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AJ5 IRQ. This is KC2PKG. I cannot remember how I discovered the Do Drop In. I, and you know, I listened for a couple of weeks before I actually had the courage to check in. But I've often wondered, you know, how do they do it? I live in Radio Deadland. There's about 11 repeaters in range, but nobody ever talks on them at all. And the other thing is that I like to talk in the morning. And I, you know, I'm not interested at night. I'm making dinner or I'm sleeping or, and there are, you know, a lot of hams are night owls. They really are. They're up at three o'clock in the morning talking on the radio. That's not me. No interest in doing that at all. But it was an interesting net. It always has been. In a variety of subjects and its insistence on, you know, being able to talk about anything. I think that really impresses me with this net. And it's great to hear that history. I hear a little bit more every time somebody tells a story, Daryl or Bill. And it's been, it's a net that's, you know, weathered, you know, terrible storms and rough times and that shut down at one point. Shut down and, you know, the servers were gone and the website was gone and all this other stuff. We had a disgruntled person who worked for us. But it was mostly Daryl's effort that got us all running again. And then we, James helped out technologically to get things going again. But we did this. This was gone and that was gone for a day or two, I think, and then it fought its way back. And now it's better than ever. It's better than ever. And we've got a kickass website that is really good. I miss Gabby because she doesn't, she doesn't work on the website anymore. But I do like text her and ask her questions and stuff like that. So it's a, it's a cool thing. Yeah, you're right, though. Knowing the history of it is great. And I don't think anybody's ever, well, we have a light history on the website, but it would make a great narrative, I think, to tell the whole story. In the kind of detail that Bill just did, maybe we'll prevail upon him to write that up. His wife's a writer, by the way. So she might be able to help him with that. Anyway, back to you, KJ5IRQ. This is KC2PKG. This is repeater station KJ5IRQ returning. Let's make a controller for the Cowabunga net. Today is October 10th, and I don't have my watch on me, but my phone says it's 805 and Central Daylight Time. So that's nine o'clock on the East Coast, six o'clock on the West Coast, and somewhere it's five o'clock. So it's Miller time. I haven't seen a Miller Lite commercial in a long time, never think about it. Miller Lite is the official beer of Texas. I don't drink beer anymore. And when I did, I preferred personally, Shiner Bock as a semi-domestic beer. It's made in Texas, so it is domestic. Anyhow, I don't know about that on. Oh, let's see, let's see. Man, it has been a freaking busy morning for me this morning. I'm fixing to leave here shortly to run to a different town, but have no fear. I can do this while I drive. I figured that out while ago. So, coming up next is George. So, again, no topic. I decided today was no topic. Anybody talking about whatever they want to. I figured we'd do it like that, because there has been some conscientious nets here lately, the way the world is, and I didn't feel like forcing that on anybody. So, if you want to talk about it, you can. You may or may not choose to engage in that, but I just wanted to have a topic-free Friday. I don't think, I mean, Dale does topic-free all the time, and it works pretty well for him. So that's kind of what gave me the idea. I'm like, hey, let's try that instead of trying to figure out a topic and force everybody to talk about what I want to talk about. Which, if we were doing that today, it would be all about agent building in AI. And I'm sure that's not exciting for us, the majority of y'all. But George may like it. I mean, George likes that, and he likes AI and things like that, which is awesome. And agent building allows you to connect to that GPT with lots of other things. Did you know, and I don't know if this is true or not, but you may be able to, through some agent building and some connectors, connect up your Flickr account to chat GPT, which could then help you make sure your posts are grimly correct or spelling or anything like that. It's a way to connect, and I say chat GPT, the other ones have similar functions, but it's a way to connect other platforms to chat GPT. So it's fascinating how you can do that. Anyhow, let's send it to George and see what he has to say. George, the mic is yours, buddy.