Welcome ladies and gentlemen rodeo time the podcast we have in the house world champion

Patrick Smith we're at the stay driven ranch you've been rodeo for 20 We're going to hear about it today. Man, where, who you

were you roping with this year? Tanner Thominson. Same young, same as last year.

Same guy you went to the NFLAR with sweet he's meeting you in Denver he's

actually here oh okay he's we're riding together to the airport here just

a little bit who drove the there. Who drove the horses?

Two of Tanner's buddies took the horses because he and I are flying up to meet with

Roper apparel, one of our sponsors.

We've got to be up there tonight.

One quick question before we end the intro and get into your story.

It's an amazing story and it's a, I wish we'd have had a four hour podcast.

But how's it work at the NFR when you come in in different places and you're not

rope in with your partner? How do they choose how do you guys choose so with who?

Well you you designate your partner so there's 15 and 15 obviously and sometimes that'll get

skewed because one guy maybe wins Houston and then they split up and then you know it can

get skewed like that but anytime that happens there's usually

one or two odd guys out so if there's if there's two headers and two healers that

their partners didn't make it they either get on the phone with each other and agree, hey,

let's rope, or the PRCA random draws it. Gotcha. And you get a phone call and you get told it.

And it never goes that way. Usually what happens is there's a

couple of guys that maybe they rope together their buddies or something and

when they see the chance of that happening like it looks like this guy might not

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