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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome to
the Beasley Econ Podcast.
We're here with one of oursponsored writers today, Mr
Carson.
How are you, sir?
I'm good.
Thanks for taking your time outof your day to sit down with us
.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And you haven't
started school yet.
Not yet Next week, monday ohboy, what grade are you going to
be in?
Eighth, eighth already, holycow.
Are you excited or nervous?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm pretty excited.
I'm ready to get started.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, your sister was
complaining about homework.
You think you'll have anyhomework.
Oh yeah, it's not going to getany better.
No, so what got you started inrodeo?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Just watching
everybody around me.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I went to a couple of
them that Avery was in and I
wasn't in it and so I startedentering with her and stuff like
that yeah, and you enjoy itquite a bit.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh yeah, what horse
are you riding right now?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
His name's Pistol.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Pistol.
Yeah, the gray horse, mm-hmm,we really like Pistol.
Oh yeah, he's cool.
What all do you do on him?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I heel and break away
and ribbon rope sometimes.
What is ribbon roping?
So you you have a roper and arunner.
The rope will rope, the calfdally stop and the runner has to
get the ribbon off their tail.
Run back to the heel box stopstime are you the rope or the
runner?
I'm the runner most of the timeare you fast?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
no, who's your Roper?
Avery, oh nice nice, nice, uh,miss pistol.
Your favorite horse to rideyeah, right now how long have
you had him?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
oh gosh, I guess it's
been since, like last fall okay
, I was thinking last year,what's?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
what's the favorite
thing you do on him?
Heel you know, yeah, who's yourheader avery, avery.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
she's a pretty good
hand, isn't she?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, she's a pretty
solid team.
What about the?
What's the first you got abuckle on?
Did you win that?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I won this last
weekend.
Oh Wildfire, Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yep, your sister
really wants to win a buckle.
Yeah, she won a saddle, that'spretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
She's won two saddles
.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Two.
What all did you win lastweekend at Wildfire?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Steer Dobbin and
Breakaway Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And what did you take
home from that?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Two buckles from that
, and then I got second and a
lot of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I saw a picture with
some saddle pads.
Yeah, three of them, I thinkyeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
All the second place
saddle pads.
I got them.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You had the second
place locked down.
Huh yeah, so you rodeo with alot of your friends and family
yeah um.
I know most of them and youkids are a lot of fun.
Do you have any really funnymemories from a any specific
thing?
No, no, I mean not necessarilyanything like specific, it's
just hanging out yeah, avery wastalking about the time she fell
(02:42):
off and landed in the dirt.
I don't remember that, or not?
Avery Logan?
Yeah, I've been called herAvery all day.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I do remember
that that was funny.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, she just got up
and shook it off.
Yeah, yeah.
So when you're getting readyfor a rodeo on the weekend or a
show or something, what do youdo to prepare?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Just make sure
everything's organized.
Get everything loaded in thetrailer.
Give your horse a a bath.
Get everything ready to go.
Make sure you've got everythingbefore you take off yeah, and
do you ride every day?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
and not every day I
tried to ride so your horses are
pretty well in shape and readyto roll anytime you grab them
yep, nice.
Um, I guess your parentsprobably help a lot too, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, is your dad apretty big inspiration for you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, yeah, for sure
he helped me rope a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, so do you.
I remember the.
I went with your grandpaactually to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I think it was
this state fair or something.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But we rode in
Freedom Hall Okay, and that was
like the biggest place I've everbeen in.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, I remember
being super nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Do you ever get
nervous before any of these?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
events.
Yeah, right, when you're backin the box.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, how do you
handle your nerves for that?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's just trying not
to think about it.
Just go do it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yep, yeah.
Well, you put in a lot ofpractice too, though, don't you,
yeah, try to, yeah, just musclememory, who would you consider
your coach?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
my dad, yeah, riding
and roping everything yeah, he's
.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He's my life coach
yeah kind of I do ask for advice
every now and again.
Yeah, what else do you do tokeep your horses healthy and
happy and ready to grab them andgo?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Keep them well fed,
keep them in shape.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You got a good
farrier.
Oh yeah, who's your farrier?
My?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
dad, of course.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You're going to be in
eighth grade.
You go to New Hope.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What's the hardest
part about going to school?
I mean, you've been off allsummer but now that you're back
in the school routine andweekend rodeos.
What's the hardest part aboutthat?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Just being able to
ride.
It's like you know you get homeand you got all your stuff to
do and then if you have sparetime then you can go ride and go
rope, but it's just having timeto do all of it, yeah, and time
management is tricky, yeah, andit's just going to get worse.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So practice that now.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And get good at it.
No scrolling on Facebook.
Do you have a Facebook?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Good, do you have a
professional rodeo hero?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yes, junior, I guess
you could say I watch him a lot,
do you, junior, and josephharrison?
Yeah, as I watch a lot on theinternet youtube yeah, um.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So you and pistol,
you guys are pretty tight yeah
is that a bond you've built,just being around him so much
and riding and getting to knowhim, or how do you?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
yeah, riding him a
bunch figuring him out.
I guess he figured me out.
You could say over time.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, if you could.
I was talking to Logan about it.
There's some kids out therethat are probably thinking about
you know they may ride a littlebut not necessarily compete or
do the rodeo.
Do you have any advice for anyof kids listening of of how to
get started or what, what to do?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I get if you're
wanting to rope.
I just think you just got torope the dummy a lot and just
riding as much as you can,learning to ride, yeah, and it's
pretty hard to put those twothings together at first yeah,
it's like trying to pat yourhead and rub your belly.
It's like multitasking.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, you got any big
goals this season.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, I'm hoping to
make it to both finals the
Little Bridges and Junior Highand then hopefully win something
there.
I think the biggest goal isjust qualify for both those
finals.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, when are finals
for those, do you know?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
July.
It's like end of June, start ofJuly.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh, so next, next
year?
Yeah, next summer.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, there's already
been finals this year.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So hopefully we'll be
sitting down with you this time
next year talking abouteverything you won.
Yeah, that would be awesome.
That would be cool, get, getanother buckle.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
oh yeah, saddle yeah,
that'd be awesome.
A trailer I heard you can win atrailer, murray.
Oh really yeah, and murray,they're doing the all-around
gets a horse trailer that'sawesome.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
That'd make mom and
dad happy.
Probably, yeah, probably, morethan a buckle yeah, for sure so
if you could, um, if you couldgive pistol a superpower, what
would you give him?
You can wave a magic wand.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't know, maybe
be able to run harder and stop
harder, I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You know what I would
give him?
I would give him the ability totalk.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh yeah, that'd be
cool.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So when he comes in
here I can say what's wrong,
pistol, yeah and he can tell me.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That would be cool.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Save us a lot of
sweat.
Oh yeah, yeah, so you're also afisherman.
Oh yeah, you're also afisherman.
Oh yeah, You've been fishingmuch this summer.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Not as much this
summer as what I have been.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
What do you mainly
fish for?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Just bass in the pond
.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, worms, yeah,
like the plastic worms.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, that's my
favorite, that's what works the
best in there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
They're pretty simple
fish yeah.
Do you ever fish in the ocean?
I guess I've done it once, likeoff the bank.
I went to this resort and theyhad fishing rods you could rent.
I just went and like fished offthe bank, caught those little
like snapper things or whateverthey're called.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Catching stingrays.
No, I fished from the beach atGulf Shores and that's all I
caught was stingrays.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Or some type of rays,
I don't know.
I didn't get close enough, Ijust let them go.
Yeah, I did fish at the pier atGulf Shores or some type of
rays, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I didn't get close
enough, I just let them go.
Yeah, I like the ocean.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I did fish at the
pier at Gulf Shores.
If you ever go down there,that's fun.
Yeah, mainly Spanish mackerel.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But there's so many
sharks.
If you don't reel the fish infast enough, you'll just reel up
a fish head.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And they used a thing
called these bubble rigs, which
was like a plastic bobber, andthen you had about three foot
behind it with a treble hook.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And you know those
like neon things that hold your
sunglasses on.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You cut those and
just put that over the treble
hook.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Really.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, and you just
kind of fish it like a topwater
bait, yeah, but when the sharkssee it land, they just go up
behind it and follow it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Wait for something to
take it, yeah, and then they'll
try to get it.
That's smart.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, there's some
big sharks down there yeah.
We went there the first day ofvacation and walked out on the
pier and I was like, okay, I'mnot getting in the ocean.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
We went snorkeling in
the Keys over a reef and there
was a lot of nurse sharks and acouple reef sharks.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But those don't bite
you right.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
No, they won't get
you.
They just lay on the bottom,yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Just any jellyfish.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, yeah.
On the way out we came througha big old school of them.
I guess I don't know what Abunch on top of the water.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Call it not getting
in the water.
Yeah, but all right.
Well, you probably better goget ready for school.
Yeah, have you shopped?
Got all your back-to-schoolclothes?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No, I mean, we got a
little bit, but not much.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Got all your crayons.
No, but, carson, thanks forstopping by today and thanks to
all of our partners.
With this, you get to I thinkyou already picked all yours up,
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thank you yeah, we're.
We're excited to see what youdo this next year I'm excited
(10:29):
too yeah, I think it's going tobe going to be great.
So, and uh, thanks foreverybody tuning in to the
beasley equine podcast.
Until next time, take care ofyour horses and yourself.