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Oh, that was perfect, Bill. Thank you. That gave me a chance to get moved back over to my desk and get my work computer fired up and get logged on, some of that stuff while listening. You know, and I'll just say this. We've listed a lot of reasons why people like the way they do today, but I think it boils down to the person. That person can, well maybe worth being made known, can change who they are. I have. If you think I'm mean or ugly now, you should have seen me 10 years ago. Ten years ago I was really mean and ugly. I wanted to become a better person, not just for my wife and my kids, and now my grandkids, but for myself. I try to remind myself, and I try every day, but I try to remind myself to treat everybody else the way I would like to be treated. That's where I think that we as a society, really a species, humanity, I think is failing at this point in life, or at this point in time is a better way to put it. We have talked a little bit about, well a lot about free speech in America, but let's talk about free speech in Canada, because I found this really, really interesting. Canada does have a section, it's called Section 2B of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That's what I couldn't remember this morning. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It came out in 1982. It says everyone has the freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication. The key difference is the United States focuses so narrowly on speech and press, while Canada deliberately uses a broader wording, including expressions to cover symbol, symbolic acts, arts, protests, science, etc., etc. So that's great for Canada. It is codified that they have these rights, or these freedom of expressions. Now a difference between the limit and exceptions is where I found kind of interesting. The United States only has a handful of cutouts, if you will. We talked about them. Inciting violence, true threats, obscenity, and defamation. Other than that, presumption is near absolute protection. However, Canada, the wrath of subject is Section 1 of the Charter. Freedoms exist subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstratively justified in a free and democratic society. So that gives the courts in Canada a lot more flexibility to uphold restrictions, if you will. So that's a real big difference. A really big difference. So the United States is basically a presumption of near absolute protection, and Canada has a real difference.