It's an honor to have you sitting across from me. We have been trying to get you in here for over a year, I think, ever since I first heard about Skinwalker Ranch.
I've been going to the same gas station, convenience store since I was a little boy. We participate in the same community gatherings and rituals every year and it's been very fortunate.
In fact, every year I pulled together 10 to 12 of my best friends from my youth that I've been friends with since elementary school.
We saw the fall of the Berlin Wall occur. I think that occurred during my senior year, where we saw a lot of remarkable things occur that has blessed our world and ushered in a new era.
My father's success didn't really occur until I was an adult and had already established myself in commercial real estate. It's important to note that my father and I were both EY entrepreneurs of the year for the Western region for completely different businesses.
My dad expected that that we would work construction as teenagers. And so every year I was shipped out of town to work on construction crews with a shovel in hand.
What would what prompted that what what got you interested in commercial real estate as an 18 year old kid?
By the time I was a junior and senior in high school, I had my own subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. And as I was nearing the tail end of my senior year in high school as student body president, I was very focused on jumping into a career and selecting a career path that would afford me the opportunity to work with the captains of industry.
And through a comprehensive research effort during my senior year in high school as I was turning 18 years old, I identified commercial real estate as being the ideal career path that would potentially be in the way I was.
Change my entire life every day of my life has been influenced by that two-year mission experience that I had.
My entire first year of working full time while going to school full time. I starved to death trying to jump into commercial real estate business.
We, I've never laughed so hard in my life and I never thought I would find balance at age 50. It's funny. I really am a teenager from the 80s stuck in a 50 year old body.
If you ever want to figure out kind of what makes me tick or really my world view, just think of me as a 16 year old from the 80s stuck in this time frame in a 50 year old body and that sums it up.
It's like I said, I mentioned before that's a topic that I made at a point to cover this year and I'm going to continue to cover it. I already have interviews lined up all the way through next year on the topic and, and I got to tell you, you know, the more I dive into that, the, the more I realize it's, it's not getting any better.
Because I realize I am unemployed. You're only as good as your next deal as your next project. And at the end of the day, no one cares what you did a year ago.
100% of the proceeds from their products on Veterans Day every year. I love this company.
identity associated with the ranch in any way. What year was this 2016? So I closed closed on the
to monitor what is happening at the ranch and the rest is history. Over the next year,
we had a young calf, a two-year-old calf, perfectly healthy, die.
for the state of Utah with the Department of Agriculture, who comes out over a year after
In a year, over a year.
what was happening on a day-to-day basis. They reached out for over a year. So for over a year
to the phone calls. And after a year, I reluctantly agreed to the meeting subject to a confidentiality
the first year of our docu series. And another senior advisor, we proceeded to present a full
you know, last year ended up in the hospital in the emergency room with the cardiac episode
is a, if there's a million year old stargate that has some type of advanced technology that is
unfold over the course the next few months, the next year I think is a, is an unprecedented effort to,
the moisture and just the environment this last year. And so we're working quickly during
Notwithstanding the fact that this is a year-round effort. I mean, it doesn't cease when, when the
going to be discussing it on the docu series this next year. But he's definitely seen and documented
for example, or the first year that we brought on, uh, Dr Taylor and we started a more aggressive