Answering Your Questions | EP. 2

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Welcome back to another episode of basically answering questions and talking about
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it and having a conversation with the lovely Abigail
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You can see the side of her face here
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We filmed the first two episodes of this in the same day so
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Based on what y'all like or your constructive criticism.
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We might change the way the layout is. We're not sure yet
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We're just kind of figured it out. So Abigail is
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gonna ask me some questions from my Facebook Instagram
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YouTube all those comments and we're just gonna have a conversation. So
Winston's Getting a Girlfriend?
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First question. Would you ever consider finding Winston a lady friend?
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So here's the thing Winston is not an intact
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boar. We had him castrated when he was a baby
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So at this point in his age, I feel like he would hate
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Another pig he's already not thrilled with any other human like living creature. So
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probably not
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Winston was definitely one of those things where I
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First off I thought a 30 pound pig existed. So I went bought a
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Micro mini pig when I was 18 years old
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I skipped class in college one day and drove to
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Alabama and bought him from a lady who had them in her garage
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Okay
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Like it wasn't the smartest most well-thought-out thing to get this pig and then
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definitely learned a lot of things that I shouldn't have done
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Can't fix it now. So I'm not opposed to ever getting more
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pigs in the future. I just I don't think it will be well
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Winston's here
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If that makes sense
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Okay, so no friends for no friends for Winston probably
Are You Getting a Giraffe?
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Are you going to get a giraffe at some point? I
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Think I'm just
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The whole getting to go visit them
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It's like having a niece when you don't want to have kids of your own
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You just you know, you cuddle them you love them and then you just hand them off
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I get to go visit it and then I don't have to
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Build gigantic buildings for them and I don't even
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think you could in Tennessee like that's Texas is wild
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You can have like anything in Texas. So no kind of related to that
Dream Animal Interaction?
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But it says what is your dream animal interaction without consequence?
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So like any animal if it wasn't dangerous
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I want to I just want to like like swim with and snuggle a
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Sea cow so bad what a manatee manatee
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It's not allowed and they're so sweet
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You can swim with them though.
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I think there's like one spot you're allowed to
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You're not supposed to touch them because they're so friendly
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That then they get hurt by boats and stuff So I want to unashamedly be able to
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Just like go give them love and swim with them
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The sea cow.
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Which is so funny.
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I think it's an inherited thing because my great grandmother
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Used to live in florida and she like loved manatees
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And she had this manatee that would come to her spot near her house
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and she'd go feed it and stuff and she
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I have a gold manatee necklace that I wear sometimes
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that she gave to me.
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That's cool.
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Yeah.
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Manatee lore.
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Would you ever consider having llamas?
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Llamas, mm.
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I had friends with llamas,
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and so they told me all the bad,
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and now I'm like a little gun shy of llamas.
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Like I'm very much into the low maintenance
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of the like, like horses are very high maintenance.
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Cows, the way we do it,
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is seemingly high maintenance a lot of the time.
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Like when it comes to my goats
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and like the animals that I keep at my farm,
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I like to, of course I want to take care of them,
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but I want like low maintenance.
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So like llamas and sheep and all that good stuff,
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they have to be like shorn, they spit at you.
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They have like health issues that I just don't know
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if I'm willing to like commit to.
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So I don't know, probably not.
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Right now, I say that.
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We'll see.
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From the YouTube video of us going to see Denver,
Denver and Happy Foal?
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a lot of people had ideas for babies,
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and someone said they would love to see a Denver
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in Happyful.
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What do you think about that?
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So I think genetically it would be okay.
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Like I would not breed Happy to Code Red
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because they're just so close.
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I think it's far enough removed
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that I could breed her to Denver.
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So I think it all depends on if she's gonna be needed
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as a re-sip because like if it came between a Happyful
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and like a Trudyful or a like, you know,
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if I got an embryo from somebody full
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that was like really, really good producing mayor,
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it's like I'd probably choose that over Happy
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since Happy doesn't have any foals that are,
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you know, Howie's her first one.
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So she doesn't have any that have gone in one.
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She herself didn't, you know, show a lot.
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So it all depends on, I guess, the certain circumstances,
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but I'm not opposed to her having a Denver foal.
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I think that'd probably be pretty cute.
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Someone also said Denver and Earline.
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Yes, that's already planned.
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That's planned.
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Next year, Denver, you know,
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we're gonna collect him this November.
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The plan is to breed him to Annie, Earline, Trudy,
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and I'm not opposed to breeding him
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to some of my thoroughbreds.
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Like I, you know, depending on if we can get registration
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going with Charlotte or Indy, I don't know.
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We'll see where that goes.
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But eventually as well, the Buck Skinned Mayor
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that's not even here yet, you know,
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I hope to do Ixie with her so we could do a little bit
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of a Code Red and Denver.
Is Denver Leaving Texas?
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So Denver's gonna get bred to quite a few
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of the mayors for sure.
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Is Denver going to be coming to the farm
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since you want to show him or will he stay in Texas?
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Isn't it hard to know you own a stallion as great as Whalen
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but don't get to see him every day?
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So they're both staying in Texas until further notice.
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But like with Denver, I want him to be able to go show,
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be successful, and then go on to be collected pretty quickly.
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And he needs to be in Texas for that because he,
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regardless if he's with Aaron Moses now
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and then goes on to someone else to do the trail
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or the western riding, it's gonna be in Texas.
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It's gonna be close to High Point.
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I would like Aaron to continue to work with him.
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And then be collected by High Point.
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So that all, he needs to be close with them.
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Whalen, I don't want to A, stress him out.
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That's a long frickin' drive from Texas to Tennessee.
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The liability's crazy.
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And then B, they just have it such, they have it locked down.
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They've got it going on there.
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It's so easy.
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I know he's taken care of.
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They can offer him things I can't.
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So yes, I would like to be able to see him all the time,
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but we'll do that in retirement.
Bridgerton Colin Fan?
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Okay, completely off topic.
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What do you think of the latest season of Bridgerton?
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Are you a Colin fan?
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Okay, but let me say this.
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I haven't finished the last episode.
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You can't ruin this.
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So don't say anything that would ruin everything.
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I have to be able to.
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Okay, go ahead. So I'm gonna be--
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Go ahead.
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I mean, I feel like I already know what's gonna happen.
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So you're like, "Hey, I'm gonna ask you this question,
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but I haven't watched it, so you can't--
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Well, you don't have to spoil the last episode
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to say if you're a Colin fan.
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Basically.
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(laughing)
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Am I a Colin fan?
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He's not my favorite, he's not my least favorite, I guess.
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Kind of going back to the hobby question
What TV Shows Do You Watch?
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in the first video.
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Besides Bridgerton, what other kind of shows
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do you like to watch?
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I'm very fantasy or period time.
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So like, Bridgerton is up my alley
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because it's not super serious,
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but it's like in the Regency period.
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I really like TV shows that are not in today's age.
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Like if it's before, if it's after the 90s,
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I'm like, "I don't really wanna watch it, I don't know why."
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So I love that kind of stuff.
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So like, fantasy, Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon,
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all that good stuff.
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I love historical dramas, so I loved Vikings
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and things like that.
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I don't really love to watch any of the Love Island
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and stuff like that.
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That just cringes me out too hard.
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So I like there to be a really juicy plot, long episodes.
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Yeah.
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You love Twilight, you love--
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Loved Twilight.
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Harry Potter.
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Yeah.
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Lord of the Rings. Yep.
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Yep, lots of fantasy, lots of...
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There's gotta be like a romance in the plot for me.
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If it's not a comedy,
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I could do without romance if it's a comedy,
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but like there needs to be a little spice.
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there's gotta be some spice there's gotta be some historicalness to it
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Where I can't relate to it at all But it's like ahh
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I don't want to relate to anything In the things I'm watching, you know what I'm saying
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You're like an interviewer.
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I'm trying my best.
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[Laughter]
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There does need to be a camera on her facial expressions.
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We need to have Abigail.
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We kind of sprung this on her today.
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We were like, "Oh yeah."
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And you're going to be like, "In these videos asking the questions."
What's Your 5 Year Plan?
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And she's like, "Oh, okay."
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[Laughter]
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What's your five-year plan or goal for Running Springs and your mini farm?
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Umm I do think we're growing a little bit to the point where more land is needed
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Umm I don't know if it's gonna be within 5 years, but I do see us moving at some point
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At least the mini farm To a bigger farm.
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I would love to build a house umm but I
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I don't know I think it's gonna be I'm just kind of letting it fold wherever it may
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I don't wanna necessarily put a I want this to happen at this point
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The more I let things just happen The better they are
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Whenever I plan something it just doesn't end up going as well as if I just let it happen
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So I definitely still want to be doing what I'm doing now, but I don't know
UK Meet and Greet?
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See what happens?
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Yeah.
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Would you ever go to the UK to do a meet and greet?
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To specifically do a meet and greet Probably not
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Nate's back there being like "ugh"
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I know, that's why I asked,
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because I was like, I want to go.
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(laughing) I think it'd be cool to go there for,
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like if we had a really cool collaboration
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with like another equine content creator,
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and then we go over there and I don't know,
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I don't even, I literally don't have anyone in my brain
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when I'm thinking of that.
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I think it'd be cool to have an excuse to go over there
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and then maybe do that,
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but I don't think I could justify going there
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just to do a meet and greet.
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We'd have to have something else in the works.
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Okay.
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Hit, hit, tell me who you want.
Top 5 Breeding Stallions?
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(laughing)
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Let's get it going.
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(laughing)
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Okay, this just says,
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Okay, this just says,
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In your opinion, apart from obviously Denver and Code Red,
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who are, for you, the top five stallions
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that you would breed to?
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For me.
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So this is specifically for me, my mares,
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and this is current stallions.
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This isn't like who I'd want to breed to if I could.
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This is current stallions.
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Oh, this is gonna get me in trouble
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because if I don't put someone's,
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cause I don't, there's like, there's hunt seat stallions,
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there's all around stallions,
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there's Western pleasure stallions.
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Just like for your mares,
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who do you think would make the best match?
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So I really, really love Good, Better, Best.
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I can't say any like more good things
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about Good, Better, Best,
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which is why I keep breeding to him.
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So he's Hank Sire, he's Daphne Sire,
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he's bred to Sophie this year,
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tried to breed him to Trudy and it wasn't his fault.
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The receipts just kept, you know, not cooperating.
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So love Good, Better, Best.
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I might have to take a second here for just a minute.
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Okay, I will say there's something special.
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Now he did die last year, unfortunately,
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but he's, I think he's still able
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to be bred to a little bit.
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Allocate Your Assets to me is such a statement
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in the hunter under saddle world.
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You can literally look at a horse and be like,
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that one's sired by Allocate Your Assets.
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Like he is just, has something about him in his trot,
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in his cadence, like, it's just,
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you can just see him from a mile away.
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So I love Allocate Your Assets.
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That's why I bred Trudy to him.
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And I'm so grateful I did, cause we got Penelope.
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So, and then he's also the sire of,
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I have too many horses.
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He's also the sire of Erlene.
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So love him, love him, love him.
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So those are, okay, those are my two hunter under saddle picks
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for right now.
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I could say Easy on the Eyes,
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cause Easy on the Eyes is an up and coming guy.
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I did two, I don't know if I can do that.
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Okay.
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There's too many.
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The question technically was up and coming,
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but I just kind of changed it a little to who.
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But up and coming as well.
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Up and coming.
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So Easy on the Eyes is like an amazing up and coming hunter
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to Saddle Stallion.
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I love him.
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His babies have had like really, really good minds.
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He's only had a few show, like,
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he had one win the Congress like a million times last year.
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Easy peasy.
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And so like, he's fantastic.
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I bred him to Ethel.
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I plan to breed him to a couple of my measures in the future.
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Like he's awesome.
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And he's also kind of an out cross with his bloodlines
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because we are so saturated with like a few studs
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in our mares that he's a really good one to bring in.
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There's one stud that I really, really want to breed to.
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And I want to breed him to Annie in the future.
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He's gray and his name is Unbridle Your Dreams.
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Now he's really young.
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So we haven't seen a whole lot of his babies yet.
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He's by I'm a Platinum Dream
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who just passed away I think a couple of years ago.
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And so he's one I really want to watch
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because I really like what I'm seeing with him showing,
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but like, I don't know what his babies are doing yet.
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And you know, and then I think another one
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that I'm gonna throw in there is making me really wild
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just because, you know, there for a little while he was new.
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He had a lot of babies coming out
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and he himself was just throwing these like
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incredible front legs on his babies.
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And now we are seeing as his babies get older,
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they have an incredible talent in the all around
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as well as the Western pleasure and stuff.
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So he's got a really, really cool thing going.
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So I really like making me really wild too.
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And I have not been able to breed to him yet.
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I tried possibly with Beyonce and possibly with Annie,
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but it just didn't work out.
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So was that five?
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I think that was five.
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That doesn't mean that was my only five favorites.
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Like there's so many others, but off the top of my head,
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those are the ones that I really like
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think are cool right now.
Does Your Head Hang Low?
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So this is kind of like a show question.
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It says, when did and why have quarter horses
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started carrying their heads so low?
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So the low head thing,
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and you have to watch trends over the years,
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there's definitely, there was definitely a trend
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of them being way too low.
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So now there's a rule where they can't, you know,
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there's like a certain level they have to be
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to be qualified.
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So when you watch the really high levels
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of the Western pleasure nowadays,
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like at the world show and the Congress,
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the head isn't that low.
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Some of them are above level, honestly,
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and it's really allowing for that front end to be light.
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But when you go to maybe some lower level shows,
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when you maybe look at like some younger kids showing
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that, you know, possibly don't have the leg strength
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or the knowledge to show their horse to the best potential,
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or you look at some horses that just can't
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be really light in the front end
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because that's just not how they're made.
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You might get the, you might be like,
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oh, that's, you know, that's the standard then.
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But when you really look at the highest level,
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it is difficult to be slow collected with your head up,
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like with your head level or above level,
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to be that collected on a drape is actually so hard.
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So a lot of people go to low heads for control
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and for collection, because when that neck goes down,
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it's a lot easier to bring that back up.
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But anyway, we could get into that for a long time.
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But I think the head being down does give a larger level
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of control and collection, but it doesn't always look pretty
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when it's not done right.
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And sometimes it is definitely overdone.
Who Are the New Barn Gals?
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This isn't really a question,
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but a lot of people want to know who the new barn gals are
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that just started popping up.
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The new barn gals.
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We need to do an introduction video.
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So that's Rachel and Alyssa.
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So we had one of our long time barn guys
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move to a different job at the beginning of the year,
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and we miss him greatly.
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He was amazing, but we did have to fill in his spot.
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And because of how many new babies we had
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and how much stuff we have going on,
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we decided to have two new people.
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And so Rachel started to kind of help me
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keep track with the vet.
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She's been riding a few of the horses.
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She has been doing a lot of the,
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like with Penelope and the babies,
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desensitizing them, washing them,
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doing a lot more hands-on stuff with the babies
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and just kind of helping me keep an eye on
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things that need to be done, that kind of thing.
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So basically like barn management.
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And Alyssa came in as another person to clean stalls,
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take care of horses, feed,
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and kind of do whatever is needed to be done
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to keep the barn running.
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So now the barn staff is Gerardo and Alyssa and Rachel.
Makeup Tutorials?
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The people want makeup tutorials.
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Which is so funny,
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because that's like what I used to do.
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If you were an OG and you remember like 2017 Instagram,
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I would be in my closet at my parents' house
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doing like lives constantly.
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And you did like the makeup,
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people's makeup at like horses,
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or horses, horse shows and stuff.
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Yeah, like that's what I wanted to do as a career.
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I wanted to be a makeup artist.
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And so I was doing Quintiniers every five seconds.
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I was doing people's maternity makeup,
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because I had a bunch of friends,
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like getting, you know, having babies
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and getting married and whatever.
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And then I would go to horse shows
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and I would do horse show makeup at the big stuff.
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And then it just got to the point where at the time
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I was asked to be a host for a TV show.
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And so I was traveling for that a lot
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and I couldn't book out makeup jobs
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because I knew I was gonna be flaky
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because I had like so many cool like trips popping up
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that didn't give me a whole lot of time
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to like plan far ahead.
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So I stopped doing that.
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But yeah, we could bring back some.
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Nate, are you gonna, you wanna film some makeup tutorials?
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I need to do Abigail's makeup on camera.
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He can do your eyeliner.
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Oh God.
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What if we did a video where I do Nate and Matt's makeup?
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That'd be funny.
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I think Matt would for sure be down.
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I have an old, it's archived.
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It's not deleted, it's archived.
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I have an old video on YouTube of Jonathan doing my makeup.
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How bad was it?
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It was pretty rough.
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This gets 20,000 likes.
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This gets 20,000 likes will drop.
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Nate and Matt's YouTube makeup tutorial.
Hardest Part of Your Job?
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What is the hardest part of this job?
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The hardest part of this job.
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So I guess you could encompass in this job
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the content creation, content management, store management,
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breeding the horses and care of all the animals.
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The hardest part is keeping it all straight.
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Cause there's so many things.
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I literally in the last year have had to hire so many people
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or like, you know, reach out to so many more people for help.
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I mean, that's, I mean, you coming on has helped me immensely.
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I mean, I literally was like, you were gone for four days.
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You're not allowed to do that.
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I need to work here.
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You didn't like Jonathan as my replacement.
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I told her, I was like, you were gone for four days.
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Jonathan had to step up and be in your place
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and he gives me a whole lot more lip
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than you do and he's not as good at it.
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And I don't like him.
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So I don't like him being you.
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So yeah, it's keeping, because there's just so many
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different irons and so many fires that all come into
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like one thing, keeping everything straight in my brain
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without like feeling like I'm going to go on overload
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is really, really hard.
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Like I, you literally can know right now,
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you can tell when we haven't had like a break day
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or like whatever, cause I start not being able to talk
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cause there's just so much going on.
Outro
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So, all right, we're done.
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Hey, what are we doing?
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We're done.
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(laughing)
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But anyway, hope you all enjoyed that.
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And if you have any other questions for future videos,
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let us know and thank you for joining us.
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So see you in the next one.