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you're listening to the college lightbulb presented by the coaching educator where we illuminate your college path here's your host Rebecca M Carol welcome I have a visitor and I'd like you to introduce yourself and what do you do so I'm Brett Clancy I'm the owner of Christian Brothers automotive Meridian Idaho so I own and operate the franchise business here let me fix everybody's cars everything from an oil change to a new motor well I have to tell you that I come from construction and it was always noticeable that our trucks are cleaner than everybody else's and when I went into your business I could not believe I could believe but it was nice to see how clean everything is I mean it's just you really feel comfortable leaving your car in the parking lot you feel comfortable going in and looking at whatever they're working on so it's it's really nice and you have a very nice waiting room because I had to do some work and I didn't want to leave that area so I I got a ton of work done so awesome that's that's our hope you know as people be comfortable there and and that I discovered Christian Brothers I used to have a job where I traveled a lot and every time I had a chance to get my oil changed I went to Christian Brothers and sat there and worked and actually was the most productive work it was in their waiting room so yeah I was a customer before I was an owner so I know you have a really interesting educational story and so far everybody does I know a little bit more about Brett only because you're in my networking group so I I really have enjoyed some of your story but what we like to do is ask this is our career series and we want to create a situation where people can have an opportunity students parents an opportunity to talk to someone because some people might say a gas station but you're not a gas station at all and so you don't have gas there's a gas station next to you but you do you do how many Bay's you have eight bays and you do so we have nine days nine okay five technicians working in those nine days I did notice that you have two Bay's for each technician yep that is helpful yeah and then it's it's good because once you figure out the car and sometimes you got to pull it apart it may sit there for a while while we wait for the parts and sometimes we've disassembled it to a point you can't really move it so that way the technician can move on to another car and work on that parts come in and so we kind of coordinate all that that's helpful because I have had not at your place another place put someone else's car part in my car which can happen if you think about that they only have so many bays and they're trying to pack up and they need a part so tell us about your education so well high school long yeah so I went to a Catholic High School and where the focus was go to college go to college but back then I didn't know somebody like you so and my parents were very much against borrowing money so I looked in my pockets and there was no money for college and so I this is back in the nineteen eighty one so going in the military was not the popular thing to do and I don't even think it was talked about no I was actually very my college career counselor was very disappointed in me that I was going to go on the military and so but you know for me it was a good choice because I was kind of undecided what I wanted to do and you know I was a average student I was kind of averaging everything but really not engaged and so going in the military for me was was awesome because I knew exactly what I had to do to get to where I wanted to go and it was a environment that I really thrived in now you did am I right in thinking Coast Guard yep those in the Coast Guard we haven't had a Coast Guard person for a while so I don't even think I've we've interviewed a Coast Guard person so tell us about that why did you choose the Coast Guard we're a very mysterious Bunch there's a thing called Coast Guard mystique I think nobody quite understands but actually I was going to join the Marine Corps and because my dad was a marine and to this day I think this was God's providence but it was the the recruiter said he was a old old Gunny sergeant been to Vietnam and done all that he said well because your dad's a marine you need to get his permission and join the Corps oh I said really because I'm expecting him to just sign me up and run me down get me on a train and hit me to bootcamp yeah but he's now you need to talk to your dad so I went and talked to my dad and my dad said absolutely not which was really shocked yeah I was displaces you'll just be a rifleman and I said that's what I want to be as a rifle Casey no he says he said he said that he just wanted me to do something else and so he says he and my dad throughout the coastguard and so I promised him that I would go talk to the Coast Guard but then if I didn't like it I was gonna join the Marine Corps oh I said agree so he was pretty he was my dad was a gamblin man so he was placing his bets that I was going to get sold and so you know I went to the Coast Guard and the whole time they were trying to talk me out of it and I kept thinking they're trying to keep something from me latest I learned later and as I became a sales guy that that's called the take away close dangled it out there and then take it away and then they really want it but so so I joined the Coast Guard and actually it was very good for me and just really sent me some great lifelong things that I still are part of my personality today so so were you on a ship or a boat both so there are two Coast Guard's there's the search and rescue guys that run the little boats that go out there and save people and then there's the big ships that actually have a military mission and so I started out on the little boats I was digging ditches and paint and stuff and just never got to really ride the boats I thought what's the fastest way I can get out of here and so the weapons division was they told me if I signed up for this class I'd be gone in a month and I said perfect because I was I was out in the middle of the forest and there was nothing out there was an isolated duty station and which most Coast Guard small stations are that way and so I signed up and actually a week later I was gone yeah Wow so we - so basically became part of the Navy at that point because the Coast Guard and the Navy worked very close together so I was one of 10 Coast Guardsmen and Great Lakes Naval Training Center for 18 months 22 a very high level weapon skills actually that at the time was the toughest school of the Coast Guard offered and but because I had good I had decent SAT scores but my eight my ASVAB scores were really good yes so I could do whatever I wanted to so I got got in there hung in there for that school and are you back from boot camp so you were back from boot camp in the small-boat arena didn't like it so then you went to where they do boot camp for the Navy correct yeah well my son's in the Navy so that's where we went for his his graduation yes it's all cameras but all the schools are there too so there's that one side is the recruit training center the other side is all their their weapons schools are right there so so we so we were in there so the Coast Guard didn't have that weapon system school so they sent me there so were you getting trained on the lakes yeah well actually we never were on a ship or anything there was all the classrooms highly academic but it started off with basic electricity and so it's kind of a blue collar technician kind of training but in the military when you go to school there it is 10 hours a day eat live sleep it oh yeah I mean they make you very good very fast at a specific system that you're working so and you want to pass it because if you don't owe the colonel's you are yes if you were lucky yeah yes I was afraid they may put it may be so my son and I do like those blue uniforms yes I think the crackerjack uniform is really great yeah the Coast Guard made a big mistake when they got rid of that so uh what do they what are their uniforms called it's called the bender blues it's named after a our commandant named bender who came in decided we needed to look more like we were in the Air Force which was kind of cool because the Coast Guard uniform has gold buttons upon their Air Force uniform which makes sailors think you're an officer have to put a picture of that yeah I got saluted a lot and then they figured out it was just an enlisted guy so oh so now how long do you invest in me can you sign up for a certain amount of time for your enlistment okay and almost extended just because I wanted to go to Japanese school which was a totally immersive they send you to Okinawa Japan and get totally immersed in Japanese culture because we dealt with a lot of Japanese fishermen in Koreans and and so it's a handy language to be able to be at least have a working knowledge of so I had put in for that and they told me I could do it but then I was gonna have to extend my enlistment for a couple of years which was gonna turn into a whole lot of other things because the gun system I was working on was actually becoming obsolete and I was gonna have to go to that school which was going to be another four years so and at this point are you have you met your lovely wife have you no not and oh okay so you were kind of free-ranging yeah you could have done this yeah oh yeah I could have gone either way and but my family had a business it was the doors in Newark so kind of similar to being in the construction business my you know my dad was encouraging me to you know do your for come out work in the family business and so that's what I did so let's say you have a taste of family business that probably is why it appeals to you to have a business yes it's you know everybody in my family's kind of entrepreneurial yeah so I'm entrepreneurial yeah if I were to say but yeah so it's kind of fast yeah still you know there was no GI Bill back then there was this was important oh yeah this is between Vietnam and and everything else that was that we all have been living with now for 20 years but everybody was not very happy with the military and the veteran experience today is much different than my well and especially if you understand to check the box because I have there still people who go through boot camp who when they you know heard you in and explained oh we're gonna give you the GI Bill but you have to yeah first sign off and some don't yes it's just what cuz they think I think the first couple times they take $80 or something out of your paycheck gonna do some people feel like that's a lot I'm happy to say my son is yeah drank the full gallon a punch on that deal and he's going to be very involved yeah I know I just I mean that's $86,000 yeah to play around with that's real money yeah that'll get you whatever you want to do good so I not even the Montgomery you could not use the Montgomery so you must have been rate wedged in between yeah there was no there there was a thing called veep which was you put in a dollar they matched it with two okay the problem was when you're in the Coast Guard and you're on a Navy base that you can't manipulate your pay so I kept trying to do that and of course it just the people were just never got from point A to point B okay so this was no computers back then no fax machines no like this and this for this guy and trust him then he was gonna follow through on him never did so so we were you know now I'm working with my father and my love now - millwork are we talking you're doing building walls and with now we so if you build a house somebody puts the doors in there okay and all that casing that goes around that's that's the millwork and so that's what we did and we did all the hardware for that and it's one of those industries nobody thinks about how did those doors get here well there's a guy that that's all he does is doors and my dad had been in the door business for years and years and years and started his own company and then I was part of that my other brother was part of that and actually both my brothers were part of it at one point so but sometimes working with you dad is a little bit tough there might be a reason why I don't work with my father and never have worked at other than when I was in high school and we all were doing the summers you had to I mean wait they were just to get it to where it is today he has all of us kids worked it which was great because we learned a lot about working hard and doing something you'd wouldn't necessarily want to do but no I'm not they're only three have gone into the family business and there are some grandchildren but not my children yeah my son my brother stayed in the business but yeah my dad I have never had a boss that has come close to anything of working like working for my dad it actually prepared me very well to work for a variety of a lot of different kind of people and you know it was good but make me a wife yeah and she wasn't happy she was pointing out that I needed to do something else too wives are good about that and but we put her through school first and so she went to school full-time and got grants and and we worked and we paid for it and she got a great job as an x-ray technician oh yeah she's been doing for over 30 years now and and we've lived in four different states and she has always had a job within days of arriving there absolutely and that's that's been a great great profession for her and but though when the only way she would go to school is if I promised that when she graduated I would go to school and so I kind of half said yeah I'll do that but I was thinking in terms of yes she'll forget about it but she didn't forget at this point did you know what you wanted to study well I knew it was gonna be business cuz I didn't know I did learn one thing from working with my dad my dad was an awesome salesman could sell anything but he really had no understanding of how business works like the backend how numbers flow and by looking at a financial statement you can say hey we got a problem here yeah we need to do he have know his thing was if I got no money in the bank I just need to go out and sell more stuff net sales fixed everything for him but there was there was some big problems in there and we were growing to a point where the company needed to be professionally run you know by the numbers that scaling is tough and if anything you you make less because you're giving more to the business because of the scaling and people don't understand that it's a percentage of what it is you're doing it actually gets smaller but you know you still if you're in business and your goal is to expand that's whatever that means to you know as a person as a business as your ability to serve others community involvement whatever that is you know that looks you know the purpose of business is to expand and so if you're doing it well you will expand and so my thought was a okay I'm gonna go to school full-time but I'm gonna come back to this and I'm going to I want to I want to learn how the books work and I want to come back and run the back end of the business but professionally and so that was kind of my initial goal and so started off at Community College and took all the you know took a business focus also a computer science focus because computers were becoming a thing that we thought are only going to stick around and in so I found I learned both I later found out that I just was not wired to be a computer guy so I just became an accounting major okay and so that was my goal so I went to two years of Community College then I applied to the University of Washington School of Business at the time I didn't realize was so no man I saw something you know that's right I'm telling you it's that's hard to get in people think oh I'm just gonna school and it's like there's kids who have gotten into really high-end private schools that get into those and don't get into yes popular very difficult but I I did all the things jump through all the hoops and I got it accepted and you know back then this the School of Business for the University of Washington was a top ten Business School in the public sector and we went to we were in the cheapest crummies dirtiest building on the entire University of Washington campus remember they had you know computers had been coming in now for about three four years and we were actually being required to do things like get on this thing called the interweb South Carolina to download our tests onto a but you couldn't do this at home you did this at school with these big giant computers and yeah and then it came out on this thing and you had to write the test and then feed it back load it back into another server in another College so everything was dot e-d-u because the universities were the only ones that really had access to this and so that and the government but it was it was fun because the we had these big just bundles of wires that were like nailed to the walls in this old school and there was like crude holes cut in the floors where the wires would go up to the second floor and yeah you know it was but we didn't think anything of it we thought this is awesome we've got computers yeah and and I was actually i bought a it's called it was called a 286 I bought this computer because I really wanted time I wanted more because it was really hard yet to get this card and we lined for the time on the computer and then when your time was up your time was up get out so I bought a computer and I was doing you know my using it for basically a typewriter and a spreadsheet but he wasn't really sophisticated by any means but anyway we graduated from there and during my tenure and school my father actually passed away one of the things that surprising no another lesson I learned when you don't have a a good handle on your business you make it up with hustle hustle catches up and dudes like that drop dead of heart attacks no so actually we ended up me and my brother sold the business and and we owned the buildings so we set my mom up with the building and my brother took all the customers and started doing this kept doing the same thing but he was just in a fresh business with that huh well and we weren't doing the manual in the manufacturing anymore because we would do everything from the sale to the manufacturing to the install delivery everything so he just went to just the pure sales and had other people do all that and has done very well he's been in that business for 35 years 40 years now so but so here I was I said well I guess my plan just went out the window and so I got recruited by a Freightliner corporation and a Freightliner if you don't know what those are those are the big giant semi trucks you see drive main road so they are basically sold just like cars and through a dealership so I was recruited to be a management trainee so the goal was that I would either go into the accounting side of the dealership or even into general management and so one of the things is as an accountant you can go two different ways you can be a CPA where you learn tax and all that I took one tax class and thought there is no way I'm doing this well and then you have to keep learning these things well you still do anyway but but you know yeah just to learn about tax was horrible so I went to managerial round so there is a big function of accounting just do the management of business so that's analyzing financial results to you know how do you price things how do you sell things have you set margins there's just a ton of things how do you prepare all the paperwork for that CPA to go do your taxes yeah and there's a lot to it and actually I really had favored accounting because it's the language of business and so no matter what I did I could I knew I could I had the right background so you know the big thing was there's a lot of people you get pigeonholed into well I have a finance degree so I can only do finance and that's not true yeah it's when you get that bachelor's degree that's just the beginning of your education and we used to say in the martial arts when you get your black belt that is the beginning of your training you know now you can beat him so it's there's never an end to your education so so with that degree I got recruited to them became a kind of a rising star things went very fast and within two years I was the controller of the dealership and was relocated to Florida Wow and did you like the weather uh well the Florida weather was tough too tough to adjust to but I loved the beaches I loved the Sun was shining every day and a kid from Seattle yeah well this was a novel let's try used to get up every day and pinch myself because the Sun was still out and I can't believe it and so we just kind of you know raised all my kids down there I very soon you know within a few years kind of got discouraged with the you know the whole automotive you know that you know just some of the people and what I was dealing with we're not really good people and so you know at some point you have to make a choice if if I don't fit here I can stay here and be miserable or I can find a place that I fit and so so we I decide I told my wife I said I think we're marooned here because you can leave this company which my wife was very happy here so your wife is also a good measure they see a lot of things going on in you before you do so well I mean it just you know I mean I work in a field that requires a lot of ethics and so and that's a feel most fields do and I've been very surprised you know when people say why you work for a school well it's great with the leadership my first principal was a Naval Academy graduate and he was wonderful and he actually was from that area and he went to that high school so there was so many really great connectors for him and he really cared about the community I've worked for two other principals scary just and when you know things are going on and you do as much as you can strategically to either make people aware of it or try to change things within the process that's in front of you which I believe in and it doesn't work I that's why I think a lot of people make a mistake of saying hey there's a process we can change this this is wrong yes it very well may be wrong but your ability to change it may not be there and so he's decided energy you know I can stay in this fight for nothing or I can move on and find something that fits me better and you know so we did I actually went from there and became a financial advisor with Everett generals so oh okay so and I started that two years before we blew up the World Trade Center and within two years afterwards we're very hard to be a financial planner because everybody was planning that the world was going to end and that we America wasn't coming back and however I've always been a big believer that you know America might take a meeting there every now and then but she always stands back up no no wait you know I'm waiting for us to stand back up now this next field is going to be positive that'll be a different guest but I you know we we did that and they did very well again my accounting background helped me a lot to understand business how to understand those things but I learned in that business how to be being sales how to market how to network with people how to you know I've gone from behind the scenes to in the front row and so again an accounting degree while then everything says you know you should be adding up ledgers and stuff but here I am some stocks bonds mutual funds and helping people plan for their retirement loved it it was it was a lot of work and you know I was very dedicated to it but you know you do get to a point where you're starving to death and you've been starving to death and when your wife says game over might be in the suit yeah yeah so I back to the automotive world I win so I had a lot of clients that were actually in the automotive world and a really good friend friend that ran an automotive paint body shop supply company and so after working for him for about a month I gave him my month's notice because he had some people in that his organization that I I didn't like what they were doing and this was one of those things where he it was one of those moments the truth and he just said email before you quit I think just answer me this he asked asked me what I would do if I were him and I said well you know he hired me to be a Salesman and and we were selling a new product I was thoroughly enjoying that and I said but I'll tell you what if you'll go read my resume because I know you did over the weekend I will come back and with Monday and I will tell you what I think you should do and then you can take it or leave it and he said fine perfect so I went home and I you know he had a few things going on with it his controller was basically not good and then he had a general manager was crazy so I said what I would do is you fire those two guys and I will take over both their functions and I will get you into the 20th century with your accounting will use a computer he was using pencils in pinko they said you know I graduated in 1995 with an account we never ever did we take a pencil and put it in ledger book yeah ever and I said I said tell you right up front is gonna be a challenge to go back and try to figure out what he was doing you know I don't know if it's accurate well and that's the scary part when you're just using a ledger yeah so so I kind of put it out there and figured out he'd get back to me he says he says I like it let's do it now we gotta we gotta make it happen so it was it was a great great experience for me and to be basically taking business it was doing you know a couple million a year with three locations we ended up computerizing everything I brought in somebody to do the day-to-day accounting once I got it set up and then I turned my my focus on a you know just general business management we ended up writing through the 2008 recession with three stores bought our competitor out because we were in a very good you know we were not in debt we we had no debt we had cash in that auto reserves and so when one of our competitors was not to go out of business we bought their locations and then we brought our and I asked Lee everything rose back up we we left a left in there with five five locations doing over five million in revenue a year and and we discovered Christian Brothers so yeah it got to where you know I just wanted to be in business for myself so so that's why you were happy there you ended up you kept going in for your oil change to this Christian Brothers so what made you decide you wanted to be part of that franchise well it was it was an interesting thing I mean I really liked working for my friend we were we were good friends we went to church together we actually determined that we wanted to make the company a Christian company at one point and we did a lot of work to make it back and buy Christian company a lot but what that doesn't mean is that we just bring a whole bunch of Christians and we have this little cohesive you know it's not that at all it was that we aligned our company values with biblical principles and and then we managed according to that and it's amazing when you do that you know the Bible is the best business book ever written yes it has more everything about money like there's more of that than even prayer yeah everything you read about that you know as far as the motivational speakers and everything is just rehashing what's already in there but we you know in doing that you know I kind of got bored you know the company was going big we were poised to buy another two two locations and I just thought you know there's really nothing new for me here and so I thought I really need old what I'm doing and meanwhile I had done a sow with when we had five stores my Monday's where I would get in my car and I would drive to each store spent some time with each store manager you know it was about a 300 mile loop and so I was watching and build this building near one of our paint stores and I read in one of our trade magazines that Christian Brothers was opening in its first location in Florida and I didn't know who Christian Brothers was didn't know what it was but I read about it said huh and they said it was the faith-based automotive company and I thought well that's interesting and so I kept watching and build this thing then one day there was a bunch of guys in golf shirts and khaki standing out there so I pulled in and introduced myself and it was the owner ah so I started just stopping there for oil changes and I do work in there and in their Lobby and and just kind of like you did in ours and and I really liked it maybe but I was really kind of listening and seeing how they dealt with customers and I just felt like that was really in line with with what I felt a business should run and how customers should be treated and turned out they have a list of you know the founder and come up with a list of like 30 things that really suck about getting your car fixed yeah then they decided how are we gonna how we gonna fix every one of these things and so that's really how Christian Brothers was was born is based on solving problems in an industry that doesn't have the best reputation and you know where we're still not we're still higher than lawyers but not much I had Pirelli tires changed out of my car and I did not notice it until a couple days later when someone had asked me what tires said again back east where you have four seasons and salt roads yep so I said I get Pirelli he's like you don't have Pirelli tires and I looked and I didn't and so I drove to the automobile thought of motive place that I had my tires changed with all my other stuff and made him put my other ones on I was like I won't say anything but you're gonna put them back on I mean it just stuff like that it's really sensational but it happens yeah it's it's unfortunate but it's you know you don't have to do business that way you really know and so I just really liked I liked a guy that owned the shop Larry and I are still very good friends and just liked what they were doing inside thought you know I asked my wife and you know after the Edward Jones thing I wasn't sure she'd ever let me go into business say again and I told her about it and you know she knew I was bored with what I was doing and she says well yes I did and I told her about it nice but I didn't say much and then I then I put together a little presentation for her and then I presented it and and and then and then she says well let's go let's see if we even qualify and so so we started down that road and then by the time maybe we were deemed qualified they said well you're gonna have to move because they you know we were living in Florida so the Tampa area was full up and I said well if I'm going to move away from my church and all my friends we're gonna we're gonna move back to the northwest where we came from it so but not too close to C elegans yeah that's a whole nother story and I asked him what they thought about Boise Idaho and and I was just pulling that out cuz I used to come here in the 80s for what so my best friend in the Coast Guard was from Kuna Oh so he would come over here but we would come over when we'd have three days off and we would just we'd go out and you know out in the woods and shoot guns and you know ride motorcycles and do you name it just had a great time and I remember back then he used to hit all the you know you hit these pheasants with the car all the time and so we were thinking oh that's kind of weird so so that was my memory of Boise and so as we started researching the market now it's really changed a lot but it still wasn't the greatest place on earth to live yet so still kind of risky and so we put the first marina you know first Christian Brothers in this state Idaho in Meridian so I think it's so interesting that you showed me a picture of when you first got there and you were in a field there was just blood hole and now I there are so many it's just there's so many it's so developed and really is a great I mean what did you do throw a dart how'd you figure that well the guy said at corporate office have some magic machinery that they can you know they pin polish their crystal ball they came up with the location is it is a nice location it's perfect right next to a gas station and it's near a high school so yeah it's just right in so you know with automotive peop e get their cars fixed and you really live for where they work now if they choose where they live well you've got to figure out a way to get them to work so we have a free shuttle when we do that I do like that that's that's a nice option it wasn't important for that day but sometimes because I haven't had kids at home my kids are 30 and 31 yes though I had one lives in California so it's very hard for me to figure out how to get a ride and I don't have I do not need two vehicles so that is really nice very nice yeah almost really your car comes in to have it done within one day yeah unless it's you know something major has to be done like a new new engine or what have you our goal is to have you out in a day so generally if we can get you to work by the end of your work day we will be picking you up to put you back in your Congress yeah so and you have tires now - yeah we've always had tires so we're not a tire store but we do tire yeah so yeah as I heard someone say that at the networking group I didn't know you had tires Pirellis yeah I know it's so different out here I mean I have to remind myself I like every third year or something I mean in New Hampshire you have your summer tires and your winter tires and you buy them every other year right you're always buying tires yeah so the tire business in the New England states are it's and there's a lot of people here have winter tires and yeah every other season tires we do a fair amount of changing those out I just go for the happy medium and hope snow plow gets there before I do well I know you've been living in Florida forever so yeah I I know how to drive this is fun for my kids they thought oh I've got it all wheel drive vehicle that means it'll Drive like dry pavement no well we have that we always had that with New Yorkers coming up for skiing and it just was comical because they would have their big huge all-wheel drive vehicles and you'd see him they pass you and would be like this you really shouldn't be going more than 40 it's a huge snowstorm or just even in you know - off the side so that was it's interesting but so now now how long have you had this so we we open the store in 2014 so it's been five years here just in bay now how are your children liking nan Florida weather well the weather wasn't such a thing in the culture was another so my kids are all southerners when they came here and one son solved the culture problem by joining the Air Force and my oldest who's in the hair business yeah she we've talked about her she she she's grudgingly becoming a northerner my youngest she got tied in with FFA oh that's so good which has been such a wonderful thing for her and it really has given her she's got a full ride scholarship to CSI because of her I don't think people know what a grade-school CSI is and I am so happy well I have several students who have gone I've recommended that they go I love I I can call up I'm on a first-name basis they really really help the students with any form of problems that they have and I really like that they've got a PhD behind every tree down there it's not a bunch of just guys with a teaching surgeon I do and I like that they have articulation agreements we talked about to Bozeman which is another agriculture school because it sounds like your stakes really your daughter's like my daughters look at that oh it's that that was such a it's a dream school for someone who wants to do well your daughter wants to do because they the ank community and Bozeman is so supportive that they want to see AG students and they really give a lot of money well they the same thing at CSI they you know I wanted my daughter to go to CWI and live at home and just stay home and take care of all our animals and she really was drawn there a lot of through her FFA contacts so you know it's thing a young person in FFA learns a lot more than just you know how to plant plants or pet sheep it's well I should watch how they debate they have this huge debate they have speech they have to defend certain when they go up against legislation which is they get a problem I finish actually four four I think four series of different events that they had and over in Ontario oh yeah and it's fun judging yes really fun judging you know and she's my daughter she was this quiet you know kept herself a person when she came here and I'll tell you she's not the same girl she she she actually was telling me I want to go to CSI I think it's gonna be better Faina so being the business guy I am I said well you need to make a presentation and sell me on it so she did and she said you have to come to the school so I went to the school and she had arranged for us to sit in a class and that was kind of the last straw but I was getting more and more warming up to the idea just because I was meeting people down there then I sat in a classroom where all the kids look like my daughter they all had ball caps on and dirty boots I'm talking about antibiotics in agriculture and livestock and yeah and it was being taught by a veterinarian that was just visiting to teach that specific class and you know I was very impressed and and of course CSI is like and like oh you can take you outta for your campus they've got dorms they got the whole nine yards I do like that I hope CWI can eventually do the same thing because I do think it's a nice transition in you know if it's affordable if it works if it depends on the students personality but I think experiencing dorm life is helpful yeah and she you know I'm all for you know you get through school with this little there's no debt you know because yeah that's just gonna be a hurdle you have to overcome in your life going forward it'll keep you from getting getting where you want to go and yeah so you know one of the things I've told all my kids is go to go to Community College you can learn the same things just make sure they have a connection to the destination you want to go that's well one thing that has was announced we had CWI here and the the one-stop admissions director and this fall is the start of articulation agreements because previously I had students that were at CWI loved the program and their credits not all of them would not transfer so the state of Idaho and then he had just announced it on her it was it's in the other Commission's and our admissions you'll see a couple of admissions people and he said that they are now all of the course numbers are going to be the same so when your daughter takes an English class or an accounting class or business AG class it will all be the same no matter where she transfers if she chose to do in the state of Idaho Bozeman is actually very good about transfers I've had several students who transfer from Community College to that school or go in immediately and they really that's another location where they it's just so gorgeous there and they have longevity with their professors and their professors more often than not are the ones teaching which is good yeah and that was you know that was the key for me I went to a community college that my degree says University of Washington and screen is this and you know and it's but I wanted to be in smaller classrooms and and there's the you know there are guys with PhDs running around on these college these community college campuses and the reason is they want they want to teach not write papers well and that's what happened with me I was at the at that point it was called college for lifelong learning and the three-quarters of the professors who were teaching at the Community College were Dartmouth professors which is an Ivy League and they really liked the difference and they and they said they were teaching and very similarly and it just they just really liked the difference I was gosh I want to say I was 28 when I went to Community College so you know for listening to every word making sure so they said it was a different group of people and you also had high school students that were fresh out of high school one it was it was really enjoyable I I would definitely stick with the same path but I also know that it doesn't always work yep ending upon what you want to go into he does and that's I was just very fortunate and it's not for everybody but ya worked well for us and I don't so now today I own my own business and and enjoying that I've got ten people that work for me and we're looking at expanding into another location here I'm hoping we'll start that ball rolling next year and and and then we have another location another family starting at Christian Brothers here in the Radian area and so I'll be mentoring and helping helping with them to get them up to speed as well so that'll be good so it's it's always always exciting and never dull so if there was a student who really was interested in the automotive field in any way shape or form and really thought they wanted to also own their own business so this is a this is a franchise that you got involved with what's the the plusses the pros the cons what would you tell them or recommend that they do to prepare for something like that well if I was you know talking to a student I would say get some technical training and and some experience in that field I'm my my experience came in the military I also had a brief stint working for the Kenworth truck company in the factory assembling trucks have found that wasn't for me but thank you learned I learned a lot and I learned how things are put together things out how they work if you really like that you know get in there become a technician be be certified there's so many paths you can go down with with just being a technician and then from there you can grow into because you have to understand that what it is we're doing and as we're fixing vehicles it's a technical field there are more computers in a car now than there was on this you know spaceships going to the moon yeah you know it's they're very technical in the future in automotive is we're not gonna get away from cars no matter what our government would like to see us do that just isn't going to happen in the next 50 years we're still tied to these vehicles where we're in these cars but the systems that are propelling those vehicles are going to change and they're gonna be working more technical I think exciting I think Tesla is a very cool thing this coming out but it still has wheels brakes tires doesn't have an exhaust pipe doesn't have oil in it but it's got a lot of other things and so a lot of these things even nowadays even even your your normal car now has so many computers onboard and then with all the collision avoidance systems that we're seeing now those are really the pre runners for fully automated autonomous Drive yeah what is your thought on I was gonna ask that just out of curiosity well it's coming because the roads are becoming so full of cars and human beings acting independently will always choose for themselves not the collective good and so we will always have traffic jams and you know in in accidents and things like that so the the autonomous Drive will come in to where everything works collectively within vehicles you'll even see vehicles communicating with each other so that they know the vehicle ahead is slowing down or whatever and they'll match and and even now you've got smart cruise control if you put a cruise control on and you're following your car that slows down you'll slow down with it and you'll speed back up there's still some things you you still have to manually engage those things but then all the collision avoidance systems we see on these cars those are really just prototypes that we're all as a society paying for because that now we're looking at about an average of 10,000 dollars in cost of every new vehicle that comes out now it was just in these collision avoidance you know radar control cruise controls and things like that these are all prototype for how the kind of things you have to have in an autonomous car and so those systems are all there they're just not what's going to what's gonna I think fill the gap is some sort of artificial intelligence that's going to come in to fill the gap between all these little systems to make them work in so they're seamless so that a human being it takes as much of the human being judgment out of the equation as possible so I think it's exciting it's you it was yeah I really feel that it guarantees that the automotive repair business is always going to be around it's just going to evolve it's going to change into what that looks like you know guy maybe 30 years from now won't have grease on his shirt you know because everything he's doing is through a keyboard or you know if he is pulling you you know tires and you know they haven't figured out a new way to do tires you know unless they come up with a way to hover or something which completely possible yeah we're going but I think it's exciting and the the amount of areas for you know satisfying curiosity and exploration and discovery are just wide open in that field and and I think it's just gonna get better and better so what is your favorite car make a model in here well there's two ways to look at that one I Drive it over the pickup okay I Drive it because I own the shop that does not give me head of wine privileges in fact it gives me back of the line privileges or non privileges but because I like the Toyota for its dependability and just economy of being been asked my everyday driver so my I having a lot of favorites I really like the Tesla no I really would like to buy one just so I could pull it apart and see what's inside of it but you know you can't do that either and you know I like you Corvettes okay so how do you have I do not so all over town with your daughter and her you know I am my daughter and her stinky boots yeah I could always tell when they were in my car you would have to stop before I get out of my driveway back up and get the no no well my my daughter's car was in my shop for a week we had to put a new motor and so in the meantime she drove mom's car and she works on a dairy and she likes to park with the windows down and unfortunately it's like one of the things you don't think about is when there's dust on the dairy you got to think that what's that dust made out of it's made out of you know cow byproducts I mean that dust flies into your mom's car if you roll up the windows and leave it sit overnight guess what it smells like in there mom was not happy my daughter doesn't MIT mind cos in her 97 Subaru she well it's to the smell hey backseat hey yo yeah everywhere oh it was but it's so great but you do not live without agriculture you need people I love how it's just developing the whole field there's so much to do with it and we should be paying attention to it we're gonna have some trouble it is really we can talk about you know flying cars and everything else the end of the day we all gotta eat yeah and race you have to have you know animal husbandry as well as crops and we've got to preserve the land for that and you know it's kind of disconcerting I mean growth is exciting but when they're you know burying really good farmland to put in a neighborhood you start wondering where we is scary we're we gonna get all the stuff that we're growing or their favorite in other countries they were making hybrid cows that were just really weird-looking I think it was in Australia and then they then they didn't know what to do with them because it wasn't working out like they thought so they have this beauty or reject oh yeah so tell us again we're gonna add your link tell us again where to find you how do we get a hold of you how it can someone make an appointment so well we're in Meridian I know and and so our best way is our website is CBAC calm /medium and you can make an appointment there you can see all our services that are available there are phone numbers two zero eight eight eight eight zero zero seven zero you can call for an appointment as well yeah it's very easy very very easy yeah so we have we come in every morning with a bunch of people you know at night in their leisure on their computer on your 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