River Klass
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170 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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We can really, really get to the rancher, talk about the guy and the gals that raise the horses, build the saddles, work the rodeos, you know, the pickup men at the rodeo, the guys in every livestock market that's in every county in America. So it's fun for me.
It is. I mean, I'm telling you people, my wife used to travel for a living and she's like, oh my God, I can't believe you want to get on a plane. And I'm like, are you kidding me? I get up four in the morning, because the airport's a couple, three hours away. I'm like, I'm up, I'm at the airport. oh, it gets delayed or it gets canceled. I'm like, I'm in an airport.
There's magazines and restaurants everywhere. I got nothing. I can read a book and I don't get this kind of time to do nothing. And then I get to meet the most fascinating people. And I'm telling you, I am not one of the, I'm not fifth, sixth generation. I'm first gen, first gen. So from one to 10, 10 being your sixth generation rancher and Zero being all hat, no cow. I'm about a two or three.
So I got the cow. I've roped. I got a couple of buckles. I got a bunch of horses. But I am still learning every minute of every day. And just the other day, I was in South Dakota. And we were doctoring on some cattle, and they had pink eye. And now here, we pink eye. We have a medicine we put in. We put a patch over our old Levi's.
We cut our old Levi's out, and we blew a little patch over the eyes. These guys were showing me how they take their LA-200, which is an antibiotic, and they can stick it right into the muscle right above there, and I'd never seen it. No one had ever taught. I'm usually by myself. I'd have to be out cowboying with someone and see them do it. I'm sitting right there. I am learning. Every time.
In California, we do head and heel. So we get all the calves in with their mamas. Everything's nice and calm. We want to keep beef on the cattle. We want them to stay calm. We don't want any of the adrenals going. Stay easy. So we walk in quiet. We throw loops on the calves, head them up.
kind of give them a little tug out, heel them, drag them to the fire, brand them, castrate, tag them, then right back to their mother. Now, I'm over here in the Dakotas. They drag and heel. Man, we did 350 calves in a couple hours. Five or six cowboys in there. They're just grabbing the heels, and they'll pull them out. There's a whole line of guys. That minute that calf gets out there,
They're on it. They've stretched it. Someone's got the vaccine. Someone's got the castration. They got a crayon to mark so you can see if the calf's done. You'll never have to guess. And I was like, this is brilliant. They're back to their mothers even faster. I love that kind of sharing of information and thought.
Now, when I was in there doing the branding and I kept grabbing one heel instead of two, And I pulled my calf up, and I said, you know, I only got one heel. Is that okay? And he said, well, it's okay. It's not good, but it's okay.
For me, it's unbelievable.
No possible way I would ever get to Riverton, Wyoming. This place is, you have to go a long ways to get nowhere from that place. And Tyler is one of the nicest guys I ever met. And I learned more about beef from him and his two daughters than I've ever done. It's incredible.
And then on September 27th, the second season airs. It's going to be fun. We do a couple things. Anthony Thomas, who's a NFR... bareback rider, which that's just who are anybody to bareback rides. That's just, that's just insane. Insane.
I couldn't even practice on his, on, on his little wooden dummy to try to hold my feet up in the, in the, in the markout position and then get my glove in and then try to get that glove out. And I'm only on a, on a, on a saw horse. I don't know how these guys do it, but we got, he's got a cattle company and he's selling beef and to go around with him, Jace Angus, uh, uh, saddle bronc rider.
We're going to be, um, uh, Benny Paulson, who's an NFR bull rider, he's doing regenerative ranching. We're all over, and we really get to meet some people. And the main thing is a lot about what you guys have been doing on your show. We're showing that these people, to survive, they've got to think out of the box. They've got to think.
Like I said earlier, there was a woman in the first season, one of the gals, she said, the death of any ag business is when, when a person says, well, that's how we've always done it because that's the way we always done it. That don't work no more. And we have got to innovate and we are making all the food that we need to, that we are, that we're consuming in America.
And like that one fellow said that you had on the show, I can't remember it. I wrote his name down, but I don't know where it is. You know, being able to show that this beef is coming from here in America, not from somewhere else, where the ground beef is, so you don't have 30 countries when you go to one of the big box stores.
There's a lot of stuff we can do on both sides, from the packers, you know, and I can always, you know, like anyone, I can get down on the packers like everybody can. That's a whole episode right there. But the guys and gals that are working their butts off, either growing it, or raising it so that we can eat it. These people, they've got to be innovating and they need to be shown.
Their story has to get out there so that when you go to your market, you just say, hey, thank God for them. The reason why I have leases is It's not because I have the money. I don't have the money for it. Why is there land coming up for lease? It's because families that are five and six generations, their kids are like, hello, that's way too much work.
I'm going to go to the city, work from nine to five, make a whole bunch of money. No one's calling me on a Saturday night because my calf's out on the highway. No one's calling me because my heifer needs to have a calf pulled out of it. Yeah, I understand. But like you say and like a lot of your guests say, it's a virus. It's in, and I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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