How Old Am I Really? We Are Going To New York!

Summary

Podcast Summary: “How Old Am I Really? We Are Going To New York!”

Podcast: Katching Up With Katie
Host: Katie Van Slyke
Air Date: October 8, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this laid-back, conversational episode, Katie Van Slyke and her friends (Matt, Abigail, and Matthew) gather at Running Springs to recap recent farm antics, the chaos of attending a cattle sale, share plans for an upcoming New York trip, and reflect on age, relationships, and behind-the-scenes realities of farm life. With a signature mix of humor and candor, they offer listeners a blend of barnyard tales, friendly banter, family dreams, and peeks into their lives as ranchers and content creators.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recent Farm Happenings and Cattle Sale Mayhem

• Weaning and Calving Updates:

  • Ted and Huckleberry, two weaned foals, are leaving for their new homes.
  • Ongoing excitement about calving season; awaiting Wynonna’s baby.

• Cattle Sale Stories:

  • Katie describes the wild experience of attending a cattle auction, revealing that she bought far more cows than planned.
  • Quote:
    • “I may have purchased more than I thought I would.” – Katie (01:49)
  • Auctions move fast; sometimes accidents happen:
    • “So two of them were accidents. But we brought home 10 lots.” – Katie (04:45)
    • One purchase ended up as a “BOGO”—the cow came with a calf.
    • Katie ended up with 10 cows (technically 11 with the calf), including black cows—against her usual preference for red or blue roan.

• Accidental Bidding:

  • Katie recounts accidentally bidding on the wrong lots, sometimes confusing cows that looked alike.
  • Quote:
    • “I think I might have just thought I got the same cow. They look identical.” – Katie (05:01)

• Social Media Success:

  • The chaos was documented for TikTok and Facebook, garnering millions of views.
  • Quote:
    • “The video of all that content got six and a half million views on TikTok only.” – Katie (12:52)
    • “In totality, the video of bidding has over 10 million views. That’s crazy.” – Katie (13:42)

Timestamps:

• [00:20] – Weaning foals & calving
• [01:49–04:54] – Cattle sale mishaps and surprise purchases
• [12:52–14:00] – Social media viral moments

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2. Expanding the Herd & Business Decisions

• The logic behind buying many cows: farm expansion, more available land, and a push to build both fall and spring herds.
• Equal business partnership for Running Springs going forward—Katie is now purchasing cattle for joint ownership with her family.
• Discussion of switching cows to improve breeding stock and ensure a better future for the farm.

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3. Age, Generational Humor, & Identity

• Playful Banter about Age:
  • The friends tease each other about forgetting their ages, marking birthdays, and when you can stop saying “I’m in my 20s.”
  • Quote:
    • “The amount of 40 something year old women who have been like, ‘Oh well she’s our age.’ And I’m like whose age? I’m in my 20s.” – Katie (17:21)
  • Discussion about how humor changes with age and the experience of growing up together at the farm.
  • Abigail jokes about being a chameleon, adapting to people’s sense of humor.

Timestamps:

• [16:13–19:22] – Age confusion and playful banter
• [19:40–21:00] – Adapting humor and group dynamics

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4. Life at Running Springs: Family, Community & Privacy

• Life on the Ranch:

  • Updates on Rebecca and her family temporarily staying in the property’s Airbnb after a flood.
  • Katie dreams aloud about a future “compound” where friends and family have their homes within horseback-riding distance.
  • Quote:
    • “I want her to want to live near me...but I don’t want to scare her off from my dream that isn’t even in existence.” – Katie (25:19)
  • Discussion of respecting boundaries and privacy as the farm sometimes becomes a communal space.

• Farm Characters:

  • Charles, a fixture of the farm, is described fondly; the group jokes about him being the “backbone” of Running Springs.
  • Quote:
    • “Charles, like, is the backbone of Running Springs.” – Katie (27:54)

Timestamps:

• [23:12–26:45] – Rebecca’s family, dreams of family compounds
• [26:45–29:35] – Charles and the personalities around the farm

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5. Content Creation and “Reality TV” Aspirations

• The group muses about how dramatic farm life could be if captured uncensored for reality TV, but agree that the farm’s “dirty laundry” stays in-house.
• Snapchat offers a slightly looser, more behind-the-scenes window, but not the whole story.

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6. Pop Culture, Movies, and Halloween Favorites

• Lighthearted group debate about the Adam Sandler movie “Hubie Halloween” and how Katie can’t recall most of the plot due to multitasking during movies.
• Quote:
  • “[Hubie] is a character, okay? He’s...no, he works at a little store.” – Katie (30:53)
• Quick discussion of Halloween traditions and movies, echoing the group’s playful, teasing tone.

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7. Upcoming Trips: Congress and New York City

• Plans for Congress (Horse Show):

  • Excitement for attending Congress for the first time; coordinating travel and accommodations.

• Nervous Anticipation of New York City:

  • Katie expresses anxiety about navigating NYC without her husband, who’s her “safety net.”
  • Friends joke about sticking together, making a vlog, and squeezing in sightseeing and good food—bagels and pizza are a must!
  • Group brainstorms turning the trip into extra content/YouTube videos.
  • Sharing travel hacks and the importance of big city safety.

Timestamps:

• [32:56–35:50] – Upcoming travel to Congress and NYC
• [35:50–38:26] – NYC trip logistics, plans for food and fun

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Katie (About the Cattle Sale):
  “So two of them were accidents. But we brought home 10 lots.” [04:45]
• On Social Media Virality:
  “The video of all that content got six and a half million views on TikTok only.” [12:52]
• On Expanding the Farm:
  “With this expansion, it made sense that I be the one to purchase some head for the... head of cattle.” [07:01]
• Katie on Age Perception:
  “The amount of 40 something year old women who have been like, ‘Oh well she’s our age.’ And I’m like whose age? I’m in my 20s.” [17:21]
• Katie’s Dream Compound:
  “...my future, like what I envision the perfect scenario to be is that we all move onto a huge piece of land compound, and she and her little girls have their house, and we ride horses to one another.” [24:01]
• Katie on City Nerves:
  “I don’t know that there’s anything this year that’s happening that scares me more than going to a big city without my husband that...He’s like my safety net.” [33:32]
• Group Banter:
  “We’re just teenage girls going to go into New York. Drop your best safety tips for big city safety tips.” – Katie (37:54)

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Humor & Podcast Tone

The episode is unscripted, humorous, and joyfully meandering. The friendly teasing and anecdotes paint a lively, authentic picture of farm life and friendship. Katie’s openness about mistakes (“I blacked out at the cattle sale...”) and dreams (like the family compound) foster listener connection. Group dynamics shine—everyone joins in ribbing, sharing stories, and building excitement for the NYC adventure.

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Episode Highlights (with Timestamps)

• [01:49] Katie confesses to accidental cow purchases at the sale.
• [04:45] Announcement that 10 cattle (plus one calf) came home; details emerge.
• [12:52–14:00] TikTok cattle sale clip goes viral—over 10 million combined views.
• [17:21] Katie’s playful rant about people assuming her age.
• [24:01] Katie dreams of a collective family compound on expansive land.
• [27:54] Charles celebrated as the soul of Running Springs.
• [33:32] Katie nervously anticipates the upcoming New York trip.
• [37:54] Group asks listeners for “big city safety tips.”

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Transcript

[Katie]

Welcome back to Catching up with Katie. Now, this past weekend was a bit. Why are y' all laughing? What are y' all laughing at over there?

[Matt]

It was just a little.

[Katie]

I screwed up beforehand. I screwed up beforehand. And this. Y' all don't get to see the first bit. Okay? They're laughing because I could not control my words.

[Abigail]

As for the end of the video prior to this.

[Katie]

No, no, no. This past weekend was eventful. Honestly, we don't have a whole lot going on this week other than Ted and Huckleberry leave. So a couple of the foals who have been weaned, they leave this weekend. They go to their new homes. We have more of calving season. If you haven't, go check out those like, you know, calving season videos that we've started posting of all the new babies and whatnot. We are actually waiting on one to have her baby, I think today. Her due dates today. Wynonna. And then. Yeah, I honestly just had a. A bit of a blackout episode this past weekend at the cattle sale. You'll get to see the cattle sale video after this to. To understand the. The volume of which all this happened. But. Did you have fun? This is your third one. It.

[Matthew]

It was my third one. I had.

[Katie]

Sorry.

[Matthew]

You caught me off guard asking me if I had fun. I had. I. I had a good time.

[Abigail]

Can we just.

[Matt]

Can we pause for a second? I wasn't there blacking out. I have a context for Matt.

[Katie]

You were there.

[Abigail]

Yeah, she got wasted. Absolutely wasted. She was drinking at 9am and after that it was over. She was buying cat lunch.

[Katie]

And anyway, that is not what I'm talking about.

[Matt]

This is a cattle sale, though.

[Katie]

I can see how you would think that means something different.

[Matt]

What are you talking about?

[Katie]

I may have purchased more than I thought I would.

[Matt]

What did you think you would?

[Katie]

I honestly don't know because there's only one red cow in the whole entire sale. And generally that is my M.O. generally going to like these cattle sales every year.

[Abigail]

I do like red animals.

[Katie]

Red or blue roan. That's been like the M.O. i either get like a red cow or two or a blue roan or like whatever. I get something different. That's what I've always seen said. I've always said I want to be able to look out in the pasture because my dad has all black simmental and I like to be able to know who's mine. Okay. That's been what y' all have known going up to now. We're changing things up so I knew I was going to bid on the red cow, but other than that, I kind of didn't know because, you know, we do have. We do have the opportunity to grow some, and cattle prices are high right now. And so we're like, well, we're going to be keeping all of our heifers going forward. We need to build our herd. We're trying to expand to have both a fall and a spring herd. Now, this isn't really something I've talked about anywhere at this point. And so we do have a little bit more land available to us to put some cows on. And so we're not as limited as we once were to, like, how many we keep. And so we did go into this sale with the thought process of buying some heers that are either carrying heers or could. Could just be a good piece to our herd because we went with, like, I think we had eight lots that in the sale this year, we did not have very many lots at all. One of the cows, we would have had more. One of the cows had to stay home because she was limping, so we weren't going to offer her for sale. So. And then I, like, I think two of the lots were embryos available, so that's not a cow that we were getting rid of. Two of them were recip. Cows carrying embryos. So it's like they were just unregistered cows that weren't necessarily a part of our breeding program. So we didn't get rid of breeding program cows. And then I think it was really only three lots of, like, good pregnant cows that we sold. Because sometimes you have to, like, you know, offer your good stock at a sale.

[Matthew]

And.

[Katie]

I did not plan. I. I did not plan on the amount of lots. How many. How many lots do you think I purchased? Because let me just, like, preface. In the years past, I've bought, like, one. So, like, last year, about one. The year.

[Abigail]

Crazy.

[Matt]

So seven. That would be crazy.

[Katie]

You think seven's crazy?

[Matt]

Yeah. You normally buy one. Seven would be crazy.

[Katie]

So two of them were accidents. But we. We bought. We brought home 10 lots.

[Abigail]

10.

[Katie]

One was a bogo. She already had. She already had her babies. It was buy one, get one.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Katie]

So technically, 11.

[Matt]

I thought the 10 was.

[Katie]

No, 11.

[Matt]

Four more than I thought was crazy.

[Katie]

Yeah. One of the moms had already had her little bull calf, so he was like, a little bogo sale. Okay. He just, like, came with the red cow. Got her. That's Juno. Two of them. I think I might have just thought I got the same cow. They look identical. I don't know how but they look identical. They come from the same farm. They have like a seven on their face which is kind of cool. Like they look, I don't, I can't tell them apart. From afar they look identical. And then what? I don't know why he just laughed at you.

[Abigail]

So you pick up on everything you can. Katie has this ability to be like on her phone and you could be like asking her a question directly and she will not acknowledge you whatsoever. But she could be in her house up the road and you'd be like, I just don't, I can't believe Katie's late today. And she'd pick up the phone and be like what? That is one of your special talents.

[Katie]

Maybe it's because I'm, I fear being disliked so much. What was it though, Matthew?

[Abigail]

I think it's just because you said far.

[Katie]

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[Matt]

Yeah.

[Katie]

But it was happy. The accidents, people. I have had a lot of people be like, well, how do you accidentally buy a cowboy? One of them. My dad was like, hey, this is. Have. This one's having a hard time. Like, I. Sometimes you go to a sale, and maybe not a lot of people are shopping for a certain thing. So, like, this specific lot was consigned by one of our friends, and they're very nice open heifers. So they're just a year old. They had to be bred kind of out of our timeline, which is why we weren't going to be bidding. So. But he said, just go ahead and get it started. So they were trying to start it at 4, 500. I put 4. I put my four fingers up. I said. And they went, 4, 500 up. Sold.

[Matt]

And you bought it.

[Katie]

That's. That's literally how that happened. And then. I'm not joking like that. That is how that happened. And I'm like. And then it's like, a lot. So there's like. They're like, are you taking a B or a B, C or D? I chose Marilyn Monroe because I. I liked the name, honestly. No, was it Marilyn Monroe or was it.

[Matt]

That's a horse.

[Katie]

No, there's a cow now, too.

[Matthew]

You did get a Maryland.

[Katie]

Who was it? That was part of the. Who was the accident?

[Abigail]

Marilyn Monroe.

[Katie]

Was there two accidents?

[Matthew]

Yes, it is.

[Katie]

It is.

[Matthew]

Was it.

[Abigail]

Oh, that's the one she always.

[Matthew]

Are you sure that this one was a. A pick?

[Katie]

It was a pick because fashion was the other accident. Thought I was bidding on Lot 75, and I was bidding on Lot 73. And I was like, was it lemon drop? No, that's the one my dad got mad at me for spending too much money on. And I'm like, it's my money. Major.

[Matthew]

He bought Majorette.

[Katie]

He bought Majorette. How many did he buy? Well, no, he didn't buy any. It was just my number. And he Raised my number.

[Matt]

Oh, he. Okay.

[Matthew]

Essie Rose, Juno. How do you remember Majorette Fashion?

[Katie]

Marilyn Monroe.

[Matthew]

Marilyn Monroe. Margarita.

[Katie]

Margarita. I don't remember again, I blacked it. Like some of these. I was just like, like at one point we were moving our chairs because we started getting baked in the sun. Like, it was so hot. It was directly in our face. I got sunburned. My. My necklace made a, like a mark on my skin from where I got so red. Like, we're moving our chairs and I'm like bidding as we're like moving our chairs because, like at one point my dad, I look over and I guess I didn't realize that one of the cows we had liked prior was up. And he looked, he's like, Katie. And I just, I just threw my hand. I didn't even like. Anyway, there was a lot of chaos. But that's how things started accidentally happening though, because I just. It goes really fast.

[Abigail]

Yeah.

[Matt]

I mean, if you're in an auction and things start rolling.

[Katie]

Yes.

[Matt]

It's high intensity.

[Katie]

I'm so sorry. Beforehand, I just realized we never. You never bid?

[Matthew]

No.

[Katie]

Beforehand we were like, hey, you could bid on one. And then I'm kind of glad I didn't.

[Matthew]

It looked stressful. They like, weren't seeing, really seeing us out there. She was having to yell. Everyone was scared.

[Katie]

Everyone was scared.

[Matthew]

I'm just kidding.

[Katie]

Well, hey, no. A couple times I had, I had like, hey. Because I would, I literally would have my hand up. It was a cow I really wanted. And a couple people commented, they were like, they were just giving someone else a chance. I'm like, there was 90 lots I did buy and, you know, 10%. I did buy 10 of the cows at sale. But you know what's crazy though? So sometimes you're like, did I really. Sometimes you're like, did I really need to do all that and have like, like. So Lindsay was there doing actually a lot of just like the. Keeping track of things which was needed. But then like the last three years, you know, you've come to the sale and you do a lot of like filming and a lot of the behind the scenes stuff for like Snapchat and like subscribers and you know, things like that. Well, you know, you're like, am I being too much as a content creator having someone help film for this and whatnot. But the video of all that content got six and a half million views on Tik Tok only. So really, six and a half million views of me bidding?

[Matt]

It's pretty good.

[Katie]

That, that. And then like the cow reveal was 4 million views. And then on Facebook, the. That was just on tik tok.

[Abigail]

This YouTube video is not going to be very good.

[Matthew]

What?

[Katie]

Oh, because I'm talking about Tik Tok.

[Abigail]

Yeah.

[Matt]

Well, that make a difference?

[Abigail]

No, I'm just saying compared to that.

[Matthew]

Oh, that he's saying the YouTube video isn't going to be as good.

[Katie]

Fine. Don't. Don't put that type of pressure on yourself.

[Matthew]

It's just not, you know, it's an entirely different thing.

[Katie]

This is short form. That's.

[Matthew]

It's much harder to get people to subscribe on YouTube.

[Katie]

Like it is on Facebook. Okay. So in totality, the video of bidding has over 10 million views. That's crazy. On Facebook has three and a half million.

[Matt]

That is actually crazy, isn't it?

[Abigail]

Yeah.

[Matt]

That's so many views.

[Abigail]

That's tight. It's very tight.

[Katie]

Isn't it in it.

[Matt]

In it. Also a lot of views in it.

[Katie]

I don't know. But there were so many people being like. Like for some reason that video got on the for you page and it was mostly non followers that watched it.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Katie]

And so everyone's just like, is this normal? Why is she bidding so much? I'm like, this isn't normal.

[Matt]

This isn't normal.

[Katie]

I shouldn't have done all that. But. But it's okay. So essentially, this is how I look at it and this is how I. We still made money as a farm. So in totality, what we sold, we still sold more than we bought. And what we sold again, like the lots were embryos. A bull calf, some recip cows, some open heifers. We only sold, you know, like I said, if we're trying to build our herd of female cows that can carry their own calves, we only sold three of those. But what we gained was one open heifer and nine really nicely bred cows that were bred and most of them having heifer calves. So we just swapped out the same amount of cows for better usable cows for what we want, and you kind of get double.

[Matthew]

Because they're having heifers too.

[Katie]

Exactly.

[Matthew]

And keep both.

[Matt]

So you got like 18 cows.

[Katie]

Yeah, well, you don't want to check. You. You don't want to check your chicken. You don't want.

[Matt]

You don't want to check your chickens.

[Katie]

Forward. They don't want to count your chickens before they hatch.

[Abigail]

But pig Latin was a big thing.

[Matthew]

No, no, I don't.

[Abigail]

Like everybody tried to. Or it's like kind of like where KK came from. Like, everybody started like, like adding like the same like everybody dude, like KK Hey, I'm coming over.

[Matthew]

I don't know. Are you talking about like in text?

[Abigail]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matthew]

Okay. I thought you're talking about like in person. I'm like no one's saying yeah.

[Abigail]

And they did in person too like in middle school. But like they would start like adding.

[Katie]

Like when we were in middle school. She was in like a varied. She was a child.

[Abigail]

She was embryo.

[Katie]

Me and Matt aren't that far apart.

[Abigail]

I'm 28.

[Matt]

How old are you?

[Matthew]

You're not yet.

[Abigail]

I am.

[Matthew]

You will be in like three days. You're 27. I'm 24. We're only five years apart. We're five years apart. Me and Nate are like very many, very much.

[Katie]

None of us can talk today.

[Matthew]

Me and Nate are actually very far apart though age wise because he's cuz Nate is 31.

[Matt]

No, I'm regular 31. I'm not Emma.

[Matthew]

Yes you are.

[Matt]

No, am I really?

[Matthew]

You're 31. You turned 31 in August.

[Abigail]

Serious?

[Matthew]

Yes, I guess so.

[Matt]

Wow. It's crazy if that's true.

[Matthew]

That is true.

[Katie]

You were turning 29 the in 2023 because that's the birthday that you were there for. Vs code red. The next year is 2024. You returned 30 the next.

[Matthew]

Because a year ago around your birthday when you turned 30 is when we had that conversation about how you can't.

[Abigail]

Be what year were you born and chat GPT. How old am I?

[Katie]

I don't know what it is. Is it. It's an epidemic of people that I run into of other women and mind you, like I. I don't have a problem. These women are. They look lovely. The amount of 40 something year old women who have been like, oh well she's our age. And I'm like whose age our. Our age. I'm in my 20s. We.

[Matt]

I'm in my 20s.

[Katie]

I'm like I'm nowhere. I'm nowhere near your age.

[Abigail]

How old do you have to be before you can stop saying I'm in my 20s.

[Matt]

30.

[Matthew]

I think 20. I think 28 is like yeah is like the last year you can confident.

[Abigail]

I'm ending my 20s.

[Matthew]

You have to just say I'm 28.

[Matt]

No, you're in your 20s.

[Abigail]

I'm ending my 20s.

[Matt]

Closing out an era.

[Abigail]

I'm confusing.

[Matthew]

You are. You can say you're in your 20s. It just feels like you could be it. There's a long time. You could be anywhere from 21 to 29.

[Matt]

20 to 29.

[Katie]

I think your 20s is also that period of life where, you know, like, when you're in your 30s, you're just kind of in your 30s. When you're in your 20s, a 21 year old and a 29 year old are vastly different.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Katie]

So different.

[Matt]

I mean, we're watching you grow up right in front of us.

[Katie]

We're. We have been.

[Abigail]

Honestly, we watched Dale.

[Matt]

She's very different now.

[Katie]

She's been. She. You had just turned 22.

[Abigail]

You're a woman.

[Katie]

Started here.

[Matt]

You're.

[Matthew]

Stop.

[Katie]

You're.

[Matthew]

You're.

[Matt]

That's crazy.

[Matthew]

You're a woman now. I don't.

[Matt]

I think it's. I think I primarily see.

[Katie]

You didn't even have a dog yet.

[Matthew]

I didn't.

[Abigail]

Really?

[Matt]

You can often tell age.

[Matthew]

I got her in humor two months after I started.

[Abigail]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

Yeah, you can tell what?

[Matt]

You can tell, like, age of maturity and humor.

[Matthew]

And, like, what does that mean?

[Katie]

I don't know. Because both of y' all act like you're 12.

[Matt]

I often get confused for someone younger than me. This is checking out.

[Abigail]

See, I don't know. I don't know. I feel like my humor is catered to who I'm with. Like, I will cater my humor.

[Matthew]

So you're fake.

[Abigail]

Maybe I choose the.

[Matt]

Y' all don't even know the real.

[Matthew]

Me, so we don't know the real you. I just go.

[Abigail]

I go home and, like, strike a cigarette and just, like, look in the mirror and, like, I don't even know who I am. It's just like, I'm just feeling like the last personality I had of the day. It's like Patrick Bateman. I'm just like, pulling this. That probably checks for a lot of people because everybody thinks I'm a serial killer in the comments, so.

[Katie]

Well.

[Matt]

Job a little bit.

[Matthew]

They probably wouldn't maybe, if you smiled a little more.

[Abigail]

I choose to use the word chameleon a little bit more.

[Matthew]

You should smile.

[Matt]

You should smile more.

[Matthew]

You know, you're prettier when you smile.

[Matt]

Was that a smile? You should do that more often.

[Abigail]

Now. It's the end of the Picking on Matt segment. There you go. Look at that, guys. There you go. Look at that, guys. Over. You guys. He's over the fans.

[Katie]

Over What?

[Abigail]

That was it, y'.

[Katie]

All.

[Matt]

She looked right into the camera.

[Abigail]

All right, Abigail, you've been very talkative today.

[Matthew]

I feel like I've been a pretty equal participant.

[Katie]

Did anyone notice that we're matching?

[Abigail]

I did. You started the show with it. Oh, wow. No, I didn't do that.

[Matt]

Also, I can't really see this. I can only see head.

[Katie]

Because we're keep. We always want.

[Abigail]

Yeah. When did the blankets come into play?

[Katie]

When I got. It's chilly in here because of all the lights and stuff. Oh, nice.

[Matt]

You know what? You know what? I've been noticing that side of the room has increasingly just gotten more and more comfortable in their lounging.

[Abigail]

I thought you meant, like, that side of the room. No, Katie, I was like, oh, snap.

[Katie]

Like, we've got our blankies. We've got.

[Abigail]

Yeah, no, we got plastic chairs. We have lawn chairs from, like, the dollar store.

[Matt]

They found these.

[Matthew]

Oh, there's gonna be a Reddit thread about this.

[Abigail]

Yeah, somebody was throwing these away and they just, like, picked them up.

[Katie]

Literally. He sat down. He's like. You know, a rolly chair would just go a long way.

[Abigail]

For the floors. At the very least, we can.

[Katie]

We can rolly chairs.

[Matthew]

He's like, also from a bad bag. Yeah, no, I know.

[Abigail]

One pillow. That's the shamed color.

[Matt]

I bunched up a blanket to sit on it.

[Abigail]

This is just.

[Matt]

It was. Be comfortable or be warm.

[Abigail]

A relic of the podcast couch. I prefer it. You're all good. This Agent Orton is acting up.

[Matt]

What?

[Abigail]

Before all of our time.

[Katie]

What? Why did you spit?

[Matt]

For a dramatic effect. Just kidding. It was a total exit. I didn't mean to. I'm gonna be able to stop. I don't want to play anymore. I don't want to play anymore.

[Katie]

Ew. It's all over you.

[Abigail]

Can we get that in slow motion?

[Matt]

I don't want to blame.

[Abigail]

That's the thumbnail.

[Katie]

So right now, Rebecca and her husband and children are staying in the Airbnb on the property, which it's not a real Airbnb. We haven't had it to the public for a really long time, but their. Their whole house, like, flooded, so they're getting all new floors, and it's. They're. They're going to be in that apartment for, I think, throughout the entire month of October.

[Matt]

And why?

[Abigail]

Because their house.

[Katie]

Because their house flooded.

[Matt]

No, why did it flood?

[Katie]

I have no clue. It's an old, old house.

[Matt]

I didn't know if it was, like, a plumbing or a natural disaster.

[Katie]

No plumbing.

[Matt]

Okay.

[Katie]

Plumbing.

[Matt]

Didn't know if, like, creek grows.

[Katie]

No, that's never. That's never actually their house. And so what's funny is we just now have these two little girls, you know, like, on the property, and they are wearing their Halloween costumes every single day of.

[Abigail]

I Was wondering what.

[Katie]

That.

[Matt]

That's fun.

[Abigail]

Okay.

[Katie]

And it's so fun. Like, y' all have that to look forward to where Halloween is. Not just Halloween. Like, if you let it be fun, they will wear their costumes all the time. And. And so it is so fun having them. But I'm trying because I, at one. At some point, my future, like, what I envision the perfect scenario to be is that we all move onto a huge piece of land compound, and she and her little girls have their house, and we ride horses to one another. Okay. And. Excuse me. Yes.

[Matt]

Who's the we?

[Katie]

Do you want to be a part of the we?

[Matt]

Just wondering who you were talking about.

[Katie]

Do you want to be a part of the week?

[Matthew]

I would hope that it would be.

[Matt]

I just wanted to know who you were talking about before.

[Katie]

We're talking about hypothetical. Everybody.

[Matt]

Everybody you were talking about before I said, who are we talking about? Proceed. Proceed.

[Katie]

Do you want to be within horse riding distance of one another? And we all just have hitching posts at our house?

[Matthew]

Because if you say yes, then you're committing and you can't go back on that. So think about it.

[Katie]

If this becomes a thing, then we will all have hitching.

[Abigail]

This is recorded, so it could be a contract.

[Matt]

I like riding horses.

[Matthew]

Well, there you go.

[Katie]

Would you commit to having a hitching post outside of your home? And then if one of us were to ride our horse up to your home, we could just hitch our horse up.

[Matt]

I'll put a hitching post in front of my home.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Katie]

Okay. Yeah. So that's like, a part I'm like. And so I've been trying to not. Even though she's my best friend in the entire world, so I overthink things all the time. She literally drove up to my house today and had to turn around because we were having a meeting. But, like, I went and checked on some of the horses, which is right next to where they're staying. And I wanted so bad to just go, like, peek in the window because just look in. And I had to be like, boundaries Katie. I don't want to scare her off from my dream that isn't even in existence. But I want her to want to live near me, and I don't. Can't be freaking peeping.

[Matthew]

She would not have cared.

[Abigail]

I would have cared, though.

[Katie]

You would have cared?

[Abigail]

Yeah. Dude.

[Matthew]

Well, then you shouldn't move on to the.

[Katie]

You can't be the thing.

[Abigail]

Then I'll never know, like, what I'm safe from. I'll always. I'll Be like that Adventure Time episode of Jake getting out of the shower.

[Matthew]

Well, if you just close your blinds and keep your, like, curtains closed and stuff.

[Matt]

Yeah. The expectation of privacy was on you.

[Matthew]

Yeah. It's like, if you want privacy, then create it. Send the message that you want privacy.

[Matt]

You want privacy.

[Matthew]

It's not on us. We're trying to peep in, check in on you.

[Katie]

See, but then there's some people that don't care about privacy at all. Today, me and Abigail today were doctoring on two little calves that have fly strike right now. And we were. So we had Charles, who is on the farm. He's been there my entire life. Like, he just is the farm, you know, like, Charles.

[Matthew]

He is the farm.

[Katie]

And so, Charles, we were like, hey, can you come help us move these mama cows so we can doctor on these two baby cows? And so we, like, we're doctoring on the fly strike. They're both doing great. And me and you what? We went and checked on Wynonna for, like, two seconds. Come around the corner, just peeing, and we're like, Charles. Anyway, I spit too.

[Matthew]

So he started scooting around. He was a middle of two guests.

[Katie]

And, like, trying to get around the gas tank. Anyway, so some people don't care about privacy.

[Abigail]

That's true.

[Matt]

Some people don't.

[Katie]

No.

[Abigail]

Oh, Charles, you think he would, like, if y' all ever sold this place, he would just be like. He would go to the top of that hill and smile and then just turn into a bunch of leaves.

[Matthew]

He would just, like, sink. Sink, like, into the farm.

[Abigail]

Yeah. Or like, go sit into a tree and then like, melt into Charles.

[Matthew]

Yes.

[Katie]

Yeah.

[Abigail]

Be part of it.

[Katie]

Permanent running.

[Abigail]

And there would just be, like, a tree face Charles with, like, a smile on it.

[Matthew]

That's what it. Well, no smile. Probably. Probably just like a little.

[Abigail]

Probably still talk to you, though, if you walked by it.

[Matthew]

Yeah, yeah, he would. He would for sure.

[Katie]

Charles, like, is. Is the backbone of Running Springs.

[Abigail]

Was that the campaign?

[Katie]

Yeah, the campaign.

[Abigail]

Charles is the backbone.

[Katie]

Tilt A World operators are the backbone of this country. Anyway, that's Charles. I wish so bad that we could talk about some. Some. Some subjects on here, and I could. I could have free will of speaking.

[Abigail]

If we did a uncensored podcast.

[Katie]

No. Well, that. But if we ever decided, hey, we're going full force with a reality TV show that shows all the drama, all the behind the scenes, all of the relationships, how, you know, whatever a. It would only be one season. They would. It could. It. We could never recover after everyone watches like the behind, you know, like this.

[Matt]

You think everyone would like turn on each other.

[Abigail]

I don't feel like everybody. Like, I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

[Matthew]

I don't think people are necessarily like me. It's not that people are mean to each other. It's just like the lore. It's like, it's like I'm not even.

[Katie]

Talking about necessarily like, like, just like these people. I'm talking about there are 20 something people that make this farming operation go round. So. And there's. There's some people that aren't necessarily working here anymore. So there's. There's things in the past five years that have happened that I'm like, if we had a reality show while that was happening. Oh my gosh. Like Snapchat does do a little bit of extra content behind the scenes where you might hear me say a cuss word or like, whatever. So like, you know, we're a little looser on Snapchat, but not to the point where we air our dirty laundry.

[Matt]

Right.

[Katie]

That's the thing. Like, that's for behind the scenes. We try to keep it profess. Ish.

[Matt]

I. I try not to keep dirty laundry.

[Katie]

Okay.

[Matthew]

Personally, I try to keep them really have any.

[Abigail]

My closet is riddled with skeletons. I have to sort through them to get my outfit for this.

[Katie]

Is it because your wife is so obsessed with Halloween, as you said earlier?

[Abigail]

That is true, but no.

[Matt]

Does she have a favorite Halloween movie just off the top of your head?

[Katie]

Hers is Hubie.

[Matt]

No.

[Abigail]

Dude, she's such a good movie.

[Matthew]

It's not.

[Katie]

I would.

[Matthew]

I don't know. I don't know that it's my favorite. I really like it at the moment.

[Abigail]

I saw that for the first time actually the other day.

[Matt]

I've watched it once. I can't remember it. I just remember enjoying it.

[Katie]

Hubie. I love it. I. For some reason, because I usually love stupid movies and like Adam Sandler, I.

[Matthew]

You did? I don't think you could tell me what it entailed.

[Matt]

Maybe you need a re.

[Katie]

Watch.

[Matthew]

I think there might have been a little like, multitasking. Oh, that's being attempted during the movie.

[Abigail]

That's how Maddie likes to watch it.

[Matthew]

No. And you can't watch a movie that way. You just can't.

[Abigail]

For me, being such a lover of the arts, Maddie is the polar opposite. I can tell you right now the plot of the. Hubie.

[Matthew]

What's. What was the plot of the movie?

[Katie]

So Hubie. Halloween is about Hubie who Lives in a small town and he is a. He's a character. Okay. Like, he's. No, he works at a little store.

[Matthew]

He.

[Katie]

Like. There's. There's this neighbor that moves in.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Katie]

And the neighbor. There's some weird. There's some weird stuff going on. Okay. No one can really figure it out.

[Matthew]

There is weird stuff coming.

[Katie]

There's some lore. There's lore that I'm having a hard time figuring out at the moment in my brain, but essentially Hubie helps figure it out.

[Matthew]

That's about like the first. So that's about like the first five minutes of the movie that you can figure that out. But yeah, that. That is. That is part of the movie. Yes.

[Matt]

You know Hubie.

[Matthew]

Yeah. You know.

[Matt]

Obviously Hubie.

[Abigail]

Right.

[Katie]

I feel like that was more than you thought I would. It is.

[Matthew]

It is more than I was expecting.

[Matt]

I thought you picked your phone up three minutes in.

[Abigail]

You made it five, I'm pretty sure.

[Matthew]

It opens with him working and then he rides his bike home in which he falls off into his new neighbor's yard. They make introductions and then the rest of the movie happens.

[Abigail]

The opening line is, my name's Huey. I work at this video store. They're having weird stuff going on.

[Katie]

Where were we when we tried to walk?

[Matthew]

We were. We were on a trip somewhere, cuz we were in a hotel.

[Abigail]

If there's a movie that I'm dying to go see, I will not take Katie.

[Matthew]

It was probably Congress.

[Katie]

You think?

[Matthew]

Cuz it would have been close to Halloween. Yeah, it was. I think it was Congress last year.

[Katie]

Congress this year is coming up. Okay? Y' all are going to your first Congress.

[Matt]

First Congress.

[Matthew]

It's coming up very soon.

[Katie]

Two weeks.

[Matthew]

Oh, God, it is.

[Katie]

Have y' all decided? Are you coming at the same time or are you both, like, doing halsies?

[Matt]

Haven't decided.

[Katie]

I mean, we have a huge. Airbnb.

[Abigail]

Hasn't.

[Matt]

Hasn't been discussed.

[Matthew]

I think y' all should both commit to the whole time this week.

[Abigail]

Actually.

[Matt]

Yeah, we got a lot.

[Matthew]

The whole eight days that we're gonna be there.

[Abigail]

Yeah, but you're gonna be having the time of your life.

[Matthew]

We're leaving on Tuesday, next Tuesday to go to New York and then we get back Thursday.

[Katie]

I don't. I'm so scared about going to New York, y'.

[Matthew]

All.

[Matt]

Why?

[Katie]

I don't. I'm like, I. I don't know that there's anything this. This year that's happening that scares me more than going to a big city without my husband that. That like I. He's like my safety net.

[Abigail]

Is it New York City?

[Katie]

Wait, you're leaving on like, New York City? Like, we're going to be right next to like the.

[Abigail]

Like, to which hotel?

[Matt]

Cuz we're also going to New York.

[Katie]

Oh, what are you doing in New York?

[Matt]

We're filming a music video for a metal band.

[Matthew]

Oh, that'll be fun.

[Katie]

That's neat.

[Matt]

That'll be really fun.

[Katie]

We're going for a conference and I'm speaking on a panel.

[Abigail]

Really?

[Matt]

Should we make it a video? We're already going to be there.

[Katie]

Yeah.

[Matt]

What if. Spitballing here. Stay one extra day. Let's make a video in New York.

[Abigail]

Could you stay an extra day?

[Matthew]

Could you come a day earlier?

[Katie]

I. I have.

[Matt]

I think a New York vlog would be.

[Abigail]

Chad, are we doing this?

[Matthew]

I have some stuff planned that weekend, but if y' all could come on and we had that day to do it and maybe like some.

[Abigail]

You're leaving and we're, you know, I mean, we may just get where we're staying. I mean, we haven't. We just now developed this idea.

[Matthew]

I think it would be. It would be cool.

[Abigail]

We'll stay.

[Matt]

I mean, you can stay at a.

[Abigail]

Holiday Inn for a hundred dollars.

[Matt]

The freaking. Whatever.

[Matthew]

We could.

[Abigail]

Y' all can do whatever we can.

[Matt]

The opening scene in Times Square, and.

[Abigail]

You say it's fall, y' all in.

[Matthew]

The building right next to Times Square, and we're gonna be like right next to the Empire. The Empire State Building is like where we're staying.

[Matt]

We could do it with.

[Abigail]

The last time I stayed in New York City. In New York City, I stayed at a hotel and it was like 150. It's like, you don't have to spend a thousand dollars.

[Matthew]

Well, I think the issue is I'm.

[Abigail]

Not talking about y' all again. This is.

[Katie]

Right.

[Abigail]

We did.

[Matthew]

I'm just explaining that we wanted to be in walking distance of the place that the this thing is at because we're really nervous about, like, the traffic.

[Katie]

We don't know how city. We don't know how.

[Matthew]

I don't know how to Uber.

[Katie]

Just.

[Matthew]

I don't know. Taxis.

[Matt]

Stay one more night. Whole extra day of content, bro.

[Abigail]

Yeah, bro.

[Katie]

And.

[Matt]

And we'll have a little.

[Abigail]

We could have like, we go out.

[Matt]

To dinner or something that evening and have fun too.

[Matthew]

I'll try. I will.

[Katie]

Look, we. We'll look into it.

[Matt]

Look, you look into it.

[Abigail]

We'll look into it.

[Matt]

Could be fun.

[Abigail]

You know, I may rent a car to drive to New York. Because I have. I kind of have to. Kind of have to. In hindsight. Why? Because I think I have to take a couple of helmets.

[Matt]

Might be more economical to drive.

[Abigail]

I mean, I'll drive. And if you wanted to ride with me, then you could just. Now that we're driving, right? And now that we're driving, we can literally go up there. When y' all go up there, we watch Katie's panel. Like, dude, guys, that would make it.

[Matthew]

So much more fun.

[Abigail]

And we have to. We're for your protect.

[Matthew]

We're not doing Nate's.

[Katie]

Like, if you have any recommendations for dinner, like a fancy dinner in New York City, you decide. If we go to $5,000, let me know.

[Abigail]

There's all kinds of places. There actually is a couple place we need to get pizza somewhere.

[Katie]

Like a nice restaurant.

[Abigail]

Y Like. But y' all do like pizza, right?

[Matthew]

Yes, for sure.

[Abigail]

There is one place we do need to get pizza, but we should go to a nice restaurant.

[Matt]

Yes.

[Matthew]

Yes, I agree.

[Abigail]

I want to figure out what we're doing.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Katie]

My.

[Matt]

But we probably will drive.

[Matthew]

My one thing. If y' all are there and we're there on a morning together, can we please go to, like, a bagel shop?

[Abigail]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

I really want most death. A good bagel.

[Matt]

Most death.

[Abigail]

Last time I was in New York, my one thing, that embarrassing story going off. Embarrassing stories that we're not talking about right now.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Abigail]

I went to a Starbucks, and it was really busy, and they're really busy in there. And I got all my drinks, and I ran into somebody and dumped all my drinks in front of them, like, all over there. And I ran out the store and ran away. Because that's one thing in New York is that you can disappear.

[Matthew]

You can.

[Katie]

Yeah.

[Abigail]

It's like you run into a crowd.

[Matt]

You duck for a second. One of those.

[Matthew]

Our hotel has a coffee shop in it, I think.

[Katie]

I. I can't remember.

[Matthew]

I looked at so many.

[Katie]

I think it does. We're just teenage girls going to go into New York.

[Abigail]

Drop your best safety tips for big city safety tips. Big city safety tips.

[Katie]

You know, we're just teenage girls. We don't know how to. We don't know how to do this.

[Abigail]

You can do Crossbox.

[Katie]

See, that's why.

[Matt]

That's why you should fly us out. We can escort. Be a larger group, all black.

[Matthew]

You know, if you're driving, we'll just cancel our flights and we'll all go together.

[Matt]

I don't think there's any shot y' all are riding in a car that long.

[Katie]

No, I was joking. No.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[Abigail]

See me, dude, I'm living for that opportunity.

[Matthew]

I honestly wouldn't mind it, but I.