Ryan Smith

I mean, I get the amount of texts I get from everyone from Duke, like, and, you know, there's a lot of them.

Like, the decision's easy.

Like, whatever it is, they're coming.

You're like,

And you got the BYU contingent.

It's like there's a lot of drama around this and a lot of insight and narrative.

And it's going to be an interesting 40 couple days here.

So, so if you think about Utah, like most people aren't from here, like, I'll just say that like, um,

My dad's from Washington.

If I look at my mom's from California, my wife's from Las Vegas, there's not a better place for family life.

There's just that.

Like, I'm fortunate I've got siblings all over.

Like, there's just something about Utah.

I also think it's like, look, most states can only own one or two things authentically.

Like, what do you actually own or are positioned as that no one else has?

Right.

And as we went through our Jersey designs, as we've gone through this, I've been asking myself and looked over the last couple of years, like Silicon Slopes, the tech community, and the innovation in Utah, we're probably the number two innovative hub.

And everyone's going to be like, no, it's Austin.

Or no, there was a time in 2018, I think we had as many startups or IPOs as New York City.

Right.