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The cow-bugging event meets seven days a week at 7.30 Eastern Standard Time and is the embodiment of free speech and politeness. We can talk about anything on the cow-bugging event, anything your little heart desires. Bring it up. Bring it up. Do it with respect for your fellow hams. Do it without worry. I was going to say remonstrances, but let's just say recrimination. We're going to do it in an orderly and sensible way. And we're famous for it. We're very, very good at it. Hey, I looked up something this morning. Let's see if I can still find it. Holy moly. The word of the year. Here's some of the 2025 words of the year. The Oxford English Dictionary, the OEDs, we like to call it, picked rage bait, which is content designed to provoke anger for clicks. Merriam-Webster came back with SLOP, S-L-O-P, low quality, often nonsensical digital content. 67 or 67 was chosen by dictionary.com, and it's a number that's searched in lookups linked to online trends like Roblox. Vibe coding was picked by the Collins Dictionary, using AI with natural language to write code. My favorite, TACO, was picked by The Economist. It's an acronym for Trump Always Chickens Out, related to trade disputes. In the Cambridge Dictionary, while they didn't actually pick a favorite word of the year, They are having a lot of discussions around stanning and fan culture, stanning and fan culture. Anyway guys, we're going to have a great night today. There will be crosswords, there will be quizzes, there will be world changing questions to answer and comment on. And all you have to do is come now with your call sign, this is KC2PKG. VE3SBX, good morning, Gray. a day off so I get to spend my morning with you today.