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All right, nothing heard. We're going to get ready to move to the top of the list and start with Peter. I thought it would be a little fun to talk about states this morning. So if you want to, we can talk about states. I'm going to talk about Texas. Most people probably know how proud Texans are of Texas. My wife tells me all the time that we're the only state that She knows of that wears our flag as a shirt. We're the only ones that wear, that put our flag on our house, on our trucks. Texans are a different breed, she says. And she's lived here about 20 years now. She came from upstate New York, is where she originated from. So she says Texans are different when it comes to their state history. That's probably because Texas was born to country, If you didn't know that, we gained our independence in 1836, and from 1836 to 1845, or 46, I don't remember, we were the Republic of Texas, a country of its own. And then we chose to join the United States, and so Texans feel like that makes us stand apart. I believe California is similar to an extent, but Texas is one, as far as I know, one of the only places in the United States that has had six different flags flown over it. We actually have an amusement park here in Arlington, Texas, in between Dallas-Fort Worth called Six Flags of Texas, and it's based off of that. You had the French flag, Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Confederate, United States, and then the Republic of Texas. That should be six flags if I remember that. Anyhow, we actually take Texas history in school. I believe it's two or three times throughout our educational system for a year each time. I think it's twice. I think I had to take it twice in school. So yeah, Texans are very funny about their history. With that being said, I thought it would be fun to talk about some history. And of course I am a history fanatic. So I thought I would tell you all that in 1831, that's a really long time ago, that there was a fight in a little place called San Saba. It's down south of where I'm at, quite a way south of where I'm at. And there's an old mission there in Central Texas. And James Bury, or Jim Bury as we all call him here in Texas, Who happens to be a legend and a hero of the Battle of the Alamo? I'll take a real quick break if you've never read on the guy named James Bowie Or Jim Bowie if you will. The Bowie knife, if y'all have never seen a Bowie knife, it's a huge, huge knife It was named and modeled after him. It was shortly what people say he carried. Anyhow, he got into a fight there in old San Saba and A small scouting party held off a really large Native American force and that really made him a legend down here in Texas during that time and that was in 1831. So that was four or five years before the Battle of the Alamo and then the Texas Revolution. But he is a legend in Texas alongside Davy Crockett or William Barrett Travis or Sam So I just thought I'd spend some time talking about history, about Texas real quick and give y'all a chance to think if y'all wanted to talk about y'all's state or province or wherever you live, because I love history and I think it's important for us to know where we come from. So with all of that, what do you know about your state's history? That is the question. What do you know about your state's history? Peter, we're going to move to you, VE1WIN. to you. V-E-1-W-I-N. You can answer that or you can talk about whatever you'd like. K-J-5-I-R-Q. Sending it to you.