welcome to the whole store. >> i'm anderson cooper for drag is an or form that's been around for centuries, including shakespeare's times. women weren't allowed back then to appear on stage. so man dressed up to play the roles of female characters drag performances have evolved a lot over the decades, exploding in mainstream popularity in recent years with tv hits like rupaul's drag race. but now it's also become a political target. get republican lawmakers and six states have passed laws aimed at restricting drag performances and places where children are present. the laws have been amended, blocked, are currently being challenged in federal courts. over the next hour, cnn's randy k digs into the colorful history of drag it takes a look at how and why its come under attack this is how it begins yes, it is always starts with the foundation conceal her and foundation. right? well concealed. he just got some foundation. >> not yet, but give me a few years. probably we're going to let off quite like that. >> how long does it take you to get all made up for full drag? >> it varies. would on average, you're talking 30 or 40 minutes, but the transition from your average homework sexual to grab, shove, drag queen interesting it's good to see the process step by step. >> some communities every bit. >> it's my moment to just take myself into a whole another world and just be happy despite whatever going around. >> at the palace bar and restaurant in miami, south beach tiffany phantasia is lip sinking to the song, rather be by clean bandage she is slang. >> that's a drag term for killing it. she has been performing in drag for 20 years in drag, i feel more powerful i feel free. >> i feel independent. i feel love, i feel joy, especially when i'm seeing some papers as i love the freedom of expression. i love making somebody has i love the glitz and glam because no matter but what i'm going through a growing through, somebody else gets that energy. and for those five minutes nothing matters what do you think is the draw for an audience, why do you think people attend directions? because it's different it goes against the status well, it challenges aside. we are told as we grow up, you're supposed to act this way. talk this way to this man. that third and here's some body you find all of them performing for you. whether seeing live or liberal thinking, whatever their define the so shouldn't norm, they're going against eagle and that's fascinating for a lot of people drag has fascinated audiences for more than a century there were hugely popular drag balls in harlem during the boring 20s in the 50s and 60s, crowds packed into clubs featuring what were referred to at the time as female impersonators before a backlash shove drag into the shadows but perhaps no one has helped bring dragged back into the spotlight today, more than dragged superstar rupaul's with the tv competition show, rupaul's drag race? sashay away. >> but a hit show has been running for 16 seasons collecting a whopping 29 emmy awards along the way. >> rupaul's world. of wonder production company has built a drag empire launching drag race tv franchises, season, type of good is minus zeta, a call in more than a dozen countries around the world. ready, i'm sure. was on drag race. the audience is connecting with the tenacity of human spirit that's what that show is really about when you you tear it down to just nuts and bolts. we all relate to someone who has been cast off and they prove us wrong and remember, you can't love yourself. how they, how you go, loved somebody. >> thanks in part to rupaul's drag has become more popular than ever. there are a drag branches, drag dinner shows, drag beauty pageants, even drag bingo it's right? >> eric as we're getting so close to me drag is the main attraction. every new year's eve in key west, florida fried it all. >> you're just kind of dangling up here a crowd of enthusiastic revelers counts down to midnight as a drag queen descends from the balcony at this bar in a giant high-heeled shoe we found the queen of this. i've reported live from these festivities for years, and now i'm left wondering how did this can't be form of entertainment becomes such a target for the political right. like it is here in my home state of florida hoboken lawmakers and right-wing leaders across the country are pushing through laws restricting drag shows the law here in florida signed by republican can governor ron desantis is aimed at banning children from attending drag shows. it blocks venues are publicly permitted events from admitting children to an adult live performance, which according to the law, includes any performance that quote, depicts or simulates the lwd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts there are these like these drag shows sexually explicit in what they're doing in luck adult entertainment, people can do what they want with some of that, but there should not be any of these kids. they're the law is up in the air now after a federal judge putting did on hold pending a state appeal supporters of the restrictions claim that drag shows are harmful to children. some accused drag queen because of being child rumors a derogatory term often used to demonize members of the lgbtq community as pedophiles the desantis administration filed a complaint against the miami restaurant, our house accusing it of exposing minors to what it called sexually explicit drag shows and threatening to pull its liquor license after a state investigation found no unlawful content in the performances the venue which denied any wrongdoing, agreed to pay a $10,000 administrative fine and set a minimum age requirement of 18 for their drag shows. >> we'd coming to your city, desantis officials also threatened to yank the liquor licenses of the plaza live theatre in orlando, and the hyatt regency in miami for hosting an event called a drag queen christmas we're minors accompanied by their parents, were present even though a report by undercover state agents acknowledged they did not witness any lewd acts both settled for a $5,000 fine. >> it is specifically intended with the heightened penalties, $10,000 fines and fees. these suspension of liquor licenses to create fear and to intimidate businesses out of wanting to host drag performances especially when they're unclear about exactly what is allowed and what is not allowed. >> representative smith, democratic carlos guillermo smith was florida's first lgbtq latino lawmaker. >> he's currently running for state senate it has led to a chilling effect with pride as well several pride events across florida have also been canceled or restricted out of concern, drag queens might be seen by children in public resign, hit, particularly hard by the political backlash, drag queen story hours like this. >> there once was a boy with a rainbow harms. >> they had signed saying that drag queens were pedophiles with aids. they were yelling and 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foundation he hosts. all the events in drag. the children and their parents know jason as a drag queen named mama ashley rows tell me just a little bit about your background. >> i was involved in church pretty much my whole life, which led me to get into ministry and the whole time i knew i was gay, i knew i was struggling even through all that journey feeling of unwanted nus and unloved and never being good enough to where here i am today spreading this message that everyone is loved i've accepted and wanted no matter who they are. i remember how it felt to not feel that way. so it's kinda drives me to do what i do today you were once a pastor and an lgbt church was like pastor mike, dj, drag queen by night and again, the drag queen, it wasn't even just by night. >> we started doing events. we started doing fundraisers variety shows, drag dinner shows, drag gospel shows, raising money for them it was perfect it can be $100, could be a couple of thousand dollars. and our events and we not only focus on queer lgbtq plus charities, but we focus on animal shelters, domestic violence, mental health i always knew that my character mama ashley rose was going to be something different. i'm going to be wholesome, going to be not the club bar scene because there was never really my scene. and i just knew that i had to bring something to the table that no one else was doing. >> i look forward to meeting oh, i can't wait for you to meet mama nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. good seeing you, to see you too. so tell me about you. >> so mama is just a southern lady that spreads a message that everyone is loved, accepted, and wanted no matter who they are and, we provide a safe space. so my job is to make people feel loved, make people feel safe, give them a little laugh, a little chuckle some time when people think of a drag queen. this is not the look that i think most people think of what if my life could bring a change make somebody move absolutely. so dragos, an art forum and we know that ark comes in all shapes, sizes types, and everything. he loved to. tell people, we have adult television, we have children's television, we have adult radio toluse, all that so i'm kinda like the disney channel of drag, who's ready for story time all kids, if you can come up and have a seat on the floor. so for me, dragged story hour is first of all, teaching literacy there once was a boy with, uh, rainbow heart. it looks a little bit, we know that illiteracy is an issue and the world right now. >> but teaching and reading about kindness, my books are about kindness, about love, about loving years self. >> we read stories about how to handle bullies and the list goes on with that, just teaching life skills, you see. so it's literally just a person in a costume no different than a disney princess reading a story to kids and adults get my sparkly earrings, they see it as this like glamorous princess. they're going to listen to a story from someone dressed in a costume before they will have just any random person. >> what kind of backlash have you faced doing drag story hour up until last year? >> we had no issues and a year ago this december, we had neo-nazis show up outside of this building they had signs saying that drag queens were pedophiles with aids. they were projecting on the side of buildings saying that grooming was in process they were yelling and screaming at children and families. >> were you scared? i was scared. i was scared jason says he also had to find a new location for an annual drag pageant at the last minute because the orlando venue was afraid of being targeted by the desantis administration they were really concerned about losing their liquor license so they asked us to make our event 18 it up. >> and my response was like, no, i'm not going to make an event 18 up when it never has been like don't do 18 and up events. so we had four days to find a new venue to move a whole paget, a whole production show shortly after that in orlando high school was forced to cancel an event featuring jason. >> he had been scheduled to speak speak to the school's queer and ally alliance i have been invited by students for years to go in and the students invite me. >> and of course, with approval of educators, and it's after-school program, after school club. and i usually say, do you want me to come as json or du want make come as momma and always, i mean, they wanted to drag queen, right? >> so a woman who is part of the moms for liberty, who is also on the orange county school board, basically had a shutdown educators and the principal and the dean were literally their job to been threatened if they allow this event to happen that school board member, alicia for ron, says she raised questions after hearing complaints from dozens of parents but an investigative report by spectrum news 13 in orlando revealed a majority of the emails for ron to received about the event were supportive of it. >> we have reached out several times different for a response to the report, but i've heard nothing back i just wanted to be a drag queen and tell funny stories and make people laugh i had no idea it was going to be in this and this atmosphere. it's scary time. it was a scary time for us secondly, fear of threats, fear of safety the political backlash, jason and many others are now experiencing is familiar to anyone who knows the history of drag more on that next every week, there'll be police raids and every time there was a police raid, it was people in states of drag who were arrested the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> the president and the former president, one day moderated by jake tapper and dana bash, the cnn presidential debate, thursday, june 27th, nine live on cnn and streaming on max sure. >> i'm a paid actor and this isn't a real company, but there's no way to fake cop work can help your business. so such talent all over the world with over 10,000 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the political backlash against it, all intertwined with anecdotes from my own irresistible and unpredictable raleigh's to queen. >> your welcome why do you think the history of drag is so important? the history of drag is important because people don't know. and in fact, it feels like their cycles of acceptance and then backlash that have happened throughout history sasha grew up steeped in drag history one of sasha biggest influence fluencies was her grandmother dina she encouraged me to channel my inner diva. she coached me on how to make an entrance and the gown the her condo had leg one set of stairs coming down from the loft and i would put my costume on up there and then walked down the stairs dramatically. so i have a lot there one of her grandmother's favorite hotspots, uh, clubs spotlighting female impersonators in san francisco called for nokia's she would go to for nokia's on the weekend drive in from the suburbs of daily said eight and of course it was a club mostly targeted for straight audiences and she loved the drag shows. >> she thought it was so entertaining, and she told you about it and she told me about it as a little kid. i feel very lucky that i grew up with out shame around drag, at least at home female impersonator clubs across the country, including one in new york called clubbing ad2 became all the rage during the 1950s and 60s people who came to the aid of june club where every everyday people. your a mom and dad may have come to the 82 club, but also it was packed with liberties. judy garland, milton berle, elizabeth taylor, richard burton, errol flynn, salvador dali the surrealists, of course, loved drag and the 82 club dragging the us has strong roots going back to harlem racially diverse groups of people flocked to the rockland palace for headline grabbing, drag balls, hosts did by a black fraternal organization called the hamilton lodge during the harlem renaissance and the roaring 20s harlem drag balls were large pageant eid masquerade, experience. and it was meant largely for the black community later on, there started to meet more and more white patrons alyssa max goodman wrote a book on the history of drag in new york city called glitter and concrete. after a while, they're just became thousands upon thousands of people who would attend. there were prizes given for the best costumes. it was an affair that was i mean, i think it was considered social suicide. if you didn't go in the early 1900s, one of the biggest celebrities in the country, julian l tinge, performed in drag. >> julia elton wasn't one of the top paid performers in vaudeville of julia elton it was a female impersonator. so there was this appetite for that type of entertainment we're into week four of the class. >> joey jeffries is a drag his story, who also teaches a course on rupaul's drag race at the new school well, in new york city. and at new york university julia elton was very successful financially, artistically. >> julian elton had any number of plays with music on broadway julian l2 and had his on makeup line, his on magazines. julian l2 inch had a theater named after him el tinge also became a big movie star greene films like the aisle of love, featuring a then unknown rudolph valentino. the premise of his movies was very much like the premise of his plays, which is also part of his identity i'm a guy. i'm in some life-threatening situation that requires me to get an address and that is the only reason i am getting an address. it's the sum like it hot narrative it's a similar premise and the hollywood hit movie starring tony curtis and jack lemmon as well as other hugely successful films like tootsie and mrs. doubt fire it up generic duct fire drag was also popular among members of the us military broadway you productions and movies portrayed soldiers performing and drag shows for the troops drag was central to the morale effort during world war two. >> and to the point where eisenhower was giving commendations to troops that use dragged to say that you are doing a great job in your serving your country. >> in irving berlin stage music became a movie featuring soldiers and drag called this is the army starring none other than ronald reagan ready to the chorus curtain but appearing and drag outside the movies and female impersonator clubs was a far different story. >> there were very strict rules at the chlamydia to, for example, where he men had to arrive in men's clothes put on their makeup, their and then leave in men's clothes that's largely due to a crackdown on what we now call drag queens and gaze during the mccarthy era in the 50s, that became known as the lavender scare. the attitude at the time the created the lavender scare was homosexuality was as much a threat to the us is communism. >> it was a dark period in the 50s for drag performance because there was legislation out there and that was stopping it and banning it and trying to restrict it somewhat in the ways that we're seeing today. we really never had a law that banned drag. but there was a law on the books here in new york that band masquerading and. they started enforcing this ancient law against masquerade to cut down on people, dressing up outside of their legal gender if you're caught in a bar or walking the street and you didn't have enough pieces of the appropriate gender clothing on, you literally would be taken to jail, being a drag queen was something shameful and you would maybe lose your job if people found out that you'd like to dress and drag, you could lose your family institutional and cultural stigma against drag was huge and it was deeply tied to fears of brown trans people. and even around like gay people generally that harassment and discrimination against drag queens would go on to play a vital role in the uprising met, ignited the fight for lgbtq rights. that right, finally, they'd had enough of it. they'd enough for being pushed around it change that night the 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were inside the stonewall inn when the raid happened that triggered the uprising. what do you remember about that lights blinking, which never happened while i had been in there before usually array and they happen too often. >> was pleased to come in, take a pay off, and leave this was a little different rather than coming in and coming through doors commonly, they burst through the doors they started throwing things around. >> they were pick up the bottles, thrown them around. >> they took people slam them against the wall they smashed everything they could possibly see. somebody started throwing things to do or when the police wanted to leave a stone, according, they had them their pocket those people who actually fought that night were street kids like me, marginalized people, drag queens. >> so drag queens were on the front lines the stonewall i'll a absolutely almost everything we did in that first year, which i call the first magical year, leading from stonewall to the first pride. >> all of that had drag queens involved in every aspect there wasn't a demonstration that they weren't present some. way shape or form. they were at the meetings giving their voice, getting their opinion two of the most prominent activist to emerge from the movement where drag queens, marsha p. >> johnson and sylvia rivera both women of color, who became icons of the fight for lgbtq rights. the two form to trans rights group and open north america's first lgbtq youth center i think one of the most impactful things that sylvia rivera and marsha p. >> johnson did was found a house that became a safe place for young queer and trans people for teenagers who had escaped home for homeless kids living in new york to come and live. and they called it the street transvestite action revolutionaries, or star house it became like an, an activist organization as well as a hub and a home for so many and need we have space to do that. around the same time, gay and transgender kids found another safe haven in an emerging underground drag scene called the house ballroom. >> it's like crossing into the looking glass capture i didn't a critically acclaimed documentary. paris is burning and depicted in the tv hit post ballroom started in harlem in the 1960s. it was created by drag queens have the time latino and african-american drag queens who wanted to create their own pageants because that's what they were in the beginning. they were pageants. they were tired of painting in the pageants that were downtown and losing to their white counterparts beautiful felix rodriguez is a filmmaker who has been documenting house ballroom culture for decades seen on his youtube channel, old school ballroom a boil is like the super bowl for black and latino, where people it's where all these houses, which are like teams, come to this venue to compete against each other it's a group of people that are together like a family. >> they can be compared to everything from the similar to returning and sorority to being like a gai gan. it was a time i'm when gay men and trans people of color were thrown out of their houses, literally from their family. and they had to find a place to live houses were the community welcome people in those situations a competitive new dance style also came out of the ballroom scene bogeying which is very popular and a lot of people think that madonna created it. but she had vogue dancers in her tour and created for on login became popular but vogue ing started in the ballroom scene and still continues to be in the ballroom scene. >> the ballroom culture is still thriving today in fact, the venue where we interviewed felix rodriguez is a brooklyn club named $3 bill that host weekly ballroom competitions called ota, or open to all right. >> now but back when ballroom was still underground, another drag phenomenon was also hitting the scene he was wearing mohawks and shoulder pads and waiting boots. but let's just say that the r2p hall of today look had not yet come together lady bunny is now an iconic drag queen who's been making audiences laugh for more than 40 years. they tried to make me go to rehab and i said, you know what, that's done? an idea are you nervous but she got her start back in the 80s when drag was far from mainstream, along with another relatively obscure performer at the time i'm named rupaul's she says, you want once they something to the audience we met in. atlanta, and we're instantly as thick as thieves. >> so what was the scene like? did you bond there will ruin i did bond there at one point we became homeless together i came to new york with root paul. >> we tend to the pyramid. but this is in 1983 and i was drunk i lip-sync to, i will survive halfway through it. there's that little low in the song. where did she comes back with the big gone now, go during that low, i had fallen lost a shoe and the wig was hanging by a thread, but i got up there on that one shoe and finish the rest of the number and i was a favorite at the pyramid ever since then at the time, all of this drag and all of this fun was happening at the pyramid. the specter of aids was raised and of course we were young and sexually active. we didn't know what to do. >> you found in whigs doc? >> yes. to help raise funds for the aids crisis? >> yes i started wig stuck in a park across food pyramid. i wanted to showcase the many different for kinds of talent. it was drag queens who lyptsi lip-sync, for example. >> i just felt that there was just wealth of talent that could appeal to a wider audience. and my hunch was correct aids was running, ramping through new york. how was drag and wigs docx a a political reaction to what the reagan administration was doing or not doing. i think that the political statement was that there's no shame in our game that there's nothing wrong with us, that we love what we do. and then it's entertaining so i felt like what my role was to be a jester and to put on a fun show to make us forget about aids, to make us forget about everything except we're still here and we're glad that we're here. and let's celebrate week stock went on to draw crowd swelling into the thousands stock, as well as becoming a subject of a welding received documentary, week stop. the movie, launching lady bunny into the limelight root. >> paul began writing it seemed to start him as well transforming her punk drag look into the glamour is glitz of her breakout hit, supermodel and r2 paul definitely knew how to work in growing up. i knew i would be famous. i knew i wanted to be famous. i didn't know how he's going to be famous. drag presented itself to me and i thought, okay this is it and the rest is root paul would say, is history. you may leave he's the stage rupaul's drag race over the past 16 years has hot rotted, dragged back into the mainstream public consciousness. >> it makes drag accessible not only as an art form, but in a place that people can watch it right there on their 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shows so what's wrong with it? well, it doesn't have to directly mentioned drag queens for it to be targeting this community. in particular, when this legislation was filed was filed by a republican lawmaker who made many ugly assertions and baseless attacks on drag queens as being a threat to children well, guess where else drag queens, arnon brand mentioned in a big long list in the 20 line definition of this bill that republican lawmaker, he's referring to, is this man florida state representative randy fine. this bill didn't talk about drag queen and it doesn't mention the word drag queens deal yet when representative fine introduced the bill, which further restricts laws already on the books protecting children from adult live performances he posted on facebook that it would ban the city of melbourne from welcoming drag queen adult entertainers from grooming our children. it's not mentioned in the bill, but you have mentioned it in a post that's fair point. >> but that is the kind of entertainment that inspired me. >> to do the bill. you hadn't men dressed as strippers effectively performing as such in public? i don't care what consenting adults do, but i think we should keep this stuff away from our kids. >> what was the goal of the bill, the gold the bill to protect kids. >> what specifically do you think children need to be protected from? >> well, i think they need to be protected from sexualization. >> it's totally unnecessary and the fact that we already have so many good laws to protect children from adult performances. it expose that this bill was really just about targeting drag if you think the law is targeting drag shows and drag queens, why not just mentioned that directly because if they overtly mentioned drag performances in the letter of the law it would have immediately been obvious to any attorney in any judge that this is an unconstitutional censorship of their first amendment freedom representative fine argues that while the law mentions prosthetic breasts, which many drag queens where it spells out other criteria that would be necessary to make drag shows admitting children illegal so wearing prosthetic breasts does not equal an adult life performance. >> it has to be that and three or four other things this is all meant to be vague. >> it's meant to intimidate, isn't there a danger in intimidating some of these venues from hosting director thank performances or not intimidating them were laying out what the definition is and we're saying if you do these, there's going to be consequences. >> do you think drag queen shows and drag queen story hours can be family-friendly? >> no, i don't. that doesn't mean they're all illegal. that doesn't mean they're all adult life performances but no, i don't believe it's appropriate for kids do you see drag queens as a threat to children i think that's a challenging question. that's like saying, do you think adults are a threat to let me put it this. >> i do think drag queens are looking to groom children are they rumors? >> i think some are. i don't understand why a man wants to dress up like a woman. and then read stories to children. i don't think it's that complicated that doesn't mean that 100% of those violate the law. i want to be clear about that. >> how would that be harmful to children? >> because i think it confuses them. drag queen story, our says, our goal in doing this is to celebrate gender fluidity there is a purpose behind this, and it is to confuse an indoctrinate children in a majority of this legislature, we do not believe in gender fluidity we do not believe in transgender science do you know of one case of a child who attended drag queen story hour and then decided to become transgender. i do not know. >> have you ever been to drag queen story hour? no. >> have you ever been to a drag show not that i can remember. most of these people and i've seen have never even been to a drag show. they've never experienced the drag is an art and seeing that there are different types of drag jason dechambeau traveled to the florida capital when the bill was being debated to testify before the legislature in full drag as momma ashley robes, i have a question. do i look like a stripper? >> well, i walked up and my first response and comments, those do i look like a stripper because many politicians have said that i dress like shippers, like i don't dress like that. >> do you see yourself as a threat to children? >> no, i do not see myself as a threat to children. >> nor do i see any drag performer threat to a child drag performers know that if you're in a club, if you're in a nightclub, freund a bar 18 and up, you perform differently, right? >> especially in our events, are performers know that when we have family here they dress different. they perform different. >> so now we know threat. >> but the overall message and the reason why you do drag story hour as what to teach that message that your loved accepted and wanted no matter who you are, and let you know that everyone should read the idea of the grooming that dragged does is just the message of tolerance. and that the message of acceptance could be so dangerous that it would brainwash a child maybe if they don't want a world of tolerance, they should be afraid of us because we are fighting for that you know, about the history of drag, having written a book about it do you worry about the history repeating itself? the history is repeating itself currently all around us for awhile, it felt like we were getting progress. they say if you don't learn the past, you're going to repeat it. i think there's a lot of strength to be found in history to we see the way that despite being thrown in jail, despite being fine, despite losing their jobs, queer people continued to gather together and put on shows and find ways to keep existing and stay true to ourselves. so they can do it we still have a chance today. >> how much do you think gender identity and sexuality are playing a role in these new laws that are targeting drag gender identity and sexuality are the reason that drag is being targeted because if it was just costumes without any possibility of queerness, i think it would be fine. >> they're ignorant and the root and homophobia i would tell ron desantis we are not your political pawns. >> stop using. that's for clickbait. >> the one and only miss tiffany fantasia there are tim millie other thing that you need to be taken care of and put policies in place to circumvent the problems of the average flow radian. if we worried about a dam drag show we're not doing anything but making sure they go people. i haven't a good time and not worry about the problems that they have, because you're not doing your job governor desantis has not responded to our request for comment in her drag show called don't bring the kids lady bunny takes on republican lawmakers pushing anti drag legislation with a parody of adele's song, rumor has it but given the guns as birthdays that hooters you're under gop hypocrisy can take it no more directly csat that people is d to watch out for groomer, is it gruber is it despite the crackdowns, these drag queens insist? the, drag show will go on i would be a miss to say i wasn't scared, i'd be miss to say that i dare times i just want to pack the makeup up and not do it again. >> but i'm not going anywhere we're going to keep fighting there is a fighting spirit in drag we can make magic with nothing and even if they take everything like for a month we're still going to find a way to put on a show to entertain and the thing i've found is people love drag if we have a chance to put on a show for you you're going to fall in love legal battles over drag performances continue so far, laws proposed in florida, texas, tennessee seeing montana had been blocked by federal judges on constitutional grounds. the states are appealing those decisions thanks for watching the whole story. i'll see you next sunday.