Tilden Hooper
Whiskey Riff Raff
Whiskey Riff
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Presented by Cinch Jeans, the great Tilden Hooper joined the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast for a great conversation on all things rodeo. We talked how he got his start in rodeo, despite not being from a rodeo family, the grueling nature of the sport, staying healthy and combating injuries, going one on one with a horse, buckle bunnies, mustaches, his appearances on Yellowstone, barfights, Texas hangover breakfasts, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, this is a fun one. We're here with Tilden Hooper, the number one world-ranked |
| 0:18.6 | bearback rider, and this episode is brought to you by Cinch Jeans, who Tilden, you've worked |
| 0:23.7 | with for quite a while, awesome company. And we're going to be doing a giveaway with |
| 0:29.0 | this podcast. It's just really cool. Some Cinch Jeans stuff, some Whiskeyer shop stuff, |
| 0:33.7 | Cinch Jeans is an awesome Western Wearer company. Jeans and all this other good stuff. So |
| 0:39.2 | we're going to pace that, give away everywhere we share this. And so awesome company. Tilden, |
| 0:45.7 | I don't even know where we begin, but what's in I were talking. We're kind of new to this whole |
| 0:51.1 | thing a little bit like the rodeo thing. I just mentioned to you before we went on, we went |
| 0:55.0 | to Colorado. I'm seeing it a lot. Colorado Springs has rodeo stuff. Denver does. How did you get |
| 1:00.3 | into it? How did you start? Man, I didn't grow up around it either, honestly. So maybe it'll be |
| 1:07.2 | easier for me to kind of translate to you guys, but I think I'd interested in rodeo whenever I was |
| 1:12.8 | probably, I don't know, 13, 14 years old. I had some friends that were, you know, I grew up in a |
| 1:17.6 | small town in East Texas and a lot of baseball, football, just your normal sports, but a lot of |
| 1:24.3 | agriculture, a lot of cowboys. There's actually a handful of really great cowboys come from the area. |
| 1:29.6 | And anyway, I was friends of mine competed in the sport and one of my friends rode bulls, his |
| 1:35.5 | dad raised buck and bulls. I just, I wanted, I don't know, I just fell in love with the idea of |
| 1:40.5 | being a cowboy and I had read some books and watched some movies and just, man, I just died. |
| 1:46.1 | And then I just started to aggravate my parents until they let me, let me try it. And then it was |
| 1:52.5 | a fast deal for me. It's not something I picked up real quick. I wasn't raised around horses |
| 1:58.0 | and everything. So it took a lot of to get comfortable with that aspect of it, you know, a horse and a |
| 2:02.4 | bull and an animal that sizes, it can be intimidating, you know. And so it's just took a lot of |
| 2:08.1 | to get comfortable with, but it's something I knew from the very beginning that I, you know, |
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