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Hi, I'm Caitlin.
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I've got three horses at home, Stella, Ellie, and my youngest Ren, who is genuinely the most talkative horse I've ever met.
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She sounds like a fake movie horse.
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I spent a lot more, I spend a lot more time than I should thinking about the stuff we all care about and sometimes argue about at the barn.
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What fly sheets to use, what I should be feeding, and whether the TAC room still needs to be organized or has a system.
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So we made a podcast about it.
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Today, in episode one, we're going to introduce ourselves, play a little this or that, and get into what horse people are actually talking about online and in our communities.
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Let's meet the rest of the team.
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Okay, I'm I'm Sunny.
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Um, I'm the performance marketing specialist here at Schneider's.
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A little bit about my horse life right now.
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I am a DIY ammy, so I've got about five or six horses at home with me right now.
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My show paint horses.
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My main focus is my four-year-old mare that I've had since she was a little yearling.
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And I've done everything with her myself.
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Yeah, and I just love her to pieces.
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So, Emmy, you want to go next?
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Yeah, sure.
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I'm Emmy.
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I'm gonna always be your least prepared for this.
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Um I have uh 16 horses right now and run a small lesson program out of my house, which I live in the barn, which is fun.
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And we compete in the hunter jumpers and breed Welsh ponies and really just try to get through the day with all these horses.
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And I am Sydney, I'm the the odd man out right now.
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I do not currently have a horse.
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I am the digital merchant at Schneiders.
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Like I said, I don't have a horse right now, but I grew up riding saddle seat, and then I swapped to hunt seat during university, and I leased a coworker's horse, which perk of working at Schneider's.
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And right now I'm just living vicariously through everybody and following people on social media, and hopefully I'll have another horse in my life soon.
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I'm Caitlin and I'm the creative and content manager.
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I have three horses that while they're not at my house, they are practically there, and I do all of the work with them myself.
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I mostly have shown dressage, but I've also done para-dressage, and I have some experience in the hunters, but Emmy's gonna be our expert there for that.
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And I have been at Schneiders for over a decade now.
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So my gosh.
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Schneiders and horses have been a big part of my life.
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Um, real quick, Emmy again, I'm prepared.
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I forgot to say my role.
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I do the social media marketing, so there you go.
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And since Caitlin brought it up, how long has everybody been at Schneiders?
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I think this is my sixth year.
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Sonny?
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I think four.
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No, longer than that.
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This is your fifth, yeah.
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This is your fifth.
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And I think I'm on my way to eight.
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Because you were hired we've all been here a while.
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You were hired not that long after me, Sonny.
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So I think you're on your fifth year.
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I just it just not seemed like it has been.
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But how it has.
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Wow.
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Alright, so what is one hill in the horse industry you'll die on?
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You don't always have to use soap.
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I think there's some barns that when you're washing your horse, you always use soap.
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And that was my feet got so tired of washing horses all the time.
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I forgot to mention I was a groom for a while.
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So I would say sometimes you just need to hose them off.
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You don't always have to have to use soap and dry out their skin.
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I'll agree with that one.
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I think turnout is a requirement for all of them.
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At all ages.
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Yeah.
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I think we overcomplicate supplements.
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Oh, 100%.
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Oh, totally.
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I don't think our horses need to be in a ton of supplements.
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Hey, turnout helps with that.
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Those those Mustangs out on the range, like they look great.
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I'm sure they have some deficiencies, but like when you look at them in Roundup, they look amazing.
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And they're getting very little help, if any.
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Yeah.
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Turnout and the right hay.
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Make it so you don't necessarily need a ton of other things.
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I have a really niche hill to die on, but hot walkers do not replace riding your horse.
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So I am at a farm that has a Euro sizer specifically, and there are people who very much believe that they can just like not ride their horse for six months and put them on a hot walker and think that they are fit enough to go jump or fit enough to go compete.
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And I my little thoroughbreds would never.
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Same.
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I have another one that is like a little bit newer and asked me from a year now, and I might feel differently.
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I am seeing so many barns where the kids are not doing the work at the shows.
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And like I understand like big show barns with grooms, like I understand the need for it, but I like what has happened to like kids' work ethic.
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And like that's so important with the showing.
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And I I honestly feel like if you're not gonna put in the work to be there, you shouldn't be there.
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Yeah, when I grew up, it was like expected that I would just get dropped off in the morning and like I would help with everybody else's horses, and then in return, like everybody would help with my horse, getting me ready to show.
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And like I get the need for grooms.
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I think grooms are needed.
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I think it's a great thing.
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I think you know, if you need that for your barn to run, like if you have 15 students there and you need that to run and have a successful, untrustful horse show, do it.
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But like your kid should know how to muck a stall.
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100%.
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I think it goes past horse shows because I see that at home too, where you know a kid, even who's like leasing a horse, isn't doing the work really, they tootle and then expect to go to the show and win despite the horse not doing a whole lot.
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We we've I there's a few people at the farm who lease, and like a few of them are really in it.
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They're there every day riding, and there are some that you know ride twice a week and are still showing every other weekend and wonder why they're not doing as well as they would have liked.
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I think it can also be complicated because from like the groom perspective, like it was kind of understood that we were supposed to do everything.
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And sometimes when we had a more on hand person, I felt a little bit bad like taking that time away from the owner.
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But like they would show up for a lesson and we'd just have the horse ready, and then like it was expected that we would take the horse at the end, and like they wanted to be involved, I could tell.
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Like they had had horses where they were like on their own property, but in that like show barn environment, it was just kind of expected and understood.
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You're a good person to like talk about this with because of your experience as a groom.
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But it's like so.
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Like, what's your feeling on like you know, kids getting into the show world and stuff?
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Like, do you like what's your like what do you think?
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Like, do you think they should know how to do that?
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Oh, definitely.
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I think if you got hit by a bus on the way to the show, someone has to be able to do it.
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If a bus hits you, somebody's gotta know how to do it.
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Someone has to do it.
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Kevin is our boss, by the way.
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He uh he he wants us to be cross-trained and know how to do things, so which is great.
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So we should get him mucking stalls next time he goes to the show.
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Yeah, I agree.
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It's important for them to know, and I think in all instances, they might not be able to do it.
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Like I get like needing to be at the show with the trainer learning from that side of things, and and maybe they have multiple horses to ride, but and maybe they live in a different area and they fly in for the weekends, but at some point in their life, I think it's important for them to have that experience of taking care of the horse.
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Perfect.
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So we already argued about something on this podcast.
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Yeah, it is a weird experience for me.
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Like this was many years ago now.
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I was looking at a horse and I flew to go try him out because he was an FEI horse, and they had grooms at the barn, and nobody at the barn hacked their own horse.
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They didn't even know which bridle went with their horse.
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And when I got there, for reference, I'm really short, and I was looking at a horse that was 16-2, and I needed to know that I could put his bridle on myself because I was farms that like I did all the tack ups, I'd got my horses ready, like no one else was doing that.
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And the grooms were like, What do you mean you want to put your bridle on?
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Or like you want to tack the horse up?
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I was like, Yeah, just point me at the bridle.
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Well, this is not the experience you're gonna have at home, so you need to know.
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Right.
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I needed to know me at 4-8 was going to be able to put his double bridle on without issue because I was not going to buy a horse and still to this day don't have horses that will that are bad about putting their bridle on.
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They all have to put their heads down, they all have to like do that easily because I'm too small.
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Yeah, those are short girl problems.
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Um yes, yeah, I live that life.
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I do have two small horses now, but I have a 15-1 and a 15-2 hand thoroughbred, but the warm blood is 16-3.
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I could never could never understand what that must be like.
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Yeah.
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So I mean, how old's your horse?
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How tall is your horse now?
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She is just a hair over 17-1.
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And I'm 5'2 on a really good tall day.
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In a boot with a heel.
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She's not, she is a short girl horse.
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Her head is at my knees at all times.
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Because I've had her her whole life.
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So she's like, she's just automatically short girl trained.
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Yep.
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So we definitely got into some arguments, but that's okay.
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That's natural.
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Yeah, we all kind of ended up agreeing, though.
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Yeah.
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So next we're gonna play a little this or that.
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And some of these are taken from previous conversations we've had, not on this podcast, but a few are just weather related, since most of us are in heat waves at the moment.
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So would you rather ride at 5 a.m.
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or 9 p.m.
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all summer long to avoid the heat?
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Okay, that's easy for me.
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I'm a 9 p.m.
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because I'm a night owl.
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I'm not I will not be up at 4 a.m.
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to be in the saddle at 5.
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That's not happening.
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I'm gonna agree with Sonny.
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I'm like not a night person or a morning person.
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But this week I've been getting up at 5 and writing before, and I'm actually starting to really love being a morning person.
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And so I think I'm a morning person now.
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It's nice because then it's then it's just done.
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You're you're done for the day.
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It's really nice.
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Yeah, I'm a morning person.
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We actually we had a summer where it was this hot, and I had to, I would get all the horses ridden and turned out like before 9 a.m.
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But then I could go, it was like having an extra day off because I could go do whatever I needed to do in the afternoon.
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I teach a lot in the afternoon, and so by the time like I finished teaching, I'm like, gosh, like I don't want to tack up and ride.
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And I'm like, I want to eat something, and so I I think the morning is definitely, and I've never it's so hard for me to wake up, but I just think it's the way to go.
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I think it depends on the horse's routine.
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Yeah, that's like horse's routine matters, and your farm they got yeah.
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I'm not a morning person, I'll wake up early for horse shows and holidays, and that's it.
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So I'm a night owl.
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I also I'm at a self-care facility and I feed mostly dinner, so 9 p.m.
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would be my preference on that.
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If I had to drive to my barn, I would not be a morning.
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There's no way.
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Yeah, right.
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No way.
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My drive's only 10 minutes.
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I could do it in my sleep pretty much, but it's still I can't wait to be able to have horses at home.
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It's life-changing.
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Yeah, it is.
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It's wonderful.
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That's part of why I'm in between horses right now because like it was 30 minutes to the barn, it was 30 minutes to tack up, 30 minutes to untack, that whole sad sob story of horse girl life of it's an actual three hour, three to four hour event instead of just an hour of riding.
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Yeah, I don't I don't know the people who can like get in and out in like an hour and a half.
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I don't understand.
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Your rooms come in.
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Yeah.
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Again, I'm at a self-care facility.
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I clean my stalls, I turn my horses out, like we co-op feeding, but I can't get out of there faster than like two hours ever.
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Two hours was impressive.
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Well, I mean, I if I'm only cleaning stalls, like turning out and cleaning stalls, then I can do two hours.
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If I have to work horses, no.
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The one day we were there for like six hours.
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So I'll get stuck in a conversation for two hours.
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Oh yeah.
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There's only like four borders total at my farm.
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Like we only have five stalls filled right now, and three of them are my horses.
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So there's I'd be talking to myself most of the time.
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All right, I'll do a conversation with my garbage man.
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Like, I'll just talk to anybody.
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My husband's like perfect for the pot.
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Like, just leave the barn.
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Like, he's like, don't talk to anybody, put blinders on and go to the car.
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Would you rather pay six more dollars a bale per bale of hay?
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So Emmy knows this, but like, what are you paying?
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Like $15, $16 a bale?
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Or need an indoor year-round to ride?
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I have a pre-rep question for this one.
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Is do is my am I getting a free indoor at my house for this for that, or do I have to pay for it?
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No, no, it just exists in this scenario.
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There's just an indoor available to you.
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Hold on.
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I have another question.
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This this one has been prompted because Caitlin and I are always in the conversation of like, I spend so much more for hay, but she has to, she lives in the north.
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There's there's snow, and I don't have snow.
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And so I think that's important.
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Like, I don't I don't think you can ignore your house, Sunny.
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I think you have to go move up to where it snows 12 to 16 years.
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No, because I don't have anymore.
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I lived the snow life for 20 plus years.
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I'm a permanent southern resident now.
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That's but you have you I keep saying, like, Sonny, where you live is like Australia of the US.
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Like you have so many other things that you deal with.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So should it be, would you rather pay six dollars more a bail, but you live in Florida?
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Or do you want an indoor arena and you live in Maine?
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Or you want cheap hay really good hay.
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Yeah, really good hay.
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But you need an indoor to ride, and it's 10 degrees for six months of the year.
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Yes.
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Okay, well then for me, I'm moving to Florida.
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I'm not wintering again.
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It's not happening.
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I'm I'm out on the north.
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I'm really out on the north.
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Yeah, I'm just not doing it.
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I can't do it.
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Sydney.
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I'm a seasons girl.
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I like seasons.
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And I also I think the variability in like the price of hay would be tough to deal with, like budgeting-wise.
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So I would want like more consistent, accessible, cheap hay, I think.
00:19:22.180 --> 00:19:24.019
Oh, so you're staying up north?
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Mm-hmm.
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I am also staying up north.
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For reference, it's 90-something degrees in Ohio right now, and it feels like I'm walking outside into a wall, and I can't I can't do that all year round.
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So I will I'll stick with indoor riding and paying $4.50 a bale for hay.
00:19:50.660 --> 00:19:52.019
It does sound so nice.
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$4.50.
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I'm sorry, five.
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We we paid five this year.
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So see, that's my problem.
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Even though I'm in the south, like my hay is not near as expensive as Emmy's.
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So my six dollars more is not anywhere near what you're paying right now.
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No.
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It's bad.
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It's really bad.
00:20:21.620 --> 00:20:29.140
This isn't exactly a this or that, but what is your like favorite sort of like dumb barn preference?
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So horse color amount of white, something like that.
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What is your sort of most ridiculous preference?
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Ridiculous?
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Well, not I mean it doesn't have to be ridiculous, but somebody else might think it's ridiculous.
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I don't like blue eyes.
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Dogs, horses.
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They they freaking so hurt right now.
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Right out the gate.
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Yep.
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Humans have blue eyes, but animals with blue eyes, they're they're really white and they they look haunted.
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Sean's fired.
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Okay, well, I'm gonna go next.
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My Cromello.
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I was with you when she was born.
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I was like, what the heck?
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I hate this thing.
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I think she's the most beautiful unicorn in the entire world.
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I am like, I love looking at her.
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I'm like, this, she she is going to grow a horn and wings any day now.
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Like, absolutely stunning.
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I am so team Cromellos right now.
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But that's not my favorite horse color, but that I'm going for it just to be against Sydney here.
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Okay.
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I'll backtrack, I just Googled it.
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I'll backtrack a little bit.
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Like on a horse where their coloring like complements it, I think it it looks pretty.
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But like when they have one, when they have one blue and like a dark face, it's What like what is that one blue eye doing?
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It it's a portal into another world.
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I don't know.
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People all the time, like you'll either have people come, like my Caeta's my Cromello, and they're like, she's scaring me, or they're like, that's the most beautiful horse I've ever seen.
00:22:22.980 --> 00:22:26.740
It's like you really have such a split there on the blue eye thing.
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But yeah, people are like, she's staring into my soul.
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Sunny.
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I think my I have to have cross ties.
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I have to.
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It's like a separate, a separate like area outside of the stall.
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Yeah.
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Like I mine are always cross eyed.
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If I'm getting them ready, I have to have a set of cross.
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Even at a show, I it's they must be in a cross eye somewhere.
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I can I I agree with that.
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I've none of my well, my horses could be tacked in their stall, but I always put them in cross ties.
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Yeah.
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It doesn't occur to me that that's not.
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Like I'm not carrying it into a into a stall, and then up there is a very distinct process that happens for me to get that up there.
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So do you ever just tie without cross ties?
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Not too crap.
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Everyone has ties in their stall.
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Because I tie regularly, but I just I can't I do not tack, I can't.
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I just don't like it.
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Do you aisle tie like in shows?
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Like you're you like if you didn't have a tack stall, like a grooming stall, would you just cross tie in the aisleway?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, I just we normally just do the aisle way, but that's because we have an entire aisle.
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Yeah.
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If it's your aisle and nobody's walking through it, then fine.
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An F E aisle.
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Like I my mare doesn't fit in the 10 by 10 like comfortably.
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When we if we did a grooming stall, like I run into the like racks and stuff.
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Yeah.
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So it's hard to get her ready.
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Like you can't put a face, you can't do a tail in the stall.
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She has to be in the aisle to do that.
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Because you like otherwise she's sitting on you in the back corner of the stall.
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So cross ties are unless for me.
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We cross tie in the aisleway to shows, but mainly because I think it's dangerous for the little girls to be in a stall with the horse.
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Yeah.
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That makes sense.
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My dumb preference is that, and I have not accomplished this in recent years, but I like horses with four white socks and preferably tall.
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And I all of my horses have three.
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All three of my horses have three white legs.
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And it is especially odd just for me because I like odd numbers and multiples of threes, which sounds very OCD, and it might be.
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But I really like a blaze or like a star-striped snip and four white legs, preferably on a chestnut or a palomino.
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And I have one chestnut and she has three white legs.
00:25:39.940 --> 00:25:45.860
So time to get out the the the chalk or the or the spray paint.
00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:47.539
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I've only had one horse that had four whites, and it barely counted because he had like three spots of white on one leg.
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So it wasn't real.
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But my dream would be a German riding pony with four white socks and a big old blaze.
00:26:11.059 --> 00:26:12.980
Isn't that all of our dreams?
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I and all the bills are paid.
00:26:17.059 --> 00:26:18.019
That too.
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Um especially a bill to buy that pony because that's expensive.
00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:36.980
All right, so what is everyone seeing this week on social or in the community?
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I mean, that's an easy one for me.
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Painroll.
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Pay and world's happening in Fort Worth right now, and it has been for the last two weeks.
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So I've been watching everybody's win pictures and all the really good stories, and they do a lot of good stuff today.
00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:10.500
They were doing, they have the veteran classes for people who've served, and they do a lot of really good stuff, and so there's been a lot, a lot happening.
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I don't think I've looked at what's happening there.
00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:29.779
I feel like my socials are so like hunter jumper skewed.
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Sometimes I get like Yellowstone content, but I don't see like the paint world and stock breed stuff.
00:27:38.340 --> 00:27:41.460
Mine is literally a non-stop flow of paint world.
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That's it, that's all it is right now.
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That tracks for you.
00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:48.180
Yeah, that would make sense.
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I have been doing more of it because I started researching it after a conversation with Sunny, and now I'm like convinced I'm gonna take my little Shetland pony there and do a cart.
00:28:01.700 --> 00:28:05.140
So I gotta learn how to do all that.
00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:18.100
Um obsessed with, I'm gonna talk about someone specific, the German writer instructor on Facebook.
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I don't know if anyone, I'm like gonna, I don't know if anyone watches him, but I think he is like just awesome.
00:28:27.620 --> 00:28:33.860
Like, I don't know, I'm obsessed with him, and he's actually gonna be, I'm gonna audit him at a clinic next weekend.
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And I'm so excited.
00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:47.460
And I've heard from like other creators on social that he just has like a really good presence and he really responds to things well when there's like big social blow ups and stuff.
00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:53.779
And so I think just like in general, I'm very like good, you know.
00:28:53.779 --> 00:29:01.620
We love the internet trainers, but he's like an actual internet trader, like real, like credited.
00:29:01.620 --> 00:29:04.500
But no, I've I've enjoyed watching him a lot.
00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:24.500
I feel like I don't think I've seen any content from what I I really like watching because I have a really small arena and he does a lot of exercises for horses that are like in a real like a pattern that's in a really small space that I can do with my horses in my arena.
00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:30.819
Because you see all these big things, but the person has an arena that's like the size of my entire property.
00:29:30.819 --> 00:29:46.019
I'm like, I can't put that up, but he will do a lot of like three jump, four jump patterns that are like just really cool, and so I like I will just like I actually pay to see his content.
00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:53.380
He has like the paid subscription, he's like the only person I think I pay for to watch.
00:29:53.380 --> 00:29:59.539
All right, and on Facebook, it's Facebook, Caitlin.
00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:00.819
Okay.
00:30:02.100 --> 00:30:05.700
I'm never on Facebook except for work.
00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:07.620
I'm gonna be honest with you.
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It's not my uh it's not my platform of choice.
00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:11.779
It's my phone.
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I I mean I have a Facebook, obviously, but I I really don't use it for anything.
00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:33.220
I like TikTok and Instagram, so Sydney, what are you looking at?
00:30:33.620 --> 00:30:34.579
Sorry, I got distracted.
00:30:34.579 --> 00:30:36.500
I was looking at his Facebook page.
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I'm gonna have to follow him.
00:30:39.380 --> 00:30:42.980
I've been seeing a lot about the new Faultless series.
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It follows, I think, 10, 12, 14 Hunter jumpers as they compete for the Rolex Grand Slam.
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Sorry, it's been a few days since I watched it.
00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:52.900
I probably forgot the name of that.
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But it follows like Lily Keenan and and a few other riders that I can't say their names, so I'm not gonna butcher them right now.
00:31:00.100 --> 00:31:07.220
But it follows them as um as they're like doing Spruce Meadows and a bunch of like the European shows.
00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:17.220
And Walton Goggins actually does the the voiceover for it, which I think is really cool to actually have like a real celebrity voicing it.
00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:29.380
And so far I'm only into I think episode two, but I think it's like I think the production quality is really great, and it's awesome to see us more represented, I think, in the media.
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It's on Roku channel.
00:31:31.059 --> 00:31:32.340
Okay, the Roku channel.
00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:32.819
Yeah.
00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:37.220
And if you just sign up for an account, like it's letting me watch it for free on my phone.
00:31:37.220 --> 00:31:42.340
So maybe I had an account in the past, I don't remember, but check it out.
00:31:42.340 --> 00:31:45.460
I'm still watching that tonight.
00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:48.980
And you can follow them on Instagram and probably other socials.
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Their handle is at faultless.series.
00:32:00.019 --> 00:32:00.579
Kayla.
00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:12.980
Um so actually, it has nothing to do with social specifically, but because we are talking about watching like a show, I have not watched this, but my best friend recommended it to me.
00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:33.460
So it's not social, but there's some sort of like jousting show on Amazon Prime where you or not you, but like people, like an English writer will like go up against a real jouster or something, and like what?
00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:36.180
Yeah, I'm gonna have to find the name of it.
00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:42.340
It's on it's on Prime, and she was like, it's the most hilarious thing ever.
00:32:42.340 --> 00:32:43.539
I think you should watch it.
00:32:43.539 --> 00:32:46.900
I want to say there's only like one or two seasons of it.
00:32:46.900 --> 00:33:03.220
And I need to watch it because I'm not I'm not a big TV person, and I and I generally think horse TV shows are terrible, but like this is something I can get behind.
00:33:03.220 --> 00:33:06.980
I'm gonna have to find the name of it.
00:33:07.299 --> 00:33:08.500
I wanna do that.
00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:12.340
Can anyone sign up or is it like legit people?
00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:28.019
I don't know, and I don't know if it's even still like happening, but we used to have around here somebody was doing like jousting clinics, like you could sign up for a jousting clinic.
00:33:28.500 --> 00:33:30.259
That should be our next company retreat.
00:33:30.420 --> 00:34:00.500
How to get our I'm not gonna finish that thought, but I I can just imagine that happening, and actually, there's somebody local to the office and and to me that she does a bunch of that like renaissance, like whatever, and has done stuff with her her Cleveland Bay gelding and done like medieval stuff.
00:34:00.500 --> 00:34:12.980
Like, I don't know that she jousted with him, but some of the other like on-horse events that they have at those types of things, she's done with him, and that's semi-popular around here.
00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:24.659
So yeah, I'll have to find the name, and if I can find it, I'll add it in later, but yeah.
00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:37.780
I um I'm not again, I'm not big on like Facebook and and also I don't follow a ton of horse accounts, which sounds terrible, but I get so much horse stuff here and at my actual barn.
00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:58.900
So I follow more book accounts than horse accounts, so I think it goes to show that like everybody that has a horse in their life maybe is on social media less or like looking for that content less, but meanwhile, I don't have a horse in my life, so I'm like I think I'm really interacting with that content.
00:34:58.900 --> 00:35:03.860
So I get a ton of like I get silly prune and like broke ass horse girl.
00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:11.300
Like I got I get all of their content to watch, but it's because I'm like craving it, living vicariously through them.
00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:15.300
Mine like ebbs and flows.
00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:23.619
Like sometimes I I'll only see like stand-up comedian content, and then I go and like purposely start liking and like searching horse terms.
00:35:23.619 --> 00:35:27.619
I'm like, wait, I need to see the horse stuff again.
00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:38.019
But there was something I saw the other day that that was really an interesting conversation, which definitely could be its own podcast and itself.
00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:42.260
But there is a TikToker, she's a trainer that's local to me.
00:35:42.260 --> 00:35:43.059
She's great.
00:35:43.059 --> 00:35:46.820
English IB Farms is her TikTok name.
00:35:46.820 --> 00:35:48.420
Um her name's Maureen.
00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:51.220
And she posted, she's selling a horse right now.
00:35:51.220 --> 00:35:58.179
And she posted that, like, hey, like, kids, stop messaging me to buy a horse.
00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:06.980
And it wasn't that like kids are incapable of buying a horse, it was I am under safe sport and I'm not communicating with a minor.
00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:12.099
And kids like went off on her in the comments.
00:36:12.099 --> 00:36:17.699
She ended up turning it off, but like other trainers and stuff like chiped in and she's had like a couple videos since.
00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:22.019
But basically just saying, like, you know, one, some kids are incapable of buying a horse.
00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:31.460
When I was doing the third bread sales, people would text me and I'd be like, hey, like, I'm sorry, like I'm not selling an off-the-track third bread to a child without talking to a trainer.
00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:35.699
Yeah, like 99.9% of them would go to me at that point.
00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:49.619
And so it's like, but it's an interesting thing, like the safe sport conversation and like that relationship with social media and children and horse sales and children, and how that kind of goes.
00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:53.220
Like that would be a cool topic to discuss in the future.
00:36:54.740 --> 00:36:59.860
Yeah, how do you control that line of communication, like when social media is so readily available?
00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:05.539
Yeah, because I see a lot of trainers who are getting on TikTok and they're trying to build that for their business.
00:37:05.539 --> 00:37:13.699
And then you you do have kids who comment nasty things sometimes.
00:37:13.699 --> 00:37:16.099
And like, how do you deal with that?
00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:18.019
It's like a reversal of say sport.
00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:21.860
It's like, okay, we're not we're not encouraging this.
00:37:25.619 --> 00:37:26.260
Yeah.
00:37:26.260 --> 00:37:34.740
Yeah, I think that would be a good like longer form topic for us to talk through.
00:37:34.980 --> 00:37:35.220
Yeah.
00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:42.820
And even just horse buying and selling as a general statement, because that is so complicated.
00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:43.940
Oh my gosh.
00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:46.340
Yes, so complicated.
00:37:47.699 --> 00:37:50.659
And the show is called Full Metal Jousting, by the way.
00:37:50.659 --> 00:37:57.300
I had to go back in my text thread with my best friend and find it, but full metal jousting.
00:37:59.220 --> 00:38:04.260
Our IT department is gonna be like, what is she Googling on the work computer?
00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:05.780
Yeah.
00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:14.179
Well, I think that's all we have time for today.
00:38:14.179 --> 00:38:24.659
And our next episode is gonna be about horse showing and owning horses and the economics of all of that right now.
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Hi, I'm Caitlin.
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I've got three horses at home, Stella, Ellie, and my youngest Ren, who is genuinely the most talkative horse I've ever met.
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She sounds like a fake movie horse.
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I spent a lot more, I spend a lot more time than I should thinking about the stuff we all care about and sometimes argue about at the barn.
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What fly sheets to use, what I should be feeding, and whether the TAC room still needs to be organized or has a system.
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So we made a podcast about it.
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Today, in episode one, we're going to introduce ourselves, play a little this or that, and get into what horse people are actually talking about online and in our communities.
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Let's meet the rest of the team.
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Okay, I'm I'm Sunny.
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Um, I'm the performance marketing specialist here at Schneider's.
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A little bit about my horse life right now.
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I am a DIY ammy, so I've got about five or six horses at home with me right now.
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My show paint horses.
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My main focus is my four-year-old mare that I've had since she was a little yearling.
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And I've done everything with her myself.
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Yeah, and I just love her to pieces.
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So, Emmy, you want to go next?
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Yeah, sure.
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I'm Emmy.
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I'm gonna always be your least prepared for this.
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Um I have uh 16 horses right now and run a small lesson program out of my house, which I live in the barn, which is fun.
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And we compete in the hunter jumpers and breed Welsh ponies and really just try to get through the day with all these horses.
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And I am Sydney, I'm the the odd man out right now.
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I do not currently have a horse.
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I am the digital merchant at Schneiders.
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Like I said, I don't have a horse right now, but I grew up riding saddle seat, and then I swapped to hunt seat during university, and I leased a coworker's horse, which perk of working at Schneider's.
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And right now I'm just living vicariously through everybody and following people on social media, and hopefully I'll have another horse in my life soon.
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I'm Caitlin and I'm the creative and content manager.
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I have three horses that while they're not at my house, they are practically there, and I do all of the work with them myself.
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I mostly have shown dressage, but I've also done para-dressage, and I have some experience in the hunters, but Emmy's gonna be our expert there for that.
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And I have been at Schneiders for over a decade now.
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So my gosh.
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Schneiders and horses have been a big part of my life.
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Um, real quick, Emmy again, I'm prepared.
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I forgot to say my role.
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I do the social media marketing, so there you go.
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And since Caitlin brought it up, how long has everybody been at Schneiders?
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I think this is my sixth year.
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Sonny?
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I think four.
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No, longer than that.
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This is your fifth, yeah.
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This is your fifth.
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And I think I'm on my way to eight.
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Because you were hired we've all been here a while.
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You were hired not that long after me, Sonny.
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So I think you're on your fifth year.
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I just it just not seemed like it has been.
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But how it has.
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Wow.
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Alright, so what is one hill in the horse industry you'll die on?
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You don't always have to use soap.
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I think there's some barns that when you're washing your horse, you always use soap.
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And that was my feet got so tired of washing horses all the time.
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I forgot to mention I was a groom for a while.
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So I would say sometimes you just need to hose them off.
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You don't always have to have to use soap and dry out their skin.
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I'll agree with that one.
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I think turnout is a requirement for all of them.
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At all ages.
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Yeah.
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I think we overcomplicate supplements.
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Oh, 100%.
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Oh, totally.
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I don't think our horses need to be in a ton of supplements.
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Hey, turnout helps with that.
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Those those Mustangs out on the range, like they look great.
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I'm sure they have some deficiencies, but like when you look at them in Roundup, they look amazing.
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And they're getting very little help, if any.
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Yeah.
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Turnout and the right hay.
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Make it so you don't necessarily need a ton of other things.
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I have a really niche hill to die on, but hot walkers do not replace riding your horse.
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So I am at a farm that has a Euro sizer specifically, and there are people who very much believe that they can just like not ride their horse for six months and put them on a hot walker and think that they are fit enough to go jump or fit enough to go compete.
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And I my little thoroughbreds would never.
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Same.
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I have another one that is like a little bit newer and asked me from a year now, and I might feel differently.
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I am seeing so many barns where the kids are not doing the work at the shows.
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And like I understand like big show barns with grooms, like I understand the need for it, but I like what has happened to like kids' work ethic.
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And like that's so important with the showing.
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And I I honestly feel like if you're not gonna put in the work to be there, you shouldn't be there.
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Yeah, when I grew up, it was like expected that I would just get dropped off in the morning and like I would help with everybody else's horses, and then in return, like everybody would help with my horse, getting me ready to show.
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And like I get the need for grooms.
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I think grooms are needed.
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I think it's a great thing.
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I think you know, if you need that for your barn to run, like if you have 15 students there and you need that to run and have a successful, untrustful horse show, do it.
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But like your kid should know how to muck a stall.
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100%.
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I think it goes past horse shows because I see that at home too, where you know a kid, even who's like leasing a horse, isn't doing the work really, they tootle and then expect to go to the show and win despite the horse not doing a whole lot.
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We we've I there's a few people at the farm who lease, and like a few of them are really in it.
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They're there every day riding, and there are some that you know ride twice a week and are still showing every other weekend and wonder why they're not doing as well as they would have liked.
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I think it can also be complicated because from like the groom perspective, like it was kind of understood that we were supposed to do everything.
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And sometimes when we had a more on hand person, I felt a little bit bad like taking that time away from the owner.
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But like they would show up for a lesson and we'd just have the horse ready, and then like it was expected that we would take the horse at the end, and like they wanted to be involved, I could tell.
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Like they had had horses where they were like on their own property, but in that like show barn environment, it was just kind of expected and understood.
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You're a good person to like talk about this with because of your experience as a groom.
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But it's like so.
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Like, what's your feeling on like you know, kids getting into the show world and stuff?
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Like, do you like what's your like what do you think?
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Like, do you think they should know how to do that?
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Oh, definitely.
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I think if you got hit by a bus on the way to the show, someone has to be able to do it.
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If a bus hits you, somebody's gotta know how to do it.
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Someone has to do it.
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Kevin is our boss, by the way.
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He uh he he wants us to be cross-trained and know how to do things, so which is great.
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So we should get him mucking stalls next time he goes to the show.
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Yeah, I agree.
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It's important for them to know, and I think in all instances, they might not be able to do it.
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Like I get like needing to be at the show with the trainer learning from that side of things, and and maybe they have multiple horses to ride, but and maybe they live in a different area and they fly in for the weekends, but at some point in their life, I think it's important for them to have that experience of taking care of the horse.
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Perfect.
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So we already argued about something on this podcast.
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Yeah, it is a weird experience for me.
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Like this was many years ago now.
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I was looking at a horse and I flew to go try him out because he was an FEI horse, and they had grooms at the barn, and nobody at the barn hacked their own horse.
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They didn't even know which bridle went with their horse.
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And when I got there, for reference, I'm really short, and I was looking at a horse that was 16-2, and I needed to know that I could put his bridle on myself because I was farms that like I did all the tack ups, I'd got my horses ready, like no one else was doing that.
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And the grooms were like, What do you mean you want to put your bridle on?
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Or like you want to tack the horse up?
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I was like, Yeah, just point me at the bridle.
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Well, this is not the experience you're gonna have at home, so you need to know.
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Right.
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I needed to know me at 4-8 was going to be able to put his double bridle on without issue because I was not going to buy a horse and still to this day don't have horses that will that are bad about putting their bridle on.
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They all have to put their heads down, they all have to like do that easily because I'm too small.
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Yeah, those are short girl problems.
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Um yes, yeah, I live that life.
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I do have two small horses now, but I have a 15-1 and a 15-2 hand thoroughbred, but the warm blood is 16-3.
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I could never could never understand what that must be like.
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Yeah.
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So I mean, how old's your horse?
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How tall is your horse now?
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She is just a hair over 17-1.
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And I'm 5'2 on a really good tall day.
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In a boot with a heel.
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She's not, she is a short girl horse.
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Her head is at my knees at all times.
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Because I've had her her whole life.
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So she's like, she's just automatically short girl trained.
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Yep.
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So we definitely got into some arguments, but that's okay.
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That's natural.
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Yeah, we all kind of ended up agreeing, though.
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Yeah.
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So next we're gonna play a little this or that.
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And some of these are taken from previous conversations we've had, not on this podcast, but a few are just weather related, since most of us are in heat waves at the moment.
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So would you rather ride at 5 a.m.
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or 9 p.m.
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all summer long to avoid the heat?
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Okay, that's easy for me.
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I'm a 9 p.m.
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because I'm a night owl.
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I'm not I will not be up at 4 a.m.
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to be in the saddle at 5.
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That's not happening.
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I'm gonna agree with Sonny.
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I'm like not a night person or a morning person.
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But this week I've been getting up at 5 and writing before, and I'm actually starting to really love being a morning person.
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And so I think I'm a morning person now.
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It's nice because then it's then it's just done.
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You're you're done for the day.
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It's really nice.
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Yeah, I'm a morning person.
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We actually we had a summer where it was this hot, and I had to, I would get all the horses ridden and turned out like before 9 a.m.
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But then I could go, it was like having an extra day off because I could go do whatever I needed to do in the afternoon.
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I teach a lot in the afternoon, and so by the time like I finished teaching, I'm like, gosh, like I don't want to tack up and ride.
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And I'm like, I want to eat something, and so I I think the morning is definitely, and I've never it's so hard for me to wake up, but I just think it's the way to go.
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I think it depends on the horse's routine.
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Yeah, that's like horse's routine matters, and your farm they got yeah.
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I'm not a morning person, I'll wake up early for horse shows and holidays, and that's it.
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So I'm a night owl.
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I also I'm at a self-care facility and I feed mostly dinner, so 9 p.m.
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would be my preference on that.
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If I had to drive to my barn, I would not be a morning.
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There's no way.
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Yeah, right.
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No way.
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My drive's only 10 minutes.
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I could do it in my sleep pretty much, but it's still I can't wait to be able to have horses at home.
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It's life-changing.
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Yeah, it is.
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It's wonderful.
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That's part of why I'm in between horses right now because like it was 30 minutes to the barn, it was 30 minutes to tack up, 30 minutes to untack, that whole sad sob story of horse girl life of it's an actual three hour, three to four hour event instead of just an hour of riding.
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Yeah, I don't I don't know the people who can like get in and out in like an hour and a half.
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I don't understand.
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Your rooms come in.
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Yeah.
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Again, I'm at a self-care facility.
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I clean my stalls, I turn my horses out, like we co-op feeding, but I can't get out of there faster than like two hours ever.
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Two hours was impressive.
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Well, I mean, I if I'm only cleaning stalls, like turning out and cleaning stalls, then I can do two hours.
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If I have to work horses, no.
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The one day we were there for like six hours.
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So I'll get stuck in a conversation for two hours.
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Oh yeah.
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There's only like four borders total at my farm.
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Like we only have five stalls filled right now, and three of them are my horses.
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So there's I'd be talking to myself most of the time.
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All right, I'll do a conversation with my garbage man.
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Like, I'll just talk to anybody.
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My husband's like perfect for the pot.
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Like, just leave the barn.
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Like, he's like, don't talk to anybody, put blinders on and go to the car.
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Would you rather pay six more dollars a bale per bale of hay?
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So Emmy knows this, but like, what are you paying?
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Like $15, $16 a bale?
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Or need an indoor year-round to ride?
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I have a pre-rep question for this one.
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Is do is my am I getting a free indoor at my house for this for that, or do I have to pay for it?
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No, no, it just exists in this scenario.
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There's just an indoor available to you.
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Hold on.
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I have another question.
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This this one has been prompted because Caitlin and I are always in the conversation of like, I spend so much more for hay, but she has to, she lives in the north.
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There's there's snow, and I don't have snow.
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And so I think that's important.
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Like, I don't I don't think you can ignore your house, Sunny.
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I think you have to go move up to where it snows 12 to 16 years.
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No, because I don't have anymore.
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I lived the snow life for 20 plus years.
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I'm a permanent southern resident now.
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That's but you have you I keep saying, like, Sonny, where you live is like Australia of the US.
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Like you have so many other things that you deal with.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So should it be, would you rather pay six dollars more a bail, but you live in Florida?
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Or do you want an indoor arena and you live in Maine?
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Or you want cheap hay really good hay.
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Yeah, really good hay.
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But you need an indoor to ride, and it's 10 degrees for six months of the year.
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Yes.
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Okay, well then for me, I'm moving to Florida.
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I'm not wintering again.
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It's not happening.
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I'm I'm out on the north.
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I'm really out on the north.
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Yeah, I'm just not doing it.
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I can't do it.
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Sydney.
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I'm a seasons girl.
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I like seasons.
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And I also I think the variability in like the price of hay would be tough to deal with, like budgeting-wise.
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So I would want like more consistent, accessible, cheap hay, I think.
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Oh, so you're staying up north?
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Mm-hmm.
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I am also staying up north.
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For reference, it's 90-something degrees in Ohio right now, and it feels like I'm walking outside into a wall, and I can't I can't do that all year round.
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So I will I'll stick with indoor riding and paying $4.50 a bale for hay.
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It does sound so nice.
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$4.50.
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I'm sorry, five.
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We we paid five this year.
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So see, that's my problem.
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Even though I'm in the south, like my hay is not near as expensive as Emmy's.
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So my six dollars more is not anywhere near what you're paying right now.
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No.
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It's bad.
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It's really bad.
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This isn't exactly a this or that, but what is your like favorite sort of like dumb barn preference?
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So horse color amount of white, something like that.
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What is your sort of most ridiculous preference?
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Ridiculous?
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Well, not I mean it doesn't have to be ridiculous, but somebody else might think it's ridiculous.
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I don't like blue eyes.
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Dogs, horses.
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They they freaking so hurt right now.
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Right out the gate.
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Yep.
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Humans have blue eyes, but animals with blue eyes, they're they're really white and they they look haunted.
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Sean's fired.
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Okay, well, I'm gonna go next.
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My Cromello.
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I was with you when she was born.
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I was like, what the heck?
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I hate this thing.
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I think she's the most beautiful unicorn in the entire world.
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I am like, I love looking at her.
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I'm like, this, she she is going to grow a horn and wings any day now.
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Like, absolutely stunning.
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I am so team Cromellos right now.
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But that's not my favorite horse color, but that I'm going for it just to be against Sydney here.
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Okay.
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I'll backtrack, I just Googled it.
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I'll backtrack a little bit.
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Like on a horse where their coloring like complements it, I think it it looks pretty.
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But like when they have one, when they have one blue and like a dark face, it's What like what is that one blue eye doing?
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It it's a portal into another world.
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I don't know.
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People all the time, like you'll either have people come, like my Caeta's my Cromello, and they're like, she's scaring me, or they're like, that's the most beautiful horse I've ever seen.
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It's like you really have such a split there on the blue eye thing.
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But yeah, people are like, she's staring into my soul.
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Sunny.
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I think my I have to have cross ties.
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I have to.
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It's like a separate, a separate like area outside of the stall.
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Yeah.
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Like I mine are always cross eyed.
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If I'm getting them ready, I have to have a set of cross.
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Even at a show, I it's they must be in a cross eye somewhere.
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I can I I agree with that.
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I've none of my well, my horses could be tacked in their stall, but I always put them in cross ties.
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Yeah.
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It doesn't occur to me that that's not.
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Like I'm not carrying it into a into a stall, and then up there is a very distinct process that happens for me to get that up there.
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So do you ever just tie without cross ties?
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Not too crap.
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Everyone has ties in their stall.
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Because I tie regularly, but I just I can't I do not tack, I can't.
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I just don't like it.
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Do you aisle tie like in shows?
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Like you're you like if you didn't have a tack stall, like a grooming stall, would you just cross tie in the aisleway?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, I just we normally just do the aisle way, but that's because we have an entire aisle.
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Yeah.
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If it's your aisle and nobody's walking through it, then fine.
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An F E aisle.
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Like I my mare doesn't fit in the 10 by 10 like comfortably.
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When we if we did a grooming stall, like I run into the like racks and stuff.
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Yeah.
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So it's hard to get her ready.
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Like you can't put a face, you can't do a tail in the stall.
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She has to be in the aisle to do that.
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Because you like otherwise she's sitting on you in the back corner of the stall.
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So cross ties are unless for me.
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We cross tie in the aisleway to shows, but mainly because I think it's dangerous for the little girls to be in a stall with the horse.
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Yeah.
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That makes sense.
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My dumb preference is that, and I have not accomplished this in recent years, but I like horses with four white socks and preferably tall.
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And I all of my horses have three.
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All three of my horses have three white legs.
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And it is especially odd just for me because I like odd numbers and multiples of threes, which sounds very OCD, and it might be.
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But I really like a blaze or like a star-striped snip and four white legs, preferably on a chestnut or a palomino.
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And I have one chestnut and she has three white legs.
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So time to get out the the the chalk or the or the spray paint.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I've only had one horse that had four whites, and it barely counted because he had like three spots of white on one leg.
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So it wasn't real.
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But my dream would be a German riding pony with four white socks and a big old blaze.
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Isn't that all of our dreams?
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I and all the bills are paid.
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That too.
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Um especially a bill to buy that pony because that's expensive.
00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:36.980
All right, so what is everyone seeing this week on social or in the community?
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I mean, that's an easy one for me.
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Painroll.
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Pay and world's happening in Fort Worth right now, and it has been for the last two weeks.
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So I've been watching everybody's win pictures and all the really good stories, and they do a lot of good stuff today.
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They were doing, they have the veteran classes for people who've served, and they do a lot of really good stuff, and so there's been a lot, a lot happening.
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I don't think I've looked at what's happening there.
00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:29.779
I feel like my socials are so like hunter jumper skewed.
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Sometimes I get like Yellowstone content, but I don't see like the paint world and stock breed stuff.
00:27:38.340 --> 00:27:41.460
Mine is literally a non-stop flow of paint world.
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That's it, that's all it is right now.
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That tracks for you.
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Yeah, that would make sense.
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I have been doing more of it because I started researching it after a conversation with Sunny, and now I'm like convinced I'm gonna take my little Shetland pony there and do a cart.
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So I gotta learn how to do all that.
00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:18.100
Um obsessed with, I'm gonna talk about someone specific, the German writer instructor on Facebook.
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I don't know if anyone, I'm like gonna, I don't know if anyone watches him, but I think he is like just awesome.
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Like, I don't know, I'm obsessed with him, and he's actually gonna be, I'm gonna audit him at a clinic next weekend.
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And I'm so excited.
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And I've heard from like other creators on social that he just has like a really good presence and he really responds to things well when there's like big social blow ups and stuff.
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And so I think just like in general, I'm very like good, you know.
00:28:53.779 --> 00:29:01.620
We love the internet trainers, but he's like an actual internet trader, like real, like credited.
00:29:01.620 --> 00:29:04.500
But no, I've I've enjoyed watching him a lot.
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I feel like I don't think I've seen any content from what I I really like watching because I have a really small arena and he does a lot of exercises for horses that are like in a real like a pattern that's in a really small space that I can do with my horses in my arena.
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Because you see all these big things, but the person has an arena that's like the size of my entire property.
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I'm like, I can't put that up, but he will do a lot of like three jump, four jump patterns that are like just really cool, and so I like I will just like I actually pay to see his content.
00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:53.380
He has like the paid subscription, he's like the only person I think I pay for to watch.
00:29:53.380 --> 00:29:59.539
All right, and on Facebook, it's Facebook, Caitlin.
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Okay.
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I'm never on Facebook except for work.
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I'm gonna be honest with you.
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It's not my uh it's not my platform of choice.
00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:11.779
It's my phone.
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I I mean I have a Facebook, obviously, but I I really don't use it for anything.
00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:33.220
I like TikTok and Instagram, so Sydney, what are you looking at?
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Sorry, I got distracted.
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I was looking at his Facebook page.
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I'm gonna have to follow him.
00:30:39.380 --> 00:30:42.980
I've been seeing a lot about the new Faultless series.
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It follows, I think, 10, 12, 14 Hunter jumpers as they compete for the Rolex Grand Slam.
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Sorry, it's been a few days since I watched it.
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I probably forgot the name of that.
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But it follows like Lily Keenan and and a few other riders that I can't say their names, so I'm not gonna butcher them right now.
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But it follows them as um as they're like doing Spruce Meadows and a bunch of like the European shows.
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And Walton Goggins actually does the the voiceover for it, which I think is really cool to actually have like a real celebrity voicing it.
00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:29.380
And so far I'm only into I think episode two, but I think it's like I think the production quality is really great, and it's awesome to see us more represented, I think, in the media.
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It's on Roku channel.
00:31:31.059 --> 00:31:32.340
Okay, the Roku channel.
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Yeah.
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And if you just sign up for an account, like it's letting me watch it for free on my phone.
00:31:37.220 --> 00:31:42.340
So maybe I had an account in the past, I don't remember, but check it out.
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I'm still watching that tonight.
00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:48.980
And you can follow them on Instagram and probably other socials.
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Their handle is at faultless.series.
00:32:00.019 --> 00:32:00.579
Kayla.
00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:12.980
Um so actually, it has nothing to do with social specifically, but because we are talking about watching like a show, I have not watched this, but my best friend recommended it to me.
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So it's not social, but there's some sort of like jousting show on Amazon Prime where you or not you, but like people, like an English writer will like go up against a real jouster or something, and like what?
00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:36.180
Yeah, I'm gonna have to find the name of it.
00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:42.340
It's on it's on Prime, and she was like, it's the most hilarious thing ever.
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I think you should watch it.
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I want to say there's only like one or two seasons of it.
00:32:46.900 --> 00:33:03.220
And I need to watch it because I'm not I'm not a big TV person, and I and I generally think horse TV shows are terrible, but like this is something I can get behind.
00:33:03.220 --> 00:33:06.980
I'm gonna have to find the name of it.
00:33:07.299 --> 00:33:08.500
I wanna do that.
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Can anyone sign up or is it like legit people?
00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:28.019
I don't know, and I don't know if it's even still like happening, but we used to have around here somebody was doing like jousting clinics, like you could sign up for a jousting clinic.
00:33:28.500 --> 00:33:30.259
That should be our next company retreat.
00:33:30.420 --> 00:34:00.500
How to get our I'm not gonna finish that thought, but I I can just imagine that happening, and actually, there's somebody local to the office and and to me that she does a bunch of that like renaissance, like whatever, and has done stuff with her her Cleveland Bay gelding and done like medieval stuff.
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Like, I don't know that she jousted with him, but some of the other like on-horse events that they have at those types of things, she's done with him, and that's semi-popular around here.
00:34:12.980 --> 00:34:24.659
So yeah, I'll have to find the name, and if I can find it, I'll add it in later, but yeah.
00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:37.780
I um I'm not again, I'm not big on like Facebook and and also I don't follow a ton of horse accounts, which sounds terrible, but I get so much horse stuff here and at my actual barn.
00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:58.900
So I follow more book accounts than horse accounts, so I think it goes to show that like everybody that has a horse in their life maybe is on social media less or like looking for that content less, but meanwhile, I don't have a horse in my life, so I'm like I think I'm really interacting with that content.
00:34:58.900 --> 00:35:03.860
So I get a ton of like I get silly prune and like broke ass horse girl.
00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:11.300
Like I got I get all of their content to watch, but it's because I'm like craving it, living vicariously through them.
00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:15.300
Mine like ebbs and flows.
00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:23.619
Like sometimes I I'll only see like stand-up comedian content, and then I go and like purposely start liking and like searching horse terms.
00:35:23.619 --> 00:35:27.619
I'm like, wait, I need to see the horse stuff again.
00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:38.019
But there was something I saw the other day that that was really an interesting conversation, which definitely could be its own podcast and itself.
00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:42.260
But there is a TikToker, she's a trainer that's local to me.
00:35:42.260 --> 00:35:43.059
She's great.
00:35:43.059 --> 00:35:46.820
English IB Farms is her TikTok name.
00:35:46.820 --> 00:35:48.420
Um her name's Maureen.
00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:51.220
And she posted, she's selling a horse right now.
00:35:51.220 --> 00:35:58.179
And she posted that, like, hey, like, kids, stop messaging me to buy a horse.
00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:06.980
And it wasn't that like kids are incapable of buying a horse, it was I am under safe sport and I'm not communicating with a minor.
00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:12.099
And kids like went off on her in the comments.
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She ended up turning it off, but like other trainers and stuff like chiped in and she's had like a couple videos since.
00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:22.019
But basically just saying, like, you know, one, some kids are incapable of buying a horse.
00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:31.460
When I was doing the third bread sales, people would text me and I'd be like, hey, like, I'm sorry, like I'm not selling an off-the-track third bread to a child without talking to a trainer.
00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:35.699
Yeah, like 99.9% of them would go to me at that point.
00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:49.619
And so it's like, but it's an interesting thing, like the safe sport conversation and like that relationship with social media and children and horse sales and children, and how that kind of goes.
00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:53.220
Like that would be a cool topic to discuss in the future.
00:36:54.740 --> 00:36:59.860
Yeah, how do you control that line of communication, like when social media is so readily available?
00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:05.539
Yeah, because I see a lot of trainers who are getting on TikTok and they're trying to build that for their business.
00:37:05.539 --> 00:37:13.699
And then you you do have kids who comment nasty things sometimes.
00:37:13.699 --> 00:37:16.099
And like, how do you deal with that?
00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:18.019
It's like a reversal of say sport.
00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:21.860
It's like, okay, we're not we're not encouraging this.
00:37:25.619 --> 00:37:26.260
Yeah.
00:37:26.260 --> 00:37:34.740
Yeah, I think that would be a good like longer form topic for us to talk through.
00:37:34.980 --> 00:37:35.220
Yeah.
00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:42.820
And even just horse buying and selling as a general statement, because that is so complicated.
00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:43.940
Oh my gosh.
00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:46.340
Yes, so complicated.
00:37:47.699 --> 00:37:50.659
And the show is called Full Metal Jousting, by the way.
00:37:50.659 --> 00:37:57.300
I had to go back in my text thread with my best friend and find it, but full metal jousting.
00:37:59.220 --> 00:38:04.260
Our IT department is gonna be like, what is she Googling on the work computer?
00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:05.780
Yeah.
00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:14.179
Well, I think that's all we have time for today.
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And our next episode is gonna be about horse showing and owning horses and the economics of all of that right now.
