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Oh, no, it's worse than that. If you win 1.7 million, you can collect the 1.7 million. But they do it over a period of something like 25 or 30 years. They give you so much each year. And then you pay taxes out of that. And it's going to roughly go about 30, 40% because you got your state and you got federal and all that kind of stuff, right? But if you decide that you're an old coot like me, and you can just take a lump sum out. And so they basically cut it in half. So it comes to be about $850 million. And then they take taxes out of bank, which probably runs it down to about 500, $600 million. That's why I never buy a ticket unless it's over a billion dollars because I don't think I can retire for anything less than a billion. Holy crap, that's crazy. See, if I went up here, there's no tax on none of it. And if I have like, if somebody else up here and I want to give them part of the money, you have the lottery organization, write them a check, and then they don't pay tax on it. If I give it to them, then there's taxes paid on it. As long as it comes from the lottery corporation, there's no tax on our side. It's great.