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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Today's discussion is Robotic Lawnmowers at the Golf course and the apocalypse is upon us. So here's the deal. I know that's a long title. I was at a golf outing for charity on Monday and on the golf course I saw something in mass that I'd never seen before, which were all these little Roomba type lawnmower type things doing all the lawn mowing of the, of the, of the golf course. They're really cute little things, but all I could think about is that is replacing 30 to 40, 50 jobs that, that someone was relying on to help feed their family or send money back to their country of origin or whatever it is. So I, I know you can't stop progress, but I do worry as we have more and more machines, take away the low income jobs that allowed people to at least make a living or take care of their families, that this is going to lead to more of this, you know, fervor about socialism and other types of things. I mean, as I see sort of the amounts of people in our country that make their living driving and we move towards automated driving as I see in. These are small microcosms, but what is small to somebody is very big to somebody else. Relies on that to feed their family. So when I watch these robotic lawnmowers, one, I marvel at how well they do it and how good they do it and how good the rough was at this course that I played at. And for me, who's an average golfer, having the rough be a little bit easier was a pleasure, you know, and I realized that management, if you don't have to manage 30 people, but you're just managing 30 of these Zumbas, that's a lot easier way to live in terms of management. But I do wonder what it does to the economy and to people in the long run and to our political system quite frankly, as people don't have these low wage jobs that they can rely on and somebody who's arrogant or elite could say, well, they're bad jobs anyways, but they're bad jobs to you. But for somebody else, they're feeding their family or helping them support themselves with a good job to them, love them or not, at least provide a living. So I do wonder how this is all going to play out. There are days when I'm not optimistic about it, but we'll see how it goes. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. A special shout out to CBRE and Todd Lippman who hosted us at this beautiful outing at the Maricop. It was fantastic. It's for the Providence St. Mel Cat, a school in Chicago which takes care of people in the inner city. A great school, fantastic leadership and great outing. But the takeover for me was learning about this, watching this robotic thing go on on the golf course and the jobs that are eliminated from it. And again, I'm not a anti tech person, but I do think they think these things will have real ramifications in the long run. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. And thank you to Chanel Bunger, as always, the very best in the business. Also, listen this week to the discussion of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. The bromance is over. Thank you for listening.