it was the afternoon of Dec. 30 when Jay Lavery shared a side of himself that, to that point, had only been known to close friends. Two weeks later, the world is in on his “secret.”
On that day, the New York farmer uploaded a video to his personal Facebook profile of him dancing to Sia’s hit “Cheap Thrills” while going about his barn chores and tending to the goats he takes care of at his Permaculture Inn farm in Sharon Springs, New York, a small upstate village located some 180 miles north of Manhattan.
Lavery is no stranger to stunts like this, he explained to The Huffington Post. He said he often does “crazy things,” which he shares with his friends on Facebook, but he’s never before shared them on such a prominent stage.
The response to the video was almost immediate. To date, it’s been viewed almost 5 million times and shared 60,000 times, generating 57,000 likes and 14,000 comments.
But it’s not just Lavery’s on-point dance moves that are attracting so much attention. It’s also his story.
