June 20, 2023 • 13 mins
Brandon Dunn was born into rodeo royalty. And for twenty years he fulfilled his destiny -- until a tragic car accident ended his career. Or nearly ended it. Brandon tells his story of loss and rehabilitation, and welcomes us into the fascinating world of rodeo clowning. To see Brandon in action, check-out his page here. (http://www.roblittle.com/)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, a quick heads up. This episode deals with
some unexpected loss, so listen at your own discretion.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I have these long wringler baggy pants that are about
five times to be some old red suspenders. I've got
different colored socks and converse tennis shoes with wide around.
My eyes and my mouth and the rest of my
face is painted red kind of. It's an old school
traditional look.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome back to on the Job. I'm Averrey Thompson, and
this week we're making a call over to Petrolia, Texas,
a little town up there on the banks of the
Red River, to speak with Brandon Dunn, who has, at
least in my opinion, one of the more fascinating jobs
on the planet.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm Brandon Dunn. I'm a professional rodeo clown and barrel man.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's right, partners. This year episode we're talking with a
rodeo clown. Yeeha. Now, I bet that there are probably
a few of you out there going what in blabbering
tarnation as a rodeo clown or heck, maybe you're surprised
to hear that rodeos still exist, to which I'm here
to tell you all that rodeos are alive and bucking.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is a huge business, and I think the popularity
of rodeo is growing more so now than it has
ever before it So I don't think rodeo is going
anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And that's not a biased opinion. There there are more
than six hundred rodeos put on across the USA and
countless more amateur events, and according to some sources, bull
riding is now America's fastest grown sport, which means that
people like Brandon Dunn can make a full time career
as a rodeo clown. Which if that doesn't make you
proud to be an American, well I don't know what will.
(01:46):
At most rodeos, Brandon has a designated time slot in
which he gets to come out there at the center
of the rodeo ring and perform his feature act.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's kind of a spoof of the old top Gun movie.
Got an old airplane? That is that Actually the cockpit
of it is an old World War two airplane, but
it's built on a corvet body, And so I'll fly
that thing in there and crash land that right in
the middle of the arena and tell everybody I'm trying
out to be Tom Cruise in the new Top Gun movie,
and it brings a lot of laughs. Kids really enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But most rodeo clowns also have a job to do
during the actual bull and bronco riding events, and Brandon
is certainly no exception, which is why he also calls
himself a barrel man, which strangely enough, is exactly what
it sounds like. Brandon will climb into a barrel which
has holes in the top and bottom for his head
and feet to protrude from, and then he'll get in
(02:39):
the ring and wait for the bull and his rider
to come shooting out of the gates.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
A lot of them times in bulls of buck, three
or four or five steps out of the buck and
shoot the bull rider bucks off. It's too far to
get to the fence for them to be safe, and
so I can bring that barrel in there to them
and distract the bull, and the bull hit me in
the barrel instead of the bull rider. In the bull
riding instance.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
What's it feel like to have a bull hit the barrel?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It does get intense. Sometimes that bull will end over
end that barrel and you come out of that barrel
and you don't know which ends up, and it's quite surprising.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And with there being two holes in that barrel, if
a barrel man's not careful or just downright unlucky, sometimes
a bull can even get his head or horns in there.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I had a bull to get his head in the
barrel with me before, and man, it looked like watching
the video, I think, how did I even survive that?
And a matter of fact, the bull bloodied his nose
when he stuck his head in there, and the blood
of that bull's nose was all over the barrel. Well,
everybody thought that was my blood inside and they were
trying to roll me out of the arena.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So the moral of the story, folks, is, don't let
that makeup fool you. These rodeo clowns are a tough
bunch of ombreis. And in case you haven't been to
a rodeo lately, let me remind you that we're not
talking about some little dairy cows here. These rodeo bulls
are supreme athletes who have been carefully bred to be
very big and ferociously mean. So from the very moment
(04:07):
these bulls are born, there's no question what they're going
to be doing. These bulls are destined for the rodeo.
But then it turns out that you could also say
the same thing about Brandon.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
My mom was a professional bell racer, my dad was
a steer wrestler. But I think I got the passion
of love to rodeo clowner now for my uncle, which
was Rex Done. He would do clown acts and five bulls,
and I think that's where my passion and the love
for clowning was born.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So rodeo clowning is in your blood, It's in your heritage,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Ever since I could remember, that's all I've ever wanted
to do. I mean from the time that I can
very first remember if I would have a set of
old baggies that my mom might cut up for me,
try to put on her old lipstick or something to
paint my face up with, and I would go outside
and we had an old blue healer dog that would
chase you around, and I let that dog takes me around,
pretending he was a bull. That's the only thing I
(05:04):
can ever remember really wanting to be was a rodeo clown.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No matter where you are in this big country of ours,
there's a good chance you can find a rodeo nearby.
Even those city slickers up in New York piland to
Madison Square Garden for three days every January to watch
riders and clowns perform their craft at its highest level,
Which means that the life of a rodeo man is
very much a life on the road.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I have to pretty much drive everywhere, and of course
in the state of Texas, Oklahoma got rodeos in Idaho
and Montana, so we just kind of travel all across
the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Do you like that aspect of it or does it
travel get tiring?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It gets tiring, But I think I've got enough gypsy
blood in me. And like I say, rodeo is a
way of life, not only the competition parts of it,
but the knights on the road, the time's away from home.
I mean, you certainly miss your family. So I've got
a wife that's very, very supportive, and she grew up
in the rodeo industry as well, so she very well
understands the nature of this business. But there's times that
(06:08):
you'll leave the house and it may be a month
or two before you get back home.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So that's how it went for Brandon. From one rodeo
to the next, with lots of lonely miles in between.
But there were miles that he accepted because he knew
that when he got there, whether it was a big
stadium in Houston or rinky dink little corral in Idaho,
that he had a job to do.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
When I'm in the arena, I forget everybody everything else
in the outside. That's kind of my sanctuary, and I
know for two hours, people have paid good money to
come and be entertained at a rodeo, and that is
my primary focus. To make sure that those people that
they can forget about their troubles and they can leave
and say, you know, we have been well entertained outside
(06:53):
of that arena. I'm truly I'm not a people person.
I'm just trying to kind of keep to myself, and
a lot of people that don't know me or know
what I do, they don't really understand. Said, how can
you be a clown? Because outside of the arena, you're
so serious and you're so withdrawn from people. But when
I get in that arena, you gotta lay all that back.
No matter what's going on, you just got to drop
it there. When you walk in that arena and entertain
(07:14):
the crowd.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Do you think putting on your outfit, putting on the
makeup allows you to become this other person?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Most definitely. I would compare it to be like a
method actor or something like that. You know, you get
into that character, and this character has become, for lack
of a better word, kind of my alter ego. When
I walk in there, I mean, it's kind of the
Chris Gains of Garth Brooks. When I walk in there,
I'm still Brandon, but I just take on this whole
new character and a whole new light in the arena.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And for seventeen years, Brandon lived that life, weekend after weekend,
full after ball, seventeen years of showmanship, seventeen years of
doing what he loved, and then it all came to
a tragic halt. We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
A strong work ethic takes pride in a job well done.
This is the kind of person you need. Express Employment
professionals can help because in good times or bad, we
understand how critical it is to manage your business for
today with the right workforce. We offer hiring solutions to
fit changing demands. Express knows Jobs. Get to know Express,
(08:29):
go to expresspros dot com to find a location near you.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We're back speaking with Brandon Dunn, who for seventeen years
traveled the country as a rodeo clown and bullfighter, entertaining
audiences with this comedy act and then stepping in the
ring with some of the world's fiercest bulls.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What are you thinking about right before they open the gate?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
There's really not a whole lot of thank of course,
I don't think you really think to be if you're
going to be a rodeo clown or bullfighter anyway, I
think half your brain has kind of been removed the choice,
career choice that you're going to be in. But at
this point in the game, there's not a whole lot
of thinking. It's just more reaction. You know what your
job is. It's just time to go get your job done.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But then, in April of two thousand and three, Brandon
and his family were involved in a horrific car accident.
The head on collision with a drunk driver killed Brandon's
seven year old daughter and left Brandon crippled.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There was four of us in that vehicle, and we
were all in separate hospitals. Didn't get to see each
other I didn't get to go to my daughter's funeral.
I mean, it busted me up from head to toe.
It took my Rodeo career, and to be truthful, probably
the first six years of it, I just pouted. I
was in a deep depression. You know, my whole life
had been completely turned upside down.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
In this time of darkness, Brandon turned away from Rodeo
life completely.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I kind of cut myself off from even my good
friends that were Rodeo on I just kind of, like
I said, I just pouted, stayed to myself. I tried
to change my whole lifestyle because Rodeo was such a
deep part of who I was and had such a
huge influence on me that I just completely just cut
myself off from that world.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
In the absence of Rodeo, Brandon hungered down at home
and focused his energy on the family cattle ranch. He
deepened his connection with his family and his faith in God.
He started up a little church that he became a
pastor of. But even though Brandon had turned his back
on Rodeo, Rodeo wasn't about to let him go that
easily because the passion Brandon once had for Rodeo was
(10:37):
beginning to show itself in the next generation of duns.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I guess he was about twelve years old or so.
He kept telling me. He said, Dad, I really want
to fight bulls. I really want to fight bulls. And
the little rascal, I said, the son, if you want
to do this, you're going to have to put out
some efforts. Showed me that you want to get in shape.
Of course, he's twelve years old, but the kids started
coming home when he started running, and he started doing
push ups and set ups every night, and I thought, well,
now dad's got to put up or shut up. So
(11:02):
I bought him a little little bitty miniature zebu bull.
I thought, well, this man, he was mean, little rascal,
and I thought, this little sucker, he's going to eat
Brindle's lunch up, and that'll be that. We'll be through
with this.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But instead, Brandon's son fell in love with that little bull,
and his interest in rodeoing only grew. And as Brandon
watched his son Brendle's passion for rodeo blossom, his old
love for the sport re emerged.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So I thought, well, the only way that I know
to goud this deal is maybe get me a barrel
and see if I can go back to just being
inside the barrel and doing my clown ax and stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So a few years after Doctors narrowly managed to put
Brandon Dunn back together again, he was back out in
the rodeo ring.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And sure enough it took off. The first probably three
or four years of Brindle's rodeo career, we were working rodeos,
me and him, and so I really never had intentions
of coming back to the level of the game that
I'm at right now. But God's kind of brought it
all back full circle, and it was because of Brindle.
Here we are in life is good.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
How does it feel to have your son following in
your clown truth?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, I've always told Brindle from an early age.
I said, son, you don't have to do this because
I do this. And honestly, there's times out there that
I couldn't be more proud. But there's time said, man,
I just want to stick my head in the barrel
and not see what's happening. I told him, I said, son,
if you ever want to go play Tidley Winks, let's
just go play Tiddley Winks. So we'll be the tidy
wing champion. It'll be a whole lot easier on your dad.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But of course this is a done we're talking about,
and Brandon's son is the next generation and a long
lineage of people born and bred for the rodeo ring.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I never dreamed, even when I was fighting bulls, that
I would be able to share the arena with my
son the way that I do now. And we have
lots of highlights, especially when he's in the bullfights and
I'm in the barrel. He brings that bull to the
barrel and it's just a total conversation while that barrel
is getting mucked out by that bull. Brindle's per checkting
that barrel and we'll talk and we'll laugh inside that thing,
(13:03):
and from the outside, I'm sure people in the stands think,
you know, one of us is fixing to get killed.
Brental's got total control over the situation. I feel just
completely safe in his hands when I'm in that barrel,
and every time we get out of it, we give
each other one great big hug. That's probably the highlight
of my whole career.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
For on the job. I'm Avery Thompson. I'll see you
down that dusty trail.
Hey, everybody, a quick heads up. This episode deals with
some unexpected loss, so listen at your own discretion.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I have these long wringler baggy pants that are about
five times to be some old red suspenders. I've got
different colored socks and converse tennis shoes with wide around.
My eyes and my mouth and the rest of my
face is painted red kind of. It's an old school
traditional look.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome back to on the Job. I'm Averrey Thompson, and
this week we're making a call over to Petrolia, Texas,
a little town up there on the banks of the
Red River, to speak with Brandon Dunn, who has, at
least in my opinion, one of the more fascinating jobs
on the planet.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm Brandon Dunn. I'm a professional rodeo clown and barrel man.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's right, partners. This year episode we're talking with a
rodeo clown. Yeeha. Now, I bet that there are probably
a few of you out there going what in blabbering
tarnation as a rodeo clown or heck, maybe you're surprised
to hear that rodeos still exist, to which I'm here
to tell you all that rodeos are alive and bucking.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is a huge business, and I think the popularity
of rodeo is growing more so now than it has
ever before it So I don't think rodeo is going
anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And that's not a biased opinion. There there are more
than six hundred rodeos put on across the USA and
countless more amateur events, and according to some sources, bull
riding is now America's fastest grown sport, which means that
people like Brandon Dunn can make a full time career
as a rodeo clown. Which if that doesn't make you
proud to be an American, well I don't know what will.
(01:46):
At most rodeos, Brandon has a designated time slot in
which he gets to come out there at the center
of the rodeo ring and perform his feature act.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's kind of a spoof of the old top Gun movie.
Got an old airplane? That is that Actually the cockpit
of it is an old World War two airplane, but
it's built on a corvet body, And so I'll fly
that thing in there and crash land that right in
the middle of the arena and tell everybody I'm trying
out to be Tom Cruise in the new Top Gun movie,
and it brings a lot of laughs. Kids really enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But most rodeo clowns also have a job to do
during the actual bull and bronco riding events, and Brandon
is certainly no exception, which is why he also calls
himself a barrel man, which strangely enough, is exactly what
it sounds like. Brandon will climb into a barrel which
has holes in the top and bottom for his head
and feet to protrude from, and then he'll get in
(02:39):
the ring and wait for the bull and his rider
to come shooting out of the gates.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
A lot of them times in bulls of buck, three
or four or five steps out of the buck and
shoot the bull rider bucks off. It's too far to
get to the fence for them to be safe, and
so I can bring that barrel in there to them
and distract the bull, and the bull hit me in
the barrel instead of the bull rider. In the bull
riding instance.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
What's it feel like to have a bull hit the barrel?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It does get intense. Sometimes that bull will end over
end that barrel and you come out of that barrel
and you don't know which ends up, and it's quite surprising.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And with there being two holes in that barrel, if
a barrel man's not careful or just downright unlucky, sometimes
a bull can even get his head or horns in there.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I had a bull to get his head in the
barrel with me before, and man, it looked like watching
the video, I think, how did I even survive that?
And a matter of fact, the bull bloodied his nose
when he stuck his head in there, and the blood
of that bull's nose was all over the barrel. Well,
everybody thought that was my blood inside and they were
trying to roll me out of the arena.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So the moral of the story, folks, is, don't let
that makeup fool you. These rodeo clowns are a tough
bunch of ombreis. And in case you haven't been to
a rodeo lately, let me remind you that we're not
talking about some little dairy cows here. These rodeo bulls
are supreme athletes who have been carefully bred to be
very big and ferociously mean. So from the very moment
(04:07):
these bulls are born, there's no question what they're going
to be doing. These bulls are destined for the rodeo.
But then it turns out that you could also say
the same thing about Brandon.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
My mom was a professional bell racer, my dad was
a steer wrestler. But I think I got the passion
of love to rodeo clowner now for my uncle, which
was Rex Done. He would do clown acts and five bulls,
and I think that's where my passion and the love
for clowning was born.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So rodeo clowning is in your blood, It's in your heritage,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Ever since I could remember, that's all I've ever wanted
to do. I mean from the time that I can
very first remember if I would have a set of
old baggies that my mom might cut up for me,
try to put on her old lipstick or something to
paint my face up with, and I would go outside
and we had an old blue healer dog that would
chase you around, and I let that dog takes me around,
pretending he was a bull. That's the only thing I
(05:04):
can ever remember really wanting to be was a rodeo clown.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No matter where you are in this big country of ours,
there's a good chance you can find a rodeo nearby.
Even those city slickers up in New York piland to
Madison Square Garden for three days every January to watch
riders and clowns perform their craft at its highest level,
Which means that the life of a rodeo man is
very much a life on the road.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I have to pretty much drive everywhere, and of course
in the state of Texas, Oklahoma got rodeos in Idaho
and Montana, so we just kind of travel all across
the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Do you like that aspect of it or does it
travel get tiring?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It gets tiring, But I think I've got enough gypsy
blood in me. And like I say, rodeo is a
way of life, not only the competition parts of it,
but the knights on the road, the time's away from home.
I mean, you certainly miss your family. So I've got
a wife that's very, very supportive, and she grew up
in the rodeo industry as well, so she very well
understands the nature of this business. But there's times that
(06:08):
you'll leave the house and it may be a month
or two before you get back home.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So that's how it went for Brandon. From one rodeo
to the next, with lots of lonely miles in between.
But there were miles that he accepted because he knew
that when he got there, whether it was a big
stadium in Houston or rinky dink little corral in Idaho,
that he had a job to do.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
When I'm in the arena, I forget everybody everything else
in the outside. That's kind of my sanctuary, and I
know for two hours, people have paid good money to
come and be entertained at a rodeo, and that is
my primary focus. To make sure that those people that
they can forget about their troubles and they can leave
and say, you know, we have been well entertained outside
(06:53):
of that arena. I'm truly I'm not a people person.
I'm just trying to kind of keep to myself, and
a lot of people that don't know me or know
what I do, they don't really understand. Said, how can
you be a clown? Because outside of the arena, you're
so serious and you're so withdrawn from people. But when
I get in that arena, you gotta lay all that back.
No matter what's going on, you just got to drop
it there. When you walk in that arena and entertain
(07:14):
the crowd.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Do you think putting on your outfit, putting on the
makeup allows you to become this other person?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Most definitely. I would compare it to be like a
method actor or something like that. You know, you get
into that character, and this character has become, for lack
of a better word, kind of my alter ego. When
I walk in there, I mean, it's kind of the
Chris Gains of Garth Brooks. When I walk in there,
I'm still Brandon, but I just take on this whole
new character and a whole new light in the arena.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And for seventeen years, Brandon lived that life, weekend after weekend,
full after ball, seventeen years of showmanship, seventeen years of
doing what he loved, and then it all came to
a tragic halt. We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
A strong work ethic takes pride in a job well done.
This is the kind of person you need. Express Employment
professionals can help because in good times or bad, we
understand how critical it is to manage your business for
today with the right workforce. We offer hiring solutions to
fit changing demands. Express knows Jobs. Get to know Express,
(08:29):
go to expresspros dot com to find a location near you.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We're back speaking with Brandon Dunn, who for seventeen years
traveled the country as a rodeo clown and bullfighter, entertaining
audiences with this comedy act and then stepping in the
ring with some of the world's fiercest bulls.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
What are you thinking about right before they open the gate?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
There's really not a whole lot of thank of course,
I don't think you really think to be if you're
going to be a rodeo clown or bullfighter anyway, I
think half your brain has kind of been removed the choice,
career choice that you're going to be in. But at
this point in the game, there's not a whole lot
of thinking. It's just more reaction. You know what your
job is. It's just time to go get your job done.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But then, in April of two thousand and three, Brandon
and his family were involved in a horrific car accident.
The head on collision with a drunk driver killed Brandon's
seven year old daughter and left Brandon crippled.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There was four of us in that vehicle, and we
were all in separate hospitals. Didn't get to see each
other I didn't get to go to my daughter's funeral.
I mean, it busted me up from head to toe.
It took my Rodeo career, and to be truthful, probably
the first six years of it, I just pouted. I
was in a deep depression. You know, my whole life
had been completely turned upside down.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
In this time of darkness, Brandon turned away from Rodeo
life completely.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I kind of cut myself off from even my good
friends that were Rodeo on I just kind of, like
I said, I just pouted, stayed to myself. I tried
to change my whole lifestyle because Rodeo was such a
deep part of who I was and had such a
huge influence on me that I just completely just cut
myself off from that world.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
In the absence of Rodeo, Brandon hungered down at home
and focused his energy on the family cattle ranch. He
deepened his connection with his family and his faith in God.
He started up a little church that he became a
pastor of. But even though Brandon had turned his back
on Rodeo, Rodeo wasn't about to let him go that
easily because the passion Brandon once had for Rodeo was
(10:37):
beginning to show itself in the next generation of duns.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I guess he was about twelve years old or so.
He kept telling me. He said, Dad, I really want
to fight bulls. I really want to fight bulls. And
the little rascal, I said, the son, if you want
to do this, you're going to have to put out
some efforts. Showed me that you want to get in shape.
Of course, he's twelve years old, but the kids started
coming home when he started running, and he started doing
push ups and set ups every night, and I thought, well,
now dad's got to put up or shut up. So
(11:02):
I bought him a little little bitty miniature zebu bull.
I thought, well, this man, he was mean, little rascal,
and I thought, this little sucker, he's going to eat
Brindle's lunch up, and that'll be that. We'll be through
with this.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But instead, Brandon's son fell in love with that little bull,
and his interest in rodeoing only grew. And as Brandon
watched his son Brendle's passion for rodeo blossom, his old
love for the sport re emerged.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So I thought, well, the only way that I know
to goud this deal is maybe get me a barrel
and see if I can go back to just being
inside the barrel and doing my clown ax and stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
So a few years after Doctors narrowly managed to put
Brandon Dunn back together again, he was back out in
the rodeo ring.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And sure enough it took off. The first probably three
or four years of Brindle's rodeo career, we were working rodeos,
me and him, and so I really never had intentions
of coming back to the level of the game that
I'm at right now. But God's kind of brought it
all back full circle, and it was because of Brindle.
Here we are in life is good.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
How does it feel to have your son following in
your clown truth?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, I've always told Brindle from an early age.
I said, son, you don't have to do this because
I do this. And honestly, there's times out there that
I couldn't be more proud. But there's time said, man,
I just want to stick my head in the barrel
and not see what's happening. I told him, I said, son,
if you ever want to go play Tidley Winks, let's
just go play Tiddley Winks. So we'll be the tidy
wing champion. It'll be a whole lot easier on your dad.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But of course this is a done we're talking about,
and Brandon's son is the next generation and a long
lineage of people born and bred for the rodeo ring.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I never dreamed, even when I was fighting bulls, that
I would be able to share the arena with my
son the way that I do now. And we have
lots of highlights, especially when he's in the bullfights and
I'm in the barrel. He brings that bull to the
barrel and it's just a total conversation while that barrel
is getting mucked out by that bull. Brindle's per checkting
that barrel and we'll talk and we'll laugh inside that thing,
(13:03):
and from the outside, I'm sure people in the stands think,
you know, one of us is fixing to get killed.
Brental's got total control over the situation. I feel just
completely safe in his hands when I'm in that barrel,
and every time we get out of it, we give
each other one great big hug. That's probably the highlight
of my whole career.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
For on the job. I'm Avery Thompson. I'll see you
down that dusty trail.
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