EXPERIENCE 218 | Rotary Field of Honor and Rotary Peach Festival with Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club Members Teres Lambert & David Haase

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In today's episode of The Loco Experience, I was joined by Therese Lambert and David Haass, fellow members of the Rotary Breakfast Club in Fort Collins, which means every Thursday morning at 7:00 AM at Ginger and Baker.

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They were here in part to talk about a pair of significant rotary events coming up this spring and summer.

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The field of honor, May 23rd through the 26th, spearheaded by Therese and talk with David about the Peach Festival, which will be held August 16th this year at Civic Center Park in Old Town Fort Collins, one of the few remaining downtown festivals.

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The Field of Honor is a service to the community to honor heroes of all stripes on Memorial Day weekend.

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With 500 flags flying adjacent to the Veteran's Plaza and traveling Memorial Wall.

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This project allows community members to honor a veteran, a first responder, a foster parent, a teacher, or any other hero of their lives, with medallions attached to each flag.

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The Peach Festival is all things peachy and community and rotary with peach beers, live music, peach pie, eating contests, and much, much more.

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And we get to learn about what makes a great Rotarian.

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And what inspires a career professional to take the plunge into community service?

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Therese is a gifted writer and a topical expert in anything beef or dairy.

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And David is a veteran financial planner who gives dozens of hours each year to the cause of building community.

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This episode is all about service, career, and community, and I love sharing a bit of the journey with Therese Lambert and David hath.

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Welcome back to the Loco Experience Podcast.

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My guests today are David Haas and Therese Lambert.

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Uh, David is the chair of the Quad Club Peach Festival in Fort Collins, as well as a member of our, uh, rotary Breakfast Club.

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And there is a board member as well as kind of communications and marketing lead for a number of events, including the Peach Sale and the, um, field water.

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So, uh, let's start with the more immediate, uh, event coming up.

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We're, we're just six weeks away or something from the field?

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We are, we are, yeah.

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Can you, uh, set the stage, Therese and just kind of tell a little bit about the history of this event for Rotary and, and what we're planning specifically here at the end of May?

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Okay.

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The field of honor is.

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Brought to Fort Collins by Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary, and the field of honor is 500 American flags that fly in formation at Spring Canyon Community Park.

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And these flags have a medallion attached that the community is welcome to purchase.

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But each medallion tells a story.

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It honors a person.

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It indicates who the donor is, and a little story about why that person's being honored by the donor.

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Yeah.

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And it's just a way of honoring our heroes.

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And heroes.

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We count as active military, retired military, first responders, community leaders, personal heroes.

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Yeah.

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I mean, if a person's done something tremendous in your life and is your hero, for example, one, he, one person selected their hero was a person at their local.

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Grocery store who always had a smile for him and a pleasant comment whenever they walked in.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, uh, one of the first years of Field of Honor, I sadly, my, my mother-in-law passed from a, from a fall fell down the stairs.

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But she was just a beautiful person and it was meaningful for me to declare her a hero.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, and so, uh, I can see how the variety of honorees, uh, is such an important thing.

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Yeah.

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And it's, it's fun for Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary to bring this to the community, particularly on Memorial Day weekend.

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Yeah.

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And it's always set up so that it starts about three o'clock on a Friday of Memorial Day weekend and close us down about three o'clock on Memorial Day.

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Okay.

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And it's also kind of associated with the, the War Memorial there, is that right?

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We have the Traveling War Memorial this year.

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That'd be great.

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We do, that's the Veterans Plaza is bringing the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall again this year.

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Wow.

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It was there two years ago.

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And it's gonna be there again this year.

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They're gonna be at the same time.

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So there, it's about a five minute walk between the two.

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Cool.

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Um, and in addition to just the, the medallions, there's also a number of like community sponsorships and different things as well.

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Yeah.

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About three years ago we decided Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary is the sponsor.

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Okay.

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And we thought, you know what?

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I bet there's a lot of businesses within the Fort Collins community who would like to support this.

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So we started a campaign called Community Supporters, and there are five different levels.

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There's a$5,000 level, a$2,500.

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I think the next one is a thousand, then 502 50.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the$250 level is reserved for individuals and nonprofits, but all the others, typically we raise anywhere from 30 to$45,000.

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Wow.

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I know.

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It's so exciting because that money's returned to our community.

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It's awesome.

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Um, Dave, why don't I get you on the stage a little bit.

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Why don't you sketch out the, the Peach Festival?

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Well, this is gonna be my sixth year as the chair.

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We had a couple of covid interruptions.

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Uh, we were limited, but, uh, we were back in full swing down in Civic Center Park in, in, uh, old Town Fort Collins.

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And, uh, the last couple years, the, the momentum is building again.

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Um, we are looking forward to the vendors who are, we've got a fantastic response already.

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Vendors are, and, and for both food, retail, everybody else are quite.

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Quite anxious to be back part of it.

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Okay.

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And, uh, our bands are all set.

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You can go to Fort Collins Pizza also.com to check that all out.

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But, uh, we'll have a full day right down the Pacific Center Park and, uh, a great enjoyable community event.

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Um, we're the, you know, after the taste of Fort Collins, we're the only other major, uh, festival downtown.

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Yeah.

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That's wild, isn't it?

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How there used to be a festival every other weekend it seemed like.

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And is it just the, the cost of managing all the traffic and things, or is it just not profitable like the old stuff?

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All, all those things are part of it.

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There is quite a lot to do.

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I, I, I have to give shout outs to, I've got three very able assistants, Carrie Loganville at o Old, old Town Media.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, also with, uh, Steve Lane and Neil Harrison, fellow Rotarians as he carries too.

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And, uh, they do a tremendous amount of work.

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I kind of get to be the coordinator on that, uh, center point that everything goes through.

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But we have city contacts and uh, uh, private industry contracts, like you said, we've gotta mitigate traffic, we've gotta mitigate security.

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There's, there's a lot of things that required by the city to put on a festival.

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It is.

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So much work well before the day ever comes.

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When, when the day comes as as, as it looks easy if you, right, exactly.

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As, as Therese was talking about with the, uh, field of honor, the day of the event is actually the, the least busy day you're gonna have, because by then your problem should be, you know, if they're not resolved Exactly.

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So, no, we'll have, we'll have another, uh, great year.

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We've, uh, uh, benefited Habit Humanity, um, uh, boys and Girls clubs, many other local charities.

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We've divvied it up in, uh, the participating clubs too.

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Mm-hmm.

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And, uh, um, 50 to$60,000 each of the last couple years have been handed back.

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And, and some of that goes to the local, uh, things that we all do and as Rotarians, and then others go to international events that we all sponsor.

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So, you know, rotary has ways to help out people all across the world and locally.

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For somebody that hasn't been to the Peach Festival at all, can you kind of set the stage?

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It is an all day mm-hmm.

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Event.

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Do you know the date?

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Yes, I do.

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It's August 16th.

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Okay.

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Uh, it starts at 11 o'clock.

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It'll go till seven.

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Um, we have, uh, uh, the first band starting right after 11 o'clock.

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That's gonna be the last Waltz All Stars if, uh, okay.

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They're, they're, they're a local band of, uh, uh, many different musicians that, uh, put together a time to, to reenact the last waltz from the band.

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The band.

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And, uh, oh, nice.

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So those that, uh, know their, their, their music, uh, uh, made that a big, big event for us last year.

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Uh, second band is gonna be a, um, a ska band called 12 cents for Marvin.

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Oh.

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And Sweet.

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And they played a couple years ago.

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Good crush.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, exactly.

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And then, uh, our headliners this year for 2016, or excuse me, since, since we've had'em before for, for the headliner is gonna be the Boroughs Oh, sweet.

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Which, which are a national performing group now, but they're based outta Greeley.

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Yeah.

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And we do, uh, basically just stick with Northern Colorado and front range, uh, music groups.

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Okay.

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And I'd like to also thank the, uh, um, Bohemian Foundation.

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We get a sponsorship from them.

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Yep.

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And as with other.

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Uh, things that we talked about, uh, our, our sponsors are, are great help.

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We already have sponsors that lined up this year.

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Um, and, and you can see them on our website, many returning sponsors and, and the growth in that area has been very good for us too.

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Yeah.

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Uh, it offsets our costs and the things we have to do to put this event on.

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And now this is a, what we call a quad club.

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Mm-hmm.

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Event.

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So all four rotary clubs in Fort Collins get together to pull volunteers and brain power and do it stuff Yep.

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Together to, to make this happen.

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Yeah.

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That's correct.

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And, and as I said, I go, uh, Neil and Steve and Kerry are all for different clubs in mine for, I'm also the Breakfast club with, uh, Therese.

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And, um.

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And yourself.

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And so we reach out, we try to have, uh, additional individuals that volunteer within each of those clubs to kind of make sure that we're all spread out across the uh, yeah, yeah.

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The spectrum.

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And, and it doesn't become a, you know, we're, we're kind of that unadopted, you know, person for the, by any one clubs.

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'cause we all have our things we're doing.

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Every club does and, and do wonderful things.

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But since it's like, okay, that's, we're just part of that.

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So I I, I've grown this to where, you know, we have people helping that, that within each club, that, uh, kind of say, okay, we're gonna do well with this.

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We'll have our chance to, yeah, do this.

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And, and really as an outdoor, a community event and bringing all the clubs together, it, it's a pretty cool deal.

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And you've got like.

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Obviously like food trucks and food vendors and sponsor tents and, you know Yep.

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As of yesterday, chair massagers and things like that.

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Yeah.

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As of yesterday, there are 14 food vendors more still applying.

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Okay.

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And, uh, we could have a pretty much unlimited amount of retail vendors.

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We want, we have a bit of a balance and, and, uh, they're all local, Northern Colorado small businesses.

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We wanna make that very affordable then to be part of that day because that, that's their, part of their vocation.

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We're giving other, you know, local businesses a chance to, to do well.

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Yeah.

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And, and, and they come and they, they, they're Saturday.

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They're set up bright and early and they work hard all night long.

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And, and we know that it's gone well for the last few years.

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We wanna continue that.

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How many, uh, how many attendees do you track that, um, are high?

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Is it free?

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Free or you gotta pay to get in?

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It's, it's, uh, you're getting me right there.

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Sorry.

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Um, no, it is a$10, um, event fee, uh, just for anyone in 12 and older.

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Okay.

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And then, um.

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It's, it's, that gets you in it out all day long.

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Kids are free extra.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Under 12.

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Under 12 is free.

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So we, we will have things from face painting, a few of the things like that for the, for the younger children earlier in the day.

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We've, you know, we find that later in the afternoon, the, the young kids are, are kind of going away, but at, at, uh, we do have our recurring, uh, peach pie eating contest.

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Mm.

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Which is, which is a three minute, uh, um, get down and dirty.

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How much can you need?

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Three minutes.

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Yeah.

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You see, we've got these youngsters come up and they do a pretty good job.

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Um, again, those pies are donated by Ginger and baker every year.

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We thank them for that.

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And, uh, frankly, it's a, it's a great waste of a really great pie.

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I, I always have to laugh at that.

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So one thing, Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary, we actually sell peaches.

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Yeah.

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So we sell.

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Bags of peaches and boxes of peaches at the Peach Festival before that.

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Yeah.

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And also before that, so you can walk around.

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Yeah.

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Eating a big old Juicy Peach while you're listening to mu music.

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Yeah, I like it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There are, there are so many things that we can, we, we offer there.

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Peach Jams and Peach chili.

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Oh my gosh.

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Yeah.

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There, there, there are peach products.

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We, we have several brewers in and they all, one's gonna have one type of a, of a peach beverage that they're gonna brew up for us.

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Nice.

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Um, and, uh, Tim Cochrane from, uh, Tim and Carol from Horse and Dragon, as we all know them well, um, kinda spearhead the Brewers area for us.

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And Tim Tim's a club member also.

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Yes, he is.

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So we, we have.

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You know, it, it's all things peaches we possibly can and, and supporting, um, you know, the Rotary clubs that helps us turn around and do a lot of things locally.

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Yeah.

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And, and we're looking forward to just another good day.

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I, I, I would like to think we could get close to 5,000 people this year.

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Okay.

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And, which is a, it's a wonderful turnout.

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Yeah.

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And, and not too crowded.

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You can't turn around and enjoy yourself.

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But, uh, also, you know, we're, we're there to have as many people come down, have as much fun as they can.

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Awesome.

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Well mark your calendars if you're listening out there for August 16th.

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And, and check out, is there like a website or anything where I can get more information about the, the fields of honor there, field of Honor website will be ready in about two weeks.

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Okay.

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Our website person's been on a cruise.

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Okay.

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So we have to wait until he gets back, but it'll be going, it's, um, FC Rotary breakfast.

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Okay.

00:13:14.187 --> 00:13:17.157
Yeah, Google it, you'll find it and look up that part.

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Yep.

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And Peach Festival probably has its own page as well.

00:13:19.917 --> 00:13:20.157
Exactly.

00:13:20.157 --> 00:13:21.596
For Fort Collins Peach vessels.com.

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We've had that domain for many years now.

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Yeah.

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And uh, you can go back there, you can see the history, uh, of the Peach Festival for 16 apply to be a vendor sponsor.

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Yes, it's right on there.

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Literally Ven vendors, sponsors, and volunteers are all able to go right online, there and cool.

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Uh, we'll be, we welcome all.

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Awesome.

00:13:37.047 --> 00:13:51.417
And if somebody wants to, like a business, especially, we've got a lot of business owner listeners, Therese, if they want to potentially sponsor, be a community supporter of the, the fields of honor, without the website being up, how do they contact you Directly or, uh, me?

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Yes, with me.

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That would go to.

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Rotary FC breakfast.

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So the other one that's going to be up is FC Rotary Breakfast.

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Yeah.

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Our own website is Rotary FC Breakfast.

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Okay.

00:14:04.572 --> 00:14:06.701
So there is information on there.

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You can find it, it's there for on top end, uh, type in community supporter and you'll find it.

00:14:11.052 --> 00:14:11.231
Cool.

00:14:11.652 --> 00:14:11.951
I dig it.

00:14:12.461 --> 00:14:26.501
Um, let's get to know, one of the things I was just observing is even within this room, but also you mentioned Carrie Lugen Bill, who's probably about half of your age there or something, and she's just a puppy in town.

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And then you've got, you know, other old white guys and, and ladies.

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And we just got a large variety of people that choose to become rot Rotarians.

00:14:35.787 --> 00:14:35.996
Yeah.

00:14:36.807 --> 00:14:37.017
Yeah.

00:14:37.017 --> 00:14:42.417
I was, uh, um, brought in by, uh, John Hensman and, uh, several years back.

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Okay.

00:14:42.812 --> 00:14:50.907
And, and, and he knew my, I I've been on several boards and nonprofits and, and, uh, um, help fundraise in different ways all through my career.

00:14:51.057 --> 00:14:51.086
Okay.

00:14:51.086 --> 00:14:51.236
Yeah.

00:14:51.297 --> 00:14:52.197
I, I'm still working.

00:14:52.197 --> 00:14:56.517
I enjoy working, but, uh, um, rotary is a, is another give back thing.

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And, and I think what people don't realize is that it is, it's, it's more of a retirees kind of a group, but not entirely.

00:15:03.956 --> 00:15:04.136
Yeah.

00:15:04.197 --> 00:15:08.336
And, and the chance to do things in your community, the chance to affect things.

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Nationwide and worldwide.

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Yeah.

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You know, we have volunteers that, you know, you think you've done a good thing here by going out and helping cleaning up a trail.

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Those are all welcome things here locally.

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We have members that have gone to far off places and countries to help people build water systems.

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Yeah.

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Water systems and sanitation and things that eye care clearly packs.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Impact people in their lives and for generations.

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Yeah.

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So Rotary has the depth of anything that you wanna do to volunteer for, and I, I can't I challenge anybody to say, um, I can't find anything to do in Rotary.

00:15:41.711 --> 00:15:44.381
And um, Steve, what is your, what's your career?

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What do you, what do you do?

00:15:45.101 --> 00:15:47.591
I've been a financial, uh, advisor now for 41 years.

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Oh wow.

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So, um.

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Yeah, I'm probably that category of twice carrie's age.

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And, uh, she's been kind, not to rub that in too much, but, uh, um, no, it, it's, it's a, you know, as a salesperson, um, you're out in the community.

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Yeah.

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And, and, and I see so many different people.

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And that's one of the, the best things about my career is I deal with many different kinds of people.

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Yeah.

00:16:07.211 --> 00:16:12.611
And when you have that kind of a community, um, experience Yeah.

00:16:12.726 --> 00:16:15.251
You, you, you can see the people that are affected by certain things.

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You see people that are, that are doing well, you see others that could, could use some help.

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Yeah.

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And, and you find out the ways you can do that.

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And, and I think everybody should be involved in something, you know, give back.

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We've, uh, many of us have been blessed and had the chance to do well, um,'cause of our own work and our own hard work.

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But, uh, um, not everybody has the same breaks.

00:16:32.231 --> 00:16:32.981
Yeah, sure enough.

00:16:33.552 --> 00:16:37.241
Therese, why don't you, uh, introduce yourself with a little bit more in depth here.

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I have kind of a different background, I'd say.

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Okay.

00:16:40.511 --> 00:16:48.491
'cause even though there's a lot of writers and people that work in marketing and public relations, my specialty was animal agriculture.

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Yeah.

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So I wrote everything from conception to consumption on the beef industry.

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Okay.

00:16:54.701 --> 00:17:03.971
I also worked in the dairy industry, dabbled somewhat because of working in public relations and marketing in the swine industry and poultry industry as well.

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Okay.

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Interesting.

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Sometimes the equine, but my real interest was the beef industry.

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So can you, like when you see that big map of where all the cuts come from and stuff on a cow, you can just kind of do that.

00:17:16.332 --> 00:17:16.692
Yeah.

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But that goes back to my four H days.

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Oh, okay.

00:17:20.346 --> 00:17:25.896
I was one of those four H kids that learned how to judge beef cattle, but I also learned how to judge meat.

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Okay.

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So when you're judging meat, you have to know where every cut comes from and you can tell the difference between Prime or select or Oh choice Absolutely.

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And that kind of stuff.

00:17:35.017 --> 00:17:35.227
Yeah.

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I dig it.

00:17:36.396 --> 00:17:42.277
And so you worked, are you, are you still currently working in your field or have you retired mostly your freelance little dabbler?

00:17:43.267 --> 00:17:44.767
I like to be retired.

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Okay.

00:17:45.636 --> 00:17:48.426
I have an agreement with one publication.

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If they get in a bind, if a writer can't meet deadline or if they have a topic that might be a little above the average writer's head that I would step in if they needed it.

00:17:59.467 --> 00:17:59.497
Okay.

00:17:59.501 --> 00:18:04.416
So I usually write about two articles a year for a breed publication in the beef industry.

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Okay.

00:18:05.136 --> 00:18:05.137
Interesting.

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I I, I will say this, I think Theresa's being very modest, she had her own publication.

00:18:08.076 --> 00:18:09.096
You need to talk about that.

00:18:10.047 --> 00:18:29.967
So, oh golly, gee, I can't even remember what year I started, but I was looking in the cattle industry and they only had four color magazines where it was published by a breed association and went to their members, and their members were registered cattle people.

00:18:30.086 --> 00:18:30.356
Okay.

00:18:30.416 --> 00:18:32.606
And I got to looking and said, you know what?

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People who sell beef bulls sell a few, the very top end to registered people, but a majority of those bulls, and as well as their probably 50% or so with their females will go to commercial breeders.

00:18:48.416 --> 00:18:48.836
Yeah.

00:18:48.836 --> 00:18:48.837
Yeah.

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So I decided to start a publication in a particular breed that targeted that audience of commercial cattle people.

00:18:56.757 --> 00:18:57.297
Oh, interesting.

00:18:57.297 --> 00:18:57.866
It was that.

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What breed was that?

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It was Semial.

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Oh, okay.

00:19:00.866 --> 00:19:03.326
I've seen ALS are coming back like, yep.

00:19:03.356 --> 00:19:05.906
20 years ago Angus ruled the world a little bit.

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Mm-hmm.

00:19:06.237 --> 00:19:08.461
But now there's a lot more either Angus Al.

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Hybrids or even just cemental strains.

00:19:11.362 --> 00:19:11.652
Yeah.

00:19:12.086 --> 00:19:12.386
Yeah.

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There's one thing you had no small hand in that, well, one thing the audience probably doesn't know is that every black beef animal is not Angus.

00:19:22.737 --> 00:19:25.527
They have had such breeding programs where Yeah.

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They have pure black cemental, they have pure black limousine.

00:19:30.836 --> 00:19:33.567
You know, there's, every breed has black cattle.

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Tell me about the semial, if you don't mind, uh, tell, like why is it a, a superior breed to many or, or in what environments does it really flourish?

00:19:41.846 --> 00:19:47.156
Well, you're kind of hitting a spot back in 1970 mm-hmm.

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Was, we had a semial herd of cattle.

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Okay.

00:19:51.267 --> 00:19:51.269
All right.

00:19:51.386 --> 00:19:54.777
And so that's how I got my start writing about the semial breed.

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Okay.

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And so I worked.

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On a Semial ranch and then I got hired by a Semial publication to work for them.

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Okay.

00:20:03.701 --> 00:20:07.001
And so I spent probably 20 years in the Semial breed.

00:20:07.061 --> 00:20:07.481
Interesting.

00:20:07.781 --> 00:20:10.481
But I'm not totally aligned with Semial.

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I mean, if you ask me my favorite breed right now, yeah.

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It's gonna be Red Angus and Gulpie.

00:20:14.622 --> 00:20:14.862
Okay.

00:20:16.152 --> 00:20:18.701
And I also, I love Semial.

00:20:18.701 --> 00:20:26.771
I have some beautiful Semial friends and they got great cattle, but I don't think there's any one breed of cattle that's superior to any other breed.

00:20:27.162 --> 00:20:38.892
There's enough genetic differences within each breed that there's a really great cattle and then there's a lower end all depends on the breeding program of the people raising those cattle.

00:20:39.491 --> 00:20:48.612
I read a book a while back, gosh, probably even five or more years ago, but it was kind of about an early rancher in some canyon out in Utah or something.

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And um, you know, had been a lot of longhorns and things like that previous, but the Hereford was really.

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Taking control of the, the rancher marketplace at that time because of its relatively small size and less horniness and Yes.

00:21:03.132 --> 00:21:03.971
Stuff like that.

00:21:03.977 --> 00:21:04.356
Mm-hmm.

00:21:04.576 --> 00:21:09.551
Um, and then like, tell me, gimme, gimme a little bit of a lowdown just for fun.

00:21:09.551 --> 00:21:10.061
My sake.

00:21:10.061 --> 00:21:14.021
Really Like what are these different breeds, like good at or not good at?

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Is a Red Angus just the same as a Black Angus, but with red skin or red hair, things like that?

00:21:21.672 --> 00:21:23.501
I am, you're getting way beyond.

00:21:23.592 --> 00:21:23.981
Okay.

00:21:24.162 --> 00:21:25.602
What type, it's like, okay.

00:21:26.261 --> 00:21:30.071
I believe Red Angus started as a genetic.

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Offshoot Okay.

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Of Black Angus and, but you have to have pure Red Angus, they have to have the right genes to stay red.

00:21:38.696 --> 00:21:38.846
I see.

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Consistently.

00:21:39.926 --> 00:21:40.527
Oh, okay.

00:21:40.527 --> 00:21:40.616
Yeah.

00:21:40.676 --> 00:21:45.987
So they've got the Red Angus and they, they are such a wonderful, wonderful breed.

00:21:46.017 --> 00:21:46.227
Yeah.

00:21:46.646 --> 00:21:54.896
The reason people think Black Angus is because, oh golly, we're going way back in my brain would be when the, uh.

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Certified Angus beef started CAB.

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Yeah.

00:21:58.037 --> 00:21:58.356
Yeah, yeah.

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And what people don't know when they see now CAB and Certified Angus beef advertised everything, the first 10 years of CAB being organized was struggled.

00:22:09.162 --> 00:22:10.872
They couldn't get going.

00:22:10.961 --> 00:22:11.021
Hmm.

00:22:11.021 --> 00:22:14.261
And I know the original people that were involved in CAB.

00:22:14.261 --> 00:22:14.557
Yeah, yeah.

00:22:14.922 --> 00:22:21.701
But once the Angus Association started with CAB, then it really boosted everything.

00:22:21.761 --> 00:22:21.912
Hmm.

00:22:22.092 --> 00:22:22.511
Interesting.

00:22:22.751 --> 00:22:25.602
So to me, there's no superior one breed.

00:22:25.692 --> 00:22:25.932
Yeah.

00:22:25.961 --> 00:22:28.872
There's a really great cattle within every breed.

00:22:29.382 --> 00:22:32.412
It just depends on what you want in your own herd.

00:22:32.622 --> 00:22:32.862
Yeah.

00:22:33.372 --> 00:22:35.142
What emphasis you want.

00:22:35.592 --> 00:22:40.451
Well, I assume some of them put on weight faster or they're more or less aggressive, but that's more stereotyping.

00:22:40.451 --> 00:22:41.231
You can't really do that.

00:22:41.576 --> 00:22:43.557
That's within any breed, they will do that.

00:22:43.586 --> 00:22:43.916
Fair enough.

00:22:43.916 --> 00:22:47.007
It all depends on the genetics that you purchase.

00:22:47.457 --> 00:22:50.426
You sound like you might have a little bit of knowledge in that space as well.

00:22:50.426 --> 00:22:53.186
You got some rancher clients or you come from ranching stock David?

00:22:53.186 --> 00:22:53.606
I, I do.

00:22:53.606 --> 00:23:03.987
I'm a small town kid from Nebraska, so being around cattle and, and, uh, horses, things like that, we're, we're pretty much growing up thing, you know, most of us on the end of the, the kid throwing the hay bales and everything else.

00:23:04.196 --> 00:23:04.287
Oh yeah.

00:23:04.287 --> 00:23:12.356
But, uh, um, learn learning that, uh, what really good, hard work is, and, uh, I, I, so we've had chats about her, her background.

00:23:12.356 --> 00:23:15.356
She's, you know, being from Kansas and she's a K State grad.

00:23:15.356 --> 00:23:29.247
So all those things that go along with, uh, our backgrounds there are, are part of it, but it, you know, it ties in here to, to Colorado State University, you know, as an ag school and the research and things like that that tie into the beef industry, the cattle industry, the swine industry.

00:23:29.247 --> 00:23:29.336
Sure.

00:23:29.606 --> 00:23:30.656
Um, that's.

00:23:31.406 --> 00:23:39.747
We're, we're a, we're a land grant university, and that's, that's been part of the, the, uh, process for everything in ag for many, many years, even though we've become kind of this tech town.

00:23:39.866 --> 00:23:40.106
Sure.

00:23:40.106 --> 00:23:47.606
You know, but, uh, there's still a very live portion of that that comes, uh, uh, attached with, uh, everything that goes along with, uh, agriculture.

00:23:47.636 --> 00:23:49.132
Well, you can't eat software and Exactly.

00:23:49.832 --> 00:23:50.132
You know?

00:23:50.132 --> 00:23:50.133
Yeah.

00:23:50.791 --> 00:23:55.826
And, and, and I, I still have some favorite ranchers that I, I get my beef from on an annual basis.

00:23:55.826 --> 00:23:58.977
So I, I get to be kind of, uh, selective about it too.

00:23:59.396 --> 00:23:59.547
You know?

00:23:59.547 --> 00:24:11.067
It, it's, it's, it just, it's an interesting thing because you see the, um, you know, you talked about from, from Longhorns, I mean, you know, the, they still do the drives every year for, for the, you know, the National Western Stock Show.

00:24:11.067 --> 00:24:13.227
They still have cattle that are part of that.

00:24:13.231 --> 00:24:13.332
Mm-hmm.

00:24:13.416 --> 00:24:21.087
You know, the CS U spur down in Denver now has become a, an amazing, um, extension of the university and making a, yeah.

00:24:21.093 --> 00:24:21.987
A metro area presence.

00:24:21.987 --> 00:24:23.247
So, um.

00:24:24.102 --> 00:24:27.942
Uh, but yeah, my back, my background is, like I say, it's, it's not just a consumer.

00:24:27.942 --> 00:24:31.751
So I, I, I grew up around a lot of farming criers in a little small town.

00:24:31.932 --> 00:24:33.071
That's where you go to work, right?

00:24:33.342 --> 00:24:33.582
Yep.

00:24:33.701 --> 00:24:38.321
And I used to come to Case, uh, to K State, to CSU Hmm.

00:24:38.352 --> 00:24:41.261
Quite often to interview different professors.

00:24:41.352 --> 00:24:41.951
Oh, is that right?

00:24:42.342 --> 00:24:51.461
I knew they were pretty robust in the grain study and stuff at CSU, but I didn't realize they had such a large, uh, animal husband Ry, I guess program.

00:24:51.521 --> 00:24:51.932
Dr.

00:24:51.932 --> 00:24:53.471
Gary Smith was mm-hmm.

00:24:53.686 --> 00:24:54.386
The guru.

00:24:54.737 --> 00:24:55.027
Okay.

00:24:55.332 --> 00:24:59.652
And he was all through the beef cattle circuit with his presentations.

00:24:59.652 --> 00:25:00.612
He was amazing.

00:25:01.842 --> 00:25:04.332
David, you mentioned that John Hensman brought you into Rotary.

00:25:04.332 --> 00:25:08.981
When was that and, and what was your like rotary origin experience?

00:25:08.981 --> 00:25:10.632
Did you jump right in?

00:25:10.662 --> 00:25:11.592
Uh, did you take a few?

00:25:11.592 --> 00:25:12.521
Coke Sings?

00:25:12.942 --> 00:25:14.832
Um, he, you know, he got off to me a few times.

00:25:14.832 --> 00:25:15.672
It was, it was, uh, it.

00:25:16.721 --> 00:25:21.767
You know, he, we knew each other well enough, so it really wasn't a surprise that he could figure out I would probably like Rotary.

00:25:22.011 --> 00:25:22.211
Yeah.

00:25:22.211 --> 00:25:26.082
So, and, and I had been on, he was serving on nonprofit boards and stuff like that.

00:25:26.142 --> 00:25:26.832
Yeah, exactly.

00:25:26.832 --> 00:25:33.491
So I've, I've done those from, um, you know, I was nine years on the local, uh, Fort Collins, uh, baseball club board.

00:25:33.491 --> 00:25:38.326
I, I've, I've done other things where, um, just being involved in, in.

00:25:38.451 --> 00:25:41.961
I'm not a sit still person, so I, I, you know, I'm a working dog.

00:25:41.961 --> 00:25:44.271
I need things to be, I need tasks, right?

00:25:44.271 --> 00:25:47.152
So, um, oh, you tar up pillows and stuff like that?

00:25:47.152 --> 00:25:47.301
Yeah.

00:25:47.781 --> 00:25:49.791
Everything you can find in a rotary, just as that is.

00:25:49.791 --> 00:25:54.622
'cause there's so many different things we do just within our club, you know, from, as an annual basis.

00:25:54.622 --> 00:26:00.592
I mean, like, you're, you're involved so much in, in the$10,000 raffle, all the things we've had over the years that we can do.

00:26:00.592 --> 00:26:11.842
So, um, he knew that, uh, uh, coming and, and getting to meet different bus, different people, some retired, some not, uh, people I did know that I, I started seeing, oh, I've actually seen you many times.

00:26:12.291 --> 00:26:12.892
I didn't don mean rotary.

00:26:12.896 --> 00:26:13.221
Yeah, yeah.

00:26:13.221 --> 00:26:19.912
So it, you, we try not to be, you know, the secret Rotarians, we wanna start telling more people about it, and that's kind of part of what the Peach Festival is about.

00:26:19.912 --> 00:26:20.152
Right?

00:26:20.152 --> 00:26:24.442
Like, it's kind of a big advertisement for hey Rotary's cooler than you think.

00:26:24.501 --> 00:26:24.711
Yeah.

00:26:24.832 --> 00:26:25.102
Yeah.

00:26:25.396 --> 00:26:26.656
That's, is that kind of the summary?

00:26:26.662 --> 00:26:27.652
That's a great way to put it.

00:26:27.652 --> 00:26:27.832
Yeah.

00:26:27.832 --> 00:26:28.402
I'll take it.

00:26:28.642 --> 00:26:28.942
Yeah.

00:26:28.942 --> 00:26:33.142
Well, and, and it's, you know, vol, volunteerism, um.

00:26:34.122 --> 00:26:35.172
Has always been around.

00:26:35.531 --> 00:26:37.932
Um, what can you do to affect somebody?

00:26:37.932 --> 00:26:38.951
What can you do to help somebody?

00:26:38.951 --> 00:26:43.751
What are the things that give you that chance to, um, make that difference?

00:26:44.051 --> 00:26:45.612
And it's hard on your own.

00:26:46.031 --> 00:26:46.301
Yeah.

00:26:46.362 --> 00:26:49.211
You know, it, it is hard to be that, you know, you know, no man's an island.

00:26:49.211 --> 00:26:52.001
Well, yeah, you can be if you're trying to, trying to affect a lot of different people.

00:26:52.001 --> 00:26:56.561
But together we found, you know, as, as the Peach Festival, it is, we, we, we have our own boost.

00:26:56.561 --> 00:27:00.132
We talk about the, uh, um, the Rotary leadership camps.

00:27:00.132 --> 00:27:06.311
We do, we have all the things we do that help local high school kids and local kids getting scholarships to go scholarships, exchange programs.

00:27:06.342 --> 00:27:07.031
Exactly.

00:27:07.031 --> 00:27:09.821
And, and things that people have no idea that Rotary does.

00:27:09.821 --> 00:27:22.842
We have, uh, uh, a young lady right now attending high school locally from Italy, you know, and we've got our own student, our sponsor, our club sponsor that I think is, no, she was in Italy now, somebody we've got, I'm not sure where our current one's at.

00:27:23.557 --> 00:27:24.636
I don't know what, I'm not sure.

00:27:24.636 --> 00:27:25.757
Yeah, we sent them somewhere.

00:27:25.977 --> 00:27:26.531
Oh yeah, I know.

00:27:26.531 --> 00:27:28.932
They're, they're, and they, the experience of their lives.

00:27:29.231 --> 00:27:33.011
So, um, there's just so many different things you can get involved in.

00:27:33.011 --> 00:27:40.061
Like I said before, if you can't find something you need to do, um, somebody will be gladly grabbing you by the elbow and saying, okay, get into that.

00:27:40.061 --> 00:27:41.531
And that's kind what John did for me.

00:27:41.862 --> 00:27:44.172
Um, he said, you know, you get involved in this, do this.

00:27:44.172 --> 00:27:48.071
I, I started as on, on the Peach Festival in 2018 when I joined Rotary.

00:27:48.192 --> 00:27:49.152
Oh, that was when you joined.

00:27:49.152 --> 00:27:49.932
You were right in there.

00:27:50.037 --> 00:27:50.326
Yeah.

00:27:50.332 --> 00:27:50.622
Yeah.

00:27:50.622 --> 00:27:54.132
And, uh, I didn't, I don't show up just to attend things.

00:27:54.132 --> 00:27:55.422
I, I, I'm not that person.

00:27:55.422 --> 00:27:56.231
Never have been.

00:27:56.231 --> 00:27:59.501
And, uh, um, I'm not scared of failure.

00:27:59.561 --> 00:28:00.612
I'll, I'll get out and try.

00:28:00.852 --> 00:28:04.511
I'll learn from it and, uh, um, try to get it better and pitch in.

00:28:04.511 --> 00:28:08.471
And I take coaching quite well, so I've never had a problem with those things.

00:28:08.951 --> 00:28:21.701
Um, it, it's the, if you run any anybody's ever run something, you know, you get a lot of bench quarterbacks and, and, uh, one of my, uh, uh, committee members has got a great line, so I I appreciate that.

00:28:22.122 --> 00:28:23.711
You know, how you can, you know, make that work.

00:28:23.801 --> 00:28:25.092
Here's a whistle and here's a clipboard.

00:28:25.092 --> 00:28:25.632
Get involved.

00:28:26.442 --> 00:28:26.561
Yep.

00:28:26.561 --> 00:28:26.563
Yep.

00:28:26.567 --> 00:28:33.612
And, and, and other than that, it's like, okay, let's, let's all get together and do it, you know, and, and, uh, um, don't have time for those that, uh.

00:28:34.166 --> 00:28:35.366
Wanna stay on the sidelines.

00:28:35.396 --> 00:28:35.666
Yeah.

00:28:35.666 --> 00:28:40.346
You know, because there's so much we can do and we all have only so many years that we might wanna do it.

00:28:40.376 --> 00:28:44.426
You know, you've got your own lives, you're doing things too, but there's just great satisfaction.

00:28:44.487 --> 00:28:48.477
Um, several years ago we took a, a 10,000 check over to the Boys and Girls Club.

00:28:48.507 --> 00:28:48.717
Yeah.

00:28:49.257 --> 00:28:51.416
And that was.

00:28:52.781 --> 00:28:53.592
Amazing to see.

00:28:53.652 --> 00:28:53.951
Yeah.

00:28:54.192 --> 00:28:58.751
You know, you just don't know the parts of Fort Collins where not everybody has Yeah.

00:28:58.751 --> 00:29:00.102
That might affect a hundred different kids.

00:29:00.192 --> 00:29:00.701
Exactly.

00:29:00.761 --> 00:29:03.221
You, you, you know, you, you just, you, you grow up in your world.

00:29:03.221 --> 00:29:10.422
You grow up and your kids are doing their thing and you have a chance to, uh, on a daily basis, make a difference in somebody else's life.

00:29:10.426 --> 00:29:15.467
F and, and it's the sum of many of us doing something versus just one person alone.

00:29:16.366 --> 00:29:16.426
Yeah.

00:29:16.426 --> 00:29:17.567
Can't affect much on your own.

00:29:17.596 --> 00:29:17.836
Yeah.

00:29:17.842 --> 00:29:18.071
Yeah.

00:29:18.092 --> 00:29:27.346
And, and, and we're able to make that big a difference and, and, uh, we, you know, everybody, we all know here, you know, habitat humanity, we've done some big things in Habitat.

00:29:27.737 --> 00:29:32.477
There's several other things that we've done, um, as, as a Oh, can't even make a list, you know?

00:29:32.477 --> 00:29:32.672
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:29:32.717 --> 00:29:36.436
There's 200 different causes that have benefited in my time with Rotary.

00:29:36.436 --> 00:29:36.977
Exactly.

00:29:36.977 --> 00:29:46.067
And, and as we see those, um, that chance to do it, but then have a great day of just out, have fun, you know, great Colorado sunshine.

00:29:46.217 --> 00:29:46.426
Yeah.

00:29:46.487 --> 00:29:52.606
You know, knock on road a survivor on the, uh, on the festival front here, where it used to be everybody had a festival.

00:29:52.727 --> 00:29:52.906
Yeah.

00:29:53.176 --> 00:29:53.477
Yeah.

00:29:53.477 --> 00:29:55.876
It is, it's, it's, there's some things to do.

00:29:55.876 --> 00:30:04.727
I mean, more and more, you know, Boian Foundation with pretty much, uh, a fair, fair amount of, uh, backing themselves that they need, that they've, you know, the New West Fest is gone.

00:30:04.846 --> 00:30:05.116
Yeah.

00:30:05.386 --> 00:30:08.446
And, and, and there's, there's just, it's the logistics of these things.

00:30:08.836 --> 00:30:10.696
Um, it, there's a lot more work.

00:30:10.696 --> 00:30:18.047
I mean, I, I, I, we were, last, last year's festival was done and a week later I had bands contact me for, for 20, 25.

00:30:18.436 --> 00:30:18.527
Yeah.

00:30:18.527 --> 00:30:19.576
And vendors start in.

00:30:19.576 --> 00:30:22.997
So we've, we've been, we really don't have a downtime.

00:30:23.207 --> 00:30:23.356
Yeah.

00:30:23.537 --> 00:30:25.396
But we have a pretty good, um.

00:30:26.291 --> 00:30:27.551
Pattern of what we need to do.

00:30:27.582 --> 00:30:27.852
Yeah.

00:30:27.856 --> 00:30:27.916
Yeah.

00:30:27.916 --> 00:30:32.801
And, and my, uh, partners that, uh, get the, all those little things that make it all happen.

00:30:32.801 --> 00:30:33.102
Done.

00:30:33.132 --> 00:30:34.602
Uh, I've been very good.

00:30:34.602 --> 00:30:47.231
Do you have a, uh, successor in mind for that chair position or, you know, you could run that for a few more years and I, I, I, I enjoy it, so I, I mean, you know, until I'm told it's like, okay, we could, somebody could do it better, you know, then I'll, I'll back off you.

00:30:47.231 --> 00:30:47.412
I know.

00:30:47.412 --> 00:30:47.682
I love it.

00:30:47.682 --> 00:30:48.011
I love it.

00:30:48.011 --> 00:30:48.071
Yeah.

00:30:48.102 --> 00:30:51.372
I, I will probably, you know, try and stop me.

00:30:51.701 --> 00:30:52.332
All right, cool.

00:30:52.332 --> 00:30:52.751
I love it.

00:30:52.757 --> 00:30:56.142
I love it because I, I, I don't, I mean, I need something to do like that.

00:30:56.321 --> 00:31:02.382
My, my wife is, is always the, the one that, uh, um, says, okay, go do something.

00:31:02.652 --> 00:31:03.582
Let me read my book.

00:31:03.582 --> 00:31:05.231
Yeah.

00:31:05.231 --> 00:31:05.232
Yeah.

00:31:05.239 --> 00:31:13.301
And she does fantastic things in, in her, her volunteerism, but to me it's, it's the, I've gotta be the person that picks up the something or other grab a ball run.

00:31:13.362 --> 00:31:13.632
Yeah.

00:31:14.142 --> 00:31:15.461
And that's just the way I've always been.

00:31:58.912 --> 00:32:05.584
/Therese, you've, uh, got an interesting rotary engagement story, I guess, and it happens to involve me.

00:32:05.644 --> 00:32:07.834
Uh, would you care to share that?

00:32:07.834 --> 00:32:09.243
And, and what, when was that?

00:32:09.273 --> 00:32:10.594
That was three years ago or something.

00:32:10.594 --> 00:32:12.213
I think it was three years ago.

00:32:12.273 --> 00:32:12.544
Okay.

00:32:12.784 --> 00:32:18.483
So I contacted Kurt Bear, merely I wanted to pick Kurt Brain.

00:32:18.723 --> 00:32:25.864
I was the president of a nonprofit that offered horseback riding to special needs individuals.

00:32:25.894 --> 00:32:25.953
Yeah.

00:32:26.523 --> 00:32:31.054
And front range, exceptional Equestrians was really struggling financially.

00:32:31.413 --> 00:32:34.324
So I thought, well, Kurt Bearer, he knows a lot about this.

00:32:34.324 --> 00:32:36.933
Well, and you saw like a magazine interview with me or something.

00:32:36.933 --> 00:32:37.324
I did.

00:32:37.324 --> 00:32:37.713
Right.

00:32:37.719 --> 00:32:38.403
I, I did.

00:32:38.403 --> 00:32:47.044
And I thought, I don't know this gentleman, but I wanna pick his brain and I wanna know how we can get front range exceptional equestrians to get more funding.

00:32:47.134 --> 00:32:47.374
Yeah.

00:32:47.644 --> 00:32:56.884
And so, Kurt and I, you and I had a conversation and you happen to mention at one time, are you familiar with Rotary?

00:32:57.239 --> 00:32:59.699
Yeah, I did not know what Rotary was.

00:32:59.699 --> 00:33:03.868
Now I will admit, I had lived in Fort Collins area for about nine years.

00:33:03.898 --> 00:33:04.138
Okay.

00:33:04.528 --> 00:33:07.078
But I, yeah, just hadn't hit your radar yet.

00:33:07.078 --> 00:33:11.608
I just hadn't met anyone in Rotary or anyone who talked about it.

00:33:11.669 --> 00:33:11.848
Yeah.

00:33:12.118 --> 00:33:18.118
And so you invited me to a couple of meetings and I went and I thought, Ooh, I think I could like this.

00:33:18.118 --> 00:33:25.019
'cause I'm one, having been raised in a poor by a four H family, we were taught to give back to our community.

00:33:25.078 --> 00:33:25.288
Yeah.

00:33:25.348 --> 00:33:29.669
That's what you do, you, it's service above self.

00:33:29.909 --> 00:33:30.058
Yeah.

00:33:30.088 --> 00:33:34.078
And it just fit in with how I was raised and how I believe.

00:33:34.679 --> 00:33:41.578
And my husband works, or, well, he actually retires in about 10 days, but he was working full time.

00:33:41.638 --> 00:33:41.788
Yeah.

00:33:41.848 --> 00:33:45.509
And I was trying to figure out what am I gonna do with all my spare time.

00:33:45.538 --> 00:33:45.749
Yeah.

00:33:45.989 --> 00:33:48.778
So Rotary really hit it for me.

00:33:48.989 --> 00:33:53.729
I like their, I like how there's a variety of individuals.

00:33:54.269 --> 00:34:00.118
Who have their own unique personalities, but yet we come together for common causes.

00:34:00.209 --> 00:34:00.388
Yeah.

00:34:00.659 --> 00:34:03.598
And I love the fact that we give back to our community.

00:34:03.808 --> 00:34:10.438
I like giving back internationally, but I may give back to the community whether it's time, talent, money.

00:34:11.219 --> 00:34:13.708
That's why God put us on this earth as just serve others.

00:34:13.798 --> 00:34:13.889
Yeah.

00:34:13.889 --> 00:34:16.708
So that's what I, I found Rotary.

00:34:17.489 --> 00:34:28.708
What's that for me on my, uh, Rotarian of the Year application this past year or two years ago, maybe it was, I, I just wrote, uh, I recruited, uh, Therese to the Rotary Club.

00:34:29.518 --> 00:34:31.320
That was, that was my big contribution for the year.

00:34:31.648 --> 00:34:33.539
I, I'm not sure it got me the title.

00:34:33.539 --> 00:34:34.289
I don't think it did.

00:34:34.289 --> 00:34:42.119
But, uh, no, it's been a joy to just, especially what I've loved about your engagement, Therese, is that you saw kind of.

00:34:42.539 --> 00:34:51.838
A gap in that communications and marketing and, and how do we communicate and express the things that we're doing and, and get that out there.

00:34:52.409 --> 00:34:55.708
And it's been awesome to see the just evolution of that.

00:34:55.708 --> 00:34:57.329
We're so much more visible than we had been.

00:34:57.869 --> 00:34:58.498
Well, and it.

00:34:59.068 --> 00:35:00.509
This is kind of self-serving.

00:35:01.139 --> 00:35:02.369
I love to write.

00:35:02.489 --> 00:35:04.889
I mean, I love, love, love to write.

00:35:05.579 --> 00:35:14.518
And Rotary gives me an opportunity to write, to use my brain to figure out, oh, where can we look at avenues for free publicity?

00:35:14.518 --> 00:35:17.369
Or how can we get the word out better?

00:35:17.548 --> 00:35:17.878
Mm-hmm.

00:35:17.969 --> 00:35:24.268
And yes, I'm learning more and more about Facebook and creating reels and doing all that.

00:35:24.268 --> 00:35:28.048
I'm learning that this old dog, even at 75, can learn a Newt trick.

00:35:28.228 --> 00:35:29.398
And that's been fun.

00:35:29.518 --> 00:35:29.789
Awesome.

00:35:29.938 --> 00:35:32.429
But that's, it forces me to learn more.

00:35:32.434 --> 00:35:32.594
Right.

00:35:32.998 --> 00:35:40.259
And that's the other thing I really like about Rotary, and we haven't mentioned it, the speakers, we have come to our rotary meetings.

00:35:40.289 --> 00:35:40.378
Mm-hmm.

00:35:40.768 --> 00:35:42.594
Oh my gosh, I learned so much.

00:35:42.784 --> 00:35:43.074
Yeah.

00:35:43.228 --> 00:35:45.074
And I run home or drive home.

00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.554
And if John's home, that's one of the first things I tell him is tell him all about what you learned today.

00:35:49.554 --> 00:35:49.793
Yeah.

00:35:49.793 --> 00:35:50.514
That's what I learned today.

00:35:50.793 --> 00:35:51.273
I didn't know.

00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:56.248
So much as what they're telling us in Rotary at the different meetings.

00:35:56.248 --> 00:35:57.719
So that, I love that too.

00:35:57.809 --> 00:35:59.699
CSU extension kind of thing.

00:35:59.704 --> 00:35:59.844
Mm-hmm.

00:35:59.983 --> 00:36:02.969
For the, like the older education kind of focused stuff.

00:36:02.969 --> 00:36:08.188
I was like, dang, that's so much I'm, I'm gonna be probably this next winter I'm gonna get involved some of this.

00:36:08.188 --> 00:36:09.838
Like, I want take a class or two.

00:36:09.838 --> 00:36:11.248
Just, you know, I'm such a history nerd.

00:36:11.458 --> 00:36:13.768
It's like, okay, I can go do that.

00:36:13.798 --> 00:36:14.244
Yeah, yeah.

00:36:14.518 --> 00:36:16.798
Well, and to for a couple hundred bucks or something like that.

00:36:16.798 --> 00:36:16.800
Yeah.

00:36:16.804 --> 00:36:17.369
Well, yeah.

00:36:17.369 --> 00:36:19.259
And those are things we just didn't know.

00:36:19.259 --> 00:36:23.699
And we have such a varied group as all the four clubs in town do.

00:36:24.088 --> 00:36:29.909
Um, people bring different things they do and, and, and recruiting speakers.

00:36:29.909 --> 00:36:31.588
We've all pitched in to get somebody in there.

00:36:31.588 --> 00:36:35.789
You know, pretty much everybody I think has in our club has found somebody to come speak over the years.

00:36:35.789 --> 00:36:38.398
I've learned, and it is a way to say, okay.

00:36:39.088 --> 00:36:40.409
This is, this is kind of cool.

00:36:40.469 --> 00:36:41.518
I mean, from, from Yeah.

00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:45.748
A local, uh, uh, tax initiative that, that's gonna help keep things going.

00:36:45.778 --> 00:36:46.168
Um, yeah.

00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:55.378
For different, uh, different things the city government provides to, um, someone who, you know, the mental health facilities that just new here to town, but what can it do and who does it help?

00:36:55.918 --> 00:37:02.159
There's really not many chances to sit down and actually have somebody give you the depth that we get when we have our speakers at our clubs.

00:37:02.248 --> 00:37:02.309
Yeah.

00:37:02.309 --> 00:37:05.789
And, and that I think is, is very key.

00:37:05.789 --> 00:37:10.164
I mean, you take away something each, each morning and that's, that's, or every meeting and mm-hmm.

00:37:10.588 --> 00:37:11.728
That, that's pretty special.

00:37:11.759 --> 00:37:12.088
Yeah.

00:37:12.268 --> 00:37:17.009
For those of us that like to kind of continuously learn and, and be engaged in our communities especially.

00:37:17.429 --> 00:37:17.699
Yeah.

00:37:17.849 --> 00:37:18.443
It's great.

00:37:19.259 --> 00:37:25.199
I, uh, I've been honored a couple different times to have Gary or somebody from the programs community reach out and be like.

00:37:25.994 --> 00:37:29.864
Hey, uh, you do a lot of podcasts with some really interesting people.

00:37:29.864 --> 00:37:34.784
Uh, could you kinda look back for the last, uh, six or 12 months and see who we need to have in for the program?

00:37:34.934 --> 00:37:35.744
Well, that's, that's the thing.

00:37:35.744 --> 00:37:40.724
Your, your experience and the depth of the people that you've had for your, for your broadcast.

00:37:41.653 --> 00:37:45.164
Most of us wouldn't have the chance to cross section those people over.

00:37:45.164 --> 00:37:55.844
I mean, I've, I've, I've got a client list, but not everybody's gonna wanna come and talk about what they do, you know, or how that affects, I mean, you know, a lot of people are, you know, like most of us we're working, we're doing those things.

00:37:55.849 --> 00:37:55.898
Yeah.

00:37:55.903 --> 00:38:00.164
But, um, but, uh, saying, what do you do that, you know, that affects different parts of the community?

00:38:00.224 --> 00:38:01.664
You know, you certainly have seen that.

00:38:01.753 --> 00:38:01.994
Yeah.

00:38:02.054 --> 00:38:04.364
No, it's been, it's been a joy all across the board.

00:38:04.994 --> 00:38:16.603
Um, I guess let's describe, uh, the Rotary experience, uh, a little bit more, like you've talked about the specific things, but Rotary's a, a once a month, once a week.

00:38:17.248 --> 00:38:18.778
Thursday morning for our club.

00:38:18.784 --> 00:38:19.063
Mm-hmm.

00:38:19.148 --> 00:38:19.378
Mm-hmm.

00:38:20.068 --> 00:38:21.478
Um, every Thursday morning.

00:38:21.989 --> 00:38:33.329
Well, I would, I would say it's like I get the chance to connect with people that, in my social or work groups, I generally wouldn't always get to, I, I wouldn't have had a chance to meet this, this wonderful lady and, and, and find out.

00:38:33.329 --> 00:38:36.088
We've really got a fairly common background in a lot of ways.

00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:36.599
Yeah.

00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:36.599
Yeah.

00:38:36.659 --> 00:38:46.228
I mean, I, the, the only, the only thing I didn't do in high school was four HI mean, it was all the things in my little school I did, but I was a farm family, so I really didn't have any.

00:38:46.648 --> 00:38:48.838
But, but we still have those common grounds.

00:38:48.869 --> 00:38:48.958
Sure.

00:38:48.958 --> 00:38:55.858
We've talked about that and, and she showed me her magazine, others that, that are either in the same industry as me or, or have done other things.

00:38:55.858 --> 00:38:57.659
You know, whether it's financials or insurance.

00:38:58.034 --> 00:39:03.014
Um, you know, we, if you look check across, we've got people that own managed card dealerships.

00:39:03.014 --> 00:39:03.643
A lot of educators.

00:39:03.643 --> 00:39:04.304
Educators.

00:39:04.304 --> 00:39:08.744
We've got attorneys, we've got retired individuals that Forest Service people.

00:39:08.804 --> 00:39:09.224
Yeah.

00:39:09.224 --> 00:39:12.494
And, you know, every stripe, you know, the backgrounds I think are amazing.

00:39:12.494 --> 00:39:15.434
Well, and the one new gal is a National Park service employee.

00:39:15.463 --> 00:39:15.614
Yes.

00:39:15.614 --> 00:39:17.653
Who comes, you know, down from Estes Park.

00:39:17.684 --> 00:39:17.893
Yeah.

00:39:17.898 --> 00:39:17.918
Yeah.

00:39:17.998 --> 00:39:19.393
I, I thought, okay, you're gonna make that dry.

00:39:19.423 --> 00:39:19.634
Okay.

00:39:19.634 --> 00:39:20.233
That's wonderful.

00:39:20.233 --> 00:39:20.864
Good on you.

00:39:21.193 --> 00:39:23.684
You know, and, and, and, Hey, we're a great group.

00:39:24.014 --> 00:39:27.358
Well, it's, it's there, there's, or maybe she lives down the hill and drives there.

00:39:27.398 --> 00:39:31.184
I, yeah, there, there we have a camaraderie though that becomes, you know, part of it.

00:39:31.184 --> 00:39:34.094
'cause we're, we're all, you know, pulling towards goals that, that yeah.

00:39:34.153 --> 00:39:36.704
We're, we're moving, like you said, before we pick up the ball and run.

00:39:36.929 --> 00:39:41.623
We're, we're doing things that help people locally and internationally and, and that common cause binds us.

00:39:41.713 --> 00:39:41.864
Yeah.

00:39:42.074 --> 00:39:51.824
And there's, there's not many organizations can do that, that give you chance to say, okay, we, you know, it, it, it can be a weekly thing and, and you can do your part and wherever you're.

00:39:51.869 --> 00:39:54.599
Talents and your, your skills can help out.

00:39:54.778 --> 00:39:56.518
We expect you and want you to pitch in.

00:39:56.579 --> 00:39:56.938
Yeah.

00:39:56.943 --> 00:39:56.954
Yeah.

00:39:57.329 --> 00:40:05.699
I tell people sometimes when describing rotary, I'm like, you know, if I was traveling abroad and somebody like stole all my stuff and.

00:40:06.463 --> 00:40:09.523
Beat me up and left me with just my underwear on in a foreign country.

00:40:10.034 --> 00:40:14.204
Like I maybe call the police, but I'd probably figure out if there's a local rotary club Exactly.

00:40:14.204 --> 00:40:21.224
So somebody could, could pick me up and clean me up and get me a change of clothes, you know, and then, then the police could investigate after that.

00:40:21.224 --> 00:40:24.554
But I'm pretty sure the Rotary Club would respond faster than the police in most places.

00:40:24.824 --> 00:40:30.824
I, I was in the Highlands of Scotland in 2019 and I was a Rotarian from here in town.

00:40:30.884 --> 00:40:34.244
Um, uh, had a friend there, he says in Rotary, look him up.

00:40:34.244 --> 00:40:39.583
And, and I emailed them beforehand and they, they said, well, we're having a meeting, come on in.

00:40:39.583 --> 00:40:47.954
And I'm, we're way up, way up north and, and I got to go to their local meeting exchange flags as, as we do, as per our custom.

00:40:47.954 --> 00:40:48.014
Yeah.

00:40:48.014 --> 00:40:51.793
But then, you know, I got to meet people I had no chance of ever meeting.

00:40:51.853 --> 00:40:51.943
Right.

00:40:51.943 --> 00:40:54.043
You know, and they were local and grew up in that area.

00:40:54.043 --> 00:40:56.804
And little towns north of Inverness and you're like.

00:40:57.869 --> 00:40:58.228
Wow.

00:40:58.454 --> 00:40:59.099
I, I just, yeah.

00:40:59.099 --> 00:41:02.188
And they're like, I'll go ahead and skip work for the afternoon so I can tour you around here.

00:41:02.188 --> 00:41:02.398
Oh, yeah.

00:41:02.403 --> 00:41:03.373
And we'll have some beers at up.

00:41:03.373 --> 00:41:03.449
Oh yeah.

00:41:03.449 --> 00:41:06.358
And we might have a pin or two, like going, okay, I'm your guy.

00:41:06.778 --> 00:41:15.688
So, but you, so chances to meet people and, and make those extended, uh, friendships that just as you said, if you're near somewhere, well, someone can help you pick, pick you up.

00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:17.219
They'll, they'll, somebody will take care of you.

00:41:17.518 --> 00:41:17.579
Yeah.

00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:24.599
You know, it's like there's a contact and, and, and if they can't physically help you, they will certainly look out to find you the direction you need to go.

00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:24.659
Yeah.

00:41:24.659 --> 00:41:27.298
That, that's, we have people visiting all the time to the club, don't we?

00:41:27.568 --> 00:41:27.659
Mm-hmm.

00:41:27.898 --> 00:41:28.469
Just, we're just in town.

00:41:28.829 --> 00:41:29.608
I wanna make a meeting.

00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:29.849
Yeah.

00:41:29.909 --> 00:41:31.679
And stay, stay committed to what we're doing.

00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:32.789
And I'm like, let's, fantastic.

00:41:32.789 --> 00:41:33.929
I just didn't know people did that.

00:41:33.929 --> 00:41:36.869
And I'm starting to say, okay, when I travel somewhere, I've done that.

00:41:36.898 --> 00:41:38.128
And, and that, that's fun.

00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:45.119
When my, my dad was in the Phoenix area for a long time and I went to some of the rotary meetings down there in the area where he was at, just when I was down seeing him.

00:41:45.148 --> 00:41:45.599
So yeah.

00:41:45.873 --> 00:41:48.934
You just, you get, you get involved and it's like, okay, this is a pretty good thing.

00:41:48.934 --> 00:41:54.244
There's, there's, it's no small coincidence that Rotary is the largest international, you know?

00:41:54.574 --> 00:41:54.753
Yeah.

00:41:54.753 --> 00:41:55.983
Organization, period.

00:41:56.733 --> 00:42:00.034
The other thing I like about Rotary is there's a variety of ages.

00:42:00.034 --> 00:42:00.393
Yes.

00:42:00.514 --> 00:42:00.603
Mm-hmm.

00:42:00.844 --> 00:42:05.164
I'd say about 60, 70% of our club are retired people.

00:42:05.164 --> 00:42:05.224
Yeah.

00:42:05.643 --> 00:42:11.914
But that leaves, you know, about 40, 30% who are not of those, yes.

00:42:11.914 --> 00:42:14.793
They work full-time and that's a great thing about breakfast.

00:42:14.914 --> 00:42:15.094
Yeah.

00:42:15.123 --> 00:42:18.514
Club we're done by eight o'clock, they can go to work.

00:42:18.813 --> 00:42:23.014
The other thing I like in Rotary, you can give as much as you want.

00:42:23.074 --> 00:42:23.103
Mm.

00:42:23.614 --> 00:42:34.114
And you can give financially, you can give of your time and talent, but you determine how much you wanna give of that time and talent and what projects you wanna be involved in.

00:42:34.114 --> 00:42:34.204
Yeah.

00:42:34.289 --> 00:42:34.449
Yeah.

00:42:34.563 --> 00:42:38.253
You don't have to be involved in every project and probably you can't be.

00:42:39.028 --> 00:42:45.119
To really give it, you couldn't what it needs, but you pick and choose and the time is yours.

00:42:45.148 --> 00:42:50.639
And the other thing I like about our rotary, and probably all Rotaries do this, there are social events.

00:42:50.849 --> 00:42:56.009
We don't just work all the time and have fun while we're working, but they're social events too.

00:42:56.009 --> 00:42:57.733
Outside of our weekly meetings.

00:42:57.934 --> 00:43:06.748
I thought, I thought brew was actually something made up and, and, and, and I suppose somewhere, way back in the day, can I, can I So tell us about Brew David.

00:43:06.748 --> 00:43:06.773
Brew Brew.

00:43:06.898 --> 00:43:08.759
B-R-W-B-R-E-W.

00:43:09.088 --> 00:43:11.458
Beers Rotarians and enjoy Worldwide.

00:43:11.458 --> 00:43:13.259
I'm like going, okay, somebody made that up.

00:43:13.259 --> 00:43:17.728
I was like, well no, it is actually an international organization within Rotary.

00:43:17.728 --> 00:43:19.228
Yeah, it's a sub branch basically.

00:43:19.228 --> 00:43:19.829
Exactly.

00:43:20.398 --> 00:43:23.338
And, and, uh, there is monthly and, and Sarah Murphy.

00:43:23.793 --> 00:43:28.143
Um, uh, she's the, she takes that flag every month and plants it in a local brewery.

00:43:28.143 --> 00:43:30.634
And we go down there and like I said, there's more fellowship there than too.

00:43:30.634 --> 00:43:34.173
We're also supporting a local business, you know, so we're, we're pretty altruistic that way, I guess.

00:43:34.173 --> 00:43:41.253
So if we wanna give ourselves that pat on the back to go out and have a pin or two, but that, that, you know, there are there and there's so many things like that.

00:43:41.253 --> 00:43:48.813
You know, there are progressive dinners, there are, we, you know, there, there's groups that we've taken advantage every year getting together, buying tickets for something at the Lincoln Center.

00:43:49.083 --> 00:43:49.173
Yes.

00:43:49.173 --> 00:43:50.313
Senior performances there.

00:43:50.313 --> 00:43:51.963
So, um, yeah.

00:43:52.804 --> 00:43:56.523
Lot of us were able to do as like you said, as much as you wanna do, but you turn that back into.

00:43:57.028 --> 00:44:00.838
Supporting local businesses and, and, and doing it under a social event.

00:44:01.018 --> 00:44:01.498
That's awesome.

00:44:01.648 --> 00:44:08.849
I think one of the unique things about Rotary, you, you mentioned the progressive dinners, but there's also very progressive members and very conservative members.

00:44:08.853 --> 00:44:09.014
Mm-hmm.

00:44:09.509 --> 00:44:12.478
And we're still in the same room and on the same team.

00:44:12.869 --> 00:44:18.893
Uh, even if occasionally, uh, feathers get ruffled by, I think that's things that are said.

00:44:18.923 --> 00:44:19.213
Sure.

00:44:19.213 --> 00:44:19.373
Yeah.

00:44:19.373 --> 00:44:23.458
That, I think that's one of the interesting things about it we're, we're neither a religious nor a political organization.

00:44:23.818 --> 00:44:23.969
Yes.

00:44:24.059 --> 00:44:28.378
And, and, and, and so there, those, those causes everybody, it doesn't.

00:44:29.518 --> 00:44:33.329
Have anybody eliminated because of that be, but we, we are very inclusive that way.

00:44:33.329 --> 00:44:35.458
But we also say it's like, that's not what we're here for.

00:44:35.518 --> 00:44:35.789
Right.

00:44:35.878 --> 00:44:48.173
And, and, and the other things we're doing don't have, um, that, I mean, I, I, I've gotten individuals and organizations that have been disappointed that we can't be part of the Peach Festival, um, because of that in our Senate.

00:44:48.173 --> 00:44:48.373
Mm-hmm.

00:44:48.378 --> 00:44:49.918
But I say, well, we're not an advocacy group.

00:44:49.918 --> 00:44:54.778
So, um, it's not that I agree or disagree with you, I go, we're just not doing that.

00:44:54.784 --> 00:44:54.974
Yeah.

00:44:55.228 --> 00:44:55.378
Yeah.

00:44:55.384 --> 00:44:57.509
And, and, and there's a place in time for all those things.

00:44:57.509 --> 00:45:05.188
But, uh, we just say it's like we're, we're here to give back and, and in our own ways as a group and, and kind of just set that part aside.

00:45:05.369 --> 00:45:05.608
Yeah.

00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:06.958
It doesn't take away from anybody.

00:45:07.259 --> 00:45:08.728
It just says That's what we're doing.

00:45:08.818 --> 00:45:09.059
Yeah.

00:45:09.358 --> 00:45:10.048
That's our focus.

00:45:10.168 --> 00:45:10.498
Oh, yeah.

00:45:11.909 --> 00:45:15.809
Well, you said there's, there's so many people that, that do things within our club.

00:45:16.619 --> 00:45:19.559
That we don't know about until we see'em go and do something else.

00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:23.009
You know, like I said, we've had the mayor come in, we've had, we've had other politicians come in.

00:45:23.009 --> 00:45:24.659
We've had, uh, local congressmen.

00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:26.489
Oh, the new football quarterback always comes in.

00:45:26.548 --> 00:45:26.849
Oh yeah, yeah.

00:45:26.855 --> 00:45:27.418
Lemme get a new one.

00:45:27.418 --> 00:45:28.318
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

00:45:28.318 --> 00:45:41.759
So have, have somebody come by and, and we've, we've got, uh, uh, we, people that do so many different things that, like I said before, I, I run into people that are members that I didn't realize are members when I was going places that we've all gone together before.

00:45:41.759 --> 00:45:45.898
It could be a, a local restaurant, it could be a a, a club, it could be whatever it is.

00:45:45.898 --> 00:45:48.119
You start seeing people that you, um.

00:45:48.853 --> 00:45:50.623
Knew before, but didn't know there were Rotarians.

00:45:50.684 --> 00:45:55.903
Yeah, I was just looking at my, uh, I've actually got the Charlie Peterson Rotarian of the Year award.

00:45:55.903 --> 00:45:57.733
I, I think 20 18, 20 19.

00:45:58.333 --> 00:46:05.188
And early in my rotary journey, maybe 2009 through 13 when I was a banker, I had a lot more time to give.

00:46:05.188 --> 00:46:05.588
Mm-hmm.

00:46:05.668 --> 00:46:08.893
And then it, you know, then I was food trucking and I had zero time to get out.

00:46:08.983 --> 00:46:15.943
Then, you know, things kind of stabilized and I gave back, and now I'm kind of in a place where I'm working a lot again at, at local think tank here.

00:46:15.943 --> 00:46:27.463
And, um, so I don't have as much to give, but I'm also in a nice slot for me, I, I love the sergeant at Arms roll and it's a easy thing to keep my attendance and my interest up.

00:46:27.523 --> 00:46:27.824
Yep.

00:46:27.824 --> 00:46:28.994
And, uh, invite guests.

00:46:28.994 --> 00:46:31.123
I've invited a lot more guests since I've been in that role.

00:46:31.244 --> 00:46:31.454
Yeah.

00:46:31.873 --> 00:46:33.103
Well, at we all different times.

00:46:33.103 --> 00:46:34.153
We can do different things.

00:46:34.423 --> 00:46:34.963
That's it.

00:46:34.963 --> 00:46:47.713
It depends on what stage of life you're in, but if anyone is listening and wants to get involved in helping your community, giving back to your community, working with people.

00:46:48.373 --> 00:46:53.608
Who all care about their community and the world internationally to give back.

00:46:54.434 --> 00:46:57.733
Hey, come check out at Fort Col Collin's breakfast rotary meeting.

00:46:57.733 --> 00:47:03.884
We meet at 6 45 and do get there early because then you get to talk to people before the meeting starts.

00:47:03.884 --> 00:47:04.153
Agreed.

00:47:04.273 --> 00:47:10.963
And the social part, to me, I love going and, and seeing people before we get our meal and sit down and have everything.

00:47:11.503 --> 00:47:12.253
Where's that meeting at?

00:47:12.733 --> 00:47:16.003
Oh, ginger and Baker every Thursday morning in the upstairs.

00:47:16.543 --> 00:47:18.014
And they do a great job supporting us too.

00:47:18.014 --> 00:47:23.173
I mean, besides another great local business, but they, they, yeah, they make, they make it a lot easier to recruit members to the club with their Oh yeah.

00:47:23.173 --> 00:47:24.289
They're, they're location.

00:47:24.289 --> 00:47:25.664
They're a great host of our meetings, that's for sure.

00:47:25.664 --> 00:47:26.143
Wonderful food.

00:47:26.204 --> 00:47:26.503
Yeah.

00:47:26.594 --> 00:47:27.313
And free parking.

00:47:27.623 --> 00:47:28.373
And free parking.

00:47:28.373 --> 00:47:28.675
Yeah, that is.

00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:36.204
Well, and, and the other clubs in town, just to, just as I've visited'em all on a, on a regular basis with the Peach Festival, I've learned, uh, that's been a highlight for me too.

00:47:36.204 --> 00:47:40.884
I know we've, we've got one club, the downtown club, they, they're, they still meet at, uh, the Lincoln Center.

00:47:40.884 --> 00:47:40.943
Yeah.

00:47:40.943 --> 00:47:46.373
We've got, um, uh, we all kind of seem to move around, but the Foothills Club now is back at the Marriott.

00:47:46.434 --> 00:47:48.293
Oh, they're, they're, they're, they're both lunch meetings.

00:47:48.293 --> 00:47:51.293
We've got a, uh, we've got raw, we've got Rotary after work.

00:47:51.293 --> 00:47:54.983
Um, they, they seem to find, they might, they've have a brewery tour actually.

00:47:54.983 --> 00:47:59.003
They're, they're a, uh, Breckenridge usually now, Breckenridge now was Sweetwater, now Breckenridge.

00:47:59.003 --> 00:48:01.434
And, and, uh, they have the back room for themselves there.

00:48:01.434 --> 00:48:04.974
And, and that fits their professional, uh, working style.

00:48:04.974 --> 00:48:06.954
'cause that's more of a working group, still working.

00:48:06.954 --> 00:48:07.764
So at five o'clock.

00:48:08.094 --> 00:48:10.373
So there's times I'm like going, there's, there's some smarts to that.

00:48:10.373 --> 00:48:11.639
Let's go have a, yeah.

00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:12.983
Have a client at five o'clock.

00:48:12.983 --> 00:48:13.793
And Yeah.

00:48:13.943 --> 00:48:17.094
So I, I, and I think that's one of the, actually the benefits for me.

00:48:17.744 --> 00:48:21.313
From with the Peach Festivals, I, I visit the other clubs fairly regularly.

00:48:21.313 --> 00:48:21.403
Yes.

00:48:21.463 --> 00:48:21.554
Mm-hmm.

00:48:21.764 --> 00:48:24.043
And, and there's an identity to each of them.

00:48:24.284 --> 00:48:24.704
For sure.

00:48:24.704 --> 00:48:24.706
For sure.

00:48:24.710 --> 00:48:29.143
You know, and, and you, we've, we've got one club that loves to sing and we've got another club that Yeah.

00:48:29.264 --> 00:48:30.373
That, not ours.

00:48:30.673 --> 00:48:32.318
I'm just like, I wouldn't join that one.

00:48:32.438 --> 00:48:33.853
'cause I, I could join the sing club.

00:48:33.853 --> 00:48:37.844
I like, I would like that actually, you, you, you would be part of that group easily there.

00:48:38.414 --> 00:48:39.344
That, that deep base.

00:48:39.344 --> 00:48:43.784
They would probably bring you in, um, just recruit you away from us, so you can't go, we don't want you to do that.

00:48:43.784 --> 00:48:44.143
All right.

00:48:44.143 --> 00:48:45.224
We're gonna keep you at Breakfast Club.

00:48:45.224 --> 00:48:45.463
So tight.

00:48:45.523 --> 00:48:45.764
Yeah.

00:48:46.034 --> 00:48:49.003
They'd probably ask me to leave if I, the singing club.

00:48:49.724 --> 00:48:53.849
Well, and, and just, and little different traditions too, within each one of them, you know?

00:48:53.855 --> 00:48:54.119
Mm-hmm.

00:48:54.199 --> 00:49:01.514
You know, everybody, you know, I, I think one of the things we all get to do on a, on a weekly basis is good news.

00:49:01.664 --> 00:49:01.934
Yeah.

00:49:01.934 --> 00:49:02.054
You know?

00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:05.009
Talk, have good news today.

00:49:05.103 --> 00:49:05.728
Just talk about that.

00:49:05.728 --> 00:49:06.329
Yeah, exactly.

00:49:06.329 --> 00:49:06.989
What it might be.

00:49:06.989 --> 00:49:14.278
It could be birth of a grandchild, it could be a, you know, just got married, kids getting married, retire, kids graduated high school, high school, college, or whatever.

00:49:14.278 --> 00:49:14.878
All those sort of things.

00:49:14.878 --> 00:49:15.119
Yeah.

00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:20.489
It's, it's a, it's a, a, a chance to kind of just say, Hey, I had something good happen.

00:49:20.608 --> 00:49:20.759
Yeah.

00:49:21.329 --> 00:49:25.829
So, coming from my four H background, what really starts me off right.

00:49:25.829 --> 00:49:34.228
For Rotary, and I'm gonna cry, but when we stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance, I absolutely love that.

00:49:34.378 --> 00:49:34.559
Yeah.

00:49:34.648 --> 00:49:36.898
And that's followed by our four way test.

00:49:36.989 --> 00:49:37.168
Yep.

00:49:37.438 --> 00:49:39.239
Which I believe is important as well.

00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:41.188
Would you guys like to do the four way test with me right now?

00:49:41.969 --> 00:49:45.748
Oh, there's some pressure of the things we think, say or do.

00:49:46.259 --> 00:49:47.188
Is it the truth?

00:49:47.188 --> 00:49:47.190
Truth?

00:49:47.699 --> 00:49:48.509
Is it fair to all?

00:49:48.523 --> 00:49:49.259
All concerned.

00:49:49.259 --> 00:49:49.260
Concerned?

00:49:49.318 --> 00:49:58.409
Will it build goodwill and better friend friendships, beneficial to concern, all concerned and we're to apply that in our personal life and our professional life.

00:49:58.498 --> 00:49:58.798
True.

00:49:59.429 --> 00:50:01.139
I'm gonna call a short break.

00:50:01.528 --> 00:50:05.398
Uh, I got a potty break time and then we'll come back and, uh, get in the time machine.

00:50:05.728 --> 00:50:06.119
All right.

00:50:06.358 --> 00:50:06.628
All right.

00:50:59.588 --> 00:51:00.639
And we're back.

00:51:00.909 --> 00:51:01.719
So.

00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:08.798
I wanna zoom into the time machine now with you guys, uh, to small town Nebraska, small town, small town, Kansas.

00:51:08.829 --> 00:51:09.219
Yes.

00:51:09.579 --> 00:51:10.659
Um, definitely small town.

00:51:10.748 --> 00:51:12.759
Let's do, uh, let's do Therese first.

00:51:12.759 --> 00:51:14.918
Where, where did you come from in Kansas?

00:51:15.009 --> 00:51:20.103
I spent the first 18 years of my life in Hiawatha, Kansas, KHA.

00:51:20.134 --> 00:51:20.423
Okay.

00:51:20.423 --> 00:51:22.389
Which is in the northeast corner.

00:51:22.568 --> 00:51:22.748
Okay.

00:51:22.748 --> 00:51:26.289
We're about 15 miles south of the Nebraska line.

00:51:26.438 --> 00:51:26.679
Okay.

00:51:26.684 --> 00:51:31.088
And about 25, 30 miles west of the Missouri line.

00:51:31.179 --> 00:51:31.509
Okay.

00:51:32.168 --> 00:51:36.009
So you're kind of like south of Lincoln, almost pretty close.

00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:36.369
Yeah.

00:51:36.728 --> 00:51:38.588
A hundred miles or 150 miles south of Lincoln?

00:51:38.619 --> 00:51:38.708
Yes.

00:51:38.978 --> 00:51:39.309
Okay.

00:51:39.608 --> 00:51:40.028
All right.

00:51:40.028 --> 00:51:40.478
Got you.

00:51:40.809 --> 00:51:42.789
And tell me about Hiawatha just a little bit.

00:51:43.943 --> 00:51:45.804
Oh, like how big a town was it?

00:51:46.463 --> 00:51:49.824
When I was growing up, Hiawatha was about 3,500.

00:51:49.974 --> 00:51:50.393
Okay.

00:51:50.574 --> 00:51:53.813
It's, I don't think near that anymore.

00:51:53.813 --> 00:51:53.873
Yeah.

00:51:54.443 --> 00:51:56.514
Um, I try to go back to Hiawatha.

00:51:56.543 --> 00:52:01.463
My both, both my parents are deceased, but I try to go back to Hiawatha about once a year.

00:52:01.554 --> 00:52:01.793
Okay.

00:52:02.213 --> 00:52:04.164
I still have high school friends Sure.

00:52:04.164 --> 00:52:10.043
That live there and it's nice to go back and, and to see kind of traditional Kansas Farm ag oriented town.

00:52:10.043 --> 00:52:12.083
Was there a little community college or anything like that?

00:52:12.083 --> 00:52:14.273
Or was there any other industry that anchored Hiawatha?

00:52:16.284 --> 00:52:16.914
None.

00:52:17.333 --> 00:52:19.559
There is a community college about 15 miles away.

00:52:19.668 --> 00:52:19.958
Okay.

00:52:20.184 --> 00:52:22.463
And that's where, it's in Donovan County.

00:52:22.463 --> 00:52:33.983
I grew up in Brown County and part of the reason I went to community college is back in 1967 when I started that fall, we could have free tuition Oh, wow.

00:52:33.983 --> 00:52:37.884
At the community college if you were from Bro Brown County or Donovan County.

00:52:37.943 --> 00:52:38.273
Oh wow.

00:52:38.423 --> 00:52:40.284
So I went a year and a half to, yeah.

00:52:40.943 --> 00:52:47.813
Brown, uh, to, uh, Highland Col, Highland Community College or Highland Junior Community College, something like that.

00:52:47.844 --> 00:52:48.204
Interesting.

00:52:48.264 --> 00:52:57.054
It's changed and then I, after a year and a half, but I also went there because a, it was cheap, but number two, I was a four H kid who could show cattle.

00:52:57.114 --> 00:52:57.534
Yeah.

00:52:57.534 --> 00:52:57.534
Yeah.

00:52:57.684 --> 00:53:09.414
Until I was 18 and we had some, my dad was really good at feeding the steers, and that's how I paid my way through college.

00:53:09.653 --> 00:53:09.684
Oh.

00:53:10.074 --> 00:53:11.664
Was showing cattle in winning.

00:53:11.813 --> 00:53:12.233
Oh, wow.

00:53:12.233 --> 00:53:14.753
So I wanted to keep that money flowing in.

00:53:14.844 --> 00:53:16.583
So I, yeah.

00:53:16.643 --> 00:53:24.443
Finished four H at age 18, and after that, then I went, okay, move on to traditional, to Kansas State.

00:53:24.503 --> 00:53:24.804
Yeah.

00:53:24.809 --> 00:53:24.838
Yeah.

00:53:25.253 --> 00:53:26.273
Tell me about your family.

00:53:26.273 --> 00:53:32.123
Was your dad did, did he make his living ranching then and raising cattle or, or part of it?

00:53:32.634 --> 00:53:34.523
Um, and, and do you have siblings as well?

00:53:34.583 --> 00:53:37.463
Uh, that's an interesting story about my dad.

00:53:38.934 --> 00:53:45.443
My father was a very low income farm family from Nebraska.

00:53:45.623 --> 00:53:45.923
Okay.

00:53:46.284 --> 00:53:57.534
And his interest was beef cattle as he got older and he learned to artificially inseminate dairy cattle.

00:53:57.864 --> 00:53:57.893
Oh.

00:53:57.893 --> 00:54:01.434
Back in 1947.

00:54:01.914 --> 00:54:02.213
Oh wow.

00:54:02.574 --> 00:54:02.813
Okay.

00:54:02.813 --> 00:54:03.233
Yeah.

00:54:03.923 --> 00:54:06.833
And so he became an AI technician?

00:54:06.838 --> 00:54:07.373
Yeah, yeah.

00:54:07.463 --> 00:54:12.233
And then we, he and mom and my sister moved to Hiawatha.

00:54:12.233 --> 00:54:16.884
They were living in Fall City, Nebraska, moved to Hiawatha and got established there.

00:54:17.244 --> 00:54:20.903
So my dad worked as an AI technician having his own company.

00:54:20.903 --> 00:54:21.324
Interesting.

00:54:21.594 --> 00:54:30.653
So like traveling all around the region, inseminating, dairy, cattle, kinda inseminating dairy cattle, and golly, until I was probably.

00:54:30.949 --> 00:54:31.438
15.

00:54:31.443 --> 00:54:31.614
Okay.

00:54:32.333 --> 00:54:43.134
And then a company approached him and asked him to, if they could buy his company, and then he would become a district sales manager for American Breeder Service.

00:54:43.164 --> 00:54:43.523
Okay.

00:54:43.673 --> 00:54:44.483
And he did that.

00:54:44.483 --> 00:54:46.974
So then he covered several states.

00:54:47.003 --> 00:54:47.454
Interesting.

00:54:47.873 --> 00:54:51.563
But that's how I got my interest in livestock was through my dad.

00:54:51.744 --> 00:54:52.074
Oh, interesting.

00:54:52.074 --> 00:54:56.514
My dad had been a four H kid and my mom was a four H kid, so we did all that.

00:54:56.514 --> 00:55:01.134
So I was just raised all in four H and going that direction.

00:55:01.134 --> 00:55:01.403
Interesting.

00:55:01.518 --> 00:55:07.943
And I had a sister one years older and a brother, a sister, two years older, and a brother one year older.

00:55:07.974 --> 00:55:08.304
Okay.

00:55:08.844 --> 00:55:09.324
Interesting.

00:55:09.653 --> 00:55:15.503
And then basically kind of got through your K State career and kind of got right into the writing craft.

00:55:15.503 --> 00:55:16.193
It seems like.

00:55:16.523 --> 00:55:21.083
I did, when I started at Kansas State, I majored in animal science.

00:55:21.143 --> 00:55:21.264
Hmm.

00:55:21.503 --> 00:55:24.264
And that would've been in 1969.

00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:27.789
And females did not major in animal science.

00:55:27.878 --> 00:55:31.134
And I remember a gentleman I loved Dr.

00:55:31.134 --> 00:55:32.708
Miles McKee dearly.

00:55:32.798 --> 00:55:43.059
He had judged a lot of the four H fairs where I had shown, but he then was my professor and he asked me to come in and sit down with him and he said, you're a girl.

00:55:43.268 --> 00:55:47.378
What are you going to do with an animal science major?

00:55:48.188 --> 00:55:50.259
And I said, I don't know, but I like to write.

00:55:50.289 --> 00:55:51.338
Maybe I could do that.

00:55:51.338 --> 00:55:53.798
And he says, well, I'd think about it.

00:55:55.014 --> 00:55:58.554
Because females just weren't majoring in animal science.

00:55:58.554 --> 00:56:01.554
Was that like, is that like a precursor to like a veterinarian or something like that?

00:56:01.554 --> 00:56:03.414
Or what would you do with an animal science degree?

00:56:03.414 --> 00:56:09.443
Even if you were a boy, most guys would go back and ranch, or they'd work for a feed company, a feedlot.

00:56:09.443 --> 00:56:11.693
They would go work in the animal health industry.

00:56:11.934 --> 00:56:12.204
Gotcha.

00:56:12.233 --> 00:56:13.764
Or be an egg banker.

00:56:14.123 --> 00:56:14.574
Oh sure.

00:56:15.023 --> 00:56:16.463
But what does a girl do?

00:56:16.764 --> 00:56:20.813
You know, but well, what is a girl even doing, going to college in those days?

00:56:21.264 --> 00:56:25.494
But I then I, I ended up dropping outta college.

00:56:25.494 --> 00:56:40.224
I got married and I dropped outta college and two years later I had an opportunity to go back to school and I decided I would go into journalism and use my animal science background and combine that with journalism and education.

00:56:40.253 --> 00:56:40.523
Okay.

00:56:40.914 --> 00:56:44.664
So I got a degree in journalism and a degree in education.

00:56:44.934 --> 00:56:45.233
Love it.

00:56:45.804 --> 00:56:45.954
Yeah.

00:56:46.014 --> 00:56:50.068
Sounds like a really, uh, traveling your own path kind of a.

00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:55.778
I have been very blessed to get to do what all I've got to do.

00:56:55.809 --> 00:56:56.048
Yeah.

00:56:56.228 --> 00:56:56.768
Very cool.

00:56:57.338 --> 00:57:00.489
Um, David, what town in Nebraska?

00:57:00.489 --> 00:57:03.489
Like, uh, basically my hometown's a little town called Aurora.

00:57:03.608 --> 00:57:11.528
My dad was a high school principal and, uh, um, my joke is we never really lived more than an hour away from there, but he was first in Blue Hill.

00:57:12.099 --> 00:57:15.969
Um, I was actually born in Red Cloud'cause Blue Hill didn't have a hospital.

00:57:16.088 --> 00:57:16.358
Okay.

00:57:16.358 --> 00:57:18.518
So talking about small town and where, where, where is this at?

00:57:18.518 --> 00:57:20.858
That just near Hastings, grand Island area, south Central.

00:57:20.858 --> 00:57:22.114
Just about, about an hour west of Lincoln.

00:57:22.123 --> 00:57:23.079
North of the highway there.

00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:23.588
Exactly.

00:57:23.739 --> 00:57:23.978
Okay.

00:57:24.009 --> 00:57:28.539
And, and so Aurora is a, is a great little community, is about 2,900 people.

00:57:28.539 --> 00:57:31.688
When I was there going to high school and I've got two younger brothers.

00:57:32.228 --> 00:57:34.478
My dad was a school principal, my mom ran our church.

00:57:34.478 --> 00:57:36.039
All those things you do in small towns.

00:57:36.188 --> 00:57:36.338
Yep.

00:57:36.429 --> 00:57:36.849
Um.

00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:41.438
The, uh, you know, we're very active boys and all the things we did school-wise.

00:57:41.829 --> 00:57:44.768
Um, the sporty and such, you mean basketball team?

00:57:44.768 --> 00:57:44.918
Yeah.

00:57:44.954 --> 00:57:45.114
Yeah.

00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:46.179
Lot, lots, lots.

00:57:46.179 --> 00:57:47.514
Football of sports, all that sort of thing.

00:57:47.594 --> 00:57:47.635
Football team.

00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:48.594
Yep, yep, yep.

00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:49.028
Whatever.

00:57:49.028 --> 00:57:50.018
Whatever's in season.

00:57:50.438 --> 00:57:53.409
And, uh, um, I, my mom said, get outta the house.

00:57:53.798 --> 00:57:54.548
You're drive me crazy.

00:57:54.548 --> 00:57:54.818
The house.

00:57:54.818 --> 00:57:56.469
So, you know, do those things.

00:57:56.588 --> 00:57:58.088
You know, small town life is different.

00:57:58.088 --> 00:58:05.018
There's, uh, um, you could, you could, if you weren't 16, you had to be home and there's a 10 o'clock whistle.

00:58:05.018 --> 00:58:07.119
I think they probably still have it in city statute.

00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:07.358
City.

00:58:07.568 --> 00:58:08.259
You weren't 16.

00:58:08.259 --> 00:58:08.679
You're not supposed.

00:58:08.684 --> 00:58:09.068
Oh, oh, really?

00:58:09.293 --> 00:58:09.833
Oh, interesting.

00:58:10.088 --> 00:58:10.478
Oh, yeah.

00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:18.668
And, and, uh, is that way is like, could, if you, if I messed up, which occasionally happened, somebody else's parents would take care of me and then call my parents.

00:58:18.668 --> 00:58:23.259
I'd get when I get home again, you know, and, and so, but no, it was a great town to grow up in really was.

00:58:23.259 --> 00:58:33.668
Um, uh, the, uh, reason I'm in Fort Collins is that my great uncle who my, my, my mom's family and my dad graduated just, just to.

00:58:34.463 --> 00:58:35.753
Just in the next county over.

00:58:35.934 --> 00:58:36.204
Okay.

00:58:36.264 --> 00:58:40.103
Um, and they had a, uh, a, a lot of family roots.

00:58:40.103 --> 00:58:42.384
Well, then my great uncle came back World War ii.

00:58:42.384 --> 00:58:43.554
He retired here to Fort Collins.

00:58:43.554 --> 00:58:43.884
Okay.

00:58:44.003 --> 00:58:48.534
Ended up being part of the Seeds lab here in town, which most people don't, most people don't know exists.

00:58:48.923 --> 00:58:51.739
Um, is that the one that has all the specimen seeds from like the whole world?

00:58:51.744 --> 00:58:57.773
One of the way, one of the way during the post Cold War when they thought somebody was gonna pull the trigger and, and we had nuclear winter everywhere.

00:58:57.773 --> 00:58:59.543
So how are you gonna repopulate the world for food?

00:58:59.543 --> 00:59:00.173
Well, mm-hmm.

00:59:00.414 --> 00:59:02.123
One of those things is right here in Fort Collins.

00:59:02.123 --> 00:59:02.273
Yeah.

00:59:02.273 --> 00:59:02.275
Yeah.

00:59:02.304 --> 00:59:03.443
People have no idea about that.

00:59:03.443 --> 00:59:08.063
Well, my great Uncle Dale was part of that, and we come out here in the summers to get outta the heat humidity, Nebraska.

00:59:08.063 --> 00:59:11.903
So I've always liked Fort Collins and, and post college, I thought, okay, this is where I wanna live.

00:59:11.903 --> 00:59:12.713
I'm gonna Where did you go?

00:59:12.713 --> 00:59:13.043
College.

00:59:13.048 --> 00:59:14.063
College at University of Nebraska.

00:59:14.123 --> 00:59:14.423
Okay.

00:59:14.483 --> 00:59:22.614
So when I, when I came out here, um, you know, it's like, okay, I want to work live in a place that I really wanna live in.

00:59:22.764 --> 00:59:22.824
Yeah.

00:59:22.824 --> 00:59:25.764
And, and, uh, my wife now is a year behind me in school.

00:59:25.764 --> 00:59:27.713
I had to convince her to follow me out here.

00:59:27.713 --> 00:59:28.164
Of course.

00:59:28.164 --> 00:59:28.193
Okay.

00:59:28.434 --> 00:59:31.253
And, uh, to my betterment, obviously for now, for 40 years.

00:59:31.253 --> 00:59:33.713
But, um, the, uh, uh.

00:59:34.103 --> 00:59:39.173
Funny thing about that, my dad, towards the end of his career was a principal of Hiawatha, Kansas.

00:59:39.204 --> 00:59:39.353
Oh really?

00:59:39.414 --> 00:59:40.583
For, for a couple years.

00:59:40.583 --> 00:59:42.264
And then, then he retired from there.

00:59:42.264 --> 00:59:45.653
But, uh, so that, that very similar, very similar areas.

00:59:45.773 --> 00:59:46.463
You guys do kinship.

00:59:46.478 --> 00:59:46.768
Yeah.

00:59:46.773 --> 00:59:47.153
Yeah, I know.

00:59:47.153 --> 00:59:48.594
That's what she told me about that originally.

00:59:48.594 --> 00:59:51.114
I'm like, oh yeah, I know Hiawatha, we visited my dad down there.

00:59:51.503 --> 00:59:59.094
You know, because those are areas that uh, you know, from northern Kansas to east, southeastern Nebraska, pheasant hunt, duck hunt, all those things like there.

00:59:59.094 --> 01:00:01.884
So a different, very different life than my kids had here.

01:00:01.884 --> 01:00:06.653
I think when my son was like 14, I was trying to find somebody around here through square hay bales.

01:00:06.684 --> 01:00:07.164
'cause they wouldn't.

01:00:07.568 --> 01:00:14.768
I wanted to get his backside out there and said, okay, you need to know what real work is and, and, uh, getting up when it's very early and going and doing those things.

01:00:14.773 --> 01:00:14.923
Yeah.

01:00:15.009 --> 01:00:15.159
Yeah.

01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:19.688
Uh, so, but been out here when we, you know, when we first moved here, Fort Collins, it was a town of 53,000 people.

01:00:19.688 --> 01:00:20.048
Right.

01:00:20.139 --> 01:00:24.998
And, and, uh, you now we're, you know, a hundred thousand plus of that number and growing.

01:00:24.998 --> 01:00:25.000
Yeah.

01:00:25.005 --> 01:00:25.164
Yeah.

01:00:25.164 --> 01:00:25.284
Yeah.

01:00:25.449 --> 01:00:33.369
And, and, and, uh, um, and did you get like a finance degree or, yeah, I was in, I was in business college, but I had my chances of, of doing different things.

01:00:33.369 --> 01:00:34.929
I actually thought I was gonna be a coach.

01:00:34.929 --> 01:00:38.079
I, I actually was gonna coach football and I really enjoyed that.

01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:40.389
Uh, since then I've been able to do some volunteering here in town.

01:00:40.389 --> 01:00:40.568
Sure.

01:00:40.568 --> 01:00:47.528
And then, um, I'm part of Rainy McCoy and I have been broadcasting of Pooter school district sports, football and basketball and Okay.

01:00:47.588 --> 01:00:50.739
And some volleyball, uh, for, it'll be our 14th season coming up.

01:00:50.768 --> 01:00:51.068
Okay.

01:00:51.068 --> 01:00:55.298
And, and, uh, so like on the radio, you hear your voice, the radio, it's actually, it's not radio.

01:00:55.298 --> 01:01:00.579
It's either, it's, we've done different venues, but it's, um, it's gonna be on the continuing now on the, uh, uh.

01:01:00.748 --> 01:01:02.099
Pooter School district, YouTube channel.

01:01:02.103 --> 01:01:02.219
Oh, okay.

01:01:02.219 --> 01:01:02.998
The Athletics channel.

01:01:03.059 --> 01:01:03.329
Okay.

01:01:03.358 --> 01:01:15.719
So as things we've gone from where it was live streaming to on different, different, um, platforms and, and, uh, as, as Randy and anybody that knows me well knows I just show up and start kind of talking.

01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:16.204
I do my research.

01:01:17.009 --> 01:01:18.418
I leave the technical things behind.

01:01:18.418 --> 01:01:19.798
Here's, that's why you got tell me where to talk.

01:01:19.798 --> 01:01:20.548
Yeah, exactly.

01:01:20.548 --> 01:01:22.318
I was like, give, give, point me in the right direction.

01:01:22.318 --> 01:01:23.039
I'll start going.

01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:26.309
And anybody that, yeah, I, I, I can fill up the air pretty easily.

01:01:26.309 --> 01:01:27.599
So, but it's a lot of fun.

01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:33.809
It's also a chance to get to know kids, um, um, and be part of something that, uh, you know, my dad was my coach.

01:01:33.809 --> 01:01:36.989
I got to coach my, my son and daughter both in some things they did in their little Yeah.

01:01:36.994 --> 01:01:37.123
Yeah.

01:01:37.128 --> 01:01:40.168
Because the things you gotta get back as community because you're certainly not gonna get paid for it.

01:01:40.173 --> 01:01:40.364
Mm-hmm.

01:01:40.528 --> 01:01:50.909
You know, and, and, uh, as a parent, you, you know, all those years of having something in your trunk that had to do with a, a kid's sport for about seven, eight years and then, and, and, uh, people go, do you miss it?

01:01:50.909 --> 01:01:52.259
I go, I'd do it all again in heartbeat.

01:01:52.318 --> 01:01:53.608
I mean, go back to watch a kid.

01:01:53.614 --> 01:01:53.724
Mom.

01:01:53.728 --> 01:01:59.219
Mom actually, uh, founded the P Grew Buchanan High School, which was a high school of, uh, 60.

01:01:59.664 --> 01:02:00.773
Like seven through 12.

01:02:00.773 --> 01:02:02.094
There were 60 some years.

01:02:02.094 --> 01:02:02.724
55.

01:02:02.844 --> 01:02:03.083
Yeah.

01:02:03.143 --> 01:02:06.594
Uh, but she founded the baseball team, the little league baseball team when I was eight.

01:02:07.014 --> 01:02:07.134
Mm-hmm.

01:02:07.373 --> 01:02:09.324
Uh, that she put a team together and taught us That's cool.

01:02:09.324 --> 01:02:10.193
How to play and stuff.

01:02:10.253 --> 01:02:10.733
Oh yeah.

01:02:10.733 --> 01:02:16.014
Uh, that was a very special time, you know, and she coached it for like three or four years until I got old enough.

01:02:16.014 --> 01:02:17.934
I had to go to town for fast pitch.

01:02:18.114 --> 01:02:18.324
Yeah.

01:02:18.329 --> 01:02:18.429
Yeah.

01:02:18.594 --> 01:02:25.253
Well, and, and somewhat in Kansas, Nebraska, it's always been, I've got friends here in town and professionals that went to one room schools in, in Nebraska.

01:02:25.583 --> 01:02:25.793
Yeah.

01:02:26.003 --> 01:02:29.548
And those are certainly getting lesser and lesser Yeah.

01:02:29.554 --> 01:02:29.724
Yeah.

01:02:29.724 --> 01:02:30.744
As they, as they do that.

01:02:30.744 --> 01:02:33.864
But, uh, um, and you find that little small town growth.

01:02:33.893 --> 01:02:33.983
Mm-hmm.

01:02:34.224 --> 01:02:40.974
Even though farming and, and agriculture still very big in my hometown, um, there's industry there that's have grown, um, industries.

01:02:41.034 --> 01:02:46.554
If if you're, if you're long I 80, you're along the major throughways in the, in the country that those small towns can still thrive.

01:02:46.554 --> 01:02:48.233
But the further you get away Yeah.

01:02:48.233 --> 01:02:50.784
From those areas, those little towns are, have really dried up a ton.

01:02:50.784 --> 01:02:53.003
And, and, uh, um, yeah, where there was.

01:02:53.483 --> 01:02:57.264
200 farm families now there's 37 farm families, if you're lucky.

01:02:57.268 --> 01:02:57.833
Yeah, yeah.

01:02:57.833 --> 01:02:59.784
Uh, each one has five times as much land.

01:02:59.813 --> 01:03:00.083
Yeah.

01:03:00.264 --> 01:03:04.318
Well, machinery and the, the astounding amount of cost of those things and mm-hmm.

01:03:04.523 --> 01:03:14.094
You know, when you can, you can just get your combine in the field or put your planter in the field and then put the GPS in it and walk away and come back after, come back after lunch and it's done.

01:03:14.094 --> 01:03:15.594
It's just, it been pretty amazing to see.

01:03:15.594 --> 01:03:15.653
Yeah.

01:03:15.653 --> 01:03:16.103
Yeah.

01:03:16.103 --> 01:03:16.614
Exactly.

01:03:16.614 --> 01:03:21.713
But it, I, I think, you know, as we see Fort Collins, the change, this was very ag town when I first moved here.

01:03:21.713 --> 01:03:21.773
Yeah.

01:03:21.773 --> 01:03:26.423
Very much, you know, very much the, the university was, was still the biggest employer, but still there.

01:03:26.423 --> 01:03:30.653
But now with the growth of tech and, and, and, uh, you know, uh, as, as a.

01:03:31.239 --> 01:03:33.909
Retirement and, and vacation destination.

01:03:34.208 --> 01:03:37.418
You know, Fort Collins offers so many more things for people to come out here and see and do.

01:03:37.418 --> 01:03:48.458
I mean, in, in my little neighborhood, we've got more people coming here, retired buying than, than than young families because it's just a, you know, I like four, I like four seasons.

01:03:48.458 --> 01:03:48.938
I don't like them.

01:03:48.938 --> 01:03:52.869
Back in the Midwest where we grew up, uh, you know, we'd joke our kids had never seen dirty snow.

01:03:52.869 --> 01:03:54.128
And we, that's one of the challenges.

01:03:54.128 --> 01:03:59.289
I actually had an economist on just last night, and we were talking about how do you keep that vibrancy in Northern Colorado?

01:03:59.318 --> 01:03:59.409
Mm-hmm.

01:04:00.398 --> 01:04:12.248
If, I mean, frankly, if, if two thirds of the people that are moving here are semi-retired or retired and they're chasing their grandkids, that's not a positive thing for the vibrancy of the workforce, you know, or the housing prices or any of that.

01:04:12.369 --> 01:04:12.668
Yeah.

01:04:12.759 --> 01:04:13.844
Well, it's, what might help is.

01:04:14.184 --> 01:04:17.423
Fort Collins being the micro brewery capital, that doesn't hurt.

01:04:17.429 --> 01:04:17.588
Yeah.

01:04:17.594 --> 01:04:18.083
Yeah.

01:04:18.983 --> 01:04:22.884
So did you get right into financial planning kind of stuff then?

01:04:22.914 --> 01:04:23.844
Well, or how did that come?

01:04:23.844 --> 01:04:34.134
Well, it sets out, you know, you're, you started in sales and, and the financial industry, you know, there's always been around, but the complexities of it and the offerings of it have dramatically increase in the last 15, 20 years.

01:04:34.134 --> 01:04:34.224
Sure.

01:04:34.643 --> 01:04:40.583
You know, I took my series seven, I think in 1988, and, and that was still a very fledgling industry.

01:04:40.929 --> 01:04:44.034
It it when you were outside of Denver, right.

01:04:44.034 --> 01:04:46.463
Or, or you weren't one of the, part of the big firms like that.

01:04:46.463 --> 01:04:49.733
So it, it involved a lot of insurance work too, and a lot of planning.

01:04:49.733 --> 01:04:53.909
I mean, I, I, I guess I've had a career of helping people manage risk, you know, fair.

01:04:53.909 --> 01:05:00.353
You know, it, it's sometimes my job is the best when somebody retires and they've done 30, 40 years of saving and that's fantastic.

01:05:00.353 --> 01:05:04.733
Sometimes it's, if you're delivering a life insurance check that it, it's at a time when people.

01:05:05.784 --> 01:05:06.804
Are at their lowest.

01:05:06.804 --> 01:05:07.134
Devastated.

01:05:07.134 --> 01:05:07.884
Yeah, exactly.

01:05:07.884 --> 01:05:18.893
But then somebody gets to keep a house and, and kids get outta college or, or, or, or there's somebody that, uh, uh, could stay where they're at and don't have to leave and, and, and, uh, it's, it's different.

01:05:18.983 --> 01:05:20.184
Um, I enjoy it.

01:05:20.244 --> 01:05:23.813
Um, and, and I like helping people, helping people plan.

01:05:23.844 --> 01:05:25.704
I'm, I've always been that problem solver.

01:05:26.184 --> 01:05:31.614
Um, as a husband, I've learned that I don't have to solve every problem that my, that I perceive my wife to have.

01:05:31.614 --> 01:05:32.213
They're generally not.

01:05:32.213 --> 01:05:33.079
I just need to listen more.

01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:33.478
Just listen.

01:05:33.623 --> 01:05:33.773
Yeah.

01:05:33.773 --> 01:05:33.954
Yes.

01:05:33.954 --> 01:05:34.643
Exactly.

01:05:35.063 --> 01:05:36.594
I don't, I'm still working on that, the nail in my head.

01:05:36.594 --> 01:05:37.253
No, I know.

01:05:37.403 --> 01:05:37.974
Yeah, I know.

01:05:38.179 --> 01:05:39.264
I'm, I'm still listening.

01:05:39.264 --> 01:05:42.143
I'm definitely a work in progress as those that know me best.

01:05:42.143 --> 01:05:43.434
That's, that's, that's the thing.

01:05:43.434 --> 01:05:45.039
But, uh, we all are, yeah.

01:05:45.043 --> 01:05:45.474
Yeah.

01:05:45.474 --> 01:05:45.833
That's true.

01:05:46.103 --> 01:05:55.494
Well, and, and, and as you see, you know, as this town grows, just to your point where vocations and, and we, we were a very.

01:05:56.213 --> 01:06:01.164
Ag town now, the tech town, I mean, you know, Fort Collins is percentage, you know, word an anomaly.

01:06:01.164 --> 01:06:05.244
The, the amount of college graduates in, in the, in the white collar jobs in this town is, is Oh yeah.

01:06:05.423 --> 01:06:06.264
Very much different.

01:06:06.264 --> 01:06:17.003
And, and having, having children that are now looking to buy homes and, and, uh, my, my first house that my wife and I built here in town, I think we spent$79,000.

01:06:17.003 --> 01:06:20.543
And I still, I tell this story all the time as my dad goes, you're never gonna be able to pay that off.

01:06:20.724 --> 01:06:24.744
You could spend that money, you know, you know, it'd be worth 800,000.

01:06:24.744 --> 01:06:25.284
Well, oh yeah.

01:06:25.284 --> 01:06:26.423
Just silly numbers now.

01:06:26.423 --> 01:06:26.813
Oh, yeah.

01:06:26.813 --> 01:06:30.653
You know, and what, what kids have got to go into town now because people come in and buy cash.

01:06:30.684 --> 01:06:31.914
'cause it's such a great place to live.

01:06:31.943 --> 01:06:32.184
Yeah.

01:06:32.393 --> 01:06:45.173
You know, and, and as a young professional, I've got, you know, two educated kids both here, CSU, Ram grads and, uh, um, they, they've gotta put a sizable amount of money down just to get into the place here.

01:06:45.173 --> 01:06:45.233
Yeah.

01:06:45.233 --> 01:06:48.204
Well, and it's hard to catch on in the professional realm.

01:06:48.233 --> 01:06:48.324
Yep.

01:06:48.329 --> 01:06:50.514
I, I moved here with, with a job.

01:06:50.918 --> 01:07:06.009
I got a college degree and then I went through a banking training program, got my series seven and 63 and different things way back when, and a bunch of other training and licenses, and then met a bunch of people that were, you know, had better grades and a better degree than me that didn't have a job at a bank.

01:07:06.009 --> 01:07:08.469
They were serving my beer at the Trailhead.

01:07:08.498 --> 01:07:08.739
Yeah.

01:07:08.829 --> 01:07:09.668
You know, or whatever.

01:07:09.849 --> 01:07:11.108
Well, it's, and that, that's the thing.

01:07:11.108 --> 01:07:17.469
Here's a town where people wanna be and, and can you survive long enough at times to, to find your niche, to catch on and Yeah.

01:07:17.469 --> 01:07:18.188
Catch a little traction.

01:07:18.188 --> 01:07:18.398
Yeah.

01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:25.389
Because there's, I mean, there's, and to that point, you talk about breweries, but there's other people go and start small jobs and nothing to do with the educations they had.

01:07:25.449 --> 01:07:26.349
Yeah, yeah, totally.

01:07:26.409 --> 01:07:37.539
If all the time, if, if you have, have those chances, it's about your drive and, and, uh, it's like I, I've been very fortunate, but it's like, I don't think I can really retire and do nothing.

01:07:37.539 --> 01:07:41.498
I, I, well, I'm sure I can actually, I, I, I've, I'm that working dog.

01:07:41.498 --> 01:07:43.148
I need tasks on a daily basis.

01:07:43.719 --> 01:07:46.239
Well, I'm glad we have you in the club to, to work on.

01:07:46.268 --> 01:07:46.784
Yeah, me too.

01:07:47.054 --> 01:07:47.344
Yeah.

01:07:47.693 --> 01:07:47.983
Yeah.

01:07:48.128 --> 01:07:49.298
I got a lot, lot of help.

01:07:49.298 --> 01:07:52.389
We're gonna do our ping pong ball question challenge here now.

01:07:52.389 --> 01:07:56.503
So I'm gonna have you guys each ask two questions or each pull two balls, okay?

01:07:56.509 --> 01:07:56.858
Okay.

01:07:56.858 --> 01:08:00.039
These are kind of randomized questions that are tied to those.

01:08:00.489 --> 01:08:00.579
Okay.

01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:06.759
And it could be anything from silly to professional and the first listener to respond.

01:08:06.818 --> 01:08:15.009
Uh, for each, uh, there is gonna have a, uh, a free medallion for you for the field of honor.

01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:15.219
Yep.

01:08:15.429 --> 01:08:21.009
And so, um, we will let you honor one of your heroes, uh, free of obligation or cost.

01:08:21.128 --> 01:08:21.219
Mm-hmm.

01:08:21.458 --> 01:08:21.969
And come and check it out.

01:08:22.238 --> 01:08:25.779
And then Dave, for the Peach Festival's, got a admittance for four.

01:08:26.168 --> 01:08:26.349
Yep.

01:08:26.408 --> 01:08:27.009
I'll get four.

01:08:27.009 --> 01:08:32.109
I'll get four people to come down and enjoy the Peach Festival and they'll, they'll I'll, I'll, they'll take care of their passes.

01:08:32.198 --> 01:08:32.559
Awesome.

01:08:33.069 --> 01:08:34.599
And, uh, so yeah, let's get started.

01:08:36.128 --> 01:08:37.719
Therese, why don't you grab two of those.

01:08:39.038 --> 01:08:39.628
There you go.

01:08:41.484 --> 01:08:42.323
We'll go you first.

01:08:42.323 --> 01:08:48.984
Since the field of honor is first, 22, 22, I'm gonna bold it so you don't get it.

01:08:49.104 --> 01:08:53.873
If you could live anywhere for three months, a year, where would it be and why?

01:08:59.844 --> 01:09:03.083
I would live in Australia again.

01:09:03.083 --> 01:09:03.113
Oh.

01:09:03.234 --> 01:09:05.484
I lived in Australia for three years.

01:09:05.514 --> 01:09:05.783
Okay.

01:09:06.323 --> 01:09:08.333
And absolutely loved it.

01:09:08.333 --> 01:09:18.713
I would probably choose, in Australia, I would probably go to Melbourne for a year, Sydney for a year, and then I'd go to the Outback.

01:09:18.774 --> 01:09:20.003
I mean, not a year, a month.

01:09:20.009 --> 01:09:20.514
Yeah, yeah.

01:09:20.604 --> 01:09:21.594
You got three months there.

01:09:22.104 --> 01:09:25.673
One month in Melbourne, one month in Sydney, and one month in the Outback.

01:09:26.543 --> 01:09:27.354
You say Melbourne?

01:09:27.354 --> 01:09:30.323
I've always called it Melbourne, but I guess that's how Americans say it.

01:09:30.323 --> 01:09:31.434
And Aussies don't.

01:09:31.823 --> 01:09:38.064
Uh, in Australia, most of the R'S are not pronounced, but if there isn't an R there, then you put it there.

01:09:38.064 --> 01:09:39.323
Like, I have an idea.

01:09:41.003 --> 01:09:44.213
I did not understand why they do that, but they do that.

01:09:44.423 --> 01:09:45.323
So it's Melbourne.

01:09:45.804 --> 01:09:46.283
I like it.

01:09:46.463 --> 01:09:46.703
Yeah.

01:09:47.003 --> 01:09:49.448
Um, why don't we do both of your questions right away.

01:09:49.719 --> 01:09:50.009
Okay.

01:09:53.118 --> 01:09:53.819
Number four.

01:09:53.878 --> 01:09:54.658
Number four.

01:09:56.948 --> 01:09:57.908
Oh, this is a fun one.

01:09:59.229 --> 01:10:02.259
Uhoh, what, what would you estimate your burp to fart ratio to be?

01:10:02.679 --> 01:10:03.189
My what?

01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:05.319
Your burp to fart ratio.

01:10:05.649 --> 01:10:06.849
Oh, gracious Sykes.

01:10:06.878 --> 01:10:10.509
Like, uh, do you burp twice as much as you fart, or half as much?

01:10:12.338 --> 01:10:12.429
What?

01:10:12.429 --> 01:10:13.208
What a draw again.

01:10:15.309 --> 01:10:17.319
Are we talking silent farts or loud?

01:10:17.319 --> 01:10:17.378
Yeah.

01:10:17.378 --> 01:10:18.248
You gotta cut'em all.

01:10:18.423 --> 01:10:19.363
You gotta cut'em all.

01:10:21.344 --> 01:10:23.404
Oh, I thought that was your number.

01:10:23.663 --> 01:10:24.484
That's yours.

01:10:25.748 --> 01:10:27.609
I'm so glad you went twice.

01:10:28.059 --> 01:10:29.979
Oh, probably one to one.

01:10:29.979 --> 01:10:30.369
One to one.

01:10:30.394 --> 01:10:32.644
This is, it's alright.

01:10:33.014 --> 01:10:37.958
We're gonna make that the, uh, the winning answer for the medallion is, uh, one to one octopus.

01:10:37.958 --> 01:10:39.444
Time to yell at octopus, sir.

01:10:39.863 --> 01:10:42.644
Get this too flipper.

01:10:42.734 --> 01:10:43.363
Funny answer.

01:10:43.373 --> 01:10:43.724
Great.

01:10:44.408 --> 01:10:44.859
Alright.

01:10:44.859 --> 01:10:45.009
Where?

01:10:45.203 --> 01:10:46.884
I gotta put that one back up for you, Dave.

01:10:46.904 --> 01:10:47.948
No, it won't come out.

01:10:47.948 --> 01:10:49.569
I, I won't make, I won't make sure.

01:10:49.599 --> 01:10:49.628
Okay.

01:10:51.009 --> 01:10:51.668
Five.

01:10:52.179 --> 01:10:53.229
Well, this one's even worse.

01:10:53.889 --> 01:10:54.309
I'm just kidding.

01:10:56.229 --> 01:10:59.139
What's the most important lesson you've learned from failure?

01:11:00.099 --> 01:11:03.158
Oh, oh gosh.

01:11:03.219 --> 01:11:14.439
Um, two presidents have had speeches, uh, um, but, uh, president Kennedy's, uh, big one about, uh, uh, basically I, I failure's.

01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:14.769
Good.

01:11:15.578 --> 01:11:15.788
Hmm.

01:11:16.269 --> 01:11:16.689
Failure.

01:11:16.689 --> 01:11:22.748
Failure teaches you that you tried and, and, and, and it's not so much that you tried and failed, it's that, that you can do it again.

01:11:22.899 --> 01:11:23.078
Yeah.

01:11:23.139 --> 01:11:28.179
You know, I, I, I've, I've, I want the guy on my team that will try and keep getting up after getting knocked down.

01:11:28.569 --> 01:11:30.759
You know, it, it's the, I will, I will not resilience.

01:11:30.759 --> 01:11:32.948
I, I will not get that correct quote.

01:11:32.948 --> 01:11:37.418
But Dr, it's not so much the honor of the person who doesn't go into the ring and compete.

01:11:37.418 --> 01:11:40.298
It's the person who goes in the ring and competes no matter what the outcome is.

01:11:40.328 --> 01:11:42.668
And, um, I, I, I want that.

01:11:42.684 --> 01:11:47.304
I want that person and, and, and I hope I got a Teddy Roosevelt plaque on top of my Okay.

01:11:47.423 --> 01:11:47.753
Yeah.

01:11:47.759 --> 01:11:47.979
Yeah.

01:11:47.984 --> 01:11:50.634
Uh, somewhere on my dresser or my, on my bookshelf there.

01:11:50.634 --> 01:11:50.694
Yeah.

01:11:50.694 --> 01:11:58.644
I was looking for, but it's that, yeah, the, the person that actually gets in the ring, even if he gets beat, is much more honorable than the person that stands in the sidelines.

01:11:58.644 --> 01:12:03.444
I, I have no problem with failure because, uh, I've certainly done it enough and I'd like to think I've learned from all of them.

01:12:03.953 --> 01:12:04.134
Yeah.

01:12:04.134 --> 01:12:05.333
And, and you have those chances.

01:12:05.423 --> 01:12:08.154
Um, I, I said I, I'd rather take a chance.

01:12:08.154 --> 01:12:09.503
I'd rather sit on the sidelines.

01:12:09.503 --> 01:12:10.283
I've never been that guy.

01:12:10.554 --> 01:12:10.944
Fair enough.

01:12:10.944 --> 01:12:11.394
Out there.

01:12:11.604 --> 01:12:11.904
All right.

01:12:11.904 --> 01:12:12.384
All right.

01:12:12.894 --> 01:12:13.554
See what you got.

01:12:13.559 --> 01:12:14.753
You deserve a funny one.

01:12:14.753 --> 01:12:18.354
Just, all right.

01:12:18.354 --> 01:12:19.793
Number three, we're clip for you.

01:12:19.823 --> 01:12:20.423
Uh, yeah.

01:12:20.514 --> 01:12:22.194
Therese 23.

01:12:22.283 --> 01:12:23.694
He'll be at Rotary next week.

01:12:25.493 --> 01:12:29.363
Do you have any stupid human tricks that you're willing to share or show?

01:12:32.753 --> 01:12:33.503
Yes, you do.

01:12:33.503 --> 01:12:34.104
I could tell.

01:12:34.104 --> 01:12:35.123
I don't.

01:12:35.708 --> 01:12:37.118
Uh, oh.

01:12:37.118 --> 01:12:38.859
He's getting, he's turning red.

01:12:39.668 --> 01:12:43.298
He's wondering if he should actually share this live in, in person right now.

01:12:43.298 --> 01:12:44.019
Oh my goodness.

01:12:45.368 --> 01:12:47.139
Is it something to do with your burp to heart ratio?

01:12:47.198 --> 01:12:47.529
Yeah.

01:12:47.554 --> 01:12:48.969
I, I can't even claim that.

01:12:48.969 --> 01:12:56.769
I mean, well, as, as a re, you know, reflux sufferer for many years, burping is, I, I, mine would be 50 to one, I guess so.

01:12:56.948 --> 01:12:57.009
Wow.

01:12:57.248 --> 01:12:57.639
Impressive.

01:12:57.668 --> 01:12:58.149
Um, yeah.

01:12:58.149 --> 01:12:58.208
Yeah.

01:12:59.198 --> 01:13:14.918
The golly, I, I, I, you know, other than the old man stuff standing up and making noises, I mean, does anybody else get, you know, watch those progressive commercials where you're turning into your parents and it's like, who reads books about submarines?

01:13:14.918 --> 01:13:22.418
My daughter goes, my dad and, and who, who, who can't go fill up their gas at their station without talking to the guy next to him.

01:13:22.689 --> 01:13:28.179
So I guess it won't be the, the, the, the actual question is you match the metaphor of that.

01:13:28.184 --> 01:13:29.679
Uh, I, I fit those.

01:13:30.458 --> 01:13:31.269
Completely.

01:13:31.833 --> 01:13:34.958
I, I, I, I can't get an elevator and not talk to somebody.

01:13:34.958 --> 01:13:39.099
I can't, my wife, I mean, God bless her because she's endured this forever.

01:13:39.668 --> 01:13:43.809
Um, you know, it's like, I can help you with that, or I can do that from the other, Hey, what do you got there?

01:13:44.229 --> 01:13:44.979
Yeah, I'm that guy.

01:13:44.984 --> 01:13:45.073
Yeah.

01:13:45.078 --> 01:13:45.338
Yeah.

01:13:45.338 --> 01:13:45.819
I'll own it.

01:13:45.819 --> 01:13:46.418
I've owned it.

01:13:46.418 --> 01:13:47.349
So Cool.

01:13:47.378 --> 01:13:50.889
Yeah, it's, it's, I've, I've come to where I've come to grips with, that's me.

01:13:51.639 --> 01:13:54.399
So I'm gonna call the winning question there.

01:13:54.399 --> 01:14:00.279
The, uh, the first one, and I guess the lesson you've learned from failure is that failure is a good thing.

01:14:00.878 --> 01:14:02.708
Is that the right, uh, kind of summary of that?

01:14:02.708 --> 01:14:03.219
Definitely for me.

01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:03.488
Yeah.

01:14:03.548 --> 01:14:03.788
Yeah.

01:14:03.849 --> 01:14:05.439
And nobody bats a thousand in life.

01:14:05.498 --> 01:14:11.738
And, and the, the successful people in whatever they wanna define as success are the ones that learn from failure.

01:14:11.798 --> 01:14:12.668
I mean, you gotta try.

01:14:13.029 --> 01:14:13.328
Yeah.

01:14:13.899 --> 01:14:16.298
Some people just play life too safe and don't try.

01:14:16.389 --> 01:14:17.319
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:14:17.679 --> 01:14:23.349
There's a term on, uh, the Twitter these days, the NPC uh, non-player character.

01:14:23.649 --> 01:14:24.458
Oh, yeah.

01:14:24.519 --> 01:14:28.748
So they're, they're, they're filling a slot in the world, but they're just absolutely just.

01:14:29.139 --> 01:14:30.969
Not impacting anybody's lives.

01:14:30.969 --> 01:14:33.639
They're not changing anybody's mind about anything.

01:14:33.639 --> 01:14:35.469
They're not inspiring anybody to do anything new.

01:14:36.158 --> 01:14:37.509
Standing on the sideline.

01:14:37.719 --> 01:14:39.099
Yeah, I know.

01:14:39.519 --> 01:14:40.929
Put me a don't coach that muscle always.

01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:44.469
Well, and, and, and you look at that, I think, how do you grow?

01:14:45.668 --> 01:14:45.788
Yeah.

01:14:45.793 --> 01:15:01.238
I mean, I mean, other things I've done wrong and, and not wanted to do wrong, but just did or, or didn't do well enough or learn from, I mean, that, that could be from starting out as a kid trying to hit a ball or throw it or, or, or, or hitting the right note in choir or whatever it would be, you know?

01:15:01.238 --> 01:15:01.479
Yeah.

01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:01.479
Yeah.

01:15:01.689 --> 01:15:11.738
It, it's to now, you know, professionally seeing people, you know, every, every year we, you know, I, I take attestations on ethics, you know that from your, from the Sure.

01:15:11.738 --> 01:15:13.328
Banking and the financial side of things.

01:15:13.748 --> 01:15:15.639
You know, what are the, what are the right things to do?

01:15:15.668 --> 01:15:18.069
Well, they all come down to the same things that are in the four way test.

01:15:18.069 --> 01:15:18.548
Yeah.

01:15:18.668 --> 01:15:18.788
Yeah.

01:15:18.788 --> 01:15:18.789
Mm-hmm.

01:15:18.796 --> 01:15:22.748
You know, all those things are self-evident that you have to do things the right way.

01:15:23.168 --> 01:15:25.118
Um, but doing them.

01:15:26.064 --> 01:15:27.863
Well, is is not really part of it.

01:15:27.863 --> 01:15:29.033
Sometimes don't do everything.

01:15:29.033 --> 01:15:29.333
Well.

01:15:29.338 --> 01:15:30.323
You, you learn from it.

01:15:30.474 --> 01:15:40.734
I, uh, being in the industry that you're in, I'm, I'm guessing that your call volume over the last, uh, four weeks of tariff, not tariff, tariff, just kidding.

01:15:40.884 --> 01:15:43.014
Stock markets up 800, down 2000.

01:15:43.014 --> 01:15:43.073
Yeah.

01:15:43.073 --> 01:15:44.453
Up I think 1400.

01:15:44.484 --> 01:15:47.993
Most of my clients that I deal with, I, I talk to them all the time.

01:15:47.993 --> 01:15:49.283
It doesn't mean, you know, it's no fun.

01:15:49.463 --> 01:15:53.543
But, but you know, the market actually has an annual 10% correction.

01:15:53.543 --> 01:15:55.854
That's, that's not out of the, out of the norm at all.

01:15:55.944 --> 01:15:56.094
Yeah.

01:15:56.213 --> 01:16:05.934
You know, so as, as, uh, you know, this is, which could be typically called a manmade, um, uh, correction, which most of them are, but Covid was an incident where it wasn't.

01:16:06.203 --> 01:16:06.354
Sure.

01:16:06.354 --> 01:16:08.588
So, you know, there's people that make that even, well, that's arable.

01:16:08.594 --> 01:16:10.104
Yeah, exactly.

01:16:10.404 --> 01:16:15.804
But, you know, you, you do, you've got the next few weeks, it's, but it's about planning, you know?

01:16:15.809 --> 01:16:15.868
Yeah.

01:16:15.923 --> 01:16:18.654
It's like, okay, does your portfolio have enough?

01:16:19.104 --> 01:16:22.344
Uh, just withstand that, and if you don't like it, I mean, I've got.

01:16:22.974 --> 01:16:25.344
Clients and friends that like that kind of volatility.

01:16:25.734 --> 01:16:26.484
They don't get sleep.

01:16:26.484 --> 01:16:27.203
They don't sleep at all.

01:16:27.203 --> 01:16:29.783
I go, well then you need, you need, you gotta be away from it.

01:16:29.814 --> 01:16:31.823
'cause it's gonna come back and we're gonna, it'll happen again.

01:16:32.033 --> 01:16:32.243
Yeah.

01:16:32.394 --> 01:16:34.163
You know, can, can you weather that storm?

01:16:34.163 --> 01:16:39.203
I mean, are, are you that cattle producer that, that, that has enough hay in the barn to last all winter?

01:16:39.384 --> 01:16:41.094
You know, you know, that's, that's the thing.

01:16:41.094 --> 01:16:43.974
My, my dad, I mean, my grand, both my grandfathers farmed.

01:16:44.333 --> 01:16:47.003
It's like, you know when you can put hay in the barn, you put hay in the barn.

01:16:47.154 --> 01:16:47.363
Yeah.

01:16:47.394 --> 01:16:54.354
And if, I don't care if you're saving for your retirement or, or you're, you're trying to make sure your livestock are gonna be well fed all winter long.

01:16:54.413 --> 01:16:54.594
Yeah.

01:16:54.654 --> 01:16:56.993
Or even able to help your neighbor if he needs a little hay.

01:16:57.054 --> 01:16:57.713
Exactly.

01:16:57.743 --> 01:16:57.833
Mm-hmm.

01:16:58.073 --> 01:16:58.974
All those things happen.

01:16:58.974 --> 01:17:01.104
And that's, that's Rotarians right there.

01:17:01.104 --> 01:17:02.453
We go out and help our neighbors, don't we?

01:17:02.694 --> 01:17:03.144
We do.

01:17:03.384 --> 01:17:07.703
Well, the, uh, the final segment of our show, uh, it gets better.

01:17:07.974 --> 01:17:08.694
It gets better.

01:17:09.083 --> 01:17:10.434
You can sit down on the floor if you like, Gary.

01:17:13.404 --> 01:17:16.524
The, uh, the namesake segment is the Loco Experience.

01:17:16.583 --> 01:17:16.734
Yep.

01:17:16.764 --> 01:17:19.493
And in this Capacity Loco is stands for Crazy.

01:17:20.003 --> 01:17:22.404
So, I think we'll start with Dave this time.

01:17:22.404 --> 01:17:23.663
I've been starting with threes a lot.

01:17:23.694 --> 01:17:23.783
Okay.

01:17:23.783 --> 01:17:25.519
I know she's gonna have a good one, but, uh, I pave the way.

01:17:25.684 --> 01:17:31.673
What's the, uh, what's the craziest experience of your lifetime that you're willing to share with our listeners?

01:17:32.423 --> 01:17:41.123
Uh, could be travel, could be a near death experience, could be whatever comes to mind when I say that question.

01:17:41.783 --> 01:17:57.503
You know, I think the, the, the first time, uh, when our son was born and, and, and blessed with the ignorance of not knowing, um, how incredible that's gonna be.

01:17:57.894 --> 01:17:59.453
Um, he was, he was.

01:17:59.498 --> 01:17:59.559
Yeah.

01:18:00.429 --> 01:18:02.168
Early he had some issues.

01:18:02.259 --> 01:18:02.439
Hmm.

01:18:02.529 --> 01:18:04.179
Um, um, spent a week in the nicu.

01:18:04.179 --> 01:18:05.649
None of the things that we had any clue about.

01:18:05.859 --> 01:18:06.069
Sure.

01:18:06.099 --> 01:18:19.359
You know, um, uh, certainly very lucky to have a, a, a strong partner in life and, and, uh, that to be there, but not, not knowing things, um, uh, it just, it, I ignorance scares me.

01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:20.769
And nothing you could impact Exactly.

01:18:20.769 --> 01:18:20.859
Either.

01:18:20.859 --> 01:18:21.069
Right?

01:18:21.069 --> 01:18:22.988
Like, you're such a doer or you're a working dog.

01:18:22.988 --> 01:18:23.349
Yeah.

01:18:23.439 --> 01:18:24.069
What can I do?

01:18:24.069 --> 01:18:24.609
What can I do?

01:18:24.609 --> 01:18:26.259
And the doctors are like, just stay out of our way.

01:18:26.333 --> 01:18:34.838
You know, and that's part of, that's probably part of my own OCD tendencies of saying if I need to be in control and, and I jump up and do things because it's like, okay, I want it done.

01:18:35.139 --> 01:18:35.319
What?

01:18:35.319 --> 01:18:37.149
I proceed to be the right way and.

01:18:37.538 --> 01:18:42.189
Boy, that parenting moment when you have, it's not in your hands at all, was, was to me.

01:18:42.429 --> 01:18:45.729
Um, I impactful and I had no clue at the time.

01:18:45.819 --> 01:18:46.269
None.

01:18:46.389 --> 01:18:46.599
Right?

01:18:46.599 --> 01:18:46.779
None.

01:18:46.779 --> 01:18:47.198
Zero.

01:18:47.498 --> 01:18:57.338
I mean, I've done some physically some dumb things, things like that, but I volunteered for those and I tried those, you know, and, you know, running up hit 300 pound guys when you're supposed to do that, you know, with the football helmet on.

01:18:57.338 --> 01:18:58.748
Seems to be a good idea at the time.

01:18:58.748 --> 01:19:10.298
But, uh, it, it's not, it doesn't do well for you long term, but no, it, I, I would say those moments that when you really can't affect what's going on, you just have, you have to deliver the results for me.

01:19:10.304 --> 01:19:10.543
Yeah.

01:19:10.719 --> 01:19:10.929
Yeah.

01:19:10.929 --> 01:19:11.259
Interesting.

01:19:11.408 --> 01:19:15.399
Okay, Therese, uh, you got anything that comes to mind?

01:19:15.908 --> 01:19:17.109
Two things come to mind.

01:19:17.168 --> 01:19:17.319
All right.

01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:20.408
The first one was, I was somewhat afraid of heights.

01:19:20.559 --> 01:19:20.798
Okay.

01:19:21.128 --> 01:19:25.689
So I was living in Australia and I decided I need to conquer that fear.

01:19:26.229 --> 01:19:28.868
So I decided to go do a tandem skydive.

01:19:29.229 --> 01:19:30.279
Oh, okay.

01:19:30.668 --> 01:19:31.944
And it worked out okay.

01:19:32.404 --> 01:19:32.904
No, flat.

01:19:32.904 --> 01:19:33.064
It worked.

01:19:33.064 --> 01:19:33.264
Okay.

01:19:33.338 --> 01:19:33.743
You're still here.

01:19:34.448 --> 01:19:35.319
The first part though.

01:19:35.319 --> 01:19:37.509
You're in the plane and they have it open.

01:19:37.509 --> 01:19:50.649
And I kind of went to where the opening is and was looking and the gentleman, there were four of us in the plane in the back, but the guy I am supposed to be tandem with had me move back and he said, I forgot to attach you.

01:19:50.918 --> 01:19:51.099
Oh.

01:19:51.219 --> 01:19:52.503
So I wasn't attached.

01:19:52.658 --> 01:19:59.378
I had no shoes on that time when I was looking over and it's like, oh, thank you for noticing that.

01:19:59.859 --> 01:20:02.559
So then he attached me and then we sat up.

01:20:02.559 --> 01:20:03.189
And did it help?

01:20:03.309 --> 01:20:05.618
Uh, like did your fear of heights dissipate from that?

01:20:05.618 --> 01:20:06.219
It did.

01:20:06.219 --> 01:20:07.868
Really, it was, I just realized.

01:20:07.884 --> 01:20:10.194
Uh, you just gotta live life.

01:20:10.194 --> 01:20:10.253
Huh?

01:20:10.854 --> 01:20:11.274
Go do it.

01:20:11.274 --> 01:20:11.333
Yeah.

01:20:11.333 --> 01:20:11.844
So, yeah.

01:20:12.713 --> 01:20:20.363
Was yours a like a, one of my friends has like vertigo or something like that, so when she gets up, she can go all the way to the top of horse tooth.

01:20:20.363 --> 01:20:26.184
But to climb up those last few mountains up there, she physically can't, like, she just can't.

01:20:26.429 --> 01:20:27.743
Was was it like that for you?

01:20:27.743 --> 01:20:29.368
No, I was just scared of fights.

01:20:29.368 --> 01:20:29.371
Just scared.

01:20:29.423 --> 01:20:29.724
Okay.

01:20:29.724 --> 01:20:30.083
Just, yeah.

01:20:30.958 --> 01:20:31.463
Yeah, yeah.

01:20:31.524 --> 01:20:32.783
But now it's much less.

01:20:32.814 --> 01:20:33.144
Yeah.

01:20:33.264 --> 01:20:34.854
Still don't wanna fall from a big eye place.

01:20:34.884 --> 01:20:37.104
No, but it was a crazy thing to do.

01:20:37.134 --> 01:20:37.373
Yeah.

01:20:37.373 --> 01:20:38.064
No, for sure.

01:20:38.064 --> 01:20:39.203
That's taking a bull by the horn.

01:20:39.203 --> 01:20:41.033
We always say confront the dragon around here.

01:20:41.154 --> 01:20:41.333
Yeah.

01:20:41.394 --> 01:20:45.623
So if there's a big scary dragon that needs to be talked about, well tell'em, Hey Mr.

01:20:45.984 --> 01:20:46.884
Let's sit down and talk.

01:20:47.184 --> 01:20:48.024
Yeah, exactly.

01:20:48.024 --> 01:20:49.463
Uh, that's kinda what you did with your fear there.

01:20:49.703 --> 01:20:50.694
And then your second one.

01:20:50.934 --> 01:20:53.423
Oh, my second one was, I was in Australia.

01:20:53.423 --> 01:20:54.623
I was single at the time.

01:20:55.163 --> 01:20:56.394
And here we go.

01:20:56.453 --> 01:21:04.224
I got the opportunity to travel with two gentlemen who worked in the, uh, feed industry.

01:21:04.224 --> 01:21:04.253
Okay.

01:21:04.583 --> 01:21:06.054
And they were going on a.

01:21:06.083 --> 01:21:10.194
A producer tour for cattle producers through the Outback.

01:21:10.198 --> 01:21:10.649
Oh, fun.

01:21:10.793 --> 01:21:14.694
And there was like four different stops throughout the outback.

01:21:14.694 --> 01:21:16.854
And I mean, we did a lot of traveling.

01:21:16.944 --> 01:21:17.363
That's really cool.

01:21:17.363 --> 01:21:23.993
But we had an afternoon that was open and they were both fishermen, so they asked if I would like to go with them.

01:21:24.144 --> 01:21:25.373
Well, sure, why not?

01:21:25.913 --> 01:21:28.823
You know, if you're traveling with them, you might as well Sure do.

01:21:29.274 --> 01:21:34.163
So we, they've rented what they called a tinny, which is an aluminum Yep, yep.

01:21:34.224 --> 01:21:35.123
Aluminum boat.

01:21:35.634 --> 01:21:39.323
And one's on one end of the boat, one's on the other end of the boat.

01:21:39.623 --> 01:21:42.083
And I just decided, I mean, it's hot there.

01:21:42.503 --> 01:21:48.293
I took my shoes off, I put my feet in the water and I, you know, leaned back across the boat.

01:21:48.293 --> 01:21:48.594
Oh sure.

01:21:49.224 --> 01:21:53.814
And the one gentleman at one point looked at me and said, would you get your feet back?

01:21:54.024 --> 01:21:54.113
Yeah.

01:21:54.113 --> 01:21:56.274
And I go, why this is comfortable?

01:21:56.274 --> 01:21:57.713
And he goes, just do it.

01:21:58.524 --> 01:22:01.554
And the tone of his voice was like kind of ordering.

01:22:02.378 --> 01:22:05.918
He started polite and then it was that ordering for tone.

01:22:06.248 --> 01:22:12.069
So I got my feet back in and he told the other guy at the end, he says, start the engine.

01:22:13.179 --> 01:22:14.109
And it's like, what?

01:22:14.844 --> 01:22:19.944
And we're looking at him and he goes, there's a crock coming to under our boat.

01:22:20.213 --> 01:22:20.423
Oh, wow.

01:22:20.423 --> 01:22:23.963
So what the crocodile likes to do is to get under the boat and flip it.

01:22:24.474 --> 01:22:24.503
Mm.

01:22:24.923 --> 01:22:27.113
So he wanted my feet out the water first.

01:22:27.594 --> 01:22:28.884
So the croc didn't get it.

01:22:29.184 --> 01:22:29.274
Dang.

01:22:29.274 --> 01:22:31.734
But he didn't wanna say it from the very beginning.

01:22:31.734 --> 01:22:32.543
Could you see him?

01:22:32.573 --> 01:22:33.474
Did you spot the crock?

01:22:33.474 --> 01:22:34.673
We saw the crock.

01:22:34.673 --> 01:22:36.203
Then when we moved Wow.

01:22:36.203 --> 01:22:36.564
The boat.

01:22:36.564 --> 01:22:37.224
It came up.

01:22:37.224 --> 01:22:39.623
But it was, that's what I call crazy.

01:22:39.708 --> 01:22:39.998
Yeah.

01:22:40.548 --> 01:22:40.838
Yeah.

01:22:40.988 --> 01:22:41.479
That fits.

01:22:42.054 --> 01:22:42.474
Yeah.

01:22:42.594 --> 01:22:44.094
That checks, that checks it off pretty well.

01:22:44.184 --> 01:22:48.113
I, I glad to say I've never done anything quite like that.

01:22:49.583 --> 01:22:50.873
Well, you, there's still time, Dave.

01:22:50.873 --> 01:22:51.264
Yeah.

01:22:52.668 --> 01:22:52.958
Yeah.

01:22:53.634 --> 01:23:01.224
Um, well, I'm, I'm thankful for you guys to come spend some time here, uh, sharing some rotary stories and encouragement.

01:23:01.283 --> 01:23:12.238
Um, is there, if there's somebody out there listening right now that's like, on the fence, like they're thinking about visiting Rotary Club or learning more about it or something, what, what would tip'em?

01:23:13.583 --> 01:23:14.993
I would say give it a chance.

01:23:15.354 --> 01:23:15.623
Yeah.

01:23:15.684 --> 01:23:16.463
Check us out.

01:23:16.823 --> 01:23:19.043
Come to a meeting, let us know.

01:23:19.554 --> 01:23:20.663
You know who you are.

01:23:20.753 --> 01:23:20.993
Yeah.

01:23:21.444 --> 01:23:25.793
When you check in, we'd love to, we we got your first breakfast for free.

01:23:25.793 --> 01:23:26.033
Right?

01:23:26.038 --> 01:23:26.298
Exactly.

01:23:26.304 --> 01:23:26.484
Exactly.

01:23:26.573 --> 01:23:28.404
So, yeah.

01:23:28.493 --> 01:23:35.394
Or, or any, any of the clubs that with, I think you'll find that at all the clubs, you know, we can all brag about our own of course.

01:23:35.394 --> 01:23:38.394
But at all the clubs, you'd have a chance to find somebody with common interests.

01:23:38.604 --> 01:23:38.993
Oh, totally.

01:23:39.024 --> 01:23:39.384
Yes.

01:23:39.389 --> 01:23:39.894
And, and yeah.

01:23:39.894 --> 01:23:41.963
So it's a Tuesday lunch at the Marriott.

01:23:42.054 --> 01:23:45.863
Wednesday lunch at the Lincoln Center.

01:23:45.863 --> 01:23:46.463
Lincoln Center.

01:23:46.884 --> 01:23:49.583
And then what Tuesday Evening club.

01:23:49.583 --> 01:23:52.463
Tuesday evening is at, at, at this, um, Breckenridge.

01:23:52.463 --> 01:23:58.764
Now, I wouldn't say Sweetwater again now Breckenridge, but I, I challenge you to not, not find something to do.

01:23:58.764 --> 01:24:02.213
If you wanna be involved and you want to, you wanna give back and you want to great.

01:24:02.243 --> 01:24:03.444
Do a bunch of great bunch of people.

01:24:03.564 --> 01:24:05.064
You've got several choices here in town.

01:24:05.064 --> 01:24:06.444
We like our own obviously, but love it.

01:24:06.474 --> 01:24:08.484
There are some good choices and you can do it.

01:24:08.798 --> 01:24:13.059
What are the four names of the Bre of, of the Breakfast Club, of the Rotary Clubs in town?

01:24:13.538 --> 01:24:15.248
Well, there's a Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary.

01:24:15.338 --> 01:24:15.488
Mm-hmm.

01:24:15.819 --> 01:24:16.538
Foothills Club.

01:24:16.599 --> 01:24:16.838
Yep.

01:24:17.198 --> 01:24:18.009
Downtown club.

01:24:18.519 --> 01:24:19.179
And then, yeah.

01:24:19.748 --> 01:24:20.708
Is it called the Downtown Club?

01:24:20.708 --> 01:24:21.849
Actually we call it 1980.

01:24:21.849 --> 01:24:25.118
No, it's, it's, well it's the and it's actually the Rotary Club of Fort Collins.

01:24:25.118 --> 01:24:25.238
Collins, yeah.

01:24:25.293 --> 01:24:25.873
The og.

01:24:26.104 --> 01:24:26.394
Yeah.

01:24:26.588 --> 01:24:27.639
There's very well put.

01:24:27.639 --> 01:24:27.788
Yeah.

01:24:27.788 --> 01:24:28.569
They're the OGs.

01:24:28.569 --> 01:24:31.689
And then I don't if they just do, they just go by raw Rotary.

01:24:31.689 --> 01:24:31.838
Yeah.

01:24:31.838 --> 01:24:32.753
Rot after work, I think.

01:24:32.753 --> 01:24:32.993
Mm-hmm.

01:24:33.073 --> 01:24:33.458
So, yeah.

01:24:33.458 --> 01:24:33.668
Yep.

01:24:34.118 --> 01:24:35.679
We know where they're, we know what time they meet.

01:24:36.069 --> 01:24:36.219
Yeah.

01:24:36.219 --> 01:24:39.128
But, uh, like I say, there's a lot of ways, as you said, Google it, check it out.

01:24:39.128 --> 01:24:39.474
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:24:39.479 --> 01:24:43.868
And there's, there's so many, so many opportunities and get involved.

01:24:43.988 --> 01:24:46.929
I mean, get off your couch, get out, get out and do some things.

01:24:46.929 --> 01:24:47.798
Give back to the community.

01:24:47.798 --> 01:24:48.668
Give back to the world.

01:24:49.029 --> 01:24:57.069
Well, even if you're not, uh, interested in be buying a medallion or being a community supporter, do come out to the Memorial Day Field of Honor.

01:24:57.099 --> 01:24:58.538
'cause it is a striking display.

01:24:58.779 --> 01:25:03.458
Oh, it's amazing that see if red, white, and blue, it just touches your heart.

01:25:03.519 --> 01:25:04.208
Yeah, I agree.

01:25:04.208 --> 01:25:05.109
Last year I met.

01:25:05.918 --> 01:25:20.769
And this is for us, but I, I, I, I met a woman there last year who brought her very elderly mom with her from Texas, and her mom wanted to come over and see it, um, came up from Loveland and her, her, her dad was part of D-Day.

01:25:21.128 --> 01:25:21.609
Oh, wow.

01:25:21.668 --> 01:25:27.878
You know, and, and, and, uh, and I'm a history nerd and I started asking a few things like this and, and it's just like I brought it.

01:25:27.878 --> 01:25:34.479
And so we, she had difficult time moving around, but we got her over there and, and, and it was really moving for them, I'm sure.

01:25:34.538 --> 01:25:35.439
And for the daughter.

01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:39.878
And the daughter sent back, took a bunch of pictures and, you know, somebody got to relive that story.

01:25:39.908 --> 01:25:40.149
Yeah.

01:25:40.179 --> 01:25:40.269
Mm-hmm.

01:25:40.838 --> 01:25:44.798
And, and that's as powerful as that gets, because like I said, there's, there's lots of heroes.

01:25:44.798 --> 01:25:46.538
Well, her husband is certainly one of those.

01:25:47.109 --> 01:25:47.559
Oh, for sure.

01:25:47.708 --> 01:25:50.139
And the Peach Festival is August 16th.

01:25:50.139 --> 01:25:50.798
August 16th.

01:25:50.798 --> 01:25:52.569
Downtown Civic Center, 11 to seven.

01:25:52.628 --> 01:25:53.469
Great time, great day.

01:25:53.469 --> 01:25:54.248
A lot of head bands.

01:25:54.279 --> 01:25:54.668
Oh yeah.

01:25:54.668 --> 01:25:56.139
There's, there's something for everybody there.

01:25:56.139 --> 01:25:56.828
All the peaches.

01:25:56.889 --> 01:25:57.158
Yeah.

01:25:57.219 --> 01:25:58.628
Peaches, peach sales going on.

01:25:58.628 --> 01:25:59.259
There's peach beer.

01:25:59.259 --> 01:25:59.679
There's gonna be.

01:26:01.134 --> 01:26:01.944
Peach desserts.

01:26:01.944 --> 01:26:02.753
There's gonna be peach.

01:26:03.144 --> 01:26:06.149
There's peach pizza there, there's, there is everything to do peach.

01:26:06.149 --> 01:26:10.314
There should be a, uh, like a, a mascot type outfit.

01:26:10.314 --> 01:26:13.703
I think, uh, like when I think about peaches, you're about, you're about six.

01:26:13.703 --> 01:26:14.844
You're about six four, I think.

01:26:14.993 --> 01:26:15.323
Yeah.

01:26:15.323 --> 01:26:23.304
But put, when I'm thinking like a Betty Boots style peaches seems like what, what with, uh, you know, strawberry blonde hair instead.

01:26:23.514 --> 01:26:23.993
Your wife.

01:26:24.474 --> 01:26:27.748
Perhaps I'll, I'll recruit Jill to be peaches this year for the festival.

01:26:27.748 --> 01:26:27.988
There you go.

01:26:27.988 --> 01:26:27.989
Yeah.

01:26:27.994 --> 01:26:28.493
Tread carefully.

01:26:30.234 --> 01:26:30.863
Love you, peaches.

01:26:30.894 --> 01:26:31.434
Yeah, that's right.

01:26:31.434 --> 01:26:32.003
Exactly.

01:26:32.243 --> 01:26:33.953
And I appreciate both of you spending some time today.

01:26:34.014 --> 01:26:34.913
Oh, thank you very much.

01:26:34.913 --> 01:26:35.514
This was a lot of fun.

01:26:35.663 --> 01:26:36.083
God's speed.