Leading Nevada: Insights and Journeys with Governor Joe Lombardo

absolutely important time uh Being rusty.

I went back and listened to that old episode.

And if you haven't, go go back and listen into the archives.

But we usually start every podcast with a new guest talking about their backstory, things like that.

We didn't even do that in episode 25.

Right.

So for you, I guess we'll kind of go back to the beginning.

But you grew up.

You were born

here in Japan.

I listened to that on the first podcast.

I was born in Japan.

Come on, man.

You got to listen to it.

But he

grew up.

Your career was here in Las Vegas, let me rephrase, right? So what was it like growing up in Las Vegas, and what does Vegas and Nevada mean to you personally?

Well, I'll back up for the listener's pleasure, viewer's pleasure, to give you some semblance.

He mentioned, Jonathan mentioned Japan.

They're like, oh, okay, what's he talking about? My dad was in the military, assigned to a military base in Japan, which I was born at.

Bounced around Europe for quite several years from different locations where we resided in military bases.

And we ended up in Las Vegas in 1976.

So that's where I went to Rancho High School for our arrival and eventually graduated from Rancho, which is right here.

downtown North Las Vegas, and had a great high school life.

I played three different sports in high school, and then I decided to go in the United States Army.