Let's do this.

Okay.

So the original full name of Mega was Mega Granite.

And, you know, but for the last decade, granites weren't popular.

So I dropped granite, just to call it mega, to alleviate some confusion.

So, because I've had this gene for quite a long time, I've just been shipping almost all of them to Japan or just holding them back because, you know, everybody was too enamored with, you know, Desert Ghost and Cosmos and Sunset and Monsoon for the last five or six years.

How do you manage a project when you can get false animals along the good side animals?

So it's just looking at numbers.

I

mean, as Cheryl said, I mean, I never, I always thought, why will I go to commerce for Geskenke? I mean, I never went to it.

And then, uh because i thought it's a tiny thing and uh and we do have a big tiny base which we proudly represent um i was amazed i mean by what you know the team has done in 23 years and the following and the traction we have and you know i have a lot of ideas of how i want to change it i think what i wanted to say or how i want to progress it is for me the local in my journey of the past where it is really freedom so in a way i would would summarize it so i mean we usually have i mean we're building santon on monday we're opening on the 27th we have 180 businesses um you know on the show 3 900 square meters of retail being built And for many of those people, we are a launchpad.

We are not a permanent solution.

They come there to test their product, to engage with customers, which they wouldn't have seen, and to learn.

So over the years, somebody might come with this glass idea to the incubator.

We're an incubator.

Everybody.

But when you get bigger, man, that's just not the way it is.

So one of the weird things that happened when I was at UF, you know, I was a molecular genetics lab.

And my professor originally came to UF from Harvard.

and he was a limb development lab you know working on you know the gene processes that drive stem cells forward to differentiate into your thumb versus your pinky wire your hands symmetrical to each other but asymmetrical to themselves etc etc and um so It was kind of hilarious that I work in a lab dealing with limbs, but my entire life outside of the lab is dealing with animals without limbs.

but um we soon had a couple of projects from students that wanted to do things outside the limb development and uh we started looking at common gene sets and whatnot and we ended up having at the end of it before i left several reptile projects that used ball pythons so As a research entity, I was getting gravid female balls in from Africa so we could have pure unmolested DNA.

Because, you know, the single digit 2000s to 2010 when I was at UF, I had tons and tons of normals.

at my place but we had selected for very clean animals and no black tipping of the scales or things that were light or things at night when the animals are all glowed up look like ghosts and and uh you know that's a selection pressure so for the research we needed unmolested dna and so you know i was getting in gravid ball pythons you know in the spring in february um and uh know it's amazing that how deflated of a bike tire those things look like after they laid eggs versus what our things our captive bred animals that are 4 000 grams look like after they lay eggs you know some of my animals you take them off their eggs and you can't even tell they've laid versus these wild ones i was getting that man you could almost count every rib Um, but like you said that it doesn't take a lot of meals for a ball Python.

Why would it be, man? You don't need the best conditions.

this big, man, that's just not the way it is.

So one of, one of the weird things that happened when I was at UF, um, you know, I was a mole- molecular genetics lab, and my professor originally came from UF, to UF from Harvard, and he was a limb development lab.

You know, w- working on, you know, the gene processes that drive stem cells forward to differentiate into your thumb versus your pinky, why are your hands symmetrical to each other, but asymmetrical to themselves, et cetera, et cetera.

And, um, so, um, it was kind of hilarious that I work in a lab dealing with limbs, but my entire life outside of the lab is dealing with animals without limbs.

Um, but, um, we soon had a couple of projects from students that wanted to do things outside of limb development, and, uh, we started looking at common gene sets and, and whatnot, and we ended up having, uh, at the end of it before I left, several reptile projects that used ball pythons.

So as a research entity, I was getting gravid female balls in from Africa so we could have pure unmolested DNA.

'Cause, you know, the single digit 2000s to 2010 when I was at UF, I had tons and tons of normals at my place, but we had selected for very clean animals and no black tipping of the scales or things that were light or things at night when the animals are all glowed up look like ghosts and, and, uh, you know, y- that's a selection pressure.

Fair.