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Well, since AT&T is basically your mobile carrier, metadata was stored for five to seven years. So that's a long time. But not the messages. The messages can be there for a certain amount of time. Like, for instance, mine drives about a year. Text content may be stored up to five days really longer. So if I can keep them from getting my texts for five days, then I'm good, right? It's interesting you said about radio valves. Think about it, okay? So we send out tons and tons of radio transmissions all over the world, right? And some of them will escape Earth's atmosphere, you know, sort of bounce off the atmosphere and stuff like that. And they'll travel out into space. For instance, VHF, VHF, you know, line of sight. So that's going to just keep on going forever. And a radio transmission travels at the speed of light. So you could say something on your radio today and there's a planet 100,000 light years from Earth that has a population on it and they have the capability of picking up radio signals, right? And 50,000 light years later, they'll hear what you say today. And vice versa. A planet out there somewhere in the universe could do the same thing and they're 50,000 light years from us. It would take us 50,000 light years to hear that message. Which I think is kind of cool, you know? Or this could happen. We send out a message, line of sight, and it goes all the way out to, let's say, Pluto. And it bounces off Pluto and it comes back to us. Just like moon bouncing. We could do moon bouncing. You know that, right? So it goes all the way up to Pluto and it comes all the way back. And so you're hearing your own voice. I don't want to have to find out how much time I have to get here. Hang on. I'll look at Pluto. How long will it take for a message to go there and come back? Back to you, Kevin. KB0MAI. Well, let me find out it's days and days, weeks, months, whatever. You know what? I want to find a place where I can hear the way people worked on the HF in the 40s. That would be kind of interesting. But it wouldn't even have to be that extreme. Even if I could hear, like, when I got on the radio. Like 89-ish or whatever on CB. It would be kind of cool to hear some of those things. Just because there's a lot of people that I talk to then that I don't know where they are anymore. For all I know, they could have passed away. I know definitely a lot of them did. And then, and that. So, I'd like to just hear how my 11-year-old self would have been. Everybody knew how old I was or knew that I was a kid. I told tons of lies once my voice changed. I remember my goal at that time was, man, I hope my voice changes so I can really run a hype on these people. Although, I probably didn't say it in those same ways. That's just me simplifying it now. I probably had a real long about way to say it then because I wouldn't have known how to say it like that. But anyways, it just would have been funny. Yeah, so, uh, yeah, maybe there's some place somewhere. Well, I guess it would be far, far, far away. Hey, and not only that, right, I'm talking about years back. It'd just be nice to hear dead people. Like, especially if I knew them. Or if I didn't. Like, maybe, um, yeah, maybe if we could hear like the 40s and 50s, I could hear some of the old actors that were hams and hear how they conduct themselves. Hear like how Andy Devine, the gravel voice actor, how he might have, because he was a ham, how he might have conducted himself. Just curious. Who knows, right, I might be bored out of my mind because those days, everything was... I walked through fire, and they jammed pounds of code down my throat before I got my license. So anyways, yeah.