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There's a dog in her house. I'm taking care of Jasper this week, your sister Mandy's dog. So he's my buddy. He's my Romeo.
That was his name at the pound where they got him. I think she said they were calling him Romeo. Can you hear me? Slurping away.
Oh, her Romeo was thirsty. Then I renamed him Jasper, but sometimes I still like to call him Romeo because he goes walking away now across the kitchen floor. He looks like a Romeo. He does look like a Romeo and he's so gentle and he's so handsome and he's so decent.
It's very decent. So yeah, I'm a dog sitting. Doo doo doo. You are in Toronto and it says you are 351 miles from me.
I'm only 350 miles away from you. Yeah. And I'm in another country. You're in Canada.
How's that feel? Feels good. I always feel a little relieved when I'm in Canada. Why?
I don't know. It just feels like a lighter. Things feel lighter here. I don't know how to really articulate that beyond saying lighter.
Well, how's the tour going? Lou's on tour with Dinosaur Jr. They're on like a big tour with Clutch and Red Fang. Is that right?
Yeah. It's a lot of heavy music. It's a heavy music tour. A lot of bass drum and bass, a lot of rumbling, a lot of buses.
There's three buses that are all pretty much running all the time. Wherever I go, it's just I go from one. There's always this ominous rumbling happening everywhere. It's either on stage or it's coming from machinery or refrigerator units in these large places or the air conditioning coming on through a huge metal tube.
Everything is big. It's big and loud. It's true. It seems practically quiet and quaint here because when I FaceTime with you or talk to you on the phone backstage, it's so loud.
And their crowd is loud. But you know what? That's cool. I mean, their crowd sounds really enthusiastic.
So I like an enthusiastic crowd. They love Clutch. They're the headliner, so I hope they do. Yeah.
I watched them last night. I went out to see what they were doing, what they're up to because I didn't really know. They have a lead singer. They have a lead singer.
He just holds a microphone and leans out into the crowd and they have a very passionate response to his passionate vocals. And the musicians all stand in one spot and kind of rumble away. It's kind of heavy. It's not quite heavy metal.
It's not quite punk. Is it like heavy rock? It's like heavy rock. It's like some kind of, it's not yarly.
Is it like black Sabbath? Is that not really? It's not that. It almost seems born a little bit of new metal, the new metal era.
But it's not as, it's not as like swaggery and cockrocky. It's a little less than that. It's interesting. I saw someone the other day and they pointed at my face and they said, look what happened.
And I was like, I thought for sure that I had food all over my face. But they were just referring to the fact that the last time they hadn't seen me, they hadn't seen so much gray in my beard. Oh my god. Who was that?
I don't know. Yeah. What's on your face? I've gotten that before.
I can't really divulge who delivered that. But boy, what's wrong with your face? Oh, well, I have well, what's wrong with adult onset rosacea. That's what I have.
I'm just almost permanently red. I know. I got to let these through. Yeah.
Thank God. I just had like a little t-shirt. I have rosacea. Don't ask.
Now there's your answer. Yeah. It's a that's been, I'm sorry that I don't like that question. I'm trying to think if someone, I'm sure that's been asked of me probably like in high school.
I had terrible, terrible acne just like Sits just popping out. What was that? Thunder. Is that thunder?
Yeah. That was really dramatic. Here I was talking about my zits exploding all my body in high school and then thunder rolled in volcanic. It was the volcano under the Toronto.
No, it's with you. It's not here. It is? Yes.
Oh, oh my gosh. Oh, it is with me. I look on my watch and I see some some rain in the forecast now. Well, whoops, it doops.
I didn't know that. It's hot. So when it gets really hot here, it feels like it's gonna burst with rain. Holy shit.
I have to tell you something. What? Okay. I completely forgot about this.
Well, no, I didn't forget. I just didn't. I haven't had a chance to tell you. So last night Izzy and I had a very Izzy said it was the scariest thing that's ever happened to her.
This thing happened. Okay. So I'm dog sitting this week. Last night me and Izzy were going out of the house to take Jasper for his little nightly stroll.
We don't get very far down our block when all of a sudden I look across the street and I see too huge like jasmine. Oh, he's shaking. Oh gosh, poor thingy strumbling. Too huge black like lab type dogs, but they have collars on but wildly running after each other in our neighbor's yard loose.
And I was like, Oh, no. Oh, no. Like, is it possible that they could possibly not see us? I really hope they don't see us and Izzy just like froze in place.
And I was like, Oh my God, please don't let this be the moment where my daughter is mauled by like dogs that are loose and Jasper is attacked. I didn't even I was just worried about Izzy and Jasper, you know, and I was like be calm, be calm. That's what I was telling myself. And Jasper, thank goodness.
He was like, Oh my gosh, she's actually trying to put himself underneath my leg. Oh, sweetie. He he was really chill. So I was like, bless.
Okay, Jasper's not freaking. And these dogs came like leaping across the street running toward us like literally leapt. And I was like, okay, the only thing that kept me from thinking it was the end of my life was that they looked kind of like dumb puppies. You know what I mean?
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So Izzy though, poor thing starts screaming and it's like, mom, they're coming to us. They're gonna attack us and like, okay, I don't know what to do. I hope they don't attack the screaming child. And I said, here, try and come behind me.
And she was like frozen in place. These dogs come, they come up to Jasper and they're kind of like circling each other and like sort of pretending that they're gonna bite each other, but they don't. Thank God. But almost in like a playful way.
And then they go running. They just take off again. And I'm like saying, Christ, right? And Izzy's just like, we gotta go.
We have to go home. She takes off and just starts running toward our house. And Izzy like turns back to see if we're still coming. She's like, mom, they see us.
They're coming. And she's just like, it was like, she goes like running up to her front door. She's like shaking the knob and trying to get in. And I'm like, turn that up.
And she's like throwing herself in the house. And the dogs like are super fast and they catch up to me and Jasper. I didn't want to run. You know what I mean?
Because I thought that like running would make them aggravate them. So I kind of just walked at the same pace with Jasper and Jasper didn't seem too concerned. So I was like, maybe he had a, oh, maybe they had like a conversation in dog speak. And he was like, Oh, you losers or just jump the fence at your house or something.
You're misbehaving. Long story short, they came back to Jasper kind of circled us again. Didn't even the dogs didn't even pay any attention to me. And they seem like they were hoping Jasper would play with them play with them.
So I was like, okay, they're just goofy dogs on the loose. But what Izzy was like in her bed upstairs under the covers, like a little snail. And I had to go up there and I'm like, is he are you okay? And she put her whole little body was just shaking.
And she was like, mommy, mommy, that was the scariest thing that's ever happened in my life. I thought they were going to bite everything, my arms and my legs and my head and my and she's just going on and on. And it was pretty crazy. But I just was thinking about Izzy and how to me that moment was it was intense, you know, it was pretty intense.
But I'm not going to really it's not going to like imprint on me. It's not going to be like some big event that happened in my life. But for her, I could see that being like a memory like a deep, you know, memory of like, I remember being out with my aunt's dog and these huge dogs because I mean, she's small, right? And just the vision visual of these like huge dogs like leaping across the street and barking.
Oh, you imagine what you know, run, imagine what the story when she's 18. I know we got attacked. That's what happens. What happens with memories, you know, they say that like, your memories are only 50% accurate at best.
Your memories only 50% accurate. So you do do you ever have a dog situation like that when you were younger that, you know, you don't know if it's like accurate that what happened or I said, I never come to you? No, I was never threatened by any dogs. We always had we had a dog that ran for the ran free and then I walked with often free dog was like those dogs.
It was like goofily, you know, running around. Yeah. I had it recently, you know, where I've been like, okay. But when we were in Wisconsin and German Shepherd came tearing after us.
Wow. Oh my God. You can hear that then. Okay.
Yeah. It's blue skies. Blue skies here in Toronto. Toronto.
Yeah. Yeah. Nice guys. Not hearing.
I saw a dog get hit by a train once. Oh, no. I was running along. A dog was chasing me.
A friendly dog was chasing me down the train tracks and there was a train coming and I looked behind me. I was on the tracks. I looked behind me and just before I leaped off the tracks, the dog went right under the train. Oh my God, that's horrible.
Oh my God, that's horrible. Then we had to go. Then we went to the woman's house, the owner's house and told her and she was. Wow.
She was wearing. She cried. Oh my God, that's horrible. Was that in Michigan?
Yeah. I live right there was a train track right behind my house. So my day to day, especially during the summer really involved a lot of like hanging out waiting for trains, being on the train tracks, listening to the train tracks to know when the train was coming, you know, like I spent, you know, just being kind of close to the train while it went by. I really liked that.
Gosh, honey, you're reminding me now too. Just this weekend, I saw something kind of incredible, also on her block. I don't know if it was like Saturday or Sunday, but all of a sudden, this like gang, this huge gang of boys, middle, like maybe junior high, maybe hundreds of age, they all looked about that age, like 12, 13, 11, came like rolling down her street on their bicycles. Okay.
And it was a very interesting variety of kids, you know what I mean? Like preppy, not preppy, like skater, not skater, you know, like they were all together. And it was a lot, guess what? It was probably 30, 30 plus boys, and they circled up and like had a meeting down the road in the middle of the street.
It was crazy. I know, I was like, what is this? Is this like a junior high biking, like dang. And then, and then is he got really mad because one of them, when they like dispersed, which was also sort of dramatic, because they all kind of went away in different directions, you know, in kind of like groups of two and three on their bikes, like some of them would be doing these really dramatic wheelies and things.
And one of them doing one of those like crazy wheelies was drinking a monster energy drink at the same time, right in front of our house, dramatically like one hand on the bike handle, the other hand, drinking a monster with one wheel completely in the air finishes his drink and then throws it on our lawn. Is he was outside? She was like, Hey, mom, mom, he's glittering. I was like, wow, where are these wild boys?
What is happening? How do they all know each other? It was really interesting. Yeah, so there was like a meetup.
It felt so retro. What's their deal? What's their agenda? That's what I want to know.
Young men together. Got to watch out. They have terrible ideas. Young men.
So scary. So where we could say, maybe it's the newer generation and maybe they're plotting like a bike ride for peace, you know, they're just spreading kind. They're really the kindness. They're in the kindness.
Gen Z is way more evolved. So they might be like, of course, we're not up to any shenanigans. We are up to, we're planning the next like protest and peace march and we're going to go and door to door. I don't know.
Well, my mind goes, my mind goes to much, much darker places and I don't, you know, I'm here in Canada. So I'm just want to soak up the pure, pure Canadian pure love, pure love of Canada. As far as I know, I feel like the only things I ever hear about Canada is that it's like that people are nice. They have universal health care and that it's colder because they're north.
I don't know. You didn't hear about the queen of Canada. Did you ever hear about the queen of Canada? Oh, now there's this.
That's the queen. She's like kind of QAnon level cult leader. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't.
I mean, they protested. I mean, she was part of the, there were some extensive protests in Ottawa. The capital of Canada. What does that mean?
The queen of Canada? Well, it's kind of, it's sort of this nebulous, what's culty? It's cultish and it also comes from kind of, you know, the QAnon. Wow.
Well, I don't even really know where to go from there because you brought up the queen of Canada. You brought up a group of young men. Oh, that's what triggered this for you. Triggered by, I'm triggered by lard gatherings of young men.
I don't trust them. Having been a young man. Having been a young man. Fair enough.
I mean, yeah, I think that, you know, that's a, yeah, they looked like, I mean, listen, the way he threw that monster drink down into our lawn, it's just disrespectful. Wait till he gets his pickup truck. Wait till he gets his big black pickup truck spewing diesel smoke to the atmosphere. He'll get a few flags off the back of a goodie.
Yeah, now he's got his license. He's, he's, he's, he's a lot like the one from the bike gang. Gang. Yeah.
Yeah. This is, this is just, wow, this episode needs a lot of trigger warnings. No, no, we're, we're not talking about anal cunt this time. Thank you for listening to Ron Preshins.
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