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Seeing a Brighter Future with Von Miller- recipient of the Truly Significant Texas award · GO TEXAN THE Truly Significant

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Truly Significant Texans in Agriculture, the podcast where
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  Speaker 1: we spotlight the grit built legends who helped shape Texas
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  Speaker 1: farming and ranching.
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  Speaker 2: These are the.
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  Speaker 1: Stories of Texans who didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Just work the land, they transformed it and how they
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  Speaker 3: lifted others up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rick Tokenny with Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's dig in.
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  Speaker 4: Today's show is with von Miller, and it's all about
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  Speaker 4: seeing beyond yourself. You know, when most Texans hear the
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  Speaker 4: name von Miller, they think of championship Sachs and one
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  Speaker 4: of the most dominant defensive players ever to emerge from
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  Speaker 4: Texas football. But true significance is measured by something far
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  Speaker 4: greater than statistics. Von Miller is a proud graduate of
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  Speaker 4: Texas A and M University, and he embodies the values
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  Speaker 4: that make Texans extraordinary, from integrity, humility, generosity, and selfless service.
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  Speaker 4: While his accomplishments on the football field, especially with the
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  Speaker 4: Denver Broncos, have earned him national recognition, his greatest victories
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  Speaker 4: have come through helping others see a brighter future. Through
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  Speaker 4: Vaughn's vision, Miller has helped provide eye care and corrective
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  Speaker 4: eyewear to more than seventy five hundred children whose families
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  Speaker 4: otherwise could not afford them. By restoring sight, he has
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  Speaker 4: opened doors to education, confidence, and opportunity for thousands of
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  Speaker 4: young people. His entrepreneurial spirit is equally impressive. As founder
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  Speaker 4: of Greener Pastures Poultry, Miller has invested in the future
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  Speaker 4: of American agriculture Texas Agriculture that is demonstrating that leadership
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  Speaker 4: extends beyond sports and into the stewardship of food production,
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  Speaker 4: business innovation, and rural communities. For his commitment to serving others,
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  Speaker 4: creating opportunity, and using his platform for the greater good, today,
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  Speaker 4: Von Miller stands as our selection for truly significant Texan
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  Speaker 4: in agriculture, A man who understands that the greatest legacy
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  Speaker 4: is not what you achieve for yourself, but what you
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  Speaker 4: make possible for others. Now enjoy this conversation and presentation
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  Speaker 4: to the one and only Von Miller.
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  Speaker 3: Von this is Commissioner Sid Miller, Texas Apartment of Agriculture.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Rick TOKEINNI class is seventy eight, and I'm so
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  Speaker 3: proud to beginning to talk to you today.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys to be on the phone with
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  Speaker 5: the commissioner and Rick of politics and that and whatever
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  Speaker 5: y'all need.
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  Speaker 6: I got you guys.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's get started.
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  Speaker 6: I know you don't you don't have much time.
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  Speaker 8: You got quite a career in the NFL. But I
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  Speaker 8: guess first question is how do you go from pig
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  Speaker 8: skin to poultry? How do we get into poetry?
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  Speaker 2: Business?
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 5: I think it all kind of chose me. You know
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  Speaker 5: when I went to Texas A and M. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I've been fishing and hunting my whole life, but never
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  Speaker 5: had any experience with farm animals or raising cattle, chicken, pork,
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  Speaker 5: or anything like that. I took a a class my
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  Speaker 5: second semester my freshman year at Texas A and M.
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  Speaker 6: And I needed that class to improve my GPA.
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  Speaker 5: Like a lot of students, you know, poetry science me
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  Speaker 5: production one on one. It averaged a A minus and
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  Speaker 5: I needed that to improve my GPA. So it was
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  Speaker 5: other classes I could have took, like the wood shop
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  Speaker 5: and you know, social stance, social science, science, and social study.
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  Speaker 6: It was all type of classes.
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  Speaker 5: I really don't know why I took poetry science one
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  Speaker 5: on one, but I took it. It's really one of
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  Speaker 5: those things in life that they kind of choose you.
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  Speaker 5: I take the class and it's it's easy. And if
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  Speaker 5: you know anything about me, if you know anything about me,
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  Speaker 5: I'll fall asleep and I'm still listening.
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  Speaker 6: At the same time.
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  Speaker 5: So I would fall asleep in his class, and I
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  Speaker 5: was still listening to my professor, doctor Farnell.
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  Speaker 6: He would wake me up and make me come to.
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  Speaker 5: The friend of class and just regurgitate everything that we
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  Speaker 5: learned in this class. And at the moment, I hated it.
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  Speaker 5: I hated doctor Farnell for putting me on the spot,
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  Speaker 5: but I embraced it. I would go up to the
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  Speaker 5: class and I would just regurgitate everything that we learned.
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  Speaker 6: I would tell a couple of jokes.
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  Speaker 5: I'd never been afraid of public speaking or being on
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  Speaker 5: the spot, so I would go up there and I
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  Speaker 5: would make the most out of my time tell some jokes.
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  Speaker 5: The class would laugh, and in turn, it would make
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  Speaker 5: doctor Farnell even more furious, and he would tell my
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  Speaker 5: academic advisors what's going on, and in turn it would
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  Speaker 5: make it made me really really pay attention to the process.
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  Speaker 5: And at the time, I told myself if I don't
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  Speaker 5: make it to the NFL, this is what I would do.
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  Speaker 5: I always have belief that I would make it to
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  Speaker 5: the NFL, but I told him, I told myself that
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  Speaker 5: if I don't make it to the NFL, then I
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  Speaker 5: all started chicken farm. And at the moment, doctor Farnell
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  Speaker 5: was my enemy, but now he's one of my closest
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  Speaker 5: advisors to my chicken farm. So everything everything worked out.
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  Speaker 5: I got my first contract in the NFL in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 5: and I started Green Pastor's Chicken that same year. And
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  Speaker 5: in the last three years we started to upscale and
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  Speaker 5: now we do about thirty five thousand birds a week
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  Speaker 5: and it's a huge operation. We have sixty five employees
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  Speaker 5: and thirty five and thirty five people on the cap table.
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  Speaker 5: And I tried to take over, you know, the same
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  Speaker 5: mindset that I had playing football to the poetry industry.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted the best product that you.
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  Speaker 5: Could pop, that you could possibly put out. We have
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  Speaker 5: an organic pasture Raise nine GMO certified Human Man and
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  Speaker 5: that's one of the best. That's one of my favorite
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  Speaker 5: certifications that have we also have we also are halal
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  Speaker 5: certified and we're on the co Research as well.
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  Speaker 6: Still trying to have a law certification and.
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  Speaker 5: Still working through it, but I'm positive that we can
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  Speaker 5: get it done. I just wanted a product that was
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  Speaker 5: the best product on the market, and here we have
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  Speaker 5: green pastors chicken.
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  Speaker 8: Your model operation? Do you have contracts for your brawlers?
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  Speaker 8: Do you mark them yourself? Do you process them? You
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  Speaker 8: sell live birds?
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 2: What's your business model there?
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  Speaker 5: So we are a broller operation and we're vertically integrated
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  Speaker 5: up until the point of feed and the hatchery. The
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  Speaker 5: hatterer is is probably a little bit tricky because we
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  Speaker 5: have four hatcheries that we use around the state detections
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  Speaker 5: the around the state of Texas to protect from viral diseases,
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  Speaker 5: because if we had one hattery that we used, if
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  Speaker 5: that hatchery had any type of viral ad break, biological
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  Speaker 5: at break, we would be set back for three months.
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  Speaker 5: So we have four hatcheries that were used around the
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  Speaker 5: state of Texas to protecting in staff and we're currently
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  Speaker 5: uh in the works of acquiring a feed operation as well,
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  Speaker 5: so vertically integrated up into the hatchery and the feed production.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, well, let's let's talk about your philanthropic your your charity.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 5: So in the NFL, you're around a lot of great guys.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Iron Sharpings, Iron my my rookie seat he's in.
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  Speaker 5: We had a guy on our team named Tim Tebow,
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  Speaker 5: and he did so much when it comes to philanthropic efforts.
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  Speaker 5: He created a he built a hospital on the Philippines,
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  Speaker 5: and it's Tim Tebow. He did so much when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to his faith and his religion, and I just
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  Speaker 5: wanted to have that same impact. You know, obviously I'm
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  Speaker 5: not Tim Tebow. So I waited a year. Twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 5: I was signing autographs. I took my glasses off and
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  Speaker 5: it just hit me, I'm gonna start Buz's vision. I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna give back glasses, lastic surgery, eye exams, contexts, everything
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  Speaker 5: that has to do with the eyes to kids in need.
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  Speaker 5: And it's funny because at that moment, I just wanted
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  Speaker 5: to help one or two kids, and you fast forward
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  Speaker 5: to twenty sixteen and we've helped over seventy five hundred kids.
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  Speaker 6: And raised over seven hullion dollars.
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  Speaker 5: It was something that it's something that's the same way
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  Speaker 5: as the chicken for them.
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  Speaker 6: It just happened. It was never on my docket to
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  Speaker 6: be big, and I like to.
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  Speaker 5: Give the credit to everybody that's on my team and
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  Speaker 5: the board members to continually push to make Vo's vision
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  Speaker 5: what it is.
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  Speaker 8: We're We've got a presentation for you. We'd like to
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  Speaker 8: present you.
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  Speaker 3: We have been chasing you down as if we've been
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  Speaker 3: on the football field. We want to present you this
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  Speaker 3: commendation to Von Miller and recognition of all that you're
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  Speaker 3: doing in your life of significance the Texas Department of
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  Speaker 3: Agriculture Go Texting truly see magnificant Texan Award.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations man, guys, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, this year I've been able to go
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  Speaker 5: into the Texas A and m Athletic Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 5: and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Go Texan is
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  Speaker 5: something that I hold deep into my heart. I've been
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  Speaker 5: able to work with Matt Pittman with Meat Church and
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  Speaker 5: he was so proud of the Go texts and certification
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  Speaker 5: and it was.
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  Speaker 6: Right on board with how proud.
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  Speaker 5: I am to have the Go text and certification with
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  Speaker 5: Grand Pastor's Chicken.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's so many, it's so many states.
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  Speaker 5: It's forty nine other states to be a Texan and
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  Speaker 5: have a product that represents the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 6: And to be acknowledged by you guys.
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  Speaker 5: It's something that I hold truly to my heart forever
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  Speaker 5: and ever, and I will strive to to to really,
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  Speaker 5: you know, show you guys that I'm worthy of it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and until the end of time. So I
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  Speaker 5: appreciate your gos for that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's fabulous.
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  Speaker 8: You can't said he's better than that.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to add a couple of things.
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  Speaker 3: I've had a chance to meet some of my heroes
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  Speaker 3: face to face.
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  Speaker 2: I will bring this certificate up to you.
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  Speaker 3: It will be framed with Texas and Mesquite and also
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  Speaker 3: present this book to you. And I wanted to show
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  Speaker 3: you something that I that we had made back Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl year, it was out did your team do?
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  Speaker 2: And that was the year that you.
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  Speaker 3: Won the Super Bowl. You were the MVP. And on
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  Speaker 3: the other side, my daughter happened to go to Alabama
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  Speaker 3: that year and they won the national championship. So it
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  Speaker 3: was you, baby and Alabama and guess what, Johnny football
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  Speaker 3: won the Heisman Trophy that year.
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  Speaker 2: It may never happen in our lifetime again. And every time.
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  Speaker 3: You were introduced, you always went Gigamaggi's just melted.
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  Speaker 5: Our hearts because you know, in life, you you you
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  Speaker 5: made some great decisions, you make some bad decisions, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm right along with that. One of the best dess
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  Speaker 5: that I ever made in my life was going to
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  Speaker 5: the University of Texas A and m becoming an Aggie,
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  Speaker 5: going through the poetry science program. Those decisions have really
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  Speaker 5: elevated my life to a level that I really couldn't imagine.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm so proud to have that shirt, to have
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  Speaker 6: that certification, to.
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  Speaker 5: Have that award, and I'll put that right next to
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl MVP trophy.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you so much for your time today. This
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  Speaker 8: has been this has been fascinating. So uh congratulations, you know,
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  Speaker 8: best best wishes to you. You're truly making Texas ag
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  Speaker 8: culture great and that that's what we're about. We're trying
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  Speaker 8: to get that message out to everyone.
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  Speaker 5: Texas Commissioner Rick, the pleasure is all mine.
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  Speaker 6: I'll continue to make you guys proud. I'm currently we're trying.
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  Speaker 5: To make green and past chicken as best as we
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  Speaker 5: possibly can. I like to think that our birds taste
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  Speaker 5: different than any other birds because our birds live an
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  Speaker 5: amazing lifestyle. We have our poetry farms that move across
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  Speaker 5: the land to have access to natural bugs, grass, sunlight,
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  Speaker 5: and oxygen. They live in incredible life, a country club lifestyle.
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  Speaker 6: They just have one. They just have one bad day
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  Speaker 6: and they don't see it coming. So I'm I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Fairly committed to having the best product to represent Texas
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  Speaker 5: agriculture and the Texas and them family to the best
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  Speaker 5: of my ability.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you very much, and just just remember, folks, Texas
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  Speaker 8: aye culture matters.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Miller. We're proud of you and we'll see
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  Speaker 2: you soon.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, guys, Thank you Commissioner, Thank you Rick. You
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  Speaker 6: guys might ever need might not ever need.
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  Speaker 5: Me, but if you do, and you know your your
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  Speaker 5: you're depending on me to come.
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  Speaker 6: Through for y'all. I got you, guys back one.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, God, bless you God, bless man.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, God, bless you, guys. I appreciate you, guys. Gig
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  Speaker 6: them Gigham.
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  Speaker 2: That was our very special.
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  Speaker 3: Honoree Von Miller today and we're so proud to deliver
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  Speaker 3: him the truly significant texts and award. And what a
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  Speaker 3: rare person to be future NFL Hall of Fame who
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  Speaker 3: is so he's chasing his passion with the poultry industry.
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  Speaker 6: I just love that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, No one has to ask him what's life beyond football?
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  Speaker 7: He already knows.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, guys. If it was a Poetry Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm aiming for that too. That would be
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  Speaker 5: just that would be just a special to me. If
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  Speaker 5: there's a Texas Agricultural Hall of Fame, you know I'm
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  Speaker 5: aiming for that too. And I appreciate you, you guys,
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  Speaker 5: for the opportunity to be able to resent, to be
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  Speaker 5: able to present my.
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  Speaker 6: Company and the Texas and them eggs in this fashion.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you sir so much. You're a good man.
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  Speaker 2: See you soon in Minnesota. Thank you, m guys.
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  Speaker 6: Appreciate you guys, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: This program is a presentation of Go Texan featuring Texas
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  Speaker 4: Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
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  Speaker 10: Your host and show creator is Rick Tokeiny writers are
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  Speaker 10: Carla and Rick Tokenny. The big Hearted Texan theme song
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  Speaker 10: is written and performed by Austin's Truly Significant Band. Visit
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  Speaker 10: show are Todd Smith and Dan Isitt. Editors were Cameron
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  Speaker 10: Hodnett and Carla Tokenny. Sound engineer is Cameron Hodnett to
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