I’ll Try Anything Once, Episode 2: Rodeo Clown
Touré enters the world of human bull bait in Cody, Wyoming, when he gambles life and limb to become a rodeo clown. After a rough and tumble training with veteran bull dodging clown Timber Tuckness, Touré is left alone in the middle of the ring to protect the riders (and himself) from 2,000 pounds of angry bull.
Touré’s Real World Tip
Rocky Mountain Oysters are a delicacy in Wyoming and some of the surrounding states. But it’s got nothing to do with oysters. It’s deep-fried bull’s testicles. Just thought you should know before you try em. I did and they tasted fine. Also, if you ever find yourself running away from a bull you should try to run in tight, small arcs because a four-footed, multi-ton bull can’t turn as fast as can two-legged humans. Course, if you ever find yourself running away from a bull you may not find yourself with the calm presence of mind necessary to recall this.
Touré’s Journal Entry
Episode Two – Rodeo Clown, Cody, Wyoming
While I was in Cody I went to the rodeo five consecutive nights because it was exciting and because there was nothing else to do. I came to really appreciate bull riding and bronco bucking, they’re beautiful and difficult sports, but I never could stop thinking of team roping and calf wrestling as a bit cruel. In team roping two grown men on horses are chasing a calf, a baby cow. They have rope and try to lasso the baby’s legs as it scampers in fear. To me, this doesn’t seem like a fair fight. And in calf wrestling a grown man on a horse chases down a sprinting calf, jumps off his horse, and grabs the calf by the head, twists its neck, and tries to force it onto the ground. Again, doesn’t seem like a fair fight to me. The calves have gotta be running around thinking, What in the hell is going on?
My mentor Timber Tuckness is a great American performer and entertainer in the Will Rogers vein, a man who can do a killer comedy routine, then go to the bar and tell killer jokes all night long. (He’s a great guy but after day one he forgot my name and took to calling me Trey. You can hear that in the show. I never could find a moment to tell him that’s not my name.) But the person I found most impressive at the rodeo was Timber’s son Dusty, who’s seen briefly in the episode. Dusty is a bullfighter, which means that when the bull rider gets thrown from his bull, it’s Dusty’s job to jump in front of the bull and make sure it doesn’t gore or stomp on the rider. Dusty either controls the bull or takes the punishment aimed at the rider. Controlling a bull is akin to lassoing smoke or corralling a mountain but somehow Dusty can yell or shoot out an arm or stare down the bull in a way that makes it turn and go away from him. Years ago he was gored, a horn through his shoulder led to six months in the hospital. When he healed he got into bullfighting more seriously and within a few years he’d become the #1 ranked bullfighter in the world. Now he dances with the devil night after night.
Timber, Dusty, and the announcer Rob (the Texan who was a bullfighting champion) tried really hard to get a bull to hit me while I was tucked into the barrel. Timber and Rob stood alongside it as Dusty balanced atop it and they all waved at the bull – c’mon over here! Hit him! I was cowering inside the barrel with no idea all this was going on. What happened? You’ll have to watch.
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