April 17, 2025 • 44 mins
This week, the Junkies talk about the best pets in pop culture: the goodest boys, the bestest girls, the finest...fish? Whether furry, feathery or finned, animal characters in the media are often the most lovable and memorable. Shauna and Olivia discuss what makes a great on-screen critter. Cats, dogs or other? Animated or animatronic? Talking or mute? They list their favorites, including Garfield, who happens to both Junkies' spirit animal, and the pets they definitely wouldn't cuddle with, ever. The discussion then moves to famous real-life pets, and scandals like Lady Gaga's purloined pooches and the Kardashians' disappearing doggos. Ruh-roh!
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(00:00):
♪ Entertain me, entertain me right now ♪
(00:04):
- Welcome to Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
I'm Shuana, and I'm Olivia.
- This week we are talking about
some of the very best characters Pop Culture has to offer.
The goodest boys, the bestest girls,
the funny, furry, extra chonky,
the pets in pop culture.
(00:24):
I can't believe we've talked about
Pop Culture pets before.
I was kind of surprised.
- Yeah, I feel like we've had some honorary mentions
just with things happening within Pop Culture
where a pet is involved.
I think the biggest mention of pets that we've had
is truly does this dog die,
which is does this dog die.com?
(00:46):
- It does, it does. - Shauna should have come.
- Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, and Shauna taught me about this
because she is infamous for spoiling a movie.
And sometimes she sees a pet just to know does the dog die?
They have expanded their offerings into cats,
all animals, right? - Or horses,
like does a baby get hurt, which like whatever.
(01:06):
(laughing)
- Fucking kids, fucking kids.
There's all sorts of animal triggers,
but honestly, I really only care about the dogs.
Now that I wanna see any other animals die,
but like I'll get over it.
I wouldn't watch John Wittbury.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Right? - Bye.
- Oruses, bye.
(01:26):
- You can't watch the Lord of the Rings if you're not okay
with horses dying.
So yeah, just the dog die.com.
I think I mentioned that in the first episode
of the podcast, like ever.
(laughing)
- Well, you're their biggest fan, their most avid user.
- I think so, they should sponsor us, honestly.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- We'll circle back on that.
(01:47):
- Circle back on the sponsor. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Right that time, right that time.
- Right that time, right that time.
- Producer, right that time.
(laughing)
- So, what do you feel makes?
Okay, I should tell the viewers.
I think the viewers, the listeners.
I guess some people are viewing us.
Hi, Patreon.
- And YouTube.
- And YouTube, hey.
(02:08):
Do you like talking animals?
Okay, wait, let me circle back.
This is the thing I was gonna tell the listeners.
We're gonna be talking about fictional pop culture pets
and then some real pop culture pets.
So, I'll go back and forth a little bit.
Speaking of fictional pets, do you like talking animals, Olivia?
- So, when we decided we were gonna do this episode,
(02:32):
I realized all of my favorite pop culture pets
are animated animals and they do talk.
I don't love a, like, I guess they would just be
like an animatronic pet.
- Yeah.
- Who is talking, like I don't want them to be lifelike
and talking, which is odd because if Ziggy could talk
(02:54):
to me right now, I would love that.
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
I wanna know exactly what Buffy's thinking.
One of my favorite pets that I will get to
after our first break is an animatronic talking animal.
But you'll like this one, I promise.
Everybody likes this one.
- Yeah, yeah.
Like I think of the Lion King,
where John Oliver is that frickin' toucan.
(03:16):
- Oh God, and Beyonce is Nala.
I don't think those are pets though,
but I feel you, I'm not hey.
- They could be.
- They could be.
- If not pet, why pet size?
(laughing)
- If not pet, then why friend shape?
Why, yeah.
- Exactly.
- Exactly.
- If I die trying to pet something
that will probably eat me, then that's fine.
(03:37):
Like, yeah.
- I've died doing what I love.
- Yeah, if a dog tears my face off,
I'm still gonna call it a good boy.
It's just honkeys.
It's just honkeys, it's fine.
It had a need at that moment in time
and I was happy to fulfill it.
- It's fine, take what you need from me.
(laughing)
- Okay, but what if it was like the pet,
(03:59):
the lion from...
- What was that lion movie we watched?
I can't even remember the name.
We did a collab, so don't I?
- Oh my God, the like most violent movie ever made
or whatever it was called.
Oh yeah, no, for those.
- Yes, for.
- No, I don't want them.
'Cause they're not friend shaped.
Lions are not friend shaped.
- Absolutely not.
- No.
(04:20):
- They're not gonna follow a lion though.
- Yeah, I guess that's true.
- I don't know, those lions were 19.
- There are plot holes in this, but you know.
- Yeah, let's listen.
- They weren't talking, they weren't talking.
So maybe that's why.
- And you and I have never been ones
for continuity, so.
(laughing)
Just here for the vibes always.
(04:42):
(laughing)
So some famous pop culture pets that don't talk.
We have Beethoven.
Beethoven doesn't talk, but I guess he's real.
Snoopy doesn't talk.
- Snoopy doesn't talk, but is animated.
He's like the plot device there, I guess.
- Yeah.
- Snoopy is a quality cartoon pet.
(05:04):
And then Clifford the big red dog.
Does he talk?
I don't remember.
I don't know.
I know he's humongous.
I don't know why he's humongous.
He's a big boy.
- He's a big boy.
- He's a big boy.
And Snoopy do like kind of talks?
- Yeah, he's got like a Ruby.
- Yeah. - Wow.
- Scoopy do is definitely on my list
(05:25):
of like favorite animals.
Mainly because he's like a stoner.
And he just wants to like hang out
and eat some sandwiches with his stoner friend.
- Oh yeah.
- So he's a much smaller size,
but when I could smoke weed, I really embraced that.
I was like, where are you my Scoopy?
Just enjoying some Scoopy snacks together, man.
(05:47):
- Absolutely.
- Yeah.
- Dude, yeah, Buffy has definitely had,
she's not like partaken in any like substances with me,
but she's always like getting the good bits out of it
because I'll be eating like Taco Bell
and stuff will fall on the floor.
I'll be like, you want a fry?
You know, she's like, oh thank God, mom's drunk again.
(06:08):
I'm gonna eat half of that.
- I feel like it. - I feel like I need to say
that I'm also not getting my dog high, but.
(laughing)
- Disclaimer, pop culture junkie does not agree
with getting your pets high or drunk.
- When trucking your animals, I'm not drunk at your head.
- Unless it's like for travel, you know.
- Been a drunker than a beer later.
- Been a drunker than a beer later.
- Or something, yeah.
(06:29):
- Yeah, there you go.
- Yeah, there's some iconic pets that we know
and think about all the time.
Like we have lassie, we have Beethoven,
we have Lady in the Tramp.
There are so many good ones that we see throughout
and Rinton Tinn from the 1920s.
So animals have really been through movies, pop culture
(06:51):
since the beginning of Hollywood almost.
- Yeah, that's true.
Oh, Rinton Tinn, that's a nice throwback.
Do you think that the best pop culture animals are dogs?
Then I feel like we're mentioning a lot of dogs.
I think that I gravitate towards dogs,
but my list is actually not filled with dogs.
(07:14):
- So maybe.
- Yeah, so I think that, you know, it depends.
Like I think there's some memorable other animals
that exist within pop culture,
but dogs are so pervasive in, I guess,
just like American culture.
- Yeah, that's true.
Two minor dogs and one cat.
(07:34):
I will say, I just thought of an iconic pet
that I should have added to my list of breakdowns,
Garfield, man.
What an icon.
All this guy wants to do is eat lasagna and like sleep.
Same.
- Absolutely.
- Same.
- He hates Mondays.
- Yeah, this Monday, I was like the older I get,
the more I am becoming just Garfield in general.
(07:57):
Like I really thought about it for a while on Monday.
- It was a particularly rough Monday.
- Yeah, I mean Garfield hates Mondays.
I love the prevalence of those like really fucked up
like Garfield, minor Levin.
- I know Levin Garfield.
- Yeah.
- Have you seen that?
- Yes.
It was like a Garfield cartoon strip
(08:19):
that was in the New York Times on the morning of
the September 11th and it's like John,
that's the guy is pet.
Oh yeah, John Arbuckle gets a phone call
and he's like, what have you done, Garfield?
(laughing)
It just got to Garfield face like.
(laughing)
(08:39):
- I'm not saying Garfield did September 11th,
but who knows, who knows?
- Maybe.
- Where are we to say?
- Are there any pop culture pets that you don't like?
There are species of animals that you don't like
'cause I have one large species of animal
(08:59):
and if I see them in a movie,
I'm not gonna watch the movie.
- Interesting.
I don't know if I have ones that I don't like.
I mean, curious George was a little bit of a terrible
animal to own, but I feel like that might be
just monkeys in general.
Oh my gosh, have you seen no?
- When the monkey riffs everyone the shreds on the movie set.
(09:23):
- Yeah, or like that.
- Like what was the sequel to the Tiger King
with the Tanya lady, with the chimps?
- Oh yeah.
- Shoot, I didn't watch it, but I know what you're talking about.
That is my thing though, I don't like monkeys.
Like they creep me out, they're violent.
I just, I don't like them.
If I see a movie and it's about monkeys,
(09:45):
no, no.
- It's called Chimp Crazy.
- Yeah. - Like no.
- Those chimps were crazy.
They were ripping people's ears off.
They were ripping people to shreds.
- Yeah, chimps suck.
- Yeah, and anything that can suck.
- They suck.
- With opposable thumbs.
- No. - Yeah.
- I don't trust it.
- Not for me.
- I don't want that in my home.
I don't want that near my face,
for my children or my dog.
(10:07):
I remember watching Oprah as a kid and there was a lady on there
who had her like face ripped off by a chimpanzee.
And it was pretty graphic for being on three o'clock
daytime television.
- So stuck with you forever.
So I did, you know.
- Fuck them monkeys man.
- Sometimes those pop culture pets are iconic.
(10:27):
Not just we love them and we want to own them, you know.
They're just causing chaos.
- I never want to see a monkey ever again.
And that would be too soon.
(laughing)
So let's take a quick break and then talk about the pop culture pets
that we do actually like.
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(10:49):
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(11:12):
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- Or is it?
- Or is it?
- That's all Shana.
- She's a farting queen.
- Oh my God.
If I sold my Farts and Charrs,
I would be so rich, you guys.
- I'm so messy. - I'm so messy.
- So messy. - Why not?
- Yeah.
- Who's stopping me?
(11:32):
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- My husband doesn't listen to the podcast.
He doesn't need to know.
I'm gonna sell my Farts.
- Yeah.
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trumps the president.
- Farting with Char.
(laughing)
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(11:55):
the best of pop culture.
So speaking of the best,
Olivia, what pop culture pets do you wish that you could
cuddle up waiting, give some script to you?
- So I don't know if I wanna cuddle with them,
given everything that has happened recently
with the iconic killer whale, saga.
(12:17):
But I wanted to talk about Kiko the Orca.
- Yeah, don't cuddle with the cuddle with the whale.
- Yeah, maybe not.
Maybe the ones that are crashing all the yachts.
Like we could, we could, you know, swim by each other.
- Oh, solid, so great.
- Yeah, solidarity with the women who are attacking the yachts.
Eat the rich, baby.
Eat that branch.
(12:37):
- I think, I think one thing that makes a pop culture pet
iconic really is the memorability of that pet.
And when I think of Free Willy and Kiko the Orca,
not only did they spawn so many kids in the 90s
in the 2000s wanting to be a marine biologist.
(13:00):
- Oh my God, why did all of us wanna be marine biologists?
Do you think it was Free Willy?
I think it was Free Willy and the other pet that I'm gonna talk about.
- I don't think that like, Jindzi gets it.
We all wanted to be marine biologists.
I took like the marine biology class in high school
for like college credit.
Why did I do that?
(13:20):
- Yeah, it's not a science girl.
Not a science girl at all.
And yeah, I was like, I wanna be a marine biologist, no.
But one of the things about Free Willy the movie
is not just it made us all wanna be marine biologists.
It actually started the animal conservation movement
(13:42):
around killer whales.
It started a big discussion around
what the hell we were doing at SeaWorld.
Oh my God, right.
- Of course, now blackfish?
- Yeah, blackfish was that big.
- Yeah, so it really was kind of like an introductory
to us really caring about these animals
and getting down with them.
And then ultimately what came from blackfish as well.
(14:04):
And so I think that when I think of an iconic pet,
it brings awareness to it.
And it just sticks in memory.
And so for, you know.
- That's a good idea. - I got that.
- Yeah, not for cuddles, but for memory and childhood,
definitely have Free Willy up there on my iconic pets.
(14:25):
- I love that.
I remember watching Free Willy on like a school trip to San Diego.
And we all took a Greyhound bus and had Free Willy playing
on like the tiny little TVs in the bus.
And then at one point we had to pull over
in like every kid in the bus at Devama.
It was great.
(laughing)
- Just a bunch of barfing tenials.
(14:45):
- I was from trying to watch the movie on like this tiny
little screen.
- Yeah.
And like it's a six hour ride.
We're all like car sig.
(groaning)
- I have that.
- Just from the Italian job on a road trip with my friends mom.
Like, 'cause the cars are going like,
woo, like swerving.
So I guess Italian job in Free Willy has some more.
(15:06):
- Free Willy. - Yeah.
- Motion of the ocean in the Italian job.
(laughing)
- So I teased this a little earlier,
but my first pet I'm gonna talk about
is an animatronic talking cat.
Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
So we also saw a Salem in chilling adventures of Sabrina,
(15:26):
but he was just a black cat.
I'm not saying he wasn't a good boy,
but he was just a cat, right?
- He was, like a country little cat
that we all know and love.
- Oh my God.
Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch
is such a conty icon, right?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- So he's a warlock who is sent
to spend 100 years as a black cat
as punishment for trying to take over the world.
(15:47):
He is sarcastic and wise cracking.
He is voiced by Nick Bake.
And sometimes it's an actual cat.
Sometimes there'll be a black cat that runs by her
that Sabrina will be holding.
- But for the most part,
it is this like animatronic puppet cat.
And it is so funny.
And it dresses up and it does spells
(16:09):
and it gets really fat and it causes mischief.
And it is Sabrina's familiar and best friends.
- Very queer coded in the 90s, 2000s.
For like a kid teen show,
it really did give us kind of like this slightly evil gay
character who you just love because they're sassy.
(16:32):
Like most 90s, 2000s.
- Yeah, like he always had a good comeback to Sabrina.
As much as you could tell he loved her in the spellments,
he was always just kind of a little bitch to them.
But he loved him for it.
I remember him just fracking me up when I was watching.
I would watch Sabrina with my mom like every Friday
on TGIF.
(16:53):
It came on with boy meets world.
- So yeah, Salem the cat and animatronic talking animals.
I wish I had one.
I wish I had a robot cat right now.
- Oh, that's mean to my actual cat.
Toes can hang out with Salem.
- Yeah, yeah, they would get along.
- Maybe friends.
Toes does a big gun too, so.
(laughing)
(17:14):
- They're gonna hate us for saying the C words, sorry.
- Yeah.
- Toes does a big bitch too.
- It's with love as the Gen Z would say.
- We're like blaming it.
- So my next one, which feels like just a continuation
(17:35):
of Kiko La Orca, I gotta say flipper.
I don't know about you.
- I like that flipper.
- So much more.
A, like I love dolphins when I was younger.
And I still do love dolphins.
I think I've told the story about how I got to swim
with wild dolphins when I was in Hawaii
on the hot cast before.
- So cool.
(17:55):
- Yeah.
- But that was like really something that I always had.
Like my aunt and I both loved dolphins.
I actually like when she passed away,
it took a bunch of like the dolphin stuff
that I had gotten her and she had gotten me.
So flipper was actually played by multiple dolphins.
So it wasn't just one dolphin within it,
but really like any dolphin that you saw in the 90s
(18:20):
and 2000s was flipper.
- Was flipper.
- Yeah.
- Any killer whale was Willie.
- Yeah.
- Dolphin.
- It's flipper, but yeah.
- The funny thing about Kiko La Orca
is everyone just like called it free, Willie.
- When you said Kiko, I was like,
wasn't it's name just Willie?
Like I don't remember anything about that movie
except for whales and vomiting.
So just all that stuck with me, you know?
(18:43):
- Yeah.
- Flipper was a series in the 1960s.
It had like a theme song like,
♪ Lifer, Lifer ♪
Something stupid.
I don't know.
A song about dolphins.
Anyway, my pet is an actual, a real pet,
but was basically a movie star?
(19:05):
This pet was a movie star.
So I'm talking about Gijit the Chihuahua.
So Gijit is probably best known as the Taco Bell dog,
Yohiero Taco Bell.
- Taco Bell.
- Yes.
- And you know what?
That's true.
Yohiero.
- Taco Bell all the time.
Yohsiimbre, Kiyero Taco Bell.
(19:26):
(laughing)
That's why Buffy loves it so much, it's under blood.
- It really is.
She's just like, you're gonna get wine drunk,
watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and get Taco Bell again, 'cause I would love that.
So Gijit was a female Chihuahua
who became known as the Taco Bell dog.
She was born in 1994 and was discovered by a talent agency.
(19:48):
She literally is like a little actress.
It's like you always have that dream
when you're a kid,
that you're gonna walk through the mall
and someone's gonna stop and be like,
hey you there, do you wanna be an actor?
And then that happened to Gijit the Chihuahua.
So I love that for her.
- Could you imagine if you were just like holding
the Chihuahua and you're like, this is my big break
and then all of a sudden they're like,
(20:10):
no, not you, your dog.
- Not you, huh?
And you're like, shits, dammit.
That happened to my ex-boyfriend.
He was stopped in the mall by like a guy who said
he could be a model and took all these really creepy
pictures of him and then made him apply a lot of lotion
and like sent him pictures.
- Oh my God.
What the fuck?
- He thought he was gonna be like a famous model.
(20:32):
I swear to God and he would be like,
shonny you just don't get it.
You're just not model material.
- Where is he now?
- Oh God, Chicago.
Oh God.
- I don't know where Mr. Lotion is.
- We got a circle back on the abusey face.
- I can't believe he never told you that before.
Oh he sucked, the ex-boyfriend sucked.
(20:55):
- Okay, well maybe that was why.
- Yeah, I know, this was why we were together.
He was like 21 years old and he's like,
I got discovered at the mall today.
- Oh he definitely was.
- Yeah, we can find him on the...
- On the...
- Gaporn, not com.
- The Morn Mub.
- Yeah.
- The Morn Mub.
(21:15):
- Morn Mub.
- What do you mean anyway?
Okay, all right, we digress.
We digress, put the lotion on the scanner
unless it gets the hose again.
- Okay.
- So Gichit was a girl, but she was voiced by Carlos Alaz...
You can do it, sound it out.
- Alazra.
- Alazra key.
Alazra key.
(21:36):
Alazra key.
She was voiced by Carlos Alazra key,
who gave her that distinctive accent and delivery
that made her so memorable.
The ads were extremely popular in the 1990s.
I had a stuffed Taco Bell dog, like a stuffed animal,
and I loved that thing.
She was in so many ads.
(21:57):
Eventually, people started to think
that maybe it was a little culturally insensitive.
- Yeah.
- And so she got a little, you know, discontinued,
but never the fear.
She was also in some Geico commercials,
and she starred as Bruiser in Legally Blonde
to Red, White and Blonde.
(22:18):
- Oh, cute.
- Yes.
- What a starlet.
Literally, she had this wonderful acting career.
She passed away in 2009 at the age of 15,
but what a little actress.
She needs a like Hollywood star, honestly.
- Yeah, what an icon.
From Taco Bell, the Legally Blonde.
- Yeah.
- She could go from Taco Bell, real bad.
(22:39):
(laughing)
- That's from Legally Blonde too.
Mixed me up, the real bad.
- Mixed me up, some tacos, real bad.
- Jennifer Coolidge.
I almost called her Tanya from the White Lotus.
- Oh, god.
- These gays in Taco Bell are trying to kill me.
- Taco Bell is probably trying to murder you.
- Oh my god.
- It's some day it's gonna happen.
(23:00):
It's gonna happen.
- Yeah.
- But you know what, worth it.
- It's supplying your farts and jars.
- Okay.
- It's just like if a dog rips my face off
or I die from too much Taco Bell.
- I'm fine.
- I'm fine.
I died doing what I loved.
- No, red rest.
(laughing)
- Okay, what is your next one?
- So this isn't like a real animal.
(23:22):
So this is just my honorable mention.
Sorry, I'm gonna say this.
I'm gonna say it again.
The country little raptors in Jurassic Park 2.
So good.
Just icons, legends.
- Why are all of the raptors
in all of the Jurassic Park babies, country?
Like, I don't know.
- Yeah, I don't know.
- I don't know.
They just said, you know what?
(23:43):
We're gonna give those characters gays villain arcs.
And I love it.
- I love to think that they're, you know,
yeah, they're hangry, they're gonna be feisty.
- They have nice claws, like they got the nails.
- Yeah, they're just got their manicures.
Speaking of nails, I don't, I haven't worn any in a while.
I'm like losing who I am.
- Oh, thank you.
(24:03):
- We traded.
We traded.
- We did.
- So my last iconic pop culture pet
is going to have to be a total from the Wizard of Oz.
I think that there is only, you know, one original
dog in a movie and truly Toto,
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who's played by a dog named Terry, can take that.
And of course, you know, we always quote,
there's no place like home, all of those.
But I think that Toto really sticks with us
throughout the years.
Toto takes the place in our hearts since 1939.
Ultimately, there is no one who did it better
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and really made me want a Yorkshire Terrier.
- Oh, they're so cute.
- But yeah, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.
- Like a good boy, a good boy.
I think that Toto walked so that Gidgett could run.
- Yeah, you know, really opening the small dog market.
- Open the door for other small dog actors.
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(laughing)
- Get their palm in the door.
- Get the Judy Garland and Toto,
we're just popping some pills on the set,
really keeping it going.
Yeah, they were doing meth.
- Oh my God.
- They were doing uppers, they were doing downers,
they were having a grand old time.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah. - Diet pills.
- My last one that I'm gonna imagine is another good boy.
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Buddy from Air Bud.
- Icon. - Legend.
- Yes.
My first dog growing up was named Bud.
He was a corgi and I loved him so much.
- How original.
- I know, well, we got him from the humane society
and they were gonna put him to sleep like the next day.
He was on like the kill list.
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And my family was like, "Absolutely not, we want that dog.
"We don't care that it's like eight years old.
"It's this corgi in this flufe tail."
Like it was in a little stubby tail one.
It was so cute.
- I love a corgi but so much.
- I like talk about sass when they're walking.
- Oh, he had those cheekies and he wanted to hump everything.
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And me and Heather didn't know that that's what he was trying to do.
So when we would dance spice girls
and he would like try to hump our legs.
- Maybe like he's dancing.
- Yeah.
- He's doing the spice girls too.
- My mom would come and he'd like stop it.
- Stop it.
He's just dancing.
I don't get it.
- And she wonders why those Barbies ended up
on top of each other.
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- We just wanted to make them dance like Barb does.
(laughing)
- But we tried to rename him but he was eight years old
and he only came to his original name, which was Barb.
But AirBod came out in 1997 and it was about a golden retriever
who I would reread the description for this movie today
and I didn't remember how depressing it was.
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- Yeah.
- Yeah, this kid's dad dies.
He's very sad.
He moves to a new town.
Buddy, the dog is escaping from a cruel alcoholic clown
named Norman who made Buddy just like perform in the circus.
So now Josh, the sad kid with no dad
and Buddy who escaped the circus, alcoholics,
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found each other and what do you know, Buddy can play basketball.
And so he joins Josh's middle school basketball team
and brings them to the championships.
And this movie is amazing and heartwarming
and it makes you want a golden retriever.
- And I am now gonna rattle off every single sequel
that has been made to AirBod.
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Are you ready?
- Okay.
- Okay.
- AirBod golden receiver where he learns to play football.
AirBod World Cup where he learns to play soccer.
AirBod 7th inning fetch where he learns to play baseball.
AirBod spikes back where he learns to play volleyball.
Then he has some kids and then we have AirBod.
- Then he has some kids.
Then he has some kids and it's called,
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oh God, right, spin off series.
Okay, AirBuddies, Snowbuddies, Spacebuddies, SantaBuddies,
spooky buddies, treasure buddies and super buddies.
And then they meet Santa and then it's called
the search for Santa Paws and Santa Paws to the Santa Pubs.
(gasps)
I like how they just were like,
let's do every sport then space, you know?
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- Yeah, I wanna know.
- Okay, I've watched a little bit of spooky buddies
and I think they go to a haunted house
if from what I can recall watching it in toxicated.
- Spooky buddies.
- Great name.
- Great name.
So AirBud can't talk or buddy can't talk,
but his puppies, they all can talk.
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- They evolved.
I mean, what else would you expect from a scientist,
a mega-athlete dog, you know?
I feel like those genes evolved to understand human speech.
Of course, the spawn of AirBud is gonna be able to communicate.
Like, that thing can do more things than I can do.
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- I feel like super buddies has to be about them
getting superpowers, right?
Like, that's exactly what it has to be.
- I've probably watched it.
- I don't know, yeah, maybe we'll do a watch party.
- We're gonna do a AirBuddies watch party.
- A virtual watch party.
- And it's time to take a sip.
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- So my childhood dog movie was Balto.
And I don't know.
- Oh, I love Balto.
- Oh my god, I forgot about Balto.
- You just need to watch that.
- So good.
And we had a yellow lab mixed with a red chow.
And so she was like,
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"Genevieve from Balto."
So we named her Jenna.
And so yeah, I definitely had one of the, you know,
you name a pet from a iconic childhood booby.
- I think every kid, I've met so many people who have cats
named Nala.
Like, when Andrew and I were dating,
like he would go, we would go visit his parents
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and his like childhood home
and they still have the cat named Nala.
- How original.
- God, losers.
- Wow.
- Right.
- Yeah, so.
- But yeah, these are, these are some wonderful pets.
And I would like to cuddle with most of them.
- Most of them.
- Most of them besides the way.
- I would cuddle with the dolphin.
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- It might, I'll cuddle with the dolphin.
- It might cop a feel, but I was get a sick.
- Wait.
- My coat of third base with the dolphin.
That's the funny thing.
- Only if you're on LSD.
- Only if you're on LSD.
- No, I mean against your will, the dolphin, you know,
they got plans of their own.
- You didn't know that about dolphins.
- Did the dolphin, no, I thought that it was just that guy
(30:55):
who did all that, or that lady who did all that LSD
and then like fell in love with a dolphin
and then they had sex.
- Oh, or dolphins a little.
- Yeah, dolphins are like notorious breakfasts.
- Maybe.
- Yeah, they, they really go for it.
- Stop.
- Yeah, so dolphins, dolphins get very frisky.
They're too smart for their own good, honestly.
And so yeah, cuddle with your own risk for sure.
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But she says cry.
- I mean, I got to swim with wild dolphins
and none of them touched me.
So what does that say?
- Oh my God, this totally reminds me though.
I went to that donkey like thing
that you might have seen me do on social media.
- A kind of donkey thing, baby.
- A kind of donkey thing, baby.
- That's what the Andrew kept saying
'cause he didn't go, he's like,
(31:38):
have fun at your donkey show tomorrow.
- Sure.
- You know, we went to like a, oh God.
We went to like a donkey like sanctuary in Queen Creek.
And it was adorable and we got to walk the donkeys around
and like feed them and pet them.
And donkeys are fucking cute.
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- They are cute.
- I want a mini donkey.
But one of the donkeys kept like looking my boob
like with its head.
- Yeah.
- And I was like, gonna laugh the first time
and then it did it again.
And I was like, hey, find me a drink first.
And the lady's like, oh yeah, he, we had a lady come.
- You know, six months ago or so.
(32:20):
We had a lady, six months ago.
- She might have, she might have,
she rode that donkey and was like, oh God.
- God.
- And the lady said that she had very large breasts
and that the donkey did it once and everyone laughed.
So now it's just been trained to just nudge tits with its head.
(32:43):
- You know.
- Do as you may have seen.
- My husband was out of town.
That was the most action I got.
- Yeah, I love that.
- I love that.
I also immediately every time I think of a donkey,
I think of Shrek.
And don't get it.
- Yeah, I feel like if I was there,
I would have annoyed the shit out of the people
that ran that farm.
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- Oh, you would.
- 'Cause I'd just be like, don't get the whole time.
We should go, but in our slutty Shrek cosplay.
- Yeah, that would be more to the Shrek range.
Just go, don't get it.
- Lord Farrell caught him.
- All over this place.
- Yeah.
- Yes, just show up.
Just hammered ready to.
- Well, find a donkey bell.
- Yours was the dragon.
(33:24):
So you would really have one night in Shanna then.
- Oh, that's true.
I need to find, I gotta,
go is the dragon, find that boob don't do.
- And make it, make it a reality.
- All of you know.
- Make it a reality.
(dramatic music)
- So we talk about a lot of fictional pets
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or pet actors that went on to lay fictional pets.
- Let's talk about some real life celebrity pets.
- I think the most famous real life celebrity pet
is probably Tinkerbell, Harry Potter, and it's Chihuahua.
- Yeah.
- I'm sure there has been midi Tinkerbells
through the years.
- Yeah, I think that, like what other real life pet
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has a South Park episode?
- Literally.
- Oh my God, doesn't it like shoot itself in the head?
- Yeah, it's so fun.
(laughing)
It's so fun.
- I remember that so much.
- I mean, Perseultin, when she was like first becoming famous,
she was just notoriously hated.
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And so people like hated her dog as an extension.
And people would always say like,
she's like adopting all these dogs and losing them.
And I think she actually, one of them like went missing
for a while.
- She's a consultant.
- Perseultin has had like 15 animals.
- So when you do that rich and you have that much money,
you can really afford multiple pets.
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- Oh, for sure.
She has an Instagram account called Hilton Pets.
And it says, "Efficial account for Perseultin's fur kids.
Check out my new pet line on Amazon."
And she has a ton of dogs.
She built one of her dogs because of course,
I follow this page, of course.
Like a miniature mansion in the backyard
that looks just like her house, but it's for the dogs.
(35:11):
- Iconic.
- That pets a homeowner and I'm barely paying rent.
- I'm so sorry, Buffy.
I'm sorry I can't do that for you.
- And she was offering a $10,000 reward in 2022
for her puppy Diamond Baby who went missing.
- No, I don't think was ever found unfortunately.
(35:33):
But yeah, Tinkerbell.
- Yeah, and you'll know this better than me.
I always think of like missing pets.
I always think of Lady Gaga.
So, her dog walker.
Yeah, so she had two French bull dogs.
Her dog walker was walking the dog and he got robbed
for the dogs, right?
(35:54):
- Mm-hmm.
- They did like ransom or what happened?
- I think she got the dogs back.
Oh God, I'm not sure if I do know
if she got them back or not.
Lady Gaga.
- She had dogs.
- She had like a 10k reward.
I remember that.
- Yes, okay.
- And we were later, okay, they were recovered.
And was the dog walker in on it?
(36:17):
- No, he was shot.
Oh, that's right.
Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
He was shot.
(laughing)
He was shot.
And so two of the dogs were stolen.
Their names were Koji and Gustav.
She offered a $500,000 reward.
And they were recovered two days later
and five people were arrested in connection.
And then her dog walker who was shot did recover.
(36:40):
So yes.
- Okay, yeah, that's crazy.
I do remember all of that.
2021.
- Yeah.
- The whole lifetime ago.
(laughing)
- And speaking of animals that are way richer
than you and I will ever be,
we have to have an honorary mention of Taylor Swift
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and her famous cat.
So Meredith Gray is officially a millionaires.
- Oh no, she's not my god.
- Yes, so she has Meredith Gray, Olivia Benson,
which are Gray's Anatomy and SVU characters.
- Yes.
- And then we all know that from Hayley.
- Yes, and then we have Benjamin Button,
(37:27):
who was actually in the Me Music video.
It's the song with Brandon Urie and--
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- Yeah, it is annoying a song.
It's an ear worm as well.
- Oh yeah.
- And so they met on the set of--
- They met the cat in her.
(37:48):
- Her in the cat.
- Her in the cat.
- Yeah, on the set of it.
And she ended up adopting Benjamin Button.
And the time magazine cover that she did last year
is with Benjamin Button.
- I do have a Meredith Gray is like a very smushed cat face.
And I can't--
- Will forever be richer than us forever and always.
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- Different then.
- Yeah.
- Also, if Taylor Swift wants to adopt me as one of her cats,
I will dress up like one of the cats from the cat's musical,
which Taylor Swift was in.
- Yes.
- Just to remove me.
- I will live in her as I will.
- Just to remove me.
- Just to remove me.
- Just to remove me.
- I will shit in a box as long as I can be rich.
- Yeah.
But Benjamin Button, one of the most pretty cats in the entire world.
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Like, it's a rag doll cat with the most piercing blue eyes.
And I'm not a cat person, but that's a gorgeous cat.
I mean, I will, if I were to pet a cat,
I would go into like anaphylactic shop.
- You say it's against your will that you're not a cat person.
- Yes, yes.
I give cat person energy.
- You do.
- But unfortunately.
(38:56):
- I think that's just my sexual millennial bookworm energy though.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, you know.
- Stuff with a dog who thinks he's a cat.
- Oh, he's a good kitty.
- He's got big cat energy.
- But he does too.
She can't play fetch.
Yeah, she just wants to like be pat and cuddle and eat.
- Sleep.
- I always say, so Ziggy was a street dog.
(39:18):
Before I adopted him, they found him on the streets.
And I say that Ziggy survived the streets
by hanging with a packet cat who took care of him.
And that's why he's so cat-like.
Because this dog will not let you, like he gives cat
where if you want to pet him, he doesn't want you to pet him.
If you ignore him, he's all about it.
And he does a lot of like what I like to call pet drive buys
(39:42):
where he runs up to you.
And then when you give him attention, he runs away.
So.
- He really does.
And when you go into a apartment,
he has to run to the bed for you to pet him.
- Yeah.
- You have to come into his space.
- Yes.
- Meet him at eye level and you know,
worship the crown that he walks on.
And that's very cat-like.
- I appreciate that.
And I respect it.
And I will do that every time I see him.
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Because he deserves it.
- Because he's the bestest boys.
- And buffy to buff this girl.
And he's the bestest boys.
- Yes.
- And everybody who's listening,
your pets are the bestest too.
Everybody is the bestest.
- On one note, I do have to say this speaking of,
and now that I said the thing about Paris Hilton,
I'm wondering if this is just a throughline
(40:24):
of people hating women.
And hating iconic influencer like celebrities
who have a lot of money and come from family wealth.
- Oh God, we're talking about a Kardashian.
- Yeah, Kaya, Jenner is notoriously like,
I would say she's like the Gen Z Paris Hilton
(40:46):
in a lot of different ways.
But she has adopted like 20-ish pets over the course of-
- Did she ever get to keep it?
- Yeah, she did.
- But the Kardashians.
- I don't get that at all when you're that rich
and you travel that much.
Like you adapt to a dog, but they never-
- You have a cat that you take hers.
- Yeah, like caretakers.
(41:06):
But so she, like over the course of like a couple years,
she have like adopted like eight dogs.
And then they were never seen again.
Like not even on Instagram, like not in the show.
And we're like, okay, is she just like getting puppies
and then rehoming these things?
Like are they dying?
Like what's happening here?
I bet they're just like prop dogs.
(41:28):
They're just props for the episodes to look cute
and for her to hold a puppy.
I bet, I don't know.
- Yeah, so she had like these gray hounds for a while.
Now I think she has like French bulldogs.
Yeah, I think so.
- Someone who maybe we put on the,
do not adopt another animal to this person.
But you know she's buying them.
She's not adopting them.
- So Chloe like adopted a dog or an animal
(41:50):
and then immediately like give it up.
I'd ever like for adoption and everybody got really mad at her.
- I think that was Kim.
- That was Kim.
- I don't know, one of them.
- Yeah, so no one part we don't love that.
- We don't love that.
- We can't take care of them.
Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Only.
- There's little soap box.
Get your pets spayed and neutered, Bob Barker.
(42:11):
And only adopt pets if you're gonna keep them for life.
- Yeah.
- I think that's fair.
- Forever friends.
- Well there are so many pets that we could talk about
and so many tips to give people about animal adoptions.
But we'd be neglecting our own for babies.
So I think it is time to wrap up.
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- Welcome to Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
I'm Shuana, and I'm Olivia.
- This week we are talking about
some of the very best characters Pop Culture has to offer.
The goodest boys, the bestest girls,
the funny, furry, extra chonky,
the pets in pop culture.
(00:24):
I can't believe we've talked about
Pop Culture pets before.
I was kind of surprised.
- Yeah, I feel like we've had some honorary mentions
just with things happening within Pop Culture
where a pet is involved.
I think the biggest mention of pets that we've had
is truly does this dog die,
which is does this dog die.com?
(00:46):
- It does, it does. - Shauna should have come.
- Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, and Shauna taught me about this
because she is infamous for spoiling a movie.
And sometimes she sees a pet just to know does the dog die?
They have expanded their offerings into cats,
all animals, right? - Or horses,
like does a baby get hurt, which like whatever.
(01:06):
(laughing)
- Fucking kids, fucking kids.
There's all sorts of animal triggers,
but honestly, I really only care about the dogs.
Now that I wanna see any other animals die,
but like I'll get over it.
I wouldn't watch John Wittbury.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Right? - Bye.
- Oruses, bye.
(01:26):
- You can't watch the Lord of the Rings if you're not okay
with horses dying.
So yeah, just the dog die.com.
I think I mentioned that in the first episode
of the podcast, like ever.
(laughing)
- Well, you're their biggest fan, their most avid user.
- I think so, they should sponsor us, honestly.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- We'll circle back on that.
(01:47):
- Circle back on the sponsor. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Right that time, right that time.
- Right that time, right that time.
- Producer, right that time.
(laughing)
- So, what do you feel makes?
Okay, I should tell the viewers.
I think the viewers, the listeners.
I guess some people are viewing us.
Hi, Patreon.
- And YouTube.
- And YouTube, hey.
(02:08):
Do you like talking animals?
Okay, wait, let me circle back.
This is the thing I was gonna tell the listeners.
We're gonna be talking about fictional pop culture pets
and then some real pop culture pets.
So, I'll go back and forth a little bit.
Speaking of fictional pets, do you like talking animals, Olivia?
- So, when we decided we were gonna do this episode,
(02:32):
I realized all of my favorite pop culture pets
are animated animals and they do talk.
I don't love a, like, I guess they would just be
like an animatronic pet.
- Yeah.
- Who is talking, like I don't want them to be lifelike
and talking, which is odd because if Ziggy could talk
(02:54):
to me right now, I would love that.
- Oh yeah, absolutely.
I wanna know exactly what Buffy's thinking.
One of my favorite pets that I will get to
after our first break is an animatronic talking animal.
But you'll like this one, I promise.
Everybody likes this one.
- Yeah, yeah.
Like I think of the Lion King,
where John Oliver is that frickin' toucan.
(03:16):
- Oh God, and Beyonce is Nala.
I don't think those are pets though,
but I feel you, I'm not hey.
- They could be.
- They could be.
- If not pet, why pet size?
(laughing)
- If not pet, then why friend shape?
Why, yeah.
- Exactly.
- Exactly.
- If I die trying to pet something
that will probably eat me, then that's fine.
(03:37):
Like, yeah.
- I've died doing what I love.
- Yeah, if a dog tears my face off,
I'm still gonna call it a good boy.
It's just honkeys.
It's just honkeys, it's fine.
It had a need at that moment in time
and I was happy to fulfill it.
- It's fine, take what you need from me.
(laughing)
- Okay, but what if it was like the pet,
(03:59):
the lion from...
- What was that lion movie we watched?
I can't even remember the name.
We did a collab, so don't I?
- Oh my God, the like most violent movie ever made
or whatever it was called.
Oh yeah, no, for those.
- Yes, for.
- No, I don't want them.
'Cause they're not friend shaped.
Lions are not friend shaped.
- Absolutely not.
- No.
(04:20):
- They're not gonna follow a lion though.
- Yeah, I guess that's true.
- I don't know, those lions were 19.
- There are plot holes in this, but you know.
- Yeah, let's listen.
- They weren't talking, they weren't talking.
So maybe that's why.
- And you and I have never been ones
for continuity, so.
(laughing)
Just here for the vibes always.
(04:42):
(laughing)
So some famous pop culture pets that don't talk.
We have Beethoven.
Beethoven doesn't talk, but I guess he's real.
Snoopy doesn't talk.
- Snoopy doesn't talk, but is animated.
He's like the plot device there, I guess.
- Yeah.
- Snoopy is a quality cartoon pet.
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And then Clifford the big red dog.
Does he talk?
I don't remember.
I don't know.
I know he's humongous.
I don't know why he's humongous.
He's a big boy.
- He's a big boy.
- He's a big boy.
And Snoopy do like kind of talks?
- Yeah, he's got like a Ruby.
- Yeah. - Wow.
- Scoopy do is definitely on my list
(05:25):
of like favorite animals.
Mainly because he's like a stoner.
And he just wants to like hang out
and eat some sandwiches with his stoner friend.
- Oh yeah.
- So he's a much smaller size,
but when I could smoke weed, I really embraced that.
I was like, where are you my Scoopy?
Just enjoying some Scoopy snacks together, man.
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- Absolutely.
- Yeah.
- Dude, yeah, Buffy has definitely had,
she's not like partaken in any like substances with me,
but she's always like getting the good bits out of it
because I'll be eating like Taco Bell
and stuff will fall on the floor.
I'll be like, you want a fry?
You know, she's like, oh thank God, mom's drunk again.
(06:08):
I'm gonna eat half of that.
- I feel like it. - I feel like I need to say
that I'm also not getting my dog high, but.
(laughing)
- Disclaimer, pop culture junkie does not agree
with getting your pets high or drunk.
- When trucking your animals, I'm not drunk at your head.
- Unless it's like for travel, you know.
- Been a drunker than a beer later.
- Been a drunker than a beer later.
- Or something, yeah.
(06:29):
- Yeah, there you go.
- Yeah, there's some iconic pets that we know
and think about all the time.
Like we have lassie, we have Beethoven,
we have Lady in the Tramp.
There are so many good ones that we see throughout
and Rinton Tinn from the 1920s.
So animals have really been through movies, pop culture
(06:51):
since the beginning of Hollywood almost.
- Yeah, that's true.
Oh, Rinton Tinn, that's a nice throwback.
Do you think that the best pop culture animals are dogs?
Then I feel like we're mentioning a lot of dogs.
I think that I gravitate towards dogs,
but my list is actually not filled with dogs.
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- So maybe.
- Yeah, so I think that, you know, it depends.
Like I think there's some memorable other animals
that exist within pop culture,
but dogs are so pervasive in, I guess,
just like American culture.
- Yeah, that's true.
Two minor dogs and one cat.
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I will say, I just thought of an iconic pet
that I should have added to my list of breakdowns,
Garfield, man.
What an icon.
All this guy wants to do is eat lasagna and like sleep.
Same.
- Absolutely.
- Same.
- He hates Mondays.
- Yeah, this Monday, I was like the older I get,
the more I am becoming just Garfield in general.
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Like I really thought about it for a while on Monday.
- It was a particularly rough Monday.
- Yeah, I mean Garfield hates Mondays.
I love the prevalence of those like really fucked up
like Garfield, minor Levin.
- I know Levin Garfield.
- Yeah.
- Have you seen that?
- Yes.
It was like a Garfield cartoon strip
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that was in the New York Times on the morning of
the September 11th and it's like John,
that's the guy is pet.
Oh yeah, John Arbuckle gets a phone call
and he's like, what have you done, Garfield?
(laughing)
It just got to Garfield face like.
(laughing)
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- I'm not saying Garfield did September 11th,
but who knows, who knows?
- Maybe.
- Where are we to say?
- Are there any pop culture pets that you don't like?
There are species of animals that you don't like
'cause I have one large species of animal
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and if I see them in a movie,
I'm not gonna watch the movie.
- Interesting.
I don't know if I have ones that I don't like.
I mean, curious George was a little bit of a terrible
animal to own, but I feel like that might be
just monkeys in general.
Oh my gosh, have you seen no?
- When the monkey riffs everyone the shreds on the movie set.
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- Yeah, or like that.
- Like what was the sequel to the Tiger King
with the Tanya lady, with the chimps?
- Oh yeah.
- Shoot, I didn't watch it, but I know what you're talking about.
That is my thing though, I don't like monkeys.
Like they creep me out, they're violent.
I just, I don't like them.
If I see a movie and it's about monkeys,
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no, no.
- It's called Chimp Crazy.
- Yeah. - Like no.
- Those chimps were crazy.
They were ripping people's ears off.
They were ripping people to shreds.
- Yeah, chimps suck.
- Yeah, and anything that can suck.
- They suck.
- With opposable thumbs.
- No. - Yeah.
- I don't trust it.
- Not for me.
- I don't want that in my home.
I don't want that near my face,
for my children or my dog.
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I remember watching Oprah as a kid and there was a lady on there
who had her like face ripped off by a chimpanzee.
And it was pretty graphic for being on three o'clock
daytime television.
- So stuck with you forever.
So I did, you know.
- Fuck them monkeys man.
- Sometimes those pop culture pets are iconic.
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Not just we love them and we want to own them, you know.
They're just causing chaos.
- I never want to see a monkey ever again.
And that would be too soon.
(laughing)
So let's take a quick break and then talk about the pop culture pets
that we do actually like.
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the best of pop culture.
So speaking of the best,
Olivia, what pop culture pets do you wish that you could
cuddle up waiting, give some script to you?
- So I don't know if I wanna cuddle with them,
given everything that has happened recently
with the iconic killer whale, saga.
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But I wanted to talk about Kiko the Orca.
- Yeah, don't cuddle with the cuddle with the whale.
- Yeah, maybe not.
Maybe the ones that are crashing all the yachts.
Like we could, we could, you know, swim by each other.
- Oh, solid, so great.
- Yeah, solidarity with the women who are attacking the yachts.
Eat the rich, baby.
Eat that branch.
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- I think, I think one thing that makes a pop culture pet
iconic really is the memorability of that pet.
And when I think of Free Willy and Kiko the Orca,
not only did they spawn so many kids in the 90s
in the 2000s wanting to be a marine biologist.
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- Oh my God, why did all of us wanna be marine biologists?
Do you think it was Free Willy?
I think it was Free Willy and the other pet that I'm gonna talk about.
- I don't think that like, Jindzi gets it.
We all wanted to be marine biologists.
I took like the marine biology class in high school
for like college credit.
Why did I do that?
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- Yeah, it's not a science girl.
Not a science girl at all.
And yeah, I was like, I wanna be a marine biologist, no.
But one of the things about Free Willy the movie
is not just it made us all wanna be marine biologists.
It actually started the animal conservation movement
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around killer whales.
It started a big discussion around
what the hell we were doing at SeaWorld.
Oh my God, right.
- Of course, now blackfish?
- Yeah, blackfish was that big.
- Yeah, so it really was kind of like an introductory
to us really caring about these animals
and getting down with them.
And then ultimately what came from blackfish as well.
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And so I think that when I think of an iconic pet,
it brings awareness to it.
And it just sticks in memory.
And so for, you know.
- That's a good idea. - I got that.
- Yeah, not for cuddles, but for memory and childhood,
definitely have Free Willy up there on my iconic pets.
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- I love that.
I remember watching Free Willy on like a school trip to San Diego.
And we all took a Greyhound bus and had Free Willy playing
on like the tiny little TVs in the bus.
And then at one point we had to pull over
in like every kid in the bus at Devama.
It was great.
(laughing)
- Just a bunch of barfing tenials.
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- I was from trying to watch the movie on like this tiny
little screen.
- Yeah.
And like it's a six hour ride.
We're all like car sig.
(groaning)
- I have that.
- Just from the Italian job on a road trip with my friends mom.
Like, 'cause the cars are going like,
woo, like swerving.
So I guess Italian job in Free Willy has some more.
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- Free Willy. - Yeah.
- Motion of the ocean in the Italian job.
(laughing)
- So I teased this a little earlier,
but my first pet I'm gonna talk about
is an animatronic talking cat.
Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
So we also saw a Salem in chilling adventures of Sabrina,
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but he was just a black cat.
I'm not saying he wasn't a good boy,
but he was just a cat, right?
- He was, like a country little cat
that we all know and love.
- Oh my God.
Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch
is such a conty icon, right?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- So he's a warlock who is sent
to spend 100 years as a black cat
as punishment for trying to take over the world.
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He is sarcastic and wise cracking.
He is voiced by Nick Bake.
And sometimes it's an actual cat.
Sometimes there'll be a black cat that runs by her
that Sabrina will be holding.
- But for the most part,
it is this like animatronic puppet cat.
And it is so funny.
And it dresses up and it does spells
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and it gets really fat and it causes mischief.
And it is Sabrina's familiar and best friends.
- Very queer coded in the 90s, 2000s.
For like a kid teen show,
it really did give us kind of like this slightly evil gay
character who you just love because they're sassy.
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Like most 90s, 2000s.
- Yeah, like he always had a good comeback to Sabrina.
As much as you could tell he loved her in the spellments,
he was always just kind of a little bitch to them.
But he loved him for it.
I remember him just fracking me up when I was watching.
I would watch Sabrina with my mom like every Friday
on TGIF.
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It came on with boy meets world.
- So yeah, Salem the cat and animatronic talking animals.
I wish I had one.
I wish I had a robot cat right now.
- Oh, that's mean to my actual cat.
Toes can hang out with Salem.
- Yeah, yeah, they would get along.
- Maybe friends.
Toes does a big gun too, so.
(laughing)
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- They're gonna hate us for saying the C words, sorry.
- Yeah.
- Toes does a big bitch too.
- It's with love as the Gen Z would say.
- We're like blaming it.
- So my next one, which feels like just a continuation
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of Kiko La Orca, I gotta say flipper.
I don't know about you.
- I like that flipper.
- So much more.
A, like I love dolphins when I was younger.
And I still do love dolphins.
I think I've told the story about how I got to swim
with wild dolphins when I was in Hawaii
on the hot cast before.
- So cool.
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- Yeah.
- But that was like really something that I always had.
Like my aunt and I both loved dolphins.
I actually like when she passed away,
it took a bunch of like the dolphin stuff
that I had gotten her and she had gotten me.
So flipper was actually played by multiple dolphins.
So it wasn't just one dolphin within it,
but really like any dolphin that you saw in the 90s
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and 2000s was flipper.
- Was flipper.
- Yeah.
- Any killer whale was Willie.
- Yeah.
- Dolphin.
- It's flipper, but yeah.
- The funny thing about Kiko La Orca
is everyone just like called it free, Willie.
- When you said Kiko, I was like,
wasn't it's name just Willie?
Like I don't remember anything about that movie
except for whales and vomiting.
So just all that stuck with me, you know?
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- Yeah.
- Flipper was a series in the 1960s.
It had like a theme song like,
♪ Lifer, Lifer ♪
Something stupid.
I don't know.
A song about dolphins.
Anyway, my pet is an actual, a real pet,
but was basically a movie star?
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This pet was a movie star.
So I'm talking about Gijit the Chihuahua.
So Gijit is probably best known as the Taco Bell dog,
Yohiero Taco Bell.
- Taco Bell.
- Yes.
- And you know what?
That's true.
Yohiero.
- Taco Bell all the time.
Yohsiimbre, Kiyero Taco Bell.
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(laughing)
That's why Buffy loves it so much, it's under blood.
- It really is.
She's just like, you're gonna get wine drunk,
watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and get Taco Bell again, 'cause I would love that.
So Gijit was a female Chihuahua
who became known as the Taco Bell dog.
She was born in 1994 and was discovered by a talent agency.
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She literally is like a little actress.
It's like you always have that dream
when you're a kid,
that you're gonna walk through the mall
and someone's gonna stop and be like,
hey you there, do you wanna be an actor?
And then that happened to Gijit the Chihuahua.
So I love that for her.
- Could you imagine if you were just like holding
the Chihuahua and you're like, this is my big break
and then all of a sudden they're like,
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no, not you, your dog.
- Not you, huh?
And you're like, shits, dammit.
That happened to my ex-boyfriend.
He was stopped in the mall by like a guy who said
he could be a model and took all these really creepy
pictures of him and then made him apply a lot of lotion
and like sent him pictures.
- Oh my God.
What the fuck?
- He thought he was gonna be like a famous model.
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I swear to God and he would be like,
shonny you just don't get it.
You're just not model material.
- Where is he now?
- Oh God, Chicago.
Oh God.
- I don't know where Mr. Lotion is.
- We got a circle back on the abusey face.
- I can't believe he never told you that before.
Oh he sucked, the ex-boyfriend sucked.
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- Okay, well maybe that was why.
- Yeah, I know, this was why we were together.
He was like 21 years old and he's like,
I got discovered at the mall today.
- Oh he definitely was.
- Yeah, we can find him on the...
- On the...
- Gaporn, not com.
- The Morn Mub.
- Yeah.
- The Morn Mub.
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- Morn Mub.
- What do you mean anyway?
Okay, all right, we digress.
We digress, put the lotion on the scanner
unless it gets the hose again.
- Okay.
- So Gichit was a girl, but she was voiced by Carlos Alaz...
You can do it, sound it out.
- Alazra.
- Alazra key.
Alazra key.
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Alazra key.
She was voiced by Carlos Alazra key,
who gave her that distinctive accent and delivery
that made her so memorable.
The ads were extremely popular in the 1990s.
I had a stuffed Taco Bell dog, like a stuffed animal,
and I loved that thing.
She was in so many ads.
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Eventually, people started to think
that maybe it was a little culturally insensitive.
- Yeah.
- And so she got a little, you know, discontinued,
but never the fear.
She was also in some Geico commercials,
and she starred as Bruiser in Legally Blonde
to Red, White and Blonde.
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- Oh, cute.
- Yes.
- What a starlet.
Literally, she had this wonderful acting career.
She passed away in 2009 at the age of 15,
but what a little actress.
She needs a like Hollywood star, honestly.
- Yeah, what an icon.
From Taco Bell, the Legally Blonde.
- Yeah.
- She could go from Taco Bell, real bad.
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(laughing)
- That's from Legally Blonde too.
Mixed me up, the real bad.
- Mixed me up, some tacos, real bad.
- Jennifer Coolidge.
I almost called her Tanya from the White Lotus.
- Oh, god.
- These gays in Taco Bell are trying to kill me.
- Taco Bell is probably trying to murder you.
- Oh my god.
- It's some day it's gonna happen.
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It's gonna happen.
- Yeah.
- But you know what, worth it.
- It's supplying your farts and jars.
- Okay.
- It's just like if a dog rips my face off
or I die from too much Taco Bell.
- I'm fine.
- I'm fine.
I died doing what I loved.
- No, red rest.
(laughing)
- Okay, what is your next one?
- So this isn't like a real animal.
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So this is just my honorable mention.
Sorry, I'm gonna say this.
I'm gonna say it again.
The country little raptors in Jurassic Park 2.
So good.
Just icons, legends.
- Why are all of the raptors
in all of the Jurassic Park babies, country?
Like, I don't know.
- Yeah, I don't know.
- I don't know.
They just said, you know what?
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We're gonna give those characters gays villain arcs.
And I love it.
- I love to think that they're, you know,
yeah, they're hangry, they're gonna be feisty.
- They have nice claws, like they got the nails.
- Yeah, they're just got their manicures.
Speaking of nails, I don't, I haven't worn any in a while.
I'm like losing who I am.
- Oh, thank you.
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- We traded.
We traded.
- We did.
- So my last iconic pop culture pet
is going to have to be a total from the Wizard of Oz.
I think that there is only, you know, one original
dog in a movie and truly Toto,
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who's played by a dog named Terry, can take that.
And of course, you know, we always quote,
there's no place like home, all of those.
But I think that Toto really sticks with us
throughout the years.
Toto takes the place in our hearts since 1939.
Ultimately, there is no one who did it better
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and really made me want a Yorkshire Terrier.
- Oh, they're so cute.
- But yeah, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.
- Like a good boy, a good boy.
I think that Toto walked so that Gidgett could run.
- Yeah, you know, really opening the small dog market.
- Open the door for other small dog actors.
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(laughing)
- Get their palm in the door.
- Get the Judy Garland and Toto,
we're just popping some pills on the set,
really keeping it going.
Yeah, they were doing meth.
- Oh my God.
- They were doing uppers, they were doing downers,
they were having a grand old time.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah. - Diet pills.
- My last one that I'm gonna imagine is another good boy.
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Buddy from Air Bud.
- Icon. - Legend.
- Yes.
My first dog growing up was named Bud.
He was a corgi and I loved him so much.
- How original.
- I know, well, we got him from the humane society
and they were gonna put him to sleep like the next day.
He was on like the kill list.
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And my family was like, "Absolutely not, we want that dog.
"We don't care that it's like eight years old.
"It's this corgi in this flufe tail."
Like it was in a little stubby tail one.
It was so cute.
- I love a corgi but so much.
- I like talk about sass when they're walking.
- Oh, he had those cheekies and he wanted to hump everything.
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And me and Heather didn't know that that's what he was trying to do.
So when we would dance spice girls
and he would like try to hump our legs.
- Maybe like he's dancing.
- Yeah.
- He's doing the spice girls too.
- My mom would come and he'd like stop it.
- Stop it.
He's just dancing.
I don't get it.
- And she wonders why those Barbies ended up
on top of each other.
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- We just wanted to make them dance like Barb does.
(laughing)
- But we tried to rename him but he was eight years old
and he only came to his original name, which was Barb.
But AirBod came out in 1997 and it was about a golden retriever
who I would reread the description for this movie today
and I didn't remember how depressing it was.
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- Yeah.
- Yeah, this kid's dad dies.
He's very sad.
He moves to a new town.
Buddy, the dog is escaping from a cruel alcoholic clown
named Norman who made Buddy just like perform in the circus.
So now Josh, the sad kid with no dad
and Buddy who escaped the circus, alcoholics,
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found each other and what do you know, Buddy can play basketball.
And so he joins Josh's middle school basketball team
and brings them to the championships.
And this movie is amazing and heartwarming
and it makes you want a golden retriever.
- And I am now gonna rattle off every single sequel
that has been made to AirBod.
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Are you ready?
- Okay.
- Okay.
- AirBod golden receiver where he learns to play football.
AirBod World Cup where he learns to play soccer.
AirBod 7th inning fetch where he learns to play baseball.
AirBod spikes back where he learns to play volleyball.
Then he has some kids and then we have AirBod.
- Then he has some kids.
Then he has some kids and it's called,
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oh God, right, spin off series.
Okay, AirBuddies, Snowbuddies, Spacebuddies, SantaBuddies,
spooky buddies, treasure buddies and super buddies.
And then they meet Santa and then it's called
the search for Santa Paws and Santa Paws to the Santa Pubs.
(gasps)
I like how they just were like,
let's do every sport then space, you know?
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- Yeah, I wanna know.
- Okay, I've watched a little bit of spooky buddies
and I think they go to a haunted house
if from what I can recall watching it in toxicated.
- Spooky buddies.
- Great name.
- Great name.
So AirBud can't talk or buddy can't talk,
but his puppies, they all can talk.
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- They evolved.
I mean, what else would you expect from a scientist,
a mega-athlete dog, you know?
I feel like those genes evolved to understand human speech.
Of course, the spawn of AirBud is gonna be able to communicate.
Like, that thing can do more things than I can do.
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- I feel like super buddies has to be about them
getting superpowers, right?
Like, that's exactly what it has to be.
- I've probably watched it.
- I don't know, yeah, maybe we'll do a watch party.
- We're gonna do a AirBuddies watch party.
- A virtual watch party.
- And it's time to take a sip.
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- So my childhood dog movie was Balto.
And I don't know.
- Oh, I love Balto.
- Oh my god, I forgot about Balto.
- You just need to watch that.
- So good.
And we had a yellow lab mixed with a red chow.
And so she was like,
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"Genevieve from Balto."
So we named her Jenna.
And so yeah, I definitely had one of the, you know,
you name a pet from a iconic childhood booby.
- I think every kid, I've met so many people who have cats
named Nala.
Like, when Andrew and I were dating,
like he would go, we would go visit his parents
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and his like childhood home
and they still have the cat named Nala.
- How original.
- God, losers.
- Wow.
- Right.
- Yeah, so.
- But yeah, these are, these are some wonderful pets.
And I would like to cuddle with most of them.
- Most of them.
- Most of them besides the way.
- I would cuddle with the dolphin.
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- It might, I'll cuddle with the dolphin.
- It might cop a feel, but I was get a sick.
- Wait.
- My coat of third base with the dolphin.
That's the funny thing.
- Only if you're on LSD.
- Only if you're on LSD.
- No, I mean against your will, the dolphin, you know,
they got plans of their own.
- You didn't know that about dolphins.
- Did the dolphin, no, I thought that it was just that guy
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who did all that, or that lady who did all that LSD
and then like fell in love with a dolphin
and then they had sex.
- Oh, or dolphins a little.
- Yeah, dolphins are like notorious breakfasts.
- Maybe.
- Yeah, they, they really go for it.
- Stop.
- Yeah, so dolphins, dolphins get very frisky.
They're too smart for their own good, honestly.
And so yeah, cuddle with your own risk for sure.
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But she says cry.
- I mean, I got to swim with wild dolphins
and none of them touched me.
So what does that say?
- Oh my God, this totally reminds me though.
I went to that donkey like thing
that you might have seen me do on social media.
- A kind of donkey thing, baby.
- A kind of donkey thing, baby.
- That's what the Andrew kept saying
'cause he didn't go, he's like,
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have fun at your donkey show tomorrow.
- Sure.
- You know, we went to like a, oh God.
We went to like a donkey like sanctuary in Queen Creek.
And it was adorable and we got to walk the donkeys around
and like feed them and pet them.
And donkeys are fucking cute.
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- They are cute.
- I want a mini donkey.
But one of the donkeys kept like looking my boob
like with its head.
- Yeah.
- And I was like, gonna laugh the first time
and then it did it again.
And I was like, hey, find me a drink first.
And the lady's like, oh yeah, he, we had a lady come.
- You know, six months ago or so.
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We had a lady, six months ago.
- She might have, she might have,
she rode that donkey and was like, oh God.
- God.
- And the lady said that she had very large breasts
and that the donkey did it once and everyone laughed.
So now it's just been trained to just nudge tits with its head.
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- You know.
- Do as you may have seen.
- My husband was out of town.
That was the most action I got.
- Yeah, I love that.
- I love that.
I also immediately every time I think of a donkey,
I think of Shrek.
And don't get it.
- Yeah, I feel like if I was there,
I would have annoyed the shit out of the people
that ran that farm.
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- Oh, you would.
- 'Cause I'd just be like, don't get the whole time.
We should go, but in our slutty Shrek cosplay.
- Yeah, that would be more to the Shrek range.
Just go, don't get it.
- Lord Farrell caught him.
- All over this place.
- Yeah.
- Yes, just show up.
Just hammered ready to.
- Well, find a donkey bell.
- Yours was the dragon.
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So you would really have one night in Shanna then.
- Oh, that's true.
I need to find, I gotta,
go is the dragon, find that boob don't do.
- And make it, make it a reality.
- All of you know.
- Make it a reality.
(dramatic music)
- So we talk about a lot of fictional pets
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or pet actors that went on to lay fictional pets.
- Let's talk about some real life celebrity pets.
- I think the most famous real life celebrity pet
is probably Tinkerbell, Harry Potter, and it's Chihuahua.
- Yeah.
- I'm sure there has been midi Tinkerbells
through the years.
- Yeah, I think that, like what other real life pet
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has a South Park episode?
- Literally.
- Oh my God, doesn't it like shoot itself in the head?
- Yeah, it's so fun.
(laughing)
It's so fun.
- I remember that so much.
- I mean, Perseultin, when she was like first becoming famous,
she was just notoriously hated.
(34:28):
And so people like hated her dog as an extension.
And people would always say like,
she's like adopting all these dogs and losing them.
And I think she actually, one of them like went missing
for a while.
- She's a consultant.
- Perseultin has had like 15 animals.
- So when you do that rich and you have that much money,
you can really afford multiple pets.
(34:49):
- Oh, for sure.
She has an Instagram account called Hilton Pets.
And it says, "Efficial account for Perseultin's fur kids.
Check out my new pet line on Amazon."
And she has a ton of dogs.
She built one of her dogs because of course,
I follow this page, of course.
Like a miniature mansion in the backyard
that looks just like her house, but it's for the dogs.
(35:11):
- Iconic.
- That pets a homeowner and I'm barely paying rent.
- I'm so sorry, Buffy.
I'm sorry I can't do that for you.
- And she was offering a $10,000 reward in 2022
for her puppy Diamond Baby who went missing.
- No, I don't think was ever found unfortunately.
(35:33):
But yeah, Tinkerbell.
- Yeah, and you'll know this better than me.
I always think of like missing pets.
I always think of Lady Gaga.
So, her dog walker.
Yeah, so she had two French bull dogs.
Her dog walker was walking the dog and he got robbed
for the dogs, right?
(35:54):
- Mm-hmm.
- They did like ransom or what happened?
- I think she got the dogs back.
Oh God, I'm not sure if I do know
if she got them back or not.
Lady Gaga.
- She had dogs.
- She had like a 10k reward.
I remember that.
- Yes, okay.
- And we were later, okay, they were recovered.
And was the dog walker in on it?
(36:17):
- No, he was shot.
Oh, that's right.
Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
He was shot.
(laughing)
He was shot.
And so two of the dogs were stolen.
Their names were Koji and Gustav.
She offered a $500,000 reward.
And they were recovered two days later
and five people were arrested in connection.
And then her dog walker who was shot did recover.
(36:40):
So yes.
- Okay, yeah, that's crazy.
I do remember all of that.
2021.
- Yeah.
- The whole lifetime ago.
(laughing)
- And speaking of animals that are way richer
than you and I will ever be,
we have to have an honorary mention of Taylor Swift
(37:04):
and her famous cat.
So Meredith Gray is officially a millionaires.
- Oh no, she's not my god.
- Yes, so she has Meredith Gray, Olivia Benson,
which are Gray's Anatomy and SVU characters.
- Yes.
- And then we all know that from Hayley.
- Yes, and then we have Benjamin Button,
(37:27):
who was actually in the Me Music video.
It's the song with Brandon Urie and--
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- Yeah, it is annoying a song.
It's an ear worm as well.
- Oh yeah.
- And so they met on the set of--
- They met the cat in her.
(37:48):
- Her in the cat.
- Her in the cat.
- Yeah, on the set of it.
And she ended up adopting Benjamin Button.
And the time magazine cover that she did last year
is with Benjamin Button.
- I do have a Meredith Gray is like a very smushed cat face.
And I can't--
- Will forever be richer than us forever and always.
(38:13):
- Different then.
- Yeah.
- Also, if Taylor Swift wants to adopt me as one of her cats,
I will dress up like one of the cats from the cat's musical,
which Taylor Swift was in.
- Yes.
- Just to remove me.
- I will live in her as I will.
- Just to remove me.
- Just to remove me.
- Just to remove me.
- I will shit in a box as long as I can be rich.
- Yeah.
But Benjamin Button, one of the most pretty cats in the entire world.
(38:35):
Like, it's a rag doll cat with the most piercing blue eyes.
And I'm not a cat person, but that's a gorgeous cat.
I mean, I will, if I were to pet a cat,
I would go into like anaphylactic shop.
- You say it's against your will that you're not a cat person.
- Yes, yes.
I give cat person energy.
- You do.
- But unfortunately.
(38:56):
- I think that's just my sexual millennial bookworm energy though.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, you know.
- Stuff with a dog who thinks he's a cat.
- Oh, he's a good kitty.
- He's got big cat energy.
- But he does too.
She can't play fetch.
Yeah, she just wants to like be pat and cuddle and eat.
- Sleep.
- I always say, so Ziggy was a street dog.
(39:18):
Before I adopted him, they found him on the streets.
And I say that Ziggy survived the streets
by hanging with a packet cat who took care of him.
And that's why he's so cat-like.
Because this dog will not let you, like he gives cat
where if you want to pet him, he doesn't want you to pet him.
If you ignore him, he's all about it.
And he does a lot of like what I like to call pet drive buys
(39:42):
where he runs up to you.
And then when you give him attention, he runs away.
So.
- He really does.
And when you go into a apartment,
he has to run to the bed for you to pet him.
- Yeah.
- You have to come into his space.
- Yes.
- Meet him at eye level and you know,
worship the crown that he walks on.
And that's very cat-like.
- I appreciate that.
And I respect it.
And I will do that every time I see him.
(40:03):
Because he deserves it.
- Because he's the bestest boys.
- And buffy to buff this girl.
And he's the bestest boys.
- Yes.
- And everybody who's listening,
your pets are the bestest too.
Everybody is the bestest.
- On one note, I do have to say this speaking of,
and now that I said the thing about Paris Hilton,
I'm wondering if this is just a throughline
(40:24):
of people hating women.
And hating iconic influencer like celebrities
who have a lot of money and come from family wealth.
- Oh God, we're talking about a Kardashian.
- Yeah, Kaya, Jenner is notoriously like,
I would say she's like the Gen Z Paris Hilton
(40:46):
in a lot of different ways.
But she has adopted like 20-ish pets over the course of-
- Did she ever get to keep it?
- Yeah, she did.
- But the Kardashians.
- I don't get that at all when you're that rich
and you travel that much.
Like you adapt to a dog, but they never-
- You have a cat that you take hers.
- Yeah, like caretakers.
(41:06):
But so she, like over the course of like a couple years,
she have like adopted like eight dogs.
And then they were never seen again.
Like not even on Instagram, like not in the show.
And we're like, okay, is she just like getting puppies
and then rehoming these things?
Like are they dying?
Like what's happening here?
I bet they're just like prop dogs.
(41:28):
They're just props for the episodes to look cute
and for her to hold a puppy.
I bet, I don't know.
- Yeah, so she had like these gray hounds for a while.
Now I think she has like French bulldogs.
Yeah, I think so.
- Someone who maybe we put on the,
do not adopt another animal to this person.
But you know she's buying them.
She's not adopting them.
- So Chloe like adopted a dog or an animal
(41:50):
and then immediately like give it up.
I'd ever like for adoption and everybody got really mad at her.
- I think that was Kim.
- That was Kim.
- I don't know, one of them.
- Yeah, so no one part we don't love that.
- We don't love that.
- We can't take care of them.
Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Only.
- There's little soap box.
Get your pets spayed and neutered, Bob Barker.
(42:11):
And only adopt pets if you're gonna keep them for life.
- Yeah.
- I think that's fair.
- Forever friends.
- Well there are so many pets that we could talk about
and so many tips to give people about animal adoptions.
But we'd be neglecting our own for babies.
So I think it is time to wrap up.
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