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They talked about that, uh, for up that way after that, uh, that manhunt. Yeah, I remember what you're talking about now. So yeah, if it says encrypted, that's why you can't hear them, uh, because it's digital encrypted. Our police here are the same thing. They're using P-25 encrypted. And, um, our fire department and ambulances are also going that way, uh, encrypted, uh, at P-25 because, um, they want to have the interoperability between the police department and the fire and EMS and all that. They want to be able to talk to each other, uh, you know, to better coordinate emergencies and stuff. So they're all going that way. I don't know if they've done it yet. I haven't, like, scanned the bands in a while. But, um, around here, there's literally barely nothing to listen to, uh, on an analog scanner anymore. Digital scanner, you can still pick up some stuff, especially if you've got a newer one that can pick up DMR. Because there's a lot of DMR here in the city now for, like, businesses and stuff like that. Um, there's a bit of P-25 going around. It's mostly DMR, though. Uh, there's some IDAS, uh, going around some, uh, bus companies and stuff are using IDAS. That's ICOM's digital system. Uh, it's kind of like D-STAR, only for commercial. It's, like, very much like D-STAR, actually. Uh, the way it transmits, how compressed it is, 6.25-kilohertz spacing, it's very, very similar to D-STAR. Um, then there's some, um, NXTN, uh, around here as well. There's a few, uh, companies and stuff using NXTN. So all of our cab companies, which used to be a list of all the taxi companies you wanted, well, they all pulled their radios. Um, over a year ago now, um, they no longer use radios in taxis here at all. No radios. Uh, they've got tablets. And all of their work, every job, like, when you call for a taxi, they key it into the system, and whoever's closest to the job gets it. It comes out on a tablet. The tablet takes care of the meter, you know, so as you drive along, it's calculating your fare. Um, you can order taxis with an app now, without having to even call the taxi stand. And then you can watch on the app where the car is to, uh, it's on the way to you. There's a lot of good features with it, but radio, no more. All their repeaters are all shut down, uh, that they were using for, like, decades now. Uh, citywide taxi here in town had its frequency since the 1980s, and, uh, they only recently gave it up, uh, got rid of the radios. The thing is, what gets me about that, like, they should still have radios as a backup, because if the internet goes or anything like that, I mean, they won't even be able to dispatch a car. You know, if there's any internet issues at all, I mean, they won't even be able to send out a cab anymore to nobody. You know, you won't be able to call one or have it sent out or anything. And they, like, went total nuclear with it too, like, there's no radios in the cars anymore, they're all taken out. None of the new cars even got, like, the spots to put them anymore. Um, yeah, they completely did away with all their RF communication. Every taxi company in the city did it. So, uh, there's literally nowhere you can, you know, hear a radio anymore. Alright, we're at the bottom of the list here, ladies and gentlemen. Um, I'm going to disconnect Michigan. Um, let me just do that. Just give me one second here, guys. Just going to disconnect Michigan. So that's done. Uh, we're going to make a final call for check-ins, guys. Wow. Time has flown by this morning. Uh, if there's anybody else that wants to check in here, this is going to be the final call. And then we're going to go through the list one more time for final comments. So, um, smoke them if you got them. Check-in, check-in.