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So him and I met at conferences and we talked a lot about this idea. Unfortunately, he passed a few years ago, but before he passed, he heard about this funding that Shelley got passed to get that deep water port started. I had a conversation conversation with him, he was ecstatic about it, so I know that he would be excited to hear that there's some interest in this moving forward. So it would mean a lot to the interior of Alaska if we had access to that coast where all of that transnational shipping that's going through the Bering Strait, we could export out of there to Europe and the Asian markets, we could import, get things for cheaper, and all that commerce going through there. The United States and Alaska aren't getting any of it because we can't get to it.