Benji and Andrew are dog-human best friends and they do everything together, literally.
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00:00So the first special thing that I noticed was his sense of excitement when he came to adventure,
00:10and that matched my personality so well.
00:13My name is Andrew Lasky, and this is my boy Benji.
00:30I think he's better looking than I am too.
00:33I don't hold that against him or anything.
00:35Well, it's been kind of a wild ride.
00:38You know, I started out as a mechanical engineering student that went into sales for a big corporate
00:42company, but as of last January, I actually quit my job so I could pursue traveling full-time
00:47with my pup.
00:48At the end of the day, we were able to spend as much time together, able to go on all these
00:52crazy adventures, and living the life that we, you know, I had always dreamed of.
01:04So I think one of Benji's superpowers is his ability to adapt to different environments.
01:09You know, I started out on a treadmill at the age of six months because I didn't want to
01:12go out and take him in a walk in the rain out in Seattle.
01:15And then we kind of progressed from there where we did, like, rollerblading.
01:18I would rollerblade and he'd run next to me.
01:20And then we even progressed to the point where I got a backpack, put him in it, and I would
01:24rollerblade with him.
01:25And we've also done that with all kinds of different things.
01:29He plays basketball with me.
01:32He plays football with me.
01:34I also, you know, riding the bike in the sidecar.
01:37And then I also have a trailer that I push him for when I go rollerblading and all of
01:40that.
01:41I just think it's so cool how I've gotten him to be so good with these activities.
01:51You know, I've always been against this whole idea that, okay, a dog is just a dog.
01:55I've always thought Benji is my son.
01:58He's been on well over a hundred flights, I'd say, but most recently we've just been
02:02road tripping all over.
02:04Last year alone, we did over 40,000 miles.
02:06We did a trip from LA to Cabo, LA to Key West, and another one from LA to New York.
02:11And this year we have a lot of travel ahead.
02:14In my opinion, he's better at being a human than he is a dog.