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Episode 10: Colton Mcmurdie · Random Ass Dudes Podcast

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  Welcome to Rad Cast, the Random Ass Dudes podcast where
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  There it is. Heck yeah, man.
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  Awesome, this one, I'm super pumped.
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  I think I posted yesterday that I'm super excited about this
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  one. So what is this Episode 10?
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  Yep, episode 10 episode. 10. We've got one O.
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  Yeah, we've got Colt Mccurt Mcmurdy on here.
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  Yes, Sir, Glad to be here. Glad to be here.
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  Thanks for coming. Looking good man.
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  Appreciate it man. What's that's all due to cowboy
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  hardware Cowboy. Hardware.
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  Big shout out there. They sponsor me, yeah.
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  Very cool, very cool. Do they send you a lot of
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  clothes, a lot or what? Yeah, I'm, that's actually one
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  of my Grant Gomez and Ransom Gomez.
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  They get some good friends of mine.
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  I've known them. I teamed up with them all the
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  time. So once I got into the music
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  deal, actually, Ransom was pushing me for a long time to
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  get to do this, for longer than I even was thinking about it,
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  really. Yeah.
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  As soon as I did they he was all on board, the sponsor and
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  everything. So yeah.
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  Heck yeah. So you are born and raised
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  Arizona. Yeah, I'm 6th generation from
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  Arizona. 6th generation, yeah. Where?
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  Where? 'D you grow up at.
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  I grew up, you know, through middle school I was over off in
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  the North Valley and then right before high school we moved out
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  here to Whitman, not too far from you guys down the road,
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  went to Wickenburg High School and then went to finished out in
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  a prep school over in surprise. OK, yeah, nice.
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  Yep, Yep. And obviously you're a Roper.
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  Yeah, I team rope. Still team rope.
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  Yeah, Yeah. So.
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  And that was a kicker, you know. So I where do you want to start,
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  you know? This is your show.
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  There's a lot to hold here. Yeah, I just, I just want to
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  address the elephant in the room.
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  Yeah, OK, Your mustache, dude. Yeah, What's going on?
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  It looks good, bro. I appreciate it.
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  Looks good. I like it.
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  I. Appreciate it.
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  You do not think that's where he was going with him in?
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  The. Room, I feel like, I feel like
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  the mustache is where it's at. It's coming back, man.
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  They're all coming back if I. Could do it if I wish I could do
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  it but I got a double chin coming so I don't want to be a
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  part of a Chinese phone book my. Dad says I'm in training my dad.
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  My dad's got the full fireman statue so he he likes to make
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  fun of me. So you guys are firefighter?
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  Yeah, he's on. He's on SWAT team and he goes
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  fired and yeah, for Glendale. Oh wow.
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  Very cool. Nice, nice.
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  I know some. So my dad was a firefighter as
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  well, and then my brother's a firefighter too.
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  OK, right on. So they work for.
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  I don't know if I can see. See.
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  Yeah, Peoria. Yeah, Peoria.
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  And then my dad also worked for Sun City West.
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  OK, right now. So he's retired though.
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  Yeah, my dad's, yeah, my dad's been on Glendale for 23 years,
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  24 years, something like that. Nice.
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  And they had a, they opened up a swap position for medics.
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  Oh, wow. Like 4 years ago or five years
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  ago? He's been on, he's been doing
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  that for the last three or four years and he's all, he's all
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  done. Oh man, He, he went from
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  carrying again to carrying three, you know.
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  Yeah, he's all tactical. Down he's but he loves it, man
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  he. Doesn't like go to like
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  buildings, But hold on, hold on, son.
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  Yeah, let. Me, see what we got here.
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  Yeah, let me just go about to see what's going on here.
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  That's awesome. Yeah.
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  So other elephant in the room. I'm in a wheelchair.
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  There you go. I'll throw that one out there
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  for everybody that's listening. Yeah.
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  I got paralyzed when I was 17 years old.
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  It was three months before the end of my junior year high
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  school. So I was, I was actually, I was
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  right, right here off 211th on not on Patton, but 211th off of
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  74. OK, right in front of the old
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  proving grounds, right to the Toyota proving grounds.
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  And I rolled a Toyota 4 runner. I was doing like 110 miles an
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  hour in the Toyota 4. I had all 95 or 97.5 speed.
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  I blew a back lift tire. And so my my the butt end of my
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  car. I don't know if you sorry.
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  Yeah, but the butt end of my car kind of slid out a little bit.
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  And I mean, I know not to pump my brakes or anything or turn or
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  anything. Just try and ride it out when
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  you get a flat like that. But I pulled my front in just a
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  little bit just trying to keep it straight, man.
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  And I remember my side, my side window just smack in the ground.
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  And then I went black. But I can kind of remember just
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  like it felt like I was in a barrel, just kind of like thrown
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  out of a plane, like I could just remember being thrown
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  around. My buddy Keegan Lindsay was
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  right behind me and he, he watched me fly out the front
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  windshield in the 2nd row. My car hit sideways and then
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  went end over end on the front windshield.
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  And I woke up on the ground like 30 seconds later and I sat up.
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  I remember trying to move my legs and they didn't move it in.
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  So I was like, man, my back's broke for sure.
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  So I just laid back down, you know, I just tried to be still.
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  And he was, he was away on the distance, yell my name because
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  he couldn't find where I'd landed.
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  OK, my car, my car rolled like 14 times.
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  You went like in the desert. Yeah, he said.
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  I hit like, well, no, I was on the hip of the road when my car
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  went clear to the desert. So he didn't see and he pulled
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  off because he didn't want to hit me, you know, he didn't know
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  if I'd where I'd landed that and he just drove in where my, where
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  my car was at and he couldn't. Yeah.
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  Anyhow, I whistled loud one time.
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  I can whistle pretty loud. And I whistled loud one time.
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  He'd come, you know, running over and got there and he kind
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  of, you know, froze up, you know, a little bit, you know,
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  what do you do? And so I was like, call 911,
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  man. And and then he called my mom
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  right after that. And she got there before the
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  fire department, did she? She probably did $1.20 down the
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  road. And yeah, I mean, it was a whole
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  ordeal and she was there to hold my head and I was just
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  apologizing for not wearing a seat belt.
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  She's just not worried about that right now, you know?
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  Well. It sounds like if you were to
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  wear your seat belt you would have been wearing a car.
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  Is that? Yeah, for sure.
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  And at the time my dad was a flight medic and so he was, I
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  think he just gotten off work or whatever, but the native, native
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  self launched and self landed. They did some kind of believable
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  things, but it was whatever. I think it inevitably ended up
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  saving my life, you know, just the quickness and to everything.
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  But yeah, they fight. They well, actually before that
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  I didn't feel hardly any pain, you know, and my leg, my leg was
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  wide open, like, I mean, from my ankle all the way backside of my
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  knee when I was on the ground. And I mean, that was like falls
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  are well, you know, and but when the when the fire department got
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  there, this guy, this guy. Walked into me and he's like
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  cold. He said this is going to hurt
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  like hell. And I hadn't felt really any
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  pain. I was in shock, you know, still.
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  And he pulled out a Craftsman drill with a like a drill wood
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  tail on it. Hit that right into my shoulder.
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  They did a bone tap on me. And I mean, oh, like that was
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  the most like just feeling your bone, you know, just going
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  through because your bones have more blood.
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  I mean, I'm sure you guys kind of know about that medically,
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  but feels you don't know, you know, there's your bones have
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  like way more blood flow than any part of your body.
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  So I can ward and stuff like that.
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  I mean, they'll just hit you with a bone tap and they can hit
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  you with drugs like right, right away, you know, and I mean, once
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  he hit me with that and shove those into me, I was like, you
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  know, that was when I started. And then I when I finally like
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  went all the way out. So they did.
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  I was in the helicopter, remember the helicopter taking
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  off and then they flew me. They tried flying me to John C
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  Lincoln and my dad, my dad got into with a couple cops and
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  actually ended up getting into the back of the dispatch
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  officer's car. And he said you reroute my son
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  to PCH and or I mean, it's you're gonna have a big problem
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  on your hands. And they they said we're already
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  in in route to Johnson Lincoln. And he said I don't, I don't, I
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  don't care where you're in route to.
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  He said, I legally can tell you where you fly and you're flying
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  to PCH. So and PCH is just there, top of
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  the line. Yeah, I mean, I was a six foot
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  4/17. Year old going in the VCH.
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  So when I was in there, they had to find, they had to bring in
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  another bed, you know, But yeah. Anyhow, they took me there.
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  I was in, I was in ICU for a week and a half and a medically,
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  you know, induced coma and, and then I was overall, I was in the
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  hospital for I think 4, three and a half, four months,
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  something like that. And yeah, I mean for the first
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  while I was in there. So they put All in all, I tore
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  my aorta in two places. So they put 2 aortic stents in.
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  Oh damn, I broke my back T12. So they fused my new spine 2
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  above, 2 below, so 5 vertebrae all together.
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  And then I, I opened my leg wide open and it was, it was luckily
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  it was kind of crazy. I mean, I can show you as a
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  picture. I don't know if it, if it helps
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  the podcast at all, but yeah, the what else I do, I puncture,
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  I claps both my lungs. So I had five chest tubes and
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  then just a whole bunch of stuff.
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  I can't remember what else but I shattered my scapula.
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  How far? How far do you?
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  Do you know that obviously you got ejected out of the?
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  I was, how far was I was probably 60.
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  I was probably 20 yards, 60 feet.
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  I I don't know, to be honest with you, because I I was once I
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  was on the ground, I was, you know, yeah, pretty
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  incapacitated. But and then so for the first
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  good while I was in the hospital, I couldn't feel
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  nothing from the waist down. And we were actually rolling
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  through the hallway one time. And my dad.
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  Holy. Shit.
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  My yeah, that it's pretty gnarly.
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  Like dude, it looks like you got attacked by a shark.
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  Dude, I tell people that just depends on what we're doing, but
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  yeah. That looks like a $50 steak at
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  Costco. Hey, I do little salt and
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  pepper. 5 minutes. This is 5 minutes aside.
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  On the grill and down the Hatch. Did you all see that?
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  I don't know if they wanted to. But.
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  But yeah, so that. Yeah, we were in there.
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  But anyhow, one, one of those days my, I had 9, so I had 9
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  surgeries on this left leg and they did, you know, cosmetic
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  surgery or whatever, the plastic surgery, you know, I mean,
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  probably for what it looked like, for what it looks like
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  now, it looks amazing. You know, I, I'm, it's amazing
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  naughty Scar, don't get me wrong, but my dad was pushing me
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  down the hallway one time and he actually slammed my feet in the
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  wall and I was like, ow. And he's like, what?
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  Did you say he slammed my legs in the wall again?
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  No, he just kept slamming him over and over again.
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  I was like, I was like, I feel it.
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  Yeah, you could quit. And anyhow, so then from there
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  just a long road of therapy and, and get so I, I feel everything
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  down in my toes. I can't, I can't move anything
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  from the knee down. So I got no control my feet or
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  anything. Like if you see my feet like
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  moving, it's they just move on their own.
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  Sometimes they get sometimes, yeah, they did all these.
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  Sometimes they'll just sit there and bounce and whatever.
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  But didn't like they tried trying to, they tried to put
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  like Botox and back to my calves to make that stop.
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  And I'm like, I mean, is the movement hurting anything?
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  They're like, no, my wool. And it's only helping your
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  stuff. Like, yeah, you know what I
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  mean? It's helping your circulation.
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  It's helping everything. So let's not kill anything more
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  than what I've already lost. Like obviously the point of that
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  is anyhow, yeah. So A-Team wrote before that and
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  you know, once I, once I got in the car accident, it was my
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  family. My family is a huge support, you
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  know, and I, I had a, as far as you want to say, picture perfect
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  childhood. I mean, I had great parents.
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  I had, I have a great, I just have a great support system, you
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  know what I mean? And I, I, that's a blessing.
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  And I know that and not everybody has that, you know,
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  And I, it's super, that's something I hold close to me.
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  And I some those are people that I really look up to and I try,
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  try to try to live like, you know, but without them, I this
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  wouldn't, I don't think this would have gone the way that it
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  went, you know, and I think that I sure I'm strong enough to go
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  through this, this adversity and stuff like that.
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  But I think at the same time, it's damn sure it takes people,
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  you know what I mean? Yeah, it takes, you know what I
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  mean? And so, you know, my parents
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  told me like, you know, we could take care of you and, and, and
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  you could, the way I heard it was you could be a vegetable in
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  our house the rest of your life. And that's our job as parents to
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  take care of you. But there's no reason that you
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  can't do everything you used to do just a little different, you
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  know, And so it was like that day I was like, we called Corky
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  iron over at dynamite horse supply.
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  And I was, I was like, dude, I'm sending you a saddle like
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  figure, whatever you think you need to put on there for me to
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  build a rope and ride again, like get it done and like, and
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  that it was waiting for me. You know, my grandpa sent it
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  over there and that was waiting for us.
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  When, when you know, actually, you know, my grandpa sent that
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  over there before I even before I even made that decision,
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  actually, my grandpa, I forgot about that.
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  My grandpa sent it over there and it was already done.
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  So yeah. And so like, my grandpa was
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  like, he's like, I knew, like he's the guy.
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  I knew you'd get back to it, you know, whatever.
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  Roper at the core, right? Yeah, yeah.
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  What's that? Roper at the core, right, you
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  weren't. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
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  yeah. And so he, yeah, it was pretty
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  cool, but. And so that was already done,
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  rigged out when I got out of the hospital and yeah, and it took,
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  I mean, it was frustrating like it was.
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  And things like, not to my horn or anything, but like, things
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  don't come hard for me. Like I've always been just like
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  one of those. And I never like push things to
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  like as best as I could be, but I just always would be like
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  naturally good at something. Sure.
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  And then I just coast on that, you know what I mean?
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  And I just, I never had to try very hard at things.
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  Like I did my piss my brother off, like absolutely drove him
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  off the wall 'cause he puts like a lot of time and effort and
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  things that he like does and like likes to do.
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  But yeah, so but roping was never one of those things like
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  I've been, I mean, I've had a rope in my hand since I was 2
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  years old. I've since I can remember, you
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  know what I mean? I've just roping's been one of
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  those things that my family does and we love to do.
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  So once I, once I got tried to get back to it, you know, it was
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  a long learning process of finding what horse worked and
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  finding how to, you know, keep my horses differently because
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  obviously now horsemanship is all feet.
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  No, no hands, really soft handed.
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  And then you're all in your feet.
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  And now I'm teaching my horses to be blind to my feet, listen
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  just to my hands and my mouth, you know, So it's just a whole
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  different learning. And, and I predominantly headed
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  all growing up and I switched to the heel side just because
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  there's a lot more horsemanship in my opinion than heading, you
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  know what I mean? I don't know how too familiar
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  you guys are with, you know, horsemanship and stuff.
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  I'm sure you guys know, you know, you know enough to, you
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  know, I don't know, I don't know what you guys experience our
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  horse basic. Yeah.
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  So but anyhow, you know, it's it was very much so more on a
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  hillside. You can just kind of keep an
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  animal wide and then let him in. And it's a lot more flat and a
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  lot and a lot, just a lot easier as far as horsemanship goes.
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  So that's why I switched to that.
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  And then it probably took a year and a half before I was like,
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  back to roping again, you know, back to doing it.
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  Like were you, was it like full confidence year and a.
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  Half, I wouldn't say full confidence, but I was, I was
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  confident enough to go compete. Yeah.
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  And actually, you know, it might have been longer than that.
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  I it's hard to remember. It might have been two years,
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  you know, there where I was back to like a competition.
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  Yeah. That's like actually I could
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  tell you what year it was 02022 'cause I won that.
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  I wore this on privilege. I won, I won that.
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  If there's the first buckle, I won.
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  I won two that day. So I was 2022, so 2017.
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  So it was four years, 5, four years after.
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  Right. Yeah, four years after that I
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  that I went back to competition and I just, I just practiced all
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  that time, you know, So, yeah, man, longer than I thought.
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  So four years after that, I was that I went to that I got back
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  on a 'cause I didn't get back on a horse until after, I mean, I
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  was in the hospital for four months and then just getting
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  back to like, you know, being moving around and getting around
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  learning the, the new normal and then and then so, yeah, but so I
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  guess you have four years back to once I competed again.
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  And then it was in that it was, it's, it's still not full
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  confidence. I would say.
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  Like I'm, I'm confident enough to go compete, you know what I
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  mean? Like and, and do stuff like
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  that. I'm, and I'm good enough to, to
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  win, you know what I mean? And it's just, but it's very
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  much so like when I say full confidence, no, like, I mean,
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  it's never, it's never going to be what I, what I used to be
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  able to do on a horse, you know what I mean?
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  But it's, but it's, I mean, it's confident enough that I'm that
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  I'm like that I'm like, I'm pumped to give get on my horse
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  and rope. But I'm I can go getting an
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  arena with other people on. Horses and like you know, you
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  could compete. Yeah, You know, I'm not afraid
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  to do it like I'm. I'm damn sure I can go look
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  someone in the eye and be like, let's go rope, you know, I mean,
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  let's go match or you wanna go enter and, and people look at me
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  and go, yeah, I'm confident to enter with you, you know, and
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  they're like, they're not like, oh, you know, I don't.
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  Want to, I don't know. I want to waste 180 bucks with
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  this guy. You know what I mean?
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  Like people like hell yeah, can you want to eat?
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  And people call, you know, people call me want hey, you
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  want to come heal for me and this and be a heal for me and
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  that? Yeah, I'm down.
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  That's awesome. And so in that sense, yeah, it's
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  cool to be confident enough back to that level of where, you
• 17:07
  know, buddies would call me to go compete and I'll call buddies
• 17:10
  to compete, you know? Did you, were you in the process
• 17:14
  of training your own horses? Cause not a lot of horses
• 17:17
  probably see wheelchairs. Yeah, the way you get up and
• 17:20
  stuff. Yeah, so like those of you who
• 17:22
  see my TikTok, I'm sure some of you guys have seen my you guys
• 17:25
  have probably seen my TikTok and stuff like that.
• 17:30
  When I first got the first time I tried getting back on like it
• 17:33
  like you just said, like it's horses.
• 17:36
  They're used to guy walking up, stepping their foot in a stirrup
• 17:38
  and swinging on. So like when I first time I.
• 17:40
  Tried doing a muscle up onto 1. I mean he took off with me and I
• 17:43
  hung out. I hung on for a few.
• 17:44
  Seconds and then I was like, I better just bail.
• 17:46
  I'm not gonna sing gonna get any better, you know, And then but
• 17:49
  and then we pinned in between the fans and I got on or
• 17:51
  whatever. But the horse that I ride now, I
• 17:55
  was actually living out in Oklahoma and I just, I moved out
• 17:59
  to Kansas 'cause I had a buddy that I went to Wickenburg High
• 18:02
  School with. There was a good friend of mine
• 18:03
  and he, he lived out here in Witman too, actually.
• 18:05
  But after, after he graduated high school, he had moved back
• 18:09
  out to Kansas, to Cedarville. And I was working up at NRS.
• 18:13
  I was shaping hats up here and he called me and he was like,
• 18:15
  what are you doing? I was like shaping hats right
• 18:17
  now. And he's like, you want to move
• 18:18
  out of Kansas? And I was like, why not?
• 18:19
  You know what, I had nothing timing down.
• 18:21
  Why not see somewhere different? You know, he said the summers
• 18:23
  are kind of fun out there. So I'd flown out there and I I
• 18:28
  liked it. We were all we did was fish and
• 18:29
  back Rd. and you know whatever down the back roads and.
• 18:33
  Sauce. Well, yeah, you know, it's I.
• 18:35
  Mean you go booze cruise back Rd. and shoot stuff and
• 18:38
  whatever. It's just how it is kind of in
• 18:39
  the Midwest. But I flew back out here, got my
• 18:42
  truck and moved out there and I was there for I ended up meeting
• 18:46
  a girl and. This was after the accident.
• 18:48
  This is all after the accident. Yeah.
• 18:51
  I met a girl down in Oklahoma when I was 'cause I was, I was
• 18:53
  shaping hats down there for, for Joey Lee.
• 18:58
  He owns Osage Outfitters down there.
• 19:00
  And you know, like Ree Drummond is, I'm sure she does the
• 19:02
  Pioneer Woman and all that. So her store was right next to
• 19:05
  our shop. So I know Ree and I, I actually
• 19:08
  got to go like to her daughter's wedding like this.
• 19:10
  I mean, she had a million and a half in flowers.
• 19:11
  Like it was ridiculous, ridiculous.
• 19:14
  It was crazy. And she's she's a good lady.
• 19:18
  Whatever, you know. But I don't know if you heard
• 19:21
  that movie. Killer is the Flower Moon.
• 19:23
  Yeah. I shaped all those hats for that
• 19:24
  movie. No way.
• 19:25
  Yeah. So I shaved Leonardo's hat.
• 19:27
  I shaved all those guys hats. Yeah.
• 19:29
  So I. Was like I'm gonna rewatch it.
• 19:30
  Yeah, we got we. You're gonna be like watching.
• 19:33
  For it now, yeah, I. Know who?
• 19:35
  Did that who? Did that right?
• 19:37
  That's dope. Yeah, so that that was another
• 19:39
  cool deal I got to do. But I met a girl down there when
• 19:43
  I was working down there and we ended up moving in together down
• 19:46
  in, in Pauska or not. I worked in Pauska.
• 19:48
  We were over in like Fairfax area down by Scheidler kind of.
• 19:52
  But yeah, we moved in down there.
• 19:55
  And then she actually, we're not together anymore, but she
• 19:58
  actually ended up moving back here with me to Arizona.
• 20:01
  Cause her dad lived out in Agila.
• 20:02
  Kind of a small world, you know, but her dad had a place, big
• 20:05
  place out in Agila. And she's been wanting to move
• 20:07
  out to Arizona anyway. So I mean, she would have moved
• 20:10
  out here either way. But you know, it's yeah.
• 20:12
  So but. But what I was, that's where I
• 20:14
  was going with that when I was living out there with the horse
• 20:16
  I'm riding right now. She had borrowed that this mare
• 20:20
  from our horseshoer at the time and for a barrel race because
• 20:27
  her horse was lame. And I knew they'd healed on her.
• 20:30
  She's a cool mare, you know, she's cool Palomino.
• 20:32
  And I knew that they'd healed on her.
• 20:34
  So I, I called Trent Tucker and I was like, you know, I do care
• 20:37
  if I do care if I go heal on that horse in the Fairfax Open
• 20:41
  Rodeo or the, or what was it the sky took?
• 20:44
  We were at the sky took open Rodeo and I hadn't sworn a rope
• 20:48
  in seven months. I, I mean, I just sworn a rope.
• 20:51
  Sorry, but I hadn't roped in seven months.
• 20:52
  I hadn't been on a horse in seven months.
• 20:54
  I, I mean, we drove the dummy here and there, but like, I, I'd
• 20:57
  just been out there. Focus on what I, you know, I was
• 20:59
  doing and, you know, and I, and she didn't see that I rode a
• 21:02
  horse a couple times, but I hadn't roped.
• 21:03
  Yeah, I was on a horse. I'd go, I'd go, you know, maybe
• 21:06
  go on a little trailer with my girlfriend.
• 21:08
  But for the most part, I was like shaping hats and I get
• 21:11
  home, we don't maybe or fish or whatever.
• 21:15
  But I mean, I was just work right then and there.
• 21:16
  So I wasn't roping at all. And but when I called him and
• 21:20
  asked him if I could go to the sky to go open rodeo, use that
• 21:22
  horse, he was like, dude, I he's like, I don't care.
• 21:24
  He's like you just you can use it for a little bit if you want.
• 21:26
  So like, heck yeah. So I called my buddy Jimmy Rock
• 21:28
  and he was he was college rodeo and down there in Miami at the
• 21:32
  time. And I said.
• 21:34
  I said, hey, let's go, let's go. Enter in the sky to go open
• 21:37
  rodeo. And he's like, you got a horse?
• 21:39
  And I was like, yeah, I got a horse to Evan.
• 21:41
  He's like even reopen us. Like, dude, I'm dialed.
• 21:43
  Like let's go. I'm dialed in right now.
• 21:45
  Oh, I'm dialed though. That's all I do is sell me.
• 21:49
  I'm dialing right now. You know, I got this little
• 21:51
  marriage she drank, you know, so and we he's like, well, all
• 21:56
  right, you know, let's go. So I mean, we're I don't know,
• 21:58
  we're a couple hundred a man in entry fees into this deal and
• 22:02
  we're riding into the arena. We get drawn in the perf in
• 22:05
  round one and we're running in the arena and I was like, Hey, I
• 22:09
  haven't roped in this horse and I've never I haven't roped in
• 22:10
  seven months. He's like, what the hell, you
• 22:14
  know, And so I mean, I didn't know if I was going to have to
• 22:18
  be overrounded and ripping this horse.
• 22:20
  I don't know what how it was going to work, but I was, you
• 22:22
  know, whatever, let's do it. Figure it out.
• 22:24
  Yeah. So and and I backed her in the
• 22:26
  box. I mean her ears went forward and
• 22:27
  she just I mean she just saw it as a rock.
• 22:30
  I was like, I think we're going to be all right.
• 22:31
  We come out and I I I2 toed on the second hop.
• 22:35
  Miss my daily like twice, but I I ended up getting it.
• 22:37
  We won second place and this guy took so I called that guy back
• 22:40
  and I was like, dude, what do you want for this horse?
• 22:43
  Like she I mean, obviously. So I'm still working with trying
• 22:46
  to figure out horses that work right for me with my wheelchair.
• 22:48
  This now. I mean, this is the first time
• 22:50
  I've even rode this horse. Yeah, and I mean, she's dialed
• 22:52
  for me and I'm like, so I try and buy her, you know, and call
• 22:57
  the guy back and he's, he said he had a guy coming after not
• 23:01
  too long to buy her flight 20. And he's like, but if it was
• 23:03
  going to you guys like I'd, I'd give her to you for 10, you
• 23:05
  know, so and sell her to it for a good deal.
• 23:08
  She was 11 years old when I bought her.
• 23:09
  You know, she's I think she's 14 or 15 now.
• 23:12
  But just just, I couldn't ask for anything better.
• 23:15
  You know, it's only gone uphill from there.
• 23:17
  You know, now we're just, we're more In Sync than we've ever
• 23:20
  been. But anyhow, that's how I got
• 23:23
  that horse. So did you have to like retrain
• 23:26
  her on your cues and everything like to an?
• 23:28
  Extent, but not really. I mean, the only thing that I've
• 23:31
  really taught, I guess made that horse associate with is when I,
• 23:35
  you know, kissing out of your know, I mean, I really kind of
• 23:38
  associated. I'll, I'll, you know, smack her
• 23:39
  on the butt every once in awhile when I make that sound.
• 23:41
  Just so she really associates that we need to, you know, we
• 23:43
  need to get up, we go to work, you know, and so when I do that,
• 23:46
  she'll grab a gear. I mean she gets after it.
• 23:48
  And so other than that, she's a little, she's a little shit,
• 23:51
  though. Every once in a while she'll
• 23:52
  buck around the pin every time I get on her just one time,
• 23:55
  nothing crazy, just how she is. She's still standing still.
• 23:59
  She's never moved a muscle when I've been getting on her back.
• 24:03
  That's never one time has she taken a step while I've been
• 24:06
  getting on her back when and she's she's so touchy.
• 24:09
  I mean, she's as mayor as a mayor, get she?
• 24:11
  She hates being touched. For the longest time I didn't
• 24:14
  even shoot her back in 'cause she didn't, you couldn't even
• 24:16
  touch her back feet really. She was a horse.
• 24:18
  She was horse that never got shot, you know what I mean?
• 24:20
  So she's just, and she's got her legs were all cut up, She got
• 24:24
  her legs caught and barbed by her fence, and she was real
• 24:26
  little and just got them all split open and everything.
• 24:28
  But I mean, literally, this horse is so flinchy to
• 24:31
  everything. She's just reactive to
• 24:33
  everything. Yeah, but I roll up there to her
• 24:34
  and she, I mean, just watch her melt and she just drops her
• 24:38
  head. Just the perfect horse for you.
• 24:39
  And just lets me get on. And then once I'm on her back,
• 24:42
  she knows I'm buckled. Then it's back to like, prancing
• 24:45
  in place and just fire, you know?
• 24:46
  But I can't ask him. I'd rather ask a horse for less,
• 24:49
  sure, for more Now, before my accent, I'd rather be asking for
• 24:52
  more than for less. I'd like a calmer horse, but now
• 24:55
  I need them just to be like, giving me 110 and mayors don't.
• 24:58
  Mayors seem to give me 110, you know that They don't have, you
• 25:01
  know. Yeah.
• 25:04
  All fired up, but. But yeah, so.
• 25:09
  I, I like kind of feel like when I picture you and your horse
• 25:12
  together and you guys bonded, I feel like it's like Avatar.
• 25:16
  Yeah, Avatar, you guys like? Oh, yeah.
• 25:20
  Yeah. That's funny.
• 25:21
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:22
  What a story though. Like thinking about going from,
• 25:25
  you know, not only does the horse got to learn how to do it
• 25:28
  right, but you had to relearn not, not the roping piece of it
• 25:32
  per SE, but like how your body works differently.
• 25:35
  Yeah, post accident balance and balance and horsemanship.
• 25:39
  I mean horsemanship, like I said, it's all legs.
• 25:41
  So it was just everything that I've ever known.
• 25:43
  Yeah. You know, everything I've ever
• 25:45
  been taught, everything that I've ever dialed, everything
• 25:46
  I've ever worked on my craft with, it was all just opposite.
• 25:49
  So like you, you mentioned before, like everything came
• 25:53
  easy to you before the accident, right?
• 25:54
  Yeah. And then obviously you can't use
• 25:57
  your legs after. Right.
• 25:59
  Like mentally how? How hard is that?
• 26:02
  Oh, dude, like I mean from the rope, like, let alone the
• 26:06
  roping, like I mean, the way that I I always try to be a good
• 26:11
  person, you know, and like the way that I would try to be try
• 26:13
  to like help others is was physically, you know, I mean, I
• 26:16
  was a six foot 4. I'm 6 foot 5, you know, my and
• 26:19
  through high school, I was in my junior year, I was 65, you know,
• 26:21
  like if I seen somebody needing the help with him with
• 26:24
  something, you know, that was like that was my way of I would
• 26:27
  always try and like, you know, hold the door, open the door,
• 26:29
  you know, whatever, you know what I mean?
• 26:31
  Like just just physical ways was the way that I always knew I
• 26:33
  could help somebody. So going from that to like.
• 26:37
  Yo, could you give me a hand? Like that was the hardest thing
• 26:40
  for me. Oh, just, you know, it was like
• 26:42
  having to ask somebody for help. Are you kidding me?
• 26:46
  When you were probably doing it all on your own.
• 26:47
  Oh man, it was so hard just to have to like accept, accept
• 26:52
  help. Like it just killed me for a
• 26:53
  while, but now, you know, now it's like I, I have a really
• 26:57
  good group of buddies and I still do and I don't even really
• 27:01
  notice anymore. It's just kind of the way we've
• 27:03
  everything goes, you know, and it's been going like that for so
• 27:07
  long that it doesn't even like. What like, so my interaction
• 27:11
  with you is when I, when I called you, right?
• 27:14
  And I was like, 'cause we talked about this, like, well, can you
• 27:17
  get in the camper or whatever? Yeah.
• 27:18
  And I was like, hey man, we do our podcast in the camper.
• 27:21
  You know, I mean, we could do it outside.
• 27:23
  And your response was, man, I'm paralyzed, I ain't dead.
• 27:26
  Yeah, I'm just crippled. I ain't dead, man.
• 27:30
  Yeah, Hell yeah. And that's been my, my, my
• 27:32
  mentality with everything. He's just.
• 27:35
  We're gonna go do it no matter what.
• 27:37
  But how? We'll figure out how we do it
• 27:39
  when we get there. You.
• 27:40
  Know well and it was funny the night we met right you're the
• 27:43
  when we were launching the podcast, you're the first person
• 27:45
  that we even talked to about this right and the night that we
• 27:48
  all met out of Dylan's you were out there singing right and I
• 27:51
  was like, oh he's really, really good yeah.
• 27:53
  And the next thing you know, I turn around and he's rope been
• 27:55
  goats, yeah. Like.
• 27:57
  I won third, yeah. I'm like, what the hell is going
• 27:59
  on? And then chain's like, no, dude,
• 28:01
  he's he's like a pro Roper. And I was like, what are you
• 28:04
  talking about? The dude's in a wheelchair.
• 28:05
  He's like, no, you gotta check this shit out.
• 28:07
  When he started watching, I was like, holy shit.
• 28:10
  Yeah, dude. Yeah, it was.
• 28:11
  Crazy. It was awesome.
• 28:12
  That's how I first saw you, was on TikTok, right?
• 28:14
  Your video just popped up. Oh, yeah, You know, And I was
• 28:17
  like, holy shit. And then there you are at
• 28:18
  Dylan's and I'm like, holy shit, yeah.
• 28:22
  Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, that's funny.
• 28:24
  Yeah. I mean, we're right.
• 28:25
  We're right. We're neighbors.
• 28:26
  We were neighbors pretty much right up, right down the road.
• 28:28
  But it. Had no clue.
• 28:30
  Yeah, I know your neighbor, Tucker.
• 28:31
  I used to hang out with Tucker. Oh, really?
• 28:33
  Yeah, Everybody used to hang out with him here and there.
• 28:35
  Nice. Yeah, Man, that was funny.
• 28:38
  I won. I won third place at that go
• 28:40
  roping that night. And then just the other night we
• 28:42
  were at Hanson's. I played out there for a truck
• 28:43
  meet and they were there too. They did another go roping and I
• 28:46
  won first, you know, now with my little cousin there.
• 28:48
  Yeah. So both ropings I've gone
• 28:49
  through there's, I've won, I've won something there so.
• 28:51
  That's awesome. Well, how do?
• 28:52
  You do the go roping, I obviously or you're you're in
• 28:55
  your wheelchair, right Yeah, you just give it one spin and then
• 28:57
  you. No, if I'm heading, I don't even
• 28:59
  move. I just I just I just crack him
• 29:01
  right, right on the head side. But if I'm but if I'm healing.
• 29:04
  I have my cut, my little cousin, he'll just push me like as fast
• 29:07
  as he can. OK, Around the corner.
• 29:09
  That night we come around and I roped one.
• 29:11
  I doubled up on one on the hillside and he he dropped me
• 29:14
  out of my wheelchair, but I still caught him.
• 29:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome.
• 29:19
  Heck yeah. Can.
• 29:19
  You can you do it all by yourself, Like say if you wanna
• 29:23
  go roping, can you get your horse in the trailer by it, but
• 29:26
  by yourself, Get in your car by yourself and all that.
• 29:29
  Yeah, so. And I was like, I mean, that was
• 29:31
  even like a learning curve too, is like if I wanted to go do
• 29:33
  something by myself, like it's a whole process, you know what I
• 29:36
  mean? So from hooking up a trailer to
• 29:39
  get in my chair and you don't think about like, OK, I gotta
• 29:41
  get my truck, gotta get my chair in there somewhere, back it up.
• 29:45
  Now I gotta go check and make sure I'm over my head, right.
• 29:47
  Yeah. And then if I'm not OK, I gotta
• 29:49
  go back to my truck, load my chair back in again, OK.
• 29:51
  And then I go, you know what I mean?
• 29:52
  Yeah. And then it's like, OK, we can
• 29:54
  drop it on. And then my horse, like for a
• 29:56
  little while, my Matt mare, that was her only issue was she'd
• 29:59
  like to flip around and trailer and come right back out.
• 30:01
  Actually, you know what I mean? Few times she jumped clear over
• 30:03
  my head and my wheelchair like, oh shit, I can't have that shit,
• 30:06
  don't worry. Yeah.
• 30:07
  So we, yeah, we I mean, now she I could throw her from the
• 30:12
  three-point line to the trailer and shit, dude, that's awesome.
• 30:14
  Send it, you know, so that's what to do Yeah.
• 30:16
  I mean, I think it helps too. I mean, the time I was, I was
• 30:19
  ripping A2 horse straight load. So I mean that'll that'll make a
• 30:22
  horse swim around sometimes too. And I'm now we're, we're in a
• 30:24
  four horse, you know, slant with, with dividers like.
• 30:28
  Well, I know she's normally. I'm sure you don't go by
• 30:30
  yourself right 'cause you're like with your.
• 30:32
  Your team and all that, yeah. Hanging out with your buddies.
• 30:35
  When I was in Oklahoma, I went a lot by myself for sure when I
• 30:38
  was over and then when I came back here for the at first I I
• 30:40
  was going quite a bit with myself.
• 30:42
  But I mean, that's everything, like having a horse that I can
• 30:45
  trust to get on by myself, like, not having to, like, not having
• 30:50
  to, like, worry about that. Yeah.
• 30:51
  She would always like just chill when I get on.
• 30:53
  You saddle her up by yourself, too.
• 30:55
  Yeah, I saddle by myself and and, but if I would pull up to a
• 30:59
  rope in her, whatever. And like, I was by myself, I'd
• 31:02
  get on and then I'd have somebody like I'd go find
• 31:04
  somebody random tie my feet into my strips.
• 31:06
  That's the only thing that I like only.
• 31:07
  OK, you know what I mean? I can probably do it if I really
• 31:09
  try. But like the the the rodeo
• 31:12
  communities, like, Oh yeah. Like, why not Like just, you
• 31:15
  know, can you tell, can you put some bands on my feet real
• 31:17
  quick? Like, yeah, And if you don't,
• 31:19
  then like, you're a douche. I don't know.
• 31:21
  Yeah, I. Don't know what to say.
• 31:23
  You got a bigger problem. So yeah, you should go to church
• 31:26
  dog, right? Yeah, no doubt.
• 31:28
  But. Yeah.
• 31:29
  Awesome. Well, you've been doing a bunch
• 31:31
  of travelling lately, haven't you?
• 31:32
  Yeah, slowing down. Yeah, a little bit we.
• 31:36
  So I went to Nashville. OK, So what were you doing in
• 31:39
  Nashville? Yeah.
• 31:42
  So I just cut my first record in Nashville.
• 31:44
  Congratulations. Thank you, man.
• 31:45
  Thank you. It's called gold buckles,
• 31:48
  actually. It's going to be out this
• 31:49
  weekend, August 29th. Yeah, August 29th of the drops
• 31:54
  on everything. So yeah, got to download it.
• 31:58
  Pre save it, download it. Yeah, yeah, link it for sure,
• 32:01
  for sure. Yeah.
• 32:02
  And then so we went out there and styles, Hari, he was down
• 32:08
  here. None of this was on my radar,
• 32:11
  you know, six months ago, but I met a guy named Stiles or I
• 32:14
  don't know what I went to. I went to March.
• 32:16
  So whatever that was before that I was.
• 32:18
  And this wasn't even something I was like wanting to, I mean, not
• 32:20
  that I don't want to, but I didn't not anything I knew how
• 32:22
  to pursue or anything like that. You know, Stiles, Hari and Sadie
• 32:26
  Bass, though they, they had some dental work done by my neighbor
• 32:31
  Doctor, Doctor Harmon and they were down here.
• 32:36
  They did like a little private concert deal over at his house
• 32:39
  and I went over there and I just played, they had me, they wanted
• 32:41
  me to ask me if I'd play 2 songs in that with them at that deal.
• 32:44
  And I played Gold Buckles and I played another one.
• 32:47
  I've been playing Gold Buckles since me and Coy Kraut.
• 32:50
  I don't know if you know who Coy Kraut is, he's a bullfighter,
• 32:53
  but he grew up off low mountain over there and Whitman.
• 32:57
  And we wrote, I mean, I he ended up writing the second verse,
• 33:01
  but, you know, we wrote the, I wrote that first chorus and that
• 33:04
  for the verse in the chorus and all that.
• 33:06
  And then Coy went home and he wrote kind of a bull fight.
• 33:09
  And that's where the bull fighting comes from in that
• 33:11
  song. The second-half of that, you
• 33:12
  know, is from Coy. And so I've been saying that
• 33:15
  since a year after I was in high school.
• 33:18
  I'm not. That's when I wrote that.
• 33:19
  So all my buddies been hearing that song for a long time.
• 33:21
  You know, I didn't think nothing of it.
• 33:22
  But I played that song at this little concert deal.
• 33:25
  And Stylus told me he's like, dude, if I told you to come cut
• 33:28
  that Nashville, would you do it? I was like, yeah, he's like,
• 33:31
  well, don't, don't pussy out, you know?
• 33:33
  Sorry for that, you know, but that's what that you know, yeah.
• 33:36
  Yeah, And he's like, he's like, just, I'm just gonna tell you.
• 33:39
  And this guy, this guy wrote country on for Luke Bryan, you
• 33:43
  know, he's written. And that was, you know, country
• 33:45
  gone and all. And he wrote that He wrote, I
• 33:47
  think he wrote six or seven other number ones, you know, and
• 33:51
  coming from him and your mom, your grandma tell you you're
• 33:54
  good at singing. And you're like, thanks,
• 33:56
  grandma. Yeah.
• 33:56
  But like, you know what I mean? I'm not taking that to the bank,
• 33:59
  you know, but this guy's like he's said like, listen to me
• 34:02
  like you're stupid if you don't pursue this.
• 34:05
  I'm telling you that right now. And so I was like, and then he's
• 34:07
  like, you know, I'll, I'll make it happen for you if you want to
• 34:10
  do it, you know, and, and meeting this guy and like being
• 34:14
  around him, he's a good old boy. Like he's like, and the first
• 34:19
  thing you told me was like, he's like, if you want to do this,
• 34:21
  he's like, call me first. And the only reason I say that
• 34:24
  is because I don't want you to get screwed over, right?
• 34:26
  Because I want to. Yeah.
• 34:27
  And he says, and he's like, he's like, that's that.
• 34:30
  I could be just another guy trying to screw you over.
• 34:32
  I just see how that sounds. But he's like, he's like, I got
• 34:35
  no reason. I'm doing fine.
• 34:37
  He's like, I have no reason to screw you over.
• 34:38
  He's like, I just want to show you how to just set yourself up
• 34:41
  so that you don't. So nobody's hands in the pot
• 34:43
  besides yours, you know what I mean?
• 34:44
  So like here and there after that from him, right?
• 34:46
  Was like, all right, you know what I mean?
• 34:48
  And then man, he, we, we flew out to Nashville and I mean,
• 34:53
  this guy just called in every favor in the book.
• 34:55
  I this would have been a twenty $20,000 deal for me to go do.
• 35:00
  And I mean, I think I paid 3500 bucks, 3 thousand $3000 out of
• 35:06
  pocket, you know what I mean? And 20,000 is kind of cheap
• 35:08
  like. That's, well, that's like crazy
• 35:10
  to know. I didn't know that.
• 35:12
  Like people go down there to make music and they have to pay.
• 35:15
  Yeah, yeah, you paid for studio. Time you're paying for a
• 35:18
  producer. Oh yeah.
• 35:19
  For mastering all like, and I mean, if, if obviously, if a
• 35:24
  label sees you and a label picks you up and they want to like
• 35:29
  invest in you, then sure, you're not, you're not paying anything,
• 35:31
  you know, I mean, and that's where a lot of those guys end
• 35:33
  up, you know, they end up looking out and doing those
• 35:35
  kinds of things. But like for, for a guy like me
• 35:39
  where styles is like, I don't want to get any of, you know, he
• 35:40
  said, I don't want any of those people involved right now.
• 35:42
  He's like, I want you to just do you, you know what I mean?
• 35:45
  And that's where like, like Zach Bryan, I mean, he just sold or
• 35:48
  he didn't even sell. He didn't sign with anybody
• 35:51
  until like four or five months ago.
• 35:53
  He just leased the rights to his music for 10 years, right, for
• 35:58
  $355,000,000. Wow.
• 36:02
  Damn. For 10 years he leased it and
• 36:05
  then at the end of those 10 years.
• 36:07
  At the end of those 10 years, he can release or do whatever, but
• 36:10
  that's because he didn't sign with anybody.
• 36:12
  He just did it all on his own. Yeah, he put out what, freaking
• 36:16
  you? She probably knows 2530 albums,
• 36:19
  you know. Yeah.
• 36:20
  And then it, you know, it was just like.
• 36:22
  Also, like Oliver Anthony, right?
• 36:24
  Like he kind of owns his own, right?
• 36:27
  All of all, of all of his own. Music.
• 36:28
  Yeah, I think it was Rogan that Todd talked him into doing that
• 36:31
  or he was like, do you don't you know these people?
• 36:33
  He's like, they're trying to tell me that I'm going to lose
• 36:35
  this, lose that. He's like, you're, you know,
• 36:36
  it's there's just a lot of crooked people in this world,
• 36:40
  you know? Oh yeah.
• 36:41
  I love to. I like to believe there's more
• 36:43
  good than there is evil, you know, but and I think there is I
• 36:45
  I really do. But, but there is unfortunately,
• 36:48
  there is people that put a bad rap on that industry and a bad
• 36:51
  rap on those people because it's just like.
• 36:52
  Well, it seems like it's starting to come light, right?
• 36:55
  Like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know for
• 36:56
  sure. I think like with the whole
• 36:57
  Kanye thing, like he he was coming out and saying stuff and
• 37:01
  yeah, that kind of got people looking and then it's like.
• 37:04
  Diddy's craziness, yeah. Yeah, all that Diddy crap going
• 37:08
  on. Yeah, that's a whole other
• 37:09
  that's not dude, but. That's just baby lotion.
• 37:12
  Yeah. But I think, I think, yeah, I
• 37:17
  think there is definitely an awareness, yeah to that aspect
• 37:20
  of the industry. So like people are opening their
• 37:23
  eyes to that. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:25
  And but thankfully I fell in with the right people right at
• 37:27
  the beginning, you know, and styles, Hari, like you check his
• 37:30
  music out sometime too. Like the dudes freaking awesome
• 37:33
  and I could probably even hooked it up for you guys.
• 37:35
  He can get probably come on here and talk to you too.
• 37:36
  But like, just a good old boy, like, and, and, and he told he,
• 37:40
  you know, we've, we've become really good friends, you know,
• 37:42
  since his deal. And he was telling me he's like,
• 37:46
  I mean, this guy was filing for bankruptcy before he got into
• 37:48
  music 'cause he was 'cause he was hunting so much.
• 37:51
  Oh. 'Cause he was hunting.
• 37:52
  Addiction, damn. And and he literally told me
• 37:55
  he's like, dude, if I didn't have to do music and I could
• 37:57
  just hunt, he's like, that's all it would do Dang.
• 37:59
  And so he's like, he's like I literally he's like, I just fell
• 38:02
  into like doing this music deal and like and started paying for
• 38:05
  my hunting addiction. And so like I was, you know,
• 38:07
  he's like, it's, it seemed to be the right move, you know?
• 38:10
  Yeah, and that's, I mean, this guy just, if you've met them, if
• 38:14
  you've ever met somebody that like seems like they're on like
• 38:16
  Adderall or meth, that like isn't like he just, he's like,
• 38:21
  no, like the most clean cut guy you've ever seen, right.
• 38:24
  Yeah. But he just, he's 100 miles an
• 38:25
  hour. He's like, he does not stop.
• 38:27
  Yeah, he just doesn't quit. Like he just.
• 38:29
  Has to be if he's a hunter. Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 38:31
  Like. How does he sit and I just
• 38:33
  that's not he. Doesn't.
• 38:34
  That's what I'm saying. He does not.
• 38:36
  I don't know when he's hunting. You're saying?
• 38:37
  Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
• 38:39
  You know, that might be different.
• 38:40
  You might be able to like call me like that.
• 38:42
  That's probably why he does it right, honestly.
• 38:45
  Yeah. To help him out with it.
• 38:47
  Yeah, because he's got to be exhausted if he's going
• 38:49
  1,000,000 miles an hour all the time.
• 38:50
  Yeah, he just. But his hunting is where he gets
• 38:52
  to settle his mind. Yeah, Yeah, he might.
• 38:55
  That's actually. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 38:56
  He just did. So when I flew out there, he did
• 38:59
  his, he just did his Grand Opry debut.
• 39:01
  Oh, so I flew out there, we got off the plane, Styles did his
• 39:05
  Grand Opry debut. We went to that and it was
• 39:07
  awesome. He's got a song called Sitting
• 39:10
  in a Deer Stand. That's the song that he sang.
• 39:12
  They sing. He sing 2 songs Sitting in a
• 39:14
  deer stand like God's Grocery Store.
• 39:17
  I think that's what his album is called is God's Grocery Store.
• 39:19
  And it's like it's like a shopping cart with a deer upside
• 39:22
  down and you know what I mean? So it's like he's all about.
• 39:25
  Is awesome and. He's like hunting, but it's not,
• 39:26
  I don't know, like some of the more pop country stuff is like
• 39:29
  all hunting, you know, it's like bigger trucks, Isn't that blah
• 39:32
  blah. Like Styles is like, I don't
• 39:34
  know, he really sings about like stories about how like hunting
• 39:38
  is his life. Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 39:39
  And it's like his, you know, grandpas and dads and this and
• 39:41
  that. Like his music is really like is
• 39:43
  different than that. It's not really pop country.
• 39:45
  I wouldn't say it's but it's it's good.
• 39:47
  I take check him out. But anyhow, yeah.
• 39:51
  So I mean, he just called in every favor of the book.
• 39:53
  I mean, I just listen to him. I feel like, you know, I, you
• 39:55
  know, you owe me one. You know, this guy, this guy's
• 39:57
  coming and doing this, you know. So I mean, just what we were
• 40:00
  working with Grady Saxman. That's the guy that he he
• 40:03
  produced Dick down in Dallas. He produced Luke Combs gold, you
• 40:06
  know, gold platinum records. He did a Jelly roll.
• 40:09
  You know, I'm just sitting, you know, that was a whole other
• 40:13
  deal in and of itself watching how those guys work.
• 40:15
  I mean, they call in. I had it was Faith Hill's
• 40:20
  drummer. And I think it was Keith Urban's
• 40:23
  guitarist or somebody, I can't remember.
• 40:25
  There was and that that's George Strait's slide player that was
• 40:28
  playing on my on gold buckles. Yeah, it's alright.
• 40:31
  Or at least somebody that's done a lot of George Strait's
• 40:33
  records, you know, just, you know, I mean, these guys are
• 40:37
  just, they're, they're called the Nashville Riders, man.
• 40:39
  Or like they just there's guys that are calls out five many.
• 40:42
  How we're sitting in this. We, we drive out to this like
• 40:45
  house in the middle of nowhere, like in, in Nashville, in the
• 40:48
  back of the woods and that this house was the whole, the whole
• 40:51
  house was converted to a studio. So like the drummer's up in one
• 40:55
  bedroom, the guitarist is upstairs in another bedroom.
• 40:57
  You know, everybody's in their own room.
• 40:59
  And then I've got a 40 inch TV in front of me and I'm, I'm can,
• 41:02
  I can talk to all them this and that, you know, change this,
• 41:05
  change that. I wasn't saying change this or
• 41:08
  change that at all. I mean, I'm out of my element
• 41:09
  when. I yeah, that day I was literally
• 41:12
  like. Was that your like first
• 41:15
  interaction being in a studio? Ever I've ever I've never been
• 41:19
  in a never even seen an inside of a studio until this day.
• 41:22
  So I mean, it was like literally going full throttle day one
• 41:25
  like. Like how?
• 41:26
  Like how, how is that? I mean, is it like all day?
• 41:29
  Is it? Is it?
• 41:30
  So dude, 2 hours, 2 hours, start to finish.
• 41:33
  We had that song done. Wow.
• 41:35
  And, and these guys had never even heard the song before they
• 41:39
  got there, really. And so, yeah.
• 41:40
  And I didn't even play any music.
• 41:42
  I didn't play single. I didn't play any music.
• 41:43
  The first of the first, Yeah, the first, the first.
• 41:47
  We did two different studios. The first session we were at the
• 41:51
  recording of the instrumental side of things.
• 41:54
  I'm just sitting there. I'd hum, I would sing to the
• 41:56
  song a little bit with them. So they had an idea of where I
• 41:58
  wanted things, you know. But I mean, these guys kicked
• 42:02
  out, you know, like a the bass line in 5 minutes and then and
• 42:07
  then they would just screw with each other like like, hey, hey,
• 42:10
  that a drumming upstairs that sounds like shit, like dude,
• 42:14
  change this, you know what I mean?
• 42:15
  And then like they would just pick at each other, you know
• 42:16
  what I mean? So it was kind of cool to watch
• 42:18
  them work too, you know, and like figure it out.
• 42:20
  I don't know if we could swear on you.
• 42:21
  I'm sorry. I can't.
• 42:22
  OK, I anyhow. But like, you know, they just
• 42:24
  pick at each other and, and, and, and then until they had
• 42:28
  like something I'm like, just keep letting them do what
• 42:30
  they're doing. You know, it's starting to sound
• 42:31
  good, you know, and then we went back and we added instruments.
• 42:35
  We added, you know, the slide, the steel guitar, you know,
• 42:38
  slide guitar and couple other things.
• 42:41
  I had them take a couple things out and.
• 42:43
  So how much? How much control of your song
• 42:45
  did you have? I mean, I probably had them
• 42:47
  send. I probably had them send we
• 42:52
  probably went seven. I heard I heard that song 17
• 42:55
  different ways with 17 different instruments and this and that
• 42:57
  before we started fine tuning it.
• 42:58
  Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean?
• 43:00
  And that was just because, you know, I I need this change.
• 43:02
  I need that change. And I'm like, it's, it's hard to
• 43:05
  like when this guy just called all these favors for me and I'm
• 43:07
  like, I don't want to be yeah, you know, but it's my music.
• 43:10
  But it's your exactly. It's like, it's my music.
• 43:12
  And I can't, you know, I can't fathom like it not sounding
• 43:16
  coming out the way that I would want it to come out, you know,
• 43:18
  but like, you know, so that was interesting to have a getting.
• 43:21
  But like, I just come to find out, like Styles is not like,
• 43:24
  you know, he's not a he doesn't give a damn.
• 43:26
  Like just he just wants you to be.
• 43:28
  Yeah, just tell me what? Yeah.
• 43:29
  Awesome. I mean, this guy really stuck
• 43:31
  his neck out and helped me out so.
• 43:33
  And and he's just been awesome for me.
• 43:34
  So. But yeah.
• 43:37
  So and then we went to the second-half a thing.
• 43:39
  I did the vocals and and that was another whole other deal.
• 43:42
  You know, I've got my dad went up there and my grandpa went up
• 43:45
  there. My cousin Brayden went up there
• 43:47
  with me and then we've got Doctor Harmon, which is the
• 43:50
  dentist that kind of introduced us.
• 43:52
  He came out to see Styles grand old opera Debio.
• 43:55
  So they were there. I I mean, there's a room full of
• 43:58
  like 9 people in this house window and I'm on the other side
• 44:01
  of the glass, you know, like looking at all these nine people
• 44:03
  chilling. I can hear every.
• 44:04
  I mean, if they whispered in that room, I could hear it.
• 44:06
  No shit. I mean, if they're just.
• 44:07
  Yeah, just like we're talking right now.
• 44:09
  Yeah. And they're like 20 feet away
• 44:10
  from the glass and I can hear him talking like that.
• 44:13
  Dang. So if they say any whisper about
• 44:15
  what's going on or how I'm singing and this or that, like
• 44:17
  I'm just like. This is a this is all new man.
• 44:20
  You know, this is like it's intense.
• 44:21
  It's. Kind of fishbowl.
• 44:22
  You feel like that right when you're in here.
• 44:24
  Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.
• 44:26
  Exactly. Exactly.
• 44:27
  Lot of money. Lot of money, right dude?
• 44:29
  A lot. Of money, dude, just play this
• 44:30
  thing's sick, man. But anyhow, so we, yeah, we, you
• 44:34
  know, you sing every line. You just sing line by line 12 I
• 44:38
  mean 1220 times. So you don't, you don't really
• 44:40
  sing the whole song. No piece of together.
• 44:42
  You sing it line by line and then, you know, like, OK, I
• 44:45
  like, I like the inflection there, like the vibrato there,
• 44:48
  you know, throw a little more, you know, this or of that, you
• 44:51
  know, whatever. But yeah, so that was another
• 44:56
  cool thing that I got to do. And and hopefully I get to
• 45:00
  actually I'm going to be doing again.
• 45:01
  I'm fine going back in a couple weeks.
• 45:03
  Oh, yeah. I'm cutting four more this time
• 45:05
  when I go back out. Five more when I go back out
• 45:06
  this time, Yeah. So how old were you when you
• 45:09
  actually started? Singing and stuff yeah, so I,
• 45:12
  I've sang my whole life like when I was really, really,
• 45:14
  really little, you know, like my mom put me in like the plays and
• 45:17
  stuff with my little sisters, you know but I'd be I wrestled
• 45:20
  all growing up too, you know what I mean?
• 45:21
  Like, you know, I did that too and I just yeah, I, I don't
• 45:24
  know, I, I always enjoyed singing.
• 45:25
  I, I and I always, I never did it though, like oops, sorry.
• 45:29
  I never did it though, like on a a level like that in any way.
• 45:33
  I, I just, I'd sing to the radio, you know, and I never
• 45:36
  played guitar until after my car accident.
• 45:39
  But my my dad gave me a guitar after I got my in my car
• 45:44
  accident I started playing. Excuse me, sorry.
• 45:50
  I started playing guitar after my car wreck and me and Quick
• 45:55
  Kraut sat in his bedroom out here in Whitman for a whole
• 45:58
  summer one time. And I mean, we just we taught
• 46:02
  ourselves in the summer off YouTube.
• 46:03
  Nice. That's all.
• 46:04
  We just kind of ran with it. And then, you know, my my
• 46:07
  buddies and me would always talk about and they were all my
• 46:09
  buddies always tell me I sang really good, you know what I
• 46:11
  mean? And and but even them saying,
• 46:15
  you know, it's like I, I appreciate it, you know, but and
• 46:17
  we would always joke like we're gonna do this someday.
• 46:19
  We're gonna figure out how to, you know, get into this right,
• 46:22
  you know, and it was always, you know, we never did a damn thing
• 46:25
  about it, not a thing, you know what I mean?
• 46:27
  It was always like, we're gonna make it happen, you know,
• 46:29
  nobody. Where do you go though?
• 46:30
  Right? Like, you know.
• 46:31
  How do I start? Yeah, you know.
• 46:33
  What I said, do you know we're all rodeo kids from Whitman,
• 46:36
  Arizona? I would.
• 46:37
  You know, it's and it's all who you know when it's for sure, you
• 46:39
  know what I mean unfortunately, but fortunately, you know, if if
• 46:42
  you put yourself in good positions to meet good people,
• 46:44
  then good things, you know, good things can happen.
• 46:46
  You know, so like. Like, imagine if you were at
• 46:49
  that party and you said, no, I don't want to.
• 46:51
  Right. Yeah, right.
• 46:52
  Exactly. Yeah.
• 46:53
  It's like, well, I mean, why close doors for yourself?
• 46:55
  But it's like I just lost my train of thought.
• 47:01
  Or were you just talking about? No, it's but what you were
• 47:03
  saying about closing doors for yourself.
• 47:05
  Yeah, like it's like I I think that is such a missed component
• 47:08
  that people don't understand, right.
• 47:10
  You know, you talked about how there's people out there to get
• 47:13
  you, but the the reality is, is you want to think that most
• 47:15
  people are good, right? Yeah.
• 47:17
  And are there to open up. Doors you do.
• 47:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's something that's
• 47:20
  good to have. You know what I mean?
• 47:22
  I don't who wants to go out every day to get everybody's out
• 47:25
  together? We're out to hurt.
• 47:26
  I'm like, what kind of way of life to live is that, you know?
• 47:29
  Exactly. There is no life to live like
• 47:31
  that. No, and you never and you're
• 47:32
  never. Then you're completely closed
• 47:34
  off to me, Right. People are being open to that,
• 47:36
  you know what I mean? But you know, yeah.
• 47:39
  So we, I learned how to play guitar.
• 47:41
  And then it was just like us making, you know, us making
• 47:45
  those jokes, like, you know, we're going to figure out how to
• 47:47
  do this, you know, whatever, blah, blah.
• 47:48
  But I never did it. You know, I went to, I went to
• 47:50
  auctioneering school after I went got out of high school and
• 47:53
  I became an auctioneer. There's a school for.
• 47:55
  That yeah, I flew to Clear Lake, IA and I became an auctioneer.
• 47:58
  So give us some give. Us some right now I want to get.
• 47:59
  Them how to get them, how to get them, how to get them, how to
• 48:01
  get them behind pounds and let it down 6 pair, I don't get to
• 48:03
  get 7 now they only get to get 7 to get them seven, yeah.
• 48:06
  What? Yeah, man.
• 48:07
  So I. Did that for a long.
• 48:08
  Time. Hold on.
• 48:09
  Yeah, I went on 1/5 three. Yeah.
• 48:11
  When what's like the like is there like a is like a book?
• 48:16
  No, man, there's really not. There's no book for that.
• 48:19
  How do you how do you even start to teach somebody?
• 48:21
  So this is how I got into it. I was, I, I, I showed livestock
• 48:26
  all growing up, right? So I showed pigs FFA whole deal,
• 48:30
  always around auctions, been to cattle auctions my whole life,
• 48:33
  you know what I mean? And I, I got my car accident and
• 48:40
  my uncle Travis Zimmerman, he was like, you know, I and I, I
• 48:44
  just taught myself off YouTube in high school before my
• 48:45
  accident, right? Yeah.
• 48:46
  But I like, I was pretty decent at, you know.
• 48:48
  What I mean, I just thought it was a.
• 48:49
  Joke to a little party trick, whatever, you know, yeah.
• 48:51
  Try get the girls. Yeah, well, I don't know if that
• 48:53
  gets girls, but there's something, I guess.
• 48:55
  You want to see how I work my tongue?
• 48:56
  Yeah. I have said it before, but yeah,
• 49:02
  yeah, I was. I don't know how far we're going
• 49:04
  to this podcast. Damn, I'm gonna go to auction
• 49:05
  school. He's gonna go.
• 49:06
  To auction school for other for alternative reasons you're.
• 49:10
  Right. Oh shit.
• 49:11
  But anyhow. This is gonna be her favorite
• 49:13
  podcast. Oh my goodness.
• 49:16
  But anyhow, we. I got my car accident.
• 49:20
  My Travis was like, dude, he's like, why don't you go to
• 49:23
  auction in school? He's like, I know anything.
• 49:24
  It's a joke, but like that's a joke.
• 49:26
  Like it's a joke to you right now, but like, why don't you
• 49:28
  gotta figure out something to sit down and make money?
• 49:30
  Yeah, I'm just like, whatever man.
• 49:32
  So, you know, they I thought to, to Clear Lake, IA and I went to,
• 49:36
  I say to schooling, it's like a two week school.
• 49:38
  But I always give my sister shit.
• 49:39
  Like she's like she's, she's about, she's a college graduate,
• 49:42
  you know, and I'm like, I'm a college graduate too.
• 49:46
  My diploma says Worldwide College of Auctioneering.
• 49:48
  Yeah. So I don't give a damn what you
• 49:50
  say. I was like, why?
• 49:51
  Yeah. Worldwide prestige, yeah.
• 49:56
  But anyhow, that's awesome, yeah.
• 49:59
  So then I went to selling, man, I got back, went to selling.
• 50:01
  I, I worked for WSM for a while, sold for E JS auctions.
• 50:06
  I did work for Fidelity estate services.
• 50:08
  I did state liquidations and stuff like that.
• 50:11
  And I, I loved it, you know, and then what I really got into my
• 50:14
  Grove was with, with like the charity benefit auctions.
• 50:17
  So I did a lot. I mean, I did the Wickenburg
• 50:19
  hospital. I do the kids foundation.
• 50:21
  I do one of the breast cancer societies I've done, I've done
• 50:26
  just a bunch of big, you know, auctions like that.
• 50:28
  And I mean, it sounds bad I guess, but like that's where the
• 50:32
  money is. We want to get into that.
• 50:34
  That's the crop of auctioneering.
• 50:35
  I mean, those are those charity auctioneers.
• 50:37
  You're making 20% of everything you sell.
• 50:39
  Oh wow. You show up in a night with a
• 50:41
  date, you get a 5 course meal and you're clearing 2030
• 50:44
  thousand and. What's the, what's the, what's
• 50:46
  the strategy to be an auctioneer, right?
• 50:48
  Like if you are if if you're getting paid by how much you
• 50:52
  sell, like what is like what is your strategy?
• 50:55
  How do you get people to start buying I.
• 50:57
  Mean, I think that that that in and of itself like, like the
• 51:01
  the, you know, I only get about how to get them, how to get
• 51:03
  invited. That in and of itself is, is
• 51:06
  rhythmic to people. Yeah, people come to listen to
• 51:09
  that. It's like AI would say, you know
• 51:11
  what I mean? Yeah, absolutely.
• 51:13
  You know, but people, I mean like, I mean especially like
• 51:16
  cattle auctions, like guys will literally tell me like I don't,
• 51:20
  I I hate to go to the catalogs and listen to a damn 80 year old
• 51:23
  man that can't sell worth the shit, you know what I mean?
• 51:25
  But like listening to Colton, like it's a good, you know, but
• 51:28
  so I think but but knowing how to drive sales, right,
• 51:32
  especially and it depends on what kind of auction you're at,
• 51:34
  you know, like on my charity auctions, there's an hour long
• 51:37
  cocktail hours. These guys are buzzed up.
• 51:40
  I got millionaires in this room, then they're just here to spend
• 51:43
  money to get a tax write off. Yeah.
• 51:45
  And they've got $100,000 to spend for the end of the year or
• 51:47
  $1,000,000 to spend for the end of the year.
• 51:49
  You know what I mean? And for me, it's like, let's
• 51:51
  find out who has the biggest pick in the room, right?
• 51:53
  Yeah, literally. Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna drive
• 51:55
  my. I mean, if somebody starts
• 51:56
  saying no, I'm like, oh, you know, I mean, I'd give him hell,
• 52:00
  you know, I'd give him hell. It's just money, dude.
• 52:02
  Like I'll lend you 20 bucks. What is it that big of a deal to
• 52:04
  you? Like, come on, you know what?
• 52:05
  I. Mean yeah.
• 52:06
  Oh, whatever, you know. So you know I just started,
• 52:08
  right? Yeah, You know, I've never sold
• 52:10
  a pie, a pumpkin pie for 15 grand before, you know what I
• 52:13
  mean? Like, and that's just, but, but,
• 52:15
  but those are that kind of auction.
• 52:17
  It doesn't matter what you're buying.
• 52:18
  They're there to spend money. They're there to do it for a
• 52:20
  good 'cause experience, right? Yeah.
• 52:22
  And then it's they get a tax break, you know what I mean?
• 52:24
  So it's like, why not look good? Why not give money to this
• 52:26
  foundation, right. So I'm gonna have fun with it.
• 52:29
  You know, cattle auctions and I, I've only done 1 cattle auction
• 52:32
  is a Yavapai calf sale. But with that one, I mean, I, I
• 52:41
  it's even that one's a little different.
• 52:43
  I I don't, I don't want to have no ranchers yearly income in my
• 52:46
  hands. Yeah, no, I don't.
• 52:48
  I don't care to have that, you know what I mean?
• 52:49
  Such. It's a serious auction.
• 52:51
  I mean, you're literally determining a guy's a guy's
• 52:53
  worth for a year, you know what I mean?
• 52:56
  And it's a lot of pressure. Exactly.
• 52:57
  And I don't, I don't, I don't care to tell you what, what,
• 53:00
  what you're, you're making this year, you know what I mean?
• 53:02
  That's not going to be my job, you know.
• 53:05
  And so, and I've, you know, I, it's just like one of those
• 53:08
  things. I don't care to do that, you
• 53:09
  know, I don't have that. I, I care to do the other.
• 53:11
  I do the other ones more when I got fun with it and tease people
• 53:14
  there for good 'cause I. Never even I I never even
• 53:17
  thought about just like what you brought up is you are in control
• 53:24
  of somebody elses money. Yeah.
• 53:26
  Right, like you're. Teaching them to buy more,
• 53:28
  right? Yeah.
• 53:29
  Yeah, you're, I mean, you're clearly determining what, what
• 53:32
  they're making that year. Yeah.
• 53:33
  You know, so like a good auctioneer can make, you know,
• 53:36
  he, he can, he can tell you're making 100,000 versus 150,000.
• 53:39
  That's, you know what I mean. So it's like, you know, and then
• 53:42
  and that's why you have so many damn fistfights and sail barns.
• 53:46
  You shitting me like that, That's where you're going to
• 53:49
  stay sold out, you know, not drive those prices.
• 53:51
  That's your job as an auctioneers that drive those
• 53:52
  prices. You're asking earlier, you know,
• 53:54
  how do you drive those prices with cattle auctions?
• 53:57
  It it really is turning things up, making people bid quicker,
• 54:00
  you know, get in the flow of the day.
• 54:01
  So like, you know, instead of trying to drag things out, you
• 54:03
  know, maybe run one of your own lots through there and and sell
• 54:08
  it quick so people know I better bid.
• 54:11
  There's some buyers here. I better bid or I'm not going to
• 54:13
  get to bid. I don't get to.
• 54:15
  I don't get to sit here and wait, you know, twiddle my
• 54:17
  thumbs and wait for 30 seconds before I make a bid.
• 54:19
  I got a bid, you know? Yeah.
• 54:21
  So you keep people be, you know what I mean?
• 54:22
  And it's, you know, there's other ways.
• 54:24
  But like, again, I haven't gotten into that that much on
• 54:27
  that aspect of things. But but, you know, it's just
• 54:31
  yeah. Kind of get you into Barrett
• 54:33
  Jackson. Yeah, I I've been spotted for
• 54:35
  them. Yeah.
• 54:36
  Yeah, for Barrett, I so one of my one of my teachers from, from
• 54:39
  my, from from auctioning college, you know, worldwide,
• 54:42
  worldwide. One of my, yeah, one of my
• 54:45
  teachers, he works for Barrett. And so he divided me out there
• 54:48
  and we I got the bed spot for him, you know, so that was
• 54:51
  pretty cool. But yeah.
• 54:53
  I got, I got my horse from an auction and you know, here in
• 54:58
  from the other side of it, you know what I'm saying?
• 55:00
  It's like, you motherfucker, I know.
• 55:02
  I'm like, damn, man, you motherfuckers got me, dude.
• 55:04
  Yeah, they really, it really does, man.
• 55:06
  Like when you're there and you're like bidding, you're
• 55:08
  like. Yeah, dude.
• 55:10
  Oh, I ain't going to lose, dude. Because it comes like a
• 55:13
  competition is like. Right.
• 55:14
  Well, and you just just what you did right there.
• 55:16
  You just said who's bidding, right?
• 55:17
  Yeah, those guys. So get this right.
• 55:20
  There's guys that like, even at the equipment sales, I'll have
• 55:24
  regulars come back and they want me to watch for a wink.
• 55:28
  If I wink at you, you bid if I swap my head, if I, if I, if I
• 55:33
  sneeze you, because they don't want people to know when they're
• 55:35
  bidding. I mean, there's all, there's old
• 55:36
  guys at these auctions. They'll just, I mean, literally.
• 55:39
  Yeah. And that's how they.
• 55:40
  Yeah. Oh hell yeah.
• 55:41
  Dude, they don't. I don't want you to know who
• 55:42
  you're bidding against. Screw you, you know what I mean?
• 55:44
  That's how that's how it is these auctions, like, I mean,
• 55:47
  they don't, they don't, they don't, they don't want that.
• 55:49
  Let's see who's got a bigger 1, you know, going on.
• 55:51
  They just they want to buy, they want to keep the price right and
• 55:53
  they want to, you know what I mean?
• 55:55
  So imagine being up on a podium watching for 13 different
• 55:58
  individual signals. You know what I mean?
• 56:01
  You know, you got guys that are doing baseball calls out here to
• 56:04
  me and I gotta you know, so that's that's where like that's
• 56:07
  where it really. And and like and like.
• 56:09
  You can't miss, right? Like you don't.
• 56:11
  I mean, you can't, but. People be pissed and you can,
• 56:13
  you know, but. Do you?
• 56:15
  That's where they help you food spotters.
• 56:17
  Yeah, so that's where they come in handy, you know what I mean?
• 56:19
  If I'm. It's hard to miss, you know, and
• 56:21
  you got three guys with, you know, they each have their own
• 56:23
  section and it's hard to miss something.
• 56:25
  And usually I get it. But if I do miss something and
• 56:29
  I'd hear, yeah, you know, real loud, it's it's hard to miss,
• 56:32
  you know, but just depends. I mean, I have said so before
• 56:36
  and some people. Are still.
• 56:38
  Living, you know, but I say sold it, man.
• 56:41
  That's a legally binding contract.
• 56:42
  I. Oh, really?
• 56:43
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 56:43
  You just bought it. Yeah, yeah, you just bought it.
• 56:45
  Yeah. The word sold comes out of my
• 56:47
  mouth. It's done.
• 56:47
  Deal. You, you're saying you you own
• 56:49
  it. Yeah, yeah 'cause now I can't go
• 56:51
  back now 'cause in that, I mean that dude's gonna be freaking Oh
• 56:53
  yeah, Even more pissed off, you know what I mean?
• 56:56
  So anyhow, yeah, it's, it's a, that's why I just, I like those
• 57:01
  charity ones. I just screw it to everybody.
• 57:03
  If I, if I miss a bid for somebody's $20,000, you know,
• 57:07
  they're not that mad. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:08
  They're gonna go get another drinking bid on something.
• 57:10
  Else exactly and so it's. Yeah, I just like the vibe of
• 57:14
  it. And anyhow, that's where I've
• 57:16
  come. Who's who's?
• 57:18
  Your like who's your music influences?
• 57:21
  Do you? Like listening.
• 57:22
  To OK, so I mean, I mean, I all the greats.
• 57:25
  I mean, I like George Strait, Hank Williams junior a lot.
• 57:28
  George Strait newer stuff culture wall, but I mean back to
• 57:33
  older stuff. I like Buck Owens.
• 57:35
  I like Charlie Pride, the DLC, David on Co.
• 57:43
  I don't a lot of just. I like a lot of old country.
• 57:45
  Yeah. I like a lot of old country,
• 57:46
  yeah. Like listening to your song, I
• 57:49
  could. I could kind of hear that.
• 57:50
  Yeah. I could kind of like hear that
• 57:52
  older. Right, you know yeah and it's I
• 57:54
  would even say that it's a little popular than I like that
• 57:57
  What what we what we finalized on with that go buckle song.
• 58:00
  I love it, don't get me wrong, but I think I think it's still a
• 58:02
  little bit popular than what I what I we'll probably do for my
• 58:06
  next, you know, my next one that I the next one I'm going back.
• 58:10
  The first one I'm doing is Arizona waves one that I wrote.
• 58:12
  It's kind of like a play on oceanfront property by George
• 58:14
  Strait, but it's a really good song.
• 58:16
  I like it and but again, it'll that'll probably be a way more
• 58:20
  George 90s like. And actually, I already have the
• 58:23
  back for the backtrack for it. We already did the instrumental
• 58:26
  for it. But yeah.
• 58:28
  So, so you're more like a like a Zach top, Cody Johnson tie.
• 58:32
  Yeah, I, I would, yeah, probably, Yeah, I would say so.
• 58:35
  Yeah, for sure. There's one, there's one of
• 58:37
  these songs. I'm going back to do that.
• 58:39
  I mean, it sounds like a Kojo song for sure.
• 58:41
  Just the vibe of it. Yeah, for sure.
• 58:42
  It's called. I prayed it, but yeah, it's
• 58:44
  called, yeah. See, like I didn't, I didn't
• 58:46
  grow up listening to country. OK.
• 58:48
  Yeah, when? I when I got with my wife,
• 58:49
  that's she's the one that introduced me, right?
• 58:52
  And what draws me the country is like having kids, right?
• 58:56
  And then also too is like the lifestyle.
• 58:58
  You know what I'm saying? It's, it's, it's, it's the
• 59:00
  lifestyle. It's like how you know, the like
• 59:04
  I'm a Christian, you know what I'm saying?
• 59:06
  And like them hearing like hearing Cody Johnson, like one
• 59:09
  of the top country artists have a song about Jesus.
• 59:12
  It's like, dude, that, that kid says.
• 59:14
  Light in a different way, yeah. Yeah.
• 59:16
  I mean how many people nowadays in in the media industry talk
• 59:21
  about God? Yeah, I mean, it's frowned upon,
• 59:24
  right? And that's the hell happened to
• 59:26
  this country? You.
• 59:27
  Know what I mean? You're talking about that this
• 59:28
  morning. Yeah, it's cool.
• 59:30
  Like you, you watch like Chris Pratt at all.
• 59:32
  Like, yeah, I like he came out at the Emmys, like or at the
• 59:34
  Oscars or whatever the hell it was.
• 59:35
  I mean, he gave a 3 minute speech on God, yeah, you know
• 59:38
  what I mean? I'm like, dude, that's cool.
• 59:40
  Stuff like that, 'cause you want CPI think it's becoming, it's
• 59:44
  coming back in full. I think definitely like being
• 59:46
  allowed to be vocal about about your about your, your faith.
• 59:50
  Yeah, I think that it's coming definitely making it's making it
• 59:53
  round back way for it like to be a good thing.
• 59:56
  You know what I mean, 'cause I think damn sure for a long time
• 59:58
  it was like. No, it was like forbidden.
• 59:59
  Yeah, like don't, don't mention Jesus.
• 1:00:01
  Don't you know what I mean? Like don't talk.
• 1:00:02
  About you talk about religion. Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  You know what I mean? And what it what is that?
• 1:00:07
  You know what I mean? Like so, So, yeah.
• 1:00:08
  So for those those guys like that to really like start to
• 1:00:11
  integrate that back into the country music industry is like,
• 1:00:13
  yeah, is awesome. I think it's cool to see.
• 1:00:15
  I I I also important enjoy it it's.
• 1:00:18
  Very important. Very.
• 1:00:19
  Yeah, sorry. I also no just not do again.
• 1:00:22
  Don't just don't ever that have it again.
• 1:00:24
  Don't ever that have it again. No, I say that all the time.
• 1:00:27
  Yeah. But like, to be able to like,
• 1:00:31
  listen to it with my kids, right?
• 1:00:33
  Yeah, yeah. It's like when I was.
• 1:00:34
  Young and not worry about it. Yeah, like they're like, dude,
• 1:00:36
  when I was younger, you know, I was listening like little Wayne,
• 1:00:38
  like all that. Stuff and absolutely.
• 1:00:40
  You know, sometimes we'll throw it on and I'm like.
• 1:00:42
  Yeah, you know, turn God about that.
• 1:00:44
  Yeah. Say listening like listening to
• 1:00:46
  that or watching movies with your parents.
• 1:00:47
  You're like listening, there's your parent or what?
• 1:00:49
  Listening to your music. Yeah, I've seen memes all the
• 1:00:51
  time that are like that. They're like.
• 1:00:54
  If you're worried about your music, just try listening to it
• 1:00:56
  next to your parents and see how you.
• 1:00:57
  Know what I mean? You're like, and there is music
• 1:01:00
  that you're like, I didn't, you know so.
• 1:01:02
  So I like I do, I do like where your style is and like where
• 1:01:06
  like where you want to go, you know, because again, you know,
• 1:01:09
  that whole new country, you know, like I think they were
• 1:01:13
  given Luke Bryan some shit about bro country, you know.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah, I don't know. I like that stuff, right,
• 1:01:18
  Because, you know, I, I like the beats.
• 1:01:20
  I like the, you know, how like how like uppity is, but I also
• 1:01:23
  enjoy like when you sit there and say there's a little bit too
• 1:01:27
  much pop. I I feel like there isn't.
• 1:01:29
  Man, yeah, OK, I feel I good. I like feedback, yeah.
• 1:01:32
  I love that stuff dude. Like, you know, I don't want
• 1:01:36
  country to go back to old country and I'm sorry for all
• 1:01:38
  the big country people out there, but that's just not my
• 1:01:41
  style, right? Oh.
• 1:01:42
  Right old, back to old old country.
• 1:01:43
  Yeah, so it's like having like you, the Zach tops and.
• 1:01:47
  Yeah, I think there's a good Johnson, a good bridge.
• 1:01:49
  Yeah, exactly though, and I wouldn't see.
• 1:01:51
  I said I wouldn't. Everybody says like Zach tops
• 1:01:53
  his 90s, you know, I I think he there's a bridge between that.
• 1:01:56
  I think that there's like it he integrates kind of what we got
• 1:01:59
  going on now and and Alan Jackson 90s like country, you
• 1:02:03
  know, I think it's but I think it's awesome.
• 1:02:06
  Yeah, I love it. I obviously other people do too.
• 1:02:08
  You know, he's one of the biggest exactly stars there is
• 1:02:11
  right now, so. Your sound is great.
• 1:02:12
  I mean, right, We go to Dylan's every Thursday and we're at
• 1:02:16
  every rodeo, right? And every time there's a
• 1:02:18
  musician out, we're always like, oh shit.
• 1:02:21
  Here we go, right? Here we go.
• 1:02:22
  And then you came out and I was like, I think I was talking to
• 1:02:25
  my wife and you started singing. And I was like, what the hell?
• 1:02:29
  Yeah, when did we get some actual talent out here?
• 1:02:32
  And we were all like, holy shit, We're actually like.
• 1:02:35
  Well, thank you. This is really.
• 1:02:36
  Really good. And then when we all got to
• 1:02:38
  talking about you going to Nashville, I was like, I I can
• 1:02:41
  see why. Yeah, right.
• 1:02:42
  And what's cool, too is like, dude, you are born and raised in
• 1:02:45
  Arizona. Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Yeah. What like we, I feel like, you
• 1:02:49
  know, Arizona is like the forgotten Western for.
• 1:02:52
  Sure. Yeah, You know, and that's one
• 1:02:54
  cool thing that Styles has me doing right now is and, and, you
• 1:02:58
  know, my family even asked cuz I've got my grandpa managing
• 1:03:01
  this whole deal, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:03
  So my grandpa's like run. It's kind of cool to be able to
• 1:03:05
  work with him and like, and, and I mean, he's like, he's the
• 1:03:07
  best. Like he just, he's just level
• 1:03:10
  headed dude, that like, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:11
  And he's just kind of used to be with bull crap.
• 1:03:13
  So it's kind of nice to be able to have him as a wall of like, I
• 1:03:17
  mean, I'm, you know, I'd be down for whatever that people are
• 1:03:19
  offering, but you gotta run it past my grandpa, you know what I
• 1:03:21
  mean? I don't even say that, you know,
• 1:03:22
  just past my advisor, you know, whatever, you know.
• 1:03:25
  But no, I just tossed my trains hot again.
• 1:03:29
  I'm sorry. Well, nobody's gonna look out
• 1:03:31
  for you the way your grandfather will.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah. Oh, but that's what I'm saying
• 1:03:34
  with styles was he was saying like, or my grandpa was asking
• 1:03:36
  like, no, does he need to be in Nashville and like and Styles,
• 1:03:39
  like here's the here's the image I have for cold.
• 1:03:42
  He said I want him to stay in Arizona, continue to be an
• 1:03:44
  Arizona cowboy. Yeah.
• 1:03:46
  And do his thing in Arizona and then we'll fly him out.
• 1:03:49
  We'll cut his music and then go back to Arizona and keep doing
• 1:03:51
  your thing. And I'm like, that's that's so
• 1:03:54
  you know what I mean? I'm an Arizona boy.
• 1:03:56
  Like, I don't, yeah, I could summer somewhere else, you know
• 1:03:58
  what I mean? But I.
• 1:04:00
  Can't we but. Who wouldn't, you know what I
• 1:04:01
  mean? But like in the winter time and
• 1:04:03
  there's no, I mean Arizona in my home, you know, I mean, I've
• 1:04:05
  lived in Kansas, I live in Utah, I lived in Oklahoma and it's
• 1:04:08
  like every time that first snow falls, usually they see my tail
• 1:04:12
  lights, you know what I mean? I'm like, I just don't do it,
• 1:04:14
  you know? I saw.
• 1:04:14
  People all the time. We have 60 days of hell, right?
• 1:04:17
  Yeah, for 10 months of like the perfect weather.
• 1:04:20
  Right. And that's what, yeah, when I'm
• 1:04:21
  living in, when I was living in Oklahoma, Kansas, like, you
• 1:04:24
  know, why the hell are they Why? Why you moving back to Arizona?
• 1:04:27
  You know, so hot. That I'm like, dude, have you?
• 1:04:29
  If you're not gone outside, it's 95 with 100 and 10110% humidity.
• 1:04:33
  Yeah, you know what I mean? And I was and and then you guys
• 1:04:35
  freeze your Dicks off all winter long, right?
• 1:04:38
  I get 65 and sunny and then we go to the lake for a few months,
• 1:04:41
  right? Like exactly.
• 1:04:42
  I don't know what you're talking.
• 1:04:43
  About you seen these mosquitoes? There Yeah man, these bugs out
• 1:04:46
  here something else yeah, they. Are you don't even dry off when
• 1:04:49
  you get out of the shower, You just put your clothes on.
• 1:04:51
  Yeah, man, by the time you get to the barn anyway.
• 1:04:53
  And like dry heat, I can, I mean, I can go all day and dry
• 1:04:56
  heat if I'm, if I'm drinking fluids and stuff.
• 1:04:58
  But like, if you're in that humidity, you get 4 hours of
• 1:05:01
  like good work and then you gotta go inside and like cool
• 1:05:04
  off. Yeah, rehydrate.
• 1:05:05
  I mean, like you just sweat it out.
• 1:05:07
  I mean, it's just miserable. But so so yeah.
• 1:05:12
  Not at high school. Went to auctioneering school
• 1:05:14
  then. Dude, you got a story?
• 1:05:16
  I know it's, it's been an interesting ride, that's for
• 1:05:19
  damn sure. And how old are you?
• 1:05:20
  I'm 25 right now. I'll be 26 in September, so just
• 1:05:23
  two months. Nice.
• 1:05:24
  Yeah, so I'll be. So you still got a lot of life
• 1:05:26
  to live. Got a lot of life to live.
• 1:05:28
  Yep. Hopefully you know.
• 1:05:30
  A lot of time to tell your story.
• 1:05:31
  I hope so, yeah. What what are like when you do
• 1:05:35
  write songs? How how is that process?
• 1:05:39
  I just feel like I don't. I've never written a song.
• 1:05:43
  Oh yeah, I'll. Be like.
• 1:05:43
  Nor does he remember any right, by the way.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah, that's, that's very true. So when you're sitting there
• 1:05:48
  like popping off all these songs and I'm saying, yeah, I don't
• 1:05:50
  know. OK, right.
• 1:05:52
  Even if you heard it this morning, he's still hey.
• 1:05:54
  Failed team making, brother, Yeah.
• 1:05:56
  Hey, but I could jam out though. That's right.
• 1:05:58
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:05:59
  I could I could like move my. Hips OK, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:03
  No, but like I just feel like it would just be like an easy
• 1:06:05
  process. But you hear all these country
• 1:06:08
  artists like having songs written for.
• 1:06:10
  Them. Yeah, and.
• 1:06:11
  So so how is it? How is it for you to write a
• 1:06:14
  song? It's kind of weird for me, like
• 1:06:17
  I I don't wake up every morning and like go to writing or like
• 1:06:20
  trying to write a song, You know, like like the Arizona,
• 1:06:23
  like go buckles, right, That one was weird.
• 1:06:25
  Go buckles was weird. Like we were at my buddy Koi's
• 1:06:27
  and I was drunk a little bit and he literally like played a
• 1:06:30
  progression. We pressed recording his on his
• 1:06:32
  phone and I just made those lyrics up on the spot, like the
• 1:06:35
  chorus and the first verse, like the first time I even sung it.
• 1:06:39
  So but that's not how it always goes.
• 1:06:40
  But like Arizona waves, I Arizona waves.
• 1:06:43
  I had that hook in my there's AI mean the hook for that song.
• 1:06:47
  I kind of got it in my head and I woke up 1 morning and like I
• 1:06:50
  wrote that song in like 45 minutes.
• 1:06:51
  I just went down and I just couldn't I couldn't get it out
• 1:06:53
  fast enough. Like it just was like coming,
• 1:06:55
  you know, quick and there was another one and that's how it
• 1:06:58
  was with the other one too. Like I just there's four that I
• 1:07:01
  wrote that were that I'll be recording and the two of them
• 1:07:03
  that I had wrote for me. Like, I don't know if you
• 1:07:04
  remember that neon merry go round song that I sang at
• 1:07:06
  Dylan's. You know who wrote that song?
• 1:07:08
  It's David Lee Murphy. Oh, wow.
• 1:07:10
  Dust on the bottle might be live dust down.
• 1:07:14
  Oh yeah, yeah, he wrote that song.
• 1:07:16
  So he wrote that song with styles and, and I said, I
• 1:07:21
  started singing it and and they were like, dude, like, do you
• 1:07:23
  want that song? So.
• 1:07:24
  So does like styles sometimes like feed you?
• 1:07:27
  He'll pitch me stuff all the time.
• 1:07:29
  Yeah. Like he just, I mean, he he he
• 1:07:31
  works for Warren. He was a signed songwriter for
• 1:07:33
  Warner Brothers for a long time. So like he writes, he writes a
• 1:07:36
  song a day. So sometimes it like, and he's
• 1:07:39
  got like hundreds in his deal that they've just done demos on.
• 1:07:41
  And he's like every once in a while he'll send me a song like,
• 1:07:43
  hey, what do you think about that?
• 1:07:44
  What do you think about that? You know, just just seeing if I
• 1:07:46
  like stuff, you know, and, and so far there's one that I that's
• 1:07:50
  called I prayed it that he wrote with another guy that I'm going
• 1:07:53
  to be recording, which I love. And I, yeah, I can't wait for
• 1:07:56
  everybody to hear that one, but I'll be recording that one.
• 1:08:01
  And, and and then that David Lee Murphy, the Neon Merry Go Round
• 1:08:06
  and Styles wrote that one too. And I can't remember what else
• 1:08:09
  there is. I don't think that's.
• 1:08:10
  I think there's the only two that I'm recording that aren't
• 1:08:12
  mine, but the other ones are all mine.
• 1:08:14
  When like he sends you a song, do you just go try it, try it
• 1:08:18
  out? He's.
• 1:08:18
  I mean, it's a full, it's a full demo.
• 1:08:20
  Like it's, it's, it's almost like a song you hear on the
• 1:08:23
  radio. Oh, so it's a finished product?
• 1:08:25
  Like, yeah, pretty much. So somebody else is singing it,
• 1:08:29
  Yeah. Somebody else is singing it.
• 1:08:30
  They've already they don't like master like fine-tuned anything.
• 1:08:32
  It's kind of a raw deal. But like I mean it to to
• 1:08:35
  somebody that doesn't know music, you'd hear that and go
• 1:08:38
  that should be on the radio, you know what I mean?
• 1:08:40
  Yeah. And he's got just hundreds of
• 1:08:41
  those, you know what I mean? So it's like, but you know,
• 1:08:43
  yeah, that one and the other one I, I really like.
• 1:08:45
  So I'm going to record those, you know, and.
• 1:08:51
  So you just got one song coming out on?
• 1:08:53
  August, on August 29th, it's going to be just gold buckles.
• 1:08:56
  Yeah. And the music video will be out.
• 1:08:58
  Everything will be out. Yeah.
• 1:08:59
  That wasn't, that was another thing of that song that I that
• 1:09:02
  was like another aspect of like things I didn't know.
• 1:09:04
  It was like the music video. I mean, again, like styles
• 1:09:09
  called in another favor from a homie.
• 1:09:10
  Like, you know, hey, this this kids, he's like, I really want
• 1:09:15
  this kid to go, you know, far. And and these guys cut me a
• 1:09:19
  price that I couldn't have even dreamed, you know, I mean,
• 1:09:22
  they're starting prices typically 40,050 thousand for a
• 1:09:25
  music video, you know what I mean?
• 1:09:26
  And we did it for a substantially less than that.
• 1:09:29
  Yeah. And then, you know, guys like
• 1:09:30
  Cowboy Hardware, Billy Cook's saddles.
• 1:09:32
  I don't know if you know Billy Cook's saddles.
• 1:09:34
  So Adam Trank is a friend of mine.
• 1:09:36
  He sent me a new saddle for that music video and he threw some
• 1:09:39
  money in and he got some guys together to help pitch in for
• 1:09:42
  that to to pay for it. And so just yeah, all the guys
• 1:09:48
  that came together. Thank you for those sponsors and
• 1:09:50
  everything. And, and check out.
• 1:09:52
  I mean, you can, you can buy Gabby Hardware and Boot Barn.
• 1:09:54
  I mean, they're everywhere, you know what I mean?
• 1:09:56
  And so, but, but doing that music video, I mean, we have, I
• 1:10:02
  mean, we, we did the brass tacks and my grandpa was on the
• 1:10:06
  camera, you know, yeah, even at one point.
• 1:10:09
  So we had like 3-4, three or four cameras going at all times.
• 1:10:12
  And I think by the end of it, we had 20 hours of footage, you
• 1:10:18
  know what I mean, that we had to go through and.
• 1:10:19
  Was it all done here? Yeah, all in Arizona and that
• 1:10:21
  see, that's the that's the idea, you know, it's it's all Arizona
• 1:10:24
  based and Arizona Cowboys, you know, and so team were open and
• 1:10:28
  then the bull riding and the bull fighting and all that
• 1:10:30
  stuff. We at Radcast would like to
• 1:10:33
  shout out Colton Mcmurdy's sponsors, Sierra Negra Farms in
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  conditioning needs. 602-390-3930 So when do you record next?
• 1:11:07
  When's that happening? I I'm not exactly sure on the
• 1:11:10
  dates yet, but we're probably going to shoot out there the
• 1:11:13
  week after the OR the OR the following week after the 29th.
• 1:11:17
  OK, and I'll go back out there and then in the first one went
• 1:11:20
  out there. We just did that one song.
• 1:11:22
  This time I'm getting 4-4 or five so.
• 1:11:25
  OK, so we're dropping on 29th, the 29th.
• 1:11:28
  Yep. OK And the name of the song is
• 1:11:31
  Go Buckles. Buckles.
• 1:11:33
  Yep. And you sprinkled a little bit
• 1:11:34
  of that on social media, so. Yeah, and, and honestly, like,
• 1:11:37
  it's kind of funny if you went through that whole deal and
• 1:11:39
  piece it together, you could piece together the whole song on
• 1:11:42
  all the clips that I. Tell the real 1.
• 1:11:43
  Yeah, no, but I, I mean, it'd be hella dude.
• 1:11:46
  It comes out in a week anyways. Whatever.
• 1:11:48
  But but yeah, I mean I, I've, I mean I've, I've, I've actually,
• 1:11:52
  what's that? Just read it.
• 1:11:54
  I can't read that. If I if I could, I would promise
• 1:11:59
  you. Hold on.
• 1:12:00
  I could. I could probably read it.
• 1:12:03
  I could read. I could read nothing.
• 1:12:07
  Oh, is it going to be on Apple Music and Spotify?
• 1:12:09
  Yeah, it would be. Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube.
• 1:12:14
  I've done everything. Yeah, it'll hit all platforms at
• 1:12:16
  once. Excellent.
• 1:12:17
  Yep. Awesome.
• 1:12:18
  Yep. Yep.
• 1:12:20
  Well man, let's let's do this again after you record your
• 1:12:23
  next. Yeah, 4 songs let's I'm super
• 1:12:25
  it's going. To be the the platform where we
• 1:12:27
  keep launching these things, yeah.
• 1:12:28
  Sweet. Yeah.
• 1:12:29
  So what's the next event? You're hey you.
• 1:12:31
  You know what would be cool? Yeah, no, but tell us.
• 1:12:35
  I want to know. It's pretty cool.
• 1:12:37
  I do want to know. Do you really?
• 1:12:39
  I I hold on now. I know.
• 1:12:41
  Now he's ready. We have.
• 1:12:43
  To prepare ourselves cool for you or cool for others.
• 1:12:48
  No, what would be cool is if we brought him out when we try to
• 1:12:50
  do like the rodeos. Heck yeah.
• 1:12:52
  Right. And like let him kind of
• 1:12:54
  interview these ropers and stuff.
• 1:12:55
  Like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:12:57
  Heck yeah, Heck yeah. That'd be fun.
• 1:12:59
  That's kind of our goal is to get to with, with my with.
• 1:13:04
  I'm working with a manager as far as my grandpa and all that.
• 1:13:06
  But his idea is let's start hitting these circuits, these
• 1:13:09
  PRCA circuits. Yeah, playing with those.
• 1:13:13
  So you ask the next what's up? Where am I playing at next?
• 1:13:16
  There's a PBR event. Well, it's not PBR sanctioned,
• 1:13:18
  but actually August or October 2nd through the 5th, there's a
• 1:13:23
  big bull riding out in Queen Creek and they're having a bunch
• 1:13:26
  of concerts and stuff like that. I'm playing in the arena before
• 1:13:30
  the pervs both nights. Let's go.
• 1:13:33
  So yeah, that would be a good one and that.
• 1:13:36
  Said October What? 2nd to the 5th and it's cowboy
• 1:13:41
  hardware is actually get they're sponsoring a portion of that as
• 1:13:43
  well, but it's a big it's a big bull run.
• 1:13:45
  They'll they're supposedly they're supposed to be 2020
• 1:13:48
  thousand, 30,000 people this deal.
• 1:13:50
  I wonder if Trev's gonna ride in that we'll have to talk to.
• 1:13:53
  There's a bunch of big concerts and that's like the that this is
• 1:13:55
  the first time they've been, they've done this event, but
• 1:13:58
  their idea for it is, is concerts in Bulls so awesome.
• 1:14:01
  Yeah, we'll see how I mean. So how many, how many singers
• 1:14:03
  will be there? I, I, I, I've, I I'm not sure.
• 1:14:06
  I, I I'm. I don't have all the details
• 1:14:08
  yet. But the only one that matters is
• 1:14:10
  you. I guess, yeah, I see.
• 1:14:12
  I'm not even playing on stage. Like they have a giant stage
• 1:14:14
  outside that that that a bunch of people will be playing on.
• 1:14:16
  I'm not even playing at that. I'm playing in in the arena
• 1:14:18
  right before the bull riding starts.
• 1:14:19
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'll play for that and then
• 1:14:22
  they'll open the gates, you know, so.
• 1:14:24
  We're we're gonna get a big old head of you.
• 1:14:26
  Yeah, you're ready. Like it?
• 1:14:27
  Yeah, we should. What are?
• 1:14:30
  They called fatheads or whatever.
• 1:14:31
  Yeah, hold up. Heck yeah.
• 1:14:32
  Yeah. That's awesome, man.
• 1:14:34
  So for anybody that wants to get in contact with you, it's like
• 1:14:40
  wants. To like play music I've got,
• 1:14:42
  I've got my website's just Colt Mcmurdy and you can just look
• 1:14:47
  that up and it'll it'll take you right.
• 1:14:49
  If you type in Colt Mcmurdy, ithinkits.com, it'll literally
• 1:14:52
  just you don't need, you only have to click on it.
• 1:14:54
  It'll take you right into my website and it'll have it has
• 1:14:57
  upcoming shows and events. It has how to book me.
• 1:15:00
  It has how to contact me OK, yeah, we'll.
• 1:15:03
  Tag all your social media in this.
• 1:15:04
  Yeah, and they'll tag my social media.
• 1:15:06
  You can always DM me. You can always, you can always
• 1:15:08
  direct message me on TikTok or whatever on Instagram, whatever
• 1:15:11
  you want to do. I'm not on Facebook too much but
• 1:15:14
  but I should be more but. Dude, Facebook's hard man.
• 1:15:17
  Yeah, I know. It's just like real analytical.
• 1:15:19
  They have it set up so weird. I I just it's TikTok, so user
• 1:15:24
  friendly and and so is Instagram yeah, you know what I mean I'll
• 1:15:28
  make a TikTok and then I'll literally just take that edit
• 1:15:30
  and just pop it over to Instagram and just yeah and post
• 1:15:34
  it. You know what I mean?
• 1:15:34
  So it's like it's just so easy for me to use, but social media
• 1:15:39
  has been great for me for sure. You know what I mean, I.
• 1:15:43
  You got a couple of videos of you roping that's like reached
• 1:15:46
  like 1,000,000 views. Yeah, they've they've done
• 1:15:48
  really good Instagram. I've there's a couple on there
• 1:15:51
  that are 3.42, you know, a million.
• 1:15:55
  And, but I mean, I, that was kind of our game plan was let's
• 1:15:57
  get, let's hammer the social media, you know, to get known
• 1:16:01
  there. And I, I mean, we went from 500
• 1:16:03
  followers to like 25,000 in a few months, you know what I
• 1:16:06
  mean? So it was, it's been good.
• 1:16:08
  But like, I mean, how do you not when you're just doing a muscle
• 1:16:11
  up onto a horse, you know what I mean?
• 1:16:13
  And I and I purposely start every video like that, like as
• 1:16:15
  long as I can keep your attention for five seconds, you
• 1:16:17
  know what I mean? That's all I need.
• 1:16:19
  Well, how many? You're a paraplegic.
• 1:16:24
  Yeah, Quadriplegic. Paraplegic.
• 1:16:27
  I don't know, you know what it's called.
• 1:16:28
  Honestly, I don't even know. I'm they tend to be.
• 1:16:30
  I'm partially partial and complete.
• 1:16:33
  OK, 'cause I still have movement and feeling, so it's like, I
• 1:16:35
  don't know why. Yeah, it'd be, it'd be partial
• 1:16:38
  and complete paralysis. OK, yeah, so I guess paraplegic
• 1:16:41
  would be the one. Yeah, I'm gonna say yeah.
• 1:16:42
  Quad would be 4. Might be that.
• 1:16:44
  Yeah. Quadriplegic be from the neck
• 1:16:45
  down. Oh, paraplegic be from the waist
• 1:16:47
  down. South Paraplegic.
• 1:16:47
  Paraplegic. Yeah, but they call it partially
• 1:16:49
  partial incomplete paralysis, but yeah.
• 1:16:53
  Well, after all that explanation, you're the only
• 1:16:55
  one, yeah, that I've seen. That's roping.
• 1:16:58
  Like, yeah, I've, I've only met one other guy and man, it's like
• 1:17:03
  I still have very good trunk, you know, like if I was like
• 1:17:08
  paralyzed completely, it'd be hard to rope.
• 1:17:10
  It really would be like just balance wise and everything
• 1:17:12
  'cause I still have really good trunk support in my hip flexors.
• 1:17:15
  I could still pull myself forward.
• 1:17:17
  I have to lean, my back muscles don't work very good.
• 1:17:19
  So I don't like I, if I my horse stops too soon, I mean, I'll
• 1:17:21
  slack her neck, you know. Yeah, but like the other guy
• 1:17:24
  that ropes, I mean, he's paralyzed.
• 1:17:26
  And I mean it's it's it's hectic watching.
• 1:17:29
  I mean, he all, he hammers him, but it's like, but it's like.
• 1:17:32
  But you you could kind of understand what's going.
• 1:17:34
  On Ohh yeah, for sure. I definitely have a better sense
• 1:17:37
  of it, but even then it's like, I don't, you know what I mean,
• 1:17:39
  'cause I still have muscles that he does.
• 1:17:41
  I mean I'm blessed, you know what I mean?
• 1:17:42
  I don't always look at it that way.
• 1:17:43
  Like it just could always be worse, dude, You know?
• 1:17:45
  I mean, you could complain all you want or you could just keep
• 1:17:48
  on keeping on, you know what I mean?
• 1:17:49
  Lifes hard, but it's not meant to be easy.
• 1:17:51
  I think that's, I think that's kind of the point of it.
• 1:17:53
  You know what I mean? Yeah, I think we're here to
• 1:17:54
  learn lessons and I tested. I don't think God puts trials in
• 1:17:57
  your life that you can't handle. Amen, man.
• 1:17:59
  Yeah, is so I've noticed all you wear is converse.
• 1:18:04
  Yeah, my Chuck llamas. Yeah, yes, Sir.
• 1:18:07
  That's like your thing. I I.
• 1:18:09
  Yeah, I I just, I don't know, I it's like I can't get boots on.
• 1:18:12
  I mean, I can, I have a pair that I can't get on, but they're
• 1:18:14
  just a pain in the ass to put. Yeah.
• 1:18:16
  Like, imagine your foot not working and then just like
• 1:18:18
  trying to slam it into a boot. Yeah.
• 1:18:19
  I mean, actually I just had Ariat just reached out to me and
• 1:18:22
  they just sent me a pair of boots that zipped down the back.
• 1:18:25
  Oh, so they like the zip all with the bottom down the back.
• 1:18:28
  I don't know, I just like my Chuck.
• 1:18:29
  My chucks. I yeah, I leave my chucks on.
• 1:18:32
  I it's so funny how much heat I get on Instagram and like social
• 1:18:36
  media just from like, well, yeah, yeah, bro.
• 1:18:38
  Like, well, like if you do, you realize how dangerous it is to
• 1:18:41
  be wearing shoes in the saddle. And I'm like, I'm tied into this
• 1:18:45
  horse right now, right? Like if my my foot going to my
• 1:18:48
  strip is the least of my work. Yeah, like did you see the?
• 1:18:50
  Horse. Yeah, I seat belt to it.
• 1:18:52
  If my horse goes down, I'm going down.
• 1:18:54
  Yeah, yeah, I just don't think about it.
• 1:18:56
  But like if my horse trips and like rolls?
• 1:18:59
  I'm going with. Them I'm screwed like most
• 1:19:00
  people like when they come off, they'll get a like they kind of
• 1:19:02
  fly away from their animal a little bit and they get out the
• 1:19:04
  way you. Know what that looks like?
• 1:19:06
  Yeah. Have you got that?
• 1:19:08
  I do. Oh, did you?
• 1:19:10
  Yeah, I, but I'm going down with the ship.
• 1:19:12
  I mean, that's just how it is. So I mean, I and and I'm, I'm my
• 1:19:16
  feet are also tied into it. So you're really right.
• 1:19:18
  You're not going anywhere. No, it's, it just is what it is.
• 1:19:21
  But it's easier to get my foot into a commerce and I just, I
• 1:19:23
  don't know, boy, I just like my commerce and that's.
• 1:19:25
  Cool, I like that man. That's like a cool little.
• 1:19:27
  Yeah, I I posted one video and I was like, tell someone, tell a
• 1:19:30
  commerce response from me and they got it had like 500,000.
• 1:19:33
  No shit news yeah, but commerce never.
• 1:19:35
  No, Yeah, yeah, Like you guys see the bust into the Western
• 1:19:39
  industry dog. Yeah, Commerce cowboy.
• 1:19:41
  Untapped market over here, right?
• 1:19:44
  There it is, man. There's like a huge market in
• 1:19:45
  the Western cold. Yeah, man.
• 1:19:46
  And I think it's growing like it's.
• 1:19:48
  Oh yeah, tremendously it. Cowboys back, yeah, You know
• 1:19:51
  what I mean? Cowboy is just it's back, you
• 1:19:53
  know what I mean? So.
• 1:19:54
  So it was country music, man. Like, yeah, it it has.
• 1:19:57
  About time. Amen.
• 1:19:58
  It's about time. I grew up on it.
• 1:20:00
  You know, it's funny to me. Like I think like Cowboys back
• 1:20:04
  and we were just we were talking earlier about like, you know,
• 1:20:07
  being able to say, like, you know, talk about God and express
• 1:20:09
  that kind of stuff. I think I think that's one of
• 1:20:11
  those things that comes with the cowboy way of life.
• 1:20:14
  Absolutely. So it's kind of I think that
• 1:20:15
  that kind of comes hand in hand and and I don't even think the
• 1:20:18
  people necessarily were one in the you know, like that wasn't
• 1:20:22
  the objective, but like because cowboy came back, it's like
• 1:20:25
  those are the traits and attributes that come with that
• 1:20:27
  lifestyle. You know what I mean?
• 1:20:28
  Or I mean, not everybody in the cowboy industry obviously is
• 1:20:31
  that way, but like. The majority the.
• 1:20:33
  Majority of it is that, I mean, it's it's Jesus focus, it's
• 1:20:36
  Jesus integrated and it's like it's OK to talk about that.
• 1:20:39
  It's important to talk. I mean, dude, you go like I was
• 1:20:42
  just in Oklahoma, me and my buddy took some bulls and Abbi
• 1:20:46
  bulls out. I don't know if you know Abbi
• 1:20:48
  bulls or it's like a, it's a whole event that they don't even
• 1:20:50
  have bull riders on them. They have a, it's a dummy box.
• 1:20:52
  So they put a little like weight deal on their back.
• 1:20:55
  One year old division, 2 year old division.
• 1:20:56
  It's all the upcoming bucking balls.
• 1:20:58
  OK, but you just bucked the ball with no rider and they and they
• 1:21:02
  judge the ball that way. So we drove all the way out
• 1:21:04
  there and then we were in Texas for that deal too.
• 1:21:07
  I mean, this is a event that people, I mean, first place is
• 1:21:10
  winning 50,000. They sat every damn contestant
• 1:21:13
  down and they did a freaking a sermon before the whole deal
• 1:21:17
  started. I mean, they're in the Bible
• 1:21:18
  Belt. Yeah, they're in.
• 1:21:19
  The Bible Belt for sure, but that's cool shit that I like
• 1:21:22
  seeing, you know what I mean? I I like it.
• 1:21:24
  Let's focus it out. Let's start with a prayer.
• 1:21:26
  Yeah, that's the culture. Let's remember why we're let's
• 1:21:28
  remember why we're even here on earth and what we're and why we
• 1:21:31
  get to do the things that we get to do.
• 1:21:33
  That's what. And then let's have some fun,
• 1:21:34
  you know? That's like kind of what draw us
• 1:21:36
  into it is like, not only is it exciting, right?
• 1:21:40
  But yeah, I mean, the, the cowboy Western culture, it's,
• 1:21:44
  you know, it's God family. Really true.
• 1:21:47
  Country. Yeah, you know.
• 1:21:48
  How better can you raise your family exactly?
• 1:21:50
  Right. Exactly.
• 1:21:51
  You know what I mean? Like what?
• 1:21:52
  What? Especially when you start a
• 1:21:53
  family. Like what?
• 1:21:54
  What virtues? What attributes do you want to
• 1:21:55
  have? Yeah, You know what I mean.
• 1:21:57
  Do I want to do I want to have a wife I'm worried about, you
• 1:21:59
  know, do I want to have kids that have no respect?
• 1:22:02
  Do I have more worry about them mouthing off to.
• 1:22:05
  You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:22:06
  Or do I want to have attributes in my home that are going to be
• 1:22:10
  set my kids up for success? You know what I mean?
• 1:22:13
  Especially like that. I think, I think that I see kids
• 1:22:16
  all the time now, especially my age.
• 1:22:18
  I mean, gosh, they're just so damn rude to people.
• 1:22:19
  And it's like, and they have they, I mean, a woman, I take my
• 1:22:23
  hat off and I, and that's just the way I was raised.
• 1:22:25
  You know what I mean? It's yes, Sir.
• 1:22:26
  It's no Sir. It's yes ma'am.
• 1:22:27
  It's no ma'am. And it, even if you're wrong,
• 1:22:29
  it's fine. It doesn't matter.
• 1:22:31
  You know what I mean? And it's, I mean, that was a
• 1:22:33
  hard thing for me to learn for a long time.
• 1:22:34
  Don't get me wrong. I've never been perfect, you
• 1:22:36
  know? Don't get me wrong, I was.
• 1:22:38
  I was damn sure. But now here's a product, right?
• 1:22:41
  Yeah, you know what I mean. But you always come full circle,
• 1:22:44
  you know? Yeah.
• 1:22:45
  And you remember where you come from and it's.
• 1:22:47
  And then we get to a certain age, you're like, I got people
• 1:22:50
  that respect my parents, like people that respect my
• 1:22:51
  grandparents and, and they look at me as a product of them.
• 1:22:54
  Absolutely, You know what I mean?
• 1:22:55
  So it's like, how do I want them to, how do I want my parents to
• 1:22:58
  be honored? You know what I mean?
• 1:22:59
  And if you, if you're really wanting to sit in the Bible, you
• 1:23:01
  know, honor that father and that mother, you know what I mean?
• 1:23:03
  So if you're trying to honor your father and your mother,
• 1:23:05
  don't ever put it, you know, my dad, I carry my dad's last name,
• 1:23:08
  you know what I mean? I don't ever want to do nothing
• 1:23:09
  to tarnish that that name. You know what I mean?
• 1:23:11
  So. Yeah, and I, it's funny, you
• 1:23:14
  know, mentioning that, right? My son will be the last to carry
• 1:23:19
  the Beauver last name. Yeah.
• 1:23:21
  And it's one of those things where, no, I remember in the
• 1:23:24
  beginning I was like, I wanted a daughter first, right?
• 1:23:26
  Just 'cause I grew up with women and then we had my son, it was
• 1:23:29
  one of those moments where I realized, like, the generation
• 1:23:31
  carries on, right? The name carries on.
• 1:23:33
  And there's a lot of, there's a lot of responsibility to that.
• 1:23:36
  Yeah. And what you're talking about is
• 1:23:37
  like growing up in a way of life that puts, you know, God, family
• 1:23:41
  and country as a priority. Not being a knucklehead.
• 1:23:44
  Now, don't get me wrong, we're all knuckleheads.
• 1:23:46
  We're all just. Dumb.
• 1:23:47
  We're, yeah. I mean, we're, I mean, that's
• 1:23:49
  the human nature. Yeah.
• 1:23:50
  But the fact that you stay true to who you are and that you, you
• 1:23:53
  know, what you said makes, you know, what makes me hopeful for
• 1:23:57
  the generation is that I'm a reflection of my family, right?
• 1:24:01
  And I want to make sure that I show.
• 1:24:02
  Well, yeah. Right.
• 1:24:04
  And not not as a facade, but like, I truly, this is who I am
• 1:24:07
  and this is where I come from. It's just it's good to hear
• 1:24:11
  because there's not enough of that.
• 1:24:13
  Right. And not that there isn't good
• 1:24:14
  people that are out of the restaurant industry, but just as
• 1:24:16
  a whole, you know, I think it's a good.
• 1:24:18
  Yeah, yeah. It's a wholesome lifestyle.
• 1:24:21
  Yeah, and what's what's good to hear too, is like somebody like
• 1:24:23
  you, right? Like you got, you're where
• 1:24:26
  you're going in your life, you're going to have a lot of
• 1:24:29
  influence on people, you know, I mean, especially like the
• 1:24:32
  younger generation that's coming up after you too, right?
• 1:24:35
  So hearing that you have those values, those core values with
• 1:24:38
  your family and just, you know, holding that pride about your
• 1:24:41
  last name, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:24:43
  Like that's awesome. Man, yeah, they asked me too.
• 1:24:45
  Like you want to. I've been asked what name you're
• 1:24:49
  going to go by on stage. I'm going to go with my name,
• 1:24:52
  you know? Yeah, obviously, you know, I
• 1:24:53
  mean, it's just the name I wanted people to know.
• 1:24:56
  Yeah. So be proud of it, that's all.
• 1:24:58
  Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, I.
• 1:25:01
  Enjoy. Awesome.
• 1:25:02
  Well, we really appreciate you coming on here.
• 1:25:04
  The heck Yeah. Thanks for having me.
• 1:25:05
  Yeah, it's pretty. Great to get to know you.
• 1:25:08
  I know I'm looking forward to. What'll be cool is now that we
• 1:25:10
  all know each other, we can all hang out.
• 1:25:11
  Yeah, Heck yeah, man, I'm sure there's stuff we can get to you
• 1:25:14
  next time that we didn't get to you this time.
• 1:25:16
  I don't even know, but absolutely heck yeah.
• 1:25:19
  That's awesome. Kick ass.
• 1:25:20
  Well, we really appreciate you being on Colton and we're
• 1:25:22
  looking forward to hearing the soundtrack drop or the.
• 1:25:26
  Yep, the sound record. Yeah, August, 29th August. 29th
• 1:25:30
  August. 29th TikTok. Instagram.
• 1:25:33
  Yeah. Colt Mcmurdy music.
• 1:25:35
  Colt Mcmurdy music on both. Yeah, excellent.
• 1:25:37
  So look for me there too. Awesome.
• 1:25:39
  Alright, well thank you so much for being on.
• 1:25:41
  Heck yeah, guys, Sir, it's been real.
• 1:25:57
  me.