But unfortunately, I feel like the most united moment that I could remember in my adult life was right after September 11th. Yeah, same. Were you in America? I was in New York. You were in New York. Oh, boy. Yeah, I was. How different was the feeling where everybody was like smiling to each other and saying hi on the street afterwards? The elevators. I mean, I did the initial reporting for Portugal for Portuguese television that day. So I was at Columbia University's journalism school. I just moved to New York a month before. Oh, wow. Yeah. And I think it's so interesting. Where were you living? I was living on 72nd and Broadway. Okay, so you're Upper West. Pretty far away from the actual. Yeah. Did you go down? Yeah, so I didn't go to ground zero, but I went to Midtown to the rooftop of this building where everybody was doing sort of the satellite live feed. So you had journalists from all over the world. Meanwhile, I was 24, 25 years old. I had like zero experience doing a live feed. I was just, I just moved to the United States. It's actually, it's an interesting story how I even got to the U.S. because, you know, I applied for Columbia University three times. The first time I was not accepted. The second time I was put in a wait list and didn't get accepted. The third time I flew to New York and I knocked on the dean's door. And I explained, I'm Portuguese. I really want to come to this university. I want to be a journalist in America. And he sat me down. We spoke for an hour. And that year, I was accepted. That's amazing. That's amazing that you could do that. And it taught me my first big important lesson in journalism, which is persistence. Don't be afraid to get no's because, I mean, what's the worst that can happen, right? Yeah. And but a month after this, I'm in New York. I'm sleeping in the morning, and I start getting phone calls. And I was sleeping that late because I'd been studying until really late that night, the night before. And the first phone I pick up was my television station that I'd worked for in Portugal. I'd done an internship there and worked there. And they called me and said, hey, turn on your television. And it was when the first tower had collapsed. And they said, turn on a television and see what's happening. I had no idea this was happening. And they said, we need you to go to Midtown and do that. We have no Portuguese journalists in Manhattan. All our journalists are in DC or they are outside of Manhattan. Manhattan had been locked down. You need to go down and do the live reporting for us of what's happening. And suddenly my cell phone started ringing and it was my mother who was crying and begging me not to leave the house. And I had to explain to her mom, this is like my dream is to become a journalist as part of my job and I have to go. Anyway, an hour later, I was at the rooftop of this building surrounded by all these journalist heroes of mine that I grew up watching on live television and shaking. I was so, so nervous. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to put the words together. So nervous. And I ended up doing my live report and it all went well and I was ecstatic. I was so happy. I was like, oh my God, I did it. I did it. I have a future in this profession that I really want to be a journalist and this is great. And then I will never forget, and I get emotional every time I talk about this. But I will never forget just walking down to the streets and it's every time I talk about this, and seeing the first people looking for their loved ones, right? And it's like the posters with the faces of the husbands and the children and not knowing where they were. And that moment totally changed my life because, sorry. It was so crazy. It was a moment that I, yeah, first of all, realization, like, what the fuck? This is not about you, and this is about something so much bigger that's happening where so many people are affected by this. And it was a moment also that I realized that the kind of journalism that I wanted to do was try to understand why this sort of evil happens in the world and how does things like this exist. And a year after I graduated from Columbia, I moved to the Middle East. And I enrolled in the University of Damascus in Syria to learn Arabic and to try to do my, I did my first story as a freelance journalist about the jihadis who were crossing to Iraq to fight against the Americans. That was the first story I ever did as a freelance journalist. And so, yeah, so I was there on 9-11. And remember after reporting and going to school and going up to my building and meeting strangers on the streets and everybody was just looking at each other and hugging each other. And there was so much love and support. And it lasted for months. And it lasted for months. And it was really beautiful. And everybody came together and it was a beautiful, beautiful thing.