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Pet Talk From September 3rd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: So we're very excited, of course, with Travis Kelsey and
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift getting their new dog.
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  Speaker 2: I'm beside myself, really.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy, she's a Samoyed, a beautiful Samoyed. Apparently they've had
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: her for a year. She had her debut, her coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad they kept her out of the limelight until
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: she was ready.
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  Speaker 1: But pets are on my mind for a few different reasons.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: I saw a couple of stories this morning. This one
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: from New York. A couple's putting their dog-designed estate on
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: the market after spending roughly $ 2 million transforming it for
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  Speaker 1: their bearded collie, Buster. And maybe Travis and Taylor can
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: buy this house because they have a.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: So it's a $ 2 million dog house? Is that what
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: that means?
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  Speaker 1: Howard and Susie Rubin, both 77, purchased the Pound Ridge
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  Speaker 1: property in 2019 for $ 1. 825 million.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: It's ironic that it's called Pound Ridge.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Relocating from Boca Raton, where Florida's heat proved unsuitable for
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: their pup, so they moved.
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  Speaker 3: For.
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  Speaker 1: The dog, the approximately 5,000-square-foot mid-century modern home, nicknamed Buster's Retreat,
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  Speaker 1: sits on 2.76 acres and features pools, sunshelves, artificial turf,
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  Speaker 1: a fenced playground, heat-deflecting pool decking, and strategically placed shade trees.
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  Speaker 2: All for the dog.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we never use it. This is all his, Howard said.
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  Speaker 1: Now Susie's longing for Florida is prompting their return south.
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  Speaker 1: A $ 2 million house for your dog. And Travis and
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  Speaker 1: Taylor could afford that. They might think about it.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Why didn't you contact them?
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  Speaker 3: Why are they making the dog stay out of the house?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it family?
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, the whole house is for the dog. It's
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: not just.
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  Speaker 2: For the dog. No, but why can't... So apparently the
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  Speaker 2: dog cannot come into the human's house. Oh. I think
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: that was what you were implying, Carrie.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: You have to stay in the dog house. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I thought, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at pictures of it right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a $ 2 million dog house.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty nice for the dog.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was this story. A new Subaru Commission
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  Speaker 1: survey of 2,000 pet owners reveals just how deeply Americans
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: prioritize their animals when traveling.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: 7 in 10 pet owners limit trip length because of
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  Speaker 1: their pets, while 45% have declined travel opportunities that couldn't
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: accommodate the carry. He deals with this all the time. Yep.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: Nearly half feel guilty leaving their pets behind, and 47%
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  Speaker 1: worry about their pets well-being the entire time they're away.
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  Speaker 2: We paid someone. We were only gone four days. We
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  Speaker 2: paid someone to go to our house twice a day,
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  Speaker 2: once in the morning, once at night, and give the
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  Speaker 2: cat an insulin shot.
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  Speaker 1: So that's hard. I mean, that's hard when you have
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  Speaker 1: a pet that has a medical issue.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately, my wife knows this person who said, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've kind of done that sort of thing before, so.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: Be happy to help you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've canceled trips because of a sick dog.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't take trips because the dog needs a
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  Speaker 3: house sitter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And you don't have anybody who can do it.
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  Speaker 3: All the kids that I know who used to be
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  Speaker 3: able to do it grew up and got lives.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: You need younger people with no lives.
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  Speaker 3: Young people who have no lives to, you know, when
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: I say to them, come and stay at my home
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: while I'm gone. Use my Wi-Fi. Watch my television.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: Drink my booze.
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  Speaker 3: Drink my booze. And take care of the dog. For
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  Speaker 3: 24 hours a day, for four or five days, that's
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  Speaker 3: all I need you to do. And I'll pay you
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  Speaker 3: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good gig.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, all the kids that I know
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  Speaker 3: grew up and got lives.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard, though.
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  Speaker 1: I heard from another pet owner. that they were going
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: to Europe, and whatever they had planned to do with
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: their dog canceled at the last minute. And they were
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: going to be on for like two weeks. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a matter of.
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  Speaker 2: What did they do about it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but they were just panicking, like, what
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  Speaker 1: am I going to do? You think you have it
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  Speaker 1: all planned? You can't leave. Are you going to cancel
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: a trip because you're... Your pet sitter backs out on you?
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll just have to put him down. So
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: the cat, when I talked to the vet, and I
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: think I told you this before, but Klaus, the cat,
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  Speaker 2: when it determined that he has diabetes, I said, so
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: what do we do? And the vet said, well, you
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: give him a shot once in the morning and once
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  Speaker 2: at night before he eats. And you have to just
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: be regular about that and do it. And I said, well,
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: she said, and I didn't even ask her, she said, But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a lot for people to do. And
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  Speaker 2: I understand when people say, well, I really... I can't
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: do it. It's not that expensive, the insulin, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just a big commitment. And she said, I understand when people...
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  Speaker 2: And I said, well, what happens if we don't do it?
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  Speaker 2: She said, well, he'll just slow down and go to sleep,
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: and then he won't wake up at one point. Yeah.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: And so I relayed this information to my wife, who
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  Speaker 2: is not particularly a cat lover. Well, we can't do that. So...
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  Speaker 2: She gives him a shot at night, and my child
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  Speaker 2: gives him a shot in the morning. There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Ripley needed a monthly shot for her arthritis.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And luckily, Sue's mother was a diabetic, so it was
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  Speaker 3: just like, pop, easy. But then she was gone.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: And I went, oh, I got to do it.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: I have to do that, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, I'll wait.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I mean, it's something to consider before getting
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: a pet, though, because it's not just curling up on
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  Speaker 1: the couch and hanging out. What are you going to
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: do with them when you go out of town? What
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: if they have medical problems?
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  Speaker 2: I have been contemplating this whole thing because we, so
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  Speaker 2: we had two cats, Klaus and Mr. Fluffy Pants. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Fluffy Pants, he was fairly old, but he just got,
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: he got ill and he had to die. And I thought,
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  Speaker 2: so here's Klaus. And I think people get pets, and
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: almost always you outlive them. Yeah. And you go through
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  Speaker 2: several of them, and I just wonder why. I just thought,
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  Speaker 2: why do we put ourselves through this? Because it was
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: so sad when Mr. Fluffy Pants went. Because they're wonderful.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: They add to our lives.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know if it's worth the pain of
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  Speaker 2: losing them, you know?
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  Speaker 1: I can't not have a dog, I don't think. I
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: think I would have a hard time not having a dog.
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: Sid says, pet sitting for Carrie is like being paid
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: to vacation until the sprinkler breaks and sheer panic occurs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that happened.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that happened while Sid was watching.
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: She's like, I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: The sprinkler broke.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're also house sitting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just dogs.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the problem that people have is I have
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  Speaker 3: to stay here 24 hours. I need to go to work. No,
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  Speaker 3: that's not the job.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Well, and there are these services that people will
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: come sit for you with your dog. But I've heard
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  Speaker 1: from two people that have been on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend Kristen, on vacation, and her neighbor called and said,
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: your dogs have been outside for 24 hours.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Like, just left them in the yard and didn't. And she's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a plane ride away. She can't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think there are services that provide We'll provide people
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  Speaker 2: with credentials.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 2: And I asked my wife, so we paid your friend, right?
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: And she said, yeah. And she said, $ 40 a day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's less than a professional. But he was willing
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  Speaker 2: to do it for 40 a day. All right.