Dakota. Welcome to the Val Fowles. Yeah, thank you. How are you? I'm doing pretty good, dude. Okay. Yeah, I'm excited to have you.

Yeah, I'm excited to be here.

Are you nervous?

Yeah.

Yeah, I always get like nervous and then I feel like once maybe I like start going a little bit.

Do you need a sip of water?

Always do.

I want to take a sip of a day.

You get that nervous cotton mouth.

I can hear it. I can hear it in your voice. Dude, yeah, it's so weird. It's like the one thing.

That's how I know when I'm nervous. Yeah. Did you grow up in Utah? No. I grew up in Idaho.

Oh, Utah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. And I actually, I grew up on a farm too. So I lived like a, just kind of like a country life. It was, it was awesome. So what brought you to Utah?

I actually, when I got sober, the last time I got sober, I think it was just hard for me to be in

Idaho just during that time because like everywhere I went, it felt like it was just trigger after trigger. Like it was like, oh, this gas

station. Oh, this place. Like everywhere I went. And so I kind of just got to this point where I was like,

I want to just leave and then just kind of have a fresh start. There's just too much history.

Yeah, there was just too much history. And I love Idaho. Like, I love it there.

But yeah, it was just something I think during that time.

It was like the best thing I could do.

Well, I'm, as we said, we're very excited to have you.

Grateful to have you here.

I was a little surprised when, and maybe, I'm assuming you know this, but I don't know if it was you or your team was more like, hey, Dakota wants to come on. Yeah. And talk. Yeah. Which I'm very grateful that, you know, we get a lot of people saying, hey, they want to share their story. Sometimes it's also us, you know, especially when it comes to people with the more maybe dramatic lives.

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