Greetings to you, my beautiful children of light. It is I, D. Trucelle. This is the

Ducat Russell Family Hour Podcast in today's episode. As one of my favorite

guests, not that I like to create some dark, stupid hierarchy of guests on the

DTFH, but Robert Ryan is incredible. Not only is he a world-famous tattoo

artist, he also is a shy-vite who built his own beautiful temple, and he is one

of the most disciplined spiritual people who I've ever met in my life.

Unfortunately, the very beginning of this episode got cut off, which really sucks

because we're having this fantastic conversation about squirrel motivations.

And because of that, I just want to share with you what we are talking about, even though

it has nothing to do with the rest of the podcast, I assign benevolence to the

animals in my yard. It's probably a mistake. I don't I don't assign it to the

insects. I don't assign it to the mosquitoes, but for some reason the squirrels,

the rabbits, the deer, the hippos, the Portuguese swans, the limping turtles,

they don't really let butchers the name of them. They're very rare. The wood-ringed

peacocks and the orangutans and the beautiful pony that I just gave to my

daughter as well as the stallions that we keep in the barn and the eagles in

the hatchery and the falcons. And I even assign benevolence to my falcon

trainer, Bertrand. But you know, sometimes the assignment of benevolence backfires

on you. And of course, we shouldn't assign human ethics to squirrels. We can't

anymore thanks to the Supreme Court. Let's go Brandon. It's illegal now. You'll

get arrested. But regardless, I just have always thought the squirrel in my yard was

sweet. I don't know why. You look sweet. I guess they're kind of scary if you

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