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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's up, backsheads, and welcome to something a little bit
different this week. What you're about to hear is an
episode of the Manned Mission Podcast. It's episode one, the
only one so far, and it was written by Nick Page,
who you may recognize as the inaugural guest on this
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show and he was on the thirtieth episode special a
couple others in between, but he and a buddy of
his wrote a script. I guess it was kind of
he Can tell You Better, but a pipe dream for
several years, then we finally got around to recording it.
He cast me in one of the roles, and our
friend Devin and the other role. You may also notice
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the voice of Kick Ascetron, who was in a couple
early episodes of Flagged for Content. Yeah, he's in there
as well, So enjoy this. This is the Manned Mission Podcast.
This is all credit due to Nick Page, and yeah,
let's go ahead and get right into it. I have
not changed anything starting now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
This episode of the Manned Mission Podcast is brought to
you by Rubicon. At Rubicon, we reached for the stars
and grabbed a big handful for all the little Timmys
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bringing the Future home.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Liquid oxygen tanks at eighty five percent capacity.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Let's see here. What's the phrase? Mic check one two,
mac check one two?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Commander? Are you experiencing faulty comms?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Tyson? Can I get a mic check?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We already did the common check. But sure, Commander Green,
I am listening to the pre launch checks.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Thanks, yeah, me too, But give me a mic check though.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Eye for detachment of fueling lines.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I did my mic check was telling you, sure, Commander Green,
I am listening to the pre launch checks. This talking
now should also serve as a MIC check, as should
the coms check we ran successfully twenty five minutes ago.
Can you not hear me?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I hear you. It's just this thing doesn't. It's got me.
I can see the little bar jumping up to yellow
or red if I really loud, but nothing when you talk?
What wait? I think it's got one of those Rubicon
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voice activation things. Maybe Tyson say mic check one two
a couple times.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'm sorry, are your coms functional?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I need to listen to the pre launch checks. It's
almost time to detach the locks lines. Tom's functional.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I just need a quick mic check one two, Mike
check one two.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The launch pad top secret, mission cargo loading now top secret?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
What now?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm sure it's not important. Just give me a mic
check one two, a mic check one two, Tysan.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Sir, with respect, please shut up.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
If this works, I probably will once you say Mike
check one two, Mike check one two.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'm not gonna say Mike check one too, Mike check
one too. So can we please just move on?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Commander and Green and Doctor Brian Tyson confirmed consent to
via key phrase for Mission Preservation and Audio Entertainment Distribution Confirmed.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Commander what was that We're making a podcast?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No? Oh yeah, there's no way Bill will allow it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Bill loved the idea. He got his people at Rubicon
to integrate the software into PAL, the ship's computer. It's
automatic delivery vehicle.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm more than well acquainted with PALE. Hell, please revoke
my consent for any podcasting herein as well as prior,
and while you're at it, please disable my com speed
with Commander Green for the duration of this mission.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I'm afraid I can't do that, Doctor Tyson. Page thirty nine,
paragraph E Subsection four of your contract with Rubicon disallows
retroactive revocation of podcasting consent and comms with Commander Green
are currently by vision critical.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Necessity PREE two Walk on Mars, God speed Green and Tyson.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So, Kuyson, what do you say we sit down and
write a theme song for our podcast?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Commander? We've only just left Earth's orbit. We have more
important things to attend to.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Come on. I approved all your personal atoms, so so
I know you brought a guitar on board.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I did too.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Let's shay them. Plus, we could use the ship to
synth up all kinds of stuff. The sooner we get
something made, the sooner we can release the first episode.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It will feel like an eternity, sir. The amount of
time that you and I will have to be alone
together in this ten can before or we get to Mars,
so we can do that later.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Okay, Yeah, you're right right, good? Okay, So I order
you to go do some of those other more important
things you were mentioning. I am, I know, I just right.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I just figured I'm gonna leave and go do those things,
right man, Right.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, you are relieved.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No, I'm not. I'm just leaving. Goodbye, Commanda Green.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Later, he says, okay, we'll see about that. Maybe there's
not as much later as he thinks. Pal Status report
on course.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
For Mars Intercept all systems nominal and operating within acceptable tolerances.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Boost power to the ion drives by thirty percent.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
This will put the Columbus outside of mission specifications.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
It'll will get us there faster. The ship will go faster,
but will it break the drives?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
The ion drives will accept this level of power temporarily?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Do it increase the thing by however much? I said,
We'll just hit the brakes a little harder when we
get there.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I'm afraid I cannot do that. Commander. The flight plan
is a pre programmed mission critical subroutine, not perview to
the Columbus crew.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Uh huh uh huh, I didn't understand most of that.
Are you going to do it or not?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Negative? Commander Green?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Okay, well, what is in my purview?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
The crew has access to nearly all ships functions, but
the flight plan is automated under my control. I am
maintaining it based on countless factors too. Numerous freak human
to balance.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Thank you, Pal, I think I get it. That'll be all.
If you need me, I'll be in the censor bay.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Who does she think she is trying to get me
to shirk my work to write a dumb theme song.
This mission's incredibly dangerous and historic. I have important things
to do, like, Hey, Pal, what's the status of life support?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Life support systems are nominal.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And energy levels.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Energy levels are three percent below mission parameters?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
What so soon? Why?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
An an ordinate amount of energy is being consumed in
the sensor bay and the entertainment quarters.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Entertainment quarters figures? How's the drop and energy affected our ETA?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
We are currently ahead of schedule BI roughly five percent.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Ahead of schedule by five percent. But Pal, the timing
of the flight plan is mission critical. Did Green ask
you to increase power on the ion drives by five percent?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It is, well, that's a relief.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Commander Green requested I increase the power to the ion
drives by thirty percent? What I refused the request?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Thank God's for that? But Pal, do we need to
scrub the mission?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Mission parameters are currently in balanced? Doctor Tyson, I have
adjusted archrojectory such that the mission can't proceed. Should this
cease to be true, the crew will be notified immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Thank you, pal, that's good to hear. Keep up the
good work. I'm gonna go find out what Green's wasting
all of our energy on. Commander Green, what's going on here, Commander?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh hey, Tyson, what's up?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What do you think you're doing?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I'm working on our theme song.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What do you think I didn't hear any song?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Well, I'm using the sensor bay to collect samples from
the universe and routing them through the same modular synthesis
platform that produces pusepeech with a lot of custom controls,
filters and mods.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Of course. Well, that explains the excess power draw.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
The pulse of a binary star is a perfect oscillator.
Albireo is intense. Listen to this, but now serious, that's
a lot more mellow.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's more like, Commander, you have to give this a rest.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Come on, man, the way I see it, you just
need to write a theme song with me.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
No, you don't understand. We're using too much energy with
all of your synthesizers and scanning ours.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh how much is too much?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Three percent?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Chill out, Tyson, This is a long mission, it will
feel lack an eternity. I think you said. Surely we'll
consume three percent less energy than expected for some stretch
of time between here and Mars. Everything is fine, Oh
just a moment, pal boosts power to the ion drives
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by thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Delay that order.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Excuse me, I am afraid I cannot do that. Do which,
as I have already informed both of you, I cannot
increase power to the ion drives by thirty percent?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Wait? Are you allowed to belay my orders? Does that
mean what I think it means?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It does, and I don't really know if I'm allowed to.
But that was a bad one. That would have put
us even further off course.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
We're off cars.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh no, well we're off our flight planned by about
five percent. But Pale balances all that out and has
adjusted our trajectory so that our current velocity and time
of arrival will still intercept Mars instead of you know,
all that nothing that's everywhere, and that we're currently more
in than anyone has ever been.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
It is pretty terrifying when you put it that way.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Well, humans were meant to explore to crush the rubicon.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
You might say, yes, Well, look I want to write
a theme song with you, but not as much as
I don't want to die in all this nothingness. I understand, Tassin.
You get back to whatever it was you have been doing.
I'll make some adjustments to my energy consumption.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Thank you. Commander Green.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Double the range of all current scans in the sensor
bay and increase the scan and spectrum into the theoretical, Commander.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Green, that sort of operation would expend irrecoverable quantities of
the Columbus's energy stores.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Is it in my purview? Affirmative Commander Van do as
I asked? Whatever I said.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Affirmative Commander Attentional Commander Green and doctor Tyson. Section one
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paragraph A of your Rubicon contract stipulates that you must
now advertisements for your podcast. Thea's report to the advertising
deck to find your Rubicon approved at copy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Oh heck yeah, Tyson. Look at those sweet setup a
leather chair for each of us. Our guitars are. Here
are those telefuncking you forty seven months? Oh nice? The
ad copy is coming out of the printer.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Green.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I know you're excited to work on the podcast, but
there's lots of work relating to not dying in space
that needs to be done too.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You know what really helps us not to die? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Fine, all right, let's sit down and have a look
at these How does this work? Are you supposed to
read some and I read the other ones? Or looks
like there's quite a few of them.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Well, it Lukes scripted for us. Got our names above
our lines and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh uh, looks like I'm up first. Brian Tyson, Hello,
I'm doctor.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I don't think you read your name, Skip that and
read the lines under it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh okay, yeah, of course. Uh thanks.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Hello, I'm doctor Brian Tyson of the spaceship Columbus on
route to Mars right now.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And I'm Commander Anne Green of the same spaceship Columbus.
You know when I wake my kids up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You have kids?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
No, I don't. You know when I'll wag my kids
up in the morning. They're incredibly lethargic.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Now that you mentioned at, Commander Green, my kids are
also sleepy in the morning. I don't have kids either.
This is absurd, but studies suggest that millions and maybe
even billions, of kids like yours and mine wake up
too tired to attack the day.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
That's where the morning bump from Playtime brand, children's foods
and pharmaceuticals comes in the more. Bump is a children's
breakfast shake and many fun flavors, chock full of eight
illicit ingredient elicit I'm sure that's a misprint nutritious.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, that's gotta be a chock full of eight nutritious ingredients.
Give your kids a little bump in the morning and
start their day on a high note. Ask your uncle
how to get it? What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And use promo code Columbus for a first one's free.
Tell your friend's offer.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't really listen to podcasts. Did that seem normal
to you?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Sure, you can advertise Anathan on a podcast. It's the
Great Unregulated Frontier.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Okay, I guess let's do the next one. Then this
is doctor Brian Tyson of the Spaceship Columbus.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
And I'm Commander Anne Green of the same spaceship Columbus.
Are you chicken sleeping too late after sunrise? Then cock up?
That's the right solution for you. It's rooster energy that
makes sure every morning starts with a cock crown at sunrise.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You gotta be kidding me. Uh okay, uh. Cockup is
FDA approved.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh check that line again, you misread it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Okay, okay, uh ah okay. Cockup is FDA acknowledged and
is eight percent off with promo code Columbus at checkout.
Please note cockup is not recommended for human consumption. But hey,
you do you are? Are they allowed to say that?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Don't know? Don't care? We read and get paid, baby attention.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Current energy consumption is exceeding mission parameters. However, the advertising
deck is operating within operational guidelines, and section one paragraph
A of my contract stipulates that I must enforce section
one paragraph A of your contracts.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, I'm revised. In our contracts. Section one paragraph A
now stipulates that recording our podcast theme song is the
top priority of this mission.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I don't care what I signed staying alive as my
top priority.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
In accordance with section one paragraph B of our contracts,
I have now locked the doors to the advertising deck.
All podcast advertisements must be recorded before the doors will open.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Are you kidding me? Fine, there's only one left, right, Commander, yep,
let's go.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I'm Commander and Green of the Spaceship Columbus, and.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I'm doctor Brian Tyson of the same spaceship Columbus. Do
your dog seem to sleep all through the day? I'm sorry, Green,
what is this? Are we just pushing speed on everyone
and everything?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
What I mean? Probably not? Just keep reading so we
can get out of here. Okay, Uh, do your dog
seem to sleep all through the day? Then Pharm's brand
dog Speed is the oh come on.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Alert energy capacity at a critical level.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
We up finish the ad.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
What shouldn't we fish the ad so the doors will open?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Emergency system is shut down imminent.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Wait, but the h shut up and read the ad? Tyson?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, Okay, Then Farmer's brand Dog Speed is the perfect
remedy for your sleepy pooch. Just add a single teaspoon
to their morning food balls.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Emergency shut down in.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Hello, podcast listeners, hopefully I've doun this recording on a
battery power tape recorder we managed to find in the
advertising deck.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Tell them how long we've been trapped here, Commander.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Oh ah, we don't really know how long we've been here.
I carved tally marks into an interior wall each time
I thought a day had passed.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
I'm pretty sure you did it roughly every twenty minutes,
maybe less.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
It's been three years since the ship lost power.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
It's been about a month.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I can only imagine what Tyson and I as fictional
advertisement kids look like. Now we've managed to sustain ourselves
on provisions.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Perlin. From the pantry, you.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Found a closet chock full of the morning bumps. Green
has had way.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
More than I have, but it helped me find this
tape recorder, which is important because we've done it.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
We've finally done it.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
We did, yeah, yeah, we did. Although I wish we had,
I don't know, got the ship running.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Instead, we wrote the podcast theme song, woooo.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
All right here it is with the hope that will survive,
or at least that this recording will one day be recovered.
This is the Manned Mission theme song by Brian Tyson
and Anne Green.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
You're giving me top billing.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
You earned it, Tyson, for what I put you through.
You know I didn't waste all that energy without a reason.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
You wanted to make a really cool theme song.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I understand I did, but I didn't need energy to
do that, Tyson.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I needed you.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Wait, no, yes, you purposefully lowered our energy reserves uh
huh in order to force Pal to get us to
mars faster you in order to give me less time
in which to make the theme song with you, so
I'd do it sooner.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
That's correct.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Well, let's uh, let's play it, I guess, and then die.
You realized we had like a three year supply of
the morning bump in there and you ate all of it, right.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I do. I'm feeling amazing about that. Yeah, let's play
the song.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Long this out of the now. We're proverw making it
all but colorad think about it.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
There's no place I'd rather be.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
So come on, Tessan, sing a sound with me.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Green.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
You gotta send to this message and you need all
the food.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
So what makes you think that I'd sing with you
right now?
Speaker 8 (23:29):
But the more I think about, yes, no place. Come Onnna,
sing a.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Song with me.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
Ron A Man Mission outo space and.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
God the convention.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
You get off safe, maybe further.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
If we can't figure.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Out how to get it Rana mission.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
It's a good theme song, Commander.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
All plas we run it together.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Yeah, I guess we did?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You know?
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Common him with your brain.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
We are so far away from home. Last support is
nearly gone, but I'm powered by the BN invome to.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Keep carrying on, probably gonna die in here'll play in
this song.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's some possibility to tass in.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
But I hope you wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
It's Rana man mission in.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Space and God a condition to get off.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Safety goes Mars. Maybe further we get figure out.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
How to get paid, run.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Mission in out.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Space, run of crazy mission, first human beings on Mars,
the world's greatest explorers source out on among the stars.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Tyson set a course for greatness, I commander, it's not
that far.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
History will remember granted Tyson, forever we run a.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Man mission in our space.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
God the conviction to get safe.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
The coach snores.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Maybe we can figure out how to get Payna man
mission and.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Sways Na Man mission.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Yeah, good jobs.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I like.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Hash soon. Do you see that?
Speaker 8 (26:35):
See what green?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
There's there's a lot off the aft starboard for Port Bow.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I don't think that's a no yep, I see it too.
It's everywhere, seems lackett.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
What do you reckon it is?
Speaker 8 (26:57):
I couldn't classify it as anything other than an anomaly.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's getting brighter or is that closer?
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Raise the red alert shield up, all hands and defensive positions.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I mean, yeah, sorry, my training kicked in.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I was operating a stinctually tyson.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
It's too bright.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Now it's blinded.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
I don't want to die.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Reboot of the spaceship Columbus complete most systems operational and
beyond peak performance specifications.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I out, what, pal, what happened? What do you mean
by most systems?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I'm sorry, Commander, but I'm unaware of any events which
transpired between systems shutdown and system reboot. However, my sensors
are observing evidence of a recent space.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Anomaly, and the most systems thing.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
The sensorvey was severely overloaded upon reboot and is in
need of repairs.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Haysin. We need to fix those sensors. Maybe they'll be
able to tell us more about the anomaly.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Hi, Commander Green, but we should assess the status of
the ship first and get some decent sleep in our quarters.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Make it so, but when we wake up, we're recording
a real version of that theme song.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sure thing, Commander, next time on the Man Mission podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Hey, I heard the first episode of your podcast. Great job.
A lot of us were really worried when we didn't
hear from you for three months, but you did it.
I lost twenty dollars when you guys survived.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Well, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Oh it's fine. How did you manage to restore power
to the ship?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We did not rank. Something out there did. I don't
know what and I don't know how, but I will
kill it.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
This episode of The Man Mission podcast was written by
and features music by Nick Page and Zach Holloway. It
was directed and produced by Nick Page and features the
vocal talents of Devin Cook, Andy Richardson, Pete Mitchell, Adam Normanden,
and Nick Page. If you enjoyed this episode, please share
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Thank you so much for listening.