The video follows a multigenerational family on a road‑trip adventure through the American West. The group, led by a narrator (Speaker A) and a guide/cousin named Josh, engages in a series of outdoor activities: they encounter a herd of fenced‑in mustangs and discuss the ecological reasons for the fence, give a bath to an emu and talk about emu eggs for quiche, saddle and ride a larger pony while learning about saddle maintenance, and use a drone to get close‑up footage of the wild horses. Later they hike to a stand of ponderosa pines, where they practice deep‑breathing to smell the bark and even sample pine bark grubs, comparing the taste to vanilla. The family jokes, shares fears, and reacts to the rugged road with dips and “air‑catching” moments. The narrative ends with a preview of the next leg of the journey: driving through Death Valley, visiting an urban farm in Las Vegas (“Sin City Farmer”), and heading to a pasture in San Diego. Throughout, the tone is conversational, playful, and enthusiastic, with occasional moments of nervousness and curiosity.
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Now Josh, are those the wild horses out there?
Those are mustangs.
Why are they in a fence?
They're only in that fence because they broke it down and got in there because that's a meadow.
Very special day today with my cousins and emus, and I think we're about to give the emus a bath. They like this?
Yes, they love it.
Really?
Yeah.
Where are emus from?
From Australia.
Okay. What do you have them for?
Um, hopefully for eggs.
You're gonna eat them?
Eat the eggs? Oh, cool.
Oh, you've had eggs before from these guys?
No, we had different emus.
Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah, they make the best what?
The best quiche. Okay, they're really, uh, light and fluffy eggs. That hen in town is a female.
Look at her walking around on her knees. Y'all, this is my cousin Tony. I bet you never thought you'd see this on the tour, huh? An emu bath. I mean— oh wow. How many eggs will they lay?
Um, last time I think she would lay an egg about every 2 or 3 days.
Wow.
They're classic.
Are they good for eating?
They are good for eating. They're all red meat and it's really super lean meat.
I think they're excited. Up next, they're gonna ride the pony. What's the guard for?
Flies.
She can still see, but the flies can't get to her.
Yep.
My third cousin Haley. That seems like a big pony. What kind of pony is that?
She's a POA, they call them, which which is a bigger pony than a Shetland.
What knot's that, Haley?
Um, I don't know what it's called.
Did she pass the test, Grandma?
Yep, passed the test.
What you doing?
Brushing my horsey.
What for?
Because it helps the saddle to get all the funk off, and then it's not bothering her.
There you go.
So use this and scrape right there and right there. It's like a little hole.
Watch out, she's not gonna kick, is she? No.
Yeah, look at you go, Gideon! How awesome! Yeah, I can't get that up there.
That last part's kind of hard, huh?
Okay, she's saddled up. Who's up?
He says, I'm ready. You go, cowboy!
Oh, you're next, buddy. Flip-flops and shorts.
Yeah. You're up, cowgirl.
Can you do it without stirrups? We're now taking the afternoon to go on a search. Cousin Josh says there's wild horses out here. Do you believe that?
I do.
We're gonna search for these things.
Yeah.
Hunt these things down. Are you hopeful that we're gonna find some?
I think so. Wild horses? I think so. I hope so.
Okay. You excited about that, Lily? We're gonna find some wild horses today? What about you, Mr. Brown? Are we gonna find wild horses? He's passed out.
I know, he needed that.
Dips for the next 5 miles, Rebecca.
Jump!
Jump the minivan! Jump the minivan! No!
No, but man, that does get your stomach going. Oh my gosh, it's like a roller coaster. I don't like this road.
Josh, why? He sped up too, I think. He hadn't gone this fast the whole time. Oh yeah, he's going real fast. Oh my gosh, he's gonna break air. Look, Vicki, get some air, get some air, get some air.
Come on, Becky. Whoa! She had fun on that one with Papa.
I think we're waking up Mr. Brown. Okay, here's one.
No, we're not getting air. Oh, this is crazy.
Are you losing your stomach?
I don't know.
My stomach is dropping.
I was just really afraid right then. I was like, I don't want to do this.
Is that a good way to wake up?
Now we're going in the backcountry, man.
We're on the dirt roads.
I can't even see Cousin Josh anymore back there. Our guide just disappeared in the dust.
Oh my gosh, I think I see some horses now. Are they wild? I don't know. Yeah, see them, guys? Those are horses, but we're gonna have to find out if they're the wild ones. We have arrived. There's the welcome center. Go get us a brochure, Mom. You're funny.
Does somebody want to go tell Josh that we're in a minivan? Josh! We're in a minivan! I was like, I don't know.
You'll see.
I'm scared.
Wait a minute, Josh, I think that you sped up on those dips. I did. I did too.
I did too.
Oh yeah.
The dips were blast.
That's the best part of the ride are those dips.
Yeah, until there's a cow on the other side.
Yeah, but there's no cows out there right now. And I know that. This is my district. This is where I work.
So Josh, are those the wild horses out there?
Those are mustangs.
Why are they in a fence?
They're only in that fence because they broke it down and got in there because that's a meadow. This herd used to be managed by mountain lions, and, and the mountain lions would switch from eating mule deer in the winter to eating these mustangs, so they kept the herd in check. Well, it's out of balance now, as you see how many there are here now. They're really, they're really overpopulated.
There's not enough food for them, I imagine.
Um, and then so they've had— we've had 5 years of drought, which is conducive to a lot of huge horse population. So because they don't— not too many winter kill.
Guys, Ginger's asking if you want to go on a hike with her to get closer to the horses.
Yeah, okay, have fun.
Wow, wow, that was absolutely amazing. Never knew I'd be chasing down wild horses with the drone. That comes real close, if not tops, the experience with those buffalo at the Allan Savory Institute in Colorado.
Here they are.
It's beautiful to see. A little taste of what it would have been like. Yeah. Pretty. Wow, pretty amazing. That was a good experience. Where are we going next, Josh?
We're gonna go to a ponderosa pine and smell the bark.
Okay, we're— now we're a bunch of tree smellers. Here we come, gonna go get the ponderosa pine. All right, we're here, gonna go smell these trees. You got your whipper ready? Okay.
Get your nose way in there. Breathe in real slow with your nose.
Smelling trees always works better with a camera, right?
Yeah, you're gonna be blown away.
Stick your nose way in and breathe. I'm scared.
Really slow. Told you you were scared.
Oh wow, it smells so good.
You have to get your nose way in there.
It's good, he said. It's good.
And this is a— this is the largest container.
Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome.
Pine trees in the world.
That's crazy.
So sometimes in the morning, man, it's so strong.
So vanilla, isn't it? That's so vanilla. They need a potpourri. Have you done it, Pop?
I've done it in years past.
Okay, you can never get enough, right?
Oh, it smells real good. So the, the Native Indians used to eat the grubs that are underneath the bark.
Okay.
And we're cutting wood and I knocked the bark off and there's 50 grubs.
So you ate one?
Yeah.
And my friend says, okay, let me have one. The Indians can't be wrong. So I have like 15 in my hand and he picks one out of my hand and puts it in his mouth and eats it and he says, huh, that wasn't bad at all.
Interesting.
I said, come on, Dan. No, really, it was good. Vanilla leaning.
Hey kids, kids, kids, did y'all smell the tree? What does it smell like to you? Yeah!
Candy!
Yeah, wouldn't you like candy?
Yeah!
Wouldn't you like to put that in some coffee?
Yeah!
Did everybody have fun smelling the trees?
Yeah!
You bunch of tree smellers. Alright, tomorrow. Hittin' the road again. Going through Death Valley. Is this true? I hope Maple holds up. Yeah, me too. Through Death Valley. We're on our way to Vegas, guys. We're gonna get back to a farm soon. We're actually going to Sin City Farming—
Farmer—
Sin City Farmer, which I think that's self-explanatory. An urban farm in Las Vegas. That's gonna be real good. And then head on down to San Diego. Great farm there with Primal Pastures. So hang with us, guys. See you tomorrow. Death Valley.
That one dip is the best. Yeah, it'll make you giggle.
It doesn't make me giggle.
Yeah, and then everybody else in the car laughs, so you have to laugh with them.
You ever caught air?
Yes. See, that's what I was thinking.
On dips over here though, in a pickup.
Hey, what was Pop saying when you were going so fast?
He was quiet. He white-knuckled it a couple times.
I wondered. I said, I always said, I wonder what Papa was saying.
He never told me to slow down because I kept speeding up.
That is officially the funnest road we've ever been on the tour. For another amazing flyover wild animal hunt, go check out the buffalo— hunting for buffalo at the Allan Savory Institute. You gotta watch it. There's the link.
