Matt Kielty

was department chair.

So basically now he was gonna be the boss of his former teachers.

Yes.

Awkward.

Yeah, it's kind of a funny dynamic, right?

Anyway, one day he walks into this temperature-controlled lab that they have there, and he sees one of his old professors.

Mentor of mine, Reinhard.

Reinhard Herkloss.

Yeah, my name is Reinhard Herkloss.

And right next to Reinhard, he also sees, much to his surprise... I saw this barrel.

A bright blue 100-liter barrel.

Yeah, my barrel for my experiments.

And Hendrik, Hendrik knew this barrel.

When I was still a student and we had a practical course where we... Because as an undergrad, he had done this experiment with Reinhardt where they had filled these barrels full of seawater.

And they were tweaking the nutrient levels just to watch how it would affect the, you know, tiny microorganisms living in the water.

Like copepods, zooplanktons.

But it was a simple little experiment that it only lasted for two weeks.

And now, you know, a decade later, Reinhardt still had that barrel, you know, just sitting there.

And he told me... So Reinhardt then tells him the story.

So I can go back to the late 80s.