The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 9/16/22

Episode Date: September 16, 2022

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When recording the podcast today during the radio show, we got a ton of email response immediately asking, where can I get that? Where can I get that? We hit a couple of things. One on the economy and hour number two, we opened with this great letter of why I gave up on Joe Biden. Somebody who was a big Joe Biden and Democratic, never ever voted any other way than blue, why they have changed. And it is great advice for all Americans. and Jim Brewer. He was on this week's podcast, and there are clips of it today on this podcast. Very, very funny. You don't want to miss it.

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I mean, I can't keep up with it. And it shifted quickly. Quickly. Quickly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So.

But another $600 million in military equipment after a $2 billion week last week. So they're probably pissed with us right now. How dare you decrease your donations by that much. That's outrageous. How are we going to win this war? Where is this money going? Where is this money going? It's the best laundromat in world history.

Oh, it is. It is. Somebody should do an investigation. I will bet you that money has been routed. Some of it has been routed right back here to the United States. A lot of that money is going to very dark places. There's something else that we should be concerned about. You know, we've talked about all the people that have fallen out of windows in Russia.

There's a lot of clumsy Russians. Right. Rich and clumsy. Yeah. And they always seem to be on the roof or near an enormous window. Yeah. That's easy to fall out of. Yes.

You know. Or on the high seas where they just, oh, oh, fell off that boat. Dang it. Man. Darn. Man. I fell into that meat grinder. It's weird how this happens.

Well, there were local lawmakers, seven of them in the St. Petersburg district, that came out and said, enough of Putin. We have to speak out against this war. And by the way, that is treason in Putin's Russia. and gosh darn it, they are free to do whatever they want now in those jail cells because they were all scooped up last night.

And so they're, but I'm sure they're going to get the same, if not better treatment than the January 6 people will get here. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know, they've only been, they've only been in jail without a trial, some of them, for almost two years now. That's not bad. No.

Well, because some of them actually paraded in the capital bill. Please don't use that way. Please don't use that word. Let me just. I apologize. Could I please just say that is not an endorsement of parading? No, it is not. Not to not meant to incite any sort of parading.

No. And we stand against, firmly against all parading. How long have we said that? Oh, you've been against parading. Prating forever. That was the first thing that I thought of when, you know, I'm thinking, oh, man, this could get dangerous. People could start parading. And they did.

And they did. Now, another disturbing thing, Vladimir Putin's car was attacked. And his limousine was hit by a loud bang. Now, I don't know if the person who wrote this knows that a loud bang. Bang can't actually hit a car. Something that causes a loud bang can. The car drove safely with Putin unharmed, but there have been multiple arrests from his security service and other bodyguards have simply vanished among claims that secret information about his movements has been compromised. Wow.

he's in trouble This would Remember the Archduke Ferdinand that nobody at the time knew anything about And you most likely know nothing about That's the guy that was killed That started World War I What do you think happens if somebody assassinations

Vladimir Putin World gets safer Or not so safe Could go either way Are you willing to bet on it Apparently our government is. Let me play this poor, poor story

from Lisa Belcastro. She runs the homeless shelter in Martha's Vineyard. Times are tough there. What are the most difficult challenges about? The difficult challenges are we have at some point in time they have to move to somewhere else.

We cannot. We don't have to. the services to take care of 50 immigrants. And we certainly don't have housing. We're in a housing crisis as we are on this island. And so we don't, we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here. We don't have housing for 50 more people. Wow.

Wow. It's interesting because the population full time at Martha's Vineyard, you know what that is? 17,000. During the summer months, it increases a little bit to 200,000. Okay, so they're in the fall now. You don't have anywhere to put these people? There's no homes? What's available?

Fifty people? Can't be housed? Wow. You could put all 50 of them in one of their 17,000 square foot homes. Come on. We don't have anywhere to put them. Shut up. Can I tell you something?

Laredo does. Oh, yeah, Laredo, Texas. And Del Rio and. Yeah. So many empty houses. Oh, my gosh. And they're just sitting there and they're like, please, I wish we could have some groups of people just come overnight across the border.

And not 50, but like 2 million in the last year. Yeah, but only 2 million. But Loreno can handle that. They can handle that, of course. Don't turn Martha's Vineyard into a border town. What does that mean exactly? Well, CNN knows. Cut two.

All of your documentaries are about history. This is with Ken Bynes. But all of them also make you think about where we are now. example. And we woke up to the news this morning that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida sent two plain loads of migrants to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, including kids and whatnot. And I'm not saying this is not a one-for-one. This is not a parallel here in any way. But it does address some of the same themes that are part of this documentary. Well, it's the abstraction of human life. It's basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or lens and to put it. in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody's authoritarian game. This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook. This is what's so disturbing about DeSantis is to use human beings,

to weaponize human beings for a political purpose. It's like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida, like the Walt Disney Company, he punishes them. This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there's an exchange of ideas. this is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.

That is, that's Ken Burns, the filmmaker. He did a 28-hour feature on bees. Really? You're the guy we're going to listen to this. No, but I mean, he is the guy who, has brought us so much his forget the be thing I don't know what that was but he's brought us so much history and perspective on things

and this guy is actually saying this about silencing your opponents and he doesn't see he calls Florida Florida the authoritarian here and not the U.S. government I mean I just

there are people that are so lost right now. I actually, I feel sorry for a lot of people because I think a lot of people, I'm reading a book, in fact, I highly recommend, let me give you a couple of books here. The right to remain innocent is so important that you read. This is, what do I do if the, you know,

ATF shows up in my house. The right to remain innocent, it's by James Duane. The other one that I'm reading right now, that is fascinating is the psychology of totalitarianism. It's by Matthias Desmond. He is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ghent, which I had to look up. Where the hell is Ghent?

I know it's someplace in weird parts of Europe. Yeah, Brussels. So if that's a weird part. But it is, really. It's French. Anyway, he's a professor of clinical psychology, and he started to see what was happening during COVID. And he was like, this is not good.

And he is talking about how does totalitarianism come about? And he's using examples of the past and tying them to today and showing one for one examples. And it's fascinating. But so many people are so anxious, this is the problem. And some of this is manufactured, like I believe the Amtrak story was. Some of it is manufactured. Some of it is the government causing it, for instance, gas prices, inflation, etc., etc. And then ratcheting all of that anxiety up.

And people are so anxious, they don't know they're on. unsteady footing. And when somebody steps forward and says, this guy, these guys are your problem, a lot of people just fall into that because it has, it gives them a way to direct their frustration towards something. And it makes them feel, again, part of a team. And that's how totalitarians work.

And that's exactly what Joe Biden is doing in these latest speeches about the MAGA Republicans. Right. He's directing everybody to focus their attention on how bad and how extreme Trump supporters are. And I will tell you that if you're a MAGA Republican, you need to be aware of that as well. You can't just be on a team. You must have reason. And when you feel under attack is when you put all of your. shields up and you can go in the wrong direction.

As they did on January 6th. This is why I tell you that a reliance and a return to God is absolutely vital. If you think you're anxious, I'm sure you are. But I read the stuff that you don't, I read the stuff for you that that way you don't have to read it. I look at the entire world and the entire landscape and everything, every day, I'm consuming hours of this. And it's poison. And I will tell you, every day I go on the air and I have a pit in my stomach. I am right now, and I would ask for your prayers, I am right now trying to double my efforts and reestablish every single lifeline I have with God.

because I know this to be true. I always have. God is not the author of fear. God is the author of love. God is the author of square your shoulders. There are more with you than against. And I'm telling you this to be a fact. You have no idea how engaged the heavens are right now.

in your personal struggle, you just need to recognize it. Reconnect with God and get away from fear. When you do that, you'll be able to see clearly, and more importantly, you'll be able to hear clearly, and you will hear his voice prompting you on what you need to do. Because only God knows. There is not an expert. the planet that can tell you what you are supposed to be doing now.

God can get into a place in your life where you can hear him and beg him to help you navigate these waters so we can bring as many to shore as possible. Things break down over time. It's literally the way the world works and it is especially true for all those old VHS and camcorder tapes that you might have, including all those memories that they contained the weddings, the family outings, the Christmas, the funny things the baby did before they grew up and turn into monsters. Did I say that out loud?

They eventually grow out of the monster. Don't they? Right? They go, yeah. Okay. Thank you, Pat. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

You ready, Pat? Oh, I was born ready for this discussion. I can't wait. Oh, yeah. No, it's going to be. This is going to be good to eatin right now. Yeah. Good eating.

All right. Here we go. There's a couple of stories that I want you to read today in my show prep. And you can get it at glenbeck.com. It is free. But there's many stories in here. But I'm going to give you a couple that I think are very important to read. The first one is just like in September 2008.

Many investors feel a fear. A dangerous chain reaction is starting on Wall Street. Listen to this. Widespread selling that we saw on Tuesday was more than just a little bit frightening. The Dow just kept plunging through the day. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ actually performed even worse than the Dow did. Dow Industrial average slid 1,200 points or 3.94% to close, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just five stocks on the S&P 500 finished in positive territory.

Tech stocks were hit particularly hard with Facebook parent, meta, skidding. 9.4%. Navidia shed 9.5%. Worst day for stocks since the early days of the pandemic. But one bad day does not make a crisis. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. When you can compare the current behavior of the stock market to how it behaved in 2008, it's a little frightening.

I want to put a chart up if you're watching Blaze T-E. the red is 2008 and the blue line is current that's almost exact that's a little terrifying isn't wow yeah wow yeah and it's happening in the same times uh-huh do you need to hang on you know what I've prepared. I just want to take a little quick, little break here just to regather ourselves. Uh-huh. And now,

the Glenn Beck program presents distracting happy thoughts. It's a puppy dog in a car. Right there. See, yeah, puppy dog. Sticking his head out the window. That's always fun and nice. Yeah.

Yeah. Tongue is wet. That's fun. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Okay. Now, Now back to death and destruction.

Let me give you. Let me give you the next article. Inflation is turning hyper. Hmm. Yeah. Like in Argentina, where it's at about 100%. Only at 100%. Did you see, though, that they're raising their interest rate?

Get this. We think it's bad here. They're raising their interest rate to 75%. Yeah. 75% interest? What? I don't think I've ever heard of that. You can't.

You cannot. function. There's no, it's just like, you're not getting, that's a mob loan. That's a mob loan. Right.

But Argentina has gone through this before. Yeah. Here's, this is interesting. If you look at the housing market today, the Fed raising the interest rates has caused a crash of unprecedented proportions. 500,000 single family homes sell new sales, the lowest sense.

1952. So we went from the highest to now the lowest since 1952. Of course we did. This is when I'm trying to sell my home. Of course we did. I know. I know. I'm only one year behind, but it might as well be 100 years. Exactly right. Exactly right. Mine's almost finished. Is it? Two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks. Mine's almost finished.

I said to my wife Because literally Literally I am not making this up Literally One of the workers I said so when is this going to be done Literally Oh definitely

Within the next two weeks I'm like okay Okay Has it been a year or more? A year It's been two years Has it really? It's been two years

Two years Gosh that's unreal Yeah So anyway You just can't get stuff Yeah Oh, man, can't get that. Oh, good.

Okay, good. Anyway, so the housing, the housing market is trouble. You know what's happening with your grocery prices. It is out of control. Groceries have had the largest spike and are more expensive than they've been since 1979 at the height of this nonsense. And we are not finished. We are going into bad prices now.

Think about that. That's the Carter years. that we're so bad and that we remember so... And this is the beginning of it. Okay, so this story is wrapped around... You know, could we do one more little happy thought before we go into this? Yes, please.

And this is... The Glenbeck Program presents distracting happy thoughts. Located to puppy on a bed. Look at it. You just got to scratch it underneath his cheeks there. I love that for you. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You just want to give you a horrible.

Okay. Listen to this. This is Europe. Money supplies took off during COVID lockdowns. Now it's about to take off again to pay everyone's energy bills. But that's not all. Demands for currency and credit to be conjured out of thin air to pay for everything will be coming back thick and fast. Expectations that energy prices, including European electricity, have peaked, are naive.

Putin is yet to put the winter and spring screws onto Europe and the world fully. It will be surprising if global oil and natural gas prices in Europe are not significantly higher on a 12-month view. Europe has messed up its electricity supplies. That is where energy costs will rise most. Bankers are trying to reduce their loan. exposure to rising interest rates, undermining the GDP, because paying for everyone's energy bills, rescuing troubled banks, collapsing tax revenues, and difficulty in selling government debt on rising yields, governments are expected to apply economic stimulus to support both their

economies and financial markets. Furthermore, the, uh, a, um, a, um, far greater impact on prices than contracting bank credit is the expansion of central bank credit. The replacement of commercial bank credit by central bank credit will have a far greater inflationary impact than the deflation from the bank credit alone. What they're talking about in this story is right now, the Europeans have put price controls on Russian gas and oil. and now they're doing this to protect the households and the businesses from the energy crisis. But now they still can't control it and people aren't able to do it. So Switzerland and now the UK are combining inflationary monetary policies of recent years, environmental wokeism, and what they say in this article,

the most irresponsible energy policies with a decision to sanction the world's largest energy exporter. The G7 and G20 now are all about agreement acting together, a united front to prevent the markets from taking control of events out of government's hands. Lines of communications between the formal meetings, blah, blah, blah, they're just going on to say, everyone now is working together. All of the central banks in Europe are working together. In Britain's case, it is proposed, listen to this. In Britain's case, it is proposed that electricity and presumably gas bills will be fully funded by the government anything above 2,500 pounds per household. So if the energy price goes over, and it is, if it goes over 2,500, the government will pay for all of that with support arrangements to be put into place for business.

businesses. Now, France, most of their nuclear power is now shut down. 32 plants out of the 56 nuclear reactors they have. 32 of them are now out of action. Four are showing signs of corrosion and small cracks in the cement works. And 12 reactors are suspected of being similarly affected. the other 16 are now being shut down for maintenance. Who is expected to sell? Who is the UK expecting to get all of their energy from? France. How they're going to support small businesses remain unclear.

It is extremely complex, but there's little doubt that without the support, the economy will collapse winter and, this winter as business is shut down, unemployment skyrockets, and the lowest rungs in society, the elderly and struggling single mothers, find it impossible to keep body and soul together. From the government's point of view, if nothing is done now, revenue will collapse, welfare costs will escalate, civil disobedience will worsen, and law and order will break down. The same problems will arise in the European Union with some nations facing greater propensity to riot.

So here's what's going to happen. This is what this is saying. There's no market for these bonds anymore, the loans. Okay. Every time we spend money, we have to sell that bond. It's like when you have a school board bond, yeah, we're going to raise the taxpayer money over this period of time. Should we build a new school? and you always vote yes for these bonds.

Well, that's because you're paying for them. You're voting to say, yes, I'm going to pay that. You notice we don't vote for government bonds because there's not enough tax dollars to pay for what we're spending. So we instead go to other countries and say, can you buy this because we want to spend this? So you buy this piece of paper saying that we're going to pay you back at, you know, this interest rate. nobody wants to buy them

and it's not just us the entire world has said to the Western world uh no thank you England is already at a 110% debt to GDP which means everything for an entire year that they spend

build make sell everything they still have 10% more that they still have 10% more that they still owe. So what's happening? As the energy prices get more expensive, as food prices get more expensive, the government has to spend more holding people up.

If no one will buy their bonds and no one will, gang, we all are going to have to just start printing money. That's what's coming. If you think, if you listen to any of these liars, Or they just may be misinformed. Or I could be wrong. Honestly, I could be wrong. Do not take my word as gospel.

But I have spent 20 years focused on this problem and what's coming and how it all fits together. These experts are looking at one little slice of the pie. I've been looking at the entire revolutionary state. From technology to joblessness, to instability and riots on our streets, to our instability of our government, all of it, all of it. And I warn you, Europe is about to go through hell and tighten everything down because we are shortly going to follow. what you're seeing what you're seeing right now. Sarah just said, please. Puppies.

And now the Glenberg program presents distracting happy thoughts. Oh, look it. It's a dog and a kitty cat laying together. Oh, look at them. Kind of like hugging each other. Oh, that's so sweet. Adorable. It's so sweet.

Okay. So it's a nightmare about to hit. Please. please fear not the heavens are engaged are you engaged with the heavens you are not going to convince god to be on your side we must be on his side realign everything in your life now so you can be on his side and together we will weather all of these storms this is the best of the Glenn Beck program. I have to share this because this is just so crazy.

So crazy. As if, well, they do. They think you're a moron. And all they want to do, they know they can't stop this from coming out, all they want to do is muddy the waters and slow you down from being on their trail. This happened up in Canada. A senior official with the World Economic Forum says Canada should be talking about more important things than conspiracy theories. targeting the World Economic Forum.

Adrian Monk, managing director of the World Economic Forum, argues that politicians espousing these theories should ask themselves whether they're spreading disinformation coming from bad actors. Quote, Canada should be talking about a lot of things right now. It shouldn't be talking about the World Economic Forum based here in Geneva. You know, there are bigger issues, really, for them to be thinking about. It began when an opinion piece published on the WEF's website in 2016 entitled,

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing. Have no privacy. And life has never, ever been better. Well, the author says, it was just a discussion about getting some of the pros and cons of the current technological development, you know, starting, you know, we just wanted to think about it. And Klaus Schwab said, maybe we should post it so people can think.

And we have been thinking about it. We have been thinking about it. And we've thought we don't like. The Great Reset. These opinion pieces were published, and the Great Reset, he says, now the spokesperson, has morphed into this conspiracy theory, claiming that a cabal of global elites is planning to remake society to eliminate private property and impose authoritarian global government. He said, The Great Reset, it's just an idea that grew out of the pandemic.

That's weird because that idea was happening before the pandemic. The idea was that we should also try and suggest to people what they might think about spending their time and money on, you know, and the kind of long-term things that would aid climate change and would help jobs reskilling and the kind of bigger long-term challenges. So it's nothing to see here. Concerns about the Great Reset, the World Economic Forum, and the apparent plan to turn. in Canada into a communist state is one of the underlying conspiracy theories motivated by some of the protesters who are participated in the truckers protest recently disbanded in Iowa or in Ottawa and it's increasingly a mainstream assumption in conservative circles that something

is happening called the Great Reset. I just invite you to go to their own website. I just invite you to to read what they want to do, and then go to, I don't know, whitehouse.gov. Look at what they're doing to the farmers in Holland. Look what they're doing over in England. Look at what they're now saying to our farmers.

Read the inflation reduction bill and find all of the stuff from the EPA that is exactly the same outlines of the World Economic Forum. So I guess somebody thought about it a lot and decided to implement it. And by the way, it's weird that Japan, the UK, Joe Biden, and others all ran on the campaign slogan, Build Back Better, which is the Great Reset World Economic Forum slogan. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah.

It's a lot like you remember the BLM movement. And anytime you said anything negative about the BLM movement, they're like, oh, where are you? getting that? Why are you saying that that's a Marxist organization? I don't know because the leaders said it was a Marxist organization. What do you mean? You want to destroy the family? That's outrageous. I don't know, because it said that they're trying to

bring about the end of the Western traditional family. You know, on their own website. On their own website. And it's the same with the W.E.F. It's exactly the same. Now, listen, here's a fight that I think you need to get involved in. Um,

Buttejudge is very interested in California's ban on new gas cars. He's like that, you know, that is really interesting. And I've noticed a couple of states have already joined in on that. And if there's more states that join in, I mean, maybe we should just make this a national policy. Huh. Ladies and gentlemen, Kabuki Theater. Here's what's happening. Somehow or another.

And I find this phenomenal. Somehow or another. without you really participating in it and no vote from you, 17 states decided, you know what, whatever California does, hey, hang 10,

we're surfing with you. 17 states. Now, you're going to be surprised at some of these states because, I mean, I wouldn't have seen this coming. Colorado.

How did that happen? Connecticut, right? Delaware, completely conservative. Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. What a surprise. They all signed in their own legislatures. They all signed on to whatever California, EPA, standards on are they must adopt those same standards.

So Buttigieg is playing his little kubuki theater going, you know, and if other states start to do this, maybe it was already in the cards. Whatever California does, those states have to do. Did you vote for that? Here in New York, did you vote for that? Did you vote for California standards? So now New York will have, they may not have announced it yet, but they have signed on to California's emission standards. So you are now going to, you mark my words, no, this is a conspiracy there.

Is it? Is it? Ask Virginia. Why is Virginia signed up on this? Washington came out. Yeah, we're with them. Yeah. So were the other 17. but let's roll them out slowly so it seems like a movement instead of a hijacking of our republic.

Why would you do that? I can't even think of a reason why because you're corrupt. Virginia would say, yeah, whatever California does, that's good for us. Yeah, they're corrupt. Your politicians were all left-wing politicians that were corrupt. And they're all in it. They're like, yeah, cars, bad. gasoline bad oil pad

electricity bad and so they're all signed up this is another step in ESG because here's what's going to happen when you have let's just say these 17 states and they say nope no more gasoline cars of 2035 and it's a phase in by the way

it's like 35% of all of all cars have to be 2026. Yeah. 25%, I think. By 2026. I think it is 25. 25%. In Virginia, it's about 4% of car sales. And in the California emissions bill, they penalize any of the car dealerships and the car companies if they sell more than the allotted amount of gasoline cars. And they don't hit the number of electric cars. And they're not going to. They're not going to. Oh, I think they'll be damn. They'll be given those things away.

They'll have to hit that, Pat. They have to hit that. I mean, this is a hijacking. Well, we told you, this is not capitalism anymore. By the way, if you think you live in a free country, you don't. You live in a soft authoritarian state. Right now, it's still soft, but it's an authoritarian state. How could you say that?

Well, did you vote for that? If you're listening to me and you're one of those 17 states, did you vote for that? No. That was a cabal of environmentalists that all got together, got their money, and went from state to state that were like-minded, pitched it and said, here's how we cripple it. You see the video we played today about what it takes to make an electric vehicle? No. Oh, my gosh. Can we play it?

Yeah, let's go. It's cut 13. the truth about electric vehicles. Cut 13. Okay. He's looking for it. He's looking for it. Check your pocket.

You want to go all electric by 2035. Is it practical to do it now? Well, we can make this whole discussion easy with the two-letter word. No. There's no sex thing, of course, is a zero emissions vehicle. The real question is, where are the emissions associated with of the electric car? Because what you do with electric vehicle is you don't eliminate emissions. You export them somewhere else.

You have to dig up about 500,000 pounds. materials to make a single thousand pound batter. It takes 100 to 300 barrels of oil to manufacture a battery that can hold one barrel of oil equivalent of energy. Just manufacturing the battery can have a carbon debt ranging from 10 tons to 40 tons of CO2. And the plans that are in place to increase the use of batteries will require an increase in production of minerals like lithium, cobalt, zinc. Demand for those minerals will increase between 400 percent and 4,000. percent. Isn't it enough mining in the world to make enough batteries for that many people for their car? Nobody thinks about that. Nobody talks about that. Have you heard those stats?

No. 500,000 tons of material goes in to make one of those vehicles? We should look up the stats. I saw this stat the other day and I don't want to quote it because I know he'll get it wrong. But the stats of batteries that have to be replaced by 2030 and what? you're going to do with all of those batteries. What do you do? When you're done with them, where do they go? Yeah. Because they're not environmentally friendly. You know what this is?

What was the name of that ugly, ugly car, not the Zill from the Soviet Union? They sold them everywhere in the behind the iron curtain. And now they made this super, super economical, great for everything, shell of a body. and now the cars are gone, but they cannot reuse the bodies of those cars. They can't. They can't destroy them. They can't reuse them. So all over the former Soviet Union are these gigantic stacks of just the bodies of these cars. I mean, that's the kind of thing we're going to be seeing. Because that's state top down thinking.

And nobody thought it through. No. By the way, if you're in one of these states, you are suing the states that are following California. You have Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. There's a couple of missing states there, but a glaring one is Florida. These are the people that filed a lawsuit in May, before any of us were aware of it, challenging California's ability to depart from federal emission standards and implement its own vehicle emission standard and zero emissions goals. 17 states are suing. 17 states are already on board on the other side.

No, we, no, we're not headed for any kind of trouble or disorder at all. Thank you.