Mark Longo
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41 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Mark Longo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was at the end of the driveway in the beginning.
And I remember I got a call off to my wife to say, they're here, hide the animals. And I tried to buy myself some time to maybe figure out what's going on here.
Until, finally... I was midway on the staircase. I had three cops to my right. I had three to my left. And one of them yelled, I found Peanut. I found the squirrel. And I said, listen, guys, like, I'll take Peanut. I apologize. I'll put him in the car and I'll drive him to Connecticut. You'll never see him again.
And the guy to my right, I'll never forget this to the day I die, he looked at me dead in my eyes and said, it was a squirrel, now it's a raccoon. When is this snowball effect going to stop?
Day three comes around, I get a phone call from our local news station from a gentleman that's in tears. And he's like, Mark, I don't know how to tell you, but they're gone.
And I remember just like feeling nothing, not even anger, like nothing, just sitting there as a shell of a human being, not really believing it because This is a movie story, right? This is just straight out of a, you know, a f***ing film. And I found out, and I remember hanging up the phone, and there was a couple of volunteers there, and they killed them.
And they started to cry, and I walked away.
My phone started buzzing. TMZ's calling. You know, every major news outlet wants this story. And that's when it just went nuts. And then you're hearing Elon Musk talk about it. And you're hearing, you know, J.D. Vance and now Trump Jr. And it turned into like a political stunt.
But it also turned into one of the biggest tragedies in 2024. You know, my squirrel sits next to Harambe now. And I always tell people, like, this shouldn't have been a story.
No, I didn't even know what the blockchain was. Had no clue. But you would find out. I would soon find out.
This is Peanut's room.
The most iconic piece is in here, and it is your cowboy hat.
And now I'm seeing this baby squirrel walk in the middle of the street and he's looking at me. He's only got one eye open. And then he just made one hop and was down on my pant leg and just started to crawl up my leg. So as he got closer, I kind of like brought him up into my hands and I put him in my hoodie.
The only way I can get him to eat was through, you know, mashing up an avocado in the powder. And he would just stuff his face into it. Classic millennial. Yeah, literally like avocado toast. It was 100% his menu the whole time.
You know, I played video games, he's in my pocket. You know, I went to go to CVS, he's in my hoodie. You know, I remember bringing him to PetSmart and put him in one of the hamster balls and he's running down the hall and the woman's like, oh, what do you have in there, a gerbil? And I was like, yeah, sure, it's a gerbil. You know, and there's Peanut running around, this little baby squirrel.
You know, and then we just started to, you know, take photos and videos of him.
We went on British TV and they deemed him the world's most famous squirrel. And that's when his TikTok blew up. And that's where, you know, 100,000 followers became a few million. And we just kind of rolled with the wave.
I fist pumped that squirrel so many damn times because he just nailed these interviews like it was something that he was meant to do. Peanut knew how to turn on the charm. Did he ever. You know, especially with ladies. Like, he was a ladies' man.
I met my wife because of Peanut.
My wife DM'd me on Peanut's page. And that's how we met. She ended up calling me wearing a flying squirrel costume.
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