He's thrilled to be working in the town where he and his wife are raising their two children.

I'm really excited.

I mean, like I had said, I was like 14 years waiting for this to eventually become something.

And I'm happy that Mike came here and did that.

I'm sure he's happy that I'm not texting him anymore about getting this rolling.

But yeah, no, I think it's going to be a massive thing for the community, especially with transport times in this county and the spots you can end up.

We have such a unique geography, water trail systems, camping, northern lakes, very long transport times.

He's happy to be part of the team here.

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They're not wearing jerseys.

They're, you know, they're, they're athletes that, you know, make a lot of money, so they're wearing fancy clothing.

And you're just like, "Um, I don't know what they look like without clothes on." And there's one guy that, there's a guy that produces, that, that does production for ESPN, and he literally knows almost every player that steps on the field.

He'll tell you if like, if it's a, if it's a celebrity, a main star, main star athlete or a B-lister, he knows them.

He's like, "All right, he's coming on the field right now.

He's gonna be on the left side wearing the pads." And you're just like, "Get him," and you gotta run over there.

Mm-hmm.

lot of goals.

Now it's his time to shine, and everybody already knows about him anyway.

They've double teamed him plenty of times since he was a freshman.

Got Isaac Rotifer as well, Jaden's younger brother.

Sure.

Those two are going to form a great partnership.

Ian, I always mispronounce his last name, Zudema.

around here, and

So then when you were young, did you—any inklings that this was one of the things you were going to do with your life? Well,

growing up, I mean, in elementary school, we had our— Movie days in the cafeteria, went to Pecan Grove, and every now and then they'd bring in the, I'm not even sure what millimeter the projectors were, and had the old movies and had Cousteau come out.

Jacques Cousteau had all of his movies at that time.

So that was a big influence right off the bat.

Okay.

And then that and watching the old Sea Hunt TV series.

That was kind of always interested.

Windsor, yep, okay.