← Katie Van Slyke - Katching Up With Katie
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Welcome back to Catching it with Katie. And no, we don't have a foal yet. As of, as of this being filmed. We don't. It is almost February and we don't have a foal yet. Last year at this time we had three foals and by the end of January we had four. Here's the kicker that's still possible.
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Very true. I feel one's gonna drop and the rest are just gonna fall.
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Follow.
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Today's the 29th, 48 hours. We have, we have two days and some change and we could, we could beat last year. We have five mayors in the like folding window and one of them is nine days overdue. It could still be possible.
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C
You think they're all gonna go tonight?
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I don't know. I haven't even like looked at any of their utters today yet because we've been just doing so many other things. And so I'm about to go after this and, and check on them. But Raven, I don't. She's. She might just be one of those that goes a long time because here's the thing. Healthily a mayor can go a year. Like that's not uncommon. I think it's not necessarily the average. The average is what we consider their due date, which is around 3:40. But that means there's got to be a lot of mares that go over. Right. I just have not had that experience and I think there are actually a couple studies about the light theory that I've been having and we're. I don't think we can necessarily use my own mirrors at this point to say if it's working or not. Because Raven, I've never fold her out before. This could just be her normal. Indy always goes to her due date in my experience, and she's, she's getting there. And then it's really the last couple of mayors that are due. So it'll be April when like they've all had their babies in like the 320s. And I made sure that we were intentional in not having their lights on past four, four or five o' clock this year. So we'll see if, if they go a little longer. But yeah, we're at this point, everyone in the comments is like, turn her light on. Turn her light on.
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B
Like someone last.
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A
Give us the freaking baby.
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B
Someone last night was like, charm that baby out.
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Well, Luminara. So we've been, we've been live streaming the foaling, not folding, full watch. And so on the nights where we're not hanging out. And we're just, like, dead to the world. We turn it onto just the full camera. And so we've been just swapping points of views of watching Raven. And that's fine. Like, a lot of people have been watching it. We've been leaving it on for, like, 10 to 12 hours.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And so it's all night. And last night we played Dungeons and Dragons, which is a new hyper fixation.
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C
We're lost.
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And so last night we started a new campaign. And so our fellow nerds who were watching with us had some funny jokes.
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B
Yes.
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A
I did see someone be like, I can't remember the exact spell, but there was a spell. Someone kept saying they're like a medius folis or something like that. I saw that one, too.
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B
Okay.
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The.
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B
Have a. Have. Have a tolus.
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Yeah, something like that.
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Habitus folis.
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So we're. We're ready. We're ready.
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C
Yeah.
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A
But at the same time, I keep being like, it's cold. Yeah. Can we wait till it's 40 something more? Because with the new insulation in the barn, it's like truly 20 to 25 degrees warmer in the barn at night than it is outside. So next week it's going to be, you know, 30s at night instead of zero. And so it'll be not even jacket weather inside. Like, it'll be like in the 50s. Yeah. But, yeah, we're all tired. I haven't slept in my own bed. I've been in the shop for two weeks. Lindsay lives here now. You're a trooper, an absolute trooper, and there's no complaints. Buck didn't even know us a couple weeks ago.
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B
He got thrown in for sure.
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I've been acquainted now.
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We've been. I've been trying to keep you fed.
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D
Oh, it's great here.
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B
He sleeps on a bed with a pillow and a blanket.
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He's gotten minimum four showers per day.
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Y. Got to get my showers in.
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We. We find everyone's like, little things, quirks. And he likes a good shower.
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I do.
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But yeah, we're trucking along. Lindsay does have some questions that we got from Facebook. And we're just trying to keep all the new people that are finding my channel through foaling season and through full watch informed because there is so many different things going on all at once, pretty much all the time on the farm. Like, we're. We're still waiting on calves. It's calving season right now. We have three heifers that are due, like, right now. So it's calving season. It's foaling season. Like, we're about to start breeding season here soon. We're doing horse shows. Like, it's just. There's always something going on. So do you. Have you got something to start us off with? Yes.
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B
This one is just a fun one. Just to start us off, just to break the ice.
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A
Have you ever had break the ice?
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Cuz there's a lot because it's icy outside. Hey, got him.
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B
So have you ever had a snake encounter? Like someone. Like a snake has bitten you?
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I hate snakes. Okay.
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I hate them.
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A
Like, I Even a little garter snake, I can't do snakes. No, I did have a snake and. Hold on. There was one at the barn. The other. It wasn't me, though. Like, the girls had me freaked out to go into the tack room because there was one that had made a little home and then it was just sticking its head out. But I haven't. No, I haven't really had any snake encounters myself. What are y'? All? Snake. Snake people.
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I love snakes.
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A
No, no, you look like a snake guy.
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I'm a snake. I'm anything guy. They don't bother me.
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I could see you, reptile guy. Yeah, like a pet snake.
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I've had some pet snakes, yeah, but they were just like ones I found in the yard.
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Not like, really still. See, that's. That checks out. You're an old soul. Old country boy.
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I've had pets. Yeah, I've had raccoons, I've had bobcat pets. Just whatever shows up at the old house in Mississippi. They would just stick around. And then at that point you're like, you just feel bad for him. So you're like, here's some food, I guess. And then now they're your pet.
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So my dad is like that. That's what I'm saying. Kind of an old soul. And I remember his, like, one of his favorite stories is that in college. Hey, y', all, it's Katie. Did you know that you could bring a little piece of running springs into your home? And just so you know, if you're a paid subscriber on TikTok, Facebook or Instagram, you will always get a 25% off discount with your subscriber code. On the merch store, we've got the cutest merch, featuring all the farm favorites like our mini cows, mares and foals, goats, donkeys, and of course, the mini horses. You'll find T shirts, cozy hoodies, Zip Ups, mugs, and so much more. Some of the designs are limited edition so when they're gone, they're gone. But don't worry, a few favorites stick around, at least until the end of the year. We've also started adding fun new things like diamond art kits, paint by number sets, shoe charms, and even coloring books. And trust me, there's a lot more coming later this year, so check back often. And don't forget to join the email list so you don't miss out on the new drops. So head over to katievanslike.net to get all of your favorites before they're gone. And now back to the video. He had a rat snake as a pet. So he had, like, I guess in the old dorm rooms. I can't remember. He went to Martin. Martin Methodist, I think, or something like that. And I don't know if the dorms were super old or what. They were just like, super. Like he had rats in his room. I don't know what that says about his cleanliness or whatever, but he was like, yeah, I kept me a. I kept me a rat snake for the rats in my room. And I was like, okay. And he would. He just left. He would let it out during the day, and then he put it up at night. Like, he would just let it be out in his room during the day. And he said, the last day I had it, it got cold and he felt it slithering up his leg one night it got in bed with him for heat and it's. And it slithered up his. His leg one night and I was like, I can't even imagine. And so he's like, yeah. After that, I went and set it free. It never bit me once until I released it. And then it bit me as it left.
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Oh, I didn't like that.
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Oh, my goodness.
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And when they bite you, they leave little teeth in you.
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Yeah.
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You've seen me with a little anxiety. You've never seen me in a panic. I would have been in a panic if a snake was up my leg.
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Up your. I mean, these. I mean, rat snakes get.
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Yeah, they're big. It wouldn't even have to be a snake. You could just.
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I could just think that was a graphic.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I could just think it was something similar. I don't take chances. It would have been wild. That's all I can say. I would have gone crazy. I would have been throwing everything. Kicking, screaming, flopping covers. I would have. I would have embarrassed myself.
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I don't do snakes.
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Your wife would have been like, ick.
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Big time.
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Oh, my. So Jonathan. Jonathan, my husband is the opposite where he freaks me out with how comfortable he is with snakes. And so he'll just. He doesn't care. And I've seen him be in predicaments where I'm like, you should care a little bit more. Like, that was a. Like, why are we putting ourselves in with. In vicinities with rattlesnakes and stuff? Like, why are we like, no, I.
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Got a lovely video I gotta show you, John.
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You and June. Jonathan should talk snakes.
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Okay, so is there a limit to how many mayor. I wrote how many mares a foal can have? How many foals a mare can have?
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I would love to know what the, like, record is. Like, how many has a mare hat. I would say generally, in my experience, a career broodmare. So one that. That's like, her job her whole adult life. 10 to 15 is super normal for those types of mares that start early. Now, the later they start, kind of the less they can have safely. Like, it's like if they start earlier and they're kept healthy throughout the pregnancies, it's like their body adapts to it and is used to it and. And they can hold that pregnancy a lot easier if they're just kind of staying in broodmare shape. But let's see. I, like, Beyonce had six before we retired her for other reasons from caring for herself. I'm trying to think of any of my mares. We don't know how many indies had. I bet indies had quite a few. She's only had two with me since 2021. This will be her third one. And I know she had at least one to one or one to three before me, but, yeah, I would say the norm for a career broodmare is I would say maybe 8. 8 to 15. That's a pretty big range. But I mean, I. There's. There's some people that have said, like, I've seen them in my comments being like, oh, my gosh, we. Back in the day, we had a mare that carried babies into her late 20s. And so if she had a baby even every other year from the time she was, you know, three, four, five, like, that's over 10. Yeah. Or if she had one every year for a while, that could be in the teens, you know, so it just depends. It just depends on the mayor. It depends on the mare. Depends on her, you know, genetics. It depends on when she starts it. You know, a lot of factors. Yeah. And I. I would say, like, the oldest mare I've ever bred was 20. She was super, you know, in super good health. When we bred her, she, unfortunately, it was like one of the most fluke things. It was cool. We've talked about her. But you know, every single day, fellow breeders that I've, you know, looked up to or you know, thoroughbred farms, you'll see like these, these mares that are having these like million dollar babies at 22 years old, 24 years old. And I would definitely say it's, you know, harder to get them in full maybe as they get a little bit older. But, but some mares, genetically they are just, you know, absolutely good at it and they, it's not as hard on their body. And then there's mares like Gracie, who was a recent mayor of ours. She's had three babies and I'm like, I think she's done, you know, like I, I, you can just tell. Yeah, yeah. So I think, I don't think there's necessarily a hard stop and I don't think there's, I think it's just like women, you know, it's like humans, everybody's different. Some women, one pregnancy is hell on their body and they just, oh yeah.
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There'S a, just see her moving, Timothy.
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So, you know, some, some women, it's like one baby was super hard on them and it's not healthy for them to have more. Other women can pop out 10. It, it just is what it is.
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Good on you for like recognizing that in Gracie and like other mares that you don't continue to like push them when they're.
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And some it's, they have zero issues having babies like year to year because they're built to be where, you know, they have an 11 month pregnancy so that they have their babies in the spring. They can be bred pretty quickly after they fold, but their body, they don't even recognize they're pregnant. Yeah. Later on. So it's, it's, it's such a long gestation that you can breed them and then they're recovered by the time they have another one. Yeah. And they basically have this six month break of just chilling. Like they have their full. Even if you rebreed them like a month or two months later, they have their full on their side for about six months and then they have another six to eight months where they're just chilling, chilling, hanging out. And so, you know, sometimes my mares have zero issues having multiple babies in a row. Other times they just don't really hold, you know, weight well or whatever. And then they need a year off in between. Like it just, it's it's all very mayor dependent. Yeah, cool.
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B
Thank you for that. I did not know that. Okay. How nervous were you? Sorry, I need to stop saying how nervous were you to foal out the first time? And who did you fool out the first time?
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So I've been watching foals be born since I was like, literally a toddler. There are photos of me in my footy pajamas down at the barn with. With Bo when he was born.
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Yeah.
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Bo is 26 years old.
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That would put you about.
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We don't need to talk about what that'll put me at. And so I. I've been around it, and we weren't. We weren't the type of breeding farm that had as many as we're doing now. We had one to three babies a year. And. And it was. But it was consistent. We had them every year.
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Yeah.
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And we had calves every year. And, you know, we had a couple of my ponies fold. So we had, you know, some smaller, you know, not minis, but my show ponies would. Would fold sometimes and just always was very in it. But I wasn't necessarily doing the behind the scenes, wasn't necessarily doing the breeding part of it until later. And I would always help at night and, like, help watch. And we did have a break there for a little bit where we fold out for other people because we didn't have any broodmares of our own. And so, you know, a couple of our trainers we were working with had recent mares that needed foaling out, and so we did it for them and stuff like that. And that was more when I was in college and I was at home, so I wasn't as hands on during those years. And then I decided, you know what, like, I. I want to get back into this. And so we, when we. Let's see, we had Annie in 2015, which we like. Like, Annie was born on the property. I don't know if you knew that.
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I remember you saying that at one point.
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But Annie, which is one of the mayor. She's due this year. She was born in 2015 when I was in college. And so we had to send her to the vet clinic to f out because we were. It was over spring break and we had. We had a trip. So she went to the vet clinic and they fold her out. She was born like Annie herself was born a day or two before we got home. And so that was all good. And. Well, I don't think we had another foal that was ours. Like, I think we fold out A border and like, stuff like that. I don't think we had another full that was ours until 2019. So there was a little gap there in 2019. I remember my parents were there, but I did it all, which was with Beyonce's first baby, Frankie. And Frankie ended up passing away at two weeks old. She ran into a fence and broke her neck. Freak accident. So that was Beyonce's oldest, oldest, Philly. And then with Stevie on, it was pretty much me. And so I. The first one that I can remember where I did not have the option to call for backup. I didn't have like this sense of safety to be like, hey, mom or hey, dad or hey, whoever. Can you, like, come see if everything's. Whatever. The first time I had no safety net other than calling my vet in was Penelope, which was 2023.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So like, I had done some stuff before that by myself, but they were like up at the house and I'd be like, hey. Or like call and ask question or whatever. They went on like a cruise or something over Penelope. And I was like, bro, just leaving me, just deserting me. And so Penelope was born a little early, so I think they were supposed to be home by her due date, but she was born like in the early 320s. And so I think we did a video of that because I think one of the YouTube videos from Penelope's birth was me sitting down talking about the fact that that was like the first time I had been just like no backup.
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And it was on Jonathan's phone.
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Yeah, we didn't get that on film. And we had like. All of a sudden she changed like super quick that day and was dripping milk and stuff. I was like, shoot, I don't have any enemas. I don't have any. Like, I had like. She was the first mayor of the year. Like, I had nothing. And so I went to walgreens at like 11 o' clock that night and I. That was a viral video. Actually ended up being a viral video where I went to go get enemas, went to go get more Betadine or iodine or whatever. And when I got back, literally her full alert went off within an hour. Like. Like feet were coming out like that. That's wild. So that was a wild ride. But that was. I think that was my first solo, like my sur. My first free solo.
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Yeah.
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No backup, no safety rope, no nothing. I meant free solo, like the. You know the guy that's been climbing the buildings.
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Yeah, Alex Honnold.
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Yeah.
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People were surprised that he like climbed it beforehand to make sure it was climbable there. And everyone's like, you thought he was just gonna climb it without making sure he could climb it.
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So he climbed it.
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He climbed it with a. With a rope connected first just to make sure it was climbable. He had the correct hand grabs or whatever just to make sure he could do it.
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Honestly, I didn't even think about that. And then did not even think about that.
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Yeah, I didn't. I didn't realize it was. He did it either. And then everyone was like, okay, that makes sense.
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A
Did he climb down or did they go get him with a helicopter?
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A lot of times he'll repel down. I don't know if he did it.
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On that one on the building. How did he get down?
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I'm not sure.
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I'm not sure we should look that up.
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I saw like a TikTok where he said, like, sometimes I climb down, sometimes I repel, sometimes I'll just.
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I think it was all.
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Yeah, I'm sure he.
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Was it on Netflix?
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Yeah, it was live on Netflix.
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Yeah.
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I feel like from a building like that, I'd be like, helicopter.
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Yeah. Parachute.
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I'll just grab the.
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Yeah. Or a farming.
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Just.
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Yeah.
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Whenever you wean cows, is it different from horses or is it the same?
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So we. We try our best to go off of the Farmer's Almanac for all of our weaning. It does make a difference. I swear it does. But there is a little bit tighter of a. You want to wean them as close to 283 days as possible, I think. Is it 283 days?
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But the calf is 283 days.
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Let me do some math really quick. Is that. No, that's the gestation. The gestation is 283. What's the. There's. There's a day. It's two. It's the early two hundreds. Because you want them around like six months. 205. Okay. I knew. It's two. Okay. You want it as close to 205 as possible. So because our calving season is spread out so far, we have like multiple weanings. So sometimes like the groups, you know, someone might be a little over 205, whatever. And so we, we do it in batches so we're not just weaning one calf at a time. And what we do is we. I don't know, we separate them and we put the mamas in a different field and the babies like close to the barn and we feed them and you know, try to keep them as low stress as possible possible. But, but yeah, we bas. We basically do it in batches. It's not qu. Because there's so many more of them. It's a little bit different, but same concept.
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B
How to determine the best mixture of feed for your horses.
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A
So I am very lucky to have found Tribute equine nutrition. This is not. I didn't know she was going to ask this. And this is not an ad I just mentioned.
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B
Like, do you like, have a specific.
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A
Well, right. But, but I utilize their feed, their free feed plans. So they, when I decided to swap over to Tribute, they have an option to make a feed plan and they will like you say, hey, here's my horse. Send in pictures. I, I, you know, here's some medical issues they have, here's their age, here's their activity level, like, whatever, help me feed, feed him.
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B
So you've done that for every horse?
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Pretty much, yeah. And like, we'll, we'll make some changes, you know, on our own. But, but basically, yeah. And so a lot of it's trial and error. A lot of it is like, you know, you give them what you think they need and then if they're gaining too much weight, if they're not gaining enough weight, if they're too high energy, you know, like, you can kind of figure out what they need. But, but yeah, I've utilized over the past couple years the, the Tribute free feed plan, which is. I, I did not mean she.
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B
This is not a shameless plug. She did not know I was asking.
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A
For this to be an ad. But I'll go ahead and put there, like the link to that in the, in the description.
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B
We were having a conversation. This is one of my questions, actually.
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A
Okay.
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B
We were having a conversation the other day about something you used to watch as a kid. And I can't remember what it's called.
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A
But I showed her. I don't know why this came in my brain the other day and I found a couple clips on Tik Tok and I don't even know how you would watch it now because it was, I think it's on VHS and it's called Chatter Happy Ponies. And it was my favorite show as a kid. And I think if you look it up as to what it is, it, my content now will make so much sense. Like, I didn't even correlate the. I make videos where I give narrations to animals and I. A horse will be standing out in the middle of a pasture and I'll Come up with something that makes it.
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That they're thinking.
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That they're thinking for a full minute. And it makes so much sense after realizing that was the main show that I watched as a small child.
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Sparky's first day. The mouth over on the horses is great.
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Like, it's just a bunch of horses. Like, it was. It was one of those.
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I literally feel like I'm just watching your YouTube channel.
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Yeah.
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Like, it was one of those things where it's, like trying to Charlie Brown where, like, the adults can't talk. It's like. And the horses talk and they just save the day. And, like, the kids that rode them were like, you know, it was more so that the horses were the main characters. And I'm like, oh, my gosh.
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Like horsepower rangers.
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C
This is so true.
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I'm just living my chatter, happy pony life.
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Did you ever expect to.
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No, I don't know. I. I always had chalked it up that I would never be able to afford horses past the age where my dad paid for them.
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B
And here you are.
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A
So.
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B
Okay, the full alert. This is a question about. We get a lot about the full alert.
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A
Okay.
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B
How do you know which one goes off? So, like.
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So we're watching the cameras like hawks. Okay. And at the. Honestly, last year, was there a time where the full alert went off when we weren't already walking out the door?
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C
I don't think so.
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A
Yeah. We're pretty much walking out the door before it even goes off. So generally speaking, they give us some sort of signs. Not always. I mean, Earlene had her baby last year without anyone knowing we woke up to a baby. Generally, we will have an idea of, okay, this one's getting closer.
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Yeah.
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A
And then they. They are very obvious when they are in labor and when they're contracting and when they're having those early labor signs. So, like, it's funny watching the live streams, and I'll read the chat for a minute, and everyone's like, she's pushing. I'm like, I promise she's not. You will know. You will know when it's happening. And so generally speaking, we know when it's happening before that. But if we were to fall asleep and if we were to. I have this TV that is, like, hooked up to my cameras, and I can see all cameras at once. That would be my first go to. I would go look on the big screen, and whoever is distressed doing it.
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D
Yeah.
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B
I'm like, all right.
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A
And we'd be on the way down to the barn, and if I had To. I should do a quick lap at the barn.
- [26:07]
D
Yeah.
- [26:07]
A
Who's. Who's down? Who's. But there's been a couple times that mayors have surprised me. Like one time in 2023, I think it's 2023, when Ethel had Patrick, he had his. That was a foal that unfortunately passed away. So Patrick, I remember she was in the mid-320s. Hadn't even put her full alert in yet because she wasn't really showing signs and didn't have straw down. Wasn't expecting it. Went to the barn to check on things. Just happened to walk in, look in, feed her out. I'm like. And so like, I got the whole thing on film because I just propped my phone up on the stall and like, she ended up needing help because he, he had some like, major issues. His legs were like bent up and stuff. And that's why she no longer has her baby. That's why she no longer has babies. And so I had to help her. And so I just literally propped it up and got. That's how it got on film. But anyway, yeah, it was sometimes just super unexpected, but.
- [27:14]
B
So there's no, like this, Is this full alert went off?
- [27:18]
A
No. Okay, cool. No, unfortunately.
- [27:21]
B
Good to know.
- [27:21]
A
It's all just. It's all a pre recorded. And that's another thing. They're like, we're gonna hear the full alert. I'm like, no, I'm so sorry. It's literally just like I'm getting a phone call and then I answer it and they say it's from my own home phone number. And they say, fuller, your mirror is folding. That's it.
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B
That's it.
- [27:39]
A
Yeah. Huh.
- [27:40]
B
I thought it would be like something like louder.
- [27:46]
A
Well, the one night that the fire alarm went off, we were all like, this is not the full alert.
- [27:52]
C
Look at. We could, we could rig up a little button and some lights.
- [27:56]
D
Yeah.
- [27:59]
A
I keep saying I want like a gong.
- [28:01]
C
Okay. A full gong.
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A
A full gong.
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B
Whenever it's born, gong it. Or whenever it's coming out, gong it.
- [28:08]
A
Or do we do like a bell?
- [28:10]
C
A little fall alert bell? Yeah, that could be good to wake.
- [28:13]
D
Everybody up, rally the troops.
- [28:15]
C
Yeah, I like that because sometimes y'.
- [28:18]
A
All are sleeping and I'm the only one up watching. And then like, I think with Phoebe last year, because she had it in the middle of the night, I think everyone was already kind of like up asleep. And I called everyone down.
- [28:29]
C
What you, what you should have done is when the full alert goes off, it should trip a lever that strikes a match which. And then lights a fire over by the barn, the big flame. And then somebody over here is standing watch. And then when they see the flame smoke signal, they light this flame saying.
- [28:49]
A
We'Re on the lane.
- [28:50]
C
Then they bust through the door and they say, the beacons are lit. Gondor calls for aid. And then you say, and Rohan. Rohan will answer.
- [29:04]
A
For those that don't know that was Lord of the Rings, nerd out.
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D
Let's get.
- [29:09]
C
The beacons are lit. The beacons are lit. It's just sending all the way. Oh my gosh. You have lights all the way down the road on the farm and they just.
- [29:22]
A
Like.
- [29:23]
C
The beacons are lit.
- [29:26]
B
Oh, my God. Okay. All right, this is a donkey question. Can donkeys get colic?
- [29:34]
A
Yeah, absolutely. They're an equine species, so even though they're not a horse, they're still an equine species and they have the same, you know, gut, the same digestive tract, the same everything. So yeah, they absolutely can. I haven't had one of my donkeys colic, but have you?
- [29:57]
C
No.
- [29:57]
A
That's good. How did your donkeys fare during the, the weather?
- [30:02]
C
I thought they were going to be freezing and they didn't even look like there was anything going on.
- [30:06]
A
Did you blanket them?
- [30:07]
C
No.
- [30:08]
A
I mean they've got their nice little house though. Like they have like a full house to get underneath, not even like a lean to. They can get in.
- [30:14]
C
Yeah, they can get in.
- [30:15]
A
Yeah.
- [30:15]
C
So it's fully. And it's two rooms. So like there's the door and then the front room and then they can go further into a bathroom and then, you know, we put all the hay and stuff in the back room. But I mean it'd be the middle of the night and I would go out there and check on them and like, why are you not in your house?
- [30:32]
A
So they were out in the.
- [30:34]
C
They would just get out and play.
- [30:36]
B
And like that's so cute.
- [30:38]
C
Jumping on each other and just being rough.
- [30:41]
A
And as long haired as he was.
- [30:44]
C
Last winter, I clipped him about maybe three or four months ago. And so it's, it's not as long, but it's. It's long. But it looks tidy.
- [30:57]
A
Yeah, yeah.
- [30:57]
C
So it.
- [30:58]
A
He was so shaggy last year.
- [31:00]
D
Yeah.
- [31:01]
C
Which I clipped him when all of his, maybe it was longer than that. He just had like all of his, you know when like the hair switches from like baby hair to like adult hair and they look kind of mangy.
- [31:13]
A
Yeah.
- [31:14]
C
So I was like, you know what you need to, you need to feel good about yourself. So I gave him a little trim up and he looked great. And then that just kind of grew back out to full length.
- [31:24]
A
Now I blanketed mine just because they don't have a full house to get in. And it was a. Like they have a two sided shed. So depending on the wind, like, they can get away from it and it's deep enough that they can get in there. Like, they were dry. We went and checked on them and they were always dry, warm, toasty. But I blanketed them just because, like, I was worried more about just them getting wet and then.
- [31:46]
C
Yeah.
- [31:48]
A
So. But they were toasty. Every time I went out there, they didn't. They didn't care about being out there.
- [31:53]
C
I mean, for the most part, if they're not. If they're not acting cold, I just let them be.
- [32:00]
A
Yeah.
- [32:00]
C
If they're like. I'm like, oh, you look like you might be cold, then, well, maybe blanket them or do it.
- [32:08]
A
Have you had a blanket Pico yet?
- [32:10]
C
No.
- [32:10]
A
The only has never had a blanket on his life.
- [32:12]
C
He's never had a blanket on. He was who I was most worried about because he's still a baby. He's still the youngest and smallest because I remember when he's as small as.
- [32:22]
A
Pretzel.
- [32:25]
C
I mean, they're. They look very similar.
- [32:27]
A
Is he gonna be as small as Pretzel, you think?
- [32:30]
D
I don't know.
- [32:30]
A
You think he'd be bigger?
- [32:31]
C
He might be a little bigger.
- [32:33]
A
Dolly. So did you know that he had a Dolly baby before? Like, I got Dolly. He had Dolly before I had Dolly?
- [32:44]
B
No, I had no idea.
- [32:45]
A
The lore. The donkey lore.
- [32:46]
C
The donkey lore.
- [32:47]
A
So I got Blanche first. Then I'm like, I need another donkey. Like, she needs a friend. She needs another.
- [32:54]
B
Did you know Nate at this point?
- [32:55]
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he had Buck and Pretzel. But earlier he had had Dolly and Pretzel, which was Dolly and her baby Pretzel. But then they had thought they got Dolly and a little Jenny. Like, they thought Pretzel was a Jenny. She. He was not a Jenny. Little Jack. They didn't want, like, Dolly hated him. They didn't want him breeding his mom. And like, they didn't have space to separate them. And why would you want to separate them? So they traded Dolly for Buck, which is another little boy. And so Dolly went to live with some other donkey girls. Jenny's. But then the people moved. Yada, yada, yada. They needed a home for Dolly. I took Dolly. Wow.
- [33:38]
B
Okay.
- [33:39]
C
That's the Lore.
- [33:40]
A
That's the lore.
- [33:40]
B
Okay.
- [33:41]
A
So then when Dolly had a baby, it was.
- [33:45]
B
It was a natural.
- [33:46]
C
Brothers reuniting.
- [33:47]
A
Yeah.
- [33:49]
C
They're very cute and they just. Just recently they started. They're the ones who play together now.
- [33:57]
A
They're the two youngest.
- [33:58]
B
Yeah, that's cute.
- [34:00]
A
You have three and a half donkeys.
- [34:02]
C
Three and a half.
- [34:03]
A
Because Eli is half his and like, it's really the neighbors, but he like stays with them.
- [34:09]
C
They're kind of all merged and live together now. We. Everyone takes care of all of them.
- [34:15]
A
That's cool.
- [34:16]
B
So it's like a community.
- [34:17]
A
Donkey lore.
- [34:18]
C
Yeah, donkey lore.
- [34:20]
B
Cool. What job would everyone do if they couldn't do anything related to what they're doing now? So like completely different field.
- [34:27]
C
Anything. Anything related as in.
- [34:30]
A
So like you can't do videography or photography.
- [34:35]
C
Okay, okay, okay.
- [34:37]
B
She wouldn't be able to breed horses.
- [34:39]
A
Or cows or do social media.
- [34:41]
C
Okay, let's see.
- [34:42]
B
Oh, well. Yeah, that's the big one. That's the.
- [34:45]
A
Yeah.
- [34:46]
C
What would everybody do?
- [34:47]
A
I would do hair and makeup.
- [34:48]
C
Okay.
- [34:49]
B
You're really good at makeup.
- [34:52]
D
I don't know. I haven't seen, you know what?
- [34:54]
A
You have. You know what? You have only seen me be a hobbit.
- [34:58]
D
Really? I mean, I didn't know you had any love for hair or makeup. You got nice hair and makeup. I didn't know that was something that you like to do yourself.
- [35:07]
A
We know me, okay.
- [35:08]
B
She does. I saved slack. She's been trying to do better.
- [35:14]
D
I brought it back.
- [35:18]
A
Okay. You've only seen me in winter and for two weeks. For two weeks.
- [35:24]
D
Yeah.
- [35:24]
A
I have looked like a. I've looked like Trunchbull. Yeah, Miss Trunchbull.
- [35:28]
D
No, not yet, but.
- [35:29]
A
Okay, I understand. But no, I actually used to do makeup and then like, honestly wore a full beat every day of my life until about the age of 24, 25. And then was like, n. I'm going to tone this down.
- [35:44]
B
So she gets. She gets pretty and dressed up every.
- [35:46]
A
Now it's like I. It's like I either look like this or I go full beat. Full beat.
- [35:52]
D
Yeah.
- [35:53]
A
There's not really an in between. I've been trying for an in between. That was between. It's. It lasted about a week. Anyway, what's yalls?
- [36:04]
B
Once full alert or once full watch hit, that's when it kind of like disappeared.
- [36:08]
A
No, but I love. I love doing. I used to do hair and makeup at horse shows and do like, you know, prom makeup and stuff like that. And hair. I freaking Love it. I've done, like, so many of my friends, like, wedding hair, and I. I enjoy it very much.
- [36:23]
B
Awesome.
- [36:26]
C
What would. What would you do.
- [36:31]
D
If I couldn't do video or photography stuff? I don't know. I mean, I think the dream growing up was always to work with my dad, being on the other side of the camera in the hunting game and, you know, traveling with him and getting to just, you know, hunt. Be on the other side of the camera. But my father also was doing the video stuff too. He was kind of half and half. Yeah. Either that or I don't know, on the other side of the camera. I always wanted to be, like, an action sports type of guy.
- [37:02]
A
Okay.
- [37:03]
D
Whether that was like, motocross or something like that. I could see you doing that. Yeah, something like that. That'd be cool.
- [37:10]
A
Is there a. So that's more of. That's more of, like. Okay, you'd want to be, like, an athlete.
- [37:17]
D
Yeah, I guess. It's not really a job.
- [37:20]
A
Could be think outside the box buck, or you're just. You're just doing your dreams so hard that there's no other options.
- [37:27]
D
Yeah, that's definitely what it is, for sure. Yeah. I mean, my dream was to always not work for something that I didn't enjoy.
- [37:38]
A
Yeah.
- [37:38]
D
And I've been doing that right now more than ever. But I've been doing that for a while, so I've been pretty happy.
- [37:47]
C
Is this. Are we thinking more, like, realistic or.
- [37:51]
A
Yeah, it can be. I was going realistic, but you.
- [37:54]
C
I think if. I. If. I think if.
- [37:56]
B
I feel like realistic is probably better.
- [37:58]
C
So this is one. I'm assuming that this changed the entire path of my entire life, and I'm on an entirely different trajectory. Not just a job switch. I probably, you know, maybe. Maybe move to New York and do finance.
- [38:17]
D
Okay.
- [38:18]
B
Wall street bro.
- [38:19]
C
Yeah.
- [38:19]
D
Really?
- [38:19]
C
I think it'd be like a Wall street bro. Maybe.
- [38:21]
B
Okay.
- [38:22]
C
If I didn't. If I wasn't. If. If I didn't have the. The, like the creativity bug. Because a lot of people are creative, but they don't have, like, the. The constant, like, tug and itch edit. If I didn't have that. Yeah, probably. Probably something in finance.
- [38:46]
B
I've never seen you in, like, a suit or a tux, so I just can't visualize you being a finance bro.
- [38:52]
C
Yeah, it's.
- [38:54]
D
If we're going realistic, I would say I would either be. I'd get. Try to get into real estate, try to be a realtor, or what I was doing all of my Younger life, which was kind of like what Joseph was doing. Landscape. I mean, my bad. I keep calling. I've got a best friend named Joseph, and I always want to call him Joseph. Joseph Jonathan. Joseph is. Yeah, he's a guy I grew up with. But, yeah, something like that. Where it was like, I was. I did a lot of landscaping. Would have wanted to move into more.
- [39:23]
A
Of a, like, excavation.
- [39:25]
D
Yeah. And being more of, like, a foreman type, like, running the show.
- [39:28]
A
Yeah.
- [39:29]
D
Not as much in the field.
- [39:31]
B
Gotcha, Loki. Thought that was going somewhere else.
- [39:33]
A
What is your.
- [39:35]
C
Yeah. What would you do?
- [39:37]
B
I. Dude, I love retail.
- [39:40]
C
Yeah.
- [39:41]
B
I really enjoy retail.
- [39:43]
A
You are a special human.
- [39:45]
D
Dude.
- [39:45]
B
I've worked in American Eagle and Taylor, factory, loft, Levis. Perry Ellis.
- [39:53]
C
I have a nice Perry Ellis jacket.
- [39:55]
B
Perry Ellis.
- [39:55]
A
What do you. What do you like about retail? So I guess I'm not. It's just as a. Not wanting to, like, interact with strangers. All like, that's not my strength. It's so foreign to be, like, something you want to do.
- [40:12]
B
I really enjoy, like, talking to people, so I used to work at lip lab before I worked here, and I really enjoyed, like, the face to face interaction and having to, like, force a com. Not force a conversation, but have to keep a conversation up since you're, like, sitting across from someone for an hour.
- [40:29]
C
Yeah.
- [40:29]
B
But, like, with shopping, people come in and out. You can meet people from all over the world, which, I mean, you can do that at any job.
- [40:36]
A
Right.
- [40:36]
B
But within a mall. Like, I. Whenever I worked at Opry Mills, people would come from the airport and just be like, oh, yeah, I'm at my layover, going to Australia. And I'm like, oh, okay, cool. Like, yeah, but I just really like that and money handling. I love counting cash. I love doing deposits.
- [40:52]
A
Like, so you could be banker.
- [40:54]
B
I will totally. I could do. I could. Maybe. Probably not.
- [40:57]
A
I'm.
- [40:58]
B
I don't.
- [40:58]
A
I don't know. You know, I was. I'm gonna make. I was gonna make fun of you for a second. I was gonna say, you're like, I love. I love money handling and counting. And I was like, how long it took for us to figure out a payroll debacle earlier?
- [41:13]
B
I didn't say I was good at it.
- [41:15]
C
We. We had to. We had to bring in the finance bro.
- [41:18]
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we did.
- [41:20]
A
He. He had to help. Help a little bit.
- [41:22]
C
Which, to. To be fair, my degree is in accounting.
- [41:25]
A
He is. He's an accountant. What?
- [41:28]
D
Yeah.
- [41:29]
C
Lore.
- [41:30]
B
Mind blow.
- [41:31]
A
No, I. I stand by. I rarely meet someone that actually does the job that they went to college for?
- [41:37]
C
Yeah. Yeah.
- [41:38]
A
I don't know anybody. I draw. I've. I've told the story a million times about me not going to college, but, like, everyone I know, I feel like other than maybe if someone had, like a blanket business degree and then they work as a. You know, have their own business or something, but other than that, the amount of accountants I meet that are doing something else or. Or someone that started out in nursing and now they like it. Just. No one ever does the same thing they think they're gonna do when they're 18 to 20.
- [42:05]
B
No. No, not at all.
- [42:09]
A
Did you go to college? I forgot.
- [42:10]
D
Yeah, I did. Four whole weeks. It was fun. It was a great time. I dropped out. I mean, I left. I had old A's whenever I left, but I was like, well, four weeks.
- [42:23]
A
In is like, you've done.
- [42:24]
D
I did the first semester. It probably wasn't four weeks. I did whatever the first semester was until Christmas. And then on Christmas break, I was like, man, this is lame, man. This is like the same thing I was doing in 8th, 9th, 10th grade. And. And I was in there for that, you know, your. Your standard I'm in business degree. It just wasn't going anywhere. So I left and spent all the money I had in my pocket to buy a drone and a camera.
- [42:47]
A
Yeah.
- [42:48]
D
And that's where it started.
- [42:49]
B
Nice.
- [42:49]
C
Here we are.
- [42:49]
D
Here we are.
- [42:50]
A
Here we are. I like it.
- [42:52]
D
Yeah.
- [42:53]
A
Well, anyway, we're about to have to go put some more horses out because we're using the arena right now for lots of turnout. It's still icy outside. It's a little dangerous for the horses to go out. If you missed that video, by the time is posted, it'll be up. There's a video of the yearlings and the cows going out, and it's pretty special. So go watch that. Hope you all enjoyed. If you haven't seen it, there's new Running Springs merch.
- [43:17]
C
Oh, nice.
- [43:18]
A
There's new. There's Valentine's Day merch. Right now. There's. There's so much stuff on the Katie Vance, like, store, so go to katievans like.net for that. And I, you know, check out the live streams if you're interested in it. We've been doing it quite a bit and we plan on doing more of it. And, yeah, let us know what you would like to see in future catching up with Katie episodes or future YouTube videos, and we'll see you next week.