Interview on Saints Unscripted

On March 1 this year I had the opportunity to be interviewed by David Snell for the YouTube channel Saints Unscripted. It was just published earlier this week and can be found here.

I had a lot of fun interacting with David and also with Jake Watson, the videographer for the channel.

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