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t too. Throw a Columbus in there but give the full context. Why not? And then of course they would be torn down in an hour so it wouldn't work. But yeah I think it's always fun to noodle on these kinds of ideas because it might give you ideas for better ideas. In the movie business that's called the bad idea. So somebody comes up with a bad idea and you know why it's bad but that makes you think…

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I talked about everything? I think so. How would you make it flat? Excellent question. And I mentioned that before. Your bike path would not need to be flat everywhere. It could be flat in parts based on just the local topography. But because the electronic bikes are now, they've gone from maybe a novelty to, I own one now and it's completely changed my transportation. I won't go into my long sales pitch on that. But with the electric bikes they give an assist to your pedaling. The hills don't really matter. So even at my age there's no hill in my neighborhood and I live in a really hilly place where they're really steep hills where I live. They just disappear with an electronic bike.

So there will be more of those and you could probably rent them. You wouldn't have to bring it with you. You'd just rent it on site just like any rental car, etc. They're in the range of, yes they could be four to eight or twelve thousand dollars. Mine might cost four thousand. My guess is that it'll be a thousand in a few years. You know, probably in three years will be a thousand dollars. And then you still might not want to own one but it's a very economical thing to rent. You know if you're renting a thousand dollar item it probably doesn't cost you that much per day.

All right, that's all for now and I will talk to you tomorrow.