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Coyote:

Being able to get away,

just let everything hang.

Anything I can bring up

or want to talk about,

it didn't matter what was on my mind,

these were people I could trust.

I could just let my hair down

and not have to

worry about things.

[ Music plays ]

[ Music plays ]

H:

There was things in him

that he really

didn't want people to know.

He wouldn't tell you.

He wouldn't tell you the truth.

[ Music plays ]

It took me a long time

to find out his real name.

And it was about a year before I knew

Mr. Hands' real name.

It was just always Mr. Hands.

"I go by Mr. Hands."

Man:
[ On television ]

Okay, Jim, it was quite a ride,

But we got it done.

Roger. You're five-by, Jim,

and we're sailing free.

Coyote:

The flag and stuff that they put on the moon

and it looks like it's waving in the breeze,

what do you know?

Of course, there's no atmosphere

on the moon at all.

H:

People would come out,

and we'd walk out into the barn

and I'd show them my horses

and I'd show my bulls,

and they'd ask me

different questions about them.

I'd tell them what this

was and what that was.

"How come his legs

look like that?"

"It's because he's resting."

It wasn't the fanciest place

in the world.

It had cows in it,

so there was crap all over the floors.

There was horseshit

all over the floors.

The horses would come in and out,

and the bulls would come in and out.

And it was just, like, "hey, let's go

out to the barn and pester the animals".

"Well, there they are. Go ahead."

"Just be careful, because

if you stand too long in one place,

It's going to happen."

If you just stand there,

they'll walk up behind you

and put their head on your shoulder

and talk to you.

They're going to pick up that pheromone

that your body's putting off,

and they're going to mount you.

If you don't move, you're bred...

[ Chuckling ]

And I mean bred.

There was times that people'd

come over expecting it,

and no, it never happened.

[ Music plays ]

Jenny:

We had one horse that we called Chance

when we brought him in.

He was blind.

And he was in this area where

it was just nothing but blackberry bushes,

so he kept poking himself in the eye.

We ultimately had

to remove both of his eyes,

because he had re-injured himself

so many times trying to forage for food.

I mean, it touched

all of us very deeply.

When we took that horse

to the veterinary hospital,

we were advised to put him down.

But our feeling and

our experience has been

that just because it has

a problem like blindness,

that's not a good enough reason

to just end their life.

[ Airplane roaring ]

Man:
[ On radio ]

One of the things we found fascinating about the story

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