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116 I do not recall. If there's a text message that refreshes it, that would be better.

So it was a phone call. It wasn't a text message, you talked to the staffers?

The staffers, I believe—I believe it was a phone call. I know that we had a phone call. If I exchanged text messages with the staff, I don't readily recall that.

But we definitely had a conference call, me, Ed, at least two of their staff members. And they were telling us about their efforts. And we were like, oh, we can probably be helpful in tweeting this, or, oh, we can be helpful in giving out phone numbers, you know, to Members of Congress' offices so that people know that they need to call their Member of Congress.

When was this call approximately?

I don't recall. It would have been around when he announced the Dear Colleague Letter is my guess.

So was this end of December?

It could have been middle of December. It could have been early—actually—actually, you know, I don't know when the Dear Colleague Letter came out. It's kind of a blur. It's 12 months ago.

Okay. But you spoke to, it sounds like, Congressman Brooks after the 2020 election, general election?

Speaking to? I don't know that we "spoke" spoke. I know that I sent him messages that were getting—that I thought were getting delivered that weren't getting delivered. And then I believe I got a message to him. And he sent me some boilerplate stuff or something, or a staff member.

But I do know that the substantive part of my relationship—not relationship—my interaction with the Brooks office was the call where they got to describe their actions to