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Welcome back to Katching Up With Katie. So, we've kind of been going back and forth between not having Katching Up With Katies and then last week I interviewed Stephanie, but we need another just

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kind of recap of everything that's been going on, things that are coming up. Um, there's a couple

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of topics we need to address and just kind of give some clarity on. So, yeah. Other than that,

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like what what are y'all doing honestly with with your time? We're not on full watch right now. So, what have you been doing? What is so funny over there? I don't know what they're laughing

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at. I gave them a chair budget. I thought that's what I thought you were saying. Like, what you what are you doing? I was like, we're busted. We're busted. So, they've been sitting

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in the same white plastic lawn chairs for um if you can't hear in the background,

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the chaos. It's like the movement has to be so quiet. I told him, I said, "I'll give you a chair budget and I'll just reimburse you. Pick your own chairs." And then now they're chair shopping.

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That on the front end of this like we'll get chairs that like represent us. Yeah, you each get different No, but like I said, there's a chair budget, right? But she also I need all the

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bells and whistles on one of them. The budget's a mystery. I How much is a chair? I don't know.

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Anywhere from 50 to 500. So, we're not going to be at the like on the latter end. Not even

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probably in the mid end. We're going to be the low end up. It is something that gosh man I have uh I have really wanted to invest in a good office chair. Yeah, you see them all the time

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man. Jonathan for some reason. So in our so where the podcast room is is in our shop. Our shop is a

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multitude of things. It's like our hangout area and then right next to it is the workshop. Why does Jonathan have seven office chairs, bro? He just bought a new one like a month ago just like

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free. He has like an assortment of different types. They're just everywhere in there. And

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I'll look and he will choose to sit in the office chair in the shop rather than coming in our cozy, you know, couch hang out area. Hang out area. And then his friends come over and guess where

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they hang out? The office chairs in the shop. I don't get it though. Yeah, just a space. Um, but seriously, what have y'all been doing with your time when you're not like We haven't been

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on full watch in weeks. So, what have you been doing? Um I well in the middle of the be like the first half of full watch I moved so I've been kind of getting all my stuff kind of unpacked. I still

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haven't hung my shelves but I did buy a drill so I am going to do it myself. Are you a Milwaukee gal or a Yeah. What did you get? What kind of drill? Oh gosh. It's going to be the wrong one. I'm going

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to go ahead and tell you that that's fine. I don't know what that is. The guy recommended

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it. I don't either. What's What's recommended it? What am I thinking of? DeWalt. DeWalt. Okay, it's

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DeWalt or Milwaukee. Got it. That's pretty much like This was like a cheaper a cheaper version, which is fine. It still drills. I'm a Milwaukee. I love that you're just like I'mma build shelves

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today. I am. And you do it like anytime we have something that he's putting together. Um, someone bought you a rocking chair for Glenn and I'm going to put it together. Is that the thing

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that you dropped as he came in? Yeah. I'm going to fix it and then we'll put it together. I'm going to fix it and then I'll put it together. Glue. Yes. Wood glue. Um, but yeah, other than that,

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I've just been hanging out at home. Mhm. Not much. Um, what have y'all been doing? Working.

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You're also moving. Mostly your stuff. He also is moving. He's just like neglecting my family

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because of my work duties. I am moving though. Um, which has been um a lot. I feel like I've

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moved every year for the past four years. But is it closer to here or closer to Nashville or closer

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away from Nashville? What? Closer away. Closer to her parents away from Nashville. Okay. It'd be

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like a three hour drive to get here. Really? No. Um but it does uh it does add an extra 10. I know

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it does add an extra 10 minutes. Okay, that's not bad. But it's a it's a better way to get here in my opinion. It's like, you know, you probably will never hit traffic. No. Nice. No, it's a nice way

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to get here, mate. Um, I mean the real answer is working. Um, and can I just tell them that I'm not

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your only client? I did get to play golf once. What noise did he just came out of your body?

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I did play golf once. Just once. Was it a good golf day or a bad golf day? I played horribly.

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But did you have fun? I had so much fun just being out there. Well, it wasn't 20 degrees.

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

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I did and I would have had fun. I know this for some reason. I I know it's kind of this way on

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the east regardless of where you are. Like we had 70s and gorgeous weather last week and then and

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all weekend and then the next morning was it felt like 25. Yesterday when we were outside because

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of the windchill it was 37 felt like 21. It was I'm like that's such a big discrepancy because

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of wind. Like the wind was just bone chilling. And then today same thing. And so luckily by the time we have to film outside again on Thursday it's going to be back to like 68. So I think we are

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kind of like inching back into like consistent spring weather. Um, which leads us into a segue

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of good weather. Good weather brings the want to do things outside. And we haven't like we just

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did Lindsay riding Ethel. We got to get the boys riding Lindsay. We got to get the boys back on on

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some I enjoyed myself. What if because we've got we've got multiple mares like in like the cycle

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right now. Yeah. We do a Matt like one v one. Who's better? What are we going to do? Joust

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Nate versus Matt. That'd be fun. Be crazy. Are we going to like Kennedy versus Ethel? Are we going to play chicken on them? Like what's the V? No, we would do like a like a little um Oh,

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like a show some sort of a little show thing. I think it'd be fun. Like you you know how Yeah, I've heard that before. Who's Who are you? But now we actually have horses. Who are you

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going to put on Kennedy? Probably Nate. But I was better rider. What? Why the giggle? I just I feel

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like Matt would Is that because he's the better rider or the worst rider? I've never seen him

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ride before. How do you want to take it? I just want to know how you meant it. That's for you to

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find out. Kennedy's a little more touchy. Little more little more. Ethel's a little more forgiving.

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Forgiving. So, we need to we need So, I just spit everywhere. Lindsay has completely deflated.

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

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It's really That's the worst thing though. It's like when you really can't breathe and everybody's like you're like I guys really editors zoom in. Okay. Jarvis 20% zoom in. You know, Matt,

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he he definitely like picks on you a lot. But here's the thing. You tickle him during D&D

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

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picks on you, but you make him laugh. I do. And I'll hold that over your head. Cliche, but I do like I wouldn't if I didn't like you, I wouldn't pick on you. And it's it's it's like I don't have

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very My wife gets really sensitive about it. So like I don't have anybody to like ever pick on. And so it's fun to have friends to pick on, you know. Okay, I'll take it. I the other morning I

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felt so bad. So my best friend Rebecca, she had a photo shoot the other day for a project. I don't know if I can say her project or not, so I'm not going to. But she had a photo shoot for a project.

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Her like makeup person bailed. Yeah. Or they rescheduled or something and so they needed me to

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come in and do her makeup. She looked great. I I don't have any like other makeup other than my own

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stuff and so I I just winged it. It worked out. She looked great. But um her little girls were

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in there with us while I was doing her makeup. And the little one who is like hilarious and she

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is definitely they're both like very sensitive in their own rights. Well, we were like picking

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on her cuz she kept collecting tissues of her boogers and putting them in a box and like making

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us look at it. So we kept like picking on her being like, "You look like a weirdo." You know, whatever. She I went a little too hard and she went in the bathroom and I didn't know where she

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was and I looked in there. She was crying. Katie. And I had to go like I had to go pick her up and

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and like love on her. Your booger napkins are okay. You pick her or no, she wasn't directing

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it at me cuz her mom her mom was equally picking on her. It wasn't just me. And so she was like,

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I don't like when you guys pick on me. And it was so sad, but she got over it. Anyway, it's I told her the same thing. I was like, it's cuz I love you. I'm picking on you. It's

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cuz I love you. Anyway, it's very I'll take it. They have tough skin when they grow up. I still

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don't have tough skin. No, especially when they get in high school. What? Hm. This is awkward.

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Um, anyway, speaking of awkward, we got to talk about something.

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Um, so that's awfully awful to cut out. I have. So there's there's there's a hot topic in my comments no matter the social platform or the video or the video. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,

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YouTube, Snapchat. Where's Abigail? Where is she? Where has she been? She's here. She's been around.

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She's been on the show. Uh but she no longer works here. She's asked me to say something cuz at first

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I was very much trying to just like respect her privacy. Just like I thought we could just like

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let it fizzle, right? And be like, "Oh, like you know, whatever." Um, y'all won't let that

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happen. Absolutely not. Everyone in the comments is like on it every single day. And they're on her and that's the thing. They're in her comments and they're like like she's not able to even like live

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her dang life because people are just so up her butt. Um, if that's the correct term, but Webster.

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Yeah. Yeah. So, so Abigail at the end of 2025 came to me and you know she just she's got she's got

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her own life to live. She's got her own decisions to make and she decided she wanted to try some new

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things. And you know, not to say that that means she's not around. Y'all have seen her on Snapchat.

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That's why there's so many people being like, "Well, she's still there. I saw her on Snapchat." Cuz she's still around. Like, she came and watched my dog for me a couple days ago. She's dating

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my brother-in-law. She lives 30 seconds away. She comes to dinner. Like, she's still around. She's just not working here. And I think that's totally fine. Things change. You know, you got

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to make your own decisions for yourself. And so it doesn't mean we don't love Abigail. It doesn't

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mean like she's gone gone. It's just she's not on my socials anymore. And that's okay. So Abigail

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does not work here any longer, but that doesn't mean she's not a part of the family. Anyway, that's all we're going to say. And we're going to all stop making every comment section about

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where's Abigail? She's living her life. She's fine. If you want to follow her, you can. So,

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anyway, that kind of clears that up. And I y'all can stop pestering her and Katie. Yes, please.

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Another thing you purchased some mares. Oh, yeah. And they're finally Yeah, I heard new I heard who

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What are these names? I'm hearing human names. What are they? Stephanie. One's Kimber. No, that's

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the trainer. That's the trainer. Uh Kimberly, that was Kimberly. Uh, it's not Marjorie. It's Sarah or

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something. It was like some super girl. Two like human names. Yeah, very human name. Kimberly and

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Melody. Melody. So, we have five new mares in the last like month from where? Uh, Lady, Blondie,

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Ariel. You've seen all these horses, by the way. Kimberly and Melody. You haven't seen Kimberly and

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Melody. They're new. And you're not going to be able to tell the difference. So basically because

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Willow moved to Shaya's can't be a recipient because she keeps eating embryos and then because

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we are not going to be breeding Maggie anymore due to her colic surgery. The two recipients

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that I purchased to just carry embryos and sell with the embryos in them. They are now at the

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property. Nice. It kind of worked out for those. So what um are you okay with talking about what your plans are with them? Like what what embryo you're I'll give you my little breeding list if

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you want. Okay. I'll give you because right now we have five that like potential due dates like

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we have five mares that have been bred. Um and we don't have them all confirmed pregnant yet.

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But if they are then right now with my due dates it's uh Opal, who's our only one that's confirmed

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pregnant. January 29th. That's our first due date. January 29th. Okay. And then February 7th is Raven

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with a VS The First Lady x Enticed baby. Okay. Um Enticed new stud. That's a new name. Um Ariel

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carrying a Cattails Are Blazing x Better Best baby which is like a full sibling to Daphne. That's

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February 11th. Big true. And then Erlene and First Things First just carrying her own baby February

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16th. And then Blondie and First Things First carrying her own baby February 19th confirmed. No, these aren't all confirmed. Just the first one. The first one was confirmed. Everybody else,

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we still got to pre check. Gotcha. So, we're pre checking Raven tomorrow, actually. Okay. Thursday when you're here on Thursday. And how long do you wait to pre check? So, when we put in embryos,

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

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Yeah. Um, did you get to see that last year? No. No. Indy had Woody was a twin. Maybe that's why

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he's so big. Whoa. He absorbed. Wait, so you just And then it just He said it feels He said it feels

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like a grape. Absorbs the life force. It's like the size of a grape. His cursed technique. He absorbs his cursed technique. I need to see that. It gets red and blue. Turns into So it does like

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the song risk losing both pregnancies. So I like hope I don't have to this year. Yeah. Um but it's like, you know, you don't really see anything. Like his arms up there and he's feeling it all,

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but you don't really get to see anything. Um and then when it's but when it's regular like

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breed date, it's like we do it 14 to 16 days after they pull. So, or after they are bred. But anyway,

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so we have five mares bred, but I have plans where Lexy is going to carry a Beyonce x Making Me Wild.

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Okay, nice. Um, Charlotte, we want her redemption arc. So, she's gonna have hopefully the same cross

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that was stillborn this year. So, Cattails Are Blazing and First Things First. Then Melody and

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um Kimberly are going to carry embryos, both VS Code Red embryos with Gone Commando and Red Carpet Debut, which is Erlene and Rikki. Yay. Ginger and Unbridle Your Dreams. Um, Lady and VS Code Red,

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Rikki and First Things First, Sophie and VS Code Red. Jeez, I feel like I'm There's 14 on here. So, yeah. Do you When is it going to come down to But that that many is not going to take. Last year I

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tried for 11 and got nine and then assuming that they do though. Are you prepared? What? Never.

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What are the We would be right. What? So, I guess it'll happen in the next year or two. When is the when is the time you stop using Code Red and First Things First as like a stud for your mares? Like

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I know there's line breeding and whatnot, but I know you don't steer towards that. I will use them forever. It's that I will just have to use them on specific mares. So, like on their daughters and on their like when they're two related, I have to go to outside stallions. Okay. Which is why like

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Kennedy is being bred this year to It's A Southern Thing and Enticed and then Ginger is being bred to Unbridle Your Dreams and so and uh Beyonce is being bred to Making Me Really Wild. So it's like

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we have outside studs always. So like with the cattle every couple years we swap bulls because we're like oh their daughters are old enough now we can't breed them anymore. But we don't

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turn our studs out with our mares. So it doesn't matter. We can be really like selective. So I will use and that's funny because there was a big rule turnover in AQHA actually yesterday. I saw that.

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Yeah. So for I don't know exactly when the rule came into place. It's been at least 5 years where any stallion born after 2015 um if they passed then you had only two years to use up their semen

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and after that you would not be able to I mean I guess you could use it you just wouldn't be able to register and so but the stallions before that so like if you're grandfathered in if you were

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born in 2014 or before you can use it for 50 years to come like if you want if you have frozen semen in hand so everyone the debate was like, "How is that helping the gene pool?" You're like letting

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us saturate with these older studs, but then these newer studs coming up, you only have two years and then it cuts it off. And so these like super talented horses that meet too early of a demise or

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whatever, you're just, you know, shucks out of luck. Yeah. They're gone. And so there there's been a couple stallions I knew of like that where they died really early from like freak things.

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And luckily now their owners like I I follow one of them their owners saved their semen like just hoping that one day it would be overturned and so they they can now use it again. Um but basically

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how that changes things for me because Wayn was always grandfathered in. Yeah. He was born in '07 so he's he's good to go. He could have bred forever and I have tons of frozen semen but Denver

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had how much frozen semen? A lot. Oh god. Like a a lot. Like Has she been? No, she hasn't been yet.

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You gotta go. What am I? Have you ever seen Have you ever seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when they go to that room full of crystal balls and there's thousands of them on those

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shelves? It's like that. No, it's not. And it's all Well, the semen tank room is actually kind of crazy. It is crazy. The semen tank room because like a frozen dose of semen is like way smaller.

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Yeah something like that. Yeah, it it's it's so much smaller and uh you can use so much less of it like through things like ICSI and things like that. So you can make it stretch. Got it. It's

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not like a vat. Okay, that's what I was thinking. But I have I have 400 So I have 400 breeding doses frozen of Denver. So you could breed 400 horses. Well, that's if we just that's if we just breed

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it straight up. If we dose it out like ICSI, it's 4,000. And one shaving it off one time for ICSI is more like uh it could be way more than that. Like that one shave off could be freaking What do you

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mean shave off? They like like one of those doses they like shave off a piece and they use that because you use like one sperm per they shave off like a slice of the frozen block. I I guess I I

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think so. I don't know. It's like those knife like a peel of an apple. I think about the the uh the guys who like when they're like making the drink like ice and making like a perfect circle with the

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ice. Yeah. Anyway, it's you could it could stretch real far. Oh yeah, because there's millions of little sperm because if you do ICSI and IVF, like you can use way less of it for each pregnancy. Um,

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and so with Wayn, I was like, "Okay, I'm good." But with Denver, I mean, that also affected how much I was like banking back for him because it's expensive. And it's like, okay, well,

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if I can only use him for two years, there's no use in me saving saving and and storing all this semen like and and right now he's like fresh semen half the time, then frozen the rest. So, we were

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having to use it up. Whereas with Wayn, pretty much right now, unless we're sending it overseas or doing ICSI, he just does fresh cuz he's like, yeah, a full-time collecting stallion. So, anyway,

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do you still collect frozen for him? Periodically. Um, because when they do Europe and Australia, they have to quarantine to be collected and it's like different semen. You just

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can't send any regular frozen semen you have. So he is collected for that pretty regularly because um Denver is actually super popular in Australia and Europe right now. Like he has his first babies

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coming this year and he was very hot commodity over there. Like lots of people were interested in him. So we had to limit his book. Dope enough to do a European visit. Maybe in a couple years a

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baby's on the ground. A couple years ridiculous. Maybe a couple years where we can go see foals, yearlings, two-year-olds, and his first baby show or something like that because they have like a

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European nationals and they have all this kind of stuff. That takes two years. That would take two years. Two to four. We could at least We could at least go meet the mares. We can go meet the mares.

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Very true. A European meet the mares. Imagine just taking a text in the middle of a podcast just whipping your Look at Look at them both. Look at them both. Disregard for but a eur uh I do think

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it'd be really cool if we went because they have like they have Code Red babies in Germany they have them in I mean in Austria in well once you're over there it's hop in a skid right and I think he

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has one in Italy I think like there's there's all these kinds of amazing horses in Europe we can go for two weeks hit because the expensive part of the trip is getting there and getting back really,

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you know, and you want to talk about the ride-off expenses. There's a mega ride off. We hit, you know, multiple countries where we can visit multiple mares. You're just a walking

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advertisement for your stallion. Little meet the mares, do a little tour of Europe. Two weeks, we can get a bunch of videos. Oh my gosh. We could get How many videos we would stock up? Get a huge

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backlog before we go. guys here. I mean, this is it's because realistically, we would get there and be like, you know what? Let's just experience it and we would do like two videos total. No,

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no, no. While we were there, we would go meet up with some Denver people and I'd ride Denver. Yes. Yes. And then we the Katching Up With Katies and like, hey, we're doing Katching Up With Katie in

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Germany. This Katching Up With Katie and we do like Katching Up With Katie for wherever we're at cuz we're we have so much to catch up on. A couple years let it get to where their riding is.

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never going dead. There's a lot of things that you a couple years ago would have been like we would never do that and then we're let's uh 12 months. We can do it in 12 months last year

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on the ground. You guys also went to Universal last year. Okay. Which was super fun. I want to go to Universal. What did I hear what was said? I missed it. I missed it too. I'll have to rewatch.

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I explained a European trip. I was like, "We did a day at Universal and you would have She's like, "Things are happening that you never would have dreamed of were happening. We did a day

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at Universal." Oh, I see. We went and saw Nate Bargatze, which was super Yeah, that that was really cool. Universal was really cool. We didn't do the ballet, but we've been we've been pitching

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Europe for years. Yeah. Well, it's coming. The European budget's just got to get there. And also, all of those things were extracurricular like this is a work trip. This isn't this is a fun trip. The

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fun trips in a couple years. Maybe we get someone to let me catch ride a horse in the European national. Let Nate and I do a little networking. We could do it. What would it I mean we'll we'll

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get a good enough reason for you to go. Yeah, I bet if the right person shot you an email, you'd go who who who what if we did like a cool collab? I wonder if there's horse influencers. There are

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tons of horse influencers in Europe. We'll do a little networking. Is there someone like on your mind? I don't follow anybody. Okay. How how many they're going to watch this and now they're going

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to think you don't care. Katie, how many likes to go to Europe in the fall? In the fall when between I don't think it would monetarily make sense. November. You know, you know the videos where

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they're like, "How many likes and so how many how many likes to do a podcast?" And they're like, "100 and a comment from so and so." Well, yeah, we did get a million subscribers. Whose idea was

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the balloons and the like cupcakes and putting it in the one M and like doing the whole me Nate and uh Well, it started with Kylie. Kylie. Well, actually, I was like, "Let's do the balloon." Well, we were all like, "Let's do one balloon." So then she was whenever she was at the store,

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she was like, "Should I get some cupcakes or something?" And I was like, "Yeah, I think I think cupcakes and flowers would be super nice." And then whenever we were coming back from the vet,

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she text me and was like, "Give Nate your location so he can see how far you are away from the house." I mean, we we were over talking to Kyle be like we were like, "We need more." And so as soon as y'all left, like we were we were out the door as you were pulling out the driveway.

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We all loaded up in the car and then went to the store and just did more and more and more. Well, I loved it. Like I surprises. I thought you were about to be like upset. Surprises. No one ever

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surprises me. And so that was a surprise and it was so fun. Uh, so when we hit a million on live, they all got like these trash bags of balloons out and they all floated to the ceiling immediately and they little poppers. I couldn't I couldn't leave the dogs at the shop for that night because

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they kept falling down randomly. Um, but it was super fun and I like I think so they just sent me the thing today to get my Nice. They did. Oh, really? Heck yeah. But I think it's because they wait till you're like securely at a million. Yeah. You know, like they're like, "You have to

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be at a million for over a week or something like that because uh you know, everything fluctuates." And so we're at like a million. You can get cancelled at any time, too. We're at like a

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

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Why go to Europe when we can go to Texas eight times?

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I'm joking. I'm joking. I do enjoy our trips to Texas. The trips The trips are fun. Trips are fun. But now they're going to be even more fun because you know why? Lindsay's there. D&D. We

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can't play D&D. D&D in Texas by the pool. What if I'm not there? D&D in Texas by the pool. What if I'm not there? Only at the half the party needs to be there. Wow. All the like the key players. Don't

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finish that sentence. The key players are going to be Don't finish that sentence. Only only the core essential, but I fear I'm pretty essential. Um, so we do have trips. We are going to Texas

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probably a lot. So sorry to tell you. We have some fun things planned though. Texas is cool. Um, I've never been. We're going to go to Ohio. We're going to Oklahoma. We're gonna go to Florida.

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Farthest left I've been is Louisiana and that's not even left. Wow. I've been up the east coast but like left Louisiana is the farthest. Have a lot of fur. You need to know where Louisiana is.

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Do you Are we having a hard time locating Louisiana? Louisiana is left of here. Yes. Yeah, it is. I mean it's down for sure to the left. Arkansas touches Memphis, which is left of Nashville. And Louisiana is directly beneath Arkansas. So, it's not very left. That's why

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she was like the most left I've been is Louisiana. Slightly left because it's not that much. I guess it is. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz Georgia and Mississippi, they're all like rectangular. Yeah. But anyway,

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um Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited. Oklahoma now. I know. So, we'll probably be doing some rotations and it'll be fun because you'll go on some trips and then other times you'll stay back

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and you'll be over on socials and then cuz we got a we have a new team member named Elena now. So, y'all kind of be swapping out and then Rachel Rachel wants to go. She can go. She's quitting

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too. She can go. Where is she going? She wants to go on trips with us is what I meant. Rachel would be a vibe. I feel like she wouldn't play D&D with us, though. So, we're not going to play D&D.

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We're going to be over that. We played Monopoly last year. We played Monopoly. I love playing for sure. I was never for that, though. That was mandatory Monopoly. We should do another episode

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with makeup, but last So, Nate did my makeup in an episode. Okay. I You should do my makeup, Matt. Pretty good. Did a pretty good job, I think. And I did Abigail's in that one. So maybe we should

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do it this time where Matt does um she's not here. Me doing Lindsay's tattoo. I feel like tattooing was way cooler than makeup. We did it on Snapchat. People We should do it. We need to be more uh be a

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little bit more liberal with these lives and just like start start doing fun stuff. How is it now? How'd it turn out? It's good. There's a little It was It wasn't like that. It's good. It's It's

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good. It's No, I mean it's just like there's just like there's one spot that I knew when I did it. Let me see cuz I haven't seen it since it's healed a bit. I need to go back over and shade it. I need

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to put lotion on it. But it looks a little dry. Yeah, she's a little dry. I have Aquaphor down there. Looks pretty good. There's definitely a difference between her nut and Oh yeah, for

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sure. But I mean, but I bet there was a difference in one's a peanut and one's a cat. I don't think the cat was free. Cat was free. And that was like my third tattoo ever. I've done more since then.

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That was your first on a person. Who else have you tattooed now? Lindsay and me. And that's it. But I've done more on myself. What other ones have you done on yourself? Well, I hadn't done the Itachi

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one or the power sign. I did the power sign right after I did the Lindsay. I'm surrounded by nerds. But I'll be do I have been on YouTube like they get so mad at me because anytime someone like new

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comes into the shop or something we're playing Dungeons and Dragons I'm like I know we're weird and they're like why do you have she unnecessarily prefaces it. Somebody will literally come in and

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be like oh my gosh Dungeons and Dragons that seems so interesting and fun and they'll never get that sentence. We're weird. It's fine. They'll say hi everyone and just say first off we're all

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complete nerds. Let's go ahead. Let's lay this on the floor. We're losers. No worries. We We We are weird. All right, let's just go ahead and set this out straight. Welcome to my establishment,

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but stay away from us because we are losers. Well, okay. So, here's the thing. There's a vulnerability in playing Dungeons and Dragons with y'all that I never feel. There's like this there's

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

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You do, but you go from a comic. You go from a comical standpoint. Yeah. Which has a bit of a barrier. Yeah. Yours is a little more serious. But when I how I view it is if you know if they

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were to make fun of me, I just more feel sad for them because I know they won't ever let themselves be able to have this fun. They'll never allow themselves to have the fun because they

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would be too self-conscious to have the fun. So, everyone is because we do these lives sometimes and everyone's always like, "Does Jonathan not play D&D? Where's Jonathan?" I'm like, "No, he will never allow himself to have that fun. That is him." Like he And some people just aren't

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wired that way. And that's okay. And yeah, that's true, too. Supports it. He's like, "Do you?" He pops in. He'll pop in and make himself a protein shake in the middle of it and cause some noise.

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But but I do think, you know, every campaign doesn't have to be in the Middle Ages. And I think there's certainly a campaign could be drawn up that he would be all over. I think cowboys.

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Maybe you could do cowboys. You could even do like zombie apocalypse. Zombie apocalypse or, you know, anything like that. It could be like semi-odd. I really really want to do like a vampire. Can

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we do like a I do too. Resident Evil. We need you to be the dungeon master for the vampire one though. I have to reciprocate Katie's love in person. She would give me the story

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I want. Whereas clam up and kill my person. Nate mentioned this. What we need to do is just have a DM for us to play. That's a DM. Do we just like bring them up on Skype? No. Like it it's

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a common thing especially as D&D is now common. It is now a common thing. Um there are DMs that will just DM just like just like you have a massage person come to your house there are

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now why do you put that out there why you got to put that out there that is something that me and my husband like to do. Okay as everyone does. Um, but the same way that you could maybe get

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like a uh a Spider-Man impersonator to come to a party. That's a bad example. The difference is is like you could have like like the D&D store next to my house has like seven different tables that you could have you could literally have somebody just DM a game. We could all say, "Hey,

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we want to do this. All right, we'll meet up." Yeah. So, we have to leave my home to do it. No, no, but you you could also have somebody just say like, "Hey, we're going to do this. They're going

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to commit to this game or whatever." and then they come to your place whatever and then they DM the game and then we they can DM and then but they're like they're like pro DMs and like they aren't

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like there is no like well let me just figure this out like we just ask them like hey what's the deal yeah cuz a lot of times you know we'd probably honestly learn a lot if we did that but we would

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and we would have more fun playing and we would be less of like well you said that I could do this last time and like now is a you know I don't feel like we do we don't no if anyone does it's me but

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cuz already. I feel like I feel like it would be cool. Like I want Lindsay to DM as well. Um just separately, but I would also think it'd be really fun for all four of us. All four of us get to be

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the party. Yeah, that is the thing. You two have never played in a game together, right? And so like it would be a cool way to do that. Are you going to be separately though? They do you can

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get online and have somebody DM on D&D Beyond like on whatever. We still do all the things like it's it's if you wanted to go the Skype route. Yeah. Very easy to do. It wouldn't be difficult to get

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someone to do it in person. Yeah. But anyway, I digress. Well, I was just going to say like I digress. Are you going to be a woman again? No, I think I'm going to have a little bit more time

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to The first one was really just a test thing. It was just like we were all figuring out what D&D was and I just picked a a character and I didn't care. She was a woman. It was just, you know, I

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wanted to see what, you know, what this was about. Um, but then you were allowed a love interest.

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Yeah, I forgot I turned it into that. Yeah, I was riffing. Um but um I think but then I was but then when I was riffing mine was Smoke. Yeah, but I had I literally um anyway,

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I'm not going to give the details of the future. Um but anyway, um he's coming back. No, see Falcon's coming for me. But um see like how fun would it would be to have like all four of us

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being like oh then what are we gonna do next? Okay here's the thing I just have to catch all up on that. So my character tried to have a love interest with this what do you call it when they're not like NPC NPC so non-playable character. So we're like the DM kind of plays

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that person. And so I attempted to have a love interest with this guy named Falcon who was really cool. And Matt was so awkward and embarrassed by it that he killed him. That wasn't the reason.

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That's not a question. Did he have to die? I guess nothing ever has to happen. If we're airing it out, I thought it would add some drama, some weight,

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some heartbreak to the situation. And to be fair, it did. I mean, jaws dropped. Everyone's dead. I thought every single person especially Falcon's. Yeah. Too soon. I mean, homie,

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he emoted. Jail. Well, anyway. Anyway, we should we should look into But also like what a what a move because literally the scene prior you had like given me a speckle of hope that he

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was reciprocating interest. Yeah. A longing in your heart had truly stirred. Anyway, also this is like like my husband's in the next room by the way and like pops in and he knows about Falcon. Okay. He's fine with it. He knows about him like it's he knows about Falcon. He knows all this.

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Okay. Anytime we talk about you're like, "Baby, I I think of you when I think of Falcon." You're right. That's what made it weird. She's over here saying like, "I got I got weirded out by it,

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but she's over here like having Jonathan stand behind me, so she has like a visual." No, I don't. No, I did not. No, I didn't. She's like looking up at Jonathan while she's talking. But

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I'm not. Y'all have made it weird. Matt, make him say it. She's like sliding me lines across the table to have Jonathan say. That's what made it weird. Then I was like,

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"All right, well, he has to die. Jonathan, they're messing with you. This didn't happen." But you don't have these uh you don't have these restrictions with the with the substitute DM. Nate's laugh. I have not done that in a long. I don't know if Lindsay has seen

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like the real thing. Like that's for real, Lindsay, by the way. That's for real. That was funny. That That's funny. Genuine. I love that. That has not happened in a while. Thank

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you guys. That was good. Oh my gosh. Well, wow. I don't even think this Katching Up With Katie had um a real purpose. Merit. That was great though. We have We're at 50 minutes. We're at least 20

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minutes of usable footage. 30. No, I like it when we we haven't riffed in a long time. Most of the Katching Up With Katies have been like uh Yeah, this one this um Well, today it was just I think

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giggling and and chatting more so than anything, which sometimes you just need to do. Uh, which we got Nate's real life alert. We got Nate's real laugh out of him, which is always a pleasure. So,

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it's been so long. Hope y'all enjoyed. We are pretty soon to be on full watch again, which means we are doing lives every night of just the mares in their stalls and the babies and mamas in their

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stalls. So, you can see them how they interact. You can see the mamas as they start, you know, their behaviors change. It's a really fun time um in the comments and they're like, "It's a really

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fun time." It is. If you like watching animal behavior. Yeah. And then we will start doing some uh Dungeons and Dragons lives again. Yes. So, hope you enjoyed and we'll see you in the next

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one. And if you haven't checked out the new merch, we got some Frankie merch. If you didn't know that I had a dog under here, hold on. Where's she at? I completely forgot about Kimmy. If you didn't

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know that I had a dog under here the whole time, uh here she is. And we'll see you in the next one."