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Tim O'Connell & Jess Pope

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The Gauge

Sports, Society & Culture, Business

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

World Champion Bareback Rider Tim O'Connell and rising star Jess Pope talk form, fitness, and scoring systems along with the challenges of life as a rookie in their physically demanding event. 
 
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0:00.0

This is the gauge with host chance con radieu.

0:07.0

Are you freaking serious? It's kenrato.

0:20.1

What is up everybody on this episode of the gauge we have got the great and powerful Tim O'Connell the bare Bearback Riding Sensation,

0:22.8

three-time World Champion, three-time Average Champion.

0:24.9

Yeah, those are three consecutive years altogether.

0:28.4

And you would have to really present me

0:31.0

with a great argument to tell me that he is not probably the best

0:33.3

bareback rider who's ever lived and he is just getting into his prime.

0:36.8

We've also got his traveling partner Jesse Pope who is a young up-and-comer who I'm sure

0:41.4

we're going to see a lot of great things out of this was a ton of fun and I think you guys are really enjoy it check it out

0:47.7

It looks like you just got your fresh cut did you get rid of your co-bed? Yes. So did I. Me too.

0:53.4

Eight weeks without haircut?

0:55.1

Yeah.

0:56.1

Yeah, mine got bust off.

0:58.3

My girlfriend tried to give me a haircut, so.

1:00.6

Tried to give him, tried to give him a fade. T tried to yes, that's why we're about you got show me

1:06.0

Well, now he's just is it growing out now. Yeah, it's growing out now, but I don't really like the look of it. I had to come over that was better than his I just didn't take care of it like he does. He's like a woman.

1:17.0

He likes to copy me in pretty much everything.

1:20.0

I've been rocking a comover since high school. You're a threetime world champion and he just he just started his permit last year. You really think he's not going to try to copy you?

1:26.7

He just takes my handy down pretty much. Truck? I mean he's a lot bigger guy than you so that those pants probably don't fit him so well.

1:34.0

Yeah, you're not you're getting up to where you're pretty tall for a bareback rider.

1:40.3

Yeah, that's what they say anyways. Yeah, it was interesting. We had Kai Hamilton in here and he's like 6-1.

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