they're putting forth the appearance of a search to keep everybody distracted from perhaps something else happening. >> and what is that something else, do you think? >> i don't know. i mean, there's got to be 30 or 40 different paths of discussion that each has some amount of credibility. i mean, this -- this is such a phenomenal and extraordinary situation that any path at this point could have possibility to it, right? but the reality is we can't even begin to understand what that is until we have access to all of this preliminary data. when you start on a trip, you know, if you know you're going from point a to point b, but the first ten steps that you take are from point a to point c, then by the time you realize you're -- by the time you're halfway through your trip, you're going to be nowhere near b. you're going in the totally wrong direction, perhaps. and you wouldn't know that if