Yeah.

So I, I try to, anybody that I'm assigned, even if it's not somebody I coach, um, like, like Luca for last summer, um, I worked with Neil on him, and I mean, all the credit to Neil and Luca, but like, I called Neil like every single day from, you know, from like Thailand back to Georgia until he arrived at the meet just to make sure that every little thing so that, you know, that athlete felt like they were getting exactly what their club, their coach would give them.

And if you multiply that, you know, by the people you might be responsible for, you know, it's, it's a lot of hard work.

Okay.

And I was like, I finally like ask our, like our guide or interpreter, like, "What's that?" And she goes, "That was the, the Jewish people in World War II, and they were marched to the river, told to take off their shoes, and then, you know, put into the river." And, um, you know, I've been to a lot of Holocaust museums just, and it, and it's, um, you know, the shoes were more valuable than the people.

But I look at those shoes, I've got a pic- picture of the shoes over my sink, and it just reminds me of like how lucky I am to live in this country, to get to represent the country at international competitions, to get to do what I wanna do.

You know, and I know that's kind of a serious thing, but it's like I'm really grateful-