Yeah, boots on the ground for sure.

That's what me and my coworkers call it.

So my team is...

Me and two other campaign managers, and we have a specialist too, and she does all of the logistical things, like you're saying, like advertising and logistical things with the building and all of that kind of stuff, where me and my two other... yeah she does a lot of things with all logistics that my brain cannot comprehend so shout out to her because it's awesome um but me and my two other managers we are our sole job is fundraising so like as much as i can i try to go to fire departments and ask them if they need any advice or support.

Um, and if they can't meet in person, I'll talk on the phone with them and see if they need anything.

Um, it's just a lot of like checking in and making sure everything's going okay.

Um, and making sure they have all the support that they need to be successful because our ultimate goal is to have them be more successful than the previous year, you know, crush their goals every single year.

fire departments in person.

Um, maybe it goes without saying, but could you just level set with a reminder of why it's important to protect the coral reefs?

Yes.

Yes.

Coral reefs are so hugely important to the marine environment as well as to our coastlines and to a lot of coastal economies.

So corals cover about 1% of the ocean, but they support 25% of all fish.

So if you care about fisheries, if you like having a nice seafood dinner, um, if you like recreational fishing, you should care about coral reefs.

They provide habitat.

Yeah

Never.

And, you know, obviously we're all facing this intense amount of uncertainty, un- uncertainty that we'd never as a society ever felt before, and I kind of like that moment in the Barbie movie where Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie is like-Do you wanna dig deep and do you wanna, like, be a big girl and you wanna do, like, the hard thing? Or do you wanna, you know, just opt out and keep on living your life and numbing? And I was like, "I will choose numbing.

I wanna do the numbing.

I don't wanna do the hard thing." You wanna drink the wine.

Yeah.

Yeah.

[laughs] And so I numbed, I numbed so hard.

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