Latest / Two Point Perspective / Perfectly Normal... If You Have Horses
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- 0:00Every sport has its own language, you know, if I say gimme, golfers know exactly what I'm talking about.
- 0:07If I say deuce, tennis players don't need an explanation.
- 0:12And people who have horses are no different.
- 0:15But I think it goes beyond the words we use.
- 0:18It's the things we photograph video, the things we wear, the things we spend money on and the things we do without ever stopping to consider how strange they might look to everybody else.
- 0:31So today we thought we'd have a little fun with all the things that seem perfectly normal.
- 0:37If you have horses.
- 0:39This is two point perspective.
- 0:41Two riders with different viewpoints from different generations talking about the same sport.
- 0:48So I have a 19 month old.
- 0:50Most moms have thousands of baby pictures and I do too.
- 0:53But I have just as many of my horses, so.
- 0:56So on any given day, some days the horse wins and sometimes my daughter wins.
- 1:01Well, mine's even worse.
- 1:02If somebody picked up my phone, they would think that my horse was totally falling apart.
- 1:07There's pictures of all the ugly things.
- 1:10There's bumps and scrapes and mystery spots and weird hairs.
- 1:15But the pictures aren't really for me.
- 1:17It's because five minutes from now I'm going to text it to you or somebody and ask, so, what do you think?
- 1:26Yeah, that's actually true.
- 1:28The amount of pictures that I just got from her most recent excursion, it's completely true.
- 1:34And these are not glamour shots by any means.
- 1:37They are just pictures for my records.
- 1:39But that's because sometimes or somehow we always think, you know, I wish I'd taken a picture of that yesterday, or wish I wish I'd gotten a video of that, or, oh, I, I felt that and I should have
- 1:49had this, or, oh, it was really swollen yesterday.
- 1:52But I can't really describe what it looks like now exactly, which is why.
- 1:55You never just take one picture.
- 1:57And then there's the videos.
- 2:00And personally, I would never walk up to somebody and say, would you mind videoing my round at a horse show?
- 2:07But somehow there are always moms from the barn or friends that follow everybody around.
- 2:13You know, they're the ones that are clapping and cheering and filming and then they airdrop everything after.
- 2:20Which is great because for me, I feel like I'm frequently holding the phone and have hundreds of videos of other people on my telephone.
- 2:27And then the next thing I know, I don't have many of me.
- 2:30But I will say we're lucky for our dear friend Molly, because if Molly is around, there's always a video to.
- 2:37Be had that's Absolutely true.
- 2:40And this, I feel the same way.
- 2:43It seems like we're always somebody else's videographer and hopefully they're ours.
- 2:48And if we don't have somebody, we always have Molly.
- 2:52Thank.
- 2:53Always have.
- 2:53Always have Molly.
- 2:54Molly.
- 2:55Well, and the funny part, and the funny part too is horse people don't actually like, watch their video, just pop it up there.
- 3:02No, no, we study it.
- 3:05I feel like I learned so much from watching myself.
- 3:07Cuz I'm studying the pace or if my horse drifted left or right or where I landed.
- 3:12And did this, you know, did this look as bad as it felt?
- 3:15And how, how do I look going over the jump?
- 3:18And did my horse jump well, as.
- 3:20As well as it felt or, you know, did it look as bad as it felt?
- 3:23I don't know.
- 3:24Could be, could be either or.
- 3:26Exactly.
- 3:27And in my case, how many times did I look down or was I sitting up straight?
- 3:34I, I mean, it is awful.
- 3:36But so yeah, everybody else sees someone jumping a horse and, and I feel like we see what homework we need to do.
- 3:45Oh yeah.
- 3:45And then we watch the video again in slow motion.
- 3:49At least for me, at least twice.
- 3:51Have to.
- 3:52It's like I, I think I probably don't get to just watch the round in totality without stopping it.
- 4:01It's probably, probably at least five times.
- 4:02Honestly.
- 4:03I'm like going forwards and then going backwards and then going forwards and backwards.
- 4:07And then I'll just watch the whole thing and be like, huh.
- 4:09Okay, so, Elizabeth, I have a question.
- 4:13I really don't understand how you ride without wearing a hair net every day with all that hair.
- 4:21So how do you do that?
- 4:23Because I don't like them.
- 4:26I never have.
- 4:27I'll wear a hairnet at a horse show because I have to, but at the barn, just because.
- 4:34No, I don't even think about it.
- 4:36I have long hair.
- 4:38Hair net, helmet done.
- 4:40Like it's a part of getting dressed.
- 4:42See, that's the difference.
- 4:44Every single time I put one on, I'm transported back to Burger King.
- 4:50It was the worst summer job I've ever had.
- 4:53Hairnet, name tag, Would you like fries with that?
- 4:56And now, 40 years later, I'm putting on one to ride a horse.
- 5:02Well, meanwhile, the rest of us have made it an art form and it is, you know, a very classy way to have your hair done to go riding.
- 5:08Elizabeth.
- 5:09But then there's colors.
- 5:11Okay, that's always been a problem for me, but now it's even worse because they don't come in gray.
- 5:17Some people with, with really long hair.
- 5:21Even wear two of them.
- 5:23I mean, and then there's all these different brands.
- 5:26That thing you got that.
- 5:28That I bought, I've never even taken it out of the package, and I have no ide.
- 5:34It works.
- 5:35You know what I'm talking about.
- 5:36The thing with the hairnet and the hair tie all in one.
- 5:39I can do.
- 5:40I can do mine in, like, 10 seconds.
- 5:41And I know I have showed you how to use that thing, like, at.
- 5:44Least three times, but you've never actually taken it out of the package and held my hands and showed me how.
- 5:51That's your next assignment.
- 5:55And that's because you've had years of practice.
- 5:59And I'm still trying to convince myself that it's not fast food attire.
- 6:04Because you do have to understand that when I had to wear that hairnet, that was back in the day when Burger King had that little hat.
- 6:11And then you had on a little skinny, like, top that zipped up the back with a little collar.
- 6:17Oh, God, I just can't.
- 6:18Oh, so that's so fancy.
- 6:21It was so fancy.
- 6:22BK has it your way.
- 6:25Exactly.
- 6:26So no hairnet for me.
- 6:29Well, and then there's tall boots and, you know, horse people spend a fortune on having them, you know, made to fit perfectly and then hope they don't fit when they first get them.
- 6:37I was told that if you can zip them up the first time you take them out of the box when you put them on, they're too big.
- 6:44No, that's because they're supposed to hurt some.
- 6:46A little.
- 6:48It was hot last weekend, and I've had these since I got them, I guess in November, but maybe because it was so hot, my leg swelled some.
- 6:58And hopefully it's not just gotten fatter since the last time I wore them, but I had absolutely no feeling once I got them on.
- 7:07I.
- 7:07I thought I was going to cry.
- 7:09Seriously.
- 7:09And then the next day, I literally asked Pepe if he had a pair of pliers, and he was like, what?
- 7:16And I said, I have blisters on my fingers.
- 7:19No lie.
- 7:20I got blisters from trying to pull up the zipper.
- 7:23I was working so hard at that.
- 7:26Oh, my gosh.
- 7:29I mean, you know, I will say, though, it's.
- 7:32It's kind of common to be asking for a pair of pliers.
- 7:35You know, gotta get my, you know, pliers so I can get my boots on so I can get finished getting dressed.
- 7:40And then there's also the.
- 7:41Can somebody lend me a finger?
- 7:43Because now my boot, you know, my sock is stuck in my Zipper.
- 7:46And there's a lot of weird things that go on just to get the.
- 7:49Just to get the boots on.
- 7:50And then, you know, somebody's gonna tell you to go stand in a wash.
- 7:53All probably.
- 7:54So my trainer said to me, elizabeth, this is what you have to do.
- 7:58You have to go to the wash doll, and you have to soak your boots, and then you have to ride in them and let them.
- 8:04People swear by it.
- 8:05I get it.
- 8:06I've read it on Reddit.
- 8:08I've read it all over the place.
- 8:10But I just spent all that money on custom boots.
- 8:14And your solution is to stand in water while wearing them?
- 8:18I'm sorry, I just can't.
- 8:22But asking for pliers makes perfect sense.
- 8:24Well, apparently, my.
- 8:28I don't wear my current tall boots in the wash.
- 8:33All I have to take them off because they're my, like, little angels.
- 8:37But when I would.
- 8:38When I first get my paddock boots, I will wear them in the wash, Dot.
- 8:42So they'll get wet and they'll stretch out.
- 8:43And my friend Dana and I were actually just talking about these.
- 8:46We both have the same pair of Birkenstocks, and they're.
- 8:49They're not the suede.
- 8:49They're leather.
- 8:51So they're a lot thicker.
- 8:52This particular leather, it doesn't stretch as easily as some of the.
- 8:55Like, another pair that I have that's leather.
- 8:58And I said, you know, I think what I'm gonna go do is I'm gonna go spray them down with the hose and then wear them around.
- 9:03And she was like, what do you mean?
- 9:04I was like, well, you do it with tall boots.
- 9:05You do it with paddock boots.
- 9:07Like, why wouldn't you do it with your sandals?
- 9:08The same.
- 9:09Same thing.
- 9:09Same thing.
- 9:10She said, okay, you.
- 9:11She said, you let me know how that goes.
- 9:13You're getting broken in.
- 9:14It's working.
- 9:16Oh, my God.
- 9:18Well, have you noticed how trendy belts have become?
- 9:21Horse people seem to notice belts immediately.
- 9:25Yeah.
- 9:25From, like, across the ring.
- 9:27But it seems like some needle point seems to be coming back.
- 9:31A lot of people in the barn have, like, these needlepoint things.
- 9:35I was doing that a long time ago.
- 9:37I was like, you have a really.
- 9:38A couple of really cool needle ones.
- 9:40I do.
- 9:42And then.
- 9:42But then now the stretchy belts with the designer buckles, it seems like everybody notices these things.
- 9:49So now my little riding buddy from the barn, my Lesson buddy, she's 14.
- 9:55She sent me a link the other day about a belt.
- 9:59Oh, to where?
- 10:01It was a Celine belt.
- 10:03The designer Celine.
- 10:06And not only because it's fashionable, but because my horse's name is Celine.
- 10:12Well, I mean, what choice did you have?
- 10:14And also, props to your lesson, buddy.
- 10:15She's like keeping you up with the times.
- 10:17Exactly.
- 10:18So Celine Seline.
- 10:21I mean, I was obligated to at least look.
- 10:25All right, what was the price tag?
- 10:29$790.
- 10:32For a belt?
- 10:34Well, did you buy it?
- 10:37No, I found one on ebay, which I'm now fairly certain is not real.
- 10:45But it looks okay.
- 10:47I mean, you know, listen, I, I treated myself when I was in France and bought myself a designer belt.
- 10:54You did?
- 10:56I'm having an argument.
- 10:57I did when I was 21.
- 10:59I treated myself to it.
- 11:00But like, Listen, I am 32, so the belt is 11 years old and we are just now having problems.
- 11:09And that's just because chemo was not kind to me.
- 11:13So I'm like, stretch it out, girl.
- 11:15Stretch it out.
- 11:16Oh, you mean it doesn't fit?
- 11:19It's a little, it's a little tight.
- 11:21Yeah, yeah, it's a little tight.
- 11:23So I was like, okay, well you're not getting replaced, so we're gonna have to do something about that.
- 11:27But you know, horse people will spend thousands on horses, but then draw the line at a designer belt.
- 11:31It's not like, what's a little more.
- 11:34The only thing is, I have to say in my defense, the belt is.
- 11:39And it doesn't come wider.
- 11:40It's a little bit narrow for the belt loops on breeches.
- 11:45So somehow that makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.
- 11:48You're gonna spend all this money and then it's like too skinny.
- 11:52But wait, did you already get it?
- 11:54I did.
- 11:55And I tried to wear it last weekend and it just kind of looked silly because it was like lost in the space of the loop.
- 12:03But anyway, you know what else is ridiculous?
- 12:06At a horse show, two 2 minute trips can take an entire day.
- 12:12Yeah.
- 12:12And God forbid somebody asks you what time you're going to show and I.
- 12:15Know your answer is sometime between 9 and 4.
- 12:20I mean, never mind that those two trips started out at about 5 o' clock that morning.
- 12:26Yeah.
- 12:27Because the schooling room opened, you know, around six.
- 12:29Yeah.
- 12:29Which means you were up before daylight so you could school for a class that might not even happen until 3:00 in the afternoon.
- 12:37Yeah.
- 12:37And somehow it makes.
- 12:38It makes perfect sense to all of us.
- 12:41Nobody questions it.
- 12:43We just set the alarm and get up.
- 12:45I know.
- 12:45With all that preparation you'd think we'd never forget anything.
- 12:48Oh no, forgetting things is my forte.
- 12:51What's the Worst thing you've ever forgotten for a horse show?
- 12:54Well, my very first horse show with this new barn, I forgot my saddle.
- 13:00Who does?
- 13:01Elizabeth?
- 13:01Eliza.
- 13:04I mean, luckily there was somebody who could bring me my saddle the next day.
- 13:09But literally she had to go back to the barn and say, I'm putting it in my car so that I don't forget it to bring it to you.
- 13:17I mean, that was just awful.
- 13:18Putting.
- 13:19Putting mega responsibility on, like, you know, the number one.
- 13:23A total stranger.
- 13:24Yeah.
- 13:24She's like, okay, well, it's kind of hard.
- 13:27It's kind of hard to top that.
- 13:28I mean, forgetting.
- 13:30Forgetting your saddle's a pretty big one.
- 13:33Yeah.
- 13:34So actually I was pretty proud of myself because this last horse show we went to try on last week, and the only thing I forgot was my hairbrush.
- 13:43I was driving up the mountain and all of a sudden I was like, oh, crap.
- 13:46But I had the trailer and I knew I couldn't go back.
- 13:48And it wasn't the horse's brush, it was my hairbrush, the one I used to dry my hair.
- 13:54So I kept thinking, okay, do I really have to go back?
- 13:57What do I do?
- 13:57Because my hair is going to be a wreck.
- 13:59But I realized that I had an alternate hairbrush.
- 14:03However, it wasn't good for drawing, but it was a hairbrush sufficient.
- 14:08I mean, when I for.
- 14:09I.
- 14:09I have forgotten my hairbrush multiple times going to horse shows, and I just go, okay, well, I guess I'm gonna have to take my horse's hairbrush home.
- 14:18Your horse?
- 14:19To the hotel?
- 14:20Yeah.
- 14:21And I'm like, that's.
- 14:22I mean, clean it out and make sure it's not like super dirty or anything.
- 14:25But I'm like, I gotta put something through my hair.
- 14:29It's gonna be a knot the next day.
- 14:30I know, but my hair is so stupidly frizzy and I have that big round brush that kind of makes it straight.
- 14:37And that's what I forgot.
- 14:39So no good.
- 14:40That was.
- 14:41But, well, and at least you are.
- 14:42Mrs.
- 14:43You're Mrs.
- 14:44Prim and Proper when you know the horse show is over.
- 14:48So can't be having that.
- 14:49Nope, can't be having that.
- 14:51But at least I found something in my purse that worked.
- 14:53Is that what progress looks like?
- 14:56Yeah.
- 14:56I've gone from forgetting my saddle to forgetting my hairbrush, so I think I'll call that a win.
- 15:04Well, and since we're already out the horse show, Horse people don't just check the weather.
- 15:09No, we study it.
- 15:11I can be looking at the 10 day forecast even though I know it's not going to change and not because I'm deciding whether I should go to the horse show or not.
- 15:20I'm just hoping it says sunny on that day.
- 15:24Yeah.
- 15:24And then the day of the horse show, we're checking the radar, then the hourly forecast and then the radar again.
- 15:29I mean, I especially.
- 15:30It's so funny to me if I'm going to the horse show for just work, if I'm not riding.
- 15:36I.
- 15:37I did this one time, only one time where I just didn't check the forecast.
- 15:41I just packed clothes and I was like, what is okay?
- 15:45I needed, I needed a raincoat.
- 15:47I needed three extra layers than I packed.
- 15:50It was the middle of summer and I was like, is this the first time I've been to a horse show?
- 15:55Like, this never happens when I'm packing to actually go ride.
- 15:57I have at least three coats, multiple season wear attire, so I'm covered on all my bases.
- 16:04But that one particular horse show, I was like, this is miserable.
- 16:06I did not bring enough clothes into buying stuff.
- 16:10Oh, absolutely.
- 16:11Well, that's easy to do too.
- 16:13I kind of.
- 16:13That's my philosophy.
- 16:14If I'm somewhere and I forgot it, then just buy it.
- 16:17You know, that works too.
- 16:19Just buy it.
- 16:20I know.
- 16:20And honestly, I don't really care about the weather that much.
- 16:23It's just, I always try to see, hopefully it's not going to rain when it's time for my class.
- 16:30But then.
- 16:31No joke.
- 16:32Yeah.
- 16:32The schedule changes always.
- 16:34Exactly.
- 16:35And the prize list says 9 o' clock and the app says your class is live.
- 16:41Or if Ringside Pro is texting you, then you have some idea, but then the starter says, hello, we have an empty ring.
- 16:49Yeah.
- 16:50And of course, if a trainer has a conflict and then the division takes longer, suddenly you're trying to decide, do I get on now or do I have to wait another hour?
- 16:58Or somebody can, like, call me, like, am I the one that's supposed to be in the ring?
- 17:03I don't know.
- 17:03I know.
- 17:04And somehow every horse person becomes an expert at estimating what time, what kind of time you have based on the number left to go or the number in your class.
- 17:14Of course, all that assumes that you actually made it to the horse show.
- 17:19You say that, like, getting there is optional.
- 17:22No, I say that because you've seen me with a trailer.
- 17:26I actually like hauling.
- 17:28Well, okay, I don't mind driving.
- 17:30It's everything else.
- 17:32Like backing into a space or finding a place to park or even finding a gas station.
- 17:38Do we need to talk about the gas stations.
- 17:40Elizabeth, remember that one time I would say you overthink the gas stations, but I'm thinking maybe not.
- 17:49I absolutely overthink gas stations.
- 17:51I don't really care what the price is.
- 17:53I'm just looking for, can I get in and somehow get back out of it?
- 17:59Well, most people will choose a gas station because it's convenient.
- 18:03But also, I have done the same thing when I've been by myself.
- 18:08I'm like, oh, that gas station, that's really tiny.
- 18:10Not a chance.
- 18:11I'll just keep driving.
- 18:12I can only choose one based on the turning radius.
- 18:16Yeah.
- 18:17Or whether there's enough room to get a trailer around the pumps.
- 18:19Elizabeth.
- 18:22Yes.
- 18:23I've actually driven probably an extra 20 miles just to avoid backing up.
- 18:2920 miles.
- 18:30Backing is not that bad.
- 18:32Backing is 20 miles.
- 18:35Well, it's not.
- 18:36Might not be bad for you, but for me, if I back the trailer into a parking space on the first try, I consider that a blue ribbon.
- 18:45I will say, I will give it a good try.
- 18:48And there are some days where I can just back a trailer up like lickety split, no problem.
- 18:52And then, then there's other days where it's like, is this my first day driving a trailer?
- 18:56And I listen, I am not too, too prideful to go ask for help.
- 19:00I, I will hand over the keys and say, somebody do something with this, because I can't do it.
- 19:05But have you ever noticed that horse people have like their own version of math?
- 19:08Oh, absolutely.
- 19:10A three hour drive, that's close by.
- 19:13Yeah.
- 19:13100 entry fee.
- 19:15Not bad.
- 19:16A $20 hamburger at a horse show.
- 19:18Well, I gotta eat.
- 19:21I know.
- 19:21And then, you know, it's a seven, eight dollar cup of coffees where you draw the line.
- 19:25I know, that's like ridiculous.
- 19:27I think we have all completely lost perspective.
- 19:31No, I.
- 19:32It's not just perspective.
- 19:34Our language.
- 19:35Horse people speak a language that nobody else understands unless they're a part of it.
- 19:39You know?
- 19:40Exactly.
- 19:40We'll be in the middle of a conversation and somebody's saying, brandy's a really.
- 19:44Good mover with aluminum shoes.
- 19:47She'll win the hack.
- 19:49And eventually a non person like my husband has to stop us and say, wait, is Brandi a horse or a human?
- 19:58That's a fair question.
- 20:00Because until that moment, it never occurred to us that it wasn't obvious.
- 20:04There have been several times where mom and I have been talking and my mother in law might be visiting or something, and she will look over and she goes, what on earth are y' all talking about?
- 20:14She's Like, I just came in in the middle of this, and I.
- 20:17I don't.
- 20:17What is going on?
- 20:18Are you guys talking about a horse?
- 20:20I think when you come into those conversations and you're not around that type of language, like, all the time, it just sounds bizarre.
- 20:27It does.
- 20:29And I also think that horse people have a very different sense of time.
- 20:35And I think you know this, so I do.
- 20:39You know, you go to the barn and you're planning to ride.
- 20:42That's it.
- 20:43You're gonna ride and go home.
- 20:45Yeah.
- 20:45Except it never works out that way.
- 20:47I said that.
- 20:48And I know we.
- 20:48I've said it on here before, but it was in my wedding vows because my husband will be like, okay, so when do you think you're gonna be home?
- 20:54And I got.
- 20:56Okay, let me think about it.
- 20:57Okay.
- 20:58Hour there, at least an hour and a half out the barn, an hour back.
- 21:02Okay, I'll be home in three and a half hours.
- 21:04Something like.
- 21:04And it never happened the way I bumped into you, or I bumped into Molly and I'm talk somebody else and we're all having a good time, or.
- 21:11And so I finally was just like, I.
- 21:14If I give you a time, that's what I said in my wedding vows.
- 21:17I promise I will never be.
- 21:19I will never be home at the time I said that I was going to be home.
- 21:21So just stop asking.
- 21:24That's perfect.
- 21:24You set it up ahead of time.
- 21:26Because ser.
- 21:27I mean, totally.
- 21:28I find myself going to the barn.
- 21:30And all of a sudden, you start talking to somebody about the latest social media post or somebody wants to show you a video.
- 21:37And then, like you said today, I looked at Celine and I thought I wasn't going to give her a bath.
- 21:43But then I couldn't help myself.
- 21:45I just did it.
- 21:47Yeah.
- 21:47And you know, before you know it, there you are two hours later.
- 21:51Then you haven't even left yet.
- 21:53Exactly.
- 21:54A friend shows up to ride.
- 21:55You stand there talking for another 20 minutes, then you finally get in the car and you realize that I've been at the barn for four hours just to ride for 30 minutes.
- 22:04Yeah.
- 22:05And every horse person listening right now is nodding their head like, I get that.
- 22:08So to everybody else, it sounds a little crazy, maybe.
- 22:13But if you're smiling right now, you know exactly what we're talking about.
- 22:18And I know that we only scratch the surface.
- 22:22So tell us what you would say.
- 22:26The one thing that horse people do that everybody else thinks is completely crazy.
- 22:33So until next time, let's ride.