Here is the conversation between Cruz and Gorsuch.
Cruz: I understand that you like to take your law clerks — some of them very much not from the West – to the Denver rodeo every year, and to have them observe and react to cattle roping and bronc riding and mutton busting. Is that true? And can you share a bit of your experiences and, even better, theirs in that regard?
Gorsuch: I get a lot of law clerks from my area ... but I get plenty from out of the area too. And we have a great rodeo in Denver every year, Grand National. It begins with a parade down 17th Street —which would be like a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. — where you have cattle. It's a cattle drive down the main road in Denver. They shut it down. That's how you mark the opening of the grand national. And the closing of the Grand National is celebrated by the prize steer getting to spend a little time in the Brown Palace Hotel [a well-known ritzy hotel in Denver]. ...
The kids show their animals. My kids never made it to the Grand National; they’re more county-fair types, with their chickens and their rabbits and their dogs and whatever. …
And then there's mutton busting. And I think my children still have PTSD from mutton busting. [Cruz laughs.]