So this is a story that I don't think I've ever told on the podcast. Maybe I have, if it have, that it's been a while. But one of the original motivations behind this, the whole idea was that I had a really, really interesting grandpa.

Jasper Weaver, he's born in 1930 and lived through the Depression, and he had so many cool stories.

Him and his brother used to rope wild Mustangs and get him wild horse saddled and get on them

and head him towards the reservation and sell them the same day as broke horses when they were like 12 and 13 years old.

He was a bush track jockey. He was a horse

trainer for years. The encyclopedia of horses, the yellow horse that was listed as like the

picture of the quarter horse that was his horse. He spent 50 years in ministry and he was so proud

of his little badge. They gave him a little badge that said 50 years in ministry.

He was a pastor of a church.

And just a fascinating guy.

He was an interesting guy.

And I've always regretted that things like podcasts weren't around when he was around

because for me to repeat his stories are just not the same as hearing him from him.

And I would have, man, I'd give anything to have been able to sit down

and record all those stories and hear from him and have those. And so I got a chance this week

to sit down with Bill Hill. Bill is in his 90s, quarter horse Hall of Fame. He was the guy that

sort of brought horses like, you know, night robber and orphan, what was it, orphan lad, those types of horses.

He talks about being in the service in Chicago and finding people who roped and worked at the stockyards.

And it's just an interesting story of, you know, finding the Western culture and all these different places.

And it's actually, I think probably this episode probably hit home with me a little bit just

because originally this was sort of the motivation behind doing this in the first place.

And so it's going to feel a little different.

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