Hey, everyone, welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast, my partner in life and my wife, Rachel Campos Duffy. Sean, it's so great to be back,

and we're going to just have a conversation with a friend, a good friend. Pete Hanks, Seth.

Pete, welcome. Hey, guys, thanks for having me. Good to see you. It's good. So we want to talk about

your book, but before that, we just want to talk about life. Are you okay with that?

Sure. Let's go. Let's go. Always. So there's a horse at the Hegg-Seth house. Tell us about it. There is. Tell us about the rationale that went behind. It's one thing to get a dog. It's another thing to go, we're going to buy a horse. It's one thing to get motorcycles, Pete, for kids. Like, those are those, you can put them in the garage and leave them there. But a horse, I mean, this is like constant care. How did you get from motorcycles to chickens now to horses? It's a great question, Sean. I don't know. I don't know. Things just happened to you. You won't point it as a horse in the field. I mean, you're right. I was reminded by some folks that, you know, we're cat people, which we are, because cats will take care of themselves for a week if you need to be gone. And they said, then you should have beef cattle because cattle will take care of themselves and you can be gone. He said a horse is just a giant dog in that context. And that is true. So we did buy a horse.

He's five years old. He's very, very friendly. It's a very nice horse. He's been very good to our kids.

I don't have any concerns about that, which is big. We haven't ridden him yet.

Although one of our kids did when we were looking at them, and it's fine. I don't think we're ready for it, and Jen's got a big wake-up call coming. She does. It's like when you have a baby and you leave the hospital, and you're like, who let us out of here? Jen said the same thing. When the horse trailer, when the horse came out and then the horse trailer drove away, she's like, we're not qualified for this. What we do? Do you know how to put on a saddle or the bridle? What do you put over their mouth in there? We know how to do the bridle and can walk them around. Jen is, so she goes out there a lot and, like, walks it around and he walks with her and he'll turn with her, even without a bridle, even without a harness, nothing, just kind of walking. We're going to get to riding. She's always wanted one, you know, kids, young girls want a horse. She's always wanted one she has when we have the land for it.

I think she's going to love it and she's been out there.

It's just, it's TBD.

Check in in three months, guys. And we'll see how horse land is going.

There's also no utility to a horse until you're riding it.

So I am committed, Sean, this is your year of doing things.

I know you've actually been successful at it.

Yeah.

One of my is to ride a horse.

Well, I'm trying to, I'll tell you how successful I've been with my operation.

I get some honey and some vegetables.

Yeah, Pete, so just my vantage point on this is I'm really allergic to cats. Like I break out like a wild man and horses too. I love, like I love riding horses. But if I go on without like everything covered, a pair of jeans on, I get on. I mean, like I break out like like a cat. Yeah. So I love it if I could do it.

What's that?

But bees are okay. But bees are that. They haven't stung me yet. He wears a B-suit. Maybe there's a horse suit I could have been. I haven't told you about that sexy outfit yet. Oh, I've seen it. I've seen it. It's good. way what did the kids make promises that like they can't keep about the horse because

that's like what they do with dogs. They've kept him so far, but it's only so far. And we can only do, Jackson, the one that gets up, would get up at three in the morning if he could every morning. You know, he's like, you wake up, he's like, he's already fed him, and I've already cleaned the stall, all the poop.

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