Let's talk about how to take action - Mandatory Voting and Gun Stuff

Ta-da! All right, so it's 8 o'clock on Sunday night, and what does that mean? It means that since Thursday I have been focusing on getting folks to submit testimony to, um, address our governor's bill. The governor bill— the governor's bill is, let's see, I'm gonna show you cuz it's just so much easier if I just show you. One second. Share screen. Hey, G2/3, I don't see an email from you yet. I'm gonna bug you on that. All right, so I kinda wanna make that all this. All right, so y'all who've been here forever know that I've been talking about this since Thursday. Oh, G23, first thumbs up and comment. Good for you, dude. Um, and high five under Magnum. Yeah, you're all crazy for shooting that. But anyway, here's the deal. I've been working on getting people to get their voices heard here in Connecticut because the governor is taking action to eliminate gun violence, or at least that's what the name of his project is. Sadly, the reality of it is it does little or nothing to eliminate gun violence. Instead, it makes people like you and I, average citizens, into felons, and it does nothing to do anything against the criminals. It doesn't do anything to prevent gun violence, which is, by the way, the smallest portion of violence in America is violence that happens with a gun. So if you are brand new If you've never done anything like this, the governor's press release is the easiest thing to read because he literally lays it out in bullet points right here. So 2.5 million community violence intervention programs. Yay, that makes sense. But banning open carry, limiting one handgun per month, updating state ban on unregistered ghost guns, none of that stuff matters. Because it just doesn't impact actual violent crime, nor does it— yes, did I know that? I think I knew that. Good job. I have not submitted my testimony, hence the reason I am here tonight, because I am just going to, um, walk y'all through what I do. So here it is. I look at the press release. It gives me the high level of what's actually going on.. And then for the fun of it, because, you know, reading is so much fun, I print out the 70— what is it? We got 73 pages of stuff. Now here's the thing that sucks about this. It is not like super easy and makes sense, which laws are supposed to be accessible to the average layperson. You're not supposed to already have a law degree to understand what the heck is happening in all of these pages. Now, the way it works is if you go to the end of the bill, like the last page of the bill, it will tell you all the things that have changed, where they're changing, and what they're changing to. It also gives you a statement purpose. This one says to implement the governor's budget recommendations. So here's the other thing. The way that he's getting this forward is because he's saying One Gun a Month is part of the— notice the first bullet point on the thing was $2.5 million to community violence intervention programs, which I am absolutely for violence prevention programs without a doubt. So he got the rest of this stuff in under budgeting because he put the $2.5 million in there at the top, because One Gun a Month has nothing to do with Connecticut's budgeting. So this is how they work. This is— these are the things you do. So back to not having to be a lawyer, you can't. It says proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets, proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined. So just reading the directions on how to read the stinking thing is like, how is anyone supposed to engage in this and have like half a clue? Hi, Crabby Turtle, and hi, DJ. I don't think I said that officially. Um, G Webs, 4 thumbs up. Wow, we're rocking tonight. Maybe I should come on Sundays more often. So anyway, so this is the bill. This is what I look at if I want to take the time because to be fair— hey Greg, how are you? So anyway, so if you want to take the time to actually read through this, you can get it. And sometimes it makes sense to go through this if you have the time and you want to. Otherwise, as I've been telling people all week, you can just go and say, I oppose more gun laws, period. And you don't have to write any more than that. I, on the other hand, I get into the weeds because that's what I do because I've been doing this for so long. But if you're a first-timer, don't do that. I mean, you can, but don't stress if you don't know everything because we tend to make things too complicated for ourselves. So right here, section— wait, section 1, part 2, line 7. Is where the governor has implemented new language, and it's specifically for the purpose of the subdivision. As a person shall not be deemed to be carrying a firearm openly if such person has not taken reasonable measures to conceal the fact that such person is carrying firearm, a fleeting glimpse of a firearm shall not constitute a violation of this subdivision. So if I am carrying and I bend over and my shirt comes up over my gun that I am, as long as someone only has a fleeting glimpse, I am no longer subject to this. However, let's say my shirt gets stuck on my firearm, so it is free for everyone to see. What does that mean? It means I'm in violation of Section 1, Subsection 2, Lines 7 through 15. And I'm not a lawyer. I've just been doing this for a long time, probably too long. So, and that's just the first page. When we get into here, Section 3, I believe it is, no person shall carry any firearm upon such person's person in any establishment licensed for on-premises alcohol consumption unless such establishment is the dwelling house place of business of such person. So if you're home and you're serving alcohol, you can wear your gun. If you're not home, not serving alcohol, you cannot wear your gun. Yeah, so as Brendan's asking, what is a fleeting glimpse? Sounds subjective. Yes, and this is why yesterday while I was on Polite Society Podcast Weekend Edition, I said to all of my students, always I'm like, I am a responsible, peace-loving, non-violent gun owner. I'm exaggerating now, but I mean, I am all of those things. I'm not exaggerating. I didn't say those things, so I meant gun owner. It's near impossible for me to say that I am a law-abiding gun owner because they keep changing all of the stinking laws. And that is just page 1 and 2, section 1, section 2, and apparently section 3. So when I said it was Section 1, Part 2. Apparently I was incorrect, it was Section 2. But anyway, so that's just in the first 2 pages of the 73-page document. And by the way, the 73-page document is existing law regarding firearms here in Connecticut to begin with, and this is just one section. So here's what I'm going to do for this. I am literally just going to submit testimony that says I do not support this bill. There are many issues with this bill, such as— actually, I'm going to use Brendan's point, what is a fleeting glimpse? Because this is one of the things, like when they passed in 2019 the Safe Storage Act and they said your firearm must be locked within your car. We specifically asked during the testimony, what does that mean? Does a locked glove box count? And you know what they didn't give us? They did not give us an answer. So the subjectiveness of how many of— how these laws are written is very horrible because the truth becomes, until you or someone gets charged and a jury or a judge rules on them, we don't have answers to our questions. So some people think a locked glove box is okay. Other people think probably not. You can be safer and put another lockbox in your car or some kind of safe, and then you are safe. But the truth of the matter is it is just so, so stinking hard. So for the governor's bill, it's— I'm going to write maybe a paragraph. As a mom, as a firearms instructor, um, oh sorry, hold on, I have to laugh because no, um, give you an example. So Sandy Hook happened, and what happened is all of the anti-gun bills that had been pushed over and over again over the previous decade or so were finally allowed through. So I would not say that Connecticut was a pro-gun state at all. We've been, um, like the 10-round mag ban, for example, has been being— was— had been proposed since like 2001. Every year they would come back, come back, come back. Once Sandy Hook happened, that's when the 10-round ban finally occurred. So yes, there is a special place in hell for that lowlife killer. It is true. And this is the challenge with all of these gun laws. They are not addressing the evil in society. There is violence in our country, there is violence in the world since the beginning of time. I believe the first famous story of violence would be Cain versus Abel. So when brothers kill each other, whether it's a rock or a firearm, it doesn't matter. It's the act of killing that is the problem. And until people stop focusing on guns and start working on actual violence prevention, then we have something to talk about. So again, my first thing is going to be just no, we don't need more gun-free zones, right? That's the one about no going, no going to restaurants that serve alcohol, basically. I don't know how many more people have to die in gun-free zones before people understand gun-free zones do not work. If they did, every school would not have any school shootings because lots of schools are gun-free zones. So they're not paying attention to what's actually working, and they're not paying attention to what's really not working. So that's the governor's bill. When you're looking for stuff, you want to find a press release because it's definitely easier to read than you actually trying to read the bills. I'm not suggesting you're not smart enough to read the bills, it's just painful. But if you're smart or you're already a lawyer, it's a piece of cake. For those of us who are not lawyers, it's a little bit challenging. And like I said, just reading how to read it to me is just like, what, what are you talking about? All right, onwards. And G23, you are absolutely correct. Gun-free zones. There are multiple times where people, bad guys, have specifically looked for gun-free zones. I can't remember the name of the guy, but there was a movie theater shooting that, what I recall, and if all of you, any of you all know it, please drop the link, but he drove by a bunch of other movie theaters until he found one that had one of those nice big pictures of a gun with a slash through it for a gun-free zone before he went in. I just talked to Nikki Gosler actually on Friday, and I don't know if y'all know her story. Oh, DJ, if you can look up her thing, um, but what the heck is it called? I— she wrote a book because she was a law-abiding citizen and she was going to a gun-free zone, so she left her firearm in her car. She's out to dinner with her husband, and she didn't know it at the time, but she had a stalker. So she's law-abiding, she left her gun behind, and for that, in that gun-free zone, she got to watch her husband shot and killed by her stalker. And since then, she has had to fight over and over and over again to not allow him to get out early parole. So gun-free zones are death zones, and until people start really paying attention and understanding that, they're going to keep coming forward and thinking, oh, but it makes me feel better, which is what the open carry that the governor wants to get rid of It— in his press release, he like legitimately says, hold on, I, I just— ah, the press release, right? Our governor says Connecticut remains one of the safest states in the country, and violent crime has been decreasing here over the last several years, but even one shooting is too many. So that's his basis for going forward with all of these things. Now, um, where the heck is it? Preventing— oh, I love this— preventing bulk purchasing of firearms. That's his reasoning behind one gun a month. I don't know about y'all, but as a competitive shooter, two guns is generally the minimum that I'm gonna buy when I go, because if I'm buying a competition gun, I'm buying two because I need twins. So I have my practice gun and my competition gun. Oh, thank you, DJ. Yeah, Stalked and Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband. And she had to sit there and watch. And she's— oh yeah, so she's really awesome, and she's— she has a horrible story. Yeah, that's sort of a con. But anyway, it is just crazy. So yes, and like, some people ignore the signs, which is a good thing, and here and there are, there's lots of things, but they shouldn't be there at all because the fact that he could be charged with anything because he brought a gun in a gun-free zone and saved lives, the law looks at him as, no, no, no, he was in a gun-free zone, it was posted, and he could still get in trouble for that. Which is ridiculous. Oh, the other part about one gun a month, I almost forgot because this is icing on the cake. Many guns— this is the governor talking again— many guns involved in crimes occurring in our communities are purchased illegally on the underground market, but his one gun a month thing is going to help stop that. Um, how about no? How about you go after the folks who are doing the underground market thing. And oh, I don't know, maybe take care of them. So there we have it again, lots of stuff. All right, where do I have it? Act Concerning Microstamping. This also is going to be a short and sweet rebuttal on my part. They want you to get microstamping-enabled pistols. I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it's roughly in G webs. You probably know this because y'all watched yesterday. I believe that California has already had a statute like this on the books for over a decade, and the truth of the matter is microstamping is not a thing. It is not something that goes into every firearm, nor does it work successfully in every firearm. So just like a 10-round mag ban, which is a gun ban, this becomes a huge ban because there aren't guns that are made with microstamping that you and I are going to be able to have. And yeah, we're not retrofitting any of our guns with microstamping. Not happening. Um, when I was at the gun store, um, at Lock and Load in Southington this Thursday, Josh was saying it's like if this were to pass, every single gun in his inventory would be useless. So, um, so yeah. Oh yeah, and what Brendan says about the one gun a month thing— if you have a relative who passes away with a collection, it could take years to take possession. Exactly. And actually, I did have that in mind, but a lot of people brought that up already. Um, but yeah, it's like there's just so much that they don't think about because they don't want to actually talk to gun people. They don't understand how guns work. You know, as far as the Sandy Hook stuff, part of the problem we have so many problems with our gun laws is because they didn't talk to anyone who could actually educate them on firearms. And like, there's still stuff from Sandy Hook 2013 that we're still wondering because it— the laws that they wrote literally don't make sense. Like, they call the who's and what's it a thingamabob that's a part of a rifle, and because of that We don't know what thing they're talking about. And yeah, so microstamping, also it's science fiction at this point in time, but they want to pass it, sort of like other issues, um, which I'm just not going to go down. And then they also talk about body armor, and I'm just not going down that road. So I will just say no to this bill in general because we don't need more legislation. Please show me a crime report that says bad guys are getting away because they have body armor. I'm pretty sure that report does not exist, but hey, maybe, um, what do I know? So here's the thing, I know people say this, but it's not true. It just has to not be a gun-free zone because when the FBI, the Department of Justice, and all of those crime-fighting entities have done actual research. Just most school shooters literally are cowards, and that's why they go to schools to attack children who are not being protected. If there's a possibility there could be a single gun somewhere on that campus, they will not go. That's kind of a thing. So we don't have to arm all the teachers. We just have to make it not a gun-free zone. And again, back to the governor's bill, as much as I'm trying not to, it's definitely one of the things that we don't have to arm everyone. Guns are not for everyone. Not everyone should be armed. There are people that just know, uh, just like there's not everyone's going to be an NBA professional basketball player. Would it be nice to be? Sure, but it's not in everyone's wheelhouse. However, getting rid of gun-free zones would go really far to reducing violence because many of the mass shooters specifically look for gun-free zones. And the people that are like, no, that's not true, that's not true, I'm like, you have nothing to back up your feeling about that not being true. The safest place that I know of you can be is, let's see, where there's armed guards. Hmm. All right, what about the police station? When's the last time someone tried to do a mass shooting at a police station? No, you know what that's called? That's called death by cop. That's suicide by cop because they know they're not getting away. So these people who want gun-free zones are not thinking because they live in a lovely place where there's never any violence and no one ever wants to do any harm. And, well, you know, only trained individuals like police officers and military should have that sort of thing because— and she's like, no, criminals are criminals. Gun-free zones are places where they look for because they like simple, easy targets. All right, pro tip, um, Olympic Training Center Springs. When you have a competition gun or practice gun, make your practice gun be the one with the trigger that fires unpredictably. Yeah, no, that's not a pro tip. You want to have twins so that what you're practicing is what you get. Um, but anyway, uh, yeah, so GT3, this might be it because like I told in the description here, this might be like paint drying because there's so much to talk about and I really do have to actually write my testimony. And I guess that's why G-Webs assumed it's going to be a 2-hour stream. Yes, you can demand all you want, but I think people who are demanding are just having a little temper tantrum. I'm not going to put up with that sort of thing. Yeah, because children demand. Adults, we discuss and we talk about and we figure stuff out. Hence the reason the moms who demand action in their red, red angry shirts don't understand the idea behind gun-free zones. They have their feelings and that's what they got, and their feelings are generally mad angriness. Yeah, I'm not even going there. All right, sorry, I mentioned, so I'll just say, oh, here's the truth. None of us will ever know the entire story, right? And there's no simple answer to any tragedy that is out there. As you guys know, Suicide Prevention Saturday, one of the things that we talk about is no one wants to talk about suicide. Nobody wants to talk about someone who's died via suicide because how did they do it? What did they do? All sorts of questions are always asked, and the truth is no one will ever know the full story. There's lots of theories, there's lots of pieces of information out there. There's— you just have no idea. So here we go. I need to write my stuff. Um, yeah, so good luck, Bear Care Bear. Um, here's the truth: I do not do Olympic shooting. That's a whole nother animal of— and that's a whole different discipline. Oh man. All right, so here we go. Um, I am writing my— oh wait, but no, we're not done yet because here's— here is finally something that we have and we can get behind. An act concerning an individual's right to own, possess, and carry a firearm. This is the one that I'm going to spend most of my time writing. Because as a firearms instructor, it would be great if I could tell my students that they will actually be granted their individual permits within 8 weeks. Because Mr. Fishbein is saying if it has not been expressly denied by the Commissioner, and look, even better, it gets even better, he wants to do it for free. Um, so I think that's pretty cool. So I'm not gonna give my classes away for free, I'm not gonna lie, but imagine if they took away about, I don't know, $70 plus, $80 worth of fees so anyone could apply for their permit. So, um, so this is something I can get behind. And this— oh, speaking of the Olympic shooter stuff, So target shooting pistols got put into our assault weapons ban because, again, the people writing the stuff did not talk to anyone in the gun community. So the way that they worded what features made an assault rifle— they didn't put in rifle, and so they said any gun with any of the following attributes, and one of them was a magazine, detachable magazine in front of the trigger guard. And as Care Bear must know, there are some of the Olympic shooting pistols that have that. So Mr. Free Spring goes on, I also, you know, we've tried this a bunch of times, but I'm glad he's still going back after it. Persons to carry handguns in state parks. Again, I'm going to address this from the point of view as an instructor. Of primarily women. Women love to be able to carry while they're out walking around in the woods, and it seems as though if it's open state parks that people should be. Currently, the only time that they can is if they happen to be hunting, and that requires a different license. I also appreciate the fact, and I'm going to talk to them from a competition shooter point of view, on the reciprocity agreements. Since I go out of state all the time, and wouldn't it be nice to not have to have like 4 different permits, like a driver's license? That would be so much better. So this is the one I'm going to spend more time on. And again, the summary here is much easier to speak on than if I click on the actual raised bill. This particular thing shows you that, um, what I want to tell you, that where it's going to be, and that conserving rights— wait, where does it say that? Sorry, now I'm— oh, judiciary community. There we go. So the color coding, if they put it in today, 2 to 4 days old and 5 days or older. So this has been here for more than 5 days. When you click on it it gives you the, um, oh, and this was another conversation from yesterday. Someone asked, are we a may or shall issue? One of the things being requested in this is that we go from a may issue to shall issue. So I absolutely will be talking on that as well. So anyway, this is going to be my favorite thing that I'm going to spend the rest of the night on. So yeah, so this is what I'm going to spend my time on because a lot of people have already submitted their testimony against the governor's bill and the microstamping bill, and we did not put as much effort into making sure that this bill was being supported. So that's what I'm going to write more of my testimony on. Now guess what though? Like I told you, um, I am going to still work on more. Why? Because it's Sunday night and what do I have to do tomorrow? Oh, I just have to go to training all day because I'm going to become a USCCA trainer as well. Uh, mandatory voting. Oh yeah, folks, this one is insanity. So my goal is to get people to understand how simple and easy it can be and how much down the rabbit hole you can go. But here it is, a simple one-page bill, which, you know, considering everything, it wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that these lovely people, um, representatives and senators here in Connecticut, believe that they want to incentivize civic engagement, and yet What this bill does is say, if you do not, you have to provide a valid reason for not casting a ballot. So they want you to do mandatory voting. They want to then tell you that if you don't, you have to tell us what your valid reason for not casting a ballot is. And if we don't like, if respond such form with a valid reason, you'll be fined for not responding. Or if they don't like the reason that you give them. So just stuff like this, the fact that stuff like this is even being brought up and suggested, I am writing in on this one and be like, uh, no, it's— I'm not gonna do a big long thing like on the one I'm supporting, but it's just, just no, um, it makes no sense, mandatory voting. So with that, I will go back to Magnum here because I did see— I didn't like go by, but yeah, little cousin committed suicide just about a month or two ago. And losing anyone is hard, and it's— it's— no one's ever gonna know. I mean, one of the things we were talking about the other day, it's like the other part No, she didn't leave a letter or anything. And when someone is struggling with all of that, no one's gonna know. When you're dying of cancer, people know. When you're dying of Alzheimer's, people know and they can understand it. When it's suicide, nobody gets it. And I don't know that we ever will, but people are always looking for answers. So Um, everyone— I don't think everyone does a shallows use state now. Um, not here at least, not even close. But it's not— it's just the timing and the fact that— so our state statutes here in Connecticut say that once you apply, put your full application in, it should be turned around in 8 weeks or less. Some towns turn around in a single day. To the first 5 days. Other towns, it's 5 months or 5, uh, like 5 to 8 months versus weeks. So the purpose of Craig's— Mr. Fishbein's, um, legislation is so that there's no more of this silliness. Because what happens is the way our permitting process works is you take my class, I give you a certificate, You go to your town hall or your police department, you submit your paperwork, they're doing the fingerprinting, the background check. Some of them ask for like 10 different other additional things, which is not, um, what is required by state. But the towns, if they have a super anti-violence— or sorry, if they have a super anti-gun police commissioner or selectman, you may not see the that you're getting a pistol permit for months and months and months. So actually taking care of that sort of stuff, it would be amazing if this passed. I'm just gonna say that for sure. Mandatory voting, we talked about. We have ranked choice voting for our elections coming up. I sort of understand how that works, but not entirely. Oh, and we want to make sure that incarcerated individuals can vote because since here in Connecticut they can also become elected officials, it kind of makes sense that they can vote as well. So, all right, so now what? What am I gonna do? What am I gonna write? Well, um, sorry, I'm like, I'll try not to look at the chat because otherwise we're going to be here forever. All right, so here's what I'm doing. I am looking at our— the one that I'm looking to, uh, pay more attention to, right? So let's go to the actual application thing. All right, hold please. So I'm gonna submit my testimony while y'all are watching, um, for the 2 that I said I'm gonna go again. So not— well, actually the 3, right? Um, wow, I have too much stuff on my desk. Hold please. This is why I said part of this is gonna be like watching paint dry. So micro stamping and governor's bill, because those are both going to judiciary. So I'm going to go to judiciary. I'm going to click on submit public hearing testimony. I'm going to throw my name in there, title, um, firearms instructor and competitive shooter, and you guys can get to see how horrible I am when it comes to being able to not spell things. And okay, the field should contain at most 32 numbers or characters. All right, so actually, now wait, ready? It's like being on Twitter or something. All right, let's try that. Is that 32? It is. Let's see how short this has to be. All right, so here we go. Submit hearing date and time. When you click the date and time, it shows you just what is available, and apparently no— at most 32 characters. Well, if I could spell school, that might be even better. Is that under 32? It is. I click on opposes, uh, an act addressing gun violence, and if I hold the control button, I can also choose that. Type in my testimony. Here we are. Are you all ready? Um, well, All right, so yeah, so it's not like Connecticut's the only place that is having problems. What are y'all talking about? Let's see, I know Magnum started this with Maryland v. Gun Control, which I'm guessing— but anyway, let me finish one thing at a time. Such a squirrel brain. Hold on. So my testimony is simply going to be what? As a mom, instructor, and competitive shooter, shooter, I am 100% against violence. Can I spell? I don't know why I have such a hard time spelling competitive. I just do. That being said, The bills that I oppose do nothing to prevent violence. That's it. That's all I'm going to put in here. Why? I'm going to show you in a minute why. All right. And I'm going to just put in, be polite. Thank you for your time. That's it. Because the chances someone's reading this is relatively small. When I click on Submit Testimony, it's going to say, hey, guess what? This is going to be public record. So make sure that you don't care if everybody gets all your information. And considering I put my school up there, I really don't because people can find me no matter what anyway. Um, actually, I'll show you guys after. If you go to the Connecticut General Assembly and you just type in Brooke Cheney, you'll actually see testimony from me for the last decade or so. So it says your testimony submitted, committee staff review. So right now they're manually reviewing everything, and don't submit the same thing over and over. So do I want to add more testimony? No, because what I'm going to do is to support the bill on, um, a person's right to own, possess, or carry firearms. That one I'm going to write out before I get to their site. So let me show you why I'm only submitting something really short. If I go to testimony, the next thing that happens is I can pick a date. When I pick a date, which is this tomorrow, uh, Monday— my computer is super slow right now— the testimony that has been submitted thus far. So In case you missed it, the governor's bill is 06667, and some people are writing a lot and some people are not, and I won't know until I click on it. So, but everyone has a different opinion as to why they oppose it. And then the 6817 is the one that I'm going to be supporting because that is the one regarding a person's right to own. So that's pretty straightforward and simple. I support these bills because crime doesn't stop at the state parks. All right, so here's the other thing. Notice Here is all of the testimony so far that has been submitted. Please also notice it's in alphabetical order and we're only in the B's. All right, so now we're getting to the C's. So you can see there is a ton of testimony here, and that's why I'm not spending a ton a ton of time on the 6667. The good news is CCDL has been doing a great job at getting people out. So these are only the C's so far, and for the most part you will see we've got opposes 6667, and these are the 6817, which is the one that we want to support. Now there are some people who have gone and opposed. Let's see. And they may, when they do something like that, we don't know if they actually opposed it or if they just didn't know. Okay, click on Collins. Well, right. So this poor person, he didn't realize that this was the one he was supposed to support. So anyway, that's what I'm saying is the good news is look at all of these people. And you know what's really cool about this right now? All of these people, as I'm scrolling through here, well, I actually know some of these people. Some of these people are my friends. These are the people that I've gotten to talk. So I will just say, I don't know how far this goes. But there, holy moly, N, P, oh my goodness, there's so many. So this is really cool because notice the opposes pretty much wins, right? And we've got a fair amount on the supports as well. And unfortunately, I think some of the opposes are ones that were meant to be supports. So anyway, that's it. That's kind of it. I wanted to kind of show you guys what it all looks like. Um, the other one that I can go in and do real fast would be the— no, I do not support mandatory voting. So here's the thing with the mandatory voting thing is that, uh, that's not it. That's not— I already closed the window. Never mind, we're not going to go there. Oh, let's see. Let's see what you guys got. Uh, shell issue. Nope, we are not all shell issues. The Friederman guy in Pennsylvania. Nope, don't know anything about that either. Sorry, guys. Um, all right, thanks for putting the Q there. You are writing testimony, requesting time to speak your testimony. All right, so here's the deal. I'm in training all day from 8 30 AM until we are done, which could be 5:30, 6 o'clock. So I am writing in testimony, and tomorrow when I am done, I've already put in a request to speak. So what I'm hoping happens is A, either I automatically happen to be towards the end of the speakers, or B, if they go over— like, if I happen to be early on in the lineup that they will just put me to the end because that's usually what happens if you miss your turn. Um, so the answer is both. Uh, I'm writing in so that we can have, um, numbers, right? Here's the thing, they can't say that everybody wants this when a large percentage of the people who took the time to write in have said no, we don't want this. Although they're politicians, they'll do whatever the heck they want. It's kind of frustrating. But then tomorrow, if I have a chance, I will speak. So to speak though, it's a different process as far as that goes. And since you asked, U-Webs, I'm going to show you all that real quick. I'm not obviously going to Hmm, submitting public. Yeah, all right, here we go. Here's what happens if you want to speak, although I'm trying to click on the wrong thing. Um, oh yes, we do need to talk about the mandatory voting. You're right, I just had closed the window. So if I go to CCDL, because it's actually almost easier to just go there. Then our Connecticut, um, aren't they good? Don't wait till time runs out. So when I click on this, it shows me the major gun bills, and if I want to sign up to speak live, I click here. It brings you to our webinar registration specifically for the Judiciary Committee. So you want to make sure you're actually in the correct one. You want to make sure it's the correct date and then they will let you know what time it is going to speak. Now, Judiciary Committee in general has always been good about allowing everyone to speak. Judiciary Committee, these are the crazy people on both sides that they will go till 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. Not all committees do that, but here in Connecticut, the Judiciary Committee does. One of the chairs of the Judiciary Committee is Senator Gary Winfield, and he is a Democrat, and he really believes in justice and having everyone have their turn. As one of the chairs, he's always very good about making sure everyone is heard who wants to be heard. With that, all I would do here is I'd verify. I've already done this though, so I'm not going to resubmit it. My email address, city, state, province, job title, and registering. And when you click on register, oh, you get to choose remotely because they do it via Zoom or in person. Now you all can watch this on YouTube tomorrow. Um, Judiciary Committee has a website of their own and so it's one of those things I'm just gonna not have to make you go through all of my stuff. Um, so if I do Connecticut State Legislative, I think it comes up that way. Oh yeah, there's that too. Um, yeah, there's a lot of stuff. There's so much stuff. CTN is is actually the Connecticut network that plays within, which is where everything is coming from. And then Public Health Committee has its own, um, channel, and so does judiciary and all of that. So tomorrow I will put up that— well, maybe I will, I don't know, guys. Uh, it's a lot, and like I said, I'm going to be in training all day tomorrow, and we're not going to register Yay for CCDL. So they give us what we need to make it as simple as possible. And let me find the crabby turtle request. Wait, was it crabby turtle D23? Um, yeah, mandatory voting. So it's, it's just crazy. Yeah, I would too. And that's the thing is like, they don't get— if we for a moment had any indication that giving up our guns or giving up our rights would do anything to, um, you know, do anything about violence, we all would in a second. It's not even about giving up our last dime. We would give up all of our rights if it made a mistake or if it made any impact whatsoever, but it just doesn't, and it never has. So this is where It's just absolutely— it's so maddening. It's like, I have friends who love me and will still just insist that I'm wrong because why does anyone need a rifle? And I'm like, well, because I don't know, maybe because like rifles are like the smallest amount of crime that is ever committed. So yeah, but that's just, you know, that's just me. All right, so here's our mandatory voting bill. It is ridiculous, so fully ridiculous. Oops, wrong button. You guys know how I like to make it so— well, part of it so I can read it better too, and I have to click on the right thing. All right, so yeah, so here's the thing. It's a one-pager. But the amount of ridiculousness in this one-pager is just outstanding. Like, I just can't even. Because here's the thing, they talk about the statement of purpose, right? Why are they doing this? Well, they want to institute mandatory voting to incentivize civic engagement. And I don't know, how about you do something that makes people actually have faith that their votes matter? The amount of people that say, well, there's always going to be a little bit of fraud, are the people that are the problem, right? So yeah, so just the whole thing here, right? So Title IX, so that's the section where voting is addressed in our legislative body, right, of our general statutes. Again, trying not to be a lawyer and get through all this stuff is just the So the idea that you want to require that each qualified elector— that's you and me who can cast a ballot at an election— or provide a valid reason for not casting a ballot. Wait, I gotta scroll up in the comments. Who said something about it being, um, what was that word? Oh yes, subjective. What the heck is a valid reason for not casting a ballot? It's like if you're not in the hospital, it doesn't count. Or you don't have a doctor's note that you were home sick. What's— what is— yeah, just no on so many levels. And the fact that you're going to get a postcard as to why you didn't cast a ballot. Hmm, anyone keeping up on ours very much? Checking in to make sure we know? Have you all checked out Australia lately? Do We really know what's going on over there. Yeah, so why didn't you do it? And then you finally respond, and if you didn't respond— wait, if you responded with a valid reason, right? So something they think is valid. But if you don't respond or you don't, or they don't like your reason, you're gonna be fined. I'm not sure that that incentivizes us. Oh, so yeah, so that one is a different bill altogether. And, you know, and like everything else in the world, there's a yes and a no for incarceration automatically disqualifying you for voting. Because here's the thing, our law system— sorry, let me try that again. Our law system is so messed up because there is no black and white. It's like, to have an opinion like this is super hard, right? There's no black and white. I know plenty of people who incarcerated, and yes, I have a wide variety of friends and family. And just because you're incarcerated, A, doesn't mean you're a bad person. B, I suppose it makes you a criminal, but some of the laws are insane. It's sort of like the sex offender registry. Did you know that if you get busted for peeing on a corner, which is indecent exposure, you go on the sex registry stuff, right? So you're not a pedophile, but you're on the sex registry thing and you were 18 years old and you were drunk and and you peed on a corner of a street. Now here you are 30 years later, you're an upstanding citizen, you have a wife and kids, you got a house, you're a contributing member of society. So if you did something and you've done something to get better and you're not an idiot any longer, are you really supposed to be punished for the rest of your life? For something that you did. Now, the opposite of that obviously is the challenge we have with people who are going in and out of jail over and over again. The amount of violent criminals who spend time, then get paroled for good behavior, get out, and then cause violence again, and then go back in and then still get out for good behavior. We have so many problems and there is not a single solution for all of it. And they're— oh, the barbecue has joined us. I feel so special. See, this is what happens when I go on for more than 15 minutes, right, G23? Well, right, if you're behind bars, you should get out. Like, you should just get your rights back when you're free. Well, yeah, see, like that, because other bills that have come forward in Connecticut are things like reinstating felons' rights. But again, there's so many broken parts of our judicial system. There's just no simple thing. But it's like, you did your time. But again, all right, well, maybe. What about Nikki's stalker? Dude is a murderer, cold-blooded murderer. In front, an entire restaurant watched this dude murder her husband, and he's been out up for parole many times for good behavior. Are you, are you kidding me? It's murder. It's like just life sentence, end of story, right? Because that's what we want. We want that simple, easy answer that makes sense to us. Problem is we don't know. Give you another example. This is a thought process, right? There's no easy answer for any of it. If I am dying and I have some horrible, I don't know, skin-eating disease or something where I'm in constant agony all of the time, My husband and I have talked about it. I want to die, but I can't do it because I can't move. I'm bedbound, and my husband allows me to die, and now he gets charged with murder because something happened. It's the complexity of our morals, the complexity of our law system, the complexity of the garbage that people do to other people. And all of the rules are there because there are assholes in the world. Yes, there are. That's why I always click not made for children, because I can swear once in a while. So, um, yeah, so Vanessa's in my boat. I mean, not in my boat, but you know, um, there are so many people that have felonies that absolutely should be able to get their firearms licensing, for example, and yet. They cannot because they were felons at one point in time. And generally it's one of those, like, what was one? One of my students got denied because they had a DUI when they were like 17. They're applying for their first-time permit at like 38 and their record has been clean and they had forgotten about the DUI. So when asked the question, They didn't know, and this is why I tell all my students, take $35, spend it on that background check on yourself to find out what pops up. So there is just craziness. So, all right, Barbecue, I will tell you, I actually did a report on the death penalty, and yes, I know it's always good to put the sarcasm in there. So But here's the thing is the death penalty seems like, okay, simple. The truth of the matter is no, because like here in Connecticut, for example, the death penalty was literally almost 10 times as expensive as just putting someone in prison for life. Because once someone had the death penalty, they had endless amounts of appeals that they could make because it was a death penalty. Putting someone in for a life imprisonment, they had like a couple chances to try to figure out how to make themselves innocent, and then it was done. Now, at the same time, how many of you've all heard of, you know, Innocence— what is it, the Innocence Project? I think it's the Innocence Project, where, um, Oh, let's see. Um, they go and they find cold cases and stuff, and they find people who are in jail who are innocent. So again, there's just no simple answer— answers to everything. Wait, I'm trying to read G23's thing. Guy who was 18 and killed someone and served his 25 years, then he got his rights back after 10 years of good behavior. Did he get his rights back, or did he— like, and I mean, and this goes back to everything else. Yeah, well, all this political stuff gets under my skin just a little bit, so from time to time I might say bad words, but I try not to. You know, I prefer peanut butter and jelly. And you know the comment I could make about that? At least— are you sure there's that one part of you that still is? But no, we won't go there. Um, oh wait, did I just go there? Anyway, uh, there's, there's so many variables. There is no simple answer. Are there times when murder makes sense? Self-defense, for example, an accident, an accidental death, but somehow you're responsible. My baby sister, perfect example. Oh my goodness, so it's so hard because she's driving, she swerves into the lane that the 18-wheeler was coming down, and blunt impact trauma, and she is gone. Now, that poor truck driver gets to live with that for the rest of his life, and he did not do a single thing wrong. It was not his fault. However, in our judicial system, we could have sued him for wrongful death, and it blows my mind because it wasn't her— his fault. And yet it's just— it's— there's no simple answers to all of the problems. And the fact that people just want that, okay, death penalty, you're dead, you're guilty, goodbye. Now, in the case of Nikki's stalker, room full of victims or witnesses watched a man shoot another man in cold blood. It would seem that is a fairly open and shut case, but then, oh, I don't know, what if he's a man of mental defect? I'm pretty sure anyone who kills somebody in cold blood probably has a mental defect, but doesn't mean they should be able to have the insanity plea. So again, no easy answers, but here's the deal. The whole purpose I am here is why? Learn how to be involved. Understand you do not need to know very much other than what you believe in, because what you believe in is what you're going to talk about. Just like I showed you the ones that I'm going to talk about and why I'm going to talk about them. So is there anything— it's okay. I'm just saying, for me, I'm like, I am not that sensitive. I do not pay that much attention. It's like I pulled the trigger. And it goes bang, and I sort of hit most of the target. The Olympic shooting guys, y'all are like— you can like— you're like snipers, dude. You can like and actually slow down your heartbeat. So, but, um, yeah, so every sport has its thing. I mean, and, and this is the perfect example, right? Uh, Care Bear here has skills that I can't even imagine because I don't have the patience for Olympic pistol shooting. I started with bullseye. It was very precise and very specific, and it was great because it got me introduced to competition, which is not my jam, man. Running around and shooting at really big targets quickly? Yes, thank you. And so my trigger does not matter as much, although I do know a better trigger makes for a better shooting experience most of the time. Hello, Anne-Marie. I think that's the first time. And maybe Mike, I don't think I said hi to you yet. Oh, all right. So with that, um, Slider's running around the house screaming. Ah, I'm not gonna put that one up. All right, so anyway, yeah, I know, I'm just not. All right, so yeah, I do try not to get too warmed up to— yeah, whatever that word is. Anyway, long week. It's 9:05. I gotta get up and go spend 2 full days in USCCA training. And tomorrow night when I get out of that at 5:30 or 6, I will drive to Hartford and I will stay there till about 9 o'clock, even if they go till 2 AM, because I still have to get up on Tuesday and go to class all day. So I will probably do another live tomorrow, uh, when I'm at the, at the, um, the Capitol. And so, Annemarie, one of these times on a Saturday night, we will make DJ do his rock thing. And he just— it's how he pronounces it when he says it out loud. So that's what that means. So at least I've answered one question. Wait, no, two. I answered G-Web's questions too. All right. I know. Look what happens when I go longer than 15 minutes. Yeah, I know. We've got children running around screaming. That's what happens when I go longer than 15 minutes. Um, so anyway, all right, I'm gonna go because I thought I would be able to talk to you guys and do my testimony, but I was mistaken. So I really do need to, uh, find the bill that I want to write on. Oh yeah, and there's— see, the worst part is there's still stinking more. 'an act concerning serious firearms offenses by repeat offenders.' So this is another one that's in judiciary, and the person is a human being, where appropriate, a public or private corporation, a limited liability, or blah blah blah, possesses. So this one is another one I can support because it is, um, about actually whatever that's called, punishing the people who have broken laws over and over and over again. All right, so I think that's everything. That's more than I was planning for sure. It's a whole hour. See, we're halfway there to your 2 hours, G23. Aren't you excited? Um, but yeah, it's— it is what it is. Up the live, y'all. Oh yeah, thumbs up, that's what he's trying to say. So yeah, for your run Facebook side, thank you for the likes. I see a couple of thumbs up, hearts, all that good stuff. Um, it is 9 o'clock. If you're watching this, uh, replay or live and you're here in Connecticut, you have until midnight to submit testimony to judiciary for this stuff. Um, as for if you're gonna go live, you only had till 3 PM today. So these are the sort of details that you learn as you go. Is to find out each committee has different things that they say that they want as far as what timing you have. Um, and now I'm getting, I'm, oh, did I do my mandatory voting one? No, I did not. So D23, let's go. I'm going to do the, the, this one right here just for you. So you get to see it. So now I'm officially over an hour. So this, is the Government Administration and Elections Committee, right? And I need to know that before I go to submit. So when I go back to CGA, I want to go to Committee, and then I go to Government Administration and Elections, and then I click on Submit Public Hearing. And we know that it's tomorrow. Oh my goodness. And then here's the other thing that a lot of people don't understand. Committees have so much stinking stuff that they have to go through. So let me throw this in here real quick. I'm not even going to say anything other than voter. Um, yeah, I'm actually going to do that because here's the thing, they don't care. But look at all of this stuff now. SJ, SB, SB. So Senate bill is what SB stands for, right? And then House bill. Um, so, oh, so here's the one allowing incarcerated individuals to vote, um, and mandatory voting. That is the one that I am opposing tonight, and I'm going to type in my testimony. And here's what I really want to do. If I could go back there, hold please. Uh, see, this is all 'cause G2/3, you're rubbing off on me. So here's what I'm gonna do though, is I'm gonna take the proposed bill and I'm gonna take their statement of purpose specifically, and I'm gonna kind of throw back in their face, right? So if I put this in, And I'm simply going to say, fining people for not voting does not incentivize people, people. And the thing I said to you guys before, right, please consider doing things that will— give me some words, people. Um, oh, sorry, D23. So, um, please consider something that will give people faith that their vote matters and What is it? People that they want to vote for. How about that? It doesn't have to be huge, it doesn't have to be verbose, it can be short and simple. All right, so we have 12 people watching. Yes, we do. Oh, what? Wow, we're really and truly turning into China. All right, I did not know that. Holy moly, that's— that's— yeah, no, freedom is freedom. All right, so this is what I got: to make changes in election laws, voting— I'm just going to fix this because I don't know, I'm one of those people, I want it to actually look right. Fining people for not voting does not incentivize people. Please consider doing things that will give people faith that their vote matters and people that they want to vote for. It's that simple. You don't have to go crazy. I'm going to submit my testimony. They're going to warn me again, hey, you know, everyone gets to see that you said this. I'm like, yes, yes you can. And voilà. And no, I don't want to submit anything more at this moment. All right, so I did mention this before, so I will just show you real quick. If I search now, it may or may not work. It seems like their search system has not worked a whole lot lately. But if I go to our Connecticut General Assembly page and I simply put in Brooke Cheney and I do refresh— yeah, see, See, their site search is currently broken. I don't know why. It's very sad. So anyway, um, I've done it before and more stuff did actually come up. So once their site— the search is actually working again, I can show this to you guys. But for right now, um, yeah, so here's the problem. It really doesn't because The reason it doesn't incentivize them is because here in Connecticut, they pass laws. Do they do anything to educate the population on the new laws? No, they do not. Especially as, for example, as something as specific as a gun owner. Once you have your permit, the state doesn't do anything for you. They don't send you, hey, here are the updated laws for you. And I know as an NRA instructor in our course, it says, as a gun owner, you are responsible for knowing the laws in your area. And it's near impossible to know the laws here in Connecticut. And with all the stuff the ATF is currently doing, it's near impossible to learn. So the incentivization is not really there because the only thing they're going to do is fine people. And that's how people will find out that there's a new law that they had to go vote. Because I don't know about you, but I know I have junk piles of mail that I didn't open right away. And well, maybe months at a time go by and voilà. So yeah, it's, it's, it's a possibility of incentivizing, but not really. Um, wait, now I'm getting more coaching. Um, yeah, so it's, it's very cool. All right. So yes, I agree. Um, the idea that just so you know where we're going for that. They're trying to pass a bill if you donate your organs, it will shave time off your sentence. I don't understand why they want to do all of this crazy stuff. Like I said, I've got friends who've spent time in jail. There are people that you can help and change their lives. I know lots of programs out there that take incarcerated individuals from jail, bring them through a rehab of sorts, and then they become productive people in society. And yet there are these other people who spend time in jail, they come out, the prison system does nothing to help them go from being a jail— in jail incarcerated to back on the streets, and the people don't know how to deal with it and they put themselves back in. So no simple answers to any of the questions or the problems that we have here in America until people are willing to talk about the fact there is no single answer to all of our problems. And there are just too many funny things I could say right now because I'm tired and sleepy. And so here's the thing. I don't know, are you being serious? Are you being sarcastic? Because unlike barbecue, you did not say whether it's for real or not. So anyway, bedtime for me, way past my bedtime. No, not bedtime. I have to go finish writing my actual testimony for tomorrow because if I get a chance to speak, one of the things I will do is I will sit there for a long time listening to what other people are saying so that I do not repeat The other thing that I will be doing is I will be listening to the questions, if there are questions, from the senators and reps. And if someone doesn't have an answer to a question, when I start my testimony, I will address the rep or state and say, I have an answer for your question, before I even start my testimony. So those are some things to think about if you ever go to do this live and in person. I know every state runs their legislative bodies a little bit different, but that's how we kind of do it here. And hi, James. I'm about to leave though. Um, James is, uh, another— he is a Connecticut resident, so one of two things: he's going to be there with everyone tomorrow. At the very least, I know he has already submitted his testimony Um, and, uh, yeah, there's all of that. Good night, everybody. I hope this was helpful, uh, entertaining, all of those things, and that you've learned a little bit more about the process, how simple and easy it really can be. I think the hardest thing is finding the thing that you are interested in enough to get on the list to find out which thing is happening. Whether it's your civil rights for voting, your civil rights for owning a firearm, your civil rights for getting paid. There's so many things out there. So, oh, there you go. Oh, do you know where the list is? Where's the list? Yeah. So somewhere. Oh, it's probably there. All right, let me see if I can do this right. I'm so close to leaving. I swear. Really, I am. Let's see if I got this right. So give you this full screen. And if you have the— what am I trying to say, James? If you have the list directly so you can show me. So we're going to judiciary and then submit public hearing. Where is— oh, I'm pretty sure in testimony, right? And then the following documents are written. So we go to the 6th, and then I believe at the top of this it has the list. Click for speaker order. Oh, so this is where I should go look for my name and hope that I'm towards the end somewhere. Now, James said 156, so if we go down here uh, there he is. Wait, James Ritchie, since when is your name Jeffrey Tank? You're 157, dude, but it's okay, we'll forgive you for not being able to count. Um, and let's see. Oh my goodness, wait, can I do a Ctrl+Find? Let's see if I can do Ctrl+Find on this. Um, let's try Cheney. And crap, I'm 71. So, um, so here's how this works, right? 3 minutes times 71 if nobody asks any questions, and this starts at 9 AM. Here's the other thing about speaking. The first, uh, oh look, Mary! Mary's number 3! That is so awesome. Um, sorry, James, I was just about to leave and now it's all your fault because I forgot how easy it was to find our speaking arm. Uh, Jake, I love Jake. Jake is awesome from the NSSF. Um, so anyway, what happens at the beginning, it starts at 9 AM. In theory, there will be, uh, 3 minutes per person. The reality of it is, is that there are special people that come and speak initially. It could be the governor because the governor's bill is on this, and he might speak for up to 3 hours or more because he has the ability to do anything and everything he wants. And so 3 minutes per person is what you're allowed. If anyone asks you questions, it now goes even longer. Generally what happens if there are questions, they ask more towards the beginning. By the time they get to James Ritchie type numbers towards the end there, for the most part they don't ask any questions. They still want to give you the opportunity to speak, but they're not likely— like, this is when it's 11, 12, 1 AM kind of thing. And so since the final speaker on here is 166, and if I miss my turn, that's when I would have to, uh, wait to speak. So it is that sort of thing. All right, DC Project helps normalize gun ownership, and how cool is it to see Miss Mary Forbes up there in the very beginning? And, um, normalizing participation, citizenship Yes, and if it weren't for guns, I would not be here. And being a competitive shooter who trains on a regular basis is what got me to be a better citizen. So I know, GT3, we're really close, but I am really exhausted and I got a full day of training tomorrow and I still really got to do that thing. Um, but anyway, Uh, all right, so like for real, um, yes you can. You can watch these online live. And let me go back to CGA website. So let me show you around. When you go to the Connecticut General Assembly, which I know DJ put it down right now, but since we're talking about right this second, I'll throw that there. See right here where it says House Stream, Senate Stream, and YouTube Streams, and then CTN. These are— this is how you can watch it. So I think YouTube is probably going to be the easiest thing. When you click on here, it shows you House or Senate, and then remember how I said the branches— or sorry, the committee matters. So tomorrow we're going to be in Judiciary. So let me rephrase, so tomorrow the governor's bill is going to be in Judiciary. As far as the voting bill goes, that's going to be in the Government Administration Elections YouTube stream. So that's how you can watch them live. And here's the other thing is that if you click on them you can also watch past stuff. And it's interesting because here's an example, um, from February 22nd. This one went— what did it say— 5 hours, right? Here's one, it's 2 minutes. So that was obviously a mistake because nothing in the legislature lasts 2 minutes. Um, so yeah, so some of these are short. This is a 15-minute hearing supposedly, or let's see, April 12th, April 6th. Yeah, so as long as they've got different, uh, dates under there, they're different ones. Um, and then judiciary, again, it is there, um, and you can see how long they are. Tomorrow's will very likely be put into multiple because when they go super long— oh, there's Gary Winfield. I do like him, um, he's a good man. But anyway, uh, let's see, public, public, where is public health? Public health and YouTube stream. So this is where I was on last Thursday, not that I know where that— what the date is last Thursday was. I guess that was the second— no, I don't even know. Yeah, so anyway yes, you can watch them, you can go back and rewatch them, you can do all of that stuff. All right, how many times have I said it? I think we should have a contest. Ready? Those of you who would like something from me, it might be a hat, it might be a book, um, you could go back and find out how many times I said I was gonna go now before I actually stopped the stream. Um, because, um, I know this is probably at least more than 2, probably more than 3 that I'm like, nope. So, oh, I'm sorry, Vanessa. I actually woke up with a migraine this morning. Totally sucked. And a bad back. But this is where I've decided that Dory from Finding Nemo is my current, um, spirit animal, animal, because I'm just gonna go swim, swim, swim, because I was working on setting up my instructor class first thing this morning, brought my kid to volleyball down on the coast, came back up here, went shopping, got my lunch ready for tomorrow because it's bring your own food kind of thing. And then I am here 8 times. Oh, GT3, are you sure? I need someone to verify that, and I will send you something, I swear. Oh, maybe it would be a sparkly pen, I don't know. All right, how about I even have like a first for second prize, or if y'all actually go back. All right, I, I promise you I will, um, yeah, what will I do? I will send you all— well, I will send like the first 3 people who are right, and that means I have to go back and look. And we're not done yet, so we don't know if it's 11 or 5 or maybe 8. Anything is possible. So I'm going to say good night, Gunmetal Guy and DJ and CNT and and everybody else. Um, I know, exactly. That's exactly the problem right now. Um, but yeah, we're gonna go kick some butt tomorrow. Uh, like I said, hopefully I'll get to— at the very least, I will pop on live tomorrow to give you guys an update from the Capitol so you get to see how many people are there. And remember that what we see is not necessarily how many people are there because the Zoom we will have a ton of people. All right, well, that's good to know because I appreciate you all because I'm like, I'm really done now. And then you ask a question, then I answer the question. Oh, look, squirrel. So there you go. Oh, in other words, DJ, you want— no, I'm just not going to do that. I'm going to go to sleep. Y'all can go to sleep too. DJ says if I send him the link, y'all could just sit here and— what would you do? You would just stay chatting in there? I don't know. Um, but anyway, for real, I gotta write and submit, and I will see you all tomorrow, probably 6 or 7 o'clock, I am guessing, Eastern Standard Time. Good night, everybody. For real this time, and this is the final time. So whatever number this is, y'all let me know. And in the chat, and well, whatever the comment section is when I close this. Goodbye.