Speaker 1: This is the Chrissy Swan Show, and I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit rattled today.
Speaker 2: You are now.
Speaker 3: I just want to start off by saying we have
Speaker 3: spoken a little a bit about this off air. I
Speaker 3: did bad news laugh when you started telling me, and
Speaker 3: I don't mean it in a nasty way if I
Speaker 3: do it, no.
Speaker 1: And I understand that because I coined the phrase bad
Speaker 1: you did the bad news laugh. In case you're wondering
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. I thought it was unique to me,
Speaker 1: but it's not. But it is very popular and not
Speaker 1: many people react this way. You know, when someone tells
Speaker 1: you some really bad news and you realize that you're
Speaker 1: going to laugh. And what I do is, instead of
Speaker 1: just laughing in the face of their tragedy, I call
Speaker 1: it something I say, oh my god, Oh I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I've done a bad news laugh.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of the greatest things you've taught me, though,
Speaker 3: because it immediately eliminates any malice when someone's telling you
Speaker 3: something sad.
Speaker 1: It's true you need to acknowledge it. But do you
Speaker 1: imagine if you didn't imagine if what had happened just
Speaker 1: now And I came into work and I said Jack
Speaker 1: I'm really sad about Chicago.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: For those that don't know who Chicago is, it is
Speaker 3: Christy Swan and her daughter Pegs beloved rabbit.
Speaker 1: So I thought it would be a great idea for
Speaker 1: the kids on Christmas Day to get two beautiful mini
Speaker 1: lock bunnies. And I didn't care too much about them.
Speaker 1: They're cute whatever. I have fallen deeply in love with
Speaker 1: these rabbits. They are magical with their floppy ears and
Speaker 1: their little fat heads. And I take photos of Gingy.
Speaker 1: There's two sisters, Chicago and Gingy. I take photos of
Speaker 1: Gingy's feet and bottom every day.
Speaker 2: Creepy Jack.
Speaker 1: It's the cutest thing ever. Anyway, there's a disaster this
Speaker 1: morning because we have you know where they sleep in
Speaker 1: the protective hutch, and then we have what we call the.
Speaker 2: Dayspa bougie rabbits we haven't.
Speaker 1: We call the day spar, which is just like a
Speaker 1: black iron pin. And then we put you know, fresh
Speaker 1: fruit and veg in there in a little running tunnel
Speaker 1: and out on the grass it's wild.
Speaker 3: Whilst you guys are at work in school, they're not
Speaker 3: like caged up. They're running through the day spar and
Speaker 3: they're running.
Speaker 1: Through the day spa, but only when the weather's good.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't put them out there in them in the sleet.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Anyway, Peg before school puts Chicago, the
Speaker 1: cutest little black rabbit with like a mink scarf.
Speaker 2: On, with a beautiful name too.
Speaker 1: She puts Chicago to her rabbit, puts Chicago in the
Speaker 1: day spar comes back, has a chat to me. We
Speaker 1: gas bag whatever, shoot the rubbish, and then she's like,
Speaker 1: I get I've got to put Ginger in there. She
Speaker 1: gets Gingy from the hutch. She's carrying Gingy towards the
Speaker 1: day spa and she can't see. We call her Caggie.
Speaker 1: She can't see Chicago. She like, where's Caggy.
Speaker 2: Caggie's dead.
Speaker 1: No, she's not dead, Jagged.
Speaker 2: Sorry, PEG's stealing the class run.
Speaker 1: She might not be, you know, it's just our luck.
Speaker 2: You've got tears in your eyes. Sorry. Okay, So Chicago's missing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, she hadn't she she had latched it closed after
Speaker 1: she'd put Chicago in there, but it didn't lash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she didn't just walk away. She did it and it
Speaker 1: didn't work.
Speaker 2: So she's going to live with guilt for the rest
Speaker 2: of her life that she has killed her rabbit.
Speaker 1: No, she hasn't.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, sorry, now she hasn't because we could still
Speaker 3: find Chicago.
Speaker 1: Nobody, no crime as my savior. And Queen says, all right,
Speaker 1: So where I have been. I had to keep it
Speaker 1: upbeat because it was right before school drop off, and
Speaker 1: she's like, what where is she? She's only little, she's
Speaker 1: never been out, and I said, no, it's fine, bunnies
Speaker 1: do that. She's probably hiding. She's playing with you inside.
Speaker 1: I am tearing my heart out. Anyway, get her off
Speaker 1: to school. I get home. He am in the I'm
Speaker 1: in a proper outfit. I wore something nice for you.
Speaker 2: I know now you look like you've been on Burke's backyard.
Speaker 1: I have been on berks back gap. I got Gingy
Speaker 1: out of the hutch and put her in the pen
Speaker 1: as a lure to try and get Chicago to come out.
Speaker 1: I poked every inch. It was like playing KerPlunk, you know.
Speaker 1: I poked every inch of the garden. At the end
Speaker 1: of a rake. Nothing And I want to know thirteen
Speaker 1: twenty four to ten, these are our first rabbits. We
Speaker 1: love them, so do they hide? Where did you find
Speaker 1: your rabbit? What is she doing? Is she watching me
Speaker 1: now Chrissy Swan Show? And that's what I said when
Speaker 1: I realized Chicago the rabbit had escaped.
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, she's in hiding maybe like Beyonce as well.
Speaker 2: I'm so worried, I.
Speaker 3: Know, because it's going to be I mean, there's obviously
Speaker 3: the sad part about potentially losing a rabbit. But I
Speaker 3: appreciate for you as a mother you're doing. You're going
Speaker 3: to be dealing with a very traumatized child. He's probably
Speaker 3: going to need a lot of therapy over the coming years,
Speaker 3: given that she didn't latch it properly.
Speaker 1: And I know that you're trying to be a real
Speaker 1: smart ass, but you are spot on. And because Peg
Speaker 1: and I are so like cosmically connected, Ah, her mood
Speaker 1: is my mood. And frankly, I'm scared of her. I'm
Speaker 1: scared of her today. I'm scared of her. I want
Speaker 1: to go into witness protection never see her again, because
Speaker 1: when she's sad, it makes me so sad. It hurts
Speaker 1: me on the inside.
Speaker 2: Like a voodoo doll.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to a kick. By the way,
Speaker 1: thirteen twenty four ten, where is Chicago? Please tell me
Speaker 1: where this bunny has gone to?
Speaker 3: If you are a legit psychic, call through. But first
Speaker 3: we're asking on thirteen twenty four ten, where did you
Speaker 3: find your rabbit?
Speaker 2: Where should Chrissy be looking?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm a new I'm a new rabbit mom,
Speaker 1: rabbit mom. Hi, Sarah, Hello, how about you? You've got
Speaker 1: a bunny?
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 4: I had two bunnies actually, but both of them end
Speaker 4: up running away and up catching them again.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's not a great outcome. Well were they
Speaker 1: Are they like normal bunnies or are they bougie bunnies
Speaker 1: like the ones I've got? That was it? Like a friends?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: Like they're not bougie, But they aren't being like Pavot either,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Like I've had a Pavo. I've had a Pavo bunny.
Speaker 1: My god, he grew to be the size of a
Speaker 1: greyhound with the attitude of a talkback radio host.
Speaker 3: Really, they are rough. Priceline pharmacy voucher for you, Sarah. Also,
Speaker 3: Sarah's just reminded me of something she said, Her bunnies
Speaker 3: ran away. You've had a cat run away. So maybe
Speaker 3: Chicago wasn't loving the living conditions and ran.
Speaker 1: Oh no, she's so beloved.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Teresa Swani.
Speaker 1: I buy corn for human consumption to give to Chicago
Speaker 1: because it's her favorite. In fact, that's where I was
Speaker 1: before this show started.
Speaker 2: What buying corn?
Speaker 1: Buying corn and putting it out on the yard chicken. Look,
Speaker 1: I confessed, do you know what I did? This is
Speaker 1: what I did. I'm going to say it. I got
Speaker 1: the corn. Yeah, and I ran it along the side
Speaker 1: of the shrubs.
Speaker 2: Oh, I wish we had CCTV.
Speaker 1: If you looking that on jumped in case she's looking,
Speaker 1: and she went, ah, yes, Teresa, where is this bunny?
Speaker 1: Where was yours?
Speaker 4: Okay, we found our rabbit, found the only patch of
Speaker 4: bird in our entire yard and dug herself between the
Speaker 4: two coloured ond sensors. And because the little thing was
Speaker 4: little and she's got a big booty, as you know
Speaker 4: with rabbits do, she got herself in, but she couldn't
Speaker 4: get herself out. So when my husband comes to tell
Speaker 4: me that he's found the rabbit with this look on
Speaker 4: his face, if at oh, he's found a dead rabbit somewhere,
Speaker 4: And no, he found her alive. In the meantime, my
Speaker 4: daughter I do apologize to tell you this was so
Speaker 4: traumatized by the loss of the rabbit that I had
Speaker 4: bought a new rabbit in the twenty four hours the
Speaker 4: rabbit had gone.
Speaker 1: Nothing Teresa to try yet, I said, I want to
Speaker 1: get I've already been in touch with the breeder. And
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say I need a new rabbit.
Speaker 1: Have you got one that's about a year old and
Speaker 1: black that I could lie to my daughter about But
Speaker 1: it's too soon.
Speaker 4: No, no, well mine was. I was all honesty. I
Speaker 4: want to tell her. I let her out to have
Speaker 4: her freedom, because we can't keep her caught up in
Speaker 4: the pen. And I was so felt, so guilty that
Speaker 4: I let this rabbit out, you know, to give it
Speaker 4: a good life and let it have a run around
Speaker 4: the yard. And she said, no, we are not leaving
Speaker 4: the shops. Let's took us to the shop. Let her
Speaker 4: buy any toy she wanted. And I thought, now is
Speaker 4: the time to tell us. I'll tell her, and I
Speaker 4: told her, and she refused to leave the shops until
Speaker 4: we found a new rabbit. So at we had got
Speaker 4: a new rabbit. And I'm telling it's twenty four hours
Speaker 4: to turnover.
Speaker 2: That is a quick turnover.
Speaker 1: That is really quick.
Speaker 3: No psychics have called through, so I think it's probably
Speaker 3: because they don't want to tell you the truth. Because
Speaker 3: mister Jack thinks the rabbit has gone. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: you don't you know we'll be back after this.
Speaker 1: No, the Creasy Swan shows, The Creasy Swan Show. It's time.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I was very emotional because I was talking about Chicago,
Speaker 1: my daughter's bunny, who I have fallen in love with.
Speaker 1: I love that bunny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird, man, She's magical.
Speaker 1: What happened. I'll give you a quick update in case
Speaker 1: you missed completely yesterday. My daughter moves. Peg moves her
Speaker 1: bunny Chicago from where she sleeps into what we call
Speaker 1: the day spar, which is like an enclosed pen so
Speaker 1: she can have a stretch of her legs during the day. Yes,
Speaker 1: she does that every morning before school.
Speaker 3: A bougie bunny. I'm no animal guy, but it's a
Speaker 3: gorgeous bunny. You've showed me several photos.
Speaker 1: Not only is she pretty, she is charismatic. We are
Speaker 1: mad at chicagoz if you will, she's got Riz mad Riz. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Peg did that, as she always does, went back to
Speaker 1: get Chicago's sister, Gingy returned to the day spa and
Speaker 1: she was like, where's Chicago. There was a fault with
Speaker 1: the latch and she had latched it, but it hadn't latched.
Speaker 1: Chicago escaped and it's the first time that we have
Speaker 1: not been able to just get our eyes on this bunny.
Speaker 1: Peg had to go to school, and I mean, all
Speaker 1: hell broke loose. I was trying to be positive, but
Speaker 1: I was really worried because I thought, this bunny's gone.
Speaker 1: We're never going to see her again. And I have to,
Speaker 1: you know, mother up and talk about grief and loss
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff with my daughter. And I
Speaker 1: just never wanted to go home. I wanted to join
Speaker 1: the witness protection program.
Speaker 3: You did stay here quite late last night. I think
Speaker 3: I was home for like fifteen minutes and you were
Speaker 3: still here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was here till like I stayed for
Speaker 1: an hour and a half after the show. I wanted
Speaker 1: to avoid it anyway. After Pegg had gone to school,
Speaker 1: I searched for two hours, every inch, every nook and
Speaker 1: cranny of the garden. Couldn't find the bunny. Had to
Speaker 1: come into work. I texted Charlotte, our next door neighbor,
Speaker 1: and she got back to me later on in the
Speaker 1: afternoon to tell me, Oh god, now I can't wait
Speaker 1: to tell me that she'd looked for the bunny and
Speaker 1: couldn't find her. The guy that mos my lawns popped
Speaker 1: in and I said to him, please keep your eye
Speaker 1: out for this bunny. And I said, in a photo
Speaker 1: of Chicago.
Speaker 3: Imagine if you just started cutting the grass and feathers
Speaker 3: were just flying everywhere.
Speaker 1: That would be odd because rabbits don't have feathers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got for beautiful soft fur. Anyway, he texted me back, no, sorry,
Speaker 1: no bunny. And then the heartbreaking texts from my daughter
Speaker 1: while I was still on air and she had finished school,
Speaker 1: and she's like, update, question Mark, do you think she'll
Speaker 1: eventually show up? Mum? I'm so scared tonight. Can we
Speaker 1: both go through the front yard in the backyard she
Speaker 1: could be anywhere? Mum? What if we don't find her? Mum?
Speaker 1: What if I never see her again? Mum. So I'm
Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, how do I answer this
Speaker 1: poor girl? Because the chances are yes, the bunny has.
Speaker 2: Gone you and danger girl, you danger girl.
Speaker 1: Anyway, As I said, I wanting to join the Witness
Speaker 1: Protection program, and I didn't want to go home and
Speaker 1: mother up. Eventually, I was getting my stuff together and
Speaker 1: my phone went off two texts at the same time,
Speaker 1: one from my son Kit and one from my daughter.
Speaker 1: Kits said, OMG, and Peg said, we found her.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 1: Yes, she was up in my podcast.
Speaker 2: How did she get up there?
Speaker 1: She's aspirational, she's aspirational, we screamed. My daughter was crying.
Speaker 1: By the time I got home, I was dancing around
Speaker 1: the backyard holding that bunny, enjoying this song and singing
Speaker 1: it by Chicago and if you leave me now, you'll
Speaker 1: tally the big I was singing into that bunny's little face. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I put a padlock on the hutch.
Speaker 3: Now I'm surprised the bunny didn't die from how hard
Speaker 3: you're all squeezing and hugging it. She loves us to
Speaker 3: the photos are were receiving last night. That bunny is
Speaker 3: gonna wish it had stayed away.
Speaker 1: Listen, I should post the photograph of what my kids saw.
Speaker 1: So they were in the backyard. My podcast studio is
Speaker 1: up on a second level above the garage. There's this
Speaker 1: little silhouette of a little black bunny behind the curtain
Speaker 1: full view. She was just watching us from above, going.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your day of hell.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, the Chrissy Swan Show. I think I need
Speaker 1: to talk about these bunnies, Chicago and Ginger, Jago and Gingy.
Speaker 1: Gingy did start off with a different name, and it's
Speaker 1: been so long now I can't remember what it was. Oh,
Speaker 1: Kara something anyway, Kara, Kara milk or Kara Karamello.
Speaker 2: That feels a bit stupid.
Speaker 1: No, it was cinnabun.
Speaker 3: Oh, cineabun. No, that also feels a bit stupid. You
Speaker 3: guys picked great names because Chicago and Ginger are great names.
Speaker 1: Well I did. Yeah, kid agrees with you, and Sinnebun
Speaker 1: was his rabbit and he said, I can't even say.
Speaker 2: The word I'm with your kids. I'm not calling her
Speaker 2: that nonsense.
Speaker 1: So she became Gingy. She's massive, by the way.
Speaker 2: Oh she's a big girl.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she's a big girl. She's sturdy, very sturdy.
Speaker 2: What about Kaggi, she's little. Yeah, so it's a.
Speaker 3: Kardashian true to her form.
Speaker 1: I got these bunnies for the kids, and I did
Speaker 1: not expect to fall in love with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've lost your mind. You've given them a day
Speaker 3: spar you think they're humans.
Speaker 1: My camera role is full of photographs of them and
Speaker 1: videos of them doing stuff like cleaning their little faces
Speaker 1: with their paws, like who am I? Who am I
Speaker 1: recording that for?
Speaker 3: It's also so not you. That's so off brand for us,
Speaker 3: And this is what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's really taken me by surprise.
Speaker 3: So when you lost Chicago last week, it makes sense
Speaker 3: and tracks that you were properly beside your eye.
Speaker 1: I was properly upset that I may never see that
Speaker 1: magnificent little bunny again. I am obsessed with their bottoms
Speaker 1: and their tails.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's weird.
Speaker 1: Just this morning I pulled up a chair to where
Speaker 1: they live and talk. They're the first people I see
Speaker 1: every morning I go downstairs. I talk to them. I've
Speaker 1: organized to have scraps delivered to me because I'm very
Speaker 1: time poor. I buy them corn on the cop with
Speaker 1: real money because I know they love it.
Speaker 3: That you haven't told me about. Are you still at
Speaker 3: the compounder? Have you checked in somewhere because it feels
Speaker 3: like a program that they would potentially put on for
Speaker 3: people that are you know, getting some help it's.
Speaker 1: Very it's very unusual. Yeah, I know, they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: what do they call it?
Speaker 2: Emotional support?
Speaker 1: It gets worse because Peg, my daughter is all so obsessed.
Speaker 1: Every day we check in to each other, check in
Speaker 1: with each other to see what sort of day we're having,
Speaker 1: and we we we asked the question, I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm obidding this. Who are you today? Your Chicago or
Speaker 1: you Gingy. They've got very different personalities.
Speaker 2: Is Chicago a vibe and Ginger's a bit more sad?
Speaker 1: Gingy's cranky but also delicious.
Speaker 2: Chicago is so like you on a salty day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: still delicious.
Speaker 1: But if you're cheeky, or if you're having a bit
Speaker 1: of fun, you're Chicago. And some and even now Peg
Speaker 1: blames things on Chicago, Like if she does something that
Speaker 1: annoys me, I go, Peg, She'll go, it wasn't me,
Speaker 1: it was Chicago. Oh wow, alter Ego.
Speaker 3: She's also going to need some therapy if this continues
Speaker 3: into her teen years.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that I've got my obsession off my chest.
Speaker 1: But the latest thing is this. They are outdoor bunnies.
Speaker 1: I mean bunnies are bunnies, right, Chicago is spending a
Speaker 1: lot of time in PEG's.
Speaker 2: Room, and it's very trailer, trash of you.
Speaker 1: And I'm all for it. This is I know, they're
Speaker 1: very clean and they're a litter trained. How do they
Speaker 1: do that? She hops over to her it. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: other day I heard Peg talking to someone in her
Speaker 1: room and I thought, oh, she's not a WhatsApp group
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, that's all good. That's all girls
Speaker 1: do is that they talk all through school and then
Speaker 1: they come home and they keep talking.
Speaker 2: Just voice note each other NonStop.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, I put my ear up. No, she's talking
Speaker 1: to Chicago. Her brother's in there too. Her brother's in
Speaker 1: her room. They've got Chicago on the bed and I
Speaker 1: looked through the door. This is what this is what
Speaker 1: it's come to. She's got as Sydney Swan's AFL flag
Speaker 1: on the bed. She's got a Richmond Tiger's AFL flag
Speaker 1: on the bed, and there's a little bunch of rocket
Speaker 1: on each of the flags.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And she's gently saying to Chicago, I just want to
Speaker 1: find out which team you go to go for. So
Speaker 1: this is the situation.
Speaker 3: I reckon in about a week, you're going to come
Speaker 3: in and we're going to be talking about the fact
Speaker 3: that pegs are furry now and has turned into a rabbit.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I did search how to buy a
Speaker 1: rabbit's tail.
Speaker 2: Because that's the thing. No, don't encourage it.
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