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We got an exciting conversation today with, a couple of award winners themselves.

From Fremont, Ohio.

We'll have the mayor of Fremont, Danny Sanchez, as well as Roger Koons, the president, owner of Koons North Coast security.

A great local business there in Fremont.

Both of them.

And we'll talk about it for our 20 under 40 awardees.

As our both of you, and I'm also on the show.

Yeah.

So, I like to refer to my 20 under 40 as, Yes.

So.

Yeah.

Yes.

Dylan.

That's right.

No, no, I, I was nominated, kind of early in my professional career.

And got a number of.

I felt like it was like it just every year I'd get the email saying, like, you're nominated.

I go to the event, and I love the event.

It was a good event.

One of my favorite events, and I would leave feeling good about having not received the award because of how incredible the 20 people on the stage.

And I'm like, yeah, I can't compete with what they're doing.

Yeah.

Like I love it.

And then, literally like, I was 39 and got the award and I was like, well, yeah, he's going to he's going to age out.

So I feel like we have to.

You did not have that same experience I it.

Yeah, I had the, the golden sombrero, which means I was nominated, I did it, and then I was nominated, and I had to call them and tell them like it actually was.

I nominated you when you told me I don't know what.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thanks again.

That was just an I think it was.

You had the idea for a 20 over 40?

Yes.

Like, for some of, like, the career late, just, I mean, unrelated to me of course.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

Well, you'll you'll get there eventually.

You're not there, right?

I told you guys before that I received the award in 1996, which was the first year they ever did it.

So I'm going to try to make the 20 over 40 and then be the first person you just met.

And you will see that at Real Seafood at Portside.

I did, I did.

Yep.

Like this person was still the emcee for the very first one.

So.

Yeah.

Did she did she win?

I'm sure at some point.

I'm sure.

I don't know if she did that.

Yeah.

It'll be interesting how you awarded to the mic.

Like surprise to you.

That is my.

That might be my, like, dream job, that I haven't done in Toledo.

And I don't know how, like, I'm not qualified to say that I want to run, that I want to be.

I would love to run.

Yeah, but I want to be the emcee.

Oh, for 20 under 40.

Yeah.

Whatever.

Chris is ready.

The no one's pushing her anywhere but I'm just saying.

Yeah.

Well, as we're all thumping on this desk.

Yeah.

I was just thinking of the day, somebody made of it.

Just this morning to me.

What a great set we have.

But it is all tied together with this, this awesome desk.

It's incredible.

And, made here by incredibly talented hands from Inspired Lumber Workshop.

Yeah.

Brian and Anna.

Colin, do such an incredible job there.

It's one of my favorite local businesses.

They did an incredible job with.

With this.

But there's a great organization that, you know, I am not a handy person.

But I've been able to get into woodworking.

They've got the tools and the expertise to help.

I actually built a chess board for my son.

Yeah.

And there's a few other members that have built the board and even use the lathe to make the, like, the chess pieces.

Gretchen, he talk more about the Dustin cut off.

Kevin.

Self-congratulatory.

Yes.

It's.

The whole set was designed by our friend Sue Rogers from SR 3D.

Visual solutions, the great lady and her picture up there on the bookshelf.

So we're very, appreciative of all the hard work that went into this set.

It's not well deserved by us, but, we're very appreciative of it's it's awesome.

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Mayor Danny Sanchez from Fremont, Ohio, joins us next.

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Welcome back into the 419, a mayor Monday edition of the 419.

We're joined now by the Mayor of Fremont, Ohio.

Mayor Danny Sanchez.

Mayor, thanks for joining us.

Hey, it's a privilege.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

This is what I one of my favorite parts of this show is getting a chance to to meet the leaders of other communities.

Right.

So it's cool.

We can talk to folks that we know and do great work here in Toledo.

But to get a chance to get outside of our immediate neighborhood and meet, folks like, you know, Mayor Sanchez doing incredible work, tell me, just introduce us to, I guess, you know, we joked during the break, like, where is Fremont?

Right.

What county?

Like where?

Well, tell us what it took for you to get here today.

So we are about a 48 minute drive, you know, from Fremont.

I get over to Toledo area often, and it is a nice drive.

Oh, it's a beautiful drive.

You know, it was, it was a it was a cold morning.

But we were able to get over here safely, and, Fremont's, in Sandusky County, where a population of approximately 16,000 people.

And you were born and raised in born and raised in Fremont.

Yeah.

1982.

I was deliver September 1982.

And, I've been in Fremont ever since.

Yeah, well, the home is home.

It is.

Home is home.

Yeah.

And tell us about your family growing up.

Brothers.

Sisters.

So, yeah, I least favorite sibling and look right in that camera and say their names.

Well, it's probably got to be.

Oh, God.

Tell me.

Tell me about the whole brood.

Yeah.

No.

So, mom and dad, we were raised by both of our parents, but dad retired from ropeway, spent 38 years over at whirlpool, and, my mom was really a stay at home mom.

However, she did go to go to college and get educated.

Kind of an interesting, interesting story as, we both were going to tarot stayed at the same time.

We were social work program, and she's got her master's in social work, and she, she used it for a little bit and just chose to really stay home and, and just raise us.

And, so how was the dynamic of you?

Were you studying for the same test?

Where you working together?

We were we were kind of competitive, back then.

It was funny because, I guess ironic because I was one of the only male programs in the social work program at tarot throughout those years.

It just wasn't common for for men to be in social work.

And how I got into social work was interesting.

But, I have two siblings.

I have two sisters.

I'm the middle child, so, I'm mama's boy.

Yeah, sure.

And, I myself had three children.

My wife and I just go.

We've been together for for a long time.

We've been married since 2008.

Where'd you meet?

High school.

Yeah.

All right.

So, we had a child, in the middle of our high school years.

So I was a young father, so I actually graduated my junior year of high school.

And my senior year, my daughter was born February 5th, February 5th of 2001.

And, we, she's 25.

I have three beautiful grandchildren, 43 years old.

Get out of here.

A grandfather I am.

Yeah.

So?

So life started off young.

I wouldn't change a thing.

Sure.

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it.

You know, I used to, I I've got real little kids, man.

Having to be out of the house sounds great.

Yeah, well, listen, my my son's a senior this year, okay?

And he's, he's a track star, so he's going to run at Tiffin next year.

So we're living our best, our best life today.

You know, I never just being a young dad and being able to do all that stuff.

When my kids were young, my daughter and and my son and they're few years apart.

But life's great.

Let's let's, I want to spend a little bit of time on.

I mean, because that's not the normal story, right?

Oh, no.

You know, when that, you know, you find out that you're, you know, girlfriend in high school is pregnant in kind of life changes for for both of you.

Who who are the folks that kind of help to make that make that, transition into parenthood and also tell Kevin what it's like to have a girlfriend in high school.

Oh, so, so, listen, I was at Saint Joe's at a Catholic school, actually.

So, one of my huge, mentors in my life was, my God, he was the principal there.

And, it's something I used to go to the high schools and talk about it, but then I started to.

Not so much because I didn't want to make people think that that was okay and that it was easy, you know?

So.

So I graduated in, in 2001.

I graduated a year of high school right out of high school, right into my senior year.

My my senior year, I went to Early Bird, to get the credits.

And then the second half of the semester I worked at whirlpool.

I worked at a factory I was at, I went to Ross from from, six in the morning for another bird class till I got out at 2:00 in the morning from 3 to 11:00, and I worked in a factory for four years.

God bless you.

When I, when I graduated, I went to Terra State.

I was going to school for social work, and then went to whirlpool from from 3 to 11, graduated from Terra, and then I went to the police academy in 2005.

We bought a duplex, early on because we couldn't afford rent, you know.

So we bought this duplex and we were living on one side, rent the other side.

I was 19, smart.

And, at that time, I, I went to terror.

I went to the police academy, again.

Was that, I got a job at the county doing drug and alcohol assessment.

So I was 21 years old doing drug and alcohol assessments.

You know, felony offenders.

Yeah, right.

You know, but, grew up in a, a lower income neighborhood, very diverse income, our diverse, you know, social and, and even cultural, you know, so, growing up on, and on the east side of town back then on Second Street, you know, there was a lot of things that that I didn't really like to see growing up in that neighborhood and just been blast.

You know, I think having my child really give me the opportunity to, to just be a good father and make good choices.

And I didn't have time to get in trouble.

Is that what drove you?

Do you think as you're looking back to get your education and to work so hard and to put in all those hours, was it was it knowing that you had to support your child?

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, my dad and my parents were both.

They're just hard workers.

I'm just coming from that blue collar family and and where are they from?

So my dad's born in Fremont.

My mom's born in Fremont.

But I'm just gonna be a little joke.

I'm a Mexican, Billy.

Okay, so, so my my dad's a Hispanic, comes from, 11 brothers and sisters.

My dad's father was killed when in a car accident when my dad was five years old.

And, my mom's family was from down Martin, West Virginia.

Okay.

So they ended up coming to Fremont, and I don't know how they met.

Yeah, probably at the laundromat.

Sure.

You know.

So.

So who knows?

You know, I still never asked that story, but, but they met, and they had they had three, you know, three children and, and, it's funny, you know, because, just growing up and, you know, Hispanic family, you know, grandma had a very large family and very poor Hispanic family growing up.

And, and it's funny how my life has transitioned into politics.

You know, I'm a Republican and sometimes 11 votes right there.

Yeah.

Well, you you got to love.

I had to convince them they came from a Democratic family, you know?

But, you know, I sometimes I'm to, to Democrat or to Republican, to Democrats to Democrat for the Republicans to white for the Hispanics, to Hispanic, for the whites do too much for the rich and not enough for the poor, too much for the poor.

So I'm either made a perfect centrist.

Yeah.

You just you either make everyone happy or you make everyone mad.

And I just think, you know, my life story.

And being in criminal justice and serving on our Mental Health Recovery Services Board, served on our school board, and that's it.

So, again, you lived in a very adult life, very early.

But you have yet to, hang it up.

I mean, you've been the mayor for ten, I think.

My third term.

Yeah.

Ten years.

It's my 10th year.

Decade.

And talk to me about the transition into or continuing to sort of sign up for the next level of public service.

But it was you sit down with Jess, you said to your wife, yes.

You sat down with us and said, I'm thinking about being the mayor.

And she was like, no.

Or she was fully supportive.

What made you makes it so initially, she, my wife has always been supportive of my career path.

Anything to get you out of the house?

She's like, yes.

Well, you know, it's one of those things where, early on it, it almost affected the marriage because.

Sure.

You know, I don't have a drug problem.

I don't have an alcohol problem, but I sort of work problem, you know?

So I get it.

When you're 60, 70 hours a week at work, and.

And you heard a little bit of my story every day growing up, being gone and at school or just always trying to.

But I always just had a passion that I never wanted to go back where I came from, you know?

And some people say, don't forget where you came from.

Sometimes you want to forget, but you got to remember.

And I think those just growing up with that and having that tenacity and perseverance, yeah, it just gives me the ability to relate to, to people.

And you try to just treat people fair.

You try to be respectful, you try to just work through things.

And, and, the judge at the time when I was going to run for mayor, he says, Judge Hart, he was a huge inspiration to me.

He says, you know, I said, Judge, I think I'm gonna run for mayor because you don't have a chance.

You don't have a chance, you know, inspirational.

You know, you you I like what you want to do, but you just don't have a chance.

And I said, well, I think I'm gonna do it.

Yeah.

You know, so it's 2013.

It all started as a dream, at a campground.

And, you know, I was sitting there, I told my parents, and then after I, really thought about it, it's like my career path, I felt led to it.

Okay.

Now, I was never in politics.

I didn't even know what party I was at that time.

Sure, I had to do a Swot analysis on myself to kind of see where I right to see where I was that I know even I never, I wasn't, I wasn't raised in it.

I didn't know anything about it.

It was a situation in 2013.

Was was the office becoming vacant?

Were you did you grow up?

I get an incumbent, I did I went up against an incumbent, you know.

So, it's interesting.

I had just worked really hard and I applied for a position, in the city safety service director position, and, I didn't get an interview, and, I didn't know what I'd get the job, but I just felt dismissed.

And I said, you know, I had the background.

I had the career, I had the education, I had administrative experience.

And I said, you know, and there were some things going on controversial in the city at the time.

And I said, well, heck, you know, who better than you?

Maybe this is it, right?

I, I've coached sports.

I've been on the mental health board.

I was serving on our school board at the time, and I just felt that just just through organically through some of the things I've done in the community, I, just been involved a lot.

I didn't know what I was doing.

I ran for I ran for mayor.

I, we took a poll.

You know, I talked to some of my my friends in the community.

It's really how I connect it to your next guest, you know, Roger, you know, back then.

And it's just a crazy story, but it's, you know, I just worked really hard.

I took a poll.

We were.

I was down, you know, in this poll, like, I think it was like 70, I don't know, I was down like, by like 40 points.

I didn't know what that meant.

Yeah, sure.

I didn't have any money.

It wasn't good.

No, it wasn't good.

It wasn't good.

Yeah.

Just, you know, I'm still paying off my student loans.

We didn't have any money.

And it's like, man, I, we literally had like $300 in our bank account.

And I put all of our money into this campaign.

And, we were, we were.

I went door to door, I just, I just I worked really hard.

I raised, you know, I got into the business community.

I found out who was who, and found out what they wanted and raised, you know, close to $40,000 in a month or so on the campaign.

And in a month and the last month, I didn't really get no one wants to bet on a losing horse.

I learned that politics.

What was your message that that when you going to meet with these people, when you after you got that response about the about the position, what was your message to that to the voters?

That was my message was, together we can that was my slogan.

And I ran on a three point plan and I stayed true to that.

Today was, to, address the drug problem.

You know, I have, a drug and alcohol background.

I was I still feel like I'm one of the most qualified law enforcement people in the community.

From arresting people to rehabilitation to punitive to, skills to, you know, just all I did some training for the Supreme Court was a regional probation officer trainer help.

Right.

Some of them standard.

So, you know, addressing the dru excuse me, epidemic.

But also, we weren't going to arrest our way out of it.

But I also was a big supporter of our drug task force.

And at the time, we were close to losing our county drug task force.

I got in office and, allocated some dollars to that campaign for that levy, huge law enforcement supporter.

But I als believe in rehabilitation and, but I also believe in punishment.

We need to hold people accountable and, engage in the youth.

I'm a high school basketball official, so I do that in my spare time.

In your spare time.

So I coach, I'm involved.

Just create an opportunity for the youth.

We got to hit them when they're young.

We got to be involved.

A lot of energy and economic development, you know, bringing jobs or, attracting jobs to our community.

And.

And what is that?

Economic development.

Right.

We have housing issues.

There's a crisis all over.

And, putting plans together, strategic planning.

And, I talk case management, case management for the Supreme Court for, for a while and, help train other probation officers.

And I just took that same concept to the city for strategic planning.

Well, you know better than anyone that a good paying job.

Yeah.

Contributes those other two things.

And rich is defined in so many different ways.

Right.

Just being able to have a family and be able to do what you can do.

And I call them smart plan specific, measurable, achievable, reachable and time sensitive.

And that's kind of how we and collaborating and bringing people together and hearing people.

In fact, I was so excited to come out to the show last night.

My son and his girlfriend were over, and, we were we were talking about the show today, and I said, what would you what would you do for your day in Fremont?

So, I had this high school, my son and, and they were telling me, and I called Roger cuz I said, right, you got to hear this.

And I said, man, this is what we talked about at lunch today.

And these kids are saying.

So it was just exciting for to get your family involved.

I want to I want to hear what they said.

Yeah.

But let's this let's take a quick break.

Yeah.

When we come back, we'll talk about, what your kids vision of what, a day and, Fremont looks like.

I also want to, you know, dive a little bit more on the on the why and kind of what the future in itself.

Yeah.

Very interesting.

Yeah.

Let's let's get the make up of Fremont population and business community, and get a real snapshot of that.

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Welcome back into a mayor Monday edition of the 419.

We're talking with the mayor of Fremont, Ohio, Mayor Danny Sanchez.

Mayor.

Right before the break, you had said that you you had a conversation with your kids and asked them about spending a day in Fremont.

I'm curious what, what their answer is.

Actually, let me jump in the other question, you you mentioned during the break that was your son and girlfriend, based on when you had your first child, one of the rules of the household is everything is everything well lit?

We have to sit in front of, you know, doors.

Yeah.

Is there not a door lock in the house?

So.

So a lot of a lot of a lot of, what I would say, real conversation.

Yes, sir.

I bet, I believe in, you know, I live my life the same way home as I do in the public.

We live in a glass house.

So I always say, listen, I got to tell you the ugly truth.

And not a pretty lie.

You know?

And, yeah, doors are open.

That means a lot over when we're not warm.

When we're not home.

You're armed.

You know, yeah.

You know, you know, the judge.

And you need to always treat her with respect.

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

And, and if you don't respect yourself, you're not going to respect her.

So you've got to respect yourself.

So just real just, you know, you just try to morals and values and things.

And I had those things growing up.

But you know, we all make choices and and, at the time it was a choice.

The sweater was a choice.

Yeah.

It's a beautiful sweater.

In fact, this this pink jacket was a choice.

Yes.

Yeah.

And it's also very it's both good ones.

Yeah.

That's right.

But I do want to talk about their answer for.

So tell me about that from their view of the day in Fremont.

So they said, you know, we, that he said that the winter or the summer, I said, whatever you want.

I love that first.

What's your boy?

His name is Daniel.

We call them Boogie, though.

All right, baby.

Yeah, I love it.

How come I don't?

Well, he never walked out.

Never.

When he was a kid.

His first steps were running.

Yeah.

So, we just called him.

We call him Boogie ever since he was little.

I have a nickname, too, if you're interested in it, but it's, Is it which we say with FCC regulation.

Absolutely.

It's, it's beef.

So people know me as beef Mayor Danny or Officer Sanchez.

So I was fat when I was a baby.

And growing up, I was really thin.

And, the Wendy's commercial.

Where's the beef?

Yeah.

Apparently, whenever that commercial came on, I would just take off on it.

So I was scared of that.

Of, of the lady of the lady.

Yeah, yeah.

And, so growing up, and if you come to Fremont and you talk to anyone around 40 and you say, hey, you know, beef, they'd be like the mayor.

So I remember when I was in court and I was arresting people, and the judge would say, well, who will beef be?

Because my, my, my football coaches, my, my sports coaches.

So it's where's the beef.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So he's boogie boogie and beef boogie and beef.

So, so boogie is, he's a senior and he's and he runs track.

How?

Ironically, of course, never quit.

He never quit running.

And also.

Yeah, we talked to, during the break.

Not does he not only does he run track, but you must run as well because he will be attending Tiffin University.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

We're super excited.

Yeah.

He's going on a partial scholarship.

He's a 800 runner, and he's, just a great kid.

Yeah, well, congratulations to both him and all of you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

So, so for Tiffin.

Yeah.

There we are.

So, he says, we're going to get up and we're going to go to breakfast at, either Whitey's, Billy's or Kiki's.

We have, amazing local restaurants as, as a lot of communities do around us.

Right.

And, and it's always hard to name one.

Yeah, over the other, because you don't want to leave anyone out.

That's right.

And you need the votes and you need the vote, so.

Right.

Well, so I go to all of.

Yes.

You know, I've never yeah.

You can't go wrong.

Yeah.

You got to keep up with the nickname I got.

Yeah I got to go I got to you know, we got Ace Cafe.

They got a, they got somebody named after me.

I was going there.

So what is it?

It's it's like a mix.

I would call it, like the mess.

It's got like eggs, sausage, potatoes, bacon.

It's just all together that's worth the drive and the.

But the only thing is, is my wife and my dad.

You're not allowed to eat in public, so I. So I got to really be careful.

I can't tear it up, you know.

Yeah, sure.

That's right.

So I got me.

Yeah.

So.

But anyways, he says he'd go to one of these places and, he said they would go to the Spiegel Grove, the Hayes Presidential Center.

So it's one of the first Hayes in, the Hayes Presidential Library in United States, and it's a 25 acre, block of our community.

And, it's just a beautiful facility.

It's very peaceful.

He said.

I just you can walk through there and you can take tours.

And, after that, he said I'd come back downtown.

I'd get lunch.

Yeah.

Or go to, you know, there's several places to go get lunch out of town.

And after he just burned off here, 3200 calorie breakfast.

Yeah.

Nasty.

He can do that because he.

Yeah, he's going to run it.

Yeah, he's got a book.

He says, dad, you got you can keep doing that.

Yeah, yeah.

So help Kevin get out of that chair, I hear you I hope getting in so I understand.

Yes, it's the chair I so.

Yeah.

All right, so we're at lunch.

Where are we at?

So.

So we're downtown somewhere.

We're doing some shopping, and, he, his girlfriend jumps, so she's like, oh, I love going downtown with my my 17.

You know, I love going downtown with my mom, my sisters and some boutique shop.

And we have great stores downtown.

And and he's like, dad, you know, if I had some, he knows what's, Sabrina and I are with, you know, my granddaughters, we can go down to pottery perfection, or we can paint and do some art.

I have a com and we could, you know, hang out down there and and he goes, but, you know, if it's warm out, it's really nice.

Thought we can go out to the reservoir.

We have a nice reservoir and, 1.8, 1.9 mile walk around there.

That's nice.

We, we have a beautiful Sandusky River.

You said, that I might take someone kayaking or canoeing.

So fun.

We, I really I helped get that going.

That was one of my big accomplishments that I helped one of our local business guys, get that going a few years.

What's the name of business?

Go, go kayak and rentals.

Well, so Bob Turner, they owned.

They used to own the Haunted Hydro.

They, which was a haunted hydro attraction.

Partly sold that off.

They started this business, and, we, you can go kayaking, canoeing down the river.

It's a beautiful historic.

And he said, well, dad, how do you want me to come into Freemont?

And I said, what do you mean?

He was like, well, don't forget, you can come in by boat.

That's right.

I said, yeah, I said, you know what, we had wave runners who said, we sold those.

But he said, dad, you can come in by boat.

And if that's the case, I'm gonna take you and Fremont through the river and the tackle box.

Get off tackle box, you know, get something to eat, maybe go downtown again.

Hang out.

Get out to the reservoir.

It is a beautiful paddle, which you're gonna do to, kayaking in that part of where we live is is a great paddle.

Oh, it's just it's just fall.

Yes, sir.

You know, the last time I did it, the kayak started to tip over.

Some of them were faulty.

Well, so here's the blame yourself.

Well, yeah, I started having a panic attack.

Yeah.

And I'm like, help, help.

And they were like, well, just put your thing down.

I'm like, no, you got to get me.

I had a Yeti in my and I was trying to hold this.

And, after about a minute of about going into a panic attack, I stood up and I was like, in that moment.

Oh, no.

Oh, my gosh.

Like the red bed.

I was playing the terrifying thing.

So.

So we got a bit of a tour of kind of Fremont, some of the things.

But like what are the industries kind of what makes up, Fremont that people would be familiar with?

Yeah.

So, Crown Battery is one of our largest employers.

As we celebrate our nation's birthday this year, Crown battery celebrate a big milestone.

It's their hundredth anniversary.

How about that?

It's, You know, and, the business owners in our community are just so wonderful to Fremont.

We have green Bay packaging.

We have style crafts.

They're one of the largest, vinyl siding manufacturing distributors in the country.

Who's the largest employer in the area?

On a manufacturing base, I'd say Crown battery.

Okay.

ProMedica, we have we have a, a nice local hospital.

That's also in this little area, you know, but our Fremont City schools, you know, it's just your typical.

Yeah, your your your hospitals, your schools.

I shouldn't say typical.

We're blessed to have schools.

And we have great leaders in our school systems and just it's really just a phenomenal community.

But our largest employers, you know, we have a lot of tier two manufacturing pretty much really a strong it's an interesting community.

It's very diverse, culturally diverse manufacturing diverse farming diverse.

And, just, you know, that's where we generate our income.

How many employees does do you manage at the city?

We have approximately 160 employees.

Who's your least favorite, say, right into that camera, not just, just go read the paper.

Yeah.

Oh, tell me about, I probably literally.

Yeah.

What do you think?

Oh, we don't care about there.

Yeah.

Tell me you, when you think of a Fremont, if you're traveling for a mayoral conference.

Something like that.

When when you describe Fremont, how do you describe it?

You know, it's funny, I just I really think our people, we have great people.

I say, make castles.

Your castle.

I don't speak much Spanish, but, you know, our homes, your home.

When we when people come to Fremont, we just.

I think our community really welcomes people.

But they're kind of like my family.

They're also just as hard on me.

Yeah.

You know, so it's like I could be, you know, like, I could do you just.

They.

They're really hard on me sometimes.

But when I need them, they come together.

So that to me and we we've had a great pleasure having some other mayors on the floor.

And it probably is true, indiscriminate of the size of your town, but there's no anonymity for Danny Sanchez.

Right.

So there's no escaping conversations in the, grocery store.

Talk to me a little bit about that balance.

Not that you seem to have one based on your mental illness.

But you're either crazy, you know, you're crazy.

You don't.

That's right.

Yeah.

And this is not that show.

We think you're doing fine.

Yeah, but talk to me a little bit about, access to you and, how you do playing some downtime or how do you have time with your bride and family?

You know, I, to me, it's funny.

I'm just going to tell you a couple things here, but one, we have a Kroger store in time, one of our grocery stores, and I can go into Kroger's, dressed like this, or sweatpants and a hoodie.

And, to me, when I quit, I've always said this to my wife when I quit wanting to go get groceries in Kroger's, that I should probably step out of this position.

I really enjoy it.

You know, the grocery store trips get long sometimes.

I, have to run it, and, you know, my wife's need sometimes I got a trip.

Can take a little longer.

So she's got to give me a little more of a heads up.

Yeah.

You know, but I. I go, and I just enjoy talking to people.

Yeah.

You know, always have, always have.

We always have.

I think that's how I ended up here.

I go into Kroger's and sometimes I hear the ugly truth and not pretty lies either.

But it's part of the job.

Sure.

I've always been able to just treat people with respect, deal with difficult situations and not escalate things, and I just think that my staff complains that I give the public too much access to me.

I, my my cell phone number.

I ran for office.

I put my cell phone number out.

It's been the same.

Sure, I respond to social media after my personal page, my mayor page, my city email.

Or you can call the office.

Yeah, I'm just page it is very active.

It is.

I try to keep it.

You know, I live in a glass house, and I just think when you're in public service, you know, you've got to be prepared to deal with.

Sure.

With that, you know, so, you know, certainly in the time that you've been in office at a, at a national level, politics have become more and more divided.

Yeah, I know it's different at a local level.

Kind of right.

But I'm but you know, when you were mayor, I mean, you were elected mayor in your early 30s.

Yeah.

32.

I was the youngest mayor in the city's history.

I mean, how do you step into that role and kind of how have things changed for you in the in the ten years?

Well, you know, I think with me, it's, it's kind of unique.

I think our city probably would lean more Democrat and independent than Republican.

I think I'm one of the first Republican mayors elected in, I don't know, maybe 4 or 5 decades.

I didn't know that when I ran.

I just I had no idea, you know, but I have my beliefs and my values, and I'm proud of of who I am.

But I just, you know, we've been through a lot.

I think I read an article that 60% of mayors, since Covid, are no longer in office.

But I'm like, man, I don't know how we get through that.

But we went through we've gone through these these racial tensions and these the pandemic.

And, you know, we're criticizing how we're dealing with that.

I remember getting calls saying, hey, you know, does your rec center have the ability to to house bodies?

If, you know, if our facilities are full and you can't tell a public that, but you still have to, you have to you have to be strong.

You gotta have thick skin and but you got to be you can't let your you can't show your emotions, that high emotions.

You gotta just let people know who you are.

That to me is fascinating.

And at the risk of, again, and not to put you on the spot, but, yeah, you're a human being made of the same molecules we all are.

So you have feelings, right?

Yeah.

And their ego is is a is a healthy and important thing.

But the balance between managing your feelings, your moods and the job is you accountable to me?

Well, I listen to a lot of podcasts, and one of the guys I listen to is we have a podcast.

Hey, dude, you have a great podcast.

And I and I've watched it.

Yeah.

So, many Scott and his theme was, I just want to cry too.

Yeah.

And he just goes on as a man.

But you got to have big shoulders.

But it's okay to cry you know.

And I've cried certain times that.

Yeah.

So a wise man once said we'll see.

Yeah.

Right.

So what do you do with what relationship do you have with the other regional mayors?

Who's your best mayor friend?

You know, I would be your best mayor.

My best mayor friend is probably, Not probably.

I would say Mayor Kevin Stryker from Bellevue.

Okay.

We got elected at the same time.

Now, my friend from, Gibson Burke, Mayor Fall, also a great guy.

We tease each other all the time.

Yeah.

I just was in a meeting with Mayor Snyder from Port Clinton last week.

He's going through a safety service director change.

Okay.

I, mayor, former mayor Miles of Tiffin was is still good friend, but was, he was he was the first elected official that I went talk to about when I ran for office.

I didn't know him.

He was a young man, and, I really respected him.

And he gave me advice.

And, Terry Obermeyer, the former mayor of Fremont, was there for 20 years before the mayor that I, defeated.

I still call him for advice.

Yeah.

Do you participate, like, in the U.S.

Conference of Mayors or in the Mayor's Alliance or any of those you call the person in defeat and remind him that he's lost?

You know, he didn't he didn't talk to me for, like, the first couple of years.

Yeah, years.

First couple of years.

And, he says hi to me today.

It was it was just the most uncomfortable position because just just 30s on this.

I was working for the city.

Technically, you can't run for mayor if you work for the city, but I was an unclassified, appointed employee of the court, which is separate from the city and I happen to be a city resident.

So I had to get a legal opinion from a wonderful attorney named Andy Miley.

From from the from what is now on those Court of appeals.

Yes, yes, yes.

And, and they tried to stop me from running and I was able to run and then, it was just an interesting campaign.

I never said anything negative.

I don't believe that you should run against anyone.

Negative.

I think you just run for yourself and, Yeah.

And.

But anyways, you know, I have, so one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

They say surround yourself with good people.

I hired my former ninth grade basketball coach, Kenny Meyers, to be my safety service director.

When I came back, I knew nothing about, really what it took to run a city.

I just felt like I had the skill set to be able to learn.

And you cared, and I cared, and I hired Kenny Meyers, and I said, man, you know, how cool is that?

To hire my former coach, I, Kenny Meyers is is sent this ahead of time.

So we're going to put you on the spot, okay?

Yeah.

It's now time for Gretchen's wacky quiz.

Yeah.

We're going to be for rapid fire questions.

Gretchen's going to ask you for your favorite thing in the region.

Match me.

Have you describe your community in nine words?

All right, here we go.

How many countries have you visited?

Two.

How do you feel about pets and animals?

I have a dog, and he's a pug.

His name is blue.

I love him blue.

Go blue, big blue, and bees.

Yeah.

If you had to delete all but three apps from your phone, which ones would you keep?

Facebook, TikTok, and my, oh.

Only had ESPN.

Yes, ESPN.

My man, name a song that makes you happy.

The working class Lee Brice.

Yeah.

All right.

What's that for?

Okay.

What's your number one?

Favorite thing or best thing about the region or Fremont, going to high school football games.

Yeah, when I school football games.

Very fun.

Yeah.

All right, all right.

Fremont Speedway, you only get one.

I know she's a piece.

All right, nine things.

We'll put Fremont Speedway at the top.

We'll give that to you.

I need eight more words that describe are your favorite things about the region.

We're doing it together.

Yeah.

So I would say, the Google kayak.

Kayak, I love it.

I'm running, our downtown Fremont farmers markets, farmers market, our manufacturing base community, just our people, our citizens, our civic organizations, our amazing partners, our Terra State community college tariff.

Absolutely.

Problem I am, yeah, I technically transfer to Tiffin, so I just have to do my internship there.

Keep going.

We got two more.

My family.

Yes, sir.

Absolutely.

And, my number one would be my wife.

Without her, I couldn't have had a smart man.

So.

Great list.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

You.

One of our requirements is even if you're, as important as a mayor, we still require you to bring gifts.

Oh, yeah.

And you did.

You brought, Looks like we've got some gifts we did here.

I was able to, It's just a small gift, but I love it.

It means a lot because it has our name on it.

Yes, yes, it's going to go.

So those are the.

You cannot see this.

This is, a plaque that says the city of Fremont, established in 1849.

Perfect.

Gretchen, one of you were there, I was there, it was a proud day.

Last, last question, last question for you.

What's your what's your dream for?

Fremont?

My my dream for Fremont is to stay the way we are.

I think our city is united.

We're not divided.

Despite what's going on across the country and across the, the nation.

I just I really take pride in just keeping our community tight and representing everyone fairly and letting everyone feel loved and cared about and just treat people with respect.

He's Mayor Danny Sanchez from the city of Fremont, Ohio.

Mayor, thank you so much for the call.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I really appreciate when we come back, we are going to talk with Roger Koons, the owner of Koons North Coast Security, a great business in Fremont, Ohio, as well, and good friend of Mayor Danny Sanchez.

We'll talk to him on the other side of this break.

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Welcome back into a mayor Monday edition of the 419, or excellent edition of Mayor Monday here on the 419.

We're talking now with Roger Koons, the owner of Koons North Coast Security.

But we didn't talk with with Mayor Sanchez about his 20 under 40 experience.

But you are a fellow 20, 2020 under 40, awardee.

The same year that mayor, Sanchez won his, I'm curious just, you know, if you had to decide which one of you was ranked higher in those 20, who is?

I think that he was, awarded maybe 1 or 2 ahead of me, so I guess he wins.

But they're not.

They're not in any particular.

Yeah, and we don't compete at all.

So.

Yeah, I'm sure.

No.

How do you two know each other?

And how long have you known each other?

So, I've known beef or, Mayor Sanchez for, you know, since we were back in high school, he was a couple years behind me, and he's kind of a goofy kid that, we kind of pick on or whatever, just in a fun way.

But he'd always dish it right back.

Yeah, and now your roads don't get plowed in front of.

Right?

That's right.

Yeah.

I had to move out of the township and all.

Yeah, well.

That's right.

Yeah.

No, I, I've known him for a long time, and then, you know.

Not to get too into my background to explain that, but, I end up moving back home.

And when I bought North Coast security, Danny was a probation officer.

And, he was tasked with, upgrading the security at the courthouse, and, he ended up calling me up and then kind of re united our friendship, so to speak, and, helped him do that.

And then, you know, for a couple of years, I was helping him do that.

And, then he's not awesome with technology, but he leaned on me to help them out.

You got to know what you could do and know what you're saying.

Yeah, yeah, I hired a smart people to do this.

Yes, sir.

Yeah.

Great.

At.

And, you know, I ended up seeing on Facebook one day, it was like a Saturday morning or.

I don't remember exactly when, but I saw that he announced that he was running for mayor, and I just texted him like, hey, whatever I can do to help you out, I don't know that there's much, but, we end up, you know, I, I don't get in heavily into politics because I'm like, Michael Jordan says, you know, both sides of the aisle buy sneakers.

Yeah.

Same with, security.

So I kind of help Danny out behind the scenes, you know, surveilling his competition.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And, so.

So we ended up, launching his, campaign, you know, the because he he ran a, unopposed on the Republican side.

But on the Democrat side, the the incumbent had a challenger.

So once we knew who the the challenger was, we ended up, you know, kind of launching his campaign from my basement.

You know?

Sure.

And end up being a little bit controversial at the time, but end up being, sometimes you need it.

That's right.

Well, Tony, we got heard a little bit from, Mayor Sanchez about growing up in Fremont.

Are you born and raised?

What's your what's your story?

I was born in the Toledo hospital here, but I was, third floor, probably.

Yeah.

Not really sure.

Yeah.

But anyways, two years old.

My parents were from Fremont.

They went to Saint Joe, and then we ended up moving back to Fremont, and, so, yes, I was raised there, and I born there, but, Yeah, I went to Fremont Saint Joe.

The Mary lettuce in that.

You're a big time athlete.

I was I've come from my own mind.

Yeah, sure.

That's right.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's your show.

But yeah, I played football and basketball there.

And then, my other claim to fame to my kids is that I was a student council president, and, I thought that that was something, you know, cool.

And then now they're all, like, president of their class already.

So it took me to my senior year, and they're already doing.

Where do you think they get it for their.

Yeah.

So, Fremont, then I went to University of Toledo.

I graduated in 2003, obviously in 2001.

We all know what happened.

I was actually, a junior in college.

I just got done doing an internship, on life and health insurance.

And, back then, we had phonebooks, if you guys remember.

Yes.

And, on Sunday, I'm sitting on one right now.

Yeah, yeah.

It's the Yellow Pages.

Yeah.

But, they put me in front of a phone book.

They said, okay, you got to make nine phone calls, get three appointments, make one sale.

I'm like, on a Sunday evening at 21 years old, all I was worried about was girls and the owner of the bar.

Sure.

And, so it didn't work out real well for me.

So I'm back at school.

Kind of lost.

So 911 happens.

My brother calls me.

I slept in that morning, but he called me.

He's like, hey, we're bonding.

Like, what are you talking about?

What are the United States?

We're not kidding, right?

I know, and it was one of those old TVs.

I had to pull out the button.

Yeah, yeah, turn the the dial.

And, sure enough, saw what was happening.

That was the only day in my four years at Toledo that they canceled school.

I went into my finance class and they ended up sending us home.

So we all end up going back to our house on Calverton Road, and, and everybody got a 12 pack, so you can just watch that.

But anyways, being that lost soul as a junior in college, I didn't know what I wanted to do.

Well, and this is starting to sound bad on me, but after a college party, I went back to my house, and I'd seen the transformation that friends of mine that went through high school or in high school went to the Marine Corps.

And I'm like, you know, maybe I'll enlist in the Marine Corps, and that's what I'll do with my life.

Well, as I'm on there, and it's back when the internet used to load, you know for sure, and it took forever.

Yeah.

And all of a sudden I saw that with a college degree, you could be a leader of Marines.

I'm like, you've got to be kidding me that you're going to let me be a platoon leader with a college degree.

Well, there's a lot more into it than that.

But, I ended up, going to Officer Cannon School, and between my junior and senior year, graduated 300 candidates.

You started out with 183 graduated, I think I was 182 of 183.

But but you guys, they all call you lieutenant, second lieutenant if you make it through it.

So, I had that waiting for me after I graduated.

So then I went.

Did that for seven years.

Seven years, seven years.

Where did you serve?

I was all over the place.

I was originally stationed in Buford, South Carolina.

From there, we deployed out of Norfolk, Virginia, on the USS enterprise.

So I spent seven wonderful life or seven wonderful months of my life on an aircraft carrier.

So my wife always wants to go on cruises.

I'm like, I got to spend been there, done that.

Yeah.

Is there any any point where you were either like, I've made a mistake here, or I'd like to know how much and make meaning that you knew this was the right thing for you.

Did you have either one of those experiences or both?

A tale of both of them.

Every day, I believe.

Yeah.

You know, it was hard being away from family and friends and, missing holidays and summers and things of that nature.

But it was also the best thing I could have done for myself.

I certainly wouldn't be where I'm at today.

If you know, if it weren't for the like.

Because, like you said, growing up in high school and going to a small private school, like you're you're cool or, you know, you get to be a popular guy or whatever.

And then I went to University of Toledo, where I just blended in, and I was a kind of a nobody.

I kind of wanted something again that would give me, you know, I didn't something so something to latch on to.

So be an officer in Marine Corps certainly did that for me.

I end up, you know, my wife, oddly enough, is from Fremont, but she went to USC Charlotte for college.

Excuse me.

So she was a really hot cheerleader at Fremont Ross.

And, they're actually playing Toledo squad up here, and, we must have had the day off.

So we came up to watch, because from our us had a really good basketball team back then as well.

And we ended up going in, I see this beautiful cheerleader.

Yeah.

And, and a pump and my buddy Scott Shade, who's a nurse, and this test, paramedic, I'm like, dude, I'm gonna marry that girl.

And and she didn't even give me the time of day.

She didn't.

I mean, maybe we shook hands at a high school party one time, but sure.

And, you know, she came up to, here we go with the parties again.

But, a college party up here.

Toledo.

Yeah.

And, we kind of hit it off, but then she ended up going back to school, so we both dated other people.

But when I was in the Marine Corps, I live in, in Buford, South Carolina.

Charlotte, four hours up the road.

It's a 13 hour drive home.

So I ended up AOL instant messaging her and being like, hey, can I sleep on your couch?

Yeah, on the way home.

And that is of becoming a thing.

And then we just became really good friends.

We were both, like, dating other people became good friends.

Like, she knows all my deepest, darkest secrets.

Then I went on this deployment when I come back, and then all of a sudden, we both start making the trip back and forth from Buford to Charlotte, and then I end up moving to Atlanta, going back and forth, and then we get engaged.

We got married, my last year in the Marine Corps, and on our honeymoon we're like, we can go anywhere in the world.

You got.

You're finishing up your master's degree?

I got a degree finishing up as an officer in the Marine Corps.

Sky's the limit.

We end up moving back home to Fremont.

Let's talk about that.

And you opened up this business right away.

Or talk to us about how you would put up your shingle.

So being in the Marine Corps, there's red tape that goes with everything in the ad rules and they never take them away.

And that just always drove me nuts.

And I'm like, I'm busting my butt for some other decision.

That's being made.

And, you know, obviously as a leader, you got to just do it, enforce it and make it happen.

Well, I went on the path to self-employment.

Yes, yes.

So there I'm like, you know what I want something that everything I do or fails to do falls on my shoulders.

Sure.

And so I started talking my dad about being an entrepreneur.

And you and your dad close.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And he, he's he's a serial entrepreneur himself.

And, he runs a travel agency out of Fremont, travels year, Europe and everything.

If I didn't mention that, he'd probably kill you.

Yeah, yeah.

But anyways, he introduced me to a guy who owned a workshop who wanted to retire, and I'm like, locksmith.

I'm like, I'm never even.

I don't know anything about locks, but my the things that I wanted out of the business were in a good or bad economy.

Because this is back in 2010 when things were not good.

Right.

And a good or bad economy, people are going to need it.

And I wanted something that I could look at myself in the mirror and know I'm not just selling some shiny object that people don't really need.

So he introduced me to this guy, he's just a tragedy, old man.

Yeah.

I went in there.

I'm like this guy, you know, had a nice house and stuff.

So I'm like.

And then he showed me all the different things he does.

It's not just locks, it's access control.

It's camera You know, alarm systems.

And I'm like, there's nobody who doesn't need one of those things.

Sure.

There's a lock on every door.

Yeah, and locks fitting.

I mean, that's, it's kind of a dying trade.

Yeah.

So I kind of grabbed hold of this thing, and I spent my last year in the Marine Corps figuring out how to buy this business.

I was able to come up with the money is up on my 401k.

And everything that I saved up by this two man lock shop know nothing about locks, but I got out of the marine Corps April 30th.

I bought it May 5th.

How about, so moved home, but even to breaking into houses ever since then?

That's right.

No.

And now we're, you know, 15 people strong.

I know that we're all over northwest Ohio is our our sandbox.

But our biggest customers, a pipeline.

And we have about 300 camera systems across the country and, you know, 37 different states.

So how much security is on your own home?

A lot, my man.

Yeah, yeah, I play with all the new nukes.

Yeah.

My.

How are you?

I've always been tech inclined.

I mean, other than having to bail out your, your buddy back to AOL messenger to now.

Yeah, yeah.

Have you always been the gadget guy, or is this something else you had to know?

What?

I'd love to say that I'm huge into technology.

Yeah.

And I'm.

I'm good.

Not great.

Yeah, I have staff.

That's great.

Sure.

I honestly, it's the business development part of it that I really.

I love the entrepreneur stuff.

I love it, you know, I went got my master's degree from the university of Toledo as well.

Actually.

And you want a mac Championship and won a Mac championship on the girls basketball team.

I lost my train of thought there was having to give that to Toledo.

Yeah, for for schooling.

But you talk about the Mac Championship, so.

So when I was at the University of Toledo for undergrad, going back to my high school prowess, I was just at the rec center and one of the women's assistant basketball coaches came and asked if I wanted to come and help out.

So, that was what I did for four years and stay in shape was a scrimmage against a girls basketball team.

Excuse me.

And I think our junior year, it would have been 2002, helped the girls win the Mac championship to do integral part.

That's for the Mac champion.

A lot of people don't know that.

The women's team scrimmages against men to try to.

If I didn't, you know, I imagine the technology has changed, quite a bit from when you bought the business to today.

What?

How do you keep up with with all of those changes?

It it's it's pretty fascinating how much has changed.

And, you know, one of the things coming into Fremont, buying the shop and being somebody that was willing to dig into technology, it was kind of an untapped market, really northwest Ohio has been.

And now everyone, you can't get in the door anymore without a keyfob.

That's right.

But now with AI, it's it's going to be interesting to see where things go in the next five years.

But now, I mean, they talk about in China that they, they put five people in the middle of Hong Kong and, they were able to track them down within like three minutes.

Sure.

And it's because of all the cameras and everything out there, and it's scary.

But at the same time, it's just the way it's going in Japan.

But what are you most proud about?

Being a successful business owner in Fremont that you're able to contribute to your community?

I mean, I just love what it's provided for me as far as being able to give back.

I mean, I see your rotary stuff up there.

I was president of rotary during Covid, so I was a lot of fun, learning how to do zoom meetings and things like that.

And, and our local Rotary Club, we actually, you know, we've gone from, you know, we took a little bit of a dip.

We're up to like 75 members now, which is awesome.

And then, you know, working with the mayor on, and he didn't mention this and I'm surprised.

But going downtown, we have a brand new beautiful amphitheater down there.

Cool.

And it was something that, we rotary the city of Fremont, all the local businesses, local, everybody rallied to beat everybody.

That's awesome.

It was it's like the most bipartisan thing you ever could have seen happen.

What happens in the amphitheater?

Tell me some of the stuff that's happened already.

Do you have a favorite?

I don't a favorite, but I'm pretty sure we have 52 different events that happen throughout the summertime.

That's awesome.

So is bringing lots of money downtown to and from the community together?

Absolutely.

And we call it the Community Amphitheater.

That was a big deal too, is we were like, are we going to have a sponsor for it?

Are we going to?

It's like, well, it's kind of hard to go out and find a sponsor just for this thing.

One so many different people contributed to making it happen.

Yeah, right.

In order to do it, we had to tear down these old dilapidated buildings, which that's something I'll give the mayor an awesome, you know, pat on the back for is that, you know, getting rid of and I know Toledo has kind of the same issues where you have these old homes that sure, people don't they can't afford to maintain them all.

You got to raise them are, you know, raising them out never made sense why they can't be raised here to turn down.

Yeah, exactly.

But no, it's just going to get back to the community that, you know, I really is a passion of.

Yeah, myself.

And I think that's one of the reasons why, like I said, you can lived all over the world and decided to come back and try and make it better.

If somebody has never been to to Fremont doesn't know anything about Fremont, what would you what would you want them to know about, your community?

You know, the culture is awesome.

And I hear this from a lot of people that live in Perrysburg or the Toledo area and they're like, all the people I know from Fremont are awesome.

And and so it's just trying to keep them in there.

Yeah, I keep them there.

But I mean, definitely the culture.

I mean, my best friends are my kids.

Parents.

Yeah, my kids, friends parents.

And we just all have like minded values and things of that nature.

But, you know, if you're coming to Fremont, I'm probably going to take you to the depot for a beer, and pizza and, and, you know, Danny touched on most of the things that are there are awesome there.

But it's it's a good place.

It's great.

The best pizza in town is depot.

Yes.

Hands down, my man.

All right.

Thank you for for your service talk.

Yeah, absolutely.

Roger Koons, the owner of Koons North Coast Security, a phenomenal business in Fremont, Ohio.

Thanks for joining us.

Yeah.

Thank you guys for having me.

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And as we close out a may or Monday edition of the 419, I love getting a chance to meet these other communities and and through the eyes of folks that that that live there and love and that are helping make the community great, for sure.

Yeah.

And two buddies too, right?

That, that came up together in all manner of coming up together.

So, I knew a little bit about Fremont.

Again, I have kayaked there.

It's beautiful.

A lot of great things happening in the downtown area.

They don't happen by accident.

Right.

Things don't just happen.

So, great leadership, great people in the common threads we're surrounding here.

Throughout almost all the mayoral conversations is, people who care about the community, the people in them first and then the, the winds come after that.

Roger, talking about kind of his journey to entrepreneurship, but, you know, kindly left, some gifts for us as well, which has a tracking device in it.

Roger.

Sure.

Yeah.

I don't I will say I don't in the in the break, I was, you know, talking about all the different ways you can catch this show.

And, Roger said, which I thought was in reference to how many different ways you can catch the show.

He said you guys are easy to find.

Yeah.

And then I realized, this is the owner of a security company, and I don't like that answer at all.

Yeah.

So he's he's watching us at all times.

But, you know, again, and then also a nice, nice wine glass.

From the Birchard Historic Neighborhood Association.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Awesome neighborhood.

They're beautiful.

And one of the, the key points and, great things about the neighborhood resurgence and Fremont.

Again, thanks to the people and and the mayor's leadership.

All right.

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