Hello and welcome to the In The Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers part of the Pitcherless Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by Pitcherless Full Pen expert.

Rick Graham, Rick, how's it going?

I cannot believe every single time I come in here, like, so pumped.

And I'm like, okay, let's talk about relievers.

But, you know, I always want to ask you personal questions.

You got a dog a few weeks ago.

How's that going?

It's exhausting.

Luckily, she's super cute, though Um, but yeah, she's still very much in that, you know, she was supposed to be a little bit trained and over a year old, but she's definitely still a puppy. Um, just a lot of chaotic energy. Yeah, but it's getting better.

It's getting better day by day.

We're working through it.

And she's, yeah, we'll get there.

Did you have a, did you have a dog growing up?

Yeah, I've, I had a dog for most of my life growing up.

Yeah, up until I kind of moved out of my parents house we had we had

dogs so and my wife she's had dog she she she's had a she's had a dog for pretty much of her

too so we're both and we have cats too we're both just animal people in general so we like the

animal we like cats we like dogs we're pet friendly over here nice well i'll have I'll have to come visit. I'm a, my family is a big cat family. I've never had a dog. We have three cats currently. I would love to have a dog someday. But I think I'm going to be in the same situation as you where I'm going to wait until I get married because it's such a, such a huge responsibility. I always yeah yeah I always see you know

couples that aren't super deep in the relationships get a dog and then it's always a nightmare trying

to figure out who keeps it or like what happens when they break up yeah I mean and also it's just

tons of responsibility I have so many friends yeah that have dogs and it's like hey you you want to

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