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The Connor Dean

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Rising bull riding star Connor Dean takes us on an exhilarating journey through his life in the rodeo, from his family roots in western Washington to his ambitious career goals. Listen as Connor shares the inspiration he drew from his uncles and younger brother, which set him on the path to compete at just seven years old. His strategic choice to focus on high school rodeo and the Challenge of Champions Tour highlights his dedication to the sport, despite the inevitable challenges and injuries he faces.

Connor's aspirations extend beyond high school rodeos as he eagerly transitions to the competitive CCT and PRCA circuits. He reveals his experiences at his first CCT event in Heppner, Oregon, and his determination to climb to the finals in Rock Springs, Wyoming. We explore his future plans, including the pursuit of a PRCA permit and a potential backup career in welding or ag business, with an eye toward college life in Odessa, Texas.

Join us as we chat about the excitement of the CCT event at Jackson County Fairgrounds and the anticipation of watching his favorite riders. Connor opens up about the camaraderie and rivalries in bull riding, underscoring the importance of supportive friendships, particularly with fellow senior JC. We also touch on the lighter side of life on the road, discussing road trip habits, food preferences, and the eclectic music choices that accompany Connor and his companions across the vibrant world of bull riding.


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Speaker 1:

Connor Dean, how are you man?

Speaker 2:

Good, how about yourself, Nick?

Speaker 1:

Doing all right. Man, thank you for joining me at this lovely early Saturday morning. It's a little dark over here, but you know you're kind of used to it around uh, these parts on eastern, eastern washington, but you're western right, or?

Speaker 2:

originally I am from western washington, but about seven years ago we moved over to the east side east sides, but you're up north more yes, sir yeah, yeah, you're, you're with uh j-dub.

Speaker 1:

Yep, I'm south north of them. Yeah, those guys are crazy, man. They ended up traveling together during J-Dub's episode and, dude, we just had a blast, it was cool, and they just drove down here for that episode. It was crazy. I was like what? So shout out to them, dude. Also shout out to your uncle, cody Bartels. Dude, he's going to be in Sela today. Outskirts brewing company.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:

And dude, he's tearing it up. Oh yeah, how many times have you seen him live?

Speaker 2:

Uh, I've only seen him a handful of times live other than just on the couch and whatnot. But uh, he mostly plays the bars and stuff, so I I'm not really allowed in there yet. But I've seen him a couple of times other venues, like little rodeos and whatnot, but other than that I've only seen him live a couple of times.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the cool thing about a Sela the outskirts, outskirts, brewing is that all ages can be in there. So, yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool, man. It's pretty cool to see your uncle at its finest, dude. And the other day well, a couple of weeks ago, maybe a week I saw him at Wheatstock which kids can go there as well and, dude, he played in his rendition of Simple man. Oh, buddy, I had to give him a heads up, dude, just a hand clap and everything else. Ok, basically stating that he tore it up. So shout out to him. Man, so you're on the podcast, not because you're some just average writer bull rider. That is, dude, I've been wanting you on for the longest time and you know it. And here you are. But, dude, you're a pretty ba bull rider yourself. Thank you, you're making a name for yourself and you know it. I know you want to try to stay humble. You boys are humble up there. You know j, dub and jc and who. Who else? Man gosh?

Speaker 2:

we got a couple guys that are coming up. My little brother's actually just starting to get into the full-size bulls now. He did steers for the longest time, but he's starting to get there. And then we've got uh, uh, we've got colton schneiderman. He's real good.

Speaker 1:

He's older than us, but yeah, schneiderman man, I saw him in spokane, uh, the velocity tour, and I see him in the practice pen at uh autos so yes, sir, yeah, he's real good.

Speaker 2:

And then, uh, we got uh this kid he's just a year older than me and he's starting to go to the pbrs.

Speaker 1:

Blake mazden, he's real good too oh, yeah, the guy from yeah, he's a walla walla college correct community, yeah, yeah, yeah he's, he's pretty bad, he's a bad dude. But yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad you know someone who's been in the game for a bit and, young as you are, knowing talent yourself, you know, and so it was cct boy, you can ride, thank you, you can ride, and you're in high school, I know you do. You've been doing high school rodeo, right and, uh, cct challenge of champions. But you, you've taken a step back this past year, which is okay, not saying anything bad about it or even negative about it. What made the change, if you don't mind? Uh, explaining what made the change from you pretty much going out every week to high school rodeo week to high school rodeo.

Speaker 2:

Well, uh, the real change was injuries.

Speaker 2:

Uh, I had some injuries here and there and uh, so I've taken a little bit of time off, but uh, there's that, and also just trying to focus mainly on the high school for that season and then mainly on the ccts for their season, and then, hitting open rodeos here and there, but uh, I was just trying to put 90 percent of my focus into those two and, uh, it just had me take a step back from some of the smaller open rodeos I was going to okay, how did you get involved in the bull riding world?

Speaker 1:

how did it all start?

Speaker 2:

well, uh, it's a funny story in my so all three of my uncles on my mom's side, red bulls, cody and then I got two other uncles, lyle and scotty, and uh, that they really made me want to get into it.

Speaker 2:

But also my little brother when he was two years old he'd watch like every pbr there was and he just that's what he wanted to do. He wanted red bulls and I thought it was kind of cool. But I wasn't too much into it until I was about seven. He was five or five or four and uh, my mom asked him if he wanted to sign up for a junior rodeo and he was all about it and I was a little jealous. I like, well, I want to go too. And so we signed up and just running from there.

Speaker 1:

So since seven.

Speaker 2:

Yep.

Speaker 1:

And you've been riding ever since, nonstop.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir, good All right.

Speaker 1:

When did you decide to you know, take it up a notch. To you know, go from high school to the big boy CCT.

Speaker 2:

It was more of uh. Two years ago I went to my first one, but I didn't really hit it hard, I just went to a couple of them, didn't do so good either. And then, uh, this last year I really wanted to focus on them and this next year's gonna be more. I only went to a handful of them this year, but this next year I'm going to hit them hard with the PRCA rodeos.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, now when you approach parents, right, yes, you're in the high school rodeo, which is BA the self. It's pretty awesome. But what makes a kid your age at the time approach your parents about, hey, let's bring it up a notch, cct here I come, because cct is there's no, you know, chump change there. You know there's some bad boys there, you know so. So what made you say, hey, dad, mom, cct, here I come really it was uh um, colton shiderman.

Speaker 2:

He was telling me I got to get into it. I was really wanting to and I finally just asked my mom. There was one in Heppner Oregon two years ago. That's the first one I went to. I really wanted to go to it, so I just went up to her and asked her if she'd maybe let me go down there. She didn't have a problem with it. She thought I was ready and I knew I was ready in my mind and turns out I wasn't so ready. But it was good experience.

Speaker 2:

And then this last year I just I just wanted to go to and she didn't say no, so okay now.

Speaker 1:

Now, like all events in the dirts, uh, they have a ranking in high school, correct?

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:

Okay, If you don't mind, what's your ranking in the high school level of bull riding Well?

Speaker 2:

in the state. Right now JC's beating me and it's really irritating me. I've got to go through all winter long with old JC beating me, but I'm sitting second and JC sits first.

Speaker 1:

Okay, out of how many boys?

Speaker 2:

I'd say there's about 14 of us.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that says a lot man, but I remember JC wasn't even worried about bull riding, he was more about that contracting luck. When he came in my house, man, so for him, just for for him to be number one, I wonder what happened. He's probably selling it hard, yeah okay, all right, but yeah, jc's dirty dude, all right, so, and if you're number two, you got to be dirty as well, man. So so how many points are separating you guys?

Speaker 2:

I think it's only like six or so points, something like that. Six or seven, okay, it's right there.

Speaker 1:

Okay, when's the first event coming back this year?

Speaker 2:

For high school. Yeah, we don't have a set date yet, but it's going to be probably late April.

Speaker 1:

We'll get the first high school one back. Is that Walla, walla?

Speaker 2:

I know our state finals is in Walla Walla, but I don't know any of the other ones yet.

Speaker 1:

Okay Now, whoever takes one, where do you guys go? You guys go to the finals, isn't it in Georgia, or something like that?

Speaker 2:

So the junior high finals in Georgia or something like that so the junior high finals in Georgia. Ours will be in Rock Springs, wyoming.

Speaker 1:

Wyoming okay. Is that the goal this year?

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir, the goal is to make it there and the goal is to do good there too. Then finish out, because I'm a senior this year. Finish out high school bang and hit them.

Speaker 1:

Prca and cct roads hard okay, and you're gonna go for the yellow buck and shoot, not the, uh, not the pbr to start.

Speaker 2:

I'll start with the prca yellow buck and shoots, but I'm eventually. I'm gonna go pbr, it's just a matter of time, and I'll probably go to some of them.

Speaker 1:

Velocity tours too, but not very much what makes a person go from pc uh, prca to pbr? Normally lately, a lot of the boys that are coming up they go straight pbr. What's why yellow compared to pbr?

Speaker 2:

honestly I I just love rodeoing. I mean, I like just simple bull rides and whatnot, like TCTs, but I like hitting the road and traveling With them. Pbrs if you make it big, you're just getting on an airplane every week and flying out. Versus with the PRCA, you get to travel the country and go rodeo and see every event, rather than just the bull riding.

Speaker 1:

Like the Columbia Circuit and whatnot. Okay, plus, there's more money, right, is there more money? I believe there's more money.

Speaker 2:

I'd say there's more money in the PBR right now per event, but you have to be good enough to be winning the event to get that type of money.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and when do you think you'll get your card?

Speaker 2:

I'll get my permit in april at my birthday, and then, uh, after that, I'll probably wait two years to buy my card okay, all right.

Speaker 1:

So yellow, yellow bucking shoe at the end of the year. Man, you're excited I'm stoked.

Speaker 2:

That's all I want to do with my life is ride bulls. But I've got backup plans. But I, if I, can just make the bull riding work, that's what I want to do okay, and?

Speaker 1:

and what's the backup plan?

Speaker 2:

if you don't mind me asking I I like welding and I like, I like the construction scene and everything. But uh, I'm I'm probably gonna be going to college this next year, so I gotta decide. But I think I'll get ag business degree where are you gonna go? I've been looking into a couple colleges. Uh, there's one in odessa, texas and they're gonna there okay I'm really looking into them. No guarantees yet, but it's looking good getting into their rodeo program as well yes, sir okay, you should stay in pacific northwest, but that's just me.

Speaker 2:

That's just me the difference is uh, down in texas, they can buck bulls every day of the week all year long. Right, it's just. I think it's where I got to go to be the best bull rider I can and then come back. Will you come back, though? Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

To pay it forward when you retire.

Speaker 2:

I'll probably come back as soon as I'm done with college. Okay, I've lived up here my whole life. It'd be a weird moving all the way down there just without knowing hardly anybody. No family down there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I got you Okay, so compete down there during the year, but summertime come up north and compete.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir Gotcha. Okay, that's smart, that's smart. That's what Lane Vaughn's been doing, sir Gotcha. Okay, that's smart, that's smart. That's what Lane Vaughn's been doing too. He goes to school in Snyder, texas. He's about two hours or so from Odessa, and he came up here for the spring and for the summer and just rodeoed the whole time up here. Yeah, he's bad dude, he's a bad dude.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and he doesn't have the body as a bull rider, you know, and he gets that a lot. But man, dude, he makes it work. He makes it work, yeah, because you hear. You hear a lot of people like, oh, I was a lanky, tall guy can't, you know, ride yous. But here I am, I'm bareback in or saddle Brock and I'm like, okay, but dude, lane is making it work. So that's cool that you put a, put his name out there. Man, shout out to Lane, shout out to Lane. So so you're a senior PRCA, going to get your card this January, a couple of days from now, cct, the finals. You're competing.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:

What is your goal for that?

Speaker 2:

My goal is to ride every bull I get. And I know there's no chance I can win the whole deal. I'm too many points behind.

Speaker 1:

But if I can, do good at the event and uh, just read every ball I got there make some money yeah, for sure okay, who is that? Who's at the lead right now?

Speaker 2:

uh, I don't know who's at the lead, but uh, I think it might be. It might be Doherty, colton Doherty.

Speaker 1:

Okay, but.

Speaker 2:

I'm not for sure on that. He's been there for a bit too. Oh yeah, he's good. He's another one of them tall, lengthy guys. That just makes it work.

Speaker 1:

Right, Okay, All right. So your brother? He's in the high school rodeo and he's tearing it up.

Speaker 2:

He struggled this year but we took him to a couple of practice pens afterwards and that last high school rodeo he showed a lot of potential so we took him to some practice pens and he really started to put it together.

Speaker 1:

He's not there yet, but he's really starting to put it together he's not there yet, but he's he really starting to put together is? Is he gonna stick?

Speaker 2:

with it? He's not, I think so he likes other sports. He likes other sports like basketball and football, but I think he's gonna stick with bull riding okay, and and you're dealing with some injury and you're not getting discouraged.

Speaker 1:

Bull riding is life.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir, this isn't the first injury I've had, so I learned to not get discouraged with it. Everybody always comes back and it doesn't bring me down too much. I know there's more ahead of me.

Speaker 1:

Too much, I know there's more ahead of me If you do get down on yourself, right, and you're just down and just don't want, you just need a little pick-me-up. Who do you call man? Who do you talk to?

Speaker 2:

I call a couple people, but JC, actually he helps me a lot with that, with talking Peyton Robinson, that bareback rider, he's real good about it. But uh, rob sweeney, he's an old bull rider from up in the northwest. Uh, he is real good with that and he rode all the bulls you can think of all back in the day red wolf, yellow jacket, all them bulls and he's really good to talk to and you get discouraged okay, when you're at these events, who's the guy that you watch?

Speaker 1:

um, you don't miss.

Speaker 2:

You can't miss a ride, dude well I'd say for the cct oh shoot, that's a tough one. Um, I I like watching dalton davis. He's been around forever and he's just in that circle. He's a legend, so I like watching him a lot. But obviously Colton and JC I travel with them so I can't miss them. But him, I'd say, dalton Davis and Colton Doherty are two of the guys I can't miss.

Speaker 1:

About Dalton man. He's as tough as it can get, man. I've been watching him for years and to see him just day in, day out or weekend in, weekend out and do his thing, I don't know how he does it, man, I don't know.

Speaker 2:

I'm not close enough with him to know to talk to him about that type of stuff. I've talked to him before but we're not super close. But he's a tough dude and I I don't know how he does it yeah, yeah, very tough, yeah, and he's going to be there, right, that cct.

Speaker 1:

What's that? He's going to be at the cct, correct?

Speaker 2:

I'm sure he is. Yeah, he's up in the standings.

Speaker 1:

Okay, when you go to the CCT, are you and your family members going to go, or is it just you, mom pops?

Speaker 2:

It'll just be me and my dad. Maybe my little brother will go, but he's got a basketball game that week. He might skip out on it, but my mom's got work that week and my dad doesn't have anything. So I think it's just probably going to be me and my dad.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and it's this next weekend, as a matter of fact, right.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, jackson County state fair, isn't it? And Medford?

Speaker 2:

No, it's in a. Where is it? Central point Oregon.

Speaker 1:

Yeah Well right, like right Well right there.

Speaker 2:

Right there.

Speaker 1:

yeah, it's like right north of Medford. It's a long drive. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2:

That's all I know.

Speaker 1:

And a two-day advance. Okay, all right. Who's your favorite one to watch man on TV?

Speaker 2:

On.

Speaker 1:

TV or in the circuit.

Speaker 2:

I got lots of them Right now. I'd say my favorite to watch for the PBR scene it's got to be John Kremmer. He's so electric right now he's unstoppable. But for my favorite bull rider, well okay. So I'm a little biased towards TJ Gray at the finals this year. Because he's from our region, I rode against him, but that kid, he's a super nice kid and everything. Wasey Shaw is a stud and he's got a bright future.

Speaker 1:

Would they say the same about you, man?

Speaker 2:

I'd hope so.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know man, I don't know. Dude, the longest time I've tried to get you on, I've probably waited more to talk about.

Speaker 1:

Oh man, but here you are. You're going to kick butt and take names. Pretty sure you'll be number one. Don't tell JC I said that If JC comes, comes down. He was supposed to come down too, man, like a year ago, and he never made it, you know. But uh, pretty sure he'll. He'll hit me up after hearing this uh episode and be like dude, I need to get on the podcast. Yeah, jc sucks you guys throwing shit. It's love.

Speaker 2:

He's one of my best friends in the whole world. I like messing with him and stuff like that. If he does good, that's great, but I do want to beat him bad.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and what grade is he in?

Speaker 2:

He's senior too. He's my age.

Speaker 1:

Okay, man, I remember he was a freshman sophomore when he stopped by. Yeah, time flies, man. So what? What's he gonna do after school? Just go straight up prca or pbr I don't know.

Speaker 2:

I I think he's wanting to go to college and he looked at the same one.

Speaker 1:

I did too, but I don't know what he's gonna do what are the chances of you guys having uh be uh riding buddies?

Speaker 2:

there's a good chance. I hope that'll be awesome man. He's a good one to have in the car because not only will he help you and talk you through some things, but he'll never let you just get by with you know, being self-pity on yourself. He'll tell you you messed up here, you need to fix it, or, uh, he. He'll tell you when he knows how to talk like he. If you're down, he knows how to pick you back up, but he knows how to not like make you feel good you could. That was not your fault, you know, I mean yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1:

What would he say about you man?

Speaker 2:

what do you mean?

Speaker 1:

what would he say about you? What's your best qualities as a riding buddy?

Speaker 2:

I don't know I'd say I'm kind of the same way, but in a way I just like to stay in my own lane, but I do try to help my buddies out a lot too. I try to do the same thing JC does. He's just a lot better at it than I am. He knows what to say, when to say I don't.

Speaker 1:

Probably because of his brother. Yeah, Shout out to J-Dub dude, he's making it work. He is making it work, man For sure. All right, man, when you travel, what's your go-to food man? Does mom make you lunch or do you just eat whatever's at the gas station?

Speaker 2:

well, honestly, I wish I could eat healthier on the road, but I just eat whatever we got.

Speaker 1:

That's cheap yeah, I gotcha okay, so anything goes pretty much. I'm not too picky on food, but I try to stay away from the stuff that I know it's not good for me as best I can. It's your go-to music on the road okay.

Speaker 2:

So it depends on what car I'm in. I'm not usually the music man. I just listen to whatever everybody else is listening to. Yeah, if I'm with hayton robinson, the bareback rider, we listen to country music, whatever. If I'm with, uh uh, jc, it's like 90s rock and so he has some weird music I don't know, and uh, then uh, if I'm with blake mazden, it's rock the whole way.

Speaker 1:

You're getting pumped up along the way to the bull rad okay, all right, pretty sure blake was uh practice, practice uh pen with uh dk before dk went back.

Speaker 2:

Huh oh yeah, him and him and derrick are real close because, uh, uh, one of our good friends and Blake's girlfriend, actually they're Derek's neighbor and so he'd go over there all the time and he got real close with him.

Speaker 1:

It's good to see him back on the bull man Kicking butt, man Taking names dude. Oh yeah, because that injury that he had was quite brutal.

Speaker 2:

No kidding. Yeah, it was good to see him get that event win last week, Right right, yeah, I was good to see him get that event when last week.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, okay when you're behind the bucking shoes, right when you're behind the sheets, do you? How do you? How do you prepare for a ride, man?

Speaker 2:

Honestly, I just try to stay loose. I don't I'm not wanting to put headphones in and listen to this pump up music or nothing. I just listen to whatever the announcers got playing and I just I just stay loose, talk to everybody before I get on and it I feel like it helps me more than trying to get pumped up and serious and everything. You know, there's a time when it clicks. When I'm crawling down in the bucket it clicks and it's time to game on. But other than that I'm just trying to have a good time to stay loose until I get down on that bull you don't goof around like lane, no dude, I don't know how he does it.

Speaker 1:

I don't know how he does it on a bull and behind the sheets. I'm like, do you not surprised no one wants to fight you dude? No kidding, yeah, but hey has fun. He's a real cowboy right there, man. So why is it that a lot of the boys that are coming out of high school, right, whether it's whatever event bull riding, bareback, saddle, bronc, why are the majority of them going to college instead of just right out you know the shoot going prca, pbr? Why do you see more kids your age going to college now?

Speaker 2:

I'd say it opens more doors and, uh, gives you better experience. Because, like I know for a fact I mean I know that I'm not going to be ready for NFR level but right out of high school I need a little bit of practice in college and everything I need to get on some better bulls and have that more team environment and it kind of I don't know. I think it's just, people need experience and that's really why I'm going is to get better experience before I really hit it hard, because I don't want to go and just be the guy that falls off. I want to be there to win every time. So I want to just get better experience and go to college and get that experience. When are you going to know for sure what school you're going to go to? In March, I'll know, because that's when they'll send out the paperwork and everything.

Speaker 2:

All right, is that when the coach will uh get ahold of you, or is that just the school saying I bet some coaches get ahold of me and tell me that they'll give me an offer, but they can't guarantee it until March.

Speaker 1:

So Okay, all right. What rodeo has nailed to the rodeo worldo world? Uh, college world has the nil as well I don't know.

Speaker 2:

I hope, yeah, I doubt it yeah, no, that was a joke.

Speaker 1:

I don't think that's happening, but dude could you imagine could?

Speaker 2:

you imagine oh my god, you live in the high life live in the high life, but they'll destroy.

Speaker 1:

I mean it's already destroying football, it's going to destroy it's throwing track and cross country as well. Man, that nil is not the best.

Speaker 2:

So no, that's another thing like that. That pbr team's deal it's. It's real cool and I like it, but it it's almost like. It's like. I don't like the guaranteed pay thing like I want to. It means more to me when I'm riding and I'm I need to ride to make money I feel, like I ride better that way.

Speaker 1:

When there's more money on the line, it's not guaranteed yeah, and the guaranteed money is not even that that great. No, yeah, I heard, I heard you know even the teams. Like I'm not going to say anything bad, but the team, I heard the team. If you're not the starter and making rides, dude, all you're doing you're spending more money traveling than you are, you know, every day.

Speaker 2:

Right, I would say you'd have to ask Dawson Branton about that, but he he rides everything there, so I would he wouldn't know anything about not being a starter.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that boy's bad though.

Speaker 2:

He's been riding real good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is uh? Dalton Davis talked about that on the podcast when the team started that you know you spent more money traveling than you do.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, more money traveling than you do.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh yeah, period, so it's not really worth it, but dude, they're trying to make this team thing that it is cool, but they've got some kinks to break out for sure yeah, yeah, I think I think they need to have more for the up and coming, the guys that aren't guaranteed, the guys that you know that they pick up from a circuit or two and that are in the background. I think they really need to use those guys as wild cards or something, because I hate seeing the same riders every weekend, day in, day out. It's like come on, man, the up and comers is where it's at, you know yep, you never know what kind of talent you got correct, man.

Speaker 1:

And that's why this podcast is around, man, because I love talking to you guys, the up and coming guys, and just seeing what you know kind of life you guys have, full of life, and what you guys are capable of doing. You know, and when you guys hit it big, you guys hit it big. You know so for sure and and I feel I feel when I first saw you, dude, you were that guy and you are, and it's great to see that you and jc are like two peas in a pod man going one, two punch in the bull riding system in washington. Dude, that's pretty, pretty awesome. So keep it up, dude. All right, anything I missed out, anything you want to add, man.

Speaker 2:

Dude, I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

Speaker 1:

Well, hey, during this, the later part of the high school rodeo scene, I want you and JC on. Dude, try to make that happen. I want to. I want you guys on so we can figure out you know who's victorious. And my book, you guys are both victorious. I mean to you know, talk trash and still, you know be six points behind or ahead. It's. It's pretty cool that you know be six points behind or ahead. It's it's pretty cool that you know the relationship that you guys have, but either together or separate. Jc knows I've wanted him on, but, dude, I've been on the longest and here you are. Dude, I can't. The future's bright. I can't wait to see where you go, even though you're going to be taking your talent down to Texas and Oklahoma. I think you should stay with the big dogs in Treasure Valley or, you know, blue Mountain we'll see no guarantees yet.

Speaker 1:

But that's just me. That's just me. But you know these boys up here. They're different breed, so give it a shot. I'm pretty sure parents will appreciate anything you do, especially if you're up here or down there. They'll still cheer you on. But I get it. You want more rides, you want more opportunities, and Texas is where it's at dude.

Speaker 2:

Right, it's not set in stone yet, so there's no guarantee that I don't stay up here, but we'll see, okay.

Speaker 1:

Well, keep, keep me posted, man, and I'll be on the lookout for the high school rodeo. I got a few barrel racers down here that compete, so been been trying to make my way to the high school rodeo the first ones so I'll hopefully run into you. And yeah, man, it's been great having you on. We can talk a little longer if you want, but you're in the truck till next time, connor. Yes, sir, thank you for having me. Yes, and dude tear up CCT. I'll be paying attention well yes, sir all right, man take it easy.

Speaker 1:

You too Take care.