Fire hydrants

Known for Dog P

Famous for public safety as well.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why fire hydrants are

secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, hey, hey, folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alec Schmidt, and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of fire hydrants?

Well, you know, I got that cartoon dog brain. so whenever I see one, I either fall in love or go potty on it.

I've never really interacted much with fire hydrants. I've never used a fire hydrant. I was at an airport once with my dog flying her all the way to Italy

so she can live with us, which she did not enjoy the whole time she was doing her best Seinfeld

impression. I'm like, what's the deal with airlines? Also, I'm very scared and a dog and you

can't explain to me what's happening.

But, yeah, the airport had, like, a dog toilet.

It had a fire hydrant in the dog toilet.

And I was trying to tell my dog, like, this is your dog toilet.

Remember from cartoons?

And she had no idea what to do about it.

I was like, no, no, see, like, it's a fire hydrant from cartoons. You're a dog.

It's a dog toilet. And she had no concept of it being a toilet and refused to go to the bathroom until we reached Italy. Oh. I really tried to research why dogs want to pee on fire hydrants because I haven't even

known a dog. I just know that's one of the things they allegedly do. And it seems like they

do do that. And the best I could find is that maybe they are sort of shaped like tree trunks.

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