EXPERIENCE 218 | Rotary Field of Honor and Rotary Peach Festival with Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club Members Teres Lambert & David Haase - The LoCo Experience

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In today's episode of The LocoExperience, I was joined by
Therese Lambert and David Haass,fellow members of the Rotary
Breakfast Club in Fort Collins,which means every Thursday
morning at 7:00 AM at Ginger andBaker.
They were here in part to talkabout a pair of significant
rotary events coming up thisspring and summer.
The field of honor, May 23rdthrough the 26th, spearheaded by

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Therese and talk with Davidabout the Peach Festival, which
will be held August 16th thisyear at Civic Center Park in Old
Town Fort Collins, one of thefew remaining downtown
festivals.
The Field of Honor is a serviceto the community to honor heroes
of all stripes on Memorial Dayweekend.
With 500 flags flying adjacentto the Veteran's Plaza and
traveling Memorial Wall.

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This project allows communitymembers to honor a veteran, a
first responder, a fosterparent, a teacher, or any other
hero of their lives, withmedallions attached to each
flag.
The Peach Festival is all thingspeachy and community and rotary
with peach beers, live music,peach pie, eating contests, and
much, much more.
And we get to learn about whatmakes a great Rotarian.

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And what inspires a careerprofessional to take the plunge
into community service?
Therese is a gifted writer and atopical expert in anything beef
or dairy.
And David is a veteran financialplanner who gives dozens of
hours each year to the cause ofbuilding community.
This episode is all aboutservice, career, and community,
and I love sharing a bit of thejourney with Therese Lambert and

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David hath.

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Welcome back to the LocoExperience Podcast.
My guests today are David Haasand Therese Lambert.
Uh, David is the chair of theQuad Club Peach Festival in Fort
Collins, as well as a member ofour, uh, rotary Breakfast Club.
And there is a board member aswell as kind of communications
and marketing lead for a numberof events, including the Peach

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Sale and the, um, field water.
So, uh, let's start with themore immediate, uh, event coming
up.
We're, we're just six weeks awayor something from the field?
We are, we are, yeah.
Can you, uh, set the stage,Therese and just kind of tell a
little bit about the history ofthis event for Rotary and, and
what we're planning specificallyhere at the end of May?

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Okay.
The field of honor is.
Brought to Fort Collins by FortCollins Breakfast Rotary, and
the field of honor is 500American flags that fly in
formation at Spring CanyonCommunity Park.
And these flags have a medallionattached that the community is

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welcome to purchase.
But each medallion tells astory.
It honors a person.
It indicates who the donor is,and a little story about why
that person's being honored bythe donor.
Yeah.
And it's just a way of honoringour heroes.
And heroes.
We count as active military,retired military, first

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responders, community leaders,personal heroes.
Yeah.
I mean, if a person's donesomething tremendous in your
life and is your hero, forexample, one, he, one person
selected their hero was a personat their local.
Grocery store who always had asmile for him and a pleasant
comment whenever they walked in.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
I, uh, one of the first years ofField of Honor, I sadly, my, my
mother-in-law passed from a,from a fall fell down the
stairs.
But she was just a beautifulperson and it was meaningful for
me to declare her a hero.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and so, uh, I can see howthe variety of honorees, uh, is

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such an important thing.
Yeah.
And it's, it's fun for FortCollins Breakfast Rotary to
bring this to the community,particularly on Memorial Day
weekend.
Yeah.
And it's always set up so thatit starts about three o'clock on
a Friday of Memorial Day weekendand close us down about three
o'clock on Memorial Day.
Okay.
And it's also kind of associatedwith the, the War Memorial

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there, is that right?
We have the Traveling WarMemorial this year.
That'd be great.
We do, that's the Veterans Plazais bringing the traveling
Vietnam Memorial Wall again thisyear.
Wow.
It was there two years ago.
And it's gonna be there againthis year.
They're gonna be at the sametime.
So there, it's about a fiveminute walk between the two.
Cool.
Um, and in addition to just the,the medallions, there's also a

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number of like communitysponsorships and different
things as well.
Yeah.
About three years ago we decidedFort Collins Breakfast Rotary is
the sponsor.
Okay.
And we thought, you know what?
I bet there's a lot ofbusinesses within the Fort
Collins community who would liketo support this.
So we started a campaign calledCommunity Supporters, and there

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are five different levels.
There's a$5,000 level, a$2,500.
I think the next one is athousand, then 502 50.
Mm-hmm.
And the$250 level is reservedfor individuals and nonprofits,
but all the others, typically weraise anywhere from 30 to

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$45,000.
Wow.
I know.
It's so exciting because thatmoney's returned to our
community.
It's awesome.
Um, Dave, why don't I get you onthe stage a little bit.
Why don't you sketch out the,the Peach Festival?
Well, this is gonna be my sixthyear as the chair.
We had a couple of covidinterruptions.
Uh, we were limited, but, uh, wewere back in full swing down in

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Civic Center Park in, in, uh,old Town Fort Collins.
And, uh, the last couple years,the, the momentum is building
again.
Um, we are looking forward tothe vendors who are, we've got a
fantastic response already.
Vendors are, and, and for bothfood, retail, everybody else are
quite.
Quite anxious to be back part ofit.
Okay.
And, uh, our bands are all set.

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You can go to Fort Collins Pizzaalso.com to check that all out.
But, uh, we'll have a full dayright down the Pacific Center
Park and, uh, a great enjoyablecommunity event.
Um, we're the, you know, afterthe taste of Fort Collins, we're
the only other major, uh,festival downtown.
Yeah.
That's wild, isn't it?
How there used to be a festivalevery other weekend it seemed
like.
And is it just the, the cost ofmanaging all the traffic and

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things, or is it just notprofitable like the old stuff?
All, all those things are partof it.
There is quite a lot to do.
I, I, I have to give shout outsto, I've got three very able
assistants, Carrie Loganville ato Old, old Town Media.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, also with, uh, Steve Laneand Neil Harrison, fellow
Rotarians as he carries too.
And, uh, they do a tremendousamount of work.
I kind of get to be thecoordinator on that, uh, center

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point that everything goesthrough.
But we have city contacts anduh, uh, private industry
contracts, like you said, we'vegotta mitigate traffic, we've
gotta mitigate security.
There's, there's a lot of thingsthat required by the city to put
on a festival.
It is.
So much work well before the dayever comes.
When, when the day comes as as,as it looks easy if you, right,
exactly.
As, as Therese was talking aboutwith the, uh, field of honor,

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the day of the event is actuallythe, the least busy day you're
gonna have, because by then yourproblem should be, you know, if
they're not resolved Exactly.
So, no, we'll have, we'll haveanother, uh, great year.
We've, uh, uh, benefited HabitHumanity, um, uh, boys and Girls
clubs, many other localcharities.
We've divvied it up in, uh, theparticipating clubs too.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, um, 50 to$60,000 eachof the last couple years have

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been handed back.
And, and some of that goes tothe local, uh, things that we
all do and as Rotarians, andthen others go to international
events that we all sponsor.
So, you know, rotary has ways tohelp out people all across the
world and locally.
For somebody that hasn't been tothe Peach Festival at all, can
you kind of set the stage?
It is an all day mm-hmm.
Event.
Do you know the date?
Yes, I do.
It's August 16th.

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Okay.
Uh, it starts at 11 o'clock.
It'll go till seven.
Um, we have, uh, uh, the firstband starting right after 11
o'clock.
That's gonna be the last WaltzAll Stars if, uh, okay.
They're, they're, they're alocal band of, uh, uh, many
different musicians that, uh,put together a time to, to
reenact the last waltz from theband.
The band.
And, uh, oh, nice.
So those that, uh, know their,their, their music, uh, uh, made

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that a big, big event for uslast year.
Uh, second band is gonna be a,um, a ska band called 12 cents
for Marvin.
Oh.
And Sweet.
And they played a couple yearsago.
Good crush.
Yeah.
And yeah, exactly.
And then, uh, our headlinersthis year for 2016, or excuse
me, since, since we've had'embefore for, for the headliner is
gonna be the Boroughs Oh, sweet.
Which, which are a nationalperforming group now, but

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they're based outta Greeley.
Yeah.
And we do, uh, basically juststick with Northern Colorado and
front range, uh, music groups.
Okay.
And I'd like to also thank the,uh, um, Bohemian Foundation.
We get a sponsorship from them.
Yep.
And as with other.
Uh, things that we talked about,uh, our, our sponsors are, are
great help.
We already have sponsors thatlined up this year.

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Um, and, and you can see them onour website, many returning
sponsors and, and the growth inthat area has been very good for
us too.
Yeah.
Uh, it offsets our costs and thethings we have to do to put this
event on.
And now this is a, what we calla quad club.
Mm-hmm.
Event.
So all four rotary clubs in FortCollins get together to pull
volunteers and brain power anddo it stuff Yep.

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Together to, to make thishappen.
Yeah.
That's correct.
And, and as I said, I go, uh,Neil and Steve and Kerry are all
for different clubs in mine for,I'm also the Breakfast club
with, uh, Therese.
And, um.
And yourself.
And so we reach out, we try tohave, uh, additional individuals
that volunteer within each ofthose clubs to kind of make sure
that we're all spread out acrossthe uh, yeah, yeah.
The spectrum.
And, and it doesn't become a,you know, we're, we're kind of

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that unadopted, you know, personfor the, by any one clubs.
'cause we all have our thingswe're doing.
Every club does and, and dowonderful things.
But since it's like, okay,that's, we're just part of that.
So I I, I've grown this towhere, you know, we have people
helping that, that within eachclub, that, uh, kind of say,
okay, we're gonna do well withthis.
We'll have our chance to, yeah,do this.
And, and really as an outdoor, acommunity event and bringing all

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the clubs together, it, it's apretty cool deal.
And you've got like.
Obviously like food trucks andfood vendors and sponsor tents
and, you know Yep.
As of yesterday, chair massagersand things like that.
Yeah.
As of yesterday, there are 14food vendors more still
applying.
Okay.
And, uh, we could have a prettymuch unlimited amount of retail
vendors.
We want, we have a bit of abalance and, and, uh, they're
all local, Northern Coloradosmall businesses.

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We wanna make that veryaffordable then to be part of
that day because that, that'stheir, part of their vocation.
We're giving other, you know,local businesses a chance to, to
do well.
Yeah.
And, and, and they come andthey, they, they're Saturday.
They're set up bright and earlyand they work hard all night
long.
And, and we know that it's gonewell for the last few years.
We wanna continue that.
How many, uh, how many attendeesdo you track that, um, are high?

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Is it free?
Free or you gotta pay to get in?
It's, it's, uh, you're gettingme right there.
Sorry.
Um, no, it is a$10, um, eventfee, uh, just for anyone in 12
and older.
Okay.
And then, um.
It's, it's, that gets you in itout all day long.
Kids are free extra.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Under 12.
Under 12 is free.
So we, we will have things fromface painting, a few of the
things like that for the, forthe younger children earlier in
the day.
We've, you know, we find thatlater in the afternoon, the, the

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young kids are, are kind ofgoing away, but at, at, uh, we
do have our recurring, uh, peachpie eating contest.
Mm.
Which is, which is a threeminute, uh, um, get down and
dirty.
How much can you need?
Three minutes.
Yeah.
You see, we've got theseyoungsters come up and they do a
pretty good job.
Um, again, those pies aredonated by Ginger and baker
every year.
We thank them for that.
And, uh, frankly, it's a, it's agreat waste of a really great

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pie.
I, I always have to laugh atthat.
So one thing, Fort CollinsBreakfast Rotary, we actually
sell peaches.
Yeah.
So we sell.
Bags of peaches and boxes ofpeaches at the Peach Festival
before that.
Yeah.
And also before that, so you canwalk around.
Yeah.
Eating a big old Juicy Peachwhile you're listening to mu
music.
Yeah, I like it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There are, there are so manythings that we can, we, we offer

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there.
Peach Jams and Peach chili.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
There, there, there are peachproducts.
We, we have several brewers inand they all, one's gonna have
one type of a, of a peachbeverage that they're gonna brew
up for us.
Nice.
Um, and, uh, Tim Cochrane from,uh, Tim and Carol from Horse and
Dragon, as we all know themwell, um, kinda spearhead the
Brewers area for us.
And Tim Tim's a club memberalso.
Yes, he is.
So we, we have.

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You know, it, it's all thingspeaches we possibly can and, and
supporting, um, you know, theRotary clubs that helps us turn
around and do a lot of thingslocally.
Yeah.
And, and we're looking forwardto just another good day.
I, I, I would like to think wecould get close to 5,000 people
this year.
Okay.
And, which is a, it's awonderful turnout.
Yeah.
And, and not too crowded.
You can't turn around and enjoyyourself.
But, uh, also, you know, we're,we're there to have as many

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people come down, have as muchfun as they can.
Awesome.
Well mark your calendars ifyou're listening out there for
August 16th.
And, and check out, is therelike a website or anything where
I can get more information aboutthe, the fields of honor there,
field of Honor website will beready in about two weeks.
Okay.
Our website person's been on acruise.
Okay.
So we have to wait until he getsback, but it'll be going, it's,

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um, FC Rotary breakfast.
Okay.
Yeah, Google it, you'll find itand look up that part.
Yep.
And Peach Festival probably hasits own page as well.
Exactly.
For Fort Collins Peachvessels.com.
We've had that domain for manyyears now.
Yeah.
And uh, you can go back there,you can see the history, uh, of
the Peach Festival for 16 applyto be a vendor sponsor.

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Yes, it's right on there.
Literally Ven vendors, sponsors,and volunteers are all able to
go right online, there and cool.
Uh, we'll be, we welcome all.
Awesome.
And if somebody wants to, like abusiness, especially, we've got
a lot of business ownerlisteners, Therese, if they want
to potentially sponsor, be acommunity supporter of the, the
fields of honor, without thewebsite being up, how do they
contact you Directly or, uh, me?

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Yes, with me.
That would go to.
Rotary FC breakfast.
So the other one that's going tobe up is FC Rotary Breakfast.
Yeah.
Our own website is Rotary FCBreakfast.
Okay.
So there is information onthere.
You can find it, it's there foron top end, uh, type in
community supporter and you'llfind it.
Cool.

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I dig it.
Um, let's get to know, one ofthe things I was just observing
is even within this room, butalso you mentioned Carrie Lugen
Bill, who's probably about halfof your age there or something,
and she's just a puppy in town.
And then you've got, you know,other old white guys and, and
ladies.
And we just got a large varietyof people that choose to become

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rot Rotarians.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was, uh, um, brought in by,uh, John Hensman and, uh,
several years back.
Okay.
And, and, and he knew my, I I'vebeen on several boards and
nonprofits and, and, uh, um,help fundraise in different ways
all through my career.
Okay.
Yeah.
I, I'm still working.
I enjoy working, but, uh, um,rotary is a, is another give

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back thing.
And, and I think what peopledon't realize is that it is,
it's, it's more of a retireeskind of a group, but not
entirely.
Yeah.
And, and the chance to do thingsin your community, the chance to
affect things.
Nationwide and worldwide.
Yeah.
You know, we have volunteersthat, you know, you think you've
done a good thing here by goingout and helping cleaning up a

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trail.
Those are all welcome thingshere locally.
We have members that have goneto far off places and countries
to help people build watersystems.
Yeah.
Water systems and sanitation andthings that eye care clearly
packs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Impact people in their lives andfor generations.
Yeah.
So Rotary has the depth ofanything that you wanna do to
volunteer for, and I, I can't Ichallenge anybody to say, um, I

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can't find anything to do inRotary.
And um, Steve, what is your,what's your career?
What do you, what do you do?
I've been a financial, uh,advisor now for 41 years.
Oh wow.
So, um.
Yeah, I'm probably that categoryof twice carrie's age.
And, uh, she's been kind, not torub that in too much, but, uh,
um, no, it, it's, it's a, youknow, as a salesperson, um,

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you're out in the community.
Yeah.
And, and, and I see so manydifferent people.
And that's one of the, the bestthings about my career is I deal
with many different kinds ofpeople.
Yeah.
And when you have that kind of acommunity, um, experience Yeah.
You, you, you can see the peoplethat are affected by certain
things.
You see people that are, thatare doing well, you see others
that could, could use some help.
Yeah.
And, and you find out the waysyou can do that.

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And, and I think everybodyshould be involved in something,
you know, give back.
We've, uh, many of us have beenblessed and had the chance to do
well, um,'cause of our own workand our own hard work.
But, uh, um, not everybody hasthe same breaks.
Yeah, sure enough.
Therese, why don't you, uh,introduce yourself with a little
bit more in depth here.
I have kind of a differentbackground, I'd say.
Okay.
'cause even though there's a lotof writers and people that work

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in marketing and publicrelations, my specialty was
animal agriculture.
Yeah.
So I wrote everything fromconception to consumption on the
beef industry.
Okay.
I also worked in the dairyindustry, dabbled somewhat
because of working in publicrelations and marketing in the
swine industry and poultryindustry as well.

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Okay.
Interesting.
Sometimes the equine, but myreal interest was the beef
industry.
So can you, like when you seethat big map of where all the
cuts come from and stuff on acow, you can just kind of do
that.
Yeah.
But that goes back to my four Hdays.
Oh, okay.
I was one of those four H kidsthat learned how to judge beef
cattle, but I also learned howto judge meat.

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Okay.
So when you're judging meat, youhave to know where every cut
comes from and you can tell thedifference between Prime or
select or Oh choice Absolutely.
And that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
I dig it.
And so you worked, are you, areyou still currently working in
your field or have you retiredmostly your freelance little
dabbler?
I like to be retired.
Okay.
I have an agreement with onepublication.

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If they get in a bind, if awriter can't meet deadline or if
they have a topic that might bea little above the average
writer's head that I would stepin if they needed it.
Okay.
So I usually write about twoarticles a year for a breed
publication in the beefindustry.
Okay.
Interesting.
I I, I will say this, I thinkTheresa's being very modest, she
had her own publication.
You need to talk about that.

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So, oh golly, gee, I can't evenremember what year I started,
but I was looking in the cattleindustry and they only had four
color magazines where it waspublished by a breed association
and went to their members, andtheir members were registered
cattle people.

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Okay.
And I got to looking and said,you know what?
People who sell beef bulls sella few, the very top end to
registered people, but amajority of those bulls, and as
well as their probably 50% or sowith their females will go to
commercial breeders.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I decided to start apublication in a particular

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breed that targeted thataudience of commercial cattle
people.
Oh, interesting.
It was that.
What breed was that?
It was Semial.
Oh, okay.
I've seen ALS are coming backlike, yep.
20 years ago Angus ruled theworld a little bit.
Mm-hmm.
But now there's a lot moreeither Angus Al.
Hybrids or even just cementalstrains.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's one thing you had nosmall hand in that, well, one

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thing the audience probablydoesn't know is that every black
beef animal is not Angus.
They have had such breedingprograms where Yeah.
They have pure black cemental,they have pure black limousine.
You know, there's, every breedhas black cattle.
Tell me about the semial, if youdon't mind, uh, tell, like why

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is it a, a superior breed tomany or, or in what environments
does it really flourish?
Well, you're kind of hitting aspot back in 1970 mm-hmm.
Was, we had a semial herd ofcattle.
Okay.
All right.
And so that's how I got my startwriting about the semial breed.
Okay.
And so I worked.

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On a Semial ranch and then I gothired by a Semial publication to
work for them.
Okay.
And so I spent probably 20 yearsin the Semial breed.
Interesting.
But I'm not totally aligned withSemial.
I mean, if you ask me myfavorite breed right now, yeah.
It's gonna be Red Angus andGulpie.
Okay.
And I also, I love Semial.

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I have some beautiful Semialfriends and they got great
cattle, but I don't thinkthere's any one breed of cattle
that's superior to any otherbreed.
There's enough geneticdifferences within each breed
that there's a really greatcattle and then there's a lower
end all depends on the breedingprogram of the people raising
those cattle.

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I read a book a while back,gosh, probably even five or more
years ago, but it was kind ofabout an early rancher in some
canyon out in Utah or something.
And um, you know, had been a lotof longhorns and things like
that previous, but the Herefordwas really.
Taking control of the, therancher marketplace at that time
because of its relatively smallsize and less horniness and Yes.

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Stuff like that.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and then like, tell me,gimme, gimme a little bit of a
lowdown just for fun.
My sake.
Really Like what are thesedifferent breeds, like good at
or not good at?
Is a Red Angus just the same asa Black Angus, but with red skin
or red hair, things like that?
I am, you're getting way beyond.

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Okay.
What type, it's like, okay.
I believe Red Angus started as agenetic.
Offshoot Okay.
Of Black Angus and, but you haveto have pure Red Angus, they
have to have the right genes tostay red.
I see.
Consistently.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So they've got the Red Angus andthey, they are such a wonderful,

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wonderful breed.
Yeah.
The reason people think BlackAngus is because, oh golly,
we're going way back in my brainwould be when the, uh.
Certified Angus beef startedCAB.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And what people don't know whenthey see now CAB and Certified
Angus beef advertisedeverything, the first 10 years

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of CAB being organized wasstruggled.
They couldn't get going.
Hmm.
And I know the original peoplethat were involved in CAB.
Yeah, yeah.
But once the Angus Associationstarted with CAB, then it really
boosted everything.
Hmm.
Interesting.
So to me, there's no superiorone breed.

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Yeah.
There's a really great cattlewithin every breed.
It just depends on what you wantin your own herd.
Yeah.
What emphasis you want.
Well, I assume some of them puton weight faster or they're more
or less aggressive, but that'smore stereotyping.
You can't really do that.
That's within any breed, theywill do that.
Fair enough.
It all depends on the geneticsthat you purchase.

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You sound like you might have alittle bit of knowledge in that
space as well.
You got some rancher clients oryou come from ranching stock
David?
I, I do.
I'm a small town kid fromNebraska, so being around cattle
and, and, uh, horses, thingslike that, we're, we're pretty
much growing up thing, you know,most of us on the end of the,
the kid throwing the hay balesand everything else.
Oh yeah.
But, uh, um, learn learningthat, uh, what really good, hard

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work is, and, uh, I, I, so we'vehad chats about her, her
background.
She's, you know, being fromKansas and she's a K State grad.
So all those things that goalong with, uh, our backgrounds
there are, are part of it, butit, you know, it ties in here
to, to Colorado StateUniversity, you know, as an ag
school and the research andthings like that that tie into
the beef industry, the cattleindustry, the swine industry.

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Sure.
Um, that's.
We're, we're a, we're a landgrant university, and that's,
that's been part of the, the,uh, process for everything in ag
for many, many years, eventhough we've become kind of this
tech town.
Sure.
You know, but, uh, there's stilla very live portion of that that
comes, uh, uh, attached with,uh, everything that goes along
with, uh, agriculture.
Well, you can't eat software andExactly.

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You know?
Yeah.
And, and, and I, I still havesome favorite ranchers that I, I
get my beef from on an annualbasis.
So I, I get to be kind of, uh,selective about it too.
You know?
It, it's, it's, it just, it's aninteresting thing because you
see the, um, you know, youtalked about from, from
Longhorns, I mean, you know,the, they still do the drives
every year for, for the, youknow, the National Western Stock

(24:10):
Show.
They still have cattle that arepart of that.
Mm-hmm.
You know, the CS U spur down inDenver now has become a, an
amazing, um, extension of theuniversity and making a, yeah.
A metro area presence.
So, um.
Uh, but yeah, my back, mybackground is, like I say, it's,
it's not just a consumer.
So I, I, I grew up around a lotof farming criers in a little

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small town.
That's where you go to work,right?
Yep.
And I used to come to Case, uh,to K State, to CSU Hmm.
Quite often to interviewdifferent professors.
Oh, is that right?
I knew they were pretty robustin the grain study and stuff at
CSU, but I didn't realize theyhad such a large, uh, animal
husband Ry, I guess program.

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Dr.
Gary Smith was mm-hmm.
The guru.
Okay.
And he was all through the beefcattle circuit with his
presentations.
He was amazing.
David, you mentioned that JohnHensman brought you into Rotary.
When was that and, and what wasyour like rotary origin
experience?
Did you jump right in?
Uh, did you take a few?

(25:11):
Coke Sings?
Um, he, you know, he got off tome a few times.
It was, it was, uh, it.
You know, he, we knew each otherwell enough, so it really wasn't
a surprise that he could figureout I would probably like
Rotary.
Yeah.
So, and, and I had been on, hewas serving on nonprofit boards
and stuff like that.
Yeah, exactly.
So I've, I've done those from,um, you know, I was nine years
on the local, uh, Fort Collins,uh, baseball club board.

(25:33):
I, I've, I've done other thingswhere, um, just being involved
in, in.
I'm not a sit still person, soI, I, you know, I'm a working
dog.
I need things to be, I needtasks, right?
So, um, oh, you tar up pillowsand stuff like that?
Yeah.
Everything you can find in arotary, just as that is.
'cause there's so many differentthings we do just within our
club, you know, from, as anannual basis.

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I mean, like, you're, you'reinvolved so much in, in the
$10,000 raffle, all the thingswe've had over the years that we
can do.
So, um, he knew that, uh, uh,coming and, and getting to meet
different bus, different people,some retired, some not, uh,
people I did know that I, Istarted seeing, oh, I've
actually seen you many times.
I didn't don mean rotary.
Yeah, yeah.
So it, you, we try not to be,you know, the secret Rotarians,

(26:16):
we wanna start telling morepeople about it, and that's kind
of part of what the PeachFestival is about.
Right?
Like, it's kind of a bigadvertisement for hey Rotary's
cooler than you think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's, is that kind of thesummary?
That's a great way to put it.
Yeah.
I'll take it.
Yeah.
Well, and, and it's, you know,vol, volunteerism, um.
Has always been around.
Um, what can you do to affectsomebody?

(26:37):
What can you do to helpsomebody?
What are the things that giveyou that chance to, um, make
that difference?
And it's hard on your own.
Yeah.
You know, it, it is hard to bethat, you know, you know, no
man's an island.
Well, yeah, you can be if you'retrying to, trying to affect a
lot of different people.
But together we found, you know,as, as the Peach Festival, it
is, we, we, we have our ownboost.
We talk about the, uh, um, theRotary leadership camps.

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We do, we have all the things wedo that help local high school
kids and local kids gettingscholarships to go scholarships,
exchange programs.
Exactly.
And, and things that people haveno idea that Rotary does.
We have, uh, uh, a young ladyright now attending high school
locally from Italy, you know,and we've got our own student,
our sponsor, our club sponsorthat I think is, no, she was in
Italy now, somebody we've got,I'm not sure where our current

(27:22):
one's at.
I don't know what, I'm not sure.
Yeah, we sent them somewhere.
Oh yeah, I know.
They're, they're, and they, theexperience of their lives.
So, um, there's just so manydifferent things you can get
involved in.
Like I said before, if you can'tfind something you need to do,
um, somebody will be gladlygrabbing you by the elbow and
saying, okay, get into that.
And that's kind what John didfor me.
Um, he said, you know, you getinvolved in this, do this.

(27:44):
I, I started as on, on the PeachFestival in 2018 when I joined
Rotary.
Oh, that was when you joined.
You were right in there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, I didn't, I don't showup just to attend things.
I, I, I'm not that person.
Never have been.
And, uh, um, I'm not scared offailure.
I'll, I'll get out and try.
I'll learn from it and, uh, um,try to get it better and pitch

(28:04):
in.
And I take coaching quite well,so I've never had a problem with
those things.
Um, it, it's the, if you run anyanybody's ever run something,
you know, you get a lot of benchquarterbacks and, and, uh, one
of my, uh, uh, committee membershas got a great line, so I I
appreciate that.
You know, how you can, you know,make that work.
Here's a whistle and here's aclipboard.

(28:25):
Get involved.
Yep.
Yep.
And, and, and other than that,it's like, okay, let's, let's
all get together and do it, youknow, and, and, uh, um, don't
have time for those that, uh.
Wanna stay on the sidelines.
Yeah.
You know, because there's somuch we can do and we all have
only so many years that we mightwanna do it.
You know, you've got your ownlives, you're doing things too,
but there's just greatsatisfaction.
Um, several years ago we took a,a 10,000 check over to the Boys

(28:47):
and Girls Club.
Yeah.
And that was.
Amazing to see.
Yeah.
You know, you just don't knowthe parts of Fort Collins where
not everybody has Yeah.
That might affect a hundreddifferent kids.
Exactly.
You, you, you know, you, youjust, you, you grow up in your
world.
You grow up and your kids aredoing their thing and you have a
chance to, uh, on a daily basis,make a difference in somebody

(29:09):
else's life.
F and, and it's the sum of manyof us doing something versus
just one person alone.
Yeah.
Can't affect much on your own.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and, and we're able to makethat big a difference and, and,
uh, we, you know, everybody, weall know here, you know, habitat
humanity, we've done some bigthings in Habitat.
There's several other thingsthat we've done, um, as, as a

(29:31):
Oh, can't even make a list, youknow?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
There's 200 different causesthat have benefited in my time
with Rotary.
Exactly.
And, and as we see those, um,that chance to do it, but then
have a great day of just out,have fun, you know, great
Colorado sunshine.
Yeah.
You know, knock on road asurvivor on the, uh, on the
festival front here, where itused to be everybody had a

(29:52):
festival.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is, it's, it's, there's somethings to do.
I mean, more and more, you know,Boian Foundation with pretty
much, uh, a fair, fair amountof, uh, backing themselves that
they need, that they've, youknow, the New West Fest is gone.
Yeah.
And, and, and there's, there'sjust, it's the logistics of
these things.
Um, it, there's a lot more work.
I mean, I, I, I, we were, last,last year's festival was done

(30:14):
and a week later I had bandscontact me for, for 20, 25.
Yeah.
And vendors start in.
So we've, we've been, we reallydon't have a downtime.
Yeah.
But we have a pretty good, um.
Pattern of what we need to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and my, uh, partners that,uh, get the, all those little
things that make it all happen.
Done.
Uh, I've been very good.

(30:34):
Do you have a, uh, successor inmind for that chair position or,
you know, you could run that fora few more years and I, I, I, I
enjoy it, so I, I mean, youknow, until I'm told it's like,
okay, we could, somebody coulddo it better, you know, then
I'll, I'll back off you.
I know.
I love it.
I love it.
Yeah.
I, I will probably, you know,try and stop me.
All right, cool.
I love it.
I love it because I, I, I don't,I mean, I need something to do

(30:55):
like that.
My, my wife is, is always the,the one that, uh, um, says,
okay, go do something.
Let me read my book.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she does fantastic thingsin, in her, her volunteerism,
but to me it's, it's the, I'vegotta be the person that picks
up the something or other grab aball run.
Yeah.
And that's just the way I'vealways been.

(31:58):
/Therese, you've, uh, got aninteresting rotary engagement
story, I guess, and it happensto involve me.
Uh, would you care to sharethat?
And, and what, when was that?
That was three years ago orsomething.
I think it was three years ago.
Okay.
So I contacted Kurt Bear, merelyI wanted to pick Kurt Brain.
I was the president of anonprofit that offered horseback

(32:23):
riding to special needsindividuals.
Yeah.
And front range, exceptionalEquestrians was really
struggling financially.
So I thought, well, Kurt Bearer,he knows a lot about this.
Well, and you saw like amagazine interview with me or
something.
I did.
Right.
I, I did.
And I thought, I don't know thisgentleman, but I wanna pick his
brain and I wanna know how wecan get front range exceptional

(32:45):
equestrians to get more funding.
Yeah.
And so, Kurt and I, you and Ihad a conversation and you
happen to mention at one time,are you familiar with Rotary?
Yeah, I did not know what Rotarywas.
Now I will admit, I had lived inFort Collins area for about nine
years.
Okay.
But I, yeah, just hadn't hityour radar yet.

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I just hadn't met anyone inRotary or anyone who talked
about it.
Yeah.
And so you invited me to acouple of meetings and I went
and I thought, Ooh, I think Icould like this.
'cause I'm one, having beenraised in a poor by a four H
family, we were taught to giveback to our community.
Yeah.
That's what you do, you, it'sservice above self.

(33:29):
Yeah.
And it just fit in with how Iwas raised and how I believe.
And my husband works, or, well,he actually retires in about 10
days, but he was working fulltime.
Yeah.
And I was trying to figure outwhat am I gonna do with all my
spare time.
Yeah.
So Rotary really hit it for me.
I like their, I like how there'sa variety of individuals.

(33:54):
Who have their own uniquepersonalities, but yet we come
together for common causes.
Yeah.
And I love the fact that we giveback to our community.
I like giving backinternationally, but I may give
back to the community whetherit's time, talent, money.
That's why God put us on thisearth as just serve others.
Yeah.
So that's what I, I foundRotary.

(34:17):
What's that for me on my, uh,Rotarian of the Year application
this past year or two years ago,maybe it was, I, I just wrote,
uh, I recruited, uh, Therese tothe Rotary Club.
That was, that was my bigcontribution for the year.
I, I'm not sure it got me thetitle.
I don't think it did.
But, uh, no, it's been a joy tojust, especially what I've loved

(34:38):
about your engagement, Therese,is that you saw kind of.
A gap in that communications andmarketing and, and how do we
communicate and express thethings that we're doing and, and
get that out there.
And it's been awesome to see thejust evolution of that.
We're so much more visible thanwe had been.
Well, and it.

(34:59):
This is kind of self-serving.
I love to write.
I mean, I love, love, love towrite.
And Rotary gives me anopportunity to write, to use my
brain to figure out, oh, wherecan we look at avenues for free
publicity?
Or how can we get the word outbetter?
Mm-hmm.
And yes, I'm learning more andmore about Facebook and creating

(35:22):
reels and doing all that.
I'm learning that this old dog,even at 75, can learn a Newt
trick.
And that's been fun.
Awesome.
But that's, it forces me tolearn more.
Right.
And that's the other thing Ireally like about Rotary, and we
haven't mentioned it, thespeakers, we have come to our
rotary meetings.
Mm-hmm.
Oh my gosh, I learned so much.

(35:42):
Yeah.
And I run home or drive home.
And if John's home, that's oneof the first things I tell him
is tell him all about what youlearned today.
Yeah.
That's what I learned today.
I didn't know.
So much as what they're tellingus in Rotary at the different
meetings.
So that, I love that too.
CSU extension kind of thing.
Mm-hmm.
For the, like the oldereducation kind of focused stuff.

(36:02):
I was like, dang, that's so muchI'm, I'm gonna be probably this
next winter I'm gonna getinvolved some of this.
Like, I want take a class ortwo.
Just, you know, I'm such ahistory nerd.
It's like, okay, I can go dothat.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, and to for a couplehundred bucks or something like
that.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
And those are things we justdidn't know.
And we have such a varied groupas all the four clubs in town

(36:23):
do.
Um, people bring differentthings they do and, and, and
recruiting speakers.
We've all pitched in to getsomebody in there.
You know, pretty much everybodyI think has in our club has
found somebody to come speakover the years.
I've learned, and it is a way tosay, okay.
This is, this is kind of cool.
I mean, from, from Yeah.
A local, uh, uh, tax initiativethat, that's gonna help keep

(36:45):
things going.
Um, yeah.
For different, uh, differentthings the city government
provides to, um, someone who,you know, the mental health
facilities that just new here totown, but what can it do and who
does it help?
There's really not many chancesto sit down and actually have
somebody give you the depth thatwe get when we have our speakers
at our clubs.
Yeah.
And, and that I think is, isvery key.

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I mean, you take away somethingeach, each morning and that's,
that's, or every meeting andmm-hmm.
That, that's pretty special.
Yeah.
For those of us that like tokind of continuously learn and,
and be engaged in ourcommunities especially.
Yeah.
It's great.
I, uh, I've been honored acouple different times to have
Gary or somebody from theprograms community reach out and
be like.

(37:25):
Hey, uh, you do a lot ofpodcasts with some really
interesting people.
Uh, could you kinda look backfor the last, uh, six or 12
months and see who we need tohave in for the program?
Well, that's, that's the thing.
Your, your experience and thedepth of the people that you've
had for your, for yourbroadcast.
Most of us wouldn't have thechance to cross section those
people over.
I mean, I've, I've, I've got aclient list, but not everybody's

(37:47):
gonna wanna come and talk aboutwhat they do, you know, or how
that affects, I mean, you know,a lot of people are, you know,
like most of us we're working,we're doing those things.
Yeah.
But, um, but, uh, saying, whatdo you do that, you know, that
affects different parts of thecommunity?
You know, you certainly haveseen that.
Yeah.
No, it's been, it's been a joyall across the board.
Um, I guess let's describe, uh,the Rotary experience, uh, a

(38:11):
little bit more, like you'vetalked about the specific
things, but Rotary's a, a once amonth, once a week.
Thursday morning for our club.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Um, every Thursday morning.
Well, I would, I would say it'slike I get the chance to connect
with people that, in my socialor work groups, I generally
wouldn't always get to, I, Iwouldn't have had a chance to
meet this, this wonderful ladyand, and, and find out.

(38:33):
We've really got a fairly commonbackground in a lot of ways.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I, the, the only, theonly thing I didn't do in high
school was four HI mean, it wasall the things in my little
school I did, but I was a farmfamily, so I really didn't have
any.
But, but we still have thosecommon grounds.
Sure.
We've talked about that and, andshe showed me her magazine,
others that, that are either inthe same industry as me or, or

(38:54):
have done other things.
You know, whether it'sfinancials or insurance.
Um, you know, we, if you lookcheck across, we've got people
that own managed carddealerships.
A lot of educators.
Educators.
We've got attorneys, we've gotretired individuals that Forest
Service people.
Yeah.
And, you know, every stripe, youknow, the backgrounds I think
are amazing.
Well, and the one new gal is aNational Park service employee.

(39:15):
Yes.
Who comes, you know, down fromEstes Park.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I thought, okay, you're gonnamake that dry.
Okay.
That's wonderful.
Good on you.
You know, and, and, and, Hey,we're a great group.
Well, it's, it's there, there's,or maybe she lives down the hill
and drives there.
I, yeah, there, there we have acamaraderie though that becomes,
you know, part of it.
'cause we're, we're all, youknow, pulling towards goals
that, that yeah.
We're, we're moving, like yousaid, before we pick up the ball

(39:36):
and run.
We're, we're doing things thathelp people locally and
internationally and, and thatcommon cause binds us.
Yeah.
And there's, there's not manyorganizations can do that, that
give you chance to say, okay,we, you know, it, it, it can be
a weekly thing and, and you cando your part and wherever
you're.
Talents and your, your skillscan help out.
We expect you and want you topitch in.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
I tell people sometimes whendescribing rotary, I'm like, you
know, if I was traveling abroadand somebody like stole all my
stuff and.
Beat me up and left me with justmy underwear on in a foreign
country.
Like I maybe call the police,but I'd probably figure out if
there's a local rotary clubExactly.
So somebody could, could pick meup and clean me up and get me a

(40:16):
change of clothes, you know, andthen, then the police could
investigate after that.
But I'm pretty sure the RotaryClub would respond faster than
the police in most places.
I, I was in the Highlands ofScotland in 2019 and I was a
Rotarian from here in town.
Um, uh, had a friend there, hesays in Rotary, look him up.
And, and I emailed thembeforehand and they, they said,

(40:38):
well, we're having a meeting,come on in.
And I'm, we're way up, way upnorth and, and I got to go to
their local meeting exchangeflags as, as we do, as per our
custom.
Yeah.
But then, you know, I got tomeet people I had no chance of
ever meeting.
Right.
You know, and they were localand grew up in that area.
And little towns north ofInverness and you're like.
Wow.

(40:58):
I, I just, yeah.
And they're like, I'll go aheadand skip work for the afternoon
so I can tour you around here.
Oh, yeah.
And we'll have some beers at up.
Oh yeah.
And we might have a pin or two,like going, okay, I'm your guy.
So, but you, so chances to meetpeople and, and make those
extended, uh, friendships thatjust as you said, if you're near
somewhere, well, someone canhelp you pick, pick you up.
They'll, they'll, somebody willtake care of you.
Yeah.
You know, it's like there's acontact and, and, and if they

(41:20):
can't physically help you, theywill certainly look out to find
you the direction you need togo.
Yeah.
That, that's, we have peoplevisiting all the time to the
club, don't we?
Mm-hmm.
Just, we're just in town.
I wanna make a meeting.
Yeah.
And stay, stay committed to whatwe're doing.
And I'm like, let's, fantastic.
I just didn't know people didthat.
And I'm starting to say, okay,when I travel somewhere, I've
done that.
And, and that, that's fun.
When my, my dad was in thePhoenix area for a long time and

(41:40):
I went to some of the rotarymeetings down there in the area
where he was at, just when I wasdown seeing him.
So yeah.
You just, you get, you getinvolved and it's like, okay,
this is a pretty good thing.
There's, there's, it's no smallcoincidence that Rotary is the
largest international, you know?
Yeah.
Organization, period.
The other thing I like aboutRotary is there's a variety of
ages.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.

(42:00):
I'd say about 60, 70% of ourclub are retired people.
Yeah.
But that leaves, you know, about40, 30% who are not of those,
yes.
They work full-time and that's agreat thing about breakfast.
Yeah.
Club we're done by eighto'clock, they can go to work.
The other thing I like inRotary, you can give as much as

(42:22):
you want.
Mm.
And you can give financially,you can give of your time and
talent, but you determine howmuch you wanna give of that time
and talent and what projects youwanna be involved in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You don't have to be involved inevery project and probably you
can't be.
To really give it, you couldn'twhat it needs, but you pick and
choose and the time is yours.

(42:45):
And the other thing I like aboutour rotary, and probably all
Rotaries do this, there aresocial events.
We don't just work all the timeand have fun while we're
working, but they're socialevents too.
Outside of our weekly meetings.
I thought, I thought brew wasactually something made up and,
and, and, and I supposesomewhere, way back in the day,
can I, can I So tell us aboutBrew David.

(43:06):
Brew Brew.
B-R-W-B-R-E-W.
Beers Rotarians and enjoyWorldwide.
I'm like going, okay, somebodymade that up.
I was like, well no, it isactually an international
organization within Rotary.
Yeah, it's a sub branchbasically.
Exactly.
And, and, uh, there is monthlyand, and Sarah Murphy.
Um, uh, she's the, she takesthat flag every month and plants

(43:27):
it in a local brewery.
And we go down there and like Isaid, there's more fellowship
there than too.
We're also supporting a localbusiness, you know, so we're,
we're pretty altruistic thatway, I guess.
So if we wanna give ourselvesthat pat on the back to go out
and have a pin or two, but that,that, you know, there are there
and there's so many things likethat.
You know, there are progressivedinners, there are, we, you
know, there, there's groups thatwe've taken advantage every year
getting together, buying ticketsfor something at the Lincoln

(43:48):
Center.
Yes.
Senior performances there.
So, um, yeah.
Lot of us were able to do aslike you said, as much as you
wanna do, but you turn that backinto.
Supporting local businesses and,and, and doing it under a social
event.
That's awesome.
I think one of the unique thingsabout Rotary, you, you mentioned
the progressive dinners, butthere's also very progressive
members and very conservativemembers.

(44:08):
Mm-hmm.
And we're still in the same roomand on the same team.
Uh, even if occasionally, uh,feathers get ruffled by, I think
that's things that are said.
Sure.
Yeah.
That, I think that's one of theinteresting things about it
we're, we're neither a religiousnor a political organization.
Yes.
And, and, and, and so there,those, those causes everybody,
it doesn't.

(44:29):
Have anybody eliminated becauseof that be, but we, we are very
inclusive that way.
But we also say it's like,that's not what we're here for.
Right.
And, and, and the other thingswe're doing don't have, um,
that, I mean, I, I, I've gottenindividuals and organizations
that have been disappointed thatwe can't be part of the Peach
Festival, um, because of that inour Senate.
Mm-hmm.
But I say, well, we're not anadvocacy group.

(44:49):
So, um, it's not that I agree ordisagree with you, I go, we're
just not doing that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and, and there's a place intime for all those things.
But, uh, we just say it's likewe're, we're here to give back
and, and in our own ways as agroup and, and kind of just set
that part aside.
Yeah.
It doesn't take away fromanybody.
It just says That's what we'redoing.
Yeah.
That's our focus.

(45:10):
Oh, yeah.
Well, you said there's, there'sso many people that, that do
things within our club.
That we don't know about untilwe see'em go and do something
else.
You know, like I said, we've hadthe mayor come in, we've had,
we've had other politicians comein.
We've had, uh, localcongressmen.
Oh, the new football quarterbackalways comes in.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Lemme get a new one.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
So have, have somebody come byand, and we've, we've got, uh,

(45:32):
uh, we, people that do so manydifferent things that, like I
said before, I, I run intopeople that are members that I
didn't realize are members whenI was going places that we've
all gone together before.
It could be a, a localrestaurant, it could be a a, a
club, it could be whatever itis.
You start seeing people thatyou, um.
Knew before, but didn't knowthere were Rotarians.
Yeah, I was just looking at my,uh, I've actually got the

(45:53):
Charlie Peterson Rotarian of theYear award.
I, I think 20 18, 20 19.
And early in my rotary journey,maybe 2009 through 13 when I was
a banker, I had a lot more timeto give.
Mm-hmm.
And then it, you know, then Iwas food trucking and I had zero
time to get out.
Then, you know, things kind ofstabilized and I gave back, and
now I'm kind of in a place whereI'm working a lot again at, at

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local think tank here.
And, um, so I don't have as muchto give, but I'm also in a nice
slot for me, I, I love thesergeant at Arms roll and it's a
easy thing to keep my attendanceand my interest up.
Yep.
And, uh, invite guests.
I've invited a lot more guestssince I've been in that role.
Yeah.
Well, at we all different times.
We can do different things.
That's it.

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It depends on what stage of lifeyou're in, but if anyone is
listening and wants to getinvolved in helping your
community, giving back to yourcommunity, working with people.
Who all care about theircommunity and the world
internationally to give back.
Hey, come check out at Fort ColCollin's breakfast rotary

(46:57):
meeting.
We meet at 6 45 and do get thereearly because then you get to
talk to people before themeeting starts.
Agreed.
And the social part, to me, Ilove going and, and seeing
people before we get our mealand sit down and have
everything.
Where's that meeting at?
Oh, ginger and Baker everyThursday morning in the
upstairs.
And they do a great jobsupporting us too.

(47:18):
I mean, besides another greatlocal business, but they, they,
yeah, they make, they make it alot easier to recruit members to
the club with their Oh yeah.
They're, they're location.
They're a great host of ourmeetings, that's for sure.
Wonderful food.
Yeah.
And free parking.
And free parking.
Yeah, that is.
Well, and, and the other clubsin town, just to, just as I've
visited'em all on a, on aregular basis with the Peach
Festival, I've learned, uh,that's been a highlight for me
too.
I know we've, we've got oneclub, the downtown club, they,

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they're, they still meet at, uh,the Lincoln Center.
Yeah.
We've got, um, uh, we all kindof seem to move around, but the
Foothills Club now is back atthe Marriott.
Oh, they're, they're, they're,they're both lunch meetings.
We've got a, uh, we've got raw,we've got Rotary after work.
Um, they, they seem to find,they might, they've have a
brewery tour actually.
They're, they're a, uh,Breckenridge usually now,
Breckenridge now was Sweetwater,now Breckenridge.

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And, and, uh, they have the backroom for themselves there.
And, and that fits theirprofessional, uh, working style.
'cause that's more of a workinggroup, still working.
So at five o'clock.
So there's times I'm like going,there's, there's some smarts to
that.
Let's go have a, yeah.
Have a client at five o'clock.
And Yeah.
So I, I, and I think that's oneof the, actually the benefits
for me.
From with the Peach Festivals,I, I visit the other clubs

(48:20):
fairly regularly.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And, and there's an identity toeach of them.
For sure.
For sure.
You know, and, and you, we've,we've got one club that loves to
sing and we've got another clubthat Yeah.
That, not ours.
I'm just like, I wouldn't jointhat one.
'cause I, I could join the singclub.
I like, I would like thatactually, you, you, you would be
part of that group easily there.
That, that deep base.
They would probably bring youin, um, just recruit you away

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from us, so you can't go, wedon't want you to do that.
All right.
We're gonna keep you atBreakfast Club.
So tight.
Yeah.
They'd probably ask me to leaveif I, the singing club.
Well, and, and just, and littledifferent traditions too, within
each one of them, you know?
Mm-hmm.
You know, everybody, you know,I, I think one of the things we
all get to do on a, on a weeklybasis is good news.
Yeah.
You know?

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Talk, have good news today.
Just talk about that.
Yeah, exactly.
What it might be.
It could be birth of agrandchild, it could be a, you
know, just got married, kidsgetting married, retire, kids
graduated high school, highschool, college, or whatever.
All those sort of things.
Yeah.
It's, it's a, it's a, a, achance to kind of just say, Hey,
I had something good happen.
Yeah.
So, coming from my four Hbackground, what really starts

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me off right.
For Rotary, and I'm gonna cry,but when we stand up and say the
Pledge of Allegiance, Iabsolutely love that.
Yeah.
And that's followed by our fourway test.
Yep.
Which I believe is important aswell.
Would you guys like to do thefour way test with me right now?
Oh, there's some pressure of thethings we think, say or do.

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Is it the truth?
Truth?
Is it fair to all?
All concerned.
Concerned?
Will it build goodwill andbetter friend friendships,
beneficial to concern, allconcerned and we're to apply
that in our personal life andour professional life.
True.
I'm gonna call a short break.
Uh, I got a potty break time andthen we'll come back and, uh,
get in the time machine.
All right.

(50:06):
All right.

(50:59):
And we're back.
So.
I wanna zoom into the timemachine now with you guys, uh,
to small town Nebraska, smalltown, small town, Kansas.
Yes.
Um, definitely small town.
Let's do, uh, let's do Theresefirst.
Where, where did you come fromin Kansas?
I spent the first 18 years of mylife in Hiawatha, Kansas, KHA.

(51:20):
Okay.
Which is in the northeastcorner.
Okay.
We're about 15 miles south ofthe Nebraska line.
Okay.
And about 25, 30 miles west ofthe Missouri line.
Okay.
So you're kind of like south ofLincoln, almost pretty close.
Yeah.
A hundred miles or 150 milessouth of Lincoln?
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Got you.

(51:40):
And tell me about Hiawatha justa little bit.
Oh, like how big a town was it?
When I was growing up, Hiawathawas about 3,500.
Okay.
It's, I don't think near thatanymore.
Yeah.
Um, I try to go back toHiawatha.
My both, both my parents aredeceased, but I try to go back
to Hiawatha about once a year.

(52:01):
Okay.
I still have high school friendsSure.
That live there and it's nice togo back and, and to see kind of
traditional Kansas Farm agoriented town.
Was there a little communitycollege or anything like that?
Or was there any other industrythat anchored Hiawatha?
None.
There is a community collegeabout 15 miles away.
Okay.
And that's where, it's inDonovan County.

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I grew up in Brown County andpart of the reason I went to
community college is back in1967 when I started that fall,
we could have free tuition Oh,wow.
At the community college if youwere from Bro Brown County or
Donovan County.
Oh wow.
So I went a year and a half to,yeah.
Brown, uh, to, uh, Highland Col,Highland Community College or

(52:44):
Highland Junior CommunityCollege, something like that.
Interesting.
It's changed and then I, after ayear and a half, but I also went
there because a, it was cheap,but number two, I was a four H
kid who could show cattle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Until I was 18 and we had some,my dad was really good at
feeding the steers, and that'show I paid my way through

(53:08):
college.
Oh.
Was showing cattle in winning.
Oh, wow.
So I wanted to keep that moneyflowing in.
So I, yeah.
Finished four H at age 18, andafter that, then I went, okay,
move on to traditional, toKansas State.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tell me about your family.
Was your dad did, did he makehis living ranching then and

(53:29):
raising cattle or, or part ofit?
Um, and, and do you havesiblings as well?
Uh, that's an interesting storyabout my dad.
My father was a very low incomefarm family from Nebraska.
Okay.
And his interest was beef cattleas he got older and he learned

(53:54):
to artificially inseminate dairycattle.
Oh.
Back in 1947.
Oh wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
And so he became an AItechnician?
Yeah, yeah.
And then we, he and mom and mysister moved to Hiawatha.
They were living in Fall City,Nebraska, moved to Hiawatha and

(54:15):
got established there.
So my dad worked as an AItechnician having his own
company.
Interesting.
So like traveling all around theregion, inseminating, dairy,
cattle, kinda inseminating dairycattle, and golly, until I was
probably.
15.
Okay.
And then a company approachedhim and asked him to, if they

(54:36):
could buy his company, and thenhe would become a district sales
manager for American BreederService.
Okay.
And he did that.
So then he covered severalstates.
Interesting.
But that's how I got my interestin livestock was through my dad.
Oh, interesting.
My dad had been a four H kid andmy mom was a four H kid, so we
did all that.

(54:56):
So I was just raised all in fourH and going that direction.
Interesting.
And I had a sister one yearsolder and a brother, a sister,
two years older, and a brotherone year older.
Okay.
Interesting.
And then basically kind of gotthrough your K State career and
kind of got right into thewriting craft.
It seems like.

(55:16):
I did, when I started at KansasState, I majored in animal
science.
Hmm.
And that would've been in 1969.
And females did not major inanimal science.
And I remember a gentleman Iloved Dr.
Miles McKee dearly.
He had judged a lot of the fourH fairs where I had shown, but
he then was my professor and heasked me to come in and sit down

(55:40):
with him and he said, you're agirl.
What are you going to do with ananimal science major?
And I said, I don't know, but Ilike to write.
Maybe I could do that.
And he says, well, I'd thinkabout it.
Because females just weren'tmajoring in animal science.
Was that like, is that like aprecursor to like a veterinarian

(56:00):
or something like that?
Or what would you do with ananimal science degree?
Even if you were a boy, mostguys would go back and ranch, or
they'd work for a feed company,a feedlot.
They would go work in the animalhealth industry.
Gotcha.
Or be an egg banker.
Oh sure.
But what does a girl do?
You know, but well, what is agirl even doing, going to
college in those days?

(56:21):
But I then I, I ended updropping outta college.
I got married and I droppedoutta college and two years
later I had an opportunity to goback to school and I decided I
would go into journalism and usemy animal science background and
combine that with journalism andeducation.
Okay.
So I got a degree in journalismand a degree in education.

(56:44):
Love it.
Yeah.
Sounds like a really, uh,traveling your own path kind of
a.
I have been very blessed to getto do what all I've got to do.
Yeah.
Very cool.
Um, David, what town inNebraska?
Like, uh, basically myhometown's a little town called
Aurora.
My dad was a high schoolprincipal and, uh, um, my joke

(57:08):
is we never really lived morethan an hour away from there,
but he was first in Blue Hill.
Um, I was actually born in RedCloud'cause Blue Hill didn't
have a hospital.
Okay.
So talking about small town andwhere, where, where is this at?
That just near Hastings, grandIsland area, south Central.
Just about, about an hour westof Lincoln.
North of the highway there.
Exactly.
Okay.
And, and so Aurora is a, is agreat little community, is about
2,900 people.

(57:28):
When I was there going to highschool and I've got two younger
brothers.
My dad was a school principal,my mom ran our church.
All those things you do in smalltowns.
Yep.
Um.
The, uh, you know, we're veryactive boys and all the things
we did school-wise.
Um, the sporty and such, youmean basketball team?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lot, lots, lots.
Football of sports, all thatsort of thing.
Football team.
Yep, yep, yep.

(57:48):
Whatever.
Whatever's in season.
And, uh, um, I, my mom said, getoutta the house.
You're drive me crazy.
The house.
So, you know, do those things.
You know, small town life isdifferent.
There's, uh, um, you could, youcould, if you weren't 16, you
had to be home and there's a 10o'clock whistle.
I think they probably still haveit in city statute.
City.
You weren't 16.
You're not supposed.

(58:08):
Oh, oh, really?
Oh, interesting.
Oh, yeah.
And, and, uh, is that way islike, could, if you, if I messed
up, which occasionally happened,somebody else's parents would
take care of me and then call myparents.
I'd get when I get home again,you know, and, and so, but no,
it was a great town to grow upin really was.
Um, uh, the, uh, reason I'm inFort Collins is that my great

(58:29):
uncle who my, my, my mom'sfamily and my dad graduated
just, just to.
Just in the next county over.
Okay.
Um, and they had a, uh, a, a lotof family roots.
Well, then my great uncle cameback World War ii.
He retired here to Fort Collins.
Okay.
Ended up being part of the Seedslab here in town, which most
people don't, most people don'tknow exists.
Um, is that the one that has allthe specimen seeds from like the

(58:51):
whole world?
One of the way, one of the wayduring the post Cold War when
they thought somebody was gonnapull the trigger and, and we had
nuclear winter everywhere.
So how are you gonna repopulatethe world for food?
Well, mm-hmm.
One of those things is righthere in Fort Collins.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People have no idea about that.
Well, my great Uncle Dale waspart of that, and we come out
here in the summers to get outtathe heat humidity, Nebraska.
So I've always liked FortCollins and, and post college, I
thought, okay, this is where Iwanna live.

(59:11):
I'm gonna Where did you go?
College.
College at University ofNebraska.
Okay.
So when I, when I came out here,um, you know, it's like, okay, I
want to work live in a placethat I really wanna live in.
Yeah.
And, and, uh, my wife now is ayear behind me in school.
I had to convince her to followme out here.
Of course.
Okay.
And, uh, to my betterment,obviously for now, for 40 years.
But, um, the, uh, uh.

(59:34):
Funny thing about that, my dad,towards the end of his career
was a principal of Hiawatha,Kansas.
Oh really?
For, for a couple years.
And then, then he retired fromthere.
But, uh, so that, that verysimilar, very similar areas.
You guys do kinship.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
That's what she told me aboutthat originally.
I'm like, oh yeah, I knowHiawatha, we visited my dad down
there.
You know, because those areareas that uh, you know, from

(59:54):
northern Kansas to east,southeastern Nebraska, pheasant
hunt, duck hunt, all thosethings like there.
So a different, very differentlife than my kids had here.
I think when my son was like 14,I was trying to find somebody
around here through square haybales.
'cause they wouldn't.
I wanted to get his backside outthere and said, okay, you need
to know what real work is and,and, uh, getting up when it's
very early and going and doingthose things.

(01:00:14):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, so, but been out here whenwe, you know, when we first
moved here, Fort Collins, it wasa town of 53,000 people.
Right.
And, and, uh, you now we're, youknow, a hundred thousand plus of
that number and growing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and, and, uh, um, and didyou get like a finance degree
or, yeah, I was in, I was inbusiness college, but I had my
chances of, of doing differentthings.
I actually thought I was gonnabe a coach.

(01:00:34):
I, I actually was gonna coachfootball and I really enjoyed
that.
Uh, since then I've been able todo some volunteering here in
town.
Sure.
And then, um, I'm part of RainyMcCoy and I have been
broadcasting of Pooter schooldistrict sports, football and
basketball and Okay.
And some volleyball, uh, for,it'll be our 14th season coming
up.
Okay.
And, and, uh, so like on theradio, you hear your voice, the
radio, it's actually, it's notradio.

(01:00:55):
It's either, it's, we've donedifferent venues, but it's, um,
it's gonna be on the continuingnow on the, uh, uh.
Pooter School district, YouTubechannel.
Oh, okay.
The Athletics channel.
Okay.
So as things we've gone fromwhere it was live streaming to
on different, different, um,platforms and, and, uh, as, as
Randy and anybody that knows mewell knows I just show up and
start kind of talking.

(01:01:15):
I do my research.
I leave the technical thingsbehind.
Here's, that's why you got tellme where to talk.
Yeah, exactly.
I was like, give, give, point mein the right direction.
I'll start going.
And anybody that, yeah, I, I, Ican fill up the air pretty
easily.
So, but it's a lot of fun.
It's also a chance to get toknow kids, um, um, and be part
of something that, uh, you know,my dad was my coach.
I got to coach my, my son anddaughter both in some things

(01:01:36):
they did in their little Yeah.
Yeah.
Because the things you gotta getback as community because you're
certainly not gonna get paid forit.
Mm-hmm.
You know, and, and, uh, as aparent, you, you know, all those
years of having something inyour trunk that had to do with
a, a kid's sport for aboutseven, eight years and then,
and, and, uh, people go, do youmiss it?
I go, I'd do it all again inheartbeat.
I mean, go back to watch a kid.
Mom.
Mom actually, uh, founded the PGrew Buchanan High School, which

(01:01:57):
was a high school of, uh, 60.
Like seven through 12.
There were 60 some years.
55.
Yeah.
Uh, but she founded the baseballteam, the little league baseball
team when I was eight.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, that she put a team togetherand taught us That's cool.
How to play and stuff.
Oh yeah.
Uh, that was a very specialtime, you know, and she coached
it for like three or four yearsuntil I got old enough.
I had to go to town for fastpitch.

(01:02:18):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, and, and somewhat inKansas, Nebraska, it's always
been, I've got friends here intown and professionals that went
to one room schools in, inNebraska.
Yeah.
And those are certainly gettinglesser and lesser Yeah.
Yeah.
As they, as they do that.
But, uh, um, and you find thatlittle small town growth.
Mm-hmm.
Even though farming and, andagriculture still very big in my
hometown, um, there's industrythere that's have grown, um,

(01:02:40):
industries.
If if you're, if you're long I80, you're along the major
throughways in the, in thecountry that those small towns
can still thrive.
But the further you get awayYeah.
From those areas, those littletowns are, have really dried up
a ton.
And, and, uh, um, yeah, wherethere was.
200 farm families now there's 37farm families, if you're lucky.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, each one has five times asmuch land.
Yeah.

(01:03:00):
Well, machinery and the, theastounding amount of cost of
those things and mm-hmm.
You know, when you can, you canjust get your combine in the
field or put your planter in thefield and then put the GPS in it
and walk away and come backafter, come back after lunch and
it's done.
It's just, it been prettyamazing to see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
But it, I, I think, you know, aswe see Fort Collins, the change,
this was very ag town when Ifirst moved here.

(01:03:21):
Yeah.
Very much, you know, very muchthe, the university was, was
still the biggest employer, butstill there.
But now with the growth of techand, and, and, uh, you know, uh,
as, as a.
Retirement and, and vacationdestination.
You know, Fort Collins offers somany more things for people to
come out here and see and do.
I mean, in, in my littleneighborhood, we've got more
people coming here, retiredbuying than, than than young

(01:03:44):
families because it's just a,you know, I like four, I like
four seasons.
I don't like them.
Back in the Midwest where wegrew up, uh, you know, we'd joke
our kids had never seen dirtysnow.
And we, that's one of thechallenges.
I actually had an economist onjust last night, and we were
talking about how do you keepthat vibrancy in Northern
Colorado?
Mm-hmm.
If, I mean, frankly, if, if twothirds of the people that are
moving here are semi-retired orretired and they're chasing

(01:04:06):
their grandkids, that's not apositive thing for the vibrancy
of the workforce, you know, orthe housing prices or any of
that.
Yeah.
Well, it's, what might help is.
Fort Collins being the microbrewery capital, that doesn't
hurt.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So did you get right intofinancial planning kind of stuff
then?
Well, or how did that come?
Well, it sets out, you know,you're, you started in sales
and, and the financial industry,you know, there's always been

(01:04:29):
around, but the complexities ofit and the offerings of it have
dramatically increase in thelast 15, 20 years.
Sure.
You know, I took my seriesseven, I think in 1988, and, and
that was still a very fledglingindustry.
It it when you were outside ofDenver, right.
Or, or you weren't one of the,part of the big firms like that.
So it, it involved a lot ofinsurance work too, and a lot of

(01:04:49):
planning.
I mean, I, I, I guess I've had acareer of helping people manage
risk, you know, fair.
You know, it, it's sometimes myjob is the best when somebody
retires and they've done 30, 40years of saving and that's
fantastic.
Sometimes it's, if you'redelivering a life insurance
check that it, it's at a timewhen people.
Are at their lowest.
Devastated.
Yeah, exactly.
But then somebody gets to keep ahouse and, and kids get outta

(01:05:10):
college or, or, or, or there'ssomebody that, uh, uh, could
stay where they're at and don'thave to leave and, and, and, uh,
it's, it's different.
Um, I enjoy it.
Um, and, and I like helpingpeople, helping people plan.
I'm, I've always been thatproblem solver.
Um, as a husband, I've learnedthat I don't have to solve every
problem that my, that I perceivemy wife to have.

(01:05:31):
They're generally not.
I just need to listen more.
Just listen.
Yeah.
Yes.
Exactly.
I don't, I'm still working onthat, the nail in my head.
No, I know.
Yeah, I know.
I'm, I'm still listening.
I'm definitely a work inprogress as those that know me
best.
That's, that's, that's thething.
But, uh, we all are, yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
Well, and, and, and as you see,you know, as this town grows,
just to your point wherevocations and, and we, we were a

(01:05:55):
very.
Ag town now, the tech town, Imean, you know, Fort Collins is
percentage, you know, word ananomaly.
The, the amount of collegegraduates in, in the, in the
white collar jobs in this townis, is Oh yeah.
Very much different.
And, and having, having childrenthat are now looking to buy
homes and, and, uh, my, my firsthouse that my wife and I built
here in town, I think we spent$79,000.

(01:06:17):
And I still, I tell this storyall the time as my dad goes,
you're never gonna be able topay that off.
You could spend that money, youknow, you know, it'd be worth
800,000.
Well, oh yeah.
Just silly numbers now.
Oh, yeah.
You know, and what, what kidshave got to go into town now
because people come in and buycash.
'cause it's such a great placeto live.
Yeah.
You know, and, and as a youngprofessional, I've got, you
know, two educated kids bothhere, CSU, Ram grads and, uh,

(01:06:39):
um, they, they've gotta put asizable amount of money down
just to get into the place here.
Yeah.
Well, and it's hard to catch onin the professional realm.
Yep.
I, I moved here with, with ajob.
I got a college degree and thenI went through a banking
training program, got my seriesseven and 63 and different
things way back when, and abunch of other training and
licenses, and then met a bunchof people that were, you know,

(01:07:02):
had better grades and a betterdegree than me that didn't have
a job at a bank.
They were serving my beer at theTrailhead.
Yeah.
You know, or whatever.
Well, it's, and that, that's thething.
Here's a town where people wannabe and, and can you survive long
enough at times to, to find yourniche, to catch on and Yeah.
Catch a little traction.
Yeah.
Because there's, I mean,there's, and to that point, you
talk about breweries, butthere's other people go and

(01:07:22):
start small jobs and nothing todo with the educations they had.
Yeah, yeah, totally.
If all the time, if, if youhave, have those chances, it's
about your drive and, and, uh,it's like I, I've been very
fortunate, but it's like, Idon't think I can really retire
and do nothing.
I, I, well, I'm sure I canactually, I, I, I've, I'm that
working dog.
I need tasks on a daily basis.

(01:07:43):
Well, I'm glad we have you inthe club to, to work on.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got a lot, lot of help.
We're gonna do our ping pongball question challenge here
now.
So I'm gonna have you guys eachask two questions or each pull
two balls, okay?
Okay.
These are kind of randomizedquestions that are tied to
those.
Okay.
And it could be anything fromsilly to professional and the

(01:08:04):
first listener to respond.
Uh, for each, uh, there is gonnahave a, uh, a free medallion for
you for the field of honor.
Yep.
And so, um, we will let youhonor one of your heroes, uh,
free of obligation or cost.
Mm-hmm.
And come and check it out.
And then Dave, for the PeachFestival's, got a admittance for

(01:08:25):
four.
Yep.
I'll get four.
I'll get four people to comedown and enjoy the Peach
Festival and they'll, they'llI'll, I'll, they'll take care of
their passes.
Awesome.
And, uh, so yeah, let's getstarted.
Therese, why don't you grab twoof those.
There you go.
We'll go you first.
Since the field of honor isfirst, 22, 22, I'm gonna bold it

(01:08:48):
so you don't get it.
If you could live anywhere forthree months, a year, where
would it be and why?
I would live in Australia again.
Oh.
I lived in Australia for threeyears.
Okay.
And absolutely loved it.

(01:09:08):
I would probably choose, inAustralia, I would probably go
to Melbourne for a year, Sydneyfor a year, and then I'd go to
the Outback.
I mean, not a year, a month.
Yeah, yeah.
You got three months there.
One month in Melbourne, onemonth in Sydney, and one month
in the Outback.
You say Melbourne?
I've always called it Melbourne,but I guess that's how Americans

(01:09:30):
say it.
And Aussies don't.
Uh, in Australia, most of theR'S are not pronounced, but if
there isn't an R there, then youput it there.
Like, I have an idea.
I did not understand why they dothat, but they do that.
So it's Melbourne.
I like it.
Yeah.
Um, why don't we do both of yourquestions right away.
Okay.

(01:09:53):
Number four.
Number four.
Oh, this is a fun one.
Uhoh, what, what would youestimate your burp to fart ratio
to be?
My what?
Your burp to fart ratio.
Oh, gracious Sykes.
Like, uh, do you burp twice asmuch as you fart, or half as
much?
What?
What a draw again.

(01:10:15):
Are we talking silent farts orloud?
Yeah.
You gotta cut'em all.
You gotta cut'em all.
Oh, I thought that was yournumber.
That's yours.
I'm so glad you went twice.
Oh, probably one to one.
One to one.
This is, it's alright.
We're gonna make that the, uh,the winning answer for the

(01:10:35):
medallion is, uh, one to oneoctopus.
Time to yell at octopus, sir.
Get this too flipper.
Funny answer.
Great.
Alright.
Where?
I gotta put that one back up foryou, Dave.
No, it won't come out.
I, I won't make, I won't makesure.
Okay.
Five.
Well, this one's even worse.
I'm just kidding.

(01:10:56):
What's the most important lessonyou've learned from failure?
Oh, oh gosh.
Um, two presidents have hadspeeches, uh, um, but, uh,
president Kennedy's, uh, big oneabout, uh, uh, basically I, I
failure's.
Good.
Hmm.

(01:11:16):
Failure.
Failure teaches you that youtried and, and, and, and it's
not so much that you tried andfailed, it's that, that you can
do it again.
Yeah.
You know, I, I, I've, I've, Iwant the guy on my team that
will try and keep getting upafter getting knocked down.
You know, it, it's the, I will,I will not resilience.
I, I will not get that correctquote.
But Dr, it's not so much thehonor of the person who doesn't
go into the ring and compete.

(01:11:37):
It's the person who goes in thering and competes no matter what
the outcome is.
And, um, I, I, I want that.
I want that person and, and, andI hope I got a Teddy Roosevelt
plaque on top of my Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, somewhere on my dresser ormy, on my bookshelf there.
Yeah.
I was looking for, but it'sthat, yeah, the, the person that
actually gets in the ring, evenif he gets beat, is much more
honorable than the person thatstands in the sidelines.

(01:11:58):
I, I have no problem withfailure because, uh, I've
certainly done it enough and I'dlike to think I've learned from
all of them.
Yeah.
And, and you have those chances.
Um, I, I said I, I'd rather takea chance.
I'd rather sit on the sidelines.
I've never been that guy.
Fair enough.
Out there.
All right.
All right.
See what you got.
You deserve a funny one.
Just, all right.
Number three, we're clip foryou.

(01:12:19):
Uh, yeah.
Therese 23.
He'll be at Rotary next week.
Do you have any stupid humantricks that you're willing to
share or show?
Yes, you do.
I could tell.
I don't.
Uh, oh.
He's getting, he's turning red.
He's wondering if he shouldactually share this live in, in

(01:12:42):
person right now.
Oh my goodness.
Is it something to do with yourburp to heart ratio?
Yeah.
I, I can't even claim that.
I mean, well, as, as a re, youknow, reflux sufferer for many
years, burping is, I, I, minewould be 50 to one, I guess so.
Wow.
Impressive.
Um, yeah.
Yeah.
The golly, I, I, I, you know,other than the old man stuff

(01:13:06):
standing up and making noises, Imean, does anybody else get, you
know, watch those progressivecommercials where you're turning
into your parents and it's like,who reads books about
submarines?
My daughter goes, my dad and,and who, who, who can't go fill
up their gas at their stationwithout talking to the guy next
to him.
So I guess it won't be the, the,the, the actual question is you
match the metaphor of that.

(01:13:28):
Uh, I, I fit those.
Completely.
I, I, I, I can't get an elevatorand not talk to somebody.
I can't, my wife, I mean, Godbless her because she's endured
this forever.
Um, you know, it's like, I canhelp you with that, or I can do
that from the other, Hey, whatdo you got there?
Yeah, I'm that guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll own it.
I've owned it.
So Cool.
Yeah, it's, it's, I've, I'vecome to where I've come to grips

(01:13:50):
with, that's me.
So I'm gonna call the winningquestion there.
The, uh, the first one, and Iguess the lesson you've learned
from failure is that failure isa good thing.
Is that the right, uh, kind ofsummary of that?
Definitely for me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And nobody bats a thousand inlife.
And, and the, the successfulpeople in whatever they wanna
define as success are the onesthat learn from failure.

(01:14:11):
I mean, you gotta try.
Yeah.
Some people just play life toosafe and don't try.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a term on, uh, theTwitter these days, the NPC uh,
non-player character.
Oh, yeah.
So they're, they're, they'refilling a slot in the world, but
they're just absolutely just.
Not impacting anybody's lives.
They're not changing anybody'smind about anything.

(01:14:33):
They're not inspiring anybody todo anything new.
Standing on the sideline.
Yeah, I know.
Put me a don't coach that musclealways.
Well, and, and, and you look atthat, I think, how do you grow?
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, other thingsI've done wrong and, and not
wanted to do wrong, but just didor, or didn't do well enough or
learn from, I mean, that, thatcould be from starting out as a

(01:14:55):
kid trying to hit a ball orthrow it or, or, or, or hitting
the right note in choir orwhatever it would be, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It, it's to now, you know,professionally seeing people,
you know, every, every year we,you know, I, I take attestations
on ethics, you know that fromyour, from the Sure.
Banking and the financial sideof things.
You know, what are the, what arethe right things to do?
Well, they all come down to thesame things that are in the four

(01:15:17):
way test.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
You know, all those things areself-evident that you have to do
things the right way.
Um, but doing them.
Well, is is not really part ofit.
Sometimes don't do everything.
Well.
You, you learn from it.
I, uh, being in the industrythat you're in, I'm, I'm
guessing that your call volumeover the last, uh, four weeks of

(01:15:38):
tariff, not tariff, tariff, justkidding.
Stock markets up 800, down 2000.
Yeah.
Up I think 1400.
Most of my clients that I dealwith, I, I talk to them all the
time.
It doesn't mean, you know, it'sno fun.
But, but you know, the marketactually has an annual 10%
correction.
That's, that's not out of the,out of the norm at all.
Yeah.
You know, so as, as, uh, youknow, this is, which could be

(01:16:00):
typically called a manmade, um,uh, correction, which most of
them are, but Covid was anincident where it wasn't.
Sure.
So, you know, there's peoplethat make that even, well,
that's arable.
Yeah, exactly.
But, you know, you, you do,you've got the next few weeks,
it's, but it's about planning,you know?
Yeah.
It's like, okay, does yourportfolio have enough?
Uh, just withstand that, and ifyou don't like it, I mean, I've

(01:16:22):
got.
Clients and friends that likethat kind of volatility.
They don't get sleep.
They don't sleep at all.
I go, well then you need, youneed, you gotta be away from it.
'cause it's gonna come back andwe're gonna, it'll happen again.
Yeah.
You know, can, can you weatherthat storm?
I mean, are, are you that cattleproducer that, that, that has
enough hay in the barn to lastall winter?
You know, you know, that's,that's the thing.
My, my dad, I mean, my grand,both my grandfathers farmed.

(01:16:44):
It's like, you know when you canput hay in the barn, you put hay
in the barn.
Yeah.
And if, I don't care if you'resaving for your retirement or,
or you're, you're trying to makesure your livestock are gonna be
well fed all winter long.
Yeah.
Or even able to help yourneighbor if he needs a little
hay.
Exactly.
Mm-hmm.
All those things happen.
And that's, that's Rotariansright there.
We go out and help ourneighbors, don't we?
We do.
Well, the, uh, the final segmentof our show, uh, it gets better.

(01:17:07):
It gets better.
You can sit down on the floor ifyou like, Gary.
The, uh, the namesake segment isthe Loco Experience.
Yep.
And in this Capacity Loco isstands for Crazy.
So, I think we'll start withDave this time.
I've been starting with threes alot.
Okay.
I know she's gonna have a goodone, but, uh, I pave the way.
What's the, uh, what's thecraziest experience of your

(01:17:28):
lifetime that you're willing toshare with our listeners?
Uh, could be travel, could be anear death experience, could be
whatever comes to mind when Isay that question.
You know, I think the, the, thefirst time, uh, when our son was
born and, and, and blessed withthe ignorance of not knowing,

(01:17:54):
um, how incredible that's gonnabe.
Um, he was, he was.
Yeah.
Early he had some issues.
Hmm.
Um, um, spent a week in thenicu.
None of the things that we hadany clue about.
Sure.
You know, um, uh, certainly verylucky to have a, a, a strong
partner in life and, and, uh,that to be there, but not, not

(01:18:14):
knowing things, um, uh, it just,it, I ignorance scares me.
And nothing you could impactExactly.
Either.
Right?
Like, you're such a doer oryou're a working dog.
Yeah.
What can I do?
What can I do?
And the doctors are like, juststay out of our way.
You know, and that's part of,that's probably part of my own
OCD tendencies of saying if Ineed to be in control and, and I
jump up and do things becauseit's like, okay, I want it done.

(01:18:35):
What?
I proceed to be the right wayand.
Boy, that parenting moment whenyou have, it's not in your hands
at all, was, was to me.
Um, I impactful and I had noclue at the time.
None.
Right?
None.
Zero.
I mean, I've done somephysically some dumb things,
things like that, but Ivolunteered for those and I
tried those, you know, and, youknow, running up hit 300 pound
guys when you're supposed to dothat, you know, with the

(01:18:56):
football helmet on.
Seems to be a good idea at thetime.
But, uh, it, it's not, itdoesn't do well for you long
term, but no, it, I, I would saythose moments that when you
really can't affect what's goingon, you just have, you have to
deliver the results for me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Okay, Therese, uh, you gotanything that comes to mind?
Two things come to mind.

(01:19:17):
All right.
The first one was, I wassomewhat afraid of heights.
Okay.
So I was living in Australia andI decided I need to conquer that
fear.
So I decided to go do a tandemskydive.
Oh, okay.
And it worked out okay.
No, flat.
It worked.
Okay.
You're still here.
The first part though.
You're in the plane and theyhave it open.

(01:19:37):
And I kind of went to where theopening is and was looking and
the gentleman, there were fourof us in the plane in the back,
but the guy I am supposed to betandem with had me move back and
he said, I forgot to attach you.
Oh.
So I wasn't attached.
I had no shoes on that time whenI was looking over and it's
like, oh, thank you for noticingthat.

(01:19:59):
So then he attached me and thenwe sat up.
And did it help?
Uh, like did your fear ofheights dissipate from that?
It did.
Really, it was, I just realized.
Uh, you just gotta live life.
Huh?
Go do it.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Was yours a like a, one of myfriends has like vertigo or
something like that, so when shegets up, she can go all the way
to the top of horse tooth.

(01:20:20):
But to climb up those last fewmountains up there, she
physically can't, like, she justcan't.
Was was it like that for you?
No, I was just scared of fights.
Just scared.
Okay.
Just, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But now it's much less.
Yeah.
Still don't wanna fall from abig eye place.
No, but it was a crazy thing todo.
Yeah.
No, for sure.
That's taking a bull by thehorn.
We always say confront thedragon around here.

(01:20:41):
Yeah.
So if there's a big scary dragonthat needs to be talked about,
well tell'em, Hey Mr.
Let's sit down and talk.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh, that's kinda what you didwith your fear there.
And then your second one.
Oh, my second one was, I was inAustralia.
I was single at the time.
And here we go.
I got the opportunity to travelwith two gentlemen who worked in

(01:21:02):
the, uh, feed industry.
Okay.
And they were going on a.
A producer tour for cattleproducers through the Outback.
Oh, fun.
And there was like fourdifferent stops throughout the
outback.
And I mean, we did a lot oftraveling.
That's really cool.
But we had an afternoon that wasopen and they were both
fishermen, so they asked if Iwould like to go with them.

(01:21:24):
Well, sure, why not?
You know, if you're travelingwith them, you might as well
Sure do.
So we, they've rented what theycalled a tinny, which is an
aluminum Yep, yep.
Aluminum boat.
And one's on one end of theboat, one's on the other end of
the boat.
And I just decided, I mean, it'shot there.
I took my shoes off, I put myfeet in the water and I, you

(01:21:45):
know, leaned back across theboat.
Oh sure.
And the one gentleman at onepoint looked at me and said,
would you get your feet back?
Yeah.
And I go, why this iscomfortable?
And he goes, just do it.
And the tone of his voice waslike kind of ordering.
He started polite and then itwas that ordering for tone.

(01:22:06):
So I got my feet back in and hetold the other guy at the end,
he says, start the engine.
And it's like, what?
And we're looking at him and hegoes, there's a crock coming to
under our boat.
Oh, wow.
So what the crocodile likes todo is to get under the boat and
flip it.
Mm.
So he wanted my feet out thewater first.

(01:22:27):
So the croc didn't get it.
Dang.
But he didn't wanna say it fromthe very beginning.
Could you see him?
Did you spot the crock?
We saw the crock.
Then when we moved Wow.
The boat.
It came up.
But it was, that's what I callcrazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That fits.
Yeah.
That checks, that checks it offpretty well.
I, I glad to say I've never doneanything quite like that.

(01:22:49):
Well, you, there's still time,Dave.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, well, I'm, I'm thankful foryou guys to come spend some time
here, uh, sharing some rotarystories and encouragement.
Um, is there, if there'ssomebody out there listening
right now that's like, on thefence, like they're thinking
about visiting Rotary Club orlearning more about it or

(01:23:10):
something, what, what would tip'em?
I would say give it a chance.
Yeah.
Check us out.
Come to a meeting, let us know.
You know who you are.
Yeah.
When you check in, we'd love to,we we got your first breakfast
for free.
Right?
Exactly.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
Or, or any, any of the clubsthat with, I think you'll find

(01:23:32):
that at all the clubs, you know,we can all brag about our own of
course.
But at all the clubs, you'd havea chance to find somebody with
common interests.
Oh, totally.
Yes.
And, and yeah.
So it's a Tuesday lunch at theMarriott.
Wednesday lunch at the LincolnCenter.
Lincoln Center.
And then what Tuesday Eveningclub.
Tuesday evening is at, at, atthis, um, Breckenridge.

(01:23:52):
Now, I wouldn't say Sweetwateragain now Breckenridge, but I, I
challenge you to not, not findsomething to do.
If you wanna be involved and youwant to, you wanna give back and
you want to great.
Do a bunch of great bunch ofpeople.
You've got several choices herein town.
We like our own obviously, butlove it.
There are some good choices andyou can do it.
What are the four names of theBre of, of the Breakfast Club,
of the Rotary Clubs in town?

(01:24:13):
Well, there's a Fort CollinsBreakfast Rotary.
Mm-hmm.
Foothills Club.
Yep.
Downtown club.
And then, yeah.
Is it called the Downtown Club?
Actually we call it 1980.
No, it's, it's, well it's theand it's actually the Rotary
Club of Fort Collins.
Collins, yeah.
The og.
Yeah.
There's very well put.
Yeah.
They're the OGs.
And then I don't if they justdo, they just go by raw Rotary.
Yeah.
Rot after work, I think.
Mm-hmm.
So, yeah.
Yep.

(01:24:34):
We know where they're, we knowwhat time they meet.
Yeah.
But, uh, like I say, there's alot of ways, as you said, Google
it, check it out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And there's, there's so many, somany opportunities and get
involved.
I mean, get off your couch, getout, get out and do some things.
Give back to the community.
Give back to the world.
Well, even if you're not, uh,interested in be buying a
medallion or being a communitysupporter, do come out to the

(01:24:55):
Memorial Day Field of Honor.
'cause it is a striking display.
Oh, it's amazing that see ifred, white, and blue, it just
touches your heart.
Yeah, I agree.
Last year I met.
And this is for us, but I, I, I,I met a woman there last year
who brought her very elderly momwith her from Texas, and her mom
wanted to come over and see it,um, came up from Loveland and

(01:25:17):
her, her, her dad was part ofD-Day.
Oh, wow.
You know, and, and, and, uh, andI'm a history nerd and I started
asking a few things like thisand, and it's just like I
brought it.
And so we, she had difficulttime moving around, but we got
her over there and, and, and itwas really moving for them, I'm
sure.
And for the daughter.
And the daughter sent back, tooka bunch of pictures and, you

(01:25:38):
know, somebody got to relivethat story.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And, and that's as powerful asthat gets, because like I said,
there's, there's lots of heroes.
Well, her husband is certainlyone of those.
Oh, for sure.
And the Peach Festival is August16th.
August 16th.
Downtown Civic Center, 11 toseven.
Great time, great day.
A lot of head bands.
Oh yeah.
There's, there's something foreverybody there.
All the peaches.
Yeah.
Peaches, peach sales going on.

(01:25:58):
There's peach beer.
There's gonna be.
Peach desserts.
There's gonna be peach.
There's peach pizza there,there's, there is everything to
do peach.
There should be a, uh, like a, amascot type outfit.
I think, uh, like when I thinkabout peaches, you're about,
you're about six.
You're about six four, I think.
Yeah.
But put, when I'm thinking likea Betty Boots style peaches

(01:26:18):
seems like what, what with, uh,you know, strawberry blonde hair
instead.
Your wife.
Perhaps I'll, I'll recruit Jillto be peaches this year for the
festival.
There you go.
Yeah.
Tread carefully.
Love you, peaches.
Yeah, that's right.
Exactly.
And I appreciate both of youspending some time today.
Oh, thank you very much.
This was a lot of fun.
God's speed.

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