Fatal Horse Herpes

“Could horses really disappear from Texas—and what does that mean for rodeos and racing?”Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle one of the strangest headlines of the year: an aggressive equine herpes outbreak threatening horse events across Texas. From Waco barrel racing finals to DFW stables, the crew breaks down what’s happening, why it matters, and how horse owners are scrambling to respond.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been in Skin Show ninety seven point one, the

(00:02):
Eagle coming up in the big finish. KT's got lots
of Turkey Day content for us, and I'm getting excited,
getting my gravy ready. I'm getting my bird. I'm ready
to throw down, maybe some mac and cheese, mashed potatoes.
It's going to be a huge, huge, big finish to
end the show today. But right now it's time for this.
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets Guys,

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I've got a troubling story that's coming out of the
state of Texas right now. Horses might not be around anymore.
What where are they going? Well, we've had what got
going on here is a bit of a equine herpes virus?
Oh no, what? The equine herpes virus is linked to

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the World Championship Barrel Racing finals that happened in Waco
two weeks ago, and according to we go to the
Outlaw Equine Hospital and Rehab Center over there in Decatur,
Off two eighty seven, a burgeoning little town decater. The
outbreak is highly aggressive and has been fatal fatal herpes. Yesterday,

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Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Millers. He urged horse owners to
be vigilant for symptoms of the disease, including a salty
nasal discharge, nope, coughing, fever, or neurological impairment. Infected horses
should be quarantined and those potentially exposed to the virus
should not travel to any events until further notice. They've

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been canceling horse events because this horse virus is out
of control right now, and it basically happens when these
horses hang out with each other. They spread it to
each other. Just like human COVID. We have horse COVID
going on right now. In an odd, unrelated, somewhat related story,
I've done a lot of shopping for horse condoms, and

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I can tell you that they are not cheap. It's
just so much latex. It's a lot. It is a lot. Man.
When you see two horses giving each other her piece,
I've never seen a horse? Well, yeah, oh what have
I never seen? A fifty five year old broadcaster claims

(02:30):
to have never seen horse today on the news. Uh,
this is bad for a horse events. Well, this is
spreading through the air. This is why it's spreading through
the air. Are they sneezed? On each other EHB one.
Of course they're sneezing on to their horses. Well they do,
They go have you ever heard a horse cough? They
were just talking about that and I was like, I

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don't think I've ever heard a horse cough? Is that
what it sounds like? I don't know. Uh, this is
spreading through the air, and that's why it's troubling. Usually
we know it's spread direct horse to horse contact, maybe
in the feed buckets, you know, But this is in
the age contral EHV one is in the air. It

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is not horse sex. No, it's not horse sex. Actually
Phil Collins predicted this. So here's what you can do.
Another dad joke out of control. Just because Evan Andrews
retired doesn't mean you got to do a bunch of
dad joke. You know what, Take tomorrow off and next
week I think I will. Ben. That was really good,
Thank you man, Ben. I thought you would like this.

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Now they're really again. This started in Waco, but it's
spread and the problems here in DFW. Here's what horse
owners can do. Number One, monitor horses temperature at home
twice a day. Rectical I'm sorry, rectal, rectal temperatures should
be equal to her below one hundred and one point
five deris. You just put on like one of those

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big arm gloves and reach in there, just see if
it gets too warm. It's the only way that you
could take a horse's temperature because if you try to
do it through the mouth or they just start eating
it because they're dumb. But also they could kick you
if you're back there. Yeah, right, and if you try
to enter them. Now will this impact donkeys? I think

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it could. They're gonna have to cancel all the They're
gonna have to cancel all the donkey shows. That's why
I'm wondering, like, come on, man, have we done away
with that? As well as donkey performers as a society?
Have we done away with that? Depends on what side
of the border you're on. Dog so it's fine down there,
but here it's a crime. It's a great scene in

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Godfather too in Cuba. That's when Michael realizes that Fredo
did him wrong at the donkey show, because that's just
to me, the donkey show is worse than dog fighting
and cock fighting. Rank them donkey shows worse yep, dog
fighting two, cockfighting three? Right, what's the difference. Well, the

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Donkey show, okay, isn't it? Aren't humans involved? I've never
been a metrop This question text in right now three?
What is a donkey show? Tell the general you ask?
Don't tell him asking, and don't be the guy. Would

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they send us pictures of this? Everyone? So the guys
i've been a skin are asking you that don't don't
ruin the bit. Yeah, they're aware of the bit. They
enjoy it. Just you know, just go along with it. Yeah,
and if you're bored, just to address it to Wolchuk
this time Donkey show on Urban dicture a dictionary? Okay, Yeah,
it's what I thought it was. Okay, I didn't know

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if you were trying to create the claim when he said,
what's the difference that it was a donkey on Donkey crime? No,
you had mentioned cock fighting and I wasn't aware of
what that was. Is a donkey just an undersized horse?
That and it isn't all of a fruit. We'll discuss
next the skin ya, I forgot about. It's just not

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that impressive of a horse. Coming up next, Coming up next,
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