 It's going to be May 40 here as a terrific block called the tyranny of distance so from the very beginning it took approximately three times as long to get from England or Europe to Australia as opposed to from England or Europe to the United States. So in the 17th, 18th century I think it took about 30 days of sailing to get to the United States from England but to get to Australia it took three times as long and so Australia has always felt itself particularly isolated from the rest of the civilized world and because it's such an enormous country with such a relatively small population it's needed a big government to make the whole thing work so you're flying doctors or get in a plane and help someone with some dire medical emergency in Outback Australia. Transportation of goods is more expensive even though it's 2022 still experienced the tyranny of distance. I paid $185 extra for a direct flight from LAX to Sydney. It's still in the air for 15 hours. The plane was absolutely jammed full and every seat was taken. That is not an easy flight. 15 hours in economy. I tried to take it easy on the water so I wouldn't have to get up and use the lube. Now good on Delta they they kept the laboratories clean and immaculate good service from the crew but we were jammed in and I couldn't shift my my seat back but the people in front of me yeah they could they could tilt back on to me. So 15 hours like that squished squash. I got to experience the tyranny of distance so some of the offerings for the flight home like some of them like no extra charge like 40 hours there'd be like a 23 hour stopover in some Godforsaken Asian city. So I was willing to spend $185 extra for direct flight. A direct flight back from Sydney to Los Angeles is three hours shorter it's about 12 hours because you're going with the wind. You're coming to Australia from California going against the wind but do kind of feel you know on the edge of the world here. So we had a former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating of the Labor Party. His Prime Minister approximately 1990 to 95 referring in particular to the shape of the southern part of Australia says that Australia is the a-hole of the world. It's like the bottom of Australia looks like a pair of buttocks so there's self-hatred in Australia. You do you do kind of feel isolated here so about half the Americans who move to Australia the intention of living here end up going back to America because the sense of isolation and it gets to people. Wide open spaces now relatively small population to wide open spaces means that things like COVID and the Spanish flu then spread nearly as easily in Australia. We have lots of room here and the water pressure is just to die for. I tell you mate the water pressure is probably ten times more intense here in Sydney compared to Los Angeles. So a lot of abundant natural resources isn't that a new national anthem starting in 1983 we shifted from God Save the Queen which we had until 1983 as part of the British Empire then we developed our national anthem in 1983 it's advanced Australia Fair something like with wealth the toil as part of the national anthem. Abundant opportunities to make lots of money here.