I like it, rodeo for time.

Now, uh, I'd like, I'd just like to hear the, the Ted News story from the beginning,

like when you started riding bulls and, oh man.

I don't know if, uh, how you like to tell your story, but wherever you want to start.

In, in, I grew up in California,

and my mom and dad, they really didn't have anything to do with horses,

and they bought me a pony when I was five years old,

and I just rode that pony every single day.

I loved it, and I rode him bareback,

and that's how, you know, I think over time,

that's how I acquired my balance because I rode that pony and bearback everywhere.

Where in California? At first, we started out in Tracy, California. And then by the time I was in the fourth grade, we moved to Mantica.

Where is that? It's in Central Valley, in San Joaquin Valley. There's a lot of crops grown up north.

It is about 60, 70 miles south of Sacramento. So, you know what I mean? It's not north-north,

but it is considered northern California.

I guess I feel like Sacramento is north. Oh, yeah, for sure. From right here, it's, if you drive it,

it's 24 hours. It's a long ways. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty country. Oh, it's beautiful. You know,

one thing that I miss, because we moved to Texas in 2007, is the mountains and all the big lakes in California because it's beautiful.

I mean, right there where we lived, eventually I got to Oakdale, California, and that was considered one time the Cowboy Capital World.

But from our house to the mountains to the ski resorts was

45 minutes, and I missed that.

So you had, uh, you had ski resorts that close to you.

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