 I want to take a little bit of time to focus on one of the individuals you mentioned previously, which is Henry Clay, one of those future Secretary of States, because he's one of those figures that really is one of the iconic national Republicans, the man most credited with the American system, which is going to take up a great deal of the next few episodes. Clay, I think, he's one of those characters that historians love, he's a very flamboyant personality, very much in contrast to the very boring John Quincy Adams and others' time. He is, when we look at this generation, the second class of American statesmen, we're moving away from the literary period to the great orator, to the great performers in the legislature. Clay, I'm one of his big early breaks, he's one of the lawyers actually during the treason trial for Aaron Burr back in the day, but can you just touch a little bit about Henry Clay, how he gets to this part of prominence, and also some of his business dealings. I know Dr. DeLorenzo within Hamilton's Curse, you could have renamed it Clay's Curse for the degree that which he highlights some of his own cronyism involved in all this sort of stuff, but I know he's going to be a figure that's going to come up a lot when it comes to the defense and the promotion of the second bank of the United States before we go deeper into those historical issues, expand more on the person, Henry Clay, who is now Speaker of the House, if I understand correctly during this time. Yeah, so Henry Clay is a noted Speaker of the House, he's one of those politicians who a lot of people would say he was sort of, I guess the Buffalo Bills where they would run, they went to the Super Bowl four times in a row and they never got a Super Bowl champion. Henry Clay was a perennial runner for the president. The presidency, he got the nomination a couple of times, but he just never was able to get the top prize. So it's one of those politicians alongside John Sherman in the late 1800s who a lot of people thought if they had to bet money that he would have gotten the presidency at one point, but he never did. And that was something that always tormented him and Clay, as you've mentioned, is in many ways kind of a bridge between say a Hamilton, the Hamiltonian cronyism, the Hamiltonian system and the Lincoln, Lincolnian cronyism, I guess is the way the way you would put it. Clay is that individual from the 1820s to the early 1850s, then in many ways embodies that big government, central banking, protective tariffs, foreign intervention on certain aspects and pro-public works and internal improvements. So he's kind of that bridge between Hamilton and Lincoln. And Clay himself, he was, you look at his family background. He had, you know, I believe he married the daughter of a wealthy Kentucky businessman. He himself was involved in hemp production, which of course might seem a little hypocritical given that he was, they're not hypocritical, just a little, a little blatant cronyism, given that he was always promoting protective tariffs, including on hemp to block Russian hemp. He was a very big proponent of central banking, and he got money through the central bank, the second bank of the United States. So he was someone who was willing to advocate government intervention, but of course he wanted a little cut of the pie for himself. And so Clay emerges as a big figure during this time period, someone who would contest with individuals such as Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and even Thomas Hart Benton, a relatively neglected individual from Missouri, who hopefully we'll get into. I will talk about this time period. But Clay is a fascinating character, and he is one of the defining cronies of this era.