Gardnerville

I knew.

So, yeah, the quick story there is when I lived in Nevada for a few years in high school, my buddy's mom was one of the franchise managers of a couple of the stores in the very small town of Gardnerville, Nevada, Minden and Gardnerville.

But it was in Minden.

And Dave Thomas did a visit to the Minden store.

Given enough room and food, the tiny creek trout began packing on weight and grew rapidly.

Seeing the potential that these could be remnants of the massive Pyramid Lahatans, in the 1990s, federal hatchery staff and a Utah biologist brought eggs to Gardnerville, establishing a protected broodstock for a possible return to Pyramid.

Meanwhile, genetic researchers turned to museum specimens, Lahatans collected in the 1870s from Pyramid Lake, Tahoe, and the Truckee, before extinction happened.

These preserved fish were essentially time capsules and their DNA offered a comparison to the Morrison Creek Trout.

It's called Douglas radiator.

It's in Gardnerville.

Yeah.

And what kind of, uh, have they built any cars of note that people are, uh, that people have been pretty, you know, any notable cars they've built at a place or just typical hot rod shop where they just got a variety of different stuff.

You know, the routine's kinda the same.

Uh, you know, I moved up here to, uh, Gardnerville, Nevada about five years ago.

Same town Clay...

I, I had sold my place down in Arizona, and I was gonna, uh, move out to Wickenburg and build a place over there.

Clay had called and said, "Hey, I wanna start doing a bunch of schools." And so I wasn't rodeoing or doing anything either, so we decided to start doing cl- uh, clinics, you know, full time.

And, uh, he said, "Why don't you come up here for the summer?" And so I came up here and spent some time up here.

And I don't know if you've ever been to Gardnerville, Nevada, but it's, it's, it's a slice of heaven up here.

We're only 20 minutes from Lake Tahoe.

Um, I loved preschool.

It was in an old church in a tiny town when I lived in, um, Gardnerville, Nevada, and my friends and I would sing lots of pop songs like Madonna, for example.

We loved to pretend we were performing on stage in the middle of the tricycle track.

Um, and we put on shows.

But even though they say there's not really a lot of crime or a lot of problems, locals don't seem to like these people.

Like Minden and Gardnerville, when they come in and they flood into a gas station and they go into a store, it's like everybody just stands back like, hurry up and get your shit and get out.

And they're not that way to all visitors.

No.