Marco Rubio’s 2026 Munich Security Conference speech defends Western civilization, urging Europe to reject "managed decline" and align with Trump’s NATO expansion while opposing mass migration. He frames WWII and Cold War unity as a model for revival, contrasting with AOC’s dismissal of Western cultural pride. Rubio also highlights Christianity’s role in the West’s identity, sparking debate over its place in EU founding documents. The episode ties election security—like Mike Lee’s Save America Act closing the 1993 Motor Voter loophole—to broader civilizational defense, arguing non-citizen voting undermines democracy. Kirk links this to Trump’s push for stricter voter ID laws by 2026, framing it as a fight against systemic dilution of citizenship. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
It's Monday, February 16th, 2026.
Honored to be with you, patriots, across the country today.
Massive, massively busy media weekend.
There was a lot going on.
I have family in town.
I was trying to focus, but there was just too much going on.
And I will tell you, and we're going to get to it all.
We got new Epstein revelations.
We've got updates in the Savannah Guthrie case.
We've got all kinds of things.
But the key storyline that I think we need to lead with, because it was just too good not to lead with.
It really, and it matters more.
I think it does matter.
And by the way, that's what our show is always attempting to do.
We want to focus on the civilizational stakes.
The things that matter, the cultural things that matter, the political things that matter, the civilizational things that matter.
Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference was absolutely a barn burner.
It was probably, as I said on X, the single best defense of Western civilization and an appeal to Europe to get on board with the vision that America, President Trump has put forward, that I've heard in a generation, that I think has been articulated in a generation.
Yeah, it's first of all, what it matters, this is the Munich Security Conference annual event related to defense.
And during the past few years, it's all been about Ukraine and such.
Secretary Rubio goes and he gives a speech that's basically laying out the grand vision of what the Trump administration's attitude towards Europe is.
And we'll have the clips here, but the big picture you're looking for is he's pointing out we're not hostile towards Europe.
In fact, we quite literally want to mega make Europe great again.
And so he's pointing out when we criticize NATO, it's always that we want NATO to be stronger.
We want European countries to have better militaries so they will be better allies to us.
We want to stop migration to Europe because we want European civilizations to survive just as we want our own civilization to survive.
And I think the most remarkable, and he makes these historic appeals.
He talks about World War II.
He talks about the Cold War where we stood with Europeans against tyrannical anti-civilizational forces.
And I think the most amazing thing about it is at the end of it, he got a standing ovation.
Which apparently is rare.
But I think the reason he did is because when we criticize Europe, it is because we care.
And he articulated that very well.
And he did it over and over.
He laced it throughout the speech.
But let's just get into it.
This was an amazing, amazing moment, I think.
Whether it matters in the long term, will this have the desired impact?
Who knows?
But the San Innovation was a good idea.
Let's dive right into it.
Let's do 246.
National security, which this conference is largely about, is not merely a series of technical questions.
How much we spend on defense or where, how we deploy it.
These are important questions.
They are.
But they are not the fundamental one.
The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending?
Because armies do not fight for abstractions.
Armies fight for a people.
Armies fight for a nation.
Armies fight for a way of life.
And that is what we are defending.
A great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history.
That to me is such a distillation of what I believe is what's ailing the West right now.
We have lost our pride in self.
We have lost our pride in our own culture, in our own people, in our own accomplishments.
We have been plagued by a guilt, a white guilt, a guilt of our own success.
We have believed lies that we are invaders, that we're evil colonialists.
Imperialists unironically touted colonialism during the speech.
Which is an unambiguously overall good thing on the history of the world.
It is.
I will defend colonialism.
It's not that it was perfect.
It's not that it didn't have brutality or cruelty involved.
Of course, we're talking about a people that understood that you had to use force if you were going to get what you wanted in a mean and cruel world.
So I'm not saying it was all perfect, but if you look at where especially the English colonialists have went, even in Kenya, in Africa, it's one of the most stable countries in all of Africa because it was settled by English.
Same in India, same in America.
You can look across the board, and the British colonialists had a, I would say, overwhelmingly good positive impact on the world.
I don't think we got this as a clip, so I want to read it.
This is a line that Secretary Rubio said.
For five centuries before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding.
It's been missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.
But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, Europe, was contracting.
Europe was in ruins.
Half of it lived behind an iron curtain.
The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map for years to come.
And he basically says it's time for us to undo that managed decline.
And that's not necessarily bring back colonialism specifically, but certainly stop apologizing for it.
Stop acting like it's the worst atrocity to ever happen.
And he calls out mass migration and he calls out like demilitarization.
Yeah, the managed decline, I thought he really honed in on it.
It was very powerful.
Play a cut 253.
For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline.
We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
And then he goes on and basically says, yeah, to renew it, he talks about rearming 257.
Asking member states of NATO to be stronger is not a threat to say, well, if you're not stronger, then we're going to, you know, it's to point out to everybody that it is a stronger alliance.
We are collectively stronger when we are individually stronger on what our capabilities we bring.
That was from a different.
Yeah, that was from after.
But the part that I think was actually the next thought in this is he goes straight into mass migration.
And I love that you saw this.
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And now you see Marco Rubio, 254.
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But mass migration is absolutely at the core root of so many of the problems ailing the West today, and it needs to be addressed.
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All right, I want to play one more clip from this speech because it's just so good.
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While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.
For the United States and Europe, we belong together.
We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
And I just love that he brings the word Christian in there.
Little known fact, when they were doing the European Union and they were kind of establishing some of their foundational documents, there was a debate about whether or not to include Christianity in there, something that Dr. James Orr talks about.
They voted against that.
So I don't know what defines the West if it isn't our common Christian heritage.
Whether or not you agree, whether or not you believe there's nothing that unites the West because there's different languages, there's different cultures, different food, different culinary traditions.
What unites the West is our Christian roots.
And Marco was very clear to put that in.
So I don't believe the lies that this is my big point.
What I loved about this and why I think it stood out is because Marco articulated a rousing speech, but a celebration of our history and our accomplishments of our values.
So many people in that room have been fed a heap of lies that they're supposed to be ashamed of themselves and that we should be ashamed and we should manage our decline to let other the global south rise or whatever.
Let China rise.
No.
And it's a choice.
And I especially think it's this is a part I particularly like actually.
Rubio is, of course, Cuban heritage, Hispanic heritage.
And I like that he's affirming that because as we'll see, because we'll have clips from AOC here in just a moment, there's this popular, there's actually kind of a conflict in Latin American civilization where some of them, they really buy into this like indigenous peoples movement where like everything about it was terrible and like Europe is awful and we need to like decolonize the world.
And he's pointing out, no, like I am from Western civilization as well.
Cuba is a part of Western civilization.
He mentioned Venezuela in the speech.
Venezuela is a part of Western civilization.
It's not just Europe itself and America.
It's the places that Europeans went where they spread Christianity, where they spread European cultural norms, where they spread European languages and all of that.
And it was really nice to see him just step up and defend that all as a good thing, which it was, because would you rather have Mexico as it is or Mexico as a nation that sacrifices human beings?
Well, and AOC tries to take a swing at Secretary Rubio's address in Munich and misses 256.
You are starting to see the ascent of the right, even in places like Munich.
Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to Western culture.
And that's a bad thing?
Oh, no.
It's terrible.
Oh, no.
So this is another funny one.
She basically references the actions we took in Venezuela and said, you know, we just did it because it's below the equator.
It's not below the equator.
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We look at what happened in Venezuela, for example.
It is not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader.
He canceled elections.
He was an anti-democratic leader.
That doesn't mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator.
And they really, yeah, it's very funny.
It's like, it's so funny that she gets wrong specifically because it goes basically as close to the equator as you can get without actually touching it.
I also love, she's just a classic example.
So many politicians do that.
As soon as she mentions like maduro.
Maduro.
Maduro.
Venezuela.
You just got to lace that in.
Just uses a normal American accent for everything else.
If you can understand what the heck she means here, please send us an email, freedom at charliekirk.com, 286.
I think what we identify is that in a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability.
And so I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the West we'd look the other way for inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes.
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Don't you just, this is getting way ahead of things, but wouldn't it just be amazing to see like Rubio versus AOC on like a VP debate stage?
Yeah, yeah.
Let her run for president.
I would see her go either.
Yeah, like presidential dumber for having listened to this.
Just imagine, imagine, you know, obviously they're both kind of representatives of a certain subgroup and then just one of them just an unabashed defender of Western civilization and the other just doing it.
You should feel terrible about yourself and just be invaded.
Invade us harder, Daddy.
That's like the contrast.
Even I think on X, I think she was like got mad because he made a reference to the different cultural strands going into America.
New Amsterdam was Dutch and there were French fur traders.
And he's like, and the cowboy goes back to Spanish culture, which it did.
And she's like, tell the Mexicans that.
It's like, oh, my God.
Where do you think they got the horse from?
Again, email us your thoughts.
What the heck she means.
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Should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
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And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.
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All right, without further ado, Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, the great senator out of the state of Utah, at a state that really struggles sometimes electing politicians, mandated it hit a gold mine with Senator Mike Lee.
Senator, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Honored to have you.
Thanks so much.
It's an honor to be with you, as always.
Well, Senator, you have been leading the charge on the Save Act, and you published an article kind of on X explaining why we need the Save America Act.
And then I'm going to play you some clips of some of the detractors and what they're saying.
But let's start there.
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Why do we need the Save America Act?
We need the Save America Act in a nutshell because an existing federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, or NVRA, sometimes known as the Motor Voter Law, passed in 1993, allows people to register to vote in almost every state simply by going to a DMV, filling out a form, checking a box saying, yes, I'd like to register to vote, and then signing their name, saying, yes, I'm eligible to vote,
meaning I'm a citizen and am otherwise legally allowed to vote.
And a couple of decades after this law was enacted, in a little-known ruling, the state of Arizona versus Intertribal Council, the Supreme Court interpreted that same law as saying that states may not,
under the NVRA, concluding that the states had been preempted from even inquiring into the possibility of the need to verify citizenship on the part of somebody who had applied to register to vote using an NVRA form.
In other words, states may not ask for proof of citizenship in that context.
Well, even since that ruling a few years ago, even since that ruling, a lot of other things have gotten worse that have made that problem really compound in the order of magnitude of a problem that it creates.
Remember, in the four-year period between 2021 to 2025, we had 10 or 15 million people cross our borders unlawfully.
We've now got in excess of somewhere in the range of about 30 million non-citizens residing in this country.
We've got a trend over the last 25 years of more and more states issuing driver's licenses to non-citizens.
Nearly every state does that.
About 19 states issue driver's licenses even to people who are known illegal immigrants.
And so all of this means that it's more easy than ever and more likely than ever that somebody could go and apply for a driver's license, whether they mean to or not.
They can check that box, sign their name at the bottom of the form, and presto, they are now registered voters in the United States.
So the Save America Act was introduced to close that loophole, a loophole created by existing federal law.
And, you know, look, the validity, the vitality of our constitutional republic depends on the security of our elections.
Our elections cannot be secure as long as we've got that gaping loophole in there.
We've got to close it.
Yeah.
And you say here in your write-up here, you know, it's basic common sense, completely agree.
You say we require documentation proving our identity and eligibility to board planes, buy alcohol, receive welfare, cash checks, buy firearms, buy hunting and fishing licenses, pick up tickets, and participate in many political activities.
You know, it is just this wild thing where we have this carve-out that seems to defy all common sense and all logic.
This is a 2024 clip from Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold, where she sent out 30,000 mailers to illegals telling them to register to vote.
It's a true story.
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In 2022, your office sent out mailers to 30,000 non-citizens inviting them to register to vote.
They, of course, are not eligible to register to vote.
That same year, your office used Colorado's ballot tracking system to send messages to specific Coloradans encouraging them to vote when, in fact, they had already voted.
Yeah, that seems like a foolproof system that they have over there.
And then this is a colleague of yours in the Senate, sir.
It's Alex Padilla.
And he says he has some harsh words for your Save Act here, 283.
Absolutely nonsensical.
I mean, to insist on bringing your birth certificate or a passport.
A lot of Americans don't even have a passport because not everybody travels internationally.
It's the equivalent of a show-me-your papers law to be able to exercise your fundamental constitutional right to vote.
Senator Mike Lee, your response to your colleague in the Senate there, show me your papers.
That's paranoid fantasy.
And that's the sort of rage baiting that we've got to resist like the plague in this country.
He's absolutely wrong.
He couldn't be any more mistaken.
First of all, insofar as he's applying it, you've got to show up with your birth certificate or a passport at the time of voting.
That's not true.
You do have to prove citizenship at the time of voter registration.
Remember, the Save America Act requires two things.
Document your citizenship at the time you register to vote.
And then thereafter, having registered to vote, once you've done so on the day of voting, at the moment you vote, you're supposed to show up at the polling place with some sort of government-issued ID.
Not the full documentation of your citizenship, but just some sort of government-issued photo ID to prove that you are who you say you are, to prove that you are the same person listed on that voter registration that you previously registered for.
This is not that hard.
And as far as this being a fundamental right, yeah, it is.
That is a fundamental incident of citizenship, of citizenship.
And citizenship and the vote that comes with it means less when we allow people who are not citizens to vote.
And that's a real problem.
Insofar as suggesting that constitutionally protected right, like the right to vote, cannot ever be accompanied by documentation requirements.
That's nonsense.
We do it all the time.
You know, you're also constitutionally protected in your right to own, possess, and guest purchase a firearm.
And yet, if anyone who's ever purchased a firearm from a licensed firearms dealer knows that you've got to fill out forms, you've got to provide documentation showing who you are, and you've got to wait while they process that.
So this is absolute nonsense.
Look, our objective here, Andrew, is to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
The Save America Act accomplishes both of those purposes.
The Democrats want only one of them, and that's a problem.
So then the question then becomes, Senator, how do we get this over the finish line?
The House has passed the Save Act.
I know it's gone back to the House for different amendments, but Thune has now become a co-signer of the bill.
You've got this filibuster issue.
You have been advocating for nuking the zombie filibuster.
What does that mean?
Is that still what you're pursuing?
And what would it entail?
Yeah.
So this zombie filibuster is the name that I have administered, that I've given to the process by which filibustering very often happens these days.
A filibuster refers to the long-standing Senate tradition and principle backed up by Senate rules that protects open-ended, theoretically unlimited debate, subject to certain exceptions.
But from the very beginning of the Republic, since the Constitution was ratified and the Senate first began its operations in the late 1700s, there have always been, there's always been an understanding that you've got to speak to filibuster.
Over the last few decades, we've gotten lazy.
We've gotten weak.
Some of these muscles have atrophied due to non-use of those muscles.
And we've gotten accustomed to the idea that you can filibuster without actually going to the Senate chamber and standing up, seeking recognition, obtaining recognition, standing up and speaking.
That's what it's supposed to entail.
So what we mean when we say it's time to bitch the zombie filibuster is just enforce existing Senate rules, make senators speak if they want to filibuster, and when they exhaust themselves either physically or under the Senate rules to speak, then we call the question and the question is called at a simple majority vote.
They shouldn't get the chance every single time to just say, well, I don't like this and you don't have 60 votes to achieve closure without me.
Voter is a vote under Rule 22 of the Senate that allows you to force debate to a close, even if a subset, a minority of senators want to continue speaking.
You can force debate to a close if you could get to 60 votes.
But that doesn't mean it's the only way to pass a bill.
Sometimes you can get there through exhaustion.
And that's what I'm advocating here.
That's the way we're going to pass the Save America Act.
Do you feel any momentum with Leader Thune that he would be willing?
You say here on your Twitter, you said Senate Rule 19, enforce the talking fellows buster by inter alia.
Do you feel like he's going to do this?
Is he on board?
Is there any momentum?
Okay, I'll never speak for a colleague, but I will say this.
I have aggressively made the case to Leader Thune and to my colleagues about the need to do this.
And I'll say that he's got it under advisement.
I've had extensive conversations with President Trump as well.
He loves the idea, and I believe he's having conversations with Leader Thune as well.
So I'll within the sound of my voice.
Reach out to your senators.
Encourage them to pass this.
Tell them it matters.
And if not, if not us, who?
If not now, when?
This thing matters.
If we want to hold on to these majorities in 2026, we've got to act.
We've got to show our voters our own base.
We're willing to stand up for them.
This is important to them.
It's important to the Republican Party.
Most of all, it's important to the Republic.
Well, and by the way, Senator, President Trump truthed out that we will have voter ID in the midterms, whether Congress passes this bill or not.
I'm not exactly sure what he means by that.
I'm assuming some sort of executive order.
But President Trump is taking this very seriously, and hopefully your senator is as well.
And Senator Mike Lee, I totally appreciate that.
Blow up their phones, melt the phones.
This is the time to act.
We need to pass the Save Act.
Senator, God bless you.
Thank you for coming on.
Thank you for making the time.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Thank you.
Hi, folks.
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Okay, so I got to hit this one.
This is kind of a little fun one.
On top of all the news, we got Jeremy Carl coming up next hour.
We told you about him yesterday.
So don't miss that.
That interview is going to be amazing.
But Obama apparently confirmed that there's aliens.
Or did he?
Or did he?
Sure thing, Andrew.
This is.
Are aliens real?
Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
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I want to see what people are responding.
Okay.
And did you think that Obama was saying this or not?
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Are aliens real?
They're real, but I haven't seen them.
And they're not being kept in Area 51.
There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.
Okay, Blake, what do you think he was saying?
It sounds exactly like it was like a speed round of questions.
And so they asked him if aliens are real.
And he said, yeah, I think they're real, but I don't have secret info about them.
I think is what he was saying.
I am young.
I am the supplement of all.
Okay.
I mean, I guess the alternative is he kept the secret, you know, non-stop over a nearly 20-year period.
And then he's like, yeah, I'm just going to admit they're real on this podcast.
Why not?
Okay.
Everyone else kept the conspiracy secret.
I mean, he did just go, are they real?
Yes, but he hasn't seen them.
Well, it's so great because Obama truly is this avatar of a type of person who was so predominant in America in the early 2000s, kind of this.
It's funny because I want to say like white nerd, and he's not white, but he kind of spiritually.
Yeah, and he's very spiritually like those people where they would, you know, they'll run the numbers and they'll say, well, actually, I mean, there's trillions and quadrillions of stars and planets.
So the odds that there's no aliens anywhere in the universe.
All right, he responded.
So this goes mega viral over the weekend.
You've got Epstein names getting released.
You've got the Munich Security Conference.
There's all these feuds and this somehow pierces everything.
It becomes like a massive story.
He says, I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it's gotten attention, let me clarify.
Statistically, the universe is so vast that this is what you're saying.
I told you.
The universe is so vast that the odds are good that there's life out there.
But distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low.
And I say no evidence during, saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.
Really?
Let me be clear.
Let me be clear.
Yeah, that's the truth of it.
We're going to hear it.
I'm going to go to the bathroom.
We're going to hear about this for ages.
I'll have to learn this video.
Mask off.
It's like they managed to have these sweeping conspiracies of silence that suck in hundreds, thousands, if not millions of people.
And then it's just blown open because he just gets loose during a podcast episode.
I'm pretty skeptical.
Let's see what the emails say.
Yeah, Lisa.
Lisa says she believes that people are seeing angels and demons.
That's a take others have said.
I think Tucker's talked about that posture.
Elizabeth says, no.
I loved E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
No, there are not aliens.
They do make for really great science fiction movies.
Jennifer says, if there are aliens, they are not what we see depicted in Star Wars.
I believe that the Bible said God created man in his image.
So say we have super smart, powerful aliens would go against that.
Sue.
You know, that gets there's some fun Christian sci-fi out there that will dwell on the question, like, okay, if aliens exist, would we have to evangelize them?
Or would God have to also do an incarnation for them?
You know what's interesting is that C.S. Lewis wrestled with this.
Yeah, I've been reading the space trilogy.
So I read that hideous strength over Christmas.
Now I'm reading Paralandra.
I want to recommend that to everyone watching.
It's a very interesting book.
Paralandra, the plot is it's before, it's pre-space flight sci-fi, so we don't know anything about the planet.
So it takes place on Venus, which we could not actually visit, it turns out.
But he has Venus as a habitable planet, and the main character basically intervenes on the planet at the moment where like each planet kind of has its own creations by God.
And so he arrives on the planet and it's newer.
It's a younger planet than Earth.
And so he basically arrives in its version of the Garden of Eden right when Satan shows up to try to make its version of Eve fall and he has to like intervene it.
It's a crazy book and it's not long.
It's under 200 pages.
So I'll tell everyone to check that book out.
What's it called again?
Paralandra.
And it's written by C.S. Lewis.
No, I didn't really.
In the space trilogy.
Sue says aliens are real.
They're called Dema Rats.
You know, with the rats.
But they come from the depths of hell.
I had to say that.
Carlos says, no, absolutely not.
Interesting.
I'm surprised to see so many people say that aliens aren't real.
I actually am.
In the vast expanse that is space.
And by the way, as a Christian, I don't feel like that challenges my faith at all, actually, because God is the ultimate creator.
He's infinitely creative.
And I don't think that that would make us less special.
I think that's basically where C.S. Lewis sort of ultimately lands.
So I admittedly, I'm led by it.
It's very interesting.
The space trilogy, kind of the core concept is, what if there was life on every other planet, but Earth was the only one that fell?
And so we had to have the incarnation to save us.
Everyone else did not sin.
It's some very interesting stuff.
And the idea of strength is very good as well.
Mariah says demons are among us.
They can appear as anything, aliens and demons.
She's just connecting.
Listen, there's a lot of people that think that sort of thing.