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VA3KKY, this is KC2PKG. Kevin, I'm confused about what the question was. You said a lot of stuff. You did mention the SNAP program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but you're talking about bail bonding and stuff like that. So I lost the question. Would you mind repeating it? 20 words or less, please. This is KC2PKG. Certainly. I just have to read it. Has your city had protests lately or is there anything disrupting businesses and services where you live? Go ahead. And then pass the D when you're done. This is repeater station KC2PKG. Thank you very much. We have had no kings protests here. There's a group that protests just about every day, but it was big last Saturday. It grew to a mighty throng. And as far as SNAP and stuff goes, that's a huge problem around here. It really is. I live in one of the poorest counties in the United States and my wife is I guess vice president of the food bank or something like that. So she's got her finger on it. And it was a one-two punch. First, they cut a lot of assistance to food banks and other programs that feed people. And that was part of DOGE. And so it went from, for them, they have to spend their capital to buy that food. It went from $5,000 to $10,000 a month. So that was a big deal. And that's really impacting them. And your choice of foods and stuff like that really went down. And then SNAP is about to go up. They're not going to do SNAP payments. And that means the 40 or 50 families that come in on a day at the food bank will become 100 families. And it's really going to push our resources to the very limit. And they can't last long. They don't have that much capital. I mean, it's all donated money and stuff like that. So think about $10,000 a month to buy food because people just don't have enough. They can't feed their kids. Kids get food at schools and stuff like that, but they can't feed themselves either. It's really, really impactful, hugely impactful. So everybody's kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop or the mic to drop, I see you like to say. And that's a good question for us. It's a big impact for us. The other thing I wanted to mention was that the Gerald R. Ford, which is the largest air carrier in the world, you know, is being ordered to the waters off of Venezuela. And it's Strike Force, it looks like, too. So that'll be three more battleships, an aircraft carrier, lots of helicopters and airplanes, all going to Venezuela. So I wonder, you know, what's what's in his mind? Over to DM4LBF. This is KC2BKG.