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Today we welcome Travis Meltzer, founding attorney at Valley Injury Law in Phoenix, Arizona.

Travis, how are you?

I'm good, Benny.

Thanks for having me on this.

I really appreciate it. Yeah, man, I appreciate you.

Thanks for coming on.

I'm excited to record this episode with you.

I'm sure it might be a little warmer where you are than where I am here in Massachusetts, but it's all good.

Yeah, definitely warmer than Massachusetts, but very cold for me.

Very cold for you. All right. What is it like 40 to 50 degrees out there? Oh, yeah. During the day, probably about 50s, yeah. That's comfortable. Terrible. Terrible. All right. Travis, so where are you from? Are you from Arizona or what? So no. Originally, I'm actually from Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm one of a few uh local guys there went grew up there high school college did the whole thing their family's still there actually

in las v like like straight up las vegas not like what's that town like summerville like no it's

so yeah so technically yes i grew So I grew up north of Summer.

North of Summerline, right?

Yeah. Somerville is actually like a Boston suburb. Sorry about that. All right, so that's cool, man. Like, is that... How far is that from Arizona? So, uh, four and a half hours. All right. at that because I went to a wedding in Phoenix probably three years ago and I was like,

let me just look at a map here.

Like how far would it take you up to get to Las Vegas? Obviously, we'd have time as a wedding. Oh, yeah. Plenty of time. Very easy. Did that drive a lot. So that's amazing. It's amazing. Tell us about when you knew you wanted to be an attorney. Yeah. Go ahead. Tell us. Just tell us. Yeah. Yeah. No, for me, honestly, it's one of those things that people ask all the time, you know, getting into law school and your first couple job interviews is like, why did you choose this life? And honestly, at first I wasn't sure it's one of those

things where it's just something that was like I just wanted to there's nothing specific I have no

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