was before. But, uh, I went to SCT in Bristol at the end of April 2019, it was nearing the end of the semester at university and I needed to do an internship to get my degree. This was part of the requirements for my corporate communications major at Penn State, where I studied, and I had n't done it yet. So I needed to do an internship that summer if I wanted to graduate in December. I started searching and looking at the requirements: it doesn't necessarily have to be a list of approved places. It just has to be a real business. You have to work a certain number of hours on these projects, and it has to be somehow related to your major. And I thought: well, okay, let's see what I can do with this. I'm going to Bristol, doing this, and it's cool. There I talk to Justin a little, not much. I met him, you could say, through PRI. I first met him at LSFest West in 2018. I made a video about how Cooper Bogetti changed my life. This is a whole story. I met Justin through Cooper. He runs Stank Killer Productions on YouTube, if you know who he is. After I got back from Bristol, he wrote to me for some reason and said, "Hey, I know I'm opening a workshop soon. I need a welder." And I said, "That sounds cool, but before I can become a welder , I need to finish my studies." I said, "I need an internship to get my degree. Maybe I could do it with you. I'll still be there. I could help you with whatever you need, you just need to sign the papers and give me assignments ." And he replied, "Yes, of course. Send it." So I did. He filled them out, I went back to my supervisor, and they approved everything, it was 100% legal. And I went to the next Street Car Takeover event in Oklahoma City, where I met Chase for the first time, and he's like, "Oh, hi , you're the same intern." I'm like, "Yeah." He's like, "Oh, cool. Like, we don't have any special work for you , so do whatever you want." I said, "Well, okay." This is not what I want at all. I want to do something. I want to learn new things. So I just started participating in everything . And really, it was, I think, May in St. Louis when I arrived, and they were unloading crates of T-shirts or something. I arrived early so I could help. I was the first to arrive when they started unloading everything. I saw where they
