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Yeah, good morning, Pat. Glad to have you here. Well, I know for a fact that Social Security and Medicare and even VA benefits are secure and are not affected by the government shutdown. And I don't know who's telling you that they want to give immigrants, illegal immigrants, complete medical insurance, but that's not true either. So anyways, Pat, take it away. What's your take on today's, what kind of adventure you going to have today? Let me just put it that way. This is repeater station kilo, kilo, so remember, I don't watch any news. Those are notes that see through. I don't like it. I think it's all garbage. You know, we had to say it in the Army, believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. But yeah, I do think there is a part of Social Security that is affected by the shutdown. And that's the part that has to be budgeted in, and that's the supplemental Social Security. You know, like if the person's disabled and can't work and all that stuff. I think that part's in the budget, but all those old farts, yeah, that's supposed to be in its own lockbox. And veterans pay, you know, that money's separate from the defense budget. It's a whole other basket, but you know, I really don't care. I'm not a rich man, but my finances are in good enough order that it probably takes six or seven months before I noticed anything. Besides that, I still, you know, I can go out and work when I need to. But let me reset real quick. What adventure am I on today? Gentlemen, instead of being in my large car, I'm in my little truck. It's on Interstate 81, and I'm headed south instead of west. I am on my way to Florida. And Saturday morning, oh man, zero dark in the morning, 7.30, 8 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to be jumping out of an airplane again with some old friends of mine out of a vintage World War II plane that dropped guys into France on D-Day. And I had some plans on the way down. I was going to stop at Daytona, but that got pushed back because my connection's in Kansas. They sent him to Kansas instead of being in Daytona. So I don't get my stock car ride. And one of my friends I was going to visit had a family thing come up. And so I'm headed to a friend of mine's down in Fort Lauderdale. And I'll be down there tomorrow. And we're probably going to go to Key West on Wednesday and Thursday. And then Friday, it's up to Orlando. And do the prep stuff for the jump. And then Saturday, it's the jump. But I'm just like a little kid, except I get to drive to Christmas. And I'm just so it's a pleasant, pleasant feeling to know I'm going to jump again. So that's what's kicking here. I'm just coming into Scranton, Pennsylvania. I left early this morning. My son that lives close by had to go to the airport. He's flying to Atlanta today. And he had a 5 o'clock flight. So I left home a little early and dropped him off at the airport on the way. But that's what's kicking. So go ahead, Brian. W-2-A.