Jane, please open the voting. Again, anarcho capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity. Yes, no, or undecided. I have in my hand the solo forum, Tutsi Roll, which I'm going to toss to the winner once the winner is announced. Again, we are of course hosting the afterparty, just two blocks uptown at 55 Great Jones Street. Follow me, follow the crowds. Unfortunately, Brian has promises to keep

tomorrow morning and has to take catch a cast to catch a plane. I'd love to party with all you guys, but I've got to run.

Sorry. But unfortunately,

buy anyone here lunch if you come to Fairfax. How's this? Yes.

Okay. That's that's a binding offer. And, and, yeah, but Yaron will be there with his wife. He's a heck of a charming guy, quite friendly, quite approachable. And, and, well, and that's what I sincerely believe I've known both of these guys for a long time and they're both, they're both great guys. One to announce as well, that we have other debates planned. October 18 will be our next debate. That will be a debate about electric vehicles. Mark Mills versus Rosario for to know. And Mark Mills will defend the resolution. Little wordy, but again, you've got to negotiate every word and make sure both sides agree to the wording. Between now and 2035, electric vehicles in the consumer market will likely disappoint environmentalists by remaining a product bought mainly by the well-heeled minority. That's Mark Mills versus Rosario for to know. On Tuesday, November 14, we're going to have a debate about artificial intelligence. Susan Schneider versus Jopts Landgree. She will defend the resolution. Artificial intelligence poses a threat to the survival of humanity that must be actively addressed. That's Tuesday, November 14. Sunday, December 17, we're going to have a matinee, a 3 p.m. matinee on Sunday, December 17. And that will be a debate between law professor Kate Clonick and epidemiologist J. Badacharia. The resolution that Kate Clonick will, I think you, will defend will be worded as follows. The making of national internet policy was hindered rather than helped by the July 4 federal court ruling that restricted the Biden administration's communications with social media platforms. As many of you know, J. Badacharia, who will be taking the negative on that resolution was one of the key plaintiffs in that federal court ruling. And that's St. John's Law professor. Kate Clonick will defend the resolution. January, we, this will be on, actually on January 29th, we can take a long break after the new year. And this resolution will read, government must play a role in fostering scientific and technological progress by funding basic research. Taking the affirmative will be Anthony Mills of the American Enterprise Institute. Taking the negative will be Terrence Kealey, author of the Economic Laws of Scientific Research. That will be in late January. Jane, how are we doing on the voting? It looks as though the results are coming in. Drum roll, please.

Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well,

the, the, the yes went from 38.4% to 48.1% picked up 10.7 points, putting up 10.7 points. Very close. The no went from 33 to 41, picking up a little over 8 points, a little over a two point margin in favor of the yes. So the, the, uh, Tootsie Roll goes to, yeah. But, congratulations. Suppose I have to say, I have to say that a two point margin is extremely close, almost within the range of statistical error, but you still get the Tootsie Roll. Yeah. Thanks.

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