1 00:00:02,786 --> 00:00:04,892 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Growing Our Future podcast. 2 00:00:04,892 --> 00:00:08,811 In this show, the Texas FFA Foundation will take on a 3 00:00:08,891 --> 00:00:12,663 journey of exploration into agricultural science, education, 4 00:00:12,663 --> 00:00:15,990 leadership development and insights from subject matter 5 00:00:16,071 --> 00:00:19,669 experts and sponsors who provide the fuel to make dreams come 6 00:00:19,708 --> 00:00:19,969 true. 7 00:00:19,969 --> 00:00:22,442 Here's your host, Aaron Alejandro. 8 00:00:30,250 --> 00:00:33,273 Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening or 9 00:00:33,533 --> 00:00:37,576 whenever you may be tuning in to the Growing Our Future podcast. 10 00:00:37,576 --> 00:00:44,722 We appreciate you stopping by and taking a little time out of 11 00:00:44,743 --> 00:00:45,784 your day to spend a little time with us. 12 00:00:45,784 --> 00:00:47,689 It's an honor to have this platform and this technology 13 00:00:47,768 --> 00:00:51,423 where we can invite guests on and we can share their 14 00:00:51,503 --> 00:00:56,106 experiences, their insights and maybe, along the way, we pick up 15 00:00:56,106 --> 00:01:00,183 on something that we can put in place in our lives and make our 16 00:01:00,183 --> 00:01:00,887 lives better. 17 00:01:00,887 --> 00:01:03,847 That's the reason why it's called Grow in the Future. 18 00:01:03,847 --> 00:01:06,807 I've always said if you want to know what the future is, grow 19 00:01:06,846 --> 00:01:06,906 it. 20 00:01:06,906 --> 00:01:08,771 Well, how do you start that? 21 00:01:08,771 --> 00:01:11,945 You got to find something to plant, you got to take care of 22 00:01:12,006 --> 00:01:14,632 it, you got to harvest it and you got to share it. 23 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:18,628 And today we have a very, very special guest. 24 00:01:18,628 --> 00:01:23,926 Excited for y'all to meet this man and I'm excited to share his 25 00:01:23,926 --> 00:01:24,927 story with you. 26 00:01:24,927 --> 00:01:26,831 And you're about to find out why. 27 00:01:26,831 --> 00:01:31,066 So, ladies and gentlemen, we have Mr Winston Chandler. 28 00:01:31,066 --> 00:01:35,853 Winston, you're retired, you were at Boys Ranch for years, 29 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,831 you drove trucks, but you're just an all-around good guy. 30 00:01:39,831 --> 00:01:41,515 Thank you for joining us today. 31 00:01:41,534 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you for joining us today. 32 00:01:45,468 --> 00:01:52,590 Speaker 2: Well, thank you, we're going to dive in here and 33 00:01:52,652 --> 00:01:54,480 we're going to have a good time talking about some things. 34 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,743 Mr Chandler, before we start, I always ask guests. 35 00:01:59,743 --> 00:02:04,012 Every guest on this show gets the same question, and the first 36 00:02:04,012 --> 00:02:06,356 question that every guest gets is what are you grateful for 37 00:02:06,417 --> 00:02:06,737 today? 38 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:09,741 Speaker 3: What are you grateful for today? 39 00:02:09,741 --> 00:02:10,462 What are you grateful for today ? 40 00:02:10,462 --> 00:02:12,366 Well, one thing is I'm glad I live in the united states and I 41 00:02:12,385 --> 00:02:14,550 love america and I love texas. 42 00:02:14,550 --> 00:02:20,105 And the other thing is, uh, my beautiful wife that I lost. 43 00:02:20,105 --> 00:02:23,872 That's, that was the most important thing to me, because 44 00:02:23,893 --> 00:02:27,822 if it wasn't for her I'd have, I'd have never made it myself, 45 00:02:27,902 --> 00:02:28,584 and everything. 46 00:02:28,584 --> 00:02:34,854 She is the wise one of the bunch and so she was always calm 47 00:02:34,854 --> 00:02:38,128 and cool and everything, and I was always going 90 miles an 48 00:02:38,169 --> 00:02:42,722 hour and everything, and so so I'm grateful for that and 49 00:02:42,822 --> 00:02:43,383 everything. 50 00:02:43,383 --> 00:02:47,406 And then the other thing is the Lord's been with me and helped 51 00:02:47,466 --> 00:02:49,939 me and blessed me my whole life and everything. 52 00:02:49,939 --> 00:02:55,883 And that's the main thing for me is you know you can't do 53 00:02:55,923 --> 00:03:00,448 nothing without the Lord, and when you think there's nobody 54 00:03:00,508 --> 00:03:04,210 else around, you know he's the one that comes and helps. 55 00:03:06,020 --> 00:03:06,909 Speaker 2: I agree Everything you said. 56 00:03:06,909 --> 00:03:07,717 He's the one that comes and helps. 57 00:03:07,717 --> 00:03:08,823 I agree Everything you said. 58 00:03:08,823 --> 00:03:09,907 We could stop right there. 59 00:03:09,907 --> 00:03:12,628 So I'm like you. 60 00:03:12,941 --> 00:03:13,905 I love my country. 61 00:03:13,905 --> 00:03:17,490 I love the liberties that I have, the freedom that I have, 62 00:03:17,539 --> 00:03:19,908 that I get to choose what I want to eat. 63 00:03:19,908 --> 00:03:23,561 I get to choose if I want to play a sport, what sport I get 64 00:03:23,581 --> 00:03:23,763 to choose. 65 00:03:23,763 --> 00:03:24,915 If I want to play a sport, what sport I get to choose. 66 00:03:24,915 --> 00:03:27,784 What job I want, I get to choose what I listen to on the 67 00:03:27,824 --> 00:03:31,674 radio or what news I want to watch or what entertainment. 68 00:03:31,674 --> 00:03:36,569 I mean we are so blessed to live where we live and have all 69 00:03:36,610 --> 00:03:39,685 the opportunities that we have and then also to be blessed with 70 00:03:39,685 --> 00:03:40,669 a beautiful family. 71 00:03:40,669 --> 00:03:45,026 So I agree with you, and that beautiful woman that Winston was 72 00:03:45,026 --> 00:03:46,390 referring to was Ollie. 73 00:03:46,390 --> 00:03:52,692 We called her Ollie Pearl and that was Mr Chandler's, like he 74 00:03:52,731 --> 00:03:53,133 just said. 75 00:03:53,133 --> 00:03:57,992 That was his balance, and Ollie was a great, great, great woman 76 00:03:57,992 --> 00:04:00,901 and I know she was proud of you and proud of all that y'all 77 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,246 have accomplished for both your family and for so many others. 78 00:04:04,246 --> 00:04:08,151 So thank you for sharing what you were grateful for today. 79 00:04:09,334 --> 00:04:10,254 Speaker 3: Well, thank you. 80 00:04:11,941 --> 00:04:14,926 Speaker 2: Okay, so let's start talking about some things. 81 00:04:14,926 --> 00:04:19,742 So for the folks that don't know, let me tee up why this is 82 00:04:19,783 --> 00:04:21,826 a very unique podcast interview. 83 00:04:21,826 --> 00:04:27,074 For those that do not know, that may not be familiar with my 84 00:04:27,074 --> 00:04:30,005 background, I'm going to give you just a very brief synopsis 85 00:04:30,387 --> 00:04:32,572 to tee up this man's role in my life. 86 00:04:32,572 --> 00:04:35,466 I grew up in a broken home in Dallas. 87 00:04:35,466 --> 00:04:37,732 My mom and dad divorced when I was six. 88 00:04:37,732 --> 00:04:40,423 My father passed away when I was 10. 89 00:04:40,423 --> 00:04:43,127 This was in the 70s. 90 00:04:43,127 --> 00:04:44,310 I began to rebel. 91 00:04:44,310 --> 00:04:48,322 You can't tell now, but I used to have really long, bushy hair 92 00:04:49,023 --> 00:04:50,646 and I got into a lot of trouble. 93 00:04:50,646 --> 00:04:52,850 And my mom tried everything. 94 00:04:52,850 --> 00:04:55,805 She tried the church, she tried big brothers and big sisters. 95 00:04:55,805 --> 00:04:58,232 She tried several things and nothing was working. 96 00:04:58,232 --> 00:05:02,327 And finally, september 3rd 1980 , she said that's it. 97 00:05:02,327 --> 00:05:11,060 She said I've tried to help you , I've tried to get you straight 98 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:11,060 . 99 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:11,723 You don't want to get straight. 100 00:05:11,723 --> 00:05:12,303 I'm going to get some help. 101 00:05:12,303 --> 00:05:13,125 And so we flew from Dallas to Amarillo. 102 00:05:13,125 --> 00:05:15,230 At Amarillo they put me in a van and they drove me 36 miles 103 00:05:15,310 --> 00:05:19,504 into the country to a place called Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. 104 00:05:19,504 --> 00:05:23,733 And when I got to Boys Ranch, the first thing they did was 105 00:05:23,754 --> 00:05:26,983 they took me down and they introduced me to this woman and 106 00:05:27,043 --> 00:05:31,153 her nickname was Abdul the Butcher and she was the barber 107 00:05:31,855 --> 00:05:33,422 and she cut all my hair off. 108 00:05:33,422 --> 00:05:37,130 And then I remember they said we got to go to the dining hall 109 00:05:37,151 --> 00:05:38,380 to say goodbye to your mom. 110 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:43,194 And here are 400 boys in this dining hall and I remember they 111 00:05:43,235 --> 00:05:45,983 said you know, say goodbye to your mom. 112 00:05:45,983 --> 00:05:48,447 I was real i's still the real tough guy and I just remember 113 00:05:48,487 --> 00:05:49,250 saying see you. 114 00:05:49,250 --> 00:05:53,062 I meant that's how I said goodbye to my mom is I'll see 115 00:05:53,083 --> 00:05:53,142 you. 116 00:05:53,142 --> 00:05:57,071 Uh, the rest of the story for that, paul harvey rest. 117 00:05:57,091 --> 00:06:00,103 The story is two weeks later I'm on the phone crying going mom, 118 00:06:00,122 --> 00:06:01,084 please get me out. 119 00:06:01,084 --> 00:06:02,788 I swear, swear, I'll straighten up. 120 00:06:02,788 --> 00:06:06,800 But I remember I left the dining room and they took me 121 00:06:06,901 --> 00:06:10,550 over to the counselor's office and I was sitting in the 122 00:06:10,589 --> 00:06:13,545 counselor's office and at this point I got to tell y'all I was 123 00:06:13,584 --> 00:06:14,468 getting a little nervous. 124 00:06:14,468 --> 00:06:19,300 I'm sitting there by myself and this boy sticks his head around 125 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:21,764 the corner and he says hey, are you the new kid? 126 00:06:21,764 --> 00:06:22,906 And I said yeah, I'm the new kid. 127 00:06:22,906 --> 00:06:25,509 He goes what dorm are you going to be in? 128 00:06:25,509 --> 00:06:28,091 And I said I'm going to be in Bridwell dorm. 129 00:06:28,091 --> 00:06:30,115 And the guy goes ooh, bridwell. 130 00:06:30,115 --> 00:06:32,744 And I said what's so ooh about Bridwell? 131 00:06:32,744 --> 00:06:35,550 He goes, have you not met your dorm parent yet? 132 00:06:35,550 --> 00:06:36,540 And I said, no, who is it? 133 00:06:36,540 --> 00:06:38,541 And they said his name is Winston Chandler. 134 00:06:38,541 --> 00:06:41,064 I said, well, tell me about Mr Chandler. 135 00:06:41,064 --> 00:06:42,867 They said Mr Chandler. 136 00:06:42,867 --> 00:06:46,730 He's about five foot nine, he weighs about 185 pounds, he 137 00:06:46,810 --> 00:06:50,814 bench presses over 400 pounds and he's the hairiest man you've 138 00:06:50,814 --> 00:06:51,415 ever seen. 139 00:06:52,716 --> 00:07:00,903 At about that time it's like that kid sees a ghost, he takes 140 00:07:01,043 --> 00:07:02,468 off and this big old cowboy turned the corner and he took 141 00:07:02,487 --> 00:07:04,613 his cowboy hat off and he said hello goes, my name is Winston 142 00:07:04,634 --> 00:07:07,262 Chandler, I'm gonna be your daddy for the next four years. 143 00:07:07,262 --> 00:07:12,793 And I remember my jaw hit the ground and he said darling, out 144 00:07:12,834 --> 00:07:15,646 here at boys ranch you're gonna take math, science, history, 145 00:07:15,766 --> 00:07:18,740 english, but out here at the boys ranch you got to take a 146 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,064 vocational program. 147 00:07:20,064 --> 00:07:23,430 Well, I had never heard of a vocational program. 148 00:07:23,430 --> 00:07:25,613 It sounded a lot like vacation. 149 00:07:25,613 --> 00:07:28,946 So I was like see, I signed me up for that vacational program 150 00:07:29,507 --> 00:07:31,860 and I remember I asked Mr Chandler, I said what do they 151 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:32,442 have here? 152 00:07:32,442 --> 00:07:37,233 And you said well, they had like building trades, skillsusa, 153 00:07:37,233 --> 00:07:40,165 and they build houses and work on cars. 154 00:07:40,165 --> 00:07:44,992 And then they said we have this other program called Future 155 00:07:45,072 --> 00:07:50,579 Farmers of America, and I said Future Farmers of America? 156 00:07:50,579 --> 00:07:54,230 I said I can't be no farmer, I'm from Dallas. 157 00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:59,422 And then I remember Mr Chandler looking at me and he said said, 158 00:07:59,422 --> 00:08:02,569 darling, you're never going to learn anything unless something 159 00:08:02,589 --> 00:08:03,492 depends on you. 160 00:08:03,492 --> 00:08:07,923 And I never forgot that he said you're never going to learn 161 00:08:08,004 --> 00:08:10,050 anything unless something depends on you. 162 00:08:10,050 --> 00:08:14,488 So Mr Chandler told me he said I'm going to put you in ag 163 00:08:15,982 --> 00:08:18,829 because you're never going to learn anything unless something 164 00:08:18,870 --> 00:08:19,732 depends on you. 165 00:08:21,420 --> 00:08:27,345 Ladies and gentlemen, that day set in path the reason why we're 166 00:08:27,345 --> 00:08:32,214 even on this podcast today, because mr chandler, this man 167 00:08:32,254 --> 00:08:35,664 right here, is the one that put me in agricultural education. 168 00:08:35,664 --> 00:08:38,331 This guy's one that put me in the ffa. 169 00:08:38,331 --> 00:08:42,525 Now, I had a rough start in the ffa but I finally found my. 170 00:08:42,525 --> 00:08:45,673 I went on to become the state FFA president. 171 00:08:45,673 --> 00:08:50,932 I went to Texas Tech University on five scholarships. 172 00:08:50,932 --> 00:08:53,865 I've been so blessed. 173 00:08:53,865 --> 00:08:55,753 I've been to coast to coast. 174 00:08:55,753 --> 00:08:58,743 I've been in every state in the United States except for Alaska 175 00:08:58,743 --> 00:08:58,743 . 176 00:08:58,743 --> 00:09:01,328 I've been able to take my family with me. 177 00:09:01,328 --> 00:09:05,054 We've traveled all over, all over the United States, even did 178 00:09:05,054 --> 00:09:06,461 a mission trip in Mexico. 179 00:09:06,461 --> 00:09:10,534 So many of you that may be listening to this know that we 180 00:09:10,576 --> 00:09:14,047 started a national organization for foundation officers called 181 00:09:14,167 --> 00:09:14,488 LEAD. 182 00:09:14,488 --> 00:09:18,620 I don't know that any of the things that have happened within 183 00:09:18,620 --> 00:09:23,013 the Texas FFA that I've been privileged to be a part of, or 184 00:09:23,092 --> 00:09:26,701 anything nationally, could have ever happened if this man right 185 00:09:26,741 --> 00:09:32,312 here had not, on that day in September of 1980, put me in 186 00:09:32,413 --> 00:09:36,107 agriculture, put me in ag education in the FFA. 187 00:09:37,292 --> 00:09:40,381 Now y'all understand why I said this is a very special guest, 188 00:09:41,245 --> 00:09:43,833 because the fact that we're all talking and the fact that you're 189 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:47,004 here today is because of Winston Chandler. 190 00:09:47,004 --> 00:09:50,270 So, mr Chandler, I've given everybody a little bit of 191 00:09:50,311 --> 00:09:52,663 background of how we came together. 192 00:09:52,663 --> 00:09:54,706 But let's go back in time. 193 00:09:54,706 --> 00:09:57,191 Tell us a little bit about you. 194 00:09:57,191 --> 00:09:58,793 Where did you grow up? 195 00:09:58,793 --> 00:10:01,004 Tell us a little bit about your family. 196 00:10:01,004 --> 00:10:07,941 Give us a little bit about your background about your family. 197 00:10:07,961 --> 00:10:08,802 Speaker 3: Give us a little bit about your background. 198 00:10:08,802 --> 00:10:09,946 Well, I was raised on a farm in a ranch and, uh, I had two 199 00:10:09,966 --> 00:10:14,298 older brothers we were seven years apart and I never get I 200 00:10:14,337 --> 00:10:18,226 never did get to be a little bitty kid, my thing. 201 00:10:18,226 --> 00:10:21,494 I was driving a tractor when I was six years old and I could 202 00:10:21,539 --> 00:10:25,291 shoot a shotgun and ride a horse and do stuff like that. 203 00:10:25,291 --> 00:10:28,947 I didn't play with toys, I had to be a big boy like my brothers 204 00:10:28,947 --> 00:10:29,870 and stuff. 205 00:10:29,870 --> 00:10:36,510 And you know, you know it's just I started out and we worked 206 00:10:36,510 --> 00:10:39,626 hard and we played hard and I think that's what you have to do 207 00:10:39,626 --> 00:10:41,504 and that's you know. 208 00:10:41,504 --> 00:10:45,673 And I had a, you know, had a good family and stuff like that. 209 00:10:45,673 --> 00:10:51,951 And after, you know, after I got up, pretty good size and 210 00:10:52,010 --> 00:10:53,874 everything, then my folks split up. 211 00:10:53,874 --> 00:11:00,346 So I know what it is to come from a broken home and so the 212 00:11:00,365 --> 00:11:03,918 best thing that happened to me is when I met Ollie Pearl and 213 00:11:03,979 --> 00:11:05,389 everything and she went through the same thing I did. 214 00:11:05,389 --> 00:11:05,759 She is when I met ollie pearl and everything and she went 215 00:11:05,690 --> 00:11:06,851 through the same thing I did. 216 00:11:06,851 --> 00:11:11,395 She come from from a broken home and stuff, and a lot of my 217 00:11:11,456 --> 00:11:12,297 folks they were. 218 00:11:12,297 --> 00:11:16,107 They were alcoholics and stuff like that and everything. 219 00:11:16,107 --> 00:11:20,403 And so we decided, well, we're gonna, we're gonna do something 220 00:11:20,423 --> 00:11:20,823 different. 221 00:11:20,823 --> 00:11:24,591 My kids ain't gonna do that, we're gonna do something nice. 222 00:11:25,153 --> 00:11:28,024 And we were real young when we got married and everything. 223 00:11:28,024 --> 00:11:30,269 I didn't think I'd ever live to be 21. 224 00:11:30,269 --> 00:11:33,664 Everybody treated me like a kid , but I had to work like a man 225 00:11:34,427 --> 00:11:35,148 and everything. 226 00:11:35,148 --> 00:11:39,121 And I finally got to be 21 so they got to treat me like a man 227 00:11:39,202 --> 00:11:39,864 and everything. 228 00:11:39,864 --> 00:11:45,253 But uh, you know the thing of it is, you know we got away from 229 00:11:45,253 --> 00:11:48,768 her folks and my folks and we depended on one another and 230 00:11:48,847 --> 00:11:49,370 everything. 231 00:11:49,370 --> 00:11:51,368 And so we made it work. 232 00:11:51,740 --> 00:11:58,974 And so we come to Amarillo and I had all kinds of jobs. 233 00:11:58,974 --> 00:12:02,028 I worked in the oil field, on our cowboy-owned ranches and 234 00:12:02,067 --> 00:12:03,812 done this and that and all that. 235 00:12:03,812 --> 00:12:09,326 I always had two jobs and everything and uh, but most 236 00:12:09,365 --> 00:12:14,134 important thing to me was, you know, my kids and everything, 237 00:12:14,173 --> 00:12:15,842 because I wanted my kids to. 238 00:12:15,842 --> 00:12:18,428 I didn't want them to go through what I did. 239 00:12:18,428 --> 00:12:21,183 You know it's just like the kids I raised at boys ranch. 240 00:12:21,183 --> 00:12:24,918 You know them kids, they come from all walks of life and stuff 241 00:12:24,918 --> 00:12:27,202 and everything and uh. 242 00:12:27,202 --> 00:12:32,971 But uh, I was the youngest dorm parent ever hardly boys ranch. 243 00:12:32,971 --> 00:12:39,686 I was five, 25 years old, 25 years old and I wasn't too much 244 00:12:39,806 --> 00:12:41,750 older than the seniors and everything. 245 00:12:41,870 --> 00:12:45,445 But you know, uh, you know boys ranch was a working ranch and 246 00:12:45,465 --> 00:12:46,250 everything then and everything, and. 247 00:12:46,250 --> 00:12:47,599 But you know, boys Ranch was a working ranch and everything 248 00:12:47,619 --> 00:12:50,788 then and everything, and we took a lot of kids right off the 249 00:12:50,828 --> 00:12:52,505 streets and right out of jail. 250 00:12:52,505 --> 00:12:56,210 If they didn't make it at Boys Ranch they went to Gatesville. 251 00:12:56,210 --> 00:12:59,628 Then none of my kids go to Gatesville. 252 00:12:59,628 --> 00:13:02,259 I kept all of mine and everything. 253 00:13:02,259 --> 00:13:06,783 And the most important thing to me was you know them kids just 254 00:13:06,844 --> 00:13:07,868 needed a chance. 255 00:13:07,868 --> 00:13:12,279 You know, somebody had a gill crap about them and everything. 256 00:13:12,279 --> 00:13:16,831 And so me and Ollie worked hard at it and everything. 257 00:13:17,461 --> 00:13:21,780 And so I know you and Jerry Grooms, you know you all 258 00:13:21,821 --> 00:13:27,102 recognize us at rodeo one time back and I think it was 95, and 259 00:13:27,143 --> 00:13:31,775 you give us a plaque and everything and I was working at 260 00:13:31,796 --> 00:13:34,923 the rodeo grounds doing getting ready for rodeo and ollie was 261 00:13:34,943 --> 00:13:40,256 selling tickets at uh, the barbecue place and everything. 262 00:13:40,256 --> 00:13:43,005 They said they need y'all at the dining hall. 263 00:13:43,005 --> 00:13:46,423 I said, well, I got two months to do to go to the dining hall. 264 00:13:46,423 --> 00:13:49,513 So anyway, they said, no, you need to get there. 265 00:13:49,513 --> 00:13:51,539 So anyway, I got out and we went there. 266 00:13:51,539 --> 00:13:56,950 Well, you and jerry, you know, gives that and all the exes 267 00:13:57,009 --> 00:13:58,592 there and all that kind of stuff . 268 00:13:58,592 --> 00:14:04,251 It was a that was a big day for us and everything and so uh, uh 269 00:14:04,251 --> 00:14:07,899 , but you know, it wasn't I don't think it was really the 270 00:14:07,941 --> 00:14:09,563 things that me and ollie did. 271 00:14:09,563 --> 00:14:13,351 You know, I just had a lot of help with the lord helped us, 272 00:14:13,413 --> 00:14:17,710 you know, to try to do the right thing with the kids and and 273 00:14:17,730 --> 00:14:18,792 stuff and uh. 274 00:14:19,052 --> 00:14:23,864 But you know you know your kids, just like you you're, you're 275 00:14:23,984 --> 00:14:24,826 one of my kids. 276 00:14:24,826 --> 00:14:28,972 You know, you're no different than you know my own kids and 277 00:14:29,033 --> 00:14:35,221 stuff, y'all are all the same to me and everything. 278 00:14:35,221 --> 00:14:39,684 And so you know, now I'm an old guy now and so you know all the 279 00:14:39,684 --> 00:14:41,505 kids I raised at Boy's Ranch. 280 00:14:41,505 --> 00:14:45,089 They're all grandparents now, just like kids are and 281 00:14:45,168 --> 00:14:45,749 everything. 282 00:14:45,749 --> 00:14:49,412 But you know my immediate family. 283 00:14:49,412 --> 00:14:52,614 I got 12 great-grandbabies. 284 00:14:52,614 --> 00:14:53,914 I'll soon have 12. 285 00:14:53,914 --> 00:14:58,037 Wow, well, that's just part of the family. 286 00:14:58,037 --> 00:15:04,131 The rest of the family is the Boyer's Ranch, kids are got and 287 00:15:04,152 --> 00:15:04,354 everything. 288 00:15:04,354 --> 00:15:06,985 I have a whole bunch of grandkids, great grandkids, and 289 00:15:07,086 --> 00:15:07,567 everything. 290 00:15:07,567 --> 00:15:09,567 They're family too, you know. 291 00:15:09,567 --> 00:15:13,484 And so you know I probably got more kids and grandkids than 292 00:15:13,583 --> 00:15:15,330 anybody in the country and everything. 293 00:15:15,330 --> 00:15:19,145 And I'm proud of that and everything because you know it 294 00:15:19,186 --> 00:15:20,620 makes you feel good when you. 295 00:15:21,143 --> 00:15:24,947 You know you help kids and you see how they turn out. 296 00:15:24,947 --> 00:15:28,644 And you know they're good family men, they're good fathers 297 00:15:28,644 --> 00:15:29,828 , they're good husbands. 298 00:15:29,828 --> 00:15:33,004 They work hard and they play hard and that's what I tried to 299 00:15:33,063 --> 00:15:34,188 teach at Boys' Range. 300 00:15:34,188 --> 00:15:36,047 You know we play to win. 301 00:15:36,047 --> 00:15:37,926 You know you never quit. 302 00:15:37,926 --> 00:15:41,943 You know don't ever give up and there's always a better. 303 00:15:41,943 --> 00:15:46,272 You know it's better tomorrow be a lot better, you know, than 304 00:15:46,312 --> 00:15:47,715 today and everything. 305 00:15:47,715 --> 00:15:50,208 And so you have to work hard and you have to play hard. 306 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:57,500 And so you know at my age I'm nearly 82 and everything I still 307 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:02,304 cowboy on the ranch, help feed cows, I detail cars, I make pens 308 00:16:02,304 --> 00:16:04,547 and rings, I do woodworking stuff. 309 00:16:04,547 --> 00:16:08,322 I stay busy all the time doing something you can't quit. 310 00:16:08,322 --> 00:16:12,216 You got to keep your mind working in your body, working 311 00:16:12,336 --> 00:16:13,379 all time and everything. 312 00:16:13,379 --> 00:16:18,129 And so you know whether you're good at sports or whatever 313 00:16:18,168 --> 00:16:19,913 you're good at and everything. 314 00:16:19,913 --> 00:16:24,067 You know your handshake and when you tell somebody something 315 00:16:24,067 --> 00:16:26,052 it's got to mean something. 316 00:16:26,052 --> 00:16:29,940 You got to mean what you say and say what you mean, and I 317 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,846 always said about raising kids, you know you can give out but 318 00:16:33,886 --> 00:16:36,831 you can't never give up because you never know what you're going 319 00:16:36,831 --> 00:16:37,753 to say or do. 320 00:16:37,753 --> 00:16:38,975 That will change that kid. 321 00:16:38,975 --> 00:16:43,090 You know he may be a bad kid one day, but tomorrow he'll be a 322 00:16:43,090 --> 00:16:46,019 better kid or he'll be a different kid and everything. 323 00:16:46,421 --> 00:16:51,028 And so and I took all kinds of kids and it's hard to raise 324 00:16:51,087 --> 00:16:55,514 somebody else's kids and fill shoes for somebody else and 325 00:16:55,595 --> 00:17:00,850 everything, but you know it's, that's just, that's part of it 326 00:17:00,990 --> 00:17:05,449 and everything, and so I just always felt like I needed to. 327 00:17:05,449 --> 00:17:09,943 You know, do that and my kids was the first ones to. 328 00:17:09,943 --> 00:17:15,094 You know they ever have a vehicle, ever have a job or a 329 00:17:15,153 --> 00:17:16,056 place to live. 330 00:17:16,056 --> 00:17:21,009 When they graduated, they went to college or they went to the 331 00:17:21,049 --> 00:17:21,791 military. 332 00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:25,959 Or they give them their suitcase and talk call them to 333 00:17:25,999 --> 00:17:26,819 the town office. 334 00:17:26,819 --> 00:17:29,730 Well, I told the board one day. 335 00:17:29,730 --> 00:17:38,385 I was in there on the grocery run on Friday, on the grocery 336 00:17:38,405 --> 00:17:38,666 run on friday. 337 00:17:38,666 --> 00:17:39,990 I said you know, if a kid had a job and a place to live and a 338 00:17:40,010 --> 00:17:41,856 way to get there, his chances is making it is a whole lot better 339 00:17:41,856 --> 00:17:42,459 than the kids. 340 00:17:42,459 --> 00:17:45,469 You haul the town with his suitcase and say there it is. 341 00:17:45,469 --> 00:17:50,038 And so, anyway, I got that changed and everything. 342 00:17:50,057 --> 00:17:54,393 So my kids the first ones to do that, and then the kids that 343 00:17:54,413 --> 00:17:57,647 stayed there and didn't have nowhere to go at christmas I 344 00:17:57,667 --> 00:18:00,694 took the you know, I took them bird hunting and everything it's 345 00:18:00,694 --> 00:18:00,694 . 346 00:18:00,694 --> 00:18:03,990 Oh no, you can't give them kids , a gun, you'll kill somebody. 347 00:18:03,990 --> 00:18:07,397 I said the most dangerous thing they'll ever do is drive 348 00:18:07,565 --> 00:18:08,287 automobile. 349 00:18:08,287 --> 00:18:09,670 It won't be shooting a gun. 350 00:18:09,670 --> 00:18:13,198 And we had game wardens there and everything where they could 351 00:18:13,265 --> 00:18:16,049 take the safety course and all of that and everything. 352 00:18:16,049 --> 00:18:19,836 And I was proud of that because my kids got to do a lot more 353 00:18:19,876 --> 00:18:21,806 than other kids, you know, and everything. 354 00:18:21,806 --> 00:18:26,474 And so, uh, you know, it's all a learning process, everything's 355 00:18:26,474 --> 00:18:29,626 a learning process so, mr chandler, let's real quick. 356 00:18:29,747 --> 00:18:31,049 Speaker 2: So where, where was? 357 00:18:31,049 --> 00:18:32,551 Where were you originally from? 358 00:18:32,551 --> 00:18:33,634 Where was home for you? 359 00:18:34,214 --> 00:18:36,078 Speaker 3: Plains, texas Plains. 360 00:18:36,318 --> 00:18:36,759 Speaker 2: Texas. 361 00:18:37,846 --> 00:18:40,773 Speaker 3: We lived about three miles from the New Mexico line, 362 00:18:40,794 --> 00:18:44,671 a little place called Bronco, and my dad farmed and ranched 363 00:18:44,711 --> 00:18:45,914 there and everything. 364 00:18:45,914 --> 00:18:51,002 And when I went to school I was the first to know and the last 365 00:18:51,044 --> 00:18:54,973 to know and in the wintertime it was dark when I went to school 366 00:18:54,993 --> 00:18:58,790 and it was dark when I got off and I still had to milk and I 367 00:18:59,010 --> 00:19:02,049 still had to gather eggs and feed the stock and all that 368 00:19:02,069 --> 00:19:03,875 stuff in the dark with a lantern . 369 00:19:04,244 --> 00:19:05,431 Speaker 2: We're going to come back to that. 370 00:19:05,431 --> 00:19:11,392 So you and Ollie, you said y'all, what year did you move to 371 00:19:11,392 --> 00:19:11,913 Amarillo? 372 00:19:11,932 --> 00:19:14,709 Speaker 3: you said oh, I moved here in 1964. 373 00:19:14,709 --> 00:19:14,950 64. 374 00:19:14,950 --> 00:19:15,751 And then, when did you go to Amarillo? 375 00:19:15,751 --> 00:19:17,577 You said oh, I moved here in 1964, 64. 376 00:19:17,597 --> 00:19:19,445 Speaker 2: And then, when did you go to work for the ranch? 377 00:19:19,465 --> 00:19:22,993 Speaker 3: 1968 when I first came back. 378 00:19:23,013 --> 00:19:27,243 Speaker 2: Well, I worked for cookbook bread and so you and 379 00:19:27,443 --> 00:19:30,407 Ollie were at the y'all were dorm parents, what we used to 380 00:19:30,448 --> 00:19:34,553 call dorm parents, and how many years were y'all dorm parents? 381 00:19:34,553 --> 00:19:40,579 27 27 years yeah was yeah. 382 00:19:41,161 --> 00:19:43,730 Speaker 3: We lived in the dorm longer than anybody's ever been 383 00:19:43,750 --> 00:19:46,924 there and I've raised more kids than anybody's ever been there 384 00:19:47,508 --> 00:19:49,818 so let's talk about that real quick because we've got a lot of 385 00:19:49,818 --> 00:19:51,867 viewers, a lot of folks that'll be listening. 386 00:19:52,529 --> 00:19:55,541 Speaker 2: So when we say a dormitory, when I was out at Cal 387 00:19:55,541 --> 00:19:57,888 Farley's Boys Ranch there were 16 dorms. 388 00:19:57,888 --> 00:20:01,817 There were eight dorms in what we called the valley, down in 389 00:20:01,837 --> 00:20:04,911 the valley, and then there were eight dorms up on top we called 390 00:20:04,951 --> 00:20:06,755 Hilltop, or up on the hill. 391 00:20:06,755 --> 00:20:09,146 There were 16 dorms. 392 00:20:09,146 --> 00:20:12,291 There were 24 boys to a dorm. 393 00:20:12,291 --> 00:20:14,276 So think about this. 394 00:20:14,276 --> 00:20:17,146 You would walk into the front of the dorm and we had what we 395 00:20:17,207 --> 00:20:21,976 called the big room, so you had a big room, and then on each 396 00:20:22,057 --> 00:20:25,190 side of the big room there was staff housing, so there were 397 00:20:25,230 --> 00:20:26,973 staff apartments on the sides. 398 00:20:26,973 --> 00:20:30,107 And then as you went into the back of the dorm, there was a 399 00:20:30,208 --> 00:20:35,137 long hallway and back there in the back there were six rooms, 400 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,147 six rooms, and every two rooms were connected by a bathroom. 401 00:20:40,147 --> 00:20:43,535 So you had six rooms connected by the bathroom. 402 00:20:43,535 --> 00:20:46,125 Every room had four boys. 403 00:20:46,125 --> 00:20:51,195 So every room you went in there were four beds, a study desk 404 00:20:51,596 --> 00:20:55,030 and then each of us had our own individual closets that we were 405 00:20:55,051 --> 00:20:56,516 allowed to keep our stuff in. 406 00:20:56,516 --> 00:21:02,618 So imagine this dormitory setting and the big room and the 407 00:21:02,618 --> 00:21:05,145 staff, housing and then each individual room. 408 00:21:05,145 --> 00:21:09,796 A normal day for us would look like this we would get up in the 409 00:21:09,796 --> 00:21:12,769 morning and everybody in the dorm we would clean the dorm. 410 00:21:12,769 --> 00:21:16,464 So everybody in the dorm would work on some type of job clean 411 00:21:16,484 --> 00:21:20,335 dorm unless you had after-school activities. 412 00:21:20,335 --> 00:21:23,990 If you were an athlete or you had after-school activities, you 413 00:21:23,990 --> 00:21:27,498 would normally get up and you would go to your job on the 414 00:21:27,538 --> 00:21:27,778 ranch. 415 00:21:27,778 --> 00:21:31,394 You would have to go take a job on the ranch If you stayed at 416 00:21:31,433 --> 00:21:31,875 the dorm. 417 00:21:31,875 --> 00:21:34,768 You'd finish cleaning the dorm, get ready for school and then 418 00:21:34,807 --> 00:21:35,788 we would walk to school. 419 00:21:35,788 --> 00:21:39,233 The boys that were out working they would do their jobs and 420 00:21:39,273 --> 00:21:40,635 then they would walk to school. 421 00:21:40,635 --> 00:21:42,980 We'd go to school all day long. 422 00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:47,701 At the end of the school day, if you were an athlete or 423 00:21:47,761 --> 00:21:50,382 involved in school activities, you would go to the school and 424 00:21:50,402 --> 00:21:52,823 you would do your practices or whatever that may be. 425 00:21:52,823 --> 00:21:55,584 If you didn't, then you had an afternoon job. 426 00:21:55,584 --> 00:22:00,165 So then we're either at school or we're working and then from 427 00:22:00,246 --> 00:22:04,176 there we would go from there to the dining room for dinner that 428 00:22:04,297 --> 00:22:04,517 evening. 429 00:22:04,517 --> 00:22:10,977 After the dining room we would come back to the dorms and study 430 00:22:10,977 --> 00:22:12,159 or hang out. 431 00:22:13,805 --> 00:22:19,037 Now times have changed, but back in our day we didn't watch TV 432 00:22:19,076 --> 00:22:19,645 during the week. 433 00:22:19,645 --> 00:22:22,593 The only time we watched TV was on the weekends. 434 00:22:22,593 --> 00:22:25,587 Everything in the middle of the week was about studying and 435 00:22:25,647 --> 00:22:28,713 being productive and being brothers to one another. 436 00:22:28,713 --> 00:22:33,729 And then on the weekends, the weekends were good because 437 00:22:33,769 --> 00:22:35,334 sometimes we got to go to town. 438 00:22:35,334 --> 00:22:37,728 You got to go to town once every three weeks. 439 00:22:37,728 --> 00:22:40,337 If you're good, you have to earn your privileges. 440 00:22:40,337 --> 00:22:42,847 At Boys Ranch everything is earned. 441 00:22:42,847 --> 00:22:44,132 It's based on incentive. 442 00:22:44,132 --> 00:22:47,744 So we would earn our privileges and if our privileges were good 443 00:22:47,744 --> 00:22:51,834 , we got to go get a Coke or an ice cream or something sweet, 444 00:22:52,756 --> 00:22:55,269 and then we would go to church, we'd go to chapel and we would 445 00:22:55,289 --> 00:22:59,051 dress up, we'd have chapel dress , we'd go to chapel and then, 446 00:22:59,092 --> 00:23:00,315 like I said, we'd get to go. 447 00:23:00,315 --> 00:23:03,871 On occasion We'd get to go to town and in town we could go to 448 00:23:03,911 --> 00:23:07,267 a movie or roller skating or go to the mall and just do the 449 00:23:07,326 --> 00:23:09,090 normal things that teenagers would do. 450 00:23:10,212 --> 00:23:16,369 But Mr Chandler I hope everybody caught that he operated in that 451 00:23:16,369 --> 00:23:19,617 facility, in that dormitory setting, for 27 years. 452 00:23:19,617 --> 00:23:22,209 That means 27 years. 453 00:23:22,209 --> 00:23:25,875 He raised his family in that little apartment right there 454 00:23:26,176 --> 00:23:26,979 next to the boys. 455 00:23:26,979 --> 00:23:29,529 That means for 27 years. 456 00:23:29,529 --> 00:23:32,857 He saw kids coming in and out of his dorm. 457 00:23:32,857 --> 00:23:38,002 And I remember when I went there I went to I was in 458 00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:44,096 Bridwell dorm and you know there were kids that had been out 459 00:23:44,115 --> 00:23:44,317 there. 460 00:23:44,356 --> 00:23:46,347 There would have been some kids that had been there for a long 461 00:23:46,407 --> 00:23:49,395 time They'd been there since they were little kids and there 462 00:23:49,415 --> 00:23:53,692 were some kids that weren't there maybe a year before me and 463 00:23:53,692 --> 00:23:55,316 they came from all over the country. 464 00:23:55,316 --> 00:23:57,199 So it's kind of like going to college. 465 00:23:57,199 --> 00:23:59,692 You know, one of the benefits, I think, of going to college is 466 00:23:59,971 --> 00:24:02,448 you get to meet people from all over and so you get to learn 467 00:24:02,488 --> 00:24:03,432 different perspectives. 468 00:24:03,432 --> 00:24:05,240 Well, the dorm was the same way . 469 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,730 We had people from all over the state, all over the United 470 00:24:08,791 --> 00:24:11,826 States, that came from different backgrounds, and so we got to 471 00:24:11,906 --> 00:24:13,771 learn from one another about life. 472 00:24:13,771 --> 00:24:15,836 And this is the guy that led us . 473 00:24:15,836 --> 00:24:17,109 This is Mr Chandler. 474 00:24:17,109 --> 00:24:21,067 He led us, he led me for four years of my life, my high school 475 00:24:21,067 --> 00:24:21,469 years. 476 00:24:21,469 --> 00:24:25,750 Mr Chandler made that possible, and so I wanted to make sure 477 00:24:25,789 --> 00:24:28,663 everybody kind of had a reference point of what that 478 00:24:28,743 --> 00:24:32,474 looked like to be in the dorm, to understand what he just 479 00:24:32,515 --> 00:24:32,816 shared. 480 00:24:33,605 --> 00:24:36,434 So, mr Chandler, one of the things that I like about this 481 00:24:36,515 --> 00:24:38,327 show is. 482 00:24:38,327 --> 00:24:42,717 I tell people, if you'll just listen, if you'll just listen to 483 00:24:42,717 --> 00:24:46,410 somebody's testimony, you're liable to learn something that 484 00:24:46,450 --> 00:24:47,994 you can put in place in your life. 485 00:24:47,994 --> 00:24:51,449 And I've already heard you say a few things loud and clear. 486 00:24:51,449 --> 00:24:54,413 Number one you better work hard . 487 00:24:54,413 --> 00:24:59,401 Number two it's okay to relax and play hard. 488 00:24:59,401 --> 00:25:03,111 Number three you better compete . 489 00:25:03,111 --> 00:25:05,217 You're going to have to compete . 490 00:25:05,217 --> 00:25:09,309 Number four you better have faith. 491 00:25:09,309 --> 00:25:11,556 You better have something that you're grounded in. 492 00:25:11,556 --> 00:25:16,032 And then, number five life's not a solo project. 493 00:25:16,032 --> 00:25:19,650 You better have somebody or some things around you to help 494 00:25:19,690 --> 00:25:20,553 you get through life. 495 00:25:20,553 --> 00:25:24,244 And, mr chandler, you've already shared all of those in a 496 00:25:24,244 --> 00:25:27,868 very short period of time, and that's, that's powerful stuff 497 00:25:32,074 --> 00:25:32,615 well to. 498 00:25:32,775 --> 00:25:35,458 Speaker 3: You know, when I first started boys range, we had 499 00:25:35,458 --> 00:25:38,121 36 kids in the dorm, not 24. 500 00:25:38,121 --> 00:25:43,152 Oh, wow, wow when I started and everything and everything and 501 00:25:43,231 --> 00:25:49,567 so, uh, but you know, the first part of the kids was, you know, 502 00:25:49,626 --> 00:25:53,291 they were off the streets and out of jail and stuff like that. 503 00:25:53,291 --> 00:25:58,098 Well, then later on we went to taking kids from broken homes 504 00:25:58,179 --> 00:25:59,221 and stuff like that. 505 00:25:59,221 --> 00:26:02,595 Mama can't raise the kids and work and all of that. 506 00:26:02,595 --> 00:26:05,314 That's the reason I wound up with a lot of brothers. 507 00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:09,359 I raised a lot of brothers and everything, big families and 508 00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:10,765 stuff like that and everything. 509 00:26:10,765 --> 00:26:17,654 And so you know it's one of them things where you know you 510 00:26:17,674 --> 00:26:21,560 have to adapt to whatever's coming, you know, and everything 511 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:21,560 . 512 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,251 But you know it's just, it's one of them things. 513 00:26:25,251 --> 00:26:28,866 You know you got to have faith in what you're doing and you 514 00:26:28,906 --> 00:26:31,996 know you got to have help from other people and everything. 515 00:26:31,996 --> 00:26:37,343 And you know that's the reason my thing was is you know me, 516 00:26:37,403 --> 00:26:39,407 when we played sports, we played to win. 517 00:26:39,407 --> 00:26:43,297 We didn't play to lose, we played to win, and it's the same 518 00:26:43,297 --> 00:26:43,978 way in life. 519 00:26:43,978 --> 00:26:47,758 You got to play to win and everything, and you got to count 520 00:26:47,758 --> 00:26:48,460 for something. 521 00:26:48,460 --> 00:26:51,087 You know your words got to mean something. 522 00:26:51,087 --> 00:26:54,454 You know you got to mean what you say and say what you mean 523 00:26:54,555 --> 00:26:55,196 and everything. 524 00:26:55,196 --> 00:27:02,048 And so you know it's. 525 00:27:02,048 --> 00:27:03,580 You know that's just part of life and that's what you have to 526 00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:04,025 do and everything. 527 00:27:04,025 --> 00:27:07,913 And so I tried to teach, you know, all of my kids that and 528 00:27:07,954 --> 00:27:13,707 stuff like that and but you know , look at all the kids, Look at 529 00:27:13,748 --> 00:27:14,490 what they've done. 530 00:27:14,490 --> 00:27:18,075 You know they've done better than anybody. 531 00:27:18,075 --> 00:27:22,148 You know a kid that don't have nothing, Stop it out with flat 532 00:27:22,189 --> 00:27:24,336 nothing and everything, and then look at what to do. 533 00:27:24,336 --> 00:27:25,711 Look at you for a little day. 534 00:27:25,711 --> 00:27:29,752 You know you were a troubled kid, stuff like that and all 535 00:27:29,792 --> 00:27:31,156 that and everything. 536 00:27:31,156 --> 00:27:32,689 But you know you had to depend on somebody. 537 00:27:32,689 --> 00:27:33,531 You know you had to believe in something. 538 00:27:33,531 --> 00:27:33,973 You know you have to. 539 00:27:33,973 --> 00:27:35,318 You had to depend on somebody. 540 00:27:35,318 --> 00:27:37,425 You know you had to believe in something. 541 00:27:37,425 --> 00:27:40,794 You know you had to believe things that I told you and stuff 542 00:27:40,794 --> 00:27:41,836 and what you had to do. 543 00:27:41,836 --> 00:27:45,431 And you know, uh, you know you could learn. 544 00:27:45,431 --> 00:27:52,130 You know I think it was 13 or 15 vocations at boys ranch and I 545 00:27:52,130 --> 00:27:56,122 was a big ag guy because I was in ag when I was in school and 546 00:27:56,162 --> 00:27:57,065 stuff and everything. 547 00:27:57,065 --> 00:28:01,038 And if you taking care of an animal, you know you're taking 548 00:28:01,058 --> 00:28:02,724 care of something other than yourself. 549 00:28:02,724 --> 00:28:04,147 You know it's. 550 00:28:04,147 --> 00:28:06,192 You know it's like playing sports. 551 00:28:06,192 --> 00:28:09,258 You learn to play with other kids and stuff. 552 00:28:09,258 --> 00:28:13,069 That's how you, you know, get friendships and stuff like that. 553 00:28:13,069 --> 00:28:14,792 You know's a lifetime thing. 554 00:28:14,874 --> 00:28:18,440 It's not something that's just hit or miss. 555 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,132 Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. 556 00:28:20,132 --> 00:28:22,148 It does work. 557 00:28:22,148 --> 00:28:23,192 It works over time. 558 00:28:23,192 --> 00:28:25,093 You've got to have faith in what you're doing. 559 00:28:25,093 --> 00:28:28,471 It's not going to be easy. 560 00:28:28,471 --> 00:28:29,931 Every day is not going to be easy. 561 00:28:29,931 --> 00:28:33,694 At night, when you go to bed, you thank the Lord for having a 562 00:28:33,755 --> 00:28:41,625 good day, whether it was a good day or not, Because tomorrow 563 00:28:41,726 --> 00:28:43,410 will be a lot better day and everything, and so you just have 564 00:28:43,410 --> 00:28:46,295 to keep plugging along and so, uh, something mr chandler just 565 00:28:46,336 --> 00:28:46,556 said. 566 00:28:46,596 --> 00:28:49,007 Speaker 2: I want everybody that to know this, and I know a lot 567 00:28:49,048 --> 00:28:49,509 of people. 568 00:28:49,509 --> 00:28:54,648 Again, mr chandler, there are people from coast to coast that 569 00:28:54,669 --> 00:28:55,633 have heard me talk about. 570 00:28:55,633 --> 00:28:59,385 You have heard me talk about growing up at Boys Ranch and one 571 00:28:59,385 --> 00:29:02,271 of the things that I've never forgotten, by the way, you know, 572 00:29:02,271 --> 00:29:07,969 I'm very again, I'm blessed and I've been able to pass, you 573 00:29:07,989 --> 00:29:10,255 know, I've been able to be in a leadership role to help pass 574 00:29:10,295 --> 00:29:15,951 things along for others Millions of dollars, millions of dollars 575 00:29:15,951 --> 00:29:15,951 . 576 00:29:15,951 --> 00:29:20,288 We've raised for the Texas FFA and those dollars started with 577 00:29:20,308 --> 00:29:22,792 the story of what you taught me. 578 00:29:22,792 --> 00:29:28,367 And I've talked to executives of major companies Ford Motor 579 00:29:28,428 --> 00:29:33,718 Company, Justin Boot Company, McCoy's, all these major major 580 00:29:33,758 --> 00:29:35,756 brands and I love it when they ask me they say, Aaron, what all 581 00:29:35,756 --> 00:29:36,213 these major major brands? 582 00:29:36,213 --> 00:29:37,717 And and I love it when they asked me, they say, Aaron, what 583 00:29:37,797 --> 00:29:39,739 separates these FFA kids? 584 00:29:39,739 --> 00:29:43,366 He said, these ag kids, you act like nobody else does what they 585 00:29:43,366 --> 00:29:43,586 do. 586 00:29:43,586 --> 00:29:45,372 They said, what separates these kids? 587 00:29:45,372 --> 00:29:49,626 Doesn't athletics teach teamwork, Doesn't speech debate 588 00:29:49,666 --> 00:29:51,950 and UIL teach all of those things. 589 00:29:51,950 --> 00:29:54,933 And and doesn't band teach ensemble? 590 00:29:54,933 --> 00:29:59,259 And, Aaron, what is it that you think you guys do in ag that 591 00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:00,480 nobody else does. 592 00:30:02,185 --> 00:30:05,295 And I remember one time, Mr Chandler, you gave me a 593 00:30:05,355 --> 00:30:08,772 sledgehammer and we used to drive those old yellow power 594 00:30:08,813 --> 00:30:09,234 wagons. 595 00:30:09,234 --> 00:30:12,548 And I remember you gave me a sledgehammer and you told me to 596 00:30:12,587 --> 00:30:15,528 drive to the other side of the ranch and bust the water trough 597 00:30:15,567 --> 00:30:16,189 for the horses. 598 00:30:16,189 --> 00:30:19,757 And I pitched a fit and I said, Mr Chandler, I don't want to go 599 00:30:19,757 --> 00:30:19,757 . 600 00:30:19,757 --> 00:30:22,614 It's a blizzard out there that the wind and the snow. 601 00:30:22,614 --> 00:30:25,183 I said it's five miles to the other side. 602 00:30:25,183 --> 00:30:28,646 I could get lost and I'm trying to think of every excuse I 603 00:30:28,686 --> 00:30:29,426 could think of. 604 00:30:29,426 --> 00:30:33,709 And I'll never forget Mr Chandler and his old country 605 00:30:33,769 --> 00:30:34,190 wisdom. 606 00:30:34,190 --> 00:30:36,671 He just looked at me and he said, Darling, do you get 607 00:30:36,691 --> 00:30:37,832 thirsty when it's cold? 608 00:30:37,832 --> 00:30:39,833 I said, yes, sir. 609 00:30:39,833 --> 00:30:43,034 He said Don't you think those horses get thirsty too? 610 00:30:43,034 --> 00:30:48,096 I said, yes, sir, I drove five miles that day and I busted the 611 00:30:48,136 --> 00:30:49,438 water trough for those horses. 612 00:30:50,679 --> 00:30:54,160 And because of that lesson, to this day I can look at any 613 00:30:54,260 --> 00:30:57,041 executive in the United States and I said I'll tell you what 614 00:30:57,061 --> 00:30:58,942 separates our kids from everybody else. 615 00:30:58,942 --> 00:31:04,946 Because in the world of agriculture, if we don't do our 616 00:31:04,967 --> 00:31:05,327 job, something dies. 617 00:31:05,327 --> 00:31:07,952 In the world of agriculture, if we don't feed it and we don't 618 00:31:08,012 --> 00:31:14,990 water it and we don't take care of it, it dies, and when it dies 619 00:31:14,990 --> 00:31:17,964 , an economy dies, and when an economy dies, a people die. 620 00:31:17,964 --> 00:31:23,257 And so I'm so grateful that early on, you had us all in your 621 00:31:23,257 --> 00:31:23,597 dorm. 622 00:31:23,684 --> 00:31:28,314 We all had ag jobs, because you told us it was important to 623 00:31:28,374 --> 00:31:30,499 learn that something depended on us. 624 00:31:30,499 --> 00:31:33,574 That means we had to get up and take care of it. 625 00:31:33,574 --> 00:31:34,607 We had to take care of it. 626 00:31:34,607 --> 00:31:37,618 At the end of the day, that means we had to get up and take 627 00:31:37,638 --> 00:31:37,940 care of it. 628 00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:39,285 We had to take care of it at the end of the day. 629 00:31:39,285 --> 00:31:41,313 But, Mr Chandler, I want you to know that, not just that lesson 630 00:31:41,313 --> 00:31:42,238 of doing that and taking care of it. 631 00:31:42,238 --> 00:31:43,565 Look at what it's produced. 632 00:31:43,565 --> 00:31:46,873 It's produced millions of dollars that translate into 633 00:31:47,054 --> 00:31:52,194 opportunities for kids because of the way that you raised us at 634 00:31:52,194 --> 00:31:52,916 Boys Ranch. 635 00:31:52,916 --> 00:31:57,068 I just want you to know. 636 00:31:57,068 --> 00:31:58,513 I appreciate what you taught me . 637 00:32:00,185 --> 00:32:01,432 Speaker 3: Well, you're sure welcome. 638 00:32:02,645 --> 00:32:04,653 Speaker 2: I don't know if I understood it at the time, but I 639 00:32:04,653 --> 00:32:05,414 look back on it. 640 00:32:05,414 --> 00:32:06,830 You said something else a while ago. 641 00:32:06,830 --> 00:32:13,618 I look back the other day I guess I was 56 when I looked 642 00:32:13,659 --> 00:32:15,041 back on it and I said my gosh. 643 00:32:15,041 --> 00:32:19,420 I said for four years of my life I was doing adult jobs. 644 00:32:19,420 --> 00:32:22,636 But I didn't know any better. 645 00:32:23,618 --> 00:32:25,482 We all just tried to get the job done. 646 00:32:25,482 --> 00:32:29,499 We all whether it was at the dairy barn or at the hog farm or 647 00:32:29,499 --> 00:32:33,939 at the feedlot or bucking hay or just it didn't matter what 648 00:32:33,999 --> 00:32:36,711 the job was, we just knew we had to get the job done. 649 00:32:36,711 --> 00:32:40,440 We never looked at it as that was an adult job or that was a 650 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:40,980 kid job. 651 00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:44,934 It was just a job and we all had to pitch in to get it done. 652 00:32:44,934 --> 00:32:48,061 And you kind of taught us about that too. 653 00:32:48,061 --> 00:32:50,934 You said we're going to get these jobs done, and not only 654 00:32:50,974 --> 00:32:51,816 are we going to get them done. 655 00:32:51,816 --> 00:32:53,819 Now I'll tell you one more thing about Mr Channer. 656 00:32:53,819 --> 00:32:56,364 You heard him say a second ago you're playing to win. 657 00:32:56,364 --> 00:33:00,599 Well, the other thing that he taught me is you don't do it 658 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:01,121 halfway. 659 00:33:01,121 --> 00:33:05,596 You always taught us if you're going to do a job, you do it 660 00:33:05,676 --> 00:33:05,957 right. 661 00:33:05,957 --> 00:33:07,059 Is that correct? 662 00:33:08,281 --> 00:33:08,864 Speaker 3: That's right. 663 00:33:08,864 --> 00:33:12,270 Whether you're playing or whether you're working, you got 664 00:33:12,291 --> 00:33:17,015 to do the best job you can Because somewhere down the line 665 00:33:17,236 --> 00:33:18,579 somebody's depending on you. 666 00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:20,935 You know it's not just you. 667 00:33:20,935 --> 00:33:25,099 You know there's always somebody depending on you for 668 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,178 something, whether it's something you said, something 669 00:33:28,218 --> 00:33:32,157 you've done or you know, or something you showed them or 670 00:33:32,198 --> 00:33:33,922 something like that and everything. 671 00:33:33,922 --> 00:33:37,291 And so you, you know that's part of life. 672 00:33:37,772 --> 00:33:43,846 You know you gotta, everybody needs somebody and and a lot of 673 00:33:43,886 --> 00:33:47,654 times you need somebody, a lot of the times and everything. 674 00:33:47,654 --> 00:33:51,903 And you need somebody you got you can depend on and stuff like 675 00:33:51,903 --> 00:33:53,056 that and everything. 676 00:33:53,056 --> 00:33:55,509 And that's the reason you got to keep your faith in the lord 677 00:33:55,609 --> 00:33:58,940 and everything, because he's the one that made you and 678 00:33:59,039 --> 00:33:59,602 everything. 679 00:33:59,602 --> 00:34:03,112 And so you want to make him proud of you, just like 680 00:34:03,192 --> 00:34:03,972 everybody else. 681 00:34:03,972 --> 00:34:06,659 And so you know you gotta. 682 00:34:07,820 --> 00:34:10,411 You know you gotta mean what you say and say what you mean. 683 00:34:10,411 --> 00:34:12,356 You know you want to be a good person. 684 00:34:12,356 --> 00:34:16,552 You know, and you know if you can help somebody, you know that 685 00:34:16,552 --> 00:34:17,715 does you more good. 686 00:34:17,715 --> 00:34:22,208 Then it's better to give a present than to receive a 687 00:34:22,289 --> 00:34:22,650 present. 688 00:34:22,650 --> 00:34:28,543 And so you know a lot of stuff I make, you know I give it away. 689 00:34:28,543 --> 00:34:30,367 And my son wes. 690 00:34:30,367 --> 00:34:32,693 He said, dad, you give away too much stuff. 691 00:34:32,693 --> 00:34:36,561 And I said well, for me, for me it's just advertisement, you 692 00:34:36,601 --> 00:34:39,134 know, somebody want to know. 693 00:34:39,134 --> 00:34:40,539 Well, where do you get that? 694 00:34:40,539 --> 00:34:44,452 He said well, I know the guy that makes it, you know, and so 695 00:34:45,894 --> 00:34:49,512 that's just part of life, you know, you just have to keep 696 00:34:49,554 --> 00:34:51,139 plugging along and everything. 697 00:34:53,771 --> 00:34:56,619 Speaker 2: One of my good friends I shouldn't say he's a 698 00:34:56,659 --> 00:34:59,496 good friend, he's become a friend but he's an incredible 699 00:34:59,536 --> 00:34:59,878 speaker. 700 00:34:59,878 --> 00:35:02,012 By the way, he's going to be up in Canadian next week. 701 00:35:02,012 --> 00:35:07,762 His name is Dan Owellabi and Dan is from Worcester, ohio and 702 00:35:07,782 --> 00:35:09,452 he's just got an incredible story. 703 00:35:09,452 --> 00:35:13,539 But Dan was talking to a group and he he said a lot of times 704 00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:16,023 people ask the question what is my legacy? 705 00:35:16,023 --> 00:35:17,916 What is my legacy? 706 00:35:17,916 --> 00:35:23,181 And Dan Oulabi says you're asking the wrong question. 707 00:35:23,181 --> 00:35:28,161 He said the question shouldn't be what is my legacy? 708 00:35:28,161 --> 00:35:32,961 He said the question ought to be who is my legacy? 709 00:35:32,961 --> 00:35:35,315 Who is my legacy? 710 00:35:35,315 --> 00:35:38,677 And I just want you to know, because you said something a 711 00:35:38,717 --> 00:35:39,139 while ago. 712 00:35:39,139 --> 00:35:41,137 You said 27 years in the dorm. 713 00:35:41,137 --> 00:35:47,568 That's a lot of young people that know the name of Winston 714 00:35:47,588 --> 00:35:50,438 Chandler and Ollie Chandler and the Chandler kids. 715 00:35:52,231 --> 00:35:53,277 One more thing, real quick. 716 00:35:53,277 --> 00:35:57,380 I'm going to derail us here just for a second, but I just 717 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,056 want to share because I want to brag on Mr Chandler and Ollie 718 00:36:00,096 --> 00:36:01,077 and his family. 719 00:36:01,077 --> 00:36:04,773 Every year we used to have this thing called the Boys Ranch 720 00:36:04,833 --> 00:36:06,918 Rodeo on Labor Day weekend. 721 00:36:06,918 --> 00:36:09,903 It was a big deal, big rodeo. 722 00:36:09,903 --> 00:36:14,760 I mean, hundreds of thousands of spectators would come to Cal 723 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,097 Farley's Boys Ranch and it was a time for all the alumni. 724 00:36:18,097 --> 00:36:25,182 We always came back at rodeo time and of all the dorms, of 725 00:36:25,344 --> 00:36:30,036 all the staff houses, there were more people at Breadwell Dorm 726 00:36:30,056 --> 00:36:32,862 to see Winston and Ollie Chandler than any dorm at the 727 00:36:32,922 --> 00:36:33,304 ranch. 728 00:36:33,304 --> 00:36:36,873 Even when they moved out of the dorm, everybody gathered at 729 00:36:36,914 --> 00:36:40,708 their house because we all wanted to hang out with Winston 730 00:36:40,748 --> 00:36:42,092 and Ollie just one more time. 731 00:36:42,092 --> 00:36:49,402 I got to share a personal story here in just a second, but I 732 00:36:49,463 --> 00:36:52,434 want to cover a couple more things here before we wrap up. 733 00:36:53,898 --> 00:36:56,650 You know, mr Chandler, I ask people all the time the kids in 734 00:36:56,670 --> 00:36:57,012 Texas. 735 00:36:57,012 --> 00:36:59,297 I said, how many high schools are in the state of Texas? 736 00:36:59,297 --> 00:37:03,416 And they always say a lot and I'm like, yeah, there's a lot of 737 00:37:03,416 --> 00:37:03,938 high schools. 738 00:37:03,938 --> 00:37:07,211 All right, in the state of Texas there's over 3,000 high 739 00:37:07,251 --> 00:37:07,552 schools. 740 00:37:07,552 --> 00:37:09,775 Now, think about that. 741 00:37:09,775 --> 00:37:12,420 Every one of those high schools is going to have a graduating 742 00:37:12,460 --> 00:37:13,161 class this year. 743 00:37:13,161 --> 00:37:15,625 They're going to have kids that are going to get out. 744 00:37:15,625 --> 00:37:18,257 They're going to be looking for a scholarship, a job or an 745 00:37:18,378 --> 00:37:18,981 opportunity. 746 00:37:20,690 --> 00:37:23,358 And I always ask the kids I said tell me what's your competitive 747 00:37:23,358 --> 00:37:26,978 edge, what separates you from everybody else? 748 00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:29,637 Because if you're going to go after that scholarship, you're 749 00:37:29,657 --> 00:37:31,510 going to go after that job, you're going to go after that 750 00:37:31,570 --> 00:37:32,152 opportunity. 751 00:37:32,152 --> 00:37:35,177 You better have something that separates you from everybody 752 00:37:35,277 --> 00:37:35,438 else. 753 00:37:35,438 --> 00:37:39,804 A lot of times it can be what you shared earlier, mr Chandler. 754 00:37:39,804 --> 00:37:45,418 It could be a positive attitude , it could be a professional 755 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:48,871 network, it could be that handshake that you talked about, 756 00:37:48,871 --> 00:37:51,438 that firm handshake where you look somebody in the eye, say 757 00:37:51,478 --> 00:37:52,641 your first and last name. 758 00:37:52,641 --> 00:37:57,534 The bottom line is you got to have a competitive edge, and it 759 00:37:57,574 --> 00:38:00,481 sounds like to me that when you were raising kids, that's one of 760 00:38:00,481 --> 00:38:03,936 the things that you tried to give us was a competitive edge 761 00:38:05,579 --> 00:38:06,481 you got to have that. 762 00:38:06,621 --> 00:38:11,021 You got to have that and you, you taught us that, and so I 763 00:38:11,101 --> 00:38:13,769 hope that people that get a chance to watch this podcast 764 00:38:14,311 --> 00:38:18,619 anybody that's ever heard me speak my kids will tell you that 765 00:38:18,619 --> 00:38:21,411 a lot of times they say you sound like Mr Chandler, and I 766 00:38:21,431 --> 00:38:23,137 said, well, I probably do. 767 00:38:23,137 --> 00:38:27,898 There's probably a reason I do Because he taught me to be fair. 768 00:38:27,898 --> 00:38:32,637 He taught me to listen, he taught me to play by the rules. 769 00:38:32,637 --> 00:38:34,356 He taught me to be competitive. 770 00:38:34,356 --> 00:38:38,610 He taught me to play by the rules. 771 00:38:38,610 --> 00:38:39,233 He taught me to be competitive. 772 00:38:39,233 --> 00:38:39,974 Um, he taught me to care for others. 773 00:38:39,974 --> 00:38:41,438 But, uh, you, you, I hope you understand why. 774 00:38:41,438 --> 00:38:45,213 I now said this was a special guest to bring on the show and 775 00:38:45,432 --> 00:38:47,579 uh, so y'all got to hear it from him, not me. 776 00:38:47,579 --> 00:38:51,253 You got to hear it from him of why I'm the way I am today. 777 00:38:51,253 --> 00:38:55,539 So, um, mr chandler, I appreciate you so much. 778 00:38:55,539 --> 00:39:01,990 Um, if I may close, can I close with one more little story? 779 00:39:02,793 --> 00:39:09,224 no great so it was years, years ago. 780 00:39:09,224 --> 00:39:14,840 I was back at the ranch and mr and miss ch Chandler lived in a 781 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,873 little apartment there on the ranch and there was a guest 782 00:39:18,932 --> 00:39:19,856 bedroom in the back. 783 00:39:19,856 --> 00:39:23,630 And I go back there and I'm sitting in the guest bedroom and 784 00:39:23,630 --> 00:39:27,018 I remember you came back there and we sat across from one 785 00:39:27,079 --> 00:39:32,394 another and we were talking and I just remember I said, Mr 786 00:39:32,434 --> 00:39:34,039 Chandler, I said, do you remember this? 787 00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:37,119 And I told you about something that happened at Boy's Ranch. 788 00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:42,197 And the reason why this story is so important is because I 789 00:39:42,237 --> 00:39:44,222 want you all to see the heart of this man right here. 790 00:39:46,391 --> 00:39:49,597 I remember sharing with you something that happened at Boy's 791 00:39:49,597 --> 00:39:51,503 Ranch and I remember you, Mr Chandler. 792 00:39:51,503 --> 00:39:58,581 You teared up and you looked at me, me and you said, darling, 793 00:39:58,621 --> 00:39:59,143 I'm sorry. 794 00:39:59,143 --> 00:40:03,597 You said I had to make a lot of decisions at Boys Ranch and 795 00:40:03,657 --> 00:40:06,293 sometimes I think I made the right ones, but on occasion I 796 00:40:06,333 --> 00:40:11,193 probably made one that might not be right and I just want to 797 00:40:11,233 --> 00:40:12,217 tell you that I'm sorry. 798 00:40:12,217 --> 00:40:18,318 Do you know how big a man somebody's got to be to say that 799 00:40:18,318 --> 00:40:21,818 they're sorry To be able to look at another human being and 800 00:40:21,858 --> 00:40:22,619 say you know what? 801 00:40:22,619 --> 00:40:25,760 I try my best, but sometimes I may not get it right. 802 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,916 I just want you all to know that this guy right here was 803 00:40:28,956 --> 00:40:30,260 already way up in my book. 804 00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:35,360 But the day that this man looked at me and said, hey, I'm sorry 805 00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:38,713 and it wasn't anything major, it's not like the world was 806 00:40:38,733 --> 00:40:41,072 going to come to an end but the fact that I was sitting here 807 00:40:41,112 --> 00:40:44,480 having a conversation with the man that took my dad's place and 808 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:49,353 he told me it's OK to say I'm sorry as a big day. 809 00:40:49,353 --> 00:40:54,610 Mr Chandler, I just want you to know that you're a big man, Not 810 00:40:54,610 --> 00:40:55,153 just physically. 811 00:40:55,153 --> 00:40:56,289 You're a big man not just physically. 812 00:40:56,289 --> 00:40:59,679 You're a big man because you've invested in so many kids. 813 00:40:59,679 --> 00:41:03,715 You've made us all better and you showed us what it's like to 814 00:41:03,775 --> 00:41:13,612 have a heart of humbleness, forgiveness, reconciliation, and 815 00:41:13,612 --> 00:41:16,340 I just want you to know that you are appreciated by many, 816 00:41:16,489 --> 00:41:18,338 many that you probably have never met. 817 00:41:21,711 --> 00:41:22,956 Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much. 818 00:41:22,956 --> 00:41:27,369 You know, I'm just, I'm humbled and everything, and you know 819 00:41:27,530 --> 00:41:34,143 just, I did the best I could and the Lord has had most of the 820 00:41:34,182 --> 00:41:34,724 work done. 821 00:41:34,724 --> 00:41:39,335 I didn't do that much, the lord done most of it yeah, you did 822 00:41:39,394 --> 00:41:41,320 something all right. 823 00:41:41,420 --> 00:41:44,329 Speaker 2: So we always wrap up the show with a fun question. 824 00:41:46,293 --> 00:41:50,157 Speaker 3: You ready I'll try to you get a fun question. 825 00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:54,983 Speaker 2: So if we ever made a movie about winston chandler, 826 00:41:55,744 --> 00:42:00,695 the life and times of winston chandler who would play winston 827 00:42:00,735 --> 00:42:01,177 chandler? 828 00:42:01,177 --> 00:42:03,460 What actor would play winston chandler? 829 00:42:04,342 --> 00:42:11,358 Speaker 3: oh, oh, boy, I don't know if there's anybody maybe 830 00:42:11,398 --> 00:42:12,039 could do that. 831 00:42:12,039 --> 00:42:21,038 That'd be a hard question to answer, so it'd have to be 832 00:42:21,097 --> 00:42:22,902 somebody you know, maybe like you. 833 00:42:23,730 --> 00:42:24,755 Speaker 2: No, I couldn't play you. 834 00:42:24,755 --> 00:42:26,416 Let me tell you who I think of. 835 00:42:26,416 --> 00:42:29,900 When I think of Winston Chandler, I think of John Wayne. 836 00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:33,150 I think John Wayne could play Winston. 837 00:42:33,150 --> 00:42:38,663 I think Robert Duvall from Lonesome Dove could play Winston 838 00:42:38,663 --> 00:42:38,663 . 839 00:42:40,931 --> 00:42:50,014 Speaker 3: Well, maybe so, I don't know I could put a hat on 840 00:42:50,054 --> 00:42:53,702 you and everything and you could do the same thing. 841 00:42:55,393 --> 00:43:00,175 Speaker 2: No, I don't bench 450 pounds and I wasn't a very good 842 00:43:00,175 --> 00:43:00,876 bull rider. 843 00:43:00,876 --> 00:43:01,818 But you made me right. 844 00:43:01,818 --> 00:43:03,362 I rode bulls for four years. 845 00:43:03,362 --> 00:43:05,233 I rode bronx before mr chanter. 846 00:43:05,233 --> 00:43:08,239 I was on a call the other day with all the pbr groups from 847 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,054 texas get it, you're gonna get this professional bull riders. 848 00:43:11,054 --> 00:43:15,809 I'm on a call with all the pbr people and I just ask them I 849 00:43:15,829 --> 00:43:18,675 mean all these people on this call and I said has anybody on 850 00:43:18,695 --> 00:43:20,340 this call ever ridden a bull before? 851 00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:23,675 I was the only person on the call that had ever ridden a bull 852 00:43:23,675 --> 00:43:27,610 and it's because you kind of wanted us to do that. 853 00:43:27,610 --> 00:43:29,856 You said you'll never know if you like it unless you try it. 854 00:43:29,856 --> 00:43:32,190 So I got to try it for four years. 855 00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:34,820 I was never any good at it, but I did it for four years. 856 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,349 Speaker 3: I was never any good at it, but I did it for four 857 00:43:37,369 --> 00:43:37,489 years. 858 00:43:37,489 --> 00:43:38,358 Well, that's part of it. 859 00:43:38,358 --> 00:43:38,847 You never know. 860 00:43:38,847 --> 00:43:41,659 Kids don't know what they like until they try it. 861 00:43:41,659 --> 00:43:43,657 So I don't like that, I don't like this. 862 00:43:43,657 --> 00:43:46,478 When you come to Boyle's Ranch, you didn't like anything. 863 00:43:46,478 --> 00:43:48,657 That's the reason I signed you up for everything. 864 00:43:50,170 --> 00:43:51,152 Speaker 2: Well, it worked. 865 00:43:52,454 --> 00:43:56,101 Speaker 3: So kids don't know what they like or what they need 866 00:43:56,101 --> 00:43:58,063 or what they want and everything. 867 00:43:58,063 --> 00:44:00,130 You know. 868 00:44:00,130 --> 00:44:01,132 They get in a rut and everything. 869 00:44:01,132 --> 00:44:04,356 And then you know I feel like if you try sports or if you try 870 00:44:04,396 --> 00:44:08,382 this or you know look what you did with ag you know you could 871 00:44:08,402 --> 00:44:10,905 have done the same thing if you was a sports guy. 872 00:44:10,905 --> 00:44:11,425 That's right. 873 00:44:11,425 --> 00:44:13,677 You know you could have been good in sports. 874 00:44:13,677 --> 00:44:22,052 You could have been good this, you could be good. 875 00:44:22,052 --> 00:44:23,056 You can do whatever you want to do. 876 00:44:23,056 --> 00:44:24,541 You know, sure, and if you got to have opportunity and somebody 877 00:44:24,541 --> 00:44:26,108 gives it to you, you know, and you know you can do anything you 878 00:44:26,108 --> 00:44:26,349 want to do. 879 00:44:26,349 --> 00:44:27,211 You know you got. 880 00:44:27,211 --> 00:44:30,385 You know you're blessed with the like you say you're in the 881 00:44:30,425 --> 00:44:34,076 best country in the world and everything, and you don't have 882 00:44:34,135 --> 00:44:37,222 no excuse for not to be good and do good things. 883 00:44:37,222 --> 00:44:38,715 You don't have an excuse. 884 00:44:38,715 --> 00:44:41,793 Well, how do you feel about a foreign country where they don't 885 00:44:41,793 --> 00:44:45,155 have nothing or anything, they don't have a chance to do what 886 00:44:45,175 --> 00:44:47,021 you do and stuff and everything? 887 00:44:47,021 --> 00:44:48,932 A? 888 00:44:49,715 --> 00:44:52,481 Speaker 2: lot of our listeners don't remember the Berlin Wall, 889 00:44:52,521 --> 00:44:56,170 but I do and I remember looking at that wall and there was a 890 00:44:56,231 --> 00:45:00,820 wall that separated communism from freedom and I remember 891 00:45:01,201 --> 00:45:04,434 pictures of 16-year-old kids caught in the fence trying to 892 00:45:04,474 --> 00:45:06,942 get to freedom, being shot to death. 893 00:45:06,942 --> 00:45:10,791 We have a lot to be thankful, by the way. 894 00:45:10,791 --> 00:45:14,237 Something else here I got to tell everybody you need to 895 00:45:14,297 --> 00:45:17,684 surround your people, like my good friend Cleo Franklin says. 896 00:45:17,684 --> 00:45:21,360 He says get yourself your own personal board of directors. 897 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,920 Get people that you surround yourself with that make you 898 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:25,300 better. 899 00:45:25,300 --> 00:45:30,125 And I hope everybody understands that I'm a little 900 00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:32,994 bit the way that I am today because Mr Channer was one of my 901 00:45:32,994 --> 00:45:33,818 board of directors. 902 00:45:33,818 --> 00:45:36,090 He made me better personally. 903 00:45:36,090 --> 00:45:38,536 But I got to tell you you got to be coachable. 904 00:45:38,536 --> 00:45:42,771 If you're not coachable, you can have all the Winston 905 00:45:42,791 --> 00:45:44,958 Chandlers in the world around you, but if you're not going to 906 00:45:44,998 --> 00:45:46,391 listen, you're not going to get any better. 907 00:45:46,391 --> 00:45:48,492 So you got to be coachable. 908 00:45:48,492 --> 00:45:53,960 But if you're coachable and you got good people around you, the 909 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:55,402 sky's the limit. 910 00:45:55,402 --> 00:45:56,943 Sky is the limit. 911 00:45:58,224 --> 00:46:02,215 Mr Chandler, thank you so much for joining me today on the 912 00:46:02,275 --> 00:46:03,998 Growing Our Future podcast. 913 00:46:03,998 --> 00:46:07,853 I tell people all the time if you want to know what the future 914 00:46:07,853 --> 00:46:08,795 is, grow it. 915 00:46:08,795 --> 00:46:13,291 Well, how do you grow the future, ladies and gentlemen? 916 00:46:13,291 --> 00:46:14,652 You're looking at it right here . 917 00:46:14,652 --> 00:46:19,519 You're looking at a man that took time to pour ideas and 918 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,105 philosophies and strategies into me. 919 00:46:23,105 --> 00:46:28,152 I planted those and, by gosh, they started to grow, and with 920 00:46:28,172 --> 00:46:32,197 that growth came opportunities that became blessings for me, 921 00:46:32,237 --> 00:46:34,960 and not just me, but my family and for others. 922 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,384 If you want to know what the future is, grow it. 923 00:46:38,384 --> 00:46:41,086 Mr Chandler, thank you for joining us today. 924 00:46:43,489 --> 00:46:47,425 Speaker 3: Thank you for sharing some seeds of greatness. 925 00:46:47,425 --> 00:46:49,592 Well, you're sure welcome and thanks for having me and 926 00:46:49,632 --> 00:46:51,097 everything, and so I hope somebody got a little bit of 927 00:46:51,137 --> 00:46:54,414 something out of this and everything, and so I hope it's, 928 00:46:54,695 --> 00:46:58,594 I hope it's good and you know people won't get bored, but 929 00:46:58,634 --> 00:46:59,175 listen. 930 00:46:59,235 --> 00:47:00,639 Speaker 2: So let me tell you something. 931 00:47:00,639 --> 00:47:03,318 There's a there's a great speaker called Tony Robbins. 932 00:47:03,318 --> 00:47:06,076 His name is Tony Robbins and I love his quote. 933 00:47:06,076 --> 00:47:10,396 You know what his quote is Success leaves clues. 934 00:47:10,396 --> 00:47:13,393 Yeah, Success leaves clues. 935 00:47:13,393 --> 00:47:15,476 Somebody watches this podcast. 936 00:47:15,476 --> 00:47:24,570 You've left some clues, Thank you. 937 00:47:24,570 --> 00:47:25,092 Thank you so much. 938 00:47:25,092 --> 00:47:25,695 Everybody else. 939 00:47:25,695 --> 00:47:26,137 Until we meet again. 940 00:47:26,137 --> 00:47:27,360 Thank you for stopping by the Growing Our Future podcast. 941 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,887 We appreciate you sharing some of your time with us. 942 00:47:28,887 --> 00:47:32,235 Everybody, be safe and until we meet again, go out and do 943 00:47:32,315 --> 00:47:33,757 something for somebody else. 944 00:47:33,757 --> 00:47:34,778 You'll feel good about it. 945 00:47:34,778 --> 00:47:35,561 You'll feel good about it. 946 00:47:35,561 --> 00:47:37,605 You'll change their world and guess what? 947 00:47:37,605 --> 00:47:39,476 You might even just change the whole world. 948 00:47:39,476 --> 00:47:42,137 Until we see each other again, thank you so much. 949 00:47:42,938 --> 00:47:43,661 Speaker 3: See ya, bye. 950 00:47:48,331 --> 00:47:50,317 Speaker 1: We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the 951 00:47:50,356 --> 00:47:51,922 Growing Our Future podcast. 952 00:47:51,922 --> 00:47:56,251 This show is sponsored by the Texas FFA Foundation, whose 953 00:47:56,351 --> 00:47:59,210 mission is to strengthen agricultural science education 954 00:47:59,751 --> 00:48:02,621 so students can develop their potential for personal growth, 955 00:48:03,070 --> 00:48:06,201 career success and leadership in a global marketplace. 956 00:48:06,201 --> 00:48:08,577 Learn more at mytexasffaorg.