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There it is. I was looking for the app. Alright. Yeah, hey, no problem. It's, you know, I would say, I'm trying to taste my words here. I would say Mr. Peek has a very valid concern about the military readiness of our military. I've heard it from many people, in and out, power service, active. You know, it's not the same military that it was 20 years ago when I was there. It's definitely not the same military it was back in the 80s or through Vietnam. You know what I mean? It's an evolving organization. Without lading too deep into the political spectrum of it, I think genuinely Mr. Peek thinks more along the same way that I think. This is how it wore, okay, a prime example is uniforms. Okay, when I was in, we still wore the BDUs, the ones that you probably are all used to. We still wore black combat boots every day and they had to be highly polished. Our uniforms had to be clean, perfectly starched. We had to look sharp. Of course, I was in the Airborne, so we had a maroon beret. It had to be shaped a certain way. Did you know, funny trivia, most people don't know this, the proper way to fit a beret, any beret, is to shave it down as a razor, like you shave it in your face, and get it as thin as you can without making it too thin. Soaking it in a little bit of water, and I don't remember, we put something, some kind of a stiffener in there, a liquid starch, maybe I don't remember this middle wall. You soak it in that, get real, real wet, and then you form it through your head and you wet it until it's dry. And then you waterproof it. Put that spray on waterproof. That way, when you pop that sucker on, no matter, you can crumple it up, you can fold it in 14 million pieces. Whenever you pop it out, put it on your head, it gets in that right position that quick. See, there's things like that, that whenever I was in the military, because it taught self-discipline, it taught, you know, esprit de corps, it was a pride issue. You wanted the best boots, you wanted to look sharp. Today's military isn't like that. They're not at all. Their uniforms are tossing around. You don't have to iron them at all. They wear brown fuzzy boots. There's no polishing at all. Berets are worn on the head like their pizza delivery boys. And that's just coming from my perspective. I'm an old man now, admittedly. That changes it a bit. With that, I'll say 73s. KJ5 IRQ. Back to the neck.