Tressa and Myra Bid Adieu to 2024

Join Tressa and Myra as they take a look back at the year. Between their asides about Bill Belichick (and it snowballs, folks), they talk about their favorite shows in the Authentic Wyoming catalog.

Transcript

Authentic Wyoming
Tressa and Myra's Year in Review of 2024
Episode #38
This transcript is autogenerated using speech-to-text technology, so the accuracy may vary in spots.


Tress (00:00.878)
Hello! Hello.

Myra (00:02.243)
Hey, hey, Tressa. So for the, my gosh, so for the people there that don't know the behind the scenes stuff, there's a countdown before our episode begins. Well, I totally forgot about the countdown and I almost just started talking when the numbers were on the screen and then I'm like, my gosh, we're not recording. yeah, I just, I was about to say, hey, Tressa.

Tress (00:20.086)
you

You forgot like five, four, three, two, one.

You

Myra (00:32.387)
So in that moment, that's what I was thinking.

Tress (00:36.046)
So our pre-setup was very entertaining today. So we got the giggles a little bit.

Myra (00:40.844)
Yeah.

know if we've ever started an episode without laughing.

Tress (00:45.934)
I know, right? Laughter is so good though. Like the best medicine. Yeah, I'll need more of it. Yeah.

Myra (00:49.571)
It is, think exactly. At least we have joy. Yeah, we have, we are a joyful bunch.

Tress (00:56.802)
We made fun of ourselves a little bit. It was great.

Myra (01:03.235)
my gosh

Tress (01:09.774)
Okay, how's that?

Tress (01:15.852)
better. Well, perfect if he's not saying anything.

Myra (01:20.259)
I think you missed the part of ignore my voice

Tress (01:22.702)
goodness, this is great. Sorry, having a few mic issues. We gotta figure it out. Hot mic moment.

Myra (01:28.323)
yeah, this is fun. Yeah, it's all good. So yeah, speaking of hot mic, I don't know where I'm going with that. Yeah, so in the news of the world, can you believe Bill Belichick is going to be the new coach for UNC football? Like I. I am not, I'm confused.

Tress (01:53.004)
No, I bet you're so excited. I know.

Myra (01:57.923)
And I have laughed so hard because I am not a Patriots fan and I'm not a Bill Belichick fan only for one reason and it's because the Patriots beat the Panthers in the Super Bowl one year. One of two times, yeah. Only for sports, okay. In my personal life.

Tress (02:17.162)
shoulder, huh? One or two times.

Myra (02:25.203)
I release those things in my sports world. will never forget. I remember every loss championship game. I remember every game of a little bit of a point, you know, discrepancy. Yeah, I know. I remember those things, but I was, it was like the early 2000s and you know, everyone was excited. think, my gosh, is it Jake DeLong? I think, Dele Home, DeLong?

Tress (02:29.422)
and that's

Myra (02:52.149)
my gosh, that's embarrassing. I cannot believe I just forgot his name, whoever he was. It wasn't that great. Yeah, he wasn't that great. And he took us to the Super Bowl and Tom Brady rolled us. And I haven't forgotten that. So I don't really know. And I can't, I can't believe, you know, going from the NFL to college football, that's different. You know, when you're

Tress (02:56.63)
Whoever that guy was.

Tress (03:05.538)
Yeah.

Tress (03:15.926)
It's very different. I don't know how the transition will work. Not sure.

Myra (03:20.163)
I don't know. I've heard rumored that he is trying to set it up for his son and I don't know if it's, you know, I'm not trying to put out fake news those in ListenerLand. You know, don't take my word. Yeah, I'm Rumor Mill over here. This has not been fact-checked. So don't write it down, you know, but Rumor Mill has said that

Tress (03:27.631)
really?

Tress (03:34.542)
Virus TMZ moments.

Myra (03:50.039)
There's some sort of weird setup here because I thought it was really weird that they let the coach, the previous coach go. I mean, his, it was not a great season.

Tress (03:59.63)
How is this track record? Not great? Yeah. Yeah, well that happens. Yeah.

Myra (04:02.635)
It was Grid the last year, this year was me, you know, but he's older and so we're like always retiring. Well, the Bella check ain't no spring chicken, so I don't really, I don't get it.

Tress (04:13.26)
Yeah, I was like, why just go enjoy your life at this point? Yeah, it's interesting. It'll be interesting next year.

Myra (04:18.497)
Yeah, I really think that he just had a moment like, I'm just going to see what happens. Like I got nothing to lose. I'm a professional coach. Let me just go have fun. So yeah, so I thought that was funny. I laugh though, because every time he interviewed, like the articles would say, Bill Belichick interviews with UNC.

Tress (04:26.674)
I think he doesn't. You're right. Let's see how this goes. Yeah.

Myra (04:47.861)
I laughed thinking what if that was like for normal people like Trisha Barnes interviewed for Union, know, marketing director. Will she get it? Yeah. And it's like, like that stuff's like confidential, you know, like how this is so weird, you know, who I guess, yeah, I have laughed so hard. It's like Trisha Barnes auditioned for and then like the role and

Tress (04:55.822)
that's so funny, It's true though.

Yeah.

Tress (05:06.936)
Apparently not in the sports world or the entertainment world, right?

Myra (05:17.697)
I'm like, who links that information with somebody for a paycheck? But I just have laughed so hard because I wish interviews were conducted like this. Yeah, that would be so funny. Yeah, wouldn't it be hilarious? know, so that's where my brain has been totally not productive ridiculousness.

Tress (05:19.47)
Yeah.

Tress (05:27.715)
like this.

Tress (05:31.256)
top headline today.

Tress (05:42.472)
It's funny when your brain goes down that rabbit hole.

Myra (05:46.261)
Yeah, I really think if it hasn't been an SNL skit Saturday Night Live, I'm giving you a tip. I'm giving you a tip. Professional jobs treated like sports and entertainment jobs. Yeah.

Tress (05:49.954)
Yeah, they should do it. There we go. Yeah.

Tress (06:07.202)
Okie dokie.

Myra (06:09.133)
Yeah, well, what's...

Tress (06:10.392)
Mike issues today.

Myra (06:14.563)
It knows it's our 38th episode. Yeah, and we're recording on 1212, so a good number. Lots of twos, 1212, 2024. There's just a whole string of it. Yeah, yeah, it's beautiful.

Tress (06:17.194)
It is our 38th episode.

Yes, we are. A good, very good number. Yeah.

Yeah, one, two, and then a four. I mean, perfect.

Should we talk about numerology then?

Myra (06:38.915)
Yeah, I was about to say, the sc-

What does it mean? They'll quickly turn us off. This isn't our market for that.

Tress (06:47.734)
Yeah, I don't know. This is not what we're doing today. Just numbers that we both enjoy. Yeah, kind of our year wrap up episode, right? Yeah.

Myra (06:52.547)
Yeah, we like it, so we're happy.

Myra (07:03.543)
Yeah. So last year we were able to do a holiday wrap up and just kind of a recap about what we've done over the last year, the guests that we've had, how the podcast has grown or changed. And do you have a particular guest that we've interviewed that stood out or?

Tress (07:23.924)
And they're also unique and different. You know, I think they stand out in their own way. I think it was kind of nice to have Chauncey Williams on the podcast kind of brought something a little bit different and unique. We're always kind of focused on like nonprofits and you know, and that's wonderful. We need that right and mental health and and things that bring the community together. like

Myra (07:42.275)
Mm-hmm.

Tress (07:48.16)
Also, like what he does of being from Wyoming and the aspect of music is also something that brings people together, right? And brings people joy and happiness. So I really did enjoy talking to him and learning more just about the industry itself and, you know, how he tries to continue to bring back and keep the roots of Wyoming and his heritage as part of, you know, him becoming.

Myra (07:55.895)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (08:03.715)
Mm-hmm.

Tress (08:17.226)
remaining humble upon his journey, I guess, to being a star. So that was really cool one. The other one I really enjoyed was Beck Ranch. I thought that was really cool. They're out here near me in Lone Tree and what they're doing for the communities around us and the opportunity to kind of have local farming and then bring it right to your table. I really love the aspect of that.

Myra (08:18.509)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (08:22.615)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (08:28.738)
Mm.

Myra (08:43.971)
Mm-hmm.

Tress (08:47.022)
And so I really did enjoy that one as well. What about you?

Myra (08:52.183)
Yeah, I really liked Chancy's episode, especially because I love music. And so that was really cool to get more of a inside, you know, it's a little, it was different than our normal guests. And so it was more of a knowledge base. Sorry, I have a hair. So those that can't see me and that end up watching this on YouTube, like I just keep scratching my face. So I'm distracting myself. I know I'm like distracting myself.

Tress (09:14.658)
That invisible hair, it's always, yeah.

Myra (09:19.747)
But at least my nails are done, right? Thank you. I'm not a red person and I'm wearing a lot of red. Yeah. I know we kind of, we coordinate. Yeah. Exactly. We had it planned in our minds. But yeah, I loved that episode and it was really good because the whole point of the podcast, the whole point of the Authentic Wyoming program,

Tress (09:21.432)
They look gorgeous, by the way.

Tress (09:26.926)
season. Look at us both kind of in burgundy today. don't you talk?

Tress (09:37.112)
Yes.

Myra (09:47.415)
just has been staying so true to Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region and the culture around that people work so hard to preserve. And the way that he chose to preserve his culture, his heritage, his upbringing, and also step into the music industry and the entertainment space, which, you know, I don't even know what I would do in that space. Would I stay off? I'd like to believe I would stay authentic in that space.

And it was really cool to hear him talk about his authenticity and the way that his music is influenced by his upbringing and then how he still brings it all back full circle and remains humble and still, you know, goes out on the ranch, still lives a ranch life and still, you know, holds true to that, to like his roots, like you were saying, and really stays grounded in that space. So I thought that was really cool. I also really liked...

Tress (10:25.038)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (10:43.797)
I think about the Beck Ranch episode a lot because I think about ordering food. I'm like, man, I wish I could butcher a cow. Like I don't have a cow here. You know, I, so I, I think about that one a lot for my own personal self. I also really enjoyed our episode with Joe Hickey and Emeline France because that episode, you know, going back to like the true Wyoming heritage, that was just Wyoming.

Tress (10:48.291)
Yeah.

Myra (11:12.195)
cowboying at its finest. Like I don't think I could have had a better episode to capture that if I ever, you know, I mean, and it's the generational lifestyle and what, you know, bringing the rodeo space to the local communities looks like. You know, when I think of Wyoming, I first thought about distance before I moved there. And, but now I think about

Some of these little pockets of things, you know, where you've got these small communities, but look at how beautiful these communities are when they work together and they keep true to their heritage and they preserve traditions. And so ultimately I felt like that episode just really captured the true traditions of Wyoming and what makes it so different and so special to be in these small communities.

Tress (12:03.222)
Yeah, that was great. I loved, you know, how passionate Joe was about the tradition and how much it meant to him to keep that alive and how much energy and time it takes, right? And I think that's part of why people lose tradition is, you know, they don't the generations change and shift and maybe the younger generation doesn't want to put in the time and effort that it takes. So it's really cool.

that he had such a passion and that here his daughter is kind of following in the footsteps to make sure that that tradition is going to be kept alive for hopefully many generations to come. I love that as well because I see tradition, you you see it in your own family history or, you know, in your communities that things that once were traditional or that happened every year kind of die off. So, yeah.

Myra (12:38.339)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (12:50.455)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (12:59.405)
Yeah. Not in my family. They are weirdly...

Tress (13:02.294)
Well, yeah, on your family. I mean, who has, you know, what was your Thanksgiving like a 12 hour marathon?

Myra (13:09.749)
Yeah, pretty much. It was an event. We have a tree lighting ceremony. Yeah, like a whole ceremony and singing and then pictures and it was wild. But our Christmas Eve gets even crazier. We sing at the cemetery on Christmas Eve to our ancestors. Nope, to the dead. To the deceased.

Tress (13:12.772)
I see some holes in there.

Tress (13:31.832)
Like just for anyone or? to your previous ancestors. Okay.

Myra (13:39.183)
And it is the most strange tradition in the world, but it started when my mom's dad passed away and that was before I was born. And so I'm edging on the halfway mark to 30. So over 30 years, they've been doing this. And so even when I was a little kid through my brothers having children through, you know, now me having children and my, people just growing up and changing. And if you're not there, they call you.

And so if you are able to be there in person, they'll call certain family members and everyone just sings to the deceased.

Tress (14:16.074)
Is there always the same songs you sing or? Christmas carols. Yeah, that's awesome.

Myra (14:18.743)
They're just Christmas and whatever. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So yeah. And it's, it's funny. I won't get into this too much because as in a, in my adult life, I've changed my mindset about some of, some of these things, but it's really just cool that it brings comfort and joy and peace to my family. And for them to just want to continue to do that, you know, it could be the coldest night ever. You've got kids ready to go home to see Santa. You've got a whole.

Tress (14:48.462)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (14:48.691)
know, slew of things happening and then, but no matter what it still happens, you know. And so, you know, tying it back to tradition and the podcast and Authentic Wyoming, like those things are what makes people, places, areas, communities so special because, you know, something that to you, that would be the weirdest thing in the world. You know, you don't think it's weird at all, but it would be just like, why are you, you know, okay, that's a, wow, that's a, I'd rather be at home, you know, like, okay.

Tress (15:11.288)
Right.

Myra (15:18.359)
But for my family, means something. Just like for rodeoing, I think it's amazing. I think it's beautiful, I think it's cool, but I'm never gonna rodeo. And so I get to experience what these traditions mean to other people through programs like Authentic Wyoming, through the podcasts, through going to the rodeos, just supporting these people, supporting these businesses, supporting these organizations.

Tress (15:29.507)
Right.

Myra (15:44.483)
You know, you're able to learn and share in their traditions. And I think that's also what makes it so special.

Tress (15:51.468)
Yeah, I love that because you're right. Like, I mean, I'm never going to participate in a rodeo myself either, or probably your singing. I mean, you never know. I might be there on a Christmas Eve one day. You never know. But what I love about it is like, like the human connection and honoring other people's traditions, even if you don't fully understand it, even if it's not something that you would ever consider participating in, right?

Myra (16:00.003)
Yeah, we'll call you.

Tress (16:19.404)
I think bringing it to light and like being able to honor each other and like appreciate it for what it is. Even though like you may not have a full understanding, like you prefaced your Christmas Eve tradition as, you know, kind of strange or weird, but it doesn't have to be labeled that, right? Cause it means something to you guys. So I think it's pretty cool. I mean, it's unique, right? And you guys are.

Myra (16:37.891)
I'm gonna... I'm gonna...

Tress (16:46.988)
Makes sense to me just knowing you and your family because music is such a huge part of who you guys are, right? And what you do. So it makes sense that you would use that to honor your legacy and your ancestors. So I think it's cool. That's one of the things I love about bringing different people and organizations and spotlights. It's like, hopefully our audience, and I know we try to do that, is honor them for where they're at without

Myra (16:49.571)
Uh-huh.

Myra (16:55.779)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (17:00.759)
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Myra (17:16.344)
Mm-hmm.

Tress (17:17.24)
judging it or kind of picking it apart.

Myra (17:20.567)
Yeah, I agree. you know, that even reminds me of our episode with Lexi, you know, and talking about the way that she's, you know,

Tress (17:28.461)
Yeah.

Myra (17:32.769)
what she's learned through her life and honoring where she is and what she's gone through and then how she can use those tools to help others and what that means, you know, through the pageant space, but as well in her personal space and through her own business. And, you know, those are things that I think, we've been able to share through the podcast to, you know, resources and tools to help others and,

you know, letting people know about things in their communities that they may not have known about or just weren't sure about, you know, and I have learned so much. You know, I think I even shared this on our recap a year ago. Just even when we started the social media campaign years ago, I

I've learned so much. had no idea half of these organizations or people or groups or things existed. I had no idea. in the podcast, mean, every year when I used to do the Authentic Wyoming for Social, I would think, where am I going to find more groups? Like I found them all. There's not any more groups to find. And it has amazed me that there are more groups. There's always more and there's always...

Tress (18:35.608)
There's no more. Yeah.

Myra (18:44.375)
We've actually never ran out of people to highlight or people to talk to or people to engage with.

throughout our podcast and as we've been trying to gather and meet people and network, there's always been an abundance of people presented to us to highlight on the platform. so I think that's always, it's been really cool for me personally to see and to learn and get to know these people and the right place at the right time, certain people we've met or we've been introduced to such as Dominic. I can't forget about him.

Tress (19:18.594)
Yeah. Yeah. He was amazing. Yeah.

Myra (19:20.451)
That was just amazing. would have never even known that cognitive behavioral... I wouldn't even went there. But it makes sense. I'm like, my gosh, of course. Why wouldn't you?

Tress (19:27.148)
No.

Myra (19:34.089)
my own personal beliefs, I believe in rewriting my thoughts and my thoughts shape my experience and my outcomes. And, you know, why wouldn't cognitive behavioral therapy theater change? Yeah, think the change the way you perceive your yourself and your outcomes.

Tress (19:46.648)
theater, yeah.

Tress (19:52.494)
Yeah, and it's so cool like how, you know, our networking has just brought us to different people because we wouldn't have known about Dominic without Olivia from Wyoming 211. And every pod, you know, it's like when we had Patty on with Cowboy Roundup, she also offered like, hey, here's some other people who I know who do some really great things. It's interesting the networking here. And it also is amazing. You know, we talked about like, we're in a

Myra (20:00.291)
Yep.

Tress (20:21.442)
I mean, the least populated state, right, of the United States. And all of these people are trying to make Wyoming better, themselves better and Wyoming better. And it really is a testament to our state of how many organizations we've found and how many different people we found. Sorry, my headphones are falling off. That really wanna do that kind of stuff. I mean, it's amazing. that's lovely on my hair, but.

Myra (20:48.835)
You look like the Long Island medium.

Tress (20:53.154)
Do I, my little... Does she have like a little poof right there? All right, there we go listener. You gotta check this out on YouTube when you get a channel because...

Myra (21:00.835)
Have you never seen... Her name's Teresa, I think. Yeah. Yeah. This apparently is the one to watch. my gosh.

Tress (21:10.19)
As soon see the video. that's hilarious. Anyway, no, I think it's so cool. I love it. I love what we've been able to do. I love the people that we've been able to meet. I mean, we've made, I personally, and I know you have too, I've made long lasting friendships with some of these people. You know, I'll be in contact with them for years to come. So it's been really amazing what we've been able to do. And you know, it was scary.

Myra (21:32.023)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Tress (21:38.774)
You know, we talked about when we started this podcast, we talked about it for what? Maybe a year prior to, and then we're like, Hey, the only way to learn or do is to do to just do it. So, it's been a cool experience for sure.

Myra (21:44.237)
We're good.

Myra (21:49.399)
to do.

Myra (21:55.873)
Yeah, I agree. You know, it's so funny because we always wonder is anyone even listening? Are we just entertaining ourselves, baby? Keith enjoys it. And then he gets to relive the episodes, you know, so he really enjoys it. We would be nothing without Keith, So, yeah.

Tress (22:03.118)
I mean, either way, we do entertainers. At ETH, Keith loves us.

Tress (22:18.702)
You

Tress (22:22.648)
We would be nothing without Keith.

Myra (22:25.771)
We cannot, I cannot express that enough. so, you know, I think it's been really cool, you know, talking about my personal growth with it, even just professionally, you know, in our roles, we, we, we public speak often, or we have to talk and engage and, know, doing a podcast. mean, obviously I could talk to the wall, but making sure my thoughts are, you know,

Tress (22:48.419)
Yeah.

Myra (22:52.567)
coherent or I don't even know if coherent is right word here, but just make any sense, or have value, have input for the end user, or whoever's listening to our podcast. That part has just been a lot of growth for me that I've really appreciated.

I have always found myself to be quick on the spot, but this has really developed that skill, you know, and how do I respond? And it's really actually changed my listening skills. You know, am I listening to what people are actually saying to me? Because in order to do the podcast, I have to really listen, you know, none of this is scripted. The questions we come up with and then our guests are not sitting there fully prepared. You know, we are having a full conversation and I think that's been a really beautiful

thing with the podcast, but it's, it's made me have to be an active listener so that I could truly have a conversation that brings value to those who are listening. so professionally it's helped me with how I'm listening, how I'm talking, what am I saying that's a value. And it's really like looking at it from a skills perspective, if anyone even

If anyone out there cares about my reflection on my development skills, those are things I don't think that some people think about with the podcast.

Tress (24:12.31)
Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree. And I like one of the reasons why we don't want it scripted. We don't provide our guests questions prior to the podcast usually, because the podcast name is Authentic Wyoming, right? We want it to be authentic. We want it to go where it needs to go. We want it to be a conversation, not a dialogue of, you know, A, B, and C has to be answered, but let it be whatever it needs to be and allow it to flow.

And you're right, you do have to really be engaged in the conversation and listening to each other and the guests that's on to allow that to be authentic and allow it to flow where it needs to go. That's been a skill that's helped me too. You know, it's like, it's the one hour or however long we're on, you know, getting set up, doing the actual podcast and then.

Myra (24:59.81)
Yeah.

Tress (25:09.326)
as we transition out and make sure everything's uploaded for Keith. It's like the one hour of the day that I really am not distracted. I'm not looking at an email. I'm not potentially looking at my phone. I really have to be fully engaged. And that's really good. It makes me think about that in other aspects of my life.

Myra (25:18.178)
Mm-hmm.

Myra (25:29.271)
Yeah, I agree. It's a, you know, union.

Full circle here. You need to about connection and the podcast has been about connection. And I really think the only way to have an active podcast that has value is to truly be being connected and bringing back these types of conversations where you have to be in tune with the people around you. I agree. It makes me think about how I'm talking and how I'm interacting with others outside.

of the podcast space? Am I giving people my full attention? Not usually. I am not. Yeah, I was about to say. Blake's listening somewhere. He'd be like, yeah, that one time I'm asking you questions.

Tress (26:07.096)
Yeah. Yeah, how I unfortunately sometimes.

Tress (26:15.862)
Yeah, I do have a rule if I'm at dinner with someone, absolutely, a lot of times I won't even take my cell phone in the restaurant, but I won't pull it out of my bag or anything. It's just, you know, I look, I mean, this is what we do for a living and I'm so glad people love their cell phones, but you know, I look sometimes around a restaurant and I see, you know, a mom and a dad and a kid maybe and

Myra (26:22.861)
Yeah.

Myra (26:27.446)
Mm-hmm.

Tress (26:44.67)
everyone's looking at a device and I'm like, boy, interact with each other, man, you know, even in silence, maybe you're not saying anything, that's okay. You know, think sometimes silence isn't a bad thing. you know, you're not yeah, it's really, it's really unfortunate sometimes that it's so prevalent in every aspect of what we do.

Myra (26:48.354)
Yeah.

Myra (26:55.391)
No, yeah, because sometimes... No, yeah, I agree.

Myra (27:10.583)
Yeah, I agree. Well, we're at the end here. Yeah.

Tress (27:14.254)
Well, this is it. So we're kind of just so listener land knows we plan, we don't plan on doing any more episodes in the near future. We're pausing the podcast, I guess, or hopefully just on a pause. So we hope you enjoy the 38 episodes we have though. You can go back and listen to those if you find us, you know, on this last one.

Myra (27:35.639)
Yeah.

Tress (27:43.072)
Our pilot one was very successful and like we've shared with you some of the guests we've had on this last year. And then there's much more than the year before that. So we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and grew from it like we have.

Myra (27:57.464)
Yeah.

Tress (28:01.71)
So, no, I'm I'm doing good.

Myra (28:01.995)
I warned myself I wouldn't cry. my gosh. I know I'm doing so good and then it hit.

Tress (28:08.046)
I it's those sneaky little times, you know?

Myra (28:13.539)
Yeah, hate being an adult. I was so much tougher. No. Yeah. So yeah, thank you guys for listening. We appreciate it. Those that have been our faithful listeners and listener land who've tuned in for 38 episodes. Thank you and until next time.

Tress (28:20.247)
as a kid.

Well, it's not goodbye forever, it's just goodbye for now.

Tress (28:42.286)
Stay authentic.