Digital Social Hour
How Dale Brisby Pioneered Rodeo Content Creation | Dale Brisby DSH #1121
Sat, 18 Jan 2025
How does the world’s greatest bull rider and pioneer of rodeo content creation do it all? Find out as Dale Brisby joins Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour Podcast for an unforgettable conversation! 🤠📹 From growing up immersed in the rodeo lifestyle to revolutionizing the industry with his trailblazing YouTube videos and vlogs, Dale shares his journey, insights into ranching and rodeo life, and the challenges of modern farming. 🌟 Get the inside scoop on everything from the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) and rodeo culture to Dale’s take on raising cattle, hunting, and dealing with foxes on his ranch. 🐴 Plus, hear how he balances his ranching roots with creating engaging online content that resonates with millions. This episode is packed with valuable insights, laughs, and a behind-the-scenes look at the rodeo world. Don’t miss out! 🎯 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 #communityconnections #meatsubscriptionbox #groceryhaul #sustainablepractices #climatechange #wranglernationalfinalsrodeo #rodeocontentcreation #professionalcowboysrodeoassociation #cowboys #jbmauney CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - Dale Brisby 05:00 - Today’s Sponsor 07:11 - Challenges of Starting a Ranch 14:22 - Eggs and Nutrition 16:14 - Beef Production Insights 17:40 - Healthy Diet Choices 19:02 - Pickleball Fun 19:56 - Jiu Jitsu Training 22:49 - Raccoon Encounters 25:04 - Bow Hunting Techniques 27:57 - Coyote Management 29:22 - Buying a Cow Tips 31:21 - China and US Farmland 31:48 - Bill Gates' Investments 34:17 - What's Next for Dale 38:27 - Outro APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Dale Brisby https://www.instagram.com/dalebrisby SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
Chapter 1: Who is Dale Brisby and what is his background in rodeo?
All right, guys. Got Dale Brisby here. Rodeo's in town this week, baby. Let's go. Yes, sir. Rodeo time. Yes, sir. How's it been this past week? Oh, it's been good.
It's been exciting. And rodeo's been going great. And yeah, just good to see all my fans. Yes, sir. You got a lot. You're probably getting hounded this week. Yeah. You know, being the world's greatest bull rider and the most humble, you know, I just I can't keep them away.
What's the longest you've lasted on a bull? Oh, shoot. Minutes, hours, maybe. Just keep riding and riding. Yeah, man. I remember when I went last year, it was like a big deal if someone got like five seconds. Yeah, so was that the first time you had been?
Chapter 2: What challenges do ranchers face today?
First time. This is a good one to go to for your first time. It's kind of our Super Bowl of rodeo. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. This is the big one.
I didn't know that. What makes this one the big one?
So all year at all the smaller rodeos throughout the year, like everybody's competing to win enough money to make it to here, the NFR in Vegas. Got it. It's always in December. Starts the first Thursday in December of every year. And yeah, this is where the best of the best come to compete. So you saw a good one for your first time.
Yeah, it was packed. Holy crap. I did not know it was that big of a sport because you don't really see it on TV.
Well, there's all kinds of little rodeos all over the world, you know, or country for sure that, you know, there'll be small ones and there's some bigger ones, Houston, Cheyenne, you know, that throughout the year, but San Antonio, but the NFR is everybody's, that's what all rodeo cowboys want to get to.
Yeah. That makes sense. Was it a big deal for you growing up as a kid going to these, these events?
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Chapter 3: How has Dale Brisby revolutionized rodeo content creation?
Yes. Yeah. Growing up, my dad, he kind of did all the events at any given time in his life, but we kind of stuck to the rough stock end of the arena. So like the bucking horse events and the bull riding, bullfighters, that's kind of what were my life angled towards.
They call it the rough stock.
Yeah. So there's two ends of the arena. The roping events would be like, you know, like team roping where two guys rope a steer, like that's a timed event. And when you get him roped, the time stops. Well, the rough stock is You got to ride for eight seconds and it's a scored event. And because of the way that the stock is, it's literally on different ends of the arena.
So your timed event comes off one end of the arena. The rough stock comes off the other end. And so we're a little bit segregated, but the rough stock end is where I usually spent most of my time growing up. Yeah.
More danger in that one. It sounds like. For sure. So the money's probably higher, I'd assume.
The money's usually the same for both ends of the arena, unless you're talking about bull riding. Bull riders usually like, cause that, I mean, that's the ultimate draw to a rodeo and that's why it's at the end of the rodeo. And typically there might be a little bit more added in the bull ride.
Yeah. Cause when I think of rodeo, I think of bull riding. That's like what I associate it with. When I went to the event and I saw all these other events, I was like, I've never heard of this. You know what I mean?
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's the one that gets the most recognition. So there's also what's called the PBR, which is another association that branched off in the 90s, and it's just bull riding. And so they also have a season and a finals that's separate from the NFR. That makes sense.
Kind of confusing, but it's kind of like the NFL and the XFL, but except both of our associations are both equally as big.
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Chapter 4: What are the differences between grass-fed and grain-fed beef?
Holy crap.
Yeah, we had not very many people on the team, but...
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Oh, yeah. Now you're out here going to major cities and selling out arenas. That's a cool transition, right? Yeah, doing my best. Must have been a big shock to you at first, I'd assume.
Yeah, no, I mean, this lifestyle for sure has been a shock, which is, you know, based around the internet with, you know, like the podcast and the videos we've been making, like that was an adjustment. So the animals were, that's how it's always been for me. But the internet side of things has kind of been what's been different.
That was a big transition for you, right? You started getting injured and you were like, I need to do something else.
Yeah, we started making videos 11 years ago. Damn.
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Chapter 5: What are the benefits of raising your own food?
Yeah.
That's interesting. And there's still not as many as there needs to be, like making content about ranching and rodeo. I don't see that many personally. Yeah. But the world's hungry for it, you know, because it's a good lifestyle.
Yeah. Yeah, these days it's gotten tougher though, right, with the farming stuff. It's not as affordable as it used to be.
Man, there's all kinds of challenges, you know, like, yeah, diesel and your expenses. You kind of got to either inherit the land or you lease it. You can't just go buy land and then run cows on it and make it work. Like, unless you made your money somewhere else. But if you're starting from the bottom and you're like, I want to be a rancher and you have no money, well, it's just not going to work.
You can work for a rancher. But you can't just go buy a ranch and buy cows and then make money to pay for them both. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So the cost of entry is a little bit high, but there's ways to go about it. And that's one of the things we talk about on my channel sometimes is like different jobs you can get. I could put out videos like that.
Well, I think at the very minimum, it'd be cool to just have animals for your own family to eat and, you know, live off of. You don't have to necessarily sell them to.
That's becoming so popular. I mean, that's people, people start with the chickens. They start, you know, they'll get a few chickens and then before you know it, they want to, you know, raise their own beef. And so, yeah, raising your own food has become popular.
a thing now, which is good. It's great. Cause you don't, I mean the meat in the grocery stores, it's hard to trust that stuff, you know?
Yeah. Well, you never know. I think that's one thing, like a lot of the meat in the grocery store, like it's kind of a misconception that like there's rules for the way we raise our cattle, you know, like there's rules to be followed. And, um, you know, you can, you can go about like, um, I typically trust... I do trust the meat in the grocery store. Like, yeah, of course.
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Chapter 6: How does Dale balance ranching with modern farming techniques?
Yeah. You know, I don't know all the exact science of it, but like one of the things with like hormones in beef is like, all right, I'll just do some quick math. So whenever you've got some, you know, a steer on feed, you know, and they only get grain like towards the end of their life, you know, so everything is grass fed.
Everything is grass fed up to a certain point, you know, and then the last 120 days they'll eat some grain and that'll make them a little fatter. Well, if they're eating, it's going to take them on average without any, you know, growth promotants or AKA hormones, it's going to take them at least seven pounds of feed that they got to eat to gain one pound. Wow. That's called feed conversion.
So the feed conversion for, you know, like average, I'm going to, I'm just guessing at seven. Well, if we can put this growth hormone in them, in their ear long before they're going to go to slaughter. So it's not like two weeks before they get slaughtered. Well, what it does is it makes them more efficient. So now all of a sudden that seven goes down to five. Okay.
So if you've got, that means it takes five pounds to put on one pound of gain. Well, they're going to eat enough to gain three pounds. So without the growth promoting, that's 21. But while they're on that growth promoting, that's 15. Got it. So that's six pounds in one day that that steer didn't have to eat, but he still gained the same amount of weight. You follow me? Yeah, yeah.
So that's six pounds. And if you're in a feedlot with, you know, I mean, a small feedlot would be a thousand head. That's a small one? Yeah, there's feedlots so big out there. Wow. So if it's a thousand head feedlot, that's 6,000 pounds of feed in one day. Damn. That they did not have to, I mean, talk about efficiency. From a business point of view, I get it.
And so when you look at all the challenges we have, like, wait a second, you're telling me we can feed 6,000 pounds less in a day, right? So that's 60,000 in 100 days. So then if you backtrack, like a lot of these vaccines and these like growth, you know, hormones, whatever, like they've got withdrawal periods, meaning like when they get,
given to these cattle, like a vaccine, it's got a 30 day withdrawal period. Oh, I didn't know that. Meaning like after 30 days, it's out of their system. Okay. So like, it's not going to just go, yeah, if you were to like do something to a calf, like two days before it were to get slaughtered, like, yeah, something's going to show up. There's going to be some residue show up.
But if it's a hundred days before, if it's 120 days before, it's that the risk is not there as far as, anyway, that's my understanding when I look at the data. Now I'm not a scientist, but I think what's concerning to me is that there's a lot of people that they're really just headline reading, you know, and the USDA and some people don't trust the FDA, but whatever, that's fine.
You know, they're doing their best to be efficient. in an area for this country to produce enough food to feed everyone. Because it's not sustainable. If everybody switched to grass-fed only with no growth hormones at all, we'd run it. We can't do it. Really? It's just not sustainable.
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Chapter 7: What sports does Dale enjoy outside of rodeo?
Apparently it's the thing. I get asked every like two days. Oh, so you're avoiding also? I played it once. It's all right, you know? Yeah. It's kind of easy. I like challenging sports. For sure. That's why I like basketball because it's like a new game every time you step on there. You don't know what to expect. Right. Pickleball is kind of just like the same thing every time. Yeah.
Yeah, tennis seems interesting to me. I played a little bit when I was a kid, but like, yeah, I don't know. Tennis is a tough sport.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, in terms of difficulty, I would rank tennis pretty high as well. I mean, rodeo's got to be super high, I'd imagine.
What about the, yeah, definitely. You know, because there's only so much. Every tennis court's the same, every basketball court's the same, but every bowl is different. And then the weather's different at the rodeo. What about jujitsu? Have you gotten into that yet?
No, I do want to develop that because that's good to just have in your repertoire. I bet there's some gyms here. Oh, there's a lot. Vegas is known for fighting.
Yeah. I get, I come out here every now and then with a buddy and, uh, in the UFC and I get to be around it a little bit, but I've been rolling jujitsu. I love that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't get me wrong. I'm, I'm, I'm an aspiring jujitsu.
Um, I'm a white belt, very much a white belt. I got to like, I think blue belt and karate growing up, but yeah, I haven't fought since.
Oh, you're a blue belt in karate. Well, that's probably, you could probably just roll that over.
I don't know. Karate's pretty useless in my opinion. Yeah. You know?
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Chapter 8: What insights does Dale have about the future of rodeo and farming?
Right. I'm a big time gamer. I'm like top thousand in Fortnite. So I got really fast reflexes. I don't know much, but that sounds like a big deal. It's pretty impressive. Yeah. There's like a lot of Fortnite players you've never played.
No, I mean, I've played maybe one time Call of Duty. Okay. And that was it?
Yeah, that's it. Hung up the shoes?
Yeah, there's a buddy of mine, he rides bulls, J.B. Mooney, and he is a gamer. And he, yeah, every time you go to his house, he goes from bucking bulls into his little office where we game, and then he just whoops my ass at something different.
Yeah, yeah, he just, yeah. Yeah, you got to be careful with the gaming. You could just play for 10 hours straight.
Yeah.
You know?
I kind of got to move around. I don't know that I could probably play for 10 hours straight. I got to move around.
Yeah, I'm like that too. I think I have ADHD or something. I just need to be doing something. When I'm sitting still, I get nervous. Yeah, you would do well on a ranch then because there's always something to do.
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