Bryant knew that well from his two older brothers.

They worked at a factory in town since high school, and then it shut down.

It was devastating.

So it would be amazing, but we don't want to sell our souls either.

Lots of neighbors were.

I'll go back to another metal detecting analogy.

So you got a discrimination that you can turn on to filter out metals.

Like if you turn your discriminator to only pick up gold, you're going to miss silver.

Records confirmed Ridge Runner had also scooped up land in Kentucky, 550 acres, close enough to Gainesboro that it could someday come together into one huge community, one big Highland Rim project.

project.I mean, the whole landscape's gonna change, y'all.

To find the financier, Diana, of course, followed the money behind Abatoir and Ridge Runner, and that led her right to the source.

Ridge Runner, Josh Abatoir.

Then from there, that takes you to New Founding, and that takes you to-

So if we are bulletproof, what could derail this, and when do we take a hit? Because as long as AI is functioning, I mean, it's hard to see a recession happening if you use a classic measure of recession, just given the capital expenditures that they're talking about.

Yeah, certainly this environment is a little different than we've seen historically.

It's sort of the Gilded Age and Industrial Revolution repeated some one hundred and thirty-five years later.

Economic growth, I think, we're committed to solid spending estimates for which are continually upgraded with respect to data centers and AI build-out in general.

The real question day to day is valuations.

How much money will be spent? What percentage of free cash flow will be spent in, you know, this year, next, in two thousand twenty-eight, on a few years into the twenty-thirties, and what sort of return will we see on that investment? But this is a situation much like the internet days where coming in second or third or fourth place doesn't pay nearly as well as fighting for the lead.

So everyone's full-out spending in terms of what they think the market will bear to try to get an advantage, putting their stake in the ground in this, in this new world.

I'm curious, are we looking at the winners? Like, when, when we look at the Mag Seven and what have you, are we looking at the companies you believe are the winners, et cetera? Or if you and I are having this conversation 10 years from now, will we be talking about, you know, who came through the AI whatever, and oh, by the way, half of the population that we think is gonna be winners is gonna be gone, and they'll be replaced by five companies that nobody's heard of that, you know, some 20-something is working on in his college dorm room?

Because if someone local didn't buy the land, then who did?

I have a very inquisitive mind about things.

I have far-fetched ideas, and some of them work out, and some of them don't [laughs].

I think that goes back to my metal detecting.

Like, yeah, 90% of the time I'll go out there and find garbage, but sometimes you find silver.

That website is packed with even grander pronouncements.

We are forging an alliance to revitalize American civilization, bringing builders, creators, and concerned citizens together.

Build the America you want to live in.

So describe his impact for us locally.

Locally, his impact was, um, in the school, first of all.

After Cumann na mBunscoil was formed, he trained the young lads and coached them to a high level, and we won several, um, Cumann na mBunscoil finals, which was actually, for our school and our area, was unbelievable.

But then as the years passed, those young people developed into our, our first team.

And then in 2004, when we won the intermediate title for the first time, we went senior, and he was chairman of the club at that time, and he was absolutely thrilled with that, that he saw the young kids that he had nurtured and taught the skills of the game had f- had developed into young men now and winning the county final and going senior.

And even the following year, when we were senior, we competed very, very well, just that numbers was the one thing that we always were a bit short of in Tromora because we're a very small area.

But the area itself, um, like, it's a very small-knit, tight-knit community.

And Brian, when people gather in Trumra over the next few days, what stories do you think they'll be telling about him?

For folks who aren't familiar with the product, could you walk us through what Nauticus Toolkit actually does, where it's already out there commercially, and why you think of it as one of the fastest paths to revenue for the company?

Okay, so Nauticus Toolkit is an autonomy system that enables almost any underwater vehicle, or indeed a non-underwater vehicle, because we've had it on track things and land things as well, underwater is really just the first domain that we're tackling, to follow command and direction and set mission plans.

And to be able to update those mission plans on the fly.

Now, most people think, well, that's not a problem, but underwater communication is incredibly difficult.

You have to communicate through very, very low bandwidth acoustic modems, literally 9K.

It's not like megabits of data.

And so in those low bandwidths, it's actually quite difficult to send useful signals.

What does that collaboration tell us about the path forward commercially and how repeatable is that model elsewhere in the

Good time to come on board.

Yeah.

Prior to that, I was at the Texas Department of Public Safety and I was helping over at the Training Academy doing some leadership training for troopers and recruits and Texas Rangers that were over there.

Also had a little stint with Texas Parks and Wildlife here and the Human Resources Operations Department.

Um, I spent 24 years in the army and retired February 28th and then started at parks and wildlife and HR March 1st.

So short lived retirement, uh, but, uh, did a lot of great things.

Uh, and, um, you know, I, I, I can relate, uh, to tradesmen and women as far as career paths because mine was unconventional in a way that I didn't go to college right out of high school.

Advice for people.