trying times. experience if you have things if you happen to have a problem like this later in life, you have the experience of riding a stick horse. that was ksl reporting on the junior queen contest last night. where most of the contestants for reasons i ll let ksl explain had to ride stick ponies. one had to ride a stick bull. horns there. we here at rachel maddow show love you for watching our show, which is why we started our show with that this friday night. as i said before, you re welcome. best wishes for all the horses involved, naturally. now moving on, heading into this long week i can t believe we just did that. yes. we so overruled the boss on that. yes. heading into this long weekend, first day back from the long weekend will be may 3 1st, the last day of may. if you are a republican it s good news that may sending. this may has been a really very bad month for republicans politically speaking.