My next guest has taken me two years just to make contact with.
My greatest mentor in life was my father who unfortunately passed away just under two years ago. Much younger than he should have passed.
And it was literally a ditch digger for years. But it taught me not only the value of hard work and how to work long 12 to to 16 hour days, but also to appreciate people from other backgrounds from other walks of life.
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.
So I started off in business at a very young age at 18. It sold my first office park when I was 19 years old.
You were doing that at 19 years old?
I elected to go on a mission for my church, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served for two years in Hawaii.
Now to build a career, it takes years. And it's years of sacrifice, years of starvation. And I think all too often people underestimate what kind of sacrifice is required in order to truly succeed.
Oh wow, several hundred properties that I currently have the privilege of representing coupled with maintaining my position as chairman and co-owner of call years international's
Call years who I merged with five years ago is one of the big three global commercial real estate service providers with 65 offices, or excuse me,
500 offices in 65 countries and 17,000 professionals call years is truly a global company and to to merge my my previous firm, Colble Banker commercial with call years,
As a result has been willing to sell their key pieces of property in Hawaii and I fortunately not only being familiar with that area is having lived there for several years and served there as a missionary, saw an opportunity to acquire the property, bring in partners to complete a master plan and to preserve
We met a number of years ago. We've only been married for almost two years, but we met each other at age 11.
But we end up bumping into each other later in life. She's a widow. Her first husband died of H1N1, the flu number of years ago.
Life throws a lot of curveballs. And I've been fortunate as we met each other a number of years ago, actually bumped into each other in the lobby of her building where she was working for one of the most prominent law firms in the state.
But my best friends and I, we were 12, 13 years old in the mid 80s at that same time period. And we, we were convinced that there was, there was nefarious activity going on and, you know, under the surface of small town pleasant grove and, and there were mysteries to be solved.
Three years ago, it's what have you done today? What are you doing tomorrow? Memories fade and the ability to constantly reinvent and sharpen the saw.
And it has brought things full circle. I would have never imagined. If you would have asked me 10 years ago, if, if I would be in this position today that I would own a piece of property and be funding to the tunes of millions of not tens of millions of dollars, you know, private research into documenting the reality of the phenomenon, I, I would, I would have laughed.
story. But about 13 years ago, I was funding an advanced physics effort. We'd actually transformed
use through my stewardship over the course of the last seven plus years as well. And so when I
of course, for 20 plus years that there's strange activity in the property and that even though I
The Sherman's owned it from 1994 to 1996, only two years and sold it for $200,000 to Bigelow.
that continued on for years. And of course, years later, the events, the activity, the investigation,
He passed away a few years ago in the middle of really the the docu-series being unveiled to the
public. He had spent 70 years documenting UFO activity in the UN to basin and all the property
when I was 18 years old. Oh, really? Jim was developing the towers at South Town, multiple class
the years. Decades before acquiring Skinwalker Rancher or having any idea that we would come
over the last seven years. What we are seeing at Skinwalker Ranch is real. And it has the ability
that you're funding the experience on. And that went on for what two, three years.
Three years, yeah. Three years, you didn't know. And then it gets disclosed.
Going on seven years as Eric Bard. Eric Bard is the one who lives at Skinwalker Ranch,
years ago has, has been relaxed, but it's been as a result of both pressure and also
there may be something, it could be a meteorite that landed there, who knows millions of years ago,
working on it for the last 10 years. Well, that's some terrifying news.
ever. But I am that guy who at 12 years old had the black Lamborghini Kuntosh poster on his wall
other than just doing cool stuff. I hope that the years ahead for me and for all of those around me