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Welcome to Joy Moments, the podcast are we spread stories of joy to make

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ripples of joy throughout the world.

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I'm Lacey here with Sarah.

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Hi Sarah.

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I am really excited today because we're

gonna dive into a bunch of threads

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that we got as a response to a call

out for Joy, and it is delightful.

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Sara: It was delightful when

I went on and looked it, yeah.

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It made me so happy and I'm like,

this is what social media should be.

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Just sharing those moments of joy.

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That would be amazing.

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Lacey: Oh, okay.

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Skincare 360 says, just

got a physio assessment.

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I thought my glute pain was due

to my back injury from last year.

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Turns out it's just a muscle strain

and nothing is wrong with my back.

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Ah, how.

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Sorry.

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As a, sick person, I'll say, I hear

this and I'm so excited that it's not

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so, it's not like everything's normal.

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It's like, oh no, we have a

solution and it's a less severe one.

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So much joy.

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Sara: I resonate that after I had my son,

I started having these intense pain in

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my head and I just convinced myself that

it was a tumor and I had a new baby and I

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was like, I don't have time for a tumor.

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I was just convinced.

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And then the doctor told me they

were migraines and there was

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this like bittersweet of like.

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she knows what it is and

there's a solution for it.

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So yes, I can relate to that.

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Lacey: The next one has a

comment from Sarah on it.

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Look at you, Sarah.

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Interacting, I am realizing I did

not think this through of having

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to read people's screen names.

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Kokomo Josephine, I think is what this is.

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Says my cat demanded forced snuggles this

morning and it makes me hold him like a

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baby and give him kisses and belly rubs.

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It's the best part of my day.

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Sara: I didn't know cats could do that.

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Lacey: There's, Oh, and her name's Lacey.

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So I get, I got excited about that.

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A Lacey from Ohio.

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Anyway, she's got cows, but she

also carries her cat in a baby

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carrier sometimes on her chest.

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Yeah.

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So that's what made me follow her.

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'cause I was like, if you can do that, you

must be, we talked about how in another

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life, I think I was a dairy farmer.

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Yeah.

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So there's also part

of that, as well Cows.

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Sara: I love this podcast.

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You just never know what's gonna come up.

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I love it.

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Lacey: Oh, another cat one.

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see Rose Said my new foster cat,

who after two weeks is still scared.

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Looked up the window for the

first time, she's usually hidden.

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My heart just exploded.

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A little bit to feel that safety after

such a long time of not feeling safe.

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Oh,

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Sara: I know.

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I

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Lacey: love it.

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Sara: for the cat and it makes me happy

for people like her that exist in the

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world who take in animals that are

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Lacey: Our friend Sarah Berry does it.

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And every time I'm like you magical

human beings who are fostering animals.

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I could never.

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Sara: I know, so thank you to

all those people out there who

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Lacey: Mm-hmm.

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Annie, G 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

posted a photo of Waldo.

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It says, wanted customers,

no experience necessary.

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Saw this in my local market.

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I like that.

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It makes me smile.

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I this next one I've been meaning to show

my kids and I haven't shown them yet.

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It's another visual from, it's Cook 1942.

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This made me happy for some reason.

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And it's a picture of what looks like

a real sponge and a real, starfish that

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are the right colors that says scientists

found a real life, Patrick and SpongeBob

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during an Ocean exposition expedition.

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And I just know my children are

gonna love that, and I just haven't

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had the chance to show them yet.

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So, yeah.

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let's see here.

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Cynical medic said, I walked further

today than I have in over a year.

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I finally trust my second prosthetic.

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Oh.

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Again, as a sick person, I know

that feeling of like I did more

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than I have done recently, and

just the amount of pride that you

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can feel in that is so amazing.

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Sara: And that goes right to

the heart of why I am so happy

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about joy Moments we want to help

celebrate those moments with you.

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Lacey: Yeah.

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Sara: to a lot of people, they'll think,

well, it was, I didn't run a marathon.

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It's not that big of a deal, but

it's like, no, these are the moments.

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To celebrate.

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Lacey: Yes,

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Sara: that's amazing.

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And we're so happy for you.

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I'm almost crying 'cause I'm

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Lacey: I know.

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Sara: know this person.

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Lacey: Quirky, uncle Dave said, seeing

a video from my friend showing her pet

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happily eating after a major surgery.

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the, words are hard.

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Hold on.

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The theme of this podcast is just that

pets are amazing and break so much joy.

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It doesn't even have to be our pet.

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Sara: I think the joy for

me in that is his handle.

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Quirky

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Lacey: Oh, I believe, Kirk and Dave

and I have had exchanges in the past,

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and I told him I have an Uncle Dave,

so it makes me, fond of him already.

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Jasmina 61 says Our kitty max.

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See, we are just catting it out today.

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Our King Max is eating solid food

and crunchy snacks after not having

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an appetite for about a week.

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Oh.

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The relief that comes with your

pet doing something like this.

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'cause they can't tell you what's wrong.

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They can't tell you anything like that.

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So it when you can see an actual tangible

thing that they're feeling better.

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So good.

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The rest of these are very s coded.

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I'm just gonna say that right away.

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We've got Mallie Moses.

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I said I went to the cottage with my

little dog this afternoon for work.

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our walnut tree is prolific this year,

so we picked up a basket full of walnuts

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and raked a bunch of leaves, a low key.

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Excellent afternoon.

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Sara: That makes me happy picturing that.

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I

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Lacey: You also said low key.

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Excellent is my new favorite phrase.

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Sara: Oh, lowkey.

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Excellent.

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Oh, I just, I wanna wrap

myself in that phrase.

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Isn't that amazing?

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Lacey: It is amazing.

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I agree.

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Lowkey excellent.

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Sara: Oh, that's,

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Lacey: Yep.

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Sara: I'm, I'm a handle obsessed.

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I want that to be my new handle.

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Lowkey excellent.

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Lacey: Elena Evening star

said a woodpecker flew over

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my head and sat in the tree.

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It was very beautiful.

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Sara: Love that.

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very Sarah.

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Lacey: And our last one from Sherry Cox,

96 an hour walk in beautiful sunshine.

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Also very Sarah coated.

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These are your people, Sarah.

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Sara: Well, and again, part of

this podcast is also helping people

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understand like where do you tap

into joy moments . for that.

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It's like the five senses, right?

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It's like outside, like,

what are you seeing?

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What are you smelling?

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What are you hearing?

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You know, a woodpecker,

a walnut, a cat, a dog.

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on that note, I have a funny joy moment.

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I just remembered.

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Lacey: Yeah.

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Sara: So of course I'm friendly with my

neighbors one of my neighbors who I'm

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friendly with, I got a text from her

at 7:00 AM and then we're friendly, but

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we're not, 7:00 AM texting friendly.

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And I was like, whoa, what is going

on with my neighbor this morning?

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And so I open it up.

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And there's a picture of two horses.

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She's standing in her house taking a

picture out her window of two horses.

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She does not own horses.

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she said, Hey, does your, does your

neighbor have the number of the

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person who these horses belong to?

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And we've met these horses before.

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This is not the first

time this has happened.

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we got that figured out and

then, we walk outside and my son

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points to the middle of the yard.

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What is that?

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And I look out in the middle of the yard,

huge pile of horse poo in my front yard.

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I just started laughing.

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I laughed so hard.

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I'm like, not every day you have

a pile of horse poo in your front

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yard when you don't own horses.

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Lacey: I love the idea that these

horses are, I, I wanna write a

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children's book about them now because

they're serial escape artists, right.

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And in my mind, they're like.

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Todd and Kathy, just these like

honoree horses getting out and being

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like, well, let's go and walk around.

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I guess like they were not gonna go far.

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Sara: The first time, they were

at another neighbor's house that

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we met them when the owner came.

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Yeah.

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She was very nonplussed.

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She's like, yeah, they do this.

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I am like, she should be passing out her

phone number to everyone in the area.

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Just if you, my husband and I were

joking that there should be a QR

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code on the horses, like branded.

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So you can just scan your phone and be

like, scene then enter your, coordinates.

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Lacey: Since we've been so cat

heavy, I would like to share, my

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own experience of a cat getting out.

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and it was when we lived in our old

house, and it was only, it was before

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we had Luna, it was just indie.

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I was taking Indie for a walk.

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So Indie is like a 80 pound

black lab slash Pyrenees mix.

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He was a big boy.

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Very sweet, very gentle,

but he sucked on the leash.

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I just wanna say that like he just

wanted to pull and go everywhere.

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So we were really working

on leash training.

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So we are walking down the street,

Indy and I, and at one point I look

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across the street and there's a

black cat staring at us, like laser

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eyed looking, staring us down.

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Alright.

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And so I'm like, okay, well, we'll just.

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oh, I think it was in front of us.

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So we crossed the street thinking,

I don't wanna deal with that cat.

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I don't know what Indy's gonna do.

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He was the rescue.

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We're still, you know, and

so we crossed the street.

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Well, unbeknownst to us, we

crossed closer to this cat's house.

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And so the cat naturally,

apparently is very protective of

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its space and starts following us.

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It crosses the street and starts

following us and attacking.

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Indie's back, like this small

cat is, you know what I mean?

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And indie's like, he's like, I

don't want to be a part of this.

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I don't wanna be a part of this narrative.

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If we wanna quote Taylor Swift,

like he's getting attacked

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by this cat on, on his back.

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And I, I don't know what to do.

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I'm still a new-ish dog owner.

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I've never had cats.

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I'm like, what am I supposed to do?

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So my solution was, get the F outta here.

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Right?

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So I take him and I'm.

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I'm just trying to get him down the

street and he's trying to go with me,

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but the cat is following us, attacking

him, and I'm just trying to get us out

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there and out of nowhere I hear Mr.

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Beans and this man comes just chugging

down the street, running, comes, picks

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the cat up, looks at me and says sorry.

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And just walks the cat back

to his house and I'm just.

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flabbergasted, no other

acknowledgements of it.

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I see the house that they go to.

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That's when I realized oh, okay, we

actually went towards this house.

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I think he may have said he hates dogs.

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Like that's it.

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Like that is the only amount

of information that I got.

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And so India and I are just

like, did that just happened?

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Like I, I are both very confused, looking

at each other and that kind of thing.

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So we go home and tell Joe about it.

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And then naturally, Mr.

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Beans is always out now every time we

walk, but now that we know each other, we

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can suss it out and that kind of thing.

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But yeah, I will never forget this man

hauling it down the street, yelling Mr.

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Beans over and over again.

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Sara: I want that to be my new phrase.

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You know how when you want to

swear, but then you don't wanna

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swear in front of your kids or in

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Lacey: Yeah.

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Sara: I want that to be my new swear, Mr.

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Beans.

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Lacey: yeah.

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Sara: I have a funny memory of Katz.

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My grandparents' house, they always

had multiple cats who always ended,

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came in from unique situations.

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So they were kind of

half feral, not feral,

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Lacey: Yeah.

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Sara: they were not interested in

people, they were na, they were nasty.

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Lacey: Mm-hmm.

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Sara: grow up with nice

cat experiences anyways.

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They always had a standard

poodle, which is like a big dog

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Lacey: Yeah.

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Sara: one of their poodles.

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It was so funny.

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You could be sitting in one place and

you'd watch this dog just casually walk.

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Across like the room, then you

could kind of see him, he'd key

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in on a cat and he would just kind

of like, almost like playing tag.

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He would like pretend to like tag the cat.

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And then the next thing you know,

the dog is running in the opposite

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direction, and then the cat

runs in the opposite direction.

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And then if you just sit

long enough in this one room.

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all of a sudden, like the cat would

run back in and the dog would, it

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was like watching a cartoon and you

just had to sit in one place, but the

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dog would always antagonize the cat

and the cats did not want to play.

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That cracked me up,

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Lacey: oh Pets.

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Sara: Mr.

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Lacey: This is a pet themed episode now.

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Sara: Oh yeah.

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I read the newsletter this morning

and Lacey is cracks me up with

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the picture of the cat looking

at the ball and then it was here.

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This cat is, what did you

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Lacey: I said, this is me

and Sarah waiting for you

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to submit questions for us.

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For no shame in our game.

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We're the cat, you're the ball.

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I think I over explained

it a little bit, but yeah.

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Sara: If you have a joy

moment, you wanna share if it.

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It doesn't even have to involve animals.

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Please don't misunderstand

the premise of this show.

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Anything that brought you joy, if it was

a pile of horse poo in your front yard

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that you weren't expecting, that's great.

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Lacey: Mm-hmm.

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Sara: relate.

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if it's anything else that made you

laugh, made you smile, just we wanna

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celebrate those joy moments with you.

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Lacey: Yes, please.

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Sara: it makes your joy moment

last longer, and then it might

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bring joy to somebody else.

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How beautiful is that?

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And then

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Lacey: I know.

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Sara: will go on to

the whole world and the

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Lacey: Yeah,

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Sara: I'm only half joking.

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Lacey: I know.

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head to joyful support movement.com/submit

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to submit joy moment and also any of

the other things for our podcasts.

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Lacey: Thanks for sharing joy

moments with me today, Sarah.

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Sara: you, Lacey.