- You want to be gentle but firm at the same time.
You got it, you got it, you got it.
He gonna see you.
- See me play it off like that? Like, "Yeah."
All right, let me get another.
- You finally made it, baby!
- I feel like if you could drop in from the pyramid....
- Yeah.
- ... that's an accomplishment.
- If I don't get this I'm spending the night. Forever.
- It's my favorite room in the house.
- Come here.
I'm a little nervous! I don't want to break him.
- "Houseguest." We out here.
Y'all know what it is, man. I'm just pulling up.
- Is he rolling up on a tractor?
It's gonna take us 30 minutes for him to get over here,
but he coming up on a tractor.
- This is as fast as it goes.
My guy. What's up, baby?
- Rolling up on a tractor.
Hey, you got me, bro.
- I stopped in Texas, and I had to come see my bro, man.
- I like it, bro.
- You know how I'm saying? How you doing, baby?
- I'm doing pretty good, bro.
- Thanks for having me, man. You know what I'm saying?
Sorry to pull up like that, man, on your property, man.
You know what I'm saying?
- No, its all good.
- We are out here in Austin, Texas.
Can you tell me a little bit about, you know, where we at?
- We're out here at Greener Pastures Chicken, an operation
that we started about a year ago.
I went to college at Texas A&M for poultry science.
- Yup.
- People ask me how did I get
into poultry science....
- I was just about to ask you that.
- Man, honestly it started out by taking the
easy class. I'm not gonna lie.
But I used to fall asleep every day.
I used to fall asleep every day.
- So, you wasn't a good student in this class?
- I was a good student, but my professor, he just,
he made it hard on me. So, he would wake me up
and he would make me stand up and talk about,
you know, the class in front of everybody.
And, in turn, I just really fell in love with it.
It just hit me from there. It was like,
"Yep, I'm gonna be a chicken farmer."
Appreciate you, Dr. Farnell.
- Yeah so, we're gonna go in here, man,
and see what's behind these doors right here, man,
if you don't mind. We have a special guest,
you know, that pulled up on you, man.
- How you doing, guys?
- That's crazy.
- You know it. So its pretty cool to, you know,
have them here. So why not surprise you with,
you know, with your old professors, man.
- We just want you to know
that poultry science has got your back.
- You know, that's pretty cool, man.
- Thank you, thank you.
- It's cool because he was just telling me
how he used to fall asleep in class.
- Yeah, it kind of hurts my feelings a little bit.
- And how you made him stand up and learn about,
you know, the chickens. I wish I had a better professor
like you, man. I would've been in here with the chickens
with y'all. You know what I'm saying?
- That's a hell of a surprise.
- Word, Word.
- Like I said, I appreciate you guys for that.
- How did you get into
like animals, loving animals?
- Just from Day One, I've been hunting and fishing
since Day One. I learned how to shoot before I could write.
Just being out in the woods with my dad,
and going hunting and fishing, and being around wildlife,
it just created a love for
livestock and all animals for me.
- So does chasing around chickens have
anything to do with why you be getting so many sacks?
I know that this is the trick.
Chasing the chickens around, trying to get 'em?
That's how you be getting moving around
and get all them sacks, huh?
- The thing is when you chasing....
When I'm chasing a chicken, its about being patient.
- Right.
- You know, when I'm on a football field I'm just trying
to get from point A to point B as fast as possible.
- Right.
- You know, but here on the farm
I'm a little bit more gentle. You gotta have
your knees bent, you gotta be more patient.
- I think I may be more scared
to pick up the chicken than anything.
- You just gotta be patient.
It's like they gonna see you coming,
they gonna see you coming. You just gotta be patient.
- Oh, wow. Oh, that's O.K., you're O.K.
Look everybody quiet, like trying to wait and see.
It's O.K. Oh, don't bite me, don't pluck me.
I'm gonna have to get you one,
I'm gonna have to get one now.
- Just be patient.
- What's up?
Nah, come here, come here.
Come here. Oh!
I'm nervous, I'm nervous. I don't want to....
I feel like I don't want to break him.
- Nah, you had him.
- Come here. I gotta get you.
- Yup, you got it. Yup, yup.
- We good.
- We good, brother.
- We O.K. You O.K., you O.K.
All right, let me put you down.
See that? Yeah. Caught me a chicken today, guys.
You O.K.? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Nah, you good.
- I'm sorry.
- This is Cameron, and he runs
this Greener Pastures operation.
He's the guy that makes it go.
- The welfare of the chickens is definitely
really our top priority. Like if you took this
into comparison with
like a conventional chicken operation....
- Yeah.
- ... these chickens have exponentially more space.
This group size is never more than 2,000.
- Oh, O.K., cool.
- So these birds are three and a half weeks old,
and at this point we typically start moving them out
to pasture, assuming the weather conditions are right.
- So it's an all-natural environment,
it's truly pasture-raised.
- So, what is this? What is this device right here?
- This is our watering system.
So basically what happens is the chickens basically
just come up to it and they just hit it.
- So they just tap it and they get a little sip.
- Exactly, and then they....
- They get their hydration.
- Whenever they need it, and we have it running
the full length of the house, on both sides,
so that way there's plenty of access for any bird
that wants water at any given time.
One thing that's really unique about this type
of operation, you know ... this is regenerative agriculture.
So not only do the birds get the benefit of what's out
on the pasture, the land actually gets the benefit
of the birds being out on pasture.
- You guys are doing your thing out here, man.
This is pretty cool, man, to see
they just napping and chilling together.
- Yeah, they all good.
- Family, you know, just chilling. This is pretty cool.
- I feel like a happy bird tastes totally different....
- Than a bird that's stressed out?
- Yeah, than a bird that's stressed out.
- We gotta get you some so you can taste it.
They taste totally different.
- I gotta get some chicken. I'm gonna taste some chicken.
Can't wait for that
finger-lickin' good chicken. I can't wait.
Talk to me about, you know, how important
it was for you to, you know, to build something like this.
- You know, I didn't want like, you know,
a chicken operation where you got, you know,
we flooding birds in here and birds getting sick,
and we got all types of diseases.
I wanted a humanely-raised operation.
You know, I got with guys ... Paul Price, Cameron,
and Dr. Farnell, and all these guys that helped me create
a wonderful chicken operation. And we definitely created
a amazing, humanely-raised, pasture-raised product here,
non-GMO. And I'm super proud of it.
- Nice, this is beautiful, man. This is awesome.
So how did you get into football?
- My very first memory of a football game....
I just remember my dad like screaming, right?
He was screaming, and I'm like, "Man, I've never heard,
my dad sound like this."
So I went in the room, and I'm thinking something's wrong.
And I look at him, and he's watching the TV.
He's screaming because the Cowboys had just scored
a touchdown. And I'm looking at the TV, and I remember
like everybody was celebrating,
and running all over the field and stuff.
And I was like, "I want to make my dad scream like that.
I want to make my dad scream. I want him to scream
like that for me." I had to be like four or five years old,
and that's when my love for football began.
- Have you ever scored a touchdown?
- I've scored a couple of touchdowns.
- A couple of touchdowns? So what was your
feeling...? What was your feeling
on scoring your first touchdown?
Especially being a defensive guy,
because it's hella hard scoring on defense.
So when you got your first touchdown
on defense, how did you feel?
- Man, its amazing, bro. I'm like,
"Bro, I should be playing offense."
- Every person says that when they play defense.
They always say, "Man, I should be playing offense."
- "I should be playing offense."
I was like, "Man, they gotta see I got it.
You see how easy I caught this ball, man.
It's easy. I should be playing offense."
And then for the next two weeks you lobby up
the coaches: "Hey, man, put me on offense."
It never works, but....
- So, have you ever asked the coach to put you
like at fullback one time at the goal line?
- Every year.
- Every year? And they won't do it?
- I'm going on my ninth year and it never happens.
- Ah, man. Hey coach, if you listening to me,
can you give Von Miller one handoff?
Can we give him one handoff so he can dance?
So we can see him dance in the end zone?
- I got it, though. I mean, I get it.
Say if coach Fangio say, "Man, put Von
at quarterback and let him sneak it."
And I fumble the snap, and the offense....
The other team get the ball....
- So what? But look, you back on defense.
Then you back on defense.
Y'all, get him back on defense coach, you know.
- Somebody gonna lose their job right there.
- Right. Nah, ain't nobody gonna lose their job about that.
Well, listen, I got something for you, man.
First of all, you can't come to somebody's crib
and not bring them, you know, a housewarming gift.
You know what I'm saying? From me.
But, you know, when I played for the Denver Nuggets,
you know, I got my jersey, signed it to the Hall of Famer.
- Man. Oh, my God, man. I appreciate that, man.
- I got you a jersey, man.
I don't know if you got, you know.
- That's love, fam.
- Why not Denver, you know? You play for Denver, so....
- Yeah, this definitely going up in the basement.
- Yeah, facts. Facts, man.
- For sure, for sure.
- I just wanted to give you that, something you could have.
You know what I'm saying? Today has been awesome.
Pulled up in a tractor ... I mean, guys, come on, man.
I mean, you gotta bring Von Miller a jersey.
- Appreciate it. You just pay attention in class one time.
- One time.
- I paid attention in class one time and I got all this.
- And then look at it. You know what I'm saying?
It's been cool, man. Thank you.
- Thank you, appreciate you.
- ♪ Well, I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road. ♪
♪ I'm gonna ride till you can't no more. ♪
♪ I got the horses in the back. ♪
Hey, this is the perfect song for this.