Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 23, 2021


Ep 494 | Will the Real Right Please Stand Up? | Guest: Blake Masters


Episode Stats

Length

24 minutes

Words per Minute

196.27577

Word Count

4,817

Sentence Count

330

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

Blake Masters is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by John McCain. In this episode, we talk with Blake about why he decided to enter the race, why he's running, and why he thinks it's important to have conservative candidates in office.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Hope everyone is having a great day and week. Today we've
00:00:13.740 got a special guest for you. We've got Blake Masters, who is running for Senate in Arizona.
00:00:19.740 He's a really interesting guy. I remember seeing his campaign video a few months ago,
00:00:25.260 and it just struck me that, okay, this new crop of conservatives coming up and running for office,
00:00:30.340 they seem different than the conservatives of years past in a really good way. Their message
00:00:35.620 seems to really get to the heart of the working class and the concerns that average Americans have.
00:00:45.160 I'm really excited to see this new generation of conservatives, and I'm excited for you
00:00:49.780 to hear from him and hear his message and what his goals are in running for office. And then
00:00:56.540 when he gets there, what he promises to actually do for the people of Arizona. Before we start that
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00:01:50.480 grateful. All right. Without further ado, here is Blake Masters. Blake, thank you so much for joining
00:02:01.940 us. For those who may not be familiar with you and your campaign, can you tell us who you are and what
00:02:07.200 you do? Sure. Thank you, Ali, for having me on. My name is Blake Masters, and I'm running for the
00:02:12.900 United States Senate in Arizona. I grew up in Arizona, and I spent the first part of my career
00:02:19.560 after going to Stanford and Stanford Law School in Silicon Valley. And so I run Teal Capital. This
00:02:25.560 is Peter Teal's investment management company. And moved back to Arizona a few years ago. You know,
00:02:30.860 I had this front row view to watching Arizona lose two Senate seats, and I think that's just crazy.
00:02:36.880 So I'm tossing my hat in the ring, and I'm going to win this seat back.
00:02:40.520 And what made you decide to run? I know you said that you were frustrated with
00:02:44.600 Arizona losing two Senate seats, but a lot of people are probably frustrated and don't make
00:02:49.140 the decision to enter into the ring themselves. But you've made that decision. So why?
00:02:53.640 It just feels like the most important thing I could be doing right now. You know, I look around,
00:02:58.000 and to me, it's getting harder and harder to recognize this country. You know, and I grew up
00:03:03.380 right there in Tucson, Arizona, 30 years ago. And so much has changed and so quickly. And I worry
00:03:09.920 that if we don't get a new generation of leaders in there that actually know what to do, we're just
00:03:15.720 going to see this great country slip away. You know, I'm raising three boys, they're seven,
00:03:21.580 five, and one year old. And I think in some sense, they'll be fine. I've had a successful business
00:03:27.340 career. But they're on track to grow up in a country that just doesn't work. I think that's
00:03:33.060 alarming. And it feels like just super important to go in and try to right the ship.
00:03:38.780 It does seem like there is a new generation of conservatives coming up that maybe think a
00:03:44.300 little bit differently than their predecessors. I think one example of this has been the reaction to
00:03:51.600 Biden's vaccine mandates, or maybe just vaccine mandates in general. Whereas I think the typical
00:04:00.580 conservative response has been to say, you know, I am against these vaccine mandates, because I don't
00:04:07.320 think the government should be telling businesses what to do. But then there's been kind of a new,
00:04:13.100 a different conservative response that has said, actually, I'm going to tell businesses that they
00:04:18.140 cannot discriminate against people because of their vaccination status, and they can't mandate
00:04:22.700 vaccine. So where do you land on that? Yeah, I think the Biden mandate is crazy. And I think if
00:04:29.440 anything, we should be doing just the opposite, we should be prohibiting companies of any real size
00:04:34.420 from requiring vaccination. And I think conservatives, or at least the new generation here that we're
00:04:40.540 talking about, we are waking up to this. I like markets. But at a certain point, when businesses
00:04:47.020 become so big, they absolutely can threaten people's liberty, just like the government,
00:04:53.720 you know, at a certain point, Facebook has so much power, that it's more powerful than most
00:04:58.080 governments. And of course, at a certain point, they're not even private companies anymore.
00:05:09.780 If these big companies want to act like publishers instead of platforms, fine, we should treat them
00:05:15.700 like publishers. But I think that only goes like two or 3% as far as we need to go. I do think these
00:05:21.860 companies passed a certain point, but Facebook and Twitter and Google, they're there. They're common
00:05:26.540 carriers. And so they can't discriminate against you and I any more than the phone company can
00:05:32.060 discriminate against you or I, you know, they can't block certain content that they don't like.
00:05:37.220 And then I do think we probably need to use antitrust enforcement and break some of these
00:05:40.780 companies up. They're just too big and too powerful. When I see Hunter Biden story, you know,
00:05:46.320 getting ripped off the internet by Facebook the week before an election. It's like, how is that a
00:05:50.640 fair and free election? Right. That's just crazy. And they should not have the power to do that.
00:05:55.080 So if they're going to act like that, fine, maybe Facebook shouldn't be allowed to have Facebook and
00:05:59.820 WhatsApp and Instagram and this whole ecosystem, and efficiently sort of my data to use against to use
00:06:06.100 against American citizens. I think we've got to clean all that up. So you're arguing that they
00:06:10.460 right now are acting as publishers, but they're getting the immunity of a platform. But at the
00:06:16.560 same time, something, so something that I worry about, because I've really kind of looked at both
00:06:20.380 sides of this debate, they still need to have the power. These social media companies still need to
00:06:26.920 have the power to kick off content that is actually truly harmful. Like you want them to be able to kick
00:06:31.660 off pornography and especially like child exploitation and true abuse and doxing and things
00:06:38.220 like that. And so people on the other side of the debate would argue, well, if you repeal section 230
00:06:42.840 and you treat them just as publishers, they become liable for everything. And they're either going to
00:06:48.540 hyper censor because they don't want to be liable for everything. Or if you treat them as platforms,
00:06:53.820 then they're not going to be able to have the power to kick off actual, offensive, harmful,
00:06:59.520 violent content. So what is, what's the balance there? I think it's, if it's illegal content,
00:07:05.420 you know, if it's like child sex material or something horrible like that, or even just
00:07:09.120 actual incitement to violence, if it's illegal, you can, you can kick it off. But if it's someone
00:07:14.160 saying like, I support president Trump or, you know, I'm pro-life, I don't care what you say about
00:07:19.760 it. And you get kicked off for like that political content. I think that crosses a line. So where's the
00:07:24.100 line? It's hard to say, but these companies are so far from it right now. I think they just wantonly
00:07:28.620 sensitive conservatives who become too powerful. Yeah. And they don't like it.
00:07:32.840 Yeah. And obviously there have been attempts to try to kind of create competitors. There was
00:07:39.560 Parler and then they ended up getting taken down by... It's so disingenuous. It's like,
00:07:45.780 if you don't like it, go build your own Google, go build your own Facebook, which I think is
00:07:49.100 ridiculous. And it doesn't understand the sort of realistic monopoly network effects that these
00:07:54.100 companies have. But then it's like, okay, fine, I'll go build Parler. So some people go do that.
00:07:58.440 And then you see them get deplatformed by AWS and Apple, allegedly because of hate speech. But in
00:08:03.920 practice, I think we can feel that that's just partisan deplatforming. So you can't even build
00:08:08.220 your own alternatives. They won't let you. Right, right. I took this New York Times,
00:08:14.780 this New York Times quiz that everyone is taking, which I'm sure they were just mining our data in,
00:08:19.660 in all of that. But everyone was taking this quiz that was telling them, you know, where they land on
00:08:24.640 the different political quadrants. There's a lot of people in this upper right corner who are socially
00:08:32.080 conservative and who are also economically conservative. And then there's obviously some
00:08:37.580 in the other quadrants. But where there was the least amount of people is this quadrant that is
00:08:44.460 socially liberal and economically conservative. And yet that quadrant seems to represent the mindset
00:08:52.160 of a lot of people in Washington and certainly a lot of DC think tanks. And so it actually seems
00:08:58.200 like the majority of conservatives, even though they're very socially conservative, they're pretty
00:09:02.840 economically conservative. We don't have a whole lot of, you know, outright representation. We don't
00:09:08.500 have a lot of people that are out there fighting our culture wars in the same way that you've got
00:09:13.600 democratic politicians fighting the culture wars of the left. Why do you think that is? And do you
00:09:18.600 think that it can change? I think it just is because that's been the Republican Party. You know,
00:09:23.820 I think Ronald Reagan did his job in the 80s, but then no one updated. Everyone kept saying the same
00:09:28.640 stuff through the 90s, through the aughts. It was just Paul Ryanism. You know, Paul Ryan thought,
00:09:33.820 gee, what Americans really want is, you know, more immigration and less health care. And no,
00:09:39.440 it's just the opposite. People actually don't want, you know, mass immigration, but we do want a
00:09:44.240 health care system that works. And the Republicans have been failing to deliver that for the longest
00:09:49.280 time. I think the left has failed to deliver it. And Obamacare is a disaster and prices are really
00:09:53.140 high. But no, people are center center right on economics. And I think this country is still very
00:09:59.400 socially conservative. You know, we don't want drag queen story hour. We don't want critical race
00:10:05.060 theory in our schools. 60 or 70 percent of people rightly see this stuff and they think this is crazy.
00:10:10.020 And if we train a whole generation of people to think this way, we will just lose the country.
00:10:15.080 So I think it's just been too easy for Republicans like Paul Ryan, sort of chamber of commerce,
00:10:20.500 business interest types, to just focus only on economics. You focus only on tax cuts. It's like,
00:10:25.900 yeah, I like tax cuts. But if your whole political program for 20 years is nothing but tax cuts,
00:10:31.060 meanwhile, the left is just, you know, assaulting everything. They're just taking over all the
00:10:35.840 institutions. You're not going to have a country anymore. And I think that's what this new
00:10:38.920 generation of Republican leadership, you know, that I'm trying to be a part of. I think that's
00:10:42.280 what we see crystal clearly. And I think most people agree with us.
00:10:52.980 Something that we talk a lot about on this podcast is the threat of China, how it's much
00:10:57.400 bigger than a lot of people realize. And certainly we don't consider on a daily basis because it seems
00:11:02.560 too far off for us to really think about how it could be affecting our family. But if you look at
00:11:07.600 the policies of not just Democrats, but a lot of neoconservatives, but certainly the Biden
00:11:13.800 administration, they seem to be constantly playing into the hand of the CCP at the expense
00:11:19.240 of the United States. What's your take on that? And what would be your plan once you made it to
00:11:24.480 Congress to kind of push back on what we're seeing, the weakening of America to strengthen
00:11:29.020 the CCP?
00:11:30.280 Yeah, I think for 30 years, again, since the end of the Cold War, politicians left and right have
00:11:36.080 been asleep at the wheel on China. You know, I think as recently as 2014, Joe Biden was like,
00:11:41.080 come on, man, you know, China's never going to. What are you talking? He did more than anyone to
00:11:46.860 enable the rise of China. It was this naive life. We helped them industrialize. Oh, they'll just become
00:11:51.580 more like us, a sort of Western liberal democracy. Now we helped them industrialize and we actually
00:11:56.720 became more like them, you know, some ossified sort of centrally controlled oligarchy. And I think
00:12:04.200 that's horrible. Trump, when Trump won in 2016, he came along and he reset the entire conversation
00:12:09.620 on China, I think in a really healthy way. And we just have to pick up that torch and run with it
00:12:14.160 because China is the number one geopolitical threat. You know, the left still wants to just
00:12:19.540 talk about Russia, Russia, Russia and Putin. That's like, no, man, China is the threat. China's
00:12:25.220 playing the long game. They've been eating our lunch for a long time. I thought the Trump economic
00:12:29.300 policies were great. You know, slap China with tariffs because there's no free trade with China.
00:12:34.260 There's no level playing field. If we think we have a level playing field, it just means we're
00:12:37.460 getting totally owned. And so push back on China economically. Don't let them advance militarily.
00:12:43.700 You know, we're already in the soft cold war with China. But when they look at the weakness
00:12:47.480 in Biden's Afghanistan, you know, debacle, it's like they're just salivating over Taiwan.
00:12:53.540 They see this weak president. Why would they not move on Taiwan right now? This is really dangerous.
00:12:58.260 Yeah. And I think that, again, that the new generation of leadership just sees this so
00:13:02.260 clearly. Yeah. We're just giving the keys away to China. It is crazy.
00:13:06.800 Well, China actually said that after the whole Afghanistan disaster. They put a statement out
00:13:11.080 that said anyone in Taiwan who is thinking that America is going to save them, and I'm pretty
00:13:16.140 sure the statement said when there is a war, not even if there is a war, just realize the United
00:13:21.640 States is not going to come help you. And I think that's the signal, certainly, that we are
00:13:26.320 that we are giving to our allies, that the United States is not to be trusted. And I don't actually
00:13:32.580 think, I mean, not to ascribe the most nefarious motivations to this administration, but it's
00:13:37.220 getting harder and harder not to do that. I don't think that this administration really cares. I think
00:13:43.040 that it is, you know, a sequel of the Obama administration that really believed ideologically
00:13:48.120 that American strength is bad, that relying on American resources, that building up America in
00:13:54.380 any way socially, politically, or economically is actually bad for the world, and that America needs
00:13:59.480 to be taken down a notch in a variety of ways in order to even the playing field and whatever. I
00:14:04.660 don't even know what the ultimate goal is. But it just seems, it seems purposeful at this point. And
00:14:09.900 I hate to say the administration is malicious, but I don't know. It seems that way in some ways.
00:14:15.060 At a certain point, it's like, it's interesting. It's an interesting dinner table conversation to
00:14:19.280 say, is this intentional? Is this not? Is this a conspiracy? Is it? No, but it doesn't matter whether
00:14:23.620 it's whether they mean to do it, or whether it's just incompetence, or those can get into the same
00:14:28.980 thing, right? But when you believe in this globalist project, when you don't believe that your job as
00:14:33.320 commander in chief is to look up for Americans first, right, they get offended at this America
00:14:38.640 first tagline. Why would you? That's a tell right there. Because obviously, your job in the American
00:14:44.480 government is to look after Americans first. It doesn't mean like, you know, screw over the rest of
00:14:48.340 the world. But it means like, we've got a job to do, which is make our country great. And even
00:14:52.840 greater in the future. No, they don't believe that they believe in this globalist project where
00:14:56.680 everybody is, you know, the same thing. And everybody's equal. And you know, there's no
00:15:01.740 difference between a Bangladeshi citizen and an American citizen. And it's like, that's a really
00:15:06.020 dangerous perspective for your leaders to have. Yeah, you will have a solid out country. So whether it's
00:15:11.560 intentional or not, I don't know. But I agree that if you wanted to ruin America, you would basically
00:15:16.480 exactly implement all the Biden's policies. Open borders, cancel pipelines here, approve them in
00:15:23.020 Russia. You see the gas crisis, like we're not energy independent, weak on China, weak in Afghanistan.
00:15:28.780 It's crazy. It really is. You know, this is a, it's a Christian podcast. So most people listening
00:15:34.560 are Christians. And I've noticed that there is certainly something within evangelicalism that has
00:15:39.920 started to kind of rise up over the past few years. This idea that America first is bigoted,
00:15:45.180 that it's wrong, that we shouldn't make America a priority, because that somehow is saying that
00:15:51.860 Americans are better than the rest of the world when that's not true at all. But I kind of see the
00:15:57.940 lights turn on a little bit whenever I say, well, if you have a mayor, like, let's start small. If you
00:16:02.980 have a mayor of a city who says, you know what, Tulsa is my priority. I love the people of Tulsa. I think
00:16:08.200 this is the best city in the world. I'm going to prioritize the people of Tulsa before I'm going to
00:16:12.940 prioritize the people of Oklahoma City or the people of Phoenix or whatever it is. That would
00:16:18.200 make him, yes, that would make him a good leader, right? You wouldn't think you would not elect a
00:16:23.120 mayor who said, you know what, I hate Tulsa. I think Tulsa is awful. And actually, I'm going to
00:16:27.720 prioritize the people of Atlanta first, you would say, well, no, I'm not going to elect you. Well,
00:16:31.800 the same is true. If you're talking about a company, the same is true. If you're talking about a
00:16:35.620 state, if you're talking about a country, it's not, as you said, let's screw over the rest of the
00:16:40.800 world, everyone else is awful. And only our people are, are good, innately better than everyone
00:16:45.600 else. It's just saying, look, I've got a job as an elected official here. I'm going to put the
00:16:51.220 priorities of my country first, right? That's right. That's right. And when you make that analogy,
00:16:57.020 it just, it just highlights how crazy this Biden administration is. Yeah. Like it did. Anyway,
00:17:04.240 almost at a loss for words, right? Yeah. So yeah, but this is, but you just look at how they treated
00:17:08.900 President Trump. Like here's a guy who just actually really loved his country, you know,
00:17:13.040 for 50 years, median wages had stagnated for the first time in the Trump administration,
00:17:17.320 median wages for actual working class people are up and they hate that. They just hate that.
00:17:23.560 Yeah. So this is the future. It's like, do we want a globalist project where like nothing works?
00:17:27.820 Or do we want a country that actually works and we can govern in a commonsensical way? It really is
00:17:31.920 that stark. And so much of what's happening right now with draconian COVID policy,
00:17:36.280 with his foreign policy, even things like cutting the Keystone pipeline, it almost seems like the
00:17:41.240 intention is to hurt the middle class and to hurt the working class. Certainly.
00:17:55.320 Okay. One issue that we talked about a lot that I just want to get your thoughts on before we close
00:17:59.400 this out is abortion. I am very outspoken in the way of being pro-life. Most of the people I would
00:18:05.880 guess listening to this podcast are very pro-life. This is a very important issue for a lot of people.
00:18:09.820 I would guess for a lot of people that would be voting for you too. So what's your stance on
00:18:13.800 abortion and pro-life legislation? Kind of like the legislation that came out of Texas recently.
00:18:20.280 Yeah. I'm unapologetically pro-life. I think that's just obvious,
00:18:23.480 obviously the correct position. It's so important. I think Roe v. Wade needs to be repealed yesterday.
00:18:30.920 I think it's a horrible decision. It's horrible jurisprudentially. They just invented some right
00:18:36.680 to privacy out of thin air and then said somehow that covers abortion. So I think just on the legal
00:18:42.200 merits, horrible decision. Of course, horrible policy too, and just responsible for killing hundreds of
00:18:47.000 thousands of babies a year. So got to get rid of that. I think the federal government has a role to
00:18:52.840 play here. I think that Congress should have a debate and pick a certain point and say,
00:18:58.600 no, we're going to recognize right here, federal personhood. And past that, absolutely no abortions.
00:19:04.760 Maybe they leave some amount of states below that. I think that's a workable compromise we could get
00:19:10.440 to in the next two or three years if we get a Republican House and Senate and presidency in 2024.
00:19:16.920 But I'm in favor, basically, of Texas's law and states that want to protect life. I think that's
00:19:25.720 super important.
00:19:26.680 Yeah. Well, that's good. I know people.
00:19:29.880 It's ghastly. You see, Ali, how the abortion thing has turned into this religious totem for the left.
00:19:36.920 In the 90s, they promised they just wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. And now,
00:19:41.960 it's like you have activists wearing their shirts with the tally marks on how many abortions they've
00:19:46.600 had. And this is the cultural thrust of it. It's a religious sacrifice to these people. I think it's
00:19:51.080 demonic. And I think we've got to put a stop to it. Yeah, it absolutely is, unfortunately. And
00:19:55.640 there's a lot of people who have been deluded into thinking no one's pro-abortion. It's really,
00:20:01.240 you know, you can be personally pro-life, politically pro-choice. At the end of the day,
00:20:05.080 you really do see that the pro-abortion lobby, there is, I agree, something demonic about it,
00:20:10.520 certainly. But it's also just at such a tangible cost of human life. And there are things that we
00:20:16.440 can do to, I think, promote a culture of life and to make America a better place to raise kids. But
00:20:22.920 that doesn't mean that we can't also try to save lives in the womb at the same time. It doesn't have
00:20:29.720 to be either or. And that's unfortunately the false choice people make. The left hits us with
00:20:35.480 this hypocrisy argument, right? They say, oh, Republicans only care about young life when it's
00:20:39.640 in the womb. And once the baby's born, they don't care. And it's like, no, I care about it before
00:20:44.040 birth and after. Right. So to your point, we do need to focus more on like, how do we make America
00:20:49.160 the best place to raise children? How do we help people in working class? And how do we help single
00:20:54.600 moms? How do we help them make it work? I think Republicans need to talk a lot more about that.
00:20:58.840 Yeah. But as you said, it goes together. It's like, we also need to support young mothers,
00:21:03.640 young children before they're born because they're still human beings.
00:21:07.080 And we can debate the different ways to do that. That doesn't always mean policy. I mean,
00:21:11.560 the pro-lifers that I know, they already spend all of their time and money and energy voluntarily
00:21:16.600 to helping families in crisis, but it could also be policy. I'm definitely not saying that it's not,
00:21:23.240 but like you said, it's both and, it's both and. All right. To close this out, you know,
00:21:30.120 a lot of people, I'm sure you are too. We are very disillusioned with politicians in general,
00:21:35.080 certainly over the past year and a half. But that includes Republicans. I'm very much a conservative.
00:21:39.720 I've never voted for a Democrat. I will probably vote for Republicans, at least for the foreseeable
00:21:45.640 future. And yet I have become a little bit cynical when it comes to any politician, Republican or
00:21:53.640 Democrat, that they're actually going to do what they say that they're going to do. And that when
00:21:57.800 they get to Washington, even though, you know, I know it's a whole big bureaucratic mess and one
00:22:02.280 person can't necessarily do everything. I understand that. But it does seem like, you know, when people
00:22:08.040 actually get into office, they kind of just say, okay, I have my, I have my power. That's what I wanted.
00:22:12.920 I don't really care about what I promised on the campaign trail. Make your pitch to us that you
00:22:18.520 aren't going to be like the conservative Republican politicians of the past, that you're going to at
00:22:22.800 least try to get the things done that you say that you are. Yep. That's a great question. And I've,
00:22:27.400 I've felt the same disillusionment that you do, right? That's kind of like why I'm running.
00:22:31.140 Yeah. To me, power is uninteresting unless you can actually do something with it. Right. And I see so
00:22:36.040 many problems in our country. Uh, the idea of doing all the hard work and it's crazy, it's grueling,
00:22:41.240 you know, I have to spend all this time away from my family, but the idea of going through this
00:22:44.460 just to win and then be in office and somehow coast and somehow then all of a sudden ignore
00:22:49.620 all the problems or not want to actually use that pulpit and use that power. That's crazy to me. Um,
00:22:54.820 you know, I do think, uh, yeah, one person can't just turn the ship around like that, but I think
00:22:59.340 one person can do a lot more than we think. And so I look forward to getting and yeah, taking that
00:23:04.940 proverbial machete and clearing a lot of brush out and anything that I try to do and can't do,
00:23:09.620 right? I will take that flashlight and shine it on all the reasons why the bureaucracy and the
00:23:14.680 stagnation and the corruption. Um, to me, the idea of just going and being in DC forever for 45 years
00:23:20.020 like Joe Biden, that's crazy. I want to go in, I want to spend a few years there and do as much as
00:23:24.500 I can. Cause if I don't do that, I think if other people don't do that, um, if we don't support the
00:23:29.020 people trying to do that, we're, we're literally going to lose this country to the far left progressive
00:23:34.140 wing and it's going to look a lot more like Brazil in 10 years than the America we know and love.
00:23:39.220 So that's what motivates me. Yeah. You have highlighted a big problem. My husband and I
00:23:43.260 talk about that a lot, a big problem with people in Washington and really just government around
00:23:47.280 the world, people who want power for the sake of power. And I think saying people don't under,
00:23:51.880 like, I don't understand that. I don't understand the appeal of just having power just to have it.
00:23:56.600 You're not going to actually do something good with it. But unfortunately you have a lot of
00:24:00.400 sociopathic people that run this country who really do just want power for the sake of power.
00:24:05.520 You get to go to the Met Gala and express your fashion choices and get in with the in crowd.
00:24:10.180 To me, that seems disgusting and just not worth it. Right. Right. Well, thank you so much.
00:24:15.540 How can they support you? Do you have a website they can go to, to learn more?
00:24:19.900 Absolutely. You can go to BlakeMasters.com, read about my platform, you know, donate if you can,
00:24:25.200 every dollar helps. And yeah, thank you so much for having me, Allie. This is fun.
00:24:29.320 Awesome. Thank you so much, Blake. Great. Thank you.