1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,801 --> 00:00:13,427 ♪♪ 4 00:00:18,846 --> 00:00:24,196 [MUFFLED CROWD NOISE] 5 00:00:29,339 --> 00:00:31,307 [CODY] Dreams are funny things. 6 00:00:33,033 --> 00:00:38,176 As a kid, one's boundless imagination is inspired by the notion that 7 00:00:38,279 --> 00:00:42,042 we're invincible and anything is possible. 8 00:00:44,596 --> 00:00:48,669 Our childhood super heroes confirm those notions for a while 9 00:00:48,772 --> 00:00:51,568 with super powers that ultimately vanish 10 00:00:51,672 --> 00:00:54,813 in the face of our world's unavoidable realities. 11 00:00:55,779 --> 00:00:57,781 But the dream doesn't go away 12 00:00:58,472 --> 00:01:02,476 because we see living, breathing heroes in this world 13 00:01:02,579 --> 00:01:05,306 -who accomplish great things. -[ANNOUNCER] Oh, strike 3. There's 300. 14 00:01:05,410 --> 00:01:07,446 [CODY] With God given gifts and talents. 15 00:01:07,550 --> 00:01:09,448 [ANNOUNCER] Hakeem Olajuwon showing... 16 00:01:09,552 --> 00:01:11,519 [CODY] Sharpened by courage 17 00:01:12,658 --> 00:01:16,076 wisdom and a passion for never giving up. 18 00:01:16,179 --> 00:01:19,665 [MAN] My God Woodrow you just don't ever get the point do you. 19 00:01:19,769 --> 00:01:23,738 It ain't dying I'm talking about. It's livin'. 20 00:01:23,842 --> 00:01:27,397 [CODY] So then why not me? Why not my dream? 21 00:01:30,297 --> 00:01:32,747 What if it's not even up to me? 22 00:01:33,403 --> 00:01:37,269 What if my dream is just the road to a greater calling? 23 00:01:39,029 --> 00:01:40,790 A destination 24 00:01:41,411 --> 00:01:44,242 that not even I could have ever imagined. 25 00:01:59,429 --> 00:02:01,086 [CODY] This place looks so different now. 26 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:07,437 This was where I pulled up right back here for my very first high school rodeo 27 00:02:08,128 --> 00:02:10,268 and I was nervous. 28 00:02:10,889 --> 00:02:12,546 [LAUGHS] 29 00:02:12,649 --> 00:02:15,894 ♪♪ 30 00:02:15,997 --> 00:02:19,587 The minute that I went to my first high school rodeo here in this arena, 31 00:02:19,794 --> 00:02:22,935 I fell in love with the whole show, the whole thing. 32 00:02:23,315 --> 00:02:26,180 And I just wanted to be a part of it someway, somehow. 33 00:02:27,664 --> 00:02:30,736 Lookin' back on it now, I think the bull was just a representation 34 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,326 of something I was lookin' for and I didn't know then that 35 00:02:35,016 --> 00:02:37,364 all that was going to lead to the things I've done now. 36 00:02:37,467 --> 00:02:42,334 ♪♪ 37 00:02:42,438 --> 00:02:45,820 [CODY] When I was a kid, I wanted to be the Lone Ranger. 38 00:02:46,062 --> 00:02:49,548 Like I've always had those figures, like Gus McCray from Lonesome Dove, 39 00:02:49,652 --> 00:02:52,344 John Wayne. That's what I want to be, you know, 40 00:02:52,448 --> 00:02:54,415 I wanna be that when I grow up 41 00:02:54,519 --> 00:02:57,004 because he's always the good guy. 42 00:02:57,107 --> 00:03:01,422 He's always the larger than life guy that walks into the room. 43 00:03:03,044 --> 00:03:06,186 [REBA] Well I always thought everyone wanted to be a cowboy or a cowgirl. 44 00:03:06,462 --> 00:03:09,085 It's a way of life that's very romantic. 45 00:03:09,189 --> 00:03:11,915 It's honesty. It's mother nature. 46 00:03:12,019 --> 00:03:13,779 It's what God gave you. 47 00:03:13,883 --> 00:03:16,368 [MAN] I always wanted to be a cowboy. I think everybody 48 00:03:16,472 --> 00:03:18,853 secretly dreams of being a cowboy. 49 00:03:18,957 --> 00:03:20,269 No matter where they're from. 50 00:03:20,372 --> 00:03:22,823 [TRENT] The American cowboy is an icon. 51 00:03:22,926 --> 00:03:26,827 It's part of who we are. Our identity as Americans. 52 00:03:27,034 --> 00:03:31,487 [JAMES] It's something that is deep inside all of us to some degree. 53 00:03:31,590 --> 00:03:35,145 A cowboy is somebody that takes pride in their work 54 00:03:35,249 --> 00:03:38,321 and has a lot of integrity in what they do. 55 00:03:38,425 --> 00:03:40,047 [MAN] But it's tough and it's hard. 56 00:03:40,150 --> 00:03:43,602 And the country is tough and you got be just a little bit rougher. 57 00:03:43,706 --> 00:03:46,536 [TRENT] We have this unique ability 58 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:48,607 to dream whatever we want to dream. 59 00:03:48,711 --> 00:03:51,231 Nobody can tell us what we can't dream and chase. 60 00:03:51,334 --> 00:03:54,130 At the same time, nobody's gonna pick us up and dust us off. 61 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:56,097 We gotta do that ourselves. 62 00:03:56,201 --> 00:04:00,240 [MAN] Every cowboy enjoys being able to work in nice lookin' country. 63 00:04:00,343 --> 00:04:04,105 Every cowboy enjoys the scenery, and the sunrises and the sunsets. 64 00:04:04,209 --> 00:04:07,350 [TAYA] I think there's a lot about being a cowboy that's wholesome. 65 00:04:07,454 --> 00:04:11,872 And there's you know the rodeo world, the comradery, the community. 66 00:04:11,975 --> 00:04:16,117 It's something in and of itself. It's different than you find anywhere else. 67 00:04:16,635 --> 00:04:18,775 [CODY] All I knew was what I wanted to be. 68 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:22,848 I think often times a cowboy is not something you do as much as 69 00:04:22,952 --> 00:04:24,574 who you really are inside. 70 00:04:24,678 --> 00:04:28,923 ♪♪ 71 00:04:30,546 --> 00:04:32,651 [CODY] I grew up in a place where you could ride your bike 72 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:36,966 a mile to the store and your parents didn't have to worry about you. 73 00:04:37,311 --> 00:04:39,279 I think if somebody was to write a 74 00:04:39,382 --> 00:04:42,247 story about the countryest little quintessential 75 00:04:42,351 --> 00:04:44,111 upbringing, that's pretty much what I had. 76 00:04:44,214 --> 00:04:47,770 ♪♪ 77 00:04:47,873 --> 00:04:50,980 My Mom and Dad taught me everything about music in church. 78 00:04:51,083 --> 00:04:54,535 My Dad played the piano literally like Floyd Cramer. It was beautiful. 79 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:59,713 We would sit around the piano and they would make me sing the harmony parts first 80 00:04:59,816 --> 00:05:04,407 and then I would have to sing the harmony parts of the song with nobody else singing 81 00:05:04,511 --> 00:05:06,858 and it's really shaped me. 82 00:05:06,961 --> 00:05:10,102 I can't read music. I don't read guitar tabs, 83 00:05:10,206 --> 00:05:13,451 but that basis and that foundation of music was laid by my parents 84 00:05:13,554 --> 00:05:17,351 and that we just sang gospel in church. 85 00:05:19,491 --> 00:05:23,564 My Dad worked for the prison system here in Texas and 86 00:05:23,668 --> 00:05:25,980 I can make the joke 'cause their my family, but in my family 87 00:05:26,084 --> 00:05:29,536 you either worked for the prison or you go to prison, 88 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,953 but there's a few exceptions here and there. 89 00:05:33,056 --> 00:05:37,509 You know he went to work with a gun belt on and spurs 90 00:05:37,613 --> 00:05:40,926 and chaps and I always thought that there was kind of 91 00:05:41,030 --> 00:05:44,171 a little bit of a badass factor to that. 92 00:05:44,274 --> 00:05:47,968 He did sit on a horse all day and work those guys in the field 93 00:05:48,071 --> 00:05:50,453 and he had to be a horseman but I don't think 94 00:05:50,557 --> 00:05:53,318 even he would tell you that he's a cowboy. 95 00:05:54,561 --> 00:05:57,460 [CODY] The first cowboy that I had my own personal contact with, 96 00:05:57,564 --> 00:06:00,843 that personally influenced me was my AG teacher Larry Fortenberry. 97 00:06:00,946 --> 00:06:04,778 His whole family ranch rodeoed and he was the one that saw it in me. 98 00:06:04,881 --> 00:06:06,780 You're a cowboy son. Make no doubt about it. 99 00:06:06,883 --> 00:06:09,196 You just need somebody to guide you. 100 00:06:09,299 --> 00:06:10,853 You just need some help. 101 00:06:10,956 --> 00:06:12,889 I told him I wanted to ride bulls in high school rodeo 102 00:06:12,993 --> 00:06:17,515 and he said, "Absolutely!" And he got me all the paperwork. That was that. 103 00:06:17,963 --> 00:06:21,967 ♪♪ 104 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,626 [CODY] I had the opportunity to go to Mike King's house in Pumpkin, Texas. 105 00:06:25,730 --> 00:06:27,904 I'll never forget it. My buddy Josh Harrell told me about it 106 00:06:28,008 --> 00:06:31,183 and I went over there and you know I got kinda trash talked to. 107 00:06:31,287 --> 00:06:34,428 There's only real bull riders back here. And I'm like, "Well I'm not scared to get on." 108 00:06:34,532 --> 00:06:38,777 "Oh really well let's do this." And they really loved and they enjoyed 109 00:06:38,881 --> 00:06:42,402 puttin' me on bulls I had no business being on. [LAUGHS] 110 00:06:43,195 --> 00:06:44,956 They were makin' jokes like, 111 00:06:45,059 --> 00:06:48,304 "I'll give you my rope. I'll give you my spurs if you can ride one." 112 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:50,099 I mean they were just torturin' me. 113 00:06:50,789 --> 00:06:54,586 These were bulls that guys that have been ridin' their entire lives were gettin' on 114 00:06:54,690 --> 00:06:57,037 I didn't have that desensitizing period. 115 00:06:57,140 --> 00:06:58,832 I mean I'd barely sat on a horse 116 00:06:58,935 --> 00:07:01,973 and so to go get on this Colorado bull was just... 117 00:07:02,076 --> 00:07:03,802 It was stupid. 118 00:07:04,527 --> 00:07:07,081 And I did. I got to about 6, 7-- 119 00:07:07,185 --> 00:07:08,911 We didn't have clocks and we didn't have timers. 120 00:07:09,014 --> 00:07:11,672 It was just kinda, "That's good enough. Get off." 121 00:07:11,776 --> 00:07:14,088 And I barely held onto one 122 00:07:14,192 --> 00:07:15,538 and I mean got the, 123 00:07:15,642 --> 00:07:18,334 just the piss stomped out of me at the end of it. 124 00:07:18,438 --> 00:07:21,026 But the adrenaline and the feelin' that I got was unlike 125 00:07:21,130 --> 00:07:23,304 anything I've felt in my entire life. 126 00:07:23,408 --> 00:07:26,135 Everybody was happy. "Hey man!" 127 00:07:26,238 --> 00:07:29,483 And I don't remember what the bull did, I just, I don't really remember. 128 00:07:29,587 --> 00:07:31,312 I just remember the feeling of like 129 00:07:31,416 --> 00:07:35,316 that acceptance of, "Man I could be a cowboy. I could be a real cowboy." 130 00:07:35,420 --> 00:07:37,733 And this was before I'd realized 131 00:07:37,836 --> 00:07:41,737 ridin' bulls has nothin' to do with really bein' a cowboy. 132 00:07:44,222 --> 00:07:49,538 [CODY] I don't think that being a cowboy can be defined by any one thing. 133 00:07:49,641 --> 00:07:52,817 It can mean different things to different people. 134 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,269 We all have our own perception of what being a cowboy is 135 00:07:57,373 --> 00:08:03,793 but the lure, the thing that draws us to cowboy is more often than not very personal. 136 00:08:04,104 --> 00:08:07,866 Chris Kyle's story is the definition of a hero. 137 00:08:07,970 --> 00:08:12,492 His strength and his courage captured the hearts of a nation. 138 00:08:13,769 --> 00:08:15,736 But how was that metal sharpened? 139 00:08:17,289 --> 00:08:22,640 [JAMES] A rodeo cowboy and a cowboy on a ranch are a little bit different. 140 00:08:24,055 --> 00:08:28,093 The rodeo cowboy gets his heritage from the working ranch 141 00:08:28,197 --> 00:08:31,580 because the events that are demonstrated in the arena 142 00:08:31,683 --> 00:08:33,167 come from the working ranch. 143 00:08:33,271 --> 00:08:36,550 Ranchers would get together back in the old days 144 00:08:36,654 --> 00:08:40,243 and they would have competitions on who could ride the wildest bronc 145 00:08:40,347 --> 00:08:43,523 and who could tie the cattle the fastest and 146 00:08:43,626 --> 00:08:46,940 that stemmed from what they did every day 147 00:08:47,043 --> 00:08:51,358 so as time has evolved and the sports have evolved 148 00:08:51,461 --> 00:08:54,810 we have rodeo cowboys that they might not have ranched. 149 00:08:54,913 --> 00:09:00,263 They might not have come from a ranching family. 150 00:09:00,367 --> 00:09:03,404 My name's James Barton and we're here at the Houston ranch 151 00:09:03,508 --> 00:09:07,201 in Bluff Dale, Texas. It's been owned by the Houston family 152 00:09:07,305 --> 00:09:10,998 for over 100 years. My wife Emily and our kids are the 153 00:09:11,102 --> 00:09:13,932 sixth generation running this ranch. 154 00:09:16,314 --> 00:09:20,318 [CRICKETS] 155 00:09:33,538 --> 00:09:36,230 Oh, oh wow. 156 00:09:37,887 --> 00:09:39,130 Wow. 157 00:09:44,169 --> 00:09:45,723 Sounds about right. 158 00:09:47,069 --> 00:09:50,900 I feel like either started out in a horse trailer 159 00:09:51,004 --> 00:09:53,385 or it was the size of a horse trailer but I look at this, 160 00:09:53,489 --> 00:09:56,492 I think he actually started in a horse trailer until this freed up 161 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:58,252 or at least at one of the ranches. 162 00:09:58,356 --> 00:10:01,083 But this is about the size of a horse trailer too. 163 00:10:03,464 --> 00:10:04,983 Wow. 164 00:10:05,777 --> 00:10:07,020 He'd do fine. 165 00:10:07,434 --> 00:10:10,161 This is like being deployed. Probably the size of their-- 166 00:10:11,438 --> 00:10:13,302 and they have bunks their too. 167 00:10:14,441 --> 00:10:15,994 I think there was a, 168 00:10:16,788 --> 00:10:19,653 I wanna say a romance to going back to your past 169 00:10:20,102 --> 00:10:22,138 your youth a little bit and seeing where 170 00:10:22,414 --> 00:10:24,140 things started. This is you know where he 171 00:10:24,244 --> 00:10:26,177 started living his dream of being a cowboy. 172 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,180 He did it of course growing up and he did FFA. 173 00:10:29,283 --> 00:10:31,078 He did rodeo and he did rodeo at Tarleton, 174 00:10:31,182 --> 00:10:35,048 but this was sort of now making a living, if you call it that, 175 00:10:35,151 --> 00:10:39,397 being a ranch hand for a bit and so he loved it. 176 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:41,848 ♪♪ 177 00:10:41,951 --> 00:10:44,160 [TV HOST] Chris Karl's a former Navy Seal. 178 00:10:44,264 --> 00:10:48,993 He's also quite possibly the most lethal sniper in American military history. 179 00:10:49,096 --> 00:10:51,754 -Mr. Kyle, thanks for coming. -Thanks for having me. 180 00:10:51,858 --> 00:10:54,550 We were driving down here and I was thinking obviously about Chris 181 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:57,277 and our life and my daughter was asking 182 00:10:57,380 --> 00:10:59,313 if you can make good money being a ranch hand. 183 00:10:59,417 --> 00:11:02,006 And I would say, "No, it's really just like love of the game." 184 00:11:02,109 --> 00:11:05,112 Right? You do it because you love it. 185 00:11:05,216 --> 00:11:07,287 Chris knew the two things he wanted to do in life. 186 00:11:07,390 --> 00:11:10,014 He wanted to be a cowboy and he wanted to be in the military. 187 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:13,707 [CHRIS] Once I graduated high school 188 00:11:13,811 --> 00:11:15,882 I was gonna join the marine core. 189 00:11:15,985 --> 00:11:19,506 Decided well before someone else is tellin' me what to do 190 00:11:19,609 --> 00:11:22,267 besides Mom and Dad, I'm gonna go to college, have some fun. 191 00:11:22,371 --> 00:11:24,200 [TV HOST] Yeah, now what did you do as 192 00:11:24,304 --> 00:11:27,687 -far as rodeo? What events? Really? -Saddle bronc. 193 00:11:27,790 --> 00:11:32,277 He got a rodeo scholarship to Steven Bell Tarleton, a great school for rodeo. 194 00:11:32,381 --> 00:11:36,385 I think he was three semesters shy of graduating and 195 00:11:36,488 --> 00:11:39,457 he just realized he wasn't motivated for the school part of it. 196 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,287 The studies weren't going to be his, his concern 197 00:11:42,391 --> 00:11:44,531 and he loved rodeo, so he thought, "Why am I doin' this?" 198 00:11:44,634 --> 00:11:48,397 He left school and came out and he was a cowboy for a long time. 199 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:52,125 Chris Kyle worked out here as a ranch hand. 200 00:11:52,228 --> 00:11:56,370 He spent a lot of time out here while he was going to school 201 00:11:56,474 --> 00:12:00,340 but while he was out here he wanted to be a rodeo cowboy. 202 00:12:00,443 --> 00:12:04,585 He went to rodeos. He rode horses, took care of the cattle. 203 00:12:04,689 --> 00:12:10,005 Here he learned the value of hard work and getting up in the morning. 204 00:12:10,108 --> 00:12:13,146 Not having somebody just stand over him every day. 205 00:12:13,974 --> 00:12:19,186 [CODY] What did life look like as a child in Oklahoma growing up on a ranch to Reba? 206 00:12:19,290 --> 00:12:22,086 [REBA] I was the third out of four kids 207 00:12:22,189 --> 00:12:26,159 growing up on a working cattle ranch in southeastern Oklahoma. 208 00:12:26,262 --> 00:12:27,574 8,000 acres. 209 00:12:27,677 --> 00:12:30,370 We were the hired hands, Alice, Pake, Susie and me. 210 00:12:30,473 --> 00:12:34,788 I absolutely loved growing up on the ranch. 211 00:12:34,892 --> 00:12:37,342 We learned a lot. Work ethic. 212 00:12:37,446 --> 00:12:41,657 And I loved to ride and I loved the cowboy way of life. 213 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:44,487 [CODY] After gettin' to know you a little bit, I feel like you still have that. 214 00:12:44,591 --> 00:12:48,526 -It's very much being a cowboy is more inside than outside. -Yeah. 215 00:12:48,629 --> 00:12:52,150 And I think that's true for men and women that grow up around that. 216 00:12:52,254 --> 00:12:54,912 -Do you feel like that's helped you in your career? -Totally. 217 00:12:55,015 --> 00:12:58,743 Totally. Not only with the work ethic, but respect. 218 00:12:58,847 --> 00:13:01,815 -Right. -Show up. Be on time. Be prepared. 219 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:04,059 And do what you say you're gonna do. 220 00:13:04,162 --> 00:13:06,786 I mean that's the cowboy code. 221 00:13:09,581 --> 00:13:14,966 [JAMES] When people come out here and work for us, we say you ride for the brand. 222 00:13:15,070 --> 00:13:21,214 You take ownership of it yourself and you're proud of the work you do every day. 223 00:13:21,317 --> 00:13:24,389 One of the things that is a ranching joke is 224 00:13:24,493 --> 00:13:28,462 when a new hand comes on here we call him fingers because 225 00:13:28,566 --> 00:13:30,292 he hasn't made a hand yet. 226 00:13:30,395 --> 00:13:33,674 It kinda shows like, you know you have to earn it out here. 227 00:13:33,778 --> 00:13:35,538 That's really what a cowboy's about. 228 00:13:35,642 --> 00:13:39,128 The calling might not be being out in the country. 229 00:13:39,232 --> 00:13:41,717 The calling might be lots of different things. 230 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:46,066 When Chris left, he felt the calling change to join the military. 231 00:13:46,170 --> 00:13:48,379 At one point he thought he was getting maybe a little bit 232 00:13:48,482 --> 00:13:51,209 too old to join the military, so he thought I better go do it. 233 00:13:51,313 --> 00:13:55,731 Got in a rodeo accident. I had pins and screws put in my arm 234 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:57,940 and then the marines wouldn't take me. 235 00:13:58,044 --> 00:14:01,495 Kept workin' on the ranches and figured alright, this is what I'm gonna do for a livin'. 236 00:14:01,599 --> 00:14:04,982 Then about the time I was 23, I got a call sayin', 237 00:14:05,085 --> 00:14:08,468 "Hey, we're willing to take you in." 238 00:14:09,607 --> 00:14:13,162 [TAYA] When he went there, the marine recruiter was out to lunch. 239 00:14:13,266 --> 00:14:16,131 The Navy guy said, "Come on in here and talk to me." 240 00:14:16,234 --> 00:14:20,652 I went, I don't want to sit on a ship. [LAUGHTER] 241 00:14:20,756 --> 00:14:23,724 And he goes, "No, there's something called Seals. 242 00:14:23,828 --> 00:14:25,450 "You can go do it right now." 243 00:14:25,554 --> 00:14:29,489 [TAYA] He was capable of a lot of things but he had this path that was 244 00:14:29,592 --> 00:14:33,803 accepting of what life was bringing. I'm gonna go where I feel 245 00:14:33,907 --> 00:14:36,634 led to go but I'm gonna be serious about it. I'm gonna do really well. 246 00:14:36,737 --> 00:14:39,223 He didn't accept the standards that everybody else had. 247 00:14:39,326 --> 00:14:42,260 He decided what they were and he lived by 'em. 248 00:14:45,988 --> 00:14:48,577 [CODY] When you were growing up, did you have it in your head that you wanted to be 249 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,304 a superstar in country music or did you really look 250 00:14:51,407 --> 00:14:55,549 just no further than, I wanna barrel race, I wanna do anything I can do to be in rodeo? 251 00:14:55,653 --> 00:14:58,173 I told Gail Patskill one time I wanted to be, 252 00:14:58,276 --> 00:15:01,003 my dream was to be a world champion barrel racer. 253 00:15:01,107 --> 00:15:03,178 And she said, "Man I wish I could sing like you." 254 00:15:03,281 --> 00:15:06,215 And I said, "You wanna swap?" She said, "No." 255 00:15:07,423 --> 00:15:09,494 But I wanted to be a world champion barrel racer 256 00:15:09,598 --> 00:15:12,566 and I would go to bed after the CMA awards 257 00:15:12,670 --> 00:15:16,018 the night that Merle Haggard won for 'Okie from Muskogee'. 258 00:15:16,122 --> 00:15:19,401 I could still, I laid in bed and I was lookin' out the window and said, 259 00:15:19,504 --> 00:15:22,093 "I'd like to thank my Mama and Daddy." 260 00:15:22,197 --> 00:15:23,957 -I had my speech ready. -Yeah. 261 00:15:24,061 --> 00:15:26,339 For one day I wanted to be that too. 262 00:15:26,649 --> 00:15:30,239 Did you ever have a turning point where you knew before somebody else told you? 263 00:15:30,343 --> 00:15:33,001 Like I feel like that music is what I was born to do. 264 00:15:33,104 --> 00:15:35,624 Well it was kinda laced together. I got my start 265 00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:38,420 singing the national anthem at the national finals rodeo 266 00:15:38,523 --> 00:15:40,008 in Oklahoma City in '74. 267 00:15:40,111 --> 00:15:42,458 I was gonna go up there anyway. I loved to party. 268 00:15:42,562 --> 00:15:48,154 After the rodeo watch the barrel racin', have all my buddies up there. Daddy was very smart. 269 00:15:48,257 --> 00:15:51,398 He said, "Reba why don't you get you a job if you're gonna go up there?" 270 00:15:51,502 --> 00:15:54,539 And I said, "Doin what?" And he said, "Singin' the national anthem." 271 00:15:54,643 --> 00:15:58,681 ♪ Oh say can you see 272 00:15:58,785 --> 00:16:02,168 ♪ By the dawn's early light 273 00:16:02,271 --> 00:16:06,137 ♪ What so proudly we hailed 274 00:16:06,241 --> 00:16:09,934 ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ 275 00:16:10,038 --> 00:16:11,971 ♪ Whose broad stripes and bright ♪ 276 00:16:12,074 --> 00:16:15,767 [REBA] So I asked Glenn McSpadden if I could do it and he got me the job. 277 00:16:15,871 --> 00:16:18,391 I sang from '74 to '84 278 00:16:18,494 --> 00:16:21,325 and then they moved to Vegas and I've done it several times there. 279 00:16:21,428 --> 00:16:23,154 -Yeah. -But totally loved it. 280 00:16:23,258 --> 00:16:26,054 Matter of fact, we were at the national finals rodeo 281 00:16:26,157 --> 00:16:28,608 before that and I met Red Steagall 282 00:16:28,711 --> 00:16:31,956 and he was the one that said, "Jackie." to Mama. 283 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:36,685 He said, "Jackie, why don't you bring Reba down and let's see if we can get her a record deal." 284 00:16:36,788 --> 00:16:41,207 And it was 11 months later I had a record deal with Polygram/ Mercury Records. 285 00:16:41,310 --> 00:16:44,141 So it was the rodeo, the cowboys 286 00:16:44,244 --> 00:16:48,628 being Glenn McSpadden, Daddy and Red Steagall that kinda 287 00:16:48,731 --> 00:16:50,526 helped me on my way. 288 00:16:50,630 --> 00:16:53,012 Mine was my AG teacher back in high school he said, 289 00:16:53,115 --> 00:16:55,773 "We need somebody to sing the national anthem for this rodeo." 290 00:16:55,876 --> 00:16:58,810 He was the one that always pushed me to play music and pushed me to 291 00:16:58,914 --> 00:17:02,573 still maintain that cowboy way that you were talking about. 292 00:17:02,676 --> 00:17:03,815 Yeah. 293 00:17:05,024 --> 00:17:08,441 [CHEERING] 294 00:17:08,544 --> 00:17:09,994 ♪♪ 295 00:17:10,098 --> 00:17:12,203 Tell me if it needs to be louder. 296 00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:16,069 [CODY] When I was like 12, I would play guitar every day. 297 00:17:16,173 --> 00:17:20,142 I would play till my fingers bled. I would get my homework done as soon as I could 298 00:17:20,246 --> 00:17:22,075 and just play and play and play and play. 299 00:17:22,179 --> 00:17:26,217 You know I would play everything from George Jones to Led Zeppelin 300 00:17:26,321 --> 00:17:28,392 and so I brought my guitar to school. 301 00:17:28,495 --> 00:17:32,534 I kinda have to give credit to my English teacher Dorothy Kennedy. 302 00:17:33,431 --> 00:17:35,606 She tells Mr. Fortenberry 303 00:17:36,365 --> 00:17:40,093 and he says, "I hear you play. Bring your guitar." 304 00:17:40,197 --> 00:17:41,991 So one day we get the entire class and I played. 305 00:17:42,095 --> 00:17:45,685 He just, the entire period, he let me play and entertain. 306 00:17:45,788 --> 00:17:49,378 [BRANDI] The first time I ever saw Cody Johnson perform I was 14 307 00:17:49,482 --> 00:17:53,037 and a freshman in high school and I was competing in FFA. 308 00:17:53,141 --> 00:17:57,662 He had a talent team with some kids from his school and his cousin. 309 00:17:57,766 --> 00:18:03,047 My girlfriends and I sat front row underneath the stage. 310 00:18:03,151 --> 00:18:07,569 He was so cute and so talented. I remember he had a broken leg. 311 00:18:07,672 --> 00:18:09,467 I know now that's from ridin' bulls. 312 00:18:10,399 --> 00:18:14,023 [CODY] And Mr. Fortenberry pulled me aside and he was like, "You're gonna start a band. 313 00:18:14,127 --> 00:18:16,785 "You're gonna start a band and you're gonna play for the FFA talent team 314 00:18:16,888 --> 00:18:19,270 "because you've got it in you." And I said, "I didn't want to." 315 00:18:19,374 --> 00:18:22,446 And he said, "Well I don't really care what you want. I see something in you." 316 00:18:23,378 --> 00:18:25,276 He was the one that really pushed me. 317 00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:28,728 And your first place team from Groveton, Texas. 318 00:18:28,831 --> 00:18:32,490 [CHEERING] 319 00:18:33,595 --> 00:18:35,079 [CODY] He always told me, "You need to be two things. 320 00:18:35,183 --> 00:18:37,909 "You need to play country music and you need to be a cowboy." 321 00:18:39,670 --> 00:18:43,398 That was that abrupt cowboy fashion I grew to love. 322 00:18:44,019 --> 00:18:45,572 ♪♪ 323 00:18:45,676 --> 00:18:48,230 Thank you very much Texas, have a good night. 324 00:18:48,334 --> 00:18:49,921 Thank ya'll. 325 00:18:50,025 --> 00:18:53,408 [CHEERING] 326 00:19:02,071 --> 00:19:06,248 [CODY] Whenever I was a kid growing up we would come here to the Walker County fairgrounds. 327 00:19:06,352 --> 00:19:08,423 This was where the big PRCA ropings happened. 328 00:19:08,526 --> 00:19:11,253 I watched Joe Beaver rope here. I watched 329 00:19:11,357 --> 00:19:13,152 Fred Whitfield rope calves. 330 00:19:13,255 --> 00:19:17,432 Trevor Brazile. I watched the Carrillo Brothers ride bulls here. 331 00:19:17,535 --> 00:19:20,676 Michael Gaffney. Tuff Hedeman. 332 00:19:20,780 --> 00:19:25,371 It was a big deal. To me this was the big arena 333 00:19:25,474 --> 00:19:28,443 and now lookin' back at 33 years old, 334 00:19:28,546 --> 00:19:31,722 one of these exists In every small town across America, 335 00:19:32,861 --> 00:19:36,692 but when I was 18 years old, this place was pretty intimidating. 336 00:19:37,693 --> 00:19:40,869 Watched every event and waited all day long to 337 00:19:40,972 --> 00:19:45,598 get pretty embarrassed. I've got a picture of me my buddy Codrick 338 00:19:45,701 --> 00:19:48,256 and my Dad standin' right here on the back of this chute. 339 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,845 Back then they had a lot of bodacious calves and they loved to put 340 00:19:51,949 --> 00:19:56,436 young ignorant kids on 'em. Probably lasted right out to about here. 341 00:19:59,888 --> 00:20:02,649 I got drug all the way to the other end of the arena. 342 00:20:03,132 --> 00:20:05,480 [LAUGHS] And that was that. 343 00:20:05,583 --> 00:20:07,620 I was the kinda guy that I wanted to be a cowboy so bad 344 00:20:07,723 --> 00:20:11,417 it didn't really matter to me if I looked stupid or got hurt. It was worth it for me. 345 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,626 I was really just gettin' on as many bulls as I could 346 00:20:13,729 --> 00:20:15,938 truly having the confidence and believin' 347 00:20:16,042 --> 00:20:19,079 eventually this is gonna take hold. Eventually I'm gonna get it. 348 00:20:19,183 --> 00:20:23,187 I'm the first generation rodeo cowboy in my family. Very proud of that. 349 00:20:23,291 --> 00:20:29,504 ♪♪ 350 00:20:29,607 --> 00:20:34,474 When I was high school rodeo with my buddies Mark Johnson, Codrick Murphy and Tyree Cosse 351 00:20:34,578 --> 00:20:37,512 the camaraderie was unlike anything I'd ever felt. 352 00:20:38,478 --> 00:20:43,138 [CROWD CHEERING ENCOURAGEMENT] 353 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:45,658 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] Hang in there buddy! Hang in there! 354 00:20:46,831 --> 00:20:50,249 [CODY] When I started listening to Chris LeDoux's music. Things changed. 355 00:20:50,352 --> 00:20:54,149 Cause to listen to Chris LeDoux's early music, it makes it sound like a fairy tale. 356 00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:56,807 It makes it sound like a bunch of ol' boys jump in a car 357 00:20:56,910 --> 00:20:58,740 and we're gonna go hit a bunch of rodeos 358 00:20:58,843 --> 00:21:00,983 and to me that was me he was singin' about. 359 00:21:01,087 --> 00:21:04,263 I didn't know that he was tellin' stories of his professional 360 00:21:04,366 --> 00:21:06,610 20 years into his professional rodeo career. 361 00:21:06,713 --> 00:21:12,547 I was experienced in those rodeo legend type scenarios in my high school years. 362 00:21:13,479 --> 00:21:16,654 I rode a couple of bulls at a series over in Liberty. 363 00:21:16,758 --> 00:21:19,795 I rode one, one night at CPRA in Mexia, Texas. 364 00:21:19,899 --> 00:21:23,592 I covered a couple of New Caney. Then I made the state finals. 365 00:21:23,696 --> 00:21:25,905 It wasn't a lot, but it was just enough. 366 00:21:26,008 --> 00:21:28,563 It's like feedin' a drug addict just enough to be addicted. 367 00:21:28,666 --> 00:21:31,255 Next step, let's start tryin' to ride in some of these amateur bull ridings 368 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,776 and these amateur rodeos and what I did was I stepped into the lion's den. 369 00:21:34,879 --> 00:21:38,814 I am in so far over my head, but I am not going to back down. 370 00:21:41,472 --> 00:21:45,476 That's just not in me. I don't have it in my DNA to back down from a fight. 371 00:21:45,580 --> 00:21:47,996 Every single bull I ever got on 372 00:21:48,099 --> 00:21:52,034 I said, "I'm gonna ride this bull. There's no doubt in my mind." 373 00:21:52,138 --> 00:21:55,935 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] Protect the young man who's a little guy named Cody Johnson. 374 00:21:56,038 --> 00:21:59,732 [CODY] If I die, at that point I was just young and that competitive, 375 00:21:59,835 --> 00:22:02,113 doesn't matter, I'll go down as a cowboy. 376 00:22:03,943 --> 00:22:09,397 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] Let's help him! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 377 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:11,295 [WOMAN] Wooo! 378 00:22:11,399 --> 00:22:13,677 ♪♪ 379 00:22:19,372 --> 00:22:22,824 [CODY] I think this is something that only people from East Texas understand. 380 00:22:22,927 --> 00:22:26,517 There's a lot of black bull riders and black rodeos. 381 00:22:28,208 --> 00:22:32,281 But you can enter. You can enter no matter what. It's just gonna be mostly black guys and 382 00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:35,354 Most of the time we were like the two, the only white guys there. 383 00:22:35,457 --> 00:22:40,324 At that point I was hangin' around guys like Craig Jackson and my friend Justin Richards. 384 00:22:40,428 --> 00:22:43,776 And those guys were freakin' cowboys man. 385 00:22:44,811 --> 00:22:47,262 And could ride a lion. I'm tellin' you. 386 00:22:47,366 --> 00:22:49,160 They call'em dragon slayers. 387 00:22:51,818 --> 00:22:55,063 I found guidance from those guys. I found encouragement 388 00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:58,515 and I found out I was watchin' some of the best bull riders in the state. 389 00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:07,075 [HORN] [ANNOUNCER] You can get off. Where you ridin'? It don't really matter. Look out. 390 00:23:07,178 --> 00:23:09,526 So I clung to those guys. I wanted to be around them in the car. 391 00:23:09,629 --> 00:23:12,218 I wanted to sleep in the same hotel. I wanted to listen to what they said, 392 00:23:12,321 --> 00:23:16,843 watch how they did everything and that was enough for me to hold onto confidence. 393 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,574 [FAIR NOISE] 394 00:23:26,922 --> 00:23:30,650 [CODY] At that point, we were broke. I didn't have money for a McDonalds cheeseburger. 395 00:23:30,754 --> 00:23:33,688 And a lot of times we didn't eat. And we didn't care. 396 00:23:33,791 --> 00:23:39,728 We just really didn't care. It was about being together, chasin' that dream. 397 00:23:39,832 --> 00:23:43,525 I think at that point I really stared turning to music because 398 00:23:43,629 --> 00:23:47,633 like Chris LeDoux, well I won't say like Chris LeDoux. 399 00:23:47,736 --> 00:23:50,152 Chris LeDoux was a professional world champion 400 00:23:50,256 --> 00:23:54,950 who sat on the back of his tailgate and sold tapes of his professional album 401 00:23:55,054 --> 00:23:58,298 that was Capital Records out of Nashville. Huge difference. 402 00:23:58,402 --> 00:24:01,474 But what I did was like, well okay I'll spend 200 bucks 403 00:24:01,578 --> 00:24:04,926 I'm gonna go to somebody's garage that owns something that can record me 404 00:24:05,029 --> 00:24:07,135 and I'm going to play every song I've written 405 00:24:07,238 --> 00:24:12,002 about rodeo and every country song, whether it's good or not, just me and a guitar. 406 00:24:12,105 --> 00:24:15,074 I bought a printer and after rodeos, whenever I would lose money, 407 00:24:15,177 --> 00:24:17,525 I would sit on the back of my tailgate and I'd play. 408 00:24:17,628 --> 00:24:19,561 And people would sometimes give me tips. 409 00:24:19,665 --> 00:24:21,080 Sometimes they would say, "You got any CDs?" 410 00:24:21,183 --> 00:24:23,358 And I would print them out a CD right there. Burn'em. 411 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:26,119 And I'd give it to them for hey, five bucks. Whatever you got. 412 00:24:26,223 --> 00:24:28,846 And I would take that money and go down the road. 413 00:24:29,709 --> 00:24:33,748 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] Cody Johnson, Texas. 414 00:24:36,889 --> 00:24:41,997 [CODY] So you could say at that time music was already makin' me money even whenever 415 00:24:42,101 --> 00:24:44,483 I was throwin' it away on bull ridin'. 416 00:24:49,384 --> 00:24:53,492 The hardest part was after high school with those guys 417 00:24:53,595 --> 00:24:56,218 when I really started to see the herd separate. 418 00:24:56,598 --> 00:24:59,912 ♪♪ 419 00:25:02,604 --> 00:25:04,606 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] How about it all? 420 00:25:04,710 --> 00:25:10,163 [CODY] I had to start takin' jobs. I worked at a department store sellin' hats and boots 421 00:25:10,267 --> 00:25:12,614 and all the while wantin' to be out there hearin' what they're doin. 422 00:25:12,718 --> 00:25:16,238 "Oh, we're in, we're in Amarillo tonight. We're going to New Mexico." 423 00:25:16,342 --> 00:25:19,000 I can't afford to go to New Mexico. If I do I know I'm gonna, 424 00:25:19,103 --> 00:25:21,416 I know I'm gonna lose all the money I've just made. 425 00:25:22,348 --> 00:25:26,352 But I had my guitar and I had my songs and I had what I'd been developing 426 00:25:26,455 --> 00:25:31,219 so at that point I really started turning to, "Well I'm just going to play." 427 00:25:31,322 --> 00:25:35,637 And that's really where the rough times really started. 428 00:25:40,987 --> 00:25:43,127 The best man at my wedding, Nathan Reedy. 429 00:25:43,231 --> 00:25:47,787 I meet Nathan and he plays drums and he's a really good drummer. 430 00:25:47,891 --> 00:25:49,927 "Cool man, you wanna get together and jam sometime?" 431 00:25:50,031 --> 00:25:54,725 We work at the same place. We start hanging out. We start drinkin' and partyin'. 432 00:25:54,829 --> 00:25:57,210 Throwin' parties with just a djembe 433 00:25:57,314 --> 00:26:00,524 or a small stripped down set of drums and I would plug up my guitar 434 00:26:00,628 --> 00:26:02,491 and we made a little amp set and we'd have 435 00:26:02,595 --> 00:26:04,873 full on house parties and just play covers. 436 00:26:04,977 --> 00:26:09,188 We didn't make any money, but we, man, we were happy. We should start a band. 437 00:26:12,709 --> 00:26:16,678 We gotta find a bass player. Enter my Dad. 438 00:26:17,645 --> 00:26:19,716 And at the time my Dad was going through a lot. 439 00:26:19,819 --> 00:26:23,892 There was a lot going at home with my brother. There was a lot going home with him personally. 440 00:26:23,996 --> 00:26:28,310 And I think it was an outlet for my Dad. I think he always wanted to be in a band. 441 00:26:28,414 --> 00:26:32,280 I remember him telling me when I was a kid his dream was to be Elvis' drummer. 442 00:26:32,383 --> 00:26:35,697 I always thought that was really cool, like that was really high expectation. 443 00:26:35,801 --> 00:26:40,944 And at the time it was also an outlet for him to kinda come party. 444 00:26:41,047 --> 00:26:44,499 I didn't really know any different. I love my Dad and at the time 445 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:46,190 I had a great time partying with him. 446 00:26:46,294 --> 00:26:48,503 I didn't see then, I didn't have the maturity then to see 447 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:51,644 the pain that he was going through and the dark place I was in. 448 00:26:52,231 --> 00:26:55,234 And we started traveling the roads the three of us. 449 00:26:57,132 --> 00:27:00,584 My mother, whenever I'd started playing in bars actually was like, 450 00:27:00,688 --> 00:27:02,586 "You're gonna wind up like your Uncle. 451 00:27:02,690 --> 00:27:04,174 "You're gonna wind up like this guy." 452 00:27:04,277 --> 00:27:06,901 It was drilled into me that if you play in a bar 453 00:27:08,074 --> 00:27:13,183 the Devil's gonna get ya and that was very true. 454 00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:17,877 [APPLAUSE] 455 00:27:17,981 --> 00:27:19,568 ♪♪ 456 00:27:19,672 --> 00:27:21,605 ♪ Mmmmhmmm 457 00:27:21,709 --> 00:27:23,952 [CODY] My parents raised me playin' in church. 458 00:27:24,470 --> 00:27:27,162 I think that was one of the biggest shocks, the culture shock 459 00:27:27,266 --> 00:27:30,718 for me was when I finally did get out into the honky tonks I was going wow 460 00:27:30,821 --> 00:27:34,135 you can move people with music in a honky tonk 461 00:27:34,238 --> 00:27:36,206 just like you can move'em in church. 462 00:27:36,309 --> 00:27:38,760 It's just different subject matters and different people. 463 00:27:39,692 --> 00:27:43,558 All I know is that we would just care about the hundred bucks a man. 464 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,457 Give us a hundred bucks a man and a free tab and we're good. 465 00:27:46,561 --> 00:27:49,737 So basically what happens is you put a hundred bucks, you go sit someplace 466 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,946 and you play till you're wasted. 467 00:27:53,050 --> 00:27:55,708 Early on I thought that's what, that's what you do. 468 00:27:55,812 --> 00:27:57,399 That's what is supposed to happen. 469 00:27:57,503 --> 00:28:00,368 There were not really a lot of good influences 470 00:28:00,471 --> 00:28:03,164 in any of my friends that were around me back then. If you're watchin' this 471 00:28:03,267 --> 00:28:06,615 you know dag gum good and well you wasn't no good influence on me. 472 00:28:06,719 --> 00:28:08,169 And I wasn't on you. 473 00:28:08,825 --> 00:28:11,828 And we eventually found other bass players and guitar players 474 00:28:11,931 --> 00:28:14,554 and we added and we're in a bar playin' for 300 people 475 00:28:14,658 --> 00:28:18,766 playin' Bob Seger 'Turn the Page' as wasted as it gets. 476 00:28:19,456 --> 00:28:20,940 It started. 477 00:28:22,010 --> 00:28:25,151 We're in a band man and we're supposed to travel, raise hell 478 00:28:25,255 --> 00:28:29,362 fight, you know and it's just, it starts to take off. 479 00:28:29,466 --> 00:28:32,814 ♪ Baby, why don't you stop now 480 00:28:32,918 --> 00:28:37,129 The more places we played and the more popularity that I started to gain 481 00:28:37,232 --> 00:28:39,545 my ego started to really take control and 482 00:28:39,648 --> 00:28:42,272 you know my buddy Codrick shows up at my house one night 483 00:28:42,375 --> 00:28:46,621 and I was in a really bad spot doing a lot of things that I 484 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:49,382 really shouldn't have been doing and he called me out on it. 485 00:28:49,486 --> 00:28:52,903 You know, he's like, "Hey man, I heard you're out at these parties man. 486 00:28:53,007 --> 00:28:56,251 "Are you doing these drugs? Are you? Are you drinkin' this much?" You know. 487 00:28:56,355 --> 00:28:59,082 "Nah. I'm good man. I'm good. You outta come hang out." 488 00:28:59,185 --> 00:29:03,017 He's like, "Nah, I'm good, but I'm gonna go do my thing. I'm gonna go ride bulls." 489 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,847 And I couldn't blame him. You know, I wouldn't, lookin' back 490 00:29:05,951 --> 00:29:07,953 I wouldn't want to hang out with me either. 491 00:29:10,231 --> 00:29:13,441 Seems like my constant MO at this point in my life, in my young life 492 00:29:13,544 --> 00:29:15,615 is I'm constantly having to shake off the bad. 493 00:29:15,719 --> 00:29:19,240 Constantly having to shake off these demons that I'm putting on myself. 494 00:29:19,343 --> 00:29:22,415 And my wife is, played a huge incredible role of 495 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:25,280 keeping me in check with reality and reminding me who I really am 496 00:29:25,384 --> 00:29:29,388 because I think she saw me before I ever saw myself. 497 00:29:29,491 --> 00:29:33,564 [BRANDI] I could see that something's wrong so I said to him, 498 00:29:33,668 --> 00:29:38,397 "Why are you angry? What is the root of anger?" You know? 499 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,331 And I think a lot of times for him is the failure 500 00:29:41,434 --> 00:29:43,989 that he doesn't want to admit because he's really tough. 501 00:29:46,646 --> 00:29:53,274 [CODY] When I couldn't accomplish what I wanted with rodeo, it ate me up. 502 00:29:56,139 --> 00:30:01,109 The first buckle I thought, I can win this. I'd actually been ridin' pretty good. 503 00:30:01,213 --> 00:30:04,837 It was at the Cody Dernehl memorial bull ride. 504 00:30:06,632 --> 00:30:10,705 Me and a bunch of guys get out in the middle of the arena and line up 505 00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:15,883 and they turn out this bull and they play the song 'Bull Man' that I'd written. 506 00:30:15,986 --> 00:30:19,783 The song's over and we all start walkin' forward and the bull goes back in. 507 00:30:20,197 --> 00:30:22,855 I drew that bull to ride in the first round. 508 00:30:24,650 --> 00:30:28,171 And I had it in my head that because my song was played for Cody Dernehl 509 00:30:28,274 --> 00:30:31,864 and I drew that bull that they turned out for Cody Dernehl 510 00:30:31,968 --> 00:30:33,970 that I was gonna win that. 511 00:30:36,524 --> 00:30:39,665 I had my buddy Justin Richards and now my buddy Codrick 512 00:30:39,768 --> 00:30:44,049 and Mark, a couple other people that were all really pumping me up. 513 00:30:44,152 --> 00:30:47,293 Like, "You got this. This is gonna happen." 514 00:30:51,573 --> 00:30:54,197 [SQUEEKING GATE] 515 00:31:01,756 --> 00:31:05,587 I blew a spur rowel in half. I don't know how. It just happens. 516 00:31:05,691 --> 00:31:11,870 And I ate dirt got stomped and Justin Richards won that buckle that night. 517 00:31:15,114 --> 00:31:17,876 I think that was a very discouraging moment. 518 00:31:18,773 --> 00:31:23,467 At that point I started really focusing on this is fizzling out 519 00:31:23,571 --> 00:31:27,299 and I was lookin' for some type of fulfillment. 520 00:31:27,402 --> 00:31:31,579 Something to make me feel like I wasn't just a loser. 521 00:31:31,682 --> 00:31:36,239 Really. Cause that's what I felt like when I had to quit ridin' bulls was a loser. 522 00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:41,761 That's where the real torture started. The setting in of that 523 00:31:41,865 --> 00:31:44,143 I'm really not good enough. 524 00:31:44,247 --> 00:31:52,151 ♪♪ 525 00:32:02,265 --> 00:32:09,134 [RANDY] When I was 5 years old my Dad took me to National western livestock show rodeo. 526 00:32:09,237 --> 00:32:12,792 The national western. They had a guy up there had a booth 527 00:32:12,896 --> 00:32:14,553 with a bunch of belt buckles in there. 528 00:32:14,656 --> 00:32:18,695 My granddad, he said, "You want a belt buckle?" 529 00:32:18,798 --> 00:32:20,697 I said, "Man that'd be nice." 530 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,182 I picked a belt buckle out, a calf roping buckle 531 00:32:23,286 --> 00:32:27,773 -and the guy said, "What do you wanna write on it?" -[CODY] What'd you say? 532 00:32:27,876 --> 00:32:32,778 -I said, "Randy Weaver, world champion calf roper." -No way! 533 00:32:32,881 --> 00:32:35,436 -I promise! [LAUGHS] -Alright. 534 00:32:35,539 --> 00:32:40,579 And they said it's like something was inside of me 535 00:32:40,682 --> 00:32:45,377 -that it just, it was always there. -Right. 536 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,517 ♪♪ 537 00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:51,348 [CODY] I think that Randy's story is very unique. 538 00:32:51,452 --> 00:32:54,938 He's had a very successful rodeo career and the man 539 00:32:55,042 --> 00:32:57,147 is a third generation pastor. 540 00:32:57,251 --> 00:33:00,081 I told him recently that the only reason you rope this much 541 00:33:00,185 --> 00:33:02,325 is because it's the only drug a preacher can do. 542 00:33:02,428 --> 00:33:06,191 He's figured out a way to take ropin' with people and help shape their lives. 543 00:33:06,294 --> 00:33:09,159 You don't realize you're in a counseling session 544 00:33:09,263 --> 00:33:12,093 till you've roped 2 pens of steers, you're going 545 00:33:12,197 --> 00:33:14,061 we're not talking about ropin' anymore. 546 00:33:14,164 --> 00:33:18,065 I'm hearing things from this man and he's been very influential on me. 547 00:33:21,447 --> 00:33:25,451 One thing that stuck out to me was, as a cowboy, you said you felt like you had 548 00:33:25,555 --> 00:33:28,523 confirmation that you were going to be a world champion calf roper. 549 00:33:28,627 --> 00:33:30,422 Right. Right. 550 00:33:30,525 --> 00:33:33,839 [CODY] When it didn't happen right away, I was sitting in the pew going, 551 00:33:33,942 --> 00:33:37,360 -"Man I kinda feel that." Tell me your side of it. -[RANDY] Sure. 552 00:33:37,463 --> 00:33:41,260 [RANDY] We had a church service at, in Eugene, Oregon. 553 00:33:41,364 --> 00:33:44,505 My brother and I were going to sing and preach there. 554 00:33:44,608 --> 00:33:49,372 They're in the middle of church. I'm sittin' back there and this guy comes up and he says, 555 00:33:49,475 --> 00:33:51,753 "Randy Weaver I want you to come up here." 556 00:33:52,616 --> 00:33:54,446 In front of all these people in the middle of church. 557 00:33:54,549 --> 00:33:57,069 So I get up and I walk up there and he says, 558 00:33:57,173 --> 00:33:59,520 "God spoke to my heart about you." 559 00:34:00,486 --> 00:34:02,764 And I'm like, "Well that's pretty cool." 560 00:34:02,868 --> 00:34:06,285 He said, "You're going to be a world champion calf roper one day." 561 00:34:06,906 --> 00:34:10,048 How long was that before you really start to go? 562 00:34:12,291 --> 00:34:16,916 -Well... When I turned 40 I was like -Or did they? 563 00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:21,266 -this is gettin' a little past my deal, you know? -Yeah. 564 00:34:21,611 --> 00:34:26,409 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] He's ready to dominate. He's got it on his mind. 565 00:34:26,512 --> 00:34:28,687 [RANDY] Here's what was interesting. 566 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:39,215 In 2010 I won the reserve world champion in the quarter horse calf ropin'. 567 00:34:39,318 --> 00:34:44,461 Next year we qualified again, went back. 568 00:34:44,565 --> 00:34:49,121 Reserve world champion again. Behind the same guy. 569 00:34:49,225 --> 00:34:53,056 I'm listening to this from an outside perspective of goin' that's just gotta be a test. 570 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,128 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] He's waitin' for him to be out there a little bit. 571 00:34:56,232 --> 00:35:00,995 [RANDY] In the last two, me and him again and I looked over at him, I said, 572 00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:03,342 "This is lookin' awful familiar." 573 00:35:03,446 --> 00:35:09,417 And then, then they call his name meaning that I won the world, the world championship. 574 00:35:10,591 --> 00:35:18,116 He'd do the little victory lap and all that, but it's the same way with this rodeo business. 575 00:35:18,219 --> 00:35:23,569 It's the same way with our lives. We're on our way to a destination. 576 00:35:23,673 --> 00:35:28,056 If you want to go someplace, you need to get on the right road. 577 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:33,510 You gotta figure out what road that is that's going to take you where you wanna go. 578 00:35:35,063 --> 00:35:40,103 [CODY] Throughout this time period in my life I know what I'm doing isn't right. 579 00:35:40,207 --> 00:35:42,485 I feel it. I have that conviction of 580 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,557 you know I can't live this way forever. 581 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:47,524 [BRANDI] The turning point I think in his life 582 00:35:47,628 --> 00:35:51,010 is when he started surrounding himself with a very, very strong 583 00:35:51,114 --> 00:35:53,081 group of men around him that 584 00:35:53,185 --> 00:35:57,155 just simply won't put up with his crap you know? They call him on it. 585 00:35:57,258 --> 00:35:59,398 Howie Edelman is my manager 586 00:35:59,502 --> 00:36:02,643 and Howie was the guy that sat me down and said, "Look 587 00:36:02,746 --> 00:36:04,886 "I don't care what this takes. I believe in you. 588 00:36:04,990 --> 00:36:07,165 "I'm not makin' a dime till you make a dime." 589 00:36:07,268 --> 00:36:09,339 And he knew Trent Willman. 590 00:36:10,029 --> 00:36:11,686 So he brings me to Nashville 591 00:36:11,790 --> 00:36:14,896 and I met him and immediately It was like I found a big brother. 592 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,521 We had so much in common. Our personalities were a lot alike. 593 00:36:18,624 --> 00:36:22,421 In our love and our passion for country music was a lot alike. 594 00:36:22,525 --> 00:36:26,460 Trent was a cowboy. I was a cowboy. He grew up on a ranch. 595 00:36:29,325 --> 00:36:31,396 [TRENT] When I was growin' up in West Texas 596 00:36:31,499 --> 00:36:34,157 cowboy's what you did. That's what you put on your 597 00:36:34,261 --> 00:36:36,539 tax form as occupation. 598 00:36:36,642 --> 00:36:39,680 The people there are just the remnants of the dust bowl. 599 00:36:39,783 --> 00:36:43,718 They are made of grit and wind and cocklebur seeds, 600 00:36:43,822 --> 00:36:46,825 mesquite. That's the kind of people that I grew up with 601 00:36:46,928 --> 00:36:50,691 but I think that gives you a good perspective of life. 602 00:36:50,794 --> 00:36:54,039 You know being raised around cowboys I feel like I got a 603 00:36:54,142 --> 00:36:56,593 I got a good sense of I'm on my own 604 00:36:56,697 --> 00:36:59,217 in this world. Nobody owes me anything. 605 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,738 And as intimidating as that sounds, it's also very freeing. 606 00:37:07,570 --> 00:37:10,573 There was a lot about Trent that I really looked up to 607 00:37:10,676 --> 00:37:12,091 as a mentor but at the same time 608 00:37:12,195 --> 00:37:14,542 he made me feel like we were on the same playing field. 609 00:37:14,646 --> 00:37:17,027 He had struggles in his life with 610 00:37:17,131 --> 00:37:20,134 family and his career at the same time that I was. 611 00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:24,414 [TRENT] So there's a funny thing that happens when you're the new kid on the block. 612 00:37:24,518 --> 00:37:27,037 Everybody blows smoke up your ass in this town 613 00:37:27,141 --> 00:37:30,248 and it's called the buzz. Everybody get's the buzz. 614 00:37:30,351 --> 00:37:32,871 When you're that young up and coming guy 615 00:37:32,974 --> 00:37:35,460 it's hard not to drink your own Kool Aid. 616 00:37:35,563 --> 00:37:40,050 And I didn't realize but I was setting myself up for a big disappointment. 617 00:37:40,913 --> 00:37:43,502 [CODY] Trent was eaten up by the system. 618 00:37:43,606 --> 00:37:46,574 He had a record deal, goes to work one day, 619 00:37:46,678 --> 00:37:48,887 this record label buys this record label. 620 00:37:48,990 --> 00:37:51,924 Your contract's null and void, you don't work here anymore. 621 00:37:52,028 --> 00:37:54,927 [TRENT] We were out on the road and I remember gettin' that phone call 622 00:37:55,031 --> 00:37:58,276 on the bus. You've been dropped. 623 00:37:58,379 --> 00:38:01,002 it was devastating. Here's my dream. 624 00:38:01,106 --> 00:38:03,902 It's right here in the palm of my hand and then 625 00:38:04,005 --> 00:38:06,629 it just like sand goes through your hands. 626 00:38:06,732 --> 00:38:08,424 It was tough. 627 00:38:09,908 --> 00:38:12,255 [CODY] Trent wasn't a producer when I met him. 628 00:38:12,359 --> 00:38:14,464 He was a hardcore song writer. 629 00:38:14,568 --> 00:38:17,605 And Trent and I hit it off so well when we were writin', it's like 630 00:38:17,709 --> 00:38:19,435 everything else came after that. 631 00:38:19,538 --> 00:38:23,059 We started writin' music then we would form this bond. 632 00:38:23,162 --> 00:38:24,716 He gave me this sense of confidence. 633 00:38:24,819 --> 00:38:27,235 I feel that love and that affection like a brother 634 00:38:27,339 --> 00:38:30,480 and I know that he's shaping me and I know he's mentoring me 635 00:38:30,584 --> 00:38:33,172 and I think that's very special that we cultivated it 636 00:38:33,276 --> 00:38:35,692 organically just because of Trent 637 00:38:35,796 --> 00:38:38,971 and I's common bond and our belief in each other that 638 00:38:39,075 --> 00:38:41,526 we were meant to be together to accomplish something. 639 00:38:41,629 --> 00:38:43,148 We just didn't know what yet. 640 00:38:43,251 --> 00:38:47,117 ♪♪ 641 00:38:48,947 --> 00:38:51,881 [JAMES] To be able to influence a young person and 642 00:38:51,984 --> 00:38:54,849 maybe change their direction in life 643 00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:57,714 is something very powerful. 644 00:38:58,646 --> 00:39:02,581 I've really enjoyed taking that as part of our job 645 00:39:02,685 --> 00:39:05,239 not only stewards of the ranch 646 00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:08,276 but you know helping people learn lessons 647 00:39:08,380 --> 00:39:11,107 and become better cowboys at heart. 648 00:39:12,384 --> 00:39:14,800 [TAYA] I think that Chris learned so much 649 00:39:14,904 --> 00:39:17,458 from just that cowboy part of him and 650 00:39:17,562 --> 00:39:20,116 being on the ranch or around animals. 651 00:39:22,118 --> 00:39:24,120 He knew more about people 652 00:39:24,223 --> 00:39:27,054 having spent the time that he did and being the person he was 653 00:39:27,157 --> 00:39:29,470 so the main difference I think with Chris and a lot of other people 654 00:39:29,574 --> 00:39:31,161 even people that he knew very well 655 00:39:31,265 --> 00:39:34,855 you know so were related to, he didn't hit a horse. 656 00:39:34,958 --> 00:39:36,857 He didn't believe you ever had to. 657 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,480 So he could return a horse that he had trained 658 00:39:39,584 --> 00:39:42,172 to the person that wanted to ride it for long term 659 00:39:42,276 --> 00:39:44,209 and it wasn't broken spirit trained. 660 00:39:44,312 --> 00:39:45,935 It had a good spirit. 661 00:39:48,178 --> 00:39:52,079 When he was here, there was a horse that nobody could work with, Floyd. 662 00:39:52,182 --> 00:39:55,220 He was just a throwaway horse because he was never going to be any good 663 00:39:55,772 --> 00:40:00,018 and Chris just decided Floyd was the challenge. 664 00:40:01,744 --> 00:40:03,849 And so he would ride him late and 665 00:40:03,953 --> 00:40:06,058 spend more time with him after everybody had been done 666 00:40:06,162 --> 00:40:08,060 and he'd done his other work for the day 667 00:40:08,164 --> 00:40:14,446 and, in the end, Floyd was the best roping horse. 668 00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:18,312 I think that speaks a lot to who Chris was. 669 00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:21,936 Just his patience. Challenge didn't scare him. He enjoyed it. 670 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,976 He could get people who others wouldn't connect to to connect to him. 671 00:40:27,079 --> 00:40:31,256 He would see if it was a kid, an animal, his wife, 672 00:40:31,359 --> 00:40:33,327 somebody on the battlefield. 673 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:37,435 If he saw you in need, he was there and he'd bring you up. 674 00:40:41,266 --> 00:40:45,339 [JAMES] We spend a lot of time with our ranch hands. 675 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,859 You know, they become part of our family, 676 00:40:47,962 --> 00:40:51,725 but when they do leave we want them to have a 677 00:40:51,828 --> 00:40:54,797 productive future. We want'em to learn from here. 678 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:58,490 I feel that anybody can choose to do whatever they want to do 679 00:40:58,594 --> 00:41:02,770 as long as they work hard, follow their dreams. 680 00:41:02,874 --> 00:41:06,049 It's fun to learn that they've gone on to do 681 00:41:06,153 --> 00:41:09,467 special things and become productive in their life. 682 00:41:11,123 --> 00:41:12,849 [TAYA] Chris didn't want to write a book, 683 00:41:12,953 --> 00:41:16,335 but ends up doing it. It becomes a way of service. 684 00:41:17,060 --> 00:41:20,029 You know they say with great power comes great responsibility or something. 685 00:41:20,132 --> 00:41:21,720 Well he was the guy they would go to and say, 686 00:41:21,824 --> 00:41:23,757 "Do you ever have bad dreams? Is this normal?" 687 00:41:23,860 --> 00:41:25,137 Cause they knew it wouldn't go anywhere 688 00:41:25,241 --> 00:41:27,277 and that he would relate to them on a kind level. 689 00:41:27,381 --> 00:41:29,832 And I remember that the moment that we were in bed. 690 00:41:29,935 --> 00:41:31,696 I was lookin' and I said, "Babe, do you realize?" 691 00:41:31,799 --> 00:41:34,733 He was tellin' me about a phone call that he had and 692 00:41:34,837 --> 00:41:38,737 some questions that guys were opening up and asking him and they always did that. 693 00:41:38,841 --> 00:41:42,258 And I said, "You realize your serving again with this book." 694 00:41:42,361 --> 00:41:45,399 He started to see that more and more. He was like, "Wow. You know that 695 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:48,747 "is a way I can help and serve." And so 696 00:41:48,851 --> 00:41:51,957 I think in a lot of ways 697 00:41:52,061 --> 00:41:54,857 he was starting to recognize that he could impact people 698 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,135 and he sought out the people who were struggling. 699 00:41:57,238 --> 00:42:00,690 He just wanted to quietly be behind the scenes bringing them up. 700 00:42:05,246 --> 00:42:08,560 [CODY] I believe you're a product of who you place around you. 701 00:42:09,975 --> 00:42:12,081 And I didn't realize that a lot of my friends at that point, 702 00:42:12,184 --> 00:42:14,048 a lot of people I had in my life at that point 703 00:42:14,152 --> 00:42:16,188 were affecting me in negative ways. 704 00:42:16,292 --> 00:42:18,432 When I started to get the right influences, 705 00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:20,434 it made me more uncomfortable 706 00:42:20,538 --> 00:42:23,402 with things in my life that I didn't realize I needed to get rid of 707 00:42:23,506 --> 00:42:27,510 and that's where the turning, I think that's where the real turning point starts. 708 00:42:27,614 --> 00:42:30,513 I told you I had that aha moment, where I finally, when I was like 709 00:42:30,617 --> 00:42:33,274 okay and I feel like that 710 00:42:33,378 --> 00:42:37,140 -God said, "Okay. Now I can work with that." -[RANDY] Yeah. 711 00:42:37,244 --> 00:42:40,523 [CODY] But I feel like I was damming up my own path 712 00:42:40,627 --> 00:42:42,905 and I've heard you say this a lot, like He's not a forceful God. 713 00:42:43,008 --> 00:42:44,803 He's not going to kick your door In and say, "You're gonna follow." 714 00:42:44,907 --> 00:42:46,529 [RANDY] He'll make you do nothin'. 715 00:42:47,392 --> 00:42:50,706 [BRANDI] What is that thing they say now? It's enjoy the process. 716 00:42:50,809 --> 00:42:54,088 Or you know, really be there for the process because 717 00:42:54,192 --> 00:42:58,437 the failure and the pain fills you, you know, and think about how much 718 00:42:58,541 --> 00:43:02,131 art and how many significant things have been born from pain 719 00:43:02,234 --> 00:43:06,722 and from failure and that's a lot of times where it starts. 720 00:43:06,825 --> 00:43:10,518 So many wonderful things have happened from rock bottom. 721 00:43:11,692 --> 00:43:16,248 [CODY] This entire story that's gone on, God has been at work. 722 00:43:16,352 --> 00:43:20,908 There's not a single failure, there's not a single dark place 723 00:43:21,702 --> 00:43:24,636 that I truly believe He didn't allow me to go to. 724 00:43:28,157 --> 00:43:31,091 I believe that God's not someone who's sittin' up there goin', 725 00:43:31,194 --> 00:43:33,024 "You're gonna do this. It's my way or the highway." 726 00:43:33,127 --> 00:43:35,578 He kinda stands back and, "Hey. I'm here. 727 00:43:35,682 --> 00:43:37,649 "I'm gonna keep workin' in your life. 728 00:43:37,753 --> 00:43:39,962 "If you don't acknowledge me, I'm here." 729 00:43:41,342 --> 00:43:45,105 And I definitely didn't acknowledge but I truly believe 730 00:43:45,208 --> 00:43:48,764 everything He allowed me to go through and allowed me to screw up 731 00:43:48,867 --> 00:43:51,007 was for a greater purpose. 732 00:43:51,318 --> 00:43:53,354 And I feel like we're getting closer to the point in the story 733 00:43:53,458 --> 00:43:55,425 where that's coming to light. 734 00:44:01,949 --> 00:44:04,952 [CODY] Looking back as an adult, you're like 735 00:44:05,056 --> 00:44:07,334 failure's all about perception and how you handle it. 736 00:44:07,437 --> 00:44:10,578 You know, if you can turn failure into something positive, you didn't really fail. 737 00:44:10,682 --> 00:44:12,304 And I didn't realize that then 738 00:44:12,408 --> 00:44:16,826 so I held that anger and that kinda loneliness and that loss and that 739 00:44:16,930 --> 00:44:21,831 not havin' closure for a long time until we wrote the song "Dear Rodeo". 740 00:44:24,834 --> 00:44:27,595 When I quite ridin' bulls it was like 741 00:44:27,699 --> 00:44:29,563 like I lost my best friend 742 00:44:30,564 --> 00:44:33,740 because let's face it, my best friends at the time 743 00:44:33,843 --> 00:44:36,225 were out ridin' bulls. 744 00:44:38,054 --> 00:44:41,195 At this point I've got buddies that are in the PBR, 745 00:44:41,299 --> 00:44:43,819 buddies that are in the PRCA that made it 746 00:44:43,922 --> 00:44:48,893 and I, I didn't ever address that tiny bit of jealousy. 747 00:44:48,996 --> 00:44:55,278 Couldn't even watch bull ridin'. Couldn't even watch it. My publisher Scott Gunner, he said, 748 00:44:55,382 --> 00:44:59,869 "You told me one time that when you stopped ridin' bulls "it was like a divorce." 749 00:44:59,973 --> 00:45:01,871 He said, "I think you need to address that. 750 00:45:01,975 --> 00:45:04,011 "I just think that's a piece of you 751 00:45:04,115 --> 00:45:05,668 "that you've never addressed." 752 00:45:05,772 --> 00:45:07,394 And I was like, "I don't want to." 753 00:45:07,497 --> 00:45:10,949 About a week later my buddy Dan Couch comes out 754 00:45:11,743 --> 00:45:14,159 and I told him I need to get this out. 755 00:45:14,263 --> 00:45:16,334 I need to get this out of my system. 756 00:45:17,197 --> 00:45:19,061 And he said, "Well if you could talk to rodeo, 757 00:45:19,164 --> 00:45:23,134 "like if she was the love that got away and her name was rodeo, what would you say?" 758 00:45:24,238 --> 00:45:27,794 I said, "I think I would start by saying, Dear Rodeo. 759 00:45:28,311 --> 00:45:31,867 "I'd be lying if I tried to tell you I don't think about you." 760 00:45:31,970 --> 00:45:33,731 He's like, "Woah." 761 00:45:33,834 --> 00:45:36,664 I said, "After all the miles and the wild nights that we been through." 762 00:45:36,768 --> 00:45:39,150 And he said, "Lord knows we've had a few." 763 00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:46,605 Dear rodeo. 764 00:45:46,709 --> 00:45:49,091 I said, "I'd like to say I took the reigns and rode away." 765 00:45:49,194 --> 00:45:51,990 He said, "No regrets. No left unsaids." 766 00:45:52,094 --> 00:45:53,889 I said, "Just turn the page." 767 00:45:53,992 --> 00:45:56,719 And he said, "Aw, but you know better babe." 768 00:45:56,823 --> 00:45:58,445 We both kinda sat there and I'm going, 769 00:45:58,548 --> 00:46:02,794 we know what's happening. Songs just don't fall out like this. 770 00:46:02,898 --> 00:46:05,038 I won't say that. When songs fall out like this 771 00:46:05,141 --> 00:46:08,800 it's rare and this is the first time its ever fallen out for me like this. 772 00:46:10,112 --> 00:46:12,252 But he said, "Okay, at this point though, 773 00:46:12,355 --> 00:46:14,737 "would you rather never experienced it?" 774 00:46:14,841 --> 00:46:17,326 I said, "No." He said, "Well somehow the highs outweigh the lows." 775 00:46:17,429 --> 00:46:20,122 And I said, "You know what, I'd do it all again. 776 00:46:20,225 --> 00:46:22,572 "Even though I know I'd have to let you go." 777 00:46:22,676 --> 00:46:25,679 And at this point the production that we're putting on this is very sad. 778 00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:27,612 'Cause that's the atmosphere in the bus. 779 00:46:27,715 --> 00:46:31,133 The more and more the song progresses, it takes this turn. 780 00:46:31,236 --> 00:46:33,756 It takes this turn and this emotional 781 00:46:33,860 --> 00:46:36,448 outlet of it's okay. 782 00:46:36,552 --> 00:46:38,381 It's okay. 783 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:44,318 And the very last line of the song is, "I'm still in love with you." 784 00:46:44,422 --> 00:46:47,666 It was like for the first time I'd written down 785 00:46:47,770 --> 00:46:50,428 emotions that I didn't want to address. 786 00:46:52,533 --> 00:46:57,435 And every night since I've written it and I've played it, I smile. 787 00:46:58,643 --> 00:47:03,924 ♪♪ 788 00:47:10,448 --> 00:47:13,796 [CODY] If I had to put my finger on what I believe is unique about 789 00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:17,696 the dream to be a cowboy, I'd say this. 790 00:47:18,042 --> 00:47:21,873 I didn't see a cowboy and say I wanna be that. 791 00:47:22,563 --> 00:47:25,256 I don't think most people even see it that way. 792 00:47:25,739 --> 00:47:30,848 The dream of being a cowboy is more about discovering if it's in you. 793 00:47:31,331 --> 00:47:33,678 We just wanna know if that toughness, 794 00:47:33,781 --> 00:47:38,994 that honesty and determination lives inside of us. 795 00:47:39,304 --> 00:47:41,893 And can we claim in certain arenas 796 00:47:41,997 --> 00:47:45,207 what we believe cowboy stands for? 797 00:47:47,002 --> 00:47:49,245 [CRICKETS] 798 00:47:49,349 --> 00:47:51,972 [TAYA] It was so cold one night that you had to sleep 799 00:47:52,076 --> 00:47:54,802 on the floor between some cracks 800 00:47:54,906 --> 00:47:56,701 to get some sort of heat 801 00:47:56,804 --> 00:47:58,565 that you kinda curled up and 802 00:47:58,668 --> 00:48:01,775 I know one night he got stuck outside all night 803 00:48:01,879 --> 00:48:04,398 and he didn't complain. Just did his job. 804 00:48:04,502 --> 00:48:06,435 ♪♪ 805 00:48:06,538 --> 00:48:10,197 Being a cowboy to Chris was somebody who was really doing the job. 806 00:48:11,371 --> 00:48:13,545 And it drove him nuts the people that sometimes wore 807 00:48:13,649 --> 00:48:15,962 a cowboy hat and weren't an actual cowboy. 808 00:48:16,065 --> 00:48:19,172 You know it's not a glamorous life right? Like being a ranch hand isn't glamorous. 809 00:48:19,275 --> 00:48:21,415 It's sort of, I think that idea that somebody would glam it up 810 00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:23,624 and make it look like something different. It's like you don't know what you're doing. 811 00:48:23,728 --> 00:48:25,730 You don't know what it's like to sleep in that bunkhouse. 812 00:48:25,833 --> 00:48:29,389 That's the dedication that a real cowboy would probably have in his mind right? 813 00:48:30,769 --> 00:48:33,117 I believe it was December before he was killed. 814 00:48:33,220 --> 00:48:36,637 He'd been out of the military for a couple of years 815 00:48:36,741 --> 00:48:40,158 and Montana Silversmith, they made this buckle 816 00:48:40,262 --> 00:48:44,128 that was so cool and it was 'Battlefield to Back country' 817 00:48:44,231 --> 00:48:47,372 and it sort of spoke to his life because 818 00:48:47,476 --> 00:48:48,960 that's what he was. 819 00:48:49,064 --> 00:48:53,137 And at that time he was transitioning out of the military into 820 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:55,035 family life again. 821 00:48:55,587 --> 00:48:59,764 And he said, "Babe, can I wear this buckle? 822 00:48:59,867 --> 00:49:02,974 "Do I look like an idiot?" And I said, "Hun you're a cowboy." 823 00:49:03,078 --> 00:49:06,771 He goes, "I'm not though. I was, but I'm not." 824 00:49:07,703 --> 00:49:10,844 I just remember that moment. I remember where we were in the hallway and 825 00:49:12,121 --> 00:49:15,297 just that thought. It's not something that was common for him 826 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,541 to consider because he was who he was. He's comfortable with it. 827 00:49:18,645 --> 00:49:23,063 But that moment of can I go back is almost what it was, you know, 828 00:49:23,167 --> 00:49:26,101 and can I still harness that part of me? 829 00:49:27,826 --> 00:49:30,174 And I felt a little bit of sadness, you know, because I thought 830 00:49:30,277 --> 00:49:33,246 I don't know if you can ever take it out of you. 831 00:49:33,349 --> 00:49:36,870 It's been you since you were little and you pull it off. 832 00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:39,114 You know. Wear it. 833 00:49:41,323 --> 00:49:44,050 Are you havin' fun so far tonight? 834 00:49:44,153 --> 00:49:46,707 [CHEERING] 835 00:49:46,811 --> 00:49:50,504 ♪♪ 836 00:49:54,405 --> 00:49:56,303 When I would get on stage I've always taken that 837 00:49:56,407 --> 00:49:59,168 athletic viewpoint to it, of I don't wanna be the 838 00:49:59,272 --> 00:50:01,964 best show you've seen this week at this place, I wanna 839 00:50:02,068 --> 00:50:03,793 be the best show you've ever seen. 840 00:50:03,897 --> 00:50:06,900 I dove into it, I poured my heart and soul into it, and 841 00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:11,974 we grew from one bus, to two buses. And we were out headlining 842 00:50:12,078 --> 00:50:17,221 every big Texas festival there was and now we're starting to headline arenas. 843 00:50:17,876 --> 00:50:22,019 And going outside the state. We started courting a lot of record labels 844 00:50:22,122 --> 00:50:27,679 and very quickly I got asked, "Well would you be willing to take the cowboy hat off?" 845 00:50:27,783 --> 00:50:30,855 And I said things like, "You think I bought this to come see you?" 846 00:50:30,958 --> 00:50:34,583 And how he had to be the nice guy and I was not so nice. 847 00:50:35,860 --> 00:50:40,416 [TRENT] I think about what Willie did when he changed the world, y'know 848 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,936 sold the first platinum country album. 849 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,215 He wasn't chasing anything, he was doing Willie, y'know? 850 00:50:46,319 --> 00:50:49,943 What Garth did, he was just doing what he did. And that's 851 00:50:50,047 --> 00:50:52,014 what Cody Johnson does. 852 00:50:52,118 --> 00:50:54,672 [CODY] Kim Wiggins was with Sony ATV at the time. 853 00:50:54,775 --> 00:50:57,261 She was the first person to really try to approach me. 854 00:50:57,364 --> 00:51:00,298 We tried and we tried and we tried and we tried and we couldn't get the deal done. 855 00:51:00,402 --> 00:51:05,096 And she told me, "It's okay. Be who you are. Don't change those things. 856 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,892 "I just feel good about it and I love you." 857 00:51:08,858 --> 00:51:13,104 No harm no foul. Next to enter would be Cris Lacy who was with Warner Brothers. 858 00:51:13,208 --> 00:51:16,694 She would travel out to shows in the 859 00:51:16,797 --> 00:51:19,455 bleeding snow and the pouring rain just to play me stuff. 860 00:51:19,559 --> 00:51:25,703 Just getting to know who I was. And to help and develop. And I really wanted that deal. 861 00:51:25,806 --> 00:51:27,670 And it didn't work. 862 00:51:28,292 --> 00:51:30,742 I was really hurt by that. I said, 863 00:51:30,846 --> 00:51:33,193 "Because of that I will never sign with Warner Brothers." And I truly 864 00:51:33,297 --> 00:51:36,162 feel like you wanna know how God was present in my life? 865 00:51:36,265 --> 00:51:39,475 When I said that I really felt like he went "Okay. 866 00:51:39,579 --> 00:51:43,617 "Let's see who's in charge. Let's just sit back and see." 867 00:51:43,721 --> 00:51:47,138 ♪♪ 868 00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:53,040 [CODY] At this point, because I'm a member of the organization 869 00:51:53,144 --> 00:51:55,733 the Tejas Vaqueros I'm roping, team roping. 870 00:51:55,836 --> 00:51:57,942 I'm getting to ride cutting horses and enter 871 00:51:58,045 --> 00:52:00,531 sortin' events and all these different ranch rodeo type things 872 00:52:00,634 --> 00:52:06,640 so I'm still cowboying. I wasn't worried about proving anything that I was a cowboy. 873 00:52:06,744 --> 00:52:09,402 But bull riding specifically was a touchy subject. 874 00:52:09,505 --> 00:52:12,336 Trent's probably the most inspiring individual I've ever met. 875 00:52:12,439 --> 00:52:14,545 He was one of the first people to tell me 876 00:52:14,648 --> 00:52:17,617 "You don't have to be ashamed of not riding. 877 00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:20,102 Just because you're not riding, just because you're not 878 00:52:20,206 --> 00:52:22,553 competing doesn't mean that you can't take 879 00:52:22,656 --> 00:52:25,487 what you learn and take who you really feel you are deep down 880 00:52:25,590 --> 00:52:29,594 in your soul, that John Wayne wannabe and apply it right here. 881 00:52:29,698 --> 00:52:32,632 And it can be a part of your personality. 882 00:52:32,735 --> 00:52:36,429 You've got a cowboy's heart. And you need to start acting like it." 883 00:52:36,532 --> 00:52:41,019 ♪♪ 884 00:52:41,123 --> 00:52:45,300 And I think that's the first point where I said, "I wanna do something nobody's done yet." 885 00:52:45,403 --> 00:52:48,510 I want to be the guy to come from Texas 886 00:52:48,613 --> 00:52:52,410 and stick to my guns, not change my name, not take this hat off, 887 00:52:52,514 --> 00:52:55,620 not change my sound, and be accepted. 888 00:52:55,724 --> 00:53:00,763 That's when I think I truly started to let go of bull riding. 889 00:53:00,867 --> 00:53:04,111 I started to let go of my past. I had a new mountain to climb. 890 00:53:04,215 --> 00:53:08,461 And I knew that it was gonna be tougher than any mountain I'd ever climbed. 891 00:53:15,261 --> 00:53:16,883 [RANDY] Yes sir. 892 00:53:21,957 --> 00:53:23,924 Success! 893 00:53:29,689 --> 00:53:35,177 [CODY] In 2017 I was in San Antonio. Trying to help my brother out. 894 00:53:35,281 --> 00:53:37,904 I won't go into any detail out of respect. 895 00:53:38,007 --> 00:53:41,252 But my brother needed some help and he didn't want help. 896 00:53:41,356 --> 00:53:47,396 And as I'm going through the worst day of my life, quite possibly the worst day of his, 897 00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:50,710 I get the phone call from my manager Howie, 898 00:53:50,813 --> 00:53:55,232 "Hey, Houston Rodeo just called. And Old Dominion had a death in the family 899 00:53:55,335 --> 00:54:00,167 "and they need a replacement. I need you on the phone now." 900 00:54:00,271 --> 00:54:06,001 I'm like "I can't. There's a reason we're 50/50 business partners. Make the decision." 901 00:54:06,104 --> 00:54:09,107 ♪♪ 902 00:54:09,211 --> 00:54:12,559 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] Ooh Houston let's go! 903 00:54:12,663 --> 00:54:14,975 ♪ Welcome to the show, welcome to the home ♪ 904 00:54:15,079 --> 00:54:17,392 ♪ Of the world's biggest rodeo 905 00:54:17,495 --> 00:54:23,018 ♪ Where the stars light up the night underneath that Texas sky, Texas sky ♪ 906 00:54:23,121 --> 00:54:25,262 [RODEO ANNOUNCER] Well here we go! 907 00:54:25,365 --> 00:54:30,267 ♪♪ 908 00:54:40,346 --> 00:54:42,555 [ANNOUNCER] Ladies and gentlemen. 909 00:54:42,658 --> 00:54:48,595 How loud can American patriots get inside this building? 910 00:54:52,392 --> 00:54:55,050 [CODY] That day was a very emotional day, today I'll never forget. 911 00:54:55,153 --> 00:54:57,639 I remember every minute of it. 912 00:55:05,025 --> 00:55:10,859 [CODY] Tonight's about more, for me, than fame. It's about more than money. 913 00:55:10,962 --> 00:55:13,448 Bring the fire tonight. 914 00:55:15,173 --> 00:55:19,799 You are, the underdog, you are the rookie, you are the "call up". 915 00:55:19,902 --> 00:55:22,940 But this type of pressure, and this type of anxiety, 916 00:55:23,043 --> 00:55:25,667 This is what you've been asking for your whole life. 917 00:55:26,426 --> 00:55:31,362 This is your calling, this is your time, this is your spot. 918 00:55:32,984 --> 00:55:35,401 You're only gonna play the Houston Rodeo one time 919 00:55:35,504 --> 00:55:37,195 -for the first time. -For the first time. 920 00:55:37,299 --> 00:55:41,303 This is it. Leave nothing behind. Each one of you leave nothing behind. 921 00:55:41,407 --> 00:55:47,171 We go out there, we prove to the world that we're supposed to be here. 922 00:55:48,241 --> 00:55:51,520 When you walk off that stage you just played the Houston Rodeo. 923 00:55:52,245 --> 00:56:00,080 [ANNOUNCER] Ladies and gentlemen, from Huntsville, Texas, Cody Johnson. 924 00:56:12,783 --> 00:56:16,890 Played in front of 61,000 people and I'll never forget riding a horse out that night. 925 00:56:24,898 --> 00:56:28,212 I was supposed to walk out. Back then you had the entire 926 00:56:28,315 --> 00:56:31,767 floor of NRG Stadium full of dirt. 927 00:56:31,871 --> 00:56:35,426 And I was supposed to walk the horse around. 928 00:56:39,292 --> 00:56:41,536 Screw it, my show was done. 929 00:56:42,709 --> 00:56:45,471 I kicked that horse and I rode as hard as I could. 930 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:55,446 And I'll never forget riding out and going, "This is the turning of a page." 931 00:57:01,038 --> 00:57:04,973 I felt like I was just leaving things behind. 932 00:57:06,215 --> 00:57:07,941 Like I was just running. 933 00:57:08,045 --> 00:57:11,531 Letting go of things and knowing that there's a different future. 934 00:57:11,635 --> 00:57:17,157 Knowing that that moment, that night, was going to change things for me. 935 00:57:21,230 --> 00:57:24,682 That show that would turn the career, and break the 936 00:57:24,786 --> 00:57:27,029 dam that I'd always said we were gonna play? 937 00:57:27,133 --> 00:57:28,928 We'd just played. 938 00:57:33,415 --> 00:57:35,590 And I'll never forget it. 939 00:57:39,076 --> 00:57:42,493 ♪♪ 940 00:57:42,597 --> 00:57:45,979 So at this point we've probably got 10 plus #1's on the Texas 941 00:57:46,083 --> 00:57:48,810 Regional Radio Report or back then it was called the Texas Music Chart. 942 00:57:48,913 --> 00:57:52,641 And we just knew this thing was starting to grow, and it was starting to get bigger. 943 00:57:52,745 --> 00:57:58,613 ♪ People like you got nothing better to do than throw rocks at things that shine ♪ 944 00:57:58,716 --> 00:58:05,999 ♪ Well you oughta be chasing your own dreams instead of shooting holes in mine ♪ 945 00:58:06,103 --> 00:58:10,556 And the next year we set the record, 74,000 plus for the largest 946 00:58:10,659 --> 00:58:15,112 crowd sold by an independent artist in NRG stadium. 947 00:58:15,215 --> 00:58:18,460 I'm watching the things that hurt and the things that I was 948 00:58:18,564 --> 00:58:20,738 angry about are starting to pay off. 949 00:58:20,842 --> 00:58:23,948 What didn't happen is now coming to make things happen. 950 00:58:24,052 --> 00:58:30,334 ♪ I'll be reeling for the day gonna see my face as big as life and laughing out loud ♪ 951 00:58:30,437 --> 00:58:36,167 ♪ Lovin' all you haters begging you to doubt me now ♪ 952 00:58:38,445 --> 00:58:41,656 That record deal I was so pissed off about not getting. 953 00:58:41,759 --> 00:58:45,073 I wouldn't hold the record if I had taken that. 954 00:58:46,315 --> 00:58:48,939 ♪ Hop on the bandwagon 955 00:58:49,042 --> 00:58:52,494 ♪♪ 956 00:58:52,598 --> 00:58:57,016 I think at that time I realized "I am not the smartest guy in the room anymore." 957 00:58:57,119 --> 00:59:01,917 I'm not gonna think that anymore in my life, like, humility starts to set in. 958 00:59:02,159 --> 00:59:05,921 We get to play music for a living, keep telling yourself that. 959 00:59:06,025 --> 00:59:09,960 I'm thankful for my job, there's a lot of people out here man. 960 00:59:10,063 --> 00:59:14,965 Let's go play this thing like we want to do it for the rest of our lives. Let's go have fun! 961 00:59:16,932 --> 00:59:19,935 At that point I'm thinking, well I don't want a record deal. 962 00:59:20,039 --> 00:59:22,351 I don't need a record deal. 963 00:59:22,455 --> 00:59:24,906 I don't need to be that guy or that gal on the radio, and 964 00:59:25,009 --> 00:59:28,772 I know that my music doesn't sound like that, so why don't I just be happy with where I'm at? 965 00:59:28,875 --> 00:59:31,740 Look what God's gave me and look how far we've come. 966 00:59:31,844 --> 00:59:35,261 And I think when the confidence and comfortability in my life sets in 967 00:59:35,364 --> 00:59:39,230 I think God honestly at that point allows me to go to the next chapter like, 968 00:59:39,334 --> 00:59:41,578 I was ready for it. 969 00:59:41,681 --> 00:59:43,303 ♪♪ 970 00:59:43,407 --> 00:59:46,168 We went in the studio and I said "Guys I don't want to record 971 00:59:46,272 --> 00:59:47,549 "to get a record deal." 972 00:59:47,653 --> 00:59:50,207 I don't want to record a record to get played on the radio. 973 00:59:50,310 --> 00:59:52,968 I want to record a record for these thousands 974 00:59:53,072 --> 00:59:55,419 and thousands and millions of people that are streaming our music 975 00:59:55,522 --> 00:59:59,250 These people that are paying our tickets? That's who we're playing for." 976 01:00:02,460 --> 01:00:06,879 And my manager Howie says, "I think we need to shop this to a record deal." 977 01:00:08,397 --> 01:00:12,194 I don't wanna do that! We specifically recorded this not to get one. 978 01:00:12,298 --> 01:00:15,612 He says, "Yeah, but man this is just too good, trust me." 979 01:00:15,715 --> 01:00:17,821 I said, "Alright. Shop it!" 980 01:00:17,924 --> 01:00:19,857 And one record label. 981 01:00:19,961 --> 01:00:22,377 One record label said, "Okay." 982 01:00:22,895 --> 01:00:24,793 It was Warner Brothers. 983 01:00:25,483 --> 01:00:29,246 And I laughed, I laughed. And I remember thinking... 984 01:00:30,937 --> 01:00:36,356 Y'know God has a really good way of making me look stupid to myself. 985 01:00:36,460 --> 01:00:40,326 Doesn't make me look stupid to anybody around in the room but me. 986 01:00:40,429 --> 01:00:43,467 And it's in those moments, those "ah-ha" moments where I'm like, 987 01:00:43,570 --> 01:00:46,643 "You've been, you've been at this, this whole time!" 988 01:00:46,746 --> 01:00:51,509 Like the best thing I can do for myself is stay out of the way, and just work. 989 01:00:51,613 --> 01:00:53,822 ♪♪ 990 01:00:59,310 --> 01:01:04,246 [CODY] I know for me, riding, when I thought that bull riding was my career it was all fast. 991 01:01:04,350 --> 01:01:08,388 It was very fast. But now that I rope, slower is faster. 992 01:01:08,492 --> 01:01:11,771 And the more you slow down and you trust your horse and you give 993 01:01:11,875 --> 01:01:16,293 more to him, he's giving back to you. There's this relationship and this bond 994 01:01:16,396 --> 01:01:19,158 -that you have to be patient, you can't rush things. -[REBA] Yeah. 995 01:01:19,261 --> 01:01:22,437 -[CODY] I think it's therapeutic. Don't you feel like -[REBA] Very. 996 01:01:22,540 --> 01:01:24,715 that you get to shake off some of the road and shake off some of the music 997 01:01:24,819 --> 01:01:28,477 -whenever you do get to reconnect with that first love? -[REBA] Oh absolutely. 998 01:01:28,581 --> 01:01:34,104 When I'm off riding by myself that's my time with God, the holy spirit. 999 01:01:34,207 --> 01:01:38,591 And just talking, and visiting, and talking with my angels, and 1000 01:01:38,695 --> 01:01:40,973 thank them, and they're always with me. 1001 01:01:41,076 --> 01:01:44,183 And you just get to see the beautiful creation that he's done 1002 01:01:44,286 --> 01:01:46,668 -and it's so peaceful. -I agree. 1003 01:01:46,772 --> 01:01:48,946 It just settles, it grounds me. 1004 01:01:49,050 --> 01:01:51,984 One of my favorite sayings is "be still". 1005 01:01:52,087 --> 01:01:55,332 -Hard for me to do, I have not accomplished that. -Yeah. 1006 01:01:55,435 --> 01:01:58,335 I'm not a master of it at all, but I'm getting close to it. 1007 01:01:58,438 --> 01:02:01,234 So, a good friend of mine Carolyn Snell got me a little 1008 01:02:01,338 --> 01:02:03,581 framed picture we saw it in a little curio shop. 1009 01:02:03,685 --> 01:02:08,414 It said "be still". She said "I can't believe we found it" and I said "Hmm well, 1010 01:02:08,517 --> 01:02:11,520 -"things happen for a reason as you said." -That's right. 1011 01:02:11,624 --> 01:02:16,594 ♪♪ 1012 01:02:16,698 --> 01:02:20,288 [BRANDI] I think that 'Dear Rodeo' speaks to people on a spiritual level 1013 01:02:20,391 --> 01:02:22,946 because that's where your dreams come in you know? 1014 01:02:23,049 --> 01:02:25,534 [TAYA] The first time I listened to the song 'Dear Rodeo' I cried 1015 01:02:25,638 --> 01:02:28,675 because it was so much of Chris's spirit in there 1016 01:02:28,779 --> 01:02:31,195 and it took me off guard. 1017 01:02:31,299 --> 01:02:34,405 [TRENT] After listening to 'Dear Rodeo' a couple times 1018 01:02:34,509 --> 01:02:39,652 I realized this song's not about rodeo. This song's about life. 1019 01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:45,209 It's something that we can all relate to, letting go of a dream. 1020 01:02:45,313 --> 01:02:49,973 [BRANDI] Even if the dream doesn't come true, 1021 01:02:50,076 --> 01:02:52,838 doesn't mean that a dream isn't going to come true 1022 01:02:52,941 --> 01:02:58,395 The one that's gonna be so much more fulfilling than one you ever could possibly imagine. 1023 01:02:58,498 --> 01:03:02,123 [TRENT] So many of us are having to reinvent ourselves 1024 01:03:02,226 --> 01:03:04,470 'cause we're having to let go of a dream. 1025 01:03:04,573 --> 01:03:09,130 But you know... we're Americans, that's what we 1026 01:03:09,233 --> 01:03:13,099 do best is reinvent ourselves. That's the cowboy way. 1027 01:03:17,069 --> 01:03:21,487 -[RANDY] I think everybody has a 'Dear Rodeo' story. -[CODY] I think so too. 1028 01:03:21,590 --> 01:03:24,214 I think everybody has something that they wish they could've done, 1029 01:03:24,317 --> 01:03:27,113 Y'know maybe a relationship that failed, or a job that 1030 01:03:27,217 --> 01:03:29,460 they lost, or a position that got messed up 1031 01:03:29,564 --> 01:03:33,430 Or maybe, maybe something real strong where, even 1032 01:03:33,533 --> 01:03:37,883 they've lost a family member and this is not what I planned. 1033 01:03:37,986 --> 01:03:40,161 Come here Bubba. 1034 01:03:43,889 --> 01:03:46,305 We'll read two more, then you can go to bed. 1035 01:03:47,616 --> 01:03:49,342 This is so later. 1036 01:03:52,552 --> 01:03:56,384 When I'm gone, you can look at the tape. 1037 01:04:01,699 --> 01:04:05,255 ♪♪ 1038 01:04:05,358 --> 01:04:07,395 [TAYA] I looked back not long ago and thought, 1039 01:04:07,498 --> 01:04:11,054 When I was young my mom asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. 1040 01:04:11,157 --> 01:04:15,713 My very first answer was, I just wanna be happy. Right? That always used to irritate me like 1041 01:04:15,817 --> 01:04:19,131 And that's a, c'mon dude, Taya have some goals y'know? 1042 01:04:19,234 --> 01:04:21,305 I never really could quite get my hands on it. 1043 01:04:21,409 --> 01:04:23,549 I loved psychology, I loved helping people, 1044 01:04:23,652 --> 01:04:25,551 I didn't want to get my doctorate's, so I thought, "What's the point?" 1045 01:04:25,654 --> 01:04:28,036 You know I loved philosophy, "What's the point?" 1046 01:04:28,140 --> 01:04:30,694 I never really saw the plan. 1047 01:04:31,453 --> 01:04:33,973 [TRENT] We have these dreams sometimes that we think, 1048 01:04:34,077 --> 01:04:36,458 "This is what's gonna fulfill my life." 1049 01:04:36,562 --> 01:04:39,254 And then that rug's jerked out from under you. 1050 01:04:39,599 --> 01:04:43,534 And it's easy as humans to get devastated about that. 1051 01:04:43,638 --> 01:04:47,021 But God has got a lot better of a plan than we got. 1052 01:04:49,886 --> 01:04:53,406 [TAYA] All this time I spent trying to figure out, "What's my plan? What's my path?" 1053 01:04:53,510 --> 01:04:56,858 And I was banging my head against the wall and then in comes Chris and... 1054 01:04:58,239 --> 01:05:05,246 It's like it ends up providing me everything that was supposed to be my plan. 1055 01:05:05,936 --> 01:05:10,044 So now I have this different experience of living more like Chris did which is 1056 01:05:10,147 --> 01:05:14,496 It's okay, it'll work out. I don't necessarily know what's coming next. 1057 01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:18,121 But I know it's gonna be good, and I know I'll somehow be prepared. 1058 01:05:18,224 --> 01:05:22,194 And in the end I look at it and I go, "Wow that person who just wanted to be happy 1059 01:05:22,297 --> 01:05:24,817 "I think that really is my path." How do you be happy there? 1060 01:05:24,921 --> 01:05:30,857 And I'm finding it. And I'm finding it I feel like in a large part because 1061 01:05:30,961 --> 01:05:35,621 God gave me Chris to learn from first. He gave me a lot to build on there. 1062 01:05:35,724 --> 01:05:38,175 [RANDY] There's a lot of turmoil in the world today. 1063 01:05:38,279 --> 01:05:43,974 Because people didn't get what they wanted or it didn't turn out the way we wanted it to. 1064 01:05:44,078 --> 01:05:46,977 But I'll just say this, and this is what I believe we're all learning, 1065 01:05:47,081 --> 01:05:52,914 When we make it about Him all of the sudden things change in our lives. 1066 01:05:53,018 --> 01:05:56,953 -[TAYA] Hi how are you? I'm Taya. Nice to meet you. -[CHILD] Hi. 1067 01:05:57,056 --> 01:05:58,437 -[TAYA] What's your name? -[CHILD] Ezra. 1068 01:05:58,540 --> 01:06:00,370 [NEWS ANCHOR] Two years since the man known as the U.S. 1069 01:06:00,473 --> 01:06:03,200 military's most lethal sniper was shot and killed 1070 01:06:03,304 --> 01:06:05,202 By a veteran he was trying to help. 1071 01:06:05,306 --> 01:06:07,929 Now Chris Kyle's widow, Taya, is stepping up and reaching out 1072 01:06:08,033 --> 01:06:11,519 to care for veterans and active military families across the nation. 1073 01:06:11,622 --> 01:06:13,762 [TAYA] If I can give hope to people, if I can 1074 01:06:13,866 --> 01:06:18,181 tell them that it's okay, and that they're not alone in that 1075 01:06:18,284 --> 01:06:22,012 I'm hoping that we can do a lot of good and 1076 01:06:22,116 --> 01:06:24,566 it's very therapeutic to be able to take 1077 01:06:24,670 --> 01:06:27,293 something negative and turn it into a positive. 1078 01:06:27,397 --> 01:06:30,572 [TEACHER] John Beck is headed to, uh, West Point. 1079 01:06:30,676 --> 01:06:32,436 -TAYA] Oh wow. I feel like crying. -JOHN] Nice to meet you. 1080 01:06:32,540 --> 01:06:34,128 I don't know why it's emotional but 1081 01:06:34,231 --> 01:06:35,922 I um, I wish the best for you guys and 1082 01:06:36,026 --> 01:06:38,166 I'll be praying for you. Don't lose yourself. 1083 01:06:38,270 --> 01:06:40,962 Don't be afraid to talk about it if it gets hard you know? 1084 01:06:41,066 --> 01:06:46,726 ♪♪ 1085 01:06:46,830 --> 01:06:49,867 [TRENT] I think that one of the best things that ever happened to me 1086 01:06:49,971 --> 01:06:52,629 was me losing my record deal. 1087 01:06:53,285 --> 01:06:55,942 Because also at that time 1088 01:06:56,046 --> 01:06:58,945 not long after I got custody of my kid 1089 01:06:59,049 --> 01:07:04,917 I knew being out on the road I couldn't raise my daughter. Not as a single dad. 1090 01:07:05,021 --> 01:07:08,438 And I was praying for something to come along to where I could make a living 1091 01:07:08,541 --> 01:07:10,647 being at home and raising my daughter. 1092 01:07:10,750 --> 01:07:14,547 And so all these things started happening at one time 1093 01:07:14,651 --> 01:07:18,655 and I met Cody Johnson. And I got to produce that first record. 1094 01:07:18,758 --> 01:07:22,072 And then I got to produce some other records. And kept writing, and 1095 01:07:22,176 --> 01:07:26,111 what looked like this devastation of losing my record deal 1096 01:07:26,214 --> 01:07:29,528 became this huge fulfilling blessing 1097 01:07:29,631 --> 01:07:34,705 because I was, y'know, getting to stay home and making a living making music 1098 01:07:34,809 --> 01:07:38,606 and I had my daughter with me 1099 01:07:38,709 --> 01:07:41,954 and it brought this incredible life that I have now. 1100 01:07:42,058 --> 01:07:45,751 ♪♪ 1101 01:07:45,854 --> 01:07:49,479 [CODY] Looking back on my career from music I look back and think 1102 01:07:49,582 --> 01:07:51,722 man you know everything happened for a reason. God had this like 1103 01:07:51,826 --> 01:07:55,105 little woven plan to get me to where I'm at. 1104 01:07:55,209 --> 01:07:58,384 Do you look back now on your career, and like, there's the high- 1105 01:07:58,488 --> 01:08:00,317 'cause for me it's like I see all the highlights of, 1106 01:08:00,421 --> 01:08:03,665 "If that hadn't happened, and if that hadn't happened, I wouldn't be here." 1107 01:08:03,769 --> 01:08:09,154 [REBA] Yeah. It's kind of like rodeo... released me. 1108 01:08:09,913 --> 01:08:13,813 Said, "C'mon you go do what you're supposed to be doing over here." 1109 01:08:13,917 --> 01:08:20,717 Because I had to have my foundation laid for me to come to Nashville and slowly grow. 1110 01:08:20,820 --> 01:08:27,275 So it went from ranching to rodeo to singing to... helping. 1111 01:08:27,379 --> 01:08:29,174 And now I know what I'm supposed to do 1112 01:08:29,277 --> 01:08:34,627 and why he took me from this, from Chockie, Oklahoma, population 18 1113 01:08:34,731 --> 01:08:37,768 to being in front of people. [CROWD CHEERING] 1114 01:08:37,872 --> 01:08:40,599 [REBA] You know I was discovered singing the national anthem at the national 1115 01:08:40,702 --> 01:08:44,050 finals rodeo in Oklahoma city in 1974. 1116 01:08:44,154 --> 01:08:48,917 And here we are 20 years later getting to do exactly what I love to do the most. 1117 01:08:49,021 --> 01:08:51,955 And I always pray before I go on stage 1118 01:08:52,990 --> 01:08:55,821 -"Who do You want to reach tonight? Please use me." -[CODY] Yeah. 1119 01:08:55,924 --> 01:08:59,721 "Let me help somebody. I mean that's why I'm here right?" 1120 01:08:59,825 --> 01:09:04,105 And that's the greatest thing that I've gotten out of all of this 1121 01:09:04,209 --> 01:09:11,077 are the people I get to meet and get to work with, and hopefully get to help. 1122 01:09:11,181 --> 01:09:17,291 ♪♪ 1123 01:09:17,394 --> 01:09:22,848 [TAYA] I know Chris would not have imagined the influence he has on so many people. 1124 01:09:22,951 --> 01:09:27,093 It's like he had this way of seeking out the people in need 1125 01:09:27,197 --> 01:09:30,821 and being whatever they needed. 1126 01:09:30,925 --> 01:09:33,652 When you look at his life of serving people 1127 01:09:33,755 --> 01:09:36,620 and bringing out the best in people who needed the most 1128 01:09:36,724 --> 01:09:38,967 I feel like he did it with me too. 1129 01:09:39,071 --> 01:09:43,489 He did it with our kids. I feel like he did it with everybody. 1130 01:09:44,801 --> 01:09:48,391 It was just this really unique path where I think... 1131 01:09:48,494 --> 01:09:51,877 In the military he said he'd rather be known for the number of lives that he saved. 1132 01:09:51,980 --> 01:09:53,948 That's what he was doing. 1133 01:09:55,294 --> 01:09:58,124 But I haven't thought about it before but I think if I had to sum up 1134 01:09:58,228 --> 01:10:00,886 his life that's the common theme. 1135 01:10:00,989 --> 01:10:04,683 ♪♪ 1136 01:10:11,448 --> 01:10:14,520 [RANDY] We thank You Lord for loving us today. Thank You Lord for Your many blessings. 1137 01:10:14,624 --> 01:10:20,216 We thank You Lord that You are more than enough for every situation we find ourselves in 1138 01:10:20,319 --> 01:10:22,045 We know God that You have Your hand in 1139 01:10:22,148 --> 01:10:24,703 everything that we do because we've invited You Lord 1140 01:10:24,806 --> 01:10:29,466 and we thank You Lord for the privilege we have right now of coming to You and saying thanks. 1141 01:10:29,570 --> 01:10:31,986 We love You, in Jesus' name, everybody say it! 1142 01:10:32,089 --> 01:10:37,578 -[GROUP] Amen! -[RANDY] God bless y'all. Thank you. Just jump in. 1143 01:10:42,030 --> 01:10:45,413 [RANDY] This one's gonna run on out of there though Cody. 1144 01:10:46,414 --> 01:10:50,315 He's one of the better steers, but he's one of the stronger ones too though. 1145 01:10:50,418 --> 01:10:55,527 This one'll run. Get you a good start, that way you'll be ready right here. 1146 01:11:02,154 --> 01:11:05,744 -[CODY] Aw Randy! -[RANDY LAUGHING] 1147 01:11:05,847 --> 01:11:08,643 [CODY] You should've never told me that! 1148 01:11:08,747 --> 01:11:12,129 -[RANDY] I told you he's one of the better ones! -Oh no! 1149 01:11:12,233 --> 01:11:14,649 -Did I say that? -Yeah! 1150 01:11:16,133 --> 01:11:19,516 That was a good, that's the one you wanna draw right there. 1151 01:11:19,620 --> 01:11:23,071 -Yeah, there went the truck, the trailer. - Yeah, yup. 1152 01:11:23,175 --> 01:11:27,041 All of it! 1153 01:11:27,144 --> 01:11:31,735 [CODY] He hasn't been the pastor to me. He's treated me with respect as a grown man 1154 01:11:31,839 --> 01:11:35,429 and quite frankly, he's been himself with me 1155 01:11:35,532 --> 01:11:39,018 about how he did have a dream, and he'll tell you. 1156 01:11:39,122 --> 01:11:42,298 I don't think even he realized the gravity of his story. 1157 01:11:42,401 --> 01:11:45,991 About struggling with that not happening while still being obedient 1158 01:11:46,094 --> 01:11:48,614 still starting churches, still doing rodeo ministry 1159 01:11:48,718 --> 01:11:50,685 and not saying, "Why didn't you give that to me?" 1160 01:11:50,789 --> 01:11:57,071 But being human at the same time and saying, "That was supposed to happen. Am I wrong? 1161 01:11:57,174 --> 01:11:58,762 "What's the deal?" 1162 01:12:00,212 --> 01:12:03,664 Y'know I don't know if I could've done that, felt I got a word from God 1163 01:12:03,767 --> 01:12:05,769 or somebody walk up to me and go, "You're gonna be a-- 1164 01:12:05,873 --> 01:12:09,773 I would've banked on that. But your maturity level, you continued to rodeo 1165 01:12:09,877 --> 01:12:13,708 and do you think maybe that's why, because you didn't get bent out of shape about it. 1166 01:12:13,812 --> 01:12:16,677 That you've continued to have so much success rodeoing? 1167 01:12:17,367 --> 01:12:22,234 Here's what's interesting. Those belt buckles 1168 01:12:22,338 --> 01:12:27,170 come and go, and it's really more about what's going on in here. 1169 01:12:27,273 --> 01:12:29,448 [CODY] Yeah I was sitting here thinking while you were saying that 1170 01:12:29,552 --> 01:12:32,969 I believed in that fairy tale of, "I'm gonna win a buckle and all of a sudden I'm gonna- 1171 01:12:33,072 --> 01:12:36,110 -"It's gonna happen!" And it doesn't work like that. -Yeah. 1172 01:12:36,213 --> 01:12:39,424 ♪♪ 1173 01:12:39,527 --> 01:12:43,980 [CODY] Many, many years after my buddy Justin Richards won that buckle that night 1174 01:12:45,326 --> 01:12:47,949 I'm sellin' out 'Big Texas in Spring' which is a pretty large 1175 01:12:48,053 --> 01:12:50,262 club and we were doing pretty well. 1176 01:12:50,366 --> 01:12:53,403 It was back to the point where I could go to the merch booth and sign for 1177 01:12:53,507 --> 01:12:54,922 everybody in the bar. 1178 01:12:55,025 --> 01:12:57,649 And uh, I'll never forget it, Justin comes by and he says, 1179 01:12:57,752 --> 01:12:59,409 "Hey man I'm fixing to get out of here." 1180 01:12:59,513 --> 01:13:01,894 I said, "Alright." and I leaned over and he took his buckle off 1181 01:13:01,998 --> 01:13:04,172 and he stuck it in my jacket pocket. 1182 01:13:08,004 --> 01:13:10,938 I said, "What're you doing?" He goes, "I want you to have that." 1183 01:13:11,732 --> 01:13:13,734 He said, uh, "You deserve it." 1184 01:13:14,838 --> 01:13:16,702 "What I don't- why do I deserve it?" 1185 01:13:16,806 --> 01:13:19,602 He said, "Because I've never seen somebody work that hard." 1186 01:13:19,705 --> 01:13:21,845 He's like, "You're tough, dude" 1187 01:13:21,949 --> 01:13:23,537 And you know it... 1188 01:13:27,644 --> 01:13:34,548 It meant a lot. It meant quite a great bit to me. 1189 01:13:34,651 --> 01:13:37,343 So much that I started putting it on and wearing it. 1190 01:13:37,447 --> 01:13:38,828 And people'd say, "Man did you win that?" 1191 01:13:38,931 --> 01:13:42,176 Nope! My buddy Justin Richards did, and he gave it to me. 1192 01:13:42,279 --> 01:13:45,110 "Aw well that's kinda gunsel." 1193 01:13:45,213 --> 01:13:47,250 It is what it is, it had a different meaning for me. 1194 01:13:47,353 --> 01:13:49,632 That man that I looked up to 1195 01:13:49,735 --> 01:13:52,704 gave me that recognition of all my hard work. 1196 01:13:53,774 --> 01:13:57,985 And uh, he recently passed. He recently passed and... 1197 01:13:59,020 --> 01:14:02,438 I really started to put together two and two together. 1198 01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:04,785 That was the buckle. 1199 01:14:05,164 --> 01:14:08,167 That day was that the dream of a buckle I'll never put on. 1200 01:14:08,271 --> 01:14:12,033 That was the first one that I thought, "I've got it on already." 1201 01:14:12,137 --> 01:14:13,621 And it didn't happen. 1202 01:14:14,898 --> 01:14:18,246 But I wound up with it because of him and he was a very special man. 1203 01:14:25,184 --> 01:14:29,119 [CODY] In time we all come to know the greatest challenges 1204 01:14:29,223 --> 01:14:32,468 exist well beyond the shade of a wide brimmed hat. 1205 01:14:32,985 --> 01:14:35,505 The cowboy, maybe more than most, 1206 01:14:35,609 --> 01:14:40,821 understands that life will not only test him but mold him without apology. 1207 01:14:41,891 --> 01:14:45,584 What's left in the wake of that life is character. 1208 01:14:46,654 --> 01:14:51,866 Justin Richards had a level of character greater than any one buckle. 1209 01:14:52,349 --> 01:14:57,044 He was my friend, and he was undeniably a cowboy. 1210 01:14:58,597 --> 01:15:01,462 Now Justin being gone I look at that buckle the other day 1211 01:15:01,566 --> 01:15:03,809 and I thought, "My focus was on some trinket." 1212 01:15:03,913 --> 01:15:06,847 [RANDY] Yeah. You may be disappointed along the way with 1213 01:15:06,950 --> 01:15:12,024 your lot in life, but God takes hard situations 1214 01:15:12,128 --> 01:15:16,373 and makes extremely good things come out of that 1215 01:15:16,477 --> 01:15:22,276 if we will embrace the process. I think that's the story behind 'Dear Rodeo'. 1216 01:15:22,379 --> 01:15:26,832 ♪♪ 1217 01:15:30,664 --> 01:15:35,047 [CODY] David Lee told me one time, "Songs, good songs, float around in the air." 1218 01:15:35,151 --> 01:15:40,432 And it's those that will sit still long enough and listen and let that song come visit you 1219 01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:43,400 and if you're lucky you'll grab It and you'll pull it out of the air and you'll put it down. 1220 01:15:43,504 --> 01:15:46,127 I think that's really what happened to me and Dan that day 1221 01:15:46,231 --> 01:15:48,682 because it went from being my life story 1222 01:15:49,372 --> 01:15:53,169 to everybody's life story. And the relate-ability of something so specific 1223 01:15:53,272 --> 01:15:56,552 that can be relatable to everybody, that's beautiful. 1224 01:15:56,655 --> 01:15:58,381 [MAN] Alright, everyone ready to roll? 1225 01:15:58,761 --> 01:16:04,007 ♪♪ ♪ I like to think you miss me too but I know you don't ♪ 1226 01:16:04,111 --> 01:16:07,286 -[CODY] I'm glad you got to sing that line. -[REBA] Me too! I loved it. 1227 01:16:07,390 --> 01:16:11,567 ♪ Oh but that won't change the past, that won't change the truth ♪ 1228 01:16:11,670 --> 01:16:15,087 ♪ I'm still in love with you 1229 01:16:15,191 --> 01:16:18,401 You know the unison just kinda hops up out of there from nothin'. 1230 01:16:18,504 --> 01:16:20,472 -[MAN] Yeah it does. -[CODY] Yeah, we didn't have it anywhere before so it kinda 1231 01:16:20,576 --> 01:16:22,543 -[REBA] Uh-huh -[MAN] You wanna try the lower unison? 1232 01:16:22,647 --> 01:16:25,546 [REBA] I like the lower harmony the best. Can we hear that? -[MAN] Of course. 1233 01:16:25,650 --> 01:16:27,928 -[CODY] Well then afterwards if you do any lead parts -[REBA] Uh-huh. 1234 01:16:28,031 --> 01:16:30,447 [CODY] That we're gonna take my vocals out I can harmonize 1235 01:16:30,551 --> 01:16:32,933 -with you and just go that 3rd up or whatever. -[REBA] Perfect! Okay. 1236 01:16:33,036 --> 01:16:35,418 -[REBA] I'll just go play with it. -[CODY] Yeah, go have fun! 1237 01:16:35,521 --> 01:16:37,247 You can change it however you want. 1238 01:16:37,351 --> 01:16:40,596 ♪♪ 1239 01:16:40,699 --> 01:16:42,632 Check one-two. 1240 01:16:44,392 --> 01:16:49,087 [CODY] When we recorded it we were supposed to stop the song at 'Dear rodeo' 1241 01:16:49,190 --> 01:16:51,986 and the band just starts playing, and we're going, "Don't do anything." 1242 01:16:52,090 --> 01:16:55,852 The band played this huge outro and we said, "We don't know what we're gonna do with that." 1243 01:16:56,197 --> 01:16:57,992 [CROWD CHEERING] 1244 01:16:58,096 --> 01:17:01,375 My band played that outro for the last Houston Rodeo that I played 1245 01:17:01,478 --> 01:17:02,928 and I could hear every note. 1246 01:17:03,688 --> 01:17:05,517 And I got on that horse again. 1247 01:17:05,621 --> 01:17:09,590 I'm sitting there thinking, "Now I'm a labeled artist with a single on the radio 1248 01:17:09,694 --> 01:17:12,731 "and this is actual reality now." 1249 01:17:12,835 --> 01:17:14,871 ♪ Dear rodeo 1250 01:17:15,872 --> 01:17:21,775 ♪ I'd be lying if I tried to tell you I don't think about you ♪ 1251 01:17:22,638 --> 01:17:28,402 ♪ After all the miles and the wild nights that we've been through ♪ 1252 01:17:28,505 --> 01:17:31,508 ♪ Lord knows we had a few 1253 01:17:31,612 --> 01:17:35,927 And I'll admit, I didn't run out like I did the first time 1254 01:17:36,030 --> 01:17:38,964 and it hit me, it hit me right then and there. 1255 01:17:39,068 --> 01:17:41,311 At this point I'm not running from anything. 1256 01:17:42,002 --> 01:17:45,281 I just kinda made my way out and it was incredible. 1257 01:17:46,869 --> 01:17:48,940 And that song started, I started to fall in love with 1258 01:17:49,043 --> 01:17:51,011 the song the way I fell in love with the sport. 1259 01:17:51,114 --> 01:17:53,047 The way I fell in love with my wife. 1260 01:17:53,151 --> 01:17:57,569 It started getting deeper when people around me were telling me how much it meant to them 1261 01:17:57,673 --> 01:18:01,297 and then random fans would come up and tell me, "That song changed my life." 1262 01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,921 "Y'know that song, that song kept me from committing suicide," or 1263 01:18:05,025 --> 01:18:07,199 "That song pulled me out of depression." 1264 01:18:07,303 --> 01:18:10,409 "That song made me go back and apologize to somebody." 1265 01:18:11,100 --> 01:18:12,895 Things that I never thought. 1266 01:18:16,899 --> 01:18:18,797 Things I never thought would happen. 1267 01:18:20,143 --> 01:18:23,733 ♪ Between the 'almost had em's and the broken bones ♪ 1268 01:18:23,837 --> 01:18:26,805 ♪ The dream of a buckle I'll never put on ♪ 1269 01:18:26,909 --> 01:18:28,980 ♪ I'm jaded 1270 01:18:29,705 --> 01:18:32,259 ♪ Woah I hate it 1271 01:18:33,605 --> 01:18:36,056 And I say every night, "I want you to know that I 1272 01:18:36,159 --> 01:18:38,334 "have just as many problems as any one of y'all." 1273 01:18:38,437 --> 01:18:42,131 However, when I started to see the ripple effect of this song in my life 1274 01:18:42,234 --> 01:18:46,963 I started to see that God had taken me from beating my head against a brick wall 1275 01:18:47,067 --> 01:18:51,934 and changed everything for me because I said, "What do you want me to do?" 1276 01:18:52,797 --> 01:18:56,904 The crazy part is all the big rodeos that I used to dream like, "What would it be like?" 1277 01:18:57,008 --> 01:18:59,424 I've headlined all those rodeos with my band. 1278 01:18:59,907 --> 01:19:04,118 And all my buddies that made it, that I didn't wound up on the bus hanging out 1279 01:19:04,222 --> 01:19:07,501 and they talked to me like, "Man it must be cool to do what you do." 1280 01:19:07,604 --> 01:19:12,126 And I think, "If that's not a full circle, I don't know what is." 1281 01:19:12,230 --> 01:19:15,336 [CROWD CHEERING] 1282 01:19:15,440 --> 01:19:18,132 I've already told you once, I'll tell you again I'm living proof, 1283 01:19:18,236 --> 01:19:21,860 step outside the box, defy everybody, and chase your dreams. 1284 01:19:21,964 --> 01:19:24,311 This is for everybody who says, "No." 1285 01:19:25,830 --> 01:19:29,247 ♪ But somehow the highs outweigh the lows ♪ 1286 01:19:29,350 --> 01:19:34,873 ♪ And I'd do it all again even though we both know ♪ 1287 01:19:35,011 --> 01:19:43,571 ♪ I'd still have to let you go ♪ 1288 01:19:43,951 --> 01:19:46,989 Because of my manager, Howie, because of Trent, 1289 01:19:47,092 --> 01:19:50,095 mostly because of my wife, Brandi, 1290 01:19:50,199 --> 01:19:53,167 they've shaped me into being this man that I am. 1291 01:19:53,719 --> 01:19:56,584 My life's about the journey of getting to where I am now 1292 01:19:56,688 --> 01:19:59,898 and for the first time in my life I can't wait for the next chapter. 1293 01:20:01,244 --> 01:20:05,007 [BRANDI] We have such a unique lifestyle and I just 1294 01:20:05,110 --> 01:20:10,840 I pray that as we're living with someone leaning on the fast-forward button 1295 01:20:10,944 --> 01:20:13,567 that we're able to soak it all in and we get to the end of this 1296 01:20:13,670 --> 01:20:16,121 and we take a deep breath and look at each other and say, 1297 01:20:16,225 --> 01:20:18,606 "Wow, here we are, we made it." 1298 01:20:21,161 --> 01:20:26,166 [CODY] And listen, if all this stops tomorrow, if this is it, 1299 01:20:26,269 --> 01:20:28,858 what a ride. I don't have any regrets 1300 01:20:28,962 --> 01:20:34,657 and if they told me, "Cody you're done, go home to your wife and kids." 1301 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:36,486 I'm gonna do it with a smile. 1302 01:20:36,590 --> 01:20:39,558 ♪ Dear rodeo 1303 01:20:39,662 --> 01:20:42,423 ♪♪ 1304 01:20:42,976 --> 01:20:44,978 ♪♪ [CODY] You guys ready? 1305 01:20:51,674 --> 01:20:53,503 ♪ Dear rodeo 1306 01:20:54,780 --> 01:21:00,683 ♪ I'd be lying if I tried to tell you I don't think about you ♪ 1307 01:21:01,546 --> 01:21:07,276 ♪ After all the miles and the wild nights that we've been through ♪ 1308 01:21:07,932 --> 01:21:10,900 ♪ Lord knows we had a few 1309 01:21:12,143 --> 01:21:14,317 ♪ Dear rodeo 1310 01:21:15,525 --> 01:21:21,428 ♪ I'd like to say that I took the reigns and rode away ♪ 1311 01:21:22,808 --> 01:21:28,159 ♪ No regrets, no 'left unsaid's just turned the page ♪ 1312 01:21:28,262 --> 01:21:31,334 ♪ Oh but you know better, babe 1313 01:21:32,577 --> 01:21:36,374 ♪ Between the 'almost had em's and the broken bones ♪ 1314 01:21:36,477 --> 01:21:41,655 ♪ The dream of a buckle I'll never put on I'm jaded ♪ 1315 01:21:42,759 --> 01:21:45,970 ♪ Woah I hate it 1316 01:21:46,349 --> 01:21:49,766 ♪ Somehow the highs outweigh the lows ♪ 1317 01:21:49,870 --> 01:21:55,669 ♪ And I'd do it all again even though we both know ♪ 1318 01:21:55,945 --> 01:21:59,086 ♪ I'd still have to let you go ♪ 1319 01:22:00,053 --> 01:22:02,365 ♪ So dear rodeo 1320 01:22:03,504 --> 01:22:09,752 ♪ I try like hell to tell myself it was all your fault ♪ 1321 01:22:10,580 --> 01:22:16,345 ♪ I held on tight with all my might I just couldn't hang on ♪ 1322 01:22:16,448 --> 01:22:20,659 ♪ And that's hard to hang your hat on ♪ 1323 01:22:20,763 --> 01:22:24,456 ♪ Between the 'almost had em's and the broken bones ♪ 1324 01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:29,772 ♪ The dream of a buckle I'll never put on I'm jaded ♪ 1325 01:22:30,186 --> 01:22:33,914 ♪ Woah how I hate it ♪ 1326 01:22:34,397 --> 01:22:36,434 ♪ And somehow the highs ♪ 1327 01:22:36,537 --> 01:22:38,884 ♪ Outweigh the lows and I'd do it ♪ 1328 01:22:38,988 --> 01:22:41,611 ♪ All again even though 1329 01:22:41,715 --> 01:22:43,889 ♪ We both know 1330 01:22:44,269 --> 01:22:54,417 ♪ I'd have to let you go ♪ 1331 01:23:05,601 --> 01:23:07,741 ♪ So dear rodeo 1332 01:23:09,053 --> 01:23:11,331 ♪ I'd like to think you'd miss 1333 01:23:11,434 --> 01:23:14,368 ♪ Me too but I know you don't 1334 01:23:15,542 --> 01:23:17,958 ♪ Oh but that don't change the 1335 01:23:18,062 --> 01:23:21,617 ♪ Past and that don't change the truth ♪ 1336 01:23:22,100 --> 01:23:25,517 ♪ That I'm still in love with you ♪ 1337 01:23:28,727 --> 01:23:32,214 ♪ Dear rodeo 1338 01:23:32,317 --> 01:23:36,666 ♪♪ 1339 01:23:41,740 --> 01:23:45,675 [CLAPPING] -[MAN] My man! -[CODY] Whew.