A DEEP DISCUSSION OF THE LACEY ACT AND A CHALLENGE

I can't get it off my mind. It's just chewing away at me. Last week, Saturday, last Saturday, I found out, thanks to Alex at Hidden Secrets, Secrets Hidden in Your Aquarium, that Marco Rubio, one of the senators from Florida, had entered into the subcommittee, a subcommittee, a bill to amend the Lacey Act. On Thursday of the week before, Thursday of last week, someone unknown, unbeknownst, slipped that amendment in an existing bill. As an amendment was never voted on, it was just put in there. And then the next day, the whole bill was approved. Well, because it was in there, it was approved. So now it comes to the Senate. But if the whole bill is approved, then this amendment to the bill is approved as well. What's in it? Well, there's a lot of discussion about what's in it. And most of the people who are discussing it, who are the same people who are saying, I'm being an extremist, and I'm being outrageous, and I'm just trying to get views. they don't have the first idea of what this bill is in fact about. Oh they sit there and read it but they don't know how to read it. They don't. They read it and they think they know what they're reading but they don't know what they're reading. Now here's the bottom line. The bottom line is what this act does it's very very simple. It was written with the intention of for once and all solving the issue of invasive species so there will never again be another invasive species so here's Rubio up there cock of the walk saying I'm gonna solve the whole problem so how's he solved the problem well very simply he says to the secretary of the department of interior i want you to make a list of all the good fish all the all the most popular ones all the ones that are sold in large quantities make a list of them and then publish that list and that's called a white list that's a list of approved items can you get something else on the list oh yeah you can get other things on the list. In three years, we will start taking applications for individual species of animals that people would like to have included on the list. We will then do our due diligence, do all the research we need to do, go through all the bureaucratic steps. It'll take three to five years for each one let's look at some numbers here there are currently in the pet industry approximately 20 000 animals that are being being sold being moved being traded uh are are part of the industry that's just here in this country this includes reptiles fish mollusks all the saltwater stuff all of it all of it it includes insects mammals any any animal other than a cat and dog cats and dogs are specifically excluded everything other than cats and dogs comes under this act everything so in this country there are 20 000 some everything okay fine so what's the secretary going to do? Well, first of all, he ain't going to do a thing until after January 1. He's going to make up his own mind about these things. He'll have his staff researching. There will be people calling him, trying to influence him. But the bottom line is, on or after January 1 of next year, there's going to be a list. And that list will include those items that will be permitted to be not only brought into this country, but taken, transported across state lines. Just the items on the list. What about the rest of it? The rest of it is bad. Now, Rubio is sitting there saying, see, I have solved the problem. The problem was invasive species. We're only allowing those species that we know are fine. Everything else is excluded. But if somebody wants to try to get something in here, we have a process. How many items are going to be on this list? Well, we don't know. What we do know is that there will have to be people trained to identify what is on the list. They're not going to be trained to identify everything else. They'll be trained to identify what is on the list. So you can bet that list is going to be tailored to the ability to train people to figure out what's on the list. So if there are two Tetras that look very similar, they're either both going to be on or both going to be off. Because it won't be possible to train anyone to discern the difference between the two very easy. You and I may be able to, but, you know, the average inspector ain't going to be able to. So that's that. That's that part of it. What about transportation? What about state to state? Well, it's possible that native species are excluded. There is some language in the act that separates out native species. So we might be okay there. But here's the problem. I shipped out two boxes of fish today. They were Evergladei, Elisoma evergladei, which is a little tiny pygmy sunfish, but less than an inch long, tiny little fish. And Formosa, which is a tiny little live bear. These are both native fish. Shipped them out. Well, under this act, under this law, The first thing that's going to happen is there are going to be inspectors at the post office, somewhere at the main post office where everything goes. They're going to be going through all of these inspecting. And what do you suppose is going to happen when the inspector opens the box and sees something that he doesn't know what it is? What's he going to do? If he doesn't know what it is, it's not on the list. So he takes it and he sends out the gendarmes to my home and I get arrested for selling a banned product. That's the way it goes down now. That's what happens now with species that are on the blacklist. They find something, possession, simple possession, no intent, no nothing. You have it, you're in trouble. What's the trouble? How much trouble can you get in? Well, here's how much trouble. The Lacey Act is the most punitive piece of law on the books anywhere in this country. For first offense, one fish, one item that is not on the white list, the penalties are $25,000 per item plus five years in prison. Now, a judge may take pity on you if you've got 100 fish and not charge you $25 million. dollars, two and a half million dollars, may not put you in jail for 500 years. He may cut that down to say, oh, one item, $25,000, and one penalty, five years. $25,000 and five years in prison. The intent of the law is to destroy the people who are violating its tenets. So there's the long and the short of it. Now, why is this a problem? This hobby, since I've been in it, which is about 75 years, 60 years as an adult, has been working diligently, many individuals working diligently to support the efforts of aboriginal people in their native countries who are trying to maintain the environment they're living in and collect some animals out of it that they can sell to be able to support themselves that's basically what the industry that part of the industry has been not the farming aspect that's the other aspect it's the aspect of the wild caught animals coming in from the wild. That's where they come from. Now, what happened with this act? Well, those items are no longer allowed. They're not going to be permitted. They will not be on the wait list. Take my word for it or not. I don't care. You can call me a liar and an exaggerator. The fact is, 90% of the fish in our hobby today will not be on the wait list. Guaranteed. That's as clear as day. Anybody who doesn't believe that is living in la-la land, because they don't understand the first thing about why this law was created and who the people are who are enforcing it. Look up the director, the secretary of the Department of the Interior. Get his bio. I'll leave you with that. What about those people? What happens to those people? There are hundreds, perhaps as many as a thousand, such little places around the globe where we're supporting people who are maintaining the environment they're living in, in the wild, sustaining it, keeping it whole, keeping it healthy, so they can harvest some animals. We're even teaching them how to do that. I mean, there are programs in place to help people learn how to maintain and sustain their environment so that those animals can be harvested in a way that doesn't damage the population. Sustainable harvest. We're doing that. We're doing all of that. Once this act passes, all of that comes to an end. It stops dead cold in its tracks. No more money. Going down the Amazon, paying for all the little people living out in the jungle in their log houses. What are they called? Pile-up houses. No more of that. So what do they do? Well, when the money runs out, you go to the big city to get a job to support your family. And you leave that ancestral land. What happens then? Guess what? It's lying fallow. Nobody's there. Nobody cares about it. There's no interest in it. So the loggers come in, they cut down all the trees. The miners come in, they dig up all the land. They completely destroy the habitat. The farmers follow on their heels, plow it all under, and put in mile after mile after mile of monoculture. Single, single item. That's what happens. That's what is happening everywhere in the world that is not being protected. We've been doing our part to protect this, and that's being taken away from us, and that's wrong. That's just wrong. What about the farmer? Well, the farmers better be raising fish that are on the list because if they're not on the list and they ship them to another state, they're going to jail and they're going to lose their farm. Maybe a fish they've had in their pond for years. If it ain't on the list, can't sell it. So, this is what I refer too draconian. It is an attempt to solve a problem, number one, that does not exist. There is no problem with invasive species. We have some invasive species. Yes, we do. And they are damaging. Yes, they are. And they represent about 1% of the items that are brought in the country on a continuing basis. There are three kinds of invasive species. Number one are the guppies that get out in the local pond that don't survive. And trust me, they don't survive. They either die of disease, they can't find a safe place, they can't find food to eat, or they can't overcome predation. They don't make it. Most of the fish that escape into the wild don't make it because they're not equipped to. They're not capable of it. There's a second group. The second group are those species that find a niche. They find a way to survive and breed and raise a family and get along with their neighbors and not cause any trouble. They're in a niche. They're in a narrow little niche where they're doing fine. they're not bothering anybody they're not creating any problems they're not a danger or a threat at all oh they're invasive absolutely but they are not a threat they are not a danger that's number two number three number three number three are the the animals that come into our environment and are destructive. There are lots of plants, too, that are destructive. Now, how many are there? In Florida, two, maybe three, maybe four, could be ten. Out of how many? Remember the number? 20,000. Out of 20,000, there are about 10 species that are a problem. How they got here? Well, that's another story. Most of them got here thanks to the government that put them here to do some mitigation thing they had in mind. I give you the cane toad, the pleco, the common pleco. Everybody is freaked out about the pleco. How did the pleco get here? It got here way back in the 50s. I heard stories back then when I was a teenager coming up. I knew shop owners and people who were, like Merle Cohen, who was a leader in the industry. They were friends, people I've met and kind of grew up with. They knew of a couple of farmers, a couple of farmers, who were selling placostomas, selling them effectively. But they had to get them shipped up from Mexico and other places in South America. So they determined to bring a bunch of them up and turn them loose in local waterways. Well, don't you know, they contacted Fish and Wildlife, the Department of Agriculture, and their attitude apparently was, listen, it'll probably help keep the water clean. It'll create a new market. It's a decent item. Go ahead and do it. The government had a hand in that. The government has a hand in all of the problems that we have. This is at bottom, at bottom. This is a way for them to cover their sorry asses for all the damage they've done to our environment and blame it on everybody else. Not my camera. Where's the camera? Getting a little roughy here. Blame it on everybody else. Okay, so that's it. That's the whole story. That's the reality. Where is it? It's sitting in a hopper. No action has been taken on it yet. It's sitting there waiting to happen. We don't know when it's going to happen. We don't know how it's going to happen. It could pass next week. It could take three months. It could sit there forever and never pass. But it's in the Senate now, and it's up to them to do something about it. So here's the deal, guys. Here's the deal. Right now, we're in a position to be able to get it pulled because the sponsor, Senator Rubio, once he gets his head straight, is going to figure out what a complete disaster this is for a major industry in his home state, much less the millions and millions of hobbyists around the country who are protecting species. we have 20,000 species of animals in husbandry in this country being cared for, being bred in captivity, being kept whole, kept healthy. That's what's really happening. And they're going to put an end to all of that. No more reclaiming a population that's become extinct. No more of that. We're not going to be able to take them across state lines, much less out of the country, to be able to replace what has been lost. You like axolotls? Don't look for them on the list. It ain't likely to happen. After all, they're extinct in the wild. So anybody who has them, you get my drift here. Don't act like the government is your friend, and they're going to do everything they can to help you to make life wonderful, because it ain't true, and they ain't going to do it. They're going to do whatever they can to hurt whoever they can in the pursuit of their responsibilities. I want to say one more thing, and then I'm done with this. There are two people, two big fish tubers, who have defamed me in all of this, accused me of grandstanding, of being an extremist, of going overboard, of just trying to get views, they owe me an apology. If they don't give that much care and interest in this hobby, then they need to get out because they're not helping anyone. They owe me an apology. You know who they are? I'm going to tell you. I'm going to call them out. Corey, who sat up there talking about how people are just trying to make money out of this and just trying to make it sound like it's horrible yeah well it is horrible a lot more horrible than he thinks it is because his little his little perusal of the law doesn't begin to get at what the law really is he doesn't understand it and he's acting like he does who's the other one waterboxx waterboxx put a video out i think today defaming those who are being extremists and exaggerating and going on like the world is going to come to an end and all our fish are going to be. That's another one. He went through a process of reading a bunch of words off a piece of paper from the law. He doesn't have a clue what they mean. He really doesn't. He thinks it's just another blacklist, that they're just going to add some more fish to the list they already have oh no neither of these guys really get it and so they're accusing me of grandstanding because of their ignorance and i'm done with it i'm done tolerating it i've been tolerating it ever since i've been on youtube i'm not going to tolerate it anymore anybody who's coming after me is going to have to stand up to me there finally got that off the chest Okay. Where do we show these things? I'm done. I'm going to go back and read some of this stuff. We've got a whole lot here. How many people have we got here? Forty-two. Good. Evening, evening. Quiet, quiet. I'm trying to get my life together. I'll be extra Canadian. Apologize now. Good man, Grant. Good man. Hello from Southern California. ADHD. Let's go, Canadian truckers. amen to that i am we need to get Pearl a wrench hippie john the fisherman what's in it another way to kill small business that is exactly right being in arizona looking at you wear that sweater i know it was chilly this evening let me turn my fan back on if it's too noisy let's see isabella hello isabella dear lady james green you're just extremely nice knowledgeable wise and insightful thank you james you're a dear, hey Daniel Shelby, let's see, you're gonna you're gonna be turning green sometime soon here hey Sarto, nice to see you, Main Sills and Ferris hey Jess, how are you? congrats Jess on your efforts, you're really turning that thing on, it's your your morning show is terrific, really really proud of you, i hope Father Fish isn't on the list under reptile dinosaur, bravo on Dirty Planet, yeah that's it, that's right, and i'll tell you what those guys going on like they know what they're talking about, they've been around this hobby for maybe 10 years. They're wet behind the ears. They really don't understand the industry, notwithstanding one of them owns a big store. The people who are in the industry, who are at the top of this industry, are going crazy right now. They are berserk. They're so distraught, so upset, because they understand what it means. The farmers are up in arms about it. The people who are at the center of this industry are shocked and on the warpath and are going to make this stop. And it ain't going to be any, it's not going to be any thanks to those people who are poo-pooing and saying, oh, well, it's no big deal. It'll just blow over. Nothing will happen. Yeah, thanks. No thanks to you. No thanks to you. T-Bone, going to lose my wrench. one dirty place. I love it one dirty place. You're not going to lose your run. That was fun. What about those hairless Chinese crested dogs? Dogs and cats are excluded. Now, here you go. Invasive destructive invasive species. Destructive invasive species. There are two. I mentioned one already. The common plicosus. You can bet it's going to be on the list because it's the most popular item in the industry. And the law specifically permits all of those items that are most widely shipped to be on the list, including some other things too that shouldn't be. But here's the other one. They've excluded dogs and cats. Cats. Cats are responsible for the absolute decimation of songbirds in large tracts of large regions. House cats, alley cats, wild cats, cats that go up, feral cats, cats, oh, it's fine with cats, really the cats. This is not about doing anything to solve the problem of invasive species. It's not about that at all. It is grandstanding on the most outrageous level of doing something so utterly outrageous that you've got to wonder if this isn't the guy asking who would cut the baby in half to give a half each to the two mothers. That's about what this is. He's destroying the industry in an attempt to save hairless Chinese crested dogs. they'll be fine they'll just be uh sunset rob's aquarium room hello some people do things only for views but that's not you father fish because what you say has substance and you have integrity still there will always be trolls saying youtubes and what have you yeah i want an apology from Corey. And I want an apology from Waterboxx, because they have both slandered me, proving how foolish they are, how ignorant they are. I'm going to slander them right back. They don't know what they're talking about. Fools. Fools. Don't feed the trolls. Good advice, HB. Good advice. Globalist government's out of control. That's the issue. Absolutely. What will this task force be called? Good question. Good question. The only thing small shops have left is being able to have unique fish compared to the big box stores. Government overreach will do that in. Absolutely right, Clark. That is absolutely what will happen. There was even some scuttlebutt early on that one of the major owners in the pet industry was responsible for getting this thing slipped into the books in order to destroy all of the local fish stores, all the small shops, all the little pet shops. Well, I spoke to one of the leaders in that business, that corporation. This is a major multinational. It's the biggest one in the world. I talked to one of the top people about it. And I'm not going to tell you who it was. But they said to me, this will affect us as much as anyone else because it's going to destroy a vast part of our business, which is as purveyors of all of these specialty equipment and supplies. They manufacture all of the tools, all the kits, all the systems for reptiles, for small mammals. It will devastate their business as well. There will be large segments of their corporation that will have to be shut down. They're not supporting this at all. In fact, the person I talked to is one of the most vocal against it. And it's out right now. Every day since this hit the fan is out there fighting against it, trying to get the twist, bend people's ears, trying to get the word out, trying to talk to people, trying to explain what a devastating thing this is. So, yeah, I get you, Corporal. I don't believe it's true. Well, it'd be proven wrong. Has Project Piaba made its statement? Yes, they have. They're devastated. This puts Project Piaba out of business. They no longer will have a means to be able to support the collectors, the fish collectors in the Amazon. And there are hundreds of other organizations doing the same thing. Piaba was not alone in this. They're all over the world and they're all going to be devastated by this. This is a violence, a violence. It does violence to the lives of countless people and to the industry and to the animals living in the wild because they won't be protected anymore. And that's not me being, oh, oh, no. That's the money won't be there to support the people who care about it and are taking care of it. That's the issue. Humiliating for people to leave their ancestral lands. They have lived there for so long. When they go to this city, they move to the dirty, hot ghettos and slums. You got it, Sarko. It's happening all over the world. We've been building dams against it, finding ways to help people stay in their homes, stay on their ancestral land. And that's what's being taken away. Talk about the law of unintended consequences. is there's one, there's a big one. Yesterday, the Australian government put our koalas on the endangered animal list in their country, along with the platypus and the bilby. There you go. Here's a perfect illustration. If those animals were allowed to be in the hands of private citizens who care about them, their population would explode. They would no longer be endangered. There she is. Hi, everybody. Hi, Fish Fam. Doing all right. Kind of sweating from running around trying to get here. Glad you finally made it. I've been rambling a lot about it. I didn't mean to interrupt. Okay, let me continue. uh where i'm i was just running down the list getting people's comments i'm at 852 everything above that i've got um okay and i um i wasn't able to even hear what you were talking about except for like the two seconds before i connected a stream yard so okay so you're gonna i know it i think i know you probably do i know what you're talking about is this new thing about um they're changing it to an approved list instead of well i have my shirt on for that it says what's it saying fight me i love it i love it with a beta yeah right that's how i feel about a lot of freedoms being taken away amen let's see anything more invasive than carton yeah really i want to keep snakehead as a pet. Listen, there are, the snakehead is a classification of it. There are some hundred odd species of snakehead. Only a few get big. Most of them don't get more than six inches. They're bad. That's how stupid the laws are. And that's what this is going to be. It'll be just like that. Shame on the government for denying me my right to own Asian arowana. Well, fortunately, every other country in the world, at least in the East, is permitted to have Asian arowana. Most of the world. We're one of the few places where they're not. Aqua Garden, you dropped us, Father Fish. I don't know what that means. Aqua Garden didn't drop you. What are you talking about? There is a type of arowana I see at the fish store sometimes. Is it the silver, not the red? Yeah, or the black. They're really cool to look at. oh they're yeah we get this over here so cool looking can't imagine how much they eat though see i just lost track oh somehow i got a drop down all right let me just try to jump through some of this more quickly pony girl hello pony girl pony girl needs a wrench they don't want us to have anything that brings us joy they don't care about anything that brings us joy that's the bottom line that is absolutely they care about their joy they do care about their joy though right really yeah they yeah right their joy isn't well never mind let's see where are you at now i'm at 909 okay i'm gonna put my time stamps here a lot of issues yeah uh okay jerry's fish room i've read the amendments and while i see some of the potential issues, a struggle to find some of the details you're speaking of. Where am I missing the 1500 number? That's an estimated number. There is no number. What there is, is the requirement to create a list of those items which are shipped in less than small quantity, is the wording. items shipped that means all items shipped in small quantities are automatically off the list according to the law you got to read between the lines of this stuff this is all this is like crazy talk this is lawyer talk you can't read it like it's uh you know like it makes sense because it doesn't it's not intended to make sense it's intended to be to be convoluted so it can be interpret it. So the $1,500 is not on the list. What is on the list is the list, creating the list. And that's the issue, creating a list of what can be bought and sold. And it ain't going to be 20,000 items. Make your own estimation based on whatever you believe. We'll see when it happens. Hope to God it doesn't. Now let's see. It's jumping on me. You see anything in there? Naila's here I'm keeping up with the recent Taking up the other side I'll come up with you up here to 909 I want to do Naila's greeting This is Naila, Naila Fox My granddaughter One more time so you can get it Let's hear it I'm not hearing it myself, no Aren't you? Let me turn the volume up I had to turn the volume down For my video I think that's enough Can you hear me? Nope. I hear you. Okay, I've got the volume up. It's not coming through. Really? Let's see. It should be. Let me see. Oh, I think I hear one. No, it's there. I don't know. I can move it, but that's not... I don't know how to fix it. Carrie, you're gone. I'm sorry, Nellie. Yeah, it used to work. I'm not a good technician. Hey, Nellie, happy to have you. It's a very, very good thing, yeah. I can hear it in my head if we all know it. I can't hear her sweet voice right now. All right. let's see uh red laser i don't know what that medication is it even possible for a local fish store to survive just by selling yeah no because they uh they're going to be in competition with big box stores selling the identical fish see oh here's an item this is interesting the uh the law specifically uh separates out and uh farm animals farming it doesn't specify what farm animals are my question is so now are they going to say what we're allowed to eat well i guess they already do does this apply to fish farmers are the items fish farmers raising uh not applicable you know that's a possibility well anything in the grocery store is going to be protected well i'm not talking about that i'm talking about i'm talking about uh ornamental fish tropical fish tropical fish farms tropical fish farmers are farmers they're farmers i have a little one room indoor farm here really what's a farm lawyers let's talk about it yeah kenneth is saying i hope mr rubio and his colleagues don't have their way. But what are they going to tell their grandchildren and great-grandkids? I'm the one who wanted this law. Shame on all of them. We must speak up. Amen, Kenneth. Amen. They won't know what they're missing. I know Kenneth personally. Kenneth is the most gentle soul you could ever meet. He is sweet. He is kind. He is gentle. Every word out of his mouth, every action he takes, is an act of love and of gentle persuasion he is a wonderful man and for him to take a position like this demonstrates to me that this really does hit home if you understand what's at stake and the people who are poo-pooing me don't understand they think they do but they don't and i challenge them to sit down and talk with me about it so they can learn the truth because they don't know the truth the problem is they're so imperious they believe they are the authority well we'll see about that sunset jim we're highly regulated here down under we have an understanding of how big an impact this bill could have on you guys nobody's got time for this fight now USA amen it'll listen Listen to the people who are living under it. Their environments are being destroyed by it. They can't sustain and support the animals that they care about. They can't. They're not even allowed to have them. This is dreadful stuff, folks. Dreadful stuff. All right. Are we getting down to it? I think we are. 923. Gulliver Guppy. Staying healthy and doing well. Bravo. Bravo, Gulliver. Yeah, go ahead. what do you got there well i i i rushed to get here with you all and i have this little friend that i need to get in the tanks and that's why i was gonna say like hi i'm here but i want to just step over here for a second to get this one into the show us who you got um yeah might as well let me see if i can come over like well it's a bicolor blenny oh i love but it's been in the bag so it's not very upset or it's not very happy yeah this is a saltwater fish this is my next try wonderful and it's been in it's been in here so it's oh let me go back it's not colored or happy at all so i want to i want to get into the tank get them in there yeah so i'll be over here i'll be just like right over here just imagine what this bill's gonna do to the saltwater hobby what a j-dog they don't understand you've been watching stuff like this happen for decades longer than most than than either of them have been alive either one yeah i'll take you guys with me okay go on i'll just be over here i figured i might as well take you guys with me while i Move him into his little I'm going to pull the filter It's not running This is a completely natural nano salt water As per father's guidance Father fish Can't get that anywhere else Ladies and gentlemen This is a nano Well it's 16 gallons of nano But this is a natural salt water I have to top it off I have a lot of work to do down here In the fish room nice fish i'm gonna give this guy a little fish bath like uh LRP style because i have that beloved uh starfish in here hermit crabs and then those things are that grow on like even a piece of grass or anything else and they open up and then they have a thing going like this catching water they're very tiny you know what those are yeah yeah i do they're they're they're not good well they're an anemone they're a type of anemone uh they will eat your brine shrimp so if you're putting brine shrimp in there they'll catch the brine shrimp Aiptasia that's a small price to pay Aiptasia well the problem is they can filter the water aren't they filtering the water no no they're not filtering the water they're just catching stuff Aiptasia okay they can they they can become very prolific and they can get much bigger uh to the point where they will actually be able to damage a fish like that bicolor plenum so would they, do you spell that does it start with an a p t a s i a, aptasia, aptasia you don't want them, oh i was just excited to see some new ocean i know i know you know i do know Christina health department's yeah Christina Whittaker thank you dear thank you kenny yeah it gives fish and wildlife extra powers uh like Bureau Land Management showing up to kill your cat, no they're always so they're always such friends yeah right love them friends of the people right the friends of the people's republic yeah i'll tell you what it's 9 30 we're gonna get off i think i've had my say i've shot my wad i'll probably wind up putting this on the video because it did cover a lot of water and it was kind of long but maybe i'll just try to promote it for what it is so shelby any final I'm going to bring you back Keep on rocking in the fish room. You bet. You bet. Love you all, guys. Yeah Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Bye for now. Here we go. Here we go. Can you hear this? I hear your voice. You don't hear it? Wait a minute. I think I know what's wrong with it I don't know what's going on. Is everything plugged in all the way? No, no, I don't think so. All right, let's try it again. i think the sound was not on let's see this one you can say there's no way he's down in there that's christmas you hear that yeah i hear the christmas song this is shelby's song caring too much there now and i have to come up with a valentine's one he wanted to make a deep bed Now he's fertilizing plants instead Just can't help but wonder Should we haul those bags of sand And test our fate, test our fate Father Fish got buried in his substrate Setting up a new tank Christmas Eve You can say there's no way he's down in there But as... Well, we lost it I'm having a... I've been noticing flashes the signal is dropping off Peter's sleeping in with Calvin I'm just going to put an end to the madness thank you guys, love you all God bless, see you Sunday with Mary see you Sunday with Mary bye bye y'all bye there we go, Shelby what was going on? just saying goodbye