former nba player al harrington who is now ceo and co-founder of the cannabis company viola.he world's biggest stage for sports, but excitement for the competition is being overshadowed to some extent by the drastic rise in covid cases. can you even put yourself in their place and talk about the kinds of pressure they must be under right now mentally as well as physically? >> it must be very challenging because you are asking them to pretty much step out of the norm, right? obviously they're used to prepare in certain ways and having certain levels of support there by having family and people they can talk to before the race or different things like that or whatever the competition is. now you don't have any of that. so it's almost comparable to last year when the nba guys played in the bubble and you heard how many guys struggled with it because when you take somebody out of something they're so normally used to it will definitely create the chaos with them internally. >> that's a great comparison because we think of world-class athletes as being mentally tough and this is e

and we had that on the phone with ellen's team al, harrington, the industrial policy folks day-to-day and this is the kind of government industry relationship that's really important then, it's important now and it will be very important as we deal with emerging technologies, so, thank the team for all of that. and we also have paul madeira and when we were members of that board, mitch daniels, the president of purdue university could not be with us today, but continues as a champion in his field and we're hosting our second annual hypersonics conference with purdue and notre dame in the coming weeks and these two universities and the state of indiana have taken a fabulous direction in this hypersonic era. and we have distinguished guest, the 19 chief of staff of the air forcen now head of the institute for analysis if not the premier analytical al schaeffer in our country. and i've mentioned lieutenant general, the executive doctor at texas a & m and we had a dasi2 conference with ndia. the head of draper labs, former member of our board. victoria coleman the chief scientists of the