WyoTech

It was accelerated.

It was at WyoTech.

Yeah.

Shout out to WyoTech, baby.

Shout out to WyoTech.

Hell yeah.

My shout out's to NDSC-

And so, you know, I was just kind of like a, you know, small town kid for a long time, and I got out of, uh...

Ended up going to college and was gonna be a chiropractor and got out of school with a pre-med degree and was like, "What the hell am I doing, man? I just..." And so anyway, went to WyoTech and got a job out in California and just kind of been blowing and going since, you know.

Yeah.

We've been knee-deep with the WyoTech guys, and it's funny what you just said about BMX, 'cause I have a question asking if, kind of assuming you were a BMX kid, and I, God as my witness, know that you were.

Um, in a way I was, I just wasn't real good at it.

Tricks-wise, I was useless.

Uh, I was, like, 25, I guess.

All right.

We've got University of Wyoming here.

We've got WyoTech here as well, and so we've got a lot of students coming in for a lot of different reasons, different times during the year, but then you get out of the city and you get out to the county.

We've got a lot of other small towns and a lot of other kind of recreation sites, but the county is huge, and like I said, the Different places that you go, we got a lot of different places, a lot of different people, a lot of different terrain that we have to navigate.

So it's really important that we have people on our staff that can make that change because we don't get to pick and choose the calls that come in and that we go to.

There's not enough equipment.

and then you mentioned the trade schools i think these private enterprise companies have to be a part of it look at wiotech wow i mean they just expand and then expand and then expand again and that company was teetering on the edge they needed a five million dollar loan guarantee this is economic development the legislature voted to back a five million dollar loan for them take a chance a lot of support from the legislators from laramie And then WyoTech went on from there and did not even need that loan.

But the backing gave them what they needed to pull that company out.

And now it has expanded and expanded again.

Mm-hmm.

So I had a friend going to WyoTech up in Laramie.

Uh, it's like five hours from Denver.

It's like two hours from, uh, Steamboat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We've got a pretty nice WyoTech connection here.

All right.

Well, you've seen a lot over the course of your career.

I dropped out of high school my senior year, and I decided I was going to be a mechanic.

So I went to a trade school in Wyoming called WyoTech.

Is that in Cheyenne? I went to Cheyenne a few times in Laramie.

Oh,

I was

recruited for a university that was a tech school called Wyo Tech.

And one of our campuses was in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, a very Quaker area, a lot of Amish around there.

And so I noticed when I flew in, I forget the little city we flew into.