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Kade Madsen on PBR coming to Salt Lake City, His Bull Riding career, Getting back into it 3 months removed from his LDS mission + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Sinus as a piano mass.
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  Speaker 2: You were listening to the Shan o'connall Show from a
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  Speaker 2: Murdoch Hunting studio of ESPN seven hundred and ninety two
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  Speaker 2: to one am.
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  Speaker 1: You got us filling all right, Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: Shan O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 2: In about twelve minutes, I'm gonna have five figure Death
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  Speaker 2: Punch tickets and PBR tickets to give away. PBR coming
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  Speaker 2: to the Delta Center with February sixth and seventh. If
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  Speaker 2: you have not been in person at a professional bull
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  Speaker 2: riders event, I highly encourage you to do it, even
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  Speaker 2: if you're not like a biggest rodeo fan, you're not
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  Speaker 2: the biggest bull riding fan. It's just one of those
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  Speaker 2: things that you have to be there in person. It's
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  Speaker 2: great on TV, it's even better when you are in
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  Speaker 2: the building. So we'll be giving away some tickets. You
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  Speaker 2: can also go find details on how to purchase them
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  Speaker 2: at ESPN seven hundred sports dot com. And we're lucky
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  Speaker 2: enough to have one of the professional bull riders on
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  Speaker 2: the show with us here, not just any bull rider,
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  Speaker 2: but a man with the Utah connections of Utah and himself,
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  Speaker 2: Cade Madson Kind enough to join us.
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  Speaker 3: Kid, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: How are you I'm doing?
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  Speaker 2: Are you the only big time rider from Honeyville, Utah?
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  Speaker 4: My brother he's a I mean, he doesn't live in
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  Speaker 4: Honeyville anymore. But there's a couple other big names like
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  Speaker 4: Kimn Tyler Bingham. They grew up on Honeyville. So but
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  Speaker 4: for now, yeah, I guess I'm the only one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're lucky. We're lucky to have you on the show,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, and look I do. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: a lot of sports. You don't get to talk about
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  Speaker 2: bull riding very often.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a fan.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, especially in my college days. I watched
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  Speaker 2: a lot of PBR that was long before. That's probably
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  Speaker 2: before you were born. That was the the Newberry days
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  Speaker 2: and the Adriana Marias days. But we talk all the
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  Speaker 2: time about other sports. How serving an LDS mission can
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  Speaker 2: be hard on the sport, right, Guys go with on
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  Speaker 2: the mission and they come back and they got to
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  Speaker 2: get back in football shape.
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  Speaker 3: They got to put weight on or take weight off.
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  Speaker 2: Guys that are basketball players leave and they got to
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  Speaker 2: come back and get back in shape before they're good
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  Speaker 2: at you know, being on the hardwood. Again, you served
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  Speaker 2: an LDS mission. How much did it take away from
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  Speaker 2: your riding.
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  Speaker 4: It was definitely a process getting back into it. It
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  Speaker 4: was actually a little harder than I anticipated. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you come back after two years and there's muscles that
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  Speaker 4: you haven't worked in a long time, and so I
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  Speaker 4: would soar for a little while. But it's really been,
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  Speaker 4: you know, kind of a fast track, which I consider
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  Speaker 4: a great blessing. You going to be able to ride
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  Speaker 4: at the top of my game. Game just you know,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be three months tomorrow since I got home for
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  Speaker 4: my mission. So it was a little bit hard, but
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  Speaker 4: it's all been a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, so forgive me for focusing on this.
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  Speaker 2: But people here in Salt Lake City, like, this is
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  Speaker 2: a this is a cultural phenomen coming on the return
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  Speaker 2: missionary athlete. This is a thing that we're very, very
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  Speaker 2: familiar with. But again not in the bull riding sense.
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  Speaker 2: Three months removed and you're already back on I mean
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  Speaker 2: professional bull, like this quality of bull. You're not easing
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  Speaker 2: your way back into this thing.
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  Speaker 4: I ease my way back in as as best as
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  Speaker 4: I could. But you know, like any sports, you never know,
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  Speaker 4: you know how ready you are until you actually just
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  Speaker 4: put yourself in that situation. And I got on a
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  Speaker 4: lot of bulls in the practice pennant my house leading
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  Speaker 4: up to it. But yeah, it's uh, it's been really
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  Speaker 4: good in the last couple of months.
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  Speaker 3: What other sports did you did you play growing up?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't play a whole lot of sports. I wrestled
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, but mainly, you know, since I was
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  Speaker 4: a little kid, all I've ever done is rodeo. That's
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  Speaker 4: What's consumed most of my time. I come from a
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  Speaker 4: rodeo family, and so you know, every weekend, day in
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  Speaker 4: and day out, we were riding horses and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So a real life cowboy in Honeyville. That's the coolest
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  Speaker 2: thing ever came Madison. Uh, Professional bull Riders the bull
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  Speaker 2: right Professional Bull Riders towards coming to Salt Lake City
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  Speaker 2: at the Delta Center. And look, one of the cool
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  Speaker 2: things about PBR is you can be a fan of
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  Speaker 2: the rider, you can be a fan of the bull.
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  Speaker 2: You can be a fan of both. And sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: see your favorite rider on your favorite bull. Do you
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  Speaker 2: have a favorite bull? Do you have a bull that
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  Speaker 2: you're looking forward to riding? Do you have a bull
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  Speaker 2: that you dread riding, Like, what is your relationship with
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  Speaker 2: the animal athletes in the PBR.
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  Speaker 4: They they're just as much as athletes as us, and
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  Speaker 4: so it's always, you know, you got to have a
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  Speaker 4: good bull underneath of you to win. And so right
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  Speaker 4: now I'm kind of trying to get used to all
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  Speaker 4: of them, all the bulls that were going, you know,
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  Speaker 4: before my mission or are you know most of them
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  Speaker 4: are retired, but you know, my favorite ones are the
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  Speaker 4: ones that I end up winning on.
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  Speaker 2: So uh okay, so tell me, like, give me some
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure this is an unfair question, but give me
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  Speaker 2: a sense. All right, when you're strapping onto a bull
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  Speaker 2: and they're about to open that shoot, do you quiet
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  Speaker 2: your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Do you say a quick prayer? Are you counting in
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  Speaker 3: your own head?
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  Speaker 2: What is the mental process of trying to stay on
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  Speaker 2: for those eight seconds?
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  Speaker 4: Kate? For sure that you know the second right before
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  Speaker 4: that you get open and the action actually takes place.
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  Speaker 4: I usually try to keep my mind pretty quiet most
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  Speaker 4: of the you know, the thought process, the preparation, those
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  Speaker 4: types of things you know you do throughout the week
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  Speaker 4: and then when you get there, you try to just
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  Speaker 4: I person try to let muscle memory take over.
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  Speaker 3: So what's the hardest type of bull to ride?
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  Speaker 2: Because they come just like the athletes do, right, The
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  Speaker 2: bulls come with all these different physical profiles. You get
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  Speaker 2: these big old muscular you get some of the leaner
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  Speaker 2: ones that spin, You get like, you know, the big horns.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get the knobby heads? Is there a particular
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  Speaker 2: style that you match up with better or that you
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  Speaker 2: don't like, or or maybe that you do.
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  Speaker 4: It always depends. Every every guy rides, their riding styles
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  Speaker 4: just a little bit differ, and so they'll favor, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a bulls bucking style a little bit better than others.
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  Speaker 4: But in terms of the bulls, the ones that are
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  Speaker 4: always you know, seem to be the hardest to get ya.
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  Speaker 4: The ones that are are fairly unpredictable. They do good
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  Speaker 4: at allowing us to be able to do a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of research on the bulls before we get on them.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of see, you know what they're their typical bucking
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  Speaker 4: styles like. But some of them, you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 4: really smart, they're good athletes, and so they'll do something
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  Speaker 4: different just about every time, and so those ones are
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  Speaker 4: kind of hard to you know, counteract, you know, make
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  Speaker 4: a game fun. I guess you'd say, of you know
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  Speaker 4: how you're going to get the job done, but.
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  Speaker 2: Heat, how do you uh how how how long before
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  Speaker 2: you know hoping on a bull at the Delta Center?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know which bull that's going to be? How's
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  Speaker 3: the draw work?
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  Speaker 4: So it'll be the Tuesday before they they do the
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  Speaker 4: official draw, and so you'll know a couple of days
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  Speaker 4: leading up to it. It gives you some time to do
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of research, maybe awesome videos on it,
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  Speaker 4: and come up with a game plan.
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  Speaker 2: So is that film study truly valuable for you? I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's part of every other sport. I the unpredictability
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  Speaker 2: of livestock and uh, just the nature of how brutal
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  Speaker 2: this sport can be. I can't imagine it translates perfectly
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  Speaker 2: and directly every single time.
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  Speaker 3: But how valuable is it to me?
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty valuable. It always kind of depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 4: different guys and what they like to do. Some of
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  Speaker 4: them don't like to know anything at all and just
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  Speaker 4: kind of react off of you know, Phil. But for me,
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  Speaker 4: I do a little bit of study and just to know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if a bowl has a trick that he
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  Speaker 4: does that gets a lot of guys on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: I usually like to know those types of things so
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  Speaker 4: that you can, you know, make preparations, make a game
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  Speaker 4: plan of how you're gonna you know, get through that
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  Speaker 4: seat and you know, make the eight seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Uh sorry, where did you serve your your LDS mission?
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  Speaker 4: If you don't mind me asking, I serve in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, cowboys said to Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, that's that's a blessing and a curse
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  Speaker 2: because you're not too you're not too far away from
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  Speaker 2: stuff you'd like to be involved in, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: be involved.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're focused on the mission.
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  Speaker 4: I imagine, Yeah, you're exactly right, far enough away, but
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  Speaker 4: go close enough.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's wild all right.
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  Speaker 2: So, so how important is it for you that this
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  Speaker 2: is I mean it's the Delta Center.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine that. You know, as a kid in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: You're very familiar with the important historic sporting events that
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  Speaker 2: have happened in this building, and now you get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to ride bulls there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, all growing up you know the PBR has
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  Speaker 4: come to Salt Lake City several times, and you know
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  Speaker 4: it's back at the Delta Center, and so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being a little kid sitting on the couch watching the PBR,
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  Speaker 4: it was always my dream to be able to not
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  Speaker 4: only go to the PBR in my home state, but
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  Speaker 4: to be able to win it. And so the months
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  Speaker 4: lead enough to me coming home Salt Lake City was
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  Speaker 4: like my official goal. I wanted to back ride and
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  Speaker 4: good enough to be able to ride at the Delta
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  Speaker 4: Center in Salt Lake City and not just ride buck
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  Speaker 4: You know, I plan on fun, on winning. So it's
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  Speaker 4: definitely a huge blessing, one that I'm really looking forward to.
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  Speaker 2: And how old were you when you first strapped on
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  Speaker 2: to like a big boy full size bowl.
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  Speaker 4: I think I was thirteen years old when I got
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  Speaker 4: on my first like full size bowls.
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  Speaker 3: How much did you weigh when you were thirteen years old?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, probably maybe one hundred towns. I wasn't very big.
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  Speaker 2: So every guy that I've ever talked to myself included
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  Speaker 2: just like, I would love to ride a bull just
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  Speaker 2: one time.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to check that off the bucket list.
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  Speaker 2: Every man thinks they can do it, but you've actually
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  Speaker 2: done it, and now you've done it, and now it's
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  Speaker 2: your job.
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  Speaker 3: It's routine for you.
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  Speaker 2: Walk me through what it's like doing that the first time,
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel, what were you thinking. I know,
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  Speaker 2: it's part of the culture you grew up in, and
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  Speaker 2: you were raised in a rodeo family, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: and you're familiar with the animals, but I imagine that
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  Speaker 2: the first time you strap in, especially at age thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: was probably pretty daunting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And to be honest, it's always just been kind
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  Speaker 4: of second nature to me. So I can't even remember,
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  Speaker 4: you know, what it felt like, you know, the first time,
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  Speaker 4: or when I was search yet. But I tell you,
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  Speaker 4: when I come back from my mission, the first ball
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  Speaker 4: that I got on back, it was super unnatural. You know,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of guys that will get on their first ones.
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  Speaker 4: Before they get on, they typically you know, they'll go
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  Speaker 4: through the thought process. You know, it can't be that hard.
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  Speaker 4: It looks a lot easier, but then once they actually
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  Speaker 4: do it and get on, they come back and it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's a little harder than you think. And so coming
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  Speaker 4: back after two years, it was like, man, it was
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  Speaker 4: and mentally it was tough, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: physically it's it's kind of an unnatural thing.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Kate, it is an unnatural thing to strap
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  Speaker 2: yourself to to the top of a wild animal. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess not fully wild animal, but an animal that's
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  Speaker 2: going wild. That's pretty crazy stuff. You guys are absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 2: What's what's the worst injury you've ever sustained on.
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  Speaker 4: A bull I've I've been very fortunate in my career.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't had too many serious the injuries. I've pulled
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  Speaker 4: a couple growing, a couple broken bones, but I've been
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  Speaker 4: relatively luckily lucky in my career, so not on what
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  Speaker 4: not to any injuries.
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  Speaker 2: That's I like your You definitely are a cowboy because
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  Speaker 2: you casually mentioned a couple of broken bones and act
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  Speaker 2: like those aren't serious injuries.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the cowboy mindset for sure. Well, look, I
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  Speaker 2: could pick your brain all day about this because I'm
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  Speaker 2: fascinated with it. And uh, we're very, very excited to
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  Speaker 2: have PBR at the Delta Center.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for joining us on the show today.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, good luck not only at the Delta Center event,
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  Speaker 2: but every place that you strap on and ride. Will
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  Speaker 2: will hope and pray that you stay healthy and that
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  Speaker 2: you get those rides and you get your points and
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  Speaker 2: you win big.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me Kate Mattson, a Utah boy
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  Speaker 2: who's going to be riding at the PBR event at
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  Speaker 2: the Delta Center, coming back off of mission three months
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  Speaker 2: ago and already strapping on to the peple so in
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  Speaker 2: his particular sport, that's coming off your mission and jumping
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  Speaker 2: back into an NBA game in his particular sport, that's
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  Speaker 2: coming back off your mission. And three months later you're
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  Speaker 2: standing in the batter's box with Kershaw throwing it at you.
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys are just different, man. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So when you get out there, if you win the
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  Speaker 2: tickets that I'm gonna give away in five minutes at
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  Speaker 2: eight seven seven three five three zero seven hundred, and
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  Speaker 2: you hear Cad Madson's name, give them a little pop.
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  Speaker 2: That's your Utah cowboy riding at the Delta Center for
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  Speaker 2: the PBR event February sixth and seven. Details on how
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  Speaker 2: to purchase tickets at ESPN seven hundred, sports dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Big thanks to Cad Madson and PBR for making that
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  Speaker 2: interview happen. I loved I loved watching PBR in my
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  Speaker 2: college days,