I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin now you have plucked that

podcast out and started listening I took my microphone and found some human folk

then I recorded all the noises while we spoke

My name is Adam Buxton. I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan.

Hey, how you doing, Podcats? It's Adam Buxton here. Sorry to tell you that it's just me today.

My best dog friend Rosie is at home. Happily curled up on the floor while her human mom does important legal work.

Of course I could have pretended Rosie was here with me but I would feel bad deceiving you.

The thing is she just absolutely doesn't want to come out at the moment

because of these bird scarers. It wasn't the gunshot so much as she doesn't like the

gunshots but they are quite infrequent. But what's been happening

for the last few weeks is that they've had these gas-powered noise guns on the fields around here because I suppose there's they've just put down seeds or

something for the new crop I don't know about farming I don't know if you've

noticed so I suppose the idea is to stop the birds from just

munching all the seeds that they've just put down. And it's a drag because the shots are

irregular. I think it's once every half hour or something like that so

you never quite know when it's going to happen. And Rosie as soon as she's out of the

house and we're on the track she's worried and the other

day I said come on Rosie we're gonna get over this fine there's nothing to worry about and

it was late in the day I thought maybe they turned the guns off now because I think they

turn them off in the evenings. I carried her part of the way and then I set her down

but she was still pretty reluctant but I said come on let's go it'll be fine and as soon as we got up to where the gun was it went. And she was really upset and I felt terrible that I'd let her down

and all her worst fears had come true.

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