Dr. Dean Lomax

Yeah, enormously so too.

And being totally honest with you, especially the first five years, there were some total arrogant assholes who were so dismissive.

You know, oh, you're not really a paleontologist.

Oh, you're not going to get there.

You know what you're doing.

You're just playing paleontologist and stuff.

And it's really sad because even after those few years,

and it's silly that you have to think like this, and I'm not this kind of character, but even at that point, there's a few people who'd be like that, and I'd have written more academic papers than them.

And I'm like, just because you've got a couple of papers, you know, as in like they had their master's or PhD, doesn't make you better than me.

And of course, after I did PhD as well, they were like, oh shit, we can't say anything.

And you've had some of those people, it's funny, I'm like, I remember you.

You know, it's that sort of thing where you had people who would be like, oh,

oh, hey, Dr. Lomax, great to see you.

And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You didn't used to say that 15 years ago, did you?

Yeah, it's so frustrating, isn't it?

It's so frustrating.

And the good thing is because I'm very humble with it as well, and because of my kind of story getting into paleontology, I...

I very much kind of like everybody who I meet, I have so many people.

If I give talks, events, and I've given like TED Talks and big talks.