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Yeah, you've talked about this before. I don't know much about what happened before then. I remember getting on here 10 or 15 years ago, over a decade ago, and it was so crowded I couldn't get on at all. So I kind of just, okay, I'm not going to do this. But I periodically checked in once in a while just to see what was going on. But that old gang, everybody used to be here. I don't know anything about it, so I guess I don't miss it, right? But 20 rats, I like that one. But the 11 cats, what? Is that when everybody, that guy kind of shut down everything? They started up 11 cats or something? No, they just wanted to have their 10-4 good buddy club. And so they needed a place for that. I mean, we realize that now, right? But as it was kind of coming up, like in the past few years, it was like just a lot more of them, right? And the thing is, we need a lot more of us, right? So that's what it's kind of been. Now, when this was around in 2010, I really don't remember the group or the crowd then. So I can't comment, like let's say on the old gang, that's more Bill can give you insight on that. Like as he stayed and stuck. Because in 2010, I knew about the morning net, but honestly, at that time, I wasn't much into the whole we're going to call you again, and then we're going to call you again. Because I was always multitasking. And one of my friends who I was tight with at the time from the UK, well actually, he lived in upon time, U-Pon time Scotland, he told me he always got on here, right? So there was a while where I went on here because of him. I would ride along with him, we would be hanging out peer to peer, note to note. And he'd say, how would you like to talk to the Dew Drop fellas, right? And so when I used to hang out there in the morning at that, I used to kind of be like, okay, if that's what he's doing, I'll roll with him. But I kind of wish we could get out of that and then just kind of just hang. But I knew he didn't like there's no way I'm going to be interesting 20-4-7. So he wouldn't have rolled with me one on one full time. So, but what was that like? Probably like there was a while, shortly, I don't know which years, right? But there was a lot of years during the 20 teens that I just abandoned the hobby. And then I sort of came back in and sauntered back in at some point in the middle of the pandemic because we were sheltered. And then I started to get back in the groove. I had to kind of get a reviewer on some, you know, how some of the links work, how Echo Link kind of works, you know, and all the rest of it. And it was all these new people. And yeah, it was like the 10-4 Good Buddy Network when I came in here. Everybody had Southern accent. For real, I mean, I'm not trying to remold or refact things. That's just for real love. Everybody was like, hey, how you doing there in Canada, good to hear you again. Oh, thanks. All right over here. It was like all those voices all day and night. And that's kind of what made the network work for real. I mean, if it was someone else, I tell you, but it was, it was all them hillbillies. They made the network for real.