Welcome And Mom On Mic

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Center. I'm RJ. I'm Mark. And joining us again in the studio, this time with a microphone, is my mom visiting from Arizona.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

And I'm Moran's mom.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

There you go. And uh she'll let me ask you a question though, if you don't mind, mom. Okay. You you you observed uh you were here when we recorded the previous episode. Yeah. Is the reason you felt well compelled to get a microphone and be on because you thought this podcast because you use a better co-host than Mark?

SPEAKER_02 0:42

Actually, I'm I'm here because I know when it gets big and famous, I want to be gay. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Just I'm gonna get right in on that. Right in on that. Well, uh, I mean, you did you did say you enjoyed uh watching us do one, right?

SPEAKER_02 0:56

It was fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

That's great to hear. Appreciate that. Um, so uh big update on the gate. It is not fixed, still not fixed, and still haven't found the chainsaw.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

Um, we didn't have to go there. We didn't have to. Yeah. Uh have you let me ask you this. Have you been keeping an eye out for it? Uh we're both to blame. I'd have to get out of my trailer to do that. They don't have YouTube out in the woods. Yeah, I know. Well, you get the little Starlinky thing that they well, yeah. Never mind. You can't. Nope. We already talked about that. Elon Musk likes me better.

Ranch Updates And Running Jokes

SPEAKER_03 1:31

That's okay. Yeah. You can have it. Hey, I'd like to say one thing though. Sure. Uh, here a couple episodes ago, we talked about us freeze it up and everything, and one of our friends, Cindy, up in Edmonds, Washington, made the comment to my wife that she was mad at me because my wife was cold and freezing. Yeah. And I'd just like to apologize to Cindy for that. But not your wife. Oh, yeah, and my wife.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Small point. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

I just wanted to get that in there. I don't like when Cindy's mad at me.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

But your wife can be mad at her. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Thank you for saying the opposite thing here. She put a ring on it. Not gonna do that one again. Yes, we're not gonna do the cockring thing again. No. Uh-uh. Well, it was funny, yeah. But it's been done to death. Well, uh, I guess you know, thanks for apologizing. Um, I I feel like I should apologize in advance for you every time we do one of these.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

You won't be the first one to apologize for what I'm gonna say. Oh, believe me. I know, I know.

Hartley The High-Energy Puppy

SPEAKER_00 2:37

So um, like we talked about last time, my mom's visiting from Arizona. She's she's here on the ranch, uh, and uh it's been a lot of fun. And we uh one thing that's been extra fun is uh everybody knows about the puppy Hartley. The wee puppy Hartley He was wee for about a day.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Um and I'll tell you I'll tell you how I feel about Bartley is or Hartley. He's destroyed my life. Um God, it's such a thing. And uh he's great.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, he's been fabulous since I've been here.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

Really? Yeah uh no uh no no hiccups, no no frustrations at all.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

Nothing, nothing, perfect puppy. Typical glamour, she's not telling the truth.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

So I'll I'll tell the truth then. Um I think it was today, right, mom, that you were like, I think I'm starting to see how you can get on your nerves. A little bit, yeah, a little bit, and and he is great, he is really very, very well, and he's only he's not even six months yet, and so he's just really well behaved. But oh god, just nonstop.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

He's full of it.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Full of everything. I mean, he's all the time everywhere. It just uh if he's not dragging one of the dogs across the deck by their collar, he's trying to take your shoe off.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

Wreck your tictoe tac-toe game, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Like find new ways to get your attention. Yes. Uh he was out there helping you um in the dog. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Keeping me uh it'd be like having an air conditioner, sort of, except really slobbery right in front of my face. Yes, exactly. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Um, and yeah, so he's he's been uh he's been a lot of fun, but he is a he's a total handful, and I don't know where he gets energy from. He just goes. Um and it reminds me of the last puppy I got to know pretty well. Maybe you know where I'm going with this, Mom. I think so. Uh-huh. Uh she has been mentioned before on the podcast. Um, Patsy, my parents' dog Patsy. Uh a very special lady is what I would call her if I had to really boil it down.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

That's so nice and true.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Yeah, you could say a lot of things about her. Um she was uh well we we talked about she she really is kind of the lineage if you go all the way back. Getting to know her was what prompted me to get my first dog and my second dog, and then ultimately turned into not just the ranch, uh, and all the cats and the stupid puppy. But I mean everything. Um the three of us sitting here right now, you know, on the ranch, talking about this, uh complaining about a puppy that we never thought would be a part of our lives. Uh and Patsy, you guys got her when she was quite wee. Was it six weeks?

SPEAKER_02 5:41

I think she was eight about eight weeks when we got her.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

In like what, two pounds, probably?

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Probably about two pounds, a little tiny thing.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Yeah, and uh terrier.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Terrier, yes. Let me try that again. Terrier, yes.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Terrier, yes, terrier damn uh ripped her apart. Um and I would liken her because uh to like if you were gonna pick a brilliant kind of looked like a Karen Terrier with a couple of years.

Meet Patsy: Tiny Terrier, Big Impact

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Yes, she did look very much like a Karen Terrier.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Did she have the attitude?

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Of a Karen or a terrier?

SPEAKER_03 6:13

Of a Karen.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

Uh yeah, actually. What do you have to say about that, Mark?

SPEAKER_03 6:21

Uh yeah. Uh elaborate. Yes. No, I I know too many Karen's, and that's actually their name.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Oh my, what's he missing? Awkward. He's this is very awkward.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

Um That's it.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

Turn off my mic.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

I've been trying to do that, like literally. Uh I don't know if you know this is an audition for a new host right now, Mark.

SPEAKER_03 6:45

So yeah, yeah, we're trying to replace Ryan.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

All right. Well, I'd like to see you run the board over here. You don't even know what the board is, dude.

SPEAKER_03 6:54

I don't even know what it looks like. All I see is your name up on the back of both these monitors. Dell, Dell. Yeah, that's a stupid joke. So I kind of like it because it's what I see. Here, let me take a picture. No, nobody wants to see.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Oh, so you could post it on the socials? Yeah. That I don't have the passwords for. You you do. Except for one. And we talked about that. I'm not taking the bait. I just did. Well, um, no, so so Patsy. How uh before we get to the story, how old do you reckon she was when I met her?

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Oh goodness. Uh nine weeks?

unknown 7:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

Or nine or ten weeks. It was very soon after we got her.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Yeah. Um, and would it be fair to say, just in general, that as a puppy she was a terror. Okay. Yes. I was gonna be absolutely terror. Or diplomatic about that's right. She was a handful. Oh my goodness. And well, at the time I was in Tucson going to school, and you guys live about three hours, three, four hours away, right? Yeah. And you had to come down there for an appointment, I believe. Right? Yes. And she was too young to leave, right? She was too young to leave, yes, could not be left on her own. So you got to drive, which uh I never asked about the drive. Do you remember how the drive was?

SPEAKER_02 8:11

I don't remember the drive down there. I do very much remember the drive back. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

So well, and you asked, like, you know, can I drop her at your place? Watch her for like an hour, hour and a half. I'm like, pfft, two-pound puppy, you got it.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

Yeah, he was actually looking forward to it. I was, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Would you like to describe my state of mind and then what everything else when you got back?

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Uh, the way I describe it is he was sitting on the stairs in a fetal position, shaking a little bit, a few tears. And I said, What's what's going on here? I thought he'd be so happy when I got back. And he said, All she did all day long was run around and shit all over the house, take her home.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

He was terrified. I didn't think he'd ever speak to a dog, even look at a dog.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

Yeah. And I understood. Oh well, I was just gonna ask, do you think I was being not at all?

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Yeah, so if I'd have told him all that, he would have said no about watching her. So you know, it's something you have to experience, right?

SPEAKER_00 9:08

So, yeah, that's that's another thing. Glamas always lie, I guess, like Mark said, right? Don't trust that one.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Yep.

The Tucson Fiasco And Puppy Mayhem

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Oh goodness, and uh well, you want to talk a little bit more about because I mean that was an hour and a half for me. That was like this first several many months for you. How how was she such a pistol? And like because I remember you were real distraught.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

I was very distraught. In fact, I at some point in maybe within the first month or six weeks, I decided that I had to have help as far as training. I'd never had to train a dog before. You know, our dogs had always come just come in the door and they seemed okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

This one, not so much. So I actually started looking for trainers, and she got so bad, Patsy did, that when I took her to the trainer, I was telling her all these things, and the trainer said, Well, the only way I'm going to be able to do this is to keep her here for a couple weeks. And if you could have felt the elation that I felt. My brand new puppy, you want to keep her for two weeks? Can you keep can you keep her for four?

SPEAKER_00 10:09

So yeah. So she had inpatient treatment.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

Oh, yeah. Well, the the weird part about it was then she we get all these things done, get getting ready to leave her there. And she asks about her immunizations. Well, she was so young that she hadn't had all her immunizations, so she couldn't keep her.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Oh my gosh, and you must have been.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

I was, I think I cried all the way home, not sure. But when I did take her back, which was probably a month or so later, I walked in the door, and the first thing she said, she gets a big smile on her face, and she said, I'm so happy to see you. I was sure you're gonna get rid of that dog. Oh because I was so upset when she saw me.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Yeah, so I mean, this is a seasoned professional.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

And I mean and the thing, the thing is, this is why it's good to have both of us talking about it. Is I don't think people really believe you. Like how bad, how bad she was as a puppy.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

She was really hard, very difficult.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yeah. Um is there a little bit of a PTSD component to dealing with Hartley now? Or not even on that level.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Well, it's like I've told you, it's even a little bit more than PTSD because she was at the most at that time five pounds during the that process. Hartley is what, is he 55 now? I'm serious, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Uh the last time I waited him, he was 52. 52 pounds. Was about a week ago, and the week before that he was 42.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

So yeah. She was probably a little easier to handle because I could put her in a crate easily. I could we had a little pen in the house. So it it initially this didn't bring back PTSD, but this morning we might have crossed that that uh line. Yeah, he was a little over the top this morning while you were not out there with us.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Yeah, had to have a little chat.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

A little chat.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Yeah, I hear you. So uh I mean the punchline to Patsy being such a bad puppy is she we turned into the most amazing dog. And I I mean, bless your heart, uh sticking with it and getting her there. Um and how how old do you think she was when you turned the cor when she turned the corner?

Training, Tears, And A Turning Point

SPEAKER_02 12:15

It really wasn't that bad. When I think back, it was probably at the six-month mark, she got a lot better. And she probably was better before that, even. Um, but I remember the trainer telling me around two, between two, two and a half, and I I want to put a gun in my mouth. I mean, I just couldn't even imagine, or in hers, I don't know which one of us, but yeah, it was not it didn't take very long. And her a lot of her issues were security issues, I believe, because she was a pet store pet. Oh yeah, and that was something I would never do that again, but I think that was a lot of her probably, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:49

Um, and so of course, the next time I saw her, uh I would imagine the next time I saw her, you know, she was she was a good dog and she was a fun dog. And as I got to know her, of course, like I said, that led me to like dogs enough to want to get one. And I ended up with Milo, who was born a 70-year-old grumpy man.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Oh, so awesome though. The best 70-year-old man.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

He was a special guy. Um and Patsy lived seven 16 years or 17 years.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

17 years. Not enough. That not long enough. That's how long.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

It's never enough.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

No.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

And uh so one of the things that we we have done uh here on the ranch is we've um excuse me. We have uh started to name or had started from the beginning really, to name certain landmarks, if you will, uh around the ranch about our family dogs, the dogs we have had history with. And I believe Patsy had the honor of the the first n part of the ranch named after her, uh, which was Patsy's pasture.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

Oh, that's where that came from. Yeah, you didn't know that, Mark.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Isn't that a beautiful gesture, Mark?

SPEAKER_00 14:06

It is, yeah, especially from Ryan. And I'll give you props for paying attention. Um since you're just now learning that. I have a no-baked cookie.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Prairie dog.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

You are a no-baked cookie, you know what? Uh yeah, and um it was uh yeah, and well, uh uh you've heard the story. I don't know if Mark, you've heard the story about um when we christened uh Patsy's pasture. Yeah, and I don't remember what the reason was, Mom, that you couldn't come, but there was some something, some reason, because you were supposed to be there, uh come out with Mike. Right. And so it was me and Rob and Mike, and uh, you know, we decided, of course, that it was Patsy's pasture, but uh what I'm talking about is we set a post and we had a little wooden wooden sign made. Uh Ryan makes the signs actually handmade signs.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

They're really nice too.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Had them made by myself, yeah. And so we set the post and put it in there, and uh it was it was a very sweet, uh, very sweet thing. Um and ever I'll say this, hope I don't embarrass you, Mom. Every time we drive by or walk by Patsy's pasture, you get a little get a little misty.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Oh, I do, and I often do as well.

From Chaos To Companion

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Um and I oft I think so much about how if not for her, uh none of us would be here. Right. All these dogs who wouldn't have homes, setting aside Hartley could have lived without that. And all these cats and all the things. Um and uh unfortunately, you know, a few months back we lost our sweet girl Dolly. A couple months before that we lost little Charlie, and that sucks, but what I think warms our hearts is that those two were laid to rest at Patsy's pasture. Yes. And we know that she's looking out for and uh Milo, well, Milo. Let's talk about Milo and that was something else, yes. So how old do you well I got him in 2010? So how old would she have been?

SPEAKER_02 16:24

She would have been eleven?

unknown 16:29

No.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

No, she wouldn't have been that when did I get her? I got her in I can't you I can't do math. You're the math minor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

No math minor. Don't tell people that because you can't do math.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

Um, so uh uh I was gonna say it was like th 03 or 04 when I had that traumatic incident where you left her with me for 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Okay, okay, that sounds about right.

Milo’s Story And An Unlikely Bond

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Yeah, so it was six years, six or seven. Um so I got Milo and got him from the pound. Um and he was he was of a special guy, but man, he was a grump. He was just grumpy and lazy. If he had got a rocking chair and a pipe be on the deck, and that's all he did, he would have been happy. And he was not he was never mean, like dangerous mean, but he you know, he put the growls to any other dog that came around him. He'd seen some things, that boy. He'd seen some shit, yeah. Uh and he just, you know, he I would say at best, except for Oakley, because it did become close, at best, Milo tolerated any other dog, right? At best. Uh and when I hadn't had him that long, less than a year, I think, I flew from Texas to Arizona and took Milo with me. Um, which side note, it was uh not a connection fly connecting flight, but when the plane landed West Texas and got more gas, I guess. And so we had to stop. And I had him in a little crate thingy under the seat. And I I I got up to go to the uh to the restroom, and he starts. He's throwing a fit, and then somebody one of the past, like, oh, it's okay, little guy. He's like, and I'm like, it's fine, he's fine. Leave him alone, please, for the love of God. But anyway, um uh I I think it was both of you guys. My parents picked me up at the airport in Phoenix, and uh I got him out of the crate and went out, took him up to your to y'all's house, and he got out of the car, and Patsy was coming out of the house, and I want to say it took about 2.6 seconds before they were BFFs.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Absolutely. Minute one and always were, and always were.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

They had a for him being such a grumpy gus and her being such a such a sweetheart, for some reason they really had a connection. They really did, yes. Uh it was really it was really cute. Um Mark, uh, do you have any questions about anything?

SPEAKER_03 19:08

Are you still driving? Yeah, when I get quiet like that, it's it's the stories like this that just make you love being here and a part of the ranch. Especially feeling's not mutual. Yeah, I know especially with Hartley. Uh and and just knowing that, you know, Patsy's got a spot here, and then the the ones that have passed away, but yeah, knowing that the animals that are rescued here get to spend the rest of their lives here on this ranch, and it just it's you know, for me being the smart ass that I am, it just I get quiet because it just it's almost saddening to know that you know they get to spend the rest of their life here and enjoy it.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Yeah, uh saddening's not the right word.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

I d I didn't have a big word like you do.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Saddening does have a lot of letters in it. Um especially for me. It it it it it's the like it hits you in the feels, right? Yeah, yeah, it's uh and it's it's the that's I mean, hopefully people kind of get though we're total dumbasses, that there's a lot of heart that goes into this uh every single day. Yes. And uh I guess sometimes we have to I guess if we're talking about anything serious, Mark's got nothing to add. That's what we're learning here. No, like I said, I know we I'm enjoying the story. Stop yelling at me.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

I'm just Oh my god, if I was yelling at you, you'd know it.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

Well, Mark, one of the things too is Ryan and I have talked about this that you and Christina ending up here is not an accident.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

I I don't think it is.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

No, this place has so much heart, it's magical, it's wonderful. It's like no place I've ever been, and this is where you guys belong. You're gonna be a part of it, which I think is really cool.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

And to be a part of it is is so wonderful for us, you know. Not knowing where we were gonna end up when you know she retired, and then for Ryan to offer for us to come down and be a part of the ranch is just it's just wonderful for us. We you know are grateful every day for it. So, wait, you guys are staying?

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Oh, you invited them to live here, not me. Okay, I didn't know all this.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

Oh, you've had your opportunity.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Oh I know about that.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

You know what, sir. Well, speaking of that, um well, I did want to mention, I mean, honestly, if we sat here and talked about Patsy without limitation, we'd just go on all day. Yes. I mean, there's not enough you could say about her. And one of the things that always has stuck with me about her, sp what you have told me about her, is and I've never heard anybody say this about a dog, she had a sense of humor.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Yes, she did, very much so. She loved to make people laugh. She loved to play and try to, you know, outsmart you. She was really and now you I'm sure now you see it in a lot of your dogs, right? Or all of them.

Rescue Fit: The Right Human For The Dog

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Uh well, I don't I yeah, I see I see a lot of those different things. Um Was there one time where she was doing the whole family was there? She was doing tricks.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Yes, it was when you were there.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah, Ryan was there on a on a trip and we were all the whole family was there. And of course the dogs were always the center of the tension. And she was doing tricks and whatnot. So she did some trick and everybody in the room clapped except for Ryan. And she stopped what she was doing and turned around and looked at him. Like, are you kidding me? And he had to clap for her. That was her in a nutshell. Right?

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Yes, she well, yes. Uh among many other lovely things, she was a ham. Yeah, she was a ham bone. Total ham. Um, and she uh sh you she when you she got a brother at some point, Kevin. Kevin, yeah. Y'all's dog Kevin, who's he's a little cute little piker.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

He's adorable. Um, and uh, you know and then now unfortunately we lost Patsy some years back, and uh now you guys have another dog named Lexi.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Which you were meant to have. Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Um whose name was Patsy if you recall. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Which was just weird. Very strange. Because it was one of those things where you were like, you know, may maybe it's time we'll get another, you know, get another dog.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

And it's just like I I'm sure you had seen other dogs come up, and I was like, Oh, Patsy, oh wait a minute. And I think I don't know if this is true, but I do I think you had like sort of an instant draw to her, despite the name when you saw a picture of her.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Actually, I had an instant draw to her from her picture, and when I saw the name, it kind of made me pull back. Like, wow.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Never known another dog named Patsy.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

And yeah, and uh Kevin's always been such a great dog. Yes, and Lexi's an amazing dog too. Right. But one thing I I remember always remember about her is that's not what she was uh billed to you as. You were told she was gonna be quite a difficult dog, Lexi.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

Yes, I was. She was a rescue and she had been rescued or gotten somehow by an an elderly woman who my rescuer had told, I will not give you a terrier. Because terriers are, if you know terriers, I mean they're a little bit much, right? What'd you say?

SPEAKER_00 24:16

I've I've I've met good words. I've met a couple you're gonna start that shit now.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

I'm sorry, well, I'm just saying that's how they make you, right? They make you crazy.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Oh, they make yeah, totally crazy.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

Can make you crazy. And um when she got past or Lexi, she said Lexi wouldn't make eye contact. Lexi had IBS, horrible irritable bowel syndrome. No bad. She was just a mess.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

And uh she told me that when she got her, she had this feeling that some of those things are probably not really what she was underneath, and that's what ended up being.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

She's just really another great dog.

Patsy’s Pasture And Legacy

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Yeah, yeah. They all are, and that's the point. It it is, and the other point that I always think about too is you know the lineage or whatever they call it, is that you know, if not, you know, but for Patsy, you wouldn't have probably have Kevin. No, you know, Lexi, and again, all of this. Um and uh but terriers. I mean, terriers are great and awful because they're just I mean, they're incredibly smart. Um and they just excuse me. Yeah, are you okay over there, buddy?

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Yeah, my straw got stuck.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Jesus doing that while we're on the street.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

You know that we're doing a show, right? Wait, dare I ask where did it get stuck?

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Good question.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Oh god. One thing I'll say about um I think this applies to a lot of terriers, at least that I've known, I think you've known, uh is because I used to say this about Milo all the time. I think it's true you and Patsy and stuff. Uh Milo nobody else could have had Milo.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

No.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

And Milo couldn't have had anybody else. Right. Like they're they're often the kinds of dogs that you you have to get them personally, and there's only certain people that can get them. Right.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

And uh That's where you were going with the thing about Lexi, and I totally went the other direction. What what what do you mean? Well, the the rescuer had told me that they'd had many people inquire about her because of her picture.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Yeah, yeah, and that was right. I was setting setting you up for a compliment and then you changed the subject.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

No, but it is true. Um she w that uh the the the rescuer was very selective about very yeah. Um and r and good. You know, very re thank god because you well know, uh with if anybody else had gotten Mile, there'd be a very good chance he would have been put down.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

Or taken back. Or taken back. Right.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Because he wasn't dangerous, but he could be a real dick. Yes. And he growled a lot and everything else. And uh, you know, so it's just and in fact when we when we adopted Milo, um we we were at the counter, like checking out or whatever you call it, and this lady came in with a printout from their website of him and said, I'd like to see this dog. And just you know, not to be judgy, but that bitch would not be able to handle Milo. Right. And they're like, Oh, I'm sorry, it's just you know, he's just been adopted out. She's like, Oh, and she looks around and she's like, Oh, is that him? And then my hit, I'm like, get your whore mouth and your hands away from my puppy. This is my dog now. Wait till the card clear, yeah, this is my dog now. But uh, and it's funny how quick you go there with my doggy. Uh, and he just like Milo was misunderstood. He was and and terriers often are. And I'll I'll use Finley as an example, the opposite of a dick, and the opposite of Grumpy, but he is a certain kind of personality. He's very quirky, and you have to you have to get him. Um but they always these dogs always tend to be the most uh interesting and special ones. And and I know the implication there is that they're not all special, and they're not, because we mentioned Harley.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

That's Harley is special.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Yeah, yeah. Um, but uh I I I want to say I'm really glad that you were able to do be here for this episode because I very much when we talked about Patsy, I very much wanted to hear from you, and so I'm glad we could do it while you're here.

SPEAKER_02 28:29

I appreciate you letting me do this, Ryan. It brings back so much. Yeah, and it reminds me of how how amazing you are to do what you do, and I want to just say too, I've said this to you many times. I loved my dogs, I love them very much, like people. But you have a connection with dogs and an ability with dogs that no one else in our family has. Maybe Robbie. Robbie might one day.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

But you innately know what to do with dogs, you innately know Milo. You said he was a lot to handle, and I remember a call I got one time where he'd gotten bitten by him.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Oh, yep. You remember that? Thank God, yeah.

Drone Views And Life On The Ranch

SPEAKER_02 29:01

And he had gotten trapped under a bed and got under bed when he was really bitten. Really bitten, yeah. This was not a playbite. Yeah. And uh I said to the first thing I said, even loving dogs as I do, uh you might have to get rid of him. You can't put up with that. And and instantly Ryan said he was still upset, he was still bleeding, all the things. Well, mom, he there's some reason for this. He didn't just do this because he's a bad dog. And you've known those kinds when you see a dog, when you meet a dog, you know them and you can work with them, and I just think that's such a gift, and it's been such an amazing thing to be able to watch you work with these dogs.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

Well, thank you. I really that means a lot. Uh and I we joked earlier, Milo, Milo had seen some shit, and unfortunately, the not funny part of that was is he had not been treated well. No, he hadn't. And I don't we don't know his history, but it was evident. And the thing that he it wasn't entirely me, I don't give full credit. The thing that that little shit did is after he bit me, I you know, I I kind of jumped back. He came out with ears down, tail down, and he came over to me and apologized. And he just felt so bad about it. And, you know, that's one of those things that uh throughout his life there were there were events where he never bit anybody again, but he you know, he snapped at him in certain situations. A couple I'm thinking of specifically, where he got put in timeout around the family, remember? And we let him out and he would go apologize.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

He sure would.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

Like he he knew he'd done something wrong, he just couldn't control it. Um kind of like it's not like Mark, because Mark doesn't apologize. Well, yeah, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

That doesn't that doesn't count. I'm getting ahead. Getting them in that way. You can't preload those bad ones. Yes, I can't, I just did.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Um uh but again, thank appreciate you saying that. And again, thanks for do thanks for talking about her. Thank you. It's it's nice. Yeah, she's a special girl. Um and uh you know, when despite the fact that Christina's really mad at you and stuff or whatever, Mark, she did have a good suggestion a few episodes back about more background on the ranch and that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

Right.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Thanks good.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

That was great. Well no just because you can lead in doesn't mean I can follow.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Um uh and so you know, I think this this has been great, not just for people to hear the story, but also, you know, peop people do want to hear these stories. You know, I've reached out to every one of our followers, and they're uh say one, I mean that guy. Yeah, we're we're from 2.5 to 1. I've got four followers and they're all my mom. So I think thanks for following us. You bet. Uh and so yeah, uh let's I was I want to say like Patsy's pastures kind of when you think about it, it's sort of situated in kind of a central part of the ranch. It's sort of it's pond adjacent, if you will. Yes. Um and we were just today, we had we we put the well, we did some exploring uh yesterday, me and my mom on foot, and then we put the drone up today so we get you a better look at some stuff, right? Mm-hmm. Um, because it's there's like logging roads and stuff like that. Lots of things, yes. It's kind of Labrinthian out there.

SPEAKER_02 32:29

Labyrinthian, yeah. That's the way I would describe it.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_03 32:33

Uh what do you mean? Labrinthian.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

You don't know what that means, Mark.

SPEAKER_03 32:37

I went in the military, I didn't go to college. Big big words like if and and the. Don't you have to be able to spell to be in the uh not with AI.

Tangents, Laughter, And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Google AI? Yeah, you just ask it. And I'll be totally honest, that was a two-minute setup just to use the word. Fuck with him.

SPEAKER_02 33:00

Nicely done.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Uh really, it was a little janky.

SPEAKER_03 33:04

So welcome to the new co-host, Ryan's mom. I am out. Oh, oh, you're out? I'm out, I'm done.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

You're done, you've had it.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

Well, I mean, we'll put it to the follower. You're gonna miss you, Mark. Yeah, I think we'll we'll do a poll. We'll see the followers.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

And since they're all my mom, you might be fucked. And not in the good way again. In this context, Mark, that's disgusting and wildly inappropriate. We're just several inches away from Lucky's dick and dang it. I was trying to get you out of that mother. Oh, you almost said Mark. No, I was trying to bail her out of it. Like, oh, how about Lucky's joining Clark?

unknown 33:44

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

Oh Jesus. Oh god.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

But uh yeah, we uh I don't know. I don't know where I was going with that, Mark. Uh and it uh it is Labyrinthian though, like honestly, not just to mess with you in a sense. Um and so we put I can't remember why I brought up the drone, but um Mark, you how old so you I somebody help me here because I'm stumbling.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

With what?

SPEAKER_00 34:16

I don't know the show. With the show?

SPEAKER_02 34:18

You're not stumbling, you're doing good. I think you're doing great, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

So you put the drone up, what what were you you were looking for? What? Well, we were just kind of like getting an aerial view of I was uh my mom had kind of wanted a sense of I think scale and direction and you know, like where where is this where when we went out on the truck and parked it, like where is that relative to the C. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah. Um, and so we just did that um and tried to get some video and stuff, and we're gonna do it again tomorrow because uh the batteries started going low. Um and yeah, that was really cool. Um the other thing I was gonna oh, there was something I was gonna insult you about earlier. I forgot about Mark.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Oh no, you didn't forget, did you? No, I think I did.

SPEAKER_03 35:03

He doesn't have it written down.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

No.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

Ryan's gotta preload his jokes.

SPEAKER_00 35:09

And other things. Like you didn't say, right? Preload my jokes. Sometimes I might have one holstered up. Um, so what uh I'm gonna put you on the spot then, Mark. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? Like, should we start some kind of pool or something on when uh Mark is ever gonna post a picture on our social? Yeah, let's do that.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

I go, I get never.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

Yeah, and like, you know, I'll tell you the other thing. I don't know if you know Mark enough well enough to realize what just happened. He said he said, Yeah, let's do that. And then I immediately realized, well, I'd have to do the whole fucking thing and set up the poll and keep track of it. Exactly. And and then ultimately it would just be never, like you said.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

Yes. Now you know why I'm such a good supervisor. You? Yeah, because I'd have to do anything. Give it to somebody else. Yeah, well, you you're always the foreman.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Right? Yeah, yeah, and you're really good at that.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

I am standing around.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Yep. Well, well, not really.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

But now I'm on the spot and I'm gonna have to post something on well now.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

Let's back up to the standing thing. Uh I've not seen I've not seen you do that much. No, huh? In fact, you did it last week and it alarmed me so much. I'm like, what's happening? Is everything okay? There's a chair right there. I don't get that.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Snoopy here. I was tired of everything going over my head, so I stood up.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

That was uh uh I know.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

Anybody want to get take that one? Yeah, I mean I'm gonna leave it alone too. Uh yeah, well, um, you know, good for you on the standing up. I reckon if you did if it's been about a week, I reckon if you did that about once a week, uh, you know. I do stand up. And then I go out and smoke.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

And then I go sit down while I smoke, and then I skip back up to go back inside and watch my YouTubes and Tiki Tockies. Or tic-tacks, as you call 'em. Uh-huh. We're making fun of you right now. Um That's okay. You can make fun of me. There's enough of me to go around to make fun of. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

Yeah. Did you move my desk by the way? I feel more closed in over here. Is it slow? Is it is it one of those fucking things where you come in before the show and just move like an inch store I never notice? I know nothing. Like against the wall. And I'm just like, oh, Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 37:28

Like Schultz. I know nothing.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Right. I'll bet Ryan doesn't get that reference.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

Yeah, I bet he doesn't either. I know what that means.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

What does it mean?

SPEAKER_03 37:35

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

What is it? It's okay not to. You're not, that means you're not old.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

What is it?

SPEAKER_03 37:40

It's from Hogan's Heroes. The Schultz was the one of the guards. Look it up. Oh, look, Ryan finally has to look something up.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Yeah, I did last time. It was a sitcom.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Oh, a sitcom. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

Oh, was it a cartoon? No. Oh. No, that was Fritz the Cat. Never heard of that.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

Don't look it up. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

Or you don't want to see that one.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Is it porn?

SPEAKER_02 38:03

I'll give that one to you.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

I mean, I answered both of them. Give it to me, and yes, it is.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Cartoon? It was.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

Cartoon porn? One of the first ones.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

The kids days call it anime. I guess because it's from the Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

Is anime porn?

SPEAKER_00 38:20

It can be. Oh, yeah, it can be.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

It is. Well, we should clarify because we don't want to give anime a bad name. It is not porn. It is a certain style of animation. Like from porn. Japan.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

Porny? Party animation?

SPEAKER_00 38:34

I was kind of porny today.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

A little porny if you would do that.

SPEAKER_03 38:39

See, now we're back onto something I can talk about.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

Yeah. See how he came to life? I noticed.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

He's like, this is great.

SPEAKER_03 38:48

They're back in my world.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

Which is porn. And as I'm I'm learning now, uh a little cartoonish.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

Uh well, anime is Jap Japanese, right? Yes. Okay. I'm gonna need a second opinion on that. Yes, mom? Yes. Okay. So it's just a certain style of animation, but yes, they do make anime porn.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

I had no idea.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Yeah. That makes me really I'll tell you off air uh how I know that.

SPEAKER_02 39:16

I think I know.

SPEAKER_03 39:17

Okay. Yeah. I think Mark does too. Yeah. It's it's kind of like Jessica Rabbit. I'm not bad. I was just drawn that way.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Oh, Mark.

SPEAKER_03 39:25

I know Jessica Rabbit.

SPEAKER_02 39:26

Please, Mark. Please put that one back in the holster.

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Yes, ma'am. Oh, by the way, she does not like being called ma'am. And yes. No, I do not. And yes.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

And yet he continues to do it.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

I'm gonna have to kibbitz with Christina about how to get this guy in order.

SPEAKER_03 39:45

She would be happy that I'm using correct language for people.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

She likes it when you call her ma'am?

SPEAKER_03 39:50

No, ma'am.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

But yeah, I think a kibbitz between you and Christina would be a very interesting mom. It would. I'm sure it would be. Yeah. Do you know what kibbitz means, Mark? You just went with it? You don't put it. Yeah, I just went with it. Yeah, I do like that about you. Like when I said alliterate, you're like, yeah, I like that. I'm like, did you just go with it? Um okay, let's go back a few steps. Because we went from whatever you guys said before Hogan's Heroes to anime porn. Right. So what was the Oh Schultz. Schultz. There's a character on Hogan's Heroes. Yes. And what was That's what he'd always say. Which was what? I know nothing. God, there was a long way to go for that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

That wasn't worth it, one.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

It's just like his catchphrase or something. Yeah. Okay. Alright. God, that was that was a fun trip. Um I look at all you learned though. Uh well, yeah. Look at you learned. The anime can be, but isn't necessarily porn. And that's important. And it will actually become important in your life in the future. As I think you know what I'm talking about. So uh it's gotten many kids through puberty. It look at the time. Time to slop the pigs and both the you know, Christmas vacation year. Yes. There's no reference for you, Mark, but you never heard of Christmas vacation. The movie? Yeah.

unknown 41:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

All right. Well, this is the end of our show. Already. Are you serious? Absolutely. We're gonna end it on that. We're gonna well, we've ended it on worse.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

Yeah, it is. Uh uh last words, Mom.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

Just thank you so much. This was uh so much fun.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Yeah, well, thank right back at you.

SPEAKER_03 41:33

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

It was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

And to you, thank you so much for all the swag that you brought. Yes, that was really cool. That was wonderful. I I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

And welcome the cookies.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

Oh, and the cookies she made she made no big cookies and sent them over last night with Ryan. And uh the rice and chicken casserole was wonderful. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's where people say some good shit. Some good shit. As he's stomping through the house.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Right. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 42:01

And that's it. I'll catch y'all later. Have a good one.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

Hey, it's Mark here at Stetin Centered. Uh, just want to let everybody know that if they want to catch us on the socials, you can catch us at our webpage, StetCenter.live, or on Facebook at Stet Center Live. Uh, we'll maybe post some little stupid videos that we've done, stuff like that, as we're gonna keep on going. And also, we talked a lot about the animals here on the ranch, and you can we'll post pictures of them. We'll see how it goes. Let us know. How we go in.

SPEAKER_04 44:00

If it's broke, it's us. But you can count on that. Break time, yell it all unwind. Thousand dogs judging with that thousand-yard mind. Project list is long, but we'll get there soon. That's a lie, but it's a good tone. We said it's in a kind of sorta, maybe held together by stubborn and a little crazy. You're still listening to one of the pack. Now back to the chaos. Here we go.