You know, there's lots to talk about and there's big news out there.

Usually when there's big news in any area,

gold responds.

Sometimes it goes down sharply, sometimes it rises sharply. But you know we've been talking lately a lot

about the president's health and that is a big issue and the unknowns associated

with that and then we had the attempted assassination that is a big deal

but you know even before the attempted assassination and and before we were when we were talking about the health of of the

president what we were doing I thought was it was sort of a distraction.

We have a big problem.

This is a political time and they were talking about, you know, important things like who's going to be the

candidate and what's their platform and all this but sometimes I think that that can be a

distraction because when you look at the things that we're interested in,

Philip, is, you know, like the gold standard, limited spending, cutting back,

and not just talking about it but doing it.

They don't talk very much about that.

They talk about gold in a very limited fashion.

It's not quite the way we talk about it. gold in a very limited fashion.

It's not quite the way we talk about it

because we think somebody who messed up

this gold standard that we had years ago,

but now we have a Fiat standard.

And that keeps you and I and others interested in that and the people at

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