Laughter and Legacy: Exploring Southern Horse Culture with Friends

Embark on an unforgettable journey to the sunny South with me, Steven Haste, as we saddle up with Life with QuanK and Tay from the Top of the Line Horse Club. Experience the thrill of transitioning from traditional walking and saddle horses to the sleek and speedy standardbred and American saddlebred mixes. Feel the adrenaline of "King of the Road" racing events and discover what inspired Tay's early passion for horses. Amidst the excitement, we pay tribute to the legendary Rico, whose love for horses has left an indelible mark on their community. Long Live Rico !! Top of the Line !! 

Meet Omar, aka 740SKI, an aspiring singer whose Southern charm and humor light up our conversation. Get the scoop on his hilarious YouTube pranks, including a side-splitting moment with his pregnant girlfriend, and learn about his dreams of expanding his channel beyond horses. Balancing a trucking job and family life, Omar brings laughter and insights into Southern culture, from tornado warnings to crawfish boils. This chat is a rollercoaster of comedy and camaraderie that will leave you smiling.

Venture into standardbred horse training, where hands-on techniques and high-speed trotting offer exhilarating experiences. Explore the traditions of mule riding and the unique community built around these remarkable horses. We touch on the practical side of equestrian life, offering advice on horseshoeing for asphalt and navigating the trucking industry's challenges. With heartfelt connections to family and community, we share stories of friendship, plans, and staying grounded while reaching for the stars.

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740ski Music 

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Transcript

Horse Club and Racing Stories

Speaker 1 0:00

Howdy guys, steven Haste here with Harness Up Podcast with Haste, draft Horses and Mules Guys, I'm down here in the bright, sunny south today. A lot of things brought me down this way and I met this young fellow here through YouTube actually.

Speaker 2 0:12

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 0:12

And a super good kid. Guys. I call him a kid, but he may think he's not a kid anymore, but a super good boy. I've really enjoyed watching his videos and I was down here in mississippi today selling horses and I've got to go to louisiana next and sell some mules just having a great time, and kwan invited me by to do a podcast with him.

Speaker 2 0:32

So, guys, this is kwan hey how everybody doing man, it's kwan k. You can find me on youtube at life with kwan k, and it's top of line man that's right and this is tay i'm'm Tay the cameraman.

Speaker 3 0:45

You can find me on Instagram at PRB. Underscore Tay.

Speaker 1 0:49

And we got another visitor over here too, but he's out of the camera right now, but we're going to get him over here before it's over, man.

Speaker 2 0:54

Yes sir, yes sir.

Speaker 1 0:55

All right, top of the line. What is Top of the Line?

Speaker 2 1:00

Explain that to us. See, okay, well, top line came from, well, it basically came from him. Him. He always like say, say you got like a, something cool or something that bring your eye. Okay, it look good. You'd be like man, that's something top of line, that's a top of line horse. Like say, you got a fast horse and he going fast, like that horse, top of line, he look good who named it that? He's just started just saying top line out of nowhere taste. Just started just saying Top of the Line out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 1:24

I see Tate just started.

Speaker 2 1:25

Then when we started Horse Club at first it was just Civil Spurs Horse Club. Then he came along on the team and we just ran with Top of the Line.

Speaker 1 1:34

So that is a horse club. Y'all got a horse club.

Speaker 2 1:36

Yes sir.

Speaker 1 1:37

So this is all new to me, guys. Yes, sir, this is a whole different world period, world period maybe new to a lot of you guys out there. Yeah, what kind of horses are you using?

Speaker 2 1:46

mainly mainly. Well, before we was just walking horses, saddle horses, but now we, into standard breeds, standard bred paces, standard bred trottles, do a little mixing of american saddle bred with standard breds. You just just never. Yes sir, yes sir, saddle bred, yes sir.

Speaker 1 2:02

Saddlebreds. Yes, sir, why.

Speaker 2 2:04

Because they got that style. And if you mix it with the standard breed then you get the style and the speed and you know standard breed legs. You know how their legs are weak. Yeah, we got the saddlebred, they got the strong legs. So if you mix it up you ain't got to worry about the horse getting hurt like a regular standard breed.

Speaker 1 2:21

You don't use horses, that people where I live don't want A saddle braided, standard braided cross. Nobody at home would ever want that. Oh man, oh man, you like them.

Speaker 2 2:29

Love them. That's cool man, yes, sir.

Speaker 1 2:32

So you're just going out trail riding with friends.

Speaker 2 2:33

Yes, sir, getting together meeting. Yes sir, racing, any Racing. Explain how Racing standard braids with saddle yes, sir not with harness no, car, I'm gonna do none of that are you racing in a group of people flying together?

Speaker 2 2:47

is it more one-on-one, it just it just depends like, say, we got a thing called we go to a horse ride, you got a thing called king of the road. That's when, like, if you can put anything on the road, anything, it can be a quarter horse, I'm talking about anything and it will go about six or four miles. You, you do one stop and the first horse back to the end, win, get you a trophy money, or whatever the case might be.

Speaker 1 3:10

I see them online all the time doing like sprint races, though like short sprints you do those too.

Speaker 2 3:15

We used to. I never done it because I was young at the time. But Rico, our club, we have done it like race standard grade, like quarter mile or a mile.

Speaker 1 3:24

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 3:26

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 3:27

I'm sure it's a blast. Oh it's fun it's very fun. I wish it wasn't raining today.

Speaker 2 3:32

Yeah, I would have showed you about the American Side of Red Statenbury Cross.

Speaker 1 3:35

I'd like to see it.

Speaker 2 3:36

It'd be something to see anyway. Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 3:48

I've seen them before. Get them in and ride them. Yeah, it's yeah. So you ride too, tay. Yes, sir, I do. All right, yes, I do. When did you start riding? Um, I started around about seven. I started out with a quarter horse and I started out riding by myself. Every day, I used to ride my quarter horse up and down the road. Well, I go around the block every day faithfully. And then I started coming along in 2019, because I didn't never really used to come on this side over here and I've had joined with silver spares and ever since then we top of the line, top of the line.

Speaker 1 4:19

When did you start?

Speaker 2 4:21

oh man, I've been in there. It's been in my blood since I was a baby.

Speaker 1 4:26

Who got you into it?

Speaker 2 4:29

Rico.

Speaker 1 4:30

So this is Rico. Yes, sir, I don't know if you guys can see on the video, but back here they're showing us a picture. Back here you may bring it up, bring it closer and let them see it.

Speaker 2 4:46

Tell them who this is on and what you. I think you want to say a little thing about him, maybe something. See, rico, man rico, I don't, I hate. I hate even talking about him because it made me tear up. But rico, rico was in love with his horses I'm talking about. He loved his horses, but rico well I'm putting like the rico used to be scared of horses. My dad and my uncle they tell me all the time how rico used to be scared of horses, but someday they just said, just said Rico just bought a horse and just fell in love with it. Then he used to have all the young kids around here that stay in trouble. He would bring us all feed the horses, just ride train or whatever and keep us out of trouble. And he just started Civil Spurs. Then it went on from there.

Speaker 1 5:24

So Rico was actually doing a thing for the community and the kids around here keeping them in line.

Speaker 2 5:29

Yes, sir Rico was a hero A real dude yes sir.

Speaker 1 5:33

What's he holding that trophy for, though? What happened next? The King of the Road. So he won that one.

Speaker 2 5:37

I don't know if you ever heard, but it's this thing. In Jackson they call it the Boondocks. That's where people from Texas, Louisiana, from everywhere come and you perform. And we went up there and beat everybody and won.

Speaker 3 5:49

Let's have a look. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 5:53

What year was that? I can tell you what year.

Speaker 3 5:56

He might know 2022. 2022.

Speaker 2 6:00

2022. And if I would have, I would have brought the trophy when that was. When that was when I won 20. 2022. And if I would have, I would have brought the trophy we had when that was when that was when I won 20. 2023,. We went, we took the American Saddlebred mixed with the Standardbred, we took her up there and we also took the horse that won that one. But somehow I came back first and I won that with the mixed breed.

Speaker 1 6:20

You going this year?

Speaker 2 6:21

Nah, she finna be dropping a coat around this time, so I'm going to miss out. I think no, they just had it not too long ago. Yeah, I think yeah, they just had it. We missed out.

Speaker 3 6:32

We have been to Fall Brawl too in Tennessee. Fall Brawl, fall Brawl on the mountains. What town is that? East Fork?

Speaker 1 6:42

No, it wasn't.

Speaker 3 6:42

East Fork. What was that Belvedere? No, I think I've heard of it. I think, yeah, we had one up there one time and I really loved it up there. It was nice, it was nice.

Speaker 1 6:54

We're in Mississippi, guys. I think I said that. But we're in Taylorville. It's the closest kind of town. It's just a little bit north of Hattiesburg. If you look on the map, we're out in the country. I was driving in here and I'm like, wow, yeah, this is the country out here.

Speaker 2 7:10

I love it. It's beautiful, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 7:12

And that's where we're at. We're at the house just having a good conversation and I'm really enjoying it so far. Yeah, it's nice out here I wish I could have met this Rico. That would have been cool man.

Speaker 2 7:24

I wish I would have started my YouTube channel when he was here.

Speaker 1 7:26

Yeah it would have been 10 times bigger than it is now.

Speaker 2 7:31

So you're new to YouTube. Yeah, I've been in the game about a year now. What made you do it, me and him? Well, I was on TikTok heavy and I got like 40 or something AK followers on TikTok and I was doing numbers on TikTok and me and him I always talked about doing videos together and I always wanted to go over to YouTube. But when he died, something just told me just do it.

Speaker 1 7:55

Just get on YouTube, just do it. So Life with Quan K was formed.

Speaker 2 7:59

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 8:00

Guys get on his channel. He's got a YouTube channel. I've been watching it. I actually reached out to Quan.

Speaker 2 8:06

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 8:08

I was watching his YouTube and I'm like this dude is cool. These boys down here are having a blast with horses. Yes, sir, and I want to meet these guys. So I sent him an email and he's like call me. I like that too.

Speaker 2 8:20

I thought it was fake.

Speaker 1 8:25

That's the only reason why I said call me. I thought it was fake. I love that Because in today's time, do you know how many people will not pick up the phone and call somebody?

Speaker 2 8:30

Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 1 8:31

And when you said call me, I'm like he's legit, I'm calling him, it meant a lot. I mean, I appreciate that that means a lot and hey, I'm glad to be here man. Yes, sir, I'm excited, just worked out. It's weird how things just get put into place. Yeah, I would never picture myself doing this. Well, my thing is, I was wanting to get down here to see you.

Speaker 4 8:53

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 8:53

I didn't have really a reason. I mean, I had reasons to I could have made a trip. I could have made a dry trip. Yeah, but I understand bring horses with me and sell them.

Speaker 2 9:01

Yes, sir, because they're ready to buy down here. We're ready.

Speaker 1 9:04

Well, last week I sold a horse to a guy, mm-hmm. And then I started saying, well, I'm going to make this happen, I'm going to figure it out.

Speaker 4 9:12

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 9:13

Then yesterday a guy called me and bought my, or two days ago a guy called me and bought my black mules.

Speaker 4 9:18

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 9:20

Yesterday. Yesterday a guy called me and bought my grave mules. And then last night, before I left, a guy called me and bought my black perchance.

Speaker 2 9:28

That's a blessing.

Speaker 1 9:29

So I had a full trailer. That's a blessing, man. It is a blessing, ain't it?

Speaker 2 9:32

Make your money. Sell the mules for your customers and do a podcast, that's a blessing, that's a blessing.

Speaker 1 9:39

I got a horse in that trailer. You may go to that. What was it called?

Speaker 2 9:42

What's that? Oh, boondocks, yeah, you think so.

Speaker 1 9:45

You don't never know. You need to ride him before we leave.

Speaker 2 9:48

We need to, we need to, we need to.

Speaker 1 9:51

We need to. It's going to be a lot of fun. Man, this boy over here, we need to get him over here and let him introduce himself.

Speaker 2 9:57

He's just sitting over here looking at his phone. Come here, Come holler at the camera man.

Southern Culture, Pranks, and Friendship

Speaker 5 10:01

They want to put me in the camera. They want to get me on the camera.

Speaker 1 10:04

Are you a member of this too? Oh yeah, you a guy.

Speaker 5 10:07

Oh yeah, I'm top of the line. I'm top of the line. I'm selling for an Oscar. What's going on?

Speaker 1 10:11

And what's your name?

Speaker 5 10:12

Omar.

Speaker 1 10:13

Omar. He sings. I heard Sing on Kwan's YouTube. Is him.

Speaker 2 10:23

All the music on my YouTube is him, this guy right here.

Speaker 1 10:25

So there you go. Yes, sir, where can they find you on platforms Tell them.

Speaker 5 10:29

Oh, all platforms, I'm everywhere YouTube, apple Music, Spotify, everywhere, all platforms.

Speaker 1 10:35

And what do they type in?

Speaker 5 10:37

7-4-OSKI 7-4-O-S-K-I.

Speaker 1 10:41

OSKI, we'll put that in the description too. Guys, all these links to Quan's channel and all that, we'll load it up.

Speaker 5 10:47

I was going to let y'all get back to the interview Behind the scene.

Speaker 1 10:51

I asked him if he was going to sing for us on here, but he wouldn't. No, no, he won't sing for us on here.

Speaker 2 10:56

We need to give the camera a little smile preview so they can be like oh, I guy out, that's right.

Speaker 1 11:08

Yes, sir, no, he don't have the same they can hear. Yes, sir, I think he can't. I shouldn't be if he's a singer. I think he can't decide oh lord, it's rained a lot down here so how it is up there from where you from, though liberty kentucky uh-huh, because when I think about kentucky, I just think about racehorses.

Speaker 1 11:23

It is a lot of racehorses. It's a lot different than here Culture-wise, food-wise, the way people sound. We've all three got southern accents but, it's different Style sound and I just eat downtown Somewhere in Hattiesburg Somewhere in Hattiesburg yeah, hattiesburg, I got some good food. What was the name of the place I went to, buffalo?

Speaker 3 11:48

Wild Wings.

Speaker 1 11:49

Yeah, because that's the only place I could get into a tornado warning come through. And I wanted to get off the road, so I did the Buffalo Wild Wings down there is ten times powerful than home. Yes, it's the food down here. I've eaten a lot down here, like in. I stopped at a roadside stand once in toomska, right up here off 20. There's an old guy that cooks pork, belly, candied yams sausages. Oh, good evening, it says, soul food on the sign it's so good.

Speaker 1 12:22

Yeah, are you all too far north for crawfish bowls, or does that happen here?

Speaker 2 12:26

Oh, that goes down, you do it, it goes down, it goes down.

Speaker 1 12:32

Can you boil them?

Speaker 2 12:32

No, I can't boil them. This was the man that boiled them.

Speaker 1 12:35

Who boils them?

Speaker 2 12:36

now we're going to buy them. We're going to buy them from the little stuff right there. You hunt any? Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 12:40

He, you hunt any.

Speaker 2 12:42

Yes, sir, he do a lot of hunting, though he gave us a lot of shots this year you gonna hunt on your channel any? Uh, I don't, I don't know it's just I don't know what's your plans for your channel. Moving forward, moving forward. I'm just trying to. Okay, how can I put this? I mean, I know most of of my audience come from the horses, but I want people to know me, like, want to watch me. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 13:11

You got a day job, though.

Speaker 2 13:12

Yes, sir, what do you do? I just drive trucks. Semis 18 wheelers.

Speaker 1 13:17

Just local.

Speaker 2 13:18

Yes, sir, not over the road. No, I don't go over the road.

Speaker 3 13:27

Well, you do, tay, I'm finna start driving trucks.

Speaker 1 13:29

I start class on the 24th and I'm going to get in the truck business too.

Speaker 3 13:31

You married no sir, you ain't married either.

Speaker 1 13:32

No, sir Y'all got kids.

Speaker 2 13:34

I have two, and I got two stepkids and I got one on the way, a little girl.

Speaker 1 13:38

You got a girlfriend then yes, sir, Is that the girl that's in the video? Yes, sir, that's her I laughed so hard this guy, he's got a funny side and I'm thinking it's going to come out a lot on youtube pretty soon yeah, it's going to come out did you loosen that seat?

Speaker 2 13:53

yes, sir, I did all that, all that was playing go watch the video.

Speaker 1 13:58

Did she know about it really?

Speaker 2 13:59

she didn't know nothing about it, nothing. So it was like real, yeah it was real it was real prank youtubers. It's playing between both people, I think yeah, see, I at first, when I started doing my prank, I had started planning them out, but it's not as more like serious, like you know. Yeah, but when you like, when I did that, oh man got a real reaction, ain't no faking that one.

Speaker 1 14:22

Go watch the video, guys, if you want to laugh.

Speaker 4 14:24

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 14:26

He made his girlfriend, I think, pee on herself. He slammed the pedal and she went back in that seat. I never laughed so hard she was.

Speaker 2 14:34

And what's so crazy about it? She's pregnant.

Speaker 1 14:37

It was funny. It was funny, yeah, that was funny. It was so funny, the whole video was just amazing. Yes, sir, you can do a whole lot more of that too.

Speaker 2 14:46

Yeah, I got some more coming up in my sleeve. I got one I'm going to do this weekend.

Speaker 1 14:50

Don't tell them, just make them subscribe to find out.

Speaker 2 14:52

Yeah, Just know it's going to be funny. It's going to be funny, give this boy some attention on there.

Speaker 1 14:57

He subscribed to his channel. They got a lot of good content. I love watching their horse racing on there. They're riding. I enjoy it.

Speaker 4 15:05

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 15:06

Where does all them people come from? You all have a lot of people that ride.

Speaker 2 15:11

Oh man, that's basically what's going on down here. It's nothing but horses, Every little town you go there's somebody that's in the horses or four-wheelers Right.

Speaker 1 15:22

That's it down here? I don't get down here a lot. We sell some in Mississippi, but not much.

Speaker 2 15:27

You will have a lot of good customers if you was down here more.

Speaker 1 15:30

Well, that's what I'm hoping this will help me, yes, sir. Spread the haste draft horses in Mississippi.

Speaker 4 15:35

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 15:36

I was here a few times. I had the worst time of my life in Mississippi.

Speaker 3 15:42

Wow.

Speaker 1 15:43

I was pretty scared. I'm serious.

Speaker 2 15:46

What part of Mississippi you was in.

Speaker 1 15:47

Lexington, oh Jackson.

Speaker 2 15:50

Oh boy, I'm telling you guys this is real.

Speaker 1 15:55

That's the worst part. I delivered a pair of mules to a guy that was a crop duster in Lexington. I left out of there midnight. I was low on fuel. There was a little gas station off to the left down there and I had to stop. I didn't have a choice. Well, I went up in that place and of course I don't know who it was.

Speaker 1 16:16

There was people there fighting with the owners and thrashing and I went in there and paid for my diesel and I gave them a $100 bill and walked back out to pump it.

Speaker 4 16:27

The pump.

Speaker 1 16:27

Lots didn't even work. I didn't know how much diesel I was getting or nothing. A bunch of boys come up around me and surrounded me yeah, and wanted money.

Speaker 2 16:38

That sounds about right, you know what I did. Did you give it to them?

Speaker 1 16:43

I did, yeah and I got in that truck and slammed that door into that nozzle on the ground and got the heck out of there. That's probably the safest thing you did, that's the only time I've ever been held up Anytime.

Speaker 2 16:53

Yeah, in.

Speaker 1 16:54

Lexington, Mississippi.

Speaker 2 16:56

Yeah, I ever been held up anytime. Yeah, in Lexington, mississippi. Yeah, we don't even stop in no gas station in Jackson.

Speaker 1 17:00

It's rough, ain't it.

Speaker 2 17:01

Yeah.

Speaker 1 17:01

Very rough. Well now, if I'm in Mississippi, I'm going to call Tay and Quan.

Speaker 2 17:07

Yeah, just come, holler at us. Come to Hebrew, come to Hebrew, yeah.

Speaker 1 17:12

No, it's good to have friends guys.

Speaker 2 17:13

Yeah, it's pretty good yeah.

Speaker 3 17:15

No, it's good to have friends guys, it's pretty good. I had a push Kwan at one point. He had started slacking up on record and I was like man, we got to drop videos. We got to drop videos. He was like I don't know what to record and I was like Kwan, they want to see horses. That's what they're always saying on their horses. So he finally just took it more serious.

Speaker 1 17:38

Why don't you go to town on horses? That would be so cool.

Speaker 2 17:39

Get all your boys together and go to town see that I don't I don't know how to how to place what stuff was would do with that, because sometimes when we do our little rides road rides and stuff police are messed with us, so I don't even want to try to go that route.

Speaker 1 17:54

I guess that's the difference in home, because we're in a huge Amish community I mean huge and horses on the road are just normal way of life.

Speaker 2 18:03

See, that's normal in the country. Yeah, that's normal in the country out here.

Speaker 1 18:07

We go to town too. The Amish go to town. I guess they're just used to it. We go to McDonald's, to the drive-thru, with horses.

Speaker 2 18:13

Oh boy, oh boy, that's a good deal. That'll be something.

Speaker 1 18:18

I think I'll burn it out. We put a lot of it on.

Speaker 4 18:20

Hey.

Speaker 1 18:21

Since 2011,. The YouTube channel started.

Speaker 4 18:24

Mm-hmm 2011.

Speaker 1 18:27

But I'm glad you're branching out to other things. Yes, sir, Because see, my channel name is Haste Draft Horses and Mules.

Speaker 4 18:34

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 18:35

So people know I'm going to be. I'm going to be draft horses and mules.

Speaker 2 18:39

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 18:40

But yours is life.

Speaker 2 18:41

Yeah, with Kwan, you never know what you're going to get.

Speaker 1 18:43

You're going to show your whole life on there.

Speaker 2 18:44

You never know what you're going to get.

Speaker 1 18:51

It's going to say one thing when you hit it big on there on. Youtube, who done the first podcast with you.

Speaker 2 18:58

You did. I will never forget that. I will never forget that.

Speaker 1 19:03

You don't never know, man.

Speaker 2 19:04

Never know.

Speaker 1 19:04

You never know. That's cool though.

Speaker 2 19:07

And I thank you again.

Speaker 1 19:08

So do you train any or do you just? Hearing now, well, what you mean by training like what you mean young horses and train them to do what you all do yeah, we got one in training right now and he's a standard.

Speaker 2 19:23

No, he a standard. Try to mix with a side of bread. And he in training right now, but, as in training like you mean, like just break them to ride oh, we then we don't got to break them. Just get on them, just get on them, just put hands on. While they're young, keep your hands on and, you know, put a saddle on them. Let them get used to all that. Get on their back, get on them up.

Speaker 1 19:44

You're direct grinding these horses though, right Sir?

Speaker 2 19:46

said again You're not neck grinding them.

Speaker 4 19:47

No.

Speaker 1 19:48

You're just plow rank, that's it.

Speaker 2 19:52

We start them off with just halting the rope and get that down, pat, put in a bent mile. Just walk them, learn how to turn, stop you use spurs.

Speaker 3 20:00

No, sir, no spurs, no spurs. But that's the name of my horse called Silver Spur.

Speaker 1 20:05

Okay, so you don't have Pete, you got a good farrier here. That's what you do it yourself.

Speaker 2 20:10

Yeah, so we got a couple people in our group that does that. Okay, like Rico when I say he did everything he shooed, trained. The only thing he didn't do was get on the horse. But we had one horse that he would ride, but other than that he would just, I don't know, there's something about him. He was like he was a horse risker, like he would put us up on there and we'd be going down the road.

Speaker 1 20:36

If he sees something going on, he'd on, he'll like loosen up in the mouth, or you know, like little techniques and the horse will do the deal.

Speaker 2 20:39

Y'all ride a four-wheeler, a lot with these horses. Yes, sir, that's on what we're gonna follow what's the reason? So you're gonna miss the ass, like if you're in a truck. It's a lot of people on the road trying to watch that race. Go on you. If you're on the four-wheeler, you ain't gonna miss it.

Speaker 1 20:50

I watch a lot of that standard bread stuff on youtube like people flying down the road with the full labor side of them and going 30 mile an hour.

Speaker 2 20:57

Yes, sir, we got a. We got a trotter right now that'll clock 30 right now you've been on him at 30 yes, sir rush flying rolling a rush, but it's a smooth ride, it's fun I mean, you don't move in that saddle it.

Speaker 1 21:12

It's amazing how standard bred is so versatile.

Speaker 2 21:15

That's why mostly we like the trotters, because you know how they got that. Well, trotters and paces are basically the same, they just got different leg movements yeah.

Speaker 2 21:25

But if you got a full trotter, you just throw some like chains on the back of a trotter, it's going to make it get into a gate and make it single foot. Do you know what a single foot is? A trotter with single foot real fast. But if you can get you a fast trotter, that'll trot fast and if you can break them down to the single foot, you got you a top-of-the-line horse.

Speaker 1 21:45

Back home they call that a rackin' horse.

Speaker 2 21:47

Yes, sir, we call it a rackin' horse, but you know, single foot. So yeah, you know we. I sent some bunch of standard breads one time to Puerto Rico, puerto Rico I'd be watching a couple day videos on Facebook so they do it down there too.

Speaker 1 22:01

Yeah, yeah, then boys come up this area, right no, that wasn't is it. Puerto Rico overseas.

Speaker 2 22:15

No, no, we had a hit reached out to Rico and offered him like $30,000 for our stud. We got up there right now he didn't sell it.

Speaker 3 22:25

No, he didn't sell it $20,000. $20,000 in a G-Wagon truck.

Speaker 2 22:28

In a G-Wagon truck.

Speaker 3 22:29

And they was going to pay for all the shipping fees. Send the horse over there and everything.

Speaker 2 22:34

What is your stud? He's a Pacer mixed with a trotter.

Speaker 1 22:40

You don't breed him out or you just breed him out.

Speaker 2 22:42

Yes, sir he got a lot of babies on the ground. Right now he training one of them.

Speaker 1 22:45

So you'll let people breed to him.

Speaker 2 22:47

Yes, sir, they can come breed right now.

Speaker 1 22:49

So if you're in the Mississippi area and you want to maybe breed to Kwan's stud, if you're in this kind of thing, his email is on his YouTube.

Speaker 2 22:56

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 22:56

You can get a hold of him very easy. It didn't take much.

Speaker 2 23:00

He answered me back quick and I like that. Yes, sir, he's a top of the line horse. Most people know him Illuminati. He ran all this at a young age. Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 23:09

That's good. You ought to collect him that way. You always got that on in the bank.

Speaker 2 23:17

You right. We should have collected his father, because his father was a bad man. He was a full pacer.

Speaker 1 23:26

What's the fastest horse you ever?

Speaker 2 23:27

clocked, probably his father.

Speaker 1 23:36

I don't know how you stay on.

Speaker 2 23:39

It ain't as hard as you think it is.

Speaker 3 23:41

Just sit there and rap.

Speaker 1 23:43

I've seen you on videos. Right, you get it. I've seen you. I've seen you. I think I've seen him too.

Speaker 2 23:52

I think he might be, I'm not sure. No, he ain't really on he, probably on one or two. I don't think I'm seen him too. I think he might be, I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 23:57

No, he ain't really on he, probably on Warner too.

Speaker 2 24:01

I don't think so. You probably tell me You're talking about Rondell. He did a lot of racing for us. He did most of the racing. He won that trophy right there.

Speaker 1 24:13

They do race a lot in Texarkana too. I heard yeah, they do, yeah, they won that trophy right there.

Speaker 2 24:16

They do race a lot. In Texarkana too, I heard. Yeah, In North Texas they do yeah they get down A lot.

Speaker 1 24:19

It's getting pretty popular.

Speaker 4 24:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 24:22

I know you may have a big race up here one day.

Speaker 2 24:25

We usually throw rides up here.

Speaker 3 24:26

We just had one last year. Yeah, okay, last year.

Speaker 4 24:30

You got to come down to our next one.

Speaker 2 24:32

I'd gotta come down to our next one.

Speaker 1 24:33

I'd love to you guys to be a lot of you guys to let you come. Is he gonna perform at it?

Speaker 2 24:38

he performed one time here at a ride. He performed. We're trying to, I'm trying to build his confidence back up. He was, you know, you know how you said consistency is key. He was consistent at one point. He just stopped he consistency is key he just stopped at one point, but you know I'll still be on. Get him back going. Yeah, I'll trust him. Get him back going. I am, is there?

Speaker 1 24:57

anything else y'all want to talk about? I mean, it's y'all's podcast. I'm just hosting it. Is there anything you want to tell the folks out there about y'all or anything? I don't know how long we've been going.

Speaker 2 25:06

I mean I really don't even. I mean anything else you want to know.

Speaker 1 25:12

I mean it's hard for me just to go out, I understand yeah the best thing with these podcasts is don't think about it yeah, you're right, but it's hard, not to. It's hard, it's hard just let it out, just sit and let it out, let it out. But now I mean we've covered a lot of good stuff. I love what y'all are doing. I've learned a lot about it already sitting here. It's a blessing it ain't no justice in person.

Speaker 2 25:40

It's no justice.

Speaker 1 25:41

How old are you?

Speaker 2 25:42

I'm 23.

Speaker 1 25:43

How old are you, tate, 24. Gonna be 25. And he's 20, you said.

Speaker 2 25:50

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 25:50

Yeah, he a young boy.

Speaker 2 25:52

Are y'all related Might?

Speaker 3 25:53

as well. Say Not blood, but blood as well.

Speaker 2 25:55

We all like it's a brotherhood I hate that I don't have everybody here, but that's fine, I'll meet them someday.

Speaker 1 26:02

Yes, sir, you will what's it like here in this area? I want to know more about this area. It's like everybody tight knit here in this, all around here pretty much yeah, this area, like this part right here, everybody's like, like tight help each other help each other.

Speaker 2 26:15

Help each other, all that.

Speaker 1 26:17

It's not a lot of houses, though it's not. It's not, it's pretty spread out.

Speaker 2 26:21

Yeah, it's a lot of land out here.

Speaker 1 26:24

You got a big church up there. You all go there to church.

Speaker 2 26:26

I go to the church no, you ain't pass that way but my church is on down. What church is that? What church is that? Old Palestine? No, not Old Palestine. What's?

Speaker 1 26:35

that church called I don't forget it Morning.

Speaker 2 26:36

Star, morning Star, you don't sing in church. I don't. I don't do no singing.

Speaker 1 26:41

No, sir, you don't either. No, sir, these folks down here can sing. Yeah, they can Soul singing.

Speaker 2 26:49

Yeah, I like it. Actually we got one. He stay down the road. He's big. People know him, julius, I guess his name yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 26:58

Julius Ava.

Speaker 2 26:58

Yeah.

Speaker 1 27:00

Are you into any sports?

Speaker 2 27:02

I was into basketball. I played basketball through my whole childhood and from basically my whole school year I played basketball. I went to college to play basketball for a year.

Speaker 1 27:13

What school.

Speaker 2 27:14

Let's look A little Baptist College right here in Laura.

Speaker 1 27:17

I went there. Didn't make it all the way through, though.

Speaker 2 27:20

I just it wasn't the same. Yeah, it felt like I was in high school again. It didn't feel like college, yeah. So, and that's when I went to Jones, got my CDL and I just been ready to go.

Speaker 1 27:36

You ever see yourself doing over the road trucking. No, want to stay home.

Speaker 2 27:39

It's not even that, it's just the trucking industry is so messed up right now. It's been messed up for some years now it's messed up.

Speaker 1 27:46

What do you mainly haul?

Speaker 2 27:47

See what I do is I'm an asphalt, I haul asphalt, I build the roads.

Speaker 1 27:52

Okay. Yes sir, you going to do the same thing? Yes, sir, work for the same company.

Speaker 3 27:57

Yes, sir, starting out, Then I think I'm going to take my talent to West Texas. Doing what? On the oil field? Because we was in the oil field last year and, yeah, we both went out there at the same time. He had the CDID, so I was a ground hand. Well, they put him as a ground hand too, because he wasn't 23 yet and there wasn't no money that we was the company that we was at. It really wasn't no money. So it was like we're going to come back home. And he came back home and started back driving and I came back home to get my CDL Was you?

Speaker 1 28:33

homesick. And I came back home to get my.

Speaker 3 28:38

CDL Was you homesick? No, sir, you didn't miss home. No, sir, I went out there in 2020. I was homesick then, but when I went back out there in 2024, I had a mindset You're going to have to do it Ain't no handouts Was you homesick. Yes.

Speaker 2 28:54

Nah, nah, it wasn't really a home sit. I was just really worried about the horses. Honestly, yeah, honestly, I was really worried about the horses.

Speaker 1 29:02

You're a horseman, you love them.

Speaker 2 29:04

I love them. I try not to put myself like I'm deep into it, but you know.

Speaker 3 29:10

But just try to keep it up, yeah.

Speaker 2 29:13

Tradition. Yeah, we have to, yeah, you got to keep it up.

Speaker 1 29:15

Yeah, tradition, yeah, we have to. Yeah, you got to keep it, I got to.

Speaker 2 29:17

Once Rico left man, that's been our goal.

Speaker 1 29:19

You promised him, don't worry.

Speaker 2 29:22

Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:22

That you would do it.

Speaker 2 29:23

Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:24

That's good man.

Speaker 2 29:25

Yeah, I miss him, we miss him.

Speaker 1 29:27

Oh yeah, I'd say so.

Speaker 2 29:28

Yeah. I'd say so related to you at all. He was actually my godfather, okay.

Speaker 1 29:36

Yes, sir, so everybody here like are your parents close by, or?

Speaker 2 29:40

Actually, yeah, they live right here.

Speaker 1 29:41

This is your parents' house. Yeah, I live on the other side.

Speaker 2 29:43

Okay, this house is closer to the barn, so yeah.

Speaker 1 29:46

Your parents close by here. Tate yes, sir, Born and raised right here.

Speaker 2 29:50

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 29:52

No, ever crooking these roads and everything everything, everything.

Speaker 2 29:56

Actually, my dad grew up like right down the road I'm gonna get me a good meal tonight, boys I wish I want a recommendation see, I was gonna tell you to go to the little spot we got out here in here in chapman, but they closed down right now yeah, yeah they closed down down. Oh my God.

Speaker 3 30:15

Where are you staying at Like in Laurel, hattiesburg, or you don't know yet.

Speaker 1 30:20

I got to be in Shreveport by 8 o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 30:23

So that means you're going to go, I'm going to hit 20.

Speaker 1 30:26

20 West and Rockett. I'm probably going to try to get there tonight before midnight and sleep in the truck.

Speaker 4 30:36

That's what I do okay I won't leave my mules and horses I ain't gonna leave them, I ain't got nowhere to put them, besides the trailer so that's what I do.

Speaker 1 30:45

I got that 38 foot trailer. I just turn them loose, feed and water them in the trailer and I ain't gonna leave them. They gotta stay in the trailer you gonna stay in the trailer.

Speaker 4 30:55

That's love that's only fair it's all the fair.

Speaker 3 30:58

Yeah, yeah, I'll stay there with them you know, we had to do the same thing with tennessee so did the same thing.

Speaker 1 31:03

But if they get a horse motel or a barn, I'll go to a motel.

Speaker 2 31:06

Oh, that'll be a good investment yeah, that'll be something nice, that'll be nice, y'all should open one down here somewhere hey, if y'all y'all help y'all help me, y'all help us get to the top, and we'll do that you're gonna get there yeah, I believe it, I believe it. You're very confident yes, sir, oh yeah, and that's good, that's a good, thank you, thank you that's a good sign.

Speaker 1 31:29

I love y'all's personalities well. The minute I got out up here I felt at home straight up, I ain't gonna lie, I'm gonna be real.

Speaker 2 31:38

I thought you were gonna be kind of scared. I wasn't a bit that's good, that's good.

Speaker 4 31:42

I just felt it.

Speaker 1 31:46

Y'all made me feel at home. Now what I had. Some feelings, hey I I understand, I do that, you're honest. I do that I mean, I had a few things going through my mind but, I felt comfortable, that's good, that's good. I mean, and when I got out and you all got out and I seen how cool you all was and just nice as could be, I'm like, these boys are good. Yes, sir, they're cool guys, you know, Thank you to our parents man, that shows man a lot.

Speaker 2 32:14

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 32:15

Everybody's like people think they are.

Speaker 2 32:17

You know, I get that a lot oh. I'd say I get that a lot.

Speaker 1 32:21

But I learned something by this too.

Speaker 2 32:22

What's that?

Speaker 1 32:23

I got some good friends down here in Taylorsville, Mississippi.

Speaker 2 32:25

Oh yeah, sir, it's your home now.

Speaker 3 32:27

I love it.

Speaker 2 32:30

One call, that's all. Top of line shirt.

Speaker 1 32:32

I'm gonna get you a top of line shirt I did um, give these boys some t-shirts and y'all. We have merchandise now and I'm actually wearing one of them.

Speaker 1 32:40

It's pretty dirty. I spilled v8 juice on it this morning. Hey, he's got one. Hold it up to the camera for me. Thank you very much. These are the harness up podcast t-shirts. It's got our logo on the front and on the rear it's got the harness up logo. So check that out, guys, and if you want one, you can go to wwwdraughthorsesandmulesforsalecom. You have to spell out the end wwwdraughthorsesandmulesforsalecom. When's your merch coming online?

Speaker 2 33:16

see the way we do these. Like I want to get into that. Like so people just go on, like people from my youtube, just go order them, but we just make an order like we get everybody in the group or whoever want to order a shirt, we all just place an order and we send it to the local print place down there and just get them, like that. But I actually want to do that. How you doing it?

Speaker 2 33:35

I got the guy for you I need to get in touch with him laser's edge kenny, my friend out in wyoming it's a long way from here, but he is. He's spot on but see, I don't want to. I don't want people thinking I'm trying to steal what rico had did and try to make money off of. So I don't really want to put the silver spurs on there. I just want to put like top line entertainment. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 33:57

You could put top of the line. But you could give a little credit for Rico and put a small Silver Spurs too.

Speaker 4 34:04

That's not yeah, give Rico a little credit on there too. That's right yeah.

Speaker 1 34:07

Because his legacy lives on. He turned it over to you, boys.

Speaker 2 34:11

Yes, sir, he did.

Speaker 1 34:12

Silver. Yes, sir, he did.

Speaker 2 34:13

Silver Spurs is your alls now really, man, can I shout my people out? Yeah, shout them all out. Shout out to Rondizzi. Shout out to Tay Harper. Shout out to our new CEO, marco. Shout out to Oski. Shout out to Tay. Who else am I missing? Shout out to Von. Shout out to my Uncle Zeke. Shout out to my daddy. And if I'm missing y'all man, y'all know him. Shout out to y'all Top of the line family.

Speaker 1 34:35

Missing him? Did you say him yeah, I said him we call him Oski.

Speaker 2 34:39

We call him Oski.

Speaker 1 34:40

You call him what?

Speaker 2 34:41

Oski Oski, oski, oski you know, his artist name is 74 Oski, so we just say Oski.

Speaker 5 34:56

What's 7-4?

Speaker 1 34:58

Just a oh it's just a just a name, just a name, just a number.

Speaker 2 35:02

It just, it's nice, it sounds good, it does. He did go by Lil Omar, but it was plain and a lot of people had that name, so I can't remember. Somebody just called him Lil Oski. Then he just put the 7-4 in front of him. Then he just put the 7-4 in front of it 7-4 Husky, I like it. Yeah, it's different.

Speaker 1 35:16

All right, boys, let's talk about our stuff. You got Life with Quan K.

Speaker 2 35:20

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 35:21

On YouTube.

Speaker 2 35:21

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 35:22

All you got to do is type in Life with Quan K.

Speaker 2 35:24

That's it.

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Speaker 1 35:25

Bam. Subscribe to Quan.

Speaker 2 35:27

Like his channel Comment on his channel and put my comment comment on videos that y'all would love to see, and I will do that, I promise yeah, and also if you see him on the podcast, put on there.

Speaker 1 35:36

You're coming from the podcast, so he'll know, yeah and uh also, you probably got facebook yes, I got facebook.

Speaker 2 35:43

You can find me at corn q? U a n space keys k y e s instagram mostly. Instagram is the mostly. If I'm not on youtube, I'm on instagram, and you can find me at corn keys underscore and you probably. We know you got tiktok yeah, I'm on tiktok too, at corn keys 48, I think, yeah so you can find one all over social media everywhere everywhere following check him out.

Speaker 1 36:07

This podcast goes out to a lot of people yes, sir shout out to people in los angeles, california. I don't know why, but you all are number one city on this podcast hey y'all, come on down to life with corn k man I don't know why. I guess because la is so big, maybe, but la is the number one city, and then chicago's second, then denver it's crazy how, how it's more people like from from far away that actually watch this stuff. I'll show you when we get off here. Australia, indonesia, india everywhere.

Speaker 2 36:40

That's wild. It goes all over the world. That's wild, it's a podcast.

Speaker 1 36:44

It's crazy they want to sit there and listen to old Kentucky Hillbillies and some Mississippi.

Speaker 2 36:49

But now I do have one question. So what y'all mules like, what y'all do, why mules?

Speaker 1 36:55

I love them. I'm a mule man.

Speaker 2 36:57

So what's the difference between a mule and a horse?

Speaker 1 37:01

Mules are the history of America. Mississippi mules back in the day. On these old plantations. Cotton fields, yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 37:10

Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 37:16

That's right. That's right. That's right, mules. Yeah, you know why they're tougher, they're stronger they can stay in the heat because it gets hot here and they live twice as long as a horse.

Speaker 3 37:25

A mule is a donkey across to a mare so when I'm gonna get the chance to ride one?

Speaker 1 37:33

I got one at home.

Speaker 2 37:34

Y'all would love, so, so can you ride them on the back oh yeah you can and what type of gate do they do?

Speaker 1 37:42

most usually are gated mules okay, okay, so I got a gated mule at home out of a walking horse, mary, that will fly just oh, okay, so they okay, okay, okay, I see okay kind of goes by the mac, but the donkey's got a natural little shuffle. They've got that natural little shuffle Mules walk fast. They get into that walk and swing their hips and flop their ears.

Speaker 3 38:02

They walk and they just get the going.

Speaker 1 38:05

Cover the ground. Also, don't ever breed a stud to a jenny if you want a mule, because if you breed a stud horse to a jen, donkey you're going to get a henny, it ain't a mule. The only way to get a mule is jack donkey to the man.

Speaker 4 38:28

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 38:30

A lot of people don't know that, but that's how it is.

Speaker 2 38:33

What you think about how the way we ride like on the asphalt, what you what you got to say about that.

Speaker 1 38:40

I heard I get a lot of people in my comments saying this abuse I get the same thing okay, okay, every day okay and it that's a touchy subject it is, it is very touchy subject because it could be abused to a certain point, to a certain point but to me it's not okay I'm gonna use these horses on the road every day.

Speaker 1 39:07

Now that's a touchy thing too. A lot of people say amish abuse horses. But to me, amish are people just like you are, just like I am, just like the next guy is. There's good and bad in all people. So you can't just say amish and categorize them with every amish. You can't. I know amish people that are the best horse caregiver I ever met in my life and truly love their horses. I know some that's not. I know English people. The Amish call all of us English. So if you come to Amish country, you're English because you're not Amish.

Speaker 1 39:46

So I know English people that are the best in the world and some that are the worst. It's how you use your horse.

Speaker 2 39:54

Okay.

Speaker 1 39:55

When you get them ready for that asphalt, you got to have them prepared to go.

Speaker 2 39:58

Yeah, because our horses like we have horses now. If you put them on dirt road they will ride like crap. Put them on the asphalt, oh my lord.

Speaker 1 40:08

I know.

Speaker 4 40:08

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 40:09

Bore him on the shoes. Drill tech is what we use.

Speaker 2 40:12

Oh really.

Speaker 1 40:12

Yeah.

Speaker 2 40:23

It's called drill techs, what we use, oh really, yeah, it's called drill tech. You heard of it.

Speaker 1 40:25

I never heard of that. You get mail here like it yeah, at this address. You got a po box for you too.

Speaker 2 40:27

No, I do not need one I know, but I don't know man go up here and get you a po. You'll be surprised yeah, I've been, I'm gonna, I'm waiting on my youth to get bigger to do all that.

Speaker 1 40:36

Give me a size. You want shoes before I leave. Okay, I'm going to mail you a set of drill tags.

Speaker 2 40:41

Okay, a gift. So what is it? Is it kegs? They're keg shoes.

Speaker 1 40:45

It's a keg shoe with drill tech put on it. Drill tech is a. You put it on with a rod, you torch it on like welding. Uh-huh, it's gold I'll be saying that like on facebook and stuff. It lasts, for you can get three or four shoe-ins out of it. I've heard of that and I can tell you where to get them. You order blacksmith. I order them out of millersburg, ohio from the blacksmith. You get them. You'll be ordering shoes from them.

Speaker 4 41:14

And you try that out.

Speaker 1 41:15

They last forever and they're good. They're real good, yeah, so that's a plus too, right there. Yeah, but I want to mail you a set. Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you, but yeah, that's a touchy subject.

Speaker 3 41:27

I mean, if you're going to have that horse on asphalt every day, all day long, from 8 in the morning to 8 at night and just wear the heck out of it.

Speaker 4 41:33

Yes, that's abuse.

Speaker 1 41:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 41:34

No, we don't do all that For a lot of people to understand running on that hard blacktop.

Speaker 1 41:40

That blacktop's not as hard as some ground.

Speaker 2 41:43

You're right, that's a fact. That's a fact. And that blacktop is made out of the same thing that the good Lord put on the earth. Right out there we're walking on.

Speaker 1 41:54

Yes, sir, yes sir, I haul that every day and dirt I know some dirt out here in the hot of the summer that is a lot harder on a horse than that blacktop road. That blacktop gives and it does, it does.

Speaker 2 42:05

So I was wondering because I was being iffy on posting riding on the road and stuff, because I get a lot of bad comments.

Speaker 1 42:12

My advice to you that a guy gave me a long time ago.

Speaker 4 42:16

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 42:18

Be yourself, be an individual.

Speaker 4 42:20

Mm-hmm Be Quan.

Speaker 1 42:23

Mm-hmm, don't do nothing else but what Quan wants to do yes sir. And if somebody puts on there, it's abuse. Kill them with kindness, don't be mean to them, don't smart back at them, mm-hmm kindness. Don't be mean to them, don't smart back at them. Just say thank you for your advice and God bless you, and smile at them and go on.

Speaker 4 42:40

Keep it push.

Speaker 1 42:42

And you just be Kwan.

Speaker 2 42:43

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 42:44

And Tay you be.

Speaker 3 42:45

Tay, I'm going to be Tay, that's right. Do what Tay does.

Speaker 1 42:49

No matter what, we all got to be our own self, our own individuals. That's what the world's about. I'm going to be Stephen D Haste, and it's hard to change him, but I like it.

Speaker 4 43:00

That's good.

Speaker 2 43:01

That's good, as long as you love yourself.

Speaker 1 43:04

That's right, you got to. You got to love yourself before you can love anybody else.

Speaker 2 43:07

Facts.

Speaker 1 43:08

Remember that one.

Speaker 2 43:09

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 43:10

That's a hard one too. We don't want to give relationship advice and love advice on this, probably today.

Speaker 3 43:17

No we ain't going to do that.

Speaker 2 43:21

Maybe next time, but not today. Yeah, we ain't going to go there.

Speaker 1 43:25

We ain't going to go there y'all. But, guys, I've really, really enjoyed this. I did too.

Speaker 2 43:30

I have so I know you got standard bread pastes in there. Do y'all put them in hobbles?

Speaker 1 43:35

No, Y'all don't they hobble them on the?

Speaker 2 43:36

track yeah, I know that we hobble them too.

Speaker 1 43:38

Just to keep them in their pace.

Speaker 2 43:39

Mm-hmm, yeah Well we got some that are free. Leg out this world.

Speaker 1 43:43

Just roll with it.

Speaker 2 43:44

Just roll, just roll. You've got to come to know. I'm going to see. I really want to come because actually we have a guy that used to ride with us a lot. He actually rides in a derby now.

Speaker 1 44:01

Who.

Speaker 2 44:02

His name is Cortez Walker.

Speaker 1 44:04

See, I did a podcast with Mr Eric Reid. He won the derby trainer in 2022, rich Stratton, and he told me call me. I'll get you in at the Red Mile in Lexington and you can ride in the pace car you know the gate for the standard breads so you could come up, bring 7-4 with you. Yeah, he coming, you three come up to Lexington. Or you just let us know it's August through October.

Speaker 4 44:35

August through October yeah, look at the schedule.

Speaker 2 44:37

I sent you the schedule. Yeah, you got me, I got it's like tuesday, thursday, friday, saturday you have to be on a weekend for me it's like they switch it up

Speaker 1 44:43

okay but y'all gonna be there in eight hours yeah, we can, or you can just go get on a plane up there and fly into lexton looks like that's what that's probably what's gonna happen? Two hours gonna get on a plane up there and fly into Lexington, looks like that's probably what's going to happen. We're going to get on a plane, just fly in. I'll meet you up there. Take you to the track.

Speaker 2 45:00

Yeah, we're most definitely making that happen.

Speaker 1 45:02

We'll call Eric Reed. Eric, we're going to be calling you. Hope you're listening. He's cool, one of the best guys you'll ever meet. Okay, okay, I'm here and we want to get in that car.

Speaker 2 45:15

He told me he'd make it happen. That's going to be a wild experience. I ain't lying, could you imagine being in that car. I cannot. I can't even picture myself doing that right now.

Speaker 1 45:22

With some of the world's top horses. Come to the Breeders' Cup. You want to see the real deal. We'll come. You come to the Breeders Cup in October up there at the Red Mile.

Speaker 4 45:32

Man.

Speaker 1 45:33

You'll be able to stand straight. You'll be so cold You'll be watered. We'll have to tie you up.

Speaker 2 45:40

Yeah, probably Probably. I'll get happy.

Speaker 1 45:43

It's so much fun because you can go back in the barn at the Red Mile, hang out, meet people.

Speaker 4 45:48

Yeah, that is.

Speaker 1 45:49

You'll meet so many people trainers it's a blast.

Speaker 2 45:53

That is yeah, you need to stay a couple days.

Speaker 1 45:55

Yeah, we're going to do that and come and just enjoy the heart of Kentucky, lexington, the Bluegrass State, horses if you like bourbon, they got a lot of it. Bourbon and horses and bluegrass. Okay, and there you go.

Speaker 2 46:11

Yeah, we most definitely going to make that happen.

Speaker 1 46:13

It'll be fun, and there's also a track in Corbin, kentucky now there's a track in Oak Grove and Franklin. There's like four or five tracks in Kentucky.

Speaker 3 46:21

Now that's running standard brakes which one you like the most Red Mile.

Speaker 4 46:26

Red Mile it's on.

Speaker 1 46:27

Sun Beach somewhere. It took the record a minute and 48 in a mile yeah, that boy moving the trotters are amazing there. You got to bet if you go.

Speaker 2 46:44

You bet on a horse race? Yeah, we bet all the time it's fun.

Speaker 1 46:48

Yeah, you ain't seen it until you go there and do it in person and watch that race you bet on in person.

Speaker 2 46:54

Because on TV they look like they're going so slow, but I know in person it's different.

Speaker 1 47:00

When you're down there on the bottom row.

Speaker 2 47:02

I just know it.

Speaker 1 47:03

I know them moving when they come around that curve, 12 of them, 14 of them. You can feel it in your soul. Oh, yeah, they moving, it's just a rush. Yeah, it's a rush. Yeah, it's a rush, I love it. I love standard breed racing my whole life.

Speaker 2 47:19

I wish they had it. Uh, we can ride on a back racing and a derby. I wish they had that.

Speaker 1 47:25

I love standard breeds.

Speaker 2 47:27

We do too.

Speaker 1 47:27

They're the most versatile horse.

Speaker 2 47:30

It just. It's just something about them. They got that, that style, I don't know. It's just something about a standard breed.

Speaker 1 47:36

Their temperament, and I mean you can race them.

Speaker 4 47:42

You can.

Speaker 1 47:42

When they're retired. Kids can ride them. Grandmas, grandpas, they can pleasure drive them. You can show them, single foot them. There's so many options with a standard breed.

Speaker 4 47:52

Yeah.

Speaker 1 47:52

So many All right guys, god. Many options with a standard brand. Yeah, so many all right guys. God bless each and every one of y'all. We appreciate you more than you'll ever know and we're gonna leave you here. I'm gonna load up and let them take me back down to my truck down this long driveway and uh, go to shreveport, louisiana, so, uh, I'm gonna try to upload this tomorrow Safe travels. We're recording this on Thursday, or is it Wednesday?

Speaker 2 48:18

Today is Wednesday, I think yeah.

Speaker 1 48:19

Wednesday, February the 12th.

Speaker 2 48:21

Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1 48:53

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Speaker 2 48:55

Man. Long live Rico man. Top of line business.

Speaker 1 49:00

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