Oh Behave!

My cartoons appear on greeting cards, in magazines, and various other outlets. My work has been featured by Bored Panda, DeMilked, Country Living Magazine, Woman's World Magazine, and shared online by millions of people, including Star Trek's George Takei, singer-songwriter Janis Ian, and Animal Planet's Jackson Galaxy.

My first book of cat cartoons, Being Awesome Is Exhausting, was listed in Country Living Magazine's list of Best Pet Gifts for the Holidays for 2016. My second book of cat cartoons, 50 Ways to Wake Your Human, was released on November 2, 2020. My first book of dog cartoons, Squirrel! Bacon! Ball! And Other Distractions, was released on November 18, 2022.

I live in Northern California with my wife, daughter, son, two cats, and a dog.

Transcript:

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Announcer: Pet Life Radio, this is Pet Life Radio.

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Announcer: Let's talk pets.

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Announcer: It's Oh Behave with Arden Moore.

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Announcer: This show that teaches you how to have Harmony in the household with your pets.

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Announcer: Join Arden as she travels coast to coast to help millions better understand why cats and dogs do what they do.

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Announcer: Get the latest scoop on famous faces.

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Announcer: They're perfectly pampered pets in Who's Walking Who and Rent in Tinseltown.

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Announcer: From famous pet experts and best selling authors to television and movie stars, you'll get the latest buzz from Wagging Tongues and Tales, Garner Great Pet Tips and have a Dog on Fur Flying Fun Time.

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Announcer: So get ready for the pause and applause as we unleash your Oh Behave Host, America's Pet Edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome to the Oh Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Hey, our special guest today is able to think like a dog, and he's definitely got catitude.

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Arden Moore: Thank goodness, though, he has thumbs.

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Arden Moore: So he can hold his drawing tools to create cartoons that are going to make you think and laugh.

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Arden Moore: Yes, his cartoons are possum, but we got to pay for this show by taking a quick break.

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Arden Moore: We'll be right back.

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Announcer: Time for a pause.

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Announcer: For furry ones, actually, sit and stay.

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Announcer: Oh Behave will be right back.

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Announcer: We're partnering with pioneer cat behavior expert and best selling author, Pam Johnson-Bennett, to help indoor cats live their best lives with indoor enrichment tips for their parents.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >Anyone who knows me knows I am a very strong proponent for cats being indoors.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >But when we bring cats indoors where I feel it's safest, we have an obligation to make sure they have a fulfilling life, that they get enrichment.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >And part of that enrichment is encouraging health.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >And a big part of that health is cat grass.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >Cat grass helps with the prevention of hair balls.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >It can help keep your cat away from house plants.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >It's also fun for your cat.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >It's a natural behavior that your cat wants to chew.

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Pam Johnson-Bennett: >And you know that you're providing it in a safe way.

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Announcer: Let's Talk Pets on petliferadio.com.

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Announcer: Oh Behave is back with more tail wagging ways to achieve Harmony in the household with your pets.

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Announcer: Now back to your fetching host, America's Pet Edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the Oh Behave Show on PetLife Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Please give pause and applause to the very talented Scott Metzger.

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Arden Moore: Welcome, welcome to our show, Scott.

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Scott Metzger: Well, thank you so much for that nice introduction.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, it's happening to be here.

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Arden Moore: All of us agree that life with our cats, dogs and other critters are anything but boring.

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Arden Moore: And folks, for nearly 30 years, Scott has been depicting our interactions with our pets in a comical and very candid way.

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Arden Moore: And I have to fess up.

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Arden Moore: I'm not trying to be a fan, fan.

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Arden Moore: But I got to say, there are times that I open my phone and out pops a Scott Metzger cartoon, and it just makes me smile for the rest of the day.

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Arden Moore: You've got feline funnies, canine comedy.

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Arden Moore: You got it all.

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Arden Moore: And I know people are very curious too.

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Arden Moore: How did you even become a cartoonist?

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Arden Moore: Because you went to UC Davis, right?

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Arden Moore: University of California.

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Arden Moore: That's a brilliant, brilliant school.

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Arden Moore: And were you trying to be a brain surgeon?

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Arden Moore: MIT geek?

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Arden Moore: What were you hoping to do?

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Arden Moore: And what happened when you got that diploma in your hand?

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Scott Metzger: Not trying to be a brain surgeon.

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Scott Metzger: Not trying to be a veterinarian, which is another thing they're known for.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, that's true.

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Arden Moore: That's true.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: I went to UC Davis.

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Scott Metzger: I took, I started off as an art major actually there.

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Scott Metzger: And then I took a bunch of art classes.

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Scott Metzger: And so I ended up transitioning to doing communications.

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Scott Metzger: And I had-

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Arden Moore: Is that what your major is in?

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Scott Metzger: Yes.

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Scott Metzger: And I basically have, I'm like, essentially have an art minor.

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Scott Metzger: I just, I'm a few units short.

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Scott Metzger: I was a few units short of that.

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Scott Metzger: But like, but yeah, the art classes weren't really doing it for me.

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Scott Metzger: I learned a lot.

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Arden Moore: You're no Picasso.

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Arden Moore: I mean, Renoir.

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Arden Moore: You weren't-

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Arden Moore: Were you a doodler?

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Arden Moore: Are you a doodler?

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Arden Moore: I mean, when you are taking notes in class, are you making little drawings?

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Scott Metzger: You know, sometimes, yeah, I was always drawing and I was never like-

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Scott Metzger: Usually when I was growing up in school, I was paying attention.

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Scott Metzger: I would sometimes doodle a little bit.

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Scott Metzger: But yeah, I was always drawing as a kid and I always loved that.

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Scott Metzger: But I actually didn't start drawing, really focusing on cartooning until after I graduated from college.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: I mean, I was drawing, definitely drawing cartoons and doing things and doing all various art related things throughout high school and took our classes in high school and then through college.

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Scott Metzger: But I wasn't really focusing on a comic ship.

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Scott Metzger: Some people get their comics published in college newspapers.

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Scott Metzger: I didn't do that.

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Scott Metzger: When I was in college, the Internet was just starting and so it was ending up it.

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Scott Metzger: That makes me feel real old.

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Arden Moore: Oh, don't worry.

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Arden Moore: I got to tap.

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Scott Metzger: But yeah.

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Scott Metzger: After I graduated, I had this goal of becoming a syndicated cartoonist.

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Scott Metzger: That was my goal.

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Scott Metzger: I want to be, do what Jim Davis and Charles Shultz.

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Scott Metzger: Those are my heroes and Berkeley Brethead and all these other people like I want to do that.

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Scott Metzger: I spent a good probably 15 years after college off and on submitting packages to syndicates.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, so it didn't pan out.

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Scott Metzger: Long story short, I got kind of close with one strip.

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Scott Metzger: Editors liked it, but it was a little too weird for syndication.

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Arden Moore: I love that you're following your passion, but you've got to pay the utility bills.

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Arden Moore: How were you doing that after you had your diploma in hand?

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, I worked various jobs.

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Scott Metzger: I worked at a direct mail agency.

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Scott Metzger: I was doing a little bit of copywriting, some art production for a direct mail agency.

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Scott Metzger: I worked there for a few years, then I transitioned to another non-profit.

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Scott Metzger: The direct mail agency was a for-profit, but I moved to the non-profit world and made money doing day jobs there, and so yeah, doing work there.

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Arden Moore: Well, I guess what I'm saying is help people out because there's people that know you think to be syndicated is great, but we live in the time of the Internet and everything's changing.

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Arden Moore: So you're able to get your cartoons out there on social media platforms, and I'm hoping that's a good thing because everybody, your big homework after the show is to go to your website.

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Arden Moore: Is it, tell everybody metzgercartoons.com, is that correct?

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Scott Metzger: metzgercartoons.com.

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Scott Metzger: And yeah, my Facebook handle is at Scott Metzger Cartoons and same with Instagram, at Scott Metzger Cartoons and on threads too.

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Scott Metzger: People are all threads.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, are you on threads?

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Arden Moore: No, not yet.

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Arden Moore: I have some clothing that need more threads, but no.

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Arden Moore: Tell people about that.

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Arden Moore: You're not syndicated, but people know you in the pet world.

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Arden Moore: And I have a lot of friends that love your cartoons and I see them sometimes popping up on a PowerPoint display or something.

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Arden Moore: And the one thing as a writer and an author to you as a cartoonist, it's very nice and very important that they have your name on that cartoon when they show it.

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Scott Metzger: Yes, that's huge.

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Scott Metzger: And yeah, and that's actually part of what I do is with my cartoons, I license them for presentations and newsletters and social media things.

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Scott Metzger: I work with a bunch of social media pages that pay a certain fee to post my work if they're a business page.

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Scott Metzger: And so yeah, it's just I started posting my stuff on Facebook.

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Scott Metzger: Well, I started the Facebook page like in 2014 and Instagram 2015.

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Scott Metzger: So it's just consistency and just putting up content regularly.

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Scott Metzger: And I was lucky enough to get early on a couple cat pages that were pretty popular, that had like hundreds of thousands of followers were sharing my stuff.

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Scott Metzger: And that's how it helped build my page.

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Arden Moore: I think if my notes are right, you have something like over 273,000 followers on Facebook alone.

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Arden Moore: And they're not all your relatives, right, Scott?

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, over 200,000 are.

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Arden Moore: Wow.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: So yeah, I've been fortunate that it's connected with some people.

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Scott Metzger: It's like, actually for a long time, I was drawing cartoons about all kinds of topics and I wasn't drawing that many cat or dog cartoons.

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Scott Metzger: And then one day I started to kind of focus on that.

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Scott Metzger: Actually, an old friend of mine said, you should really focus on cat cartoons.

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Scott Metzger: It's like probably 2013 or something, 2014.

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Scott Metzger: And I said, I don't know.

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Scott Metzger: I'm not sure.

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Scott Metzger: I like them, but I'm not sure if they're going to connect.

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Scott Metzger: I didn't realize how many people online are huge cat people.

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Scott Metzger: And so it's nice that I have that thing where I can draw, what I really enjoy.

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Scott Metzger: And it also, there's an audience for that.

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Arden Moore: So and well, you have a couple of feline muses.

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Arden Moore: I know they're listening to the show.

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Arden Moore: So could you give everybody a quick 411 on the two cats and the dog you have that maybe inspire you a bit?

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: And one of them was just wandering around right near here.

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Arden Moore: But that's a cat, right?

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Arden Moore: That's a cat, so I'll see you.

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Scott Metzger: I've got a dog.

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Scott Metzger: I've got two cats and a dog.

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Scott Metzger: So I have a cat named Max.

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Scott Metzger: He's a tuxedo cat.

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Scott Metzger: He's about almost 14.

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Scott Metzger: And I have another cat named Piper who's about almost a year old and she's all black.

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Scott Metzger: They're both rescues.

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Scott Metzger: And then I have a rescue dog named Dobby, named after the house elf in Harry Potter because he kind of looks like that.

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Scott Metzger: He looks like a black lab, like shrunk in the dryer.

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Scott Metzger: He's basically kind of, he's actually in the other room.

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Scott Metzger: Because if you were out here, you'd be wanting to like jiggle the door to get out.

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Arden Moore: So yeah, yeah.

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Arden Moore: I mean, so you have a cat that's one year old.

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Arden Moore: I always say the first year with the cat, the kitten years, it's called the wonder year because you wonder where your sanity is gone.

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Arden Moore: How has life been with Piper?

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Scott Metzger: Oh boy, it's been interesting.

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Scott Metzger: I mean, she's a sweet little cat.

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Scott Metzger: She likes to snuggle.

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Scott Metzger: But boy, those first few months were like, do we make the wrong decision getting it?

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Scott Metzger: Just attacking things.

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Scott Metzger: And she still attacks plants.

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Scott Metzger: My wife is a huge, she loves house plants and she had to move a bunch of house plants or replace them with fake ones because she just attack things, knock things over and she still does that.

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Scott Metzger: So, but she's mellowed out a little bit.

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Scott Metzger: You know, now that she's a year old, she's a little bit, you know, slightly mellower.

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Scott Metzger: But yeah, she's like that a hundred years.

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Arden Moore: That's an Arden original.

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Arden Moore: You can take it if you want.

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Arden Moore: There's one you sent us and set us up and the person says, Something went wrong.

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Arden Moore: I meant to summon a demon and a cat replies.

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Arden Moore: What?

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Scott Metzger: Wait till you see me at 3 a.m.

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Scott Metzger: That's definitely absolutely based on Piper.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Scott Metzger: And that's that cat cow looks like Piper.

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Scott Metzger: Piper, I think the cat in the cartoon is dark gray.

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Scott Metzger: But yeah, but yeah, it's like it was easier visually that way.

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Scott Metzger: But yeah, that's inspired by Piper's antics.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: Now there's one that we're all on Zoom these days.

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Arden Moore: I mean, don't you wish you would have bought Stock and Zoom in the fall of 19?

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Arden Moore: We'd be zillionaires.

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Arden Moore: But I'm going to tee you up for this one.

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Arden Moore: It's a bunch of dogs on a screen like the Brady Bunch, a Zoom screen.

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Arden Moore: And there is another dog with a position to the screen.

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Arden Moore: Do you want to tell everybody what they're saying to that dog?

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Scott Metzger: The dog's name is Gary.

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Scott Metzger: It says, Gary, this is not how we introduce ourselves in the class.

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Arden Moore: No butt shots, right?

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, he showed his butt to the camera.

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Arden Moore: And we know that the dog knows is so much more powerful than ours.

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Arden Moore: I just got back from a huge trip in Athens, Greece, the cradle of civilization and was at a museum.

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Arden Moore: But I really wish I was at the Museum of Odors.

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Arden Moore: Tell us about that one.

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Arden Moore: There's a lineup of dogs.

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Arden Moore: And what's one say?

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Scott Metzger: They're at an atrium of a museum.

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Scott Metzger: And it says Museum of Odors.

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Scott Metzger: And there's a sign.

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Scott Metzger: There's a bunch of dogs lined up.

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Scott Metzger: And one dog, a father dog, is talking to his son, saying it's going to be worth it.

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Scott Metzger: And then there's a sign pointing off, saying all things nasty and disgusting.

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Scott Metzger: So they're all just excited.

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Arden Moore: Which are delectably wonderful for a dog.

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Arden Moore: What's something disgusting for you odor wise that you think Dobby would be like?

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Arden Moore: Oh, that's some, that's some.

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Scott Metzger: Oh, gosh, Dobby.

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Scott Metzger: And that's absolutely inspired by Dobby.

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Scott Metzger: Well, the obvious one is it and it's gross, but it's true.

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Scott Metzger: Poop, he likes to sniff that out when we're outside.

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Scott Metzger: So it's like, no, no, no, we're not going to do that.

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Scott Metzger: That's a big one with him.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: What about the cat litter box?

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Arden Moore: Is he kind of stiff on that?

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Scott Metzger: Yes, he's on that.

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Scott Metzger: We have to be careful.

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Scott Metzger: We make sure we, you know, my kids or one of us scoops out the litter box and make sure that it's done before he gets up there as he makes a little snack.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: When you see the little pieces of litter on the muzzle, that is not a time to get a dog kiss, is it?

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: I know that's the telltale signs.

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Scott Metzger: I was in a little bit of a box and he's got a little sand on it.

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Scott Metzger: It was like, you're so busted.

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Arden Moore: Sounds like a cartoon for you to do.

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Arden Moore: Hey, everyone, we're speaking with Scott Metzger.

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Arden Moore: He is the genius behind these cartoons.

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Arden Moore: You know, you see he's been doing it since 1996.

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Arden Moore: Is that right?

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Scott Metzger: Yes.

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Arden Moore: I'm doing my homework.

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Arden Moore: You're almost 30 years in, man, and you're only 12.

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Arden Moore: Just kidding.

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Scott Metzger: Exactly.

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Scott Metzger: Started really young, kindergarten.

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Arden Moore: Well, we're going to dive in a little bit more, but we got to take a break.

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Arden Moore: So everybody, you know the drill.

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Arden Moore: We're going to sit and stay.

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Announcer: Here's Arden.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the Oh Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: I have been wanting to get this man on my show for quite a bit and I just gave it a valiant try.

00:16:48.640 --> 00:16:53.020
Arden Moore: I wrote him my whole life history on a DM on Facebook.

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Arden Moore: Gave him all my links so he didn't think I was A, a stalker and B, that I really do have a radio show.

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Arden Moore: I was so delighted, Scott, that you actually promptly replied, which kudos to you.

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Arden Moore: I did this and then Dallas got hit by a tornado and I was without power for five days, so everything turned out okay because we have power now.

00:17:17.320 --> 00:17:21.040
Arden Moore: The big old trees that fell in our yard uprooted.

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Arden Moore: Oh my, missed our house.

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Scott Metzger: Oh, that's lucky, but I'm sorry about that.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, but that's mother nature.

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Arden Moore: But anyway, so kind of keeping me with my sense of humor have always been your cartoons.

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Arden Moore: And one of my picks is people, if you bank at Chase Bank, you will never go into the lobby the same way again after seeing a Scott Metzger cartoon.

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Arden Moore: And just to tee up and I'll let you give the message, the teller is actually a squirrel, right?

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Arden Moore: And there's a dog as a customer.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: Walk us through it.

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Scott Metzger: So yeah, the squirrel has a teller and the dog is a golden retriever type of dog.

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Scott Metzger: And he's all excited.

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Arden Moore: Squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: So behind the squirrel is the Chase logo signage in the squirrel thing of the dog.

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Scott Metzger: Sir, it's just a sign.

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Scott Metzger: It's not a suggestion.

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Arden Moore: So, I mean, think about how did you get that?

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Arden Moore: I mean, were you one day just in a bank line or what?

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Scott Metzger: I was, yeah, pretty much.

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Scott Metzger: We bank at Chase, my wife and I.

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Scott Metzger: So like, I was at Chase.

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Scott Metzger: I was like, just kind of, it just hit me, you know?

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Scott Metzger: That's the thing with ideas.

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Scott Metzger: They could just come at any time.

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Scott Metzger: You're just, you know, sometimes when you're sitting down to come up with ideas with a pad of paper, it's sometimes it's hard.

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Scott Metzger: But when you're out and about in the world, an idea just can come out of nowhere like that, you know, when you're driving.

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Arden Moore: And my other corporate favorite for cats, for all of us that walk into a Walmart, we know the drill.

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Arden Moore: There's usually a senior greeting us as soon as we get her one toe into the door.

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Arden Moore: But in your cartoon, Scott, there's a cat with the Walmart blue jacket.

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Scott Metzger: Right.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: What's happening?

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Arden Moore: Because it's catitude time.

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Scott Metzger: Oh, yeah.

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Scott Metzger: So the customer is a man.

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Scott Metzger: He's looking down at the cat and he's saying, can you show me where the cat toys are?

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Scott Metzger: And the cat's just sitting there and on the back of his face shows his back and the back of his vest and says, how may I ignore you?

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Scott Metzger: Yes.

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Scott Metzger: And he's no longer with us.

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Scott Metzger: But that was who was that tribute to that was to my cat, Hannah, who was a sweetheart.

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Scott Metzger: She loved my wife and daughter and would kind of could take her leave me and my son.

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Scott Metzger: So it was kind of like that.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, I got a little bit.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: I got two more.

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Arden Moore: Can you tell I actually followed you?

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: You've got a guy and he's out in the yard and he just threw a stick for his fetching dog.

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Arden Moore: And then he looks down and the dog is not fetching.

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Arden Moore: What's going on?

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Arden Moore: Do you remember that one?

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Arden Moore: He's looking at a tablet.

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Arden Moore: He's a high tech dog.

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Scott Metzger: Oh, you know, I don't I don't know if that's mine actually.

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Arden Moore: Oh, I thought it said the stick is right there and he's got a GPS.

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Scott Metzger: No, that's I think that's a Mark Presegar chain.

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Scott Metzger: Damn it.

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Scott Metzger: It's okay.

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Scott Metzger: I get mistaken for him quite a bit.

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Scott Metzger: And I think, yeah, I like you better every so often.

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Scott Metzger: It's okay.

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Scott Metzger: It's okay.

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Scott Metzger: It's totally.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, we have a very similar drawing style.

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Arden Moore: So now you have a knack for knowing that cats like boxes.

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Scott Metzger: Yes.

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Arden Moore: And can you share a couple?

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Arden Moore: Because we get the deliveries and it's a cat tree.

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Arden Moore: I'm going to be putting together for the cat or it's cat toys.

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Arden Moore: And I look over and Casey and Rusty, my two orange tabbies are like we're in the box.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, exactly.

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Scott Metzger: That's true.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, there's I mean, gosh, both my cats love boxes.

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Scott Metzger: Then Piper is hilarious because she'll get many, even a tiny little box she'll sit in.

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Arden Moore: What is it that they do that if they can fit, they sit?

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Arden Moore: Is that the thing?

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Scott Metzger: The funny thing is I saw this mean that was floating around and said, we all make fun of cats or folk fun of cats for loving boxes so much.

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Scott Metzger: But if there was a huge box in your living room that you could fit in, and you probably sit in it too.

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Scott Metzger: I thought it was kind of funny.

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Scott Metzger: But yeah, I don't know this.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, every cat I've had loves sitting in boxes.

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Scott Metzger: And I know there's people that have cats that don't particularly like that.

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Scott Metzger: So I think that's for me, that's not been the case.

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Scott Metzger: They've always like that.

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Scott Metzger: So it's kind of fun.

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Arden Moore: I know that you have these cartoons and you do licensing, but you have some books too.

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Arden Moore: And even the titles will make you everyone go out want to buy them.

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Arden Moore: And so I want to make sure I've got it because I had them right here.

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Arden Moore: The latest one that came out, you have Squirrel, Bacon, Ball and Other Distractions.

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Arden Moore: What a great title for a book.

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Arden Moore: Tell us about that.

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Scott Metzger: Thanks.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, that's my collection of dog cartoons that came out in 2022, of all of 2022.

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Arden Moore: How do people get their paws on it, Scott?

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Scott Metzger: Amazon.

00:21:43.220 --> 00:21:46.100
Scott Metzger: So it's on, it's on, search up for it on Amazon.

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Scott Metzger: That comes right up.

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Scott Metzger: Or you can go to metzgercartoons.com and click on, there's a home page that has, if you click on the icon on my home page, it goes to all three of my books.

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Arden Moore: And then for the cat lovers, 50 ways to wake your human.

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Scott Metzger: Right.

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Arden Moore: Give me a couple of examples that you've personally experienced.

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Scott Metzger: Oh, there's, well, I mean, that was like, Miles, that was pretty much a tribute to my cat Max, the whole book.

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Scott Metzger: In fact, my cat wrote the full of that book and my other one, but he just gets me up really early in the morning.

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Scott Metzger: He's getting a little older now.

00:22:16.860 --> 00:22:19.580
Scott Metzger: He's not doing as much, but but he still does.

00:22:19.580 --> 00:22:22.500
Scott Metzger: He's in Piper's pick up the slack on that actually, too.

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Scott Metzger: But he just the mattress.

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Arden Moore: How does Max wake you up?

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Arden Moore: There's no latte waiting for you, right?

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Scott Metzger: Oh, no, it's not gentle.

00:22:30.420 --> 00:22:39.620
Scott Metzger: It's it's it's scratching the mattress, knocking something off the nightstand, jumping, you know, smacking me on that, smacking me on the nose is a go to brand.

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Scott Metzger: People are, oh, my cat's nose gently pats me on the nose.

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Scott Metzger: I know it's a smack.

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Scott Metzger: It's like hitting my nose.

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Scott Metzger: I get the snooze button.

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Scott Metzger: So it's like, yeah, he hasn't knocked off.

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Scott Metzger: My wife often has a glass of water on her nightstand.

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Arden Moore: I only use water bottles with lids now because I've learned.

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Scott Metzger: That's wise.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, that's really smart.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, she hasn't done that, though, which is to his credit.

00:22:58.760 --> 00:23:02.540
Scott Metzger: But yeah, he's done all kind of meowing really loudly, batting the doorstop.

00:23:02.540 --> 00:23:03.520
Scott Metzger: That's another one of them.

00:23:03.700 --> 00:23:09.500
Scott Metzger: Then they're going to let it swing in all the two and four in the morning, five in the morning.

00:23:09.500 --> 00:23:09.780
Scott Metzger: Yeah.

00:23:09.780 --> 00:23:14.040
Scott Metzger: So yeah, there's several cartoons in that book about waking the human up.

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Arden Moore: Why are you such a cat daddy?

00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:16.840
Arden Moore: What is it about cats?

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Arden Moore: I say real men love cats, so you've had a lifelong love of them.

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Scott Metzger: Yeah.

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Scott Metzger: Well, probably my first cat I had growing up was when I was five years old, we got a cat.

00:23:26.840 --> 00:23:29.280
Scott Metzger: So that's an impressionable age.

00:23:29.280 --> 00:23:32.740
Scott Metzger: We had her till I was in high school, senior high school.

00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:37.000
Scott Metzger: We also had a dog, a golden retriever when I was in high school.

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Scott Metzger: Dobby was the first dog I've had since I was in high school.

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Scott Metzger: So I love dogs too.

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Scott Metzger: So it's like, yeah, cats, I just think they're funny.

00:23:46.560 --> 00:23:48.760
Scott Metzger: They're both funny in their own ways.

00:23:48.760 --> 00:23:55.580
Scott Metzger: Cats are just, they have this dignity to them in a way, so they do something stupid or fall off, jump up on a shelf and fall down.

00:23:55.580 --> 00:23:56.660
Scott Metzger: It's hilarious.

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Arden Moore: Do you ever notice, Scott, when they do it, they don't like to be embarrassed, they'll start grooming?

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Scott Metzger: Yeah, it's like they're casual.

00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:03.680
Scott Metzger: It's cool.

00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:04.660
Scott Metzger: You didn't see that.

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Scott Metzger: I meant for that to happen.

00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:07.780
Scott Metzger: Yeah, it's like it's pretty funny.

00:24:07.780 --> 00:24:10.780
Arden Moore: But if a dog does it, the dog will do it again to get laughed, right?

00:24:10.780 --> 00:24:11.660
Scott Metzger: Whatever.

00:24:11.660 --> 00:24:12.380
Scott Metzger: Exactly.

00:24:12.380 --> 00:24:13.800
Scott Metzger: That's cool to get me some attention.

00:24:13.800 --> 00:24:14.460
Scott Metzger: That's great.

00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:14.720
Scott Metzger: Yeah.

00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:25.880
Arden Moore: Well, I know you're not a animal behaviorist, but you have studied animal behavior because you have to, because you have to have cartoons that relate to your audiences.

00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:29.600
Arden Moore: So what's your take on the 21st century cat these days?

00:24:30.100 --> 00:24:33.920
Arden Moore: Not the one you grew up with, but now, what's the cat of the 20th century cat?

00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:36.320
Scott Metzger: The cat that's the next generation.

00:24:36.320 --> 00:24:48.800
Scott Metzger: Well, basically, I think one thing that people need to know generally, and you know, of course, but a lot of people think the cats are super apathetic and they don't care about their humans and they're not friendly, and they love humans.

00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:54.500
Scott Metzger: There are cats a little bit more aloof, but overall, they're really loving creatures.

00:24:54.500 --> 00:24:58.080
Scott Metzger: So people who say, I can't stand cats, I love dogs, I hate cats.

00:24:58.180 --> 00:25:02.680
Scott Metzger: Well, I kind of feel like I've been around enough cats to really make that judgment.

00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:07.500
Scott Metzger: It's okay if they don't like them, but it's like they shouldn't say that they're not friendly or loving.

00:25:07.500 --> 00:25:12.220
Arden Moore: Well, Casey, my big orange tabby who teaches Pet for Stay with me, he's a therapy cat.

00:25:12.220 --> 00:25:19.000
Arden Moore: He comes in to a memory care center wearing a cowboy hat in a pet stroller and shake and pause.

00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.840
Arden Moore: I actually call him my BFF.

00:25:20.840 --> 00:25:23.080
Arden Moore: I call him my best feline friend.

00:25:23.420 --> 00:25:26.640
Scott Metzger: Oh, he was cute, too, that he's such a long drink of water.

00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:28.020
Arden Moore: But I think you're right.

00:25:28.020 --> 00:25:32.000
Arden Moore: I love it when guys say, you know, you hear people say, Oh, my dog loves me.

00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.080
Arden Moore: And I think my cat does, too.

00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:34.520
Scott Metzger: I think so.

00:25:34.520 --> 00:25:35.400
Scott Metzger: I think so.

00:25:35.520 --> 00:25:37.360
Scott Metzger: That's kind of a more casual roommate.

00:25:37.360 --> 00:25:38.980
Scott Metzger: Like, let's hang out for a little bit.

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:42.000
Arden Moore: But yeah, it's like, you know, what about dogs?

00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:42.760
Arden Moore: What's your dogs?

00:25:42.760 --> 00:25:50.540
Scott Metzger: Yeah, dogs are hilarious because they're so like, I mean, my dog, Dobby, is just like they show so much enthusiasm when you walk into a room.

00:25:50.600 --> 00:25:51.920
Scott Metzger: They're like, they're really happy.

00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:53.040
Arden Moore: You're a rock star.

00:25:53.040 --> 00:25:53.940
Scott Metzger: Yeah, exactly.

00:25:53.940 --> 00:25:56.700
Scott Metzger: So he's also has a little bit of separation anxiety.

00:25:56.700 --> 00:26:00.020
Scott Metzger: So if I go outside a little bit and come back, so then think you're going to come back.

00:26:00.020 --> 00:26:02.000
Scott Metzger: You know, I mean, so I've missed you.

00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.560
Scott Metzger: It's been five minutes, seems like 20 years.

00:26:04.560 --> 00:26:08.340
Arden Moore: So how many cartoons do you do a week, a day?

00:26:08.340 --> 00:26:13.880
Arden Moore: I know the brain, the creative side is not a nine to five kind of process.

00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:14.440
Scott Metzger: Right.

00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:19.760
Scott Metzger: I try to do two to three a week and I'm doing, I'm starting to do reels now, which is, And what are reels?

00:26:19.760 --> 00:26:26.160
Scott Metzger: Oh, they're little brief little videos that you just kind of post on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok.

00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:26.700
Arden Moore: All right.

00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:36.400
Scott Metzger: But that's kind of like taking some existing cartoons, some ones I've done or coming up with a new idea, just kind of turning into a little video just for an experimentation kind of thing.

00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:37.820
Arden Moore: How long are these clips?

00:26:37.820 --> 00:26:38.760
Arden Moore: How long are they?

00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:39.920
Scott Metzger: Oh, they're short.

00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:42.200
Scott Metzger: They're like 10 to 14 seconds.

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.720
Scott Metzger: You know, they're just really quick little punchy little jokes.

00:26:44.860 --> 00:26:47.220
Arden Moore: So you can put a little music or something, yeah.

00:26:47.220 --> 00:26:47.580
Scott Metzger: Right.

00:26:47.580 --> 00:26:49.940
Scott Metzger: And my daughter, she's almost 16.

00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:52.300
Scott Metzger: She'll be 16 just, actually tomorrow.

00:26:52.300 --> 00:26:53.820
Arden Moore: Oh, happy birthday, daughter.

00:26:53.820 --> 00:26:58.200
Scott Metzger: Yeah, she's been saying to me for a couple of years now, like you got to do reels, dad, you got to do reels.

00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:02.100
Scott Metzger: And again, I know that reels are cool, but I don't, you know, I'll get to that when I get to it.

00:27:02.100 --> 00:27:04.300
Scott Metzger: And then she's kind of she's helped me put some together.

00:27:04.300 --> 00:27:05.580
Arden Moore: So what's her first name?

00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:06.740
Arden Moore: Shout out birthday girl.

00:27:06.740 --> 00:27:08.120
Scott Metzger: Oh, I don't think she wanted me.

00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:09.040
Arden Moore: Oh, OK.

00:27:09.040 --> 00:27:10.180
Arden Moore: Well, happy birthday.

00:27:10.180 --> 00:27:12.900
Arden Moore: And thanks for teaching your dad to be with the times.

00:27:12.900 --> 00:27:13.120
Arden Moore: Right.

00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:14.860
Arden Moore: Well, I think that's cool.

00:27:14.860 --> 00:27:18.800
Arden Moore: So you're always evolving and you started with a pencil, right?

00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:23.180
Arden Moore: And now you're doing stuff on the computer to do the cartoons.

00:27:23.180 --> 00:27:23.720
Scott Metzger: Exactly.

00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:24.000
Scott Metzger: Yeah.

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:33.140
Scott Metzger: Even though I started off with pencil and pen years ago and would color my cartoons with felt markers, which wasn't a great look for me.

00:27:34.260 --> 00:27:44.580
Scott Metzger: It was passable, it was fine, but I started with Illustrator years ago, like in the late 90s and over the years, gotten more proficient with it and I really love it.

00:27:44.580 --> 00:27:55.540
Scott Metzger: So now my process is I actually still use a pencil to sketch ideas, but then I scan it into the computer and then I color with Illustrator with a Wacom tablet, which is Wacom tablets are really-

00:27:55.540 --> 00:27:56.080
Arden Moore: What are they?

00:27:56.080 --> 00:27:56.840
Arden Moore: I don't know that.

00:27:57.260 --> 00:28:00.200
Scott Metzger: It's just like a tablet with a stylus with a little pen.

00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:01.440
Arden Moore: Oh, okay.

00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:10.440
Scott Metzger: So they make various kind of devices that some are a tablet they use, they use to draw for on the screen and some are just some are other Wacom prop.

00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:15.380
Scott Metzger: We're getting into the weeds here, but other Wacom products are like more big tablets you draw directly on.

00:28:15.380 --> 00:28:17.200
Scott Metzger: Yeah, they're a huge, huge company.

00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:25.640
Arden Moore: Have you ever had some celebrity or somebody that really left a mark with you, that remarked about one of your cartoons and how they really loved it?

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.880
Scott Metzger: Yeah, actually, that's happened a few times.

00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:33.340
Scott Metzger: I've done some parodies of songs and I did a James Taylor parody.

00:28:33.340 --> 00:28:36.460
Scott Metzger: Actually, it's Carol King that James Taylor covered.

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:40.040
Scott Metzger: And so I did a parody of that and then tagged him.

00:28:40.040 --> 00:28:46.040
Scott Metzger: And I should have tagged Carol King, but I wasn't aware that she had done it originally, actually, which is my time.

00:28:46.100 --> 00:28:48.040
Scott Metzger: I feel embarrassed to say that, but.

00:28:48.040 --> 00:28:49.280
Arden Moore: JT liked it, huh?

00:28:49.280 --> 00:28:50.080
Scott Metzger: Yeah, he liked it.

00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:52.740
Scott Metzger: She posted on Instagram and tagged me and said it was great.

00:28:52.980 --> 00:29:01.340
Scott Metzger: And same, I did a parody of Rick Astley's song Never Gonna Give You Up with a cat, and he posted on Instagram and said he liked it.

00:29:01.340 --> 00:29:02.240
Scott Metzger: That was really cool.

00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.760
Scott Metzger: Jackson Galaxy has.

00:29:03.760 --> 00:29:04.980
Arden Moore: Oh yeah, my cat from hell.

00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:06.260
Arden Moore: He's a good friend of ours.

00:29:06.260 --> 00:29:06.620
Arden Moore: Oh, is he?

00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:07.720
Scott Metzger: That's cool.

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:08.380
Scott Metzger: Yeah, he's.

00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:09.460
Arden Moore: He plays the guitar.

00:29:09.460 --> 00:29:10.680
Scott Metzger: Oh yeah, I know.

00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:12.060
Scott Metzger: On the show, he had the guitar case.

00:29:12.060 --> 00:29:14.640
Scott Metzger: They kept all of his like cat toys and things like that in there.

00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:15.260
Scott Metzger: It's cool.

00:29:15.260 --> 00:29:16.900
Scott Metzger: Yeah, I like that show.

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:20.740
Arden Moore: So what is your parting message to people out there how to follow a dream?

00:29:21.180 --> 00:29:29.940
Arden Moore: I see that there's a roof over your head, so you have done something right, so you're paying the utility bills and the mortgage, but you're getting to follow your passion.

00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:34.040
Scott Metzger: Yeah, and I should clarify, I do have a day job, but I, you know, and so.

00:29:34.040 --> 00:29:35.360
Arden Moore: What is your day job?

00:29:35.360 --> 00:29:35.740
Arden Moore: What do you do?

00:29:35.740 --> 00:29:39.460
Scott Metzger: I work at a non-profit organization and do fundraising for them.

00:29:39.460 --> 00:29:40.280
Scott Metzger: So yeah, that's.

00:29:40.280 --> 00:29:41.300
Arden Moore: Oh, nice.

00:29:41.300 --> 00:29:46.940
Scott Metzger: But yeah, it's just a matter of just being consistent and marketing your stuff wherever you can and I think, yeah.

00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:51.680
Arden Moore: And I think follow the trends and have a 16-year-old daughter that says, dad, do reels.

00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:53.060
Scott Metzger: Yeah, exactly.

00:29:53.060 --> 00:29:53.960
Scott Metzger: Exactly.

00:29:53.960 --> 00:30:02.780
Arden Moore: And people, you can get your pause on, he's got three books and I think maybe more, but they're on the metzgercartoons.com site.

00:30:02.780 --> 00:30:09.300
Arden Moore: I love that you can also have your cartoons on shirts and coffee mugs and other things, right?

00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:10.300
Scott Metzger: Yeah, exactly.

00:30:10.300 --> 00:30:11.380
Scott Metzger: The thread of the store.

00:30:11.380 --> 00:30:18.100
Arden Moore: What is some trait about a dog and one trait about a cat that you have envy and you wish you did have?

00:30:18.100 --> 00:30:19.300
Scott Metzger: Oh gosh.

00:30:19.300 --> 00:30:27.660
Scott Metzger: For a dog, they're just oftentimes, they're just very happy and they unconditionally love people and they're loyal.

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:33.420
Scott Metzger: Those are a few traits, but cats are kind of like, they're more, they're very independent.

00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:36.420
Arden Moore: Is there something a cat does that you really wish you could do?

00:30:36.420 --> 00:30:37.180
Scott Metzger: Jump really high.

00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.940
Arden Moore: Yeah, and that break your kneecaps when you land, right?

00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:46.060
Scott Metzger: First I could dunk and have the leaping ability of my cat Max.

00:30:46.060 --> 00:30:48.760
Arden Moore: Hey everybody, I've enjoyed having on our show.

00:30:48.760 --> 00:30:52.680
Arden Moore: He's an amazing cartoonist, Scott Metzger.

00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:54.660
Arden Moore: I want you to check his cartoons out.

00:30:54.660 --> 00:31:02.160
Arden Moore: If you have an organization that's looking to have some creative, comedic illustrations, reach out to Scott Metzger.

00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:03.380
Arden Moore: He will help you out.

00:31:03.800 --> 00:31:07.300
Arden Moore: And I'm just very happy that I got to have.

00:31:07.300 --> 00:31:08.860
Arden Moore: You're my second cartoonist.

00:31:08.860 --> 00:31:12.920
Arden Moore: I had Jim Davis of Garfield on years ago.

00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:16.220
Arden Moore: And the only way I snagged him is we both were from Indiana.

00:31:16.220 --> 00:31:17.100
Scott Metzger: Oh, cool.

00:31:17.100 --> 00:31:18.120
Scott Metzger: He seems like a great guy.

00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:20.000
Scott Metzger: Everything I've heard about that guy seems like a really nice.

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.040
Arden Moore: He's a very good guy.

00:31:21.040 --> 00:31:21.960
Arden Moore: He's a very good guy.

00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:23.820
Arden Moore: But so are you, Scott.

00:31:23.820 --> 00:31:27.780
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00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:48.860
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