But I remember getting out of the car and getting locked in on that stadium.

And I remember looking at the stadium and thinking in my mind, like,

this is what I want to do someday. This is what my passion is. And like like you said I was 11 years old and my mom looked at me and she goes you know what what are you doing and I remember I was pretty I'm still pretty emotional guy and I remember being little choked up little

teary eyed and I just said this is this is what I want to do someday.

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There's a story you've told on a couple of shows.

You and your mom went to a baseball game when you were 11, and you had this like

epiphany moment of what you wanted to do in your life, and I just thought it was so cool how your

mom didn't squash the idea when a lot of parents could have.

Could you just share that story to kick things off?

Yeah, it's a story I love to tell because it was it was one of those life-changing moments and it literally was just a matter of moments but and I got to look this up Ryan because

there's a baseball reference.com I think is the website where you can go back and I could find the exact game because I remember

the 11s hit a home run Brewers 114 too it was a Wednesday afternoon I'm gonna find it

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