Gerard Barron

And then, of course, he's a great manufacturing genius.

And so...

So I think, you know, we seek, we receive inspiration out of that as well.

And I think, you know, there are many, many efficiencies that when you start focusing on and reindustrialization, the fact that we exported it all.

And as I, as I mentioned before, more than 20,000 companies have disappeared, more than two and a half million jobs have disappeared in the last 20 years.

Two and a half million, two and a half million jobs disappeared.

have disappeared from the manufacturing sector in the last 20 years.

unfathomable with all the new industry that could... I think the opportunity is a lot more new industries.

Those two and a half million jobs might come back at a lower number, right?

Because of automation and other things.

But it's about GDP growth as well.

And that GDP growth will lead to more industries around it.

It's about direct jobs and indirect jobs.

And so I think that's the exciting part for the American economy.

And a reliable, affordable supply of these critical minerals is the beginning of a great era, I believe, for the United States.

Well, the good news is the approach that I have taken is to bring partners in who can help speed that up.

So, for example, I mentioned a company, Allseas, who have worked with us on the offshore.

And Allseas employ many thousands of people.

For 40 years, they've been laying pipe for the oil and gas industry in the deep ocean.

So they're used to...