text:  You're hearing almost nothing. I covered it on the podcast. I'm going to cover it with Kurt here in the next segment. But matter of fact, let's just get to it. Welcome in. I haven't spoken to him in a while. Kurt Schlichter. Kurt, thanks for your time today. How are you doing? We appreciate you coming on. Kurt. Kurt. Is Kurt there? Or do we have like a malfunction? No, I'm here. I'm here. Oh, look. Okay. All right. We got him. He has appeared. CIA is trying to shut me up, but it isn't going to work.