 The good of the goons and the good of the world. I'm Matt Lewis. I'm barcode. Spell it B-A-R-K-O-D-E. I've been coming to DEFCON since four, so this is my 17th straight DEFCON and I don't plan on breaking that streak. But yeah, no, I've been coming to DEFCON probably, I think, since I was 15 or 16 years old and it's been a serious part of my life the whole time. So last year, I've been coming to DEFCON a long time. Last year, I brought a couple months before DEFCON last year. I got very sick and I was diagnosed with this unbelievably rare genetic disorder called PNH. And it was touch and go there for a while. Actually, they weren't sure if I was going to survive, so when the DEFCON community found out about this, they put together a blood drive at DEFCON to help, just to do anything they could, kind of, I mean, symbolically, I literally helped. And they raised, I mean, every single slot available for somebody to come by and donate blood was taken. They had pictures of, you know, funny pictures of me on the wall and kind of really put together this huge, huge community following. And it was an extremely moving experience. I mean, I only, I got to DEFCON on the last day last year, so I actually missed the first two days when they were actually doing the drive. I just showed up for a couple hours on the last day. I had just gotten out of the hospital. I was still very, very ill. I was, you know, lost a lot of weight. And I showed up and I kind of saw, you know, the first thing I saw when I walked in was my picture on the wall and that they were doing a blood drive. And to have a community like DEFCON rally behind you, it's a very humbling feeling when it's been something you've been such a part of for so long, it's been such a part of you. It was a very humbling experience to have this community rally kind of in my name, even though it was really more about, it was really more about the community, but still I was the kind of symbolic figure head of that particular movement for the moment. That was, it's kind of, I mean, it was a very moving experience to it. It helped. I mean, as I heard about it happening when I was in the hospital, it was very, it was very tight. It helped a lot. The support and the energy that I got from the DEFCON community and the effort that they put forward last year, it's impossible to put into words what that felt like and how much it helped in my recovery. It's really, really difficult even to kind of talk about because it's so, it's an incredibly moving emotional experience because this is my family. I come here not because it was my friends. This is a huge, huge part of my life and it did feel like a family rallying around me and it still goes to this day.