All right, I'm here. This is our first interview of the week. Ike, what? Ike Smith.

Ike Smith from New Mexico, Royal New Mexico.

So you are a... I'm a cutter. And... A team roper, a healer.

Okay. So are you going to be the only cutter this week with your thumb and a cast?

I think I will be, yep, yep.

Okay, so you've got kids from all over the nation here. Yep. You're walking around with some street cred. Yeah. A thumb wrapped up. Have you thought of a way to incorporate that in like an icebreaker when you see a girl that you think, like, man, that might be my next life? I haven't thought of one yet, but that's definitely a possibility. You want to workshop some of them? Yeah, yeah, let's go through it. Let's hear it. Like, okay, there she goes. Like, what's your type? Blondie. Yeah, blue eyes. Okay. Yeah, a little taller. You sound like you're from Utah with the description. Do I? I'll explain that joke later.

Okay, so there she is.

All right.

What event does she compete in? Oh, breakaway. Okay. Yeah. If she's here, she's at least kind of good. Yeah. What if she's from a state where you don't really maybe have as many contestants? Like, it's maybe a little different. Like, what if she's here? like actually qualified, but it's like, man, just, what level of breakway roper does it have to be?

Pretty, pretty good.

Handy. little different. Like, what if she's here? Like, actually qualified, but it's like, man, just, what, what level of breakaway roper does it have to be? Pretty, pretty good.

She used to be pretty good. Yeah, handy. Yeah. So here's my question. My grandma did this to my dad one

time. So we've described, what we would describe as the perfect girl. What would make her

interested in you? Oh, that one's harder, huh? Yeah, maybe if I'm, I don't know, pretty ranker open, pretty good. So you got your hand wrapped up. Yeah. She's a breakaway roper, so she's probably, like, oriented towards the team ropers. Yeah. So you've kind of already stated it. Yeah. I've already got that part.

So let's here.

You got your buddies here.

You got, okay, we got Ike and we got, tell me names.

Oh, that's Cash and Rhett. What's the last names? Smith and Chavez. Shut out. So are you one of those guys that, like, you're going to, of the three of you, Which one's going to be the one to like make contact?

I don't know, probably here.

Mallet's always the one.

Yeah, the mullet, yeah. And he's the one that said he wouldn't get on the mic. Yeah. Okay, so do you just kind of sit back, put out the vibes, make sure your hand is rested up on the counter. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Rodeo injury. Yep. Did you cut it off? No, not quite. why is it so wrapped up i don't know it's pretty

messed up you just mangled it but yeah yeah it stayed there how long ago uh like two weeks ago

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