March 12, 2025 • 39 mins
Rodeo athlete Payton Pierce takes us through his journey from high school bull rider to a Yeti Junior World Final Qualifier in just six months of bareback competition. With raw honesty and the distinctive grit that defines him, Pierce recounts the moment that changed everything—when bareback riding legend Kaycee Feild slapped him in the face before a ride and told him to remember he was "a bad motherfucker."
Pierce doesn't sugar-coat the brutal physical toll of his rapid rise. His path to NFR qualification came at a staggering cost: seven broken ribs, a hand hung up in the rigging, and part of his ear torn off when a horse stepped on his head. Yet from his hospital bed, his first question wasn't about his injuries but whether he'd qualified. That unwavering focus speaks volumes about the mindset required to thrive in one of rodeo's most punishing events.
Now facing fatherhood with a baby boy due in August, Pierce finds himself navigating the complex balance between chasing rodeo glory and building a stable foundation for his growing family. He's purchased his PRCA card but plans to take a measured approach to his career trajectory while ensuring he can provide for his partner Lindsey and their soon-to-arrive son Waylon. The conversation reveals a young man maturing in real-time—still hungry for competitive success but now viewing his choices through the lens of responsibility.
Whether you're a rodeo enthusiast or simply appreciate stories of extraordinary determination, Pierce's journey offers powerful insights into what drives athletes to push beyond perceived limitations. Follow along as he shares what distinguishes bareback riding from other events, why he describes it as "a fight to the death," and how he's building a future both inside and outside the arena.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Peyton Pierce, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, not bad.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Doing all right, dude .
This has been a long time inthe works, dude.
I mean first time I found you,you were still in high school.
First time I I found you, youwere in.
You were still in high schooland I remember I had you're.
You're the first one.
I was like, dude, you gotta askmom.
You ask mom, mom, cut us offdude yeah, what was I?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
probably 16, yeah, yeah, maybe 15, maybe yeah yeah,
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm like all right, man.
Well, you know what, eventhough she said no, I gotta
respect the wishes and you know,respect mom and uh, yeah so
well, I'm glad we waited,because I got a little more of a
story now yeah, a little, we'llget there.
We'll get there, but, dude,shout you out, man, you finally,
(01:23):
you know, made the push andyou're making it, and as a
bareback rider, right Before weget going, ok, before we get on
those stories, congrats on thebaby, the new addition to the
family.
Oh, yeah.
Baby, baby, boy that is.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, we're super excited, I think we're gonna go
with I think we're going withwaylon waylon like waylon
jennings.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I like it, I like yeah all right so we're
super excited okay, first let's,let's ask how's, how's dad
payton that is?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
oh, I'm good, you know just uh working and rodeo
seasons coming up, um trying tobe as prepared as I uh as a
first time dad can be are youready?
No not at all um yeah, if I'mbeing completely honest, I think
I've.
I don't think I've ever beenmore excited and scared shitless
at the same time.
(02:22):
So, um yeah, I'm pretty nervous, but which are you more of?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
scared, shitless or excited?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Oh, excited for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, all right , all right.
What did mom say about that?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh, um, when my mom first found out, um, she was
actually excited.
She was both my parents my momand my both my dad were, uh,
super excited.
So that was extremely helpfuland very supportive just from
the from the get go.
So that was super nice.
(03:00):
Anyway, it made it everythingso much easier as a beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Here she is, you know , not letting you get on a
podcast, but she's.
She's excited to be a G ma.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, A young G.
Ma you know, I thought theywere going to be mad because of
their age but, if I was agrandpa in my thirties I'd
probably be pretty pissed off.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So I got to admit, man, you and mom are the real
reason why I put the bruise outof the the podcast.
Did you know that?
I did not yeah, dude, yeah,yeah, you're the reason, man,
because I was all, like you know, to get more younger adolescent
, you know rodeo guys on I haveto take that bruise off.
(03:44):
I don't want to be that weirdguy that asked kids to be on the
podcast.
Gotta admit that.
So, yeah, how's ma ma?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
uh, she's good, she's um just working until, uh, till
she can't stand anymore, really, um, but she's, she's been
great.
The pregnancy has been um supereasy going for her.
She hasn't been sick, no, youknow puking or throwing up and
um she'll get the occasionalheadache here and there, but
she's as happy as can be, I meana lot of moms would say lucky
(04:20):
yeah, oh, 100 yes and a lot ofdads would be like, dude, I, I
have a good, you have a good Ido?
I do have a very good.
I have not had to deal with toomuch trauma, no hormones yet.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So wait until that baby's?
Yeah, yeah, I'm just going toleave it as that.
Just be respectful and listenand talk.
So shout out to mom what'smom's name lindsey lindsey,
shout out to lindsey man,congrats another congratulations
, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Being yeti junior world final qualifier dude yeah,
that was um unexpected, but uhcouldn't have been happier to go
, and it was.
It was a great experience.
It didn't exactly go how I uhanticipated it.
Um I just I don't know.
I guess I got down there and,um, everything was going good
and I normally have.
(05:16):
I've only been riding barebackhorses for, oh man, since last
june is that's been not even.
I mean, what is that?
Six months maybe?
Um, and I rode my first one inglenwood, washington, and, um, I
was the only guy riding in thenovice and I I rode him for
(05:38):
eight seconds and I was soexcited.
I was like I just won the rodeoon my first bareback horse.
But I missed my mark out and Ididn't even know what a mark out
was, and so I got.
I'm just screaming and shouting.
Everybody else is screaming andshouting, but, um, man, yeah,
I'll never forget that.
That was, uh, that wasdefinitely probably one of the
(05:59):
biggest highlights so far ofrunning bareback horses.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
How did you find out, man?
How did?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
you find out, you made it to the nfr um so I
qualified which this is kind ofa rough story um in mcminnville,
oregon, in oh man, what wasthat?
It was like my I want to say,probably seventh bareback horse.
And so the first day it was ajunior world finals qualifier
and it was an MPRA rodeosanctioned at the same rodeo.
(06:31):
So the first day I rode andended up blowing my hand out and
I broke three of my ribs.
But the next day was juniorworld qualifiers and I was like
man, I got to qualify, I can'tstop now.
So, of man, I gotta qualify.
I can't, you know, I can't stopnow.
So of course I stupidly got backon and I ended up getting my
(06:52):
hand completely hung up and drugunder the horse.
It actually stepped on the sideof my head and ripped the top
of my ear off and broke my otherfour ribs and.
But I qualified, I think, with70 points.
It was like a 70-point ride.
But ended up in the hospitalfor the next two days and got
(07:13):
all stitched back up and thenwent back home.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, but when you found out I mean, were you
excited or were you like man?
It was worth it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh, 100.
Yeah.
So when everything firsthappened, the only question I
had when I finally got up wasdid I make it?
Did I qualify?
Yeah, what was my score?
And I got doctors around me.
All my friends are just tellingme to just shut up and calm
down.
Yeah, and I found out actuallyone of my.
I went to the hospital.
I found out, actually one of my.
(07:42):
I went to the hospital.
I was sitting in bed in painand one of my buddies, caden,
came in, who also was trying toqualify and unfortunately didn't
.
But he was like you qualified.
And, oh man, I was so excited Iwas trying to jump up and down,
but I was laying down in a bed.
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
With how many ribs?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Six ribs broken.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I got seven at that time seven seven in my ear,
still ripped off and bleedingout from behind my head.
What was the exact words youused and said when you found out
you qualified dude?
I'm a bad motherfucker oh yeah,dude, heck yeah yeah so six
months on, bareback, I mean.
And then nfr did you ever thinkthat you would make it to the
(08:34):
nfr?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
yes, it's junior, but dude you, you got into the nfr
man right, um, to be honest withyou, no, um, but I did always
have so.
In july, I think this wasprobably third horse I actually
rode in hawaii, in um, maui,hawaii, where I ended up meeting
(08:55):
casey field and um again, I, Imean, I first, when I first
started rodeo, it was all bulls.
I only knew people that rodebulls.
That's all I focused on.
I only knew people that rodebulls.
That's all I focused on.
I didn't realize or focus onany other event.
Then I started riding barebackhorses.
There was this guy at this rodeoin Maui.
He was helping me set myrigging on and teaching me.
(09:18):
He was like where did you getthat rigging?
I was like I got it from abuddy.
He was like, man, that's thebest setup here.
And I was like, oh hell yeah,some random guy just told me.
Well, later on that day Ilearned it was Casey Field and
had no idea.
And so the next day we talkedagain and I introduced myself
(09:40):
and actually you know, was kindof fanboying over the guy, like
actually you know that I knewwho he was and, um, he helped
set it on again and I wassitting getting sat down on the
horse before the other guy waseven out of the arena.
He told me to sit down on thehorse, run my hand in and um, he
actually slapped me in the faceand told me to tell myself I
(10:02):
was a bad motherfucker and I wasman that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
you know, casey man, that's a story dude.
You know my new like yeah,that's kind of my new ritual now
I was like holy shit.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Casey Field just slapped me in the face.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
At first, though right when he did that, you were
like dude for real Like are wegoing?
There, you want to throw hands,or what?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, and so I sat down on the horse.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
He slapped me and just told me you're just yelling
at me.
You know like you're a badmotherfucker and um, this was we
.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They actually had put me on like the best horse they
had there.
Um, you know, I was a way outof there again.
I missed my mark out, but itcame out and just I almost went
ass over tea kettle, yeah, and Igot myself brought back, had
him rode pretty good, and thenhe jerked me to the side and it
was just ragdolling.
But I made the eight again andI think I went eight or nine
(11:04):
horses before I finally gotbucked off, which, um, that's
when I was, you know, kind oflike, wow, I think I could do
this, I think I, you know, if Ijust keep putting the work and,
um, focus on this one event, soI stopped riding bulls right
after Hawaii, um, and I think Idon't know, I think the whole
(11:25):
reason I got out of the bowls,um, to be honest with you, I got
kind of scared of them, youknow.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I just kind of started.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah kind of started falling out of love with um,
riding bowls and it had justbeen so many injuries and head
injuries and I was like you know, I I got to switch events and I
just wasn't making it where Iwanted to be.
It wasn't really going anywhere.
You know, I was riding here andthere winning money, here and
there a buckle or two, but itjust wasn't you know where I
(11:53):
wanted to be.
So, yeah, I made the switch tobareback and luckily I had a lot
of friends in the MPRA thatwere super helpful and
supportive of that and, um, yeah, loan, loan the gear when I
needed and help set the rig insounds.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Sounds like you've been listening to the podcast.
You already answered thatquestion.
So, man, why why bareback?
Though, like, why not saddlebronc, why not?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
uh, why?
I let's see.
So I guess, right when I hmm, Irode bulls and I think at the
time I rode six saddle bronchorses why riding bulls at the
same time before I was like thisisn't for me, it's just, it's
not One.
I definitely wasn't very goodat it, I just wasn't.
(12:39):
I'm just not that coordinated.
You know to move my feet liftat the same time, you know, and
it just didn't feel very.
I don't know to move my feetlift at the same time, you know,
and it just didn't feel very.
I don't know how to explain it.
Like unnatural, not even that,it's just.
I needed something rougher, youknow.
Like I know that sounds crazy,just I'm a little.
I was just a little more crazythan your average saddle bronc
(13:02):
rider, and so I want, I wantedto feel a fight like I did with
the bulls and, um, I got on abareback course and that has
been the best brawl I've everhad between anybody or anything.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So well, mike, mike reed says it's a dance.
Man, that's a dance.
Do you feel like it's a dance?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
uh, no, no, I feel like it is a fight to the death.
Um, every time you're on thehorse, every time I get on, you
know I put my hand in there, Irun it in, lean back, and you
know it's.
Who's the batter motherfuckerhere, is it me or is it this?
and it's hard, so, um, I thinkbulls was more of a dance for me
than bareback, for sure explainit um well, you know, when I'm
(13:44):
riding a bull, I'm looking atthe top of his head and I'm just
following where he goes.
Yeah, um, I'm just moving mybody with him.
You know, know, it's me in thisbowl.
If I can, we can sit and dancetogether for eight seconds.
You know, we're both going homewinners and, um, bareback.
It just doesn't feel like that.
It's.
We both hate each other, we'renot partners, we just want to
(14:07):
kill each other and go at eachother, and that's what we do
every time.
It's fun, it's exciting.
I love those horses, I love allthe animal athletes.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Have you thought about doing two sports, two
events All around?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, because, to be honest with you, I won't get on
another bull.
I won't buy a saddle either.
I think if I had the money togo out and buy a roping horse, I
would definitely do that to tryand save my body, cause I am, I
am beat.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
My body hurts.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay so, but bareback , you're going to stay, true?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, I'm going to stay with it, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, what if?
What if, uh, your, your, yourboy, wants to get involved,
You're all for it.
Oh, all for it 100% You'regoing to push him, not push him
what?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I definitely.
I think I'm going to push himmore towards it.
I think the only big differencebetween you know, what I wish I
would have done and what I'mgoing to make him do is finish
school.
I dropped out of school mysophomore year to ride bulls and
never graduated, and well,that's I mean in some situations
(15:24):
in the real world.
That's been a pretty big holdup for me.
So I definitely want to pushhim to finish school.
But if he wants to high schoolrodeo, that's totally fine too.
Yeah, I just never got thatopportunity.
Finish school.
But if he wants to high schoolrodeo, that's totally fine too.
Yeah, um, I just never got thatopportunity.
I came into this when I waslike 15, you know, mom and dad,
that I was crazy and I, you knowso yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You ever think about getting your GED?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh yeah, I actually uh just got enrolled at a
college up here to get it yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Congrats, man.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Stick with it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
If you need anything, reach out, will do.
All right, all right.
So then, a far trip, man.
And how was the trip?
I mean it was busy, it's.
It's very expensive lately, sohow was the trip?
Did you spend a lot of cash onthe lady?
What, yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
so the trip, the trip was good.
Um, I, I like expensive thingsand she does too.
So, you know, we definitelyspent a decent amount of money,
honestly, mostly on food, withgratuity tips that they charge
you.
Um, but vegas is, it's not mything.
I, I don't drink, I don't smokeand I don't like to party.
(16:38):
I'm not a big crowd person.
Uh, I'd rather be at homecuddle up in bed watching a
movie than out.
You know, I, I had my fairshare, I did those things, I did
those and you know I've reallymellowed out and I honestly just
want nothing to do with itanymore.
But yeah, that's what's kind ofnice about Lindsay she's a very
(17:01):
extrovert, outgoing, loves togo, you know, hang out with
people and do things, and I'mintrovert, so we balance each
other out pretty well.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
But, dude, you were styling with those pearl snaps,
dude.
I was like who's this?
Rock star dude.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Who's this rock?
Star dude who's this rock star?
Yeah, guys, I think when itcame to the outfits for the nfr
um, I'm gonna have to give ashout out to tristan parker, I
think he, uh, might have goneinto my head a little bit okay
yeah, yeah dude rock star man.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I was like who?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
is this kid?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
First NFR and he is rolling, yeah, like you were a
high roller man, but youdeserved it, man, because six
months in and you, you know NFR.
So that's, that's, that's wild,that's wild.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Did that trip and the experience did it get you
hungry for more man oh one, yes,100, I um.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You know, just being in the same like vicinity,
knowing that all these worldchampions and professional
bareback riders are probablyjust a couple miles, staying
down the road in a differenthotel, was just a huge
eye-opener.
And just the fact that I madeit down there in the first place
and I was riding on national tv, um I, I, it definitely pushed
(18:22):
me.
I want to be in the big show.
You know, I got you, um, I madeit to go all the way.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So did mom cry when she saw you on tv yes, she did.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, all right, yep, um, my parents unfortunately
they didn't make it out there,um, so they watched it on tv
though, and they they said itwas a blast watching it.
They just wish they could havebeen there.
But yeah, my mom bought prettyemotional, she said yeah, that's
badass dude, that's good.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Congrats, man.
Congrats.
So with the baby and six monthsin, you go to the nfr.
Will you go for your push?
You know, I always ask thatquestion are you gonna go push?
Are you gonna go big?
Are you gonna go prca?
Are you gonna go what?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
so right now, um, with the baby coming, it's been
very up in the air.
Um, I bought my card for theprca for my first year.
Congrats, um, thank you.
But it's just, you know, it'snot that I'm scared of rodeo and
you know I want to go, I wantto do all these rodeos, I just I
(19:35):
can't get hurt, because I gotto be able to provide for a
family that I built myself, soso look, just stay, even keel
right now not yeah step back,not go, I wouldn't say, take a
step back.
I think we're just going to keepgoing at the pace I've been
going.
I'm definitely gonna hit prettyyou know, 99 of the mpra's this
(19:55):
year.
Um, I just don't want to takeon something that I know I can't
handle and then end up gettinghurt, so okay the lady gonna
travel with you oh, 100.
Yeah, she loves rodeo, she um,she's all for it okay, okay,
that's, that's good so if she'sgoing, the baby boy is gonna go
(20:18):
too, correct.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, that's awesome dude, that is awesome man.
So yeah, first question I'mjust gonna ask what do you roll
up in, dude?
You have a camper, you got atrailer, what?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
so I um had a camper, ended up selling the truck and
camper it was on.
And now I'm actually trying tolook for a new truck because now
I got a baby coming and I drivea single cab F350.
So that's not going to work.
No, it's not.
(20:51):
So I think right now we're goingto be rolling up in mom's car,
in the toyota corolla wow,that's yeah all right that's
you're rolling hard dude yeah, Iknow, I had a camper in mind
and every you know, and I kindof panicked, I, right before we
found out, um, we having thebaby.
(21:12):
I had an extended cab, you knowa nice Duramax, and I found out
we was having the baby and Iwent nuts I mean happy nuts, but
scared, I sold everything Iowned.
So I was like, oh my man, weneed money, we need money and
yeah, that was the only thingthat was really on my mind.
(21:36):
So I got you know out of all thedebt I was in and sold
everything and just kind of putaway as much as I could you said
the lady likes uh, rodeo.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And who's the passenger, princess, you or her?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
most of the time her only, because the rodeos we do
go to so far have been in mytruck and it's a five speed and
she can't drive it, so okay whocontrols the radio?
Her?
Yeah, her, I'll give it to her.
I know I'll give it to her,that's her.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
What does she roll up with man Taylor Swift Country?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
music Motley Crue, I mean any, yeah, old rock we have
pretty decent close to the samemusic taste.
Sometimes she throws some weirdTaylor Swift in there.
I knew it, yeah, and I'm likeman, I don't like this.
And then I kind of get into itand I'm like man, I don't like
this.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And then I kind of get into it and I'm like, oh man
, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So all right.
Who wins on the choice of foodman when you guys are on the
road, her or you?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
yeah, definitely me.
Um I'm normally I'm alwaysprying for taco bell.
Um, I've got an obsession withtaco bell.
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
But what's your?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
go-to.
Oh, the grilled cheesesteakburrito, no doubt okay, not
every time.
Layer five layers no I, I can't, I can't.
Actually it's too much.
Taco bell's got this problemwith drowning everything in
liquid cheese and I can't do it,I can't, I can't, actually it's
too much.
Taco Bell's got this problemwith drowning everything in
liquid cheese and I can't do it,I can't.
It makes me want to throw up.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Do you do the Baja Blast or are you the Starry guy?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Coke.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Coke okay.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Coke, yeah, every time.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Last question Do you eat peanut butter jelly
sandwiches?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I eat them yeah , okay yeah how do you make one?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
how do you build the pbj sandwich?
And since I haven't, I haven'tasked that question like I used
to, because a lot of people gotI don't think they got bored of
it, it's just like they wereexpecting it.
So I'm like dude, you guys areexpecting it.
I I'm not going to say itanymore, but so I have to ask,
man how do you build Definitely,I want to say 70% peanut butter
(24:02):
, 30% jelly.
Okay, and it's always crunchy.
Always, okay, always.
Now now, when you open, going tochange it up.
When you open a fresh jar, ofwhat kind of peanut butter do
you use?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I use Skippy or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You know that top part.
You know it's so fresh and sosmelly.
Goodness, it's just.
You know it's the aroma of thepeanuts.
Right, right, right.
Do you slather that on yourbread, or do you like I do?
I just easily, easily, takethat knife right around, make
(24:46):
sure I get that spread and justput it right on my tongue.
Or do you just put it on thebread?
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I the top layer, I just put right in my mouth and
then all right, there's nothinglike it.
No, and then the next one willbe um, only actual bread yeah,
it's 100.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yep, all right.
So there's also anotherquestion, man.
If you're doing pbj, there's alot of cheese bread eaters.
I heard that you are.
Tell me about it, man.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Is it a?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
real thing?
Is it a real thing that youcowboys and some cowgirls love
just cheese and bread?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, 100% I.
I, if I was on the road and Ihad the choice between the two,
I'd pick cheese and bread.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Just cheese and bread .
Just cheese and bread you like,not grilled, it's just plain
old white bread and cheese.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I mean, yeah, I like you know, if I had to eat one
thing for the rest of my life,it would be grilled cheese
sandwiches, and on the roadthat's as close as I'm getting,
so 100%.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
When you're grilling them, do you use butter or
mayonnaise?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Butter 100.
When you're grilling them, doyou use butter or mayonnaise
butter, and then most of thetime now it used to be just
cheese and bread, but sometimesI'll do ham and cheese, okay,
and I actually put mustard andmayonnaise while I'm cooking it,
and that's good okay yeah, doyou?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
do you ever like the south?
Um, you know, I lived ingeorgia.
I'm from oklahoma, I was justborn there.
My dad was, you know, in themilitary, so I lived in the
south.
A lot did you ever put with?
When you're grilling it, youput the butter, the bread, you
put mayonnaise, cheese,mayonnaise, and then the rest,
you know or no, I, yeah, you doput.
(26:34):
Man, you do grill.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
See my wife yeah, it's like that's.
Oh, you're saying, do I grillthe mustard and the mayonnaise?
Why I'm?
Why is it cooking?
Yes oh 100.
I do not put that on after it'scooked right, dude, it's not
the same all right so yeah, mywife's the one that's tripping
then, because I tried to tellher.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm like like, hey, did you put mayonnaise on it?
She's like, no, who does that?
That's gross.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
So?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Well, thanks for entertaining that man.
Yeah, of course.
What's your plans this year?
First, first rodeo.
How's it going to go?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Like which one am I hitting first?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
yeah, first one.
And then like what are yourplans?
You're gonna go.
You said 90 something percentof mpra yeah, 100.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So, um, this weekend is actually I don't.
Jerry howell is one of thestock contractors for the mpra
and he's putting on a rust dogfeel I think it's a bull riding
and bareback riding in Tillamookdown at the fairgrounds and um,
they're allowing us to buy ourcards beforehand or when we get
there.
So whatever money we do win,it'll already go to this year's
(27:45):
standings before.
Uh, elma rodeo is the first bigrodeo of the season at the end
of March All right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So, it'll be.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
March and then everything.
I mean I'll hit them all untilthe baby's born and then I think
the first one back willprobably be the end.
So baby's born at the beginningof August, august 2nd, but I
mean I think he's going to comeabout a week early.
Either way, I think the firstrodeo back after the baby will
(28:17):
probably be enum claw at thevery end of um okay, and if
everything's been going well, Iwant to hit.
Because I live up in bremerton,washington.
I want to hit the kitsap countyrodeo in bremerton in the prca
this year okay, and that's goingto be your first one that would
be my first one.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, I'm excited for you, man, I, okay, and that's
going to be your first one.
Yeah, that would be my firstone.
Yeah, excited for you, man.
I'm excited.
Dude, that's awesome.
All right, you going to hit upa ICA?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I think so.
Um, I like to try and make itdown to CUNA every year.
Okay, I've got a pretty big fanbase down there I live down
there for a while and 90 of myfamily's from boise so and
outside of that area, so it'sit's pretty cool.
I don't see them very often andthey always come out and watch
when I ride there you got abigger, bigger fan base than you
(29:02):
think, man and believe.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know, I mean dude, you know, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna shout him out.
But shout out to nick reynoldsof eight seconds strong, dude,
he, he's a big fan right, yeah,he's not just a sponsor he
actually, you know, paysattention and he speaks very
highly of you, man, so shout outto nick reynolds of eight
seconds strong yeah, real goodso and josh too, and I, if I, if
(29:28):
it hadn't been for josh, noneof what's going on with eight
seconds and um, yeah, or theunbreakable would be possible.
So yeah, man the doc will be oneventually too.
So but no, you're, you're,you're, you're making waves,
dude, you're paving the way, notjust, you know, for the kid and
the the lady, but for yourself,man, you should be proud.
(29:51):
I think you are, I know you are, it's just.
Yeah, you know, like you said,I'm gonna have to explicit this,
this episode, but you're a badmotherfucker dude.
So keep it up, keep it up dude,keep it up man.
So your ultimate goal, man,just as a bareback rider.
Ultimate goal right now, beforethe kid, but, um, after the kid
(30:16):
too yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
so I think right now, in this moment it's really been
from last year to this year Iwant to try staying in a little
better of shape, you know, notjust hitting rodeos every
weekend, but trying to, you know, because I'm hurting all the
time when I get off, and so Ijust want to try, you know,
tighten up those muscles a bitso it doesn't hurt as bad.
(30:40):
Stay in shape.
I don't want to get jacked ornothing.
I just want to be small and fitand smart and smart yeah, 100%.
And a lot of the guys that I'vebeen talking to.
I'll do a shout-out to KyleBounds he's been extremely
helpful and Levi Walters theyboth have been very big mentors
(31:04):
in this whole bareback ridingdeal, and there's more than
there's just that, but the listcould go on for how supportive
everyone's been with you knowjust the six months you've been
in, you know before nfr.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Do you consider yourself a mentor, someone kids
can look up to?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think so in in a way.
I do get, um, a lot of DMS onInstagram.
Uh, like, how'd you get intorodeo?
You know, like, how do I start?
And, um, you know, it's reallycool watching you ride and
seeing where you came from andthat that, you know, that lifts
(31:47):
my heart up and keeps the spiritgoing and makes me want to keep
going, for sure.
Um, so I, I would say yeah, Iwould say yes.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Is it true that you're sponsored by boot barn?
Yeah so you're doing somethingright.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I, I'm trying, I know it was.
It was really weird how thatwhole thing went down.
So I went in there and um oneday and somebody had made a
comment on a belt buckle I waswearing Um, it was the first
rodeo I won on a bareback horsedown in Flemeth, oregon.
And um she was like, well, youknow, if you're interested in
(32:28):
sponsorships, we do.
Um, you know nonprofit profitstuff like that.
And um I was like, yeah, I meanhell yeah.
So she gave me a corporatenumber and I ended up calling
corporate.
They emailed me like anapplication kind of thing and um
the application got accepted.
They sent me like a contractwhich actually just ended in
(32:50):
February, and basically it wasum I I didn't get paid by them,
but I got free clothes wheneverI wanted.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, so I could.
I could go in there.
Um, I think the only annoyingpart was everybody asking me to
get them free clothes, but theyasked for your certain sizes and
specific, so I got to go inthere and grab.
You know well if it's me, butyeah, that was super cool.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Did you go and try to get the missus something?
Just be like babe, you earnedit.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Not for free.
I just go in there and buy her,buy, you know, whatever she
wants.
You know, just put it on my tab.
I guess put it on my lifetimeof tab.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
So you going to go for the sponsorship again, I
guess?
Put it on my lifetime of tab.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
So you're going to go for the sponsorship again.
Um, I haven't really decided.
I honestly, I think for the 25,2025 season I I kind of want a
whole new lineup.
You know, I have, I have Nick.
Um, I still have, uh, someolder coffee sponsors.
(33:58):
Um one is profit, the otherone's non-profit.
They just kind of send me, youknow bags of coffee here and
there um which is fun.
Yeah, which is super cool.
Yeah, it's always fun gettingthose in the mail.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Um, yeah, it smells so good yeah, and you know
elaine.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm sure you know elaine.
Um, why did you have to shout?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
her out.
Dude, she's awesome, I can't Itry.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
You're not joking, I think I've even known her a
little longer than I've knownyou.
I mean, she was there rightwhen I started this whole thing.
She's a good lady um yeah, I'mnot shouting her out.
Dude, thanks for shouting herout so yeah, hoping to start a
new lineup of sponsors this year, and I mean, if I have to ride
(34:38):
solo, that's that's.
That's totally fine too.
You know, it'll happen in time.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So I don't think you'll, and if anything, I don't
think you'll be riding solothat long right, yeah, um yeah
dude.
I'm telling you, man, you gotthat, look, you got that rock
star mentality.
You know, like you said, I'mgonna have to explicit again,
but you know, you're a badmotherfucker and you need to
(35:04):
stay it, dude, and to even, likeyou know, do what you did in so
little time, be sponsored by,you know, nick reynolds and the
gang and elaine and boot barn.
Come on, come on.
That says a lot, dude.
So just keep doing what you'redoing, man.
Keep doing what you're doing.
(35:24):
I'm proud of you.
I'm finally happy that you'reon this podcast.
I want you to come back I wantyou to come back after this this
season.
Let me know how the baby'sdoing, how mom or the lady mom's
doing.
Okay, 100, give me just a headsup where you're gonna be.
I need your schedule so I cantry to run into you.
(35:46):
But, dude, do you want to addanything?
Did I miss anything?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
man, I don't know, we just covered like a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I feel like, yeah, my whole career and I don't even
know how many minutes and and itsounds like you've been
listening to, because you wentstraight into what I was gonna
go into like oh yeah, I listenall the time, you know when I'm
at work and I appreciate it yeahI appreciate it, dude.
What's your favorite episode sofar?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Don't say Nick, because he's sponsoring you.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
No, I like Mike.
Mike Reeds was pretty cool,right, and Elaine's for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Elaine's coming back on, but she's like I need to do.
You know how she talks.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I need to do this.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I need to do.
You know how she talks.
I need to do this.
I I need to do.
I don't know if the cat's outof the bag, but she's like I
need to do this event beforegetting on.
I'm like, all right, whatever,whatever you want, you know
she's gonna.
She's gonna message me, she'sgonna listen to this episode,
she's gonna message me andshe'll be like that's a good uh
impersonation.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
But yeah, that was pretty spot on right yeah, yeah,
I.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
I pay attention to a lot of things.
So, dude, speaking of payingattention, I'll be paying
attention, man and I.
I hope nothing but the best foryou and your family.
Mom, that didn't let you onback in the day, but I really I
won't yeah I won't hold that toto her.
(37:14):
But hey, NFR, again we'rehanging out.
Don't leave me hanging, becauseI know you were hanging with
Del Brisby.
You found out he was around, Itold you where he was and I was
like dude, I'm sitting in thisplace, Meet me.
And never heard anything back.
But it's all good.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
To be fair, I had no service in cowboy christmas.
I could not get a hold ofnobody.
I got lost myself a coupletimes okay, how was a meeting
del brisby?
Oh, um, you know I love the guy, but I gotta say a little
disappointing no, I got you, Igot yeah yeah, he shows a very
(37:54):
um.
He's got this big bubblypersonality all camera.
And then I met him and he'slike, yeah, what's going on?
Man, let's get a photo and getthe hell out of here that's,
that's business that's businessguy man.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, yeah, I don't, I totally understand, but, dude,
he's one of the nicest guys thatI've, that I've met,
personality wise, you know, anduh, yeah, it's, it is surprising
.
So.
But, dude, you go to the nfrfrom here on now.
Hit me up yeah, we'll be up and, yeah, we'll have dinner.
I'll pay for dinner.
Sound good?
(38:25):
Deal until you, you're, youbecome like a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
You, you know or oh yeah, I'll buy you guys dinner.
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Drinks no sodas on you.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah, sodas on me.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
All right, Peyton Till next time.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yep Sounds good man.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
All right, man, thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, thank you.
We'll see you next time.
Peyton Pierce, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh, not bad.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Doing all right, dude .
This has been a long time inthe works, dude.
I mean first time I found you,you were still in high school.
First time I I found you, youwere in.
You were still in high schooland I remember I had you're.
You're the first one.
I was like, dude, you gotta askmom.
You ask mom, mom, cut us offdude yeah, what was I?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
probably 16, yeah, yeah, maybe 15, maybe yeah yeah,
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm like all right, man.
Well, you know what, eventhough she said no, I gotta
respect the wishes and you know,respect mom and uh, yeah so
well, I'm glad we waited,because I got a little more of a
story now yeah, a little, we'llget there.
We'll get there, but, dude,shout you out, man, you finally,
(01:23):
you know, made the push andyou're making it, and as a
bareback rider, right Before weget going, ok, before we get on
those stories, congrats on thebaby, the new addition to the
family.
Oh, yeah.
Baby, baby, boy that is.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, we're super excited, I think we're gonna go
with I think we're going withwaylon waylon like waylon
jennings.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I like it, I like yeah all right so we're
super excited okay, first let's,let's ask how's, how's dad
payton that is?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
oh, I'm good, you know just uh working and rodeo
seasons coming up, um trying tobe as prepared as I uh as a
first time dad can be are youready?
No not at all um yeah, if I'mbeing completely honest, I think
I've.
I don't think I've ever beenmore excited and scared shitless
at the same time.
(02:22):
So, um yeah, I'm pretty nervous, but which are you more of?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
scared, shitless or excited?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Oh, excited for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, all right , all right.
What did mom say about that?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh, um, when my mom first found out, um, she was
actually excited.
She was both my parents my momand my both my dad were, uh,
super excited.
So that was extremely helpfuland very supportive just from
the from the get go.
So that was super nice.
(03:00):
Anyway, it made it everythingso much easier as a beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Here she is, you know , not letting you get on a
podcast, but she's.
She's excited to be a G ma.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, A young G.
Ma you know, I thought theywere going to be mad because of
their age but, if I was agrandpa in my thirties I'd
probably be pretty pissed off.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So I got to admit, man, you and mom are the real
reason why I put the bruise outof the the podcast.
Did you know that?
I did not yeah, dude, yeah,yeah, you're the reason, man,
because I was all, like you know, to get more younger adolescent
, you know rodeo guys on I haveto take that bruise off.
(03:44):
I don't want to be that weirdguy that asked kids to be on the
podcast.
Gotta admit that.
So, yeah, how's ma ma?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
uh, she's good, she's um just working until, uh, till
she can't stand anymore, really, um, but she's, she's been
great.
The pregnancy has been um supereasy going for her.
She hasn't been sick, no, youknow puking or throwing up and
um she'll get the occasionalheadache here and there, but
she's as happy as can be, I meana lot of moms would say lucky
(04:20):
yeah, oh, 100 yes and a lot ofdads would be like, dude, I, I
have a good, you have a good Ido?
I do have a very good.
I have not had to deal with toomuch trauma, no hormones yet.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So wait until that baby's?
Yeah, yeah, I'm just going toleave it as that.
Just be respectful and listenand talk.
So shout out to mom what'smom's name lindsey lindsey,
shout out to lindsey man,congrats another congratulations
, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Being yeti junior world final qualifier dude yeah,
that was um unexpected, but uhcouldn't have been happier to go
, and it was.
It was a great experience.
It didn't exactly go how I uhanticipated it.
Um I just I don't know.
I guess I got down there and,um, everything was going good
and I normally have.
(05:16):
I've only been riding barebackhorses for, oh man, since last
june is that's been not even.
I mean, what is that?
Six months maybe?
Um, and I rode my first one inglenwood, washington, and, um, I
was the only guy riding in thenovice and I I rode him for
(05:38):
eight seconds and I was soexcited.
I was like I just won the rodeoon my first bareback horse.
But I missed my mark out and Ididn't even know what a mark out
was, and so I got.
I'm just screaming and shouting.
Everybody else is screaming andshouting, but, um, man, yeah,
I'll never forget that.
That was, uh, that wasdefinitely probably one of the
(05:59):
biggest highlights so far ofrunning bareback horses.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
How did you find out, man?
How did?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
you find out, you made it to the nfr um so I
qualified which this is kind ofa rough story um in mcminnville,
oregon, in oh man, what wasthat?
It was like my I want to say,probably seventh bareback horse.
And so the first day it was ajunior world finals qualifier
and it was an MPRA rodeosanctioned at the same rodeo.
(06:31):
So the first day I rode andended up blowing my hand out and
I broke three of my ribs.
But the next day was juniorworld qualifiers and I was like
man, I got to qualify, I can'tstop now.
So, of man, I gotta qualify.
I can't, you know, I can't stopnow.
So of course I stupidly got backon and I ended up getting my
(06:52):
hand completely hung up and drugunder the horse.
It actually stepped on the sideof my head and ripped the top
of my ear off and broke my otherfour ribs and.
But I qualified, I think, with70 points.
It was like a 70-point ride.
But ended up in the hospitalfor the next two days and got
(07:13):
all stitched back up and thenwent back home.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, but when you found out I mean, were you
excited or were you like man?
It was worth it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh, 100.
Yeah.
So when everything firsthappened, the only question I
had when I finally got up wasdid I make it?
Did I qualify?
Yeah, what was my score?
And I got doctors around me.
All my friends are just tellingme to just shut up and calm
down.
Yeah, and I found out actuallyone of my.
I went to the hospital.
I found out, actually one of my.
(07:42):
I went to the hospital.
I was sitting in bed in painand one of my buddies, caden,
came in, who also was trying toqualify and unfortunately didn't
.
But he was like you qualified.
And, oh man, I was so excited Iwas trying to jump up and down,
but I was laying down in a bed.
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
With how many ribs?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Six ribs broken.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I got seven at that time seven seven in my ear,
still ripped off and bleedingout from behind my head.
What was the exact words youused and said when you found out
you qualified dude?
I'm a bad motherfucker oh yeah,dude, heck yeah yeah so six
months on, bareback, I mean.
And then nfr did you ever thinkthat you would make it to the
(08:34):
nfr?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
yes, it's junior, but dude you, you got into the nfr
man right, um, to be honest withyou, no, um, but I did always
have so.
In july, I think this wasprobably third horse I actually
rode in hawaii, in um, maui,hawaii, where I ended up meeting
(08:55):
casey field and um again, I, Imean, I first, when I first
started rodeo, it was all bulls.
I only knew people that rodebulls.
That's all I focused on.
I only knew people that rodebulls.
That's all I focused on.
I didn't realize or focus onany other event.
Then I started riding barebackhorses.
There was this guy at this rodeoin Maui.
He was helping me set myrigging on and teaching me.
(09:18):
He was like where did you getthat rigging?
I was like I got it from abuddy.
He was like, man, that's thebest setup here.
And I was like, oh hell yeah,some random guy just told me.
Well, later on that day Ilearned it was Casey Field and
had no idea.
And so the next day we talkedagain and I introduced myself
(09:40):
and actually you know, was kindof fanboying over the guy, like
actually you know that I knewwho he was and, um, he helped
set it on again and I wassitting getting sat down on the
horse before the other guy waseven out of the arena.
He told me to sit down on thehorse, run my hand in and um, he
actually slapped me in the faceand told me to tell myself I
(10:02):
was a bad motherfucker and I wasman that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
you know, casey man, that's a story dude.
You know my new like yeah,that's kind of my new ritual now
I was like holy shit.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Casey Field just slapped me in the face.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
At first, though right when he did that, you were
like dude for real Like are wegoing?
There, you want to throw hands,or what?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, and so I sat down on the horse.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
He slapped me and just told me you're just yelling
at me.
You know like you're a badmotherfucker and um, this was we
.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They actually had put me on like the best horse they
had there.
Um, you know, I was a way outof there again.
I missed my mark out, but itcame out and just I almost went
ass over tea kettle, yeah, and Igot myself brought back, had
him rode pretty good, and thenhe jerked me to the side and it
was just ragdolling.
But I made the eight again andI think I went eight or nine
(11:04):
horses before I finally gotbucked off, which, um, that's
when I was, you know, kind oflike, wow, I think I could do
this, I think I, you know, if Ijust keep putting the work and,
um, focus on this one event, soI stopped riding bulls right
after Hawaii, um, and I think Idon't know, I think the whole
(11:25):
reason I got out of the bowls,um, to be honest with you, I got
kind of scared of them, youknow.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I just kind of started.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah kind of started falling out of love with um,
riding bowls and it had justbeen so many injuries and head
injuries and I was like you know, I I got to switch events and I
just wasn't making it where Iwanted to be.
It wasn't really going anywhere.
You know, I was riding here andthere winning money, here and
there a buckle or two, but itjust wasn't you know where I
(11:53):
wanted to be.
So, yeah, I made the switch tobareback and luckily I had a lot
of friends in the MPRA thatwere super helpful and
supportive of that and, um, yeah, loan, loan the gear when I
needed and help set the rig insounds.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Sounds like you've been listening to the podcast.
You already answered thatquestion.
So, man, why why bareback?
Though, like, why not saddlebronc, why not?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
uh, why?
I let's see.
So I guess, right when I hmm, Irode bulls and I think at the
time I rode six saddle bronchorses why riding bulls at the
same time before I was like thisisn't for me, it's just, it's
not One.
I definitely wasn't very goodat it, I just wasn't.
(12:39):
I'm just not that coordinated.
You know to move my feet liftat the same time, you know, and
it just didn't feel very.
I don't know to move my feetlift at the same time, you know,
and it just didn't feel very.
I don't know how to explain it.
Like unnatural, not even that,it's just.
I needed something rougher, youknow.
Like I know that sounds crazy,just I'm a little.
I was just a little more crazythan your average saddle bronc
(13:02):
rider, and so I want, I wantedto feel a fight like I did with
the bulls and, um, I got on abareback course and that has
been the best brawl I've everhad between anybody or anything.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So well, mike, mike reed says it's a dance.
Man, that's a dance.
Do you feel like it's a dance?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
uh, no, no, I feel like it is a fight to the death.
Um, every time you're on thehorse, every time I get on, you
know I put my hand in there, Irun it in, lean back, and you
know it's.
Who's the batter motherfuckerhere, is it me or is it this?
and it's hard, so, um, I thinkbulls was more of a dance for me
than bareback, for sure explainit um well, you know, when I'm
(13:44):
riding a bull, I'm looking atthe top of his head and I'm just
following where he goes.
Yeah, um, I'm just moving mybody with him.
You know, know, it's me in thisbowl.
If I can, we can sit and dancetogether for eight seconds.
You know, we're both going homewinners and, um, bareback.
It just doesn't feel like that.
It's.
We both hate each other, we'renot partners, we just want to
(14:07):
kill each other and go at eachother, and that's what we do
every time.
It's fun, it's exciting.
I love those horses, I love allthe animal athletes.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Have you thought about doing two sports, two
events All around?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, because, to be honest with you, I won't get on
another bull.
I won't buy a saddle either.
I think if I had the money togo out and buy a roping horse, I
would definitely do that to tryand save my body, cause I am, I
am beat.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
My body hurts.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay so, but bareback , you're going to stay, true?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, I'm going to stay with it, yep.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, what if?
What if, uh, your, your, yourboy, wants to get involved,
You're all for it.
Oh, all for it 100% You'regoing to push him, not push him
what?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I definitely.
I think I'm going to push himmore towards it.
I think the only big differencebetween you know, what I wish I
would have done and what I'mgoing to make him do is finish
school.
I dropped out of school mysophomore year to ride bulls and
never graduated, and well,that's I mean in some situations
(15:24):
in the real world.
That's been a pretty big holdup for me.
So I definitely want to pushhim to finish school.
But if he wants to high schoolrodeo, that's totally fine too.
Yeah, I just never got thatopportunity.
Finish school.
But if he wants to high schoolrodeo, that's totally fine too.
Yeah, um, I just never got thatopportunity.
I came into this when I waslike 15, you know, mom and dad,
that I was crazy and I, you knowso yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You ever think about getting your GED?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh yeah, I actually uh just got enrolled at a
college up here to get it yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Congrats, man.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Stick with it.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
If you need anything, reach out, will do.
All right, all right.
So then, a far trip, man.
And how was the trip?
I mean it was busy, it's.
It's very expensive lately, sohow was the trip?
Did you spend a lot of cash onthe lady?
What, yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
so the trip, the trip was good.
Um, I, I like expensive thingsand she does too.
So, you know, we definitelyspent a decent amount of money,
honestly, mostly on food, withgratuity tips that they charge
you.
Um, but vegas is, it's not mything.
I, I don't drink, I don't smokeand I don't like to party.
(16:38):
I'm not a big crowd person.
Uh, I'd rather be at homecuddle up in bed watching a
movie than out.
You know, I, I had my fairshare, I did those things, I did
those and you know I've reallymellowed out and I honestly just
want nothing to do with itanymore.
But yeah, that's what's kind ofnice about Lindsay she's a very
(17:01):
extrovert, outgoing, loves togo, you know, hang out with
people and do things, and I'mintrovert, so we balance each
other out pretty well.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
But, dude, you were styling with those pearl snaps,
dude.
I was like who's this?
Rock star dude.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Who's this rock?
Star dude who's this rock star?
Yeah, guys, I think when itcame to the outfits for the nfr
um, I'm gonna have to give ashout out to tristan parker, I
think he, uh, might have goneinto my head a little bit okay
yeah, yeah dude rock star man.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I was like who?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
is this kid?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
First NFR and he is rolling, yeah, like you were a
high roller man, but youdeserved it, man, because six
months in and you, you know NFR.
So that's, that's, that's wild,that's wild.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Did that trip and the experience did it get you
hungry for more man oh one, yes,100, I um.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You know, just being in the same like vicinity,
knowing that all these worldchampions and professional
bareback riders are probablyjust a couple miles, staying
down the road in a differenthotel, was just a huge
eye-opener.
And just the fact that I madeit down there in the first place
and I was riding on national tv, um I, I, it definitely pushed
(18:22):
me.
I want to be in the big show.
You know, I got you, um, I madeit to go all the way.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So did mom cry when she saw you on tv yes, she did.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, all right, yep, um, my parents unfortunately
they didn't make it out there,um, so they watched it on tv
though, and they they said itwas a blast watching it.
They just wish they could havebeen there.
But yeah, my mom bought prettyemotional, she said yeah, that's
badass dude, that's good.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Congrats, man.
Congrats.
So with the baby and six monthsin, you go to the nfr.
Will you go for your push?
You know, I always ask thatquestion are you gonna go push?
Are you gonna go big?
Are you gonna go prca?
Are you gonna go what?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
so right now, um, with the baby coming, it's been
very up in the air.
Um, I bought my card for theprca for my first year.
Congrats, um, thank you.
But it's just, you know, it'snot that I'm scared of rodeo and
you know I want to go, I wantto do all these rodeos, I just I
(19:35):
can't get hurt, because I gotto be able to provide for a
family that I built myself, soso look, just stay, even keel
right now not yeah step back,not go, I wouldn't say, take a
step back.
I think we're just going to keepgoing at the pace I've been
going.
I'm definitely gonna hit prettyyou know, 99 of the mpra's this
(19:55):
year.
Um, I just don't want to takeon something that I know I can't
handle and then end up gettinghurt, so okay the lady gonna
travel with you oh, 100.
Yeah, she loves rodeo, she um,she's all for it okay, okay,
that's, that's good so if she'sgoing, the baby boy is gonna go
(20:18):
too, correct.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, that's awesome dude, that is awesome man.
So yeah, first question I'mjust gonna ask what do you roll
up in, dude?
You have a camper, you got atrailer, what?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
so I um had a camper, ended up selling the truck and
camper it was on.
And now I'm actually trying tolook for a new truck because now
I got a baby coming and I drivea single cab F350.
So that's not going to work.
No, it's not.
(20:51):
So I think right now we're goingto be rolling up in mom's car,
in the toyota corolla wow,that's yeah all right that's
you're rolling hard dude yeah, Iknow, I had a camper in mind
and every you know, and I kindof panicked, I, right before we
found out, um, we having thebaby.
(21:12):
I had an extended cab, you knowa nice Duramax, and I found out
we was having the baby and Iwent nuts I mean happy nuts, but
scared, I sold everything Iowned.
So I was like, oh my man, weneed money, we need money and
yeah, that was the only thingthat was really on my mind.
(21:36):
So I got you know out of all thedebt I was in and sold
everything and just kind of putaway as much as I could you said
the lady likes uh, rodeo.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And who's the passenger, princess, you or her?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
most of the time her only, because the rodeos we do
go to so far have been in mytruck and it's a five speed and
she can't drive it, so okay whocontrols the radio?
Her?
Yeah, her, I'll give it to her.
I know I'll give it to her,that's her.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
What does she roll up with man Taylor Swift Country?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
music Motley Crue, I mean any, yeah, old rock we have
pretty decent close to the samemusic taste.
Sometimes she throws some weirdTaylor Swift in there.
I knew it, yeah, and I'm likeman, I don't like this.
And then I kind of get into itand I'm like man, I don't like
this.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And then I kind of get into it and I'm like, oh man
, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So all right.
Who wins on the choice of foodman when you guys are on the
road, her or you?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
yeah, definitely me.
Um I'm normally I'm alwaysprying for taco bell.
Um, I've got an obsession withtaco bell.
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
But what's your?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
go-to.
Oh, the grilled cheesesteakburrito, no doubt okay, not
every time.
Layer five layers no I, I can't, I can't.
Actually it's too much.
Taco bell's got this problemwith drowning everything in
liquid cheese and I can't do it,I can't, I can't, actually it's
too much.
Taco Bell's got this problemwith drowning everything in
liquid cheese and I can't do it,I can't.
It makes me want to throw up.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Do you do the Baja Blast or are you the Starry guy?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Coke.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Coke okay.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Coke, yeah, every time.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Last question Do you eat peanut butter jelly
sandwiches?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I eat them yeah , okay yeah how do you make one?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
how do you build the pbj sandwich?
And since I haven't, I haven'tasked that question like I used
to, because a lot of people gotI don't think they got bored of
it, it's just like they wereexpecting it.
So I'm like dude, you guys areexpecting it.
I I'm not going to say itanymore, but so I have to ask,
man how do you build Definitely,I want to say 70% peanut butter
(24:02):
, 30% jelly.
Okay, and it's always crunchy.
Always, okay, always.
Now now, when you open, going tochange it up.
When you open a fresh jar, ofwhat kind of peanut butter do
you use?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I use Skippy or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You know that top part.
You know it's so fresh and sosmelly.
Goodness, it's just.
You know it's the aroma of thepeanuts.
Right, right, right.
Do you slather that on yourbread, or do you like I do?
I just easily, easily, takethat knife right around, make
(24:46):
sure I get that spread and justput it right on my tongue.
Or do you just put it on thebread?
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I the top layer, I just put right in my mouth and
then all right, there's nothinglike it.
No, and then the next one willbe um, only actual bread yeah,
it's 100.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yep, all right.
So there's also anotherquestion, man.
If you're doing pbj, there's alot of cheese bread eaters.
I heard that you are.
Tell me about it, man.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Is it a?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
real thing?
Is it a real thing that youcowboys and some cowgirls love
just cheese and bread?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, 100% I.
I, if I was on the road and Ihad the choice between the two,
I'd pick cheese and bread.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Just cheese and bread .
Just cheese and bread you like,not grilled, it's just plain
old white bread and cheese.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I mean, yeah, I like you know, if I had to eat one
thing for the rest of my life,it would be grilled cheese
sandwiches, and on the roadthat's as close as I'm getting,
so 100%.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
When you're grilling them, do you use butter or
mayonnaise?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Butter 100.
When you're grilling them, doyou use butter or mayonnaise
butter, and then most of thetime now it used to be just
cheese and bread, but sometimesI'll do ham and cheese, okay,
and I actually put mustard andmayonnaise while I'm cooking it,
and that's good okay yeah, doyou?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
do you ever like the south?
Um, you know, I lived ingeorgia.
I'm from oklahoma, I was justborn there.
My dad was, you know, in themilitary, so I lived in the
south.
A lot did you ever put with?
When you're grilling it, youput the butter, the bread, you
put mayonnaise, cheese,mayonnaise, and then the rest,
you know or no, I, yeah, you doput.
(26:34):
Man, you do grill.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
See my wife yeah, it's like that's.
Oh, you're saying, do I grillthe mustard and the mayonnaise?
Why I'm?
Why is it cooking?
Yes oh 100.
I do not put that on after it'scooked right, dude, it's not
the same all right so yeah, mywife's the one that's tripping
then, because I tried to tellher.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'm like like, hey, did you put mayonnaise on it?
She's like, no, who does that?
That's gross.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
So?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Well, thanks for entertaining that man.
Yeah, of course.
What's your plans this year?
First, first rodeo.
How's it going to go?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Like which one am I hitting first?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
yeah, first one.
And then like what are yourplans?
You're gonna go.
You said 90 something percentof mpra yeah, 100.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So, um, this weekend is actually I don't.
Jerry howell is one of thestock contractors for the mpra
and he's putting on a rust dogfeel I think it's a bull riding
and bareback riding in Tillamookdown at the fairgrounds and um,
they're allowing us to buy ourcards beforehand or when we get
there.
So whatever money we do win,it'll already go to this year's
(27:45):
standings before.
Uh, elma rodeo is the first bigrodeo of the season at the end
of March All right.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So, it'll be.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
March and then everything.
I mean I'll hit them all untilthe baby's born and then I think
the first one back willprobably be the end.
So baby's born at the beginningof August, august 2nd, but I
mean I think he's going to comeabout a week early.
Either way, I think the firstrodeo back after the baby will
(28:17):
probably be enum claw at thevery end of um okay, and if
everything's been going well, Iwant to hit.
Because I live up in bremerton,washington.
I want to hit the kitsap countyrodeo in bremerton in the prca
this year okay, and that's goingto be your first one that would
be my first one.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, I'm excited for you, man, I, okay, and that's
going to be your first one.
Yeah, that would be my firstone.
Yeah, excited for you, man.
I'm excited.
Dude, that's awesome.
All right, you going to hit upa ICA?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I think so.
Um, I like to try and make itdown to CUNA every year.
Okay, I've got a pretty big fanbase down there I live down
there for a while and 90 of myfamily's from boise so and
outside of that area, so it'sit's pretty cool.
I don't see them very often andthey always come out and watch
when I ride there you got abigger, bigger fan base than you
(29:02):
think, man and believe.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know, I mean dude, you know, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna shout him out.
But shout out to nick reynoldsof eight seconds strong, dude,
he, he's a big fan right, yeah,he's not just a sponsor he
actually, you know, paysattention and he speaks very
highly of you, man, so shout outto nick reynolds of eight
seconds strong yeah, real goodso and josh too, and I, if I, if
(29:28):
it hadn't been for josh, noneof what's going on with eight
seconds and um, yeah, or theunbreakable would be possible.
So yeah, man the doc will be oneventually too.
So but no, you're, you're,you're, you're making waves,
dude, you're paving the way, notjust, you know, for the kid and
the the lady, but for yourself,man, you should be proud.
(29:51):
I think you are, I know you are, it's just.
Yeah, you know, like you said,I'm gonna have to explicit this,
this episode, but you're a badmotherfucker dude.
So keep it up, keep it up dude,keep it up man.
So your ultimate goal, man,just as a bareback rider.
Ultimate goal right now, beforethe kid, but, um, after the kid
(30:16):
too yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
so I think right now, in this moment it's really been
from last year to this year Iwant to try staying in a little
better of shape, you know, notjust hitting rodeos every
weekend, but trying to, you know, because I'm hurting all the
time when I get off, and so Ijust want to try, you know,
tighten up those muscles a bitso it doesn't hurt as bad.
(30:40):
Stay in shape.
I don't want to get jacked ornothing.
I just want to be small and fitand smart and smart yeah, 100%.
And a lot of the guys that I'vebeen talking to.
I'll do a shout-out to KyleBounds he's been extremely
helpful and Levi Walters theyboth have been very big mentors
(31:04):
in this whole bareback ridingdeal, and there's more than
there's just that, but the listcould go on for how supportive
everyone's been with you knowjust the six months you've been
in, you know before nfr.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Do you consider yourself a mentor, someone kids
can look up to?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think so in in a way.
I do get, um, a lot of DMS onInstagram.
Uh, like, how'd you get intorodeo?
You know, like, how do I start?
And, um, you know, it's reallycool watching you ride and
seeing where you came from andthat that, you know, that lifts
(31:47):
my heart up and keeps the spiritgoing and makes me want to keep
going, for sure.
Um, so I, I would say yeah, Iwould say yes.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Is it true that you're sponsored by boot barn?
Yeah so you're doing somethingright.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I, I'm trying, I know it was.
It was really weird how thatwhole thing went down.
So I went in there and um oneday and somebody had made a
comment on a belt buckle I waswearing Um, it was the first
rodeo I won on a bareback horsedown in Flemeth, oregon.
And um she was like, well, youknow, if you're interested in
(32:28):
sponsorships, we do.
Um, you know nonprofit profitstuff like that.
And um I was like, yeah, I meanhell yeah.
So she gave me a corporatenumber and I ended up calling
corporate.
They emailed me like anapplication kind of thing and um
the application got accepted.
They sent me like a contractwhich actually just ended in
(32:50):
February, and basically it wasum I I didn't get paid by them,
but I got free clothes wheneverI wanted.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, so I could.
I could go in there.
Um, I think the only annoyingpart was everybody asking me to
get them free clothes, but theyasked for your certain sizes and
specific, so I got to go inthere and grab.
You know well if it's me, butyeah, that was super cool.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Did you go and try to get the missus something?
Just be like babe, you earnedit.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Not for free.
I just go in there and buy her,buy, you know, whatever she
wants.
You know, just put it on my tab.
I guess put it on my lifetimeof tab.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
So you going to go for the sponsorship again, I
guess?
Put it on my lifetime of tab.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
So you're going to go for the sponsorship again.
Um, I haven't really decided.
I honestly, I think for the 25,2025 season I I kind of want a
whole new lineup.
You know, I have, I have Nick.
Um, I still have, uh, someolder coffee sponsors.
(33:58):
Um one is profit, the otherone's non-profit.
They just kind of send me, youknow bags of coffee here and
there um which is fun.
Yeah, which is super cool.
Yeah, it's always fun gettingthose in the mail.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Um, yeah, it smells so good yeah, and you know
elaine.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I'm sure you know elaine.
Um, why did you have to shout?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
her out.
Dude, she's awesome, I can't Itry.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
You're not joking, I think I've even known her a
little longer than I've knownyou.
I mean, she was there rightwhen I started this whole thing.
She's a good lady um yeah, I'mnot shouting her out.
Dude, thanks for shouting herout so yeah, hoping to start a
new lineup of sponsors this year, and I mean, if I have to ride
(34:38):
solo, that's that's.
That's totally fine too.
You know, it'll happen in time.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So I don't think you'll, and if anything, I don't
think you'll be riding solothat long right, yeah, um yeah
dude.
I'm telling you, man, you gotthat, look, you got that rock
star mentality.
You know, like you said, I'mgonna have to explicit again,
but you know, you're a badmotherfucker and you need to
(35:04):
stay it, dude, and to even, likeyou know, do what you did in so
little time, be sponsored by,you know, nick reynolds and the
gang and elaine and boot barn.
Come on, come on.
That says a lot, dude.
So just keep doing what you'redoing, man.
Keep doing what you're doing.
(35:24):
I'm proud of you.
I'm finally happy that you'reon this podcast.
I want you to come back I wantyou to come back after this this
season.
Let me know how the baby'sdoing, how mom or the lady mom's
doing.
Okay, 100, give me just a headsup where you're gonna be.
I need your schedule so I cantry to run into you.
(35:46):
But, dude, do you want to addanything?
Did I miss anything?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
man, I don't know, we just covered like a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I feel like, yeah, my whole career and I don't even
know how many minutes and and itsounds like you've been
listening to, because you wentstraight into what I was gonna
go into like oh yeah, I listenall the time, you know when I'm
at work and I appreciate it yeahI appreciate it, dude.
What's your favorite episode sofar?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Don't say Nick, because he's sponsoring you.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
No, I like Mike.
Mike Reeds was pretty cool,right, and Elaine's for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Elaine's coming back on, but she's like I need to do.
You know how she talks.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I need to do this.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I need to do.
You know how she talks.
I need to do this.
I I need to do.
I don't know if the cat's outof the bag, but she's like I
need to do this event beforegetting on.
I'm like, all right, whatever,whatever you want, you know
she's gonna.
She's gonna message me, she'sgonna listen to this episode,
she's gonna message me andshe'll be like that's a good uh
impersonation.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
But yeah, that was pretty spot on right yeah, yeah,
I.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
I pay attention to a lot of things.
So, dude, speaking of payingattention, I'll be paying
attention, man and I.
I hope nothing but the best foryou and your family.
Mom, that didn't let you onback in the day, but I really I
won't yeah I won't hold that toto her.
(37:14):
But hey, NFR, again we'rehanging out.
Don't leave me hanging, becauseI know you were hanging with
Del Brisby.
You found out he was around, Itold you where he was and I was
like dude, I'm sitting in thisplace, Meet me.
And never heard anything back.
But it's all good.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
To be fair, I had no service in cowboy christmas.
I could not get a hold ofnobody.
I got lost myself a coupletimes okay, how was a meeting
del brisby?
Oh, um, you know I love the guy, but I gotta say a little
disappointing no, I got you, Igot yeah yeah, he shows a very
(37:54):
um.
He's got this big bubblypersonality all camera.
And then I met him and he'slike, yeah, what's going on?
Man, let's get a photo and getthe hell out of here that's,
that's business that's businessguy man.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, yeah, I don't, I totally understand, but, dude,
he's one of the nicest guys thatI've, that I've met,
personality wise, you know, anduh, yeah, it's, it is surprising
.
So.
But, dude, you go to the nfrfrom here on now.
Hit me up yeah, we'll be up and, yeah, we'll have dinner.
I'll pay for dinner.
Sound good?
(38:25):
Deal until you, you're, youbecome like a millionaire.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
You, you know or oh yeah, I'll buy you guys dinner.
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Drinks no sodas on you.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Yeah, sodas on me.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
All right, Peyton Till next time.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yep Sounds good man.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
All right, man, thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, thank you.
We'll see you next time.
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