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…Yup. All right, one closing topic. You battled, survived, and beat cancer while building this incredible business. How has that changed your perspective on leading on the way you spend your days and on life broadly? Let's close it on a light note. Let's talk about cancer. That's the takeaway for these wonderful people. I didn't expect it. It came out of nowhere. Unlucky. How did this happen? Esophageal cancer, I just felt awful. My worst running experiences I've ever had and I got the diagnosis. Chemo, radiation, surgery, complications in surgery, another surgery. but the good news is I'm cancer free. I think it's gone. I think it's out of my body. The bad news is I'm even slower and I'm kind of a Frankenstein in my systems, but it works. Everything works. I think what I learned from that, though, is that every time I have a friend or a family member who gets cancer, I go to the web. You look at it, understand it, and what the treatments are. They always give you a five-year survival rate. My five-year survival rate was 20%, one in five. My five years is this November. Someone has kick its butt. What I quickly figured out and I talked it through with my family and obviously with Warren, frankly, is that I decided that I was doing exactly what I wanted to be doing. I love what I'm doing. I've got family, I've got an active lifestyle, I've got this fabulous brand and a company that I'm a part of, and a team. I just love it. I don't know what else I do, which is a problem. I decided I didn't want to live in fear. I didn't want to live every day thinking about what I had to lose. I had a lot to lose. I didn't want to be bitter about why me. I just decided I want to soak in everything I can on any given day. I want to be a CEO, I want to be a dad, I want to be a husband, I want to be a papa. I've got four grandkids. That was it. I think for me, that was really powerful because I don't want to be that cancer guy and they brought it up. It's just not my thing. I'm glad to talk about it. I don't hide it. I've learned a lot. I want to enjoy the things in life I really enjoy. That's where I learned, but I think everybody's different. You do find out companies, when you hit challenges, you learn what you're really all about. I think it's the same for people, of course. I feel really lucky because I'm doing what I want to do. Cancer is in the rearview mirror. It's good. It's so great.…

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