Deadly Hantavirus “Outbreak” & Trump’s China Trip: What No One Is Connecting

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]We have news on a potential infectious disease outbreak, global conflict, alien files, and that seems pretty normal for 2026. Hi everybody, I'm Jenna. This is Smarter News. It's nice to see you. And those are some of our big stories.

[00:00:14]Outbreak, conflict, alien files. You know, in any other time period, any other news, I would think strange week, something to be nervous about. I'm I'm ready for this, you guys.

[00:00:26]We've been we have been preparing for these moments for years together now at Smarter News. And I'm not trying to be flip about it because these are very serious stories. But when you actually step away and look at some of the headlines, you wonder why is everyone so stressed from the news because the news is stressful when you look at it.

[00:00:40]There's a lot of things going on. And so one of our goals today is to give you a couple key facts, give you some context for some of these headlines so we know what's going on and why it matters and we can leave some of the emotion aside just for a second. So, let me just set the stage for you for what we anticipate for this Newsweek. We're going to be digging into a couple of these stories, but first things first, Congress is back in session. So, we have lawmakers returning to Washington DC. That always impacts the Newsweek because you got a lot of different lawmakers that are available to step in front of any camera. Obviously, everyone has cameras on their phones, but in this way, they're back in DC. They're rubbing shoulders. They got things going on. And typically, we get more news from DC when the lawmakers are back in session. on Friday, just to catch you up in case you left the office early on Friday, we had a jobs report. And the jobs report actually showed better than expected job growth for the month of April. So that's one of the big headlines. It is slower job growth than March, but better than expected is always what we're watching for when it comes to Wall Street data.

[00:01:38]If we're looking at it in that lens, there is an expectation for data, and a lot of times it's not necessarily the specific number. It's about whether or not that number beats or fails to meet expectations. Well, for the jobs report, it beat expectations. Still doesn't show super robust job growth, but it's better than the opposite. So, it's still a mixed report for jobs, and the economy remains in focus. I took a look at gas prices real quick for you. The national uh price for a gallon of gas on average is still hovering around $4.50 a gallon.

[00:02:08]Remember, depending on where you live and your state taxes, that's going to look a lot different. It could be a variation of a couple dollars across the United States, but that may be from and I'm I'm just thinking through what we saw last week. We saw a little pause in the erratic nature of oil prices moving up up up up when there was some question about some sort of deal being worked out between the United States and Iran.

[00:02:31]Remember, we entered the week with Project Freedom. You had the United States military saying they are going to take a more aggressive posture making sure that these different container ships can travel through the straight of Hormuz. and they were going to protect these ships by firing on Iranian uh ships or assets if these ships were attacked. And that did indeed happen, but it but it only happened for about a day or so before Project Freedom was put on pause because President Trump said, "Wait a minute, we might actually be making some headway into these negotiations." As we start this next week, it doesn't look like those ne negotiations has been have been fruitful. And so now you see oil prices moving back again and some uncertainty about the way forward when it comes to the Middle East. So it's definitely a story to watch. However, a lot of the gaze of the world is going to be not in the Middle East. It's going to be out east uh looking towards Asia, specifically China where we expect President Trump to meet with President Xi in Beijing. That's a very big deal.

[00:03:28]We're going to explain why in just a moment. So we have this these kind of this news sort of percolating all around us right now. a lot of stories that are in different stages of development and I want to talk to you about one of the big developing stories which is a concern about an outbreak. What am I talking about here? I'm talking about an outbreak for haunt virus. You probably have maybe first heard of this virus over the last few weeks. We're talking about a cruise ship that where there was a few individuals that were stricken by this virus. this virus that produces what appears to be a respiratory infection. However, it has very high mortality rates in some cases upwards of 50%. There's no known therapeutic for the Hunto virus. So, there's no approved treatment for it. It's it's more about supporting someone if they're struck they if they actually fall ill uh by this illness. And on this cruise ship, as you know, a handful of people died.

[00:04:24]You had several others that were evacuated more immediately because they were ill. And now this cruise ship is parked at the in the Canary Islands and now these passengers are being offloaded and the passengers that have been on this ship are being returned to their home countries. But the question has now surfaced which is well how safe is that?

[00:04:46]And one of the reasons for that is the HANA virus, as you may well know already, is a virus that is spread typically from exposure to rodents that are infected with it. And not necessarily direct human to rodent uh contact, but if you're in an area where rodents are that are infected, you're breathing in the air, you're touching the surfaces, you could be exposed to this virus. The New York Times in fact described it. They said a very typical setting for this if there is one because you do see haunt viruses in uh cases in the United States is if someone goes to like a hunting cabin that they haven't been in for several months and they're in that cabin and they're being exposed to where these rodents were. Typically haunt virus in it which is overall very rare but if you when we're talking about haunt virus typically we're talking about rodent to human transmission.

[00:05:34]We're not necessarily talking about humanto human transmission, but that's the catch because on this cruise ship, the particular haunt virus strain is the kind that can be spread human to human.

[00:05:46]Also rare, but an important disclaimer here, which is why there's concerns about all of these different people representing more than 20 countries returning to their home countries with a question about, wait a minute, how much of a risk is it to the general public?

[00:06:03]So this morning the and I'm speaking to you now on Monday morning. Uh the University of Nebraska Medical Center is going to be a focus of attention this week and that is because of the 18 Americans that were returned to the United States. They went to Nebraska first. Two are actually in Atlanta.

[00:06:20]We'll talk about that in a moment. But 16 are at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. And the reason for that is that it is the only national quarantine unit in the nation.

[00:06:34]Fascinating. I I don't know about you. I thought maybe there'd be more quarantine units just kind of floating around, but apparently the University of Nebraska is particularly set up for this. So, you have 15 of these individuals that are in quarantine. You have one that's in bioontainment. These are different things. And actually, we heard from the medical director of the bio containment unit earlier today. Her name is Dr. Angela Hulet. And here's how she's explaining what these people are experiencing.

[00:07:05]>> Two facilities or quarantine unit is designed for well individuals who need to be monitored. Um it is not a patient care space. Um it is much more like a hotel than um than a patient care space.

[00:07:16]We don't have the typical things that you'd see in a hospital room. Um it's a much more comfortable environment actually um with um with some things that to help keep people comfortable like exercise equipment and it's a larger space um you know TVs and things like that. The bioontainment unit is a patient care space and that's our our unit which is also located on this campus and that's where we provide um a hospital-based care to people who need it and those patients could range from being you know relatively well and stable to critically ill requiring multiple procedures and multiple interventions. And so we do have one individual um who as you know was were was uh taken to the bioontainment unit early early this morning and um I'm happy to report that we uh assessed that individual um they are doing well actually they currently do not have any symptoms um and have a good appetite although they're very uh they're very tired um understandably but it's been a really long journey for these folks and so again everything appears to be going very smoothly. I'm really proud of how our team responded and um and how how we all kind of came together to um to execute this very complicated um you know transfer of multiple different individuals into these different units.

[00:08:32]>> So that's what we know of what's happening at the University of Nebraska.

[00:08:36]The 15 individuals that are in that quarantine unit that as she mentioned sounds a little bit like a hotel unit.

[00:08:41]Doesn't sound like you're you're in a typical hospital room. You have that exercise equipment. have ways to kind of keep yourself busy as these individuals were described earlier by another official as in good shape, good spirits and asymptomatic. The bio containment unit apparently has this one individual that is uh there was a question about you know whether you know what sort of symptoms that they were were showing or there was a reason for more oversight.

[00:09:06]You have two other Americans that are are at the University of Emery in Atlanta and they apparently were kind of uh pulled away from this larger group and uh Emory University Atlanta has them now and there's been were some questions that were not as specifically answered about these individuals and at the time of this recording we didn't have a statement from the University uh Emory University Atlanta. So there's a just a little bit of questions about them because we do know that there were individuals when they were transferred to the United States were showing signs of symptoms and also had a positive test. So this is what's happening now.

[00:09:43]Uh again, health officials continue to say the risk to the public is low. But as we all know, we live through a period of time where we were told that the risk to the public was low when it came to SARS uh COV2. I have to think back on this time period. Uh SARS Cove 2, right?

[00:10:02]It's the COVID 19 pandemic and I I'm really stunned to be honest with you just from a media perspective. I was listening to the different news sources today. I was trying to get prepared for our broadcast. You know, I like to skip across a lot of different networks to listen to different interviews. Want to make sure I have just the best information for you. And the sort of uh shrugging off of this is not this is not co this is way different. uh the risk of the public is low. It feels like it doesn't match the trauma that the public has been put through over the last several years. First being told there's nothing to be concerned about with co 19 to then being forced to stay at home. Uh and I use forced obviously loosely here in some cases forced depending on your community encouraged in other cases. But it wasn't just the risk to the citizen and their health. It was the risk to the economy, to the community, to what transpired of arguments and debates over policy. It was a really big deal. This is not distant history. This is near history. This is recent history. And I actually pulled up for you just because I I thought it was important to see. You know, this is from the CDC archive and it was from a transcript back in February of 2020.

[00:11:17]you're seeing a statement coming from the CDC uh which is to say while the immediate risk to the general American public remains low yada yada yada it's still it wasn't that wasn't the case so there's real reasons for questions about hans virus number one it is it is very rare it is absolutely very rare in including this statistic that I pulled from the CDC also reported from the New York Times at the end of 2022 there were just over 860 cases of haunt virus reported in the United States since surveys began in 1993.

[00:11:52]So I mean it's very very very very very rare. However, as I mentioned uh the h strain that can be found or has been seen in the southwestern part of the United States and that it doesn't necessarily have to be transmitted human to human has a mortality rate of 38 to 50%.

[00:12:15]So it's it's high. So yes, rare, but also, you know, not something that you'd want to be exposed to necessarily and not something that you could just shrug off as, well, there's a treatment for that. Well, there actually isn't a treatment for that. There's support for it, which is why these individuals are going to be probably staying in this unit for some time. The incubation period for this virus is 1 to eight weeks.

[00:12:39]One to eight weeks. And so it's possible that someone could come back completely asymptomatic after being exposed on a tight cruise ship where there shared services, you know, surfaces even if they were being quarantined in their room uh and experience symptoms at a later date. So it'll be very interesting to hear how this is handled uh moving forward for these individuals, especially as we wait to see do do more of them test positive for this particular virus and and what happens next. Here is a statement coming from the World Health Organization. This is how they are describing the hunter virus and the risk. I want you to hear from them so that we mark what's being said on the record in early May of 20126.

[00:13:23]This is not corona virus. Uh this is a very different virus. We know this virus hunter viruses have been around for quite a while. There's a lot of detail that we know. I'm going to ask NAS to come in and say this, but I want to be unequivocal here. This is not SARS KV2.

[00:13:38]This is not the start of a COVID pandemic. This is an outbreak that we see on a ship. There's a confined area.

[00:13:44]We have five confirmed cases so far. We completely understand why these questions are coming and we are trying to provide all of the information that we can. That's why we're having a press conference here to give accurate information and we're grateful for all of those who out there who are asking these types of questions. But this is not the same situation we were in six years ago. um it doesn't spread the same way um like corona viruses do. It's very different. It's that close intimate contact that we've seen and most hunt viruses don't transmit between people at all. So that's the description coming from the World Health Organization.

[00:14:18]Important to note all those key differences. We want to make sure that those key differences are very clear. At the same time, uh, in general, when I'm looking at this news, I'm thinking about, well, how can we have compassion for a public that just recently went through a global pandemic and may have a few more questions than than if they hadn't. So, right now, this is where things stand. Uh, we'll wait to hear about more information about specifically the Americans, but important thing to know as well is that you have all these passengers returning to their home countries. this is ongoing and there's, you know, there's different ways that uh that these different citizens from different places are being reintroduced into their communities. So, just a story to watch and one we're going to keep an eye on, especially with that that press conference early this morning uh with some brand new information as we started off the week.

[00:15:06]I wanted to make sure I shared that with you. It is interesting to note as we turn to China, we have a massive meeting that we are watching that could take place on Wednesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It's believed that President Trump would arrive in Beijing on Wednesday. You'd have meetings on Thursday and Friday. There's been some questions about whether or not this meeting would even take place. We didn't actually hear confirmation from Chinese officials uh until we saw some confirmation this morning on social media. And I'm going to show you a little bit of that uh in just a moment.

[00:15:40]So this this meeting was supposed to happen several weeks ago. It was moved because of what was happening in Iran.

[00:15:45]There were some questions about whether or not it was going to take place at all. And it's ironic to sort of talk about this meeting, understanding that the last time we had a major meeting where it was really just set up that President Trump was going to meet President Xi was back in 2017 in an official capacity.

[00:16:02]uh visiting in China, visiting in someone's home country at the seat of government was before the pandemic even took place. So that this first sort of big meeting in official capacity where President Trump visited uh China was in 2017. There's been a whole bunch of different meetings on the sidelines of different events. President Xi had gone to Mara Lago. But I'm talking what what makes this meeting particularly different is it's with the intention of it being a a state visit. So even in 2017, President Trump was like on his Asia tour and he stopped by China to have this visit. You know, if if President Xi was in San Francisco for a separate summit, President Trump met with, you know, the representatives were meeting on the sideline. So this is different in this way that it's a very specific set time where you have the leader of the United States of America meeting with the leader of China, the leader of the free world as President Trump has described uh meeting the leader of the largest communist nation in the world and that's President Xi of China with the actual understanding that the agenda is between the two of them and that this is something that we don't see very often. So the question is of course what's going to happen? A couple weeks ago, I spoke with Gordon Chang, one of our favorite uh Asia analysts that we talked to on a variety of different occasions here on Smarter News. And at that time, there was a question about whether or not an earlier meeting was going to take place. And here's what Gordon had to say about whether or not Trump, President Trump should actually take this meeting at all.

[00:17:35]>> I think he should not go. M >> now there are a lot of this I'm not as as um apoplelectic about it as I was a couple weeks ago but he does shouldn't go the reason he shouldn't well there now additional reasons he shouldn't go first of all the most important thing is Trump is going to the Chinese capital and he's going first and the Chinese are going to look at this like the vassel um going to the grand celestial court >> and Trump doesn't think he's a vassel Trump doesn't think he is showing his submission to China, but what Trump thinks does not matter. What matters is what the Chinese think. So, let's take a look at what the Chinese think. This is a video that was released on social media. It was about a two-minute video.

[00:18:22]This is a uh kind of the short section towards the end. Uh and by the way, the voice is sounds to be AI generated. So, if you hear the strange voice, I don't know whose it is. Uh but it'll be a little distracting. So, here's part of this promotional video coming from uh the Chinese uh Communist Party.

[00:18:41]>> Neither China nor the US can remodel each other, but they can choose how they want to engage. The right choice is to commit to the principle of mutual respect, to hold the line on peaceful coexistence and to strive for the prospect of win-win cooperation. The Earth is too small for China and the US to turn against and confront each other.

[00:19:00]And the Pacific Ocean is vast enough for both to prosper in their own ways. China and the US must coexist peacefully on this planet for all time to come. A ready and open China is right here. It is now for the US to choose the right course.

[00:19:17]>> Interesting final line for the US to choose the right course. What do you think that means? Well, that's really a question like what does that actually mean? But this is the video that's being released by China with the understanding that President Trump is visiting Beijing. You hear the way Gordon Chang was phrasing this and describing it as the way that China sees it is different than the way that the American public or America can see this meeting. And there was a question here of what does a successful meeting look like? So, I did some research across a variety of different sources, think tanks and and and whatnot that are listing out, hey, here's the three things to watch when, you know, President Trump goes to China.

[00:19:58]Here's the five things. Here's the 10 things. And, you know, there's all sorts of talks about the tariffs, trade agreement, uh, rare earth minerals. I mean, the things that we've talked about over the last several years. Obviously, these are the two largest economies in the world. Meeting what what happens in the United States impacts China. what happens in China impacts the United States. So, the economy is definitely in focus. But what my big takeaway after all of that reading was really what we're watching for is for anything to go wrong. It's not necessarily that there's a list of victories that are very clear about the United States going there and having negotiations and walking away with this signed deal or that signed deal. What I'm really watching for is any break or tension that's taking place while President Trump is in China because that will be a sign to the world about this relationship and where it stands today. And and quite frankly the opposite. If there's no real dust up or tension and it's a warm meeting with some questions about the road ahead, uh then that's going to be the takeway. It almost seems like those are the big sort of points that we're watching for. It's not a specific policy per se. It's more of a feeling and if if that is uh that sort of falls in line more with diplomacy, you know, what is the sort of relationship? What's the nature of this relationship? Especially because we're watching to see well how much does Iran reach out to China for support here as Iran continues to push back on the United States and and what the United States wants to see from Iran. How much does China support Russia? You know, there's some there's a lot of uh been quite a few headlines coming out of uh Ukraine and a question about the path forward in the war there. It's taken a bit of a backseat because we have this conflict in the Middle East. But that's something where we watch to see well what what are China's actions there?

[00:21:43]What's the nature of China's relationship with North Korea? One of the State Department state designated sponsors of terrorism. So what is the nature of the US relationship with China under the Trump administration? Is it warm or is it cold? And it sounds really basic, but that to me is what we're going to be watching for this week. Any notable change in tone between the two countries, for better or for worse, and that's going to be what we're going to be keeping an eye on. We'll let you know, of course, if that changes. In the meantime to all of this, as we continue to watch the news uh here on planet Earth, because so far, so far, guys, that's been my beat. Okay, it's been Earthbased. I know we did a little bit with the Aremis 2 mission. I could extend our our reporting area to the moon and back, but you know it the universe is a big place. In fact, it's uh I'm going to give you a couple data points about how big it is. And late on Friday, we got an announcement that the White House was going to make good on a promise of releasing files to the American public that have to do with unidentified anomalous phenomenon. And I always have to look down to read that unidentified anomalous phenomenon because we probably know this as UFOs, unidentified flying objects. Apparently, it's not. We're not going to use that word anymore, but this is what we're talking about. There's been questions over the years about is there life out there? Are there aliens among us? And in the grand scheme of all the questions that we've been asking across the news landscape, we're just going to throw those in as well because you never know what you're going to learn. And I have said to you on the record that on a Friday if suddenly we learn about the existence of aliens, I'm going to need the weekend. Okay? And so I I I we did not learn about the existence of aliens.

[00:23:33]That's that's what the big takeaway from this is the following. The US government set up a website. We'll make sure to link to that in the show notes that is going to release rolling files. These are files that could be a PDF. They could be a video. They could be a photograph. These are sometimes files that were previously classified that no one has ever seen. Some cases you may or may not have come across some of these images before, whether it's, you know, through congressional testimony or otherwise. And what the US government said is that, and I'm quoting here from the website, the materials archived here on this website are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sufficient data, and the Department of War welcomes the application of private sector analysis, information, and expertise. So, the White House is saying, "Listen, this has been talked about for years. We're not going to gatekeep here. We're going to show you different things, and if we can figure out what they are, then why not?"

[00:24:35]So, let me show you a video. That was one of the videos that came up here.

[00:24:40]Apparently, this was a a radar, an infrared radar of some sort from a US platform, military platform. We don't know which kind. There's no notes from the person that observed this. This video goes for about a minute or so. And this is a good example of what we're seeing because it's something that you can kind of see in the video sort of, and you don't really know what it is.

[00:25:01]And apparently the government doesn't really know what it is either, which is why it's actually here. So, the website war.gov/ gov/ufo. See, there's UFO.

[00:25:11]Okay, so I'm not the only one that's using it. Let me just read about this video a little bit more. The Department of Army submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the all domain anomaly resolution office consisting of 1 minute and 49 seconds of video from an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform this year. We don't have any oral or written description of the observation, but it basically gives you a little bit of what what you're looking at on the screen. So now at this point, someone wants to take a closer look at this and figure out exactly what it is. It's there for the public to see.

[00:25:42]So there's a lot of this and we expect more. So 160 plus files released as of Friday. More files to come. One of the questions that I am asking now as a journalist that's reporting under this administration, whether we're talking about the Epstein files, UAP files, or any other files, there's been often a question asked about about quantity versus quality. So you can release a ton of files and say this is our effort at transparency. But if you're not really saying what those files are or what they mean, then there's a question there about how helpful it is to the public.

[00:26:15]Certainly as a journalist, I want access to more information than less. But simply the release of files is often not enough to understand exactly what they mean and why they matter. So this matters because we've never seen this before from the US government. In some cases, these are previously released.

[00:26:32]We've never seen them before. and it gives access to the public to material that the public didn't have access to before. What it all means, we don't really know. But now we have this website and we expect more. And then of course there's a question of when does something get released and how it gets released and what if there is that one item where suddenly it does change everything forever. That one piece of information that changes how we feel about our place in the world. And that's what I was really thinking about as I saw this news this weekend and I'm curious your thoughts about it as well.

[00:27:03]which is what is that question really all about? You know, whether or not we're the only life out there, like what is why are people so fascinated with it?

[00:27:12]It sounds obvious in some cases, like I'd like to know if there's aliens walking around. That would be good information. I'm curious about that. It seems unknown. We can't confirm one way or the other.

[00:27:24]But is there something deeper going on?

[00:27:26]Is it because it would change the way that we view ourselves or the way we view Earth or all of the stories that I just mentioned to you? Whether it's the Haunt, jobs, conflict, is all do all of those stories change if we establish life elsewhere.

[00:27:43]Is that why this really matters or does it matter for another reason entirely?

[00:27:47]I'm curious your thoughts on that. I think there's probably a question that has to do with faith, too. If you're someone that uh is someone that likes to explore your faith, does that change the way that you're thinking about the world or your faith? If if suddenly life is identified elsewhere, does it change the way you just think about yourself, period? Because there's others out there that may not look or sound like you, how would that why does this ma why does this really really matter?

[00:28:14]I'm curious your thoughts. Let me just give you a little bit of a context here though because I was having a conversation about this topic this weekend and you often get people kind of shrug off and say well you know like the universe is big like the chances of there being life you know probable right we would think we would I we mathematically like I guess we're thinking of process you know there's so much possibility out there how could there not be but but we actually don't know and what's interesting is you look into NASA's The way that NASA tries to explain the universe, these numbers are so big, guys, it's hard to even wrap your you can't even wrap your brain around it because they're so big. Okay, how about this? One lightyear is six trillion miles. One lightyear. The observable universe, according to NASA, is 92 billion light years across. Every lightyear is six trillion miles. It is 92 billion lighty years across. That's the observable universe. And guess what?

[00:29:16]NASA cannot confirm for us, again, sounds obvious, but when you say it out loud, it hits different whether or not the universe is infinite or finite. We actually have no idea. The amount of unknown is actually overwhelming and in a lot of ways should encourage our curiosity and maybe add a little humility to what we think we know now because clearly there's a lot to discover. But just think about that. One lightyear is 6 trillion miles. The observable universe is 92 billion lighty years across and we have no idea of whether or not this universe is finite or infinite.

[00:29:55]And these are our numbers. These are our metrics that we're trying to use to understand the vastness of what lies beyond.

[00:30:05]So maybe we should think about that again, apply it to the stories that we just talked about a little bit here, which is a lot of times we're looking at some of these big stories with the context that we have, which is historic or what we know based on science or culture, uh, or just general understanding of of the world, you know, whatever whatever we're using to understand it. Uh but we're limited by those things and it's always a reminder to think creativ you know very creatively about some of the stories where we fall into familiar patterns in the way that we report it and also familiar patterns in the way that we think about it because those patterns are sort of comfortable usual uh but not necessarily innovative. So I'm going to try to lean into innovation and think about whether we're talking about the haunt virus and we're talking about infectious diseases and a threat to the public. How can we think about that differently in a novel way we haven't thought about before? We have the context of the pandemic. Well, what's the next step? How do we push that forward uh into a forward-leaning conversation about the future and doing things better? Whether we're talking about China or Iran, Russia or North Korea, what creative solutions have we not considered yet? And how much time are we investing in that versus reporting on familiar arguments that have taken place for years, decades really, for any of these entities? And speaking of entities about UAPs, you know, we're trying to describe the unknown and only the words that we have capable or accessible to us. Maybe we should think about what is beyond our imagination here. Uh and how do we push into again forwardleaning conversations rather than backwardleaning ones. So that's what I'm thinking about today.

[00:31:38]But you know, all bets are off if an alien gets discovered walking down Midtown Manhattan today. Uh and then I'll have some new thoughts on it.

[00:31:48]For now, I'm going to leave it there as anything is possible this week. It's really a week where there this these stories could go in a lot of different directions and I don't want to pull back some of the seriousness that's at stake here. We're talking about, you know, the health of American citizens when we're talking about these haunted viruses, whether it's for those that were exposed on the ship or those outside. When we're talking about China and the United States, we're talking about our national security and the economy and what it means for American citizens now and in the future. We have an outsized impact on the global economy. So, wherever you are in the world, it impacts you as well. And then when it comes to UFOs, you know, again, just the big unknown there. And so, uh, what that could mean could be to encourage all of this creativity and growth. But we also have to consider uh that it could it could be something that uh is extremely challenging and those are the only words that I have accessible to me right now.

[00:32:43]So uh we're going to we're going to approach this with optimism. Uh we're not going to disregard the seriousness of these topics, but hopefully you have a little bit more context today and some interesting facts to pull from as you're thinking about these different stories and as you see different headlines delivered to you throughout the week this week. So, thank you for your support of Quick and Size nonpartisan Smarter News. We'll be here with all the developments on smartnews.com and AC ac across so uh social media as well. So, find us there, Instagram, X, YouTube, uh wherever you prefer. We love seeing you and we appreciate your support. Have a great week wherever you are, guys. I'll see you soon. Bye.