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Alright, alright. Well, thank you this morning for listening. That's been great so far. I wish I could have got in on the quiz, but you know, real life happens. As far as this weekend, you know what, we didn't do a whole lot. We rested up. My wife had, she's been under the weather for the past week or so. She never, ever had allergy and sinus issues and she had a sinus infection. And then my little grandson came home Thursday afternoon from school with a fever and took him out to the pediatrician, or my daughter did, and he has an ear injury ahead. So we spent the whole weekend just basically recuperating. You know, let's get these important people back to their best health. So that's basically all I did all weekend. I played nursemaid, which is perfectly fine because they do such a good job whenever I need it. Okay, that was my weekend. So, let's see, today, the question of the day. It's a tricky one, it really is. Because part of me wants to say, no, you can say whatever you want to say, that's free speech. But it's really not. I mean, so we all talk about free speech. Like everybody has free speech in America, and that's true. But the free speech that is so codified in the Constitution applies to government, not private people. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have the right to say whatever you want to say without consequence. It doesn't say that either. Now, I'm going to bring up a touchy subject, but just a few short years ago, people were getting fired all the time for stating their beliefs versus trans ideology or the Biden administration or COVID. You see, there's lots of things that the other side was getting canceled for. And at the time, liberals were applauding it. They were, they need to get this misinformation. They've got to get fired. Well, who says that the Democrats have the only sole facts? Who says that they get to decide what's true and what's not true? And so I've been pretty quiet about it for a while. It's hard to be diplomatic, I guess, and kind of in the middle, but it's crap nowadays. The Democrats don't have the entire ballgame wrapped up by saying what's true and what's not true. It doesn't work like that. It's neither the Republicans, for that matter. They're both jacked up. But my point being, when it comes to the free speech rules or laws that's codified in our Constitution, it applies to government. The government cannot infringe on your free speech rights. They can't do it. It doesn't say anywhere in there that companies can't do it. There's other laws that may protect them. But the Constitution doesn't. Not for that. In fact, I'm going to take a quick break. In fact, the First Amendment, it does protect people from government whenever they use their speech, to an extent. But it's not a blanket protection act. So government employees have a limited First Amendment protection. They have to protect their private citizens on matters of public concern no matter what. However, if that speech disrupts government operations, damages public trust, or interferes with the agency function, the government can also let them go for their free speech. I say that in quotation marks. So, according to what I've been able to dig up, and plus the reading on constitutions that I've been doing lately, it seems to me that, A, everybody should be nicer to one another and don't snitch on each other. I mean, snitches get stitches, right? But, legally speaking, I can say whatever I want to say whenever I want to say it. But I'm not protected about the consequences of what I'm saying. Whether or not it pisses my boss off, my mama off, or my friends on the net off. There are still real consequences to what I say. Now, that being said, if I was blasting socialism and my boss was the only socialist, he could stab me for that. And that's not a darn thing I can do about it. It's just not. You can sue him. You might get a payoff. You might not. So, I would say that everybody has the right to free speech. That the government cannot infringe on that. That does not, however, apply to private companies. Now, they can fire somebody for saying something, and then the consequence of firing that person may be a lawsuit. It may be a loss of money. It may be penalties. We don't know yet, because none of this stuff is made up through courts. So, I just wanted to give, you know, kind of a middle road on this. That both sides have done it. Both sides will continue to do it. And because Republicans have done it in the past, and maybe Republicans are doing it now, talking about canceling each other out. Republicans waited until they learned more about it and got better at it than the Democrats, it seems like. So, to speak to Dale's point, because he did say that, you know, Democrats did the same stuff, and I agree with him. And he did say that Republicans are doing it worse, and I agree with that too. I'm not saying it's that involved. I'm just saying it is what it is. KJ5ILQ. Back to KC2PKG.