But if we had those four studies, I am confident, not that we would necessarily reverse the decline, but we would know what is happening.

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Well, we're back.

I'm glad you finally showed up.

I know, man.

See, we're like a half hour delayed on.

There's an hour difference in time, and then we're also a half hour delayed on. There's an hour difference in time.

And then we're also a half hour off on our planning.

On our scheduling to record today because I got done teaching class and like scurried back to my office and logged in.

Nistled in there.

I'm just sitting there all, you know, proud and ready to go.

And made sure I got, you know,

everything out of my teeth and then you never showed up.

Classic.

Well, but I hear we're not getting off this topic.

No.

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