Going To Europe, Live Podcast, and 1 Million Subscribers!

Summary

Katching Up With Katie: Going To Europe, Live Podcast, and 1 Million Subscribers!

Date: March 24, 2026
Host: Katie Van Slyke
Podcast: Katching Up With Katie

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

This “Katching Up With Katie” episode is a lively, candid recap celebrating major milestones (including 1 million YouTube subscribers!), sharing behind-the-scenes farm stories, and addressing burning questions from fans. Katie and her team delve into the realities of ranch life, breeding decisions, new additions to the farm family, fun travel plans (including Europe!), and their unique bond formed over Dungeons & Dragons sessions. It’s an unscripted, laughter-filled conversation that gives listeners a look into both the business and the camaraderie behind Running Springs Ranch.

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MAJOR DISCUSSION POINTS & TIMESTAMPS

1. What’s New at Running Springs Ranch?

[00:00–05:14]

• Chair Budget Comedy:

  • The team jokes about upgrading their white plastic lawn chairs.
  • Katie gives them a “chair budget,” sparking a fit of laughter and discussion about office chairs.
  • "[Jonathan] has, like, an assortment of different types of [chairs]. They're just everywhere in there." – Katie [01:47]

• Life Outside of “Full Watch”:

  • Updates on personal moves and projects.
  • Lindsey is settling in her new place, tackling DIY projects, and assembling furniture.
  • "I still haven't hung my shelves, but I did buy a drill, so I'm gonna do it myself." – Lindsey [02:20]
  • Discussion about moving closer (or not!) to Nashville and the logistics of rural life.

• Weather Swings & Farm Routine:

  • The unpredictable Tennessee weather and how it shapes daily plans.
  • Excitement builds for more horse activities as spring returns.

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2. Horses, Mares, and Breeding Plans

[05:15–16:42]

• Recent Farm Events:

  • Highlights of recent rides and upcoming horse competitions.
  • Playful debate about who is the best rider and planning friendly competitions (“jousting”).

• Hot Topic: Where’s Abigail?

  • [09:40–11:43] Katie addresses repeated fan questions about former team member Abigail:
    • Abigail has left her formal role to pursue new things but remains close by, still part of family life.
    • "She’s just not working here. And I think that’s totally fine. Things change, you know, you gotta make your own decisions for yourself. And so it doesn’t mean we don’t love Abigail..." – Katie [10:17–10:57]

• New Mares on the Ranch:

  • [11:45–15:54] Introduction of five new mares: Lady, Blondie, Ariel, Kimberly, and Melody.
  • Discussion of the practicality and purpose of “recip” mares (recipients for embryo transfer).
  • Katie shares her detailed breeding list, including crosses and due dates.
    • "Right now, with my due dates, it's Opal, who's our only one that's confirmed pregnant. January 29th." – Katie [13:22]
  • Explanation about how and when they confirm pregnancies and the process with embryo transfer.

• AQHA Breeding Rule Change:

  • [16:12–21:21]
    • Discussion of new and old rules about using stored stallion semen for breeding.
    • Katie explains the significance for her own stallions and breeding plans.
    • "Waylon was always grandfathered in...he could have bred forever...but Denver had..." – Katie [18:42]
    • Explains how much frozen semen is stored and the technology (ICSI, IVF) that allows a single sample to go further.

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3. Big Dreams: Europe & Beyond

[21:22–27:30]

• European Adventures:

  • Excitement about Denver’s foals in Europe and the prospect of visiting European ranches.
    • "Denver's actually super popular in Australia and Europe right now. Like, he has his first babies coming this year." – Katie [21:11]
  • Team daydreams about a European “meet the mares” tour, turning it into content for fans.
    • "We could get a bunch of videos...We would stock up, get a huge backlog..." – Matt [23:03]
  • Playful comparisons between previous “big” trips (Universal Studios) and making a European trip happen through content creation.

• Potential Collaborations:

  • Speculation on collaborating with European horse influencers and what it would take to organize an international brand trip.
  • "What if we did, like, a cool collab? I wonder if there’s horse influencers." – Matt [25:01]

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4. Celebrating 1 Million YouTube Subscribers

[25:33–27:29]

• Milestone Reactions:
  • How the team organized a surprise celebration with balloons, cupcakes, and flowers.
  • "No one ever surprises me. And so that was surprise. And it was so fun. So when we hit a million on live, they all got, like, these trash bags of balloons out, and they all floated to the ceiling immediately." – Katie [26:28]
  • Thoughts on receiving the gold YouTube plaque and reflecting on how far they’ve come as a team.

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5. More Farm Trips & Team Dynamics

[27:30–31:23]

• Travel Plans in the U.S.:

  • Announcements: more upcoming trips to Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Florida.
  • Conversation about team member rotations, new hires (Elena), and keeping the work dynamic and flexible.

• Bonding Over Games:

  • Reminiscing about playing Monopoly, makeup challenges, and impromptu fun during live podcasts.

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6. Dungeons & Dragons: Nerd Culture & Vulnerability

[31:24–39:58]

• Team’s D&D Obsession:

  • Open discussion about the joy of group D&D campaigns, vulnerability, and being “nerds.”
    • “There’s a vulnerability in playing Dungeons and Dragons...like this imagination vulnerability that once you let yourself get there and you put the accent on and you’re like, you’re at the mercy of everyone else around you...” – Katie [32:10]
  • The value of imagination and not judging others’ fun.
    • "If they were to make fun of me, I just more feel sad for them because I know they won’t ever let themselves be able to have this fun..." – Nate [32:37]
  • Brainstorming about hiring a professional Dungeon Master for more immersive campaigns.

• Fictional Drama:

  • Katie shares her in-game quest for a “love interest,” leading to hilarious and awkward moments.
    • “My character tried to have a love interest with this...NPC character...and Matt was so awkward and embarrassed by it that he killed him." – Katie [37:07]
    • "I thought it would add some drama, some weight, some heartbreak..." – Matt [37:42]
  • Lots of laughter, gentle ribbing, and inside jokes about the team’s escapades.

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7. Wrapping Up & What’s Next

[40:00–End]

• Unstructured Fun:

  • Reflection on the episode’s loose, giggle-filled format—sometimes just being friends takes center stage.
    • "I don’t even think this catching up with Katie had a real purpose." – Katie [39:58]
  • Announcements: full watch for foaling season is beginning soon (with live coverage for fans).
  • "Hope y’all enjoyed. We are pretty soon to be on full watch again, which means we are doing lives every night of just the mares in their stalls and the babies and mamas..." – Katie [40:35]

• New D&D Content and Merch:

  • Teases upcoming Dungeons & Dragons live streams and new Frankie dog merch.

• Bonus Moment:

  • Katie has her dog under the table for the whole episode, revealed only at the end.
  • "If you didn’t know that I had a dog under here the whole time. Here she is!" – Katie [41:18]

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NOTABLE QUOTES & MEMORABLE MOMENTS

• On Breeding & Farm Life:
  • "Things change, you know, you gotta make your own decisions for yourself. And so it doesn’t mean we don’t love Abigail..." – Katie [10:17]
  • "A frozen dose of semen is way smaller... and you can use so much less of it like through things like ICSI..." – Katie [19:12]
• On D&D Vulnerability:
  • “There’s a vulnerability in playing Dungeons and Dragons...like this imagination vulnerability that once you let yourself get there and you put the accent on and you’re like, you’re at the mercy of everyone else around you...” – Katie [32:10]
  • “If they were to make fun of me, I just more feel sad for them because I know they won’t ever let themselves be able to have this fun...” – Nate [32:37]
• On Hitting 1 Million:
  • "No one ever surprises me. And so that was surprise. And it was so fun..." – Katie [26:28]

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EPISODE TAKEAWAYS

• The Running Springs Ranch crew is tight-knit, funny, and unfiltered—giving fans a vivid sense of life on (and off) the ranch.
• Katie is transparent with her audience, valuing authenticity even when handling sensitive topics like staff changes.
• The business side (breeding, brand building, travel) blends effortlessly with the personal—whether it’s plans for Europe, an inside joke about D&D, or organizing a subscriber milestone surprise.
• Episode stands out for its candid laughter and behind-the-scenes banter, making listeners feel like part of the family.

Perfect for: Fans of farm life, horse enthusiasts, followers of Katie’s journey, and anyone who enjoys authentic, laughter-filled group dynamics.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome back to Catching it with Katie. So we've kind of been going back and forth between not having Catch It With Katies and then last week I interviewed Stephanie. But we need another just kind of recap of everything that's been going on, things that are coming up. There's a couple of topics we need to address and just kind of give some clarity on. So, yeah, other than that, like, what. What are y' all doing, honestly, with your time? We're not on full watch right now. So what have you been doing?

[B]

What is so funny over there?

[A]

I don't know what they're laughing at. I gave them a chair budget.

[C]

That's what I thought you were saying, like, what you. What are you doing? I was like, we're busted.

[A]

So they've been sitting in the same white plastic lawn chairs for

[C]

if you can't hear in the background, the chaos. It's like the movement has to be so quiet.

[A]

I told them, I said, I'll give you a chair budget and I'll just reimburse you. Pick your own chairs. And then now their chair shopping.

[C]

Should we get different chairs like that

[D]

on the front end of this?

[C]

Like, we'll get chairs that, like, represent us.

[A]

Oh, yeah, you each get different. But like I said, there's a chair budget.

[C]

Right.

[D]

But she also.

[B]

I need all the bells and whistles on one of them.

[D]

The budget's a mystery.

[A]

How much is a chair? I don't know.

[C]

Anywhere from 50 to 1500.

[A]

So we're not going to be at

[C]

the, like, right on the ladder.

[A]

Not even probably in the mid end, maybe upper.

[C]

It is something that. Gosh, man, I have. I have really wanted to invest in those. A good office chair. Yeah, you see them all the time, man.

[A]

Jonathan, for some reason. So, like, in our. So where the podcast room is, is in our shop. Our shop is a multitude of things. It's like our hangout area. And then right next to it is the workshop. Why does Jonathan have seven office chairs, bro?

[B]

He just bought a new one, like,

[A]

a month ago, just, like, free.

[D]

He has, like, an assortment of different types of.

[A]

They're just everywhere in there. And I'll look and he will choose to sit in the office chair in the shop rather than coming in our cozy, you know, couch.

[B]

Hangout area.

[A]

Hangout area. And then his friends come over and guess where they hang out. The office chairs in the shop.

[C]

I don't get it. Yeah, just a space.

[A]

But seriously, what have y' all been doing with your time when you're not, like, we haven't been on full watch in weeks. So what have you been doing? I.

[B]

Well, in the middle of the beginning, like, the first half of full watch, I moved. So I've been kind of getting all my stuff kind of unpacked. I still haven't hung my shelves, but I did buy a drill, so I'm gonna do it myself.

[A]

Are you a Milwaukee gal or a. Yeah.

[D]

What did you get? What kind of drill?

[B]

Oh, gosh.

[C]

It's gonna be the wrong one. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you the Bauer.

[D]

That's fine.

[A]

Okay. No, that is fine. The guy recommended it.

[C]

I don't either.

[A]

What's. What's.

[D]

Who recommended it?

[A]

What am I thinking of? De. Okay, it's Deall or Milwaukee.

[B]

Got it. That's pretty much like, this was like a cheaper. The cheaper version, which is fine.

[C]

It still drills.

[D]

I'm a Milwaukee.

[A]

I love that you're just like, I'mma build shelves today.

[B]

I am.

[A]

And you do it like, anytime we have something that needs putting together.

[B]

Someone bought you a rocking chair for Glenn, and I'm going to put it together.

[A]

Is that the thing that you dropped as he came in? Yeah.

[C]

I'm gonna fix it and then we'll put it.

[A]

I'm gonna fix it and then I'll put it in.

[C]

Glue.

[A]

Yes, Wood glue.

[B]

But yeah, other than that, I've just been hanging out at home. Okay. Much.

[A]

What have y' all been doing?

[D]

Working.

[A]

You're also moving?

[C]

I'm mostly your stuff.

[B]

He also is moving.

[A]

He's just, like, neglecting my family because of my work duties.

[C]

I am moving, though, which has been a lot. I feel like I've moved every year for the past four years.

[B]

But is it closer to here, Closer

[C]

to Nashville, or closer away from Nashville?

[B]

What? Closer away.

[C]

Closer to her parents, Away from Nashville.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

It'd be like three hour drive to get here.

[B]

Really?

[C]

No, but it does. It does add an extra.

[B]

I believe anything.

[C]

I know. It does add an extra 10 minutes.

[B]

Okay, that's not bad.

[C]

But it's a. It's a better way to get here, in my opinion.

[D]

It's like, you know, probably will never hit traffic.

[C]

No.

[B]

Nice.

[C]

No.

[A]

What about you, Nate?

[D]

I mean, the real answer is working. And.

[A]

Can I just tell them that I'm not your only client?

[D]

I did get to play golf once.

[A]

What. What noise did he just came out of your body?

[D]

I did play golf once.

[B]

Just.

[A]

Was it a good golf day or a bad golf day?

[D]

I played horribly.

[B]

But did you have fun?

[D]

I had so much fun just being out there.

[C]

Well, it wasn't 20 degrees.

[D]

Wasn't 20 degrees. The weather was awesome. I. I could have, you know, played twice as bad as I did, and I would have had fun.

[A]

I know this for some reason. I know it's kind of this way on the east, regardless of where you are, but, like, we had 70s and gorgeous weather last week and. And then. And all weekend.

[D]

And then the next morning was. Felt like 25.

[A]

Yesterday when we were outside because of the wind chill, it was 37. Felt like 21.

[B]

It was pretty.

[A]

I'm like, h. That's such a big discrepancy because of wind. Like, the wind was just bone chilling. And then today, same thing. And so luckily, by the time we have to film outside again on Thursday, it's going to be back to, like, 68. So I think we are kind of like, inch back into, like, consistent spring weather, which leads us into a segue of good weather. Good weather brings the want to do things outside. And we haven't. Like, we just did Lindsay riding Ethel. We gotta get the boys.

[C]

Ethel riding Lindsay.

[A]

We gotta get the boys back on. On some horses.

[C]

Yeah, I enjoyed myself.

[A]

What if because we've got multiple mayors, like, in, like, the cycle right now.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

We do a mat. Like, one V, one.

[B]

Who's better?

[C]

What are we gonna do?

[A]

Joust Nate versus Matt.

[B]

That'd be fun.

[D]

Crazy.

[A]

Are we gonna like Kennedy versus Ethel?

[C]

Are we gonna play chicken on them? Like, what's the v. No, we would do like a.

[A]

Like a look.

[C]

Oh, like a show.

[A]

Some sort of a little show thing. I think it'd be fun.

[C]

Like, you know how. Yeah, I've heard that before, but now

[A]

we actually have horses.

[B]

Who are we gonna put on Kennedy?

[C]

Probably Nate, but I'm a better rider.

[B]

What?

[D]

Why the giggle?

[B]

I just. I feel like Matt would.

[C]

Is that because he's the better rider or the worst rider?

[B]

I've never seen him ride before.

[A]

How do you want to take it?

[C]

I just want to know how you meant it.

[B]

That's for you to find out.

[A]

Kennedy's a little more touchy.

[D]

A little more. A little more.

[A]

Ethel's a little more forgiving. Forgiving.

[B]

So we needed.

[A]

So I just spit everywhere.

[C]

Lindsey has completely deflated. Look at her. She won't be able to stop here in a second if we keep drawing attention to it.

[A]

It's really.

[C]

That's the worst thing, though. It's like when you really can't breathe and everybody's like. And you're like, I. Guys,

[D]

editor, zoom in.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Jarvis, 20% zero.

[A]

You know, Matt, he definitely, like, picks on you a lot. He does. But here's the thing. You tickle him during D and D so much.

[C]

You tickle me in general.

[A]

He doesn't let on. But you make him laugh so much, and he just, like. He picks on you, but you make him laugh.

[B]

I do. And I hold that over your head.

[C]

Cliche, but I do. Like, I wouldn't. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't pick on you. And it's. It's. It's like, I don't have very. My wife gets really sensitive about it. So, like, I don't have anybody to, like, ever pick on. And so it's fun to have friends to pick on, you know?

[B]

Okay, I'll take it.

[A]

I. The other morning, I felt so bad. So my best friend Rebecca, she had a photo shoot the other day for a project. I don't know if I can say her project or not, so I'm not going to, but she had a photo shoot for project. Her, like, makeup person bailed.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or they rescheduled or something. And so they needed me to come in and do her makeup.

[B]

She looked great.

[A]

I. I don't have any, like, other makeup other than my own stuff, and so I. I just winged it. It worked out. She looked great. But her little girls were in there with us while I was doing her makeup, and the little one who is, like, hilarious, and she is definitely. They're both, like, very sensitive in their own rights. Well, we were, like, picking on her because she kept collecting tissues of her boogers and putting them in a box and, like, making us look at it. So we kept, like, picking on her, being like, you look like. Like, weirdo. You know, whatever. She. I went a little too hard, and she went in the bathroom, and I didn't know where she was, and I looked in there. She was crying. Oh. And I had to go, like, I had to go pick her up and. And, like, love on her booger napkins or. No, she wasn't directing it at me because her mom. Her mom was equally picking on her. It wasn't just me. And so she was like, I don't like when you guys pick on me. And it was so sad. But she got over it. Anyway, I told her the same thing. I was like, it's because I love you. Pick. Love you anyway.

[B]

That's fair. I'll take it.

[C]

Have tough skin when they grow up.

[B]

I still don't have tough skin.

[A]

No.

[C]

Especially when they get in high school. What? H. This is Awkward.

[A]

Anyway, speaking of awkward, we got to talk about something.

[C]

So that's awfully awful to cut out.

[A]

I have. So there's, there's, there's a hot topic in my comments, no matter the social

[B]

platform or the video.

[A]

Or the video. Instagram, tick tock, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat. Where's Abigail? Where, where is she?

[D]

Where has she been?

[A]

She's here. She's been around. She's been on the side, but she no longer works here. She's asked me to say something because at first I was very much trying to just like respect her privacy. And just like, I thought we could just like let it fizzle, right? And be like, oh, like, you know, whatever.

[B]

Y' all won't let that happen.

[A]

Absolutely not. Everyone in the comments is like on it every single day. And they're on her. And that's the thing. They're in her comments and they're like, like she's not able to even like live her dang life because people are just so up her butt, if that's the correct term. But Webster. Yeah, so. So Abigail at the end of 2025 came to me and, you know, she just, she's got, she's got her own life to live. She's got her own decisions to make. And she decided she wanted to try some new things. And, you know, not to say that that means she's not around. Y' all have seen her on Snapchat. That's why there's so many people being like, well, she's still there. I saw her on Snapchat because she's still around. Like she came and watched my dog for me a couple days ago. She's dating my brother in law. She lives three, 30 seconds away. She comes to dinner like she's still around. She's just not working here. And I think that's totally fine. Things change, you know, you gotta make your own decisions for yourself. And so it doesn't mean we don't love Abigail. It doesn't mean, like she's gone gone. It's just she's not on, on my socials anymore. And that's okay. So Abigail does not work here any longer, but that doesn't mean she's not a part of the family. Anyway, that's all we're gonna, that's all we're gonna say. And we're gonna all stop making every comment section about where's Abigail? She's living her life. She's fine. If you want to follow her, you can. So anyway, that kind of clears that up. And I. Y' all can stop pestering her.

[B]

And Katie.

[A]

Yes, please.

[B]

Another thing. You purchased some mares.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

And they're finally.

[C]

Yeah, I heard.

[D]

Noon. I heard. Who. What are these names?

[C]

I'm hearing human names.

[A]

What are they?

[C]

Stephanie? No, that's the rain. That's the trainer. Kimberly.

[D]

That was Kimberly?

[C]

Yeah. It's not Marjorie, Sarah or something.

[D]

It was like some super, like, human.

[C]

Yeah, very human.

[A]

Kimberly and Melody.

[C]

Melody.

[A]

So we have five new mares in the last, like, month.

[C]

From where?

[A]

Lady, Blondie, Ariel. You've seen all these horses? Yeah, Kimberly and Melody. You haven't seen Kimberly and Melody.

[B]

They're new.

[A]

And you're not gonna be able to tell the difference. So basically, because Willow moved to Shayna's, can't be a recip because she keeps eating embryos. And then because we are not going to be breeding Maggie anymore due to her colic surgery, I. The two recips that I purchased to just carry embryos and me sell with the embryos in them. They are now at the property.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

It kind of worked out.

[B]

So what? Are you okay with talking about what your plans are with them? Like, what?

[A]

Yeah, I'll give you my little breeding list if you want. Okay, I'll give you. Because right now we have five that, like, potential due dates. Like, we have five mares that have been bred, and we don't have them all confirmed pregnant yet. But if they are, then right now, with my due dates, it's Opal, who's our only one that's confirmed pregnant. January 29th. That's our first due date. January 29th.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

And then February 7th is Raven with a Vs. The first lady. Enticed baby. Okay, Enticed new student.

[D]

That's a new name.

[A]

Ariel. Carrying a cat. Tales are blazing. Good. Better. Best baby, which is like a full sibling to Daphne. That's February 11th.

[B]

Big.

[D]

True.

[C]

True.

[A]

And then Earlene. And first things first. Just carrying her own baby. February 16th. And then Blondie. And first things first, carrying her own baby. February 19th.

[D]

Confirmed.

[A]

No, these aren't all confirmed.

[B]

Just the first one.

[A]

The first one was confirmed. Everybody else, we still got a preg check.

[D]

Gotcha.

[A]

So we're preg checking Raven tomorrow, actually. Okay, Thursday. When you're here on Thursday.

[D]

And how long do you wait to preg check?

[A]

So when we put in embryos, because those embryos are already six days old, then it's like eight days that we check. We always check them by day 16 in case they have twins. Because 16 is, like, the day you have to pop it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Did you get to see that last year?

[B]

No.

[A]

No, Indy had. Woody was a twin. Maybe that's why he's so big. Whoa. He absorbed.

[B]

Wait, so you just. And then it just.

[A]

He said it feels. He said it feels like a grape

[C]

absorbs the life force.

[A]

It's like the size of a grape.

[C]

His curse technique. He absorbs his curse technique. I need to see that it gets red and blue turns into I.

[A]

So it does like the song. Risk losing both pregnancies. So I like, hope I don't have to this year. Well, yeah, but it's like, you know, you don't really see anything. Like his arms up there and he's feeling it all, but you don't really get to see anything. And then when it's. But when it's regular, like breed date, it's like we do it 14 to 16 days after they bowl, so. Or after they are bred. But anyway, so we have five mares bread. But I have plans where Lexi is gonna carry a Beyonce making me willy wild.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Nice Charlotte. We want her redemption arc, so she's gonna have hopefully the same cross that was stillborn this year. So cattails are blazing and first things first. Then Melody and Kimberly are going to carry embryos both versus Code Red. Embryos with gone commando and red carpet debut, which is Earlene and Ricky. Yay, Ginger. And unbridle your dreams lady in versus code red Ricky and first things first, Sophie and versus code red.

[B]

Geez.

[A]

I feel like I'm. There's 14 on here, so.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you. When is it gonna come down to.

[A]

But that many's not gonna take. Last year I tried for 11, got nine.

[C]

And then assuming that they do, though. Are you prepared?

[A]

Well, never.

[B]

What are the.

[D]

We would be right.

[B]

What I get. I guess it'll happen in the next year or two. When is the. When is the time you stop using Code Red? And first thing first as like a. A stud for your mares? Like, I know. I know there's line breeding. I know there's line breeding and whatnot, but I know you don't towards that

[A]

I will use them forever. It's that I will just have to use them on specific mares. So like on their daughters and on their. Like, when they're too related, I have to go to outside stallions.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

Which is why, like, Kennedy is being bred this this year too. It's a southern thing. And enticed. And then Ginger is being bred to unbridle your dreams. And so. And Beyonce is being Bred to making me willy wild. So it's like we have outside studs always. So, like, with the cattle, every couple years we swap bulls because we're like, oh, their daughters are old enough now, we can't breed them anymore. But we don't turn our studs out with our Got it mares. So it doesn't matter. We can be really selective. So I will use. And that's funny because there was a big turn like rule turnover in Aqha actually yesterday. So I saw that. Yeah. So for. I don't know exactly when the rule came into place, it's been at least five years. Where anybody, any stallion born after 2015, if they passed, then you had only two years to use up their semen. And after that you would not be able to. I mean, I guess you could use it. You just wouldn't be able to register. And so. But the stallions before that. So like, if you're grandfathered in, if you were born in 2014 or before. Yeah, you can use it for 50 years to come, like, if you want. If you have frozen semen in hand. So everyone, the debate was like, how is that helping the gene pool? You're, like, letting us saturate with these older studs, but then these newer studs coming up, you only have two years and then it cuts it off. And so these, like, super talented horses that meet a too early of a demise or whatever, you're just, you know, shucks out of luck. Yeah, they're gone. And so there's been a couple stallions I knew of, like, that where they died really early from, like, freak things. And luckily now their owners, like, I remember, I follow one of them, their owners saved their semen, like, just hoping that one day it would be overturned and so they can now use it again. But basically how that changes things for me because Waylon was always grandfathered in. Yeah, he was born in 07, so he's. He's good to go. He could have bred forever. And I have tons of frozen semen, but Denver had.

[B]

How much frozen?

[A]

A lot. Oh, God, Like, a lot.

[C]

Like, wait, has she been.

[A]

No, she hasn't been yet.

[D]

You gotta go.

[C]

Have you ever seen. Have you ever seen Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix? When they go to that room full of crystal balls and there's thousands of them on those shelves, it's like that. And it's all.

[A]

Well, the semen tank room is actually kind of cool. Crazy. It is crazy, the semen tank room, because like a. A frozen dose of semen is like way smaller.

[C]

Y' all st like something like that.

[A]

Yeah, it's. It's so much smaller. And you can use so much less of it. Like through things like Ixy and things like that. So you can make it stretch.

[B]

Got it.

[C]

It's not like a vat.

[B]

Okay, that's what I was thinking.

[A]

So I have 400 breeding doses frozen ish of Denver. You could breed 400 horses. Well, that's if we just. That's if we just breed it straight up. If we dose it out like IXY, it's 4001. Shaving it off one time for Ixy is more like. It could be way more than that. Like that one shave off could be.

[B]

What do you mean shave?

[A]

Like. Like shave off doses. They like shave off a piece of. And they use that because you use like one sperm per.

[D]

They shave off like a slice of the frozen block?

[A]

I guess. I think so. I don't know.

[D]

Like those.

[C]

Like a knife, like a peel of an apple.

[D]

I'm thinking about the. The. The guys who like, they're like making the drink like.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

And making like a perfect circle with the ice.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyway, it's. You could. It could stretch real hard.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Because there's millions of little sperms.

[A]

If you do ICSI and ivf, like, you can use way less of it for each pregnancy. And so with Waylon, I was like, okay, I'm good. But with Denver, I mean, that also affected how much I was like banking back for him because it's expensive and it's like, okay, well, if I can only use him for two years, there's no use in me saving, saving and storing all this semen. Like, and right now he's like fresh semen half the time, then frozen the rest. So we were having to use it up. Whereas with Waylon, pretty much right now, unless we're sending it overseas or doing Ixy, he just does fresh because he's like, yeah, a full time collecting stallion.

[D]

So anyway, do you still collect frozen for him periodically?

[A]

Because when they do Europe and Australia, they have to quarantine to be collected. And it's like different semen. You just can't send any regular frozen semen you have. So he's collected for that pretty regularly because Denver's actually super popular in Australia and Europe right now. Like, he has his first babies coming this year. And he was very hot commodity over there. Like, lots of people were interested in him. So we had to limit his book

[C]

enough to do a European visit maybe

[A]

in a couple Years a baby's on the ground.

[C]

A couple years. Ridiculous.

[A]

Maybe a couple years we can go see foals, yearlings, 2 year olds and his first baby show or something like that. Because they have like a European Nationals and they have all this kind of stuff.

[C]

That takes two years. That would take two years.

[A]

Two to four.

[D]

We could at least. We could at least go meet the mayors.

[C]

We can go meet the mayors.

[B]

Very true.

[D]

A European meet the mayors.

[C]

Imagine just taking the text in the middle of a podcast, just whipping your. Look at. Look, look at them both.

[D]

Look at them both.

[C]

Disregard for things.

[D]

But a Europe.

[A]

I do think it'd be really cool if we went because they have like, they have code red babies in Germany. They have them in. I mean, in Austria, in.

[D]

But once you're over there, it's hopping a skit, right?

[A]

And I think he has one in Italy. I think, like, there's. There's all these kinds of amazing horses in Europe.

[D]

We can go for two weeks, hit. Because the expensive part of the trip is getting there and getting back, really. You know.

[C]

And you want to talk about the write off expenses.

[D]

There's mega write off. We hit, you know, multiple countries where we can visit multiple mares.

[C]

You're just a walking advertiser for your stallion.

[D]

Little meet the mayors. Do a little tour of Europe. Two weeks. We can get a bunch of videos.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

We could get.

[C]

How much videos?

[D]

We would stock up, get a huge

[C]

backlog before we get you guys here.

[D]

I mean, this is.

[A]

It's speaking realistically. We would get there and be like, you know what? Let's just experience it. And we would do like two videos total.

[D]

No, no, no.

[A]

While we were there, we would go meet up with some dressage people and I'd ride. Dressage.

[D]

Yes, yes.

[C]

We. The catching up with Katie's and like, hey, we're doing a catching up with Katie in Germany. This catching up with Katie. And we do like catching up with Katie's for wherever we're at.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Because we have so much to catch up on.

[A]

A couple years. Let it get to where their writing is. We're never going.

[C]

We're dead.

[A]

There's a lot of things that you a couple years ago would have been like. We would never do that. And then we're.

[D]

Let's 12 months. We can do it in 12 months.

[A]

Last year on the ground, you guys also wanted to. We did a date Universal last year. Okay.

[C]

Which was super fun.

[B]

I want to go to Universal.

[C]

What did. I didn't hear what was said. I missed it.

[B]

I missed it, too.

[C]

I'll have to re. Watch.

[A]

I equated a European trip. I was like, we did a day at Universal, and you would have, like,

[D]

things are happening that you never would have dreamt of were happening. We did a day at Universal.

[B]

Oh, I see.

[A]

We went and saw Nate Bargetzi, which was super.

[D]

Yeah, that was really cool. Universal was really fun.

[A]

We didn't do the ballet, but we've been.

[D]

We've been pitching Europe for years. Yeah, well, it's coming.

[A]

The European budgets. You just got to get there.

[C]

And also, all of those things were extra. Extraterrestrial. We're also, like, extracurricular.

[A]

Extraterrestrials.

[C]

All the extracurricular. Like, this is a work trip. This is it.

[B]

This is a fun trip.

[C]

The fun trips. In a couple years, maybe we get

[A]

someone to let me catch. Ride a horse in the European national.

[C]

Let Nate and I. Let Nate and I do a little networking. What would it. I mean, we'll get a good enough reason for you to go. I bet if the right person shot you an email, you'd go, who?

[B]

Who?

[A]

Who?

[C]

What if we did, like, a cool collab? I wonder if there's horse influencers.

[A]

There are tons of horse influencers in Europe.

[C]

We'll do a little networking.

[B]

Is there someone, like, on your mind?

[A]

I don't follow anybody.

[C]

Okay, well, they're gonna watch this, and now they're gonna think you don't care.

[D]

How many likes to go to Europe in the fall?

[A]

In the fall? Win between

[B]

November, you know?

[D]

You know, the videos are. They're like, how.

[C]

How many likes to do this?

[D]

How many. How many likes to do a podcast? And they're like 80, 000 in a comment from so and so.

[C]

We did get a million subscribers whose

[A]

idea was the balloons and the, like, cupcakes and putting it in the 1M and like, doing the whole.

[C]

Oh, me n. Well, it started with Kylie. Kylie.

[B]

Well, actually, I was like, let's do the balloon. Well, we were all like, balloon. So then she won him. Whenever she was at the store, she was like, should I get some cupcakes or something? And I was like, yeah, I think. I think cupcakes and flowers would be super nice. And then whenever we were coming back from the vet, she text me, was like, give Nate your location so he can see how far you're. You are away from the house.

[D]

I mean, we. We were talking to Kylie be like. We were like, we need more. And so as soon as. As soon as y' all left, like, we Were. We were out the door as you were pulling out the driveway. We all loaded up in the car and then went to the store and just did more and more and more.

[A]

Well, I loved it. Like, I. Surprises.

[C]

I thought you're about to be, like, upset.

[A]

No surprises. No one ever surprises me. And so that was surprise. And it was so fun. So when we hit a million on live, they all got, like, these trash bags of balloons out, and they all floated to the ceiling immediately. And then little poppers. I couldn't. I couldn't leave the dogs at the shop for that night because they kept falling down randomly. But it was super fun, and I like. I think. So they just sent me the thing today to get my nice. They did?

[C]

Oh, really? Heck, yeah.

[A]

But I think it's because they wait till you're, like, securely at a million.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, like, they're like, you have to be at a million for over a week or something like that because, you know, everything fluctuates. And so we're at, like, a million

[B]

get canceled at any time, too.

[A]

We're at, like a million five million, five right now. Okay, so plaque incoming. So you never thought we'd be. We didn't know if we'd be in a million three years ago. Look where we're at. So. Yeah, but. Yeah, we've got. We've got trips this year. We've got trips.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Why go to Europe when we can go to Texas eight times? I'm joking.

[A]

I'm joking.

[C]

I do enjoy our trips to Texas.

[D]

The trips are fun.

[A]

But now they're gonna be even more fun because you know why Lindsay's there.

[D]

D and D. We can't play D

[A]

and D. D in Texas by the pool.

[B]

What if I'm not there?

[A]

Be D&D in Texas by the pool.

[B]

Well, what if I'm not there?

[D]

Only the half the party needs to be there.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

All the, like, the key players.

[B]

Don't finish that. That sentence.

[C]

Key players are gonna be.

[B]

Don't finish that.

[D]

Only. Only the core Essential.

[B]

I fear I'm pretty essential.

[A]

So we do have trips. We are going to Texas probably a lot. So sorry to tell you we have some fun things planned, though.

[D]

Place is cool.

[B]

I've never been.

[A]

We're gonna go to Ohio. We're going to Oklahoma. We're gonna go to Florida.

[B]

Farthest left I've been is Louisiana, and that's not even left.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

I've been up the east coast, but, like, left Louisiana is the farthest.

[D]

Have a lot of first, you need

[A]

to know where Louisiana is. Do you. Are we having a hard time locating Louisiana?

[C]

Louisiana is left of here.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, it is.

[B]

I mean, it's down for sure to the left.

[D]

Arkansas touches Memphis, which is left of Nashville, and Louisiana is directly beneath Arkansas,

[A]

so it's not very left. That's why she was like.

[B]

That's why I'm like.

[A]

I've been. Is Louisiana. Because it's not that.

[B]

It's not that.

[C]

Yes, it is. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Because Georgia and Mississippi, they're all, like, rectangular. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

I'm excited.

[C]

Oklahoma.

[A]

I know. So we'll probably be doing some rotations, and it'll be fun because you'll go on some trips, and then other times you'll stay back and you'll be over on. On socials. And then because we got a. We have a new team member named Elena now, so you all kind of be swapping out. And then Rachel. Rachel wants to go.

[C]

She can go.

[D]

She's quitting, too.

[C]

She can go.

[D]

Where is she going?

[A]

She wants to go on trips with us is what I meant.

[C]

Rachel would be a vibe.

[A]

I feel like she wouldn't play DND with us, though.

[C]

So we're not gonna play D. We're gonna be over that.

[A]

We played Monopoly last year.

[D]

We played Monopoly.

[B]

I love for sure.

[C]

That was never for that, though. That was mandatory Monopoly.

[A]

We should do another episode with makeup, but last. So Nate did my makeup in an episode.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I. You should do my makeup.

[D]

Pretty good.

[B]

Pretty good.

[D]

Pretty good job, I think.

[A]

And I did. Abigail's in that one, so maybe we should do it this time where Matt does.

[C]

She doesn't.

[D]

She's not here.

[C]

Me doing Lindsay's tattoo. I feel like tattooing was way cooler than makeup.

[A]

We did it on Snapchat, people.

[C]

We should do it. We need to be more. Be a little bit more liberal with these lives and just, like, start doing fun stuff.

[D]

Look at that. How'd it turn out?

[B]

It's good.

[A]

There's a little. It was. It wasn't like that. It's good. It's good. It's.

[B]

No, I mean, it's just like. There's just like.

[C]

There's one spot that I knew when I did it.

[A]

Let me see. Because I haven't seen it since. It's here. Healed a bit.

[C]

I need to go back over and shade it.

[B]

I need to put lotion on it,

[A]

but it looks a little dry.

[B]

Yeah, she's a little dry.

[C]

I have aquaphor down there.

[A]

Looks pretty good. There's definitely a Difference between her nut and.

[B]

Oh, yeah, for sure. But I mean, that's not.

[D]

But I bet there was a difference.

[C]

And one's a cat.

[A]

I know the cat was free.

[D]

Cat was free.

[C]

And that was like my third tattoo ever. I've done more since then.

[B]

That was your first one. A person.

[A]

Who else have you tattooed now?

[C]

Lindsay and me

[B]

and.

[C]

But I've done more of myself.

[A]

What other ones have you done on yourself?

[C]

Well, I hadn't done the Itachi one or the power sign. I did the power sign right after I did the Lindsay. I'm surrounded by nerds, but I'll be do.

[D]

I have been joining on YouTube.

[A]

They get so mad at me because anytime someone, like, new comes into the shop or something, we're playing Dungeons and Dragons. I'm like, I know we're weird.

[C]

And they're like, why do you have unnecessarily prefaces it? Somebody will literally come in and be like, oh, my gosh, Dungeons and Dragons. That seems so interesting and fun. And they'll never get that sentence.

[B]

We're weird. It's fine.

[C]

Say, hi, everyone. Let's just say, first off, we're all complete nerds. Let's just go ahead and let's lay this on the floor. We're losers. We're weird. All right, let's just go ahead and set this out straight. Welcome to my establishment. But stay away from us, because we are losers.

[A]

Well, okay, so here's the thing. There's a vulnerability in playing Dungeons and Dragons with.

[C]

With y' all that I never feel.

[A]

There's, like this. There's this imagination vulnerability that once you let yourself get there and you put the accent on and you're like, you're at the mercy of everyone else around you. Not to make fun of you.

[B]

I let it rip.

[A]

You do. But you go from a comic, you go from a comical standpoint.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which has a bit of a barrier.

[B]

Yeah. Yours is a little more serious.

[D]

But when I. How I view it is if, you know, if they were to make fun of me, I just more feel sad for them because I know they won't ever let themselves be able to have this fun. They'll never allow themselves to have the fun because they would be too self conscious to have the fun.

[A]

So everyone is. Because we do these live sometimes. And everyone's always like, does Jonathan not play D and D? Where's Jonathan? I'm like, no, he will never allow himself to have that. That is him.

[C]

Like, he and some people just aren't wired that way. That's okay.

[D]

And yeah, that's true too.

[A]

Supports it. He's like, dude, he'll pop in and make himself a protein shake in the middle of it and cause some noise.

[D]

But. But I do think, you know, every campaign doesn't have to be in the middle ages. And I think there's certainly a campaign could be drawn up that he would be all over cowboys. Maybe you do cowboys. You could even do like zombie apocalypse. Zombie apocalypse or, you know, anything like that. It could be like semi model.

[C]

I really, really want to do like a vampire.

[B]

Can we do like.

[A]

I do too.

[B]

Resident Evil.

[A]

Yeah, we need.

[D]

You want to run it you to

[A]

be the dungeon master. For the vampire one, though, I have to reciprocate. Katie's love interest would give me the story I want, whereas you clam up and kill my person.

[C]

Nate mentioned this. What we need to do is just have a DM for us to play.

[A]

Do we just, like, bring them up on Skype?

[C]

No, it's a common thing. Especially as DND is now common. It is now a common thing. There are dms that will. They'll just DM just like, you have a massage person come to your house. There are.

[A]

Now, why do you put that out there, Matt? Why you got to put that out there? That is something that me and my husband like to do.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

As everyone does.

[D]

But the same way that you can maybe get like a. A Spider man impersonator to come to a party.

[C]

That's a bad example. The difference is, is like, you could have like. Like the DND store next to my house has like seven different tables that you could have. So you could literally have somebody just DM a game. We could all say, hey, we want to do this. All right, we'll meet up.

[A]

So we have to leave my home.

[C]

No, no, no. But you. You could also have somebody just say, like, hey, we're gonna do this. They are gonna commit to this game, whatever, and then they come to our. Your place, whatever. And then they d in the game and then. But they're like, they're like pro dms.

[B]

I'm down.

[C]

And like, they aren't like, there is no. Like, well, let me just figure this out. Like, we just asked them, like, hey, what's the deal?

[D]

Yeah. Cuz a lot of times, you know,

[A]

we'd probably honestly learn a lot if

[C]

we did that, but we would. We would have more fun playing and we would be less of like, well, you said that I could do this last time. And like, now is that, you know,

[A]

I don't Feel like we do.

[C]

We don't.

[D]

No, no. If anyone does, it's me, but because I'm pretty sure I feel like.

[C]

I feel like it would be cool. Like, I want Lindsay to DM as well, just comma, separately.

[B]

But I would also think it'd be really fun for all four of us.

[C]

All four of us to be the party. Yeah.

[A]

That is the thing. You two have played in the game together.

[C]

Right. And so it would be a cool way to do. Are you gonna be separately, though? They do. You can get online and have somebody DM on DND beyond, like, on whatever. And we still do all the things. Like, it's.

[D]

If you wanted to go the Skype route.

[C]

Yeah. Very easy to do.

[D]

It wouldn't be difficult to get someone to do it in person.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But anyway.

[A]

Interesting.

[C]

I digress.

[A]

Well, I was just gonna say, like, I digress. Are you gonna be a woman again?

[C]

No, I think I'm gonna have a little bit more time to. The first one was really just a test thing. It was just like, we were all figuring out what D and D was, and I just picked a character, and I didn't care she was a woman. It was just, you know, I wanted to see what, you know, what this was about.

[A]

But then you were allowed a love interest.

[C]

Yeah, I forgot. I turned it into that. I was riffing, but I think Barathan.

[A]

But then I was. But then when I was riffing, mine was smoked.

[C]

Yeah. But I had literally. Anyway, I'm not going to give the details of the future, but anyway, he's coming back. No, see,

[A]

Falcon's coming for me.

[C]

But see, like, how fun would it would be to have, like, all fours be like, oh, then what are we gonna do next?

[A]

Okay, here's the thing. I just have to catch y' all up on that. So my character tried to have a love interest with this. What do you call it, when they're not like, npc. NPC character. So we're like, the DM kind of plays that person. And so I attempted to have a love interest with this guy named Falcon who was really cool. And Matt was so awkward and embarrassed by it that he killed him.

[C]

That wasn't the reason.

[D]

That's not.

[A]

Did he have to die?

[D]

I guess nothing ever has to happen.

[C]

We're airing it out. I thought it would add some. Some drama, some weight, some heartbreak to some. To the situation.

[D]

And to be fair, it did. I mean, jaws dropped.

[B]

Everyone's dead.

[C]

Every single person's jaw dropped, Especially falcons.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Too soon.

[D]

I mean, homie,

[C]

he emoted Jail. Jail.

[D]

Well, anyway.

[C]

Anyway, we should look into.

[A]

But also, like, what a. What a move. Because literally, the scene prior, you had, like, given me a speckle of hope that he was reciprocating interest.

[D]

Yeah. A longing in your heart had truly stirred.

[A]

Anyway.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Also, this is like. Like, my husband's in the next room, by the way. And, like, pops in and he knows about Falcon. Okay. He's fine with it.

[C]

Knows about him. Like, it's.

[A]

He knows about Falcon. He knows all this. Okay.

[B]

Anytime he wants talk about it, you're like, baby, I. I think of you when I think of Falcon.

[C]

You're right. That's what made it weird.

[A]

You know what you're saying?

[C]

Like, I got. I got weirded out by it. But she's over here, like, having Jonathan stand behind me so she has, like, a visual.

[A]

No, I don't. No, I did not. No, I didn't.

[B]

She's, like, looking up at Jonathan while

[A]

she's talking to you, but I'm not. Y' all have made it weird.

[D]

Matt, make him say it.

[C]

She's like. Like, sliding me lines across the table to have Jonathan say, That's what made it weird. Then I was like, all right, he has to die.

[A]

Jonathan, y', all, they're messing with you. This didn't happen.

[C]

But you don't have these. You don't have these restrictions with the. With the substitute dm.

[A]

Nate's laugh.

[D]

I have not done that in a.

[C]

I don't know if Lindsay has seen, like, the real thing. Like, that's for real. Lindsay, by the way. That's for real. That. That's.

[B]

That's funny.

[C]

Genuine.

[B]

I love that.

[D]

That has not happened in a while. Thank you, guys.

[A]

That was good. Oh, my gosh. Well, wow. I don't even think this catching up with Katie had a real purpose.

[B]

Merit.

[C]

That was great, though. We have. We're at 50 minutes. We're at least 20 minutes of. At least 30. No, I like it when we. We haven't riffed in a long time. Most of the catching up with Katie's have been, like, very.

[D]

Yeah, that's information.

[A]

Well, today it was just, I think, giggling and chatting more so than anything, which sometimes you just need to do.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which we got Nate's real life, real laugh out of him, which is always a pleasure.

[D]

So it's been so long.

[A]

Hope y' all enjoyed. We are pretty soon to be on full watch again, which means we are doing lives every night of just the mayors in their stalls and the babies and mamas in their stalls so you can see them, how they interact. You can see the mamas as they start, you know, their behaviors change. It's a really fun time in the comments. And they're like, it's a really fun time. It is. If you like watching animal behavior.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then we will start doing some Dungeons and Dragons lives again. So hope you enjoyed. And we'll see you in the next one. And if you haven't checked out the new merch, we got some Frankie merch. If you didn't know that I had a dog under here. Hold on. Where's she at?

[B]

I completely forgot about Kimmy.

[A]

If you didn't know that I had a dog under here the whole time. Here she is. And we'll see you in the next one.