Miles & Mountains
Join Nick, a social worker and coach by day, as he unravels the inspiring stories of athletes and the public, uncovering the motivations behind their actions, from conquering mountains to participating in ultra-endurance races and competing in rodeos. Get ready for heartwarming tales of community support, acts of kindness, and the revelation that everyone has a deeper story to tell. Whether it's running, climbing, or participating in rodeos, these stories will inspire and uplift. #Running, #Climbing, #EverydayAthletes, #Rodeo
Miles & Mountains
Emma Folz: Capturing Rodeo Magic
Welcome our guest, Emma Folz, a rodeo photographer who began her journey in early 2023. Emma’s stories about the vibrant rodeo communities she's encountered are both inspiring and captivating, as she shares how her lens has captured more than just the action—it’s captured friendships and a sense of belonging.
Emma takes us on her photographic journey, revealing both the thrill and the challenging aspects of her craft. From following the Northwest Region College Rodeo circuit to capturing the dynamic moments that define these events, her passion is palpable. Amid tales of adventures, mishaps, and her unique family life, Emma opens up about introducing her little one to the rodeo world. Her stories about her favorite rodeo in Susanville, where she experienced both joy and technical difficulty, and her fondness for diet Pepsi and quirky sandwich-making habits, bring a personal touch to her professional narrative.
Emma’s insights into her rodeo photography journey, blended with personal anecdotes, create a tapestry of humor, passion, and heartfelt moments that promise to entertain and inspire. Whether you're a rodeo enthusiast, a photography buff, or someone who appreciates a good story, this episode offers something special for everyone. Join us for a listen that balances the excitement of rodeo photography with the simple joys of parenting and guilty pleasures.
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Emma Foles how are you?
Speaker 2:I'm doing good. How are you doing?
Speaker 1:Pretty good. Thank you for joining me on this Wednesday evening. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, you want to hear a guilty pleasure that I have right now.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, what is it?
Speaker 1:Okay, so like last week and days ago exactly 10 days ago, right I watched a liam neeson movie, right. Okay, it was sinners and saints, it's like ira kind of stuff back in the 70s and stuff like that, and I was like you know what it's a good movie. It's like you know what? I need to start watching more liam neeson movies, right? So this whole time, like the last liam neeson movie I ever watched wasn't taken right it was rob roy back in the 90s, 1990s were you? Were you born then or no?
Speaker 1:oh, okay I was not your age, so don't know your age. But rob roy, very good movie, 90s, probably mid 90s I think, and I was just like you know what just brought me back. I'm like I think I need to go watch his movie. So last 10 days I've been watching a Liam Neeson movie every day every single day, every single day, I watch one Liam Neeson movie. You know what one I'm watching right now, before I got on taken to taken to have you. Have you watched Liam Neeson movies?
Speaker 2:Uh, I don't think so. I am so bad with I might've. I'm so bad with, like any actors or actresses, I could not tell you who's in what. I not a skillset.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, he has a lot of skill sets. He has a lot of particular skill sets, so a lot of particular skill sets. So I saw taking one and that's what he kind of says, you know and so it's uh, it's pretty funny because he's like the nicest hit man.
Speaker 1:He always gets the girls, he always is the honest guy. You know, there's like the movie honest thief, but if you watch majority of his movies lately they're all the same. He's lost his, I guess, his thinking, his thoughts, his memory. There's a movie Memory. I mean if you think of a movie or you think of like a plot, he's done it and he's like one of the nicest hitmans out there. So I'm saying this because just to get the nerves away, did it work?
Speaker 1:I'll have to go take a look check it out, check it out and then for the listeners. I know that's a little segue, but I wanted to share my guilty pleasure. I might do an episode on Liam Neeson movies.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:So far, yeah, yeah, so far, so far, so good. But I just was like I was taken back from that movie and I was like you know what? I'm going back to the filmography and just watching whatever that's streaming right now. And so I got Netflix, I got Amazon prime, you name it, I got it and I'm just watching.
Speaker 1:I'm the same way the free, the free, the free movies. And I know I'm gonna end up buying some movies, but my daughters I have three of them and they all make fun of me for watching liam neeson movies hey, you want to watch a movie. They're like what are you gonna watch liam neeson? Like yes, they're like no. So yeah, welcome my world. Oh man, so not nervous anymore. Did I help?
Speaker 2:yeah, it did okay, all right.
Speaker 1:all right, emma foals, you are the em Foles photographer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how long have you been doing it? I started back in. It was only spring of 2023 that I started this journey of my rodeo photography. So we're going on two years, but it's been some of the best two years of my life, I got to say.
Speaker 1:I bet I mean you're quite the photographer. Thank you Small world, you know, elaine. I do, I'm not going to shout her out. I'm not going to shout her out because she didn't set this up or give me a heads up. Hey, get Emma on. No, I did this without elaine, so no no, we've become very, very close friends.
Speaker 2:Uh, I mean, we've only known each other like eight months now, like not long.
Speaker 1:So that you're her girl. Is that true?
Speaker 2:what'd she say?
Speaker 1:that you're her girl, is that?
Speaker 2:true? What'd she say? That you are her girl. Yeah, we're pretty tight, we got pretty tight pretty quick, and so that's one of the amazing things that doing rodeo photography has brought me is wonderful.
Speaker 1:Community of people which I definitely needed when I started this. Yeah, she, she's, she's good lady, she's good lady. So no shout out, but even though, say your name. It is kind of. But no shout out, elaine, you don't deserve it. She listens to all the episodes. By the way, she said, outside of my family, she's my number one fan. So that's what she said. That's awesome. Yeah, so with Elaine knowing all that, it's a big world, but small world. You are here, there and everywhere in between. How do you do that?
Speaker 2:A lot of help there. I started local, honestly. I started with the Walla Walla Community College Rodeos, where I started, and then, after I did that one, I fell in love with shooting rodeo and it kind of took off from there and I started following around the Northwest Region College Rodeo and I have not missed a rodeo since fall of 2023. I've been at every single one of their rodeos photographing for them and it has been a blast. But uh, it's taken me a lot of places. I mean I've gone. I mean not like super far. I think the furthest we've gone is Susanville, california, northern California, so it was about a 10 hour drive, but each way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Um, I've been there quite a few times, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. But no, this, this industry takes me a lot of places. I've been all over Washington, couple of places in Oregon gearing up for a very busy 2025 season. My, I don't honestly know if I have a free weekend the whole summer yeah, I saw your schedule looks, uh, quite, quite fascinating and busy yeah, and I don't even have everything on there at the moment, so but still still wow, but still still Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we started following each other because I had this one guy, Wiley Coyote. Yeah, you know that guy. I think that's when we started. Yeah, that guy started following you, you started following me, and then you know it's all like OK, elaine, did you hear that episode?
Speaker 1:Yes, I did like okay elaine, did you hear that episode? Yes, I did. I talked about, like, my love for photography. Even though I don't take photos, yeah, I try to live in the moment, but because I live like vicariously through your guys's lens, I I love it. So I really get a kick out of your guys's photos. So, thank you.
Speaker 2:It's funny about me because I'm like I love doing rodeo photography and taking pictures like that, but I'm also outside of that. I'm such a live in the moment person and I'm usually not taking very many pictures on my phone or anything like that.
Speaker 1:Right, right, so like live in the moment, right, right, I went to go see culture wall okay and everybody was on the phone. Everybody was on the phone on the phone is dark as dark as heck. You can't really see him because the lighting was just dim. I was in spokane.
Speaker 1:I watched him in spokane, right and it was just like I can't, I can't, I can't record it, I can't record it. I'll take a picture but I'll can't record it because why? You know, and you're in vegas. I saw red clay strays in vegas twice now, you know, and people are on their phone. 24 is no. I went to go see Willie Nelson and Chris Stapleton this summer, you know and everybody's on everybody's on their phone.
Speaker 2:I can't do it, you know and you paid all this money and you're going to skip on your phone.
Speaker 1:Right, right. I see my kids do it. I'm get off your phone, but they're learning. They're learning live in the moments. Live in the moment. Even though you capture, you capture the events, the action. Why still photograph and not video?
Speaker 2:oh, I don't. I've kind of started to move into video a little bit just for the fun of it, but I think what I love so much about like photographing is is freezing the memories for these athletes. It's going to be become something that they can look back on in 50 years who knows, when they have kids and grandkids and they can show them like. This is what I did, and I walked into tons of homes where there's generations of cowboys and cowgirls hanging on the wall of their rodeo images and just like knowing I get to be a part of that and being able to provide that makes me really happy, and so I think I just enjoy freezing those moments and making those memories versus a video.
Speaker 1:I've seen some of the action photos. You know the still framed action photos. I've seen some of the action photos. You know the still framed action photos. Pretty phenomenal work. Did you go to school for that, did you? I mean, are you going to school for that? I don't know if you're still in school.
Speaker 2:I'm not, I'm in, I'm kind of in school, but I do online school, but, um, I did not go to school for photography. Actually, I took a class in high school, like my sophomore year of high school or something like that, and um, but I actually grew up with a professional photographer as a mom. So he does like portraits and all the like families and seniors and all of that Um, but I grew up learning a lot from her and so, um, that's kind of how I got back into photography when I got a little older.
Speaker 1:So got back into it because you were helping your mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I always helped my mom out when I was younger and I always enjoyed taking her camera and taking pictures and stuff like that. And then I kind of ditched it for a while in high school and then moved to Walla Walla.
Speaker 1:You were helping with props. Yeah, do the pose. Yes, look a little sassy.
Speaker 2:Flip the hair. I was always the model for a long time, but now I get to be on the other side of the camera, which I like a lot better.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, yeah, does it pay off?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean um pay off in satisfaction for me and for the athletes. Yes, as a money-making industry. Eh, I'm just starting out too, like I mean, two years into it isn't a super long time, and so I'm still getting my name out there, but we're getting there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're doing a pretty good job. Thank you, pretty good job. So the payoff is love of the game, yeah. Love of the moment yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:For sure You're capturing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no, I I'm definitely the kind of person who I have such like a giving heart and I like to be able to provide things for people and like do things for people, and so the love of the game here is, for sure, one of my number one reasons why I do it because when I see people post their images or change their profile picture, or I see family members who have commented going, oh my gosh, that's such a great image Like those little things mean so much to me, knowing that they loved the work I was able to provide them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't Elaine draw recently she?
Speaker 2:did? She drew one of my images and I was. She asked me. She was like can, would you be okay if I drew one? I'm like, absolutely, you don't even have to ask. Like go ahead.
Speaker 1:But all the photos that she takes she doesn't draw, you know, she draws yours.
Speaker 2:She started drawing some of hers, but I was honored to have her draw one of mine.
Speaker 1:So don't give her too much credit. So two years in and loving it, yeah, okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 2:How do you do what you do with the little?
Speaker 2:one how do you do it? Oh boy, that's the little one um I I'd have to give so much credit of how I am able to do all this to my family. Um, I have such a great support system and um I I live with my mom right now and so she helps out all the time. When I go on rodeo weekends she watches my little one and I'll go out and I'll come back and sometimes she'll bring him out if it's close enough. Um, sometimes she'll bring them out if it's close enough. But that was kind of one of the big reasons why I got into rodeo photography too is because I really wanted to after I had my little one. Um, I really wanted to raise him in that community, in the rodeo community in the Western community.
Speaker 2:Um it's not, it's not something I necessarily grew up in, but I always had a passion for it and I always loved it. My, my uncle, um he was a big name cattleman in Nevada and he still is, but they sold off, um the ranch that he was managing right before I was born, and so I never really got the opportunity to do that and but I've always loved it and so I knew. Right after I had my son I was like this is how I want to raise you and I'm going to find a way to do it and be immersed in this community one way or another, and so photography's brought that to me is it because of the values, the morals?
Speaker 1:yeah, the sir, yes, ma'am I mean hard work and blue collar yeah it all.
Speaker 2:Just I just love it all and I've always also had like a love for horses and all of that and not something I ever really had the opportunity to do growing up. And so those are the opportunities I want to make for moving forward and for my family moving forward.
Speaker 1:For the little one. Yeah, if he, if he had to pick an event for him, to you know, start rolling, get him, get him early. I don't know you, I know you probably won't push him. Parents should not push their kids. If you had to, just you know, hey, check this out. What, what event?
Speaker 2:well, I'd probably either go team roping or steer wrestling. He, he, I have a funny story about that, so he has seen some of my pictures. I actually have some of the my steer wrestling images. There's some hanging in his room and he sees them and he goes. I want to do that, I want to do that and I'm like, well, you can't do it until you're bigger baby and he's like, he's like okay, but he has this like. I don't know if you've ever seen them. They're like the, almost they're horses, but they were like the ones they used to sell at Costco and they're like huge they're like little ponies, but they're just a stuffed like thing that you can sit on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's got one of those, and then he's got a little like steer, that bull thing. That's like a bouncy one that he can bounce on, and he likes to get on his horse and fall off onto his steer and wrestle it because he wants to do it.
Speaker 1:So we've kind of already started in on that, so we'll see okay, now question is he gonna be a big boy or is he gonna be one of those tiny guys that take the scene and make everybody look shameful? Because he's a little guy throwing, you know, calves around?
Speaker 2:so he's. He's probably gonna be six, six, one, something like that. He's probably going to be a little bit bigger, but we'll see.
Speaker 1:Okay, wiley, wiley, jean, that boy man. Yeah, not shouting him out, but he's going to listen. Not shouting him out or anything, but man, he's a cowboy, he's good at what he does. Yes, he does. He does so travel, work. You do all that because the parents, mom, yeah, thank goodness for mom thank goodness for moms, for grandmas, for yeah, when you travel, do you have traveling buddies or no?
Speaker 2:Nope, it's just me.
Speaker 1:Does mom worry about you?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:This is some long hours and you know what that's those lonely roads.
Speaker 2:She worries about me. She's got my location. She'll call me if I don't call her when I get somewhere.
Speaker 1:Like well, shout out to mom little one. Yeah, shout out to mom and little one thank you for allowing this to work for her to I like to be on the road. Her passion yeah, I, I do too, but I also know long hours in the arena in the dirt and then traveling back and forth to and from is dangerous, so please be careful.
Speaker 2:I will. I do my best, at least. Yes.
Speaker 1:Photograph for college pro. I don't like this word Amateur rodeo. You do ICA, mpra, prca, congrats, oh, congrats, oh, my goodness yeah, I'm working.
Speaker 2:I've got a few contracts for some PRCA rodeos this summer. I'm working towards getting my permit, hopefully within the next year, but we'll see moving pretty fast, looking good though yeah, so that, that's awesome, congrats. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1:Which one do you like the most? I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but which one do you like the most? Oh boy?
Speaker 2:That's a hard one. They all bring something I love Um, um they all bring something I love. Um, I I think right now it's going to be between the college rodeo or the MPRA Um cause for PRCA. I'm not allowed to shoot in the arena at the moment yet, so I haven't really gotten to like get the kind of like shots and stuff I want for that.
Speaker 2:but my, I like the MPRA because I feel like there's a lot more competition there yeah, um but the college rodeo has a soft spot because that's how I got my start and that, like those coaches, those college colleges, those athletes, they were also welcoming to me when I first started and so I love to travel with them and everybody, like, has started to know who I am, and so it's it's got a soft spot in my heart for sure for being one of my favorite things to shoot well, good, so college it is I'll just take college? Yeah, I think so treasure valley.
Speaker 1:It seems like you are a frequent flyer. There. Yeah, is that true?
Speaker 2:uh, kind of I mean, yeah, is that true? Uh, kind of I mean, um, I traveled down that way a lot for family and stuff, so, um, I run into people there but uh, drew the coach there is. He's also the head of the Northwest region, so I do a lot of my communicating with him and he w he was a big part in my getting started of like allowing me in the arena and kind of helping me out and so, um, yeah, and I've gotten to know, I've gotten to know a few people on the team there become some good friends with some people, so, but they've also got the biggest program.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, well, one of the best in the nation. Yeah, one of the best. I mean even Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've got some really good athletes coming out of there.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying anything bad about the other schools. No, absolutely not, I'm just saying Treasure Valley when you hear it. They can compete with the big dogs in Texas and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:So that's why I say what I say yeah, shout out to drew. I text him for the first time the other day and try to get something going on. So I'll end up being there sometime this spring to watch and interview him and get to know treasure valley a little more, since I've been, you know, interviewing a few of those athletes yeah, you got quite a few of them on here, so man, mike reed gosh.
Speaker 2:He doesn't look like a stellar athlete, but man he he is right yeah, I mean I haven't watched him very much I, because this is his first year at treasure valley, and then I I just started getting to know his name through MPRA last year.
Speaker 1:So yeah, he comes off as a humble kid, right Humble guy, he's younger than I am, but you know, he humble guy. But then when you see him it's just like, dude, you are fit, you are ripped man, yeah. So yeah, he's, he's, yeah. And then there's Bella. Just met her. She, she's quite the lady, you know. So, yeah, no treasure valley, shout them out. I'll be there soon.
Speaker 2:Hopefully you're able to be there yeah, I mean I, I will be at all of the college rodeos this spring.
Speaker 1:So okay, I'll make sure to run into you. Yeah, hey, okay.
Speaker 2:Favorite event. Favorite event I think I got to go back to the two that I'm pushing Clay my little one, towards. Okay, is team rope intersteer wrestling? Okay, I don't know why, I love them both. I mean, okay, I've always, I've always geared towards the timed events more than the rough stock events in my favoritism anyway, but out of all of them, I think those are some of my favorites.
Speaker 1:So a header or a healer healer why is he? Why isn't that the toughest one?
Speaker 2:it is, but I like watching it the most because it's it's tough challenging yeah, like I don't know how they do it I'm watching it and I'm like I I don't don't know how, but and it also I mean because I photograph it I get so many cool shots of it Like I'm watching the rope go right under the right, under the Sears heels, and I'm like, how Like yeah Right, they just like looping under there, I don't know it's an art, it's a form of art.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you Props to the people who can do it. Yeah, I've had a few ropers on and I ask them header or healer? And they're like you know, they always say header, so, but then there's always a couple that say healer. Then I ask why?
Speaker 2:I can't do it, but I like watching them.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Then they say healer that a lot of them say because they finish the job, I'm like all right, all right, but it's also the toughest part of the job, yeah, so all right. Steer wrestling too, all right. Okay, which one do you like to watch?
Speaker 2:when you're, when you're in the dirt.
Speaker 1:When you're in the dirt, just know in general which one do you like to watch. Not capture, just watch just watch.
Speaker 2:Um, I enjoy watching the tie down rope in a lot.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Um, and I also enjoy saddle Bronx, if I had to choose one from each event.
Speaker 1:Okay, why? Why is that a bra?
Speaker 2:I don't know it, just like I mean I I'm kind of going to refer. Like I mean I I'm kind of going to refer back to uh, your episode with Mike is it's, it's kind of a dance between the rider and the horse. Like there's, it feels a lot more I'm trying to think of the word it, just it. I feel like it flows a lot more than like bareback does.
Speaker 1:Well, anything flows better than bareback.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but it just I don't know. You just watch it and you can just see the connection between the rider and the horse and like the way that they're doing it. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Isn't there a connection with the bareback too? I?
Speaker 2:mean look there a connection with the?
Speaker 1:bareback too. I mean a little different yeah, I know, I'm just trying to have fun. So saddle bronc, all right, and tied it down. Tied, all right. Which one? I've already had the capture. Who's the one person you like to watch? All right, which one? I already had the capture. Who's?
Speaker 2:the one person you like to watch oh one person, let's go to. Let's, let's go to. Oh, I don't know, I honestly don't think I have like a one or two people that I like set my eye on to watch every time, necessarily, that's that's not not good, okay, okay. I really don't. I mean, I don't know. I've never been one to like set my eye on one person, to like constantly watch, and you know you don't like to look at the talent, though.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's so much talent out there. You're like man, this is a gift and they got it.
Speaker 2:It's like it kind of comes with, just like when I'm photographing, like I watch, I see what they're doing and I watch it, but there's not one person that I necessarily like follow their career. I don't know, I've just never been one to follow one person's career necessarily, I guess.
Speaker 1:Name one person that someone should look out for Myself. Name one person that someone should look out for.
Speaker 2:Myself. I have so many names I got to go through. Just do it. I don't know.
Speaker 1:All right, I really Too much pressure on you.
Speaker 2:I feel like I haven't had enough time to like Get to know one person and Like what you know, watch them. I don't really, because I don't.
Speaker 1:Too much pressure for you. I got it. I got it. I'm sorry. I don't want to put you out there like that, I'm sorry. Maybe one day, when you're not, you know, taking photos and everything, just sit back and take everything in you know I think that has something to do with it is I'm so focused on, like, capturing every single person.
Speaker 2:I don't spend much time like focused on just one because I'm focused on hundreds, because I'm focused on hundreds you know I got you.
Speaker 1:You got to live in the moment though. Right what we said, you got my best right. Do you ever look at results afterwards or you just look at the results?
Speaker 2:of the photos, mostly just the results of the photos. I usually got to go back and ask people like who ended up winning an event man?
Speaker 1:So it's all business not fun.
Speaker 2:It. It kind of is when I'm photographing it, it's a lot Cause I. I got to focus on the click of the button for every time someone's coming out of the shoot. I got to be paying attention and then, right as I'm done, I mean I leave. I leave a rodeo with like I don't know. I usually leave my college rodeos in one weekend with 12 to 13,000 photos that I got to sort, goodness Okay. And then I got to go through and I uh, I use my day sheets and I have to name every single photo based on the athlete and I got to put them all in there. So I've got like hundreds of names that I'm rolling through each weekend and so sometimes it's hard to keep track of just one or two people.
Speaker 1:Favorite event or rodeo sorry, favorite rodeo that you like to photograph so far far, so, far so far. Yeah.
Speaker 2:My favorite rodeo so far has probably been the one down in Susanville, california, for Lassen College.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:The photos that I come out from that rodeo are just I can't even describe it like the. The background and the scenery there that gets behind it is just gorgeous. It's mountains, it's beautiful sunsets, it's incredible. But this last we were just there in October and unfortunately I lost. So we it was a Friday and Saturday rodeo with slacks and I lost all of Friday's images because my hard drive crashed and I was, and that had so many beautiful photos on it. But I recovered a few of them, but most of them are gone. But I think that's gotta be my favorite rodeo so far, but that's probably going to change in this upcoming year, Cause I've got a lot more on my list this year.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this. I know you're in the dirt for hours. Yes, what event are you able to go? Take a break, none, let's really none.
Speaker 2:I, once I step foot in that arena, I do not leave until the rodeo is over you don't.
Speaker 1:I mean you don't use the bathroom, you don't get a snack, you don't get a drink. Do you carry all that stuff with you?
Speaker 2:no, that's, I take care of everything beforehand and then I am in that dirt for two, three hours, however long they take okay, gotta take care of yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you're on the road, what's your go-to snack, go-to drink, preferably energy drink.
Speaker 2:I actually don't drink energy drinks no good go-to drink is gonna be diet Pepsi it just hits different, right it does go-to snack, pepsi. Hey, it just hits different right. It does oh um, go to snack. Oh, I do. A lot of pretzels. I like pretzels, the salt. I like salty snacks, salty crunchy snacks.
Speaker 1:It's all the salts depleted because you don't take. You don't get in any intake while you're shooting. Okay, Mom, you better hear this and make sure she takes care of herself in the dirt and on and around the dirt.
Speaker 2:Shout out to mom again, jeez Okay.
Speaker 1:Do you eat peanut butter jelly sandwiches?
Speaker 2:Not as often as I make them. I make them a lot for my little one because he's only two, but yeah, but I eat them sometimes.
Speaker 1:Okay, how does he like them? Give it a rundown. How does he like them? Give it a rundown. How does he like? How do you make the little one the peanut butter jelly sandwich?
Speaker 2:Well, if I'm, if we're, if we're having a good day, I I'll make, I'll make them a special PB, and J and I'll I'll do the bread and the peanut butter and the jelly and I will cut it into a tractor shape for him with cookie cutter.
Speaker 1:Wow, I was wondering. I was like what, how do you do that All?
Speaker 2:right, you've got this big tractor cookie cutter and I'll make him a tractor sandwich and that's what he'll ask me for On days that we're just rushing through it. It's just plain and simple. We're, we're throwing some bread, peanut butter jelly and cutting it in half.
Speaker 1:We're good to go and you don't eat. He doesn't eat the crust. He, he'll eat the crust if I put it on there, okay, but but like when you are done, cookie cut right, what do?
Speaker 2:you do with the rest. I'll eat around the crust and I'll throw the crust away. What, what? The crust is the best part, all right, I will eat the crust if there's like the whole sandwich, but I won't. Once it's cut it's basically only crust, and so I'm not just eating crust.
Speaker 1:So you're wasting a lot of food.
Speaker 2:I'm joking, Well fine.
Speaker 1:All right Now does he like his PBJ, Like more peanut butter to jelly or more jelly to peanut butter?
Speaker 2:I make them with more peanut butter to jelly.
Speaker 1:Why is that?
Speaker 2:Because that's how I like them.
Speaker 1:He hasn't told me any different.
Speaker 2:yet he's not old enough to have a say yet.
Speaker 1:Okay, so diet Pepsi salty pret Pretzels and Tractor Cut EBJ Sandwich EBJs the more we know. Thank you for entertaining that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That is a stable question. It hits every now and then, but since you got a little person, oh, I make them all the time. Tractor. That's the first, by the way, out of 200, this would be 245 episodes. That's the first I've ever heard somebody cookie cutting their pvj, so thank you that's how he likes them all right, I think I'm gonna try it. I think I'm gonna try it it tastes better, trust me yeah, yeah, okay yeah. What kind of bread, though White?
Speaker 2:White. Yeah, or I'll. I'll make it sometimes, but Okay.
Speaker 1:So how do you think this episode went?
Speaker 2:Good.
Speaker 1:Still going. You think you got enough, you think you got more, or do you think this is enough? Now, when you get prca, you come back and you tell me I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think I, I think I've said a lot of what my my experience, my story is here okay, but I want you back on once that you hit that prca, all right deal and I want to know if and when you took the time to see who won the events. At least one rodeo, okay, I bet you, the moment you start paying attention to that game changer, I think, yeah, I think it would be more fun than anything, because I go to the rodeos and I love going to the ICA, I love going to the NPRAs, the small town ones, just to look at the talent.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What I do is just watch the rides, see how they do it see how you know, just see just their demeanor and the way they just do their thing. And then it see how you know, just see just their demeanor and the way they just do their thing, and then I see how they perform and it's, there's nothing like it. There's nothing like it when you pay attention to the whole cowboy, the whole system, the cowgirl, you know it's, it's, it's amazing. I mean, you can literally you pay attention, dissect it and just know it's like wow.
Speaker 2:I'll have to do it at some rodeos. I'm not shooting, because if I'm photographing, it's 100% focused on getting those shots.
Speaker 1:I think you paying more attention, just a little bit more. I think it'll be a game changer.
Speaker 2:Just saying, just saying.
Speaker 1:Just saying, okay, little bit more. I think I think it'll be a game changer, just saying, just said it, just okay. Did I miss anything? Do you want to add anything?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think that covers a lot okay, ultimate goal ultimate goal? I think my ultimate goal right now is get my PRCA card. That's that's my goal at the moment.
Speaker 1:We're working for it, but Okay, well, you, you're getting there, you pretty much got it. You're just waiting.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it's. It's a lengthy process, but yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:That's why, when I found out that I was like dang all right. So, emma, you got something going on. Keep doing what you're doing. Thank you, glad that you were able to make it on the podcast. Please come back. I'm very happy to be here. Please come back. Tell mom I said hi, I will Give the little one a hug and just know you're making it. You're doing it and people are watching and you know they're fans, so shout you out, emma.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much appreciate it till next time alright, yeah, until next time, all right.