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Ray Cruciani and John Sohigian join the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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Back Day Drinking with Dog, a special before noon edition. On a Tuesday,
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we got the twentieth of February twenty twenty four. I have my good
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friend with me, Ray Cruciani. Ray, how are you doing today?
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Good man? Good? Thank you so much for coming with some Pendleton whiskies.
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Yeah, baby, drink some whiskey too. I know. I'm just
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coming off a little stomach bug, so I will drink it. Yeah,
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You're gonna drink it for me and I'll guzzle it later. And I just
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met this gentleman about seven minutes ago in the parking lot, John Sohegan.
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Nice to meet you, Nice to meet you. You are here. You
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are working with PBR, the Professional Bull Riders League, Right, how long
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you been with them? Been with them since twenty sixteen? Oh wow,
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that's awesome. I was just telling Ray I was He actually brought this to
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my attention. I don't know, so it was back in January, right,
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And He's like, I got an idea for you. I got an
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idea for you for the show, and I said, what's up. He's
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like, well, let's do uh PBR. I got some PBR coming into
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town. You know, they're coming to Bridgeport, and you know, in
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my bartender head, I'm thinking the beer and I'm like, yeah, I'm
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like, you know what, I don't know, Ray, I don't know
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about that. It's kind of it was a fad about five years ago,
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kind of came back, kind of died out. But he's like, no,
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no, no, no, no no. The bull riding, the
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bull riding, so bull in Connecticut. Yeah, So I watched it the
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other day and it's one of those things casual viewing for me. Don't really
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know the rules exactly. I know the longer you ride on the bull and
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all that is better. And then there's also like gymnastics thing with it.
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You know, it's judged, right, it's a judged event, so you
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have to have a little flare and style and I'm guessing right, yes.
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So the bull running score is one hundred points, fifty points for the bull
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and fifty points for the rider. So the bull is judged on his jump,
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his twists, his change of direction, the difficulty of riding him,
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essentially, and the riders judged on how well how much control he has.
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So in order to have a successful bull ride, you need to ride for
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eight seconds, one hand in the bull rope, one hand in the air.
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That free hand cannot touch the bull, cannot touch the ground, cannot
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touch you, and you need to maintain that for eight seconds. Typically fifteen
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hundred eighteen hundred pound bull one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty pound guy
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win. Typically, even on a successful ride, you've still got to get
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off, get off the back, and that's why we have three bullfighters there
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to help distract the bull so you can get off and get away. It's
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still very dangerous sport. And like you said that there's judges. There are
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multiple so there's four judges and it's the top scores. They County don't think
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you like saw the horns. Now you have to. They used to have.
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We call it blunting. So the horns if you think about if you
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think about your fingernails, the horns are similar to fingernails, and then you
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can't cut the tips off. But essentially it's to protect the riders, right,
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Sure, a sharp horn can somebody Somebody got killed like five years ago
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or something. Somebody got killed recently recently five years ago. Oh really yeah,
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And a lot of that is, you know, it's time and place
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and a horn might get under my vest right now. We do as much
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as we can to protect the riders. The bulls by the time they get
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to this level are seasoned and they know their job, and for the most
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part, most of them, when they're done, they run off. Others
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are still you know, there's still wild animals, right, so they go
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at you if you're if you're vulnerable. So is the strategy of the sport
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like uh, like say, say you're trailing right going into the final round
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or whatever, you almost want to get on the harder, the toughest bull
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is because you need to be going like like degree difficulty. So some bulls
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are you know, reputation wise, and the bulls are scored on every ride,
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right, so you'll have bulls that are rated and ranked just like riders
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are rated and ranked, and the tougher the bull. So typically an event
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Bridgeport, for example, will be two long rounds in a short so each
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rider, I think we have thirty five participants. Each rider will ride on
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Friday night. Each rider will ride on Saturday night and then the top ten
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will move on to the short round and they will compete. So if you're
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rated first after the two long rounds, you get to select here's the bullpen.
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You get to select the bull that you want to ride, and if
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if it's tight, they'll pick a tough bowl because they want to get the
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most points they can get. So if they're winning by a lot, they
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want to be you know what, everybody he has a different strategy. We
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had guys like JB. Mooney who was our goat, who would never ever
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whether he had a full bull ahead of somebody, he'd still take the toughest
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bull out there because that's what he wanted to do. A showman too,
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not a lot of showmanship to it, right. I saw that with Cassio
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Diaz. Number one in the world right now right now is yeah, And
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Cassio made his debut really came out on our team series. So bull riding
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has been an individual sport forever. Right two years ago we started a league
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and we have actually have franchises and we have now we're going to expand from
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eight teams to ten teams. But Cassio rides for the Kansas City Outlaws and
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he was a breakout star there. He's a young guy, he's twenty years
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old maybe, and uh, coming out of that, he went on the
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UTB Tour. So we have two level tours. The UTB is unleased the
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Beast which is our sort of even say major leagues, But we had an
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expansion tour for guys working their way up to there, and that's the Velocity
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Tour. U TV works major markets, big buildings. The Velocity Tour is
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a little bit smaller buildings. Typically UTB is two or three day event and
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Velocity Tour is one or two day event. Okay, And Velocity is sponsored
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by Pendleton. Velocity is the Pendleton Whiskey Velocity Tour, which you can see
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right here in the table. Yes, lovely which and we not only love
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the product, we love the people from Pendleton. Great supporters of the sport,
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great supporters of the Western lifestyle. They've been with us. I think
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they've been with us since I've been here, and every year they just get
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stronger and stronger, and I love being a part of that. What has
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been like the year on year growth of the company. It seems like I
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just went to their website. You know yesterday and it's it's pretty there's a
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lot of one. There's a lot of leagues. It seems like you said,
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you know a lot of tiers of it, and there's actually a third
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tier. There's what we call the pro touring. I think it's a pro
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touring event, which are are individually sanctioned events where guys can get started.
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So you go there, you get points, you earn your way up into
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the Velocity Tour. Then you're how do you get started? Like like I
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almost feel like you know, you watched We actually have a rider that's started
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by watching YouTube and stringing a barrel in his yard and riding a barrel really
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yeah yeah, yeah that that first time on a bowl and I'm talking about
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one at the bar, you know, like I started at one of those
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mechanicals and so hey, I could do this. We actually have fourteen PVR
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bars around the country too. Yeah. Yeah, we have a licensee Live
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Hospitality. Most of them are part of districts. The Battery in Atlanta it's
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like a golf now, of of no, it's a country bar with its
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club. Nice. Live Hospitality is part of the Courtish companies and they build
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these for the most part. There are districts around ballparks and that of things.
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So Texas Live is in between where the TEXTA Rangers play in at and
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T Stadium, And it's a huge facility that has about eight different bars and
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restaurants in it. So there's sort of the main arena bar. There's a
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PBR bar, there's a Troy Aigman's, There's a number of different dining and
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nightclub opportunities. Gas and Power and Light District in Kansas City has has one
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in it that's the original PBR bar. Like I said, the Battery in
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Atlanta, we're in Baltimore, Philadelphia Xfinity. I'm assuming their full service food
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drinks. Actually, the most of them are just bars. Really. Yeah,
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we have two of them that serve food, but for the most part
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because the districts have a bunch of food options. Right, So PBR lends
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itself to country bar, party, in line dance. It's it's a it's
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a night out, it's a dancing night out. Nice and riding the ball
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a little bit nice. We gotta try that, right, yeah, try
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to get I don't know about strapping myself up to a leven I did it
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once parade, No, I was like, wait, can you get on
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a live bulle at this place? No? No, no, oh Ray
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sauce, And I'm like getting ready, getting back to your original question.
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A lot of these kids grow up on ranches. Rodeo parents are worse than
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literally parents. They put three year olds on sheep called mutt and busting,
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and the kids love it. The kids love it. They graduate too.
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Many will start on that you and I will start I will crush those things,
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will You're a little thinner than me. They graduate to mini bulls and
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then they go up to steer and then full full sized bulls. But junior
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high school and high school rodeo are very very big across the middle of the
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country. Oh that's awesome, that's pretty cool. I did. I did
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the mechanical Bowl once after the New Haven Saint Patrick's Day parade. The bar
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doesn't even exist. I couldn't even tell you what the bar was called.
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Oh god, and I just it's funny like when you see the girls get
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to be in the bars and see the girls, it's almost like you can
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you can see the guy like, all right, we're gonna go a little
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easier. I'm like, I got this, and then I get up there
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and I could just see He's like, you're offering like one bump and that's
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exact. I mean like I pulled my back. That was hurt all up
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to the operator. Yeah. Yeah, a month ago up at the casino.
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They have a comic roadhouse up there and they have a bull full time
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there and country band. It's really cool. But anyways, I was uh
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deared to get on that bull. Yeah, and uh and I did and
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uh I lasted about five six seconds. That's good, right, pretty good.
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I was like, I'm sure he was playing with me for the first
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three seconds, but I feel like experience. I was like, listen,
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I drank too much, Penalton. Is there a mechanical bull league? No,
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No, I'm just curious, but actually working on a on a nationwide
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contest, yeah, to support our world finals. But we've gone down that
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road, and truthfully, it's it's one of those things where you need a
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lot of liability insurance. I so imagine the guys that operate have to you
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know, it's a tough thing. We're in a tough world. Yeah.
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People are litigious about a lot of things. Yeah, so you got to
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be really careful. I see those like how has the prize money elevated over
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the years. Money is elevated pretty well. I think we awarded just on
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the UTV tour well over twelve million dollars last year WOE series was like seven
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million. Not a year, but like rear earning careern million moy. Yeah,
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so the top guy in the year will be somewhere between. They get
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a million dollar bonus for winning a world championship. They'll earn somewhere between a
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million three and a million eight for the year year that you're competing. Yeah,
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and and plus they're probably I'm getting I'm guessing all that they're on sponsored
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sponsors and all that. So they're independent contractors. So a lot of them.
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You see the low was on it. It's similar to car racing,
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right, yeah, Yeah, the individual guys get their their partners and that
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kind of thing. Nice and now with like Instagram and all that, I'm
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sure these guys are promoting themselves heavy too. There's a number of them.
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Yeah. You know, ours is uniquely our sport is uniquely international as well.
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We have tours in Australia, Canada, we sanction events in Mexico,
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and we have in Brazil. Yeah, so we have and a lot of
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our top riders are Brazilian. Season country season is big bull riding country.
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How long? How long is yeah? What's the season? Run? UTB
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is November through May. The Pedalan Whiskey Veloscity Tour starts in January and goes
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through May. It ends two weeks prior because the champion has a chance to
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go to the World FINALSTCHA. We do a lot of double up, so
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a lot of on this tour. We'll have two events on a weekend and
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two different markets. Yeah, this tour is ten years old now. It
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has grown immensely with Pedalton support. We've taken it from a probably ten to
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twelve event tour too. It's doing twenty five to thirty events a year,
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which is tremendous, and there's more opportunities for guys to win money, more
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opportunities to compete, all those kinds of things, and we're going to more
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in different places, you know, coming to Bridgeport this first time we're in
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Bridgeport. I'm thrilled. Yeah, I've been in Fairfield right Yeah, yeah,
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screaming at the guys go to Bridgeport and finally we booked it and I'm
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doing everything I can to help promote it and get people to go out.
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They even gave me my promo code, I'm right, and help people with
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discounts. So what should a fan expect that's never really watched it? Secene
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it, like they say, you know, let me go check this out.
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Outside of the actual bull riding itself, I'm sure there's a pretty cool
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show that goes on. Yeah, it's it's hardcore rock and roll music backgrounds,
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there's pyro to start the show. It is in a dream for for
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the younger generations, in the sense that it's bursts of energy, right,
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it's that eight seconds at a time you got time to text or yeah whatever.
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Yeah, So then you know, for the A, D. D
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and all of us, it's it's perfect, you know, And that's a
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phenomenal point. Though, you know, you go to the It sickens me
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when I see these like like just watching the All Star Game the other night,
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said the phone. Everyone's got their phones or they're like filming it,
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Like like I stopped filming shit a long time ago because I realized I never
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rewatched. Yeah, and you getting to that point, you don't be to
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enjoy it, right, enjoy it? So what this allows you to do
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is like in between, yeah, he takes some pictures sending to your friends,
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you know. And at the same time, one of the things that's
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hurt us a little bit in my opinion on television is that a guy comes
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in, he's wearing a helmet. Right, So since ninety four, if
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you're born before ninety four, you can wear a hat, but after ninety
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four you have to wear a helmet. Anybody that's just thirty year old about
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hockey, you have to do it over time because you got a couple of
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these guys that are the last guy. But so they you're watching on TV
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gets in, he's he's tying himself into the you know, onto the bowl,
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he has his out, he gets off, he waves the crowd,
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and he's done. So he's not on television for more than a minute.
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Right, So to get people to understand who these guys are and do background
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stories, yeah, yeah, that's where you really need the social media and
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the websites and so people can get to understand who these guys are. And
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now that we have the teams, the franchises, we have people that are
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marketing and all these new markets that are helping. So Cassio Diaz as casual
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fan. I no idea who this guy is. And you know, but
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where's he from now? He's from Bili Man. Not a lot of kids
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in Bridgeport and Cassio, you know, well last name maybe probably a lot
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of dis Yeah. Yeah, uh that's fun. I am pumped. I'm
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excited. I was on the fence, like, you know, should I
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take a night off? No, I'm going, doesn't matter what. I've
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been working in sports for forty years, almost forty years. These are the
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toughest kids I've ever met. I can imagine they they they literally put their
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lives at risk every time, every time they get on that they're probably getting
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and not hurt, but like they're gonna feel like, you know, like
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they're gonna feel that the next thing to get in to their fifties and sixty
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Yeah, the g forces. What's the oldest current rider? Do you know?
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A guy named jen A Kamenas was our two thousand and three champion.
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Yeah, so he's still going now. He retired, came back about two
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years ago. He got in the best shape of his life and he's been
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riding the last two years. Oh wow, what's in his forties? Forty
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three forty. Oh god right, imagine that we have a guy named Joe
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Al Ricardo Vieira. Joe Al was thirty eight and he's been in the top
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ten since I've been around, so for the last eight years. He's still
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performing at an incredible level. But this sport can break a guy we've had,
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you know, sure can named Jess Lockwood came on he same age as
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my older son, God bless, but he came on tour, won two
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championships and then hurt his growing, hurt his hip, hurt his you know,
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it just broken and he hasn't been on tour. He's trying to get
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better so he can can participate. You know, he's been sort of out
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of it for two years. And Lebron needs the second night of a back
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to back off. Yeah, come on, that's it, thought. Yeah.
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So they ride and if they make it to the the championship round,
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they're riding three and then they're driving to the next venue. And a bull
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will only work a maximum of two days on a weekend. So if it's
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a three day event, the bull can work you know, Friday Sunday.
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But a championship bull will have maybe thirty outs in a season. And the
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maximum is eight seconds. That's two hundred and forty seconds, is about six
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minutes, I think, right, yep, four minutes for more, he's
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working four minutes during the course of a year. The bulls are treated incredibly
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well. They have that question. Yeah, the animal welfare people like it's
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one of those things that people in markets like ours don't understand. Al they
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tired, they're you know, gentals, No, they don't. There's a
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there's about a foot in between part A and part B, and there's a
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flank rope that's that's wrapped around, but it's not wrapped tight. So just
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like if you tied a ribbon on your cat's leg and they're trying to get
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it off, that's sort of what that's doing. These bulls are bred to
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buck. They have acupuncturists, they have they have come I'm serious some of
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them. Some of them take acpuntes playing like music in the pens. But
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they're treated. Yeah, they are treated incredibly well. There are requirements that
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they're only allowed to be in the trucks for a certain amount of time.
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The amount of hey and whatever that they ride on has to be a certain
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level. They are treated incredibly well, and they're only male bow vines in
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the United States that die of old age. The rest of them are on
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your dinner table at some point. Our guys are all retired to stud and
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they live out their days on a ranch to so they're treated incredibly well.
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Wow, So people worry about that stuff. And our guys, Now,
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are they like a horse if they break a leg kind of thing, or
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they rehabilitate. I guess it depends on the amount of break. I in
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all the years that I've been with the organization, I don't never never seen
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it happen. Now, I mean they are bulls, yeah, you see
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these resources. They're the guys that are the average bull rider is i'd say
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five six, five seven and forty pounds to need and it's chest twenty eight
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inch waist. I do their world. They we give them jackets for making
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the world finals. We give them a nice leather jacket every year, and
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out of the fifty jackets that they make, thirty five or a small you
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know. And it's like, really, now, I'm assuming these guys are,
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like you know, they ride around. I'm sure they're really good friends
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with each other or are their rivalries? Are their personal rivalries going on,
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the battles between the guy and the bull, right, obviously they're all competing
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for and there's money on the line, right, But at the same time,
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if they're rooting for each other, they tie each other, you know,
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they help rope the bulls together. They they look out for each other.
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There's guys that travel together, just like in any anything else, they
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really look out for one another because they're all in it together, you know.
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And there's some just like any other sport. There's some that you know,
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there's guys that have attitudes and that other guys aren't really enamored with and
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whatever. But you got to be somewhat cocky and arrogant. Oh, I'm
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sure these are real calcul they is. There are there rodeo groupies. They
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call them buckle bunny buckle bunnies. It so yeah, the answer is yes,
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yes, And I like bunnies. Can you introduce me to a buckle
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bunny? I don't, We don't know. If we haven't even Bridgeport yet,
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I'll start recruiting. Yes, here you go. The bars actually called
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their waitresses bucket I'm going to put on Facebook, like who wants to be
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a buckle bunny? Let we'll get pedal girls. Yeah, here we go,
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right, buckle bunnies. Yeah, you stick them in the party barn
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that we have there. Now the barn is like right this, so starn
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is on the dirt. Right, you're right in front of the house.
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So the way that the arena is set up, there's the bucking shoots and
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we bring seven hundred and fifty tons of dirt into the arena and lay it
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out. It's a foot deep, and we have dirt guys that make sure
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the dirt is that the quote unquote playing surface is safe for everybody involved.
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Yeah, right, because you have the bulls, you got the riders who
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get thrown off of bulls, and have the land in the dirt, right,
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you have the safety men that are on horses. It's got to be
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safe for every about it. So we have all that we're party and then
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dirt. And then the other side of the arena is what we call front
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of house and that's where our announcers are, the production team that's running the
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show, the guy that calls the show or producer, and right in front
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of them is the Pendleton Party bar Pendleton. Right, you're on a rail.
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The dirt's right in front of you and they're coming at you. That's
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that's that's better get there early because the who's fighting for the rail right I'll
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be I'll be by the bar up everyone a very large scoreboards, so you
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watch what's what's set up take. They will come in on probably some point
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five o'clock on Friday morning. It'll take all day Friday to get the arena
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set up. Wow, with the steel and the dirt and yeah, because
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we bring our own steel to our events and have to set it up.
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So do you have like your on like like like payloaders and ship and all
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that. Well, we just use local. We used local stuff, labor
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and there's a small crew that travels from city to city. Yeah, it's
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the same. On this week drop it and pick it up. On this
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weekend we have this show. We're in Indianapolis with the ut B and I
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forget what are other pedals and whisky site is, but yeah, you know
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we'll be in three three arenas this weekend. So three crews out, three
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full sets of steel. It's it's like, uh, I think three hundred
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thousand pounds of steel that they bring the arena with with the shoots, you
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know, It's funny because I was when I said, when I was flipping
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by the other day and Cassio was like getting strapped in and all that,
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and I was looking at the the steel and I had, you know,
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Penalton Sticker and Monster and all your sponsors and stuff, and I'm like,
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that ship's fucking like legit. You know, it's like a little bit you
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know, that is crazy. And you see these guys, I didn't see
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it in him and behind the bucking shoots are holding pens. Right. Okay,
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So we're gonna bring seventy bulls to how many bulls coming to seventy bulls?
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We have to find a local place to house them overnight because they come
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in the day before. They got to get their rest. You got brought
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into the arena. Bad find a place, and of course I volunteer.
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I'll help you find a place. Ye kinds of farms around here where you
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need you need cover this time of year, they got to have roof over
24:29
in case it's snows or whatever. Right, it's not as easy as I
24:33
get. I think our guys are still working on it, but I think
24:34
they're going to end up somewhere between Hartford and here. Because there's more farms
24:40
as you go up. But like I checked with you know now when you
24:45
say seventy, do they have to all be in their own cage or they
24:48
can all be in a there'll be one big building. They'll be in approximately
24:52
thirty pens because they get bulls that are raised on the same rancher each other.
24:56
Right, So, but these holding pens behind the s shoots the bulls
25:00
that are going to buck that night. Okay, so we'll have forty bulls
25:03
that come on Friday. They all have to be put in holding pens in
25:08
an order in which the the bucking order is predetermined. So you have to
25:15
specific rider on a specific bowl. And there's a day sheet that tells you
25:18
who's going wet. So the guys who put them in those pens so they
25:22
can get from where they're sitting through the the labyrinth if you will, to
25:26
come out to get in the bucking shoot. It though, to me,
25:30
the smartest guys I logistics all the time in the show, and I just
25:34
love hearing like how all the wear and then when they're done, they run
25:40
them off and they run them right out the arena into the trucks. Wow.
25:44
So when you're done. When bulls aren't working, and the what do
25:48
they eat? Just I guess, hey, feed and all that. It's
25:51
supposedly the best feed. I'm I'm sure, yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
25:56
But but they so But some pens you'll see a single bowl. Some
26:02
pens you'll see two bulls that were from the same ranch or whatever. Some
26:04
pens so in these holding pens, and some of them just like remember when
26:08
you were playing sports when you were young. You had guys that are just
26:11
chill, we laying down and whatever. You have ones that are pacing.
26:15
You have ones that that are kind of scutching the other ones. It's just
26:19
like people. They're really bright animals. Do they ever get angry with each
26:22
other? I have never seen them get angry with each other. I've seen
26:26
him get angry with people. What's what's the what's the name of the bowl
26:30
that's like the meanest bull or the right now the number one bull is I
26:37
believe his name is man Eater. Oh. We have a bull named Rydan
26:41
Solo that has won of the last two championships and prior to Ryding Solo being
26:45
at the top of the game of bull name woo Pa Wupa and a kid
26:49
named jose V tore Lem combined for the highest score and history, which was
26:52
a ninety eight point seven FOW. So there's never been one hundred, no
26:56
ever. No Mary lou Retten's out there. I can't. I mean,
27:02
that's gotta be. So what are the judges judge on again for the bullet
27:07
It's it's control. It's you're essentially dancing with the bulls, so it's you've
27:14
got to follow the bulls movements, and so they they can tell the nuances,
27:18
if a guy's centered right, if his legs are in the right place,
27:22
if he is spurring, and and by the way, our spurs are
27:25
dulled so they're not really hurting the bull. But if he's able to to
27:29
spur then move his leg that means he's in control. He can he can
27:33
move his body how he chooses to move, so we can we can watch
27:34
that score themselves. Same judges travel around, or that there's judges in each
27:41
city, different judges in different places, depends on We've got judges all around
27:45
the country, so they'll call them in based on locations and those kinds of
27:48
things. Was it like three typical three judges or four judges. Yeah,
27:55
I was paying attention earlier. I'm trying to like schedule all this. How
27:59
you know, There's one thing I did learn. There's a lot more to
28:03
these rodeos behind the scenes than actually watching these guys ride the bull between the
28:10
feed and how they treat the bulls and the riders have the house they steal.
28:15
The things that you got to think about are just it's really remarkable.
28:18
I find it fascinating how you have to just line them all like pre line
28:21
them all up. It's pretty cool. They're all like waiting and you should
28:26
come. You should come Friday afternoon and watch what I call it the running
28:29
of the bulls, when they run them off the trucks into the pens.
28:32
That's it usually happens about three or four hours before showtime, which is to
28:37
me one of the coolest things to see how that's all done and how the
28:41
guys come in. The stock contractors are great people. That I mean,
28:45
for the most part they're living is raising cattle for food or running farms or
28:51
ranches. These this is a whole different kind of world that they live in.
28:57
A lot of our retired guys, because I was always worried about what
29:02
are they gonna do when they're done, Because they're gonna be done at thirty
29:03
years old. I get them a job with my perfume licensee. They all
29:08
want to, you know what, They're to have a Penalton salesman, go
29:14
on the road and it'd be a great career. You know. I think
29:17
ours get our sponsors to do some of this, but a lot of these
29:18
guys want to maintain that lifestyle. Yeah. We a kid named Ryan dirt
29:22
Eater who was one of the top guys for thirteen years. While he was
29:27
riding bulls, he got his plumber's license. His dad's a plumber, so
29:32
he decided he's just going to go in the plumbing business with his dad.
29:34
But now he's raising bulls. He's becoming a stock contractor he raised, you
29:40
know, he's running his ranch and doing all that and just doing a little
29:42
plumbing because all this other stuff is working for him buy and sell livestock and
29:48
all that. So it's a it's a different world than people around here are
29:52
used to. And just coming to Bridgeports really cool. In New York,
29:56
We've been going to Madison Square Garden for seventeen years. We first went there
30:00
to get anybody to even pay attention was, from my understanding, just a
30:04
nightmare. Right now, we sell out pretty much two out of three days.
30:11
It's dress up night for New Yorkers. It's a party. Everybody's got
30:14
a pair of cowboy boots in their closet, right, so I'm gonna get
30:18
my boots out. I sell probably six hundred straw hats in New York over
30:22
the weekend because people want to do it. And our entertainer who just retires,
30:26
name Flint Rasmus, and he would always in New York say, okay,
30:29
everybody, take off your hat. Look in your hat. Do you
30:32
see a number? Your hat's on backwards? Like there's so many people.
30:34
I one of them. Well, interesting, I have, I have it
30:41
once, but I have. I'm the merch guy, I have. I
30:44
have hats, right, I had the gallon hat when I haven't. But
30:49
I still feel like a poser putting on the hat. I'll wear a buckle,
30:52
I'll wear my boots. I wore my hat one time at an event,
30:56
but it was la and everybody out there was that way, so you
31:00
know, I know, like you know you've been around the area, right
31:03
obviously, Like I think there's that there's you know, I know when the
31:06
country western bars with his country bands around here, in the country rock bands,
31:08
there's there's a bench a lot of girls that got all the country stuff.
31:14
They get up for next weekend, two weekends from now. Yeah.
31:18
Yeah, I keep telling my wife, somebody should open a western store here,
31:21
bootparn should open you know, like there's not a girlfriends boot part.
31:23
She saw that they were a sponsor, right, yeah, she saw the
31:26
stick because she was watching with it. She saw the stick. Her eyes
31:27
on both boot bar people love. Yeah, but that's the boots in the
31:33
western lifestyle wear and all that look there's little yells, don't effect to it,
31:37
but but all in all, people have always liked that. I remember
31:41
when I went to Fairfield, you in the late seventies, my roommate had
31:45
a pair of cowboy boots. He was so proud of he spent like three
31:48
hundred dollars on him back then, Wow, I three hundred dollars a lot
31:51
now, right, he was so proud of me. I would make fun
31:52
of him. And today I've got, you know, six pairs of boots
31:56
in my closet. He's got nothing right. So it's just funny how it
32:00
all kind of comes around. It does absolutely Like I used to like just
32:05
kind of poop poo it all, but as I got older, I'm like,
32:07
I'm telling you, Ben in Nashville a couple of times, I've been
32:12
to Texas. Uh we were we were went to a cowboy game a whole
32:16
nother story. Couldn't get in butt fake tickets. But there was like we
32:21
were like, you know, now we had nothing to do, so we
32:22
went downtown and like we went into a lot of the you know, the
32:25
Western the boot places it was back then. But uh, you know the
32:30
made boots. Oh yeah, I mean it stops pricing. It's pricey,
32:35
it's big business. Yeah, and less unless people are wearing cowboy hats.
32:39
But there are some real high end hats. Yeah. And I remember when
32:43
Imus was oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he always taught one. He
32:46
would always wear boots and hate. He was a big Western guy, a
32:50
big NFR guy. His son Wyatt was a roper, and you know he
32:54
It's funny because the guys that he used to mention that were training his son,
32:59
that he paid probably huge bucks to have these guys trained his sun Trevor
33:01
Brazil and Joe Beaver, they're actually going to be involved. We're doing a
33:05
rodeo with Kid Rock, so I saw him on the website. Yet we're
33:07
not rodeo, but we were involved with rodeo. When I first joined.
33:12
We couldn't say the word. Now it's like, you know what, this
33:15
is all Western lifestyle. We had to support all of it. Our ceo,
33:19
Sean Gleeson. Kid Rock's a fan of our our sport, and he
33:23
and Kid Rock were talking and they said, we got to do something fun,
33:27
and they decided they're going to do a rodeo, the Kid Rock Rock
33:29
and Roll Rodeo. Nice. It's going to be during our world finals down
33:34
in Fort Worth. It's actually mean Arlington at AT and T and we're gonna
33:37
have six teams of so it's team rodeo, two of each discipline competing against
33:44
each other for a million dollars in prize money if the one night. But
33:47
Trevor Brazil and Joe Beaver are coaches as part of this thing, like it
33:52
all kind of comes around right right. You know. I heard of him
33:55
fifteen years ago and listen to radio, and those guys are competing, the
34:00
old guys coaching the kids. I was just thinking about I miss the other
34:01
day. I forget why, but I'm like, God, I miss him.
34:05
It's it's uh. He was like one of those legends like he I
34:09
grew up with him, my mother driving to school every morning. She was
34:14
driving to school every morning, and I just started listening to him, and
34:16
then you know, Stern came out, but I started on my own.
34:22
You know, he got a little off the rails later in life. But
34:24
you know, don't they all quick thing of clean the fame. Uh.
34:29
I actually went to U High school in Ian Grammar school with his wife,
34:34
did you Yeah, no kidding. I always wondered what happened to her,
34:37
Like after he passed, did they keep the ranch? Did they do all
34:39
these things? And yeah, they used to do a lot of charity,
34:43
take kids down to the ranch and all that stuff. So interesting brother friends
34:46
still alive. I have no idea because I remember at Mohegan they used to
34:51
have I Miss Ranch coffee. Then it's not there anymore. I don'dn't see
34:54
it anywhere unless yeah, he was the one man used to see it.
35:00
His brother wasn't involved in that. He just through his brother bone was yeah
35:05
yeah, yeah, so all right, Ray, So interestingly, I'm sorry
35:12
last thing about what we're talking about, imis I worked for Orange County Choppers
35:15
for a number of years years ago, built motorcycle. Yeah we know they
35:21
are before we got canceled. The last deal that I did was with My
35:24
Pillow with Michael but yeah, yeah, what's the name. And I had
35:30
him this close to agreeing to do he did a lot with Imus, this
35:34
close. I wanted to do a Western bike for the Imus ranch that Imus
35:37
can promote and we'd be great for us and all this, and and we're
35:39
like this close, and we do the unveiling of his My Pillow bike and
35:45
Paul Senior blew off. Michael had all of his investors at a luncheon and
35:50
Senior was supposed to go to that luncheon and shake hands and kiss babies,
35:53
and he blew it off. So so Lindell got pissed. Was like,
35:59
that's the the imis, that's the end. I'll never talk to you again.
36:01
It was like, oh man, it was like a jilted girlfriend at
36:05
that point because how many years ago with that roughly twenty twelve, Okay,
36:10
isn't that kind of when he was like their whole company was kind of in
36:14
family shambles. Yes, yeah, blowing up, we were imploding. I
36:16
thought we had one more year and yeah, getting we got canceled right after
36:20
the my Billow build. Oh man, yeah, I got to have you
36:22
back on. That's a whole nother show I was. I was there for
36:25
seven years. Oh man. Yeah, yeah, but we'll need to be
36:30
drinking for that. Oh no, no, well actually let's get some.
36:34
That'll be like a three in the Afterton moll beget all right, Speaking of
36:39
Pendleton, Nelton is the sponsor of this the number one sponsor the show in
36:44
Bridgeport this week. Right, you just tell us a little history about the
36:49
product. I know, you know. So there's a actually the way we
36:52
got involved in rodeos and PBR and all that is there's actually a town in
36:59
work Gone that's called the Pendleton. It's called Pendleton, and so they used
37:05
to do back in nineteen ten or eleven, they used to do a Pendleton
37:07
round up and that was huge back then. And that's how we started with
37:14
getting involved with rodeo since we you know, it was whiskey has made and
37:21
named after Pendleton. So that's how we started with all the rodeo and Midst
37:27
was the biggest rodeo the country. It well yeah, yeah, yeah,
37:31
yeah, it's so huge. Expect it's like a three day event or something
37:36
like that. Yeah, it's it's never been there. But yeah, and
37:39
even your tagline letter Buck, letter Buck, let's go so interesting. I
37:45
I the corporate folks that come into the office that I see on the road,
37:51
like, can we just do a letter buck with a bull It's it's
37:53
a horse. It's going to stay a horse. It's gonna yeah, because
37:57
you don't mess with the logo. But but the letter buck tagline is awesome
38:00
and products awesome. Yeah, we have a we have a twelve year old
38:05
ride, which is incredible. But one of the interesting things we do is
38:09
we actually do a military pack, which is you know, our Bob Woodrift
38:15
Foundation. Yea for the Bob Woodrift Foundation. So what we do is we
38:20
donate money towards the Bob Woodward Woodford woodft Wooddrift Charity and uh but you know,
38:30
in general, just we give back, all right, So we you
38:34
know, we're not only involved in you know, rodeos and bull riding.
38:38
We're trying to branch out, Okay, so you know Midwest to Northeast.
38:45
We're five hundred case brand. Okay, we're trying to move that brand across
38:50
the country, and we have the great Whiskey. We got the story,
38:53
we got everything going for it. And by bringing the PBR to Connecticut to
39:00
bring him them, I believe that you're in Massachusetts. So doing events like
39:06
that and and teaming up with you know, the PBR, Pendleton Whiskey is
39:10
is grown. It's moving to the East Coast, which is which is fabulous
39:15
for our company and also fabulous for the whiskey to get people to try it
39:22
and and and really get involved in liking Pendleton Whiskey. So the skews you
39:27
brought today are the military one. We have the original behind behind big bad
39:32
Bear. That's a half gallon. Can't we really want to get crazy?
39:38
That's that's a that's a big bad bear. So that's what I'll save that
39:42
one for the for the orange. So we also do a mid Midnight which
39:47
is a little bit a little bit higher proof, same whiskey, just we
39:55
we actually cut our whiskey with the Mount Hood Glacier fed water, so you
40:04
know, we make that Midnight just a little bit more stronger, ninety proof,
40:09
a little bit more juice to it, and then we also have a
40:13
director's reserve, which is twenty year old whiskey, which is fabulous. Yeah,
40:20
it's I'll put that whiskey against anything that that's on the market right now.
40:25
But that's you know, that's a rye. Guys, so I see
40:29
the ride. Yeah, there's a twelve year old rye here, which is
40:31
probably one of the best rides that are out there right now. And we
40:37
just mixing this or having a knee It's it's incredible. We also were getting
40:45
involved with I don't know if you ever saw that show. It's called Meat
40:51
Eater. It's a it's a special we're doing more like like a like a
40:58
Yeah, they hunt and they actually when you eat what they hunt, okay,
41:01
which is which is really cool. And we're getting into like camping,
41:06
fishing, all that stuff. So get the outdoors. Yeah. Nice.
41:12
Well it's all similar lifestyle and it fits. Yeah, it fits. That's
41:17
a great sip and whiskey. Yeah, I don't know if I've had I
41:21
must have had it before. Your bartender. Try these things when you get
41:27
to work, mix it with mix it and the Bloody Mary. Really good
41:30
boy, whiskey, Bloody Mary. Yeah, let's go mix it in margarita.
41:36
Okay, it's a it's a wicked good margarita. Really. Yeah,
41:40
I've taught this by a couple of the Yeah, that's one thing that margaritas
41:45
are, funny. That's one thing I've never like veered off of tequila,
41:47
you know, but like I've used tequila and like an espresso martini or like
41:52
I've used tequila somewhere else, but I've never whiskey. I mean, I'll
41:57
try old fashions and you know, all day long, penalty and whiskey,
42:00
bloody Mary. I'll be here Sunday morning. Let's go, let's go Saturday
42:07
night. I'll prep them for it. So we're gonna be drinking this Friday
42:12
night, not this Friday, but Friday Arch first. Yeah, what do
42:16
you know what kinds are going to be there? Or we're gonna have all
42:20
we have. We're gonna have the ride, We're gonna have the midnight midnight
42:22
and also the original, not the director's cut. Maybe underneath that you'll have
42:28
to see me for times I got come around coming back on the show.
42:34
You gotta go to the crack check at the house is always like you know,
42:38
just saw him up at the casino. We'll get to the quick story
42:40
before we finish the show. So we're up at the casino and that's a
42:45
we won't mention the show because it's a Penalton one, but he had a
42:47
different whiskey up there, and he's always got the you know, the ten
42:52
year here but you know, go see my guy Troy over here. He's
42:55
got this special the special sauces behind the bar. But I think it was
43:00
the it was the the person we met afterwards, yes, which was pretty
43:05
pretty amazing, pretty fun guy. Yeah. So so we're up. So
43:08
it's the wine Fest. I'm sure you'd be never been there if you haven't,
43:12
but you know what it is. So was there twentieth. It was
43:15
their twentieth anniversary this year. So Ray always hooks me up with tickets and
43:19
the whole thing for me and Nicole. So another you know, we're staying.
43:22
We all stay over this Saturday night. And you could agree it's not
43:27
as good as it used to be, but it's still a fun day.
43:30
I mean as far as like where it is used to be a lot more
43:31
intimate. Now it's just the big hall. And so we're walking around and
43:37
I got a good buzz going and I'm a diehard Patriots fan. You must
43:42
be Giants, Jets, you'll have it, but I have I'm Giants.
43:45
Yea, I have a son that's a big Boston Okay. We're right in
43:49
the middle of the right, that's what I up here. And yeah,
43:52
you're on the cuffs Dolphin fans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here the
43:57
odd ball. Yeah. So we're up there and the show's about to end.
44:00
It's twelve to five and it's like four point fifteen and I look over
44:04
and I see ty Law and I knew thy Law was involved with vodka called
44:08
Corvus and it maybe been out less than a year. And he's taking pictures.
44:15
So I'm like, screw it, I'll sit in line wait for him.
44:17
So we're waiting, waiting. Finally get up there, nicest guy in
44:22
the world. We hit a shot, takes like five pictures with him whatever.
44:27
We're on our way. So fast forward dinner. I'm on a slot.
44:32
I actually hit a slot right as Ray and his wife Julie are walking
44:36
by. I'm like, I just watched it. Hit at thirteen hundred.
44:38
Let's go cheven drink. So then I go around, I buy the drinks.
44:43
Ray goes and hit like seven hundred. While he's sitting there, We're
44:46
like, oh right, you know, we're all having fun. And now
44:49
it's like midnight. And the one thing about like the casinos is they shut
44:52
down like they like bar wise, like they're like, you know, last
44:55
call done. Oh yeah, they don't mess around. Those was Indian laws.
45:00
So we go Novel, right, yes, we go to no Spot.
45:06
Yeah, we go to Novel and uh, you knew the GM I
45:09
think or the manager that was there, and we're just we there's like one
45:15
more so like all right, cool, So we all got you know,
45:16
my girlfriend and his wife, the four of us, we all get one
45:19
last call. The kind of the lights are going up and we see across
45:22
the bar. It's like a big oval bar. We see on the other
45:24
side of his tilt. Now, this dude has been drinking because I watched
45:29
him like every time he took a picture with somebody and he was shot with
45:31
him right, So watching him and uh, he's kind of making his way
45:37
around and right around. Don't you take it from here. I'm gonna I'm
45:40
gonna load the video on it so I could play well, I'll play audio,
45:45
but so I mean, I walk up to him. I say,
45:46
you know, like I got this little thing my daughter and I came up
45:51
with, and I do these videos cooking and being out with people and celebrities
45:57
and all that stuff. So it's an Instagram ray with the song type thing.
46:00
So uh anyways, you know. I so I walk up to him
46:02
and I said, hey, you know, do you mind doing a video
46:05
with me? And this guy's the coolest guy in the planet. He said
46:09
absolutely, I'll do it. I said, well, you know, my
46:12
my punchline is banging baby. You know at the end you guys say,
46:15
hey, it's banging baby. And he's like, yeah, sure, I'll
46:17
do anything. So so so I actually have time. So there was two
46:22
videos, right, So the first video, I'm like waiting for it to
46:23
happen so as and now we're all bombed, okay, and the ties we
46:30
are we are I'm like, I'm ready for a fucking bed. Yeah.
46:35
So he's about to do the video. I'm shooting it and like they remember
46:38
that muscle dude that was there, Like when he put his arms down,
46:42
his muscles were so big. Yeah, So tis like look at the size
46:45
of this guy, and now raised just like, all right, I want
46:47
to get this video over with right, So I stopped filming. I'm like,
46:51
I'm just gonna fucking wait, Like, I can't like this fucking big
46:53
dude over here is in love with Tie, in love with him, and
46:57
raised just standing there. So finally Ray like kind of pulls them in and
47:00
I'm not going to play this part, but I'm gonna play the part where
47:04
they actually like I filmed the thing. But and Ray's like, I just
47:07
you know, hey, how you doing. My daughter and I have this
47:08
thing Ray with the sauce. It's about food and making. So so here
47:12
here is Ray's first ever cameo with ty Law. It was and he was
47:34
good sport. He went along with it, you know. So I became
47:37
a tail and there so Tylo's cousins there, and after all this happened,
47:45
I said to ty I said, hey, aren't you doing something here tomorrow?
47:49
And He's like yeah. So the next day was the a f C
47:51
NSC Championship. So because he's hosting two separate parties watch parties for each one,
47:55
he goes, dude, come by like, sit in my little swim
48:00
like you can hang out with this. Now I'm like, now I'm like
48:01
a fucking eighteen year old again, I'm like, oh my god, I
48:05
can sit with ty Law, hall of Famer, been to a hundred games
48:07
when I had season tickets, Like this is amazing. And my girlfriends look
48:10
at me, like I have to go home tomorrow. I have to work
48:14
Monday, you know. And I'm like, all right, take yeah,
48:16
well, which I should have done, and so I'm like, no,
48:20
wha. So we wake up the next morning, we meet a couple other
48:22
friends for a little bloody Mary with Penalton next time and I call Ray and
48:29
he's like, I'm at my cousins right now up in his room. I
48:31
might have a drink, but we're heading home, And I said, because
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my wife was saying to say, and she's got to teach on Monday,
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you know, we gotta go. So I'm like all right. So I
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drive home. So the whole ride home, I'm texting everyone that I can
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think of that might want to ride back up with me and I'll get you
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know, rooms are cheap on Sunday nights and hang out with ty Law.
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And I was over twenty. I'm like, are you fucking I'm in the
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bar business. I can't find one guy that's got Monday off that one's to
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come up, no one. So I just got home. I said,
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fuck. So we goes by and I'm calling Ray about you know about the
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show, and you know what time we want to do it? And uh,
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what happened to you? Ray? Well, so now I'm sitting there.
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You know, one drink leads into the next, and then my wife's
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having fun. She's gambling. So my cousin and I said, well,
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we might as well play some bet on the game. So we unbeknounced to
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me that this party was going on with ty Law, that he was invited,
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that I wasn't, but you know you were. We're all starting around,
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don't I don't remember. We were won too many penalties anyways, So
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I get there, I walk by his suite. He grabbed me like he
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knew me, like I was his best friend. Lay with the sauce,
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Come on in, come on in. So long story short, he said
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what do you stay for? Drinks? And said, well, you know,
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we're gonna head back and grab some lead and then we're gona leave,
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but we're gonna play some bet. He goes, oh, I'm gonna follow
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you guys. Here's ty Law. He's like, has no idea how to
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bet, so he goes, it's never So I said, come on,
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I'll place one with you. So we put our bet in my cousin and
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I and then I said, you know, who do you like? You
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know? And he goes, I don't know, you pick it. So
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I actually used my money. I'd buy him a bet. You know,
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obviously we didn't win. Look at you, all right, I'm looking.
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I'm looking. You know, this guy made millions throughout his career, and
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I'm spending the twenty five bucks for the bet. I'm like, really,
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you know, but anyways, you think you throw in cheap, you are
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dolphin. I am a dolphin. Yeah. And even though I liked the
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guy, I mean, he was really a great sport with ray with the
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sauce video, but saw I don't know, so he didn't hit it.
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So now I'm like, so so like this prick. He didn't call me
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he's got your seat, Yeah, he's got he's got my seat to I
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didn't sit. I had one drink. He gave me a shot. I
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walked by and we went back to dinner. But it was nice that he
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remembered, I mean, I was his cousin texted me later that day,
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Yo, you're coming up, because like I was all about it and he's
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like, you're not going to be here, you know, Like I hear
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this ship all the time and I was that guy. But I tried my
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damn is to get back up. Yeah he was. You know, I
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figured the night before at Novell we were, you know, pretty at that
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point a night we were drinking that he would remember after drinking a lot.
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I know. That's that's what I was surprised. To be world class athletes,
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they probably don't even get drunk. He was. Yeah, he had
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some cocktables in him. That's all right, we'll get off a couple of
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quick, quick things and then we'll let you guys go world class drinkers.
51:22
John, is there is there gambling on PBR now that we just started talking
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about that, there actually is? I would assume there is, right,
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it's just starting because the hardest part was finding somebody to can handicap it.
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Yeah, we're owned by Endeavor Banes Open Bet and like they're in the business.
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So they finally found people to handcash a handicap it and so it's I
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think legal in four states right now, not Connecticut though, it's not like
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fan duel or any of that stuff. Yet, damn that would be fun
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to gamble on. That mean, we do have a fantasy game, but
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we do have I think I should know this, and I'll probably get fired
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because I don't. But there is an online thing where you can kind of
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bet, yeah, ride and some of those kinds of things. It should
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be on our website. So the so the gambling aspect, would it be
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like horse racing almost or it's it's different things. No, ride, it's
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score, it's you know, wave when you go up, we just kick
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your heels. I mean, you know, is betting is now that flip
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coins rodeo gamblers too? Yeah, I bet I bet quarters in the alley
52:30
is always I bet I can stay on longer than you all that. That's
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how it'll start it right right right. It was a bet that somebody's I
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bet you can't ride that thing on that thing all right? Right? We
52:44
So, so we got some tickets. Yes, I'm just gonna say basically,
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first people that see me six o'clock on Thursday at stone Bridge, I
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got tickets for you. There you go, you know, come down and
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see me. I got two tickets. Give me their email and all I'll
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be digital. Yes, okay, so we'll do it that way. Just
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come down and what night would it be for their pick or Friday? So
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Friday the first or Saturday the Second's great and they're both the same show pretty
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much, right, No, no second, Well the championship rowns on Saturday.
53:16
Okay, okay, so but it's up. But what I mean is
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like you're seeing the same thing right right, You're gonna be right there and
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watching guys very exciting. Is there like a pre show kind of thing?
53:30
Like what time do the gates open? Hour before doors are hour before the
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show? So the shows at eight o'clock, seven, seven o'clock doors,
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jump in, buy some souvenirs. Yeah, absolutely, And then there's I
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think that the the Pyro's right at eight. Nice to start, and we
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are as Ray said that Peddleton is very patriotic and very much about you know,
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first monitors and all that kind of thing. Pbr Our guys are tremendous
54:00
when it comes to supporting military. We're actually in Hampton this weekend. In
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Hampton, Virginia. There's actually a Navy squadron that has a group of fighter
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jets that they call the Raging Bulls. We're honoring the squadron and they named
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all their planes after PBR Bulls, So we're honoring the squadron. Down in
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Hampton. Our CEO is flying into to meet with them, and they're gonna
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there's actually a PBR bar in Hampton. Everybody's getting a drink on the house
54:30
and hopefully they're serving the Pendleton Military Edition. Pendleton is the is the host
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of the after party in Hampton? Yes? Is there an after party in
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Bridgeport both nights there's an after party of can't go wrong with that place.
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Yeah, it's gonna be quite awesome, giveaways and all that fun stuff.
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All right, whoever's listening, come on down Thursday at six. Not if
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I had, like what if I already people there? We can get them
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tickets right, not about thirty, but we'll talk first one first, first
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come, first serve, and to get started, like twenty dollars. Yeah,
55:08
yeah, that's not bad. Yeah, it's a great time. It's
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worth the I'll buy a pair for somebody out. Yeah, and I have
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a promo code. You have a promo code I don't give you. Yeah,
55:17
you can get discount of tickets, yes, by just by yeah,
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just by coming and seeing discount tickets perfect. John, thanks so much for
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coming on the show. Thanks for having that was that was awesome. I
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really didn't know what to expect and your knowledge and working I'm so excited to
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go now. It's a guaranteed good time. Yeah, you will not be
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disappointed, not one bit. And we'll have you back on again drinking and
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talking a little. And that's just it. You got to have a time
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when you're drinking against Yeah, I've been yeah, been a little. Uh,
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it's only been a week, but weeks a long time for me.
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And were you Yeah? And Ray of course as always good friend of mine.
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Thanks for setting this all up. This was a great show. I'm
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excited for it and I can't wait to go. So thanks again. Guys.
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I will talk to you next week and again come see me Thursday and
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I'll have some tickets for you for the show. And PBR it's gonna be
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a Bridgeport Whiskey Penalton Whiskey sponsor. It's the Velocity Tour, so professional bull
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riders probably Pendleton bull Riders PBR. Oh yeah, why don't go, we'll
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playing on that. I like it Pendleton. Yeah, thanks again, guys
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have a great week and a great weekend. Stay good,