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Ep. 187. Who is Doug Ramsey, AKA Revelation, in Marvel Comics?! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hello Marvel fans, comic geeks, and all the nerds in between.
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  It is Megan with vigilante vibes and I'm here with another
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  character breakdown and I'm continuing to discuss all of the
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  mutants, mostly underrated mutants of the Marvel Universe.
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  Usually I do underrate A mutants, but I have to talk
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  about the guy who is the talk of the town lately with X-Men Age
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  of Revelation happening. Of course, I'm talking about
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  none other than Doug Ramsey who is now Revelation if you did not
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  know that. So I would like to talk about
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  him and I think I will start right now.
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  So who is Doug Ramsey? His first full appearance was a
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  New Mutants 13 and he was created by Chris Claremont and
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  Sal Busima. Doug Ramsey grew up in Salem
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  Center with his parents, Philip and Sheila.
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  His dad was a lawyer who once helped Professor Xavier with the
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  paperwork for opening the school for gifted youngsters, though he
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  had no clue Xavier or any of his students were mutants, he just
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  strictly the paperwork. Doug eventually became close
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  friends with Kitty Pride My girl, after she moved to
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  Westchester to join the X-Men. They bonded over computers,
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  video games, general nerd stuff like the little nerds they are.
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  For reasons no one ever really explained.
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  Xavier suspected Doug might be a mutant, but didn't try to
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  recruit him. Emma Frost, however, absolutely
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  did try. She offered him a scholarship to
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  the Massachusetts Academy so she could eventually turn him into
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  one of her hellions. Doug and Kitty even hacked into
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  Project Wide Awake together, and she tagged along when he went
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  for his final interview. Kitty did not trust Emma, right?
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  Rightfully so. Very good instinct.
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  Kitty and Emma ended up kidnapping her, which is so Emma
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  the new mutant saved Kitty. Doug didn't attend the Academy,
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  and that whole situation never really got addressed.
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  After Doug stayed friends with the new mutants, though, they
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  hid their powers from him until Warlock crashed into the mansion
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  one night. In the chaos, the team finally
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  told Doug the truth and asked him to help communicate with the
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  alien. Doug succeeded, and both he and
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  Warlock ended up joining the team.
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  Doug took the code name Cypher because his mutant power let him
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  understand any language spoken, written, coded, anything.
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  He often felt useless in fights, even though his abilities ended
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  up helping more often than he realized.
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  He and Warlock became particularly tight, basically
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  besties. His first big mission was
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  helping save rock star Lila Cheney from the Vrakanen, where
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  he literally saved the planet by decoding A damaged Stargate
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  before it blew. He and Kitty later wrote a
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  program together to mess with the murder world's computers.
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  Doug had a handful of intense adventures after that, fighting
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  alongside Karma, going to Asgard, getting Magneto as a
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  teacher, which frustrated Doug because Magneto was super
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  overprotective and helping save Silac from Mojo, learning to
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  merge with Warlock physically and mentally, which came with
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  the risk of him catching the Transmode virus.
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  He even developed a crush on Silac, rightfully so.
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  And when Mojo turned a bunch of X-Men into X babies, Doug's
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  admission of his feelings helped free her from brainwashing.
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  She liked him back, but since Doug was underage, nothing came
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  of it. Speaking of X babies, Mojo's
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  back on his usual bullshit in the Age of Revelation event
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  because those ex babies are back and I hate Mojo so much.
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  Things escalated when Warlock's dad Magus was attacked.
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  Doug and Warlock ended up rewriting Magus's DNA and
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  reducing him to an infant, but Doug started showing early signs
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  of infection from all the merging.
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  Doug also had some teenage drama.
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  Teret flirted with him, Roulette manipulated him, and he spent a
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  drunken night with her that caused tension between the New
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  Mutants and the Hellions. He also refused to communicate
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  with Bird Brain out of jealousy until Magneto threatened to
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  return the creature to the authorities, which pushed Doug
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  to help. Eventually, during a fight with
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  Animator, Doug saw Wolfsbane about to be shot and he threw
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  himself in front of the bullets. He was killed instantly.
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  His last words were asking Ron not to be mad at him.
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  His death devastated the team. Magic even tossed the Animator
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  into limbo to be eaten by demons.
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  Which is. I guess that's fair.
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  Warlock didn't understand death and briefly animated Doug's
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  corpse to remind him what it was like to be alive, but the New
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  Mutants eventually laid dug to rest.
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  Later, Eli Bard resurrected Doug using the Transmode virus, and
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  Doug ended up fighting alongside the reanimated hellions on
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  Utopia. Warlock eventually freed him
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  from mind control, and Doug reconnected emotionally with
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  Magma after whispering a secret language only she could
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  understand. Which is, I don't want to say
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  cute, but it's oddly sexy. I don't know.
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  I don't know, just ignore that. Doug went on to play a huge role
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  during the Bastion attacks, convincing Warlock to absorb
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  Hodge to save the team, helping X Force and Cable stop a
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  Sentinel invasion, and ultimately surviving Cable
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  sacrifice. Afterward Doug struggled with an
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  addiction to decoding everything, which I guess
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  there's worse addictions to the point where he became a filthy
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  half starved hermit trying to decode the entire Internet.
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  Daredevil and others pulled him out of it, though he did almost
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  kill someone for unplugging his Wi-Fi.
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  Same. He eventually admitted to
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  needing help. Doug kept getting pulled into
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  major mutant events. Getting injured by Albert,
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  decoding secrets from the Zatoria, and eventually being
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  brought to Krakoa by Xavier and Myra Mctaggart.
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  Doug was the one who communicated with the living
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  island and created the systems mutants used to travel, defend
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  the island and basically make the place function.
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  While acting suspicious of Xavier, he secretly fused with
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  Warlock again, let Warlock listen in on Krakoa's secrets,
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  and even helped create Myra's Hidden No Space.
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  Doug joined the Quiet Council representing Krakowa itself,
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  helped establish Krakowa's laws, and later participated in the 10
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  of Swords tournament. Instead of fighting, he ended up
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  marrying his opponent, BAE the Blood Moon, and earning points
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  for both of their teams. When a Rocco evaded, Doug
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  convinced BAE to switch sides and the two moved to Krakowa
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  together. He also had a strange back and
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  forth. A Saber tooth in the pit helped
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  stop Mystique and Destiny from killing Myra and got temporarily
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  imprisoned by Krakow to protect him when the Council came under
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  Sinister's influence. Krakowa eventually released him
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  during the Orcas War, where Doug hacked the Sentinels using code
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  Sebastian Shaw slipped him. Doug later helped reinstate A
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  displaced piece of Krakoa, traveled to the White hot room,
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  and against all odds, won a tournament to choose
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  Apocalypse's successor. So Doug Ramsey, the kid who
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  understood languages, ended up becoming Revelation Apocalypse's
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  heir. And that's where we are today.
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  He is Revelation. I did read the Apocalypse, the
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  tournament for Apocalypse's successor.
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  That was a that was a fun miniseries that I feel like
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  really didn't get the appreciation it deserved.
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  So, but right now in Marvel Comics, as I've mentioned
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  before, the Age of Revelation is in full swing and it's going
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  really well. It is dark that you get a little
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  bit of everyone's perspective in it.
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  I can't remember what comes out this week.
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  I think it's Omega Kids 2 and something else, but it's been
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  really cool. Basically, it's about 10 years
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  into the future. Scott's mind was switched in the
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  new X-Men run run with his future self.
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  And now he's, you know, in the future and revelation has taken
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  over everything. He released a gene bomb that
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  released an X virus that turns that basically it will it will
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  mess with your mutation. If you are a human, you will
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  either become a mutant or you will die.
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  Like black cat's a mutant right now and loving it like it's
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  very, very interesting. Also Sam Wilson as president.
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  They just dropped that little bit of tidbit of knowledge.
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  But it's it's cool. I like it, it's fun.
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  It's in the future. So it's like it could all just
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  be undone, you know? So there's no not going to be
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  any lasting effects of it, but it's fun.
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  I definitely recommend checking it out.
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  But yeah, like always, I have some comics for you to check out
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  to get to know Doug Ramsey even better.
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  So I say New mutants #13 through 64.
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  It's a lot of reading, but it's good reading.
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  X-Men, Heir to Apocalypse, it's a miniseries.
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  I think it's like 4 or 5 comics. It's fun, it's quick, you'll
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  like it. And I say dive into the X-Men
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  Age of Revelation. So I would say start with X-Men
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  Age of Revelation Overture. You really don't need to know
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  much about it going in. They do a really good job
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  explaining it, so you should be fine.
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  But yeah, so that is Doug Ramsey.
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  I thought it would be a good time to talk about him since he
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  is the big man on campus. He's the talk of town.
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  Oi hope you enjoyed it. I hope you'll like and
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  subscribe, and I hope you have a marvelous day.