Speaker 1: This is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets. Hey, everybody,
welcome to Groomer Humor. We are so happy today because
it is a celebration day because this is our one
hundredth episode and we're so happy to have you guys
with us. So put your hands together for us, guys,
because it's Groomer Humor one hundredth episode.
Speaker 2: Did you put this in your mouth before I did?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah I was. I had to test it. Like man,
it tasted like sixty Okay, shut up, sorry, Yeah, I
don't know why you use that thing. It doesn't stop
once you start, because dude, it's awesome. But anyway, and
this is a very happy day for us because it's
our one hundredth episode and we're so excited, like we said,
and uh, you know, we're gonna be talking about a
lot of things today. Uh yeah, mostly about you know,
are are just how we you know, evolved and uh,
things that have happened in you know, the six years
that we've been doing Gloomer Humor on pet Life Radio.
So has it been six years? It's been six years.
It's been six long years, Anthony, since we've been doing this.
And uh, 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. We're like Pokemon. We just
keep evolving. Yeah, yeah, but it's it's it's a good
time for us. And I know that it's been a
long road, but I'm just I'm just happy that you know,
I have you to.
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the show. So we're gonna go to a quick break
and we're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about
our one hundredth episode and our journey. So we will
be right back after these messages.
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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome back to Groomer Humor as always where
your hosts. I'm LUDYV along with Anthony Ray. And before
we get started, we want to thank Petlife Radio and
Mark Winter for giving us the opportunity to reach out
to you guys. And most of all, we want to
thank you guys for being out there and listening to
us through the years. We really really appreciate it, guys,
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: That sounds so weird to say through the years, through
the years, like this isn't I don't know, it's it's
like it feels like a blur. It doesn't feel like
we've been doing it for six years. No, it feels
like we've been doing it for like a year.
Speaker 1: Until I look in the mirror and look at my hair. Yeah.
You have less? Yeah, like just less, No, but not
like a lot less? Yeah. Well some of that, No,
some of it's by choice. I don't have less. I
have none.
Speaker 2: No, that's not true. You got a little frizzies on
the side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's happened to you? Through the years. You still
have great hair, great hair, eighty pounds heavier probably about Yeah.
Speaker 2: You quit smoking, that's yeah. I quit smoking. Picked up
a new habit, vaping, vaping, which is, you know, it's
kind of like smoking, except I do it more because
it's a lot more convenient.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there's a smoke shop in our area. It's
called Puffin Stuff. Stuff that's like hr puffin stuff, you know.
But you're keeping them in business. I am.
Speaker 2: I keep them in business. I keep my Joe's uh
pizzeria in business. That explains the the weight. Yeah, I
gotta clean up my act. That's that's what's next, I
think for me for this year.
Speaker 1: 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. Yeah, I think I think I'm gonna
go to McDonald's. You know.
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it's because of the time. We usually,
you know, get together record the show at at you know, uh,
you know, noon ish, and today we're doing it late,
and it's it's you know, it's going to be dinner
time after this.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited. And I said, I was defrosting some
sausage idea and then you said, I'll put it back.
He said, oh, you're gonna go to McDonald's. I'll put
the sausage bags on the freezing Guys, we love McDonald's.
But here's the thing, dude, I love fast food. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always have me too. I just my pallet switched.
I went from as a kid loving McDonald's to then
as an adult loving Taco Bell, and now I just
love everything.
Speaker 1: As your dad, though, I feel guilty because I feel
like I got you addicted to it early on, because no,
well I used to pick you up from school and
take you straight to McDonald's.
Speaker 2: But that was I was, you know, in third grade.
All right, it's your fault.
Speaker 1: That's remember Remember when we were going through the drive
through and my my power button caught on fire. Yeah,
I had a big brown Econo line Ford one and
I drove up to the drive through and she was
handing back my change, and I saw smoke and I
was wondering, where's it coming from. And I looked down
at my power window and it was on fire and
I couldn't like reach my hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got you know, roasted Big Max that day.
That that's yeah that I well, I guess that's where
my McDonald's journey started. But this, okay, we already we
always go right into our fast food well not your
our my fast food journey, but this is about our
journey through one hundred episodes of acting like complete morons
on pet Life Radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh, I just I know we got to
jump off with the fast food. But I love watching
the Karen videos, like these people that go into like
fast food restaurants and just start screaming and yelling and
just bust up the place because you know, they forgot
to put ketchup on the burger.
Speaker 2: Fast food restaurants, like it goes down in there. Lots
of videos on the internet take place at a fast
food restaurant.
Speaker 1: Lots. That's crazy, that's crazy. I can't imagine getting that
mad because somebody, you know, gave me the wrong burger
or something. I just can't imagine get man at that.
Speaker 2: I saw a video once of a dude causing a problem.
I think the video was like twenty straight minutes complaining
that the buffalo chicken wasn't real buffalo chicken. And it's like, yeah,
you're at McDonald's, yes, but it's Also, he was confusing everybody.
He was saying, oh, the sauce is orange, and they're
going yeah, and he's like, yeah, but I ordered buffalo
and they're like right. And it's just twenty minutes of
this guy being a.
Speaker 1: Doucher but doesn't think, you know, like they're getting arrested,
you know what I mean. They're they're just like they're
ripping the place apart. They're going in the back, they're
punching people. It's crazy. I mean, it's it's just it's
just a burger Man. You know. I don't take it
that seriously. I mean either when they mess up my order,
you know what I do, I go, you know what,
don't throw it out. I'm gonna eat what you gave me,
the wrong item that you gave me, and just you know,
give me the right item too, and I'm going to
pay for all of it.
Speaker 2: Do like a you know, a double down, nice good bead.
Speaker 1: Sometimes food sometimes you discover something like you know that
you didn't know, like, oh man, I like this this
is good.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah I did that once. I got sweet
potato fries from this place called twenty five Burgers to
be by my apartment and uh, they gave us sweet
potato fries once and uh, and I, I don't really
like sweet potato fries, but uh, I said. I said
they were gonna throw them away and I said, no, no,
I'll throw I'll pay for them and everything. Just but
give me my give me please, you know, give me
my the fries that I ordered and yeah, paid for
it to But it's like it's six bucks. It's not
gonna end.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm never gonna argue more food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not smart unless it's olives. I hate olives,
and olives are delicious. Come on, this is so disgusting.
Speaker 1: You don't like olives, but you enjoyed your anchovy pizza
that you or oh no, that was disgusting. It's a
hard lesson. Why is that?
Speaker 2: Anybody who's and I'm speaking to all of you, anybody
who cares to listen. If you like anchovy pizza, seek help,
seek help. You You need, you need support, and you
need you need to start building a squad around you
to protect you from things like that, because that must
be rooted in some sort of just disorder or something
where you you you have convinced your self that it's
good and it's not good. It's it's not it's not
a matter of of of delicacy, like of of of reference.
Speaker 1: That does not taste good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fish that has like there was hairs in.
Speaker 1: In the fish. And here's the thing. Let's take that
and put it on something delicious, namely pizza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so to disgraced Italians everywhere.
Speaker 1: You and me, you know we butt had sometimes. But
let's agree that that's anchovies are that shouldn't be even offered.
Speaker 2: That was such an offered, regrettable, what a waste of money.
Thank god we didn't get a whole pie of it.
Speaker 1: Fish and pizza don't go together, no, okay.
Speaker 2: And like, if you are going to 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. It tastes like you guys took it right
out of the ocean and slapped it in the oven
on top of my pizza.
Speaker 1: It's got fins on it. Yeah, and why did it
have fur? Yeah? You know, there's a lot of things
in food that we don't know about. I heard that, like,
you know, like red velvet cake, you know, you know,
how they get the red dye in it. You know
what it is? It's worms? No, yeah, yeah, look it up, man,
look it up. It's actually little little work like red worms.
And that's how they get the dye to put in
your like red velvet cake. That's disgusting. Well, hey, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and now we know red velvet cake has a protein.
Speaker 1: It's right, it's got some nutrition.
Speaker 2: So if you guys haven't guess Jet, there's sort of
a new format to the show. See what we've done
is we've reworked everything. And I don't know if we're
posting the video of this yet, but we're going to
figure all that out. But we're the show has evolved
along with us, and we are now sitting across from
each other, which I can't believe it took us one
hundred episodes to get to this point. But whatever, me
and tech we don't exactly walk hand in hand. I'm
more techy than you, yeah, but I'm less techy than
most people.
Speaker 1: You're more techy than me and less techy than Mark
are producer. And here's the thing, like, you know, you
should be ashamed of yourself with that, because you know
Mark is I mean, he's older than the both of us,
and it's you know, it's not always. It's very unusual
that someone our age or or my age or older
is good at tech. But Mark has always been good
at tech. Yeah, and you suck. I suck.
Speaker 2: It's because there was a gap in time where I
didn't do much tech.
Speaker 1: It's really funny when we have to ask Mark a question,
you know, about something, and the way he answers sometimes like, well,
just restart it, you know, you know, Oh yeah, I'm sorry, Mark,
you know, just just okay, just just you know, you
kick off and just just redo it. Sorry. Sorry, Yeah,
Like Mark, I don't no sound coming on to the microphone.
Did you check the pow is it on? Yeah? Mark?
It was off? It was sorry, yeah, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2: Mark, We're only professionals. Do you remember the first episode
we did though with Mark? Remember how like like we
still get nervous. I'm always nervous, but like, do you
remember how awkward that was? Like, yeah, I want to
go back and listen to that because yeah, we should
reflect on it. That was scary that well, we really
that first episode was like we literally just introduced ourselves
to well to nobody, because Mark already knows us. We
knew Mark before this started, and it's like we didn't
have an audience yet because it was our first episode.
So when you really think about it, it's like, what
the hell were we doing that day? What did we
accomplish that day? We just spoke to each other about
each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like we're doing right now. Yeah, same thing,
just six years later. Six years later, and people listen
to us now, so at least it kind of feels
like we're not alone. I remember feeling like we did
so bad and that like, you know, we were waiting
for Mark's response, remember, because there's like a little bit
of delay, and I remember like going, yeah, looking at
Mark and Marco's that was good. I go good, Really,
Mark said it was excellent. Mark said it was excellent,
So hey man, thank you Mark. So Mark is tech
savvy and he's a nice liar, Yeah, Marcus, and he's
a good liar. He's a great liar. Because I bought it,
I was like, really, okay, all right, Yeah. So I
think people a lot of people don't understand about doing
stuff like this, or even like doing stand up like
we used to do, and even filming videos for the
YouTube channels that for us, it feels like we're playing,
you know, in front of like you know, Wimbley Stadium
or something. That's how it feels, even though that's not true,
even though you know, we don't have this immense crowd or.
Speaker 2: It feels that I'm not quite Freddy Mercury. But I'm
I'm close.
Speaker 1: I'm right.
Speaker 2: It's like he's here, I'm right here. Yeah, I'm right here.
It's super close. In talent, you gotta work on your vocals,
you gotta, you gotta. That's really the only thing that
separates Freddy Mercury and I is just vocal rain.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little bit more like David Lee Wroth.
Now wait is he alive? Yeah, he's alive. It looks
a lot like me now too. So I'm a little
bit more like you know what I mean, I'm a
little bit more like Vince Neil.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, right, like twenty twenty four Flee, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, but it flee without the abs, so like
the best part of him you're missing, but the rest
is like it's it's uncanny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, but yeah, I could see Freddie Mercury
and you definitely.
Speaker 2: You know, did you know that Flee is in Back
to the Future too, is he? I didn't know that.
I believe it's part two. I didn't know that. Yeah,
and it was before he was Flee. I think he
was just looking for work or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
Flea is in it.
Speaker 1: You know, those guys appeared in a lot of stuff,
like they're in uh it Anthony Keatis and I think
Fleet also is in what was the movie with Keanu
and the Bank Robbers? Was that movie? Uh? And the
Bank where Keanu Reeves is the undercover cop and oh
uh that was point break point break. Yeah, like they
have a small little spot they're on the beach they're
in like Venice Beach or something. When uh when uh
which McCall it loses the dog? Yeah, Gary Abuse. Do
you remember what McCall said about Gary Busey and in
the roast? Who was that comedian he saw?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said he just flew in from the Bottomie Island.
Speaker 1: And he said he said that he looked he looks
like he looks like if Nick Nolty and Clydesdale had
a baby. Yeah. Uh, Girardo, Yeah, no, Gerardo? What was
his name, the comedian's name? No, it was Yeah, he hysterical,
that was funny. Yeah, Nick Nolty and a Clydesdale had
a baby. But yeah, it's just you know, I don't
know it's fun doing this though.
Speaker 2: I mean with you, Yeah, I like that you said
evolved because I definitely any of you guys who've been
listening to us through the first ninety nine episodes kind
of know that, like, this is a grooming show at heart.
It's how we started it, it's how it'll always be
at the foundation of it. 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, and
I could already feel it myself. We knew it was
going to 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 you know, obviously
a grooming topic, but sometimes we would just want to
be like free and loose with it and let the
let let it kind of happen naturally. And those were
always the episodes we enjoyed doing the most. Those are
always the episodes we laughed the most. And yeah, when
it wasn't so locked into a very specific dog topic.
So man, I sounded so Jersey right there. We were
just talking about that earlier today before the AWG Yeah,
Dawg dog New Jersey. And but yeah, we want to
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 them real us even more.
And that's kind of where I feel.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm.
Speaker 2: Excited about, like where the show is because we've stayed
so strict with ourselves with the way we wanted the
show to sound, and we wanted it to be super informative,
and those are all good things, but we never like
we're still like funny guys, Like we make each other
laugh a lot. 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 that you think
we're funny too, And it's like, I don't know, I
don't want to be like married to like these like
bullet points like oh we gotta hit we gotta teach
them how to do this. We got to teach them
how to do that, start a grooming business, how to
do this, how to do that. Doesn't always have to
be that and it's like, and the show is that
where it's not that I've just enjoyed doing more. And
that's kind of where this is going to go now.
Is it's like you guys are going to kind of
get to know the real us more than you ever have.
Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, yeah, because forward, Yeah, we have revamped the
show in our minds, and what you could look forward
to is we're going to have a lot more guests
on the show. So we have we have a huge
guest lineup coming up probably within the within June and July.
So even with what we've done our past guests, those
shows seem to be more exciting ones for us because
the pressure is off, Like we don't have to sit
here like you're saying, and like, you know, talk about us,
because we don't. We don't talk about it. We want
to talk about you know, the industry. We want to
talk about stuff. So we're trying to line up a
bunch of guests. But our first guest, I remember what
was her name, and she was in London. Amy was
her name, Amy? You know, she was a groomer. I
forget her name, Amy from London. We had Erica Salvaminion.
We're going to actually try to get her back on.
We had Chrissy Joy on the show. We had Amy
Lee from Go Groomer, We had Naughty Styles on the show.
We you know, we had so many guests that and
I know there's a couple I probably haven't mentioned. Yeah,
Victoria and Rico from Naughty. That was a fun show.
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. So you can look
forward to that. We're going to try to get some
some some guests on and and and some of a
lot of a big part of our guests are going
to be some some companies. We were just at Intergroom,
uh this past Intergroom that passed and uh, you know,
we got to catch up with all of our friends.
Joey Vallani was there. I got to catch up with
Loretta Loretta Void. Her name is Loretta Marchesi now, but
you know she instructed me at nash Academy and Romaine
from Chicago and all the groomers that I came up
with when I first started grooming. So you know, we're
gonna have Romaine on the show. She agreed to come
on the show, and she's an excellent She's a master groomer. Guys,
this girl, I've known her for a very long time,
and she's just a show groomer. She's a competitive groomer.
Soup to nuts. I mean, this woman just did so
much for the grooming industry. 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.
So if I had to think of any one person
that I would have to pay so much respect to
her the most respect to it would be Shirley Calstone.
And those of you who may not know Shirley Calstone,
Shirley was just she basically created inter groom way back when,
and like I guess maybe nineteen eighty four, eighty three,
maybe I'm not sure. Don't quote me on when, but
Shirley invented, not invented, but she really put it together.
And guys like me and Joey Vellani and John stats Goo.
You know, me and Joey were young at the time.
We would just set up chairs and Joey was just
super involved and it grew to what it is today
because of Shirleykelstone and others. Don't get me wrong, there's
just many, many other people. But she's no longer with us.
But if you don't know Shirley Kelstone, look her up.
She published some great books with her husband Larry, and
I had the privilege of, you know, going to her
house in Manhattan and talking about filming and basically doing
everything that is being done now. But back then we
had to hire a film crew. We hired this film
crew to cover inter Groom and it just didn't even
go well. It went horrible. And I just wish that
she was alive today to see what's going on, you
know what I mean, with everybody doing YouTube and just
the exposure that grooming has gotten. And again, Shirley deserves
so much credit for what's happening today in the grooming industry.
Without her, it would be completely different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, her mind would be blown that at the media attention,
and like you said, YouTubers and content creators and stuff
like that. I mean, people create content on tons of
platforms now, and and just in general, how vast the
market is for four dogs and grooming and everything. I mean,
my god, there's entire Instagram and TikTok pages dedicated to
just funny dogs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and back then, you know, when the vendors would
be at these shows, there was only a select few
scissor companies. Like there was like Gube, you know, a
couple others. Uster Frome was one of them. Double Duck
was another company. I never even heard of. The Double Duck. Yeah, yeah,
they're still around. There's Double Duck is still around. I
still use some of their shares. But the thing is now,
how many and how many scissor companies were at Intergroom
this year. I mean I recall at least four or five. Yeah,
and huge, huge companies. You know, you know, we had
the liberty of talking to to Sammy and uh what
was the other guy's name at Kenshi Sammy and Jonathan
and Jonathan and you know, they were great. We sat there,
we talked to them for a long time about their shears,
and Jonathan was telling us that, you know, he's a groomer.
So again, like 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,
there are really good products that are really not that
expensive anymore, and companies like Kenchi are putting out great shears,
great clippers that we highly recommend. So again, if you
guys are grooming at home, we want to help you
guys choose what's good for you. And it's not anything
that we wouldn't use ourselves. I mean, that's how good
these products are nowadays.
Speaker 2: Ken She's smart. Ken She's changing the game a little
bit because they do like levels. It is levels of quality,
I guess, but it's not like any of their scissors
won't cut your dog's hair. But Ken She's smart because
when you think of levels, like, okay, well yeah, these
scissors might be scissors, shears might be you know, four
hundred dollars, but your skill level might not be there yet.
So it's like when I say levels, I mean it's like, yeah,
it's levels of quality. But like if you're a novice
groom or you don't require four hundred doll years you
but they offer one hundred and fifty dollars ones and
those are you know, you could do those.
Speaker 1: Even I wouldn't even use the four hundred dollars. The
four hundred dollars year honestly is designed for like the
Suez echos or anybody that's jumping into the ring or
you know, if I was competing, yeah, I would want
that four hundred dollars year. But you know, I'm using,
you know, a two hundred and fifty dollars year. But
believe it or not, like you said that that one
hundred and fifty dollars cheer that you're talking about is
going to work just as comparable to the two fifty
because you're only working on one dog. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. So it's it's a share that 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 it's going to hold its
edge and that sort of thing. But you know, when
you're doing a lot of dogs like we do, and
we don't even do that many anymore, but you know,
if you're doing a lot of dogs, you're you're a
popping groomer and you're doing ten twelve dogs a day,
those shears are gonna wear out. But again, if you
have a good two hundred and fifty dollars shyear from
Kenshi or you know, or or even Gube you know
em guy, don't. I mean, let's not forget that, you know.
Guibe is just they've been a staple man, you know
in the industry. You got a good shar like that.
Guess what, You're not gonna have to get them sharpened
all that often. You know, just don't drop them and
don't don't cut paper with them or anything. Just you know,
take care of your readed dropped shear. Yeah, oh the
dread Yeah, you drop them. They don't work, that's it,
got rebounds. Yeah. But our thing is, and I think
it's always been our purpose since day one, either doing
the podcast or even doing the YouTube, is that we
we want to help the at home groomer and help
the new groomer because again, even with the new groomer,
you may not have a lot of money or a
lot of dogs that you you need that two hundred
and fifty dollars year. And there's shares that are even cheaper.
There's cheer shears that are seventy five bucks, huh, forty bucks,
and you know they're workable, they work, They're not a
bad scheer, you know. So again we had the liberty
of talking to all these you know companies, and man,
if anything's gotten better, it's grooming products. They have gotten
so much better. I used to use an old oyster
clipper that it sounded like a garbage truck. I mean
it was just so loud, you know, it sounded like
a drill. And now the way they're making clippers, forget it.
You know, you got the and this five speed Excel
that we always use. You also have the KM ten
the wall km ten km five if you're starting out again.
Great products, and we're urging people to look into better products,
better equipment.
Speaker 2: And we got those nail grinders that you can't even
health they're on or not, that's how quiet they are. Yeah,
the and discordless ones. And they're little. They look like
a little lipstick holder. Yeah you know what I mean,
I didn't even know what the hell it was when
you brought it in. I was like, what the what
is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's a great little grinder for sensitive dogs
or small dogs. You know, you rememb remember that old grinder,
the old dremmel that I had out loud. It was
so again, like a lot has gone into the industry
and it's made things a lot better. I'm more old school.
I'm old school groomer. I like the older stuff. I
do like the newer stuff too, like especially the Kenchy shares.
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.
Speaker 2: And she must have had fifty to sixty sets of
shears out on display. I'm pretty sure I picked up
every single one. Oh yeah, because it's it's addicting. Once
you pick one up, you want to feel what all
of them feel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even the guy booth. Remember we talked to the girl.
She has a YouTube channel too. Yeah, I forgot her
name right now, but she was talking to us about
the whole you know, how guy has evolved. They're putting
out great cheers too. So again, it's just the industry
is growing and if you want to grow with it, man,
you really got to pick out good equipment, like you know,
and there's much better equipment available to us than there
ever has been.
Speaker 2: It's an exciting time for grooming content creators and for
any of you guys out there who seek out. Everybody's
got their thing that they watch on YouTube.
Speaker 1: But a lot of you.
Speaker 2: 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. No,
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, yeah,
where it's like, oh, who do I pick? Who do
I watch? Okay, I like this game and then there's
one hundred thousand people who stream that game or play
that game. Grooming isn't like that. There's a good like
ten channel that have very valuable, well made good information.
Grooming wise, it's a good time for that because it's
still very condensed and and there are some like mega
grooming channels like Girl with the Dogs and stuff like that.
Amy's channel has just blown up over the years. Our
channels there for you, like, there's a select few channels
that are have a pretty big following, but like there's
not there's not a thousand grooming channels on YouTube where
you don't know where and groomers are all we're all
like we have very varying opinions on what to use what,
Like you said, your old school, some groomers use newer,
newer tech, newer stuff, and all of that. You know,
you're already going to get different opinions on from different
groomers on what to use, what you don't need, what
you what you might want to change, don't change all that.
But it's not completely saturate. It's it's a pretty condensed,
easy to read, easy to find market of videos and information.
It's it's it's this is a good time. It's a
good time to be a fan of grooming, a fan
of dogs in general, or a content creator of both.
It's you know, it's a good time.
Speaker 1: It is, and you know there's a big difference, like
even like you're mentioning other grooming channels and there's so
many of them, and we're going to have again a
lot of them on our show. We're reaching out to
a lot of dog groomers and if you want to
be on the show, let us know, you know, let
us know if you want to be on the podcast,
because we're looking to have more grooming guests. But as
far as equipment, like say groomhouse, right, the married couple
over in Serbia. These people do wonders if if if
you want to see some crazy spectacular like grooming.
Speaker 2: And well they're miracle workers. They're absolutely insanely talented.
Speaker 1: So what they do is they you know, they rescue dogs,
They do a lot of rescue work, and they basically
shave down a lot of dogs that are in horrendous shape.
I mean, the worst matted dogs you've ever seen in
your life. So if you want to see some before afters,
check out Groomhouse. But like again talking about equipment, so Groomhouse,
you know they're going to be using and they do
use really heavy duty clippers. They use tons of ten
blades and stuff, so you're not going to need that,
you know, So you can't get as opposed to say,
you know, somebody like who's doing show dog grooming and
stuff like that. You know they're using a different type
of equipment. So again there's so many different avenues or
gendres of grooming itself, you know what I mean, and
types of grooming rather you know, where you know you
have people that do a lot of rescue work and
a lot of shave down, so they're just you know,
going through ten blades and uh, you know, they need
a really powerful clipper. They need, you know, even more
of an industrial type clipper as opposed to even the
end of five speed that we use, even though that
one's really strong too. You know, 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. So again we're trying to like, if you
don't know anything about dog grooming, you be very confused. Yeah,
you know, some people think that, oh, there's only one
blade that's a universal blade. It's like, guys, there's forty blades.
There's you know, thirty different blades that you use for
different things. So you really got to know your stuff.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine how many people have been scared away
from going into grooming because if you don't know what
to get, it could be very overwhelming. And it's you know,
that's what we're here to do, I mean, amongst other things.
But it's like, you know, I like being that. It's like, oh, well,
you know, go look up grooming by Rudy. They'll tell
you which which one to get, what to get. Amy's
great with products, you know, jeez. Oh yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Her channel again does that. Her channel
does this whole Like if you want to learn about products,
check out Amy, check out go Groomer. You know, if
you want to learn like how to groom, we do
a lot of how to stuff. We like to teach
people how to do it, like Groomhouse. Most people are
not going to be able to do what they do.
You really have to know what you're doing, so I
wouldn't even attempt to do what they do, like Girl
with the Dogs, Like you know, she features enormous, enormous
breeds and unique breeds, uncommon, uncommon breeds. So I actually
love what's happening. You know, you know what it is.
Speaker 2: It's that there's in every community, and in our case,
the grooming community or the you know, the pet community,
there's always corners. And that's why this community is very
organized still because YouTube isn't oversaturated with thousands and thousands
of grooming channels. There's just sort of a few good
ones and there's little corners within the grooming community. And
that's great because you were just laying it out perfectly,
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, you know,
all the way. If you want to just be fascinated
by a rescue grooming, you know, groom house, there it is.
If you love big breeds, girl with the dogs, if
you want to learn some technique and stuff grooming by Rudy,
that's you know, it's like.
Speaker 1: Even mobile groomers. You got Pauzon all you got, right, yeah,
Pauson all, Lure of intour, pause and Ale check channel
because you know she she's a mobile groomer in Florida
and whole different ballgame, different boy she's got and she's
got this great beautiful truck. I think she's got two
of them now. So yeah, that's what's so great about this.
And again, when you go to these shows, right when
you go to inter Groomer, you go to Hershet, or
you go to you know, Chicago or any of the
grooming shows, they're all over the place. You you get
to merge and talk to all these people. Yeah, and
we always say groomers need to talk to each other.
You know, Anthony and I are lucky because we have
each other, but a lot of groomers work alone, you know,
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.
You know, you connect with the dogs really well. And
I'll give you that. But you know, me and Anthony,
like we goof around.
Speaker 2: All day there is we actually goof around more. The
harder a day is because that's the kind of people
we are. Like, we like to if I'm stressed out,
I gotta make a joke or laugh or something. And
that's what we do. You know, We'll be stressed out,
busy day whatever, and and I'll just come out with
a dumb and dumber quote or something and and just
and You'll start laughing and it kind of fixes us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we destroy each other. You just show me like
you know, funny tiktoks or something you know, or you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, Instagram, Instagram reels. It's just hysterical.
Speaker 1: So me and Anthony are lucky we work with each other.
And it really does break it up. You know. If
you're a groomer and you're working alone, power to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, well you did that for a short time,
long time. Long, Well, I mean when you went into
business for yourself, didn't because I was still too young.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I worked there for eight years, Yeah, eight
years by yourself.
Speaker 2: I think you had a couple bathered once and once
in a blue moon, but nothing, yeah, created, it was
always temporary.
Speaker 1: Yeah so you did you know? Yeah, I would pick
up a two hundred pound Great Pyrenees by myself's crazy yep,
by myself and put them in the tub and bathe them,
and and and you know, and no wonder why I
have multiple hernias.
Speaker 2: The David Lee Roth stuff is starting to really come together,
makes sense. It's going to start to fall into place. Yeah, yeah,
great Pyrenees, but yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great Pyrenees. It all fits now, it all yeah,
it's yeah. So nowadays, though, you know, we recommend if
you are going to be you need an assistant. You
need somebody to help you. You need you need to
either lift dogs together or you know, they have new
grooming tables that, you know, 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. When
when I first started, those hydraulic tables were iffy. They
just started coming out. But now you've got companies like
pet Lift. Check out pet Lift. I mean they have
grooming tables that just go all the way to the
ground and then you know, we'll elevate your dog like
a car. I still work on the floor, you do,
I crawl around the floor.
Speaker 2: You just did that the other day. 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 uh, you know, tattoo artists, you know, you have
to get an apprenticeship. You have to like hang out
in a tattoo shop for a while before you start,
you know, working. And it's like grooming should be the
same thing. Grooming is a very non regulated occupation and
or at least it is here, and it's like weird
thing I heard recently. Plumbing is the same thing. You
don't need a license to be a plumber, which is
crazy to me because you could really mess up someone's house.
But like that's something that we've been, you know, kind
of hoping changes at some point. You know, grooming is
just so not regulated. There are some committees here and
there that that try to try to do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Joey, you know, and then that National Dog
Grooming Association. We tried to do it. But here's the
it's I don't think it's going to happen, But what
does have to happen is you know, you as the customer,
you as the pet owner, you have to be that
person like, for example, I wouldn't bring my dog to
anyone that isn't experienced or certified in some way. You
know what I mean. I mean experience. Not everybody goes
to dog grooming school, and you don't necessarily have to. No,
that's the weird thing. If you want to learn the
proper way, I went to grooming school. But if you
want to learn the proper way and learn safety and stuff,
you have to be the person that regulates who you're
bringing your dog to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point, and hats off to you
responsible pet owners out there, because, man, we just had
a recent layoff because of your hernia surgery. And let
me tell you some of the steps our customers took
to stick with us, and they had to miss. You know,
we were closed for two months. 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. And I mean they were trying everything, some
more successful than others.
Speaker 1: But man, our buddy Nick today, he told us that,
you know, he went out and bought a clipper and
he did it himself, did it himself.
Speaker 2: It was like a tool that vacuums up the hair.
You know, sounds gimmicky, but he says it was actually
doing the job pretty good.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like when I hear stuff like that,
it makes me feel like we're making somewhat of a difference.
And I don't care. Making a difference is making difference.
It doesn't matter if you change one person's life or
one hundred. You're making a difference.
Speaker 1: It's just that.
Speaker 2: And to know that, like, you know, we got a
channel out there that a few of our customers I'm
sure probably watch, you know, and and it got a
couple of tips from us, and then we had to
close down and they use those tips to bridge the
gap of those two months that we needed them to.
Speaker 1: I mean, jeez, what more can you ask for? And
we get a lot of great comments on our YouTube
channel with people who watched this and it helped. It
helped them clip their dog's nails or do the pads.
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
dogs walking perfect now and that was the problem. So anyway,
we should take 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 one hundredth episode here, so
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Speaker 2: Good, we're block. Welcome back to Groomer Humor on pet
Life Radio. We are here celebrating our one hundredth episode.
We've been reflecting, talked a little grooming, talked a little
bit about what's coming. We're gonna talk a little bit
more about that. To wrap things up. But yeah, thank
you guys. We want to thank you guys all for
sticking with us. It took quite a while for this
one hundredth episode to come out. Life gets in the way,
as you all know, and you know, and then overthinking
gets in the way too. Yeah, and Hernie is Hernie
is getting the way. You know, we were bouncing a
lot of ideas off of each other of how to
make the show special, but and you know, that was
taking up time too, and then we finally just said, dude,
screw it. It's special anyway, because you guys are still here,
any of you who are listening to this right now,
you're still here. And it's been how many years? Six
six six years to reflect on and uh, yeah, it's
just what a journey, what a ride.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's it's.
Speaker 2: Been fun and it's only going to get funner from here,
because we were saying before we're gonna start getting some
more guests on. 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 and and you know, we're we're going to loosen
things up a little bit because a lot of times
the structure would make it a little more difficult to
have a guess because it's like, okay, well we got
to work around this, and we got to work around
that rather than just have fun and do it and
have people here. You know, we got this table. Now
we're sitting across from each other. It's gonna be different.
It's gonna be funner. It's already funner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's already funner.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just differ. We started doing the memory.
I used to be in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, God, I remember that. The old story used
how we used to do things. You would be in
the bathroom because because our mics would just pick each
other up, so you have to go to it. Yep.
Speaker 2: I used to bring my laptop into the bathroom.
Speaker 1: If there's any podcast that learned the hard way, it's ours.
I think. You know, we've had many, many a problem.
I think for the first like three or four episodes,
like my mic wasn't even on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there was that whole era where where you're
you're just talking into that microphone for fun. Yeah, because
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. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was like that was
like a nice like three four episode span two yeah,
where we would listen to the episodes back and it
would be like, man, Dad, you just sound sucks.
Speaker 1: Remember we have the same mic. Yeah, you just don't
have a good radio voice.
Speaker 2: Yes, you just you must have a bad podcast voice,
bad radio voice.
Speaker 1: Because and then you wonder why I always say, hey,
am I bad? 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. So but hey, real quick,
we actually do have to sum up this show. What's
your twitch? Tell them?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I started streaming on Twitch. It's not family friendly,
but my name on Twitch is Invader v Man, Invader
Underscore v Man. I play lots of Resident Evil. So yeah,
I figured I would tell you guys that it's fun
come over there and hang out with me. I stream
a couple of times a week, and it's a really
good way to, you know, to communicate and stuff. And
that's another thing that we want to start doing more,
is communicating more. So we've been thinking about you know,
we're going to 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, and I think that it's easy to get
lost in that where you don't communicate with your actual
audience a whole lot. And through my little Twitch journey
here of two three months, I've met so many amazing
people and you know, through their discords and like we
really like we talk to each other every day, and
it's like, you know, so we're gonna be getting a
lot of changes going. It's gonna be it's gonna be
you know, we're gonna be more readily available, you know.
I you know, I kind of want to make us
a discord so that we can actually talk to you guys,
and you guys could post fun stuff in there. And
it's basically just like chat rooms. It condenses everything into like,
you know, yeah, join it up, let's talk, let's hang out,
and it doesn't always have to be communication through a
video or through content. It's like, you know, and that's
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, you know, we're fans of
each other, but we get to talk to each other too,
and not everybody streams, so then it's like you get
to you know, 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 times
a week, whenever you go live or whatever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a.
Speaker 2: Lot that we're very very excited about this year that
we're already putting into motion where just going to be
more transparent and it's.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, and we're really looking forward to having the
guests on Yeah. Yeah, we're already lining up a bunch
of guests. But you know, we 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. But
we're really excited about getting some guests on the show.
And uh yeah and uh yeah, and definitely check out
Anthony on on Twitch because if you like watching video
games and Resident, if you're a Resident Evil fan, you
have to watch Definitely gonna get I play some Zelda
and stuff too. Yeah, but you could watch Anthony get mad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I gotta be careful. My son is usually sleeping,
so I have to silently. You could watch Anthony like
try his best to hold it in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, if you can have a boss or something,
you know.
Speaker 2: So, man, I did a nightmare Creatures run that just
oh I was seething during that stream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seizing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, Invader Underscore v Man. You guys go
and check me out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, listen, we got to sum up the
show because it went a long time. Again, guys, we
appreciate you. We love you, guys. Thank you so much
for being with us and sticking with us. And again,
look forward to more shows and guests and a lot
more fun and we're gonna have a ton of information
and a ton of product stuff and anything you guys
want to hear. Let us know too, okay, because we're
going to be doing a lot more podcasts in the
near future. So we appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you guys so much for spending this one
hundredth episode with us. Thank you very much to our
producer Mark Winter for sticking through us all these years.
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