i do feel like, dave, there's an entire push to make all of us npcs. that's what this slogan -- politics by slogan becomes. it's not about what each individual slogan is right or wrong. if i wanted to critically think about ukraine, if i'm met with putin apologists, i feel like i've just encountered an npc. you're shaming me with an attack and a slogan. so back to the american dream. you know, what i feel like this should be about and what is originally about is yes, our individual pursuit of happiness and a shared national identity day. i think that's key to it. we're all in this american experiment together with our independent individual thoughts. in on the american identity. >> yes. you're absolutely right. that's combining two beautiful things. the first part that you're talking about is you. it's you as the individual, you have a mind and you have a capacity to reason and you have passions and loves and pursuits and all of those things. that's wonderful. that doesn't exists in a vacuum. what it exists in in this case is a country, a country of 35