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Okay, I wanted to be sure, an insane amount of time. This next question was sort of inspired by our little ham activity last week. For those that forget, I was rushing away from the net last week to do antenna day, which took place at Canmer Valley Park and through the week I dissected how that trip went and all of that sort of stuff. We had antenna day. So, your take home gift, and I'll use it again next week as I said, your take home present is, have you ever worked and played radio in another country or have you ever held call signs anywhere else besides home, especially if you have multiple calls. So one more time, have you ever worked and played radio in another country or have you ever held call signs anywhere else besides home. The part about asking about working radio in other countries is a lot of times, well, last week I was looking up some licensing information for Brian and I found out that he's okay to use his extra call that he got from the state in Canada and that it's totally within his prerogative and if anyone asks about it or makes a big deal about it because you don't have a VE3 or VE2 call, you can tell them to go screw. You can tell them that you're in the upper crust part of the hill and they're not and they need to stand on by and get lost. So I went and I asked an examiner friend about that particular, well I just said I have a friend in the states who's migrating his extra call to Canada. Is he okay to operate in Canada with it or does he have to retest or retry? He said no, you don't need to retest, no need to retry but what you told me with the present working conditions that you said, you said he's on Ecolink, you said he's on the phone, he's okay. Yeah, and anyone else who asks about it, hit them over the head with a shovel like in Blazing Saddles. Wait, he didn't say that. Dean, the examiner talked about Blazing Saddles, that's a reach, the next man that makes a move gets it. Would he even know, he's an examiner, I would have assumed he would have known to make words missing. So I thought about like yeah, operating in different places because I know it's the other way around and the examiner friend of mine touched on it too where if a Canadian ham goes to the states, you've got to observe their rules, it's not the same. Like in Canada, HF is almost totally given away to you, it's not like that in the states. They fight for every single piece of space on the bands and if you don't observe it, someone will chop your head off, you will be decapitated. It's just as bad as treason. How dare you step upon the extra portion of the ban, you Canadian, you. It's off with its balls. So you have to know where you're operating and what you're doing and Canada is a little more generous in terms of the operating. Now my examiner friend said that there's actually a half decent and okay reciprocal agreement with the states. So if that's the case, well then that's true. That will be less heads on the chopper. Okay so with that in mind, let's take it back to the top and do finals. This is the final round and my goal is to get you just about a few minutes late for the Michigan Nets. So at the top for finals and you've heard the question, Bill, Dee and Gray will do three right now and I might change my mind somewhere around that. So Bill, Dee and then Gray for your finals. Over over.