Anne Barry

But I've got to hand it to the air traffic controllers who kept working through this.

It's stressful at the best of times.

And they were sort of amazing.

But look, the airlines obviously lost a bunch of flights.

We saw 2,000 scrapped on Monday.

We saw 900 scrapped even yesterday.

And it looked like this was going to get better.

Small businesses, how many times have you and I talked about sweet greens in the carpets of the world?

All of those locations near federal offices certainly saw traffic dry up.

So I think lots of people were struggling.

I think there's a lot of happiness that it's over.

Well, I think everyone's super, super excited to be getting back to work.

Also, just one thing that's sort of interesting here, Toby, it's looking ahead now, we're getting into that sort of holiday season when consumers are thinking about what their holiday spend is going to look like.

So folks thinking about, you know, what does it mean for the retail sector?

Again, some of this back pay, folks will get paid, there'll maybe be some catch up spending, but some of it may be lost in the meantime.

The good news, though, does mean that everyone who is worried about their Thanksgiving travel, I don't know if you, Toby, were worried about getting on a plane a couple of weeks from now, at least there is this sort of end in sight and folks are actually getting a little bit more confident about being able to see friends and loved ones over that Thanksgiving period.

Let's move on, Toby, and talk about something that I'm very curious as to whether you've experienced this.

Have you ever received a text message saying you're overdue on a toll payment or that you need to authorise a delivery of something you frankly didn't know you'd ordered?

All the time.

Okay, well, that means that like you, and I've had this too, you've been experiencing together with victims from all over the world, you've been plagued with millions of scam text messages, and these have allegedly made over a billion dollars for the instigators of these schemes.