A year or two ago, remember, people were saying there was going to be a flood for New York Times, Florida's going to be overwhelmed, all these stuff, and it didn't happen. Was that No, it was not luck. It was because they knew if they got in those boats and came to our way, they'd be stopped. period, end of story. And we were able to do that. So we got to keep doing all those things. You know, I hope DHS ramps up to where they have their own standalone capacity. (38:47–38:53)
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