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J-5 IRQ returning. Well, great. How much time we got left on this neck? I can go on and on for a while if they need to fill some time. We've actually, my family, not, both sides of my family has done extensive genealogy research. My mother's side and my father's side. And of course with the advent of the internet and DNA testing, I've done the ancestry.com DNA thing years ago, long before anybody worried about privacy concerns. And so it's out there. Plus, you know, the military has my DNA's out there. Whatever. Anyhow, so it was really, really kind of cool to be able to see that along with the genealogy records that both sides of the family had kept. And so it's really fascinating. The paternal side, the Ford's, my namesake side, I can directly, directly trace back to like the 1200's. It's really quite fascinating. We were for, gosh, a long time, stuck in the mid-1700's with a guy named Joseph Ford and Isaac Ford. We knew that they were father and son, but we could never find the documentation to prove it other than a land deed showing that the father had sold the son some land. And so anyhow, thanks to all those really cool modern tools, they were actually able to establish paternity through that and that really opened up the rest of the family tree that we could for sure say this is our lineage. So it's quite amazing. I mean, we have a county in Tennessee named after us. My direct family, unfortunately, as you look at it these days, owned a plantation in the moment of order. It's still there. The mansion's still there, the family cemetery's still there. It's all still there. My branch moved right around the 1860's from Georgia to Stephenville, which is about 45 minutes south of where I live right now. And about 10 short years later, Joseph Gee Ford, who is my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, moved from Stephenville to Mineral Wells, where I live at today. I still have a bench that he built when he first moved to Mineral Wells in my garage. It's been in my family forever. I mean, for 150 something years. I'll have to look it up. Take a real quick break. Alright, so the way that we came over to the United States, that part of my family, they were French humanites. They had migrated from France to England, from England to Virginia before the foundation of the United States. In fact, we were just barely colonies of England at the time. And so that's how they migrated over. My mother's family is quite interesting because they're Scottish. When you do my DNA check, I am over 50% Scottish. So imagine that. A seventh generational Texan being 50% Scottish. Kind of cool. I do need to tell you about my favorite, probably my personal favorite ancestor. And that is, I don't know if y'all ever heard of him. I like a lot of old-resh stuff, probably because I live here. But James Wesley Harden. James Harden. James Wesley Harden. He's an old-resh gunslinger. I have a picture of my great-great-grandmother sitting on his lap. And it was his, it was her uncle. And so we have a pretty cool lineage to a wild-resh gunslinger. So that one's pretty fun to talk about. Okay, that's enough time talking about my family. I'll send it back. K-E-J-Kyli-L-Q.