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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon show. Friend of the show, Bashar Al Assad, his wife Asma, who, by the way, is suffering from leukemia. And it's very, I think, sick that a lot of people that are celebrating the downfall of the Assads, who've been friends of the program for years, are cheering on Luigi Mangione for shooting a healthcare executive and yet applauding the downfall of a woman with leukemia. And that makes you think. And were the Assads perfect? No, probably not. I don't know. Is anyone perfect? But now that they're gone, you know, we don't know. We don't know. The rebels, we're just calling them, the rebels are here. And I'm sure the rebels will be lovely. That's the thing about the Middle East. When one government leaves, everybody celebrates because that government is usually heinous. And everybody goes, good. They're gone. You know what they did? They tortured people and they put them in cages and they butchered people and they poisoned people. Everybody applauds. It's the right thing to do. We all feel good about it. We're like, good, get him out of there. You see that, the rape rooms. And then you go, all right, so who's on deck? Who's next? What are their plans? Do they involve rooms of rape? Do they involve torture? Do they involve any jail cells? Will there be a religious police, perhaps? It's tough, it's tough to get excited about regime change in the Middle East. I'm an older man. I'm 39. Many of you younger people listen to this show and you know, you tend to look at regime change in the Middle east like a wide eyed young person. Maybe in your first year of college, you're getting laid, you're having fun. You rush a sorority, a pledge of frat, you're meeting your lifelong friends, it's fun. It's parents weekend. You're growing into the person you've always been meant to be. That is the type of person who looks at regime change in the Middle east with excitement. You're in awe. Oh, my God. They lived under this totalitarian, brutal, evil regime. Jessica, you have no idea how bad. Like some of the people didn't even eat. I know, I feel you as you get older. Let's say if you are a 39 year old, ex cocaine addict, homosexual, multimillionaire, you tend to look at regime change in the Middle east not as a negative, not just as kind of like, hey, hey, this is happening now, huh? That's what you look at regime as you get older. Because I've been around long enough to know that the rebels. And God bless the rebels. The rebels are led by Hayat Tahir al Sham, a group that grew from an Al Qaeda affiliate. Its leader, Abu Mohammed al Jelani, was involved with militants battling American forces in Iraq following their 2003 invasion. And the State Department has a $10 million bounty for information on him. So he's on deck. He's on deck. He's up next. Now, listen, do I blame him for fighting us in Iraq? Not really. I mean, what's he gonna do, right? We get there in Iraq, he's trying to establish a caliphate. We're getting in the way of that. This is the thing about the Middle east, by the way. There's very few people in the Middle east who, under scrutiny, are going to really hold up when it comes to the people that want to run Syria. There's not that many people that want to run Syria that you'd have at your house at a barbecue, and when they started talking about the beliefs they had, you go, huh, interesting. Most of these people are religious fundamentalists. They are militarists, meaning that, like Assad, they have a military dictatorship. It's a strong man. It's an authoritarian leader. That's not a region that's. That has a democratic democracy in their bones. They don't. It's a. It's a region that is run by petro dictatorships that lean on a enforced religiosity. So as an older person, as a person that has been around for a long time, I am not. I'm not happy or sad. I'm happy that the people got out of the butcher jail or the slaughter prison. And I hope they enjoy the two weeks they have before they're in the next one, because you just start eventually. And again, it's not. It's nobody's fault. It's someone's fault, but it ain't my fault. And as you get older, you actually stop when things aren't your fault. You have to release yourself from them. This is true. This is controversial. People actually don't love this, but it is true. I didn't fuck up Syria. I'm probably. And I know this may shock you. I'm not going to fix Syria. You see, I'm trying to not have pancakes. I'm trying to make a better choice. You see, I'm not. I'm not trying to fix Syria. I know a lot of people in our country are, and they have been. They've been fighting Proxy wars in Syria with Russia for a very long time. I'm sure the Syrian people are great, I really am. I'm sure they're lovely. And I'm, I'm, I don't, I don't love the, you know, can we get the photo of that little, that toddler getting out of that prison? It's a perfect example of, you know, this emotional appeal which obviously we're all human beings, we all have make it bigger. This is a toddler getting out of the Assad prison. And of course your immediate, your immediate response is, oh my God, the brutality, the horror, to which I say, yes, but also, what did he do? Why is he in that jail? Are you naive enough to believe children are never dangerous? Are you naive enough to believe that there's an age at which children can never be dangerous? What was he trying to do? Why was he in that cell? I have had no explanation for that. If you think that 2 year old isn't going to get out of that cell and raise havoc in the new Syria, I mean, hell, the things he'll do. Can you imagine that? This kid has more cred than anybody. That is the next leader. That is the next leader. That is going to destroy the Middle East. That is the hardest photo I've ever seen in my life. Other than the Trump photo of him getting shot and then pumping his fist full of blood going, fight, fight, fight. That two year old walking out of that jail cell is the hardest photo I've seen in my life. There is nothing, nothing that will ever compete with that photo. That guy is going to, he is going to be a dictator. And if he is not, it is because he has made a lot of mistakes. But I'll tell you right now, nothing sets you on a path of domination like that photo. Did you see the title of this article? Yeah. Toddler released from jail with hopes of Syria on his shoulders. Collapse of the Assad regime brings exuberant euphoria to Syrians across the globe. While new rebel leader faces new challenges ahead. This photo has come to symbolize the brutality. Okay, we can, we can. Has come to symbolize the brutality of the Assad regime, which again, we are not minimizing. By the way. I don't want you to hear. Just because I'm friends with Assad and his wife and his children and I'll probably have dinner with them in Moscow, it doesn't mean that I don't recognize that mistakes were made. What I'm saying is the rebels, the rebels, whoever these people are, I'm hoping and praying that they created a pluralistic, beautiful society in Syria that respects human rights and the rights of women and they're a good partner. And that's the hope. That's all I'm saying. I'm not, am I? I'm just saying the likelihood of that is low. That's all. The likelihood of that is low. And it is because I am a old enough to have seen this movie before. I've seen it before now. I know they're releasing this one around Christmas. They're releasing this one around Donald Trump's inauguration. They're really trying to get stuff going, aren't they, before his inauguration. We'll talk about the fake alien invasion in a minute. But they're really trying to leave him a mess, you know, they really trying to get things going. They go, they go, they go to the Ukraine, they go, yeah, shoot these long range missiles in a Moscow. See how we can fuck all of this shit up. Then they're like, you know, let's get Syria going. Because by the way, none of this is an accident. Like the rebels don't just accidentally topple the regime in Syria with a month before the inauguration. I hope listeners of the show are smart enough to know that this is not an accidental thing. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad thing or a good thing. It's a thing. I'm hoping. I'm happy that that 2 year old got out of jail. God knows what he'll do, but I'm happy. And I think again, he's setting himself up with that one photo alone to be a significant player in Middle east politics later on, if he survives. But know this and be aware of it. Be aware of the fact that if in a year or two we are again at war in Syria, if we are again in the Middle east with fighting with the new Syrian government, the new leader. Don't be shocked, don't be shocked and do not. I want you to remember this show when I told you this is how things in that region of the world work. It's almost like people around the world value different things. And you cannot always make people see things your way. You certainly can't do it at the barrel of a gun. We've tried to do that for many years. Also, this idea of endless immigration is the hope, this utopian dream that everybody from all over the world that comes to America is doing it to be an American. And not because they want an economic opportunity, they're doing it to be an American. That's a Big utopian dream. There's a lot of people coming to America probably because they want to make money, they want to send money back to the country they live in, and they want to retain a lot of the customs and the culture of the place that they came from. And some of those customs and some of that culture is probably diametrically opposed to American culture. And it's not as easy to assimilate certain people. It's not about race, it's not about anything. It's about culture and it's about the ideal of what a country should be. Now, there's people in America that disagree on lots of things. We have vastly different views on lots of things. But there are core principles that we do agree on. We agree on freedom of speech, some of us, we agree on freedom of religion, we agree on some of the core principles. And if you're importing people from parts of the world that have no tradition of that, that do not believe in that, that actually believe that is an affront to their culture and the way that they live, you're going to have a little bit of a sticky situation. It's going to be an issue. So that's why this beautiful movie of the Assads fleeing Syria, released on Christmas, you will see again, this is not a movie that doesn't have sequels. This is a movie that every few years the news goes. We are overjoyed to bring you some great news from the Middle East. Finally, the long suffering people of Blank have toppled the regime of Blank and Blank has. It's Mad Lips. You could do it. Mad Lips and Blankets has fleeed the country and has been given a home in Russia or Iran and they have fled the country. And here all the people are jubilant. They are happy as I am for the people. And now they have the tough. And this is the way Americans talk and they do in the press. They go, they have a tough. They have a tough road ahead. They go, they have a tough road ahead and they have some real challenges to building a government. They have a tough road ahead and real challenges to building a government. And we wish them the best. Now, of course, we're over there telling them exactly who to pick or how to pick or trying whether it happens or not. We're trying, we're trying to do that. Let's take a look though. And this is the reality show that I want to see. You know, everybody likes these shows in LA or New York, but I mean, they're all boring, right? These real estate shows we've seen all of them before. We've seen all of the houses. And you go, you gotta get it. You know, we all know how a basketball player or an actor or a musician or a finance guy lives or a tech guy. We know we don't need, like season eight of selling sunset. We're aware of how these people live. And you know, they got a pool. Oh, it's an infinity pool. It looks like it's going off the edge, but it's not. We know how they live, but this is the show that I would like, which is we go around the world into the palaces of toppled dictators that at one time we propped up and gave them the money to do all of this, because this is beautiful. He was modern. The assads were modern. They had a modern aesthetic. Pause this for a minute. Many dictators, and this is one of their shortcomings, aren't evolved in terms of their aesthetic. They don't. It's not working. It's old. It's very old. It's dated, it's stuffy. The decor is. It's. It just feels like it isn't what it needs to be. And what's nice about the Assad torture palace is how clean it is. It's metallic, it's a little cold. I think that's maybe the critique. You gotta find the balance. This is hard, you know, a lot of these palaces, Saddam's for example, very gaudy, very big. You go very big. Very gaudy, yes. Regal, but a little silly. Little ridiculous. Over the top, you know. What the assads have done is they've created a space which I think is very important, that feels new and clean. Clean lines, metal kind of marble, nice finishes, uncluttered, a little stark. Play the rest a little stark. Perhaps that's the critique. There is wood paneling that warms it up. You have wood paneling in the library. You have, of course, the door, the very thick door. If any of the palace servants get going or if there's a coup, you know, I mean, you got to have the thick doors. Or if your wife gets cute, you gotta have all of the thick doors. But again, I mean, nice, bright, well lit, kind of nice as a dictator palace goes. These next guys coming in have big shoes to fill. A little Vegas in the bathroom. Do I love it? Do I love a little Vegas? A little Vegas in the bathroom. Not ideal. I love the ceiling. I like the chandeliers. I gotta be honest. I like it. I know a lot of people. There's a few different styles here happening, but I think they're all brought together by this kind of sense of drama because he knows how to create drama in a space. And you're doing it with kind of this marriage of this new modernist architecture, but also these large chandeliers and this wood paneling. You know, you're basically. So let's, let's find out about these rebels because I'm excited about these rebels and I don't want anybody to listen to this show and think for even one second that I am a Debbie Downer or that I'm being cynical. I am excited about the rebels. I. And that's, that's what's being said probably somewhere in Washington D.C. right now. I am excited about the rebels. First, the rebel coalition. Now this is going to shock you. Appears to be fragile. Do you see? This is the thing with rebels. They really agree that Assad's got to go. We do not like this guy. He's got to go. Everybody gets on board for that. This is how every couple, every government that's being toppled works. All the rebels get together and they have a meeting and it's fun. They sit around the fire and they go, hey, I hate you. You hate me. I raped your wife, you killed mine. But here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're going to do. We need to. Now you believe in this version of the religion. I believe in that version. You believe the woman should be dressed in a full garbage bag. I believe she can have the slits out the ice or whatever. I, and I want to kill you and you want to kill me. And that's the way we do it. However, what we're going to do right now is put our swords, lay our swords down. There's too much to be gained from a union. So all of these rebels, Turkish backed rebels, you have rebels from Syria that are getting support probably, I would guess from maybe us. You have all these different rebel groups and together they made it happen. Now the HTS coalition of rebels had started outlining the basics of a state publishing prison sentence guidelines for theft and criminal damage, as well as a plea not to settle scores or seek revenge. However, it remains unclear what the rebel group has in mind for Syria's future. And stories of war torn states rising from the iron fist dictatorship to flourish into democracies are rare. And by the way, remember, I call this Syria's will be as challenging as any. These are the, these are the two words that will always be used. Here they go. This is very challenging. Our friend Luigi Mangione is Finally in prison. And of course he is the hot murderer of the United Healthcare CEO. He is the hot Italian anarchist murderer who had a secret gay life where he had sugar baby relationships with black men. How fucking hot is that? Let's all stroke to that. And you know, he was buying Gucci sneakers for some black guys who are probably pounding them out. Luigi Mangione, God bless him, that's the deal. That's what it is. The way it's going to work, by the way, is like over the next few days or weeks, they're going to find out a lot about him and it'll probably test like, who supports him and who doesn't because they're going to be like, wait a minute. So he was this socialist anarchist, but he was also like right wing and racist, but he was also like object of flying black men. But he also like didn't come out of the closet. And he also like fetishized black men, but he also like, like, watch. The discourse is going to go off the rails for Luigi Mangion. There is no hero in America. We can't have a hero. We don't get a hero in this country, by the way. So if you think Luigi Mangione is your hero, wait a week. It's not going to happen. We don't get a hero because he was like everyone else. He's an American. So it's going to come out. All of these different things about his life are going to come out and we don't get and don't deserve a hero. And we're going to go through every single thing that this guy ever did. Some of his sugar baby tricks are going to be out there going, you know, he said a few things that really made me uncomfortable. He didn't really respect my boundaries. But what I like, by the way, as someone who's bought sneakers for a few twinks, what I like is that they've all kept their mouth shut. None of them have appeared publicly, you know, any of his relationships or whatnot. Number one, he had. This was a side of himself that I believed he was keeping a little quiet. Some of my friends who are, you know, pretending to be bisexual are very excited that they finally have representation in Luigi Mangione. I don't know about his sexuality, but everybody is speculating about his deal. But however it is, it is kind of being reported that he did have these gay relationships with men of color who he would visit and treat nicely. If you bring up the article Luigi Mangione's Secret Gay Life and this has been fascinating. A lot of people who are, you know, they're just. It's very interesting. Yeah. According to radar online, Luigi Mangione would travel to gay bars. He'd be the only white guy there. And he was a closeted homosexual with a predilection. I don't know if predilection is the right word, but he has a preference for African American men. Somebody said we met at a gay club in Baltimore. He was one of the only white guys in the club and he bought me a drink. Sean said the two went home together that night and enjoyed a long distance relationship on and off for the next several years. He would see me when he was in town and he was very generous. He would always buy me something nice from Hermes or Louis Vuitton. Those are my favorites. Sean claimed he was a good guy, this guy. I mean, here's the thing. It's. It's coming out. All of these things that are coming out about him aren't necessarily bad. He's spending money. Another man, identified only as Tommy, said Mangione clearly had a type. He was big in a hip hop and black culture. They think pieces are coming, by the way. But the two apparently kept their relationship shallow. We never talked politics or anything like that. Tommy said, much like Sean Mangione showered him with pricey gifts. I'm an expensive friend. Luigi knew that and made sure that I was properly taken care of. So he's having fun in Maryland. Blowing bags out or getting his back blown out or maybe doing both. And then he has this back surgery and he cannot go to Maryland and hook up with dudes and he starts to go nuts. And then of course, I. I understand that he becomes enamored with the inequity in the health care system and the evil depravity of our health care system, which we all know about. My mother was in a public institution until she died. And we used to have to fight with medicare to cover things. I'm well aware of the well placed rage at American insurance companies. But it is interesting to look at the psychological profile of this guy. Was an ivy league, good looking, well educated, successful guy who's out there having fun doing all these things. And then something happens. He has a back surgery and he withdraws from society. He's in pain. He cannot do the things his spine gave out and he went off the grid. He got a gun, he made a plan, he followed through. And now he's in jail and everybody loves him. And who's the jury going to be? You know, that's the real question. Now, obviously the trial, it's going to be a year from now. People forget. I love all my friends are like, nobody's going to convict him. I go, dude, people forget. There's got. One of my friends goes, there'll be 100,000 person protest at his trial ago. Dude, it's going to be a year and a half from now. Everyone's going to forget. I'm sorry. I know that right now it is the biggest story in the world. It is drama. It is forcing a long overdue conversation about health care. But in a year and a half, whenever his trial is, I don't think you can have 100,000 people. I don't think so. Americans move on pretty quickly and I don't know how they're going to. It's going to be tough to find people that don't have a negative because one of the questions are going to have to ask when they put people in the jury boxes, do you have a negative opinion of the health care industry? And most people are going to say yes. And the people that don't are crazy. They're like psychotic. Anyone that doesn't have a negative opinion of the health care industry in America works for the health care industry. There's no other way that. There's no other way to do it. There's no other person in this country that hasn't. That doesn't have a negative opinion of the healthcare business. I mean, could you imagine? Are you sure? Yep. No negative feelings about the healthcare business? No, none at all. You sure about that? Okay. And what company are you the CEO of? Blue Cross Blue Shirt. You have to be. You are either the CEO of a healthcare company in America or you hate them. Even the rank and file people that work there probably hate them. But if you're not a genuine like high level executive or CEO, you hate them. So. So the state who's prosecuting this case has to hope that the jury is 12 healthcare company CEOs. That's it. That's what they really have to hope. Otherwise. Otherwise they might be in a little bit of trouble. Now they're going to paint him as a psychopath who just wanted to kill anybody. That's what they're going to do. They're going to say he had a manifesto, he was a radical, he acted out violently and the target of his violence was. It's irrelevant. That's what they're going to say. They're going to say the target of his violence was irrelevant. Now the defense I Believe is going to come out and go, this man and maybe by reasons of insanity had a temporary lapse and temporary insanity that he lost his mind because of a medical condition. I don't know if they're going to go that route or not. That seems to be the smartest route. But I love by the way, I'm just seeing this. Mangiono is wildly active online, even at letterbox account for reviewing movies. So Wicked before killing. I love that, that he's so wicked. It probably pumped him up. Wicked probably pumped him up and he heard that defying gravity and he was just like, all right, now I gotta do it, I gotta do it. He was probably pumped the up from Wicked and then he's like, fuck it, I'm gonna do it. I was, I was on the fence until I saw Wicked. Like a lot of people, my grandparents are not the most tech savvy. So it seems weird to get them like a tech adjacent gift. 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Because it's about winning. And doctors in France for example, will go yeah, she could die. That happens. People die. But in America it is, you know, it's the movie Rudy like it is, we are fighting to win and it doesn't matter if a person is a vegetable. It doesn't matter if a person has zero quality of life. It is about the numbers. America is about the numbers. And it's about winning. And you win by going out to the waiting room and going, they are still with us. And it does. They don't know who you are. They cannot speak, they cannot lift their hand, but they are here. Then you throw them in an assisted living and then they're there and they're in an assisted living where nurses, many of them good people from other parts of the world, wipe their asses and feed them. And you keep them alive in the same way that you would keep a cat or a dog alive at the end of their life when they could no longer run around in the yard. Like the dog can no longer play fetch. The dog is. 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If you can be sick for 12 years on average in this country and still work, and still consume and still contribute to the economy, if you have only one working finger left and that finger can press the doordash button that says order now, we keep you alive. We do not care about quality of life in America. It is not about quality of life. It is the fact that you are here, you're in America. That's it. That is all you get. You're here. You are participating with everybody else. You could be a billionaire too. That is the ethos. So sick people can still consume, they can still order food to their house. Many of them are on very pricey pharmaceutical drugs that we would Rather keep them on and they're alive. They're alive when their son is incarcerated. They're alive when their daughter overdoses in the bathroom. They are alive for the beautiful moments. We keep them alive for the beautiful moments. They are alive when their sister is taken to jail because of identity theft. They are alive when their husband is laid off from his job. We want them here to experience the beautiful moments. That's really what it comes down to. We will not let you die in this country if you can still consume and work. Not if you're too. We. You can't be too expensive to keep alive. That's when the Brian Thompson's come in. They you, but you can live sick. That's what America's about, living sick. We don't mind that. You can vote sick. You can go and do the things we need you to do sick. The main takeaway is that, yes, lifespan has been increasing over the past two decades, but a lot of those years are not being spent in a healthy state. Not only does it inflate healthcare costs to individuals in their countries, it's simply not what most people want. If more people lived healthy lifestyles, a balanced diet, healthy eating heart, healthy exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and so on, the gap would most likely narrow. But we can't rely on individual willpower alone. Interesting. They agree that both behavioral changes and more effective health care practices will be crucial to closing the healthspan lifespan gap. Which is so funny. The rage at rfk, the anger that he would go in there and smash the fda, which he should. You know, they're clearly. And I read some article in the Atlantic, it was kind of funny. And it was like one article, and the guy's like, maybe sugar is good when you're sick. Like every single article. And you clearly nestle, like, paid him money because I have a little cold. And sometimes when you have a cold, you're like, why shouldn't, you know, have any sugar? But you're like, maybe I can find one. One article. Maybe there's one article out there that says it's good. And lo and behold, it took me about three minutes. The Atlantic Monthly. And it's some like, fake study published somewhere that sugar when you're sick can actually be good if you have a cold. So clearly a lot of these people are on the payroll of these big corporations and they're churning out very dubious research to prove the things that they're saying. And RFK is going in there and threatening their power base. And he's threatening the way things have been done. But it's so funny, because in theory, all of these people know it needs to be done. But then when you bring up his name, they're like, no, fuck him. It's like, yeah, but you're agreeing in principle with everything he wants to do. Yeah, but fuck him. But this is a very American thing about winning. And if someone doesn't die and we keep them alive and we can say they've lived a long life, even if it's been hellish, even if it's been terrible. They hope that technologies like AI will soon help usher in an era of interceptive medicine, allowing doctors to identify people at risk of shorter health spans and intervene before chronic disease takes hold. A lot of the chronic diseases in America that we have are the result of the food supply. They are the result of environmental toxins and everything from furniture to the food you eat. And people like RFK are the only ones that I've ever heard talk about that. I'm 40 years old. I will be in a couple of months. And I've never heard anybody with a mainstream platform talk about toxins and food, environmental toxins, things like that, that contribute to chronic diseases. But that is, like, what America has become. It is kind of a big ward, It's a big hospital where everybody's sick with something physical and. Or mental. And often those things work hand in hand. So we're just living kind of in a big insane asylum, and we have all of these different ailments. And as long as you have enough energy to gamble on the Internet, they consider you healthy. In America, as long as you have enough energy to gamble money that you made on the Internet, you're healthy. Health in America is about consumption. It is about your. They don't care if you can take a bike ride. The fuck do they care? They do not care if you can hike, can you go to a casino? All of these wheelchairs, Jazzy scooters are designed so that people who cannot walk on their own can still participate in the only cultural monolith this country has left. Gambling. Fat people on scooters are being put in front of a slot machine and being told to sit there until they explode because it is good for the economy. It is why you have so many. The rascal scooter, the jazzy, all of these things. Because we cannot lose a customer. When someone dies in America, you're losing a customer. They have. Everything has to be made easy for chronically ill people. Chronically ill people in America must be able to consume, to gamble, to put themselves or their family in debt. If not, there's no point. We're going to talk now about a Christian missionary CEO. I'm sorry, not a CEO. A Christian missionary who was imprisoned by the Assad regime and has been freed. We have a Christian missionary who has been freed. A missing US man in Syria where he says he was kept in prison for months after entering the country as a pilgrim. Travis Timmerman spoke to several outlets Thursday after locals saw him walking barefoot in the streets of southern Damascus. Thousands of people have been released from prisons across Syria this week after rebels toppled the country's former president. He traveled to Syria for spiritual purposes. And now we're going to watch the interview him. Now. This is what he says, by the way. This is his quote. He says he was never beaten. Go back to his quote. He says he was never beaten and he was, I think, treated. I was never beaten. The only really bad part was that I couldn't go to the bathroom when I wanted to. I was only let out three times a day to go to the bathroom. Interesting. So let's see his interview because he kind of liked it. This guy kind of liked it. Which is, by the way, when you're really incredibly religious. I bet being in a Syrian prison is fun. This is kind of what happens when you're incredibly religious. When you're really deep in. This is all good. It all happens for a reason. You're like, hey man, I'm in this prison. But it's good. I mean, look at this guy. Look at the eyes on this guy. Not a bad looking guy. Look at the eyes on this guy. Let's watch.