Unrestricted warfare: How the CCP wages war without guns

Hello everyone. Welcome to Lays Road Talk. Happy Saturday. Happy Sunday. It's Lays Saturday Night Live. All right. How's everyone? Good. Yeah, the weather seems to be a little cool cooler now. It's much more uh tolerable. Well, many of you have written to me with great comments and questions. Um I try my best to read them all. And reading through them, I realized something. Even when people understand the threat of the CCP, there's still this this instinct, especially in the West, to assume everyone's playing by the same rule or same set of rules. Now, I've always said when a gentleman fights a thug in a life or death struggle and still insists on being classy, he is going to lose. The recent failure of the great recall movement in Taiwan is a perfect example. The ruling DPP kept its distance uh not wanting to appear uh aggressive towards their political opponents. They chose to be gentlemanly and they lost. The same mistakes are being made elsewhere. So I think it's time to stop playing uh it's time to talk about this phenomena uh because playing fair with a regime um if you try to play fair if you um that's being perceived as a sign of weakness. So, uh, that's what I made my manifesto of being a redneck a week ago. Okay, let's be serious. Tonight, I want to talk about three important topics. First, how the CCP turns cyber crime into global business and forcing the West pay for it. and two, how China weaponized globalization and how the west helped fund its rise and then why the CCP doesn't just break rules and uh it rewrites the battlefield through unrestricted warfare. So you know that working from home has become a global trend and VPN or VPNs are supposed to make that safe and the VPN ads are everywhere. Um but in the hands of bad actors these tools turn into weapons and the Chinese communist regime knows exactly how to use them. On July 21st, the FBI arrested uh a Chinese man by the name of um Wanging or Danny Wong in New Jersey for helping North Korea run a global fraud operation. And he's one of nine defendants, the others, six Chinese nationals and two Taiwanese are still at large. The scheme relies on US-based quote unquote helpers who set up so-called laptop farms in their homes. They received laptops from American companies, install remote access software, and linked them to North Korean IT workers who are based in China in Chinese cities uh like Dalian and Shenyang near the China North Korea border. And so these North Korean workers used VPNs, fake IP addresses, and stolen American identities, uh, passports, drivers, driver's license to pose as US-based employees. They were hired by American companies to write code, manage networks, and even access internal systems. the money they earned and the data they accessed were sent straight to um the North Korean regime. So to make it happen, so how did this happen? Well, the Chinese and the Taiwanese operatives set up fake software companies using stolen US identities. And between 2021 and 2024, they helped infiltrate over 100 US businesses, including major Fortune 500 companies. They submitted fake records to US government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, IRS, and Social Security Administration. At least 28 states or companies in at least 28 states were affected including all the um uh including New York, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. These are all the um economically affluent states. And this wasn't a one-off case. Just three days later. Um, I just want to make sure people can hear me. Can people hear me? Yeah. I just want to make sure that people can hear me. Just sorry. I'm sorry. I just suddenly it just Can someone Oh, yes. Okay. People say yes. All right. Lovely. All right. Um, so it wasn't just a one-off case. 3 days later on July 24th, another person, and this time it's an American, her name is Christina Marie Chapman. And if you Google her name, Christina Marie Chapman, you'll see her um in the news. Uh, she's at age 50. She was sentenced in Arizona uh to over eight years in prison for running a similar operation. She helped North Korean IT workers scam 309 US companies. Chapman had her own laptop farm and sent at least 49 companyissued computers to Chinese cities near North Korea. And in a 2023 raid, authorities found more than 90 laptops in her home. Um, so similarly, her operation involved stealing the identities of 68 Americans. Her network gained access to a top five US TV network, a Silicon Valley tech firm, an aerospace manufacturer, a US automaker, a luxury brand, and even a defense contractor. Sensitive export controlled military data was reportedly stolen. She forged paychecks, opened fake bank accounts, and laundered money. Um, however, if you read the all the the press releases, uh, the statements or or media reports, US prosecutors and media say these are North Korean operations. On the surface, that's what it looks like. Some shady characters, Chinese and Americans, help the North Koreans make money. But if you look closer, you will see a darker truth. This was not just a rogue operation by the North Koreans. It was a coordinated Chinese campaign. It's classic CCP unrestricted warfare hidden in plain sight. Now, think about it. North Korea couldn't have pulled this off without China. North Korea and the United States are like two isolated islands, right? North Koreans don't have the access or capacity to run a global cyber scam on their own. It had to be the Chinese, their intelligence networks, their experience and their global reach that made it happen. They coordinated with Chinese nationals living in the US. So the Chinese um spy agencies um or on whatever network state security whatever agencies or or or see certain part of the CCP's apparatus collaborated with Chinese nationals living in the US um used stolen American IDs and helped North Koreans secure remote jobs inside US companies and those companies unknowingly paid for the CCP's and North Korea's cyber warfare. And this wasn't just economic fraud. This was espionage disguised as remote work. China got the data, North Korea got the money, and America footed the bill. And when it all came to light, only the North Koreans were blamed because it was, you know, identified as a North Korean operation. But Kim Jong doesn't really care. And then people like Denny Juan and Christina Chapman became the scapegoats, just the visible players. Um so on the surface it just looks looked like some private um bad actors or some individuals in the US uh colluding with the North Koreans. But the real puppet master, that's China's state security machine, they stayed in the shadows. Now, think about it. How would Christina Chapman even connect the North Korean hackers, right, without Chinese involvement? So, I want to use these two cases to illustrate the grave danger of the CCP because very few in the West truly understand how evil the regime is. It's hard for good people to imagine such a level of malice, but this is exactly how the CCP operates. Steal your secrets, use your money to do it, and walk away without consequences. So, for decades, we've allowed this to happen. In a nutshell, the CCP has commercialized criminal behavior, turning espionage, hacking, and even human rights abuses into profit ma profitm industries. And the West, it hasn't just lost money or data. It's it has lost the will to defend its values because everything is covered up as business. Um, I want to give you another example because it's hard to imagine that I mean it's hard to imagine or to understand how the CCP could um come up with such a evil plan that it stole everything and yet the Americans it stole everything from the United States and then the Americans foot for the bill. Right? I want to give you another example. So 25 years ago, the CCP declared Fallong its top enemy. It imprisoned millions of healthy practitioners. But it didn't stop at persecution. It saw them as biological assets. Um many of these healthy young uh practitioners or spiritual seekers were murdered so their organs could be sold. And this is the only regime in human history that has turned massive mass murder into a business. After killing these young healthy prisoners of conscience, their bodies were um I don't know if there's a word, but I think it's plastinated. um yeah plastinated and displayed around the world in the inf infamous bodies exhib exhibit. Remember about 20 years ago or maybe 15 years ago the bodies exhibit were going around in all the major cities around the world. But those bodies came from um the the Chinese state um military. Some some of it came from the military, some came from the state security organ. And if you if you think about it, um that's turning a persecu a brutal persecution into a commercial activity by first selling these prisoners of conscience, selling their organs, then um put their remains on display around the world and force the world's people to pay to come see, you know, the the result, the end results of the persecution. And um and because the world failed to stop that, today large numbers of children and young adults are going missing daily in China. Meanwhile, the demand for organ transplants has skyrocketed. wealthy individuals including foreigners uh go to China for transplants. But where do these organs come from? If there's no demand, there wouldn't be a supply. Um I mean forced supply. I'm not saying there's a natural supply, but there's a a forced I mean the supply came is a crime. Um came from murders. So these or forest organ harvesting crimes and the cyber espionage scams are distinct distinctively different crimes, but they have one thing in common. The CCP turns atrocities into industries and make innocent people around the world pay for them. Um, so that that I think that is something the world that degree of evilness is not something the world has fully comprehend has fully comprehended yet. Not all of them. So now let's talk about um how the CCP used globalization as a weapon and how the West helped pay for it. So, the CCP has pulled off some of the most damaging scams and atrocities in modern history. Not just because it's cunning, but because the West has been eager to do business with Beijing. And from the very beginning, the West was played. Let's go back to 1999 when China was negotiating its entry into the WTO. On November 15th of that year, it was the final day of negotiations. there were still seven issues uh remaining that's that were unresolved and according to a Chinese negotiator by the name of um Lingu according to his memoir then Chinese premier Jurongi um told his team we must sign the agreement today we can't let the Americans walk away I will talk to them so Drew was acting um on orders from Jenzaming, then CCP leader, to make major concessions, and he did. As a result, the agreement was signed. Um but behind closed doors after that after the the agreement was signed back in the state uh back at the uh state council when the Chinese were assessing the impact of the agreement on Chinese economy and particularly Chinese agriculture, people were concerned that there would be severe impact or consequences. And then Jurongji gave a now infamous speech to um to his to his state council and he said we agree to these terms or we agree to these conditions uh just to enter the WTO after we get in whether we follow them or not that's up to us. Every rule has loopholes that we can exploit. That one sentence says everything. China never intended to play fair. Not then, not ever. So after joining the WTO in 2001, the CCP, a regime hostile to both democracy and free markets, was welcomed into the heart of the global economy. The US and other Western nations, opened their trade, investment, academic, cultural, and even media sectors to China. This gave the CCP everything it needed to make money while building a global network of influence. But the Chinese economy isn't a real market economy. It isn't I don't know. It's it's it's not a real economy. Not just not a real market economy. It's a war economy. It's a machine designed for unrestricted warfare. The CCP controls everything. land, resources, factories, supply chains, wages, unions, markets, export prices, currency, capital flow, you name it, everything. Whether under Ma's plan economy or today's so-called market socialism, the economy has always been tightly controlled to serve political goals. So, in this system, the CCP uses three um unlimited resources. They are natural, human, and fiscal resources to wage economic war. It produces cheap products and dump them abroad using tax breaks, export rebates, low interest loans, and direct subsidies to undercut foreign competitors. And this comes at a cost, right? No government or economies could sustain that. But in China, it's paid by the Chinese people. Wages are low, work pressure is extreme, housing and health care are unaffordable, and education is a crushing burden. Meanwhile, the environment is wrecked. China's Chinese I mean Chinese environment, I mean pollution, you can't even think. China has become um I mean it has the country has some of the worst air water I don't think some of the worst I think it has the worst the worst air water and soil pollution on earth um and according to international studies around 2.4 4 million Chinese die every year from pollution related diseases um out of I think 9 million in the total. So making it the highest you know China has what? So so 2.4 million out of 9 million. Yeah that's more than 25%. Um and that's just official statistics. That's just what's officially acknowledged. So to the CCP, Chinese citizens and natural resources are nothing more than disposable fuel in their war machine. Um, Secretary of State Mark Marco Rubio said something I think uh summarize it very well. On June 4th uh this year, she he I'm sorry. He he said this. He said the US cannot compete with a country that isn't trying to make money but to dominate the global supply of a product. Once once they dominate, they can charge whatever they want. Um and during the globalization boom, American industries like steel, aluminum, rare earth, electronics, machinery, solar panels, energy storage, pharmaceuticals and medical devices moved all moved to China. Um this gutted US manufacturing, right? And and therefore putting on national security at risk. Um, so what why did this strategy succeed? How did the CCP how could the CCP succeed in this strategy? Well, I think it's partly because the the United States and the West misunderstood the post-war the postcold war the the post um postc cold war world geopolitical landscape but most importantly it failed to grasp the true nature of the CCP and so this brings us back to the very core issue that is um China's WTO members ersship was one of the most successful operations. Um it's the most successful part of China's unrestricted warfare. Um on June 17th, 2025, Chinese Australian legal scholar, Professor Yan Honging revealed something stunning uh in an interview with the Epic Times. He said that the CCP princling uh Kong Tan recently criticized Xiinping for making two major mistakes. But in Mr. Kong's speech, he inadvertently exposed a truth. That is he gave a number. He said from Ten Xiaoing's era to Huin Tao's um CCP elites this doesn't even include the the the amount of money um this is only from Deng Xiaoing's time to Jenzaming's time and then to Hu Jin Tao's time he said CCP elites uh aka the second and third generations um of the party elders the red nobility They transferred around 20 trillion rembb overseas and that's roughly $3 trillion US. Now these assets weren't just personal fortunes. They were red capital controlled by these people. Um and they are funds strategically planted in the west to create a foundation for the CCP's influence and infiltration campaigns. And if you want to number, if you want to measure or if you want to quantize how deeply the CCP has embedded itself in the western financial system, that $3 trillion US dollar is a good start. Um, but this red capital network didn't just appear overnight. It was built as a direct consequence of China's WTO entry. Right. If if if the CCP didn't it wouldn't happen if the CCP didn't um earn US dollars through unfair trade. It so this was slowly built up after the after China entered the WTO. Um that's what the red Trojan horse enabled deep penetration into the economic, political and media systems of the west. using western money, institutions and values as weapons against themselves. Um, so um, now I want to talk about how CCP just didn't just break rules, it redefineses the battlefield. If the CCP didn't exist, the world would mostly face two types of war. Hot war and cold war. Right? Both are brutal, but they comes with rules, lines you don't cross, agreements like the Geneva and Vienna Conventions. Um, they exist to protect civilians and prisoners of prisoners of war and diplomats. And even during the height of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union followed certain unspoken rules. uh they spied on each other constantly, but when a spy got caught, they often arranged to swap. It wasn't just diplomacy, but it was a way to keep the conflict contained and preserve a basic sense of decency, but the CCP didn't or doesn't follow any of that. Its entire strategy is based on something else. uh it's based on its unrestricted warfare where everything is a weapon. Business, technology, culture, even human decency can be weaponized. So unlike the US or the Soviets, China never admits what it's doing, never compromises and never plays fair. And that's why we now living living in a world where the third kind of war has taken root. um the the type of war with no rules at all. Um and that is the CCP's unrestricted warfare. I don't think people should be so concerned with the cold war or the hot war. I think that's this is the trap where the west has fallen into because we're so obsessed with uh are we going to have a hot war or are we already in a cold war? But the as far as the CCP is concerned, the unrestricted warfare has long begun. Um I'll give you one his historic anecdote. So there was a Chinese spy, his name is Larry uh Wu Thai Ching, right? Ching Wuai in Chinese, but here he's known as Larry Ching. Larry Wuai Ching. He was a senior CIA analyst who secretly worked for China for 30 years from the Korean War through the 1970s. He thought he was a hero to Beijing. But when he was arrested in 1985, the CCP immediately uh disavowed him and his Hong Kong bank account was frozen by the Chinese and China denied ever knowing him. And not long after he was found dead in prison, officially rude a suicide. So you see, in the eyes of the CCP, even their most loyal agents are disposable. And now let's look at American fentinel crisis. When the Trump administration tried to hold Beijing accountable using the tariffs, the CCP refused to admit any role. they would rather accept a 20% tariff than acknowledge their hand in uh in the overdose epidemic. And it's the same strategy they used with Larry Chin. Deny everything, negotiate nothing, and keep going. So, so trying to fight the CCP is like trying to punch a shadow. It's a one-sided, invisible war. One-sided because you can't retaliate using their tactics. Um, invisible because they don't follow any rules while we still try to figure out why we still try to figure out what their rules are when there there are none. And then we still try to follow our rules. So um so if let's say the US bans certain fentinyl related chemicals right because they're the they trying to export these uh prefentinel ingredients. So let's say we ban certain chemicals and the Chinese sellers will respond by tweaking the formula. they will add masking molecules to avoid uh regulatory supervision or inspection. And once the US bans the new version, they will switch to another molecule. It's a it's going to be a chemical shell game with lives at stake. And as long as the CCP's goal is to poison American youth, there's no traditional law enforcement solution. Well, actually, um, the FBI director, what's his name? uh Cash Patel, he told uh Joe Rogan on June 6 in a podcast that the CCP sees America as its number one enemy and that flooding the US with fentinel um is part of a long-term plan to destabilize the country. The victims, young Americans, future cops, teachers, and soldiers dying in the tens of thousands every year. I think it was 40 last year there were 48,000 death related to fentinel. So So the So this isn't a drug cartel chasing profits. It's a rogue regime committing chemical warfare. One that's deliberately targeting Americans people. Um and when China agrees to negotiate, it's just part of the game. Their goal is to trap you in endless diplomatic loops while continuing their operations behind the scenes. Um dialogue becomes a smoke screen for more drugs, more cyber attacks, more subversion. Um history shows that the negotiation any negotiation with the CCP doesn't solve anything. Is there any negotiation with the CCP that has that has been successful? There isn't any. Um, and after the Cold War, the West somehow believed communism had collapsed and that China had embraced capitalism. That illusion led to one of the biggest strategic miscalculation in modern history. And the truth is the CCP functions like a machine built for total war. Its political system, economy, media, education, everything, diplomatic apparatus, all of it is designed to achieve one thing, victory over its enemies. And in pursuit of that goal, it will use any weapon, cross any line, and sacrifice anyone. Um, now I think the world is beginning to understand what that means. But I think we need to hurry up because now let's back let's go back to the example that I gave you the the cyber the the the fake uh the fake the North Korean uh IT workers right uh in the beginning. So this was announced but uh by the US government back in May 2022. So the US government then warned that North Korea was using thousands of remote IT workers around the globe to fund its regime, including its missile and nuclear programs. While some were operating from within North Korea, many were based just across border in Chinese cities. That was three years ago. Since then, we've only caught just a few, and that's in the US. Have we seen other countries catching them? And meanwhile, untold volumes of sensitive data have been compromised. It's three years while we have thousands of these IT workers in North Korea or actually in chi, you know, maybe they're Chinese. Maybe they're Chinese. Uh, yeah, Chinese IT workers. There could be North Koreans working in China. Um, and this has been going on for three years. So, it's an uneven warfare in the first place because it cost the evildoers nothing to commit the crime because we paid for it, right? But it cost American taxpayers tremendous amount of money to investigate and prosecute them. So even if we catch them all, we're at a loss because it's we will lose money. Um so there has to be there has to be a better solution. So that's why I think um the more I think about it, the more the more serious the issue is because when the CCP said democracy against dem democracy, they're actually using our democratic system against ourselves. And this is the perfect example to show that, right? They um they took advantage of of uh technical loopholes and um you know have Americans American companies funded their criminal activities and in the end they made money and they stole our trade secrets and also maybe uh other national intelligence. ence information. Uh so but then so they made they made money during those sab cyber attacks and then for us to catch them we will have to spend you know loads of money to go through the democratic process to investigate to prosecute them. So this is already an uneven warfare if you think about it. And I don't think the west I mean when I read all the media reports the press releases I mean people didn't even and people made it sound like just some bad actors you know working doing illicit business for North Koreans but that's not what it is at all. Um this is this is unrestricted warfare. So I don't know. So, um, sometimes it's really hard for me to talk about how evil the CCP is and but I really get the sense that people have underestimated what the regime is capable of doing and how successful it has been purely due to our ignorance and kindness. Because good people, it's hard for them to comprehend uh yeah the uh the depravity of of of these of these crimes, how evil it is uh by design. These are cle very cleverly designed if you really think about it. Um so I think the west needs to wake up immediately and come up with a solution. That's all. That's all I have. All right. So, let's see. All right. Questions, comments. I saw some super stickers. Um, oh, um, someone want may I I also want to answer a question. Someone wanted to ask me about the trade talk uh the trade agreement or trade negotiation between the US and Taiwan. Uh I think it was 20% right? It's 20%. It's 5% higher than the 15% that the US has negotiated with Japan and North not North Korea South Korea. So uh the Taiwanese government uh the DPP Linu is under pressure from the opposition party because Taiwan is paying 5% more than other US allies in the in the in the in Asia. Um, now I think the official response from the from the Taiwanese government is that this 20% is a temporary tariff and they're still negotiating. They're still trying to bring it down. Um, that's the official response from the Taiwanese government. But that I read somewhere by one Chinese commentator and he said that the Taiwan's lead negotiator what's what's what's her name? I think Miss Jen who is the uh let me see what's her name uh Lee oh yeah and she is Taiwan's vice premere and this woman in her own words is a leftist within the DPP party so we know the DPP party is already a progressive party. So, it's liberal. I mean, um, even though the KMT is probe Beijing, but the KMT is perceived as a conservative party, uh, socially, they're socially conservative, whereas the DPP is anti-CCCP, but they're progressive. They're liberal. So, they're on the left. And then this vice premere who led or who leads the Taiwan's trade negotiation with the Trump administration, Miss Chun, is kind of a ultraleist and her favorite philosopher is Karl Marx and her favorite book is the Communist Manifesto. And someone said that they they didn't believe this. They actually look her up and they found that that was true. That's she actually did say that. So now imagine uh oh and also she only served as a legislature and cultural minister. Uh she does not have uh does an economic or or yeah she doesn't have uh economic background or trade negotiation experience. So uh so people say how could the the Taiwanese government be successful in a trade negotiation with uh the Trump administration which leads you know this MAGA or conservative movement in the US when their counterpart from Taiwan is an ultraleist. So um they said that's a mismatch and it wouldn't produce good results in in the trade negotiation. Uh I thought that was an interesting observation. Uh so I just want to share that with you. All right let's see. Oh here's um Mike Stewart Stewart lay a weird request. Where can I obtain truthful Chinese garlic production data? Specifically, geographical production area with a focus on Shinjiang region. Where can you obtain truthful Chinese garlic production data? Um, I really do not know, but I think the Chinese government even at a local level are shutting down are are are shutting down more and more um data. They're they're they're shielding more and more economic data from the rest of the world. It's more difficult to have access to obtain access to those information now. Um, so I I really don't know, but I could ask someone. Let me ask someone and hopefully I'll remember to answer that question next week. All right, remind me if I if I don't um if I don't answer, I'll I promise I'll ask someone for that question. So it could not garlic production data, geographical production area with a focus on Shinjang. Okay, got it. I got it. Um, blue soul in a trucker in USA. I listen to you for China news. Well, good. Thank you. Thank you. Um, uh, let's see. I saw some super stickers flying by. I want to acknowledge them. Where did they go? Did they fly by without me seeing them? Oh, here's a question forwarded by Chris from Dan. From Dan M6N67R. Uh, I saw that video of a doctor who said he was harvesting organ from a guy and he was alive. Uh, yeah. I mean, they're monting evidence about harvesting organs from from from live people. Um, but has the world done anything to stop that? uh American and Western pharmaceutical companies are continuing selling their medical solutions and devices to support China's organ transplant industries because they rely on um certain chemicals to preserve the organs and they also rely on certain uh medical devices during the operations. I have I think these companies should stop selling those equipment and and medical solutions to China to stop the crime. Um but has the world done anything? So it's a dreadful thought. Okay. All right. Let me see. Mark Evan Irvin. Well, thank you, Mark. Thank you very much. Uh, the wisdom to know. Oh, I love that. That's my tagline. The courage to tell. The wisdom to know. The wisdom to know. The courage to tell. Thank you for your captivating report. Are there more exit bands? What can be done to address this? Uh are there more exit bands? What can be done to I think we should ban like I said we should ban all medical devices and and and chemicals or solutions needed for organ transplant surgeries. Uh the US should the world should stop exporting any equipment any anything that the Chinese need to perform organ transplant surgeries because it's a crime. Mike Stewart, if you could please, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much. Okay, thanks Mike. Please remind me. Um, but I'll try my best. Okay. Um, here's a question from DGLass 2008. Is China close to a na nationwide rebelling yet? How much more suffering must the Chinese people take before they act? um the the rebell the the uprising are localized and smaller small in scale but due to the brainwashing and uh surveillance and also censorship I'm not so sure if the majority of the I can't say the majority of the Chinese understand that their suffering and pain are the result of the evildoing of their government. I can't say. I mean, a lot of people do know that. A lot of people do recognize that. But are they the majority? I'm not so sure. Uh, most of the Chinese still believe in the narrative that their suffering is the result of imperialists like the like the United States of America and Japan um trying to choke China's economy. Um, so a lot of Chinese still believe in that narrative. So they may not see that it's the fault of their government. So you ask me, is China close to a nationwide rebellion yet? Uh, it's close. It has been closed for a long time, but have we reached the tipping point? Um, I don't know. because as long as the brainwashing still is ongoing, then it's it's hard it's hard um it's hard for people to know the truth. Um but you brought up a very good question that you know. All right. Thank you. Um SEG 12S late great logical explanation tonight to add to your idea. It's the same as Tik Tok arguing their rights are not being upheld. Yes, good example. Another good example. Um, someone said, let's see question. Dasilla Le, please get in touch with the Trump administration. you need to bring your knowledge of the horrendous atroc atroc atrocities China perpetrates on every real level. Um, well, I hope somebody from their administration follows me. I mean, they need to they need to listen to what I have to say, but I think they should be able to figure this one out. But sometimes I I think the mistake the West makes is they they're too confident in their ability to negotiate with the Chinese. But there's you can't negotiate with a thug, right? Who does who do not play by the rule. So how are you know um Okay. All right. Let's see. Uh, the west is too slow. I agree. All right. Someone say lake is glowing tonight. Am I? Oh, it's the heat. All these It's Yeah, it's I have the AC turned off because it's cool today, but I think it's getting very warm now. Um, all right. That's all for tonight. I guess I've reached the bottom of all the questions and comments. Let me go back to see if there's anything I left out. Um, all right. That's all. That's all for tonight. I thank you for joining me. Um, I will see you next week. Okay. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Okay. Bye.