Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Flea!

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It's inside with Chris Van Fleet.

Great to see you. Great to have you here, man. It's hard to get here. Glad you find your way. It's a little out of the way. I like it, like it. Yeah. Yeah. That's the plan? Look, you got a ton of property here on the ranch. Yeah, well, I mean, it was the plan. And my wife and I decided it was time to get out of L.A. You know, a while back, and we finally did. And we ended up here. If it was up to me in a perfect world, I'd like to be further out, probably about 50 miles further out in the desert. I have a place out there. She didn't go there that much. I would rather be a little bit further removed from civilization, but this is handy, and handy enough

to go back and forth to town. But if you're coming here from Florida, Kevin Nash came here a long time ago, and he goes, man, why in the hell are you here? He didn't really get it. So it's beautiful outside, and I love Nevada. I don't know, there's mountains over here with snow on. I mean, this is beautiful. You can do a lot of things here, man, hunting, skiing, fishing, and people out here are very active in the outdoors and kind of suits my taste as well. People will be surprised that the Texas Rattlesnake lives in Nevada. God dang, you know, and I was, you know, a lot of people still think I live in Texas. And that's where I was born and raised, and I'll always love Texas.

But at this point in my life, probably moving forward, you know, Nevada is my home and with so much public land to roam around on.

And it's just been amazing hunting, and I started racing anywhere you, I just left this past weekend on one of my buggies side by sides and drove 100 miles. So, you know, it's hard to do that in another state. I thought I might see some cats as we were walking in here. The cats are out in the horse barn. Solid-ass cats. Yeah, solid-ass cats. They're out roaming around. Macho is prowling by the pond. He's a hunter.

And Poncho will pretty much stay by the horse barn. He has really befriended one of my wife's

horses. And so he'll jump on her back and they'll hang out together and nuzzle each other.

The solid-ass cats are alive and well. What makes a cat a solid-ass cat?

I don't know.

I just came up with that.

It's turned into a thing, and people love to see those cats on Instagram.

So, you know, I was out there shoveling horse shit.

I think it was two years ago around Christmas.

And I just addressed the camera, my iPhone. I said, hey, man, this is Steven Poncho, you know, wishing everybody to Merry Christmas. And I just addressed the camera, my iPhone. I said, hey, man, this is Stephen Poncho,

wishing everybody to Merry Christmas. And I didn't expect anything of it. And just in subsequent

posts, not trying to make it a thing, it turned into a thing. So it is what it is. Well, I hope to

meet the solid-ass cast before we leave here. When we leave, you just got to be real chill when you walk up to them because they know strangers. If it's a different sounding vehicle, they know that it's not one of our vehicles. And so, poncho is pretty leery, and he watches out for Mancho. So they're quite the duo, and I hope to be able to introduce you to them. You'll like them. I can't wait.

What keeps you busy these days?

And a lot of things.

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