Speaker 1: Is it just me the rude shocks of young adulthood.
Speaker 2: Let me just say, for those wanting a Ladybug update,
Speaker 2: oh yes, yes, yes, yes, last week's episode context just
Speaker 2: in case people weren't listening last week. I've decided to
Speaker 2: embark on a dog walking era because I want to
Speaker 2: get more steps in my day. B I get to
Speaker 2: spend time with dogs. I love dogs, and see I
Speaker 2: get to help someone out. Yeah, lighten the load. So
Speaker 2: tick tick tick. I put a listing on some dog
Speaker 2: walkers website. I went a couple of months no bites,
Speaker 2: and then I got my first customer inquiry last week.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: And where we left off last week was that I
Speaker 2: was going to do my first meet and greet with
Speaker 2: Ladybug to make sure I'm a good fit before they
Speaker 2: give me the dog walking gig.
Speaker 1: And Ladybug is a black and white French bulldog.
Speaker 2: I got that wrong. Actually it's not a French bulldog,
Speaker 2: but similar enough. Okay, it's actually a Stafford Sheer Terrier.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah close, yeah much NICs A little black dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a very cute, lovely looking dog, but also so
Speaker 2: packs a punch.
Speaker 1: A kind of dog that your mum would be scared of.
Speaker 2: Probably yeah, okay, but she was absolutely adorable. I went
Speaker 2: along to this meet and.
Speaker 1: Grow You've met, You've met Lady Bug.
Speaker 2: I told you that was happening.
Speaker 1: I know, but I just didn't think you'd actually do it.
Speaker 2: Of course I would do it. I was so excited.
Speaker 2: I was really really looking forward to this. I was like,
Speaker 2: I want this, gick. I just know that Ladybug and
Speaker 2: I are going to get along so well, and I
Speaker 2: was really really excited. It just warmed my heart the
Speaker 2: thought of having a cute little relationship with someone else's
Speaker 2: dog because I can't take on my own. And so
Speaker 2: I went along to the meet and greet. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a gay couple, by the way, God damn it, okay,
Speaker 2: and they were waiting for me out the front. The
Speaker 2: owner little Ladybug on a leash, and I say, hello,
Speaker 2: three doy, who you got here? Ladybug, so excited, responds
Speaker 2: to that sort of tone of voice where I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh no, ken, oh yeah, we're good. Girl, jumps up,
Speaker 2: has her pause on my knees, getting a good scratch in.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, you're a beautiful girl, aren't you. And
Speaker 2: then I said, ah, hi, by the way to the owner,
Speaker 2: I've just given this dog all the attention. And then
Speaker 2: the owner pulls out some dog treats from his pocket
Speaker 2: and starts showing off what ladybug can do. Fucking sit, stay,
Speaker 2: roll over all that, and I'm there giving it my all,
Speaker 2: being like, oh, you're such a good girl, good gil ladyback,
Speaker 2: Oh aren't you beautiful? And then the owner says to me,
Speaker 2: why don't you try and give her a treat? Right,
Speaker 2: And that's when fucking ladybug turned No way, I could
Speaker 2: have been killed.
Speaker 1: Are you seriously or you seriously?
Speaker 2: Look look at this finger. Ladybug did that a little
Speaker 2: It's healed very nice, and it was. She fucking bit
Speaker 2: me as soon as I had the treats in my hand.
Speaker 2: She's like and like attacked me. Wait she ground, growled, barked,
Speaker 2: bit everything.
Speaker 1: What do the owners did? You a freak out?
Speaker 2: Well, he was like trying to pull her back on
Speaker 2: the leash, but because she's quite a hefty dog, that's
Speaker 2: what I mean. She's smaller but packs of punch. He
Speaker 2: was like pulling the lead being like, no, come on, ladybug,
Speaker 2: and I'm just stepping back, going oh god, what's going on,
Speaker 2: and then he goes try again, and I was like,
Speaker 2: do I have to so again put the little treat
Speaker 2: near her mouth? I fucking attacks my hand again, and
Speaker 2: I was like.
Speaker 1: Oh god, and this isn't how Ladybug reacted when the
Speaker 1: owner gave the treat.
Speaker 2: No, not at all, and so we just kind of thought, okay,
Speaker 2: let's stop trying that now. We won't try that again.
Speaker 2: And then I spent the next half hour walking around
Speaker 2: the block multiple times with the owner and Ladybug. She
Speaker 2: didn't look at me once. She only had eyes for
Speaker 2: the owner every time I spoke to her in that
Speaker 2: fucking voice, Hi, sweetie, liked you. She just didn't even
Speaker 2: acknowledge me. Oh my god, you failed, apparently because I
Speaker 2: didn't even have to flag with him that I wasn't
Speaker 2: going to be available. I've been rejected. Oh no, that's hard.
Speaker 2: I've been knocked back.
Speaker 1: That's really I shouldn't laugh. I'm not laughing at you.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing at that's deficits you. It's the dog.
Speaker 2: The doors didn't choose you. I was just thinking in
Speaker 2: the lead up, what would I have to do to
Speaker 2: fuck up this meet and greet with a dog If
Speaker 2: I come and kick it. Sure, I'm like, what would
Speaker 2: I have to do to fuck this up? But then
Speaker 2: they rejected me because the dog didn't fucking like me. Did.
Speaker 1: They let down.
Speaker 2: It was very much like, oh, we're just gonna We're
Speaker 2: not gonna proceed this time, but if we ever need
Speaker 2: a dog worker again, we'll let you know, be on
Speaker 2: this three week stint. And so I should have been
Speaker 2: walking later back this morning, but I was rejected.
Speaker 1: Des I'm really sorry to hear that it.
Speaker 2: Was sad, because I was. I had imagined our future together.
Speaker 2: I imagine it's walking off into the sunset, having a
Speaker 2: gorgeous time. But then this is why I'm pissed off
Speaker 2: about it. I think the owner fucking stitched me up
Speaker 2: because he said to me, oh, these treats in my pocket,
Speaker 2: they're the good treats. Normally, when I'm just doing day
Speaker 2: to day dog walking, I've got the Povo schmackos or whatever.
Speaker 2: But when she's meeting new people as an incentive to
Speaker 2: be extra nized, I get her the special treats as
Speaker 2: an extra award, and I'm like, no, wonder she attacked me.
Speaker 2: She thought I was stealing them. She thought that I
Speaker 2: was taking the treats away from her. No wonder she
Speaker 2: fucking wanted blood because the fucking top shelf treats and
Speaker 2: she thought that this random woman was trying to.
Speaker 1: Rob her of her beautiful treat Wow.
Speaker 2: And then he says to me, yeah, no, sorry about that.
Speaker 2: She's normally great with people, but not great with other animals.
Speaker 2: I was like, what are you saying? You're a man animal?
Speaker 2: Just adding insult to injury. I think that if it
Speaker 2: weren't for the fucking luxury treats, I would have nailed
Speaker 2: you all over me the treats.
Speaker 1: It's not you, it's the treats. I'm sorry. I know
Speaker 1: how excited you are seriously about.
Speaker 2: Getting I'm really sorry. I just think that we should
Speaker 2: be able to euthanize other people's don't be able to
Speaker 2: know her because quite frankly, our streets aren't safe with
Speaker 2: lady bug out and about.
Speaker 1: You should preciate photos of fucking threats?
Speaker 2: Is she threat?
Speaker 1: What if the heat is you don't want to piss
Speaker 1: them off?
Speaker 2: I don't care. They didn't give me the gig. Yeah
Speaker 2: that's true.
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry.
Speaker 2: The fucking tiny black dog tried to mourn me to death.
Speaker 2: In the street and.
Speaker 1: Then they still made you walk it. That's cruel, sadistic.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was like they were hovering a treat in
Speaker 2: front of me and I couldn't get it. They're like,
Speaker 2: this is the dog you could have been walking if
Speaker 2: you got along. For the next half hour that's paraded
Speaker 2: around being like, No, she doesn't like you, Doshy still
Speaker 2: doesn't like you. No, she still doesn't like you.
Speaker 1: Well, Mitchell, I'm pleased to say I've got an update
Speaker 1: in my dog search. I believe in the next six
Speaker 1: months I'll be getting a dog.
Speaker 2: Can you please like I say this as a friend? Yeah,
Speaker 2: can you fucking not though, get a dog? The last
Speaker 2: thing you need is another excuse to stay at home.
Speaker 2: That's why you're getting it, isn't it fun? Dog owners
Speaker 2: make it the whole personality. Sorry, I've got to get
Speaker 2: home to the dog. They do, they might have fucking
Speaker 2: eaten a cushion.
Speaker 1: Now my dog would be very well behaved.
Speaker 2: You say that, now my dog will be behaved.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a little black white one and to
Speaker 1: name it Lady, just to spite you.
Speaker 2: And I hope it fucking rips everything.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Good? Also, ladybugs allergic to grasp fucking pathetically, what.
Speaker 1: Kind of It's like an astronaut being allergic to space.
Speaker 2: I have to only walk around the path. Well, you
Speaker 2: would have had to, But I thought that I had
Speaker 2: the gig because at the end of the day, when
Speaker 2: I was about to go home from this meet and greet,
Speaker 2: they said, right, so, Keeta, the house will be in
Speaker 2: the letterbox. That'll be where it is the first time
Speaker 2: you walk out. But then you can just hold onto
Speaker 2: it for the next three weeks. See, you don't have
Speaker 2: to keep putting it back in the letter box. I
Speaker 2: was like, sweet, I got the gig, despite the fact
Speaker 2: you can't stand me, and quite frankly, I can't stand her.
Speaker 1: And you didn't get the gig. I'm very sorry. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm condolence to you to think what could have been.
Speaker 1: Don't think it's over their loss. Their loss, lady bugs loss,
Speaker 1: lady bugs lost.
Speaker 2: I know there are dressed now. If I happened to
Speaker 2: drop rat poison in the wrong backyard, terrible. Why do
Speaker 2: you have raw sausages and razor blades? That's what people do.
Speaker 1: They baked them. People baked dogs in dog parks. They
Speaker 1: put razor blades. Neighbors who hate their neighbors dogs because
Speaker 1: they're bark They put raw razor blades in raw sausage.
Speaker 2: It's true. Okay, I take back my jokes.
Speaker 1: That's awful. That's Brittany Harkilely, my friend and my radio
Speaker 1: co host the Bonda Dog Park that she walks her
Speaker 1: beautiful dog, Delilay in gets there's there's rat poison in
Speaker 1: the bake them into cookies and put them into dog
Speaker 1: trees and then dogs eat them and then they die
Speaker 1: at because these neighbors are just awful powers.
Speaker 2: Maybe actually taking Lady Buck to bonder.
Speaker 1: All right, we're ready for my age.
Speaker 2: I sure it.
Speaker 1: Is it just me? Did we all just stop getting croup? Well,
Speaker 1: kroup cough?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 1: Did you never get kroup cough?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you explain what it is?
Speaker 1: Well, I've got an audio grab of what kroup cough
Speaker 1: sounds like. Because growing up, oh, croup was the plague
Speaker 1: Mum would free cop the kids have croup.
Speaker 2: Croup is an upper airway infection that blocks breathing and
Speaker 2: has a distinctive barking cough.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, no, this is croup. I found it online.
Speaker 1: That's a croup cough. Oh gosh, it sounds like a hanky,
Speaker 1: like an old man blowing his nose into a hanky.
Speaker 1: I had croup a dozen times growing up. It is
Speaker 1: that cough that rumbles in your chest, you know, when
Speaker 1: you breathe out and it goes. Oh, that kind of
Speaker 1: cough as croup.
Speaker 2: Sounded like you doing coughing fit chicken on this podcast.
Speaker 1: That coffe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, you don't still have it.
Speaker 1: No, I don't have kroup coff because that's I've noticed
Speaker 1: not getting it. I've actually like, I forget kroup cough.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's a thing that only my family.
Speaker 2: I remember my mum had a kid health book and
Speaker 2: like the first page was croop cough. You were raised
Speaker 2: before Google, so I guess, yeah, that's a good call.
Speaker 1: It was actually inscribed onto a concrete tablet. Yes, so, Mitchell,
Speaker 1: you've never had croup.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I did. I just didn't call
Speaker 2: it that. I've got no idea. It rings not one
Speaker 2: bell for me.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I had a deep, chesty cough croup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it didn't sound like a hanky.
Speaker 1: What what does it sound like?
Speaker 2: Describe it just like a normal iPad kid cough No,
Speaker 2: that's not it.
Speaker 1: This is a deep rumbling cough do an impression.
Speaker 2: Why is your tongue? Why is your tongue out?
Speaker 1: I'm hiccupping. Oh my god, something's going wrong with me.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Do you do the wet ones all the time? That's
Speaker 2: your normal cop Oh, so this isn't a real disease.
Speaker 1: Mum made this up, probably because I was an ill kid.
Speaker 2: She must have thought you were sick all the time.
Speaker 2: But that was your part.
Speaker 1: Thanks Michelle.
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