Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: Idiot's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust. And guess what. The
Speaker 1: ladies are back in town. The Women's Ranch Rodeo Association
Speaker 1: twentieth Annual World Finals coming to Pahaska seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth,
Speaker 1: and we've got Billy Franks in.
Speaker 2: With us as we always do. How you doing, young lady? Well,
Speaker 2: I tell you what she was showing me.
Speaker 1: Her Styli footwear, because you got the booths for the
Speaker 1: championship last year, right, yes, sir, and that was the
Speaker 1: darn spiffy. But we've got nine teams this year for
Speaker 1: the Women's Ranch Rodeo Finals.
Speaker 2: And where are they all coming from?
Speaker 3: In Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, you name.
Speaker 2: It, they're going to be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, we're really good teams. This is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And we've even incorporated the fact that even kids, we
Speaker 1: take some schools in there to show off a little
Speaker 1: bit to give them a little taste of what's going on.
Speaker 2: How'd that go last year? Pretty good?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh man?
Speaker 3: Yeah? This what Friday morning? We're gonna have a bunch
Speaker 3: of school kids out at the ten o'clock performance.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be the Clarence Bradley Arena
Speaker 1: and it's just ten dollars per person for you know,
Speaker 1: regular folks to twenty five dollars for all three performances.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that's really cool is the
Speaker 1: kickoff party. And now we do know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the back number ceremony in the Calcutta.
Speaker 1: But after that, the gentleman that kind of puts it
Speaker 1: on for you, he just surprises you every year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Cody does a fantastic job there with the
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson Museum and the Buck and Flamingo. Those guys
Speaker 3: they last I think all three four years we've had
Speaker 3: love music. But you never know what it's going to
Speaker 3: be and it's always a good time. If Cody's in
Speaker 3: charge of the kickoff party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh, this is going to be great.
Speaker 2: Now this is coming up on the seventeenth.
Speaker 1: This will be at the Constantine Theater and the kickoff
Speaker 1: party is really, like you said, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You really you really don't know what to expect until
Speaker 1: you get there. But the end result is it's fun.
Speaker 3: It's fun. And the Osage County Cattle Women they'll be
Speaker 3: having some refreshment, some snacks and stuff there for us
Speaker 3: and the Constantine's there are some beverages and you can
Speaker 3: mingle with all the teens and get to know the
Speaker 3: girls and it's a fun time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It really truly is now when we talk about the
Speaker 1: Osage County Cattle Women A lot of folks don't know that.
Speaker 2: When we raise money.
Speaker 1: Here, but a good portion of the proceeds stays local,
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
Speaker 3: That's right. All the ticket sales to the audio, half
Speaker 3: of that money goes to the Osage County Cattle Women's Association.
Speaker 2: Yes, righty, that's great.
Speaker 1: Now we've got a train show this year, and I
Speaker 1: understand that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have some cool stuff there. I don't know
Speaker 3: who ELL's there. I'm not in charge of that, but
Speaker 3: I know the association. We'll be selling some T shirts
Speaker 3: and we got three different styles and they're pretty cool.
Speaker 3: For the twentieth year, it'll be a little surprise for
Speaker 3: everybody there too.
Speaker 2: Well, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Now we have the shows, the performances. We have Friday
Speaker 1: at ten am. What can we expect on performance one,
Speaker 1: just a good time, yeah, healthy competition, competition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty tight going for the world title. Between
Speaker 3: the first and second team, I think there's nine points
Speaker 3: there and between second, third and fourth there's pretty tight.
Speaker 3: I can't remember the points spread there, but everybody there
Speaker 3: is pretty tight. So it's gonna come down to the weekend.
Speaker 3: Who wins the world Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's one of these things where you
Speaker 1: got to you gotta do it. You can't just sit
Speaker 1: there and run it through the computer. Got the second
Speaker 1: performance Friday night at seven pm, and then the last
Speaker 1: performance is going to be Saturday at four pm. And
Speaker 1: then we've got the awards ceremony at the fair Grounds
Speaker 1: at about eight thirty. That's when everybody kind of gets
Speaker 1: the dust off them and gets gets.
Speaker 3: Ready to go and another party. Yeah. Yeah, celebration, celebration, celebration.
Speaker 1: Now, when people think of the Ranch Rodeo, it's different
Speaker 1: than your your your typical rodeo. You have a lot
Speaker 1: of different types of events and it's a team sport.
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about all four women compete
Speaker 3: in all five events, so we'll have simulated events as
Speaker 3: the duties you do on the ranch itself. And all
Speaker 3: of these girls either work on a ranch, help out
Speaker 3: on a ranch. It's not just like a weekend deal.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a connection to a ranch that that's on
Speaker 3: these teams.
Speaker 2: So this isn't a hobby, this is a profession.
Speaker 3: This is what they do for a living and we
Speaker 3: like to and there's a lot of women out there
Speaker 3: that do this for a living, but these are the
Speaker 3: girls that like to compete and like the adrenaline. I
Speaker 3: guess we're kind of adrenaline junkies. But we're just sorting,
Speaker 3: you know, sorts cattle out. We do doctrine, head and
Speaker 3: healing like they do in like normal rodeo. TI down
Speaker 3: mugging is the big favorite because it's a combination of
Speaker 3: heading healing, bulldogging and calf brand calf tying. So you
Speaker 3: got a head, heel, get the steer down like six
Speaker 3: hundred pound steer, seven hundred pounds steer, tie three legs together.
Speaker 3: That's entertaining.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a lot of work.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And trailer loading got to sort out a bovine
Speaker 3: and loaded up in the trailer.
Speaker 2: So and then bring its own challenge.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's it's it's I think it's
Speaker 3: a fast it's our Fast and Furious event.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the thing is is that it's coming right
Speaker 1: to our backyard. And we were fortunate enough to move
Speaker 1: this from Kansas to Pahaska about four or five years ago,
Speaker 1: I believe. And I remember this because I remember sitting
Speaker 1: with you in the green room. We really don't have
Speaker 1: a green room, folk, but we can pretend, uh, and
Speaker 1: we were we were talking about this because I was
Speaker 1: unfamiliar with what a ranch rodeo entailed coming from the
Speaker 1: Great Lakes. They don't have that up there. They might
Speaker 1: have a rodeo at a county fair someplace.
Speaker 3: But you know, so we have a team that is
Speaker 3: representing uh Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the good after the news, My goodness sakes, they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna appreciate the warm weather.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been coming to quite a few of the rodeos.
Speaker 1: And you know, those folks up in Minnesota, they do
Speaker 1: have summer. If it lands on a Saturday, they have
Speaker 1: a picnic.
Speaker 3: I think that's miss Church, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But this is gonna be great. Now, how do we
Speaker 1: go about getting our tickets? Can we just get them
Speaker 1: at the event?
Speaker 3: Get them at the gate, or we'll be giving away
Speaker 3: some free risk fans here.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, folks, what I got them right here?
Speaker 1: She gave me a big old envelope follow them. So
Speaker 1: for you listening, we'll be giving them away on all
Speaker 1: our say, show up.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of seating, twenty of seating. Just show up
Speaker 3: and the ladies will take your money at the gate.
Speaker 1: They sure will, and it'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And how do we get tickets to the kickoff party?
Speaker 1: Is that a special thing?
Speaker 2: No, just show up, show up, Wow, you guys are great.
Speaker 3: Just come to the party. Come to the rodeo my
Speaker 3: goodness sake and for the moment, or make your plans now,
Speaker 3: it makes no difference.
Speaker 1: Twentieth Annual World Finals Women's Ranch Rodeo Association. Once again, folks,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in Pa Hoska. It's going to be
Speaker 1: this weekend, seventeen, eeenth and nineteenth. Got the trade shows,
Speaker 1: got the performances, got the kickoff party on the seventeenth,
Speaker 1: big surprises. And of course these shows are going to
Speaker 1: be on Friday at ten am. Second performance will be
Speaker 1: Friday at seven pm, and then the third will be
Speaker 1: Saturday at four pm. All of the Clarence Bradley Arena.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering about costs, it's ten dollars a person.
Speaker 1: But if you want to see all three, you can
Speaker 1: get yourself a bargain here at twenty five dollars for
Speaker 1: all three performances. And don't forget the awards ceremony too.
Speaker 1: We've got some folks who kind of help us out
Speaker 1: in a little bit, the folks from Richie. We've got
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, Cowboy Museum, the buck In Flamingo, Yeddi and
Speaker 1: a few others. Now, those are pretty good folks to know.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, They're just great folks to know.
Speaker 3: They're fun too, Yeah, funnest number one.
Speaker 1: So say thank you to these folks that are sponsoring
Speaker 1: the event too. And if we want to find anything else,
Speaker 1: do you have like a Facebook page or a website?
Speaker 3: Rodoa page just Women's Training Rodeo Association Google so it'll
Speaker 3: show up, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, it will.
Speaker 3: Women's Tryingtrodeo dot org is a website.
Speaker 1: All right, little super Billy, I want thank you for
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 3: It's always fun, Tom oh it.
Speaker 2: Is, it truly is.
Speaker 1: And thanks for bringing the wristbands to because we're gonna
Speaker 1: give those away on the radio here. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember a good portion of the money that we raised
Speaker 1: here with the Women's Ranch Rodeo Association is going to
Speaker 1: stay local with the oce Age County Cattle Women Associations too. Nice, nice,
Speaker 1: all right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
Speaker 1: community connection on K one.