Kellyville

You know, outside of the first, you know, strip sack that they did not recover, so that was good.

Tyler from Kellyville, "My wife and I did not perform a marital act Saturday morning, so does that mean I have to ignore her until the season is over?"

Well, [laughs] I-

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So, you know, one thing led to another, and then, uh, of course that we sold pigs to the Southwest and, you know, you'd get, uh, you mentioned Galen, but these different ag teachers and so forth.

And so as I got asked to judge, I think the f- time I ever went, Pop was down in Oklahoma at Kellyville, and, um, you know, it was a, a d- eye-opening.

I must have survived it even though it was the coldest weather they'd ever seen, [laughs] you know, and because, uh, as time went on, and you know, then I was asked by Rick Smith to be his assistant at OYE, and then other times, you know, then got into Houston and San Antonio, different circumstances, and Denver's larger shows.

But, um, it was, it's been a quite an experience, uh, always meeting good people.

When this job offer came, which was, uh, to be the tech- uh, technical instructor...

So the company had this training facility located in, in Kellyville, Oklahoma, uh, that I was offered a job as technical instructor, right? So I was-

Yeah

... humbled in, in many ways, right? The fact that the company was considering me, uh, to become an instructor, right? So gotta be something I'm doing right I guess, right? So yeah, that was my first, uh, assignment, uh, outside of Mexico.

My, my family, my wife, uh, and, and came, came with me.

Uh, we established ourselves in, uh, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

So you know, you have Tulsa is the main city and then Kellyville is just south of, uh, Tulsa.

So we, uh, we, we came together to Tulsa.

So starting way back, tell me a little bit about where you're born and raised and what piques your interest about the food and beverage industry.

Well, I'm an Oklahoma boy, born and raised, born in Tulsa, grew up in Owasso, and I still live outside of Tulsa between Bristol and Kellyville.

My wife and I have four kids and we've got a small ranch there.

But over the last 15 years, I've spent a lot of time here in Oklahoma City.