Stop Forcing It…

I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word, “force,” I think of negative things? Nothing positive springs to my mind? How about you? Yet this is what people try to do to each other all the time.

What’s been keeping me awake at night? Forceful people. Those that feel the need to force their beliefs, their opinions, their religion and their  world, onto everyone. They use pee pressure, threats and force to do so. I’ve never understood why that works for some people? I’m not the person that bends by force. 

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ramblings of an Insomniac. I am Courtney. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to every single one of you out there. Hello and welcome. I hope you guys are having an excellent day thus far. Or evening or you know, or evening. Whatever. When I say day, I mean a 24-hour period. You know what I'm saying? Um, I am next to some bees, some little bumblebees, and I'm kind of hoping you can hear them because they're pretty darn cute. They're so chunky and just little, they're so adorable. I've been real into bees lately. I've been watching a lot of beekeeping um as in like honeybees. I'm not a fan of yellow jackets, you know, wasps, hornets, whatever. They're not my cup of tea. But honeybees, bumblebees, so cute. I love them. Um, and I've been watching a lot of like documentaries on YouTube. Like they've got I am Swayze, I am Chris Farley, I am Paul Walker, and they do like these biographies on people, and they're pretty freaking awesome, and it's free, and it's on YouTube. So if you like documentaries, they're like an hour long or like an hour and ten, or yeah, they're about an hour long. And um, again, it's on YouTube. Um, and it's like I am Farley. I don't know what you'd have to type in, but I'm sure if you typed in I am Swayze, I am Farley, I am Paul Walker, whatever, um, then it would come up. But there were also some really awesome um beekeepers that I watch, and one of them is like have a nice day, honey. And her name is like Alicia, and she's awesome. So check her out. Alicia, if you happen to be listening, I think you're awesome and I watch your videos. So I'm sitting here by a bush. Wait, let's see, hang on. I don't know if you could hear that. But um, I'm sitting here while they're just going to town, pollinating. Just pollinating up a storm here. Um, so hi, hello, welcome. Thank you so much, everybody. I can't tell you how much I appreciate everybody that tunes in to Little Ole Me, this silly old podcast where I'm talking into my phone and I'm rambling, babbling. I never talk about anything that's remotely important. Um, well, I mean it's important to me. To me, it's important, but I'm sure it's not important to you at all. And I don't know the reasons you turn in tune in. Maybe you tune in because you think I'm such a disaster and that I am such a basket case that you're like, oh my god, I can't wait to hear what kind of nonsense, what kind of crazy crap this broad comes up with today. Or maybe you're listening to me because you think that I um have some things to say that you're interested in. Maybe you agree with me on some things, maybe you can relate to me. Maybe there's some things I say that you've gone through and that you've dealt with, or you know, maybe you also have insomnia and you struggle with anxiety. Uh, maybe you had a mom that had dementia. So you're tuning in because you can, you know, relate. Maybe you're tuning in to make fun of me. Maybe you're like, oh my god, this gal is ridiculous. Let's make fun of her. Who knows? Whatever your reasons are, again, maybe you're like, you know, this is like torture for someone, and you're playing my podcast because you're trying to make them cough up like information. You're not like cough up the information, or I will make you listen to this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad podcast. I don't know. No skin off my back. Whatever, I mean, I don't want you to be torturing people, obviously. I I don't want that. I'm just saying whatever your reasonings are, whether it's to make fun of me or not, I'm okay with that. That's why I find it extra funny when people will get on my videos and they they think that if they make fun of my teeth or wrinkles or my age, that that's gonna bother me. And I'm like, I don't care even a little bit, never half. Never did in high school, did not in middle school, did not in elementary school. I've never cared what other people think of me. I mean, of course I want people to think I'm polite and kind and respectful, but at the same time, I don't care if people like my outfits or if people like my hair or people think I'm pretty or I never wore things in school because it was the cool thing to do. In fact, the more that people try to peer pressure me and tried to get me and force me to do stuff, the more I'm like, now I'm really not gonna do it. That's why this world, when people get so into the, you know, forcing people to take vaccinations um to get vaccinated, when they force people to call them by their pronouns, when they force men into women's sports, this forcing thing, the word force is not a very it's not a positive term, it's not a positive word. Force. And I don't know about you guys, but when I think of the word force, I don't think of positive happy things. I think of someone being sexually assaulted, I think of someone being beaten, I think of someone being abused in some way, I think of negative things. So why are you do you I don't I've never understood why people think that if you force someone to do it, that they're gonna do it. Now, granted, there are a lot of people that do it. There are people that are that back down to peer pressure, and they very much care what other people think. And that's you. I'm not saying you're wrong. I think you should care what other people think as in, I think you should conduct yourself like a respectful, polite, um, kind and you know, citizen, upstanding citizen. I don't think you should be a douche. I don't think you should be mean, you know. I think you should care as in girls, come, come, come. I don't think you should be mean. Good, yes. I don't think that you should be disrespectful. I don't think you should be going around harming people, you know. Um, but I've never like I never wore things because it was in style. In fact, most of the times I was always behind. Um, I I just like wearing what I want. And if you're someone that wants to wear things because other people are wearing them, that's cool. I'm not putting you down. I'm just saying I wish that nowadays people would think a lot more for themselves, though. I wish that people would do more research on their own. I wish people would check out, you know, like if you don't like Charlie Kirk, I will I beg you, I beg you to do research and actually watch full entire non-edited, non-edited videos, entire videos of Charlie Kirk. I want you to watch many of them, and then get back to me and tell me that you think that man is racist. And I want you to watch the full unedited video of when CNN and MSNBC and all of the and New York Times and all of these very liberal news media outlets tried to convince you that Trump was colluding with Russia and that Trump is a racist, and that he is this um a person that's trying to take your rights away, and that he caused an insurrection. I think you need to do your homework. I think you need to actually watch unedited non-liberal crap. Um there's there's liberal crap out there, and there's there's conservative crap out there. There's crap out there no matter who you're affiliated with. But I urge you to actually, again, I do this myself. I watch CNN, I watch MSNBC, I watch CBS, I read what the New York Times has to say. Because unfortunately, there are very, very few conservative, um, there's only like one news media out there, news media outlet out there. And then there's Ben Shapiro and Glenn Beck that have, you know, the Blaze and Um Oh my gosh, I feel really bad. The Blaze and uh oh goodness, I'll think of it. Um but it's just it's bothersome to me when um there's hardly any conservative networks out there, and yet um I still do my due diligence and I will look at the conservative side, I'll look at the um liberal side, and I do all of my research, and then I form an opinion, you know? And sometimes I form an opinion before I do my research, but then I'm like, oh, I kind of need to know what I'm talking about before I open my mouth. And I wish more people would do that. Why is it so hard to think before you speak? I mean, I can't talk. God knows there, God knows there are a million times that I have not put any thought whatsoever into what I was gonna say, and I just said something and it didn't always go over well. That's why I'm trying really hard to actually think before I speak. That's why I didn't release one of my podcasts because I was like, I got a little too crazy. I meant every word I said, and like I said, I did release it for a little bit. It was out there for like an hour and then I deleted it, so it might still be out there. And I'm not ashamed of it, as in I mean every word that I said. I didn't delete it because I didn't mean what I said. I deleted it because I was being a little too crass about it, you know. Um, so that part I didn't like. I was like, oh, I should have thought a little bit more. I was being a little too vulgar. So if you happen to have that podcast, again, I don't care if it gets on the internet. I was just like, oh, it's a little grass, a little vulgar. I probably should have thought a little bit more and been a little more mindful. We could all be a little more mindful, right? I wish we would be. I wish the people would start going around and thinking before they speak and realizing that their opinions and their beliefs and how um how very, very, very committed to their religion or their um political affiliation or whatever it is that they are, I wish that they would realize that other people are just as committed. They believe wholeheartedly, 2,000% in their religion and their political affiliation and their sexual orientation and their parenting skills and all of that just as much as you believe in yours. So I don't understand why there's people out there that feel that their opinions are so much more valuable. Somehow they think that everything they say and do is just golden. Especially celebrities, especially Hollywood. The Golden Globes and all of that and the Oscars have just turned into a bunch of hooey. Just a bunch of hooey. And I think celebrities are realizing it. Well, actually, sadly, that I take that back. I don't think they're realizing it. I think they are so blissfully unaware with their heads rammed so far up their own derriers that they're like, what? What's going on? What's going on? They're perfectly manicured bleached buttholes. You know, they all have their heads rammed up their bleached buttholes and just like, hey, how are you doing? Isn't the weather great up my own ass? The weather is perfect. Balmy. It's balmy up my ass. I love it. No one cares, celebrities. Billy Eilish, you're a joke. You have a good voice if you would stop whispering all the time. You remind me of that show that was on hardly at all. Uh Bless This Mess, no. Um, bless it had um Lake uh Lake, is her name Lake or is her last name Lake? Crap. And uh Dak Shepard. Um and they were in Nebraska and they inherited a farm because his aunt passed away. Anyway, there's a character on her on there who just like whispered all the time. She was like, Oh, show shit. And if he really listened to her, she would say some mean things, some pretty psycho things. Um, but anyway, that's kind of I just stop whispering, Billy. Sing, okay? Stop thinking. And then again, she thinks that she's so cool because she's like bisexual or a lesbian or whatever, and I get so fucking tired. I'm just so tired of people thinking that who they sleep with is such a big deal to everybody else. I don't, I don't care, nor do I want to hear about what you're doing in your sex life. Why do we make such a big ticker tape ticker tape parade over our penises and our vajs? Why do they deserve such fanfare? We're like, woo, I have a hoo-ha, I have a hoo-ha, I have a ding dong. Okay, great. Why so does everybody else in the world? Why do you think that because you stick it in the same sex or because you do something with the same sex that that makes you somehow cooler than anybody else? Do you think a straight person's cool? No, probably not, because who you sleep with is such a small, small fraction of what makes you you. Be proud of your sexual orientation, whatever that may be. Be proud of what you identify as, be proud of your race, your hair color, your um, all these things. But they are part of what make you you. They are a little piece of the puzzle. You have so many things that make you the person that you are. Why do we have to hyper, hyper focus on your gender or your penis or your hoo-haw? That's weird. It's so bizarre to me. Why do you want everyone to be thinking about your penis so much or your hoo-haw so much? Why do you want everyone to be so hyper aware and focused of your gender? Why do you want a parade so bad? Why do you want everything to be about you? And then if someone else is like, um, hey, I'd kinda like a little bit of attention over here and they're like, no, no attention for you. No attention for you, no soup for you. Okay, damn. All right. It's all about you. That's how that's the game that we're playing right now. It's just about you, okay. All right. So being white and straight, a white, straight man right now is about as low as you can get, apparently, to the apparently, if you're a liberal. And how come you can tell a Karen from a million miles away? They just have a look about them. I'm sorry, I'm being a judgmental asshole, but there is, there's just a look. You know a Karen from across the room. You just do. Mind your business. Mind your business. Like, why are people not either, if you're going to be outside in society, if you're gonna be out and about wandering around, um, I feel like you should conduct yourself like a normal person. I don't think you need to be going grabbing hats off of people's heads and grabbing signs and acting like an animal and a three-year-old. I don't understand when it got so hard for people to deal. Like, why can't people deal with basic life? Like, really, really basic, low functioning. The bar is so low right now, and people can't seem to clear it. People are just, oh, I can't, I, ooh, I can't, I can't clear this very low, low bar that that I have had set for me now. I can't seem to function like a proper human being. I gotta be useless. Like, when did that start being acceptable? When did we decide that being a useless idiot was like the happening thing to do? And then other people are like, hey, they're on to something. I want to be a useless idiot too, because it's all being promoted. That's why. People are being rewarded for being idiots, for being violent, for being terrorists. It's a really bizarre world right now. But I'm still happy, man. I am, I'm still happy. I really am. I'm gonna focus on the fact that I have, again, that I love my job. I'm gonna focus on the fact that I have um healthy family and I love my family and I love my friends. I love that everyone's been listening to my podcast. More and more people are like, check out this broad. She's a weirdo. But I love it, you bunch of freaks out there. I love it. You're don't you wish you were a freak like me? Don't you? I know that's not how it goes, but you know, um, I love it. I love that there's a bunch of weirdos out there like me. I'm not saying you have to be a weirdo to listen to my podcast, but I mean, it ain't great. And yet you're listening to it. So I gotta wonder if you're weird. And I love it if you are, because so am I. Me too. High five. I feel like on scrubs when Todd's like ha five, boom, and they make that noise. I love it. So ready? One, two, three, high five. And if you are like Cowie Mendel and you know you're a germaphobe, then ready, one, two, three, fist pump. Boom, pounded out. I love it. But I'm not liking that people are just having they're on the struggle bus for just functioning, just being a functioning member of society. Like we can't hold open doors without someone throwing a fit about it. Don't hold open a door for me. I'm a perfectly capable, able-bodied person. No one fucking thinks you're not, man. We're aware that you can use your arms. Thanks for thanks for reminding us that you have arms that we can see. We see that you have arms, they're not cut off. And we know that you're capable of opening up a door. No one fucking thinks you're not. We're just doing it because it's this thing called polite. I don't know if you've heard of it before. It's called being a polite member of the planet. You know? Right, Lib? Yeah. Um, and if someone says, hello, sir, hello ma'am, no one's no one's trying to put you down. You're just looking for a reason to be pissed off. If someone's being polite to you and you can tell that they're trying to be polite to you, and you're just looking for a reason to make it to where they're somehow being a dick, then you're just having a bad day. And that's a you issue. That's very much a you issue. If you have a problem with someone calling you sir and you are a dude and you know you're a dude, but you um woke up one day and decided that everybody needed to bow down and call you whatever the fuck you identify with, great. But no one knows that right away, asshole. Okay, we if you look 100% like a dude, there are girls out there, actual biological women that look like men that get called men. That I understand if they're like, oh, by the way, I know I look like a guy, but I'm a girl. Even they don't get as mad as someone that's an actual dude that feels they were identified wrong. Yet those same people are like, okay, sis woman, and I'm like, yeah, I'm I don't identify as a cis woman, I'm a woman. They're like, okay, sis woman. I'm like, go fuck yourself, honestly. Really? Again, it's all about what you want because it's like those seagulls on Finding Nemo. Mine, mine, mine, it's you, you, me, me, me. It's not all about you, man. Open up your eyeballs. Open them up. There are so many other people occupying this planet, and you are not the only one that has opinions. You're not the only one that has um passions, say things that they're passionate about, things that they believe in. It is not just about you and all of your bullshit. And again, when did forcing things become cool? The word force is aggressive. Just saying the word, the word alone is aggressive. So when you're forcing your opinions and you're forcing your beliefs and you're forcing vaccinations onto others, no one likes it. Peer pressure doesn't work with a lot of people. And that's beyond peer pressure, especially when you're threatening people's lives. Because again, I don't know about the majority of people out there, but I can speak for myself. And if you're gonna threaten me, I'm gonna fucking step right up to you. Don't fucking threaten me. I'm not, I'm not gonna back down to you. Don't fucking threaten me. I'll step right up to you and I'll go, okay, bring it. Bring it. I've always been that way, I always will be that way. Um, if I think I can have a conversation with you, I'll try that first. I'll try being an adult. I'll try being polite, I'll try being respectful, I'll try talking, I'll try communicating. And if those things don't work and you continue to bother me after you've had warning after warning, and I've tried to be the adult, and you're going to continue to badger me and Be a subhuman garbage person, then yeah, I'm going to fucking knock you on your ass. So if you're in the mood to be, you know, laying on the ground, then then fuck with me. I'm not, you know, I'm just, I don't like it when people think that they can come up to me. Why can't you just talk? I'm a very kind person. I don't want to hit anybody. I will never, ever, ever just smack somebody. I'm talking that I will take you out if you're threatening me. Because that's what you should do. That's what people should do. After you have kindly and respectfully told someone and asked someone to stop, then that's on the other person. You don't get to continue harassing people and continue threatening people and continuing poking at people and being up in their face screaming and yelling after they've asked you repeatedly to stop and expect to not have your ass knocked on the ground. I think that's a stupid expectation. And you know what you're doing. People that do that want to be hit because they want to be the victim, because they want people to go, oh, oh, see, see, he's mean. He's a big bully. She's a big bully. No, you're a bully. You're a bully, and you got your ass knocked out, and that's how bullies need to be dealt with. They need their asses knocked to the fucking ground. Not sorry. I've told my kids the same thing. I'm like, look, don't look for a fight. Don't ever look for a fight. Don't start a fight. And do all you can not to fight. But if someone isn't going to listen to your words repeatedly, then knock them for the fuck out. And maybe they'll listen. I'm not saying beat the crap out of them repeatedly. I'm not saying make them a bloody stump. I'm not saying go cujo on them. I'm saying knock their ass out until they're laying on the ground. And then you go, have you had enough? Are you done? Okay, you are? Good. And then you can help them up and go, now don't fuck with me anymore because the same fucking thing's gonna happen. Now go get help. Go get counseling and figure out why you're bullying people. Because usually a bully is a bully because they've also been bullied. Usually. So I don't get this. I don't get this whole, you know, harassing things and forcing things. I don't get that. When did that become acceptable? When did forcing ourselves on others become a not only acceptable thing, but a very normal thing nowadays? It is very normal for people to threaten and bully and say that they are going to unalive someone and to threaten others and force others to do things. This is just commonplace now in 2026. But if God forbid someone says they love this country, people are like, What? What did you say? You love America? Oh how dare you! It's weird. You guys are weird. What is wrong with you? You have free health insurance, please use it. You probably have free health insurance, or you probably have enough money to pay for counseling. Please go. Because you have something not right in your head if you're forcing people to do things. Why are you worrying about other people at all? Don't you have a life? Do you have children? Do you have siblings? Do you have parents? Do you have cousins? Do you have co-workers? Do you have friends? Do you have um a place to stay? Do you have pets? Do you have a hobby? Because if you have any of those things, please occupy yourself with those. Do you have charities? And if you don't have any of those things, I suggest you get one or all or some of the above. Because clearly, if you have enough time on your hands to be harassing others about their lives, then you're not, and while you're, you know, telling other people how they need to give you stuff because you're not happy with your life, well, you have so much free time on your hands that you're harassing others. You could take that time instead of harassing others, and you could get a life of your own. You could build on that life that you're so desperate to make those that have what you want miserable because they have it, and you're so desperate, you want it really bad, and yet you begrudge others. It's weird, like hypocrisy is not pretty. Hypocrisy gives you wrinkles. Misery gives you wrinkles. Being terrible gives you wrinkles. Don't eat the bees, they are not sky raisins. Can you guys hear them? They're freaking out, man. Let's see. I know. They're talking. The bees are like, yeah, I get it. I have to listen to these humans bitch all the time, and I'm really tired of it. God, we just need to be happy. I mean, I know that's easy to say. I realize that it's not that easy to just be happy. Lord knows I struggle sometimes. I do. But I don't understand why we all have to make everybody else feel the way that we do. Unless we're feeling happy, I get why you want to spread happiness, but why do you want to spread doom and gloom? Yeah, problems, man. You really do. If you're spreading doom and gloom, then uh you need to get that checked down to figure out why. Who hurt you? Anyway, I don't have a whole lot on my mind. I'm still struggling with the whole, you know, I'm so happy right now and I am so at peace with so many things. During the day, I'm just like, oh yeah. And then at night, all these things, I'm like, oh man, I can't let my guard down, can't let my guard down because man, if I do, things are gonna go to hell. If I don't have my guard up, if I'm not constantly having one eye open, a mortar's gonna go off. And then boom, something's gonna happen. I don't want that ball to drop, so I feel like I have to be watching it all the time. I gotta catch it, you know? I gotta be around so I can catch that ball so it doesn't ever drop. I gotta be awake. And that's so ridiculous. Again, I'm not. I am 100% happy. I'm so happy. I am very, very happy. I'm just having a hard time with being happy because again, I'm like, oh god, I know this. I know this. I've been here. I've been here so many times where I am happy, and then the shit hits the fan. But again, I don't want to put that energy out there because then it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I am absolutely grateful. I spend every day being grateful for the things that I have because I don't know if it's gonna be gone tomorrow. I don't know what's gonna be taken. So I've got to live my life and be happy while I can. That's why I don't understand why all these people are just searching out things to be pissed off about, just going out of their way to find things desperately to be pissed off about and to find things they hate about America. Why? Why? I just I don't understand. There are so many people out there who have had such genuinely bad lives. There are people in other countries that have gone through and are currently going through such terrible, terrible things. They have gone through huge tragedies, tragedies, or they are currently going through actual tragedies. And they don't complain, and they don't give up, and they still get up every day and are grateful. I know so many people like that. And then there are people that have had everything good happen, and they're just like, I'm gonna be cranky. Okay, Grumpy Professor Grumpy Gills. Who knows what that's on? Finding Nemo. It's weird, man, right? Can I get an Amen? Just kidding. I don't know. That's on my mind. I just want people to be happy. I just want people to stop complaining. I'm still not listening to social media. I've been looking up happy things. I'm on a happy kick. I'm so glad I am not working around people and co-workers and bosses that are just the most negative people. So negative, um, and just bipolar as fuck, you know? Ungrateful, backstabbing, manipulative, unhappy, always unhappy. Just I'm gonna ask for this, and if I get this, then I'll be happy. And then she got that, and then she still wasn't happy. Well, all I want is this, and then I'll be happy. So then she gets it, and she's still not happy. I hate people like that too. You're like, oh, well, I'll be happy if, and then that if comes around, they're like, Well, yeah, but I need blah blah blah, and then I'll be happy, and then they get that, and they're still not happy. They're just chasing that high, you know? I don't know. It's weird. Hi on cocaine. What's that song? Something something. Hi on cocaine. Anyway. I just feel like I you are who you hang out with, you are um who your company is, and I want to be happy, you know? I want to be happy. I want to be successful, I want to be grateful, I want to be healthy, I want to be healthy mentally and physically, and so I need to do those things. I need to do things that make me happy and healthy mentally and physically. And part of that is who I hang out with, part of that is who is in my circle, part of that is my job, part of that is my partner, you know, it's so many things. So I hope that we are all taking time to research, to research, you know, when we make decisions, when we form an opinion, when we get a job, you know, when we think that we have someone all pegged out, we have a group of people pegged out. I hope that people can do their research and be like, oh, maybe I was wrong, you know. Like Charlie Kirk. Again, I really encourage people to watch many videos, full videos, not edited videos. Um, and I just encourage people to do their research. Um, again, I'm a photographer and I look at things from all angles, all point of view, all point, all perspective, because when I want to take a picture, I want to see the right angle, the right light, you know, what captures this thing the best. And I love capturing unique, quirky things that maybe nobody else would look at. And I love trying to get that angle that maybe people wouldn't normally notice. So I really do um take my own advice. I listen to all different religions, I listen to people from all points of view, all backgrounds, you know. Because if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room, right? You can't know everything, no one knows everything, so why not hang out with people from um all backgrounds, even people that you may not agree with? Or at least talk to them, you know. Open your mind a bit. You know what I'm saying? No, I'm saying. Oh, anyways, here's what I'm saying. You are all um just animals. You guys are fucking animals. You know why? And I mean that in a good way. I'm saying that as a positive thing, by the way. Because I have had so many people downloading my podcast lately that I don't even know how to express my gratitude. I don't even know what to say. I'm gonna do a little uh little robot ready. Robot doing the robot. Anyway, and a little running man running man, running I don't know what music to do to that. Running man and running man and running man and jazz hands and jazz hands and jazz hands and glitter bomb and glitter bomb and glitter bomb. That's all for you. Yeah, you guys get jazz hands, glitter bomb, the sprinkler. What about the sprinkler? Yeah, buzz out the sprinkler, the sprinkler, the sprinkler, and shopping cart, and shopping cart and shopping cart and lawnmower and lawnmower and lawnmower. You guys gotta get out your uh cardboard and do some break dancing tonight, right? Anyway, hey, um I do, I do really, really, really thank you. Um I am very grateful. I hope that everybody tells everybody and tells everybody else, and then they tell a friend who tells a friend who tells a friend, and pretty soon every freaking person in the world is listening to the ramblings of an insomniac because why not, right? What else? What else are you gonna do? You can listen to me while you're on your way to or from work, while you're in the shower, while you are working on your yard.

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There are many different possibilities. The world is your oyster, okay? You have a lot you can do. Go out and do, go out and be. And while you're going out and doing and being, listen to my podcast. Unless you're at work and you're not allowed to. I mean, I don't want anyone getting in trouble. If you're like an Amazon driver and you're not allowed to like be listening to stuff, don't do it. But when it's safe to do so, listen and then tell a friend and have maybe that friend tell a friend. I'm not telling you what to do. Again, I'm not forcing anybody because, like we talked, I don't force anyone. I'm not gonna force anyone. But if you feel like it, if you feel like doing me a solid, you don't owe me anything. But if you want to, man, I would appreciate it. I really would. It would mean the sun and the moon and the stars to me. You guys mean the sun and the moon, the stars to me because you've all been listening. And I hope I have people that are listening more than once. I hope that when you listen to me, you're like, oh, okay, that was a waste of that's time I'll never get back. I don't want people to think that. I mean, maybe you don't like my podcast, maybe you listen to me once and you're like, all right, it's not really my cup of tea. She doesn't even have an intro or an outro. She talks fast, she coughs a lot, it's weird. But I hope you're not like, hmm, that was a total waste of my time. Ugh. But if you want to listen to and if you have been listening to my podcast more than once, wow, you're freaking amazing. You really are. And I am grateful beyond belief. Beyond beyond belief. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? I'm so grateful. So I hope you tune in next time. And um, I hope you have yourself a wonderful day. Until next time.