A Radical Reset
Our Republic has been converted into a democracy which is just another name for mob rule. The mob is getting what it wants, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, good and hard. One day soon, the entire edifice is going to collapse under its own weight and what takes its place historically will be tyranny. A Radical Reset is the alternative and the system is called Antipolitism. It calls for a new republic based upon merit and not ambition. No parties, no money in politics, no careers in politics, and only serving the public good.
A Radical Reset
Courage in a Cowardly Era
Something profound has vanished from our society. As science advances and traditional faith recedes, we've eliminated God without replacing what religion provided: meaning, ethics, and boundaries. The resulting void doesn't stay empty—it fills with nihilism, a blind pursuit without virtue or value.
This episode explores how courage, the first pillar of Stoicism, offers us a path forward. True courage means facing reality honestly and taking complete responsibility without mitigation, regardless of personal consequences. It's about falling on your sword when you've done wrong, rather than constructing elaborate justifications or blaming others.
I examine how this principle applies to our current media landscape, particularly regarding President Biden's cognitive decline. For years, polls consistently showed that most Americans harbored serious concerns about Biden's mental fitness. Yet many mainstream outlets downplayed these concerns, creating not so much a cover-up (since the information was widely known) but rather a "gaslighting" effect—telling Americans not to believe what they could plainly see.
The media's failure wasn't being deceived by White House officials; it was abandoning their essential function as independent watchdogs. When media organizations become extensions of political parties, they sacrifice their role in a democratic republic. Their redemption must begin with courage—specifically, acknowledging mistakes without mitigation or excuse.
This same principle extends to personal redemption. My own journey taught me that genuine healing begins only when we stop trying to explain away our actions and simply take full responsibility. Courage isn't avoiding consequences; it's facing them directly.
Whether through religion or philosophy like Stoicism, we must rediscover courage as individuals and institutions. Our culture's survival depends on our willingness to speak honestly, take responsibility, and prioritize truth over comfort.
Share this episode with others if you found value in these reflections. And consider exploring my book "A Radical Reset," which outlines a system called antipolitism—a potential path forward for our republic.
Good morning everybody. It is Friday, it is May, the 23rd of 2025, and I am your host, herbie K of the Spiritual Agnostic, where I, being a secular person and agnostic who has serious doubts about the existence of God, nonetheless recognizes that as science and our culture kills God, we become more and more likely to self-destruct, and unless we replace that message, that philosophy of religion, with something else, we are going to inevitably spiral into a deep pit of decadence, and not just on the, you know it's. It's obvious that I'm a libertarian, if you listen to me very long, although I'm actually an antipolitist, which refers to the system that I invented called antipolitism, which is a Republic by lottery, um, which I know sounds weird, but you can learn about it by going to a radical reset on Amazon, a radical reset by me, herbie K, where I lay it out, and the reason I did that is because I understand, as I'm sure you do too, the nature of just the average human being. Now, my favorite philosophy, the one that I espouse most often and I don't consider myself a philosopher by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not nearly well-read enough to put myself to that category like someone, like there's a guy named Ryan Holiday, who does the Daily Stoic and so on and so forth, who's a genuine student of philosophy and has read much more than I, and I strongly recommend that you can go to YouTube and listen to him and draw a lot from it. I bring that up.
Speaker 1:I don't hold myself out that way. I hold myself out as a deeply flawed but widely experienced autodidact with a lot to offer who discovered Stoicism when he didn't have the. Because I don't have faith, because I don't think God is real, it's hard for me to listen to, you know, religious pronouncements where God is constantly the center of the conversation which of course he would be in a religious conversation and more and more people, because of science, are becoming less and less able to embrace religion and as a result of that, we have to have something else. You can't replace something with nothing and you know what we've replaced it with so far is nihilism. You know the blind pursuit, without meaning, of life, without any consideration of virtue or value. You know one need only look at something as obvious to all of us as this idiotic I don't know how it happened cult that tries to indoctrinate otherwise innocent children not to say children that don't have problems, but otherwise innocent children into believing that they're not the gender they were born and that they have multiple choice answers and they can make decisions prepubescently or even pubescently that would affect them for the rest of their lives, like gender changing, chemicals and all that nonsense that don't do anything other than, for example, chemically castrate young men and completely screw up young women, and anyway, that is a nihilistic belief to begin with. That can lead to nothing good. There's no good outcome. You can't point to any good outcome. There are no healthy people living like this.
Speaker 1:But because of the literal cowardice and that's going to be really what I want to talk about today is cowardice, the cowardice of the mainstream media in this country as relates to anything that runs counter to a narrative that they've somehow subscribed to, even when they know it's wrong. For lots of reasons, mostly to save and salvage and grow their own careers, we are left in a place where there's nobody left to trust in the middle. So I know that was a meandering opening, but let me just get down to the bottom line. Today I wanna talk about cowardice and I wanna talk about taking responsibility, and I wanna talk about cowardice and I want to talk about taking responsibility, and I want to talk about what courage really means, and I'll relate it to myself only to the extent of this one thing the crime that I committed I committed. So when I decided in prison that I must seek redemption and I suddenly felt clear of all the noise that had been surrounding me up until that point, from, you know, a lifetime of various scars inflicted. Once I was clear of that, I understood that in order to move on and to earn redemption, the very first thing I had to do was fall on my sword like a man and I know that that's some sexist thing that someone's going to write me about. Calm down, you can fall on your sword like a substituted term. For me, it's fall on your sword like a man and accept responsibility without mitigation, which is why I never discuss the details.
Speaker 1:Like all stories, my story has details and has shadows and nuances, and there are things in that story that if you were buying into the popular narrative of victimhood everyone's a victim of something in the popular narrative of today's nihilistic lack of complete lack of philosophy guiding anything in the, in the public sphere driven by the mainstream, you know it's. You know you can be a victim of almost anything, and I could draw a pretty attractive victimhood story and maybe even, using, you know, my powers of persuasion and erudition, somehow convince you that I wasn't entirely responsible, that if I had this hadn't happened and that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have done this and I wouldn't have and that hadn't happened, I wouldn't have done this and I wouldn't have done that, and we could reconstruct a history that would make it seem like if only you know this and this and this had happened, I'd have turned out to be a decent human being to begin with. And that's just not true. You know, lots of people experienced what I experienced and lots of people didn't turn into what I turned into. So that's just a fallacious argument and there's no point in it.
Speaker 1:Okay, trying to mitigate the blame of what you've done, especially when you're the captain of your own ship, the only person responsible in the end is where the buck stops, and the buck in my company world, in the world that I lived in, stopped on my desk and while there were other people involved, and there were other people that counseled me, and there were other people who franklyed me, and there were other people who frankly, helped me perpetrate what was a fraud, and I never implicated them because and I'm never going to, and I'm never going to say their name and I'm never going to pull them in because that would be weaseling that's my word for when you try to mitigate blame and not face what you've done with courage. Courage is the first pillar of Stoicism. Stoicism has four pillars courage, justice, moderation and wisdom, but courage is always the first one. You can reorder the other three, but courage is always the first one, because if you don't have courage, if you cannot face honestly and completely what it is that you or we, or the culture or the country has done and tell the truth, or, conversely, tell the truth when it's popular to take blame for things that are just insane, just have the courage to go against the rules, the stream.
Speaker 1:When the mob is stupid, you know the masses are asses. One of the problems that makes democracy the worst possible form of government and why the founders of this country did not set up a democracy. They set up a republic intentionally, with lots of protections, until the most evil man in American history, woodrow Wilson, dismantled all of those protections. Until that happened, they had established a constitutional republic that was not a democracy, because they understood that democracy is mob rule. Well, as we have chiseled away every protection that was built in constitutionally to our government to prevent mob rule, we have in fact slid into it and the masses are asses. They can be moved by emotional appeals that make them lose and couple that with really vile public education in this country and a narrative taught that's wrong in many, many, many cases.
Speaker 1:When I say wrong, that flies in the face of objective reality. Okay, and again I'll go back to the obvious and easy, which is the gender issue. There are obviously only two genders or sexes, which are interchangeable terms, no matter how you try to weasel those around. You know these obsequious little mushrooms of mendacity that are out there trying to convince us all that that we are. You know, somehow there's, like some, some give and definition, definition of male and female. That's all bullshit. The the objective reality is there are two.
Speaker 1:But the fact that we can talk ourselves that that not when I say we, millions, millions of people can basically enroll in an idea that's absurd and that nobody speaks up against it in the mainstream loud and clear, is a testament to cowardice and an absence of courage. Change begins with courage, and courage doesn't mean necessarily charging into the line of fire and taking a bullet for the person next to you, which is certainly very courageous, but let's be honest, most of us are never going to face gunfire or have to dodge in front of a bullet to protect a loved one. Most of us face our acts of courage as simply admitting that what we've done is wrong and not trying to weasel out of it by introducing mitigation into the story. Now, all of this background, I want to talk about a public issue today that's very, very important and related to courage, and make a suggestion, and I want to talk about the corruption of the mainstream media by progressivism to the point, and combine that with Trump derangement people that are just completely deranged when it comes to talking about Donald Trump, and I even have some of these people in my family. So, believe me, I've experienced it. The irrational hatred of Donald Trump, the buying into the narrative, coupled with an inability to admit that it was a mistake from the beginning, has been a poisonous, a poison that has destroyed the credibility of the mainstream media, and it cannot be salvaged the way they're trying to do it. So to walk through it briefly, because I know those of you who follow other podcasts are familiar with it. So I'm just going to go through this briefly for those of you who are listening and who are probably much more emotionally healthy than those of us who watch various independent streams and podcasts and than those of us who watch various independent streams and podcasts and points of view and put together you know that are politically interested. Just as an overview the mainstream.
Speaker 1:There was a book that came out this week called Original Sin. It's supposed to be about the cover up that was perpetrated by the Biden White House to cover up the fact that the president of the United States was senile and incompetent and how they basically pulled the wool over the mainstream media's eyes through this cabal of people around Joe Biden who hid from us all of the truth of his dementia. Yada, yada, yada. And it was this big cover-up and this is the point of the book so that basically, to deflect blame this is where the cowardice comes in. They're trying to deflect away from themselves their obvious guilt, and you know what Guilty is guilty, my friends. So let's talk about what really went on.
Speaker 1:There was no cover-up of President Biden's senility because, based on public opinion polls, again, everything I say. Please fact check me. I am not a talking head for either political party or point of view, so I'm perfectly willing to be fact checked. I'm not handing out propaganda. The simple fact of the matter was that we all knew. If you look at public opinion polls, two thirds to three quarters of the American people from 2020 on, from on when he was running for president, had serious concerns about the mental health of the president, and the excuse that was always given was that in private he was amazing and we're supposed to believe that the press was hoodwinked by this, that even though they saw what we saw, they were assured by the people in the White House and this cabal that everything in private was great.
Speaker 1:This guy was sharp as a tack and many of them, including the author, one of the authors of this book, original Sin, jake Tapper, who was a reporter at CNN I guess he is, you know pretends like he just didn't know when he was one of the most. In reality, there's a lot of videos of him being a mouthpiece for the narrative, for the so-called cover-up the non-cover-up cover-up, let's call it. He was one of the main spokesmen for the non-cover-up cover-up. He did a hatchet job on Laura Trump when she tried to point this out back in 2020. And it's or what was it? 2022? It's not important.
Speaker 1:The fact is we all knew you can't cover up. There's no cover up when everybody knows and the press was reporting it, just not the mainstream press, the independent press, and the conservative press was reporting it nonstop. You know, whether you watch Fox News or Newsmax or the Blaze, or I mean name the conservative slash, right-wing slash, libertarian source. You know, take a look at Dave Smith, who does a very interesting podcast. Everybody knew, everybody knew.
Speaker 1:And the argument that they use is well, we didn't know In private. We were assured it doesn't matter. See, this is one of those things where, if you think about it, the excuse is so absurd that it doesn't matter, and the excuse that we didn't know what he was like in private basically is it doesn't matter what he was like in private. He might've been Einstein in private, but the presidency is a public job. Most of the power of the presidency comes from the bully pulpit itself and the president's public pronouncements and operations. If a man can't operate in public, it doesn't matter how he operates in private when he's president of the United States. And, by the way, we'd all have to think we're stupid. You know you get stories like he has good days and bad days. Well, a president doesn't get to have good days and bad days, because bad things don't wait to happen on good days.
Speaker 1:The point I make in all of this because there's plenty of other sources that can walk through the chronology of the big lie that you know Biden somehow was better in private and this is somehow redemptive, even though he's a total, you know, senile nothing I mean, and the cancer story this week and the convenience of it. I just would like to point out, just as a slight digression, I knew Joe Biden was a piece of mierda. I'm using the Spanish word, I can use Russian too guvnul but anyway, the reason I knew that he was a piece of, or, as the Germans say, scheisse, is that he didn't recognize his own granddaughter. That's the part that got me right away. I guess I'm much more unforgiving of things like this. Those of you might remember that Hunter knocked up some woman that he was involved with and she got pregnant and then he denied her pregnancy and blah, blah, blah. And this went on for years and years, and years and the Bidens pushed this woman and the child away and finally DNA tests proved that she in fact was Joe Biden's granddaughter, and he still pushed her away until finally it got public enough that he was embarrassed and then suddenly he recognized her for about 23 seconds and then has pushed her away ever since they are.
Speaker 1:The Biden family is pond scum. His wife is pond scum, his son is pond scum I use that term and and I people who put uh material gain over family, friends and business which I have done, by the way, so I know what evil looks like are pieces of mierda, and the Biden family is a crime family. How does a family get worth $40 million when the patriarch of the family is the only source of income? Everything else that these people do stems from being related to Joe Biden for decades, and the guy's never actually practiced law and has never made more than $175,000 a year until he became vice president and then he worked as that for four years and then he's president. So he had about eight years where he made fairly serious money. Maybe if he didn't spend a single penny of it, he could have saved two or $3 dollars. How is this guy worth 40 million dollars plus? And the answer is he's a thief. He was the head of a crime syndicate.
Speaker 1:Now, a lot of what the Biden family did was just blatantly illegal, which is why they issue a blanket pardon by auto pen because the man didn't have the competence to sign it. I personally think that's disgraceful, but you know, call me crazy. I think that in the future, the Congress should amend that law, or I don't know if it'll take a constitutional amendment, but regardless of how it's done, the president should have to directly sign the document. Autopen should be forbidden when it comes to pardons in particular, because you know you want to. We don't know that Joe Biden even understood how many pardons were being written and we don't know who was really writing them. Was Hunter Biden pardoning himself? Probably, you know. I mean, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck, you know, I mean, that's just what logic would tell you.
Speaker 1:But the point of the matter is let's get back to the press. The press is not going to get forgiven. The yes, the press is not going to get forgiven. The mainstream media, the major news outlets, the people that put on the nightly news that nobody watches anymore, and the Sunday news shows that nobody watches anymore and is constantly trying to pretend they're important when no one cares and no one goes to their correspondents that are of any import anymore and they're all just smelling each other's farts and believing that it all smells like roses.
Speaker 1:They need to wake up and gather up some courage and fall on their swords and say yes, we knew. Yes, we knew he was senile, but we were so opposed to Donald Trump that we allowed that to override what would have been a decision. They overrode justice. They lost track of justice. Their cowardice massed them to the injustice another pillar of stoicism of the way number one Donald Trump was being treated who, beyond a shadow of a doubt, no matter what you think about him, on his personal characteristics and what he's done in his life and the mistakes that he's made, which are all out there the man is an open book. He's lived in the public eye for many, many decades and he's done some really shitty things. But no matter what you think of all of those things the Russia collusion there are people to this day I know people close to me who still think he's an agent for Russia, even though it's now been conclusively exposed that the whole thing was made up and the mainstream media pushed it and pushed it.
Speaker 1:The Hunter Biden laptop story and the 50 plus clowns and cronies of the administration who swore that it was a Russian plant of misinformation. It was all a lie. It was all a lie and the press, instead of saying we were a part of it, we pushed the lie. We pushed the persecution because we so hated this is the truth, they so hated Donald Trump that they forgot patriotism, they forgot culture, they forgot country and to protect their own careers, these cowards had no, and still to this day have no courage to step up and say we did it. We did it. We colluded, we were part of the cover-up.
Speaker 1:Sorry, wrong word the gaslighting. I don't know where that term really came from, how that became the term for giving the entire country a snow job, but it sounds like it's good. It kind of encapsulates it all in one word. That's the beautiful part of the evolution of language New things come into usage that capture the moment adequately, and gaslighting is the word for now.
Speaker 1:They gaslit us and the mainstream was not. They weren't blind to it. They weren't a victim of a coverup. They were part of the collusion that created the gaslighting. They were the major mouthpiece, they were the megaphone. They were the people repeating over and over and over the talking points that were handed down by the Democratic Party as if it was objective reality, and they did not even entertain the possibility that Trump was innocent. There was nobody in the mainstream that was actively until special counsel after special counsel went through Trump's life and they could find nothing. And finally the smoking gun was found. That was the Steele dossier. That was a piece of crap that was developed under contract to Hillary Clinton's campaign, just a political hit job that took on this enormous acceptance that normally nobody would have paid attention to it had not the mainstream media been an absolute collusion with the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1:And when that happens, when you lose the media, traditionally within the bounds of a free republic is called the Fifth Estate, and they're there to be a watchdog on what the government puts out, on the government's statistics and on the government's claims and whatever the government says. The proper role of the media in a free republic is to be an independent arm in and of itself that has no connection to anybody else and reports just what's happening so that you can't spread bullshit. So a good example of that would be China, one of the reasons that I know that China is going to implode and break apart I know this for a certainty is that it lacks all of the elements of a healthy, modern society to grow. And one of the major elements it lacks I'm not going to do a discussion on China today, that would take up way too much time Just this one element they don't have a free press. Since they don't have a free press, obviously there's nobody that checks the government statistics. So you know, the world is fed this pabulum about how fast China is growing when it's really all a mirage. It's what I call a Potemkin economy. If you don't know that reference, look it up. I'm not going to sit here and teach class today, but the Chinese created a Potemkin economy putting out baloney statistics that are unchecked by anybody, because, on one hand, there's no free press and, on the other hand, there are a lot of greedy people capitalizing on the lie and they just will capitalize on it and leverage that lie as long as they can.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what's what went on with Biden back to the United States is, everyone knew he was senile. It was obvious he's senile and acceleratingly senile, increasingly senile by the minute that when he, when he got finally got to the debate and he was sitting there, you know, absolutely unable to perform it barely above infantile, in in where he was and and just, it was a horror show. The only people that were surprised? I said, well, nobody was surprised, nobody was surprised, okay, and least of all the mainstream media. They can't pretend like, oh my God, we didn't know, they knew. And, besides, the public, private, you know if, if, if he was privately sharp, then they should have disregarded that performance too. But it finally got to the point where it was obvious.
Speaker 1:So what did they do, instead of falling on their sword and saying, god almighty, did we screw up? We bought into that, and the only way to do it, to change it, is we have to own what we did. And yada, yada, yada. That's not what they've done. They're going into this cover-up mode. There can't be a cover-up when two-thirds, the three-quarters of the people, by poll after poll after poll after poll since 2020, have clearly and even before, have clearly indicated that the majority of the American people knew that there was something wrong with Joe Biden. But we were all told don't believe your lying eyes. And the people who told us that was the mainstream media. So it's dead. The mainstream media is dead, it's beyond life support and it's only chance for resurrection from the ashes.
Speaker 1:Okay, to be a trusted unaffiliated, because, I'll be honest with you, I don't want to just believe conservative media because they're coming at it from their own point of view. I don't want to just believe conservative media because they're coming at it from their own point of view. It just so happens that at this point in time, conservatism and objective reality seem to line up much more perfectly than objective reality and progressivism, which never line up because progressivism is just a code word for suppression. In the end it's you know. One group of people know better than you. So we're going to force you through government action to change your ways as if, as if their you, as if their way is better and our way is worse. But that's again another discussion. So here's my advice, my stoic advice to the mainstream media if they want to get clean on this nonsense, step one, own it.
Speaker 1:Stop with the cover-up bullshit. You can't cover up what everybody knew. Watergate was a cover-up because nobody knew outside of the Nixon administration until Deep Throat, aka Mark Felt, began talking to the Washington Post. And what Richard Nixon did pales, pales in comparison to what the Bidens have done. We have literally had. No one can tell me or anybody else who was the actual president of the United States for the last four years before Trump, because it certainly wasn't Joe Biden. He was a figurehead. Somebody else was calling the shots Now using Occam's razor, which is basically comes from Thomas Occam, who was a British philosopher centuries ago, and he basically said the simplest explanation and the true explanation of anything is probably the same thing.
Speaker 1:You know, you don't have to get too complicated. The fact of the matter is it's probably Jill Biden and Ron Klain, you know the chief of staff and the wife, oh, and Hunter, and the three of them just were reveling in it. And then James Biden, the brother, and the whole Biden criminal organization syndicate, together with the blinding ambition that power creates and those that hover around it, people like Ron Klain, has created a corrupt criminal organization that the press joined. The criminality of it and I mean criminality because the 25th Amendment is there for a reason they foisted an incompetent president upon the United States. Thank God there was no nuclear attack, but do you not think that the world's leaders didn't know that everyone who met Joe Biden in these so-called private meetings where he was sharp as a tack. People like Putin and Macron and the rest the rest of the world leaders didn't know that he was a laughingstock. Of course they knew.
Speaker 1:Would Ukraine have been invaded without a president who was non-compos mentis? No, they wouldn't have been. And the reason they knew even there was no proper reaction to it. Because people who are pretending they're not president can't take strong, bold action because they can't come out and defend their own actions and the puppet that they're standing up can't defend it. So they shy away from doing what needs to be done and they try to kind of milk post their way through it while preserving their power base and sucking us all dry while telling this lie. So instead of reacting strongly and Puth was building up and telling him from the start do not invade or this is gonna happen they couldn't do that because they were covering, they were propping up a man with no brains and didn't want to take a position that they would have to defend, because that would have to expose them as the actual puppet masters, with their hands up the tuchus of the president and making his mouth move like a marionette puppet Okay, which I know. I fractured metaphors and analogies all over the place there, puppet Okay, which I know. I fractured metaphors and analogies all over the place there, but forgive me, you get the point.
Speaker 1:True redemption starts with courage. True redemption starts with courage, and courage means, regardless of what happens, you must disregard any possible outcome of you. Courageous isn't mitigated by possible negative outcome. Courageous means you do the right thing, regardless of outcome. You know, pretending coming halfway clean is not courageous, it's manipulative. They have to come all the way clean and say clearly we did it, we did it because we were deranged and it was wrong from top to bottom. And heads need to roll. Lots of firings, lots of heads of news organizations. People need to suffer the consequences of their cowardice and their collusion. Otherwise it's the end for the mainstream media, the end.
Speaker 1:And that's a shame because not that there isn't an enormous amount of information, but it's kind of like when I go on at night and I look in the evenings. Oftentimes I like to watch a movie and I'll go on to, let's say, netflix, and the fact of the matter is I'm overwhelmed by the choices. I flick through probably dozens of movies that are otherwise entertaining, because I have too many choices. I keep looking for perfection because of all the choices that are there and of course perfection doesn't exist and eventually you settle on something, but the fact is you can have too many choices. The same thing holds true when I say too many choices Too many choices to be able to sort them all out and come to a firm conclusion is what I mean by that. So you know, like we need a place that we trust, where we can at least get the general information, kind of a C-SPAN sort of you know news organization. Here it is. Here's what happened.
Speaker 1:No comment, careful choice of words, you know, avoidance of hyperbole when talking about a politician one way or another. You know, calling it a spade. A spade, it is what it is. And to do that requires courage. And courage means doing the right thing, regardless of the outcome and how it affects you personally. And that's my message for today. Enough preaching, enough going on and on and on. We're just a culture that lacks courage and we must find it. And you can find courage in religion, or you can find courage in stoicism, but most of all you must find it within yourself. Have a beautiful weekend. You know we're going into a lovely weekend. I hope all of you are going to enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Don't forget to pick up your copy of A Radical Reset on Amazon. It's available to you in Kindle paperback or hardcover download by me, herbie K, and it describes antipolitism the future of the United States if we are to survive. I know that in and of itself is a hyperbolic claim, but read the book and you will see why I say that. I realize I'm beyond an obscure figure at this point in time, with very few people who listen to me, but you know, great ideas come from the strangest places and I'm telling you that anti-politism is that kind of idea and when you read it you will agree with me, I am sure Unless, of course, you've drank the Kool-Aid of the cult.
Speaker 1:And then we get into a whole discussion and there's so many fun shows to do. Down the road we will see what else. What else did I want to say? Oh, don't forget to share this podcast with other people, because obviously I would like to labor, not always in the shadow of obscurity, and I would love, you know, ultimately thousands and then millions of people to join in this discussion as it unfolds over the days, months and years ahead, because we are facing lots of very interesting and challenging things that I'm going to not even go into describing today because that would extend this past the point where I want to go. So now is the time when I say God bless you, have a beautiful weekend, god bless your family, god bless America, and we'll talk to you next time.