Buffalo

That's quite a variety.

Mark entered grocery work in Cody after moving there as a teenager, later owned a Buffalo supermarket for 11 years, built an insurance agency, and now serves as a broker partner with RE/MAX Elevation in Buffalo.

Across more than 35 years in business ownership, management, and real estate leadership, he has experienced the pressure of buying, operating, growing, and selling companies while serving customers in Wyoming communities.

His path offers a useful look at what transfers between industries, reading people, managing risk, building trust, making payroll, deciding when to sell, and starting again after an identity-defining chapter ends.

I was like, "Man," and you know what? I had, I had worked part-time during the college and high school when I moved to Cody, and in the summers I worked full-time.

And when I saw this guy walk in and I thought, "I think I wanna do this." I enjoyed it, enjoyed the business, loved the people part of it, which is a whole nother segment in my mind because the life being relational as it is, I don't think that's ever going away.

And how you take care of people and, and how we grew these businesses over time, both the grocery here in Buffalo.

That's a funny story how I ended up in, in Buffalo.

[upbeat music] From Buffalo High School, the RE/MAX Hometown Pregame Show continues.

Jared Anderson, Jed Odle with you on the County 10 Sports Network.

Wolverines and Bison coming up tonight, 6:00 kickoff, and an interesting one as 3A East Conference football continues.

Let's chat with a, uh, all-time great here from Buffalo High School, one of the best Bison of all time, one of my favorite Wyoming Cowboys of all time, newly inducted University of Wyoming Athletics Hall of Famer, and, uh, former NFL star as well, Chris Brzezinski on the phone with us.

Chris, first of all, thanks so much for taking time out of your day, joining us on the RE/MAX Hometown Pregame Show.

Uh, catch us up to speed.

Um, you know, the relationships.

Um, the thing that I loved about going to UW was, um, it was a, a perfect combination for me because, you know, I had friends from high school that went there, um, and just people that I grew up with, but I was also able to meet and build a lot of new relationships.

Now, how does the rest of the state play out? Um, it's so weird.

I, I'm, I'm gonna be moving to, uh, Buffalo, Johnson County, and it's gonna be a whole different experience for me not living in this kind of a valley where you have inversion.

Right now it's, like, 34 degrees, but it'll be 76 in a few hours.

Um, and then, you know, up there in Central, North, Northcentral Wyoming, um, you got the influence of, of stu- Like, it just gets so hot.

You could be 80s and really cold in the winter.

It's so w- Wyoming's big.

I- i- it is, and like you said, Buffalo, Northern Wyoming, you get some down slope influence from the Bighorns just to the west.

You get the air to rise above the mountains.

And it was super cool, 'cause I didn't tell anybody what we were doing.

I just said, "Hey, everybody meet in Buffalo, Wyoming at this time."

[laughs]

And, and so it was a total surprise.

Yeah.

Let's start with my new hometown here pretty soon, Buffalo, Wyoming.

I love Buffalo.

I've been on the Clear Creek Trail.

My wife knows this alleged rock dude, but...

And I don't get it.

Mitch Wilcox, he's not an outsider.

He grew up in Buffalo, man.

Um, [laughs] I'm gonna read a little bit here, and it's not really a laughing matter.

So former Pentagon UAP official and imminent author, Lue Elizondo, has filed a federal lawsuit against his former best friend and business partner, Tucker Alger or Alger, I'm not sure how to pronounce that, following the collapse of their partnership in Bombshells American Cantina, a World War II-themed restaurant and cocktail lounge in Buffalo, Wyoming.

According to the complaint, Elizondo provided much of the initial financing for the venture, including money towards $55,000 liquor, liquor license-

Yeah

... looking around about what all was going on and how this could have happened.

And I think maybe let's talk about Tucker Alger first for a minute.

He owned a local gym, uh, called the Buffalo Athletic Club, and he was also, I think this is fascinating, Lue Elizondo's personal assistant and bodyguard off and on-

Whoa