Encore: How To Get Your Dog to Stop Eating Your Daughters' Underwear With Jenny Slate
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Erin thinks her dog Chief has the most embarrassing habit—he keeps eating her daughters' underwear. This has happened several times, resulting in multiple costly surgeries. If she doesn't put a stop to it, it could eventually kill Chief. How can she get her dog to behave and, more importantly, get her teenage daughters to put their underwear in the hamper? On this episode of How To!, Jenny Slate, comedian, actress, author of Little Weirds and voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, opens up about the time her dog ate something he shouldn't have—and let's just say it's worse than underwear. But Jenny adores dogs and believes they have something important to teach us. You have to accept your loved ones' limitations, Jenny says, and when problems arise, tailor your solution to what suits them best—advice that applies to both dogs and teenagers.
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| 0:54.9 | All right, so I'm making like a little documentary. |
| 0:56.9 | Oh, it's like a movie, but nobody has any lines and nobody even knows what it is while they're making it. |
| 1:01.9 | No. |
| 1:06.9 | Tell me about what's life like. |
| 1:08.9 | It's pretty much common knowledge that it takes at least 20 shells to have a community. |
| 1:12.9 | My cousin fell asleep in a pocket and that's why I don't like the saying everything comes out in the wash |
| 1:18.9 | because sometimes it doesn't or sometimes it does and they're just like completely different person. |
| 1:24.9 | One reason Marcel is now popular enough to get his own movie is that he's voiced |
| 1:28.9 | by the multi-talented comedian and actress Jenny Slate. |
| 1:32.9 | And that gives us a great excuse to replay one of my all-time favorite episodes of How To. |
| 1:37.9 | A couple years ago, a listener wrote in with a, let's just say, unique question. |
| 1:43.9 | A question that only Jenny Slate could answer. |
| 1:47.9 | I'm not going to say more than that, but get ready to learn a lot and laugh a lot. |
| 1:52.9 | I'm going to pass the mic again to our previous host, Charles DuHig, and I'll be back next week with a brand new episode. |
| 1:58.9 | You know, a dog is not like a donkey. |
| 2:02.9 | You know, like, I don't know. |
| 2:03.9 | And I mean, we were just my fiance and I were just talking about this last night because I heard the dog coming up the stairs |
| 2:09.9 | and Ben, my fiance was like, she was just looking her butt. |
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