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Another Grooming Podcast
Accountability Police
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This week’s Would You Rather questions have us talking about poop money, prostate exams, and pap smears. We check in on our New Year’s resolutions, learn about the Dandie Dinmont, and preparing yourself AND your dog for the show ring.
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SPEAKER_05You gotta turn the music off, Nathan.
SPEAKER_01Whatever. Copyright infringement.
SPEAKER_05I know, yeah. We don't want to pay. It's not. We're just vibing.
SPEAKER_03All vibes.
SPEAKER_06Y'all ready for this? Copyright infringement. Ready? Welcome to your favorite podcast, another grooming podcast. I'm Kat Grainy.
SPEAKER_03I'm Nathan Austin.
SPEAKER_06I'm Katie Austin.
SPEAKER_03I'm Juan Rivera.
SPEAKER_02I'm Ronnie Rivera. Wow.
SPEAKER_05I like how Nathan clapped. He didn't even notice.
SPEAKER_02Notice what? Wait, what did I do? Oh, I'm sorry. I zoned out. It's okay. I'm trying to breathe like we did it.
SPEAKER_05I love that Nathan also had no.
SPEAKER_02I'm trying to breathe. I'm trying to breathe over here. My nose is stepping in.
SPEAKER_01Allergies this year are crazy.
SPEAKER_06Well, the weather keeps going yo-yoing. It like rains and then it's hot. I even brought my inhaler because I couldn't even breathe. It rains and it's hot.
SPEAKER_02You know, it just keeps going back and forth. So my parents call that bipolar weather. They live in Nevada and they're like, it's just bipolar weather. One day it's shiny and then it's raining, and then we have a windstorm and a tumbleweed. And I'm like, oh god, mom. Tumbleweed is weather? I don't know, girl. My mom says my mom says some stuff. It's funny.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so who has the would you rathers? Oh.
SPEAKER_01Me.
SPEAKER_06Are they as explicit as last time?
SPEAKER_01No, I try to not.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I think it's fine though, right?
SPEAKER_06Because our podcast it's labeled as explicit. Yeah. Not meant for children.
SPEAKER_01Yes. I do select that every time I upload. Okay, you guys ready?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Would you rather $15 for every poop you've taken or $25 for every poop you will take starting now?
SPEAKER_06Oh. Oh.
SPEAKER_01So like retroactive pay or future pay?
SPEAKER_06Okay, so when I was bigger, I pooped a lot more. So I'm gonna go with that because I wish it in like two or three times a day at least.
SPEAKER_05When do I get out just like every other day? When do I get the money for you? I would rather want in the poop. Like for future poop, I mean.
SPEAKER_01Maybe like every time, every omission.
SPEAKER_05No, that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01That sucks. I'd rather have a lump sum.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I'd rather have the lump sum.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'll take the back pay. Because also, what if I die tomorrow? You get 50 bucks. How long yeah.
SPEAKER_02What if you give yourself diarrhea? Does that count? Well, hey, Chipotle every day, Taco Bell every day. Just do little tricks.
SPEAKER_05You just like live on laxatives.
SPEAKER_03If it was that, I would just increase my poop outtake, right? So I would just sit down, eat more, pinch the loaf, go about my day, and then come back and then finish it out. I am capable of doing that. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's really good at it. Oh, now that so speaking of that, right? I gotta get uh like a prostate exam, right? And I had this idea. I was like, when he gets in there, I'm just gonna squeeze his finger as hard as I can.
SPEAKER_06I can't help it. Gotcha.
SPEAKER_03Just go like he's gonna be like, oh sir, are you? I'm like, what are you talking about? I am alive.
SPEAKER_06Speaking of stress, speaking of prostate exams and stuff and uncomfortable, regular things you need to get done. I just had a pap smear, like since I had my daughter, basically. Get those regularly though. But, anyways, it was the best pap smear I've ever had in my life. So I wasn't expecting it because you normally you go in, right, and they have a tray full of instruments and the speculum, which is what they hold it open with.
SPEAKER_04It's a duck.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. But there wasn't one on there, and I was a little confused. So I was just like, I just did my thing, laid down, and she pulls it out of a freaking drawer and it's warm. It's like body temperature, and I didn't even feel it really.
SPEAKER_03People always say that it's cold.
SPEAKER_06It that's normally the thing.
SPEAKER_03You're like, ugh, but was it a female doctor?
SPEAKER_06Yes, but she pulled it out of a drawer and pulled it out of the packaging and then put it in like it was body temperature, it was warm. And like it wasn't too hot, it was like perfect body temperature. That's nice.
SPEAKER_03And so you're paying enough money.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_03Fucking better be warm.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it was it was a relief. You know?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Next time I get my taps here, I'll ask for a warmed one.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_03But you can open your asshole up because it weren't.
SPEAKER_06Um, but it's I I find it nice and relieving that they're trying to make things that obviously make you uncomfortable more comfortable. You know, they're thinking of you and your mental health about that. So yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, when you said that, I was like, it's gotta be a woman doctor. Yeah. Because she know she knows what's up.
SPEAKER_06But it might just be their policy now, too. That or it's just a drawer they put in that warms something, you know?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I have no idea. I also haven't had a pap smear since I've had my daughter.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you need to get it done. And she's older than yours, yeah. Mine. Mine's eight.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I gotta get it.
SPEAKER_01That's what I'm saying. Why after you're like you're you're you could do it when you're pregnant or like before or after? Like why is that?
SPEAKER_05So you normally get a checkup six weeks after you give birth. So that was my last one. Yes. Six weeks after I gave birth to my daughter to make sure everything's okay down there. It's healing.
SPEAKER_06And they clear you for like sexity. Yeah. People don't wait, but okay.
SPEAKER_01Ready for another one?
SPEAKER_06Yep.
SPEAKER_01Would you rather have a personal driver or have every plane ticket you buy become first class?
SPEAKER_06I would say the first class.
SPEAKER_01Say it again.
SPEAKER_06I fly a lot.
SPEAKER_01Would you rather have a personal driver or have every plane ticket you buy become first class?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'll say first class.
SPEAKER_01We fly a lot. So easy.
SPEAKER_05We yeah, we fly a lot. Plus, I already have a personal driver. His name is Nathan.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I don't have one of those. I do make a lot of long trips though, so it would be nice during those times, but I think I fly more than drive long trips.
SPEAKER_01So I hate driving.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01But you gotta pay. Do you have to pay or is it the same price? Okay. Do you want the the notes for it? Okay. So for plane ticket, whenever you book an economy flight, you're automatically upgraded to first class. Oh, that works out. Every flight you take includes all first class perks, meals, lounge access, comfort, applies to friends and family on the same booking. Oh, okay. Cannot be used for profit or resale.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01For the personal driver who uh you get a personal driver who somehow magically appears whenever you need to drive a vehicle. He drives your car, you must own or rent it, follows traffic laws perfectly, never gets into accidents or causes delays, available anytime, any place, and no one will question their presence. I don't care about that.
SPEAKER_05I mean, it is it is cool, but I'll take the first class. Yeah, Nathan and I fly so much.
SPEAKER_03That's gonna be a Tesla robot soon.
SPEAKER_06Well, they have those cars already that automatically drive you, like in the cities and stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but have you seen all those videos of them like malfunctioning? No.
SPEAKER_05Oh, are you awaited a couple of things? No, it's the getting stuck in them because you're stuck in the back, and if there's if it is malfunctioning and it like won't stop driving, there's no way for you to get into the front and stop it.
SPEAKER_03Nope. I'd break down.
SPEAKER_05And you're like locked in because it's driving. So you can't even just like break a you know, like open the door and jump out or something. I'll go over away a couple years.
SPEAKER_03I would go feral mode.
SPEAKER_05That's what I'm saying. I'd be freaking the fuck out.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I've seen one where somebody was driving in a circle.
SPEAKER_06They drive in San Mateo. Yeah, I see them in San Mateo a lot.
SPEAKER_03But they're safer though than human Waymo's, the wing. They're safer than human drivers.
SPEAKER_06But they got those like toaster looking ones.
SPEAKER_05The incidents that happen are so few and far between when you consider how many are operating, but that would be scary.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think I would choose the driver.
SPEAKER_03Because why do you always gotta say some weird shit? You always gotta say nipple penis.
SPEAKER_01I literally fucking driver instead of first class. Like I drive, I have to drive everywhere. Always, always because Ronnie doesn't have a license, right? Because yeah, Ronnie doesn't have a license. Ronnie doesn't want to drive. Um, but like because the thing says if you get the flight thing, it's all your friends on the same booking. So whenever we have to drive, I'll make my booking with you guys so I can get all the flights. Oh like Katie, you gotta go to the house. Whenever we have to drive somewhere, then you guys can come in my car and we could.
SPEAKER_06I was just gonna say, you're you'll use your private driver.
SPEAKER_01That makes sense. If we spread it out, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_06But you know, also if you're going anywhere in the states, too. Then if you don't want to fly or you whatever, you can have your driver drive you there.
SPEAKER_05That drive to Tacoma would have been so nice.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Well, like I'm like, oh, I want to drive to Illinois because I got a lot of stuff to bring for nationals. So just hang out in the back, take naps.
SPEAKER_03Oh, if you had like a big RV or something and you traveled with tons of dogs, that would be really valuable.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So it depends on my dog population. It is going up, so I might have to start driving more places. So uh yeah, maybe your DP is going up. Yep.
SPEAKER_03Anyway. Anyway, it's increased. Times three.
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SPEAKER_06So we told ourselves we were gonna do some things in the new year, and this is the accountability police. We should add one of those little buttons here.
SPEAKER_01Um, but what if they're driving and then they're gonna do it?
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's true. That's good.
SPEAKER_05I think we should do it anyway. We should we should all do it, right?
SPEAKER_06So we're gonna do the accountability police. Wow, Nathan.
SPEAKER_05I'm like, that's just lame not doing that. Didn't we hear what Ronnie would have preferred between first class and then?
SPEAKER_01He already has a personal driver. I was gonna say he doesn't care.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You literally appear anytime he needs to go anywhere.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Nathan, what the fuck? We'll just share.
SPEAKER_06I was like, I don't have anyone to share with you.
SPEAKER_03No, see, the problem is I like driving most of the time.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so you do the first class and she'll do the driver if she wants to go somewhere.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so if I'm going somewhere without you, because I sometimes I work without you. Or I have to pick up the kids.
SPEAKER_03Unacceptable. I'm not gonna have some dude drive you around the car.
SPEAKER_06If I have to be a gentleman, definitely be a dude. So does it do you have to be in the car? I don't know. Because you could be like, go pick up my kids. Yeah, that'd be sweet. Especially when I'm at work and I'm not sure. Rich people who have personal drivers, they just go run around.
SPEAKER_05Whatever your bidding is. Yeah. Your bidding. Well, okay. I mean, driver bidding.
SPEAKER_03No, I love it. It's funny.
SPEAKER_06Okay, back to accountability, please. So anyway.
SPEAKER_03He was checking the notes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So we told ourselves, we gave ourselves, you know, New Year's resolutions and that kind of stuff, right? So this is just a check-in with that. So one of mine was uh to continue losing weight and go to the gym more. So I did fall off kilter for a while with the gym because we got sick and there was a lot of stuff going on. So I didn't go for like three weeks and I felt really horrible about it. But I'm back at it. I don't go as much as I was. I was going five days a week. I probably go three to four, but I've been trying to walk more since the weather's not rainy right now. Um eating right now, right in the second time.
SPEAKER_05I'm supposed to come back again. I know.
SPEAKER_06Um, eating wise, I have been a little bad right now. I've just been craving Reese's peanut butter cups a lot. And I don't know, I don't know if it's the peanut butter or the chocolate because I've tried just like peanut butter too. And I like peanut butter, but this is something about the Reese's themselves. Have you tried those ones? The um the Atkins ones? Yeah. I haven't tried them yet, but I should.
SPEAKER_05They're good.
SPEAKER_06Okay, I should try them. Um I contemplated buying them. I was at the store last night, and but I bought uh there's these, I think they're made by Quest, but they're um like toaster like Pop Tarts. So I'm trying, I'm gonna try those. I bought them and I want to try those. So that was the thing I bought last night.
SPEAKER_05I did like the Atkins one.
SPEAKER_03So I might have I might have asked you this before because I was curious, but I know you were like, oh, I want my like relationship with food to be different. But do you think it's like changed?
SPEAKER_06I do I consider things a lot more before I put things in my mouth. I'm thinking, is this worth it?
unknownPause.
SPEAKER_06Well, pause. Is it worth it? You know, is it worth the calories? Am I willing to either take a gain from it, like a weight gain from it, or am I willing to work out extra for it? So I just put a lot more thought into before I put eat something. Um, but there are times where I'm just like, fuck it. Normally when I'm on my period, I'm like, just fuck it. Yeah, Reese's peanut butter cups.
SPEAKER_03When I was on, I I do the bike sometimes, right? And like, you know, you'll eat like a Reese's peanut butter cup and it's like 130 calories, but then I was on the bike and it's like, I don't know how many calories it is. I was on the bike, I did a half an hour ride and I burned 200 calories. I'm like, what the fuck? I just rode this bike hella hard for two for 30 minutes and I've burned 200 calories. I'm like, that's fucked. So I do that at the gym.
SPEAKER_06Like, if when I I notice when I'm at the gym more, I eat less crap because I see the calorie count of how much I burned, and then I'm like, fuck, that's you know, I eat a a two-pack of peanut butter cups, and that's that whole workout is negated, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, that's crazy, right?
SPEAKER_06So yeah, so I still try to I drink a lot of protein shakes. Usually I'm really good at work. And then once I'm home is the problem because I'm in my head and or I'm bored or something, especially when it's raining, because sometimes when I'm bored, um, I'll be like, oh, I'm gonna take the dogs for a walk or something, you know. But if it's raining, then I'm like, I'm not gonna take my white fluffy dogs out for a walk. Um, so like sometimes I'll go to the gym, but it's just hard because, you know, working the gym into, you know, it's a 15-minute drive there, and then it's uh, you know, a workout for 45 minutes and then it's a 15-minute drive back, and then it's just it's just a lot.
SPEAKER_05Sorry if you guys couldn't hear. We could hear the kids in the background talking. They're not supposed to disturb us.
SPEAKER_06But then I try to find alternatives to things, right? So if I'm craving chocolate, I eat a sugar-free fudge sickle, or I drink um I get the pro chocolate protein shakes and I make it into hot chocolate if it's cold. And I add a little bit of sugar-free whipped cream. Um, or there's just things that are less calories and less fat. Like marshmallows are a thing I'm really into. So I eat a marshmallow and I'm like sat my sweet tooth gets satisfied because it doesn't really have fat in it. It does have sugar, obviously. But um, so there's just I try to find alternatives to things. Um, I'm really like when I'm craving something salty, I eat a lot of skinny pop.
SPEAKER_03Is fat the I I felt like people are like, oh, fat's not the issue no more. Now it's just like carbohydrates is the issue.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, carbs and sugars. Carbs turn into sugars, which shouldn't turn into fat and depending on quantity.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think uh when it comes down to I think uh the calorie intake is like the the biggest thing. Like you can if you're only eating 2,000 calories but it's like like two bags of hot Cheetos or whatever, you're still gonna lose weight. Yeah, if that's all you know, because it's the calories. You're burning it, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so I I mostly look at calorie counts when I'm doing it. So usually I drink at least two protein because uh protein it takes longer to digest and it takes your body more to digest it. So it's burning more calories than often's worth. So protein's the best for you, right? So I try to drink at least two protein shakes a day and usually a protein bar, and then like for dinner, I usually eat mostly meat. Like so, since my stomach's so small now, I usually eat the meat or the protein first, and then I'll have like a bite or two of the starch or whatever it is.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Kat was over at our house because she was going to a dog show over there, and a client brought us the senorita bread. Or what is it called? Is it called senorita bread? It's called something else though. Starbred. Yeah, and then I was like, Kat, you want some? She's like, they're not worth the calories. And I was like, You're right. Good job. Good job. Well, they're worth it for me. Those things are so good. But she likes it. In the Asian place, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, there's there's things that are worth it to me. And was it just the buttery one?
SPEAKER_03The buttery, like light lace sweet ones.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_03They were so warm. Yeah. Oh my god. I would yeah.
SPEAKER_06So I did take one and cheat it up and spit it out. Just for the fun. So that's not a good thing to do though, because it is a type of de eating disorder, but I have done that with certain things. Um, but I try to look at something like do I like this well? There are things I'll be eating mid eat, like chewing. I'm like, this flavor is not really.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, we haven't been recording the whole time. I have been. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Are the cameras recording?
SPEAKER_01Yes, the cameras are recording.
SPEAKER_06Uh so I would say um, I will be like take a bite of something and I'll be like, not worth it. And I'll put it down. The only thing I will shove myself through is like a protein bar or something.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean that's that's that's very I mean that's good that you can like identify that it's like it's like in mid while you're doing it. Because sometimes I like go look for a snack and then I'm like, I'm not hungry.
SPEAKER_06Why am I fucking I still do that though? I still struggle a lot with mental hunger a lot. Like I just want to eat when I'm bored. So that's why I do like skinny pop a lot because it's three cups for 150 calories. So it's something one piece at a time. It's easy to snack on. It takes me a long time to snack on, but it's not that bad, but it also creates my salty.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, what uh what is everyone like are we all doing this? Yeah, yeah. So what do you think about it? I I I was gonna say I because I don't remember.
SPEAKER_01I remember Nathan's New Year's resolution was to uh fish more. To fish more, to go fishing. Okay. I remember and to spend more time at home with your kids.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, and that's where you too. I've done that. Success. I mean, I do wish I could still be home with the kids more, but I I've been home pretty a pretty good amount. And I've been fishing.
SPEAKER_05We haven't taken as many trips. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Sometimes dog rumors are weird on fishing, but like I'll send a picture of you to you that you can put up that I I took fishing recently.
SPEAKER_01I heard that you had a not so great fishing trip.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah. With Ivan?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. He's been saying it. He's like, did Nathan tell you about the fishing trip? And I was like, no, he's like, oh, he'll tell you, he'll tell you. And I was like, Yeah, I have okay, so tell me.
SPEAKER_03We go out on the boat. I just get the boat back from the fucking book. Well, yeah, we have to get it fixed. Right? Um, we I get out on the water, first day getting the boat back, right? And um Ivan's with me. He's never gone out fishing with us, and Owen is, and and we're drive, we're we're we're making a run. So like we just get on the boat and go really fast to where we want to go, and we stop and we start fishing at this one spot. Everything's working fine. I go to start the motor to restart it, can make another run somewhere else, and it don't start. And I'm like, what the fuck? Right? I'm instantly I'm livid. Yeah, like we just got this thing fixed.
SPEAKER_06Like $2,000 worth of repairs.
SPEAKER_03And I'm like, I'm I'm pretty much like, oh fuck, I'm so mad. And Ivan's like, I got this because he's a mechanic and he knows cars a lot, right?
SPEAKER_06He is great to have around.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. To fix things. And he's like, let me look at it, let me look at it. So he opens the thing and he's like looking at it, and he's like just cleans off the he cleans off the um the connect the connections for the the battery, the cranking battery, and then it fucking maybe it took him like 15 minutes and it starts right up.
SPEAKER_04Nice.
SPEAKER_03And I'm like, I'm more mad now because I'm like, I paid hella money to have this thing gone through and they did some like hundred-point inspection and they put new batteries in, so or new trolling motor batteries. That means they had to remove the cranking battery the way that it's designed and put that one back in. It's just different batteries for different components within the boat, right? And that means they took that battery out and put it back in, right?
SPEAKER_04And didn't clean it off.
SPEAKER_03And didn't clean it off. And to me, that's part of like in a safety and you I I told him I want you to go through the boat and make sure everything's in within one. And um, I'm like, okay, it's were they corroded? So we yes, there was corrosion on the um on the stems, whatever you want to call them. So we we take off and I'm like, I'm mad now, and we start fishing again. I open I put the trolling motor down. It's like a motor in the front of the boat that you use with your feet to like make you go around the water. So like uh with this, the way we fish with the with the bass fishing, we don't like just stop or and stay in one place. You move around with the trolling motor. So sorry, we're not like the trolling motor stops working, and I'm like, what the fuck? So I'm resetting it and I'm going through these things, and then uh Ivan's like researching online the how to fix it, how to fix it, and like this goes on. Ivan's try is trying to fix that, and we're just like going back and forth for a couple hours trying to figure out how to get this thing right, right? And I'm just like we're just floating there because a bass boat looks like so I I'm trying to fish, and then I get I'm I get in the driver's seat and I'm like just driving the boat and trying to let them fish, and I'm I'm just livid the whole time. And I'm like, fuck it, let's just get off the water, fuck this. I'm gonna come and it wasn't good, but since then I mean I've been able to figure out. Like the stuff that's wrong with the boat, and I've been able to kind of get the problems fixed myself, doing it myself. But man.
SPEAKER_05I will be sending an email to Bassburg.
SPEAKER_03But if we weren't like, I probably would have been so I think I I would have figured out to look at the um the battery eventually, but like we would have been out there and just like stuck if Ivan wasn't Ivan was just like, Oh, it's it's probably this, and just had a feeling. And he he said one time he bought a car that like the guy was like, it don't start, it don't start, and he just like brought it home. Yeah, and then like he's very Ivan. He was like, Oh, I just I just cleaned the fucking the um the connections for the battery and it started right up.
SPEAKER_06And I'm like that boy in cars though, he's yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But if he wasn't there, I probably would have as soon as the boat would have started, I would have left the water because I would have I would have been so mad. But like uh I wanted it to be I spent all this money, I just wanted it to be fun, you know. And I don't know this first time your first time bringing him out and yeah, we went out again though, and we caught lots of fish. It was much better, much better. And um, he caught his first bass. Nice, and then Drake went with us, he caught a bunch of fish, too. He didn't catch a bass that day, though.
SPEAKER_06Um I like the little bluegills I think.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and we had a we just had a great time.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I need to get out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so that's two for two. Both of you guys are keeping up with your reservations. Yeah, okay, reservations. Resolutions.
SPEAKER_02I book reservations, I usually keep them. Um don't forget to book your reservation for Super Zoo. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Um, so I I believe my resolution was that I wanted to work out more and I wanted to find something that stuck for me.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Um, which I feel like I have. Um, you know, I found um pole classes and I really, really enjoy them. I really love them. I've been consistent. The only time I don't go is if I'm away on a trip. Um, but I I go at least two to three times a week. And then I even bought my own pole for home for practice. Um, so on my off days, I do try to spend a little bit of time on it for practice. So um I do feel like I'm doing a pretty good job at keeping up on it. And I I love it, honestly. Like I really love the way I feel. I have I have made like slight modifications to my diet just because I did want to be a little bit healthier and I did want to lose just a little bit of weight, not a lot, but just a little. And um, I actually lost 14 pounds since January. So I feel I feel good about that. Oh my God. Sorry, clap too hard. Um, so I'm happy with that. Like I don't want to lose any more weight. I feel really happy with the way I look when I'm looking at myself in the mirror. And I just I feel more muscular too. Like I can tell, like I'm more toned. I'm like happy with the way that my body is looking. So that's a nice feeling. It's a it's a really nice feeling. I plan on continuing to go to poll. I I'm really loving it.
SPEAKER_03And like it makes Katie feel like sexy, which is great for me.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. I I also go to poll classes, but I I don't haven't been back to that on a regular basis because it's farther for me from home and it's hard with Ellie and stuff, but I do enjoy.
SPEAKER_05They are a lot of fun. They're super fun. And yeah, most everybody in our salon is signed up in a friend's salon too. And so we all try to like, you know, we'll be like, who's going today? And then, you know, so we do get to like see each other outside of work, which is fun. Um, I will say, I don't do you remember if I had any other, or was that the only one?
SPEAKER_01I think it was the only one.
SPEAKER_05I think that was it. So I love reading, but I have not been reading. I feel really badly about it. I don't know what it is. Like, I don't know if I'm just like blocked.
SPEAKER_03I don't feel bad about not reading. Shut the hell up. He'd rather you be at the poll classes.
SPEAKER_05So that's something I would like to like get back into a little bit is like stop binging social media as much and read a little bit more. Um get back into reading again. Well, like I bought um, I bought there's that book that um a groomer actually wrote. Oh, I've been meaning to I know, and I bought it. I have it on paperback. And what was the let's I'm trying to remember the name of it. It's a fantasy, right? It's a fantasy book, so it's like right up our alley.
SPEAKER_01Is it a smut fantasy or is it a regular fantasy? It's a I don't know if it's smut.
SPEAKER_05She said it's like lightly, I think. Lightly smutty.
SPEAKER_01The main character is a groomer.
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah. Okay, what's the name? I need the name. Is it downloadable online? Yes, she has it on Audible. She has it. I'm trying to look. I ordered it, I just can't remember the name off the top of my head. It's like Iron Witch. Yeah. Something like that. She also wrote the Grooming Witch of the Iron Ledge.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05So I bought it and I haven't even like cracked it open because I've just been so like blocked. So I need to read it because very cool. Very, you know, that's and I've heard rave reviews about it. Like everybody says it was phenomenal.
SPEAKER_03So is it American that wrote it?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I'd love to support it's in and we're saying it's Angie Coates, who wrote the quintessential rabbit grooming book like a couple years ago, was nominated for real or Barclay on her. So I think she I mean, she writes, obviously, you know. Yeah. Um, so I'm looking forward to reading that actually.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So uh everybody you should support. I hear it's great. I've heard rave reviews. Okay, what's the name of what's the name again? We'll tell you what we think after.
SPEAKER_03The grooming witch of the Iron Coast or something like that.
SPEAKER_05Of the Iron Ledge. Good job, Nathan. That was actually pretty good. Um, so I am excited. I just need to get back into it. So I would like the accountability police to keep me being a little bit less on social media and a little bit more reedy-reedy. I'll think about that. I'll think about that. No, the price. It's $18. Yeah, I bought mine on Amazon paperback.
SPEAKER_03That's a meal at McDonald's nowadays.
SPEAKER_06Not for me. When I go to McDonald's now, I get one, I get one four-piece chicken nugget, and that fills me up.
SPEAKER_01You don't have to brag.
SPEAKER_06And that cost me like three bucks. What about you?
SPEAKER_01Okay, so I had two resolutions. The first one was to read more books than last year. Last year I finished at 97. This year I'm already at 50. And we're not even halfway through the year. So I am smashing it.
SPEAKER_05I just we're doing so good. I know.
SPEAKER_01I there was a new Puck Boys book. Um and it's called, what is it? The Charming Puck Boy. Oh. And it's a hockey player, obviously, but then the other person um manages like a uh a dog shelter. So it's like very like close to home. I might have to because it's like it's like they care about the animals and they're always have like all these fundraisers in the book.
SPEAKER_06Question about those books. Do you have to is it a series where you have to read to know? Or is it something you can just read one of them and be okay?
SPEAKER_01I think. I mean, there's other characters that like revisit, but they're just like side, they just like those people come over and hang out. But it's not you don't have to know their history to like so you can jump in wherever. Yeah, but I love I love the hockey books. I did I we haven't talked about it heated rivalry last year. I finished the series before the show. The show is great.
SPEAKER_03Is it is it like puck boys? Very similar. What was first? Um, it seemed like you started talking about puck boys, and all of a sudden this thing heated rivalry thing I started seeing a lot.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, there's there's already there's six books for heated rivalry. Um but this is the tenth puck boy, so I don't know which one which is both hockey first. They're both they're both hockey, yeah. And then there was another hockey series because I'm into sports now. Um was pucking around. Um which I think I might have sent you guys the the thing about it, but it was like like unlike the other two, it started out it started out straight. Um but then and then like as you go through the series, like things happen and people meet each other, and like I don't want to spoil too much, but like you get introduced to like okay, how do you guys feel about polyamory?
SPEAKER_05How do I feel about it?
SPEAKER_01Because I never really understood it.
SPEAKER_03I don't really like I don't yeah, it's not a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01I don't know whatever about it. Yeah, right. I watched Christian lives a little bit in the book. It like makes me like like they explain it so well that I'm like, oh, that makes sense for like before it's like oh you're just like an open whatever, but like the book does a really good job of like explaining like the mental and like the emotional like connections between people, and I was like, that's pretty cool. Um, yeah, so I've been reading a lot of talking stuff, not for me, not for me, but I understand or yeah, and then my other see, I feel like we really need a camera that just catches an expression that will make people pay for that content.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, sign up to our Patreon, anyways.
SPEAKER_06Okay, what was your second resolution?
SPEAKER_01So, my second resolution, my second resolution was to uh play my musical instruments.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, how's that going?
SPEAKER_01I have not played a single musical instrument since the beginning of the year.
SPEAKER_05Go play Owen's cello.
SPEAKER_01And you know what? This is actually why I wanted to like introduce this segment was because like I like I said I was gonna do it. Okay, and I want to do it. Yeah, I said it for all the listeners and I want to feel guilty about not doing it, so I'm gonna do it. And I'm gonna text you every day. Guess what?
SPEAKER_05We're a quarter of the way through the year, dude.
SPEAKER_01I know next shut up, Katie.
SPEAKER_05It hurts my feelings. We're almost halfway through.
SPEAKER_01Next time we come back to this, I will have been practicing. Okay. What instruments do you have? I have this a saxophone, a clarinet, a flute, a trumpet, a piano. Damn. I think that's it. Uh no, no guitar. What's your favorite? I I play the saxophone, like mainly, because that was my instrument like all through high school and stuff. My main. And the skin flute. And the skin flute.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01That's how he likes all of it all.
SPEAKER_05You're the most proficient at that one. He likes woodwinds.
SPEAKER_01You know what? So I have played an instrument since the beginning of the video.
SPEAKER_02Not as much as you should. Yeah. Anyways.
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SPEAKER_06Should we make some new things that we should promise or account be accountable for? Yeah. For next time.
SPEAKER_01I want to do uh musical instruments and I I want to seeing you being so successful at losing your weight, it's really inspiring to me, and I want to do it as well.
SPEAKER_06So I I wish we were closer to each other because I have a gym membership that I can bring anyone I want with me for free.
unknownI wish you could do it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06But if I come out for a dog weekend, we can go to the gym together in the mornings before or after.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I think I think those two. I'll just do those two for now. Musical instruments and be more active because I was doing really well. I do really well at the beginning of the year and then I and this year didn't even that wasn't even a reservation.
SPEAKER_06Oh, we have to take Willow for walks. Yeah, Willow needs more walks. Did you have did you make resolutions? Did you make reservations?
SPEAKER_02No, reservations. Reservations. No, Juan also does that for me. He he handles my personal assistant. Yes, he is my Kathleen, and I love that. I was just thinking, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Okay, then Ronnie, make some resolutions for the next episode. Things you want to do. Not the next episode. The next time we do accountability. Next time we do accountability, please. Walk willow more is what can be one of them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, walk willow. Okay.
SPEAKER_06One more. Come on. Something easy.
SPEAKER_02Cook more. Cook more. Cook more. Walk more. No more. Girl, no.
SPEAKER_06I've tried to take some stress off. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I say this because he used to cook a fresh meal every single day for years. And I took it for granted. I always loved it, and I always I every time he cooks, I would thank you for making this, and I give him a kiss, and you know, but lately he hasn't been doing it as much. So maybe that's it. Oh, you miss it?
SPEAKER_06Gotta get back to your housewife duties.
unknownI know.
SPEAKER_05You gotta tell him how my housewife if I went to the world. Cooking for driving.
SPEAKER_03Okay, maybe you could swap take it. Maybe you could swap instrument playing for cooking.
unknownWho?
SPEAKER_06Why? He's not doing it. Instruments?
SPEAKER_03No, he plays your instruments.
SPEAKER_01And then you could. When he cooks dinner, I'll be practicing.
SPEAKER_06Okay. There we go. Real instruments.
SPEAKER_03No, I was talking about his instrument. Oh, that'd be a little hazardous if you didn't.
SPEAKER_02That one. That'd be a talent, though. Okay. Oh my god, we can make up OnlyFans while you suck my deater and then you play an instrument while you do it. People would pay for that. It's gonna kept anyways. That'd be a little funny.
SPEAKER_05You guys are gonna be rich.
SPEAKER_01I can only do that with the piano.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yeah, because you have woodwork otherwise. Yeah, and sync.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so though, like we got a little bit of a deal that all that's been working out for years, you know, and like I mean that's what I think.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03We have the like I rub her feet, and in and at i if i if it meets a certain qu uh quality of feet rubbing. You have to do a good thing. You know, I I get a sweet treat. Nice. You know what I mean? So like and it works. I love having my feet rubbed. Now I'd be rubbing her feet all the time. Yeah. And I'm into feet. Now he's weird without feet. So what does that say? It's a plus plus, you know?
SPEAKER_05Because I feel like when I feel like when we first got together, you weren't as into feet. So I feel like the foot rubbing over the years has just like really gotten you into feet.
SPEAKER_03No, well, I've I've It's my feet but also, though, it's like less shameful now.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Is it?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Is it the great normalization?
SPEAKER_01Anyway, whenever whenever I'm on uh Instagram and I see like a foot thing liked by Nathan.
SPEAKER_03Always always only the funny stuff.
SPEAKER_01They're all funny.
SPEAKER_03I love that it'll be serious footy.
SPEAKER_05I love that it like almost like you know, shames people like what they like, because I'll like look and I'll be like, of course Zach liked that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Of course he did. Or sometimes it'll be Macy and I'll be like, I've seen you like this video.
SPEAKER_03Macy likes the fucking funniest stuff. Yeah, she's got the goaded algorithm.
SPEAKER_05You liked this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she's got a goaded algorithm for sure.
SPEAKER_05Let's get back to it. Okay.
SPEAKER_01She's a freak.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, she is.
SPEAKER_01She's like, oh, something, something love liked by Macy.
SPEAKER_05I was like, Yeah, we'll cut that out. But yeah, sometimes it's like we don't gotta cut all of it because it's funniest. No, no, no. We don't want to talk about Amy like that.
SPEAKER_03She likes it. Just because she likes it, but we're not putting it on black. We're not putting it on black. Okay, but yes, but the you like something online, you're putting it out there for the world to know that you like it.
SPEAKER_02I want to draw attention to it, you know.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's funny.
SPEAKER_03She thinks it's funny.
SPEAKER_05No, I think us saying we look at what she likes is fine.
SPEAKER_03But beyond that, Macy, I think you have the goaded algorithm, okay? You like funny stuff. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05See, that's fine.
SPEAKER_01Great sense of humor. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_03Including all the d stuff. Okay, we're keeping it in.
SPEAKER_05Black mom is in charge of everything. Anyway, Katie. Okay, so for next recording, I would like to obviously continue going to poll. I don't want to fall off. Um, yeah, don't fall off the pole. You can get into your I don't want to fall off in any way. Um, but uh because I want to look super good at super zoo at the pool party. I want to I don't know if I can get a six-pack, but it'd be cool to have a six-pack. Um, and then I want to read more. So I'd like to at least have read one book by our next accountability police. Okay. Sounds good.
SPEAKER_06Nathan? I already did it. No, success. We're doing new ones.
SPEAKER_05Or you can continue to do the same thing. It's up to you. But with like I would like to be accountable for it.
SPEAKER_03I want to be more. No, I don't want to do that.
SPEAKER_05I'd also love if you cooked more.
SPEAKER_03I cook just as much as you do. I know. We cook equal amounts.
SPEAKER_05I know.
SPEAKER_03I wish, I wish, I uh no.
SPEAKER_05I wish. This is a good one.
SPEAKER_03Because I was gonna say I want to be more active on social media, but I do not want that. Um I want to well, you've been working out some. Yeah. I guess I want to be more uh consistent on exercise, working out. Yeah, there we go.
SPEAKER_05You should try to work out.
SPEAKER_03Right now I'm working out like two times a week. Yeah, but then it's it doesn't work out like that because what I I I go to a thing and yes, but yes, yes. Yes, yes, okay.
SPEAKER_06Yes, yes, okay.
SPEAKER_03But then I can't have a meal cooked when she gets back up from class if I'm working out. That's true.
SPEAKER_05He does cook me meals so that I have protein as soon as I come home from the country.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I mean, what do you want? You want to come home to a hot cooked meal or something, or do you want to like come home to a buff husband?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Or both. Although your lion would pop if you did the I know.
SPEAKER_03It's pretty cringe. No, it's not. Lion? It's a very cringe tattoo. Oh. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's cool. It's I mean, it is I I got it tattooed on my body and it's cool. But you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05Like people just make fun of it sometimes now. That's it. No, they don't.
SPEAKER_03They don't. But like getting a be like tattooed line on my shoulder.
SPEAKER_01Oh, is just like I thought you meant like it's I was like, it's it's well done. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_03It's like getting it's like getting a it's like getting a fucking marble wire around your arm. Yeah, or because he's like or a dream catcher, or a clock or something, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05He got the line because he's a Leo.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but that's cringe. Yeah, yeah. It is it's okay though. Okay, I've seen this guy get uh he he did it all up his arm, he just tattooed white trash. And I'm like, it looked it, but you know what though? Right on for him. You know what I mean? If I seen that, I'd be like, that's sick, dude. Sick tat. Own it.
SPEAKER_06Anyway, no regirds.
SPEAKER_03No regirds.
SPEAKER_06So mine is get back to the five days a week at the gym. Instead of just the two or three. Um and try to stay away from the Reese's peanut butter cups.
SPEAKER_03How much calories is one Reese's peanut butter cup?
SPEAKER_06Uh it is uh a little over a hundred, I think.
SPEAKER_03Fifteen minutes on a fucking bike. That's crazy. Um it's crazy how the body turns calories into energy, like so efficiently.
SPEAKER_06But uh walk the dogs more because they need more exercise too.
SPEAKER_01I just remembered we bought a box of Reese's peanut butter cups protein bars. I don't know what like the actual macros are with like the calories and the protein and stuff, but are they have you drank? They're delicious.
SPEAKER_06Did they taste like Reese's?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean you could tell that it's like a protein bar, but they're delicious.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Yeah, you know, Nathan and Katie bought protein bars for the shop, right, at Costco last time. And I took a bite and Nathan's like, how is it? And I was like, it tastes like a protein bar. Yeah, that's all you can say, really, about them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, these Costco ones, they're 20 grams of protein, um, two grams of sugar, and it's like a hundred calories. And I'm like, how do they do that?
unknownYou know?
SPEAKER_06It's a hundred and no. But then you take a bite of it, and you're 200 calories each. Okay, so it's still it's still not bad.
SPEAKER_05But two, two, the both the peanut butter cup is in the package is two ten, yeah.
SPEAKER_06I knew that. So a little bit horrible, actually. It's not horrible, but it's like it's it's just something I have to think about. Like, am I willing to negate it later with exercise kind of thing? Yeah. Or am I willing just to get the poundage from it? But anyway, so let's move on. Um, we're gonna be accountable for the things we're gonna do. Because we got the accountability please now. Woo! Woo! Uh, today we are going to discuss the terrier of the dog of the day is uh the dandy dinmont terrier. So we're gonna do ready Learn the Breed. Good job.
SPEAKER_05There you go.
SPEAKER_01Okay. It'll be me. Juan. The Dandy Dinmont Terrier. The Breed The Breed, the breed originated along the border of England and Scotland in the 1700s and was used for hunting and vermin control by local farmers and landowners. The dandy was catapulted to fame by Sir Walter Scott's popular novel Guy Mannering in 1814, and the breed's name was derived from the character in that book. Dandies were first shown in Britain in 1861 and were recognized by the AKC in 1886. Today the dandy is one of the rarest breeds, classified as a native vulnerable breed in its homeland. It is a low-station dog, with its overall length being slightly less than twice its height. The dandy's body is athletic, long, and flexible, with good bone and muscle. The top line curves down over the shoulders and arches over the loin, creating a very distinctive silhouette. The legs are short and sturdy and the tail is eight to ten inches long. The head is large and broad, with a muzzle with a strong muzzle and long black nose. The dandy has deep set, melancholy eyes and low set ears. The ears hang close to the cheek and are three to four inches long. The dandy's expression reveals great determination, intelligence, and dignity.
SPEAKER_06You know, it's interesting that some breed standards are so specific about the tail length and the ear length and that stuff. Like the Wirefox one is crazy. I mean, we'll talk to it about that when we get to it, but it's just it's very interesting to me that some are so specific.
SPEAKER_03So I really like a dandy. I like dandies.
SPEAKER_05I think they're cool. So I didn't have very much experience with them, but I recently groomed two um one retired one and um her granddaughter, and they were really cool. I actually really enjoyed them. I thought they were Very cute. I said to me they look like if a Bachon was a terrier. Yeah. Yeah. So with the way that they have like that poof at the top, and they're very cute, and they have very round eyes in comparison to a lot of the terriers.
SPEAKER_06So they are hand stripped. How was it to strip them? Or how is their coat? Would you take it?
SPEAKER_05The two that I had were super easy to strip.
SPEAKER_06I was like, oh, this is nice. Well, with the texture of their head and their furnishings, it makes me think that it'd be hard.
SPEAKER_05It's totally different. The texture on the back is totally different from the texture on the furnishings of their head. Yeah, and the sit the head is scissored and the furnishings are scissored, so it's not a strip.
SPEAKER_03Well, was it the the cheski was was the yeah, but were they related to the dandy or who were they related to the danger? They were related to the Scotty and someone else. Scotty and Sealy. Their body is somewhat similar, but I'd like this hand strip jacket. Looks way and it's much more appealing. And I really like the round head.
SPEAKER_05I think it's cool they're named after a fictional character.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Do you know that color that that like tannish color they come in is called mustard, which I find interesting. And then the other color, the grayish color, is pepper. So mustard and pepper. I was like, I thought that was cool. And they've been on the endangered list in AKC for over 10 years.
SPEAKER_03Well, uh, I don't mean to laugh about this because it's not funny. But I mean, I guess it's like relative. So it the in popularity in AKC, they're ranked the number 186 out of 205.
SPEAKER_05Wait, so is that even lower than the no, it's higher. It's higher.
SPEAKER_03I guess it's relative though to how many dogs, right? So like you could be at the very bottom and still there be a lot of them if there's just a lot of yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, they were recognized in 1886, so they've been around a long time by the AKC standards kind of thing, right? So it's just sad because they're dwindling in population. And you can grow them in competition. So it is a breed if you're considering getting a dog to hand strip in competition. It is a breed you can do, and you can also show it and help make its rise. I've seen them more often, I feel like, lately.
SPEAKER_05So, like I know um Ashley, um, she competes with them. Well, she doesn't really compete that much anymore, but when she was competing and she owns a few show, a few show dandies, and same as um Sierra. Sierra, yeah. Sierra has those and she's competed with them. And there's been a few other Holly's grooms them. Oh, yeah, Holly, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Uh the other girl, her Bettina? She's a inner entry. She does a good uh dandy.
SPEAKER_03They've been around for a long time, but they have never won Reed at Westminster. I mean, never won um Best and Show.
SPEAKER_01Best in show at Westminster. You know, at first glance, I had no idea they were stripped. I think it's the head.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, the head kind of throws you off because it looks like a bachan head.
SPEAKER_05Uh I the way they do the head is super interesting too, because like I said, I had done the two, and so I had contacted Sierra like, hey, I've never groomed one of these before. And she sent me a few references, and it's done so differently. And but the ears are stripped. Are they? I thought they'd be shaved like a like a Betty. Well, at least that's my understanding is that the ears are stripped. So I stripped to the two that I did, but it's hard. Well, I would think strip the tassels in because you're stripping in one direction. Yeah. So I mean, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, and I would love to know if they're actually supposed to be shaved. But um no, I asked. I'm pretty sure I asked, and she said they're stripped. And um, but the the whole trim work was just like very different from what I'm used to. So I was very grateful that she had reference videos for me to watch um because it helped a lot. I think they have cute little faces. Yeah, like that's what I'm saying. Well, they like I said, they very much remind me of Bichon. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01With the top of the head, do you do like the same thing as like a Westie with like the the the hairspray and the well westies are hands are hits?
SPEAKER_05Some products, yeah. Westies heads are stripped. They are stripped, but we still use a lot of products, yeah. Teased them, yeah, they tease them. Not a much. I would say not as much. Like they do have a little bit more.
SPEAKER_01They have like the hair has volume on its own.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Cause is the hair curly on the top when it's not blown out straight? No, I wouldn't say it's curly. It's I don't know. It's weird to explain. Yeah. And the ones I had, I don't, I mean, like it was a retired show dog, but she was over 10. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So um, but they're known as independent, proud, smart, affectionate home, but bold and tenacious in the field. Ooh. Yeah. So like a bold and tenacious dog. They're very cool.
SPEAKER_05I like them a lot.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, that was a dandy good time.
SPEAKER_06Um, so yeah, if you're interested in the dandy dinmott terrier, then check them out.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, get more. I want more dandies in the world.
SPEAKER_06They're cute. I like them. Yeah. Um, so next we are going to do a little thing about the dog show. Um, we also didn't start this until later.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, so we're gonna do confirmation information.
SPEAKER_01What if we say it like nerdly?
SPEAKER_06County.
SPEAKER_01Well, we should we should just write it down there so we know. Like confirmation information or something. I don't know. Like just how's the description how we do it nerdly? Nerdally.
SPEAKER_03Excuse me, confirmation information. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Okay, you want to do that? Yeah, Charlotte's doing it. Make them do it. Okay. You ready? We just did. Well, we're gonna do it together now since you and Katie were behind. Okay, ready?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Actually, I brain farted right in the middle of it. I really tried. I really tried.
SPEAKER_06Anyway, so today we are gonna go over preparing yourself and your dog for the ring. So, what kind of things you need for yourself and for your dog? The thing I do when I first get a show dog when they're puppies is take them to confirmation classes. Um, I am lucky enough to have one pretty close to work. It's literally like 10 minutes from our shop. Um, and uh our instructor, Brad, he he's full of information and he can be some people don't love his personality. He he could just be very blunt, you know, and which is nice. I I like I like to be taught that way. Um, but also if I want a nice, friendlier, uh well-knowledged person, um Bill McFadden is near us, near. He's two hours from me, so it's like it's with traffic, it's like two, two and a half hour drive. Much closer for one and yeah, it's yeah, it's closer for you guys, but um I love Bill's classes. And even if Bill's not teaching them, sometimes Taffy teaches them or uh Bill's son Connor teaches them. Um in the facility it's at is beautiful. I love that facility. I wouldn't live there. Um it's at Sycamore Farms in Lode. Um Lode?
SPEAKER_01Lode, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Lode. Yeah. So uh if you're near you, you're in this area, then you should check out his classes. They're usually on Tuesday nights.
SPEAKER_05But for anybody who's wondering like what a confirmation class entails, like you can go in, usually it's a drop-in, so you don't have to sign up, which I like because you can just go when you have time. Awful about consistency and keeping like if it was like eight-week course, I'd probably just fall off. Um, you know, like the poll. Um but so you know, the nice thing about it is there's all sorts of different dogs. So I do think it's really fun. You get to meet a lot of different dogs, but your dog also gets to see a lot of different dogs, which is great if you're going into groups, right? And then um generally you're doing what you're supposed to do. So if you have a table dog, you're putting your dog on the table. If you have a ground dog, you're on the ground. I don't they don't have a ramp though, huh?
SPEAKER_06No, uh they do in at Sycamore Farms, but not but not at Brad's Club.
SPEAKER_05So they might or might not, depending on where you go, right? Because every place is different.
SPEAKER_06If you do have a ramp dog, they give you the option you can pick them up and put them on the table, or you can just show them on the floor. Yeah. Um, because there are ramp optional breeds too. And a ramp, for those who don't know, is just a table that's low, but it has a a ramp onto it. It's a ramp. They walk onto it. But it it's not just a ramp, there is a table too. Um, but so there's some optional breeds that can or can't do it, and there's some that have to do it on the ramp.
SPEAKER_03You think if you were, I mean, most of our listeners are on the west east coast, so like you but you'd think uh a confirmation class would have the things that you would need to properly because how many times have you gone to the show and you see a dog see the ramp and they're like, I ain't going up that fucking thing. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like a lot. I I see it a lot, and I I don't go to a lot, a ton of dog shows.
SPEAKER_05So well, that did happen the first time I showed uh carry that came to our confirmation show. He's like, You want me to do what? Yeah, and he was like, I'm not going up that ramp. And so I had to pick him up and put him on the ramp table. Yeah, and he's a big bigger boy, yeah. He the the carry.
SPEAKER_06Um so a lot of the classes that I go to, um, you basically you're just taking turns uh doing that. And some will probably some will just keep going in circles, kind of thing, where you just go one by one and they examine your dog and check the bite, and then you do a down and back, which is where you go either to the corner or to the edge of the wall and back, and that's checking your dog's uh gate from the front and the rear. And then they'll have you go around, which check is checks your dog's side gate, which is what they look like from in a side profile moving. But it's not only important for you to be learning the ring kind of procedures and stuff, but also your dog. Your dog's getting comfortable having someone else touching it and practicing with it before you take your dog into the ring. Because you'd be surprised how many dogs I see on the table um shy away from the judge, or I've seen some nip at the judge, and this is just a good opportunity for you not to be at a show and under the stress and pressure of being on a having your dog examined by the judge and your dog finding out your dog does not like to be touched by other people. Yeah. Um, something I also do is since I work in a grooming shop and I have show dogs, I put them on the table. So they just get used to being on the table. So they're so you know how some dogs, like our clients' dogs, they are afraid of the edge or being up high kind of thing. So they just get used to being up high if you have a table dog. Um and then I have my co-workers touch them and stuff, um, and then practice exams, and that really helps. I touch my dog. Yeah. I also personally have special treats that my dogs only get in the show ring.
SPEAKER_03Oh, damn, that good, good.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so either hot dogs, which is is gross.
SPEAKER_03Pause for a second. I gotta say this while it's on my mind. The fucking our car, our Tesla, has been smelling so bad lately, and we're like, what the hell does that smell? Katie brought this good bait to this thing we were doing. Like, we were doing this like photo thing, we can't really talk about it. That's as much as I'm gonna say. And um, she brought like steak, so Disa's going crazy for it, and we're like, it smells like fucking rotten flesh in here for like two weeks. And I'm gonna I'm getting ready to go fishing yesterday, and I look and there's the we find it. Finally, Katie was like, Oh, I know what it is, and it was a bag of rotten steak. It's just been in the car.
SPEAKER_06Also, one of her stripping knives, she's like, Where's my stripping knife? Also, it was in the bag too. Anyway, so yeah, usually I bring steak or hot dogs, and they that's just a special treat they get for either training for the show or for in the ring. Um, but also I bring a variety of treats because my dogs personally are picky, so I just bring a smorgash board of treats. Um, so packing for the show is also something that's important, making sure you have all the tools you're gonna need for the ring. Um, like me, I need all the stuff I need to get my dog ready. So I before I leave my house, I bathe and blow dry, vlossy dry, and um brush out and fluff dry my bichons. But I usually do the haircut obviously at home too beforehand. But when I get to the show, I also spray them down with a light mist and brush them and pre-sissor them so they look neat and everything. Um because once you put them in the car, they just get like sloppy. Um so making sure you have every grooming tool you need, uh, proper bait, um, proper attire. Um you want something that you are gonna be comfortable in, depending if you have to kneel with your breed, you know, your dress is your skirt's not too short. Um God forbid. I've seen no, I've seen some underwear um or other things from people leaning over. So do the bend test. Other things? Oh dang. Yeah. Oh no. I saw someone's like butt cheeks.
SPEAKER_03They're peanut?
SPEAKER_06No. The men mostly wear suits, so there's not too many skirts in with them. But anyways, um, so making sure you have proper attire. I personally like things with pockets because um, ladies, we do I see a lot of you know boob pockets. Um so but that is another choice. Um people also sometimes carry bait in their mouth, depending what it is. Um, but I like to not talk to the judges, but you know, if they say something to you, you don't want to be like you know, with bait in your mouth. So um just making sure you have proper attire. I wear things that I would wear to like a party, like you know, dresses, skirts, uh, jackets, you know, blazers.
SPEAKER_03That you'd wear to a party. Show people that's not party clothes.
SPEAKER_00Okay, what maybe for their generation when they were going to parties.
SPEAKER_06But I often I wear like sundresses and stuff, you know, that are just that's that would say the most common thing I wear in the ring.
SPEAKER_01Well, I one thing I will say about attire is that like one of the things that I used to make fun of about dog shows was that like every all the outfits and all the suits were just like all ugly and like so the But like the younger people in there are bringing some stylish stuff.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so mostly I wear eye dresses and stuff, but I mean I do have suits and stuff, like business suits basically. Um, but I don't wear those too often anymore.
SPEAKER_03When was the last time you wore a business suit to a party?
SPEAKER_06Well, I think your hair was I said what I was wearing to the party, like a a dress, like a sundress.
SPEAKER_03Like I do like sundresses.
SPEAKER_06So I would wear that to a party, but there are also business like I would wear to a business meeting, I guess, if I ever went to business meetings. Um, but wear what you're comfortable in. I just wasn't comfortable really in a lot of the suits because they're just more confining to me.
SPEAKER_01So I have a question. I know that a lot of the judges are like on the well, they're on the older side, but a little bit more conservative. So, like, do you make a conscious choice about like covering your tattoos or I personally rather not show too much clean?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. I do make a conscious effort sometimes, but it really depends on the weather. Because if it's hot, I'm not gonna be wearing a full, you know, pants with this like a full length jacket and stuff. But I my legs are tattooed from knee to ankle, and uh my arm is tattooed from my whole arm. So uh I do make an effort, but a lot of the judges you get to learn to know and kind of see what they're placing and not. My goal is also to blend in with the professionals. So that's why I do a lot of training classes and work with my dogs and try to make this presence about myself that try to make me blend in with the professionals. And I I've had that comment before. They're like, oh, a certain owner handles here, and I'm like, oh me, and they're like, Oh, okay. So that's always fun. But a lot of people are nervous. I bring mints in my mouth. They people say it doesn't really work, but it helps me feel better about uh they're supposed to not be able to smell your the nervousness on your breath, the dogs. So yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought it was to like impress the judge.
SPEAKER_06I also put that's the main reason I do it now, just to make sure I don't have stanky breath.
SPEAKER_03I wonder if a judge has ever been like this guy's breath stinks I'm not placing him.
SPEAKER_06Probably I mean I've talked to people where I'm like it caught kept me off guard and then you get distracted, but it shouldn't be about you. But the more professional you look and present yourself, the better I think your chances are, you know?
SPEAKER_02You always want to make a good impression.
SPEAKER_06You want to make a good impression about you and your dog. So make sure you bring all the proper equipment. You look professional, uh, and you act professional. I also personally always have a poop bag in my pocket, just in case my dog shits in the ring. It doesn't really happen to me often, except when I was showing Willow.
SPEAKER_02Um sorry.
SPEAKER_06But uh other people do, and then that I just have a poop bag in my pocket ready to go just in case.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06But um is there anything else you would like to add, Katie? I mean, the boys don't do the show.
SPEAKER_05Um, yeah, so I want to go back to confirmation classes because we started talking about um what goes on there. And so, like obviously you're doing your table. So for people that haven't been there, that's stacking your dog up. That's putting your dog where the, you know, the feet where they're supposed to belong, having the head where it's supposed to belong. The judge comes and looks over your whole dog, looks inside the mouth, and then usually they have you do the down and back and go around, but sometimes they'll have you do like other things that are rarer. So there are sometimes like a triangle, or sometimes there's the T the T. And so it's good to practice those things. And also as a chariot person, potentially practicing sparring is important too. But honestly, like in the beginning, the when I started confirmation class, honestly, I don't think the dog needed it the way that I needed it. I needed confirmation class. Half the time, I don't even, for me and my tears, I don't go to confirmation classes anymore. But I needed to learn in the beginning. And so that was what was important. I had to, I was so like nervous and stiff, and like I wanted my puppy to be perfect. And then I realized like the judges really don't care if your puppy is perfect. Like they I would be like, my dog was perfect. Why didn't my dog win? That other dog was crazy, and I would get like upset about it. And then I realized like they don't actually care about your dog being perfect. They're looking at your dog's structure, you know. Like, so while it's good for them to know how to do the down and back and the different things, like I needed to learn the routine and have muscle memory and feel confident in what I was doing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I uh uh sometimes a confirmation class too much can be um like if you you want your dog to be super excited and like this is great.
SPEAKER_05Well, for me, yeah, for me and my Scotties, I don't usually just because I want them to be more amped in the ring. And so I have enough in the salon, they're getting to meet and greet different people and get touched, and so I don't really worry about that kind of stuff now, you know. But um that might be something that is more important for other breeds or for other people. Um, you know, so uh, but I do think confirmation class is very important. It taught me a lot of things that I wouldn't have learned otherwise.
SPEAKER_01And things you don't think about too, like when Ronnie was taking uh Willow, Bill like changed his speed. He's like slow down a little bit or like speed up a little bit.
SPEAKER_05So like just things like that that you don't know you might not realize while you're doing it. Yeah, absolutely. Um, and then uh definitely I just think the practicing with your dog, like Kat said in the salon, we put our dogs on the table. And so I pray we'll practice stacking them and we'll practice, you know, all those different things and getting there early, you know, making sure you're at the show early, that you you find your ring, you know where you're supposed to be. I remember the first show we ever went to. I remember like, do I have to like check in somewhere? Like, I didn't understand the like what to do, and I didn't even bring like a table to prep my dog on, or you know.
SPEAKER_03I think if you're truly like you're truly getting into it, it is vital to go to a confirmation of us.
SPEAKER_06Well, also going to a show's before you go. Can you imagine showing up?
SPEAKER_03You just show up and you're like, uh, what do I do? And the j judges get agitated.
SPEAKER_06I know, I know people they do.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, if you're like, what do I do? The judges or like if so look what they're doing. Like sometimes you could tell the judges are like, hey, you got to get your shit together.
SPEAKER_06So that's something I didn't mention, but once you get to the show, I always get to the show at least an hour before my ring time. And I look at my ring time. I actually check it many, many times. But um also to see if there's dogs ahead of you, but you can't count on dogs ahead of you to be there because sometimes they don't show up. Whole breeds won't show up. Um, but I always make sure I am there an hour before ring time. Pick up your number before like usually like 20 to 30 minutes.
SPEAKER_03Well, they start it early if you cannot start so if if a whole breed doesn't show up, they'll still start it on time.
SPEAKER_05You should still save all that stuff for another episode. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06The once you get to the show. Yeah. But just make sure, yeah. Make sure you're there on time. We're gonna go over other stuff, uh, like once you're at the show and going in the ring at a later time, but just make sure you have enough time and you have all the necessary things you need a table, grooming equipment. Uh, proper attire and you've been practicing in some way. So that is going to wrap up our episode today. Thank you so much for joining us, and we'll catch you next time. Bye.
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