Why don't you, let's start with that once, uh, and then we'll kinda lead into maybe a little bit more of your background growing up and-

All right.

Well, thanks for having me.

I was, you sure do a good job with this.

Um, [clears throat] actually, on the other side of that wall right there, the building, there was a fella up there, uh, that lived there in an apartment, him and his wife, and he worked offshore drilling, and six months on, six months off.

In the summertime he was off, and he had a garden tractor he pulled.

And I, when I was young, eight years old or so, or younger, I was up there always, uh, jumping around in the back of the pickup and sitting on it and looking at it.

If you'd give young people advice just in life in general, what's a piece of advice you'd give them?