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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's about to get real, real Texas in here right now.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, that ain't a bad thing, Nowizy.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
No, it is not.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
We are you know, we love America, but we live
in the Republic of Texas and we reach a lot
of people around the country and sometimes because of our location,
we're able to talk to very influential Texans, you know,
people like Ted Cruz and Wesley Hunter, regulars on the show.
And you know, of course we're big fans of other
people in Texas as well, like Elon Musk and Billy
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ed Had.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This is Kenny's long winded way of introducing guests that
we have in our studio this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, if you're a fan of any of the people
I just mentioned, you've probably heard of this next guy.
And if you haven't, you're probably gonna like him. He
is the Commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture. He's
a world champion rodeo rider, he's an eighth generation Texas
farmer and rancher, and honestly, he is one of two
people in a statewide elected position in the state of
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Texas who I really like.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is this a contest somebody named that guest or you're
gonna tell.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Him it's Sid Millerladies and gentlemen, It' Sid Miller.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hang on, let's get his mic on here. Sid, can
you hear? How's you got that mic.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
In front of you? How's that going there?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Good?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
And I'm good?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
My brother man? What are you doing here in Houston, Texas? Today? Brother?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, we've made a lot. This is my third day here.
We've visited a lot of our go Text and Partners,
which is our marketing program. We've done some interviews. We're
going to a school from here and celebrate the National
Fruit and Vegetable Day.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
One of the things I do that no one knows
what I do is run the nutrition programs for the
state and federal government. So I'm responsible for five millions
school meals each day. Come hand in hand with that
agriculture thing. Exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You are as Texas as it comes. You're wearing a
cowboy hat, you're wearing boots right now. You're the real thing, man.
I mean, you're an actual cowboy who just happens to
work in politics, Whereas there's a lot of people in
politics who pretend to be a cowboy. Does that kind
of piss you off? When people steal your culture like
that and wear it like a costume.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You know that they can't really steate it because they
don't they don't have it, they don't get it. You know.
This is you know, I've been wearing boots and the
hat ever since I had pants with pockets on it,
ever since I got out of doppers. You know, still
carry a pocket knife and the pistol. So you know,
it's just just a way of life for me. I'm
not putting on airs. This is this is the real me.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I locked a pistol you got on your lapale right
there too.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
That's a nice story about the pistol on my lapil.
If your campaign treasure is a guy named Ted Nugent,
you get to wear a pistol lapil pan straight, you do.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You're friends with Ted Nugent, you and you and Ted
Hunt together. There's another guy with a in a state
wide position here in Texas who helped Shoe Biden pass
a gun control act. He's up for reelection next year.
His name's John Cornyn.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sometimes we refer to him as John Wayne mccornyn. And
John really does want us to believe he's a cowboy.
And I don't get the impression he is when it's convenient. Yeah,
if it's good for votes. I guess do you think
we need another?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You know there is no in between. Either you look good,
you know, wearing a cowboy hat, or you look like
a dark between. You can make up your mind.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If we had a hat in here, we would prove
that point by putting it on. Kenny.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, I kept my hat back. I can't wear and
I live in the city. I don't claim to be opposer.
I don't pretend to be something not. No one likes posers.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know, mister Miller. We're talking to Sid Miller here,
and uh, A couple of years ago you came up
to Grimes County where we got some some friends and
weekend places and whatnot, and you spoke at the True
Blue event which we put together. And I got to
tell you, man, people said, just just hearing you just
just talk, just talk about anything. You just you tell
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it like it is. You tell a good story, and
you don't bs around and try to worry about are
you using the right words. You just say what you
think and that people love it.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I tell people I've never given a speech. I said,
what do you mean, you talk to people all the time. Us.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's it. I just get up and talk to the.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Like you know. Uh, I can't. A real quick story.
When I first started this, I ran and was elected
to the State House, and uh, George W. Bush was
leaving and he had us up for dinner, and I said,
you know, I'm just a country hay seed. You know,
everybody down here in Austin's either either rich or a lawyer,
and I'm neither one. How do you learn to talk
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to people? He said, Well, when you get up in
front of somebody, just imagine you're talking to people from
love oh oh oh. I can talk to people from
loveboo all day long. Sure, not a problem. So that's
kind of what I've always done. I just get up
and talk to.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
People, just regular folks. Yeah, exactly right. Very controversial question.
Where in the state of Texas will you find the
best barbecue?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Oh, Kenny, well that's that's you know, fighting words, Yes, sir, exactly.
A lot of people would say Lockhart, Yes, you know,
there's Battling Barbecue and Lockhart it's pretty good. Also, Elgin
had you know there's a south Side Barbecue and Marge
Barbecue there and then coach, you got blacks and the
others down at Lockhart.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I think the best crisis, Oh yeah, oh cis there's
a great barbecue place there in Taylor. A lot of
it's in the hill country around in and around Austin. Lexington,
Texas has been declared the barbecue there is the best
in Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It is outstanding. Said you, me and Elon have something
in common. We are what is referred to by the
kids as meme edge lords. We post memes that are
very edgy. You post memes on social media. I don't
think anybody else in Texas politics would be brave enough
to post hilarious stuff that gets shared ten twenty thousand times.
I mean some of the best, some of my favorite
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memes of all times have showed up on your page.
People must complain a little bit. How do you react
to those people?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Well, you know, the liberals' heads explode. That's what. That's
who that that's the whole purpose. That's is why we
do it. So you know, we just you know, this
is a serious job, don't get me wrong, very serious.
But I'd like to have fun. There's no rule against
having fun and being serious at the same time. Right,
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if I don't enjoy it, I'd be going to more.
But I'll really enjoy what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And you do have to deal with some pretty serious topics.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
People often ask you to weigh in on controversial news stories.
There's one right now that's a national news story out
of Dallas Fort Worth. There's this young man there and
he's a high school football, star track athlete, considered what a.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Three point nine gpa. Another kid from.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
A different school shows up and stabs him to death
and kills him. And of course this has already become
a racially polarizing issue, some people defending the kid saying
it was self defense. I don't really get how you
stab somebody at a track meet, How that could be
self defense. I know we haven't seen the evidence of
the case yet, we don't know, but boy, that as
a you know, as a leader in the state of Texas,
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and somebody with a close connection to that community, it's
got to upset the hell out of you.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know that this guy was a star athlete. You know,
he just participated in the track mate. You know, I've
been to I ran track has been several years, but
I never had a place to hide a knife. What
do you what did the guy come up with a knife?
That happen? It gets out on the PA. How did
that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It sounds like the N double ACP and those kinds
of people are now taking a position on this. There
was a couple of weeks ago there was another track
meet where a young lady. Both of them happened to
be black, black students.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The one was whooping the other one over the head
with a baton because there was a relay race.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And then for some reason the N double ACP came
out and it defended her. But the person she was
hitting with a stick was a.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Black person, so yeah, needed defending.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It can't be this stupid, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Like why said Miller is shaking his head, Yes it
can I mean, is that stupid?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, I don't know. You know, we can't solve
these problems right now on a morning radio show.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But I feel real, real terrible for the family, you know,
for the classmates of the student. I mean, there's not
much anything could be more horrific. Since when to take
an innocent life like that in broad daylight in front
of your friends and.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You know, I don't know if there is a government
for this, but if there was here in the state
of Texas right now, this Dustin Burroughs gentleman.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He's is he?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was always heard if the Texas House Speaker has
to be incompetent and corrupt and evil, is this one
of the requirements for the job. It doesn't seem like
they're getting anything done right now in Austin, Texas. I mean,
what exactly has to happen for these guys to pass
some of the legislature that the grassroots is asking for.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, according to the you know the history of the
last three speakers, you know, but this time the session,
the name carl calling and pointing fingers and the threats
have all been issued. I'm kind of proud of this
new guy. Surprisingly, he's he's hadn't picked a fight. He
hadn't you know, healed any major Republican legislation.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So you're friendly with Burroughs, Uh, Well, I am. Now
I want to give him the benefit of the job.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I could appreciate put him in the election, I was,
you know, uh, but I think he's he's not doing
a bad job. In my opinion, we really not.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
We came up with a law that is being proposed
right now in Austin, Texas. On this radio show, we
heard the news about how there were public school officials
and people that work at hospitals who are saying that
they will prevent ice from making arrests even dangerous criminals.
And I had pointed out how these people all have
occupational licenses, and Billy ed had suggested, well, they shouldn't
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be allowed to have an occupational license if they're doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, you do something, stay Representative.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Steve Toath wrote a bill called the Pursuit of Happiness Act,
which is the name of our afternoon show. May's Middleton.
Senator May's Middleton says he would support it. Steve Toath
said he'd every conservative we've talked to loves the idea,
So it does kind of feel like it definitely won't pass.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Then those two guys are great Texas, great America. They're
both friends of mine, Sam. Anything they put out there
is usually spot on. Yeah, so I would support them
in that measure for sure. All right, not time to
put you on the spot. How much longer you got
as ad commission. Well, I've just announced before yesterday that
I'm for reelection.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay, so I was going to ask you if you
were running for maybe some higher office within the state.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You know, there's a lot of rumors going around about
that running for governor. Uh actually turned down a position
in the Trump administration. Uh, so there's just a lot
of stuff after I thought, I'm just gonna clear there
and let everybody know that I plan to run for reelection. Well,
I really love what I'm doing. I think my my
talents are best served as as AG commissioner. My goal
is to be the best agg commissioner Texas ever had.
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I think you got that, and uh, for me, I
hope someone's better.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Do you mind if we ask what Trump wanted you
to do?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
What was it you turned down? Well, we talked about
three different positions. Uh. We talked about, uh being an ambassador,
which doesn't really fit me, and uh, uh running the U.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
S A.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I D And I thought, well that job is gonna
last about.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thirty Yeah, that ain't long term, is it?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
You know? And then uh, of course serving at the U.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
S d A.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean, I think he made the right choice. Are
you aware that in Washington, d C. They do not
put salt and pepper on their food. It's just the
blandest thing. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
War here we had a hot sauce and hiller penus
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
We have Cajun and Texas hot saze here in this studio.
This is Houston, Texas, mind you well, you know here
in Texas. Just for those listeners outside of Texas, they
don't make peppers too hot. They just make some men
too weak. My brother, Oh man, I love it, said Miller,
like I've been a fan of you for years. It's
cool to finally meet you. We got a lot of
mutual friends. And there's a lot of people out there
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listening to us right now that don't live in Texas,
people in places like Memphis and New Orleans and Georgia
and Alabama. And you know, given what's going on in
the country right now, this thing with the tariff war,
and what could you do to restore their colm? What
would you tell those people that are worried right now
about the jobs and the economy and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Oh, I've been looking for this, this tariff war. This
is great. I wish we could have gotten started as
sooner the first Trump administration. You know, we'd been. We'd
had a tarifor for forty or fifty years. We just
never fought back until Donald Trump came exactly, so we
fought back. There was some pain at first, our farmers
we had, we had to go in and prop them up.
But Trump said he actually I know Donald Trump. They
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called me Trump's man in Texas, so sure I have
a relationship there. So Donald Trump loves the family farmer
and our farmers. Ninety five percent of the farming done
in the United States as family farmers. So he wants
to take care of him. He's not gonna let anything
happen to him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You beef industry and you cattle guys, they oh, they're
pretty excited about these terrifs too. We're gonna get some
American beef out into the world.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, you know, Biden administration just just runt agriculture the
first time in our life. Thanks to the Biden administration,
we have an agriculture trade deficit of fifty billion dollars.
That means we're gonna buy more food than we export.
That's never happened. America has always been the bread basket
of the world. We growing up for ourselves and feed
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everybody else. Biden runt that he got away from marketing
our products. Instead, the USDA went into climate change, the
Green New Deal, wokesm DEI projects and uh, just this
left our our agriculture marketing by the wayside. We've lost
all our customers. It's gonna take some time to work
those back.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We're gonna get there.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
These tariffs are gonna help do that. It's gonna bring
people to the table. Uh they worked last time. After
the tariffs wore settled down, our farmers made more money
than they've ever made. The commodity prices were good. They
were good when Biden took over and he destroyed it.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now I got to put it back.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We did not expect you to be here today. So
we're all fans. We're grateful that you stopped by the studio.
I don't know how long you're in Houston for, but
I don't know if you're interested. There's a rap concert
this weekend with the Ghetto Boys and Bunbee and UGK,
and you want to go check that out with us?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Would that be fun?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well, you know, I don't recognize any of those names,
and that's a negatory.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Good buddy, one of the most honest to trustworthy people.
One of the most principled people in Texas state politics,
the Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Thank you so much for stopping by this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Thank you guys, God.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Bless sounds like some Texas justice to me.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It Walton and Johnson Radio Network yours. Sheriff Don up
theirs having him a birthday this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Hey, Happy birthday to Sheriff Don.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, we got nothing but love for the law
enforcement leaders in our community, the good guys, and you
know we're always grateful.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I want somebody trying to get out of a ticket,
is what it's sound like around here.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, you know what occurred to me earlier couldn't hurt
after we I realized. You know, there's good cops, there's
bad cops. There's good political leaders, there's bad ones. You know,
we're objective on that. But when I heard that sound
bite earlier this morning of the police chief in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It just just blew your mind, didn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It reminded me how lucky we might be.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I mean, yeah, you can dog your leaders all you want,
but we still got better ones than them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They arrested this woman if you're just waking up. They
arrested this woman for vandalizing a cyber truck. And I
know we've already played this sound bite a couple of times,
but just understand, this is what the law enforcement leadership
sounds like when they talk into a TV camera in
front of a public forum in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The suspect in this case may have been a victim,
and I mean victim in terms of the rhetoric that
is being spewed out here by some of those in leadership.
I wish it's a free paths. Somebody says something mean
to you, well, crime, that's your next logical step.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Very rarely do I get upset at the fact that
we can't swear on the radio. But once a week
there's that moment you got something to say to him
where there is only one word that would be the
appropriate response.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
F this a hole?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, if this a hole in his finga, this guy
is an F and D. This D needs to f off.
There's nothing else to say, Like, that's your leader in
your community.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That sucks. That sucks so much.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I feel so bad for people that own a small
business in that town.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Imagine your business just got ransacked. Looted.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You had a mob of people come in and steal things.
You call the cops and that guy shows up.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You might have deserved it. It could be you said
something mean once and somebody should come in and break
your windows and steal your stuff. Yeah, maybe you'll be
more polite next time.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What a steaming pile of d bag I said?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Texas Barbecue writes in he's usually pretty ornery.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Wants to know why do you keep mocking RFK Junior
over an injury caused by his by an illness? You
know you don't like it when people mock hot Wheels. Uh,
you know, Governor hot Wheels because of his injury. But
you're making fun of RFK Junior over he is. I'm sorry,
how do we make fun of RFK Junior's injury?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
You do play that guy that's doing that, that impression
of him, whatever he's talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm sorrys Are we making fun of him for having
an injury?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Or is what it sounds like to Texas Barbecue.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But that's what RFK Junior sounds like. We're making the
bit that we're playing. I'm gonna play it right now,
do it? The bit we're playing saying is it's RFK
Junior's hands touching floor eye, and he's saying that his
hands are burning because the floor eye in the water.
We're not making fun of his voice. But for the record,
if you're going to do an impersonation of RFK Junior.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
How can you not be a little annoyed by you know,
that voice.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Here's my impression of Robert F. Kennedy Junior washing his
hands the floor.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Because the joke is not about his voice.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Did you have to clear my throat or hearing?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Did you think we were making fun of his voice?
Texas Barbecue does.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
We're making fun of the fact that he's afraid of
the water.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's what the joke is.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We're not making If there was a joke about his
voice sounding that way, we would have included something in
the context about how his voice was caught.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's not what the joke is.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, well, maybe you've explained it to him. Other people
are emailing, like Brad here, who wants to know more
about the clute girl, and he said, I live in
a neighboring city to clute. I run into Billy ed
once in a while. You know, Brad I don't know
which one of you. I bet I do.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's a small community. I bet you we've known him
if you saw him at the Dollar General.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I bet so, Yeah, because we both agree there are
benefits to going south, you know, driving south. I guess
he means.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Because she was tiring about getting a bikini att So
when he said that, I thought he.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Meant, so what was it that actually attracted you to
this person? On your own line?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Dayton Thingy Okay, I know this is going to sound
a little tacky. I know this is going to make
it sound like I am the massages. Yeah exactly, But
I generally tend to swipe right when they're pretty, and
I swipe left when they're not, and then I learned
what kind of person they are. Uh huh yeah, Like
it's the problem is this, before you swipe left or right,
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usually their profile it might hint at it, but it
doesn't come.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Right out and tell you if she's a whore? Do
you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But you have signs?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, I mean yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Were listening to
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Walton and Johnson Radio Network
It's about to get real, real Texas in here right now.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, that ain't a bad thing, Nowizy.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
No, it is not.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
We are you know, we love America, but we live
in the Republic of Texas and we reach a lot
of people around the country and sometimes because of our location,
we're able to talk to very influential Texans, you know,
people like Ted Cruz and Wesley Hunter, regulars on the show.
And you know, of course we're big fans of other
people in Texas as well, like Elon Musk and Billy
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ed Had.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This is Kenny's long winded way of introducing guests that
we have in our studio this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, if you're a fan of any of the people
I just mentioned, you've probably heard of this next guy.
And if you haven't, you're probably gonna like him. He
is the Commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture. He's
a world champion rodeo rider, he's an eighth generation Texas
farmer and rancher, and honestly, he is one of two
people in a statewide elected position in the state of
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Texas who I really like.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is this a contest somebody named that guest or you're
gonna tell.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Him it's Sid Millerladies and gentlemen, It' Sid Miller.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hang on, let's get his mic on here. Sid, can
you hear? How's you got that mic.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
In front of you? How's that going there?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Good?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
And I'm good?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
My brother man? What are you doing here in Houston, Texas? Today? Brother?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, we've made a lot. This is my third day here.
We've visited a lot of our go Text and Partners,
which is our marketing program. We've done some interviews. We're
going to a school from here and celebrate the National
Fruit and Vegetable Day.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
One of the things I do that no one knows
what I do is run the nutrition programs for the
state and federal government. So I'm responsible for five millions
school meals each day. Come hand in hand with that
agriculture thing. Exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You are as Texas as it comes. You're wearing a
cowboy hat, you're wearing boots right now. You're the real thing, man.
I mean, you're an actual cowboy who just happens to
work in politics, Whereas there's a lot of people in
politics who pretend to be a cowboy. Does that kind
of piss you off? When people steal your culture like
that and wear it like a costume.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You know that they can't really steate it because they
don't they don't have it, they don't get it. You know.
This is you know, I've been wearing boots and the
hat ever since I had pants with pockets on it,
ever since I got out of doppers. You know, still
carry a pocket knife and the pistol. So you know,
it's just just a way of life for me. I'm
not putting on airs. This is this is the real me.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I locked a pistol you got on your lapale right
there too.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
That's a nice story about the pistol on my lapil.
If your campaign treasure is a guy named Ted Nugent,
you get to wear a pistol lapil pan straight, you do.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
You're friends with Ted Nugent, you and you and Ted
Hunt together. There's another guy with a in a state
wide position here in Texas who helped Shoe Biden pass
a gun control act. He's up for reelection next year.
His name's John Cornyn.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sometimes we refer to him as John Wayne mccornyn. And
John really does want us to believe he's a cowboy.
And I don't get the impression he is when it's convenient. Yeah,
if it's good for votes. I guess do you think
we need another?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You know there is no in between. Either you look good,
you know, wearing a cowboy hat, or you look like
a dark between. You can make up your mind.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If we had a hat in here, we would prove
that point by putting it on. Kenny.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, I kept my hat back. I can't wear and
I live in the city. I don't claim to be opposer.
I don't pretend to be something not. No one likes posers.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know, mister Miller. We're talking to Sid Miller here,
and uh, A couple of years ago you came up
to Grimes County where we got some some friends and
weekend places and whatnot, and you spoke at the True
Blue event which we put together. And I got to
tell you, man, people said, just just hearing you just
just talk, just talk about anything. You just you tell
(03:41):
it like it is. You tell a good story, and
you don't bs around and try to worry about are
you using the right words. You just say what you
think and that people love it.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I tell people I've never given a speech. I said,
what do you mean, you talk to people all the time. Us.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's it. I just get up and talk to the.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Like you know. Uh, I can't. A real quick story.
When I first started this, I ran and was elected
to the State House, and uh, George W. Bush was
leaving and he had us up for dinner, and I said,
you know, I'm just a country hay seed. You know,
everybody down here in Austin's either either rich or a lawyer,
and I'm neither one. How do you learn to talk
(04:20):
to people? He said, Well, when you get up in
front of somebody, just imagine you're talking to people from
love oh oh oh. I can talk to people from
loveboo all day long. Sure, not a problem. So that's
kind of what I've always done. I just get up
and talk to.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
People, just regular folks. Yeah, exactly right. Very controversial question.
Where in the state of Texas will you find the
best barbecue?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Oh, Kenny, well that's that's you know, fighting words, Yes, sir, exactly.
A lot of people would say Lockhart, Yes, you know,
there's Battling Barbecue and Lockhart it's pretty good. Also, Elgin
had you know there's a south Side Barbecue and Marge
Barbecue there and then coach, you got blacks and the
others down at Lockhart.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I think the best crisis, Oh yeah, oh cis there's
a great barbecue place there in Taylor. A lot of
it's in the hill country around in and around Austin. Lexington,
Texas has been declared the barbecue there is the best
in Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It is outstanding. Said you, me and Elon have something
in common. We are what is referred to by the
kids as meme edge lords. We post memes that are
very edgy. You post memes on social media. I don't
think anybody else in Texas politics would be brave enough
to post hilarious stuff that gets shared ten twenty thousand times.
I mean some of the best, some of my favorite
(05:36):
memes of all times have showed up on your page.
People must complain a little bit. How do you react
to those people?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Well, you know, the liberals' heads explode. That's what. That's
who that that's the whole purpose. That's is why we
do it. So you know, we just you know, this
is a serious job, don't get me wrong, very serious.
But I'd like to have fun. There's no rule against
having fun and being serious at the same time. Right,
(06:03):
if I don't enjoy it, I'd be going to more.
But I'll really enjoy what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And you do have to deal with some pretty serious topics.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
People often ask you to weigh in on controversial news stories.
There's one right now that's a national news story out
of Dallas Fort Worth. There's this young man there and
he's a high school football, star track athlete, considered what a.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Three point nine gpa. Another kid from.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
A different school shows up and stabs him to death
and kills him. And of course this has already become
a racially polarizing issue, some people defending the kid saying
it was self defense. I don't really get how you
stab somebody at a track meet, How that could be
self defense. I know we haven't seen the evidence of
the case yet, we don't know, but boy, that as
a you know, as a leader in the state of Texas,
(06:47):
and somebody with a close connection to that community, it's
got to upset the hell out of you.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know that this guy was a star athlete. You know,
he just participated in the track mate. You know, I've
been to I ran track has been several years, but
I never had a place to hide a knife. What
do you what did the guy come up with a knife?
That happen? It gets out on the PA. How did
that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It sounds like the N double ACP and those kinds
of people are now taking a position on this. There
was a couple of weeks ago there was another track
meet where a young lady. Both of them happened to
be black, black students.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The one was whooping the other one over the head
with a baton because there was a relay race.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And then for some reason the N double ACP came
out and it defended her. But the person she was
hitting with a stick was a.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Black person, so yeah, needed defending.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It can't be this stupid, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Like why said Miller is shaking his head, Yes it
can I mean, is that stupid?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, I don't know. You know, we can't solve
these problems right now on a morning radio show.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But I feel real, real terrible for the family, you know,
for the classmates of the student. I mean, there's not
much anything could be more horrific. Since when to take
an innocent life like that in broad daylight in front
of your friends and.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You know, I don't know if there is a government
for this, but if there was here in the state
of Texas right now, this Dustin Burroughs gentleman.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He's is he?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was always heard if the Texas House Speaker has
to be incompetent and corrupt and evil, is this one
of the requirements for the job. It doesn't seem like
they're getting anything done right now in Austin, Texas. I mean,
what exactly has to happen for these guys to pass
some of the legislature that the grassroots is asking for.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, according to the you know the history of the
last three speakers, you know, but this time the session,
the name carl calling and pointing fingers and the threats
have all been issued. I'm kind of proud of this
new guy. Surprisingly, he's he's hadn't picked a fight. He
hadn't you know, healed any major Republican legislation.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So you're friendly with Burroughs, Uh, Well, I am. Now
I want to give him the benefit of the job.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I could appreciate put him in the election, I was,
you know, uh, but I think he's he's not doing
a bad job. In my opinion, we really not.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
We came up with a law that is being proposed
right now in Austin, Texas. On this radio show, we
heard the news about how there were public school officials
and people that work at hospitals who are saying that
they will prevent ice from making arrests even dangerous criminals.
And I had pointed out how these people all have
occupational licenses, and Billy ed had suggested, well, they shouldn't
(09:20):
be allowed to have an occupational license if they're doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, you do something, stay Representative.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Steve Toath wrote a bill called the Pursuit of Happiness Act,
which is the name of our afternoon show. May's Middleton.
Senator May's Middleton says he would support it. Steve Toath
said he'd every conservative we've talked to loves the idea,
So it does kind of feel like it definitely won't pass.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Then those two guys are great Texas, great America. They're
both friends of mine, Sam. Anything they put out there
is usually spot on. Yeah, so I would support them
in that measure for sure. All right, not time to
put you on the spot. How much longer you got
as ad commission. Well, I've just announced before yesterday that
I'm for reelection.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay, so I was going to ask you if you
were running for maybe some higher office within the state.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
You know, there's a lot of rumors going around about
that running for governor. Uh actually turned down a position
in the Trump administration. Uh, so there's just a lot
of stuff after I thought, I'm just gonna clear there
and let everybody know that I plan to run for reelection. Well,
I really love what I'm doing. I think my my
talents are best served as as AG commissioner. My goal
is to be the best agg commissioner Texas ever had.
(10:27):
I think you got that, and uh, for me, I
hope someone's better.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Do you mind if we ask what Trump wanted you
to do?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
What was it you turned down? Well, we talked about
three different positions. Uh. We talked about, uh being an ambassador,
which doesn't really fit me, and uh, uh running the U.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
S A.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I D And I thought, well that job is gonna
last about.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thirty Yeah, that ain't long term, is it?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
You know? And then uh, of course serving at the U.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
S d A.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean, I think he made the right choice. Are
you aware that in Washington, d C. They do not
put salt and pepper on their food. It's just the
blandest thing. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
War here we had a hot sauce and hiller penus
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
We have Cajun and Texas hot saze here in this studio.
This is Houston, Texas, mind you well, you know here
in Texas. Just for those listeners outside of Texas, they
don't make peppers too hot. They just make some men
too weak. My brother, Oh man, I love it, said Miller,
like I've been a fan of you for years. It's
cool to finally meet you. We got a lot of
mutual friends. And there's a lot of people out there
(11:26):
listening to us right now that don't live in Texas,
people in places like Memphis and New Orleans and Georgia
and Alabama. And you know, given what's going on in
the country right now, this thing with the tariff war,
and what could you do to restore their colm? What
would you tell those people that are worried right now
about the jobs and the economy and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Oh, I've been looking for this, this tariff war. This
is great. I wish we could have gotten started as
sooner the first Trump administration. You know, we'd been. We'd
had a tarifor for forty or fifty years. We just
never fought back until Donald Trump came exactly, so we
fought back. There was some pain at first, our farmers
we had, we had to go in and prop them up.
But Trump said he actually I know Donald Trump. They
(12:04):
called me Trump's man in Texas, so sure I have
a relationship there. So Donald Trump loves the family farmer
and our farmers. Ninety five percent of the farming done
in the United States as family farmers. So he wants
to take care of him. He's not gonna let anything
happen to him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You beef industry and you cattle guys, they oh, they're
pretty excited about these terrifs too. We're gonna get some
American beef out into the world.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, you know, Biden administration just just runt agriculture the
first time in our life. Thanks to the Biden administration,
we have an agriculture trade deficit of fifty billion dollars.
That means we're gonna buy more food than we export.
That's never happened. America has always been the bread basket
of the world. We growing up for ourselves and feed
(12:48):
everybody else. Biden runt that he got away from marketing
our products. Instead, the USDA went into climate change, the
Green New Deal, wokesm DEI projects and uh, just this
left our our agriculture marketing by the wayside. We've lost
all our customers. It's gonna take some time to work
those back.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We're gonna get there.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
These tariffs are gonna help do that. It's gonna bring
people to the table. Uh they worked last time. After
the tariffs wore settled down, our farmers made more money
than they've ever made. The commodity prices were good. They
were good when Biden took over and he destroyed it.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now I got to put it back.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We did not expect you to be here today. So
we're all fans. We're grateful that you stopped by the studio.
I don't know how long you're in Houston for, but
I don't know if you're interested. There's a rap concert
this weekend with the Ghetto Boys and Bunbee and UGK,
and you want to go check that out with us?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Would that be fun?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well, you know, I don't recognize any of those names,
and that's a negatory.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Good buddy, one of the most honest to trustworthy people.
One of the most principled people in Texas state politics,
the Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Thank you so much for stopping by this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Thank you guys, God.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Bless sounds like some Texas justice to me.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It Walton and Johnson Radio Network yours. Sheriff Don up
theirs having him a birthday this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Hey, Happy birthday to Sheriff Don.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, we got nothing but love for the law
enforcement leaders in our community, the good guys, and you
know we're always grateful.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I want somebody trying to get out of a ticket,
is what it's sound like around here.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, you know what occurred to me earlier couldn't hurt
after we I realized. You know, there's good cops, there's
bad cops. There's good political leaders, there's bad ones. You know,
we're objective on that. But when I heard that sound
bite earlier this morning of the police chief in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
It just just blew your mind, didn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It reminded me how lucky we might be.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I mean, yeah, you can dog your leaders all you want,
but we still got better ones than them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They arrested this woman if you're just waking up. They
arrested this woman for vandalizing a cyber truck. And I
know we've already played this sound bite a couple of times,
but just understand, this is what the law enforcement leadership
sounds like when they talk into a TV camera in
front of a public forum in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The suspect in this case may have been a victim,
and I mean victim in terms of the rhetoric that
is being spewed out here by some of those in leadership.
I wish it's a free paths. Somebody says something mean
to you, well, crime, that's your next logical step.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Very rarely do I get upset at the fact that
we can't swear on the radio. But once a week
there's that moment you got something to say to him
where there is only one word that would be the
appropriate response.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
F this a hole?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, if this a hole in his finga, this guy
is an F and D. This D needs to f off.
There's nothing else to say, Like, that's your leader in
your community.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That sucks. That sucks so much.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I feel so bad for people that own a small
business in that town.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Imagine your business just got ransacked. Looted.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You had a mob of people come in and steal things.
You call the cops and that guy shows up.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You might have deserved it. It could be you said
something mean once and somebody should come in and break
your windows and steal your stuff. Yeah, maybe you'll be
more polite next time.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What a steaming pile of d bag I said?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Texas Barbecue writes in he's usually pretty ornery.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Wants to know why do you keep mocking RFK Junior
over an injury caused by his by an illness? You
know you don't like it when people mock hot Wheels. Uh,
you know, Governor hot Wheels because of his injury. But
you're making fun of RFK Junior over he is. I'm sorry,
how do we make fun of RFK Junior's injury?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
You do play that guy that's doing that, that impression
of him, whatever he's talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm sorrys Are we making fun of him for having
an injury?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Or is what it sounds like to Texas Barbecue.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But that's what RFK Junior sounds like. We're making the
bit that we're playing. I'm gonna play it right now,
do it? The bit we're playing saying is it's RFK
Junior's hands touching floor eye, and he's saying that his
hands are burning because the floor eye in the water.
We're not making fun of his voice. But for the record,
if you're going to do an impersonation of RFK Junior.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
How can you not be a little annoyed by you know,
that voice.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Here's my impression of Robert F. Kennedy Junior washing his
hands the floor.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Because the joke is not about his voice.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Did you have to clear my throat or hearing?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Did you think we were making fun of his voice?
Texas Barbecue does.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
We're making fun of the fact that he's afraid of
the water.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That's what the joke is.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We're not making If there was a joke about his
voice sounding that way, we would have included something in
the context about how his voice was caught.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's not what the joke is.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, well, maybe you've explained it to him. Other people
are emailing, like Brad here, who wants to know more
about the clute girl, and he said, I live in
a neighboring city to clute. I run into Billy ed
once in a while. You know, Brad I don't know
which one of you. I bet I do.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's a small community. I bet you we've known him
if you saw him at the Dollar General.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I bet so, Yeah, because we both agree there are
benefits to going south, you know, driving south. I guess
he means.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Because she was tiring about getting a bikini att So
when he said that, I thought he.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Meant, so what was it that actually attracted you to
this person? On your own line?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Dayton Thingy Okay, I know this is going to sound
a little tacky. I know this is going to make
it sound like I am the massages. Yeah exactly, But
I generally tend to swipe right when they're pretty, and
I swipe left when they're not, and then I learned
what kind of person they are. Uh huh yeah, Like
it's the problem is this, before you swipe left or right,
(18:53):
usually their profile it might hint at it, but it
doesn't come.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Right out and tell you if she's a whore? Do
you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But you have signs?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah, I mean yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Were listening to
Speaker 2 (19:08):
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