Off the CUPF: Community Use of Public Facilities

Season Finale: What We Learned (and What’s Next) | Goodbye-for Now!!

• Derek Ross and Emily Brewster-McCarthy • Season 1 • Episode 14

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Listen as CUPF Communications and Outreach Specialist, Derek Ross and CUPF Program Specialist - Childcare & Special Projects, Emily Brewster-McCarthy discuss their goals for the new podcast season. With great excitement, we will once again be joined by Acting Director Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas. In this episode, we will do a recap of our first season and the importance of revamping and enhancing our communication in the community. Want to learn more about available venues, we got you covered.

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Ramona Bell-Pearson:

We are CUPF, and thank you for joining our community podcast. Let's get started.

Derek Ross:

Here we go. Here we go. We are back. We are back back. I'm talking about season finale back. I'm talking what we learn and what's next. A little bit of a goodbye for now, too, because we're going to think about taking a hiatus. You see how we're just jumping into it as if we've just been best friends. We haven't been talking for a while. What's going on, everybody? My name is Derek Ross. I'm communication specialist for CUPF, Community Use of Public Facilities. Yeah, we're here. We're here. I want to jump straight into the highs and lows. I think my high, and I want to mention it because I'm so happy, but I think we can officially announce that Emily is a part of the podcast. Now, I'm talking like that because I want to say yay, but then I want to announce it. But then Emily's sitting right here. So, Emily, are you officially part of this podcast?

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

I absolutely am. I am now gonna officially be your co-host. Uh, we're so excited. I'm so excited. Yeah. Uh again, Emily Brewster McCarthy. I am a program specialist with childcare and special projects with communities of public facilities. Super, super excited to be recording and be a part of this podcast.

Derek Ross:

And I'm not moving like there's a music playing, but yes, yes, yes, yes. Emily. Emily, thank you, Emily. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I know there are so many people that are part of our office and our organization, our groups. There's so many people, so many channels, and the opportunity to work with so many great people in the county has been such a great experience. And Emily, thank you for joining the podcast. I didn't want to say it. I wanted one you to say it because I didn't want to be like, Emily's part of the podcast, and you W like, no, I'm not. Uh-oh. Well, maybe we didn't have a good meeting.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

Can I back out now? Okay, that's what I've thought. I'm committed. I've committed.

Derek Ross:

You in it now. You in it now. Your name is on it now. So we got to do it. But yes, yes, yes, yes. That is a high. Another high for me, too, is the fact that um I am really excited about these virtual tours. The virtual tours is a very important topic, a conversation that has come up numerous times. Individuals, community groups, people want to see our facilities. They not just want to see it, they want to feel like they're in it. And I agree, and we all agree that being able to get a chance to just do these virtual tours will give individuals an eye. You can see inside and you can kind of get an idea of what the room could look like, how it could be prepared for your event. So be on the lookout for high school virtual tours. I think we also did some Wheaton, a little bit of our Wheaton Urban District as well, too. So we're going to try to take the virtual tours. We're going to try to expand on them. We're going to get them on a website. It's taking time. That's my high. My low is it is taking time because there is a process with it. And that process is also being facilitated by Tebs. Tebs, the technology team with the county, has been very great in helping us get not only this podcast, it's phenomenal, communities, public facilities podcast going, but it's also been helping us with our virtual tours as well. And the number one things, or a couple things that we're working on, is the ADA accommodations and languages. That is a very important option to have with these virtual tours. It's a platform. We're working on it. We want to be able to make sure we have that opportunity for communities to just go to it and maybe click it and put it in a way that they can kind of understand it and make it better. So let me stop talking because I am excited about this stuff. The virtual tours, we got a co-host coming in. I'm also making sure that Vanessa understands that she has her seat here, it is just there. Vanessa can always join anytime. I'm making looking at Vanessa, making sure she's like Vanessa can join anytime she wants. Matter of fact, Vanessa, you're here now. You we'll just leave and you can just take over the podcast as well to Vanessa. But highs and lows, I'll stop talking. Emily, you got any highs and lows?

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

Yeah, uh, my hi is definitely the fact that you just announced that I'm the co-host of the podcast. Uh, super excited about that. You know, we have a lot of plans for the next year or so. We're looking at things to add to our calendar. I'm just super excited to touch base with the community along with other stakeholders. And I'm just super, super excited about all the opportunities that are going to come up uh within this next year. Um, as far as lows, I don't really know that I have one per se. I will say, oh, actually, I do have a low. Probably the fact that like when I get out of here, I have to put gas in my car. And that's one of like the most taxing things that I can do. I don't know why I hate putting gas in my car. But it's just, it's just one of those things where I'm like, oh, I have to do this again. Start my life. My shout out to my parents because they definitely would be like, that's why you need to get an electric car. And I'm like, you know what? You're right. But yeah, that's it. Uh lava to Vanessa, right? What are your highs and lows?

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

Well, uh, I I think my high is uh that it's great, a great day today. The the weather's nice, and I I think that you know, every day that you wake up, it's it's a good day. Absolutely. That's deep. Oh, I think really deep. I'm sorry.

Derek Ross:

We're supposed to be talking about community stuff. I was about to get out of pen and paper. Go ahead. We love it, we love it.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

And then the low is uh that school's starting, so there's uh more traffic. Yes, and uh there's school bus tickets. You know, if you guys are not aware, the tickets for not stopping when the school bus comes, it's uh $250. So that is the low. But uh yeah, just be aware, guys. Stop for the the school buses. Absolutely. And if there's no like median, like a cement median, you have you have to stop. Even if it's on the opposite side on a really major highway or road. Yeah. Yeah.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

So PSA, make sure you uh pay attention while you're driving. Make sure that if there's a bus, you stop and uh, you know, make sure that the kids get off safely and get on safely.

Derek Ross:

So look at that. And once again, this is our basically our season finale. You know, it's not like it's over over, like TV show over over. This is just our chance to regroup, revamp, you know, enhance our communications, just enhance everything, just making sure we're we're aligned with not only the county departments and the county government, Montgomery County government, but we're also aligned with also internally as well, too. And Vanessa has been doing a great job of explaining, you know, expectations. We've also been able to get some information from previous leadership as well, too. Shout out to Ron Ramona. So we are rocking. We are rocking on some great, great things. Uh, so let's get into it. I do want to ask the question to all our listeners. You know, we do all of this did you know stuff, but are you familiar or do you know about CUPF Available Venues? It's on our website. I know you got to do some clicking and stuff like that. But Emily, let's get into it. We got a long list, but you know, we'll try to speed through it as much as possible, but we can jump around, jump around. I I I could jump in, and I know Vanessa's gonna definitely chime in on a few of them as well, too. But when we're talking about available venues, we have this list here, Emily. Do you do you want to start this list off?

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

Yeah, sure. Uh one of our first, uh, the biggest or bigger venues we have are the regional services centers. Uh, we have one in Bethesda slash Chubby Chase. We have one in Mid County, um, which is our Wheaton location, and we have one in Up County. Um, and then I'll go through a little bit more. We have um the availability and the option to reserve athletic fields. And that's covering Vanessa. Correct me if I'm wrong. That's in school and out-of-school use as well. Yes. Um, and then we have government buildings, which include things like our council office building, Isaiah Ike Leggett Executive Office Building. Uh, and then we have Clarksburg Cottage. Um, do you guys want to move into uh library meeting rooms? We want to touch base a little bit about that because I know there's some new changes there.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

Yes, I do want to say that we just implemented free use, free facility use for libraries. So people can go online and reserve up to two um library rooms a month for free. And uh that doesn't include like if there's staff cost or cleanup costs, things like that. But for the facility use, it's free, which is something that's that's new. And I think it would be beneficial to a lot of smaller businesses that want to do meeting spaces there. Um I do also want to mention we have the police district two and three meeting rooms as well, if people want to use that space. And I know uh Emily had talked about the council office building. And the council office building, people can rent, I'm not sure if people knew, but you can rent the cafeteria, a lecture hall. There's four conference rooms, two hearing rooms. And for the EOB, you can also rent the cafeteria, the auditorium, and the lobby. So just letting people know that there's different options. When you go onto our website, you'll be able to look it up by the facility type, and then it'll let you know what rooms are available at those sites. So, and I do feel like these sites are also maybe underutilized, and maybe people just don't realize that they're out there and available for use for renting.

Derek Ross:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that, look at that. Yeah, I mean, we're talking about a lot of the facilities, and you're wondering like, what why are y'all going through these facilities like that? It's a long list, everybody. It's a long list of facilities that you can reserve through Cov. A lot of the community use that comes in, especially Montgomery County, because that's where we are located, Montgomery County, Maryland. Uh, there are a lot of facilities that you can reserve through the Community Use of Public Facilities office. Once again, reach out to us, check in with us if there's an activity, an event, let us know. But Emily, let's jump back onto this list. I know we're going down um public school facilities. That that that's that's a big one. Uh I'm not gonna lie, that's a huge one. We have indoor and outdoor. There's a big difference, indoor and outdoor in regards to how you do that. Indoor can be what cafeterias, uh, classrooms, uh, well, auditoriums as well to gyms. Gyms alma. Gymnasiums. We love the gymnasiums. We love some gymnasiums.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

And I do want to mention that if for any particular reason any of the organizations are having issues trying to come up with the payment for the full year or for half of the year, they can always feel free to apply for the fee facility assistance program. If they go to our website under programs, there's a FFAP, um, it's it's a whole page dedicated to FFAP. And then you can look up to see what the program is is and uh you can also apply there directly. And uh you can apply. And within a week or so, you'll be receiving an email confirmation that we received your application. And after a thorough check, if if applicable, you can receive an award for the year. And every year it starts over. So after July 1st, everyone can feel free to apply and see if your organization qualifies, and that definitely will assist in paying some of the facility fees for the Montgomery County public schools locations.

Derek Ross:

Nice, nice.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

Yeah. Like Derek mentioned, a lot of our indoor public school facilities. I mean, like you said, it's gyms, APRs, classrooms that can be used from a wide variety of things. It could be different meetings, like community meetings. It could be you have a basketball team that likes to do tournaments. But just a quick reminder that all of our facilities are public facilities. And so uh they should be open to the public. You reserve the space. If somebody walks in, they can join you. So we like to keep things open and available to the community.

Derek Ross:

And Vanessa, I know that we're going to talk about it as we go down this list, but it's very important because not only is our headquarters at the Wheaton headquarters, that we also talk about the Wheaton Urban District.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

Yeah, we've been doing a lot of a lot of events at the Wheaton Urban District at the Marion Friar Town Plaza and uh the urban park. And it's been really nice to see the public come out and be able to be immersed in in these events. I was at the Taste of Wheaton and I did see it was a very nice event. We also had a table. CUPF also had a table. Yes, we did. We had a lot of giveaways. Our giveaways, like by the time I got there, the giveaways were gone. And I was like, wow, that's nice. Okay.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

That was Derek.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

Yeah, you guys did a great job. Great job. Um, we also have, I also want to mention that the Silver Springs Civic Building has a Veterans Plaza as well that's heavily used. We have a lot of festivals throughout the year. They do a lot of uh bookings. So, you know, if people we see this is the only facility that can book um private events. So we have like, you know, weddings, bar mitzvahs, um, little, well, not little, but large conferences. And, you know, people come in and they reserve space up to a year in advance at the Silver Spring Civic Building. And kudos to Silver Spring because they do a lot of work. They bring in also a lot of um revenue. And I think that it's very admirable that they're like on top of all the events. And, you know, we actually had Ramona Ramona's retirement party there. And it was such a great collaboration. I got to see the Silver Spring team get in and uh do like, like assist us with the event process, the before and the after. And they did such a great job. And I really appreciate it. So I know that if they gave us this type of love, I know they do it to all for all their customers. But um, another thing is like the Silver Spring Civic Building has a uh, like if someone needs assistance in pain, they have a program called the Community Access Program that people can also apply online. And depending on the type of event, there's a questionnaire, and then you could just you can answer the questions. And based on the type of event, you'll get an award. But you know, there's a committee that that looks it over and you might receive an award for that um that goes toward the facility fees. So we definitely have that program to assist anyone that wants to have an event at the Silver Spring Civic Building. And it's a lovely venue, it's very nice.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

Yeah, it's amazing. It's beautiful. Yeah. Um, I will say to kind of uh circle back, I understand that like the Silver Spring uh Civic Building that's packed. It's jam-packed, it is booked. I mean, there's events, you know, during the weekends, like Vanessa said, weddings, you know, bar mitzvahs, bot mitzvahs, like literally there's cultural events that happen right outside and the plaza. Uh they have like ice skating, like uh during like the colder months. Uh they're they're an awesome, awesome facility. Um, but to kind of like go back, what if you don't find space there? Right? What if you don't find space? We have so many different facilities, right? They might not be as big as Silver Spring, right? But we have a lot of availability. Like I have two that I can think of right off the top of my head that are in Rockville. We have the Great Courthouse, uh, the Great Courthouse and the Red Brick Courthouse, which have been recently used by I think uh students that have been filming. So you can even like use them as sets for something that you're filming. Um so you know, we we try to think outside the box here. Um, sure, events are all fun and dandy, but we can use them for all sorts of things, right? Trunk or treat, filming a student film, um, doing like um, I think we were talking before, like doing like student government like mock trials or mock interviews. Oh, yeah, yeah, things like that, which would be super cool. Um, I think, you know, maybe giving the community some ideas as to what they can use it for uh might open up the door a little bit to just different things coming in.

Derek Ross:

So agreed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I think that'll be cool. I I know now that we've had a chance to go around and start visiting more facilities, taking pictures, doing the virtual tours, and throwing that back in the virtual tours back again. Be on the lookout for the virtual tours, just throw that back out there. It looked good. It is going to be great. Once again, shout out to uh the Tebs team, Mighty Tebs team, for giving us this opportunity to work with them on that level. But getting back into it, but I do agree that there are a lot of facilities, especially when we you we don't want to say underutilized or say that we're taking it away from any facility, but there are just some facilities that are hot. There they are the hot spots to go, depending on if you took Montgomery County, put it on the map. If you looked at it from the top down, you probably look at certain facilities in certain areas that get high usage, which is all great, fine and dandy. But there are some underutilized facilities that may be just around the corner from where you live or in your location as well. But we also mentioned, I think the great courthouse is definitely one of my favorite ones. I've we've had a chance to go there. I think it was it was nice. It was really nice. It looked like it looked like you could film a movie in there. 100%. That's just me. Um, but we also too have Vanessa mentioned it, the police stations, the police station meeting rooms, just District 2 and District 3 in Montgomery County. Really nice conference rooms. Really, really nice. I think a lot of maybe HOAs or some groups may use those rooms for stuff like that as well, too. And then you got to look in the area as well, too. Like the District 2 is Bethesda, District 3 is with Silver Spring. So a lot of times, if you're looking for community spaces and stuff like that, just I would joking to say, take it to the map. Look at your map and see what's in your area and just look up. We can look up elementary schools, middle schools, high schools. You can just go through and figure out what matches and stuff like that. But Vanessa, we were talking about underutilized. And now I can ask you as our acting director, is there a utilized facility that you want to bring up that maybe somebody just doesn't know or some part of a facility that somebody maybe just don't know about?

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

Uh, I do want to highlight maybe Clarksburg Cottage because that's a nice little structure building that it people use it all the time, but I just feel like it could have more use. It's um in Clarksburg, right off of exit 18. Um, the only thing is that the parking might be a bit challenging, but I think it's it's a very nice space. If people go online, you'd be able to to check it out. And I I do want to promote it so people can can take a look. And I I think it's a very nice venue.

Derek Ross:

Agreed, agreed. I've been there a few times.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

It's nice, it's nice. Yeah.

Derek Ross:

Emily, I know we talk about underutilized. Is there a and you mentioned parking lots too as well, and that's a great one. Is there another one that you can think of that you may have?

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

I think you hit the nail on the head with the gray courthouse. I really like the gray courthouse. And like Vanessa said, yeah, some of our spots, the gray courthouse being in the center, in the heart of Rockville. Um, and we have plenty of parking lots and stuff surrounding, um, and it's close to the metro. Uh, we also have to look at that. Like, what's the accessibility like for our community? Uh, a lot of the spaces are like Derek said, within walking distance of where you live. So it's really just checking out what you have around you. And, you know, we're we're obviously we're gonna talk a little bit more about this, but we're gonna revamp. And we we have a lot of outreach ideas and a lot of things that are gonna come to play within the next, you know, six months, eight months. And I think you're gonna be seeing and hearing a lot more of us in a lot more of our spaces. Um, and we're gonna be, you know, trying to host events at our own spaces. I think that's gonna be one of the biggest sellers here is that you're gonna see us in our own spaces. Yeah. Um, and then hopefully that means that we'll get to pour back into those spaces too. Uh, you know, we'll get some revamps, you know. Wow, we're thinking about possibly getting some rain barrels in, things like that where we definitely want to give back to our community. So yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of things. We've said a lot of places already. Yeah, I don't know if anybody has any other shout-outs or any locations that they want to shout out.

Derek Ross:

I mean, those locations, I mean, like say we rattle them down, service, regional services centers, athletic fields, government buildings, McCormick County Public Libraries, Clarksborough Cottage, Public Schools, Silver Spring City Building, Wheaton, Urban District. Uh, we have underutilized facilities. We have a lot of facilities. I don't want to speed through them because I don't want people to think that we're just going to ignore ones and just bring them up. We have a lot. Visit our website, Community of Public Facilities. Just go to it, click around, see what see what's there. If there's something that you may want to talk about, of course, give us a call, email us, and check us out just to see what's going on. But as we as we go through it, I I once again, this is our season finale. We're just going to regroup. We're going to just go huddle up. We're going to talk about it. Probably going to watch a little bit of some football. No, I'm just joking with you. No, we're going to go get into it and try to figure it out. But when I talk about what we've learned or what's next, probably say when we started off this podcast with just me and Ramona, it was just a conversation and idea about what ways that we can do to get ourselves out there in the community. And the podcast, once it was mentioned again, once our PIO office, which is public information office, and we had a chance to visibly and hear and see a lot of the podcasts and a lot of individuals doing it for different departments. I thought CUPF was perfectly aligned to try to jump into that as well. And Ramona was always great with her voice and bringing and all of the stuff with being a director, which is key to having that person on the podcast. And same with Vanessa as well, too. Vanessa has a lot of years of experience in the county, same with Emily as well, too. And get information from individuals that know so much about the county is great. And so having y'all on the podcast has been amazing and will continue to be amazing as well, too. But the impact of our podcast right now is looking as if this is a good go for us. This is good. This is good, good feelings, stuff like that. So I hope that people or our community understands that what we're trying to do here is we're trying to be great. Not just great. I'm talking about Tony the Tiger. Great. You know, we're going to try to do whatever we can to do the best that we can. And the podcast seems to be working a little bit better than I thought personally, because you know, we just don't know. But the fact is that we have Vanessa here to kind of give us that stamp of approval and making sure it's working, and Emily here as well, too. We have Tebs on our back end helping us as well too getting through. This feels like this is working. So that's why it's time to revamp season finale. That's why it's time to really sit down, figure it out, put this together, put this bow on this package and make it work. But Emily, how how do you feel about the podcast and next steps and goodbyes for now and all of that stuff?

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

Well, I mean, you just introduced me as the co host. So saying goodbye seems a little uh, I guess, early. But um, no, I'm super excited uh uh for the direction that we're heading in. Uh, I think we have a lot of awesome opportunities uh ahead. We have a lot of creative just juices flowing right now. And that's it's a good, it's a good place to be. Uh, we have a lot of ideas, a lot of just just everything, uh, just putting it all on the table and just creating and paving away from there, I think is is gonna be an awesome and awesome just road to be on. So if you guys can be on that road with us, I think that would be great. There's gonna be a lot of um new opportunities, new information, uh, new way to provide that information. Again, you'll see us out on you know in the community, you'll hear us on the podcast. Um, yeah, I'm just super, super, super excited to be here. And you guys will hear from me again uh when we uh return. Oh, yeah.

Derek Ross:

And and I I I I do enjoy leading and doing stuff like that and getting the conversation started. But best believe, Emily, we're going to create this package where everybody gets the chances to get their voice in and stuff like that. Because once again, I I can't take away from these years of experience. Vanessa, uh, I I can put this back on you because I know that you know the impact of having you on this podcast has been epic.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

Oh, wow. Gang. Absolutely.

Derek Ross:

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, Vanessa. Vanessa's not crying yet, so I'm not doing enough to get her to She's a pro, though.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

She says she's not a pro, but she's a pro. She needs to be on the pro.

Derek Ross:

Exactly. Exactly. Vanessa talking, I don't know if I want to do the podcast. Well, you're here now, you're not going anywhere. Actually, you're locked in. Yeah. You're locked in.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

So we close the door. We're locking the door. You can't get leaves. Oh, wow.

Derek Ross:

But Vanessa, what do you have anything to say about as we do a season finale to this podcast, and your input has been great since you've been on the show. But anything about the podcast or just Well, thank you.

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

I actually I love the, as Emily mentioned, I love the direction of the podcast. I didn't know how it was gonna flow, but I've seen throughout the different episodes, it's been really great. And I like giving out this information that people might not know, you know. Um, so I know we gave a lot of like a long list of the different facilities we have. I just want people to have in mind that anything that you book for our facilities or space, spaces have to be open to the public. So just make sure everybody knows that. Um, yeah, for the private events, if you do want to have a private event, the only location is the Silver Spring Civic building. But that building has a lot of other spaces um as well, smaller spaces too for other other types of events. But I I love that people are learning more about us and maybe there were questions that people had and where we've been answering them as we go. So I think this is this podcast is great, and I think it was a great idea. Thank you, Derek, for for finding it. And uh thank you, Tebs also for helping us make it happen. And I think it's it's it's been great. And I really like that I'm I've been a part of it. And yeah, thank you to everybody.

Derek Ross:

Yeah, thank you. Look at that. We we just giving thank yous around, high five and everybody, because I I have down high fives, high fives going around for everybody as well, too. But uh, y'all said thank you to me, but Ramona gave the hit the thumbs up. Our former director, Ramona Bell Pearson, gave the thumbs up and said, Let's do it. And I was like, Well, podcast is what we're gonna do. We shall do it then. Let's let's let's get into it. Once the director says it's rock, I don't want to sit on too long. I just want to take that energy and go with it. But once again, the podcast where we're gonna take a little hiatus. Not not nothing too long. I'm not talking about you're gonna see us in 2027. No, no, no, no. We're just gonna take a couple weeks to really, really Oh, you'll see me way before that. So we got we got a lot. We got a lot. So we're gonna come back. Don't be surprised if you hear a new podcast intro. We shout outs to Ramona. We don't want to take away from it, but we're probably gonna use your cuts of your voice to do other stuff as well. We have a lot of new opportunities with new guests, partnerships, uh, new energy from our new co-hosts as well, too. And we're hoping that Vanessa comes around too. And then once again, too, we'll we'll we'll have new, new, new leadership as well, too, as well. So there's gonna be new voices, some new, some new thoughts, opinions, and everything else like that. So be on the lookout, be on the lookout. But I I think we're at a good point where maybe we should end this podcast. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe we should. I don't want to, I don't want to say season finale, we're ending it. And good, nobody wants to say a goodbye. But Emily, how would you like to end this podcast?

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

You know, I'm gonna keep it super, super, super simple.

Derek Ross:

Okay.

Emily Brewster-McCarthy:

It's a rep. I like all right.

Derek Ross:

I like that. All right, I like that. I like that. Vanessa, you are you want to say anything?

Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas:

I just want to drop the mic, but I don't want to like call static. No, no, no. On a hypothetical mic. Yeah.

Derek Ross:

Okay, okay. Well, we we're wrapping it up, dropping the mic and everything like that. But but that is it for right now. We look forward to uh coming back again stronger, faster, all just in touch with each other. We're we're gonna we're gonna get this together, everybody, and best believe that this new what you see in the future is going to be something, something to just witness, just witnessing greatness as it comes together. But once again, thank you very much and stay touched, everybody. Stay in touch. But thank you.

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