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All right, I had to clear my throat. It's good that we don't have questions time because I have a story I want to tell you about. Last year 80,000 phones were stolen in London. And usually the cops didn't do much about it because it really, you know, it wasn't a big crime and they had other things to solve. But they now discovered that they're a focal point for the stolen phone trade. And the way these phones are usually stolen is somebody has an electric bike and they drive along the street or up on the sidewalk and if you're on your phone, you're not paying attention, you just grab it right out of your hand and disappear. The way they figured out that this was becoming a big deal was somebody lost their phone and they used to find my iPhone and it showed up near Heathrow Airport in a warehouse and the cops went there and they opened up these boxes marked batteries. And there were, there were, I think 4000 phones in these boxes, and they're being shipped to China. And because the Chinese don't use the database, so your phone was stolen. Hold on one second. So you can fire these up in China, wipe them, fire them up and you got a perfectly good working phone. And nobody's the any of the wiser. So they're making much more effort to get these. Those 4000 phones were being shipped to China by two guys and they picked them up. But there's a lot more phones leaving London every day to go to China and Taiwan, both of them. That's where your stolen phone goes. It's pretty interesting. A lot of the phones were wrapped in tin foil, but apparently this woman's was not. And so they found it. Pretty pretty cool story. I thought Casey to P.K.G. back to you via one UKC.
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