Night two of the Sheridan Rodeo featured a shrinking machine presented by Jeremy the Clown that nearly had everyone convinced but was too good to be true. Already in the hole $500 due to the south side of the rodeo grounds being noisier than the north side (of course Seth has a different story), Seth the announcer made another $500 bet saying that the machine would not work.
But Jeremy was in fine form Saturday night. There has been a lot of hype about Artificial Intelligence (AI) this year, but this seemed to be beyond anything that was ever dreamed up. With loud whistles and bells, the machine first shrunk a whiskey jar to 1/10 its size, then shrunk a guitar to about a fifth of its original size. At that point, Seth was impressed and asked if Jeremy could shrink his cowboy hat from size 10 to size 7. But when the hat shrunk to little more than the size of a thimble, everything started to go horribly wrong.
Apparently, there was no tech support unlike the beauty machine of Friday night, even in Italian. It was being sold as a used novelty item and Jeremy offered to auction it off, with Seth being the only taker at 50 cents. As Jeremy got into the machine trying to figure out what was wrong with it, his two assistants pushed him in and started the machine.
The machine gave off sirens and lights again, but this time, it emitted showers of sparks for a long time, leaving everyone wondering if Jeremy was going to be all right, and who was going to be the backup if Cody Hatfield or Dustin Sargent went down during the bull riding. Hatfield took a tumble during Friday night's rodeo.
Finally, the machine stopped and out emerged a midget version of Jeremy the Clown and the assistants wheeled the machine off in triumph. But apparently, there was a catch to the whole thing. The shrinkage was only temporary and wore off in five minutes, as Jeremy was seen walking behind the bucking shoots in one piece, none the worse for wear. He was able to work the rest of the rodeo.
There were a couple of broncos ridden early, but there was a scare on the third one when Bryson Gebhard was tossed right next to the pickup man, whose horse bolted and threw him off, subsequently landing on Gebhard. He was shaken up but OK, as was the pickup man, who got his horse settled down and finished the rodeo.
The breakaway roping featured everyone trying to beat Zoey Tunks' time of 2.6 from last night. Kynder Florea tried a quick catch but missed. As the first two calves were being stubborn and refusing to leave the ring, Jeremy told about how he gave the wrong answer to the question when his wife asked him how she looked in her bathing suit and had to stay in his motor home for a while. One contestant apparently had a score, but she had a head catch and not a neck catch, as required by the rules. A head catch is legal in team roping, but not breakaway roping. "I don't know what these calves were fed, but they're much more active," said Seth the announcer. Skyler Florea apparently had a winning time, only to have a broken barrier.
As Seth and Jeremy were arguing over who won the $500 bet over which side of the arena was louder, the calf roping got four qualified scores. Normally, one of the most difficult events for contestants, the team roping event saw several scores, with the fastest being seven seconds. The Two County Dusters did another tribute to America. Jeremy told about how he and his wife were at a big department store and were separated. While looking for her, he ran into a 28 year old man who was having trouble finding his 25 year old wife in the store. The younger man was bragging about how good looking his wife was. So Jeremy said, "Don't worry about me, let's find yours."
Liz Brown was fifth out of 10 in the barrel racing.
All the stops were pulled to get someone a qualified bull ride. Before the last ride, they played YMCA, Cha Cha Slide, Sweet Caroline, and other songs. Dustin Sargent took off his bullfighting cape and tried to ride the last bull. He nearly got it, but the rodeo clock seems to be two seconds slower than everyone else's, and he fell off before the horn sounded.
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