 We went to a little bar in downtown Cave Creek and you could pay I think it was like 50 bucks to get on an amateur bull you know not the real rank stuff but like anybody can sign a waiver and do it and my uncle was out here with us vacationing he's like you won't do it you know nudging me he's one of those uncles you know like you won't do it and I was like well I bet you I will now so I signed up signed my life away and gave him 50 bucks. To ride a bull you got to ride it for eight seconds for it to qualify. The first bull I rode that night I actually covered for eight seconds which was hilarious and my family was going berserk. From that night I got hooked. So Wednesday nights were kind of like the practice nights and then Friday nights were like jackpot nights. Money gets pulled up from everybody paying in to ride right and then whoever wins gets that jackpot. I guess you can call it gambling but gambling with your life. When I started winning money over at those jackpots some of these guys that are pro that are there practicing stuff I started talking to some of these guys and they're like you should look into getting your pro card for the PRCA man and away it went. When you do get a good bucking bull you know you get in sync with it you ride it just perfect like no matter how many thousands of people are in the stands like screaming like it's just you can't hear nothing and it feels like slow mo obviously it's only eight seconds but that eight seconds feels like an hour. There's nothing like that feeling man we're in some sports you get trophies right these are our trophies. We don't buy our buckles we win them so it's a fun time. It's a short-lived career because man you can only take a few wrecks from getting hit by a 2,200 pound bulls. During that time I was a ranch hand on a few ranches out in Rio Verde. That's tough work man getting up before the sun comes up getting all the feed around to the horses or the cattle whatever they had and how it kind of learns how to rope it we'd be uh at the end of the night after the rodeo somebody'd always have like an old rope in the back of the pickup truck and we'd be bored out in the parking lot you know what I mean and rope in each other's like trailer hitches you know the receiver with the little ball receiver people are just showing you how to do it and like once you learn it's like tying your shoes really. I was done working at the ranches I was just killing me so I got a job at the feed store and I started delivering the hay the feed store that I was at needed a truck driver so I got my CDL and like I think it was four weeks I've always wanted to drive trucks like because my grandfather drove trucks it was always a thing like man it'd be really cool to drive a big truck I just didn't know what I wanted to do yet for a career I was driving local I wasn't really happy with like how much money I was making and it's just a lot of things mentally going on with me I was I was depressed and had a lot of anxiety and just wanted to get moving with life but didn't know how I was so against like talking to a therapist I don't know why I just was like I was a therapist gonna help me they'd never been through what I've been through but it's not about that it's just about addressing what's bothering you you know and even if you have to go on medication I was always against that too like they're never gonna put me on a happy drug I don't want to you know I don't want that happy pill but it's not about that because brains literally your brain can be chemically imbalanced and like not make a certain chemical that it needs to like make you feel normal at one point I just didn't want to wake up and go to work you know like I got pretty bad but I got the help that I needed and I don't regret it so just talking to somebody was the best thing I could have done the more you bottle it up like it's just it's never gonna go away you know what I mean it's just sweeping in on the rug you know that phrase like it's always gonna be underneath that rug you know what I mean it's amazing honestly working working for night it really changed my outlook on a big company because I was really getting I was really nervous when you work with a team that is like so close to you like my dispatcher terminal manager like it's really cool you're hearing from them all the time they're always making sure you're all right you know everything's okay with the truck or if something does happen with the truck if it's taken care of right away and it changed my mind dude like night really amazed me on how well they take care of their drivers and I get to travel across this whole country and like I've been to a few states traveling with the rodeo and stuff but man I literally go to every state you know and meet us and it's great and I'm getting paid to do it I get to travel and get paid to do that and it's I get to make my own schedule pick what states I want to go to and it's really been a huge blessing that I became a driver for night