 I believe in you. You want my son to be there? Just keep smiling. When I was little, I would say, really, it all started there. God blessed me with Gia-Gia. And I grew up playing with the toys. And rekindled interest with it as an adult. And my wife put up with it. And she's been wonderful. And without that, I never would have had the massive collection that led me to know all of you guys. And the boys have been amazing. A man couldn't have two finer sons. They've come with me to these shows. And they've supported me. And over the years, I met Brian. And then Brian started giving me graphics work to do. And with the addition of the Transformers license, that became a need for another position to be filled. And so stepping out on faith, I packed up the whole family in Georgia. And we moved to Texas after having lived there our whole lives. And I would say it's been nothing short of a miraculous thing. I've been honored to be able to work on something that meant so much to me growing up. And to be able to work on product that hopefully has given you some joy. And if that's, if it accomplished anything, if I've made anybody happy to have something that they really think is cool, then I feel like I've done something. And if there was a technique you didn't like, Laney didn't do it, somebody else did. I want to thank my family. I want to thank Dave for his incalculable amount of knowledge of GI Joe and his vision for the types of toys we should make. I want to thank Todd Pleasant for his incredible contributions on Adventure Team Comics and the magazine. That was just something that was a joy to do with him. I want to thank Darryl for being a champion for the brand and for the club and for the collectors. And as I felt left anybody else, I apologize. There are so many people that have touched my life through this hobby. And I just want to thank all of you for everything. So, thank you. To really ask Karen or Angie if they wanted to say anything, they probably don't, so that's why I didn't ask. But when you have employees such as Laney and Karen and Angie and Dave, they really care about everything they do, so they're going to try to do their best for you. Even as to their chagrin, or as the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished down the road. So sometimes it's created a twist for them, but they've always tried to do the best they can for you. But Angie and Karen stand up. Now, Angie, we started in Raleigh, North Carolina, and then we moved to Texas, and Heather worked for us some part-time in Raleigh. And we moved to Texas, and we had to start hiring people. And so one of the first people we hired was Angie. And don't ask me why she's put up with me for 22 years almost. But it's, you know, without her, we wouldn't have the organization and the care and the detail and making sure that your stuff is right, as right as we can make it. And then for years, we went through multiple shipping people that were part-time and all that. And finally, Karen came. We go, wow, she's so small. Can she lift all those boxes and do that stuff? And we said, yeah, I think she's the one. And she's been with us for 10 years, 8 years, 8 years. So she's been around a long, long time too, taking care of your orders and going to that hot, nasty warehouse and pulling your stuff and going like, why do you have 400 different things in one order? Could you just order the same thing 400 times? It had been a lot easier that way. But again, thank you for all your hard work and the things that you do and the care to detail. And Dave, you know the walking encyclopedia, Joe, hey Dave, can we make this? No. What about this idea? No. Hey, the shattered glass work in Transformers, can we do it, Joe? No. No. So he did his best to corral me as far as he could. There's some things that I made him do. So again, it's my fault so you can blame me. But again, Dave, thank you for your knowledge of everything. And then Lanny, when we got the Transformers, I knew that we had to, now we have to do things in color. They were much more visual oriented than this group had been. We needed more capacity. I can't do the layout. You're beyond my ability in software and stuff like that for layout. We needed a real graphic artist. The first, the Crimson Guard set, I think, I helped do the deco, and so it looked like a child had taken a crayon in Photoshop. Yeah, this is this color, you know, whereas Lanny, when you see Lannies is what I say, is everything Lanny makes is fake. You know, there's nothing you see that he's done that's real when you see it on the screen because it's all, he does such a great job of taking something that's existing and making it into something totally else. It's just amazing, you know, this man's skill set. You know, we all wish him the best of luck in continuing his artist career because he's truly a great talent, so give him another round of applause. You know, there's my family that have put up with me from my grouchiness and all that stuff through this and my children that we forced into work, you know, slave labor. I don't want to do the convention, but you have to. So, you know, good thing that the, you know, Child Protective Services didn't catch onto those things a long way, but we're going to, you know, we're really going to miss all you guys. We've worked with tons of people at Hasbro. Daryl's been like the tip of the spear, but I looked in my contacts not too long ago and just put in Hasbro. I had over 100 email addresses I still have in my file of people we've worked with there, so sometimes I look at the picture and go, now who, who is that again? Oh yeah, they were on the brand 15 minutes, so anyhow. Then they were moved to something else, you know, but it happens a lot, so in corporate America people move around, so you've got to learn to work with different people and different personalities. I mean, we've ever had Mr. Minch on a bench, you know, on the brand for a while at least. GI Joe didn't end up in the park, you know, who knows, with Neil Hoffman. But we're really going to miss all you guys because again without you, there is no, there is no GI Joe, you know. It truly is amazing what y'all do with this, but we have to thank God for what he's given us. There's a saying or something you learn in school or graduate school that they say do what you, there's a book called Do What You Love and the money will follow. Here you go. That's exactly what I wrote on some of this, you know, and Todd mentioned this a while ago that, you know, we came for the toys and we stayed for the friends. So it's again, we all collect the friends, it's not really the plastic out there, but it really is all of you guys. The other people I want to thank is the FBI because you didn't know this, but there's people that have been undercover at this show. We've had extra law enforcement. There's been all kinds of things that have happened because of things that happen online. And one of the things I want to ask people is to be nice, okay? You don't know who you're talking to. You know, it's okay to jab at your friends, you know, you know, I just went up to Dave to go, Dave, you're there with the awful today because you could do something about it and make fun of him or tease him around. But online, you don't know who you're dealing with. You don't know who they are. Your mom was right. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything. Just be silent because you don't always have to chime in. Okay, sometimes let it go. Be more frozen, okay? Let it go. And Dylan will love this one. I don't like the Wicked song, but I'm not going to, you know, because I knew you, I've been changed for good. But anyway, the one thing I will say in closing is, so the G.I. Joe 33 quarter inch saying is knowing is how. So what's the other half is the doing. So, you know, so my dad isn't to them, you know, and take this forward in life. It's not the knowing that's important, it's the doing. So go out and do great things, be divided, help other people, and along the way, continue collecting G.I. Joe, so yo-jo. Forms up here in the front of the hallway. So, I know you'll like it.