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  • I love how these jokers keep driving home the point that these are "non-hybrid" seeds...

    They know that the idiot people out there who might be worried about the end of the world will probably be thinking: "Non-hybrid seeds? Wow, that sounds like something I can't get just ANYWHERE!" lol.

    Haha, are YOU going to trust YOUR family's future to a hybrid seed?

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  • Glenn Beck has nothing to worry about if the zombie apocalypse comes tomorrow. I understand zombies eat brains, do they not?

  • I hope everyone knows that seeds will not just grow anywhere and these rubes are selling the exact same seeds that you can buy at Dollar General or the Dollar tree for a dollar a pack. You might get some sort of treated seeds at Wal-Mart or The Garden center but those cost more for a reason.

  • Screw seeds, I'll just eat my neighbors. LOL!

  • non hybrid or heirloom seeds produce seeds that are viable for many generations where hybrid or GMO seeds may only produce 1 or 2 generations, they are engineered that way prevent GMOs from cross pollinating with nonGMO plants.

    So no the seeds you get at wall mart are not the same and are only good for at most 2 generations worth of growth.

  • @daytona6750

    The seeds you get at the dollar store are not altered in any way... that is why they are only a dollar a pack

  • @jimcorrill Sure, and while we're at it, can I sell you some gold and perhaps some food insurance as well?

  • i think booze, drugs, gun/bullets, and ciggrets would be a BIT more valuable then food... just a thought

  • @masterdk29 gold will be totally worthless because you can't eat gold.

  • Best. Scam. Ever.

  • ahahahahahahaha, what the fucking fuck?!?

  • Not just a garden, folks, but a "crisis garden". LOL!

  • @Benj71

    Or you could call it a Victory Garden. most front yards in America had them at one time look it up.

  • You know that Beck spills his "Survival Seed" just thinking about how easily he has snookered his gullible sheeple followers.

  • OK guys... When the "revolution" comes, or the zombies file out of the grave single file and begin to approach your home made fallout shelter, you can actually have a fistful of the seeds from Lowe's Garden Center and do just fine. That's assuming the ground isn't radioactive. In fact, modern engineered plants are orders of magnitude better.

    Google "Norman Borlaug". Now compare the advice of a Nobel Prize winner to the advice offered by a drunken Glenn Beck or his associates.

  • @Hannsfeld

    Yep you will do great for the first season. But try and grow next years garden from those plants and you will starve.

  • @daytona6750

    Prove it. Grow seeds from Walmart along side Glenn Beck paranoia seeds in scientific trials for two seasons.

  • @Hannsfeld I don't need to it is common knowledge. " hybrid seed is seed produced by artificially cross-pollinated plants. Today, hybrid seed is predominant in agriculture and home gardening, . In the US, Hybrid seed cannot be saved, as the seed from the first generation of hybrid plants does not reliably produce true copies, therefore, new seed must be purchased for each planting." Wikipedia abbreviated to fit here

  • @daytona6750

    I didn't tell you to plant "hybrid" seeds, I told you to plant seeds from Glenn Beck and Walmart. I'll wager his seeds come from the same place. But hey, why test something when we can just make assumptions on the internet. You could sell some gold via his few remaining sponsors to fund the experiment.

  • @Hannsfeld "Today, hybrid seed is predominant in agriculture and home gardening, " that means that the seeds that you are buying at wall-mart are (unless they say "heirloom ") are hybrid seeds.

    The seeds that this guy is selling are the same as the heirloom seeds that you can get at some stores (not wall-mart in my area at least, I checked) but then they are vacuum sealed in Mylar for long term storage.

  • @daytona6750

    I think perhaps my sarcasm is escaping you. Unless you can demonstrate that the zombie apocalypse is upon us, I don't feel a need to be setting up a botany gene bank in my garage, nor will I be arming myself for the revolution based upon the fear mongering of Glenn Beck.

    I guess I am vindicated about my Wal-mart (or equivalent suitably "Heirloom" stocked home and garden store as the case may be) conjecture however. I'll keep all that in mind for my primary zombie plan.

  • @Hannsfeld "I'll wager his seeds come from the same place" and in the same paragraph "we can just make assumptions on the internet." . Yes I could pant a large garden just from the gold I bought ( $997 per oz. and is now $1400 per oz.).

  • @daytona6750

    Oh tell me you are not doing your financial planning based on advice from Glenn Beck.

    And yes, a wager is a speculation. I don't feel compelled to put much effort into it, as the track record of Mr. Beck versus reality indicates him to be a less than likely source of valid information.

  • @Hannsfeld "Oh tell me you are not doing your financial planning based on advice from Glenn Beck." you may want to rethink who you are taking advice from to because a more than 40% profit in a year ($997 oz. to $1400 oz.) is pretty good advice. But that is just me, I like being prepared, so the next time there is a hurricane or a flood or an earth quake you can come on over to my house and we can share my food and water, but I will say "I told you so". I enjoyed the debate, thanks.

  • @daytona6750

    "I will say I told you so".

    Yeah? Does that fill your heart with peace?

  • @Hannsfeld "I'll wager his seeds come from the same place. " isn't than like saying "I will assume his seeds come from the same place" and then you say "But hey, why test something when we can just make assumptions on the internet" . have you called the co. to ask if his seeds are the same? Or are you just assuming over the internet? I just thought people might like to be more educated about the fact that unless specified they are buying hybrid seeds at wall-mart.

  • @daytona6750

    Let get something straight. I am the skeptic. I don't need to run around researching Glenn Beck's claims or those of his advertisers. He is making claims about the seeds, and I don't believe him. I don't even have a garden, nor am I interested in creating one at the moment.

    I can be as sarcastic and disbelieving of Beck as I wish. The issue here is the fear mongering he utilizes to support himself. I am satisfied that these seeds are widely available locally.

  • @Hannsfeld "The issue here is the fear mongering he utilizes to support himself." Let me ask, Are the people at Ford motor co. "fear mongers" because they include a spare tire with their cars, there by scaring people into be leaving that they will have a flat where there is no help? Or how about businesses that sell tire chains, because you might get stuck in the snow? I personally would say no there is no harm in being too prepared, but there is some danger in being unprepared.

  • @daytona6750

    WTF?  Are you looking for a cookie or something? Because I don't have one.

  • @Hannsfeld "Are you looking for a cookie or something? Because I don't have one." I do not even know what his means. I am simply stating that buying things and advertising things that could prepare you does not equal "fear mongering"

    Your stance seems to be that a businesses should not advertise carrying tire chins with you because it causes the fear that you may become stuck in a snow storm. It is the same concept just a different situation. should we shut down the evil tire stores?

  • @daytona6750

    Strawman argument. Next. 

  • @Hannsfeld "I don't even have a garden, nor am I interested in creating one at the moment." then this product would be perfect for you since you could put them on a shelf and then in 10 years when you are ready to start a garden you would already have seeds ready to go.

    "I am the skeptic." yes you are and as such the burden of proof falls on you the accuser. For instance if someone were killed, you could say that Bob did it, but as the accuser you would need to PROVE that he did.

  • @daytona6750

    I stated that I am the skeptic. Your answer: " yes you are and as such the burden of proof falls on you the accuser."

    LMFAO. You have got to be kidding. The person making claims (and or advertising them) has the burden of proof. This is basic.

  • @Hannsfeld I know this was a while ago, but I gotta say that you're wrong, in a way, about that point. It's one thing to be skeptical about something, but you're also making a claim am I right? Aren't you also claiming that the seeds the guy is selling just repackaged dollar store seeds or something? If so, then you've just obligated yourself to prove that the guy is a charlatan and is selling common seeds. If you don't, then you're just confusing the topic with wild speculation &no factualbasis

  • @SilverMahouShinobi

    Yes, this was a long time ago. I am not making any claim except for this: I am pleased that Beck has been taken off the air. Unfortunately he has now injected himself into the middle east to cause problems where it will do the most damage.

    Go buy the damn seeds for all I care. I am not going to sit and argue with you about the burden of proof for his "apocalypse seeds". Oh, and don't forget to sink all your income into "gold" so you can trade with the survivors.

  • @daytona6750

    Let me explain how this works. See you stop trolling me, then comments stop filling my inbox. Then, I can go and do something productive.

    Result: A good time will be had by all.

  • @Hannsfeld I did not realize that an open debate was "trolling" , remember YOU are the one who responded to my comment, If you didn't want to have a discussion maybe you shouldn't start a conversation. Please do not accuse me of being a "troll" because I have responded to you. So go and do something productive and leave it at that.

    But if you respond to me I get to say something back, that is how it works.

  • @daytona6750

    Yeah. You're just like the energizer bunny.

    Go ahead. I know it's of paramount importance for you to type the last word, so go ahead and get it over with. Rest assured though, you have been a fine source of entertainment for many.

    BTW - I responded to you because I saw you hitting on every comment in this thread trying your best to get a reaction. The only thing I'm trying to figure out is if you are a Glenn Beck disciple, or a survivalist nut. On second thought, I don't care.

  • @Hannsfeld made 2 maybe 3 posts just to try and educate about hybrid seeds not to get a reaction. "saw you hitting on every comment in this thread trying your best to get a reaction." and you took it upon yourself to put me in my place? I am what some would call a Prepper, I have 72 and first aid kits in my car. So I guess I am a "nut". If you look back at all of my posts I NEVER called you a name and tried to treat you with respect while making my argument. Can you say the same?

  • @daytona6750

    (Sniff. Sniff. It brings a tear to my eye.)

    Oh, hell! Now you are going to have to make another "last word" comment. I promise not to say anything this time. Well, unless you leave a total opening for an irresistible one liner or something.

  • @Hannsfeld You are the one complaining about ending the conversation and yet yet keep posting. Of course I am not willing to let you take a free shot at me, I am prepared to defend my position with more than name calling, sarcasm, and snide remarks.

  • what do you eat while you wait for the seeds to grow?

  • @davehodo Your neighbors. LOL

  • @davehodo

    Your food storage, duh.

  • @davehodo

    That would be twinkies. They are formulated to survive the coming apocalypse.

  • You do know that your dipshit buddy Glenn supports legalizing drugs right?

    Do you also know that he's a Mormon?

    I doubt it, you Faux "News" watching, sisterfucking, mouth-breathing rednecks are so easily duped its pathetic.

  • @pbmdh Legalizing drugs is a good thing, lol it keeps LA organized crime operatives poor. Morman thing not so much.

  • Oh I wasn't saying it shouldn't be legal. But I assume most Glenn Beck watchers are blind republicans, and most repubs think pot and other drugs should be illegal.

  • the chart looks like it was made on windows paint lol

  • don't for get it will take more than a month for you to get even the first crop of any thing corn 63 days . better have a gun to keep the animals out of your garden . some way to control bugs in your garden

  • hahahahahahahhahahahahahah

  • how lame ...  i think your title isi lame not the idea of storing seeds

  • lol

  • My full acre "crisis garden" during an economic meltdown would give you a buzz just walking through it.

  • @matthewj1985 bah dum tss

  • Apparently the survival pack is vacuumed sealed which will kill most of the seeds inside within a year.

  • I'm going to need bout 200 of these for my Zombie Plan O.o

  • What? Survival Seeds? If there Homo-sexual seeds, Ultra Conservatives won't go for it...

  • If someone actually pays $165 for a mere box of seeds, they deserve it.

  • Nono he got it wrong, it's actually a socialist plot, those seeds actually have microphones in them so that the government can listen to you and see if they have to send in the gestapo-commie-brigade into your house. I heard it on Glenn Beck's Very Informative Show, he drew pictures on the chalkboard so it must be true.

  • I need to put on my tin foil hat now after watching this video :3

  • The idea that one can even obtain seeds which have "not been genetically modified in any way" today is ludicrous. Farmers have been unknowingly genetically modifying plants since the advent of agrarian societies.

  • Why would you want non-hybrid seeds? It makes absolutely no sense to ignore the last 300 years of ag science. Who needs drought resistance during hard times? How about higher yield? Frankly I think the most valuable seeds during crisis would be the most valuable seeds today, C. Sativa, C. Indica and all of their wonderful hybrids.

    There I go again, thinking Beck's listeners/viewers use logic when making decisions.

  • hey retard do you realize that just 10 seeds of weed is worth as much as the whole can of that crap.

  • OMG And they think liberals are crazy?!?!

  • i just think its cool that you dont have to buy the seeds again every year, as a gardener i kind of appreciate this, but seriously? survival seeds?

  • I heard this was really a commie liberal plot,

    don't fall for it, those seeds are really triffid seeds

    bred to kill white heterosexual bible believing americans

  • I think he's confusing "economic crisis" with "zombie apocalypse"

  • @ninnariaein

    LOL! My son and I have been joking about that for awhile now.... I bet the Zombie survival guide has seen an increase in sales lately.

  • Which strains of seed are they selling ? I like to get OG Kush, Himalayan Gold and Super Silver Hash.

    Currently I'm growing Willie's Wonder X SSH in my PC grow box and they stink as hell. Check out my secret garden on my channel.

  • If you call in the next 20 mins as an added bonus, we will include beanstalk beans... Get your today so you can steal the giants golden egg laying goose... Offer only valid as long as supplies last...

    This makes me think that Glenn Beck audience is actually mentally retarded... Not retarded in the way that it is said being tongue-in-cheek... actually developmentally disabled disorder ranging from mild to severe mental retardation with an IQ score below 75...

  • If ya can't beat em attack his sponsors. Sorry Media Matters but you can't stop the program.

    This only proves that Glenn Beck actually believes in what he preaches.

  • media matters for statists

  • @UberRepub111

    $175??

    They're $165 with S&H now..

    The cost must be going down.

    If they believe the economy will collapse, why would they be selling these seeds beforehand?? And why charge so much if the dollar's gonna collapse?? Why would they sell anything??

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  • I was so moved by this commercial that I was motivated to get them. And by get them, I mean get my neighbor to buy them.

  • @UberRepub111 You are one sick, sick, sick republican, sicker than the rest. I hope your garden ensnares you and the vines squeeze the life out of you. Then your body can decompose, naturally, among your nonhybrid seeds.

  • Colbert: Its only cost $149 until supply runs out, cause where else can buy seeds? *display of names of stores that sell seeds in background*

  • There's a sucker born every minute, lol!

  • .......your name is satire right.

    That's a joke, right.

  • Giy's trying to sell me a bag of seeds!

  • Paranoia reaches a new level. Any morons who fall for this deserve to be screwed out of their $149 for $10 worth of useless seeds. How sick are people getting that they think the world is going to end and seeds will save you?

  • The US must go protectionist and isolationist for awhile.

    Bring our military home, from everywhere. Close our borders. Build up our military. Rebuild our industrial capabilities. Develop our own energy resources. Deport all ACTIVIST environmentalists, communists and homosexuals.

    (not all environmentalists, homosexuals and communists, only the ACTIVIST ones)

    Improve our agriculture and water resources.

  • seriously?

    seriously?

  • @UberRepub111

    Did you buy any??

  • Strange, genetic modification is bad?

    I thought genetic modification of plants to where they can survive the cold, all the pests, and all the diseases, was good.

    Then again, pirahna and wasp genes in the plants is bad if it helps them survive better.

  • @ianflowforever which universe do you live in ? Search "Monsanto" on youtube.

  • @acidcrashguy

    too bad we've been genetically modifying all our crops and livestock for thousands of years, were all doomed

  • wow

  • I stand corrected. :)

  • So in the event of a complete economic collapse, who would you rather be friends with: Someone who has prepared for it with things like these seeds and or has been storing up food. Or someone who thought all those things were stupid and now has to loot to survive and hope that the government can restore order before too many people kill eachother.

    If it's not for you, just don't buy it, it's that simple. No need to hate.

  • @TheMusicBucket As long as the people who've grown food weren't duped into buying THOSE seeds, I'll make friends with whoever.

  • Do they sell weed seeds ?

  • "Ultimate barter item?" lol... Imagine someone trying to barter his "Survival Seeds" for your gold.

  • I don't see what good those seeds will do you when Thunderdome becomes law.

  • wow, i seriously thought this was a joke.

  • For $140 you, too, can have a bucket of seeds that you can't guarantee will grow where you live!

  • I have grown some seeds in my secret garden ..check it out

  • can someone please tell me where in this video the guy uses the words "emerging totalitarianism" ??? well he doesnt.

    even though this ad is crazy as hell, i dont like it when anyone fabricates quotes.

  • If a crisis were to emerge, I would prefer genetically modified hybrid seeds! Why, you ask?? Because I am not a fucking farmer and if a food shortage is threatening my life I would prefer to have faster growing, disease-resisting hybrid crops that demand less special attention so I have time to polish my guns and watch the horizon for swarms of regretful liberal zombies!!

  • "Or maybe the fact that he has an audience, unlike the pro Obama cable news. "

    That's obviously why McCain won the election, because Obama has no followers.

    Wait...

  • [citation needed]

  • After all securing a source of food for your family and protecting their delicious brains are the most important things you can do. Damn those politicians and bankers!!!

  • Of course, seeds are the ultimate barter item. I know of a guy who traded five beans for an entire cow. Who needs golden eggs? Can't eat that during the zombie apocalypse.

  • WTF! Glenn Beck does not have anything to do with the goodness of the earth! What a bunch of bull shit! As if people who follow GB would get out from in front of the Television long enough to plant a garden.

    LOL!

  • @ 0:10

    "pay close attention, this graph shows nothing and has no actual data to support it"

    non-hybrid seeds would be LESS valuable because they would be more likely to not fucking germinate. And your "crisis garden" would just be looted [you know, probably by those black people] anyway. Stupid stupid stupid

  • @Craigipedia

    hmm, an acre of seeds wouldn't be worth shit should a catastrophe occur in late september thru may here in the american north. most of the vegetables wouldn't be ready for picking for almost a year.

    by that time, if that's all one had to rely on for sustenance, one wouldn't need that stuff at all, one would have died long ago.

  • @wntoply6

    absolutely, you CANNOT survive as a family on an acre of land. If you wake up tomorrow and the lights won't turn on, your stupid bag of seeds will be useless. Use it to catch birds for protein haha

  • hhaahahahahahha good point man lol

  • Fox News viewers do not think that far ahead.

    In fact, they do not think at all.

  • @wntoply6

    That would be fine if it were just you. win.

    Other folks may actually plan ahead and have enough actual canned or irradiated food to last for that year.

  • Beckerheads UNTIE!

  • Only in Amurica!

  • Victory gardens were huge in World War two.

    Gardening is not really that "strange". In some parts of the world without 7Eleven's on every corner its actually common.

  • There is nothing strange about gardening.

    But making up random, arbitrary charts and describing seeds as "the ultimate barter item" is very odd.

  • this cannot be real... O.o

  • photolitherland

    Are you a survivalist?

  • You must plant your garden underground with artificial sunlight powered with hidden photo voltaic cells. A large minefield will be necessary on approaches to your property.

  • This is so laughable.

  • An acre's worth of gardening seeds... That actually sounds like something useful for a home growing farmer. But the non-hybrid seeds I could care less about. But the message of your government is taking over and you need to grow your own food seems wrong. Could just have said: "Love gardening? Wish you could live off your own food? Well I've got a bargain for you! Try survival seed! It's an acres worth of seeding for those committed to growing there own food. Survival Seed, it's how to survive."

  • Jesus. That actor SUCKS OUT LOUD.

  • Fox News continues to scare its viewers into making them and its CRAZY sponsors rich

  • seeds can go bad after a year.... how is this better than gold??

  • even if they have not been hybredised, they still would have been changed through selective breeding.

    anyone who has seen a photo of a wild banana or a comparison between wild and domestic weet knows the plants that are "the way god made them" do not give impresive yealds

  • Beck is just a watered down clone of Alex Jones. The difference is Beck is full of shit.

  • i bet the produce the showd was from a stor and not grown from there crappy seeds

  • A crisis garden?

    What the bloody hell is going on????

    What does it do exactly?

    Grow the seeds of fear? :)

  • We actually had Victory Gardens during WWII. I remember them.

    If you have a crisis garden, the crisis will come when the zombies come to pick the fruits of your labor.

  • LOL

    We are all awaiting the zombie apocalypse, worsened by the ensuing Gremlin invasion.

    :)

  • You think Beck's got a crisis garden? Probably not.. He's a fruit-cake, a fraud, and a faggot.

  • i cant tell if this is a spoof or for real.

  • wtf is with the quotation marks around emerging totalitarianism.....not once does that appear in the ad

  • LOL this is great

    i love it

    better order some

  • Well Beck endorses most of the products

    on his show

    afterall, he got alot of advertisers

    fighting for the spot right..

    well it have to match with his agenda.

    could you imagine Obama ad

    in a Beck show.

    they choose those ads purposely.

  • No wonder why they are soo paranoid

    they take advantage of their Fear Emotions and Religion...

  • if they're not hybrids and not gm then arent they just regular seeds?

  • mediamatters throws rocks from a glass house!!!

  • I just don't know how far some Americans can get.This is verging on extreemely scary and the time for jokes is over.

  • Did TheOnion hacked Mediamatters?

  • how far is that?

  • i don't see how the qualitys of being "non hybread" or "not geneticaly modified' are ether important or adventagious.

    is this some sort of ethnic purity thing?

  • lol

  • nothing sells like fear.

  • How in the F*#@? Anyway Fox need to go off the air, this is sickening. I mean really Glen Beck will go to any length to scare people and get paid. With the concert tours, gold, books, when are people going to see that this racist don't give a crap about them. He went so far as to inviting a democrat on his show today to push his agenda and the guy made him look look the propagandist he is. It was so funny. Beck almost cried for real when the guy didn't play his sick games.

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  • Bush:

    Funny comment. Good laugh.

  • @bushputz

    Now all you need is a 12ft barb wire fence around that. With a land mines surrounding that and a few automated defense turrets to fend off looters and the zombie invasion. Lets not forget a radiation proof house and a seperate 30year water supply stored in radiation proof tanks under your house with a warehouse supply of astronaut rations or any alternative food that doesn't go bad.

  • @MrKarnac THANK YOU

  • Most advertising during conservative radio talk shows is for fraudulent products and services. Why should tv be any different? There's a sucker born every minute.

  • Examples please?

  • Dietary supplements/herbal remedies, work at home schemes, invention patent scams, debt consolidation, get-rich-quick on the internet or in the stock market or real estate, etc., and personal identity protection. Lifelock, endorsed by Rush Limbaugh and others, is in the news now having been ordered to pay restitution to customers. There are legitimate products and services advertised on Conservative talk shows, but they're the minority.

  • Of all the advertisers you listed, which was only a subset of those who advertise on conservative radio talk shows, you only pointed to one that is being ordered to pay restitution. And at that, you did not say that it was for fraudulent reasons.

    What else you got?

  • Lifelock is paying restitution for fraud. And because the others haven't been prosecuted doesn't mean they're not fraudulent. They skirt the letter of the law and exploit the ignorance of the audience. The ones I listed represent the majority.

    I don't think they should be cracked down on by the gov. because I don't think the gov. should go that far, with the exception of snake oils. I'd rather people be better educated in the first place, ie., in logic and the scientific method--skepticism.

  • mediamatters; the most pathetic channel on youtube.

  • you dont understand anything about marketing do you? lol wow

  • there's no such thing as "seeds that have not been genetically modified in any way."

  • Fucking. Wow.

  • dang,

    this company is brilliant

  • LOL. That site quotes WorldNet as a prime "news" source. Those are they guys with breaking stories on abiotic oil, and discovered Kenyan birth certificates that happen to forged from an Australian certificate.

  • @hughster41 Not really. Take a look at all their other videos.

  • this is brilliant! i wish i had thought of doing this sooner. selling whacko survival kits to tin-foil-hat-wearing glenn beck viewers

  • They continue to cash in on fear. Wondering what I might sell them?

  • lol, classic. I often get a laugh at some of the advertisers on Limbaugh too. An inability to think beyond ones fear says alot about the demographic.

  • lol!!

    incredible....using fear tactics to sell seeds...

    smh..

  • jesus fuck...

  • I'LL TAKE 30... NO... 40 BOXES!

  • hahahahaha this is so funny. god help us if the likes of Beck and Oreilly ever take over this country.

  • we gonna see who's laughing and who's hungry when o-bomba's jack-booted thugs come to take away your freedom and kill your pets

  • personally, I'm more worried that Obama is going to eat my children. Think of the children!!!