how to use it. I've got a lie out
of it in the last couple of years. And I
(00:27):
saw what she does and I was like, I need
her on this show. So I pursued her.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I love that. I'm not often pursued.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
See, I was like, I did.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I love it, thank you for pursuing me.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And I'm so glad I did I see it all. See,
I'm so glad I did. I think I made a
new friend. So this person, because our show is all
about connection and different ways we connect in the world.
In terms of professional personally, this person does both and
all the above, d all the above, from voice acting
to moderation, which I want to being a moderator. I
(01:07):
want to talk about that because I moderate panels. She
moderates things are a little more serious than that. She also,
I mean, yeah, her resume is it's it's I'm just
gonna get it on right now. It's Robin Newton.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Robin, good morning, good morning, Good morning from sunny South Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I love it. I love South Florida. I do which
mother author's and I decided we're gonna talk about you do.
I mean, I'm gonna give this whole huge intro. My
introan is that I pursued you want you on the show?
You said yes, you say yes, and let's talk about
some stuff you do? Were you all? First of all?
Who asked me? That? People ask me this question? So
(01:47):
let me ask you the same question. True you consider
yourself an overachiever or not?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Always different? Yeah? I guess I would have to. I
would be lying to say that I didn't. I mean,
I've definitely slowed down a bit. But yes, absolutely, could you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do some of different things? That's saying you can't do
that not being over achieved? But people always say it
to me? Will you have so many different interests? And
were you always kind of I look back, I go,
I guess I always had my hands in different pots?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, definitely, right, you too, right, because because I think
I'm easily distracted, I get.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
A girl, I get it. Yes, yes, but the things
you have your hands, and are some really interesting good
stuff passions? Yes, So do you feel right now you
are working your passions?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And how long you get you? How long did it
get you to get there?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
My whole life too, right, yeah, My My whole life,
you know, has been one passion after the next. But
but seriously, though, I think that the this, you know,
there were definitely threads that have rolled through, you know,
the decades.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I do a lot of work with animal rescue, and
that's always been a thing I've done my entire life
since a little girl, since like a little girl walking
to school, you know, burying you know, roadkill because you know,
and being late for school by an hour because I
was burying chipmunks along the way. So, you know, just
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and those things are still things I do. I don't
bury chipmunks anymore, but I do a lot of work
with animal rescue. I suppose of my song, but I
mean I'm the person who stops, you know, to help
a turtle cross the road, or stops you know, you know,
you name it. Yeah, if it's an animal, and I
don't care what it is. It could be a snake,
it could be a turtle, it could be a bunny, rabbit,
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it's dog, a horse, it doesn't matter if it's an animal.
I'm gonna take.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Care of that. I'm going to piggyback off you for
a second. Because of my family. My mother has three turtles,
three seat turtles that dropped off in her yard. Yep.
So they were little, tiny red air sliders. They're tiny,
and our dog found them and we're like, okay, what
(04:20):
I want to do in here? And we kept them,
got takes from the whole thing, so they're huge. Now. Yes,
the outlived the dog dogs even here anymore. But rescue
I always and I I will fight one to the death.
All of our dogs are rescue dogs. Ye shock. We
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always go and get We go to the shelters, and
I'm talking about the most wonderful animals we've had. We've
we've lost three in the last ten years, but we
got them and we gave them a good life on
their way out, you know, we get I'm such an
advocate for that, so I like that you think for
what you're doing. I just I'm always like, no, they
(05:09):
need homes, and I just I just wish people who
how would I say this? I wish this is what
I'll say, I would like every person who doesn't believe
in going to to go to a shelter, walk through
it and tell me you're not changed. You have but
(05:38):
they know you're right. They do. But I know for me,
I mean I have changed the people's lives. Tell them
come with me to the shelter. And I'm like, I
would adopt everybody. Oh my god, Oh my god, Robin,
I would love to adopt everybody. Like I'm like, I
want you and you and you, and You're like, I
cant everybody. I know, I can't all my adult life.
(06:00):
Our cats are always rescues.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. I brought home strays my mother.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
My mother would here squeaking from my jean jack and
she's like, what's in your pocket?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And it would be like a gerbil or a kitten
or something. I hid kittens under my bed for almost
a month from my mother. Before my mother.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I had four rabbits about ten years ago. I don't
know where they came from. They came my yard. I
try them and keep them around me. They gave them
names and they stayed for a while. I mean, I
don't know when they went, but I'm like, we've had a.
I've had a turkey. Oh my god, the street, I
know where it came from the yard. That a big
(06:41):
guard a huge So they love it. And I have
a couple of cats right now. They're hanging out my yard.
They're not mine, and they have to have tags on,
so I'm not.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, so they're not yeah, they're not exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I have lots of plants. It's nice and comfy, I guess,
and there's lounge and I'll go, I go hi.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And you know what, animals know who they're safe with,
and that's and they we they you know, animals feel
our energy. I mean, I just adopted another and he's
laying right here on the floor with me. And he
picked me, he truly picked me at the shelter. You know,
the gentleman that I was working with, he said, Robin,
he's he never comes out. He's been here for three years.
(07:18):
And I was like, well, what's his story? And he
said he hides on adoption day because it's a it's
a sanctuary. So he was a free free range basically
free range pump and and it was drizzling out. I
was there with one of my girlfriends. I had adopted,
you know before and I had just lost a dog,
so I you know, I was in a very fragile
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state and this guy just came out of nowhere and
gave me the bump.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And I thought I was going home with a different dog,
and I and here he is. This is not the
dog I went to.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
See life sometimes.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But he yeah, he chose me. He he truly chose me.
And I think the universe sent him my way. I think,
you know, my the pup that had passed said that's
your mom, go go be with her.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, so I'll think, so thanks for what you do.
I'm a big ab I say again, I'm like, no,
we we we were not We're not buying dogs or
I no, I'm not doing all that at once.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'm a good right And if you can't have a dog,
I mean, I know some people are not in a
situation where they can actually have a dog. But there's
a lot you can do. The shelter always needs things,
whether it's blankets, towels, you know, toys, leashes, like there's
always something that that you can do. And and and
I actually started a nonprofit up in South Carolina and
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now I've just started another here in Florida. And and
that's what I do. I you know, I collect. You know,
you know, folks are always throwing stuff away. So you know,
if you've got those tired sheets or tired towels or blankets,
don't throw them in the trash. I mean, the shelter
uses that stuff and it and those consumables. You know,
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paper towels go to Costco. Get an extra dozen paper
rolls and paper towels. I mean, you can't imagine what
a shelter goes through on a daily basis. And that
stuff is not cheap, you know, So don't throw that
stuff away. And that's that's what I do. I mean,
I drop off. There's a rotwhil of rescue right around
the corner from my house. And you know, it doesn't
matter what they need. I'll put the word out in
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my community, in my neighborhood because I live in a
gated community eleven hundred homes here. Somebody's always got something
to give, and it doesn't have to be money, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I agree, And like you said that, because I do
always I seld some people about that. I go, yeah,
I have to old towels or anything. There's some dogs
and cats are on the floor. They're on marble floors
or on exact cement. Man. Yeah, so it's like, yeah,
so old towels, sheets. Now you said, you said to
the words out of my mouth. I agree with all
I agree with all of that. Yes, yes, yes, it's
always to be money. And also I'll add to that.
(09:55):
My friend goes every Friday in San Francisco and pets
all the dogs see and it goes for like two hours.
He said he thought he was doing it for them,
but now he's hooked.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's therapy.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Tell you, guys, it's always be so, yes, yes, we're
If I got a farm in Los Angeles, I would.
I can't have a farm, but if I could have
a chance. Friends know that I don't have all kind
of things.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I'm with you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So the twit skiers are saying that that's that's right,
that's why PSA for today, and that's songs and catspade
or neuter of course, exactly. Always Bob Barker.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Told you that, guys, did we doated ourselves?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We did ourselves?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What Barker you carried out? Like whatever you don't have
talk about? He always said that another thing did you do?
I think it's I think I want to know more
about it. I think it's fascinating. So I so I
so I get home girl here, I'm like, Okay, when
can we do a show together? Blah blah, Like, well,
you know, I can do show, but if it's if
I have a town hall, I have to moderates. I'm like,
(11:05):
I like, I didn't say it like that. I'll be funny.
I know you joke with this. I'll be funny. But seriously,
I was like, oh, I want to know more about that.
So please, you are a moderator for tele something hauls, right,
please talk about that way. I'm very curious about that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yes, so, yes, So I moderate telephone town halls for
US congressmen and women, and I've been doing that for gosh,
it's it'll be two years in February. And it was
just happened, chance, folks, happened chants. I literally had a
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friend of mine, a rock jock up in New York,
reached out to me and he said, hey, I'm I
just got off the phone with somebody. They're looking for
a moderator. He didn't tell me what it was for.
He just said they're looking for a moderator. They need
a woman on the roster and would you be interested?
Can I pass along your contact information? And I was
like sure, I mean, I'm a voice I'm a voice talent. Yeah,
(12:04):
you can pass around and you can pass my contact
information please, and and uh so he did and they
and I got a phone call and yeah, yeah, speaking
with this lovely young woman and she said, you know
we we are hired by by congress members to moderate
(12:26):
telephone town halls. Are you interested? And I was like,
tell me more, because I was. I was fascinated. I
didn't even know this was a thing. And and that's
how it started, you know. She she said, well, you know,
first we have to do a background check. We may
make sure that you know, nobody's a whack a doodle
on either side of the aisle. It's like, okay, I
get it. And so they did a background check. They
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checked my references, they you know, they and they look
through my social media. Of course, I mean I would
expect that. And then they asked, they invited me to
join a call to shot somebody that was doing this.
And the reason it came about was because one of
the congress members, and I'm not sure who it was
she would not share that with me, and she needn't
(13:10):
do that, but she said, somebody said, why are there
no women on the roster? And I love that question.
I absolutely love that question. And and because it's important,
I mean, I have that conversation with my you know,
with my clients, myself, I'm like, why are there no
women in this, you know, in these roles? So that
(13:31):
that that was how it started. I started shadowing this
gentleman who is who was moderating, and then I, you know,
I got my own rhythm, and of course it's it's
I want to say, you know, the intros and the
outros are very scripted, of course, and you're taking callers live,
so anything can happen. It's a live show. There's there's
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there's no backtracking, you know. Yeah, so you've got to
be on your toes. You've got you know, you've got
a chat session open in one window with the congress
member's staff, and you've got another chat session with your
technical team in case, god forbid, anything goes wrong. Well
you need help on the call. But as we do this,
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you know, we do a pre check for about twenty
five minutes and then we go live for sixty to
ninety minutes, and it's just bang, bang, bang, going through
the questions and bringing callers on live and listening to
their questions or their comments or their statements, and listening
to the congress member addressing those those issues. And you
can imagine in this political landscape that we're currently you know, witnessing,
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there's a lot of questions, and there's a lot of concerns,
and there's a lot of fear. And I was never
particularly motivated and not particularly interested. And I have to
tell you, in a little more than a year and
a half now, I'm just just I don't know. I'm
not like cobsmacked. I guess you'd say, you know what's
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going on, and and it's just fascinating. It's it's absolutely fascinating,
and it's a privilege. And to me personally feel very
privileged to be doing the work because it's, you know it,
you know, it is pretty intense and and getting the
word out is incredibly important and to be able to
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help facilitate those calls is it's just I think it's
you know, it's it truly is a privilege.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I love Modraine Panels and everybody can do it. It's like,
well you do nobody can do either. It's it's a
it's a special skill. And I think it's it's interesting
that you said when you have you have no idea
what someone's going to say. Yeah, that's always that's button.
(15:53):
Yeah I got that's gonnappen already here. But it's exciting though,
that parts me. I find it exciting. I find it
if i'd it very alive. It's like it's life right
front of you. And these are real You're taught to
real people.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, with real problems. And I mean, and some of
the stories are just heart wrenching, like absolutely heart wrenching.
You know, there are people out there that are truly
suffering and h and and those are the people that
are calling in, you know, people who who are experiencing
hardship and you know, and want some answers and need
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the help and don't know where to go and and
and it's you know what I've learned these Congress, many
of them, And I can't you know, I don't speak
for everyone, of course, but many of them, truly, I
just gave myself goosebumps. They truly want to help. They're like,
call our office, we'll put you in touch with me.
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They know how to get it done, you know. So yeah,
maybe then they're not lifting the big rocks that we've
got to lift right now. But but this stuff that
they can do in their own community that can be
very helpful. And you know, I was very that's very
uplifting for me to hear that there are people that
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that can help want to help. But if you don't,
if you don't ask, you don't get right. That's right,
true exactly, And you know what, no one wants to
say no. People want to say yes.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That's true, that's right true. And I do believe there
are a lot of people on local levels who really
do want to help. Yeah, I have politics, and local levels,
they really do want to help you. They do to
make sure everything is going okay in their districts or
in their in their communities. They really do. And it's
hard to service everyone. You can't really do it individually,
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just can't. So I guess you can on like I's
somebody give the good a chance to help a few people,
you know that gets around that this person helped me,
and they get they it's around so exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
And these town halls I had to tell you they've
been instrumental and and you know and helping people because
and naturally these these folks met, you know, congress members,
they can't be everywhere at once. I mean, you know,
half the time they're you know, they're in Washington, the
other half the time they're home. August was a really
quiet month because they were on recess, but we still
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had we still had a handful of congressional calls. Happened
because these congress members were taking doing these town halls
from their hometowns and you know, and and you know,
getting into the school gymnasiums and inviting the community, and
so that's very encouraging. You know, they they continue to
do that, and you know, I think that that word
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is getting out and people are showing up and they're yeah,
and some of you know, there's always there's always issues, right,
There's always going to be issues on both sides of
the aisle ze. Yeah, but these telephone town halls, you know,
have been I think, you know, they're serving a purpose
and and that's that's and and they're in my house,
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they're keeping the lights on, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Us.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This is a win win for me.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Be able to make some be able to make some
money and do something when you're giving back at the
same time, right.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And who would have thought? And you know, it's been
a great experience for me. And not that I haven't
done other live events. I mean, you know, I've moderated,
like like yourself, I mean, I haven't done a lot
of panel work, but I have moderated. Uh, the South
Carolina University's commencement ceremonies, graduation and commencement so much fun
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and like you know, you speak to every kid that's
coming across that stage. And I spent a lot of
time talking to those kids to make sure that I
was able to pronounce their names, because no one wants
to be you know, their friends and family are there
and you hack their last name. I'm like, I'm not
going to do that. So I went out and you know,
I spent time getting to know the kids and you know,
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and learned just you know, to pronounce their names phonetically,
you know, just we did and make note my notes
so that when they crossed that stage, I nailed it,
you know, And there that's just joyful. It's such a
joyful moment for them and their friends and their families.
So I love being part of that kind of stuff.
And I officiate weddings, you know, I'm ordained. So yeah,
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I get to do a lot of cool stuff. That's
that takes me out of the booth.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yes, yes, I da. Here's the thing. So I was
telling people. For me, I had hippie parents. They were
hippies from the sixties. They taught us very young all
kinds of stuff. But only did he just very young,
was that you always you always build a village, you
always the community. So I took that with me as
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an adult. Wherever I lived, I always got involved. Wherever
it was, I found a way. It was a big city,
small city, wherever. And when I was in college, I
got involved, like I always got involved. And I think,
so hearing your story, that's a way of getting involved.
And I think people always wonder, well, how I get involved?
Why I do? Well, here's what. It's one example of
somebody doing something, but there's a million examples out there. Yes,
(21:10):
I can fit to your strengths. Yes, to get involved.
There's not just one way to do it. And I
I was always taught where you live, you give back.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I still do to this day. So am I doing
these shows?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
For me is giving back, Yes, yes, it is, yes.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, doing this. I feature people, I do audio dramas.
That's my way of giving back, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I just have fun.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I say things that was about that in a second.
I say things that people feel like Jameson gave me
a voice and you said when you have that scene
and that's in that audio drama. Or I'll say something
one of my shows and I felt the same way.
I'm connected, like that's why we connections. I've connected with
so many the shows, like five years old and that's well,
I actually learned seven years old. I've had so many
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guests I've connected with that my audience is connected with
because no man or woman is an island. We are
all here together. And I always say, it's my my
hippie parents. What you do. Whether Robin knows who I
am or not, it affects her still. The ripple effect
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you don't know, it will not be a cognizant of it,
but we all do separately affects everything collectively.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, I'll talk about that. So I'm bad for the
work you do, and that's that's great to say. It's
a very interesting way of doing that's very interesting, Like
I've never heard it before my entire life. So I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's it's good stuff. I mean this, And like
you said, I mean there's a lot that any one
of us can do, you know, following your passion. I mean,
you know, for me, it's you know, it's it's kids
and animal and it's people. And I don't I don't know.
We hadn't talked about this, and it's certainly not in
my bio, but I mentioned earth mentioned to you that
I ride a motorcycle. While I was in California, I
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belonged to a motorcycle group, not a club. I belong
to a motorcycle group called Bikers Against Bullies, where we
would ride our motorcycles into schools and we would talk
to the kids about bullying. And it literally exploded into
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all of a sudden, it was getting content because I
was the female spokesperson for our chapter in Beauford, South Carolina,
and I was getting calls from the Girl Scouts of America,
the Boy Scouts of America, you know, and we would
go like literally I was the you know, the gentleman
who was the president of our chapter, I guess. And
then myself as the female spokesperson. We would do skits
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with the kids. We would talk about bullying, you know,
we would talk about why why bullying occurs, and then
often it starts in the believe it or not, starts
in the home. And then we would talk about random
acts of kindness. We would talk about respect, not just
for another but for ourselves self respect. At the time,
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I had a dog who was deaf and had one eye.
He was a rescue and he looked different from everybody else,
and we would talk about how it's okay to look
different and still be lovable, and that really resonated with
the kids. They knew that he had been abused. We
never shared what had happened to him, but they knew
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he had been abused and that and they knew that
that I had rescued him. And even though he looked
different and he couldn't hear, and he had one eye,
the you know, he had a bullet in his shoulder,
you know, he was very special. And I'll tell you
everybody in that town knew my dog so and so
it just takes one and when you when you spend
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time with like minded people and it grows into a
group you know, that just becomes you know, all of
a sudden. We're talking to at the time, I was
living in Beaufort, South Carolina, which is right outside of
Hilton Head. Then we're being invited to go up and
speak in Charleston, and we're going you know, and we're
going here, and we're going there, and we're in the
state house in Colombia and it just exploded. It just
(25:11):
it's like a snowball, you know, it just takes one
and then you know, you you band together with other
people and you become this very powerful force in your community.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
We did say, well, so at Dema Kits it's twenty twenty.
La is shut down. I mean, we're industry town. It's
shut down. There's nothing going on. So all these actors
who are just sitting around, you know, with some of
their ass not doing anything. I decided A friend of
mine came in and said, James, I had written this soap opera.
(25:44):
We can't film it. What we do like radio. Because
he said that, I was like, I'm a yes person.
I'm like, shoure, let's try it. I was like, how
we're gonna do it out now. Luckily, see who came around.
We found out you was the best way to record it.
Very downloaded the programs to you know, clean it all up.
But it was like we started with one show. It's
(26:05):
Forever a Day. A lot of people know the show
and it was a huge hit for us. But my
point was that we came together, we found like minded
people like you said, who had known to go on,
and we believed it that we treated it seriously. We
had a lot of fun put out and I have
I have several major awards on my shelf back here
from that podcast, from that that audio dropper. The point
(26:28):
I'm trying to make is that when she's talking about
what I'm talking about, you can start small, do something
that you like them. They're biking us. We like talking
and build something and you never know where it can
go in a positive way, right, And we helped shape
(26:49):
and bring in another era of this whole audio drama world.
And it's like a lot of people weren't doing them,
but I was thinking, well there's audible who are people
are listening to books but also tired of watching TV.
And there's a mixture in there somewhere, and we found it.
And I think for you, bikers always have a bad
reputation in quotes and a guy like, oh, their edgy
(27:10):
or whatever. I love motorcycles. I do. They're sexy and dangerous.
I love them. But the fact that you said, we
can turn this around into something that's really positive, that's
it's it's almost that simple, folks. It kind of you
take what you like as a as a hobby and
you can turn into something to help other people. That's
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my big points because.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
We are yeah, and it does it really truly changes
people's perception of you as well. I mean, so you know,
and at the time I was corporate, I was corporate America,
so you know, so I had I had a nerd.
I had a big nerd job, right, But then I
rode a motorcycle. You know, there's so many people out
there that ride motorcycles that are doctors, attorneys, they're you know,
(27:57):
they're they're they're you know, white call are folk out there.
I mean, and of course, you know, there are people
out there that are doing dum dumb stuff on motorcycles,
but there are also people out there, like myself that
are you know, that that are changing people's perception of motorcyclists.
And I remember being in public supermarkets, and it happened
(28:19):
more than once, believe me. And Beaufort was about you know,
Beaufort County's about one hundred and twenty thousand people. Beaufort,
I don't even want to call it a city. It's
a township if you will, it's I mean, it's you know,
small coastal community, twelve thousand people. But when you're in
publics and you want, you know, and your bike's out
(28:40):
in the parking lot and you walk in and I
got a leather vest on and a pair of jeans,
and I'm grocery shopping. I'm just stopping to pick up
a few things, dog food, data DA. And this kid
comes out of nowhere running towards me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Mom, that's the leady from school on the motorcycle. And seriously,
the mom walks up to me and says, oh my god.
You know, he hasn't stopped talking about you. It left
such a great impression. And two years later I was
being featured in a Beaufort local life magazine because someone
had nominated me for the work that I was doing
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in rescue. Not the motorcycle stuff, but the work I
was doing in rescue. Because the word had gotten out
and I was a one man show. But my one
man show is me going to people's homes picking up
things like dog crates and you know whatever people wanted
to donate. So that just left a lasting impression. And
when I left that town, I mean, I had so
(29:36):
much love because I have a Facebook group and you know,
the people knew. They were like, well, who's going to
take it over? And I said, I if someone wants
to step up and take it over, because I can't
do this from Florida. It takes a village. And if
your village doesn't step up, it's not going to get done.
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It's just not going to get done.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Remind me of a story with me I was Plank.
I'm telling the story, but I kind of want to
really quick a little short story about twenty years ago. No,
this is longer than that I was. I was longer
I was. This was the early nineties or early nineties.
A friend of mine and I used to walk by
this house in Saquento, California, and we see this cat
(30:18):
that was in in a cage hanging in a tree.
Oh god, their nails had grown around the hold onto
the thing. We kept walking by, walking by. I remember
going to the police station. That's what they're like. They're like,
we can't do anything or whatever. So I don't recommend
(30:39):
that was prefaces. I don't recommend it to you at home.
I was thirties, I was younger and more agile, and
I was like, one night, my friend and I got
a ladder and I got up there and got that
cat off from there. And her name was Babat. We
did a bad bat and baba was my cat. We
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had three cats. That cat's coming to me every night.
So it's really weird. So one of the things that
she would do, she would do when we laughed, I
thought I was about this in years. She would lick
the blinds next to my bed. I'm thinking it's because
she she had a cage. Maybe she was licking the cage.
I don't know. Like so I find it was like
that she eat flies she had for dinner when she
(31:23):
was on the cage. There were things I figured, I'm
thinking it must have dood it. And her nails were
still weird cut her nails would always grow still like that.
But we gave her a good life till she passed.
I mean she lived on us for like six years,
seven years after that, but I said, I'm gonna say
try it home. Am I getting mad at me and
I said you should. My saying we have vigilante or
your something to say, we did it we were young.
I'm glad I did I do it again. I'm glad
(31:44):
I did it. That was my choice as an adult.
I did it. But I'm just saying that it's it's
it's interesting because you walk people people, and this is
for a while bringing this up. It's kind of like
what you're talking about helping people walk by quotes, you know,
maybe not be walking. You walk by, you see stuff,
and you don't do anything amazing because you're just not
(32:07):
sure you can. We're telling Rob and I are telling
you you can't. You can find a way to do something.
If you see something, you can do something that's meaningful. Now,
my model for my organized business is small steps lead
to large rewards. That's my test love that it's small step.
Just any any step, any step is a step, and
(32:30):
that's very profound, but it really is like any steps
a step. And I just think that we're giving you
examples of just kind of like that's why I do
the show. If you're at homegoing God, I really do
want to do something. We're saying, yes, do something, find
a way to do it. There's no one way to
do anything. Just find a way to do it that
can work within for you too. Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
And I would talk and I love that, and I absolutely,
I absolutely said the same thing to people. Do you
see something, say something? Saying something is doing something? Yes,
and yep, it's doing something. It doesn't maybe it doesn't
feel like that, but if you're telling someone who can
do something, you've done something. You know, I've seen a
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lot of horrific things, you know, in the animal rescue.
I'm aware of things that you know, you give you,
you know, give me, give me nightmares. And I and
so that was always like, you know, when when a
storm was coming, I'm like, guys, this is bring your
animals in. If you are aware of someone who's got
(33:34):
a dog chained to a tree, that dog, if you
don't say something, and now you've got a lot of
animal advocates out there, and you've got animal rescue people
out there that will go and they will get that
that animal. But I used to say that. I used
to say the same thing to kids when I was
talking about bullying. If if you're aware of someone being bullied,
(33:56):
you may not be able to do something yourself, but
you can go tell somebody, Tell a parent, tell a teacher,
tell a guard, you know, a guidance counselor you know,
tell someone that someone is being you know, bullied, harassed.
You know what? What tell someone who can do something
doesn't make you you know what. I've had so many
(34:18):
conversations with kids because if you're not saying something, you're
part of the problem. You're either there's there's two things.
You're either part of the problem you're part of the solution.
Which one are you? And kids got that? They got
that message so.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well they have the Well kids are unencumbered, so you
talked to them plainly, they'll get the message easily. Yeah,
become adults adding all stuff into it. But you're not true, right,
you're not. That's true kids. The kids are basic. Just
you tell them basically what's going on? Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And yeah, because they don't have an agenda. We are
we are not powerless people. We are not powerless right here.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I know, but I think we forget that sometimes. I
think people we do forget that, or people just don't
know they don't. That's why I always try not to myself.
I try to have compassion. If someone's like I had
no idea, not saying to them, I'm sure you had
an idea. Maybe they didn't have idea, Maybe maybe they
just really didn't. And I'm like, so i gotta go, Okay,
well now you do. Now I'm telling you. And I
(35:27):
would say, and I'm gonna say this to you, I'm
signing it's all to animal stuff, but I want to
say I always do all the time. When it's hot outside, God,
do not take your dogs for a walk without having
some kind of booties on them or something. Take them
somewhere with the shade. Take them somewhere where it's grass,
where it's not in the sun. I can't say how
(35:48):
many dogs I've seen their paws are just ft up.
I'm like, because of that, we just we seriously, folks.
Or if it's super hot out there, there's no shade
you have the outside, bring up. Sorry, I gott bring
him in. I'm sorry you just got to you and
it was freezing outside. Same thing.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I say, take off your shoes. Take off your shoes.
If you're unsure that pavement's too hot, take your shoes
off and walk on the pavement. I've had this conversation
and I've been told, you know, you know, people have
said some pretty nasty things to me. But I'm like,
take your shoes off. Feels like That's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Because I'm like, this dog is going you see you
see it happen. I'm like, what are you fucking what
do you? Yeah, what do you do? What the beat
are you doing?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And he and Florida. So I'm out at night walking
my dog. We walk early in the morning, and we
walk late at night. And sometimes my late at night
is ninth thirty ten o'clock because it's so dang hot
and he'd prefer to be out at night.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
You know. Yeah, we have well, we have we have
we have desert, we have palm streings, we have the
desert areas in the valley. We have the valley. Yes,
out there. I'm like, carr folks, if you're sweating, they're
sweating too. I'm like, if they're called your culture because.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
And these you know, and the same thing with hot cars,
I'm like, leave them home. It's summertime. Leave them home.
If you can't bring them into home depot or lowse
with you leave them home. God, I have these conversations.
I've rescued two dogs out of hot cars.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I have to oh my god, we start on that. Also,
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
God, Rob is gonna be an animal show.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I know, so I would have to have you back
on another time when something else, because this is I
want to I want to cap it here because we
actually have some really good conversations about the stuff. Because
it's I mean, well, animals also connections to the US.
Animal always. This is what I always say, Robin, I'm
not a dog owner. The dog owns me.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
My dog knows that.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You know it's too, Robbie know it's too. Yes, we
are the ones I said, Well, I'm a dog caregiver.
I'm here. I had a dog, a dog caring for,
but I never say dog about I changed my legs
a long time, and I go because I love these
dogs so much. I'm at Sprinkles Cupcakes getting pupcakes with
his God for taking dog. They cost like seven dollars each.
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I'm like I.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Always say to people, he's not picking up my poop.
I'm picking up.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Exactly. I don't for my kids. I'm going buy with
seven dollars things I'm buying for a dog. Yeah, sure,
I'm like, hello, yeah I am.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Oh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
My mother who lost her husband a couple of years ago,
thank you. Yes, it was it was sudden. Getting her
a dog was the best thing we could have done
because now she's up. Yes, I want to mention that
before we go much that too. Having an animal gives
you a reason for older people who can still get it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Purpose.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Ye, purpose, It is totally purpose. So I'm saying, fine,
try to find the right dog, because I mean, there's
two rad bunks just before, but there are other dogs
that were just enough. It was like, okay, they can coexist.
She eat it, you know what I mean. I take
care to get outside the cane, but she can walk
with the cane and dog, so I think it's in.
And her name is Duchess, Amelia latest dog named Duchess,
(39:25):
and she's cute and she actually but but I always
say that, you know, animals can give a purpose to
an older where she was alone, and we just really
can really can because less blessed with dogs. Cats think
they're human when it comes to dogs. They do unconditional
support and love. All they want you to do they
want to want to lick you, hang out with.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
You, they love you, love you, and breed does matter.
Breed matters, you know. You people adopt dogs that they
have no no, no, you know, they've done no research,
and then they wonder why this isn't working. Well, it's
the wrong dog for you.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
So breed matters like those I said, can you find
the right dog?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
That you gotta find the right dog?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Also age too, because we have one that.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Was yes, yeah, you're not gonna want a puppy, you know,
get a senior, adopt a senior. I can't tell you
how many how many people dump senior dogs like this
dog's lived with you for nine ten years and you're
just done. How do you crush a heart like that?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You know, I'm sorry. My whole thing is and I
will say, this is my show. I don't care, I
will say, and I will stand on it. So when
people abuse dogs like that, that should be horse whipped. Yeah, sorry,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I have no which we could punish people the way
that they've Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I'm sorry, I have no compassion.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
I wish because if I was in charge.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I'm sorry. I just I just when I see I'm
us of a dog or a cat or any kind
of animal.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I'm sorry any animal, any animal, no.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Capassion for you whatsoever and done to you. Yes, Rob,
I love you. You're You're just like the best. You're
coming back on. She's come back on.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I would love to.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
We'll space it out looking on again. I think this
is a good discussion. He will leave it here, a
good discussion here. We talk about connection.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
We did, yes, yes, we did. Yeah, it's just a
different kind of connection, right, Yes.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I like that animal connect yeah, very much so. And
I have a lot of animal lovers in my fans,
so I know you guys will love this well. So
tellphones where they can find you if they want to
find you for stuff, tell what they can find you.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yes, So I'm on LinkedIn. I spell my name Robin
with a y R O B y N Newton like
Sir Isaac or the cookie. So you can find me
on LinkedIn. You can find me on Instagram Robin Newton
v O. I am a facebooker, so I've got a
I've got a personal page out there, but you're more
than welcome to hit me up personally. And I also
(41:52):
have a business page, so yeah, don't be shy I
mean if you're if you love animals and you love kids,
or you've got or you're curious about what I do
or how I got started, and you want to help
animals in your community and be happy to share everything
I've learned, what works you know? And uh, and I
mean it's it. It's not without some effort. But you know,
(42:16):
kindness is free. And I always say, sprinkle that ship everywhere.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yes, that's all. We'll end the show. I'm James, not
Junior ex Connections. We'll talk to you next time.
Welcome to another edition of Extra Connections. I'm James Jr.
And I'm all about connection. I want to make a
full disclosure before we begin the show. I chased after her. Well,
you have to know that we've connected on LinkedIn, which
is a great prop platform. I love LinkedIn. Actually I've
fined how to use it. I've got a lie out
of it in the last couple of years. And I
(00:27):
saw what she does and I was like, I need
her on this show. So I pursued her.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I love that. I'm not often pursued.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
See, I was like, I did.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I love it, thank you for pursuing me.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And I'm so glad I did I see it all. See,
I'm so glad I did. I think I made a
new friend. So this person, because our show is all
about connection and different ways we connect in the world.
In terms of professional personally, this person does both and
all the above, d all the above, from voice acting
to moderation, which I want to being a moderator. I
(01:07):
want to talk about that because I moderate panels. She
moderates things are a little more serious than that. She also,
I mean, yeah, her resume is it's it's I'm just
gonna get it on right now. It's Robin Newton.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Robin, good morning, good morning, Good morning from sunny South Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I love it. I love South Florida. I do which
mother author's and I decided we're gonna talk about you do.
I mean, I'm gonna give this whole huge intro. My
introan is that I pursued you want you on the show?
You said yes, you say yes, and let's talk about
some stuff you do? Were you all? First of all?
Who asked me? That? People ask me this question? So
(01:47):
let me ask you the same question. True you consider
yourself an overachiever or not?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Always different? Yeah? I guess I would have to. I
would be lying to say that I didn't. I mean,
I've definitely slowed down a bit. But yes, absolutely, could you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do some of different things? That's saying you can't do
that not being over achieved? But people always say it
to me? Will you have so many different interests? And
were you always kind of I look back, I go,
I guess I always had my hands in different pots?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, definitely, right, you too, right, because because I think
I'm easily distracted, I get.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
A girl, I get it. Yes, yes, but the things
you have your hands, and are some really interesting good
stuff passions? Yes, So do you feel right now you
are working your passions?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And how long you get you? How long did it
get you to get there?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
My whole life too, right, yeah, My My whole life,
you know, has been one passion after the next. But
but seriously, though, I think that the this, you know,
there were definitely threads that have rolled through, you know,
the decades.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I do a lot of work with animal rescue, and
that's always been a thing I've done my entire life
since a little girl, since like a little girl walking
to school, you know, burying you know, roadkill because you know,
and being late for school by an hour because I
was burying chipmunks along the way. So, you know, just
(03:34):
and those things are still things I do. I don't
bury chipmunks anymore, but I do a lot of work
with animal rescue. I suppose of my song, but I
mean I'm the person who stops, you know, to help
a turtle cross the road, or stops you know, you know,
you name it. Yeah, if it's an animal, and I
don't care what it is. It could be a snake,
it could be a turtle, it could be a bunny, rabbit,
(03:55):
it's dog, a horse, it doesn't matter if it's an animal.
I'm gonna take.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Care of that. I'm going to piggyback off you for
a second. Because of my family. My mother has three turtles,
three seat turtles that dropped off in her yard. Yep.
So they were little, tiny red air sliders. They're tiny,
and our dog found them and we're like, okay, what
(04:20):
I want to do in here? And we kept them,
got takes from the whole thing, so they're huge. Now. Yes,
the outlived the dog dogs even here anymore. But rescue
I always and I I will fight one to the death.
All of our dogs are rescue dogs. Ye shock. We
(04:46):
always go and get We go to the shelters, and
I'm talking about the most wonderful animals we've had. We've
we've lost three in the last ten years, but we
got them and we gave them a good life on
their way out, you know, we get I'm such an
advocate for that, so I like that you think for
what you're doing. I just I'm always like, no, they
(05:09):
need homes, and I just I just wish people who
how would I say this? I wish this is what
I'll say, I would like every person who doesn't believe
in going to to go to a shelter, walk through
it and tell me you're not changed. You have but
(05:38):
they know you're right. They do. But I know for me,
I mean I have changed the people's lives. Tell them
come with me to the shelter. And I'm like, I
would adopt everybody. Oh my god, Oh my god, Robin,
I would love to adopt everybody. Like I'm like, I
want you and you and you, and You're like, I
cant everybody. I know, I can't all my adult life.
(06:00):
Our cats are always rescues.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah. I brought home strays my mother.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
My mother would here squeaking from my jean jack and
she's like, what's in your pocket?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And it would be like a gerbil or a kitten
or something. I hid kittens under my bed for almost
a month from my mother. Before my mother.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I had four rabbits about ten years ago. I don't
know where they came from. They came my yard. I
try them and keep them around me. They gave them
names and they stayed for a while. I mean, I
don't know when they went, but I'm like, we've had a.
I've had a turkey. Oh my god, the street, I
know where it came from the yard. That a big
(06:41):
guard a huge So they love it. And I have
a couple of cats right now. They're hanging out my yard.
They're not mine, and they have to have tags on,
so I'm not.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, so they're not yeah, they're not exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I have lots of plants. It's nice and comfy, I guess,
and there's lounge and I'll go, I go hi.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And you know what, animals know who they're safe with,
and that's and they we they you know, animals feel
our energy. I mean, I just adopted another and he's
laying right here on the floor with me. And he
picked me, he truly picked me at the shelter. You know,
the gentleman that I was working with, he said, Robin,
he's he never comes out. He's been here for three years.
(07:18):
And I was like, well, what's his story? And he
said he hides on adoption day because it's a it's
a sanctuary. So he was a free free range basically
free range pump and and it was drizzling out. I
was there with one of my girlfriends. I had adopted,
you know before and I had just lost a dog,
so I you know, I was in a very fragile
(07:39):
state and this guy just came out of nowhere and
gave me the bump.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And I thought I was going home with a different dog,
and I and here he is. This is not the
dog I went to.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
See life sometimes.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But he yeah, he chose me. He he truly chose me.
And I think the universe sent him my way. I think,
you know, my the pup that had passed said that's
your mom, go go be with her.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, so I'll think, so thanks for what you do.
I'm a big ab I say again, I'm like, no,
we we we were not We're not buying dogs or
I no, I'm not doing all that at once.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'm a good right And if you can't have a dog,
I mean, I know some people are not in a
situation where they can actually have a dog. But there's
a lot you can do. The shelter always needs things,
whether it's blankets, towels, you know, toys, leashes, like there's
always something that that you can do. And and and
I actually started a nonprofit up in South Carolina and
(08:41):
now I've just started another here in Florida. And and
that's what I do. I you know, I collect. You know,
you know, folks are always throwing stuff away. So you know,
if you've got those tired sheets or tired towels or blankets,
don't throw them in the trash. I mean, the shelter
uses that stuff and it and those consumables. You know,
(09:02):
paper towels go to Costco. Get an extra dozen paper
rolls and paper towels. I mean, you can't imagine what
a shelter goes through on a daily basis. And that
stuff is not cheap, you know, So don't throw that
stuff away. And that's that's what I do. I mean,
I drop off. There's a rotwhil of rescue right around
the corner from my house. And you know, it doesn't
matter what they need. I'll put the word out in
(09:23):
my community, in my neighborhood because I live in a
gated community eleven hundred homes here. Somebody's always got something
to give, and it doesn't have to be money, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I agree, And like you said that, because I do
always I seld some people about that. I go, yeah,
I have to old towels or anything. There's some dogs
and cats are on the floor. They're on marble floors
or on exact cement. Man. Yeah, so it's like, yeah,
so old towels, sheets. Now you said, you said to
the words out of my mouth. I agree with all
I agree with all of that. Yes, yes, yes, it's
always to be money. And also I'll add to that.
(09:55):
My friend goes every Friday in San Francisco and pets
all the dogs see and it goes for like two hours.
He said he thought he was doing it for them,
but now he's hooked.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's therapy.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Tell you, guys, it's always be so, yes, yes, we're
If I got a farm in Los Angeles, I would.
I can't have a farm, but if I could have
a chance. Friends know that I don't have all kind
of things.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I'm with you, Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So the twit skiers are saying that that's that's right,
that's why PSA for today, and that's songs and catspade
or neuter of course, exactly. Always Bob Barker.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Told you that, guys, did we doated ourselves?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We did ourselves?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What Barker you carried out? Like whatever you don't have
talk about? He always said that another thing did you do?
I think it's I think I want to know more
about it. I think it's fascinating. So I so I
so I get home girl here, I'm like, Okay, when
can we do a show together? Blah blah, Like, well,
you know, I can do show, but if it's if
I have a town hall, I have to moderates. I'm like,
(11:05):
I like, I didn't say it like that. I'll be funny.
I know you joke with this. I'll be funny. But seriously,
I was like, oh, I want to know more about that.
So please, you are a moderator for tele something hauls, right,
please talk about that way. I'm very curious about that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yes, so, yes, So I moderate telephone town halls for
US congressmen and women, and I've been doing that for gosh,
it's it'll be two years in February. And it was
just happened, chance, folks, happened chants. I literally had a
(11:42):
friend of mine, a rock jock up in New York,
reached out to me and he said, hey, I'm I
just got off the phone with somebody. They're looking for
a moderator. He didn't tell me what it was for.
He just said they're looking for a moderator. They need
a woman on the roster and would you be interested?
Can I pass along your contact information? And I was
like sure, I mean, I'm a voice I'm a voice talent. Yeah,
(12:04):
you can pass around and you can pass my contact
information please, and and uh so he did and they
and I got a phone call and yeah, yeah, speaking
with this lovely young woman and she said, you know
we we are hired by by congress members to moderate
(12:26):
telephone town halls. Are you interested? And I was like,
tell me more, because I was. I was fascinated. I
didn't even know this was a thing. And and that's
how it started, you know. She she said, well, you know,
first we have to do a background check. We may
make sure that you know, nobody's a whack a doodle
on either side of the aisle. It's like, okay, I
get it. And so they did a background check. They
(12:49):
checked my references, they you know, they and they look
through my social media. Of course, I mean I would
expect that. And then they asked, they invited me to
join a call to shot somebody that was doing this.
And the reason it came about was because one of
the congress members, and I'm not sure who it was
she would not share that with me, and she needn't
(13:10):
do that, but she said, somebody said, why are there
no women on the roster? And I love that question.
I absolutely love that question. And and because it's important,
I mean, I have that conversation with my you know,
with my clients, myself, I'm like, why are there no
women in this, you know, in these roles? So that
(13:31):
that that was how it started. I started shadowing this
gentleman who is who was moderating, and then I, you know,
I got my own rhythm, and of course it's it's
I want to say, you know, the intros and the
outros are very scripted, of course, and you're taking callers live,
so anything can happen. It's a live show. There's there's
(13:51):
there's no backtracking, you know. Yeah, so you've got to
be on your toes. You've got you know, you've got
a chat session open in one window with the congress
member's staff, and you've got another chat session with your
technical team in case, god forbid, anything goes wrong. Well
you need help on the call. But as we do this,
(14:14):
you know, we do a pre check for about twenty
five minutes and then we go live for sixty to
ninety minutes, and it's just bang, bang, bang, going through
the questions and bringing callers on live and listening to
their questions or their comments or their statements, and listening
to the congress member addressing those those issues. And you
can imagine in this political landscape that we're currently you know, witnessing,
(14:39):
there's a lot of questions, and there's a lot of concerns,
and there's a lot of fear. And I was never
particularly motivated and not particularly interested. And I have to
tell you, in a little more than a year and
a half now, I'm just just I don't know. I'm
not like cobsmacked. I guess you'd say, you know what's
(15:02):
going on, and and it's just fascinating. It's it's absolutely fascinating,
and it's a privilege. And to me personally feel very
privileged to be doing the work because it's, you know it,
you know, it is pretty intense and and getting the
word out is incredibly important and to be able to
(15:25):
help facilitate those calls is it's just I think it's
you know, it's it truly is a privilege.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I love Modraine Panels and everybody can do it. It's like,
well you do nobody can do either. It's it's a
it's a special skill. And I think it's it's interesting
that you said when you have you have no idea
what someone's going to say. Yeah, that's always that's button.
(15:53):
Yeah I got that's gonnappen already here. But it's exciting though,
that parts me. I find it exciting. I find it
if i'd it very alive. It's like it's life right
front of you. And these are real You're taught to
real people.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, with real problems. And I mean, and some of
the stories are just heart wrenching, like absolutely heart wrenching.
You know, there are people out there that are truly
suffering and h and and those are the people that
are calling in, you know, people who who are experiencing
hardship and you know, and want some answers and need
(16:28):
the help and don't know where to go and and
and it's you know what I've learned these Congress, many
of them, And I can't you know, I don't speak
for everyone, of course, but many of them, truly, I
just gave myself goosebumps. They truly want to help. They're like,
call our office, we'll put you in touch with me.
(16:49):
They know how to get it done, you know. So yeah,
maybe then they're not lifting the big rocks that we've
got to lift right now. But but this stuff that
they can do in their own community that can be
very helpful. And you know, I was very that's very
uplifting for me to hear that there are people that
(17:09):
that can help want to help. But if you don't,
if you don't ask, you don't get right. That's right,
true exactly, And you know what, no one wants to
say no. People want to say yes.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That's true, that's right true. And I do believe there
are a lot of people on local levels who really
do want to help. Yeah, I have politics, and local levels,
they really do want to help you. They do to
make sure everything is going okay in their districts or
in their in their communities. They really do. And it's
hard to service everyone. You can't really do it individually,
(17:46):
just can't. So I guess you can on like I's
somebody give the good a chance to help a few people,
you know that gets around that this person helped me,
and they get they it's around so exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
And these town halls I had to tell you they've
been instrumental and and you know and helping people because
and naturally these these folks met, you know, congress members,
they can't be everywhere at once. I mean, you know,
half the time they're you know, they're in Washington, the
other half the time they're home. August was a really
quiet month because they were on recess, but we still
(18:19):
had we still had a handful of congressional calls. Happened
because these congress members were taking doing these town halls
from their hometowns and you know, and and you know,
getting into the school gymnasiums and inviting the community, and
so that's very encouraging. You know, they they continue to
do that, and you know, I think that that word
(18:39):
is getting out and people are showing up and they're yeah,
and some of you know, there's always there's always issues, right,
There's always going to be issues on both sides of
the aisle ze. Yeah, but these telephone town halls, you know,
have been I think, you know, they're serving a purpose
and and that's that's and and they're in my house,
(19:04):
they're keeping the lights on, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Us.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This is a win win for me.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Be able to make some be able to make some
money and do something when you're giving back at the
same time, right.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And who would have thought? And you know, it's been
a great experience for me. And not that I haven't
done other live events. I mean, you know, I've moderated,
like like yourself, I mean, I haven't done a lot
of panel work, but I have moderated. Uh, the South
Carolina University's commencement ceremonies, graduation and commencement so much fun
(19:40):
and like you know, you speak to every kid that's
coming across that stage. And I spent a lot of
time talking to those kids to make sure that I
was able to pronounce their names, because no one wants
to be you know, their friends and family are there
and you hack their last name. I'm like, I'm not
going to do that. So I went out and you know,
I spent time getting to know the kids and you know,
(20:00):
and learned just you know, to pronounce their names phonetically,
you know, just we did and make note my notes
so that when they crossed that stage, I nailed it,
you know, And there that's just joyful. It's such a
joyful moment for them and their friends and their families.
So I love being part of that kind of stuff.
And I officiate weddings, you know, I'm ordained. So yeah,
(20:22):
I get to do a lot of cool stuff. That's
that takes me out of the booth.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yes, yes, I da. Here's the thing. So I was
telling people. For me, I had hippie parents. They were
hippies from the sixties. They taught us very young all
kinds of stuff. But only did he just very young,
was that you always you always build a village, you
always the community. So I took that with me as
(20:48):
an adult. Wherever I lived, I always got involved. Wherever
it was, I found a way. It was a big city,
small city, wherever. And when I was in college, I
got involved, like I always got involved. And I think,
so hearing your story, that's a way of getting involved.
And I think people always wonder, well, how I get involved?
Why I do? Well, here's what. It's one example of
somebody doing something, but there's a million examples out there. Yes,
(21:10):
I can fit to your strengths. Yes, to get involved.
There's not just one way to do it. And I
I was always taught where you live, you give back.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I still do to this day. So am I doing
these shows?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
For me is giving back, Yes, yes, it is, yes.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, doing this. I feature people, I do audio dramas.
That's my way of giving back, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I just have fun.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I say things that was about that in a second.
I say things that people feel like Jameson gave me
a voice and you said when you have that scene
and that's in that audio drama. Or I'll say something
one of my shows and I felt the same way.
I'm connected, like that's why we connections. I've connected with
so many the shows, like five years old and that's well,
I actually learned seven years old. I've had so many
(21:54):
guests I've connected with that my audience is connected with
because no man or woman is an island. We are
all here together. And I always say, it's my my
hippie parents. What you do. Whether Robin knows who I
am or not, it affects her still. The ripple effect
(22:15):
you don't know, it will not be a cognizant of it,
but we all do separately affects everything collectively.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, I'll talk about that. So I'm bad for the
work you do, and that's that's great to say. It's
a very interesting way of doing that's very interesting, Like
I've never heard it before my entire life. So I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's it's good stuff. I mean this, And like
you said, I mean there's a lot that any one
of us can do, you know, following your passion. I mean,
you know, for me, it's you know, it's it's kids
and animal and it's people. And I don't I don't know.
We hadn't talked about this, and it's certainly not in
my bio, but I mentioned earth mentioned to you that
I ride a motorcycle. While I was in California, I
(22:56):
belonged to a motorcycle group, not a club. I belong
to a motorcycle group called Bikers Against Bullies, where we
would ride our motorcycles into schools and we would talk
to the kids about bullying. And it literally exploded into
(23:17):
all of a sudden, it was getting content because I
was the female spokesperson for our chapter in Beauford, South Carolina,
and I was getting calls from the Girl Scouts of America,
the Boy Scouts of America, you know, and we would
go like literally I was the you know, the gentleman
who was the president of our chapter, I guess. And
then myself as the female spokesperson. We would do skits
(23:40):
with the kids. We would talk about bullying, you know,
we would talk about why why bullying occurs, and then
often it starts in the believe it or not, starts
in the home. And then we would talk about random
acts of kindness. We would talk about respect, not just
for another but for ourselves self respect. At the time,
(24:01):
I had a dog who was deaf and had one eye.
He was a rescue and he looked different from everybody else,
and we would talk about how it's okay to look
different and still be lovable, and that really resonated with
the kids. They knew that he had been abused. We
never shared what had happened to him, but they knew
(24:21):
he had been abused and that and they knew that
that I had rescued him. And even though he looked
different and he couldn't hear, and he had one eye,
the you know, he had a bullet in his shoulder,
you know, he was very special. And I'll tell you
everybody in that town knew my dog so and so
it just takes one and when you when you spend
(24:45):
time with like minded people and it grows into a
group you know, that just becomes you know, all of
a sudden. We're talking to at the time, I was
living in Beaufort, South Carolina, which is right outside of
Hilton Head. Then we're being invited to go up and
speak in Charleston, and we're going you know, and we're
going here, and we're going there, and we're in the
state house in Colombia and it just exploded. It just
(25:11):
it's like a snowball, you know, it just takes one
and then you know, you you band together with other
people and you become this very powerful force in your community.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
We did say, well, so at Dema Kits it's twenty twenty.
La is shut down. I mean, we're industry town. It's
shut down. There's nothing going on. So all these actors
who are just sitting around, you know, with some of
their ass not doing anything. I decided A friend of
mine came in and said, James, I had written this soap opera.
(25:44):
We can't film it. What we do like radio. Because
he said that, I was like, I'm a yes person.
I'm like, shoure, let's try it. I was like, how
we're gonna do it out now. Luckily, see who came around.
We found out you was the best way to record it.
Very downloaded the programs to you know, clean it all up.
But it was like we started with one show. It's
(26:05):
Forever a Day. A lot of people know the show
and it was a huge hit for us. But my
point was that we came together, we found like minded
people like you said, who had known to go on,
and we believed it that we treated it seriously. We
had a lot of fun put out and I have
I have several major awards on my shelf back here
from that podcast, from that that audio dropper. The point
(26:28):
I'm trying to make is that when she's talking about
what I'm talking about, you can start small, do something
that you like them. They're biking us. We like talking
and build something and you never know where it can
go in a positive way, right, And we helped shape
(26:49):
and bring in another era of this whole audio drama world.
And it's like a lot of people weren't doing them,
but I was thinking, well there's audible who are people
are listening to books but also tired of watching TV.
And there's a mixture in there somewhere, and we found it.
And I think for you, bikers always have a bad
reputation in quotes and a guy like, oh, their edgy
(27:10):
or whatever. I love motorcycles. I do. They're sexy and dangerous.
I love them. But the fact that you said, we
can turn this around into something that's really positive, that's
it's it's almost that simple, folks. It kind of you
take what you like as a as a hobby and
you can turn into something to help other people. That's
(27:33):
my big points because.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
We are yeah, and it does it really truly changes
people's perception of you as well. I mean, so you know,
and at the time I was corporate, I was corporate America,
so you know, so I had I had a nerd.
I had a big nerd job, right, But then I
rode a motorcycle. You know, there's so many people out
there that ride motorcycles that are doctors, attorneys, they're you know,
(27:57):
they're they're they're you know, white call are folk out there.
I mean, and of course, you know, there are people
out there that are doing dum dumb stuff on motorcycles,
but there are also people out there, like myself that
are you know, that that are changing people's perception of motorcyclists.
And I remember being in public supermarkets, and it happened
(28:19):
more than once, believe me. And Beaufort was about you know,
Beaufort County's about one hundred and twenty thousand people. Beaufort,
I don't even want to call it a city. It's
a township if you will, it's I mean, it's you know,
small coastal community, twelve thousand people. But when you're in
publics and you want, you know, and your bike's out
(28:40):
in the parking lot and you walk in and I
got a leather vest on and a pair of jeans,
and I'm grocery shopping. I'm just stopping to pick up
a few things, dog food, data DA. And this kid
comes out of nowhere running towards me.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Mom.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Mom, that's the leady from school on the motorcycle. And seriously,
the mom walks up to me and says, oh my god.
You know, he hasn't stopped talking about you. It left
such a great impression. And two years later I was
being featured in a Beaufort local life magazine because someone
had nominated me for the work that I was doing
(29:14):
in rescue. Not the motorcycle stuff, but the work I
was doing in rescue. Because the word had gotten out
and I was a one man show. But my one
man show is me going to people's homes picking up
things like dog crates and you know whatever people wanted
to donate. So that just left a lasting impression. And
when I left that town, I mean, I had so
(29:36):
much love because I have a Facebook group and you know,
the people knew. They were like, well, who's going to
take it over? And I said, I if someone wants
to step up and take it over, because I can't
do this from Florida. It takes a village. And if
your village doesn't step up, it's not going to get done.
(29:56):
It's just not going to get done.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Remind me of a story with me I was Plank.
I'm telling the story, but I kind of want to
really quick a little short story about twenty years ago. No,
this is longer than that I was. I was longer
I was. This was the early nineties or early nineties.
A friend of mine and I used to walk by
this house in Saquento, California, and we see this cat
(30:18):
that was in in a cage hanging in a tree.
Oh god, their nails had grown around the hold onto
the thing. We kept walking by, walking by. I remember
going to the police station. That's what they're like. They're like,
we can't do anything or whatever. So I don't recommend
(30:39):
that was prefaces. I don't recommend it to you at home.
I was thirties, I was younger and more agile, and
I was like, one night, my friend and I got
a ladder and I got up there and got that
cat off from there. And her name was Babat. We
did a bad bat and baba was my cat. We
(31:00):
had three cats. That cat's coming to me every night.
So it's really weird. So one of the things that
she would do, she would do when we laughed, I
thought I was about this in years. She would lick
the blinds next to my bed. I'm thinking it's because
she she had a cage. Maybe she was licking the cage.
I don't know. Like so I find it was like
that she eat flies she had for dinner when she
(31:23):
was on the cage. There were things I figured, I'm
thinking it must have dood it. And her nails were
still weird cut her nails would always grow still like that.
But we gave her a good life till she passed.
I mean she lived on us for like six years,
seven years after that, but I said, I'm gonna say
try it home. Am I getting mad at me and
I said you should. My saying we have vigilante or
your something to say, we did it we were young.
I'm glad I did I do it again. I'm glad
(31:44):
I did it. That was my choice as an adult.
I did it. But I'm just saying that it's it's
it's interesting because you walk people people, and this is
for a while bringing this up. It's kind of like
what you're talking about helping people walk by quotes, you know,
maybe not be walking. You walk by, you see stuff,
and you don't do anything amazing because you're just not
(32:07):
sure you can. We're telling Rob and I are telling
you you can't. You can find a way to do something.
If you see something, you can do something that's meaningful. Now,
my model for my organized business is small steps lead
to large rewards. That's my test love that it's small step.
Just any any step, any step is a step, and
(32:30):
that's very profound, but it really is like any steps
a step. And I just think that we're giving you
examples of just kind of like that's why I do
the show. If you're at homegoing God, I really do
want to do something. We're saying, yes, do something, find
a way to do it. There's no one way to
do anything. Just find a way to do it that
can work within for you too. Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
And I would talk and I love that, and I absolutely,
I absolutely said the same thing to people. Do you
see something, say something? Saying something is doing something? Yes,
and yep, it's doing something. It doesn't maybe it doesn't
feel like that, but if you're telling someone who can
do something, you've done something. You know, I've seen a
(33:13):
lot of horrific things, you know, in the animal rescue.
I'm aware of things that you know, you give you,
you know, give me, give me nightmares. And I and
so that was always like, you know, when when a
storm was coming, I'm like, guys, this is bring your
animals in. If you are aware of someone who's got
(33:34):
a dog chained to a tree, that dog, if you
don't say something, and now you've got a lot of
animal advocates out there, and you've got animal rescue people
out there that will go and they will get that
that animal. But I used to say that. I used
to say the same thing to kids when I was
talking about bullying. If if you're aware of someone being bullied,
(33:56):
you may not be able to do something yourself, but
you can go tell somebody, Tell a parent, tell a teacher,
tell a guard, you know, a guidance counselor you know,
tell someone that someone is being you know, bullied, harassed.
You know what? What tell someone who can do something
doesn't make you you know what. I've had so many
(34:18):
conversations with kids because if you're not saying something, you're
part of the problem. You're either there's there's two things.
You're either part of the problem you're part of the solution.
Which one are you? And kids got that? They got
that message so.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well they have the Well kids are unencumbered, so you
talked to them plainly, they'll get the message easily. Yeah,
become adults adding all stuff into it. But you're not true, right,
you're not. That's true kids. The kids are basic. Just
you tell them basically what's going on? Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And yeah, because they don't have an agenda. We are
we are not powerless people. We are not powerless right here.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I know, but I think we forget that sometimes. I
think people we do forget that, or people just don't
know they don't. That's why I always try not to myself.
I try to have compassion. If someone's like I had
no idea, not saying to them, I'm sure you had
an idea. Maybe they didn't have idea, Maybe maybe they
just really didn't. And I'm like, so i gotta go, Okay,
well now you do. Now I'm telling you. And I
(35:27):
would say, and I'm gonna say this to you, I'm
signing it's all to animal stuff, but I want to
say I always do all the time. When it's hot outside, God,
do not take your dogs for a walk without having
some kind of booties on them or something. Take them
somewhere with the shade. Take them somewhere where it's grass,
where it's not in the sun. I can't say how
(35:48):
many dogs I've seen their paws are just ft up.
I'm like, because of that, we just we seriously, folks.
Or if it's super hot out there, there's no shade
you have the outside, bring up. Sorry, I gott bring
him in. I'm sorry you just got to you and
it was freezing outside. Same thing.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I say, take off your shoes. Take off your shoes.
If you're unsure that pavement's too hot, take your shoes
off and walk on the pavement. I've had this conversation
and I've been told, you know, you know, people have
said some pretty nasty things to me. But I'm like,
take your shoes off. Feels like That's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Because I'm like, this dog is going you see you
see it happen. I'm like, what are you fucking what
do you? Yeah, what do you do? What the beat
are you doing?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And he and Florida. So I'm out at night walking
my dog. We walk early in the morning, and we
walk late at night. And sometimes my late at night
is ninth thirty ten o'clock because it's so dang hot
and he'd prefer to be out at night.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
You know. Yeah, we have well, we have we have
we have desert, we have palm streings, we have the
desert areas in the valley. We have the valley. Yes,
out there. I'm like, carr folks, if you're sweating, they're
sweating too. I'm like, if they're called your culture because.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
And these you know, and the same thing with hot cars,
I'm like, leave them home. It's summertime. Leave them home.
If you can't bring them into home depot or lowse
with you leave them home. God, I have these conversations.
I've rescued two dogs out of hot cars.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I have to oh my god, we start on that. Also,
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
God, Rob is gonna be an animal show.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I know, so I would have to have you back
on another time when something else, because this is I
want to I want to cap it here because we
actually have some really good conversations about the stuff. Because
it's I mean, well, animals also connections to the US.
Animal always. This is what I always say, Robin, I'm
not a dog owner. The dog owns me.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
My dog knows that.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You know it's too, Robbie know it's too. Yes, we
are the ones I said, Well, I'm a dog caregiver.
I'm here. I had a dog, a dog caring for,
but I never say dog about I changed my legs
a long time, and I go because I love these
dogs so much. I'm at Sprinkles Cupcakes getting pupcakes with
his God for taking dog. They cost like seven dollars each.
(38:19):
I'm like I.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Always say to people, he's not picking up my poop.
I'm picking up.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Exactly. I don't for my kids. I'm going buy with
seven dollars things I'm buying for a dog. Yeah, sure,
I'm like, hello, yeah I am.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Oh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
My mother who lost her husband a couple of years ago,
thank you. Yes, it was it was sudden. Getting her
a dog was the best thing we could have done
because now she's up. Yes, I want to mention that
before we go much that too. Having an animal gives
you a reason for older people who can still get it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Purpose.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Ye, purpose, It is totally purpose. So I'm saying, fine,
try to find the right dog, because I mean, there's
two rad bunks just before, but there are other dogs
that were just enough. It was like, okay, they can coexist.
She eat it, you know what I mean. I take
care to get outside the cane, but she can walk
with the cane and dog, so I think it's in.
And her name is Duchess, Amelia latest dog named Duchess,
(39:25):
and she's cute and she actually but but I always
say that, you know, animals can give a purpose to
an older where she was alone, and we just really
can really can because less blessed with dogs. Cats think
they're human when it comes to dogs. They do unconditional
support and love. All they want you to do they
want to want to lick you, hang out with.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
You, they love you, love you, and breed does matter.
Breed matters, you know. You people adopt dogs that they
have no no, no, you know, they've done no research,
and then they wonder why this isn't working. Well, it's
the wrong dog for you.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
So breed matters like those I said, can you find
the right dog?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
That you gotta find the right dog?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Also age too, because we have one that.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Was yes, yeah, you're not gonna want a puppy, you know,
get a senior, adopt a senior. I can't tell you
how many how many people dump senior dogs like this
dog's lived with you for nine ten years and you're
just done. How do you crush a heart like that?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You know, I'm sorry. My whole thing is and I
will say, this is my show. I don't care, I
will say, and I will stand on it. So when
people abuse dogs like that, that should be horse whipped. Yeah, sorry,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I have no which we could punish people the way
that they've Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I'm sorry, I have no compassion.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
I wish because if I was in charge.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I'm sorry. I just I just when I see I'm
us of a dog or a cat or any kind
of animal.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I'm sorry any animal, any animal, no.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Capassion for you whatsoever and done to you. Yes, Rob,
I love you. You're You're just like the best. You're
coming back on. She's come back on.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I would love to.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
We'll space it out looking on again. I think this
is a good discussion. He will leave it here, a
good discussion here. We talk about connection.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
We did, yes, yes, we did. Yeah, it's just a
different kind of connection, right, Yes.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I like that animal connect yeah, very much so. And
I have a lot of animal lovers in my fans,
so I know you guys will love this well. So
tellphones where they can find you if they want to
find you for stuff, tell what they can find you.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yes, So I'm on LinkedIn. I spell my name Robin
with a y R O B y N Newton like
Sir Isaac or the cookie. So you can find me
on LinkedIn. You can find me on Instagram Robin Newton
v O. I am a facebooker, so I've got a
I've got a personal page out there, but you're more
than welcome to hit me up personally. And I also
(41:52):
have a business page, so yeah, don't be shy I
mean if you're if you love animals and you love kids,
or you've got or you're curious about what I do
or how I got started, and you want to help
animals in your community and be happy to share everything
I've learned, what works you know? And uh, and I
mean it's it. It's not without some effort. But you know,
(42:16):
kindness is free. And I always say, sprinkle that ship everywhere.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yes, that's all. We'll end the show. I'm James, not
Junior ex Connections. We'll talk to you next time.
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