My BFF Stole My Cat, Congress Talk, Am I The Worst Friend Ever?

Summary

Podcast Summary: "My BFF Stole My Cat, Congress Talk, Am I The Worst Friend Ever?"

Podcast: Katching Up With Katie
Host: Katie Van Slyke
Date: October 22, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode is a candid, lighthearted catch-up session filled with stories about farm life, horse shows, motherhood, and, infamously, a (maybe, maybe not) stolen cat. Katie is joined by close friends Becca and Matt (with input from Nate and others), and the conversation bounces between tales of the All American Quarter Horse Congress, the realities of farm animals, parenting, small-town nostalgia, and their enduring friendship. The banter is genuine, often funny, and offers a look into the rhythms of southern rural life.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Quarter Horse Congress Adventures

• First-Timer Experiences:
  • Matt, Nate, and Becca attended their first Quarter Horse Congress, a major annual horse show.
  • Becca describes Congress as a blend of “lots to watch, lots to eat, lots to shop” (03:23).
• Family & Competition Traditions:
  • Katie shares how showing at Congress shaped her youth, sometimes even taking precedence over big family events, like Becca’s wedding.
    • “You asked me to be your bridesmaid...but then you, like, crushed my dreams immediately. You're like, you can't come, though...you planned my wedding during Congress.” — Katie, (01:36)
• Kids Experiencing Congress:
  • Lots of joy seeing the event through the kids’ eyes; shopping excursions, memorable photos with champion horse Denver.
  • Anecdote about instructing the kids to “look at the horse” for the win photo, resulting in “Kinsley…burying a hole with her eyes into Denver's shoulder” (04:17–04:32).

2. The “Cat Theft” Saga

• Ongoing Joke:
  • Running gag about Becca “stealing” Katie’s barn cat, Sabrina.
  • Becca and her husband Evan love cats; Evan grew up with exotic breeds. Sabrina gravitates to him.
  • “If we didn’t even ask. We said, ‘we’re taking Sabrina.’ And you were like, ‘no, you’re not.’” — Becca (13:08)
• Clarification for Fans:
  • Many listeners are invested in Sabrina’s fate; Katie clarifies: “Sabrina is not coming home with me...she pops in and visits, but she’s not there all day.” — Becca (17:44)
  • Discussion on barn cat versus house cat ‘savvy’ and why it’s hard for older cats to adapt between lifestyles.
• Farm Animal Dynamics:
  • Lighthearted debates about pet hierarchy, integrating new animals, and how parenthood changes one’s capacity for pet messes (15:00).

3. Lifelong Friendship & No Drama

• Easy Camaraderie:
  • The group reflects on their friendship, noting there’s never been a serious falling out, partially due to their age gap and non-competitive dynamic.
    • “I honestly feel like our age difference saved us from…any big spat.” — Katie (30:57)
  • Memorable “bad friend” moment: Katie once slept through a pre-dawn babysitting call when Becca went to give birth (33:33–34:47).
    • “I was late to having my own baby.” — Becca (34:22)
    • “That is my chronic flaw, my chronic flaw is I will always be 15 minutes late.” — Katie (34:46)
• On Differences and Friendship Strength:
  • Strong friendship endures because they respect boundaries and have separate interests/social circles.
  • “We could never live together. We know the limit.” — Katie & Becca (31:41–31:48)
  • “There’s things you’re into that I’m just, like, not, and so I just, like, just leave. Yeah.” — Becca (31:51)

4. Farm & 4H Animal Updates

• Kids and Showing Animals:
  • Presley plans to show her first livestock in 4H; anticipation for calves and possibly a blue roan Simmental.
  • Update on Bo, the beloved, aging family horse who now faces health issues (ring bone and possible future hardship).
    • “We could be faced with some, like, really difficult decisions on his part. So, yeah, I’m really praying that we don’t have to do that.” — Katie (22:03)
    • “The day that anything happens to Bo will be the hardest of any animal on this property.” — Becca (20:21)

5. Small Town & School Reflections

• Stories about small-town schools, neighbors thinking they’re sisters, and friends with “Disney witch school”-sounding high school names (Ravenwood) add local flavor.
• “Ravenwood sounds like a Disney witch school.” — Matt (27:39)

6. Social Media & Recognition

• Becca is occasionally recognized because of her association with Katie online; Evan gets stopped too.
• Running joke that Matt and Nate are frequently mistaken for each other by fans.
  • “You are one person to the Internet.” — Katie (38:11)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I would have zero worry about [Presley] getting on [Denver], like, at home or something. Like, maybe not in the big business…” — Katie (05:13)
• “She’s a cat girl. She wants to show cats, so that’s fine.” — Katie, about Kinsley’s aspirations (06:30)
• “[Sabrina] will just disappear for, like, three days, and then she’ll come back with some sort of war wound, and we gotta doctor on her for, like, three days. And then she leaves again.” — Katie (13:38)
• “I just don’t like live music ever.” — Becca on personal tastes (32:12)
• “That is my chronic flaw, my chronic flaw is I will always be 15 minutes late. And I hate that about myself.” — Katie (34:46)
• “Have you ever had a falling out? No. Never. Never…I think it was mostly when I was younger and you were so much older than me… our age difference saved us…” — Katie & Becca (30:01–31:10)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:00–03:23 | Quarter Horse Congress, missing Becca’s wedding, family traditions
• 03:23–05:59 | Becca’s first Congress experience, shopping & win-photo memories with kids
• 06:30–08:54 | Showing cats, barn cats vs. house cats, animal show nostalgia
• 13:07–17:44 | The “stolen cat” saga and clarifying Sabrina’s status
• 18:00–24:20 | 4H show animal plans for the kids, Bo’s health struggles, family history with horses
• 30:01–31:48 | Friendship dynamics, why there’s “never been drama”
• 33:33–34:47 | The 4AM “bad friend” baby story
• 37:03–38:11 | Social media recognition antics, Matt and Nate confusion
• 27:39–28:12 | “Ravenwood” high school magical name riffing

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Overall Tone and Takeaways

Funny, easy, and driven by the real warmth of longstanding friendships and rural life. Katie and her crew don’t shy from poking fun at themselves, admit to their quirks, and lean into the big and small dramas of country life—whether it’s horses, kids, or cats. The “cat theft” arc is a recurring joke but handled with a wink to the audience. At the heart, this episode underscores loyalty, growing up together, and embracing change with humor.

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Listeners will enjoy: behind-the-scenes farm tales, lessons on animal care and kids, genuine friendship moments, and the constant dance between chaos and routine on a working ranch.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome back to catching up with Katie. This. I'm not gonna lie to you. We are hustling to get this video out to y' all because we have been gone for, like, nine days. Matt and Nate both experienced their first congress, their quarter horse Congress.

[B]

And, yeah. Becca.

[A]

You don't know Becca Miller.

[C]

You know her.

[A]

She also came to her first congress.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So I know that was your first. Yeah.

[B]

I need to show Icare try. I did Hunter jumper stuff.

[A]

So we're not going to get all into the courthouse congress. We'll, like, talk about the first couple of days from where Becca and Matt were there, because Abigail's not here today, so we're gonna do a second episode about it and about the meet and greets and about New York. That'll be later. But today, fun fact about Congress, that is why I missed your wedding.

[B]

That is. Wow.

[A]

So back in the day, you got married.

[C]

I did over the. Over this weekend, yeah.

[B]

Second. Second marriage.

[A]

So when I was. Let's see. I've been going to the congress my entire life just to go. Because it was like, a dream to show there at some point. And then I started showing when I was 13, and that's kind of like the show that you work towards, like, all year long. Like, you don't have to qualify for it, but you work all year long towards the Congress and the World show. And at that point, I don't think I was showing at the world show yet. I don't think I was quite there. I think I was still, like, in the younger classes. But it was so funny because you asked me to be your bridesmaid, which I. I think I would have been, like, just out of being, like, a junior bridesmaid. I think I was, like, 16.

[B]

It was kind of. No offense.

[A]

It was obligatory.

[B]

It was. Yeah. It was like a family obligation.

[A]

Absolutely. And she, like, proposed to me with this little princess ring and was like, will you be my bridesmaid? And I was like, yes. But then you, like, crush my dreams immediately. You're like, you can't come, though. And I was like, what? And you're like, I'm. I planned my wedding during Congress.

[C]

But it is cool that she went through the process, though. Like, she could have just been like, hey, I know you can't go, so I'm not even gonna get. I'm not gonna go through the trouble. Like, she at least went through the.

[A]

She was like, I'm releasing you of feeling bad. You're going to Congress.

[C]

That's a great friend. I know a lot of friends that would not do that.

[A]

It is. I was nice lady. So my parents had spent money all year me showing leading up to, like, this show.

[C]

I do forget about the age difference.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. And I got married pretty young, so. We got married young, too.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm 17. Because if you were.

[B]

I was 22.

[A]

I was probably 16. We're like five. We're like five.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Years. So, yeah, like 16. And she was like, you're good. So I went and showed, and she went and got married. Arguably, I had the better time.

[C]

Arguably, yes.

[B]

Not sure about that. I heard.

[A]

I'm just kidding. I heard your wedding was a throwdown.

[B]

It was. It was actually pretty wild.

[A]

I didn't get there, so I don't know. And now it was probably. I would have liked to have attended your wedding.

[B]

21 plus at.

[A]

21 plus. Yes. I don't think I would have had a fun time at 16 because I was a nervous Nelly around. Like, I'm like. Like, I was such a rule follower.

[B]

Yeah. I got pretty crazy. It's a good time.

[A]

But, yeah. So that was like, our first experience with Congress was that you were like, you don't have to come because you're going to Congress. So how with that being like, I've talked about it for that long, like, 15 years to you. What was your thoughts at your first All American Quarter Horse Congress?

[B]

It was good. Lots to watch, lots to eat, lots to shop.

[A]

Yeah. We did go shopping. Her little girls, we. We shopped till we dropped on the one day that you were there. She did get to come and see Denver win his first Congress championship, which was really, really fun. So we did a picture, like, a win picture, because Denver won his halter class with Jason Smith. The.

[B]

The picture.

[A]

We did a, like, win picture. So everyone lines up and in halter because it's. It's based on the horse. Like, you honor the horse. They always say to look at the horse in my halter picture. We didn't, but Jason was like, we're looking at the horse.

[B]

Okay. Yeah. That was different.

[A]

Yeah. We've never done that before, but we were like, okay, cool.

[B]

So Jason's, like, understood the assignment.

[A]

She did.

[B]

She follows rules. Okay.

[A]

That's a nice shoulder. Like, okay. So we told the girls, because we did one picture without them, and then we did one picture with them, and we told the girls. We're like, okay, everyone look at the horse. So everyone's, like, looking at Denver's head. Like, Kinsley, which is her littlest girl, is like, burying a hole with her eyes into Denver's shoulder, she is just like. I'm looking at the horse.

[C]

That was awesome.

[A]

She's like, I'm looking so intently at the horse. So it's such a fun, cute picture that we have now. Cause she's so little.

[B]

She was so serious, too. She was like.

[A]

Yeah. She did not want to mess it up.

[B]

No. But also, like, Denver kept shifting a little bit because they were trying to get him. And, you know, she's not a big horse.

[A]

No.

[B]

She's not a big fan. And so her whole body was just, like, rigid.

[A]

And she was like.

[B]

Was like, you're fine, you're fine.

[A]

But, well, I mean, he's huge to her, you know?

[B]

Well, then Presley's like, can I get on him? Like, no, she wanted to be on his back in the picture.

[A]

She can get on him because Nate's been on him.

[C]

Yeah. Like, early days.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You got on him with Gerald out there. The giraffe.

[B]

Yeah. Did you high five the giraffe?

[A]

I wish Abigail got on him in freaking Birkenstocks and shorts. Like, he's the. I would have zero skills. I would have zero fear.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

About Presley getting on Denver, like, at home or something. Like, maybe not in the big business. I would have zero worry about her getting on him.

[B]

She would love that. But.

[A]

Yeah, that was just hilarious.

[B]

The.

[A]

The picture of them just like, Presley.

[B]

Was looking at the looking up.

[A]

She understood. But Kinsley's little, and she. She did her. Her best. We went shopping with them, and that was like a whole other cool experience experiencing, like, that world and the congress through, like, little kids eyes. I don't know. It was fun. Like, they were just, like, bewildered by the choices, too.

[B]

King was cup. That was like, the first item she saw was this cup. And we didn't see it, so we went, AI. Lilo and Stitch.

[A]

Lilo and Stitch cup.

[B]

It was like $30.

[A]

I'm like, I have been sent no less than 70 of these in my P.O. box that are in my cabinet. I could give you one at home. I was like, baby, we got some at home that are awesome. Do you want one?

[B]

She wanted that one.

[A]

That's what she wanted. We tried to get her to get some sort of cowgirl something.

[B]

So she's gonna hold her.

[A]

She's not really our cowgirl, though.

[B]

No, she's cat girl.

[A]

She's a cat girl. She wants to show cats, so that's fine. I don't know if y' all ever. We're getting, like, kind of off topic, but showing Cats. Nate asked how. How that.

[D]

I didn't even know that was a thing.

[A]

So I've. I don't think I've ever laughed as hard because I. I don't want to say I'm laughing at showing cats. If you show cats, that's awesome.

[B]

I said, people watch horse shows and think the same thing about us.

[A]

I'm not laughing at you showing cats. I'm laughing because it was late one night, and my first experience seeing someone showing cats, it was on Tik Tok. And I just was like, that's kinsley. Yeah. In 40 years. Like, it was this lady, and she had this long, like. Because they. They go off of their. Like, the long tubularness of their body and, like, I don't know all these different things. And she. This cat was just being manhandled. She's sitting there, like, you know, moving it around. Like, the video was hilarious. Because I have zero.

[B]

Yeah. Like.

[A]

Like, I didn't know anything about that. And so I was just like, that's gonna be Kinsley. She doesn't want to show horses.

[C]

My first thought was, like, they get him out there in the pen, and they're like. And now.

[B]

It'S, like, stretching them and. And, like.

[D]

So it's more like a halter type.

[C]

Deal kind of like SFA stuff.

[A]

You know how they show bunnies?

[B]

Yeah, I showed bunnies.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I wanted to really bad bunnies. Were you in. Did you have a.4 bunnies.

[B]

Hair bunnies?

[C]

Yeah, probably.

[B]

It was just in 4H. It wasn't that serious.

[D]

I wasn't living that life then.

[A]

Fun time. I always wanted to get into something that wasn't horses, and I tried to be. This is my chicken. Hatred goes far. I tried to do chickens, and it just. I hated them.

[B]

You did goats from, like, a young age, though. You had Buddy.

[A]

Buddy was like, I didn't have a show goat.

[B]

No, but he was like.

[A]

But I'm just saying, I tried to get into something with four H that wasn't horses.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And, like, it just never worked out.

[B]

You did the horse bone hippology, didn't you?

[A]

I did.

[C]

I feel like you would have done well in pig showing.

[A]

With my stank face?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, you got. You got the face for it. So I feel like pig showing is just so much more intense than horse showing.

[A]

When you were making fun of me, taking pictures of my face when I.

[D]

Was riding Denver, I wasn't taking pictures of your face. I was taking pictures of the whole thing and then severely zooming in on.

[A]

Your face, because every Time he took a picture of my face, it was just like. It's like, yeah, well, it's a little more intense that.

[C]

All right, guys, Today we're riding Denver. I hope he does good. Have so much fun today.

[A]

I promise I'm having. I promise I'm having fun when I'm up there. It's just something.

[C]

It's not even like. It's not even like you're not having fun. It's just like, you're just. It's not like a displeased face. It's just a. I mean, like, you're going in, like, fight night. It's like, this is it. It's all on the line. You put everything on the line every time you get on a horse, and that's okay.

[B]

I.

[C]

That's a good quality.

[A]

I have been told my entire life, growing up, did I not used to have the dumbest looking face?

[B]

Like, no, you still get it sometime when you're watching tv. Remember that picture I took of you a few weeks ago? Literally, mouth open.

[C]

But that's like.

[B]

That's when, you know, like, that's when it didn't stop.

[A]

She's like, no, but it's not even like that because you have a little bit of smile on your face. It is just the most, like, dead expression.

[B]

Mouth open.

[C]

It's like a toddler walking into the living room with their sippy cup and they look at the TV and they just stop.

[A]

No, literally, I was watching this, like, unicorn show.

[B]

Yeah, you're watching Unicorn Academy with the girls. And I zoomed in and she was like, do not put that on the Internet.

[A]

I was in. But, like, I. That. That was my face, my show face growing up. And it just looked so dumb. Like, I looked like there was nobody home. And so my mom would be like, shut your mouth. Like, like, I'd be going around the rail and my trainer, my mom would, like, get on other sides of the thing, like, shut your mouth. Shut your mouth. And so now, like, to. To make sure that, like, we are. We are together. It just comes out really intense, you know?

[C]

Yeah, it's fine.

[D]

That's fine.

[C]

It doesn't look bad. It doesn't look bad at all. Seriously.

[A]

When I first started showing and, like, there'd be, you know, photographers at the shows and, like, would go look at pictures afterwards. Couldn't use any of them because they're just like.

[C]

It's almost like you, like, went, like, shifted your mind into the horse and you're like, okay, I'm now taking over the horse's body. And now it's just, now you're one with. It's like, it's honestly like, it's like you really have to train for years in order to be able to get to that, that point where you can completely separate from consciousness.

[A]

I'm shifting.

[B]

Y' all remember ponytail and their tail.

[C]

It's just a moment where it's just.

[B]

Like, yeah, like they connect as one. That's why your hair is so thick and luscious.

[A]

Don't y' all remember like that, like that trend on, in like 2020 on Tik Tok where people be like, I'm shifting and they would like their, their face would glaze over and they were like saying they were like shifting into some other universe or like whatever that's.

[D]

You'Re turning into Horse.

[A]

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[C]

Even though this is catching up with.

[A]

K a little thing being like, what do y' all want me?

[B]

I know what they want to talk about.

[A]

The cat.

[B]

The cat.

[A]

So this bit has been hilarious.

[B]

So I'm gonna tell you it started.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Okay. So Evan actually loves cats. I'm not a big. I mean I like a cat but like he grew up with cats and Sabrina is obsessed with him.

[A]

Like I forget that he grew up with like, what was it?

[B]

African servals and Bengals.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Like, big cats in the house. And so, like, she jumps up on his shoulder and, like, rides around like a parrot, like, all the time. All the time.

[A]

She just knows.

[B]

And so he was like, does Katie like this cat? Yes. Like, I was like, oh, man. Yeah, she likes her cat. And he was like, what? Can we take it home? And I was like, I don't know. Text her. So we text you, and we're like, we're taking. If we didn't even ask. We said, we're taking Sabrina. And you were like, no, you're not. And then, since then, I've just been kind of like, that's ours.

[A]

And I haven't addressed it. I need to address it, because everyone's like, she's going to steal your cat.

[B]

I. I don't think people realize either that I'm at the Airbnb, because they're like, does she get along with Gabby?

[A]

I'm like, I mean, I'll just go steal Gabby.

[B]

Don't you touch Gabby. Gabby cat.

[A]

Sabrina is interesting because I think she stayed around longer with y' all being there. She's like, she's fixed. All of our. All of our cats are fixed. But she will just disappear for, like, three days, and then she'll come back with some sort of war wound. And we got a doctor on her for, like, three days. And then she leaves again.

[B]

Like, she leaves me a mouse or a mole or something every day on the doorstep. So every day before, when I open the door, there's a treat there for me. It's disgusting. And she. Honestly, she's not there that much. I see her in the morning. Yeah. And then I see her at night. And then I don't see her the rest of the day. I don't know where she is.

[A]

Like, in the house. She's never been in the house in her life.

[B]

She's asleep on the couch right now in the house.

[A]

She's never been in the house in her life. She is. She was born in a barn. She's been raised in a barn.

[B]

She doesn't want to be in the house. She doesn't want to be in the barn. She likes the luxurious life.

[A]

She would miss her sisters.

[B]

I think that's where she's at all day.

[C]

I'll replace her. I have two that I'm looking for a home for, so Nate will be my friend.

[A]

Yours are house cats.

[B]

Yeah. I know you don't like them. What do they do? What are their faults in life?

[C]

Sometimes I'll just wake up and I'll Just look at them.

[B]

So they're doing nothing to you.

[C]

But I. Like, before, I would jump into traffic to save them at one point in time. And for whatever reason, and maybe Nate has done this to me, but for whatever reason, I just. It's like I can't do it anymore.

[B]

No, it's cause you had a kid. It happened to me with my dog.

[C]

I just. I don't want. The dog's fine. I just like, it's. Things are. Things get messy that they'll knock. We can. We can. I can deal with doing a little extra effort to clean up pet hair and stuff, but now it's just like, I don't want to do extra effort to clean up pet hair.

[B]

No, because you're cleaning up after a.

[C]

Baby and they knock over. They don't listen. You don't discipline cats. You don't train cats. They don't listen no matter how many times you sit there and whatever. So they knock all this stuff off. They knock all the flowers off, they spill water.

[A]

The names baby cat and beans.

[C]

And they're great. And then sometimes they'll just lay on there and cuddle on you and you'll pet him and like, all right, you know what? This ain't bad. But then I'll wake up and there'll be stuff everywhere, and I'll be ready to throw them outside.

[A]

So everyone's going to be a matte hater now. Because he's a cat hater.

[C]

But I still have him.

[B]

He still hasn't.

[C]

But the moment, like a big dog opportunity comes around, you're gonna get a big dog that would be replaced.

[A]

Oh, I thought you meant, like, as the moment a big dog comes around.

[C]

Sacrificed.

[A]

Sacrificed.

[C]

No. But when I get my lab puppy, they'll be gone.

[A]

That sounds so mean.

[C]

Do a better place. Like Katie's barn. I'm just going to bring him to your barn and be like, but here's the thing.

[A]

It's so hard. We've tried. It is so hard to integrate a cat that has been a house cat for years into barn life. Like, they don't have the savvy. They don't have. You have to raise them from kittens every now and then. Like, we had a friend long time ago. He was like, hey, I'm going through divorce. I love this cat. Like. And we were like, we're so sorry. We don't do house cats. And he was like, can you try putting him in the barn? His name was Earl. And we were like, sure. And Earl made it, like two days no survival instincts.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like you have. They have to have that as kittens. And like sometimes, I mean, like, you know, we had an unfortunate like one of a. One of the older kittens this past year. Like it was just that I don't know if they either got into the stall after the fact or if someone didn't know they were in there and shut the door. But Charlotte, the kitty.

[B]

Yeah. I gave you that cat. Huh? I gave you that cat.

[A]

I know. Kinsley still doesn't know.

[B]

No, we haven't told my kids.

[A]

Every now and then Kinsley be like, where's Harvey?

[B]

I'm like at the cow barn. He.

[A]

He's around here somewhere. You know that pesky Harvey.

[B]

I can tell her a horse was gone before a cat's gone.

[D]

So now she owes you a cat.

[B]

One would say you'd be like, he's at the cowboy cat for a cat.

[C]

And if you close your eyes you can still hear him.

[B]

No, that just happens. Like just statistically, like.

[A]

Well, we got four kittens.

[B]

There's.

[A]

There's still three.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, like it just unfortunately takes one to learn.

[C]

They gotta watch.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But yeah, so many of these about the cat or about the cat?

[B]

So just to clear it up, Sabrina is not coming home with me. I. I do love Sabrina. She's a fun cat. She's pops in and visits, but she's not there all day.

[C]

If you get Sabrina, then I get. What's his name.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Salem. I would take Salem over Sabrina.

[A]

Sabrina, like Salem is really fun.

[C]

Salem's great.

[A]

So someone said, are your girls gonna Show Anything in 4H like any of their livestock? Do you have any. Is Presley gonna do any of the. Your calves?

[B]

Yes. So this cabs born this year hitting the ground will be her first batch of show caps. So make sure we have like a. There's different classes so we can do a short horn, we can do a simtall class. We can do like a sim plus class.

[A]

So Sim plus is like a cross.

[B]

Yeah. So we have a few lined up. We still have I think six or seven calves to go.

[A]

Is it going to be too late? Because I would say. Cuz sometimes it's fun if you're in like a class with like all black cows or all red cows to have like something of a different color if you can in that breed. So we did like talk about like a blue roan sim for her to show. And if my blue roan girls have blue roans, like I would say Moon Pie has the best confirmation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Maybelle she's not growing up the way I would want her to. And so this is her first baby. After that, she's probably going to be a reset.

[B]

Are they fall this year?

[A]

They're December.

[B]

Oh, they'd make it. We said they'd make it through some feed to them. Okay. Like, beef them up.

[A]

And I will say, because they've got that, like, older blood, like, I feel like they're a bigger.

[B]

Yeah, you know, they'd be ready.

[A]

They're bigger because we bred them a smidge early because they were already £750 to like, try to get them. Them, you know, on our timeline.

[B]

So cows and horses, for sure.

[A]

I don't think anything else, unfortunately, I don't think Bo is going to be in the running for her to show in the 4H. I kind of always hoped.

[B]

Yeah. And she's a little spooked by. Bo is not as chill as, like, Ethel or.

[A]

I think it's from pain because, you know, we've. We've been like, the last couple of years really, like, starting to battle some things. He went for, like, 20 years of his life having zero issues.

[B]

And.

[A]

And so he's 25. He's about to be 26 this week. He was just diagnosed with ring bone.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Ring bone is, like, severe changes in the joint. So his ring bone is in, like, the. It's not the coffin, it's like the ankle joint. And we just injected it. He's always needed, like, some hock injections ever since he was, like, in his late teens. And so we normally, over the summer and through the fall, like, have him in regular work. And we're riding him two or three days a week, and Presley's riding him and I'm, you know, getting on him. And we. I think I wrote him one time earlier in the year, and after that, like, haven't been able to really do it.

[B]

I think she's wrote him around just, like, bareback a few times. That's her normal. But I'm not saying this is gonna happen, but I will say the day that comes that anything happens to Beau will be the hardest of any animal on this property. I think for everybody. But definitely the girls, like, especially Presley. That'll be.

[A]

They love each other.

[B]

Like, I have pictures of her childhood. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, not just them, it's gonna be everybody. But I have pictures, literally, like four months old of us, like, on boat, like, holding her. Her sitting on bow. And, like, we're hiding, like, you know.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Like, we're not holding her on there, like, so that one video. Cute.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. There's a video of Presley and she's like, so cute. What would you say? Almost two?

[B]

Or like. No, Kinsley was alive. So she's almost three.

[A]

Almost three.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She's just like my Bobo Q. What Bobo doing? Or she was like, she would pretend to get on the phone and call Bo.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyway, he was diagnosed with ring bone.

[B]

The.

[A]

And like, he's always had, like, ever since he was in training, the trainer we had him with made some poor decisions on his part and, like, kind of caused a suspensory issue. And so he's kind of like had to have his suspensories babied for his entire life. Like, we always wrap him. We will always, like, take care of those, like, soft tissue issues. And that's kind of bothering him now. And so the vet was out while I was gone, and he said, you know, we can inject it. Hopefully that's going to help. And then maybe he just needs to be on routine stuff. Like right now we have him on, like, attic wand and things for arthritis and like, that's been doing well. And he gets like, PEMF and all that good stuff. But if injections aren't really working, then he's going to need to be, like, a little more confined. And I'm like, bo's not going to be just confined.

[B]

No, he'll be anxious.

[A]

Like, that's not his life. So, like, we're kind of at a point where it could work or we could be faced with some, like, really difficult decisions on his part. So, yeah, I'm really praying that we don't have to do that.

[C]

How old is he now?

[A]

Almost 26.

[C]

I mean, he's up there.

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah. Like, it's that point where.

[C]

Where you don't even. Like, it's almost like in a pet, for example, like, you.

[B]

You.

[C]

That's what you want them to get to, but you don't.

[A]

Because there's some horses, they can go into their 30s and are completely fine. And then there's some horses that start having these issues and they're teens. And then there's like. I remember we looked at a horse when I was in my teens and it was like a really high dollar horse. We were looking for my next show horse and it had ring bone at five.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Like, there's no way it lived past eight. No way. And so I'm like, we're, you know, in some cases, we're really lucky. That he, you know, made it to this point without having like really any issues. But it is also the point where it's. He's not like if we had to like confine him to like a small space or whatever. He's not being like his. The longevity of his like, like okay, Beyonce for instance.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She does not care. She is happy go lucky eating her hay chilling out and she'd be happy in a stall. She. She just doesn't care. Like that's her boy would not do well. So anyway, we'll have to kind of cross that bridge. We'd really, really hoped that he would have been like my kid's horse and like.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, Presley. 4H and it. I don't. I don't foresee that happening. Annie and Ethel and yeah. All those. She'll. She'll always have like you know, a good one.

[B]

But. And by then we may. I mean, you know, I've been kicking around getting her her own pony. Right now she rides like three different lesson ponies. She goes to lesson like she rides here but she goes to like structured lessons every week. And there's always some competition. It shows and things of who gets to show. Because the pony availability.

[A]

Getting like a little quarter pony that was registered quarter horse but is like on the smaller side.

[B]

It has to be big enough I can get on.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because why would I get something that like a.

[A]

Like a 14 hand. 14 one hand. Like little quarter pony that could do the hunters but could also go like.

[B]

I don't know, all around. Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

It could be really cute.

[B]

Maybe. Maybe in the next year.

[A]

Shelling out that money though people do.

[B]

Not understand how much kid ponies cost.

[A]

Like because people don't put a price on their child's safety.

[B]

Same like.

[A]

Yeah. And so that's that kid ponies, they might look ugly and they might not be the fanciest.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But if you got a good kid pony there for a minute. That was the only horses we ever made money on growing up was my ponies that were like bomb proof when we'd sell them, when I'd outgrow them. Yeah.

[C]

I've just never seen. And we just may not have had it, but I've never seen horses in 4H ponies in 4H.

[B]

Really.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

We just may not have had it. I do remember specifically there was actually one girl that. And I've never brought this up here. Her name was Addison Cleaver. Hey Addison, if you're brought this up.

[A]

Here, I was married to her for a bit.

[C]

Nope. But she was a horse girl, and I believe she was in English setting. She was kind of like a mini you, because, like, in school, like, we had a day where I was just vividly. Remember this, like, elementary school or middle school, we had a day where everybody went to her barn because she had a border barn and she was in. I think she got into English. Get up the helmet and the dress up. And she did, like, a little performance for this class or something very. Something like, you would.

[A]

High that I would have gotten.

[C]

I know, but you never do that.

[A]

The high that I would have gotten.

[C]

Did you never do that?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

No. So the only event we had, I did take a. I took a goat to show and tell. I think I took a pony to show and tell. I think we took Shammy. My. My Little Pony.

[B]

I think I remember that.

[A]

But the only time I had, like, a field trip to my house was. Was when I was in a sorority and we pledged at my house.

[C]

Really? Wow. You.

[D]

You would have been on top of the world, dude. Like, the class came to your house.

[C]

Middle school. Middle school, you get to. Hey, Katie, what do you do? Why don't you show us? Why don't you show us what horseshoe.

[A]

Had been in that circumstance. Like, like I said, that high would have gotten me through high school. High school. Like, I would have just ridden it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Remember that time.

[D]

Sure beats bringing your photos to class.

[A]

I did video, too.

[C]

PowerPoint for every presentation.

[D]

Look what I did this weekend.

[A]

I'm like, hey, I know. These people are uncultured. I brought this video of me showing.

[C]

And waited until, like, halfway through.

[A]

I didn't do that past elementary.

[D]

See that lead change?

[A]

No, no, no. This was me on my, like, little horse.

[B]

She wasn't doing no lead changes.

[A]

No, no, no, no.

[B]

We had a field trip, though, to our. Like, in elementary school. People came, and my dad, like, because.

[A]

You had goats and you had.

[C]

Her barn was also right next to the school, though. So, like, everybody walked. Her barn was, like, right next to this.

[B]

What was her name? Addison Cleaver.

[C]

Where did you go to school?

[A]

At Nolensville Elementary. But then I went to Lipscomb for, like.

[C]

Yeah, I've never seen, like, right through college. And we won't get that here.

[A]

But what little college I went to.

[C]

I've never even seen a school here.

[B]

There's a lot. There's a lot.

[C]

I've seen a couple.

[D]

Yeah. I drive through a school.

[A]

They kind of lights are like.

[B]

They look like prisons, do they not? Yeah, it's like three buildings all connected. Like, they literally look like a prison.

[C]

Do they have a high school here?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

No, I didn't. We just stopped at middle school, and we didn't complete high school.

[C]

Well, it's like, you know how, like, Nashville. Like, everything's Nashville. Like, Franklin's Nashville. So, like, where people go to high school.

[B]

So there was not a high school. When I was in high school, I had to drive, what, like, 30 to Ravenwood? I guess I had to drive, like, three.

[A]

John came with Ravenwood, too.

[C]

Ravenwood sounds cool. Ravenwood sounds like a. Like a Disney witch school.

[D]

Yeah, it sounds like. It sounds like they have a building on campus that, like, the normies can't see.

[C]

Yeah, it's like you go in and, like, you stack your. You stamp your staff, and then the Ravenwood eye comes out.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Ravenweed.

[D]

The vines start going over the door.

[B]

And it just appears.

[C]

I'm Katie, a half vampire, half werewolf. At Ravenhood. Waven. Ravenwood High. Wavenwood High. I literally am so underappreciated.

[B]

Anyway. Okay.

[A]

I was such a square, though. I wouldn't have even known anything was going on if I went to Ravenwood. Anyway, speaking of that, were you there during. Yeah. You were filming the whole thing, so. You're gonna laugh at this.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

So should I wait to tell this story when Dale's here?

[B]

Yeah, wait for.

[D]

Yeah, wait for Dale. If Dale is involved, she'll want to comment.

[A]

She'd want to comment on this.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I didn't know how to use a lighter anyway.

[B]

Sounds. Yeah, like a normal. Just like.

[C]

We might have to go in a little bit more detail on that.

[A]

Anyway. Never. Never needed it anyway, so.

[C]

Gas pump back to you over here.

[A]

Back to you. We have 15 minutes. Let me get. Yeah, we're at these cat comments.

[B]

I do like the cat, but she's not coming home with me.

[C]

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

[A]

Me living. Living on a compound with me. And we just won't talk to anyone else. I mean, kind of.

[B]

I mean, it's kind of the life right now. Definitely bigger land, more farm that's ours. Not having to lease from family members where we have our cows now. Homeschooling would be ideal.

[D]

Really?

[B]

Oh, yeah. That's been. That's why I started social media, was to be able to afford doing that.

[C]

That's cool.

[D]

I want to do that, too.

[B]

Yeah. A horse of my own again. Riding again.

[A]

And I would love to see you have your, like, a horse that, like, is you time, you know?

[B]

Yeah. Much a slower life. I just think, like, I'D go from like 4:30 to 11 every single day.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm freaking tired, so I think just a slower life.

[A]

Someone asked if we've ever had a falling out.

[B]

No. Never. Never. I don't get mad. Like, we don't stay mad.

[A]

And honestly, like, I think. I think it was mostly when I was younger and you were so much older than me. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're ever, like. If I was ever, like, bratty or like, whatever, you know what I'm saying? Like, like, we never. I think it saved us with the fact that when I was going through my 12, 13 year old, like, meh, you were already, like, over that hump and you were like 18, 19. And there was like, periods of time where, like, we still were close but not together every day or whatever. I honestly feel like our age group or age difference saved us from, like, any big spat or any big whatever. Because, like, by the time we were both on the same kind of, like, mindset or whatever, we were adults. There was never really a time. Like, it was always like a very big sister. Little sister or like, I don't know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, we were never. There was never any competition. There was never any. Like, we never competed against each other. We never. I don't know, I feel like that saved us.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because there was never anything where we would have to be like.

[B]

Yeah. You know, also, I just don't feel like we get like. I mean, they're gonna be like, y' all say stuff all the time. Like, we don't get that mad. Like, we may be like, oh, we're so mad, but then we're over something in like two seconds. Like.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

How many long standing things have you ever heard us be?

[A]

Like, I don't even know the last time I've been like. Like, I'm trying to think of anything.

[B]

I bet if I think real hard, I'll think something.

[A]

I'm trying to think of anything because honestly, we both just, like, are nice to each other.

[B]

And if, like, I feel like if we, like, are like, annoyed with each other. Like, not, like, annoyed.

[A]

We could never live together.

[B]

No, absolutely.

[A]

We could never live together.

[C]

Maybe that's when we saved Grace.

[A]

But we know that.

[B]

Yeah, we know the limit there.

[A]

And like, honestly.

[B]

And there's. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but, like, there's things you're into that I'm just like, not. And so I just, like, just leave. Yeah. Like.

[C]

And they do make the best friends, though, having those differences.

[A]

She does not Want to sit around a campfire and jam. She does not want to listen. If I ever put music out, her kids will listen to it. She will not. Like, there's just things.

[B]

I just don't like live music ever.

[A]

Like, there's just things she doesn't like, and that's fine.

[D]

That's okay.

[A]

And she's got, like. I don't know. We both have, like, a separate friend group apart from each other. Yeah, we don't really have any. Like, we do, but we don't really have any. Like, we're a duo. We don't have anybody else that's, like, both of our besties. Like, I'm friends with your friends because they're your friends and your friends with my friends because they're my friends. But we don't have any.

[D]

Like, y' all don't mix groups.

[A]

Yeah, not really.

[B]

I feel like Jonathan would be the only one not like Jonathan.

[A]

Yeah. Mowgli.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Would be more of your friend, though.

[C]

Mowgli.

[B]

I claim him.

[A]

Yeah. Because he's your age. School together.

[D]

Mowgli nickname.

[B]

It's his nickname.

[A]

We've called him Mowgli's whole life.

[C]

That would be cool if it was his real name.

[A]

No, his name's Jonathan. But there's so many.

[B]

So many Jonathan's.

[A]

I. I've never really put this together. I feel like all of those things are the reason we have never really had, like, a thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I think the age difference. We've never, like, we both did horses. Never competed against each other.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We, you know, both grew up in the same town, different ages. Never a boy that would have ever been, like, a thing. Because, like, when you were dating Evan.

[B]

I was like, yeah.

[A]

Literally.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, there's. There's never been a time where there even could have been really, like, something to fight any sort of competition. Any sort of, like. Well, like, I don't know.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, I know. When I was mad at you, when I thought of it, I can think of a time. This is justified. This is not gonna. It's not gonna be good on your part. Okay. So I call my best friend and I'm like, hey, girl, I gotta have a baby. You gotta be here at 4:30am to take my other child so I can go have this baby. Okay, so 4:30am I don't even know this. You were there. 4:30am rolls around, here's pregnant, me ready to go have my baby. I got my other kid. I can't go to the hospital. Okay. And I'm like, 4 34, 35. 4, 44, 45. No. Katie. Katie hasn't shown up. Where's Katie?

[A]

I don't even remember that. I remember taking her home with her.

[B]

So I call her. Literally. You answered the phone, you said, I'm on the way. I'm getting up right now. I'm waking up. She was still asleep. Still asleep.

[A]

I blocked it.

[B]

I was late to having my own baby. Wow.

[A]

Yeah, I blocked it from my memory.

[D]

That's hilarious.

[C]

You must have.

[B]

I was. I mean.

[A]

Me and Presley had a good time. Me and Presley had a great time.

[B]

I think I was just extra. I was having a baby that day. But she was about 20 minutes late.

[A]

No, that is.

[B]

I was about 20 minutes late.

[A]

But that's when I live a total of 10 minutes away from you.

[B]

So that was.

[A]

That is on my part.

[B]

That's the only time I think I was mad.

[A]

That is my chronic flaw, my chronic flaws. I will always be 15 minutes late. And I hate that about myself. I try to, I try to plan differently.

[C]

Here's the thing though, is that you're like, you're like my wife in the sense that even though you know this about yourself, you still plan things for the first thing in the morning and we. And will be mad at yourself and like be hard on yourself when you don't follow through with that. Even though your whole life it's been like this. You'll be like, all right, 5:30, we're doing this and failure.

[A]

You know what's hilarious is that hasn't always been me. I. There is a stark difference between me, high school, me, and then there was like this veil that was cut when I went to college and I'm like a new person.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Up and through, up through. There has to be something. Therapy could probably figure out something I can tell you. But like through high school I would like be waiting on my alarm. Bop it. Get up. I was out the door by 4:45 in the morning to go to school because I would get there. Like my dad would take me to school in the mornings and so he had to be at his work meeting by 7. It was a 45 minute drive to my school. Then he had to get to work and be there like 30 minutes early. So like we would leave at 4:45 or 5 in the morning every single morning. And then when I started driving, I just was like, I love no traffic. So I'm just going to keep doing this and I'll get there and have like an hour to do my homework. And that was me Like I went to bed at 9:30, promptly up at 5. Like I don't know what happened to me.

[D]

I don't know.

[A]

And it was just.

[C]

Go back to that.

[B]

I'll fill you in later. What happened? Because watching from an older outside perspective.

[A]

Flip flop in college, do you think.

[D]

You just need a hard bedtime again?

[C]

She needs a hard mental reset.

[B]

Just.

[D]

Oh, sorry, it's 9:30, got to go.

[A]

I don't really. You wouldn't go to bed past 8:30 anymore. Used to be I could sleep till noon and like I would just sleep and I had this really weird flip depression.

[B]

I was about to say, I remember there's a man. And then you get really sad.

[C]

That'll do it.

[A]

Yeah, but yeah, like now it's like I can't really because I still stay up late. I'm a night owl. Like I productive at night, but I. I can't really sleep past 8 or 8:30.

[C]

But yeah.

[A]

Oh, someone says, have you been recognized in public yet after your. So you've. You've been doing social media for almost a year now. Have you been social? Have you been.

[B]

A couple times. The majority of them were like, when I'm with you. So it's more like a coin. Like, like they recognize you and then they tie it to me. And then Evan was stopped.

[A]

I know Evan was stopped.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Amazing.

[B]

I know.

[A]

That's so funny.

[B]

It freaked him out a little bit.

[A]

He is very like a distinguished person. Like, like the hair. I don't really think anybody looks like Evan. I don't know. Like. Like his children look identical. I don't know, the little ones start.

[B]

To look like anymore. But yeah, no, A few times I had somebody in car rider line. Like, I thought they want to talk to the kids. So I rolled the window down. They're like, I love your videos. I was like, thanks.

[A]

That's such a weird place to. To do that.

[B]

Be all right.

[A]

And then Nate and Matt this week. I'm so sorry to everyone that is going to hear this. Y', all. Y' all do not know who's who. The amount of people that called Nate, Matt and Matt Nate or just like, I don't know. You are one person to the Internet.

[C]

That makes me feel a bit better.

[A]

You are one person. They don't know who's who. And then one lady came up, sweet. She was very sweet, but she came up, bypassed me, went to Nate. She said, I'm about to make your day. And he was like. Blew right past Katie and he was like, oh, really? She Was like, I recognized you. And then she headed out. She didn't even. She didn't.

[D]

Did not wait for a response.

[A]

Didn't know she hit it out. And he was like, that's cool. So anyway.

[D]

But the only thing that would have made it better was if she had said, I'm about to make your day. I know who you are. I recognized you. Have a good day, Matt.

[A]

Right, right.

[C]

That's why she left, though. It's because she's like, you're one of them.

[A]

You're one of them. Yeah, that's the thing. They just know. They just know it's one of you. The everyone. Everyone calls Nate, Matt, Matt, Nate.

[C]

We are brothers, though, and so that's easy to.

[D]

What did that guy say?

[C]

Oh, yeah, dude. That was weird. Like, we had some dude in New York City come up to us just to confirm that we were brothers. Like, hey, are y' all brothers? And I was like, yeah. He's like, okay, just making sure.

[D]

And left and left.

[C]

Random guy.

[D]

Are y' all brothers?

[A]

Matt's like, we got asked the other day if we were sisters at the Mexican restaurant.

[B]

And I don't know how. And I was like, no, nothing alike.

[A]

I all. I'm all. When we were in the Mexican restaurant, there's a 90% chance I'm carrying one of your children.

[B]

But, yeah, where were we? At Cabos.

[A]

Yeah, it was the little. What was his name? He's got. Well, I say the little mustache, but they all have a little mustache there.

[B]

Oh, I know who you're talking about.

[A]

Is it Luis?

[B]

It's Luis. Yeah. Luis.

[A]

Yeah. He was like your sisters.

[B]

I was like, no, I didn't remember. We were at. They owned that other Mexican restaurant. What's his name? The one that always pushes margaritas. The pusher.

[A]

That's who I'm talking about.

[B]

I'm talking about another day. It was a skinnier guy with the mustache, not the pusher.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

Anyways, he was like, where's your sister? I was like, not my sister, but that's okay. Yeah.

[A]

Anyway, Rebecca has to go do her real job. She has a conference call starting now in, like, five minutes. So, anyway, hope you all enjoyed this episode. We will be doing another one with Abigail to kind of, like, talk about all of Congress and our New York trips and all the things that are upcoming. So stay tuned for that and let us know what else you would like to see. Also, because this is getting posted, like, tomorrow. Halloween merch is on sale at the moment, and there are new Thanksgiving Designs.

[B]

Use code BECCA15. Do not use code BECCA15 and get a discount for 15. Sure, sure.

[A]

That's your. That's your payment for being on the show.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

All right. See you.

[B]

Bye. Bye. I just.

[A]

I just pieced for no reason.

[B]

I'll piece, too. Did you Deuces? I like Peace.