S8 Ep1121: Jeremy Zakis describes being five minutes late for breakfast, leading his dog, Dallas, and local magpies to protest through a glass door. The animals vigilantly monitored the food preparation to ensure they were fed ham and cheese. Both Dallas and the bir
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🗓️ 12 July 2026
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Jeremy Zakis describes being five minutes late for breakfast, leading his dog, Dallas, and local magpies to protest through a glass door. The animals vigilantly monitored the food preparation to ensure they were fed ham and cheese. Both Dallas and the birds finished their meal within twenty seconds. (12)
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| 0:30.2 | I'm John Baxter. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:33.3 | Jeremy Zakis is in New South Wales and the 11-year-old Spoodle, Dallas, has friends, |
| 0:39.4 | lots of friends. |
| 0:41.1 | The original families that networked with Dallas and his breakfast and Jeremy being on time |
| 0:48.1 | were the magpies. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, they're back and they have opinions. |
| 0:51.0 | What's happened, Jeremy? |
| 0:52.8 | Well, John, what's happened is I've been a little bit tardy in my feeding times for the |
| 0:57.4 | make pies end for Dallas. This week, I was around about five minutes late for their normal |
| 1:01.7 | ham breakfast. And I thought nothing of it. I knew Dallas had already gone down there, |
| 1:06.1 | basically, to the kitchen area and was probably waiting for me. But what I found when I came down, I didn't expect, I come into the kitchen area and was probably waiting for me. But what I found when I came down there, |
| 1:12.6 | I didn't expect. I come into the kitchen area and sure enough, Dallas is there waiting, |
| 1:17.1 | but also the magpies had basically set themselves up on the patio out of the back near the glass |
| 1:22.6 | door and looked like they were actually talking to Dallas through the glass door and complaining |
| 1:26.7 | about my five minutes late. And as soon as they spotted me in the kitchen, sure enough, they all ran over. I could tell the disapproving look in their eye that they knew I was five minutes late and I hadn't fed them yet. And even Dallas too showed his dismay. He looked at me, wagged his tail a little bit, then looked back at the magpies to let me know that, hey, everybody's hungry |
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