Alright we have the Conservation Kid himself here, Cash Daniels.

Cash, tell us how you got into water conservation.

I got into conservation when I was seven years old.

and before that Id always loved animals, especially ocean animals.

And one day I was at the beach with my family.

and I found a plastic straw there.

And earlier that day, I had seen a manta ray and a sea turtle swimming in the ocean close to the pier we were on.

And when I found that straw, it really struck me, like, I put two and two together and like, this plastic is going to harm the animals that I loved.

And I went back hom to Tennessee, landlocked State and I did research about how trash affects the rivers and how the, the ocea connects to rivers and the wow.

How did you get connected with making this film?

Well, I saw, some of theirs, and I emailed them, asking, hey, would you like to, do something on me?

They were really interested, and.

we went back and forth checking out dates and stuff, and then they came down here, filmed it over a, two days.

And it was really It was a really fun experience.

So tell us, what is it like having a film crew following you around?

It's a lot stranger than your normal day.

I'd say it was interesting.

It was just really interesting having a group of people follow you around the entire day.

So tell me, why do you think the outdoors are such a great subject for documentary films?

Yeah.

Well, I grew up with documentaries about, nature, the ocean, rivers, things like that.

And I just think that's how yo develop a passion for something is what you experience, what you see on television.

Like, I grew up watching, David Attenborough' documentaries, Sylvia Earle's.

And that's what I want to do one day is definitely make documentaries of my own, because that's how you reach people.

Everybody's on Netflix watching a documentary, everybody's scrolling through Instagram, and I always say, you cannot protect something you don't love, and you can't love somethin that you've never experienced.

So Cash tell us what's next on your conservation journey?

Well, I'm trying to put out more monofilament bins, working with other states like, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, those three.

I'm working with my friend Greg Vital on getting a balloon ban.

Because here in the state of Tennessee, it is illegal to, let g more than 25 balloons at a time.

But if you still have a balloon release every single day of the year in a lot of different places, that still equals thousand and up to millions of balloons.

And a couple weeks from now, I'm going to Saint Augustine to clean out some historic wells there.

Because some of the wells there they have this grate over them, and you can fit plastic bottle and other trash down in there.

So I'm working with the city there to try and remove the trash down there.

You're doing amazing work.

We're excited to see what you have coming next.

Thank you.