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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome Tim Carton. He
is a keynote speaker and he's also the creator of
hashtag nine cats, two lives. Welcome Tim all right.
Speaker 5: Thanks for CEO I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to have you on the show. So I
know you do keynote speaking. Another part of your life
is you're the creator of this nine Cats, two Lives, funny,
humorous little show that you have online. Now you had
it and then you brought it back. So we'll talk
a little later. Can you first share your background.
Speaker 5: With us well as you've already told them. I'm a
keynot speaker, but I'm also a business infrastructure specialist and
author and a creator. So I help people literally frame
their businesses who do startups because most people they have
great ideas, but they don't know how to put them
into actual action. So I do that as well. And
I've been in business for the past twenty five years.
I've started over thirty businesses. I edit documents, over two
hundred thousand documents. I think I've done contracts, articles, resumes
LinkedIn all of that stuff. I've also written twelve books
and I've published six of them, and five of those
books that I publish actually have to do with this
nine Cast two Lives brand. So that's a little bit
about little o me.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's exciting. Yeah, So tell us, how did
you say, your five books that have that are a
route nine Cats in two Lives. So we weren't doing
anything about the bucks. So I don't know a lot
about your bucks. But tell us what is nine Cats
two lives?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, here's the thing, because this is an interesting story.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: I don't know how people are when it comes to
their accounts on YouTube, Facebook, all these different social media accounts.
But one thing about these businesses is they like to
have content that people really like to see and that
they considered advertiser friendly. Well, I have several things. My
friends called me a business Swiss army Knight because I've
mastered so many roums. But I had different things, politics, channels,
relationships channels, all this type of stuff. And what happened
was I wasn't getting the movement that I wanted to
get with these things because YouTube is you know, they're
more app sereal towards those type of topics. So I
decided I'm going to come up with something else. And
the story of how I came up with it is
actually fantastic.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's hear that story because I asked you
before we started. But let me ask you so our
listeners know you don't really have nine casts.
Speaker 5: No, I don't have nine cast. I had one and
I named it after I named it after the daughter
that I never had, Jasmine. I think it's a beautiful name.
But when me and my expert, you know, she took
the kids, as they say, which is the cat? So
I don't have one now, but I actually love casts.
Speaker 2: So you need one, and you know that they say,
you know you need two. So there you go. All right,
tell us the story of how it came about.
Speaker 5: Well, because of that whole thing I just told you
with YouTube and all, I said, well, I have to
come up with a brand, some type of thing that
I can do on these social media platforms where they
will give the advertisement to me. They won't be looking
and over their shoulder and me. It'll just be something
non controversial. So I came up with something I called
my brand of Worlds. And I actually every one of
these brands in with the word world. So I came
up with something called a Peaceful Dream World. Why I
help people sleep with these videos. But it took so
long because they were like ten hours. So I said, okay,
came up with something called a Beautiful Travel World. People
love travel videos, but those videos weren't getting the attraction
that I wanted them to get as far as sub scarters.
Then I came up with something called a Healthy Food World,
teaching people how to be healthy. That's the site I
have as well. But when it came to another one,
I said, man, I got this great brand of worlds.
He said, but I like cats, Say hey, why don't
I do something with cats? And then the Cute and
Crazy Cat World was born. I always liked to try
to do things that are creative inside of a genre,
not just do the thing that everybody else does. So
I created that, and I actually this time I made
sure I wrote that all the stuff that came with
the creation of it, because when you documented in history,
it's easy to make the movie about it later. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, so the Nine Cats Two Lives came about to
help kind of faciliate your other businesses. But how is
that kind of enamorogy about cats? And did you think
cats were that I guess adored by the.
Speaker 5: Y Yeah, because the thing about I've noticed this, like
people love humans. Humans are awesome. You know, of course
you have some outlies, but humans are generally awesome, and
humans just love animals. I like cats, but I'm not
Steve Hren. You know, I'm not the guy who you
will see you in an ally or or something. But
people like animals. So when I came up with set.
Speaker 2: We call them fur babes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they cover fur babies. Right, So when people
think about animals, they think about, Okay, I like turtles,
or I like fish, or I like this whatever type
of animal. And one thing about ass is that they're
kind of loved by a lot of individual humans. They're
probably seeing more in homes and all than anything, probably
except dogs. So I was like, hey, it's like, I
like cats, so why don't I make a serious about
them because they are kind of hilarious.
Speaker 2: They are. And I don't know the exact number anymore
because it changes all the time. But in the shows
I've had all that there's actually more dog pet parents,
but the total number of cats is larger, right because
most people they might have won dog two dogs, but
cats it's rare that there's one. There's usually two or three.
I had five at once, but two were like outside
but catered to like the head of house.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they don't have there are people will have
a ton of cats because cats their size, them being
so much smaller, it's kind of a thing of well,
since they're so much smaller, they won't take up as
much room. But it's almost like how people when they
have more money, they spend more money. Well, when you
have more room because you have a smaller animal, guess
what you do? You more animals to feel more room.
So somebody may have one dog, but they'll have four cats.
Speaker 2: They are smaller, but I don't think they're less expensive
than dogs. Especially they'd like to play with each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's part of the funny.
Speaker 2: That's that's why we always say when you adopt a cat,
you should adopt two, because one cat by itself, you know,
if you're at work and not home all the time,
the cat, it's boards.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'll just sit under the table or something, or
under the bed. But when you have two, they run
around like crazy fur bunnies as you say, fur babies rather.
So it's fun to watch though, because it's like a
brother and sister, but brothers and sisters who have the
speed of the flash in Superman. So you're just watching
them go crazy and it's like, wow, amazing animals.
Speaker 2: When they get these especially zoom. All the zoo cats
get them too, not mine. Mine are all older and lazy,
but most of them. But I'll tell you anytime I am,
when I'm charging my tablet or a phone, all of
a sudden, Molly could care less about anything. She's a diva.
She sees that cord go in and her ears perked up.
She's all excited. She wants to bite it. Why this
one cord? I don't know. She goes nuts for this
one cord. I don't know. I've heard cats see in
black and white, and this one is a lighter colored cord,
So I don't know if that has anything to do
with it, or she's just, you know, a cat.
Speaker 5: Cats get enamored by things that make no sense to humans.
We'll look at them and they'll pick up something like
one thing about cast that people will probably notice, soupad
cast is like if a cat is like not having keys,
their spade or neutered or something. They will pick up
different items, like they'll pick up a sock, pick up
a shirt, and in their mind that's like them carrying
their child. And you'll hear them start purring, making a
specific sound for them when they're just walking around with
their sting in their mouth because in their mind it's
almost like they're carrying their baby, but it's a sock.
Cats are extraordinarily interesting.
Speaker 2: I never had my cats do that, but I don't
doubt it. What do you think makes cats so funny?
Speaker 5: Well, I talk about my brother. My brother is hilarious, okay,
and everyone knows it. They just when they get around him.
He's just somebody with whom you can just laugh. I
am too, but because I'm so serious a person, majority
of the time, I don't show that to most people.
So this actual brand gave me a way to be
able to let out my funny by doing the things
on these web series videos that Cat's doing real life.
They're like what I call my brother. I call them
and it's not an insult. I call him an individual idiot,
because in some cultures, when you say, oh man, you're
an idiot, you're you're actually saying if they're funny, you
just it's an actual compliment in the context. So I
called them like individual idias, like they can be by
themselves and have fun with themselves and you're just sitting
there looking at them, like, what's going on in this
cat's mind? I'm seeing a cat kick themselves in the
face multiple times, and I'm city, I'm sitting there, like,
are you having an internal battle with yourself?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 5: I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: You think they were trying to groom or something and
they just whack themselves.
Speaker 5: But yes, they were because they were they were looking. Yeah,
they were like grooming themselves. They're like Paul, and then
they just kicked themselves in the face four times. It
just was like pat, Pat, pap, I'll said, what is
I don't know. Maybe they got upset with themselves because
they didn't clean their Paul correctly. This is just the
types of silly things that they do. It's just hilarious
to watch.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna take a quick thing and we'll be
right back to talk more about your comedy and maybe
learn something about some of the stars of your series.
So we'll right back.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to everyone. We're talking to Tim Cartan and
we are talking about his comedy series that he has resurrected.
It's hashtag nine Cats, two Lives. So, Tim, what are
some of the topics we will see in your cat comedy.
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing, and it's funny that you ask that,
because most of the series that you see of people
online or on television wherever, they usually have a sequence.
So if you watch one episode, then you can watch
the next episode and it'll be like in a sequence. Well,
with me, I just make different subject matter videos that
might not necessarily tie to the one before. So I
can make a video about the cats finding out what
a phone is. I'll make a VW about one cat
getting scared because they heard a fan, and they never
heard a fan before. Just it could be any little
thing because I know how to make the most but
nine thing funny, especially when you have the different characters
that I created.
Speaker 2: Okay, can you share a little bit about your characters?
Speaker 5: Okay? So this is one of the best things that
I think about this series because the series is called
nine Cats, two Lives. Now, normally when people hear nine
when it comes to a cat, what do they think? First?
They don't think nine cats, They think what nine lives? Exactly.
So it's called nine cats, two lies because it's a
play on the words. And the two lives are the
life that they had before they came into this particular home,
and then this particular home life that they have is
the second life. That's why it's called two lives. But
the nine cat are because there are nine cats that
I'm bringing in. And it's funny because the cats were
named differently before, but I ended up changing it to
whar every single cat. I'll give this little titbitch, you're
getting a little bit of an exclusive. All of the
cats names, all nine of them, begin with an S,
all of them. Yet only four cats have been introduced.
Speaker 2: Why why did they all start with an ass.
Speaker 5: Because I thought it would be cover for all nine
siblings to have a name where it starts with the
same letter, same sound. So it started off with three cats,
and the first carat is kind of a reflection of me.
My friends say that they're called serious Cat. Now here's
the thing about Serious Cat. He's like the default leader
of the siblings, but he doesn't really know it, and
that's because he's kind of an owner. He's always serious
and logical, even to a fault sometimes. But one of
the cats that'll be name in the future is his
best counsel. He keeps the other cats in check when
things start to unravel in the home, but only when
he chooses to be the enforcement. So he's very protective
of his sillies. That's one of the fore casts that
have been introduced, Serious.
Speaker 2: Cat, Serious Cat Hat. And then the second.
Speaker 5: Cast, the second of the four, he's Silly Cat. Now
you can just imagine Silly Cat. He's the easy going one,
always trying to tell jokes or make the others laugh,
and he always knows what's going on in the house
before everyone else. So you'll notice a pattern of these cats.
They have a dichotomy with it. So although silly Cat
is silly, his second piece of him is that he's
the one who knows everything that's going on. You see.
It's so each cat has two parts to him. So
the third cat, and this is this is a lot
of people's favorite cat. Okay, it's called special Cat. Now
special Cat. He's a really strong, physically strong cat, maybe
in the top three strongest of the bunch. But it's
almost always saying seemingly something that's kind of, you know,
missing the point, kind of a little bit of loose.
They don't know it. But this is because he came
from like a clueless style family with the sister who
was like if you've ever seen this show, married with children.
His sister was kind of like kind of like Kelly Bundy,
kind of dating myself. But however, remember each of them
have two things about him. However, every Blue Moon Special
Cat will say something that seems completely backwards but actually
makes the others go hmm. Like another old school show
ar Senior Hall used to like, such cat may say
some people what he just said made sist. So that's
his dichotomy. So those were the first three casts I introduced.
The other cats only get introduced once every one to
two years. Literally, you won't see a new cat for
every one to two years. So a fourth cat came
I think a year and a half to two years ago.
And that fourth cat, which is these are on the
only four that are actually public, it's called Somber Cat.
And if you know what the word somber means, you
can imagine every answer from him reeks of existential thread.
Have you ever seen another old school show called the
Smurfs and you not a grumpy Smurf? That's kind of
how Somber Cat is. When I thought about it, I said,
he kind of seems like grumpy Smurf, everything like weeks
of existential dread. But here's his dichotomy. What he's saying
is actual facts. So he's not just being a pessimist.
He's saying something that if you actually looked at it,
you'd say, well, what he's saying is true. So just
imagine those four cats, Serious Cat, Silly Cat, Special Cat,
and Somber Cat having different conversations and different things happening
inside the house. The series is fantastic. It's funny because
all of them together and these and these being cats
and how silly they are this in general, and me
being able to let my silly side out. Oh, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that with us, which was of
the four cats, and I know there's more to come.
We're closest to the personality of your cat, Jasmine.
Speaker 5: You know, that's funny. I never thought about that. I've
never thought about that. Which one let me see. I
would say that it was more between maybe silly cat
and serious cat, because I don't think Jazzmine was a
somber so I would think it would be more between.
She was kind of a hybrid between serious, serious cat
and silly cat. So I would say that that was
a great question. I never thought about that.
Speaker 2: Well, I pick him out. I pick him out of there.
So my listeners now though, sometimes something comes out of
left field, and it's just like after doing so many shows,
I kind of can kind of imagine what my audience
would like to know. Also, So now to change a
little bit up to but let's talk about sense of humor.
Why is it more important than ever for us to
keep a sense of humor, especially for pet parents. And
I know that these are challenging times, and I could
get into politics better. Our show is about cast right,
so I'll get too political, although we do. All anybody
listenings is we're recording in August twenty twenty five, knows
that there's a lot going on in the world, a
whole lot of crazy. No matter what you believe, it's
just a whole lot of crazy, right, So I said
that to just set it up. I don't think anybody,
no matter where it can say, oh yeah, everything's perfect
and we're recording. You know we're North America, US. But
there's a lot of crazy other word too. But so
keeping that in mind without going into politics, why is
the sense of humor so important, especially for pet parents.
Speaker 5: Well, one thing about just existing itself. Existence itself can
be something that's positive if you look at life a
certain way. You try to be optimistic, you try to
move forward, keep yourself around people, or are kinds awful
in the whole nine. But one thing about life is
it'll do some baseball on you. It'll throw you some curves.
And when it throws you those curves, depending on how
much you built up positivity of your life can be
a determining factor of how well you're able to knock
those curves. Out of the park. If you had a
life to where it's been consistently something negative, then what
happens is makes it more difficult for you to be
able to muster up things inside yourself to be able
to just push through it and smile through all of
the pain. This is why having external things like this
web series, or having external things like television shows, old
school friends or old school Martin, things like that helps
so well, because there are a lot of things in
this world that can really bring down a person's attitude
and mindset when it comes to just existing, because you
end up finding so many people after certain ages they
start looking at life as though they don't even want
to be here anymore because there's so many things that happen.
But then you find these animals that become in essence
careers of the people who are caring for them. You know, dogs, cats, fish,
you know pir keets, things like that. So having these
positive mindset and having these things where you can look
at and make you laugh, these little clips they work.
That's part of the reason why I built my well
wrote rather my books that I wrote. They're called motivational
quotes and jokes. Think about you have motivational quotes in there.
But then you have the actual cats from this series
telling jokes inside of the books. So I've created all
these different things to where people can grab them and
laugh with them, smile color, laugh at the jokes, tell
their friends the jokes, show their friends the videos. Because
I think you said that you watched the first video
I ever did from the nine Cast Two Lives series,
and it's about bringing joy, So I hope it brought
you joy, of course.
Speaker 2: Well you know what, I think what you're saying is
right on. And also you know there's I know Hobbrey,
which is like I think that is the hopefully imb
group quoting this correct because I don't have it in
my notes, But Habrey and app O the Habrey is
the human animal bond. And they've even talked about and
there's been discussion on instead of prescriptions for different medications,
prescribing pets. Right, Oh you're down, get yourself a cat,
get yourself. Well here we just talk about cats. Or
get a dog and a cat and have a cat.
So there's something about cats that I think automatically it
brings down blood pressure, it makes you feel better. I
think I've read someplace and I don't know how true
this status that cat parents are generally happier than none
I said cat pet parents. I met parents in general,
mostly dog and cat, but they're happier in general than
households without pets.
Speaker 5: And you know what, I think the reason for that
is because humans like not just positive interaction, but they
like the feeling of cuddling with someone. Because they talked
about hugs things like that, releasing certain endorphins and making
people feel a certain way. Well, what these animals do
is they give humans those types of feelings every single
time a human interacts with them. So imagine that. Imagine
anytime that you need a dopamine hit as they called it,
from the hormone that comes up in your body that
makes you feel really good. Anytime you need one of
those hits, you literally just go look at your cat
and then it pick the cat up and put the
cat on your shoulder, or you call your dog and
the dog comes in wagging their tail and you know,
jumping up on you in the whole nine and sometimes
looking you. You know, those things really give people this
influx of just awesomeness and positivity. So if you can
clip that into some type of package. If you can
put that into something where a person can have it
whenever they wish their hand out to grab it, oh man,
then of course you're going to have it to where
a person will be much happier than someone who doesn't
have access to something like that.
Speaker 2: Right, But I have a comment. So he said something cuddly. Okay,
only one of my cats is cuddly. He's old happy
Dennis is doing that. He's like sixteen or seventeen. Charlotte
doesn't like me, so then it's Mollie and she doesn't
like to be picked up or cuddled, none of that.
But I have to say though, I was thinking about this,
and I thought, well, my cats aren't really specially cuddly ones,
and Dennis used to be. And then I thought, well,
I get happiness and enjoy when Mollie allows me to
pattern that. It's kind of ridiculous, but you know, she's
looking at me, and then I have to, you know,
touch your head a certain way. Pan't be too hard,
but you know, or rough a certain way, and then
she'll bower her up let me get better. So I
feel like like she's your highness or something, and so
thank you. I get to pat your head and you're happy,
Son felt better? Is that nuts? Is it?
Speaker 5: Well? No, because it's a human thing, ironically, because humans
like to accomplish things. So if there's a cat who
doesn't want to spend any time, or two, if it's
a cat that runs every time you come in the room,
you just buy human nature want to overcome that. So
you may start changing the way you walk in the
room instead of walking really fast because cats perceive that
as a potential threat.
Speaker 2: So if you.
Speaker 5: Walk flore in the room, the cat won't necessarily run.
Maybe you start making little changes like that, and then
next thing you know, the cat's like, oh okay, I
don't think this person is a threat, so kind of
I'm gonna walk in a little bit. And then you
start hearing them make those songs. I think I got them.
I think I think I.
Speaker 2: Have to tell you I tried that with Charlotte. And
she'll let me get close, maybe bring a treat out.
Look at her, and then she darts away, and she
darts pretty fast. Considering she looks like an armadillo.
Speaker 5: Wow, she must be she's she's serious cat then, and
in this scenario, she's serious cat. That's what she Oh,
she's a mixed attitude. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: We call her misunderstood because she was. They're all cats
that found me and even the other two that are
no longer with us, So she was Charlotte was sitting
in front of my front door for four months and
my partner said, oh, look, she wants to come in.
Let's take her in. Well, she's misunderstood because she no
matter what I do with the little box, she still
occasionally has issues. We'll put it like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: He's also sneaky cat, so there's a lot. There's a
lot for her. Anyways, we're just about wrapping up. Where
can all of our listeners find out more about you?
And also about hashtag nine Cats two Lives.
Speaker 5: Well, they can find out about me. They can just
google me, Tim Kart and Tim c isn't cat ironically
r th h o N and nine Casts two lives
or made it really easy to find me and just
go to nine Cats two Lives dot com and they
can find out everything that they need to know. Also,
our website is acc cat World because the name of
the brand is a Cute and Crazy Cat World. That's
the main brand, so it's acccatworld dot com, but they
can find out nine Casts two lives by just going
to the nine Cast two lives dot com domain.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Tim for coming on Cat.
Speaker 5: Too on your morning Welcome Anytime.
Speaker 2: I want to thank my guest Tim Carthon for coming
on Panitude and sharing all about his new Cat series
and how a sense of humor with your cats is
so important. Thanks to my Cat crew Dennis, Charlotte Molly
that keep me amused all the time. Thanks to my
loyal listeners of Katatude, thank you so much. I appreciate
your listenership very much. And of course thank you to
my producer Mark Winter for working his magic and making
every show sound amazing. And remember, lose the attitude, have Katitude.
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