This is The Talking Dead, a podcast dedicated to the AMC TV show The Walking Dead.

Hello there, my name is Chris, and my name is Jason, and this is The Talking Dead

number 578 recorded Monday, March 28th, 2022. Welcome to the show one and all. Jason,

welcome to the show. How was your weekend? That's a bad am I one or am I all? I'm

going to say you're one? Neither. I'm that other guy. You're the guy. You're the guy that

shows up every week, watches some TV, and then hangs out with me to talk about it. Sweet.

It sounds so accurate and nice. My weekend was not so bad. How about you? I, you know, my

weekend was okay, felt busy, had a lot going on. I think the most triumph and thing I did

this weekend is I taught my dog how to walk downstairs. Oh, well, that's handy. Yeah,

I didn't know before this weekend. He could go upstairs. No problem. Well, I shouldn't

say he didn't know. I have seen him go downstairs before, but it reminded me of, do you

remember in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the instructions for learning how to fly

or something like it's the ability to throw yourself at the ground and miss? That's

right. Well, I think going downstairs was a bit like that for him because I saw him

do it, but he only did it when he didn't think about it. As soon as he stood at the top

of the stairs and he said, Oh, my God, I got to go down these stairs. He wouldn't do it.

Yep. So I spent a lot of time on the weekend with treats and I taught him how to go down

the stairs. And now he's an expert stair descender. He's an expert stair going down

there. Exactly. Exactly. But I will tell you, it's a double-edged sword because on one

hand, he can go down the stairs, which is great. And on the other hand, he can go down

the stairs, which means he can go anywhere he wants. Yeah. No, there's no teaching anybody,

anything is a double-edged sword. Right. Because they have more knowledge and they also

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