You Betcha RODEO

Summary

You Betcha Radio – “You Betcha RODEO”

Date: September 29, 2025
Hosts: Myles (“You Betcha Guy”), Ryan, Tyler, Jerrod
Main Theme:
The gang dives into the world of rodeos, exploring which events they’d participate in, the quirks of rodeo culture, and classic Midwest banter about masculinity, nostalgia, and A1 versus AI.

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Episode Overview

This episode is a playful, laughter-filled exploration of the rodeo scene through the eyes of four Midwesterners who admit their rodeo inexperience, riff on which events suit their personalities, and poke fun at how fundamentally out-of-place they’d be “in the arena.” They veer between hypothetical roles in rodeo, Midwest humor, and side stories about generational misunderstandings and life advice—all delivered in their trademark down-to-earth tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Who Would Rock Which Rodeo Event?

• The crew assigns themselves (and each other) different classic rodeo roles—bull rider, barrel racer, roper, rodeo clown—mostly for laughs and hypothetical hijinks.
  • Ryan as the Barrel Racer
    • “I think Ryan would be really good at barrel racing.” (Ryan, 00:05)
    • Tyler jokes about how Ryan would look in "those jeans."
  • Tyler as the Bull Rider
    • “Who's insane enough to get on a bull?” (Tyler, 00:19)
    • Tyler and Ryan riff about safety: “Would you wear one of those back braces?” (Tyler, 00:36)
      “If they pad me up, I’ll do it.” (Ryan, 00:42)
  • Low T Bulls and Middle-Age Caution
    • “Me and Low—That would be the name of the bull too. It'd be Low T. Like what all the kids ride.” (Ryan & Tyler, 00:48–00:53)
    • Ryan quips about parenthood adjusting his risk tolerance:
      “Pre-kids, in a heartbeat. Now, I gotta worry about dying and having my kids grow up fatherless.” (Ryan, 00:27)
• They admit their lack of rodeo expertise:
  • “We’re just not rodeo guys... unless you’ve been going a few times, you don’t really know what’s going on.” (Tyler, 01:04)

What Rodeo Events Actually Are (and Choosing Sides)

• Quick rundown of classic rodeo events: roping, barrel racing, bronc riding, bull riding (01:46–01:55).
• Tyler lays claim to roping: “I’d like to be a roper, I think.” (Tyler, 01:55)
• Guest wants barrel racing (Guest, 02:01).
• They marvel at watching kids struggle in rodeo events on TV and joke about tying mishaps:
  • “Well, they can’t even tie their shoes. How they got to tie a calf?” (Host, 02:23)
  • “They need a Velcro rope.” (Tyler, 02:26)

Rodeo Anecdotes & Relationship Side Talk

• Funny discussion about the strength and prowess of ropers:
  • “Imagine being a woman, getting in bed with one of these ropers—like, You ready?” (Guest, 02:45)
• Referencing a past call-in:
  • “We had a gal call in for the Bellied Up podcast. Was she dating a guy who is a bull rider?” (Tyler, 02:53)
  • "She said she wanted to, like, throw salt in his eyes and tie him up." (Host, 03:10)

Rodeo Spectator Culture & PBR

• Chat about attending big rodeos like PBR events in Las Vegas:
  • “There are a lot of non-rodeo people who go to that. Because electric.” (Guest, 03:30)
  • “Rodeo—sweet. I just don’t ever go and don’t know anything about it.” (Tyler, 03:45)

Midwest Stereotypes & Real Life

• Ryan reveals his financial advisor is a rodeo guy—a wild Midwest juxtaposition:
  • “Hey dude, do you want to buy into term life insurance? Also, I can’t talk this weekend because I’m going to be riding a 3,000 pound bull.” (Ryan, 03:59)

Dream (and Nightmare) Rodeo Jobs

• Ryan and the crew vote for him as a rodeo clown:
  • “If we were working it though, Ryan, be rodeo clown.” (Tyler, 04:16)
  • “You’d be a great rodeo clown.” (Host, 04:19)
  • They joke about annoying, talking rodeo clowns, preferring a “mime rodeo clown.” (Tyler, 04:32)
• Guest prefers being on the “usher horses”:
  • “If I was going to be working rodeo, I’d want to be... on the usher horses” (Guest, 04:45)
  • “They get like right up next to the bull... and usher them back into the chute.” (Guest, 05:01)

Midwest Family Quirks: AI versus “A1”

• The crew riffs on grandpa calling AI “A1” after steak sauce:
  • “My grandpa calls AI ‘A1,’ as in the steak sauce. Is it even worth correcting him?” (Host, 05:11)
  • “Just let him ride, dude.” (Ryan, 05:27)
  • “He thinks the same company makes both. They went from steak sauce, like the most unnecessary sauce on the planet, to self-thinking computers.” (Ryan, 05:47)
  • “It’s like Nintendo making board games to video game consoles.” (Host, 05:58)
  • “But even worse, that’s like if Nintendo was making postage stamps and then did video games.” (Tyler, 06:03)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On responsible adulthood:
  “Pre-kids, in a heartbeat. Now, I gotta worry about dying and having my kids grow up fatherless.”
  — Ryan, 00:27

• Riffing on Midwest rodeo inexperience:
  “We’re just not rodeo guys… unless you’ve been going a few times, you don’t really know what’s going on.”
  — Tyler, 01:04

• What if your financial advisor is a rodeo cowboy?
  “Hey dude, do you want to buy into term life insurance? Also, I can’t talk this weekend because I’m going to be riding a 3,000-pound bull.”
  — Ryan, 03:59

• On the grandpa who calls ‘AI’ “A1”:
  “He thinks the same company makes both. They went from steak sauce, like the most unnecessary sauce on the planet, to self-thinking computers.”
  — Ryan, 05:47

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:05 – Assigning rodeo roles & barrel racing jokes
• 00:27 – Ryan’s take on risk post-kids
• 01:04 – Midwest rodeo ignorance admits
• 01:46–01:55 – Listing rodeo events
• 02:23 – Tying calves: TV mishaps, Midwest humor
• 02:53 – Story about a caller dating a bull rider
• 03:30 – On non-rodeo folks flocking to big PBR events
• 03:59 – Ryan’s financial advisor: rodeo guy
• 04:16 – Ryan as rodeo clown banter
• 04:45 – Guest’s dream job: “usher horses”
• 05:11 – Grandpa’s “A1” for AI and related riffs

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Summary

This episode is a fast-moving, joke-heavy riff on the reality (and fantasy) of being “rodeo guys” as Midwesterners. The You Betcha team bounces between assigning themselves rodeo roles, marveling at real rodeo skills, poking fun at Midwest family quirks, and providing relatable Midwest observations. Even without actual rodeo knowledge, the gang uses their signature blend of self-deprecation, camaraderie, and regional humor to make rodeo culture both mystifying and hilarious to the uninitiated.

Transcript

[Host]

If you betcha. Join the rodeo, who's doing what and who'd be the best.

[Ryan]

I think Ryan would be really good at barrel racing.

[Tyler]

It also would look nice on a pair of those jeans.

[Host]

I think he'd be a great rodeo car.

[Guest]

Miss me jeans or what? Rock revivals. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Who's. Who's insane enough to get on a bowl?

[Host]

I think Tyler could.

[Guest]

Yeah, I think. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Pre kids in a heartbeat. Now. Now I got to worry about have dying and having my kids grow up fatherless.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Host]

Oh, you wear a helmet, though?

[Tyler]

Yeah, I would you wear one of those back braces?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, if they.

[Tyler]

Fine, dude.

[Ryan]

If they pad me up, I'll do it.

[Tyler]

We'll put you on, like, the. We'll put you on, like, the older bowl with the lower T. Perfect.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Me and. Me and Low.

[Tyler]

That would be the name of the bowl, too. It'd be low T. Like, what all the kids ride.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Guest]

So, like, what are. Okay, like, what kind of. What are the jobs that we can pick from?

[Ryan]

I know.

[Host]

Rodeo clone's one of them.

[Tyler]

Yeah, we're just. What sucks is we're just not rodeo guys. Like, I've been to a rodeo, but if you're not Ian rodeo, you don't really fully know what's going on unless you've been going a few times.

[Guest]

Like, I. I'll. I'll tighten the strap around the.

[Ryan]

The.

[Guest]

Around the bulls. Like, what do they call this?

[Host]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

We working it, or are we, like, competing in this?

[Ryan]

I guess I feel like working it would be a boring question. He's got to be asked the rodeo In.

[Guest]

In terms of competing, there's only one occup. Like, there's only one job that can be taken that's getting on the ball. So that covers one of us. Then.

[Tyler]

What about. Then you have, like, the barrel racers, like, the calf.

[Guest]

Gotcha. Gotcha.

[Ryan]

Yeah. You have roping, you have barrel racing, you have Bronx, and you have bulls, and those are the only ones I know of.

[Guest]

Okay, so let's go with those.

[Tyler]

I'd like to be a roper, I think.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Try it out. I don't know.

[Guest]

I'll take. Yeah, I'll take the barrel.

[Ryan]

When. When I work from home, I just have the TV on in the background, and it was on rodeo one day, and I kind of got into. They were roping calves, these kids were. And then they'd have to get out and tie them up super fast, and a bunch of them kept screwing up when they would tie them up. And so they were all just Getting super pissed. It was kind of fun to watch.

[Host]

Well, they can. Can't even tie their shoes. How they got tired.

[Tyler]

Yeah. They need a Velcro rope.

[Ryan]

They're like.

[Guest]

Yeah, they just want cowboy boots their whole life. They don't know how to tie shirts.

[Tyler]

True.

[Ryan]

Like some of them were like full. Just hip. Tossing these cabs. Oh yeah.

[Guest]

That's impressive, dude. Watching like adults do that. I went to that rodeo at the Dome last year. They. They throw those things around.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Like, imagine being a woman, like getting in bed with one of these ropers like, you ready?

[Tyler]

We actually had a gal call in for the Bellied up podcast that. Was she dating a guy who is a bull rider. Yeah.

[Host]

And she couldn't keep up with him in bed or something.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Or he was kind of didn't want to unleash the beast in bed and she wanted him to or something like that.

[Host]

She said she wanted to like throw salt in his eyes and tie him up.

[Tyler]

Yeah, something like that. It was a Patreon episode on Bellied up for sure. Hell yeah.

[Host]

Episode 94.

[Guest]

I. I have heard though the. What is it? The NFR is.

[Ryan]

It's pbr. There's another one.

[Guest]

The one in Las Vegas. The massive ones at the pbr. I believe so. I mean I've. I think there are a lot of just like non rodeo people who go to that. Because electric.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No.

[Tyler]

100%.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Rodeo. Sweet. I just don't ever go and don't know anything about it.

[Ryan]

My financial advisor does rodeo.

[Guest]

Really?

[Ryan]

Dear rodeo, the most opposite personalities you could possibly have.

[Guest]

Yeah, right.

[Ryan]

Hey, dude, do you want to buy into term life insurance? Also, I can't talk this weekend because I'm going to be riding a 3,000 pound bull.

[Guest]

Yeah. Also I can't talk this weekend. My jaws wired shut.

[Tyler]

Like I literally can't talk.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Host]

They have texting.

[Tyler]

If we were working it though, Ryan, be rodeo clown.

[Host]

You'd be a great rodeo clown.

[Guest]

That'd be fine. The one, the one at the rodeo I went to this last night.

[Ryan]

He.

[Guest]

It was just annoying after a while because he was like getting on the mic and.

[Host]

Oh, I don't like that.

[Guest]

Yeah, it was. No, it was. It was just fine.

[Tyler]

You're gonna be like a mime rodeo clown, you know? No.

[Ryan]

Silent clown.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Host]

He tries to escape.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Guest]

Actually I think if I was. If I was going to be working rodeo, I'd want to be. I'll call them like the, the us on the like the usher horses. So essentially they get like right up next to the bowl after the guy guy gets bucked off or jumps off and they like usher them back into the.

[Ryan]

Into the shoot.

[Guest]

Yeah, those guys are amazing.

[Tyler]

All right, that'll be. But you're the rodeo clown.

[Guest]

Yeah.

[Host]

Let's see. Pizza Hut. Paul, my grandpa calls AI A1, as in the steak sauce. Is it even worth correcting him or do I just need to ride with the wave of him calling it A one?

[Ryan]

Just let him ride, dude.

[Guest]

Yeah, he's probably not gonna learn.

[Tyler]

What's it gonna hurt if he knows that he doesn't know that it's AI. What? I wonder what he thinks it stands for.

[Ryan]

No, he has no clue.

[Host]

Steak sauce.

[Ryan]

He thinks the same company makes both. It pivoted. They went from steak sauce, like the most unnecessary sauce on the planet to self thinking computers.

[Host]

It's like Nintendo making board games to video game consoles.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tyler]

But even worse, that's like if Nintendo was making postage stamps and then did.

[Ryan]

Video games just decided to really get into pizza ovens. Yeah.

[Tyler]

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