This is the Daily Dog podcast for Thursday, February thirteenth, twenty twenty.
I'm your host Joel Owns and today's dog is Jack, a Labrador retriever who
once saved the life of his owner. Lauren samples from the Paradise after Dark
and It's hard to talk about podcasts. Okay, Well, I want to
tell you about my dog Jack. He actually saved my life one time.
I think we actually had like a burglar try and come in my house one
morning at seven thirty in the morning. And the way it was set up
was the we had a laundry room that led into the garage, and Jack
would stay in the laundry room because he was still kind of a puppy.
He was maybe like six eight months old at this time, and so he
would he would stay in the laundry room, and I was upstairs. I
was actually in the shower, which is like the worst creepiest time for a
burglar to come in your house, right, yeah, like psycho, right
exactly. So I'm in the shower and I hear him downstairs just going absolutely
nuts, and so I jump out of the shower and and I grab a
towel and I ran downstairs, and I see in the launching room that the
door leading from the launching room out into the garage was open. This was
in I want to say January in Maine. This is when I was living
in Maine, so there is no way that that door would have been open
under any circumstances. And I let Jack out of the launcher room and he
meticulously went through the entire house. We had a town home at the time,
and he went to every single room, every single closet. It was
like he was looking for someone. And I think that whoever tried to get
in the house, they must have come in that door, and he just
went into attack mode and they just ran. And I actually ended up calling
the police and they came and they found footprints in the snow leading out like
from our garage, like back out into the woods behind the house. And
the creepiest thing about it was that my husband had just left for work like
fifteen minutes earlier. It was only like seven thirty in the morning. So
that makes me think that somebody was like watching and knew that I was home
alone, or I don't know. I just credit him for saving my life
absolutely. Yeah, So did that incident spur your interest in your true crime
enthusiasm. Uh no, actually I was already. I've been a hardcore Forensic
Files fan since I was about eleven, and yeah, pretty much, I've
I've always been a true crime fan. And now I have a true crime
podcast. Yeah, this would tell us about that I'm a fan, but
our listeners may not know you. So my husband Ken and I host a
podcast called Paradise After Dark and it's true crime, unsolved mysteries, missing people,
and urban legends, all based in the state of Florida. Our tagline
is actually exposing the dark side of the Sunshine State. Very cool. And
you have a side project that's all you without your husband Ken, Yes,
I do. I have my own little passion project. It's called It's Hard
to Talk About Podcast and it's basically an interview podcast where I have anybody come
tell me something that's hard for them to talk about and I've had Oh,
it's all over the board the stories. I think I'm at about twelve episodes.
Seven have already been released, so there's more coming. But I mean
it's basically the raw real, you know, let's end the stigma of mental
illness. Let's just tell the truth, the what's hard to talk about,
Let's put it out there. And I love it because I feel like the
people that have come on my show and told their story, I feel like
it helps them to just you know, just tell their story. Hoping that
it's helping listeners. Yes, exactly, And I've had almost every single person
tell me, Wow, that felt really good to just tell the story.
And then I'm hoping to help listeners who may be in similar situations or know
someone in similar situations, to feel less alone and more empowered or hopeful.
Yeah, that's like my passion project. Wonderful. So where can people find
out about Paradise after Dark or it's hard to talk about podcasts? Well,
both podcasts are basically on every platform, iTunes, Google podcast, Stitcher pod
being all of them. We do have a website for Paradise after Dark.
It's Paradise after Dark dot com. And from the website you can get the
latest episodes. There's links to our Patreon, there's links to or Etsy store
and everything, and yeah, it's not hard to find. We have a
Facebook group for It's hard to talk about, which has turned into something really
wonderful. I think we have like about two hundred and fifty members on it
right now, and it's just a bunch of people encouraging each other and posting.
You know, if somebody's down that day, they post about it.
And there's a lot of love and uplifting content on there which is really great.
And the Facebook group is actually called It's hard to talk about Well great,
Lauren. Thank you so much for telling me about Jack and about your
two podcasts. You're a glutton for punishment, like I am, running two
different shows simultaneously, so I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy
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