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Well, I would love to hang around and do the crossword puzzle, but I have other things. When I work is my phone time and I've got to set up a bunch of stuff and at the end of the month I'm headed down to Florida to jump out of a perfectly good airplane again with a bunch of old friends and I'm couch surfing on the way down and I've got to start firming up my dates and couches because I travel cheap and I'm working on a couple other projects, but this will be the last one. I said my piece, but as far as I didn't jump on the military thing with Hegseth and Trump and my thoughts on that up until probably 15 years ago, 16 years ago in the military, combat arms, those are the people that are on the ground doing the fighting. Not the support people, people driving trucks, flying helicopters, doing all that other stuff. Combat arms, those are people that engage in combat. Combat was a male only sport and for what I believe are just reasons that was my job. What I find interesting is that the feminist movement, the female radical groups, we can do anything a man can do as long as you change the standard. That part is left unsaid, as long as you change the standard. There are women that can do what men do and that's all that Hegseth said and that's what the policy is. The women that have to meet men's standards are the ones, and it's equalizing the standard. Instead of lowering the standard to the standard that women must attain to be in the military, they are equalizing it at the men's standard and that standard is there for a reason. When you're in combat, I carried an average of one-third my body weight, sometimes one-half my body weight in equipment. Women have problems with that in all temperatures, all environments and under stressful situations. They're equalizing the playing field. Women say they can do everything a man can do, well here's your chance. If you can't, they're not going to throw them out of the military, they're just going to move them to a different job. I live near Fort Drum. I'm out there fairly regularly. I see soldiers around town all the time. The height and weight standards have always been there. Just like most other things, they're just going to start reinforcing things that have been ignored. The other sad part is at the top levels, there are a lot of people wandering around the Pentagon in the higher echelons in the military that don't meet the height and weight standard. There's been a little scandal here and there. I've got to make sure I reset because I'm not used to the three-minute timer. I've been on HF a lot lately. If you're a leader, you should never ask or tell your subordinates to do anything that number one, you cannot do, either physically or technically. Number two, you won't do. There's a lot of leadership in the military that cannot do physically what they request their people to do. You've got to remember that an old man in the military is 38 years old. He's still a stud. I think it's totally reasonable. If you're going to do that job for a living, and as a leader, your job is ultimately to take your people into a conflict and bring as many of them home as physically possible. If they are not in peak physical condition, your chances of doing that are reduced. Good leadership wants to save lives, not lose lives. That's it. Everybody have a great day. It's been enjoyable. Don't be too late. Back to you, Greg.