Answering Your Questions | EP. 3

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so welcome back to another Q&A session
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here on the YouTube channel now I don't
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know what to call this because this
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isn't just asking questions and having
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onew answers me and Abigail here are
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having a conversation and she has pulled
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comments from Facebook from Instagram
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from YouTube and she is asking questions
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that yall have actually commented and so
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I think we need we need something to
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call this little like chat session that
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we've started I guess let's just go
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ahead and start but please in the
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comments go ahead and let us know what
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you have in mind to call this but
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Abigail
Is Van Your Middle Name?
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okay first question is Van your real
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middle
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name
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no it's not my middle name at all um van
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like is my last name it's my maiden last
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name um so van like is Dutch and I if
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I'm correct van means from so you'll see
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a lot of people like like dick van djk
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or like there's a lot of Van something
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or others and why are we laughing at
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me you laughing at dick man
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D that's his
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name do do you know who Dick Van Dyke is
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I don't I I don't I do I I know who it
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is I just this generation caught you off
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guard what a name is it is a crazy he's
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a very famous person okay well it's
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dutch it means from S I guess um and so
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I I get that a lot though I get people
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asking me what my middle name is because
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they think it's van and it's actually
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Abigail which is
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funny so no it's not my middle name
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Abigail
Where Did "Running Springs" Come From?
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is um how did your parents come up with
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the name Running Springs
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um they were running Barrel horses at
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the time and that's how they actually
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met they met barrel racing and so they
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got the running from that but it also
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ties into the fact that the entire Farm
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has Springs like Natural Springs all
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over it and so there's some like have I
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taken you down to the racetrack no I
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don't think so okay well it used to be a
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racehorse farm and so there's a quarter
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mile track that's grassed over now and
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it actually had starting Gates on it and
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stuff when my parents bought it and
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they're like oh sick and then they came
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and got them like that week um but it's
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there's some there there's some by each
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pond that's on the farm like all the
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ponds are Springfed um and then there's
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some up in the woods like I'll have to
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show you when we're driving around next
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time but yeah the golf cart or um
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Abigail has a hatred of the golf cart we
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figured that out that she is spoiled now
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and likes the AC of the of the side by
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side so um no we'll take this side by
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side uh so that you don't hate your life
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on my golf cart so someone asked what
What Time Do You Start Your Day?
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time do you start your morning routine
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I'm just interest to hear
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your not as early as a lot of people
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would think I'm such a night owl and so
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I stay up no I don't go to bed any
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earlier than 12 or 1 like ever and I do
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a lot of my like answering stuff on my
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phone or my computer really late at
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night and so Jen literally these days
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because it's so hot out we've been
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starting earlier and so like you've been
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getting to my house at like 8 and that's
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about I have and that's about when I get
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up honestly uh and we like kind of our
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morning like talking about what the day
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is going to be and and then we go but
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like like the last few like weeks we've
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started riding at the barn at 8:30 in
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the morning so we're taking s
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immediately after yeah so um so I I'm
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not like an early riser I never have
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been it's very hard for me
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sorry what has been the scariest moment
Scariest Moment On The Farm?
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you've had on the farm scariest moment
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probably when um I broke my back what
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happened was I was 18 years old so
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that's crazy that that's been like 10
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years ago maybe I 17 so over 10 years um
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I had this little cow horse named shorty
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that we had bred and he was I don't even
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know if he's 14 Hands like he literally
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was like Gracie he was so small and he
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was got a late start cuz he was kind of
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on the back burner like no one had time
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for him he was supposed to be a barrel
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horse and then he was just so small and
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like not fast and so I took it upon
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myself to break him and that was my
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first time ever doing that and he was
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actually getting like really good
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and I got cocky and didn't lung in one
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day and it was in February and it was
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very windy and all the things and this
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was back when the arena had no it was an
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outdoor Arena it didn't have any like
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like enclosing like it was um panels and
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he spooked at something as I was getting
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off of him and so when I swung my leg
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off of him and I was putting my stomach
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over over the saddle to like slide down
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he spooked and luckily even though my
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foot did stay in the Stirrup I didn't
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fall backwards and get stuck I fell over
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him and so I was on my stomach like okay
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like this is the horse I was like like
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over top of him and um he ran around the
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arena and I'm just like screaming and
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trying to like get him to stop was still
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in the thing yeah but luckily I got that
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free but he like let's say he was
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running around this and I'm over him he
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like ducked in and so I flipped over on
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the other side and landed on my back in
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the it was quarter because it was an
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outdoor Arena it was like really packed
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quarter down which is like small grally
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type stuff mixed with sand and so uh I
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had gravel anded it in my back I broke
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my transverse process and um was in a
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back brace for graduation in prom and
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how embarrassing H yeah it was honestly
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it was terrible and then i' still have
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back problems because I I needed to uh
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qualify for the World show and so I kept
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riding like in my back brace could be
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why you uh still have back pain probably
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probably do you have any other scary
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moments that you think
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would come close to that do do you think
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are you thinking of one in your head I'm
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actually not I'm just
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curious cuz I feel like I already knew
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about that I didn't know like the whole
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story of how it happened right but I'm
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like that's when I feel like I felt most
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scared oh also the the fertilizer truck
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you said oh my gosh yes I will never so
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we like I had flashbacks today cuz we
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had the fertilizer truck going through
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the fields and our farm is very hilly
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very hilly uneven and so when I was
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probably probably around the same time
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like late teenager um usually someone
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gets in the truck with the fertilizer
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driver and tells them where to go where
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we want
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fertilized and it's 300 acres so it
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takes a while to cover it all and it's
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like very I wouldn't call it mountainous
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but I mean till tills Tennessee
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is Tennessee is really hilly and so I I
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think my biggest fear is honestly um
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flipping a vehicle or turning over or
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whatever and so I was terrified the
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entire time there's a comment that
Torment & Misery?
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says just stop using those animals if
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you actually care about them it's really
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illogical considering it is a farm that
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gains profit off of their torment and
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misery what would you have to say about
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that wow um I think if you look any of
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look at any of my animals and think
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they're in torment or misery
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you probably need to like have your eyes
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checked they're they're so well taken
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care of I you don't even know how much I
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just spent today on my horses that don't
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even get ridden on their Chiropractic
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work I had a chiropractor out from my
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horses that aren't even being ridden to
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make them feel better you wouldn't say
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they're being tormented uh no I wouldn't
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I think that's stupid
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um do you
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[Laughter]
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n you said ask
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it but we're not going to put move on
Family History With The Farm?
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explain a little bit about your family's
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history with the farm they said they see
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your grandpa help sometimes too is he
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also a part of like the farm life and
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everything
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so I wouldn't so my my P which is my
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dad's father um was very involved with
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the early years of Running Springs so
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Running Springs wasn't my parents first
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Farm where they had cows and horses they
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actually started out in a at a different
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Farm in Thompson Station and that was
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called Battle Mountain and so at that
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farm which is where I was born my Pap
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was very involved with the cattle and
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helping with the upkeep of the farm and
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whatnot now when we moved here uh you
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know he he loves to help with hay that
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kind he loves to you know every now and
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then come down with the cows um but
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really my
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parents took it such a step further with
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the horse breeding with the cattle
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breeding with the operation of the farm
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um that they didn't really grow up in
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that like it neither one of them grew up
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on like a working cattle farm or a
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working horse farm they both had the
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horse bug and the the the farm animal
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bug kind of out of nowhere so they had
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you know they had parents
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that like like my mom got a pony when
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she was little on their they had 10
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acres and so they had a Pony um my
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grandmother on my dad's side she loved
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horses but it wasn't like a breeding
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operation or whatever so that was
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definitely them that started
What Was Your First Animal?
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it um someone else asked what the first
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pet that you ever got was or animal that
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you got was was it a
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horse Yes
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actually I grew up in a household where
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we always had like five dogs at a time
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um but specifically for me I think I was
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8 months old my mom could not stand it
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that I didn't have a pony and like yet
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because we always they had horses but
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she wanted so bad to get me a pony that
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she like rushed so I was 8 months old
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and she went
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to I think it was Watertown Tennessee to
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like a horse sale and found this little
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skinny Pony and she was a well
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Shetland mix I think and her name I
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called her baby cuz that was the only
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word I could say and so her name was
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baby and she was a little Bay Pony and
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they didn't know at the time she was
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pregnant and so like months later they
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just went walked out in the field and
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there was a little baby out there and so
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she had a little gated baby so that she
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must have been bred by like a walking
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horse or something um a little GED black
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Philly named Lily May and then I showed
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lead line on her and after that cuz we
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had brought her to this area and there's
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so many horse people in this area that
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she became like this little first kids
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or kids first Pony that got passed
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around so there's so many people that
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I'm connected to through the fact that
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they had baby as their first horse too
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and she actually just passed a couple of
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years ago so yeah she was really neat so
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she was how old had to been in her 30s
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when she passed which is not that
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uncommon for ponies cuz it's kind of
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like you know how little dogs live
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longer than big dogs kind of same thing
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for little horses and Little Ponies so
Can People Visit Your Farm?
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she's old can people come and visit your
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farm
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no
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elaborate um on why it's just gotten to
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the point we have to shut that down um
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we've had people trespassed we've had
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people and it's kind of to the point
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where you know a long long time ago it
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was easy to be like oh like this this
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family wants to come out like we can
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maybe make that work but that you know
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once the following grew so much that if
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I open it up one little bit it it would
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be very hard to close that door again
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and we have such liability here on the
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farm there is it's a working farm so
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there's constantly equipment being run
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there's horses that I you know have to
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ensure that I wouldn't want you know
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people that I don't know interacting
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with and um it's also just that we we
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have to live our lives here and so we
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can't just
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have people that we don't know out on
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our property with animals with equipment
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there's just so much that could go wrong
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there's so much we could get sued for
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there's so like it's it's just we can't
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do it so unfortunately no I you know I
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have toyed with the idea of maybe having
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an openhouse weekend like the place
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where I keep wailing like High Point
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does and I think that might be something
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that happens in the future where it's
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like one weekend out of the year and we
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have a certain amount of tickets and you
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know something like that it would take a
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lot of planning and a I don't know we'd
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have to figure that out but I'm not
Is Jonathon Getting A Dog?
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saying no to that when will Jonathan get
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his
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dog good Lord I okay Jonathan has a dog
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and her name's Kimmy okay it's the light
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of his dang life and Winnie and Winnie
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Kimmy is the light of his dang life
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though okay this little five pound Doxon
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I made a post the other day being like
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Oh my gosh I just I'm at that point in
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my life finally where I don't want
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puppies all the time when I was a kid
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you couldn't tell me that I'd ever get
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to that point that I'd ever be like no I
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don't want a puppy ever but I'm there we
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have a three-year-old dog and a
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5-year-old dog that is perfect they can
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they're like
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self they're like self-sufficient at
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this point you know like I can leave the
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house I don't worry about them I'm not
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taking them out in the middle of the
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night and so in that video for like 3
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seconds I was like yeah Jonathan
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mentioned a third dog I didn't say he
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was begging for one or that he wanted
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one and I was like no can't have one um
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I I just said you know absolutely not we
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are totally good because you know
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getting horses and things they're in the
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barn they're not in my house I'm not
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physically like they don't they're not
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on top of me at night when I'm watching
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TV and so everyone flipped out on me
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being like wow really disappointed in
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you I can't believe he lets you get all
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these animals and you won't get him a
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dog wow really showing your trth True
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Colors here Katie people love Jonathan
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they do and I do too but you know what
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like if you saw the amount of four-
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wheed things he gets all the time you
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would
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not feel sad for him with the question
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you sent me you think this is a good
Charlotte's Bloodwork
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like stopping point hold on my new my
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new spy watch tells me I have a text
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message and it says Charlotte's blood
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work breaking news hold on has why from
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the Q&A Charlotte's blood work came back
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with a slightly increased white blood
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cell count so they put her were putting
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her on
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antibiotics
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um can I see my phone so I can actually
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message them back this is like a time
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sensitive thing I got to tell them what
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antibiotics I want her
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on I'm so glad we put her in quarantine
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like that's why they go in quarantine
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because the comes with all kinds of crap
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so what do you think that means she said
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she didn't have any like lymph nodes
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feeling like she had strangles or
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anything which is like really contagious
Advice To Your Younger Self?
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um she probably just she probably just
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picked up something that needs a little
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antibiotics probably nothing serious but
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we're sending it out as like a panel to
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just like make sure okay last
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question what is the most important
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piece of advice you would give now to
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your younger self that's a serious
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question it's Nate's
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question
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um to chill out because it's all going
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to be fine because I grew up with such
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anxiety and I was such like in a ball of
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stress all the time over stuff that I
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should not have been stressing it about
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and there are so many things that I
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hated going through that had I not done
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that I would not be where I am today and
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so if I could just tell myself that it's
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all going to be fine and everything
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you're going through is making you into
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the person that you literally dream of
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being like not necessarily like me being
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perfect I'm not there's so much stuff I
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need to work on but like my job right
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now is what seventh grade Katie would
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pass out if she found out that I was
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doing this you know it's like I am
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living my younger self's dream at this
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moment and so I had such a hard time
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with coping with stress and coping with
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anxiety and just feeling like a ball of
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like like I can't even
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contain how worried I am over everything
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all the time and if I could just like
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save myself from that that would be
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probably the best thing so like just
Outro
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everything's be fine you know chill out
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yeah it's good advice yeah
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just
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so I don't know I think the awkwardness
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of this video is gold