Ep. 2076 - Russian "Bubonic Plague" Lab Leak Sparks International Panic

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So we got plague, we got doctors killing women because they won't cook dinner anymore, President AOC, and Hitler winning horse races. I'm starting to think Peter Thiel is now very famously doing his Antichrist lecture series in this city, in Nashville, starting to feel like it's a little more of a news conference than it is an academic discussion of theater. We'll get into all of it. First, I want to tell you about Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com/knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. Here's a simple question. Do you actually like your wireless company? Because Americans have this remarkable habit of complaining about their carrier for 10 years straight. And then faithfully, every single month, they send that carrier money. That's crazy. You know that your cell phone company, it's not like your wife. You're not in a marriage. You are allowed to leave. I use and love Pure Talk. I've been telling you about Pure Talk for years. I make calls, I can send texts, I watch video, I use unlimited data. 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When I interviewed the vice president a couple of months ago, he said that AOC is clearly the leading candidate in 2028. That surprised me at the time when he said it. I thought he might say Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer or somebody like that. But on reflection, I think J.D. Vance is right. I think AOC is the leading candidate right now. And so what she's got to prove in the midterms is if these candidates who they all, they already won the ideological battle on the left, but now we've got the aesthetics showdown. We've got the style. We've got the coalitional showdown. If those guys can beat Republicans, and right now it looks like they can beat Republicans. I'm not saying they will, but they can. Then AOC is the leading candidate. AOC is clearly the leader, because the only argument really against AOC in 2028 that the Democrats can make is that she can't win a general election. The other argument against her is that she's a woman and the Democrat women candidates for president keep losing. Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris. So that's a real argument against her candidacy, but the Democrats are not going to make it because they're going to view that as misogynistic, anti-feminist, whatever. So the only explicit argument that you're going to hear from any Democrats is that, AOC is too radical. She's too out there to win. If Abdul El-Sayed wins in Michigan, AOC can win a general election. And her odds of becoming the Democrat nominee are going to go up precipitously. So that's one sign of the end times. Here's another one. Plague is breaking out in Russia. The Russian media don't want to admit this, but there's a lot of evidence for it. Reports came out yesterday on all of it. This is pneumonic plague. So a lot of people are rushing to say, no, no, it's not bubonic plague like we had in the middle of the war. It's not bubonic plague like we had in the middle of the war. It sounds pretty similar, but this is totally different. It's not totally different. It's the exact same bacterium. The only difference between bubonic plague and pneumonic plague is that bubonic plague affects your lymph nodes and pneumonic plague affects your lungs. But it's all the same stuff. The reporting says a Russian plague lab assistant may have accidentally broken a test tube containing a deadly black death pathogen before being infected. According to a local report, now up to 200 people are believed to be under medical observation with three hospitals on lockdown. This person is Daria Shipilova, 28 years old. She was working as a lab tech at an anti-plague laboratory in eastern Siberia. It handles rare diseases. She's believed to have accidentally smashed the test tube, causing the plague to spread, according to a report from the independent news outlet People of Baikal. So that's not great. That's not great. Remember the disease broke out of a lab and it shut down the entire world for several years. Not all that far from where this one is happening. Yeah, not great. So all of this got me thinking about the end times because the last time plague spread throughout Europe, a lot of people started talking about the end times. And the timing here is very coincidental because there is this well-publicized series of lectures by Peter Thiel, the billionaire, kind of libertarian, right-wing intellectual probably one of the only billionaires in history who is actually an intellectual, who has actually read like all the books and thinks deeply about issues. He's been doing these lectures in different cities, San Francisco and elsewhere. And so he's come to Nashville. None of this was a huge secret, but they're not filming the lectures. It's all kind of off the record. So you can go, you can go buy a ticket and go see it if it comes to a city near you. But I don't really intend to talk about the substance of the lectures. I did go to the lecture. That cat's out of the bag not that I have any reason to hide that. I find Peter Thiel to be a very interesting guy, but the whole thing is shrouded in such kind of mystery and publicity that some paparazzi like reporter was taking pictures of the people coming in last night. And I'm only irritated about this because he got a really bad picture of me. So this is going around the internet and this is really annoying because I just come from a film shoot earlier in the day. I didn't have time to change my trousers into something that looks better. I look, this is bad. This is, you know, those pictures, these pictures of me next to Rachel Maddow and they're kind of, they're not a good look. This is even worse than that. I've got the Maddow glasses on, but the trousers are all wrinkled. It's too, I look, I'm like, I'm leaning on one foot. I don't know. Anyway, I did go. It was a very interesting lecture. If the, if the lecture series comes to a city near you, I encourage you to go check it out. One thing that the lecture got me focused on though, regardless of this specific details that Peter was talking about is what it means to think about the antichrist, what it means to think about the end times in the middle ages. People thought about that a lot. In modern times, you had some groups of evangelicals who talk about it a lot, but generally speaking, we don't think that much about the antichrist. We don't think that much about the end times. I'm not that worried about the antichrist or the end times. We could be living in the end times. Some generation is going to be living in the end times, but I'm not that worried. I just want to do what God wants me to do today. It's not up to me to know the day or the hour, not even, not even the sun, but only, only the father knows the day or the hour. So I don't spend too much of my time thinking about that. But it seems to me worth thinking about, thinking about the end times and the antichrist, because when you're thinking about the end times, you're thinking about the future. When you're thinking about the antichrist, even something so scintillating, so mysterious, so scary is the rise of the antichrist. That means you're thinking about the future. And one of the real problems that we have, in our very decadent culture is we're always just thinking about the past. We're always just relitigating the past. We're all, we're nostalgic for the past. Nostalgia is history after a couple of drinks. We're fighting yesterday's battle. Yesterday's war conservatives are particularly guilty of this kind of thing. And I, I do wonder if some of the talk about the antichrist in the end times is to get us focused on the future again. You know, there was some of the discussions about the antichrist. In the middle ages, they came from these mystical, very interesting esoteric thinkers. One of them in particular is a thinker named Joachim of Flora, Joachino, Joachino da Fiore. And he was this 13th, sorry, 12th century writer who believed that there were three stages of history, the era of the father before the incarnation. Then there was the era of the son that was coming to an end, uh, as according to his calculation around Joachino. And then somewhere in the 15th, 16th centuries, you would enter into the age of the spirit. And I think that theory of history is wrong. And I think it's anti-Christian in a way, because it's, it's creating divisions within the Trinity that I think are contrary to Trinitarian theology. But it was an influential theory. It helped to influence Dante, which is where I first got acquainted with the thinking of Joachim of Flora. And in a weird way, Joachim does seem to have predicted the Protestant revolution, this idea where you're, you're going to have a diminishing of the authority of the church. You're going directly through their own interpretation to the spirit. Now, in some ways, that was also a self-fulfilling prophecy because those ideas began to take hold and influence people. And in any case, there, the middle ages were the high point of our civilization, beginning with the enlightenment and the modern era. We start to look back with disdain on the middle ages. We call them the dark ages. We say there was no scientific advancement. It was all superstition and mysticism and woo woo. But that's not true. Actually, the, the great art, the great intellectual advancements we made really did occur in the high middle ages. And it's kind of been downhill ever since. We've had some tech improvements, but generally speaking, it's been downhill ever since. And so you think there's something curious here that when we're thinking about these very mystical concepts in the, in the middle ages, we're thinking ahead to the future and we're helping to build the future. And one of the great problems that we have today is we're not focusing on the past. We're focusing on the past. We're focusing on the history. Nobody seems to be focused on the future. Not good. And if the, if the way that we can get people thinking about the future is to scare them about the antichrist, I don't know, maybe that's a good way to do it. Uh, in any case, I do, I do encourage having been to the lecture last night, I do encourage you to go there. They're very interesting. Uh, other signs of the end times. We've gone from medical assistance in dying, assisted suicide, euthanasia, whatever the euphemism we we've gone from that targeting really elderly people in immense physical pain who have hours to live and you're going to hasten their death to terminal diagnoses generally to, uh, uh, doing euthanasia against the patient's will, as we just saw at a nursing home a few weeks ago to now, even in the New York times, you have doctors who were influential in implementing assisted suicide who were sounding the alarm bell because a 70 year old woman tried to get a doctor to help her kill herself because she could no longer cook as well. And this tells you the heart of the euthanasia debate. First though, I want to tell you about fast growing trees. Go to trees.com. Use code Knowles. Fall is the season when everyone suddenly develops very strong opinions about trees. 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She sought and received approval for assisted dying. after she lost the ability to cook. She felt she had lost her value to her family. Through counseling, she came to understand that her family valued who she was, not what she did for them. She decided not to go through with ending her life, at least for now. That Christmas, her family gathered and she sat proudly at the table while others did the cooking and the serving. They say, just a few more lines here, While it is critical that patients are able to make decisions about their bodies, doctors have an important role in guiding those decisions. There is an old saying about surgeons that is apt here. Good ones know how to operate, better ones know when to operate, and the best know when not to. She felt that she had lost her purpose and so she killed herself. This is a perfect example to understand what the assisted suicide debate is really about because it's about purpose. And it's not just about purpose in this narrow sense of a woman thinks her whole purpose is to cook dinner for her family. Isn't that sweet? Isn't that so lovely? In some ways, but her purpose is certainly about more than that. I like to think that my purpose is about more than talking into a microphone and selling cigars. That's a big part of my purpose. Delicious Mayflower cigars that you can get at mayflowersigars.com, but you have to be 21 years old or older to order some exclusions of life. I'd like to think I have more purpose to that. My purpose is to be a husband. My purpose is to be a father. My purpose is to occasionally change a light bulb in my house. My purpose is this, that, and the other thing. But we have a bigger purpose. Which is our purpose is ultimately to serve God in this world, to know him, to love him, and to enjoy him for eternity. That is the final cause of human life. The medical profession has a purpose. The purpose of the medical profession is to help patients. It's to improve their health. It's to remedy the things that threaten their lives. Now the medical profession has been turned perfectly against its purpose. It is now harming patients. It is now killing. Babies. It is now killing the elderly. It is helping people to end their lives. We need to think what the purpose of this is. Even, even if you believe in assisted suicide, which you shouldn't. The purpose of assisted suicide when it was first implemented was to help alleviate the pain of a very, very small number of very, very old, very, very sick people. And within about three seconds after it was legalized and implemented, it was killing kids. It was killing depressed people. It was killing poor people. It was preying on 70 year old women who were upset that they can't, they can't make the pot roast anymore. That per even that narrow purpose, which was wrong in the first place for assisted suicide, it was being inverted. And so that this is haunting line here said the woman decided not to go through with ending her life at least for now, but she could walk into the doctor's office any day, walk in and say, okay, I want to kill myself now and the medical professionals would be forced to do it. So we have this modern sense. That our purpose in life is something of our own making something that we discover for ourselves. It's the sort of thing that we can't argue about no more than you could argue about whether chocolate or vanilla ice cream is better. It's just a preference. It's a feeling. It's what you want to do with your own autonomy. But if purpose has a real meaning, then purpose is not just a subjective preference. Purpose is something objective. Purpose is something that we can know. I know that the purpose of the Leftist Tears Tumblr is to give me leftist tears and fruity millennial seltzer. The purpose of the microphone is to convey my voice to you, my mellifluous tones. The purpose of the delicious Michael Knowles upper crust candle is to illuminate the room and fill it with fragrance. Same thing goes for the Mayflower cigars. That's not just my preference. That's not just what I think and you can think otherwise. That's a fact, Jack. And so in the. In the modern liberal age, we have lost our conviction. We've lost our moral clarity and we've lost the courage of our convictions to be able to say, no, no, no, this has a purpose and it's not that. And you see it everywhere. No, no, no. The medical profession, its purpose is to help people, not kill them, therefore no abortion, therefore no euthanasia. The purpose of marriage is to unite a man and a woman for life ordered toward the procreation and education of children. Therefore, there's no such thing as gay marriage. There just isn't. It's not real. The purpose of your sexual organs is. Related to the purpose of marriage. We'll leave it at that. The purpose is not for doctors to chop off so that you can pretend to be the opposite sex. The purpose of sex itself, like that are our gender, is to be an inseparable accident of the individual that you can't change, therefore no transgenderism on and on and on and on. That's it. That sounds authoritarian to radical liberals, but what they're failing to see is there will be some standard because even if you take this lazy fair approach, anything goes, you do, you don't yuck my yum, that is imposing a choice. The standard now being that the medical profession exists to help kill people. Well, you know what? The author of the Hippocratic Oath, what was his name? I think it was Hippocrates, I believe. He would disagree. Social conservatives would disagree. Physicians would disagree. Ordinary normal people would disagree. But what the liberals do is through this illusion of neutrality and this assumption of choice as the highest good, the liberals just force in a totalitarian way their standards upon you. They say, no, it's a choice to choose your gender. And in so doing, they're forcing the standard that men will enter women's bathrooms upon women who don't want the men to enter the women's bathrooms. So you can't avoid that. You can't avoid imposing some substantivity. Vision everywhere, the medical profession, in education, in government, in everywhere. You can't help but avoid it. And what the liberals do is they kind of trick us. It's like it's a little bit of a shell game where they tell us it is not legitimate to impose your view. And in so doing, they impose their views on us. Do we do we have the clarity and the courage to say, you know what? No, no, that's wrong. Can't do it. Obviously, a 70-year-old lady shouldn't kill herself because she can't cook anymore. But you know what? Nobody should be able to kill. And doctors certainly shouldn't be helping people kill themselves. It's contrary to the profession. And we can't chop off genitals and we can't redefine marriage and we can't do this. We can't. Do we have the courage to do that? Do we have the courage to seem authoritarian to lunatics who are totalitarian? I do. I have that. But I'm just like one guy. Do you have the courage to do that? Do you have the clarity to do that? I certainly hope so, because otherwise we're going to be killing. I was going to say you'd be killing granny for not being able to cook anymore. No, now you're like killing mom. It's not even granny. It's not a 90-year-old. It's a seven. You shouldn't kill the 90-year-old either. But 70-year-old, all the way down to seven-year-olds. Okay. Well, polls tell you what voters said at one moment. But Kalshi gives you another way to follow a race, a live market that moves as traders respond to new information. 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And this all came out in about 100,000 text messages. He was convicted. Now he made his final statement before he's going in the clink for life. And his daughters, who's my wife, are going to be in the clink for life. His mother, he murdered. They gave their statements, too. And it is an amazing, amazing, heartbreaking kind of window into sin and crime in an age when we don't really understand either anymore. Okay, here's the statement from the younger daughter. Dear Daddy, I don't even know where to start. How could you do such a thing? I looked up to you. I loved you with all my heart. And then you lied to everyone. Mommy was the perfect person. The absolute perfect person. What did she ever do to make you hate her so much? And plus, Daddy, affairs are a big sin. But there is still a chance. There's a choice for everything in life. All you have to do is tell God that you're sorry. And that you want to confess and repent to him. I promise you it won't take away your punishment. But you won't have a life in heaven someday. Totally heartbreaking. The spiritual maturity of this little girl is just absolutely shocking. And gives you a beautiful insight into religion. Because she's writing as a little girl would. Especially as any grieving person would. And she's being a little hyperbolic. She says, Mommy was the perfect person. She was probably a wonderful, lovely, terrific, marvelous person. She's not literally perfect in the sense that none of us is literally perfect. And so, she's writing as a little girl. And so, she says, you know, Mommy was the perfect person. How could you do this to her? She did so much for you. She was so wonderful to us and to you. And before she gets into her explicit religious ask of her father, she really shows us a religious point. Which is, it's so heinous because the wife was totally innocent. And this guy is just a complete depraved demoniac. And you say, how could you do that? You know, the lowest circle of hell. And Dante's Inferno is reserved for people who betray their benefactors. Not just fraudsters and traitors, but specifically the very lowest circle where Satan is gnashing on the heads of Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot. It's for the people who betray their benefactors. How could you betray your benefactor who's so good to you? And this statement should resound in all of our hearts because that's exactly what we do to God when we sin. You say, how could you do that? God created you. He sustains you at every single moment. He gives you all these blessings. He died on the cross for you. And you're going to betray him? How could you do that? The scariest thing, I've said it from the beginning about the Caleb Flynn case, is not that he's a deranged psychopath who murdered his wife, the mother of his children, for this younger mistress. And it's not that he doesn't feel emotion. He's sobbing and hearing that letter. It's not that he's totally different from us. The scariest part about the Caleb Flynn case is he's not different from us. That's the scariest part. The Caleb Flynn case is there, but for the grace of God, go all of us. That's the scary part. I don't think it'll happen for most of us. You know, I don't think. But you can see how one little sin leads to another. He starts being prideful. He starts taking his blessings for granted, his wife for granted. I'm sure he was looking at a bunch of porn. He was definitely looking at a lot of other women. And then he starts to take it off of his imagination and off of the computer. And then he starts to have an affair with someone. He deepens in the affair. And he's talking in the affair. And he's dreaming about a life with the mistress and not the wife. And then that leads him to contemplate murder. And he talks about murder ad infinitum. And then finally, he actually commits the murder. And then you say, man, you wake up one day. You say, how did I get here? And the root of it is the thing that all of us do all the time. So the daughter, amazing spiritual maturity, says, hey, you're awful, dad. You know, you're just the worst. But you could repent. She's the daughter. She's caring for her father in a way that the father never cared for the daughter. Before we get to the murderer's statement, here's the statement from Caleb Flynn's older daughter. Okay, I'm reading on behalf of Alyssa. Dear Caleb, this is your daughter, Alyssa. I love you deeply with all my heart. And it's sad that you can't love anyone but yourself. I wish that you could come to understand that actually, your actions have consequences. And you have a lot to pay. So please, you have already caused so much pain to your family and the world. The least you could do is tell everyone you did it and receive your outcome. Also, please repent to God, the one who created you. Your time isn't over. Did you really even think about how much pain? You would bring your own two daughters? By the way, Ashley Flynn was the best thing that ever happened to you. You had the best life ever. And you decided to throw it away for a girl who is half your age. You truly don't understand how much you hurt my life. And I wish you could feel the pain I have been through. He's shaking. He's got, you know, he's, he's made, giving this pseudo-religious decree. But notice what he says. He says, I did not murder my wife and I will never stop fighting for my innocence. If he really hadn't murdered his wife, he would say, I didn't murder my wife. I'm innocent and I will never stop fighting to figure out who really killed her, to bring to justice the man who killed my wife and committed this injustice against my beloved wife and took this woman away from my daughters and put me in prison. That's what he would say. Even OJ Simpson, who also murdered his wife, at least he had the sense to come out and say that, that he was going to go make sure that he found the real killers, even though everyone knew that he murdered his wife too. That's the evidence here. He's still, Caleb Flynn is still just entirely thinking about himself. He had this lengthy statement where he says, oh, my daughters and my in-laws and my this and my that. But what's the crescendo? The crescendo all builds to, I am going to kill my wife. I'm going to kill my in-laws. I'm going to keep fighting for me. It's all about me. Total cautionary tale. This guy used to look fine, and now he looks like a character from the Inferno. And he's still trapped in it. And he's wracked by it. And it's clearly rotting him out from the inside like a cancer, but he can't get out of it. It's just all about him. This is another area. We live in a very, very selfish, self-obsessed time in society where we're all thinking about ourselves all the time. You want to get back to the euthanasia conversation. A euthanasia regime presumes something. It presumes that the purpose of life is to please ourselves. And the moment that we stop feeling pleasure, we supposedly have the right to kill ourselves. That is not the purpose of life. If you live your life that way, you're going to have a bad life. Purpose of life is to serve others, but ultimately to serve God and to enjoy God forever. It seems like there's no way out. And in his false religious protestations here, he's calling on Jesus, which he could do. He could sincerely do that, but he has to acknowledge what he did, and he has to repent. Okay. Speaking of murderers, the Austrian painter has won a horse race. So we've got plague, we got President AOC, we got doctors murdering everybody, and Hitler is making a big comeback. We'll get to that in a second. First, I want to tell you about GOP votes. Go to gopvotes.org. 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Ian Bob says, society is so depraved that Michael's family friendly show now has to be like 90% euphemisms. It's actually pretty impressive. Thank you. You know, I did see that. Maybe I did pick that comment. Anyway, I agree that that is an excellent comment because it's been very hard for me, okay? We got the Lindsey Clancy stuff. We've got the Caleb Flynn stuff. We got doctors murdering everybody. It's been very hard to keep this a family friendly show. Cornell, oh my goodness, Cornell's the big one. We have to use the French language, which pains me to do generally, but thank you. I do that effort for you so that in our debauched and depraved culture, we can try to, you know, just a little bit, at least hear what's going on so we can fix it. Okay, before we go, I really have to get to Hitler winning a horse race. There was some big horse race, Horseshoe, Indianapolis, and you had a bunch of horses racing, El Abuelo, Jaguar Justice, Captain Chagaff, but the winner is Austrian Painter. But Austrian Painter is still finding under pressure. Jaguar Justice is back in the third it's Austrian Painter and Austrian Painter to win it from Captain Chagaff. Jaguar Justice finished third. Austrian Painter. So somehow they let this horse in with a name that is a euphemism for Hitler, the Austrian Painter. And when called on this, the owner of the horse said, no, no, no, it's all a big misunderstanding. I'm talking about Klimt. In other words, I'm talking about a famous Austrian painter. Oh, wait, you thought? I was talking about Adolf Hitler. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about this famous painter. And you say, okay, well, maybe I believe you. Listening to the Caleb Flynn testimony, you're almost, if you haven't dealt with these types before, you're almost tempted to say, maybe he seems sincere. Maybe that's true. Then you find out the other name for the horse. One of the other names that ended up getting rejected was My Struggle, which is the English title of Hitler's memoir, that was another Hitler euphemism. And so eventually the horse was renamed Merry Legs. I have not identified what connection that has to Hitler now, but I'm sure there is one. And I don't even know how to feel about it. It's kind of funny in a way. It's kind of like, would you remember in the UK a few years ago, they had this competition to see what they were going to name a ship. And the winning name for the ship was Boaty McBoatface. It was kind of funny. So ridiculous, just like an internet meme. And so if the owner of the horse just enters Austrian painter, because that is the most shocking thing you can do. That is the most taboo thing that you can do. In the modern culture, even Hitler isn't Hitler. In the modern culture, Hitler is just a stand-in for Satan in a world that has been disenchanted and demystified, that doesn't believe in the real devil. So they have to make human beings into devils, but no human being can be a devil because no human being is perfectly goodness. Anything that is, is good in as much as it is. This is an insight of St. Augustine that comes from the Neoplatonists like Plotinus, that evil is not some demiurgic force that is competing with good in the universe, but evil is merely the privation of the good. And so I'm sure that the owner of the Hitler horse wanted his entry into the race to lead to a discussion of Plotinus and Neoplatonic philosophy. In any case, if it's just a meme, it's kind of funny. But I don't know, the insistence and the familiarity with all of these aspects of Hitler make me think it might just be kind of a Nazi thing, you know, which is not good. We don't want that. We Christian conservatives, we don't like that stuff. You know, there's not, we don't want to be libs, and the libs say that everything that they don't like is Hitler. So it's kind of tempting to say, oh yeah, well, I guess I'm going to be Hitler, but you don't want that. You know, Nazism was a modern ideology, that erred in as much as it made an idol out of the state. So in that way, it is totally contrary to a conservative or Christian understanding of the world. Nazism in particular really made an idol out of race within a kind of fascist structure. Italian fascism wasn't all that racial, a little bit, but not all that racial. So it made an idol out of the state as such. Communism makes an idol out of the class, you know, out of the working class, and the proletariat. But we don't want any of that. We want good Christian civilization, which is looking forward and possibly thinking that we are on the brink of the end times. Okay, there's so much more I want to get to. Speaking of hostility to Jews, Claudine Gay, the ousted Harvard president, is back at Harvard teaching a class on the meaning of Harvard. Perfect. Love it. Makes total sense. Want to get to that. I want to get to a little bit more about the midterms. We don't have time. I don't have time because my wife, God willing, is having a I'm going to go. There will be no member block, but I'll be back tomorrow. I'll be back. Now, before you say I'm a horrible husband and father, I'm not saying I'm going to be in the office all day. I'm just saying a little bit. Listen, this is our fourth kid. We know, kind of know how to do it. There's not all that much that I can do. I made my contribution to the child about nine months ago. And so anyway, thank you for everyone for the prayers that you've offered for our fourth kid. And I'll be back tomorrow. And then I'll go back to the hospital. Don't worry. Then I'll be, listen, but I can't leave you for that long. 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