April 4, 2025 • 14 mins
Commissioner Sid Miller sits down with W&J Show to talk Texas, Texas politics, and most controversial of all, favorite Texas BBQ.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Now, if you ever been down to New Orleans, then
you can understands what I mean. All through the week
as quiet as a Moufman on the satur then not
they go from past to house. You don't have to
pay the usual admission. If you're a cook or a waiter,
are a good musician.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So if you happen to.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Be just passing, but it's about to get real real
Texas in here.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Right now, well that ain't a bad thing, now, is.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
No, it is not.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
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
(00:50):
had Had.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
This is a Kinney's long winded way of introducing guests
that we have in our studio this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, if you're if you're a fan of any of
the people I just mentioned, you've probably heard of this 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 writer. 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
(01:17):
Texas who I really like.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Is this a contest somebody named that guest or you're
just gonna tell him?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's Sid Miller, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's Sid Miller. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Hang on, let's get his mic on here, Sid, Sid,
can you hear? How's you got that mic in front
of you? How's that going there?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Good? And I'm good?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, my brother man. What are you doing here in Houston,
Texas today? Brother?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, we've made a lot. This is my third day here.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
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 4 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
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 each day. Hand in hand with that agriculture thing exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
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.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
A costume, you know that they can't really steal it
because they don't they don't have it, they don't get it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
You know, this is you know, I've been wearing.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Boots and the hat ever since I had pants with
pockets on it, 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 meat.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I locked the pistol you got on your lapale right
there too.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
That's a nice story about the pistol on my lapel.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
If your campaign treasure is a guy named Ted Nugent,
you get to wear a pistol lapal pan.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Straight, you do?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
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 real action next year.
His name's John Cornyn. Sometimes we refer to him as
John Wayne mccornyn. John really does want us to believe
he's a cowboy, and I don't get the impression he is.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
When it's convenient.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, if it's good for votes. I guess do you
think we need another way?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You know, there is no in between.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Either you look good, you know, wearing a cowboy hat,
or you look like a door between.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You can make up your mind.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
If we had a hat in here, we would prove
that point by putting it on Kenney.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, I kept my head too, bag. I can't wear
hat and I live in the city. I don't claim
to be a poser. I don't pretend to be something not.
No one locks poser now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I feel that R.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I know, mister Miller. We're talking to sud Miller here.
And a couple of years ago you came up to
Grihames County where we got some some friends and weekend
places and whatnot. 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 it like it is.
(04:06):
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 now people love it.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I tell people I've never given a speech. I said,
what do you mean. You talk to people all the time.
That's it. I just get up and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Talk to the like.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I tell a real quick story.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
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.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
How do you learn to talk to people?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
He said, Well, when you get up in front of somebody,
just imagine you're talking to people from love.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Oh oh oh.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I can talk to people from love the all day long,
not a problem. So that's kind of what I've always done.
I just get up and talk to people.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Just regular folks, exactly right, very controversial question. Where in
the state of Texas will you find the best barbecue?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh? Oh, Kenny, well that's that's fighting words, Yes, sir, exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
A lot of people would say Lockhart.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yes, you know there's Battling.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Barbecue and Lockhart it's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Also, Elgin had you know there's a south Side Barbecue
and Mars Barbecue there, and then coach you got Blacks
and the others down at the Lockhart.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yep, I think the best crisis.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh yeah, oh yo.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
There's a great barbecue place there in Taylor. A lot
of it's in the hill country around in and around
Austin City. Think Lexington, Texas has been declared the barbecue
there is the best in Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
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 could shared ten twenty thousand times.
I mean some of the best, some of my favorite
(06:00):
memes of all times have showed up on your page.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
People must complain a little bit. How do you react
to those people?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Well, you know, the Liberals' heads explode, that's what.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
That's who That's the whole purpose is why we do it. So,
you know, we just uh, you know, this is a
serious job, don't get me wrong, very serious.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But I'd like to have fun.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
There's no rule against having fun and being serious at
the same time.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
If I don't enjoy it, I'd be going to more.
But I really enjoy what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And you do have to deal with some pretty serious topics.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You know. 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.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What a three point nine g p A. Another kid from.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
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 kids 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
(07:10):
Texas and somebody with a close connection to that community,
that's got to upset the hell out of you.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You know that this guy was a star athlete. You
know he just participated in the track meet. Uh you know,
I've been to I ran track has been several years,
but I never had a place to hote a knough.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
What do you what did the guy come up with
a knife? That happened gets out on the first place?
How did that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
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 4 (07:43):
The one was whooping the other one over the head
with a baton because it was a relay race.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
And then for some reason the N double ACP came
out and defended her. But the person she was hitting
with a stick was a black.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Person, so yeah, needed defending.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It can't be this stupid, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Like, why said Miller is shaking his head, Yes, it can.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I mean, is that stupid?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean, I don't know. We can't solve these problems
right now in a morning radio show.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
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 to take an
innocent life like that in broad daylight, in front of
your friends, and you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I don't know if there is a government solution for this,
but if there was here in the state of Texas
right now, this Dustin Burrows gentleman.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He's is he?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I was always worry 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 6 (08:47):
Well, according to the you know, the history of the
last three speakers, you know, but this time the session,
the name calling and pointing fingers and the threats have
all been issued.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I'm kind of proud of this new guy.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Surprisingly, he's he's hadn't picked a fat He hadn't you know,
healed any major Republican legislation.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So you're friendly with Burroughs.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Uh, well, I am.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now I want to give him the benefit of the jib.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I could appreciate afford him in the election. I was,
you know, but I think he's He's not doing a
bad job in my opinion, we really not.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
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
(09:43):
be allowed to have an occupational license if they're doing that. Yeah,
you do, so stay Representative 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 could
say if we've talked to loves the idea, So it
does kind of feel like it definitely won't pass.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Then those two guys are great Texas, great America.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They're both friends of mine, Sam.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Anything they put out there is usually spot on, So
I would support them in that measure for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
All right, not time to put you on the spot.
How much longer you got as ad commissioner?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Well, I just announced day before yesterday that I'm running
for reelection.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Okay, so I was going to ask you if you
were running for maybe some higher office within the state.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, there's a lot of rumors going around about
that running for governor. Actually turned down a position in
the Trump administration. Uh, so there's just a lot of
stuff af there. 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 talents
are best served as as ad commissioner. My goal is
to be the best agg commissioner or Texas has ever had.
(10:51):
I think you got that.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
And uh for me, I hope someone's better.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Do you mind if we ask what Trump wanted you
to do?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What was it? You turned out?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Well, we talked about three different physicians. We talked about
being an ambassador, which doesn't really fit me, and running
the USAID, and I thought, well, that job's gonna last about.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Thirty Yeah, that ain't long term, is.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
It, you know? And then of course serving at the USDA.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
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 work.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
We've been of hot salt and hiller penus and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We have Cajun and Texas hot sauce here in this studio.
This is Houston, Texas, mind you.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Well, you know here in Texas. Just for those listeners
outside of Texas, they don't make peppers too hot.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
They just make some men too weak.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
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 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 terriff war, and what
could you do to restore their com What would you
(12:02):
tell those people that are worried right now about the
jobs and the economy and that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Oh, I've been looking for this, this tar for 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 taraffor 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
(12:27):
called me Trump's man in Texas, so sure I have
a relationship there. So Donald Trump loves the family farmer yep,
and our farmers ninety five percent of the farming done
in the United States as family farmers.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
So he wants to take care of him. He's not
gonna let anything happen to him.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You beef industry and you cattle guys, Oh, they're pretty
excited about these teriffs too. We're gonna get some American
beef out into the world.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Well, you know, Biden administration just just run agriculture.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
The first time in our life.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
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 and feed everybody else. Biden
runt that he got away from marketing our products. Instead,
(13:16):
the USDA went into climate change, the Green New Deal,
woke ism, DEI projects and uh. Just this left our
our agriculture marketing. Uh by the by the wayside. We've
lost all our customers. It's gonna take some time to
work those back.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
We're gonna get there.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
These tariffs are gonna help do that. It's gonna bring
people to the table.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
They worked last time.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
After the tariffs were 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 4 (13:47):
I got to put it back.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
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 2 (14:01):
Would that be fun?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Well, you know, I don't recognize any of those names,
ladies and gentle.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's a negatory. Good buddy.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
One of the most honest and trustworthy people, one of
the most principled people in Texas state politics, the Texas
Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Thank you so much for stopping by this morning.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Brother, Thank you guys, God bless.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Sounds like some Texas justice to me.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Lockett, Walton and Johnson Radio Network
Now, if you ever been down to New Orleans, then
you can understands what I mean. All through the week
as quiet as a Moufman on the satur then not
they go from past to house. You don't have to
pay the usual admission. If you're a cook or a waiter,
are a good musician.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So if you happen to.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Be just passing, but it's about to get real real
Texas in here.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Right now, well that ain't a bad thing, now, is.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
No, it is not.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
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
(00:50):
had Had.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
This is a Kinney's long winded way of introducing guests
that we have in our studio this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, if you're if you're a fan of any of
the people I just mentioned, you've probably heard of this 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 writer. 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
(01:17):
Texas who I really like.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Is this a contest somebody named that guest or you're
just gonna tell him?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's Sid Miller, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's Sid Miller. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Hang on, let's get his mic on here, Sid, Sid,
can you hear? How's you got that mic in front
of you? How's that going there?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Good? And I'm good?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, my brother man. What are you doing here in Houston,
Texas today? Brother?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, we've made a lot. This is my third day here.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
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 4 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
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 each day. Hand in hand with that agriculture thing exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
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.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
A costume, you know that they can't really steal it
because they don't they don't have it, they don't get it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
You know, this is you know, I've been wearing.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Boots and the hat ever since I had pants with
pockets on it, 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 meat.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I locked the pistol you got on your lapale right
there too.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
That's a nice story about the pistol on my lapel.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
If your campaign treasure is a guy named Ted Nugent,
you get to wear a pistol lapal pan.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Straight, you do?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
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 real action next year.
His name's John Cornyn. Sometimes we refer to him as
John Wayne mccornyn. John really does want us to believe
he's a cowboy, and I don't get the impression he is.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
When it's convenient.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, if it's good for votes. I guess do you
think we need another way?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You know, there is no in between.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Either you look good, you know, wearing a cowboy hat,
or you look like a door between.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You can make up your mind.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
If we had a hat in here, we would prove
that point by putting it on Kenney.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, I kept my head too, bag. I can't wear
hat and I live in the city. I don't claim
to be a poser. I don't pretend to be something not.
No one locks poser now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I feel that R.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I know, mister Miller. We're talking to sud Miller here.
And a couple of years ago you came up to
Grihames County where we got some some friends and weekend
places and whatnot. 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 it like it is.
(04:06):
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 now people love it.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I tell people I've never given a speech. I said,
what do you mean. You talk to people all the time.
That's it. I just get up and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Talk to the like.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I tell a real quick story.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
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.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
How do you learn to talk to people?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
He said, Well, when you get up in front of somebody,
just imagine you're talking to people from love.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Oh oh oh.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I can talk to people from love the all day long,
not a problem. So that's kind of what I've always done.
I just get up and talk to people.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Just regular folks, exactly right, very controversial question. Where in
the state of Texas will you find the best barbecue?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh? Oh, Kenny, well that's that's fighting words, Yes, sir, exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
A lot of people would say Lockhart.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yes, you know there's Battling.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Barbecue and Lockhart it's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Also, Elgin had you know there's a south Side Barbecue
and Mars Barbecue there, and then coach you got Blacks
and the others down at the Lockhart.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yep, I think the best crisis.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Oh yeah, oh yo.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
There's a great barbecue place there in Taylor. A lot
of it's in the hill country around in and around
Austin City. Think Lexington, Texas has been declared the barbecue
there is the best in Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
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 could shared ten twenty thousand times.
I mean some of the best, some of my favorite
(06:00):
memes of all times have showed up on your page.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
People must complain a little bit. How do you react
to those people?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Well, you know, the Liberals' heads explode, that's what.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
That's who That's the whole purpose is why we do it. So,
you know, we just uh, you know, this is a
serious job, don't get me wrong, very serious.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
But I'd like to have fun.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
There's no rule against having fun and being serious at
the same time.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
If I don't enjoy it, I'd be going to more.
But I really enjoy what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And you do have to deal with some pretty serious topics.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You know. 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.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What a three point nine g p A. Another kid from.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
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 kids 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
(07:10):
Texas and somebody with a close connection to that community,
that's got to upset the hell out of you.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You know that this guy was a star athlete. You
know he just participated in the track meet. Uh you know,
I've been to I ran track has been several years,
but I never had a place to hote a knough.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
What do you what did the guy come up with
a knife? That happened gets out on the first place?
How did that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
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 4 (07:43):
The one was whooping the other one over the head
with a baton because it was a relay race.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
And then for some reason the N double ACP came
out and defended her. But the person she was hitting
with a stick was a black.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Person, so yeah, needed defending.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It can't be this stupid, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Like, why said Miller is shaking his head, Yes, it can.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I mean, is that stupid?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean, I don't know. We can't solve these problems
right now in a morning radio show.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
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 to take an
innocent life like that in broad daylight, in front of
your friends, and you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I don't know if there is a government solution for this,
but if there was here in the state of Texas
right now, this Dustin Burrows gentleman.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He's is he?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I was always worry 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 6 (08:47):
Well, according to the you know, the history of the
last three speakers, you know, but this time the session,
the name calling and pointing fingers and the threats have
all been issued.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I'm kind of proud of this new guy.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Surprisingly, he's he's hadn't picked a fat He hadn't you know,
healed any major Republican legislation.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So you're friendly with Burroughs.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Uh, well, I am.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now I want to give him the benefit of the jib.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I could appreciate afford him in the election. I was,
you know, but I think he's He's not doing a
bad job in my opinion, we really not.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
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
(09:43):
be allowed to have an occupational license if they're doing that. Yeah,
you do, so stay Representative 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 could
say if we've talked to loves the idea, So it
does kind of feel like it definitely won't pass.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Then those two guys are great Texas, great America.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They're both friends of mine, Sam.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Anything they put out there is usually spot on, So
I would support them in that measure for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
All right, not time to put you on the spot.
How much longer you got as ad commissioner?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Well, I just announced day before yesterday that I'm running
for reelection.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Okay, so I was going to ask you if you
were running for maybe some higher office within the state.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, there's a lot of rumors going around about
that running for governor. Actually turned down a position in
the Trump administration. Uh, so there's just a lot of
stuff af there. 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 talents
are best served as as ad commissioner. My goal is
to be the best agg commissioner or Texas has ever had.
(10:51):
I think you got that.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
And uh for me, I hope someone's better.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Do you mind if we ask what Trump wanted you
to do?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
What?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What was it? You turned out?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Well, we talked about three different physicians. We talked about
being an ambassador, which doesn't really fit me, and running
the USAID, and I thought, well, that job's gonna last about.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Thirty Yeah, that ain't long term, is.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
It, you know? And then of course serving at the USDA.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
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 work.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
We've been of hot salt and hiller penus and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We have Cajun and Texas hot sauce here in this studio.
This is Houston, Texas, mind you.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Well, you know here in Texas. Just for those listeners
outside of Texas, they don't make peppers too hot.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
They just make some men too weak.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
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 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 terriff war, and what
could you do to restore their com What would you
(12:02):
tell those people that are worried right now about the
jobs and the economy and that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Oh, I've been looking for this, this tar for 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 taraffor 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
(12:27):
called me Trump's man in Texas, so sure I have
a relationship there. So Donald Trump loves the family farmer yep,
and our farmers ninety five percent of the farming done
in the United States as family farmers.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
So he wants to take care of him. He's not
gonna let anything happen to him.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You beef industry and you cattle guys, Oh, they're pretty
excited about these teriffs too. We're gonna get some American
beef out into the world.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Well, you know, Biden administration just just run agriculture.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
The first time in our life.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
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 and feed everybody else. Biden
runt that he got away from marketing our products. Instead,
(13:16):
the USDA went into climate change, the Green New Deal,
woke ism, DEI projects and uh. Just this left our
our agriculture marketing. Uh by the by the wayside. We've
lost all our customers. It's gonna take some time to
work those back.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
We're gonna get there.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
These tariffs are gonna help do that. It's gonna bring
people to the table.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
They worked last time.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
After the tariffs were 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 4 (13:47):
I got to put it back.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
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 2 (14:01):
Would that be fun?
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Well, you know, I don't recognize any of those names,
ladies and gentle.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's a negatory. Good buddy.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
One of the most honest and trustworthy people, one of
the most principled people in Texas state politics, the Texas
Department of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Thank you so much for stopping by this morning.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Brother, Thank you guys, God bless.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Sounds like some Texas justice to me.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
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