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I think people who look for free advice, they get what they get. I mean, I think you have to pay for advice. You pay dearly. But that advice, which you're paying dearly for, is making you way over 1,000%. It's the advice that you get, even more. You can't quantify it. The way to do it is, what I see is kids, when they get out of high school, they get into college, they get together, and they have these investment clubs. But it's clubs with kids that you went to high school with, you're going to college with. And they invest together. They do local investments. We're not talking about stocks. I'm never really sure. I've never done it. But they never mention stocks. It would be good that they put stocks, but they do other sorts of investments, I mean, locally, little businesses and stuff. But one way to stop that nonsense is to say, you call it some other type of consulting, but charge them dearly. And it's $1,000 an hour if you want to sit down and talk to me. And I'll talk to you, generally speaking, on the general approach to investment on this particular thing, ABMC, and have them sign maybe a letter of understanding. And charge them dearly. And now the people, and this is what I found, Ron, in my experience. People, you can say whatever you want, right? If you don't charge them, then I'm going to listen to you. And the more you charge, the more they'll listen to you. And you have to charge dearly. And once you charge enough money, and usually you get the job because of your reputation, but once you charge, they'll go to the office and say, well, this is expensive, but it's not. The second part of this is people don't have capital. And they've been trying to build their capital. I don't know how the hell they're trying to build their capital. So they don't have the capital. They're not even little players. So I don't know. I really haven't given this much thought. But what I found in my humble opinion, charge dearly. I pay dearly. We use a company called Deloitte, Tush. And you pay. You pay a lot for their tax advice. And we've had over, oh my goodness, over I would say 23 years with them. And so you pay. But on the other hand, you're making multiples because of advice. So people have to pay. And when people pay, they'll take it seriously. The second thing is Warren Buffett has these letters, the yearly letters. And I'm not indifferent to my idea. But you can learn a lot from Warren Buffett, I think, in my opinion. And any of these letters. Actually, you read those letters. And that's advice from a Warren grad who I sent to Warren who I often get into Warren. But yeah, so that's the old language on and on with this. But yeah, but you should be very proud of what you've done and what you've accomplished. I want to ask you a question about that series exam that you took. Did you find that as useful information as an investor? Or was it just a test? Back to you.