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Well, I do partially agree with you on that, Jeff. And Joan, I very much, you know, the ability to burn CDs for people, especially as an artist, I completely understand that. The audio quality of a CD and the, I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, not bit rate, maybe it's bit rate, the ability to not compress the audio as much. Audio CDs were incredible in the aspect that they maintain so much more of the natural presence of the sound versus MP3s. And to put them on flash drives, yes, the best way it was explained to me in a visual reference was, take in the Mona Lisa and you take it as its whole. It's incredible, the amount of detail is incredible to it. Now, you compress that down to an 8x8 image and then try to blow that back up to make it a full-sized image again, it looks blocky. You've lost the fidelity of it, you've lost the true aspect ratio, the real complexities that are within the original image or sound in that aspect. And that was my number one complaint when we first started going to the MP3 and the flash drives and the iPods and all those different devices that compressed the music down. You lost the high-end fidelity, you lost the low-end fidelity and you lost the facialness of what the music really, really was. And one of those things that I look back today and it blows my mind how we're able to have such an incredible audio replication out of a piece of vinyl. And to have that fidelity back where it sounds natural and so much about music is in that compression, or lack of compression I want to say. So when you take the bit rate and you crush it down into such a small file that it's able to fit on the flash drives, even though the flash drives have become ginormous in today's aspect, you can get a terabyte flash drive nowadays. I remember back when an 8GB flash drive was massive and the first 8GB or I think it was a 4GB iPod was, to put music on that you had to compress it so tremendously that you lost all the facialness and all the detail of the audio. So that's the downside to it and that's just from my experiences and stuff. But Jeff, you're on the right page with the ability to load it onto a flash drive and still share that. The advantage the artist had with the CDs is it made it difficult to copy that CD until these CD burners and all these publicly available devices came out so that now you could buy one CD and then you could make multiple copies for your friends and the artist wouldn't benefit in any way, shape or form. So that's the advantage of the artist. I know it's a rabbit hole and I don't want to go down a too terrible part even though that's what we've been talking about a lot on the net this evening, but it is definitely one of those aspects that the artist isn't respected as much nowadays in my opinion across the board anyway. Without the true artist, without the true creator of these musicals and these movies and all these different aspects of entertainment, we've lost that respect to what the artist really deserves and that's the pay to earn for your talent. And even in movies and streaming services, they 100% take advantage and it's a very unfortunate situation and system that we're stuck in today. So I'm going to get off my soapbox now. Next up we've got Cody, AG7LR.