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KN4, LBS, this is KJ5IR2. I can understand that sentiment. I sure can. I actually have my own little theory about it. I think there's a couple of reasons why society is like it is today. One, the most important one I think, well maybe the second most important one, is it starts at home. I think we've had a generation or two of mostly failed parenting. That's hard to say. I think I include myself in that. Thankfully, we homeschooled our kids. We did for a little while try to use classical learning, which is very hard by the way, very, very hard. It's how most of the educated world was educated up until about, I don't know, 100, 150 years ago or so. When I say classical learning, I mean the classics. They learn how to reason. They learn how to think. They come up with their own thought process by reading and understanding rather than being told what to believe. My kids are really pretty good about that. They form their own opinions about God. They form their own opinions about politics. They form their own opinions about just about everything. They don't always align with what me and mom think, and that's okay. But I do believe that the majority of the failed morality that the United States and the world in general has is due to the collapse of the core family. So that's just a personal thought. That's not anything set in stone. That's just my thought. And I think adding on to that is the desensitization of the world. Most Americans don't know what war is really like. They've never seen it. They don't know what death is really like on a mass scale. They've never seen it, ever experienced it. I mean our country is blessed, or has been. Maybe it's not so blessed if you look at it this way. We've never had to deal with the things that Ukraine deals with, Israel deals with, any third world country deals with. We've never had to deal with that in our lifetimes. Maybe a few of y'all or maybe others remember World War II, which would be the closest to that. But even during Vietnam, even during Korea, even during the Gulf Wars, even in Iraq and Afghanistan, we as a people didn't have to sacrifice anything. Only our military had to sacrifice. And that's not true around the world. All right, that brings us to the bottom of this list. It is 7.40 central time here on the Do Drop In Network. This morning on the Calabunga Network, we're talking about free speech. No politics has been involved in this so far, and I'm thankful for that. There's been no left, no right, and I'm perfectly content to lead with that, Ray. It's just a general talk about free speech. We've talked a lot about the United States, so I'd like to hear from some more Canadians about their freedom of expression, as it's called up there.