There's not many people in your life that totally get what you're going through that you do on a weekly basis.

And when that person is your dad, that is a very rare thing.

Those small little things early on, I just was like, man, this is great.

You know, like I just, I feel respected.

California's Kevin Hartman does it.

Thanks for taking the time, first off.

And, you know, I think obviously winning early in the year, I know for me it was always something that just helped the enthusiasm of the team and everything.

I mean, what did it feel like to get that win knocked out so early in the season?

Well, I think for us, it was, and well, for me personally, and I'm sure Allen had won early in the year before, but I had not.

It was kind of the first time that we've ever crossed that bridge that early in the season.

And it is a different vibe, I would say. And just not that it,

not to be confused with taking pressure away from, or I shouldn't say pressure, but want and will

to perform. But I think it's more of like, hey, you have a really nice runway and opportunity

to build on this throughout the rest of the season. And I feel like in a lot of years past,

it seems like we have gotten to the last 10 or 15 and we've really had to, we've gotten

ourselves in positions where it's like, man, we have to go be almost perfect. And that can be a difficult place to be.

Now, fortunately, we've done an okay job at that,

but it is nice to kind of get on the front end,

establish a little bit of a foundation of success early in the year.

And who knows where the year goes?

I mean, it's no guarantee how the rest of the season is going to play out,

but it's a great opportunity for us to really have something to build on and not get ourselves

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