I Don't Know About That - Rodeos

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

In this episode, the team discusses rodeos with comedian, actor, and former semi-professional rodeo cowboy, Spencer Streichert. Follow Spencer on Instagram @SpencerStreichert Our merch store is now live! Go to idontknowaboutthat.com for shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/IDKAT for ad free episodes, bonus episodes, and more exclusive perks! Tiers start at just $2! Go to JimJefferies.com to buy tickets to Jim's upcoming tour, The Moist Tour.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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absolutely fucking nothing. I don't know about that. With me. Yeah. Were you saying you don't know about that, or is that just your sense? That's the name of the show. Nothing happens before you're born, and nothing happens after you're dead. I thought you were saying, I don't think you're saying you didn't know about that or is that just your signature? That's the name of the show. Nothing happens before you're born and nothing happens after you're dead. I thought you were saying I don't know.

That's what happens. Whenever people go, what do you think happens after you die? Same as before you were born. I thought you were saying you didn't know about it. Oh, I do. I don't categorically know what happens after you die. I have a very strong feeling it's nothing. I'm hoping it's ghosts. I'm not like religious people who a very strong feeling it's nothing. I'm hoping it's ghosts.

I'm not like religious people who categorically are saying that I'm all but sure. I can't prove it because I can't prove it. I can't. There's no scientific test that I can really, apart from the movie Flatliners. Remember that? Oh, yeah.

Never saw it. Well, they just killed people for a little bit and then resuscitated them back. Oh, that's my favorite type of movie. They went into the afterlife. That whole genre is so good. It was Keith Sutherland, Julia Roberts. That's how they met.

Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon, yeah. They would get together and they would kill one of them on purpose and then bring them back and then they would talk about it. I don't know. It's a fun friend group to be in. We used to make each other faint back in high school. We would do the neck choking thing until we fainted.

What? But years later, I found out that was really bad for you. No kidding. I have six brain cells left. The people who always die and then they're like, and then I saw this and then I saw that. And it's like, you weren't dead the whole time. There was a bit before where you're a bit delusional,

where your body was passing in and out. I remember someone choking me. There was a guy, you know, I don't know if we've talked about it, but when I was a marine biologist my third week at work, we resuscitated a guy back from he was almost dead. We talked about this on Bert's podcast. Yeah, okay. Forrest saved a life.

I helped save a life. There were some other people with me i got a commendation from the mayor of the city of miami for it and how's this never been brought up i know i've known the guy for like 15 years he never mentioned he saved a life i've known every single meal he's eaten i i was talking about because i i have the commendation framed and i've never hung it up because I just didn't. I didn't. I don't know.

I don't want to brag about saving someone's life, you know, but I did it as a joke. Orlando Labor said, yo, you should hang it in a bathroom. The guest, the guest bathroom. That's what I did. I hung it where people would take a shit and read and be like, what the fuck? That's cool. And so, yeah, he it was a guy that I worked with and he had what's called shallow water blackout. He sunk to the bottom.

His lungs got filled with water. The other guy was working, picked him up from from off the bottom. I went to the surface, flagged down the boat we were with. We brought him up. I dragged him back on the boat, held on to him and like was we were trying to get the water out of his lungs. Gave him oxygen, a Coast Guard gutter came and got him. Helicopter lifted him to the hospital and then he was saved but we got the water out of his lungs and he came back to life like i was

holding on to him i could feel the life come back into him like literally like when we pulled him on the boat i was looking into his eyes and he was pretty much dead his heart was still beating but he wasn't breathing so he wasn't dead but but he was getting there you know and how do you get water out of someone's lungs you do the the Heimlich. Straw. You do the Heimlich maneuver, actually. That's what you're supposed to do. A little bit of kissing on the mouth? Yeah, you stick a tube down, and when you siphon out gas, you just, I don't know.

The Heimlich is what you're supposed to do. Okay. Siphoning gas. This next generation, you haven't lived. Before we move on, though, I just want to say, he said that his life, all these visions of his life. Do you think what you're about to say is more important than what i just want to say he said that his life all these visions of his life he didn't he didn't he didn't die but he did say that like a slideshow of his life flashed before his eyes so that's but that's what happens maybe before you die is that your brain starts to like

just show you like a like a in memoriam kind of thing. Closing time. Your iPhone does that for you. Like, hey, here's all the things that happened. That's what you have to look forward to before you die. Does he still stay in contact with you? A little. I talk a little bit. He should send you Christmas cards every fucking year, man.

You know what's funny is i mean i worked with him for years after that and so like we there was a joke where we'd be like oh you know we saved your life you know whatever but um what happened was uh months later we got that commendation from the from the um from the county that worked for the county it was we were government employees so the mayor gave us this commendation and the day they gave it to us they brought us in they brought the coast guard in and they brought us into like this big hall where all the commissioners were in the mayor or whatever and the mayor was supposed to present it to us there was this huge fire on a cruise ship and he was like a media whore so he

went there to like be like oh and like he wanted to run for like governor so he went there and so this commissioner barbara carey uh presented instead and she she was reading the commendation like at the time so she didn't even know what happened and she goes and then they pulled him off the whoa like she was reading like like she didn't know what happened he's a very good looking guy his name was martin roach and he's he's argentinian very suave looking very kind of swim for shit no no no he's very good he's actually a very good swimmer but he's a very handsome guy very good looking and she just goes like this after she read the whole thing and she just looks at him you could never do this now because he was a commissioner of this city of uh of miami-dade county and she just goes you're too handsome to lose like in the

middle of this whole presentation oh yeah the ugly can die all day. Smack him in the ass. It's like, all right, dude, settle down. You still get the award if it's a useless ugly who you save. You know what I mean? She would have been like, man, you're good. That's just a little badge. Sticker. That's an in and out voucher. We talk once in a while and stuff, but he got married, has two kids.

Yeah, okay, but what if, no, I won't say his kids because they're around right now, but what if his i won't say his kids because they're around right now but like what if his grandchildren become hitler and you're the one who saved the guy fuck you didn't even think about that yeah should write that script so did you kill everyone for us in the world maybe maybe you did no good deed goes unpunished i'll tell you that much look there's two other people that helped save him. I mean, to be honest. Oh, the Hitler three. It was three of us.

That was a team effort. You'll be remembered in history. Okay. So, you know, I did my good deed for my life. No one remembers that like Hitler's grandmother getting the Heimlich remover, getting a bit of bratwurst that was stuck in her fucking throat, kicked out. No one talks about that guy. The Heimlich remover, getting a bit of bratwurst that was stuck in her fucking throat, kicked out. No one talks about that guy.

The Heimlich remover wasn't invented yet. It would be the natural thing you would do. I'm sure punching somebody in the chest region was invented. It was invented in Delaware. Really? Yeah. It sounds like it would have been invented in Germany. Yeah.

It was a guy in Delaware. And his last name was Heimlich, it was like joe uh that's middle name so it was siphoning field do you know how to do that either you too yeah yeah i've done it before no you can we're men of a certain age okay we've had a mouthful of petrol yeah it's terrible i've done it many times oh yeah when you're poor you pour, it's, ah, fuck me. I mean, I have a theory about how to do it. I've never done it myself. I once did it because I was selling my car.

Have you done it, Kelly? I've never done it. I once did it because I was selling my car, and my gasoline was the most valuable thing I had in there. I was sending it to a junkyard for 50 bucks. Louise might have done it because you worked doing- It feels racist. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Landscaping because you guys, you've worked with fuel and stuff. I just feel like Kelly and Jack have never worked with anything. I can't imagine a single situation where I'd have to siphon gas. From one foot to another. Let's just go, Jack.

How do you siphon? I'm not racist. How do you siphon? Like, I assume you know how to change a tire, right? You know how to change a tire. Yeah. Have you ever changed a tire

in a real practical way or you've just been the thing i attempted to but my tire wouldn't come off the bolts so i had to call triple a and the guy's like holy shit i've never seen a tire that stuck before so he had to get his nascar jack underneath the car and kick the tire out from underneath so you didn't so i got it to the point where i could i theoretically could have gotten the tire off but it wouldn't remove it wasn't coming okay so how do you how do you siphon gas you put a tube in the gas tank and then you have to suck until the gasoline starts flowing through the tube and then it's like capri sun and then you throw up probably because it's so bad no you've missed several steps so this tube how big is this tube? Long.

What's the tube made out of? What is the tube? What's it made out of? Rubber. What tube, what rubber tube do you have maybe in your backyard that you could use? Like a hose? Yes, a hose.

You get a hose. Okay. So you get a green garden hose. It doesn't have to be green, but this is just for the sense. So you put it into the gas tank, right, because you want to remove the fuel from the tank. And what do you do next? You suck.

Yeah, yeah, very good. Very good. And when do you stop sucking? When it's on your lips. No, before that. Try to do it before that. Yeah, but every movie I've seen, it was all of it. Okay, so you've sucked.

Now how do you get it out? Get what out? The fuel. You've sucked it into the tube do you get it out? Get what out? The fuel. You've sucked it into the tube. You think that's all we're doing? We're just having fun with the tube? Well, isn't it like a pressure thing? Like once it starts flowing, it can go.

Where does the gas go? Well, it goes in a little tank that you have with you. Okay. Couldn't you just get like a giant turkey baster? You can get ones with pumps. If you've got a real one, you get one that goes in there and has a little hand pump. But that's flashy. We're talking old school. That would've got a real one, you get one that goes in there and has a little hand pump, but that's flashy. We're talking old school.

I mean, that's what I would be, like a high-class siphoner. I don't know about you guys, but. You don't have that. You're stuck on the side of the road. You have to get gas from one. You have to get gas from one car to the other car. Why would I have a hose? Because you can go to someone's house and just cut a bit of garden hose.

Let's say you're delivering pizzas in college. Their house in the desert? You've run out of fuel. That you just talked about? Your car's say you're delivering pizzas in college. Their house in the desert. You've run out of fuel. That you just talked about. Your car's in a ditch. Why do they need a hose in the desert? I would bring a turkey baster with me. If that's my jam, I'm bringing that thing everywhere.

How do you keep the gas? Do I impregnate myself and siphon gas? This is such a simple question. Once you've sucked it up, how do you move the gas from there to the container? Put it in your asshole. Isn't it just you have it like this and it just flows because of some weird gravity pressure shit? I'd never be able to the container. Put it in your asshole. Isn't it just you have it like this and it just flows because of some weird gravity pressure shit? I'd never be able to do this.

How about you tell me because I don't know. Have you ever had a cocktail and tasted it by putting a straw into it and then bringing it up like that? Yeah. Okay, how do you keep the liquid in the straw? You put your finger on it. You put your thumb over it. You were so close.

You would have been stuck out in the desert with your thumbs doing nothing. Yeah, but Jack has triple A. You just sucked it here and put it here. You put the thing in. You suck up the gas. You don't let it get to your lips. When you feel it getting in your way, shove your thumb over it. Now you've got a hose full of gasoline. You pull it

out and then you let go of it into the thing. So you know now. It will get to your lips though sometimes. Sometimes you'll get a mouthful of petrol. So I'm not totally out of it. Oh, I've done it. You get a mouthful of petrol, you're fucking, oh, no cigarettes for an hour for me.

How does it taste? Terrible. Oh, terrible. Yeah, my grandfather made me like practice this. Yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. My father was big on siphoning fuel. Okay, here's a part I don't know how to do. What if it's like a newer car? How do you pop open the gas lid thing, whatever it's called, the cover? It's your car.

What do you mean, how do you? Oh, you're trying to get gas out of your own car. You're not stealing it from someone. Oh, you can steal it, but you don't use the ones that have got the things. You use the one that it's easy to, like my one, you can do it. Just flip it open and bloody open it. You can do it in my one. No, I need to switch it from the inside inside why are you siphoning gas out of

your own car i don't know i'm trying to figure out the scenario because you might have what type of criminal you might have to look there's this i need to know scenarios okay you might find someone broken down by the side of the road pull your car over and decide to help them that's their problem why don't i drive them to a gas station and come back? Yeah, that seems like a better option. No, because you can side. It doesn't take long. I don't have a hose with me. I have to go steal a hose from someone's house. It feels like so many things would have to

go wrong before I just went to the fucking gas station. It's only about this much hose. You're not using the whole fucking hose. Although if you did, you'd get a lot of gas. Just a little bit of hose. Alright, hey, Gem, how was Hawaii? I did very good. It's not like you're not using the whole fucking hose. Although if you did, you'd get a lot of gas. Just a little bit of hose. All right. Hey, Gem, how was Hawaii?

I did very good. Yeah, sold out gigs in Hawaii. Saving so much gas. Great gigs in Vegas. The Maui gig, I'll tell you what, the good people of Maui, I'd put that in my top 20 gigs of all time. I had a wonderful time. Yeah, we had fun there. Orlando even joined Lisa and I there.

Yeah, we had a good laugh and it was a nice little holiday and I got a couple of Hawaiian shots. Honolulu was fun too. Honolulu was banging. And then Vegas, people came out to see me again in Vegas. I've got to give it up for Blake who comes to every show in Vegas and he wears a bucket hat every time. I've never

introduced myself, but he's always in the same seat front row. He doesn't miss a gig. And sometimes I'm like, I walk out there and he's there and I go, I'm going to tell the same fucking jokes I told last night. I feel like I'm going to disappoint him. Oh, yeah, I know his name. I don't know. God damn.

I feel bad because he writes to us. Is it Mike? Yeah, I think it's Mike. Mike in Vegas? Mike in Vegas. He's the best. Mike in Vegas. Mike Kennedy.

He's the best. Oh, he's the best. Yeah, thanks for coming, Mike. I appreciate that. He is so supportive of all of he's the best. Yeah, thanks for coming, Mike. Appreciate that, man. He is so supportive of all of us. Don't think it goes unnoticed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. How was it meeting TJ in person? TJ, me and TJ hit it off.

TJ Lavin. Yeah, me and TJ Lavin hit it off. Our guest, our BMX expert. So me and TJ, we were back at the hotel afterwards and we were talking like this and it turns out we got a few things in common. And look, we both love our wives. Yeah, Max Experts.

No, we both love our wives very much, but we both went like this. Yeah, if I had my time over, I'd never marry a vegan. And we both looked at each other. Oh, it's fucking hard. And I was like, does your one watch videos of animals just being beaten? And he's like, yeah. And I went, oh my God. They've had the exact same experience.

It was so funny to watch. Yeah, yeah. Like every single thing we said, me too. Yeah, he was so excited. Like he's a huge fan of yours. And so he texted me saying that he was in town and could go to the show. And it's like, okay, we'll get you on the list. He's like, no, no, no, I was so excited. Like, he's a huge fan of yours. And so he texted me saying that he was in town and could go to the show. And it's like, okay, we'll get you on the list. He's like, no, no, no, I'll buy tickets.

I was like, absolutely fucking not. We will get you on the list. We'll make sure you meet him. He texted me like 20 times saying he appreciated it and thank you so much. Like, he's the sweetest. We went and saw Magic Mike because our friend Jacqueline is in Magic Mike now. She's the narrator or the lead of the thing. She's the emcee.

She runs the show type of thing. And our friend Tommy, her husband, he moved out there two hours before he got the show. He moved to Vegas and he proceeded to tell us everything to need to know about Vegas. He lived there for two hours. And there's a golf course and you can play late at night at that golf course.

You don't want to live over here. You got to live in Summerlin. It's where the real locals live. Summerlin, I go to the minor league baseball. It doesn't matter where he is. He's going to complain. Sorry, call him Tommy Vegas. He already has friends.

He's been going out playing as a onesome in the golf so that he meets three other blokes. In Summerlin? Yeah, yeah. So he goes out and plays golf each morning by himself and meets three other blokes. And he's already, like, Tommy makes friends anywhere. He's already got, like, 15 friends.

He's got more friends than I have in all of America, and he's been there for an hour. But Magic Mike was awesome. Jacqueline's so good in it. I'm so excited to see it. Oh, yeah. Jacqueline at one stage has all the shirtless men dancing

around, like, touching her and all that type of stuff. And then, like, Tommy's been married for about a month. I haven't seen the show yet. What happens in it? He goes, I haven't seen the show! But my wife is coming home

and she wants to have sex with me. On our podcast, he was like, I was told that they were all gay men and it turns out none of them are gay. There's a couple of gay guys there, but the rest of them were not gay. They were not homosexual men. So apparently she comes home

and wants to have sex with him. Look, understandable. Let's put the shoe on the other foot. so apparently she comes home and does that's what's that's excellent look understandable okay let's put the shoe on the other foot imagine if right like i said to my wife i got a job in vegas what is it girls rub titties on me for two hours some security at the bunny ranch yes whilst i say aren't they hot men aren't they hot, man? Aren't they hot? You want a fucker? Then I come home and make sweet, sweet love to you with my eyes shut. Well, we're happy for Jacqueline. No, no, no.

That was very good. She was very professional. I had a lap dance from one of the blokes. He bloody got on top of me. There's a guy that looked like fucking Conor McGregor. Yeah. The guy threw his shirt at my face. Yeah.

They put us on a table where we knew we'd get a lot of dicks rubbed in our faces. I kept getting things thrown at me. There's probably women looking at you like, why are those guys up there? Oh, these two drunk ladies kept trying to hit on Justin. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. These two drunk ladies come up and like, where are you guys? Like in the middle of the show,

they got up on the table and stood in front of my table. Like the first man they bumped into could have slipped their cock into him. No problem. But the table was you two and JJ and Jeff no jj oh no jj was there yeah so so it was me and j i as soon as i saw the table there was two seats behind um against the wall and two seats forward i'm like i'm against the wall i get back as far as possible leave jack in the splash zone it's true so so jack jack just do all this shit here. And then like.

They give you fake dollars. They give you fake dollars to throw at everything. But as soon as you pick them up so that one of the performers won't slip over, it's not like a strip club. So you throw a fake dollar and then someone comes up and cleans it up very quickly and takes it away. But anyway, so Jack's there. Jack got hit with a jacket.

He got a rose given to him. I got my with a jacket. He got a rose given to him. I got my leg played with. He's got his leg played with. One of the gay performers gave Justin a very erotic lap dance. But Justin was like, oh, he became like a pearl clutching 80-year-old woman. I've never seen him so demure. He was just like, oh, I never. Like that. And so these two go, oh, I never. Like that.

And so these two go, where do I hang out with you guys? Wait a minute, it was the second time tomorrow. It was the four of you guys. Yeah. Okay. But she was talking to Justin was the. The only guy they couldn't have sex with. The most obviously gay guy in the group because of his hair.

Like you can tell from a mile away that Justin's gay because he's got a beautiful coif. He had a bit of cum on his chin. He couldn't have looked gayer. Can't mistake him. Can't miss him, yeah. And this girl's gaydar was way off. Way off.

Her gaydar was made in China, the same place they make Happy Meal toys. All right, well, some more upcoming shows. You've got Tucson, Arizona, August 26th. Yeah. Okay. At the AVA Amphitheater. And then August 27th, Agua Caliente Resort Casino.

Come to those gigs, man. One of them's outdoors. That's the one, the Amphitheater. Yeah, yeah. I haven't done these type of casino gigs for a while, so I'm quite excited. My brother's coming with me, so a little boys trip. September 8th, 9th, and 10th.

8th, you'll be in Durham, North Carolina, the Durham Performing Arts Center. Yeah, I think it's very new. September 9th, Ovens Auditorium. Ah, yeah. Charlotte, North Carolina. And then September 10th, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.

Whoop, whoop. Jackson hometown. Let's just do one gig at a time. But to people of Toronto, I'm recording a special in November. We've got two shows. They're already 80% sold, so come along. We want to make sure these ones are sold out because this is very special. We're doing two shows, big theater.

There you go. And then you're officiating a wedding the next day. I can't believe you're recording another special already. Wild. Wild. Oh, yeah, buddy. That's what I do. You can follow us on Instagram at IDCatPodcast.

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And he was like, oh, and he sort of does, he's a bit John C. Reilly already. And he was like, he's like, him and his brothers do the Jim Jefferies voice to each other, so I'm quite touched. Yep, so we have them on Patreon. So you can find that patreon.com slash ID cat and our merch is at, I don't know about that.com. Oh yeah. Oh,

and I've been promoting a podcast, Dave Williamson on Dave. And I are doing called the Merman podcast. Hasn't been out. It's a good thing. You don't call it Dave Williamson and forest shore. You'd never get it out. Never.

Yeah. It's called the Merman podcast and it is actually out now. I've been saying it's out. It hasn't been out. That's really unprofessional of me. It's out now. It's out now. Right, Luis? Yep. On all good platforms and all the bad ones. Apple, Stitcher, YouTube, all the

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Other fees such as third-party and cash deposit fees may apply. Okay. Please welcome our guest, Spencer Stryker. G'day, Spencer. Now it's time to play. Yes, no. Yes, no. Yes, no.

Yes, no. Judging a book by its cover. Is the topic rodeo? It is. All right. Well, you should let our listeners know. I've met Spencer before. Spencer opened up for me in some gigs in Calgary,

and Spencer's a Canadian comedian, and he used to be a rodeo writer, but I don't know much about it. He showed me one photo of him on the rodeo. I haven't followed him from rodeo to rodeo. but i don't know much about it he sent me one photo of him on the rodeo i haven't followed him from rodeo to rodeo i don't know if you're gonna remember it i mean he talked about it but i mean i don't know if you're gonna why would you forget that i don't i don't know if someone says they're a porn star you remember it you know you know what i mean like rodeo is like one of those big sort of it's a big if he was an astronaut i'd fucking remember it yeah it's like one of those things where you rarely meet somebody else who does i don't know any other rodeo riders i've

never met another rodeo rider let's start let's start let me introduce spencer formally first spencer strikert is a former semi-professional rodeo cowboy comedian and actor growing up on a cattle ranch and riding in horse shows from a young age, Spencer traveled Canada competing as a bareback, saddle bronc, and bull rider. He was twice invited to compete at Boys, Bulls, and Bucks, and in 2011 qualified for the Canadian

Cowboys. That's totally a porn category. And in 2011 qualified for the Canadian Cowboys Association Finals. Spencer and a 2011 qualified for the Canadian Cowboys Association finals. And Spencer can be seen on TV shows such as Billy the Kid, Wyonna Earp, and Alberta Picnic, and films Vagrant and the Upcoming Viking.

And his comedy can be heard wherever you get your music with his albums Loser by Choice and Fart Sniffer. And on Instagram, you can find them at spencer striker that is s-p-e-n-c-e-r-s-t-r-e-i-c-h-e-r-t spencer you want to tell us a little bit about your background in rodeo real quick yeah uh yeah so i i grew up on a cattle ranch and uh a couple of people in my family and like close family friends competed in rodeo so i was always kind of drawn to it. And then, yeah, from the ages of 12 to 17, I traveled all around Canada riding a buck and horses and bulls.

And I, yeah, made the Canadian finals when I was 16 and then I, the year I was going to go pro, I got in a huge wreck and decided I probably shouldn't do that anymore. So you had a wreck on in writing you mean or in a car a car accident okay yeah that's right no no it was it was it was a riding accident yeah i don't remember anything there was a car accident too though yeah okay and then you sent me a picture you look like jack hackett in this picture on this fucking bronco no not here not here. On this bronco.

Except he's touching another living creature. Oh, Jesus. That one hurts. Okay, but do I also look like Jack because I'm 15 in that photo? Maybe. Jack, you look like a baby. He's never touched a woman. That's why. I'm 15,

guys. It's not illegal. Alright, Spencer. I'm going to ask Jim like a baby he's never touched a woman that's why i'm 15 guys it's not illegal uh all right spencer i'm gonna ask um jim some questions about rodeo did you have a king richard like character in your life that really pushed you to do rodeo every day when you're a kid you had to get on top of a sheep and then and then a goat there wasn't there wasn't really anything like that my mom was really supportive of it but she didn't like push me into it she actually wanted me though to ride bulls over riding bucking horses and she was really insistent that i not ride bucking horses uh because she had trained horses her whole life and just saw way too many wrecks which is weird because it's kind of the opposite of what most people would want their kid to do but uh yeah no i i kind of didn't have anybody like forcing me that's the opposite of what most parents.

I want you to ride the bull, not the horse. Most parents don't want you to ride either. All right, I'm going to ask Jim a series of questions about rodeo, and we'll see how he does. You're going to grade him at the end of him on accuracy, zero through 10, 10 is the best, and Kelly's going to grade him on confidence, I'm going to grade him on et cetera. We'll add how he does. You're going to grade him at the end of him on accuracy, 0 through 10. 10 is the best. And Kelly's going to grade him on confidence. I'm going to grade him on et cetera.

We'll add those all together. If he scores 21 through 30, he's a rodeo clown. 11 through 20, Bozo the clown. 0 through 10, John Wayne Gacy the clown. All right. I have to correct you on something already. I live in Los Angeles. I know how it's pronounced.

It's pronounced rodeo. And that's what it'll be called for the rest of the show. A Rodeo ride. Okay. What is a Rodeo? A Rodeo is a road with lots of shops on it. Expensive shops.

What is a Rodeo? A Rodeo is a meeting of how do I say this delicately reddest neckists who who um want to ride on top of an animal until that animal kicks you off i'm actually i'm actually against this uh it's not because of my vegan wife but i don't i don't believe in bullfighting or rodeo anything where you're fucking with an animal where it doesn't want you. I'm not anti-horse riding.

I believe horses race in the wild, and I don't believe all the propaganda. They all get shot all the time and all that sort of stuff. I like the ponies, right? But I don't agree with sitting on an animal that doesn't want you on it. Okay. Yeah, but you have to ride on an animal until it kicks you off, but it's not just that. There'll be other things. Like you'll have to ride an animal until it kicks you off but it's not just that there'll be other things like you'll have to like get a noose around one animal and catch it

there'll be some clowns that take you away there's different events and i'm sure there's there'll be the big event which will be the bulls and then as he said the the the horses are a different event you know it's it's it's riding on it basically at its core it's animals trying to kick humans off them. Okay. How did rodeo start? It would have had to do with... Like where, do you know? Like what region? I know that Calgary has the biggest rodeo in the world.

And I know that because the people at Calgary sort of do that i i believe i'm probably going to be long it might have happened in south america or something like that but i'm going to say it's a north american product okay and like you you know like when or like what was the impetus for it started no everything comes back to not having a telly right so it would have been before the television and people were bored. What would have started off with one guy was fucking a horse and then someone came into the paddock and saw him with his dick in the horse. He's like, no, just kick me off. That's why it's angry.

Yeah. Obviously, he invented a sport, like all sports. Someone was fucking something. He was like, what do you mean he kicked you off? And he jumped on it and then he kicked him off. He's like, you try staying on there while I get this erection down. Okay. When did the first rodeo occur?

And where? When and where? I'm going to say in Calgary in 1894. Okay. What countries have rodeos? I think, okay. Just name some countries. America.

Well, the United States of America. Canada. I believe they probably have it in Mexico. That would seem like a thing. You're doing good. I would say. Not Australia. I would say Australia would have them, but it's not as

prevalent as that. But I bet you there's some Australian rodeo guys. It feels like an Australian thing. My father was always big on how he could break a horse. What were you going to say? I was about to say something about my mum. Maybe she

rested peace. I backed away. I'm just saying, you can never control her. Fucking hell. I would say Argentina would be big rodeo people. And that's where I'm leaving it. Your dad grew up on a ranch, right? My dad grew up in the country.

In the country. My grandfather never owned a car. He just rode horseback. That's how fucking old I am. Does your dad still ride? He doesn't ride horses. He doesn't ride horses now. He's too old.

But he could ride horses. He said to me once, he never looked more handsome than when he was on the back of a horse. That's adorable. He said if he rode up to a few girls on a horse, they were out of luck. Because they couldn't control themselves. Okay. It's so charming how horny your dad still is. The horniest man ever.

The horniest man. He thought he was dying for a while and he said, oh, I'm dying. And then he woke up with an erection and he went, I'm all right. He said, I woke up with a horn. I think I'm good. What are the seven major rodeo events? Bull riding, horse riding. And now I might not get these names right, but I'm going to say what they are.

Say what happens. So you ride on a bull. Riding a bull, riding a horse. The one where you go after a calf and then you have to tie it up. You know what I mean? A calfy, hoopy, necky tie. I would say the kids riding, when they come on, they ride like a sheep or something like that.

You've seen that with little kids come out. That's a bit of fun. Riding a sheep? Yeah, haven't you seen that? You think that's a major rodeo event? I think it's in there for the public. I don't think it's the major one. I'm going to ask you some minor ones too, the major ones.

Bull, giraffe riding. Okay, we're done with the major ones. There's some non-regular ones. Spencer's in like some non-regular ones. This would be the clown hiding behind a barrel. Have you all seen that? The clown that's just got the lazy makeup on.

He doesn't even have the big shoes because I know he has the fucking rodeo clown. That's where it's at, man. Okay. Spencer threw some bonus ones in there. There's some non-regular ones in here too. These are the ones you'd be talking about, I think. Go fucking. They're always at halftime.

Have someone marry their sister. What are you talking about halftime? Okay. What's, what's the difference between the rough stock and timed events? They got a new event called storming the Capitol. What, what's the difference between the rough stock and the timed events? Because you've got a Canadian football team called the Rough Riders,

which I always thought seemed a bit, because there's also a condom brand with the studs called Rough Riders. And what did you ask? I just heard the word rough. What's the difference between the rough stock and the timed events? The timed event is like Luke Perry'sry's movie the seven or eight seconds where he's meant to stay on it and all that stuff so that's like you have to reach it's either eight seconds or whatever to qualify for the next bit and then the rough one is um it's like diving

where they give you style points and shit like that And then how do you win a rodeo event? Like how do they determine who wins? To ride the horses for the longest, for the mostest. It's just who did the longest. Yeah. And multiple times. And then there's also certain bulls that are greater different from other

bulls, right? So there's judges. Yeah. So if you rode on a bull that was called fucking uh paste right and he's just paste the plonker right it's the plonker and he comes out and you ride on him and he's like he's like emphysema the bull right you don't have to worry about him but then you got the bull that really kicks at you and he's a bit of a higher grade what What is the difference between, I don't know if you're going to notice.

I know you're not going to know. What is the difference between the PRCA and the PBR? Well, you need one test to get into a Y, and the other one you need to get on set. You did know that. Sorry. I just never doubt you again. Can you guess what PRCA stands for?

PR, people riding animals okay uh a did you say pra prca ah people riding calfed animals okay pbr pbr uh if you're a hipster you know uh i just talked to drew about it. Drew just went to PBR. Oh, did he? Yeah. The actual PBR? Yeah, I saw his Instagram stories. Yeah, I don't know.

Put the word Prince in front. Okay. Professional rodeo? When did that start? Oh, professional people riding animals. Yeah. What does all-around cowboy mean? All- around cowboy mean uh all around cowboy mean all around cowboy that means that he he likes to listen to music and save a horse ride a cowboy that would be on his car all day

when he gets in he would wear a hat and he would say this a lot. I don't know what it's like in the city, but out here. And you're like, you're in the 7-Eleven on El Segundo, man. A couple more questions. Who are some of the cowboys with the most world champions? That would be Prissy Pink was his name. He played against type, he did. Played against type. That would be Prissy Pink was his name. Ooh. He played against type. He did.

Played against type. Buck Rider. Buck Rider. He would have done it. Buck was good. Sad how he died. Tommy Stampede. He was the guy in Tommy Stampede.

That's when Tommy Caprio becomes a rodeo guy. You should get back into it Spencer and Claire Tommy Stampede. Yeah. I don't know into it, Spencer. I'm Tommy Stampede. Yeah. I don't know. Spencer Stryker.

I can't remember how to say it. Stryker. Stryker. That's right. Stryker. Stryker is a good name, but the way you spell it doesn't look flashy. Did you have to wear a jersey with a number on it? No, but I did have my name on the back of my flak jacket.

I'm lucky you're a wide boy. That's a long name. You've got to get all the bloody letters in there. A lot of syllables. Okay. So there would be Tommy Stampede, and Buck Rider, and Bull Durham. Bull Durham, yeah. What is the most common rodeo injury? Well,

illiteracy. Ouch. And spinal. They are not connected. I would say it was a stamp. It would be the animal treading on you, not you falling. I'd say that it would be hoofs to the head, man. Okay.

What makes the horses and bulls buck? A fucking idiot sitting on the back of them. Same way that would make us buck. If you're walking down the street minding your own fucking business and a cunt jumps on your back, tell me you won't have a smooth ride for him. That's weird. What is the biggest rodeo in the world? and a cunt jumps on your back, tell me you have a smooth ride for him. What is the biggest rodeo in the world? Calgary. Okay.

You know the name of it? The Calgary. Calgary Can Stampede. Yeah. Ding, ding. All right. I think we got one more here, maybe. What is the demographic in the rodeo?

The people who come to see it? Ethnicity, gender, age. Participate, participate i think is that what we're asking here what like what age are we talking what mental age no like the people that people that participate in it like ethnic gender age you know i'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's white people feels like it's white. There'll be one Darius Rucker in the group who's just like the hillbilly black guy who shows up to do it, but he's not going to be commonplace.

I've never seen an Asian rodeo. I've never seen a Japanese bloke come out like in the Major League Baseball where they go, he's been crushing it in the Japanese League. Let's see how he goes against Buck Rogers. Okay. And then last one, do you know any celebrities that compete in rodeo?

Jason Verlander. Justin Verlander, the baseball pitcher. I think you're thinking of the Giants guy. Oh, well, not Verlander. Madison Bumgarner. Madison Bumgarner. Madison Bumgarner. Yeah, you're right, that guy.

Madison Bumgarner does that. And hearner. Yeah, you're right, that guy. Madison Bumgarner does, and he works under a different name in the rodeos. You're right, because my buddy works for the Giants and he says he carries the lasso. He doesn't play for the Giants anymore, but he has a different stage name

when he performs in rodeo. Does he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like someone Google Bumgarner's stage. B. Spencer might not even know that one. He's a baseball player. My friend used to work for the Giants and he said he used to bring a lasso and like in the bullpen and like fucking practice lassoing.

That's right. Whatever you call it. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, that's it, Spencer. How did Jim do on his knowledge of rodeos? Who 10, 10's the best? It was actually surprising.

He got some things right that I was really not expecting. So I'd give him a four out of 10. What the fuck, Spencer? Totally an honest answer. I've had fucking things I know nothing about and I've logged in sevens. I even like wrote down and did the math on it. Okay.

It's inaccurate. Damn. Because he was so good for literacy. Yeah, I don't think you counted those things up right. It is funny that you were like, it was actually surprising. Usually I guess it's surprising that you didn't know something. You gave them an eight.

You didn't know a little bit. I gave them a two. I got the Calgary thing right. Well, I didn't know some famous rodeo riders. How do you do on confidence, Cal? His confidence got boosted to an eight because of how upset he was about the four.

I'll tell you what. If I said those things in some type of educational place, people would fucking believe it. They'd take notes, yeah. That's the confidence coming through. That's a 12. I'm going to give you a 10 on etc so you're a rodeo clown that's a very fancy clown a rodeo clown it's a clown that wears chanel yeah okay so what is a rodeo uh jim said a meeting of redneckists who want to ride on top of an animal till it kicks you off animals trying to

kick humans off of them by the way to all my redneck fans thanks for listening yeah i'm a big fan of you too come to the shows no i don't i i look i like i look i i come from redneck australian stock right i come from proper i come from my father comes from a little town called roma as i said my grandfather just rode a horse so just but i don't i i'm pretty firm with this i don't get off the fucking animal leave the animal alone will you and I'll say that too Spencer like I'm not like uh I I'm a big fan of Yellowstone I don't know if you watch Yellowstone but and so yeah but I also like I'm not like I wouldn't protest against rodeos but I also do watch it I'm like I don't I don't know enough about it either too but but Jim does this is what Jim says it's animals trying to kick humans off but what is rodeo like what is rodeo why don't you tell us what rodeo is uh so rodeo is a western

sport it's an equestrian sport and it's similar to track and field but there's not really one defined event that makes up a rodeo wrong it's not similar to track and field don't abuse our guests because you know them. This is what you did with Manatee. No, no, no. Let him say it. Track and field needs to have distances measured and all that type of stuff. There's no he did 50 meters. He did say there's multiple events.

Yeah, there's multiple events. A track athlete. Okay, if somebody said they were in track and field, would you be like, you'd ask them what discipline? Okay, if someone said that I'm a track and field, would you be like, you'd ask them like what, uh, you know, discipline. If someone said that I'm a track and field athlete, I wouldn't go like riding on bulls,

but that look, don't abuse our guests because you know him. All right. Let him say the answer. All right. Okay. Give you a track and field answer. All right.

So, so, uh, it's, it's rodeo is track and field. And, uh, it's like the reason that it's similar to that uh, it's, it's rodeo is track and field. And, uh, it's like,

the reason that it's similar to that is because it's comprised of a bunch of events that, uh, would have been used in like, uh, you know, uh, previous ranching practices, right? Like breaking horses, roping calves, doing all that stuff. So each event is kind of based off of something that would have happened on a working ranch back in the day. Then there's also, you know, like nowadays, you don't really see that as much. A lot of the competitors are guys that are not, there's not as many like cowboy cowboys that are rodeoing anymore. There's some, but like for the most part, it's a lot of people who are like having to work on like the oil field in their off season. are like having to work on like the oil field in their off season right that makes sense that it's like it was it started off as like a decathlon type thing for people who actually had to do this

for work right that's what i was gonna say about yellow because i watch yellowstone the calf thing always got me i'd be like why are you doing this to the calf and then i saw yellowstone like they had to give it medicine or they had to get something out of its hoof or they had to do so then i got i was like oh that's that's why they did that because they have to give it medicine or they had to get something out of its hoof or they had to do. So then I got, I was like, oh, that's why they did that. It's because they have to catch it to do that. Okay. So I'll tell you what's on primetime New Zealand TV, right? This is just on a regular channel.

This is on their ESPN. They've got like three channels. And on one of their major channels for about five hours, every fucking day here in New Zealand, fucking sheepdog. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, they're like mad for it. Competition. Yeah. Five hours every fucking day here in New Zealand. Fucking sheepdog herding. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Like, mad for it.

Competition. Yeah. And then you watch it a bit. You go, these fucking idiots. And then after a while, you're like, get him in there. This one is this fucking one. It's got loose. Get her in the back.

Get her in the back. Yeah. But that doesn't make sense, like, what you're saying. Like, so this all stems from stuff that happened on that you had to do on ranches like breaking the and then again what is breaking a horse mean exactly so that's that's how you teach it to

like ride it's training a horse but breaking the horse is like the term that's used but yeah it's basically just training it to be saddle broke training it to be able to be ridden gotcha it's like anything in life you know what i mean it's breaking a horse the horse going like this breaking its spirit you get on yeah you break its spirit till it goes all right it's stuck it's stockholm syndrome yeah

no but again i i and this is like such a a city boy thing though but i i started watching yellow sun and it made me feel like less of a man kind of thing too. But I was like, oh yeah, you got to break the horse. Like, cause they break horses on there. I'm like, oh, I just thought like there was horses you could put a saddle on. There was ones he couldn't. And I was like, I didn't know you had to like train it. Oh no, no. You're sponsoring this episode by any chance?

Well, I think horses that are born into it take less breaking. Like, but there's wild horses out there. People can break them. My dad knows how to break horses man yeah actually this is like sort of a side note but uh speaking about wild horses and like the ones that you uh like breaking wild horses uh a lot of uh uh prisons have like rehabilitation programs where they get horses that are like wild horses and they get them they teach the prisoners how to break the horses and it actually teaches them a lot about patience and like taking their time and like you know

forgiving this animal because this animal could kill them at any second oh yeah one of my favorite movies growing up was wild horses can't be broken that's a great movie well if you see the movie stir crazy if you haven't seen it it's a gene it's a gene wilder richard pryor movie it's probably my favorite richard pryor gene wilder movie the premise of the movie, it's a Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor movie. It's probably my favorite Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder movie. The premise of the movie is it's similar to that of The Longest Yard. They get thrown into prison, the two of them, for a crime they didn't commit. They have to figure out a way to escape the prison.

There's always a warden that has a sport that he's very passionate about. And there's another warden who's also passionate about this sport. And he goes, I am going to lose this year. And then he has a mechanical bull in his office, the warden. Gene Wilder gets on the mechanical bull, whereupon we find out Gene Wilder is the greatest rodeo rider of all time. We didn't know. He's just perfect at it.

So they figure out a way for them to get to the rodeo to escape. It's a rodeo based movie with Richard Pryor and Gene Hackman, not Gene, Gene Wilder. Gene Hackman's dead everyone by the way. Oh no. No he's not. There's that moment, everyone says that. I thought Gene Hackman was dead. No he's not.

Is he not? He's the best one to tell people he's dead because he's legit retired and he's about 90. I thought he was dead. No, no he's just old as balls. He's just old as balls. He's the best one to tell people he's dead because he's legit retired and he's about 90. I thought he was dead. No, no, he's just old as balls. He's just old as balls. He's 92. Sometimes I just drop it in conversation.

Oh, Gene Ackman died. That was moving on. The common knowledge. Yeah, let's move on. How did the rodeo start? Jim said North American product because people didn't have television they were bored one guy was fucking a horse got caught so he went in a sport is that how it started pretty close uh it's actually a combination of three different things so uh in in spanish rodeo

loosely translates to roundup and the spanish and mexican vaqueros practiced these massive cattle herding operations where they'd have to you know doctor cows and basically keep them on the range for for months on end uh that ended up becoming the modern cattle practices of north america and australia and then when those cattle practices started like when there was these massive ranches uh you'd have one rancher that would say like he had a horse that couldn't be rode and another rancher would would be like, oh, well, I have the best rider. So he can definitely ride it. So they'd get together and make bets on it.

And then the third thing that was the linchpin was there was these Wild West shows that would tour the world. They were like a circus. They'd have gunslingers. They'd have trick ropers. There wasn't really competition in it. It was more just showing off these skills that that were impressive but kind of useless to the actual ranch work uh so once those three things kind of came together it it ended up you know forming into rodeo so okay so

not fucking horse you're wrong that that would happen you ever see someone fuck a horse spencer uh no but i've i've seen a lot of horses fucking i've helped my mom breed horses are you ever wanked off a horse into a bucket so you can get this come out of it no i i i was not uh not so lucky to do that i've watched that on tv a lot it's always like they come up and then you get the little horse you think you put a lot just it's always a jackass. It's just a jackass too. They got a fake vagina that's made out of leather that they put the horse dick in and then it shoots cum into a capsule at the bottom.

And then Chris Pontius drinks it. There was this lady a while ago. She was the one that was rumored to have a, I don't remember if it was Rebecca something. She was rumored to have an affair with David Beckham, right? And so when he was at real madrid before his family moved over and she did a tell-all type of thing that she slept with him a couple of times or whatever so she became infamous and then um they had she got on a celebrity show

which was called the farm or something like that it was a whole lot of celebrities on a farm having to do farm work and all that those stuff anyway she had to extract the cum from a pig. And it was on TV. And the guy was like, normally it takes about 15 minutes or something like that. And eventually she went down there about five strokes. The pig fucking shot its load. And we're like, no wonder David did this. This woman seems like she knows what she's doing.

When did the first rodeo occur? Jim said Calgary, 1894. How did he do there? That was awful. That was wrong. But the one thing that I think is interesting about that answer, because there's a lot of debate as to where the first rodeo took place. Deer Trail, Colorado says that they were the first in 1869 uh prescott

claims they were the first in 1888 uh but the first official cowboy contest was in uh picos texas in uh 1883 um wait a minute you're like whoa i'm out by like uh 10 years you said calgary though yeah but i said like fucking hell, I got close on the year. You didn't like they said awful. It could have been 500 years in the opposite direction. Yeah, but you also got the date of Calgary wrong. So that was negative a point for that too. Oh, I was never going to pick butt fuck somewhere.

I've already forgotten the other town you mentioned. Picos, Texas. Picos, Texas. I didn't know it existed. Okay. Well, you've mentioned. Picos, Texas. Picos, Texas. I didn't know it existed. Okay. Well, now you do.

Picos, Texas. All right. You got a tour there. To all of our fans in Picos, thank you for listening. Sorry, go.

Yeah. Oh, I was going to say like the other, the other rodeo that was kind of big that started around that time, the Cheyenne Frontier Days, which they claim that they're the biggest rodeo in the world, but they don't really... They're the biggest rodeo in the pro association.

That's in Wyoming, right? That's in Wyoming, yeah. As a kid, I remember going there now. You just give me a flashback that I didn't remember I had. Yeah, I had friends who just went to that one. Yeah, it is a pretty big event and it's honestly one of the most marquee

events on the tour. But something that's really interesting about Cheyenne Frontier Days, it was actually where steer riding was first introduced as a competition because they wanted to get more city folks involved. So they would bring in these really docile steers

and have anybody that wanted to get on and they'd score it the same as the other events. But then that event became unpopular in 1935 when in a rodeo in Columbia, Missouri, these two contractors decided that they would bring in Brahma bulls instead. And because they were so much meaner and so much more aggressive, it just made the event way more interesting.

So that's how bull riding ended up coming. What's a Brahma bull? Brahma bulls are a breed that are, they're usually a beef cattle, but they're very muscular. And because they're so muscular, they're more agile. Brahma. Brahma. Brahma. An abominable of a brahminable.

Brahma. Sorry. I was going to say Brahma. You need that word again. Countries that have rodeos. I think Jim got a point here. He said USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Argentina. Yeah, Jim actually did really well in that one.

There's some really obscure ones that I don't think a lot of people would get. I didn't know until I was doing some research on this that rodeo is really popular in the Philippines and Japan. Oh, there actually is Japanese bull riders. and Japan. Oh, there actually is Japanese bull riders. And they also, in France and Germany, there's actually a pretty big bull riding scene in those two countries. Really?

I'd never pick the Germans. The French, I would know. They would like, we ride the bull, then we eat the bull. Yeah, it's so close to Spain. You figure they do some. The Spanish don't do bull riding. They just spears in them. And they throw them down the street so you can run. Yeah, they're mean close to Spain. You figure they do some... The Spanish don't do bull riding. They just spears in them. They throw them down the street so you can run.

Yeah, they're mean to them. Yeah, Spain does have rodeo nowadays, but another thing that kind of started with the bull riding trend was because Spanish and Mexican cowboys, they had this awful event called... It was a type of bull fighting where they'd try and ride the bull to death. Uh, so that, uh, that became illegal everywhere except for Mexico, like almost immediately. Like people are like, this is grotesque and awful. Um, but when, when I was also doing some of this, uh, research on, on like, uh, various countries, something that I found out about Australia that I thought was kind of cool. They have a variation of the bronc riding called the Pauly Buck Jump, where

they ride a saddle bronc, but they have a bullwhip in their free hand and it's all style points. That sounds like us. Yeah, what was it called? The Pauly Buck Jump. It even sounds like Australian. Pauly Buck Jump. Pauly Buck Jump. And the seven major rodeo events.

Bull riding, this is what Jim said. Bull riding, horse riding, goey after calf lasso and tie up. Caffey hoopie necky tie. Kids riding, giraffe riding, and it goes off the rails there. What are the seven major ones? Let's hear the seven major ones.

The seven major ones are the saddle bronc riding, which is the classic event. It's where you get on a bronc with a saddle on it and you hold onto a rain with one hand. Then there's the bareback bronc where it's a leather suitcase handle rigging that you jam your hand into. No saddle, just no saddle,

just a, just a rigging. And it's, uh, it's, it's the hardest event on your body for sure. Do you wear a cup? Yeah.

What do you do with your dick on this? Uh, well, I, I always wore wore an ass pad because it's more so your taint that would get hit than your balls. I never nutted myself when I was

riding bareback horses, but I definitely hit my ass pretty hard a few times. And then the other rough stock event is the bull riding which Jim got that one right. And then the four timed events are the steer wrestling, the tie-down roping, the team roping, and the barrel racing.

And I'm going to be honest with you, I don't really know a lot about the timed events. I always found it was kind of boring and cruel, so I didn't want to do it. But I know a lot about the rough stag events. And then there's some non-regular events. They got the wild cow milking where you have three guys and you got a guys and you got

a cow and you got to run over and milk enough. Wait, it's wild? Wild, yeah. That's a real event. Wild cow milking? Yeah. They're trying to get it in the Olympics. Well, actually, rodeo was an Olympic event for... No, but wild cow

milking. You're just going to gloss over that? Like that's a... Yeah, you're right. What's confusing to you for? It's a wild cow. You got to milk and then you get back out. Yeah, it's like the siphoning the gas we talked about. That's what cows do. Okay. Is dressage ever a part of rodeo?

No, dressage is an equestrian event for horse shows. Have you seen dressage? My bandmate does dressage. What's dressage? It's like the horse shows. Have you seen dressage? My bandmate does dressage. What's dressage? It's like the horse dancing. It's the one at the Olympics where they're dressed in like a top hat and a fancy thing and they

and they have to bring their horse and there's always like a member of the royal family in the Olympics. Yeah, and they go like this. Like if there is has there ever been a bigger sport for cunts than dressage and he's like what the fuck and then you wrote something

in here pole bending yeah so pole bending is where it's kind of like with ski racing where you're going like in between the poles but you're doing it on a horse so you go all the way down and then oh yeah I've seen that one. They do that at the dog shows as well.

What's the difference between the rough stock and the timed events? Oh, you just said that. The rough stock and the timed events. So the timed events, Jim said they're timed like seven or eight seconds, and the rough stock is when they give you style points. It's kind of right. So the rough

stock is is the bucking events and the timed events are the are the roping or the barrel racing it's it's uh the timed events are usually like a good score and it would be if somebody you know got under like uh five seconds uh but the rough stock events you have to ride for eight in order to get a score and jim's right it's's all style points in that one. So when someone wins a rodeo event, how do they do it? Is there any famous homosexuals in the sport? Yeah, there is actually. I mean, yeah. I mean, I think there's like now it's because of the time that we're living

and it's a lot more open. But I mean, there's not a lesbian. I know there's a now it's because of the time that we're living in, it's a lot more open, but I mean, there's not a lesbian. I know there's a lesbian or two doing it, but I mean, like is there a gay guy that's just like, and gets on top of the horse and all right, boys. I mean, I, there's definitely, there definitely has been. And I mean, like I'm bi and I competed in rodeo. So, I mean, I, I feel like I thought I knew Spencer better.

Uh, yeah, no. And there's gay rodeo associations and stuff. Really? Associations? How many groups are these people? So how do you win a rodeo? How do you win a rodeo event? Like, a rodeo event like how's it how's it scored or what's the time and like yeah how long do you have to stay on again what is it so so in the rough stock events you have to stay on for eight seconds you have to ride with only

one hand uh in all three events like bareback saddle bronco bull riding if you touch the animal with your free hand you're disqualified um and you get scored 50 points for the rider 50 points for the animal so if the horse bucks really hard or the bull bucks really hard or spins and it's you know difficult to stay on you'll that animal is going to score higher and then if the cowboy rides it uh better and it makes it look easy then they'll score higher so you know uh winning winning rides right now in pro rodeo, it's kind of weird. There's, you know, everything from 87 to 92 points

is like where people are going to be in the money nowadays. But even 10 years ago, it would have been 82 points. And is there big money in it? Like the professional rodeo guys, do they live in large? It depends on the association. So the PRCA guys they'll make you can say that what that is so that's the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association

and the PBR is the Professional Bull Riders and the PBR has the most money up for grabs like each event there's $100,000 that they can win the winner of the world championship gets an extra million dollar bonus and then

they have sponsorship on top of that like the the pbr actually has gotten as big as nascar which is pretty crazy what are the sponsorship like ass pads no it's a beer uh yeah and then the PRCA guys, they'll make like $200,000 a year riding going up and down the road. But because pro rodeo is the only sport where you have to pay your own entry fees and you have to pay for yourself to get down the road, if you make $200,000,

you might actually only make $40,000 once you've broken even because there's so much cost involved with travel and everything else. Yeah, because you have to trailer the... I know you don't keep the animals around, but who provides animals? With the rough stock events,

there's guys called stock contractors, and they raise and breed the animals, and then they take them to each rodeo. They have millions of dollars invested in these bucking horses and bulls like bulls nowadays some of them are upwards of two million dollars and sometimes just for semen from those bulls it's 250 000 a vial but how does it taste

about the same as a ten thousand dollar vial of semen it's about the same as a $10,000 vial of semen it's about the same don't get swindled out of your cash it's all the same quality it's all about how it's aged mine's not worth that much I got $150 but if they pay by quantity

true, good point so we answered that we skipped ahead and answered that when did professional when did professional rodeo start so professional rodeo uh started because in 1936 when there was still only like one rodeo association the uh all of the competitors staged a walkout at Boston Gardens because the promoter wouldn't add their entry fee money to the total prize pool. So they staged a walkout, and then once that happened, they all got together and decided that they should probably be in control

of how their careers are handled. The rest of the world was worried about World War II. Well, that actually put a big stop into pro rodeo because a lot of guys ended up having to go over and uh serve so there ended up being more uh female riders during world war ii where's that league of their own movie and here comes betsy and betsy rides a bull like no one's to enjoy the side boys. Which by the way, the League of Their Own show, very good. Is it?

I'm about to watch it. Where is it on? Amazon Prime. I'm going to watch it. I'm like three episodes in. It's great. I like baseball things. It's good, isn't it?

Yeah. It's like, it's written very well. Sweet. Back to the podcast. Back to the podcast, guys. All right. Now my wife liked that movie. We might watch that movie.

Yep. What do you think of League of Their Own, Spencer? Pardon? The movie League of Their Own. Did you enjoy League of Their Own? I haven't seen it since I was a little kid, but I'm going to watch the series pretty soon. The movie holds up for sure.

Yeah. It's great. They never go, like, very clearly, Rosie O'Donnell's character is gay and stuff like that. But if you made the movie today, you would reference that. But back even then, they were go like, like very clearly Rosie O'Donnell's character is gay and stuff like that. But if you made the movie today, you would reference that. But back even then they were just like, oh, no, they were just girls who like to play baseball. Well, in the show, there are gay relationships in the show. Because we're making it now.

And people are fucking upset. They're like, this fucking woke bullshit. I'm like, you think these women that were playing professional baseball, some of them weren't gay? Like, come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People are fucking mad. They were happy about the little skirts as well. Yeah.

Straight into the licking. Oh, God. Of course they were. No, I'm saying of course they were. Like you said, of course they were gay. People get upset about that. Yeah. That's what I was saying about the gay with the rodeo because, like,

I support rugby league and all sorts of stuff. We had one gay player many years ago, and now even in the NFL, you've got, like, one guy who said he was in the draft. Yeah, a lot of people still aren't out. Of course there's plenty of gay athletes in all forms. I wasn't asking do they exist. I was asking are there ones that are out. And it surprised me to find out

that there's people out in the rodeo but not out in the nfl yeah what about mlb who's gay in mlb um i don't think i don't think anyone's come out not in the baseball in the basketball that you had that center who was the twin yeah but it was not until after he was out of the after he was out of the nba no one's done it when they've currently played that, I believe, in any way. Everyone kind of says it afterwards. Yeah. Maybe I'm missing it, but I think it's after they're out of the league. Interesting.

Yeah. Societally, we're not there yet. Premier League. Premier League's got no one. Yeah. Do women do like bareback and bronc and all that in rodeo? And is this the only way you can get an abortion in texas you found a loophole we figured it out guys how old are you 14 or i get on there

um actually uh what it was the 14 that threw me first. So it's actually, that was one of my dinner party facts. Women were initially a part of rodeo in a major way where they'd be competing in the bronc riding and the bull riding and all that stuff. But there was a bronc rider named Bonnie McCarroll who got her head stomped on by a bronc in 1929 and then everyone, like all these guys in the rodeo association got together and they

said, absolutely no women doing this anymore. Everyone stopped masturbating in the crowd. What difference does it make? One guy started. Jesus. What's crazy about it though is that we're a learned podcast it was it was even made illegal in some states like it wasn't even just like it was an association

rule like it wasn't even legal for women because people don't like that people if a guy's head gets on the bed i have a sex i have i have one sexist thing about me and and that is just one i do find it because because i acknowledge now, because I like rugby league, but when I watch the girls play rugby league, and I know they're competing and I've met some of them and all this stuff, and I appreciate that they're good at the sport, but there's something in me, same with female boxing, when I see women punch each other, I sort of feel like going,

oh, you're better than us. Don't, don't. Like we're idiots and we're animals. Don't go down to our fucking dumbass level and hit each other. You don't like the violence is what you're saying. I don't like women doing violence on each other. It makes me feel uncomfortable, even if I know that they're willingly participating

and this is something that they've really wanted to do themselves. Even like I watch those Ronda Rousey fights. I was like, ugh. Did you ever watch the lingerie football league? But I watched those Ronda Rousey fights. I was like, did you ever watch the laundry, the lingerie football league, but I do like seeing a cat fight on YouTube. So I'm a complex guy. They receive the laundry.

Oh, sorry. Laundry football league. Did you see that? I have, yeah. Foxy, Foxy something.

Sorry, Spencer, you're here to talk. No worries. I was just going to say, I like, I don't know. I kind of disagree with you there.

Cause if there's one thing that the new Jackass movie taught us it's that watching women get hurt is just as funny as watching men get hurt well in saying that though you watch the Jackass movie and I thought she was great in it I thought she fit in really well but they never made her get punched in the face or did a prank where she was whacked

on her ass everything was scorpion based oh I didn't see the new one but I forget Rachel Wolfson's her name yeah yeah she Everything was scorpion based. Oh, I didn't see the new one, but I forget Rachel Wolfson's. Yeah. Yeah. Like she has a scorpion. Like she's a great sport. She's doing a wonderful job,

but everyone else, if you're walking up to get yourself a coffee, you might get punched in the face. Yeah. She doesn't get that treatment that the rest of them do. Although we haven't seen Jack as 4.5 yet. So they don't shave her head. Like they never come behind and go.

Yeah. And they all laugh. I don't know her head like yeah they never come behind and go yeah and they all laugh um i don't know if you were done answering that's a professional rodeo thing you said in the boston garden world war ii and were you yeah so they so they they walked out and then they all formed an association and they called it the uh cowboys turtle association because it took so long for them to take a stand uh i would have called them the Cowboy Quadriplegic Association, because it took so long for them to make a stand. Same reason. Nothing changed.

And also, you become quadriplegics in the job, you see. We got it. It's a fully formed idea. Memory of the Writers Guild. All right. So anyway, so there's a turtle. So yeah, it was the Turtles Association. And then that changed to the Rodeo Cowboys Association.

And then in 1975, they changed it to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. And it's been the same ever since then. When did the clowns come in? They were very early on. That was very early on. That would have been, but it wasn't until there was the bucking events because nowadays they're called bullfighters and it's very different than obviously Spanish bullfighting. They're cowboy protection. They don't have the face paint or anything anymore. But it used to be they'd dress up like clowns

and they'd be the ones that would. What do they do the face paint anymore? No one cares about white face. It's a bit of white face makeup. Give it a go. Go out there and bloody. They don't do that. They don't dress like clowns anymore?

They don't wear a bald wig with red hair on the side anymore? No, there's rodeo clowns. That's why I don't go. There's rodeo clowns. That's why I don't go. There's rodeo clowns that do the entertainment side of it. Those are the guys that are in the barrel and whatnot during the bull riding. But the actual bullfighters themselves, they have cleats

on, they have full-on safety equipment just like the riders. There's two different ones. There's the entertainment versions and then there's the safety ones. I just had a flashback to something that happened to me when i was about 20 so i was sitting i went to the easter show which is the term in australia for a carnival right the the carnival comes down so so we had the we had the show on and then like you could go they had a football stadium in the middle that they would show like cars doing, drifting drives and stuff like that,

figure eights and stuff like this, and you'd watch a car burn out a bit, drag racing, stuff like that. And then they would bring on the motocross guys, and they'd build a ramp, and they'd do the big leaps around like that and the big flips and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, I'm sitting next to these nuns, like just nuns, old school looking nuns, right? And one of them is the guy was doing the jumps and did the thing.

She was just closing her eyes and praying and holding her rosary beads and all this other stuff. Anyway, this fucking cunt, he bloody did the flip, landed on his neck, broke his neck in front of us, quadriplegic in front of us, bang, just laying flat. And I turned to her and said, I don't think you prayed enough. quadriplegic in front of us, bang, just laying flat. And I turned to her and said, I don't think you prayed enough.

But the thing was I was a very angry young man. Anyway, so after that, though, while the guy was being stretched off in neck braces and all that type of stuff, they brought out a clown in like a little clown car to keep us entertained. But people were crying and were upset and like screaming. And he was like, and he came out and they just kept the spotlight on him. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. Tough gag. Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, he was a real entertainer.

Actually, when you said that, it reminded me, because when I was 14, I broke my femur, like snapped it in two at a rodeo. It was a really clean break. That's meant to hurt very much. Yeah, that fucking sucked. And then I had to ride in an ambulance for three and a half hours because we were so far away from a hospital. Brian Regan has a thing.

They reckon the femur hurts is the most painful bone to hurt on your body. It's worse than childbirth or whatever like that. I got in trouble the other day because I co-hosted the Kyle and Jackie O show because Kyle Sanderlands' baby came in. Congratulations, Kyle. Okay. And so I co-hosted the show for the day, and I said, and it made it to the Daily Mail, and I've been getting people write to me all week.

Oh, dear. I said that I've witnessed two children being born into this world, and I'm going to say it again. Not that bad. I've had worse poos. I'm telling you. If you get the epidural, you can't even feel it. They don't even feel it.

They're just, like, pushing. It's embarrassing. You can't split and you shit yourself. I think it's not an anomaly. There's a lot of different versions of childbirthbirth and some are fucking awful and some are easy i think if you just do natural childbirth with none of the medication other stuff but my argument is not all childbirth is yeah sure but but people admit that like a lot of people oh yeah bloody what one of your group have admitted that i've had a lot of friends that have said that their childbirth was super easy,

but I think all three of you would have a problem dealing with cramps. Anyway, Spencer was telling us a story about his femur breaking and you guys interrupted it. I interrupted it? I just want to say sorry to... You guys are still arguing about it. Sorry to all the people who had bad childbirth.

I wasn't meaning to pick on you. All right, so Spencer, your femur broke. Yeah, so I rushed hospital. I broke my femur on the saddle bronc though. What, I have to hear about the next day? No, no. So

I got on the saddle bronc. I break my femur and it's like right at the start of the rodeo and there's like thousands of people there. It starts pouring rain. It takes so long for the ambulance to get into the arena. I'm on the ground. I'm on the ground in front of thousands of people just like screaming and

crying. Cause I broke my femur and it didn't even hurt at this point. I was just shocked that my foot was beside my face. And then I, I started to hear the announcer who had been vamping for 10 minutes and he starts thanking the local sponsors like he's like oh thanks to jim's auto department for sponsoring the airbag riding and then and so like we finally get in the ambulance and we start going down the road and the paramedic that's in the back with me like i i started to feel the pain and i

was fucking screaming he goes goes, listen, buddy, got a lot of women in here and, uh, you know, they're in, they're having childbirth. They're in a lot of pain and they're not screaming like you. And I sat up and I was like,

I broke my fucking leg. I'm not having a fucking baby. And, uh, my mom just died laughing. I was good. You're right. I went full circle there.

Good job. I knew it was coming. Keith Isley, who's a, who's a famous rodeo clown, said, whenever you laugh, that's good medicine

and you forget about everything that's gone wrong that day, that week, or that month, he said. He still has a letter a woman sent him in 97

telling him how his show helped her laugh again after her husband's death. That's so nice. So, rodeo clowns are doing the Lord's work. People send me letters all the time like that.

It's very sweet. I feel like her husband died in the rodeo and then he popped out afterwards. And I was like, what does all around cowboy mean? Jim said he likes to listen to music, save a horse, ride a cowboy,

wears a hat. Says, I don't know what it's like in the city, but there's a lot of buckles involved. What is all around cowboy? Yeah. So an all around cowboy is anyone who competes in two or more events um so so it could be traditionally it's somebody who does a timed event and a rough stock

event but like nowadays they they just lump it as any two events because there's not a lot of people that compete at both ends of the arena but when you hear the word cowboy you don't think athlete do you like the marlboro man was a cowboy he probably had the lung capacity of a squirrel well it depends though because nowadays like there's been a huge shift in like the in the perspective from the you ever smoke a marlboro red spencer it's a harsh cigarette i smoke i smoke a pack a day and i'm fine, but I also can run a mile in probably Spencer still smokes and broke his femur. Who are some of the world champions? Is it Prissy Pink, Buck Rider, Tommy

Stampede and Bull Durham? No. So there was a whole lot of zero. There was a couple of like really impressive ones that I wanted to bring up because Ty Murray, who used to be married to Drew.

Ty Murray. Yeah. Fuck, he was good with the Bulls, man. Who was he married to? Yeah, he was a nine-time world champion cowboy. He was seven times he was the all-around champion and twice the bull riding champion. He was the Michael Jordan of that sport.

I don't think so because I see a name here and he says 29-time winner. Yeah. He's the LeBron James of that sport. Ty Murray only held the record for about 10 years and then Trevor Brazil passed him. But Trevor Brazil won 29 world championships because he was at the timed event

and he didn't do any rough stock. So he was able to have a longer career. He didn't have as many injuries, and his injuries were much less severe than those of time. His name was Trevor Brazil? Yeah. Where was he from? Texas somewhere.

Oh, that's good. I have a cousin called George Australia. Where's he from? Ohio. Yeah. Guy Allen, he from? Ohio. Guy Allen. He had 18 wins. Guy Allen.

I like Jim Shoulders. Jim Shoulders. Jim Shoulders was actually, he was another guy that did all three rough stock events, but he primarily was competing in the bareback and the saddle bronc riding. Let's get down to bare bones here, Spencer. What's the pussy like for these athletes? Like, are there girls that are waiting around with their big Texas-y hair going, oh, you can ride that?

How about you ride this? Do they ever say something like this? See if you can break this horse. Yeah. Spencer was only 14, though. Yeah, but I will say this. Buckle bunnies are all over the place in Rome Buckle bunnies

I'll also say this Someone google me a picture of some Buckle bunnies please Buckle bunnies Why are they called buckle bunnies Because they're chasing after the buckles They're chasing after the cowboys that have the buckles Because if you win a rodeo you win a buckle

Buckle bunny And I will say this there was way more buckle bunnies than I've ever seen chuckle fuckers you know since I started doing stand up here's some buckle bunnies oh yeah nothing wrong with some buckle bunnies

you call them chuckle fuckers yeah I never liked chuckle fuckers I always liked gag hags that's a good one what about lot lizards what is a lot lizard Chuckle fuckers? Yeah, chuckle fuckers. Yeah, I never liked chuckle fuckers. I always liked gag hags. Ah, that's a good one. What about lot lizards? What is a lot lizard?

Those are prostitutes at truck stops. The only problem is that they're not fans of truck stops. We're talking about people who are fans of an occupation and therefore they have sex with it. The only problem I have with gag hag is that I've never seen a chuckle fucker with a gag reflex. What is the most common rodeo injury? Jim said illiteracy and spinal. So he was actually kind of close with illiteracy and hoops to the head because the most common injury uh is concussions um and there's there's actually been a lot of research

done over the past 10 years about uh like concussions specifically in the sport of rodeo and and specifically with bull riding more than anything uh because in 2017 there was a professional bull rider by the name of ty pozabonon, and he had taken his own life. And afterwards, his family donated his body for like his brain for science. And he became the very first bull rider to be diagnosed with CTE. Yeah, but I don't know why we need all this research. It's pretty. Yeah, because I'm going like.

Your head's swacking around. It's pretty. Yeah, because they're going like. Your head's whacking around. Let's not find other sports where people's heads are whacked around and then go, I wonder what happened here. Yeah. We've got it now. The football taught us it plays through to anything where you bash your head

or your head whips around, you'll get problems. Yeah, because isn't it, is your head hitting stuff or it's just your brain is hitting your skull? It's not going to, the helmet's not going to help. But then it also hits the ground. It, it, it depends on,

it depends on the event. Cause like with the bareback riding, you're getting whipped around so much that you could get a concussion just from riding without landing on your head. But like in the bull riding, you're smacking your head into the bull's head. You're getting your head, you're landing on your head.

Uh, there's like a lot of times guys get knocked unconscious and then they get dragged around underneath the animal. So like the concussions are really really bad in the in the sport but the i i like like what you said about football is right though like that was what started the discussion in in basically all sports for um head injuries now let's check on boxing like when i when i played rugby league as a kid, getting tackled wasn't bad. It was your head bashing into the ground. The ground, yeah.

When you hit the ground, then your head whipped onto the thing and went bang. That was the bit that hurt. I didn't think about that, yeah. And that happens day after day after day, yeah. What makes the horses and bulls bucks? Jim said a fucking idiot sitting on the back of them. The funniest thing he said is like,

if somebody jumped on your back, you wouldn't give them a smooth ride. He's right. If I didn't, he'd have a fucking point for that. I did give you a half point for that one. That's pretty good. I always thought that they did something. It's because you got fucking brain damage, man.

I always thought they did something. And riding on horses. That's a full point. So like what you just said, Forrest, there's a really big common misconception that they do something to the animal to make them buck, but these animals that are competing nowadays,

they've been selectively bred for almost 100 years. Their whole composition of how they're bred, it's specifically for being the best at bucking and to do so safely. The only piece of equipment that they really use nowadays is a flank strap, which goes around the back hindquarters of the animal. But the misconception around that is people think that it's wrapped around their genitals, but it's anatomically not possible to do so. And also, if somebody grabbed your balls and told you to run, you'd probably stand still, right?

So you wouldn't want to, like, torque yourself. But there is also, just this past year, there was a study done by the University of calgary's uh veterinary medicine and it was co-authored by dr temple brandon who i don't know if you know who dr temple brandon is but of course of course this is the i don't know about that podcast you know temple brandon um but she she's like oh it's a different person a female doctor your sport is crazy um but she uh she was actually uh she changed the way that cattle practices uh were operating uh way back in the 90s like 70s 80s and 90s because she was able to uh see when cows were getting stressed out in certain situations in like uh the way that chutes were built and the way that light was going into the shoots. So she revolutionized that whole setup. And she's always been an insane advocate for the welfare of animals in these situations.

So when she co-authored this study, and what they found was that over the three years that they went to professional rodeos uh they found that the horses did not show any aversive behavior uh the only time that they would show uh behavior where they were uncomfortable is when they were in tight spaces and there was lots of people directly above them uh which is an easy fix that has been implemented into a lot of rodeo associations they redesigned the chutes so the light doesn't like flicker yeah the cattle yeah that would bother me too that bothers me when you're driving and it goes to the trees like because the other thing with cows they see in black and white so uh to them that would be the most horrifying thing because you don't know your

actual depth perception biggest rodeo in the world calgarygary Stampede. Jim got that right? Yeah, Jim got that right. It's actually interesting because it's the biggest rodeo in the world. It used to have the most prize money for a rodeo. It used to be $100,000. Now they dropped it down to $50,000.

One of the things that I think is really important about the Calgary Stampede... Why did they drop it down to 50, man? 50 Canadian, too? Yeah, it's 50 Canadian, too, so it's even worse. It's like 10 American. I don't know. Fuck. Yeah, no, they knocked it down.

Tell some dick jokes, mate. So the one thing I want to bring up about the Stampede, though, that I think is super interesting because it actually impacted Canada in a social, sociopolitical aspect. When it started in 1912, indigenous people weren't allowed to practice their ceremonies or do powwows or anything. And so Guy Wiedek, the organizer, petitions the government to allow the indigenous people to come and participate in the stampede. And that's how the Indian village formed on the stampede. And that's why it's still around to this day, because for about 40 years there, it was the only time in Canada that indigenous people could actually practice their culture. There you go.

All right. And then we talked about... Rodeo people people there was gay people in rodeo different genders and age we talked about different demographics you even said Japanese people because Jim said Asians no but you said Japanese people do right yeah and

it's kind of interesting because there's a lot of a lot of the people who were like groundbreakers in the sport and like invented some of the events were either black or indigenous or Latin cowboys so there was like for instance Bill Pickett invented the steer wrestling

he used to be a Wild West show guy and he was a black and indigenous cowboy from somewhere down in the states and he he used to like wrestle steers to the ground like in like a spectacle and he'd go from his horse to grab the steer and wrestle him to the ground and then a bunch of people saw that and they were like fuck i think i can do it faster than him so that's how that sport ended up coming around um and uh tommy three persons

was the first uh calgary stampede saddle bronc rider and he was uh a uh indigenous comic from down near lethbridge so and who who's the? Is that the famous people? No, we were just talking about different demographics. Celebrities. Who are some of the celebrities? We said Madison Bumgarner, who's a pitcher. I don't know if you knew that. I honestly didn't even know that. When you mentioned that, I forgot about

Carey Price, the goalie for the Montreal Canadiens. He was a team roper. Who are some of the other celebrities? There's Kiefer Sutherland. He was a team roper. I heard some of the other celebrities? So there's Kiefer Sutherland. He was a team roper. I heard that his liver's so short he can hardly walk. And now he's riding on bulls? He's roping.

He's a roper. Well, he was roping. Yeah. So, yeah, there was Kiefer Sutherland. Ron White actually used to be a rodeo cowboy. Get the fuck out of here. Ron White? Not now.

Not now. Hell no, not now. But yeah. Did he have a little glass of whiskey like this? I don't know if he was any good because I can't find much about it, but I did find like a few articles where he mentioned it. Tater salad.

And then George Strait was a team roper. That makes sense he's a country music guy he's one of the biggest artists in the world actually I think he's like one of the top 10 record selling artists of all time

he's called the king of country and then a couple of people from Yellowstone, Forry J. Smith he was a rodeo cowboy until he was like in his 60s. And Ryan Bingham, who's also on the show, used to be a bull.

Yeah, he's a music guy. I tell you, he's a country guy. Yeah. What's Bumgarner's stage name when he's doing the rodeo? I'll look it up real quick. Is it Tommy Stampede? Mason Saunders.

Mason Saunders. Yeah, he comes out. People don't know it's him. Yeah, Mason Saunders coming out.ers people don't know a team Mason Saunders coming up it's like having a porn name alright Spencer now's the time of our show called Dinner Party Facts we ask our guests to give us some obscure interesting fact our audience can use to impress people about the subject

you said you already gave us one about women getting their head stomped in thanks for that fun fact you got another one for us? I do. This one actually impacted the world on a big level because in 1979 when the US and China

relations just started opening, when Ding Xiaoping became the leader of China, Jimmy Carter invited him over to the US and there was this big diplomacy tour that Ding Xiaoping was going to be going on. And his very first stop on the tour was at a very small rodeo in Texas.

And when he was at the rodeo, a barrel racer named Martha Josie came up and presented him with a cowboy hat. And that cowboy hat ended up becoming a symbol of goodwill and like uh solid relations between the u.s and china seems to be working well well it worked for a while okay was it made in taiwan is that yeah um it became a symbol of diplomacy you're saying goodwill yeah it became a symbol of diplomacy and then uh and it was also interesting because at that time because the relations had

already been only really been uh you know starting to be repaired about a month before so when they uh when they did this rodeo there was a lot of people in the states who were really hesitant about having the leader of a communist country coming over to, uh, the U S uh, but then the people in Texas ended up like really loving the Deng Xiaoping. So that's pretty cool. Yeah.

All right, cool. Well, Spencer, thanks for being here. We appreciate you bringing your knowledge of rodeo. Uh, follow Spencer on Instagram at Spencer Stryker and check him out it's upcoming on Viking

you're saying is coming out Viking which is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival I have a fun little part in that movie you can see him on the TV shows Billy the Kid Wyner and Alberta Billy the Kid what's that on

that's on Epix check that out and he's a Epix. Epix. Awesome. Check that out. And he's a funny comedian. Get one of his albums and check out his femur. Broken femur. Thanks for being here, Spencer.

Thanks, Spencer. Thank you. If you're ever at a party and someone comes up to you and says, hey, do you ride a bull? They hold their testicles

or something like that. You go, I don't know about that and then kick that person off your back. Good night night Australia.