And the Samuel welcome aboard. So I've done some live stream

normal recorded podcast. We've done a book book launch I do live screen

stream presentations and things like AI and I wanted to make this yeah I'm just

exploring the limits of what we can do so it's going to be a podcast

ish discussion I think because I feel like we both have stuff to contribute to the topic area in question but to introduce yourself to the team give us a bit of a bio like talk us through talk us through your journey a bit yeah so social studies history has always been my thing

I joined the US Marine Corps at 18 years old instead of going to college so I did that for four years

That's a single contract for us and then after that I went to college I was an environmental engineering major for about three weeks and I decided I want to be a history teacher.

And I did get certified as a history teacher. I got degrees in in anthropology including some work in maritime

archaeology and some Native American archaeology in my local area in the

northeast of the United States in what we call New England.

It's Eastern Algonquin Native Americans

is what I worked on mostly 17th century.

As well as a history degree largely centered

on East Asia in cultural history and economic history and an

education degree bachelors as well I went a little overboard but it's what I did

and then yeah interesting right so I want to jump in why why

the jump from I have a similar story in my teenage years jumping from

environmental engineering.

But what I thought was,

I thought environmental engineers did something

way more interesting than it turns out they actually do.

And I'll ask you that question in a minute.

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