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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of I Tell You featuring Justin.

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Speaker 1: The rodeo clown is going to be in town this

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Speaker 1: weekend for world's toughest rodeo.

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Speaker 2: How's it going great?

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Speaker 1: Justin? How are you, man?

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm just rolling to Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're you're heading into town, my guy. You've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of big shows going on here this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're excited me too.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to get there. Beautiful weather, great people.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of people say that about Minnesota, I

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Speaker 1: mean especially the you know what either.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of generous of you to say that we

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Speaker 4: have beautiful weather. Also, this weekend is going to be beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be fifty.

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Speaker 2: I was in Saint Paul for the Minnesota Wild hockey

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Speaker 2: game against the New Jersey Islanders in January and it

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Speaker 2: was it was beautiful. It was light jacket weather, so

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Speaker 2: I will take it. Yeah, I'm just good luck, Justin.

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Speaker 1: How do you, uh, how do you get involved with

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Speaker 1: something like this? You are a rodeo clown. I mean

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Speaker 1: you could die.

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Speaker 4: And then and you want people to laugh about Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of. I mean there's a lot that goes

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Speaker 1: into this. How did did you wake up one day

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Speaker 1: and say, I want to be a rodeo clown? Is

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Speaker 1: this a childhood endeavor? What's what?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 4: What? What?

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Speaker 1: Did No? I?

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Speaker 2: Actually, I went to college. I got a master's in finance,

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Speaker 2: and I worked for one years as a banker at

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Speaker 2: the Bank of Oklahoma, and sitting there all day, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I'm wasting my life away. I'm like, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I don't think being a rodeo clown is crazy. I

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Speaker 2: think going and sitting in an office every day until

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Speaker 2: you retire is crazy. So, you know, I had a

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Speaker 2: lot of good connections from people. I worked for the

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Speaker 2: Butler and Sun rodeo company when I was in college,

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Speaker 2: taking care of horses and bulls, and I'd always loved

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Speaker 2: Chris Farley, and I always loved joking around, and one

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Speaker 2: day it all just clicked, and you know, being a

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Speaker 2: rodeo clown is a great career. It pays great. You

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Speaker 2: set your own schedule. You know, you can go as

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Speaker 2: hard a you wonder, as little as you want. You're

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Speaker 2: not hired by a company, you're not hired by a circuit.

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Speaker 2: Every weekend's a different contract. So you know, really, at

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Speaker 2: the end the day, being a rodeo clown is pretty badass.

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Speaker 2: I'm not don't know.

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Speaker 1: That, Yeah, but it sounds more dangerous than working in finance.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that there's more life to that

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Speaker 1: and excitement, but dude, at any given moment, these things

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Speaker 1: can one of these bulls can pop you six ways

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, dude.

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Speaker 2: But not really. Did you do you drive a car?

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Speaker 1: Is this a trick question?

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Speaker 2: I sure, so you drive? I do. Do you know

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Speaker 2: how many people die every day from accidents caused by

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Speaker 2: motor vehicles in America?

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Speaker 1: I don't want to know. Don't answer that.

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Speaker 2: Thousands? Yeah, thousands of people die every day. Well, that

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Speaker 2: is crazy. Why would you get into a vehicle when

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Speaker 2: there's a chance you could die. It's the same thing

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Speaker 2: as being a rodeo clown. If you don't understand how

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Speaker 2: bulls work, if you don't understand their mentality, if you

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Speaker 2: don't study them and respect them, it's it's extreme. If

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Speaker 2: I get in a car and I don't know how

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Speaker 2: to drive across Minneapolis, if I've never drove, When I

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Speaker 2: get in and try to drive, odds are them to

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Speaker 2: be wreckon get hurt. But if I take the time

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Speaker 2: to learn the safety features of a car. Learn the

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Speaker 2: things you can do for safety, learn the things you

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Speaker 2: shouldn't do. There's still a chance of danger, but it's

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Speaker 2: not as much because you understand and know how to drive.

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Speaker 2: It's the same for us when dealing with bulls. There's

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Speaker 2: still a danger factor, but we do so much to

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Speaker 2: to eliminate the danger factor. You know, there's still a

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Speaker 2: chance of injury, but it's not as much because we

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Speaker 2: know how it works.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever bet that Have you ever broken a

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Speaker 1: leg or an arm or a oh oh yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, that means like more than once?

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Speaker 2: Right, Oh I broke my leg once, you know. That's

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Speaker 2: That's the thing that's funny is most people really there's

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Speaker 2: not really there's some bumps and bruises, but for the

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Speaker 2: most part, it's really it's really not bad. I think

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Speaker 2: sometimes people, oh my gosh, you guys just lay in

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Speaker 2: the hospital twenty four hours a day. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: I wish that we had more wild stories, but it's

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Speaker 2: really not terrible. You know, most of these bulls, bulls

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Speaker 2: are like people. You know, there's there's mean ones, there's

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Speaker 2: ones that aren't. But the think about it is these

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Speaker 2: bulls are athletes. They've been bred. A lot of these bulls,

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Speaker 2: especially the bulls will be up here at Chad Burger

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Speaker 2: Bucket Bulls and Code Rodeo. You know, their linage goes

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Speaker 2: back sixty years. And so to think about it is

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Speaker 2: most of these bulls, they know the plan. They usually

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Speaker 2: buck the guy off and go out the gate. There's

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Speaker 2: times when you know they'll try to run somebody over,

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Speaker 2: but you know, for the most part, it's it's I

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Speaker 2: don't mean to be a buz killed, but really it's

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Speaker 2: not as it's not terribly dangerous. I mean it is,

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Speaker 2: but it also it's not bad. It's like motocross. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's there's times you wreck a motorcycle, but part of it, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, Justin I come from a rodeo family. My dad's

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Speaker 4: the president of one of our local rodeo.

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Speaker 1: This is Justin's moment with the world's toughest rodeo and

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Speaker 1: you come sliding in. You know, she was Miss Minnesota Rodeo.

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Speaker 1: Used tones the way she was gonna get.

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Speaker 3: To that it's miss Rodeo.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm just trying to say I do kind of

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Speaker 4: like I understand that side of rodeo. Uh, and I

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Speaker 4: love rodeo.

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Speaker 3: I really really do.

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Speaker 4: And my brothers did high school rodeo and now one

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Speaker 4: of them is doing college rodeo. They don't have a

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Speaker 4: lot of luck with it.

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Speaker 1: There's a point, Come on.

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Speaker 3: Here, there is a point. There is a point.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm just trying to say, like I've been to

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Speaker 4: a lot of rodeos my family's. One of my favorite

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Speaker 4: things about rodeo clowns is I love seeing when you

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Speaker 4: guys interact with the crowd. I think that it's so

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Speaker 4: funny and you guys, just in general, it just seems

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Speaker 4: like rodeo clowns are so quick on the fine I

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Speaker 4: don't mean to generalize, but like, you guys are so

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Speaker 4: good at improving. What is something that comes to mind

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Speaker 4: for you as one of the just funniest things that

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Speaker 4: you've seen in the crowd or one of the funniest

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Speaker 4: interactions you've had at a rodeo, Because I just think

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Speaker 4: they can be so good.

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Speaker 2: So in today's age with Facebook and YouTube and snapchat,

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Speaker 2: like you have to keep a crowd interactive like you

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Speaker 2: have to. You can't as a rodeo clown just tell

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Speaker 2: jokes because people don't care anymore. You have to be

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Speaker 2: talking to them, Hey, how's everybody doing on this side?

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Speaker 2: What are y'all doing over here? So we did a

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Speaker 2: giveaway where we had for a brand new pair of

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Speaker 2: Justin moods and they're like, you can give this away

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Speaker 2: to whoever you want. So we had in those spots,

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Speaker 2: I had like four minutes, and so I was like,

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Speaker 2: you know a lot of people bring different things to

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Speaker 2: the rodeo in their bags or in their purse, and

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Speaker 2: so I said, you know, if you have the wildest

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Speaker 2: new pair of boots. And this lady pulls out of

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Speaker 2: her purse a ziplock bag with salmon in it. That

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Speaker 2: it was it was cooked salmon. And like, because you know,

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Speaker 2: people were holding up different funny things I just did

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Speaker 2: and this gal had literally had a peggy full of salmon.

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Speaker 2: I'm like what he's like, Well, I've been trying to

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Speaker 2: eat more protein. So I just put this in here,

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Speaker 2: like you don't need to explain salmon. Lady wins brand

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Speaker 2: new paper boots. So, you know, just stuff like that

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Speaker 2: off the cuff. You would you do a boot beer chug?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Like if if you pour your beer into your boot

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Speaker 2: and drink it. You know, if you chug your chug

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Speaker 2: the beer out of your boot, we give a prize

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Speaker 2: and whatever. And so we did that the first night

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Speaker 2: I don't even know how we're gonna want up down,

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Speaker 2: I said, a guy last night literally took his boot off,

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Speaker 2: filled it full of beer and drank out of it.

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Speaker 2: And this guy was like waving his arms, and I

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Speaker 2: out of a prosthetic legs. So rodeo fans, they come

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Speaker 2: to party and the old stuff this rodeo that that's

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Speaker 2: what we do. It's it's not just a rodeo. It's

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Speaker 2: a show. It's lasers, pyro, rock and roll fun, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's not your granddad's old rodeo. It's it's

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Speaker 2: pretty cool. And you know, back to the rodeo contestants.

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Speaker 2: You know, these aren't these aren't just some hillbillies from

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Speaker 2: the farm to find their way to the city. These

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Speaker 2: guys are professional athletes. You know, we have full training staff,

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Speaker 2: but pro rodeo we have nutritionists. And the funny thing

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Speaker 2: bulls and ride the bucking horses, they're not even from

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Speaker 2: the country. A lot of these are city boys that

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Speaker 2: X Games. It got into a different niche maybe it's

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Speaker 2: not skateboarding or motocross, but it's rodeo. So we we

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Speaker 2: have a very diverse group of cowboys we have. We

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Speaker 2: have some cowboys that you know, kind of grew up

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Speaker 2: didn't grow up around horses or animals. They are literally

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Speaker 2: from the city that I wanted to try something different.

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Speaker 1: Excellent. Well, good luck to you this weekend. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time. I know we've gone twice over the time,

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Speaker 1: but we appreciate you. And I'm going to bring my

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Speaker 1: W two and we can maybe do my taxes this

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Speaker 1: weekend on the side, and you can maybe give me

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Speaker 1: some investment, some investment advice if you would maive you

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Speaker 1: some stocks.

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Speaker 2: Actually if you bring it ten ninety nine and will

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Speaker 2: set you up as an s corp.

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Speaker 3: An escortes corp s Corp, not escort more so, well

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Speaker 3: sounds great.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys, We'll see it through Udeo.

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Speaker 1: Hey yeah, absolutely, thank you for your time and God

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Speaker 1: bless you for the great work that you do and

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Speaker 1: it most importantly entertaining people in a time where we

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Speaker 1: need it more than anything.

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Speaker 2: Thanks justin you bet we'll talk.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. I didn't know hardly any of that, honestly

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Speaker 1: when it came to Rodeo Clouds. That's incredible. Thanks for

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