Would love to maybe spend some time starting with a bit of a reflection in terms of where we are now and, uh, the new, the new role.

Yes.

It's, uh, it's been a whirlwind summer for me, um, and for, for C21 in general.

Uh, we closed the deal last week, so, uh, it's official.

We are Silver State Relief and, and C21 are part of Vireo now.

Um, I've been on, I've been onboarding over the summer, um, so it was kind of juggling both.

Um, but you know, we had a very successful shareholder vote.

Mm-hmm

Sam, on to you.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, the, the proof is in the pudding on, on this type of aggressive roll-up strategy, right? And so if you look at some of our Q2 numbers that we reported, 7% same store sales growth.

Just to clarify on that number, because there, there has been some confusion on it, um, that is, you know, Tyson had, had referenced it as a proxy in the, in the earnings call, but really in essence, it's what the asset was before it was consolidated on a year-over-year comp basis.

So this is 7% organic growth in these assets.

Now, if you, if you drill down at some state levels, Tyson mentioned, uh, Nevada.

Deep Roots in Nevada did 14%, uh, growth year over year.

Why was taking paper, in this case stock, from, uh, Virio Growth, why was that the right acquirer?