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Welcome back to another episode of basically answering questions and talking about

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it and having a conversation with the lovely Abigail

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You can see the side of her face here

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We filmed the first two episodes of this in the same day so

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Based on what y'all like or your constructive criticism.

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We might change the way the layout is. We're not sure yet

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We're just kind of figured it out. So Abigail is

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gonna ask me some questions from my Facebook Instagram

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YouTube all those comments and we're just gonna have a conversation. So

Winston's Getting a Girlfriend?

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First question. Would you ever consider finding Winston a lady friend?

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So here's the thing Winston is not an intact

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boar. We had him castrated when he was a baby

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So at this point in his age, I feel like he would hate

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Another pig he's already not thrilled with any other human like living creature. So

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probably not

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Winston was definitely one of those things where I

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First off I thought a 30 pound pig existed. So I went bought a

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Micro mini pig when I was 18 years old

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I skipped class in college one day and drove to

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Alabama and bought him from a lady who had them in her garage

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Okay

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Like it wasn't the smartest most well-thought-out thing to get this pig and then

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definitely learned a lot of things that I shouldn't have done

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Can't fix it now. So I'm not opposed to ever getting more

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pigs in the future. I just I don't think it will be well

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Winston's here

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If that makes sense

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Okay, so no friends for no friends for Winston probably

Are You Getting a Giraffe?

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Are you going to get a giraffe at some point? I

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Think I'm just

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The whole getting to go visit them

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It's like having a niece when you don't want to have kids of your own

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You just you know, you cuddle them you love them and then you just hand them off

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I get to go visit it and then I don't have to

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Build gigantic buildings for them and I don't even

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think you could in Tennessee like that's Texas is wild

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You can have like anything in Texas. So no kind of related to that

Dream Animal Interaction?

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But it says what is your dream animal interaction without consequence?

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So like any animal if it wasn't dangerous

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I want to I just want to like like swim with and snuggle a

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Sea cow so bad what a manatee manatee

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It's not allowed and they're so sweet

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You can swim with them though.

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I think there's like one spot you're allowed to

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You're not supposed to touch them because they're so friendly

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That then they get hurt by boats and stuff So I want to unashamedly be able to

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Just like go give them love and swim with them

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The sea cow.

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Which is so funny.

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I think it's an inherited thing because my great grandmother

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Used to live in florida and she like loved manatees

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And she had this manatee that would come to her spot near her house

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and she'd go feed it and stuff and she

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I have a gold manatee necklace that I wear sometimes

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that she gave to me.

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That's cool.

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Yeah.

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Manatee lore.

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Would you ever consider having llamas?

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Llamas, mm.

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I had friends with llamas,

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and so they told me all the bad,

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and now I'm like a little gun shy of llamas.

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Like I'm very much into the low maintenance

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of the like, like horses are very high maintenance.

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Cows, the way we do it,

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is seemingly high maintenance a lot of the time.

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Like when it comes to my goats

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and like the animals that I keep at my farm,

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I like to, of course I want to take care of them,

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but I want like low maintenance.

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So like llamas and sheep and all that good stuff,

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they have to be like shorn, they spit at you.

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They have like health issues that I just don't know

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if I'm willing to like commit to.

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So I don't know, probably not.

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Right now, I say that.

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We'll see.

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From the YouTube video of us going to see Denver,

Denver and Happy Foal?

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a lot of people had ideas for babies,

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and someone said they would love to see a Denver

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in Happyful.

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What do you think about that?

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So I think genetically it would be okay.

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Like I would not breed Happy to Code Red

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because they're just so close.

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I think it's far enough removed

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that I could breed her to Denver.

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So I think it all depends on if she's gonna be needed

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as a re-sip because like if it came between a Happyful

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and like a Trudyful or a like, you know,

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if I got an embryo from somebody full

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that was like really, really good producing mayor,

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it's like I'd probably choose that over Happy

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since Happy doesn't have any foals that are,

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you know, Howie's her first one.

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So she doesn't have any that have gone in one.

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She herself didn't, you know, show a lot.

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So it all depends on, I guess, the certain circumstances,

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but I'm not opposed to her having a Denver foal.

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I think that'd probably be pretty cute.

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Someone also said Denver and Earline.

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Yes, that's already planned.

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That's planned.

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Next year, Denver, you know,

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we're gonna collect him this November.

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The plan is to breed him to Annie, Earline, Trudy,

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and I'm not opposed to breeding him

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to some of my thoroughbreds.

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Like I, you know, depending on if we can get registration

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going with Charlotte or Indy, I don't know.

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We'll see where that goes.

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But eventually as well, the Buck Skinned Mayor

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that's not even here yet, you know,

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I hope to do Ixie with her so we could do a little bit

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of a Code Red and Denver.

Is Denver Leaving Texas?

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So Denver's gonna get bred to quite a few

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of the mayors for sure.

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Is Denver going to be coming to the farm

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since you want to show him or will he stay in Texas?

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Isn't it hard to know you own a stallion as great as Whalen

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but don't get to see him every day?

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So they're both staying in Texas until further notice.

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But like with Denver, I want him to be able to go show,

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be successful, and then go on to be collected pretty quickly.

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And he needs to be in Texas for that because he,

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regardless if he's with Aaron Moses now

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and then goes on to someone else to do the trail

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or the western riding, it's gonna be in Texas.

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It's gonna be close to High Point.

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I would like Aaron to continue to work with him.

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And then be collected by High Point.

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So that all, he needs to be close with them.

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Whalen, I don't want to A, stress him out.

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That's a long frickin' drive from Texas to Tennessee.

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The liability's crazy.

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And then B, they just have it such, they have it locked down.

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They've got it going on there.

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It's so easy.

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I know he's taken care of.

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They can offer him things I can't.

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So yes, I would like to be able to see him all the time,

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but we'll do that in retirement.

Bridgerton Colin Fan?

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Okay, completely off topic.

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What do you think of the latest season of Bridgerton?

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Are you a Colin fan?

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Okay, but let me say this.

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I haven't finished the last episode.

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You can't ruin this.

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So don't say anything that would ruin everything.

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I have to be able to.

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Okay, go ahead. So I'm gonna be--

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Go ahead.

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I mean, I feel like I already know what's gonna happen.

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So you're like, "Hey, I'm gonna ask you this question,

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but I haven't watched it, so you can't--

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Well, you don't have to spoil the last episode

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to say if you're a Colin fan.

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Basically.

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(laughing)

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Am I a Colin fan?

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He's not my favorite, he's not my least favorite, I guess.

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Kind of going back to the hobby question

What TV Shows Do You Watch?

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in the first video.

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Besides Bridgerton, what other kind of shows

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do you like to watch?

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I'm very fantasy or period time.

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So like, Bridgerton is up my alley

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because it's not super serious,

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but it's like in the Regency period.

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I really like TV shows that are not in today's age.

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Like if it's before, if it's after the 90s,

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I'm like, "I don't really wanna watch it, I don't know why."

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So I love that kind of stuff.

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So like, fantasy, Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon,

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all that good stuff.

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I love historical dramas, so I loved Vikings

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and things like that.

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I don't really love to watch any of the Love Island

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and stuff like that.

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That just cringes me out too hard.

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So I like there to be a really juicy plot, long episodes.

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Yeah.

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You love Twilight, you love--

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Loved Twilight.

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Harry Potter.

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Yeah.

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Lord of the Rings. Yep.

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Yep, lots of fantasy, lots of...

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There's gotta be like a romance in the plot for me.

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If it's not a comedy,

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I could do without romance if it's a comedy,

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but like there needs to be a little spice.

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there's gotta be some spice there's gotta be some historicalness to it

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Where I can't relate to it at all But it's like ahh

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I don't want to relate to anything In the things I'm watching, you know what I'm saying

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You're like an interviewer.

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I'm trying my best.

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[Laughter]

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There does need to be a camera on her facial expressions.

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We need to have Abigail.

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We kind of sprung this on her today.

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We were like, "Oh yeah."

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And you're going to be like, "In these videos asking the questions."

What's Your 5 Year Plan?

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And she's like, "Oh, okay."

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[Laughter]

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What's your five-year plan or goal for Running Springs and your mini farm?

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Umm I do think we're growing a little bit to the point where more land is needed

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Umm I don't know if it's gonna be within 5 years, but I do see us moving at some point

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At least the mini farm To a bigger farm.

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I would love to build a house umm but I

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I don't know I think it's gonna be I'm just kind of letting it fold wherever it may

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I don't wanna necessarily put a I want this to happen at this point

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The more I let things just happen The better they are

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Whenever I plan something it just doesn't end up going as well as if I just let it happen

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So I definitely still want to be doing what I'm doing now, but I don't know

UK Meet and Greet?

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See what happens?

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Yeah.

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Would you ever go to the UK to do a meet and greet?

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To specifically do a meet and greet Probably not

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Nate's back there being like "ugh"

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I know, that's why I asked,

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because I was like, I want to go.

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(laughing) I think it'd be cool to go there for,

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like if we had a really cool collaboration

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with like another equine content creator,

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and then we go over there and I don't know,

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I don't even, I literally don't have anyone in my brain

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when I'm thinking of that.

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I think it'd be cool to have an excuse to go over there

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and then maybe do that,

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but I don't think I could justify going there

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just to do a meet and greet.

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We'd have to have something else in the works.

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Okay.

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Hit, hit, tell me who you want.

Top 5 Breeding Stallions?

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(laughing)

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Let's get it going.

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(laughing)

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Okay, this just says,

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Okay, this just says,

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In your opinion, apart from obviously Denver and Code Red,

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who are, for you, the top five stallions

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that you would breed to?

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For me.

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So this is specifically for me, my mares,

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and this is current stallions.

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This isn't like who I'd want to breed to if I could.

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This is current stallions.

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Oh, this is gonna get me in trouble

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because if I don't put someone's,

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cause I don't, there's like, there's hunt seat stallions,

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there's all around stallions,

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there's Western pleasure stallions.

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Just like for your mares,

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who do you think would make the best match?

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So I really, really love Good, Better, Best.

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I can't say any like more good things

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about Good, Better, Best,

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which is why I keep breeding to him.

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So he's Hank Sire, he's Daphne Sire,

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he's bred to Sophie this year,

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tried to breed him to Trudy and it wasn't his fault.

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The receipts just kept, you know, not cooperating.

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So love Good, Better, Best.

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I might have to take a second here for just a minute.

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Okay, I will say there's something special.

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Now he did die last year, unfortunately,

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but he's, I think he's still able

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to be bred to a little bit.

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Allocate Your Assets to me is such a statement

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in the hunter under saddle world.

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You can literally look at a horse and be like,

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that one's sired by Allocate Your Assets.

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Like he is just, has something about him in his trot,

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in his cadence, like, it's just,

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you can just see him from a mile away.

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So I love Allocate Your Assets.

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That's why I bred Trudy to him.

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And I'm so grateful I did, cause we got Penelope.

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So, and then he's also the sire of,

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I have too many horses.

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He's also the sire of Erlene.

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So love him, love him, love him.

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So those are, okay, those are my two hunter under saddle picks

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for right now.

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I could say Easy on the Eyes,

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cause Easy on the Eyes is an up and coming guy.

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I did two, I don't know if I can do that.

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Okay.

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There's too many.

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The question technically was up and coming,

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but I just kind of changed it a little to who.

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But up and coming as well.

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Up and coming.

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So Easy on the Eyes is like an amazing up and coming hunter

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to Saddle Stallion.

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I love him.

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His babies have had like really, really good minds.

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He's only had a few show, like,

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he had one win the Congress like a million times last year.

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Easy peasy.

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And so like, he's fantastic.

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I bred him to Ethel.

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I plan to breed him to a couple of my measures in the future.

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Like he's awesome.

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And he's also kind of an out cross with his bloodlines

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because we are so saturated with like a few studs

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in our mares that he's a really good one to bring in.

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There's one stud that I really, really want to breed to.

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And I want to breed him to Annie in the future.

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He's gray and his name is Unbridle Your Dreams.

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Now he's really young.

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So we haven't seen a whole lot of his babies yet.

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He's by I'm a Platinum Dream

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who just passed away I think a couple of years ago.

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And so he's one I really want to watch

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because I really like what I'm seeing with him showing,

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but like, I don't know what his babies are doing yet.

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And you know, and then I think another one

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that I'm gonna throw in there is making me really wild

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just because, you know, there for a little while he was new.

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He had a lot of babies coming out

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and he himself was just throwing these like

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incredible front legs on his babies.

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And now we are seeing as his babies get older,

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they have an incredible talent in the all around

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as well as the Western pleasure and stuff.

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So he's got a really, really cool thing going.

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So I really like making me really wild too.

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And I have not been able to breed to him yet.

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I tried possibly with Beyonce and possibly with Annie,

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but it just didn't work out.

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So was that five?

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I think that was five.

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That doesn't mean that was my only five favorites.

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Like there's so many others, but off the top of my head,

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those are the ones that I really like

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think are cool right now.

Does Your Head Hang Low?

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So this is kind of like a show question.

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It says, when did and why have quarter horses

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started carrying their heads so low?

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So the low head thing,

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and you have to watch trends over the years,

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there's definitely, there was definitely a trend

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of them being way too low.

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So now there's a rule where they can't, you know,

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there's like a certain level they have to be

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to be qualified.

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So when you watch the really high levels

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of the Western pleasure nowadays,

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like at the world show and the Congress,

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the head isn't that low.

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Some of them are above level, honestly,

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and it's really allowing for that front end to be light.

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But when you go to maybe some lower level shows,

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when you maybe look at like some younger kids showing

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that, you know, possibly don't have the leg strength

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or the knowledge to show their horse to the best potential,

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or you look at some horses that just can't

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be really light in the front end

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because that's just not how they're made.

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You might get the, you might be like,

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oh, that's, you know, that's the standard then.

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But when you really look at the highest level,

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it is difficult to be slow collected with your head up,

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like with your head level or above level,

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to be that collected on a drape is actually so hard.

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So a lot of people go to low heads for control

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and for collection, because when that neck goes down,

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it's a lot easier to bring that back up.

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But anyway, we could get into that for a long time.

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But I think the head being down does give a larger level

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of control and collection, but it doesn't always look pretty

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when it's not done right.

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And sometimes it is definitely overdone.

Who Are the New Barn Gals?

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This isn't really a question,

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but a lot of people want to know who the new barn gals are

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that just started popping up.

16:47

The new barn gals.

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We need to do an introduction video.

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So that's Rachel and Alyssa.

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So we had one of our long time barn guys

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move to a different job at the beginning of the year,

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and we miss him greatly.

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He was amazing, but we did have to fill in his spot.

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And because of how many new babies we had

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and how much stuff we have going on,

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we decided to have two new people.

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And so Rachel started to kind of help me

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keep track with the vet.

17:15

She's been riding a few of the horses.

17:17

She has been doing a lot of the,

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like with Penelope and the babies,

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desensitizing them, washing them,

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doing a lot more hands-on stuff with the babies

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and just kind of helping me keep an eye on

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things that need to be done, that kind of thing.

17:29

So basically like barn management.

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And Alyssa came in as another person to clean stalls,

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take care of horses, feed,

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and kind of do whatever is needed to be done

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to keep the barn running.

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So now the barn staff is Gerardo and Alyssa and Rachel.

Makeup Tutorials?

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The people want makeup tutorials.

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Which is so funny,

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because that's like what I used to do.

17:53

If you were an OG and you remember like 2017 Instagram,

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I would be in my closet at my parents' house

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doing like lives constantly.

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And you did like the makeup,

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people's makeup at like horses,

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or horses, horse shows and stuff.

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Yeah, like that's what I wanted to do as a career.

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I wanted to be a makeup artist.

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And so I was doing Quintiniers every five seconds.

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I was doing people's maternity makeup,

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because I had a bunch of friends,

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like getting, you know, having babies

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and getting married and whatever.

18:21

And then I would go to horse shows

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and I would do horse show makeup at the big stuff.

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And then it just got to the point where at the time

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I was asked to be a host for a TV show.

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And so I was traveling for that a lot

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and I couldn't book out makeup jobs

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because I knew I was gonna be flaky

18:42

because I had like so many cool like trips popping up

18:45

that didn't give me a whole lot of time

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to like plan far ahead.

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So I stopped doing that.

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But yeah, we could bring back some.

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Nate, are you gonna, you wanna film some makeup tutorials?

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I need to do Abigail's makeup on camera.

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He can do your eyeliner.

18:59

Oh God.

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What if we did a video where I do Nate and Matt's makeup?

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That'd be funny.

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I think Matt would for sure be down.

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I have an old, it's archived.

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It's not deleted, it's archived.

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I have an old video on YouTube of Jonathan doing my makeup.

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How bad was it?

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It was pretty rough.

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This gets 20,000 likes.

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This gets 20,000 likes will drop.

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Nate and Matt's YouTube makeup tutorial.

Hardest Part of Your Job?

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What is the hardest part of this job?

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The hardest part of this job.

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So I guess you could encompass in this job

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the content creation, content management, store management,

19:48

breeding the horses and care of all the animals.

19:52

The hardest part is keeping it all straight.

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Cause there's so many things.

19:57

I literally in the last year have had to hire so many people

20:00

or like, you know, reach out to so many more people for help.

20:03

I mean, that's, I mean, you coming on has helped me immensely.

20:07

I mean, I literally was like, you were gone for four days.

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You're not allowed to do that.

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I need to work here.

20:12

You didn't like Jonathan as my replacement.

20:14

I told her, I was like, you were gone for four days.

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Jonathan had to step up and be in your place

20:20

and he gives me a whole lot more lip

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than you do and he's not as good at it.

20:23

And I don't like him.

20:24

So I don't like him being you.

20:30

So yeah, it's keeping, because there's just so many

20:33

different irons and so many fires that all come into

20:36

like one thing, keeping everything straight in my brain

20:39

without like feeling like I'm going to go on overload

20:43

is really, really hard.

20:45

Like I, you literally can know right now,

20:48

you can tell when we haven't had like a break day

20:51

or like whatever, cause I start not being able to talk

20:54

cause there's just so much going on.

Outro

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So, all right, we're done.

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Hey, what are we doing?

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We're done.

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(laughing)

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But anyway, hope you all enjoyed that.

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And if you have any other questions for future videos,

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let us know and thank you for joining us.

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So see you in the next one.