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Good morning, Joe. KQ7 JOA, WAAH, QB. You know, I started thinking about it, what if you asked a question. And I think the most dangerous thing I ever did, I didn't even realize at the time and hadn't even thought about it in that way until you brought up the question. I was an electronics engineer in the research laboratory at Fred Patterson Air Force Base. And one of my things I did is I was involved in testing from the engineering side, electronic warfare equipment, receivers, jammers, that sort of thing. And as I recall, we had installed not a jammer but a receiver, a special receiver test B-47. And we were going to go for a test flight. The B-47 has a three main crew, pilot, co-pilot, and rear gunner, and the bombardier and navigator. The pilot sits, of course, up in the canopy, the co-pilot behind him, and the navigator bombardier sits down in the nose. If you had to get out, the top two have ejection seats, and the guy in the front just falls out of the airplane. The whole nose comes off and he does. Well, there are no other seats. And so I'm sitting in the aisleway next to the pilot so I can see the meters, the receiver, and that sort of thing. I have a parachute on, but there are no seat belts, as I recall. There may have been, but I don't think, don't recall them. Anyway, I look back on them and I said, if something happens, how did I get out of here? Anyway, that I guess, when I thought that was probably the most dangerous thing I did, have ever done, and at the time I thought it was just routine work. Anyway, that's it for me today. Take care. K-T-7-J-O-A-W-A-A-H-U-B. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7. You see, that's what I'm talking about. Whether you knew it or not, that's what it's, last night I was just trying to think and I was going, man, what is the most dangerous? I was telling some stories to my wife and we were kind of reminiscing about when we were teenagers and I was letting her know how fast I used to drive. I was crazy. I used to race motorcycles, whatever. And then I was like, and she happened to say, she goes, that was really dangerous. And I'm thinking, well, that wasn't too dangerous. And then I just started thinking like, what has, what is the most dangerous thing I've done? And I've done a lot of stupid things and I've done a lot of dangerous things, work related, so forth and so on. So yeah, but you don't realize it at the time, right? You don't realize the time, but thanks for sharing the story with us, Jim. I appreciate it. And next up we'll go to Woody. So N5XCXOKT7-J-O-E here in the net. Woody, what's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?