Mark Long, Mary & the Pen Y Fan SAS Challenge
Oh My Dog! with Jack Dee and Seann Walsh
Pink Cloud / Off The Kerb
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on Oh My Dog!, Jack , Seann and Sara welcome inspirational guest Mark Long, who shares his incredible story of losing his sight, being paired with his guide dog Mary, and taking on the brutal Penny Fan challenge to raise money for Guide Dogs. Donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/pounds-for-puppy-penny
Plus: Dolly’s motion-sensor night lights, Mildred’s latest escape mission, the Cinnamon Trust Comedy Gold selfie winner… and a powerful update on the campaign to end animal testing. The Parliamentary debate took place and we hear from Camp Beagle's John Curtin with his thoughts.
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00:00 Welcome to the show
00:45 Sean’s cold shower confession
02:12 Mildred makes an appearance
02:17 Sara's new nighttime solution gift for Dolly and Jack
07:37 Mildred escapes… again
09:17 Sean’s neighbours, a locked baby & hiding from the fire brigade
11:35 Jack hides from the smoke alarm engineer
12:32 Live show guest announcement at Goodwoof
15:00 Cinnamon Trust Comedy Gold finalists
19:57 And the winner is… Debbie & Yumi 🐷
20:33 Animal testing campaign update & Camp Beagle's John
26:52 Guest interview: Mark Long joins the pod
27:47 Mark’s diagnosis: living with retinitis pigmentosa
30:58 Taking on the Pen Y Fan / Fan Dance challenge
33:19 Why guide dogs cost over £100k to train
35:21 Meeting Mary, his first guide dog
40:23 What surprised Mark most about guide dog life
41:46 Mary’s cheekiest habits off-duty
43:23 From personal trainer to life coach
43:58 The toughest moment on Pen Y Fan
45:28 The kiss-on-the-mouth question
46:50 Guide dog etiquette - what NOT to do
47:55 Jack, Sean & Sara react to Mark’s story
49:00 Outro & Off The Lead on Patreon reminder
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh My Dog with Jack D and Sean Walsh. |
| 0:04.8 | Coming up on today's show, we speak to Mark Long, who started losing his sight at the age of 12, |
| 0:09.7 | and has just completed the grueling penny fan challenge. |
| 0:13.1 | And we pick our selfies for cinnamon comedy gold winner. |
| 0:16.8 | Hi, Sean. |
| 0:18.2 | Hi, Jack. |
| 0:19.1 | There was a bit of a sigh there just before I said, hi, Sean. |
| 0:24.2 | That's a good way to start. |
| 0:26.4 | Here we go again. |
| 0:30.4 | Have you been extremely busy then? Is that what it is? |
| 0:34.3 | I actually have been quite busy. Yes. Thank you for asking. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.7 | You? |
| 0:40.8 | I've been busy as well, yeah. |
| 0:42.1 | So that's... |
| 0:43.7 | Everyone's being so secretive. |
| 0:47.1 | I know. |
| 0:48.0 | I know. |
| 0:49.4 | It would have been robbing banks or something. |
| 0:52.9 | I actually... Do you know what? I'm not, I'm a bit, I'm a bit disheveled today. I know I'm normally kind of polished. Yeah, you know, Crawford. Yeah, I'm good to go. But no, I didn't have the cold shower. I've got to the point, you know, when there are, you know, people that exercise a lot, so don't exercise, they then complain about, you know, they're not |
| 1:15.7 | exercise, so now they feel terrible. Yeah. I have the thing, I have that now with, if I don't |
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