Okay.

Um, I, um, studied journalism in college, and journalism is ultimately what, what brought me here.

I was thinking about just, uh, in advance of this, uh, th- thinking about how all of that h- materialized, and, um, I think it started back in, I don't know, maybe eighth or ninth grade.

The county seat where I was from was a town, it was just one town over, and they had a pretty good daily local newspaper.

And, uh, my friends and I always read the sports pages and would, and would go to the sports pages to see how our rivals were doing in football and basketball.

But there was v- there was very rarely coverage of our school.

I think one night after a, a, uh, pretty intense, I didn't play football but would, would watch all the game, w- and one night after an intense football game, I just wrote a few paragraphs on the game and sent it to them and said, "Would you consider printing this?" And they did, and they said, "Can you do this again? Can you do this again next week? And then can you cover basketball? And so, and, you know, we'll pay you a little bit to do it." And so I, um, that's how I became interested in, in sports writing and journalism.

Yeah.