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Satellite Sisters

Dogs! Hippos! Condors! Foxes! First EVER All Animal Episode feat. Jenna Blum, author of Woodrow On The Bench

Satellite Sisters

Liz Dolan

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

First EVER Satellite Sisters ALL ANIMAL AND PET EPISODE featuring an interview with best-selling author Jenna Blum, whose new book Woodrow On The Bench is about the last days of her black lab. Plus Julie's international animal news round-up, Liz's condor update, and everyone's favorite animal movies! Jenna Blum, author of Woodrow On The Bench Visit our website Satellite Sisters: A Pep Talk For Modern Women SHOP at our Satellite Sisters Shop here. Subscribe to our newsletter Pep Talk here. Julie's International Animal News Round-Up Animal Edition: Squirrel superhighway, Cocaine hippos granted rights, Black swans in North Korea, International Tiger Day in Indiaand Bomb-sniffing Cambodian rat. Home in California: Endangered Condor Species Can Reproduce Asexually. Animal Themed Entertaining Sisters: Julie says follow @cow.of.the.day on @Instagram Favorite Movies: Hachi: A Dog’s Tale The Secret Life of Pets Hotel for Dogs Best In Show Fantastic Mr. Fox Thank you to our sponsors and to our listeners who support them by using these urls: Rothy's: www.rothys.com/sisters Ritual: www.ritual.com ThirdLove www.thirdlove.com/sisters For info on The Sweeney Sisters and Lian's online book clubs for The Sweeney Sisters go to www.liandolan.com For all of our booklists at Bookshop.org, go to www.bookshop.org/shop/liandolan Buy The Sweeney Sisters here on bookshop.org or here on amazon. Join our community: Facebook Page, Facebook Group and on Instagram and Twitter @satsisters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The presenting sponsor of the Satellite Sisters Big Fund weekend is MEA, the world's first

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Midlife Wisdom School. MEA has workshops on subjects like managing transitions and reframing

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retirement at campuses in Baja and Santa Fe or online to find out more go to MEAwisdom.com.

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That's MEAwisdom.com. MEAwisdom.com. Navigate what's next.

0:30.3

You're listening to Satellite Sisters. What's a Satellite Sister?

0:33.7

The person you call when the best thing in your life happens or the worst.

0:37.2

The person that gets you up gets you going and gets you through. And every once in a while

0:41.8

changes your mind. This podcast is part pep talk, part weekly check-in.

0:46.1

Like grab and coffee with a friend. Thanks for being here. Welcome to the Satellite Sisterhood.

0:51.0

You're listening to Satellite Sisters. Thanks for joining us today. I'm Leanne Dolan here in

1:01.0

Pasadena, California. I'm a writer and producer. Liz and Julie, this is our first ever pet

1:06.8

an animal appreciation show. So I want to know what was the pet you wanted as a kid but didn't get.

1:12.3

Liz? Well, Leanne, you may recall the time we dropped a skunk in a garbage can and our plan was

1:20.5

to de-skunk the skunk and keep the skunk as a pet. I think mom and dad must have been what that

1:25.5

must have been. For some reason, I feel like we were highly unsupervised. Anyway, the skunk got

1:31.4

loose and the skunk never happened. So yes, surprisingly, it was the skunk. Julie, do you remember that?

1:37.8

Were you? I just, it all came back to me. Then we had an old bathrobe that we put them in and

1:43.2

we were, you know, then we put the garbage can on top of it. Oh, yeah, it was quite a trapping.

1:47.7

Yes, or skunk. Yes. Okay, I'm going to say what I always say. I don't think I was born yet.

1:56.0

I just wanted a guinea pig. I wanted a guinea pig. Oh, it's like that. Okay, I wanted to

2:01.5

Palomino Pony. Okay. We've gone golden here. Yes, I wanted it. I kept asking for it. I did not get it.

2:08.4

I think that was a good decision by mom and dad. What made you want that? Was it a book or something?

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