 Welcome to the Knuckleheads of Liberty. In addition, you know, just so, yeah, why should we wait for CNN or the Times to come out and, you know, put their blessing on it? Why? Sure. Why, Leon? Well, I wish I had the answer to that, Tim, but I think this is a major failure in the direction of our great republic. Because we now need, according to, I guess, the powers that be, we now need the New York Times to tell us, or some other left-wing outlet, to tell us that something's authentic before we could believe it, or before we could read it on Facebook, or Twitter, or before we are free to talk about it without being called a Russian asset, or Russian disinformation spreader, or something like that. This is disturbing. This is seriously disturbing. And Jason, I totally agree with you. This is disturbing. Keep in mind, too, this is the same group that's behind the 1619 project, right? Exactly. I mean, the New York Times. So the idea that they clearly have a bent on a certain version of history, both, you know, past and going forward, it's a little bit disturbing that they have that much pull. But, you know, maybe, you know, we'll see an erosion of their pull as clearly these stories keep coming out one after another. It shows that, hey, if you want to be first, don't read the Times, because clearly the Times is not leading the way with the news. They're actually recording it. I mean, really, a story that is about a year and a half old, and now they're finally on it. I mean, wow, what bang-up investigating journalism this is. You know, the idea that they're telling us all about it is the Times now a history journal? Is that what we're doing? Yeah, instead of the news, they ought to be calling themselves the Olds. Yeah. The New York Olds. Well, you know, this does bring up, though. I mean, now there are becoming more and more new outlets that people are starting to turn to and starting to splinter away. And, you know, Joe Rogan has recently also come out, and he's just the guy with the podcast who is, you know, also calling BS when he thinks he sees it. And he is telling BS on this now. He is saying that, you know, Biden and the media lied about the laptop. And, of course, he's the biggest podcast for the country, so that brings a little weight. But, you know, one of the things I wanted to add on to this, though, before I hand it over to you guys, is the idea that how much effort is being made by the administration and social media to silence him as well? So, I mean, it's not just the usual conservative sources. It's anybody who speaks at a turn. And, you know, aside from all of the attacks that have been made about him over COVID and I'm sure about issues like this, one story that came out a couple months ago that I thought was pretty disturbing on this route is when the Surgeon General literally came out and tried to silence Joe Rogan. And saying that essentially, you know, that, you know, this is a person with authority in the government who is literally trying to direct private entities to silence Joe Rogan. And let me read you the quote, because here's what he said to MSNBC back in January. He said, we can have the best science available, we can have the best public health expertise available. It won't help people if they don't have access to accurate information. People have the right to make their own decisions, but they also have the right to have accurate information to make that decision with. This is not just about what the government can do. This is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way to get past misinformation is if we are careful about the way we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation. And of course, who's identifying the misinformation? He's identifying misinformation. Whatever Joe Rogan and the expert that Joe Rogan is interviewing. Because remember, he was interviewing literally one of the guys who I can't remember his name at the moment. Dr. Malone, I think it's him. Dr. Malone, yes, who was one of the designers of the technology for the vaccine that everybody is using and that they're trumpeting in the administration. And they're calling him misinformation. You know, they're calling anybody who doesn't go along with their tune misinformation. So, you know, yeah, you're free to decide whatever you want. But we're going to very closely limit the choices of what you can say you want. By not letting you hear anything essentially. So anyway, you guys want to go ahead with the Joe Rogan issue. Yeah, about Joe Rogan, I just want to say in the article that says he's very lark. He's outpacing their viewership, the viewership of these mainstream media types. So that's what they're angry about is that they're being outpaced by this guy on the Internet. And that's the beauty of the Internet, the beauty of podcasts, you know, like ours as far as that goes. And anything else that's out there. It used to be when I was growing up and all the way through my adulthood, it shelled just recently. All you had was Channel 3, Channel 12, ABC NBC CBS. And Fox came along late in the game. 1996 then, go ahead. That's pretty darn late. That's not that long ago. So all you had was the three major news outlets and they all trumpeted the same old stuff. They all got their stuff from whatever that main source is. And that's it. And that's all you had. Unless you read a book, you know, which was not as easy as listening to a podcast on your way to work. Let's face it. So today we have a plethora of information sources. And yeah, yeah, you go, oh my gosh, yeah, you got to do some work. You got to listen to it. You got to decide for yourself, you know, if there's this person full of malarkey or are they worth listening to. And then eventually, and then if you find somebody like a Joe Rogan or Tom Woods or whoever, you know, has a podcast you trust. And the people that he brings or he or she brings on to the show, you trust. Or at least you want to listen to, then do it and stop. Stop watching television. Just stop right now. You know, you know, Tim, Tim, you're right. I think I think it's a good thing. We have competition out there. And yeah, many sources of information for us to go to. I go to a variety of them. I do look at CNN and all of them and that kind of stuff. CNN that come in particular. But but I also go to a lot of other sources that I find more trustworthy. So I think it's a good thing. I think it's a good thing about the competition. But I really have understood and concerned about this government intent to limit the so-called spread of misinformation. Because this is if you listen to what Jason just quoted, the last sentence there by the surgeon general was about we have whatever powers we have that we can use to limit the spread of misinformation. Well, who the hell is going to tell me what misinformation is? We want the Biden administration to determine what misinformation is. But I don't want and this is where I have my issue. I don't want the government at all attacking the First Amendment. That is why we have the First Amendment in the first case to prevent the government from intruding into what we hear, what we listen to and what we believe. We have to keep these people out of our lives. But they are trying to intrude upon it by attacking the First Amendment. This is what we were talking about, about this war on the First Amendment. We have to be careful that these people don't lead us down a very dirty path into nothingness that will destroy our republic. We have to be careful about this. Let me rephrase that pompous tyrant's sentence. What powers do we have to repress freedom of speech is what he really was saying. Exactly what he was saying. What powers do we have, us pompous asses, to repress freedom of speech?