You were in college for media studies, right? And like communication?

That's such a cool way to put it.

So technically speaking, if I had gotten my degree, it would have been a degree in mass communication, but with a concentration in photography.

I was going to school for photography and I did use, I don't know if I used what I learned in school.

I was a photographer for a while.

But yeah, it was 2011.

Stanceworks had grown as a blog and a forum.

However, as a, sponsor you know i know what we pay some youtubers and we can pay anywhere from a couple hundred bucks or free parts up to six figures or more like it's it's wild the the range so when you're starting out like what should you expect should you expect sponsors that uh 500 bucks a video or five thousand dollars a video or per month or like what have you seen and then what is best like what would you recommend someone who's just starting out

Praise the Lord.

He has won the victory.

And we simply, I mean, that is the entire mindset, isn't it? We're not actually trying to achieve the victory.

We're just enforcing what the Lord has already done.

Glory.

Glory.

Come on, let's give Him praise tonight.

Let's glorify.

Let's give Him praise.

Holy, holy, holy are You tonight, Lord.

Lord, we thank You for Your glory and for Your presence tonight.

Thank You, Jesus.

A catalyst is a substance that helps, speeds up a chemical reaction.

That's great.

Uh-huh

... along there with us, and so we were chatting to her about, um, how they defined, uh, atmospheric heatwaves on land.

And they, they said, "Well, it's got to be over a certain...

It's gotta be last longer than a certain period, and it's gotta be warmer than a certain, um, expected temperature for that particular day of the year." So that's what we used in our definition of marine heatwaves.

It was gonna...

So we, after a bit of chat about it, we decided it'd have to be warmer than the 90th percentile of temperatures for that particular day of year.

So if you imagine a, um, you know, 20-year period, what's the, what's the warmest temperature that a place had experienced over that 20-year period?

Mm-hmm

Um, did you have that? Um, i- is that kinda how it went for you, and kinda how was last season kinda being in that year out removed from TJ? H- how was that for you?

Yeah.

No, it's true.

There's definitely a, a long period of time where you're not, you're back, but you don't feel like yourself.

So I think the, one of the harder parts was, like, coming off of TJ and going right into the second half of a season, um, and just trying to figure it out and get back into, get back into the swing of everything 'cause you, you felt so far removed for so long and, you know, then you're just kinda back in it so quick.

Um, and then I, I mean, I really didn't feel like myself again until probably June of last year, and then things started to really kinda, kinda roll and started to get some stuff back mechanically, started to feel like just normal again.

Like, I wasn't, there was no, um, stiffening in, in that area anymore.

Um, what's the biggest thing you took away from having as close to a full season as you've had in the big leagues, just the level of competition, the adjustments that are made day in and day out from start to start? I guess, what were some of the biggest things you took away from last year as your first real taste of big league life?