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Local Issues · Newsradio WGAN

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And we would love to have you. Johnny from Westbrook has done
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just that. So why don't I go to Johnny?
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Really quick Sir, How are things?
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You got 1/2 staked idea about them.
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Two 8 year old girls that got out.
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You know what were the teachers doing?
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Thinking about the Kitty cats and their doggies?
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How about they think about the kids while they're there?
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Somebody adults should have seen those kids and rain got them
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common sense. What are they have a special
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delegate And the other thing is Peter and whoever was around
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there and get a real parent type of person.
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What do you think? Yeah, John.
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I mean, I mean, I can't really comment too much on it because
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I, I only saw the story and I didn't really dive head first
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into it, so I couldn't give you all the details about
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everything. I do know that two students
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running away from a school fills me with many questions that may,
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may, may be very similar to yours, Johnny, about adults,
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supervision, who blew it and how they screwed it up.
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I mean, I'm not sure how that happens and I can't imagine
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being OK with allowing it to happen.
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They were found. I mean, the good news is that
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they were found. Of course they were found.
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They were cold and wet but otherwise uninjured when they
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were found on Wednesday. According to the staff at RSU
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10, the district Mountain Valley Community School is in is in.
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One of the 8 year old students initially boarded the wrong
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school bus with another student after being dismissed from Class
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A little after 2:00 PM. R SU-10 Superintendent Deborah
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Alden said that the school staff was notified about the situation
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by the bus driver on board, at which point both girls took off
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from campus on foot, going northbound up Highland Terrace
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Rd. Couple of staff went after them
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and weren't able to catch up with them.
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I'm not sure how that's possible.
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They're 8, but OK. Our administration, it
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immediately called the school's student resource officer who
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began assisting when that happened.
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Alden said that the school was able to use video from cameras
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on the bus and around outside the school to help law
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enforcement determine exactly which way the girls were
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heading. So I mean, I'm happy that they
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were found. That's obviously a good thing.
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But man, does that sound like a major screw up.
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I'm not sure how that happens, but it seems to be happening
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with increased rate regularity that like remember that one that
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happened a few months ago Where there was a kid on a bus alone
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for like 8 hours or whatever it was and then nobody noticed.
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It's just it's very concerning. So I would say Johnny, you and
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me on the same page. I think mostly with this Rick
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from Sanford is next. What's happening, Rick?
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Good morning, Matt. Hey, you know I I don't mean to
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get off topic or anything. There is no such thing on a
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Friday as off topic. You go where you want to go,
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Rick. Back in 71 on my birthday, I got
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a greetings from the federal government saying they had been
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drafted and I was down for a little while.
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And I, I remember hearing this piece by the by a gentleman
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called Gordon Sinclair. It's called The Americans.
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I don't know if you've ever heard it.
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Gordon Sinclair No, I have not. Oh, you probably ought to listen
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to that because it, you know, it really, when people start
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ragging on this country, maybe they ought to listen to Mr.
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Sinclair and that piece The Americans and really, really
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start thinking about what we really are, what we really.
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Were. You know, I mean, it, it, it
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says a lot about this country and who who we were and who we
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still are as a country. It it, it really, it's really a
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moving piece. I will check it out.
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I I'm looking it up while you're talking about it, and it's,
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it's, I think of course, it's definitely before my time.
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I try to catch a lot of things that I wasn't alive for.
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But that's probably the explanation for why I haven't
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heard too much about it. But I guess it was cited by
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Reagan as being very important to him.
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So yeah. Paul Harvey.
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Paul Harvey was before your time, too.
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Oh, I know Paul. Good stuff.
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I know Paul. Yeah, we'll see.
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Gordon Sinclair. Gordon Sinclair is a Canadian
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broadcaster. So that's, that's my explanation
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is that I don't, you know, I don't always 100% keep up on all
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of our Canadian friends, but nonetheless, Rick, that's a good
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suggestion. I, I will check it out and
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thanks for suggesting it. You know, in looking at the, the
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description of it or what not, you know, seems like a buck up
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speech, like a, you know, like, hey guys, you know, you're,
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you're, you're pretty good. Like, you know, I know things
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don't look so awesome right now, but you know, like, you guys are
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pretty cool. So feel a little bit better
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about yourself. I think a national pep talk may
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in fact be in place or should be in place for now, right?
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I think there's a lot of, there's a lot of the need for us
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to feel a little bit better right now about how things are
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going and where things can be. And despite all the problems and
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the difficulties, you know what, what life in America actually
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still is, which is pretty great. Yeah.
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It's not a bad idea. Appreciate it.
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You guys are diverting me all over the place and I like that.
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I'm looking up on my on my CBS13 feed, though, on TV, and they're
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covering the debate from last night.
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We sort of talked on that a little bit earlier when we were
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chatting about the now alliances forming.
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To explain what you saw there. I mean, I don't know what
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Wessels is up to, but but the David Jones Midgley bromance,
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shall I call it a bromance that seems pretty obviously based in
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antipathy to Bobby Charles because Charles is viewed as
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either the front runner or possibly the front runner, I
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guess. And that's, that's been pretty
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consistent through the last, you know, four or five months of the
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race. So if you don't like Bobby
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Charles, you are looking for someone else and the someone
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else that has emerged the most. And again, according to
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anecdotal stuff, polling in preferences in in party
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conventions and all that stuff, it has thus far been Midgley
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more than the others. So if you're David Jones and you
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really don't like Bobby Charles, which is true, he really
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doesn't, he really doesn't, then you are very likely to look for
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the most viable alternative to him and throw your weight behind
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him. And that's exactly what he did
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last night. So I would say that's your
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explainer there with Bob Wessels.
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I, I just, it is the IT is the weirdest thing I've ever seen to
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join your rivals campaign while still campaigning for yourself.
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I don't even know what the thought process is behind that.
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I definitely understand if you vote for me, great.
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Please vote for this person second.
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You know, if I can't get it, I think they deserve it.
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I really hate campaigning like that because I think the ranked
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choice voting is dumb and I don't like it and I don't like
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people can't. I don't mind people ranking
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while it is a legal law and it's in existence.
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I mean, I will rank. I am going to rank.
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I don't like it but I will do it.
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But to actively campaign on the ranking is just dirty to me.
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I don't like it at all, but I I understand it at least.
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Though as much as I don't like it, I do understand it.
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I don't understand joining someone's campaign and being a
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coordinator for an entire Congressional District for them
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while also keeping your campaign.
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I mean like suspend yours. Like quit.
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If you're going to do that, quit.
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I mean, and and if you're Robert Wessels, you have to know that
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you're not winning at this point, right?
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So you might as well, you know, maybe maybe hit your wagon to
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somebody, maybe actually help them out.
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Maybe if you are coordinating something for them, maybe you
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could actually do the work because you aren't going to be
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distracted by your own campaign. I don't know.
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But I wonder too, and maybe this is another thing I'll pick up
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with you guys when we have more opportunities to talk later in
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the program. 879-9426 But I wonder too, with Bobby Charles
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skipping this debate also, do you think that is actively
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harming him at this point? Do you think that that is a
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decision which is going to lead to his support eroding even a
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little bit more than a little bit?
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Do you think that he's going to potentially harm himself if he
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ends up losing? He's so consistently been in the
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lead in whatever limited polling that we've had and all the
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anecdotal stuff that we've seen, he's been in the lead and in the
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lead often times comfortably. If he somehow ends up losing,
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you got a point at this as being one of the things that would be
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why. I mean, I think it's a, it's
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just strategically, I think it's just such a mistake for him to
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be skipping debates like this. Skipping an occasional debate is
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fine, but when you skip, if you know, two in a row like this and
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you're getting into the more important ones when people are
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actually paying attention and they're going to be widely
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viewed because you're talking about, you know, CBS 13 debate
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or you're, you're talking about, you know, a major media debate
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in Maine. That's the ones that you want to
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show up for because that's when people are watching it and
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you're not. And that's, I don't know, I
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think it's a it's a risk. It's a big risk.
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And it might bite him in the rear end.
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It might be meaningless. I don't know.
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I'd be interested in your thoughts when we come back.