We decided that this is, ooh, this is something that is, you know, dirty. Somebody else should do it. And then now we're a country where, you know, We graduated 36,000 lawyers last year. We graduated 300 people with mining and metallurgical degrees. I mean, we were, we were the nation's powerhouse on critical minerals in Mining just 30 years ago, just in the 1990s. We were. We were. We were it. (18:49–18:56)
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