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Moto Maiden Mariah Harmony of Pitbulls and Parolees Discusses Her Childhood, Saving Dogs, & Hitting The Open Road · Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel

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Speaker 1: and you're listening to Misunderstood. If you are a dog lover,
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Speaker 1: an animal lover, or a motorcycle lover, I'm assuming that
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Speaker 1: you know Mariah Harmony from Pitbulls and Paroles on Animal Planet.
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Speaker 1: This show and this family really stood out to me
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Speaker 1: because Pitbulls are the most misunderstood dog, and they hire Paroles, clearly.
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Speaker 1: It's very hard for these guys to get a job
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Speaker 1: after they leave prison. And Mariah's mother and her family
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Speaker 1: has been kind enough to open their business to parolees
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Speaker 1: when they get out of prison and offer them a
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Speaker 1: chance to prove themselves, to have purpose. And I was
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Speaker 1: so inspired by the message that they give off to
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Speaker 1: us every week in these episodes when they show the
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Speaker 1: trials and tribulations of rescuing animals, providing rehabilitation for these animals,
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Speaker 1: getting them adopted to the right home, and also the
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Speaker 1: journey that these ex-parolees go on in working.
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Speaker 2: At the company.
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Speaker 1: Mariah Harmony, our next guest, she's a woman of many
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Speaker 1: talents and passions. She's a reality star. She's a fashion enthusiast,
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Speaker 1: a tattoo lover, and a pit bull rescuer, and a
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Speaker 1: motorcycle lover. She's obviously best known for her appearance on
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Speaker 1: the Animal Planet series Pit Bulls and Paroles that I
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Speaker 1: just mentioned, where she works alongside her mother, Tia Torres,
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Speaker 1: at Villa Lobos Rescue Center, the nation's largest pit bull
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Speaker 1: rescue organization. She has several tattoos on her body, which
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Speaker 1: you will notice in my interview, which tell the stories
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Speaker 1: of her life and her beliefs. She's a strong advocate
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Speaker 1: for animal rights and welfare and a role model for
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Speaker 1: many young women who aspire to follow their dreams and passions.
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Speaker 1: She has a new show that just came out called
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Speaker 1: Moto Maidens. It's sponsored by Harley Davidson and sent on
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Speaker 1: the scenic highways of Montana. It's an all-female production crew,
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Speaker 1: and it's an all-female cast. You can catch it now
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Speaker 1: on the Rabid Reality streaming platform. It's a network that
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Speaker 1: was also started by Mariah and her mom, Tia Torres.
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Speaker 1: I'm very inspired by Mariah and what she's doing, and
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Speaker 1: I hope you will be too. So sit back and
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Speaker 1: relax and listen to this episode with Mariah Harmony. So
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to let you know that when I
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Speaker 1: started this podcast, I had like a bucket list of
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Speaker 1: people that I was really hoping I could get on
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Speaker 1: the show. And you and your mother were on the
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Speaker 1: top of my list because it almost brings me to
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Speaker 1: tears when I watch that intro of your show about
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Speaker 1: giving second chances to the most misunderstood dog breed and
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Speaker 1: then also helping people.
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Speaker 2: People.
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Speaker 1: So that, that are so misunderstood and need a second chance.
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Speaker 1: Cause you like epitomize what my show is about. It's about,
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Speaker 1: you know, the power of second chances and how powerful
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Speaker 1: that can be to a life that feels like they
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Speaker 1: don't have any other options. No one will listen to them.
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Speaker 1: No one will give them a second chance. And I
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Speaker 1: just love that about you guys. So I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to say that ahead of time. It's such an honor
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Speaker 1: to have you on my show because I'm happy to
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Speaker 1: be here. Okay. So your life has really become about
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Speaker 1: rescuing and rehabilitating animals and people who deserve a second chance.
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Speaker 1: Have you always been about the underdog?
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Speaker 3: I don't ever recall a time in my life where
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Speaker 3: that wasn't kind of who my family embodied before, way
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Speaker 3: before the show happened, we were still doing pit bull
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Speaker 3: rescue that we, I don't, I was literally born into
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Speaker 3: this world. We started with wolves and wolf hybrids and.
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Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to train with that. Villopos means village of
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Speaker 3: the wolf. So we started with them. And then in
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Speaker 3: the 90s, it turned in at some point, turned into
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Speaker 3: pit bulls. And that opened. My mom realized what was
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Speaker 3: going on. Obviously, I was so young that I didn't
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Speaker 3: really know. I just knew I had these big cuddle
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Speaker 3: bears with me all the time. You know, like it
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Speaker 3: wasn't a thing in my being raised into that. You
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Speaker 3: don't understand at such a young age, especially when you're
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Speaker 3: a little girl. walking a pit bull down the street
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Speaker 3: with your mom or going to these events and people
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Speaker 3: are pulling their kids away. You're so confused at such
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Speaker 3: a young age, why that's happening because you know that
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Speaker 3: this dog sleeps next to you every night. And obviously
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Speaker 3: things are changing and progressing now compared to how they
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Speaker 3: were in the nineties, but that doesn't mean there's still
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Speaker 3: isn't a stigma, especially that comes with these people that
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Speaker 3: are on parole. These humans is what we forget humans
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Speaker 3: that sometimes make mistakes or that are charge wrongfully whatever
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Speaker 3: it is I don't know it's it's always kind of
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Speaker 3: been who we were and I think whether it's the
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Speaker 3: way that I look and then how I act and
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Speaker 3: then I did beauty pageants like it is a misunderstood
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Speaker 3: thing there's so many different facets to it yeah and
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Speaker 3: it's always been what my family embodied I guess without
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Speaker 3: meaning to do it that's who we were Okay.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about what you brought up because you
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Speaker 1: talked about being in beauty pageants and stuff. I want
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Speaker 1: to hear a little bit about your childhood because so
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Speaker 1: many people know you from the show. Do you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And so like, where are you guys from? I know
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Speaker 1: you have a lot of, you have a bunch of siblings, right?
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Speaker 3: Yes. So I have a really big family, but not
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Speaker 3: all of it. I just, my 11th nephew was just born.
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Speaker 3: We got a lot, but not everyone is fully related,
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Speaker 3: but that doesn't matter to our family. We're all family. Um,
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Speaker 3: I grew up feral and in the best way possible,
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Speaker 3: I lived on a two mile dirt road in this
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Speaker 3: Valley in California, in the high desert, it's called Aguadulce.
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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful little like horse town. And I always
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Speaker 3: say my daddy's a cowboy. Now my mom's a swamp rat.
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Speaker 3: So I had this, like, I grew up riding horses,
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Speaker 3: riding dirt bikes, working on cars, but then learning all
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Speaker 3: of this, the other side with my mom and, um,
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Speaker 3: getting to literally open my back door and just take
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Speaker 3: my dogs and run up the mountain. I didn't have
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Speaker 3: to wear shoes. I didn't brush my hair. I'll tell
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Speaker 3: you that much. But I did beauty pageants and I
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Speaker 3: did ballet and I had this really, really full life
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Speaker 3: at a really young age. But also the things that
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Speaker 3: I had to experience and see made me very different
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Speaker 3: from most children my age because I had to see
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Speaker 3: so much death and how the things that humans did
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Speaker 3: And by that, I mean all the abuse cases that
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Speaker 3: we got in with pit bulls because it was so
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Speaker 3: severe back then and it still is, but before we
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Speaker 3: were only pit bulls. So I think that it always
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Speaker 3: made me a little bit different from most children my age.
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Speaker 3: And so I was around a lot of people older
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Speaker 3: than me and I looked at the world a lot differently.
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Speaker 3: I think it made me a lot kinder and a
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Speaker 3: lot softer and a lot more hardened at the same time,
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Speaker 3: if that makes any sense.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. It totally does. So Um, growing up, you guys
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Speaker 1: were always involved in rescuing animals then, like when did
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Speaker 1: that actually start and how did it start?
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Speaker 3: The wolves, I don't even know how it started because
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Speaker 3: I was just born at that point. Wow. My mom
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Speaker 3: and my dad were still together. They ended up moving
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Speaker 3: to the property that we started the rescue and it
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Speaker 3: started with wolves. My mom actually did training with them
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Speaker 3: and she worked on the first live action jungle book.
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Speaker 3: She lived in Sri Lanka and worked with tigers. We
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Speaker 3: had tigers. We had bears in our backyard. My sister
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Speaker 3: and I would rock, paper, scissors on who had to
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Speaker 3: feed the male tiger because he was such a jerk,
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Speaker 3: except to my mom. We had three bears, three tigers,
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Speaker 3: a black leopard, a one-eyed bobcat. At one point, I
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Speaker 3: had a baby deer living in my room with my
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Speaker 3: dog and I. It was a preemie that I was raising.
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Speaker 3: I raised three raccoons. Like I've, when I say feral,
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Speaker 3: I mean feral. Yeah. But it was, they were retired
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Speaker 3: movie animals and we were giving them sanctuary all legally
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Speaker 3: because it was not like the tiger King thing. It
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Speaker 3: was all legal. And we were giving these animals sanctuary
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Speaker 3: after they retired from movie work. The pit bulls started
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Speaker 3: in the nineties on accident. We went, I still remember
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Speaker 3: this and I don't know how, cause I was so young,
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Speaker 3: but I know somehow we ended up at a shelter
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Speaker 3: and I think East L.A. And it was my older sister, Tanya,
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Speaker 3: my mom and I, all I remember to Tonka was
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Speaker 3: our first pit bull. That's Buffalo. That's what it means.
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Speaker 3: She had had her ears completely taken off. Someone held
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Speaker 3: fishing wire around her ears. So they fell off and
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Speaker 3: she was a part of a court case. So my
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Speaker 3: mom got on the waiting list for her. I don't
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Speaker 3: know what, all I remember from that day was my sister.
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Speaker 4: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
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Speaker 4: for it?
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Speaker 2: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with. They have
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Speaker 2: more cars for more dealerships. than like anywhere else.
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Speaker 4: You have to put me in touch what's it called it's.
10:03
Speaker 2: Dune adl where dune adl there's an accent on the
10:09
Speaker 2: e do you mean yes i got an undone deal
10:12
Speaker 2: cars lift please.
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Speaker 4: You going past kimaj oh kimmage no.
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Speaker 2: Done deal cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.
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Speaker 3: I was sitting on a bench and my mom said
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Speaker 3: that she sees a pit bull running at us, like
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Speaker 3: high speed. And she's just like, oh crap. And I
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Speaker 3: remember Tatanka knocking us backwards off the bench and licking
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Speaker 3: us to death. And my mom was like, I want
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Speaker 3: that dog. And that was our first pit bull. But
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Speaker 3: we had to wait weeks for her for the case
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Speaker 3: to be over, all that stuff. And Tatanka is the
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Speaker 3: one that started it. the pit bull side of Villalobos
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Speaker 3: Rescue Center and the Villalobos that everybody knows now was
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Speaker 3: because of that dog and that court case.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So you guys were in California and at some
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Speaker 1: point you moved everything to New Orleans, right? And this
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Speaker 1: is before the show?
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Speaker 3: We had Louisiana. No, this was during the show. The
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Speaker 3: show started, I think, two years before we moved. And
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Speaker 3: frigging thank baby Jesus we did because Louisiana suits.
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Speaker 1: Us a lot more.
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Speaker 3: Oh, good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But no, we have two locations, Louisiana and out in
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Speaker 3: Assumption Parish in Louisiana. And then we have our Wolf
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Speaker 3: Sanctuary in Texas.
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Speaker 1: Got it. Okay. We're everywhere. That's amazing. So tell me
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Speaker 1: about how the show came to be presented to you.
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Speaker 3: We didn't want to do it. I'll tell you that much.
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Speaker 3: We did not want to be on TV at all.
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Speaker 3: We just wanted to do what we wanted to do.
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Speaker 3: My mom used to give free training classes in LA
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Speaker 3: for pit bulls and bully breeds because at that point
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Speaker 3: in time, places like Petco, all that stuff wouldn't allow
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Speaker 3: pit bulls in their training classes. My mom would do
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Speaker 3: them for free. She had a student in there with
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Speaker 3: his pit bull that I believe, I don't know if
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Speaker 3: he was a TV producer, what he was. He kept
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Speaker 3: saying that he wanted to film a pilot of us.
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Speaker 3: And my mom was like, no, get out of my face.
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Speaker 3: And he kept coming up to the rescue and like
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Speaker 3: filming my family and he put something together. And then
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Speaker 3: before I knew it, we were going to meetings with,
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Speaker 3: It's right when the recession hit really hard. And at
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Speaker 3: that point, my sister and I were going to the
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Speaker 3: church down the street to go get food for our
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Speaker 3: family and picking change out of it. All of our
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Speaker 3: money went to feeding the dogs. We were hurting. And
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Speaker 3: my mom, trust me, those dogs never went one day
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Speaker 3: without eating. We may have some. No, my mom always
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Speaker 3: fed all of us. We were always taken care of.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how that woman did it, but she did.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, the show started from there. And I'm really
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Speaker 3: thankful because if it wasn't for Animal Planet and us
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Speaker 3: going with them, then hundreds of dogs wouldn't have got
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Speaker 3: the homes that they have. And it was because of that,
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Speaker 3: that the rescue was able to continue after all these years.
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Speaker 1: And what was the reaction? I mean, was it always
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Speaker 1: called pit bulls and parolees?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom wanted it to be Life of the Underdogs,
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Speaker 3: which is what we have now. Yeah. But, you know,
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Speaker 3: things change and it's what happens in TV land and
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Speaker 3: you make compromises and everything turned out wonderful. Right.
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Speaker 1: So talk to me about the parolees for a second.
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Speaker 1: Were you guys already employing these people before the show?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. My mom's now ex-husband, AJ, he... I guess my mom...
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Speaker 3: My mom's always had a hand in the prison world
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Speaker 3: kind of, or I mean, for a long time, not always,
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Speaker 3: but she's dated men in prison. That's all I'll say.
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Speaker 1: That's a whole nother show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We won't get into that. My mom talks about it openly.
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Speaker 3: That's why I'm okay saying it. My mom has a
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Speaker 3: podcast with her ex-husband, Tony, who's in prison still. And
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Speaker 3: they do, they have a podcast with him in prison.
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Speaker 3: It's called 25 to wife, but AJ was saying like,
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Speaker 3: when he got out, how hard it is for Ben
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Speaker 3: to get jobs when they're on parole. And we realized
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Speaker 3: what the dogs, we already know how healing they are
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Speaker 3: for us. So now imagine someone that understands them. That's
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Speaker 3: been in prison that understands being put in this confined
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Speaker 3: space and what you actually need to heal, not just
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Speaker 3: being thrown in a cage that doesn't heal you. Yeah. So.
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Speaker 3: To be honest with you, when it came to the parolees,
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Speaker 3: we didn't have to do anything except stick the dogs
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Speaker 3: with them. We taught them how to do training stuff,
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Speaker 3: but them getting to see dogs that come in that
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Speaker 3: are abused and then them being a part of that
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Speaker 3: healing process for them and then getting to continue to
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Speaker 3: take that dog into their forever home. That does all
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Speaker 3: the healing that we could ever ask for in someone. Right.
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Speaker 3: And it heals a lot of trauma that these men
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Speaker 3: have had. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And gives them purpose. I mean, that comes through on
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Speaker 1: the show watching. I mean, you you can see that
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Speaker 1: that becomes a reason for them to get up in
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Speaker 1: the morning, for them to have something to do, to
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Speaker 1: look forward to. And you've seen a lot of those
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Speaker 1: rescues that they're helping you girls make or they're doing
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Speaker 1: on their own. And and they're really they're saving a life.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure that that gives them so much purpose. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And there's two guys in particular that I think the
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Speaker 1: show really features. Do they still work with you? Is
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Speaker 1: it Tony?
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Speaker 3: TC and Earl? Yeah. Yeah, they're still with, they are
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Speaker 3: still with us.
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Speaker 1: I love them.
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Speaker 3: Thankfully, they, those are my, we don't even, people always
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Speaker 3: laugh when I'm like, no, those are my big brothers.
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Speaker 3: And they're like, what?
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Speaker 4: And I'm like, what?
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Speaker 3: Because I'm white? Get out of here. And that's, they
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Speaker 3: say the same thing. That's my little sister. They are family.
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Speaker 3: Earl was the first person that we hired in New Orleans.
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Speaker 3: who were his first job ever after being in prison for,
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Speaker 3: I don't even know, like half his life or something.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, they're still with us and they've helped manage
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Speaker 3: some of the warehouses. They are family and they're amazing,
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Speaker 3: amazing men. And I do not ever want to know
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Speaker 3: my life without them.
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Speaker 1: That's so amazing. And I love that it also... You know,
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Speaker 1: the fact that they know how much trust you guys
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Speaker 1: put in them and that they're responsible for something, I
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Speaker 1: think also is just such an unbelievable gift to give
16:07
Speaker 1: them because it makes them. You know, I think I've
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Speaker 1: heard Earl maybe say to your mother, like he's felt
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Speaker 1: like he's left let her down a couple of times
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Speaker 1: and and does these things because he wants to make
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Speaker 1: her proud, which I think is really. Amazing. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that she likes to hear that.
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Speaker 3: No, I'm sure she, whether she admits it, she does.
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Speaker 3: In general.
18:49
Speaker 1: So you guys had 19 seasons. Was it all positive
18:53
Speaker 1: in terms of obviously for the dogs? It was positive.
18:55
Speaker 1: But was it positive for you guys? Was that difficult?
18:59
Speaker 1: Were there any bad scenarios that happened?
19:01
Speaker 3: I mean, of course, it's weird. Like my family is
19:05
Speaker 3: not we weren't people that they wanted to be in
19:08
Speaker 3: the spotlight. And like, you know, we're all different humans.
19:11
Speaker 3: We all need different things to make us happy. And
19:14
Speaker 3: being in the spotlight was not.
19:15
Speaker 4: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
19:18
Speaker 4: for it?
19:18
Speaker 2: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with. They have
19:21
Speaker 2: more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
19:24
Speaker 4: You have to put me in touch. What's it called?
19:26
Speaker 2: It's Dunaidial.
19:28
Speaker 3: Where?
19:30
Speaker 2: Dunaidial. There's an accent on the E.
19:34
Speaker 4: Do you mean.
19:34
Speaker 2: Yes, I got it on Dundale Cars.
19:36
Speaker 3: Lift? Please.
19:37
Speaker 4: Are you going past Kimmage?
19:39
Speaker 3: Oh, Kimmage. No. No.
19:41
Speaker 2: Done deal cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.
19:44
Speaker 3: Not one of the things that my family and I wanted,
19:47
Speaker 3: but such beautiful opportunities. have come out of it. And
19:51
Speaker 3: I think that it's how you go about things in
19:54
Speaker 3: your life, that you can utilize things and use it
19:57
Speaker 3: for something good. Just like now I'm able to do,
20:00
Speaker 3: I'm in Milwaukee right now. I get to work alongside
20:03
Speaker 3: with Harley Davidson now because the other half of my
20:05
Speaker 3: life was riding motorcycles. Um, we started our own production
20:09
Speaker 3: company now that it's, it's called early release media. So
20:13
Speaker 3: the hope is to teach men coming out of prison,
20:14
Speaker 3: how to work in the TV aspects of things. Cause
20:18
Speaker 3: that's a full career for them.
20:19
Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
20:20
Speaker 3: Um, yeah. So Tony TC and Earl actually have their
20:24
Speaker 3: own TV series right now. And it was up for
20:27
Speaker 3: a few nominations for something. Um, it's called big, easy
20:30
Speaker 3: boys and they, yeah. So it's on our family's website.
20:36
Speaker 3: And all the money still goes back to the rescue.
20:37
Speaker 3: Like that's the whole thing. They get paid obviously, but
20:39
Speaker 3: the rest of the money helps the dogs. It's called
20:42
Speaker 3: a rabid reality. And I forget what awards it was
20:46
Speaker 3: just up for, but Tony and Earl get to go
20:48
Speaker 3: explore Louisiana and things that they never got to do
20:51
Speaker 3: and be tourists in their own city and state because
20:53
Speaker 3: they were in prison. And it is the cutest thing
20:57
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. It is so cute watching. But it's
21:01
Speaker 3: things like that, that now because of the TV show,
21:03
Speaker 3: we're able to do and help these guys do stuff.
21:05
Speaker 3: I'm able to explore other parts of my life that
21:09
Speaker 3: aren't just the dogs, because obviously that's my family's heart
21:12
Speaker 3: and soul, but we all have other things that we
21:14
Speaker 3: enjoy doing.
21:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:16
Speaker 3: So I get to get paid to ride motorcycles now.
21:19
Speaker 3: I know.
21:21
Speaker 1: So now tell us about that show because it's just
21:23
Speaker 1: come out this week.
21:24
Speaker 3: Yeah. Motomatons. It came out yesterday. Actually, it was our
21:28
Speaker 3: premiere day. So, um, it's me and four other women
21:32
Speaker 3: and we were, we were doing this with or without
21:34
Speaker 3: the TV show. We were just going to go do it.
21:36
Speaker 3: We all live in different States. So we pick one state.
21:40
Speaker 3: We bring our motorcycles. We unload, we put all of
21:43
Speaker 3: our gear on our bikes and camping gear, all that stuff.
21:45
Speaker 3: And we take off for a week. We have, uh,
21:47
Speaker 3: I told them I would only do it if we
21:49
Speaker 3: had a all female production crew, we have female editors. So, um,
21:53
Speaker 3: We stay in that state for a week because we
21:56
Speaker 3: actually really want to travel that state and explore it,
21:58
Speaker 3: not just passing through it. Along the way, we get
22:02
Speaker 3: to stop and interview different women, whether it's their businesses,
22:06
Speaker 3: their art, the stories, the things that they've been to,
22:09
Speaker 3: and really, really highlight them. And it has been such
22:12
Speaker 3: an amazing journey. We did Montana first, which is the
22:15
Speaker 3: season that's out right now, also on Rabid Reality and
22:18
Speaker 3: on Amity. And then we did Florida after. So we
22:22
Speaker 3: have two seasons done already because we were antsy to go.
22:24
Speaker 1: Amazing.
22:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the rest of the maidens get here tomorrow, actually.
22:30
Speaker 3: They get here tomorrow morning. So it'll be a, this
22:33
Speaker 3: is a whole new adventure for me. Aside from the rescue.
22:37
Speaker 3: And part of the money from Moto Maidens goes back
22:39
Speaker 3: to the rescue.
22:41
Speaker 1: And what network can they see that on? How do
22:43
Speaker 1: they get that?
22:44
Speaker 3: It's Rabid Reality. So all the shows that my family
22:47
Speaker 3: and I produce will be, it's rabidreality.com. And that's our
22:50
Speaker 3: family's website. And it's so many, there's a lot life
22:54
Speaker 3: with the underdogs, which is the new version of pit
22:57
Speaker 3: bulls and parolees. Nothing bad happened with animal planet. They
23:00
Speaker 3: were wonderful to us, but the different people buying and
23:04
Speaker 3: taking over all these things. So it was time for
23:07
Speaker 3: us to be in control of our stuff. And we
23:09
Speaker 3: are so thankful for animal planet. Thanks. We're lucky we
23:13
Speaker 3: were with them, but now life with the underdogs is
23:16
Speaker 3: what the new pit bulls and parolees is. There's, um,
23:20
Speaker 3: Tony and Earl's show. There's a few other ones that
23:24
Speaker 3: I got to do and Moto Maidens will be on
23:25
Speaker 3: there as well. That'll air on next Monday, but the
23:29
Speaker 3: Harley Davidson app is that they just came out with
23:32
Speaker 3: is the other way that you can watch Moto Maidens,
23:35
Speaker 3: but all of it will be on rabidreality.com. Okay.
23:38
Speaker 1: Now talk about your tattoos because you have a lot
23:44
Speaker 1: of them. I assume they tell a story for you,
23:48
Speaker 1: each one. I mean, I myself have seven tattoos and
23:50
Speaker 1: each one for me tells a story. So what do
23:53
Speaker 1: they mean to you? And tell me about some of
23:54
Speaker 1: the ones you have.
23:55
Speaker 3: I guess this one would be the one that was
23:57
Speaker 3: like one of the most sentimental ones. So when my
24:00
Speaker 3: mom lived in Sri Lanka, I was in like kindergarten
24:04
Speaker 3: and she was working on the jungle book. I don't
24:05
Speaker 3: remember the exact story, but I know Growing up, I
24:09
Speaker 3: saw this statue in her bathroom every single day. And
24:11
Speaker 3: it was the head of a cobra and like the
24:13
Speaker 3: body of a woman and a snake. So it was
24:15
Speaker 3: a cobra woman. She told me that she found someone
24:18
Speaker 3: carving it. Something along the lines of it was an
24:21
Speaker 3: empowering thing for women. That statue was. And I remember
24:25
Speaker 3: seeing it every day as a little kid. So I
24:27
Speaker 3: think that was the most sentimental one to me. And
24:29
Speaker 3: then I have my dog on my leg. There's so
24:31
Speaker 3: many silly ones on me. Of course, I have silly ones.
24:35
Speaker 1: So you do get tattoos of dogs that have meant
24:38
Speaker 1: something to you or a dog?
24:39
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I have a sloth that passed away. He
24:42
Speaker 3: was on the show for the deaf one. But I
24:47
Speaker 3: can't get any more portraits of dogs. I have my
24:49
Speaker 3: whole thigh with L.A., my very first pit bull I
24:51
Speaker 3: had for 14 years. It's him with his angel wings.
24:54
Speaker 3: But if I keep sticking portraits everywhere, then my whole
24:56
Speaker 3: body would be covered in just dogs. So I've had
24:59
Speaker 3: too many dogs for that. So I have to think
25:02
Speaker 3: of other ways. Like I have my dog's neck popper
25:05
Speaker 3: in on the back of my thigh. I put it
25:06
Speaker 3: in ink and then they tattooed it. But I find
25:11
Speaker 3: other ways of commemorating them and remembering them instead of
25:14
Speaker 3: just getting portraits all over my body of dogs.
25:16
Speaker 1: Right, right. Have there been some dogs that really have
25:19
Speaker 1: stuck out to you or some stories of dogs that
25:22
Speaker 1: you can share with us?
25:24
Speaker 3: Of course. I mean, the first ones are always going
25:27
Speaker 3: to be L.A., my dog that I had from the
25:30
Speaker 3: time I was four until I was 18 years old.
25:34
Speaker 3: And he was from a dog fighting case. That dog,
25:37
Speaker 3: people offered my mom so much money for him. No,
25:40
Speaker 3: it's my daughter's dog. I did training with him, like
25:43
Speaker 3: movie work with him. And I was the trainer on
25:45
Speaker 3: set at a young age. He was perfect. We had
25:47
Speaker 3: our own cats. We would go. I had to do
25:49
Speaker 3: a speech in front of the Los Angeles mayor when
25:52
Speaker 3: I was 18. very very very young like hundreds of
25:55
Speaker 3: people talking about breeding dogs and why it should be
26:00
Speaker 3: they need to be more strict on it and my
26:03
Speaker 3: mom loves telling the story but I do remember we're
26:05
Speaker 3: pulling a chair over because I was too little climbing
26:07
Speaker 3: up on the microphone and dropping the leash and telling
26:10
Speaker 3: LA just to wait right there and he sat right
26:11
Speaker 3: next to me in front of all hundreds of people
26:13
Speaker 3: and the mayor stayed right next to me and I
26:16
Speaker 3: remember saying something along the lines of um I'm not
26:19
Speaker 3: me not getting to see the beauty of birth every
26:21
Speaker 3: day because I have to see the sadness of death
26:24
Speaker 3: because of overbreeding and hearing a little girl say that
26:27
Speaker 3: I think kind of gets to you.
26:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
26:29
Speaker 3: So LA was a big one for me. He was such,
26:31
Speaker 3: he was there through such big points of my life
26:34
Speaker 3: being a child and being a teenager. And you know,
26:37
Speaker 3: those transitional points where you really, really need someone there
26:40
Speaker 3: for you. And he was my mom's dog. Duke was her,
26:44
Speaker 3: that dog was so intense and smart and just, he
26:48
Speaker 3: was on it. And my sister's dog, Bluey, it was
26:51
Speaker 3: all those dogs that we had to beginning when pit
26:54
Speaker 3: bulls were bred like pit bulls and they acted like
26:56
Speaker 3: pit bulls. Whereas now you're seeing so much terrible. I mean,
27:00
Speaker 3: it's always been terrible breeding, but now they're trying to
27:03
Speaker 3: make them into something they're not. And genetically, they're not
27:06
Speaker 3: acting like typical pit bulls are supposed to because of
27:11
Speaker 3: such poor backyard breeding and their health is really, really
27:15
Speaker 3: bad now. I'm sure you see the ones that have
27:17
Speaker 3: crooked elbows and breathing problems because they're breeding for the
27:22
Speaker 3: way they look. And the dogs end up dying in
27:24
Speaker 3: a couple of years. So just remembering those dogs that
27:27
Speaker 3: could be getting a velobose that made velobose that core
27:31
Speaker 3: of what it is now, I think are the ones
27:33
Speaker 3: that stick with me. Yeah.
27:35
Speaker 1: It's really interesting. You know, I have had dogs my
27:38
Speaker 1: whole life. I am someone who almost likes animals more
27:41
Speaker 1: than I like people.
27:42
Speaker 2: And.
27:45
Speaker 1: And so I feel, you know, I had two very
27:49
Speaker 1: special dogs to me for me that got me through
27:52
Speaker 1: a very hard time. My fiance was killed when I
27:55
Speaker 1: was engaged when I was 26. And I went and
27:58
Speaker 1: got a dog two days later. And that dog I
28:01
Speaker 1: named Rudy Giuliani. It happened during 9-11 during the World
28:04
Speaker 1: Trade Center. And This dog I had for almost 20
28:07
Speaker 1: years and it was the most, you know, I've ever
28:11
Speaker 1: loved a man kind of, you know, like it was
28:13
Speaker 1: the love of my life and losing a pet or
28:16
Speaker 1: a dog can sometimes be worse than losing a person
28:19
Speaker 1: because you can't have that conversation. You can't. you know,
28:22
Speaker 1: and also choosing to put them to sleep is also
28:24
Speaker 1: a very hard thing. And I found that, you know,
28:27
Speaker 1: when you know, like that time has come, but there's
28:30
Speaker 1: a lot of anxiety that goes into it when you
28:32
Speaker 1: know you have to make this decision. And I've had
28:35
Speaker 1: to put a couple of dogs to sleep now. And
28:37
Speaker 1: I found that I put.
28:39
Speaker 4: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
28:42
Speaker 4: for it?
28:43
Speaker 2: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with. They have
28:45
Speaker 2: more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
28:48
Speaker 4: You have to put me in touch. What's it called?
28:50
Speaker 2: It's Dune ADL.
28:52
Speaker 3: Where?
28:54
Speaker 1: Dunediel.
28:55
Speaker 2: There's an accent on the E.
28:58
Speaker 4: Do you mean.
28:59
Speaker 2: Yes, I got it on Dunediel Cars. Lift, please.
29:02
Speaker 4: You going past Kimmage?
29:03
Speaker 3: Oh, Kimmage.
29:04
Speaker 1: No.
29:06
Speaker 2: Dunediel Cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.
29:09
Speaker 1: I'm so upset and so anxious, but the moment it
29:12
Speaker 1: comes that it's right, it's so... there's so much peace
29:16
Speaker 1: to it because you know, it was done at the
29:18
Speaker 1: right time. And you know, that they, you could, you
29:22
Speaker 1: could say your goodbye and they needed it then, you know,
29:24
Speaker 1: and they would be happier. And you know, I've just
29:27
Speaker 1: found that having dogs is so important to me. I
29:30
Speaker 1: swore I would never get a dog. That loss was
29:32
Speaker 1: too much for me. But then within two weeks, I mean,
29:34
Speaker 1: I went and got my daughter out of school, made
29:37
Speaker 1: up some excuse. I walked into the principal's office. I'm like,
29:39
Speaker 1: I have to take her right now. And she's like, mom,
29:41
Speaker 1: what happened? I said, we have to go get a dog.
29:43
Speaker 1: So I let her pick the dog, even though it
29:47
Speaker 1: was my dog, you know, I let her pick. And,
29:51
Speaker 1: and then recently, so we have a, like a Japanese Spitz,
29:55
Speaker 1: you know, type of dog. And then her name is Mishka.
29:59
Speaker 1: And then we just went to animal control in Manhattan recently.
30:05
Speaker 1: And we were just going to see what dogs needed
30:08
Speaker 1: the most help. And that's why we said we were there.
30:10
Speaker 1: It was my daughter and her friend, Olivia. And we
30:14
Speaker 1: walked around and almost every dog in animal control in
30:18
Speaker 1: Manhattan was a pit bull. And I said to my daughter,
30:22
Speaker 1: we can't take home a pit bull. I don't know
30:24
Speaker 1: anything about them that, you know, we don't know what
30:26
Speaker 1: kind of history she's had or they've had. And especially
30:30
Speaker 1: because we only were interested in helping a dog that
30:32
Speaker 1: needed the most help. You know, I wanted a dog
30:35
Speaker 1: that was going to be euthanized or couldn't find a
30:39
Speaker 1: home or, you know, I was looking for something in particular,
30:41
Speaker 1: but I didn't know what that was. And we saw
30:43
Speaker 1: a bunch of dogs and I thought, you know, it,
30:47
Speaker 1: I just had learned about the stigma that came with
30:50
Speaker 1: pit bulls. And eventually we picked a dog who was
30:55
Speaker 1: about a year old, but they were going to put
30:57
Speaker 1: her to sleep because she had been there for so
30:59
Speaker 1: long and wasn't potty trained, had all these kinds of problems,
31:03
Speaker 1: was tied to a post and found with staples in
31:05
Speaker 1: her head. And when we saw her, my daughter was like,
31:09
Speaker 1: that's my dog. Mom, we have to get that dog.
31:13
Speaker 1: And she wouldn't let me leave without getting that dog.
31:15
Speaker 1: And I was just like, Okay. So we're going to
31:17
Speaker 1: try this. And her name is Nala.
31:19
Speaker 3: I was going to say, is that Nala?
31:22
Speaker 1: That dog has a better life than most human beings.
31:27
Speaker 3: My dogs are way too spoiled. It's disgusting. Yes.
31:31
Speaker 1: Yes. So, and she now, you know, I got a
31:34
Speaker 1: house down. I moved down to Florida since we got her.
31:37
Speaker 1: She has two acres of gated yard in the background. She,
31:42
Speaker 1: you know, we do watching how happy she is. like
31:47
Speaker 1: brings me so much joy that I was going to say,
31:50
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you, but obviously, you know, to
31:53
Speaker 1: see the joy in a dog who lived in a
31:56
Speaker 1: cage or lived on the streets or whatever happened to
31:59
Speaker 1: that dog in the past. And I always look at
32:01
Speaker 1: her and I say, you know, I don't know what
32:03
Speaker 1: your past was, but I'm so lucky that you found
32:06
Speaker 1: me and I found you because you're never going to
32:10
Speaker 1: not be protected anymore. And I love that. That's why
32:12
Speaker 1: I've liked what you guys have done so much because
32:15
Speaker 1: you get to see those stories. You get to see
32:17
Speaker 1: like you, sometimes a lot of times you don't know
32:19
Speaker 1: what their past is, but they're so, you know, they
32:23
Speaker 1: look a certain way. They look scary. They look like
32:26
Speaker 1: they could have been trained in the wrong way, but
32:28
Speaker 1: with a lot of love, it's just like a person,
32:31
Speaker 1: like they just need someone who believes in them and
32:34
Speaker 1: can help them get through that fear or whatever it
32:37
Speaker 1: is that they're going through. Because that's, I found what
32:40
Speaker 1: most dogs need. And that's why they show aggression is
32:42
Speaker 1: because they possess so much fear. And so it's been
32:46
Speaker 1: an honor for me to have a pit bull. And
32:49
Speaker 1: so it's like changed my life, but you know, I
32:52
Speaker 1: love it. I love it.
32:54
Speaker 3: I'm glad you found a good one. Yeah. Yeah. That's
32:56
Speaker 3: the other thing that I think a lot of the
32:58
Speaker 3: thing that's hard for me to explain to people also,
33:01
Speaker 3: and this is something that like people have to learn
33:03
Speaker 3: a lot of dogs, like you just said, do need
33:07
Speaker 3: us to be patient and just like show them love
33:09
Speaker 3: through their trauma and healing. But a lot of it now, unfortunately,
33:13
Speaker 3: is bad breeding and bad genetics. And that's the really
33:17
Speaker 3: sad thing is it's not always dogs that have been
33:19
Speaker 3: through trauma. There's a lot of dogs that it's literally
33:23
Speaker 3: bad breeding and it's made them mentally not how a
33:27
Speaker 3: pit bull is supposed to act. You know that pit
33:29
Speaker 3: bulls were called nanny dogs, right?
33:31
Speaker 1: No. Tell me, what does that mean?
33:33
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Way, way, way, way, way back in the
33:36
Speaker 3: day when pit bulls were actually like... I forget what
33:39
Speaker 3: year it is. You'll have to look it up, but
33:40
Speaker 3: they were, they were called nanny dogs because people had them.
33:44
Speaker 3: They were so like, they'd put the dogs and the
33:47
Speaker 3: kids out in the yard and the dogs would keep
33:49
Speaker 3: them from like going in the water. And they were
33:51
Speaker 3: their nannies. They made sure that they didn't get into
33:53
Speaker 3: any trouble and nothing bad happened to them. They protected
33:55
Speaker 3: their children and they were bred to be family dogs.
33:59
Speaker 1: Wow.
34:00
Speaker 3: I didn't know. Now you're saying, yeah, they were called
34:02
Speaker 3: nanny dogs. Now you're seeing so many terrible things happening,
34:07
Speaker 3: obviously because people suck and whether it's them abusing them
34:11
Speaker 3: and hurting them and the dogs react out of fear,
34:13
Speaker 3: which most of the cases can be helped with patience
34:16
Speaker 3: and love and just trying to give them what they need.
34:20
Speaker 3: But sometimes it's really poor breeding and these backyard breeders,
34:24
Speaker 3: responsible breeders, which breeding needs to, I won't even get
34:28
Speaker 3: into that part, but if someone's going to breed responsibly,
34:31
Speaker 3: then you're breeding two dogs together that have the temperament
34:34
Speaker 3: of breeding breed that you're trying to breed and by
34:39
Speaker 3: that i mean pit bulls are supposed to be really
34:41
Speaker 3: friendly with humans and that's why they use them for
34:44
Speaker 3: dog fighting unfortunately because they're strong and owners can go
34:48
Speaker 3: in and grab them and they won't get bit because
34:49
Speaker 3: dog pit bulls are so good with humans and that's
34:52
Speaker 3: why they use them they're strong dogs but they're not
34:55
Speaker 3: going to hurt you and now it's getting to the
34:57
Speaker 3: point where that bad breeding is making them act not
35:00
Speaker 3: like a pit bull. And it's really sad and unfortunate
35:02
Speaker 3: because it is my favorite breed, as we all know.
35:06
Speaker 1: In general, can you talk about why it's so important
35:10
Speaker 1: to get animals from a rescue as opposed to from
35:14
Speaker 1: a breeder?
35:17
Speaker 3: And the list will go on. At this point, especially
35:21
Speaker 3: in the country. So during COVID, everybody decided that they
35:24
Speaker 3: wanted to get dogs and they didn't think about what
35:26
Speaker 3: would happen when they would go back to work. And
35:28
Speaker 3: then So all the shelters, it's so heartbreaking. Every shelter
35:32
Speaker 3: in the US and rescue is so over capacity that
35:36
Speaker 3: they're literally giving dogs away for free, which is also irresponsible.
35:40
Speaker 3: And they're having to euthanize so many dogs right now
35:43
Speaker 3: because the shelters are so overburdened. Going to a breeders,
35:48
Speaker 3: if we stopped breeding dogs right now, we'd still have
35:51
Speaker 3: plenty of dogs, trust me. Going to a breeder, Most
35:57
Speaker 3: of the time, honestly, do you care about your dog
36:00
Speaker 3: being papered if you're not showing it? No, that's for
36:03
Speaker 3: pissing rights. Like get out of my face. Sorry, but
36:07
Speaker 3: it's so silly to me. If you're not showing your
36:09
Speaker 3: dogs in it, that being important, papers don't matter. To me,
36:15
Speaker 3: overpopulation when it comes to dogs, by you buying a
36:19
Speaker 3: dog rather than rescuing it, in my head, that means
36:23
Speaker 3: that you're contributing to a dog being euthanized. Because that
36:27
Speaker 3: is what's happening. Instead of you rescuing a dog or
36:31
Speaker 3: going to a rescue or a shelter, that dog that
36:35
Speaker 3: you could have just rescued and brought into your home
36:37
Speaker 3: and changed your life, you went to a breeder instead,
36:39
Speaker 3: which means that other dog is going to get euthanized
36:41
Speaker 3: and killed. Yeah.
36:42
Speaker 4: Yeah.
36:43
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like you're not, the scales
36:45
Speaker 3: are not balanced when it comes to rescue and breeding
36:47
Speaker 3: right now. And they probably won't be, but we're dang
36:52
Speaker 3: sure going to try. And the more the laws are
36:54
Speaker 3: happening and things change, on breeding are more strict and
36:59
Speaker 3: thankfully rescue has become so much bigger and is a
37:02
Speaker 3: lot more important to people now than it was 15
37:05
Speaker 3: years ago. And that's a beautiful thing that animal planet
37:08
Speaker 3: gave us that we're able to share with the world
37:10
Speaker 3: and that it's becoming more important to people. But I
37:14
Speaker 3: think when people actually sit back and it's always, I
37:16
Speaker 3: don't know what dog I'm getting or whatever it is.
37:18
Speaker 3: I understand that, that you want to know, but I
37:22
Speaker 3: guarantee you that if you go on or go to
37:25
Speaker 3: different rescues, You know what kind of dog you're getting
37:29
Speaker 3: from us because we go through all these things. And
37:31
Speaker 3: there are so many rescues and shelters all over the
37:34
Speaker 3: country that do do those things and are able to
37:37
Speaker 3: help you with what they're good with, what they're not.
37:39
Speaker 3: Because everyone's life, like you need a dog that is
37:42
Speaker 3: good with children. You need to know that as a mother, obviously.
37:45
Speaker 3: And there's rescues and shelters all over the country that
37:48
Speaker 3: can help do that. So I think any excuse that
37:50
Speaker 3: anyone wants to come up with to go to a
37:51
Speaker 3: breeder is bullshit and I can probably combat it.
37:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
37:55
Speaker 3: I get a little feisty about them.
37:57
Speaker 1: No, it's okay. So like right now at your rescue,
38:01
Speaker 1: how many dogs do you have?
38:03
Speaker 4: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
38:06
Speaker 4: for it?
38:07
Speaker 2: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with. They have
38:09
Speaker 2: more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
38:12
Speaker 4: You have to put me in touch. What's it called?
38:14
Speaker 2: It's Dunaidial.
38:16
Speaker 3: Where?
38:18
Speaker 2: Dunaidial. There's an accent on the E.
38:22
Speaker 4: Do you mean.
38:23
Speaker 2: Yes, I got it on Done Deal Cars. Lyft, please.
38:26
Speaker 4: You're going past Kimmage?
38:27
Speaker 2: Oh, Kimmage.
38:28
Speaker 1: No.
38:30
Speaker 2: Done Deal Cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.
38:33
Speaker 1: You're coming in on a daily basis. How many get
38:35
Speaker 1: to leave on a daily basis? How does that work?
38:38
Speaker 3: It changes daily. We have hundreds of dogs, I'll tell
38:40
Speaker 3: you that much. But because we have... We have several locations.
38:44
Speaker 3: One day, a few weeks ago, we got 30 dogs
38:46
Speaker 3: in at one location. Because some... It was all from
38:49
Speaker 3: one group. The beauty... of one of the other programs
38:53
Speaker 3: that we do. There's a few, I don't know if
38:55
Speaker 3: you know anything about the prison dog programs.
38:57
Speaker 4: No.
38:58
Speaker 3: So it is a beautiful, beautiful thing. So there's prisons
39:02
Speaker 3: all over the country that have, there's like sell dog
39:07
Speaker 3: programs and it's two guys per one dog and they
39:11
Speaker 3: take dogs from rescues and they have a dog trainer
39:14
Speaker 3: there every day that's teaching these men. They bring the
39:16
Speaker 3: dogs into their tiny little bit of cell that they have.
39:19
Speaker 3: They give up space to put a dog crate in there.
39:21
Speaker 3: And they work with these dogs every single day doing training.
39:25
Speaker 3: Some of these prisons have service dog training programs. I
39:28
Speaker 3: asked them when I got to visit some of the programs,
39:30
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, can y'all train my dogs? They
39:32
Speaker 3: are so good. It is unbelievable. I got to go
39:37
Speaker 3: into some of the cells with these guys in Pennsylvania.
39:39
Speaker 3: And I remember one of them like in tears, he
39:43
Speaker 3: had been in there for like 20 something years. And
39:45
Speaker 3: he said, That when they brought his first dog into him,
39:48
Speaker 3: he hit the floor crying because it made him realize
39:50
Speaker 3: that he was a human again. Yeah. So we get
39:54
Speaker 3: to bring some of our dogs into these prison programs.
39:57
Speaker 3: And then from there, these dogs get to be adopted
40:00
Speaker 3: out into their forever homes. And then the guys will
40:01
Speaker 3: get their next dog that they get to start training.
40:04
Speaker 3: So we're lucky to have transport partners like that, because
40:06
Speaker 3: if it wasn't for them. It would be really hard
40:09
Speaker 3: on a spring out because adoptions have slowed down so
40:11
Speaker 3: much with how the country is and people struggling to
40:14
Speaker 3: even survive for themselves. You know what I mean? Yeah.
40:17
Speaker 3: So it changes, but we have hundreds of dogs and
40:20
Speaker 3: it fluctuates a lot. Our transport partners and the prisons
40:23
Speaker 3: we work with are really great and they have saved
40:26
Speaker 3: our ass.
40:27
Speaker 4: Yeah.
40:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.
40:29
Speaker 1: And then do the dogs, I mean, just on like
40:31
Speaker 1: the basics, do they get to, do you guys have
40:33
Speaker 1: enough staff that you're walking them every day? Are you
40:35
Speaker 1: looking for volunteers? Like, how does that work?
40:37
Speaker 3: Yes. We, thankfully, we still, we're always hiring when it's
40:44
Speaker 3: people that are like near us. We do volunteer stuff
40:48
Speaker 3: every Saturday in New Orleans. If you can go on
40:51
Speaker 3: our website, it has the information. It's vrcpitbull.com, V-Lobos Rescue Center. Um,
40:56
Speaker 3: and we'll be able to, or my mom used, my
40:58
Speaker 3: mom is very active on the view of us. It's
41:00
Speaker 3: pause for life. Facebook.
41:02
Speaker 1: Okay.
41:03
Speaker 3: She handles that and she's really active on it, but
41:05
Speaker 3: we do volunteer day every Saturday and the dogs get
41:08
Speaker 3: to go on a walk. The dogs out in the
41:09
Speaker 3: country and the city get to go. We have them
41:12
Speaker 3: crate trained. So while we clean kennels, they get to
41:14
Speaker 3: go in their crates and air conditioning. And then right
41:16
Speaker 3: when we're done cleaning in the morning, they'll come out.
41:18
Speaker 3: They get to go out. Some of the dogs have
41:20
Speaker 3: gone to the beach. Like we try our hardest. to
41:23
Speaker 3: make sure that they're living happy, full lives. But when
41:25
Speaker 3: you get that many dogs in, volunteers obviously are very
41:29
Speaker 3: necessary because they get that little bit of extra attention
41:33
Speaker 3: so that our employees can focus on making the rest
41:35
Speaker 3: of their lives even better. Yeah. But we're hiring at
41:39
Speaker 3: both locations, I believe right now, New Orleans and Assumption Parish,
41:42
Speaker 3: which is about an hour and a half southwest of
41:45
Speaker 3: New Orleans.
41:46
Speaker 1: Okay.
41:47
Speaker 3: And it's very different. That's more country life. It's more
41:49
Speaker 3: what I'm seasoned for. And my sister is more seasoned
41:51
Speaker 3: for the city. But yeah, we always need help and volunteers.
41:56
Speaker 3: And there's things we had our Amazon wishlist when people
41:59
Speaker 3: can't get close, just donating dog food or oops, scoops.
42:04
Speaker 3: People have sent just cleaning supplies. You know what I mean?
42:07
Speaker 3: For any rescue. And it doesn't have to just be us.
42:09
Speaker 3: If you want to volunteer places and you want to
42:12
Speaker 3: volunteer with us and can't come to Louisiana, go to
42:15
Speaker 3: your local shelter and volunteer. They need help. I promise
42:18
Speaker 3: you that they need help. You can still help. without
42:22
Speaker 3: having to come all the way to us because every
42:24
Speaker 3: rescue needs help right now. And that's the whole point
42:26
Speaker 3: of the rescue world is we're supposed to, it's the
42:29
Speaker 3: entire mission. It's not just about veal abodes. It should
42:33
Speaker 3: be about caring about dogs in general. And I think
42:37
Speaker 3: people forget about that and get very like tunnel vision.
42:40
Speaker 1: Are you guys an open place? Can people come in
42:43
Speaker 1: and see dogs every day or they have to actually call?
42:45
Speaker 3: No, you need to, if you want to adopt, you
42:48
Speaker 3: can fill out. I always tell people this. We are
42:51
Speaker 3: not having you fill out an application because we're trying
42:53
Speaker 3: to scrutinize you. I'd have my dad fill out an
42:55
Speaker 3: application if I wanted to. It's so that we know
42:58
Speaker 3: what your life is like and what kind of dog
43:00
Speaker 3: you would want. And we pick out a bunch of
43:02
Speaker 3: dogs for you, you know, to meet and stuff like that.
43:04
Speaker 3: It's just so we can figure out what your life
43:06
Speaker 3: is like. You can fill out an application on our
43:09
Speaker 3: website as well. And then you make an appointment and
43:11
Speaker 3: we'll show you dogs. We used to be open for tours,
43:14
Speaker 3: but unfortunately right now we're not able to just because
43:17
Speaker 3: we're in We're we're, we moved to a new warehouse
43:20
Speaker 3: and there's so much going on and we're short staffed
43:23
Speaker 3: half the time. Like it's a part of life right now, unfortunately.
43:27
Speaker 3: And we don't have the time to walk people around
43:30
Speaker 3: and it's a lot on the dogs. You know what
43:32
Speaker 3: I mean? They have to, it's, we would have to
43:34
Speaker 3: separate dogs that are good with people and that aren't
43:36
Speaker 3: dealing with their healing process right now. Yeah. And then,
43:39
Speaker 3: you know, separating them, but we still, like I said,
43:43
Speaker 3: volunteers every single week and they get to meet a
43:45
Speaker 3: bunch of the dogs and be a part of it
43:46
Speaker 3: and be there.
43:47
Speaker 1: So, and has the show helped you kind of be
43:50
Speaker 1: in the incoming phone call business? Are you getting so
43:53
Speaker 1: many requests for dogs all the time or has it
43:55
Speaker 1: really slowed down?
43:57
Speaker 3: Adoptions have slowed down tremendously. And I really think that
44:01
Speaker 3: it's because of how overburdened people are right now and
44:05
Speaker 3: that people are just trying to survive. And people don't
44:08
Speaker 3: even have the money to take care of themselves right now.
44:10
Speaker 3: And going back to work after, you know, the pandemic,
44:14
Speaker 3: all of these things, there's so many different reasons for it.
44:18
Speaker 3: adoptions everywhere have slowed down and it's actually heartbreaking. And
44:20
Speaker 3: for a while there, everyone was pretty panicked on what
44:24
Speaker 3: the heck we were going to do. Yeah. So, um,
44:28
Speaker 3: unfortunately adoptions have slowed down a lot compared to how
44:31
Speaker 3: they were.
44:32
Speaker 1: Um, you have a video podcast, my owners of celebrity, right?
44:37
Speaker 3: How That just started. And that was actually, I don't
44:42
Speaker 3: even know whose idea that was. I was kind of
44:44
Speaker 3: told I was doing it. And I go where I'm
44:46
Speaker 3: told with my family. I'm just like, okay, I'm the
44:49
Speaker 3: one without children, the only one. So I get to
44:52
Speaker 3: just go. But yeah, that one just started. We just
44:58
Speaker 3: premiered it and it's on Rapid Reality on our family's website.
45:03
Speaker 1: Who are some of the people that you've had on?
45:07
Speaker 3: There's been so many people that... I know actually it's
45:10
Speaker 3: someone that you're interviewing or that you just interviewed.
45:13
Speaker 1: Melissa River.
45:14
Speaker 3: Yeah. She was one of them. She was, she was
45:16
Speaker 3: one of them, but there's been everyone that I interviewed. It's,
45:19
Speaker 3: it's nice watching. Cause when they told me I had
45:21
Speaker 3: to do celebrity stuff, I was like, no, not to
45:23
Speaker 3: be mean, but I was like, I'm not doing it.
45:26
Speaker 3: And then they were like, we were interviewing them about
45:27
Speaker 3: their dogs. And I was like, okay, now I'm in.
45:30
Speaker 3: And it's for a reason. It's not because any of
45:32
Speaker 3: the people that I would have interviewed, I wasn't excited to,
45:34
Speaker 3: I was thrilled, but I think that people get, tired
45:38
Speaker 3: about talking about themselves. I mean, I guess I do.
45:41
Speaker 3: So them getting to talk about their rescue dogs was
45:44
Speaker 3: such a beautiful thing to see. And not only that,
45:47
Speaker 3: if we're able to use our voices as someone in
45:50
Speaker 3: the public eye to talk about rescue, then let's frigging
45:54
Speaker 3: do it. And that's what every single celebrity that I
45:56
Speaker 3: got to interview on the video podcast was about. And
46:00
Speaker 3: they're like, no, like we need to talk about this.
46:02
Speaker 3: So it was a really beautiful thing to see and
46:03
Speaker 3: getting to have people that are celebrities in the public
46:06
Speaker 3: eye so thrilled to talk about rescue and why it's
46:10
Speaker 3: so important.
46:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I think it's great. I also interviewed Lee
46:15
Speaker 1: Asher from the Asher house. I don't know if you're
46:16
Speaker 1: familiar with them. And that was one of the best
46:20
Speaker 1: interviews I did. I just love what he does. He
46:22
Speaker 1: has a sanctuary and has, you know, over 50 animals.
46:26
Speaker 1: It's not, it's not pitiful per se, but it's, and
46:29
Speaker 1: that interview was so great. I mean, do you follow him?
46:31
Speaker 1: Do you know?
46:32
Speaker 3: I know I've heard, I've heard about it, but I
46:34
Speaker 3: don't follow him at all. Yeah.
46:36
Speaker 1: And it's just so great. Similar to what you guys do.
46:38
Speaker 1: You see the rescue missions and you see how he
46:41
Speaker 1: rehabilitates them. And a lot of it is a lot
46:44
Speaker 1: of it is, you know, sanctuary there. They're not going
46:46
Speaker 1: to be adopted back out ever. It's their forever home.
46:49
Speaker 1: How much of your business is a sanctuary? Do you
46:51
Speaker 1: have dogs that, you know, will stay there forever and
46:53
Speaker 1: not be adopted?
46:56
Speaker 3: So we have our wolf dog rescue in Texas, actually
47:00
Speaker 3: East Texas. That's a whole situation that happened. And then
47:04
Speaker 3: we have dogs with us that unfortunately will never be
47:07
Speaker 3: able to be adopted out. And most of those dogs
47:09
Speaker 3: end up coming into one of our houses to stay.
47:13
Speaker 3: My dog Tater that passed away, there is no way
47:15
Speaker 3: he could have ever been adopted out. That dog was
47:17
Speaker 3: off his frigging rocker, but that was my soulmate. So
47:22
Speaker 3: most of the time they'll come into one of our
47:24
Speaker 3: homes or one of our employees that is seasoned and
47:27
Speaker 3: is able to handle and equipped to handle a dog
47:29
Speaker 3: that has issues, whether it is fear or aggression. We
47:33
Speaker 3: never want to put anyone in danger. And it's not
47:36
Speaker 3: fair for us to expect to adopt a dog out
47:40
Speaker 3: to somebody that you're like, oh, we might bite someone. No,
47:44
Speaker 3: like we're not. That's not what we do. We'll handle
47:46
Speaker 3: that ourselves because we do this professionally and we know
47:50
Speaker 3: how to handle it and we're equipped for it.
47:51
Speaker 1: Right, right, right. Going back to something you said earlier,
47:54
Speaker 1: you were like, I don't want to interview celebrities. Do
47:56
Speaker 1: you see yourself as a celebrity?
47:58
Speaker 3: No. People get all excited and just like, you know,
48:03
Speaker 3: try and take pictures. I always tell them, I was like,
48:04
Speaker 3: I pick up dog shit for a living. Like just,
48:06
Speaker 3: it's fine. I don't, I've never thought of myself like that,
48:10
Speaker 3: no matter how much I am in the public eye.
48:13
Speaker 3: And I don't think about it that we had 19 seasons.
48:16
Speaker 3: I know that I get to live my life. And
48:19
Speaker 3: I think what I always tell everyone, and this sounds
48:21
Speaker 3: so silly to some people, but all that I want
48:24
Speaker 3: to do in life is make sure that I leave
48:26
Speaker 3: the world alive. a little bit better of a place
48:29
Speaker 3: than when I came into it. And that's how I
48:31
Speaker 3: want to live my life. That's not everybody. That's what
48:34
Speaker 3: I want to do. And if I'm able to do
48:35
Speaker 3: that more so by being in the public eye, then
48:38
Speaker 3: I'm going to use it.
48:39
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I think that's great.
48:41
Speaker 3: Thank you.
48:42
Speaker 1: So I think so many people though have followed you
48:45
Speaker 1: for so long, followed your family, love what you guys do.
48:47
Speaker 3: They watch me grow up. Yeah.
48:49
Speaker 1: They watch you grow up. They're interested in what you're doing. So,
48:53
Speaker 1: you know, I think everyone should definitely tune in and
48:55
Speaker 1: watch this new motorcycle. travel show.
48:58
Speaker 3: I'm so excited.
49:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
49:00
Speaker 1: And that's what's going on in your life personally right now, right?
49:03
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like your biggest, that's your.
49:05
Speaker 3: Baby right now. This is my baby. This is my
49:08
Speaker 3: first show that I produced along with Candice, who's been
49:13
Speaker 3: with us through Pitbulls and Pearlies. It was really cool
49:17
Speaker 3: getting to see just the power behind these women. We're
49:20
Speaker 3: just like, right, load up the motorcycles. We have all
49:22
Speaker 3: female crew, like, let's do it. And then it turning into,
49:27
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that we were going to end up
49:28
Speaker 3: working with Harley. This is just something that we wanted
49:30
Speaker 3: to do. And you know how things flourish and you
49:33
Speaker 3: get to see what's become of it. And then getting
49:36
Speaker 3: To hear women tell me that don't ride motorcycles, it's
49:39
Speaker 3: nothing to do with you riding a motorcycle. Getting to
49:41
Speaker 3: hear women say how much it inspired them at even
49:44
Speaker 3: the age that they were at and being older to
49:47
Speaker 3: go do things that they've wanted to do or that
49:49
Speaker 3: they were scared to do or just actually being able
49:52
Speaker 3: to live their life. And I think that was the
49:53
Speaker 3: point of it. Yeah.
49:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, can you tell us, is there any point
49:58
Speaker 1: where somebody's motorcycle breaks down and it's a total?
50:00
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
50:02
Speaker 3: Yeah. Within the first episode, one of the girls crashed. So. Okay. We,
50:08
Speaker 3: but that's the whole fun of it is that like,
50:10
Speaker 3: because when we break down, we have our tools with us.
50:12
Speaker 3: We're like, all right, we got to figure this out
50:13
Speaker 3: on the side of the road.
50:16
Speaker 1: How did you learn how to put together motorcycles?
50:20
Speaker 3: And I figured it out. I love working on cars
50:23
Speaker 3: and motorcycles and it's kind of how being in a
50:25
Speaker 3: shop and working on a motorcycle was always kind of,
50:28
Speaker 3: and I sew sewing and I sew a lot of
50:30
Speaker 3: my own clothes, sewing and working on motorcycles are my
50:32
Speaker 3: two things that like calm me down. And when you
50:36
Speaker 3: work in animal rescue, it's a heavy burden on your soul.
50:40
Speaker 3: So having those little escapes where you can like take
50:44
Speaker 3: a breath for a second. And I think working on
50:47
Speaker 3: motorcycle engines kind of calmed me down a lot. Yeah.
50:51
Speaker 3: So that's where it kind of flourished and came from. Yeah.
50:55
Speaker 1: Um, so tell people again where they can watch the show,
50:58
Speaker 1: where they can find you guys now. Cause I'm sure
51:00
Speaker 1: I know animal planet does have all the reruns on
51:02
Speaker 1: all the time. So it's still like.
51:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's not any, um, that's not any of
51:07
Speaker 3: the new stuff.
51:08
Speaker 1: Right.
51:08
Speaker 3: So, um, our family's website that has everything with Earl
51:12
Speaker 3: show moto maidens will be aired on there next Monday.
51:15
Speaker 3: It's called rabid, like a rabid dog, rabid reality.com. And
51:20
Speaker 3: it's all of like, we have podcast, a podcast called
51:23
Speaker 3: pitbulls for always in a producer. And it's our executive producer, Billy,
51:26
Speaker 3: my mom, and then different ones. And we literally go
51:29
Speaker 3: through from episode one and giving everybody all of the
51:33
Speaker 3: sneaky behind the scenes stuff and like things that were
51:35
Speaker 3: going on, all that. So, and it's video podcasts. So
51:38
Speaker 3: there's so many different things on rapid reality. You could
51:41
Speaker 3: just see a part of Vila Boschuski center behind the
51:45
Speaker 3: scenes stuff and different parts of our lives that we
51:48
Speaker 3: didn't get to share before. Like me and my motorcycles
51:51
Speaker 3: and TC and Earl and, on their adventures. And my
51:55
Speaker 3: owner is a celebrity. And the beauty of it is
51:57
Speaker 3: that everything goes back to the rescue.
52:02
Speaker 1: One show I would like to see is a follow-up
52:04
Speaker 1: on where a lot of these dogs, where you put them,
52:06
Speaker 1: but like how their life is going.
52:09
Speaker 2: Oh, it is?
52:09
Speaker 1: Oh, good.
52:10
Speaker 3: Yes. We have that. We actually have that on there.
52:13
Speaker 3: Why am I having a brain fart right now? It's,
52:15
Speaker 3: oh my goodness, what's it called? It's, we have- I
52:20
Speaker 3: can look it up. I'm looking, I don't know why
52:22
Speaker 3: I'm having a brain fart right now, but we literally have.
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Speaker 1: So you, you follow, you follow the story.
52:29
Speaker 3: We catch back up with, yeah. Um, with everybody that
52:32
Speaker 3: adopted dogs too. So we have sell dogs on there.
52:36
Speaker 3: Like there's so many different ones that my mom has
52:38
Speaker 3: going on here now, but there is a little series
52:43
Speaker 3: that we did catching back up with dogs from like
52:46
Speaker 3: the beginning. Do you remember, um, Oh my gosh, my
52:49
Speaker 3: brain is just this traveling thing, kicking my butt. There
52:54
Speaker 3: are so many dogs that we adopted out that we
52:57
Speaker 3: got to catch back up with. And I got to see, oh, Creature,
52:59
Speaker 3: that's not having a brain fart.
53:00
Speaker 1: Okay.
53:02
Speaker 3: Did you ever see that adoption? I don't remember.
53:04
Speaker 1: I would need to hear about the parents too, because
53:06
Speaker 1: I'm always so into who the person is.
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Speaker 3: Either way, we like just getting to, even some of
53:11
Speaker 3: the dogs that had passed away, like we get to
53:13
Speaker 3: catch up with their owners and how great their life
53:15
Speaker 3: was and all the adventures they went on. So that's
53:17
Speaker 3: actually on there. Oh, good.
53:19
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch it. I'm going to ask my
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Speaker 1: producer to make a note. We're going to watch it tonight.
53:24
Speaker 3: Okay, wonderful. All right.
53:26
Speaker 1: I love that stuff. I think you're so fantastic. I
53:29
Speaker 1: just wish the best for you guys. I can't wait
53:31
Speaker 1: to see what you guys do. And I really hope
53:33
Speaker 1: that people take the opportunity to donate or donate their time,
53:38
Speaker 1: their money, whatever it is. to you guys and if
53:40
Speaker 1: not to you guys, to any animal shelter rescue near them,
53:44
Speaker 1: because I think it's so important and make sure that
53:47
Speaker 1: you are going in and rescuing and adopting instead of
53:51
Speaker 1: looking for a breeder because you want that special little
53:53
Speaker 1: puppy that, you know, you think your daughter's going to love.
53:55
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's all this,
53:57
Speaker 1: you know, that becomes it's all the same. They all
54:00
Speaker 1: need love. So I think it's really important.
54:03
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. Of course.
54:05
Speaker 1: Anything that I've forgotten that we should cover or that
54:07
Speaker 1: you want to talk about?
54:09
Speaker 3: I think we got it all. Okay.
54:10
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to ask you one other question
54:12
Speaker 1: because you said everyone else in your life had a child.
54:15
Speaker 1: Do you ever want to have a child?
54:18
Speaker 3: It's always been like left. It's funny because I was
54:21
Speaker 3: the one that everyone thought would have kids first because
54:23
Speaker 3: I have helped raise so many and because I love
54:26
Speaker 3: kids so much. But it was always one of those
54:28
Speaker 3: things where I didn't feel like I would feel unfulfilled
54:31
Speaker 3: if I didn't or that I needed to. It was
54:35
Speaker 3: always like, if it happens, it happens. Like I'm not
54:38
Speaker 3: stressed about it. And I know that unfortunately being a female,
54:44
Speaker 3: our bodies won't let us do that forever.
54:45
Speaker 1: That's right. But I don't.
54:47
Speaker 3: Feel pressured to have one or to not. I'm so
54:50
Speaker 3: lucky that I get, I have 11 nieces and nephews
54:53
Speaker 3: and I get to take them for a few days.
54:55
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, I'm going to go get on
54:58
Speaker 1: a motorcycle. Yeah, that's right.
55:00
Speaker 3: So I told everyone, I was like, I'd have to
55:02
Speaker 3: just strap the baby's feet to the back of my
55:04
Speaker 3: frigging motorcycle.
55:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's right. But it also, you know, it's funny,
55:08
Speaker 1: my daughter who's 11, sometimes people will say, oh, how
55:11
Speaker 1: many kids do you have? And she'll say, my mom
55:13
Speaker 1: has three because she has me and she has the
55:16
Speaker 1: other two dogs. And she'll say, and if you, if
55:18
Speaker 1: she wasn't here, she would say she likes Mishka the most,
55:21
Speaker 1: you know, the animals are my kids. I know every
55:25
Speaker 1: animal that comes through the door, you love them. I'm
55:27
Speaker 1: sure like they're your own. So anyways, it's been such
55:30
Speaker 1: an honor and we look forward to seeing what you
55:33
Speaker 1: guys do in the future and we wish you the best.
55:36
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
55:37
Speaker 1: Thank you. I really appreciate it, honestly. So thank you
55:40
Speaker 1: so much for giving me your time.
55:42
Speaker 3: Of course. Have a good day. Okay.
55:43
Speaker 4: You too.
55:50
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56:16
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56:21
Speaker 4: The car is beautiful. Where did you end up going
56:24
Speaker 4: for it?
56:25
Speaker 2: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with. They have
56:27
Speaker 2: more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
56:30
Speaker 4: You have to put me in touch. What's it called?
56:32
Speaker 2: It's Dunaidial.
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Speaker 3: Where?
56:36
Speaker 1: Dunaidial.
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Speaker 2: There's an accent on the E.
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Speaker 4: Do you mean.
56:41
Speaker 2: Yes, I got it on Dundale Cars.
56:42
Speaker 3: Lift? Please.
56:43
Speaker 4: Are you going past Kimmage?
56:45
Speaker 3: Oh, Kimmage.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Dundale Cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.