Can I interrupt you just for a moment just to say, it was a motel business. I mean, people, like, think these things just come from that, you know, small business people, like people who start something by. My father and his brother built something that nobody thought would be successful. And it was. It was an atrium lobby hotel, the first one in the United States, and it was a huge, hugely successful hotel. It was the start of something big. I only mention that because I think we overlook kind of how hard it is to build something like that from. From scratch. (25:48–25:59)
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