Big Tex

This community is thriving in a lot of ways, but it's also known as a food desert.

So Big Tex has a farm.

So we, yes, not Old

McDonald's Farm, but Big

We grow produce through hydroponic systems and we have donated more than 2.2 million servings of fresh produce into South Dallas to help feed people in need.

Well, and speaking of scholarships, a new record was set this year.

The grand champion market steer of the Big Tex Youth Livestock Auction sold for $227,000.

Is that all scholarship money?

I mean, I'm for the giant hat.

And it's even bigger than the hat that Big Tex wears at the Texas State Fair, the Cotton Bowl, where Oklahoma beat Texas.

John Mateer exposed Arch Manning.

All right.

Uh, the, the, uh, the last day of the fair is always kind of an in- interesting day to go.

So Big Tex goes back into the big box until, uh, next year.

Hey, if you could be born at a different time, different decade, whatever, past or future-

Mm-hmm

We start back in 2012.

It was 14 years ago today, that was the day Big Tex went up in flames.

Oh, I was so sad 'cause I was walking down the promenade, and there was shouting, "Big Tex is on fire," so we went there, but the tragic part was there was a group of little kids that had just came from the science place, and they saw it, and they all just started crying.

I remember it well.

That would be...

Wow.

And today in 2012, State Fair of Texas, Big Tex was destroyed by fire.

Of course, he was rebuilt.

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