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Hey, so Chip and I had a lot of fun in Cowtown on Saturday night. We didn’t embarrass ourselves which was the main goal. Since Chip got there a few minutes before I did, he actually had a little bit of instruction so I insisted that he be the “milker” and I would be the goat “whisperer.” The contest was in heats of 2, and in the first round we competed against the weather guys from Channel 11 and Channel 21. The announcer enjoyed the fact that it was “traffic” versus “weather” and Chip and I got a big cheer when he mentioned that we were both TCU alum. Anyway, here’s how it works, the official starter counts down 3-2-1 go and then you walk (not run so you don’t spook the animal) and one person holds the neck and front leg of the goat while your teammate tries to top off a 12 ounce cup with a goat milkshake the natural way.  I was busy telling the goat how beautiful she was to notice that Chip had filled the cup in about 15 seconds. You should have heard the crowd go nuts when he stood up and hurriedly started duck-walking back to the finish line trying not to spill his hard-earned bounty. It was very cool and we won that first round easily. 2nd round didn’t go as well, because we switched goats and our new animal was apparently empty.  The eventual winner was the team from Telemundo and I vow to steal that blue ribbon from Nancy Leal.

 All in all, a fun time at the stockyards!

Video of the reported goat milking can be found here.