Milo

**Scott Philbrook** (0:02)
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**SPEAKER_2** (0:07)
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**Forrest Burgess** (0:40)
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**SPEAKER_2** (1:11)
Tonight's episode, Milo.

**Forrest Burgess** (1:16)
All right. Well, I have a question for the audience, the Kent people specifically in our audience, the Kent lovers. I'm talking to you and Scott. I'm also talking to you as a Kent lover. Here's a question though.
Biscuit, your lovable butterscotch kitty, is completely relaxed. He's asleep. He's sitting on your lap perhaps, and then he sits straight up and he locks eyes into a corner of the room where there is plainly nothing happening.

**Scott Philbrook** (1:46)
Yes. He definitely does that, or he'll stare at the top of a doorframe like there's a meeting up there that I wasn't invited to.

**Forrest Burgess** (1:52)
What's that about?

**Scott Philbrook** (1:53)
I don't know. Sometimes I wonder if he can hear insects walking on the wall, even the smallest ones like mosquitoes.

**Forrest Burgess** (1:59)
Well, that's a good question. I don't know, but I often think it could be something in the wall. But people often say that, but I've been around in houses where they don't have mice. There's no pack rats in the walls, but suddenly they'll be fixated on a spot on the wall. That's pretty common. I think we've all seen that.
Here's what we all do next, I think, if you see that, is you then look to where they're looking, and you and I probably just see a wall. Then we go back to what we were doing.

**Scott Philbrook** (2:35)
Right, because the alternative to that is admitting that your cat might know something that you don't, or that something's there that you can't see, basically.

**Forrest Burgess** (2:43)
Well, I always wished I could see what they're seeing. Just from the animal's perspective, even the color tones, they say are different because their eyes are set up differently. Just how do they see things and what do they see and how do they see it when they're looking at something that we can't see as humans. So that's always fascinating to me. And then, of course, after we're done telling the story here, or you are, I'm going to bring up the dog story again of your dog, Lou, seeing something, which was a completely different thing. You're in denial, which is part of what we're talking about here tonight when something's kind of unmistakable. But that's the premise for tonight's story. And tonight's writer, Amy, didn't get to go back to what she was doing.
She was a night shift worker, or still is, lives alone with a cat named Milo. And Milo is no ordinary house cat.
She, yes, Milo is, as Amy explains, started out as a barn cat, then jumped in her semi truck one day and rode out the miles with her for seven years.

**Scott Philbrook** (3:42)
Yeah, trucker cat. A female trucker cat named Milo, by the way, which she talks about. Nine pounds but afraid of nothing and decided that that tractor trailer was hers to be in charge of.

**Forrest Burgess** (3:53)
I see a 80s TV sitcom starting, something like BJ and the Bear. Remember that?

**Scott Philbrook** (3:58)
Oh, BJ and the Bear.

**Forrest Burgess** (3:59)
Yeah, he had a chimp as a co-driver partner. But a cat would be just as fine.

**Scott Philbrook** (4:06)
Yeah, and less likely to eat your face off.

**Forrest Burgess** (4:08)
When you die. No, well, you know, adult chimps will rip your face off and they go for your hands and your face weirdly. But this is what makes this story unique here, is when you will read the story, what we find out is that Milo the cat ran toward a strange sound rather than running away from it.
And, you know, that's completely in character, at least for Milo. Most animals, they get freaked out and then it's like, you're on your own, sorry. Like, I'll come back in a few days. But, you know, when I tell you that she came tearing back with her tail puffed, her eyes huge, that's what makes this a dead letter.

**Scott Philbrook** (4:46)
Yeah, and that's only the first of two nights that Milo and Amy Hironer had to turn to each other and confirm something was up. You know, yes, I heard that too. Or the second time.