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Thank you sir, G.J. Pyle, are you returning? Yeah, I'm on it, sir. I've got a lot of good talking of it all. The major peak points, or pain points you should say, in all of our communities I would say. I don't think homelessness just touches the big cities. In fact, I know more than a fact that it does. I live in a community of about 14,000 people. It's pretty small in relation to most of the health I would say. We have homeless people here. I mean, it's a small community. I mean, literally, just about everybody knows just about everybody. I mean, we still have homelessness. Well, why? That's where I think, you know, our government and cities stay in federal. I'm going to throw them all at the government. And it doesn't matter which political side. It's universal. What our government tends to do is just build money at an issue. And these are the same strategies for cities in 100 years. It doesn't matter if they work or not. Somebody in the 1940s said this is how you work on homelessness, and that's what they do in 2025. And it fascinates me to no risk that our political world has shifted so much just in the past 10 years. I mean, Democrats and Republicans don't communicate, period. And they're always at war with each other, and they're really not serving the people anymore, either side. So we ask, why do we have homelessness? Who's the root cause? It has to be for any of that leadership. It has to be. I mean, it's been a ongoing thing forever. Now, we can't blame leadership for the problem of homelessness, but we can blame them for allowing it to get to how it is. Homelessness is just a default human characteristic. Humans from earlier were technically nomads. So, I mean, why do you think humans like to cancel once? They don't make us unless we're wired into our DNA. So people choose to be homeless, and some people don't choose to be homeless. The ones that choose to be homeless, you can't cure that. You can't, I can't, and the dang government sure can't. So what do you do? Not around my mind, but say, all right, look, we're messing up a homeless reserve. This is your area, this is your little block on my end. There you go. I'm going to take it real quick. And then you say, there you go. So, say how you'd like to live. But then somebody's going to say, well, you're restricting their rights. You're restricting their freedoms. Now you're making a live there. Okay, both sides have to give a little bit. There has to be some compromise. Did y'all know, and I wanted to post some real quick, real quick numbers here, and I did this earlier, before I started getting deep into my job, uh, dealing with the money that gets spent on homeless people. It blows my mind. So the core of mental homeless spending, on a federal level, the core part of the federal spending is approximately $4 billion with the B, a year. That's just the federal government planning and expansion as of fiscal year, so for the last year's data, because for that product this year, it was an additional $10.3 billion with the B dollars. Uh, they did. It went down to a COVID thing, which is another $10 billion. We will factor that into the yearly operating. State and local housing and community budgets operate as much as $65 billion on the problem of homelessness. $65 billion. I believe two-thirds of that comes from the federal government. Uh, these are numbers that I just pulled up quickly. Uh, local examples, Los Angeles spent $619 million, around $17,000 per homeless person. $17,000 per person. Denver spent $481 million. In between, for Denver's area, between $42,000 and $104,000 per person. I wish I made $104,000 a year. I mean, that's pretty bad for a homeless person to try to provide for them. Uh, and in California, just one county alone spent $83 million. Those are some astronomical numbers that are throwing at a situation that's not improving, that's getting worse. So, in my humble opinion, throw up the name playbook and let's start all over. Let's start with mental health, first and foremost, and providing basic needs. Yeah, they're homeless. You're not gonna get rid of homeless. Dang, spending as much money as this means. Spending on that and not getting any better? Something gotta change. Okay. Yeah, I kept this on a bit long, uh, because I think this is only my second or third time to talk to them. So, I wanted to make sure I got that all out there. I appreciate the time, and I'll be sending these to you all. Uh, keep in mind, how much money is being spent on the homeless? I'm not saying they're not deserving. That's not it at all. We're spending all that money, and it's getting worse. K.J. Fab, I offer you back the mechanism. I mean, how much would it cost to build several, uh, large buildings, and, you know, just single room buildings? You know, without one room, a little kitchenette to the side, you know, enough space for a bed, you know, a tiny little bathroom, you know, framed off in the corner. I mean, how much would it cost to build some units like that with several hundred apartments, or little square cube apartments, or tiny homes, or whatever inside of a building like that? You know, just to give these people a sense, especially the ones that don't want to get off the streets, you know, if they had a sense of home, a sense of a place where they could go, and, you know, at least live, or at least be out of the weather, or something like that, I mean, what would it actually cost, I wonder, to build? Buildings like that. You know, I'm guessing not billions and billions of dollars. You know, what, probably a couple of million per building? I'm not sure. See, I've never really looked into it. We've got a bit of a homeless problem here, too. And it's all since this mass immigration. I've got to say, that's what I blame it on, because Newfoundland never had a large damage problem. It never did. Since COVID, and the mass immigration that our previous commander in sleaze had, you know, Justin Trudeau, the mass immigration policies, now they've slowed that down here in Canada. They've changed around the immigration policies. It's not just an open door thing anymore. The thing is, all those people we've got here now that we didn't have homes for, to start with, our government really screwed over the local people, is who they screwed over, and I mean they taught. Because all these immigrants, when they came here, they were given something like 20,000 bucks, you know, to get their life started. And then they're given $2,000 a month for a couple of years or so many years or whatever to get situated. Man, I don't call in a couple thousand bucks a month, barely even close to that. It's more like $1,500 a month, if I'm lucky. And so yeah, I mean I survive on that. You know, granted I get good rent, you know, or decent rent compared to the going rate. I get about half of market value right now, which is crazy. You know, good for me to be able to get that kind of rent, because if I didn't, my God, it would be impossible to survive with the way things have gotten in the city here in the last four years or five years. So the thing is, the government is taking care of all these immigrants because they don't want to look bad internationally. But what's not out there in the international news is the fact that I know that the government is taking care of all these immigrants. 59% of our homeless are all locals, and none of these immigrants are homeless. That really blows my mind. It absolutely does. There's low-income housing here in the city that's all being given away to immigrants when locals in some cases have been on the waiting list for those services for multiple years. And I don't think that's fit. We grew up in low-income housing when I was a kid, just around the corner from here as a matter of fact. And the place I grew up in before my parents bought this house, there's something like 12 Indians or Arabic people living in that one house. And that's a four-bedroom house with 12 people, 12 adults, not even counting the kids living in there. And it's just anarchy on that one street now because it's just a tiny little cul-de-sac. And you've got more people on that street, more kids just rolling down the road, sitting on the street. You've got to be having your head on a swivel when you go up that street because they've got so many kids that are just not looked after, that are running around the street. And one kid with just a diaper on, no shoes, no t-shirt, no nothing, just going with a diaper in the streets. And I'm thinking to myself, what are these parents, what the heck are they doing? Thanks for joining us, Josh. We'll catch you out here tomorrow, man. All the best. Back over to George, KV0MAI. George, for your final comments this morning. It's over to you. KV0MAI. Well, it's been interesting. You all have a wonderful night, KV0MAI. All right, George, and thank you for joining us this morning, man. Always great to have you with us. And we're going to go to Miss D-9KM4LBF. It's over to you. No need to rush your final comments, certainly. We've got lots of time. We owe it to you, KZ. This is KV0MAI, welcome back down. One thing I don't like is giving myself a shot. I usually don't like having someone else give me a shot either. For some reason, I think it hurts more when someone gives me that shot than me giving myself a shot. And with that, I've had quite a few operations. And if I can see the stitches, in seven days I will remove them. I will not allow another person to do it because I feel it hurts more when someone else is digging through my flush and plucking out the stitches than when I go in and I do it. So, this is my last communication. It was for real. I hope everyone has a blessed day. And this is KN4LBF. This is my 73. It's over and out. Back to you, Darryl. Thank you, D. And a pleasure to have you with us this morning as well. And yeah, I'm the opposite. Now, it's probably because of my vision that I'm the opposite because I'm 97% blind. I have 3% sight in one eye and 0 in the other. So, I've only got 3% in one eye that I'm working with. So, even when it comes to a shot for insulin, I can't give that to myself because I can't see the tip of the needle. When I'm down, you know, from my eyes to my belly, that's close enough, or far enough away, sorry, that I'm able to see the tip of the needle in my skin and how far I'm putting it in and stuff like that. So, it's better in my case that someone else does it. Now, I have had to take it with a pen. A couple of times when the pharmacy is closed, I go there and they do it for me every day unless they're closed. And in case they give me a pen. And the pen is not so bad. I could do it with a pen, but I still don't like to. I'd sooner someone that's professionally trained to be given needles is the one who won't be given it. So, that's just my view on that one. And stitches, oh yeah, I ain't cutting those out. I did have a girlfriend at one time that did that kind of thing. She was like, ah, you don't need to go to the hospital to get stitches out. She'd have snip, snip, snip with the scissors, with the little pointy scissors, and no trouble at all. But if it was me, now I'll go to the hospital and get those suckers taken out. A4HO, Ron, it's over to you, man. And no need to rush your comments or nothing. We've got time. V01, UKZ. Go ahead. Yeah, thanks, Argyro. Everybody have a nice day. I don't have much more to add to today. I'm already on, you know, my next thing here. You know, I don't follow everybody to the world wide sh- And I'm expecting a call today. So, I want to be ready for that. It was a relatively good night today, as usual. And I'll look forward to seeing, hearing everybody tomorrow on a Thursday. The hurricane, by the way, I hadn't checked on the radar yet where the progress was. But, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing everybody tomorrow. That's a wake up call for us since that time. Some of the other people are coming in, but I'm not sure if they're coming in. I got it up there. That's a wake up call for us since that time. Some of the strongest hurricanes to hit Florida have hit around the end of August and into September. Because the hurricane season really isn't over until like November. It's a long, grueling time and it keeps us on the edge of our seat. The first one, though, I think it's going to be pretty intense. I hope it doesn't hit, you know, like New York or anything. But they don't forecast that far out. But the last position is way east of Red Crook or Shelby. You know, several days from now. So if it keeps on that track, we'll be all right. All right. Let me turn it back over to you, Gerald. A.A. 4-H.O. Ron Garima, Florida. Everybody have a nice day today. All right, Ron, you have an awesome day as well, man. And we look forward to hearing you out here tomorrow. You have a great day. And next up on The Mist, we're going to go to Steve. N0BF, if you're still between us or still with us in between maybe the third, fourth breakfast by now, I don't know. N0BF, you still with us?