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Speaker 1: Love. This is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.

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Speaker 2: Hello, feline friends and cat levers. Welcome to counta Tude.

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I'm your show host, Michelle Byurne. What a special episode.

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This is episode three hundred. My guest today is someone

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that so many of us grew up with watching and

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loving from one day to time to hot in Cleveland.

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She's just an amazing person. She has been in our

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life for decades. She's an Emmy Award winning actress, a

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best selling author, loved television personality, and, as we're going

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to find out, a devoted cat mom. So stay tuned,

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We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3: You know the expression cats have nine lives? Well, what

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Speaker 4: Let's talk pets on Cetlife Radio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone, I'd like to welcome at Valerie Berton. Ellie,

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Welcome Valerie. I'm so excited to have you on Catitude.

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Speaker 5: I'm so happy to be here. For those of you

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who can't see, I have Batman next to me. He

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is now scratching his little jowl. But yes, I'm in

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my office. I actually have a pillow in my drawer.

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Nothing in the drawer. It's meant for a pillow for

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Batman because he needs to be next to me when

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I'm writing, when I'm doing the things in my office.

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So that's my boy.

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Speaker 2: So that's Batman. And what are your other cats?

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Speaker 5: Okay, I still say Nelson, even though Nelson left us

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a year ago.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 5: With the very first cat that I fostered and decided

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to keep. Then Henry, who's an all white with gold

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eyes cat. He is amazing. It's like the dude is

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high all the time. And he's absolutely gaga in love

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with my daughter in law, which is adorable. Like every

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time they come over, he kind of knows what the

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sound of their car is, so he knows that you

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know Andrea is coming in the house and you get

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so happy. And then I have Tigger, who is I

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call him a tabby tuxedo because he's got an all

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white neck and chest and white shoes. And but he's

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the one that chirps at me almost every morning at

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the top of the stairs. But he doesn't come in

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and sleep with me, but he waits for me outside

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my bedroom. He's got a couple beds up there and

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he chooses which everyone he wants to be in. And

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so that's Tig Tig. And then there are Bubba and Bo,

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who were my parents' cats, and I had fostered them

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for my parents about twelve years ago, and when my

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parents passed, I took them in and now they are

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no longer my cats. They are Wolfy and Andrea's cats.

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They just came back to me because Wolfe's leading on

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tour this week, and they were very sad about it,

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not just the cats, but Drea and Wolfie walk out

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of here crying because they're going to miss their boys

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so much. But wow, So I take care of Bubba

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and Bo while Wolfy Andrea are on the road. So

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you have five at one, yes, I do. I had six.

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I have five now, and when Bubba and Bo are

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with their parents, I have three. And then I have Luna,

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my pup.

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Speaker 2: You know, house full of fur babes.

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Speaker 5: There's nothing better than a house full of her babies.

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I just I wouldn't have it any other way. I

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have never not had a cat in my life from

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the moment I was born. Like my mom loved cats. Wolfee,

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my son has never not had a cat in his life,

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so he loves cats. And we've had dogs here and there.

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I don't think I'll ever get another dog after Luna

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because she's like super special. But I've had other dogs

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before her, and you know, Sherman was special in his

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own way, but yeah, Luna's something else, so nobody can

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about your cat crew. Your main crew is

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the three cats, right, is Tigger and Batman and Henry

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So who's the boss?

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Speaker 5: Batman and he's also the smallest. Yeah, Batman's the boss,

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although Tigger, who is the youngest, tries to take over

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the boss categories. And they'll get into little fights once

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in a while that I have to break up. But

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it's pretty much Batman. But Tigger, who's got a good

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five six pounds on Batman, can sometimes win those arguments,

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so I have to, you know, keep them settled. Sometimes

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and sometimes all I need to do is just turn

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on bird TV and Batman will be yeah, interested cat,

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and Henry do whatever keeps them excited, whatever keeps them happy. Exactly.

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Speaker 2: What is the strangest catastrophe you've ever come home to

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or noticed that one of your cats did.

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Speaker 5: Oh, there's been stuff where like I'll hear a crash

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in the middle of the night, and I'll be what

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the hell was that? And I'll be too tired to

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get up. I'll come down in the morning and I

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have a glass vase on my island that is just

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like destroyed and everywhere, and it's inevitably Batman that has

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pushed it off the counter. So I don't do that

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any longer. I no longer keep flowers in glass vases.

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I keep herbs in my kitchen window. And that's to

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the extent of it, because they chew on the flowers,

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they knock over the vases, but they don't knock over

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the herbs, thank God. And I love flowers, so it's

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really hard for me to have flowers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they make Maybe you could do

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a plastic baz, but then if they chew the flowers, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, yeah, exactly. There's certain flowers that you really shouldn't

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have her own cats, so and I know that's lily's.

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you know, when I used to get them, I kept

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them in a very big vase high up, so they've

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always been safe from that. But I love tulips. They're

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my favorite flower, and that man has a tendency to

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want to chew on those, so I don't get them

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any longer. I'll put them up for special occasions, but

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then I have to bring them up to my room

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or put them behind a clothes room when I go

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to bed.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it funny how we arrange our lives for cats?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god. Yeah. I mean I have to have

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little plastic sheets of like little so they don't jump

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up on my stove. I have to have stuff on

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the counters so they don't jump up there anymore. And

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I do that because they started spraying, and oh, which

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is not fun. It's not flipping fun at all, No,

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So I just have to and they spray. When Wolfe

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Andrea's cats are here, they don't even though they've known

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each other their entire lives. For some reason, they don't

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like those two boys, Bubba and Bo, so I have

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to get them separated. Bubba and Bo get the cadio

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and the bedroom that hooks onto the cadio. I have one, two.

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I have three litter boxes. I should have more, but

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right now, well I'm sorry, one, two, three. I have

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four litter boxes. There were five cats. I mean it

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could I could stand to have one more, but I

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don't know where I would put it. But right now,

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you know, one little box gets used the most, which

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drives me crazy. I just I'm like, there's three other

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little boxes, you guys. Come on.

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Speaker 2: They all tend to like the same one.

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Speaker 5: They do, and I thought they like different ones. I

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thought you were supposed to give your you know, a cat.

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They're each other own. They just they don't, you know.

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and they will poop outside the box, and I'm like,

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what is happening. I now have to put like peepads

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up around the walls for the other little box because

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they will spray against the wall. And like it's like,

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I love them dearly, but they make me want to

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pull my hair out. Sometimes I can suggest to your listeners, Yeah,

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don't ever get five male cats, mix it up with

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male and feed. I have five male cats, and they

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just started spraying in the last like since my mom died,

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since twenty nineteen. So it's like so frustrating, But you know,

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what are you gonna do? I love them so much.

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I just wish they wouldn't start marking territory around the house.

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It's like, y'all, there's a big enough house. You can

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go anywhere you want. Stop marking territory.

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Speaker 2: I'm so lucky my male does not, and my cats

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are all lazy. So my biggest pier with cats is

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I thought they would jump up and knock stuff over

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and all that. Nope, they're so funny.

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Speaker 5: A couple of my cats can't jump on the counters,

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so they don't. But Batman is the one that is

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the most agile and jumps everywhere we deal. But you

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know what, I couldn't. I don't even want to think

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of my life without him right now. He's thirteen years old,

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and I hate that. My soul cat died when he

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was thirteen, and it was I mean, I still had

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them as a screensaver on my phone next to me,

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so it's like, I can't do it. I can't. And

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I just lost Nelson last year. He was twelve. I

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don't like it. I don't like it that cats die

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so long.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're living longer, they are.

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Speaker 5: They are. Yeah, the king is good for a cat.

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But I expect these guys to live twenty years at least.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they could. I think Dennis, he was abandoned.

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I think he's seventeen.

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Speaker 5: Oh while, Yeah, that's great. Still spin and I had

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a cat Ded. She lived till she was like sixteen

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and a half. I'm like, that's good, but I want

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longer with these boys. I love them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mo fingers crossed. Let's talk about your new book,

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Getting Naked. So where did the title come from.

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Speaker 5: I have spent a large part of my life just

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trying to get naked emotionally with myself, to get honest,

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to get naked, and I wanted to write a book

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about this path I've been on and how how I

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feel like I've grown so much, and I have information

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to share with people that might help them if they

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feel stuck in certain places. I have meditations in the book.

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I have a chapter called if my pets could talk

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to me, because my pets, I really do wish if

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I could talk to my animals and if they could

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talk to me, because I feel like they spend their

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entire lives with us, and like I want to see

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myself through my cats and my dog's eyes because I

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know how much they unconditionally love me. And sometimes I

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want to talk to my the way I talk to

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my animals. When Luna, when I wake her up in

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the morning, I say, come on, let's go peepe and

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She's like, starts wagon her tail or, a whole butt

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moves with it. I'm like, you go, a little girl,

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look at your little butt move. That's so cute. Like

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why don't I talk to myself that way? You know,

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love my animals. So that was what that chapter originally

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started to be about. And then it's just my love

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for my animals and the grief that we feel when

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they leave us, and you know, it's just, Oh, I

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love them so much, and I want to help people.

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I want to help them get through challenging times, and

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I hope my meditations will help them, and I hope

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listening to my stories or reading my stories may help

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them not feel so alone with some of the you know,

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challenges they go through in their own life.

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Speaker 2: So you talked about in your book you mentioned it's

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about getting emotional and all of that. Why would you

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tell our listeners if they're thinking, well, why should I

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hear that from Valerie BURTNELLI.

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Speaker 5: I get it. I totally get it.

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Speaker 2: I get it. I've been a fan for years, and

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I you know a lot about you, not everything, obviously,

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but a lot of listeners might not be as familiar

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with everything you've gone through. So what would you tell

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the listeners that, yeah, this is why I wrote it,

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and this is why you need to be this.

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sixty five years old. A lot of shit.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, you're so kind. You are so.

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doing something because I oh stop stop wonderful.

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I actually talk about that in the intro to my

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book about you know, why I'm writing it and what

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I hope to give to people through writing it. And

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then you know what I've been through a little bit,

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and I get it. I get it, like, why the

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hell should we listen to you your privilege. You're in

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a bubble. And I totally understand that I do have

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a perspective on life that might not be heard all

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the time. I still, you know, lived a lot of

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my life not in the public eye, but I live

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a big majority of my life like in the public eye,

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which you know, makes you see things differently. Even though

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I've been in the public eye, I've gone through traumatic things.

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the book when I was eleven years old. I go

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through body image and why that's so important for us

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to change that in this industry and in the world,

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you know, not just this industry, you know, and how

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we can love ourselves more and the process is and

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why I got to where I had gotten and how

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helpful it can be. But I understand people think that

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I'm in this privileged bubble, but I've also had life

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experience that I think could help them. And listen. Nobody

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says you have to listen to me. Nobody says you

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have to buy the book or anything. But I think

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I could help you if you're open to it.

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Speaker 2: I think people need to hear you. And I appreciate

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that you you know, mentioned you've had privilege, but you've

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had a lot of challenges too, people and that's just

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people that know you're you know what whatsoever, always been

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this book and talk about, you know, traumatic experiences, because

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talking about it, and once we start talking about what

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we may feel shame about, even though we know that's

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not our shame to carry, I think it could be

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helpful for someone else, you know, to work through it.

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I talk about my experience with EMDR, which is a

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therapeutic experience where you For me, my EMDR was holding

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paddles in my hand. It's also an eye movement that

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helps your brain settle to a point to where you

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can access the emotions so that you can process them.

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talk about things that I'm hoping will be helpful to people.

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this privilege, I need to make things available to people

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that might not be able to get it. And I

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think therapy is important, and I know it's expensive, but

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I also think if we open up communication to people

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through talk shows like you have, and you know, even

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though we're talking about pets, we're still human beings, you know,

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I mean pets. There's a lot of stuff to the

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people that care for the pets that we love. So

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I think it's just about community and making people not

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feel so alone.

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all of this in a book.

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Speaker 5: Oh well, thank you, because.

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Speaker 2: There's so many that don't. And you know, it's a

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book about a lot of things, and of course you

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you know, mention your cat's run the book. But again, yeah,

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were all people when we come down to it, and

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human and there's a lot that comes with human.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a lot just coming up being

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a human being. A lot comes with even just the

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world around us is crazy, you know, and then sometimes

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our households can be a little crazy. Sometimes our parents

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didn't model good loving behavior. Sometimes we all have things

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we need to get through. So I hope that the

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people who need to hear it and need to feel

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seen and heard will feel seen and heard, and the

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people that don't need it. I'm cool with that too.

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I'm not trying to push anything down anybody's throat.

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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate all of that. Let's talk about food,

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because you have been on a lot of food shows,

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You've talked a lot about food. You have something coming

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up related to food.

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Speaker 5: You mention the name, Yeah, Valerie's Place, it's actually place.

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That's what live today Valeriesplace dot com. Okay, our act

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is going to be coming soon. I have three cooking

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shows on it. I will also have live cooking on

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it where I can cook with people or they can

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cook along with me. I'm going to have a podcast

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called Getting Naked Podcast, and I'm going to have a

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book club that I want to share book recommendations with people,

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and I also have them share recommendations with me. And also,

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you know, at least six times a year, maybe more,

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I want to have a book group where everyone you

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know gets onto a zoom and we actually discussed the

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book and we talk about it.

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Speaker 2: You're going to be busy.

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Speaker 5: I am going to be busy, and I'm good with that.

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I'm so good with that.

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Speaker 2: I'm a voracious reader, so I love the idea of

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a book club what are you reading now? I have

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a new author Raise I think her last name is.

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But I just finished Christina Hannah her book mid Night Rules.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I read.

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Speaker 2: So much I have don't sweat the small stuff.

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so and I'm a big fan of Libby, which I

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do not own or anything, but without it, I could

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not get by. Yeah. Back in the day when you

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had to use your library, you know, when the old

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school years ago. I loved that. I loved I think

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I used my library card more than I use credit

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cards because I always had to have books I have

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to have to read. That's why I think I'm nearsighted

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because from your young age, I remember sitting there reading

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with a stack of books reading.

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Speaker 5: It was just like, you know, it's my joy. I

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love doing it. I don't get to do it a lot.

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But that's what I love about traveling is I get

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to get on an airplane and I don't get the

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Wi Fi because most of the time it doesn't work anyway. Yeah,

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so that's my chance to do my crossword puzzles and

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to read a good book. It's my one of my

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favorite times because nobody can get a hold of me

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and I have just that time to really get myself

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into a book.

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Speaker 2: Exactly what are you meaning now?

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Speaker 5: I'm just about to start Feel of Golden. I finished

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Martyr and I thought it was absolutely gorgeous. It's such

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a beautiful book. He has a quote in the book.

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It was, Oh, what's the quote? Is like something like

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love appears when you open the door and walk in

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the room or something. He's much more poetic about it

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than I am, but it was like, it just hit me, like,

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that's so gorgeous. I love Louise Hay, but right now

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I want to read the Feel of Golden. I've been

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in a book group for almost thirty years and that

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is the book group for this month. So I'm about

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to go get it so that i can then take

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it on airplane because I'm flying on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Good I get with all the reading I've done, I've

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never done a book group, so oh, it's so fun

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something to look into.

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you it is the best. I have been

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with these ladies for so many decades, and I learned

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about new books through them. I love the books that

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they read. Sometimes we have really crappy books. I mean,

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we're always very clear, we understand what kind of work

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goes into writing a book, and I never disparage the

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author at all. I was just like, this isn't for me.

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I don't like these characters. It make me comfortable to

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hang out with for a while. So there are some

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books that I'm likenh but those actually start the greatest

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conversations in book group. So even if the book it

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isn't something you all love, we have a great conversation.

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Speaker 2: I'll have to look for one. You can start your

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own or start my own. It's interesting when you say that,

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because there are some books since I'll look at different

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you know, things online, the best pics, all that kind

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of stuff.

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Speaker 5: I follow a lot of book talkers on TikTok and yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then sometimes there's a book. There's Sally Rizo

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write something I'm probably mispronouncing. Everyone love book book, greatest book,

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greatest book. I try to read it. The voice, the tone,

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it's just conversational, never ending.

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Speaker 5: Right. Yeah, some books are for us, you know, and

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I don't disparage the author. I'm just yeah, this one's

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not for me. I mean, there was a book I

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hate not finishing a book. I hate it. But the

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book that I just read last month, I said, I

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can't do this anymore. I just don't like these people.

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I don't want to be around them anymore. I don't

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want to lie in bed and get comfortable and then

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just be surrounded by people I don't like. So I

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just stopped reading it, and I told the book group

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I was that, I'm so sorry, because we really all

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do try to finish. About three other women didn't finish

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it either. They said, yeah, I couldn't take them. You know,

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the writing was beautiful, there was gorgeous poetry in it,

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but I didn't like the people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And what I hate is when I discover an

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author and I love the author, read all the books,

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and then I'm done. Oh I know like one of

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my favorite authors. I mean, it might be a little

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chick lidy, but I think she's more than have you

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read her?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I just finished Great, Big, Beautiful Life.

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Speaker 2: I've read every all I did the plot twist, I gasped.

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I don't know when I read it. It might have

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Speaker 5: Oh okay, I just oh my god, I love that book.

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Speaker 2: I've read all of that.

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Speaker 5: I'm so with you on her. I I've only read

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that book of hers.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've read but everyone.

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Speaker 5: I loved it. I'm going to read definitely read more

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of hers. She has great But you know what I

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also love an author I love that. I've read almost

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all her books is Geraldine Brooks. And Horse was a

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really good book that I absolutely adored. And then she

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wrote a book called Memorial Day after that. She wrote

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that about the process of writing Horse when her husband died.

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It was so beautiful. I had no idea that her

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husband died while she was writing Horse, and for her

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to be able to finish that gorgeous book. Going through

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all of that, it just made me respect Geraldine Brooks

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that much more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So there it just yeah Horse, look it up. It's

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so good.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm taking notes. I generally, you know, on my

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list of books, I have some audio from traveling or writing.

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Speaker 5: I listened to books too when I take my dog

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for a walk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have some regular ones I always overdo you know,

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I have like ten going at the same time or

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now I can because there's certain books I have to

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read for the Drew Barrymore show, because I want to

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be able to being eligible about the author in their

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book and then so I'll put down the book that

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I'm reading currently and then pick that up and you know,

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go back and forth. It's not like watching a TV

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show where you have to like stop midway through. I

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try to stop at the end of a chapter so

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I can be a little bit more clear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's bad is when you started and then you

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forget about it and you renew it and you have

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it for it.

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Speaker 5: I have to go back a couple of chapters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have you read Jody Picall.

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Speaker 5: I had not read Jody Piccoll very good.

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Speaker 2: And Lisa Scott I'm going to mess up her name

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Scott awaan or Scotta something. She's written some amazing books.

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There's one that she's written recently about mad Honey was great.

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That's good. Okay, all right, hopefully I'm not mixing up

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my authors and.

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Speaker 5: No, no worries. Yeah. Sometimes I just go to good

475
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Reads and I'll look up the book and it brings

476
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you right to the correct book I don't need.

477
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lisa's good too, got Laine. We're going to take

478
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a short break and won't be right back.

479
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Speaker 1: I want to know who the latest trendsetters are in Hollywood.

480
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,519
Tell about Irish setters. Find out who's been spotted with spots,

481
00:22:06,599 --> 00:22:09,000
how wait with her jaw and shopping for Gucci with

482
00:22:09,039 --> 00:22:12,039
her Pucci. Get this goop on all the latest celebrity

483
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pet patter right here. Pet Life Radio, Let's talk pets, Let's.

484
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Speaker 2: Talk past, Let's talk pets, pet Life Radio, Headline.

485
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Speaker 4: Radio, Petlight Radio dot Com.

486
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Speaker 2: It's is Lisa Simpson.

487
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Speaker 4: How are you.

488
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Speaker 2: You are listening Staticute on debt Life Radio. Thanks so

489
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much for being here. Welcome back everyone. We're talking with

490
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,279
Valerie Bertinelli. This has been such an exciting and interesting

491
00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:51,559
show so far. I appreciate you making the time to

492
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,519
come on CTITUD. Okay, let's talk more about Valerie's place.

493
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Are you going to be doing any cooking for your cats?

494
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Speaker 1: Oh?

495
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Speaker 5: You know what, I don't think I've ever cooked for

496
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,279
my cats, but I see some of these videos on

497
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TikTok and Instagram, and I'm like, oh my god, some

498
00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:09,839
of the food they make for their animals. I'm like,

499
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I need to do that because I have specially food

500
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for two cats, and I have, you know, other food

501
00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:16,960
for the other cats, so I have separate them when

502
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they eat because they're all seniors, so they need special diets.

503
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

504
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Speaker 5: One I have to actually get miural acts too, because

505
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he gets stuffed up and he's been that twice to

506
00:23:27,279 --> 00:23:30,279
have enemas unfortunately, so I have to be very careful

507
00:23:30,279 --> 00:23:32,759
to make sure that he his duels stay soft. But anyway,

508
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you know the adventures of a catwoman.

509
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Speaker 2: Mat woman, and hey, if you have any fur babes,

510
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you know that their's you just get past all that.

511
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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, you absolutely do. Yeah, I mean because you

512
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just want the best for them. You want them to

513
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feel healthy. You can always tell when something's a little

514
00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:48,599
off with them, you know.

515
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my niece would just concern no mat our dogs

516
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audi anous.

517
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Speaker 5: I don't know.

518
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Speaker 2: I want to say that's scary.

519
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Speaker 5: I mean I would be scared too, I would be

520
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I'd be write that down to the Yeah, she.

521
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Speaker 2: Was very concerned. She was asking me, who do you

522
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,799
advise this, and that it was just you know.

523
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Speaker 5: I know that my son and his wife were at

524
00:24:07,839 --> 00:24:10,559
the vet on Christmas Day because one of the cats

525
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couldn't poop and hadn't pooped for three days. Oh, you know,

526
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which is dangerous for a cat.

527
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Speaker 2: Cats are hard because there's such stoic creatures. It is

528
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so hard.

529
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Speaker 5: Can never tell when they're in pain. No, no, no,

530
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you have to really know their behavior. And they were

531
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good at that. They knew they knew something was off,

532
00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:30,839
you know, and at first and you know, plus when

533
00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:33,119
you're cleaning litter boxes, you kind of know, wow, why

534
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,400
is this not you know, why is there no boop

535
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in your so?

536
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that's I had a scare with Dennis.

537
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Not not good. It was almost to the point where

538
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one place wanted to put him down. I said no,

539
00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:47,039
brought him to another vet the next morning. They didn't

540
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have night hours and he seemed okay, kept him there.

541
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He had crystals in his urine. So, yes, that is

542
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common with male cats.

543
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Speaker 5: Dexter had that. With Dexter, they had to widen his

544
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urethra and cut off the feness on. Yeah, it's horrifying,

545
00:25:01,839 --> 00:25:03,240
but you know what Dexter lives.

546
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you have five mails another five years,

547
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so it's kind of a common thing.

548
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Speaker 5: It is with mail cats. It's very common.

549
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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's talk about you You've reinvented yourself many times,

550
00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:21,119
so you've acted, you're an author, cooking personality. What makes

551
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,000
you curious to go on? And what is the one

552
00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:26,559
that you would define yourself the most as where to

553
00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:30,519
be actress, author, cooking personality. Maybe it's cat mom, maybe

554
00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:32,599
it's all of it, you know, superwoman.

555
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,319
Speaker 5: Well no, no, no, I just have I have been

556
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able to take the things that I find interesting and

557
00:25:39,759 --> 00:25:43,119
make a living, Like I think comedy and drama are

558
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,519
so interesting, and I love acting, and I've been able

559
00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:49,480
to make a living at it. And then I mean,

560
00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:51,599
I've always loved cooking since time was a little girl

561
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,119
watching my Nonny cook in the inn Adline's basement kitchen.

562
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So I've always loved cooking. And then I started writing cookbooks,

563
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and then I was able to get a show on

564
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Food Network, so to start a whole other side career,

565
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which I loved. And I love books, So I want

566
00:26:05,559 --> 00:26:07,359
to have a book group, a public book group. You know,

567
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I love my cats, so I have wilfees me out

568
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on Instagram so that you can see all my cats

569
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and see what they're doing. I like sharing my life

570
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with people, and I like when they share their lives

571
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with me. I don't know. I think it's just I'm

572
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just we're all full, you know, well rounded human beings,

573
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and you know, sometimes, you know, we take one of

574
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those things we love and we make a job out

575
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of it, and then sometimes we're able to make a

576
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:30,960
job out of all of it because it's just what

577
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we do in our lives. I've just been incredibly blessed

578
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and incredibly lucky that there are people willing to watch

579
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what I do and hear what I have to say.

580
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Speaker 2: I think your amazingness comes across even you know, in

581
00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:47,960
this interview, you're very genuine. You're very generous and humble,

582
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,400
and that's something we need to keep in mind of

583
00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:53,960
and I personally think we need a little bit more

584
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of that in this world.

585
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I think there are

586
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beautiful pockets of people, and I think when we find

587
00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:04,880
like minded souls, it's great to just like make our

588
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,759
circle even bigger and bigger. And that's what I'm attempting

589
00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:10,039
to do with Valerie's place. I just want my circle

590
00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:12,160
to be bigger. I have my dear girlfriends that I've

591
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,920
had for almost thirty years, you know, I have my family,

592
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,920
that I adore. I have people that I love to

593
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,759
work with, and I think as we expand our circles

594
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,400
and let more people into it, our lives just become fuller.

595
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,559
I think community is one of the most important things

596
00:27:26,559 --> 00:27:29,160
we can do, and I think expanding our community is

597
00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:32,400
And you're doing that too with your show. You're doing

598
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that by all of us cat lovers get to get

599
00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:36,640
together and listen to you, and that's special in and

600
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of itself.

601
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you. And you know, one of the things

602
00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:43,240
I love about doing this show is that, besides having

603
00:27:43,319 --> 00:27:47,640
great guests, is that it also spreads a lot of information.

604
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,119
You know, do a lot of talk about.

605
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Speaker 5: T and R.

606
00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 2: I had a great, so important show about declining because

607
00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:57,720
there are still there are cat lovers that don't have

608
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a clue listen.

609
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Speaker 5: I was one of those lovers that didn't have a clue.

610
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I declawed my cat. I think it was twenty six

611
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:05,960
years ago, the cat that I had back then, And

612
00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:09,200
I feel horrible now about it now knowing what I know,

613
00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:12,319
Like my heart hurts right now that I put my

614
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,039
cat through that. I mean, it's like, thank God, we're

615
00:28:15,079 --> 00:28:17,720
getting information, Like all my cats have their claws now.

616
00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:21,240
I would never ever even think about, you know, declawing them.

617
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,480
My fraisher looks like shit, but I don't care.

618
00:28:24,039 --> 00:28:26,279
Speaker 2: Well, I think we all have that. I bought my

619
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,079
couch knowing that something's gonna get sick on it. You know,

620
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,960
there's some much in a puke on it and scratch it.

621
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And I thought I was doing good until husband said,

622
00:28:35,319 --> 00:28:37,680
look at that side. It's quawed right.

623
00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:40,319
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, right to the bone. Yeah, I saw, you

624
00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:43,359
know what one. I'll get them reupholstered at some point,

625
00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:46,279
but right now. I mean, I also have like scratching

626
00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:48,480
posts everywhere, but cats, cats, they're going to do what

627
00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:50,519
they want to do. And yeah, you know, I try

628
00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:52,599
to cut them every couple of weeks, cut their nails,

629
00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:54,559
but that doesn't stop them from scratching. It just stops

630
00:28:54,559 --> 00:28:57,839
them from you know, like hurting you accidentally scroute you.

631
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Speaker 2: Yes, you are brave.

632
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Speaker 5: I have some cats that are good with it, and

633
00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:03,480
I have other cats that like don't want me to,

634
00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,720
but I have to, Like it's burrito time, then oh yes, yes,

635
00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:09,400
you got to wrap them up in a purrito.

636
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 2: They're feisty. They're feisty. What is the one thing you

637
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,599
would like to tell all of our cat listeners out there.

638
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,279
Speaker 5: You guys are so cool, like you love cats and

639
00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:22,759
cats love you. Do you know what that says about

640
00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,359
who you are? Like when you have a cat fall

641
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,920
in love with you and trust you, that's I think

642
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,680
the greatest gift. Now. As much as I adore my dog,

643
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:36,440
my dog loves everybody, really, yes, and I adore her,

644
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,359
But there's something about a cat when you earn its trust.

645
00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:42,519
My son and his wife have experienced this, Like Bubba

646
00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:44,599
and Ba are my parents' cats, and now Bubba and

647
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:49,599
Ba love and adore Wolfee Andrea because they trust them.

648
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,680
And I love that. I have built this trust with

649
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:56,559
Batman and with my other two cats that like they

650
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,640
love me, and they when I come home from work

651
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,319
and they like are all over. They all sit outside

652
00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:03,039
the bathroom if I've closed the door. If I forget

653
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:04,400
to close the door, they're all in there with me.

654
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,839
Like I'm loved unconditionally. How flip and cool is that?

655
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:11,319
And we all of us that own a pet get

656
00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:13,640
to feel that, get to feel that love and then

657
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,039
put that love back out in the world.

658
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Speaker 2: Thank you. And what would you say to someone who's

659
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,559
listening hasn't quite made the plants. You know, should I adopt?

660
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,200
I don't know, blah blah.

661
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,799
Speaker 5: Here's what I would suggest, because this is what helped me.

662
00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:28,519
After Dexter died, I thought, I can't get another cat,

663
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,160
like I'll never love anything as much as I love Decks.

664
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,240
A girlfriend of mine who actually runs some foster cares, said,

665
00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:38,720
why don't you try fostering because you're so good with cats.

666
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,720
You can play with them, You could bottle feed them,

667
00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:45,319
because shelters need people to take these poor little kittens

668
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,359
out of the shelter and out of the cages. That's

669
00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:50,640
what I happened with Batman. He was an orphan black

670
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,440
cat and nobody was gonna come save him. He was

671
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like four and a half weeks old.

672
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Speaker 2: And right, I just want to mention because we're on video.

673
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We might have some clips, don't know yet, but Batman's black,

674
00:31:01,039 --> 00:31:01,640
solid black.

675
00:31:01,759 --> 00:31:03,559
Speaker 5: Batman is a beautiful, blackheaded cat.

676
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Speaker 2: Now he's gorgeous. But black cats and black dogs are

677
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:08,599
not adopted as much.

678
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 5: Black cats are not adopted. And this guy was more

679
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,240
FAI have any other kittens in the cage with them?

680
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,039
You know some of the you have brought kittens in.

681
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,680
So this is what happens is if they couldn't have

682
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,599
found a foster for Batman, he would have been euthanized.

683
00:31:23,359 --> 00:31:25,720
I happened to be there the day he was into

684
00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:29,880
so I was allowed to foster him and I was

685
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,200
going to find him a home. Well, don't you know,

686
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:34,480
I fell madly in love with him, so I never

687
00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:36,440
found him a home. I was able to find homes

688
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,319
for about fifteen cats that I all fill madly in

689
00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:42,200
love with. So it's hard, but I think by fostering,

690
00:31:42,279 --> 00:31:43,480
this is what you could do. If you're on the

691
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,000
fence on whether you get a cat or a dog

692
00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:47,400
or not, foster one and then try to find a

693
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,519
home for it and do your best through the agency

694
00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:51,640
that you're fostering the animal from, and they will help

695
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,799
you get connections with people that may be looking for

696
00:31:53,839 --> 00:31:56,880
a pet. But fostering kind of allows you to put

697
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,880
your toe in and care for another living breathings and

698
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,839
still like not fully commit, but know that you can

699
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,599
give your love to a little, you know, a little cute,

700
00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,200
little furry thing, and then you know, if you happen

701
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,200
to think like, oh I can't give this cat, then

702
00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:14,599
keep it. Then you've found what you wanted to do

703
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,319
you wanted to then own this pet?

704
00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:19,039
Speaker 2: Okay? And a lot of people say with cats. I

705
00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:20,799
think it was one of our show hosts said this,

706
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,400
they're like potato chips. You can't have just one. I

707
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,039
think two. Bernadine said that. Ab I think two cats

708
00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:32,000
are great because they keep each other company.

709
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Speaker 5: For sure. I mean if I was if I was

710
00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:36,680
a single woman who worked from home, I can see

711
00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:39,119
just having one cat because you can spend all that

712
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,000
time with the cat and you can travel with that

713
00:32:41,039 --> 00:32:44,000
cat or if you know, that's great. But if you

714
00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:47,079
have to go to work and leave the house, having

715
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,799
two cats is fabulous because they but you have to

716
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:51,640
make sure that they love each other. Because I had

717
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,519
two cats quite a few decades ago that were a

718
00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:56,759
brother and sister, but not there. One was a girl,

719
00:32:56,799 --> 00:32:58,559
one was a boy, but they weren't brother and sister.

720
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Oh my god. They just could care less about each other.

721
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So hopefully they get along. And then there's my you know,

722
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,200
Bubba and Bo, which is my son's cats. They're bonded

723
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,920
because they were brothers. They were born together, so they're

724
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,680
great together. But yes, I think you're right, and you

725
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:15,079
might not want to do what I did, and foster

726
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,960
a bunch of cats and end up with six. So yeah,

727
00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:19,680
I ended up with six, and then my son took

728
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,200
two of them, and then one sadly passed away. So

729
00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:24,880
you might not want to do that because six boys

730
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,079
in this house is a bit much.

731
00:33:26,559 --> 00:33:28,559
Speaker 2: That's a lot. How did you end up with all boys?

732
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:29,240
Just chance?

733
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 5: Yeah? I had girls that I fostered and I found

734
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,640
homes for and I don't know how they Yeah, I

735
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,960
don't know. I don't. It was a huge mistake on

736
00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:41,200
my part because they don't always get But then again,

737
00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:43,240
some girls don't get along with the boys either, so

738
00:33:43,359 --> 00:33:44,319
you just you never know.

739
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: My two girls are sisters from different letters and different mesters,

740
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and they do not get along.

741
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Speaker 5: Oh it's hard because you want them to.

742
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 2: Oh when we brought the little one in that was Molly,

743
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,160
she was we had to keep her in a cage

744
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,559
because her sister attacked her. Now tax or sister and

745
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,559
Oster is one of these that we have a lot

746
00:34:05,599 --> 00:34:08,519
of litter boxes. I think this might sound crazy. I

747
00:34:08,519 --> 00:34:11,960
think at least six, oh for two cat some are

748
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,679
in the cadeo and I don't have a mansion, so

749
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,159
someone on the cadeo I think two or three, So

750
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,960
three in the house. They have a lot.

751
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 5: I have one in a back bathroom, the guest bathroom,

752
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,440
two in the cadeo, one in the actual cadio, one

753
00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:26,760
in the room that is connected to the cadio, and

754
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,719
then one like it's like tucked under where you go

755
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,039
out to the garage. So yeah, they're all spread out

756
00:34:33,079 --> 00:34:34,679
through the house. If I had another room to put

757
00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:36,159
one in, I probably would, but I don't.

758
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,199
Speaker 2: It's a lot. But if Charlotte would use them, I

759
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,880
would be so happy. But it's you know, ten years,

760
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,800
but you just deal with it. It's just part of

761
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:46,800
life's challenges.

762
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,519
Speaker 5: I was told that I stayed by cats they would

763
00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:52,679
not spray, and they didn't spray for ten years. Wow,

764
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,280
and now they're spraying again just because I mean, well,

765
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,960
one sprays. I can always tell which cat has left

766
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,639
a mark on a pepad because Batman just goes on

767
00:35:00,679 --> 00:35:02,679
the like the bottom of the b bet and Henry

768
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,039
sprays against the wall. So I have them taped up

769
00:35:05,039 --> 00:35:07,920
against the wall. I can always tell who sprays.

770
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: They do that. They have stuff that you put on

771
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,199
the wall so that cats done spray. They have stuff

772
00:35:13,199 --> 00:35:15,480
you put on a wall, apees, an automatic box and

773
00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:18,559
your cats doesn't clean their tush as well as they should,

774
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,800
like Sphinx cats. They're known, right, Okay, you know the

775
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,480
bald ones they're they're hymans.

776
00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:26,079
Speaker 5: Who has one of those?

777
00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 2: They're weird looking. I love them, but I was too

778
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:33,079
afraid that my cats, especially Molly, she's very territorial, would

779
00:35:33,119 --> 00:35:36,679
attack the cat, you know, and then poor little thing

780
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:37,000
with it.

781
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 5: I know, I know, I.

782
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 2: Can't do it. We've taken a lot of time. I

783
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,159
appreciate it so much. What is the one thing you

784
00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:45,960
want to leave our listeners with that?

785
00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:48,119
Speaker 5: I think we're part of a really cool community of

786
00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:51,280
cat lovers, and I think being a crazy cat lady

787
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,320
is now a compliment. I'm so in love with my pets.

788
00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:58,400
I just I can't imagine a life without them. And

789
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,639
when I look back on all the different cuts I've

790
00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:04,199
had all throughout my life, I feel so blessed to

791
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,440
get so much love and to give so much love.

792
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,960
And I think anybody that listens to your program has

793
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,199
to be one full of love person. So ravo to

794
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:12,760
all of us.

795
00:36:13,159 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 2: Is there anything we didn't mention that you want?

796
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:16,639
Speaker 5: Oh? You've been wonderful.

797
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:20,119
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, well, thank you so much. It's

798
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,760
been so much fun having you on the show and

799
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,199
a pleasure to thank you for all your time, Thanks

800
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,199
for everything you do for just the everyone, for the

801
00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:33,239
the cats, for the people. You know, we need more

802
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,079
of you, so.

803
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 5: A lot of us out here. I think you're one

804
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:38,960
of them. I think there's a lot more out of it.

805
00:36:39,159 --> 00:36:41,239
It's just that the nasty people are louder.

806
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:47,679
Speaker 2: Yeah that's yes. Unfortunately, yes that is true. Well again,

807
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,679
thank you so much for coming on kata Too.

808
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 5: Thank you.

809
00:36:51,039 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: I hope you all enjoyed this show. What a trait

810
00:36:54,039 --> 00:36:57,920
it was to talk to Valerie Bertinellie. This is definitely

811
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,480
one of my favorite shows of kata Too, like in

812
00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:04,039
the top three. So Valerie, thank you so much for

813
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,159
coming on Caatitude. Thanks for all you do for the cats.

814
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,199
I just want to remind everybody about everything that you

815
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,320
have going on. Please check out Valerie's place. It's Valeriesplace

816
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,960
dot com. She's doing YouTube videos. She has a podcast

817
00:37:20,039 --> 00:37:23,239
coming out called Getting Naked, so add that along with

818
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,360
Katatude to your list of podcasts and look soon for

819
00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:31,519
possibly a book club. So again, Valerie, thank you so

820
00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:34,960
much for coming on Cataitude. Thank you to all my listeners.

821
00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:38,599
I appreciate you guys so much, so thank you, and

822
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,639
of course thanks to my cat crew Dennis, Charlotte and

823
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,199
Mollie and the show would not be the same without

824
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:49,000
the magic of Mark Winter, So thank you so much, Mark,

825
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,960
and remember lose the attitude, have catitude.

826
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Speaker 4: Let's talk pests every week on demand only on petlive

827
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radio dot com.

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Speaker 5: The t