Smells Like Humans

An early episode that most of you have not heard! Next week, we are back with SEASON TWO!
We discuss what can go wrong when kids run amok in restaurants. Tangents include: Flaming duck; Fun sacks; invisible dogs; and why one should never look a toddler in the eye. Somehow Ami resists telling another grandmother story.
Notes:
1. https://alphamom.com/
2. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/4/19/21226853/dear-abby-i-cant-stand-dining-with-couple-who-let-their-kids-run-wild
3. http://bitterempire.com/off-menu-stories-kids-restaurants/

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Ami and Ross discuss how things often went wrong on family camping trips, and how they sometimes produced both moments of heroism and redemption. Tangents include: Dingoes; potted meat; Scouting irregularities; Death Valley; back-up kids; Wild Boars; and dune buggies.
Notes:
1. https://www.reserveamerica.com/outdoors/a-short-history-of-camping.htm
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potted_meat_food_product
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea

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Regulars Ami and Robb join Ross to discuss the Beanie Baby investment craze of the mid-90's and then take a scientific test to determine which kind of Beanie Baby each is. Tangents include: Mike Pence (former VP in the U.S.); 'garblins'; holiday Barbies; golf club gadgets that no one wants; playing the lottery.

Notes:

1. https://www.zoo.com/quiz/which-beanie-baby-are-you (There are better quizzes than this but this is the one we took if you want to compare notes).
2. https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/beanie-babies-bubble-economics-and-psychology-of-a-plush-toy-investment-craze.html
3. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beanie-baby-fever-in-1999_n_58af7d12e4b060480e0661fe

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Special guest and super-therapist Tracey joins Ross to discuss those moments when we don't always know what to say or how to say it. Tangents include: Badgers vs marsupials; death beds; broken tables; gas station give-aways; word punching and poop bags.
Notes:

1. Ross says he was in a play called "Scrooge" when he meant "A Christmas Carol".
2. https://drdansiegel.com/
3. https://www.verywellmind.com/john-bowlby-biography-1907-1990-2795514
4. https://www.thepactinstitute.com/
5. https://www.amazon.com/Codependent-No-More-Controlling-Yourself/dp/0894864025
6. https://www.amazon.com/Responsible-Assertive-Behavior-Behavioral-Procedures/dp/B00ZT11PQS
7. How to contact Tracey: http://www.TraceyBiebel.com

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Kira checks in from Florida and joins Ross to discuss the issues involved in cloning pets and celebrities (and celebrities cloning pets). Tangents include: "Spray Burn"; Moper dogs; Custody battles; Lula; Moper kids; Vincent Van Gough; personal pan Taylor Swift; sheep as pets; "Diaper" Bjork; Friedrich the dog; closet clones. That chewing sound you hear during the first half of the show is not a sound effect: it is a real dog chewing (the dog is NOT a clone however).
Notes:

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-cloning-your-dog-so-wrong-180968550/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning
3. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/science/ian-wilmut-dead.html
4. https://people.com/pets/barbra-streisand-history-cloning-animals/#:~:text=of%20cloning%20animals-,The%20news%20of%20Streisand's%20cloned%20dog%20comes%20more%20than%20two,Korea%20at%20Seoul%20National%20University.
5. https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html

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