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The Flatbed Podcast

#102 - Bo Gardner with LVE

The Flatbed Podcast

Jordan Weaver

Arizona, Sports, Jordan Weaver, Wickenburg, Western Lifestyle, Roping, Flatbed Podcast, Comedy, Western Sports, Rodeo, Society & Culture, Rodeo Lifestyle, Flatbed, Team Roping, Comedy Interviews

2.4628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’ve always heard of “LVE” like a mysterious mansion on a faraway hilltop, it was an honor to have Bo Gardner the VP of Corporate Marketing with LVE stop by and walk us through his life, and also the relationship with the PRCA, LVE, and the City of Las Vegas have and some of the unconsidered dynamics at play there.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If nobody turned that one steer the four times you're riding that night, you didn't get a turn in.

0:12.8

You just didn't get to row.

0:13.8

When the heck loans you $30,000 to go rodeo?

0:17.1

What are you talking about?

0:18.0

We get down. This sucks.

0:19.0

We're still going to do it.

0:19.9

I can't stand it. So I just go up to him and I am like, is there something wrong with your brain?

0:25.8

So we're officially going. That's be defensible. Yeah, that is our, that really is our management.

0:30.4

The name of the podcast is a flatbed podcast. And the reason that I'm told him that you flatbed is like not going to happen.

0:38.6

We are here with Bo Garner.

0:41.5

This is actually, for several reasons, this is kind of a white whale podcast for me.

0:45.5

Because growing up, you would hear LVE, but it was just that.

0:48.9

You would hear LVE.

0:49.7

We knew that had something to do with Vegas, but it was like this cabal that you, it wasn't

0:53.8

names, it wasn't names,

0:58.0

it wasn't faces, it was this organization, and it was almost like that castle up there on the hill that you knew was there. And so for me, selfishly, to get to know some of the people

1:03.0

behind that, that organization that make this town work, that have made the NFR what it is,

1:09.9

all that you guys have contributed to the sport of rodeo,

1:12.9

and also some of the unfair reputation type things that people assigned to LVEE because they don't

1:17.5

know.

1:18.0

Right.

1:18.5

You guys are in a weird spot in that LVE is an easy scapegoat to blame for problems that are nuanced.

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