(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Welcome to "A Shot of Ag".

My name is Rob Sharkey.

I'm a fifth generation farmer from just outside of Bradford, Illinois.

Agriculture, farming, obviously what I love.

They say one of the hardest parts is actually getting into it.

If you're gonna be a farmer, then you had to have farmers as parents.

Well, our next guest is gonna prove us wrong.

Today we're talking with Amber Bauman from Woodstock, Illinois.

How you doing?

- I'm great.

Thank you.

- Yeah, first of all, where is Woodstock in the great state of Illinois?

- We're the far northwest suburbs of Chicago.

- Okay.

Is that where you're from originally?

- No, I'm from Crystal Lake.

- Which is again a suburb, right?

- Yeah, just east of Woodstock, yeah.

- So, basic, somewhat the same?

- Sure.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, yeah.

- And you did not grow up on a farm, correct?

- No, my parents had two acres, and we just enjoyed being kids.

- Yeah.

Well, I mean, two acres is enough to get in trouble.

- A lot of trouble.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

We had bees.

And my brother cut his finger off with an ax one time, and no one was home.

He tried putting it on with a Band-Aid.

- Where the hell was this in my notes?

(Amber chuckles) He tried putting it back with a Band-Aid?

- He tried putting it back on with a Band-Aid.

- Were you there?

- No, we weren't home because I was kicked in the head by a horse- - What?

- And they had to put part of my ear back on.

My poor mom.

- My producer wife didn't get any of this stuff.

Finger missing.

Kicked in the head by a horse.

- Yeah, you know, all the things that- - And you had bees.

Were they like a beehive or just random bees that you found and poked?

- No, my dad and brother have honey bees.

In fact, they have hundreds of hives, and they're all big into bee farming now.

- Did they put the finger... Is the finger back or is it- - The finger's back.

The finger's back.

It looks great.

- They put it on ice?

- Well, it was hanging on by skin, I think.

I missed... - 'Cause you were kicked in the head.

- Yeah, I was- - Were you knocked out?

- Well, I don't remember much, so I'm assuming yes.

Like I said... (chuckles) - How much time we got left in this interview?

(laughs) Oh my God.

- There's a lot of layers.

(laughs) - Okay, where were we?

All right, so you did not grow up on a farm.

- No.

- Where did you get that itch to be in agriculture?

- Well, I loved horses.

You know, it's a disease, and there's no cure.

And I think my mom always hoped I'd outgrow it.

And here I am, and I never outgrew it.

So, I talked my husband into buying a farm with me.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- [Rob] Where'd you meet your husband?

- I was the single school teacher.

He was the single police officer.

- It's a Hallmark movie, isn't it?

- (laughs) It is.

It is, it is.

- Did you have an ex-boyfriend there that was still trying to win your heart?

- Yeah, kind of.

- But you knew it just wasn't gonna work out.

- Yeah, kind of, yeah.

- Something about that police officer.

- Yeah, yeah, he's my, yeah.

- Okay.

Did he have a choice to get a farm?

- Oh, please, no.

- No?

- You're married, you know.

- Okay.

- No.

- I know.

My wife wanted horses.

I kept getting her pregnant.

And then I realized at some point it's cheaper to get the horse.

- Maybe?

I don't know.

My husband might question that.

- It's close.

It is close, I'll tell you that.

- He might question that.

- Okay.

So where did you find a farm?

- In Woodstock.

So, I lived in Crystal Lake.

My husband lived in Harvard.

Woodstock's in the middle.

And that's where we found our little farm.

- Okay.

Just you were looking for one, I assume?

- Yeah.

I needed someplace.

I needed a she-shed.

- [Rob] Okay.

And you started out with the horses?

- Yes.

- And you're good at horses, right?

- I think so.

Yeah.

A couple of national titles.

I think I kind of know what I'm doing.

- Okay.

I'm ignorant on horses.

- Okay.

- So I'm gonna ask a lot of dumb questions.

- Fabulous.

- Yeah.

- Ask away.

- So are you good at like breeding them or training them?

Or what?

- All the things.

All the things.

So we breed some.

We train some.

We show some.

We sell some.

All the things, in between.

We feed them.

We clean up after 'em.

You know, a fun 4-H fact.

Horses poop 50 pounds of poop a day.

- 50 pounds?

- Mm-hmm.

- That's a weighty issue, isn't it?

- (chuckles) Yeah.

Yeah, it's lot of poop.

- It's a load of crap.

- Yeah.

(laughs) God.

You don't put all this on there, do you?

Please will you cut out sections?

My poor mom is watching.

- No.

Nobody watches.

Don't worry.

Your mom and my mom and that's about it.

Okay, so what kind of horses are they?

Quarter horses, what?

I don't know.

- Well, I started, in order to afford life, because a school teacher doesn't make a lot of money.

- [Rob] Yeah.

- So I started taking horses off the racetrack that were done racing.

And I would turn 'em into riding horses.

- [Rob] Aren't they high strong though?

- They're emotional.

- Is that what it is?

- They're emotional, - Don't they, will they chase the rabbit around the thing.

Is that what it is?

- That's a dog.

- Well, they're emotional too.

- That's a dog.

- Aren't they?

- They are, they are.

Right?

- Yeah.

- No horses just, yeah.

And a good race horse learns to be slow, so they get off the track pretty fast.

At least that's the joke with show people.

- Oh, it's a joke.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

Because they get treated the same.

You could be the winning horse or you could be the slowest horse and you get treated the same.

Like it would make sense.

- A horse is competitive, right?

If you have a horse running next to another horse, it's like, "No, I'm gonna-" - Well, they're kinda like people, right?

Some people like to be fast.

Some people like to just be like, "Oh, whatever.

I'm just gonna give a C minus effort for the day."

- Yeah.

- You know?

So yeah, they have personalities.

- Okay.

So, but those were the cheap horses?

- Inexpensive.

Never cheap.

- That's a good, that's a great point.

Okay.

- Inexpensive, yeah.

- So what were you doing with them?

- So I would train 'em and I would teach 'em to be a show horse or a pleasure horse, or just give them an opportunity for another career and for me to make some money.

- Okay.

- And then I would do that.

And then I happened to fall into one that I really liked and I bred her - [Rob] A thoroughbred?

- A thoroughbred.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- A race horse.

- And I was like, oh, I wanna have a foal from her.

Which that costs a lot of money, that's- - [Rob] Why?

- It's just really expensive.

Well, they're pregnant for 11 months, 11 days.

So you have to feed that mom that whole entire time.

- [Rob] Oh.

- And then you've got the baby for four months.

And there's a lot.

- [Rob] Okay.

- But then, I bred her, had a foal.

and then I decided to have children myself, so I decided to sell her.

And then this random lady from Arizona said, "I wanna buy your horse.

Here's a deposit.

We'll be in touch.

I wanna breed her to this..." Open up this world to these colored thoroughbreds and... - [Rob] All right, whoa, whoa.

- Yeah.

It gets deep.

- I don't understand, well, a colored thoroughbred?

- So when you watch like the Kentucky Derby on TV, 'cause we all watch that, right?

- [Rob] Yeah.

- Or we see it on the news or whatever.

- [Rob] They like to wear their hats.

- Yeah, all the hats.

Yeah.

- Yeah.

- So there's brown horses and black horses and gray horses.

Well, there's a whole different area of colored horses, colored thoroughbreds.

There's white ones and Palomino and buckskin.

And they're super rare.

- Really?

- They are, yeah.

- Oh, that's all I see.

- Yeah.

Are brown ones.

Yeah.

(chuckles) You see brown horses.

There's lots of brown horses.

- I'm just gonna shh, I'm gonna be quiet now.

Okay.

Please continue.

- Okay.

So thank you.

Thank you.

(chuckles) Again, I teach 6th grade.

You have to have a sense of humor when you teach 6th grade.

- You think you'd be able to talk to me, then, if you could handle 6th graders?

- Yeah, I can.

See, I think I'm doing just fine.

So this woman out in Arizona contacted me.

"I wanna breed to this thoroughbred stallion that was in Michigan.

He's prolifically colored, has these white thoroughbreds."

- [Rob] Okay.

- And I'm like, "Okay, cool."

She mailed me a check, the check cleared.

And then I never heard from her again.

Like she disappeared.

- [Rob] A scammer?

- Well, this was before like internet, really, and scamming and stuff.

- Okay.

- So, her check had cleared.

I had her money.

- [Rob] Oh, okay.

- So I contacted this person who owned the stallion and decided to breed the mare myself.

And lo and behold, I had a white thoroughbred who ended up being Illinois' first all-white thoroughbred, Perfectly Requested.

We called her Phoebe, because all my horses have to have human names.

Like they cannot... - [Rob] You watched "Friends", didn't you?

- No, I did not.

- Oh.

- I never got into that.

- Okay.

- Can you believe that?

- No.

(Rob and Amber chuckle) - All right.

- I just never got into it.

"90210", different story.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- Where are we at?

Phoebe.

All right.

- So yeah.

So Phoebe- - [Rob] First all-white horse in Illinois.

- Yeah, first all-white thoroughbred in Illinois.

For a hot second we were like, "Oh, let's put her on the racetrack."

So we trained her.

She did some work at Arlington Park when Arlington Racetrack and Arlington Heights was a thing.

Did nothing but really scare a bunch of other horses.

'cause they're not, when they're white, they are white.

- Okay.

- They're not gray.

They're not light.

They're white with pink skin.

- [Rob] All the other horses didn't like it?

- No.

They get scared of 'em.

- Are they racist?

- Wow.

- You ever thought about that?

- Actually, they've done studies and they are.

- Yeah?

- Mm-hmm.

- Huh.

- Yeah.

- Who would've known?

You'd thought a horse, you know, relax, eat some hay, eat stuff.

No, they're- - They're emotional.

Remember?

I told you they're emotional.

So after I brought her home, turned her into a show horse.

And then my girlfriend, who's a painter down in southern Illinois was like, "Hey, Amber, they're looking for some white thoroughbreds in Hollywood.

I hope you don't mind.

I told them to contact you."

I said, "Well, I don't know if I wanna sell Phoebe."

This is how this stuff happens.

No one believes me until they actually hear the story.

It really happens this way.

So then I got contacted by, they call 'em wranglers out there.

They train the horses, whatever.

They flew in.

They decided, "Yes, we want her."

Offered money for her.

And so then she ended up being one of five that made Silver in "The Lone Ranger", and Johnny Depp.

- [Rob] So five horses that looked the same?

- Correct.

- Okay, I watched it.

It was a good movie.

It was Johnny Depp.

Right?

- It was terrible.

(Amber chuckles) I hated the movie.

I was like, this is awful.

I can't believe I sold my horse for this.

But whatever.

Whatever.

It's kind of cool, right?

She was in the movie.

- We all have different opinions.

- Absolutely.

- Yeah.

- It takes all kinds to make the world go around.

- Yep.

- Okay.

- Yeah, yeah.

- How can you hate the movie when your horse, it was in it, right?

- Because it was a terrible movie.

I'm not a Johnny Depp fan.

Sorry.

- He is a little nutty, isn't he?

- He's just not my cup of tea.

- He is a cup of something, - Not mine.

Yeah.

- Okay.

So your horse did make the cut?

It was in the movie?

- Yes.

So she was the horse running on the train, if you remember the movie.

- Oh yeah.

- There was a horse running on the train.

That was my horse.

- That's super cool.

- Yeah.

Yeah, so that's her claim to fame.

- It really wasn't running on a train, was it?

- No.

- No.

- No, no, no.

- Yeah.

CGI and all that stuff.

- That's beyond me.

I have no idea.

- That's Hollywood stuff.

- Yeah.

You would know more than me.

Yeah.

- Okay.

That's really exciting.

- So that was kind of cool.

That was cool.

That was fun.

- Did you get to go out to the... - No, we had our own little premiere.

You know, Woodstock, Illinois has this quaint little square and it has a really fabulous movie theater.

- [Rob] Yeah.

- And so we did a little red carpet affair there, you know, with friends and things.

- [Rob] For a movie that you didn't like?

- No, but it was my horse.

Like, (chuckles) come on.

- Okay.

- Yeah, so I had her.

And then I continued breeding these white thoroughbreds, had a different one that, I named her Sonya, but her name was My Sweetest Downfall.

Sold her to a trainer in Kentucky and she raced her at Churchill Downs, which was cool.

- [Rob] So these things are desired?

- Yeah.

- Just because of the look?

- Yeah.

When we were in the paddock and the announcer said, "Well, the program says that this horse is white, but I'll believe it when I see it, because there aren't very many white thoroughbreds."

And my horse came in and he goes, "This horse is white.

She is definitely white."

- [Rob] Yeah.

- So I was in the paddock with her, which was super cool.

Got to bring my parents, which was super cool.

Then of course the little girl in me goes running up to the front, 'cause I had to bet on my horse, go running up to the front to watch her run.

And as we're waiting, some stranger lady next to me says, "Oh, who'd you bet on?"

And I said, "Oh, one that I particularly like."

I go, "Who'd you bet on?"

And she goes, "Well, I like this one's name, My Sweetest Downfall."

I go, "That's mine, that's mine, that's who I bet on."

She wasn't a very good race horse, which is okay.

- [Rob] Yeah.

- So she got off the track pretty fast.

But it was cool.

- But I mean, Churchill Downs, you gotta be, you can't just let some slum horse in there.

- Well, I suppose you could.

- Yeah.

- It's a pay to play.

(chuckles) No, but to be at, you know, Churchill Downs, that was kind of a cool thing for me.

- That's very cool.

- Yeah.

So the Department of Ag got used to coming out, the Illinois Department of Ag got used to coming out and seeing these prolifically colored thoroughbreds then, because the Illinois Breeders Program that we have, you have to have them inspected.

And so we had a- - Why?

- So they are what we say they are, I guess.

- Well, you can't tell?

Is it kind of, okay.

I'm trying to put it in terms that maybe a dimwit like myself would understand.

- Okay.

- So you buy a registered Labrador retriever.

- Right.

- Right?

And you have the exact same dog over there that doesn't have papers.

- Right.

- Is that what we're kind of talking about?

- Maybe.

Maybe.

The Illinois Department of Ag has their rules about the incentives that they offer for breeding thoroughbreds.

So that was just the rule.

We'd know they had to come and inspect my horses to make sure.

They weren't always white.

Sometimes they were brown.

Sometimes they were black.

Sometimes they were gray, you know, palomino or gray.

But we always had fun.

- [Rob] Yeah.

So it's a mystery until they're born?

- Correct.

- Okay.

So when they hit the white one, you're all woo-hoo!

- Well, I really liked it.

They're terrible to keep clean.

Imagine, you know?

- Yeah.

- A farm animal that's white.

- That, how much poop do they a day?

- 50 pounds of poop.

- 50 pounds, yeah.

- And then if they're with their mom, multiply that times two.

Yeah.

It's a lot of poop.

(Rob and Amber chuckle) - I don't want to get too far before I recognize your item on the desk here.

- Yes.

Yeah.

My Crazy Barbie.

- I would agree with that.

What's the story with her?

- Well, we've all seen the movie "Barbie", and Crazy Barbie saves the day.

- [Rob] I've not seen the movie.

- You need to go rent it now.

- I will watch it when you admit that "The Lone Ranger" was an okay film.

- Well, it made some money, I suppose, so I guess it's okay.

I don't know.

- All right.

- Crazy Barbie, she- - It's trailer park Barbie here.

- She saves the day.

That's actually, you know, she's vintage.

She's from the eighties.

From the nineteens.

So if you've seen the movie, Crazy Barbie, you look at her and you're like, oh my God, everybody has a Crazy Barbie.

Everybody has a Crazy Barbie.

And I hated Barbies as a little girl.

Hated them.

- You did?

- I was probably very mean to her.

- She's missing a toe or two.

- Her hairline.

Like... - Well, I mean- - All the things, like, look at her.

- You can tell this one was an older one, 'cause it was still, that's a body that's never made in nature.

(Amber chuckles) - Sure.

(Amber laughs) Sure.

How am I supposed to answer that?

Sure.

Yeah, but Crazy Barbie saves the day in the movie.

But she just solves all the problems and she's super smart and she's ingenious and all the things, you know?

She's just amazing.

So that's my, she sits on my dresser in my room because you can do, a woman can do anything.

- Absolutely.

- A woman can do anything.

- Did I miss a part where you said why you brought this?

- Because she like resembles me, I guess.

I mean, that's kind of what my hair looks like in the morning, not gonna lie, like, yikes.

But she just does everything and anything and you ask her questions and she can solve 'em.

She just figures it out.

- Yeah.

I don't know you that well.

We interviewed you on the XM show and then today.

You seem extremely creative and passionate.

Is that fair to say?

- Definitely very fair.

Yeah.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- So yeah, even though you might wake up with a crazy hair like that, it's people that can realize how to harness that uniqueness, and harness, you know, maybe their creativity into something very special, that's when you, that's when- - Well said.

- That's when you bet on a winner.

- Yeah, well said.

- To put it into racing terms.

- Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know- - I don't even know what I just said.

- I don't either.

So we're just gonna roll with it.

(Amber chuckles) - It's a hell of an interview.

- How do they, like- - This is one of the shows we put up for an award.

- They're probably laughing back there.

- We've never won an award, but this might be the one.

- Well, hey, you know?

There's a first time for everything.

- Okay.

- Like, look, I'm here, right?

- Yeah.

- First time to be on a interview like this.

- Yeah.

It's probably gonna be the last, too.

(Rob and Amber chuckle) - Wow.

- Okay.

- Wow!

That was kind of harsh.

- Moving on.

You teach?

- Yes.

- Did you always wanna be a teacher?

- Since 1st grade, mm-hmm.

- Really?

Since you were a little kid you knew what you wanted to do?

- Oh, yes.

Yeah.

You know, some- - [Rob] What was your 1st grade teacher's name?

- She's on my Facebook, Mrs. Leonard.

So a shoutout to Mrs. Leonard.

- She's still alive?

- She's still alive.

We had lunch last summer.

Yeah.

- Really?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

- She was Miss Ecker when I had her, so she wasn't even married.

- Oh, okay.

- Yeah.

And she always stuck me in a row with a really naughty kid named to Mike Keenan who has forever scarred me.

- Well it's on purpose, right?

You stick the naughty kid next to the good girl.

That's what they always did to me.

- Oh, so you were the naughty kid?

- Well, yeah.

(Rob and Amber chuckle) - Imagine.

(chuckles) - You're teaching 6th grade math.

- Yes.

- Just math?

- Well, this year I was resolved to a 6th grade math teacher.

- Okay.

What do you, just addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, no algebra?

- No, we have algebra and geometry - In 6th grade?

- Mm-hmm.

Oh yeah.

State standards, man.

'Cause I'm sure every day you use A squared plus B squared equals C squared, in everything you do.

- [Rob] Use who now?

(Amber chuckles) I've never.

(Amber laughs) I've never had to determine the height of a flagpole by the shadow of the, I've never had to do that stuff.

But I did it in school.

- But you did it in school.

- Yeah.

- Right?

It taught you critical thinking.

- It taught me how to cheat off the girl I had to sit by because- - Fair.

(Rob and Amber chuckle) Fair.

- What are you seeing in schools?

Because I mean, you hear, I'm sure you hear all the bad stuff, right?

Punks, they're all brats and all that stuff.

What's your take?

- Kids are kids.

- Yeah.

- And apple trees make apples and apples don't fall far from the tree.

- Ah.

- Yeah.

So you can pretty much show what a kid's home life is like by how they behave in school.

- It's sad though.

- It is.

It is.

So like with me when I was teaching in an urban school, kids that, they thought I came from another planet.

- Yeah?

- Because I lived on a farm.

- So I definitely like was like the Jetsons, I think, where the UFO kind of went off and I came in to school every day.

They really saw me as that.

- Yeah.

Do you enjoy it?

- I love it.

I love it.

I mean, it's exhausting, but I love it.

- Yeah.

All right, here's something we've never talked about before.

Papayas.

- Mm-hmm.

- What?

Okay... - So papaya is a super food.

You should be eating it every day.

You love it, right?

- I'm sure I've eaten papayas, right?

- I don't know, have you?

- I went to Jamaica once.

Right?

Do they grow 'em down there?

- Well, they kind of taste like blah pumpkin.

So it's not like you would put it out and be like, Hey, here's a dish of... - [Rob] Blah pumpkin stuff.

- Yeah, but it's a super food.

- But people eat 'em, right?

- Oh yeah.

- Like as an orange or a banana?

- No, you have to peel 'em like a cantaloupe.

You know, you have to cut off the edge.

- They put 'em in drinks, right?

- I don't know what you're drinking.

- Like a papaya daiquiri or something like that?

- You're thinking of mango.

I don't... - You might be correct.

Okay, papayas.

- Yeah.

- So what do you do with them?

- So they're a super food.

They're great for stomach and skin and all the things.

So we have a small business that is getting too big for me too quickly.

But we puree it and it's excellent for horse ulcers.

Horses get ulcers really easily.

Like 96% of all performance horses get ulcers.

- [Rob] 'Cause they're emotional?

- Well, some are emotional.

Just the stress we put 'em in.

- Yeah.

- You know, their eating habits aren't what we do as humans for 'em.

- Yeah.

- So the papaya actually helps to ease and actually heal the ulcers.

It's a great product.

Because you can spend a ton of money on the medicines for horses, for ulcers.

But the papaya is a natural route.

And it's easier and it's cheaper.

And it doesn't just work on horses.

It works on my bulldogs, with their awful skin.

- Does it work on people?

- It works on people.

- Does it really?

- Mm-hmm.

My oldest son was born with a issue with his pyloric valve.

It wouldn't stay open.

So they went in and they surgically opened it.

And so then since then, Adam as an adult has suffered from, you know, like acid reflux and like lots of bad tummy stuff.

So I said, "If I make this for you, will you just try it?"

And he's like, "Okay mom."

- "Okay, mom."

- Yeah, "Okay mom."

And he did and he ended up, he's like, "This is great."

He can eat pizza where he couldn't eat a lot.

- Really?

- Yeah.

A lot of stuff he couldn't tolerate before he can now tolerate.

So I'm telling you, papaya is an amazing super food.

- But this, you said this is a company that's getting too big for you to even handle.

- Well, 'cause I'm a one man band, right?

- Yeah.

- Like, and I teach school and I have the farm- - Well, quit that.

- And all the things.

- [Rob] Quit the school.

- I know.

I know.

- You could be the papaya queen of the suburbs.

I don't know?

- Sure.

Yeah, sure.

And actually a lot of my stuff ships all over.

So it's not just the burbs.

People buy the 30 day supply and, yeah.

- Do they know about this?

I've never heard this before.

- About papaya?

- About papaya as being, curing ulcers and stuff.

- Yeah.

It's so good for you.

Well, you know, you have Google on your phone, so when you're- - Yeah.

That's a reliable source.

- When you're doing- - Do you ever go on WebMD?

- Yes I have!

- "I have a slight headache."

"Oh, you have leprosy."

- Yeah.

Yeah.

It's better than my blue book I had when I was a kid.

Yeah.

(Amber and Rob laugh) - So not gonna grow with the papaya?

- What do you mean, I'm not gonna grow?

- You sound like you're, - Yeah, no, I need to continue.

It's just, it's expanding faster than I ever thought it was going to.

So, you know, I've employed my children to help me puree papaya.

- Slave labor?

- To get it shipped out.

Yeah.

Basically, yeah, - Yeah?

- Yeah.

"I need you to do this right now, because otherwise, I don't know, I'll take your car away."

You know?

(chuckles) - You seem very real to me.

You seem like, well, I tell you why.

It's 'cause like the boots you're wearing.

It's just like those are the boots that you probably are avoiding the horse poop with.

- Yeah.

I don't step in the horse poop with these.

But not to say that they haven't inadvertently stepped in horse poop.

- Well, you kind of have to, right?

At some point?

- Well, poop happens.

I mean... - You should put that on a bumper sticker.

- I think Forest Gump did.

(Rob and Amber chuckle) - What don't people know about raising horses?

Because everybody thinks it's so easy.

You have a horse, you give it some hay and... - Oh, there's a lot.

They have a whole staff.

Horses don't have just a family.

They have a staff.

- Yeah.

- You know?

There's grooms and vets and chiropractor and massage therapists and acupuncture and the horseshoer.

- Yeah.

Which is why basically you should never get a horse.

Amber, if people wanna find you or anything about you, where would they go?

- I'm on Facebook.

Valley View Acres is our barn page.

We're in Woodstock.

And we also have a YouTube channel.

- Okay.

Amber Bauman from Woodstock.

I really enjoyed getting to know you.

I love people who are passionate about what they're doing.

And I love when people have that passion and actually do something about it.

You can tell you are an incredibly hard worker.

You can tell you're incredibly intelligent at what you're getting into, and yet you still have the passion to be a teacher.

So, I mean, it just, you're an all around good person and there's not that many of you in the world.

- Aw.

- So thank you.

- Well, thank you.

(upbeat music) - What the hell was that?

- Hello?

It's a heart.

(Amber sighs) - Talk to the hand.

We'll catch everybody next week.

(upbeat music continues)