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Well, it's not diplomatic. I guess it's my nature. I just recently got a subscription to this news aggregation service called Brown News. And one of the things they do is they evaluate articles based on political bias and based on what kind of companies, what kind of news agencies are reporting. Whether it's independence or corporate. And one of the things it does is at the end of the month it says you know you tend to do this or that. And most of my articles I choose to read tend to be central or centered. That is great. Yes, I have friends and family that would always wonder about me. I would watch and read both cleaning of news and figure out which resonates more. And sometimes when I would get frustrated with the unpacked opinions and I'd go back and I'm one of those odd guys too in an article when they have the footnotes I'll go ahead and dive into the references to find out, okay, where did they get this from? Just in even technical references, right? Or health related things that you want to go ahead and research and you just find out is it backed by something that you can agree with. So yeah, I get it. You've always been very, very off the road, non-confrontational. And I remember from the first days, some of the first days when I first met you and we were at the, I think, Forest Hill event. And you were very welcoming. You were very informative. You kind of explained things and showed me a number of things in radio and you're still doing it for others. So it's incredible stuff. Really appreciate it. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven. All right, my head is so big now it probably doesn't fit in this room anymore and I'm not sure where to go from here. Let's go back to Hawaii. All the great conversation about getting food from the farmer's market. And yes, I totally agree. You know, you guys are choice between getting expensive food that has shipping costs incurred that has been in refrigerated containers coming across the Pacific to get to market that was picked too early and probably treated in a manner to keep them preserved that affects the taste. I'm not saying that it's not still enjoyable, but man, compared to the stuff that's picked right off of the plants that comes straight from harvest to market to table, that's the way to go. And the locals know if you find your local source, even for fresh fish, you know, there are all these government regulations that prevents the commerce of some of these some of these items for safety reasons. But if you can find a good, good source, good relationship, you know, we've gotten to the point where commerce is considered a right. You know, you have all these rules in commerce, but you get back to the smaller places when people are dealing with people in commerce is a privilege granted by two green parties. I couldn't agree more. What's especially nice is like a pineapple. Here on the West Coast. We don't have the pineapples that we got a chance to taste when we were in Hawaii. But the downside to it, you buy a pineapple at the farmer's market, you better eat it the next day or so. It's gone from perfectly ripe to perfectly rotten. Yes. And I heard you're talking to Ryan. You can get a lot of the exotic stuff too that you don't you don't see very often though the state avocados that are the size of football. You still have to wait for them to ripen up. Boy, boy, the bowl of a huge bowl of guacamole that a single avocado makes is pretty impressive. Well, I have never been a mango fan, you know, mango drinks, mango this, mango that. I've never been a fan of mangoes. And our host, she grabbed some mangoes at the farmer's market and served them. And I said, What is this? And she says mangoes. And I like mangoes now. Yes, they have to be the right ones. I think I shared a few times about a neighbor who has a tree that I don't know where it came from. But these mangoes taste like mango mixed with coconut. And they are always so soft. So just soft, delicious, meaty, big. And when the winds come in, they drop. So if you time your walk back from the morning beach fun, you can arrive back just in time for afternoon mangoes. Yeah, that is, I think it has to be the other part of it has to be the fact that the mangoes that we get in think we got in Hawaii were fresh picked, then they were ripe when they were picked versus the ones that we probably get here in the store are just, you know, like you said, picked too early and preserved and shipped and you know, whatever else they might do to them. Exactly. You commented about your timeshare on the Kona side and deciding between the preference between the Kona side and maybe more upcountry in the wetter areas on the on the windward side. And I think it's a normal natural progression. You know, you get people that will enjoy the sun and the beach side, the windward side. That when you get older, you want to settle in and have more cool breezes. The temperature is a little bit more of a thing. And the rain is not bothersome. It's it's welcome. So I think you just kind of actually get there when you're done with the ocean, done with the crowd, and you want to go and just kind of get yourself off to your own spot. That's probably true. We have a we have a I have a co worker who just moved here from from Maui. And he and I were chatting the other day and he was commenting about the same thing. Maui is probably a little different than the Big Island. Maui has a lot more tourism. So you know, he has a different bent on it. But having grown up there, he definitely likes the quieter life. Yeah, yeah, I like getting off grid. Actually, when I go there, I, I get off on the trails that there hopefully aren't people, you know, but there's always that secret spot that you think you're heading to that has other people there when you get there. But yeah, there's something for everybody. And I think regardless of the island, even Maui, it's there. There are there are going to find some some peaceful solitude. Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. We were on the island on Maui and my wife picked up this book, the secret places or the hidden away places on the road to Hana. And like you said, you know, we we saw no one there were a few cars parked along the street, but not very many. And then we walked in probably a good quarter, half mile. And this waterfall and lagoon with the big huge road swing and I kid you not, there was 100 plus people that were like, Where the hell are these people come from? I know, it's so funny. I have a spot that I back where, you know, with a sign saying, you know, you shouldn't kind of be here. And I've been respectful about how big it is. I'm not going into any really off, you know, some sketchy places, but I get to my spot where I think I'm gonna just unwind a bit. And I swear there was a field trip going on. But for the kids all making a racket and set up a rope on a tree and we're jumping into the river. It was a fitting. We did the Tahoe Rim Trail years back in one of the hikes, Tahoe City to, oh, I can't think of it. It's like I think it's called segment number one. But it has a long section. It's a dry section. And then you end up at a place called Watson Lake. And we hiked all day. We ran out of water at like 8 miles. It's 13 miles. So we were parched and we finally get to Watson Lake thinking we're gonna be out in the middle of nowhere. And we hear a boom box going, people in the street. You're just driven there. You didn't have to hike. You can drive there. You know, my experience with some of the marathon hikes in the Tahoe area. They're so beautiful and you work for it. You work to get to the privilege of seeing some of these sites and being in some of these areas that when I get to those when I got to those areas, and I actually would think to myself, who the heck else would do this? And then you see somebody else there. There's a different attitude, right? It's not like, oh, my goodness, it's not a peaceful, alone place. It's like, hey, another survivor.