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Hello, KB0MAI. Back to Bill for a second, Bill. One of the things I always wanted to do before I got out of trucking was operate a 379 Peter belt back in the 1980s. I love that truck. I love the hood. I love the chrome. I love the big tanks. I love the big smokestacks. I love the inside and all the gauges, the analog gauges. I just thought if I want to end my career, I'd like to end it on a positive note and maybe get into a peep for a year, not any old peep, but a 379 peep and finish off my career that way. Have fun for a year. I don't think that's going to happen now, but hell, you can't even find a 379 peep out here very often anymore. So the big old kitty cat, well, it's actually a big kitty cat, the one I was looking at that I liked. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that. Now on to the question. I think the world, not just the United States, but the world is sitting in a pot on a stove and they're slowly turning up the heat. We're not going to notice it until it's too late and then we're just going to be cooked. The question you said, I looked at on Discord and you said 14,000, but there could be more. This is just the beginning. You're right, 14,000. I'm going to get rid of them right off the bat. But the whole premise of Amazon is to get rid of as many employees as possible. I did some research and basically they're not going to lay off a lot of people, but as people go, they're going to replace them with AI. So they're predicting that Amazon is not going to have to hire 600,000 jobs by the year 2033. I was looking, okay, how is this going to affect our economy? Well, the overall plan, it's going to be like only one-tenth to two-tenths of a percent that the unemployment rate is going to go up unless you live in these major cities or state like Kentucky, Indiana, and Texas. And then you're going to see a two to five percent raise in unemployment. But mind you, this is over a long period of time. It might go faster, it might go less, but I mean 2033 is not very long away. We're talking seven years, right? And so these people have to find new jobs. But the problem is that it's just not happening with Amazon. It's going to be happening everywhere. Anything that they can get done by AI, they're going to use AI because it's cheap. They don't have to worry about benefits, taking medical leave or workman's comp or hourly pay. And that's going to be very enticing to a lot of employers. So I'm not talking just blue collar workers, I'm also talking low level white collar workers too. So I predict in 10 years things are going to be getting kind of bad unless you have a higher education, masters and doctorates and stuff like that and jobs that require a lot of thinking, intelligent thinking that you have to put in emotions and experiences and all that.