well, you know, to quote carl sagan, if you want to talk about how to make an apple pie from scratch, you have to describe the beginning of the universe. we won't go back that far. but the absolute origin of that tiny device is absolutely ultrapure quarters sand in appalachia which goes around the world on a journey to be turned into a microchip. we're only picking it up at the mudd point, really, and that's the point where all of those little parts are transformed into a challenger or smartphone or air pods or whatever. and that happens in smallish factor in vietnam, in this case, because so much of those factories have been built out. some of them are duplicates about the origin in china. people were worried, what if there was a trade war. now they're just worried about, how do we get things out of china because of all of the shipping blockages because ports get shut down because of covid. that's the absolute origin. then it gets put into a carboard box, gets trucked to a shipping container, it's picked up by a miniature crane and put on a barge, believe it or not. that barge takes