I Won't Back Down

We'd set the Christmas tree up today or tomorrow because my sister Lorraine's birthday was December thirteenth, and the deal was, let's have the tree up for Lorraine's birthday. Some of you guys put it up right after Thanksgiving. Some people keep it up until February. I've seen trees thrown out in Los Ange in April. I've seen disgusting, crusty, old, brittle brown Christmas trees on the curb for pickup in April. In fact, the saddest thing I saw was a year

or two ago driving down the street. It was that December twenty second, and there was a beautiful green Christmas tree in the garbage area of somebody's lawn with tinsil. Some some tinsel on it, you know, like maybe an ornament or two. That had to be a very depressing and horrible Christmas the only thing I could compare it to. And again, I don't have any bad dreams about this, but it was kind of funny. When Chico and I and my nephew Jackie lived in New York City in

that duplex on Madison Avenue. It's always like a It was always a wonderful feeling of mine to live in Manhattan and walk down the street where there's an area where somebody or some business is selling Christmas trees. It's just a really good feeling. It's nighttime. I just got off of work. I stopped to get a cigar on

the way home. I got my nice long wool overcoat, and I'm walking down the street and there I see a little tiny, you know, little not a farm, but a little area that someone set up some trees to sell. And you get a tree and it's wrapped up in that white plastic mesh, and you put it on my shoulder and walked it back to Madison Amnu two twenty Madison, and nobody was home, and I set it up a tree holder on the bottom and didn't have any ornaments to reach too yet, but I wanted the guys to

see that I got the tree. It wasn't the best tree. Once I unwrapped it and I got a good look at what was underneath the mesh, and I always think, you look, if you have a tree with like a little bit of a dead spot or a blank spot, you put that spot towards the wall. It's not the big deal. Chico took one look at it and he said, what did you tie that tree to the bottom of the car when you drove home. I mean, that's the kind of you tie it to the bottom of the car.

That was Chico. And then, of course once we had that Christmas, we had two there on Medicine Avenue. Chico decided to go all out and get all the ornaments. And I'm not a bird person now, I like birds. Thirty years ago, no birds. Chico thought it'd be nice to get some doves and some cardinals, and he put these birds on the tree and I said, I fucking hate the look at this tree. I feel like Tippy Hendron. And then al for Hitchcock movie, the birds get rid

of this shit. I'm saying the second Christmas was over, Chico took the whole tree, even the bottom holder, the green and red holder, all the ornaments, the lights, the whole thing, walked in the hallway, dragged the tree out to the garbage choot and dumped the whole thing down balls, lights, garland, tensil, you name it right there, And he said, and that's that.

That's one of my Christmas memories. But I want to talk about something else today and if I can, and I'm not asking you permission, because I'm going to do it anyhow. But there's more I want to burp up about this big case with Daniel Penny, you know, choking Jordan, nearly killing him, finally found not guilty the other day, and I want to talk more about it because it really, the more I thought about it had a profound effect on me, the fact that he did what he did.

You guys know, I have used an expression and a credo, if you will, that I told you my father instilled in me many many years ago. I was a little boy, and as I grew up, it was I'm not lying, it was absolutely normal to see my father jumping to his own defense and even other people's defenses, and just taking action wherever it was needed. It could have been a shopping store or you know, I'm sorry, grocery store, a mall, a movie theater, or the street in front

of our house. My father had this conviction in him about not allowing any bullshit or violence or anything like that on his watch. And I remember one night I saw him lean forward in a movie theater and calmly tell the two teenagers sitting in front of us who were throwing popcorn up in the air, that they needed to stop. And he calmly told them this is back when people smoked in movie theaters, which is annoying enough. But I'm between my mother and my father, who are

both smoking. These two idiots in front of me, there are the teens. They're throwing popcorn behind them, hitting my mother's lap. Not good. And he leaned phone and he's says to them, if you throw one more piece of popcorn anywhere near my family, I'm gonna bust you skulls wide open. And I think I know. I remember this was during we watched the movie called The Garden of the Finsy Contenies. And I guarantee you none of you out there saw that. What will be fourteen hundred strong.

None of you saw it. If you did, email me. Made by the Italian director Vittorio Decico. It's about it was a weird movie. An upper class Jewish family lives in fascist Italy. Why my father thought this was something an eight year old boy with love. I have no idea, what can I say? But I've never forgotten it. And on top of that, it made me develop a tremendous curiosity for the director of Desika, and as I got older, I saw more of his films. He made a ton

of great movies. One I absolutely loved and Rosalie was always on my back to see this movie. And I still look at it from time to time, yesterday, today and tomorrow. This was done in the sixties. I was nineteen sixty three. I was one years old when this movie was made. It's actually an anthology with the anthology film It's Got sophiaa Wren at her most gorgeous, and my man Marcello Monstrianni and the film is well. It consists of three short stories about couples in different parts

of Italy. The one part of the movie I liked the best was this section called Adelina of Naples. This is set in Naples back in the fifties, and it's the story of a woman named Adelina played by Sophiaaren who who basically supports her her husband who's unemployed Carmine and that's Marcello Mastriani, and she supports him and their child by selling cigarettes on the black market, and she got fine and when she doesn't pay the fine, they begin to repossess her furniture, but her neighbors are on

her side and they start to help her hide the furniture. In fact, a lawyer who lives in the neighborhood tells her husband that, look, you know, as the fine and furniture are in your wife's name, she's gonna go to jail if this keeps happening. But there's a law in Italy that says women cannot be imprisoned when they're pregnant or within six months after a pregnancy. So as a result, so feel her end has a scheme and that is

to stay pregnant continuously. Great idea. And after seven kids in like eight years, the husband Marcello is so exhausted and then she's gonna make the choice. Does she get pregnant and if he's so tired, can she go to their mutual friend pascually to get pregnant, or she's going to go to prison. I'm not gonna spoil the ending great movie, but anyhow, sorry long tangent. But there was my father throwing down the gauntlet to those two kids,

who must have been eighteen nineteen twenty years old. And a few minutes later, what do you know, popcorn is up in the air again and it hits my mother's legs. And there were people around us murmuring, and people around us were upset with these clowns. But it was only my father who took action, just like Daniel Penny, and he calmly put a hand on each one of their heads and grabbed their long hair. This was the seventies, and he slammed their heads together. I can still hear

the noise of their heads titting. They couldn't believe it. They were like, you were just teenagers. And my father said, now go get your fucking father and tell them to come down here. Tell them what I did. Tell them, al Benz, that knocked your fucking skulls my father. Man, you know, go get your Father'll bust his skull too. I mean that I can hear the words. I can see it all his his bracelet shaking on his wrist, the way he pointed with the cigarette and his fingers.

He had away with words, which should come as no surprise since you know his son. But like comedians, know that the K sound or the hard C in a word is funny. It's funny in a story or a punchline. If you use a word that starts with a C or a sound, you know, for whatever reason, in the

science of comedy, it's funnier. And it's true. When I began writing for the Gossip column, I remember I wrote something for Linda and I used the word nude in the story Some people were nude, and Linda changed it to naked, and I asked, why, what did you have against the word nude? She said nothing. I just know that naked is funnier, and she's right because of that

hard K sound in the middle. Anyhow, the kids of Ely walked out of the theater, and there were moviegoers near us who clapped and whistled as these two kids left. We get in the car, we're driving home. My mother says, al, Yeah, did you have to hurt them, he said, Lily, they asked for it, and I warned them, and she knew better to interrupt him. But then he said, when you see a wrong in life, you gotta have the balls

to make it right. And then he looked in a rear view mirror and he repeated it as his eyes closed in on his little boy in the back seat. I'm not going to get into detail of all the fights I saw my father in, but let me tell you know, there were several, and the last one I think I ever saw was a Fourth of July celebration. I believed my father had just turned fifty years old. We always had his party on the fourth of July

weekend because his birthday was July fifth. And back then, my nephew Jackie was a baby and Rosalie had just put him down to sleep in the guest well their bedroom. Because jack and Rosie lived with us toil, they had enough money to put a down payment on their house, so they stayed in that room, which was in the front of the house. And that's why the fireworks out front were waking up Jackie, because these two guys across the street were blown off loud m eighties Ash cans.

There's a word from the past, you know, And I'm like, this is no good. So I walked to the back where everybody's hanging out by the pool and my mother's got sandwiches out there, and John and air and all that kind of shit. And because then it was over a long time, cake was served. This was like the after party sandwiches. There's an omelet, peppers and onions, you know, just crazy. And I told my father what the guys were doing across the street, blowing up firecrackers too loud.

Jackie can't sleep. Rosie went out there. She's looking at me like, dot, don't age it, don't say this. And I can't forget the image because my father heard this. Took it very calm. Yeah, a sandwich in his hand, Hamdi cheese sandwich. I want to say gobble gold, but I don't know if that's for sure. But he stands up. He calls out to my brothers in law, Frank and Frankie and Jack. This guy's come with me. And Jack had just cut his foot very badly. When he worked

at a summer camp teaching swimming. He was a swim instructor. He stepped on a bottle and he ripped his foot up, so he wasn't in the mood to fight. Frankie had just brushed his teeth and was getting ready for bed. He had a toothbrush in his hand. My father's got a sandwich, Jackson limping, and Frankie's got a tooth And they all went outside to see these two guys. And you know, I've said, Frankie, you know, this is the seventies. So Frankie was one of those disco guys who would

wear high heeled shoes, you know, platform shoes. So they run into the front of the house and they went to go talk to the guys. Initially it was it was calm, but then I couldn't hear what's happening. I climbed the big tree in front of my house to look down on what was I wanted to big view, big perspective, and I don't know what was said because it was loud out. But at one point one of those guys must have said something stupid. My father unloads and holes off and punches just one guy, a very

big guy, above his eye. Boom. Then it was on. Jack and Frankie are throwing haymakers. Frankie, who was not only a kung fu black belt, but he also used our garage to build and make all these long swords and all that shit that kung fu masters use. So it was like it was on And at one point Frankie gave one of these guys a spinning back kick to the chest so hard it broke off one of his platform heels. It was insane. Long story short, my father Jack Frankie beat the shit out of those two guys.

And I'm serious. These guys were like they were big. They lifted weights. You could see there were no pussies. Cops show up, my father lets him in. You know, they got one of the guys with him and his face looked like a swollen volleyball and he was drunk on top of that, and back then, my father calmly spoke to the cops, told him he was once on the job, you know, bob being bang boom. The cops leave, They gave my father a warning. They made the guy apologize to us, but you know, the guy went home

all busted up. Three years later he killed himself with a shotgun, shot his fucking head off around the corner. I swear to God, not related, but sad story point is I saw my father spring into action and actually live the credo he stood for, which is, if you see a wrong, have the balls to make it right. And that's what Daniel Penny did. And I read stories about this whole thing, and it's like, you know, the associated press is Daniel Penny who choked out and killed

a subway rider. Excuse me, let's stop with the subway riders ship. The guy was a menace. He was a drug abusing menace who had announced on the train that someone was gonna die that day. Okay. Was he under the influence of drugs, of course, but that doesn't matter. Did that make the people run in the subway feel safe? No, they felt the opposite. And then I heard Jordan Neely's father, who, by the way, if Neely was still alive, he'd be very curious why his father shut up out of the blue,

because he was never in his life. Now he's there not only complaining that his son is dead, but he also shouts during this televised interview, many of you have heard it that black people now now need to beat up white people. Okay. He even threatened Daniel Penny that he know, hey, we're coming at you kind of thing. No one shut them up, no one grabbed them. I mean, I don't understand you can make these threats so publicly

and nothing happens. The guy's a complete asshole, a nut job who abandoned the boy he fathered many years earlier. What else is new? And at one point somebody from Jordan Nearli's family actually said that all Jordan nearly did was ask for food. Horse shit. Let me tell you something all New Yorkers know about people asking for food. We're very used to that. After a while in New York City, you get to know the homeless people near you, right. You get to know the people you're stepping over to

get to your door. You get to know their personalities, their quirks, their talents, even what might make them dangerous. And back in the day, there were always homeless people who would ask me your Chico for money downtown and at some point she'd know this one guy. She would tell this one guy, well, do something you always ask I always give you a buck or a fight all bill, do something, guy says, I can do a backflip. This guy had to be fifty six years old. We're like no, no,

I don't do it bad. He does a backflip and lands perfectly. This guy just sat up from the concrete, cold sidewalk, and does she go give hie hundred dollars? Then we liked the guy. He'd always see us and she'd go decided, I'm gonna get you money. Every month. We're gonna get a haircut in a shave on me, all right. And that's what Chico did for about six months until the guy disappeared. He gave him a haircut

in a shave. The point is, we know homeless people who need help, and we know those who just want to start shitting scare people. And that's what Jordan Nearly was. Don't let the Michael Jackson impression fool you, you know, just and when he got on the subway, he gave off that violent vibe. And that's when Daniel Penny did the sort of thing my father preached and also what

my father instilled in me. Now, I gotta tell you, when I was younger, I absolutely followed this code, and I got myself from predicaments and fistfights I wish I had, but I did because I could never take bullshit in person, and I was always the one to jump in, and in my mind I had to be the guy that called that bullshit to keep people safe. And then I go on my way. Happened last night. I went to the weed store to get my gummies to go to bed. I go there once a month. I get the same

thing all the time. You know, it's I know, the bud tenders in the back. I hate that word. They act like they're so special, this salesman, that's all. And you know another thing in the front. The guy's like, oh, I don't have you on file. You know I'm here every month for three years. You got me on file. Here's my license. Check it out. No, we don't see it. Check aj benz And sometimes they use that no no. I said, well, there's something wrong because I'm always here.

Now there's a female black security cop next to who's arm. She's got the gun on the right hip and she starts to get a little jump because I'm going that it's bullshit, man, I'm in the fucking system. I'm here every month. I can show you what I spent. She's getting jumpy. Puts your hand on the gun, not not to shoot me, but to let me know, Like this guy's got help, I said, hun, do me a favorite. My father was a cop, my brother in law, father in law, my nephew's a shriff. I'm from cops. Listen,

this is not a bad thing. He fucked up. I finally get go in the back. I said, can I talk to the manager? Manager? What's problem? This guy doesn't know what he's doing. Blah blah blah. She goes, Well, what he needs to do is punch you. I said, now tell me what he needs to do. Tell him what he needs to do. Now people are getting pissed off because they're not being helped too. Now this stow

has got a problem. And I said, the problem why everybody's mad is because you don't have enough people working for you. You got the cop people to hand on a gun and say she's gonna shoot somebody. All we want is our gummies and are gonna go. Can you stop making this into an issue? I can't. I can't help myself, even though when I smacked stuttering John was because of what my father told me. So I love what Daniel Penny did, and I love that a jury

of his peers saw it the same way. And I saw their faces and I could tell that they've been there on a subway when shit one sideways, and you know, maybe they were there when a couple of assholes tossed popcorn. I'm the wrong way in a movie theater. I don't know, but I gotta tell you the truth. Even though I decided to pick up the mantle and do like my father, I would never instill that in Raco, you know what I mean. As far as I'm concerned, the world is

correcting itself. I'm happy about that. I think that's because Trump won. In fact, I know it is, but it's still largely an unjust and scary place, especially with respect to men who jump up and elect to take matters into their own hands. Nowadays, you just don't know if you're gonna be hailed the hero or walked out with cuffs on you guys, you know, you know. I never get very critical of all the things my father passed

down to me. But with the way the world is now, the fact that wokeism is still there, it's hard to still beating. So is DEI and whatever the fuck I used saw an ad for. There's a Transanta movement now. I'm not even gonna get into it. But a lot of things have made the majority of men pussies. Okay, if you ask me. Barack Obama has had twelve years in the White House, and he's a direct reason why men have turned into pussies and why there's so much

perceived racism in this country when there even isn't. They like to go take it to that place, and it's not that place. Jordan nearly would have been choked out if he was Asian or Mexican or from fucking Bosnia. It doesn't matter. But I'll tell you the truth. The way the world is now, maybe he shouldn't have instilled that in me way back when, although how could he know that they'd be wokeism one day? Way back in

the seventies. And again, I'm still here, and I'd like to think I'm here because I've stood up at times and acted as my father wished. In other words, i can look at myself in the mirror and know that I've gone that way. I was able to shoulder that burden, but I'd rather not saddle Raca with that shit. As it is now, He's seen me spring up and do and say things that most men don't do. Most dads don't do, especially with respect to doing it in front

of his sons. But look, I just hope this course correct that's happening across America, goes quicker and happens without a lot of hiccups, because I don't want my son to think he needs to be the hero all the time. But I'd be lying if I said it wouldn't make me proud if he did exactly what Daniel Penny did. In fact, I played this game since I'm since I was a former tabloid writer, and I love the New

York Posts and their headlines. The Delli News is gone now, so you know, we're left with one tabloid, the New York Post, and their headlines are great. When I saw that, you know, Daniel Penny was found not guilty. To me, the headline was Penny Saved. Even one of my buddies on Instagram said the same thing. It's such an easy choice. But the Post wrote enough is enough, and that's a bigger meaning. Right, enough is enough that I'll tell you exactly how Americans feel. But I mean, look, guys, I

you know it's like deja vu. I'm looking at TV. I see Black Lives Matter was out there talking about getting back at white people. You heard Jordan Neely's family, especially his father, was never around. As I said, in one of the most leftist jurisdictions in America. My said, state of New York City, where people were chanting, no, Jordan Nearly is not guilty. That's what they were saying. They also make big crowds and say that Palestine's great,

Israel is horrible. People are off their rocker. But this is what it is. Trump gets re elected and Daniel Penny is acquitted. He's white, Jordan Neely's black, and still Black Lives Matter is yelling We're a racist country when they had nothing to do with color. It's over, BLM, it's over. Your grift is through your bullshit attempt to be some sort of helpful organization that was disproven years ago.

Many of you got busted because you used the millions of dollars stupid and idiotic liberals forked over, and you all bought big houses and fancy cars, and still you're all looking to take the many millions of dollars that stupid white liberals continue to walk over to you because they feel like they have white kilt. They all read the stupid book, White Fragility. Did I tell you some years ago, maybe five years ago, whenever it was that I talked about the Adam Carolla and Lynette Corolla filing

for divorce. It was that same day because I got a phone call from a buddy of mine. I don't say buddy, a colleague, somebody I knew and hung out with here and there, a showbiz friend, guy named Michael Addis, And he calls me out of the but and you know, it was okay because him and I were talking about pitching some TV show ideas. He had some juice, right, We basically came up at the same time together, but

he had some juice. He was a show runner eventually f Impractical Jokers, He did the Showbies Show with David Spade. He did Extreme Makeover. So you know, you find people like that that have some poll in the industry, maybe you get a show sold. So we pat up for a bit and the phone he calls me, Hey, what's up? What's up? Michael? Hey, how's things going? To take a

look at the Yeah, I took a nibble on the show. Yeah, so sure, the shit, but the show idea is not coming up in our conversation, which is weird to me because I have nothing else to do with this guy. And at one point he begins to go in on a book he read that he says change his life. And I'm waiting to hear what this book is, something that allowed him to see the light. And he tells me the reason for his calling me is to see

if I read the book White Fragility. Now I had known or heard of that book to be a complete pile of shit, you know, another attempt, a ballsy attempt by the author Robin D'Angelo to make white people feel guilty about the subjugation of black people. And he asked me if I read it. I said no, I never, I never will. I didn't you know, I didn't catch the virus shoe car bro. My family had nothing to

do with keeping black people's slaves, you know. In fact, my people were the black people of Italy, we're the black people of Europe. So stop. But this shit, it's to tell it to someone else. It's trash. Oh he couldn't believe. Oh, HEYJ you really should read it. Why why this woman, this author? It was just so much about how bad white people are and what we can

do to change everything. And you know what she did is she handed over this author handed over so many things to HR departments all over America to deploy rules and standards and all this shit that dealt with race and diversity. It was such bullshit. I don't have anything to apologize for for being white. I feel bad that black people were treated that way. Absolutely, in fact, I got I have nothing but love and respect for the black people. I just not like Trump. They're eating the cats,

the black peu. I really mean, like, I don't care what color you are, give a shit, Just be nice, be good. I don't care who you love. I just just old and crusty. This whole thing about well, you say you have black friends, what is that name? Like, you can't even say that anymore? What else can we say? You know? A week or so ago, my ex girlfriend carl Young lost her mother, and I'm bringing it up, well, not only for this, but because you know I've said

this in the past. Carra's mother was as black as Oprah, as I've said, her dad was as white as Johnny Carson, and they had a terrific marriage, to the point where her dad was in some sort of arm service. I forget which branch, but he met her mom, who was who was who already had a child, a black child, and was pregnant with another black child. And this man said, I don't care, I want to marry you. I love you.

And then they went off to have children to But this is this is the furthest thing from racism that occurs in this country. It occurs all over the world, but the fact that it does, we look past it and look over it. And they went out and had a tremendous relationship. I met them many times in the four years, and so we were together and the twenty

years we've been friends. Thirty years we've been friends. Mother's a great woman and she passed away, and you know, it made me think of her relationship with Donald Trump. That's why I bring it up, because there's always been criticism that people think Trump, you know, was racist, is racist, was whatever? The fuck. It's all bullshit. It's absolute bullshit. In fact, I brought this up because her mother was a wonderful woman, truly, the matriarch of her family of

three beautiful daughters and a tough son. And as you four daughters, well four daughters, not four, and you know, I was close to them for many years, and I know that once Carra and I broke up when I moved to Los Angeles and I had to, you know, deal with the fact that a long distance relationship would not work. Our situation changed. I began to see people, She began to see Donald Trump. And you all know the story, and it's so over with. Who even cares anymore.

We all grew. It's called maturity and growth. None of it matters anymore. But they were in love. And whenever I see the media talking about Trump being a racist, it makes me insane because I knew just how much he loved not only Kara, but how much he loved her mother. And there was a period of time years ago that she had a health scare, the first health scare, and Donald did all he could, getting o the best doctors, the which hospital she was going to go to because

she lives out in Oakland. But you know, Donald Trump was very instrumental where she would go, what special she would see, and blah blah blah, you know the whole thing. And I remember one time, you know, and I only know these stories because I asked Kara, what type of

man was he? This is when I didn't like the guy, and she told me, you know the stories about you know, she was going to take a young son, Nick to the one of the museum, Museum of Natural History, and you know, she told Trump, and he sent a car to pick her to the boy up and take him uptown to the museum. And that's nice, you know. And she said, I get in the car with Nick, and he's very excited to go to the museum, And about a mile into the ride, the driver turns around, takes his hat off,

and it was Trump. She didn't notice that he wore a big black coat and a you know, a cap that a chauffeur would wear, and he turned around and it was him. And she told me stories about being backstage with him at a James Brown carncer where he took James Brown cape and danced for him. Probably was the first initial dance he did of that famous movie has where it looks like he's jerking two guys off.

We all love to dance. But these are the stories I know about him that makes me infuriated when people call him a racist. I know him very off topic. But the point is he's not nor am I, and neither is Daniel Penny. All he did was stand up and reveal that he had the determination and this strength to stop a threat that was worrying those people rotting

on that subway car with him. And I don't know Daniel Penny's father, or if he was even the type of dad who felt it was very important to impart some wisdom on his son, and maybe if he had a father like mine, Daniel Penny may have been driven by that simple but scary credo, if you see a wrong son, have the balls to make it right. And as I leave you, I will say this. You may not like what my father imparted on me and what

he did during those times of trouble or strife. Whether it was about popcorn or pyrotechnics doesn't matter, but there should be many of you who understand his conviction. That's all I wanted to get that because I was gonna talk about Jamie Fox's comedy special on Netflix. I caught it this morning. The first fucking ten minutes, all he says is Atlanta saved my life. Atlanta say. It's very churchy, but you know, he gets down to telling the story, and as I said, in addition to breaking the story

that he suffered a stroke. He never did say once that P Diddy was the cause of his illness. A lot of you sent me messages of a few comedians saying they were at the taping and it was then Jamie said he blamed Ditty, and I calmly said, no, that's a bunch of bullshit. He didn't say that. That'll never make the show because it's not true. Jamie Fox had a bad reaction to the COVID shot, a shot he didn't want to get, but when he had to to make the movie, and as a result, he fell.

He had a stroke and fell into a coma and nearly died. And I told you partially blind, partially paralyzed. Both things are true. Do you think he's able to say that openly about the COVID shot. No, he's not, of course not. He's still in Hollywood, and he's still a big part of Hollywood. But here we are, more than a year after the fact, and it's become more and more obvious that what I said about Jamie's illness

was one correct. And may I say, like I've said before, I think Jamie Fox is the most talented man in Hollywood. Swear to god, singer, dancer, dramatic, actor, comedy, fucking The guy could do anything, and I'm always there for it, and I'm glad he's still here. But I've been with him many times in the past, and i can tell you that if he saw me now, I guarantee you he'd give me that look. He'd pull me up and say it. I don't know how you knew, motherfucker, but

you knew. Yeah, I did, and I know a lot, and that's why you guys listen. I'm aj Benzon. That was famous bit for December eleventh, Right Wow, twenty twenty four, Talk to just tomorrow.