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- Speaker 2: ⁓ we made a change in the organization It's called, the new name is the Veterans Community and Founders Exchange. Okay. What's the change? ⁓ from the name and the branding of the organization, there really is no real significant change. ⁓ We to make sure that the model that we've created here in Las Vegas, here in Southern Nevada, that we're able to take that model and copy and paste it into other communities and other cities. that have a prominent veteran presence, you know, and the limitation that, that, ⁓ that I knew it was going to be a limitation from the beginning was in the name branding of what we've started with, which is the Southern Nevada Veterans Chamber of Commerce. That name is obviously specific to Southern Nevada. So then ⁓ wanted to be able to, ⁓ just make that adjustment to where, you know, we can change the name up ⁓ in way that we can take the same model, like I've mentioned, and then bring that to other places like. say San Diego or San Antonio or Hawaii or ⁓ places where we know that there is a strong ⁓ veteran community presence, but it's just a matter of helping ⁓ be a part of bringing those available resources together. So is it safe to say that we're gone from being a state type organization to more of a region type organization? Yeah. Would that be a good way of... Yeah, eventually, eventually the goal would be able to expand into a national full national nationally scaled organization to where, know, whether it's, um, you know, I mean, like Jacksonville, Florida as as a great veteran community, New Jersey, Washington, obviously, you know, so places like that. And then obviously, you know, places around Texas, there's so many different areas. didn't know this while Lester is going to be like McDonald's. We're going to franchise out. Yeah. So the next couple of years, we're to see a lot of these. kind of things happening. That's the goal. Yeah, that is Do you have any concerns? I mean, I'm just gonna raise these issues. know there's, you know, I always say state lines matter. Yeah. And there's a reason we all left California. Correct. Do you have any concerns about getting into some of these very weird social kind of issues? Because I mean, I hate to say it, but veterans, in my opinion, I mean, here we have license plates. I mean, we probably have it on our driver's license. Yeah. You just don't see it there. And I don't feel there's the same... fondness for vets. I wrong in saying that or? Well, you know, I mean, I really can't speak for any other community, but then I know that, you know, the difference, I guess, would be that the in approach would be that we would want to focus on the community itself and bringing members of that community together and different organizations in that community together rather than necessarily engaging with, you know, the politics of that region. ⁓ And whether that support is there or not, hopefully we can find the right support and the right advocacy. not, the first step is always going to be to bring the community together. then when you can do that, that a lot of value for a lot partnerships that can be formed in that community anyway, when you're able to bring certain populations together. ⁓ And the community is ⁓ such an important part of any community. It's an important part of that community's voice that when ⁓ you can... accomplish that first step, then a lot of other positive things can happen too.