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Alright, so I've been on my phone and stepping up and I have the news on and she's on. So using my phone, not much longer, anyhow using my phone I know it picks up a lot of background noise. So I usually, that's why I normally ask about that to talk to you folks. I care about each and every one of y'all's ears. The social events used to be a heavy, heavy topic. Oh Hawaii, I mean I really don't, it's just another form of government. It's not even a party, it can be a party. In the United States it's being used and leveraged as a party. Although not outright, I mean other than the candidate in New York City, and Bernie Sanders and AOC who proclaimed to be socialists, but to face it they're not. They would have the title as a political party. It has a bad taste in the mouth of socialism. And that's because their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought a different form of socialism back in those days. You see back in those days socialism was about true government control. Using the people as an economic workforce for the betterment of the government, not so much the people. And so that's what they fought. They fought a different kind of socialism. I mean we're talking about modern socialism today. Let's get definitions correct, at least I have to in my mind. That's kind of what I've been reading on and trying to figure out for myself. What is socialism? What is socialism today? How does it affect us? Is it already affecting us? Already socialistic policies being used. And those are the questions I need to address. That's how my brain works. So with that being said, something that I was reading that made a lot of sense to me was nations for the past 30 or 40 years. There are nations who are socialistic, big nations. We typically say China's communist, and they are, but their economic engine is really socialistic. A lot less communistic. You've got Vietnam. You have Sweden who used to be very socialistic. Venezuela, Cuba, Eastern Europe. And this is just a quick little study. In Sweden, they were very socialistic in their 70s and 80s. I bet you remember those years. I was born in the 80s, so I really don't remember much of that, but I'm sure I can read on it. But it was a socialistic model that they were running under on purpose, and the results were underwhelming. Economic stagnation, government debt ballooned, businesses fled. So in the 90s, they started reversing that. And they liberalized the markets and the economy bounced back. So there's an example that didn't go well. China, you know, all the way up to the past 20 years or 30 years or so, they didn't have an economic engine really. I mean, they had a lot of people, but their GDP was awful. Once they started privatizing our culture, that's whenever they started their shift. And that was back in, gosh, the late 70s or the 80s. And the payoff was massive. Massive, massive. However, Vietnam, in the late 60s and 70s, they took the rice fields, they took the way and nationalized a lot of industry, and adopted socialistic-oriented market economies, and they became self-sufficient food. And they even let, I think they still leave, the world and rice exports. So they're the model that seems to be working for that country. But Vietnam is very different than the United States. My point being with this is that the modern form of socialism that we need to be talking about is basically extreme liberalism in a sense. You know, let's take all the rent houses from all the people who have worked hard to build those suckers up. We're going to nationalize it, and we're going to set a governmental rent rate for everybody. Man, it sounds great on the outset. It sounds perfect on the outset. A lot of people are struggling with rent. I know firsthand how many people are struggling with rent. But is the way to fix it to give everybody a trophy just for participating in life? That's what it feels like to me. I know I'm kind of on a soapbox. I'm going to go ahead and get off. But socialism to me is the equivalent of real-life participation trophies. I just don't get it by now. And I would like to understand it if I am asking these questions. With that, I send it back to AJ5IO to you back to Mexico.