Welcome to KUWK

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Welcome back to Katching Up With Katie. And yes, I sound terrible. We attempted to wait for this sickness to leave my body before we filmed this.

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We were going to film it earlier in the week, and it’s just hanging on. It’s hanging around. I’ve been disgusting everybody by just

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hacking up everything in the middle of work. Cause I took off a week last week, so I couldn’t really take off another one. But anyway, hope y’all aren’t having a

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little midsummer cold as well. But if you are, I’m with you. Yeah, we’re just going to catch up on what happened last week.

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Me and Abigail went two weeks without seeing each other. Crazy. She had a trip right before I left, and she came back on the day that I left.

What have you guys missed?

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I also haven’t been on this in weeks—like two or three weeks.

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Yeah, you can move the whole thing. There you go. That good? Yeah.

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We haven’t seen each other. We’ve been catching up in real life, so we figured we need to catch up on here. Lots of things are happening.

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Waiting on lots of things to happen. Like, Janis still hasn’t released her hostage. By the time this is aired… maybe. I don’t know.

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I kind of hope she doesn’t. We’re trying to go to the lake. When will this go out? Like Tuesday.

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Tuesday. Tuesday. She might by then. I don’t know. If she does, I hope it’s Monday night.

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Yes. Yes, me too. Anyway, let’s get into the catch-up of the last couple of weeks.

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You went to Florida. I went to PCB.

Abigail's trip

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What are some of the more eventful things that happened on this trip? The standout story is being trapped in the elevator and

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having the ambulance and firefighters called.

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You haven’t heard? Oh, this is more fun. Now I’m actually telling it to someone for the first time.

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What is she doing? She wants on my shoulders or sitting on the top of the chair. Oh, I’m going to be hacking.

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That’s your spot? Okay.

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We were in a condo on the 17th floor. There’s no chance of taking the stairs.

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The only mode of transportation is the elevator. It was our first day. We had been up—we

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left at 5:00 p.m. the night before. Got there at 5:00 a.m. because we were stopped by traffic for 3 hours. Didn’t sleep at all.

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Went straight to the beach. Spent the whole day there. Came in, we’re getting on the elevator, and it’s like 10:00 p.m. at night.

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There were four of us—four adults—and then four more adults that came in after us.

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I went with my best friend Paige. Her sister had a panic attack in the elevator.

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She’s deathly afraid of tight spaces and elevators. Eight people. Yes.

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We hit maximum capacity for sure. We were over the limit.

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Also, Paige’s niece was crying and having a panic attack.

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She doesn’t like tight spaces either. The other people in the elevator were jamming the buttons and banging on the doors. We were slowly going up.

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We were in there for 25 minutes. We hovered on the 8th floor for most of that time, going so slowly. We called the condo—no one answered.

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We had to call the police. The firemen came and got us out.

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She had to go out to the ambulance to be checked out. She just had a panic attack. She was fine.

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She’s had a stroke before. She was really freaking out that she was going to have another stroke.

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She was trying so hard to keep her blood pressure down that it just spiked. Oh my gosh, that’s kind of scary. Really set a good tone for the rest of the trip.

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Yeah. Wow. While you were gallivanting around PCB, we were just back here holding the fort down.

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I did realize how much you do that I don’t know how to do.

Appreciating Abigail

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Lindsay’s been doing great, but she doesn’t know all the ins and outs yet.

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There were a couple times where it was just me and Lindsay against technology.

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And we were like, both of us are dumb right now. There were tasks we attempted to do that took way longer than they should have.

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I couldn’t even fault her. I was also trying to figure it out.

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We tried so hard not to text you. Finally, we were like, “Where’s the password for this?” Then we were like, “Okay, that doesn’t work.”

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So we just left you alone. Then we were calling people and trying to change the password. It was just a whole thing.

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We got in. It’s fine. I had it written down in my notebook. But it was the one thing where it’s like, you can’t just go to that website.

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You have to go through other steps. Also, what you were trying to do—there’s like three different logins.

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And then also, I got locked out of my Facebook while she was gone. She and Ahbra are the people that have permissions to go comment,

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like, run ads, and manage everything. So I’m sitting there freaking out. I don’t know what happened.

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I don’t know if a lot of people thought my personal account was fake. Yeah. So they

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went and reported it a bunch. Then Facebook took it down. I appealed it, and immediately they were like, “Yeah, you can’t appeal again.”

My Facebook got shut down

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Really? You’re done. We got it worked out. I have it back now—two weeks later.

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But in that time, I was like, I don’t know what’s going to happen.

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I need to figure out: Do I just log into her Facebook to have permissions?

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Do I need to make a new Facebook and ask her to give my new one access?

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But I had to bother her on her— Yeah. On her vacation, unfortunately. But I think that was the only time. That and the password issue.

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Those were the only times in seven days that you were contacted. Yeah, I think so. Which I feel like

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is pretty good. That’s pretty good. I thought it was going to be every day. So I was pleasantly surprised.

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Yeah, I expected more than that. Just a little. Well, I will say I definitely got more from Ahbra.

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But she didn’t know I was on vacation until the last day of my trip. Then she texted me and was like, “I didn’t know you were gone.

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I’m sorry. I’ll stop texting you.” And I was like, “Well… it’s over.” Yeah. Excuse me.

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Yeah, she told me that. And I’m like, “Ahbra, she’s gone.” Because she was like, “Well, Abigail just hasn’t been responding.”

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And I’m like, “She’s in Florida for a whole week.” It wasn’t like I was ignoring her.

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Everything she was sending was also going to Lindsay. So I just assumed she knew I was gone. But it was funny.

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So yeah, we survived a week without Abigail. But I don’t want to do that very often. So limit your trips, right?

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Uh, I only used half of my PTO days for the year. So.

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Um, I also went on a trip. Literally the day she was getting back,

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I was leaving with my family. We went to Williston Lake.

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Some people say it’s pronounced “Williston.” It’s in Saskatchewan. There were a lot of fires going on in Saskatchewan.

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So we were kind of worried that we wouldn’t be able to go, Or that it would be all smoked out.

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There was actually one morning where a fire was going on. But it was on a secluded island, so it couldn’t hurt anybody.

Fishing

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We went there to fish northern pike, walleye, and lake trout. It was very fun.

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I will say—I’m a fair-weather fisherman. And I would say the majority of this trip

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was not fair weather. It was still fun. I still played cards with my Pap and my dad. We ate good food.

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And like, it was a bougie place, so they had a massage therapist. I got a massage one day because I was like,

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"I’m not going out in the rain like I did yesterday. I’m going to stay in and get me a massage. I’ll go out after lunch." Like—wow. It was amazing.

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They had relatively okay cell service for being that far out. We were like 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle. So we were up there.

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Everyone’s like, "Why are you dressing like it’s so cold? Saskatchewan’s 90° today." I’m like, "Not where I am."

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It wasn’t freezing, But when you’re out on a boat in the middle of the lake,

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And there’s wind, And it’s like 50° Fahrenheit, And then you’re getting pour-rained on— It’s cold.

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There were two days where we just got poured on. Yeah. Your fishing gear is waterproof... water-resistant

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only for so long. Yeah. So like—

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I'm going to give myself this fair assessment, okay? The first day was beautiful.

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We all went out. It was gorgeous. It was a little brisk, But it was sunny. Fished all day. Fished till the very end.

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I enjoyed watching Jonathan, Because he’s just in his element. There were times I wouldn’t even cast. I’d just sit there with him.

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Because he’s my favorite person on Earth, And I’m getting to watch him be happy, right? Second day—gassed up. I’m like, "This is

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going to be real fun." We had a good morning. Then, two hours before lunch, It starts raining.

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And I’m like, "Okay, I’m going to take this moment." It wasn’t raining hard. I wasn’t casting, just sitting there in the rain. I had my rain suit on.

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Yeah. It continuously got harder—raining for the next two hours.

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We were an hour away from the lodge.

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No cell service. No nothing. And they were like, "Oh, we’re going to do shore lunch."

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I thought we were going to head back. Yeah. No. They’re like, "We’re going to do shore lunch here." Because every day, when you’re fishing on these kinds of trips,

Worst day of fishing ever

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You catch something and then you cook it. You eat what you catch. So we caught some fish. And they’re like,

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"No, we’re going to go ahead and do shore lunch." Zero cover. Just out there.

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Just out in the freaking wild. How did you cook it? They had a tin foil thing they were holding over the skillet, So it didn’t get completely soaked.

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That was it. I’m like, "We don’t have an EZ-Up or something to keep in the boat? Like a tent?"

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You would think. The men love it. I guess they love to rough it. This place is a bougie freaking lodge,

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But they want to feel like men. I’m like, give me an umbrella—something.

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So I’m sitting there looking around, And I see a tree. Mind you, these are evergreens. They’re not big.

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They’re tall and kind of skinny. But I see this tree that has a 2- to 3-foot diameter dry spot underneath it.

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We’re soaked. Yeah. I go and literally just get under this tree. And that’s where I reside.

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I go non-verbal. I am absolutely having the worst time of my life. But also not— Because my mom stayed back.

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Thank goodness. She would’ve hated it. She got rained on the next day.

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But that first day, I’m like, "She would’ve hated this."

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So all the men are sitting around, Still committed. They’re sitting in chairs in the rain. Just waiting on the food to get cooked.

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And the food took dang near an hour to get done. Yeah.

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No service. Can’t even distract yourself with your phone. I’m just sitting there under a tree. No one’s talking.

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No one. It’s just miserable. So I went non-verbal until I got some food in me.

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This is the only time I eat fish, by the way. I’m not a fish person— Except on shore lunch,

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When I’m hungry enough, And it’s fresh, And it’s something we caught. All that good stuff. So then— So sorry—

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So then I go get my plate. I put stuff on it as quickly as possible, Because we’re getting poured on.

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There’s no like eating casually. It’s just getting so wet.

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I take it over to my little tree. I just sat there with my little tree. And then I look around, And all the men had gone

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and scavenged around And found a tree. So we’re all—each at one tree— Eating our food in the pouring rain.

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And then we have to get in the boat. And we’re like, "Let’s go back, I guess." Was your Pap there? Was he embracing it or not liking it?

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None of them complained. You know? None of them complained. The next day they let on— "Yeah, who wants to be out in the rain?"

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I’m like, "Not me." Yeah. Okay. Well, we saw that storm coming. We all saw the dark clouds.

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Yeah. So anyway, the next day, They were understanding. I was like,

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"Hey, I’m going to get a massage. I’ll come out a little later."

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Then I went out with my Pap for a little bit. He was also like, "I don’t want to be in the rain."

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So we stayed close. We had some bonding time. Fished together for a little bit.

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As soon as we got a drop—headed in. We were dry. We barely got rained on. We headed in.

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We started playing cards. We ate lunch in the cabin that day. Because we were like,

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"Get some sandwich meat. We’re not fancy. Get us some ham and bread—we’re fine. We just don’t want to be out in this freaking rain."

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Then Mom and Dad, I guess, had committed and gone out. They all came in. My mom took off her rain gear—

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Even all her underlayers were just dripping. She was so soaked.

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So she stayed in with me. We didn’t go back out. Everybody else went back out. I’m like, "I’m not that committed to the fish."

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No. I’m just not. There are some things I am.

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But I— And you know, honestly— Pooping and peeing in the woods? I’m good.

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I’ll do it. Not a problem. Being out all day long fishing? I’m good. I’ll do it.

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There are a lot of things I’m good with. I’m not hard. Rain? It’s a tough one.

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I don’t do rain. I don’t do being wet. I don’t do— I don’t do it. Yeah. And so that was two of the four days of fishing.

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But then the other days were beautiful. We took a bush plane out. This was my first time that I ever— I’ll get you some of these videos.

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Yeah. This was the first day I ever got on a float plane— Where you land on the water. Yeah. That was awesome.

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It was a 1958 model. Nice. 1958 model.

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The pilot was fantastic, though. Like, the smoothest landing. It was awesome.

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They’ve got all these little lakes around the big lake. You can only get to them by hopping in a plane. That’s crazy.

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They drop you off, and they’re not coming back until 5:00 p.m. Luckily, it was the best weather day when we did that.

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We fished there all day. It was great. That was our last day.

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We went to Williston Lake Lodge. It was very accommodating. I’m a picky eater, and they worked around me and made things work.

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It was way better accommodations than I’d ever gone to at a lodge or fishing place. Generally, if we ever went to a fishing lodge, You’re in like a one-room cabin with a stove

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for heat. Very rustic. And this one was like a little house. It was really, really nice. So yeah— I just had

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a thought. Mhm? Can you fish— Is there like fishing

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in the Everglades? Yeah. So you take airboats, I think. I mean, I’ve gone on gator

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tours and stuff. I’m sure you can fish. And there’s people that go out in the Everglades and catch snakes.

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What is it— The pythons. The pythons that are overtaking. They’re invasive.

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There’s one guy that always pops up on my Instagram. And my stomach turns.

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Because he’s just walking around barefoot in the Everglades.

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He’ll tap in the water with his bare toe while standing on a log. He shines his flashlight,

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And there’ll be like 14 alligators or crocodiles right there. He’s like, “Oh,

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little swamp puppy. Alligators.” “Little swamp puppy coming to say hi.” Then he’ll see a little animal or a snake and go, “Yoink!”

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He’s like, “Oh!” Oh, I watch the yoink guy. The yoink guy! The yoink guy! Yeah, I’ve never seen—

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He’s great. I watch him on TikTok. Yeah, he’s so cool. But man, he’s out there just

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yoinking snakes, animals— Petting them. Whoa. Not for me.

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It’s pretty cool. Not— I was just like, if there was fishing in the Everglades…

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I don’t know. I feel like that would be really cool. There is. And then— Is it in the Everglades where people hunt iguanas? They catch them?

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This guy catches them too. Because I think they’re also invasive. I think so. Yeah. I remember being invited— I didn’t go—

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But I remember being invited on a fishing trip iguana hunt. That’s so interesting. Yeah.

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He yoinks iguanas too. Mhm. Also, just real quick— Back to my fishing

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trip for a second. I injured myself. I don’t see anything. Do you not see the two little hook marks?

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I hooked myself. It’s my battle wound.

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Anyway, we’ll zoom. We’ll zoom.

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But yeah— I do like, We’ve been on airboat rides before. Just like gator tours and stuff. But I’ve never fished in the Everglades. Can we do that for a work trip?

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They love to say anything is a work trip. Like, what kind of horses would we find?

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Anything could be a video. Oh lord.

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I do think we need to do something next time we go to Florida.

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Not just if we go for a horse show. We need to do something. Mhm. I know we went to Universal one day,

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But we didn’t film it. We were terrible YouTubers. Like a little adventure series with all our time. We go on adventures—

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The Everglades— Like, once a month. Almost like a Bear Grylls type thing. He’d be like,

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“Oh, we’re going to do this today.” I think that would be fun.

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It could just be something random too. Like we’re just going to go golfing today and video it. And it’ll be terrible.

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But it’s something we don’t usually do, And it’d be funny to watch. Yeah. Or it could be like,

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"They’re gonna drop us off on a remote island for 48 hours, And we’ve got to survive."

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That’s really intense and not what I was saying. Right.

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There’s a spectrum here. No survivor-type situation. See, I— That would be so fun. I’m so anti-discomfort.

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I get excited about it. And then when it actually happens, I’m like, "This is terrible."

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Can you just imagine all of us out there? No. So here’s the thing. That was my big thing on this fishing trip.

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I was like, “I’m not going to whine. I’m not going to complain.” That only lasts so long.

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48 hours? No. Time speeds up when you’re out on an abandoned island.

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I feel like I’d be okay for like two to three.

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Yeah. After that, I’m like, We… You start getting hungry. Someone pulls out some nuts or something.

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Okay. Okay. I want to tell you about when we were coming home from this trip.

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We traveled from 5:30 that morning, And we got home at 1:00 a.m. Okay. Like, it was a long day of travel. Yeah.

Travel story

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Oh yeah! I forgot— I won $1,000 at a casino in Canada as well. Wow. What game?

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It was a slot machine. Oh wow. Me and Jonathan gave each other $100. We were like— Okay, backtrack.

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My Pap is the one who booked this trip. This was our family trip of the year. He booked it, And me and Jonathan had no clue

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That he booked it for us to get there an entire day early in Winnipeg.

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Because he didn’t want to miss the flight the next day. Yeah. So we had a full day in Winnipeg.

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Doing what? Like— If you’re from Winnipeg and there’s exciting things to do, We didn’t find them.

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So we were like, Pap’s like, “I’m gambling.” And we were like, "We’re gonna go gambling with Pap."

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So we gave each other $100 each. We were like, "This is it." Yeah.

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We don’t just— You lose it, you’re done. We’re not losing money to this.

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So anyway, I am good at slot machines, I guess.

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I turned my— So, I actually won like $1,500. But Jonathan lost. He got up to like $500 and lost everything.

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Cuz he got too greedy. Yeah. When I hit my $1,500, I was like, “I’m out. Done.” Cuz I hit one that was like $800.

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Huge. Huge. I got like— Not the mega— But like, have you ever seen a slot machine how they have mini,

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minor... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. I hit a really big one. And I was like, “Let’s dip. Let’s get out of here.”

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Anyway, that’s beside the point. That was just an exciting thing. So on the way back home— You know, we were tired.

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It’s the last stretch of our trip. We’d been traveling since 5:30. It’s like 8:00 at night.

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We had eaten earlier in the day. But then our middle flight got a little delayed.

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So we didn’t have nearly the layover we thought we were going to have, Coming into our last one in Minnesota.

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And I was like, “Oh, I know this airport.” I feel very comfortable flying. I feel very comfortable traveling

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and navigating airports. I wasn’t worried. We had 45 minutes until boarding.

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And it’s Delta. So we had a seat. Even if we were a little late to boarding,

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It’s not like we’re having to fight for a seat. We know where we’re sitting. And I was like, “I’m getting some food.”

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And Jonathan’s like, “No. We stay as a unit. We stay as a group with my parents or whatever.” And I already told my dad,

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“I’m an almost 30-year-old woman. I can find my way to the gate. You’re fine.” Yeah.

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And so Jonathan got so mad that I— I saw a Chick-fil-A right

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off the concourse. I know we’re passing it. There’s a Chick-fil-A and across from it, A place that has Mountain Dew Zeros.

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I’m getting these things before we go. Because I know when we get to Nashville,

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There’s no food open. Yeah. We have nothing at home. I’m self-preserving

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here. Yeah. I’m actually doing him a favor. Because I would’ve been a nightmare had I not done that.

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We got the Chick-fil-A. There was no line. Took 5 seconds. I’m like,

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“Let me be my own person. Just let me be me. Just let me be me.” So I got my Chick-fil-A. Went and got my Mountain Dew Zero,

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Which I hadn’t had. And then I was like, “Let’s go to—whatever.” And he’s trying to tell me I’m going the wrong way.

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I’m like, “No. We’re getting on this trip.” Anyway, we got there— Mind you, we got there 20 minutes

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before the original boarding time. And it was delayed two hours.

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So I had my food. I sat down. I’m good. I started editing videos y’all had sent me. And then they had to go scavenge for food.

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Huh. Anyway, that’s why I was like, “Just let me be me. It works out.” See what happens when you let me be me? Exactly.

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And I just want him to know— I was really thinking of him. Yeah.

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Because keeping me fed Was thinking of him, honestly. And he didn’t look at it that way.

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But anyway— And then you lost your passport. You lost your passport on the flight. She left it on the flight.

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Do you have it now? No. We filed a claim.

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So, I’m not allowed to keep things. Yeah. Right.

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I’m not allowed to hold things. Keep them. Organize them. Like, on reference for work trips, I don’t always hold everything.

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Yeah. It’s you. Even at home, I don’t keep any— She has like my driver’s license most of the time.

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You’ll ask, “Hey,” like— We’ll be renting a car, And they’ll ask, “Can I have your license?”

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And everyone just looks at Abigail. Yeah. So, I’m the worst.

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He handed me my passport for the last little part. I walked onto the plane. I dropped it.

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I did pick it up. I remember picking it up. After that— I don’t know where it went.

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And he was like, “I didn’t take it from you.” I’m like, “This sounds like it’s on you, then.”

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It really does. It does not sound like it’s my fault. But anyway— I’ve got to go get a new license anyway.

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I’ve had an expired license for a couple months. Yeah, you probably should renew that.

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I wonder, when you lose your passport, Do you just go get a new one? Or can you just file for a lost one?

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I think you have to get a new one. Cause I got mine last year, So it had like nine years left.

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I hope someone’s not using it. How would they? I don’t know. You do need to record it lost And apply for a replacement.

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Well, we’re going to see how this claim goes. We haven’t heard anything back yet. Who’s the claim with? The airline? Delta. Delta.

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Yeah, probably won’t. We gave them the flight number.

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Like, the time—everything. So unless someone else picked it up— Yeah, unless someone else picked it up—

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It should have been on there. But someone could have picked it up. I don't know. I'm just imagining the person who works for Delta,

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Sitting at their computer, Getting that email like, “Okay, it was this flight and they lost a passport.”

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How am I supposed to know? I don't know where it went. So I'm thinking probably this Monday or Tuesday

29:00

We'll just file for a new one. Just make a day of it. You can do it online. Well, we also have to go to the DMV. We need our—like—the Tennessee Star.

29:11

Yeah. Actually, I was a very early adopter. I've had it for years. Okay, well, I'm glad we haven’t had to travel anywhere recently

29:18

Because I don’t have it. And I don’t know where my passport is. So we need to do that. Probably ASAP.

29:24

See, I don't know why I'm flying until that happens. Wait. Yeah, you need to do that.

29:30

When are we— Yeah, we’re flying to Tulsa. We gotta go before Tulsa.

29:36

Yeah. We’re going next week. Okay, yeah. We’re going next week. As of right now, We’re going next week.

29:41

We’re going next week. Cool. Yeah, a couple other things have happened this week.

29:48

We weaned the first group of foals So, four of the eight. We are putting a buck apron on Sprout today Because he is humping everybody.

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Janis is still pregnant. We're keeping track of her. We bred the mini cows this morning.

What’s happening with all the animals?

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So hopefully, you know, we can preg-check them here in a few weeks.

30:09

So yeah, just lots of moving parts going on. Just normal life. All of those things I just mentioned—

30:15

Minus Sprout with his apron— Are getting a full YouTube video. And if you haven’t already— I love it so much—

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They made, while I was gone, A montage of the foals. All eight of them, from birth to now.

30:31

And it was— It was a tearjerker. It’s a little touching. It was a tearjerker. It was really sweet.

30:38

It’s just like— I imagine— You’re the only parent in here. Well, you’re the parent.

30:45

But you didn’t split your body open to have the baby. No. I imagine it’s kind of like when you have a baby,

30:52

And you know— You’re in the trenches at first, But then when they’re one, And you look back at newborn photos, You're like, “I want to go back there.”

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Even though it was the worst time of your life. I feel like that’s how looking back on foaling season was.

31:04

Because we were watching the video and we were like, “I miss it.” It was so cute. And I’m like—

31:10

We literally both cried that day Because we were so tired. You forget about the trenches. Yeah.

31:16

When you go back and watch— You forget about the trenches. We both had a good, decent little cry yesterday.

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Because we were just packing up some old newborn clothes.

31:27

Well, I mean, you’re in the trenches. But I know, man. To go back.

31:32

I'm sure y’all will pop out another one. I mean, we’ll probably try.

31:37

They’ll practice. Yeah. It’ll be all right. I know we’re kind of on the train of— This is going to make people so happy

31:47

that I’m mentioning this— We’re kind of on the train of: If we keep waiting for it to be the perfect timing to, like—

31:55

Yeah. Pop a kid out— It’s just never going to happen. I’m always going to want to be doing something else.

32:01

So I probably should just— I mean, there will never— You’ll never have— Okay, this is so funny.

32:09

Our poor guide. Okay, our guide, Cade. Precious, precious boy. So sorry, man.

32:16

Okay— Precious. So sweet. Awesome guy. Well, you know, You're out there for four full days.

32:26

You hear stuff. Whatever. There was no service out there all day.

32:33

I've known Jonathan for 10 years. I see him every single day. You don’t have everything to talk about, right?

32:40

And my brain was just shooting off into different things. I’m solving all kinds of deep problems and stuff.

32:48

And out of nowhere, I’m just like, “You know, I know we said we’re going to wait until after the World Show… But let’s just do it.”

32:53

He was like, “What? I’m fishing.” I’m like, “Yeah, let’s just— Let’s just do it. Like, if it happens, it happens.”

33:03

He’s like, “I’m just trying to fish.” And I’m like—

33:08

He’s thinking about fishing, And I’m thinking about spawning. Yeah. I’m like, “You’re thinking about fishing?”

33:14

I mean, you’ve got to spawn before you fish. That’s right. If you don’t know— Spawning is fish babies.

33:20

Anyway—terminology. Terminology. So I made a joke. They laughed. I just kept hammering that.

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And he was just like— “We’re not doing this right now.”

33:31

He was like, “Where did this come from?” Yeah. I just put him on the spot. I was like,

33:36

“Yeah, ‘cause if you knocked me up in the next four to six weeks, Then I still wouldn’t be that far along by the World Show.”

33:44

And he’s just like— “We’re not doing this right now.” Then he said, “What I don’t want is for

33:50

you to have your chance to show Denver And then be puking everywhere.” And I was like, “You know, that’s fair.”

33:57

Yeah, but— There’ll be more chances to show Denver. Yeah, maybe. You never know.

34:02

You might not be puking. I think we’re sticking to the ‘After the World Show’ date.

34:08

When is that? November.

34:16

I think you’d be past that point anyway. I don’t think you’d be sick.

34:21

You don’t think I’d be sick? I think you’d be fine. Anyway, That’s on the brain.

34:26

Yeah. I guess it’s on the brain. But it’s not like there’s— We’re not tracking anything.

34:33

We’re not doing any of that right now. Anyway— What was I going to say?

34:40

We talk about it all the time. Because I do love babies. Like, I think sometimes I come across as someone that’s like— Like, I talk about it as in saying “knocked up,” whatever.

34:48

But I am very excited for babies. I’m very excited to be a mother. I think I’ll be good at it. I think I’m pretty maternal.

34:57

But— We’re doing weird stuff throughout the day To have a kid with us all the time.

35:05

But I think it’ll be fun. We’ll just pass it around. Yeah. We’ll all have our own little carrier. We’ll just pass the baby around.

35:15

It’s fun for sure. Yeah. Right. You’re like— “No, right when they start to leave.”

35:20

She loves babies. Don’t even— Don’t even let her. As soon as the potato phase comes to a close— Fun.

35:28

Potato phase. Yeah, ‘cause they’re not even— As soon as they can hold their head up— Fun.

35:36

Otherwise, you gotta be so careful. Before that— I mean, no— That’s exquisite. And I would not trade it.

35:42

But like doing stuff— When I go to the store or want to do this— You just carry them on your hip, Sit them on your cart. They’re sitting up, looking around.

35:49

Oh! I like to go to Dick’s Sporting Goods And look at the wall of Stanley cups. It’s all color organized.

Did Janis have her baby??

36:02

Just itches your brain. She’s like, “Look at all that.”

36:07

I’m like, “Yeah. It’s pretty cool.” Yeah. ‘Cause don’t they— They don’t even see? She can see far now. Yeah. I’ll be across the house and I’ll just do this— And she’ll go—

36:18

And I’m like, “Yes! That’s funny. We’re interacting. We’re playing. We’re interacting. You know who I am.”

36:27

Oh. But anyway, I feel like we’ve chatted about quite a few things today. We’ve got some other stuff to go do Before we hopefully go to the lake.

36:35

We haven’t checked on Janis’ milk yet today. So I hope she doesn’t ruin this for us.

36:41

I think she’ll play nice, But y’all will know by next week. So, let us know— Do you think Janis is going to ruin it?

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Do you think she’s going to have it before next week? Today’s Friday. I guess I shouldn’t even ask that,

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Because it’s going to be next week by the time this video is up. All right. Well, hope y’all enjoyed today’s episode.

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If you haven’t already, Go check out the KVS merch. I’m wearing one of Waylon today. Are you wearing—

37:06

Nope, she’s not wearing merch. No one else is wearing merch. It’s fine. That’s katievanslyke.net.

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And I guess let us know what you want to see in future episodes. We didn’t really have an “out of the room” experience for this Katching Up With Katie

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Like we’ve been doing lately. But there are lots of things coming up. So let us know what you want to see, And stay tuned for the next one.

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Peace.