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Tim O'Connell

Tim O'Connell

Three-time PRCA World Champion bareback rider from Zwingle, Iowa, and 10-time Wrangler NFR qualifier.

Sep 24, 2026

5:10
Talk about that state of mind and how you get in that before you prepare to get on a bareback horse.
5:16
Yeah, it's kind of just like an alter ego, truthfully.
5:23
I've learned to flip that fight or flight syndrome.
5:28
And that's a real thing.
5:29
People don't want to believe it.
5:30
But it's really just training your body to go to a place of kill or be killed.
5:36
This is a very dangerous sport.

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28:05
And
38:44
Average title, world title, 2017, same thing, just kept killing it in the gym, kept winning everything in the rodeo world or what? Dude,
38:52
I'll tell you what, like, that, that 16 deal, like, it was awesome.
38:58
Like, when you step off that 10th round horse and you hit the ground, like, like I said, I made it to where it meant nothing to me.
39:07
Like I knew it was coming.
39:09
Like I watched the standings.
39:10
I watched the average.
39:11
I knew where I was at in both.

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69:46
Did you ride and ride, getting everything feeling back? Yeah.
13:18
So what are your differentiators in this space?
13:22
Yeah, so that's a great question, Heather.
13:24
So, you know, a large language model is like the ultimate software development kit because you can sort of throw any task at it and it's going to generate some output.
13:32
And, you know, a lot of the time that output, you're like, oh, wow, this is usable.
13:36
I can now build an app around this.
13:38
And in some use cases, that's awesome.
13:40
And in other use cases like large scale data extraction, that is just a portion of sort of what, you know, your actual product requirements may be.

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24:45
How do we bring the larger base of physicians along?
58:21
Like 2016, was there an event? Is there like the Super Bowl or is it like an all season long point thing?
58:26
So it was both.
58:27
So I went in to our world finals, which is in Vegas at the NFR as the world leader.
58:32
And then I never relinquished that lead.
58:35
And I had no plan on doing it either.
58:37
That's what I'm talking about.
58:37
So, you know, like I always say like there's a...

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68:53
Can you do that in any way with a whore? Have they created something like that?
30:08
Are you always a little bit hurt?
30:10
Yeah, because our event, they've broke it down.
30:13
Even on the very best days, on what we call a really easy horse, it's the equivalent of getting to a small car wreck.
30:19
That's what our bodies go through.
30:20
The G force that we go through is like getting into a small car wreck.
30:23
So like, you're always just a little bit banged up, but the cool thing about what we do and what the human body can do is like our bodies will adjust to getting in that, that violent wreck.
30:34
Like they've done, they've done x-rays on us.

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36:36
Can you do that in any way with a whore? Have they created something like that?

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