So at any rate, and this is a dream I'm going to present at UAC too, because it's just kind of dramatic and it involves an asteroid and so on.

I thought people might get a kick out of it since it's an asteroid group, right? I love asteroids and I suspect all of us do.

So here's, let me just set you up with a little story.

Remember about two years ago, right before Thanksgiving, 2024, Around that time, do you remember what Pluto was doing, anybody? Opposing Mars.

Right.

And it just entered what sign? Aquarius.

right?

Like I said, my waking day was pretty routine other than I was packing for the trip, right? And preparing for a long car ride.

And what's causing all these whale deaths? O'Connell says there are a number of possible causes.

Our habitat is their habitat.

Most of the world is an ocean planet.

And what we're finding out now with issues such as plastic pollution, we're finding sperm whales coming up on shore.

And when they open them up to study what caused them to die, they're literally weighted down with tons of plastic inside of them.

It's hard to really understand how many whales are being killed in ship strikes or through, you know, interactions where they've ingested plastic and they've died.

Not all of them will strand on a beach for us to study.

No causal link has been found between the construction of offshore wind farms and whale deaths, but O'Connell is concerned.

Humankind had found cheaper and easier sources for fuel and food, so why don't we just celebrate the whale as a beautiful free animal? In 1970, the folk singer Judy Collins recorded a traditional whale hunting song with backing vocals by The Humpbacks.

We're bound off for Greenland.

And ready to sail.

In hopes to find riches.

In hunting the whale.

But Taiji was very robust, held up, received incredible domestic assistance.

I think for Japan, it comes down to the fact that they've always been very concerned that if there's a successful end to whaling, what does that then mean for other parts of their fisheries industry?