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Puppy Diaries

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I've been thinking of getting a dog for years but even though I have an eighteen-year-old son, I've never felt mature enough to have a dog. So when my friend Chris told me he and his partner Beth were getting a puppy, I asked if he'd chronicle the event, and for the next seven months, he sent me recordings of what it was like to have a puppy. It was hilarious and weird and harrowing. Here are the Puppy Diaries.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Rumbull Strip, America, Howman.

0:02.0

Okay.

0:03.0

I'm on my list.

0:04.0

The list, the list, the list.

0:06.0

The list, the list. Dog brush.

0:08.0

Oh, yeah. Dog bowls and treats.

0:11.0

Do we need a calendar with dogs on? This is Chris and Beth shopping for puppy

0:16.8

supplies two days before the arrival of their new puppy, Mouse. You've heard Chris and Beth

0:21.6

before on Rumble Strip in a show called Chris and Beth sing.

0:25.2

I ate too much potato. I ate too much potato. Anyway, Chris wrote to tell me they were getting a puppy, and I've been thinking about getting a dog myself for years.

0:37.0

And even though I'm the mother of an 18-year-old human, I've never felt grown up enough to have my own dog.

0:45.0

So when Chris told me that he and Beth were getting a puppy, I asked if he would be willing to record it,

0:50.0

record what it was like, and he did. And for the last seven months, I've been

0:55.0

getting tape from Chris and Beth in Birmingham, England, and every time I see a

0:59.0

new recording in my inbox, it's like Christmas. Because the stories are so good and they're so weird and so harrowing.

1:07.3

So here is the puppy diaries with Chris and Beth. Fair warning, There's a lot of swearing in this show as there

1:14.8

should be. Welcome.

1:16.8

You're in vomit, feces, mud marks, not on summer breeze. I don't like how aggressive this one is.

1:24.4

Saturated area thoroughly.

1:27.4

Chapter 1 the night before the puppy.

1:33.0

Okay go. Okay, go.

1:34.0

Okay, go, talk about the dog.

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