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Kade Madsen on the PBR coming to the Delta Center Friday and Saturday, How he became a bull rider + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: seven hundred at ninety two to one am. Welcome back
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  Speaker 2: in Sean O'Connell show today. I am filling in for
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  Speaker 2: oc he is he's headed to Dubai. Thanks for some
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  Speaker 2: PFL action, of course, he's the voice of the Pro
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  Speaker 2: Fighters League on ESPN. How about some PFL to PBR,
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  Speaker 2: some pro bull riding on the station and in the
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  Speaker 2: market this weekend of course PBR at the Delta Center
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  Speaker 2: February sixth and seventh. Of course seven five is when
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  Speaker 2: they get going, so uh, take your take your date
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  Speaker 2: out there, do your thing over the weekend. It's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a good night capper at Pro bull Riding and
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  Speaker 2: in studio with us. Big thanks to our friends at
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  Speaker 2: the PBR and Kate Madson, hometown kid coming out of Honeyville,
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  Speaker 2: Utah and competing in the Salt Lake City Shootout. I
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  Speaker 2: guess I guess we're calling it here as the PBR
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  Speaker 2: descends upon Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 3: Kate, how's it going, man? Good?
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  Speaker 2: Thank for having me. Absolutely welcome in. Now we'll get
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  Speaker 2: into all the PBR stuff. We'll get into the schedule
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  Speaker 2: for the weekend, but let's get some of your background.
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  Speaker 2: A local kid. You're from Honeyville, Folks around Utah. I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of folks know. You know, it's in
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  Speaker 2: the Tremont area. Small town though, So my assumption is
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  Speaker 2: that that rodeo ranching stuff, that that kind of you
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  Speaker 2: were kind of born into it before you you became
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  Speaker 2: an athlete. Give us a little bit of your background
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  Speaker 2: growing up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. So I'm I'm born and raised in Honeyville, Utah.
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  Speaker 1: And just like you said, it is a very small town.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, ever since I was a little kid,
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  Speaker 1: riding horses and roping and things like that, I have
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  Speaker 1: siblings that know, an older brother that rides balls and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and so I looked up to him and and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of followed into his footsteps group watching the movie
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  Speaker 1: eight Seconds, and so that's kind of how you know,
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  Speaker 1: he got his inspiration and then you know I got
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  Speaker 1: my inspiration from him. And so yeah, Rodeo has been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a big part of my life all grown up.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty well the only sport that I've ever done.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, eight seconds was I mean, even folks who
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  Speaker 2: aren't Rodeo fans watching the lane frost tough heating in
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  Speaker 2: the story is is just it's great cinema. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: perfect for what we've got going on here at the
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  Speaker 2: at the PBR. Your background, and this is one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons I love Rodeo. It's not just like basketball
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  Speaker 2: where you're throwing a ball into a bucket and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a game. There's a background from Rodeo
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  Speaker 2: where it comes from guys that were breaking horses so
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  Speaker 2: that they could work, right, it comes from a ranching
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  Speaker 2: background that has roots in like real life. Use give
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  Speaker 2: me an idea of what what it feels like to
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  Speaker 2: turn that type of life style into making a living. Yeah, sir, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're exactly right. It's come a long ways than the
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  Speaker 2: last little while. You know, there for a while it
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  Speaker 2: was just kind of like a hobby or something that
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  Speaker 2: you did way of life, and now the PBR has
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  Speaker 2: made it so that we can, you know, make a
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  Speaker 2: living at it. Something that you love to do. And
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  Speaker 2: so for me it's it's my full time job. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: And so day in and day out, I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: gym working towards, you know, strengthening myself so that my
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  Speaker 1: body's in tip top shape. Whether it's you know, riding
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  Speaker 1: bulls at the house and the practice pen, or riding
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  Speaker 1: horses and't open. It's everything just to get me ready
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  Speaker 1: so that when you know, we go on the weekends,
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  Speaker 1: that I'm ready to win, you know, ride at the
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  Speaker 1: best of my ability.
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  Speaker 2: It really has changed the last i want to say,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty years, where again, like we were talking about,
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  Speaker 2: it was a bunch of guys who were full time cowboys,
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  Speaker 2: meaning that they worked on a ranch, they did their thing,
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  Speaker 2: and then maybe to make some money to supplement the
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  Speaker 2: ranch or two to get ahead, they'd go try to
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  Speaker 2: last eight seconds on a bowl. Now you've got guys
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  Speaker 2: that are are coming in a lot of the guys
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  Speaker 2: from Brazil who you know, they're just athletes, they're full
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  Speaker 2: time athletes. There's there's no a lot of them, not
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  Speaker 2: not even in a ranching background. So it's it's now
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  Speaker 2: kind of transitioned into a place, especially as you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: with the PBR, where it is the full time gig.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a side gig. It's not something you're doing
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  Speaker 2: on the on the side just to get by. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting to watch it transition. Now you're twenty years old,
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  Speaker 2: so you maybe haven't seen a whole lot of that
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  Speaker 2: as much. You've kind of grown up in probably a
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  Speaker 2: place where it is more of a full time sport.
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  Speaker 2: But that's cool to get that background. I I wonder
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in Oakley, so right in the shadows
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  Speaker 2: of the of the Oakley Rodeo, and and loved watching
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  Speaker 2: all the guys that I grew up around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: try to make their way to get into that rodeo,
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  Speaker 2: get into some PRCA events. You of course go full
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  Speaker 2: time in PBR. You do some other rough stock stuff
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  Speaker 2: as well, though, So how does how does your schedule
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  Speaker 2: throughout the year kind of formulate when you've got the PBR,
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  Speaker 2: maybe some PRCA events, maybe some events around your your
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  Speaker 2: local community. What does that look like for you trying
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  Speaker 2: to fit all that in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I I definitely enjoy all aspects of
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  Speaker 1: just being a cowboy, and so I try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get back and you know, ride some brons for some
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  Speaker 1: barebacks or rope when I can. But you know, the
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  Speaker 1: the big rocks in the bucket is the pbr And
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  Speaker 1: so that's kind of where my my schedule takes shape
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  Speaker 1: around is I'm making sure that I'm there on the weekends.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, fortunate to the state of Utah, we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of really good rodeos and fairs throughout
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  Speaker 1: the summer that you know, some of them start on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday, and so I typically will try to make
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  Speaker 1: one on a Thursday and then fly out Friday morning
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  Speaker 1: to make it to the PBRs. Because you know, for
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  Speaker 1: me and my career, getting to where I'm at today
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  Speaker 1: came a lot from riding horses and just being a
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  Speaker 1: way of life every single day. And so that's that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of where I you know, revert back to to
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  Speaker 1: get me ready as you know, whether I'm riding bucking
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  Speaker 1: horses or anything like that, I try to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do it as much as I can before where I
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  Speaker 1: go to the PBRs.
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  Speaker 2: So the more you're on a big old, big old
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  Speaker 2: animal getting bucked around, the more natural it feels. Right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: did you have did you ever, any any situations before
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  Speaker 2: you became like a rough stock guy where maybe you
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  Speaker 2: didn't mean to be on a bucking horse, but it happened,
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  Speaker 2: Like any any moments on the ranch where that that
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  Speaker 2: was a formative moment for you where oh maybe I
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  Speaker 2: could actually do this intentionally or was it the mini bulls,
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  Speaker 2: the whole shebang from the start? Were you always trying
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  Speaker 2: to get on bucking animals?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just having my older brother as an example and
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  Speaker 1: you know, seeing him ride, I've just always just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like went towards that and wanted to be doing
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  Speaker 1: whatever he was doing. In the beginning, it was something
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  Speaker 1: that really scared me, and to start with it, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't something that I could really see myself doing long
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  Speaker 1: term because I had to get over that fear. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, as you get older and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: recognized that I had some some was black with some
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  Speaker 1: talent and thing like that and things like that, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a good way to make a living that
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  Speaker 1: they'll pay if you stay on, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I got over that fear. So it's always I've just been, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: looking to ride something that bucks ever since I was little.
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  Speaker 2: It was I want to say almost the opposite for me.
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  Speaker 2: I still like to ride and and do the thing.
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  Speaker 2: But the first time that I had a horse buck
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  Speaker 2: on me, it was it wasn't good. I face forward,
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  Speaker 2: hit its head and I was out. I was out cold.
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  Speaker 2: So I got hung up underneath the horse, broken arms,
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  Speaker 2: all the all the shebang, and and after that, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, hmm, I'm gonna let the real cowboys. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna let I'm gonna let them do that now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of the opposite experience in that regard. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I do want to ask you. You mentioned your brother Briggs,
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  Speaker 2: your influences in in rodeo, in maybe bull riding, but
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  Speaker 2: just rough stock in general. What was that look like
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  Speaker 2: maybe Briggs, but maybe outside of that too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So from a young age, I always loved watching
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  Speaker 1: the NFR and watching the bareback riding specifically and Casey
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  Speaker 1: Filled He's a Utah Native world champion maryback riding multily
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  Speaker 1: multi time world champion bareback rider, and so I always
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be him from a young age. And so
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  Speaker 1: the bar back riding is really where I kind of
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  Speaker 1: got the the competitive edge from, you know, junior high,
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  Speaker 1: high school and stuff like that. But outside of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, grew up watching the PBR with my brother
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  Speaker 1: and so people like Luke Snyder, who's actually he's my
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  Speaker 1: coach now on the Missouri Thunder. But really it's always
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  Speaker 1: been like my older brother Briggs, and then my dad
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  Speaker 1: because he also rode bucking horses. Because those are the
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  Speaker 1: people that you know, you interact with that were always
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  Speaker 1: you know, supporting me, helping me do whatever it was
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  Speaker 1: to be the best.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that you bring up Casey.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's now down I think in central Utah, but
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  Speaker 2: his dad, Lewis, is from Oakley. He's he's a South
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  Speaker 2: stommach guy and and was really good friends with my
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  Speaker 2: uncles and was an influence on my uncle becoming a
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  Speaker 2: bull rider in a roughstock guy. And so I grew
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  Speaker 2: up with Casey's cousins and all the fields up there
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  Speaker 2: and just loved watching his career. And you mentioned it
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  Speaker 2: seven time world champ. I think, yeah, it's up there.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's over four for sure. I well, and then
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  Speaker 2: he came back in one another one like just out
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  Speaker 2: of the blues. So Casey Field probably the best to
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  Speaker 2: ever do it in in that regard. But Utah has
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  Speaker 2: a rich history of competing cowboys. Man, it's it's really
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  Speaker 2: fun to watch. You know, you get to the NFR now,
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  Speaker 2: I know your goals right now are to to get
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  Speaker 2: to the finals in May rather than December and in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: But every year you tune in and the right brothers
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  Speaker 2: the you know, you just look all over and there's
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  Speaker 2: guys from Utah that are doing it. Is that you know,
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  Speaker 2: a rising shot tide always lifts all boats, right, But
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  Speaker 2: is that something that growing up in and seeing that competition,
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  Speaker 2: do you feel like kind of drew you and drove
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  Speaker 2: you to to just be better? Seeing that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going all around the country, there's there's cowboys that are
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  Speaker 2: doing the thing, but here in Utah seems like it's
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  Speaker 2: it's really really competitive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely, Like I feel like Texas and stuff
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  Speaker 1: gets the reputation for having the best cowboys, and I
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  Speaker 1: would definitely say that there's a lot more cowboys and
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  Speaker 1: you know the cowboy lifestyle in Texas in those places.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, quality over quantity for sure. Here in Utah.
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  Speaker 1: Like most of the cowboys that come out of Utah
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  Speaker 1: like they're they're very talented, Like you see it, you
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  Speaker 1: know throughout the years, you know, Casey Phil it is yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, multi world champions that come out of Utah,
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  Speaker 1: and so for me, you know, seeing that it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: been you know, whether it was high school rodeo, there
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  Speaker 1: is always somebody that you know was very talented that
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  Speaker 1: would push you to be better. And that's always good
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  Speaker 1: for you, you know, having somebody to push you.
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  Speaker 2: So, most definitely, what are your goals when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to long term? This is a sport that it can
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  Speaker 2: tear you up and churn you out pretty quick, right,
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  Speaker 2: But even if you have a five ten year career,
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  Speaker 2: what does that look like on the back end. You've
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  Speaker 2: already gone and competed, You've already won events, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you're you're angling for a gold buckle.
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  Speaker 3: Two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely that is definitely something that I have
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  Speaker 1: in my goals as to be a world champion.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're in the midst of the PBR the
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  Speaker 1: individual season right now, and so it'd be in my
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  Speaker 1: first year, I'm looking to win the Rookie of the
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  Speaker 1: Year come May and then hit at full force next
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  Speaker 1: year to win a world title. And I know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a young man's game for sure, and so
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  Speaker 1: I know I can't do this forever and so dedicateing
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  Speaker 1: all of my time and stuff for now to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: those goals.
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  Speaker 3: Most definitely give.
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  Speaker 2: Folks a little insight on the difference with PBR and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just the rodeo that they go to on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday Friday night where you've got the you've got
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  Speaker 2: the team rope, and you've got the calf calf stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the barrel racing. With PBR, it's all about
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  Speaker 2: bull riding, but there's also a kind of a newer
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  Speaker 2: aspect of it where you guys are competing as teams.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are competing as these organizations. It adds an
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  Speaker 2: interesting and I think really exciting and fun dynamic to it,
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  Speaker 2: especially for TV. Right, you've made it like a different event.
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  Speaker 2: How does how does that kind of all come together
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  Speaker 2: into what you guys are putting out? Because it's Missouri
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  Speaker 2: thunder right, so what you're rolling with, So just tell
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit about that. How you work as
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  Speaker 2: a team in such an individual sport. Yeah, so, just
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  Speaker 2: like you said, like the PBR, it's all bull riding. Like,
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  Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, I love watching all the other events,
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  Speaker 2: But most people I'd probably say is, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: anticipating the bull riding because it's the it's the most
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  Speaker 2: dangerous and it's you know, the most action packed, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's all bull riding in with the teams, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, just the same.
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  Speaker 1: They're five on five games. We play against another team,
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  Speaker 1: whoever it might be, and the wins happen individually, Like
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  Speaker 1: we still got to ride our bowl. We're still scored,
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  Speaker 1: you know, rider one to fifty bowl one to fifty
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  Speaker 1: possible of one hundred points. And so it adds an
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  Speaker 1: aspect of more accountability, you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 1: going on the weekends, you get bucked off.
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  Speaker 3: It's just you, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But you're riding for somebody else too, you know, four
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  Speaker 1: other guys on the team, and they're they're depending on
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  Speaker 1: you to do your job so that they can feed
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  Speaker 1: their family. Because like I said, this is how we
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  Speaker 1: make our living. And so it's really a cool aspect
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  Speaker 1: to be able to, you know, be with a team
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  Speaker 1: and the camaraderie and things like that, each and every
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  Speaker 1: person pushing each other to be better, you know, ultimately
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  Speaker 1: to win and so it's something that it really helped me.
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  Speaker 1: I got to ride it for one season before I
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  Speaker 1: went on my mission back in twenty twenty three for
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  Speaker 1: the Missouri Thunder, and really it helped me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It was you know, I was eighteen years old, so
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  Speaker 1: I was young, and I felt like it helped me
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  Speaker 1: a lot to be able to develop into the bull
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  Speaker 1: rider them today.
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  Speaker 2: Well you're eighteen years old, but you won some events.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of splashed onto the scene of PBR and
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  Speaker 2: then everyone was like.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd this kid go? What was that experience?
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  Speaker 2: Like? Where you now growing up in Utah. Everyone kind
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  Speaker 2: of knows the deal with the LDS mission, But how
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  Speaker 2: was that for your bull riding? When you're someone who's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're probably getting on the back of something
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  Speaker 2: every day and then you're headed to Nashville, Tennessee. Right,
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  Speaker 2: You're headed to a place to serve the do your thing.
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  Speaker 2: Were you able to even get on a bull, were
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  Speaker 2: you able to ride a horse? What was that like
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  Speaker 2: the two years where you maybe had to take it
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  Speaker 2: a step away?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very foreign for me because just like
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  Speaker 1: you said, like rodeo riding horses has been like an
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  Speaker 1: every day just my entire life, and so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to ride bulls, ride horses, or do anything that
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  Speaker 1: I had done for you know, my entire life up
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  Speaker 1: to that point. And so getting out there, like obviously
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  Speaker 1: I went to the gym and stuff, but I saw
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  Speaker 1: bucking bulls and like horses one time in those two years,
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  Speaker 1: which is like that never has never happened in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life, and so it was it was an interesting
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  Speaker 1: experience that I'm very thankful for because you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you're young, you don't really grasp the concept that this
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  Speaker 1: is temporary, like this can all be taken away and
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  Speaker 1: you know, a split second. And so getting out there
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  Speaker 1: and having that opportunity it made me more thankful for
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  Speaker 1: the things that I have, the talents that I'm blessed with.
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  Speaker 1: And then coming back, you know, I'm two years more
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  Speaker 1: mature physically mentally, and so I feel like I just
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  Speaker 1: bring a different aspect to bull riding now for my
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  Speaker 1: career that you know, I understand that, you know, everything's
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  Speaker 1: a blessing, it's all temporary, and so you don't take
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  Speaker 1: things for granted as often I feel. So it was
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  Speaker 1: definitely an experience that I would do over again in
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  Speaker 1: a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 3: How is Tennessee now?
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of people out there wearing
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: cowboy hats and boots, but there's not necessarily a whole
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: lot of you know, the actual Western lifestyle going on,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: What was that like cultural shift?
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, like agriculture is pretty big, like in the
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: more rural parts of Tennessee in Kentucky where I was at.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: But just like you said, like the Western industry, like
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: rodeo is like non exist right out there. It's very
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: few and far between, and so I really enjoyed the
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: people out there. There's you know, people are super nice
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: in the South. The Southern hospitality is definitely real. I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: would go back and visit, but I would never live there.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And there's probably people that, you know, think I'm crazy
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: for saying that, But I just love the rocky mountains
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: like that's my home. I love the snow all that stuff.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: But it was a it was a good experience. But yeah,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Western industry, it's it's not really there.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: So it's a whole different world. Man.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: When you when you go out there, now, you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: go do the thing. Go check out the country music museums,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: go hang out and see Nashville and and the rolling
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: hills of Tennessee. But there's you know, and we talk
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: about being a cowboy, not by choice or by profession,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: but just by your lifestyle.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have out there the open lands we do,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the mountains, the the places where you you know, guys
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: on grazing permits, where you have this literal open range,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: and it's it's just different.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: It's just different.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: And as you mentioned the rodeo circuits, there's there's several
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: of them, right, there's PRCA, there's there's the Wilderness Circuit.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: But they're all out here now. Maybe a few events
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: in Houston and and and veering over into some of
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the arenas out there. I think they did an event
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: in New York a few years back, right, And the
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: PBR does events all over the place, even internationally. But
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: it feels like home of rodeo is very much out here.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: No, yeah, most definitely, the the West Coast is is
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: not only my home, but yeah, just like you said,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: like the more west that you go, you see that
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: lifestyle of more and more.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: So it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Like you said, the country music is awesome out there.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It's you know, the capitol for the country music and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: things like that. But I'll listen to my country music
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: while I'm here in Utah, for sure.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: That's fair enough.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: All right, zero in on on the weekend of course,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: February sixth and seventh. If you guys haven't got your
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: tickets PBR dot com, you can go there. You can
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: also go to our website to get some more info
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: on it. But what's the lowdown on the Salt Lake
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: City event? Have you got your draws yet? You know
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: what what bowls you're gonna be on? You know what
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the what the weekend's gonna look like.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have my draw super good bowl. We
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: were in Sacramento, California this last weekend and so I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: got to watch the bowl that I'm getting on this weekend.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Go you're scouting?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And so definitely a big opportunity to win
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the round the first night. We have a preseason team
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: event this weekend. I think we're playing the Kansas City Outlaws,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: which you know they're also the other Missouri team and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: so that's a little bit of a rivalry and so
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: really looking forward to it. I haven't had an opportunity
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to ride at the Delta Center yet because I went
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: on my mission, and so there was a time I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: missioned a couple months back while I was still out there,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: that I made it a goal that I wanted to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: be back to not just ride in Salt Lake City,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: but to win, especially in front of my home home
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: state crowd.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Any other Utah Cowboys this week.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one other one. He's from southern Utah, Kishon Whitehorse.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: But it's just us too, all right.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Well, Kishan and Caid the hometown kids of course, Cade
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: from Honeyville and Kishan from down in southern Utah competing
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: for PBR in a preseason event here today. If you
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: guys haven't got your tickets, it is PBR dot com,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: SeatGeek dot com, Delta Center dot com. If you head
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: over to our website as well, we'll get all the links.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Seven forty five is when they get going, So get
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: in your seats and get ready. Plenty of time still
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: for you to watch Super Bowl, do your thing, and
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: still get out to the PBR event this weekend. Ky,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming in. It's been good to get
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: to know you a little bit and get to chatting.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be we're gonna be tuning in and We're
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: gonna be cheering for you, Thank you, and paying attention
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: as you go. We got we've got plenty of runway
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: in front of you. Twenty years old, still to do
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: this thing. Thanks man, Thank you,