I'll keep going.

Yeah, so throughout a lot of the Midwest, especially like Minnesota and Illinois, I think are the two big states right now, have these tax incentives for solar development.

So putting in these, you know, anywhere from... three acres, uh, you know, solar farm is what they call it to, you know, hundreds, just massive swaths of land, massive swaths.

And, um, Obviously there's community resistance to that, um, to any, you know, sort of NIMBY, um, rural NIMBYism, I guess.

Um, and so one way, I mean, this is my kind of cynical take on it, I guess, but one way they kind of sweeten the deal is by seeding these solar farms into, into the prairie wildflower, um, habitat, um, Um, when they put the solar farm, when they construct the solar farm, um, and so, you know, then it becomes this thing that's actually, and legitimately is an ecosystem resource.

You know, it's a, it's, um, butterflies and bees and different kinds of pollinators are, are, are using that, that piece of land, um, to survive birds, um, instead of it just being farmland, which is either, you know, bear dirt or a crop, you know, there's actually not very much, you know, it like you grow a bunch of corn and it feeds, it fattens up the deer.

Um, but it's not really a very good ecosystem for anything else other than weeds and like pests.

It

Okay, so what happened? Why are you not a paleontologist right now?

That's a great question.

Um, well, I think that at some point I realized that there is a lot more, um, cultural reference to paleontologists than there are paleontologist, uh, job openings.

Um, I think this...

I feel like this was maybe something [laughs] that was even expressed to me by my parents at a relatively young age.

They maybe tried to...

I mean, I think they were supportive of, of...

The frustrations of a, of a daily job.