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I think that's the best thing you can do. We can't even take that cake back. We can't get back to the team. Yeah, well that's a good point about earlier about how anywhere I go I can still get back to it. Yeah, yeah, just... Usually... Usually I wouldn't... Well, let's say a few things I was used to wanting, Jeff. My experience when I would move is getting back to them, necessarily. I didn't lose them. Because the way Jeff networks is you'll lose... If it's a big net, you'll lose certain stations and then you'll get other ones you don't usually hear. So then you choose them to kind of keep the net in perspective because you're hearing what they're responding to. So there's always that game. Of course, because I don't do any of the software radio things, right? If I do it all, I'm more just direct. I get the antenna and let it go kind of thing. And anymore now I'm just kind of... I'm just driving a shirt, flapping the phones, the headphones, Wi-Fi. And you can just be anywhere around the country. Pretty much anymore now that's the game plan. You know, get back to the same people. Which works, right? Yeah, but you're scared. You have to go, right? Yeah, the funny thing is when I don't realize that it's the abridge version. Sometimes they do a pretty good job breaking it down to the essentials. And then other times their books are so damn good, you've got to have it out of bridge. Like the other abridge version of the autobiography of Malcolm X is insane. They captured enough of it in the abridge, but the other abridge is just really, really crazy. You know, you go through this whole thing about his Detroit Red here. And I think this is abridge for Roots, but I read the other abridge because it took me so many years to read it. Years with O'Neill. I started reading it when I was ten. The 88 turning into the 89. Quite above that. Christmas time of 88 going into the 89. Just, let's see, I had just turned 11 on Christmas. And then it was so damn traumatizing I had no one to talk to about it that I had to take big, huge breaks. Because it was zapping a lot of energy out of me. There were a lot of parts that were very emotional. It's crafted the way I think to this day. So, I kind of wished at the time I had a buddy to read it with. I don't. And it's hilarious. I took all these breaks, these big breaks. And so by probably 91 when I was a little more mature, I had a little more understanding than I did in friggin' 88. I was still reading it right. And if you know the book about the 91 part, I had barely even gotten to meeting Chick and George. There's like five, six books that are really long. There's books that go into other books almost a room. So I had barely even met Chick and George and Mingo and Meliza. Meliza was healthy. And then when I finally finished it, it was sometimes later that year in 91, maybe going into the Christmas of 92, that's when they were on that big wagon and they were moving to Tennessee. And you meet the Haileys finally, right? And Alex Haileys who wasn't even born yet. And then some way somehow, that comes in the Queen. And I remember a lot of stuff about that too. I read Queen when I was in my 30s. So there was like the late reaction there. Alex Haileys was long dead. And we meet all these new characters in Queen. And the whole thing screwed up. One of those is like Alex Haileys mother. And it goes further back, right? Because Ruth ends with Alex Haileys barely a baby. And Queen goes back to when she doesn't even exist yet. So it's like his parents' parents. And so, like I said, I wish I had a buddy to read it, right? I had to kind of just pretty much digest and get what I got out of it all by myself. So there you go. And I still remember everything mostly in those. If anyone wants to BS about it at some point in Ruth. I can talk about it section to section to section. I can talk about early days when Kunta hadn't even got his training yet with Ken Kangol, right? That's when the boys were keeping it right, saying they're going to cut your do-know-what off. And it was their way to let him know that he gets circumcised after his training with the Kunta. Right? And he's still in Jupyter. And he hears the drums of Jupyter telling of another kidnapping by the true boss. And at some point it seemed like they were telling of his kidnapping, right? Because he kind of remembers that the true boss taught him in the woods. When he's with Maungoo and Maungoo and his brothers. See, I remember all this. And I haven't read, remember, I was 10 because this was the first book. So I was like 10. So anyways, he breaks from that whole circle, right? Now he's on the boat and he's surrounded by Aurora. Like I think the guy he's chained to was like a kala in his village. But they don't speak the same language, right? And they have no idea what's going to happen and they think the boat is like a big monster that's going to eat them. Yeah, all of this. But nobody helped me with it. Anyone who's interested and wants to go through memory, I can talk all about it. And then way, way, way, way, way later, Jizzy gets sold and then meets Mazzoli. I know what I speak. Okay, anyway, hey, look, it's 826. I didn't speak to me a lot of times, but I know too. I'm going to lay a pal for a while. So you take care, Russ. Good that though. And I'll catch you guys all tomorrow. I'll try to anyways. I don't know if it's a work day, but I'll try. Okay, the A3 can't be a lie back here, Russ. Take care. Have a good Thursday. I'm going to A4-8-0. The A-U-S-E.