<h1><strong>A Special Holiday Part II Podcast for Calvin The Coonhound Beating Cancer:</strong></h1>
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Tune in for a special holiday podcast catching you up on our ailing Calvin The Coonhound. Calvin is our English Redtick Coonhound, 10 years old, battled Cancer, became a tripod, and now has been battling partial renal failure from the tripod leg amputation surgery to save his life from Cancer. Listen in for my transparency and updates into our personal lives and love for Calvin.
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<h2><strong>On This Episode You Will Hear:</strong></h2>
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<li>[spp-timestamp time="00:30"] Introduction. This is a special edition, I decided that with the power of Thanksgiving here in the USA, I'd thought I'd break up our normal content and add in a couple of solo episodes, which are very few and far between on this show since founding in September 2016.</li>
<li>[spp-timestamp time="00:53"] For the past eight years I've had the honor and privileged to be able to go up to the Harlem in northern New York City and there's a strong population of less fortunate people. There's a wonderful woman there by the name of Mary Lanning and she helps give back for the past 47 years making 2000+ meals, which this year we did 2500 hot meals going to the streets to give back. Go listen to that episode 232 to learn a little bit more. There was another powerful organization we got to work with on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, which was the Tunnel 2 Towers program. That's an amazing organization giving back to people whether it be military, police, fire, first founders, etc. This whole program was started thanks to the Stephen Siller Foundation, which was named after a New York City fallen firefighter who died in the 911 World Trade Center Towers collapse. So again, check out Episode 232.</li>
<li>[spp-timestamp time="02:35"] I think we should be good to our fellow man, no matter what day or week or month it is. But this episode is especially targeted to a very special member of our family, Calvin The Coonhound. That's my dog, and not just my dog, it's actually my fiancé’s dog. It was really her dog for five years before I met her and then the past five years that we've been building our relationship together. Obviously Calvin became, we’ll call it my son, as well, since we don't have human children. Calvin is our child. I never would have called him that until the tragic experiences that we've been going through this past month.</li>
<li>I wanted to do a podcast to reflect on that because I think I underestimate sometimes the impact of people, individuals and yes, even animals on our lives. That's what I wanted this episode to really do for you all, was to get you guys to pause and reflect. So I thought what the heck let me share some personal components out of my life for you all because isn't that what podcasting is all about?! We should be getting more intimate, I should be letting you guys deeper into my life. I mean, over the past 200+ shows, I know I've definitely softened things up and let you guys in on my little romantic adventures and how basically my head was up by butt as I was fighting to fall in love with my now fiancé. So for those of you haven't followed on social media, Calvin has not been having a good go the past couple months.</li>
<li>[spp-timestamp time="04:46"] For the past few years he's been an amazing companion I loved taking him mountain biking and Kristen my fiancé was worried that as he was getting older, I might be overworking him. I ride pretty fast as a mountain biker, I've done a few races over the years, I don't like to go slow. So Calvin likes to run with me and he's happy to get after it with me so that's why he and I have our own...