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Welcome back to Catching it with Katie. I have bangs now and I really planned on having my hair looking good for this. And I slept in these little goat horn things and I had a blowout this morning looking, you know, I lost sleep for my hair to look good. And you can attest it looked good.
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Yes.
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For about 20 minutes. And it is so muggy and so humid that this is what we're left with now.
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C
They'll do it that quick?
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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And this is with, like so much hairspray, so much product. Last night, Jonathan took me on a date. So I had my hair done last night and I was like, oh, I'll preserve the curls. I'll use this little curling rod, which I've used them in the past. They're great for the fall and winter when the air is not moist and moist. And so, yeah, I really planned on debuting my. My bangs in a much cuter way. But y' all can read between the lines. Or maybe you can't, but we're going with it.
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C
It's been so wet outside, like before
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yesterday here in Tennessee. And I am getting my information from Charles. So
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take it with a grain of salt, Charles.
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He told me that we had gotten before yesterday, nine inches of rain in the month of July.
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B
That's a lot.
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I feel like that sounds right, though, with how much we've got.
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Oh, for sure.
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Like, we've had a couple of days where we had over 2 inches of rain in a day.
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Yeah.
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So that's insane. It makes it to where we can't get hardly anything done. We have so many projects that we're trying to do. Like, I mean, we've been waiting on
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pastures for fencing would be nice.
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We've been trying to fence in four new pastures for what feels like a year probably. Actually, it is a year. And we finally have, like just this much left of the final grade. And Jonathan was wanting to have post holes done by the end of the week. And then we got smacked again last night by a pop up thunderstorm. That's also. It's giving me an ulcer because we are on nighttime turnout right now because during the day it's a hundred degrees, so my horses go out at night when it's cooler and the flies are less and all that good stuff. Well, I look on my apps and all of us use, like multiple apps. They all contradict each other. And when I checked yesterday at like one because we were going on our, like, date and stuff. So before I got in the shower, I was like, oh, let Me check and just text the girls, like, if they're going in or out. It said like, a little rain. 30 chance of rain at like 2am I was like, ah, rain's fine. Whatever.
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It was a red blob.
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C
A red blob.
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Red blob.
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We get back from. From our date. It is.
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C
Was this a day date?
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Oh, no, it was dark. Like, we went to dinner.
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Gotcha. Gotcha.
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So we get back from our date, it's dark. All of a sudden, the sky lights up. Lightning everywhere. I'm like, that sent me into a tizzy because luckily the lightning stayed far. It didn't really come our way. We just got rain. But I mean, I'm tired. I'm sick and tired.
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I'm tired of this grandpa.
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Of like thunderstorms every night with no warning. Yeah, like crazy.
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We lost power.
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You did?
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Really?
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Yeah, I had to go get the generator out and run extension cords last
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night, like, did you have a storm? Storm?
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So it was one of those where it just like, it went right around us, but it just, I guess destroyed the power lines or something. We didn't have power for like five hours.
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The bad stuff did go around us. We got a lot of rain, though. And I'm like, oh, great. Kennedy's outside, you know, which she loves being outside. That's the thing. And I. I stick to my guns on, like, wanting my horses to have turnout, wanting them to have time to beat regular horses. But then you're like, please don't die. Please don't hurt yourself.
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Please don't break anything.
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So anyway, we're here, we're ready. We have new hair. Matt is still out because he is daddy again.
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Yeah.
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He has new baby girl. We're so excited for him. So he is out with his wife where he should be. He'll be back soon. So we have delayed a little bit of the horse show lessons. Getting started. Nate had a little lesson that we didn't really make a big thing about. You just kind of had your first thing.
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C
It was. It was only 12 minutes.
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Was it really?
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C
It was 12 minutes.
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Making sure you mesh.
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C
I was on the horse for 12 minutes.
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You did great. The whole 12 minutes. It.
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It was great. But I wouldn't call it like you
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said you were hurting, though.
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After the 12, I was really sore. But wasn't like a full lesson.
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Right.
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You know, so some updates because, I mean, a lot of things have happened in the last couple weeks. So one thing is my indie babies don't want to. They don't want to be show horses, they don't. So this past week, which. This is a cool topic to talk about, I think, because not even a cool topic, maybe a little bit controversial, but, you know, I'll see people bragging, my horse needs no maintenance. Or, I haven't given my horse maintenance in six years and he's fine.
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Just haven't dug deep enough.
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Okay. Begging that need to look a little harder. But also, you know, I don't feel like it's necessarily, like, a flex to be like, my horse hasn't gotten maintenance in six years. Because, like, if. If your horse is out in the pasture, like, okay, yeah, yeah, if they're
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a performance horse, though.
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But if they're a performance horse, I mean, think about human athletes. It doesn't mean you're, like, limping when you go get dry, needling done, or when you go get PT done or whatever. Like, you're trying to be at the top of your performance. You're trying to be at the top of your comfort during this performance to be able to excel in it. Right? And so what we do is periodically, we'll have the vet come out and just do flex tests. Um, so maybe the horse doesn't need anything. And that'd be great if the horse needs nothing. But you need to check, right? Like, you need to, like, at least check with your vet and be like, hey, I've been riding my horse consistently every six months. You know, just do a little flex test. You don't have to do X rays every six months. You don't have to do the whole shebang. But what they do is they'll take your horse and they'll go leg by leg, and they'll hold them in a specific spot for, like, 30 seconds, I think, at the ankle, at the hock, at the whatever, and they'll. They'll flex them. And so usually if the horse doesn't, like, trot normally afterwards, like, the whole of 30 seconds, and then they let them go. And if they don't trot normally within, like, two steps or whatever, then they'll kind of grade their lameness. So depending on how long it takes for them to work out of that, that kind of, like, soreness, they'll kind of grade it 1 through 5. So if your horse took, like, just a little bit longer to get back to trotting normally after the flexion, then they might be like, oh, well, like, it's a two out of five on that leg. Maybe. Maybe icing after you ride, or like, whatever. Or if it's like a four out of five. Hey, we need to take some X rays. We need to see what's going on. Maybe we need to ultrasound this where wherever is showing lameness. And so that's what we do on the. Our horse. I really haven't had horses that have been working super hard at home until this past year. But we want to know because horses are stoic.
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Very.
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They're stoic. They.
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Most of them.
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Some of them are not. Some of them are. They will tell you immediately if something's hooked. But generally they are meant to be prey animals. So they're meant to be stoic. They're meant to be like, they don't show their weakness right off the bat. And so sometimes you gotta, like, dig a little bit and be like, what's. What's going on here? And sometimes you might think it's a behavioral issue and it's a pain issue. And so like Kennedy, Ricky, Ethel, all the two year olds, we went ahead and flexed and just got a baseline. How's everyone doing? You've been in work. Let's see. Let's see if there's any underlying issues.
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Yeah.
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And so we were going. We were just doing that already. There's a fly. Anyway, we were just doing that already. And we were like, super happy to see Kennedy looked fantastic. And we were, you know, Ricky, we just got her back into work. She'd had no vet maintenance and like, we were wanting to make sure she was comfy and we did some X rays because she had had like a previous surgery on her ankle. And so we just didn't want to make things worse and we wanted to keep her comfy. Things like that. Well, on the two year olds, this is all coming around for a story.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Because Wally is now in a stall for six weeks at least.
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C
Really?
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Because he has a broken leg.
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Really?
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Yes.
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Like, I laugh because it's. I laugh because it's so crazy.
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We were also just making fun of him for being a weenie.
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We were saying he was a weenie because of his abscess. So he came in from the pasture the week before on his back leg. Like, usually if you see a horse, be fine. And they go from fine to like, I can't put my foot down. It's usually an abscess, and that's generally the most treatable thing. I mean, it can go south, but, like, if you catch it, you're usually good. So he did have an abscess. We saw, like, we started pemfing it. We saw it bust. Like, very confirmed abscess. On the front end. Completely sound. Completely fine. Has had no issues. He had a little bump on the front of his cannon bone, like six weeks ago.
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Six weeks ago, which we X rayed immediately. Totally fine.
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We palpated it. We X rayed it, all the things. Because I think Dr. Jorge was out already. And so we were like, hey, can you X ray this and make sure it's like, not anything bad? So he X rayed it. Oh, it's fine. He just has like a little inflammation there. So we like PEMF it and like iced it and all the things. And he was never unsound on it.
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Yeah.
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So this time, bump's still there. We're like, hey, can you like, he. We weren't able to flex him fully because of the abscess foot. He wasn't gonna give, like, an accurate depiction of soundness. And so we were like, well, while you're here, let's just go ahead and do his X rays because we were planning on doing 2 year old x rays. This bump is weird. We want to do it again. Check it again.
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And where is this?
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So cannon bone. So, like the very front. So the, the. The hoof is here. Ankle. The, like long bone before his knee.
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Like my shin.
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Yes.
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That's kind of a person's anatomy is so weird as to what they consider finger, I guess.
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So like this one.
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Yes. So the, the cannon bone underneath the knee.
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Okay.
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The bump is like, right here. We take the X ray. And I love when I hear my vet go, oh, yeah, I love that. Music to my ears.
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Yeah, can't be good.
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He goes, oh, Lord. It's not broken. Broken. Yeah, but it's a fracture. Yeah, it's like there's a line there and it's. It's from like. He's like, no doubt. Blunt force trauma happened to this leg. So Waylon obviously, obviously either kicked him or while they were like. Because they're always assuming like, his little
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hoofy came down on it.
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They're always on their back legs.
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Yeah.
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They are always like stallions together. And they have a blast. They play all the time. And so no doubt when they're playing, Waylon must have just smacked it just in the right way. And again, so hard for me to like, I. I'm so double down on, like my stallion prospect. Having a friend going outside all the time. Like, I don't want to immediately put him in a fricking box. Like, that's not what I want for my horses. But that's just kind of the Risk that that comes with it. And so luckily we caught it before he was literally even limping.
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Yeah.
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And so he's gonna be on stall rest for, like, six weeks, and then we re X ray.
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Hmm.
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So, yeah, Stephanie's list of horses that she can ride is just dwindling now. Wheezy cuz. Wheezy had again before she was even limping. We found that she had the tiny little hole in her suspensory. So she's towards the end. Like, we're, like, getting to the point where she can come back into work. We have two weeks left. Um, and then Wally, those are our only two horses on stall rest. Out of 40. If we can't, like, I. I totally forgot in our horse count to put Hollywood. So 44. So out of 44 horses, two of them are on stall rest, which isn't that bad.
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Decent.
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Under 5%. I did the math.
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Nice.
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And what was funny is after, like, I made that post, I don't check Reddit, but other people did, and they were like, yeah, people don't believe you that those are your only two horses on stall rest. And I'm like, I mean, Beyonce, who no one else would have. Beyonce.
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No.
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Like, as comfortable as she is, like, no. She ripped her deep digital flexor tendon by 95, 10 years ago. And so she still goes outside every day. She's outside. Every boat was outside every day. Who else is there that I mean, I don't know who else they think is hurt. Anyway.
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Yeah.
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So less than 5% are on stall rest, and they are both indie babies. Fantastic. And so Stephanie, it's just dwindling. So she's got. Now she's got Ricky, though. And we did do a little checkup on Blondie, who's my, like, double registered, really pretty palomino mare. And we were like, she's really stiff in her hind end. Like, can you, like, look at it? Because even if she's just gonna be a broodmare, we want to be comfortable. And the more he worked her and the more he flexed her, the more comfortable she was. Which, she's an older mare.
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He also commented on how voluptuous her booty was.
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Yes, it is a voluptuous booty and so building up a lot of legs. That is true. It is. He's. She's very stout and. But she's good boned too. I. I imagine we've done a lot of work on her feet since she's been here, and we've done a lot of things since she's been Here. And so she might be on the rotation for Stephanie to do some groundwork with just for like the lubrication of her joints. So anyway, that's kind of the horse update. Yeah, that's kind of where we're at, horsey wise. I am reminded to address this, though.
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Okay.
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So a lot of people have been commenting about me putting my can in my mugs. I'm just. I'm just goofy. I'm just silly. It's not.
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Not because you're mad at Mountain Dew.
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It's. No, it's not that. It's not because I'm trying to do any sort of thing. I'm just. It makes me. I don't drink coffee, so it just makes me feel a little more mug, you know, and it's a cute mug. It's a. Oh, weird.
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It's a kitty van.
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How weird that we both have.
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What?
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Right. Where's yours?
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They were all in here.
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What does yours have on it? That's just my name.
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This little mini farm. Love.
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So if you. If you like mugs. We have a lot of them. Pretty much every design that we do, we've got a mug for it. So if you want to go shop@katievanslack.net
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she's even doing one with my face on it. Is that what you said the last conversation?
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No.
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I want nothing more than to have big reusable water bottles in the store. That's something I rally for all the time. We have meetings constantly about merch. It is so hard to source, so expensive. It's a battle between me trying not to have super overpriced things in my store and also actually making a profit, like.
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Yeah.
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And we have yet to find a supplier that makes it to work because on those types of items, generally to get it to where you would make a profit, you have to order 10,000 or 20,000. And we're just not at that level in our business where we.
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You should get there.
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But yeah, if you didn't know.
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Mugs.
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Mugs. I'm just in a silly, goofy mood. That's why my cans are there.
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Goofing.
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We're just goofing. The other cool thing that is happening this week, we didn't really tell anybody about this last year because we were afraid the platform would literally crash.
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Yeah.
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So kind of last minute. I had this idea last year to, you know how, like, do you ever do fantasy football?
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I've done it a couple times a long time ago. Not a big fantasy guy, but I know how to do it. And I like it.
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So it's fantasy football esque, but it's fantasy folding. And so like, for instance, this past year we had nightmares. And so by Christmas we, we kind of open it up just to subscribers who were already subscribers at that point. Like, we didn't make a big post being like, oh my gosh, this, we're doing this. Go subscribe so that you can be a part of it. Because we were afraid that the platform we like last minute tried to use would crash with that many people. We still had a ton of people enter. And so we opened it up just for subscribers who were already there. Like, I made one post about it, I was like, hey guys, we're going to do this just because we were so terrified that it was going to like crash and then we wouldn't be
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able to feel like, I remember this and I forgot about it because we
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haven't really talked about it.
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Very under the radar, very under the radar.
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And we learned a lot for the user experience and it just felt, I don't know, wrong to make this huge thing about it and then be like, oh, we have all these glitches. Like, we kind of did like a little beta testing thing this year and so lots of improvements have been made. We have a third party company we're going to actually use now for the platform. It's going to be a lot more customized, going to be a lot easier. You're gonna be able to save information like last year, I'll get into it. But Anyway, we had nine mares. So by December 25th, you had to guess for each of those nine mares, the day the baby was born, the sex of the baby, the color, which we left room to say, hey, if the baby's color changes drastically, because sometimes they don't show up at birth, then we'll change it by. And we had like a, a designated date. We would change it by the time of day that they were born. We have like windows of time. You could choose the amount of time it took for them to stand and the amount of time it took for them to nurse. And because we have everything on camera, we had exacts.
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Yeah.
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Of everything. And so that gave you what's like 6 times 9?
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54.
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You do the hand thing. Yeah, I'm trying to get out of that.
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I can't.
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Every time somebody asked me a nine question, I'm just like,
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so there was 54 different choices.
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Yeah.
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And so, I mean, it definitely whittled it down. There was only one person that had the most correct answers. We didn't have any tiebreakers or anything. And so we had prizes for first, second, third. We had random drawings within just all the entries for like gift cards and things. And so we made, we tried to make it fun, but things that we realized was that with the platform we used the first time, you couldn't save your answers. And so then a lot of people would be like, I forgot what I put if they didn't write it down. And so big whoops on our part. Yeah, that's, that's why it was like a beta testing thing, you know. And so this year we're making it a lot more user friendly, gonna make it a lot more pretty, like all the things. It will just be for subscribers again this year and we will make an announcement when that's open. And again, it is, it's for the fact that like, we do have to limit the amount of people. Like, it's, it's a platform. So.
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So what if they just subscribe, do the thing and then cancel? Like, do they have to be subscribed
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for the month that you enter? Oh, if you choose to subscribe for longer, that's fine, but you only have to be subscribed for like December or something like that or whatever. Whatever we decide anyway. So we have a winner. And the winner's prize, I think is pretty cool. Yeah, she's coming to the farm. So the winner's prize was they get to bring one person. They get a farm experience. It's a four hour experience of. We got them a really nice hotel in Nashville. We're sending a car to pick them up. So we got like a really nice, like car service to go pick them up. Excuse me, I did burp. Car service picks them up, brings them to the farm. When they get to the farm, they are met with lunch. We provide them multiple options and then we get them whatever lunch they want. There's three different spaces that they can choose from to eat their lunch, whether that be like next to the goats, at the barn, at the shop, whatever they want. We already gave them like a big merch, kind of like gift basket, goodie bag kind of deal. They got a bunch of merch. They get a 30 minute photo shoot with their favorite animal, and then they get 15 photos that are edited. We've got to talk about that quickly. They get 15 edited photos. They get a full tour of all the barns of the property. They get to go out in the full pasture, like all that good stuff. And so it's a four hour immersive running springs Experience. And I think it's gonna be very fun. So that's kind of like the only thing we've allowed at this point to
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allow someone as far as coming to
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the farm, as far as coming to the farm.
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B
So how do they get like content? Do they get to take pictures or anything?
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So we've got to talk to you about that too. So we will be taking content for them so that they don't have to be sitting there on their phones. We can take stuff of them, pictures of them with their favorite horses, like all that good stuff. And again, we're going to like, you know, have, have photos, have all the things just make it really memorable. And so they chose to, you know, making it kind of all expense paid. So like giving them gas vouchers, giving them parking vouchers, all the things. And then they actually wanted to extend their stay. So we just gave them an extra day in their hotel room so that they could. It's a girl and her mom coming. So they're having like a, a weekend in Nashville too, which is really fun.
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That's fun.
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So I'm really excited for it for them for the upcoming year because we'll have 12 babies. Make it even, even crazier. So that's what's, that's what's happening this week. So we're going to have a really fun time. We're going to make a YouTube video out of it. We're going to show the experience. It'll be really fun. I mean, for the, for the first year though, it went pretty well. Like, we kind of. I say we. I was like, I have an idea. And then we tried to whip something up as best as we could and it worked out. So we learned a lot of things.
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When did you come up with that idea? November. Mid November.
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It couldn't have been too far off that.
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I think it, I think it was. I don't think it was any earlier than October.
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Yeah, no, certainly not. Certainly not earlier than October.
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No, no. For it being a very last minute thing. And then now I think it could be a really cool stuff. And it's just another way to be super interactive with foaling season. Right. And like, and I think there's no really downside to, to playing it and stuff like that. The only thing was, you know, this year we did have some unfortunate, you know, really hard foldings. And so what we did with that was they were just no longer, you
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know, so do they. Is there like a leaderboard?
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So we did do a leaderboard this year. But because of kind of the tragedies and things, it wasn't kept up with as well as it should have been. So that's another thing of why we're doing the third party. Just so that everything's, like, you know, very, very distinct on timing, very quick, very easy and readable, and, like, it's not hard to find and. And all that good stuff. So our hope is this next time, like, the players will get, like, a little profile so that they can go see what they've chosen. Chosen and then, like, see what they've gotten right and what they have as they go along. So it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. So that's one thing that's happening this week. And then, you know, we're still just continuing on with. With trying to prepare for this little horse show that we've planned, but again, like, freaking. Matt had had a kid. Had a kid, so he hasn't even had a lesson yet. And then we. I guess we do probably need to film yours.
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Yeah. Need to film on with me. And I can go first.
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I'll just watch.
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You'll just watch until the group one. I feel like after our last conversation with Rebecca, I'm very interested in having one of the games entered into it.
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C
Yeah, I like the games.
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B
Are we barrel racing?
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A
No. More so, like, egg and spoon? No, like an egg and spoon or, like, ride a buck or whatever.
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B
Like bareback. I was bomb at that.
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A
I feel like that's super dangerous, though, especially you on Kennedy.
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B
Yeah, that's. I'm like, yeah. I don't know how she'd feel.
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A
Also, in our first lesson, you know, I kind of asked you because I was like, I'm not a dude. Like, yeah, I feel like that would take some.
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C
It would have to be worse.
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A
Practice would have to be worse for comfortability.
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B
I feel like bareback makes you sit more on your bum.
- [26:12]
C
Yeah.
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B
Anyway, I don't know.
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A
I haven't done it in a long time. The last time I rode bareback was
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B
on Ethel, which is like riding a couch.
- [26:18]
A
It is. It is. You can do whatever you want on her. You ain't falling.
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B
I feel like we should do, like, barrels.
- [26:25]
A
But also, Kennedy will be showing at the world show.
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B
That's true. Okay. We could do, like, a walk trot Lopez egg.
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A
We could do. We'll figure out something. If you have ideas for, like, a game game for this horror show, that'd be fun. That would be, like, a good little tiebreaker or whatever. The one thing with Kennedy, though, that we are going to be trying. And we just made a video which everyone was so mad at you about the clickbait.
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C
It wasn't. It wasn't. She was done.
- [26:53]
A
I did say those words.
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C
You did. She was done with the. Was the Western pleasure.
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A
They are so mad at you. Like, you don't even understand the rage in the comments.
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C
I thought it was great.
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A
Um, so anyway, in that video, we explained a little bit about this clinic coming up. And so we're having some really amazing trainers, and we're gonna have a beauty saddle fitter come out and fit Wheezy and Kennedy and things like that for a saddle, and we're going to have kind of a. So what a clinic is. Is like a. It's like a learning class that's also an example, I guess. So, like, there's a. There's a trainer or two. There's, like. I think there's about four of us writing. And then the trainers will say for each of us things that we need to work on for this one class, and they'll kind of do an example of the class. And so with this being a new thing within aqha, the English versatility, we want to just have a very, like, accessible way to know what the standard is and what judges are looking for and how you can showcase your horse, whether it be a big hunter or whether it be a Western pleasure horse like Kennedy, if you want to show in it, because it is a really good foundational class for everybody, whether your horse is meant to be super flashy at it or whether you're just trying to do something different. We want to have this example out there for everybody. So that's what we're doing. With that being said, I need for my thick girls out there that show English, where do I get boots? Where do I get my breeches? I mean, I'm not going to be showing, like, I'm not going to be in a coat or whatnot. I got to go get a helmet. I don't know where my Charles Owen is. I've always been a Charles Owen girl. I have no clue where it is, but I will helm it up. We will. We will do the dang thing.
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C
I'm a big helmet guy.
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A
Yeah, you are. I like them, but I also. I'm like, do we go ahead and, like, cut Kennedy's mane and. And braid her for it?
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B
Yes. Yes.
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A
Do we go ahead, braid her for it and make her look all huntery? I don't know.
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B
Yes. I vote yes.
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A
Everyone is very pro Kennedy's mane for the big shows because.
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B
Except you.
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A
Except me.
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B
Literally everyone but you.
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A
And I get it because her neck is so gorgeous.
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B
So, yeah.
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A
And the mane definitely takes away from that.
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B
Drags her down.
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A
But I also like the mane. I think it's cool. And I feel like we've. We've done this really cool, like, stick it to the man. I'm gonna. I'm like, I'm gonna show my broodmare with her long man. Get rid of it. So I don't know. We might be. We might be doing something else. Anyway, that's about all I've got.
- [29:41]
C
These helmets are pretty cool.
- [29:44]
A
Charles. Owen. Yeah, that's what I've always worn. I need to get a hunt cap too.
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C
What is that?
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B
What is it? The velvet.
- [29:53]
A
The velvet hunt cap. Because if I show Penelope next year, I need a hunt cap because, like, all ride the versatility and like the equitation with a helmet. Hunter settle with a hunt cap.
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B
I didn't know that was different.
- [30:07]
A
I would say people have been going more towards the helmet helmet, like a jumping helmet in the equitation for the last like 15 years. Because it is like the equity equitation on the flat is supposed to be like, ridden as a horse that is going to be jumping whether people do that or not. Anyway, we're trying to help that so people show up with, you know, to look the part. Did you look at a hunt cap?
- [30:40]
C
Yeah. Hunt cabs are sick.
- [30:42]
A
I haven't had one of those since I was like a teenager because I feel like swapped to.
- [30:47]
B
He would walk around with one just.
- [30:49]
C
Yeah, just because style kind of vibey.
- [30:52]
B
Him and Matt. Next week they're gonna come with.
- [30:55]
A
There's a trainer. It's actually the trainer who has Hank. He has this, like, lucky hunt cap and it's so sun bleached. But he refuses to change it because it's lucky. And so it's like. It's very distinctive.
- [31:07]
C
I'm about that. But is the clinic going on the air?
- [31:12]
A
Oh, yeah, we're filming it, bud.
- [31:13]
C
Oh, yeah.
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A
Oh, yeah.
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B
I'll get you those dates.
- [31:17]
A
Also, have we gotten the mini dates?
- [31:20]
B
What? Yes.
- [31:22]
A
The mini world show.
- [31:24]
B
I haven't looked.
- [31:26]
C
Going to mini worlds?
- [31:27]
A
Yes. Nationals. Mini Nationals, AMHR Nationals.
- [31:31]
C
Is that the same place they do the big horse show?
- [31:35]
B
I think so.
- [31:37]
A
Literally going there a month later.
- [31:39]
C
That's. For whatever reason. I wish it was like a little coliseum. It's at school for only seven rows and the ceiling's low and you feel like a giant in there. It's like, proportion. So the horses are like regular size and you're the big one.
- [31:59]
A
So if I show the 13th, I would need to go the 12th. So I could go ahead and show the first couple days.
- [32:05]
B
Yeah.
- [32:05]
A
At the Murfreesboro show, and then we just fly out. It's gonna be tight. Hope y' all like this little catch up sesh. Lots of things to talk about. Lots of things happening. Coming up soon. The one thing that we're about to do is have a content meeting because we're in the time of year where things aren't just happening. You know, like the first part of the year, we have so much to do that it's a little overwhelming. And then we're now in the part of time where, like, nothing's really happening and scraping by. So we. We need ideas of, like, actual planned videos, which is not our strong suit. If you have ideas of things you'd want to see, maybe trends. Mo. Maybe just like cutesy ideas that you came off with your noggin. Came up with with your noggin came off. Anyway, let us know in the comments. And yeah, hope you enjoyed. See you in the next one. Oh, I didn't even talk about it.
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B
What? What?
- [33:00]
A
I think this is stupid.
- [33:02]
B
It is stupid.
- [33:02]
A
I don't even know how to do it stupid.
- [33:04]
C
But I feel young.
- [33:07]
B
I know. There's literally.
- [33:09]
A
This is a heart. That's such a better heart. Also.
- [33:12]
B
Way better.
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C
Way better.
- [33:13]
A
Home. The frick is.
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C
I don't know if it's way better. That's pretty good.
- [33:18]
A
Hold on. I lost it.
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B
My arthritic fingers keep.
- [33:23]
A
I lost it. Anyway, how. What is it?
- [33:29]
B
I. I can't do it.
- [33:31]
A
Oh, yeah. It's not even with the thumb.
- [33:33]
B
Ew. Ew.
- [33:36]
A
Hate it. Gross.