SPECIAL EPISODE: Podcasthon featuring EarthMother Rescue & Outreach

The Last Clue is celebrating the 4th Annual Podcasthon by spotlighting EarthMother Rescue & Outreach!

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SPEAKER_01 0:30

The last clue is a production of Smith Media Team LLC. Listener discretion is not advised because this is a very special episode for Podcast Thon about one of our favorite nonprofits.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

So welcome to our first ever podcast thawn. This is the fourth edition of this online event. We were very honored to be a part of this. Last year, this particular event brought together about 1,500 podcasters from over 40 countries. Woo! Very excited to be a part of this. Very excited.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

This one's a little looser, not scripted, anything like we're gonna have fun with this one, especially since I'm suffering from some sort of URI or if you're looking for the true crime episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

This is not gonna be it. This is gonna be a little bit more involved in a nonprofit that's close to our heart.

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Community involvement, community engagement.

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But first.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

But first.

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Have you ever lived in a small town?

SPEAKER_01 1:38

I I have.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

What's the what size what's the smallest size town you ever lived in?

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Oh um, I would say are you talking like population-wise?

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Population.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Ooh, probably about I'll go 3,000.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Okay. That's about the size of the town that I grew up in. It was about 30. It fluctuated due to the oil market, but it was about 3,500 to 5,000, depending on where the oil market sat. The smallest town I've ever lived in was about 500. That was my first job out of college. Very, very small town in the eastern plains of Colorado.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

I think that was my entire high school was 500.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

That's probably close to accurate.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Back in the olden days. The 1900s.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Well, you gotta be careful with the 1900s. So you do. I found something that I thought might interest some of our small town listeners. A online blogger came up with something that his small town did that he witnessed, and then he later went on to the big city, and then he thought about some of the things that happened in his small town. Okay. And he was kind of going back on it, and then he started asking for comments. This is where this story takes shape. You have not seen any of these. I have not. You have not looked at this.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

I have not. I am actually tending to the pets, which is part of the reason for our episode today.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

And we'll be to that in a moment. I just I'm gonna try to have a little humor before we start tending to Sassy and Bandit, who are being very good boys and girls while we record.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Allegedly.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

So this is a Redditor, official underscore biz. Ask people to share their own small town stories, asking, what's the most small town thing you've ever witnessed? I have one. I would love to hear this.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Right now? Yes. Went to this is when I lived in small a small town in Texas outside of San Antonio. Okay. So went to Dollar General, which was fairly new to us at the time, to pick something up after work. And there was a horse tied to the light post.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Oh. Well, I mean it's Texas. That that seems to fit. I think the most small town thing that I ever saw, not that you asked. I wish I I did. When I was in school, the powers that be in our town decided that we needed on Main Street a Statue of Liberty.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

A Statue of Liberty on Main Street and a small state. In small town, Oklahoma.

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This was this was not as big as the leg lamp in Chickashay, but in small town Oklahoma, our our founding fathers decided that we needed a Statue of Liberty.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

So since it was a small town, was it just a stat of libs? Stat since there probably wasn't a big enough space for the whole Oh, the things that happened to that Statue of Liberty. Please, that that is that going to be an episode of The Last Clue.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

It it potentially could have been had we had recording devices back then. Be that as it may. This Redditor is asking what the small town, the most small town thing that you've ever witnessed. I've looked through this, you have not. I have not. I've been sick, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

I'm sick.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Number one. We have a village Facebook page. Every time the ice cream man drives into the village, the entire page goes ballistic. People send live updates of where the van is and which direction it is heading. The ice cream man has started accepting DMs so he knows which streets to go down.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Oh my.

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I heard what you did for a Klondike bar. That's very true. Number two. My hometown got a McDonald's in 1976. The town had a parade for it.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Come on. It was the bicentennial. You got a McDonald's. We're celebrating everything. Give me something more.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Listeners, by the way, I want to jump in here real quick. We want to hear the most small town thing that you've ever experienced. Because we know we have a lot of listeners from a lot of small towns. We appreciate small town and big town listeners everywhere. Thank you. We want to hear your small town experience. What's the most small town thing you've ever seen? And bonus points if you want to tell us what town. Number three. The town I'm from has a single stoplight, and it's only operational on Thursdays. Why? The driving exams are held on Thursdays, and they are legally required to include at least one stoplight on the exam route. Okay. So that stoplight was literally installed so people can take their driving exams in our town.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Wow. Okay. That's okay. I've got nothing.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

This one you've probably heard a variation of before. I just made me laugh because I actually feel like I've heard this a couple of times in different different variations. I worked with a guy who was in his 70s and a relative of the business owner. I asked the owner if my co-worker was a local, and he said, no. His parents moved here when he was two. They take born and raised very seriously.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Wow. Shot's fired.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Number four. I grew up in a small Missouri river town. Not Ozark, I don't think. There was a combination hair salon live bait shop called Perms and Worms.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

Sorry, that was a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Don't go to the line.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

I'm trying not to. Wow. Perms and worms. You dual Wow.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

I and let's wrap it up with this one.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Well, I mean, at least it wasn't, you know, a careful, careful.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

I I I I feel I feel like I've got to be able to do that.

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Makeup too, made it bait and spackle.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Oh Brody to the max. Let's finish up with this one.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Okay. I tried, guys.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

You did well.

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I'm sick.

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When a local bank was robbed, one of the tellers told the police to bring her a yearbook from about 10 years earlier, and that she would be able to point out the robber out. He had been in the grade before hers in school.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Oh my gracious. Okay, that's hilarious. And it just brought me back to another memory.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Oh Lord. A bank robbery and a yearbook brought you back to another memory?

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Bank robbery, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Okay, I'm listening.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

So when I lived in Arizona, this was back when, just back when, I lived in Arizona. I worked in hotels, front desk, night audit. And the same guy would come in every weekend. And back in the day when you had to pay a cash deposit for a route. Same guy would come in every weekend. He'd bring a girlfriend or he would bring his kids. Nice, nice guy. Same room every weekend, same people. Nothing nefarious. Never had any problems, nothing. Super nice guy. Sometimes he'd even tip. Well, you know why?

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Why?

SPEAKER_01 10:21

He was the local bank robber. Oh. So this is why he had no issue paying cash for the room and paying the deposit every single weekend. But he should have tipped every time.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

I guess it depends on which bank he knocked over.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Yeah, and I don't I'm I would have to I remember the man's name like that. I don't know if we want to go into that right now, but we got a very special episode. That's another time and place, guys.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

We've got to we've got to check and make sure he's uh beneficially charged. This was yeah, let's just let's leave it off. Was that was this bank happened to be in central Oklahoma? Because I know nobody special finance sure found some stuff going on down there. But be that as it may.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

So who so what do we what who we got? I'm excited. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

So the last clue podcast, we have a what I would call a special relationship with this nonprofit. We started out not necessarily working with them, more communicating with them because we had a we had a we had a husky that lived up the street from us that liked to get out of his fenced area. And he realized very quickly that he wanted to come to our house. Now he had he done that prior to us moving into the house, I don't we don't know, we hadn't been here that long. But he had an affinity for coming to our house first, and we would usually catch him, we would put him in the backyard. We started off calling animal control because that's typically who you call and then animal welfare, yeah. And then and then we were alerted to this nonprofit, and so we gradually started calling them instead.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

I know how we came to know this nonprofit. Are we gonna name them? Or are you trying to roll it out as a surprise? No, you can name them. It's gonna it's in the podcast episode title anyway. So we came to know Earth Mother Outreach and Rescue because one of the ladies that came out when said Husky arrived on our doorstep for Thanksgiving dinner and decided to stay the week, came over to scan him for his microchip. A lady named Deb, sweet as could be, and came over on Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Thanksgiving Day.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Thanksgiving Day to scan this husky to tell us where his home was. Well, we've talked about we were his vacation home. We cannot say this husky's name because it sets off our own rescue.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Yes, our our good boy bandit who is right underneath our feet right now. He enjoyed playing with this husky.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Uh his name is that of a movie star from Point Break and Speed. Last name of Reeves. And John Wick. Never seen it.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Never seen it. So K over time, we we grew to really love this dog. We we truly did. And it it came to a it came to a breaking point. Not gonna go into details, but it came to a point where we offered to take the dog that was not well received, not by any of the parties that we're talking about, by the dog's owner. And the dog's owner has since moved and the dog is still here. They rehomed they rehomed, they rehomed him, and he is doing much better. We have we see him on walks still. We he doesn't show up on our doorstep.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

He does not, he doesn't show up.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Wondering if I'm out back grilling.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

He does not use his vacation home like he did.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

No, he does not. So that being said, we we had talked about a husky and talked about a husky. Well, we had built a relationship with uh Earth Mother Rescue and Outreach, and we were contacted one night with the story of a husky who needed to be rehomed. And we already have two dogs and a cat. All rescues. Yeah, all rescues. We have we have McGregor, who we call the old man puppy. He's got he he's got 20 nicknames, so uh it would take another it would take a series of podcasts to go through all the things that we call him, all which are nice.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Yeah, well, mostly we call him Mac.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Yeah, Mac. But he's he's our old man puppy, and then we have Bandit, who is our black and white terrier. No, he just looked up. He's looking up now.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Yeah. Do something good, daddy.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

That tail is going.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

Oh, there's oh the Snoot, dish snoot rubs.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Quick quick thing about Bandit. I wanted to call him Spot originally, and I was outvoted. Um, so we have we have Bandit, named after the Tampa Bay Bandits of the United States Football League.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Uh if you go to our Facebook page, I'm actually gonna see if I can put a little video up of us recording now so y'all can see the bandit. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

And then we have we have a little girl, Kitty Cat. And her name is Sassy. She is for a while she went through her terrible twos. So for a while she earned the nickname Sasshole. I still at the vet have her listed as sassole because I think it's funny when I go to the vet, it is funny, and they have to call her. They've got to call her by a name. And so usually once a year, they have to, the vets have to walk out and they have to say, Sasshole, Sasshole. So I just think that's fun. It's funny for me. It is funny. I actually I I would never I haven't done this with any of our other pets, but I actually submitted a photo because they have in-screen advertising where they show some of the pets that go to that veterinary clinic. And I have since submitted a photo of her because I want that photo to come up and it just says sassole. And it says sasshole across the top. So anyway. But back to the husky dilemma. We were contacted, a husky needed to be rehomed. Earth Mother contacted us and told us that they had one and they knew that we were very passionate about the one that had visited us for long periods of time. So we had a long discussion about having another animal in the house, and now we are the proud owners of Wimby, who is named after San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wimbanyama.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Wimby!

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Because this dog can jump, he can move, the dog does everything. The only thing I haven't seen Victor Wimbanyama do is swim. This dog swims. He does. He swims in our pool.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

He's got some hops too. Yeah, Earth Mother is very close to our hearts. You guys have heard us talk about them before on our podcast, and we've gotten very close to, you know, Deb and Amanda to the point where we've texted them and said such and such dog is out again, and they'll respond and say, Coming to find the owner. Or, you know, they're looking for help. There's a stray dog in the neighborhood looking for fosters. They're always looking for fosters. Guys, if you have a rescue and outreach in your area for pets, please volunteer. Whether it's going to the facility and helping them out, whether it is fostering an animal, please reach out to these 501c3 rescues and assist.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

And and we want to again thank Podcaston for allowing us the opportunity and the space to talk about Earth Mother Rescue and Outreach because it again, it's something that's close to us. That's one of the things about Podcaston, is they they tell you to pick a charity that a nonprofit that is close to your heart. This was a no-brainer. It was absolutely a no-brainer. We we took no time at all in deciding that we were going to choose Earth Mother Rescue and Outreach. But for a little bit more official, Earth Mother Rescue and Outreach is an animal rescue and recovery with a focus on pet and owner advocacy and education to create a long-term positive change in the community. And they are a 501c3 rescue. They are located here in Norman, Oklahoma. But I know that they travel.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

They do, they definitely do. And they do this on their own dime and their own time. I didn't even mean to make that rhyme. Look, I just did it again. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Okay, Master B, let's calm down. That was so unintentional. Next up, the hip hop awards.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

Yeah. Well, and these ladies and their volunteers, they go out day and night and pick up these strays and try to find homes and fosters. They they even go to other animal rescues and save animals from the euthanasia lists. They and they get them vetted, they get them spayed, neutered, shots. And again, they're it's all on their own dime.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

And and one of the things they say that that just resonates with me, and it's on their website as well, you can find it there. That will be included in our podcast description. But it's uh earthmother outreac.wicks site dot com. But it will also be in our podcast description. You should be able to find it very easily. And they one of the things that resonates with me, I'm sorry, you know, they say in an ideal world, every human being would be compassionate enough to lend a helping hand from volunteering time and making a donation to fostering and advocating online. There are so many ways to get involved, and it's true. I mean, if you can if you can afford to go to Starbucks every day, take one day off and make your coffee at home and and donate five dollars, donate seven dollars to Earth Mother. Please, please don't. I mean, for us, there there's a feed store in town that's near Main Street. We do live in a in a larger city, but there's a feed store in town, and they have these large bags of dog food that we buy for$16.95 because we have two large dogs in the house now, but they're$16.95, and we buy these large bags of dog food. We usually buy them two at a time. Think about that for a second. If we had 20 of our listeners that donated$10 for the month, they they would have they would have the ability to go buy dog food if they needed it. They would be able to go buy blankets. I know one of the things that they asked about recently was they wanted to see if anybody had any GoPro type cameras. Trail cams.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

Trail cams. For the for the animals that are being dumped. They were looking for some specific areas that they're familiar with where animals get dumped. So they're looking for trail cams to put them up in these areas so they can spot these animals, they can get these scared animals into a safe place and make sure that they're taken care of and then foster them out. They're also looking for the canopy. Yes. The canopies for doing pop up events for adoptions. So Earth Mother. Earth Mother. rescue and outreach. Outreach outreach and rescue you can find them either way.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

And you can and and you can help in other ways too. If you can't donate, if if you can't you can you can be a foster. If you're looking for an animal, don't buy an animal. Don't buy an animal. Go foster an animal. What's the saying? Adopt. Don't shop. Exactly. You won't you will never understand and I'm kind of holding back here. You you will never understand the the love of an animal that you rescue. You just you you won't you won't until you do it. And I wanna I want to tell a story and I know you and I have talked about this before. So we've mentioned this several times. Bandit is right between us right now and and he's hearing his name so he's he's standing but he's being a such a good boy.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

He is he he usually lays down when we say on air.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

On air on air and there he goes oh I sorry I talked but bandit I also taught Bandit to be very protective and when you moved up here bandit bandit was very standoffish. He was he he didn't he didn't really want to go near you he didn't understand a new person in the house. There was a lot of things going through his head but his his main job was to protect and he did.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

He absolutely did and now over time Well I'm gonna I'm gonna let you tell the rest of this because there are some things now that we say that he reacts to such as when you get off work but no he he was very very protective of you he followed you everywhere he slept on the bed with you and I'll even say one night I went to come to bed and bandit went off because you were sound asleep and there was somebody else coming into the room he protected you. He absolutely protected you and I think I have the scar to prove it but now bandit protects mama. He does he know and he knows those two words he does protect mama. Yep and he knows the code word too yes we do have a code word so it's we don't say but we don't say no we don't say and unless it's absolutely necessary and I pray it's never necessary but but yeah we we have some little things that we do so when I get off of work I get off of work first because I work remotely and I need I need space even though I'm I'm working from home so I'm always home there's still got to be that downtime going between work you know transitioning between the work space and the head and the home head space and decompressing. So as I'm walking from the office to my decompression spot I say nap time with mama and he will get up from wherever he is at and he will run and lay on the couch where he knows I'm going to go sit.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

We even sing a little song and he he might get a little wound up here nap time with mama oh he's nudging me so we sing nap time with mama and at night we also have we also have our own little rituals sometime usually after eight o'clock at night it's not nap time. Oh he's trying to get in my lap he is now part of the show he is now part of the show so at night usually sometime after eight o'clock we pop a couple of bags of popcorn and he knows this and he now he now will do popcorn kisses where you will put a piece of popcorn in your mouth and he will very gently take it out and he will also catch between my lips so I'm I'm not like bird feeding him or anything but yeah he will he will also catch pieces of popcorn and and then when we get done with popcorn but both he and Wimby both get one last piece of popcorn they get that when we're done they get one last piece of popcorn then we take the popcorn ball into the kitchen leave it. Sorry I was getting mauled a little bit at that point in his mind he's on a schedule thank you baby it's time for B E D. Yeah we can't say that either no because he'll he'll get up on the couch he'll lay at our feet whatever but he's he's telling us it's time it's time and all we have to do is say G-O B E D and he's gone.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

When we get up the hall to the bedroom he's there these are things that happen when you adopt animals this is why you need to go to places and speak with places and work with places like Earth Mother so sweet. We won't yes they even have a potty song that Wemby also knows now even after only being here for a month and a half with us after we got him from Earth Mother.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

And speaking of that I I would like to give a quick shout out to Ina Roose Barkery. Oh Ina Roos Barkery in Omaha Nebraska they sent us some nose balm for the puppies boot balm. Boot balm boop balm and we have used it and they do enjoy it and I bandit might enjoy it a little bit too much.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

He kind of he gets it and then he gets a little not sassy but he Well I tried to show it to Wemby I don't know if you were home I tried to show it the little canister to him and he tried to eat the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

There is a photo of of Wembanyama Wemby with the boot balm in front of him.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

It's on our Facebook page the last clue and I did have to use a little bit today on their paw pads because it did get warm outside today.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

We went temperature wise we went from near freezing temperatures at the start of the week to almost a hundred degrees today in the span of five days so we've we've gone through it. That's why we're we're both struggling with voices allergies etc because we have it it's the old saying if you don't like the weather in Oklahoma just wait five minutes and it'll change it literally went through all four seasons this week. So but thank you to Ina Roos Barkery we truly appreciate that every every gesture every little gesture big small doesn't matter we do appreciate it we we want to thank you very much for uh sending us that absolutely and you can follow both earthmother outreach andaroos barkery on Facebook do we know how to make donations to earthmother have we talked about that we have not talked about that yet but we do know how to make donations the easiest way is there's a link on their website to PayPal that's that's the easiest way it's especially if you're signed in on your PayPal it's boop boop boop and you're done. That's that is honestly the easiest way to make donations to earthmother we do have a couple other options if you would like to do Venmo you can do at Earth Mother Rescue Cash App is$EarthMother Rescue and Zell is contact at sign earthmotherescue dot org all three all three of those are great ways to donate and the PayPal as well so if you can if you can find it in your heart if you can find it in your wallet if you can donate to them it would make a huge difference to them. Even five dollars just the price of a cup of coffee these days you you don't know how far reaching those donations can be and it it's just like a snowball heading down a mountain you don't realize what a small snowball that you can hold in your hand as you let it go down the mountain and it starts to grow and it starts to catch more energy and bring in more snow one person donates$5 and then five people start donating five dollars and then somebody says you know what I'm gonna donate$50. I had a great sales year or my taxes came back and they were fantastic and the the donations just continue to snowball and it can really it it really does affect an organization like Earth Mother Rescue and Outreach.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Yes and this is a very small one that was just formed in 2021 so if you're listening and somebody else is listening with you then if you're donating five dollars maybe they want to donate five dollars and on top of that we also want to tell you that you know it'd be great if you were to head on over to podcastthon.org and check out all of the other podcasts that are participating in podcaston 2026.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

And there are so many podcasts that are participating like we said last year's event brought in over 1500 podcasters from over 40 countries. So we're honored to be a part of this we want to thank podcaston for you know allowing us to share our voice about Earth Mother Rescue and outreach and also Ina Ru's Barkery sharing our voice about Podcaston. It it truly is an honor when you're recognized and they they ask you to be a part of something this big and I can only tell you that this since this is the fourth edition of Podcaston we will be back for the fifth edition next year and we're we're super excited about this. We are super excited. And we're very we're we're passionate about Earth Mother we're passionate about podcasting so this was a match made in heaven for us.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

It absolutely was and I believe Wemby is out of the pool so I am going to need to go dry him off and I do think Bandit is telling you it's popcorn time.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

If you have donations of towels please ask Earth Mother first and then if you have any spare towels after Earth Mother we might need them because again this is a hundred pound husky puppy that's eight months old that likes to get in the pool we have to dry them off often so it's my new it's my new cardio.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Man any any towels will we will gladly take the last clue is a production of Smith Media Team LLC if you have any information please contact us at info at smithmed LLC