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You create an account and then where do we go from there? You do create an account. What you'll be automatically defaulted to is a list, what we call the discovery screen. It's a list of restaurants with their icons, their logos. Most of those are all listed in Nashville right now because that's where we launched. We'll soon, we've got some locations in the Space Coast of Florida and soon opening up the Dallas Metroplex area and basically all over the country, wherever there are great bars that can be referred in. And we've got a really significant growth plan there. But what happens, you get your account. Let's just pretend you're making one of your trips to Nashville Forest and I happen to know about it. Based on your trip to Nashville, I could go into our technology, find a location that may be in proximity to the hotel that you're going to be staying or someplace I know you're going to be. I pick a drink that's offered on our digital menu, do an in-app purchase, include your phone number and the transaction. I click pay, you receive a text and that text tells you that Shermans purchased a drink for you, enjoy it. Click here to log in and find out what it is. And when you click that link and have an account, first you'd create an account if you needed to, but if you already had one, you'd click that link and you'd see that drink literally in your inventory, in your wallet, your shared spirits wallet. When you go to the restaurant, you click on the redeem screen, show them the drink, they prepare it for you. You click a little button, it sends us a server call and we know it's time to pay the bar. Wow. So literally Venmo for cocktails. Yeah. You know, when you click on that restaurant icon and you see that they've got a Manhattan and old fashioned three or four cocktails, two, three wines, a couple of beers. This is an awesome touch just from the aspect of like, if my wife says she's going to go to the casino, one of her friends will say, you know, Hey, here's 20 bucks next time you go, you know, see what happens. And, you know, of course the $20 never wins. Never wins. Even though it might have paid off, but it never wins. In this instance, you know that when you buy the drink, they're getting the drink. That's absolutely correct. And we know who receives that, that during credit, we know when they redeemed it, if they redeemed it, where they redeemed it. You can imagine this data that spun off how important ultimately it will end up being for the suppliers that sponsor these programs on occasion. And it will become incredibly important for the restaurant operators. You know, they already have the ability to go in and see, oh my goodness, I've got 50 pending customers. Yeah. We've received drinks from our patrons and we have the ability to market to those customers, reminding them to go in and redeem their drink. Also if they can't redeem it, let's say they came to Nashville and didn't get to the restaurant just to use you as a continual example, you're free to forward that drink to somebody else you may know. So as long as that individual is 21 and is of age, you can forward them the drink that you may have an inventory. We also have the ability to build campaigns such that we can deploy 100, 200 drinks on behalf of a brand or a restaurant and those can go out through patrons, influencers, ambassadors, GMs, distributor reps, supplier reps. Anybody who is deemed as important in the campaign has the ability to be given five or 10 of those drinks at a time and we can measure the effectiveness of how well they share those drinks, how they'll end up actually being redeemed. 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