Hello and welcome to On the Corner the Official podcast of PitcherList.com. I'm your host, Eric Smolsky, joined, as always fresh off just a whirlwind Tout Wars weekend.

Yes. Yes. What is happening? I know you don't want to cheat your own horn. We just have to acknowledge the award that you won for you,

the service you've done for the community.

I know you don't like to be celebrated, so we'll move on very quickly.

But you were honored for your contributions to the community,

you know, for myriad contributions, but also primarily for pitchcon,

setting that up,

all the money that it has donated for AOS research and just what it has done to bring people together, in particular during the pandemic when we really kind of needed those outlets.

And so the people should know that you were honored, you deserve it, congratulations,

we can move on as soon as you want to.

Thanks, Eric.

That was Laura Michaels Award.

I do want to say very much that I never expected to win this, and it's really, it means

so much to me because when I showed up in this industry, you know, there are legends. They've been here for

decades. And it's such a great representation of the industry that they all accepted me.

And they wanted, you know, they were excited that there was new blood, right? Young blood in the

industry. And in many ways, you can argue that what I've created with picture lists is, you know, it's competing against them. And I can also see that, you know,

in my head, it's like I, you know, these guys are incredible. And I've always had a, you know,

small maybe worry of just, uh, I don't ever want to have conflict with them because here I am

trying to do all this stuff.

And for them to give me this award and say that they are excited for the future of the industry

because of this is just the most touching thing and the greatest honor they could give me.

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