Chris downey had constructed the life hed always wanted, an architect with a good job. That whole exterior. Happily married and coaching his tenyearold sons Little League. But then something awful happened. He went blind. And that threatened to end his career. Is that different . Oh, yeah. Or did it . Im a kid again. Im relearning so much of architecture. It wasnt about what im missing in architecture, it was about what i had been missing in architecture. ticking rang and riding in utah. The Wright Family is the first family of american rodeo. World e roughest rides look like a ballet. Are you kind of dancing with the horse . I like to think you are. I dance a lot better with a horse than i do with my wife. laughter i aint got no rhythm. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking the race is never ov. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends, because we are always on the way. 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Nearly six years ago, in iraq, we discovered this hesitant, frightened woman. We did not imagine her scarf concealed not only her identity, but also a fierce invincibility which would lead her, four years after our interview, to the highest honor the world has to give. We found her here among refugees who survived the invasion of the isis terrorist army. Her people are yazidis, a minority in Northern Iraq that is poor, persecuted, and bound by faith to its revered mount sinjar. In 2014, isis invaded. Two months later, we came to report on the atrocities of the selfdescribed Islamic State. Of course, no country on earth recognizes that state, but if it had a border, this would be it. Beyond that border was the yazidi homeland, where the faithful practice a religion that predates islam by 3,000 years. In isiss perversion of the muslim faith, the yazidis were nonbelievers, condemned to slavery and death. Nadia murad translated on friday, august 15, at 11 30 a. M. , they entered our village and told us all to come to the school. There, the women and kids were put upstairs, and the men downstairs. Pelley what happened to you at that point . Murad translated as we were entering the school, i was with one of my brothers. There, we saw a bulldozer, and i asked my brother why is there a bulldozer here . He replied, to throw dirt on the bodies when theyre done killing. Pelley her brother was right. The yazidis, about half a million, were defenseless civilians. Thousands of men, and elder women, were executed. Boys, age seven and older, were forced into the isis army. What happened next . Murad translated they started loading up 150 girls in four dump trucks. Pelley more than 3,000 women and girls, as young as nine, were trucked into slavery. She says she was sold and raped, sold and raped again, and then gangraped after a failed escape. What about the other members of your family . Murad translated i have no idea where my brothers are. I want them all to return, but most of all, i just want my mother tell them, i just want my mother pelley she seemed broken. But, as our interview went on, her confidence grew, as though she came to realize she wasnt speaking for herself, she was speaking for her people. Months later, she settled in germany, joined a human rights group, and campaigned for justice. In 2018, the world learned her name, because nadia murad was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. applause the 2018 peace prize was meant to expose atrocities women suffer in war. The honor was shared with denis mukwege, whose hospital treats the sexually assaulted in the democratic republic of congo. Im curious why you chose to speak with us five years ago . Murad translated at the beginning, rape was a big shame for me and for others to speak about. Because it would have remained a shame on you, on your family and on your people. The biggest incentive that made me talk was those left behind, including my mother and sisters. I knew what was happening to those in the captivity of isis. Pelley nadia murad was captive nine days when the last man who bought her left a door unlocked. Kindhearted strangers smuggled her across the Islamic State line. She became a u. N. Human rights ambassador, began learning english, wrote a memoir, and vowed to see isis in court. But for that, she needed a amal clooney i met nadia after a colleague called me and said, i have a new case for you. And i said, no thanks. Im busy. And he said, theres just an extraordinary young woman i want you to meet. Give me an hour. Pelley it didnt take an hour for leading human rights attorney amal clooney to take the case. Clooney i saw it as a test of the international system. It was so egregious, because it involved isis, it involved a clear case of genocide. It involved sexual slavery to at a scale that we havent seen in modern times. And i thought, if the u. N. Cant act in this case, then what does the International Rule of law even mean . Pelley by 2015, not one free yazidi remained in their homeland. This wasnt just war. By international law, the executions, rape, and kidnapping were war crimes. Clooney this was the same dilemma that the world had after the atrocities of nazi germany. And its the u. S. , under president truman and president roosevelt, that said, no, we have to have trials, because there must be a judicial record of the atrocities committed by the nazis. Because today, you do have people denying that there were gas chambers and and what do you have to point to . You can go back and say, well, there are 4,000 documents that were submitted as exhibits in the nuremburg trials. And the yazidis deserve nothing less than that. Pelley and there might be similar stacks of evidence of the crimes against the yazidis, but clooney feared securing it was a race against time. Clooney you had mass graves that werent secured, where the yazidis knew their relatives were buried, and nobody was exhuming them. And also, i noticed that witnesses were becoming more and more reluctant to speak out, as time went by. So, you know, there was only so much we could do as a small team of lawyers. And we said, this is the responsibility of the u. N. And its the responsibility of the most powerful body within the u. N. , which is the Security Council. Pelley had you ever heard of the u. N. Security council . Murad never. Pelley in 2015, just a year after we met her, nadia murad asked the Security Council to hold isis accountable. Murad translated ive seen what theyve done to boys and girls. Rafficking and genocide need to be brought to justice. Pelley the Security Council voted to approve a first step. In 2017, it created an Investigative Team to collect evidence of isiss crimes in iraq. The team began exhuming some of the 202 mass graves that are known. Now, the question is whether the evidence will ever be heard. Iraqi courts are convicting thousands of isis suspects of terrorism, but none has been tried for the crime of genocide against the yazidis. Small pockets of isis fighters remain in syria and iraq. But u. S. And iraqi troops have shattered isis as a cohesive military force. Is that justice . Clooney absolutely not. You know, if you speak to yazidi witnesses, victims, survivors, they will say, it doesnt help me if somebodys killed in a drone strike. In terms of justice, that means something very different. That means being able to be in a courtroom and look their abusers in the eye, and tell the world what happened. What isis did to them. And that hasnt happened yet. Pelley it has happened before, in other atrocities. Last year, a u. N. Backed court in cambodia convicted two former officials of genocide, 40 years after the khmer rouge murdered 1. 7 million. Beginning in the 1990s, u. N. War crime trials were held for the former yugoslavia and rwanda. But iraq is not a member of the International Criminal court and has not agreed to war crime trials of its own. Clooney what we would like to see is an openness by the iraqis to actually have International Judges be involved in these trials. Potentially, international prosecutors. There are different ways of designing it. You know, the Iraqi Government could enter into a treaty with the u. N. , or there could be an inatcourth iraqis could agree to transfer those responsible for International Crimes to that court. Pelley today, peace, if not justice, has settled into the folds of mount sinjar. Four days after accepting the nobel, nadia murad returned with the yazidi man she would soon marry, and two replicas of her peace prize. This is what the absence of justice looks like. The demands of the desperate focused on a woman, abducted at 21 and now returning bearing the weight of a sevenounce medal. Murad translated the morning that i won the nobel prize, i asked my husband, abid, to see if there was a way i could decline, because the prize would make my life difficult. But, fate and god sometimes bring you something so that you can stop crimes and help others. Pelley has the nobel prize changed your hopes for the future . Murad translated now people look at me like i can rebuild sinjar, that i can bring more help for the victims and that i can take care of the orphans. But, without support, this is not going to happen by just having a nobel. Pelley in her village, she said, i have left a nobel prize at the iraqi parliament. I hope iraq, after 4,000 years, will recognize yazidis. We have always been second class citizens. Later, she walked to a site that held the answer to the desperate question she asked in our first interview. The long green depression in the earth was a mass grave her mothers grave. crying she said, dear mother, my poor mother. You left a replica of your Nobel Peace Prize at your mothers grave. Murad yeah. Pelley what do you think she would have thought of that . Murad translated i wonder if she knows that i have talked to the world about her silent death, the killing of her six sons and her two nieces. I often feel that what i have been doing is because of her. I wish that she would know about it. She may be happy because the world now knows what isis has done. Pelley this is the school where nadia murad was separated from her family. Five years later, the murdered and missing are present, but unaccounted for. Pelley altogether, nadia, how many members of your family were murdered . Murad translated we were 48 brothers, mothers, sisters, nephews and nieces in our family. Nine were killed, and three are missing. The rest, who were rescued, now live in refugee camps. Pelley there isnt much for refugees to return to. Yazidi homes were wrecked or looted of everything but memories. 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Try it today with our moneyback guarantee chief Justice John Roberts i will preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. So help you god . crowd cheering stahl at age 45, chris downey had pretty much constructed the life hed always wanted. An architect with a good job at a small housing firm francisco, he was happily married, with a tenyearold son. He was an assistant Little League coach and avid cyclist. And then doctors discovered a tumor in his brain. He had surgery, and the tumor was safely gone. But downey was left completely blind. As we first reported in 2019, what he has done in the decade since losing his sight as a person, and as an architect can only be described as a different kind of vision. Several mornings a week, as the sun rises over the oakland estuary in california, an amateur rowing team works the water. Its hard to tell which one of them is blind. And chris downey thinks thats just fine. Chris downey its really exciting to be in a sport where nobody looks in the direction theyre going. You face this way in the boat, and youre going that way. So, okay, evensteven. We were just talking about that whole exterior. Stahl its not exactly evensteven in this design meeting, where downey is collaborating with sighted architects on a new hospital building. Chris downey under the canopy, where you could have down lights. Stahl . But he hasnt let that stop him. Here you are, in a profession that basically requires you to read read designs and draw designs. You mustve thought in your head, that is insurmountable . Chris downey no. I never thought stahl you never thought you never thought the word insurmountable chris downey lots of people, friends that were architects and anybody else would say, oh my god, its the worst thing imaginable, to be an architect and to lose your sight. I cant imagine anything worse. But i quickly came to realize that the Creative Process is an intellectual process. Its how you think. So i just needed new tools. Stahl new tools . Downey found a printer that could emboss architectural drawings so that he could read and understand through touch. Chris downey they look like normal prints, normal drawings, on the computer. But then they just come out in tactile form. Stahl so it is like braille, isnt it . Chris downey right. Stahl and he came up with a way to sketch his ideas onto the plans using a simple childrens toy malleable wax sticks that he shapes to show his modifications to others. And he says something surprising started to happen. He could no longer see buildings and spaces, but he began hearing them. Chris downey the sounds, the textures. And the sound changes because theres a canopy overhead. Stahl you can sense that were under a canopy . Chris downey yes. Its all a matter of how the sound works, from the tip of the cane. I was fascinated walking through buildings that i knew sighted, but i was experiencing them in a different way. I was hearing architecture, i stahl it sounds as if you began almost enjoying, in a way, being the blind architect. Chris downey it was sort of this this excitement of, im a kid again. Im im relearning so much of architecture. It wasnt about what im missing in architecture, its what it was about what i had been missing in architecture. Is that sufficiently different . Chris downey oh, yeah. laughter stahl chris downeys upbeat attitude doesnt mean that he didnt go through one of the most frightening experiences imaginable, and struggle. He and his wife rosa were living in this same home with their son renzo, then ten, when downey first noticed a problem while playing catch with renzo. The ball kept coming in and out of sight. The cause turned out to be a tumor near his optic nerve. Surgery to remove it lasted 9. 5 hours. He says his surgeon had told him there was a slight risk of total sight loss, but that hed never had it happen. Rosa downey when he first came out of surgery, he was able to see. Stahl but then things started to go wrong. The next day, half his field of vision disappeared. And then . Chris downey the next time i woke up, it was. All gone. It was just black. Stahl complete and total darkness . No light, you cant see anything . Chris downey no light. Its dark. Its all dark. Stahl after days of frantic testing, a surgeon told him it was permanent, irreversible, and sent in a social worker. Chris downey she says, oh, and i see from your chart youre youre an architect, so we can talk about career alternatives. Stahl career alternatives, right away . Chris downey i hadnt been told i was officially blind for 24 hours, and stahl and shes saying you cant be an architect anymore. Chris downey yeah, and she was saying we could talk about career alternatives. I felt like these walls were being built up around me, just like, yeah, youre getting boxed in. Stahl alone that night in his room, downey did some serious thinking. About his son, and about his own father, who had died from complications after surgery when downey was seven years old. Chris downey i could quickly appreciate the wonder, the just the joy of, im still here. Stahl it was actually joy . Chris downey yeah, it was like, im still here with my family. My son still has his dad. Stahl you know your eyes are tearing up. You know that. Chris downey yeah, sorry. I always have a hard time talking through that. Stahl he knew that how he handled this would send a strong message to renzo. Chris downey i had been talking with him about the need to really apply himself. At the age of ten, its that point where if you want something you really have to work at it. And here i am, facing this great challenge. Stahl so, motivated to set an example, he headed back to work only one month later. Bryan bashin this was the most healthy thing about chris. Stahl bryan bashin is executive director of the non profit lighthouse for the blind and visually impaired in san francisco, and is blind himself. Bashin he waited a few days, until the stitches were out of his skull. And 30 days after brain surgery, he was back in the office thinking, okay, theres got to be a way to figure this out. And im going to figure it out. Stahl bashings organization, the lighthouse, helps people new to vision loss learn how to figure things out. Bashin when someone becomes blind, the odds are 99 theyve never met another blind person. Stahl is that right . Bashin yeah, that really is true. Blind people need those role models, how to be blind, how to hold down a job, how to live an independent life. Stahl specifically, how to work in the kitchen safely. How to navigate public transportation. How to use Screen Reading Software to listen to emails as quickly as the rest of us read them. Did you understand that . Chris downey yes. Stahl no and most critically, how to get around in the world alone. Downey learned that at the lighthouse. When you first crossed a big street like this on your own, was it terrifying . Chris downey absolutely terrifying. Stahl i can imagine. laughs i can totally imagine. Chris downey i remember that day, stepping off the curb, and it was like, you would have thought i was stepping into raging waters. Take a deep breath and go for it. You got to push through it. Stahl within a few months, he was travelling the streets on his own and getting back to normalcy with his son. Chris downey the first fathers day came up. Rosa was like, so, what do you want to do . Do you want to go on a picnic, go on a nice lunch . I want to play baseball. laughter with renzo. Renzo was like he pops up. I could just i could feel him, like, jump to the edge of his chair. Baseball, you want to play baseball . Renzo downey so dad would throw to me, and id play like i was playing first base. Stahl how could he throw the ball to you . Renzo downey id just call out, im over here. And hed point, and id say, yeah, thats right. And then hed throw it at me. Chris downey thats something i really loved about our relationship. He quickly was looking for possibilities. He wasnt saying, you cant do that. He was like, well, why not . Stahl downey seems to have a knack for finding windows when doors slam shut. Just nine months after going blind, the recession hit, and he lost his job. But, he got word that a nearby firm was designing a Rehabilitation Center for veterans with sight loss. They were eager to meet a blind architect. What are the chances . You had to believe that gods hand came down chris downey it took my disability and turned it upside down. All of a sudden, it defined unique, unusual value that virtually nobody else had to offer. Stahl nobody. Chris downey yeah. Stahl starting with that job, downey developed a specialty, making spaces accessible to the blind. He helped design a new eye center at Duke University hospital, consulted on a job for microsoft, and signed on to help the visually impaired find their way in san franciscos new, and much delayed, fourblocklong transbay transit center, which we visited during construction. Chris downey if youre blind, you dont drive. Right . They dont like it when we drive. So, you know, were committed transit users. So the question was, how on earth do you navigate this size of facility, if youre blind . Stahl his solution grooves set into the concrete running the entire length of the platform. Chris downey i would just follow this, following those grooves. Stahl . With a subtle change from smooth to textured concrete, to signal where to turn to get to the escalators. Chris downey would you like to give it a try . Stahl okay. I know to go straight because of this line. And i feel scraping oh, my. Oh, my. So its pretty obvious. Chris downey i can hear the difference from here. Stahl its something sighted people may never notice and thats precisely the point. Downey believes in whats called universal design that accommodates people with disabilities, but is just as appealing to people without them. Its the approach he used for his biggest project yet, consulting on the total renovation of a new, threestory office space for his old training ground, the lighthouse for the blind. Bashin coming into blindness need not be some dreary social service experience, but rather, more like coming into an apple store thinking that there might be something fun around the corner. Stahl one of downeys ideas s lk the three floors with an internal staircase that sighted people can see, and the blind can hear. Bashin in blindness, its so wonderful to be on the 9th floor and hear a burst of laughter up on the 11th floor, or to hear somebody playing the piano on the 10th floor. Stahl for the hallways, downey chose polished concrete, because of the acoustics. Bashin i can hear the special tap of somebodys cane, or the click of a guide dogs toenails. Stahl the click of a guide dogs toenails . Bashin yeah, yeah. Stahl well, is that good or bad . Bashin thats great. Its like youre seeing somebody coming down the hall. I know the sound of individual people who work here by the way they use their cane, or the kind of walk they have. Stahl you can really distinguish between people by how they tap their cane . Bashin absolutely. Stahl if you hadnt had a blind architect bashin it wouldnt have been as rich or so subtle, for sure. Stahl spring 2018 marked the tenyear anniversary of downey losing his sight. So what did he do . He threw a party, a fundraiser for the lighthouse, where hes been student, architect, and now, president of the board. Chris downey maybe a slightly bizarre thing, celebrating my tenyear blind birthday. But when youre 55 and you have a chance to be ten again, you take it. Stahl i get the feeling that you actually think youre a better architect today. Chris downey im absolutely convinced im a better architect today than i was sighted. Stahl if you could see tomorrow, would you still want to be able to feel the design . Chris downey if i were to get my sight back, it would be i dont know. I would be afraid that id id sort of lose what ive really been working on. I dont really think about having my sight restored. Theres be some logistical liberation to it. But, will it make my life better . I dont think so. ticking tow up. For the sweet. The hectic. The tender. The tense. And the fiery. But for many, migraine keeps them. From saying. I am here. We aim to change that. With. Aimovig, a preventive treatment. For migraine in adults. One dose. Once a month. Is proven to reduce monthly migraine days. For some, by half or more. Dont take aimovig if youre allergic to it. 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Their lifestyle has prepared them for whats been called one of the last blue collar sports in america. In saddle bronc, there are no tom brady salaries and there are regular injuries that would make runningbacks flinch. And yet, none of that discourages the wrights. Each generation seems to be better than the last. Tonight, youll meet americas first family of rodeo, competing for glory on horseback, the wright way. Announcer anybody heard of the wrights, in the bronc riding . Whitaker you may not have heard of the wrights before. Announcer they are a utah sensation whitaker . But at rodeos big and small across the country, like this one in utah, that last name is as famous as manning or montana. And there are just about enough wrights to field their own football team. Announcer it is the wright night at the rodeo whitaker nine professional cowboys, with five world titles among them. Theres ryder wright. Announcer ryder come on, Ryder Whitaker . The youngest World Champion of all time, and at 21, currently sitting in first place. Announcer hey, weve been guy. Spencer wright, another World Champion. That was incredible cody wright yah, he did awesome. Whitaker and in a league of his own, cody wright, the one who started the Family Dynasty 20 years ago. Announcer and street smart whitaker at 42, codys a twotime World Champion and one of the best bronc riders ever. Whats that feel like . Cody wright adrenaline. A little bit of fear. And you got to learn how to control it. You know, otherwise, you know, itll go to heck pretty quick. Announcer theres stetson wright. Whitaker in saddle bronc. Lift. Whitaker . The goal is to hang on with style for eight seconds. Yeah whitaker . To a horse specially bred to buck you off. Can you explain to us whats going on in that eight seconds . Announcer lets go to cody wright. Yeah, go on cody wright youve got a rein you hang on to. You need to lift on it, because thats what holds you down in the saddle. When they jump and kick, you know, theyre stretched out, their feet are off the ground, you want to be stretched out, you know, your free arm straight back, and your feet set as high in the neck as you can get them. Whitaker its like one hell of a rocking horse. Cody wright it can be the roughest ride in the world if youre out of time, or it can be the smoothest ride in the world. Whitaker so are you are kindncing thorse . Cody wright i like to think you are. I dance a lot better with a horse than i do with my wife. laughter i aint got no rhythm. Whitaker the wrights, and the broncos theyre randomly paired with, are partners in the rodeo. Both have to perform well to get a good score from the judges. But when its gotime, the wrights, the sons and brothers, crowd around the chute like a nascar pit crew, helping each other saddle up. This is a team sport for you guys. Cody wright i think so. I love it. Theres nobody id rather see do better. But dont dont think that i aint trying to beat them. Jake wright we all show up to the rodeo wanting to win first, but, and, but were going to help each other do it too. Whitaker thats jake wright, codys younger brother and one of his toughest competitors. And yes, there are more brothers jakes twin jesse. A brotherinlaw, coburn bradshaw. Plus, alex, calvin, stuart and Spencer Wright. Spencer wright were like a big support grouyou know, s b t. Everybody focused . Spencer wright and i know thats why we all have been so successful at what we do. Whitaker all that practice has propelled them to the National Finals rodeo in las vegas. Its the cowboy superbowl. Announcer Spencer Wright, hes got a great ride going whitaker . And team wright has made it every year for the last decade and a half. Cody has won the champions gold buckle twice. Jake wright he showed us that we could do it with a little hard work and a lot of try. Spencer wright if he wouldve never even pursued rodeo, i wonder what the rest of us would even be doing. laughs whitaker what theyre doing comes at a steep cost. While these horses are rarely injured, that cant be said for the wrights. They all have the same Orthopedic Surgeon on speed dial. Can i see a show of hands of how many of youve been injured . So all of youve been injured . And two of you came into this interview on crutches. laughter jake wright three of us. laughs whitaker tell me some of the injuries. Jesse wright i think the worst was my back, when i broke my back in omaha. Alex wright fractured my skull. Jake wright i broke my nose about ten times Spencer Wright i broke all the sinuses on this right side of my face one time and had a brain bleed. As far as injuries goes, i think im one of the lucky ones sitting here. Whitaker do you hear yourself . Brain bleed . laughs and you call that lucky . Calvin wright hurts a lot less than heartache, bill. laughs whitaker but heartache wont land you in the hospital. The wright boys are well aware every ride could be their last. Stuart came close. Stuart wright i said, lets go, and horse reared up and hit my head. Kind of knocked me a little senseless. And i fell off, into the arena. He just jumped straight up and fell completely on me. Thought it broke my back, because i just felt my ribs pop as he landed on me. I was like, oh my gosh whitaker as awful as that may sound, the wrights say the hardest part of the job is being away from home. Cody wright whatd they tell alex last time he went to the doctor . Whitaker theyre on the road around 250 days a year, clocking 100,000 miles in these. What they call rodeo motels. Cody wright this weekend youre going to heridan and fort pierre, or vice versa . Whitaker where they eat, sleep, and drive from canada to the mexican border, chasing eight second dreams. Do you sometimes feel like youre on the road more times than youre on a horse . Jesse wright you drive 22, 24 hours from home to there. And were there an hour, turn around and driving back. Coburn bradshaw we drive for a living, and ride bucking horses for fun. laughs everyone yeah. laughter whitaker when they arent on the road, home is southern utah. They mostly grew up in milford, a nostoplight town where the wrights are the main attraction. Theyre a family of 13 kids, kept in line by their parents, bill and evelyn. Thats a huge family. Evelyn wright its a good sized family. Kids are kind of more ish, you know the more you get, the more you want. Bill wright she trained the older ones to help the younger ones. Evelyn wright i had to organize them. Bill wright but she Evelyn Wright im like, i cannot do this on my own. Or else its going to be bad, because moms going to grow bear hair and youre not going to like it. Home video all right, quit it. Whitaker the wright kids were cowboys playing cowboys and were natural ranch hands. It kept them out of evelyns hair, and out of trouble. The seven boys and six girls knew how to ride a horse before. Mes od, t but never went pro. Evelyn wright they learned how to break horses early, how to ride and tame horses and train them. I think you have to be a cowboy before you can be a rodeo cowboy. Whitaker the ranch was their training ground. The family has been working this land at the edge of Zion National park for more than a century and a half. Bill wright im five generations, codys six, rustys seven, and his boy is eight. laughs generations. Whitaker bill, do you think the Wright Family will be ranching this land in another 150 years . Bill wright well, i hope so, i really do. When you work as hard on something as i have at this, you dont want to see it just go away. Whitaker what keeps their way of life going are rituals like this branding day. Heeoh heeoh whitaker bill and his children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren gather every year to round up, vaccinate, and brand their cattle. The hard work brings them together. It defines them on the ranch and in the arena. Cody wright dads the first one to preach that you get out of it what you put into it. And if hes seen you putting something into it, they were both behind you. And it didnt matter if they had to sell the the farm. They was going to get you there. Whitaker they sacrificed a lot for you to reach your dream. Cody wright i think so. Um. Whitaker this cowboy gets emotional because he knows exactly how much his parents gave up when he was starting out, in a family where money was tight. Evelyn wright we went to gillette, wyoming, to the National Finals. And i had like ten kids. He comes back from the expo and he said, i bought cody a saddle. Im like, what . Yeah, it was only 1,100. Im like, what . laughter you did what . I was so i started crying. Im like hes like, we got to help him. We got to support him. Hes going to lose his dream if we dont. And what do you say to that . Well, thanks for coming. Whitaker these days, cody may be living his dream, but it hasnt exactly made him rich, considering cowboys have to foot the bill for just about everything. I really like rodeos. Cody wright if youre rodeoing full time, and going to, you know, 100 rodeos, youve got to make over 60,000 or 70,000 just to break even. Whitaker so you could go through all this and go to a rodeo and walk away with nothing. Cody wright yeah. You could walk away in the red. Whitaker less than nothing. Cody wright less than nothing. laughs whitaker so surely there are easier ways to make a living. Cody wright youd think so. laughs but, better . I i dont know. Whitaker still, the sport has taken a toll on codys body and his family. Hes spending less time in the arena now, and more time on the ranch. Cody wright reach back. Whitaker and in the practice pen, leading the next generation to carry on the wright legacy, sons ryder, rusty, stetson, who are already rising stars, and the youngest, statler. We were there the day cody coached his 16yearold on his very first bronc ride. Cody wright statler, right there, lift hard and take ahold of him. Statler wright well, i was, like, super nervous, until i got in there. And then i just pretty much forgot about Everything Else but what my dads taught me. Cody wright go on go on keep going, buddy whitaker that ride, howd that feel . Statler wright i hurt my butt, actually. laughs a lot. But as soon as i hit the ground, i wanted to do it again. Whitaker one hall of famer told us that you guys have the potential to be the best there ever was. Rusty wright i think we could do it. But really, thats kind of humbling and, it lights a fire. Whitaker a fire, they say, to win those gold buckles, just like their dad, cody. Cody wright you know, i wanted a gold buckle. But to ride every horse the best i could was always what did it for me, you know. Sure, i want money. Who dont . You need it to go along. But i always just wanted to ride broncs. It was striving to make that perfect ride. And you know, the feeling that you feel when youre in time with a horse thats trying to get you off their back as hard as they can. Whitaker have you ever had a perfect ride . Cody wright no. Ive never had a perfect ride. laughs when i make that perfect ride, im going to be done. Whitaker after our story aired, the family added one more World Championship to its collection. Stetson wright won his first gold buckle for all around cowboy at the National Finals rodeo in december. ticking how do you tell a rodeo story . First you learn to ride a horse. At www. 60minutesovertime. Com needles. Essential for sewing, but maybe not for people with certain inflry conditions. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz. 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