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Miles & Mountains
Payton Pierce: The Love of the Game
Rodeo athlete Payton Pierce takes us through his journey from high school bull rider to a Yeti Junior World Final Qualifier in just six months of bareback competition. With raw honesty and the distinctive grit that defines him, Pierce recounts the moment that changed everything—when bareback riding legend Kaycee Feild slapped him in the face before a ride and told him to remember he was "a bad motherfucker."
Pierce doesn't sugar-coat the brutal physical toll of his rapid rise. His path to NFR qualification came at a staggering cost: seven broken ribs, a hand hung up in the rigging, and part of his ear torn off when a horse stepped on his head. Yet from his hospital bed, his first question wasn't about his injuries but whether he'd qualified. That unwavering focus speaks volumes about the mindset required to thrive in one of rodeo's most punishing events.
Now facing fatherhood with a baby boy due in August, Pierce finds himself navigating the complex balance between chasing rodeo glory and building a stable foundation for his growing family. He's purchased his PRCA card but plans to take a measured approach to his career trajectory while ensuring he can provide for his partner Lindsey and their soon-to-arrive son Waylon. The conversation reveals a young man maturing in real-time—still hungry for competitive success but now viewing his choices through the lens of responsibility.
Whether you're a rodeo enthusiast or simply appreciate stories of extraordinary determination, Pierce's journey offers powerful insights into what drives athletes to push beyond perceived limitations. Follow along as he shares what distinguishes bareback riding from other events, why he describes it as "a fight to the death," and how he's building a future both inside and outside the arena.
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Peyton Pierce, how are you man?
Speaker 2:Oh, not bad. How are you?
Speaker 1:Doing all right, dude. This has been a long time in the works, dude. I mean first time I found you, you were still in high school. First time I I found you, you were in. You were still in high school and I remember I had you're. You're the first one. I was like, dude, you gotta ask mom. You ask mom, mom, cut us off dude yeah, what was I?
Speaker 2:probably 16, yeah, yeah, maybe 15, maybe yeah yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1:I'm like all right, man. Well, you know what, even though she said no, I gotta respect the wishes and you know, respect mom and uh, yeah so well, I'm glad we waited, because I got a little more of a story now yeah, a little, we'll get there. We'll get there, but, dude, shout you out, man, you finally, you know, made the push and you're making it, and as a bareback rider, right Before we get going, ok, before we get on those stories, congrats on the baby, the new addition to the family. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:Baby, baby, boy that is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're super excited, I think we're gonna go with I think we're going with waylon waylon like waylon jennings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like it, I like yeah all right so we're super excited okay, first let's, let's ask how's, how's dad payton that is?
Speaker 2:oh, I'm good, you know just uh working and rodeo seasons coming up, um trying to be as prepared as I uh as a first time dad can be are you ready? No not at all um yeah, if I'm being completely honest, I think I've. I don't think I've ever been more excited and scared shitless at the same time. So, um yeah, I'm pretty nervous, but which are you more of?
Speaker 1:scared, shitless or excited?
Speaker 2:Oh, excited for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, all right, all right. What did mom say about that?
Speaker 2:Oh, um, when my mom first found out, um, she was actually excited. She was both my parents my mom and my both my dad were, uh, super excited. So that was extremely helpful and very supportive just from the from the get go. So that was super nice. Anyway, it made it everything so much easier as a beginning.
Speaker 1:Here she is, you know, not letting you get on a podcast, but she's. She's excited to be a G ma.
Speaker 2:Yeah, A young G. Ma you know, I thought they were going to be mad because of their age but, if I was a grandpa in my thirties I'd probably be pretty pissed off.
Speaker 1:So I got to admit, man, you and mom are the real reason why I put the bruise out of the the podcast. Did you know that? I did not yeah, dude, yeah, yeah, you're the reason, man, because I was all, like you know, to get more younger adolescent, you know rodeo guys on I have to take that bruise off. I don't want to be that weird guy that asked kids to be on the podcast. Gotta admit that. So, yeah, how's ma ma?
Speaker 2:uh, she's good, she's um just working until, uh, till she can't stand anymore, really, um, but she's, she's been great. The pregnancy has been um super easy going for her. She hasn't been sick, no, you know puking or throwing up and um she'll get the occasional headache here and there, but she's as happy as can be, I mean a lot of moms would say lucky yeah, oh, 100 yes and a lot of dads would be like, dude, I, I have a good, you have a good I do?
Speaker 2:I do have a very good. I have not had to deal with too much trauma, no hormones yet.
Speaker 1:So wait until that baby's? Yeah, yeah, I'm just going to leave it as that. Just be respectful and listen and talk. So shout out to mom what's mom's name lindsey lindsey, shout out to lindsey man, congrats another congratulations, dude.
Speaker 2:Being yeti junior world final qualifier dude yeah, that was um unexpected, but uh couldn't have been happier to go, and it was. It was a great experience. It didn't exactly go how I uh anticipated it. Um I just I don't know. I guess I got down there and, um, everything was going good and I normally have. I've only been riding bareback horses for, oh man, since last june is that's been not even.
Speaker 2:I mean, what is that? Six months maybe? Um, and I rode my first one in glenwood, washington, and, um, I was the only guy riding in the novice and I I rode him for eight seconds and I was so excited. I was like I just won the rodeo on my first bareback horse. But I missed my mark out and I didn't even know what a mark out was, and so I got. I'm just screaming and shouting. Everybody else is screaming and shouting, but, um, man, yeah, I'll never forget that. That was, uh, that was definitely probably one of the biggest highlights so far of running bareback horses.
Speaker 1:How did you find out, man? How did?
Speaker 2:you find out, you made it to the nfr um so I qualified which this is kind of a rough story um in mcminnville, oregon, in oh man, what was that? It was like my I want to say, probably seventh bareback horse. And so the first day it was a junior world finals qualifier and it was an MPRA rodeo sanctioned at the same rodeo. So the first day I rode and ended up blowing my hand out and I broke three of my ribs. But the next day was junior world qualifiers and I was like man, I got to qualify, I can't stop now. So, of man, I gotta qualify. I can't, you know, I can't stop now.
Speaker 2:So of course I stupidly got back on and I ended up getting my hand completely hung up and drug under the horse. It actually stepped on the side of my head and ripped the top of my ear off and broke my other four ribs and. But I qualified, I think, with 70 points. It was like a 70-point ride. But ended up in the hospital for the next two days and got all stitched back up and then went back home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but when you found out I mean, were you excited or were you like man? It was worth it.
Speaker 2:Oh, 100. Yeah. So when everything first happened, the only question I had when I finally got up was did I make it? Did I qualify? Yeah, what was my score? And I got doctors around me. All my friends are just telling me to just shut up and calm down. Yeah, and I found out actually one of my. I went to the hospital. I found out, actually one of my. I went to the hospital. I was sitting in bed in pain and one of my buddies, caden, came in, who also was trying to qualify and unfortunately didn't. But he was like you qualified. And, oh man, I was so excited I was trying to jump up and down, but I was laying down in a bed. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1:With how many ribs?
Speaker 2:Six ribs broken.
Speaker 1:I got seven at that time seven seven in my ear, still ripped off and bleeding out from behind my head. What was the exact words you used and said when you found out you qualified dude? I'm a bad motherfucker oh yeah, dude, heck yeah yeah so six months on, bareback, I mean. And then nfr did you ever think that you would make it to the nfr?
Speaker 2:yes, it's junior, but dude you, you got into the nfr man right, um, to be honest with you, no, um, but I did always have so. In july, I think this was probably third horse I actually rode in hawaii, in um, maui, hawaii, where I ended up meeting casey field and um again, I, I mean, I first, when I first started rodeo, it was all bulls. I only knew people that rode bulls. That's all I focused on. I only knew people that rode bulls. That's all I focused on. I didn't realize or focus on any other event. Then I started riding bareback horses.
Speaker 2:There was this guy at this rodeo in Maui. He was helping me set my rigging on and teaching me. He was like where did you get that rigging? I was like I got it from a buddy. He was like, man, that's the best setup here. And I was like, oh hell yeah, some random guy just told me. Well, later on that day I learned it was Casey Field and had no idea. And so the next day we talked again and I introduced myself and actually you know, was kind of fanboying over the guy, like actually you know that I knew who he was and, um, he helped set it on again and I was sitting getting sat down on the horse before the other guy was even out of the arena. He told me to sit down on the horse, run my hand in and um, he actually slapped me in the face and told me to tell myself I was a bad motherfucker and I was man that's kind of.
Speaker 1:you know, casey man, that's a story dude. You know my new like yeah, that's kind of my new ritual now I was like holy shit.
Speaker 2:Casey Field just slapped me in the face.
Speaker 1:At first, though right when he did that, you were like dude for real Like are we going? There, you want to throw hands, or what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I sat down on the horse.
Speaker 1:He slapped me and just told me you're just yelling at me. You know like you're a bad motherfucker and um, this was we.
Speaker 2:They actually had put me on like the best horse they had there. Um, you know, I was a way out of there again. I missed my mark out, but it came out and just I almost went ass over tea kettle, yeah, and I got myself brought back, had him rode pretty good, and then he jerked me to the side and it was just ragdolling. But I made the eight again and I think I went eight or nine horses before I finally got bucked off, which, um, that's when I was, you know, kind of like, wow, I think I could do this, I think I, you know, if I just keep putting the work and, um, focus on this one event, so I stopped riding bulls right after Hawaii, um, and I think I don't know, I think the whole reason I got out of the bowls, um, to be honest with you, I got kind of scared of them, you know.
Speaker 1:I just kind of started.
Speaker 2:Yeah kind of started falling out of love with um, riding bowls and it had just been so many injuries and head injuries and I was like you know, I I got to switch events and I just wasn't making it where I wanted to be. It wasn't really going anywhere. You know, I was riding here and there winning money, here and there a buckle or two, but it just wasn't you know where I wanted to be. So, yeah, I made the switch to bareback and luckily I had a lot of friends in the MPRA that were super helpful and supportive of that and, um, yeah, loan, loan the gear when I needed and help set the rig in sounds.
Speaker 1:Sounds like you've been listening to the podcast. You already answered that question. So, man, why why bareback? Though, like, why not saddle bronc, why not?
Speaker 2:uh, why? I let's see. So I guess, right when I hmm, I rode bulls and I think at the time I rode six saddle bronc horses why riding bulls at the same time before I was like this isn't for me, it's just, it's not One. I definitely wasn't very good at it, I just wasn't. I'm just not that coordinated. You know to move my feet lift at the same time, you know, and it just didn't feel very. I don't know to move my feet lift at the same time, you know, and it just didn't feel very. I don't know how to explain it. Like unnatural, not even that, it's just. I needed something rougher, you know. Like I know that sounds crazy, just I'm a little.
Speaker 2:I was just a little more crazy than your average saddle bronc rider, and so I want, I wanted to feel a fight like I did with the bulls and, um, I got on a bareback course and that has been the best brawl I've ever had between anybody or anything.
Speaker 1:So well, mike, mike reed says it's a dance. Man, that's a dance. Do you feel like it's a dance?
Speaker 2:uh, no, no, I feel like it is a fight to the death. Um, every time you're on the horse, every time I get on, you know I put my hand in there, I run it in, lean back, and you know it's. Who's the batter motherfucker here, is it me or is it this?
Speaker 2:and it's hard, so, um, I think bulls was more of a dance for me than bareback, for sure explain it um well, you know, when I'm riding a bull, I'm looking at the top of his head and I'm just following where he goes. Yeah, um, I'm just moving my body with him. You know, know, it's me in this bowl. If I can, we can sit and dance together for eight seconds. You know, we're both going home winners and, um, bareback. It just doesn't feel like that. It's. We both hate each other, we're not partners, we just want to kill each other and go at each other, and that's what we do every time. It's fun, it's exciting. I love those horses, I love all the animal athletes.
Speaker 1:Have you thought about doing two sports, two events All around?
Speaker 2:No, because, to be honest with you, I won't get on another bull. I won't buy a saddle either. I think if I had the money to go out and buy a roping horse, I would definitely do that to try and save my body, cause I am, I am beat.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:My body hurts.
Speaker 1:Okay so, but bareback, you're going to stay, true?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to stay with it, yep.
Speaker 1:Okay, what if? What if, uh, your, your, your boy, wants to get involved, You're all for it. Oh, all for it 100% You're going to push him, not push him what?
Speaker 2:I definitely. I think I'm going to push him more towards it. I think the only big difference between you know, what I wish I would have done and what I'm going to make him do is finish school. I dropped out of school my sophomore year to ride bulls and never graduated, and well, that's I mean in some situations in the real world. That's been a pretty big hold up for me. So I definitely want to push him to finish school. But if he wants to high school rodeo, that's totally fine too. Yeah, I just never got that opportunity. Finish school. But if he wants to high school rodeo, that's totally fine too. Yeah, um, I just never got that opportunity. I came into this when I was like 15, you know, mom and dad, that I was crazy and I, you know so yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1:You ever think about getting your GED?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I actually uh just got enrolled at a college up here to get it yeah.
Speaker 1:Congrats, man.
Speaker 2:Stick with it.
Speaker 1:If you need anything, reach out, will do. All right, all right. So then, a far trip, man. And how was the trip? I mean it was busy, it's. It's very expensive lately, so how was the trip? Did you spend a lot of cash on the lady? What, yeah?
Speaker 2:so the trip, the trip was good. Um, I, I like expensive things and she does too. So, you know, we definitely spent a decent amount of money, honestly, mostly on food, with gratuity tips that they charge you. Um, but vegas is, it's not my thing. I, I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't like to party. I'm not a big crowd person. Uh, I'd rather be at home cuddle up in bed watching a movie than out. You know, I, I had my fair share, I did those things, I did those and you know I've really mellowed out and I honestly just want nothing to do with it anymore. But yeah, that's what's kind of nice about Lindsay she's a very extrovert, outgoing, loves to go, you know, hang out with people and do things, and I'm introvert, so we balance each other out pretty well.
Speaker 1:But, dude, you were styling with those pearl snaps, dude. I was like who's this? Rock star dude.
Speaker 2:Who's this rock? Star dude who's this rock star? Yeah, guys, I think when it came to the outfits for the nfr um, I'm gonna have to give a shout out to tristan parker, I think he, uh, might have gone into my head a little bit okay yeah, yeah dude rock star man.
Speaker 1:I was like who?
Speaker 2:is this kid?
Speaker 1:First NFR and he is rolling, yeah, like you were a high roller man, but you deserved it, man, because six months in and you, you know NFR. So that's, that's, that's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Did that trip and the experience did it get you hungry for more man oh one, yes, 100, I um.
Speaker 2:You know, just being in the same like vicinity, knowing that all these world champions and professional bareback riders are probably just a couple miles, staying down the road in a different hotel, was just a huge eye-opener. And just the fact that I made it down there in the first place and I was riding on national tv, um I, I, it definitely pushed me. I want to be in the big show. You know, I got you, um, I made it to go all the way.
Speaker 1:So did mom cry when she saw you on tv yes, she did.
Speaker 2:Yes, all right, yep, um, my parents unfortunately they didn't make it out there, um, so they watched it on tv though, and they they said it was a blast watching it. They just wish they could have been there. But yeah, my mom bought pretty emotional, she said yeah, that's badass dude, that's good.
Speaker 1:Congrats, man. Congrats. So with the baby and six months in, you go to the nfr. Will you go for your push? You know, I always ask that question are you gonna go push? Are you gonna go big? Are you gonna go prca? Are you gonna go what?
Speaker 2:so right now, um, with the baby coming, it's been very up in the air. Um, I bought my card for the prca for my first year. Congrats, um, thank you. But it's just, you know, it's not that I'm scared of rodeo and you know I want to go, I want to do all these rodeos, I just I can't get hurt, because I got to be able to provide for a family that I built myself, so so look, just stay, even keel right now not yeah step back, not go, I wouldn't say, take a step back.
Speaker 2:I think we're just going to keep going at the pace I've been going. I'm definitely gonna hit pretty you know, 99 of the mpra's this year. Um, I just don't want to take on something that I know I can't handle and then end up getting hurt, so okay the lady gonna travel with you oh, 100. Yeah, she loves rodeo, she um, she's all for it okay, okay, that's, that's good so if she's going, the baby boy is gonna go too, correct.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome dude, that is awesome man. So yeah, first question I'm just gonna ask what do you roll up in, dude? You have a camper, you got a trailer, what?
Speaker 2:so I um had a camper, ended up selling the truck and camper it was on. And now I'm actually trying to look for a new truck because now I got a baby coming and I drive a single cab F350. So that's not going to work. No, it's not.
Speaker 2:So I think right now we're going to be rolling up in mom's car, in the toyota corolla wow, that's yeah all right that's you're rolling hard dude yeah, I know, I had a camper in mind and every you know, and I kind of panicked, I, right before we found out, um, we having the baby. I had an extended cab, you know a nice Duramax, and I found out we was having the baby and I went nuts I mean happy nuts, but scared, I sold everything I owned. So I was like, oh my man, we need money, we need money and yeah, that was the only thing that was really on my mind.
Speaker 2:So I got you know out of all the debt I was in and sold everything and just kind of put away as much as I could you said the lady likes uh, rodeo.
Speaker 1:And who's the passenger, princess, you or her?
Speaker 2:most of the time her only, because the rodeos we do go to so far have been in my truck and it's a five speed and she can't drive it, so okay who controls the radio? Her? Yeah, her, I'll give it to her. I know I'll give it to her, that's her.
Speaker 1:What does she roll up with man Taylor Swift Country?
Speaker 2:music Motley Crue, I mean any, yeah, old rock we have pretty decent close to the same music taste. Sometimes she throws some weird Taylor Swift in there. I knew it, yeah, and I'm like man, I don't like this. And then I kind of get into it and I'm like man, I don't like this.
Speaker 1:And then I kind of get into it and I'm like, oh man, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So all right. Who wins on the choice of food man when you guys are on the road, her or you?
Speaker 2:yeah, definitely me. Um I'm normally I'm always prying for taco bell. Um, I've got an obsession with taco bell. It's pretty bad.
Speaker 1:But what's your?
Speaker 2:go-to. Oh, the grilled cheesesteak burrito, no doubt okay, not every time. Layer five layers no I, I can't, I can't. Actually it's too much. Taco bell's got this problem with drowning everything in liquid cheese and I can't do it, I can't, I can't, actually it's too much. Taco Bell's got this problem with drowning everything in liquid cheese and I can't do it, I can't. It makes me want to throw up.
Speaker 1:Do you do the Baja Blast or are you the Starry guy?
Speaker 2:Coke.
Speaker 1:Coke okay.
Speaker 2:Coke, yeah, every time.
Speaker 1:Last question Do you eat peanut butter jelly sandwiches?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I eat them yeah, okay yeah how do you make one?
Speaker 1:how do you build the pbj sandwich? And since I haven't, I haven't asked that question like I used to, because a lot of people got I don't think they got bored of it, it's just like they were expecting it. So I'm like dude, you guys are expecting it. I I'm not going to say it anymore, but so I have to ask, man how do you build Definitely, I want to say 70% peanut butter, 30% jelly. Okay, and it's always crunchy. Always, okay, always.
Speaker 1:Now now, when you open, going to change it up. When you open a fresh jar, of what kind of peanut butter do you use?
Speaker 2:I use Skippy or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:You know that top part. You know it's so fresh and so smelly. Goodness, it's just. You know it's the aroma of the peanuts. Right, right, right. Do you slather that on your bread, or do you like I do? I just easily, easily, take that knife right around, make sure I get that spread and just put it right on my tongue. Or do you just put it on the bread? What do you do?
Speaker 2:I the top layer, I just put right in my mouth and then all right, there's nothing like it. No, and then the next one will be um, only actual bread yeah, it's 100.
Speaker 1:Yep, all right. So there's also another question, man. If you're doing pbj, there's a lot of cheese bread eaters. I heard that you are. Tell me about it, man.
Speaker 2:Is it a?
Speaker 1:real thing? Is it a real thing that you cowboys and some cowgirls love just cheese and bread?
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100% I. I, if I was on the road and I had the choice between the two, I'd pick cheese and bread.
Speaker 1:Just cheese and bread. Just cheese and bread you like, not grilled, it's just plain old white bread and cheese.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, I like you know, if I had to eat one thing for the rest of my life, it would be grilled cheese sandwiches, and on the road that's as close as I'm getting, so 100%.
Speaker 1:When you're grilling them, do you use butter or mayonnaise?
Speaker 2:Butter 100. When you're grilling them, do you use butter or mayonnaise butter, and then most of the time now it used to be just cheese and bread, but sometimes I'll do ham and cheese, okay, and I actually put mustard and mayonnaise while I'm cooking it, and that's good okay yeah, do you?
Speaker 1:do you ever like the south? Um, you know, I lived in georgia. I'm from oklahoma, I was just born there. My dad was, you know, in the military, so I lived in the south. A lot did you ever put with? When you're grilling it, you put the butter, the bread, you put mayonnaise, cheese, mayonnaise, and then the rest, you know or no, I, yeah, you do put. Man, you do grill.
Speaker 2:See my wife yeah, it's like that's. Oh, you're saying, do I grill the mustard and the mayonnaise? Why I'm? Why is it cooking? Yes oh 100. I do not put that on after it's cooked right, dude, it's not the same all right so yeah, my wife's the one that's tripping then, because I tried to tell her.
Speaker 1:I'm like like, hey, did you put mayonnaise on it? She's like, no, who does that? That's gross. I'm like, are you kidding me? So?
Speaker 2:yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for entertaining that man. Yeah, of course. What's your plans this year? First, first rodeo. How's it going to go?
Speaker 2:Like which one am I hitting first?
Speaker 1:yeah, first one. And then like what are your plans? You're gonna go. You said 90 something percent of mpra yeah, 100.
Speaker 2:So, um, this weekend is actually I don't. Jerry howell is one of the stock contractors for the mpra and he's putting on a rust dog feel I think it's a bull riding and bareback riding in Tillamook down at the fairgrounds and um, they're allowing us to buy our cards beforehand or when we get there. So whatever money we do win, it'll already go to this year's standings before. Uh, elma rodeo is the first big rodeo of the season at the end of March All right.
Speaker 1:So, it'll be.
Speaker 2:March and then everything. I mean I'll hit them all until the baby's born and then I think the first one back will probably be the end. So baby's born at the beginning of August, august 2nd, but I mean I think he's going to come about a week early. Either way, I think the first rodeo back after the baby will probably be enum claw at the very end of um okay, and if everything's been going well, I want to hit. Because I live up in bremerton, washington. I want to hit the kitsap county rodeo in bremerton in the prca this year okay, and that's going to be your first one that would be my first one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm excited for you, man, I, okay, and that's going to be your first one. Yeah, that would be my first one. Yeah, excited for you, man. I'm excited. Dude, that's awesome. All right, you going to hit up a ICA?
Speaker 2:I think so. Um, I like to try and make it down to CUNA every year. Okay, I've got a pretty big fan base down there I live down there for a while and 90 of my family's from boise so and outside of that area, so it's it's pretty cool. I don't see them very often and they always come out and watch when I ride there you got a bigger, bigger fan base than you think, man and believe.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I mean dude, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna shout him out. But shout out to nick reynolds of eight seconds strong, dude, he, he's a big fan right, yeah, he's not just a sponsor he actually, you know, pays attention and he speaks very highly of you, man, so shout out to nick reynolds of eight seconds strong yeah, real good so and josh too, and I, if I, if it hadn't been for josh, none of what's going on with eight seconds and um, yeah, or the unbreakable would be possible.
Speaker 1:So yeah, man the doc will be on eventually too.
Speaker 1:So but no, you're, you're, you're, you're making waves, dude, you're paving the way, not just, you know, for the kid and the the lady, but for yourself, man, you should be proud. I think you are, I know you are, it's just. Yeah, you know, like you said, I'm gonna have to explicit this, this episode, but you're a bad motherfucker dude. So keep it up, keep it up dude, keep it up man. So your ultimate goal, man, just as a bareback rider. Ultimate goal right now, before the kid, but, um, after the kid too yeah.
Speaker 2:so I think right now, in this moment it's really been from last year to this year I want to try staying in a little better of shape, you know, not just hitting rodeos every weekend, but trying to, you know, because I'm hurting all the time when I get off, and so I just want to try, you know, tighten up those muscles a bit so it doesn't hurt as bad. Stay in shape. I don't want to get jacked or nothing.
Speaker 2:I just want to be small and fit and smart and smart yeah, 100%. And a lot of the guys that I've been talking to. I'll do a shout-out to Kyle Bounds he's been extremely helpful and Levi Walters they both have been very big mentors in this whole bareback riding deal, and there's more than there's just that, but the list could go on for how supportive everyone's been with you know just the six months you've been in, you know before nfr.
Speaker 1:Do you consider yourself a mentor, someone kids can look up to?
Speaker 2:I think so in in a way. I do get, um, a lot of DMS on Instagram. Uh, like, how'd you get into rodeo? You know, like, how do I start? And, um, you know, it's really cool watching you ride and seeing where you came from and that that, you know, that lifts my heart up and keeps the spirit going and makes me want to keep going, for sure. Um, so I, I would say yeah, I would say yes.
Speaker 1:Is it true that you're sponsored by boot barn? Yeah so you're doing something right.
Speaker 2:I, I'm trying, I know it was. It was really weird how that whole thing went down. So I went in there and um one day and somebody had made a comment on a belt buckle I was wearing Um, it was the first rodeo I won on a bareback horse down in Flemeth, oregon. And um she was like, well, you know, if you're interested in sponsorships, we do. Um, you know nonprofit profit stuff like that. And um I was like, yeah, I mean hell yeah. So she gave me a corporate number and I ended up calling corporate. They emailed me like an application kind of thing and um the application got accepted. They sent me like a contract which actually just ended in February, and basically it was um I I didn't get paid by them, but I got free clothes whenever I wanted.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I could. I could go in there. Um, I think the only annoying part was everybody asking me to get them free clothes, but they asked for your certain sizes and specific, so I got to go in there and grab. You know well if it's me, but yeah, that was super cool.
Speaker 1:Did you go and try to get the missus something? Just be like babe, you earned it.
Speaker 2:Not for free. I just go in there and buy her, buy, you know, whatever she wants. You know, just put it on my tab. I guess put it on my lifetime of tab.
Speaker 1:So you going to go for the sponsorship again, I guess? Put it on my lifetime of tab.
Speaker 2:So you're going to go for the sponsorship again. Um, I haven't really decided. I honestly, I think for the 25, 2025 season I I kind of want a whole new lineup. You know, I have, I have Nick. Um, I still have, uh, some older coffee sponsors. Um one is profit, the other one's non-profit. They just kind of send me, you know bags of coffee here and there um which is fun. Yeah, which is super cool. Yeah, it's always fun getting those in the mail.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, it smells so good yeah, and you know elaine.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you know elaine. Um, why did you have to shout?
Speaker 1:her out. Dude, she's awesome, I can't I try.
Speaker 2:You're not joking, I think I've even known her a little longer than I've known you. I mean, she was there right when I started this whole thing. She's a good lady um yeah, I'm not shouting her out. Dude, thanks for shouting her out so yeah, hoping to start a new lineup of sponsors this year, and I mean, if I have to ride solo, that's that's. That's totally fine too. You know, it'll happen in time.
Speaker 1:So I don't think you'll, and if anything, I don't think you'll be riding solo that long right, yeah, um yeah dude.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, man, you got that, look, you got that rock star mentality. You know, like you said, I'm gonna have to explicit again, but you know, you're a bad motherfucker and you need to stay it, dude, and to even, like you know, do what you did in so little time, be sponsored by, you know, nick reynolds and the gang and elaine and boot barn. Come on, come on. That says a lot, dude. So just keep doing what you're doing, man. Keep doing what you're doing. I'm proud of you. I'm finally happy that you're on this podcast.
Speaker 1:I want you to come back I want you to come back after this this season. Let me know how the baby's doing, how mom or the lady mom's doing. Okay, 100, give me just a heads up where you're gonna be. I need your schedule so I can try to run into you. But, dude, do you want to add anything? Did I miss anything?
Speaker 2:man, I don't know, we just covered like a lot.
Speaker 1:I feel like, yeah, my whole career and I don't even know how many minutes and and it sounds like you've been listening to, because you went straight into what I was gonna go into like oh yeah, I listen all the time, you know when I'm at work and I appreciate it yeah I appreciate it, dude. What's your favorite episode so far?
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Don't say Nick, because he's sponsoring you.
Speaker 2:No, I like Mike. Mike Reeds was pretty cool, right, and Elaine's for sure.
Speaker 1:Elaine's coming back on, but she's like I need to do. You know how she talks.
Speaker 2:I need to do this.
Speaker 1:I need to do. You know how she talks. I need to do this. I I need to do. I don't know if the cat's out of the bag, but she's like I need to do this event before getting on. I'm like, all right, whatever, whatever you want, you know she's gonna. She's gonna message me, she's gonna listen to this episode, she's gonna message me and she'll be like that's a good uh impersonation.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that was pretty spot on right yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I pay attention to a lot of things. So, dude, speaking of paying attention, I'll be paying attention, man and I. I hope nothing but the best for you and your family. Mom, that didn't let you on back in the day, but I really I won't yeah I won't hold that to to her.
Speaker 1:But hey, NFR, again we're hanging out. Don't leave me hanging, because I know you were hanging with Del Brisby. You found out he was around, I told you where he was and I was like dude, I'm sitting in this place, Meet me. And never heard anything back. But it's all good.
Speaker 2:To be fair, I had no service in cowboy christmas. I could not get a hold of nobody. I got lost myself a couple times okay, how was a meeting del brisby? Oh, um, you know I love the guy, but I gotta say a little disappointing no, I got you, I got yeah yeah, he shows a very um. He's got this big bubbly personality all camera. And then I met him and he's like, yeah, what's going on? Man, let's get a photo and get the hell out of here that's, that's business that's business guy man.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I don't, I totally understand, but, dude, he's one of the nicest guys that I've, that I've met, personality wise, you know, and uh, yeah, it's, it is surprising. So. But, dude, you go to the nfr from here on now. Hit me up yeah, we'll be up and, yeah, we'll have dinner. I'll pay for dinner. Sound good? Deal until you, you're, you become like a millionaire.
Speaker 2:You, you know or oh yeah, I'll buy you guys dinner. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Drinks no sodas on you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sodas on me.
Speaker 1:All right, Peyton Till next time.
Speaker 2:Yep Sounds good man.
Speaker 1:All right, man, thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you. We'll see you next time.