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So, Blair this is really what you do for a living. We talked a lot about the fact that mergers, acquisitions were way up, came way down. And then we've talked about a pipeline you've talked about on this program pipeline coming. It's been coming for a while now. When is it actually going to get here? So great question. Obviously, your investment banker, you're naturally optimistic. So we always think things we better I would tell you this, we do see the shoots and actually already happening in January, for example, if you think about larger transactions, we've already had four transactions in the first two weeks, over 0 billion. You compare that to last year's entire first quarter, there was five transactions over 10 billion. So. So it is happening one, two. The fact is there's an optimism in the C-suite that we have avoided a significant downturn. And in fact, that will have a tailwind and some growth. And that's always a good environment in which to do M&A. And we're getting a sense of that strongly. It there's a pent up demand. We haven't had an important M&A in 18 months last year, a $3 trillion market that compares to an average the five years before that, 4 to 4 and a half trillion. So there is this demand, David. And remember, companies are actually really good at thinking about inorganic activity, M&A activity in a way that 20 years ago wouldn't be the case. So it's such a core part of what they do that there's a little bit of make up and then we think about the financing markets. There's more liquidity not perfect, but more. And what we see on financing, for example, on leverage deals at this point, you can get 5 to 5 and a half times leverage. We go back six months ago, we would have been in the force. So there's a lot of reason to think it is a good time. And the last thing I'd say is we're in an election year and the dirty little secret is 20 out of the past 24 presidential elections, markets have done well and gone up in the last year. Let's talk about the financing for a second. There are some people, particularly private equity, were saying if in fact the Fed cuts cuts earlier rather than later, that will really, really stimulate was an acquisition. Is that your experience? I mean, there's an important whether they cut in March or they cut in July and is important how much they got this year. I'm not in that camp. I'm in the camp that wherever we end up at the end of the year in terms of the rates has been priced in, whether it happens in March or happens in May. We'll have limited impact on my world. The trend will have a positive impact. The fact is when rates get cut from the first rate cut to the final rate cut, if you look at the past five times, it's happened. Markets have done very well. Okay. So and that's where we priced in. I think the bigger question is going to be valuation number one. And after you've had such a run in the market, you have the obvious question in my buying it at X-Y-Z Company at the right time or not and the way you think through the. And how long will the process take from assigning to close? That actually continues to be a big factor, as it should. So I think that as we find a level in the markets and things continue to settle out, it encourages both the buyer and the seller to say, okay, there's something that can be done here. But in general, I just back up and say the conversations that I'm having, my firms having with senior leaders across different industries suggest that M&A feels like be much more important for them in 24 than it was in 2023. So in financial media, which doesn't necessarily make it so, but in financial me, there's a lot of talk about private equity and having a lot of portfolio companies the need for private equity to actually get some money into the hands of some people who've given their money. Is that an impetus right now to have more transactions done? I think private equity will be a very strong driver in 2024. If you think about the years preceding 2023 and basically 40% of market. There is such a large group of companies that are looking for liquidity and coming from private equity that I do think it'll be a very active time. And again, that goes directly to the financing markets as well. The financing arena will be more liquid than it was last year and we're seeing most of the private equity world think about being more active. And frankly, to their credit, they slowed down activity at a time when they should. You know, it's so last year it was much easier for a corporate to look at something and not think they had private equity competition this year. When we see companies we're selling. The interest is both corporate versus in corporate and private equity. How much of your business in merger and acquisition is driven by essentially the need to reform parts of the sector? I mean, I'm thinking of one that I come out of media right now. There's a lot of pressure right now for some of the big media companies to really think about the cards they've got and how they deal them and how they get rid of some how they pick some up, how. Much of M&A is really driven by these big companies saying, you know, we've got to really restructure. Today, I think it's most of it in progress. Transformation is happening so quickly and is so disruptive that every company is saying, Here's my portfolio today, but where's it going to be tomorrow? So you need to talk about your world. Media needs to be traditional media with three networks. Now it's traditional and not traditional players. Apple, Google, Amazon are as active as Disney, Comcast, Paramount Gaming. What is in technology, It's all becomes one industry. If I go across any industry, that is what we see. I look at the pharma world. The fact is life sciences is one of the biggest areas out there. Why? Because we have such innovation going on in this country. So many companies you never heard of five years going in and heard of that have become really important just five years later that this becomes a window when you can about R&D for a big pharma company. It's merging in many ways to by then than build. So I would say that every business is being challenged in ways it never was before and it's causing CEOs, it's causing boards, businesses and leaders to constantly rethink their ideal portfolio. Recognizing there is never an end state portfolio anymore is always going to be evolving. And the good news is we have a as talented and experienced a group of leaders as ever. So when a CEO undertakes M&A today, chances are strong that he or she is going to end up doing a good job and the right thing for the company, both strategically and financially, all of which supports your view, the 2024, it looks like it will be a lot stronger in 2023 in mergers and acquisitions. What does that say for Centerview partners? Are you hiring? And if you are hiring, what sorts of people you're hiring? Because it looks very different than it did certainly ten years ago, maybe five years ago, because of some of the innovation not to speak of. For example, General of I. Boy, that's a great question. First of all, we are hiring. So anybody has a resume, you let us know. We're always hiring. The skill set we look for is probably different than you would think. We want people who can think critically, who can analyze situations, who have judgment, have the ability to make difficult problems, distilled into some more simple problems. And it's less about whether you can make a great model. I do think when I, over time, will replace some of the skill sets that we see traditionally done in STEM, you know, coding, for example, I'm not sure that I was I'd be advising my kids that learning how to be great coders is going to matter in ten years. What will matter is, do you have judgment? Do you have an ability to think critically, as I mentioned, and ask questions that need to be asked, that you can see situations of what am I missing? And I think that that is a skill set that people are going to find is increasingly important. And just the skill set that says, I'm going to three careers, what do I need to know to have three careers over my over my professional span?