Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 518 JRE Review of Pierre Poilievre

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Pierre Poilievre is a Canadian politician and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, known for his sharp critiques of government spending, central banking, and what he calls the erosion of individual freedoms. Rising through the political ranks at a young age, Poilievre has built a reputation as a direct and highly disciplined communicator, often focusing on economic issues, inflation, housing affordability, and personal responsibility. In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Pierre Poilievre and Joe Rogan discuss the state of Canada's economy, the role of government in everyday life, free speech, media narratives, and the broader cultural shift happening across Western countries. The conversation explores the tension between government control and individual autonomy, as well as Poilievre's vision for restoring economic freedom and accountability. The Joe Rogan Experience Review breaks down the key themes, moments, and online reaction from this episode, helping you separate signal from noise and understand why this conversation is generating attention across political and cultural spaces. Thanks to this weeks sponsors: Go to RocketMoney.com/JRER to help monitor your spending, find and cancel unwanted subscriptions. Go to HIMS dot com slash JRER for your personalized ED treatment options! For more Rogan exclusives support us on Patreon patreon.com/JREReview www.JREreview.com For all marketing questions and inquiries: [e-mail] Please email us here with any suggestions, comments and questions for future shows.. [e-mail]  

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This is Take 2, because I had Pete on mute, and we talked for like five minutes. So we are back again. That was some gold banter. It's all gone now. We're going to have to repeat. We might just have to stick to the topic at hand. Sadly, I forgot what we were talking about. But we are reviewing Pierre, and I'm still going to get his name wrong, the second time around.

Pilever. Pileur. however you say his last name. Say it. Polyeuvre. Poliev. Polish. French.

Canadian politician and leader of the Conservative Party in Canada. He's really known for his sharp rhetoric, focus on economic issues and criticism of government overreach. He has become one of the most prominent political figures in Canada, especially around topics like inflation, central banking and personal freedom. He's big on personal freedom, which I think is important right now in Canada.

There was some squirly things going on during COVID. We heard about that. And then the trucker stuff. Yeah, that really opened my eyes to their plight over there. Of a state of unfreatment. Freezing bank accounts and stuff. My gosh. That stuff was wild.

Yeah. And then what was it? People were like donating Bitcoin and then they were just taking the money. Is that they took their money? Well, I think that people were supporting their cause to protest. Yeah. And obviously they weren't working, so they were like giving the money to survive. And then the government was like freezing those assets.

Incredible. It seems like a lot. Yeah, that's, uh, that's, uh, that's draconian. Not the best. Yeah. So, uh, Trudeau, obviously now he's not stepped down. because he's got to focus on Katie Perry. Yeah.

What? They're making it. And she's pregnant, by the way, with the Antichrist. So what I've been reading online. It will be the Antichrist. Castro's granddaughter. Yep. Allegedly.

Pierre doesn't think so, but I think he is. That was polite of him. But funny of Joe. It's a funny. It's my favorite conspiracies. It was fun. It was fun. Well, look.

Pierre came on strong, brought a lot of gifts. It was basically a bro down. He really did his research as well. He went all out. He's really trying to win favor with Joe and getting back to Canada. If he was like the Ministry of Tourism, I would say A plus. Yeah. And Joe even said, if he wins, he's coming back to Canada.

So that's, I think, alone going to win Pierre some votes. Get them some votes. Yeah, there are some potentially lazy voters up there in Canada that aren't quick to the polls for any other reason and might be like, you know what, I'll do it for that. Get them off their plaid couches, get the maple straw out of their hands, and turn off the hockey and go vote. Get up there. Just for that next 420 show that Joe might go and do. But, yeah, get it. Get some more sensible politicians up there.

I mean... He seems so sensible, too. He really does. Yeah. It's kind of surprised. Like, that's what Joe was saying. Like, how did you not win? What you're saying seems pretty reasonable.

What did they not like about you? I think that the... Well, I'm going to get into a little bit of my own conspiracy theory here. Do it. The guy who won Kearney, Mark Kearney, something like that. Is he like a banker guy? Yeah, he's a globalist banker. And guess who's friends with globalist bankers?

Trump. So maybe he pulled the rug out from underneath Pierre so his buddy Carney could get in, thus creating a easier transition to a one-world government control by the banks. I think he might have done it on purpose, on purpose. Pull the rug out from old Pierre. But that whole 51st state thing. that was not so popular. Yeah.

Funny, but not popular. It was a bit funny. Mm-hmm. But, yeah, not a great move. I think it did hurt our boy up, Pierre. Yeah, for sure. It was a wild one. Yeah.

It was a wild one. It's this... I think Trump just thought it was funny. He was like, some people think it's funny. I'm going to keep saying it. Yeah. Let's see what happens. It's either a mastermind genius on his, for his own...

gain or deft. Little stupid. I think he's just seeing what sticks. Throws a lot of stuff, sees what sticks.

Some stuff does. Whatever goes viral. He's into it. It's the ratings. He's a ratings guy. Ratings, horror, you might say?

Love being popular. He loves those ratings. But yeah, he starts out really cost-a-living stuff. Throughout some numbers early on, like the amount of money in the system is like, what is that, like 15 times the amount of money or something now. And there's, you know, so houses are just that much more expensive because there's so much more money. It's just worth that much less.

Right. When we print money, it doesn't make the goods more expensive. It doesn't make the production more expensive. It just makes the money less valuable. Right. Hmm. And that's what's happening. Yeah.

So there's a lot of houses on the market, but all the money we've been printing makes them a lot more expensive. Sure. And, you know, I don't know exactly what, I can't remember exactly what his example was, but it's like, you know, the plumber and the school teacher back in the day working full time could buy a house. And now it's like the lawyer and the doctor or whatever. struggling. Can't buy a house. You know, they get a condo. Right. And you see it.

You know, it's really getting to the point where it's like people are just renting apartments forever or they're just going to be living with their parents. Like, we've kind of seen the last generation of people owning homes and it's right now. And Pierre hopes to change that up in Canada. He wants to make houses more affordable for the next, you know, for the people our age and younger. I think that's just a political talking point. I don't see any coming back from this. Yeah, probably not. You know, I think that you either figure out a way to make a ton more money than everyone else, and then you can just jump back on that housing ladder like, you know, people did in the past

and be those outliers to manage it, you know, or you inherit something pretty special. You know, or you just kind of accept the fact that you make do with a much smaller place that you're paying, you know, relatively large house prices for, and you're getting a small apartment. Yeah, this has been happening in California for like 20 years. Sure. There's $2 million homes that only have two bedrooms. There was on the street that I lived on, on Raymond Avenue, we had rent control that had been frozen since, I think, like, sometime in the 90s, which was why. wild and so it was low and they can only raise it like these tiny percentages and it was something

just to protect, you know, people working in, you know, kind of restaurants, regular jobs there because otherwise everybody would be priced out like they had been in Malibu. And on my same street, it was a private home that was, I think, just a three bedroom. It looked like a little cabin and it was on sale for $10 million. Holy crap. And it was small. Like, it was small.

It had, like, what would be the equivalent of, like, a small one car garage in the back that had been turned into, like, a really small little one-bedroom apartment. That's nuts. And basically no parking, like a small driveway, tiny little lawn. And it's just on our same street where my apartment was. And I paid $1,000 a month. So it's like you're living on the same street. It's no different.

And someone's going to plunk 10 million down on that. I think it's sold pretty quick, too. People were looking at it like a lot. And it makes sense because, you know, you buy it and then it's still worth that, right? It's an investment to whoever paid that amount for it. Right. But then if you can't resell it for that, then it's a loss. Right.

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Some places in the United States, it is affordable to live like in Arkansas. Sure. But it is, there's certain bubbles around the United States. Here is one of them. And hopefully they do go back down. They potentially could. But they'd have to go down a lot in some areas. Like, do you think that houses, like the medium house price here in Bozeman, it's like $850,000?

What is it going to go down to 600? Right. You know, where does it get to a number that's like reasonable for somebody just getting out of college to be at a buy a house? Like, let's say you just get out of college and you're doing well for yourself, right? You land a job that, okay, so now you're making 75 grand, maybe 80. Like, you've done really well. You're out of college. You're making 80 grand.

I don't know what kind of job you just landed, but that's pretty good if you're like 25. Oh, yeah. 80 grand. Are you really getting a $600,000 mortgage? Unlikely. 80 grand is the new 40 grand. Is it? Yeah.

It sounds like it could be. It's a teacher's wage. Yeah, which is sad to hear. I mean, it wasn't that long ago. They always used to say it's like 70 grand. Anything over that, you know, if you've got a good budget, anything over that is just kind of bonus. Extra.

Yeah, it's like it won't make you that. happier. Now I think that number is like, I don't know, maybe 120 most places. That's incredible. Yeah. That's kind of like a baseline. I mean, for it to jump 50 grand since probably COVID, it's like it's not like anybody got that much better jobs. Now AI is coming and making a lot of jobs somewhat obsolete. Look, I don't want to turn this in with doom and gloom. Okay. I feel like I'm going down that rabbit hole. There's a lot to be hopeful for. But all I'm saying is when a politician comes on and he wants to run and win and then he's saying this is the problem we face, this cost of living issue. And what I want to do is X, Y and Z and this a help, like create more

industry or sell more oil. I don't see where the dots line up to where that goes back to, you know, the little guy. The little guy being able to buy a house. Yeah, he outlined some stuff like eliminating eliminating budget items to get new ones, not just attacking on more line items.

So you kick one out to bring one in. That's one way. Sure. But like you're saying, if there's ever any extra money laying around, it's going to the people at the top. It's not coming down this way. Right. One thing you did say that I quite liked was

you know, the politicians, it's not their money so it's easy to spend it. It's like, oh, I got a new program. That's $100 million. Yeah, let's do it. But they don't have to find that money somewhere else. And if they had to do that, like these programs would be far more efficient. Like, okay, well, you know, you've got just this kind of bucket of money.

Now allocate it. You've been allocating it. Now you want this extra $100 million for something. You've got to pull some resources. Like, how are you going to do it? Where's it coming from? We're not just giving you more. They go on to say Clinton did it.

He balanced the budget. That's crazy. Our budget, he balanced it. We were not in debt when Clinton left office. That is wild. Was it just that the 90s were just such a boom time? Was the Matrix right? That was the height of civilization?

Yeah. The Matrix nailed it. The Matrix always nails it. God, that movie is. Him and Hunter has Thompson. He also nailed it. He nailed it. Whatever we're talking about, he was there first in his mind.

Yeah. He figured it all out and was like, okay, this is weird. I'm going to do so many drugs and then eventually shoot myself. Yeah. Okay. Don't figure it out then. Sounds depressing. Oh, yeah.

We just have to get through it. You don't want to look behind that could, I guess. We just have to get through it. And hopefully we get reincarnated as like a butterfly. He did have some strong criticisms of the central banks, especially the Bank of Canada. What was his main complaint there? I don't know about that one. I didn't quite pin that one down.

Well, it was kind of confusing. He was talking about claims of like excess, mainly about the currency and the excess money printing. And then, you know, the advocates for tighter monetary policy and accountability. And just overall, like, that kind of global role that, I guess, because didn't they say that they had like a trillion dollars of debt, which is way less than the U.S., but it's, it goes further in Canada because in the U.S., in the U.S., our currency is like the backbone of everybody's currency? and Canada's is not. I guess they have a lot less population too. So maybe that's part of it. What is the population in Canada?

Good question. I'm going to guess, $75 million. So they really can't afford to be messing around, printing too much money. It just seems to be like the plan of all the countries. Just keep printing. Print money. Until something explains.

That was Elizabeth Warren's economic plan. Just pretty more? Mm-hmm. Well, I don't think she's the only one. But, oh, it's $41 million. Oh. It's quite, it's not that many. What is that like California?

Yeah, yeah. My goodness. I bet California's GDP is probably bigger than all of Canada. Oh, I think California has the, what is the third, fourth largest economy in the world? Something like that. and even with that amount of cheddar Gavin still messed it up good job well you know we got to complain about Gavin Newsom at least one time on any episode his hair is so good though he's it's how he gets by yeah it's

gravelly voice it's how he gets by greasy hairdo just slides through of course yeah and well they we talked about the COVID policies a little bit and the kind of the overreach with the truckers, but that was a big issue for him. Obviously, him getting in, he's more of a, more of a smaller government guy and really wants to push it in that direction. You know, I mean, when it, when it comes to this, does that mean that he has to reverse a lot of the policies that have been put in place? And is that harder to do in their sort of system? He seemed like he had a pretty good

entry strategy for it. He seemed optimistic and there's got to be ways to do it. But I don't think any government gives back freedoms once they take something they've got it and we can't really get it back.

And that seems like what's going on in their place as well. Yeah, yes and no. I mean, to be fair, saying that, I mean, after COVID, they had to give freedoms back. Oh, that's true. You know, I mean, realistically. But just saying that, we did have to go back to work and go outside and eventually get to do things.

It's like we don't have screens up everywhere forever. And for a while, it seemed like that might exist. I mean, you know, even at the checkouts of the grocery stores, there was just like that wall. Plexiglass. Plexiglass. for like a long time. I don't even know where to sneeze anymore. Right.

On the plastic? Not on the salads. I wonder what the science there really was. There was none. I mean, I guess you're not taking a direct sneeze to the face. So, you know, you could have a lazy argument. Like, yeah, no one can sneeze directly in your face. But it's all getting everywhere.

The store is full of people. people are breathing all over. It wasn't science-based, wasn't it? No. It was just, it was from big screen. Fauci's plexiglass made out killing the last few years. Well, funny you say that.

Early on, a friend of mine, his stepdad, for some reason, had some connections where he had massive, amount of those N95 masks. Like he had shipments of them that was unrelated to COVID. He was just like partially a medical supplier. And he was able to like ramp the prices up massively. And he also had a bunch of that hand sanitizer stuff that he also could ramp the prices up. So in the same way as making the jokes about the plexiglass people making, he made tons of money selling this stuff for like 10x prices because there was, they just ran out of all this stuff everywhere.

I guess hospitals would buy them still. Uh-huh. Yeah. Hand sanitizer. I remember there's like, it was everywhere. You remember all those hand sanitizers like emergency made by distilleries? It's like there was like, pony camiters. kegs of hand sanitizer at places. You'd pump it

and it smelled like tequila and you're like, well, that smells terrible. Oh, is that right? Oh, because they were just brewing it however they could. Brewing it in a back alley. Hilarious. Got to keep your hands clean. Whatever it takes. What's wrong with wiping them on your jeans? That's what I do.

That's it. Whatever it takes. They got into media bias a little bit and public perception of the media bias. I guess that's when his Apple talking interview came up and like those dopey questions that the that individual went over with him but um and all that was just about uh what was the apple interview exactly about uh remember he the guy was like um mentioning people and have somebody has said some stuff about you and he's like which people who said what what do they say right what problems do they have with me? And the guy was waffling back and forth.

Pierre. He had nothing. I was just trying to get to the bottom of his question. He was so nonchial. I'm like, what, dude? Jumping on an apple. Where are you going with this? This is a good apple, by the way.

Yeah, he likes that place. What is it called? I forgot what it was called. But, I mean, during that time, and it was all through that, It was just like having to like defend many of the things that Trudeau was standing up for, which was like kind of like the pronoun discussion, the rights of people that COVID stuff. And the divide was just somewhat absurd in the separation and how media was just jumping all over it. I mean, Pierre was obviously on the other side of that.

And, you know, he took a pretty logical stance to us. it and was able to be brave enough to kind of put a, you know, draw a line in the sand and say, no, this is where I, this is where I stand with this. I don't agree. And we need to be logical about this moving forward. And if anything, it just kind of made Trudeau look like a buffoon, often. He was a buffoon. It was a buffoon. It was a buffoon. And he got worse, too. It's like he continued to just double down. I don't know, by the end of it, I don't know who he thought he was talking to or trying to win over. I think it was all show for his ruling, who's rulers.

Because he, the politicians are not the top of the pyramid. There's the billionaires that are on top of the pyramid. The banks. Trump is their bitch. Mark Carney is their bitch. He's owned by China. interests, big banking. So that's probably who he's signaling to.

Or just jumping on the woke train to keep votes. Right. Yeah. And he was definitely like an establishment guy. Like he was all about that. Like he didn't seem to represent the people like he pretended to Trudeau. But I feel like this. air guy really does.

Like, he really speaks for the people, or at least it sounds like it. When he talks about a small government, I believe it. Like, obviously, he's going to be infiltrated, like anybody that gets to a head of state position, because it's just somewhat inevitable.

The way it is. Right? But I think he really believes in the country. Like, he sounds like he has real national pride and cares about the progress of Canada and it doing well for like the real people and it doesn't seem like Trudeau ever did to me he was a fake he cared in a fake way he seemed like he did right

I care about everyone everything was just about compassion correct pronouns it was upset and it was all and just a smokescreen and we could see it everybody can see it sure yeah I mean, you know, he, Pierre really embraces like that populist tone and he's like a regular person. I thought he had a great, seems like he has a good grasp on how to make the positive change if he got elected. For sure. Now, he talked a lot about, what was it, like all the shale and getting the oil out up there. They have a ton of it potentially. Oil sand.

Oil sand, right. Which is easier and safer to get than the shale. Oh, okay. Oil sand. But it's hard to get the permits, he's saying, right? Right. So it's difficult that way. So we've got to take the permits out is what he's saying.

He said faster permitting processes. Yeah. Faster permitting. He's not too concerned about the environment. He said, we can figure that out much quicker than all the red tape in that. Right. And the way they extract it, you don't even have to. to disturb the ground.

And he's saying that... Shake it up from underneath. Yeah, we can... We can... As fast as we can issue these permits, we can also deal with environmental issues in real time and figure that out

and make decisions about that and not just be bogged down and all this permitting back and forth. Like in California, to use a socialist example again. Mm-hmm. They have so many regulatory boards and permitting issues

that it doesn't help anybody do anything safer. It all gets in the pocket of the big business. And Karen Bass's pocket, probably. There we go. A lot of it. Now, how is there so much oil in that stuff? It's just stuck in the sand? He said bitumen, bitumen, I think it's called.

And it's oil sand. It's, instead of shale that has oil in it, Like we have rocks with layers that are soaked with oil. And instead of fracking, it's how we get that out of that. We have to force water and solvents down into the shale, agitate it, and then pump out the liquid, separate the water. And it just seems a simpler process that what they have in Canada is a simpler method of getting it out. Because it's a simpler process. Yeah.

It's not as hard as shale is. Yeah. And with all that money at their disposal, potentially, I wonder why they just don't want to get a hold of it. I guess it's just because it seems like it would be really bad for the environment overall. Who knows? Because we need oil. And it turns out we don't care how it comes out of the ground as long as we get it.

And we would rather come from a foreign country where we can mess up their environment without a care in the world. Well, we're sitting on these huge oil reserves. is they have one of the biggest in the world. And we need, we need, we need our hands in that. For sure. Let's get oily. What about in Alaska? Do we have that same type of stuff up in Alaska?

I don't know about Alaska. Because it's just on the side there. I'm pretty sure we're drilling up there. Biden allowed that. We got the pipeline. We got the pipeline. Thank God for the pipeline. We got to get that oil.

We need the oil. Well, because otherwise we've got to buy it from. someone else yeah so it's problematic i wish we could be friends with canada again like when i was growing up it was friendly we're all friends you could just walk across with a with a with a you know your id handshake a nod uh-huh yeah bit of a howdy and a hey how are you uh-huh give them a hockey puck and you're buying molson's when you're 18 i've not spent a lot of time up there have you no have you gone up there at all i would i would i would i would i would i would i would walked across the border above glacier once. Oh. I've landed in a couple of the airports a few times,

which doesn't count. And then I went on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. How is that? It was pretty cool. Big waterfall. Not bad? I mean, it's big. Would you do it again? No. Okay. Yeah. Too misty? I don't know. It's just big. I mean, maybe if my daughter wanted to go see it, just so it's like a cool thing to go see i guess i would check it out yeah it's it's pretty spectacular but since i've seen it once i'm like yeah so that there's a lot of things to see and uh you know you just go not enough years in the life it's it didn't blow me away that much but i'd have to go see it again also i was it was before i had my green card so on the way back i was still here on uh student visa so on the way back they stopped me

at the border for like four hours while they had to like interrogate me because they sometimes would just randomly do that when you're on a visa. Well, were you coming from, eh? Yeah. No, it's always the American side.

The Canadians were fine. They didn't care. They were like, come in. I'm coming back. I'm like, I have a student visa. I go to school here. They were like, we don't know about this. School?

They were like, hmm, biochemist, huh? We don't know about this. I was like, what a, what? What do you think I'm going to do? Mix chemicals, bro. He's reaching, get him. Reach in. Dude, they put me in a room for ages.

I needed to piss so bad. It was not fun. Is that the only time you've been locked up? Oh, no. The Homeland Security used to do that often when I would fly back and forth from England. I think it's pretty standard with kids on visas. They like to just randomly do that.

that they usually have to go talk to Homeland Security. He talks about that in this podcast about the student visas being an issue in Canada. Oh, yeah, some of the refugees, right? Yeah. Fake refugees. Fake refugees. Because bless the real ones that are in danger. But there are liars out there.

Yeah. He's saying they need to be deported. Yeah. In a humane way. He doesn't want to do the ice thing. Yeah. He's going to be chill with them. But.

Politely asked to leave. Politely. Here you go. Off you go. Here's your little maple, travel maple syrup. Got to go. Come back legally, eh? Gotta get out of there.

Do they have big immigration problems in Canada? Yeah. They have huge numbers of Chinese immigrants, Indian immigrants. Did they have a big flood? Like we did recently under Biden? I think the last 20 years have been pretty, they have been pumping them in over there. Really?

Yeah. And I don't know what policies led to that, but it's happening. And it's called some issues. Yeah, you know, when cultures collide, they always can. Yeah, the Diwali festivals, the Indian festival,

where they like to throw statues and rivers and whatnot, That's a problem. That's going on. We should at least keep our environmental standards high so he doesn't look like the rest of the world. I think it's worth it. Yeah, I used to think about that for sure. Well, overall, what was your feel of this guy since he came on?

I mean, number one, like you pointed out earlier, they definitely broed out. Oh, yeah. I think that Rogan said, come on again, right? He doesn't always throw that out to guess. I think that Joe felt like kind of like truly honored. He had that kind of like look about him. I watched the very end of the episode. There was like a real like handshake, like a gentleman meeting at like a respectful level.

That's nice. Yeah, Joe was, Joe was impressed by him. And I think he came on and really handled himself well. I think Joe really respected him as a leader and just as a person. and um so joe had to send him an offer to go on before his election yes what a missed opportunity on pierre's part yeah but i guess he says that they don't leave the country during the election he should have left the country on this one hundred percent i don't think it's not even a rule it's just what they just don't do it's just polite thing yeah they just don't do the country he

hundred percent should have what a missed opportunity it would have gone a long way yeah he definitely should have because whatever critiques you have about joe rogan he puts people on He gets him on there. Yeah. Or you wanted to talk to him. He wanted to figure out what was going on up there. And he's only got a great thing.

I like this guy. I'm bummed that he didn't make it in. He didn't have a chance. But it sounds like they don't know when the election is, but for whatever reason, it's like held off for some reason and they're trying to figure that out. But, you know, he's got another chance.

Yeah. So we'll see. And I'm interested to see if he does get in what they do and how that changes the relationships for the U.S. and Canada and what that means for us. Like he made a big point about that they got to get rid of the tariffs.

We got to get rid of those things. And we're buying a lot of stuff from up there. We need their aluminum. We need a bunch of stuff for Night Vision or whatever. And a lot of things for tech and blah, blah, blah. It's like, hey, yeah, we need to buy that stuff. We need good deals. But this makes good sense.

Yeah. They should be our friends. Mexico and Canada. We're on the same team over here. It seems to make sense that we should have good relationships. with the closest neighbors, right? Yeah. It's like, okay, if Trump's upset with China,

then sure, have some tariffs in that direction. But do we need to be messing with people north and south? They're right there. They're right there. And we build our home, a lot of our homes from Canadian lumber. Well, that's, yeah, he said that's most of the wood that we get, right? I see a lot of stamps when I'm working with two I-forors. They're either from, they're generally from Canada.

They're a little maple leaf right on there. Right. Yeah, we can't pay an extra. Oh, come on. Vice versa. That's one way to drive our house. Supposing. Houses up. That's it.

We need it. Well, hopefully they can start working together if he gets in, but we'll see. The banking guy's in there for right now, so fingers crossed. But I like that guy. I thought he was solid. I give this episode a decent eight out of ten. I agree. Yeah.

Anyway, that's it for this week. I hope you enjoyed it. We have some more coming up and later.