Together, We Made It
HOORAY ! We've made it to our 100th episode ! In this episode we reflect on the journey we have had. We thank you all for remaining with us for all this time and helping us make this show what it is. Special thanks to our producer Mark Winter as well for letting us drive him crazy for 7 years. We are looking forward to bringing you so much more, the road to 200 episodes starts now !
Listen to Episode #100 Now:
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Announcer: This is Pet Life Radio.
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Announcer: Let's Talk Pets.
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Rudy V: Hey, everybody, welcome to Groomer Humor.
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Rudy V: We are so happy today, because it is a celebration day, because this is our 100th episode, and we're so happy to have you guys with us.
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Rudy V: So put your hands together for us, guys, because it's Groomer Humor, 100th episode.
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Rudy V: Did you put this in your mouth before I did?
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Anthony Rey: Oh, yeah, I was, I had to test it.
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Rudy V: Oh, man, it tasted like 60, oh.
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Rudy V: Okay, shut up, sorry.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, I don't know why you use that thing.
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Rudy V: It doesn't stop once you start.
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Rudy V: Because, dude, it's awesome.
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Rudy V: But anyway, Ann, this is a very happy day for us, because it's our 100th episode, and we're so excited, like we said, and we're gonna be talking about a lot of things today.
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Rudy V: Mostly about, you know, are just how we, you know, evolved, and things that have happened in the six years that we've been doing Groomer Humor on PetLife Radio.
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Rudy V: So has it been six years?
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Rudy V: It's been six years.
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Rudy V: It's been six long years, Anthony, since we've been doing this.
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Rudy V: And, you know, I'll be honest with you, I'm having just as much fun now, if not more than I did when we started.
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Anthony Rey: We're like Pokemon, we just keep evolving.
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Rudy V: Yeah, yeah.
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Rudy V: But it's a good time for us, and I know that it's been a long road.
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Anthony Rey: But I'm just happy that I have you to share it with.
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Anthony Rey: And Mark.
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Rudy V: And Mark, and Mark.
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Rudy V: Listen, we got a lot to talk about in the show, so we're going to go to a quick break, and we're going to come back, and we're going to talk about our 100th episode and our journey.
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Rudy V: So we will be right back after these messages.
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Rudy V: Hey, everybody, welcome back to Groomer Humor.
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Rudy V: As always, we're your hosts.
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Rudy V: I'm Rudy V along with Anthony Ray.
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Rudy V: And before we get started, we wanna thank Head Life Radio and Mark Winter for giving us the opportunity to reach out to you guys.
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Rudy V: And most of all, we wanna thank you guys for being out there and listening to us through the years.
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Rudy V: We really, really appreciate it, guys.
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Rudy V: So welcome to the show.
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Anthony Rey: That sounds so weird to say, through the years.
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Rudy V: Through the years.
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Anthony Rey: Like this isn't, I don't know, it's like, it feels like a blur.
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Anthony Rey: It doesn't feel like we've been doing it for six years.
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Rudy V: No.
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Anthony Rey: It feels like we've been doing it for like a year.
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Rudy V: Until I look in the mirror and look at my hair.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, you have less.
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Rudy V: Yeah, like.
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Anthony Rey: Just less.
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Rudy V: No, but not like a lot less.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: Well, some of that, some of it's by choice.
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Anthony Rey: I don't have less, I have none.
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Anthony Rey: No, that's not true.
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Anthony Rey: You got a little frizzies on the side.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Rudy V: What's happened to you through the years?
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Rudy V: You still have great hair.
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Anthony Rey: Great hair, 80 pounds heavier probably about.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Rudy V: You quit smoking.
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Anthony Rey: That's, yeah, I quit smoking, picked up a new habit, vaping.
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Rudy V: Vaping.
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Anthony Rey: Which is, you know, it's kind of like smoking, except I do it more because it's a lot more convenient.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Rudy V: Yeah, there's a smoke shop in our area.
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Rudy V: It's called Puffin Stuff.
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Rudy V: Think that's like HR Puffin Stuff.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Rudy V: From, you know, but you're keeping them in business.
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Anthony Rey: I am.
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Anthony Rey: I keep them in business.
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Anthony Rey: I keep My Joe's pizzeria in business.
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Anthony Rey: That explains the weight.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: I gotta clean up my act.
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Anthony Rey: That's what's next, I think, for me for this year.
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Rudy V: It's funny that you say that because right before we started this show, you said we're gonna go to McDonald's when we're done.
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Anthony Rey: Well, it's because of the time we usually get together, record the show at noon-ish, and today we're doing it late, and it's gonna be dinnertime after this, so I'm excited.
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Rudy V: And I said I was defrosting some sausage.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, and then you said, I'll put it back.
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Anthony Rey: He said, are you gonna go to McDonald's?
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Anthony Rey: I'll put the sausage back in the freezer.
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Anthony Rey: Guys, we love McDonald's.
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Anthony Rey: But here's the thing, dude, I love fast food.
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Anthony Rey: I always have.
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Rudy V: Me too.
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Anthony Rey: I just, my palate switched.
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Anthony Rey: I went from as a kid loving McDonald's to then as an adult loving Taco Bell, and now I just love everything.
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Rudy V: As your dad, though, I feel guilty because I feel like I got you addicted to it early on because-
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Rudy V: No, I used to pick you up from school and take you straight to McDonald's.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, but I was in third grade.
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Anthony Rey: All right, it's your fault.
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Anthony Rey: That's easier that way.
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Rudy V: Remember when we were going through the drive-thru and my power button caught on fire?
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Rudy V: I had a big brown Econoline Ford 150, and I drove up to the drive-thru, and she was handing back my change, and I saw smoke, and I was wondering, where is it coming from?
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Rudy V: And I looked down at my power window, and it was on fire, and I couldn't reach my hand.
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Anthony Rey: We got roasted Big Macs that day.
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Anthony Rey: That's, yeah, well, I guess that's where my McDonald's journey started.
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Anthony Rey: But this, okay, we always go right into our fast food, well, not our, my fast food journey, but this is about our journey through 100 episodes of acting like complete morons on PetLife Radio.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Rudy V: Oh, I just, I know we gotta jump over the fast food, but I love watching the Karen videos, like these people that go into fast food restaurants and just start screaming and yelling and just bust up the place because they forgot to put ketchup on the burger.
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Anthony Rey: Fast food restaurants, like it goes down in there.
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Anthony Rey: Lots of videos on the internet take place at a fast food restaurant.
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Anthony Rey: Lots.
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Rudy V: That's crazy.
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Rudy V: That's crazy.
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Rudy V: I can't imagine getting that mad because somebody gave me the wrong burger or something.
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Rudy V: I just can't imagine getting mad at that.
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Anthony Rey: I saw a video once of a dude causing a problem.
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Anthony Rey: I think the video was like 20 straight minutes complaining that the buffalo chicken wasn't real buffalo chicken.
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Anthony Rey: And it's like, yeah, you're at McDonald's.
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Anthony Rey: But it's also, he was confusing everybody.
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Anthony Rey: He was saying, oh, the sauce is orange and they're going, yeah.
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Anthony Rey: And he's like, yeah, but I ordered buffalo.
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Anthony Rey: And they're like, right.
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Anthony Rey: And it's just 20 minutes of this guy being a doucher.
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Rudy V: They're getting arrested.
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Rudy V: You know what I mean?
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Rudy V: They're just ripping the place apart.
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Rudy V: They're going in the back.
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Rudy V: They're punching people.
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Rudy V: It's crazy.
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Rudy V: I mean, it's just a burger, man.
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Anthony Rey: I don't take it that seriously.
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Rudy V: Me neither.
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Rudy V: When they mess up my order, you know what I do?
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Rudy V: I go, you know what?
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Rudy V: Don't throw it out.
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Rudy V: I'm gonna eat what you gave me, the wrong item that you gave me, and just give me the right item too, and I'm gonna pay for all of it.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, do like a double down nice good deed.
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Rudy V: Sometimes you discover something that you didn't know, like, oh man, I like this.
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Rudy V: This is good.
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Rudy V: You know what I mean?
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, I did that once.
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Anthony Rey: I got sweet potato fries from this place called 25 Burgers.
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Anthony Rey: We used to be by my apartment, and they gave us sweet potato fries once, and I don't really like sweet potato fries, but I said they were going to throw them away, and I said, no, no, no, I'll throw them away.
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Anthony Rey: I'll pay for them and everything, just please give me the fries that I ordered, and we paid for it, too.
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Anthony Rey: But it's like six bucks, it's not going to end.
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Rudy V: I'm never going to argue more food.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, that's not smart.
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Rudy V: No.
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Anthony Rey: Unless it's olives, I hate olives.
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Rudy V: Yeah, olives are delicious, come on.
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Anthony Rey: That's so disgusting.
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Rudy V: You don't like olives.
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Rudy V: No.
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Rudy V: But you enjoyed your anchovy pizza that you ordered?
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Anthony Rey: That was disgusting.
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Rudy V: It's a hard lesson.
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Anthony Rey: Why is that?
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Anthony Rey: Anybody who's, and I'm speaking to all of you, anybody who cares to listen, if you like anchovy pizza, seek help.
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Anthony Rey: Seek help.
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Anthony Rey: You need support, and you need to start building a squad around you to protect you from things like that.
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Anthony Rey: Because that must be rooted in some sort of just disorder or something where you have convinced yourself that it's good and it's not good.
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Anthony Rey: It's not a matter of delicacy, like of preference.
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Anthony Rey: That does not taste good.
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Anthony Rey: It's a fish that has, like, there was hairs in the fish.
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Rudy V: And here's the thing.
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Rudy V: Let's take that and put it on something delicious, namely pizza.
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Rudy V: So, yeah.
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Anthony Rey: Disgraced Italians everywhere.
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Rudy V: You and me, we butt heads sometimes, but let's agree that that's-
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Anthony Rey: Anchovies are-
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Rudy V: That's not-
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Rudy V: Shouldn't be even offered.
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Anthony Rey: What a waste of money.
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Anthony Rey: Thank God we didn't get a whole pie of it.
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Rudy V: Fish and pizza don't go together.
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Anthony Rey: No.
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Anthony Rey: And like, if you are gonna put fish on something, like make sure it's out of the ocean for a little longer than three hours, because that's what it tastes like.
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Anthony Rey: It tastes like you guys took it right out of the ocean and slapped it in the oven on top of my pizza.
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Rudy V: It's got fins on it.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: And why did it have fur?
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Rudy V: You know, there's a lot of things in food that we don't know about.
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Rudy V: I heard that, like, you know, like red velvet cake.
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Rudy V: You know how they get the red dye in it?
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Rudy V: You know what it is?
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Rudy V: It's worms.
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Anthony Rey: No.
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Rudy V: Look it up, man.
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Rudy V: Look it up.
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Rudy V: It's actually little worms, like red worms.
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Rudy V: And that's how they get the dye to put in your red velvet cake.
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Anthony Rey: That's disgusting.
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Rudy V: Well, hey.
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Anthony Rey: Well, and now we know red velvet cake has protein.
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Anthony Rey: That's right.
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Rudy V: It's got some nutrition.
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Anthony Rey: So if you guys haven't guessed yet, there's sort of a new format.
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Anthony Rey: To the show, see, what we've done is we've reworked everything.
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Anthony Rey: And I don't know if we're posting the video of this yet, but we're going to figure all that out.
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Anthony Rey: But the show has evolved along with us, and we are now sitting across from each other, which I can't believe it took us 100 episodes to get to this point.
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Anthony Rey: But whatever.
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Anthony Rey: Me and tech, we don't exactly walk hand in hand.
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Anthony Rey: I'm more techie than you.
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Anthony Rey: But I'm less techie than most people.
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Rudy V: You're more techie than me and less techie than Mark, our producer.
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Anthony Rey: Right.
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Anthony Rey: That's a good point.
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Rudy V: And here's the thing.
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Rudy V: You should be ashamed of yourself with that because Mark is, I mean, he's older than the both of us.
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Rudy V: And it's very unusual that someone our age or my age or older is good at tech, but Mark has always been good at tech.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Rudy V: And you suck.
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Anthony Rey: I do suck.
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Anthony Rey: It's because there was a gap in time where I didn't do much tech.
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Rudy V: It's really funny when we have to ask Mark a question about something and the way he answers sometimes like, well, just restart it.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Rudy V: Oh, yeah.
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Rudy V: Sorry, Mark.
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Rudy V: Just, okay, just kick off and just redo it.
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Rudy V: Sorry.
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Anthony Rey: Sorry.
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Rudy V: Like, Mark, no sound coming out of my microphone.
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Rudy V: Did you check the power?
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Rudy V: Is it on?
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Anthony Rey: Yes.
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Rudy V: Oh, Mark, it was off.
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Anthony Rey: It was off.
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Rudy V: Sorry, Mark.
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Anthony Rey: We're only professionals.
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Rudy V: Do you remember the first episode we did, though, with Mark?
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Rudy V: Remember how, like, we still get nervous.
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Rudy V: I'm always nervous.
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Rudy V: But do you remember how awkward that was?
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Rudy V: I want to go back and listen to that because...
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, we should reflect on it.
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Rudy V: That was scary.
00:12:16.547 --> 00:12:25.287
Anthony Rey: Well, that first episode was like we literally just introduced ourselves to, well, to nobody because Mark already knows us.
00:12:25.567 --> 00:12:27.427
Anthony Rey: We knew Mark before this started.
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Anthony Rey: And it's like we didn't have an audience yet because it was our first episode.
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Anthony Rey: So when you really think about it, it's like, what the hell were we doing that day?
00:12:33.827 --> 00:12:35.167
Anthony Rey: What did we accomplish that day?
00:12:35.487 --> 00:12:37.867
Anthony Rey: We just spoke to each other about each other.
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Rudy V: Yeah, kind of like we're doing right now.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Rudy V: Same thing, just six years later.
00:12:42.247 --> 00:12:44.167
Anthony Rey: Six years later and people listen to us now.
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Anthony Rey: So at least it kind of feels like we're not alone.
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Rudy V: I remember feeling like we did so bad and that we were waiting for Mark's response, remember, because there's a little bit of delay.
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Rudy V: And I remember going and looking at Mark and Mark goes, that was good.
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Anthony Rey: I go, really?
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Anthony Rey: Mark said it was excellent.
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Rudy V: Mark said it was excellent.
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Rudy V: So hey, man, thank you, Mark.
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Anthony Rey: So Mark is tech savvy and he's a nice liar.
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Rudy V: Yeah, Mark is tech savvy and he's a good liar.
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Anthony Rey: He's a great liar, because I bought it.
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Anthony Rey: I was like, really?
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Announcer: Okay, all right.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
00:13:20.027 --> 00:13:27.167
Rudy V: So I think people, a lot of people don't understand about doing stuff like this or even like doing standup like we used to do.
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Rudy V: And even filming videos for the YouTube channel is that for us, it feels like we're playing, in front of Wembley Stadium or something.
00:13:37.207 --> 00:13:44.527
Rudy V: That's how it feels, even though that's not true, even though we don't have this immense crowd or it feels that.
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Anthony Rey: I'm not quite Freddie Mercury, but I'm close.
00:13:48.387 --> 00:13:50.287
Anthony Rey: I'm right, it's like he's here.
00:13:50.307 --> 00:13:50.927
Anthony Rey: I'm right here.
00:13:51.507 --> 00:13:52.187
Anthony Rey: I'm right here.
00:13:52.307 --> 00:13:53.487
Anthony Rey: Super close in talent.
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Rudy V: You gotta work on your vocals.
00:13:54.747 --> 00:13:55.427
Rudy V: You gotta take it.
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Anthony Rey: That's really the only thing that separates Freddie Mercury and I is just vocal range, I think.
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Rudy V: I'm a little bit more like David Lee Roth now.
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Rudy V: Wait, is he alive?
00:14:08.247 --> 00:14:09.067
Rudy V: Yeah, he's alive.
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Anthony Rey: He looks a lot like me now too.
00:14:11.487 --> 00:14:15.067
Rudy V: So, I'm a little bit more like, you know what I mean?
00:14:15.527 --> 00:14:18.227
Rudy V: I'm a little bit more like Vince Neil now.
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Anthony Rey: Right, right.
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Anthony Rey: Like 2024 Flea.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: Exactly.
00:14:26.007 --> 00:14:28.747
Anthony Rey: But in Difflea's career, without the abs.
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Anthony Rey: So, like the best part of him, you're missing, but the rest is like, it's uncanny.
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Rudy V: Yeah, you know.
00:14:36.147 --> 00:14:38.547
Rudy V: But yeah, I could see Freddie Mercury in you.
00:14:39.087 --> 00:14:41.187
Rudy V: Definitely, you look, you know.
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Anthony Rey: Did you know that Flea is in Back to the Future 2?
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Rudy V: Is he?
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Rudy V: I didn't know that.
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Anthony Rey: I believe it's part two.
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Rudy V: I didn't know that.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, and it was before he was Flea, I think.
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Anthony Rey: He was just looking for work or something like that.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, yeah, Flea is in it.
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Rudy V: You know, those guys appeared in a lot of stuff.
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Rudy V: Like they're in Anthony Keatus, and I think Flea also is in, what was the movie with Keanu and the bank robbers?
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Rudy V: What was that movie?
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Anthony Rey: Keanu and the bank robbers.
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Rudy V: Keanu Reeves is the undercover cop.
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Anthony Rey: Oh, that was Point Break?
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Rudy V: Point Break, yeah.
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Rudy V: Like they have a small little spot.
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Rudy V: They're on the beach.
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Rudy V: They're in like Venice Beach or something when Witch McCulloch loses the dog.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, Gary Busey.
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Rudy V: Gary Busey.
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Rudy V: Do you remember what Witch McCulloch said about Gary Busey in the roast?
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Rudy V: Who was that comedian he said?
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, he said he just flew in from Lobotomy Island.
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Rudy V: And he said that he looks like if Nick Nolte and Clydesdale had a baby.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Rudy V: Gerardo.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, no, Gerardo.
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Rudy V: What was his name?
00:15:54.647 --> 00:15:55.467
Rudy V: The comedian's name.
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Anthony Rey: Isn't Gerardo, oh no, it was Gerardo.
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Rudy V: Yeah, he's hysterical.
00:16:00.767 --> 00:16:01.267
Rudy V: That was funny.
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Rudy V: Nick Nolte and the Clydesdale had a baby.
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Rudy V: But yeah, it's just, you know, I don't know.
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Rudy V: It's fun doing this though.
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Rudy V: I mean, with you.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, I like that you said evolve because definitely any of you guys who've been listening to us through the first 99 episodes kind of know that like this is a grooming show at heart.
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Anthony Rey: It's how we started it.
00:16:21.867 --> 00:16:24.847
Anthony Rey: It's how it'll always be at the foundation of it.
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Anthony Rey: But as time has gone on, it's kind of like we, like I said, we're very excited to be sitting across from each other now.
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Anthony Rey: And I can already feel it myself.
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Anthony Rey: We knew it was gonna change a little bit of how the show goes, because when me and my dad would structure these episodes, we would always try to like pick, obviously a grooming topic, but sometimes we would just wanna be like free and loose with it and let it kind of happen naturally.
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Anthony Rey: And those were always the episodes we enjoyed doing the most.
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Anthony Rey: Those are always the episodes we laughed the most in when it wasn't so locked into a very specific dog topic.
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Anthony Rey: So, man, I sounded so Jersey right there, dog.
00:17:05.047 --> 00:17:07.447
Anthony Rey: We were just talking about that earlier today before the show.
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Anthony Rey: Yeah, DAWG, dog, New Jersey.
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Anthony Rey: But yeah, we wanna be a little bit more like free and loose because even though you guys do know the real us, I feel like you could know the real us even more.
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Anthony Rey: And that's kind of where I feel, I'm excited about like where the show is because we have stayed so strict with ourselves with the way we wanted the show to sound and we wanted it to be super informative.
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Anthony Rey: And those are all good things, but we never like, we're still like funny guys.
00:17:38.407 --> 00:17:39.967
Anthony Rey: Like we make each other laugh a lot.
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Anthony Rey: A lot of you guys tell us who have reached out and told us you're fans of the show, you always tell us that you think we're funny too.
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Anthony Rey: And it's like, I don't know, I don't wanna be like married to like these like bullet points.
00:17:51.787 --> 00:17:53.927
Anthony Rey: Like, oh, we gotta hit, we gotta teach them how to do this.
00:17:53.947 --> 00:17:55.247
Anthony Rey: We gotta teach them how to do that.
00:17:55.467 --> 00:17:57.507
Anthony Rey: Start a grooming business, how to do this, how to do that.
00:17:57.807 --> 00:17:59.127
Anthony Rey: Doesn't always have to be that.
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Anthony Rey: And it's like, and the show's that where it's not that, I've just enjoyed doing more.
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Anthony Rey: And that's kind of where this is gonna go now is it's like, you guys are gonna kind of get to know the real us more than you ever have really.
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Rudy V: Yeah.
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Anthony Rey: Going forward.
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Rudy V: We have revamped the show in our minds.
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Rudy V: And what you could look forward to is, we're going to have a lot more guests on the show.
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Rudy V: So we have a huge guest line up coming up probably within June and July.
00:18:26.967 --> 00:18:35.887
Rudy V: So even with what we've done, our past guests, those shows seem to be more exciting ones for us because the pressure's off.
00:18:35.907 --> 00:18:41.007
Rudy V: Like we don't have to sit here like you're saying, and like talk about us, because we don't wanna talk about it.
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Rudy V: We wanna talk about the industry.
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Rudy V: We wanna talk about stuff.
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Rudy V: So we're trying to line up a bunch of guests, but our first guest, I remember, what was her name?
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Rudy V: And she was in London.
00:18:50.787 --> 00:18:51.467
Rudy V: Amy, was her name?
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Rudy V: Amy.
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Rudy V: You know, she was a groomer.
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Anthony Rey: Oh, I forget her name.
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Rudy V: Amy from London.
00:18:56.627 --> 00:18:58.767
Rudy V: We had Erika Salvamini on.
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Rudy V: We're gonna actually try to get her back on.
00:19:01.307 --> 00:19:03.407
Rudy V: We had Chrissy Joy on the show.
00:19:03.707 --> 00:19:06.647
Rudy V: We had Amy Lee from GoGroomer.
00:19:06.907 --> 00:19:09.807
Rudy V: We had Nordy Styles on the show.
00:19:10.267 --> 00:19:14.447
Rudy V: We had so many guests that, and I know there's a couple I probably haven't mentioned.
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Rudy V: Yeah, Victoria and Rico from Nordy Styles.
00:19:17.847 --> 00:19:18.507
Rudy V: Yeah, Victoria and Rico.
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Rudy V: It's a fun show.
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Rudy V: So when we have guests, it's a lot more fun for us because we get to interview people and we like to get to know people.
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Rudy V: So you can look forward to that.
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Rudy V: We're gonna try to get some guests on.
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Rudy V: And a big part of our guests are gonna be some companies.
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Rudy V: We were just at InterGroom this past, InterGroom that passed.
00:19:39.847 --> 00:19:43.267
Rudy V: And we got to catch up with all of our friends.
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Rudy V: Joey Villani was there.
00:19:44.707 --> 00:19:47.727
Rudy V: I got to catch up with Loretta, Loretta Voight.
00:19:47.787 --> 00:19:49.467
Rudy V: Her name is Loretta Marchese now.
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Rudy V: But she instructed me at Nash Academy and Romaine from Chicago and all the groomers that I came up with when I first started grooming.
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Rudy V: So we're gonna have Romaine on the show.
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Rudy V: She agreed to come on the show.
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Rudy V: And she's an excellent, she's a master groomer.
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Rudy V: Guys, this girl, I've known her for a very long time.
00:20:09.167 --> 00:20:10.827
Rudy V: And she's just a show groomer.
00:20:10.827 --> 00:20:13.307
Rudy V: She's a competitive groomer, soup to nuts.
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Rudy V: I mean, this woman just did so much for the grooming industry.
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Rudy V: But when we do this, when I talk about grooming, it's hard for me to not forget all of the stuff that made me a groomer.
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Rudy V: So if I had to think of any one person that I would have to pay so much respect to or the most respect to, it would be Shirley Calstone.
00:20:35.647 --> 00:20:47.767
Rudy V: And those of you who may not know Shirley Calstone, Shirley was just, she basically created InterGroom way back when in like, I guess, maybe 1984, 83, maybe.
00:20:47.787 --> 00:20:53.847
Rudy V: I'm not sure, don't quote me on when, but Shirley invented, not invented, but she really put it together.
00:20:53.867 --> 00:21:09.547
Rudy V: And guys like me and Joey Villani and John Statsco, me and Joey were young at the time, and we would just set up chairs, and Joey was just super involved, and it grew to what it is today because of Shirley Calstone and others.
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Rudy V: Don't get me wrong, there's just many, many other people, but she's no longer with us.
00:21:14.267 --> 00:21:17.307
Rudy V: But if you don't know Shirley Calstone, look her up.
00:21:17.507 --> 00:21:31.807
Rudy V: She published some great books with her husband, Larry, and I had the privilege of going to her house in Manhattan and talking about filming and basically doing everything that is being done now.
00:21:31.927 --> 00:21:34.147
Rudy V: But back then, we had to hire a film crew.
00:21:34.167 --> 00:21:39.307
Rudy V: We hired this film crew to cover InterGroom, and it just didn't even go well.
00:21:39.347 --> 00:21:40.347
Rudy V: It went horrible.
00:21:40.467 --> 00:21:44.067
Rudy V: And I just wish that she was alive today to see what's going on.
00:21:44.327 --> 00:21:44.967
Rudy V: You know what I mean?
00:21:45.347 --> 00:21:50.147
Rudy V: With everybody doing YouTube and just the exposure that Grooming has gotten.
00:21:50.407 --> 00:21:56.907
Rudy V: And again, Shirley deserves so much credit for what's happening today in the grooming industry.
00:21:56.927 --> 00:21:58.647
Rudy V: Without her, it would be completely different.
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Anthony Rey: Her mind would be blown with the media attention and like you said, YouTubers and content creators and stuff like that.
00:22:06.747 --> 00:22:16.107
Anthony Rey: I mean, people create content on tons of platforms now and just in general, how vast the market is for dogs and grooming and everything.
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Anthony Rey: I mean, my God, there's entire Instagram and TikTok pages dedicated to just funny dogs.
00:22:20.527 --> 00:22:20.807
Anthony Rey: Yeah.
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Rudy V: And back then, when the vendors would be at these shows, there was only a select few scissor companies.
00:22:27.927 --> 00:22:33.247
Rudy V: Like there was like Guybe, a couple others, Oster, Frome was one of them.
00:22:33.387 --> 00:22:35.327
Rudy V: Double Duck was another company.
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Anthony Rey: I never even heard of Double Duck.
00:22:36.747 --> 00:22:39.507
Rudy V: Yeah, they're still around, Double Duck is still around.
00:22:39.567 --> 00:22:41.027
Rudy V: I still use some of their shears.
00:22:41.307 --> 00:22:45.627
Rudy V: But the thing is now, how many scissor companies were at InterGroom this year?
00:22:46.007 --> 00:22:46.847
Rudy V: I mean, there was-
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Anthony Rey: I recall at least four or five.
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Rudy V: Yeah, and huge, huge companies.
00:22:52.247 --> 00:22:57.967
Rudy V: We had the liberty of talking to Sammy, and what was the other guy's name at Kenchi?
00:22:58.247 --> 00:23:01.027
Rudy V: Sammy and Jonathan, they were great.
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Rudy V: We sat there, we talked to them for a long time about their shears, and Jonathan was telling us that he's a groomer.
00:23:07.607 --> 00:23:24.067
Rudy V: So again, our purpose is we want to be the liaison between people who maybe are just started grooming or people who are grooming at home, as to say, you don't have to use these cheap products that don't work, okay?
00:23:24.167 --> 00:23:28.087
Rudy V: There are really good products that are really not that expensive anymore.
00:23:28.107 --> 00:23:34.487
Rudy V: And companies like Kenchi are putting out great shears, great clippers that we highly recommend.
00:23:34.487 --> 00:23:40.967
Rudy V: So again, if you guys are grooming at home, we want to help you guys choose what's good for you.
00:23:40.967 --> 00:23:43.427
Rudy V: And it's not anything that we wouldn't use ourselves.
00:23:43.427 --> 00:23:46.187
Rudy V: I mean, that's how good these products are nowadays.
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Anthony Rey: Kenchi is smart.
00:23:48.387 --> 00:23:51.827
Anthony Rey: Kenchi is changing the game a little bit because they do like levels.
00:23:52.267 --> 00:23:57.167
Anthony Rey: It is levels of quality, I guess, but it's not like any of their scissors won't cut your dog's hair.
00:23:57.287 --> 00:24:08.167
Anthony Rey: But Kenchi is smart because when you think of levels, it's like, okay, well, yeah, these scissors might be, scissors, shears might be $400, but your skill level might not be there yet.
00:24:08.187 --> 00:24:11.047
Anthony Rey: So it's like, when I say levels, I mean, it's like, yeah, it's levels of quality.
00:24:11.067 --> 00:24:19.067
Anthony Rey: But like, if you're a novice groomer, you don't require $400 shears, but they offer $150 ones, and those are, you know, you could do those.
00:24:19.087 --> 00:24:21.927
Rudy V: I wouldn't even use the $400 shears.
00:24:21.987 --> 00:24:35.387
Rudy V: The $400 shear, honestly, is designed for like the Suzeco's or anybody that's jumping into the ring, or, you know, if I was competing, yeah, I would want that $400 shear, but, you know, I'm using, you know, a $250 shear.
00:24:35.447 --> 00:24:45.747
Rudy V: But believe it or not, like you said, that $150 shear that you're talking about is going to work just as comparable to the 250 because you're only working on one dog.
00:24:45.947 --> 00:24:46.187
Anthony Rey: Yeah.
00:24:46.207 --> 00:24:47.707
Rudy V: You know what I'm saying?
00:24:47.727 --> 00:24:58.347
Rudy V: So it's a shear that's going to deliver, you know, good quality, you know, scissoring, and that, you know, you may not have to sharpen so much, you know, that's going to hold its edge and that sort of thing.
00:24:58.367 --> 00:25:02.707
Rudy V: But, you know, when you're doing a lot of dogs like we do, we don't even do that many anymore.
00:25:02.727 --> 00:25:10.547
Rudy V: But, you know, if you're doing a lot of dogs, you're a popping groomer, and you're doing 10, 12 dogs a day, those shears are going to wear out.
00:25:10.947 --> 00:25:19.287
Rudy V: But again, if you have a good $250 shear from Kenshi, or, you know, or even Guybe, you know, EM.
00:25:19.307 --> 00:25:24.747
Rudy V: Guybe, I mean, let's not forget the, you know, Guybe is just, they've been a staple, man, you know, in the industry.
00:25:24.947 --> 00:25:26.367
Rudy V: You've got a good shear like that.
00:25:26.387 --> 00:25:26.707
Rudy V: Guess what?
00:25:26.727 --> 00:25:29.027
Rudy V: You're not going to have to get them sharpened all that often.
00:25:29.047 --> 00:25:32.427
Rudy V: You know, just don't drop them and don't don't cut paper with them or anything.
00:25:32.447 --> 00:25:33.727
Rudy V: Just, you know, take care of them.
00:25:33.747 --> 00:25:35.547
Anthony Rey: Dreaded dropped shear.
00:25:35.707 --> 00:25:36.087
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:25:36.567 --> 00:25:37.387
Rudy V: Oh, the dread.
00:25:37.407 --> 00:25:38.107
Rudy V: Yeah, you drop them.
00:25:38.127 --> 00:25:38.607
Rudy V: They don't work.
00:25:38.707 --> 00:25:39.147
Anthony Rey: That's it.
00:25:39.307 --> 00:25:40.307
Anthony Rey: You got to rebound.
00:25:40.527 --> 00:25:40.787
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:25:41.007 --> 00:25:52.667
Rudy V: But our thing is, and I think it's always been our purpose since day one, either doing the podcast or even doing YouTube, is that we want to help the at-home groomer and help the new groomer.
00:25:52.687 --> 00:25:59.887
Rudy V: Because again, even with the new groomer, you may not have a lot of money or a lot of dogs that you need that $250 shear.
00:25:59.887 --> 00:26:01.387
Rudy V: And there's shears that are even cheaper.
00:26:01.527 --> 00:26:03.907
Rudy V: There's shears that are 75 bucks.
00:26:04.727 --> 00:26:05.387
Rudy V: 40 bucks.
00:26:05.787 --> 00:26:07.967
Rudy V: And, you know, they're workable.
00:26:07.987 --> 00:26:08.427
Rudy V: They work.
00:26:08.707 --> 00:26:10.327
Rudy V: They're not a bad shear, you know.
00:26:10.727 --> 00:26:15.227
Rudy V: So again, we had the liberty of talking to all these companies.
00:26:15.807 --> 00:26:20.127
Rudy V: And man, if anything's gotten better, it's grooming products.
00:26:20.147 --> 00:26:21.747
Rudy V: They have gotten so much better.
00:26:22.007 --> 00:26:28.487
Rudy V: I used to use an old Oster Clipper that it sounded like a garbage truck.
00:26:29.307 --> 00:26:31.887
Rudy V: I mean, it was just so loud.
00:26:31.987 --> 00:26:33.787
Rudy V: You know, it sounded like a drill.
00:26:35.107 --> 00:26:38.747
Rudy V: And now the way they're making clippers, forget it.
00:26:38.807 --> 00:26:42.587
Rudy V: You know, you got the Andis 5-speed XL that we always use.
00:26:43.167 --> 00:26:49.647
Rudy V: You also have the KM-10, the Wall KM-10, KM-5, if you're starting out.
00:26:50.047 --> 00:26:51.267
Rudy V: Again, great products.
00:26:51.647 --> 00:26:57.587
Rudy V: And we're urging people to look into better products, better equipment.
00:26:57.827 --> 00:27:00.967
Anthony Rey: We got those nail grinders that you can't even tell if they're on or not.
00:27:00.987 --> 00:27:02.047
Anthony Rey: That's how quiet they are.
00:27:02.167 --> 00:27:03.747
Rudy V: Yeah, the Andis cordless ones.
00:27:03.767 --> 00:27:04.367
Rudy V: And they're little.
00:27:04.387 --> 00:27:06.047
Rudy V: They look like a little lipstick holder.
00:27:06.387 --> 00:27:07.287
Rudy V: You know what I mean?
00:27:07.347 --> 00:27:09.347
Anthony Rey: I didn't even know what the hell it was when you brought it in.
00:27:09.367 --> 00:27:10.507
Anthony Rey: I was like, what is this?
00:27:10.707 --> 00:27:15.607
Rudy V: Yeah, yeah, it's a great little grinder for sensitive dogs or small dogs.
00:27:15.627 --> 00:27:20.747
Rudy V: You know, you remember that old grinder, the old Dremel that I had out loud, it was.
00:27:21.007 --> 00:27:26.207
Rudy V: So again, a lot has gone into the industry and it's made things a lot better.
00:27:26.487 --> 00:27:27.427
Rudy V: I'm more old school.
00:27:27.527 --> 00:27:28.567
Rudy V: I'm old school Groomer.
00:27:28.587 --> 00:27:29.707
Rudy V: I like the older stuff.
00:27:30.027 --> 00:27:32.947
Rudy V: I do like the newer stuff too, like especially the Kenchi shears.
00:27:32.967 --> 00:27:39.267
Rudy V: When I was holding those at the show, man, it was like holding, you know, it was like a baseball glove that you just fell in love with.
00:27:39.287 --> 00:27:43.527
Anthony Rey: Kenchi must have had 50 to 60 sets of shears out on display.
00:27:43.607 --> 00:27:45.807
Anthony Rey: I'm pretty sure I picked up every single one.
00:27:45.927 --> 00:27:47.087
Anthony Rey: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:47.107 --> 00:27:51.027
Anthony Rey: Because it's addicting once you pick one up, you want to feel what all of them feel like.
00:27:51.047 --> 00:27:52.087
Rudy V: Yeah, even the Guy booth.
00:27:52.107 --> 00:27:53.687
Rudy V: Remember, we talked to the girl.
00:27:53.707 --> 00:27:54.967
Rudy V: She has a YouTube channel too.
00:27:55.527 --> 00:28:01.487
Rudy V: I'm forgetting her name right now, but she was talking to us about the whole, you know, how Guy has evolved.
00:28:01.687 --> 00:28:03.267
Rudy V: They're putting out great shears too.
00:28:03.607 --> 00:28:06.227
Rudy V: So again, it's just the industry is growing.
00:28:06.487 --> 00:28:11.647
Rudy V: And if you want to grow with it, man, you've really got to pick out good equipment.
00:28:12.127 --> 00:28:16.327
Rudy V: And there's much better equipment available to us than there ever has been.
00:28:16.427 --> 00:28:25.567
Anthony Rey: It's an exciting time for grooming content creators and for any of you guys out there who seek out, you know, everybody's got their thing that they watch on YouTube.
00:28:25.587 --> 00:28:36.887
Anthony Rey: But a lot of you, obviously, if you're listening to the show, it's an exciting time for grooming content creation because whether you're the viewer or the content creator yourself, because it's not oversaturated yet.
00:28:37.447 --> 00:28:49.827
Anthony Rey: There's quite a few grooming channels, but it's not like, say, video games, where it's just, I mean, there are just hundreds and hundreds of thousands of gaming channels where it's like, oh, who do I pick?
00:28:49.847 --> 00:28:50.567
Anthony Rey: Who do I watch?
00:28:50.567 --> 00:28:52.447
Anthony Rey: Or, oh, okay, I like this game.
00:28:52.607 --> 00:28:56.827
Anthony Rey: And then there's a hundred thousand people who stream that game or play that game.
00:28:56.927 --> 00:28:57.947
Anthony Rey: Grooming isn't like that.
00:28:57.967 --> 00:29:04.247
Anthony Rey: There's a good like 10 channels that have very valuable, well-made, good information grooming wise.
00:29:04.487 --> 00:29:07.007
Anthony Rey: It's a good time for that because it's still very condensed.
00:29:07.227 --> 00:29:11.247
Anthony Rey: And there are some mega grooming channels like Girl with the Dogs and stuff like that.
00:29:11.507 --> 00:29:14.347
Anthony Rey: Amy's channel has just blown up over the years.
00:29:14.907 --> 00:29:16.567
Anthony Rey: Our channel's there for you.
00:29:16.587 --> 00:29:25.007
Anthony Rey: There's a select few channels that have a pretty big following, but there's not a thousand grooming channels on YouTube where you don't know where...
00:29:25.187 --> 00:29:26.047
Anthony Rey: And groomers are all...
00:29:26.347 --> 00:29:27.347
Anthony Rey: We're all like...
00:29:27.447 --> 00:29:30.667
Anthony Rey: We have very varying opinions on what to use.
00:29:30.927 --> 00:29:32.387
Anthony Rey: Like you said, you're old school.
00:29:32.767 --> 00:29:36.407
Anthony Rey: Some groomers use newer tech, newer stuff, and all of that.
00:29:36.427 --> 00:29:43.767
Anthony Rey: You're already gonna get different opinions from different groomers on what to use, what you don't need, what you might want to change, don't change all that.
00:29:43.987 --> 00:29:45.967
Anthony Rey: But it's not completely saturated.
00:29:45.967 --> 00:29:54.447
Anthony Rey: It's a pretty condensed, easy to read, easy to find market of videos and information.
00:29:54.467 --> 00:29:56.127
Anthony Rey: It's a good time.
00:29:56.147 --> 00:30:02.187
Anthony Rey: It's a good time to be a fan of grooming, a fan of dogs in general, or a content creator of both.
00:30:02.207 --> 00:30:02.687
Anthony Rey: It's a good time.
00:30:03.447 --> 00:30:05.087
Rudy V: It is, and there's a big difference.
00:30:05.107 --> 00:30:09.047
Rudy V: Like even you're mentioning other grooming channels, and there's so many of them.
00:30:09.267 --> 00:30:12.107
Rudy V: And we're going to have, again, a lot of them on our show.
00:30:12.127 --> 00:30:14.427
Rudy V: We're reaching out to a lot of dog groomers.
00:30:14.447 --> 00:30:16.487
Rudy V: And if you want to be on the show, let us know.
00:30:16.987 --> 00:30:21.487
Rudy V: Let us know if you want to be on the podcast, because we're looking to have more grooming guests.
00:30:21.727 --> 00:30:25.107
Rudy V: But as far as equipment, like say Groom House, right?
00:30:25.187 --> 00:30:27.447
Rudy V: The married couple over in Serbia.
00:30:27.647 --> 00:30:28.907
Rudy V: These people do wonders.
00:30:29.227 --> 00:30:33.027
Rudy V: If you want to see some crazy, spectacular grooming and...
00:30:33.867 --> 00:30:35.067
Anthony Rey: Well, they're miracle workers.
00:30:35.067 --> 00:30:37.887
Anthony Rey: They're absolutely insanely talented.
00:30:37.907 --> 00:30:45.907
Rudy V: So what they do is they rescue dogs, they do a lot of rescue work, and they basically shave down a lot of dogs that are in horrendous shape.
00:30:45.927 --> 00:30:48.927
Rudy V: I mean, the worst matted dogs you've ever seen in your life.
00:30:49.367 --> 00:30:52.547
Rudy V: So if you want to see some before and afters, check out Groom House.
00:30:52.787 --> 00:30:55.107
Rudy V: But again, talking about equipment.
00:30:55.307 --> 00:31:00.727
Rudy V: So Groom House, they're going to be using, and they do use, really heavy-duty clippers.
00:31:01.127 --> 00:31:03.227
Rudy V: They use tons of 10 blades and stuff.
00:31:03.247 --> 00:31:04.787
Rudy V: So you're not going to need that.
00:31:05.107 --> 00:31:14.547
Rudy V: So you can't get, as opposed to say, somebody like who's doing show dog grooming and stuff like that, they're using a different type of equipment.
00:31:14.567 --> 00:31:21.047
Rudy V: So again, there's so many different avenues or genres of grooming itself, you know what I mean?
00:31:21.087 --> 00:31:26.967
Rudy V: And types of grooming, rather, where you have people that do a lot of rescue work and a lot of shave down.
00:31:26.987 --> 00:31:32.567
Rudy V: So they're just going through 10 blades, and they need a really powerful clipper.
00:31:32.587 --> 00:31:42.427
Rudy V: They need even more of an industrial type clipper as opposed to even the Andis 5-Speed that we use, even though that one's really strong too.
00:31:43.127 --> 00:31:50.107
Rudy V: If you're grooming in a grooming shop and you're doing pets that come to you very often, you're not going to need that kind of equipment.
00:31:50.127 --> 00:31:55.067
Rudy V: So again, we're trying to like, if you don't know anything about dog grooming, you'll be very confused.
00:31:55.147 --> 00:31:59.007
Rudy V: Yeah, some people think that, oh, there's only one blade that's a universal blade.
00:31:59.027 --> 00:32:01.107
Rudy V: It's like, guys, there's 40 blades.
00:32:01.447 --> 00:32:05.287
Rudy V: There's 30 different blades that you use for different things.
00:32:05.307 --> 00:32:06.567
Rudy V: So you really got to know your stuff.
00:32:07.127 --> 00:32:11.987
Anthony Rey: I can't imagine how many people have been scared away from going into grooming.
00:32:12.267 --> 00:32:15.707
Anthony Rey: Because if you don't know what to get, it could be very overwhelming.
00:32:16.007 --> 00:32:18.027
Anthony Rey: And it's, that's what we're here to do.
00:32:18.047 --> 00:32:22.907
Anthony Rey: I mean, amongst other things, but it's like, I like being that, it's like, no, we'll go look up grooming by Rudy.
00:32:22.927 --> 00:32:25.047
Anthony Rey: They'll tell you which one to get, what to get.
00:32:25.467 --> 00:32:26.567
Anthony Rey: Amy's great with products.
00:32:26.587 --> 00:32:27.067
Anthony Rey: You know, geez.
00:32:27.087 --> 00:32:27.747
Anthony Rey: Oh yeah.
00:32:28.247 --> 00:32:28.787
Rudy V: That's the thing.
00:32:28.807 --> 00:32:30.587
Rudy V: Her channel, again, does that.
00:32:30.607 --> 00:32:35.587
Rudy V: Her channel does this whole, like, if you want to learn about products, check out Amy, check out GoGroomer.
00:32:35.607 --> 00:32:39.767
Rudy V: You know, if you want to learn like how to groom, we do a lot of how-to stuff.
00:32:40.227 --> 00:32:42.207
Rudy V: We like to teach people how to do it.
00:32:42.367 --> 00:32:46.087
Rudy V: Like GroomHouse, most people are not going to be able to do what they do.
00:32:46.107 --> 00:32:47.727
Rudy V: You really have to know what you're doing.
00:32:47.747 --> 00:32:49.727
Rudy V: So I wouldn't even attempt to do what they do.
00:32:50.107 --> 00:32:55.647
Rudy V: Like Girl with the Dogs, she features enormous dogs and unique breeds.
00:32:55.867 --> 00:32:56.507
Anthony Rey: Uncommon.
00:32:56.847 --> 00:32:57.907
Rudy V: Uncommon breeds.
00:32:57.927 --> 00:33:00.267
Rudy V: So I actually love what's happening, you know?
00:33:00.367 --> 00:33:01.047
Anthony Rey: You know what it is?
00:33:01.067 --> 00:33:09.507
Anthony Rey: It's that there's, in every community, and in our case, the grooming community or the pet community, there's always corners.
00:33:09.607 --> 00:33:18.047
Anthony Rey: And that's why this community is very organized still because YouTube isn't over saturated with thousands and thousands of grooming channels.
00:33:18.067 --> 00:33:24.327
Anthony Rey: There's just sort of a few good ones, and there's little corners within the grooming community.
00:33:24.347 --> 00:33:26.347
Anthony Rey: And that's great, because you were just laying it out perfectly.
00:33:26.367 --> 00:33:35.487
Anthony Rey: Like if you want to learn some grooming and learn about some products and know what to get and how to use it properly on your dog, Amy, all the way.
00:33:35.507 --> 00:33:41.067
Anthony Rey: If you want to just be fascinated by a rescue grooming, groom house, there it is.
00:33:41.087 --> 00:33:43.267
Anthony Rey: If you love big breeds, grow with the dogs.
00:33:43.527 --> 00:33:48.647
Anthony Rey: If you want to learn some technique and stuff, grooming by Rudy, it's like...
00:33:48.927 --> 00:33:51.007
Rudy V: Even mobile groomers, you got Poison All.
00:33:51.347 --> 00:33:52.587
Anthony Rey: Right, yeah, Poison All.
00:33:52.607 --> 00:33:54.467
Rudy V: Laura Ventura at Poison All.
00:33:54.487 --> 00:33:58.267
Rudy V: Check her channel out because she's a mobile groomer in Florida.
00:33:58.447 --> 00:33:59.827
Anthony Rey: And a whole different ballgame.
00:33:59.847 --> 00:34:01.147
Rudy V: Whole different ballgame.
00:34:01.167 --> 00:34:03.227
Rudy V: And she's got this great, beautiful truck.
00:34:03.247 --> 00:34:04.427
Rudy V: I think she's got two of them now.
00:34:04.607 --> 00:34:06.947
Rudy V: So yeah, that's what's so great about this.
00:34:06.967 --> 00:34:09.307
Rudy V: And again, when you go to these shows, right?
00:34:09.327 --> 00:34:17.227
Rudy V: When you go to InterGroomer, you go to Hershey, or you go to Chicago, or any of the grooming shows, they're all over the place.
00:34:17.507 --> 00:34:21.207
Rudy V: You get to merge and talk to all these people.
00:34:21.887 --> 00:34:24.907
Rudy V: And we always say, groomers need to talk to each other.
00:34:25.507 --> 00:34:30.367
Rudy V: Anthony and I are lucky because we have each other, but a lot of groomers work alone.
00:34:31.727 --> 00:34:38.767
Rudy V: And it's a lonely job, especially if you're a mobile groomer, man, and you're just in a van all day by yourself, and you don't have help, you're lonely, man.
00:34:39.087 --> 00:34:41.587
Rudy V: You connect with the dogs really well, and I'll give you that.
00:34:41.727 --> 00:34:44.747
Rudy V: But me and Anthony, we goof around all day.
00:34:45.767 --> 00:34:51.887
Anthony Rey: We actually goof around more the harder a day is, because that's the kind of people we are.
00:34:51.907 --> 00:34:57.067
Anthony Rey: We like to, if I'm stressed out, I gotta make a joke or laugh or something, and that's what we do.
00:34:57.387 --> 00:35:07.207
Anthony Rey: We'll be stressed out, busy day, whatever, and I'll just come out with a dumb and dumber quote or something, and you'll start laughing, and it kind of fixes us.
00:35:07.227 --> 00:35:08.607
Rudy V: Yeah, or we destroy each other.
00:35:08.627 --> 00:35:12.127
Rudy V: You just show me like funny TikToks or something.
00:35:12.387 --> 00:35:13.967
Anthony Rey: Yeah, Instagram reels.
00:35:13.987 --> 00:35:15.947
Rudy V: Instagram reels, it's just hysterical.
00:35:16.227 --> 00:35:17.447
Rudy V: So me and Anthony are lucky.
00:35:17.467 --> 00:35:20.627
Rudy V: We work with each other, and it really does break it up.
00:35:21.347 --> 00:35:23.967
Rudy V: If you're a groomer and you're working alone.
00:35:23.987 --> 00:35:25.407
Anthony Rey: I'll power to you.
00:35:25.627 --> 00:35:26.147
Rudy V: Yeah, man.
00:35:26.267 --> 00:35:27.947
Anthony Rey: Well, you did that for a short time.
00:35:28.387 --> 00:35:29.007
Rudy V: Long time.
00:35:29.607 --> 00:35:34.807
Anthony Rey: Well, I mean, when you went into business for yourself, then, because I was still too young.
00:35:35.047 --> 00:35:37.567
Rudy V: Oh yeah, I worked there for eight years.
00:35:37.887 --> 00:35:39.627
Anthony Rey: Yeah, eight years by yourself.
00:35:39.827 --> 00:35:44.747
Anthony Rey: I think you had a couple bathed once in a blue moon, but nothing concrete.
00:35:44.767 --> 00:35:46.067
Anthony Rey: It was always temporary.
00:35:46.167 --> 00:35:47.227
Anthony Rey: So you did, you know.
00:35:47.607 --> 00:35:52.127
Rudy V: Yeah, I would pick up a 200 pound great Pyrenees by myself.
00:35:52.147 --> 00:35:52.887
Anthony Rey: That's crazy.
00:35:53.127 --> 00:35:56.087
Rudy V: Yep, by myself and put them in the tub and bathe them.
00:35:56.567 --> 00:35:59.807
Rudy V: And no wonder why I have multiple hernias.
00:36:00.107 --> 00:36:03.067
Anthony Rey: The David Lee Roth stuff is starting to really come together.
00:36:03.067 --> 00:36:03.687
Anthony Rey: Makes sense.
00:36:03.887 --> 00:36:05.447
Anthony Rey: It's gonna start to fall into place.
00:36:07.747 --> 00:36:09.367
Anthony Rey: Great Pyrenees by yourself.
00:36:09.447 --> 00:36:10.607
Rudy V: Yeah, great Pyrenees.
00:36:10.627 --> 00:36:11.527
Anthony Rey: Yeah, it all fits now.
00:36:11.747 --> 00:36:12.747
Rudy V: It all, yeah.
00:36:12.947 --> 00:36:13.807
Rudy V: It's, yeah.
00:36:14.147 --> 00:36:20.727
Rudy V: So nowadays, though, we recommend, if you are gonna be, you need an assistant, you need somebody to help you.
00:36:21.167 --> 00:36:33.307
Rudy V: You need to either lift dogs together, or they have new grooming tables that just go, hydraulic grooming tables, electric, that go all the way to the ground, so you don't even have to lift the dog anymore.
00:36:33.587 --> 00:36:37.247
Rudy V: When I first started, those hydraulic tables were iffy.
00:36:37.547 --> 00:36:41.587
Rudy V: They just started coming out, but now you got companies like Pet Lift, check out Pet Lift.
00:36:41.607 --> 00:36:47.787
Rudy V: I mean, they have grooming tables that just go all the way to the ground, and will elevate your dog like a car.
00:36:48.147 --> 00:36:49.327
Rudy V: I still work on the floor.
00:36:49.727 --> 00:36:50.167
Anthony Rey: You do?
00:36:50.427 --> 00:36:51.567
Rudy V: I crawl around the floor.
00:36:51.707 --> 00:36:52.987
Anthony Rey: You just did that the other day.
00:36:53.187 --> 00:37:02.207
Anthony Rey: Well, you said apprentice, and I said this a couple episodes ago, I think, unless it was just me and you talking during the day, but tattoo artists, you have to get an apprenticeship.
00:37:02.227 --> 00:37:06.887
Anthony Rey: You have to hang out in a tattoo shop for a while before you start working.
00:37:06.907 --> 00:37:08.347
Anthony Rey: And it's like grooming should be the same thing.
00:37:08.627 --> 00:37:13.387
Anthony Rey: Grooming is a very non-regulated occupation, or at least it is here.
00:37:13.627 --> 00:37:17.827
Anthony Rey: And it's like, weird thing I heard recently, plumbing is the same thing.
00:37:17.847 --> 00:37:25.087
Anthony Rey: You don't need a license to be a plumber, which is crazy to me, because you could really mess up someone's house.
00:37:25.447 --> 00:37:30.027
Anthony Rey: But that's something that we've been kind of hoping changes at some point.
00:37:30.227 --> 00:37:32.087
Anthony Rey: Grooming is just so not regulated.
00:37:32.107 --> 00:37:36.167
Anthony Rey: There are some committees here and there that try to do it, but...
00:37:36.687 --> 00:37:41.587
Rudy V: Yeah, Joey, and then that National Dog Grooming Association, we've tried to do it.
00:37:41.787 --> 00:37:51.107
Rudy V: But here's the thing, I don't think it's gonna happen, but what does have to happen is, you as the customer, you as the pet owner, you have to be that person.
00:37:51.307 --> 00:37:57.827
Rudy V: For example, I wouldn't bring my dog to anyone that isn't experienced or certified in some way.
00:37:57.847 --> 00:37:58.867
Rudy V: You know what I mean?
00:37:59.147 --> 00:38:04.487
Rudy V: I mean, experience, not everybody goes to dog grooming school, and you don't necessarily have to.
00:38:04.687 --> 00:38:06.967
Anthony Rey: No, that's the weird thing.
00:38:07.207 --> 00:38:18.287
Rudy V: If you wanna learn the proper way, I went to grooming school, but if you wanna learn the proper way and learn safety and stuff, you have to be the person that regulates who you're bringing your dog to.
00:38:18.607 --> 00:38:19.487
Anthony Rey: That's a good point.
00:38:19.507 --> 00:38:27.027
Anthony Rey: And hats off to you responsible pet owners out there, because man, we just had a recent layoff because of your hernia surgery.
00:38:27.787 --> 00:38:34.267
Anthony Rey: And let me tell you, some of the steps our customers took to stick with us, and they had to miss, we were closed for two months.
00:38:35.087 --> 00:38:43.047
Anthony Rey: Some of our customers went through whatever they had to go through to make sure they maintained as best as they possibly could the entire time.
00:38:43.067 --> 00:38:46.987
Anthony Rey: And I mean, they were trying everything, some more successful than others, but man.
00:38:47.367 --> 00:38:52.127
Rudy V: Our buddy Nick today, he told us that he went out and bought a clipper and he did it himself.
00:38:52.147 --> 00:38:52.867
Anthony Rey: He did it himself.
00:38:52.887 --> 00:38:58.507
Anthony Rey: It was like a tool that vacuums up the hair, sounds gimmicky, but he says it was actually doing the job pretty good.
00:38:58.607 --> 00:38:59.207
Rudy V: There you go.
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Anthony Rey: And it's like, when I hear stuff like that, it makes me feel like we're making somewhat of a difference.
00:39:04.967 --> 00:39:06.907
Anthony Rey: And I don't care, making a difference is making a difference.
00:39:06.927 --> 00:39:09.047
Anthony Rey: It doesn't matter if you change one person's life or a hundred.
00:39:09.327 --> 00:39:11.247
Anthony Rey: You're making a difference is just that.
00:39:11.407 --> 00:39:26.507
Anthony Rey: And to know that we got a channel out there that a few of our customers, I'm sure, probably watch, and got a couple of tips from us, and then we had to close down, and they used those tips to bridge the gap of those two months that we needed them to.
00:39:26.527 --> 00:39:28.467
Anthony Rey: I mean, jeez, what more can you ask for?
00:39:28.607 --> 00:39:37.207
Rudy V: And we get a lot of great comments on our YouTube channel with people who watch this, and it helped them clip their dog's nails or do the pads.
00:39:37.227 --> 00:39:46.747
Rudy V: We just got a nice comment the other day on a person who couldn't figure out what was wrong with their dog's foot, and they clipped the pads, and the dog's walking perfect now, and that was the problem.
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Rudy V: So anyway, we should take a quick break because we're going a little bit over our time, and we're gonna come back, and we're gonna sum up our 100th episode here.
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Rudy V: So we'll take a quick break, and we'll be back in a few minutes.
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Anthony Rey: And we're back.
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Anthony Rey: Welcome back to Groomer Humor on Pet Life Radio.
00:40:41.557 --> 00:40:45.037
Anthony Rey: We are here celebrating our 100th episode.
00:40:45.517 --> 00:40:49.477
Anthony Rey: We've been reflecting, talked a little grooming, talked a little bit about what's coming.
00:40:49.497 --> 00:40:52.957
Anthony Rey: We're gonna talk a little bit more about that to wrap things up.
00:40:52.977 --> 00:40:54.057
Anthony Rey: But yeah, thank you guys.
00:40:54.077 --> 00:40:56.517
Anthony Rey: We wanna thank you guys all for sticking with us.
00:40:56.537 --> 00:40:59.637
Anthony Rey: It took quite a while for this 100th episode to come out.
00:40:59.657 --> 00:41:02.437
Anthony Rey: Life gets in the way, as you all know.
00:41:04.517 --> 00:41:06.797
Anthony Rey: And then overthinking gets in the way, too.
00:41:07.437 --> 00:41:08.137
Rudy V: And hernias.
00:41:08.317 --> 00:41:10.357
Anthony Rey: Yeah, and hernias, hernias get in the way.
00:41:10.377 --> 00:41:14.217
Anthony Rey: We were bouncing a lot of ideas off of each other of how to make the show special.
00:41:14.517 --> 00:41:16.517
Anthony Rey: And that was taking up time, too.
00:41:16.537 --> 00:41:18.137
Anthony Rey: And then we finally just said, dude, screw it.
00:41:18.657 --> 00:41:21.097
Anthony Rey: It's special anyway, because you guys are still here.
00:41:21.117 --> 00:41:24.457
Anthony Rey: Any of you who are listening to this right now, you're still here.
00:41:24.817 --> 00:41:26.977
Anthony Rey: And it's been, how many years, six?
00:41:27.417 --> 00:41:27.757
Rudy V: Six.
00:41:28.117 --> 00:41:30.457
Anthony Rey: Six years to reflect on.
00:41:31.397 --> 00:41:34.957
Anthony Rey: And yeah, it's just, what a journey, what a ride.
00:41:35.317 --> 00:41:36.997
Rudy V: Yeah, yeah.
00:41:36.997 --> 00:41:37.817
Anthony Rey: It's been fun.
00:41:37.837 --> 00:41:42.497
Anthony Rey: And it's only gonna get funner from here, because we were saying before, we're gonna start getting some more guests on.
00:41:43.137 --> 00:42:04.097
Anthony Rey: That was always some of the funnest episodes we did, but also pretty challenging, because like I was mentioning earlier, it's like we were always so structured, and we're gonna loosen things up a little bit, because a lot of times the structure would make it a little more difficult to have a guest, because it's like, okay, well, we gotta work around this, and we gotta work around that, rather than just have fun and do it and have people here.
00:42:04.117 --> 00:42:08.517
Anthony Rey: We got this table now, we're sitting across from each other, it's gonna be different, it's gonna be funner.
00:42:08.937 --> 00:42:09.817
Rudy V: It's already funner.
00:42:09.977 --> 00:42:11.197
Anthony Rey: Yeah, it's already funner.
00:42:11.217 --> 00:42:12.237
Anthony Rey: It's just different.
00:42:12.257 --> 00:42:14.117
Anthony Rey: We started doing, remember I used to be in the bathroom?
00:42:14.157 --> 00:42:14.437
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:42:14.717 --> 00:42:15.077
Anthony Rey: Yeah.
00:42:15.737 --> 00:42:17.817
Rudy V: Oh, God, I remember that, the old story.
00:42:17.837 --> 00:42:24.077
Rudy V: You used to be in the bathroom, because our mics would just pick each other up, so you had to go to that.
00:42:25.837 --> 00:42:27.917
Anthony Rey: I used to bring my laptop into the bathroom.
00:42:28.097 --> 00:42:31.237
Rudy V: If there's any podcast that learned the hard way, it's ours.
00:42:31.317 --> 00:42:33.877
Rudy V: I think we've had many, many a problem.
00:42:33.897 --> 00:42:37.997
Rudy V: I think for the first three or four episodes, my mic wasn't even on.
00:42:38.197 --> 00:42:43.977
Anthony Rey: Yeah, there was that whole era where you're just talking into that microphone for fun.
00:42:44.077 --> 00:42:45.117
Rudy V: Yeah, couldn't figure it out.
00:42:45.137 --> 00:42:50.277
Anthony Rey: It's just not there, and we weren't filming it or anything, so it's literally pointless to have it in front of your face.
00:42:50.437 --> 00:42:50.817
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:42:50.937 --> 00:42:51.237
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:42:51.257 --> 00:42:55.437
Anthony Rey: That was a nice three, four episode span, too.
00:42:55.697 --> 00:42:56.497
Rudy V: Yeah, yeah.
00:42:56.517 --> 00:43:00.757
Anthony Rey: Where we would listen to the episodes back, and it would be like, man, dad, you just don't sound good.
00:43:00.777 --> 00:43:01.837
Anthony Rey: Your mic sucks.
00:43:01.877 --> 00:43:02.157
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:43:02.457 --> 00:43:03.797
Anthony Rey: But we have the same mic.
00:43:03.817 --> 00:43:06.157
Rudy V: Yeah, you just don't have a good radio voice.
00:43:06.177 --> 00:43:10.557
Anthony Rey: Yeah, you must have a bad podcast voice, bad radio voice, because...
00:43:10.577 --> 00:43:13.737
Rudy V: And then you wonder why I always say, hey, am I bad?
00:43:13.897 --> 00:43:20.217
Rudy V: It's like raising a child and always telling them they sucked and they're bad, and then expecting them to feel good about themselves.
00:43:20.897 --> 00:43:25.377
Rudy V: So, but hey, real quick, we actually do have to sum up this show.
00:43:25.597 --> 00:43:26.917
Rudy V: What's your Twitch?
00:43:27.437 --> 00:43:28.757
Rudy V: Tell them about your Twitch thing.
00:43:28.937 --> 00:43:31.197
Anthony Rey: So yeah, I started streaming on Twitch.
00:43:31.217 --> 00:43:39.757
Anthony Rey: It's not family-friendly, but my name on Twitch is Invader V-Man, Invader underscore V-Man.
00:43:39.777 --> 00:43:41.237
Anthony Rey: I play lots of Resident Evil.
00:43:41.517 --> 00:43:44.597
Anthony Rey: So yeah, figured I would tell you guys that.
00:43:45.897 --> 00:43:47.397
Anthony Rey: It's fun, come over there and hang out with me.
00:43:47.417 --> 00:43:52.737
Anthony Rey: I stream a couple times a week, and it's a really good way to communicate and stuff.
00:43:52.757 --> 00:43:56.597
Anthony Rey: And that's another thing that we wanna start doing more, is communicating more.
00:43:56.617 --> 00:44:08.157
Anthony Rey: So we've been thinking about, we're gonna start trying to figure out how to do some live streams here at the shop so that we can actually directly communicate with you guys, at least through a chat, because that's a big part of content creation, I think.
00:44:08.177 --> 00:44:13.897
Anthony Rey: And I think that it's easy to get lost in that, where you don't communicate with your actual audience a whole lot.
00:44:14.237 --> 00:44:29.797
Anthony Rey: And through my little Twitch journey here of two, three months, I've met so many amazing people, and through their discords, and we really talk to each other every day, and so we're gonna be getting a lot of changes going.
00:44:29.817 --> 00:44:32.657
Anthony Rey: It's gonna be, we're gonna be more readily available.
00:44:33.357 --> 00:44:38.297
Anthony Rey: I kinda wanna make us a discord so that we can actually talk to you guys, and you guys could post fun stuff in there.
00:44:38.317 --> 00:44:40.697
Anthony Rey: And it's basically just like chat rooms.
00:44:40.717 --> 00:44:44.337
Anthony Rey: It condenses everything into like, yeah, join it up, let's talk, let's hang out.
00:44:44.657 --> 00:44:48.577
Anthony Rey: And it doesn't always have to be communication through a video or through content.
00:44:50.077 --> 00:44:59.397
Anthony Rey: And that's been the fun part of Twitch for me, is it's like you kind of talk to all the, me and the other streamers, like we're fans of each other, but we get to talk to each other too, and not everybody streams.
00:44:59.417 --> 00:45:08.937
Anthony Rey: So then it's like you get to, people who are a fan of your content on Twitch, you get to talk to them, like as much as you want every day, a couple of times a week, whenever you go live or whatever.
00:45:09.297 --> 00:45:14.557
Anthony Rey: So yeah, there's a lot that we're very, very excited about this year that we're already putting into motion.
00:45:14.817 --> 00:45:19.597
Anthony Rey: We're just gonna be more transparent and it's-
00:45:20.177 --> 00:45:20.437
Rudy V: Yeah.
00:45:20.537 --> 00:45:23.037
Rudy V: And we're really looking forward to having the guests on.
00:45:24.117 --> 00:45:33.657
Rudy V: We're already lining up a bunch of guests, but it's hard to have a guest because we have to make sure that they have the time and set the time, and we also have to set the time to do it too.
00:45:34.057 --> 00:45:37.257
Rudy V: But we're really excited about getting some guests on the show.
00:45:37.637 --> 00:45:47.257
Rudy V: And yeah, and definitely check out Anthony on Twitch, because if you like watching video games and if you're a Resident Evil fan, you have to watch.
00:45:47.257 --> 00:45:49.237
Anthony Rey: I play some Zelda and stuff too.
00:45:49.417 --> 00:45:50.917
Rudy V: But you could watch Anthony get mad.
00:45:51.597 --> 00:45:52.877
Anthony Rey: Well, I gotta be careful.
00:45:52.897 --> 00:45:57.257
Anthony Rey: My son is usually sleeping, so I have to silently rage.
00:45:57.317 --> 00:46:00.037
Rudy V: You could watch Anthony try his best to hold it in.
00:46:00.457 --> 00:46:02.137
Anthony Rey: Yeah, exactly.
00:46:02.157 --> 00:46:04.817
Rudy V: If you can't get past a boss or something.
00:46:06.137 --> 00:46:09.377
Anthony Rey: Man, I did a Nightmare Creatures run that just...
00:46:09.937 --> 00:46:12.557
Anthony Rey: Ooh, I was seething during that stream.
00:46:12.937 --> 00:46:13.417
Anthony Rey: Seething.
00:46:14.057 --> 00:46:17.617
Anthony Rey: Yeah, but Invader underscore Vman, you guys go and check me out there.
00:46:17.637 --> 00:46:21.617
Rudy V: All right, listen, we got to sum up this show because it went a long time.
00:46:21.737 --> 00:46:23.177
Rudy V: Again, guys, we appreciate you.
00:46:23.237 --> 00:46:24.277
Rudy V: We love you guys.
00:46:24.377 --> 00:46:27.557
Rudy V: Thank you so much for being with us and sticking with us.
00:46:27.737 --> 00:46:33.577
Rudy V: And again, look forward to more shows and guests and a lot more fun.
00:46:33.937 --> 00:46:41.597
Rudy V: And we're going to have a ton of information and a ton of product stuff and anything you guys want to hear, let us know too, okay?
00:46:41.617 --> 00:46:46.577
Rudy V: Because we're going to be doing a lot more podcasts in the near future, so we appreciate you.
00:46:46.637 --> 00:46:50.177
Anthony Rey: Yeah, thank you guys so much for spending this 100th episode with us.
00:46:50.557 --> 00:46:55.297
Anthony Rey: Thank you very much to our producer, Mark Winter, for sticking through us all these years.
00:46:55.857 --> 00:46:58.397
Anthony Rey: If you haven't done so already, go and check us out on YouTube.
00:46:58.417 --> 00:47:00.937
Anthony Rey: That's Grooming by Rudy on youtube.com.
00:47:00.957 --> 00:47:03.097
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00:47:11.377 --> 00:47:12.737
Anthony Rey: It has been an absolute pleasure.
00:47:12.877 --> 00:47:17.097
Anthony Rey: As always, you guys, until next time, take care of yourselves and your pets.
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